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Identifier

WT_1943_11_05

Publication Date

11-5-1943

Description

This black-and-white 10-page newspaper is a printed document about the Walker Army Air Base. All 10 pages of the newspaper are tattered around the edges, except pages 5-6 and 8. This document is listed as Volume 1, Number 38, published on Friday, November 5, 1943. The Walker Air Base was located between Walker and Victoria, Kansas. The top of the first page features a printed illustration titled “Walker Talker,” depicting an air force plane accompanied by an air force base and tower. Page 1 features a photograph, titled “A Few Of The ’70th Air Medal Men,” depicting from left to right M-Sgt. Noel W. Goss, T-Sgt. James E. Burtner, S-Sgt. Frank L. Shafer, Jr., M-Sgt. Jesse J. Miller, and T-Sgt. Lamar L. Johnson in the back row. Left to right in the front row are T-Sgt. Roger Can Bunne, Sgt. Raymond Taweel, and Crop. Cleason J. Phillips. At the bottom of page 1 is a photograph, titled “Rec Hall Halloween Dance Draws Big Crowd,” depicting a large crowd of people dancing. The top of page 2 has an illustration of an air force insignia with wings. The left column on page 3 is titled “Chapel Corner,” accompanied by a photograph of a white chapel. The third column from the left on page 3 has a photograph of T/Sgt. James E. Burtner on patrol at a radio desk, and the right column features a photograph of T/Sgt. Lamar L. Johnson on patrol as a Radio Operator-Waist Gunner. Page 4 has a four-photograph collage of the Halloween Dance, titled “Gala Halloween Dance at Recreation Hall Big Success.” The top, bottom, and center-right photographs show the decorations, while the center-left photo depicts Lillian Roper in her prize-winning Gypsy costume. Page 5 features a full-body photograph of Jeanne Crain in a bathing suit, titled “Mmm.. Huh?” At the bottom of page 5 is an illustrated title reading “Laff O’ the Week.” Page 6 has an illustration titled “The Wolf” by Sansone. An entry on page 6 is titled “Yankwiz” by Bob Hawk, Quizmaster, followed by a quote reading “‘Thanks to the Yanks.” Beneath the quote is “Saturdays, C. B. S.,” accompanied by a headshot of a smiling man with black slicked-back hair. Page 7 is titled “Gremlin-Post” in shaded-in lettering. Below the title is a hand-drawn illustration of a military plane with a star insignia on its fuselage and both wings, flying to the right. Hanging off the letter “S” in the title is a monkey, and another is holding on to the plane’s back fin. Page 7 also features a photograph, titled “Armistice Day—1943,” depicting Capt. Ted W. Lawson standing in front of a memorial. Page 8 has an illustration of a woman in a gown and a military soldier signed by Camp Shanks Wetzel. Page 10 has an entry titled “Answers to Bob Hawk’s Yankwiz” in bold letters. To the right of the words is a circle with a hawk wearing a bow tie speaking into a microphone. Printed along the right side of page 10 is an edition of the comic Male Call by Milton Caniff, consisting of eight panels.

Physical Description

9"x12" printed newspaper

Rights

This material is in the public domain.

Publisher

United States Army Air Corps

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Language

eng

Walker Talker: Friday, November 5, 1943

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