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Identifier

WT_1943_12_11

Publication Date

12-11-1943

Description

This 14-page color newspaper is a printed document about the Walker Army Air Base. This document is listed as Volume 1, Number 43, published on Saturday, December 11, 1943. This edition is the first Walker Talker edition to be published on a Saturday. The Walker Air Base was located between Walker and Victoria, Kansas. A red border is printed around the top, bottom, and left side of page 1. Pages 1 and 2 are tattered around the edges. Page 1 features a photograph, titled “Soldier Show Pics,” depicting Capt. “Bill” Poston performing at the WAAF All-Star Variety Show in the Russell High Auditorium. At the bottom of page 1 is a photograph, titled “Thank These Men for Talker Pictures,” depicting Pfc. Trinkler, Pfc. Selm, Cpl. Mykils, Cpl. Robertson, Lt. Cook, Sgt. Fist, Cpl. Moore, Pvt. Boyer, Pvt. Hood, and Pfc. Smith standing in front of the Photo Laboratory. Page 2 features an illustration titled “The Wolf,” signed by Cpl. Sansone. The left column on page 3 is titled “Chapel Corner,” and at the bottom of page 3 is an illustrated title reading “Orchids To:.” Page 3 features a photograph, titled “Hungarian String Trio,” depicting Pfc. Frank Michetti, Pfc. Harold Blaustein, and Pfc. Eddie Gedrocz of the WAAF “Hungarian String Trio” comedy team at the Russell High Auditorium. Page 4 features a photograph, titled “Tops in Taps,” of Pfc. Fred Hensey performing a dance routine. Page 5 features a photograph, titled “A Visit with the Sick,” of A/S Robert E. Johnson shaking hands with Buddy Baer’s hand as Pvt. Earl Hanson sits in the background. Page 6 is titled “Sports” in decorated bubble letters. Page 6 features a photograph, titled “Sergeant Greets Sergeant,” depicting Sgt. Peter Hayden shaking hands with Sgt. Max Baer. At the bottom of page 6 is a photograph, titled “Max Baer, Referee,” of a crowd surrounding a boxing ring, where Pvt. Carmen Guira and Pvt. George L. Flores fight as Max Baer referees. Page 7 features a photograph, titled “Mr. V. D. Burnett New USO Director,” of a headshot of the director. Page 7 features an illustration of swimmers by Pfc. R. Simmons from Sioux Falls, South Dakota. Page 8 features a photograph, titled “Post Engineer Carpenter Shop,” of Gerard Schreiner, Adam Goetz, Sigmund Leiker, Edmund Pfeifer, Siegmund Deines, Francis Bissing, Anton Sauer, Peter Spies, Preston Cobb, Michael Billinger, and Joseph Gerstner posing with a sign. An entry on page 8 is titled “Yankwiz” by Bob Hawk, Quizmaster, followed by a quote reading “‘Thanks to the Yanks.” Beneath the quote is “Saturdays, C. B. S.” Page 9 features an illustration, titled “Morning Report,” about S/Sgt. Jas E. Houchins. Page 9 features a photograph, titled “Mitchells Carry 75mm Cannon,” of a cannon built into the nose of a plane. Page 10 features a photograph, titled “Train Nurses as Bullets Whine Overhead,” depicting a group of U. S. Army nurses crawling under barbed wire at Camp Young, California. Page 10 features an illustrated title reading “Laff O’ the Week.” At the bottom of page 10 is a photograph, titled “That Last Tense Moment,” of two U. S. infantrymen waiting among trees in the Southwest Pacific. Page 11 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 12 features an illustration of a soldier throwing an explosive, titled “American Heroes” by Leff. Page 13 features an illustration titled “Life Savers.” Page 14 has an entry titled “Answers to Bob Hawk’s Yankwiz” in bold letters. Page 14 features an edition of the comic Male Call by Milton Caniff, consisting of four panels. A red border is printed along the bottom and right sides of page 14.

Physical Description

8"x 11" printed newspaper

Rights

This material is in the public domain.

Publisher

United States Army Air Corps

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Language

eng

Walker Talker: Saturday, December 11, 1943

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