Fightin’ Men of Texas

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Contributed by Sadie Kennedy – August 5, 2005

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Dallas Morning News 7 Oct 1941 page 5

TAYLOR, Texas —

Private Fist Class LEON V. KUHN of Taylor, was graduated from the airplane mechanics course Sept. 27 of the Chanute Field, ILL., branch of the United States Army Air Corps technical schools. Young Kuhn, the son of Mrs. J. G. Kuhn of this city, enlisted in the Air Corps in June, 1940, and is assigned to Hill Field, Ogden Utah.
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WALTER F. FOX, formerly interior decorator with a Dallas furniture store, received the rare distinction for a draftee of having two promotions in five weeks at Fort Sill, Okla, when he was made a technical sergeant assigned to headquarters battery of Field Artillery training center. Post Officials said his rise was rapid for in six months he had risen from a buck private to technical sergeant.

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