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Joppa Man WithCullman Alabama Banner feb 2 1945The 712th RailwayOperating Battalion
A mobile workshop, constructedentirely by the equipment maintenancecompany of the 712thRailway Operating Battalion; regularlymoves over lines whichtransport trainloads of supplies toour combat troops.This Transportation Corps unitis charged with the running maintenanceof all railway equipmentSeven box cars which had beencaptured from the Germans wereconstructed to> house the repairshops of the unit Within threeweeks after the start of the work,STEELE FURXTrCRE CO.Hanceville, Alabama32 PC. Set of Dishes $555S-Sergeant William D a r w a i nPresley, 20, veteran of 17 months''service in the South Pacific wartheater, is now a wiise chief lafield telephone service with a mediumbomber squadron in trainngat the large U. S. MarineCorps Air Facility near Newport,Ark He is the son of Mr. andMrs. Charles A, Piesley, Hanceville
The yourag Marine served in iae New Hebrides, Guadalcanal and New Zealand, as a Held telephoneoperator for fighter suadrons operatingfrom those bases.At Guadalcanal, Presley underwenta number of bombings, andreports that he worked nard ailday and then many times at nighthad to hug the earth in a foxholeas Jap raiders came over, droppingtheir bombs.Presley enlisted August 25, 3942,after being graduated from the
 
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