Herman C. Fox
Another Local Boy Graduates
Pvt. Herman C. Fox, formery of Shelby, has been graduated from the big army air forces technical training command school for airplane mechanics at Gulfport Field, Miss., and is ready to take his place on the far-flung service lines of this global war wherever the biggest American planes are based, at home or abroad. He has received a course of intensive training to fit him for his important task in this war. His training has also fitted him for an important job in peacetime aviation. Pvt. Fox is the son of Mrs. Anna Strickland of Shelby.Former Resident Graduates With Local Boy
A letter from Pvt. Herman Fox, who graduated last week from the air corps mechanical school at Gulfport, Miss., tells us that while attending the school he became acquainted with a former Lowellite, Hugh Windbigler, who was a member of the same class. Herman said that he and Hugh had a good time after getting acquainted, they talked over happenings in the old home town and enjoyed Herman's Lowell Tribune together. The Windbiglers moved to Alabama from here twenty years ago.This January 6, 1944, Lowell Tribune article was found on page 2, column 3:
- Cpl. Herman Fox and R.M. 3/c Earl Pace returned to their camps after a furlough at home.
The following March 23, 1944, Lowell Tribune article was found on page 2, column 2:
- Cpl. Herman Fox, who has been attending special training school in New York, arrived home Saturday night on a few days furlough. He will return to camp at Great Bend, Kansas, this week-end.
This April 13, 1944, Lowell Tribune article was found on page 4, columns 1-2:
- Sgt. Herman Fox of Shelby, who recently finished Specialists' school in New York and returned to his outfit at an army air field at Great Bend, Kansas, writes that on his return to camp he found that he had been advanced to that rank from the rank of Corporal, which he had held for several months. The added responsibilities of his new rank are keeping him occupied.
The following August 24, 1944, Lowell Tribune article was found on page 4, column 1:
- Sgt. Herman C. Fox was promoted last week to the grade of Staff Sgt., according to the Public Relations officer of the Great Bend, Kansas, army air field, where he is stationed. Sgt. Fox is a bomb truck operator at the air base.
A graduate of Crown Point high school, he was employed as a sheet metal worker for the Letz Mfg. Co., Crown Point previous to his enlistment in August, 1942. He is the son of Mrs. Anna H. Strickland of Shelby.
The following August 31, 1944, Lowell Tribune article was found on page 2, column 5:
- Sgt. Herman Fox, stationed at an army air field in Kansas, returned to camp Monday after a furlough home with his mother and family.
This Lowell Tribune article was found in the October 11, 1945, issue (page 2, column 1):
- S/Sgt. Herman Fox, stationed at the army air field, Great Bend, Kansas, is home on a 15-day furlough.
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