Word: schofield
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...shadow of Oahu's bomb-pocked Schofield Barracks, where the first casualties of the Pacific war were buried nearly five years ago, service chaplains last week intoned the funeral service every 30 minutes for 48 hours. The flag-draped wooden caskets which they committed to the ground held the remains of 570 U.S. servicemen who had once been buried in temporary cemeteries in New Zealand, Samoa and the Fijis...
...Actually, this is only a sideline assignment. Our main assignment is to get some shots of President Conant in connection with a story we are doing on atomic energy," said Robert W. Schofield, production manager of the unit. "We learned of this future story; so we thought we could kill two birds with one stone...
...Schofield Barracks, in a broiling sun, he reviewed the Army's famed 7th Division, veterans of Attu and Kwajalein. Over the loudspeaker Franklin Roosevelt said: "Your Commander in Chief brings you greetings. . . ." The President's car had just stopped at one corner of Hickam Field when a huge ambulance plane wheeled in from Saipan. The President watched as 32 bandaged veterans were carried to waiting ambulances, stopped three stretcher cases to shake their hands...
...Schofield Andrews, Jr., David Bullard, Arnold, Jr., Alfre Lerow Atherton, Jr., Warren Stanley Berg, Stuart Marshall Beringer, David George Bernard, Franklin Swift Billings, Jr., George Edward Byers, Jr., George Scull Cook, Jacob Leslie Crane, 3d., Richard Lloyd Davies, George Chaffee Dillon, Frederick William Eaton, 2d., James Murray Forbes, Henry Edgar Frachtman, George William French, 2d., John Winslow Frenning, Bernard Sholom Glassman, Aram Harry Hatch...
...found Chaplain Wilson making application to the Regular Army for appointment as Chaplain. The commission came to him in May of that year with his first assignment at Ft. Sam Houston in Texas as Assistant Division and Post Chaplain. Three years later came his tour of duty at Schofield Barracks. Hawail, as Chaplain of the 22nd Infantry Brigade; Ft. Enstia, Va., as Post Chaplain was the next assignment where he remained until ordered to report to the Chaplain School at Ft. Ron. Harrison as a student in the July class. While there Chaplain Wilson was assigned as Divis...