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04/26/1945   Med-Men by Cpl Perse Harlow
04/26/1945   Red Cross Chatter
04/26/1945   Wakeman Painter Wins Contest
04/26/1945   Hey (rest of the title un-available) by Doc and Philomenia
04/26/1945   New Gymnasiums Are Being Built
04/26/1945   New Brace Shop Tools Donated By Delta Theta
05/01/1945 Franklin Star Propose housing units here to meet Camp and Hospital needs. See need for 50 to 100 family units immediately.
05/05/1945 Franklin Star Equipment is being sought for men at Wakeman. Franklin's American Legion Post No. 205 is collecting sports equipment for the wounded at Wakeman Hospital
05/08/1945 Other NAZIS QUITS. Doenitz Gives Order. Unconditional surrender of all German forces was announced yesterday by the German radio at Flensburg. Surrendered at 0241 hours Monday, May 7, 1945 (ETO time). Today, Tuesday, will be considered as V-E Day.
05/08/1945 Franklin Star GERMANY QUITS; JAPAN NEXT
05/11/1945 Franklin Star ATTERBURY IS NOW EQUIPPED FOR NEW DUTY. Personnel Center Carries Out Discharge and Re-Assignment Duties For This Area
05/12/1945 Franklin Star ATTERBURY RELEASES FIRST VETS UNDER "CREDIT" PLAN. Approximately Three Hundred Overseas Veterans Receive Discharges Saturday
05/12/1945 Franklin Star Here is the new Point System Score Card. You can compute if your boy will receive an early discharge.
05/17/1945 Franklin Star Help needed at Atterbury. 500 workers sought for Personnel Center offices.
05/19/1945 Franklin Star Col. Haskett Conner, Wakeman Hospital is transferred to Woodrow Wilson General Hospital and replaced by Col. Frank Cole.
05/23/1945 Franklin Star German POWs to help produce food. 900 allocated to State for period ending July 31. 500 will be stationed at Camp Atterbury, 200 in Scott County and 200 at Windfall. 3,500 were requested.
05/23/1945 Franklin Star Train wreck in Ohio injures 24 overseas servicemen enroute to Camp Atterbury, Indiana for separation. 28th Infantry Division
06/01/1945 Franklin Star Two dead in riot at Fort Benjamin Harrison stockade in Indianapolis. Barracks burned by prisoner uprising late Thursday. Photo in 06/02/1945 issue.
06/02/1945 Franklin Star Camp Atterbury observes third anniversary. Post adopts "On to Victory" as slogan.
06/02/1945 Franklin Star New Wakeman commander, Col. Cole, arrives.
06/06/1945 Franklin Star Atterbury restaurants in Edinburg and Indianapolis closed temporarily.
06/13/1945 Franklin Star General E. A. Bixby is successor to Colonel Modisette. New commander is 3rd Army veteran. Change on Wednesday.
06/15/1945 Franklin Star New commander at Camp Atterbury. Brig. Gen. Ernest A. Bixby assumes duties.
07/03/1945 Franklin Star Signal Branch expand facilities in "all-out" program. Pictures and identified persons.
12/15/1945 Columbus WAKEMAN STAFF CHANCES MADE. Wakeman Convalescent Hospital Officially Become Wakeman General Hospital. Convalescent Hospital Is Closed. Cole Commands General Unit.
12/26/1945 Columbus Suggest Atterbury As United Nations Capital Location
12/26/1945 Columbus HOSPITAL END WILL BE SOON. Convalescent Branch at Atterbury Down to 360 Patients.
12/26/1945 Columbus Col. Frink Is Head of Reception Center. Succeeds Col. Croft as Commander of Reception Unit at Atterbury.
12/28/1945 Columbus Moore Is New Wakeman Head. Succeeds Becker as Commander of General Hospital at camp Atterbury.
12/30/1945 Columbus QUARTERS FOR CAMP WORKERS. Those Employees More Than 25 Miles from Atterbury May Reside There.
12/31/1945 Columbus WAKEMAN AND ATTERBURY TO BE MAINTAINED. Camp Will Be Used as Part of Army's Training Facilities. NOT TO BE CLOSED SOON. Length of Operation Will Depend on Peacetime Program.
01/01/1946 Columbus PARTS OF CAMP DUE TO REMAIN OPEN TO DEC, 31. Senators Say Wakeman, Reception Center to Continue to 1947. ARMY SIZE IS STILL KEY. But Congressmen Point Out That War Department Has Final Say.
01/05/1946 Columbus Camp Atterbury To Be Center For Officers Staying In the Service.
01/17/1946 Columbus COL CRAWFORD HEADS HOSPITAL. Former Harmon Hospital Chief Succeeds Col. Cole at Wakeman.
02/06/1946 Columbus Camp Atterbury Radio Show Tonight
02/06/1946 Columbus Camp Atterbury Raises $ 24,807 Fund.
02/16/1946 Columbus Plans for "On The Job" Training Setup For Returned Veterans Discussed Here. Farming School Considered.
02/20/1946 Columbus Camp Atterbury To Be Training Site, Guard Head Hears.
02/22/1946 Columbus Let's Make Camp Atterbury Into Bartholomew University, Says Representative Wilson. Local Congressman Suggests Atterbury Be Used for Ex-Service Men.
02/23/1946 Columbus ATTERBURY ART AWARDS MADE
03/20/1946 Columbus Atterbury officer one of victims of plane crash
04/20/1946 Columbus Easter Play At Wakeman. 'Joseph of Arimathea' To Be Presented by Camp Group Sunday Night.
04/26/1946 Columbus ATTERBURY DUE TO SERVE FOR 16,000 GUARDS. Cities Draft Resolution Urging Camp Be Kept as Training Center. COLUMBUS REPRESENTED. Six from Here Attend Meeting at Franklin--General Watt Heard.
04/29/1946 Columbus WAKEMAN HAS BASIC TRAINING. Two Recruit Companies of 217 Men Slated for Hospital Work.
05/09/1946 Columbus Camp Atterbury Personnel Center To Close. Inductions and Discharges To Cease July 31. Major Cut in Center's Civilian Workers Set for July 1st.
05/17/1946 Columbus Reeves Named Head of Drive to Keep Camp Atterbury. Local Auto Dealer Elected Unanimously by Delegates from Six Cities. Meeting is Held Here. Indiana, Franklin, Shelbyville and Seymour Represented.
05/24/1946 Columbus 500 Workers At camp Atterbury Given Dismissal Orders.
06/04/1946 Columbus CAMP THEATER, COUNTY HOMES LOST IN FIRES. Two Houses at Southwest Corner of City Destroyed Monday Night. $50,000 DAMAGE CAUSED. Theater No. 4 Destroyed.
06/07/1946 Columbus Army Secrecy Veils Shooting of Colonel Bixby.
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