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The Nome Nugget
Nome, Nome County, Alaska
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Richard Cornwell, 18-year-old son of Nome's Dream Theatre manager John Cornwell, writes from San Francisco that he has been assigned as a fireman first class to an invasion barge heading to the Pacific combat zone. He joined the U.S. Navy last March after leaving Nome and trained on diesel engines in Ames, Iowa.
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Richard Cornwell, son of John Cornwell, manager of the Dream Theatre, and former Nome High School youth, informs his father in a recent letter dated from San Francisco, that he has been assigned to an invasion barge, and has left San Francisco for parts unknown, presumably in the combat area of the Pacific.
Richard, who is 18 years old, and well-known in Nome, left this city last March for the States, where he entered the United States Navy. His classification in that branch of service is that of fireman, first class, and at the time of writing his recent letter, he had been assigned to diesel engine work on the invasion barge mentioned.
Since joining the navy, Richard has been a student of diesel engines in the naval school at Ames, Iowa, and it was from this station he was assigned to his present post.
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Nome
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Last March
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Richard Cornwell, 18-year-old former Nome High School student and son of John Cornwell, manager of the Dream Theatre, left Nome last March to join the United States Navy as a fireman first class. After training on diesel engines at the naval school in Ames, Iowa, he was assigned to diesel engine work on an invasion barge and departed San Francisco for the Pacific combat area, as informed in a recent letter to his father.