Veteran Sends Four Boys into Service
Thomas W. Nooney, 1007 Ninth Street, was a member of the 27th division, 102d engineers, in the First World War, establishing a family tradition of service in the armed forces which is being carried on by four of his sons, who are serving in the present conflict. Two of the sons enlisted in the army, two in the navy. Thomas W. Nooney, Jr., is a naval aviation student, training at Kansas City, Missouri. He graduated from Trinity College here before enlistment. John F. Nooney, an apprentice seaman, is in training at the Great Lakes naval training station. P. Joseph Nooney enlisted for service in the army signal corps, departing for Des Moines Sunday night, from where he will be assigned to a training center.
A fifth son, Richard, 16, remains at home. He is a member of the junior class at Trinity High School and has made no decision as to which branch of service he will enter when and if the time comes.
Source: The Sioux City Journal, November 6, 1942 (photo included)
SIOUX CITY BROTHERS HOLD REUNION
“I was never so pleased in my life as when I saw Joe; Army decorations never meant so much to me as when I saw him wearing the combat infantryman badge and the purple heart,” wrote Cpl. Robert C. Nooney to his father after seeing his brother, Cpl. Patrick Joseph Nooney, in England. They are the sons of Mr. and Mrs. T. W. Nooney, 1007 Ninth street.
Cpl. Joe Nooney, an infantryman, was wounded December 8, 1944, in Germany, and was taken to hospitals in Belgium, France and, finally, to England. The American Red Cross located his brother, Cpl. “Bob” Nooney, a member of an engineering company, obtained a furlough for him and arranged for the two boys to meet.
The boys went to shows, enjoyed skating and dancing for two days, then Bob saw Joe depart on the train which was to take him part of the way back to his company. Bob is 22, Joe is 21.
Source: The Sioux City Journal, January 31, 1945 (photo included)
