News From Our Boys
Finishes Gunnery School
Philip J. Curran, 30, son of Hugh Curran, 1113 19th Street, was graduated this week from the nation’s largest aerial gunnery school at Harlingen, Texas and will join a combat unit or serve as an instructor at Harlingen. Curran automatically became a sergeant when he qualified as an aerial gunner.
Source: The Sioux City Journal, August 1, 1942 (photo included)
MEN and WOMEN IN SERVICE
Staff Sergeant Phillip J. Curran, who returned recently from service outside the continental United States, now is being processed through the army air forces redistribution station at Miami Beach, where his next assignment will be recommended. He was awarded the air medal and eight oak leaf clusters. Sergeant Curran, 32, a B-26 gunner, flew 40 missions during one year in the Mediterranean area. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Curran 1113 19th Street.
Source: The Sioux City Journal, April 23, 1944
