- Date
- 1961-02
- Kind
- Announcement
- Eras
- Modern era
- Concepts
- communitygovernance
- Within
- Beaver Island
Summary
The February issue’s servicemen section reports several island-connected assignments: Joseph W. LaFreniere at Fort Knox, Richard Ryan at Lackland Air Force Base, Billy Pischner’s group assignment to Africa and England, and Robert Palmer’s departure for Germany.
Evidence and limits
This is a privacy-limited community notice. Private service numbers are omitted, and no military personnel files, exact units beyond the printed snippets, or complete identity bridges are inferred.
Sources
- Reports Joseph W. LaFreniere at Fort Knox, Richard Ryan at Lackland Air Force Base, Billy Pischner and 13 others leaving for Africa and then England, and Robert Palmer leaving for Germany. The private service number printed for LaFreniere is intentionally not reproduced; the notices do not provide military records or complete identities.data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1961-02_Beaver-Beacon
- The held nine-page issue scan is paired with the OCR source and confirms the published notice or report; it does not expand the source-specific identity, event, or outcome claims.data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1961-02_Beaver-Beacon
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Cite this article
Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island servicemen’s notices, February 1961”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-service-men-news-february-1961/, accessed [date], citing Beaver Beacon, February 1961, “Island news.” (and 1 further source listed on the page).
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