Description

Transportation Corps Officer Candidate School – Class Number Nine, Company C
Mississippi State College • World War II •

44 pages scanned. Instant PDF download.

Document Overview

This class yearbook was compiled by the officer candidates of Class Number Nine, Company C, at the Transportation Corps Officer Candidate School (TC OCS), Mississippi State College, and edited by Frank P. Kearns with associate editors John G. Fallon and Francis D. Edes. It chronicles the candidates’ training from arrival through commissioning on 1 August 1943, including faculty and staff rosters, platoon and squad photographs with candidate names and hometowns, the training narrative, class officers and yearbook committees, and a closing farewell to the school. This listing offers a digitally scanned copy of the original book, available for instant PDF download.

Commanders:
● Colonel B. A. Shipp, Commandant
● Lt. Colonel Carl T. Sutherland, Director of Instruction
● Lt. Colonel E. W. Mooring, Executive Officer
● Major Henry B. Duquette, Military Science Department Head
● Major Lawrence A. Nelson, Ass’t Director of Instruction / Faculty Advisor
● Captain Robert P. McVea, Company C Commander

Table of Contents
Dedication to Captain Robert P. McVea
Foreword
Message from Colonel B. A. Shipp, Commandant
Message from Lt. Colonel Carl T. Sutherland, Director of Instruction
Faculty Tributes
Staff and Faculty Roster
Department Heads
Instructors
Class Officers
Platoon Executive Officers
Yearbook Editorial Staff
Class Committees
Training Narrative
Candid Photographs
First Platoon Squads
Second Platoon Squads
Third Platoon Squads
Fourth Platoon Squads
Fifth Platoon Squads
Farewell

“Transportation will not win the war, but lack of it can easily lose the war.”
— Farewell, Class Number Nine, T.C. O.C.S., Mississippi State College, 1943