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Show With the Colors From Lieut. Thomas Karl Hanney, Bombardier, 10th (Air Force Somewhere in India, July 10, 1943. Dearest Mother and Dad: I just returned from a three-day three-day leave and when I returned I found a large number of letters for me. Gee, but I certainly was glad to hear from you! While I was gone I managed to see a number of interesting things. They were: A Hindu temple which was all hand-made and the walls were inlaid with gold, silver, ivory and rare tiles, i This temple was a wonderful sight; in fact, it actually took your breath away. The next 'place I went was down to the Burning Ghots: the place where they fry the dead. They were burning- a number of dead while we were there. One in particular par-ticular was rather funny. This body was well done on one side, so they just stuck a pole under him and flipped him just like a pancake. The next place that we went to was a temple where they sacrifice kids (baby goats) to the god Kali. They would take the goat up to a Y-shaped thing and put its head in it and chop it off with a large sword. Then, as the blood was running all over, women would try to soak it up with dirty old cloths, etc. anyway to get some so they could drink it. This is supposed sup-posed to purify their soul or something. When I got back to the hotel I discovered that I'd rather ra-ther lost my appetite. Incidentally, I took some shots of everything except the sacrificing sacrific-ing and they wouldn't let me take any pictures of that. Will close. Answer soon. Love, TOM .P.S. I'll tell you the details when I get home (Editor's note. Major General Clayton L. Brissell, 10th air force commander, recently commended a heavy bomber group to which Lieutenant Hanney is attaohed, and today's daily press carries a Washington dispatch listing him aong three Utah officers in the Indian, Burma and China war theatres the-atres who had been awarded the United States army air medal. Other Utah men listed were First Lieutenants Donald G. Prout of Ogden and Wilson M. Thomas of Midvale.)- Lieutenant Dan Gillies, sporting! the wings of a liaison pilot which j he had just been awarded on com- j pletion of six weeks of light craft j flight training at Denton, Texas, j spent several days in Milford last; week. He left Sunday for Normandy, Nor-mandy, near St. Louis, Missouri, where he expected to have a short visit with his mother, Mrs. Sam Cline, and sister, Mrs. D. M. Mjidsen. and her new baby, prior j to rejoining his artillery unit at . Fort Sill, Oklahoma to put to use' the training he has received at j Denton. Dan received his commission com-mission a few weeks ago at Fort; Sill, where he attended an artil-; lery officers candidate school. He i will now undertake a further six weeks training in assembling; Piper Cub and similar light planes as they come crated from . the factories. i A most interesting caller at The News office last week was Carl Louis, lieutenant, junior grade, in the maritime service, who had been visiting in Miners-ville Miners-ville and Milford. A former resident resi-dent of Minersville, where his father at -one time operated the old flour mill, Lieutenant Louis,.! though only 18 months in the j service, at first in the navy, has j nfade remarkable progress and is i one of the finest examples of j Uncle Sam's uniformed nephews it has been our pleasure to interview. inter-view. Attending school at Comp-ton, Comp-ton, California after leaving here, his parents makfng their home I there, young Louis later attended j i Texas A. and M., and specialized I in radio, in which he had done j considerable work as an amateur. I He has most recently been sta-1 tioned aboard a Liberty ship in j North African and Mediterranean! service, and related some fnterest-1 ing incidents connected with his i trip homeward across the Atlan-, tic, when a large part of his cargo was made up of German prisoners. i Mrs. F. A. Bingham was happy! Tuesday afternoon when sihe re-! ceive'd a telephone call from her ' son Tine, who was at Wilmington,! California. Tine enlisted in the I United States navy in December, 1942, . and is a seaman first class. He had just returned from Aus- j tralia, but expected to leave again : soon but does not know where. He said he was well and for Mom not to worry. Sergeant Allen Bingham.United States Marine corps, son of Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Bingham, is .stationed .sta-tioned at Camp Pendleton, Ocean-side, Ocean-side, California, where he is an instructor in-structor in thg field signal school. Nathan L. Barnes, B M 3C in Uncle Sam's navy, has been in Milford the past week, enjoying a furlough visit at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Glen Barnes. Aviation Cadet Marvin Horton returned last weekend to his pilot training at Santa Ana air base, following an emergency furlough" fur-lough" granted htm to attend the funeral of his grandmother, Mrs. Harriett Horton. iGharles N. Baxter, 26, of Milford, Mil-ford, husband of Alice Baxter, has completed his first step towards becoming a radio specialist in the United States navy. He has finished a month's refresher course at the navy's pre-radio scrool at the Naval Armory, Chicago, Chi-cago, Illinois. He now will be transferred to a primary radio materiel school for further training. train-ing. Selected to attend the school upon making high grades in a series of aptitude tests taken during dur-ing recruit training, he has received re-ceived instruction in mathematics, fundamental electricity and general gen-eral naval indoctrination. (From the Caliente Herald) Mr. and Mrs. Bert Carter recently re-cently received a letter from their son, Allen, stating he has been promoted to the rank of corporal. He is serving in the armed forces in India and says the heat is almost al-most beyond human endurance. A buddy in Corporal Allen's outfit, who reads the stars, predicts the war will end in 1943. Allen says he never could read the stars and never believed in them, but right now he is putting plenty of faith in this boy of the stars and only prays he is correct as the one thing he wants most is to just come home. Mr. and Mrs. Lorin Robinson have received word from their son, Leon, at Camp Davis statin? he has been promoted to sergeant and gun commander of his company. com-pany. Aquilla Pobinon, another son, was in North Africa July 12. according to his last letter. Mrs. Lorin Robinson is recuperating from a major operation performed a month ago in Salt Lake City. |