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Show Cedar City Serviceman Featured by Paper Stars and Stripes, Army newspaper, news-paper, recently ran a story fea-turing fea-turing the Cherbourg Installation on the coast of Normandy. ' Included In-cluded in the feature was a former for-mer Cedar City man, MSgt. John Bonzo, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Bonzo. - - The particle ' pointed' out the Cherbourg installation is "perhaps "per-haps the smallest self-sufficient post in the entire European Signal Sig-nal Service command. It has few. er than 50 men and only two officers. But it takes care of its own bus, ambulance and staff caT,' has, its -own "miniature dispensary, dis-pensary, even maintains a dependent de-pendent school. "Situated 230 miles from Paris, Par-is, Cherbourg soldiers are Isolated Isolat-ed from other Americans, but are generally content with their Tom Thumb base." i ' Principal task of the service unit is its Importance as a communications com-munications center for the European Eu-ropean theatre of operation. It is the terminal point for the transatlantic cable from New York City. Stars and Stripes in Its feature article Included Bonzo as a typical ty-pical member of the post. "Typical "Typi-cal of a Cherbourg soldier Is M Sgt. John Bonzo. now on his second sec-ond tour at the cabelhead. Bonzo, Bon-zo, like other married men at the base, lives largely 'on the economy,' renting a house in: a nearby community. He was on duty in Cherbourg from 1951 to 1954, went to Seattle with the Alaska communications system for a year, then returned as operations op-erations chief of the submarine cable and teletype circuits. "Bonzo's two children repre-sent repre-sent two-thirds of the Cherbourg school enrollment.' j |