Show NEWS FROM OUR BOYS AND GIRLS IN THE U S SERVICE by Twila Kearl this letter was hecei received ved by mr and mrs dave smith and was dated sept 17 kib was wounded in action and for sometime was unable to write home so we assume that he has partly recovered from his injuries dear dave and edna A line in answer to your letter which I 1 received some time ago but was waa unable to answer it then I 1 am in the hospital now with my foot nothing serious I 1 have seen awon action and made out OX OK and did what you told me when I 1 left it will soon be time for the deer hunt I 1 sure wish I 1 was there to go hunting maybe I 1 can make it next time well itou irwill soon be school bells ringing again T mind walking up that old hill again right now well ive go got t to close tell everyone hello for me and write again As ever your friend kib alb pac elmont eimont bingham has been transferred from boston mass to the jackson army air base at jackson miss like many of the other boys away from home in the service elmont eimont is thinking about out the deer hunt in a a letter to mrs mrs minnie mckinnon he says 1 I have put in for a furlough and hope it comes thru about the time for the deer hunt if it floes cloes the deer had bad better watch out because ill sure shoot the hills up and then he tells something nis ETs line of work this is a nice base down here where they raise a lot of f cotton I 1 have been working on P and army trainers I 1 usually go 90 out in the morning and run them up wide open and test them by hecking checking c their reactions and the instruments this way they 1 know nav if they c can an be fi flown n I 1 also help fix them up it if so thing goes wrong he 2130 asks ask for the ad nj bof or the boyi with I 1 whom he had been such good friends while he be was in rando bando 1 I fl biked aked mrs mckinnon AIcKin non tor for sending him a gift subscription to the reaper corporal fred helstrom left randolph sept 28 to return to camp polk la after spending a few days ot of 9 a brief furlough with his parents mr and mrs leonard II 11 1 10 ile he was accompanied to randolph with his wife mrs delmar ir helstrom elstrom who lives at home with her parents in in Bi Bland anding mg utah and is employed iby by the at monticello near there owen strom graduated as a pilot from the army air forces as a pilot from the army air base at yuma arizona thursday sept ZO 20 owen took his primary mary training at santa ana cilla basic training at cal aero near ontario calif then went on to merced calif for his advanced training and received his last phase of training his wings and commission at yuma lt and mrs william B anderson were guests at the home of his mother another and her husband mr and mrs james S stuart of 0 woodruff mr and mrs anderson Anne raon have just recently returned from alaska where he has been i stationed tation ed with the army engineers in the construction of the alaskan mil gitary lAg highway hway this gigantic tast was begun about 19 months ago and is recognized as one of the greatest achievements of the army engineers in history exceeding even the construction of the panama canal in efficiency in sub dueing nature swift glacier fed rivers mountains feet swarms of mosquitoes alas alaskan kan musky which mires men and machines ind and freezing temperatures were some of the problems that had to be dealt with the highway will be about 1500 miles long and will be an important factor in future world strategy mrs anderson formerly miss hiss eleanor of fergus palls falls minn went to fairbanks alaska last summer where she and mr anderson were married in july he has been transferred to C camp am P sutton gutton N C and she will accompany him there |