Show Bound to The Tho MA MANTI NT T 1 All News Welcome Home on furlough after 3 33 years overseas including the battle hattle I of Iwo Jima is Master Earl Whiting He will report to tho the thoRest Rest Camp Santa Anna California Califor Califor- nia on the of June after which he will be reassigned Earl Earlis is 15 having a 0 fine time visiting hIs lite friends and of course all are arc enjoyIng enjoying enjoying en en- him him very much We Ve are really glad to know that he Is finding snow for skiing B By a stroke of luck Earl met his brother Roger of the Tank Corps in Salt Lake and the two were able to spend several hours visiting y together Roger was homeY home recently Y and when he met Earl he was to Fort Ord Calif v y I Just taking i it easy easy is what Phot Photographers raphers Mate 3 c n B Bob o 0 b bOdell bOdell Odell is enjoying most while home on leave Of course women women women wo wo- wo- wo men good food and a sack I meaning bed are not to tobe tobe tobe be overlooked During his 16 months months' out in tho the Pacific Bob Dob I missed IIO HOME IE the most The Invasion of tho the Palau Islands and the tho Iwo Jima campaign were part of his experiences Before going into the Navy photography was a pet hobby thus the reason reason rea rea- son he made that branch of the Nav Navy Ho He reports that his work is very interesting and aud that he likes It very much June Bob Dob will report back hack to Pensocola Penso- Penso Pensocola Pensocola cola Fla where ho Imo will attend a photography school Mrs Mildred d Jensen received received word that her son Lynn I Odell of the Marines was wounded wound wound- I i ed the of May 1 while In action ac ac- ac- ac I tion on Okinawa On tho the of ot May lay Lynn wrote a letter informing in in- forming his folks of his wounds I He says they were from mortar i fire and consist of wounds In the thea and various shrapnel I a arms arm r m s 3 I I Into Okinawa wounds lie went on its D Wife lIfe Anna and and I I small sou son Roger are now in I I Manti A comment Lynn wrote I f th J Vas as from the hospital fj that Y we lay in our our r fv hoTs t s going I through a living hell and fights of or these IP ir II our lOur guts out some I fe fellows lows back hack home that gd ion kon strike and dont don't support us are pretty hard on our morale When you ou hear about strikes you wonder wonder won von der tier I if its it's worth it It what youre you're going thru Further word is expected from him at any time Donald mail mall has been returned marked Rotation Rotation Rotation Rota tion It seems that after arler 42 months overseas and ma many y campaigns campaigns campaigns cam cam- he lie Is finally going to tomake tomake tomake make it home Indirectly Donald's Donalds Donalds Donald's Don Don- ald's aids parents Mr and Mrs Ray Hay P. P have been informed that a group left eft Okinawa and that Don was among them About Jul July 1st Jim Neilson Neilson Neilson Neil- Neil son who has also served 42 continuous continuous continuous con con- months overseas is expected expected expected ex ex- home from Okinawa Likewise Likewise Like Likewise wise Robert Keller Is expected I I i I i v v Germany May 8 S 1945 1945 Well Well today the war is over in Europe Its It's a nice feeling to have bu but t somehow it the way I expected expected ex ex- it to be There hasn't been an any c celebration here at all except in each persons person's mind The other day a unit of Russian Russian Russian Rus Rus- sian Field Artillery moved Into a t town that we were occupying It was vas my first glimpse at the Russian Arm Army and Its It's something something something some some- thing Ill I'll remember for a long time Their army is very different differ differ- ent it emit it doesn't seem to be bo nearly nearly near near- I ly so well or org or ed It was hard to find two men wearing the same typo type of uniform It seemed that they were practically any color and style Tile The They were very friendly and seemed happy to see us It ivas was as an experience to lo talk with them i if you can call what we wo tried talking All wo O had in common was a few words darn few ew and a low few words that are similar l both hoth oth In Russian and Ami Am- Am Tho The rest had to be bo accomplished acI accomplished ac- ac by sign language AsIt As Asit Asit it turned turned out though I was really really real real- ly 1 surprised at how ho well we wei could could- make ea each h other understand under under- stand I I I I I I I Their Theil army isn't as well equipped as ours ouis 1 They hey uso use a aI alot lot of horses to move mo their supplies sup sup- i plies and I somo some of their heir guns uns Sometimes that day and tho next I thought I might be reading a astory story book It jt was 60 iri like a st story ti-i ti to see Russians n. n riding along the road on a n. nice horse dressed ged and amid lookIng looking looking look- look Ing for all the world like a Cossak Cossak Cossak Cos- Cos sak horseman And 11 past him along alon the road would bo ho rumbling rumbling rumbling ing guns towed by American Continued next week Man Manti ti Around The World v I Continued from pago page one I I II j built Dodge trucks A itA 1 Russian fellow started playing play playing ing nc an accordian In the tho street and soon a large circle of GIs GI's and Russians was formed A Russian Lt moved out Into the and presented a Russian dance When he finished a girl Joined him and the two of them danced somewhat similar to a fox lox trot Tho They mO E moved l out of the circle and a Russian Mongolian Mongolian Mongolian Mongo Mongo- lian came out and ancl danced AH AU of It was typical Russian dancing to their music mho Tho German people are scared to death of the Ue Russians The They hate to see us come conic In an and occupy occupy oc oc- oc IC cupy DY a town but when the Russians Rus RuSl- come in In and we prepare to tc move out they beg bet us to stay star I J saw people crying clIng to see us us- go Today I received a letter from front you written April and the first two Messengers Messenger's Ive I've rev ro- March 9 and 23 rd I enJoyed enjoyed en en- enjoyed joyed reading them Von Von la l Madsen Madsen Mad Mad- sen son of Mr and Mrs l Stanford Stanford Stan Stan- ford lord Madsen V.- V. RHUBARB Put Put in all aU the sugar you can spare then double It H. v P After 22 months overseas In iii Africa and Italy Clair Glair Moffitt Moffitt l 10 fitt Is in the U. U S. S A. A He lIe has haR gone bone to California to visit with hl hk parents Captain and Mrs 1 1 P- P nEaston Easton Moffitt but he is ed In Manti Mantl In two weeks He Hehns has hns a month furlough ClaIr was wasa waFa a member of an observation crew of the tho Air Navy Corps and has hasto hasto hasto to do with air all corps intelligence I r r Glen Carlson son of Mr and Mrs Wilford S. S Carlson of our Temple Templo City has advanced to storekeeper Glen Is on a alight I tight light cruiser In the Pacific He I enlisted on April 29 1911 1944 and and has haft seen action in three major engagements since coming abroad II this cruiser Wife VUe lives es In Salina After spending a n day 10 furlough fur fur- ugh lough home again In Manti ManU t P Charles Ray U. U S S. S A Army left Tuesday morning for tor P rt Georgo George Meade Maryland v. v Nero lOre he lie expects to receive his hisa a n training and his overs over- over s s. s as assignment lie Ile took his basic training ambat a- a as 13 aa a Infantryman at Camp n berts California graduating May I Wilbur a 14 high 1 hool graduate Is home conval- conval f after being wounded last February while with the Army fighting In Germany He Ho nt ir very talkative about it but mere lOre Is about what happened His company got In a mine field It as electrically controlled Just before beforD dawn when one of th the en- en mv v saw the Americans were Inthe Inthe In Inthe the field the switch was turned which set off a terrific explosion boy in front of Wilbur Wllbur was killed One behind was blinded Another was hit In the tho back Wilbur had both legs broken some fingers were broken and h he ho o received other wounds Fortunately Fortun Fortun- no main arteries were broken brok brok- en altho he lie was bleeding profuse profuse- i ly After two or three minutes minute s in n a case of this kind a a persons person's s muscles are said to tighten so h hcan he e can hardly move Wilbur di did d move to get his feet higher than his head which probably kept kep t him hits from bleeding to death Because Because Be Be- cause of German shelling of th the e medics could not get u up P at once to remove tho tiro dead an and d wounded Wilbur lay there fo for r approximately six hours Then medics got zot a jeep within tw two p locks docks and when they came and pound him alive the first thin thing g hey asked cd was his name Altho de delirious i ho lie distinctly remembers spelling the name to them letter by letter with Ith each letter standing standing stand stand- ing tnt out as something big They carried him to the Jeep on a stretcher Then rhen the jeep took Mm him to an ambulance The first thing he was given was a blood transfusion These were continued continued contin contin- continued dally daily for sometime At first the doctors were going goin to amputate amputate amputate tate one ono of his fingers One doc doe tors said ho could save It and did although Wilbur Wllbur will gk go for Cor another operation to further straighten It He can now bend the broken knee and says he will play tennis a again aln r This his column depends Upon its good friends |