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Show bers enjoy reading their letters. If there are any grave mistakes, we can fix them up. We invite more letters from servicemen, telling about where they are and something some-thing of what they are doing. Other boys like ,to hear about their friends also in other parts of the country. Sept. 3, 1951 Inchon, Korea Dear Sir: Thought I had better take time out to thank you for sending me Springville Herald because I really enjoy reading it and all of the things going on around home. I have been in the navy 14 months and have been over in Japan and Korea about 4 months and will be here for five more months before leaving for Seattle, Washington. I am the son of Mr. and Mrs. George Wing of Mapleton. Again my sincere thanks for the paper I have been receiving. Yours truly, Richard Clair Phillips, son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Phillips is home on a few days furlough from Scott Air Force base in Illinois, where he recently- graduated from radio school. He is to report to Camp Stoneman, Calif., on October 1 and expects to go from there over seas. Roy Anderson, husband of the former Lois Hansen of this city, has been home on leave from the Navy after seven months combat duty in the far east. A member of Division 131, serving on a destroyer, he participated in the longest ship-shore battery engagement engage-ment of the Korean war in Wonsan Harbor. At this time the vessel exchanged fire over a period of four and a half hours with the enemy. ICI Anderson has been trans-fered trans-fered to the battleship Iowa and is to' report at Hunter's Point, near San -Francisco, Calif., Sept. 166. His wife and son Kurt, plan to accompany him to the coast as he expects to be on shore duty for the present. Our Servicemen . . Editor's Note: One little note like the following follow-ing compensates for all the extra effort in sending the servicemen thoir home-town newspaper each week. We appreciate hearing from the boys in the sen-ice and we believe also that Herald subscri- |