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Show KIWANIS CLUB HEARS TALK BY CAPTAIN STEWART The Springville Kiwanians heard a most interesting story of the experiences ex-periences of an Army Air Corps officer who had seen action in ' England, Sicily, Africa, Iran, and . Irak, at a special meeting of the ' club Monday evening. Captain Walter Stewart, a native na-tive of Benjamin, who was a member mem-ber of the famous "Traveling Circus' Cir-cus' squadron, so named because of their bombing missions on so many batUe fronts, told of the bombing of the Rumanian oil fields in which sixty-five planes were lost. Piloting a B-24 Liberator, Captain Stewart completed more than the required number of missions mis-sions from Eangland, and was on special duty for some time before returning to the States. He piloted pilot-ed the famous "Boomerang" back to this country for repairs. Captain Stewart filled a mission in England before going into the service. He told Kiwanis members- he had now asked for duty in the Southwest Pacific and he left on Tuesday to return to active ac-tive service. G. Ray Hales was toastmaster at the club meeting which also featured vocal selections by Mrs. Gladys Christmas of Spanish Fork. After the meeting, the club members attended the moving picture pic-ture show. |