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Show Armed Forces Paul Allan On Navy Leave Paul Allan, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wilburt Allan, is spending a few days leave here from the Navy after af-ter completing his boot training at Farragut, Idaho. Robert Huntington Home On Leave Bob Huntington has spent a 30-day 30-day leave wtih friends and relatives rela-tives here. He has been stationed with the Navy in the Hawaiian Islands and is to report to Astoria, Oregon. Blaine Thorn Visiting Here Blaine Thorn who has just completed com-pleted his boot trainging at San Diego, Calif., is spending a few days here with relatives and friends. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Orland Thorn. Pvt. C. Burton Johnson Visits Relatives Pvt. and Mrs. C. Burton Johnson visited in Springville the past week with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wayne Johnson. He left Friday Fri-day for Fort Mead, Md., and expects ex-pects to go overseas soon. His wife and son have returned to their home in Burbank, Calif. During their visit they were entertained en-tertained at a family dinner at the home of his parents. Dr. H. M. Dougall Made Lieut. Colonel Word has been received here that Dr. H. M. Dougall has been made a lieutenant-colonel, statiBned in a hospital in Italy. He has been overseas approximately 18 months and in the service since July, 1942. He was recently given special citation for the work he did while stationed at the hospital. Lieut.-Col. Lieut.-Col. Dougall trained for a time at Camp Forest, Tenn., before going overseas. He was stationed in North Africa before going to Italy. Lieut. Col. Dougall is a son of Mr. and Mrs. John Dougall of this city and his wife, the former Josephine Jose-phine Reynolds, and two children reside at Memphis, Tenn. Blaine Brailsford Visits Springville After two and a half years in the service, over two years of which has been spent overseas, Blaine Brailsford, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Brailsford, is home on a 30-day furlough and is spending spend-ing the time with his parents and other relatives and friends here. He called at the Herald office to express his appreciation for the paper, which he said he received sometimes in bunches of twenty papers," but he put them in his locker and when he was out on the high seas he read everything in them. Blaine, a search radar operator on a huge battleship, has had many interesting, if not pleasant, experiences during his service. After Af-ter training for five weeks in the states, he went to sea. For five months he was in the Aleutians, participating in the invasion of Adak and Kiska. He said he never nev-er did see the enemy up there, but when he went to the South Pacific he saw many dead ones after invasion in-vasion of the islands. His ship participated par-ticipated in battles at Tarawa, the Gilbert Islands, Guam, the Mar-shalls, Mar-shalls, the Marianas, Tinian and Saipan. He was at Palau and Ka-vaing Ka-vaing and New Ireland when those places were bombarded. His ship would get as close to shore as possible pos-sible and after bombarding the islands, is-lands, he often went ashore. He said his battle experiences were some he would never forget. He is to report at Treasure Island and in all probability will be given shore duty. |