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Show Armed Forces Don Frandsen was recently transferred from Camp Carson to Lubbock, Texas, where he is enrolled en-rolled in Air Corps training at the Texas Tech college. Lt. James K. Alleman, son of Mrs. Emma K. Alleman, left the past week for Corpus Christi, Tex., where he is to be an instructor in I the Army Air Corps. He recently ' returned from many months of ac-J ac-J tive service in the Pacific war ' zone. Marjorie Clark, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Will Clark, spent the past several days with her parents and friends here. She is stationed with the WACS at Camp Hood, Texas. George Bird, who is a recent inductee in-ductee into the U. S. Army, has the following words of appreciation apprecia-tion for the Herald: many skeletons and plane wreckage wreck-age . . . We are not allowed to tell where we are . . . we are doing do-ing some awfully good work . . . We have the Japs on the run and hope to keep them going. He served 29 months in World War I, and was injured three times. He was called to service in this war at the age of forty-five. Pfc. Robert L. "Bob" Kelly arrived ar-rived in Springville this week from Camp Blioxi, Miss., to spend a three-weeks' furlough with his wife, the former Lenore Weight. He recently transferred to the Army Air Corps, and is awaiting an assignment. Melvin Teasdale has returned to his station at Mac Dill Field, Fla., following a few days' furlough with his parents and other relatives rela-tives and friends here. Clyde B. Miner, son of Lafe Miner, is here on an eleven-day furlough from Camp Cook, Calif., where he has. been stationed the past six months. Sgt. Samuel J. Sperry has been visiting for few days here and at Nephi, and has now returned to Camp Sutton, N. C. He was accompanied ac-companied by his wife, the former Aileen Roylance, who will remain at Camp Sutton indefinitely. Friends here will be interested to know that Verl Averett, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lionel Averett of I Salt Lake City, has gone into the I Army Air Corps. He recently re-1 turned from a 26-months mission in the southeastern states, and is now stationed at Kelly's Field, Texas. Gerald Sumsion, son of LaCelle ' Sumsion, left Sunday for San I Francisco, where he is stationed with the Navy Air Corps. Gerald enlisted about a year ago and just received his call. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Hatfield now have three sons in the service. ReVerl Hatfield, the most recent son to leave, went ' into the Navy September 13, and is stationed at Farragut, Idaho. Another son," Koyle Hatfield, who enlisted in December, 1942, is in New Guinea with the Army Air Corps, while L. Leon Hatfield, who enlisted in the Army in January, 1941, is stationed sta-tioned in Kentucky. LeJeune Whitney of this city has been transferred from the Third WAC Training Center at Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., to the Army Air Forces at Greensboro, N. C. Prior to joining the Women's Army Ar-my Corps, Lt. Whitney was a newspaper librarian for the Salt Lake Tribune-Telegram. She is the daughter of Lewis J. Whitney of 587 South Main St. Just a line to say "Hello," and to thank all those who have made it possible for servicemen to receive re-ceive the Herald. I am stationed at the Replacement Replace-ment Training Center for the school of finance at Ft. Harrison. Having finished the first phase of our training, six weeks of mark-manship, mark-manship, manual of arms, field problems, drill, etc., we are now into the last phase of our training before our assignment, which is about 12 weeks of finance schooling school-ing followed by three weeks of actual field problems. This schedule sched-ule may be subject to revision at any time as we have found in the past, but pending any changes, our training should be completed near the last of December. Our living quarters and food are of the very best, and Ft. Harrison is an attractive place during this time of the year. Farragut, Idaho A new student stud-ent in the Quartermaster school at this U. S. Naval training station this week is Paul Willis Weight, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Weight, 1064 E. 4th S., Springville, Utah, who has begun a 16-weeks intensive inten-sive course in that specialty. At this school, one of many offered of-fered by the Navy, he will be taught the latest methods in that branch, and upon completion of the course, he may qualify for a petty officer rate. From Duane Turner, stationed with a bombardment squadron in England comes a fine letter of appreciation for the Herald. The local Junior Chamber of Commerce welcomes such letters as it makes them feel not only that the boys are getting some pleasure out of the project which they initiated, but their efforts have been really worthwhile. The letter follows: I just received the Aug. 19 issue of the Springville Herald, which makes the second one to reach me here. Even though it is a month old, I enjoy reading it very much. Being stationed here in England with a bombardment squadron for over a year now, I haven't had the chance of finding out where the other fellows from Springville were stationed, but now I am finding find-ing them through the Herald. Some of them are here and I am looking them up.. I sure appreciate the Herald, so thanks to everyone involved in sending it to me. The home-town news is sure nice to read after being away from home two years. Hoping I receive a lot more issues and thanks again, I remain, Sgt. Duane lurner I Paul Hjorth, son of Mr. and Mrs. O. A. Hjorth of this city, has spent two weeks with his parents and other relatives here. A veteran of the Aleutian campaign, he was awaiting assignment to another ship. He was with the naval patrol when the U. S. troops moved onto the island of Kiska, and although, he stated, there were no Japs on the island, they had planted land mines in every available spot and a number of U. S. soldiers were injured in the explosions. He described de-scribed cne of the battles as lasting last-ing about two hours during which his ship was fired on several times, before the Japs evacuated the island. is-land. He was with the convoy which brought a number of wounded wound-ed soldiers from the apea. Paul called at the Herald office and expressed hi3 appreciation to the Junior Chamber of Commerce for jenuing him the paper which he has been receiving for some time. Lt. Donald Bird, son of Mrs. Myrtle Bird of Mapleton, was happily surprised recently when he met Lt. Keith Mendenhall, son of Mr. and Mrs S. L. Mendenhall, Jr., at the officers' clubroom in London, Lon-don, England. 'According1 to a report of the V. S. A. A. F. 359th Bomb Sgd. A. P. O. 634 Postmaster, N. Y. Farragut, Idaho A new student in - the Radioman school at this U. S. Naval Training Station this week is Kenneth Lowe, son of Mr. and Mrs. Glen Lowe, 130 E. 7th South, Springville, Utah, who has begun a 16-weeks intensive course in that specialty. At this school, one of many offered of-fered by, the Navy, he will be taught the latest methods in that branch, and upon completion of the course, he may qualify for a petty officer rate. Glen Beardall, son of Mrs. John Beardall, who has been in the South Pacific area since May gives a number of interesting items of the country in which he is situated, situat-ed, in a letter to his folks here. The letter in part states: "There are no inhabitants on this end of the island except a few natives and they are as black as the ace of spades. The jungles are so thick that a man can be ten feet away and you cannot see him. We are in territory that this company com-pany helped take away from the Japs a few months back. I have been out in the jungles and seen meeting sent in a letter from Lt. Bird to his mother, he was sitting in the club room when he heard someone call his name, and turned to see Keith coming toward him. It was a happy meeting and the boys had a good time talking of happenings in their home town. He was the first home-town person per-son Lt. Bird had seen since last May, he stated. |