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Show Armed Forces Local WAVE Goes To O. C. S. Phyllis Weight, yeoman third class of the WAVES, visited at her home here last week, before reporting to the U. S. Naval Reserve Re-serve Midshipmen's school at Northampton, Massachusetts, for officer training. Miss Veight, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest G. Weight, enlisted en-listed in the WAVES in July, 1943, at the Salt Lake City WAVE office. She received her "boot" training at Hunter college in New York City, and her yeoman training train-ing at Stillwater, Oklahoma. She reported to the Navy receiving re-ceiving station at San Pedro for ye6man duty, and submitted her application for officer training soon afterwards. Miss Weight was accepted for the June 29 officer of-ficer training class, and was given a few days' leave before reporting. sandwiches and beer "' Tom described the h I place as intense and S , solders to break out 1 similar to a bad case . !- I -Wch is very an boys suffer a great a,5 Tom related. 1 K He stated that he had v pecially fortunate havt opportunity alS0 to vis-: ' mids in Egypt and1S;; ft places of Biblical hS'; passed through the birth!?' : Joseph who was sold i and he crossed over the n ; I and visited many p,aces I est along the Nile Editor's Note-The He, we believe other peopA town will read this let one of our service men w :' Interest, and we apprecto . interesting data from the J from the relatives to wh write. Also we believe t J friends located in vari01s of the world will like to the country in which he ? $ tioned. We would like nJ'' f letters. :- Springville enroute to his new camp. 1 Mapleton Man Changes Address Word comes from Lt. Larry Eird that he enjoys the Herald very much and that his address is changed to Combat Gunnery Officers School, LAAF, Laredo, Texas. Two Men Go To Same Camp Gene Averett and Don Frand-sen, Frand-sen, local boys, have been juggled about from various camps in Oklahoma, Ok-lahoma, Colorado and California, and the last address we received both are together at the same camp, same address except the company, in Camp Swift, Texas. Both left Camp Hale, Colorado, recently. Erwin Anderson Visits Home Erwin Anderson, son of Mr. and Mrs. William H. Anderson, visited the past week with his parents and friends here after completing boot training at Far-ragut, Far-ragut, Idaho. Keith Beardall, also with the army air corps, stationed at Tam- j pa, Fla., was given a 20-day furlough fur-lough and plans to return to his station on Monday. Orval C. Lowe Visits Here AC Orval C. 'Lowe, who recently recent-ly graduated from the army gunnery gun-nery school at Harling, Texas, spent 10 days visiting his mother, Mrs. Paul Kelly and family, and other relatives and friends in Springville. Cadet Lowe is now at Hondo, Texas, where he is taking his advanced navigation training. Hal Christensen Left Wednesday Hal Christensen, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harold Christensen, left on Wednesday for the Southwestern University at Georgetown, Texas, where he will take naval training. train-ing. Louis Maiben Goes To Sioux Falls, S. D. Pvt. Louis G. Maiben, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fenten Maiben, has been assigned to the A A F training command radio school at the Sioux Falls army air field, Sioux Falls, S. D., for training as a radio operator-mechanic. Upon completion of a 20-week course, he will be fully trained to take his place as a member of a highly skilled bomber crew of the army air forces. Lt. Grant Nielson Gets Purple Heart Capt. James G. Nielson, son of j J. C. Nielson, Springville, a pa-, tient at Battery General hospital at Rome, Ga., has been awarded the Purple Heart for wounds received re-ceived in action against the enemy. en-emy. Capt. Nielson, a first lieutenant lieuten-ant at the time, received a penetrating pene-trating wound in his right arm from an enemy land mine explosion explo-sion near Cassino, Italy, January 29. He recently received a battlefield battle-field promotion, effective February Febru-ary 26, when special orders from headquarters of the North African theatre of operations caught up with him at the hospital. Inducted Nov. 27, 1941, Nielson attended the infantry officer candidate can-didate school at Ft. Benning, Ga., graduating from there with a commission com-mission as second lieutenant on July 18, 1942. He went on duty at Fort Ord, Calif., and three months later, landed overseas at Fehdala, Morocco, Mo-rocco, with our North African invasion in-vasion forces. In the Tunisian campaign, he was cited for a Silver Star for knocking out an enemy machine gun nest under fire, singlehanded, capturing four Germans in the en- "TeTalded at Salerno, but not on D-Day, and first saw action in Italy at the crossing of the VolSno River. His company saw plenty of action from that time until he was wounded, Jan. 29. The battlefield promotion was riven him for successfully lead-tag lead-tag his company into attack in a key enemy position with but a small number of casualties to h own men, while capturing 28 pns oners and killing approximately the same number. His company also captured nine machine guns 13 machine pistols, five mortars and several other weapons, causing caus-ing a general withdrawal throughout through-out the entire sector. "Having demonstrated outstanding outstand-ing ability to command troops m actual combat, a temporary promotion pro-motion in the Army of the United States, effective from February 26, 1944, is awarded," the promotion promo-tion orders read. Captain Neilson's battlefield promotion was the first one to be awarded to a patient after arrival ar-rival from overseas. The Purple Heart award was presnted by Col. D. B. Faust, commanding officer, of-ficer, in a formal ceremony in the Patients' Recreation hall, June 9, at the hospital. Neilson has previously previ-ously been awarded the Silver Star. k Grant has a Druui, Neilson, in the service. He's a First' Class Carpenter's mate in the South Pacific. Tom Phillips Writes From Arabia Station Staff Sergeant Tom Phillips, son of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Phillips, Phil-lips, of this city, recently wrote an interesting letter to his parents, par-ents, telling of a Red Cross trip he had taken a short distance from his station at Aden, Arabia, where he is serving with a weather weath-er squadron. Among other things, his letter stated that during the trip they saw an old shipyard, where, according ac-cording to legends, Noah built the ark The guide also showed them a hole in a cliff where, he said, Came was supposed to be buried. The guide told them they could take or leave the legends as they saw fit. The letter went on in interesting interest-ing manner to describe a scene from an historic old fort where they could view the ocean and he said, swimming peacefully near the shore was a giant turtle, measuring meas-uring three feet across the back and weighing 300 pounds. The group visited an American couple who had lived in the. vicinity 22 years, and they gave them a Local Man At Texas Cadet Center Included among releases from army camps this week was a note to the effect that Robert Mendenhall, son of Mr. and Mrs. V. C. Mendenhall, is one of a class of 29 Utah men at the San Antonio, An-tonio, Texas, aviation cadet center, cen-ter, studying to be pilots, bombardiers bom-bardiers or navigators. The men are subject to a rigorous 10-week program of instruction covering physical, academic and military training. Letter Arrives From "Way Down Under" It is always interesting to townsfolks to read a letter from the boys in the armed forces no matter where they are, but when one comes from so 'far away as New Guinea, no matter how short, it is always read with particular interest. This week a letter came from Staff Sergeant Frank, 'Pete' Morgan, as follows: "I am writing to tell you how much I appreciate receiving the Herald. I received my first copy Dick Dudley Returns To Hill Field Dick Dudley has returned to Hill Field after spending a 15-day 15-day furlough with relatives and friends in Mapleton and Springville. Spring-ville. Sends Letter Of Appreciation Dear Friends : . I would like very much to have a share in the barrel of appreciation apprecia-tion to express my thanks and gratitude for the Springville Herald. Her-ald. It is really a great moral builder, and everyone agrees, that it is doing it's share to pave the way to victory. I have recently been transferred transfer-red to Texas. Would you please make the necessary changes in my address? Thanks again for everything. Tours truly, LEON BJARNSON Joe Saunders v Xfi is ncio Joe Saunders, serviceman from Southern California, visited over the week end as the guest of Mary Rust in Springville. Ensign Lamar Holley Returns To Base Ensign Lamar Holley, son of Mr. and Mrs. Glenn Holley, returned re-turned by plane to San Diegt, Calif., after spending three weeks with relatives and friends in Mapleton Ma-pleton and Springville. He received re-ceived his wings and commission at Corpus Christi, Texas in March and went from there to Florida, where he took operational training. train-ing. Russell Groesbeck Goes Into Navy Russell Groesbeck, son of Mr and Mrs. Berton ffroesbeck, wil leave Friday for the University oi Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, where he will begin training for the navy. Brothers In Air Corps Visit Here Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Beardal. are happy to have their two service serv-ice sons visiting them this wee! both coming from army air training train-ing centers. Lt. Leslie Beardall, a navigation instructor at San Mar-i Mar-i cos, Texas, is here with his wife recently ana was very muuti cmi-prised cmi-prised because, I didn't know it was coming. "Floyd Crandall was here yesterday yes-terday to see me. and we had quite a chat about home. I showed him all of my latest pictures from home and it made both of us a little lit-tle homesick. If things go well, he will probably be home in July. I am not quite so fortunate; I am in the oldest outfit over on this side and I am quite a long ways down the list. I have twenty-eight twenty-eight months over here and twenty twen-ty nine and a half months in the army. That's quite a record. "I am doing fine, was made a staff sergeant in February. All I want now are orders to come home." PETE. Lt. A. C. Billings Changes Location Lt. A. C. Billings has changed his address but is still in the same state, according to word received here. He has been transferred from King City, Calif., to Merced, Calif. Keith Beardall Goes To Tampa, Florida ' From Las Vegas, Nev., to Tampa, Tam-pa, Fla., is the latest transfer for - Cpl. Keith Beardall, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ronald Beardall. 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