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Show :po ! ; o o H Greetings To Our baddies In The Service ... S rlwnrp' --rr n i .. J tl mmmim .....4. o.. . .. ij GERRY LANCE MINER "I am mighty proud of my daddy because he has served on so many battlefronts and now, best of all, he is back in this country and can be with us at least for right now. My daddy is Lynn A. " Miner, gunner's mate first class with the U. S. N. A. T. B., and he has seen action in Africa, Sicily and Italy. 1(1 " My daddy was in Italy when I was born, last ' October, and he didn't see me until I was seven months old. Not all youngsters are as lucky as I am because my mother, Mrs. Ruth E. Gabbitas 1 Miner, and I are right with my daddy now in Panama Pana-ma City, Fla., and he thinks I am the smartest baby in the world. "We hope we can stay with daddy, but one never knows where one will be next in war times. When I was born and my daddy was way over in Italy, he didn't think he would see me for a long time. But in just a few months we were together (again. "And now although we are with daddy, sometimes some-times we do get homesick to see my grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Arden Miner of Orem, and Mr. and I Mrs. Herbert Gabbitas in Springville." DARRELL GENE HILL "Although my daddy sails 'on the seven seas,' every chance he gets he comes back to me. I was born June 2T, last year and when I was just three weeks old he dropped in to see me for a few days and then he was gone again. Then when I was nine months old, last May, he came again but I haven't seen him since. "But when my daddy comes home to stay, he will have many stories to tell me of his experiences in England, Nova Scotia, India, Canada, Egypt, Ceylon, and other places where he's gone with the Navy as a third class petty officer. In the meantime, mean-time, I am happy with the many, pretty things he sends me from the foreign countries he visits. My mother has a beautiful necklace, a gorgeous handmade hand-made leather suitcase and ever so many things my daddy has sent her from far away countries, and I have some real Indian shoes made in India, and the suit I like best came from New York. "While my daddy's away, my mother, Mrs. Evelyn Peterson Hill, and I live with my grandparents, grandpar-ents, Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Peterson, at 245 East, Fourth South street. DIANNE TIPTON "I look happy enough in my picture but I really do worry about how the Germans are taking care of my daddy, Lt. Vernon Tipton, since they took him prisoner last April. I was born February 3, just two months before my mother got word and maybe you think she didn't worry, with a brand new baby daughter and the daddy so far away. "We think my daddy was taken prisoner near Toulon, France, Nazi submarine base, after he bailed out over the ocean but we aren't real sure and we haven't heard a word since the government said he was missing and a prisoner at Stalag Luft No. 3, which is about ninety miles from Berlin. How I hope our soldiers soon reach that prison camp. "Although I have never seen my daddy, I know him very well because my mother tells me so much about him. He had completed nearly fifty missions mis-sions as a bombardier on a B-24 from Italy, and has been overseas since November, 1943. "Till my daddy comes home, I am living with my mother, Mrs. Norma Russell, and my grandmother, grand-mother, Mrs. Julia Russell at Mesa, Arizona. But right now I am having a big time on my first visit to Utah, seeing my grandmother, Mrs. Lula T. Witney, Wit-ney, and many other relatives for the first time. |