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Show 4 Armed Forces i I Bert Brailsford Writes From Washington Bert O. Brailsford writes his appreciation to the Jaycees for the home town paper this week, stating stat-ing that he does hope It keeps on coming. He states that he has met two Springville boys, Don Blanch-ard Blanch-ard and Dick Bailey and had fine talks together and that it was really swell to see someone from home. Sgt. Byron Wardle Writes Interesting Letter Italy, Jan. 17, 1945 "I think of the Herald every day, but its been a long time since I saw one and it'll be a great day when all the back issues catch up with me. There isn't much I can report other than several interesting interest-ing visits to Pisa and Naples. Generally, the cities look all the same principally because they've seen so many bombings as well as German occupation which isn't good for any city. The winter is resulting in hardships that are difficult dif-ficult for Americans to comprehend. compre-hend. Only those in isolated farming farm-ing districts are living in a halfway half-way manner. The Italians also can never be too appreciative of the aid the U. S. has so generously gener-ously and intelligently distributed in the congested area. At present, I am in the mountains moun-tains more or less taking in the winter scenery. It looks a lot like home until I look a little closer and see the strange buildings which hang on the mountains like a "wing and a prayer." Good luck to all, Sgt. Byron Wardle, Local Man Fighting In Philippines Sgt. Howard Dalton, son of Mrs. Sarah Dalton, is now in the Philippines Phil-ippines taking part in major engagements, en-gagements, according to word received re-ceived recently by his mother. She has another son, .Pvt. Vern Dalton. Dal-ton. in England. Lois Hales In Hawaii A card arrived this week from Lois Hales, who states she likes it fine in Hawaii. She is stationed on the island with the WAVES and was one of the first of 200 WAVES to leave this country for overseas assignment. Cpl. Mead Weight Has Dangerous Job Overseas Cpl. Meade Harry Weight, of this city, has had the job of hauling haul-ing 125 million gallons of motor and aviation gasoline to combat units through artillery fire, enemy planes and snipers since June 26. The men travel between 10 and 750 miles one way to make deliveries, delive-ries, and with their 2000-gallon tankers and trailer tanks of equal capacity behind, are the last link between combat units and sources of supply. With speed of delivery an urgent urg-ent requiremnt in their joy, they went through towns still burning from bombing and shelling. The situation when streaking across France was so fluid that fuel dumps were necessarily placed within a few miles of the forward elements. Several convoys narrowly narrow-ly missed disaster by luckily unloading un-loading and leaving before the arrival ar-rival of bombers. One convoy carrying a load of 80 octane motor gas drove through a town that was burning. The drivers rolled through the town despite the blaze and came through all right but each 4000 gallon load was so hot they could not touch the sides of the tank. Unloading at an old Shell distributing dis-tributing plant in a Belgian town, a convoy with Sgts. Sanders and Cantrell, Mississippi, missed disaster dis-aster when German bombers skipped skip-ped over them. The enemy seemed seem-ed to be dropping its bombs in a pattern as it passed over the town. They seemed to be leading directly direct-ly over the distributing plant, but left a gap in their bombardment, stopping 300 yards from the convoy con-voy and continuing farther behind. Many of the men of these companies com-panies landed in England more than two years ago and were members of the first truck companies com-panies there. They covered the United Kingdom, delivering gasoline gaso-line and driving cargo trucks. (Continued Next Week) |