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Show Armed Forces Cpl. Cart Miller Returns Home Cpl. Carl Miller, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Miller, has returned from Europe, where he has been serving with the Engineers more than a year. In the army since joining the national guard in 1941, he expects to be given an honorable honor-able discharge this week. He served in the South Pacific theater, thea-ter, stationed in the Hawaiian Islands Is-lands a year before being transferred trans-ferred back to this country and thence to Europe. Following a visit with relatives here, he plans to join his wife in Los Angeles, Calif. Lt. Fred Chllds Visits In Springville Lt. Fred Childs was home from Maxton, N. C, this week to spend a few days' furlough with his wife, the former Ruth Robertson, who is taking nurses training in Salt Lake City, and his mother, Mrs. Belle Childs and other relatives. ,of Japan's defeat to her people combat cargo was swung into the ship's hold. The pioneer "invasion fleet" in which she sailed had only five Marine-laden attack transports, one attack cargo ship and three destroyers. Local Navyman With Amphibious Force At An Amphibious Base in the Pacific Blaine R. Thorn, seaman first class, of this city, is serving with this repair and training base which supplied troops and landing craft for major Invasions in the Marshalls, the Gilberts and at Okinawa. Carrying a 24-hour, seven-day schedule, his unit maintained all types of landing -and assault equipment and repair supplies. The base also trained personnel in amphibious communications, .Mapleton, received his silver pilot s wings and was appointed a Flight Officer in the Army Air Farces upon completion of his twin-engine advanced training at thl3 Top o' Texas unit of the AAF Central Flying Fly-ing Training Command. Dee Barney Gets Medical Discharge Dee Barney, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Barney, has been given an honorable medical discharge from the navy, effective August 15. He was released from the Balboa hospital hos-pital at San Diego, Calif. Sgt. Ronda Jenkins Transferred To Pacific Sgt. Ronda Jenkins, son, of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Jenkins of this city was recently transferred from the European theater to the South Pacific. The trip on the water was a long one, according to a letter from Ronda. Sailing through the Strait of Gibraltar, across the Atlantic, At-lantic, through the Panama Canal, Can-al, thence to Guam with a 16-day stop at the latter place, deciding whether to go on or return, the shipload of soldiers were on the water 57 days. He is now at Okinawa. Okin-awa. , Air Force Losses Great In Europe The Army Air Force reports that there were 38,185 airmen killed or missing in the war in Europe. J The reader will appreciate the magnitude of these casualties and the scope of aerial operations by recalling that, in the first World War, te nation lost 53,000 dead. Some 18,518 pjanes were lost in air combats that preceded the collapse col-lapse of Germany. Up to this time, we do not know the number num-ber of aircraft that was involved in European operations, but apparently ap-parently the percentage of loss was rather high. Springville Man Lands Marines At Yokahama On the Attack Transport USS Mellette, Off Yokahama (Delayed) (De-layed) Vernon Lynn Curtis, seaman, sea-man, second class, USN, Route 1, minesweepmg and camouflage operations. op-erations. Lawrence Whitney Made Pilot PAMPA ARMY ATR FIELD, Pampa, Tex., Sept. 8 (Special) Lawrence Whitney, 26, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey A. Whitney, of Springville, Utah, with other members mem-bers of the crew of this ship, manned the landing boats that took a battalion of Marines to the beaches of Japan for one of the strangest military operations in history a seaborne invasion of a nation after its surrender. The transport was passing Guam at sea when Fleet Admiral C. W. Nimitz ordered her to prepare pre-pare hastily for the operation. Some 1,200 Marines were rushed rush-ed aboard her under command of Major Wilson E. Hunt, USMC, of Seattle, Wash. Ten American and British war correspondents followed. At the moment Hiro-hito Hiro-hito was broadcasting the news A speed violation was reported for one out of every three fatal motor vehicle accidents in 1944, I according to the National Safety I Council. A woman is a person who can hurry through a drugstore aisle 18 inches wide without brushing against the piled up tinware, and then drive home and knock the doors off a 12-foot garage. About $90,000,000 worth of farm property, one-fifth of the national fire loss, was destroyed last year by fire, according to the National Safety Council. |