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Show in Texas for about a year and a half. He is a son of Mrs. Flo Smith of this city. Frances Boyer Gets Promoted Ogden Air Technical Service Command, Hill Field, Utah Col. Paul W. Wolf, commanding officer of the Ogden Air Technical Service Ser-vice Command, recently announced the promotion of Francis O. Boyer to the rank of corporal. Cpl. Boyer, the son of Mr. and Mrs. M. Oscar Boyer, enlisted in the Army April 3, 1943 and has been assigned to the signal office of this command. A graduate of SpringviHe high school, Cpl. Boyer also attended the First National Television school of Kansas City, Mo., where he underwent specialized training in radio engineering. His wife, Mrs. Edna O. Boyer, and daughter, reside at 70 East Center street. Cpl. Royal Oakes Home From Germany From four and a half months Lt. Burnls Watts Home On Furlough . Lt. Burnis Watts, son of Mrs. Luttie Watts, is spending a 30-day 30-day furlough at home with his mother and other relatives and friends. Serving as a glider pilot, Lt. Watts has seen service in Holland, Hol-land, Normandy and in Germany, flnti was stationed earlier in Eng- ' spent in Germany, France and Austria, Cpl. Royal Oakes is at home on a 30-day furlough before leaving for the South Pacific. He has been with a Tank Battalion. At the end of his furlough, he is to report to Fort Jackson, S. C, for further training. He is the son . of Mrs. Mary Oakes. Pfc. Norman Smith Home For 30 Days ' Pfc. orman Smith, son of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Smith, is home on a 30-day furlough from Europe. He has been with the Engineers and has served in England, Belgium, Belgi-um, France and Germany, for a total of 20 mouths and in the service ser-vice for 27 months. At the conclusion conclu-sion of his furlough he is to report to Fort Douglas,: and expects to go to the South Pacific. Norman called at the Herald office to express ex-press his appreciation for the home-town paper, which was always al-ways good news to them. IF. O. Robert Mendenhall Armed Forces Lt. Erie Boorman With Air Apaches i Fifth Air Force, Philippine Islands Is-lands Second Lietu. Erie V. Boor-man, Boor-man, Jr., 24, husband of Mrs. Bir-hie Bir-hie B. Boorman, 346 North West University Ave., Provo, has been assigned as a B-25 Mitchell bombardier bom-bardier and navigator with the "Air Apaches,'' veteran 345th Bombardment Group of the 5th Air Force in the Philippines. Lieut. Boorman will fly his first mission against Japanese airfields, communications and installations on Formoa and along the French Indo-China and China coasts, and long-range shipping strikes in conjunction con-junction with, the 5th Air Force aerial blockade of the China Sea. A native of SpringviHe, Lieut. Boorman is the son of Mr. and Mrs. E. V. Boorman of 149 So. 2nd land. He has been overseas for 22 months. He is to report to Santa Ana, Calif., at the end of his furlough. Lt. Watts stated that he received the Herald and enjoyed en-joyed reading it, although sometimes some-times mail had a hard time to keep up with them. Cpl. Welby Metcalf Gone Overseas Cpl. Welby Metcalf left recently recent-ly for service overseas as an A. N. gunner on a B-29. Before leaving he was stationed at Topeka, Kans., waiting for a new plane, and previous to that he was at Clovis, N. M. Guy Strong Gets Promotion Guy Strong, son of Mr. and Mrs. Willis Strong, has been promoted pro-moted to seaman first class in the navy, according to word received re-ceived here.- He is stationed at Siapan. ti west. tie as a iav graduate or SpringviHe high school and received re-ceived his Bachelor of Science degree de-gree from the University of Colorado Colo-rado in 1841. He was a cost ac countant for Columbia Steel before be-fore entering the Army Air Forces in May of 1942. During its 26 months of combat the Air Apaches have sunk 237 enemy vessels from barges to 10,-000 10,-000 ton freighters; have destroyed 368 Jap planes, 108 of which were shot out of the air, and have damaged dam-aged an additional 111,000 tons of Nip shipping. Lieut. Boorman has been over- Spends Furlough At Home R. O. Robert Mendenhall, son of Mr. and Mrs. V. C. Mendenhall, Menden-hall, is spending a few days furlough fur-lough with relatives and friends here. He has been stationed at Carlsbad, N. M. Dwain Gore, S 2-c Home On Leave Dwain Gore, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Gore, is spending a few days leave with his parents and friends here. He has just completed his boot training at San Diego, and expects to go over soon. seas one month. Pvt. Joseph B. Allan Writes His Appreciation A letter from Pvt. Joseph B. Allan, stationed on Okinawa, states that he is receiving hia sec-: sec-: ond class mail including the SpringviHe Herald, which he enjoys, en-joys, and he expresses his' appreciation appre-ciation to the Jaycees for the paper. pa-per. In an interesting manner, he described July 4, which was just another day to the boys. However, he did find an old beaten-up Jap phonograph and played a few patriotic pa-triotic tunes to begin the day, he said. Lt. Joe Salisbury Gets Honorable Discharge Lt. Joe Salisbury has been given an honorable discharge from the Army after serving more than four years. He was released on j points. He has been in this country : several months after filling his missions in the South Pacific. Darrell B. Hill Advanced In Navy Darrell B. Hill TJSNR, has been ; advanced in rating to Signalman, Second Class at the U. S. Naval Armed Guard Center, New Orleans La., to which he is attached. Hill entered the service in December, De-cember, 1942 and has visited ports in the United Kingdom, Africa, Italy, India and France, while serving as a member of an Armed Guard Unit aboard a merchant ship ! for the ship's protection against enemy attacks. j Before entering the service, Hill was employed by the Bennett Glass Paint company. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Rulon J. Hill of Pay-son. Pay-son. His wife, Evelyn and son, are living with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. G. Peterson. Blaine Brallsford Visiting At Home Blaine Brailsford is spending a few days' leave with his parents and friends in SpringviHe. Charles M. Collins Gets Honorable Discharge Cpl. Charles M. Collins has been given an honorable discharge from the service on points after serving four years and eight months in the service. During that time he has been stationed in Alaska and the Aleutians for three years and |