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Show 'jhtin' nghamitcs .eport Lilev J. Santistevan,' coach il coordinator at Bingham high ool frequently receives let-- let-- from former Miners' ath-'s ath-'s now in service. Of interest : week were the following: V-Mail letter from. Seaman Glen L. Sheen, in the South ific who wrote: "I received ir wonderful letter, and Bob Us who is with me, also en-t.d en-t.d it I often think of the es I had at Bingham high uol and feel that was half my liM I wish I could use a curve bJi on the Japs. Would you say hdlo' to everybody? As ever, Shinny Sheen". , Lt Ernest J. Sheen, Glen's MtW, says that he went to a lni'ting of Mormon service men loftewherc in the South Pacific anj saw the name of his brother odd roll for November 21 and hal since been hoping to meet hjl "That would be a truly pLtl moment". In telling of his "'I-e of duty Ernie mentioned (, jt "I'm in the South Pacific. yA know just about the setup. Tit climate is pretty good not mlh different than Florida. Swimming in the ocean, hunting cdfleanuts and bananas is new to mi and I'm yetting a lot of fun ouj of it," Ernie said. Idval Aviation Cadet F. For-'rel For-'rel Watson, son of Mr. and Mrs. LL. Watson, is now attending nhi University of Texas at Austin Aus-tin and is learning to be a pilot. ; Private Bartley Vietti, son of Me and Mrs. John Vietti, is training with the quartermaster jcorps at Camp Lee, Va. He wrote !glring accounts home of his trip jtoiVirginia in a pullman and of h1"! sightseeing tour in Chicago. I lichard S. Peterson, son of Mr. pj Mrs. Frank Peterson of Cop-foelton, Cop-foelton, graduated recently from I frvice school at Farragut, Ida., j jh the rating of Seaman 1;C. Before James M. Sullenger, chf-f fire controlman on a sub-mame, sub-mame, left Mare island last week for duty in the Pacific he red-ived his ensign's commission. Hii youngest brother, William B. Sulk'iiRer, who is in the New Hebrides, recently received a rating rat-ing as a seaman first class. lordon Russell Loveless, son fJMr. and Mrs. P. O. Loveless JCopoerton, is training at thington Municipal university utjTopeka, Kansas, as a prospective prospec-tive naval officer. Prior to enrolment en-rolment in the program he had ben employed for a year as a machinist at Ogden air depot, Hifi field. A graduate of Bing-hafi Bing-hafi high school, Russell was business manager of the year Mk, a member of the Miners chw, played the cornet and the liatio and was on the tennis team twf years. Selective service board No. 18 fgwts the following inducted i the navy on March 27 dy: Merlin Oswald Smith, wflon LeGrand Landgren; Mid-vafc: Mid-vafc: Carl Gordon Arnoldus; wiper: Dale Ezra Peterson; wfray: Calvin G. Price; Lark: Russell K. Nelson; Union: Alan 'rge Evans, Verl Everett At-"jjson, At-"jjson, Lynn Alvin Lake; River-W.Alfred River-W.Alfred Alexander Engstrum, Lajell Franklin Snyder, Keith '."ties Mason; Bingham Canyon: n Joe Bernardo, Lawrence ... f'm Kite, Eugene Allen Fi-L Fi-L Fred Bromley Nielsen; ft Jordan: Howard Junior erson; and (marine corps) sneth James Hatch. According to a report from "quarters of the European Pire of operations, U.S. army, i Lleutenant Daniel L. Caul- was a member of the group J pmerican engineers who corn-fed corn-fed a large army camD in 28 "Ik !n England. Colonel R. H. poison of Arcadia, Calif., fmanded the outfit, which ! gfven 45 days to complete rt Pririty job, which in-;ed in-;ed construction of 75 shelter J administration huts, the :tion of hundreds of tents; JjSpng and laying of three miles fewer lines, five' miles of wa-iines, wa-iines, construction of six mil-fl mil-fl road and erection of three , jes of hiRn tension electric ?he engineers worked on three ;;frate sites at top speed so that .f TR troops could be proper-'ineltered proper-'ineltered when they arrived JEnjgland. (raulfield is a son of Mr. Ini it Thomas Caulfield of jper Heights. He entered ser-dfat ser-dfat d cbruary. 1941, and train-fi train-fi th PoArtland: Ore., in Alaska, cSmTr Aflzona desert and at Hnu kett' Calif., before en-r?.flcer en-r?.flcer candidate school 'I t 20lvir. Va. He was then ;,I k CamP Claiborne, La., be- ;n4lhipped,t0 Ennd -4 i'nJ01?0 Zaccaria, son of 1lCWMrs- Frank Zaccaria Sr. jontinued on page eight) M. M. 1 C William L. Motis, serving in the South Pacific, asks to be remembered to all his friends. Staff Sergeant Harry McDonald McDon-ald writes from Anzio beach, Italy, that he would like Chicago Charlie to come over and "stop the Germans". As McDonald, who wears the purple heart, says, "What has Superman got that Charlie hasn't, except maybe may-be a blue suit?" In describing his position, Sgt. McDonald says: "At Anzio there are no women, no wine, no nothing. But boy! We have lots of Jerrys and they sure are trying to push us back to Naples. Their planes keep hammering at us. They get shot down as soon as they come out in the open." Asking for addresses address-es of all fellows from home who are thought to be in Italy, Harry signs himself: "A Guy from Bingham". Lark The sons of Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Overson have received receiv-ed advancements in rank. Bobbie Blair Overson, serving in the South Pacific as command signal man for the past 15 months has been promoted to petty officer second class. William Sherrell Overson was recently commissioned commis-sioned a second lieutenant at Fort Sill, Okla., and is now attending liaison pilot training at Pittsburg, Kansas. riGHTIN' BINGHAMITES REPORT (Continued from pane one) of Helper and brother of Frank Zaccaria and Steve Zaivaria of this city wrote the following letter let-ter reporting on his experiences since entering the army: Thought maybe you'd like to know a little about myself, and my army life since leaving Helper. Help-er. I left there November, 1!41 and have traveled many miles since then. First I went to a reception re-ception center and from there to basic training at Camp Wallace. Texas. Finished training and went to Camp Hulen, Texas, to join the 105th CA Bn. AA. Stayed Stay-ed there a few months and went to California for training in desert des-ert warfare. Only stayed there two months and we were alert for overseas movement. Left the good old U.S.A. on Aun":;t (i, 1942 and landed in Scotland August 17. Wonderful trip across no trouble encountered. Went from there to England visited the famed city of London and met many of the sharp' England lassies. England is not bad at all and I enjoyed my short stay there. We moved again and went back to Scotland for more trainingthen train-ingthen the big day arrived and we loaded again on to transports trans-ports and pulled out for an unknown un-known destination. We were not advised for many days just where we were going. We did know however that actual combat was forthcoming. About five days before be-fore we landed booklets were passed out on the habits of natives na-tives of the "Dark Continent." We were headed for Africa. Landed on the initial wave at Arzew and went all through the African Campaign as AA protection protec-tion for heavy artillery of the famous 1st U.S. Inf. Division. We were in Kasserine Pass, Gafsa-El Guettar, Mateur, Beja, Ferryville and Bizerte. The campaign ended end-ed May 14, 1943 and we were right on the outskirts of the city of Tunis. Next we re-equipped and loaded for the next invasion this one carried us into Gela, Sicily on July 10, 1943, again we were on the first of the invasion plenty of action too. Went through this island in 38 days attached to the 1st Inf. Div. and ended up near Messina. After a very short rest we were attached to unother history-making division divis-ion and were sent to Italy. Due to censorship regulations, I am not permitted to tell of anything that has happened since landing here will say, have been here as some of the first to arrive and have traveled quite some dis-' dis-' tance since arriving. The Italian oeople were happy to see us after the rule of Hitler. The above is just a brief ac-count ac-count of my actions for the past j few yearswish I could get home : and tell you in detail about some if the things that have happened. happen-ed. My unit is rated as 'Tops' in ! the AA field. We have numerous planes to our credit and probably probab-ly will have lots more before this ' mess is cleared up. ! Thanking you again for a won-; won-; dei ful paper, and wishing you i all the success possible, I remain Sincerely yours, Rudy Zaccaria. j I Wallace Jack Pollock, son of ! Mr. and Mrs. Albert Pollock, has f been promoted to the rank of ! aviation machinist mate 2 C, ac-j ac-j cording to word received from . Key West, Florida. i pvt. dlayde Tibbie arrived j home Saturday to spend a nine-day nine-day furlough. He is to report at Camp Beale, Calif. Duain Jewett, seaman second class, is now at Seattle, Wash., training in the naval air corps. Formerly a naval college training train-ing student at Pocatello, Idaho, Seaman Jewett, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Carl Jewett of Salt Lake , City, transferred to V-5 training. Seaman 2C John S. Gleason Jr. is now taking a five months' i course in radio at the U. S. naval training school at the University ' of Wisconsin, Madison. Kenneth Ray, seaman 2,C, has been assigned to electrician's school at Wahpetan, N.D. A son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Ray of Copperton, Seaman Ray completed com-pleted boot training at Farragut, Idaho. Lt. Fern W. Pett. son of Mr. and Mrs. L. F. Pett of Copper-ton, Copper-ton, is piloting a transport plane and recently wrote his parents from South America. Chief Gunners Mate William Elwood Robinson left Wednesday Wednes-day to report at Port of Los Angeles An-geles following a five day visit at the Jack Davidson home. He attended funeral services tor his grandfather, Charles Davidson, 87, in Salt Lake City Tuesday. Billy Bayes, son of Angelo Bayes of Copperfield is now stationed sta-tioned in Australia. Billy is a sergeant major of a clerical school for army clerks. He states that he likes his work, but misses the snow very much, as Australia is rather warm this time of the year. Ralph Densley, son of Mrs. Mohleta Densley, has been promoted prom-oted to Storekeeper third class. His letters are forwarded him through the San Francisco fleet post office. J. D. Caulfield, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Caulfield, is receiving receiv-ing training at Camp Abbot, Ore. Here on a 15-day leave, the first visit home in a year, is Lieutenant Lieu-tenant (j.g.) Rex Charles Tripp, who arrived Wednesday morning from San Francisco. He has been in the South Pacific since March, 1943, and saw action at New Georgia, Bougainville, Gilbert Islands and Rabaul. It is his observation ob-servation that the Pacific bases have an immense supply of equipment, men and supplies necessary for the action that will mean big news and an improvement improve-ment in prospects for a shorter war than was thought possible in the Pacific. The navy, he says, is really "doing things". o |