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Show ightin' Binghamites Report . I t a recent promotion 'from Camp Livingston, La L Julian Baum is now ad-U ad-U as "staff sergeant", .rdon Buckle writes his folks, J 3 Mrs. G. T. Buckle of erton. from Fort Riley, as that he has been assign-J assign-J jjje mechanised cavalry and V 2C Orley Bills left June . report at Treasure Island. XM on leave, spending most K time here with his wife, former Joy Bentley, a Utah w employee. I Kd Brentel left June 15 .turn to Boston, Mass., after ay furlough with his wife, former Olivia Bedont, and Tony Brentel. eman 1 C Wilbur C. Thomas, is on a supply ship station-t station-t Okinawa, writes that the i is under continuous air and has to "smoke out" of-1. of-1. John Barnhart, who has at Regional hospital. Camp )jr, Miss., will arrive Satur-for Satur-for a 10-day furlough visit his wife, Barbara Jenkins M l C and Mrs. Forrest Wat-and Wat-and Cla Watson telephoned Ilerest's and Clay's parents, Mr. j Mrs. L L. Watson of Cop-IgL Cop-IgL from Oakland, Calif., on 1 her's day. Forrest and his wife leaving the coast Saturday Memphis, Tenn., where he is continue aviation training, i new rating was received by i ' 2C Ned Jones, now on a! pital ship in the Pacific, on lr and Mrs. J. A. Peterson e received word from their Pfc Harold S. Peterson, that is convalescing in a hospital 3aris from a broken left arm j ived in Germany. He is in Railway Operating battalion has been overseas seven J Major General William H Gill and in its fourth year of com-bat com-bat against -the enemy in the Vrni St, be,en '''Khting along I the Villa Verde trail in the pre-l pre-l cipitous Caraballo mountains oi Northern Luzon. Pfc Foist who is serving in the division's crack 128th Infantry , regiment also holds the Philippine Philip-pine liberation medal Lt. (j.g.) Charles Russell Sul-lenger Sul-lenger received his present rating ! on Juni" 1- On June 20 Russell, I a son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles F Sullenger of Copperton, completed complet-ed ten years of service in the navy. Ten months ago he was home with his wife and little son, I Terry Lee, at Copperton. Four i months after his return to duty he was made a gunnery officer ! on his ship, U.S.S. Vestal. He , has been assigned to the South ! Pacific since December 7, 1941. Pfc Leonard Earl Cuthbert, ! I who recently returned from eight months in the European theatre ! of operations on the U.S. hospital : ship Louis E. Milene, is now at i Dibble hospital, Menlo Park, Calif. He wears three stars and j the combat infantryman medal on his service ribbons. Cpl. Nick H. Pazell of Fort Knox, Ky., arrived Sunday on a ten day furlough after which he reports back at Fort Knox. The Presidential Unit citation has been awarded to Aviation Machinist's Mate 2 C Joe Ernest "Pino" Arata for outstanding performance in combat while serving on the U.S.S. Bogue from April 20, 1943, to July 3, 1944. The Bogue carried out a successful success-ful campaign against German submarines in the Atlantic ocean. The number of subs sunk by the i Bogue and her crew has not been j released for publication. A son of Mr. and Mrs. Pete Arata of I Copperton, "Pino" is now sta-1 tioned at Corpus Christi, Texas. 1 He served on the carrier U- S. S. j Ticonderoga until it was severely severe-ly damaged recently in the Pa-! cific. B: John Predovich, 30, son of Hand Mrs. Peter Predovich of bland Boy, was one of those rck-d the purple heart for nds received in action against enemy by the famous 42nd now division of the Seventh in Germany. He joined the I . in 1944, and joined I Rainbow division in Septem- 1044, oarticipating in the mile smash from the Hardt ntains of France through the heart ol southern Germany the Austrian border. In this the division captured the one Nazi cities of Wurzburg, winfurt and Furth, which is western third of the city of participated in taking ol Munich. Pfc Predo- a member of the 222nd in v j: .i graduate of Bingham school Prior to entering ser- he was employed by Utah . company. He received training at Camp Robin joined the Rah 1 immediatel upon ' training Hi u the combat infantryman ! for satisfactory per form - of duty in ground combat "ist the enemy. ' Douglas "Popeye" Error 'w from Apolda, Germany. ne wants to be remembered 811 his Bingham Canyon m;h Hl i glad that the Euro- battle is over and had ex-7 ex-7 his uutfit to be shipped mf,l''M 11 theatre of opera-K opera-K Douglas is with Palton's rt army ' ' k Thurmond t le H'd his father, J. B. Thur-;'laf' Thur-;'laf' Sunday, Father's day, lh him well Ll''' tenant Fern W. Pett iy enjnyed a leave at the Nice, France. Now K ail ton- ol thi M'onal irmy in Europe, Lt ft?, recent'" to Denmark W usio by way of Le Havre. an3.? D"n Stuart and Mrs. fim-r formor Thelma Berg, Rtm i who spent the past vJ i ??Ul'' in San Francisco, a, 1 ,v ,() visit Mr. and lit!' Bers- Dn recent- I Snd ' trammg at Trea- of plr !''"' S(1ven weeks old a rt Y C and Mrs. Grant J. . thi. Midval?. hopes to ific i a!!" r- now in the South sb'w ure he is a big boy of v,VValkin8 He is a Brand" W of '97, ;'nd Mrs- Justin Col- of 21 Main. m m"' 32d Infantry Divis-Bvl Divis-Bvl Northern Luzon. P.I.-ov,f P.I.-ov,f " tht' veteran 32d (Red ; prfantry Division Private i of MRobert L- Foist, hus-r hus-r Myrle Foist, 391 Cnmk ' has Deen awarded satkf , Infantryman badge tv factory performance of Biem UUnd actin against 1 e division, commanded by i Capt. H. C. Jenkins writes from ; Fort Bragg, N. C, that he is on the move again. He says he hopes to see his Bingham friends in the near future. Sgt. Joe Churich, who has been spending a 30-day leave visiting I relatives and friends in Bingham Canyon and Midvale, left this morning (Friday) for San Diego, Calif., where he will report back to duty with the marine corps. Sgt. Churich has been in the marines ma-rines for the past four years During most of this time he has been in overseas combat. On three occasions Churich has been a-warded a-warded a presidential citation for outstanding combat service at Guadalcanal, Tarawa and Sai-pan. Sai-pan. He also wears an Asiatic Pacific service ribbon with six major engagement combat stars for action at Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Tar-awa, Tulagi, Saipan, Guam and Iwo Jima. Joe also wears a naval commendation citation with one star for the battle of Guam. Sgt. Churich is chief of an artillery section in his battalion. Sgt. E. J. Householder arrived in Salt Lake City Monday evening even-ing after spending 44 months in the armed forces in the Pacific. Sgt. Householder was at Guadalcanal, Guadal-canal, New Britain, Leyte and the invasion of Philippines via Lingayen gulf. He was at Santo Tomas prison camp when American Amer-ican prisoners were released and expects to be discharged from the army on the point system. He has the infantry combat ribbon. Aviation Machinist Chief Jackson Jack-son C. Steele and Mrs. Steele of Providence, R.I., had as guest recently re-cently Mrs. Whin Raby, who was in the east with her sister-in-law Mrs. Avery W. Masters and son David of Salt Lake City for six weeks and guests of Dr and Mrs. Andrew Contratto and family fa-mily of Brookline, Mass. AMC Steele is stationed at Quonset Point, R.I., naval base, and was able to point out to Mrs. Raby the plane from which a naval commander radioed the famous message: "Sighted sub. Sank same." Robert I. Crellin arrived home Wednesday from Fort Douglas, where he was discharged from the army after 4 years, half of which was spent in the Pacific. Formerly "Sergeant" Crellin. Bob was a member of the first group of fellows to leave Bingham for training under selective service regulations. An arrival of Saturday was RM SIC Eugene B. Thomas son of Mr. and Mrs Byron G. Thorn S who has been stat.oned at Okinawa The first vis.t home in 22 months, this trip marked the. end of 10 months, this trip marked mark-ed the end of 10 months contnv uous service in the Pacific At conclusion of a 15-day leave gene reports at San Francisco for assignment. |