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Show lightm Binghamites Report . no doubt several m "s in Bingham who irtj Lt most vittsfactortly, fjCfig written by Cpl. I K:' rb ch 39835237, Hq. Co. kt ; S V Gp AFP AC, APO it PwtmaYter, San Fran-I Fran-I Viif His letter which be-" be-" Hello AH", was written s,k to them. Mike says: "A KmS agum to say hello vou know that every-L every-L tine here in the Philip- m stationed in the heart Manila, at one time really a JTrity which now lays in But they are doing a won-fj won-fj job of repairing its dam- Thu women are really very , in fact, a lot of them are liful although there still uni. as nice as all the girls feUowi have left behind. I m going on to 27 months Ml and sure do wish I Id come home and see mother girls as well as everyone else bnfham. j vou happen to know of one m the vicinity of the city Manila from Bingham please 1 and let me know. ..diked into a Manila Night Hhe other night with a bud-l bud-l mine who is from Iowa and d should 1 run into but Joe den Jr. He and I went through e school together and also iuated from the local high nol in 1936. We really had J i a session and talked about bod old times when we were Lians- Joe incidently just ar-I ar-I from E.T O. and is looking frite if you can find time I do not forget to let me know tee fellows stationed nearby I what organizations they be- S to. Good luck and God bless you your friend, Mike Gerbieh." 1 Jack E. Nelson of the air- j ne troop carrier sent excel-l excel-l photographs of France to , Edward Gaythwaite, Mrs. L Nelson and Mrs. J. Dewey nisei). Jack has evidently a some beautif ul and interest-country. interest-country. line Cpl. Weldon Caldwell rlrated V-J day at Pearl Har . where peace was welcomed ! h greatest rejoicing and gen-l gen-l significance. 1 Robert Groves, son of Mr. I Mrs. D. D. Groves, arrived itoday for a furlough visit, man 1C William Groves rets re-ts August 29 at San Francisco) Mis first visit home with his Ml and friends in a year. lanne Cpl. Stanley McClus-' McClus-' stationed at San Francisco, !f V-J day arrival at Bing-? Bing-? He's spending a few days is furlough with his mother, t.worge Manos and other cm R;!M 3C John Bolic believed to be near Leyte, has three bronze stars for participation in naval campaigns. Ail Wi Kendall Jones, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Jones, left Kcarns, Utah, where he was stationed sta-tioned the past two weeks, Monday Mon-day left for undisclosed destination, destina-tion, Pfc Keith DeCol received a fractured toot while working in the kitchen at Camp Claibourne ! La., when a meat block fell off a table Jay Archibald, son of Mr and Mrs. C. J. Archibald of Copper-ton, Copper-ton, is on the last four weeks of boot training with the marines at San Diego, Calif. Fort Sill, Okla , August 11 (FAS)- Ken Q. V. Shulgen, Bingham Canyon, has been com-I com-I missioned as a second lieutenant of field artillery following his graduation from the Field Artillery Artil-lery Officer Candidate school. Lieutenant Shulsen, son of A. J. Shulsen, Route 1, Mid vale, was graduated from Jordan high school and attended Utah State Agricultural college, Logan. He has been assigned to the Field Artillery Replacement Training Center, Fort Sill Master Sergeant Fred Home arrived in Midvale, Wednesday, to spend a 30-day furlough visiting visit-ing his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Home. Fred has spent the past 37 months In the Pacific. His most recent base was on the Philippine Phil-ippine islands. Mrs. E. V. Ferry of Portland, Ore., is also visiting her parents, Mr and Mrs. Home. Fred has been in five major engagements. en-gagements. Sgt. John S. Motis returned last Friday from Hankinson, North Dakota, where he spent three weeks visiting his father John reports back to Fort Douglas Doug-las on August 20 after a 45-day leave from the South Pacific. Robert Siddoway, son of Mr. and Mrs. Clive Siddoway, writes that he was promoted to Motor Machinist's Mate first class on j August I, Bob states that his group has been overseas for the past 13 months and has been in five major invasions. His ship, an LSM, was one of the first to j see action, that being at Leyte, i Philippine Islands. He says that his outfit has been in several j small engagements, such as the Ormac suicide runs behind Jap j lines and the Surgio Straits battles, bat-tles, where later the Seventh fleet, oT which his group is a part knocked out most of the Jap I navy in the battle of the Philippines. Philip-pines. He reports that the last engagement his ship was in was j at Balikpapan. ftta G. Salazar, a baker in JiMh Quartermaster Bakery TO, is helping turn out 'oaves of bread daily to WOJS of the 40th Infantry W and attached units at ? ."nay and Negros, P. I. ; Mazar and 37 men of the first platoon, com-N com-N by Second Lt. Virgil C. I Waukegan. 111., maintain ght-hour shifts around BOOfc seven days a week to 8 bread to American kJj luur mixing ma-P ma-P i and four giant ovens Cpl. the 316th bakers bread, including size- amities of raisin bread ' 'her pastries for thousands W W1 tables for breakfast, r and supper. Flour is un-y un-y at we Iloilo waterfront, W aome 50 yards into the y located in a civilian ware- Jlch 'h'' panose also i 7t 10 remove weevils ?metimes dig into flour I L ?i?ent' CPL Salazar imL 0akprs improvised a aade sifter from miacellan- th nm,'nt found around oi uivisicm Quartermaster f'y dump Unlike civilian (is ,metrilj't-s of the 316th loaves m one pan. Slic-. Slic-. LB f the consumer. ' faI' ,a miner in civilian W1 from actual Sal ?nd by attending schools in the army. Sto H?u J' W- McConnell, taiJlth the Seabees, has few, um'd from Tinian to IMn t Vs the son of Mr. E McCormell of No. Connaii. A Rrandson of the le e"s. Alvin "Ted" Har- FVdnpUst 15 t0 report at jhencV after a 15-day nes a merchant mar- to. paill Fw ar'ssenti, overseas d jy 1 1945 now k a Caip Cooke, Calif, fell of n? 01 Mrs. James Del ,randUntl"8t Park, Calif. ncon of Mrs. B. Allias. M fc8,. H- Cuthbert, son !fCon ' Leonard Cuth-'fnbat Cuth-'fnbat Cfton' rias received danLlntAmtryman's badge $eaTa' P L He has been Sln January, 1945. Aboard the USS Piedmont in1 j the Pacific He's only been in I the navy little more than a year, but Leland A. Cunllffe, seaman, ; first class, USNR, already is a Pacific veteran. Cunliffe entered the service in May, 1944, took his boot training train-ing at San Diego, Calif., and j then sailed directly to the Ad-miralty Ad-miralty Islands where he joined the crew of the Piedmont. He j was assigned to the ship's main ; supply department and has been j working and studying there for the rate of storekeeper. In civilian life Cunliffe was a railroad brakeman for the Utah Copper company. He is a grad-uate grad-uate of Bingham high school. His wife, Freda, and two small children now live in Tridell, Utah. Pfc Mildred C. Calvin left Wednesday to return to the hos-1 pital at Modesto, Calif., for a check-up. She spent a month with her mother, Mrs. B. C. Sny-"der Sny-"der and three days of the past week with a sister, Mrs. Elliott: Smith of Lehi. WAC Calvin was j injured in a jeep accident while j serving In New Guinea- Seaman 2C Norman T. Jacob- j sen telephoned his wife at Cop-j perton Sunday from Gainesville,; Ga., where he is receiving radar training at the naval air field.; EM 1C Ted Camp and PhM 2C Jack Camp met last week m j San Diego for the first time W three-and-a-half years. The boys sons of C. L. Camp, "ranged the meeting by telephone when Jack's ship reached San Fian Cisco and he was given a 72-hour pass on August 10 Now at Okinawa, Jack V, Householder has been promoted to the rank of corporal tJtrt John W. Holmes telephon-1 England to La Guardia field and : S& to leave anytime tor mlSvegIahShaV XPf pastCekeof hopeful waiting ; seemed especially ong to Mrs , iFishtin' Binghamites I Report (Continued from page one) T. Sgt. William J. Pratt, who served in Europe six months, arrived ar-rived August 7 for a 30-day furlough. fur-lough. Mrs. Elizabeth Pratt, his I mother, is with him this week visiting in Orem. Seaman 1 C Gail Daviei Farm-worth Farm-worth writes from Saipan that I he is now playing the saxophone in a band. PhM 2C Donald Lee Isbell, who has been at New Hebrides the past 18 months, says they are having very cold weather and high winds. He sent his par-I par-I ents. Mr. and Mrs. K L Isbell 1 of Copperton, a box of shells he obtained by deep sea diving. Friends are welcoming home Lt. Ken Q. V. Shulsen, who is spending his leave at West Jordan Jor-dan with his family and received his commission Friday at Fort Sill, Okla. Ken reports back at Fort Sill, Okla. Sgt. Elwin Winn, somewhere in Germany, sent his wife and daughter Betty Mae, Copperton, a lovely old music box and two Swiss dolls. V-J day was more than of ordinary or-dinary significance and jubilation jubila-tion to Staff Sgt Julian Baum. a veteran of Pacific action. Jul-I Jul-I ian was one of the first to begin military training under selective service and appropriately received receiv-ed his release from the army under the point system August 14 at Fort Douglas. Pfc Noel Copenhaver, on a 10 day furlough from Fort Sill, Okla., visited his . wife and daughter dau-ghter Sharon in Salt Lake City He arrived August !). Mrs. Bruce Johnston received a telephone call Friday from New York, where Pfc Roy E. Bar-tell Bar-tell on his arrival from Italy. Roy said he'd be home soon. Pfc Joe E. Gallegos, who wears the combat badge and ETO ribbon rib-bon and whose 25 months overseas over-seas included participation in the central Germany campaign, recently embarked at Le Havre for shipment to United States under the army redeployment program. Before entering service ser-vice November, 1942, Pfc Gallegos Galle-gos was a railroad employee. |