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Show JYour Binghamites jlReport 'Mm ene Guff. 'MM H'red Goff, lW discharged last Saturday Hfrom the navy at Shoemaker, MmC Mi-- Mrs. (-'"" anit mm expect to make their jHtiuiue at 82 Main street. I S 1 C Scott Lipsey was dis-i dis-i Bcharge I March 8 from the navy - ;, rton, Wa: h H Sgt Keith G. Draper has been recently promoted to this rank. 'Hll I lie -on 01 Mi-- allri Mrs. E- H. Draper. Sgt. Draper is sta-IBtiuntii sta-IBtiuntii with the 63rd Signal Corp K Vienna. mm The following citation was rc-Hrnveii rc-Hrnveii several weeks ago by mm poi ' on j on if Mr. and ! Mr- 1. L. Watson of Conperton: ' F ; : Watson, AM 1 c, USN - cited m the name of pr ,-! the United States, First Ma- I Brine Div ision Reinforced under H hi i of Major Gen, Alex- A Vandegrift USMC Ci B tat ion mm, The officers and enlisted men Hui the First Marine Division, re- I on August 7 to 9, 19-12, demonstrated outstanding gallan- iiy and determination in suc-Hctssfully suc-Hctssfully executing forced land-IB land-IB ing assaults against a number of IBstrongly defended Japanese po-IBsitiens po-IBsitiens on Tulagi, Gavutu, Tan-ambeno. Tan-ambeno. Florida and Guadalcanal Guadalcan-al al, British Solomon Islands, IB completely routing all the enemy j I lori es and seizing a most val- II uable base and airfield within IB tile enemy zone of operations in south Pacific ocean. lj From the above oeriod until1 December 9, 1942, this rein fore-j lied division not only held their I B important strategic positions des- H ' ' HetermineH ;inH ronnntriH 1 Japanese naval, air and land attacks at-tacks but by a series of offensive offen-sive operations against strong enemy resistance drove the Japanese Jap-anese from the proximity of the airfield and inflicted great losses loss-es on them by land and air attacks at-tacks The courage and determination deter-mination displayed in these op-perations op-perations were of an inspiring order. Frank Knox, Secretary of the h William B. Sullenger, boatswain's boat-swain's mate second class, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. F. Sullenger of Copperton, is attached to Air Transport squadron 4, based at the Naval air station in Oakland and Mofff tt Field, Calif. Squad -ion 4 is the heavy maintenance squadron for the Pacific wing of the Naval Air Transport Service- S. Sgt Burton L- Slade, son of j Mr. and Mrs. William Slade. of Salt Lake City, and husband of Helen Slade of Copperton, who served 7 months overseas as a mess sergeant, is authorized to wear the Asiatic-Pacific theater ribbon, good conduct medal, American Am-erican theater ribbon, and the! victory ribbon. Prior to entering tlie army May 21, 1943, Slade was employed at Los Angeles, "e was discharged from the army at Fort Douglas March 13. , |