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Show IFightin Binghamites Report I . . a Ala - - PO lC pino Arata arrived home Friday to spend a 25-day Sve with his parents Mr. and V' Pete Arata, and brother Md'ie Copperton. Stationed a-Sardan a-Sardan airplane earner, Petty Kflcer Arata took part in the 'hilippine invasion. pfc Robert Garrison, with a narine Scout Bombing squadron n the Pacific, says that after a Lr or so in service one begins a appreciate the little comforts i civilian life which are not gi-' gi-' , second's thought at home. e writes: "Things seem to be nine pretty good for our side. I ive the Nazis until July 4, 1945. nd the Japs until Thanksgiving, 948. Of course I could be off a tar or two!" Ken Q V. Shulsen, who has ten stationed with a field ar-illery ar-illery unit at Fort Bragg, N.C., i now attending officers' train-no train-no school at Fort Sill. Okla. His . address is: O.C. Ken Q. V. hulsen 39935194, Class No. 143, .A-OCS AGF) Fort Sill, Okla MM 3C John D. Breckon, who u been in the Mediterranean! rea the past 18 months on an ST, an iv ed Monday from Nor-ulk, Nor-ulk, Va., on 30-dav leave. A on. of Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Breck-n Breck-n of Copperton, Machinist Mate Ireckon has been in the navy IO years, received boot train jg at Farragut and further in-ruction in-ruction at Little Creek, Va. Dean Stringham is expected j ack at classes at Bingham high ! :hool today. He went to San j rancisco March 18 to take ap-1 tu.de tests for naval air corps j nliitment A son of Mr. and Mrs -eorge Sti ingham. Dean is pre- j dent of the junior class and j - - , Pvt. Louis Valdei is now stationed sta-tioned in France Marine Private William J. Hull received a leg wound at two Jima from a Jap sniper ac-8 ac-8 to letter postmarked March 17. A son of Mrs. Ivy Hull. Bill entered service in June 1944 JJ Went overseas m November 1944. A graduate of Jordan high school, the young marine gave a good account of himself before he was put out of action and taken to a hospital in the Mal i-: anas. Word was received by Mrs. John S. Gleason on March 10 that her husband, Seaman 1 C John Streator Gleason, R.M.U.S navy, was slightly wounded in action in the performance of du-! ty and in service of his country. He received shrapnel wounds of the thigh January 13 Lt. James Hyiand Caulfield and wife arrived Sunday morning morn-ing to spend two weeks with Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Caulfield. On leave from the Fourth marine air Wing unit in the Pacific, Lt. Caulfield Caul-field reports at Santa Ana, Calif. Troop carrier oase; European theater of operations CpL Jack E. Nelson, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. L, Nelson, 148 Main street, has been awarded his fourth . Bronze Battle Star representing the fourth major campaign of the war in which his outfit has participated. Cpl. Nelson is a motor specialist special-ist in Colonel Frank Krebs' well j known 440th Troop Carrier, group, awarded the Presidential unit citation for its work in the initial invasion of Normandy, the paratroop and glider opera-Uona opera-Uona in Southern France, the airborne invasion of Holland and I nit- utiiai icsuppiy oi me u. s troops surrounded at Bastogne. His group, part of Major General Gen-eral Paul L. Williams' U.S. Troop Carrier forces, has also flown thousands of tons of vitally needed need-ed gasoline, ammunition and food to the battle lines. Landing on forward airstrips to deliver the supplies, casualties from the I front are evacuated to base hospitals hos-pitals on the return trip. Cpl. Nelson was graduated from Bingham high school in 1941 and was employed as a tool man by Utah Copper company j before entering the army air I forces in September 1943. I . . . b. Sgt. Willis Kendall Jones is as versatile a G.I. as ever left Bingham Canyon or received assignment as-signment to the army air force special service section. As editor of Prop-Wash, a monthly publication publi-cation with a daily supplement, Prop-Wash Jr.. at Bluethenthal field, near Wilmington, N.C. Sgt. Jones has a multitude of duties which have not limited his interests in-terests or enterprise. An instance of the diversity of his talents was recorded recently in a review in the civilian daily newspaper at Wilmington of a 19th century melodrama presented at the air base by special services. The producer was S. Sgt. Jones, who rounded out the evening by appearing ap-pearing as understudy for a number of G.I.'s W'ho received traveling orders a few hours before be-fore curtain time. The roles filled fill-ed bv Producer Jones included that of the Misguided Father, the derelict, the dance director, the publicity director and the masked mask-ed marvel in an Apache dance number. The newsy Prop-Wash, whose "opinions are those of individual individu-al writers and do not necessarily represent those of the Editor or War Department." is a gay, humorous, hum-orous, tongue-in-cheek collection of cartoons, feature articles, news items, fiction, photographs, crammed with various "Disa and Data" under intriguing heads. AMM 1 C Roland Miller, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. A. Miller of Midvale, Mid-vale, arrived Wednesday from Sacramento to spend a 30-day leave with his parents and wife, the former Elva Crump of Lark, and little daughter. Rolayne. AMM 1 C Miller was home last 26 months ago. He spent 20 months mon-ths in the New Hebrides and before be-fore that was in school at Norman, Nor-man, Okla. Pfc Andy Jimas, with the combat engineers, arrived yesterday to visit eight or nine days with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Jimas, Jim-as, and family and friends. He reports re-ports at Indiantown Gap, Pa., tor embarkation orders. xpects his call to service with-i with-i a month. MMM 2C Robert Siddoway rote home that his LSM boat as in on the first wave of the ivasion of Zamboanga, Minda- Radio Technician 3.C Jay G learn, lea-rn, who enlisted in the navy ctober, 1943, and has since reived re-ived training at Washington, ., and Philadelphia naval hool classes, has been assign-i assign-i to a ship in the Atlantic. According to word sent home, aman 1 C Leland Cunliffe, M 2 C Howard X. Anderson and aman 2 C George Jones met cently m the Pacific and en-fed en-fed an evening's visit. Seaman 2C Eli Tomas is in orn the Pacific, a patient at island naval hospital, receiv-K receiv-K treatment for a skin infec-in. infec-in. T-5 John S. Motis, now at Neth-land Neth-land East Indies, writes that 1 has been overseas three years April. Seaman 1 C Michael Rubich, a of Mr. and Mrs. Martin Pe-ina, Pe-ina, is home on leave. Pfc Jack V. Householder has ft some of his former associat- in the FBI at his new station Hawaii Jack is a typist-clerk the adjutant general Tenth Pvt. John Predovich recently Ote friends at the Highland V Community House that he 1 enjoying a three-day leave Paris. Pfc Sam Dispenza of Hill Field t the week-end visiting Mr. a Mrs. Sam Dispenza. pvt. Burton Slade Sunday cphoned his wife, the former ten Farley, that he had been nsferred to Camp Callen, hf, from Aberdeen, Md. Pvt. Gordon B. Ramsey, son of s A. W. Shmer of Manti, wrote W Hawaii on February 27, 'hug that his most earnest sh had been afforded him. "It's t to be with musicians a- He is now connected with 121st A.G.F. band. He was 0 told by his commanding of- Sss day t0 buy nis Pfc jgt Ray Woodland, who has at Camp Roberts, Calif., the tVy'n'' was recently shipped ."J,1' pacific. The sergeant was unded at Attu and was at snnei hospital for several Jth8 before being sent to Cali-nld Cali-nld as an instructor. fireman 1 c Arthur A. Austin, 1 01 Mr, and Mrs. George Aus-i Aus-i dived Tuesday to spend h, ys leave. He returns auty at Providence, R.I. bbbW ! C F Arrest Watson, K L. rand Mrs. L. L. Wat-eW Wat-eW ! Tut'sday to begin 11- le rr? at St' MfTlS B iif CdJ"- accompanied by Hew' who nas been visiting PPerton. and brother, Clay Hor il ho has accepted a po-Hthe po-Hthe c the drafting department an Francisco shipyard. |