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Show I Fightin1 Binghamites Report I Cpl- Axel B. Strand arrived home New Year's Eve from New- foundland, where he has been stationed the past two years. H Axel was home on furlough sev-BJ sev-BJ eral weeks in November, 1943. 1 Here to spend a month, Cpl. Strand is visiting his mother. Mrs. Sophie Strand, other rela- tives and friends. I Fire Controlman 2 C Neil H Forsberg wrote December 15 H from Greece, "a town where they BM have never seen Americans be- H fore" and finds the people "won- H derful" and that you "must give H the Greeks a lot of credit for putting up a stiff battle". Neil H is on an LST boat and his only H grave concern is that his mail H doesn't seem to catch up with H Soundsman 3C Russell K. Nelson has been at Norfolk, Va., the past month and has been BJ transferred to New Orleans, La. I He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Dew- BJ ey Nelson of Lark. Marine Private Joe Compagno, H convalescing from injuries receiv-BJ receiv-BJ ed in action at the Oakland, Calif., fl Naval hospital, wishes his friends U a "Happy New Year". I C. M. liC Russell Burke leaves H January 6 to report at Bremer- Bl ton, Wash. H Seaman 1C Orvil Cowdell left BH Saturday, December 31, to report Bfl for duty at San Diegu, Calif. A four-column picture show- BB ing a trio singing "Silent Night, H- Holy Night", featured at the BB White House Christmas Eve ser-BB ser-BB vice, showed Yeoman 3 C Jackie Bfl Winzella Jackson, daughter of BB Mr. and Mrs. James Jackson of BB Copperton, appeared in the Washes Wash-es ington Times Herald. Miss Jack-BB Jack-BB son is at Arlington Farms and is BJ employed at a navy office in Washington, D.C. B Cpl Jack Nelson mailed H Christmas cards with the tra- Bl ditional greetings written in Bfl From an indirect source, Mr. BB and Mrs. L. F. Pett of Copperton BB have been informed that their BB son, Lt. Fern W. Pett, a trans- Bfl port pilot in the European thea- BB tre, was at a rest camp having BB his eyes treated for flash burns. H Lt. DelBert V. Barrett wrote BB December 19 to advise his wife, Bfl Louise (Jerry) Tate Barrett of Bfl Salt Lake City, that he had been Bfl receiving treatments for shrap- BB nel wounds in four hospitals on Bfl the continent and was flown to Bfl a hospital in England. He said BB that the care given the wounded I is wonderful and that he is re- BJH ' covering. DelBert's wife and mo- i BM ther visited yesterday at the W. , BHj S. Jones home BB Pfc Sam A. Dispenza, son of BB Mr. and Mrs. Sam Dispenza, 407 Bfl Main street, has arrived in the BB United States on furlough from BB the Asiatic Pacific theatre of op- flflj erations where he served 21 BB months with the transportation Ensign L, Arthur Durnford ! writes that he has spent the past two months in New Guinea on an auxiliary oiler. Lt. Gates P- Christensen left Wednesday, December 27, to report re-port at Topeka, Kansas, as a pilot of a B-24 bomber. He spent Christmas week with his wife, Ann, and in Richfield with Mrs. Pearl Christensen. Pfc George C. Furgis wrote December 16 to tell his folks he had landed with troops that day at Ormoe Bay, Leyte. At Oxford, Ala., Sgt. and Mrs. Robert I. Crellin and daughter Nancy Jane are nicely-settled in a small but comfortable home. Pvt. Burton Slade of Aberdeen, Aber-deen, Md., left Dec. 27 to return to the Aberdeen Proving grounds after a two-week furlough spent with his wife, the former Helen Farley, and their four-weeks-old daughter, Helen Jane. T. Sgt Kenneth Dumont, who has been training in the east, is home on furlough, visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Dumont Du-mont of Lark. Cpl. Billy Denver left Wednesday Wednes-day to report at Leemoore field, Calif., following a visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Denver of Copperton, over the holidays. Fluyd Cox, grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Cox of Copperton, and Richard Fields, son of Mr-and Mr-and Mrs. Bert Fields of Lark, reported re-ported Tuesday at Fort Douglas for training in the U. S. army air corps. E. M. 1C Ted Camp is expected expect-ed to return next week for a few days with his father, Clarence Camp, after spending the New Year with his mother, Mrs. Clarence Clar-ence Camp at Ozark, Ark. Mrs. Joe Fisher, the former Billie Ruth Camp, and her husband, Sgt. Fisher, and little son Jimmy Jim-my are now living at Fuesteel, S.D., where Mr. Fisher is managing man-aging his farm following his discharge dis-charge from the army. Lt. William Pearce, son of Mrs. Michael Pearce of 447 University street, Salt Lake City, formerly of Copperfield, Is now in England Eng-land with the U. S. army engineers. en-gineers. A second oak leaf cluster to the air medal and a presidential citation have been awarded First Lieutenant Kenneth R Poulsen. stationed in the European theatre thea-tre and based in England. His brother, Cpl. Jay Don Poulsen, writes from China that he prefers pre-fers that area of service to his former station in India. Sgt. C. J. McCormack writes from France that in 13 months' overseas he had gathered a few souvenirs to send his wife, the former Mary Etta Sours of Copperton. Cop-perton. Received this week by Mrs. McCormack were a clever bracelet, an ash tray, pictures of the bombing of France and a cigarette lighter taken from the effects of a German soldier. |