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Show lightin' Binghamites Report it 111 air service command de-fin de-fin Italy, July 3 Recently, Us announced that Sergeant H Calton has been promot- to the grade of staff sergeant .the exceptional ability and L level of efficiency that he I .shown in the performance his assigned duties at this de-I de-I He was emploverl by Utah ajwr company from Septem-r Septem-r 27 1939, to September 8. iL ind lived at Princess apart- S? Sgt Calton, a member of ,36th Depot Repair Squadron, been oversea! to;- 34 months d has seen service in Eng-rj Eng-rj North Africa and Italy. On of these great service and pply fronts of the war, he has ilfc. "his most and best to keep r combat and transport air-)t air-)t 111 the air- the present time, he is confuting con-futing his greatest personal j,:! and highest individual ill to the tremendous task of redeployment of the air xa to the Pacific theater of (rations. With the 96th Infantry Divis-l Divis-l Oil Okinawa Lt. Col. Avery Masters, Bingham Canyon, I been awarded the Bronze in Medal for meritorious ser- j ie during the battle for Leyte and in the Philippines. Commanding officer of the ! lit Field Artillery Battalion, Col, Masters, who fought in ; second Pacific campaign on ; ;inava, was cited as follows: I During tha Leyte campaign, I Masters made numerous H to the inlantry front lines a forward observation posi-n.; posi-n.; exposing himself to in-! ise enemy machine gun, sniper d mortar fire in order to ob-n ob-n information which enabled ; battalion to deliver timely d effective supporting fire." 2ol. Masters 4vas part of the gmal cadre called to reacti- the 96th division. He grad-led grad-led from the University of ! ah in 1939 and prior to his! pomtment in the regular army, s employed by the Utah Cop-r Cop-r company. large stone wall circling the old part of town, with lookout towers tow-ers every hundred feet around it. : We convoyed up from Chau-t'lly, Chau-t'lly, France, the fifth of June and it was indeed an interesting trip. I feel indeed very luckv Wat I was able to make this sight-seeing trip, through Germany Ger-many without fear of being shot at. You realize that a great price was paid to conquer these people peo-ple vjn you note the knocked out tanks and trucks, both German Ger-man and American along the way. We went through Saar Bruchen, Mainz on the Rhine and Frankfurt on the Maine These cities are really flattened ! out, giving an idea of what the ! air force and artillery can do. It will require years for rebuild-1 1 ing. "As you drive along the roads ; anywhere in Germany you see j the endless line of disnlaced persons per-sons that were used in concentration concen-tration camps trying to get back ; home. They are French, Belgian, Hollanders and all nationalities trying to get home. None of them have automobiles, they have nothing but the crudest types of carts, wagons and anything that is on wheels. Old and young a-Uke, a-Uke, it makes no difference, everyone ev-eryone is pushine or pullino small wagons, somewhat like those you might give a small boy for Christmas. "The Germans have no machinery ma-chinery for farming. Man power is cheaper than machinery. Even 1 milk cows are used for plowing and pulling the wagons." Here until August 14, when she returns to Hammond. General Gener-al hospital at Modesto, Calif., is I Pfc Mildred Calvin, who enlist-ed enlist-ed in the WACs 29 months ago and served the past 10 months in the South Pacific, at Ora bay, Buna, Port Moresby, Finchaven, HoYlandia, Leyte and New Gui-; nea- She received a skull frac- j ture in a jeep accident April 21 ' and was hospitalized at Port Moresby, Australia, and at Let-termah Let-termah General hospital, San Francisco, and Hammond Gen- i eral hospital, Modesto, Calif. : iis wife, Norma, and young 1 David, are residing at 1554 ird avenue, Salt Lake City. r 4 Thomas G. Pazell, 23, son Manda Pazell of 255 A Union enue, Midvale, is a patient at mp Carson convalescent hos-al, hos-al, after serving 9 months ;rseas in Europe. He was with ! 11th armored division and s in England and France, before entering the service T4 zell was in the paint depart-nt depart-nt of the Utah Copper com-sv com-sv He has three brothers in vice, Steve Pazell, Ph. H. 21c; orge Pazell, S. P. lie and Cpl. ck Pazell. all formerly of Cop-Ifjeld, Cop-Ifjeld, iecently inducted, Pvt. Robert Nelson is training with the force at Sheppard field, Tex. Seaman 1 C Kenneth Rice tele-taed tele-taed his mother, Mrs. Jane of Copperton, July 24th n San Diego on his arrival in i H from the South Pacific. taman 2 C Roger Cay wood, 1 of Mr and Mrs. M. A. Cay-M Cay-M of Riverton, is home from ea Lakes, 111., and leaves: "kv to icturn to his training tion. aman 1 c William K. Groves, i 1 of Mr and Mrs. D. D. Groves, Wined Julv 24th from Sa- msco that his ship had come 61 Saipan for repairs and that expected to be given a leave mime in August. ; She wears the southwest Pacific : ribbon with one star for the New , Guinea campaign and a good ! conduct ribbon and WAC rib-1 I bon. She is the daughter of Mrs : j B. C. Snyder of Copper hotel. ' j Her husband, who was in the Italian camDaign with the Fifth army, is at Florence, Italy a-waiting a-waiting transportation home. Seaman 1 C George Jones ar- j rived in Copperfield Saturday evening for a 22-day visit with his parents and friends. Upon reporting back in San Francisco, George's rating will be seaman 1 C. Pvt. Joe Espinosa, stationed at j Luzon, has been advanced to private first class, according to j word received by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jesus Espinosa. Sgt. Charley Whetsel's parents have received word that Charley Char-ley was made a staff sergeant ! recently at Camp Roberts, Calif. Jay A. Cheever, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry A- Cheever of Cop-perton, Cop-perton, who writes from a garrison gar-rison near Manila, P. I , that inflation in the Philippines means paying $1 for a small ser-; ving of ice cream when that delicacy is obtainable, was recently re-cently promoted to the rank of sergeant. Jay has been in the army 25 months and overseas 19 months First Lieutenant John E. Chris-tensen Chris-tensen left Wendover field in Mreh and writes that he hopes t Petei C, Dimas sent photo Pi of Nordlingen, Germany, I6 JO lei his family have an of the town in which he is 10ned. p(.tt. has been advised le will be kept at his pres-1 Pst at least until the end of i year, JtoP. Bolic Jr. received a .discharge from the U. S. ";v a'r corps July 19 at Fort Wnght, Spokane. A ! nnical sergeant, Bolic had ;n "i service four years and ( lc' months. j Joe Tibolla, son of Mr. and I f Joe Tibolla Sr., arrived ! 7ajf from Fort Sill. Okla., sPfcnd two weeks' leave with; brents at Lark and wife and Z aJ West Jordan. Lt. Tibolla ; 7kl"K the acquaintance of j , Su". David Craig, born July at oly Cross hospital. Pi - David T. Ireland wrote 1 'rmany, "Where the su- i Hce is very much conquered aown on their knees" on Ju-' Ju-' tell of his life in a Bavar- i Jor, Had Neustadt on the tort tr' Germany. Dave said (u1'- The town is fairly small no mure than 7,000 people, e tnu a lot 35 farmers do. in, u made UP of tne old nh sections, somewhat like lm and Copperton. The; ! fn.ion has a large tower at 1 p rance Wlth the date 1572; w ohiS?i.you nave a good ideai ua tne city is. There is a' Marcn ana wma mai ' to be able to describe his experiences exper-iences in Tinian soon. Pfc Dallas L. Draper has been transferred from a station 111 the southwest Pacific to another in the northwest Pacific. His wife the former June Seal, lives at Lark. Seaman 2C Val Zahler, son of Mr. and Mrs- Fred Zahler arrived ar-rived Tuesday from Great LaKes, 111., naval training station tor a five-day leave. Chief Gunner's Mate Eldon Hosmer Pearson arrived Mon day from Los Angeles for a 21 dav leave after nine months in fhe Pacific. He enlisted six years and four months ago and has served since in the Pacific. Word has "been"" received by Mr and Mrs. John Tazzer from Seir son. Cpl. Eugene Tazzer of ffinursr rnW fodrmanceg of an exceptional y difficult task and for acnieve men and maintenance of a high Sard of discipline du.ing Sust 15. IMS, to January 25. 1945 Cpl Tazzer was also awarded award-ed another campaign star for the battle of Luxemburg He has a total of three stars- Carl Eugene Kinney, jhifBtter (Continued on page eiuu I Fijhtin' N Binjhamites I Report (Continued from page one) ; V. Kinney of 839 Exline, El Monte. Calif., and husband of Mrs. Theresa B. Kinney of 195 Mam street, following service in the combat areas of the Pacific, ! has arrived at the U, S. naval hospital, San Francisco, for j treatment. Hi' anticipates transfer soon to a naval hospital nearer his home This hospital receives most of the navy, marine and coast guard casualties returning to the main-hud main-hud from Pacific combat areas. The averai'e stay Ol a eoinna' patient in this receiving hospital is four to six days during which time the Bureau of Medicine Me-dicine and Surgery In Washington Washing-ton is advised of convoy arrivals at the hospital and orders are re-eeived re-eeived back assigning patients to a hospital nearer home, if at all possible- In some cases, need of specialized medical treatment, or crowded conditions in naval hospitals hos-pitals in a particular area make it difficult to assign a man very close to home but every effort h made to do so. in the main, navy men leaving here are "beaded "bead-ed toward home and speedy recovery re-covery through excellent treatment treat-ment and the comfort of being near their families and friends and old surroundings once again. Aboard the U.S.S. Hugh W. Hadley in the Pacific (delayed) William A. Braun, gunner's mate, third class, Bingham Canyon, Can-yon, helped this destroyer knock out 23 attacking Jap planes, in 105 minutes when in the company com-pany of a smaller destroyer on a patrol off Okinawa. She was attacked at-tacked by 150 Jap fliers. Her feat set an all time navy record. The other ship, the U.SS. Evans, destroyed 15 enemy planes plan-es in 73 minutes The attack began at 8:00 a.m. May 1 1 when lookouts saw a "whirlwind of planes coming at us from every direction." The men of the Hadley went to work firing their guns so rapidly that reliefs had to be afforded the exhausted ammunition loaders. The ships were under contin-i contin-i uous attacks with enemy planes I usually coming in four to six at a time. At times, each ship was shooting down planes that were attacking the other At the start of the battle, this ship was not i only able to hold her own against again-st the attacking planes, but was able to knock down four of the massed planes which attempted to pass the ships and continue on to Okinawa. Only at the end of 60 minutes did the first plane get through j and strike the Evans, followed I by three others in quick succes-; succes-; sion. This knocked out the guns of the smaller destroyer, leaving its protection up to the skill of i the gunners on this ship. Once 10 enemy aircraft surrounded sur-rounded the ships and made a j simultaneous attack All 10 of them were destroyed, but not before thus ship suffered heavy j damage and most of tier guns weere knocked out. In the meantime, Corsar fighters fight-ers had joined the battle and i though outnumbered had man-i man-i aged to destroy about 50 of the enemy, and drive away the oth- " ers. At one point when it looked as if this ship would capsize, all the wounded were put over the side on rafts and floats, but the remaining men stayed and kept her afloat. Next day, both ships were brought in safely. Not only had the Hadley saved herself, but in giving assistance to the Evans when it was great ly needed, enabled the crew of that ship to put out fires and make repairs which permitted her to limp back to port. T. Sgt. James C. Jones, who was stationed at Albuquerque, N.M., arrived July 19 on 15-day furlough and reports August 5 at McCook, Nebr Signalman 3C Elli.s Russell Boren, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ellis Boren, arrived in Salt Lake City j by plane from Seattle July 25. I following 10-months in the Pacific. Pa-cific. He has a six-day leave from his ship. Signalman 2C William R Cungdon, 20, son of Mr. and Mrs 1 Percy Congdon, of 100 Main street, has arrived at the world's largest naval receiving station at Shoemaker, Calif., for reclassification re-classification and further assignment- In the navy for tWO years and three months, Congdon has spent 14 months overseas and wears the American Area ribbon and the European - African - Middle Eastern Area ribbon with two battle stars, for his service a-board a-board an LST. He has a brother. Kenneth Congdon, who is also in the navy, as a fireman, second class. |