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) David Buchanan who whoIS whois and sta stationed stationed stationed IS in m the army air corps tioned at Tucson Anz Arlz Ariz is spending spend spendmg spending mg ing a furlough visiting VlsItmg his moth mother mother mother er Mrs Ireta Buchanan and andCastle andCastle andCastle Castle valley and Moab He wIll wIllother willother willother other relatives and friends m in mreturn inreturn in.return inreturn . return to Tucson Saturday SgtBuchanan Sgt SgtBuchanan SgtBuchanan Buchanan has been m ill in the aIr aIrcorps aircorps aircorps December 1941 en enlIstmg enlisting enlisting corps since SlDce lIstmg listing immediately after Pearl PearlHarbor PearlHarbor PearlHarbor Harbor He served two years on onTnmdad onTrinidad onTrinidad [ Tnmdad Trinidad island off South America AmerIca Amer Ica [ Wins Wans Iqval Naval J PromotionLieut Promotion romptipn romptipnLieut Lieut Lleut John B Ske\\ Ske Skewes Skees Skeises \ es IiJohn II IIJohn John B Skewes II statIoned stationedat at Guam in ill the Pacific has been beenadvanced beenadvanced beenadvanced advanced from the position of 01 oflIeutenant 01lieutenant oflieutenant lIeutenant junior lunior grade to full fulllIeutenant fulllieutenant fulllieutenant lIeutenant in m the US U S navy navyLleut navyLieut navyLieut Lleut Lieut Skewes is in the naval en engmeers engineers engmeers gmeers gineers branch and has charge chargelof chargeof chargeof lof of Seabees construction workI workVeteran work workVeteran I - IVeteran IVeteranIslhng Veteran \ lisiting \Islhng Islhng isiting Here Dere flere HereJoseph flereJoseph ' wasl'the Joseph Kirkwood Reid wasl was wasthe wasthe 'the the ' the first Grand county boy to toenlIst toenlist toenlist enlIst in m the army through the thelocal theLocal thelocal local selective service board Hentered He Heentered Heentered entered ntered the service Feb 19 191941 1941 H was the first Moab sol sob soldler sobher soldier dler her trf td tot volunteer for 0\ 0 0erseas o o\erseasduty o erseasduty \ erseas erseasduty erseasluty duty luty in the Philippine PhIlIppme Islands Islandsembarkmg islandsmmbarking islandsembarking embarkmg mmbarking for the islands Nov Novl2 Nov22 22 l2 1941 after nine nme months of oftrammg ofraining oftraining trammg raining at Fort Ord Calif He Hewas Hevas Hewas was vas the first fITst Moab soldier to be bereleased bereleased bereleased released under the point pomt system systembemg systemeing systembeing bemg eing mustered out at Camp CampBeale Camp3eale CampBeale Beale 3eale Calif June 1 1945 after afterservmg aftererving afterserving servmg erving ; four years and three threenonths threemonths months nonths in the arms armsHe arm ; ) threeI I He served overseas in m the theNew theew theNew New ew Guinea Gumea Papuan Papuari and Neth Netherlands Nethrlands Netheriands erlands rlands ? East Indies compalgns compaigns compaigns29 29 9 months where he was award awarded awardd awarded ed d the good conduct medal ASI ASIatIc Asimtic Asiatic atIc mtic Pacific ribbon nbbon with wJth four fourbronze fourronze fourbronze bronze ) ronze battle stars He advanced advancedto advanced0 to -0 0 - the rank of staff sergeantKirk sergeantKirk sergeant sergeantKirk Kirk had a 30 day furlough m in mMay inIay inMay May Iay 1944 from the South pa paclflC Paific Pacific clflC ific andvIsited and visited in Moab wIth wIthrelatIves withelatives withrelatives relatIves elatives and friends after afterwhich aftervhich afterwhich which vhich he was stationed at Camp CampRoberts Camp1 Camp1oberts CampRoberts Roberts oberts until his dIschargeI dIschargeSgt discharge dischargeSgt dischargeSgt I Sgt Reid was married at Paso PasoRobles Pasotobles PasoRobles , Robles tobles Calif Dec 23 1944 to toMISs toTiss toMiss MISs Tiss Beverly Duncan They Theyhave Theyiave Theyhave have iave been visiting Kirk s moth mother mothr mother er r Mrs Frank Moore and other otherrelatIves other'elatives otherrelatives relatIves 'elatives elatives ' at Portland Ore dur durmg dur.ng durme mg .ng ng . the summer Kirk being bemg em ployed thereMr thereMr there thereMr Mr and Mrs Reid will arnve arrive arrivein arrivei . in m Moab this week for a VISit visitwith visitI with IWlth relatives and friends for a afew aeW afew few eW days They will then leave leavefor leavefor leavefor for Palo Alto Calif where Mr MrReid MrReid MrReid Reid will enter Stanford umver univer umversJty university university sJty sity 1 m in ieptembjir SepteIber September ? to compete | : his college : While Whle , serving servmg overseas Sgt SgtReId SgtReid SgtReid ReId met Eben Scharf local localsoldIer localsoldier localsoldier soldIer at Rock Hampton Aus Austraha Australia Australia traha tralia and Nate Knight Kmght another anoth another another er Moab soldier at BrIsbane BrIsbaneAustralIa BrisbaneAustralia BrisbaneAustralia BrisbaneAustraliaFlight AustralIa AustraliaFlight Flight Officer Jack T Fletch Fletcher Fletcher er who is in m the army transport transportcommand transportcommand transportcommand command and who visited hIS hISparents hisparents hisparents parents Mr and Mrs R J JFletcher JFletcher JFletcher Fletcher at Moab last week re returned returned returned turned to duty this week re reportIng reporting reporting portIng to an arm air all " base in m Tennessee Tennessee Tennes TennesI I see c < a |