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C . dark Clark In Italy ItalyWith ItalyWith With Liberator LiberatoI ' GroupSgt Group GroupSgt Sgt William WUliam G dark Clark son of ofMr < Mr and Mrs W J Clark is now nowa no'a noa ' a member of the armament Bec Bection setion C tion of a B 24 Liberator bomb bomiardment . ; ardment group somewhere in inItaly iItaly iItalyThis Italy ItalyThis This liberator group was one oneof orof ieis of the first to go overseas It has haswon hiwon ieisf won major successes in attacks attacksover attachover f over Germany France Greece GreeceItaly GreeciItaly Italy , Austria and Balkans Mem Members Menbers bers of this group are authorized authorizedto authorizeto d to wear the distinguished unit unitbadge unbadge l badge with a cluster and have havetwice havtwice twice been cited by the presi president Prosdent dent The first citation was wasawarded weawarded awarded for participation in m the thelow thlow low level attack on the PloesU PloesUOil PloesOil Oil refineries of Roumania in inAugust iAugust August 1943 and the cluster was wasawarded wsawarded awarded for efficiency and per performance pelfonnance formance of duty in aiding Al Alied [ I Ilied lied ground forces in driving drivingRommel dnvinRommel Rommel from AfricaSgt Africa AfricaSgt Sgt dark Clark who engaged In Inagriculture iagriculture agriculture prior to his enhst enhstment enlisment ment also wears a good conduct conductmedal conducmedal t medal and the European African AfricanMiddle AfricarMiddle Middle Eastern Eastem theater ribbon + - + - - . - . - Completes Complete . Second SecondYear SecondYear Year OveraeasSgt Overseas Overaeas OverseasSgt Sgt Thomas Benny Kanistan Kanistanaux Kanistaraux > aux recently completed two twoyears twyears years of overseas duty With withflying a aflying flying fortress unit listing him himas hiras [ as one of the real veterans of the theEuropean thEuropean European and Mediterranean Mediterraneantheaters Mediterranealtheaters MediterranealtheatersHis theaters theatersHis His first foreign base Was m mEngland 11England England where he participated participatedm participatein ! m the first all American Amencan air at attacks a atacks < ; tacks against Germany and Ger German Geiman man held territory Later he was wasmoved wamoved moved to Africa and ItalyMen Italy ItalyMen Men in his group have tWice tWicereceived twicireceived received distinguished distmguished unit umt Clta CltatlOns citations tlOns one given for a brilliant brilliantand brillianand 1 and daring darmg attack which destroy destroyed destroyed ed an enemy ammunition convoy convoyduring convo ; during the closing stages of the theTunisian thiTunisian Tunisian campaignSgt campaign campaignSgt Sgt Kanlstanaux Kanistanaux is section sectionhead sectloihead i head of squadron technical sup- sup supply supply - ply department He is the son of ofMr oMr f Mr and Mrs W H Kamstanaux Kamstanauxand Kamstanauaand ( and a brother of Mrs Bus Rich Richardson Richardson ardson Mrs Ike Shaffer and andHarvey an anHarvey < Harvey Kanistanaux of Vernal VernalHazel VernalHazel Hazel Smith of Price Carol CarolSkelton CaroSkelton Skelton San Francisco Calif Califand Califand and Ruth Green of Bonanza Bonanzabrother A Abrother /brother brother / brother Milton ( Sonny ) Kanis- Kanis Kanistanaux Kanistanaux - tanaux is stationed at Camp CampRoberts CamRoberts { ) Roberts California CaliforniaAt + + ' + - - . * -At At - At Amarillo Air BaseClark Base Basedark dark Clark Roberts Warren Mott Mottand Motand and Ray Slaugh are stationed at atthe athe the air base at Amarillo TexasThe Texas TexasThe The boys are sons of Mr and andMrs ancMrs 1 Mrs L D Roberts Mr and Mrs MrsWm MrsWm Wm Mott and Mr and Mrs F FG FG G Slaugh + . - . . Chester Cheater Murray Enjoy Enjoys Expreu Expres ExpreuChester . 1 Chester J Murray now some- some somewhere somewhere - where on a Pacific Island Island writes writeshe writeshe ' he receives his Express/ Express Expresspromptly } / promp- promp promptly promptly - " tly As an expression of 0 { his ap- ap appreciation appreclation - preciation for the paper he hascomposed has hascomposed ( composed a poem entitled The TheHome Th ThHome < ' Home Town Paper ' ' Mr Murray a son of Mr and andMrs andMrs Mrs Wm Murray entered ser seryJce serVice yJce two years ago and was sta staDoned staUoned Doned at San Luis Obispo Calif Califprior Califririor prior to his embarkation . . . . Lawrence Swain Now Displaying DisplayingBullet DisplayingBullet Bullet Creased Helmet HelmetS S Sgt Lawrence Swain son of ofMrs ofMrs Mrs Bessie Swain a paratrooper paratroopernow now in France Franl.c Franlc . is displaying a abulJetcreaser abullet-creaser abullet creaser bulJet--creaser bulJet creaser - - helmet which sav saved saved ed his life while scouting for forGermans forGermans Germans according to a press pressrelease pressrelease release from the European theat theateT theater eT of operationThe operation operationThe The release states the bultet bultetentered bul etentered entered the lower front of his hishelmet hishelmet helmet followed the curve over overthe overthe the top of his head between the thepiastlc theplastic piastlc liner and the steel and andcame andcame came out the bottom at the back backwithout backwithout without touching the lucky 21 21yearold 21year-old 21year old year-old year old - - sergeant The helmetshows shows a furow up over and anddown the other side _ Sgt Swain reported he was ina a mla patrol to find out if Germanswere Germans Germanswere ml were in a hedgerow oppositeAllied oppo'nte opponte oppo'nteAllied ' Allied infantry lines "Weknew Weknew " W e eknew knew they were there but wehad had welhad the mission to find out anv anvway anvway wel way he explained We hadn'tgone hadntgone hadn't hadnt hadn'tgone ' gone very far when flares weresent were weresent sent up machine guns and nfles nf nfles les opened up They got out ofthat of ofthat that scrape with Pic Peter PeterAcquilante PeterAcquilante Acquilante 19 10 of Glassport Paloading Pa Paloading loading Tommy guns while SgtSwain Sgt SgtSwain Swain fired them Ptc Pfc HowardGodfrey Howard HowardGodfrey Godfrey of San Antonio Texaswas Texas Texaswas was also in the frayIn fray In the course of events theykilled they theykilled killed one German who hadcrawled had hadcrawled crawled up to a nearby outpostThey outpost outpostThey They then crawled out by keep keep- keeping keeping - ing the enemy down with Tom Tommy Tommy my guns despite grenades whichwere which whichwere were being bemg thrown at uncomfortable uncom uncomfortable fortable frequency frequencyIt It was in this melee that SgtSwain Sgt SgtSwain 1 Swain s helmet was creased He Hesaid Hesaid said he thought he was hit atfirst at atfirst first but didn t wonder aboutit about , It long He is still dill wearing thehelmet the thehelmet helmet for good luck I . - - + 4- 4 . 4Brother - . -Brother Brother - Brothers * Meet in Hawaii HawaU HawaiiLloyd HawaULloyd Lloyd Hunt Watkins Walkins seamanfirst seaman seamanfirst : first class and LaVerle Watkinsa Watkins . a member of the navy Seabeesrecently Seabees Seabeesrecently recently met in HawaiiHunt Hawaii HawaiiHunt ! Hunt . , who WhO"J18S WhOJ18S " Ims been on an air airemft aircnaft emft carrier since last October Octoberentered Octoberentered entered the navy in Aug 1943 , ( Continued ConUnued on Page eight e1If1t ) - " " " - " " " " " " - - - - - - - - - - - - With the MenIn Men MenIn In the Armed Forces ForcesContinued Forcesmniwamrw ( w wttnntiw * ww wwContinued * Continued ceonttnued ( trom from ( rom page one oneland ) and took his boot training at atFarragut a aFarragut aFarragut . Farragut Idaho Verle entereservice entered entere enteredservice enterecservice service in September 4- 4 . + 4Cpl - - + - * + - - - + - Cpl Gerald Dlllman Dillman HomeCpl HomeCpl Home HomeCpl ICpl I Cpl Gerald Dillman arrived arrivedAugust arrive arnvetFriday ( i ' Friday August 17 on a 21-day 21 day 21dayfurlough 21-da 21 da 21dafurlough 21-dafurlough 21 dafurlough - - - furlough after 29 months service servicewith service servicewith servicwith , with the air force ground crew crev crewin crevin cre\in cre in \ . in the Panama areaCpl areaCpl area areaCpl Cpl Dillman son of Mrs MrsBessie MrsBessie MrsBessie Bessie Swain took his lus balc basi basitraining basitraining ' ! , 'traming traming ' balc'traming training at Sheppard Field Tex Texand Texand Texand and has been in m service threeyears threl three threyears . YEars . + - + $ 4 . - Son of Former VernalUe Vernalite VernaliteIn VernalUeIn In New GuineaLt GuineaLt Guinea GuineaLt Lt Bill Blair son of Mrs MrsEstella MrsEstella MrsEstella Estella Hunt formerly of Vernal Verna Vernaland Vernaand Vernaand and now residing in Los Angeles AngelesCalifornia AngelesCalifornia AngelesCalifornia California is now somewhere in inNew it itNew irNew New GUineaA GuineaA Guinea GuineaA A pilot on a B 24 Lt Blair Blau Blairtook Blautook Blautook took his training at Santa Am Amand Aneand and Analand Fresno California and 8nd Anal wa'i wai wa'icommissioned wa wacommissioned wa'commissioned wacommissioned ' ' , commissioned at Rankin Field FieldStockton FieldStockton FieldStockton Stockton CaliforniaPvt Cal1forf1laPvt California Cal1forf1la CaliforniaPvt Pvt Charles Stoddard Hunt a abrother i ibrother Ebrother brother is stationed at Fort FortBliss FortBliss ForBliss ) > Bliss Texas with ate a . anti aircraft aircraftdivision aircraftdivision aircraftdivision division He entered service Jan January January January uary 31 and was stationed at atCamp at atCamp a aCamp < Camp Callan at San Di.go Digo Dicgo Di.goCallforma DiegoCalifornia DicgoCalifornia ( . Callforma California . + . + * - . + + . + Maeser Meeser Soldier Soldiers * Meet Meel on onPacific onPacific onPacific Pacific IslandSgt IslandSgt Island IslandSgt Sgt Leiand Leland R Carrollstation Carroll "tallon tallon station stationed "talloned " stationed ed on a Pacific island lsland for the thepast thepast thepast past two years writes he is re receiving receiving receiving ceiving the Express regularly regularlyand regularlyand regularlyand and It is just like a " short "hort hort visitback Vlsit visit Vlsitback visitback back home once a wl.ekSgt weekSgt week wl.ek wlek weekSgt . Sgt Carroll states he was r re reGently recently < > cently Gently visHed vistted visited by Lorenzo Bodily Bodilyand Bodilyand Bodil Bodiland > and Francis Swett Swelt now some somewhere somewhere somewhere where in New Nl.w Nlw . GuneaSgt Gunl.8Sgt Gunea Gunl.8 Gunl8 GuneaSgt . 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