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Show News from Our People In the Armed Services By MABEL JARVIS Stop In St. George Lt. Howard Ahlstrom's daughter, daugh-ter, Bonnie Joyce was two months old before she had a chance to see her daddy, Saturday, May 12 at her grandmother's home in Parowan. A dentist at the Marine base in San Diego, Lt. Ahlstrom has been unable to get time off since the baby arrived to come and make her acquaintance until now. The three stopped in St. George Sunday evening on their way to San Diego to let the greatgrandfather, great-grandfather, Charles Seegmiller Sr., and the grandmother, Mrs. Minnie Ahlstrom and other relatives rela-tives see her. T Home For Leave Ensign John W. Miller arrived last week from Miami, Florida on a 25-day leave in transfer from that location ' to San Bernadino Air Field. He and his sister, Edna Mae Miller, who has been attending attend-ing Dixie junior college, spent the week end in Boulder City with their aunt and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. B. G. Milne, returning home Sunday. While in St. George, Ensign Miller was guest of his grandmother, grand-mother, Mrs. Mae Harris. On Tuesday, Mrs. Harris accompanied Ensign and Miss Miller to Salt Lake City to visit their mother, Mrs. E. Penn Smith and other family members. From there he will leave for San Bernadino and the other two will remain for the summer. Pa Pa Letter From Col. Moss When Lt. Col. Moss wrote last to his mother, Mrs. Jane Moss of St. George, he was preparing to return to tent life after several weeks at a comfortable home. He admitted he would miss his good room, the motherly care of Mrs. Lopez and her cooked suppers, which are quite a change from regular army quarters and meals. However, he wasn't complaining. The 11 course Chinese dinner he ate on April 15 made him glad of present restrictions, since the one he ate was all he could take and in peace times they serve 30 courses or more. Sa Pa Receives Bronze Star Medal The Bronze Star Medal was recently awarded to T4 John A. Nordin, son of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew An-drew Nordin of Motoqua. The citation accompanying the medal commends this Washington county boy for "meritorious service in Germany from Feb. 24 to March 2, 1945 in connection with military operations against the enemy." An artillery mechanic, he worked work-ed untiringly to fix and adjust his guns. Although frequently subjected sub-jected to intense enemy fire, he kept his weapons in top condition, "thereby enabling his unit to deliver de-liver effective fire whenever needed. need-ed. He has been overseas for many months. Pa Pa Pa Glider Please. When Capt. Spencer W. Truman and his airborne Engineer Aviation Avia-tion Battalion need to go places, they just get themselves and their equipment aboard a glider and get into the air. Such moves are rather frequent in the maintenance mainten-ance of the five air fields for which the unit is responsible. The organization to which he is assigned, commanded by Lt. Col. Murrel Fiefer of Stroudsburg, Pa., is responsible for the construction construc-tion and maintenance of landing strips throughout the United Kingdom, King-dom, France, Belgium and Holland. The work has been accomplished, at times, within 500 yards of actual act-ual front lines. Capt. Truman and his men were recently given a unit citation for their achievements. achieve-ments. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Truman live in St. George and his wife Herma G. Truman, and small daughter are with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clem Gub-ler Gub-ler in Rosemead, Calif. |