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Show News from Our Washington County People At Service Camps and the Nation's Battle Fronts By MABEL JAR VIS Three Sons In Sen-ice Harry F. Shamo of Panguitch has three sons who are serving with the armed forces. Sgt. Al-verion Al-verion H. Shamo is in training at Camp Shelby, Miss., having previously pre-viously trained at Fort Bliss, Texas since Jan. 1944. Prior to that he had served 32 months at Great Lakes. Robert L. Shamo is training with the Army at Camp Harlan, Texas and Merlin Shamo is somewhere on the Pacific Paci-fic with the U. S. Navy. Pa Pa fa Word About Sgt. Ostensen A letter of July 22nd from Major E. A. Bradmus, of personal affairs division, Washington, advises ad-vises Phil Ostensen of St. George, regarding his son, Sergeant Jack Ostensen, reported as missing in action over France since January 21st. The letter indicates that the B-24 Liberator bomber of which Sgt. Ostensen was a crew member, "sustained damage from an encounter with enemy aircraft" in the vicinity of LeHavre, France, while on a bombardment mission January 21. "This occurred at about 3:15 p.m., and after leaving the formation, Sgt. Ostensen's bomber was neither seen nor contacted," con-tacted," says the report. The Major also supplies the names of the other nine crew members and the address of their next of kin, which may help if any of the crew is located, and the relatives are not giving up hope. Three Sons in Navy Mr. and Mrs. Wilford Holt of Gunlock have three sons in the U. S. Navy. J. Andrew Holt is still stationed at Seattle with the Navy Medical Corps and is a Ph. M. 3c. His wife and baby are with him. Merlin K. Holt M.M.O.M. 2c is somewhere in the South Pacific. When he wrote last he was in sick bay with a broken wrist. He told the folks not to worry and said he had sufficiently recovered from the accident to be' out kodaking. kodak-ing. He has much praise for the Navy doctors and attendants and says they surely look after the boys. The third son, Gerald Holt is a Seaman 2c and called his family on the phone recently while on shore after overseas duty. He says he likes the sea, but is ready for a visit home if he can obtain the necessary leave. Pa fa Pa Pfc. C. Prisbrey Writes Pfc. Clifford Prisbrey wrote his parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Prisbrey Pris-brey of Washington, from somewhere some-where on Saipan, telling them of the fierce battle which brought that Mariana island into the hands of the U. S. Army. He says the battle was long and tough, and that Jap soldiers don't back up, but fight it out to the last man. Pfc. Prisbrey was happy to receive re-ceive "some swell letters from home while under fire". Promoted Viron.V. Jones, son of Augason of St. George ha k ' promoted from First Liem. n to Captain in a 13th MF ? ator group. r- Captain Jones directs the w alized radio section of his hon1' group, which, with other i? AAF squadrons, launched an , fensive in the battle of GiL" canal and now ranges far the Solomons to strike TnitPast Yap in the Central Pacific enemy-held island bases in T Southwest Pacific. ,tle This report comes to us fm the Headquarters of the 13th Aap somewhere in the SouthwT Pacific. st a P Cpl. Joseph Williams Visits Cpl. Joseph Williams was in , George over the week end visitw his mother, Mrs. Barbara WilUarn who is ill and his sister Vivian South. In connection win; his military training, Cpl. vm2 was assigned to the dramatic production of "Winged Victory'1 which has been making a tour of the big centers for several months and is now being fiw, in Hollywood. While here he visited his former vocal instructor Joseph McAllister and other friends. He hopes to return shortly for another visit before the pro. duction begins traveling again ft ft S Pvt. D. Olsen In Kansas Word came from Pvt. Douglas Olsen, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Olsen of Leeds, who left last month with other boys for military mili-tary service that he is now stationed sta-tioned at Camp Riley, Kan., in a cavalry replacement center. He will have 17 weeks of boot training train-ing there which will consist of grooming horses, shining saddles and some foot work. Having been raised on the farm and having a love for good horses, Douglas thinks he has landed in a pretty nice spot. Pa Pa Pa . Pvt. M. Lee Writes from Italy "I'm telling you that a guy just doesn't know what life really is until he has a bomb or big shell land about 100 yards from him," writes Pvt. Merlin Lee from somewhere some-where in Italy, where he has been seeing action In a big way for several weeks. "The other night we were digging fox-holes, just digging slow and joking, when down came a bomb, and I'm telling you, when we heard that bomb coming we all hit the dust. Some of our fox-holes were only six inches deep but believe me, we all hit them anyway." And when the scare was over, he says that was a busy bunch of boys making those fox-holes. "We really dug", he writes, "and what I mean is dug!" He tells of visiting the ruins of Pompeii, unearthed after being buried 200 years, and describes the beautiful cathedrals and the many paintings he has seen, in these ruins and elsewhere in Italy. He also admits having been one of two fellows to make a record of 6 minutes descending a hill, where the previous record was 10 minutes and the man was paid $150. Walking six miles to attend at-tend L. D.S. church was well worth the effort, giving him contact con-tact with Ashby Reeve of Hurricane. Sgt. Leavitt Writes from Italy Writing July 15,' from somewhere some-where in Italy, Sgt. Melvin P-Leavitt P-Leavitt expresses appreciation for the many angles of informal11 that he gets through the weekly issues of the News. He is also grateful to "considerate officers, who permitted him to remain witn his parachute outfit, even thougn his knee was broken in February. It was okeh by sailing date ana he made it across. He says, have seen action. Would like tell where and all about it, that will have to wait. I n seen Naples, Rome and ouw places I had read and studiw about with no thought of e seeing." However, Dixie and w Rocky Mountains are still preference. PS B P Four Still Together Four Toquerville boys whe i ' with the 115th Engineers in iw of 1941, are still together an helped in the battle of Saip"; These are Clark Olds, M. J son, Merrill Olds and Ivan Bnn hurst They fought together the battle of the Marshall, that was hectic, but Saipan them a lot more action. -used to want to see a Jap v (() but have seen plenty of tnen date, and will have many ences to relate when tney back home again. They sa holes are mighty handy r ried hiding places but W fun to sleep in with tnree of water in them. However, are doing fine and nope home before too long, fas H G. Lytic Home On Uve George A. Lytle, Airplane- alsmith 1c is home on a week's leave visiting his f jt Mr. and Mrs. Arthur W (tlf Enterprise. He has been Hawaiian area for the i months. |