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Show By MABEL. JAB VIS Jirfwkiiwilors Report Mrs. If. E. Brockmeior callod at the office Tuesday to renew subscriptions sub-scriptions for her two sons in military service, one with the Army and one with the Navy Coxswain T. W. Brockmeier was home recently on a 30-day leave after serving two years in the Pacific area. He was just 17 when he entered the service. Now he is at Ocearuside, Calif, studying landing craft and expects another assignment soon. W. J. Brockmeier of Zion National Nat-ional Park has been promoted to T5. He is now fighting inside Germany, having participated at Metz and Nancy. He says the lighting is plenty tough, but it's going okeh. His wife, Mrs. Nan W. Brockmeier and daughter reside re-side at Springdale and his parents Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Brockmeier, live at Zion National Park. 14 19 n ServlcemiMi, Note! Servicemen are urged to get the address change notice cards that are available to them and fill out these cards and mail them to the News Office whenever they know they are going to make a change of location or address. Parents and relatives are also urged to get in touch with the News Office promptly whenever they receive a new address for a serviceman. The News Staff wants the papers to reach the boys regularly, but this isn't possible when the papers are being sent out under a wrong I address. B (a Ss l'ii-louh In Australia Pfc. Francis Borges, son of A. II. Borges of Salinas, Calif., and former Dixie cow puncher before entering military service, came in for recognition at the public relations re-lations office recently. Messenger for an anti-tank company in the 40th Division, he has been stationed sta-tioned on New Britain since the mopping up began there last April. His overseas service during the past 28 months has included the Hawiian Islands, Christmas Island, New Guinea and New Britain. He was recently fortunate enough to obtain a furlough to Australia where he had his first taste of civilian life in more than a year. On Land, In Air and On Sea Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Wright of Hurricane have three sons in military mili-tary service, one in the air, one with the infantry and one on the sea. Cpl. Chester Wright marked his third year of service Nov. 17. He has never had a furlough home and is now in Belgium. Pvt. Nelpher Wright has been with the infantry since Jan. 16, 1944 and is now training at Camp Maxey, Texas. The other brother, Russell Wright, is Flc with the Navy. After boot training at Farragut, he was assigned to active ac-tive sea duty, which he says is a great job. These two boys wee home recently for short visits, n n Mi In Phllllpplnes Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Woodbury of Hurricane have just been advised ad-vised that their son, Sgt. Donald Woodbury has been transferred from New Guinea to the Phillip-pines. Phillip-pines. His assignment is with the road and bridge building crews and he says they have a lot of work to do. ft fi Sends Cartoon Cpl. F. W. Anderson, son of Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Anderson of Pintura, sent them a cartoon recently, re-cently, showing a little of the power of today's mechanized warfare. war-fare. He is overseas somewhere with Patton's Third army and keeping plenty busy. Pa Pa Sgt. Fry Writes Friends in St. George had let ters last week from Sgt. Wm. R. (Bill) Fry, son of Mr. and Mrs. O. B. Fry, now of White Rock, Utah, formerly resident supervisor super-visor of the Shevwit Reservation, Santa Clara. He received his promotion pro-motion to Sgt. since going overseas. over-seas. Writing from Paris, Sgt. Fry says that thanks to the fact that Paris was taken with pistols, bayonets bay-onets and a certain correspondent named Thompson and his typewriter, type-writer, that famous city is pretty well intact. The buildings are somewhat pock-marked with bullets, bul-lets, but it is not a heap of rubble like some cities that have been bombed. Already the fashion shops are open for business but style comes high this year in wearing apparel, so most soldiers are buying perfumes to send home. Mechanic Turns Gunner Sgt. Kenneth Smith, former j aviation mechanic with the B-25 1 Mitchell bombers is now flying as , gunner in one of these huge crafts. He recently took part in his groups 600th combat mission. They have been active in the Mediterranean area for more than 20 months. Sandwiched between two heavy flak barrages, the attack was made without loss and with excellent results, says the report. The flow of enemy supplies by railway via Brenner Pass to their troops in northern Italy was reduced more than half, when these Mitchell bombers disrupted their system, (a ps s "Wings and Boots" Sgt. Thomas E. Stirling, son of Mr. and Mrs. David Stirling of Leeds, has won the right to wear "Wings and Boots" of the United States Army Paratroopers. He has completed his four weeks of jump training, making five jumps, the last a tactical jump at night involving a combat problem on landing. Paratroop jumping has been developed de-veloped to an actual science and American troopers are winning world recognition for their meritorious meri-torious action against the enemy, says the official report. They also receive specialized training in communications, ' demolition, riggers, rig-gers, parachute maintenance and other vital skills for airborne troops. n la a Ten Utahns Honored Accorded signal honor along with the 361st Infantry regiment which spearheaded the advance of Lieut. Gen. Mark W. Clark's Fifth Army from Velletri to the Arno River without once giving ground, were ten Utah men. One of the ten is Pfc. Gordon F. Terry, company cook, of Enterprise. The entire regiment has been decorated. The regiment landed in Italy May 31, 1944 and two days later fought their first battle as part of the 36th 'Texas' division. Later they helped take Albano Hills and Lake Albano, making possible the fall of Rome. Bypassing Rome the 361st Infantry forged forward, participating in the capture cap-ture of Tarquinia, Montalto and on to Magliano, defeating the Germans and capturing the key terrain on June 17. At Ponte d'Istria, the unit captured more than 200 Germans and were the first to reach the Arno River, July 17, Col. R. W. Broedlow of Medford, Oregon, veteran of 28 years of service is in command and is proud of the achievements of his entire regiment. fca W3 TDa Chief of Staff Advancement in rating is generally gener-ally acceptable, in the army or out, admits Rulon Foster, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles F. Foster of St. George, who has been enrolled en-rolled the past six weeks at the B. Y. U., Provo, in the radio class being "given for veterans of the present war. During evenings, he has been employed at the Strand Theatre in Provo.' One evening last week when he reported for work, he found a note from the theatre manager assigning him to the position of Chief of Staff of the doormen and usherettes and telling tell-ing him the advancement came as a reward for meritorious service. ser-vice. K . Home From Overseas Home this week from complet ing his 50 bombing missions, is Capt. Mervin M. Dyer, husband of the former Emma Lee Atkin of St. George, who lived through the harrowing bombing raid over Bremen. His experience has been given wide publicity. Pilot of an Eighth Air Force flying fortress, the Bremen oil refinery re-finery was their target, when flak knocked out one engine, damaged another arid left a stream of fire from the hydraulic system to the instrument panel. The released oil sprayed under 800 pounds of pressure set fire to the clothing of the pilot and co-pilot, Jimmie H. Vallee of Texas. They beat out the flames and switched on the automatic pilot, since the controls con-trols were too hot to handle and this kept the plane steady. The bombsight was damaged and only half of their load of explosives ex-plosives had been released, but the bombardier took a perilous position on the cat walk and released re-leased the remaining bombs by hand. Without brakes and with one tire blown out they brought "Swing Shift Maisie" down safely, narrowly missing a nearby ambulance. am-bulance. The radio operator was dead, other crew members had injuries and the plane was gouged with hunks of flak, but they did j make it to the home base. j Capt. Dyer flew with his crew I to New York and from there to ' San Francisco where his wife, who has been at defense employment employ-ment in Bremerton, joined him. They are now in Buttonwillow, Calif., with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Levi Atkin. IKI P3 Fa Lieut Morris Visits Second Lieut. Merle Morris was -here over the week end from Las Vegas, visiting his wife, the former form-er Pearl Carpenter, and their daughter. Vicky Ann. He is stationed sta-tioned at McCaren Field, training as a gunner of the U. S. Air forces. SSgt. Crosby in England Writing home from England to his grandmother, Mrs. Arthur F. Miles of St. George, SSgt Wendell Wen-dell Crosby tells of his interest in some of the fine old buildings there. One special building is an old Norman church built in the 11th century and later partly destroyed des-troyed and rebuilt in the 12th and 13th centuries. He made friends with the aged Vicar and enjoyed getting many details regarding the church which was once used by the Catholics but is now in the hands of the Church of England. His brother, Lieut. Paul Crosby, is also in England. Their grandfather Miles was able to give them interesting background, since he was almost a grown boy when he came to Utah from London. IS Pa Cpl. Frei in England Cpl. Donald C. Frei, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. Claud Frei of Santa Clara, recently completed an orientation course in England, which is the final overseas preparation pre-paration for actual combat duty. This course includes lectures given by veterans who have had actual experience on battle fronts, instruction on chemical warfare defense and vital training in keeping keep-ing healthy in combat zones. |