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Show News from Our People In the Armed Services By MABEL JARVIS Back on Sea Duty "They are giving me another chance at sea duty," writes Donald Don-ald L. Horsley, S 1c but having already had three years and four months on the big blue, he figures the excitment "and first day at sea stuff" will be nothing to write home about this time. Since returning from his more than three years in the Pacific he has enjoyed a few weeks of rest and some specialized training at the Navy Training Station, Newport, New-port, R.I. He says he has made many newspaper acquaintances while absent, and even when his County News arrived a month late it "really meant something". Though he has only been home once since March, 1941, he thinks the News will keep him from being be-ing a stranger when he comes back for keeps. . Pa Russell Hamsen Send Greetings Lieut. C. R. (Russell) Hansen sent a Christmas Greeting from Belgium Nov. 25 which reads: "To the 115th Engrs. (C) co Washington County News, St. George, Utah. Best Wishes to all the old gang, wherever you may be. May you all have as Merry a Christmas as this miserable war permits. Good luck!" We are sure some of the "Old Gang" will get the greeting. fs fa h Legnamd Prei Awarded Air Medal From the AAF, Pacific Ocean Area comes announcement this week of the award of the Air Medal to Sgt. Legrand Frei for the 7th AAF medium bombardment bombard-ment missions in the Central Pacific. His parents are Mr. and Mrs. J. Claude Frei of Santa Clara. His wife, Mrs. Joey Covington Coving-ton Frei and their small son, Keith live in St. George. Sgt. Frei is engineer gunner on a B-25 Mitchell .bomber. He arrived ar-rived in the Central Pacific in May, 1944, and has seen combat action over the Gilbert, Marshal and Caroline Islands. His citation for meriotorious achievement in flight commends him for his display dis-play of high professional skill, courage and devotion to duty. Pa IBs 1K Sgt. Nioholls in Australia A news subscription came last week from Mr. and Mrs. Wm. S. Nicholls of Hunnington Park, California, Cal-ifornia, formerly of Leeds. They read the paper then send it on to their son, Sgt. Robert Nicholls who has been in Australia the past 20 months. With him at that location is a service man from Kanab. He says they both read the paper from start to finish fin-ish and hope it keeps coming. |
