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Show ' News from Our People In the Armed Services By SIABEL JAKVIS Brothers Visit Rumell Reber Slc arrived in Littlefield May 17 to visit with : his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Louis 1 Reber and other family members, i He was hoping for a real visit with his brother, Pfc. Gerald i Reber, but they had just four Iiours together, part of this was ' as they drove to Las Vegas where i Gerald caught his plane for South ' Carolina. Rumell had to report back to San Francisco on Sunday, May 20. I a a a :' Wounded Veteran Visits Edwin "Eddie" Sandberg, Petty Officer 1c in the U. S. Navy, who was severely wounded in September, Septem-ber, 1944 when his ship was torpedoed, tor-pedoed, was in Las Vegas recently visiting Mrs. Sandberg. Since returning re-turning from overseas he has been receiving treatment in the Naval hospital at Corona, Calif. His injuries included a severe fracture of the hip, after which he had pneumonia, materially delaying de-laying his return to the states. However he is improving rapidly and while he may be unable to return to military duty, he does anticipate returning to his former employment at General Auto Parts in Las Vegas, from where he enlisted in the Navy Jan. 1, 1942. He was overseas 33 months before returning to the U. S. and spent many months in submarine service before being transferred to a ship. His parents are Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Sandberg of Washington. They have two other sons in the service. Ivan is a Navy aircraft mechanic and was home recently after 22 months in the Pacific. William, BM2c is expected home on leave. PS & IS Advanced Donald S. Judd is now an Ensign with the U. S. Naval air forces, having recently received this advancement. ad-vancement. He is receiving the final phase of his training at the Naval Air station in Deland, Fla , where he was transferred from Corpus Christi, Texas. Pa Pa Pa Reunion Five former school pals had dinner together last Saturday evening eve-ning at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Vivian J. Frei of Santa Clara, whose son,, SSgt. Victor Frei of the U. S. Marines was host. Sgt. Frei had a three-day pass from San Diego. The other four boys were Cpl. Gilbert Tobler, who is home from Bushnell general hospital, hos-pital, Brigham City; SSgt. Wendell Wen-dell E. Tobler, who returned on Monday to Keesler Field, Miss., after 15 days home; Sgt. Stafford Snow, son of Pres. and Mrs. H. S. Snow of St. George, who is on his way from Amarillo, Texas to Albuquerque, N. M. ; and Dwane Spilsbury of Wasco, Calif. The five had a great time exchanging stories of their experiences in the different branches of the service. Pa Pa P Guns Quiet SSgt. P. E. (Bud) Harris took time for just a short note home on V-E Day to say it was wonderful wonder-ful to have the big guns quiet. A letter on May 14 said he was located near Hanover, Germany. He has been in the service since March, 1941 and could be entitled to come home,, but there's still Japan and occupational duty and he might rate further assignment. Pa Pa IS Transferred The recent transfer of Pfc. Leonard B. Hunt, son of Mr. and Mrs. Amos Hunt of Enterprise, took him across the country from Fort Knox, Ky. to Fort George G. Meade, Md. He doesn't know how long he will remain at this new location, but wants his News , to follow him along as soon as possible. rv n a To Tokyo With Love The comparative size of those monster Thunderbirds of the U.S. air forces was indicated in a post card to Miss Lena Nelson from her nephew, Sgt. Anthony Snow, pictured beside the B-29 in which he is helping to carry the U. S. Sifts to Tokyo. He has been with the group who are carrying these noise-makers for several months and suggests that things are really real-ly happening. His brother, Cpl. Donald Snow was still in Czecho Slovakia when last heard from, and had chalked up a total pf 217 consecutive days of action since D-Day in June of 1941. He has. however, had one side trip to Belgium, which was interesting. Both boys are sons of Mrs. Wanda M. Snow of Provo. Fa n Ka Could Fie! "Shall I bring one of these pretty janes home?" asks T5 f'Jevf Cooper, who is with the U. S. Infantry in Italy on the rim of .Ui7 Slavia, where he says there are plenty of really pretty girls. ' f fours" that is just a question in fun. but wild hostilities over, the hoys do have time to look at a rirl and are "iffiri;;" and "when-n "when-n r :'" a lot about coming home, lie is a son of Mr. and .Mrs. Is. V. f'ooper of Washington. I lis hrotlier j;: serving in the Pacific. |