OCR Text |
Show News from the Washington County People At Service Camps and Nation's Battle Fronts Honored On Radio Program Bringing their crippled planes back to safe landing on the carrier car-rier after an exciting aerial battle over Rabaul, lasting 25 minutes, gave Commander Henry H. Caldwell Cald-well of Roseville, Calif., and his escort Lieut, (j. g.) S. K. Crockett Crock-ett of Ogden the news spotlight recently. The story, which many heard over the radio, reached Mrs. Crockett last week in St. George, where she and her small son are making their home for the duration with her sister, Mrs. Herman Larkin. Making a photographic run over Rabaul harbor after getting the attack under way, Comm. Caldwell lost his one escort, his photographer was killed, his radioman rad-ioman wounded, his turret put out of commission, his landing flaps, aerlon control, radio and one wheel were shot away, but he and his other escort, battled the enemy relentlessly, destroying several sev-eral planes and disabling others, until they finally gave up. Lieut. Crockett's plane was riddled rid-dled with bullets, . his throttle handle shot out of his hand, his instrument panel ripped of everything every-thing except the magnetic compass, com-pass, his one wing damaged, and himself wounded in the head, arms, shoulder, knee and leg, but he stuck to his commander and with more than 300 bullet holes in his plane, 54 of them through the cockpit, limped back to the carrier, their mission accomplished. accom-plished. Letters to Mrs. Crockett, received re-ceived this last week, said her husband had recovered from his wounds and was back in action again. Pvfc Blake Visits Here Pvt. Benjamin Blake arrived last Friday from North Carolina to visit with his wife, the former Theo Asay, and their small son, Benjamin Jr., whom he had not seen since he was a month old, and with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Royal Blake, and other family fam-ily members. Because of the long distance to travel, Pvt. Blake was compelled to return to his training post Wednesday but hopes he will be coming back again before another year passes. He reports having enjoyed the Dixie sunshine and visiting with relatives and friends after traveling through so much snow. Pa pa Writes from Overseas Writing from his overseas address, ad-dress, First Sgt. R. D. Callahan expresses appreciation for the Washington County News and says, "it is really a comfort to all the Washington county boys over here. We really look forward to the arrival of each "copy. I am sure all the home-town boys feel the same as I do. Here is my subscription sub-scription for the next year. Rush them along, please." Pa Pa tss Pvt. Snow Changes Address Sending his change of address so -he will "continue to receive the News", is Pvt. Erie Snow, son of Levi Snow of St. George. With the Army air corps at Buckley Field, Colo., Pvt. Snow says the home-town News "is doing a great job of helping our boys through their Army training." Reading the home paper, he figures, helps to bring the boys nearer home. He also mentions having noticed that Joe Hogan has been accepted by the Navy and hopes if this happens, suitable replacement help can be found. Pa Pn Pa ' Stationed At Avalon, Calif. Visiting in Hurricane and St. George Sunday and Monday en-route en-route back to Avalon, Calif., was Doyle W. Humphries, M.M.lc, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Humphries Hum-phries of Hurricane. The M. M. stands for Machinists' Mate, and he has been stationed the entire 16 months he has been in the Navy at Catalina, working in the machine shops. Before entering the service M. Humphries was employed as mill operator at Magna for the Utah Copper company, which afforded him good pre-war training for the work he is now doing. This is his first leave in the 16 months and he is just returning from taking tak-ing his wife, the former Betty VanHorbeck and their six-month-old son to Salt Lake City to visit her family. The boy, boasts his daddy, is sure making good. He vas a mere two and a half pounds at birth, but the men at the Navy yards made him a swell incubator and he has come right along, and now weighs 12 pounds. Two Sons In Service Mr. and Mrs. William C. Wright of Hurricane have two sons in the service of their country. The one boy, Pfc. Chester Wright is somewhere in England, having completed his training for the big job in various camps in the U. S. The other boy, Russell Wright, who joined the Navy Jan. 14, 1944, has advised them he is comfortably com-fortably located at Farragut, Ida., and getting a good start at his boot training. He is used to work, so his parents figure he will be able to meet the Navy requirements. re-quirements. Pa te Pa Home from Alaska SSgt. Manuel Dostalek, son of Mr. and Mrs. Emil Dostalek of New Harmony, is home from Alaska where he has served with the Army for the past three and half years. This is Sgt. Dostalek's first furlough fur-lough since joining the Army, and his family and friends are enjoying en-joying getting acquainted with him again. He has many interesting inter-esting stories of his experiences and is happy to be home once more. Pa 'Pa Pa 1st Lieut. II. Morris Writes Recent letters from Howard A. Morris, who is with Clark's Fifth Army in Italy, advises his parents, par-ents, Mr. and Mrs. Clair Morris and his wife that he has received re-ceived his silver bars and is now a First Lieut. His son, Ralph Howard Morris, was a month old before the word of his arrival reached his father overseas. His letters indicate his happiness in receiving the long-awaited long-awaited news, and he's hoping the boy won't be too grown up before his daddy gets to see him. Pa P Pa Pfc. Majisor Visits News Office Recent visitor at, the News office of-fice was Pfc. Earl Mansor, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Mansor of Rockville, who was home on his second furlough in 13 months. He comes from Camp Campbell, Ky., where he has won medals for machine gun, tommy gun, pistol, rifle M-l and carbine marksmanship. As a tank division instructor, Pfc. Mansor has as many as 125 men in his class and says this is really work, but he likes it. Asked about the "booby traps" in ; the tank division, he said these were really not toys, these tanks, and the "booby traps" were proportionately pro-portionately big and furnished plenty of excitment. |