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Show News from Our People In the Armed Services By MABEL JARVIS Correction Our reporter erred recently in listing the wife of Reed F. Holmes S 2C as the former Fay Washburn. Wash-burn. Mrs. Holmes is the former Lois Washburn. P ta Pa Carlos Lang Promoted Recent overseas news reports the promotion of Carlos Lang from Second to First Lieutenant at his post in the Pacific, June 20. He left St. George with the lloth Engineers in March, 1941, and says he doesn't expect to return 'til the job is done. Pa Ha las On Active Sea Duty Chester L. Hardy, S 1C, son of Mr. and Mrs. Rogers Hardy is now on active sea duty and says it's a great life. He enlisted from Las Vegas in Feb. 1944, having his boot training at Farragut. From there he was transferred to Bremerton, Washington where he remained until June 17, going nert to Olympia, Wash., and then to Oregon. The Hardys' other son, Wilbur, is a second class petty officer, also with the Navy and is on duty overseas. He writes home regularly regu-larly and reports he is well and keeping busy. Pa S3 Pa Writes from France Mr. and Mrs. Johnathan Hunt of Enterprise have had word recently re-cently from their son, Alma S. Hunt, who is overseas. He wrote late in June saying he had participated parti-cipated in the French invasion and had wondered at times if he would emerge alive. One enemy bullet passed directly between him and his companion, missing them by a small margin. He figures the Germans are as little to be trusted as the Japs and says they seem to be using like methods. He is happy to be with the allied forces in such a war and hopes the fighting will be over with before long. 1 la Busy Mending Ships Just mending ships day after day can become a little monotonous, monoto-nous, thinks Edward J. Gardner, SF 3C who has spent the past eight months at this work somewhere some-where in the New Hebrides. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Leornal Gardner of St. George and had his boot training at Farragut, graduating there in August, 1943. From there he went to Shoemaker, Calif., and in November, shipped across. He writes that he is well and able to work every day but will be glad when the order is for the home port. So far, he has met no other southern Utah boys in that area. |