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Show News from Our Boys In the Armed Services Arrive In Africa "Safely in North Africa, and wouldn't have missed this trip over for anything," is the gist of the letter written by Cpl. Barnard Seek'iniller to his mother, Mrs. Ifela Seegmiller, from somewhere in North Africa, and dated F'eb. 201 h. Cpl. SeeHiniller left St, George 'for military service in early April, W. being stationed first at Denver, Den-ver, Colo., for technical armament training. From there he was transferred to the air base at Columbia, Co-lumbia, N. C, and later to Walt-ersboro, Walt-ersboro, S. C, and Daniel Field, Augusta, Ga., receiving additional training at each place. If is last months of training before be-fore going overseas were at De Ridder, near New Orleans, La. His letter, which had not been seriously . censored told of the crossing and of his joy in the ocean voyage, which only caused him the loss of two meals. Most of the boys were not so lucky. He also praises the country he has seen since reaching North Africa' and promises the U. S. boys are going to do a good job and with as few delays as possible, pos-sible, so they can come back home again. U.S.A. Arrive At Missouri Camp Washington county boys are sure getting around in the program pro-gram of military training. This week conies news from Jefferson Barracks, Mo., of the arrival of Pvt. Keith M. Campbell, son . of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Campbell Camp-bell of Hurricane and Pvt. Blaine M. Fawcett, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Fawcett, of St. George. His wife is Jeanne C. Fawcett. Jefferson Barracks is a historic military post on the Mississippi river, a few miles south of St. 4 -4 i 4 4 ; 4 4 4 4 Louis, and is a replacement ti'ain-ing ti'ain-ing center for the Army air forces technical training command, with Colonel Thomas J. Christian, commanding. com-manding. Here recruits are given vocational tests to qualify them for important duties in various arms and branches of the service attached with the Army air forces. U.S.A. To Visit Son Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Stratton plan to leave this Friday for Camp Roberts, Calif., where they will visit their son, Albert and wife, who are stationed there. Albert, who entered the service last October was given the rank of private first class Jan. 1st of this year, and was advanced to the rank of corporal Mar. 1st. In spite of one stiff arm, for which he was rejected when first called by the draft, Cpl. Stratton won camp honors for his division in the recent rifle shoot, and says he is getting a thrill out of his work with the headquarters division. di-vision. Mrs. Stratton, the former Alma Tanner of Washington, is also employed at Camp Roberts as a dental assistant, having had experience ex-perience in this line in the offices of Drs. Jack and Fae Ahlstrom, while they were located in St. George. U. S. A. Merlin Leavitt Graduates Word has been received from Pvt. Merlin H. Leavitt .that he has graduated from the intensive courses given at Port Keesler, Miss., in aviation mechanics. He was rated among the highest in his group of 33. Pvt. Leavitt entered the military mili-tary service early in October of 1942, spent six weeks in St. Petersburg, Pet-ersburg, Fla., and the remainder of the time since November at Port Keesler. Now he is to be transferred to another field for advanced training. During his absence ab-sence he has become the father of a fine boy, Merlin LaVoy. U. S. A. Herbert Pitchforth Called Herbert Pitchforth, who enlisted en-listed in the Army air corps last November, received his call Mar. 25th to report in Fort Douglas on Mar. 31st. U. S. A. Union Foster Rulon Foster, who has been with the Navy air corps since his enlistment last July, has been honorably discharged and returned home last Friday evening from Pensacola, Fla., where he has been stationed for several months. He has been under hospitalization hospitaliz-ation most of the time since the first of the year, due to trouble with an arm broken in childhood and other illness. He enjoyed his work with the Navy air corps and regrets not being able to continue, but is back- to civilian life to carry on in other lines. U.S.A. Spencer Truman Advanced Word has come to Mr. and Mrs. Bert Truman that their son, Spencer Truman was advanced to the rank of First Lieut, on Friday, Fri-day, Mar. 19th, at Bradley Field, Conn. He was made Second Lieut, on Oct. 28, 1942. |