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Show News from Our People In the Armed Services Ralph Henderson Graduates Washington county was represented repre-sented in the record class of graduates June 24, at the Hondo, Texas Army Air Base, when youths from every state in the Union and the Territory of Hawaii received their Combat Navigator Wings. Second Lieut. Ralph D. Henderson, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Henderson Hender-son of Rockville was one of the six Utah graduates. Each navigator navi-gator is an aerial expert, says the report, trained to find the target by day or night, in clear or cloudy weather. He can pilot his plain by the stars, by radio, by compass or by spotting a highway or railroad rail-road track. n )a ft Fay Reber Promoted United States Strategic Air Forces in Europe announce from somewhere in England the promotion pro-motion of Fay F. Peber, son of Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Reber of Hurricane, to the rating of Sergeant. At one of the central depots in England, he has completed com-pleted special courses designated to bridge the gap between training in the states and actual soldiering on the war fronts. He is a gunner in the Air Corps and "his next station will be one from which America's fighting planes take off to smash the Nazi war machine," ma-chine," says the report. Before entering the service he was employed em-ployed by Douglas Aircraft Co. in California. Receives Promotion Denzil L. Lightner, 18, son of Mrs. A. O. Hutchings of St. George is now a second class petty officer with Uncle Sam's Navy, having graduated recently from the U. S. Naval Armory. He was selected for this training because of the capacity he exhibited in examinations ex-aminations given during his recruit courses. Use of all tools known to electrical maintainance," soldering, solder-ing, wiring, diagraming, repairing damaged lines and circuits and principles of electricity and magnetism mag-netism for motors and large generators were among the required re-quired courses he has completed. He is now awaiting assignment to active duty at sea or at some shore station. n pj h Cpl. Bud Franklin Writes Henry Ferguson of Mt. Trumbull Trum-bull let us read a letter Wednesday, Wednes-day, written June 17th in Italy by Cpl. Bud Franklin. Bud says he is feeling fine and has seen some real action in that area. He reports re-ports they have the "Jerries on the run", and he hopes they keep running 'til they reach Berlin. He has seen Pope Pius and the beautiful beau-tiful city of Rome, which he says has not been touched by the war. Just now he is hoping for a return to his cowboy haunts on the Arizona Ari-zona Strip. I |