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Show News from Our People In the Armed Services Seaman Kebcr Visits Here Seaman 1c Rumell Reber arrived ar-rived home Friday, Dec. 3rd, on a 15-day furlough, having made his second world tour in connection with his military service. Seaman Reber is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis Reber and has had many experiences during his service on the sea. He has been on active duty since May, 1943. He spent Wednesday in St. George on business. R a fa Arlo Hall Graduates The Sunday graduation services at Douglas Army air base in Arizona Ari-zona included among its graduates, gradu-ates, Arlo Hall, son of Mr. and Mrs. Orson Hall of St. George and Pine Valley. He now has his silver wings and the rank of Second Lieutenant, as a bomber pilot. Lieut. Hall arrived home early Monday from Dallas for a ten-day ten-day furlough before he moves to his next training base at Hobbs, N. M. He trained at Santa Ana, Ryan Field, Merced Army air base and completed his basic training last week at' Douglas. Pa Pvt. E. Lund Visits Pvt. Edward B. Lund arrived early Wednesday morning for a 10-day furlough with his mother, Mrs. Nan Lund and sister, Mrs. Bill McMullin. Stationed with the ordnance depot de-pot at San Francisco, this is Pvt. Lund's first visit home in nearly two years. His mother reports he is looking fine, and says he likes his part of the work for the big war machine. He will return to his post Dec. 18. Pa la 1 A Headquarters Release An interesting release came this week from headquarters European theatre of operations of the United States Army, and lists Pfc. Myrle W. Bostwick, husband of the former Rose Riding of this city, among the 16 soldiers from the "Far West, who are in an armored arm-ored unit that never leaves the ground, but they are as well acquainted ac-quainted with the importance of. ' pre-battle 'briefing' astTT brothers in the air force" r These are the tank 'men plains the article, and in .J pre-invasion program they arI coming experts in every tank f iT driver, gunner, radioman mander and so on. Any member can take over anv ml? member's job, if needed and l sons learned from previous paigns are being applied in Br aration for the work ahead , them. ' "Teamwork with infantry an, artillery units is the secret t success by an armored unit yjl the tankers delivering the 'r, blow, "the Sunday punch" the article. One other Utah T Pvt. Gene S. Fuller of listed, the other 14 beine Colorado, Nevada, New Me.V and Arizona. ' 100 Pa Ha Tsa Sgt. B. Fawcett Here Sgt. Blaine Fawcett, is hero from Geiger Field, Wash., for short visit with his parents Mr and Mrs. Arthur Fawcett' wife, the former Jean Cornwall of Elko, Nev., and their f0uN month's-old son, Darrell. The husky son is tops, says Sgt Fawcett, even if he is being com pletely spoiled by the grandpar ents, and knows little about fol lowing orders. He will return in ten days to Washington, ft ft h Sgt Miles Wallace Visits Here, Friday over Monday from Camp Carson, Colo., was Sgt Miles Wallace. He has been stationed sta-tioned at Camp Carson for more than a year, and busy with of-fice of-fice work. He left Monday evening for his next assignment. Four days gave him little time to visit, but even that much was worthwhile, say his parents, Mr. and Mrs. ' Clifford Clif-ford Wallace. |