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Show NORTH COUNTY NEWSPAPERS Page 5 Battle headgear U.S. boonie hat Vietnam War Memorial Day Early Bird Sale from 8-11 am U.S. Army helmet WWI U.S. Navy flight helmet Korean War Thursday, May 26, 2005 (ApJ Marine pith helmet WWII Stanford Shelley WORLD WAR II fter I graduated from Lehi High School in 1930, 1 worked several jobs and was work ing in Burley, Ida ho, in 1940 when I received the notice that all men had to register reg-ister for the draft. I registered in Burley and I volunteered for a year of service. When I wrote to my parents in Lehi, they told me not to join in Idaho Ida-ho because the whole National Guard Unit from Lehi was being be-ing inducted into the service. I returned to Lehi and on Nov. 11, 1940, my brother, Gen and I went to the home of Capt. Junior Evans. We signed up with the National Guard for one year of service. The Lehi National Na-tional Guard Unit was supposed to leave for California on Dec. 1, 1940, but the camp was too wet. We were then called into Federal Fed-eral Service on March 1. About March 10, 1941, the Service Battery of about 60 men left Lehi We were in a convoy of five trucks and traveled to San Luis Obispo, Calif. We then started our basic training which included how to march, clean guns, how to fire the howitzers and what to do in a gas attack. The 222 Field Artillery Division had thirteen weeks of basic Training. When we finished, we had nothing else to do, so we went through basic training again. In October 1941, the government govern-ment said anyone 28 years of age or older could be released until there was a declaration of war. I was 29 years old, at the time, so I returned home and worked on the railroad. I was working in Salt Lake in December De-cember 1941 and had just left a movie house on 300 South when I heard that Japan had bombed Pearl Harbor and war had been declared. I was called back into service in February 1942. We left San Francisco on Sept. 3, 1942, and arrived in Hawaii Ha-waii on Sept. 10, 1942. We then traveled by island steamer to I ' 1 MauL ... The last of May, we loaded on a ship and headed for the Mari-annas Mari-annas Islands. The United States invaded Saipan, on the 15th of June and we landed on the 17th of June. The island was secure before the 24th of July. We then traveled, on an amphibious boat, about six miles over to Tinian We stayed on Tinian until the first of December and then finally final-ly left on a boat for Leyte, where the battle had already started After Leyte was secured, we left for Okinawa where the invasion started on the Lst of April 1945. We spent three to four days on the beach unloading the hold of the ship. We unloaded howitzer shells that weighed 95 to 100 pounds each. My job was to drive a 2 12 ton GMC long base truck. I would pick up and deliver food rations and supplies. Sometimes it was very difficult, as it rained so much, that I was always fighting mud, mud and more mud. There was one day it rained over 13 inches. When the island of Okinawa was secured in July, we were sitting there getting ready to attack Japan when peace was signed in August of 1945. Shortly after that they put us on a Madson Liner and we headed home at 20 knots (21 miles an hour), no zigzag, just straight. A convoy only traveled trav-eled 9 or 10 miles an hour. It took 21 days to get back. Frank Breitenstein KOREAN WAR was an aerial photographer photogra-pher and machine gunner with Patrol Squadron 47, a Navy flying boat squadron. squad-ron. Our squadron departed depart-ed San Diego in January 1950 for a six month deployment deploy-ment to the Far East. Our headquarters head-quarters were in Saipan with detachments in the Philippines and Japan. After three months in Saipan, we moved our headquarters head-quarters to Sangley Point, Philippines, Phil-ippines, on Manila Bay. We were in the process of being be-ing relieved by another squadron when the Korean War started. ... our first combat flights were armed only with the pistols carried car-ried by our officers. We later received re-ceived one bow gun and one tail gun from our relieving squadron. We flew our missions with these two guns per aircraft while waiting wait-ing for the rest of our equipment to come from San Diego by ship. As the only aerial photographer photog-rapher in the area when the Korean War began, I also flew on missioas with other squad-roas squad-roas including the Royal Air Force Sunderland flying boats. I participated in reconnaissance missioas over the Yellow Sea, the Sea of Japan and along the coasts of enemy held Korea. Many of these patroLs were flown to maximum range in dangerous areas under very hazardous weather conditions. As a result of this I was recommended recom-mended for an Air Medal. After being relieved the second time, we were ordered back to duty to try to rescue the Marines trapped near the Chosin Reservoir in North Korea. The planners had forgotten that we could not land our flying boats on the frozen reservoir. After being relieved for the third time in January Jan-uary 1951, we transferred to our new base in Alameda, California. After a couple of months back in the U.S., I was sent to the Photo Pho-to Interpretation School at Barber's Bar-ber's Point, Hawaii. While there my Air Medal award arrived. Since I was the first person in the Hawaiian area to receive - w any award for Korean service, my Air Medal was presented to me by Rear Admiral Litch, Commander Com-mander Fleet Air Hawaii. After six months in the States, we were deployed to operate from a seaplane tender anchored at the Pescadores Islands, in the Formosa Straits, between China and Formosa (Taiwan). ... After six months patrolling the South China Sea, we returned to the states for six months. ... In the fall of 1952, we again deployed to our base at Iwakuni, Japan, a few miles south of Hiroshima. Hi-roshima. Our squadron again patrolled the area around Korea until after the end of the Korean War. I was recommended for a Second Air Medal award during this tour. We were the first Navy aircraft to fly combat in the Korean Kore-an War and were there at its end. jP I j xr. BERNINA 200E Specially Priced n AURORA 430 & 440 Specially Priced BERNINA 165 Save $400 on Classroom Machines ACTIVA i 220, 230 & 240 Starting at $64900 I' OIBRDIDERT CARDS ft j BERNETTES ' SGKa,! Specially Priced v ;4 i F7f mtwrn jft. x "' - : tSTnL j " FAB RIC SALE - UP TO j 199 WKOffSj I 'Aft Wf.",; Center Strict ry'f fyf 'J T-1 J ; Monday' lrirlay 10aiii i rjin '' Gaturday '-i am S pin : artiMa 'iet BERNINA Ulilimi HULL BUI .. 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