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Show AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN. AMKKh:aw rtmiv. THE AMERICAN FORK CITIZEN Published Every Friday at American Fork, Utah, by the ALPINE PUBLISHING CO. Entered as Second Class Matter, at the Postoffice at American Fork, Utah, under the act of March 3, 1879 Subscription Rate WHERE TO GET IT DONE Household and Auto Repairing Washing Machines, Vacuum Cleaners, Lawa Mowers and Furniture. AUTOMOBILE OVERHAULING SCHREIBER'S REPAIR 263 South First East Tel. 618-American Fork ATTENTION HOME OWNERS We have serviceman to do HOUSE WIRING and Install SWITCHES and FIXTURES SALES AND SERVICE AIR CONDITIONERS OIL BURNERS FURNACES COMPLETE BOX POINT LINE Keech Electric Service Phone C10-W 162 E. Main American Fork aij;iinm" i i REPAIR WORK Done on Tour Home New Kitchen Cabinets, Linen Closets, Screens, etc REASONABLE PRICES SEE George Curtis 388 East Lane AMERICAN FORK 3 Modern RECAPS Expert REPAIRS NEW AND USED TIRES t G. W. HANKS West Mala Street, Am. 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Hampton, sons of Mr. and Mrs. Armon Hampton, left Wednesday Wed-nesday of last week for Fort Douglas where they were Inducted Induct-ed Into the army. They will receive re-ceive their training at a Field Artillery post. Harold Ashton RM 3c Is home on 30 days rehabilitation leave. He has been In the navy 36 months, most of the time In the Hawaiian Islands with test flights for plane equipment to Saipan, Guam and Manila. He will report at the Alameda hospital hos-pital Dec. 19. He Is wearing the Asiatic-Pacific ribbon with two battle stars for Guam and 81a-pan, 81a-pan, the American Defense ribbon rib-bon and the victory medal. Pvt. Tracy Nicholes, son of Mr. and Mrs. Howard W. Nicholes, who was inducted Into the army at Fort Douglas Nov. 9, Is being retained at the Fort In the personnel per-sonnel center. LaDell Terry, son of Mr., and Mrs Ellis R. Terry, has been advanced ad-vanced to the rank of sergeant he has informed his parents. The same letter told them he was leaving Manila the follow-in? follow-in? day on a destroyer for Japan. He should have reached his destination des-tination before the letter arrived here. Sgt. Leslie Long, and his wife the .torjpwt ,.EJaJne.. Busk . , have been visiting In Highland with Mr. and Mrs. Charles Warneskl. Sgt. Lojig was recently returned I to the united States from a Jap-j Jap-j anese prison camp, being one of j the last to be reported. Friday ,Sgt. and Mrs. Long left for Kansas where they will visit with his parents who have not seen him since before the fall of the Philippines. After 30 days he will report back to the hospital for a checkup and then expects his discharge. The following citation has been forwarded to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Pulley from their son First Lieut. Melvln F. Pulley who is in the Pacific theater of operations. - The. ,. Commanding ,-, General, Eighth Army, in section III, General Gen-eral Orders No. 156, 2 Not, 1945, cites and awards a Bronze Star Medal to: - First - lieutenant Melvln F. Pulley, signal Corps, United States army. For meritorious achievement In connection with military operations against the enemy on Leyte, .Philippine Islands, from 12 Jan., 1945, to 1 Sept., 1945. Lieutenant Pulley, 304th Signal Operation Battalion Radio Officer, constructed the Eighth Army Radio Transmitting Station on Leyte and operated it In a very efficient manner throughout this period. In addition, addi-tion, he set up a radio repair shop which, In spite of Inadequate Inade-quate facilities, provided excellent excel-lent first, second, and third echelon maintenance for battalion bat-talion facilities, thereby greatly reducing time lost in sending equipment to base depots for repair. re-pair. Lieutenant Pulley's skill and initiative In accomplishing difficult work not , required of him reflect great credit on himself him-self and the military service. Lieut. Pulley's wife, Betty James Pulley, lives in Ocean Grove, New Jersey. ," CITATION Award of the Bronze Star Medal By direction of the President, under the 'provisions of Army regulations 600-45, 22 Sept., 1943, as amended, the Bronze Star Medal Is awarded to: Glenn C. Barratt 0545397, First Lieutenant, Infantry, In-fantry, Anti-Tank Company, 242nd Infantrv. for meritorious achievement in action on 10-11 Jan., 1945, near Hatten, Franc? Leadinz a reconnaissance mis sion to establish contacts ..with two platoons that had been cut off by an enemy attack, Lieuten ant Rsrratt made his i wav through heavy fire Into Hatten.1 There he determined that the friendlv trooDs in the town were completely Isolated. Proceeding into Rittershofen, Lieutenant Barratt searched for friendly troops there, finding and rescu-lnff rescu-lnff those who had evaded the enemy penetration. His escape route cut by lnfilterating Ger-i mans, Lieutenant Barratt led his Dartv to safety by an alter nate route. His courage, leader-; ship and initiative resulted In the rescue of a large numcer or men. Entered military service from American Fork, Utah. Harry J. Collins Major Oeneral, USA Commanding. Lieutenant Barratt Is the hus band of Dolores Hansen Barratt and the son of Mr. and Mrs Thomas A. Barratt. Cpl. Harold B. Ellison left Monday for Pyote, Texas, after a 45 days furlough. Mrs. Ellison, the former Helen Winder, and little daughter Susan will make their home In American Fork for the present. November 6, 1941 Dear Friends, ,. lam writing you today to thank you for the home town paper and also to let you know a little I have been doing since I arrived overseas. I haven't received re-ceived the paper as often as I would have liked but I realize that Isn't any fault of yours. What I have received I have enjoyed en-joyed very much and I wish to extend my thanks to you for all the efforts you have put forth to make my life out here a little more enjoyable. Since I arrived overseas I have been assigned to the 77th Infantry Infan-try Division and to me It Is the best fighting outfit the army has anywhere. I am assigned to headquarters company ofjhe 302 second Engineers Combat Bn. We are the basic Engineers of the division and where ever the division di-vision goes we go. I am in a swell outfit and I think the record we have established In our combat mission will bring out proof In my statement. I joined the division on Okinawa just before the Regimental Combat Com-bat team took off to make a beachead on a smalL Island in the Kerma Retto's. The mission took about two weeks and then we came back in and Joined the rest of the division who were getting get-ting ready for the assult on Okinawa. Oki-nawa. The fighting was tough and what, the Japs didn't do to us the rainy weather did and all in all we had two months of thewughest fighting uvthe -Pa., clflc. After the operations were over we moved oh to the Island or Cebu in the Philippines for a rest period and to build our combat com-bat team up for another move. While we were there the war' ended and It was the answer to all of our prayers. I never before be-fore in my life saw a group of men so happy and tha-kful as we were when the news reached us. Word can't explain the feeling feel-ing we had, thankful does not come very close to what we felt. The war is over now and we are all looking forward to the day when we will be home for keeps. Right now the 77th is occupying the. northern most island is-land of Japan" proper; Kokkiado. We have a pretty nice setup for living conditions and wc are right in the center of the city of Sapporo Sap-poro the largest city on the Island. Is-land. The city is quite modern and it is much better than any of us expected. There has been very little . bombing here. All the buildings are standing and life goes on everyday in the same manner as It did before we came. The people of Sapporo are very friendly and it is quite hard to believe that just a short time ago we were fighting against them. I think through our being here the Japanese people are learning what the American way of life means. They were very surprised at first to see the easy going care free life of the American Amer-ican soldier and the way he acted. act-ed. They can see now how much propaganda their government led them to believe and there have been several instances where the people here have expressed ex-pressed this view, to us. Things are going smoothly with the occupation oc-cupation and I don't think it will be long now until we are all home. The plans now call for our division to start home the first part of the year so I'm really hoping the time passes fast. Like every other G. I. I am anxious to get home and start living again. We won't be here much longer I'm sure and I am looking forward to a speedy return re-turn early next year. Thanks again for everything and I hope. to "be seeing you all as soon as possible. A friend, Bill Pierce. Cpl. James T. Knecht, husband hus-band .... of Venice Hutchison Knecht, received his discharge from the army October 21, at the Fort Douglas separation center. Cpl. Knecht. who has been In the service four years, served overseas with the 573 Signal battalion bat-talion for 36 months. He Is entitled en-titled to wear the ETO ribbon with three battle stars, the American defense ribbon, the good conduct and victory medal. For meritorious work performed between Oct. 1, 1944 and Jan. 15, 1945. he was given the Belgium Fourragere which he Is authorized authoriz-ed to wear over the right shoulder shoul-der when in uniform. IT will pay you to become i regu-lar regu-lar advertiser in tS is paper. Back In Civies SSgt. Lloyd dr Clark, son of Mr. and Mrs. Georee E. Clark of ' Alpine, was honorably discharged I from the United States, army at t Fort Douglas Nov. 17. He Joined the forces March 11, 1942, and served overseas with the 20th air ! force. SSgt, Clark Is authorized to wear tne European tneatre oi operations ribbon, the good conduct con-duct medal, the victory medal and the American Theatre ribbon. rib-bon. Cpl. Mereton McDanlekson of Wilford McDajilel of 'Alpine, is glad to be In civilian clothes after 38 months in a uniform. He spent 27 months in the Pacific, was wounded in the battle of Iwo Jlma and has been hospitalized the past eight months. He Is now quite all right. He received his discharge from Camp Pendleton, Pen-dleton, Calif., Oct. 15. He Is entitled to wear the Pacific ribbon rib-bon with three battle stars for Bougainville, Guam and Iwo Jlma, the Purple Heart and the Victory Medal. . He has two brothers In the service, Pfc. Norton Nor-ton who is in the army and Col-vln Col-vln EM 3c, with the navy in the Pacific. The fourth McDanlel brother, Kenton, lost his life in the battle for Germany. "Thdmas FY -Lffursen?sotr of Mrs; Millie P. Laursen, arrived home Nov. 5 from Shoemaker, Cal., where he received his honorable discharge from the Navy Oct. 30. Mr. Laursen had been In the navy 52 months, 33 of which had been overseas service. He was in the Aleutians, and Admlraltys, the Philippines, China, and left for home from Yokahoma, Japan. He Is wearing the American Defense De-fense ribbon with a battle star for the Aleution campaign, the Asiatic-Pacific ribbon with a star for Leyte, the Philippine Liberation ribbon, the Pre-Pearl Harbor ribbon, the good conduct and victory medals. , 374 Earl D. Hales, son of. Mrs. J. H. Wright, received his honorable honor-able discharge from the army at Fort Douglas separation center Noy. 19 under the adjusted service serv-ice rating, plan. Mr. Hales has been in the service since Mar. 7, 1943, the last 12 months in Europe where he saw England, France and Germany, with the 138 ordnance ord-nance division. He is wearing the ETO ribbon, the American theater ribbon, the good conduct con-duct and victory medals. After visiting with his mother overnight over-night he left for Price where his wife, the former Nellie Timothy, and three children reside. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Bateman of Alpine had two special reasons to give thanks last week. For the first time in four years their sons, Dean and Maurice sat down together for Thanksgiving dinner. din-ner. Dean received his discharge from Fort Douglas Wednesday after seeing service In the Pacific Paci-fic with the air force for 14 months. He has been In the service serv-ice 38 months. Jpl. Bateman was with the first bomb group to drop bombs on Japan early in Nov., 1944, and followed up with two more Jap raids and two on Iwo Jima. Since then he has been group electrician for the 497th bomb group on Saipan. He was returned from Saipan. to Camp Stoneman, Cal., and then on to Fort Douglas. He is entitled en-titled to wear the Asiatic-Pacific ribbon with three battle stars, the American theater ribbon, the good conduct and victory medals. His wife is the former Norma Gordon. Sgt. Maurice B. Bateman received re-ceived his discharge fronj Randolph Ran-dolph Field, Texas, Nov. 15 and arrived home on the 18th. He was returned' home from Europe last June after participating as a member of the Eighth Air Force in 19 bombing missions over Germany. Ger-many. Since his return he has been stationed in South Dakota and Texas. He was wearing the air medal with two oak leaf clusters, clus-ters, the ATO and ETO ribbons, the latter with two stars for Central Europe and the Rhine-land, Rhine-land, the good conduct and victory vic-tory medal. He will probably attend at-tend school after the first of the year. Pfc. Rex Anderson, son of Mrs. Rosetta Anderson, and brother of Dr. C. R. and Van Anderson, arrived ar-rived home the first of the month after receiving his honorable discharge dis-charge from the army at Camp Beale, Cal.. Oct. 27. He had been in the service for 84 months, 10 months of which was spent in the Pacific. 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