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Show Cedar City Men Suffer Battle Wounds In Luzon And Okinawa Campaigns Cpl. Floyd Stephens Severely Wounded In Okinawa Battle Cpl. Floyd Stephens, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. I Stephens, was seriously ser-iously wounded on Okinawa on June 29th., but according to word received direct from him he apparently appar-ently is recovering satisfactorily. Mr. and Mrs. Stephens have received re-ceived no word from the War Department De-partment of their son's injury, but have received a letter written by him six days after he was wounded. wound-ed. In the letter he stated that he supposed they had been notified and told them of his injury. According to his letter Floyd and three other men were attack by ten Japanese, two of the American's suffering suf-fering wounds in the battle that ensued. Stephens was shot through the left chest, Just above the heart, the bullet passing right through his body. He was given a blood transfusion trans-fusion within ten minutes after he was wounded, and this together with subsequent transfusions, apparently apparent-ly saved his life. His greatest danger dan-ger is from lung congestion, but he states that an excellent doctor had drained his lung three times in the six day priod. Cpl. Stephens has been in service for more than four years, having left Cedar City with the National I Ouard in March of 1941. He left fcr lovereas duty in December, 1941 and has not been home since, although , , he was scheduled to leave on fur- ! lough sometime this month, j He has participated in six major island Invasions, the Marshalls, Saipan, Tinian. two Philippine Is-lands Is-lands and Okinawa. He remarked that he supposed that 'hls luck I Just ran out." He Is serving with a I field artillery unit. |