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Show Sgt. Gene Nelson Home From Saipan And Tinian Battles , Sgt. Gene C. Nelson, son of Mr', and Mrs. Albert U. Nelson, is home on a thirty-day furlough after serving for 26 months with the armed forces In the South Pacific Theater of war. where he participated partici-pated In a num:er of now famous battles. He states that he "was lucky to escape from the battles uninjured," and he mighty g.ad to be home. Gene has been serving with the communications division of the U. S. field Artillery during most of his stay in the Pacific,, but was with the forward observers of an Infantry unit during the tattle for the Marshall Islands. He was with the Field Artillery in the battles for the conquest of Saipan and Tinian Islands in the Marians group. Both battles were plenty tough, he reports,, and reports re-ports reaching the civilian population popula-tion gives only a vague description of the surging battles that were waged between the Yanks and the Japs before the Islands were taken. Oene entered military service with the Cedar City unit of the Utah National Ouard. He will report re-port at Fort Douglas on December 14th. and expects to return to his unit on Tinian shortly afterwards. "After that", he says, "there will probably toe plenty of action, but I have no Idea where it will be." |