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Show Lyle Barton From Pacific War Zone Lyle Barton, sen of Mr. and Mrs. Pen Barton of Cedar City, is home on a .h'rty-day leave from the Navy after serving for more than 21 months in the Pacific theatre of war At th? cd of his leave he will probably return to duty on the same ship cn which he has sailed for the past several months. Lyle has been scrying on a Navy j ranker and has seen action from the Solomon Islands in the South Pacific Pac-ific to Okinawa In thetRyuku chain. He first saw action at Munda in the Solomons and there have been few attack areas In the allld move toward Japan that he has net visited. vis-ited. He celebrated two Christmas Dins and two birthdays whlb at sea. and states that either would have been more Inter sting at home, j He was wounded on two different occasions, but recovered rapidly and was able to re urn each time to his original unit. |