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Show Will Complete Course Cpl. Manley A. Abbott, 1st career gunner, of Delta .Utah, will soon complete an intensive course in combat flying at the Alexandria Army Air Field, Alexandria, La., and in the near future he will go overseas to a combat area. He is the member of a Flying Fortress crew trained by the Second Sec-ond Army Air Force, which has the task of readying four-engine bomber bomb-er crews for overseas duty. Listed among the instructors at the Alexandria Army Air Field are many officers and enlisted men who have seen action in every theater the-ater of war. These veterans direct crews through training conditions that simulate actual combat conditions, con-ditions, stressing teamwork, formation form-ation flying and high altitude missions. mis-sions. Cpl. Abbott is the son of M-S G. M. Abbott, Delta, Utah. SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF., Sept. 5 Marvin L. Ronne, 25, of Abraham, Abra-ham, Utah, was recently promoted from Corporal to Sergeant at the San Francisco Port of Embarkation where he is now serving in the Army Post Office. Sergeant Ronne entered military service June 1941. He is a son of Mrs. Ruth Morgan, of Abraham, Utah, and the husband of Mrs. Sue J. Ronne, Yuba City, Calif. Seaman 2c Scotty Clark, son of M-S Dick Clark is home on fm lough. He has been stationed at San Pedro terminal. Examination for driver's license will be held in Delta on Monday and Tuesday, October 2 and 3. Melvin Church S 1c writes from Somewhere in the Pacific that he is now living within a few feet of James Brady S 1c and are both deep sea divers working to clear the wreckage of sunken Japanese ships from harbors the American have captured. Melvin says that ! James is the first boy from this vicinity he has run across in all the time he has been in the Navy. Shirley B. Pace is stationed at Ft. Riley, Kansas, where he is taking training with the cavalry. Miss Lola Prestwich of Delta was named among the first class of cadet nurses graduated last week from the U. S. Army Cadet Nurse Training School at Bushnell General Gener-al Hospital, at Brigham. Pvt. Floyd Skeem is now stationed station-ed in England. W. R. Davis has been promoted in grade to First Lieutenant. |