OCR Text |
Show Promoted to Lieutenant Colonel FORT WORTH, TEXAS, August 7--Three residents of Utah have been promoted at Lt. Gen. Barton K. Young's AAF Training Command headquarters here. Darwin E. Ellett, and Earl Slaug-ter, Slaug-ter, of Cedar City, whose mother, Mrs. Robert E. Slaughter, resides at Hinckley, were promoted to lieutenant lieut-enant colonel. William S. Sorrell was promted to major. From its headquarters here the AAF Training Command operates a nationwide network of flying and technical schools to provide individual indiv-idual training for virtually all AAF personnel, including pilots, bomba-diers, bomba-diers, navigators, flight engineers, gunners and technicians. Col. Slaughter is a member of the plans section at the headquarters. headquart-ers. Called to active duty in-March 1941, he served at Camp San Luis Obispo, Calif., at two primary flying fly-ing schools in California and at headquarters of the Western Flying Training Command, Santa Ana, California. Lt. Dale Johnson wrote home to his father. Lynn Johnson, this week that he had recieved the full promotion pro-motion to Lieutenant. Lt. Johnson is at Melborne, Florida, at the U.S. Naval Air Training Station, taking some extensive new training. Part of it consists of swimming a mile each day, swimming through burning burn-ing oil at times, and parachute descents de-scents from high towers. Dale was overseas in the Atlantic first and then the Pacific, and saw action at Okinawa, Iwo Jima, and other places, pla-ces, and was then piloting a torpedo tor-pedo bomber. Since then he has been reassigned to Florida, training train-ing with fighting planes. Gail Warnick, PhMlc, arrived home Monday to spend his leave here at the home of his parents, M -S Oscar Warnick. It is almost two years since Gail was last home, and the whole family are here to welcome wel-come him. Those coming from out of town are M-S Gene Warnick, of Los Angeles, Mrs. Verl Johnson of Billings, Mont., and Mrs. J. F. Warren War-ren of Salt Lake City. Gail was on the USS Steamer Bay, aircraft carrier. car-rier. In the close to four years he has been in the Navy, Gail has put in 34 months overseas, 13 months this last time. Pfc. Merlin Anderson is home on a furlough. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Soren Anderson of Oak City. Once again two boyhood friends meet in a distant place. Cpl. Williams Wil-liams and Sgt. Gene Dutson of Leamington met in Hawraii some time ago and met again on the dis-I dis-I tant isles of Okinawa. They were very happy to meet agan, and tre stationed rather close to each other. oth-er. Darwin Barney, R M 3 c, came home Sunday to visit his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Pat Barney. Darwin has been overseas 18 months an was in the Philippines when they were liberated. He hopes V-J Day will come while he is home, so he can celebrate here with his family. (It did, and he did.) Sgt McKay Davis was visited by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Davis, their son Reed, and daughter, daugh-ter, Mrs. Kathryn Adams. The visit vis-it was in Salt Lake City. McKay is now at Camp Kearns, and expects to go to China. He is with the ground crew of the air forces, and has been at Santa Anna. S Sgt G. Rulon Jensen and wife are home on a30-day furlough, after af-ter spending 25 months in England in the personnel department of the Sth Air Force ground crew. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. W. Jensen of Sugarville. S Sgt Jensen will leave August 15 for Fort Douglas Doug-las for redeployment to the SW Pacific. Major and Mrs. Raymond Jock-son Jock-son and daughter left Leamington i Wednesday for Fort Sill. Oklahoma, jjafter spending a 30-day furloughh , I with her parents. He will attend officers' school while there, |