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Show Holman Home After" Action in Pacific Lieutenant (junior grade) Howard S. Holman, U. S. N. R., of Delta, Utah, has returned from a tour of combat duty in the Pacific, where he served as a pilot of a Navy plane based on an escort carrier of, the CASBLANCA class. He was attached at-tached to Composite Squadron 78. Composite 78 distinguished itself by never having lost a plane to Jap air, surface or submarine attacks at-tacks while protecting huge convoys con-voys steaming to and from three major invasions. The squadron, while not losing a single pilot or aircrewman in six months of combat action, dealt out a formidable amount of damage to the enemy. Pilots and aircrewsmen of the squadron's WILDCAT fighters and AVENGER torpedo planes flew ground support operations for the troops advading the Palau Islands. 1 In that important operation they i bombed and shot up Jap trenches, j supply dumps, barges, trucks, tanks,, and enemy airfields. Again, j during the Leyte Campaign and the Luzon invasion they provided great help by protecting all-important convoys. For forms of government let fools contest. That which is best administered is best. Pope. Engineer Joy Bishop and wife arrived ar-rived Saturday from Richmond, Va.; j where Jay has been attending a special diesel engine school. Thurs- I day he will go on to California for further orders. j Pfc. Howard Blake has been shipped ship-ped overseas according to word received re-ceived in Hinckley by his mother, Mrs. Hannah D. Blake. Gordon Bishop and Ladd Crop- per are both at Fort Douglas this week reporting for their physicals. Cpl. Floyd Spendlove has been stationed at Bushnell Hospital. His assignment there will be to teach and supervise the recreation of the patients at the hospital. Floyd has already served two years in Alas- I ka and the Aleutians. Pvt. Wallace Nelson, son of M-S R. A. Nelson, who has been here on furlough, left this week to report re-port at Seattle. From there he will be shipped for assignment in the North Pacific. Wallace is an engineer engin-eer and has served 32 months in the Aleutians. Lt. and Mrs. Leonard Vodak of Seattle, are visiting with her parents, par-ents, M-S Will Killpack. Lt. Vodak Vo-dak is soon to go overseas. Spanish Fork Some 900 service men of the Spanish Fork district are about to receive complimentary memberships in the newly reorganised reorgan-ised Palmyra Wildlife federation. i At a recent meeting, the associa-iion associa-iion voted to make all servicemen honorary members until they re-' re-' urn from the wars. In addition, the boys are mapping map-ping an extensive fish planting program in cooperation with the state fish and game association in the Spanish Fork river and neighboring neigh-boring streams. German Browns will be planted this year, in addition addi-tion to the Natives and Rainbows usually planted. 6TH ARMY GROUP, FRANCE American soldiers of Japanese Ancestry, An-cestry, with the 442nd Japanese American Combat Team, have been awarded the Good Conduct Medal recently for exemplary conduct during the past year or more. All have earned the Combat Infantryman's In-fantryman's Badge for outstanding performance under enemy fire and most of the men have two or more battle stars for participation in the Italian and Southern France campaigns. cam-paigns. Many also wear the Purple Pur-ple Heart, some with oak leaf clusters. |