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Show ImI W in uniform ! Cpl. Bill Simpson sent his brother i ' J-;', 2 German fishing poles and a v' , V' saher from La Havre, Franc. 1st Lt. Garth Whatcott, who was a B-29 pilot, is now discharged from the Army Air Force, and is now home with his parents, M-S Ervln Whatcott. Ross Western was discharged from further service on Octoher 16 but unable to come home as his two months old baby Is to young to travel. Don C. Jones, SF lc. phoned his mother, Mrs. Calvin H. Jones, on Tuesday night that he had landed land-ed In the U. S. Don has spent three years In the South Pacific. Ellis Bennett, who Is In the U. S. Army, Is at Deseret visiting at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Russell. Sgt. McKay Doris, the son of M- S Oliver Davis, has returned to Delta, with an honorable discharge from the service. He was in the Army Air Force four and a half years and was stationed in Florida before he came home. Copt, and Mrs. Paul H. Snow and their small son are visiting In Delta Del-ta with his parents, M-S J. H. Snow and will remain over Thanksgiving Day. Capt.Snow is on leave from the ATC and will return to California. Calif-ornia. For some months past he has been ferrying veterans and liberated li-berated prisoners of war in the Pacific. Calrin Webb, of Hinckley, who is a radio officer in the Maritime Service sent word to his parents that he had landed in Yokahoma, and expected to be home Christmas. Christ-mas. ....Sgt. Floyd A. Sampson was released re-leased from the service, at Fort Douglas on Nov. 16. Sgt. Sampson served 28 months overseas with the A. T. C I. C D. and is authorized author-ized to wear the Asiatic-Pacific Theatre of Operations ribbon, the Good Conduct Medal, China-Burma -India, Victory Medal, and American Amer-ican Theatre ribbon, as well as the Unit Badge. Prior to entering the Army in August, 1942, he was employed em-ployed as a railway express clerk at Las Vegas. His wife was the former Edna Christensen. George Palmer spent Saturday nd Sunday in Delta with his cousins, cou-sins, Bill and C. M. Pace, on his '' - wy to Chicago from Cedar City, where he had visited his parents' Mr. Palmer was with the air forces forc-es three years, in Europe, and was released this fall. Wlllirmm R. Taylor, WT 2c, hag been honorably discharged from the service at the US Navy Personnel Per-sonnel Separation Center in Shoemaker, Shoe-maker, Cal. , Cpl: Teddy L. Nielso, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Nielson, arriy-d arriy-d horn on the 19th of November. Ted has been In the service since Apnl 3, 1941. He has served 56 months in which he fought in four major battles, seen action all thru France, and was on the left flank of the Belgium Bulge. When the U. S. First Army was successful in cutting off 150,000 Germans The First Army in this battle took over 100,000 prisoners. This battle was fought in cold weather and deep snow without shelter. On March 20 the 76th Field Artillery battalion, with a mission of supporting the Remage bridgehead with the 78th Infantry Division, crossed the Rhine river and took part in the battle of the Ruhr where the First and Ninth Armies closed the Ruhr valley in a giant pocket and there these armies took over 300,000 prisoners pri-soners of war. Pfc. Dent Saxnesoa sent word home that he has landed in the Slates and will be in Delta the first part of the week, for a visit with his parents, M-S Joe Sampson. Samp-son. His wife, who has been in San Diego, met him in Los Angeles, after he landed at San Francisco. It will be 5 years Feb. 24 since he enlisted. Sgt. Gerald 1. Huff has been home on a 10-day leave, visiting his wife, Rae Starley Huff, and his son, and his parents in Fillmore. He returned to California Thursday, Thurs-day, and is being sent to Japan. Lt. Dean C loyack. USNIt, spent the weekend with his parents, M-S George S. Boyack. He returned to Oakland, California, on Monday where he will be released from the 'service. While here he also visited with his son in Fillmore. Boyd L. Bunker, TM 2c, has a new rating of second class seaman, and is still stationed at Tokyo bay on the Piedmont, the only ship in the 3rd Fleet left there. Louis Ash-by Ash-by of Sugarville, came aboard to visit him. While they are stationed there, Boyd and some buddies are making trips, Including Yokohama and Tokyo every week, and Yoko-saka Yoko-saka ojice every 8 days. On one trip to Tokyo they rented rickshaws rick-shaws and took things easy, while the Japanese pulled them around to see the sights, which included barefoot Jap kids asking the boys for candy and gum. It has been 2 years since Boyd was home, and he hopes to be here in the spring. Lt. and Mrs. Dean Fisker have returned from New Orleans, where they have been while Lt. Fisher served with the Navy. They are visiting in Fillmore with Mrs. Fisher's Fish-er's father, Daniel Stevens, and Lt. Fisher and Mr. Stevens spent Monday Mon-day and Tuesday in Delta. After a leave here, Lt. Fisher expects to go on to San Francisco to wait' for his release from the service. Cpl. Iran Olsea, from Oak City, was recently honorably discharged from the service. He had been in the South Pacific 30 months, with the ground crew of an air force. He has had to hit the hole many times when the Japs plastered our installations from the air. Oscar L. Sims came home last week, honorably discharged from service after four years, much of which was spent in the Aleutians. He showed us a picture of the hut he lived in ten feet of snow, winds up to 120 miles an hour, when the wind gage broke down, weather about 12 below. He was in the radar forces, and tails us details of that remarkable invention, inven-tion, which is far above our heads, of seeing the image of a boat pass over the screen, which boat is invisible in-visible to the unaided eye. Oscar will go to school, but is as yet undecided un-decided as to where. Arland J. Peterson Is expected home soon, honorably discharged from the service. James G. Jensen, from Leamington Leaming-ton came to Delta Monday. He has been in the Civil Service work-in work-in the Navy yard at Honolulu, and was also near Fairbanks, Alaska. There he got fossil ivory from the extinct mammoths and mastadons in great tusks several feet long. Copt, and Mrs. Xiwaxd L. Gord- ner are visiting in Delta with their parents, M-S E. Eugene Gardner. Capt. Gardner has been at Cherry Point, and before that was in the Pacific with the marines. He has his release now from the service, and he and Mrs. Gardner plan to make their home In Provo. |