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Show With the Colors Kndwing that their son, Staff Sergeant H. Allen Bingham, was attached to the Third Marine division, di-vision, which was landed on Iwo Jima island as reinforcements for the Fourth and Fifth divisions, Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Bingham were partially relieved this week with the arrival of a letter from him, dated some six days after his division di-vision had come into action, and stating that he was allright. Sergeant Bingham is with a signal company, headquarers battalion, of the marine corps. Another former Milford boy, Bill Bonner, youngest son of Mrs. Alta Bonner Kesley, now of Minersville, is understood to be attached to the Fifth Marine division. Sergeant Bingham's letter follows: fol-lows: Iwo Jima, Feb. 27, 1945 Deam Mom, Dad and All: I hope you haven't worried too much about me, folks. I am still well and altogether on the hottest island this side of Tokyo. There really isn't much to tell you. I just wanted you to know that I am allright. I am sorry I haven't been able to write to you lately, but I'm sure you understand. under-stand. How is everyone at home now? I hope you are feeling better now, Mom. I have been quite worried about you especially -since I received re-ceived your letter saying how ill you have been. ' I can't say don't worry, for I know you will, but you and I have been through this before and we can take it, can't we? Just keep your chin up and keep smiling and, after a little while, it will be over and we can be together again. I know that you, Dad, will take care of Mom and make sure she gets well quickly. So now, until I can write more, I will say so long and God bless you all! Your loving son, ALLEN TSgt. Farrell E. Peterson, former member of The News force, in a very nice personal letter let-ter to the Williams family, tells of how scarce reading material is in the islands of the Pacific. Despite this, he sends us a copy of a 288-page 288-page booklet, "The Country Editor," Edi-tor," by Henry Beetle Hough. W7hile we have not yet had time to do more than glimpse through the book, we are certain, from what Farrell says, to find it most interesting. inter-esting. Sergeant Peterson, son of Mrs. Lula Peterson, now living at Portland, Port-land, Oregon, still calls Milford his home. He did clerical work at Camp Roberts, California for many months after entering military service, but has "been around" quite a bit, as he says, since his arrival overseas. He has participated partici-pated in two beachhead landings in the Philippines and has had several army postoffice numbers. 1 He now is attached to a regimental regiment-al headquarters staff, it seems. On February 15, he states, he received re-ceived a Christmas card and greet- : ing from the Milford post of the American Legion and adds that its tardy arrival did not detract from its value (to him and he is happy to be remembered as one of the , many G. I.'s from Milford. I He wants us to say hello for , him to all the people at home and to the Milford boys in the service which we are most happy to do. Farrell was a fine boy as we knew him and we are certain he is a credit to town and country as one of Uncle Sam's finest fighting men. Pvt. Earl T. Thompson left Saturday for Fort Meade, Maryland, Mary-land, following an enroute visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Thompson, and other relatives rela-tives and friends. He had previously pre-viously been in training with an infantry unit at Camp Maxey, ; Texas. i Mr. and Mrs. Del Holyoak Sun-i Sun-i day received word indicating that ; their son, Staff Sergeant James Holyoak, had completed his tour of missions with the Eighth Air force, based in England. He has been serving as waist gunner of a B-17 Flying Fortress and has completed com-pleted his presumed 35 combat missions in record time, having been overseas only some five months. Edmund L. Smith, wellknown Union Pacific conductor, returned Wednesday from Los Angeles, where he spent a few days visiting with his son, E. S. Smith, a chief Vetty officer in the navy Seabecs. He was there on leave after three years service, mostly in the Euro-j pean theatre of operations, andi now is awaiting another assign-1 ment. Among many other activities, activi-ties, he took part in the Normandy ( invasion on D-day plus one. An all., round athlete and a member of one of the best basketball teams Mil- ford high school ever had (that of 1932), young Ed will be remembered remem-bered by old residents as a school companion of Sherm Hickman, Foster Morris, Clyde Griffiths, Ken Weston and others. He will be kfi)t advised of present-day Milford happenings by means of a subscription to The News, entered last week by his father. Charles Atkin, son of Mr. and Mrs. W,arren Atkin and a technician techni-cian fifth grade in the air corps ground forces, is enjoying a visit of some two weeks with home folks and friends. He has been in training at Mississippi ordnance plant at Jackson, and will leave here March 10 to report back at that place. He was accompanied home by Brose W. Hutchinson of Kanosh, who will come here to re-i turn to camp with him. j Pvt. Ray Baker, who is a mem-' bcr of the army air corps ground personnel, has been transferred to Lowry field, Colorado from Gunter field, Alabama. He has been selected se-lected for schooling as camera technician. His wife and their ohler (laughter are residing with him, but the baby is being cared for by Mrs. Baker's- folks in Bakersfield, California. With the Colors (Continued rrom page 1) From George Connell, in Naval Service in Pacific February 25, 1945. Dear Mr. Williams: It .has been quite some time since I last wrote to thank you for the Milford News. I know that it means as much to the rest of the fellows as it does .to me. I think that all readers would like to hear i frem more of the fellows that! haven't written. How about it, I fellows! I read accounts of some of the, experiences of. the other fellows, but the ship I am on does not allow us to write a'cotu it. The fellows! in the navy can tell you that the i destroyers (an cans) are plenty rugged. j You have heaid ,t,:,at the 'cattle j ships are t he backbone of the fleet. Well, the tin cans are thej ribs that protect the backbone1 and other vitals of the fleet. It' sure is a lot different than the cruiser I served or. for about three years. I I see by the paper that Milford! is right 'behind the boys in the! bond drive and the fat salvage drive. In the navy they say "Well done", and that's what I want to say to the people of Milford. Well done ! We are pretty busy over here now, so in closing I'll say that I hope it won't be too long before we all have a reunion in Milford. Best of luck to all. GEORGE " - " I |