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Show Native of Milford One of the Group Bombing Tokyo Lieutenant William R. Pound jr., one of the navigators who directed di-rected the American bombing planes over Tokyo, appears to have been a Milford native son, according to a clipping from a Sis Angeles paper, handed The News by Mrs. V. M. Palmer. Young Pound joined the air force at Los Angeles two years ago. His parents reside at 1635 South Primrose Ave., Alhambra, but his wife, Mrs. Maureen' Pound, to wTiom he was married last October, lives in Spokane, Washington. All 80 members of the Doolittle command, which made the thrilling raid on Tokyo and other important Jap localities on that memorable 18th day of April are understood to have undergone their training as a unit at the Pendleton, Oregon Ore-gon air field, located some 150 miles South of Spokane. - The Pounds lived in .Milford for-a for-a couple of years or more about 1917-19, Mr. Pound having been j employed at one time as electric hoist operator at the old Montreal mine, according to the best in. j formation The News has been able to secure. He is well remembered by V. Waddoups and Judge James Glenn, who were associated with him at the Montreal. The elder Pound is said to have been a plumber by profession, and the local men's description of him as "tall and blond" would fit in with the description of the Pound's hero son. The father's . present employment em-ployment is in the maintenance department of the Los Angeles school system. Official identification of the crews who handled the daring and highly successful t)Dmfoin'g of Japanese cities and war factories was the first word Pound's parents par-ents received of their son since he left March field, in California, in March, according to the story in the Los Angeles paper. "William got his first idea about airplanes when his daddy took him for a ride in a plane in Los Angeles when he was 10 years old," his mother, Mrs. Kathryn Pound, said. "From that day on William's hobby was airplanes. He built model planes and when he went to University High school he took aj lot of mathematics and engineer ing courses." Lieutenant Pound attended Santa Monica Junior college in 1938 and 1939, where he played football and continued his studies in courses which would aid him in aviation. He later attended the Los Angeles branch of the University Uni-versity of California. Two years ago he joined the air force and became be-came a navigator. He was 24 years old on Monday,, of last week. After enlisting, Pound went to , Texas and Louisiana for his air force training. Lieutenant Pound is a slender, tall blond with blue eyes. i "And good-looking, too," his I proud mother added. j Lieutenant Pound has two sis- j ters, Margaret Pound, a teacher in I the Santa Monica school system, and Kathryn Pound, a secretary with the Southern California Telephone Tele-phone company. |