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Show Milford Boy Cited For Work In India As A Bombardier Major General Clayton L. Bris-sell, Bris-sell, Tenth air force commander, piaised a heavy bomber group, which included four Utah airmen, one of them a Milford lad, recently recent-ly at a base "somewhere in India." saying: "You men of this heavy bom.'ber group have made a glorious glori-ous record during the months you have been fighting the Japs in I Burma and Thailand. I'd stack your group against any heavy I bomber group in the world any time and be confident of the re- ; suits." Utahns who participated in the extremely heavy bombing of en-jemy en-jemy territory, according to an As-J As-J sociated Press story released the j latter part of last week, were i Second Lieutenant Vera Keele of 'Spanish Fork, Lieutenant William Goris of Bingham, Second Lieutenant Lieu-tenant Thomas Hanney 0f Milford and Staff Sergvant Stanley Schmiett of Midvale. The entire group to which Major General Brissell referred ftoms back to World War I days, when it won citations for outstanding out-standing performances in the i Lorraine, St. Mihiel and Meuse-Argonne Meuse-Argonne battles. A few days ago, the group learned o f another citation issued in the name of the president presi-dent of the United States: "For outstanding performance of duty in action during the period1 of January 14 to March 1, 1942." Lieutenant Thomas Karl Hanney, Han-ney, son of Mr. and Mrs. Karl G. Hanney of Milford, received his comimission as a bombardier the latter part of August, 1942. A 1 1938 graduate of the Milford high school, Tommy attended the University Uni-versity of Utah for two years and then secured employment in the Los Angeles office of a large steel distributing concern. Enlisting En-listing as an aviation cadet, he was not called up until mid-January of 1942, getting some pilot training at Bakersfield, California. Califor-nia. In May he was assigned to the aviation classification center at Santa Ana, California and from there was sent to the bombar. diers' school at Roswell, New Mexico, the family attending his graduation from this school. He had been expected to be assigned to the Salt Lake air base but, instead, in-stead, was sent to Tucson, Arizona. Ari-zona. As a member of a permanently perman-ently assigned heavy bomber crew, Lieutenant Hanney was en. gae-ed in routine flight training until late January of this year, when his safe arrival overseas was reported, re having made the Atlantic flight about the time of the historic RooseveltChurchill meeting in Casa Blanca. Later developments indicated that he was in India as a member of the Tenth air force. 'Lieutenant Keele is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Keele of Spanish Fork; Lieutenant Goris is the son of William and Jean Ben-Iny Ben-Iny Goris of Salt Lake City; and j Staff Sergeant Stanley Schmiett is the son of Bernard Schmiett of Midvale. |