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Show With the Colors i Mr. and Mrs. Roy White sr. re-' cently received word of the promotion pro-motion of .their son, Thorald, to the post of corporal in the engineer engi-neer corps. He is located at Camp Befi'le, near Sacramento. Their, youngest son,, Dick, recently inducted in-ducted despite his railroad employment em-ployment and hawing a wife atid two children dependent on him, is now attached to a1 tank destroyer unit in training at Camp Hood, near Austin, Texas. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Smith enjoyed enjoy-ed a telephone conversation with their son Bill a few days ago. Talking apparently from some Pacific Pa-cific coast port, he was able to tell his folks that he wjas well and that his ThanksgiMng was postponed a week. Bill is attached to one of, the new nvy carriers and it is surmised that his ship took pfcwt in the action whereby the Gilbert islands were taken from the Japs. Sergeant A. Arleigh Gampeau now has a New York A P O number num-ber and Leland Rogers a San Francisco number, which pretty; well indicates overseas moves, already al-ready made or imminent. Young Campeau is with the signal corps and Rogers wih the medical corps. Aviation Cadet Harold Beard, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Becird, passed through Milford Monday evening, on his way from Camp Sheppard, Texas to the gunnery school at Las Vegrs. Unfortunately, army regulations regu-lations prevented him from sending send-ing advance word or contacting his parents while here, so they did not get to see him. I 1 LJ?Tie Frazier, seaman second class and son of Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Frazier. recently completed his ' boot training at Farragut naval training station in northern Idaho, j and hss been assigned to take a 16-weeks course in naval aviation ordnance at Norman, Oklahoma, j I I Lieutenant David S. Williams ; jr., navisrator on one of the latest series G flying fortresses is now( thought to be 'somewhere in Eng-, land," having recently made the flight across the northern Atlantic. A letter from him, sent on his arrival, ar-rival, reached Milford in only nine days and by ordinary air mail! He appears to be following in the footsteps of his Milford high school and B A C classmate, Lieutenant Lieu-tenant David E. Lewis, who had to his credit eight combat missions over Germany a'nd Nazi-held Europe at last report. Lieutenant Lewis also is navigator of a fortress fort-ress and one of his missions is believed be-lieved to have been that ovier the German roller bearing works at Schweinfurt, in which 60 American Ameri-can heavy bombers were lost. (Incidentally, latest radio word has it that more then half of the approximately 600 American flyers fly-ers lost in thit raid are now known to be alive, though prisoners prison-ers of war.) A caller at The News office the fore part of the week was Corporal Cor-poral Duane Galli of Garrison, home for a 15-day furlough from Camp Claibourne, near Alexandria, Louisiana, where he is attached to an infantry unit. He entered the service in December, 1942. |