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Show With the Colors Proudly wearing aerial gunners' silver wings, earned in training at army air forces flexible gunnery schools, Nolan Hughes, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Hughes, and Gerald M. Hickman, son of Mr. and Mrs. D. N. Hickman, have been enjoying enjoy-ing visits at their homes this week. Both are 1943 graduates of the Milford high school. Young Hughes has been attending attend-ing gunnery school at Laredo, Texas, while Gerald has been training at Las Vegas, Nevada. Both were advanced to the rank of private first class as they finished finish-ed their course and are now qualified to take their places as members of bomber combat crews. Nolan's training probably prepares pre-pares him for service aboard a B-24 Liberator, and he will report at Fresno, California; while 'Gerald, whose training has been for service on a B-17 Flying Fortress, Fort-ress, will report at Salt Lake City. Tine Bingham, son of Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Bingham1, is home for a visit with home folks and friends following more than a year in naval service aboard a tanker. Contrary to usual procedure, Tine was not given a furlough following follow-ing his boot training, so this visit, his first since enlisting, is doubly appreciated by him and his family. Roy John Sutton, quartermaster third class on one of Uncle Sam's big battleships, was in Milford last week for a few days, accompanied accom-panied by David LeBlank of Seattle, a shipmate friend of long standing. Young Sutton, who attended at-tended Milford high school, ' has been in naval service over two years now and has made rapid advancement ad-vancement in the quartermaster department, his chosen work. He has seen plenty of action in the Pacific, including the invasion of the Gilbert islands, but will be j given a new assignment following i his 30-dav leave. I From Leland J. Jones. F 2 c, on a i Battleship in Pacific Waters I January 20, 1944 Dear Mr. Williams: j This is just a note to let you I know my addres has changed and ! I would like you to send me the : Milford News every week. I I certainly do miss getting the J paper here (about a line and a half censored out). I like to know what is going on at home and I also al-so like to know how the other boys in the soirees are doing, so please keep The News coming. I haven't any mors to say, only tell everybody at home "Hello!" Will close now. LELAND J. JONES. F 2 c I From Pilot Lieutenant A. Thorpe Waddingham, "Somewhere in North Africa'" (From a Jan. 4 Letter) Dear Folks: Well, no douibt you are wondering wonder-ing where I am and what I'm doing. do-ing. I'm writing this letter by firelight so I don't know what Abe Lincoln had on me. I will admit it's very different, though: It's exceptionally cold here and the weather seems to be awfully bad. The food is good though. Wrecked German planes are scattered scat-tered all over through here and the marks of battle aTe to be seen derywhere. I was in Tunis yesterday yes-terday and expect to go to Carthage Car-thage tomorrow. I have seen most ; of Brazil and practically every j large city in North Africa. Per- haps I can tell you more about it I later. Please don't worry about me because be-cause I am sure everything will 1 be all right. When I start to wor-! wor-! ry that'll be quick enough, j It's very educational around here and I'm seeing and doing 1 some things I've always wanted to do. (From a Jan. 12 Letter) So far I have written to you ! twice but, as I had no stamps, I am afraid the letters have gone by boat and will be a long time getting to you. (The "free" letter was received re-ceived by his folks a day or so later than this one.) j From the letterhead you can see that for the present I am in (Censored). The weather here has een bitter cold and Very muddy ! almost as bad as weather gets here. I guess. As I've said before, please don't worry about me, because I'm O.K. and U. S. is really taking good care of me. Time passes quickly over here because there is so much to do and everything about the 1 country and the people is new and interesting. j I get un every day at 6:00, eat at 7:00, fly, and then hay. the rest of the day to myself; so you can see my existence here iB pretty pret-ty easy. However, living in tents' and making something new every dry keeps me busy all the time. ' We are stationed on an old airport and German shells,! guns, and tanks are all around us;J so I can say that I have an idea of I what went on over here. I I know that you are limited to how much you can send me, but, believe me, any canned shrimps, candies or nuts, Or anything else would really be appreciated and the oftener the better. Naturally, mail will be awfully (Continued on last pnge) With the Colors (Continued from page 1) slow reaching me but I'll keep writing to you anyway. Just be sure that you write to me, too. That's about it for now. I miss you. Love, THORPE |