Show 4 t f I 1 t I U I I H 11 I lot H I I HI 1 I 1 I Ml 1 I I H. H I 1 H I With Our Boys In le The t Armed Forces II-I II J I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I I 1 RECEIVING TIlE THE RECORD REGULARLY Dear Dad and Lee ee I have been going to write and thank you for tor The Tho Record for tor quit some time but Just kept putting it off oft until 1 I am getting to feel ashamed of ot myself So I might as well do so now I am getting it regularly now that I have at last settled down Moving around so much sure fouls up a persons mall mail I have been out here in the Pacific Pa for tor almost five months and have been through three Invasions Iwo Jima Okin Okin- Okinawa Okinawa Okinawa awa bhima All this was on an L. L L C C. C L 1 that's the tho type of or ship I am on I have also run across one fellow tellow from the nome home town Paul Peterson So X I have had a little bit of ot excitement I 1 suppose there probably will be bo plenty more moro In the future Well before I close I want to thank you once more for tor The Record Sincerely GLENN SHIELDS na r w pT-w lr PJ JI SEEING PLENTY TY OF ACTION Dear Lee There Thero isn't so much to write about out here bere but the main object of this letter Is to thank you very much for forThe forThe The Tho Park Record I sure do enjoy reading it It doesn't seem like we have done much traveling but when you figure It Itin ItIn itin in miles we have gone a long way I have seen a lot of things and places I i I 1 I I I II I I would have never seen in civilian life me But I sure bUre will be glad when this affair aU ir is over so we can all aU get back to our wives and families I am sure sorry I haven't written to you sooner but It seems like there Is always something else that has to t be bedone bedone bedone done and when I get that done it is always so late to do anything but to go goto goto goto to bed I am striking for carpenter now anti ant andI I like this type of ot work very much We always have enough work to keep us on the move and to make the tho time go f fairly airly taste last Sincerely Sin yours GEORGE T T. COSSEY S. S c. 1 35 Vii- Pa s S. S SOT WILLIAM R. R PRICE GIVEN GI HONORABLE DLE DISCHARGE S. S William R R. Price has been given iven an honorable discharge from the Army at the Regional and Conval COnval- Convalescent COnvalescent Convalescent Hospital Fort George WrIght Washington after atter 30 months montas of service which 1 Included a a. years year's tour of duty with the Air Force in the European theatre of ot operations Price a taU tall gunner on a B 17 Flying Fortress wears the Distinguished Flying Cross the Air Medal with 3 clusters and the tho ETO ETa ribbon with 3 battle stars Before entering the army Price was by the Silver SUver King Coalition Mines company Upon his return to civi civi- civilian lian Uan life Ufe he expects to go into Civil Service Price is the son son of Mr and Mrs Irs Bud Bua Price Park avenue Park City Utah and the husband of ot Mrs William WIlHam R. R Price Winside Nebraska I P KAMAS S BOY noy KILLED IN 1 ES Jack L L. King son of Virgil A. A King Kamas was killed In the Philippines Philip Philip- Philippines pines April 28 8 He was June 4 4 1924 in Kamas I and was graduated from West high school Salt Lake City in June 1942 19 He was employed at grocery stores In Salt Lake Lako City and Englewood California prior to tc entering the army in In April 1944 He went overseas in tl February 1945 Survivors include his father tather two grandmothers Mrs l Clara Olsen Los Angeles and Mrs Irs R. R L. L King Kamas A brother S. S Ralph V. V King was killed In October r In Europe LIBERATED LI GERMAN PRISONER HERE ilEnE ON O FURLOUGH Howard G. G Chadwick husband nd of 0 Mrs Betty Winn Chadwick and son or of Mrs l Helen Harmon Dabney Ark is enjoying a day 60 furlough turlough at the home homo of ot his wife's mother mo er Mrs Elizabeth zabeth Winn of Park City after liberation from froma a German prison camp by the allied army Chadwick entered the service servI e in September 1942 and was released in September 1943 to work in the lead and zinc mines of Park City where he be was employed for seven months He was wa recalled into int the service in MarCh Mar 1944 and went overseas in October 1944 19 As a reminder of ot his prison camp meals he Is carrying a huge horses horse's tooth that he Ile removed from his bis soup one day Best of all that he is enjoying since his liberation is the company or oI his wife and his mother laws home cooking Pa 41 Jr T Pa In DWIGHT E. E LENZI kENZI OF KEETLEY WOUNDED DED Dwight E. E Least Lenzi 28 28 son of Mr and Mrs Roy Lenzi Keetley Wasatch county whose wife Is Mrs Melba Lindsay Lent Lenzi Heber was wounded in Manila Starch fareh 12 He now is hospitalized in Cali CaU- California fornia and has received the purple heart beart He was was graduated from Wasatch high school and attended L. L L D. D S. S Business college prior to entering the tho army in February 1944 He lIe has been overseas since January Awaiting further word are his par par- parents parents parents son Billie Lenzi and daughter Kathleen Lean Lenzi Heber RJ r ra raA A TON rO OF O BOMBS A MINUTE ENGLAND V-E V Day Among mong tho the men and women of the Eighth Air Force congratulated today by Lt Gen James H. H who assumed command of or the tho Eighth In III January 1944 is Lyman E E. McBride Park avenue Park City Utah I wish to extend my personal con con- congratulations congratulations and and- my heartfelt appreciation elation to every one of you for tor the tho magnificent Job you have done General Doolittle said in a message to all per per- personnel Onnel Each of you he be continued may maybo mayho bo ho proud of your jour part port In the defeat or of Germany I am proud of you ou The world Is proud of ot you Tho The Eighth Air Force was the worlds world's mightiest strategic bombing force toree its personnel of was the tho equivalent Continued on OIl Page Four With the he Armed Forces Continued from l rz ago go ge one uno of ot 12 infantry divisions divisions and it could send airmen in 2000 four-engine four bombers and 1000 fighters over Ger Ger- Germany Germany Germany many at one time a B combat effort pos pos- possible possible possible sible only through the support of 01 tens of thousands of ot non flying specialists Since August 1942 1042 when combat op op- operations operations op- op operations began Liberators and Flying Fortresses of the Eighth dropped more moro than tons of ot bombs on enemy targets Fighter pilots shot down Nazi planes and destroyed others on the ground Bomber gunners shot the tho theair German out of ot air Tho Eighth dropped an average of orton a aton aton ton of ot bombs every minute of ot the last 12 months Airmen of the Eighth were the f first Americans to attack Germany The early crews flew a n handful of ot unescorted bombers against the powerful and proved the feasibility of 01 an Ameri Amerl- can Idea precision Idea precision daylight bombing over the Reich Belch As A. the Eighth grew In strength it I was assigned the task of crushing the German Air Force which had to be done j I before the Allies could Invade France I Bombers of ot the Eighth smashed Nazi j aircraft production centers Its fighters destroyed thousands of ot enemy planes In the air and on the ground I After beating the into re relative re- re relative relative impotency the Eighth threw its growing weight against Germanys Germany's rail I f system and vital sources of oil These I campaigns In conjunction with the British Royal Air Force and the U. U 8 S. Air Force disorganized all trans trans- transport transI transport I port in Germany restricted German German I t military operations In the air and on the ground and paved the way for the march of Allied armies across Europe 1 Ir pa JU VISITING PARENTS Plc Ethel Johnson Johnsen Pre Pic and Mrs Clarence Johnson and Mr and Mrs Henry Cap of New York are enjoying a B family reunion at the home of ot their parents Mr and Mrs Budd Johnson r |