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Show Seaman 1-c Gerald Dalton arrived ar-rived home Sunday morning to spend a 20 day leave with his parents par-ents Mr. and Mrs. Don Mack Dalton. Dal-ton. Gerald come from Okinawa, where his ship was struck by a suicide sui-cide bomb and is now at Norfolk, Virginia for repairs. Two Pleasant Grove soldiers, Lieutenant K. Swensen and Technical Tech-nical Sergeant Blaine W. Swensen enjoyed three days together recently Frankfurt, Germany. They spent May 12 13 and 14 discussing the many things they mutualy love, their home, their family and their friends, and no doubt discussed the hardships that the both had gone through since being in the war in Germany. They are the sons of Mr. and Mrs. Ezra S'wensen. Sgt. Blaine W. Swensen is the husband of Mrs. Audrey D. Swensen also of Pleasant Pleas-ant Grove. With The Service Men T 5 Joseph Hilton has landed in the Philippine Islands, according to word received by his parents Mr-and Mr-and Mrs. J. C. Hilton. John Hilton also a T 5 and a twin brother of Joseph is also in the Philippines. Camp Wolters, Texas-Pvt Victor R. Bronson, 24, husband of Norma F. Bronson of Pleasant Grove, Utah, Ut-ah, has arrived at this infantry replacement training center to begin be-gin training as an infantryman. He has been assigned to a battalion stressing rifle. Private Forrest Driggs arrived home on Friday of last week, after being liberated April 17th 'from a German prison camp near the Swiss border. He had been there since December 21.N After a 60 day furlough fur-lough with his wife and young son Merlin Forrest, Private Driggs will report at Santa Ana, California. Lieutenant Lewis F. Wells arrived ar-rived home Wednesday evening after af-ter spending ten months as a pilot on the western front in Europe. Lieutenant Wells arrived in the United States last week, piloting one o'f the large bombers over the Atlanta. At-lanta. He was met in S'alt Lake. City by his wife Helen H. Wells Mr .and Mrs: Arnold Henrichsen and little daughter Lorna Faye and and son Keith. Technician Fifth Grade Raymond j Woodward, has been promo' cd to the above rank from Priv-nte first c!ncs. lie has participated in the fr'lowin": campaigns: Nwmpri'ly. Vcrt'.vTn France and Gp-nvM-.y. He holds Ihc Purple XIp.-.H Mcda!. owl 'a a ivfiubcr of the Fi'.'ih Armrrntl '"Victory" Dlvfeion whi.h , pear- . hcadr-d Third. First and Ninth Army , drives from Normandy across Frnn-: Frnn-: ce, Bc'.Rfnm. Luxcnbourg and Germany Ger-many to the Elbe River 47 miles from Berlin- His specific job in the army is I a Reconnaissance car driver, 8")th Calvary Reconnaissance Squadron mechanized. His mother Mrs. Mary S. Woodward, Wood-ward, lives on Route 1, Pleasant Grove, Ufcah. Pfc- Lynn Peterson is here 'from Niagara Falls, to spend a 21 day furlough with his wife and little daughter Gayla and nis parents Mr. and Mrs. Wm. J. Peterson. Pfc. Peterson is a member o'f the military mili-tary police. Aboard a battleship in the Pacific Pac-ific - Donald Gurney, of Pleasant Grove, Utah, has advanced to yeoman, yeo-man, third class, USNR, aboard this ship, on which" he has served since April 23, 1944. Since then Gurney has taken part in actions at Saipan, Tinian, Guam, Mindoro, Leyte, and Luzon. His battle station is in the ship's central station, where he receives re-ceives and relays messages on the ship's intercommunication system. Gurnye's wife, the former Ireta Flanders, and their year-old son. Donald Kent, live in Pleasant Grove. He is the son o'f Mr. and Mrs. Frank Gurney, 396 WesL. Third North. Lehi, Utah. A Ninth Air Force Fighter-Bomber Base, GermanyTechnical Sergeant Ser-geant Blainp W. Swensen. Pleasant Grove, Utah, is a member of the 367th Fighter-Bomber group c'f the Ninth Air Force, which received recently a Presidential Unit Citation Citat-ion for its part in the August, 1944, aerial campaign when the Ninth's air power cooperated with the Uf S. ground forces to immobilize, corner cor-ner and pusue to the Siegfried Line remants of the German Seventh and Fifteenth Armies. The group-its pilots and supporting sup-porting grcund men was cited specified for a 24-hour attack when the fighter-bomber pilots flew their twin-engined P-8 Lightnings agaiyist Gevma'i installations and dive-bombed end stra'fed retreating convoys end ircop trains. They destroyed ! Fix cr.e'ny airdromes from wh'cVi ; German troops were being evacuat-d, evacuat-d, destroying 41 enemy aircraft and f"amasi'.icr 27 others. The attacks ere conducted in the face of in- I tense antiaircra'ft fire, often when lire Luftwaffe, in superior numbers, rose to challenge the group. Formerly proprietor of the Was-a.tch Was-a.tch Inn, now a flight chief supervising sup-ervising the maintenance of the P-47 P-47 Thunderbolt, Sgt. Swensen entered enter-ed the service in December, 1942. He is married to the former Miss Audrey Davis, of Pleasant Grove. Utah. |