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Show News of Local Folks in U.S. Forces LT. LABRUM HOME ON LEAVE 2nd Lt. LeVere L. Labrum is home visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd R. Labrum on a 15-day furlough, from Luke Field, Arizona where he has been training the past five weeks in a P-40. Lt. Labrum graduated grad-uated from Luke Field February 1st and received his commission and silver wings. He plans on leaving Saturday, April 9th to return" to Luke Field. He is a graduate of the Roosevelt High school with the class of 1942. Lt. Labrum reported for duty at Ft. Douglas July 21, 1943. "fa VISITS PARENTS Gerald Day F 1-c, was here last week on a few days furlough fur-lough visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Willard Day. Gerald is in the U. S. Navy and has just completed a electricians course at Farragut, Idaho. He was accompanied ac-companied by his parents to Salt Lake City and left there Thursday for Shoemaker, California Calif-ornia where he will be stationed temporarily. ADVANCED IN SERVICE PHILADELPHIA, Mar: 27 The promotion of 2nd Lt. James W. Lewis, son of W.E.Lewis of Roosevelt, Utah, to the rank of 1st Lieutenant was announced recently by Col. Will V. Parker, Commanding Officer, Plant Engineering En-gineering Agency, Army Communications Com-munications Service, Office of the Chief Signal Officer, Army Service Forces, Philadelphia. Lt. Lewis is now serving . as Plant Liaison Officer at the Philadelphia Signal Depot. " Prior to entering the Army on January 5, 1943, he attended Roosevelt High School, Brigham Young University, and Utah State Agricultural College. After entering the Army, Lt. Lewis attended the Army's Radar School at Fort Murphy, Florida. SOLDIER SAVED BY HIS HELMET With the American Division in the Philippines, a bouncing helmet saved Pfc. Julius R. Pike, 22. Long Beach, California, from serious injury or death when a Jap hand grenade struck by him, the infantryman recently recent-ly revealed. Pike was lying beside a stone wall firing into the aperture of a Jap pillbox a few feet aw;ay when a grenade hit alongside him. As he tried to get away, his helmet bounced down in front of bis face. The grenade exployded, battering bat-tering the steel helmet completely complet-ely out of shape. Pike received slight wounds in the arm and shoulder, but his face was untouched. un-touched. . , . j He is the son of Roberta and Clyde Pike. ra IN ENGLAND First Liutenant Courtney R. Daniels, 25, of Mt. Emmons, Utah, has been awarded the oaK Leaf Cluster to the Air Medal lor "meritorious achievement in aerial warfare. Lt. Daniels is pilot of a B-17 Flying Fortrtss participating in Eighth Air' Force bombing attacks on targets tar-gets in Nazi Germany. The Lieutenant is a member of the 34th Bomb. Group, a unit of the Third Air Division, the division cited by the President for its now historic England-. Afyjo cVmitlA bombing of Mes- sershmitt aircraft plants at Regensburg, Germany. Lt. Daniels is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Shirly K. Daniels, Mt. Emmons. His wife, Mrs. Marion E. Daniels, lives at 112 Seeley Avenue, Arlington, N.J. A stud- ent of the Altamont High school Roosevelt, Utah, the lieutenant ' was a student at the University of Utah before entering the Army Air Forces in April, UPALCO SOLDIER CAUGHT BY GERMAN ARMY Pfc. Albert J. Potts, son of Mr. and Mrs. Percy Potts, Upal-co, Upal-co, Duchesne county, is a prisoner prison-er of the German government. . He has been missing since December Dec-ember 21. A native of Upalco, he was - graduated from the Altamont high school prior to entering the army In January, 1944. He went overseas in October. Awaiting further word are his parents, two sisters, Mrs. Vivian Dennis, Clearfield, and Joy Potts, Upalco. |