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Show In The Service Of Gentry RAWLIN D. SPENCER - 3rd DIV., KOREA Pvt. Rawlin D. Spencer, 20, son of Mr. and Mrs. Dellis Spencer, Neola, recently arrived in Korea Kor-ea for duty with the 3rd Infantry Infan-try Division. The "Rock of the Marne" division, di-vision, which saw bitter fighting fight-ing in the Iron Triangle and at Outpost Harry and Jackson Heights, is now undergoing intensive in-tensive post-truce training. Pvt. Spencer, a rifleman, entered en-tered the Army last Julv and completed basic training at Fort Ord, Calif. He attended Utah State Agricultural College in Logan. PH1H.IP A. CHOPITO 3rd DIV., KOREA Pfc. Phillip A. Chopito, 23, whose wife. Bonnie, lives at Fort Duchesne, Du-chesne, is serving in Korea with the 3rd Infantry Division's Signal Sig-nal Company, which was recently re-cently awarded the Meritorious Unit Commendation. His unit was cited for "exceptional "excep-tional meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding service" from Jan. 27 to July 27 of last year. Pfc. Chopito entered the Army October, 1952, and arrived ar-rived overseas in April. He holds the Korean UN Service Ribbons and the Korean Presidential Presi-dential Unit Citation Badge. His mother, Mrs. Helen Chopito, lives in Zuni, New Mexico. BERNARD C. GARDNER 40th DIV., KOREA Pfc. Bernard Ber-nard C. Gardner, 20, son of Mr. and Mrs. Max Gardner, Roosevelt, Roose-velt, helped to celebrate the 40th Infantry Division's second anniversary in Korea this month. The former California National Nation-al Guard division, which distinguished distin-guished itself at Sandbag Castle, The Punchbowl and Heartbreak Ridge, arrived- on the peninsula in January, 1952. Gardner, an assistant gunner in Company K of the 160th Infantrv Regiment, entered the Army last Jenuary and has been in Korea since July. |