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Show NEWS OF THE MARINES AT SAIPA.V Pharmacist's Mate First Class Francis J. Sara. 40 West Broadway, Broad-way, Salt Lake City, served with the Marine Corps unit during the invasion of Saipan, according to Staff Sergeant Hy Hurwitz, Marine Mar-ine Combat correspondent. Sara and other medical special-! special-! ists used a Japanese hospital in which to treat wounded men. The hospital area, less than a balf mile from the beach, was cleared of enemy troops 48 hours after' the first troops hit the beach. AT EL CENTRO, CALL Marine Technical Sergeant Rob-! ert William Hansen, of 992 Lake street, has been promoted from staff sergeant at the Marine Corps air station at El Centre He is on duty there as a noncommissioned non-commissioned officer in charge of the public relations office and editor of the station newspaper. Technical Sergeant Hansen, was a former University of Utah student, and enlisted in the Marine Mar-ine Corps in July, 1942, as a member of the All-Mormon battalion. bat-talion. TRAINING AT CAMP PENDLETON Marine Private Roy James Strode, 162 I street, and Private First Class Blaine M. Jackson, 2055 East 39th South are in training train-ing at the same camp. Private First Cless Jackson, was recently promoted to that rank at the base. He is undergoing com bat training with a field artillery unit. MADE FIRST LIEUTENANT First Lieutenant Thomas Herbert Her-bert Cutler, of 557 Fifth avenue Salt Lake City, has been promoted promot-ed to his present rank, Marine Corps headquarters - announced this week. TWO YEARS DUTY OVERSEAS Marine Private First Class Victor Vic-tor F. Contratta of Salt Lake has returned to the Marine Base, San Diego, following more than two years duty overseas with the First Marine Division. Private Contratta, son of Mrs. Annie L. Lemmon, 1827 East 21st South, saw action at Tulagi, Guadalcanal Gua-dalcanal and New Britian. He participated in some of the fiercest fierc-est campaigns of the war and wears the Presidential Unit Citation Cit-ation for service at Guadacanal. The local Leatherneck attended attend-ed Bingham High school, and before enlisting was employed by the Utah Copper Company. BOMBED A BRIDGE Carrying a bomb on his Corsair Cors-air fighter plane for the first time, First Lieutenant Sheldon L. Baker, 1054 Roosevelt avenue, Salt Lake City, recetly demolished demolish-ed a bridge used frequently by the Japs at Popire Plantation, New . Ireland. Diving his plane at a 45-degree angle, the 500 pound bomb slung on a specially constructed rack, the Farine pilot hit the center of the target, ripping it apart from "I wasn't sure whether or not I'd be able to hit the target on my ant, "but it wasn't hard at all, or ant, "bt it wasn't hard at all, or maybe I was just lucky.' , He is hopefully waiting for more missions of this nature. Now that things are slow in this area, diversion of any sort that breaks the monotony of routine patrols is welcome. Before entering the service he was a student at the University of Utah. His parents Mr. and Mrs Allen M. Baker, live at the above address. |