The Waterbury Democrat. [volume] (Waterbury, Conn.) 1917-1946, 1943-07-17
News Of Men In The Service

PVC. F1rSt Class Henry F.. MaStrlannO
son of Mr.. and Mrs. A. Mastrianno,
Is Court street, Waterbury, Conn,
has been graduated from the air
craft mechanics school here in the
Army Air Forces Training Com
mand
At this North Carolina station In
the AAFTC he has spent four
months learning and practicing all
types of aircraft maintenance and
repair.
A graduate of the Leavenworth
high school, PFC Mastrianno was
employed by Mattatuck, Waterbury
as a tool clerk prior to entering
the Army in Hartford. Conn, on
November II, 1912.
Soon to be radio specialist in
the U. S. Navy, Anthony C. Amodeo,
20, husband of Mrs. Grace M. Amo-
dec, 1852 Charles street, Waterbury,
Conn, has completed a months re-
fresher course at the Navy pre-radio
material school at the Naval Arm
DRY, Michigan City, Ind, and awaits
transfer to a primary radio mate
rial school for further training.
Camp Stewart, Ga, July 17.-Nine
Stewart soldiers today received or
ders to report at the Bakers and
Cooks School, Fort Benning, Ca,
for mess sergeants course. They
include Pvt. Ernest o. Grohs, 80
Ridgewood street, Waterbury,
Ten local youths have been trans
ferred from Nashville, Tenn, to the
Army Air Forces Pre-Flight school
for pilots at Maxwell Field, Fla.
These men are: Aviation Cadets
John J. Bradley, 10 Elmhurst
Ave-; John ]. DeFrancesco, 742
Congress Ave; William A. Kaynor,
1853 Buckingham St.; Walter F.
Morrison, 1185 Meriden Rd; Fran
els j. Sugrue, 161 Kelsey ST.; and
John A. Polmon, $40 Wilson ST.,
all of Waterbury; Lynn E. Atwood,
High ST., Thomaston; Donald E.
Hansen, so Yale Ave-, Middlebury;
Edmund R. Bellemare, 225 Echo
Lake Rd., WatertoWn and Living
ston Van Rensselaer, Crowell, of
WATERFOWL.
Edward Ramanas, 161 Charles ST.,
has been promoted to corporal at an
unrevealed South Pacific island.
Andrew Ciccio, ships cook, VOL
colt, is now serving with a Naval
unit in North Africa.
Pvt. Charles Christiano, Jr, "a
Railroad Hill St., has returned to
his post at Atlantic City after stay
here.
Domenic J. Rosa, 80 Burton ST.,
has been promoted to first lieuten-
ant at Greenwood Army Air Field,
Greenwood, Miss.
Jack Margolis, 1852 West Main
street will report at the Hartford
Induction center to be assigned as
an Army aviation student next
week.
Pfc. Francis Wood has returned
to Scottsbluff, Neb., after fur
Laughing with his parents on Woos-
ter street, Naugatuck.
William r. Farrell. Fleet ST.,
has been commissioned second
lieutenant in the Army following
graduation from an Army bombar-
der school, Victorville, Calf.
Corp. Daniel Morelli, Ill Orange
street, will report soon at Camp
Maxey, Texas, for an advanced
course in Army administration.
Joseph R. Gugliotti, A Ruel
street, has been promoted to cor
poral with an Army unit some
where in the Pacific Island.
Lieut.. Col. Lawrence o. Thibo-
deau, 20, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles j. Thibodeau of Echo Lake
road, Watertown, is a prisoner IN
Germany and is being treated well,
it was disclosed today. He was tax
en- prisoner while fighting with the
U. S. Army in North Africa FEB.
81 and was at first in an 1tahan
prison camp, his relatives revealed.
He was later taken to the German
camp and his family has received
three letters from him since that
time, but he has not heard from
them, he complains.