The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-08-30

Second Lieutenant Marie c. Sacco of Highland avenue, is at an Okla homa station hospital after serving in Arizona desert land. She wrote recently that for five months there was no rain in the locality of her station. She has been with the Army Nurse Corps for year. Her brother, Private First Class Henry J. Sacco, is with an Army unit in North Africa.
 Aviation Cadet P. F. Smith of Watertown has completed primary flying training at Camden, s. c. Major Grover Baldwin of Oakville is with his son, Lieutenant U.g9 Richard Baldwin, who is critically i'll at the Los Angeles Naval hospi- tai. The father, who is stationed at Patterson Field, Ohio, flew to California Saturday.
 Paul D. Roberg of Bantam is sta toned at Greenville, Miss, where he is receiving training as an avia- tion cadet.
 George Anthony Steponaitis of 264 Park road has been commissioned a second lieutenant at Fort Benning, Ga, where he recently completed an officer candidate course at the Infantry school. The son of MT. and Mrs. Joseph Steponaitis, he en- tered the service Feb. "A. 1941 and served with the 102nd Infantry in the South Pacific before starting officer training three months ago. He is a graduate of Crosby high school.
 Lieutenant R. Merrill, former rec tor at All Souls church in Oakville, is serving as chaplain for the Army Air Forces pilot school at Newport, Oak. Previously he was stationed at Maxwell Field, Ala. Second Lieutenant Hooker Stough- ton of Thomaston has completed a course at Hendricks Field, Sebring, Fla. He trained with group of Flying Fortress pilots. Private First Class Larry Santo- pietro of 1920 Baldwin street is re- ported to be serving in Sicily, while his brother, Private First Class Vim cent J. Santopietro is stationed at Camp Forrest, Tenn.
 Second Lieutenant Nicholas F. De- Zinno of this city is at Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Md. Previously he served at Fort Meade, Md.
 Harold E. Moran of 165 Boyden street has started naval boot train ing at Newport, R. I. William w. Kaplan of 48 Hill street, is with an air crew at the Massa- chusetts State College at Amherst, Mass. The son of MT. and Mrs. Edward Kaplan he was senior at Crosby high school when he entered the service last April. Corporal Louis Silverman of 35 Putnam street has completed fur lough here and has resumed duties at Camp Haan, Calf. His brother, Irving, is a corporal at Farming dake, l.. I.
 Sergt. Technician Fabian Rudy Majewski, son of MT. and Mrs. Fabian Majewski, Sr.. 163 Green wood avenue, is stationed with an Army unit in Iceland. The following youths have fin ished their basic training at the Sampson, N. Y, naval training sta- ton and have been given furloughs before assuming their new duties All are newly rated seamen, second class: Frederick A. Brown, son of MT. and Mrs. F. A. Brown, 22O Wood street; Willard Charles Smith, son of Willard c. Smith, 958 North Main street; Charles Flynn Woodward, son of MT. and Mrs. Charles s. Woodward, Bethle- hem; and Bernard Peterson, son of MT. and Mrs. B. Peterson, 91 Yale avenue, Middlebury.
 Sal DeCarlo, son of Mrs. Louis DeCarlo, g French street, qualified as an aerial engineer after com- pleting training recently at the Roosevelt Army Air Field, Roswell, N. M.
 Pvt. David L. Salisbury, 19, Can- dee Hill road, Waterftown, has been transferred from Greensboro, N. C., to the aviation school at the Uni versity of Toledo for course of | instruction as an aviation cadet in the Army Air Forces Flying Train ing command.
 San Antonio Aviation Cadet Gen. ter, Texas, August 30 - Engaged in the last phase of their training be- fore they actually get behind the controls of an army plane, Al, young | men from the State of Connecticut, including 1 from Waterbury, are now stationed at the Army Air Forces Preflight School for pilots at the San Antonio Aviation Cadet Center, the nations largest pool for air crew traineeS.
 Upon completion of their pursuits at the preflight school, the cadets vii lbe sent to a primary flying | field, there to take up new phase in their training as potential com bat pilots. Basic and advanced courses will follow.
 Waterbury's candidate now talk ing preflight studies is Aviation Ca- det Eugene H. Kaplan, 43 Sheldon | street.
 Latest Naval recruits obtained