The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-11-30

First It. James w. Sweeney, son of Mir. and Mrs. Charles Sweeney
 of Watertown, is visiting his wife |. and son in Marion after cOm-
 pIeting an OperatiOnaI tour in
 the European theater of war. It.
 Sweeney, bOmbardier on B-24,
 wears two bronze stars on the E.
 T. o. ribbon, the Air Medal with
 three Oak Leaf clusters and the
 Distinguished Flying Cross. This
 is the first time he has seen his
 eight months old son.
 Members of the police depart ment, the board of police commits sioners and Mayor John s. Mona gan vii lattend tomorrow the memo rial Mas for Pfc. Francis Mccarthy, first Waterbury policeman to die in World War II. The Mass will be celebrated at 7:3O a. m. at St. Francis Xavier church. Pfc. Mo Carthy was the son of MT. and Mrs. Thomas J. Mccarthy, 1513 Baldwin street.
 Pope Field, N. C., Nov. 3O.-Pfc. Michael G. Sottosanti, son of Mrs. Mary Toscano, of All North Main street, Waterbury, Conn.,, has quali- fled as marksman with the.45 cali- Der pistol at this base of the First Troop Carrier Command. He is as- signed to the 313th Troop Carrier squadron here.
 Robert E. Young, 19, son of MT. and Mrs. Leon B. Young, FRD No. 2, Waterbury, Conn, was commission ed an ensign in the U. s. Naval Reserve when he graduated recently from the Naval Reserve Midship- mems School at Abbott Hall, North western University, Chicago, Illi- noiS.
 His completed four-month course consisted of instruction in naviga- tion, seamanship, damage control, communications, ordnance and gum nery, in addition to which he under went a strenuous physical condi- tioning program and numerous drills designed to develop initiative and leadership.
 The newly commissioned ensign will now see action with the fleet as a deck officer.
 Fort Oglethorpe, Ga, Private Mary s. Campus, PIP Charles street of Waterbury, Conn, who has been stationed at the Third Training Center of the Women's Army Corps here has been assigned to Army Air Base unit, Strother Field, at Winfield, Kan.
 Raymond G. Cook of 834 North Main street has completed a leave here and has returned to the Naval station at Sampson, N. Y. He is the husband of the former Lorraine Crowley.
 Private John M. York of Torring. ton, who has been serving in the Canadian Army in France, is re- ported missing in action. The son of MT. and Mrs. Andrew York, he has been prominent as a swimmer and basketball player. He is a veteran Of two years service in Navy. Fol lowing medical discharge from the Navy he enlisted in the Canadian Army last January and started over seas duty in July.
 Staff Sergeant Harvey s. West of Al Waterville street has been awarded second Oak Leaf Cluster to his Air Medal. Hf is serving as a ballturret gunner on Liberator based in England.
 Technical Sergeant George E. Doolittle, son of MT. and Mrs. Fitch s. Doolittle, Platts Mills road, Naug- atuck, who returned home two days ago with the 208th Coast Artillery band, describes Australia as a very wonderful country full of fine peo- pie.
 Sergeant Doolittle spent 28 days in an Australian hospital after he learned the hard way, while bicycl- ing. that Australian trafic keeps to the left.
 Private John A. Diorio of 42 Hill street was slightly wounded in action in Germany November 1S, according to War Department notification received by his family.
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