The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-01-03
Service Briefs

Among those who received COM
missions as second lleutenants in
the Medical Administrative Corps
at the camp Berkeley officer Can
didate School in Texas graduation
were Charles W. Leverett, %. son
OF Mr.. and Mrs. Harold r. Leverett,
1920 Carpenter Rd.. and Bernard f.
Gilbert. 2s, $3.50 Whitaker Rd.,
both OF Ypsilanti.
Thomas Edwin Holdridge. son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry e. Holdridge,
SOB n. Adams St., has been grad
uated from the Aviation Radio
School at Jacksonville. Fla, and
was promoted to Corporals rating
in the L. S. Marine Corps. Enter
ing the Marines Feb. IS, 1913, he
received his recruit training at San
Diego, Calf, before being trans
ferred to the Naval Air Technical
Training Center. Holdridge
is now a qualified aviation radio
man and will probably see service
with a Marine Aviation Detach-
ment.
In training at the pre-fllght school
OF the San Antonio Aviation Cadet
Center is Ellis E. Bird, 600 Wash
tenaW Ave.
Mrs. william Keirl, Sr., has re-
ceived word that her son, Pfc.
William Keirl. Jr., has been pro-
noted to the rank OF corporal tech
nician. Cpl. Keirl is now stationed
at Camp Phillips, Kansas, in a med.
ical battalion.
Robert E. Young, former en-
ploye OF the Ford Bomber Plant. has
been graduated from the armament
school of the Army Air Forces
Technical Training Command at
Lowry Field, Col.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Hines re-
turned from Edenton, n. c.. where
they had visited their son, Staff
Sergeant Charles Hines, Jr.
Recent graduation ceremonies at
the Naval Training School for mid
shipmen on the Northwestern Uni
versity campus in Evanston. ILL.,.
saw two Ypsilanti men receive their
commissions as Ensigns In the L.
s. Naval Reserve. The Ypsilanti En-
signs are william B. Thompson, %,
son OF Mr.. and Mrs. J. II. Thomp-
son, 406 Mansfield St, and WILDER
X. Tunnicliffe, %. son OF Mr.. and
Mrs. Karl Tunnicliffe, 900 Sherman
st.
Private Gerald Williams, son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Williams. SIS
Davis ST., returned to Camp Pick
EFT, Virginia, after spending Christ
mas at home. His wife. who came
home with him will remain in
Ypsilanti. Mr.. and Mrs. Williams
also received a Christmas phone
call from their son Merle H. Will
liams, seaman first class, from New
London. Conn. He said that he spent
Christmas with his wife and chill
dren at Townsend Harbor, Massa-
chusetts.
Gerald !. Smyth, former Ypsilanti
High School sophomore, is to re-
turn to school this week, following
nine months. with the L. s. Army
in which he served with the tank
DESTROYER battalion, and which were
climaxed by his discharge Dec. %,
when Army authorities learned that
he was under age. Gerald. who is the
16-year-old son of Mrs. Carrie
Smyth, 412 S. Hamilton St., regis
tered for Army service Feb. IL,
1913, telling his draft board that he
was IS years OF age. He was induct-
ed in Detroit on March 81.
During his nine months In the
Army he was stationed at Camp
Hood and Camp Bowie, Texas. He
completed courses in a radio and
electrical technician school. and in
commando training while there.
Gerald plans to attend school un-
I'll he is old enough to enlist in the
Marines.
PFC. James II. Corbett. who is
with the medical detachment. New
Guinea, writes his parents. Mr..
and Mrs. Horace Corbett, that he is
enjoying good health despite the ex-
trpmeIy hot Weather He said that
he walked five miles through deep
mud to an entertainment provided
by a unit OF Hollywood stars. He
also said that a new hospital Is
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