The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-09-27
Service Briefs

band OF Mrs. Maxine Wallace, 2079
Bradley St. has returned from serv.
ice outside the continental United
States and Is now being processed
through the Army Ground and Serv-
ice Forces Redistribution Station
in Miami Beach, where his next as
signment will be determined. Pfc.
Wallace served Is months as an
anti-tank gunner in the Italian thea
ter OF operations. While there he
was awarded the Purple Heart for
wounds received in action against
the enemy, and the Good Conduct
ribbon.
Francis Newell Fox, II, 1909
Beckett Court, is receiving his ini.
ital Naval indoctrination at the U.
S. Naval Training Center. Great
Lakes, Illinois.
Malcolm Campbell, &c, who is
stationed at Jacksonville, Fla, in
the Navy Ordnance department, has
written his parents that he has
contacted Lieut.. Floyd Leib, a for
mer teacher In the Lincoln High
School where Malcolm was grad
uated last June. Lieut.. Leib is an
instructor at Jacksonville. Seaman
Campbell writes that he is a mem
Der of the chapel choir which sang
in the base hospital Sept. II.
Mrs. Charles Bahnmiller, former
ly Margaret Pillsbury, has received
word from her husband, Pfc
Charles Bahnmiller, that he has ar
rived safely at his destination in
the South Pacific. He had been sta
toned at Camp Pendleton. Califor.
MIA, for six months following a year
OF overseas duty in the Solomon
Islands. Pfc Bahnmiller Is with
the Grave Registration Division OF
the 9Th Marines
Ensign Herbert c. Smith OF the
Merchant Marine, who has been
spending his furlough with his fam
lily here, left Monday for Seattle,
Wash. His wife will stay with his
parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Lyle d. Smith
for the present.
Cpl. Harold Steffens is stationed
with the ground crew OF the Army
Air Corps at Camp Liberal, Kansas.
His brother, Pvt. Ronald Steffens.
was In India when his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. w. E .Steffens, n. Huron
St.. last heard from him a month
ago.
Private Donald r. Gay. husband
OF Mrs. Verna Jean Gay, 316 West
Michigan Ave, has been graduated
at Fort Knox as a qualified radio
operator.
Among the eight Michigan over
seas wounded who arrived at Percy
Jones Hospital, Battle Creek, this
week end, was Cpl. Eugene Stef-
fens, Ypsilanti.
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Gretzinger
and daughter Barbara Joyce have
returned from Mansfield, o., where
they attended the funeral OF Mr..
Gretzinger's cousin, Pfc. Robert
Kennedy, who was killed in an acct
dent while stationed In Alaska. He
was riding In an Army ambulance
which collided with another car. He
had been in an Alaska base for the.
past two years. The remains were
brought to Mansfield by ship and
by train.
Mrs. Alfred Huston has learned
that her nephew, Melvin o. Bunce,
who was wounded in the hand and
arm in France, Aug. 29, has recov-
cred and Is back in action. He Is
the son OF Oren Bunce, Detroit, for
merly Of Ypsilanti.
Cpl. Arthur Dieterle Is now sta
toned in Italy.
Seaman First Class Calvin Peter.
son, son of Aid. Fremont Peterson,
is now in the South Pacific area.
Pfc. Edmund DeNoyer, with his
wife and daughter are home on a
14-day furlough, visiting their par
ents. Pfc. DeNoyer will return to
Fort Dix, N. j., for two weeks and
then will go to Mechanics School,
Atlanta. Ca, where his wife and
daughter expect to join him later.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. ]. Strang and
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter Wright and
son Daniel have returned from tina
ca, N. Y, where they visited the
Strangs' son. Midshipman William
E. Strang, who Is training at Mid.
shipman's School there.
An Eighth Air Force Liberator
Station England: The award OF an
Oak Leaf Cluster to the Air Medal
to Staff Sergeant Harry Whitfield,
at Brooklyn, N. Y, for meritor-
ious achievement In accomplishing
with distinction several aerial op-
irrational missions over enemy occu.
pied Continental Europe" has been
announced by Major General Will
liam +. Kepner, commanding gen.
eral OF the End Bombardment Divi-
sion in England. Sergt. Whitfield
Is the son OF Mr.. and Mrs. Harry
Whitfield, ST., OF 211S Kenmore
! Court Brooklyn. New York. His