The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-01-31
Service Briefs

Mrs. Georgia Cunliffe belong re-
celyed an announcement OF an AS
ISOLATED Press dispatch from New
Georgia, solomon Islands, reveal
ing that her son, First 1t. Phillip
Cunliffe belong had now the rat
ing of ACE" in Rabaul raid. The
dispatch was written by cores
pendent Vern Haugland, and says
1t. belong bagged one Zero and
shared credit with squadron mates
Oh three others in the latest thump.
ing 46-plane defeat inflicted Mon
day on the Japs over their base a.
| Rabaul. In first assault, says Haug-
! land, belong downed one Zero and
| shared two others with 19-year-old
First 1t. Allan Harrison Ill, Hous-
ton, Texas, youngster of the squad
ron, and Major Hugh NJ. Elwood,
/ 2S, OF Charleston, w. Va. belong
and Elwood returned in the second
attack and shared Zero between
them making belong. who had four
previously to his credit-an ace,
with a total OF six and one-sixth.
Lit. belong will be 25 years old
July 8. Credit for his first Jap plane
was announced only Jan. 10 in an
Associated Press dispatch. 1t. De-
Long was manager Of the Citizen
Coal Company and was an active
member of the Jaycees before enter
ing the service.
Privates Robert Bisbee. Thomas
Burnett, William Ash. Charles
Gean, James Hornbeck, Virgil Rob-
erts, Darwin Youngs, and Willard
Schroeder. en- route from Camp
Blanding, Fla, to Fort Meade, Md,
are spending this week at their
homes here. They will report at
Fort Meade Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Minniss have
received a letter from their son,
| Pfc. Robert Minniss with a Medi-
| cal Unit somewhere in India. say
ing that he has just received a pack
age containing 80 copies OF the
| Daily Press and also part OF his
Christmas packages and states the
holiday passed quietly and that he
and many other soldiers attended
midnight Mass, a very fine service
being held in what he called
wilderness"
Pvt. Harold B. Heyler, son OF
Rev. and Mrs. Walter B. Heyler,
has arrived at Scott Field. H..
Army Air Forces Training Command
Post where he will receive an in
tensiye course in radio operating
and mechanics to fit him for duty
as member of fighting bomber
crew.
During his training period here,
Pvt. Heyler will be tested by ex.
perts as to aptitudes for special
types OF work, and when his course
is finished he will be sent to more
advanced training centers.
With his intensive Army Air
Forces basic training already be-
hind him, Pvt. Russell Z. Lawr-
ence has begun airplane mechani.
cal training at Keesler Fields huge
B-24 Liberator bomber school at
Biloxi, Miss. Pvt. Lawrence was Sc
lected for the course on the basis
Of his excellent marks received on
the Army mechanical aptitude tests.
Roger o. Howard, son OF Mr.. and
Mrs. A. l.. Howard, is now taking
| boot training at Great Lakes Naval
Station, Chicago.
Pvt. Robert E. Bristol, Military
Police, is stationed at Fort Mason.
Cal. where he has been for the
past year.
Richard Dale Vealey. Seaman
First Glass. L. s. Navy, who has
been overseas in several areas
since June. arrived home Saturday
on a fifteen-day leave. He is the
son OF Mr.. and Mrs. Thedford
Vealey.
Cpl. Laverne Coleman Is in the
hospital at Yuma, Ariz.
Mrs. Edward Baltzell will leave
Tuesday for visit of two months
with her son, Martin Baltzell, Jr.,
Treasure Island He is Seaman
First Class. Martins brother Mar
vim and their sister Irene are in
service also.
Lucien Ray Finklea, pharmacist
Sd class. writes his mother. Mrs
Marion Finklea, that he has been
promoted TO pharmacist mate third
class and is now stationed at the
SeaBees 'embarkation camp at Port
Hueneme, Cal. He said he and -four
others were sent from San Diego
two weeks before they would have
been entitled to furlough. but
they received a hearty welcome a.
Port Hueneme, as there were only
eight doctors TO thirty units anC
the doctors we're glad to see helI