The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-08-24

request for Infantry volunteers
from other branches OF the service
and his application for duty with a
fighting unit was quickly accepted.
Mrs. Stanley Gronic, 201 Wallace
Blvd, received an oil painting OF
the submarine insignia from her
son MN SIC Leonard Gronic. NM
sc Gronic painted the insignia
while stationed on an island In
the South Pacific. IL Is composed
OF submarine, with two dolphins,
one on each side OF the hull OF the
submarine. NM SIC Gronic Is now
at sea serving on submarine.
Mrs. Edward DeNoyer has re-
turned from visiting Pfc Edmond
DeNoyer, who is stationed at Fort
Dix, New Jersey. She was accom-.
panied by Mrs. Edmond DeNoyer
and her three months old daughter,
who will remain in New Jersey I'M
Ill Pfc. DeNoyer is sent overseas.
Mrs. Edward DeNoyer also visited
her daughter and son-in-law, Pvt.
and Mrs. Carl Gerber, at the New
Castle Army Air Base, Wilmington,
Della.
Mrs. Allen Glow, Jr., has gone to
Madison, Wis, to be with her hus-
band, Pvt. Glow, who is attending
radio school at Truax Field.
Word has been received that 81
Sgt. Perry L. Curtiss, who was re-
ported a prisoner OF war Tuesday,
has been awarded the first Bronze
Oak Leaf Cluster for the Air Medal.
S/Sgt. Curtiss, husband OF Mrs.
Perry l.. Curtiss, Bemis Road. was
previously reported missing in &C.
ton over Austria July 81.
The citation accompanying the
cluster read, "for meritorious
achievement while participating in
sustained operational activities
against the enemy" Sgt. Curtiss
was stationed in Italy with a Liber-
ator bombardment group OF the
18th Army Air Force, which has
been bombing German held targets
in Europe.
Capt. GERRY Hammond has ar.
rived to spend a 2l-day furlough
with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Charles H. Hammond. He has
been In service two years and a
half and served through the North
African campaign and the past year
in China.
Mrs. Ann Hutchinson has at last
received letters from her son,
Lieut.. Robert Hutchinson, who has
been informed in Switzerland since
his plane made a forced landing
there last September. She has had
two cables saying that he was all
right, but no letters although he
writes he had written. The first
letter, Apr 4, he says is the first
he Is sure will 20 through. He had
heard nothing from home except
one cable message and the letters
are filled with inquiries for various
friends and relatives, especially
about his little niece and nephew.
Doris and Billy Quarterman.
Through the winter he was in a
camp at Adelboden, which he says
was much like army camps at
home and not bad. He had played
ice hockey and studied French so
that now with the aid OF diction-
airy he can order a meal and buy
things, He tried Russian but 1t was
too much. He has learned typewrit-
ing. also. The May 10 letter says he
Is now detailed 10 the Military At
tache at the American Embassy,
which is much better. He can now
wear civilian clothes and but for
my terrible French would pass for
a local person" He Is looking for
ward TO tennis and swimming. He
says he Is well, and this Is borne
out by the snapshot he encloses. He
asks for pictures OF his family and
friends besides letters, as he had
left all his at the camp before start
ing on his flight that ended in Swift
zerland. He says nothing as to how
he reached Switzerland or his TEL
low.crewmen ON the plane.
The envelope in which the letter
from the internment camp was
mailed had been opened and across
the back was pasted strip on
which was printed in German,
French and Italian the words which
mean approved by the censor OF