The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-07-10
Service Briefs

Second It. Billy l.. Kruse is now
stationed at the AAF Pilot School
(Basic) Greenville (Niss.) Army
Air Field, where he will serve T..
the capacity OF Pilot Basic T. f.
Instructor, the Commanding Off
Ger. Col. A. r. Mcconnell, has an.
nounced. 1t. Kruse is the son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Walter J. Kruse, who
live at $50 Clark Rid. He is a gradu.
ate OF Ypsilanti High School. Be.
fore going to Greenville Army Air
Field 1t. Kruse was on duty al
BAAF, cambridge. Ca.
Perry L. Curtiss, 20, husband OF
Mrs. p. l.. Curtlss OF $3.50 Bemis
Road, Ypsilanti, Mich, has been
promoted to the grade OF staff ser.
geant, it was announced by 18th
Army Air Force Headquarters in
Italy.
An aerial gunner, Sgt. Curtiss Is
stationed with an 18th AAF Liberia
tor bombardment squadron. He en-
listed with the Air Corps on De-
cember 80, 1912, and attended aeri-
al gunnery school at Laredo, Tex.
He Is a graduate OF Lincoln High
School in the class OF 1912.
Technician 9Th Henry Wiles has
written home that he has arrived
safely in England.
Pvt. Russell Lawrence, who since
completing his course at Keesler
Field, Miss, has been stationed at
the Curtis Air Plant in Buffalo,
n. Y, spent Sunday with his par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. David Lawrence,
his first visit home in nine months.
Mrs. Howard Fanslow received a
V-mail letter this week from her
brother, Pvt. Gordon Carey. sta
toned in England since January
saying that he was writing from a
fox-hole in France being among the
group landing on D-Day. He said the
boys certainly needed the prayers
and anything else the folks back
home could do TO get this thing
over soon"
Lieut.. and Mrs. Kenneth Dundon,
who spent his six-day leave here
with his mother. Mrs. Anna Dun
don. have returned 10 Long Island
City, n. Y. where Lieut.. Dundon is
stationed in the embarkation post
office. His wife spent the Fourth
in Toledo. her former home. but
went back to New York with him.
Mrs. Alex Pearson and Mrs.
Louis Mitchell left together Satur.
day morning TO visit their husbands.
who are stationed at Fort McCle!.
Ian, Ala.
Lieut. Commander Carver G.. Wal.
colt, formerly Of Ypsilanti. has
been awarded the Legion OF Merit.
for converting a war vessel into q
hospital ship during the battle OF
Sslerno. Lieut.. Comm. Walcott, US.
ing the radio room as an operating
room, treated 81 injured men from
another ship which was sunk by
enemy action. Before he entered
the Navy. he practiced medicine IN
Flint and Fenton.
Second Lieutenant Harold Conrad
who has been stationed as . pilot at
the Kinsman Army Air Field, is
spending a few days furlough with
his father Laurence G. Conrad, 306
Garland st. Lit. Conrad will also
spend a few days with friends IN
Chicago before returning to Ari.
1ona.
Word has been received here
that Pfc. willard Helzerman, son OF
Mrs, Minnie Helzerman. 4o2 +. For.
est Ave, has been wounded in ac'
ton. Pfc. Helzerman, who took part
in the Anzio Beachhesd action.
spent l27 days at the front, before
being wounded on May %. In let.
ter TO his mother, Pfc. Helzerman
stated that he received injuries 10
his.left hand, and also had a foot
ailment, which was 70 be corrected
before going back into active serv
ice. He 10 now in q hospital in
Italy.
Pfc. Helzerman was graduated
from Ypsilanu High School in 1887.
and was employed At the Warner
Dairy and Stinson Aircraft Com
pany, Wayne, before entering the
service January rs. l94S. He re-
ceived his training a. Fort Warren,
Wyoming; Bloomington, Illinois
and in Pennsylvania before being
sent overseas in September, l9iS
He was first stationed in North
Africa, and later transferred to
Italy.
Lieut.. Edward Zumbroegel., son