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Seven in Squadron
A BASE IN ENGLAND-Seven
former Washington residents are
serving in one squadron at 9th
Air Force Troop Carrier Command
Station.
Highest ranking officer Of the
seven, who have all been overseas
one year-in French Morocco, Al
geria, Tunisia, Sicily and England
is Maj. Richard r. Baker, jr, who
practiced law in Washington as
corporation lawyer, and lived at
Alexandria. He Is executive officer
on special duty with q troop carrier
group.
First 1t. Stewart r. Bennion, 1850
Lanier place NV, serves as ad-
jutant Of troop carrier squadron.
A graduate of George Washington
University, he was employed at the
Bureau of Indian Affairs.
First 1t. Fristoe, 1871 Lanier
place NV, a former British Air
Commission employe, recently was
reassigned to the Army Flight Con-
troll. He, too, was graduated from
George Washington University.
Staff Sergt. Donald M. Murray,
1000 Beecher street NV, once
Capital Transit Co. employe, is In
the squadron engineering ONCE.
Staff Sergt. Wesley M. Van Dercook,
quartermaster supply sergeant of the
unit, was at one time president of
the Retail Clerks International
Protective Association No. $50 A in
Washington.
Frederick w. Schmidt, duty SER
geant Of the squadron, who served
in the Navy from 1929 to 1888,
maintains his residence at 200
Massachusetts, avenue NV. Sergt,
Charles H. McQuinn, former en-
ploye Of the Works Projects Ad-
ministration, is an aerial radio
operator.
Lanzillotti Speeds Supplies.
Supplies needed to sustain the 9th
AAFs aerial offensive are handled
by Master Sergt. Guy Lanzillotti,
1924 Eighth street NV, noncom-
missioned officer in charge Of the
receiving and shipping section.
Sergt. Lanzillotti, who once
worked for the Arlington Foundry
and has served in the European
theater for two years, recently was
promoted to the top enlisted grade
"for efficiency in his duties"
Pvt. Joseph r. Murray, 1853 La
mont street NV, serves as aircraft
sheet metalman In the mental man
ufacturing section Of an Air Service
Command Depot. He was with the
Murray Real Estate Co. in WASH
ington before joining the Army in
July, 1912.
Corpl. Sherwood Rodman, 4901
Newport avenue, Glen Cove, Md,
was one of the administrative work.
ers recently returned to his infantry
unit after completing a special
course in antiaircraft firing.
Scrkts hOkOk 1IcAtc0s
Sergt. Philip Kogok, 1928 Mary
land avenue NE, recently received
treatment in a United States Army
hospital in England for combat
| fatigue.
Sergt. Carl J. Birckner, 5000
Tucker road, Oxon Hill, Md, is a
member Of an Army medical staff
which built a farm on the grounds
Eof their new general hospital.
Finding the former bivouac area in
bad condition, they borrowed a
horse and all pitched into the Job.
They call themselves the general
hospital engineer regiment"
Capt. Charles Finley, formerly Of
Anacostia, whose wife lives at 916
South Wakefield street, Arlington,
and Capt. Sam Adams, brother Of
Mrs. Harold Cummings, 1000 South
ern avenue Sc, both Of the Army
Medical Corps, are among group
Of 20 American doctors and 40
nurses working at Stepping Hill
Hospital at Stockport, Cheshire,
England.
Load Invasion Cargo.
Seven colored soldiers from Wash
ington serve in a United States port
battalion, loading cargo from the
United States for the invasion. They
are: Corpl. James D. White, 20 I
street NE; Staff Sergt. Milton j.
Noble, 431 Kenyon street NV; Staff
Sergt. Willie ]. Louis, 1433 Corcoran
street NV; Staff Sergt. Leroy
Burkley, 1922 Thirteenth street
NV; Sergt. Powell B. Macklin.
5231z Second street NE; Pfc. Lin
wood Eaton, 3015 Eleventh street
NV, and Staff Sergt. Charles o.
Hall, 739 Newton place NV.
Pfc. Bernard j. Sweeney, 1888
Quebec place NV, recently was one
Of rs enlisted men presented good
conduct ribbons.
Builders Live in Tents.
Pfc. Frank Schwaner, jr., $40 L
street S.W, and Pvt. George r.
Railey, 701 Kentucky avenue Sc,
are members of an engineer service
regiment which has spent two Brit
ish winters in tents building COM
Portable quarters for other United
States Army components. The regi-
ment recently celebrated its second
anniversary, the first time In 18
months since the entire outfit had
been together.
The following have taken a short
orientation course at an Air Serv-
ice Command Station designed to
help newly arrived Air Force soldiers
prepare for combat:
1t. James B. Wightman, 1873 Park
road NV; Sergt. Gilbert w. Gray,
Falls Church, Va; Sergt. James A.
Hummer. 2410 North Washington
boulevard, Arlington; Sergt. Mar
shall E. Rose, 1241 Geranium street
NV; Pvt. Nikolia Won Der Lippe,
1920 Sixteenth street NV, and Pvt.
Arthur A. Sislen, 1862 West Virginia
avenue NJ T.