The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-12-09
Service Briefs

f1eTDst, son OF Mr.. ana Mrs. FerQ-
inand Herbst, COZ E. Forest Ave,
has arrived home on a 80 day leave.
He has been back in the States
since September on an official mis-
sion TO the West Coast. He plans
to visit his brother Pvt. Arthur
Herbst, who has just finished his
basic training and will go to Fort
Benning to train as a paratrooper.
Arthur will be unable to be home
for Christmas. This is the first time
1t. Herbst has been home since
Oct. 20, 1871. He. has been overseas
for thirty-three months.
Entering the service as a private
in the 32nd Signal Corps, he soon
advanced to staff sergeant shortly
after going over seas. He then at.
tended officers training school in
Australia, and was graduated June
%, 1913.
After graduation he was placed
with the 41st infantry division as
platoon leader Later he was trans
ferred to General MacArthur's
headquarters, the General Head
quarters OF the Southwest Pacific
Area.
On February 90. 1914, he won a
commentator and the combat in
badge for action in the
Salamaua Campaign, August Is.
1943. The commentator was from
Major General Fuller, commanding
the forty-first division.
Announcement is made OF the
award Of the Legion of Merit to
Major Frank A. Ferguson, son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Lee ]. Ferguson, 1904
Congress St., Ypsilanti, Mich, cur
rently assigned to the Internation-
al Division, Hq., USAFIME.
The citation for the award ex-
plains that Major Ferguson (then
Captain) was sent into the Levant
States early in 1912 to lay the
ground work for construction of
depot in Palestine, and that he dem
onstrated marked ability and re-
in the procurement
and organization of personnel.
building equipment and materials
He served in the LeTant for two
years.
Major Ferguson was graduated
from the Alabama Polytechnic In
stitiute, Glass OF 1889. During the
IS months previous to his Army
service he was employed in the En-
cheering Department, Alabama
Power Co., Birmingham, Ala.
Corporal Court ]. McDougall, son
Of Grover X. McDougall, is a medi-
cal supply technician with an Sth
Air Force Service Command med
ical supply depot in England. He
was graduated from the Lincoln
High School in 1888 and then at
tended Michigan Normal and the
OF Michigan. Prior to
his entry into the military service
January 10, 1912, at Fort custer,
he was a wholesale gasoline truck
man for the E. S. Chapman Com
pany, II North Adams st. He has
been stationed in the European
Theater of Operations since April
27. 1912. Corporal McDougall's bro
Their, John, is an NM NC in the
Navy. stationed at Chesapeake Bay,
Maryland.
Among those graduating from an
intensive course of Basic Engineer
ing training at Service Schools ex-
ercises at Great Lakes, ILLINOIS,
was Hans c. Jens, is, son OF Mr..
and Mrs. II. H. Jens, 2OS n. Norman
St, Ypsilanti, Mich.
Mrs. Lenore L. McElroy OF lpsl.
lanti, 1920 Sherman St, is one OF
the women pilots OF the Ferrying
Division Air Transport Command
who will leave to American AVA
ton a legacy OF patriotic and cred
liable performance when the AAF
terminates their employment on
December 20.
ON that date Mrs. McElroy VIII
he among the 40 women VINO VII,
turn in their flying toys ana emu
an historic experiment IN amer
lean military aviation. Mrs. NIGEL
row ia assigned to the Third Ferry
ing Group at Romulus. where she
has been taking her regular turn
with male pilots in flight deiivery
OF Army aircraft. She Is quaiiiieu
as a Glass 3 pilot and has den.'
cred such planes as CAS- ana VA
los. A.. u,,cp
Women's Airforce Service piiots)
in the Ferrying Division ana o'her
AAF organizations concludes
service which began september .,
1912. when the Secretary Oh MH
authorized the Ferrying Division 10
enlist a group OF highly quaiiiied
women pilots for ferrying dutles.
During the ~ months OF tneii
employment on civilian status
women pilots OF the Ferrying Divi'
sion will have flown approximate
ly 10000. 900 miles in ferrying op-
erations by Dec. 20.
Walter Hatch, son OF Mrs. Annie
Hatch, who is with the Marine
Corps. has returned west with ms
wife and baby after being with MS
mother 10 days. He is swimming
instructor at San Diego.