The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-06

MI 4FgA 2A W0AAAa ANa 2IGNS VI UHM WAtertown avenue is serving with an Army Signal Corps unit In Eng. land. The son of Mir. and Mrs. Wil- bur Beebe of Country Club road, he entered the tsrvioe Feb. 2S, ioas and was sent overseas last December.
 Technical Sergeant Leonard I. oaunt, son of MT. and Mrs. William oaunt of @ Granger street, is now being processed through the Army Air Forces Redistribution station at Miami Beach, Fla. A radio operator and gunner on c R-26, he took part in 6S missions during one year In the Mediterranean area. He Is holder oi the Air Medal and -urple,
 Thomas A. Thomas of iSS Brad. ley avenue has been promoted from private first class to corporal at his post in Ireland, according to an aIl- nouncement from the European Air Service Command headquarters. HO has been overseas 10 months, serv- ing as . clerk in the Air Corps sup. ply division.
 An Eighth AAr Composite station, England - A Waterbury Private Venceslau Fernandes of Waterbury Conn.,, helped save the life of 0 P.3S pilot pinned beneath Q wrecked and burning plane for battling flames for 30 minutes until help arrived.
 F'ernandes and two other soldiers worked relentlessly to free the pilot wedged in the cockpit from the waist down, from the overturned pNane When rescue attempts proved flu. tile they kept the blaze under con- trol until Q fire-fightlng unit could reach the Isolated pasture. cut the pilot free, and extlnguish the flames
 The Private, son of MT. and Mrs Jose T. Fernandes, iS Lounsbury avenue, Waterbury, has been in the Army for two and one-half years and in the European Theater ot Operations for IA months. He is with the special service section at this station. Before entering the AAF Eernandes worked for the Nauga- tuck Chemical Rubber Go.
 18th AAT in Italy-pfc. Albert F. Chestone, son of Mir. and Mrs. An. thony Chestone, 2l4 Oak street Waterbury, Conn, with other men of his headquarters squadron, has been cited by Col. George R. Ache. son of Lewiston, Me, and Tampa, Fla, commanding ofacer of . heavy bombardment wing in Italy, for fine work since arriving in thii theater."
 Colonel Acheson commended the squadron personnel for giving "un. sparingly of their time and efforts in contributing to the successful operation of the wing" which has directed aerial operations by B-24 Liberators of the Fifteenth Air Force against strategic Naxis targets in France, Italy. Austria, southern Germany and the Balkans. May our joint efforts, in the future aS in the past, contribute to the de- struction of our enemies and the early return of peace" the citation concludes.
 Pfc. Chestone was graduated from Wilby High school in l040. He en. tered the service in June, i943.
 Somewhere in the Marshalls, de. layed-Marine Technical Sergeant stephen R. Chase of l03 Proctor street, Waterbury, Conn, recently was promoted from staff sergeant.
 Chase is the NC0 in charge oi construction with an unit of the Fourth Marine Aircraft Wing.
 He Is the husband of Mrs. Erice Chase of Waterbury.
 Before enllsting on April l4, i94S. Chase worked as carpenter for the scovill Manufacturing Com. pany of Waterbury He received his boots training at Paris Island and joined his present unit ct Cherry Point, N. c.