The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1944-12-07
Receives Promotion


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Receives Promotion
Ensign John T. Treacy. US.N.R.,
was recently advanced to the rank of
lieutenant G.gD, his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. James P. Treacy, Second street,
have been informed. He is somewhere
in the Pacific area.
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Sgt. James Bell, Jr., aerial photo
grapher with the army air force, in
England, is recuperating in a hos
pital there after having recently I'M
dergone an operation for the removal
of his tonsils.
Robert j. Helbig, with the U. S.
Marine corps, was recently advanced
from corporal to the rank of sergeant,
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs Robert E.
Helbig, have been informed. Sgt
Helbig is now stationed at Columbia,
South Carolina, having been trans
ferred from Cherry Point, N. C.
Two Grantsville youths, William L.
Layman and James H. Edwards, both
II, left there for Baltimore Monday
for final physical examination prior
to becoming members of the army
specialized training reserve program
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Coast Guardsman Matthew Storey,
Jr,, quartermaster first class, of Nc
Henry, is now on convoy duty in the
Pacific on a patrol frigate. Escort
vessels manned by coast guardsmen
have helped usher invasion ships
through enemy waters in the Pacific
Men Of the Coast Guard have seen ac-
ton in every major invasion of the
war.
Pfc. William K Glotfelty, who was
with a hospital unit at Fort Lewis,
Washington, has been given an over
seas postotfice address from New York
City. He is son of Mr.. and Mrs.
j. W. Glotfelty, Oakland.
Pfc. Charles P. Lee, who was at his
home at Gormania, W. Va, on a twen-
ty-one day furlough, has gone to Ash
vile, N. c., for reassignment. Pfc.
Lee was with an infantry unit sta
toned in Italy and later transferred
to medical unit He is brother of
Ponce DeLeon Lee, and a son of Mrs.
J. E. Aronhalt, Of Gormania.
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Lieut. Richard L. Roy, who has
been on Bougainville island in the
South Pacific for over year, finally
had the opportunity to see his broth
er, Cpl. Dwight Roy, who is locat-
ed at Finchhafen, New Guinea, ac-
cording to word received here by his
wife, the former Olpha Killius Lieut.
Roy escorted a Jap prisoner by plane
to Orc Bay, and while there got in
touch with his brother, who has been
in the service about three years.
While in New Guinea he also saw Sgt.
Edward limbaugh, Pvt. Steve Coffey
and Lieut.. Elizabeth Browning
Catucci.
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Pvt. Delmar c. Dilley who complet-
ed six months training in the U. S.
Army at Fort Mcclellan, Alabama,
spent ten-day furlough with his
wife and children and also his par
ents, Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Dilley, while
enroute to Camp Meade where he ex-
poets a new assignment within the
next few weeks.
Corporal John Michael, Jr, who is
stationed at the army air base at To-
peka, Kansas, arrived in Oakland last
Saturday morning to spend two
weeks here with his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. John Michael, Seventh street.
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Pfc. Willoughby Calls, who spent
thirty months in the South Pacific
area, on Guadalcanal, Bougainville
and other islands, is now at the home
of his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. A. A.
Calls, Loeb Lynn Heights. He re-
turned to the states under the army
rotation plan and will report to Ash
vile, N. c., for reassignment after a
21-day furlough.
Flight Officer Frederick G. Schoch,
grandson of Mrs. Elizabeth Schoch,
Of Crellin, recently completed an
orientation course at an air service
command station in England, de-
signed to bridge the gap between
training in the states and combat sol
diering against the enemy in Ger
many. His next station will be one
from which Americas fighting planes
cover our advance into Germany.
Pvt Paul M. Turney, with the
Army mail service in Washington, D.
c., was home on brief furlough with
Ibis wife and family.