Imperial Valley press., 1944-12-08

. McCampbel, son OF Mr.. ana Mr.
w. A. McCampbell, Sr.. of Calexico
is with an infantry unit in France
battling the snow. mud, and colo
along with the Nazis. He has beer
in France since last September
Lieutenant McCampbell was grad
uateG from the school of journal
ism at the University of California
at Berkeley.
The war department announced
recently that the soldiers medal
had been awarded to Major Edwin
L. Goree of San Diego, who was
born in CaleXico and is a son ot
Mr.. and Mrs. Robert Goree. He is
cousin of Lang:ton Goree. Jr.
of FL Centre. The award was made
in recognition of Major Gorees
courage in aiding to get a man
from a burning plane in Italy last
May lC.
Donald Charles Zavaia, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Mike Zavala of Ell
Centro, is one of the 80 young men
and women accepted from 1929 ap-
plicantS for admission to the fresh
men class at the college of medi-
cine at the University of Cincin-
natl in Ohio, under military med
ical set-up. The university's medi-
cal unit was founded in 1919 and
IS said to be the Oldest one west
of the Alleghenies. This is the
schools l25 year. Young Zavala
was graduated from Central Union
High school in Ell Centre in the
class of l941 and received pre-
medical training at the College of
Wooster in Wooster, Ohio.
Technical Sergeant Peter Yri-
goyen, former manager of the Safe
way Store in Calexico, is with the
Thirteenth air force in the Pacific.
He is radio observer with a heavy
Liberator squadron. He was award
ed the Air Medal and an Oak Leaf
Cluster in lieu of a second Air
Medal. He has been In the service
since August of 1912. Sergeant Yri-
goyen was in the scrap when 1.-The
heaviest aerial blow ever struck
against the Japanese war machine
was landed by AAF bomber COM
mand set the Oil production center
OF Balikpapen ablaze. He also was
in the crew which scored a direct
hit on Japanese ship in daring
daylight skip bombing attack His
wife is staying with her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. R. c. Graham at 4l6
Rosemont, Calexico, while her hus-
band is away
After a Today leave, Lieutenant
Robert L. Wilson returned to HOODS,
New Mexico, where he expects to
be given a new assignment in the
army air corps. He is a pilot and
has been instructing at the air
field at Hobbs. He is son of Mr.
and Mrs. L. c. Wilson of Ell Centro
and was graduated from Central
lege. Lieutenant Wilson entered the
service almost two years ago and
was awarded his wings at Douglas,
Arizona last February.
At present Lieutenant Merle Co.
sand, son of Mr.. and Mrs. E. N.
Cosand of Imperial, recently was
transferred from Camp Pendleton
to Princeton university for a 90
day course in public health work
relating to military affairs. He was
practicing in Illinois before enter
ing the navy medical corps. His
wife and two sons still are in Illi-
nois.
Corporal Marvin Patterson, for
mer employe of the irrigation dis
trict in Imperial, has been with
the ninth army in Germany since
November, his wife was informed.
He Is in an engineering battalion.
He wrote that he is where he can
see the robot bombs streaking over
head but as yet none has dropped
near him.
Word came from the Netherlands,
East Indies that Corporal Bartobo-
meo Dollogna, 33, Calexico,' has
completed a year and a half of
6uty overseas. He is a carpenter
with a portable surgical hospital
and is a veteran of the initial land
ing on Cape Gloucester, New Brit
ain, which advanced General Doug
las MacArthur's forces several hun
dred miles nearer Tokyo. His unit
was commended for its part in the
operation He was a farmer before
he was inducted into the army in
February, l943. He was trained at
Ft. Macarthur. Corporal Dollogna
holds the Good Conduct Medal.
Mrs Dorothy McKeen received
word this week that her husband,
Technical Sergeant James A. Nc
Keen, has arrived safely in Eng
| land.
| Corporal Theodore r. Mahaffey
of 767 Ell Centro Ave, a member OF
heavy bombardment group which
now is entitled TO wear the distin-