The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1944-11-07
Service Briefs

Battalion now in its 9th month
overseas is fighting in the Gothic
Line on the Fifth Army front 10
Italy. Pfc Litchard Is a telephone
repairman.
Cpl. Gordon f. Gable, End career
gunner will soon complete an in
tensiye course in combat flying at
the Alexandria Army Air Field, AL
exandria, La, and in the near fu-
ture he will go overseas to COM
bat area. Cpl. Gable was grad
uated from Ypsilanti High School
In 1910 and also attended Albion
College where he was a member OF
the Tau Kappa Epsilon, Delta Sig
ma Rho and Omicron Delta Kappa
fraternities. He is the son OF Mr..
and Mrs. F. l.. Gable of 1885 N.
Prospect st.
Corporal Carl E. Davis, 25-year-
old armament clerk, son OF Mrs.
Harry Jurn, OF 922 North River St.,
Is among those honored by a presi'
Dental citation OF the 4th Fighter
Group OF the Eighth Air Force, "as
public evidence OF deserved honor
and distinction"
Staff Sgt. Wallace c. Carrier,
32.year-old aircraft mechanic, from
2100 ". Congress St., is among
those honored by presidential
citation OF the 4th Fighter Group
OF the Eighth Air Force, "as evil
dence OF deserved honor and dis
tinction.
Mrs. Frank Richard OF W. Davis
ST., left Sunday morning FOR
Brookwood, Texas, to visit her hus-
band, Pvt. Frank Richard. who Is
stationed at Camp Bowie, Texas
William f. Strong, $50 E. Cross
St. was commissioned an ensign
in the U. s. Naval Reserve In
Ithaca, New York. He was a men,
Der of class OF 166 midshipmen
to complete a four-month course
in the Naval Training School at
Cornell.
Aviation Cadet Vance e. Nc
Donald who has been spending a
l7.day furlough with his wife and
infant daughter at his home on
Cornell Rd., returned Friday to the
Army Aviation Cadet Center, San
Antonio, Texas, where he will await
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transferred either to Oklahoma or
to another base in Texas for pri-
mary flying instruction as pilot
wednesday Cadet and Mrs. Nc.
Donald had their daughter, Cheryl
Jaye, baptized at the Methodist
parsonage by Rev. Walter B. Hey.
Ter.
Harold V. Clark, Jr., IS, son
Mr.. and Mrs. II. ID. Clark, 25O
Spencer Ave-. is receiving his ini-
tial Naval indoctrination at the
U. S. Naval Training Center, Great
Lakes, Illinois.
Mrs. Guy Parsons and her aunt,
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Friday that their sister and niece,
S End V. Carol +. Bradley will ar
rive in Ypsilanti Saturday from
Cleveland for a short furlough.
Miss Bradley enlisted In the Wares
about a .sdr ago. Her twin broth
er, Sgt. Allen Bradley who was
injured several weeks ago Is get
ting along nicely but will remain
In the hospital for several weeks
yet. He has been stationed In
Paris, Arkansas. Both arc twenty
years old.
Mrs. Harold Gludy received a
telephone call from New York from
her son Ensign Robert X. Gaudy
Monday evening saying that he will
be stationed there for two or three
months before going on active duty.
His wife will remain there with
him.
Mrs. Guy W. Miller has received
word from her husband, Pvt. Guy
w. Miller, that he is in the fifth
armored division In the Third
Army with Gen. Patton. Since land
ing in France he has been unable
to tell where he was or what he Is
doing. but can say now that his
outfit Is under secret orders under
direct command of Major Oliver.
The secrecy no longer being re-
CURED. he was able to give the In
formation from the official release
printed in the Stars and Stripes
| paper He said that after covering
an advance OF 400 miles in 20 days,
they were the first Americans to
enter Germany. The fifth armored
division Is now operating with the
British and Canadian forces on the
Belgian front.
Ensign William Strang, who has
been visiting his parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. w. ]. Strang, $50 East Cross
ST.. for few days, left Monday
evening for Norfolk, Virginia,
where he will receive two and one
half months amphibious training.
Ensign Strang was graduated last
week from Cornell Midshipman's
School, Ithaca, New York
Keith NJ. Petit, PPR, Second
Glass. Is home on a seven day fur
Tough from Norfolk, Va, where he
has been a year and a hail. He will
be stationed at Camp Bradford.
Cpl. and Mrs. Donald (Don) Bal
ley are visiting their parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Elwyn Bailey, 3OS Bal
lard St.; and Mr.. and Mrs. Sydney
Sutton, Sheldon. The corporal Is on
% day furlough from Tacoma,
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