The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-07-06

NEAU, II, son OF Mr.. and MRS.
Lucas Charbeneau, 92h Ma
comb street, arrived in Mount
Clemens today with a Hotpoint
honorable discharge from the u.
S. Army. He served for ID
months in the ETC with the
Third Army, advancing into
Germany, and in addition to the
theatre and Infantry Combat
ribbons wears the Bronze Star
with cluster for a double award.
He is accompanied by his wife,
the former Elizabeth Duffy, OF
St. Joseph Sanitarium, and
daughter, Susan, who have been
visiting in Massachusetts,.
SIC ROBERT ROY SHOOK
JR., son of Mr.. and Mrs. r. Roy
Shook, of 377 Cambridge Drive.
has returned to San Francisco
after a years duty in the Pacific
area, and has telephoned that he
will be home shortly on 20-day
leave. Seaman Shook has served
in the Mediterranean, in Euro
pean waters on D-Day and in
the Pacific area.
TWO BROTHERS who had
not seen each other for more
than a year and half met by
accident in London recently,
and are enjoying a Today leave
at the sea-shore as result.
Capt. Harold Syrett, who has
been serving with the Air
Transport Command for the past
thre years, landed in London
from India, bringing troops
home. He went TO small OUT
-of-the way restaurant, and
there was his brother, First 1t.
Jack Syrett, pilot of a fighter
plane, who has been overseas
about three months. They put
in for leaves together and won
out. A third brother, Sgt.
George, who has been in Ger
many with the Third Army IS
expected home in two weeks,
with a total of more than 100
points to his credit.
S/SGT. CHARLES A. BLAY,
who was born and raised in
Mount Clemens, is now the
Army Transport Commands
Skyline Service Club director
a member of the Special Service
Office, stationed in the Carib-
bean. He comes from the Infan-
try, with which he went over
seas in February, 1914. He was
in the first assault wave that
went in on the soil of France
and in all the subsequent First
Army operations until he was
wounded. He also saw action in
Northern France, and was
wounded again. A Bronze Star
was awarded him for rescuing
comrades on D4Day by expos
ing himself to fire and for ac-
ton in a battle near Hammich,
Germany. where as platoon
leader of 81 men, Blay fought
with his men to repel a German
attack. In the morning, he
counted 200 dead Germans and
10 captured. Sgt. Blay also has
the Purple Heart with a cluster,
a unit citation with a cluster,
the ETC ribbon with four battle
stars, and the Combat Infantry
mans Badge. Son of William
Blay of $3.50 Sugarbush road,
he has brother, Pfc. William
Blay, in Germany with the In
fantry. Sgt. Blay's wife and son
live in Crosse Pointe.
T. SGT. DONALD D. from.
bley, 20, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Henry j. Trombley, of 125 Hur-
on street, is at Fort Sheridan.
ILL.,, on his way home with
103-point Army discharge, aft
er four years in uniform and AZ
months in the Pacific area, in
GLIDING Hawaii and Saipan. Sgt.
Trombley was with the combat
engineers and has three other
brothers on active duty with the
Navy In the Pacific area.
HERBERT ALPERN. hospital
apprentice nc, Is taking his hos
pital corpsman's training at
cambridge, Md. He Is the son OF
Mr.. and Mrs. Mark Alpern.