Imperial Valley press., 1945-06-22

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Albert r. Devore, 36, of Ell Centro.
has been promoted to captain, it was
announced from the headquarters of
The Tenth air force in the India
Burma sector. He is adjutant of a
squadron of the Seventh bomb group
and has been in the army 80 months.
He spent year in the India Burma
sector. His wife and baby and his
parents live in FL Centro.
Private First Glass Arvin j. Davis
OF Ell Centro, took part in front line
action which resulted in the cap
ture Of Munich and the ending of
The war in southern Germany when
his company of the Rainbow divi-
sion spearheaded an assault cross
ing OF the Danube river. He was in
one OF the leading assault boats
shortly before midnight April 81
when the Rainbow made its cross
ing OF the turbulent Danube.
A graduate of Central Union high
school this year, Carl Fiore left last
Monday to begin his duties as a
merchant marine. He reported at
Wilmington and will train at Cata-
lima Island. He is a son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Anthony Fiore of El Centre.
Private Marshall Belch, who has
been stationed at Ft. Riley, Kansas,
IS visiting his wife and children in
FL Centro. After a 30-day leave he
will report at FIT. Ord. He is in the
nechanized cavalry.
Lieutenant William F.. (Frankie)
Lambeth of El Centro, wrote friends
that ne is. about IS miles east of
Munich. Hitler's birthplace is about
II miles southeast. His camp is near
a village called Mitterskirken and 30
or 40 miles south of the Danube
river. When the war ended we were
at the Ems river south of the city
OF Steyr in Austria" Other places
he has visited are KaSsel, Frankfurt.
] Wiesbaden and Mainz on the west
bank of the Rhine.
Lieutenant James Ryerson, who
had been an instructor of a ply
and later PBM (Marten Mariner
Tor a year and half at North Is
land naval base in San Diego. is at
Corpus Christi, Texas, and has been
since last October He is chief bomb
ing officer, making out flying sched-
ules and supervising instructors of
large bombing planes in addition to
flying. He attended Central Junior
college in Ell Centre and worked
at the Bank of America before en-
listing in officers training in March.
1941. He trained at Corpus Christi
and was in the South Pacific for a
year. He returned to the States in
1912 and married Flora Fay Langs-
ton of Greenfield, Mississippi. He
expected to return to the Pacific
with the famous Jumbo Squadron,
which did rescue work, but was
stricken with malaria and could not
go. He was in a hospital for time
but later released. He is a son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Raymond Ryerson of
Holtville.
Lieutenant Stan Atkin. former
music director at Central Union high
school, visited friends in Ell Centro
this week. He is navy gunnery Of
ficer and has been in the Pacific
war zone 231a months. He has been
detached from his ship and is await
ing orders for his next duties.
CZechoslovakia is the present ad-
dress Of Lieutenant Laurence Cook.
formerly teacher at Harding
school. He was with the Third army
on the blitz from Lauf, Germany,
Y through Austria, and to Wallern in
the Sudetenland. He is in the Bo-
hemian hills after having passed
through part of the Bavarian Tyrol.
He said they still wear little caps
with feathers in them in the Tyrol
and Alps. He is in a town with two
names, one Czech and the other
German. For several weeks he has
been riding jeep patrol from Wall
ern over the old Czech border and
on to meet the Russians at Strun-
kovice. Those RuskieS sure are big
fellows" he wrote, and can they
store up vodka, schnapps, calvados.
and champagne . What a day
VE-Day was. Everyone just sort of
stood around and no one said any
thing. The Doggies wandered around
whispering, and you could feel the
stiffness deep down inside. No one
would believe it was over :"
Private First Glass Jimmy Mich
OILS wrote his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
George Stewart, that he has spent
most of his six months overseas in
La Louviere, Belgium. While there
he met Morton Pritchard, an Ell
Centran, and they had some good
talks about home Pfc. Nichols is
now completing infantry training
near Reims, France. His younger
brother, Staff Sergeant Lewis Mich
ols, recently returned from overseas
and is spending 80 days with his
parents, who are now in San Diego.
George Grassland, gunner's mate
third class in the navy, was home
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. w. w. Cross