The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-07
NEWS OF MEN LN THE SERVICE
PRIVATE ROCKWELL IN OKINAWA AREA
Former Taft School Athlete BOdyguard for Battalion
 Commander
(By Sgt. Joseph P. DOnahue, a Marine Corps Combat
 COrrespondent)

Okinawa. Delayed-Marine Prl- vate Harry Phillips Rockwell, who came ashore as a communications man. but now he is bodyguard for Lieut.. Col Spencer S. Berger, a battalion commander in the Sev- enth Regiment.
 The husky, blond Marine, who starred with the undefeated Water town, Conn.,, Taft school football team in 1943 also serves as jeep driver for Berger. But on the front lines of this mountaineous island, there's little opportunity for Jeep riding.
 Rockwell came overseas recently as a Browning automatic rifleman. After joining the First Marine Dl- vision, he was transferred from a line company to communications.
 Two days after his assignment with Colonel Berger, he was kept so busy he was unable to wipe off the blood from gash on his nose.
 "A shell got you?" he was asked.
 No" he answered with a shy grin. T got in the way of a ra- tion box"
 Rockwell attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology before en- listing last year. He is the son Of Mrs. Louise D. Rockwell, 173 Buck ingham street, Waterbury, Conn.
 Pvt. Remigio Nargi, 25, liberated last month from Stalag Luft 3A where he was imprisoned since last December, is spending leave here with his parents, MT. and Mrs. Pasqualina Nargi, 215 Orange street.
 Nargi entered the Army May P, 1914, and went overseas in Novem- Der. He is a former toolmaker at the Eyelet Speciality Go. His brother Pvt. Andrew Nargi is with an army unit in France.
 S-Sgt. Louis J. Jongo, son of MT. and Mrs. Longo, 72 East Dover street, has been honorably dis charged on the point system after completing 34 months service in the European theaser. He was at tached to an engineers unit.
 William T. Steinmetz, NM Sc, will shortly join motor torpedo boat tender, it has been learned. The motor machinist mate has con- pleted training at thet orpedo boat repair training unit, Melville, R. l A former employe of the Waterbury Tool, division of Vickers, he is the husband of Marjorie (Glastre) metz, who resides at 86 Temple street
 With the Atlantic Fleet-Walter Eugene Stevens, Jr, 24, USNR, of 34 State street, Waterbury, Conn.,, has advanced to gunner's mate, third class, aboard a destroyer es- cort in the Atlantic Fleet.
 Stevens is married to the formo' Olga Cyr of Waterbury and they are the parents of a 4-year old daughter, Elizabeth. Stevens is the son of Chief gunner's Mate and Mrs. Walter E. Stevens of Water bury. who also have another son, James, seaman, first class in ship repair unit of the Navy.
 Stevens graduated from Wey- mouth high school in East Wey- mouth. Mass. Before entering the Navy. he was employed as a rig ger by the Bethlehem Steel Corp, (shipbuilding divisiom of Quincy, Mass. Walter entered the Navy or April II, 1944, and is now in his ninth month of sea duty. He took his training for his present rate as gunner's mate school, Sampson, N. Y.
 Stevens is entitled to wear the American and the European-Atrl- can Middle Eastern 1'heater ribbons.
 It. William J. Powell, former prisoner of war, who is now spend ing a leave here, revealed yesterday he spent se;en months with the AL lied underground workers in France and Belgium before being captured by the Germans
 He was captured When in an at tempt to reioin the Allied lines last August wien he enlisted the aid Of several men who professed to be French underground workers, but were in reality attached to the Nazi underground.
 Powell was taken to the notorious BuchenNala prison and later to Moosburg The AAF navigator is the son of Mrs Christina. Powell, 1905 Thomaston avenue, and the hus- band of tte former Shirley Sails bury, l6t Yale avenue, Middlebury.
 Major General Horace L. Mo Bride. commanding general of the 3Oth Infantry Division, announces that Staff Sergeant Oscar P. Lie breich of Bucks Hill road, Water hi,r,- Conn racentlv uaS awarded