Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-13
Our Men i'm the Service

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communications section of his BIZ
Flying Fortress outfit, has been il
England almost three years. His
group is a part OF Brig. Gen. Howard
/ M. Turner's pioneer first air di-
vision. He holds the Distinguished
Unit Badge, received by virtue of q
| Presidential citation awarded the
First Division, and two bronze bat
tie stars for major offenSiveS II
in which his organization has par
! tioipated. The son Of Mr.. and Mrs
H. r. Johnston, $50 Broadway, E
Centre, Pfc. johnson has married
since going to England. His wife
still lives in England. Johnson grad
uated from high school in El Centre
! in 1899. attended Junior College
for one year and before enlisting
in the army in October, 194l, was
employed as a stereotypist by the
Post Press newspapers. Ell Centre.
Private Tex Bird of El Centre
writes glowing accounts of a Rec
Cross hospital in France. I'VE car
have any bed we want, have plenty
to eat. and have pretty French
girls to wait on us
Sergeant Gere r. Taylor and Ms
wife recently visited his parent, Mr.
and Mrs. John Tyler, and other rela-
tives and friends in F. Centro. Ser
geant Taylor is a ward master il
a surgical ward in the general hos
/ pital at Camp Roberts.
Raymond Silva was home on fur
Tough recently. spending five day:
with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs
Frank NJ. Silva of Imperial. He call
ed at Imperial Union High schoo
where he was a senior when he en-
listed in the navy. He is stationed
at San Diego.
Captain Joe Green, army pilo
downed over Italy. and rescued BY
the underground, his wife, and theil
baby visited his parents, Mr.. anC
Mrs. D. E. Green of Imperial, rec
entity. He has been in charge of ar
air field at Valdosta, Georgia, foi
some time.
We're doing the hardest work we
have ever DONE" Captain Lowell
Weeks wrote his wife, the former
Ethelena Kamm, from Germany
where he is serving with the army
engineers. He went across last
June. He took his company to Bel
eium for a rest not long ago sc
they would have an opportunity tc
sleep without bullets flying ovel
their heads. His wife and son
Michael are living with her par
ents. Mr.. and Mrs. c. F. Kamn
in Holtville. Captain Weeks was
graduated from Holtville elementary
and High schools and from the
Junior College in FL Centro. Before
entering the service he was employ
ed by the Imperial Irrigation dis
trict
Private Ray Barnes, former man.
aging editor of the Post-Press, is
somewhere in the south Pacific. He
is in the army.
Five more l7-year old Brawley
youths enlisted as apprentice sea-
men in the naval reserve at San
Diego. They are James Franklin
Nice. son Of Mr.. and Mrs. Charles
E. Nice; Vernon Glenn Harris, son
of Mr.. and Mrs. George w. Harris;
and Claude Albert Johnson, son OF
Ed Eldridge; Robert Warren En-
ley. son of Mrs. Mabel R. Emley;
and Billy Roger Gordon, son OF w.
c. Gordon. Enlistee Nice's brother,
Evert Charles Nice, is corporal in
the army.
Lewis r. Nichols, 19, El Centre,
recently was promoted from SER
geant to staff sergeant at an eighth
air force bomber station in England
He is participating in bomber at
tacks against military and industrial
targets in Germany, serving as a
ball turret gunner on Bit Fly
ing Fortress.
Don Bonar, mmg 3 &c in the Navy
and his step-father. Ira Wallace
in the Seapees, met in New Guinea
and now are stationed only Is miles
apart. Bonar, who worked at the
gas company before entering the
service, wrote his mother in Fl Cen
tro that his camp does not have ali