The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-05-03

With the 32nd Infantry Division
In Pangasinan Province, Luzon, P
I.-Pvt. Edward Troy, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Frank j. Trey, So Gates
avenue, Waterbury, Conn. has ar
rived in the Philippines and has
been assigned to the veteran 32o
RED Arrow" Division.
Troy has been assignee to the
Motor Section and is driver in a
Battery of the 10th Field Artillery
Battalion.
Pvt. Troy entered tn service in
July 1914, received his basic train
ing at Fort Bragg, orth Carolina
and left the States n January 10
1945 for duty in the Pacific. He is
entitled to wear the Asiatic-Pacific
theater ribbon and the Philippine
Liberation ribbon.
Troy is a graduate of Crosby High
School, class of 1914 He was active
in both football and track while at
tending Crosby.
Orazio o. .ongo, 80, of 9 Court
street, Waterbury, Conn, has been
promoted to Ships Cook Second
Glass in the U. S. Naval Reserve at
the Naval Air Station, klamath
Falls, Oregon, where ne i on duty
in the commissary. He has been in
| the Navy sixteen months.
| With The First Cavalry Division
on DEMONSTRATION S. Onalfo, son
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Vincent Onalfo, 133
Fulton Park avenue. Waterbury
Connecticut, has been promoted tc
the rank of sergeant, it has beer
announced by Colonel Charles E
Brady, commanding officer Of the
Eighth Cavalry Regiment.
Sergeant Onalfo is veteran Pa
cific fighter, having been in action
with the First Calvary Division in
the Admiralties and in the Philip
pines on Leyte, Samar, and Luzon
Swannanoa, N. c., May 3-Sgt
Virginia A. Mani, daughter of MI
and Mrs. George Mani, 224 Walnut
street, Waterbury, Conn, has beer
promoted from the rating of techni-
clan fourth grade to techniciar
third grade at Moore General hos
pital where she is a pharmacis
! technician.
She enlisted in the WAC on Feb
ruary 7, 1913 and was previously
stationed at Fort Des Moines anc
Fort Oglethorpe. Educated at Cros-
by High school and the college Of
pharmacy at the University of Con-
necticut, she was employed in Wa
| terbury for Miss Pauline Milenky a!
pharmacist assistant in civilian
| life.
U. S. Naval Air Station, Jackson
vile, Fla, May 3-Marcella Anna
BalseS daughter of Mrs. Marcella
| BaIseS, 3 Sixth St, Waterbury
Conn, recently passed competitive
examinations on this station anc
was advanced from seaman frs
class to yeoman third class, it wa
announced.
The 2O-yer-o!d WAVE petty Of
ficer enlisted in the Navy June y
1914, taking recruit training a
Hunter College, Bronx, N. Y Sh,
later attended yeoman school a
saltwater, Okla.
Corp Else Knudsen, WAC, Ia
returned to this country ate
spending the past eight months :.
New Guinea. and is now at Rhode
General hospital Utica, N. Y. Corp
Knudsen flew home with seyera
other members vi nc WACs from
New Guinea. Her husband, Knuc
Knudsen. former member OF TIT
Danish Ali Force, is an enginee!
! for the Lewis Manufacturing Co.
| Naugatuck.
William Lumpkin. Aviation Mach
inist'S Mate Second Glass, U. S. N
r, OF IS Maple street, Thomaston
Conn. has returned from the Pacific
area after tour of combat duty
as turret gunner in Navy Avengel
torpedo bomber.
Attached to a night fighting unit
Lumpkin flew SO combat missions
against Jap shipping and air in
stallations, and helped bomb a rail
road station south of Clark Field
Luzon, in the preinvasion softening
of that enemy-held sector
He is the son of MI. and Mrs
Howard V. Lumpin of the Thomas
ton address, and is 81 years old