The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-11-02

J. Kot,. 21s Huron River Dr., Belle.
vile.
Mrs. Jene Grlswold Winkleman
has gone to Join her husband, Sgt.
Fred Winkleman. NJ. p. at Fort
Belyoir, Va. She formerly lived
here with her aunt. Mrs. A. l.. How.
ard and is a graduate OF the Ypsl.
lanti High School.
Mr.. and Mrs. Eugene Koppin
have received word from their son,
Ensign Vaughan Koppin. that he
has arrived in Los Angeles. His
ship. the uss Williams. on which
he Ia assistant suffered severe dam.
age in the :yphoons off Dkinsva
a few weeks ago and IL was neces.
sary TO bring Il to the shipyards
for repairs. Ensign Koppin writes
tiN shin
survived the storm, as waves over
100 feet high swept over II and at
one time turned II to a 90 degree
angle. lie had never been able TO
realize how ship could be lost
at sea without sending out an sos,
but now he realizes that such can
be the case. For 40 minutes during
the strom the engines, electricity.
radio, and radar equipment were
dead and had the ship capsized no
one would have know what had
happened to IT, Ensign Koppin
hopes to come home some time in
December. His wife has gone ~
join him in Los Angeles.
Word has been received by Mr..
and Mrs. Manford Coe, I'll L. Cross
ST.. that their son Kenneth. who
has been stationed in Europe Cor
over a year has been promoted to
the ranI~ OF sergeant. He expects
to~be back I'm the United States
by Christmas.
T. NJ. Samuel J. Hammond il
stationed at Shoemaker. California.
After several months in the South
Pacific, he arrived home for a thir-
ty day leave. which he spent with
his wife and daughter. Mrs. Ruth
Hammond and Ruth Ann. S. Huron
River Drive. He also Visited his
parents. Mr.. and Mrs Russell
Hammond, Caro-.
Luclus Bennett, A. VI. sc, who
was home on leave recently, writes
that he Is now stationed At Boca
CHA. Fla, and lives at Key West.
After leaving here he went TO
Wildwood Naval Air Base in New
Jersey, which IL now being closed.
then to Boca CHA.
Lieut.. Ia. a. Harry Conn, U.S.N
arrived home this week. on inactive
status on terminal leave. Lieut..
Conn. q graduate Of Roosevelt High
School the State Normal College
and a University OF Michigan stu.
dent before enl!sting. received his
navy training at tho officers school
in New London, Conn, and the fam
Gus Groton Academy and At Nor
folk. Va. He saw duty IN the Aleu-
tans and along The Atlantic coast
before going to the South Pacific
and ,or time was on convoy duty
on an LIST ship. being 4 purchasing
agent for the ship commissary after
a stay In Hawaii He returned home
on leave last July and has since
been stationed at Charleston, S. G.
on me USCGS Duane. He 10 nomin
ally on a So day leave but 10 still
subject to call for q time. He 10 Wis
iting his mother. Mrs. Elizabeth
Conn.
1t John s. Ennen. -USNR, 81
Wallace Blvd, never had q chance
to chase a submarine while servins
on the sub chaser PC-1l1e. but the
craft had her chance at subs after
VI Day when she assisted IN az
cepting the surrender OF Jap l
boats ordered 10 report into Subio
Bay. Philippines.
The following local men received
their discharges recently, Cpl. Ivan
l. Upthegrove, 51I Court Park
Ridge. Cpl. Harland F. Throne, 15l'
Huron River Dr., Ypsilani;; Cpl.
John ]. Dunaj, 44OOS Tyler Rd'
Belleville; Sgt. Tratzel L. Bruck-
ner, AIS North St, Milan; S/Sst.
Alfred II. Schmidt, l04 s. Ann Ar
Dor St Saline; SiSgt. Waldemar
Morgan. 81 Arnet St. Ypsilanti,
and Capt. George NJ. McCulloch,
2l0 Wallace Blvd. Ypsilanti.