The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-02-22

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T/5 Richard r. Hall. son OF Mr..
and Mrs. Ross Hall, this city, is
shown as he appears in the battle
fields OF Europe. He has been over.
seas IS months and holds four bat.
tie stars.
1t. Bernard +. Gilbert has Just
left for Camp Swift, Texas, after
spending Is day leave here and
in Detroit with friends and rela.
tives.
Since August OF "A 1t. Gilbert
his wife and daughter, Gail Marie.
have been in Orlando, Florida. Au,
gusta, Georgia, and previous to his
leave, in Manhattan, Kansas.
Mrs. Gilbert and Gail Marie will
remain with Mr.. and Mrs. ]. Muel.
Ter OF 6490 Whitaker Rd until they
can again join 1t. Gilbert.
1t. q. g. Harry Conn, United
States Coast Guard, has returned
to Ypsilanti to visit his mother,
Mrs. Elizabeth Conn, after 81
months in the north, central, south
and southwest Pacific. He is an ex-
ecutive officer and navigator aboard
Coast Guard manned LIST boat,
He flew here from Leyte and while
en- route met 1t. Roy w. Renton,
USMCR, a torpedo-bomber pilot at
Palau. This was the first time
the old Ypsilanti friends had
seen each other in II months. 1t,
Conn has a 80 day furlough. This is
his first opportunity to come home
in 81 months.
Lieut.. James r Hewett, Pen
Argyll. Pennsylvania, whose wife
lives at 936 Clark Rd., is waiting
reassignment in the Marianas after
completing forty combat missions
with It'll heavy Bomber base. 1t.
Hewett and other members OF the
crew have blasted Jap targets In
the BONN. Caroline and Volcano Is
lands. He was graduated from Pen
Argyll High School in 1885 and at
tended Akron University. Prior to
entering the army in February
1871. he was employed by Dave
Towel. Incorporated, OF Akron,
Joining the eth AAF in May, 1914,
he has been awarded the Air Medal
with two Oak Leaf Clusters. and
the Distinguished Flying Cross.
Sergeant Gerald Roberts. son OF
Mrs. Marjorie Roberts. $50 North
Harris Rd.. was one OF the men oil
the 372nd Engineer regiment who
dropped their tools to take places
in the front line as riflemen when
the Nazi winter offensive threat
ened their area. In civilian life
Sgt. Roberts was employed on the
assembly line by the Ford Motor
Company plant here. He was In
Quoted into the Army at Camp
Grant, Illinois. in January 1912, and
received his basic training with the
Engineers at Camp Claiborne, Lou
isiana. He went overseas to Wales
in August 1943 and arrived In
France in October. 1874.
T/5 Margaret Zimmerman, daugh'
ter OF Mrs. E. l.. Zimmerman, 254
Plymouth. has recently been as
signed to the Station Hospital, In
diantown Gap Military Reservation,
Pa. as a Surgical Technician. Cpl.
Zimmerman enlisted in the original
Women's Army Auxiliary Corps In
Nav 1913. She took her basic train
ing at Fl. Devens. Mass, and has
since served at the Holsbird Sig
nal Depot Station Hospital at Bal
timore, Md, and at the Army and
Navy General Hospital in Hot
Springs, Ark. She is graduate oil
the Enlisted Medical Technicians'
School at Hot Springs. Previous TO
entering the service Cpl. thinner.
man was employed by the Ford
Motor Co. in Plymouth and Ypsi'
lanti.
From Private First Glass Lyle n
Nemeth in the European area
comes thanks TO the Goodfellows
for their remembrance at Christ,
mas 1T is very fine piece oil
work you folks are doing" he says
Private First Glass James Relch
ert most recently reported recoV'
ering from jungle rot, has had 2
long military career since he left
Washtenaw County with Company
K Ann Arbor, for Louisiana. he
was one of the first troops to be
landed from a submarine and was
one of the first.to retake landfrom
the Japs. it being Attu Island IN
the Aleutians. His company re
ceiyed a presidential citation or
that occasion. He later was trans
ferred to the Hawaiian ISLANDS
thence TO the Marshalls for what ne
describes as a short engagement