The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-06-11
NEWS OF MEN LN THE SERVICE

"A MemOrlal Mass Tor frlVate
 Joseph G. Lovett will be cele-
 brated Tuesday at a. m. at the
 Church of the Immaculate Con-
 ception. Private Lovett was killed
 in action in France September 29,
 1914. The infantryman's widow,
 Margaret (Murphy) Lovett, l5l
 South Elm street is in the WAVES.
 Pvt. Gloria M. Mannetti, daugh- ter of MT. and Mrs. Anthony Man netti, West Farm street, has joined the United States Marine Corps Women's Reserve and has left for boot training for Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. She is graduate of Leavenworth High School and a former employe of the United States Time Corporation in Middlebury.
 S-Sgt. John Russell, son of Mrs. James Russell, Sr., 72 Country Club road, will be given an honorable dis charge soon on the point system. He entered the service in l940. Two brothers are also in service, It. George Russell who holds the Bronze Star medal for meritorious service in the European Theater of War, and Capt. James E. Russell with an Army unit in New Haven.
 Platoon Sgt. Raymond Weeks, will be in the main lobby of the Post Office building tomorrow from g a. m. to 4:30 p. m. to offer in- formation about the Marine Corps and the Marine Corps Women's re- serve. He is veteran of 32 months duty in the South Pacific.
 Cpl. Albert A. Alanskas, son of MT. and Mrs. Joseph Alanskas, 108 Wood street, is member of an air. craft warning unit with the Seventh AAF in the Pacific, which charts the progress of friendly airplanes in flight over and around the Marian as. The battalion recently distin- guished itself in assisting crippled B-29s to find their home bases when returning from raids on Jap an.
 Prior to entering the armed serv- ice in April, 1942, Alanskas was en- ployed by the Waterbury Post Office as a letter carrier. He shipped for overseas duty in September, 1942. Two brothers are in the service. John is a staff sergeant at Dover Field, Del, and Joseph an ensign with the Merchant Marine.
 Pfc. Adam c. Palletier, 182 Mill street, Waterbury, Conn.,, a member of the headquarters staff of Cener- al Courtney Hodges First United States Army, returned to the United States from Germany for 30 days of rest and recuperation before return ing to duty with the Army that is preparing for operations in the Pa- cific theater.
 Headquarters personnel of First Army arrived in New York on June 3, just three days before the anni- versary of D-Day, in which the First Army played major part, being the first onto the beaches of Normandy. The First Army, which was com- manded by General Omar Bradley for the invasion and for the St. Lo breakthrough, was also first into Germany, first across the Rhine river, first to meet the Russians and is the first army to be trans ferred from the European theater to the Pacific.
 St. Germain-en-Laye, France - In the shadow of a picturesque 1lth century chateau once occupied oy Louis the Fourteenth, Private First Glass Stella s. Gillis of IA Third street, Waterbury, Conn, and hum dreds of her sister WAC soldiers passed in review to climax an irn- pressive ceremony celebrating the third anniversary of the Womens Army Corps.
 Passing the reviewing stand, Pri- vate First Class Gillis turned eyes right" to General Carl Spattz, com- manding general of the U. S. Stra- tegic Air Forces in Europe, who took the salute, Ranged in the back ground were hundreds of French civilians, who were seeing American women soldiers on parade for the first time. Flags of the United Ma tjvns snapped in the afternoon sun and American aircraft wheeled over head to round out the colorful scene
 Private First Class Gillis is a tele- phone operator here at Air Tech nical Service Command headquar' terS.
 James Alexander Bowey, 20, fire man, first class, 203 Lounsbury street, Waterbury, Conn, is station ed at the Atlantic Fleets Motor Torpedo Boat Training Center, Mel vile, R. l.
 Bowey is the son of Mrs. Anna Bowey, Waterbury. He has a bro- ther, Joseph, also in service. He re- celved boot training at Sampson N. Y, and attended Diesel school at Gulfpoct. Miss.
 Bowey is graduate of Leaven- worth Eigh school Before joining the Navy. he was employed by the Farrel Foundry in Waterbury.
 Upon completion of his instruc- :A0n aJ Melville. Bowey vii join a PIT squadron in the Pacific.
 Philippines - (Delayed) - From torpedo boat duty in the Mediter- ranean to helping Filipino guerrillas ;,, Mipdorao that's the record O1