The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-04-24
Service Briefs


sity Ave, Ann Arbor, who wal
graduated from Roosevelt Higl
School in 1913. has successful,
completed the prescribed Arm,
I Air Forces Basic Flying traininl
course for Single Engine Pilots al
the AAF Pilot School (Basicl
Spence Field, Moultrie, Ga. He will
continue pilot training at an Ad
ySnced Pilot School within the Ar
my Air Forces Training Command
He is the son Of Mr.. and Mrs. L.
F. Field.
Second 1t. Allan NJ. Eales, %
has arrived at Army Air Forces
Redistribution Station No. In
Miami Beach, for reassignment
processing after completing a tour
OF duty outside the continental
United States. As BIZ Fortress
pilot, 1t. Eales flew 80 missions in
the European theater OF operations
winning the Air Medal with five
Oak Leaf clusters. He is the hus-
band of Mrs Emiline l.. Eales
8 Oakwood Ave, and he entered
the Army in May l04l,
Charles W. HendryX, son Of Mrs.
Alice HendryX, 100 Maple St, Sa.
line, has been promoted TO tech
nical sergeant. He is an aircraft
engineering technician with a unit
Of the Fifth Air Force Service
Command. now in the Philippine
Islands. Overseas So months, he
has seen service in Australia and
the Netherlands East Indies.
The former Miss Genevieye Fox
Of the Red Cross who was married
to Captain Burt Lewis, Jr., of the
United States Marine Corps last
December on Guadalcanal used her
Christmas gift from the Goodfel-
lows to buy supplies to make home
made fudge for 800 Marines in hos
pitfalls at Guadalcanal. She is a
graduate Of Michigan State Normal
College. She obtained her graduate
degree at the University of Mich
igan and had a position In teacher
training at the Normal College for
a time. She has taught in several
other schools in central Michigan.
Pending such time when she can
lejoin her husband. she plans to
live with her mother, Mrs. +. c.
Fox, 500 West Kalamazoo St, Lam
sing. She expects to return to
the United States soon, having
been overseas nineteen months.
Andrew Watson is home on a
short furlough, lie was wounded
in Italy, brought to the United
States on a hospital ship, and has
been recovering in an eastern hos
pital. One OF the chief obstacles
in the Italian campaign, he said, is
the heavy rain, but there, as on
other fronts, our armies are stead
lily advancing.
Cpl. Alden Roberts, stationed in
the Philippines, says that the
Christmas gift OF the Goodfellows
to him was equivalent in Philip
pine money to enough TO care for a
little five-months-old girl who was
sick and badly in need of special
care. 1t is being used for that pur-
pose.
Mrs. Ross Hall received letter
from her son Richard Hall dated
Apr. 8. saying that he has been ad-
vanced to sergeant and tank COM
mander. He has been in service
81 months and has been In combat
for the past % months. He is with
Patton's Third Army and is drlf'
ing a Pershing tank.
Sgt. Ralph Wagner arrived home
Saturday night on Is day emer-
gency furlough from Fort Jackson,
Columbia, S. c.
Lloyd Schultz, q. NJ. &c, has
written his parents, Mr.. and Mrs
A. ]. Schultz asking them to ex
press his thanks for his Goodfellow
Christmas greeting and gift, which
he was happy to receive in March
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Hubbard
11O4 Ecorse Rd., received a tele
gram and a telephone call IRON
their son, Pfc. Walter NJ. Hubbard
OF the Fourth Marine Division who
has served IS months overseas
stating that he had arrived safely
in San Francisco and was at the
USMC Receiving Hospital there II
Ward Is. He said, ITS sure good tc
see L. S. Again
Pvt. Alvin Brown, son OF Mrs
Lloyd Brown. Ypsilanti, and hus
band OF Mrs. Lorraine Nimkt
Brown, Ann Arbor, was one OF I'M
prisoners~ starved and ill-treate'
in a German prison camp, but II
now safe in American hands fol
lowing liberation by the s9th in
fantry. He related being forced L
walk $50 miles from ST. With II
four days with nothing to eat o.
drink and to walk three miles Il
a construction camp where he wa
forced to put in ten hours OF hare
work with only a ha4 hours nooi
rest and with almost nothing u
eat.
Mrs James V. Bommarito (Lol
Earle) has received q letter iron
Adjt.- General 4. Ulio saying ina
her husband. IT'S Bommarito, wa
wounded in Germany April . bu
no details were given.
First Lieut.. Robert Earle Harr
man. nephew OF Fred Sarle, wrot
April 4. that his group had bee
on the march towards Berlin 10