The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-06-09
Service Briefs

Marine Private First Class Jack
Donald Cheesman is now in a re-
Mobilization area after having par,
ticipated in the battle OF Two Jima.
lie Is the son OF Mrs. Edith Chees-
man. 429 East Ainsworth Street,
Ypsilanti.
Cheesman. %, enlisted in Febru-
airy, l9i3. and was promoted TO his
present rank in December, 1913.
He attended Ypsilanti High
School and was active as swim
mer and in American Legion base
ball, Before entering the Marine
Corps he was employed in the blue
print section OF the Willow Run
Bomber Plant.
Since entering the Marine Corps |
he has been stationed at San Die.
go, Calf, the Hawaiian Islands, |
Palmyra and Mature.
Sgt. WILDER ]. Hickman has re. |
ceiyed an honorable discharge from |
the Army. He has arrived az the |
home OF his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. |
Arlie Hickman, 576l Geddes Road.
Ypsilanti.
Word has been received that
Major Raymond F. Horton, Jr,, has
been awarded by order OF the Pres
ldent. a bronze star medal for his
" ork as an executive officer. adiu-
tant generals section, including op |
erations on Leyte, Samar and Lu-
zon. under adverse conditions and |
frequent bombing attacks. He and
his brother, Lieut.. Robert Horton,
are en- route to the United States
on a 30-dsy furlough, their first
visit home since Pearl Harbor. |
Mrs. Raymond Horton, Jr., the for
mer Martha skinner Of Ypsilanti,
is assisting in a private hospital
in Lansing. The Horton brothers |
were In Australia and New Guinea
untirt the Philippine drive began.
Pfc. Theodore A. Spires, 1877 |
Oakham Court and Pvt. Ernest c.
Creasey. Jr., 3037 Grove Rd., were
in Combat Command a.. 18th Ar
mored Division which helped clear !
Nazis out OF the city OF Wurzb. g. |
Second 1t. Frank Whitehouse,
Jr., who Is a pilot on a very heavy |
bombardment crew, is completing |
his last phase OF combat training at |
the Alamogordo Army Air Base In |
New Mcgee. He is the son OF Prof. |
and Mrs. Frank Whitehouse, 6l5 |
W, Forest Ave. He attended Roos-
cyslt rige St3TzE and, IniysssSty
OF Michigan. lie was graduated /
from Blytheville Army Air Field, |
Blytheville, AriE., Sept, s, 1914.
Alexander ]. Yuhas, seaman, sec
ond class, USNR, whose wife lives
at 1880 Hull Rd., Belleville. has
added a star to his Asiatic-Pacific |
ribbon for participating in the bonn
bardment and invasion OF Two
Jima
Loyal S. Nancarrow, %, sonar |
man, second class, is now attached
to the anti-submarine warfare de-
partment OF the Naval training |
center, Miami, Fla. He was grad
uated from high school in Royal Y
Oak in 1871, and was attending the |
Michigan State Normal College,
when he entered the Navy in Feb
ruary, 1943.
1t. Herbert F. Bunting, whose
wife lives at 412 y. Washington
St, has received the Distinguished
Flying Cross from the command
ing general of his wing, Brig. Gen.
John II. Davies, for "meritorious
achievement in the history max
ingf B-29 fire raids on the Japanese
mainland. He is an airplane COM
mander flying a Superfortress out
OF Tinian in the Marianas.
Robert Allen Carter. 70S Dwight
St. will leave Saturday morning
for the Army Air Forces at Fort
sheridan, III. After week there,
he expects to go to Keesler Field,
Miss. He has been called after an
enlistment OF over a year.
Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Youngs,
Huron River Dr., have heard from
their son Petty officer Arnold
Youngs, U.S.N.R,, that the rocket
ship to which he is assigned was
hit while firing their rockets on
the beaches off the coast OF Okln-
ava where he took part in the a
invasion OF that island.
Pfc. Forrest Youngs, U.S.N'Co
son OF Mr.. and Mrs. Harold Noungs, |
Huron River Dr., who is in the !
Sout' Pacific. was very pleasantly |
surprised while walking down
road to meet his brother-in-law'
PVT. Norris V. Akans, who was
awarded the Purple Heart Tor
wounds re 'eived in action IN the
Pacific area.
Mrs. Louis j. Mitchell received
word from the Red Cross May "a
that her husband who had been IN
the German Stalag " since Nov.
Is. 1914, had been liberated. Mrs.
Mitchell, 800 Garland Ave, had re-
celyed cards written in January
from her husband that he was i'm
prisoned there, but was we'll and
eating well, thanks to the Red
Cross.
sgt. Chester A. Maleski, Ann Ar
Dor. is stationed in England as a
special investigator. He works
With military intelligence, securi-