Laurel outlook., 1945-07-04
Letters From
Our Boys
and Girls

SCa11 Jay w. SneeCS, Il,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. Glen Sheets,
Laurel, Mont, is currently assigned
to the AAF redistribution station
No. a at Santa Ana army air base.
Sergeant Sheets, a B-24 gunner
in the Fifth air force with 1856 COM
bat hours to his credit, entered the
service Nov. 1912, and went over
seas in April 1913. He has been
awarded the Aid Medal with two
Oak Leaf Clusters, Distinguished
Unit Citation, and the Pacific thea
ter ribbon with five battle stars.
At this redistribution station, an
operation of the personnel distribu-
ton command, combat returnees of
the AAF receive complete medical
examinations, classification inter-
views and reassignment to domes-
tic stations of the army air forces.
Wallace R. Shay, RIM &c, New
Hebrides, June II:
I have intended for several weeks
to write and thank you for the
paper, but l have been lazy and
have put it off from day to day.
1 really enjoy reading the news
from the home town. We have
many of the good magazines, but l
lay them aside to read the good old
Laurel Outlook. / think / read
every article in the paper about five
times, and 1 especially enjoy the
Letters column. 1 received two
papers today, but have not had time
to read them.
AS you see, 1 still am out here
in the New Hebrides; how long, /
don't know. This is a pretty nice
place, but one can become very
lonesome. There are no towns, so
we don't go on liberty. About all we
do is go on watch, eat, sleep and
take a nice cold shower every day.
Cpl. Carl Branstetter, Germany,
June 16: ,
l have been receiving the paper
about three months and greatly ap- J
preciate it. 1t began coming to me !
in France and has since followed |
me into Germany. l am always in 4
terested in learning where the other I
Laurel boys are located. !
Things were a little rough for J
awhile here, and Pm surely glad
it is over. My job is running a
steam engine or diesel on a rail- /
road. 1
PFC. Marion X. Dawson, Paci- I
flee, June IS: !
l wrote about three weeks ago to !
give a new address, and since then }
the address has changed twice.
hope l will keep this one for awhile, i
for the changes cause delays in de- 4
livery of mail. Z
1 have received the paper regu- Z
larly; it usually is about two months J
late when it arrives here.
Public relations office, Ninth SER
vice command, Fort Douglas, Utah:
PFC. Clarence A. Herbert, son J
of Henry Herbert and husband of i
Mrs. Clarisse Herbert of Laurel, to- /
day received his discharge from the :
army under the adjustment service ;
rating plan, it was announced at the {
Fort Douglas, Utah, personnel CEN :
ter.
He served II months in the Euro
pean theater of operations with al }
armored division and wears battle J
stars for the Normandy, Northern i
France, Ardennes, Rhineland and /
Central Europe campaigns.
PFC. Macons M. Clayborn,
Camp Maxey, Tex, June 27:
At long last the time has come
to notify you and the good citizens
of Laurel that 1 am being discharg-
ed from the service.
l look back with mingled emo
tons of regret and contentment, as
] served five and one-half years in
the army. All along the purse of
service there was the stealing in
fluence of the Laurel Outlook. /
shall never forget.
There was the long periods of
darkness and isolation while at
Nome, Alaska. At this rugged
frontier of America the Laurel Out
look brought a touch of friendship,
even though the paper took two -
months at first to reach us. Now
it does not take as long to reach
these outposts of the world. The
world communication system has
improved very rapidly, and keeping
pace with this improvement has
been the Laurel Outlook.
Although there are a COMPARE
lively small group of men and wo-
men from Laurel who are repre-
scented, I'd like for the people of
Laurel to remember that honor has
been bestowed upon all of US by
all of the people of the world. Lau-
rel has travelled through its copies
of the Laurel Outlook.
1 wish it were possible to per-
thank the people of Laurel