The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-06-14
Service Briefs

flown his 62nd combat mission In
the Mediterranean area. He is serv
ing as an armorer gunner with a
veteran B-25 Mitchell bomber group
in Italy. Sergeant Young has dis
| tinguished himself in battle and
has shown superior courage and
devotion TO duty in the face OF
/ enemy fire. For his combat flying
| proficiency. Sergeant Young has
been awarded the Air Medal with
| five Oak Leaf Clusters His wife.
Murita, lives at SS0S futile Hill
I'd.
Three Ypsilanti men are receiv-
ing their initial naval indoetrina.
ton at the L. s. Naval Training
Center, Great Lakes, Illinois When
their training is completed these
men will receive a period OF leave.
They are: Glenn +. Lldke, IS. son
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank j. Lidke. Ill
Z. Forest Ave: Harold J. Miller, rs,
son OF Mr.. and Mrs. Herman D..
Miller, 1919 Z Forest Ave; and
Melvin L. Humphrey. II. son OF Mr..
and Mrs. Hollis NJ. Humphrey, 2065
Ide ST.
Bert Groenenberg, T/Sgt. OF the
18th Air Corps Division Is back
from overseas. on a Is day fur.
Tough. He is feeling fine. He is
visiting his three brothers, Paul,
Nunko and Neil, all OF Ypsilanti.
While In the European area he
made IS missions over Germany.
Before going overseas T/Sgt.
Groenenberg was an aviation in
structor in Boise City, Idaho.
Mrs. Ida Groeneberg, his mother,
from Iowa Falls, Iowa, Is here Wis.
iting during her sons furlough.
TiSgt. Arthur +. Dieterle, a gun
ner on a Liberator bomber, after
completing a tour Of duty in Italy,
with the 18th AAF, is on his way
home where he will get additional
training and be re-equipped for his
next assignment. His wife lives at
IS Hillcrest Ave. During a bomb
ing mission, the Liberator which
Sgt. Dieterle was in, became Sc
yerely damaged, making 1t neces-
sary for the crew to bail out. All
the men landed in Russian territory
but soon after they found their way
back to their base in Southern
Italy.
SISgt. Dieterls wears the Air
Medal with three Oak Leaf Gus
tiers. He was employed at Willow
Run as craftsman prior to en-
tering the service in November
1912.
For Outstanding performance
above the normal call OF duty while
engaged in search missions and
anti.shipping attacks in the Japan
ese-controlled area OF the Bis
marck Sea-" Keith W. Bowers, Az
iation Machinists Mate, First
Glass. recently received the Presi'
Dental Unit Citation at ceremonies
conducted in Jacksonville, Florida.
Captain Herbert f. Regan, com
manding officer OF the station made
the presentation. He has previous
lv received a Presidential Unit CT
tatlon for night missions. The Army
Medal was awarded to him for the
same work.
AMM/FC Keith Bowers is the
son of Edwin L. Bowers, 2SO9
Holmes Road.
Mai. Henry Z. Wood. los Wash
tenaw Ave, is Group Adjutant OF
the Italy-based 10th Fighter Group,
a 12.th Air Force PAT Thunderbolt
unit which operated with the Brit
ish Desert Air Force through nine
major campaigns from the battles
OF Egypt-Libya to the surrender OF
German forces in Northern Italy
and Austria. Major Wood has been
overseas since September, 1912.
Gunner's mate, second class, Har-
old A. Utley, husband OF Lawrel D.
Utley, and son OF Mr.. and Mrs.
George Utley, $50 Sumpter Rd.,
Belleyille, has spent IA months on
torpedo boat in the Pacific. He
has three brothers in the service.
Before entering the Navy. he was
employed by the Central Speciality
Co., OF Ypsilanti
Serving with the First Tactical
Air Force Marauder Boomerang
Group" in France, Technical Ser
geant Stanley f. Moody OF $40 e.
Cross St, recently saw The Boom
ernags" fly their 500th mission in
series OF six major campaigns
which has seen the Marauders' tar
gets move from Africa to Germany.
A Marauder crew chief, Sergeant
Moody has been overseas since Sep.