The Ypsilanti daily press. (Ypsilanti, Mich.) 1928-1962, 1945-03-03
Service Briefs

An Eighth Air Force Bomber
Station. England Second Lieuten
ant Allan NJ. Eales, %, has beer
awarded his third Oak Leaf Clus
ter TO the Air Medal. equivalent &c
a fourth award OF the medal, for
"meritorious achievement" OF
bombing attacks over Germany.
The airman showed courage
GOODNESS and skill while serving
as pilot with the 490th Bomb. group
a BIZ Flying Fortress unit OF the
Eighth Air Force. commanded by
Colonel Frank P. Bostrom OF Ban.
gor. Maine.
1t. Eales is the son OF Mr.. and
Mrs. Fred ". Eales. S lakewood
Avenue. Ipsilanti. and prior to en-
tering the Army Air Forces in May,
1874. he was employed by the Unit.
ed Stove Company.
Sergeant Everett NJ. Chappell,
10, radio operator and gunner on a
BIZ Flying Fortress, received his
baptism in aerial warfare during
an Eighth Air Force bombing at
tack on railroad yards at Frankfurt
onthe Main.
The assault, coordinated with the
advance OF the Allied armies on the
western front, was part OF the
concentrated effort OF the AAF to
cut enemy supply lines and soften
resistance for the thrust into the
heart OF the Reich.
Sgt. Chappell Is the son OF Mr.
and Mrs. Everett NJ. Chappell, 1911
S. Congress st. He is a 1943 grad
uate OF Roosevelt High School and
entered the AAF in July 194S.
The Michigan fier is a member
OF the Sith Bomb. Group, a unit Of
the Third Air Division. the Division
cited by the President for its now
historic England-Africa shuttle
bombing OF Messerschmitt aircraft
plants at Regensburg, Germany.
For six consecutive months the
BIS Mitchell bomber force with
which Staff Sgt. Robert +. Young
is serving as gunner has topped
all others in the Mediterranean
Theater OF Operations In bombing
accuracy. Sergeant Young's wife.
Murits. resides at SS0S futile Hill
Road, Ypsilanti.
Robert W. Dolby, s &c submar-
inc division, wrote his grandmoth-
err, Mrs. katherine Dolby from
somewhere in the South Pacific, 81
have just received my gift from the
Goodfellows and wish you 10 eX-
press my thanks to them. 1t sure
does lift the morale of the men to
know that people like them back
home are backing us 100 per cent"
"
Cpl. Reade S. Pierce acknowledg-
ing his Christmas gift from the
Goodfellows, sends back the check
with the request that it be trans
ferred TO the Community Fund for
any worthy purpose. He says that
since he has been in Germany he
has read Journey Through Chaos"
by Agnes e. Meyer dealing with the
economic and social welfare Of U.
S. industrial centers, and noted
with pride that Ypsilanti was
praised by the author as one OF the
cities that had a real problem and
was doing something about it. Ypsi-
lsnti, he says. has always gone
over the top and he is sure will
keep on He ends with Good luck
and best wishes-I am proud to be
an Ypsilantisn.'
Eugene Sylvester. Sc c, writes
his thanks TO the Goodfellows from
the Southwest Pacific saying, Il
was very surprised and you don't
know how happy it made me to
think that you thought OF me
William John +. Binswanger,
Aviation Radioman Third Glass,
U.S.N.R., Of II North Prospect St.
took an active part in the Philip
pine Campaign, flying six missions
as combat aircrewman aboard
torpedo bomber.
Binswanger, attached to a Navy
squadron based on an escort car
rier in the Pacific. served as radio
man on bombing missions against
such enemy targets as trenches,
gun positions, ammunition dumps,
and other installations representing
the Jap defenses against our inyad-
ing forces.
Sgt. W. F. Ossenheimer has been
granted furlough after 29i2
months in Europe. This furlough Is
granted by the rotation plan OF
granting Burroughs to men who
have been serving overseas for 2
certain period of time. Sgt. essen
heimer will visit his brother and
sister at Ala Florence st.
RM sc Robert Holloway, son o.
Mr.. and Mrs. Percy Holloway, Mott
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