The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-03-20
SERVICE AWARDS
 FOR VOLUNTEERS
War Price and RatiOning Board Members to Be
 HOnOred for Efforts

Nearly 2,500 Connecticut citizens "who have been serving long hours without penny of pay" as mem bers of War Price and Rationing Boards will be awarded service pins and certificates during the next thirty days. State OPA Director Stanley Crute has announced.
 These are but small tokens of the great debt all of us owe to these neighbors of ours who per formed the difficult and often thankless task of spreading short age commodities fairly and keeping the cost of living in line" Crute declared.
 The awards are going to all mem- bers of the 180 Local Boards now functioning in the state who have served three months or more, Crute said.
 The service record of more than half the board members extends over a period of from one to three yeras," the OPA head added. Among those especially singled out are eighteen members still serv- l ing who were appointed to ration tires more than three years ago when Connecticut had only seven teen boards in all, and before the Price Panels we're part of our local boards" he stated. The certificates being presented are signed not noly by the State OPA Director, but also by Eldon c. Shoup, regional administrator, and Chester BoWles, national ad- ministrator and organizer of the rationing and price control pro- gram in Connecticut.
 A Ninth Air Force Bomber Base, France.-First Lieut.. William A. Hahn, Jr., 24, of North Woodbury, Conn.,, has recently returned home on leave after tour of duty with the Ninth Air Force.
 AS B-26 Marauder pilot with the 397th Bombardment Group, known as the Bridge Busters" It. Hahn flew over 30 bombing mis- sions-first from England, then from France. He has been award- ed the Air Medal and five Oak Leaf Clusters.
 His group, commanded by Col. Richard T. Coiner, Jr., earned it's name of Bridge Busters" by de- stroying tactically important bridges over the Siene, and over other riv- CTS in France, Belgium and Ger many, before and since DID. Lieut.. Hahn entered the service on January 29, 1943, and arrived over seas in April, 1944. Prior to joining the Army he was employed by the Danbury Power and Transportation company. He holds a B. s. de- gree from the Danbury Teachers college, where he was member of the Kappa Delta Pi Fraternity, and played varsity basketball.
 It. Hahn's parents, MT. and Mrs. William A. Hahn, live in North Woodbury.
 Hot Springs, Ark.,-Promotion to the rank of Technician Fourth Grade, Tee. 5, Maurice L. Danis of 596 South Main street, Waterbury, Conn.,, members of the Medical De- tachment of Army and Navy Gen. eral hospital, were announced today by the Public Relations Office.
 The Bronze Star Medal has been awarded to Private First Class Robert J. Gamache, son of Mrs. Fannie Gamache of 725 South Main street for outstanding bravery in an evacuation action. The soldier, who has served overseas more than a year with the Fourth Armored di- vision, is an ambulance driver with the 46th Medical Battalion in France.
 Pvt. John P. Bresnahan, who has served 34 months in Iceland, Eng land, Normandy and Germany with signal battalion, has returned here for a 30- day furlough after which he will report to Fort Devens, Mass. Bresnahan, who entered the serv- ice in March 1922, trained at Fort Monmouth. N. J. He lived with his sister, Mrs. Margaret Powell, 260 Meriden road before entering the service.
 Anthony c. Zucca, 10 Catherine avenue, has been promoted to tech- nician corporal with an Army anti- aircraft unit in the southwest Pa cific. He went overseas 2S months ago.
 | Frank J. Marinelli, son of Mrs IHdlomena Marinelli, 76 Linwood street, has been promoted to corp | nrol uith an Arrnu medical init nt