Imperial Valley press., 1945-04-22

| Weakley, en- route to amphibious
training with the navy at Coronado.
He will report there the first of the
week. Since he was commissioned
at Columbia university he has been
attending radar school at Bowdoin
college in Maine.
Corporal Hector Medina, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Alfred Medina of SIT
Third street, Calexico. has ccm-
pleted Is months overseas in the
Pacific area as headquarters clerk
with q portable surgical hospital.
At the time of the Japanese suicide
attack on Bougainville, Solomon
islands last spring and summer,
Corporal Medinas organization was
supporting the American division.
For It's work, the hospital received
commendation from one CT the
regiments of that division. Corporal
Medina landed at Lingayen Gulf,
Luzon, Philippine Islands on jan
uary 8 with the 37th infantry di-
vision and stayed with that division
through the conquest of Manila. At
the present time the thirty-first
portable hospital is attached to the
famous thirty-second infantry (Red
Arrow division.
Second Lieutenant Harold E.
Shelby, whose wife, Jean, lives in
Ell Centre, was cited by the 338th
infantry regiment of the 85th Gus
ter division and awarded the CON-
bat infantryman badge for actual
participation in combat against the
enemy on the Fifth army frcnt in
Italy.
Private Joaquin F. Corona of the
army ground forces arrived home
March 80 for a 2l-day furlough
with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. R. S.
Corona, of Imperial. After that
he will report at Baltimore, Mary
land, for reassignment. Before he
enlisted last November he was
senior at Central Union High school.
Technical Sergeant Burke Lem
ons of El Centro had been in COM
bat in Germany 54 days when last
he wrote his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
B. E. Lemons. Burke is serving in
the headquarters company of an
armored field artillery unit.
Private Raymond Beretta, serving
with the infantry in the Philippine
Islands, is back en- duty after two
weeks in the hospital. He was
treated for a back injury.
Herb Brown, navy SIN 1-c, is
aboard a seaplane tender in the
vicinity of the Yap islands. Before
the war he was employed at the
Ell Centro post office.
Private Claude Hugh Lyon, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Otis Lyon of Ca
lexico, has been assigned to the
quartermasters division at Camp
Lee, Virginia, for six weeks of
| schooling. He left for army service
last March first going to Camp
! Macarthur. He was graduated from
high school. last June and attend
ed Central Junior college in Ell
| Centro. He was president CT the
Future Farmers of America and
president of the student body.
THE salmon already have start
ed trying to jump the falls about
four miles above camp" Private
w. j. (BilD Gullett wrote friends
from northern Scotland where he
is serving with the Canadian army.
AT high tide the northern seas
back up stream at our back door.
The fishing season starts next week.
While I watch the water and fish
and Pheasants, I'll think of home" "
If the Yanks can't get what they
want they will buy it. They will
pay S18 for bottle of whiskey on
a black market if that is the only
way to get it.
Major Perry L. Shuman, former
ly stationed at the Ell Centre ma
rine station with a fighter group,
is at Okinawa. He went ashore
with the assault troops, taking his
enlisted men with him. We've all
been living in fox holes and the
whole outfit is wet to the bones. No
one was sick but all had been work.
ing day and night. Some things
happened and he ended up COM
manding officer of the whole group
for several days. He wrote that the
enlisted men sure have been put
ting out" Other men formerly at
the Ell Centro marine air station
who landed with Major Shuman are
Captain Joseph j. Klackle, Lieu
tenant r. j. Kane, Major r. O.
White, Second Lieutenant l.. G.
FreisS, Lieutenant G. G. Whipple