Montgomery County sentinel. [volume] (Rockville, Md.) 1855-1974, 1945-01-11

berg was graduated from Rich
ard Montgomery high school in
Rockville and attended the Uni
versity of Maryland for three
years. He holds the Aid Medal
with three Oak Leaf Clusters, the
Distinguished Flying Cross and
the Purple Heart.
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The son of Mrs. Myra Wood
field, a nurse at the Suburban
Hospital in Bethesda, has a most
interesting assignment and is per-
forming very important job in
France. Sgt. Joseph E. Woodfield,
formerly of Gaithersburg, comes
out the directional range of Nazi
fire with tiny electrical gadget
which shows the infantrymen
around him that he is member
of the 3rd Field Artillery Obser-
walton Battalion. The moment en-
envy guns begin roaring, Sgt.
Woodfield presses the button on
this electrical gadget and with the
snap of that button, a series of
concealed microphones, strung out
| in a line just a few miles back,
are turned on, and tuned to re-
ceive any sounds from his posi-
ton. Since the mikes are at
varying distances from the enemy
guns, they pick up the sound at
varying time-interval minutes as
one thousandth of a second. Wires
lead from these microphones to a
more complicated instrument at a
central recording point, where
time-intervals are almost instant
aneously photographed as jagged
lines. Then they are transcribed
to plotting board and become in
tersecting lines on map, with
the point of intersection completely
revealing the location of Nazi
guns. Sgt. Woodfield works at the
very front-most lines.
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Pfc. Samuel 7. Roberts, husband
Of Mrs. Betty N. Roberts, Route
/, Rockville, is reported to have
been wounded in the Asiatic thea
ter of operations.
X
/ Pfc, Jackson Ward Wisner, jr.,
has. been slightly wounded, his par
ents were informed by telegram
Monday. He is in hospital some
where in France. His friends are
asked to write him,
| His address Isl: Pfc. jackson w.
Wisner, Jr., 131419o6, co Detach-
ment of Patients, #4177, u. S.
Army Hospital Plant, APO #121-
B, Go Postmaster, New York, NY.
ei4a
j. w. Reed ARM 1fC,,' Visiting
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Philip
Reed of Rockville, counts himself
zone of the luckiest men in the
county" His eyes which were
badly burned by chemicals at Casa
Blanca are almost entirely well
and he will shortly be assigned to
a new duty. A brother, Pfc. Dex-
ter Reed, at one time reported
missing in action" is now with
his unit in Italy. Mr.. and Mrs.
Reed have five sons in the service.
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| Pvt. Woodrow w. Hungerford
of Germantown has returned to the
states after serving oversee and is
now stationed in Massachusetts.
He was wounded in the right
, shoulder.
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Pvt. Charles E. Grogg, son of
Mr.. and Mrs. T. H. Grogg of Ger
mantown is back in the United
States after serving with the in
fantry in Germany where he was
wounded in the right hand. Pvt.
Grogg received his basic training
at Camp Banding, Fla, and was
sent oversee in September. His
|, wife and four children reside with
her parents in Chilhowie, Va.
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After serving nearly two and
one-half years, participating in the
invasions of Sicily, North Africa
J and France on D-Day, Cpl. Rich.
} ard l. Leaman, son of Mr.. j. U
Leaman of Germantown, has re-
turned to the United States. Cpl
Leaman, who entered the army in
November 1941, served in the in
fantry with the First Army. He