The daily monitor leader. [volume] (Mount Clemens, Mich.) 1942-19??, 1945-01-09


fantryman Badge for passing
tests demanding physical STAN
ina and technical knowledge of
weapons, according to dis
patch received from Central
Pacific base,
PVT. ROY j. HARMS, 10. son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Elmer Harms,
As Beyne street, has been grad
ulated from the AAF Training
Commands aircraft radio mech
anics' school at TruaX Field,
Madison, Wis.
PFC. GEORGE r. HAZARD
has been awarded the Purple
Heart medal for wounds re-
ceived in action against the Jap
anese on the island of Angus.
Pvt. Hazard. the son of Mrs.
Irma Hazard, 125 South ave-
nue., is member of an infantry
division which recently invaded
the southern islands Of the Jap
anese-held Palau group, 500
miles east of the PHILIPPINES. He
also recently received the Com
bat Infantryman Badge for ex-
emplary conduct and skill IN
action against the enemy.
ENSIGN LEWIS F. PETERS,
USNR, has been promoted to
the rank of lieutenant junior
grade. He is stationed at the Ma
val Air Station, "a Beaufort,
S. c., and his wife. the former
Margery Babcock, is with him.
Lieutenant Peters is the son of
Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis Eeters, g.
Gallup avenue.
PVT. VERA BETTY MAC
DONALD was graduated Dec. %
from the aviation machinist
school at the Naval, Air Techni-
cal Training Center, Norman,
Okla, according to a Navy re-
lease. A graduate of Mount
Clemens High school, she en-
listed Feb. 20, 1914. In civilian
life she was employed at Motor
Products Corp of Detroit Mr..
and Mrs. r. T. Macdonald of
1876 Holly street are her parents.
PROMOTION of Donald G..
Shay of "a Church street to the
rank of staff sergeant is an
nounced in a release from a
Ninth Air Force Bomber base in
France today. Sgt. Snay is B.
26 Marauder crew-chief and has
serviced his plane, a medium
bomber, for more than rs mis-
sions. He is the son Of MIR. and
Mrs. Mathew NJ. Snay Of Church
staeet.
BLUEJACKET WILLIAM F.
Browne, 25, was recently grad
uated from the Naval Training
school (Radio) on the Northwes-
tern University car .pus, Evans
ton, III. He is now awaiting fur
Their duty orders to sea or to
some shore station, where his
training will help him earn the
petty officer rate of radioman
third class. His wife lives at 1913
Cass avenue.
PVT. ERWIN L. GRENKE,
son of Mrs. Emil Grenke, 1892
Garfield road, has won the right
to wear the "wings and boot"
of the United States Army Par
atroops. He has completed four
weeks Of jump training during
which time he made five jumps,
the last a tactical jump at night
involving a combat problem on
landing. He took his training at
Fort Benning, Ga.
PVT. ADAM NEIL Bennett,
son of Mr.. and M :. Neil Ben
nett, II Englewood avenue, has
reported to Keesler Field, BIZ
loxi, Miss, to take AAF Train
ing Command examinations to
determine his qualifications as
a pre-aviation cadet.
CPL. GORDON KUKUK has
arrived from Fort Jackson, S. c.,
to remain here until Jan. IA,
when he reports to Fort Meade,
Md. He is the son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Walter Kukuk, l43 Floral
avenue.
COL. AND MRS. HENRY
THORNE are now stationed at
Selfridge Field. Mrs. Thornc
is the former Jean Claggett,
daughter Of Col. Henry B. Clag-
gett, former commanding officer
of Selfridge Field.
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