The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-01-12
Defendant In Negligent Homicide Case G
NEWS OF MEN IN THE SERVICEI

An Eighth Air Force Fighter Sta ton, England -- Though the enlist ed men and officers of this Eighth Air Force Fighter Station this year missed many of the time-honored happiness and joys of the Christ mas season, they at least heard the sweet carols and hymns which are the inSeparable accompaniments of the Yule season.
 A Glee Club of 30, among whom is Sergeant Henry T, Holihan, son of Mir. and Mrs. Henry J. Holihan, 35 Seminole avenue, Waterbury, Conn, presented a program of re- ligious music on Christmas eve in the Station Chapel under the guid- ance of Captain Robert Y. Evans of Sherman, Texas.
 The Glee Club has been present. ing programs of popular, light con- cert, and religious music to enlisted men and officers at gatherings on this Station during long winter evenings.
 Sergeant Holihan is weather observer in a Weather Squadron as- signed to the 479th Fighter Group, Prior to his entrance into the Army Air Corps in August, l942, he was associated with the Manor Green- houses, Waterbury, Conn He is an alumnus of Leavenworth High school, Waterbury, and MasSachu- sets State College, Amherst, Mass.
 An Eighth Air Force Bomber Sta tion, England First Lieutenant George L. Benedict, 28, son of Mrs, Ruth L. Benedict, Thomaston, Conn, pilot of B-l7 Flying Fort resS, has won the Air Medal for "merritorious achievement :. coolneSS, courage and skill" during Eighth Air Force bombing attacks on Nazi targets.
 Lieutenant Benedict has taken part in aerial assaults on a variety of objectives ranging from enemy airfelds and railroad functions to oil refineries and front line positions
 The Connecticut airman is a members of the 34th Bomb Group, a unit of the Third Bombardment Division, the division cited by the President for its now historic Eng land-Africa shuttle bombing of Nazi Messerschmitt aircraft plants at Regensburg, Germany,
 A graduate of ThomaSton High school, Lieutenant Benedict was en- ployed by a salesman before enter ing the Army Air Forces in March, l94l. The pilots wife, Mrs. Mary M. Benedict, lives at 2l4 South Mar shall street, Hartford.
 Sgt Robert J. Terrence, 24, Thom- aston, has reported at the AAF re- distribution station at Atlantic City, N. J., for reaSsignment after spend ing holiday furlough at the home of his parents, MT. and Mrs. Eugene r, Terrence, 35 Prospect street, ThomaSton. A veteran of l2 months duty in the Burma India theater, Sergt Terrence worked in the ground crew with the AAF engineers on the famous Lecdo road while overseas.
 His brother, Pfc. John F, Terrence, in the Army for two years is sta toned at Fort Lewis, Wash, with a medical corps unit.
 T-Sgt. William J. Butler, former police reporter, who spend holiday furlough here, has been assigned to the personal relations department Third Air Force, in Miami, Fla,
 Because the men attending mid night Mass on Christmas eve on an island in the South Pacific were called out at intervals to resist Jap anese attacks, the services lasted throughout the night, Pfc. Louis Penna recently wrote his wife, Mrs. Evelyn Penna, 3l Elizabeth street. Pfc. Penna went overseas year ago.