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Company, Middletown. He is now at
Sens, France, awaiting redeploy-
ment
With The 106th Infantry Division
in Germany - Award of the Bronze
Star and Combat Infantryman
Badge for heroic achievement
against the enemy in Belgium and
Germany has been made to T/Sgt.
David S. Emmert, whose home adj
dress is Weldon Place, Fountain
Head Heights, Hagerstown, a mem
Der of the 106th Infantry Division,
now part of Lieutenant General
Leonard T. Gerow's Fifteenth Army.
His division participated in the
famous battle of the Belgian Bulge
last winter where they threw a
ferocious counter-attack against the
Germans at Manhey, Belgium, and
drove on relentlessly until the
bulge was liquidated.
The 106th then took part in
smashing the Siegfried Line and the
pursuit of its defenders across the
Rhine, setting off the spark for the
final victorious blast across Ger
many.
Pfc. Henry w. Funk, son of Mr..
and Mrs. John K. Funk, 1T East
Franklin street, rifleman with the
goth Infantry Division in Germany,
has been awarded the Combat In
fantryman Badge, for his participa-
ton in campaigns in Germany.
With U. S. Forces in Southern
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France - In a wilderness of trees
and hills near AK, United States
Army Engineers have turned build
ings and landscape of a deserted
French sanitarium into a modern
medical center for the 43rd General
Hospital, Delta Base Section, which
is treating hundreds of front line
casualties weekly. Pvt. Paul W.
Gordon, whose home address is GIL
Park Lane, Hagerstown, is a mem
Der of the hospital staff.
In eight large buildings and 80
prefabricated wards spread over
ITO acres of land, medical miracles
are matter of course. The hospitals
operating room is comparable to the
best in the United States.
All types of sickness and combat
wounds are treated at the hospital,
but soldiers requiring long periods
of attention are reclassified and re-
turned to the Zone of the interior.
Comfort and recreation for patti
ents is an important part of the
hospitals treatment To facilitate
this, large auditorium was built
for vaudeville and legitimate stage
shows and movies. A large post ex-
change provides a wide variety of
soldier comforts, and welI-stocked
library offers everything from Dick
Tracy to Shakespeare to lessen the
boredom of convalescence.
High standards of hygiene at the
hospital are aided by steam
laundry and many AK citizens who
work as charwomen, laundresses
and laborers, supervised by U. S.
soldier technicians. This civilian
labor is paid by the French Gov
eminent and comes under reverse
lend lease. The outside hospital
plumbing system has been establish
ed according to American sanitary
specifications by this combination of
French workers and u. S. Soldiers.
With The 9th Armored Division In
Germany = Pfc. Ronald c. Mann
ing, husband of Mrs. Nancy c..
Manning, Route l, Clear Spring.
Maryland, recently was awarded the
Silver Star Medal, for gallantry in
action.
The citation reads: Private First
Glass Ronald C. Manning, (Army
Serial Number 339O26OO), Infantry,
Company GAP, 44th Armored In
fantry Battalion, United States
Army. For gallantry in action in
the vicinity of Neffe, Belgium on
8 January 1915. He braved intense
enemy artillery fire to carry in
formation of enemy troop concen-
trations to his command post. Up
on returning to his squad, he ignored
enemy machine gun fire to repair
the broken telephone lines. AS a
result of his gallant action, it was
possible to direct artillery fire on
the enemy concentrations and thus