The Waterbury Democrat., 1945-02-19
Del Gobbo's Case May Precipitate Legisl
NEWS OF MEN NV THE SERVICE

GAC. GtuAnuuO D. DLdEOIllS, WI1O WHS
 injured in France, has again been
 wounded in action on January 19 in
 Luxembourg, according to & War
 Department telegram to his par
 entS, MT. and Mrs. William Braz-
 onis, 627 North Riverside street. The
 soldier has been awarded the Purple
 Heart and the Good Conduct medal.
 He was employed at the Pratt &
 Whitney plant in Hartford before
 entering the service, March Is,
 1943, and sent overseas October,
 1943, after training at Ft Jackson,
 s. c. and F't. Meade, Md.
 First It. Vincent s. Ray, a P-5l
 Mustang fighter pilot, has been
 awarded an Oak Leaf Cluster to
 his Air Medal at an 9th Air Force fighter station in England. The off,
 cer, son of MT. and Mrs. Samuel w. Ray, Ill Watertown avenue, en- listed in the AAF in February, 1943, and has been overseas since last October. His wife, Mrs. Sharley Ray, lives at 153 Willow street.
 Three Waterbury seamen have been granted leaves after completing training at Sampson, N. Y, Train ing Center. They are John J. Mas simo, 338 Congress avenue; Robert L. Cohen, 2O4 Plaza avenue, and Gordon J. Rupf, 27 Chamber street, all seamen 70.
 Cpl. Oliver N. LeDuc, Union City, has received the Good Conduct Medal at Bergstrom Field, Austin, Texas, a troop carrier command base. His wife, Mrs. Lillian LeDuc, lives at 529 North Main street, Union City.
 Sgt. Franklin FuSco, son of Mrs. Anthony Fusco, 24 Gilbert street, is now serving as tank driver in the 757th tank battalion, Fifth Army outfit functioning as artillery from behind the ridges bordering Italys Pc Valley on the south. Since snow and ice in this treacherous country prohibit usual tank tactic, the tanks are kept un- der cover in daylight within 2000 yards of the enemy. At night they are wheeled up to firing points where they are utilized in field ar tillery missions.
 Second Lieut.. Peter Dunham, 8, navigator of a B-l7 Flying Fortress, participated in his first mission recently when the 9th | Air Force made one of the most out standing daylight bombing assaults on Berlin. The officer, son of MT. | and Mrs. Carroll Durham, South | bury, attended Harvard university.
 Sgt. Marshall B. Steele, Jr., Wa Ierbury, has received the Air Medal | for completion of more than Is combat missions as turret gunner in an A26 Invader with the 9th Air l Force in France. The former en- ploye of Scovill Mfg. Co.,, also helds the Soldiers Medal for heroism | which he received for saving the life | of 8 B-24 crew member from the | flaming wreckags of a crashed Lib- orator.
 Pfc Frank R. Tracy, Jr, son of MT. and Mrs. F. R. Tracy, B Ball Farm Road, Oakville, Conn.,, has oeen transferred from the Carlsbad Army Air Field, Carlsbad, New Mex co, to Greensboro, N. c. He Is ormer student of Colorado College, Colorado Springs.
 Francis Harding ELS, son of Mrs. ,eon M. Mitchell, 38 Wildwood ave- tue, has received the promotion to ank of warrant officer at the ! Boston Chamical Warfare procure nent district where he serves in he contract termination branch 'rior to entering service in October 942 he was former accountant Itih Haskins and Sells, New York ity.
 Pvt. Mary Sullivan, who enlisted n the WAC last June, is the only .. lember of that branch of the serv- ,c now serving at the Port Ter linals dispensary at the New York ort of embarkation. ,,
 A skilled laboratory technician, vt. Sullivan prepared for college Lauralton hall, Milford, and at ended Rosemont college, Rosemont, | a., where she majored in biology revious to entering the service, Pvt ullivan was laboratory technician I St. Raphaels hospital, New Ha- l en. She is the daughter of MT. t nd Mrs. T. s. Sullivan, 135 West ' lain street. /