The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1946-02-07

With Our Men
In The Service

one Of the veterans returning to the
: States aboard the USS General
Ernst, which left Yokohama, Japan,
ON January II. and was scheduled to
arrive in Seattle the last of January.
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! Claude F. Beckman, a mechanic
with Service Battery, seth field artil-
lery of the 25th infantry (tropic
lightning) division, has been pro-
NOTED to tcchnician fifth grade in
Nagoya, Japan, where he is now sta
toned His wife resides near Deer
Park. Tj5 Beckman is the son of
Walter n. Beckman, route ,, Oak
land. Two brothers. Fred and Robert
Beckman, are also in the service. TI5
Beckman entered the army December
u. 1914. and trained at Fort Bragg,
n. C. He sailed for overseas in June,
1915, joining the 25th division at Lu-
ION. The division is now engaged in
the demilital.ization Of the Nagoya
area, formerly center Of aircraft
production.
George A. King, F 1Ic, USNR., has
been honorably discharged from the
naval service at cambridge. King,
who was last stationed at Norfolk,
Va. has been in military service p
months. His parents live at VindeX.
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Kenneth R. Bucket, signalman
third class, Bittinger, served on the
tug USS Moctob during part of her
war cruise in the Pacific. The vessel,
one of the first ships to enter Yoko-
suka naval base in Japan, operated
with the service forces in the Pacific
after her commissioning in July,
1914. The Moctobi operated around
the Marshall islands, Eniwetok, and
Guam and supported actions at Lu-
ION, Ulithi, Two Jima, OkinaWa and
with the service forces that served
the Bird fleet throughout the pre-sur
render bombardment of Japan.
Lee F. Shillingburg, S PC, USNR.,
son of Mr.. and Mrs. C. E. Shilling
burg of Steyer, has landed on the
Hawaiian Islands, He has been on
several islands since he landed, Pearl
Harbor, Oahu; Ford, and Aiea. S &c
Shillingburg went aboard the Cape
Esperance" Aircraft Carrier as a
passenger and met school friend,
Hugh Glotfelty, as one Of the ships
crew.
Receives Discharge
IA Robert n Davis, son of DR..
and Mrs. N. r. Davis, and husband
of Mrs. Jane Hummel Davis, was dis
charged at Fort Meade, January %,
after returning from the Pacific
theatre Of operations. He is now at
nome.
Davis was in the ETC from De-
cember 1914 until June 1915, and
took part in the campaigns in France,
Germany and Austria. He spent
thirty-day furlough at his home last
June and then was sent to the Paci-
fic in August. arriving at Leyte on
September II. He was later sent to
Manila.
Landing in San Francisco on Janu-
AIRY 20, Davis was one of sixty men
who came east by airplane to receive
their discharges. He is graduate of
Grantsville high school, class of 194l
and attended Mercersburg Academy
and Dickson college, before entering
the army in February 1913.
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S/Sgt. Robert Hesen left Monday
for Fort Meade where he expected to
receive his honorable discharge from
the service this week. A son of Mr..
and Mrs. A. G. Hesen, he had been
on furlough for about two weeks.
After returning from the European
area sometime ago he had been sta
toned in Oregon until his furlough.
Robert B. Sincell, ARM PIC, USNR..
will leave the island of Guam on
March 16, and will head for the
States where he expects to receive
his discharge about April 2, at Balm
bridge. A son of Mr. and Mrs. Donald
R. Sincell Pennington street, he has
been in the service since July /, 1913,
and has been stationed at Hawaii,
Kwajalein, Eniwetok, and Tinian, in
the Pacific with the navy air corps.
Mrs Mildred Clarence Haddox,
lieutenant in the navy nurse corps,
daughter of Mrs l. Lambert, Third
street, Oakland, has been discharged
from the service in Washington, D.
c., effective February A. Mrs. Haddox
entered service January 4, 1913, and
was last on duty at the U. S. Naval
hospital at Philadelphia. She was re-
Gently married to George c.. Haddox.
Corporal Porter Dewitt, with the
army air corps, stationed at Drew
Field, Fla, has returned to duty
after spending furlough here with
his wife and family and other rela-
tives.