Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 14, Number 45, DeMotte, Jasper County, 22 September 1944 — NEWS OF OUR SERVICE MEN AND WOMEN [ARTICLE]

NEWS OF OUR SERVICE MEN AND WOMEN

S Bjc Harland S. Shuey, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Shuey has a new address. Cpl. John A. Van Kley has been transferred to Ft. Knox, Ky. Pvt. Howard Personette has been transferred to Ft. Bragg, N. C. From the Army Air Forces Bombadier school office of the Public Relations Officers, Carlsbad Army Air Field, Carlsbad, N. M., Sept. 19, 1944—Aviation Cadet Robert C. Anderson, son of Mr. and Mrs. F. R. Anderson, Tefft, Indiana has reported at Carlsbad, New Mexico, Army Air Field, where he will receive advanced flight training in high-level bombardiering and dead-reckoning navigation. The Carlsbad Army Air Field is the newest bombardier school in the Army Air Forces Training Command. During the eighteen weeks training course Cadet Anderson will study bombardiering and dead-reckoning * navigation under simulated combat conditions. On graduation he will be awarded silver bombardier’s wings and will be ready for active duty as an officer in the Army Air Forces. Floyd V. Gulbranson of Wheatfield was graduated recently from the Naval Air Training Center located at Norman, Okla. While at Norman school he studied at the aviation specialty field for which his recent training aptitude tests showed he was best suited, and is now eligible for a petty officer rating. Lieut. Ora Fox, daughter of Mrs. Ora Fox, of Wheatfield, has been promoted to the rank of first lieutenant, army nurses* corps. She is at a hospital in the Panama Canal Zone. T Sgt. Harold Brown, son of Harley Brown, of Wheatfield, was returned from overseas with a convoy of wounded soldiers, to Billings hospital, Indianapolis. Wounded three times, Sgt. Brown was awarded the purple heart and other medals, including two oak leaf clusters and the combat infantry badge. He is spending a furlough in Wheatfield with relatives and expects to spend week ends at home during his convalescence at Billings hospital. Sgt. Max U Drudge, 23, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Drudge, of Wheatfield, R. R. 1., who was reported missing in action last October and later a German prisoner of war, is free after many months in a German prison camp, according to news received by his parents. He is aboard the Swedish motorship Gripsholm, which is carrying 223 of our soldiers freed recently in a prisoner exchange. Sgt. Drudge entered the service in 1941 and was sent overseas in 1943 as a turret gunner in a Flying Fortress. Public Relations Oifice Headquarters, Camp Livingston, La. Camp Livingston, La., Tec. 4, Thomas P. Evers has been promoted to S Sgt. The promotion was announced by his command-