Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 15, Number 26, DeMotte, Jasper County, 11 May 1945 — VICTORY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

VICTORY

NEWS OF OUR SERVICE MEN AND WOMEN *

With the 38th Infantry Division on Bataan—Cpl. Walter A. G. Bormann, son of Mr. and Mrs. Gustave Bormann, Wheatfield, Indiana, played an important part in the recent Battle of Zig-Zag Pass, on the famed Bataan Peninsula, Luzon, Island. Cpl. Bormann is a Truck Driver assigned to Company C, 113th Medical Battalion. During the crucial stages of the battle, he had the responsibility of transporting the field kitchen and other food supplies for his unit at the front. He often substituted as an Ambulance Driver, assisting in the evacuation of the casualities from the field of battle. He has undergone deadly Jap mortar and machine gun fire many times in his efforts to carry on his work, and has been highly commended for individual bravery, and courage under fire. Cpl. Bormann was inducted into the service with the Indiana National Guards, January 17, 1941. He has been overseas for the past sixteen months, seeing service in the Hawaiian Islands, and New Guinea, before arriving in the Philippines. He is entitled to wear the Good Conduct Ribbon, the Asiatic-Pacific Ribbon with one Campaign Star and Bronze Arrowhead, the American Defense Ribbon, the Philippine Liberation Ribbon with one Campaign Star, and the Drivers Medal.

Public Relations Office Ninth Naval District Hdgs. Great Lakes, Illinois Among those graduating from an intensive course of Chief Commissary Stewards training at Service Schools here was Harland S. Shuey, 22, son of Mr. and Mrs. John D. Suey. This man was selected for his specialized training on the basis of his previous record in the commissary department of the Navy. Graduates from the ten specialized courses taught here at the Service Schools are sent to sea, to shore stations, or to advanced schools for further duty. Nelson Jabaay has completed boot training at Great Lakes and is home on leave. Melva Barker, Jr.., who was recently inducted into the armed forces is stationed at Ft. Knox, Kentucky. Roy Anderson, son of Mr. and Mrs. John Anderson, who enlisted in the Navy some time ago, left Thursday for Indianapolis and was sent from there to Great Lakes whese he will receive his boot training. The Andersons have two other sons in service. Pvt. Bob Stevenson is showing normal improvement from wounds

received in action, according to a War Department message received by his mother. Both of Bob’s hands were injured.. Wm. “Coffee” Bartz MOMM 3-c arrived here last week. He has been given a medical discharge from the Navy, after 18 months in the Pacific.