1938
After a month's lay-off, I thought there might be a lot of news, but I guess it's the slow season. Lt. Ray and Barbara Ammarell announce a June 10 arrival—Natalie, their second. Son Robert is two years old. Ray is still at Wright Field, Ohio, and living in Xenia. Herb Loring, now Captain, is Post Chaplain at Aloe Army Air Field, Victoria, Texas, and before that was hospital chaplain in Fort Worth. A couple of news items:—"Lt. John B. Uline has been transferred to Army Air Field, McCook, Nebraska, as statistical officer. He attended Harvard Statistical School and OCS at Miami Beach." That's the same line Ammarell is in. "First Lt. John B. Harmon served overseas as a pilot in the C. B. I. Theater from February '44 to January '45, receiving the DFC and the Air Medal. He has been taking a course of training at the twoengine unit of the AAF Instructors School at Blackland Army Air Field, Waco." Major Dan Marshall is with the 3rd Marine Division. Do you remember big black bushy Bill Bushnell from freshman year? He's a supervisor for Plastic Disc & Tool Corp. in Los Angeles. Lt. Ralph Sethness is at the Navy's Intermediate Instructor School in Pensacola.
Victor Johnson, the youngest officer to command an infantry regiment in battle, is now a full colonel. He led the Infantry into the Caraballo mountains of Luzon to root the Japs out of their last big Philippine stronghold. He's been in the Pacific since the start of the war and fought on New Georgia and Guadalcanal. Major Bill Chamberlin, a Bn. C.O. in the Marines, added two silver stars to his Navy Cross and Purple Heart—one for "conspicuous gallantry" at Saipan and one for Tinian Island. Lt. John Duguid is a flak-intelligence officer with a Liberator bomber group in the Pacific. As far as I can find out, it's his job to tell pilots what action to take when they recognize a particular type of AA fire. By making certain dives, turns and changes of speed at the right instant many shells may be avoided.
Sgt. Andy Perkins was married in Luxembourg to Lt. Fredna Garner, ANC, of Dallas, Texas. She's a supervisor at an evacuation hospital. Lt. Col. Ed Shumaker, aide to General "Jake" Devers, now Commanding General of the Army Ground Forces, has been awarded a Bronze Star for meritorious achievement. Capt. Ernie Foss, when he was killed, was a member of the medical staff on the USS Comfort, the hospital ship which was attacked and damaged by a Jap suicide plane near Okinawa. From another news item:—"Ens. Jordan Colton has been assigned to the torpedo control officer's school, Casco Bay, Me. He formerly served as combat information center officer aboard an Atlantic Fleet destroyer to which duty he will return after his schooling. He is married to the former Jeanne Isaacs of New York. They have one child, Ellen Nancy."
The Dave Bradleys announce a second child, male as of April a. Dave is starting a first Army assignment. Warren Flynn is on an AKA (attack cargo ship) in the Pacific and is chief engineer and third in command. According to his sister Dot he was in on Iwo Jima and a raft of other engagements. Capt. Ed Woods, chief of the dental service of the 35th Station Hospital, recently participated in a conference of U. S. Army dental surgeons, the first meeting of its kind in the ETO. He served in Africa, Corsica and France. Lt. Walt Schaefer USNR has his own destroyer now.
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