The Berkshire Eagle from Pittsfield, Massachusetts • Page 21

The Berkshire County Eagle, Pittsfield, Mass. Wednesday, June 13, 1945. Page Three With Berkshire County Boys on America's Fighting Fronts Becket Sandersons Go All Out With Five in Country's Service--Plus Laura Sanderson (From Friday's Eagle) Two sons and three daughters of Mrs. May Sanderson of Washington are in service, and a third son, the sixth member of the family, is doing Navy work as a chemist. Three of her children are overseas.

Mrs. Sanderson is the widow of a World War I veteran. Robert J. Sanderson left his work on the Boston and Albany railroad to enlist Dec. 28, 1942.

He arrived in the Pacific area in April, 1943, with an amphibious truck unit, and is now in the Philippines. Norman A. Sanderson, a graduate of Dalton High School, enlisted June 11, 1943. He was trained in Virginia, at the 'University of Alabama and at an ordnance base in Texarkana, Texas. He is now with the ordnance base depot in Hawaii.

Lieut. Kathleen E.I Sanderson is a graduate of Dalton High end in 1943 of the Bishop Memorial Training School for Nurses in Pittsfield. Enlisting in the Army Nurse Corps in February, 1945, was trained at Fort Devens end is stationed in the Pacific area. Elizabeth H. Sanderson, a Dalton High graduate, was graduated in 1944 from the Bishop Memorial Training School.

She has enlisted in the Army Nurse Corps, passed all examinations and is now awaiting orders to report for duty. Laura E. Sanderson, Dalton High graduate, enlisted in October, 1944, as a cadet nurse at the House of Mercy Hospital in Pittsfield. James Sanderson, though not in the armed service, is employed as a chemist for the Navy. He is a graduate of Massachusetts State College with a bachelor of science degree and received degree from College.

his master's Connecticut State D. Elizabeth Sanderson Robert Sanderson W. D. Maxwell, Jap Prisoner, Writes to Sister (From Friday's Eagle) postcard from William Maxwell, machinist's mate second class, the fourth from him since his capture by the Japanese- in March, 1942, has been received by his sister, Mrs. Edward Nugent Or Richmond, formerly of this city.

The card was dated Oct. 15, 1944, and is the first time he has mentioned receiving letters from his family. Maxwell was one of the survi 1 vors when the destroyer, U. S. Pope, on which he was serving, was sunk by the Japs in the Java Sea 14, 1942.

Following the official announcement of the ship's sinking, Maxwell was listed as missing. It was not until 15 months later that the Navy D5- partment confirmed his status as a Jap prisoner in the Philippines. His family was notified in the latter part of 1943 that he had been transferred to Camp Fukupka, Japan. He is there at the present time. The card from Maxwell said, have received several letters and am pleased to find that all at home are in good health and spirits, and pray you remain the same until we are together again.

I am in good health and spirits." Maxwell has been in the Navy since February, 1939. Before entering service, he played in the Shire City Baseball League and was well known as a minstrel show singer. Norman Sanderson Lieut. Kathleen Sanderson Tragic News Reversed Course In Case oi Secunda Brothers Sgt. Daniels On Furlough (From Saturday's Eagle) LEE--Sgt.

Perry F. Daniels, son of Charles Daniels of River Street, is on 30-day furlough having recently returned from Italy where he spent 14 months with the 15th Air Forces. He wears seven battle stars and the Presidential Unit Citation with one cluster. He entered the service on May 15, 1942, taking his basic training at Miami Beach, and then transferred to Westover Field from where he was sent to Idaho and then from where he went overseas in March, 1943. His troopship landed them directly in Italy.

One of his unit citations came for the bombing of the oil fields at Poleski. Following his leave he will report to Atlantic City and from there will be re-assigned. He left Italy on May 15 aboard a troop ship, Sgt. Bianchi Is Liberated From Thursday's Eagla CHESHIRE--Mr. and Mrs.

Azzo Bianchi of Farnams have received a letter torn their son, Teeh Sgt Erail Bianchi, saying he had been liberated from a German prison camp April 29, and that he expected to be sent home soon. Sgt. Bianchi was reported missing over Germany, April 29, 1944. He wrote to his parents that he had been liberated exactly a year from the day he had been captured and had been interned in three different prison camps. He stated that his health was good.

1st- Lt. John W. Mclntyre John W. Mclntyre, formerly of (his city, has been promoted to first lieutenant in Rheda, Germany, where he is in the coast artillery of the Ninth Army. He entered service In April, 1942, took basic training at Fort Eustls, later attended officer candidate school at Camp Davis, N.

and after graduating was sent to Puerto Rico for IS months. Lieut. Mclntyre returned to the States, and then went overseas in August, 1944. He has been in England, France, Holland and Belgium. His wife and daughter reside in Wilmington, Vt.

Besides his brother and sister, who live at 84 Dalton Avenue, he has a lives in Nashua, N. entering the Army Intyre worked in the distributor, transformer section 2d Lt. McGill, Bomber Pilot, Gets Air Medal Lieut.Walker^Berkshire '36, Military Mayor in Okinawa 2d Lt. Arthur O. MeGill Friday's Eagle) EIGHTH AIR FORCE STATION, England--Award of the Air Medal to 2d Lt.

Arthur C. McGill, 23, of 36 Edward Avenue, Plttsfield, was announced here recently. The citation was for "exceptionally meritorious achievement while participating in sustained bomber, combat operations over enemy-occupied Continental Europe." Lieut. McGill, co-pilot ot a B-17 Flying Fortress, took part in the final bombing attacks against targets in Germany as a member of the veteran 384th Bomb Group. The son of Mr.

and Mrs. Charles A. McGill, he was graduated from Pittsfield High School, and Providence College. Prior to entering the service in March, 1943, Lieut. McGill was employed by the General Electric.

(From Friday's Eagle) GREAT BARRINGTON Lkut.j Anthony Walker, Berkshire School! 36, -n outstanding athlete, w.io; later played on the Yale varsity! Learns, 18 mayor of Naha, Okinawa, 1 being appointed as the military: ruler as his Marine outfit was the first to reach that place. He was' at Berkshire and graduated in the' same class with Capt. Richard Faxon of the Army Air Corps, whose feats have listed him among the outstanding pilots of the Euro-, pean conflict. i Walker joined the Marine. 1 in 1939 upon graduation from He was commissioned in June, 1940, and was an instructor at 1 Quantico until February, 1942.

was cent to the Pacific. He earned' the Purple Heart on New gia, besides the Silver Star ard citation. It was during this br.ttle. that he was surrounded by Japi. ordered to give up that he ye.l«;.;K2 "Come and get me you so His fathsr, a Washington at tor-, ney, was with the European Trade Commission in the last war enc hi.

1 mother was a Red Cross worker and ambulance driver in Eurojo. At Berkshire Lieut. Walker. known as Tony, set a new harr.nvT thro-Ting record that still He was in all field events of trai'k meets and a football player. Lieut.

Anthony Walker With Lieut. Walker on his mis-: Philip A. Curtiss of Hudson, N. sion Into Naha where he now gives' who is a deadeye on Jap planw orders as military mayor was'and has more than 20 to his Donald Deforest Is Promoted Steele in Germanv Pvt. Albert B.

Shindler Pfc. Robert G. Shindler, 19, one of two service sons of Mr. and Mrs. William P.

Shindler of 170 John with an antiaircraft unit attached to the Ninth Air Force in Germany. He has been overseas about 15 months. Following his induction in March, 1943, he took basic training at Camp Davis, N. and advanced at Fort Fisher, N. C.

A graduate of Pittsfield High School, he formerly worked for the GE. His brother, Pvt. Albert B. Shin- Receives Commission by Presidential Direction Pfc. Robert G.

Shinfller dler, who has been, enrolled in the army specialized training program for 17-year-old boys, will soon begin his basic training in the Army. After studying engineering at the Lt, Col. Ben Armstrong of Savannah, pins gold bar on 2d Lt. William F. Herre.

From Thursday's Eagle ALFORD William F. Herre, technical inspector of the Sixth Photographic Group, Reconnais- son of Mr. and Mrs. William W. isance.

This organization has op- Herre, has been given a direct com-1 erated in combat zones continu- mission in the Army Air Forces byjously since going overseas over a direction of the President. He is now a second lieutenant and is serving in the Philippine combat year ago in the Southwest Pacific areas, New Guinea, Netherlands East Indies and. Philippines. Lieut. Herre Is authorized to wear the Asiatic-Pacific theatre Lieut.

Herre entered the regular ribbon with four bronze battle Army as a private in 1933. He Philippines liberation ribbon discharged as technical sergeant with one bronze battle star, 15, 1942, to accept appoint-1 lean defense ribbon with one rnent as warrant officer. He was bronze star and the American thea- promoted to chief warrant officer Ure ribbon with one bronze battle March 1, 1943, and was commis-! star. He is rated as aerial engi- sioned a second lieutenant May 17, ineer and gunner and participates! the Army Air Forces in October, 1945. 'in frequent combat flights over 11942, the sergeant was employed He is at present group airplane' enemy territory.

as a bookkeeper in Pittsfield. fcrred to sola where he has Staff Sgt. George Secutida To many a Pittsfield mother and father has come a telegram announcing the death of a son in service. But in the case of the Secunda family, formerly of 9 King Street, tragic news traveled, not from an Anzio or an Iwo Jima to parents at home, but in the opposite To three sons in service went word of the death of first their mother and then, seven months later, their father. And within a week after their dad's death, one of the boys was listed as missing in action over Germany.

Staff Sgt, Gustave Secunda left the GS to join the Air Corps. His basic training at Miami Beach was followed by a year and a half of further training in this country before landing in England with his Fortress crew in the spring last year. Neither Mr. nor Mrs. Morris Secunda was alive to receive the! missing-in-action notice that arrived early in June.

Sgt. Arnold Secunda followed his brother into the Air Corps In a matter of weeks and is now on Saipan. He was trained at Fort Devens and in Rome, N. and Atlantic City; studied radio and raclar in Wis- James Secunda is a veteran of five years' service. After two and a half years in the Panama Canal Zone, he was sent to Orlando Field, and then to Hollywood Kearnes, Utah, where he is awaiting overseas duty.

The sergeant and his wife, the former Rena Levitt of Albany, have one son. James is the twin of Arnold and the latest to join the service. Entering the Navy last February, he took boot training at Sampson. and is now at radar school in Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Before induction he was a night foreman in the molding department of.

the GE plastics. Zenas C. Golt Made Captain (From Monday's Eagle) DALTON Zenas C. Colt has been promoted to captain in the intelligence section of tha Fourth Service Command and has been from Atlanta, to Daytona Beach, where he is at- cuuj-uijs itv of he was trans- siU' TM ltl Jlc io'the University of Minne- i cpnsm anri Florida Scott Field. a lo fte Wclcn Convalescent a Kearns Field, were Hospital.

been Japanese. Pvt. Shindler is stones lo the overseas here on furlough in the near i in a B-29 in November, 1944. ture Mso a graduate of Pittsfieid a 1940 Pittsfield High High School, he is a former em-1 School graduate, had worked at ployea of the Eaton Paper Com-1 the GE. pany.

Tha oldest boy. Staff Sgt Georga, Mrs. Colt has returned from Daytona where she has been looking for a house. She and her three children will join her husband in Daytona in two weeks to take up residence there. Donald DeForest.

(From Saturday's Eagle) LEE--Mrs. Donald W. DeForest las been notified her husband has been promoted to the rank of staff sergeant as of May 26 in Leben- stadt, Germany, where he is attached to the famed Second Ar- Pf. Elmer R. Steele (From Monday's Eagle) DALTON--Pfc.

Elmer R. Steele of the 394th Infantry, 99th Division, is now in Germany. His outfit, which was part of the First Army under General Hodges, was the third American unit to cross the Rhine under heavy fire. He has received the good conduct medal and infantryman's combat Pvt. Nicholas J.

Kusso Nicholas J. Russo of 76S mored or Hell-On-Wheels Division. medal In(5ucte(1 more than three He enlisted the Army on Nov ears a he underwent training at Bragg a nd Fort Meade, and was'sent overseas last July. His wife' lives On Mountain View Terrace. 1 with an armored division.

He went overseas on June 6, 1943, landing in North Africa where he was made a replacement in the Second Armored Division then under Lt Gen. Patton. He served in the Sicily cam- aign before being sent to England to train for the invasion of Normandy. His outfit saw action in Pvt Tyler Street, recently returned i Be i glum Holland and Ger- from overseas duty, has reported' many, to the redistribution station at Lake Placid Club, N. Y.

His wifs, the former Miss Rose Hatch of! Canaan, N. is with him. Pvt. Russo entered service March 25, 1942, and was overseas 2S months with a. hospital unit in China-Burma-India theatre of op-1- erations.

He is a former GE plas-' tics employee. Women In Uniform ullaro Completes WITH THE ANTIAIRCRAFT COMMAND, New Guinea- Staff Sgt. Patrick S. Pullaro of Joseph 3. Harrison Promoted To Grade of Staff Sergeant AN EIGHTH AIR BOMBER STATION, England--Joseph J.

Harrison, 25, of Pittsfield, has been promoted from sergeant to staff, sergeant. Sgt. Harrison la engineer and top turret gunner on a B-17 Flying Fortress of the Eighth Air Force. The Pittsfield flier is a member of the 34th Bomb Group, a unit of the Third Air Division, the division which received a Distinguished Unit citation for its now historic England-African shuttle bombing of Messerschmitt aircraft plants at Regensburg, Germany. Sgt.

Harrison is the son of Mrs. William A. Harrison, 25 Woodbine Avenue, Pittsfield. Before entering (From Friday's Eagle) REUNITED IN ENGLAND AFTER, 15 YEARS were Cpt. Henry Bak, left, husband of the former San- Gactani of 1(15 Fenn Street, and his brother, Pfc.

Cbeiiter Bak, right, formerly a volunteer in the Polish army and now with the American forces. With them is Mrs. Chester Bait, an English girl whom Pfc. Bak married a year ago. She plans to coma to this country soon to make her home with her husband's sister, Mrs.

Steven Pyra of 35 Alcove Street. The soldiers are the sons of Mrs. Katharine Bak of Kotwitonio and the late Thomas Bak. They have four brothers overseas, Staff Sgt at, 9. Bak, fa the ISiSSpphies, Pto William, i Italy, Edward, technician fifth class, and Pvt.

Watteiv stationed in Germany. Pittsfield, has completed two years' overseas service in the Pacific area with the Coast Artillery Corps of the United States Army. Sgt. Pullaro is the son of Mr. and Mrs.

James Pullaro, 39 Circular Avenue, Pittsfield. His brother, Cpl. Nicholas Pullaro. is serving with the Air Corps in Germany and his nephew, Pfc. Nicholas Sangi- jnetti of the Corps, is also in I the European Theater.

A long time resident of Pittsfield, Pullaro is a graduate of PitU- liield High School. He was em- ployed by the Goodrich Wholesale i Fruit and Produce and later as a salesman for the Berkshire Coca i Cola Bottling Company of Pitts- i field. Inducted in March, 1942, at Fort Devens, and first assigned to Fort Adams, he served in the 243d Coast Artillery Regiment of the harbor defenses of Narragansett Bay until ordered to the 2S2d Coast Artillery Battalion at Camp Pendleton, Virginia, in April, 1943, for two months' intensive training before going overseas. He has served in New Guinea and is assigned as headquarters battery supply sergeant in, a Coast Artillery group of Maj. Gen.

William F. Marquat's 14th Antiaircraft Command. He is authorized to wear the Asiatic-Paciite campaign medal and has been awarded the Army good conduct medal for meritorious service. 1st Lt. Koselyn A.

Bromley Second Lt. Roseiyn A. Bromley, Army nurse, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Bromley, 104 Euclid Avenue, has been promoted to first lieutenant.

She has been stationed at the 81st General Hospital in England for 15 months. Lieut. Bromley a graduate of Robert F. Doyle Promoted To the Grade of Corporal FIFTEENTH AAF IN ITALY-Robert F. Doyle, 22, son of Mr.

and Mrs. Edmund P. Doyle, 12 Willow Street, Pittsfield, an overseas veteran with the 317th Fighter Squadron, a unit of tha 325th Fighter Group, has been promoted to the grade of corporal. He entered the AAF during January, 1943, completed his basic training at Atlantic City, N. and the Bishop Memorial School with the class of 1942.

She attended a technical school at Buck- enlisted in the Army Nurse Corps ley Field. Upon arrival overseas in January, 1943, and was sent in August, 1944, he was assigned to 'his present squaaron. This group, participating in tha African and European campaigns, compiled an enviable record by destroying 536 enemy planes in aerial combat during its past two years overseas in March 1944. Miss Rhodes Takes Fire-fighting Course ABOARD A NAVY HOSPITAL SHIP IN THE PACIFIC--As a direct result of the- Jap "suicide" crash dive on the hospital ship U.S.S. Comfort off Okinawa last April, Miss Virginia Rhodes, American Red Cross worker of 26 Wellesley Street, Pittsfield, recently attended a fleet fire-flght- and more of operations.

It has been awarded two Distinguished Unit citations for outstanding achievements in aerial combat, is credited with the greatest single seater fighter group aerial victory of the Italian campaign--the destruction ing school at a naval 37 enemy planes north of base fo.v instruction In damage Gulf of Venice on Jan. 30, 1944, and par- ihut- control techniques. Miss Rhodes, one of two Red Cross workers serving aboard this ship, was one of the first nurses to volunteer for the fire-fighting training. The vessel on which she is serving is the newest hospital ship assigned to the Service Force was the first fighter group to participate in the Italy-to-Russia s' tie mission. Cpl.

Doyle was a student at Tuft's College, Medford, just prior to entering service. James L. Roser Graduates of the Pacific Fleet. From" Naval Radio School Miss Rhodes was a Red Cross James L. Roser.

18, of 45 Bren- jworker in Pittsfield before the Terrace, graduated recently served in the the naval training school for 'area for two years before coming radio, Indianapolis, Ind. He is the to the Pacific. She is the daughter 'of Mrs. Fred H. Rhodes of Pittsfield.

She has a brother, Lieut. Frederic Rhodes, with the Army on Okinawa. son of Mr. and Mrs. John O.

His rating of petty officer by vir- tua of the successful completion of the studies is that of radio thjrd class. NEWSPAPER!.