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The Berkshire Eagle from Pittsfield, Massachusetts • Page 18

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Page Two The Berkshire County Eagle, Pittefield, Mass. Wednesday, November 24, 1943. With Berkshire County Boys on America's Fighting Fronts 2d Lt. Colder Now in England Ptc. Raymond J.

Therrien 2d (From Thursday's Eagle) Donald 3. Reisser, seaman 2c, ha completed his training at Samp son, N. and recently spent an eight day furlough with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. August Reisser i i i i a a a GREVT BARRINGTON-2d LtJof 65 Onota Street.

He attended a former resi- i Jose Hi School and landed last September. He is a graduate of Searles High and was inducted Dec. 10, 1942. He worked in the Taunton GE before induction. Lieut.

Calder graduated from the officer candidate school at Campj Davis. He is a member of the 377th AAA-AWBN. gunnery and radio school. Word has been received by Mr and Mrs. James Makes, 451 Eas Street, that their son, Sgt.

Nicho las J. Makes, has arrived in Eng land and is at an United States ai base there. Sgt. Makes is a pro peller specialist in the U.S. Ai Forces.

He trained in this country at Miami Beach, Chanut Field, 111., and was stationed a Westover Field prior to his em bEirkation. In civilian life Sgt M.akes was assistant manager of th Berkshire Restaurant of which hi father is owner and proprietor. Sea. John David Orazzio John David Orazzio, seaman second class, son of Mrs. Amelia Orazzio of 43 Melrose Avenue, recently spent seven days at his home.

He has traveled to Europe and South America. Seaman Oraz- Charles Dartt who is sta- a gunner on an aircraft car- tionVd at Hayward Air Field. Hay- rier is spending a 15-day has a brother, Pvt. Louis, i his parents. Mr.

a has been over a Mrs. Cl.fford A. Dartt of 76 Stod- year. d'irrt Avenue. He is a graduate of -Roosevelt Field.

L. the Aircraft Mechanics School and P-39 Specialists School at Bell Aircraft Niagara Fails. N. Y. Dartt has traveled through the United States and Canada several limes since he has been in the service.

was formerly employed by General Electric Company. Second Lt, Dorothy Dressman of the Army Nurse Corps is stationed at Halloran General Hospital, Staten Island, N. Y. Lieut. Dressman, the daughter of Mr.

and Mrs. Philip Dressman, 36 Westminster Street, is a graduate Pittsfield High School and the Metropolitan Hospital School of Nursing in New York. Charles A. Berry Charles A. Berry, who is on sea in Ihe Atlantic area, is the on of Mrs.

Bridget Loomis, 201 Hamlin Street. A machinist's irsl class, he left Pearl Harbor hortly before the attack. Mate Berry enlisted Oct. 7, "1940, He vas graduated from Pittsfield School and worked at the 'otato Chip Shop on Linden P.O. So.

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas E. N. Bates of 1530 North Street have two sons in the service.

Cpl. Benjamin F. is an instructor 'In the Marines. He was home from Oak Grove Field, N. for five days to see his three-week-old His wife is the former Louise Alexander of Middleburg; Va.

Before her marriage she was a stenographer in the British Embassy. field ch a ooT dUate PUtS Second U. i i a L. Pierson His brother, Roderick is a a a of the Army Air petty officer, i class, and is Forces navigation school at Seiman now on active duty in the Field in Louisiana spending; an service off Florida. He leava withjns mothe, Mrs.

i navigation school, Lieut. Person won his gunner's wings at Fort Myers, Fla. He was graduated rom Pillsfield High School and was -in a i at the General Elec- Company. 21 Lt. William L.

Pierson Marine 2d Lt. Paul Harvey Bo land, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul T. Boland of 36 Gale Avenue, is on a 15-day furlough from Jacksonville, Fla.

At the termination of his leave, he will join his combat squnrdon at San Diego, Cal. He pilots a Grumman Avenger, a torpedo plane, and while at Jacksonville, he WILS a member of an anti-submarine patrol for whicn he wears a modal showing action in the Atlantic Theater of War. Lieut. Boland enlisted in a i Corps in- December. 19-31, resigning from his duties in th- production a i deportment of the General Electric Compnnv.

He underwent a i i at Pants Inland, S. Quantico, and was enrolled in a meteorological school at Laknhurst, N. J. At Chi-rry Point, N. he wos appoint a a aviation cadet nnd suh.t- received instruction at Chapel i N.

Glenview. 111.. Corpus Christi, and Jacksonville, where he was assigned to the torpedo squadron. He is a graduate of Milford High Pfr. Raymond J.

and Pvt. Robert'School. His brother. 2 Maurice P. Th.rrion havo to a mer.

stations after i i i parents. Mr. and Mrs. Albert Therrif-n of 65 Glenwood Avenue. Pvt.

Raymond is T7 -at the Newport A i Base in Arkansas. enlisted Oct. 29.1942. Pvt. Robert, who entered the Army Oct.

13. 1912. is et Maxton "Army Air Base in Laurin- haisee, Fla. Maurice was awarded his wings and commission this sum- his senior year at Pittsfield High School and trained at Sampson, N. Y.

Cadet Dann H. Colbura Pfc. Eugene C. Sarro Pfc. Eugene C.

Sarro, son of Mr and Mrs. Charles Sarro of 9 Chest- nut Street, has returned to Camp Davis, N. after spending 10 days I at home. He is in an anti-aircraft division. Before his induction seven months ago.

he was employed in I cover room of the General Electric Company. Pfc. Sarro was Electric Company. Ftc. sarro was Dann H.

Colbum, son of a riuated from Pittsfield High i nf 1 -1 n-3Cl Mr. and Mrs. Aiwyn D. Colburn of School in 1939. lirr Street, is receiving his preliminary trairiir.g with a detachment "at Gettysburg.

Pa. He w--ts sworn into the Army Air last August and received training at Greensboro. N. J. Bishop.

U3.M.C. son of Rsyrr.or-i A. Bishop, of 55 Street, has been promoted ro a corporal after com- of truir.inz at the Naval i center at He i now be to a Nsval urr.t afloat -ir Ta i station for instruction and in the Marine 15. 1942. He was a of the K.

of C. and at- Notre Darne. Pvt. Louis A. Chojnowski Pvl.

Louis A. Chojnowski, son of Mr. and Mrs. Anthony Chojnowski of 39 Madison Avenue, has returned to Camp Rucker, after spending a 15-day furlough with his parents. He received his basic train- F.

Ic. Jnhn C. Liu Jr. Mr. ar.ri Mrs.

Lur John H. Wojcicchowskl i John P. Wojcic-chowski, hospital a a second stationed at Jacksonville, has been in service six months. Prior to entering service he was a student at St. Joseph's High School, and had been elected as co-captain of i year's football team.

In 10-51 and 19-12 he was a a nnrt i i in the Navy was a substitute on last a bas- Da S'- ir. frv.re. C. in iiiv In Tampa. Fin.

Feb. I ployed at I His Dorothy of inj: hT hnitv' Cpl. A F. 5 sons r-w F.old ir.duc- w.i em- foirr.T niak- Fred C. Nagelschmidt 3 Mr.

and Mrs. Fred Nagelschmidt 3f 2S Boyiston Street, has besn promo'e-l' to a class p-try of- -s a torsedorean. scrvlrg Pacific on a PT Nijv.sor^m:';* oasic 3T H. and was to San Dieso. for tp-nodo training and completed his''advanced work at MelviUe, 8.

I. Be- attended PSttsfield High Cetti. Cetti arrtved safely Pfc. Albert T. Hopper Pfc.

Albert T. Hopper, son of Mr and Mrs. Joseph J. Hopper, 42 Myr tie Street, is somewhere in thi Southwest Pacific. He received hu basic training at Fort Leonard Wood, and was transferre later to San Francisco, Cal.

A grad uate of Pittsfield High School, Pfc. Hopper entered the service March 30. He was employed by the E. D. Jones Company for three months, and prior to leaving was an electrician at the General Electric Company, Miss Mary M.

McLaughlin of 30 Division Street left yesterday morning for induction into the WAC at Fort Des Moines, Iowa She is a graduate of St. Joseph's jHigh School and was formerly employed at the Novelty Shop on Columbus Avenue. She was given party last week by her asso- elates at the Berkshire Restaurant and she received a purse. McLaughiin is the daughter of Mrs. Lillian McLaughlin.

Aviation Student Irving C. Hoag son of Mr. and Mrs. Irving C. Hoag of 23 Lincoln Sireet, has completed his course at Sheppard Field, i Texas, and has been assigned to University Knoxville.

ing at Camp Croft, S. C. Sea. Francta Pianplano Francis Pianpiano Is spending a few davs with his mother, Mrs Lieut. Jacob Lcfkovviti Jacob G.

Lefkowitz, son of Onufry Lefkowitz, 30 Grove Street, has neon promoted from second to flrst Lieut. Lefkowitz who was called to duty April, 1942, was graduated from St. Joseph's High School in 1938. He is with the quartermaster corp somewhere in Italy. Four Pittsfield men have completed i basic recruit a i i at the Naval base on the shores of Seneca Lake in Sampson, N.

and have been granted leave. Upon their return to the Sampson base they will be eligible for further assignment which may qualify them for petty officer ratings. They are Seamen second class, Francis J. Clark, 27 Appleton Avenue; William J. Elliot, 42 North Street; William Mulcahy, 56 Richmond Avenue, and David R.

Kidd, 108 Bartlett Avenue. Richard E. Maloy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Richard E.

Maloy, 666 West Housatonic Street, has been commissioned a second lieutenant in the U. S. cavalry. He successfully completed a four-months' course of training in the cavalry officer candidate school at. Fort Riley, Kan.

Lieut. Maloy was a member of the Army reserve at Massachusetts State College when he was called into active jervice lest June. Se-abcc-K in and received his kelball team. boot a i i at Camp Peary, He is son of Mr. ndvancel a i i i at Camp i i Oj Gi lor i i R.

I. He was given Terrace. i i a a i i Camp Au-ks, and Camp Rousseau, where he is a a i i embarkation. Petty Officer a i was chosen to attend Navy welding school at Camp Peary and Endicoit. He is Ihe son of Mrs.

Anna Martin of 553 Street, and his wife makes her home fit 50 Brown Street. They have one child, Marilyn. Martin was employed as welder at the General Electric Company and was also in the Massachusetts National Guard for six years. of Tennessee a a a npiano of 14 Dartmouth istreet. He is on furlough from i Coast Guard Training Station Pvt.

William H. Kadlate i I Ultr 1 Three aviation cadets from Pitts- a Manhattan Beach, Brooklyn, N. field have reported to the Army y. Se pianpiano has been in the A tflT a j.i.__«. ha fl Pvt William H.

Kudlate. of AT. and Henry Kudlata, 36 Air Forces pre-flight school for pilots at Maxwell Field, to begin third phase of their training which includes intensive weeks of preparatory Instruction. These men are Edward A. Gtnth- Pvt.

John Cetti, son of Mr. an street, has returned to weeks of preparatory Instruction. Mrs, FhUlp Cetti of ITS Buroank These men are Edward A. Ginth- has arrtved safely in Enst- Cherry Point. N.

C. after a iu-cmy fe Anna Ginthwain land. in this country ne was f. jr oue a home. He enlisted Aue 0 21 Ciarkson Avenue, a graduate th an a i a i a 1 3 i gn trair.e'.l Island, 0 pittsfipjd High School; William Csaio Md Mr? 1 1 pv-.

Kuci'ate. is i Hopkins, son of Mr. and Mrs. r. co -tinn A.

Honkins of 33 Yorkshire i. h3ea. i Coast Guard three He attended OM PitUfleld Vocational School. Wendell R. Helmolt, thur E.

von Helmolt at 187 Porn- Pvt Edward F. Hayes Jr. is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Edward Hayes, 39 Rhode Island Avenue, while on a 10-day lough from Camp Benning, Ga.

He is taking the Army specialized training program at headquarters there. Pvt. Hayes was formerly employed In the capacitor department of General Electric Company. Aviation Student Edward Janssen, 19 son of Mr. and Mrs.

William land. If Miam, NEWSPAPER! McCa 5 Cetti 44th air squa i mini rtiir tji-twoiiu mui wain, son of Mrs. Anna Ginthwain er oy Avenue, Ui studying uo fraduate College, Medford, in on lereri Nashville Army air center William i for a commission under the a a nd Mrs. I training program. He section.

iGeorje A. Hopkins of 33 Yorkshire engineering ia auil ui iiii. ajLiu I ijanssen of 224 Jason Street, has en- lered the Nashville Army air center where he will be'classified for ad- as pilot, bombar- -on fur-1 Avenue, and Rande! H. Middle- iitiddlebrook about among tiooed at (School, David Cattldy, Sea. Mr.

and Mrs. Harry Cassidy Jr. of 89 Elm Street have received word that i son, David F. Cassidy, seaman has arrived st.fely at his destination in tlie West Pacific. Sea.

Cassidy entered the Navy Seabees April 14, of this year and received his boot training at Camp Perry, and his advanced training at Port Hueneme, Cat He Tech. Cpl. Walter KoElowskl Tech. Cpl. Walter Kozlowskl recently spent a 15-day furlc-ugh with his wife, the former Cecilia Cho.i- nowski of 39 Madison He is with the Ordnance Company at Camp Barkeley, Texas.

Pfo. Samuel L. Ambrorychuk, of Mr. and Mrs. Michael Am- brozychuk of 156 Wahconah Street, stationed at Love Field, Texas, attends classes at Crozier Technicnl High School in Dallas when free from assignments.

He has selected a course in business English and general arithmetic to himself for a betwr job after war. been awarded medal. Sea. Cassidy Is good conduct a graduate of Pvl. Dalniirn l.

Contain Pvt. Dalmiro J. Gonzalez, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ramiro Gonzalez, 37 Plunkett Street, recently on a 10-day furlough from Tort Leonard Wood, Mo.

He was Inducted March 31. and been in the i a i his recent Pittsfield High School and the tr 0 a nnon company. Pittsfield Trade School in the clans 1Q41 Before entering the serv-i Donald F. Gilbert, son of Mr. ana J.01A.

T-J -4 CA A 1 1 ice, he was employed In the expert mental tool room of the General Electric Company. Alexander son of Mr. and Mn. Antonio Lombard! of 58 Street, has been promoted to the rank of technician fourth grade after completing a five months' course in aircraft maintenance and repair at Seymour Johnson Mrs. Edward Gilbert of 64 HoMister Street, has been promoted to rank of corporal at Fort Ga.

Corporal Gilbert It member of the 176th Infantry regiment, a demonstration unit of the Infantrr school. Pfc. Albert Harris, formerly Civilian Defense head in the Berkshire area, is completine an 18 North Carolina. Sgl. be- weeks' a i i course at Camp fore entering Ihe Army in 1941.: Stewart, Ga.

Ho experts to be? was employed by Roscnficld 1 He Pittsfleld for a 12-day furlough next of PitUfleld High week. i I ----School. jnoneer..

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