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ROSEVILLE PRESS-TRIBUNE WEDNESDAY, MARCH 21, 1945 Page Seven DELNO ELAM has been promoted Roseville Servicemen's Newsletter LOUHT VIANI, GM 2-c, has been transferred to San Francisco for specialized training. gery. Received my blue cord recently. The cadet corps is really super. Very exciting and interesting.

I recommend it 'highly." from SKV 2-c to SKV 1-c. He spent a short furlough at home in January and then was transferred from San Diego to Santa Ana. JOE J. VIANI, 1-c, is at sea on an assignment on the USS HopewelL ELIZABETH L. REHM, 2-c, is RAYMOND JACOBSEN left Febr uary 20 for the Navy; Before leav ing, he took a radar test in Sacra working in the Communications Cen Pfc.

DAVID F. TTNER, 3033 A.B. ter in New York City as a Radioman Sect. Stockton Field, is Pvt. DINO VIANI stationed at Camp Pendleton at Oceanside, Calif- mento and got a rating of SEAMAN working as a mechanic on trucks.

1-c before he entered the Navy. Striker. She was recently promoted and transferred from Palm Beach. Her address is Embassy Hotel, Room EDWARD GARDETTO, H.A. 1-c 1012, 154 W.

70th Street, New York USN, is attending school in Camp EDWARD WELDON, 2-c, is on a destroyer somewhere in the Pacific. Pvt. GEORGE NAKAMOTO wrote from Southern France that he had had an opportunity to visit the city of Nice again. He attended church services and saw a few movies. He said, "I saw two cf, them: 'Carmen' and 'Andy Hardy Meets a Deb In the former, a Mexican film, I had a little difficulty: because all: French was spoken, but I had 4 no trouble understanding the trend of the story.

On the other hand, the Andy Hardy picture was in its original Hollywood version withTthe French trans fee further training. He has won the medal for Expert Rifleman. Dino re-cently spent a furlough in Roseville; while he was here he.became engaged to Anita Fabbri. As yet they, have made no definite plans for the future 23, N. Y.

Peary, Williamsburg, Virginia. Editor's Hoi: Belitving thai many Rosvill ara folks will find interesting items about servicemen and women they know. The Press-Tribune is reprinting the type used in publishing the March issue of the Roseville Servicemen's News letter, which went out to more than 500 service men early this week. The Newsletter is a high school project, mailed first class to all servicemen and women who have attended the local high school. The project is financed through the cooperation of the.

Roseville Rotary and Lions clubs. Lt. PETE V. GALVEZ, stationed in Pvt. FRANK P.

LUNA is now attached to the Medical Corps in Eng Lt. FRANK CATALANO, 915 Government Mobile, Alabama, was Italy, is leading a busy life. He reg land but plans to transfer to another ularly flies the A-20 on missions at night, and by day he is learning to recently transferred from Jacksonville, Florida. He has been reassigned CARL 1-c, A.O Jt rlnss rvf '42. has lust branch.

to a new ship and is awaiting orders ordnance training at the Naval Aviation Technical Traininff Center "In lation at the' bottom of the screen." for active duty. Frank saw Lt. AL FESTERSEN and DINQ BENEDETTI Sgt. JAMES R. GODDARD is in the Philippines.

He was very glad to find someone from his home town I Norman, Oklahoma. He is awaiting fly an A-26, a faster plane. The A-20's (combined bombers fighters) are known as "Night Raiders," for all their missions are accomplished at night. Pete, with the 94th Squadron, has received the Presidential Citation. recently.

TOM ABELL, 2-c, left the ser-J further assignment to a ship. JAMES W. WANISCH in the vice on eo. 16 because of a knee in same company. They did not know jury.

He was with "WOODY" RIG- Pvt. JAY BUSH, assigned tov an Intelligence Battery on the Island of each other until they met over there. The natives -are very friendly, talk Pfc. EARL YONEHIRO has returned to the front lines in France after a short stay at a rest camp. He writes that he wishes he could have learned.

GAN at the fleet amphibious training base at Coronado. Then he was sent to the U. S. Naval Hospital in MELVIN BRAIN, son of Lura Brain, was home last week to visit his wife and mother. Is looking fine.

Stationed at Camp Beale now for Oahu, has seen Cpl. BIT MIL fairly good English, and prove to be LLOYD PICKERELL, in the navy, writes from France that he has been a big help in spotting the enemy. TON, Cpl. GLENN HARDISON, WALLACE ROBERTSON, Radioman 2-c, and Pvt. JAMES R.

(Bobbie) ED San Diego. While in the hospital he was visited by JACK SOUTHERN more French before going to France for, he says, he finds the "G.I. liberation lingo" insufficient. The heat is bad; often the boys drop from heat and fatague, but are soon overseas for fifteen months but that it seems like three years. Lloyd too, and "PEANUT" McMANUS.

Tommy WARDS. has enrolled at Placer J. C. as a pre-med student. relieved and go on their way.

James mentioned that his bed and home are mostly in foxholes. like many of the boys, wants to earn his high school diploma, but he finds that he has little spare time for NORMAN FREITAS of the Air Corps was home a few days from Kerns, Utah, to visit his children and mother, Mrs. Louise Clark. Pvt. BOB EDWARDS, attached to studying a correspondence course.

an engineers battalion, has been transferred from Oahu to Makin DENO GEORGIS, 2-c (AMM). HAROLD LEROY GODDARD, W. ARTHUR GERALD LUTZ, 1-c, reports from a submarine 1 base in Hawaii that he is studying hard on his U.S.A.F.I. English course and plans next to take a course in diesel engines. He has met STAN RAS writes, "I received the Servicemen's Pvt.

ROBERT WELDON has been (Gilbert Islands) and from there to Saipan (Marianas Islands). On Makin T. 2-c, also in the is stationed on the USS North Carolina. NEWSLETTER the other day and I TECH. SGT.

WILLIS B. RUCK-MAN is stationed at Colorado Springs, Colorado. in action near Germany's west wall. was very impressed by it. I think Island he had a deep foxhole deluxe There is little, he can write about, Mr.

Rasmussen had a swell idea and with a roof consisting of a sheet of for he is forbidden to mention even MUSSEN, BOB SEAWELL, and MURRAY JOHNSON. LYNN C. (Bud) CHATELAIN, F.M. the weather. it certainly is an interesting paper to read, especially when it's all about 3-c, USS St.

George, has been to steel two inches thick, then sand bags, then large logs, then two feet of dirt. Bobbie has met JIM FORD as well as JAY BUSH in his travels. Pearl Harbor, the Marshall Islands, the fellas from home" Deno is now Mrs. Barbara DeVries says she recently received word from her son, WM. J.

DeVRIES, from Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, that he may soon Pfc. GEORGE W. FALTRICH is in Roi, Namur, Kwajalein, and Eneiwe- stationed at the Naval Air Base in the combat area in the Philippines. j.tok (where, he says, they first became On Jan. 11 he was given the Purple I a Seaplane Tender), then to Saipan San Diego, but since he is qualified as an aviation machinists striker, he send her an APO address.

Her other son, JOHN M. (Slim) DeVRIES. is in and Guam. At Saipan the Jap raiders hopes to be transferred to Memphis, THEODORE W. PETERSON, S2-c, gives as his address Navy No.

926, c-o Fleet P.O., San Francisco. England. She also has a daughter in Heart for shrapnel wounds received on Leyte, and on Feb. 11 he was promoted to Pfc. He met BILL PEAR Tennessee, for further training.

Cpl. ALDO FREDIANI is. busy-teaching the whys and wherefores of aerial gunnery these days at the Davis Monthan Field near Tuscon, Arizona. Aldo has been there since July 7, acting as gunnery instructor to those who are going to man B-24 bombers later on. Not content with that, Aldo's next assignment will include instructing men in the use of armor on the B-29.

Aldo batted around the country a Cadet Nurse Training in the St. Fran came over by night and by day to bomb the B-29 base. It looked like a real Fourth of July, he writes, but the3 raiders were always driven cis Hospital in San Francisco, MISS on Leyte. KEITH WEIDEMAN, recently JOHANNE DeVRIES. MYRON HUGHES, A-S, is attending the Air Training School, Y.

A.A.F., Yuma, Arizona. promoted from 2-c to 1-c, is scmewhere in the southwest Pacific on an LST. has Ger- JAMES PURCELL is attending Officers School (USNROTC) at the University of Washington in Seattle, Wash. He met BUD PAYNE in Seattle on a date. Pvt.

VERNON LONGWAY participated in battles near many. Pfc. WALTER" M. MILLER is England. bit before settling down in Arizona He spent several months at gunnery SGT.

C. J. MICHIELSEN (Frank) writes his mother very interesting letters from Luxembourg, Germany. It seems he is stationed there in connection with Army Radio and he has written very descriptive letters of the country and people. S-Sgt.

CHARLES O. DIETRICH was transferred from Italy to Southern France, He received the Purple school in Harlinger, Texas, before leaving there in April to go to Fort Myers, Florida, to instructors' school Heart for wounds received in Italy on Sept. 17, 1944. NICKOLAUS MELLMER has recently been promoted to Machinist Mate 3-c and has been transferred from Troy, New York to Port Hueheme. He spent a ten-day furlough in Roseville recently.

for two months. After that, Aldo had Pvt. HAROLD (Spike) FROST S-Sgt. TRACY W. LAWSON, injured by flak when he was shot down on a is still prisoner of waf ii Switzerland though he wrote home that he had tried several times to escape.

Once he, was imprisoned for a month as punishment. Tracy has the Air Me a few days at home before reporting to Tuscori. S-Sgt. AL FECHNER ha made a personal tour of much of the South Pacific in the two years' minus a month or two that he's spent con- Ensign W. M.

(Bill) HANSON, USCGR, is attending the Pacific Fleet School in Pearl Harbor. After completing this, his fourth school, he will rejoin his ship, the Van Bur-en. Previous to his attending school in Pearl Harbor, Bill was on convoy duty to Leyte. He was at Leyte during the sea battles of Oct. 24 and 25.

Bill met Ensign EDWARD YORK, USCGR, in Pearl Harbor. is somewhere in Trance with ah engineers corps. He has been overseas for five months, three of them in the These bits of information we pick ed up when Aldo was again home at necxea with an aircraft assembly the tail end of February, looking like a million and giving the girls the front lines. Spike is within 50 miles of Lt. RAYMOND FREDIANI but as yet has been unsuccessful in seeing him.

dal with an Oak Leaf Cluster, the Purple Heart, and the Overseas Award. DONALD F. WILBER, A.R.M. 3-c, is now stationed at Oxnard, waiting an assignment to an aircraft carrier. He was home for five days in January and again at the beginning of March.

feeling that the man power shortage was no longer acute. Pvt. THOMAS W. DAVIS, with the Engr. Aviation has been sent from England to France to Belgium to Germany.

Midshipman CHANTEE LEWIS will be home in June from Annapolis. While there he was chosen as one of the thirteen most physically perfect and was therefore' quali ARLO A. ALLEN, MP 1-c, U.S.N.R.. tquaaron. Al, winner of the first Boxing Scamper here at is now busy putting some punch into Uncle Sam's planes in the Netherlands East Indies.

He was in New Guinea, and reports, "I had some tasty fruit while I was down there a pear shaped affair which went by the name of pawpaw or papaya. If you go for the taste the first time you eat them, they soon become a habit, and vice versa. Another thing that made my eyes pop out were those foot-long bananas or at least I thought they were bananas. I didn't have enough nerve to eat one." is aboard the submarine tender U. S.S.

Holland. Some time ago he saw CONNIE KNAPP, who is also an Pfc. GEORGE LELES was in Bel fied- to take a submarine cruise during the Christmas holidays. MP from Roseville. He also saw a gium when he was heard from a Lucas boy on Saipan.

month ago. JAMES E. MORRIS, 2-c, is tram- Corooral MARVIN SCHELLHOUS ing in Gulf Port, Mississippi. Jim Air Cadet. DEARLD MARTIN, sta has ben transferred from New Britain to the Philippine Islands.

thinks the navy has the i best washing machines made: a bucket, brush, and lots of elbow grease. tioned at Luke Field, Arizona, will graduate on April 16 as a second lieutenant in the air corps. He plans to marry a California girl on April 19. ROY ANDREOZZI, 1-c, is a cook at Pearl Harbor, where he was transferred Palau. Pvt.

GEORGE R. DEMAS is with the infantry in France. In nine months overseas he has been in North Africa, Italy, and now France, and hopes to be in Germany soon. He has had five months of combat duty, during which time he has seen some very tough fighting. Corporal E.

STUART DRIVER is now stationed in Holland where he works with a medical. detachment. Word comes from Pfc EVAN LEWIS that he is in Hawaii and would like Stan Rasmussen's address, in case he gets a chance to look him up. Well, that's simple, Evan here it is: Lt. (j.g.) Stanley Rasmussen, Freight Division, Naval Supply Depot, Navy No.

128, c-o F.P.O., San Francisco. If that helps you find Stan in and among the islands you're welcome to it. R. LEO CLARK, 1-c, is stationed on the U.S.S. Windham Bay where he is a clerk or yeoman in the ship's office.

HAROLD MORFORD, 1-c, came home on Jan. 22 after seeing action in Guadalcanal (New Hebrides), Hawaii, Alaska, Australia, New Caledonia, New Guinea, and the Philippines. Harold, a member of the graduating class of told of three Jap air raids in New Guinea, and also of his meeting in New Guinea with CHESTER FOWLER, of Roseville, who swam over to Harold's ship. Harold will be home for another week, after which he will report back to duty. When asked his opinion of the service he had seen, Harold replied, "You wouldn't be able to print what I think of it." MARVIN COBERLY, 2-c, stationed at San Bruno learning to operate a movie projector, became en gaged to Maxine Alexson in December.

Maxine is majoring in nursing at Sacramento J. C. MONEY BEJERS Bank of America Money Orders are easy to boy at any branch and with Pvt. FRANK P. LUNA is in the Medical Corps in England.

He recently won the Good Conduct each order you get a receipt. 1 A FRANK ALVA, A.S., is receiving his boot training at the U. S. Naval Training Center, San Diego 33, Calif. The Newsletter has received its first invitation and to a ship commissioning, no less, The formal invitation, from Lt.

Frank Catalano, was to the commissioning ceremony for the U.S.S. Minotaur, which was held on February 26 at Mobile, Alabama. Frank is one of its officers, and we'd-ve given a cookie to've seen his part in the ceremonies. MARGARET KLOSE, Jr. Cadet Nurse, better known as Peggy or "Doc," expressed enthusiastic praise of the first edition of, the Newsletter.

She wrote from French Hospital in San Francisco, "At the moment I'm a Junior Cadet Nurse and am taking my junior cadet training in sur- CLYDE WM. DURAND, Rd. 3-c, wrote to Mr. Hanson in December. Clyde has been in the navy nearly two years.

i 1 1 Corporal SALVADOR D. NAVARRO is in action somewhere in Germany. One of his poems entitled Winter War" was published in the Roseville Press-Tribune. ROBERT KINROSS, the eldest son of Mr. and' David Kinross, who now reside near Colfax, was formerly a student at RJUHS.

He enlisted in the Marines about two years ago. He has been at Guadalcanal and the Palan Islands. ROSALIO V. BAQUERA, 2-c, is a deck hand somewhere in the South Pacific. Sgt.

JOHN KONSONLAS is with the Photo Center of the Third U. S7 Aimy, somewhere in France. He visited Paris and sent home some perfume, Chanel No. 5, as a remembrance of that city. He has also been on the Swiss border and in Belgium and Luxembourg in the line of duty.

He writes that it is bitterly cold over there, and they are kept busy day and night. So far he has not met any Roseville boys since he has been across. WILLIAM (Billy) VAN VLIET is C. DENO GEORGIS, 2-c, of the Naval Air Corps, is taking specialized training for mechanical work on airplanes. a fireman 1-c.

He participated in the Normandy invasion. He has been in England and France and came home via Panama Canal. He visited R.J.U. H.S. on February 23 of.

this year. His Sgt. JIM GRIGG is now stationed at Santa Aha, California. He recently spent a 21-day furlough in Roseville. He has won the Meritorious Service Award for outstanding address is Fleet P.O., San Francisco, LCL No.

349, Air Cadet JOHN S. FIDDYMENT is studying navigation at Big Springs Army Air Base, Big Springs, Texas. Corporal LLOYD G. GOODLOW is somewhere overseas. His overseas address is APO 104, c-o P.M., New York City.

Pfc LOIS CRONK, WAC, is sta tioned in New Guinea. CARL NORDEN, a corporal in the Pvt. JOHN MALKOVICH is in Tort Wayne, Indiana. S-Sgt. FRED RICH, class of '42, re-iurned to the United States with the Air Medal and five Oak Leaf Ousters, as well as the Presidential Citation last November after completing 54 missions over European soil with the Fifteenth Air Force stationed in Italy.

After six months overseas duty. Fred returned to the states and spent a twenty-one day furlough in Roseville. Then he reported to Dyers-burg Tennessee, for special training. Harriet Murray is counting on Wing him as her date for the Junior Prom on March 9. KENNETH I.

CARL, just promoted from Phm 3-c to Phm 2-c, is working in a hospital in the South Pacific. Army, recently moved from Hawaii to a base in the Marianas. A. G. WOLF, U.S.M.C., is a metalsmith of the 1st Marine Air wing somewhere in the Pacific area.

He was recently promoted from S-Sgt. to T-Sgt. If you have to do the job now, be sure you put your money into sup- plies that will give long service. In jr Jtgm wartime particularly, you can invest jt 55 in nothing less than good quality. Pfc.

HARVEY BELL is doing office work with the air corps at a repair base in India. Harvey reports that the Indian bearers are paid one rupee (33c) for one week's work, and he adds that jackals cause a lot of trouble at the base. RAYMOND W. LOCKERMAN is now a Yeoman working for a motion picture exchange officer. He says he is very busy and can't keep up with his personal correspondence.

He was at Eniwetok, Marshall Islands, but has been transferred to the Caroline Islands. His outfit is Commander Service Squadron 10 an advance mobile supply and repair base which recently was commended by Admiral Halsey for its good work. He saw repairsv I Are you financing under FHA? We cooperate mtf 'nmnff. 1-c. now on the USS Callaway, has recently been Sansferred from land patrol to sea duty i v.

V' Pfc VERNON LONGWAY is in a tank corps with the ninth army in Germany. He was home on a furlough last August. Since then in three months he has seen some nice looking girls in Scotland, England, Bel-gram, France, Holland, and Germany, but he still prefers the girls of the VJSJi. ALLEN LILLIE of Roseviue ax a beach party about a month or two A-S VINCENT, DAL PORTO is doing line work at the Lubbock Ar-07 Air Field, Lubbock, Texas. Pfc ERVIN PEKURI of Kocklin 210 Tahoe Ave.i:RoscviUe Floyd Fuliwiler, Mgr.

Phont 24 is in tne cw I v. with FkttonV Third Army, He has been in ixs cjw.