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1 VISITORS FROM THE UiaTED STATES ARMED FORGES DAl^IEL SQSEi Dan is now at Fort Jaokaonj S* C„ During? recent record ‘*i8pectlon7 Dan“o personnel records were declared the best In the division— a result Dan was granted e three day pass end visited Oaromount while at «orae„ He proudly related that Sgt* York, fembus ^^Vorld War h hero, was for™ '^^J'ly in hlB present regiment» Dan was wearing expert lnfentryman'’8 badge *“ioh he said morita extra per montho He also wore the good conduct rib' Dan was looking I'ine^ DRAPER; Ted Draper finally returned to the states after quite aoffle tifQQ with the South Pacific nativeso In spite of a full schedule while home Ted visited Oaromount several times* He is just a bit •’ten” and "lightly trim—otherwise the many months overseas seem to have produced no “armful effects. It was a real treat to see Lt. Draper again. He has had ®drae most Interesting experiences. Other than many inconveniences, he said “is duty was not very tough, Ted said that he had seen many parte of the Qrid which he had never expected to see end in the same breath—remarked ^nat he would never be caught buying e return ticket to these seme parts, ® has returned to the West Const where he was expecting to learn something the ‘^floating Navy". Grood buck to Lt, Draper, WILLIAM RUS8ELL GILBERTS “8 during his furlough. at Camp Campbell Ik Pvt, Russell was in Rocky Mount recently and visited Gilbert has been •''soldiering" now for ?0 mohths- |, -wv eiir \,et.(ap wamjjucjL x» Ky„ and since November, 19^3 at Camp Barkley, Texas ® likes Texas fIne-'-lots of work lots of fun. He had not been home for oonths. Several furloughs for him had been cancelled. At one time it ^8 Opi. Gilbert, but due to a disagreement with a Lto it is Pvt. again. In Pite of the fine state of Texas, we hope Russell will journey back to N, C, . day to stay. Etc RUDOLPH PULLEY! rujuAici, Rudolph dropped in to see us recently. He has been {jJJPsferred to Ft. Leonard Vood, Missouri, after 17 long months at Kearns, PfCo Pulley volunteered for transfer to the Infantry in June. Ke a fi "Tell all the boys in the Air Corps they can have lx, I prefer to be ^'ifleraan in the Infantry", After being transferred, Fiudolph was at Camp Oregon for one month and then Missouri. He was a M.P', in the Air Oo iJu^and that really ,is his reason for transfer. Probably by this time. 8oon ®y has an answer for "What do^you do in the Infantry?" Visit us again NEWS FROM MEN AND -VOMSN IN SERVICE ^^Sg^JAMES BAKER. AMM l/Ct Jimmy writes from the U. S„ 8. Waxp and evl- all is well with him, He states that he has missed playing tennlt ttXX 4.0 WC7JLX W4.v|jl lA«.lUe oWctvco wliciu liC IlclD lUxoaCLt pXciyxn^ vclXXlxo baseball since 194l-"however he doss play softball on the ship's team. ^jj,®ounds a real challenge to the home front when he w!ffltss,"The materials "the ri^t to make them when and as we see necessary, are what we ere with and fighting for, so if the people back home are patriotic, tlQ Y" -rj o c- » I X- —- r- am sure they must be, they will see that 'those who have died shall gl«oe have died in vain' by trying to include in ell their post war plans a for discharged service men not only in work, but social life also," ®*8 hoping that we can meet this challenge successfully end effectively. ®urely merits our very careful attention.
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