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The other day a private who â€" has developed the “Pm{ic Island >.._â€"....: Stare*~â€"â€" he‘sâ€" a â€"trifle dazed, or the fringes of Japan‘s Inland Sea. The Guam made her battle deâ€" but on the morning of March 18, ABOARD USS GUAM IN THE PACIFIC â€" John E. Huestis, 20, of 41 months in Germany. Blanding, Fia. Their next step toâ€" ward home is a reception center for separation fromâ€"theâ€"serviceâ€"or furioughs prior to reassignment. Among these lates returnees through ATC‘s Caribbean division hub was S/Sgt. Donmald C. Whitâ€" They were anmiong 50,000 "chosâ€" sen" ATC flies from overseas each month, the majority of whom land at ATC‘s Miami army air field. Neill is the son of Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Neill, who reside at 1030 Wade, Highland Park, and his wife, Marion, resides mt the Fairoaks avenue address. _ He attended Northwestern university, and enâ€" listed in the navy Oct. 12,â€" 1940. While overseas he served in Guadâ€" alcanal, Bougainville, Marianas and Palau. Miami, Fla. â€" IMinois can i: out the red plush carpet. ore her native fighting sons are â€" odho-ed\rrbeinni'ngain transport from farâ€"flung e fronts. Page: 2 Lt. Com. Horace W. Neill, USN, of. 866 Fairoaks avenue, Deerfield, a veteran of 53 months service overseas, has been admitted to the hospital at Great Lakes. __The souvenits were Jap cluster bombs, each composed of 300 exâ€" plosive shells, potent enough to put a deep dimple in any landscape .. . For some reason a frontline solâ€" dier beli¢ves he‘s expected to pick up souvenirs just like he‘s expectâ€" ed to swear. The Army, obliging at times, realizes this Yankâ€"souvâ€" enirâ€"Craze, and has, therefore, set up a Souvenir Clearance tent on Okinawa: * a Veterans of Pacificâ€"islandâ€"adâ€" vances consider this viper keepsake the horror souvenir of the war . . . The â€" sergeantâ€"checker looked, gasped, almost fainted. * Around here, if you‘re not on the "rock"â€"the Hawaiian Islandsâ€" you‘re "down under," orâ€"a bit nearer Tokyo. One of our staff memâ€" bers on BRIEF (weekly newsâ€"feature magazine written for all men in the Pacific ocean area) t.ldncgeoupln of Ohiunlnci_deab,l Curious Variety. I thought I‘d pass ‘¢m on to you, Highland Parkâ€"® ers, ‘cause they show a touch of humor which came as an aftermath in the bitter Okinawa campaign. _ duty â€" came to this tent with his souvenir. WHATâ€"IS THIS? ... It was a large glass of pickled fist, staring through the glass lookâ€" ing meaner than the devil. what he planned heads, he replied: "O, put them on me mantle at home." TOO BAD, COLONEL . . . C A _ breathlessâ€"fromâ€"excitement colonel popped into Souvenir .tent one day, our scout says, carrying the gaudiest flag imaginable. On another day a huge truck came bumping up to the tenlr\_A "Look our souvenirs over fand see if they‘re okay to send home, Sarge," one of the GI truck drivâ€" ers said. IN THE NATION‘S SERVICE SOMEWHERE IN THE PACIFIC â€" OR, 5000 MILES FROM HIGHLAND PARKâ€" dollars and two quarts of scotch for the flag.) Well, before long, an officer who knows all.about Jap flags knocked the colonel‘s story all to pieces. The flag was simply a banâ€" ner presented to Okinawa children for their farming excellence or something like our Fourâ€"H club awards, you know. > Humbly the colonel told the rather bored sergeantâ€"inâ€"chargeâ€"ofâ€" souvenirâ€"checking that the flag was a Jap regimental banner, wrested from the fanatic enemy. (It was later learned, by the way, that the colonel had paid 100 ~Theâ€"colonel â€"walked â€"awayâ€"mutâ€" tering oaths to himself . .. ‘M IN THE ARMY NOW the private was asked less than a day here, Specialâ€"to theâ€"Highland Park Press avenue, of of pickled The Guam, the American versâ€" ion of the pocket battle ship, and a comparatively recent addition to the Pacific fleet, cruised with her task force off Japanese shores for 61 days. In recent operations, supâ€" porting the Okinawa invasion, she protected carriers of her escort in a series of battles. ‘Like her sister ship, the USS Alaska, she is designed as a batâ€" tle cruiser, the two being the only ships of their type in the fleet. She exceeds many battleships in length and tonnage, she carries 12â€"inch guns in place of the 8â€"inch weaâ€" pons of the usual heavy cruiser, and bristles with heavy concentraâ€" tion ofâ€"antiaircraft batteries. nlmchtelgimm-o’uu ation of the giant superâ€"bombers Bernhardt Olson, 19, a+ high school graduate, bl.’g Guns of the big battle cruiser were credited with shooting down two Jap planes as they attempted suicide dives on a nearby aircraft carrier. In addition, she is creditâ€" ed with assists on six attacking enâ€" emy planes, while her 12â€"inch guns poured tons of steel on two Japâ€" held islands. Randolph Field, Tex. â€" Ready for transition training in Bâ€"29 suâ€" perfortesses, ist Lt Wyatt L Peschman, son of Mrs. Henrietta Peschman, 1100 N. Green Bay, has reported as a student at Randolph during the now historic twoâ€"day air strike against the Ryukyus and the inland sea area of Japan. Lee is a very polite fellow and I asked him what he thoughtabout us Yanks who, for some reason, are awfully boisterous and slightly vulâ€" gar when we land in strange lands. Lee said he was shocked at the way we acted when he first met us, but now he‘s used to our ways and he seems to enjoy. our casualness. QUESTIONS CERTAIN,~ ACTIONS .. . He says Korean men, at least the ones he lives amongst, hold their women in the highest respect, putting them up on | pedestals chiefly because they are so feminâ€" ine, and, they feel, deserving of courteous attentions. & STRENGTHEN MORALS ... My talk with Lee was instructive for it seems to be his beliefs are sound and similar to those held by America‘s best founding fathers. Pfc. Lee has two brothers, Chung Oak and Kun Oak. Apparâ€" ently they cried a little more and fussed a bit when babies so they were called Chung and Kun. Methinks it would be wise for homeâ€"fronters to tighten up their morals for we‘ve let them slip a long ways since the Japs splattered Pearl Harbor. he said, to name babies of good character Soon Oak. Well, that‘s frontline life for you. POLITE AND PLEASANT ... Working in our photo lab is a very pleasant chap. His name is Pfc. Soon Oak Lee. He‘s a Ko‘ rean and says that Soon"Oak means that when he was a baby, he was a goodâ€"baby,â€"and thereforeâ€"given There are a couple of actions he can‘t understand in our society, however. f ~He doesn‘t know why some Amâ€" ericans seem to take marriage so lightly, going.~ into it carelessly, then getting a divorce if they don‘t like their mates. . He says the Korean belief is that divorce is a sin. . And anyone in his socieâ€" ty who abuses the sanctity of the home is despised and ostracized. He also said he didn‘t know why many of our women tried so hard to .be © unfeminine . â€"swearing, drinking, wearing the clothes of men. * his wife and infant son, is visiting his mother, Mrs. E@win Fischer, 589 W. Park. Member of a ground crew of a bomber group, Lt. Fischâ€" band, Lt. (jig) Honer;:â€"who is hosâ€" pitalized there, recovering from inâ€" juries.received in the Pacific when his ship suffered 5 kamikaze atâ€" S 2/c Arthur Kuge!, navy radio operator, her brother, is now staâ€" tioned at Newport, R. I. He reâ€" cently spent a leave with his wife and two small children at 311 day leave soon. Vine,.~ After further training he will report to the carrier Midway. Lt. Harry Hansen, husband of tioned at Ft. McClellan, Als., where he will receive two months of advanced infantry training. Reâ€" er left for England last March on of 21 months in the Aleutians, reâ€" ported recently to Camp Swift, Texas, after a visit to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hugo Schneider, 439 CWO Hugo, a.brother, overseas 14 months with an armored divisâ€" ion, . awaits ‘deployment ~orders from his station in Buvhen, Gerâ€" many. A former postal.employee, he now holds the Bronze Star tacks. He will be home on a 30â€" cently he spent a short furiough with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Olson, 718 Ridgewood. report to Sioux Falls, S. D., for further orders. â€"Pfe. Richard, another brother, is with the infantry on Mindanao. Mrs. Herbert Honer, the former Marilyn . Kugel, .daughter of â€"Mr. Sgt. Robert Schneider, veteran "Coming Attractions" you have been hearing about are far beyond the "dream" stage. Yes, they have already been fully developed and tested by wellâ€"known makers! And the moment war proâ€" duction permits, they will be on their way to you. 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He received his training at Glenâ€" view naval air station. s after 6 months there with the 449th bomb group. f His brotherâ€"inâ€"law, â€" Lt. â€"Daniel Burke, personnel officer at Clarâ€" dina, Ia., a Japanese prisonerâ€"ofâ€" war camp, is spending 15 days with his wife and small daughter, at the above address 7 parents, Mr:and Mrs. George Cucâ€" chario, 141 S. Second. young aviation metaismith wears the Asiaticâ€"Pacific and the Philipâ€" pine liberations ribbons. He parâ€" ticipated in the battles of Luzon, and Mrs. W. J. Flynn, Briar lane, «bout the middle of this month, afâ€" ter which he plans to engage in the paper indutsry, which was his is now the Army Air Transport command, where he went directly from Italy home on a 60â€"day leave. serving 20 months with the amphiâ€" bious forces of the Pacific, exâ€" work before in landings at Bougainville, Green PLAN NOW TO ENJOY THESE Hermanâ€"34 Cacchario, AM â€"2/¢, Pyt. Wm. Flynn, 2z, son of Mr Bowes Brothers Meet will finish at Annapolis in June. The licutenant, veteran of 2 years in the Europearn theater, where, as ‘bombardierâ€"navigator, he â€" was awarded 3 Distinguished Flying crosses and the Air medal with 11 Holmsted also participated in the campaigns of Truk and the Marâ€" man J. Charinon, 22, and 1st Lt Jerome III, 23, met for the first time in nearly 3 years when they spent recent leaves with their parâ€" ents, Mr. and ~Mrs. Jerome: P. Bowes, 176 Laurel The midshipman, now on cruise, sak ‘"â€"* COs n.: M c o( iecommmre vvâ€"8f enemy territory." He Has reâ€" RECENT PROMOTIONS IN CADY FAMILY Two promotions have recently been made to members of the marâ€" Park. ~Lt. Hearst W. Cady Jr., USMC, now based at E1 Toro, Cal., has been made a captain. Marine Pfc. Jean, recently promoted to the rank of corporal, is stationed at Pendleton, ~Cal. Marine Cpl. Margo is stationed at Honolulu. duty shalls. He entered service upon graduation from ~high ~school in Hune, 1943. + m/mâ€" 3/c, is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. K. Holmsted, 213 North, Highwood, while his ship is being overhauled. At the end of further orders. ineâ€"minded Cady family, 339 E. ard, have received . : charges from service. postwar sppliances, from electrically warmed bHinkers to brighten your home. + Yes, those thrilling new clectric home appliances will be ready for you... if you are ready for them. So plan for your postwar appliances now. Plan, today, to modernize your home so that you may have an easier, happier life comorrow. they‘ll provide you with fands for postwar things you went. Buy MELP YOURSELF TO MHAPPIMESS ‘War boads will heip you realize your deeams! First «5 Eighteen months on a destroyer you realize your dreams! First and foremost, Â¥rves and hestea the day of victory. Secoad, Thursday, August 2, 1945 Lt. Col. Hugh A. McKinley Home from European Area conveyors. Of the 1500 flown F. 0. Carrell, Glider Pilot, Home On Leave from France on Sunday, July 22, after serving for 10 months in the European theater of war, with the 92nd troop carrier squadron, 439th al with oak leaf cluster and three battle stars. He has 97 points unâ€" der the redeployment program. pated in the campaign at Bastogne (Battle of the Bulge), and during ported a jeepâ€"load of medical supâ€" plies and men. The total carrying across the Rhine, only about 50 were retrieved. . had been stationed for many years at Fort Sheridan, where he will reâ€" port at the end of his furlough for brother, has been servmg in the Pacific for 3 years. Oak Terrace and of Deerfieldâ€" At the end of his furlough he will F. 0. Edward T. Carrell, glider pilot, son of Mrs. Mary M. Carrell, Lt. Col. Hugh A. McKinley, 597 enview, has returned from 32 Lt Frank McKinley, USN, a a glider is about 7500 for arrived of