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1945 With the Colors: Jasper County IL ServicemenOverseas, 1941-1945

8-24-1945

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Le Harve P o rt of E m barkation , F rance.—Speeding A m erican troops homeward through th is key p o rt in the arm y’s redeploym ent system i$ P rivate F irs t Class H arold G. C ram er of Yale, who is a m em ber of Cam p Philip Morris, one of the five s ta g in g areas through which troops a re tu n ­neled to w aiting ships.

The port, which has shipped an av ­erage of alm ost 6,000 troops per day since VE-day, has facilities in these staging areas for 150,000 troops and has handled the bulk of troops bound for the states. Men w ith m ore th a n 85 points, men over age, recovered prisoners are shipped to the s ta te s as well as com bat and service un its be­ing redeployed to the Pacific T heatre via the States.

P rivate Cram er participated in the Rome-Anzio, Italy , Southern France, Rhineland and Germany cam paigns and w ears four battle s ta rs and the Purple H eart medal. He was w ith the Third division Com bat Engineers.

* * * if * *Assembly A rea Command, France.

—Corporal Herm an R. Schackm ann of Route Five, Newton, is being p ro­cessed a t Camp New York, one of seventeen sim ilar camps in the A s­sembly A rea Command, as the f irs t step in his redeployment to the U nit- f ed S tates for a furlough before head- ; ing for the Pacific. He is a m em ber of the 489th Air Service group.

The 489th Air Service Group arrived overseas on June 1, 1943, assigned to the E ighth Air Force, bu t w as tra n s ­ferred to the N inth A ir Force a fte r a few m onths in the ETO. O riginally the 70th Service Group, the 489th’s m ain ta sk was the servicing of B-26 M arauders, and it saw service in England, France, Belgium, Holland, and Germ any in th a t capacity. The un it was the f irs t medium bomber service group to operate on the con­tinent a fte r D-day, h itting the beach early in August. 1944.

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F irs t L ieutenant and Mrs. Otis j Maxwell and children le ft Tuesday j for F o rt Bragg, N orth Carolina, w here i his fam ily will m ake the ir home while | he is stationed there. They had been 1 living here while he w as overseas. | They were accompanied by the ir sis- I ter-in-law , Mrs. Edward Foltz Jr., as j fa r as Norfolk, Virginia. She and Seam an F o ltz had been visiting his P parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Foltz, and o ther relatives here.

Sergeant and Mrs. Azor C. F ear re ­turned to their home in Stapleton, New York, Monday, a fte r a ten days’ v isit w ith his paren ts in Willow Hill. S ergeant F ear has been stationed a t the New York P o rt of E m barkation fo r three years, but expects to be transferred to transporta tion of en­listed men upon his return. Mrs. F ear is a stenographer a t a Brooklyn A rm y Base.

* * * * * *Seam an F irs t Class Edw ard Foltz

J r . left for Astoria, Oregon, Tuesday, a fte r fifteen days a t Newton w ith his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Foltz. He had graduated from the E lectrician’s M ate school a t Jacksonville, Florida, and had received a delhy enroute. His wife, who had been here w ith him, le ft Tuesday for Norfolk, Virginia, w ith her brother-in-law and sister-in- law, L ieutenant and Mrs. Otis M ax­well, who were enroute to F o rt Bragg, N orth Carolina.

* * * * * *Aviation M achinist’s M ate Third

Class Donald F ith ian has landed in the United S tates and is expected home in a few days for a th ir ty day leave w ith his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Cecil D. F ith ian of Newton. He is a propellor specialist on an a irc ra ft car­rier.

* * * * * *P riva te Dale W eber is home on a

th ir ty day furlough afte r service over- l seas w ith the Tw entieth Arm ored di­

vision. He w ears three battle stars on the European, African, Middle E astern T heatre ribbon.

P riva te F irs t Class Jam es A. Dew- h irs t has landed in the United States | a f te r a trip across on the Queen t M ary. He served two years in Europe | w ith an In fan try division.

* * * * * *P riva te Dale Phillips is spending a i

furlough w ith his wife and children a t ') Newton.

* * * * * *P riva te H arold T ate is home on fu r­

lough from Camp Robinson, A rkan-j sas.