Raymond Petty (photo)

HOME ON FURLOUGH

Cpl. Raymond Petty of Fort Sam Houston, Texas, is spending a ten day furlough with frinds and relatives in and near Albion.

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RECEIVES WORD THAT WOUNDED HUSBAND IS BACK IN U.S.

Mrs. Mary Petty of Albion received a telephone call Saturday that her husband, Pfc. Raymond Petty had returned to the States and was in a hospital in Massachusetts. Pfc. Petty was seriously wounded November 16 in France. He expects to be moved to a hospital nearer home. He was with the 95^th Inf. Division of Patton’s Third Army.

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Harold C. Pierce (photo)

Lieut. H.C. Pierce

Harold C. Pierce, former Edwards county resident and son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Pierce of Evansville, entered the Army Oct. 6, 1941. First stationed at Fort Benjamin Harrison, then Camp Lee, Virginia, Maxwell Field, Alabama, Dorr Field, Arcadia, Florida, Gunther Field, Montgomery, Alabama, and then American Army Flying School, Columbus, Mississippi, where he graduated on July 26, 1942, with a Cadet Class of 500 and was commissioned a 2^nd Lieut. of Air Forces, U.S. Army. He was sent to Army Air Base, Boise, Idaho, for advance officers’ training on army four engine bomber planes. After a month there he was sent to Walla Walla, Washington, and is now stationed at Army Air Base, Rapid City, South Dakota. He is pilot on a four engine bomber plane which carries a crew of nine men which when flown over enemy territory and its load of bombs released will mean a little trouble for the Japs and Nazis. Address at present: Lieut., Harold C. Pierce, 937 Bomb Army Air Base, Rapid City, South Dakota.

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Walter Pimlott

First Lt. Walter Pimlott Reported Missing in Action

First Lieut. Walter Pimlott of Carmi is reported missing in action according to word received by relatives here, and by his wife, the former Margaret Saxe, a student nurse at Ford Memorial hospital at Detroit. She is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Saxe, of Albion, rural route one. Lt. Pimlott was in combat duty with the Marines somewhere in the Southwest Pacific. He was a son of Rev. and Mrs. Pimlott of Carmi, where Rev. Pimlott is pastor of the First Methodist church.

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Leonard F. Posey

MEMORIAL SERVICES FOR BURNT PRAIRIE SOLDIER NEXT SUNDAY

Memorial services for Leonard F. Posey of Burnt Prairie, killed in action in France on July 8, will be held at the Baptists church at Burnt Prairie next Sunday, Aug 20, at two o’clock. Posey, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Posey of Burnt Prairie, was a brother of Mrs. Flossie Cox of Albion and was well known here.

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James W. Powell (photo)

HOME ON FURLOUGH

(date written in pencil Feb.,1943)

Pfc. James W. Powell of Lakeland Airport No. 2, Florida 497^th Bombardment Sqdn., 344^th Group, arrived Saturday on ten day furlough for a visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. James A. Powell.

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Pvt. James W. Powell, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Powell of Albion is with the 497^th Bombardment Group, MacDill Field, Tampa, Fla. He has been in the service since May 25, 1942.