News Of Ann Arbor And Washtenaw County Men In Service: August 13, 1943

FRIDAY, AUGUST 13, 1943

THE ANN ARBOR NEWS, AWN ARBOR, MICH.

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18 Months Service

Friday, Aug. 13, may be a black day for many a superstitious man, but for Eldore B. Friese, 27, of 429 Miller Ave., it marks the end of a year and a half exactly of life in the U. S. Army.

Sgt. Friese was stationed at Fort Custer, Sheppard Field, Tex., Mac-Dill Field, Fla., and Sarasota, Fla., while he was in this county, but was shipped overseas a year ago this month.  Sgt. Friese was head cook at Sarasota, and is serving as a cook in England where he is stationed.

Reported to be in good health, Sgt. Friese writes that he enjoys his work very much.  He was employed at Kappler's Packing House before he entered the Army, and played on the Dexter Independents baseball team.

With Navy In Alaska

On Navy duty somewhere near Adak, Alaska, is Seamen, second class, Richard E. Adams, son of Mr. and Mrs. Willard Adams of Whitmore Lka,e

Although Dick writes that he is extremely pleased with his Navy training thus far and with the fact that he is getting service away from the United States, he still is hoping to get into some "real action" soon, according to his letters home.

The 19-year-old sailor, who is six feet, four and one-half inches tall, went straight into service from high school, reporting for duty at Allegan last May 3.  He received his boot training at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station and also spent some time at Bremerton, Wash., before being transferred to Adak.

Seaman Adams received his promotion to seaman, second class, on July 3.

Completes Basic

William J. Rademacher, son of Mrs. Nan Rademacher of Chelsea, who entered the Army four months ago, has completed his basic training and will now go on to more specialized work.

Bill was attending the University of Michigan when he was called to active duty, and he was assigned to Fort Jackson, S. C., with an infantry division to take his basic training.

Since his induction Bill has risen two notches and now wears a corporal's stripes on his sleeves.

Army Medicineman

Raymond S. Perry, son of Mr. and Mrs. James Perry of Whitmore Lake, is doing medical work with an Army unity stationed at New Orleans, La., where he was sent following preliminary training at Camp Grant, Ill.

A graduate of Pontiac High school and 20 years old, Pvt. Perry was called to Army service last Jan. 25 and reported for duty at Ann Arbor from where he was sent to Camp Grant.

Pvt. Perry is the third of his family to enter armed service.  One brother, Venaches, is stationed at Camp Claiborne, La., while another, Francis, is with a Marine unit at a South Carolina training base.

Gets Sergeant's Stripes

Fred C. Strong, Whitmore Lake serviceman who has been in the Army since June 5, 1942, is sporting a brand new set of sergeant's stripes, his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jay F. Strong, Whitmore Lake, have learned.

A radio technician who received special training at the United States radio school in Chicago, Ill., for six weeks and also spent training time at Fort Custer, Fort Eustice, Va., Fort Sheridan, Ill., Camp McCoy, Wis., Camp Davis, N. C., and Nashville, Tenn., is at Camp Pickett, Va.

Before he was inducted into the Army, Sgt. Strong was a riveter at the Willow Run bomber plant.  He enlisted for service on June 2, 1942.

Officer Candidate

Sgt. Neil Duncanson, 21-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Dugald Duncanson, 827 Arch St., has been overseas for a year, seeing active duty in the Transportation corps.  Now he has been chosen to attend officer candidate school- not to return home, but to take his officer training in Australia.

Sgt. Duncanson was flown from New Guinea where he has been stationed for the past nine months to Australia, and will attend the second training school which has been established by American forces in Australia.

Sgt. Duncanson was graduated from Ann Arbor High where he was a football and baseball player and was president of the student council.  He attended the University for one year and MIchigan Normal for a semester and then worked at Wahr's bookstore until his enlistment in the Army in Februaray, 1942.

Neil took his basic training at Camp Robinson, Ark., and then went to Camp McDowell on Angell island in San Francisco bay.  Last July he went over seas and was sent to Australia.  He served in Australia for three months and was then sent to New Guinea where he has been ever since until his recent return to Australia.

Neil was made a sergeant just eight weeks ago, and now that he is attending Officer Candidate school he has asked to be transferred from the Transportation corps where he has seen service for the past year, to the Infantry, so he will now be attached to an Infantry division when he goes on active duty again.

Air-Minded Brothers

Pfc. Stanley G. Richardson, 22, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Richardson, 1906 Dexter Ave., is taking technical training at the weather school of the Army Air Force in Chanute Field, Ill.

A senior at Michigan State Normal, Pfc. Richardson enlisted last September, reporting to the reception center at Fort Sheridan, Ill. on April 4.  He then took his basic training at St. Petersburg, Fla.

As a student at Ann Arbor High school, he was a track and cross country letter winner, and at Monroe High school he was captain of the track team.  In college he became affiliated with Kappa Phil Alpha fraternity.

On June 28, he was promoted to private first class.

His brother, Wayne R. Richardson, 18, a naval aviation cadent, reported to Wenatchee, Wash., for advanced flight training last week.

Enlisting last October, he reported to the Naval Flight Preparatory school at Delaware, O., just ten days after Stanley left for Fort Sheridan.

A graduate of Ann Arbor High school in 1942, Wayne was a freshman at Michigan State Normal College when he joined up.

In Hospital

Pvt. Robert Edward Bensinger, 21, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Bensinger, 713 W. Liberty St., has been confined to a station hospital at Camp Claiborne, La., with a back injury for the past three weeks.

Entering service on Dec. 2, 1942, he reported to Camp Grant, Ill., and from there to Camp Claiborne, where he is stationed with the infantry.

A former student at Ann Arbor High school, Pvt. Bensinger worked for his father, in the Liberty Food Lockers until his induction.

Mr. Bensinger served 26 months in World War I.

Overseas

Pvt. Don Schumacher, son of Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Schumacher, Dexter, is serving with our armed forces as one of the thousands shipped over to North Africa.

Don was inducted into the Army Feb. 6 and went to Camp Grant, Ill. for his early training.  Then he transferred to Camp Hood, Tex., where he was put into a tank destroyer division.  While at Camp Hood he received a medal for expert shooting on the range.  

After training at Camp Hood, Don was sent to Pennsylvania and then to New York to a replacement center there.  June 2 found him going overseas with North Africa his destination.

Navigation Cadet

Navigation Cadet Herbert D. Hamilton, 24, son of Mr. and Mrs. Francis G. Hamilton, 1512 Granger Ave., is now enrolled in a course in advanced aerial navigation at the Army Air Forces Navigation school at San Marcos Army Air Field, San Marcos, Tex.

Herb was employed at the Chrysler Corp. as a test engineer prior to his induction and was living in Highland Park with his wife, the former Jennett Angell of Ann Arbor.  Herb graduated from Ann Arbor High school and took a degree in mechanical engineering from the University.  During the training course at San Marcos Field, which is scheduled to take about 18 weeks he will master the four methods of navigation: radio, dead reckoning, pilotage and celestial.  Upon graduation he will be qualified to take his place as a navigator in air crews of the large planes in the Army Air Forces.

Moved To Great Lakes

Robert Burton Winans, 17, a first class petty officer in the Nacy, phoned his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Winans, of 1523 S. University Ave., Wednesday that he was being "shipped out" from the Great Lakes Training Station.  Petty officer Winans had just returned to his post on Tuesday after spending a nine-day leave here, upon completing his boot training.  

Wearing the radio emblem of the Navy on his sleeve, he spent a large part of his training period doing radio, working, showing movies to the boys and taking care of the machines.  He hopes to continue his radio work in his new assignment.

A student at Ann Arbor High school until his enlistment on June 6 of this year, Petty Officer Winans was active in athletics there, and holds several letters for track.

In Ordnance Training

Pvt. George A DeWolfe, formerly of Ann Arbor, has been sent to the Ordnance Replacement Training Center, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Md., where he will receive his basic training as an Ordnance soldier.

In North Africa

Corp. Owen G. Lambarth is serving somewhere in French North Africa, at the present time, but he writes that his family needn't worry about him because he gets lots to eat, and the food is even better than the food in the States.

Corp. Lambarth is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Lambarth, 6115 Pleasant Lake Rd.  He was inducted into the Army Feb. 19, 1941 and took his training at Camp Pickett, Va., and at various camps on the west coast including Fort Ord, Calif. and Fort Lewis, Wash.

Twenty-eight-year-old Lambarth arrived overseas in November, 1942, so has seen a good deal of the country in the time he has served there.

Ever since he has been in the Army, Corp. Lambarth has been driving various kinds of trucks and other Army conveyances.  Shortly after he arrived in Africa he drove one Army jeep for 7,000 miles and wrote home that even after that extensive kind of travel the little blitz buggy ran as well as when it was new.

The roster of names of towns that he has driven through gives almost a complete picture of the American enterprises during the African campaign- Fedala, Casablanca, Rabat, Mehnes, Fez Giercif, Clayda and Constantine.

Lambarth was made a corporal in June.  Prior to his induction he did both farming and painting.

Takes New Assignment

Lt. Robert Lewis Forsythe, 24, son of Mr. and Mrs. L. L. Forsythe, 2870 Overridge Rd., has been acting as company commander of 400 "casuals" in a replacement, while awaiting transportation to his new assignment with a tank destroyer battalion.

After receiving his commission at Ft. Benning in May of 1942, he left for the Pacific, spending six months in Hawaii and then in the Southwest Pacific.

While in service on Guadalcanal Lt. Forsythe contacted malaria in April of this year, and was evacuated to a base hospital unit fully recovered.  Also on April 7, he received a promotion from second lieutenant to first lieutenant.

Takes Course

Karl Karsian, former teacher of history and social studies in Ann Arbor High school who was sent to Washington to report of unlimited duty with the American Red Cross as assistant field director, is now at Scott Field, Ill., where, with a group of eight other trainees he is going through a two-week instruction course prior to going into active duty.

This group of men with whom he is getting his instruction includes five former superintendents and teacher and they will be assigned for the present to domestic positions before they are given posts overseas.

In Pre-Flight School

Aviation Cadet Lyle F. Hurd, jr., 24, son of Mr. and Mrs. Lyle F. Hurd, of 2710 Pontiac Rd., is taking his pre-flight training at Maxwell Field, Ala.

Enlisting in the Army Air Force last December, Cadet Hurd received basic training in Miami Beach, Fla., and was sent to Slippery Rock State Teacher's College, Slippery Rock, Pa., for preliminary schooling.

A graduate of Ann Arbor High school in 1937, where he played football, Lyle then worked as a truck driver for his father, in Hurd's Delivery Service.

His wife, the former Ruth E. Fisher, whom he married in 1940, is living with his parents.

Brothers In Air Force

Brothers serving in the Army Air Corps, are Pvt. Arthur E. Bishop, 20, and Pvt. Robert B. Bishop, 18, sons of Mr. and Mrs. T. E. Bishop, of 217 1/2 N. Main St.

Coming to Ann Arbor two years ago from Toledo, O., Pvt. Arthur was employed as a lineman for Bell Telephone Co. until his enlistment in November of last year.

First sent to Fort Custer, Arthur went from there to Lubbock, Tex., where he is an MP, receiving training in a guard squadron.

Pvt. Bob, who enlisted July 21, qualified for enlistment as a cadet in the Army Air Force and has been ordered to report to Jefferson Barracks, Mo. next Wednesday where he will receive his basic training.

Graduating from Ann Arbor High school in 1942, Bob played clarinet in the bad, and later was employed as an armament worker at the bomber plant.  Arthur attended Scott High school in Toledo.