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White, is with the United States Para
troopers and is in the European theatre
of war.
LeRoy J. Dennis joined the Seabees
in March, 1942, and was in D utch H ar
bor but; received an injury to the back
and was given a Medical discharge. He
had been carpenter in the John Day
bridge crew, but the doctor advised h im
riot to return to hard work for a con
siderable time. His hoirie is, on Frasier
street in Pendleton. He is .also a veteran
o f W orld W ar I.
We have a letter from Bob Me A tee
from somewhere in the South Pacific.
He was assistant carpenter on the
bridge crew in John Day district when
he joined the Seabees in» March, 1942.
He is now a Carpenter’s Mate ,l/c and
says while he feels fine he’d like to be
in Oregon. He passed through John
Day last June on his way from D utch
Harbor to California and he says when
the war is over he is going back to the
Aleutians to fish, i .
He has seen the country from Texas
to Montana from ocean to ocean and
he says the Aleutians are the nearest a
fisherman’s paradise of anything yet. He
thinks he ought to know his fish and
fishing as he at least on one occasion,
tossed his hook among a Score of trout
and picked out one worth $20. Judge’s
estimate.
Sgt. John V. Boyer (Vern to us),
was bridge carpenter at John Day when
called into service. He joined the En
gineers in the fall of 1943 and saw serv
ice in the invasion of France and was
wounded in Germany in December,
1944. He was returned to the States and
is recuperating in a hospital in Utah.
' Sorry, Soldier, but I never go out
with perfect strangers.”
"T h at’s okay, Babe. I ain’t perfect.”
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