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24 and was discharged at Bremerton on October 19. Welcomed back to the Accident Commission is Robert Fischer, who en tered the Army February 22, 1942. He received his basic training and attended radio school at Camp Roberts, Califor nia. Bob held the rating of Technician 4th Grade and served overseas w ith the 49th F.A., 7th Infantry Division and was in four major battles, A ttu, Kwa- jalein, Leyte and Okinawa. Another Accident Commission em ployee, William Geibel, entered the Navy at Portland on September 25, 1942 and held 2nd class yeoman’s rat ing and served two and a half years of shore duty on the West Coast and Hawaii. Bill returned to the Commis sion March 26, 1945. Walter R. Taylor, Private in the In fantry, went into service in August, 1942 and reported to Fort Lewis. He was assigned for overseas shipment and sent to Fort McDowell, Angel Island, California, where he remained until he received a medical discharge in Febru ary, 1943. Mr. Taylor is now back with the Fiscal Control Division of the Acci dent Commission. F /O R. M. Smith, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Smith of the Accident Com mission, member of the 15 th A ir Force, is visiting his parents. He is known as "Checker Tails.’’ He has been in service since April, 1943, and just returned from Italy. Captain Malcolm G. Smith, 10th A ir Service Squadron has been in the Phil ippines, Ieshima, and Okinawa for the past several months; now writes from Korea: "O n 12th of September we were suddenly alerted and moved our squa dron aboard an LST in 18 hours, mov ing out the next morning to join a convoy bound for Korea. We ran into the tail of a tornado and had to go nearly to Fuchein, China to by-pass it. We did get a 100-mile an hour wind and the waves were higher than the deck of the ship. It was extremely rough, but we rode it out and arrived in the harbor of Jewsen, Korea on the 25 th. "W e are now located in the com pound of a Japanese textile mill that quit operating on V J Day. O ur eight officers are quartered in the house for merly occupied by the Jap mill physi cian. I t’s built with sliding windows and the doors are all sliding panels built entirely too low for the six-foot men among us. The floors are all cov ered with mats and we have to remove our shoes while we are in the house. It has a modem electric light system and SALES AND SERVICE ED JENSEN Ed Jensen Co. Oliver and Case Wheel Tractors and Implements. Oliver-Cletrac Tracklayers. EUGENE. ORE. Phone 508 HARRISBURG, ORE. Phone 592
