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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
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