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sent to Japan and after arranging for
housing of many of the GI’s who were
on the island of Honshu, General Mac-
A rthur assigned him the task of mak
ing a forest resource of the Japanese
Islands. While on this work he con
tacted atypical pneumonia and was
very critically ill for some time.
Vance Morrison, recently discharged
from the forestry engineering branch
of the army w ith a staff sergeant’s
rating, returned to his work w ith the
state forestry department on January
1. Since leaving ¿be department in Oc
tober, 1942 to enlist, he has seen ser
vice, in Alaska, Europe and the Phil
ippine Islands.
Morrison was shipped to Alaska in
June, 1943, and spent the next 18
months on Kodiak Island where he was
engaged in getting out logs for one of
the army sawmills. Most of the lum
ber was shipped to the South seas. He
was back in the states in December,
1944, and two months later shipped to
Europe. He landed at LeHarve, France,
and a short time thereafter moved into
Germany.
While in Germany his group was
engaged in getting the German sawmills
in operation. This included both the
logging and milling operations. The
work was carried out by the Germans
themselves under the direction of the
Engineers.
In June, 1945, his group shipped
out of Marseille, France, heading for
the Philippines via the Panama Canal.
They landed in Manila 35 days later
and immediately started shipping mill
ing and logging machinery to Mindanoa
for a proposed operation on that island.
Vance states that no work had been
started by the time he left on Novem
ber 8.
H ugh Hayes, master sergeant in the
army engineering corps and formerly
draftsman in the Salem office of the
Civilian Conservation Corps, is back
in Civilian life after nearly four years
in the armed service. He left Salem on
December 21 to spend the holidays
w ith his folks at Waldport.
Hayes went into the engineer corps
shortly after Pearl Harbor and in April,
1942, his outfit went to Alaska to work
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