| 17-Year Olds May Again
Enlist In The Coast Guard
Wounded, He Picked
Off Seven Japs
Ron Burr returned Saturday from
n trip to Oakland, where he saw Har­
old Hart, formerly a driver of one
cf the Burr logging trucks, who has
been in the Marine Corps for the past
year. He is in the Naval Hospital at
Oakland recovering from a mortar
shell injury which he received on one
of the islands in the Pacific where the
• Commandos made a landing, some
weeks ago. He told Don that had
not a buddy alongside Trim pulled
him down the shell would have killed
him.
After he had been laid out on a
stretcher, preparatory to being taken
on board the hospital ship, and with
his gun lying alongside him, he saw
a bunch of Japs starting to set up
a machine gun farther up on the
beach. He lay there, wounded as he
was, and picked off all seven ot the
gun crew. '
The Harts still own their home here
in the north part of town, but Mrs.
Hart is working in the San Francisco
Bay area.
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V-Mail Letter
From North Africa
Written by Don Willett “some-
where in North Africa,” on December
30, the following V-mail letter was
Don, before going into the service,
was employed at the plant here and
lived at the Fred Belloni “Boys
House:”
“Hi ya, pappy! Sure nice to hear
from you again. Guess, you thought
I’d forgotten you, eh? I Imagine you
must have got the limit today or are
you the hunter you used to be? I
haven’t seen a fowl of any descrip­
tion yet. .They must have left this
area for wood when hell broke loose
I call my office over here.
There wasn’t much to do today so
I hauled three loads of crushed rock
for my office. Yep, it goes in what
I call my officer over here.
Here it .is practically January and
no rain or snow.
Something is
bound to descend soon. Maybe it will
be in a different kind of a liquid
form.
I guess the draft board has nearly
picked up all the available men.
Course not all, ’cause some have a
way of staying out. Army life isn’t
so bad, but one day I’ll have my
choice of which I want. No need to
say which that $
yfljl soon.
be. I'm
not a 30-
Pop.
years man. Wi
J.
"
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Was Here On Furlough
Before Going Over Sea
as Bob’s. (Bob Baumgartner). It, How much I, have'missed you dear
would seem a bit strange for me td
motftgf,
sit by a file again. Right now I am I feel that words cannot tell.
Enlistment of 17-year old men in
shirtless far comfort
I don’t even And I pray that God in his goodness
;the United States Coast Guard,
Marine Corps Sergeant
The following letter and poem, wear a shirt except when it is ijeces- Will guard you and keep you well.
¡halted temporarily, will be resumed
sary.
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isary.
I recall other.days of ihy childhood,
A. M. Willey Here For A Day
again in February, recruiting officers written by August J. Blumyer, some­
The
poem
of
the
ship
ia
a
’
tri#
story Yoy. tenderly stood by my side,
1
-a
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Master Gunnery Sergeant A. M. at Coast Guard headquarters in the where in the Pacific, was sent to Mrs.
in verse. I would never have writtdiy As;I lay on my bed hot wjth fever
Willey, who gave up his dairy busi- 1 Alaska Building at Seattle announce, Ira Bumgartner of Riverion. He is
it if Bob hadn’t asked me if I had. And toe^d on my pillow add cried.
the
young
man
who
was
with
her
ness here a year or so ago to join
Young men who are physically
So just tell Bob if it hadn’t been for When 1' needed you moafyou were
son
1
Bob,
in
the
Navy
and
the
Sen
­
the Marine Corps, was a Coquille qualified and who are seeking a war­
him that poem would never have
near'me,
'
.
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tinel
prints
them
because
it
gives
a
visitor from Monday until Tuesday Ume c«reer of action and adventure
been written.
If
I
was
down
hearted
and
blue
”
slant
on
what
the
boys
out
there
are
morning this week. He is a mechanic wil) b* enlisted and sent to Alameda,
I really think I am going to come You were always ready to cheer me
doing and thinking, and the poem ex­
and was stationed for some time in Cal*L f°r preliminary training,
out to breg on after the war is over. I
A pal that was good and true. •»
the South Pacific. He did not report,
With the Coast Guard active on presses a sentiment that everyone
I have just about decided to make it Tonight as I’m writting dear mother
at least not for publication, where every major battlefront of the world, feels toward “mother." He wrote.
__________ my new home. I’ve never quite for-
Out here on my floating abode,
and "how much action he had seen, from the South Pacific to the Medi­ < couple of months ago:
This
finds
me
feeling
pretty
well
in
gotten
and
1
believe
there
are
bet-
I recall how you guided by footsteps
but he was near the fighting front. terranean, from the foggy Aleutians
every way as Christmas approaches.'
^opportunities there than back in To follow the straight narrow road.
He came up from San Diego and to the channel coast ot Europe, more
Missouri.
when he left Tuesday ¿was on his and more men are needed for special­ It will be my second away from home, , Daÿs are pretty dark now but they And now that Pve grown into man­
hood
my
first
off
United
States
soil.
This
way to Portland, where Mrs. Willey ized training in amphibious warfare atmosphere and scenery is hardly
brighten again. Bad as war is it And learned to be honeet and true.
is in the hospital. He will report back “hd in other duties now being per-
fitting for Christmas. I always pic- doea ,U oi M» som® ««x* H makes As long as I live I’ll remember
soon at the Marine Corps base at San formed by men of the Coast Guard.
us appreciate “
the
■* great ‘ and
J wonder
■*“ ­ Dear mother I owe it to you.
j The Coast Guard took an active ture Christmas with plenty of snow,
Diego.
ful land we have to live in. All of us Though thousands of miles are be­
evergreens
and
holly
to
brighten
part in the historic assault on Tarawa
who are away from it will see it in
tween us,
and Makin in the Japanese-occupied things up. I can’t fit a cocoanut palm
It Is Now Captain
a new and wonderful light. After all Of ocean and mountains and plains.
into
the
picture.
It
won
’
t
seem
like
Gilbert Islands; they landed forces
there is only one United States of Yet I feel the day is not distant
Earl C. Hamilton
'on Bougainville; they drove landing Christmas to me. It will be more
Since his recent visit in Coquille barges ashore at Attu, Kiska, Sicily <just like another day come and gone. America, There will never be When dear mother I’ll greet you
No place on - earth can
when he was here with Mrs. Hamil­ and Italy, and they are ready for the I Each succeeding day is just like the another,
» again.
one before it. I scarcely notice the match it
I can see your face light with glad­
ton from California a few weeks ago, big pushes yet to come.
ness
Earl C. Hamilton has been advanced I Information regarding enlistment passing of time. It is almost a year . In this letter I am going to inclose
from the rank of First Lieutenant and in the Coast Guard may be obtained now since I left the U. S. and about a verse I wrote last spring. Some- As you welcome your long lost boy.
he is now Capt. Earl Hamilton. The from room 319 Alaska Building, Sec­ 18 months since I last saw my home. thing I wrote to my mother for Once more I’ll embrace you dear
mother
However, I like to think brighter days Mother’s Day. Perhaps you would
promotion was made prior to his ond and Cherry, Seattle, Wash..
are ahead when all of us can observe like to add it to your collection of Our hearts will be filled with joy
being sent overseas to the European
i
Then I’ll sit down and tell you my
theatre, his postoffice address now i Chadwick Lodge, A. F. & A. M. a good old fashiohed “White Christ­ poems from service men.
story
being New York City,
mas,” in the good old American way.
Special communications of Chad­ I never will tire of hearing the strains
TO MY MOTHER
Other days will relive again.
«
wick Lodge are scheduled for Sat­ of that ballad.
Our here on the wide blue Pacific Now I bid you farewell dearest
Don Estes Took Course
urday, Feb. 5, at 8 o’clock, with work
mother
I am not allowed to tell you what Far from home and old friends that
At Harvard University
in the M. M., and on Friday, Feb. 11, happened on a certain day not so
Far out on the ocean blue,
I knew.
On a card to Alton Grimes and the work in the F. C. Stated communica- terribly long ago.—Its all something |
With , these words, there will never
¡Today of all days dearest mother
T
II would like to-forget. Whenever I _
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be another
My
thoughts
turn ___
homeward
to you.
invited toattend. get me chance to stop by some day. 'On this Mother’s Day I am thinking So loving, so kind and true.
was oh his"Way back to Pensacola,
W. B. McLarrin,
W. ”
M. I I’ll tell you the whole story.
”T
w
i As time on wings swiftly flies,
Florida, after taking a two weeks’
Remember — Norton's for office,
I I will always feel that the liand of Of the morning now one year past me
course In third: dimensional photog­
Insurance Specialist, F. R. Bull, s God guided my destiny then, as well Vfhen I kissed you a parting goodbye. school and home supplies.
37tfs
raphy at Harvard University, which
he said was very interesting.
He
added that he did not know how
much longer he would be stationed at
Pensacola.
Bob Kline In Training
At Montana State College
Bob Kline has written his father,
C. W. Kline, that he had graduated
from A squad to B squad at Mon­
tana State College at Bozeman,
where he was sent after finishing the
course at Buckley Field. Colo., camp.
Bob is in the Army Air Corps and
if he continues to pass the squad
requirements he will finish with E
squad—it takes a month per squad
from A’' to E—and he will then be
sent for final training to some air
field like that at Santa Ana, Calif.
With the increasing number of air
pilots now available for active ser­
vice overseas the examinations for
steady advancement are becoming
increasingly more difficult and many
B! the young men with whom Bob
as in training at Buckley Field have
. £een discharged from the Air Corps.
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Private first class and Mrs. .Co­
Patrick and his sister, Mrs. R. Adelin,
of Seattle, Wash., • were over^tHght
guests of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Miller
at their home on the North Bank road
last week. Pfc. Patrick is on furlough
from Cherry Point, N. C., where he
is in training in the Marine Corps.
He expects to be sent overseas on
return to his base. ~ .
Jack McCracken Qualifies
As Aviation Cadet
F. E. McCracken on Monday receiv­
ed a telegram from his son, Jack, that
he had qualified as an aviation cadet
after 28 days of basic training at
Buckley Field, near Denver, Colo.
From there he will be sent to college
somewhere for further training. He
wrote that the exams, both physical
Coos County Boy One Of
and mental, were very stringent, and
The Mars Crew Members
with the cutting down now of new
Marvin J. Floyd, a Myrtle Point men for pilot training that 80 per
young man and the son-in-law of Mr. cent of his group were not passed.
and Mrs. A. L. Hooton here, is one
of the crew members of the Mars, the jloth Zwicker Boys Are
largest transport plane in the world
Now In South Pacific
which recently made a round trip to
Fred and Elmer Zwicker are now
Hawaii. Floyd was not on that initial
I both somewhere in the South Pacific
flight, but will be making trips on
the flying boat soon. He is stationed I their mother, Mrs. Fred H. Zwicker,
at the Alameda Air Base, and his 1 reports. Fred has been stationed in
wife, the former Beth Hooton, is em- 1 Hawaii for some time but has re-
ployed down there in a defense plant. I cently been moved and Elmer left
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i the United States mainland a short
Income Tax Returns prepared. Call !time “8°-
✓
280-M for day or evening appoint- j
ment. George L. Maynard.
2t2s
A Letter From The
South Pacific
Calima csnli. ov for fl.OO
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