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FOURTH BROTHER(WAR GIVES WOMANOF LOCAL FAMILYTWO HI SHVVOS1JOINS THE ARMYilriCharles Bone, 17, today became the fourth of a Centralia family of five boys to enlist in the army since the end of the war,Charles and his three brothers, George, 25, Wayne, 20, and Robert, 19, are the sons of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Bone, 624 James street.George is the only one to have seen service during the war. He was a pharmacists mate in the Navy for four years and was wounded by a sniper’s bullet on Pelelieu. After the war he reen-liste. in the Army Medical corps and now hold the rating of master sergeant.HAMBURG, GERMANY — (TPt Two German officers met in a Russian prison camp. They soon discovered that they lived in the same German town, in the same street, at the same number and had the same wife.This was how it came about, according to the Hamburg newspaper “Ahendblatt'’. A German major, returning to the front from home leave in 1942, told his wife to marry again if he were killed. Soon she was officially told o f his death in action.Eighteen months later she married another officer, In duecourse he was captured. But hus-1tiRobert, a private, is now serving under George at an Army hospital in Kobe. Japan. He enlistedhere in September of 1948 and wassent to Japan a few months later. He requested and got a transferto George’s hospital.Wayne was the second of the quartet to enlist. doing so in December of 1947, two weeks afterGeorge. He's a P.F.C. now and was a radio operator in the recent Berlin Air lift. He is now stationed in Frankfurt, Germany.Whn Charles enlisted today he requested duty in the Medi c a 1 corps so he could have a better chance of Joining his two brothers in Japan, but had to be satisfied with the Coast artillery.Wayne and Robert both attended high school at Fairfield during thefive years the family lived there, between two periods of Centralia residence, and George and Charles were CTHS students.Wayne and George are both married, maintaining homes in Fairfield. All four of the boys are pio-fessional musicians, locally.The family lived in Centralia for .30 years pnor to moving to Fairfield, where they stayed for five years, returning to Centralia in June of 1947.The father, when asked what be thought of his sorus’ choice of careers, said:I’m glad they’re doing it. The Army will be fin® experience for them, and they can get some moreeducation. Besides, they’re making more money than they could in civilian life.”The other son, John, 36. hasn't forsaken civilian life yet. He's married and living in Fairfield.
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Centralia Evening Sentinel
Centralia, Illinois, US
Tue, Jul 12, 1949
Page 7
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