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Newspaper
Evening Huronite
Location
Huron, South Dakota, United States of America
Date
Sep 06, 1944
Page
7
The War Department released 1,001 American POWs held by Germany, naming two South Dakota servicemen among the list. The prisoners include Second Lt. Roscoe L. Taylor and Staff Sgt. Virgil Wether. The disclosure marks a routine public release of captured personnel information.
Reported notes from Forestburg Manchester and nearby towns list service members visiting families and receiving promotions including Cpl Bill McCormick home from Kentucky. Glen F Ritter Busch promoted to captain at Rapid City Air Base. various others promoted or stationed in the U S and overseas with units in England Ireland France and the Pacific theater.
Pvt Leland Ostrander writes to Mr and Mrs C Le Ostrander in Huron describing his China camp. He notes brick barracks, good food, monotony, a typewriter job, aircraft plane servicing, and gas business as he expects possible promotions. He discusses war prolonging, Japan and Germany fronts, watermelons priced high, typhoid water precautions, foot bound women in China, and the country’s beauty marred by filth.
Pvt Phillip Haffner, machine gunner with the 6th Armored Infantry, was killed in Italy on August 12 after being wounded earlier in July. He was born December 28, 1920, near Huron and attended local schools, later working for Consolidated Aircraft in San Diego before enlisting. He is survived by his parents Mr and Mrs Louis Haffner and a sister Mrs Wytt Huddleston, with grandparents in Huron. The family resides in Tacoma Washington.
Beadle County joins national milkweed drive to gather floss for life jackets. Wayne Long, Eli Martin and 4-H leaders coordinate Beadle County's campaign with Beadle County courthouse as collection point. Children will bag and dry pods from Sept 4 for storage and shipping to the Navy.
Pvt R M Russell arrived Tuesday evening from Fort Custer Michigan to visit his wife and mother Mrs Sam Hassell. Major and Mrs O Hagen and children Alice and John left for Oklahoma City. Lieutenant and Mrs Donald P Schrader and daughter Cheryl Lee returned to Fort Bragg after visiting Mrs W E Ferguson. Merle Gribble aviation metalsmith USN reached Kingsville to head structure division of airplanes. Lt Gg and Mrs Robert H Wise announce birth of son Michael Robert August 31. Cpl Robert A Walters, son of Mr and Mrs Mark Walters, graduated from AAF Flexible Gunnery School at Laredo AAF Texas. He is...
Lt. Harland L. Nelson, formerly of Armor and Company in Huron, was promoted from second lieutenant to first lieutenant on Aug. 10 while serving with the division in northern Italy. The promotion came by order from Gen. Mark W. Clark, citing his fitness from combat performance. Nelson is the son of Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Nelson of Clark and a Bradley, S. D. and Huron College alum. He worked for Armours in Huron for nearly five years.
The War Department released lists naming 1,397 American soldiers killed in action in Europe. In Highmore, Sgt. Joseph A Maltby is listed with his father George A Maltby and ClarkT as family identifiers and Sgt Vincent J McTague is listed with his mother Emma McTague.
Pvt Clement W Anderson attached to the cavalry in the U S Army was awarded the Silver Star posthumously for gallantry at Kwajalein on February 5 1944. He crawled under heavy fire to deliver machine gun ammo and directed fire that helped wipe out the enemy before he was killed. He previously served in the Aleutians Hawaiian Islands and the South Pacific, first wounded January 31 at Kwajalein. His parents Mr and Mrs John W Anderson of near Hitchcock hold his Purple Heart.
Washington reports 322 Navy casualties with South Dakota names including Victor Boyd Jones missing an aviation ordnan ceman second class, and Pvt. Emil Vasknetz dead. Roy G. Sterett a Marine Corps Reserve private first class wounded. Mothers listed: Mrs. Margaret Falkenhagen Agar, Mrs. Gerald Sterett Sioux Falls, and Mrs. Lona Vasknetz Wolsey.
Gayle Julia Bowers of Los Angeles and Darrel Paul Olson, United States Navy, were married Sunday afternoon August 20 in the chapel of the First Congregational Church of San Francisco. Rev. D C Williams officiated.
Memorial services honored Pvt. Emil Vasknetz at St. John's Lutheran Church with Rev. F W Levice officiating. The young marine, born Oct 28 1924 near Alpena, was killed in action July 11 during the Japan invasion. Surviving his parents are three brothers and a sister. dates and names of other relatives noted. service attended by extended family from Alpena and Wolsey. Also listed are orders directing two South Dakota officers to active duty from their homes.
Edwin Behr, one of Miller's residents, writes his parents after being reported missing on Corregidor. The letter, dated July 2, 1945 and forwarded by the Red Cross, asks for home photos, a package of favorite foods, and a pipe and tobacco while noting he remains alive and hopes to reunite soon. He inquires after Orlin and Dela and signs with love.
South Dakota becomes the first state to sponsor a full Navy WAVEs unit while in training. E C McKenzie announces mass induction for more than 600 recruits in Sioux Falls with a banquet and swearing in at Terrace Park. Recruits will depart for Hunter College New York for training, with Elks lodges in Huron Mitchell Rapid City Sioux Falls Yankton Deadwood Aberdeen Brookings Madison Watertown involved.
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