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4* **** *****«jc**** ! ** !**ne***•Mabscott Lieutenant “Scared As Hell99Hiring Two Weeks Action In Invasiontheica,leer:lermyt ofrge:k-rsikeoftoomentral‘heewionksl usncpeenair17dyngeelenta,I o,y.inL.nddsthn-1S.asn-Lieutenant (jg) Anthony “Tony” Sparacino, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Sparacino, of Mabscott, reveals in a letter to his family that he is back in England afterparticipating in the invasion of France for two weeks.“Gradually things are dropping back to normal, and I can only say that the nearing normalcy will be appreciated—more of the old days and less of the last couple of weeks,” said the young lieutenant.“The going, though tough enough, was not nearly as bad as it might have been. I think we caught them (the Germans) sitting, and in any event we were ready for anything they had. We probably gave them more credit than they deserved, but that was all to our benefit.“You'll have to convince the folks that I'm back after two weeks of the big show. I’m ok., and except for being scared as hell for all that time you'd neverknow I had been away fromhome.” ;Lieutenant Sparacino, who is a communications officer of the LCI (Landing Craft Infantry), is a graduate of Woodrow Wilson high school, Catholic university, Washington, D. C., and West Virginia university, Morgantown, where he received a law degree.He entered the navy in July, 1942, undergoing his training at Noroton. Connecticut, after which he w'as transferred overseas.His brother, Seaman First Class Joe Sparacino, jr., is stationed on a destroyer somewhere in the South Pacific where he has been serving since April.He entered the navy on December 29, 1943, and took his boot training at Great Lakes, Illinois. He formerly owned the Main street barber shop.Another brother. Seaman Second Class Sam Sparacino, who entered the navy in September, 1942, is stationed at the Bainbridge training center, Bainbridge, Maryland. He was employed in Washington, D. C., prior to entering the service.Miss Nellie Sparacino, sister of the boys reports that she also has nephews serving in the armed forces.One of them, Private Patsy Fama. who is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Philip Fama, of Mabscott, is also participating in the invasion of France, according to a letter she received from him the past week.“Things went pretty tough at first, but well established now,”asserted Private Fama, “We had to put up with German snipers but we got them pretty well in hand now'.”He sent his parents a copy of the first “Stars and Stripes,” G I. newspaper, last week that was released in the invasion area, and said that it was called the “liberation issue.”Lieutenant Sparacino and Private Fama accidently met each other in England recently according to a letter received bythe lieutenant’s sister, Nellie,They hadn’t seen one another for two years.Two other nephews, both brothers to Private Fama, also in service are Seaman Second Class Tony Fama who is somewhere in the South Pacific, and Private George Fama, who has just landed with the army in England, according to a letter received by his parents.StansburysWaitThat SonNazi HandsMr. and Mrs. Herbert Stansbury, 103 Ewart avenue, are awaiting a hoped-for message from the war department that their flier son, Staff Sgt. Edward P. (Shan) Stansbury, reported Friday to be missing in action over Germany, is safe somewhere on the European continent, even if a prisoner of the Germans.The war department message received by the father Friday afternoon said:“The secretary of war desires me to express his deep regret that your son, Staff Sergeant Edward P. Stansbury, has been reported missing In action since June 21 over Germany. If further details or information •re received you will be promptly notified.” The message was signed, as usual, “Ulio, adjutant general.”Shan, tail gunner on a Flying Fortress plane, was a brother to Lt. Charles D. Stansbury, who died last November 13 in a Los Angeles hospital of injuries suffered in an automobile collision. A third brother, Herbert, jr., oldest in the family, died the night before Christmas, 1940, of injuries suffered along the Harper-Glen Daniel road where, apparently, he had been hit by an automobile.Won Air MedalShan had recently been awarded the Air Medal, and in a letter his mother received the week he was reported missing he told her that he was sending it to her as soon as he could find materials with which to wrap it.“I was just going to send it on and not say anything about it,” he wrote, “but I was afraid you might think I had left for parts unknown.”The day on which he was missing Allied bombers gave Berlin one of its worst pastings of the war, papers of June 22 reported, and a Stockholm dispatch that 12 American bombers had been forced down in Sweden encouraged the parents to hope than Shan might be interned in that country.tVr%' * «*• •(SUUard Studio Photo)SGT. SHAN STANSBURYHe had recently switched fromwaist gunner to tail gunner, taking the latter post because the man who formerly had occupied it was constantly sick when in flight. He had also recently been promoted to staff sergeant.A first-year man at West Virginia university, he was called into service in March, 1943, received his W’ings at Harlingen, Texas, and then went to Utah, Salt Lake City and Kearns Field. Later he was trained at Sheppard Field, Texas, and took combat training at Ftyote Field, Texas.At Grand Island, Nebraska, he was assigned to a bomber, and was sent overseas in April, a memberof the famous “Hell’s Angels”squadron.When the message came Fridayannouncing bis being missing, his mother had just laid out candy, warm from the over of her stove, to harden before she should send it to him.Capitol Dome, 499To Get Regular Clean-UpBy The Associated PressWASHINGTON—“Freedom” at the United States capitol is going to get cleaned up this summer for the first time in five years. So are the 8,909,200-pound iron dome(Continued From Page 1)enemy counterattacks southwest of Caen yesterday, while American troops cleaning up the northwestern tip of the Cherbourg peninsula captured 2,000 Germans—boosting Axis dead and prisoners on the American front alone to nearly 50,000 men.Both the Allies and the Germans were rushing men an material into the line arching on three sides of Caen for imnend-and part of the building—all for $40,000.The bronze statue which has looked out over the vast political stamping ground of Capitol hill from atop the dome for 81 years, will get a linseed oil bath.And it will take 2,000 gallons of paint, seven weeks and 35 painters to do the job on the dome andcentral part of the capitol.Freedom, probably the onlylady ever to get a 35-gun salute (at her dedication), stands 19 1-2 feet high, weighs 14,985 pounds and cost $23,796.82.But withal, she’s one of the lesser worries of David Lynn, capitol architect* and Arthur (Gus) Cook, supervising engineer, bosses of the nation's number one houseclean-Mob.ingThis■.year the political' cam-
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