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Good ley, stationed in Washing-tan, D. lt;?.. and HA i/c Bertha C. Good-ley, stationed at the Naval Medical Center, Bethesda, Mcl.Pfe. Thomas Salvucci, 23, U. S, Marine Corps, whose wife,, Mrs. Janet'Salvucci, resides at 611 West Second,street, Chester is in a hospital in the. Southwest Pacific recovering from, shrapnel wounds inhis left arm, received on iwo Jima.. He enlisted Sept, 14, 1943 and went overseas In January. While on board ship bound lor the South Pacific. he received a telegram announcing the birth of a daughter, Rita Mark, to his. wife, Jan. 5,.pvt. Salvucci got in touch with Tech. Sgt. Keys Beech, a Marine combat correspondent, and said to him: I got a telegram telling me my wile just gave birth to a baby girl; Can you get word back to my wife. Tell her I’m all right, will you?”'Another daughter, Janet, nine months old. died List July of infantile paralysis. Pvt. Salvucci spent an entire month at home during her illness and death, having been flown here from California for that purpose.A graduate of South Philadclpl'iia High School, he was formerly employed by the Baldwin Locomotive Works at Eddystone. His father, An-ntheny Salvucci, of Eddystone, is employed by the Chester Materials Company.Tech. Fifth Grade Donald R. .Tones, was killed in action in the Pacific area, the War Department has informed his mother, Mrs. Alma Jones, of 412 Walnut place, Upper Darby.Seaman 1/c Bernard John Mon-tecehio, USNR. son of Mrs. Albina Mor.tecchio, of New road. Lerrni Mills, was wounded in action, the Navy Department has informed his mother.CpJ. Vincent Tancredi, 21, son. of Mr, and Mrs. Gaetano Tancredi, oi 1224 West Second street, Chester, wounded in action, is now in an Army hospital at Camp Butner, N. C„ haring arrived in this country recently following a trans-Atlantic airplane trip, landing at Mitchel Field, N. Y. |CpI. Tancredi holds the Silver! Star medal, which he won on the Anao beachhead by stringing a telephone, wire nearly half a mile between an observation post and a mortar battery.One of the things that made it a great feat was the fact that. Germans were trying with rifles to kill him before he got through. He got' through.The corpora] spent 17 months in Italy and Southern France in communications work. In ail that timeMidway in the 24-mlle siege arc thrown around Danzig and Gdynia the Russians virtually had driven through to the sea between the two ports, Soviet vanguards were less than two miles west of the last coastal railway and highway mid both were under heavy Russian artillery Are.The German Transoceon Agency conceded that the Nazi defenders fighting with, their backs to the sea and almost certainly doomed to death or capture, were yielding ground yard by yard.“They are fighting llkft lions,’ Transocean said.Transocean reported that Rokos-sovsky had thrown ‘'numerous'1 tank formations in addition to 50 rifle divisions into the mounting battle of Danzig Bay,The Second Army made Its closest approach to GydnLa, former Polish naval base, with the capture of Gross Katz, three miles io the southwest.The advance severed a secondary highway between Danzig and Gdynia and gave the Russians positions dominating the coastal high way and railway passing through Zoppot, two miles away.he met only one other Chester soldier, Peter Yeagal. with whom he attended school here.Pfc. Robert P. Hoopcx, 18, U, S, Marine Corps, son of Mr. and Mrs. James A. Law, of 435 East Jefferson street, Media, is now home on sick leave, recuperating from leg schrap-nel wounds received in action in the Pacific area.In service more than one year, he was overseas five months. He will return to n hospital following his leave for further medical treatment.Second Lieut, Warren A. Bros!us, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Warren A. Brosius, of 27 Harvard road. Upper Darby, is a prisoner of war in Germany, the War Department has informed his parents.Capt. Robert B. Steele. 25. U. S.: Marine Corps, son of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin G. Steele, of 236 Roberta avenue, CollJngdnle,. was wounded in action March 7 on Iwo Jimn, He was previously wounded In action on Saipan June 16, 1944.IN DU N“W0M AN’S AGE SET AT 125Tulsa, Okla., (INS!—Funeral arrangements were being made today lor Mrs. Sardie Gooden, Full-Blood Creek Indian who according to tribal records, was born 125 years ago In Tennessee. She died Wednesday in her home in Wekiwa, near Tulsa.■ ' M ■ ■ i ii ■ i^i ■»!!■■■ i— ■1 .............mrnmm—— iin.i—m ..... ,
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Chester Times
Chester, Pennsylvania, US
Thu, Mar 22, 1945
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