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ftCivilian Enlisted As Recruiter HerewbziaCAPT. BERNARD A. GILMAN, a! commanding otiicer of the Syra- st cuse Army and Air Force Recruit- pj ing Station, announced that Sgt hi Thornes Simms of 2006 S. Salina id st. is the first civilian to be en- oI listed in the Army direct for recruiting duty in Syracuse. cc He was drafted for' the Army w during World War II, in April, 1942, and assigned to the 101st ;c Field Artillery* Battalion, 26ih Di- tl ^ vision. and later transferred to n the 70th Infantry Division. He is landed in Southern France during te the European campaign with the ,q 7th Army in December, 1944, advancing to Alsace-Loraine and l_ combat in the Rhineland campaign,0 He \vas discharged from Ihe service in January, 1946, at Fort Dix,if N* XHe is the son of Mr. and Mrs, ' Ralph Gray Simms of Mohawk, * and is married to the former ’Miss Phylis J, Huntley of Baldwins vi lie.
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Syracuse Herald Journal

Syracuse, New York, US

Fri, Sep 02, 1949

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