Our Men in the Armed Forces
News notes on Navy and Army service members from Dalton and nearby towns. Elmer Schultz trains for a destroyer in the Atlantic Fleet after instructing at Norfolk. Donald Lorenzen earns promotion in the Pacific. Sgt Kaiser serves at Santa Ana Army Air Base. Letters from servicemen recount Europe visits and Pacific plans, with addresses for updates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Ana
Calif
Francis J. Kaiser
Main St
Dalton
Ill
Santa Ana Army Air Base
Army Air Forces
Personnel Distribution Command
RAF
Air Forces
Kaiser
Clark
England
Brandt Served on Okinawa Attack Transport Coast Guard
Emmett R. Brandt, seaman first class, son of Mr and Mrs R Fritsche of 431 Monroest Dalton, took part in the Okinawa invasion aboard a Coast Guard manned attack transport. He served on a landing barge under fire and was part of a gun crew that helped shoot down a Japanese bomber during raids. Brandt enlisted in 1942 after work at Acme Steel and trained at Curtis Bay and Camp Lejeune. He has a brother, Henry E., in the Marine Corps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brandt
Okinawa
Coast Guard
Pacific
Emmett R. Brandt
R. Fritsche
Monroest
Dalton
General Quarters
Acme Steel Company
Curtis Bay
Camp Lejune
N.C
Henry E
Marine Corps
Also Mentioned on This Page
Elmer T. Schultz
Dalton, Hill
Naval Training Station
Norfolk
Walter J. Schultz
Grant Sr
John
Navy
Indiana Harbor Belt Railroad
Thornton Township High School
Twentieth Air Force Pacific
Donald G. Lorenzen
XXI Bomber Command
Marianas
Lorenzen
Nicholas P. Lorenzen
Chicago Street
Thornton Township
Harvey
Art Institute
Chicago
Donnelly Trade School
R. R. Donnelly and Sons Company
Army
Riverdale
Ivanhoe and
Dolton
Minnie Pohiers
Jefferson St
Col
Pointer
South Holland
George Voss
Pfe
Johnny J. Scaglione
Europe
France
Belgium
Holland
Germany
Richard P. ‘Haynes
Elsie Griffith
New York City
Great Britain
Ireland
Galveston
Texas
Richad
United States
Truman Steinke
Langensalza
Richard F. Gardiner
Landon R. Gardiner
Doiton
Great Lakes Naval Training Center
Joe
Allan Meeder
Thurel Meeder
Lincoln Ave
Key West
Miami
Fla
Allan
al Baecker
West Pullman
Gerald “Lefty” Ward
Panama Canal Zone
Theodore Johnson & Sons, Inc
Chicago Road
Chicago Heights
Ilinois
Leyden Avenue
Interocean
Witl
Latha
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