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OUR MEN IN THE ARMED FORCES Homecoming and Transfers
Riverdale servicemen return home on leave and report for new assignments. Alex Grassmick, wounded in the South Pacific with the Fifth Marines, arrives on a 35 day leave from Oregon. Other notes mention transfers to overseas duty and new postings across the U S Army and Navy, with readers urged to report changes of address to The Pointer.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alex Grassmick
J. Grassmick
Riverdale
Oregon
Fifth Marines
First Marine Division
South Pacific
Clement Jay
William Jay
Great Lakes Naval Training Center
Harry Swanson
U. S. Coast Guards
May Jay
Cleveland
Ohio
Ivanhoe
Bolton
Minnie Pohliers
Jefferson St
Dalton
Col
Pointer
South Holland
George Voss
Ill
Harvey
Rem
Russell W. Schaefer
ART- 1
Corvallis
Robert W. Lémbcke
Edward J. Bitter
Lloyd E. Hamman
van Nuys
Calif
Elmer L . Ott
Camp Swift
Texas
Arthur W. Quandt
SKV-2
Olathe
Kans
Charles F
National Defense Research Committee
Army
Navy
Great Britain
Western Electric Company
Bell System
Pacific