Saline News Roundup and War Drive Update
Local items report Mrs. Norman Pfitzenmaier’s confinement at home with a severe ear condition and several visits from relatives including Mr. and Mrs. Carl Visel of Ann Arbor. A Saline Red Cross War Fund Drive quota of 1,500 dollars is set with March 1 solicitation. Community club plans a February 20 meeting at Mrs. Max Fosdick’s home featuring Mrs. Paul Ehman and Red Cross pictures. Two truck collision on US-12 injures Frank Ollis of New Buffalo, hospitalized in fair condition. A Saline party honors Dale Hirth’s enlistment in the Naval Air Corps and farewell. Letters from Mrs. Norma Moody Hesmer’s grandsons describe Pacific postings and life in Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanal, and Paia Island. Continuous war context with military moves and community notices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norman Pfitzenmaier
Sutterit
Carl Visel
Ann Arbor
Jacob Visel
Marion Rouse
Ernest Fowler
Fowler
M. L. Robbins
Lanny
Ypsilanti
Emelie Zick
Bliss Curtiss
Carl Irving
Irving Knapp
Monroe
OFS
Percy Fones
George W. Seeger
Dale
William Heimerdinger
Manchester
Edward Alber
Herman ‘Alber
Saline Woman's Club
Max Fosdick
Paul Ehman
Red Cross
Us- 112
Frank Ollis
New Buffalo
St. Joseph’s Mercy Hospital
Raymond Hirth
Armed ‘Forces
Naval Air Corps
Chris Volz
Five Point
Standard Freight Line, Inc
2 Prout
aUniversity Hospital
Robert Koda
Harry XV. Tima
Chierne
Family and Local Notices From World War II Service
In the Norfolk Virginia port area Seaman Trebilcock is bound for Shoemaker California aboard ships. Donald and Lorena Luckhardt receive news of son Leo wounded in Belgium January 12 while Sgt Wesley Luckhardt of the European theater and Coast Guard Roy in the Pacific serve. Harvey E Frey earns a Certificate of Merit for duty in France from August 1 to November 30 1944 and history notes his battlefield injuries and Camp Crowder service with two brothers also in the armed forces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernest Luckhardt
Leo, Luckhardt
Ation
Belgium
Lorena Kohler
War Department
Pvt
Luckhardt
Infantry
Camp Blanding
Fla
Ann Arbor
Wesley Luckhardt
England
Roy
Coast Guards
Pacific
Herman Frey
Harvey
United States Army
Harvey E. Frey
177Th Field Artillery Battalion
France
Michigan
Paul V. Kane
U. S. Army
TI. Corps Artillery
Set
Frey
Camp Crowder
Kenneth
Families hear war letters from sons abroad and in Europe
Letters from Sgt. Robert Rogers in Germany and Jard Hart wounded in Germany reach families in the state. Reports note Leonard Faust in Belgium and a 40 room chateau used as rest quarters. Lt Frank Spindler returns home on furlough after 50 bombing missions with reassignment soon. Neil Kern RM3/C heads to New York City on 10 day leave.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Janc. Rogers
Sgt
Robert Rogers
Germany
Leonard Faust
Bob
Belgium
Frank Spindler
Mit Beach
Fila
St. Petersburg
Fla
Neil Kern
York City
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United Stater
Member
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Leonard
Ed’s Grocery
MOMS
The
Mulan Theatre
Barbara Hale
Wally Brown
Alan Carney
Burma
Joyce Reynolds
Robert Hutton
Janie
Frank Sinatra
George Murphy
Bonita Granville-Kents Smith
Ann.Arbor
Central
Dead Stocksco
Hosmer Boys
Brighton
Norma Moody Hesmer
David Moosdy
Hammond District
Oahu
Pearl Harbor
Honolulu
Love
Russell
Russell Hesmer
New Hebrides
Guadalcanal
Palau Island
Wes
Set. R. W. Hosmer
Jack
John Hosmer
Albert E. Morrison
Fort Jackson
S. C
William ‘R. Harris
Cpl
Dean Burkhardt
Signal Corps
Lansing
Thurman R. Clay
Jim Trebilcock
Navy Radioman
University of Wisconsin
Madison
T. M. Clay
Strest Fast
James ‘Trebilcock
Valley Court
East Lansing
Seaman Clay
Norfolk
Trebilcock
Third
Robert
Philippine Island
Andrew Hart
Jard
Singland
Elizabeth Dillon
S. State Street
Ann Arbor, Mich
Brewster
Lovely
Sailor
Detroit Street
Paul
Ann Arbor, Mici
John
Tiller
Kasco
Tno
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