Saline social notes and obituaries page highlights
Local residents share birthdays visits and church events across Saline and nearby towns. Bliss Curtiss celebrates a birthday with family in Saline. Mr Biddle of Nickel's Arcade obituary notes service at Forest Hill cemetery. Community groups host meetings at Federated church and Trinity Lutheran with youth rallies and drives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bliss Curtiss
Carl Irving
Irving Knapp
Monroe
Carl A. Curtiss
Kennard Pester
Yppsilanti
Earl Chittenden
Sacramento
Calif
Saline
Chittenden
Merritt Martin
Muehlig
Ann Arbor
Thomas I. Biddle
Biddle
Nickel’s Arcade
Ira P
Nancy Jane Biddle
University Hospital
U. S. Army
France
Clyde
Carl
Forest Hill Cemetery
Fraternity Lodge
Local service members take furloughs amid war duties
Pfc Wesley Steiner of Hyde Park NY and his brother LaMar a Seabee stationed at Camp Endicott RI returned home on a 12 day leave. They share updates on duty assignments including guard duty at Roosevelt funeral and shipboard training. Other service members and units across the 6th Army Group in Germany report actions including a ME-109 kill by the 533rd US Anti-Aircraft Battalion and notes on training, deployments, and home visits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guiding Light
Federated Church
Dorothy Blair
Christian Life Camp
Brighton
Arthur Silvens
Mary Ellen Kendall
Detroit
Puritan Avenue Baptist Church
Leland Graf
Graf
Gerald
Sam
Edward Clark
Woman's Club
Ann Arbor
Lavonia
Edward Zell
Mishicott
Wis
Trinity Church
Wesley Steiner
Hyde Park
N. Y
LaMar
Seabees
Camp Endicott
Davisville
R. I
Wesley
Roosevelt
Bud
Great Lakes
Rhode Island
6Th Army Group
Germany
533Rd
Rhine
U. S. Seventh Army
Jacob L. Devers
Claude A. Dance
Shrevesport
Col
Dance
Saline GI Heroic Action in World War II Told in Striking Tale
An account recalls S/Sgt Harold Schaefer of Company G 394th Infantry near Saline Michigan risking his life in combat during World War II. He directed surrender attempts then returned to his unit proceeding with grenades, leaving a dramatic trench tale of battle carnage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
99Th
Inf
Rhine
S/Set
Harold Schaefer
Co. G
394Th
Schaefer
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