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Service Notes Bring Home Airman News and Letters
Military families across Saline and nearby towns welcomed returning service members and reported on transfers deployments and homecomings. Ensign Max Collins sits at Whidbey Island with navigation duties as Charles Taylor Walter Kohler Gerald Graf Ellsworth Luckhardt and others plan visits home. Major Emmet James Kelly and Lt Paul Rogers return to the states after overseas duty as letters from Pfe Karl Wurster recount life in a Japanese prisoner camp.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Taylor
Saline
Walter Kohler
Ann Arbor
New York
Norway
Ensign Max Collins
Whidbey Island
Washington
Naval Air Base
Mrs
Collins
Oak Harbor
Ellsworth Luckhardt
States
Ilinois
Alvin G Luckhardé
Paul Rogers
France
England
Scotland
Quartermaster Corp
Iceland
Tshpeming
Richard
Roy Rogers
Randall Coates
Emmet James Kelly
Hawaiian Islands
Fort Sheridan
Los Angeles
Calif
Bert Gillen
L. Wurster
Pfe Karl F. Wurster
aJap ‘Prison
Sasaba