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World War II
May 10, 1945
LAUREL—Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Johnson have received word that their son, Sgt. Ivan Nelson, who is stationed on Luzon, has been awarded the Distinguished Unit Badge and Combat Infantryman’s Badge. He has been overseas three years and has seen action in several major campaigns.
May 10, 1945
BELDEN—It has been announced by the war department that Sgt. Kenneth Harper has been liberated from a German prison camp after 13 months internment.
His wife is living in Lincoln.
May 10, 1945
BELDEN—S. 1/C Elmer Hoskinson, son of Mr. and Mrs.
L. C. Hoskinson, arrived home Wednesday on leave. He has been in the South Pacific serving on a destroyer. Enroute home he visited his brother, Lewis, who is with the coast guard in California and his sister, Mrs. Clara Weed, in Sioux City.
May 10, 1945
WYNOT—Mr. and Mrs. George Bowder received word from their son, Pfc. Dean Bowder, that he is with the air delivery section of the marine corps on Okinawa.
May 10, 1945
WYNOT—Lt. Wilma Macklem, daughter of Mrs.
Lenora Macklem, has arrived safely somewhere in the Pacific.
May 10, 1945
MENOMINEE—F. 2/C Raynold A. Hoebelheinrich, who was recently home on leave from the Great Lakes training center, has been transferred to Shoemaker, Calif.
May 10, 1945
WYNOT—Lee Rankin is ill with the flu.
May 10, 1945
COLERIDGE—Lorna Sassman is recovering from the mumps.
May 10, 1945
ST. HELENA—Staff Sgt. Francis Lee, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Lee, is recovering satisfactorily at an army hospital at Topeka, Kans., from wounds he received on Luzon. Sgt.
Lee was shot through both hips and the abdomen. Mrs. Lee, Charlotte Lee, Allen Hirschman and Louis Lee visited him a week ago.
May 10, 1945
BELDEN—Word was received by Fred Smith that his son, Pvt.
Kenneth Smith, who has been a German war prisoner the past five months, was liberated.
He is now in a rest camp and expects to be home soon.
May 10, 1945
FORDYCE—Gerald Becker, S. 1/c, left Monday for Treasure Island, Calif., after spending a 15-day furlough at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Becker.
May 10, 1945
BELDEN—Mrs. Elmer Munter received word from her husband that he had been promoted to the rank of captain.
He is stationed with the engineer corps in England.
May 10, 1945
BELDEN—Mrs. Elmer McDonald received word from her son, Cpl. Harold McDonald, that he is now in Germany.
May 10, 1945
HARTINGTON- Pvt. Jay L.
Parks has returned to Ft. Meade, Md., after spending ten days with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Parks.
May 10, 1945
BELDEN—Ensign Herbert Childers, son of Mr. and Mrs. E.
D. Childers, has been promoted to lieutenant, j. g., in the navy.
May 10, 1945
BELDEN—Clarence Stapelman and Clayton Halleen are stationed at Camp Fannin, Tex.
May 10, 1945
COLERIDGE—Mr. and Mrs.
Harry Wallace received a telephone call from their son, Wellington, who had just returned to the states. He had been serving in Italy since the invasion and expects to receive a furlough soon.
May 10, 1945
WYNOT—Word was received that Pvt. Ivan L. Rankin, son of Mrs. Ethel Rankin, was wounded in action in Germany April 17. He is now in a hospital in England. He has been in the service three years and overseas twenty months.
