With Our Men In The Armed Services: March 6, 1943

With Our Men In The Armed Services

Buddies Enter Marines Together

It's the Marine corps base at San Diego, Calif., that Jack Donald (Jaxon) White, 18, and Charles Douglas (Doug) Huebler, also 18, are heading for when they leave Detroit together today. Buddies at Ann Arbor High, where they were graduated last June, they both Joined up with the Marines Feb. 27 and will start their basic training together.

Jack, who is the son of Mr. and Mrs. H B. White, 530 Hill St., was born and raised in Ann Arbor. While in high school he went out for football, wrestling and basketball, and found time to work on both the year book and the school paper, as well as to develop his accent in the French club. He was employed as a shoe salesman in a local department store prior to enlistment.

Doug is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Huebler, 3945 Berry Road, Plymouth, but he lived in Ann Arbor until three years ago. He played varsity football and was the cartoonist for both the school paper and Omega, class yearbook. Following graduation in June he attended art school in Chicago, but this winter found him working as mall carrier at the bomber plant until he, too, decided to join up with the Marines.

Somewhere In Africa

Word has been received by the family of Lt. William A. Conlin, 711 E. Ann St., that Bill, who received his commission as second lieutenant In the quartermaster corps upon graduation from officer’s candidate school at Camp Lee, Va., last August, has arrived "somewhere in Africa." Bill is a graduate of St. Thomas High and received his A.B. degree from Ypsilanti State Normal College in 1940. Before his induction into the Army in April, 1941, he was associated with his brother, Francis J. Conlin, in a local life insurance business. Prior to entering officer's training Lt. Conlin was stationed at Fort Bragg, N. C., and Fort Ord, Calif.

His brother. Pvt. Irving T. Conlin, is taking his basic training with the ground crew of the Army Air Corps in Atlantic City.

Gregory Round-Up

Servicemen from Gregory seem to be on the move these days, judging from the latest list of transfer slips. Pvt. Alvin Myer, a recent Inductee, is now stationed at Camp Sibert, Ala. Pvt. Harold Caskey is stationed at Camp Stoneman, Calif. Pvt. Paul Young has been transferred from Illinois to a camp near Columbus, O. Corp. Edward Gilmore, who was recently wounded in New Guinea, has been transferred to Australia.

Gregory men home now or recently home on furlough include Pvt. James McKuhn, Fort Custer, back on duty after a weekend furlough With his parents; Pvt. Fred Rice, Fort Sill, Okla., who is visiting his mother, Mrs. Harold Galbreath, on a two-week furlough; and Clarence Barbour, home from the south on a furlough and visiting his mother who is ill in the Stockbridge hospital.

With Atlantic Fleet

George William Bezis, second class seaman from Augusta township, is probably keeping his weather eye open for prowling Nazi U-boats these days. At least he's with the Atlantic fleet, but more exact whereabouts are unknown.

The son of Mr. and Mrs. Steve Bezis, 10705 Hitchingham Rd., the 20-year-old county sailor enlisted in the Navy Iast Aug. 19 and was sent to Great Lakes for his boot training.

After leaving Great Lakes Naval Training Station, Seaman Bezis spent two months at the Receiving Station at Boston, Mass., before being assigned to fleet duty.

Before going into the Navy. George had worked with his father who is a truck gardener.

Receives Wings

Jess M. D. Mosher, who enlisted in the Army’s Chemical Warfare Service on Oct. 10. 1940, son of Mr. and Mrs. George F. Mosher, 1520 Shadford Rd., is now in the Army Air Forces, having received his wings and commission as a lieutenant at graduation exercises at Brooks Field, Tex.

A. resident of Ann Arbor all his life, Lt. Mosher I was graduated in the class of 1937, from Ann Arbor High, where he played on the football team. He attended Ypsilanti Normal for two years, and also had three semesters at the University. Following his enlistment, Jess left for Camp Beauregard, La., where he was appointed sergeant Jan. 16. 1941. 

Jess transferred to the Air Corps last March, reporting to Kelly Field, Tex., for pre-flight training, and then in July to Hicks Field, Fort Worth. Tex., where he first soloed on July 24. Further training at Goodfellow Field, Tex., and advanced work at Brooks Field were necessary before Jess earned those hard-won wings.

Receives Wings

John H. (Jack) Hegeman, 22, of 311 Thompson St., a former University student who went to Canada in 1941 to join the Royal Canadian Air Force but later returned to this country to sign up with the U. S. Army Air Forces, has graduated from Aloe Field, Tex., receiving his wings and commission as a second lieutenant.

Brothers In Service

Brothers In service are Marvin, William and Gerald Malady, Bridgewater township sons of Mrs. Ella C. Arnold, Clinton. The oldest of the three, Corp. Marvin, Is stationed somewhere in the Aleutians.

Marvin is 27 years old and has the longest service record of the brothers. He was inducted into the Army on April 21, 1941, was sent to Camp Grant,Ill., and later to Fort, Sheridan, Ill.

After the attack on Pearl Harbor, Marve, who is a member of a coastal anti-aircraft outfit was sent with other soldiers to Seattle, Wash., to guard the Boeing factory. Last June he was put aboard ship and is now in the Aleutian islands area, according to his letters home.

The Bridgewater corporal Is a graduate of the Clinton High school with the class of 1934 and was occupied in air conditioning and refrigeration work before going into the service.

William Julius Malady, a corporal like his brother Marve, is the second oldest of the three youths and was the second to go into the Army. He was inducted at Chicago Oct. 6, 1941.

Corp. William, who left Clinton High school in his junior year and had been working in Chicago before entering the Army, is a corporal technician in the quartermaster corps and is stationed at Brooks Field, Tex.  He also spent some time at Camp Grant, Ill. and Fort Francis E. Warren, Cheyenne, Wyo.

He received his corporal's stripes on Jan. 6.

Youngest of the three brothers, Gerald Elwyn is stationed at Camp McCoy, Wis., where he was sent from earlier service at Fort Sheridan, Ill.

Gerald was inducted into the Army last April 7 and was placed with a medical unity when he reported at Camp Grant.

Before entering Army service Gerald had followed his brother Bill’s footsteps and left the Clinton High school when he was a sophomore. Gerald also went to Chicago and had been working at the Lying-In hospital in the research laboratory before going Into service.

Upped To Sergeant

Mr. and Mrs. George Grossman of Manchester, have received word from their son. George, Jr., who is stationed in Alaska, that he has been promoted to a first sergeant’s rating.

Army Sailor

One of the few Army men whose assignment keep them on the water Is Corp. Floyd Duane Johnson, Clinton, coast artilleryman, whose work keeps him on coast patrol duty with a mine planter much of the time.

Twenty-three years old and the son of Mrs. Elmer B. Johnson, Floyd was selected for Army service on July 14, 1941.  He reported at Fort Custer, received his basic training at Fort Eustis, Va., and then was sent to Fort Constitution, Portsmouth, N. H.

Last October he was sent to the Diesel engineering school at Memphis, Tenn. for three months of study and then was returned to Portsmouth, where he became an engineer's assistant. He received his corporal's stripes last September.

The Clinton serviceman is a graduate of Clinton High School and also attended the Wolverine trade school at Detroit in 1940 and 1941. He played with his school basketball teams and was active in 4-H club work and Future Farmers of America activities. Before joining the Army he had been a mechanic at a Detroit garage.

Same Job, Different Boss

When Edmund Clem Keck went Into the Navy last Nov. 2, he changed bosses but not his type of work. As a civilian he worked with carburetors at the Bendix Products Co., South Bend, Ind. And when he went into the Navy, he found himself still working with carburetors, at Peru, lnd.

Keck's home is In South Bend but he is known in Whittaker through his wife, the former Martha Crandall, who is making her home at Whittaker for the duration. A graduate of South Bend High school, Keck is 39 years old and the father of a 16-year-old daughter. He holds the rank of a chief assistant in the Navy.