With The Men In Service: November 18, 1941

With The Men In Service

Sgt. Jack W. Dumond

Local Gunner Off For England

Sgt. Dumond is young but he has definite, ideas about World war II. He didn't join the air force for the excitement. He enlisted because he "felt a deep-seated conviction in the righteous of the battle against Hitler Germany.

“There are some things worth dying for," he told his parents during his visit here, pointing out that defeat of the democracies would have terrible and far-reaching historical consequences. He expressed belief, too, that the United States should be in the war.

The accompanying photograph of young Sgt. Dumond shows his sergeant's stripes, the letters USA--signifying him as a recruit from the United States--and his air force wings.  On his left breast is show his half-wing with the letters AG, signifying air gunner in the air force.

One Of Youngest

Sgt. Dumond, who enlisted In the RCAF June 27 after graduating June 12 from South Kent preparatory school in Connecticut, at the age of 19, will be one of the youngest airmen to go to England with the Canadian air force. He was the youngest member of his class in training.

He has left Ann Arbor after a six-day visit with his parents, and is to report at Halifax, Nova Scotia, Saturday. The date of his departure for England was not announced.

Sgt. Dumond had enlisted as an airplane pilot, but when he found he had insufficient training in higher mathematics for that rating, he transferred to the air gunnery branch and received his wings as a gunner at MacDonald, Manitoba.

Previously he received training at St. Hubert, near Montreal, and at Victoriaville and Trenton, Ont. Before seeing combat service in Great Britain he will receive additional training. He has hopes of winning a transfer back to the rank of pilots.

New Command

Brig.-Gen. Rolland W. Case, who has been in charge of the Watertown, Mass., arsenal for the last four years, has been transferred to the command of the army's proving ground at Aberdeen, Md.

He Is the son of Clarence Case, of Manchester, and received his appointment to West Point from Manchester in 1900.

During his command at Watertown, the arsenal personnel was expanded from 750 to nearly 5,000 workmen, producing guns, gun carriages and other ordnance materiel.

Released

Russell H. Steinke, a member of the fifth anti-tank battalion at Fort Custer, who was inducted into the army April 4, has been released because he has passed his 28th birthday. He is 29 years old and lives at 116 E. Davis Ave.

Home From Camp

Frank E. Novess, a first class private stationed at Marine camp, Red River, N. C., is spending a 10-day furlough at the home of his mother, Mrs. Elsa Novess, in Chelsea.