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Handbook Smen 45 SvcMen WW II FULTON COUNTY, INDIANA HANDBOOK Service Men, World War II 1945 SERVICE MEN, WORLD WAR II, 1945 WILL GO TO RED CROSS Mr. and Mrs. Robert W. Shafer have been advised that an application filed by their daughter, Miss Barbara Shafer, now of Indianapolis has been accepted for service with the American Red Cross and that she will report for service in Washington on January 8. After necessary schooling she hopes to be assigned to overseas duty as a secretary in hospital service. She graduated in the local high school in 1934 and has since been employed as a secretary in the state capital. [The News-Sentinel, Tuesday, January 2, 1945] ROCHESTER LISTS ELEVEN COUNTY MEN NOW WAR PRISONERS Fulton county’s war prisoner list as compiled by Capt. O. I. Minter, Red Cross consultant shows on Dec. 31, a total of ten members of the armed services and one civilian now in enemy hands. Of this list eight are prisoners of Germany, two of Japan (homeland) and one of Japan (Philippines). The list which follows indicates where each man is confined. These addresses, Capt. Minter, reveals, are not mail adresses: Master, O. E., 2nd Lieut, Stalag Luft.1, Germany Butts, Gordon K., T/Sgt, Stalag Luft. 3, Germany Fall, James L., 2nd Lieut., Stalag Luft. 3, Germany Hall, John T., Pvt., Stalag Luft. 8, Germany Herrell, Raymond L., Pfc., Stalag 8-B, Germany Shaw, Gordon O., S/Sgt, Stalag 17-B, Luft 3, Germany Thompson, William C., 2nd Lieut., Stalag Luft. 1, Germany Cessna, Frederick, B., Stalag Luft. 4, Germany Raymer, Francis W., Coxswain (Navy) Osaka, Honshu Island, Japan Redd, John W., S/Sgt, Philippines Hansen, Fred (Civilian) Osaka, Honshu Island, Japan Note: Honshu is the principal Japanese home island. SvcMen WW II Mayor Minter requests that any time news of Fulton county men taken prisoner is received that he be so advised in order that the rostre may be kept up-to-date at all times. [The News-Sentinel, Tuesday, January 2, 1945] SERVICE NOTES Mr. and Mrs. Roy Kindig have received word from “Dick” that his address is: Pvt. Richard E. Kindig, 35966406, Co. D., 13th Bn., 4th Regt., Fort McClellan, Ala. “Dick,” who was a member of the 1943-44 Zebra basketball squad, entered service Dec. 20. * * * Mr. and Mrs. Oliver Clemens, residing south of Argos on Road 31, today received word that their son, Pfc. James Clemens, has been missing in action since December 12. Pfc. Clemens is married and the father of two sons. Further information is not available at this time. * * * In a message from the Adjutant General of the Army, received today, Mrs. Amanda Gunter was informed that her son, Corp. Charles E. Gunter, Army Air Force, was slightly wounded in the fighting in Leyte on Dec. 7. Corp. Gunter has been in service for the past two years and overseas for the past 12 months. He has seen much fighting and is a veteran of nine major engagements. * * * In recognition of exemplary conduct in action, Pvt. Robert L. King, 63rd U. S. Infantry, has been awarded the Combat Infantry Badge, it has been revealed by a citation issued by his division headquarters in the South Pacific. Pvt. King is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Howard A. King, R. 1, Rochester. [The News-Sentinel, Tuesday, January 2, 1945] MAJOR SMITH VITITING PARENTS AT AKRON, IND. Maj. Dan Smith of the U. S. Army renewed acquaintances at The News-Sentinel office yesterday. Several years ago Major Smith, then better known as just plain Dan Smith, was The News-Sentinel’s Akron representative--serving as sports writer and editor of the Akron High school page which was carried in this newspaper. Following his graduation from the Akron High school young Smith later graduated from Indiana university and then enlisted in the service of the Army. Currently Major Smith is stationed at Capt Joseph T. Robinson, Little Rock, Ark. He and Mrs. Smith and their young son David Hughes are visiting the major’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Cleotus Smith, of Akron. [The News-Sentinel, Wednesday, January 3, 1945] LOCAL SAILOR MISSED DOOMED PASSENGER BY FEW HOURS Robert “Bob” Glassley, Pm.M 3c, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Glassley of this city, is thanking the Goddess of Luck, that his train was three hours late in arriving in Chicago last week, as it caused him to miss his reservation on a west-bound Pacific Limited, which was wrecked near Ogden, Utah, last Sunday with a loss of 48 lives. “Bob,” who is serving with the U. S. Navy, was enroute to his base in California. After missing the Limited he was given a reservation on another passenger train which followed just three hours behind the doomed crack passenger. The Rochester sailor saw the wreckage and in a wire to his parents described the scene as most appalling. [The News-Sentinel, Wednesday, January 3, 1945] SERVICE NOTES The new address of Pvt. John A. Helt, 35966407, is Co. B, 10th Bn., ARTC, Fort Knox, Ky. * * * New address of Pvt. Chas. E. Green, 35834590, is Sect. M, 266 AAF, Major Field, Greenville, Texas. SvcMen WW II * * * New address of S/Sgt Kenneth D. Kochenderfer is Gen. Hosp., APO 507, care Postmaster, New York, N.Y. [The News-Sentinel, Wednesday, January 3, 1945] SERVICE NOTES Daytona Beach, Fla., Jan. 4. - T/5 James N. Mosher of South Bend, Ind., formerly of Rochester, Ind., is currently a physical education instructor at Welch Convalescent hospital, Daytona Beach, one of the Army’s latest reconditioning centers for overseas wounded and those injured in training on this side. As one of the carefully selected staff of phyusical training experts T/5 Mosher’s function at Welch is to help effect a rapid recovery among traineees so that they can either be reassigned or enabled to resume civilian pursuits in good shape. [The News-Sentinel, Thursday, January 4, 1945] PFC. MAURICE SADOWSKY, JR., MISSING IN ACTION Mr. and Mrs. Maurice Sadowsky, 718 Pontiac street, this morning received notice from the War Department that their son, Maurice, Jr., a private first-class with Gen. Hodges’ First army, has been missing since Dec. 18, somewhere in Belgium. Pfc. Sadowsky was 20 years old yesterdy, Jan. 4. He entered the army on July 1, 1943 and has been overseas several months. Although no specific action is revealed by the army, his disappearance coincides closely with the opening of the German offensive in Belgium and Luxembourg and it is deemed entirely possible that he may be a war prisoner somewhere in Germany. [The News-Sentinel, Friday, January 5, 1945] LOCAL ARMY NURSE HAS SPENT OVER 20 MONTHS IN WAR AREAS Peninsular Base Headquarters, Italy, Jan. 5. - First Lt. Thelma G. Overmyer, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Overmyer of 330 Jefferson street, Rochester, Ind., is serving with a Station hospital of this base which in 20 months overseas has treated approximately 15,000 patients while operating in Algeria and Tunisia in North Africa and during the present tour in Italy. One of the first station hospitals to be sent to the Mediterranean theater, the unit’s first assignment took it to Ain Mokra, a village near Rone, Algeria, and two months later the hospital was ordered to Ferryville, Tunisia, where the organization remained 10 months before reaching Italy in June, 1944. 3.000-Bed Capacity It was a Ferryville that an abrupt departure from the customary mission of a Station hospital was authorized, changing the organization overnight from a 500-bed unit to a 3,000-bed convalescent installation which a short time later became a “conditioning center,” immediately adapting themselves to new and increased specialized duties, officers and men were responsible for the reconditioning, mentally and physically, of thousands of front-line troops who had reached a convalescent stage and were being returned to combat duty after recovery was complete. In addition to this function, the hospital admitted service troops from a wide surrounding area. Treat All Nationalities Moving to Italy, unit members already have earned their first bronze battle star, by opening their hospital on an important communication line behind the front. Here they received, within 12 days, 650 patients, mostly from adjacent evacuation hospitals, which were thus enabled to pack up and move forward. A census of these patients revealed that the following 31 languages comprised the list of “native tongues”: Abyssinain, Afghan, Albanian, Arabic, Bohemian, Bulgarian, Chinese, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, Hindu, Hungrian, Italian, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Spanish, Swedish, Burmese, Turkish, and an assortment of African dialects. Nurses and ward men soon became experts in the sign language. SvcMen WW II At present patients are finding themselves comfortably installed in a former tuberculosis sanitarium an imposing structure of modern and convenient appointments. Fight Fire Menace Because of the freqency of moving, hospital personnel have become skilled in “tearing down and setting up,” and in the spirit of typical Yankee humor have labeled the organization “Ringling Brothers.” Assembling vast amouns of equipment and supplies along with installing utilities with a minimum of delay has repeatedly tested the ingenuity of both the professional and enlisted staffs. In face of fire and flood the hospital has remained in operation without a moment’s interruption. While in Africa a forest fire of serious propoortions threatened to sweep the area, but by enlisting the help of every English, French and Arab soldier in the vicinity, hospital personnel brought the fire under control within a scant 200 yards of the hospital site. In Italy, flood waters raced into the area and within a half-hour reached a depth of five feet in the hospital basement.
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