Sugar House Bulletin | 1944-08-18 | News of the Marines
Article Title News of the Marines
Norman, Oklahoma. She was as. signed as a student there upon completion of recruit training at Camp Lejueune. N. C. The daughter of James A. Wood all of 1165 South 7th East. Pri-vate Pri-vate Woodall entered the Corps in March. A brother, Garn R. Woodall, is serving in the Marine Corps also. Marine Corps specialist schools at Camp Pendleton, Oceanside, have graduated six Salt Lake City servicemen recently. They include: Marine Privates Angelo Za-hurias, Za-hurias, son of Mr and Mrs. G E. Zaharias, 73 South West Temple, and Boby H. Larson, whose parents par-ents are Mr. and Mrs. Howard Larsen,' 1339 East 39th South, from infantry school; Navy Phar. macist's Mate Third clas Wallace L. Baker, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. C. Baker, 635 South 5th East; and Navy Pharmacist's Mate Third Class Kirt D. Wood, son of Mrs. Laura P. Wood, 68 T street, from field medical school. Graduates also of field medical school are Navy Hospital Appren- NEWS OF THE MARINES Marine First Lieutenant Sheldon Sheld-on L. Baker, 22, son of Mr. and Mrs. Allen M. Baker, 1054 Roosevelt Roose-velt avenue, is now on duty ar the Marine Corps Air Depot at, Maramar, California, following service in the South Pacific as a fighter pilot. Ljeutenant Baker participated in 65 combat missions over -Ra-baul, Bougainville, and Kavieng. J His squadron operated from Vella Lavella, Bougainville and Green Island. Although he flew through heavy anti-air craft fire, the Marine flier's only close call came during the Jap shelling of Bougainville, He said, "while warming up for a take-off, I asked if we were being be-ing shelled, but was told that it was our own guns we heard. Just then one shell made a direct hit on the plane next to mine, and another shell struck the runway between my plane and the the next one. I knew, then, who wa3 shooting." t;ce First Class LeRoyce Comes, son of Mrs. Sarah J. Howard, 135 East Truman avenue; and Navy Hospital Apprentice Second Class Dosie R. Hutchins, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Hutchins, 571 East 21st South street. The N next time the Japs start tossing burnad ammunition in the direction of Dilbert L. Adamson, 18, nnd Robert G.. Cordtz, 19, Salt Lake City men, they'll get something back. The two former merchant seamen, sea-men, each of whom saw service j with the U.S. merchant marine for seven months, are now under- going "boot" training with the U. S. Marine Corps at San Diego, California, having been sworn in-the in-the corps as voluntary inductees I last Monday by Captain Henry N. Hale in charge of the Salt Lake district Marine induction and recruiting station. Adamson is a 1943 graduate of -East High school, is the son or Mrs. Corrine B. Adamson, of 339 East 2nd South. His ship was in i service in the South Pacific. Cordtz, a 1943 graduate of the i Judge Memorial High school, is 'sof of Mrs. Ethel L. Cordtz. His sea duty was in the Pacific, Mediterranean Med-iterranean and Middle East theaters thea-ters of war. Marine Private First Class Dell Baker Dickinson, 21, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Dickinson, of 650 West Second South, recently was graduated from the infantry and automatic rifle school at Camp Pendleton, Oceanside, California. At the same training center, Hospital Apprentice First Class Wilford Frank Passey, 19, and Hospital Apprentice First Class Charle? W. Hepner, 18, both of Salt Lake City, were graduated from the field medical school for hospital corpsmen. ' Hospital Apprentice Passey was employed at the Perry Hotel before enlisting, while Hospital Apprentice Hepner is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles. M. Hepner, : of 524 North 12th West street. 1 All three men are ready for i assignment to combat units. Lieutenant Baker participated ect hit on a bridge on New Ireland Ire-land with a - 500-pound bomb, an unique feat for a fighter pilot. The local airman is a graduate of East High school and was a student at the University of Utah when he entered the Marine Aviation Av-iation in February, 1942. He was commissioned in April, 1943 Saipan, Mariana Islands Although Al-though Marine Private First Ciass George Oberlin, 19, of 986 Har-vard Har-vard avenue, Salt Lake City, is a message runner in a communication communi-cation section, and his duties call for him to engage in front-line fighting, he accounted for at least nine Japs during the battle of Saipan. Sai-pan. Private Oberlin picked off at least seven Nips with his automatic auto-matic rifle during the fourth day of the battlle, when his unit surrounded sur-rounded a large body of Japs en-trenched en-trenched in sand-bag emplacements emplace-ments in a valley. He killed two wore with a submachine sub-machine gun on July 4. when the unit swept down into the Jap seaplane sea-plane base at Flores Point. Oberlin, who is a veteran of of Guadalcanal and Tarwa, was later attached to a weapon unit which . accounted for hundreds of Japs in the final phases of the battle on the north end of the Island. Corporals Elden K. Borg and Edwin L. Silvey, both of Salt Lake CJty, have graduated from the Marine Corps Aviation school at San Diego, California, and have been promoted to their present ranks. Both me are ready for further assignments. Corporal Borg, former for-mer manager of a local bowling palace, (Ritz), is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Louis P. Borg, of 2161 Regent street. Corporal Silver, formerly employed em-ployed by a tube company, , lives at 1594 South 10th East, his wife Mildred at that address. A Salt Lake Marine Women. Private Flora Woodall is now receiving re-ceiving 21 weeks training at the aviatjon machinists mate school at the Naval Air Training Center,