Looking Back at ^News of the Men In Service^"

<strong>New Glarus Post, April 11, 1945</strong>
Mrs. Lloyd Hershberger, on Tuesday night, received a telephone call from her husband, Lt. Hershberger, stating that he had just arrived on the west coast after serving 20 months in the South Pacific as a Navy doctor. Mrs. Hershberger, who has been making her home with her parents Mr. and Mrs. John H. Kundert, will join her husband.
Grover Krugjohann, fourth son of Mr. and Mrs. Morris Krugjohann, Rockford, to be inducted into the Armed Forces is now in training at Great Lakes. He says, “This sure is a nice place; plenty to eat and plenty of sleep.”
Pfc. Dean Gmur, patient at Shick General Hospital at Clinton, Iowa, is home on a 15-day furlough.
On Tuesday, 192 Green County men, mostly farmers, went to Milwaukee for their pre-induction physical examinations.
Ernest Zimmerli, AC, who has been in training at Great Lakes, has been visiting at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Carl Blaser.
Norman Marty, son of Mr. and Mrs. Willard Marty, last week passed his physical examination at Milwaukee for service in the Navy and was sworn into the Navy as Seaman, 1/c Radio Technician. He had previously passed an examination for Radar Training in the Navy and expects to be called at the end of the school year. He is a senior in New Glarus High School.
We have received a copy of the “Palisades”, issued weekly at Camp Shanks, N.Y., from Sgt. Emma Ehrbar of the WAC. The pictures in this newsy sheet, as well as the stories, tell the story of how the wounded men who come there from overseas are taken care of and helped to get in touch with the home folks and then are sent on to a hospital nearer home and shows how much the women of the WAC assist in this work.
Pfc. Henry Tschudy writes from Camp Crowder, Mo., that he expects to be leaving there soon for Camp Beal, Calif., a port of embarkation camp. He says, “I want to spend my remaining days here with my wife but when the war is over and I return back to the states, I will not let any grass grown under my feet before returning to the old Home Town. I am leaving here as a cook. In case I do not get to see any of the folks before I leave, I say, God Bless Everyone.”
Miss Bertha Derendinger, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Derendinger, Adams township, is leaving soon for service with the Army Nurses’ Corps. She attended high school here for one year while making her home with the Rev. Rettig family.
Mrs. Albert Kaech has learned that a nephew, Pfc. John Wessenfluh, London, was killed in Germany on March 18. His parents and two sisters, Viola and Frieda, survive.
<strong>From Pvt. Jake Schmoker</strong>
Fort Knox, Ky., April 3, 1945
Dear Art: Received the Post, thank you very much. We have some beautiful country around here, which we are shown by special request. Mostly by a very convincing gentleman, who yells something like this, “Hip, Hup, Ho.” Sometimes your feet don’t seem to receive the “Hip Hup” correctly, but there’s always some kindly gentleman, beside you, called “officer” who gently tells them they are out of step.
These gentlemen or officers are very considerate though, when they think that you are tired of walking, they let you fall on your stomach and crawl for a while. The only drawback is all seem to have poor eye sight, as they usually have you fall into mud, and mud holes. It really isn’t so bad, a little griping makes time go faster.
Good Luck and thanks, Jake Schmoker
<strong>Memorial Service for S/Sgt. Lester A. Meland</strong>
Memorial services will be conducted by Rev. I. A. Lavik at the Primrose Lutheran Church on Sunday afternoon at two o’clock for S/Sgt. Lester A. Meland, who was killed in action in Germany on February 28. The New Glarus American Legion Post will take part in the service.
On January 14, 1945, he was slightly wounded in Belgium and on February 4 returned to duty.
He was born on January 28, 1922, in Primrose township. He was graduated from New Glarus High School and was employed at Chicago at the time of his induction.
Surviving are his parents, seven brothers and four sisters. One brother, Kenneth, S. 1/c, is with the Navy.