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

Pvt. Kenneth Halverson, Fort Meade, Maryland, is home on a 15-day furlough.
His parents have received word that Pfc. Neal Marty, who has been in the Pacific for some time, is on board ship and expects to return home in a few weeks.
Allen Gilden, son of Mr. And Mrs. Ernest Gilden, Mt. Vernon, has enlisted in the Corps of Military Police Service of the regular Army for three years, to serve in the European theater of operations. He had been employed at Waukesha.
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Schuster and son are moving from Kenosha to Green Bay. Mr. Schuster, who has been appointed assistant county agent for Brown County, was the agriculture teacher in New Glarus High School before his induction into the Navy. He was recently discharged.
Capt. Kenneth Fjelstad has been transferred to Maxwell Field, Montgomery, Alabama, which is just 50 miles from Craig Field, where he was stationed before. Recently, Capt. Fjelstad was one of a group of officers who flew to Washington, D.C., Kansas City, Mo., and Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. He had time for some sight-seeing in Washington. Fjelstad says plans are being made to build an Air University at Maxwell Field, where officers in the Air Corps will be trained for higher positions.
Cadet Richard Streiff, who will graduate from West Point in June, has informed his parents that his average falls in the second highest branch groups, enabling him to go to Fort Knox, Kentucky, for further training in an armored division. He expects to have a 45-day furlough after graduation, and will then report to Fort Knox for about 5 months of training before going overseas. He is then required to do a 2.5 year hitch overseas. Richard’s fiancée, Miss Marion Martin, Blanchardville, a student at Lawrence Conservatory of Music, Appleton, has left to spend her spring vacation with him.
S/Sgt. Wendell Day has been honorably discharged from the Army. He has been in Korea and China. His wife, the former Ruth Elmer, has been employed at Monroe. On Monday, Mr. and Mrs. Day went to Richland Center, their home before his induction into service.
S/c Frederick Thacker and wife visited relatives here and at Monroe over the weekend. He is now stationed at Great Lakes, Illinois.
<strong>Lt. Robert Stuckey Gets Discharged</strong>
1st. Lt. Robert Stuckey, second oldest son of Rev. and Mrs. Walter Stuckey, has received his discharge from the United States Marines and is at home on terminal leave.
Robert enlisted July 9th, 1942, while working for the Trane Air Conditioning Co, in La Crosse, but wasn’t called until December 10, 1942, when he entered Naval Flight Training at the Navy Pre-Flight School, Iowa City, Iowa.
He received his wings and commission as a Second Lieutenant in the Marines on September 28, 1943, and was sent overseas in July, 1944.
Stuckey flew a fighter bomber in a VMBF Sqd. 331 group, which was land-based in the Marshal Islands. He completed 42 missions.
Lt. Stuckey returned to the states June 1, 1945, was promoted to 1st. Lieutenant in March, 1945, and instructed advanced flight training at Corpus Christi, Texas, until his discharge.
He hopes to remain in aviation as a civilian flight instructor, but has no definite plans at present.