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

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May 16, 1945
Back in the United States</strong>
Pfc. Robert Gmur, who has been a German prisoner for more than a year, has landed in New York, according to telegram received yesterday afternoon by his mother, Mrs. Charles Gehrig. No doubt he can be expected home on a 60-day furlough in a day or two.
<strong>S/Sgt. Rhodes is Liberated</strong>
Mrs. William Rhodes, the former Ruth Itten of Madison, on Monday received word that her husband, S/Sgt. Rhodes, a German prisoner of war, has been freed.
Ronald Tschudy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Tschudy, has enlisted in the Navy and has passed his physical examination at Milwaukee. He is to be called into service after school is out.
Lieut. Irma Klassy has returned to Camp Gruber, Oklahoma, after spending a ten-day leave with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Peter Klassy.
T/5 Duane Syvrud is at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Syvrud, Verona, for a furlough after spending 36 months overseas in the Southwest.
Lieut. (jg) Eugene Eckstam participated in the invasion of Mindanoo and is now stationed there with a medical unit. Mrs. Eckstam is making her home with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Urben.
Pvt. Richard Crimmons, son of Mrs. Sydney Myrland, has been sick in an Army hospital in France for some time.
Robert Krugjohann has been a medical patient in six different hospitals in France and England since February, and it is expected that he may be home soon.
Pfc. Dean Gmur, patient at Schick Hospital at Clinton, Iowa, has been improving and may not have to submit to additional surgery on his injured leg, he has written his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Gmur.
Lieut. Robert Strickler, son of Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Strickler, and Lieut. Eugene Stuessy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred A. Stuessy, classmates all through school, met recently on Okinawa. They wrote their parents that they spent most of the night talking. Both of these boys had been seeing much action in the Pacific for many months.
<strong>Leon Urben Completes U.W. Navy Course</strong>
Leon Urben, 18, son of Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Urben, was one of 74 sailors to graduate from the Navy’s Radio Training School at the University of Wisconsin in exercises at the Memorial Union at Madison Monday afternoon.
Prof. Philo M. Buck of the University was the speaker. The graduating group made a new record by averaging 93.95, Capt. L. K. Pollard, commanding officer has announced.
Leon is home on a five-day leave, after which he leaves for Shoemaker, California, where Nathan Figi and Rinehardt Kuenzi, also in the Navy, are stationed at present.
Mr. and Mrs. Urben and daughter, Hazel, attended the commencement program.
<strong>From Richard Schuster FC 3/c</strong>
<i>Fort Lauderdale, Florida, May 11, 1945</i>
Dear Art:
The winter season is over here in Florida, but I am staying on. I know it has been some time since you had my last letter.
When I graduated from advanced Fire Control School here, I was assigned to this base as an instructor. It is rather hard to say just how long I’ll be stationed here. As you probably know, my wife and son are here with me and I am living off base with them. It makes me feel just like a civilian again.
I would like to be back in Wisconsin for the fishing season this summer. I guess you and Ray will have to catch my share. I am doing some salt water fishing here. The size is larger but there is no more sport in it.
Sincerely, Dick Schuster