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

Lt. (jg) Clifford Klassy called from New York to notify his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Klassy, that he has returned from a trip to the European War area, and expects to visit here soon.
Pvt. Jacob Schmoker is at Ft. Knox, Kentucky.
Pvt. Palmer E. Hefty, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Hefty, is now in France.
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Kehrli Sr. have heard of the safe arrival of their son Sgt. Fred Kehrli in France.
Lester Gammeter has been promoted from Seaman 2/c to Seaman 1/c.
Rinehardt H. Kuenzi, who has been at Great Lakes Naval Training Station, is now at the U.S.N. Training and Distribution Center at Shoemaker, Calif.
Pvt. Eldon Hustad, son of Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Hustad, is here on a ten day furlough. He has been at Camp Robinson, Arkansas, and at the end of his furlough leaves for Camp Meade, in Maryland.
Pfc. Mark S. Wild, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Jake Wild, has been transferred to D.M.D. McCloskey General Hospital, Temple, Texas, from the Station Hospital at Camp Hulen, Texas. His wife is also with him.
Donald Knobel, Monticello, left for service in the Army with a group of Green County inductees and was sent to Fort Sheridan, Illinois.
Wilbert Bernet, S 2/c, who has been stationed at New Orleans with the Merchant Marine, has been spending a leave with his wife, the former Freda Tschudy.
Frederick S. Voegeli, H/A, 1/c, son of Mrs. Elfa Voegeli, Monticello, has left for overseas service.
Corp. John Riggenberg, who is with a tank battalion in the Philippine Islands, sends us a change of address. He says, “It sure is nice to get the <i>Post</i>, out here in these jungles.”
Capt. Rodney Block is at Monroe after being overseas with Co. K. for some years. He saw action in New Guinea and in Leyte, early this year. His wife and daughter live at Monroe.
Lt. Col. Roy F. Zinser, Monroe, has been assigned as executive officer of the Third Student Training Regiment at the infantry school at Fort Benning, Georgia. He recently returned from 32 months of duty in the South Pacific Theater. He left Monroe with Co. K in 1940.
<strong>Is Home After Service in Pacific Area</strong>
1st. Lt. D. C. Hawley, is at his home at Pendleton, Oregon, after some 1,200 hours of overseas flying in the Pacific area, the equivalent of about 300 missions.
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Russell Hawley and grew up and went to school at New Glarus as a boy. The family then moved to Illinois and later to Pendleton. Mrs. Hawley is a sister of Wm. Alderman, New Glarus.
His wife and small daughter live at Seattle. Lt. Hawley did most of his flying in New Guinea, Biak and nearby areas and one of his final flights before leaving for home was to the Philippines during the Leyte invasion. He has had many thrilling experiences.
At one time, when he was flying a transport, one of his plane’s propeller broke loose and tore through one of the wings. Fifteen Allied air force men took to their chutes and two of them were killed when their chutes failed to open. The plane at that time was less than 3,000 feet over the mountain peaks.
He, however, made a perfect landing but in landing over the rough ground one wheel collapsed and the other engines fell out. The plane careened for 60 yards and then crashed into a bank, smashing the cowling beneath his cabin but not injuring the five men remaining in the ship.
He wears the distinguished flying cross with two oak leaf clusters. He is now awaiting reassignment.