Soldier News, August 1942

2nd Class Pharmacist

Bainbridge News & Republican, August 27, 1942

 

Ivor Bosket

 

Ivor Bosket of U.S. Navy, son of Mr. and Mrs. Merle Bosket, of Bainbridge.

 

11 from Troop C Have Enlisted

Bainbridge News & Republican, August 27, 1942

 

Since the advent of the war, 11 men, formerly attached to the Troop C division of the New York State Police, have enlisted and are now serving Uncle Sam.

 

Six former troopers have joined the Army, two entered the Coast Guard, two are now sailors and one is in the Marines.

 

The most recent enlistments were by Trooper Nicholas Obuhanich, B.C.I, and Trooper J.J. Benenati.  The former joined the Army and the latter, the Marine Corp.

 

The other men who are continuing to carry out their protection of the American people in a still more personal way than serving us at home are Trooper D.J. Soules, army military police; Sergt. C.A. Roach, lieutenant in the Army Air Corps; Trooper A.J. Buell, naval air service; Trooper J.A. Diffendale, army provost marshal's staff; Trooper J.P. Gonet, Army Air Corps; Trooper Milton Ratner, Army Air Corps; Trooper R.E. Chapman, Coast Guard; Trooper W.H. Kirker, Coast Guard; and Corp. D.R. Keown, Navy. 

 

Mary Brennan with Army

Bainbridge News & Republican, August 27, 1942

 

The first Bainbridge woman to serve with the U.S. Army is Miss Mary Brennan, R.N., of New York City, a former resident and high school student in this village [Bainbridge, Chenango Co., NY].  Miss Brenna, who is the daughter of Joseph Brennan, well known to many of our readers, stopped off on her way back from the Pacific Coast and spent a few days last week with her uncle, Thomas Collins.  Miss Brennan offered her services to the U.S. Army Nursing Corps.

 

Everett W. Bidwell Wounded at Midway

 

Close news of the war comes to Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY] from nearby Sidney where Mr. and Mrs. Everett Bidwell have received word that their son has been wounded three times in the battle of Midway and that he is now in the hospital where he is recovering.  [Bainbridge News & Republican, Aug. 27, 1942]

 

Mr. and Mrs. Everett M. Bidwell, East Main street residents, have received a letter from their son, Everett W. stating that he has been promoted to the rank of corporal, also chief mechanic of his plane.  Corporal Bidwell, serving with the Marines, who has just recovered from injuries received in the battle of Midway, informs his parents that the call for a volunteer unit came to his squadron and he was one of the number responding, after leaving for an undisclosed destination in a volunteer unit, somewhere in the Pacific.  The young soldier talked with his parents over the phone one day recently.  [Sidney Enterprise, Sept. 24, 1942]

 

Everett Bidwell, Jr., son of Mr. and Mrs. Bidwell of East Main St. is spending a 25 day furlough in Sidney [Delaware Co., NY].  Aviation Gunner Bidwell has seen plenty of action since enlisting in the Marines in June, 1941 at the age of 17.  His Purple Heart award was presented to him by Admiral Chester W. Nimitz at a ceremony in the Hawaiian Islands and he also has two citations for action beyond the call of duty.  Like most of the boys who have seen action, Gunner Bidwell is very modest.  He has been given a choice of remaining in the United States and serving as an instructor or returning to active duty in the Pacific area.  According to Mr. Bidwell, there just isn't any trouble about the decision.  He's going back where the figuring is.  [Sidney Enterprise, Nov. 12, 1943]