Soldier News -- Continued

Local Families Have 4 Sons Each in Service

Bainbridge News & Republican, April 6, 1944

Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY] now has three families with four sons each serving in the Armed Forces of their country:  Mr. and Mrs. Otto F. Neidlinger have Sgt. Frederick Neidlinger, of Aberdeen, Md.; Earl K. Neidlinger, Mo.M.M. 3/C, only sailor from Bainbridge in the submarine service; P.F.C. Douglas L. Neidlinger, who is in England; and Otto G. Neidlinger, S 2/C, USNR who is in training at Memphis, Tenn. 

 

Mr. and Mrs. Fayette L. Smith have P.F.C. Harold I. Smith and Pvt. Edson H. Smith, both serving in England; Lt. Robert F. Smith, a pilot in the U.S. Air Force; and Fayette L. Smith, Jr., A.S. USNR, who is receiving boot training at Sampson. 

 

Mrs. Youngs, of Newton avenue, has Sgt. Eric T. Youngs, of Camp Claiborne, La.; Cpl. George W. Youngs, of Salt Lake City, Utah; Cpl. Clarence B. Youngs, overseas; and another son, of Endicott, who is serving in the U.S. Navy. 

 

W.B. Davy in South Pacific

Bainbridge News & Republican,  April 13, 1944

 

Marine in South Pacific

 

 

SGT. W.B. Davy

 

 

Sgt. John Hill Completes 22 Air Missions

Bainbridge News & Republican, April 13, 1944

 

It was announced by the 13th AAF overseas that Technical Sergeant, John N. Hill, son of Mrs. George Hill, of Dauphin, Canada, was recently presented the Air Medal and the Bronze Oak Leaf Cluster for "Extraordinary achievement while participating in aerial flight on combat operational missions." 

 

Sergeant Hill is a First Engineer and Serial Gunner on a 13th AAF Liberator bomber now operating overseas in the combat zone of the South Pacific.  In the last six months overseas, he has successfully completed 22 raids on heavily defended Jap bases where exposure to enemy airplanes and enemy fire were habitually expected and in numerous instances encountered. 

 

Sergeant Hill was graduated from the Dauphin High School.  His wife resides at Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY].

 

Clarence Goad Missing in Action

Bainbridge News & Republican, April 20, 1944

 

The official casualty list of those missing in action last week Tuesday gives the name of P.F.C. Clarence Goad, son of Mrs. Edith Delancey, of Maryland, and formerly of Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY].  Clarence was serving in the Mediterranean area.  A brother, Jack P. Goad, is also in the service.

 

Roll of Honor Dedicated, Guilford, Chenango Co., NY

Bainbridge News & Republican, April 27, 1944

 

At a very impressive service, the Roll of Honor bearing the names of Guilford's young men and women in the armed forces of the United States was dedicated, Sunday afternoon at 3 o'clock. The dedication service was scheduled to take place on the green beside the Roll of  Honor, recently placed, but stormy weather made it impossible to have the service out of doors so Christ church was chosen and all quietly passed into the church and paid honor to the American youth whose names are on the Roll of Honor.  Opposite the name of Roland McPherson there is a gold star showing one of our own boys has already made the supreme sacrifice. 

 

Walter Thielke, in a very capable and sincere manner, presented the program.  The Boy Scouts, under their leader, George Sherman, presented the colors; the Rev. J.W. Bump offered an opening prayer; this was followed by the reading of the 82 names on the Roll of Honor.  During the service the first verses of the Star Spangled Banner and Onward Christian Soldiers were sung.  County Judge Frank Barnes, of Norwich, was chosen speaker on this occasion.  His message was well chosen. A man who served as a lieutenant in the A.A.F. in World War I., he knew whereof he spoke.  As a father, who has a son serving somewhere in New Guinea, his message reached the parents, whose sons' names appeared on the roll.