Pvt. Leonard Cone Injured in Africa
Bainbridge News & Republican, Sept. 2, 1943
When Mrs. Cecile Cone, of 152 Ninth street, Leominster, Mass., looked at a picture published in the Worcester Telegram of Aug. 11 showing wounded American soldiers being ferried from Sicily to North Africa, she recognized her husband among the casualties. Today the identification was confirmed by a letter from her husband, P.F.C. Leonard G. Cone, writing from a North African hospital where he is recovering.
The picture is the same in which Miss Harriet Badjo, of 58 Austin street, Worcester identified her fiancé, Serg, Robert Herzog, 23, of Washington Heights. It was an enlargement made from a newsreel shown at Loew's Poli Theatre, Worcester, and removed from the reel by Manager Harold H. Maloney in order to give Miss Badjo a chance to identify her fiancé, whom she was certain she saw when the reel was shown on the screen.
Private Cone and Cecile Guilmette, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Guilmette, were married at Ayer on Sept. 27, 1941. They have a daughter 17 months old. The child was four months old the last time the father saw his family.
P.F.C. Cone is the son of Mrs. Ida M. Cone, of Bainbridge [Chenango Co., NY]. He has been in the service six years, including three years in Hawaii.
Frank H. Lewis Enters Navy
Bainbridge News & Republican, Sept. 9, 1943
Frank H. Lewis, son of Mr. and Mrs. Francis M. Lewis, of North Main street [Bainbridge, Chenango Co., NY] entered the U.S. Navy last Saturday and is expected to receive his boot training at Sampson. Frank graduated from the College of Engineering, Cornell University, last June, and was employed at the Scintilla before his induction into the service.
Confirmation of the death of S/Sgt. Truair (Bunker) Halbert, of Sidney [Delaware Co., NY], was received in a telegram from the War Department to this wife and parents, Sept. 20. Sgt. Halbert, who was an aerial gunner, was first reported missing in action on July 30, and later a prisoner in Germany.
Howard Foster, son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Foster, Front street [Bainbridge, Chenango Co., NY], left for the induction center at Camp Upton, last Saturday. Howard, who has been employed at the Scintilla for the past two years and who is a civilian pilot, has a brother in the service, P.F.C. Victor Foster, stationed at Syracuse.
Everette Herrick, G.M. 3/C, USN, survivor of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, has been confined to a South Pacific hospital for the past nine weeks suffering from injury to his feet he sustained at Pearl Harbor almost two years ago. During the attack at Pearl Harbor his feet were burned with acid and since that time he has had considerable trouble with them at intervals. It is reported that he will be transferred to a hospital in a cold climate where it is expected that the cold temperature will improve his condition. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Herrick.
Death of Truair Halbert Confirmed
Bainbridge News & Republican, Sept. 23, 1943
Confirmation of the death of S/Sgt. Truair (Bunker) Halbert, of Sidney [Delaware Co., NY], was received in a telegram from the War Department to this wife and parents, Sept. 20. Sgt. Halbert, who was an aerial gunner, was first reported missing in action on July 30, and later a prisoner in Germany.
Howard Foster Enters Service
Bainbridge News & Republican, Sept. 23, 1943
Howard Foster, son of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Foster, Front street [Bainbridge, Chenango Co., NY], left for the induction center at Camp Upton, last Saturday. Howard, who has been employed at the Scintilla for the past two years and who is a civilian pilot, has a brother in the service, P.F.C. Victor Foster, stationed at Syracuse.
Everette Herrick Still Suffers from War Injuries
Bainbridge News & Republican, Sept. 30, 1943
Everette Herrick, G.M. 3/C, USN, survivor of the bombing of Pearl Harbor, has been confined to a South Pacific hospital for the past nine weeks suffering from injury to his feet he sustained at Pearl Harbor almost two years ago. During the attack at Pearl Harbor his feet were burned with acid and since that time he has had considerable trouble with them at intervals. It is reported that he will be transferred to a hospital in a cold climate where it is expected that the cold temperature will improve his condition. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Herrick.
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