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RQTHERS IN SERVICE
BROTHERS IN SLKV1CL March iJ9.
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Sgt. Tony Casias of ~ mp Polk, La. visited in the home his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Tony Casias on March 14 and 15. Tony is remembered as. one of Somerset’s best athletics.
WOUNDED IN ACTION
Pfc. Jerry V. Carco In New Orleans Hospital
ADOLPH E. SHUBERT, JR., MM3|c
SGT. CLOIS R. DEDEAUX
PFC. JERRY V. CARCO
“When our outfit landed on Oma I ha Beach, in France, it was at veryi low tide,” said Pfc. Jerry V. Carco | a patient at LaGarde General Hospital in New Orleans, Louisiana, “and the mines and steel rail obstruction'-
CAPT. CARL T. SMITH
Mr. and Mrs. Carl T. Smith re-}■ ceived notice on Tuesday from the War Department that their son, Captain Carl T. Smith, Jr., Army, was wounded in Belgium on December 16.	(
They have since received a letter, from Capt. Smith that the wound is. a shell wound of- the right leg and, that he is in a modern hospital in j France and is having every care.; It is hoped that he will soon be fully recovered.
IN NEW CALEDONIA
SGT. ROY DEDEAUX •
Mrs. Amelia Dedeaux has two sons in the United States Army. Sergeant Clois R. Dedeaux is in the Netherland East Indies and has been in service for four years. Sergeant Roy Dedeaux, who is known to practically every person in Bay St. Louis, was a former newsboy on the Beach front nad was familiarly known by his many friends as “Sleepy”. He has been in service over 2 years and is in France.
JOSEPH C. SHUBERT, S. 2|c Adolph 'E. Shubert, Jr., MM 3[c is serving somewhere overseas, since December, 1943. Joseph C. Shubert,
S 2]c, was recently home on leave, ij He returned to San Diego, from! where he will be assigned to sea! duty.	j
I These boys are sons of Mr. and t jMrs. Adolph E. Shubert.	\
RETURNS TO DUTY i
were plainly visible, making oilr landing easy, but I was impressed j with the danger of these defensive | measures at high tide.”	.
“A few days after landing,” ’’'con - j1 tinued Private Carco, “we were at- r tacking near St. Lo, when a large j shell exploded nearby, wounding many of our platoon. I was hit in the knee and, as the medics could not get to me immediately. I used! by first aid kit and managed to: crawl towards the rear until I met the litter bearers. Through the field hospital and then to a base hospital in England, where I was operated upon. I then left by boat for New York, thence by plane to New Orleans and near my home at Lake-shore, Mississippi, where I will visit my mother, Mrs. Rosie Carco.”*
While a patient at LaGarde General hospital, Private Carco will have the advantages of the Educational and Reconditioning program r>o,j in effect, which offers many opportunities to the sick and wounded
soldier, to prepare himself while con-Mr Antoine F”avrn ha" bcen‘■„ ZT valescing for his return to duty orservice fQr twQ y
civilian hfe	---- , stationed in New Caledonia. He
I HUME OIN LLAVL has been overseas for twenty months.
PVT. COBON FAVRE Pvt. Cobon Favre son of Mr. and
Franklin D. Roosevelt
AuuLPH E.'SHUBERT, JR., MO. MM 3jc
Adolph E. Shubert, Jr., son of Mr.j i and Mrs. Adolph Shubert, of this 1 dity, returned to his post of duty,] ; after spending a 25-day leave here „vvith his parents and friends.
CECIL J. LADNER. E. M
Cecil J. Ladner, E. M. 3|c, has been home on leave from the Pacific war area. He wears the Service Bar with nine stars representing his participation in nine major invasions. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Ladner, Route 1, Pass Christian. A dinner was given in his. h"nor attended by relatives and friends.


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