Iowa
Old Press
Waterloo Daily Courier, July 31, 1942
PROMOTED TO CORPORAL.
Cresco, Ia.—(Special)—After nearly two years as volunteer in the United States military service, Virgil Barnes, the first Howard county man to answer the call under the selective service law, was recently promoted to the rank of corporal. He began his military training at Fort Snelling, Minn., and is now attending the motor transport school at Fort Crook, Neb.
[transcribed by L.Z. May 2020]