Iowa Old Press
The Globe-Gazette, Mason City, Iowa, Sunday, December 20, 1942
69 REGISTER IN 6th DRAFT
Local Board No. 1 Mails Questionnaires Jan. 19
The following group of Cerro Gordo county men registered in the sixth registration, with local draft board No. 1. Selective service and occupational questionnaires were mailed to this group Tuesday, Jan. 19. They are:
Calvin Kermit Johnson, Claude Lester Modlin, Alan Ellsworth DeMerritt, Merle Lloyd Beaver, Gus Pappas, Gerald William Fisher, Harold Ashton Wilwell, Jr., Lowell Francis Gaetzke, Wilford L. Ebert, Elbert Dale Djuren.
Wilbert Melvin Nuehring, James Peter Preffakes, Robert Henry Sprau, Pelar Bueno, Clifford William Overbeck, Donald Richard Svendal, Frank Samargin, Louis Joseph Pion, Jr., Raymond Scott, Harold Wayne Jaspersen, Philip Carman Peterson, Jay Vanosdal Richey, Mert Ransom Jackson, Colan Anson Monaghen.
Jerry Dean Fockler, Ward Owen Linder, Harold Lloyd Jolly, Richard Francis Wilts, Calvin Glenn Huff, Thomas Ruiz Gomez, Harold Carl Butler, James Robert Branley, Stenus Junior Harms, Henry Justino Maraloni, Charles Hazlett, Jr., Roger Noel Johnson, Herbert Kenneth Mestad, Harry Arthur Reynolds, Larry Lester Perkins, Luverne Lyle Aves.
Rex Donald Marinis, John Howard Holt, Carl Luverne Humburg, John Adams Kunz, Jim A. Lyons, Robert M. Carroll, Clayton Arthur Pestholt, Alvin Junior Medlin, Alfred Christianson, Andrew Castino Cabrera, Paul Sherman Bruns, Gale Gordon Goranson.
Ralph Charles Perkins, Charles Jackson Kennedy, Daniel Henry Phalen, Laurence Frederick Frederickson, Ivan Delbert Saylor, William Austin Summers, Thomas Leroy Woldmore, Allan Vincent Wind, George LeRoy Koons, Gerald William Faeser, Forrest Holmer Abbott, Jr., William Dale Linahon, Harold Alfred Ellis, Robert Leroy Burgess, John Raymond Gagnon, Robert Luverne Paulson, Larry Lester Lindsey.
[Transcription by Sharon R. Becker, Dec. 2012]
Mason City Globe-Gazette, December 29, 1942
Raymond Martin Returns From African Expedition
Ashore 15 Minutes
Saw Several Land Skirmishes
Raymond Martin, third class pharmacist’s mate, is home visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Martin, 605 Delaware avenue northeast, following his return from the North African expedition.
Martin was a member of the crew of a troop transport that landed at Safi in North Africa.
“I was ashore about 15 minutes,” he said. “There wasn’t much fighting, just a few land skirmishes.”
Martin enlisted in the Navy here Dec. 13, 1941. After training at Great Lakes, he went to Portsmouth Naval Hospital, then Paris Island, S. Car., and then to Norfolk before he was sent on the African expedition.
[transcribed by LZ, Dec 2019]