Woodbury County

 

Pfc. Wallace C. Bomar

 

IN UNIFORM.

Pfc. Wallace C. Bomar, whose wife lives at 817 Cook street, is now at Jefferson Barracks, Mo., where he will receive a furlough.  He has just returned from 35 months overseas on the Italian front in the European theater of operations.  He is in the infantry.

Source: The Sioux City Journal, February 2, 1945

IN UNIFORM.

Two residents of Sioux City, who returned to the United States recently for furloughs at home, are now at the army ground and service forces redistribution station, Hot Springs, Ark., awaiting reassignment to a new unit.  The returnees and the theaters of operations in which they served are:
Pfc. Wallace Bomar, 817 Cook street, 36 months in Europe.
Irvin T. Gates, technician fourth class, 717 Fifth street, 33 months in Europe.

Pfc. Bomar holds the combat infantryman’s badge and Sgt. Gates holds the purple heart with an oak leaf cluster.

Source: The Sioux City Journal, March 6, 1945