Pvt. Lorance De Vries, son of Mrs. H. De Vries, is now located at Camp Claibourne, La. His wife and baby will remain in Sioux City with her parents. Pvt. Lorance De Vries, Co. I., 411th Inf. APO 103, Camp Claibourne, La.
Source: Sioux Center News Dec. 31, 1942 p 8
Lorance De Vries has been promoted to Private First Class. His address remains the same, as he is still in Camp Claibourne, La.
Source: Sioux Center News Feb. 25, 1943 p 10
Cpl. Lorance De Vries returned to Camp Clairborne, La., on Sunday afternoon after spending a thirteen-day furlough with his family here. Mrs. De Vries and small son returned to their home at Leeds.
Source: Sioux County Index June 10, 1943 p 8
Cpl. Lorance De Vries has a change of address, since he is again out on maneuvers: Co. I, 411th Infantry, APO 470, Shreveport, La. Lorance just completed a month of light maneuvers with his company and is now out for the real thing.
Source: Sioux Center News Sept. 23, 1943 p 10
Mr. and Mrs. Ben Poll entertained S/Sgt. Lorance De Vries and wife at dinner at their home Tuesday evening.
Source: Sioux Center News Mar. 30, 1944 p 4
S/Sgt. Lorance E. De Vries, 17157874 moved recently from Camp Robinson, Arkansas to the following new location: 4th P.O.T.C., Aberdeen Proving Grounds, Aberdeen, Maryland. He will take a course in the repair of instruments controlling anti-aircraft guns, and expects to be there for about ten weeks. He says the food there is excellent, and it is a very fine place to be stationed. The only complaint he has is the fact that he is so busy he scarcely has a moment to himself.
Source: Sioux Center News Apr. 27, 1944 p 8
S/Sgt. Lorance De Vries has successfully completed a course in Heavy A A Electrical Director Repairman at the Ordnance School, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland. His address is published elsewhere in this issue.
Source: Sioux Center News June 29, 1944 p 10
S/Sgt. Lorance De Vries has this new address: 149th Ord. Co. (HM) (FA), Cp. Joseph T. Robinson, Ark.
Source: Sioux Center News June 29, 1944 p 2
TO CAMP ROBINSON
Mrs. Lorance De Vries and small son David will leave this week Friday to join Lorance there for the duration or as long as he remains there. He has found an apartment for them.
Source: Sioux Center News Sept. 21, 1944 p 1
S/Sgt. Lorance De Vries has this new address: Sgt. Lorance De Vries 17157874, 140 Ord. M. M. Co., Camp Chaffee, Ark.
Source: Sioux Center News Nov. 2, 1944 p 2
1st Sgt. Lorance De Vries has a new overseas address available from his mother or from the News office. He left Camp Chaffee, Arkansas last week for his Port of Embarkation and it is expected that he is enroute overseas by this time. He was recently promoted to First Sergeant.
Source: Sioux Center News Feb. 8, 1945 p 10
1st/Sgt. Lorance De Vries is now in Germany and has a slight change of address. His new APO number should read 408. The rest of his address remains the same.
Source: Sioux Center News April 12, 1945 p 8
Sgt. Lorance De Vries has moved from the European theater and recently landed in the Philippines. His address is: 17157874, 140 Ord. HM Co. (FA), APO 74, c/o Postmaster, San Francisco, Calif.
LOCAL BOYS MEET IN MANILA
T/4 Lawrence Wissink, who was transferred recently from Panama to Manila in the Philippines, writes that he met Lorance De Vries and they went over the latest copy of the Sioux Center News together. Lawrence has been quite homesick and the sight of a familiar face there was a real treat.
Source: Sioux Center News Oct. 4, 1945 p 10
Sgt. Lorance De Vries’ address has had a slight change. His APO number should be 928. The rest of his address remains the same.
Source: Sioux Center News Nov. 29, 1945 p 2
Back From Japan
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LORANCE DE VRIES
Lorance De Vries arrived home Sunday after three years in the service, a year of which he spent overseas in both the European and Pacific theaters. In recent months he stopped at the Philippine Islands and Japan. He arrived in the states last Thursday, and after being formally discharged, came to Sioux Center where his wife and small son have been staying with his mother part of the time. Lorance will take some time off to adapt himself to civilian living again, and then may go back into the jewelry business in which he was engaged when he entered the service. He has no definite plans as to where.
Source: Sioux Center News Feb. 14, 1946 p 1
Servicemen Discharged
Discharge papers as follows were filed at the office of the County Recorder, Milton Van Roekel, since Feb. 8:
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Lorance De Vries, Sioux Center
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Source: Sioux Center News Feb. 28, 1946 p 10
Iowa, U. S., WWII Bonus Case Files 1947-1954, Claim No. 159421
Lorance E. De Vries, SN 17157874, was born July 6, 1916 at Hull, Iowa and was living at Sioux Center, Iowa prior to entering the army on Dec. 14, 1942 at Fort Snelling, Minn. He served at Camp Caliborne, Louisiana; with the 103rd Inf. Div. and the 140th Ord. Heavy Maint. Co. He departed for foreign service Feb. 11, 1945, returned Feb. 3, 1946, and was honorably discharged on Feb. 9, 1946. His application for bonus pay was filed June 14, 1949, for which he received a $430 bonus.
Source: ancestry.com
