Page Twenty

Friday, • Apr?! 28, P944

THE JEWISH NEWS

With Our Jewish Servicemen on All Battle Fronts

Lt. Schlossberg Held
Prisoner in Germany

Harbor, he was commissioned
Feb. 16, 1943, and flew overseas
last November.
* * *

Lt. Marvin Z. Schlossberg, 23-
year-old son of Mr. and Mrs.
Jacob Schlossberg of 3242 Cal-
vert Ave., a Liberator pilot who
was reportedm,F5
Nre.M
missing in ac-
tion last week,
is a prisoner of
war in Ger-
many.
His parents re-
reived word . to
this effect last
Thursday, after ...
they had
notified that he
had failed to re- Lt. Schlossberg
turn from a raid out of England
on Feb. 24.

PFC. SHERMAN LYNN, 19-
year-old son of Mr. and Mrs.
Ben Lynn of 2972 Rochester
Ave., was home last week on a
10-day furlough
after 13 months
in active serv-
ice. He is sta-
tioned with the
279th Engineers'
at Camp Robin-'0 ":
s o n, Arkansas.
A graduate of
Central High
School, he was
a student at
'Pfc. Lynn
Wayne University when he left
for service. He also studied in
the United Hebrew Schools.
* * *
SGT. MARVIN BERNSTEIN,
upon his return to camp from
hiS Passover furlough at home,
was notified that he had been

One of six children, Lt. Sch-
lossberg is a Central High
School graduate. He attended
Wayne University and Detroit
Institute of Technology as an
aviation student.
Enlisting the day after Pearl

This is a typ-
ical question-
aire as it
should be
filled in and
returned t o
the Jewish
Welfare
Board.

Lt. Zak Missing
In Raid on France

M. R. Pregerson
At Great Lakes

Robert Mathis Dies
In Action In Italy

Milford Richard Pregerson, 31,
Lt. Ben Zak, son of Mrs.
husband of Sara Hope Pregerson,
Lena Zak of 1730 Gladstone Ave.
11534 Byron, is receiving his
initial naval indoctrination at the has been reported missing after
U. S. Naval Training Station, a raid over France, the War
Great Lakes, Ill.
Dept. announced this week.
His "boot" training consists of
Lt. Zak, 24, a bOrnbardier-
instruction in seamanship, mili- naVigator in a Marauder, entered
tary drill, and general naval pro-
cedure. During this period a service in August, 1941, w a s
series of aptitude tests will be commissioned in September and
taken by the recruit to determine went overseas in January. A
whether he will be assigned to brother, Manuel, is in the South-
a Naval Service School or to west Pacific.
active duty.
* * *
His training completed, he will
John Garfield just returned
spend a period of leave at home.
from a tour of entertaining
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
troops in Sicily, near Cassino,
Aaron Pregerson.
and in North Africa.

promoted to Staff Sergeant. He
has been in the service for 18
months and is stationed with the
Q. M. at Florence Air Base, S.
C. His family resides at 3204 Joy
Road.

Word was received this week
by Jacob M. Mathis of 4042
Duane St. that his brother, Rob-
ert Mathis, technician fifth grade
with the Engineering Corps, was
killed in action in Italy on Feb.
18.

Mathis came to America from
Lithuania in April, 1940, and en-
tered active service in March,
1941. Among the first to land in
North Africa, he was wounded
slightly and soon thereafter re-
turned to active duty.

A brother, David, 36, is with
the U. S. Army in England.
* * *
LT. MONTE KORN, of the
U. S. Marine Corps, is convales-
cing at the Great Lakes Naval
Hospital, near Chicago, after
serving as Acting Assistant
Quartermaster in the South Pa-
cific area for the past few
months. His Detroit home ad-
dress is 18041 Washburn.

ADDITIONAL

SERVICEMEN'S NEWS

PAGES 18 AND 19

JWB Continues to Gather
Records of Jews in Service

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The Bureau of War Records of the Jewish Welfare
Board, 8904 Woodward Ave., continues to gather in-
formation regarding Jewish men and women in service.

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Thousands of questionaires, a sample of which is
printed below, have already been returned to the De-
troit office of the Jewish Welare Board.

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Several thousand more have thus far failed to re-
spond to the call to participate in the gathering of these
records.

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RE LATIONSHIP

INFORMATION TRANSMITTED By

If you have not yet filled in a questionaire for your
relative or friend, use this form and follow the sample
questionaire on the left in filling in the required in-
formation.

Please act promptly and return this questionaire as
soon as possible to the Detroit Committee of the Jewish
Welfare Board, 8904 Woodward Ave.

Bureau of War Records

Jewish Welfare Board

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Date

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First

Last

Home Address .—

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Civilian Occupation

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State

City

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Rank or Ratg.
Upon Entry

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In Service Drafted

Company
or Division

Present Rank
or Rating.

Present Branch
Service

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Full. Name of Nearest Kin.

Maj. Max Weil, whose record is repro-
duced here, is one of the first heroes of
this war. He has been honored officially
by the City of Detroit.

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