Friday, February 2, I -945
THE JEWISH NEWS
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QUESTIONNAIRE FOR INFORMATION
REGARDING SERVICEMEN
JEWISH WELFARE BOARD BUREAU OF WAR RECORDS
MA. 8400
8904 Woodward Ave., Detroit 2, Mich.
Serial No,
Name
Sgt. II:Eisenberg
'Burns up' Field,
Gets Bronze Star
Strarage Coincidence
Horowitz :Brothers Wounded
In Belgium at Same Time
Ingenuity Enables Plane
Other Coincidences; Had Been in Business Together In to Land Safely at Night;
Brother in Pacific
Civilian Life, Were Inducted and Went Overseas
et Practically the Same Time
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Home Address
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Birth Date
Middle
First
Last •
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City
Street
State
Birthplace
'State
City
Among the war heroes is Sgt.
Civilian Occupation
Hal Eisenberg, ,24, who received
A strange coincidence has ren- active duty. He it the recipient the Bronze Star for his resource-
Single
Married
Marital - Status:
Aered the experiences of two of the Purple Heart.
brothers, S/Sgt. Bernard E. and
Date Entry in Service
Pfc: Sam, • 30, entered service
Pfc. Sam Horowitz, almost. si- in November, 1942, and was at
Coast Guard. .. . ..
Marine Corps . Navy
Service.: -Army
multaneous. The servicemen,. Ft. Benning, Ga., and Camp
who in civilian life had been Gordon,. Ga., before being • sent
Rank or Rating Upon Entry
associated with , each other in overseas . in September, 1944'. At-
Present Branch Service
The family business, Farmer's "tached to a medical unit, he suf-
went
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Outlet, were inducted,
Present Rank or Rating
fered • a scalp wound on Dec.
overseas-. and were wounded at 25, and is still hospitalized in
If Discharged, Give Date ,
practically the same time. They France. •
were both injured in Belgium.
If Commissioned, Give Rank and Date
The servicemen are the 'sons
'Sgt. Bernard, 26, was in- of Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Horo-
If Photograph Is Available,. Please Inelude.
. Hal Eisenberg S. -.0. Eisenberg
ducted in October, 1942, and was witz -.of 10341 Plymouth Ave.
- stationed at Camp Hood and
fulness and self-sacrifice in
Full Name of Nearest Kin
Pfc. Horowitz • is married to Carrying out orders despite many
Camp • Swift, Tex., before being
Address
the
former
Sylvia'Frankelson'
of
Relationship
sent to France in September,
difficulties:
City
Street
Winnipeg, Canada. Mrs. Horo-
1944.
While at Nou'vion, Algeria, he
, with
witz
is
at
present
residing
the
neck
on
Nov.
Wounded
irr,
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received a • telephone message
Promotions, Honors, Awards, Acts of Heroism, CasUalty or
30, he has already returned to her parents-in-law.
from' the base operations officer
Other Events or Services•
informing him that a P-38 which
Date Type of Award or Recognition Date
Event •
had been on courier duty was
Pfc. A. Kurz Home;.
due to land in about 15 minutes.
Darkness had covered the field
and there were no night landing
facilities.
Pfc. Alvin (Mordecai) Kurz
Sgt. Eisenberg drove down to
has returned from overseas and
the landing strip to instruct the
is now home on a • convalescent
men in charge to illuminate the
Pvt.. Waldman Writes
runway by pOuring gas and ig-
furlough. Wounded first on July
From Prison Camp
niting it. However, he reached
16, he recuperated at a , field
his destination only to discover
Receiving a post card. from
hospital in France and was re-
that there was no one in the vi-
one's son is normally a common
turned to his unit. On Aug. 27,
cinity.
occurrence, but in. the lives of
he was seriously wounded and
Carrying the gas five gallons at Parents Hear From Him For
Mr. and Mrs .
a time, he managed to illuminate
was -transferred to an army hos-
.1 Rudolph . Wald-
the
First
Time
Since
the area just as the plane landed
'man of 2000 Vir-
pital in England.
August, 1943
safely.
ginia Park, get-
He
is
the
recipient
of
the
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ting a card from
Son of Mr. and Mrs. David
Purple Heart and the two Oak
"I' am in good health and hope
their son spe11-4
Eisenberg of 2634 Clements, he
Leaf Clusters.
ed the differ-
had been graduated from Cen- you are all the same." Thus be-
Son of Mr.
ence between
Cpls. rack and David Shafer . tral High and was \attending gan a. letter which brought , joy
and Mrs. Gus
hope and des-
Wayne University and the Walsh
. Kurz of 11695
Two brothers, Cpls. Jack and Institute at the -time of his in- and hope to the hearts of Mr.
-•::pair. The card
Yellowstone, he David-J. Shafer, met recently- in duction on Jan. 27, 1942. Over and Mrs. Abra-
reached
. .
.V.Thich
a graduate Italy after • being separated for seas since June 4, 1942, he has ham Wolfe
them last week
of Central High two years. The 'servicemen, sons served as operations clerk with 2276 Taylor Ave.
Pvt., Waldman was t h e first
a n d attended of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Shafer, the 71st fighter squadron, 1st It was the first
c o munication
Wayne Univer- 2632 Monterey, had been ern- group.
Message t h e y
they have had from their son,
sity. He also is ployed in Detroit war plants be-
Pvt. Arthur Waldman, in several,
First sent to England, he then had received
a graduate • of fore their induction.
years. He is a Japanese prisoner. '
went-to
North Africa and now is from their son,
the United. He-
Cpl. Sidney
A graduate of • Northeastern
Jack, 29, is married to the for- in Italy.
Pfc. Kurz br e w Schools
WOlfe, since Au-
High, he attended Wayne Uni-
mer
Ruth
Eisner.
Mrs.
Shafer
His
brother,
Cpl.
Sheldon
J.
and was a member of Hashomer
versity. for.one year, majoring in
and their daughter, Beverly, re- 21, has been in the army since g u s t, 1943. A
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Haizair.
commercial:, art and advertising.
side on Burlingame Ave. Jack Dec. 15, 1942, and is at present mem ber f the
coast ar-
He trained at Ft. -Sheridan, Ill.,
is attached to the 12th Air Force, in New Guinea with the signal army's
iery
corps,
he
Cpl.
Wolfe
,Jl
Ft.
Wallace, Tex., and Ft. -Bliss,
based on the Italian front.
Pvt. Grant Spending
corps.
was captured when Corregidor Tex., before being sent to the
David, 22, is serving with the
fell in the spring of • 1942 and Philippines.
Furlough With Family
15th Air Force, also in Italy.
has been a Japanese, prisoner
since. He had originally been
Pvt. Albert Burton Grant is
The above photograph was T-Sgt. A.
-reported missing in action.
Front
Brenner
spending his furlough with his taken in Italy while the brothers Returns After 32
High,
he
ass
visited
in
Naples.
A graduate of t
parents, Mr. and . Mrs. Samuel
Months
had been an employe of the
Grant of 2433
Briggs Mfg. Co. until he entered
Ford before go-
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Pvt. Louts
ing to a port o
Mother's cooking, the taste of service on March 20, 1941. He Served With 'TAG' 3 Years;
embarkation.
milk, a soft bed, are the re- was shipped overseas in Sep-
His Brother Is Serving
In. English , Hospital good
Pvt. Grant, 21,
ward of T/Sgt. Albert Robbins, tember of that year. His family
Somewhere In France
has
not
seen
him
since
the
day
is a graduate of
son of Mrs. Ida Rabinowitz of
he eleft for the artily..
Pvt. Louis K. Fealk, 20, serv- 2900 Hazelwood, .
Cass High and
Sgt. Myer Brenner, just re-
A brother, Pfc. Julius, is in
ing with the infantry in Germ- who returned
studied at the
Britain.
turned
from the Pacific area, is
-
the
air
force
based
in
.
any
while
injured,
is
still
re-
Aeronautics Di-
last week for a
home on a 30-day 'furlough after .
cuperating in a hospital in Eng- three-week fur-
vision of the
land as a result of trench foot. lough • after 32
Briggs Manu-
Cpl. Jerome Solomon ,
He is the only son of Mr. and months in the
facturing - C o.
Receives Purple Heart
Mrs. David Fealk, 4076 Fuller- South Pacific. ..
He received his,
ton.
basic training at Pvt. Grant
At the end of
Cpl. Jerome Solomon, 21, who
Camp Wolters, Tex., and from
A graduate of Central High, the three-week :,;•:
was wounded on Dec. 18, has
there went to Selman Field, Mon- he entered service on April 1, period, he will
been awarded 'the Purple Heart.
roe, La.
1943. After completing his basic go to Florida
Injured in the
reassign-
training at Ft. Leonard Wood, f o r
magishoulder, he is
T/Sgt.
Robbins
Mo.. he was assigned to the 'nfent.
now in a hospi-
Kurzon Will Address ASTP as an engineering student T/Sgt. Robbins has been in
tal- in England.
at • Iowa State University. When active service 38 months. He was
Son of Mr. and
Service Wives Feb. 3 the ASTP was abandoned, he for a time in New Zealand; later
Mrs. Morris Sol- Sgt. M. Brenner Pvt. S. Brenner
was
sent
to
Fiji
Islands
and
for
Was returned to the infantry. He
pmon of 3284 having served with the TAG for •
the past 15. months was in
h e almost three years. TAG is an
Sei-vice Wives of the jevvish was sent to England last Septem-
will meet be.r and from there went to Guadalcanal. , -
'.was a student at organization which operates an
Community . Center
A former school teacher, he
• France, Luxembourg, Belgium
the time of his airline in forward areas. Sgt.
Thursday at 8 p. im to . hear an and Germany..
served for a time with the Base
entry into ser- Brenner *has served in Hawaii,
Censor
Detachtnent.
He
has
been
address by Samuel Kurzon, di- 1,--.
vice in Febru- Saipan, Guam and other Pacific
awarded the "Asiatic-Pacific"
ary,, 1943. He is islands.since being sent overseas
rector of JWB-USO. on, • "U SO Arabs Make Donation
and "Good Conduct" Ribbons.
Cpl. Solomon attached to a on May 9, 1942.
and It's Possibilities."
To Goebbels in Berlin
field artillery observation battal-
The son of Mr. and Mrs. Mor-
All wives of service men are
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Scholarships
Given
ion.
ZURICH,
(JTA)—The
German
ris Brenner, 2537 Elmhurst Ave.,
invited to join this group which
the 28-year-old sergeant is a
meets twice a month at the Cen- news: agency DNB this week re- UHS by Grossmans •
ported that • a delegation of In Memory of Son
Pvt.• Henry Schapiro
graduate of Northern High and
ter.
Arabs • was received by Joseph
Wayne University and had been
Injured by Shrapnel
Under the chairmanship of Mrs. Goebbels, -Nazi minister of prop-
employed as an engineer at the
Mr. and Mrs.. Leo Grossman of
Miriam Ferst, War Bonds and aganda, and handed over to him
from shrapnel Excello Corp. before enlisting in
Recovering
Stamps are sold in the lobby of "a considerable donation", as an Glynn Court- this week honored
March, 1942.'lle has received
the Center. A Red Cross knitting expression of "Arab • friendship the memory of . their son Mor- ,wounds of the left foot sustained unit citations from Generals
while
fighting
in
France,
Pvt.
decai
M.,
who
was
killed
in
action
unit, headed by . Mrs. Francs 'With National Socialist Ger-
on Dec. 23, by contributing five Henry Schapiro, 20, is still hos- Smith, Hale, Schmidt, and Ad-
Agranoff, has been active in the many."
scholarships to: the United He- pitalized somewhere in England. mirals Nimitz and Hoover..
Infantile Paialysis Drive and par-
A brother, Pvt. Seymour Bren-
The check was transferred •by brew Schools.
ticipates in many community
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Mordecai was a graduate of ' Joseph Schapiro of 9910 Holmur. ner, is serving somewhere in.
projects. Mrs. Sadie Saferstein is Goebbels. to the German Red
France.
, Cross, the report added.
the 1942 class of the- David W.
president of the club.
Sgt. Brenner is. spending his
A graduate of Central High, he
Simmons School. His name Will
furlough with his parents, broth-
received
his
basic
training
in
be
perpetuated
in
the
school
See Pages 17 and 18 for 3,800 Names of Detroit's Jewish
from which he was graduated by California after having been in- er and sisters, Sol Brenner; Mrs.
Men and Women in the Armed Forces. This is part of the the addition of a brofize memorial ducted on April 15, 1943. He has Max Simon, Mrs. Rae Solomon
and Mrs. Louis NeWman..
been, overseas since October.
tablet.
Shaper Brothers
Reunited in Italy
Suffered 2 Wounds
Cpl. Wolfe Safe
As lap Prisoner
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Robins
in Pacific
Fealk
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list published periodically in The Jewish. News
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