News of Out Friends in The Services ,'

First Lieut. Hugh I-. Wade, veteran combat motion picture cameraman and son of E. R. Wade, sales manager, Pope & Talbot, fnc., Lumber Division, Portland, Ore., has been appointed officer in charge of training at the combat' camera replacement pool of the 18th A.A.F. base unit (motion picture unit)., at Culver City, Calif.

Lieut. 'Wade, who recently returned from the South Pacific, wears the bronze star, air medal with four oak leaf clusters, distinguished unit citation with three oak leaf clusters, European theater ribbon with five bronze stars, Asiatic Pacific theater ribbon and five bronze stars, Philippine liberation ribbon and one star, American theater rib' bon, King George star of Africa, and the 1939-42 British service ribbon. He has been recommended for the distin' guished flying cross three times and once for the silver star.

He enlisted in the army signal corps on April 20, 1942, and was one of three American signal corps photographers to volunteer to cover the Dieppe raid. He made heav] bomber missio.ns with the royal air force to Belgium, Holland and France, and in September, 1942 as a member of the 9th A.A.F. combat camera unit, was attached to the British Sth army in Africa for four months to obtain films on the desert victory, then was with the American 9th air force and the South African air force.

He later flew misqions over Sousse, Sfax, Palermo, Sicily, Messina, and as far north as Naples. He participated in the battle of Pantelleria, and accompanied ground forces in the invasion of Sicily. In the South Pacific, he saw action in the Northern Solomons, Bismarck Archipelago, New Gui' nea, Mandated Islands, Dutch East Indies, and Philippines.

Lieut. Commancler Alfred D. Bell, Jt., U. S. Navy, was recently home on leave. He was general sales manager of Hammond Lumber Company, San Francisco, when he entered the service.

S/Sgt. John E. Tietjen, son of Ed Tietjen, Sudden & Christenson, Inc., was recently awarded the Silver Star for gallantry in action on March 7 near Vischel, Germany. His lead tank came under machine gun fire from two enemy positions. Though exposed to fire in the turret of his tank, Sgt. Tietjen overran one machine gun position and killed the entire crew with machine gun fire. He then directed his tank on the second position, also killing the crew. His box score : 19 slain, 12 captured, 2 machine guns destroyed, and the town taken without the loss of a man.

Sgt. Tietjen is in the 38th Mechanized Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron'. IIe was formerly with McElroy Lumber Co., Palo Alto, Calif.

Lieutenant Kenneth O'Neill, son of W. H. O'Neill, O'Neill Lumber Co., San Francisco, who was shot down in combat on his 26th mission as a pilot in the 8th Air Force, over Germany, February 9, was liberated from a German prison camp April 20, and arrived home on leave June 1. He is married and the father of two children, and was associated with his father in business when he entered the service two and a half years ag'o.

Sgt. Al Young, who was with the 15th Air Force in Italy, spent a 3O-day furlough with his parents in Los Angeles. He reported at Santa Ana air base on May 2O for reassignment. Before going into the Service, Al was with the Ed Fountain Lumber Co., Los Angeles.

T/3 J- R. (Bob) I{encken, son of John M. Hencken, Paramino Lumber Co., San Francisco, is in the Army Medical Corps, with the First Army in Germany. He has been in the service nearly three years.

A recent letter from Lieutenant E. J. La Franchi, U. S. Navy, stationed in the Southu'est Pacific, gave the interesting information that he distributed lumber recently out of the former S. S. Anna Schafer (now operated under a different name), and got quite a thrill out of it. Lieut. La Franchi was with Flill & Morton, Inc., Oakland, up to the time he went into the service.