Chester County PA Archives News.....With Our Men in Armed Forces of the United States September 8, 1942
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Daily Local News September 8, 1942
Corporal Charles N. HENDERSON, son of Mr. and Mrs. George Henderson, of 208 
West Bernard street, who was inducted into service at New Cumberland and who 
was for some time stationed at Camp Lee, Va., is home on furlough from Camp 
Pickett, Va., where he is now located.  Corporal Henderson left Saturday for 
Wilkes-Barre, where he was minister of music at the First Presbyterian Church 
before entering the service.  He will return to his home on Wednesday, but will 
spend the following few days in New York City, after which he will again come 
to West Chester before leaving for Camp Pickett, where he is an educational 
instructor.
The first letter in nine weeks has been received by the family of Corporal 
Norris G. JOHNSON, son of Mr. and Mrs. George A. Johnson, of Sugartown, who is 
stationed in India.  He writes that he has recently been elevated to the rank 
of Corporal and has been in the hospital at the camp for some time.  However, 
he is now able to attend to his regular duties.  Corporal Johnson would greatly 
appreciate hearing from his friends.  His address is:  Serial 33100461, Hq. Sq. 
10th Air Force, A.P.O. 885, c/o Postmaster, New York City.
Lieut. Chandler H. RIGDON was home on a four-day leave, and returned to his 
post Sunday evening at Camp Forrest, Tenn.  He was visiting his mother, Mrs. 
Elsie E. Rigdon, 208 South Walnut street, West Chester.  He states that the 
major part of his company are from Philadelphia, Wayne, and vicinity, all of 
whom are fine soldiers.  Lieut. Rigdon made the trip by the American Airway, 
finding the weather conditions most favorable.
Aviation Cadet Havard F. STEWART, Jr., is spending a 12-day furlough with his 
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Havard F. Stewart, of 24 West Miner street.  Cadet 
Stewart is now at Ellington Field, Texas.  He has just been transferred from 
Kelly Field Classification Center, Texas.  Cadet Stewart is classified as a 
Bombardier and will received his commission in the U.S. Army as a Lieutenant 
when he has finished 21 weeks of advanced training.  At this time he also 
receives his “Wings.”  He says there is nothing like it and he “would not give 
it up for civilian life again.”
Edwin Donald BREWSTER, 24, of 400 West Gay street, West Chester, has signed up 
with the Marine Corps, the third generation of his family to become a 
leatherneck.  His father, Henry Edwin Brewster, was in the Marine Corps during 
World War I, while his grandfather (on his mother’s side), Thomas B. FRAME, 
served under the famous General Smedley Butler.  Edwin, who played football and 
basketball in high school, feels that he has the physical qualifications to 
make the grade with the aviation branch of the Marine Corps.  Until joining 
with the Marines, Brewster had been in business with his father in the Frames 
Motor Freight Company.  He is now on Parris Island, S.C., for basic training 
which will last for approximately two months.
Lieut. John F. GHEEN, a grandson of the late Mr. and Mrs. John S. Gheen of West 
Chester, and a nephew of Mrs. Francis Scott BREUIL, Virginia avenue and Matlack 
street is “somewhere in the Pacific” with the United States Marines, according 
to word received by relatives.
Private Samuel PARISE, who is stationed at Camp Pendleton, Va., is home on a 
ten-day furlough.  He is visiting his mother, Mrs. Catherine BALDWIN, 701 East 
Virginia avenue.

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