HUGH E. WRIGHT, TURRET GUNNER, REPORTED MISSING - Hugh E. Wright, A.O.M. 2-c. in the U.S. Naval Air Corps, is missing in action against the Japanese in the Pacific, according to a telegram from the Navy department received by his wife, Mrs. Irene Wright of Winterset, it was learned today by the Tribune office.

Few details were available.  The flyer has been serving as a top turret gunner in a medium patrol bomber, based on an island in the central Pacific.  He had already concluded a substantial number of bombing missions against the Japanese in that area.

Petty Officer Wright enlisted in the Navy as a volunteer more than two years ago.  Last spring he left the Pacific coast for Hawaii, where he was stationed until going into action in the western central Pacific.  He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Wright of 716 5th St., Ames.  Before entering the service he was employed as a clerk in the Winterset post office.

Mother - Mrs. Frank Witmer, Maxwell, Iowa
Staff Sergeant,  U.S. Army

Killed in vehicle accident on Christmas Day, 1944, while on duty in the Southwest Pacific

MAX WINFREY, COLO, SEES LOTS OF ACTION - Aboard U.S. Destroyer Yarnall in the Pacific - Max Winfrey, 22 boatswain's mate 2/c, of Colo, is aboard this fighting destroyer which hung up a record of one major operation each month during her first year of action against the Japanese in the Pacific.

Her record reads like a history of the drive toward Tokyo.  She took part in the capture of Saipan, the battles of the Philippine Sea and the assault which led to the capture of Tinian and Guam.

She took part in the Palau operations and in air strikes on Formosa and the Ryukyus; operated in support of the Leyte landings and air strikes over the Philippines; operated with a task force during landings on Luzon; took part in the first and second Tokyo air raids, and patrolled off Iwo Jima.

During these operations she was flagship of a destroyer division.  She shot down seven enemy planes, damaged three others, rescued 20 pilots and 11 crewmen.  She survived the typhoon which sank three destroyers in the Philippine Sea last December.