Wins Gunner’s Wings
Among others at the Harlingen army gunnery school, William H. Lorenzen, son of Mr. and Mrs. H.A. Lorenzen, 107 Wirick Apartments, received silver gunner’s wings and a promotion to sergeant in the armed forces. Gunners at this Texas school learn how to operate guns in the big bombers for duty on war fronts.
Source: The Sioux City Journal, November 28, 1942 (photo included)
IN UNIFORM.
T. Sgt. William H. Lorenzen, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Lorenzen, 107 Wirick apartments, is currently assigned to the redistribution station of the Santa Ana army air base after completing 30 missions as a radio operator-gunner aboard a Liberator bomber in the European theater. He will be reclassified according to military skills assigned to a domestic station of the A.A.F.
Source: The Sioux City Journal, January 2, 1945
