BEES RETURNS TO HIS HOME HERE
Pvt. Wallace D. Bees of the U. S. marine corps and son of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Bees, 710 Perrin avenue, is expected home Sunday morning on a 10-day furlough from the Great Lakes naval hospital where he is a patient.
Bees was wounded on Iwo Jima March 14, 1945, and has been a patient at the hospital since April 22, 1945, receiving the purple heart in June.
Traveling with and assisting him on his train trip home is Navy Radio Technician Rex Biscee of Macedonia.
Pvt. Bees has been in the marine corps 12 months and has served overseas 5 months.
At the end of his furlough he will report back to the Great Lakes naval hospital.
Source: The Council Bluffs Nonpareil, Council Bluffs, Friday, July 27, 1945, Page 6
