IN UNIFORM
Cpl. Benedict N. Simmons, radio operator with the 38th cavalry reconnaissance troop, was engaged in the offensive which the 38th division launched in a drive to avenge Bataan. After liberation of the peninsula, he participated in the 38th division’s sweep to the western sector of northern Zambales province to occupy the Jap held chromite and copper mine region. He has served overseas for more than a year in the central and south Pacific and is entitled to wear the Asiatic-Pacific good conduct medal and the Philippine liberation ribbon. He is the son of Francis Simmons, 2008 Ingleside Avenue. Two of his brothers are in service, one in the navy and the other in the armed forces in France.
Source: The Sioux City Journal, March 27, 1945
