From The Eunice News files

From June 1945 files of The Eunice News.
Sgt. Roy V. Long, husband of the former Mable Arnaud of Eunice, was killed in a bombing raid over Germany before hostilities ended. The couple was married in June 1944.
Selma Courville writes from the Pacific that he is been on the front line of the Philippines for 125 days. He was in Pearl Harbor when the Japanese attacked and is also a veteran of Guadalcanal and New Caledonia. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Leon Courville. He has a brother in the Navy in the Pacific and two brothers in the the Army’s European Theater.
Pfc. Hubert McManus, a prisoner of war of the Germans for five months before his camp’s liberation in April, is on 60-day leave with his family here. He was captured during the Battle of the Bulge. He is the husband of the former Lorita Laughlin and son of Raymond McManus.
Also home on leave is another Bulge POW, Staff Sgt. Oris Redlich of Basile. He lost 40 pounds during four months of captivity that he described as brutality, lice and starvation.
Lt. P.J. Bergeaux, son of Lydia Bergeaux, has taken command of his new ship, the U.S.S. Laysan Island. He holds the Bronze Star for heroic actions in the Pacific.
Eunice pugilist Joey Johnson won the Navy’s Central Pacific Area boxing championship. He was a state high school and state and southern Golden Gloves champion before entering the Navy in June 1944.
Brig. F.J. Tate of Eunice, former commander of the 34th Division Artillery, has been named commanding general of the University Training Command which will offer courses to enlisted men, officers, WACs and nurses as post-war transition begins.