This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Surnames: Mulvey and Jerrett Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/an/5cB.2ACI/627.2.1 Message Board Post: RE: Francis Jerrett and Stewart “Slim” Mulvey, two teens from Dilley, Oregon, circa 1913 – 1942 Good morning Ada, Thank you for the good news and I hope that you can help me locate in contact a part of Stewart Mulvey’s family so I can find out more about him. The “***” below is becoming very important to me to find out and maybe to the Mulvey family history. “Slim” was Francis Jerrett’s best friend when he grew up in Dilley, Oregon. When Francis (1916-1985) was in high school, his goal was to join the army and be a career army man. (Source: high school annual.) Slim” Stewart Mulvey (1913-?) was two years older, he was born in Canada (source: Census data) and his family moved to Oregon, and became US citizens. “Slim” wanted to join the Navy. He and Francis went to enlist in the Navy and “Slim” was accepted and Francis was rejected. Francis joined the Oregon National Guard, I Company of the 186th Regiment of the 41st Infantry Division which later became the very first unit sent into the war in the Pacific and was the first unit to engage the Imperial Japanese army in combat. The 41st Infantry Division was known as the Jungleers and Tokyo Rose called them MacArthur’s Butchers, a title rightfully and proudly claimed. Near the first of 1944, Francis was transferred from the 41st Infantry Division to the 1st Cavalry Division, as rifle platoon leader of G. Troop, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division. *** I have photographs of “Slim” which were probably taken in January or February 1944, at Queensland (?), Australia, where the 1st Cavalry Division was training for the invasion of the island of Leyte in the Philippines. I think that “Slim” Mulvey’s Seabees unit would have been attached to the 1st Cavalry Division in 1944 for the invasion of Leyte Island in the Philippines. Is there anyone in the Mulvey family who can help me find this out? That leaps into a supposition, and I do mean leaps because this is a long shot: *** Was “Slim” Mulvey’s unit of the Seabees involved in supporting the Flying Column to Manila? Did he land at Lingayen Gulf on Luzon Island in January 1945? Did he help the engineers to construct the bridges needed for the heavy tanks and other machinery? This is very important to me because IF this last supposition is true, I will cross the threshold from family genealogy and the family story which I write for my children, grandson, and cousins, into professional writing. *** IF this supposition is true, I want and I need “Slim” Mulvey’s life story, from him or family members, for inclusion in a new book that is being written by Lt. Col. Walter J. Landry, U.S. Army retired, Richard J. Seron, and myself, about the life stories of the men of the 1st Cavalry Division Flying Column to Manila and all those who supported them. Col. Landry is an extremely humble man who does not want to be made into a hero. Col. Landry wants this book to honor his heroes, the men of the Flying Column and all those who supported them by telling their life stories, who they were and who they became. It would be a wonderful full circle story of “Slim” and Francis if this could be tied together. P.S. Col. Landry is my hero. My father was rifle platoon leader, and Col. Landry was the Captain of G Troop, second squadron, 8th cavalry regiment, 1st Cavalry Division, with the 44th tank battalion attached, the second serial of the flying column, and the first serial to enter Santo Thomas, and Col. Landry was the man who made it possible for Santo Thomas to be liberated on February 3, rather than February 4. My mother was one of the Angels of Bataan and Corregidor who was held POW nearly three years at Santo Thomas.