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| | 1ST CL. PVT. HENRY F. JUNTUNEN
Serial No. 2,983,186
223 Franklin St., Hancock. Mich.
Inducted June 25, 1918. He was a High School graduate and of quick perceptions, which naturally brought him before the officers to be considered for Officers’ Training School at Custer. Unexpected and immediate orders for the regiment to go overseas prevented him from receiving further consideration in this direction.
At Coetquidan he attended school, along with Private Barnhouse, to study the method of ground preparation for airplane communication, through the medium of system of panels. This would establish a constant communication between the airman and the ground, as to speed in observing and, above all, gunfire deflections.
He also attended Machine Gun School and was a member of Corporal Whalen’s Vigilant Vengeance Nine.
Small of stature and lithe of movement, and alert of mind, he performed the duties of an army specialist well. He was the particular chum of Corporal Piaskowski.
He was a devoted son and loved to write letters in those rare leisure moments to his father, whom he referred to as that affectionately “Old Pal O’ Mine.’’
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