* * With the Armed Forces Tim 45th Division, composed partially of an accumulation of decorations the Oklahoma National Guard, including was cited the , the Distinguished as a unit for distinguished Flying conduct on the Cross, two Air Medals and beachhead below Rome. a presidential This announce- unit citation . ment was the first official statement as to Lieutenant Kennedy the location of the 45th . was assigned to the Army Air Forces Redistribution Numerous alumni Station at are attached to the Di- Miami Beach, vision, particularly Field Florida, for his next assign- Artillery officers . ment. Many of them have been decorated for valorous action in Sicily and Italy. No- Lt. Col. Edward F. Stephenson, '40 No- Lt. Richard O. Trent, '40=42, Oklahoma m.ed, Oklahoma City, commander of a 45th Division Infantry City, has been decorated with the Dis- battalion throughout the Battle of tinguished Flying Cross for meritorious ac- Sicily and the early days of the Italian campaign, tion in the South Pacific. Overseas since last was awarded the for June, he was injured in August and ground- injuries received at Salerno. ed until November. After he was injured, Colonel Stephenson was sent He has taken part in more than 50 mis- back to North Africa, to serve at a battle sions, transporting supplies and troops over training school for young officers and later territory patrolled by enemy aircraft. was transferred to the United States for a new assignment. He relinquished No- Lt. E. Douglas Lewis, '38-'42, Coyle, his command in Italy to Lt. Col. member of a Bombardment squadron, has Quentin Spradling, '32bus, '40m.ba, Norman. been awarded the Air Medal with two Leaf Clusters for meritorious achievement 0- Lt. Joseph L. West, '37-'39, Oklahoma in aerial combat flights against the Japa- City, pilot of a transport plane, received the Distinguished nese in the Pacific war zone. He recently FILMED Flying Cross for heroism in ATTu LANDING flight and completed his 45th mission. Navy Lt. accomplishment above and be- Harold Tacker, '40fa, was yond I" Capt. Hershel S. Carver, Jr., '38-'41, decorated the line of duty in the Southwest Pa- for meritorious conduct as cific. Marine dive-bomber pilot from Holdenville, officer in charge of filming landing op- Lieutenant West has participated in more was awarded the Air Medal with gold Oak erations on Attu. Leaf Cluster for successful missions against than 50 missions, dropping supplies and transporting troops over territory the Japanese at Rendova, Bougainville, add to his previously won Air Medal con- for tinually patrolled by enemy aircraft . Munda and the Russell Islands. service with the Air Force. Captain Carver has returned from the 01 Lt. Harold DO- Lt. Everett F. Goins, '35ba, Rocky Ford, Tacker, '40fa, Norman, South Pacific to the Marine Corps Air Sta- Navy photographer, Colorado, former director of the Port of was awarded the tion near Santa Ana, California . Nisida, Italy, has received a commendation for the excellence of the photographic Lt. Claude R. Fletcher,'39-'41, Norman, from his commanding admiral for the ex- record he made of military operations has been awarded the Air Medal for dis- cellence of his work on that assignment . on Attu in May, 1943. The award was presented tinguished work as a navigator with the Lieutenant Goins was recently transferred in ceremonies at sea some- where 13th Air Force in the South Pacific. Mrs. from Nisida to Anzio where he was in com- in the Central Pacific. Fletcher, the former Hazel Moore, '42ed, mand of a beach battalion. He also par- Lieutenant Tacker participated in the landing teaches school in Oklahoma City. ticipated in the action at Salerno. on Kiska, the occupation of the 00- Capt. Marshall Islands and the raid on Truk . Be- Glenn D. Kelley,'34-'37, Norman, DO- Lt. Earl C. Garey, '38-'39, Comanche, flight fore entering the Navy, he had charge of commander with the Air Force in former Oklahoma state highway surveyor, England, photography at the University . has been awarded the Air Medal received the Air Medal for "courage, cool- with 0- Capt. Billy . He recently visited ness and skill" displayed as navigator on a E. Carson, '38-'40, Jet, pilot of a heavy with Lt. Col. James E. Ensey, '28med, in Flying Fortress during five combat bomber bomber, was awarded an Oak England with the Medical Corps . missions over Europe . Leaf Cluster to add to a previously won Air IN- Medal for bravery in action. Lt. J. S. Munsey, '38-'42, Norman, has 0- Lt. Alfred H. Locke, '39-'40, Eufaula, He took command of a formation over been awarded the Air Medal for service as pilot and crew commander of the Liberator Burma when the flight leader, the a bomber pilot with the Eighth Air Force in Heaven Can Wait, received the Air deputy Medal flight leader and two other aircraft England. He recently wrote Football Coach for meritorious achievement while in the par- lead group had to fall back because of "Snorter" Luster, under whom he played ticipating in five separate bomber en- combat gine failures . The citation stated quarterback in both Norman High School missions over enemy-occupied that Cap- continental tain Carson took the lead despite and the University, that he has been on a Europe . He was recently the. fact promoted to first that three generators in his number of raids on Berlin. lieutenant at his base in plane were England. burned out. 0- Lt. James W. Amis, '37-'38, Hobart, 1 Lt. Paul D. Cummings, '39law, former No- Lt. (jg) Joe D. Mitchell, pilot of a medium bomber, has been award- Alva attorney, was '41, Navy pilot awarded the Order of from Davidson, Oklahoma, ed the Air Medal with two Oak Leaf the Purple Heart for was awarded wounds received in the Distinguished Flying Clusters for service with the Air Force in action in the Mediterranean Cross for heroism theater last fall. and extraordinary the European theater of operations . He was A member of achievement during ac- the Signal Corps, Lieutenant tion against the enemy formerly principal of Hexit Consolidated Cummings in the Solomons. participated in the invasions of Lieutenant Mitchell High School . Sicily and Italy. has participated in numerous flight missions against Japanese 10- Lt. Patrick H. Watts, '36-'40, Waurika, No- Lt. Chester C. Kennedy, '35, Konawa, bases in the Pacific, and once scored a di- navigator-bombardier in the South Pacific, pilot of a Flying Fortress, has returned from rect hit on an enemy destroyer in Kahili has been awarded an Oak Leaf Cluster to a tour of duty in the Southwest Pacific with Harbor. On one mission he was shot down 8 SOONER MAGAZINE and spent two months behind enemy lines Carl W. Staats, Jr., '42-'43, Bartlesville, stationed there at the Air Forces Instrument before reaching his home base. aviation student in the Army Air Force, died Training Center. Lieutenant Finley received op- Lt. Joseph D. McGovern, Jr.' '41bus, February 4 in the Station Hospital at Fort his commission at Ellington Field, Texas, in Wewoka, co-pilot of a Flying Fortress based Crook, Nebraska, of scarlet fever and December, 1942 . At the University he was a in England, was awarded an Air Medal and pneumoniaInonia.HeenteredservicelastJulyandwas member of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity an Oak Leaf Cluster for meritorious serv- in training at Creighton University in and Beta Gamma Sigma, honorary busi- ice with the Eighth Air Force. He was in Omaha. Survivors include his parents, Mr. ness fraternity . Survivors include his the Field Artillery before transferring to the and Mrs. Carl Staats, Bartlesville . mother, Mrs. Bessie Finley, Pampa, Texas, Air Force. No- Lt. Gene Jones, '41, Sayre, member of and two sisters, Flora D. Finley, '36-'40, and Pp- Lt. Frank P. Hawk, '40, Norman, bom- an Air Force Bombardment squadron, was Frances Finley, '34-'35. bardier on the Flying Fortress Superstitious killed on January 21 when his plane crashed Lt. J. B . Long, '41pharm, May, Okla- Aloysius, was awarded the Distinguished in a routine take-off from his base in Eng- homa, Army Air Force pilot who has been Flying Cross and the Air Medal with three land. He was buried at Cambridge, Eng- listed as missing in action for the last year, Oak Leaf Clusters for his participation on land. Lieutenant Jones held the Distin- must be presumed to be dead, the War De- 25 flying missions with the Eighth Air guished Flying Cross and the Air Medal partment has announced . The announce- Force. with Oak Leaf Cluster. Survivors include ment stated that nothing has been heard 00- Lt. Col. James E. Mills, '36eng, Nor- his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Newlin Jones, of Lieutenant Long since he left his base in man, of the Marine Corps, received the Sil- Sayre, and his wife, Mrs. Mary Hampton England on February 16, 1943, for a mission ver Star for conspicuous gallantry in action Jones, of Oklahoma City. over enemy territory. Lieutenant Long has on Tarawa from Adm. Chester W. Nimitz Ensign Richard H. Flynn, '35ba, '36 been awarded the Air Medal posthumously, in ceremonies held in the South Pacific. m.ed, Elgin, Kansas, died December 24 in in recognition of the work he did with the Colonel Mills supervised the movement the U. S. Naval Hospital at Bethesda, Eighth Air Force between October, 1942, of an artillery battalion on Tarawa while Maryland, following an illness of 14 months . when he first went to England, and the next under constant enemy fire. He has been in Ensign Flynn enlisted in the Navy in Jan- February. He entered the Air Force in July, action on Guadalcanal and Tulagi and in uary, 1942, and received training as a radio 1941, shortly after graduating from the other Pacific campaigns. His brother, Lt. technician at Harvard University and University . At O.U. he was a member of John Mills, '40geo1, was on duty in Africa . Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He Rho Chi pharmaceutical society, Phi Delta 0- Capt. John E. Johnston, '36-'38, Okla- was stationed in the Bureau of Aeronautics Chi honorary pharmacy fraternity, Galen homa City pilot, returned to the U. S. re- in Washington, D. C., when he became ill. leadership society for pharmacy students Before and Acacia fraternity. cently with the Distinguished Flying Cross entering service, Ensign Flynn Survivors include his taught parents, Mr. and . and the Air Medal with eight Oak Leaf school at Kaw, Stigler and Mutual . Mrs Ben F. Long, of May. Clusters. He took part in aerial combat over Survivors include his wife and his mother, 0- Lt. Lambert C. Root, '39ba, Santa Mon- Tunisia, Sicily and Italy. Mrs. C. H. Flynn, of Elgin, Kansas. ica, California, was killed February 24 in an 0- Maj . William A. Lucas, '36ba, Tuttle, No- Word was received of the death last No- airplane crash in England, where he was was awarded the Purple Heart for injuries vember 30 of Lt. Warren H. Finley, '39bus, stationed as a Field Artillery liaison pilot. received in the European-African theater of Pampa, Texas, who was killed in a plane Lieutenant Root entered service in Novem- war. A Field Artillery officer, he participat- crash near Kansas City, Missouri . He was ber, 1940, receiving his wings in December, ed in the Tunisian and Sicilian campaigns . In civilian life, Lucas was an official with the Civilian Conservation Corps at Duncan. 1 Lt. John R. Couch, '401aw, Pryor, was awarded the Air Medal with seven Oak Leaf Clusters for performance as a bom- bardier and navigator on 40 bombing mis- sions. He recently returned to the U. S. and was assigned to the Air Forces Redistribu- tion Station at Miami Beach, Florida, for a new assignment. 00- Lt. John W. Colby, '40-'41, Vinita, was awarded the Air Medal with nine Oak Leaf Clusters for participation in bombing raids over North Africa, Italy and Sicily. He re- cently returned to the U. S. and was as- signed to the Air Forces Redistribution Sta- tion at Miami Beach. No- Lt. J. W. Arms, '37-'38, Hobart, bom- bardier with a Pathfinder squadron in Eng- land, has been recommended for the Air Medal and two Oak Leaf Clusters . Deaths in Service Lt. Donald Davis, '41-'42, Middleton, Wisconsin, died in England of injuries re- ceived February 3 on his fourteenth bomb- ing mission. He was navigator of the Flying HIGHEST RANKING SOONER MARINE Fortress Palace of Athens and held the Air Lt. Gen . A. A . Vandegrift (left), commandant of the Marine Corps, gives the oath Medal with two Oak Leaf Clusters for serv- to Col. William P. T. Hill, '326a, at Marine Corps Headquarters, ice with the Eighth Air Washington, D. C. Force. Survivors Colonel Hill was promoted to the rank of brigadier general include an aunt, Mrs and named quarter- . A. F. Blaschke Of Mid- master of the Marine Corps. dleton . -Official U. S. Marine Corps Photo.

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1942. He went overseas last January. Sur- head. Both his legs were injured by shell the English Channel while returning from vivors include his father, J. B. Root, of Santa fragments. He was reported to be recover- a raid over Europe . Monica . ing satisfactorily in a base hospital . The plane was severely damaged by anti- 1 Lt. Melvin M. Smith, '31-'35, Oklahoma aircraft fire as it left the coast of the con- Missing in Action City, was assigned to McCloskey General tinent and the crew members were forced Lt. Harold G. Evatt, '36-'38, Shawnee, Hospital at Temple, Texas, for treatment to bail out into the ocean. Only Lieutenant bomber pilot stationed at a Mediterranean of wounds received in Italy where he was an Burnett, who was co-pilot, and the pilot base, was reported missing in action after observer with the Field Artillery . survived the jump. They floated on dinghies failure to return from a raid over for 74 hours before being picked up by a February 22. British seaplane . Prisoners of War During that time, they dodged 00- Lt. Robert L. Whittet, '37-'41, McAles- bullets For the benefit of friends of Lt. Harry from dogfights above them, saw flashes ter, member of an Air Force Bombardment of Lorenzen, '42law, El Reno, gunfire from a Naval engagement squadron based in England, has been miss- a prisoner of and were war in Germany, who would nearly hit by bombs dumped from ing in action over Germany since Febru- like to write a Lib- ary 27. to him, his address is as follows : Prisoner of erator en route home from a raid. The men War No. 3010, Oflag No. 64, Germany. were reported not seriously injured. 1 Lt. Joe Bishop, '37-'38, Ponca City, has 1 Lt. Jack R . Foster, 1 Lt. James M. Mahaffey, been missing in action over Berlin '41, Chickasha, has '40-'42, Nor- since been reported a man, was among crew March 8 when he made his fifth raid prisoner in Germany by the members of a over International Red Mitchell bomber rescued from enemy territory. Before entering Cross. He failed to re- the sea after service, he turn the plane was was a laboratory technician from his seventh mission, escorting forced down following a with the Con- bombing mission tinental Oil Company. bombers over their target in enemy-held over an enemy airdrome Europe. in the Admiralty Islands. 1 Sgt. Louis F. Tormohlen, Jr., '42, Okla- 1 The crew escaped to life rafts and were homa City, aerial Lt. Roy D. Clem, '39-'42, Granite, miss- gunner with the Air spotted by two Thunderbolt pilots four Force, has been missing ing in action in the Mediterranean theater in action since his hours later. Soon after that a Navy Catalina failure to return from a since January 14, has been reported a prison- mission over Ger- Flying Boat picked them up. Lieutenant many on February 25. er of war of the German government by the International Red Cross. The Red Cross also Mahaffey received a cut on one leg in the 1 Lt. Everett P. Brown, '42bus, bomber reported that he was wounded, but could crash landing. pilot from Oklahoma City, has been miss- give no details. Lieutenant Clem was pilot ing in action over Germany since March 2 . of a Mitchell bomber based at an air field Commended He was awarded the Air Medal with three near Naples. He went overseas last sum- Pvt. Gerald F. Keen,'39-'43, Norman, Oak Leaf Clusters. has mer, participating in the invasions of Sicily received a commendation from the com- 1 Lt. Cecil M. Dorsett, '391aw, Norman, and Italy. manding officer of the Army Specialized member of the Air Transport Command 1 Lt. Charles P. Ray, '39, Oklahoma City, Training Unit at the University of Dela- stationed in Canada, has been missing in who has been listed as missing in action ware, Newark, for his excellent work in action with the Air Force, presumably over over Germany since January 29, is connection with the unit's intramural Labrador, since February being 29. The War De- held prisoner in Germany, the War sports. partment announced that Depart- search for him has ment has announced. Private Keen conducted intramural con- been abandoned . tests between 20 touch football teams and Mrs. Dorsett (Phila Furry, '36lib.sci, 16 basketball teams composed entirely of '39law), former staff member of the Uni- Rescued From Sea ASTP men. The letter of commendation versity Library, is an attorney for the Her- Lt. Leonard R. Burnett, Jr., '39-'40, Ard- pointed out that Private Keen's work had cules Powder Company in Wilmington, more, was one of the two surviving crew been voluntary, and that it had contributed Delaware . Lieutenant Dorsett's father, members of a Marauder which crashed into greatly to the morale of the unit. Ralph D. Dorsett, '29ba, '32ma, is assistant professor of mathematics at the University . Returns on Foot Injured in Service Lt. Gene F. Adams, '40-'42, Norman, be- came a member of the Walk-Out Club when Capt. R . G. Cates, Jr., '39pharm, Atoka, he was forced down in the jungles of Burma of the 45th Division, was wounded in the and had to walk back to his base. fighting at the Anzio beachhead on March The club is composed solely of fliers of 1 . He received wounds in his left shoulder the India-China Wing who have had to and scalp and his left eye was grazed by a crash land or bail out in the jungle because piece of shrapnel . of bad weather, motor trouble or enemy Captain Cates was with the 45th in the attack. Membership includes more than 100 fighting at Sicily, Salerno and Verno. pilots, some of whom have "walked out" 1 Capt. James L. McDonald, Jr., '37bus, two or three times. Norman, was injured in the fighting on the Lieutenant Adams holds the Distin- Anzio beachhead on March 14, his birthday . guished Flying Cross. A bullet from a German plane passed through his chest, missing the heart by In New Battle Zone three-eighths of an inch. Capt. Zale Chaffln, '36med, Army phy- Captain McDonald wrote his parents two sician from Oklahoma City, was with days after the injury, "You should have seen American troops in the recent action on Los the doctor's face before and after my X-ray. Negros Island in the Pacific. He was men- He couldn't believe I was alive." He was to tioned in dispatches filed from Salami remain in a hospital near the front until he TWAIN Plantation on the islands, telling of the could be transported to a base hospital . MEET Somewhere in New Guinea Lt. Fred difficulties of getting food and water to the 1 Lt. Col . Wayne C. Johnson, '30ma, for- Moore, fr., '41bus, Oklahoma troops. merly on the faculty of City, Central State Col- looks over the souvenir Before entering the Medical Corps, Cap- lege at Edmond, was stock of a wounded in action friend. tain Chaffin was a member of the Oklahoma with the 45th Division on the Anzio beach- -U. S . Army Signal Corps Photo . City Health Department.

1 0 SOONER MAGAZINE Promotions Alumni who have recently been promoted to the rank of captain are as follows : D. B. Pearson, '41 Johnson, '19ba, Oklahoma City, med, overseas with an Evacuation Hospital ; Wil- Clint T. liam J. Dancer, Jr., '40, Bartlesville, Army Air Field, commanding officer of the Avon Park Army Marfa, Texas; Bob Davis, '42eng, Woodward, Fort Air Field, Avon Park, Florida, has been Dix, New Jersey; Ralph D. Gahl, '38-'40, Okla- promoted to the rank of full colonel . homa City, with the Air Force in Nashville, Tennes- Johnson, a pioneer in commercial see; David Fried, '40med, Des Moines, Iowa, over- Colonel scas with the Medical Corps; Charles W. Freeman, aviation and barnstorming veteran of the '41med, Rocky, Fort Lewis, Washington . early days of American aviation, holds the And Ray M. Wadsworth, '42med, San Carlos, ratings of command pilot, combat observer California, Letterman General Hospital in San and airplane observer. He served as a sec- Francisco ; Robert T. Sturm, '38med, overseas ; in World War l, retaining Worden Parrish, '34-'40, Madill, overseas ; W. M. ond lieutenant Aldredge, commission when the '41med, Hobart, flight surgeon in Eng- his reserve war was land ; Kenneth W. Webb, '42eng, Sharon Springs, over . He re-entered service in 1941 as a Kansas, with the Air Force in England ; Charles W. lieutenant colonel . The Avon Park Army Giffin fin, '36-'41, Oklahoma City, Lowry Field, Colo- Air Field, which Colonel Johnson com- rado . covers more than 220,000 acres and And Andy O. Campbell, '34eng, Oklahoma City, mands, overseas ; the nation's largest bombing range. Emmett C. Anderson, '30, Oklahoma includes City, Medical administrative officer in England ; it is a final phase training base for Flying Paul R. Turnbull, '29eng, Corpus Christi, Texas, Fortress combat crews. with the Air Force in England ; Kenneth R. Shel- Recently promoted to the rank of lieutenant ton, '36-'39, Hollis, Hunter Field, Georgia ; Melvin colonel were the following: Lanson D. Mitchell, Pool, '28-'29, Durant, in Italy with the Air Force. '196a, former WPA executive in Oklahoma City, And William W. Woolley, '36pharm, overseas now director of services at the Aloe Army Air with the Field Artillery; Harry P. Frantz, '416us, Field, Victoria, Texas ; James H. Hammond, '37 Enid, in Italy; Paul L. Getzoff, '356s, Lockbourne med former Tulsa physician with the Air Trans- Army Air Base, Columbus, Ohio ; Theatus Greeson, port Command in Miami, Florida; Fratis L. Duff, '39journ, Duncan, in Ireland with the Field Artil- '39med, Denver, chief of the department of tropical lery; Robert E. Ragsdale, '34, '40, overseas with a health in the School of Aviation Medicine at Ran- Quartermaster battalion ; Harlan D. Johnson, '39 dolph Field, Texas. law, Cushing, overseas with the Field Artillery, SHIP CHRISTENED And L. H. Ritzhaupt, '21, Guthrie, physician and and Earl C. Morris, Jr ., '36-'39, Waurika, on duty former state senator, Selective Service Medical offi- at the Army Air Base, Sarasota, Florida . Captain Present for the launching of the U.S.S. cer for Oklahoma; Alfred Todd, '36bus, Chelsea, Morris recently returned to active duty after re- Naifeh at Orange, Texas, were Mrs. with the Air Force in the Southwest Pacific ; Bill covering from a back injury received in making a Rathia Naifeh, Norman, mother of forced Harrison, '371aw, former Oklahoma City attorney landing overseas . He was on foreign duty for Lt . (ig) Alfred Naifeh, '40law, in at U. S. Army headquarters in England ; Luther E. seven months . Patterson, '30geol, '32ms, Oklahoma City, in the whose honor the destroyer escort was South Pacific . Promoted from second to first lieutenant were named, and his two brothers, Lt. Bob And Elton W. LeHew, '30med, Pawnee, over- Ben G. Southward, '41-'42, Norman, flying instruc- Naifeh, '42, (left), now on foreign tor at the Army Air Field, Independence, seas with the Medical Corps; William E. Lobit, Kansas, duty, and Sgt. Mitchell Naifeh, Clar- '33ba, Dickinson, Texas, with the Cavalry in the and George McDermitt, '42eng, Norman, in Italy Pacific area, and Honald N. Maidt, '28-'30, Okla- with an Ordnance company. Clarinda Iowa. The lower picture shows homa City, who has been stationed in India for two James W. Roberts, '39-'42, Holdenville, over- the U.S.S. Naifeh in the shipyard at years. Colonel Maidt was awaiting passage home seas with a Signal Service battalion, has been pro- Orange . Lieutenant Naifeh died in a when he was promoted . moted to technical sergeant . Advanced to sergeant Pacific Naval battle in 1942 . were Paul R. New majors among the Sooners Loafman, '39m .ed, Kaw City, instruc- in service include tor in the Pre-flight Cadet School at Sheppard Field, the following : Lloyd W. Taylor, '41med, Hugo, Texas, and Robert B. Allen, Jr ., Medical Corps officer in New Guinea ; Joe T. Dick- '36, former man- New Officers erson, '21law, aging editor of the Cushing Daily Citizen, on duty Edmond, with the Air Force in Italy; at the Cavalry Replacement Training Center, Kenneth E. Farris, '43bus, Muskogee, has Winston V. Cruzan, '32-'33, Oklahoma City, dental Fort surgeon Riley, Kansas . The following have been promoted been commissioned a second lieutenant in at the Army Air Field, Greenville Texas; to corporal : Allan O. Woolard, Robert K. Henderson, '35eng, Oklahoma City, in '31-'38, Edna, Kan- the Marine Corps at Quantico, Virginia. He Australia with the sas, Army Air Base, Kearns, Utah; Sam Cobean, was assigned Air Force. '37, Norman, with the Signal Corps on Long to a two-months advanced And Holly L. Anderson, '24law, Tulsa, with the training course at Quantico . Air Force Island, New York, and Wilma Jane Stafford, '39- Technical Training Command at Greens- '42, Norman, overseas with the WAC. boro, North Carolina ; Jerome Byrd, '35eng, Okla- New second lieutenants in the Air Force, and the homa City, on duty in Memphis, Tennessee ; Mur- Noah Preston Wood, '366us, Talihina, has been fields at which they received their commissions, ray E. Gibbens, '38med, Oklahoma City, with the promoted to the rank of lieutenant colonel in the are as follows : Bobbie L. Bernard, '42-'43, Yukon, Medical Corps at Camp Barkeley, Texas; Raleigh Marine Corps at his base in the Southwest Pacific. and Charles L. Smith, '42bus, Fairview, both at Francis, '366us, Blanchard, in England with the Member of the Marine Corps since graduation from Blackland Field, Texas; Jack B. Pitts, '43, Okla- Ordnance . the University, Colonel Wood has been overseas homa City, Roscoe E. Norris, '42-'43, Oklahoma And Donald Royse, '35bus, '35law, Elk City, for nearly two years. City, and Joseph J. Tackwell, '40-'41, Norman, all Anti-aircraft gunnery instructor at Camp Haan, Gerster W. Brown, '30med, former Oklahoma at Aloe Field, Victoria, Texas; James E. Fox, Jr., California ; John H. Wheatley, '27eng, Tulsa, chief City physician now overseas with the Navy Medical '41eng, Cambridge, Kansas, Army Air Field, Lub- of the policy and publication unit of the construc- Corps, has been promoted to the rank of com- bock, Texas. tion utilities section at Air Service Command mander. He was commissioned into the Navy as a And Clifford L. Rea, '39-'42, Elk City, and Wil- headquarters, Patterson Field, Ohio ; Josh J. Evans, lieutenant commander in April, 1942 . liam T. Harral, '42-'43, Erick, both at Foster Field, '40law, Rush Springs, at Sheppard Field, Texas. Texas; Edward G. Snow, '42, Willow, Oklahoma, And G. Scott Promotions to lieutenant junior grade have come Hammonds, '33eng, Oklahoma recently Frederick Army Air Field; Johnson S. Miller, '43, City, on duty with the Board of Economic Warfare to the following : D. G. Stowe, '39law, Duncan, Pampa, Texas, Army Air Field; Jack E. in Washington, D. C.; John F. Cheadle, '39law, Tulsa, on duty aboard a cruiser; R. C. Van Vleck, Hughes, '39-'42, Altus, Eagle Pass, Texas, Army Cherokee, on foreign duty ; Leonard Long '32med, '366us, Oklahoma City, on sea duty ; Thomas J. Lee, Air Field; Carl C. Ball, '35-'36, Tulsa, Altus Army Madison, Wisconsin, at Fort Knox, Kentucky ; '40law, Eldorado, on sea duty ; L. Raymond Daw- Air Field ; Thomas A. Fain, '39-'41, Oklahoma Floyd H. Morris, '35law, son, Jr., '38geol, Oklahoma City, on duty in Miami Oklahoma City, Infantry Beach, City, Moore, Texas, Army Air Field ; Robert G. officer on duty at Service Command headquarters Florida ; Raymond M. Scruggs, '40bus, Jones, '37-'39, Oklahoma City, Foster Field, and in Los Angeles . Oklahoma City, on sea duty, and Harrell McCul- Jack E. Brown, '43, Haskell, Pampa Army Air And Alden W. Suderman, '37eng, lough, '35bus, Norman, Armed Guard officer. Lieu- Field . Chickasha, tenant McCullough Ordnance officer on maneuvers in the California- recently returned from service And Arizona in Italy, where, he reported, he saw many Sooners . James A. Fuller, '42-'43, Muskogee, Lub- area; Edward D. McKay, '35med, on the bock Army Air Field ; Richard L. Baggett, '38-'41, staff of Brooke General Hospital at Fort Sam Hous- Sanford H. Palmer, '41law, Oklahoma City, on ton, Wayne, Williams Field, Arizona ; Roy G. Miller, Texas; John B. Wilson, Jr., '37law, Frederick, duty with the Navy in the Pacific, has been pro- Jr ., '42, Snomac, Pampa Army Air Field; Charles overseas with the Field Artillery, and G. Murray moted to chief yeoman. Gillespie, M. Terry, '41, Norman Air Force Technical Train- '41geol, Fort Worth, Texas, with the Roberta Huff, '33ba, Norman, on duty with the ing school, University of Chicago, and James E. Air Force in England . He and Maj . James W. (Josh) SPARS in New Billings, Orleans, has been promoted to the Fields, '40-'42, Bartlesville, Army Air Field, Carls- '40eng, are in the same outfit. rank of lieutenant junior grade. bad, New Mexico .

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Bennett E. Robertson, '416a, Guthrie, received bombing mission over Frankfurt, drinking missions, and visited Captain Andrews' his commission in the Air Force at the Twin-Engine hot coffee and reading a letter from home. mother in Oklahoma City. He Advanced Flying School at Pampa. He had pre- said that in viously received an army commission at the Cali- Maj . Patrick H. Lawton, '29med, Mari- Sardinia he and Captain Andrews at- fornia Institute of Technology at Pasadena, and etta, is in charge of a Medical station on the tracted considerable attention when they had been promoted to first lieutenant. He held that Anzio beachhead in Italy. painted the words "Downing Street" under rank while taking flying training . Capt. Robert K. Milburn, '396a, Wichita, Kan- Capt. Max K. Gilstrap, '37journ, Okla- the number of their tent, which was ten . sas, received his pilot's wings at the Altus Army Air homa City, is an associate editor of The During their off hours, they went sight- Field . William J. Logan, '41-'42, Tulsa, graduated Stars and Stripes, daily newspaper of the seeing around Sardinia on a German at the Frederick Army Air Field as a flight officer. U.S. armed forces in the European theater motorcycle. of operations . A group of WACs in Italy who recently Overseas Tech. Sgt. Allen Nix, '27, Oklahoma volunteered to give blood for wounded sol- diers of the Fifth Army included Lt. Eliza- Lt. J. F. Malone, '37ba, Norman with an City, recently went on his 25th bombing beth Ray, '34ba, Oklahoma City. Twenty- Anti-aircraft unit in New Guinea, recently mission over Europe as engineer aboard the two WACs gave a pint of blood each wrote friends in Norman a description of a Liberator Sooner Queen, piloted by Capt. at a British Army transfusion station. Lieuten- baseball game he helped manage . "A few William Selvidge, '42law, Ardmore, it was ant Ray was on duty in North Africa before nights ago we staged one of the most un- the first time Sergeant Nix had flown with going to Italy. usual sports events in the Southwest Pa- Captain Selvidge . Both men were in the cific," he wrote. "Before a huge crowd of group cited for bombing the Ploesti oil fields Dispatches from Cape Gloucester, New enthusiastic spectators, our baseball league in Rumania last summer, and have since Britain, recently told of the tactics used by championship was brought to a thrilling been transferred to the Eighth Air Force in Lt. William W. Bailey, '43ba, Vinita, Ma- climax in the first night ball game ever England. rine Corps officer, in defeating Japanese staged in this area. Searchlights threw a News of Capt. Robinson J. Andrews, ambush parties in the jungle . At one time flood of light on the field and pierced the '39-'39, Oklahoma City, was brought home Lieutenant Bailey was leading his unit sky with all the flourish of a Hollywood recently by Lt. Douglas C. Conley, through the jungle undergrowth when he premier. The game was reminiscent of the Wetumkatumka,whowashistentmatefortenmonths saw a man wearing a Marine helmet stand- Big League shows back in the States, with in Sardinia . Lieutenant Conley came home ing fifteen yards away, his face hidden from the Artillery band furnishing martial music on a rest leave after completing 40 combat view. His suspicions aroused, Lieutenant for the occasion. Bailey challenged the man, and was an- "Grandstand vendors added a touch of swered with four hand grenades and a comedy by passing out red hot atabrine burst from Japanese machine guns. Lieuten- tablets and ice cold insect repellent as sub- How Sooners Serve ant Bailey's platoon succeeded in wiping out stitutes for the usual popcorn and soft the ambush with only one casualty. drinks . The publicity section was replete ARMY On duty with the same Field Artillery Privates ------972 with photographers, reporters, public ad- Corporals ------______- 220 unit in New Guinea are Maj. James L. Lain, dress system, and broadcasting facilities . I Sergeants ------319 '37bus, Oklahoma City ; Maj . J. E. Boddy, handled the press releases and the broadcast Cadets______283 '38bus, Tulsa; Capt. J. O. Givens, '38bus, for the local radio station." Warrant Officers ------37 Oklahoma City, and Cpl. Bernell Gilbert, Lieutenants ------2,193 Lieutenant Malone also said that a short Captains ______1,031 '35-'38, Lawton. time before he had flown down Majors _-__ _ to Australia ______531 Maj. Hervey A. Foerster, '27med, with on a temporary assignment Lieutenant Colonels ______150 with the Royal the Medical Corps in England, wrote the Australian Engineers at Wagga Wagga, Colonels ______36 Major Generals Alumni Office that he has visited London, New South Wales. ______2 WAGS ------87 Liverpool, Birmingham and Scotland . Lt. Robert E. TOTAL ------ton--- Lewis, '41, Pryor, was 5,861 A small Sooner reunion was held recently among the men rescued by the Catalina NAVY in New Guinea when Capt. Floyd Sooy, flying boat Arkansas Traveler off Kavieng, Seamen ------535 Chiefs '35-'38, and Tech . Sgt. Davis Funderburk, New Ireland, recently in one of the most ------54 Cadets ------73 '32, both of Mangum, ran into each other. spectacular flying feats of the war. The Cata- Warrant Officer 1 They arc both attached to the Army Air lina made four landings and take-offs on the Ensigns . ------334 Force, Captain Sooy as an intelligence heavy seas under fire from shore Lieutenants ------389 Japanese officercerandSergeantFunderburk asaradioop- batteries in order to rescue fifteen men from Lieutenant Commanders ------28 Commanders ------10 erator. the water. Landing on the water made the WAVES ------52 Staff Sgt. Kenneth G. Ward, '40fa, ship's rivets pop, and it became badly over- TOTAL ------1,476 LawtonLawtonton inEnglandwithanAirForcePhoto- loaded, but the pilot managed to bring it MARINES home. Privates 59 graphic Reconnaissance squadron, recently A recent column by Ernie Pyle, written Corporals ------4 (lid a broadcast over BBC to the British in Italy, told of a sightseeing trip to Pompeii Sergeants ------13 Forces Network. Sergeant Ward has sung Lieutenants------______66 professionally in Oklahoma City and lie made with Maj . Ed Bland, '34-'39, Okla- Captains ------13 ChicagoChicagowherehestudiedattheChicagoCon- homa City, and Cpl . Harry Cowe, of Seattle, Majors ------2 Washington . Mr. Pyle wrote, "Major Bland Lieutenant------Colonels ------6 servatory. got fed up with flying and I got fed up with Colonel 1 Lt. Charles P. Gotwals, '40law, Musko- Brigadier General ______1 gee, is stationed in an assistant writing and Corporal Cowe got fed up with Women's Branch ------6 England as being a corporal, so the three of us said `To TOTAL ------171 staff judge advocate . In a letter to the hell with it' and got into Major Bland's jeep COAST GUARD Alumni Office, he wrote, "The country and came touring out to Pompeii. . . . We Seamen ______42 seems full of Yanks and I have seen a lot spent three hours in the ruins of old Pompeii Petty Officers ------4 of Sooners. . . . Most Britishers I've met don't and decided we enjoyed it, but the next Cadets 2 know where Oklahoma is (one asked me if time Ensigns ------______. 2 we go sightseeing we hope it can be through Lieutenants ______4 I didn't mean Indiana) and my home town the less ancient ruins of Berlin." SPARS ______9 of Muskogee is out of this world." Lt. Frank C. Sneed, '42ba, Lawton, is TOTAL --ton------63 Maj. Ansel P . Challenner, '25eng, '33 with the Air Force in England . A recent GRAND total ______7,571 m.eng, Oklahoma City, Signal Corps offi- Associated Press photo showed him at his cer, is on the headquarters staff of ETOUSA base just after he had returned from a (European Theater of Operations) .

1 2 SOONER MAGAZINE Maj . Glen W. McDonald, '34med, Altus, Army is on duty in the Surgeon General's Office in in training at Maxwell Field, Alabama, as Washington, D. C. cadets, were Donald C. Allman, aviation Aviation Cadet John B. Hodge, '38-'40, Harold R. Miller, '40-'42, and Wil- '39-'42, Oklahoma City, was in training at the Air . Upchurch, '40-'42, all of Norman. liam W Force Technical School at Yale University, Pvt. Robert W. Wheeler, '43eng, Okla- New Haven, Connecticut. City, was in training with the Chemi- homa Lt. Lowell D. Sollenberger, '41eng, Nor- Warfare Service at Camp Sibert, Ala- cal man, was assigned to the Pratt and Whitney bama. United Aircraft plant in East Hartford, . Jack Coleman, '34-'38, Waurika, Capt Connecticut, as a representative of the Army for Spencer Tracy in the flying doubled Air Forces . scenes of A Guy Named Joe, recent picture about the Army Air Force which starred Lt. John K. Flowers, 41, Norman was Tracy and Irene Dunne. Captain Coleman stationed at the Army Air Field, Dover, was given leave from Luke Field, Arizona, Delaware. where he was assistant air inspector, to par- Lt. Guy McClung, '42-'43, San Antonio, ticipate in production of the picture. Texas, is stationed at Drew Field, Florida, Lt. Paul D. Fielding, Jr., '42ba, Guthrie, as navigator aboard a bomber . Lt. Ste-ling was with a Field Artillery battalion at Camp N. Grubbs, '41ba, Cushing, was attached Beale, California . to a Signal Air Warning company there. Stationed at Camp Cooke, California, In training at the Air Force Officer Can- were Lt. Jack Dundas, '39, New York City, didate School at Miami Beach, Florida, were with an Armored Signal company ; Lt. D. F. Edwin W. Sanford, '40-'43, Hobart ; Robert Davis, '39-'42, Oklahoma City, with an W. Faulkner, '40-'43, Electra, Texas, and WEARS THUNDERBIRD Anti-aircraft battery; Pvt. James M. Jack Jacobs, '38-'42, Muskogee. McCampbellMcCampbell'43,OklahomaCity;Lt.JohnD. Former Alva attorney, Lt. Paul D. Lt. W. M. Sammons, '39-'42, Oklahoma Cummings, '39law, was serving with Richards, '30fa, '39m.ed, Anti-aircraft; Pvt. City, and Sgt. R. T. Wyche, '38ba, Nor- the 45th Division in the Mediterranean Robert E. Noland, '40-'41, Strawn, Texas, man, have been transferred to the Army Air theater. Corps of Engineers; Pvt. Leonard D. Field at Orlando, Florida. Francy,'42, Tulsa, Infantry, and Capt. Tom Lt. Robert G. Loggie, '41bus, Wichita E. Grace '36law, Field Artillery. Aviation Cadet John C . Walker 111, '42, Falls, Texas, was attached to a Fighter Lt. Chester Sappington, '28eng, Laverne Bartlesville, was taking meteorological squadron at the Army Air Base Sarasota, was on duty with the Coast Artillery at Fort training at Pasadena, California . Florida. Crockett, California . On duty at Camp Roberts, California, Lt. Boyd L. Barnett, '38bus, Ponca City, Pvt. Richard L. Virtue, '44ba, Oklahoma were Lt. Max A. Pischel, Jr., '38law, Tulsa ; and Lt . Bill Huckin, '42ba, Muskogee, were City, has been transferred to the Replace- Lt. Bill Putnam, '43ba, El Reno; Lt. Robert E. Cornish, Jr., '39-'43, Oklahoma City, and on duty with the Air Force at Tampa, Flor- ment Control Depot of the Air Service Com- ida. mand in Fresno, California Lt. K. O. Wilbanks, '43bus, Holdenville, all . Lt. Edward O. Lt. Lee B. Spencer, '40241, Shawnee was Roe '38eng, Frederick, Field Artillery officers. There with the In- was on duty with on duty in the Department of Training at Signal fantry were Lt. Tillman J. Johnson, '39-'41, the Corps at Camp Pinedale there. Tyndall Field, Florida. Frank C. Morris, '40eng, Oklahoma City, Heresford, South Dakota, and Pvt. William was on duty at Hamilton Field, California . C. Sneed, '42-'43, Madill. Lt. Frank J. Newkumet, '32-'37, has been Sgt. John M. Pittman, Jr., '41-'42, Ana- Pvt. James B. Lloyd, '42-'43, Oklahoma transferred to Fort Benning, Georgia, with darko, was assigned to a Fighter Control City, was on duty at the Army Air Base a Parachute Training regiment. Lt. Gerald squadron at Hammer Field, California . San Bernardino, California . S. Young, Jr., '38-'43, Duncan, was there Pfc. J. E. Tawney, '43, Clendemn, West Lt. George L. Coffey, '39-'42, and Lt. Rob- with a Field Artillery unit. Virginia, was attached to a Signal Training crt W. Coln, '39-'41, both of Norman were Capt. Martin B . Schofield, Jr., '35-'38, battalion at Camp Kohler, California . members of an Army Air Force detachment Oklahoma City, was attached to a Bombard- Aviation Cadet William M. Jackson, Jr., at the Naval Air Station, San Diego, Cali- ment squadron at Chatham Field, Georgia. '43ba, Roswell, New Mexico, was in train- fornia. Lt. N. F. V. Barkett, '39med, formerly ing at War Eagle Field, Lancaster, Cali- Col. William C. Lewis, '18, Oklahoma of Washington, 1). C., member of the ortho- fornia. City, is commanding officer o£ the Army Air pedic branch of the Army Surgical Service Capt. Floyd Graham Oklahoma City, Forces Redistribution Center at Santa was stationed in Finney General Hospital, was assigned to an Air Force Fighter wing Monica, California, where Air Force officers Thomasville, Georgia. at March Field, California . Lt. Burt E. back from overseas duty are assigned for Capt. Emit H. Hastings, '34law, Tulsa, Sheriff, '42243, Oklahoma City, was at- rest before being given new duties . Capt. is assistant post judge advocate at Chanute tached to a Bombardment group there. Donald S. Will, '41eng, Oklahoma City, Field, Illinois. Lt. Robert C. Harper, '41ba, Ponca City, was assigned there upon his return from Lt. William T. Kritikos, '43eng, Tulsa, was assigned to the Transportation division India, where he was stationed for two years. was with an Engineers unit at Camp Ellis, at Fort Mason, California . On duty at Camp Carson, Colorado, were Illinois. Lt. Pren G. Hollingsworth, '42, Norman Capt. Cecil D. Baird, '27med, with a Medi- Maj . L. A. Sypert Johnston, '36med, for- was on duty at the Army Air Field, Merced, cal detachment ; Sgt. Coy A. Mowdy, '38law, mer Holdenville physician, has been trans- California . Durant, with an Infantry unit, and Lt. ferred to the Station Hospital at the Army Lt. Elmer C. Buchanan, '37-'39, Vinita, Ewing Gafford, '41journ, Lawton, with a Air Field, Dodge City, Kansas. was attached to a Bombardment squadron Field Artillery Pack battalion. Aviation Cadet Walter R . Tait, '42ma, at the Army Air Field, Muroc, California . Maj . Olin G. Bell, '21ba, Houston, Texas, Wichita, Kansas, was in training at the Capt. Estel B . McCollum, '32med, of the was on duty at the Army Air Base at Colo- Army Air Field, Independence, Kansas. Medical Corps, has been transferred to the rado Springs, Colorado. Lt. William G. McPheron, '42med, General Hospital at Fort Ord, California . Capt. Edgar E. Bartlett, '366a, Idabel, Medical Corps officer, is doing X-ray work With the Field Artillery there were Lt. Mil- was stationed at Lowry Field, Colorado. at the Induction Station at Fort Leaven- ton R. Moon, '43bus, Oklahoma City, and There with a Technical School squadron worth, Kansas. Lt. G. W. Warlick, '42ed, El Reno. was Cpl . Jerry C. Strong, '41-'43, Chickasha. Pfc. Jasper K. Roberts, '43, Comanche .

MAY, 1944 13 has been transferred to a Field Artillery was on duty with the Bomber Command Command, has been transferred to battery at Camp Phillips, Man- Kansas. at Westover Field, Massachusetts. chester, New Hampshire. Staff Sgt. James F. Berry, '41journ, mem- Ralph Boggess, '27-'30, Ochelata, Okla- Lt. C. L. Bookout, '43bus, Hartshorne, her of an Infantry Service company, has homa, was in training at the judge Advocate was attached to a Field Artillery battery been transferred to at Camp Breckenridge, Officer Candidate School at Ann Arbor, Fort Dix, New Jersey . Kentucky . Michigan. Taking advanced training at the At Camp Campbell, Army Kentucky, were Lt. Lt. C. L. Brattain, '20eng, Alton, Illinois, Air Base, Alamogordo, New Mexico, E. J. Richards, were '39-'42, Norman with an was an Ordnance officer on duty in Detroit, Lt. Bill G. Malone, '40-'41, Ordnance Muskogee, and battalion, and Lt. Alan A. Mc- Michigan . Lt. Earl E. LeVally, '42ba, Donald, '43eng, Maysville. Norman with the Field Lt. Marvin O. Breeding, Artillery. '43bus, Okla- Lt. Joseph S. Holbrook, '42-'43, Park homa City, has been transferred to Camp Ridge, Illinois, was on duty at the Army Lt. Wallis S. Ivy, '42bus, Duncan, was as- Van Dorn, Mississippi, where he is a Field Air Field, Carlsbad, New Mexico. signed to the Army Air Base at Alexandria, Artillery officer. Lt. Clyde Martin, Louisiana, for advanced training after '40-'42, Healdton, an Lt. E. E. Dale, Jr., '42ba, Norman was Air Force meteorological graduating from the Gunnery School at officer recently assigned to an Infantry unit at Camp Mc- commissioned in New Kingman, Arizona. He already held his York, was assigned Cain, Mississippi. to duty at the commission as a bombardier-navigator . Lt. Army Air Field, Roswell, New Mexico. John H. Roe, '33law, Frederick, was also on duty at the Alexandria base. Lt. Col. William Lloyd Lockett, '41ba, Norman was assigned to the Field Lt. Robert W. Houghton, '39-'41, Bartles- Artil- 1f you have more recent informa- lery Replacement Training ville, was on duty at Barksdale Field, Center at Fort Louisiana. tion about any of the alumni men- Bragg, North Carolina, following his re- lease from McCloskey General Hospital at Capt. Seldon D. Butcher, '23ma, tioned in these news items, please Wichita, Temple, Texas, where he was treated for a Kansas, was with the Corps of Engineers notify Editor of Sooner Maga- wound received in the African theater of at Camp Claiborne, Louisiana . Staff Sgt. war With a Troop Carrier squadron at Charles C. Harrell, '40m zine, University of Oklahoma .ed, Boynton, Pope Field, Fort Bragg, was Capt. H. M. Oklahoma, is attached to an Engineers Pe- Kennedy, Jr., '39-'42, Oklahoma City. troleum Distribution company there. Lt. John Miskovsky, '38bus, former foot- Capt. Howard M. Hawks, '41eng, Nor- Lt. Don Machenheimer '31-'33, Shawnee, ball coach at Capitol Hill High School in man, was with a Field Artillery unit at was with a Field Artillery battalion at Camp Oklahoma City, accompanied the boxing Camp Polk, Louisiana. There with Shelby, Mississippi . a team from Camp Mackall, North Carolina, Quartermaster Sales company was Laurence Pvt. James W. Henderson, '39letters, '41 to the Golden Gloves tournament in New S. Guthrie, '39-'40, Clinton, technician ma, Norman former secretary of the Uni- York this spring. Lieutenant Miskovsky was fourth grade. versity College, was taking basic training at on duty with a Paratroop outfit at Camp Lt. Max A. Turner, '40-'43, Cordell, Air Camp Crowder, Missouri, preparatory to Mackall. In training there with a Para- Force meteorologist, was stationed at Sel- entering specialized work in the Signal chute Field Artillery battalion was Pvt. Jack man Field, Louisiana. Corps . Also at Camp Crowder were Lt. W. Tapscott, '42-'43, Edmond. In training at Aberdeen Proving Ground, H. Jones, Jr., '28-'31, Tulsa, and Lt. Leon Maj . John C. Farmer, '20law, Tulsa, was Maryland, for their commissions as second R. Stafford, '43eng, Hollis. on duty with the Air Force Technical Train- lieutenants in the Ordnance are the follow- Lt. C. Harold Brand, '26-'28, Oklahoma ing Command at Greensboro, North Caro- ing officer candidates : City, has been named chief public relations lina. Charles D. Axelrod, '40-'43, Cleveland, Ohio; officer at Jefferson Barracks, Missouri . He Capt. Byron P. Spears, '41eng, Louisville, Lewis H. Bond, '40-'43, Vernon, Texas; Morris served as assistant public relations officer Kentucky, was stationed at Seymour John- Butkin Oklahoma City ; Peter W. Cawthon, there son '40-'43, Lubbock, Texas; Roland L. Coil, '40-'43, for eight months before his promotion. Field, North Carolina. In training there Oklahoma City. Lieutenant Brand is a former Oklahoma was Aviation Cadet Ernest M. Kraker, '41 And Edgar L. Cralle, '40-'43, Norman ; Gordon City realtor. eng, Oklahoma City. H. Dempsey, '40-'43, Blackwell ; Ben Frank, '40-'43, Lt. Charles A. Neal, Cheyenne Capt. Herbert A. Turk, '40ba, Norman Jr., '35-'39, Miami, ; Richard R. Goodwin, '40-'43, Manhat- has recently completed tan, Illinois; Ralph A. Herzmark, '40-'43, Ardmore; has been transferred to Kansas City, Mis- a course in depot Tom Ingram, '40-'43, Fort Worth, Texas; Harold souri, where he is commanding officer of the administration and supply at the Army N. Keesee, '40243, Frederick; Maurice Lewis, Air Force College Training Detachment at Service Forces depot in Columbus, Ohio. '40-'43, Sayre; Eugene H. Lovering, '40-'43, Bay- On duty at the Lockbourne Army town, Rockhurst College. Air Base Texas. there were Capt. L. Neil Calvert, And Duane D. Lunger, '40-'43, Oklahoma City; Lt. James A. Fuller, Jr., '42-'43, Musko- '40bus, Rocky, and Pfc. John A. Rector, Fred W. Lyon, '40-'43, Oklahoma City; James O. gee, was assigned to a Troop Carrier group '39-'42, Fort Melton, Supply. '40243, Hastings ; Charles R. Moore, '40- at the Sedalia Army Air Field, Warrens- '43, Hugo; Glenn P. Myer, '40-'43, Tulsa; Robert A memorial service was held in Purcell W. burg, Missouri . Also there was Lt. Thomas Oliver, '40-'43, Oklahoma City; Roy D. Putty, recently for Lt. Gus Kitchens, '38-'42, '40-'43, Oklahoma City; Fred S. Reynolds, '40-'43, J. Warren, '40-'42, Norman . flier who was killed in action in New Guinea in Norman; Tom Scanland, '40-'43, Oklahoma City; Stationed at Fort Leonard Venson Y. Stillwell, '40243, Holdenville Wood, Mis- April, 1942. Attending the service from ; Jack H. souri, were Lt. George P. Vlahakis, Vestal, '40-'43, Arkadelphia, Arkansas ; Kenneth '43bus, Norman were Dale Arbuckle, director of Oklahoma City ; Pfc. Owen M. R. Wasson, '40-'43, Chickasha, and Allan C. West, Watt, '43bus, athletics, and Dewey Luster, football coach. '40-'43, Ponca City. Tulsa ; Lt. Edward A. Harbin, '39-'43, Bor- Mr. Luster spoke at the meeting. Lieutenant Maj. ger, Texas, and Capt. R. G. Daniel I. Marker, '23med, Manhat- Harrison, '42 Kitchens was a football star at O.U. in 1940. tan, bus, Shawnee. Kansas, is chief of the medical service Lt. Harold V. Huneke, '41ma, Alva, was Staff Sgt. Herbert R. at the Station Hospital at Edgewood Antle, '33-'34, Ada, assigned to the Base Weather Station at was attached to a Arsenal, Maryland . Pvt. Robert W. Bombardment squadron the Ardmore Army Air Field. Also there Wheeler, '43eng, Oklahoma at the Army Air Base, Harvard, Nebraska City, has been . was Cpl . Robert D. Alexander, '40-'43, transferred to the Chemical Warfare Lab- Capt. Louis E. Dilleshaw, '38pharm, Oklahoma City. oratory School there. Blanchard, was attached to a Bombardment Aviation Cadet James E . Hope, '43bus, Pfc. George R. Milner Okmulgee, squadron at the Army Air Field, Tonopah, Lubbock, Texas, was in training at the Enid has been transferred to Camp Ritchie, Nevada. Army Air Field. Maryland . Col. Gordon G. Bulla, '30med, Medical Maj. Wilburn Cartwright, '20law, Mc- Lt. James E. Fields, '40242, Bartlesville, Corps officer attached to the Air Transport Alester, underwent an operation at Glen- 14 SOONER MAGAZINE

E. King, '40-'43, Enid ; Gus J. Kiriopolos, '40-'43, Oklahoma City ; John F. Krisher, '40-'43, McCur- tain; Marion R. Lawton, '40-'43, Pawhuska, and Clayton E. Lee, '40-'43, Oklahoma City . James H. Lepley, '40-'43, Oklahoma City ; Leslie H. Long, '40-'43, Tulsa; William E. Maltby, '40-'43, Bartlesville ; John E. Marshall, Jr ., '42ba, Norman ; Donald L. Means, '40-'43, Wilson ; John S. Miller, '40-'43, Tulsa; Charles L. Moon, '40-'43, Norman ; Harry D. Moreland, Jr., '40-'43, Norman ; Charles J. Murphy, '40-'43, Tulsa; Charles W. McCarty, '40-'43, Norman ; Arthur M. McClelland, '40-'43, Oklahoma City, and James C. McGiboncy, '40-'43, Sulphur. James F. Nickel, '40-'43, Clinton ; Glenn C. Nor- ville, '40-'43, Oklahoma City ; Harold L. Osborne, '39-'43, Oklahoma City ; Bruce B. Pettigrove, '40- '43, Dewey; Owen F. Renegar, '40-'43, Oklahoma City; Edwin W. Sanford, '40-'43, Hobart ; Sam G. Shackelford, '40-'43, El Reno; Alvin V. Shelden, '40-'43, Oklahoma City, and Alan B. Shinn, '40-'43, Alfalfa . Vcrgil A. Shipley, '40-'43, Amber; Don M. Simecheck '40= 43, Oklahoma City ; John I-1. Smith, '40-'43, Oklahoma City ; Howard M. Sewers, '40- '43, Gage ; Glen R. Taylor, '40-'43, Medford ;StratfordStratfordB.Tolson,'40-'43,Pawhuska;GeraldM. No PAUNCHY PILOTS Tucker, '40-'43, Winfield, Kansas, and John J. Cpl. Cassius Gentry, '34, (left) O.U. Turner, '40-'43, Lawton. All-America tackle, helps keep fliers fit Curtis E. Turney, '40-'43, Pawhuska ; Clayton B. at an Eighth Air Force base. Turpin, '40-'43, Oklahoma City ; David L. Walker, '40-'43, Cleveland ; Jack D. Wettengel Rush Springs, and Robert D. White, '40-'43, Norman . nan General Hospital in Okmulgee last Lt. Eldon L. Meigs, '42ba, Mutual, was month for injuries received in a jeep acci- stationed at Tinker Field, Oklahoma, as as- dent in Italy. He was on duty there as a sistant weights and balance officer. member of the American Military Govern- Lt. Herbert F. Defenbaugh, '42eng, ment. Dewey, is attached to the Air Service Com- Lt. Zelma J. McAllister, '40nurse, mem- mand at Will Rogers Field in Oklahoma ber of the Army Nurse Corps, has been City. transferred to the Station Hospital at Fort Capt. James M. Gordon, '27med, Lub- Sill . There with the Field Artillery were bock, Texas, is on the staff of the Station Lt. John N. Alley, '33ba, '34ma, Norman; Hospital at the Army Air Field at Wood- Lt. Elmer Capshaw, '42fa, Norman; Capt. ward. Stuart F. Brady, '36, Norman; Lt. Frank Staff Sgt. George Viney, '42-'43, Lawton, Elkouri, '43ba, Anadarko; Lt. Olbert G. and Tech. Sgt. Wayne E. Larsh Pampa, "Everything Gage, ., Jr '42eng, Newgulf, Texas ; Lt. Rich- Texas, were stationed at Camp Adair, Ore- ard W. Portis, '43geol, Fairfax, Missouri, gon. for and Capt. Jesse E. McDonald, '41, Kansas Lt. John J. Coyle, '43med, Chandler, was City, Missouri . in training with the Medical Corps at Car- Cleaning" Assigned to Fort Sill to attend Field Ar- lisle Barracks, Pennsylvania . tillery Officer Candidate School are the fol- Pfc. A. Truman Pouncey, '42, assistant lowing: professor of journalism on leave of absence, National Disinfectant Dale B. Abel, '40-'43, Tyrone ; Max G. Allen, was stationed at Camp Reynolds, Pennsyl- Company '40-'43, Norman ; Ben A. Ames, Jr., '40-'43, Okla- vania, as a homa City; Joe Basolo, '40-'43, McAlester ; Joe K. member of the Civil Affairs di- 2417 Commerce St. Dallas Bass, '41-'43, Caddo; Wirt A. Batis, '41-'43, Ard- vision of the Army. He recently was trans- more; Howard T. Baugh, Jr., '40-'43, Oklahoma ferred from the University of Minnesota City; Theodore R. Beck, '40-'43, Bradford, Penn- where he was enrolled in language, journal- sylvania, and Robert K. Billings, '41-'43, Tulsa. ism and political science . John M. Bingham, '40-'43, Okmulgee; Rodger D. He wrote, "For Brightbill, '40-'43, Bethany ; Joe D. Bruton, '40-'43, several months I ate in the same building Kellerville, Texas; R. Wayne Carlisle, '40243, La- with Cpl. Lou Gelfand, '42journ, and we verne; William S. Chancy, '40-'43, Hugo ; William had many an alumni banquet all by our- Address Correction C. Cheek, '40-'43, Oklahoma City; Elmer B. Cole, selves in a sea of olive drab and foreign ac- '40243, Oklahoma City; Clay N. Courter, '40243 1 Lahoma ; Howard T. Craun, '40-'43, Sapulpa, and cents." Mrs. Pouncey is with her parents in Glenn D. Dickinson, '40-'43, Prague . Dallas, Texas. Please correct my address as follows : Robert M. Dillon, '40-'43, Oklahoma City; John R. Ellinghausen, '40-'43, Sapulpa ; Robert F. Faulk- Navy ner, '40-'43, Electra, Texas; Drew V. Finley, Jr., '40-'43, Shawnee; Paul E. Fondren, '40243 , Okla- Bruce Chenault Tulsa, chief yeoman, homa City; Gene Friedman, '40-'43, Wellington, took part in the recent action of Kwajalein Name ---- Kansas, and Gilbert A. Frishie, '40-'43, Guthrie . and Eniwetok atolls, going to the Central Pleasant V. Furgason, '40-'43, Buffalo; David W. George, '40-'43, Pacific from his base in Hawaii . After re- Cleveland ; Samuel D. Haas, '40- Street ------'43, Alexandria, Louisiana; Daniel C. Hamilton, turning to Hawaii, he wrote a friend in '40243, Oklahoma City ; Fred D. Harris, '40-'43, Norman "During my two months' junket Tulsa; Winfred H. Henderson, '40-'43, Thacker- in the Central Pacific I saw much of the sea ville ; Douglass Hendrix, '40-'43, Weleetka, and and had many pleasant City and State ______-____ Edward Henley, '40-'43, Pond Creek. experiences aboard John A. Horton, '40-'43, Meeker ; Thomas D. various ships. . . . Also, during this time our Howard, '40-'43, Norman ; Bill Ingler, Jr., '40-'43, party covered practically every square foot Clinton ; Douglas R. Jaeger, '40=43, Tulsa; Harry (CONTINUED ON page 22)

MAY, 1944 1 5 Brodace Elkins, '43journ, Mangum, is taking Alice Reynolds, '44journ, Copan, has been em- Strange, '41-'42, graduate work in Skiatook, was there with Chicago Theological Seminary at ployed as assistant director of publications and the the Seabees. the University of Chicago . Other O.U. alumni en- distribution of publications in the Selective Service rolled there include Otis Joselyn, '39-'42; Ray System offices Washington, D. C. Lt. Joe L. Duer, '32med, Woodward, Anderson, '41-'43 ; Parker Rossman, '41speech, and David J. Stark, '44eng, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, member of the Navy Medical Corps, was on Charles Riddle, '37-'41 . is employed as a technical assistant in the Shell Oil duty at the Marine base at Camp Pendle- Donna Greider, '43fa, Tulsa, appeared in the Company refinery at Montreal, Canada. ton, California . Tulsa Little Theater production, "Mr. and Mrs. Alice Strong, '44he, Norman is a student dieti- North," in March. tian at Montcfiore Hospital, New York City. Roy McCurley, '31ba, former editor of the HARPER-HINEY : Announcement has been Sentinel Leader, is a petty officer first class made of the engagement of Miss Patricia Harper, in the Seabees at Oceanside, California . '43ba, Oklahoma City, to George W. Hiney, Phila- Ensign John B. Leake, '41-'44, Norman delphia, Pennsylvania . Miss Harper is a member With the Armed Forces of Alpha Phi sorority. Mr. was assigned to submarine training in San Hiney is a yeoman sec- Continued FROM PACs ond class stationed at the Naval Air Station, Clin- 15) Francisco. ton. of the major islands comprising the atolls Ensign Billy R. Stokes, '41-'44, Shawnee, WHITE-LYON : Miss Peggy White and Pfc. of Kwajalein and Eniwetok . . . . I've had was ordered to San Francisco to await as- Fred Lyon, '40-'43, both of Oklahoma City, were intimate knowledge of fox-holes, assorted signment to duty aboard a destroyer. married February 28 in Oklahoma City. Private rations, and the mountainous heap of G.I. Lyon was stationed at Aberdeen, Maryland, in Visitors Ordnance Officer Candidate School . gear thrust upon the combatant. Have rid- den in jeeps, SEE-McCLEAN : Miss Mary Jean See and Lt. ducks, alligators and other Servicemen in the Army Air Forces and Charles Waverly McClean, '41-'43, both of weirdly constructed amphibious contrap- civilians connected with aviation were Tonkawa, were married February 28 at Salt Lake tions, all of which left me either shaken, among visitors in the Alumni Office last City, Utah. Mrs. McClean attended Phillips Uni- broken, or very, very wet." versity, Enid . Lieutenant month. McClean was stationed In a letter to Dr. Ralph at the Army Air Field, Alexandria, Louisiana . Biengfang, pro- Those who signed the register included Gar Moore, '41-'43, Oklahoma City, is currently fessor of pharmacy, DeLoyce Barton, '41, Lt. James T. Overbey, '43eng, Williams appearing in Cole Porter's musical Mexican Hay- Norman pharmacist's mate first class, Field, Arizona ; Lt. Harold V. Huneke, '41 ride in New York City. Mr. Moore is former pro- stated that he set up the first pharmacy on duction manager of WNAD, ma, Ardmore Army Air Field; Lt. Harry O.U. radio station. Vella La Vella Island after American forces BURG-PHILLIPS : S. Culver, '40-'43, with the Air Force at Announcement has been moved in there. Mr. Barton expected to made of the engagement of Miss Nan Burg, O.U. re- Hobbs, New Mexico; Lt. Ray J. Hassler, senior from Oklahoma City, to Cadet Dudley C. ceive the rating of chief pharmacist's mate '43ba, communications officer with the Air Phillips, III '40-'43, Bartlesville. Miss Burg is a soon, as he had passed his test with a grade Force at Godman Field, Kentucky . member of Kappa Kappa Gamma sorority. Mr. of 3.57 out of a possible 4. Josh Phillips, a member Lee, '17ba, of the Civil Aeronautics of Phi Gamma Delta fraternity, Lt. William A. Collier, '23-'27, former was taking pilot's training at Douglas Field, Ari- Board, Washington, D. C.; Fisher Mul- zona . assistant county attorney of Oklahoma drow, '22, Ardmore, former president of PHILLIPS-HEARTSILL : Announcement has County, has been executive officer of a de- the Alumni Association; Lt. Thomas A. been made of the marriage of Miss Jessie Aline stroyer in the Mediterranean area for more Fain, '39-'41, Moore Field, Texas ; James Phillips, '42-'43, to Cpl. Osgood Milton Heartsill, than a year. He was home in Oklahoma City Robinson, '321aw, faculty member at Jr ., '41, both of Ardmore. Mrs. Heartsill is em- on leave in March, ployed in the awaiting further assign- Northeastern State College, Tahlequah; supply office at the Ardmore Army ment. Air Base. Corporal Heartsill was attending Boeing Capt. Fred W. Adams, '43ba, Camp School for Airplane Mechanics in Seattle, Wash- The following are stationed either at sea Wolters, Texas. ington . or at a Naval base overseas : Harold O. Lt. Charles E . Wright, '38-'42, with the VARNELL-JOHNSON : Miss Virginia Lee Var- Hazen, Jr., '41-'43, radioman third class ; Field Artillery at Camp McCain, Missis- nell, '41-'43, and Fred Eugene Johnson, '44eng, Ensign Stewart, both of Oklahoma Norman '41geo1, Mount sippi; Capt. C. O. Hunt, '401aw, assigned City, were married February 26 Pleasant, Michigan; Lt. (jg) in Oklahoma City. The bride majored in home James E. Bates, to Woodrow Wilson General Hospital, economics while attending the University . The Jr., '39bus, Muskogee; Lt. Stanley L. Dren- Staunton, Virginia, and Mrs. Hunt, '31, couple will be at home temporarily in Oklahoma nan, '41med, Navy Medical Corps ; Lt. Purcell; Lt. William N. Christian, City. '40-'42, Comdr. John A. Blue, '34med, Guymon ; Fort Sill ; Mrs. Richard Smethers (Mima GOODNOW-WHITT : Miss June Goodnow, Ralph E. Williams, '35236, Dallas, yeoman Magoffin '43journ), McAlester. O.U. junior, and Ensign Arthur Whit, '41-'43, both first class ; of Tulsa, were married Lt. James M. Nelson, '34med, Margaret L. Sanders, '43he, Guthrie March 1 in Tulsa. Ensign Aurora, Colorado Whitt is a member of Sigma Alpha Epsilon fra- ; Ensign Frank Mullins, teacher; Lt. Paul N. Haskett, '41eng, '42 ternity . '40, Snyder; Lt. George L. King, '33eng, m.eng, and Mrs. Haskett (Virginia Lee Eleanor Ann Wilcoxson, '43ba, Tulsa, is a trans- Muskogee ; William L. Jones, '40-'43, Oke- Mitchell, '43fa), Bartlesville ; Gene O. lator in government service in Washington, D. . C mah, aviation radar technician second Sinex, '39eng, Oklahoma City; David 1944 class; Robert L. Harris, '41-'43, Konawa, Wood, '43, former Daily Oklahoman and seaman first class; Dale C. Byrd, '44eng, El Reno, was employed by Ensign Robert N. Daw- Tulsa World reporter ; Beth Floyd Harrison, Foulihoux and Morris Ketchum, asso- son, '42bus, Enid. reporter on the Altus Times-Democrat; ciated architects with offices in Rockefeller Center, Ensign Robert D. Blinn, '42ba, Oklahoma Pvt. Otto W. Walter, 11, '43, Camp Reyn- New York City. Mr. Byrd will work on designs City; Howard W. Thompson, for a series of new servicemen's '41-'42, Ana- olds, Pennsylvania . centers throughout darko, aviation radioman the country . He received nation-wide recognition second class; Ep- Ensign C. W. Hendrickson Okla- in student architectural competitions while attend- sign George E. McIver, '40ms, Moore; En- homa City ; John Loeffler, '43eng, formerly ing O.U. sign James H. Bragg, '36ms, Oklahoma with Pan-American Airways at Browns- Beth Floyd, '44journ, Norman has been em- City ; Lt. Siler D. Lambdin, '33eng, ployed as a reporter on the Shaw- ville, Texas; , '42chem, and Altus Times-Democrat. nee; Ensign J. Q. Adams KIEHN-CALDWELL Noble ; Mrs. Johnson (Elizabeth Mansfield, ,'.39- : Miss Hester Evelyn Lt. (jg) Ray Leon, '42bus, Sayre Kiehn, Pasadena, California, and Ensign John E. ; Ensign '42), Pryor; Lt. Robert N. Starr, '43bus, Caldwell, '43-'44, Oklahoma City, were married M. T. Cochran, Jr., '39ba, Oklahoma City ; and Mrs. Starr, Fort Sill ; Ensign Oliver E. March 4 at Sulphur Springs, Texas. Mrs. Caldwell Stanley R. Grimes, Jr., '43, Shawnee, sea- Benson, '32ba, '33ma, and Mrs. Benson is a graduate of Pasadena Junior College . Ensign man first class ; Lt. Angus jacks, '34-'37, (June Caldwell, a member of Tompkins, '37ba), Oklahoma City. the Oklahoma Bar Associa- Asher, and H. Milt Phillips, '22, Oklahoma tion, was stationed at Miami Beach, Florida, for Lt. Frank Elkouri, '43ba, Fort Sill; Lt. sub-chaser training. City, chief electrician's mate in the Seabees. Gerald S. Young, '38-'43, with the Armored Durward McDaniel, '44, Norman is practicing W. T. Williams, Jr., '40bus, Ard- Forces at Fort Knox, Kentucky ; Katherine law in Oklahoma City with offices in the Colcord more, has been attending a school of in- Poulos, '44fa, Muskogee; Lt. John E. Car- Building . Mr. McDaniel has completed work for a doctrination law degree from the at Tucson, Arizona. son, '32, dental officer at the Naval Air University and will be grad- Lt. uated at commencement exercises in June . In addi- Leonard C. DeLozier, '29bs, of the Technical Training Center near Norman tion to his practice, Mr. McDaniel serves as legal Navy Medical Corps, has been transferred and Paul Updegraff '30law, former Nor- adviser for the C.I.O. to Port Hueneme, California . Charles E. man attorney now in the Navy. 22 SOONER MAGAZINE