Marine Is Decorated Soldier Thanks Blood Donor for Saying His Life U. S. Battle Veterans, 24 D. C. Area Men 5 Times in 14 Meet Before Transfer Back From Named in D. C. Men Promoted,'s Months; From West Coast Fronts, Dispatches Other Valor Awards To Walter Reed Given New Roles Of 6th Army Group Three Advanced to I Marine Pfc. Harry A. Cavenaugh There’s a 19-year-old soldier con- Lt. (j. r.) Charles N. Whelan, 21, Twenty-four Washington area of 1908 Florida avenue N.W. has valescing at Walter Reed Hospital U. S. N. R., co-pilot in a patrol men are described in field dis- Lieutenant Colonels been, decorated five times in 14 who has had the rare experience of bombing squadron, swept the seas patches as ^serving in Gen. Jacob months, a recent Marine Corps meeting and thanking the person ahead of and around the Navy’s L. Devers’ Oth Army Group which Herbert George Sparrow, jr., as- dispatch said. who gave blood to save his life as fast carrier task forces as they supports the 7th Army drive into sistant chief of staff of the Central The 19-year-old Leatherneck was he lay wounded on the battlefield. struck at the enemy in the West Germany. Pacific Base Command, has i,ween awarded a Bronze Star Medal He is the first man in the is now at Naval Medical to colonel. Cal. Sparrow, by probably Pacific. He They are: promoted Fleet Admiral Chester United States to that who makes his home in Washington W. Nimltz Army enjoy Center, Bethesda. Lt. Whelan’s Corpl. Paul G. Bihlman, 1435 for heroism on Namur in the Mar- privilege, according to a public re- at Tinian was raided fre- at 1661 Crescent place N.W., was An squadron Montana avenue N.E., a member of shall where he his lations officer at Van Nuys, Calif., He and his at Port Belvoir before Islands, fought quently by Jap planes. the 11th Field Hospital. duty goin^o way through Japanese encirclement who told their story to The Star. squadron covered the fleet for the the Pacific in 1943. Other District First Lt. Clark 1619 R to deliver a vital message to his Staff Sergt George T. Bruce and Philippine invasion, flying 2,000-mile Hopkins, area men who have been promoted street N.W., with the 342d Armored battalion commander and returned his squad were on patrol duty, when patrols to detect Jap movements include: Field Battalion. a over the same route to dispatch they were trapped by Japs on Leyte. and concentrations of air craft. Artillery ARMY. Lieutenant Colonel. R another note. Sergt. Bruce and two others were S/Sergt. George 8. Wolf, 24-year- Corpl. Clifford E. Herl, 5926 Fourth the of Donald McLean, jr., 3017 N streJw W. Later in that action he was shot covering withdrawal their old infantryman, has arrived at street N.W.; Corpl. Ray H. Rice, Jr., Edwin Haaklnaon. AAF, 4930 S. rier through the left arm, for which he group when 15 slugs hit him in the Oliver General 526 Crittendon street N.W.; S/Sergt. place N.W. Hospital, Augusta, John 81mm>. Judge Advocate General s received the left leg. Because of his His C. 202 street Purple Heart. this, leg Ga., after two years overseas. Joseph Haufe, Douglas WITH THE 7th Department, 1434 Somerset place N.W. In had to be at a ARMY—Corpl. fighting on Saipan and Tinian amputated nearby wife, Lt. Elenor Wolf, lives at Wal- N.W., and Pvt. Ndrman W. Levine, Major. field When he Richard B. Jones of 4640 Gar- in the Marianas, Pvt. Cavenaugh hospital. regained ter Reed Hospital. S/Sergt. 2914 Eighteenth street N.W., aerial Frank Scherti, Chemical Warfare Serv- N.W. was was wounded in the left consciousness the doctor who turret- all with the 649th field street pre- ice, 1305 Farragut street N.W hand by per- Clarence R. Heath, jr., B-25 photographer, Tllden formed the handed him sented the Silver Star on Ernest Huyett, AAF, 3010 street enemy grenade fragments. He re- operation gunner, participated in 50 combat Engineer Topographic Battalion. gal- N.W. Colonial ter- ceived a Presidential Unit Citation the tag from a blood container. down a Zero. in action on the west- Milton Jones, AAF, 1005 missions and shot Jap First Lt. Frank O. White, 4589 lantry race, Va. k “It’s this Arlington, and a Bronze Star in lieu of a sec- woman’s blood that saved He is now at Pass Air ern front with the famed 42d Eagle Army MacArthur boulevard N.W.; Pvt. Captain. * ond Heart. your life, son,” he told the young Tex. Col. Janies F. Purple Field, Early, William M. Kingery, 909 Webster Rainbow Division. He was more Lesieur, AAF. 1820 North Hart- sergeant. Stephen At Iwo Jima he was struck in the 44, winner of the Legion of Merit street N.W., and Pvt. Dale Powell than 78 hours behind German ford street, Arlington, In India. i The Kenneth Quick. AAF, 1400 Mount 4ker« right thigh by mortar sergeant clutched the tag and and Bronze Star, who was com- Japanese of the 344th Engineer Regiment. lines with two others on patrol non avenue, Alexandria. muttered through clinched teeth, Quartermaster fragments and awarded a Bronze I manding offloer of the 8th Air Force Lt. William F. in com- Percy Ntepold, Corps, Sargent, —U. S. Photo. 1231 Twenty-third street N.W Star in lieu of a “I’m going to keep this. Maybe, the inva- duty. Army third Purple Heart.! Service Command during mand of the 539th Army Postal William Connor, Jr., AAF, 314 E street at a Pacific area some day, I can thank her.” returned from over- N.W Recuperating sion, recently Unit. Sergt. Wooks and Pvt. Laton are The name on the read: “Mrs. Robert Jones, AAF, 4801 Indian lann hospital. Pvt. Cavenaugh jested: tag seas and is reassignment N.W. w awaiting Pfc. William T. 621 South members, was the main fortress of “Sometimes I get the idea the Japs Hazel Otto, Los Angeles, Calif.” at Miami Beach. Farley, Ira Hudgins. 22 Girard street N.E street and Mathaniel the Maginot Line west of Bitche. William Garnett, AAF. 430 Ingram are to of That was all. com- N.W., Sergt. trying get rid me.’’ First Lt. Harold J. Frei, who These howitzers 73 armor- street N.W., in the Pacific. Gaillard, 710 Rhode Island avenue fired' Shoreham The night before Sergt. Bruce 34 combat missions as bom- John Nettleton, jr., AAF, pleted piercing shells, scoring 26 direct Hotel. was to leave Van Nuys for Walter N.W., in the 4352d Quartermaster Distinguished Flying Cross bardier overseas, has been assigned hits of the face of the fort and 19 Louis Kuhn, Jr AAF, 7704 Alaska ave- Reed hurried Bakery Company. nue N W. Richard Hospital here, phone to at the Big Spring Bom- T, Sergt. Krueger, 31, duty Donald R. 1835 on the top. Richard Bell, AAF. 2831 Twenty-third calls finally located some one who Sergt. Wooks, street N.W in Europe. former salesman at Haber- bardier School, Tex. 1 When Raleigh knew Mrs. Otto’s number Kalorama road N.W., and Pvt. strategy called for quick Frederick Watts. 3012 Park Diace, at in- telephone S/Sergt. George B. Holloway, an Philip dasher, who has been missing since J. La 2700 North street removal of an Army food rations diantown Gap Military Reservation and late that night a call was put ordnance section chief in the ton, N.W., Alien Toole, AAF, Lanham, Md., In the plane in which he was serving with the 182d Field Bat- dump to a spot 25 miles away, France. through to her home in Alhambra, and Artillery as raidoman was shot down March China-Burma-India European of the 4067th loaded tons of Tom Gordon, AAF. 4137 Henderson j Calif. An hour later Sergt. Bruce talion. troops road. Arlington. near Truk in the theaters, is awaiting reassignment 29, 1944, Pacific, | Frank E. 603 food supplies into freight cars, Werner Babler. Quartermaster Corps, was embracing the lady whose ninth station Corpl. Jolly, Forty- has been awarded the Distinguished i at the AAF redistribution Chevy Chase. Md. trip to the blood bank had saved eighth street N.E., in the 4067th raced the freight train by motor Flymg Cross and the Air Medal, it I at Miami, Fla. Capt. William First Lieutenant. his life. Tears flowed down their Quartermaster Service Company. convoy and were present to unload G. was ad- Bowen Shaw, AAF, 8408 avenue. was learned. O’Donnell, Arlington, at the new location. Ramsey cheeks. porpl. Thornton S. Sykes, 1710 Working Silver Spring. News of the award was received mitted to Moore General Hospital, While the of blood dona- Third street N.E.; Pfc. Jack without letup for 48 hours, they Stanley Garber, AAF, 2806 Cathedral majority N. as a He Cooper- avenue N.W here by' the Rev. Charles Enders, Swannanoa, C., patient. maintain an tions are mixed for plasma, whole smith, 4111 Connecticut avenue helped uninterrupted William Walker. Transportation Corps, of*Concordia Lu- served with the 3d Army Medical pastor Evangelical blood into individual con- and 1st Lt. Louis B. flow of food to units of the “United 1760 Corcoran street N.W. goes in the and North- N.W., Ruck, Alvaro Galvin, Signal Corps, 2805 theran Church, w’here Sergt. Krue- '■i':<-y/wtwBwwiw—ihiii •* Knaw'- tmmmmr. w. ww Group Normandy tainers and is labeled with the 1511 Franklin street N.E., in the States 7th. Twenty-eighth street N.W. was a member of the ern and Eastern France invasions. ger formerly Mrs. Hazel Otto of Alhambra, Calif., congratulates Sergt. 57th "Backs that ache after a Richard Tolley, Coast Artillery Corps, donor’s name. Signal Battalion. day's street church board and a teacher in the Marine Pfc. Charles Broadway 1210 Sixth S.W. Sergt. Bruce is from Eastgulf, W. George Bruce on his recovery. First Lt. Sigmund Meek, 4720 Fif- toting of heavy flour sacks and po- Stephen Sneed, Infantry, 1321 Eleventh The came from House, 22, street N.W Sunday school. word Cottage City, completed tato cases of tinned Va. He enlisted in the Army at 16 teenth street N.W., with the 697th bags, goods Thomas Turner, Infantry, 0000 Thir- sister, Mrs. Irene run even there the letter "We six months service with the 3d Sergt. Krueger’s and is a veteran of battles on may out, though may patient, said, have Field and cartons of fresh meats, are teenth street N.W Attu, Marine Artillery Battalion. Kalschultz, in St. Louis, wrhere he be on hand, it was explained a good supply of blood but axe Division in the South Pacific Dudley Mask, AAF. 3564 Eleventh street Kwajalein and the Philippines. plenty Pvt. Elton W. Johnson, 1219 C forgotten as the men perform or N.W. was born. a that run and is now on duty at the United in letter from Maj. Thomas Brad- always fearful it may out. street N.E., in the 398th Antiair- sing for audiences of fellow troops,” Raymond Driscoll, AAF, 312 Rltten- had been shot who served on the a man owes his life to the States Naval Air Station, Tilla- house street N.W. Sergt. Krueger Maj. Bradley Pays Tribute. ley, formerly Many craft Battalion. the commanding officer said. “Since 1712 Fourteenth Ernest Artillery Ulysse* Toatley. AAF, down first on January 22, 1944, Doctors in the European theater staff at Garfield Hospital here. blood that Is shipped here from mook, Oreg. Rayburn, Pfc. Louis entertained almost street N.W. Menick, 1400 C street January they’ve William AAF, 3121 Sixteenth while over Rabaul, but re- Addressed to a friend and former America.” ship’s cook, second class, Takoma Cowan, flying always fear that the blood supply S.E., Sergt. Gordon E. Hawkins, 710 4,000 soldiers.” street N.W. covered and returned to duty and Park, Md., was wounded when a Martin Rothblum, AAF. 147 R street East Capitol street and Pfc. Wil- Insure Communications. N.E in Italv. was shot down a second time 12005 boulevard, Arlington, for Allied forces subsequently landed turned to his transport, which had jap boat, loaded with only Key explosives, liam T. Girton, 1215 Thirtieth street Robert Murphy, infantry. Twentieth i service in Eastern on June 6. behind the convoy, and re- rammed In the and street avenue N.W'. in two months later near Truk. meritorious dropped his LST off Luzon. Two all capable experienced and Florida France. N.W., wTith the 166th Medical Robert Taylor. AAF, 8110 Grove street, DFC was : Prance. He is in the 399th S Sergt. Hiram T. Gray, 1304 ported that his patient would be all hours after he was hands of men of the 57th The awarded, according Infantry moved from a Battalion. Signal Silver Spring. to the information received here, Regiment. As company runner he Girard street N.E., has received a right in a few weeks. medical aid building on the beach Battalion, of which Carpi. Sykes, Frederick Tahaan. AAF, 3249 O Sergt. Wllmer G. Farran, 125 Fif- atreet N.W. delivered un- Unit Citation awarded members of Comdr. Kennedy, who lives at to a Pfc. and Lt. Ruck are for “outstanding performance, cour- ; continually messages hospital ship, the building was teenth Coopersmith James Diggins, AAF, 4816 Fifth street 4009 Van Ness street S.E., 261st Ordnance age and loyalty when they brought ; der fire and accompanied his the 3366th Quartermaster Truck street N.W., is now destroyed by bombs. members, rest a large share of re- N.W., in China. toward his Maintenance Company. back their plane a charred and company commander in attacks, Company, Camp Shanks, N. Y., for traveling boyhood home, First Lt. Paul E. Willhide, 21, sponsibility for maintenance of Commissioned Second Lieutenant. Wounded Get Aid. flaming mass.” Details on this were Through proper interpretation of : ’‘superior performance of duty in Cabentuan, in the Philippines, winner of the DFC and Air Medal Quick communications for the 7th Army. James Fagu-s AAF. 2434 Sixteenth street j N W\. at San Marcos Field. Tex. not The Medal I orders to leaders in haz- the of exception- where the 42-year-old doctor is hop- Corpl. Bihlman goes into action Veterans of D at disclosed. Air was, platoon | accomplishment with three Clusters, flew 35 missions day landings Jack Kleeber. AAF. 3032 Rodman street. difficult tasks.” ing to meet a few of his relatives when a critically wounded dough- N.W., at San Marcos Field. Tex awarded for sustained missions from ardous circumstances he brought ally over Europe as a B-24 navigator. Salerno and Anzio in Italy and in and friends still in that area, the boy, with little hope of surviving, Jack O'Neil. AAF. 1035 Biltmore street January 7 to January 22, 1944, over about excellent co-ordination. He Is awaiting reassignment in Southern Prance, these communi- N.W., at San Marcos Field. Tex Presidential Unit Citation dispatch said. gets a swift ride to the rear. The Covington Shackelford, infantry. 1654 enemy territory. The awards were William P. McMahon, Miami, Fla. S Claude D. cations experts know what it means TSergt. Sergt. 11th Field and its Twentv-ninth street N.W., at Fort Ben- to some member Four area men are Hospital surgical move to be presented 4024 Eighth street N.E., for meri- Washington Hunkins, 26, served 29 months as a to work hard and fast. nine. Ga. teams, aided by nurses James Fanning. AAF. 1 *24 Harvard of the family at an Army post near torious service in members of the 405th Fighter Group radio in the physicians, “Men of the battalion have met England. operator European and enlisted the street N W at Chico Field. Calif. of the 9th Air Force, which was Letter Tells of men, give Dough- Alexander St. Louis. Capt. James F. Turner, 3d Tank Fatality theater. He is now stationed in every demand on skill and energy,” McAllister. Transportation a chance for Corps. 140? West avenue N.W.. at Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Mow- awarded the Presidential Unit Cita- boy good life by per- said Lt. Col. Arthur C. Au- Virginia Battalion, 10th Armored Division, Miami, Fla. 1 Hill, New Orleans Army Air Base. tion. are: forming major operations within Oscar 414 att, College Park, have received the 4419 Fessenden street N.W., some- They 2 Minutes After T/Sergt. James E. Dilda. former burndale, Mass., commanding of- Lopez. Transportation Corps. Landing three or four miles of the front. Tenth street S.E at New Orleans Army the Air Lt. Louis A. Gibson, supply officer, bus was ficer. “In a recent 6-weeks Distinguished Flying Cross, where in Germany. driver, a battalion motor Lt. period, Air Base. avenue N.E. T/5 R. Le Hopkins staged a daring, day- David Rozelle. Medal and two Oak Leaf Clusters 1410 North Carolina Roy MacLean, 35, sergeant in the of New when troop movement called for Transportation Corps. Capt. Leonard G. Johnson, group jungles light raid on the German command 60m Somerset place N W., at New Orleans from the War Department on be- Sergt. Julian Venezkv, 911 Elev» whose wife, Mrs. Alice Gurnett Mac- Guinea for 27 extra effort, our construction com- Army Air Base. armament officer with the 92d months. Charged post town of Schaffhausen. half of their son, Lt. Frank G. enth street N.E., aircraft mechani" Lean, lives at 23 Second street with trucks laid 554 miles of Bombardment Group of Flying For- N.E., keeping rolling to the With instructions to “take panies telephone Technical Sergeant. who has been Sergt. Paul C. Barr, 30, radar me- prison- and Mowatt, 21, missing avenue for was killed front lines, a few miles away, one cable, 597 miles of field wire, Ira Hansen, infantry. 1431 North Long- tresses, 3602 Nichols S.E., January 9 at Luzon 2 ers, inflict heavy casualties and fellow in action over since chanic and flight chief. of his took over and street, Arlington. Germany Sep- as armament officer minutes after with the first1 bad memories includes sleep- rehabilitated 2,145 serving group B. administration landing damage.” the tanks drove into tember 9, 1944. Lt. Mowatt had Corpl. Baily, ing for a month with a and all miles of French wire.” Staff Sergeant. for over 30 months with the oldest Marine assault wave. gun Schaffhausen carrying 30 missions when the clerk, 1273 Brentwood road N.E. field infantrymen The 240-mm. howitzers of Bernard Ockerhausen. AAF. 32? Thir- completed in the 8th Air Force. A written March a equipment, trying to get parts big Fortress group letter, 3, by and the 342d's observers with them. teenth street N.E., in the Mediterranean B-17 bomber on which he w'as co- for his trucks, and K rations. the 697th Field Artillery Battalion, C. Meritorious Service medical lieutenant stationed in the eating 'The battalion’s 105-mm. theater. wras dow nover Col. Raymond Hildreth, Signal self-pro- Robert Plummer. AAF. 1611 Fairlawn pilot shot Ludwigs- same area contained the He is now chief clerk in the auto- of which Lt. Meek is a member, Corps, 4607 Connecticut avenue following pelled howitzers, located further be- avenue S.E., in the Southwest Pacific. hafen. Unit account of his death: motive property office of Ellington firing their first round on Italy's N.W., for obtaining, assembling and Plaque hind, fired on targets the observers Sergeant. Lt. Col. Farry M. Stephey, whose Field, Tex. Cassino front over a year ago, re- T C. Falls "He was killed in action and died The raid was lives at storing supplies and equipment for 3 Catherine Scott, picked. completed in Douglas Roland. Medical Corps. 127 wife, Mrs. Betty S. Stephey, almost A T/Sergt. John P. Breen, 22, flew cently sent their 20.000th round- North Carolina avenue S.E. j the invasion a member of the WAC immediately. communica- an hour and the American force left street at the troops preparing for Church. Va„ John Hyatt, engineers. 60 Defrees street 4418 Fourteenth N.E., an! tions he carried a 40 missions in the Central Pacific representing 7,300.000 pounds of of France. Recruiting Branch. 5th Service Com- man, portable i with 13 prisoners. N.W’.. in Italy. 8th Air Force Liberator station in! area. The B-24 into German *’for radio and landed with the first as- radio-gunner won Corpl. Herl, steel—crashing po- Donald W’est, 71? South Twenty-sixth as C, mand, Columbus, Ohio, excep- Corpl. Rice, Sergt. street. Arlington. Va. England for service command Capt. Saul Zukerman, Company sault wave on the hostile the DFC and two Oak Leaf Clusters sitions fronting United States 7th tional efficiency in the recruitment shore. He Haufe and Pvt. Levine, have Kenneth Irvin, AAF. 4011 Fourth street of bombardment forma- 119th Medical Battalion, 417 Decatur to the Air helped N.W.. pilot heavy was killed within 2 minutes of the Medal, and is now at to turn Army troops. in Panama of women for service as medical out approximately 10.500,000 Robert Remlmg. cavalry, 635 F street tions on many missions to occupied street N.W., for meritorious service Miami Fla. His wife Pvt. a member of the landing—one of the first men in Beach, lives at in less than Johnson, 6.W., on Luzon. and surgical technicians in Army maps two years over- • territory. in action in Eastern France. Capt. the entire division to 22 Todd place NJS. 398th Antiaircraft Bat- lose his life. T/Sergt. seas, immediate battle areas Artillery Corporal. was to hospitals.” serving Zukerman subjected enemy He was in the most and Carter H. Hites, jr., 23, was a B-17 talion, its automatic weapons T, 5 Thornton A. Banks, 911 Sev- exposed and anticipating forthcoming oper- Eutene Kernan. AAF, 4323 Forty-fourth Commendation fire on numerous occasions while who flew 51 street N W. dangerous spot of all and he died radio-gunner missions ations in new mounted on half-tracks, is blasting evacuation routes enth street S.E., and Pfc. Russell W. territories. Activated Alexander S. jr., son reconnoitering a heroic death. It took iron over Europe before he returned to the from the skies Private Fir»t Class. Capt. Young, Smith, 623 Longfellow street N.W., courage on December 15, 1941, the 649th be- enemy by day, A. S. 4934 and checking the condition and dis- to the United States. He wears the Lloyd Austin, Medicsl Corps, 209 Eleventh of Mr. and Mrs. Young, members of the 911th Ordnance jump and wade ashore that Air gan by of North Af- and by night is lowering elevation of his litter-bearers and Medal with printing maps street S.W.. in Upton street N.W., for initiative in position morning. For all of Roy's gentle three clusters. rica invasion. of its 50-caliber machine guns and Europe._ ambulance drivers. (Heavy Automotive Maintenance) the of an off- ways he was a brave man and a M/Sergt. Joseph N. Kline, 37-mm. cannon as aiding organization Company. 27-year- Build Railroad precaution received from Maj. Russell L. Riley, 2528 North damned old veteran 60 Bridges. duty night school, Col. Thomas S. 3333 good soldier.” bombardier, of mis- against hostile armored thrusts, to street, Arlington, execu- Moorman, jr., is Construction of the two longest Okinawa Farms Maj. Gen. Nathan F. Tw'ining of McKinley A native of Lake Ogden, Fla., T/5 sions, in Miami, Fla., awaiting do an around-the-clock job. Tiny of the 696th Armored Rittenhouse street N.W., regional Army-built railroad bridges in the 15th AAF. tive officer MacLean attended the Peabody reassignment. M/Sergt. Maurice Pvt. Menick, Sergt. Hawkins and Field Battalion, for meri- control officer of the 21st Weather France, clearance of a 1 Vi-mile Ffc. Evan D. Phillips, 109 Me- ] Artillery Conservatory of Music and was in F. Paquette, 29, formerly communi- Pvt. Girton, help the 166th Medi- service in combat in France. Squadron of the 9th Air Force. Also blownup tunnel, miles Lexington, Va., a torious the show business in New York be- cations chief in the European thea- rebuilding cal Battalion the evacuation Yield of Mines Laughlin street, the following with the same of demolished speed Crop De- Capt. Robert F. Mundy, 1412 Crit- fore the ter for 26 is also at railway tracks—these member of the 21st Chemical entering service. He had months, the of critically wounded Doughboys, S SERGT. JAMES F. MOSER, J tenden street N.W., in connection squadron: AAF are typical of the large-scale engi- By Jr* Company of Gen! sung in the "Great Waltz." Gilbert redistribution station in Flor- and the return to Marine Combat contaminating Capt. Laurie R. Burgess. 1239 feats of hastening duty Corps Correspondent, with military operations from No- and ida neering the 344th Engineer Alexander M. Patch’s 7th Army, for Sullivan and other musical pro- awaiting reassignment. ... At of the combat men whose medical Formerly on the Staff of The Evening Star. j to 1944. Perry street N.E.; S Sergt. George Regiment of which Lt. White. Pvt. meritorious con- vember 9, 1943. August 1, ductions. Miami after overseas “exceptionally R. 328 street Beach, Fla., complaint is minor. OKINAWA ci- j He was a member of the Wire Bingham. Eighteenth Kingery and Pvt. Powell are mem- iDelayed).—Many duct” when in conjunction withj duty are Capt. Royce M. Benson, 25. Farran the 261st Plans and N.E.; S Sergt. Louis E. Hoyle. 1380 bers. Sergt. helped vilians had been rounded up by eve- and 45th Divi- Group. Operations Branch, B-17 35 missions over the 3d, 36th Infantry street N.W.. and pilot during Ordnance Maintenance Company of the first of the inva- Signal Section, Headquarters 1st Peabody Sergt. Lt. Col. Clarence This regiment encountered one of ning day sions on the southern coast of Geiger Europe, and T/Sergt. Richard J. which after 2 hours hit- sion of this island. Their j States The Calvin W. Day, 3024 Porter street. the most complete demolition recently goats, United Army Group. __ jobs France the 21st Company landed on Watkins, 35, who flew 32 missions in the beaches of Southern In Armored School Post of the war. The Germans had ting chickens, and blasted homes were H on D citation read: “For his outstanding China as a B-24 the beachhead at hour day radio gunner. France on D were re- all that a once and tech- Lt. Col. blown a hole in the bottom of day, rushing remained of peace- a three- initiative, good judgment Clarence E. Geiger, a large and released smoke for on a ful cluster of laid out nical skill, which rendered invalu- Mount Alto graduate of Western High School a canal that crossed over a railroad pairs damaged gun. neatly farms, hour period.” Surgeon none of which is than two able service in planning telephone and former student at Maryland tunnel. To clear the tunnel, they larger Private's Outfit Given acres. The Japanese had sowed exchanges on the main-line tele- University, has been appointed Cup Worked 24 days around the clock, Bronze Star Senator Thomas Receives mines in some of the fields and phone network of continental head of the Ar- removing 32,000 cubic yards of dirt, ; Kenneth L. Seboum, 4301 at Sea These caused the of beach Sergt. Europe.” Operates mored School's Santo Tomas Internees rock and debris and over a million majority street for meri- Lt. By casualties. On farms, Brandywine N.W., James H. Schaub, 334th in- Comdr. John Kennedy, for- Wheeled Vehicle cubic feet of water. From Former Aide the however, Corpl. News that their son, Pfc. Howard Completing Trophy torious service in combat. Serving mer chief surgeon of Mount Alto the installed 400 demolition teams in great numbers fantry, 1424 Chapin street N.W., for Department at job they feet of Two years ago when Infantry on the 5th Army front in Italy Hospital, now as medical B. Costello, 26, was among the flying “harvested" practically all of the heroic service in connection with serving Covington, Ga double track. Sergt. George W. Nisson joined the with the 350th "Battle Mountain” officer aboard a Coast Guard man- column ; mines. military operations against Germany He is the son of troops who liberated 3,768 Lt. Sargent commands the 539th Army, he toM Senator Thomas of Infantry Regiment, 88th “Blue ned invasion Postal The first Marine infantry, sup- on March 4, 1945. Fred C. Geiger, American and Allied from Army Unit which operates Utah he would send him a Nazi was captives flag. tanks, hit the beach at Devil” Division, his platoon transport in the a office within a ported by While operating a radio for an an attorney, Santo Tomas post few miles of He kept his promise. A meeting of down for several hours by left his Camp in Manila and 8:34 a.m., Tokyo time. The second pinned artillery forward observer from a Pacific, who lives at 2851 the front, speeding mail to combat the Senate Military Affairs Commit- an machine gun, Sergt. in mid- received silver loving cups from the wave landed two minutes later. Suc- enemy post which he had occupied under ship ninth troops of the 7th Army. tee was when Twenty interrupted recently waves in Sebourn and his squad crawled for- water, to internees was ceeding followed compa- enemy automatic weapon fire, Corpl. oper- street N.W. grateful disclosed in Although limited in personnel and the flag was delivered. disregarding the ate on an en- rable intervals. ward, completely Schaub observed a wounded soldier Col. reports sent his Mr. and compact in equipment, the 539th Chairman Thomas told the com- Geiger parents, Our boat with Tom Morrow' of hail of fire, set up their weapon in an area to hostile listed man makes no from lying exposed has served as Mrs. J. T. Costello of departure the stand- mittee and high ranking officers and fire. Sergt. Seboum as aboard a United Bryan town, ard the Chicago Tribune, another Ma- opened small-arms fire. Disregarding his executive of the operating procedure of any well present that Sergt. Nisson is one of wounded one German States Md. rine combat and Ma- first gunner, own he made his way to the Navy air- regulated post office back in the corespondent safety, d e part ment 14 from his office in the service. He rine and forced three others to flee. craft carrier. The 44th Tank Battalion’s 33-ton United photographers, left our trans- stricken soldier and carried him to since February, States, according to Lt. expressed belief the flag was cap- When his sergeant was The trans- ; port at 6:30 aun. We made the coral platoon safety. He was once a page boy at 1944. He became Shermans literally crashed the gates Sargent. tured in Belgium. took com- reef, 200 yards offshore, at H-hour wounded, Sergt. Sebourn the House of port's task of it- Col. Geiger, Averaging a daily sale of | Representatives. acting director of the prison. In the lib- stamps Sergt. Nisson, wrho has been over- minus 40 minutes mand and led the men ably during moving troops gratitude and and cruised back Pfc. Richard Harney, Field Artil- when the former head was appointed stamped envelopes in excess of seas for over a year, has been the fierce counterattacks on Mount and to erated internees presented loving and forth for an hour and a half. lery, 3305 Northampton street N.W., supplies assistant commandant at the $400, the post office has issued as warded three bronze stars for taking an cups with official letters of com- At that time no Japanese could be Battaglia. I for meritorious action in Germany advanced much as $60,000 in money orders in in the Armored School. part Normandy invasion, the seen on or P. Pacific mendation to the 37th Infantry near the beach. Marines Capt. Joseph Keegin, engineer,! on January 25, 1945. He accom- position Before the in a two-day period. The 539th has battle of St. Lo, and the battle of was entering Army the 1st were more than 500 yards 4325 Madison street, Hyattsville, for a forward observer halted for a Division, Cavalry Division its own address five inland, panied directing February, 1941, Col. was changed times the Belgian bulge. He is in Germany ; action in connection tt. Comdr. Kennedy, few hours While Geiger and the 44th Tank Battalion. moving swiftly. The enemy obvious- meritorious artillery fire in support of an in- in one week. now. j chief investigator for the Depart- was to out with against the Dr. Kennedy was lowered over the Veterans of the New Guinea j ly trying keep of their military operation fantry unit. When wire communi- ment of Public Welfare here. He and Pfc. Farley and Sergt. Gaillard A -graduate of Eastern High side and was slushed way. enemy on Luzon from January 9! cations were interrupted by artillery ship's through Leyte campaigns, the tank batal- are doing their part in the 4352d Nisson received his degree in law from School, Sergt. worked as a Ammunition and oil stor- to 28. and comparatively rough waters in a lion’s score of killed is more to dumps February mortar fire, he voluntarily Columbus Law School here. Nips by helping operate electric messenger until he became a mem- Ester M. Leech of Coast Guard craft to the than six times its age tanks were knocked out by the 2d Lt. started laying wire from the obser- landing total strength. dough mixers and oil-burning ovens ber of Senator Thomas’s staff. Two naval Time an naval shelling and bombing 104th Evacuation Hospital in the vation to the command carrier. played im- Before he entered the service 24 hours a in blacked-out pianes. post post, 23 Get Cadet Test day of his brothers, Arthur and Calvin, On our whose Ph/M 1-C in the about three way to the beach reports 3d Army, husband, splicing the wire under intense portant part proceedings years ago Pfc. Costello buildings that once housed a French are also overseas. His youngest came in on our boat's small re- A. Leech a and owing to the delicate nature of the 14.—Tests to was at the Hecht Kenneth spent year enemy fire. BILOXI, Miss., April employed Co. He iron foundry. Robert, is a Senate brother, page. ; ceiving set—the first was from one a half in the Pacific prior to being John C. chief radio enlisted man's unusual postopera- determine their qualifications as is an uncle of 12-year-old Dolores The outfit turns out Gray, jr„ thousands Sergt. Nisson’s wife lives at 319 of our in The tive a from Dr. observation planes: assigned to duty Washington. technician aboard a submarine in condition, dispatch preaviation cadets are now being Costello, whose accomplishments of golden loaves Seventeenth N.E. daily. place Mrs. Eda E. “There's a house here, a award was presented by Lt. Gen. the 3605 Kennedy’s ship disclosed. given 23 privates from Washington, when she ran her grandparents’ to- for covering Pacific, Taylor street, Among targets the 155-mm. Nisson, his mother, lives at 1332 A few at his field The doctors on the carrier had D. the Air bacco farm near gun emplacement." minutes George S. Patton, jr., Brentwood, Md. His skill under C., by Army Forces’ Train- Bryantown, Md., howitzers of the 182d, of which Trinidad avenue N.E. iater—“no more emplacements." headquarters. stress of battle enabled him to fur- decided to seek consultation before ing Command: for two months last summer after j on the The second radio message told of Col. James F. Pinkney, 701 Six- nish vital information to his com- operating seaman, and after Hugh D Kilpatrick, H. C„ Jr. the death of another uncle, have Iyesdon.McKelway. a large cave with two small teeth Alexandria, for meri- visual signaling between the two John M. Hardell, J. W.. Jr. been given wide gauge street, manding officer, thereby contribut- Basinger, James 6. Saeger. C. M„ HI publicity. tracks Dr. was sent over running into it. “Still under torious service, at the headquarters ing directly to the of more ships, Kennedy Jiaclnto, Patrick J. Ollstrap. C. W., Jr. Dolores’ father, Pfc. Wilfrid Cos- Four Nazi Forts Fall to 7th sinking Peck. Donald S. Rtchardson, R. M. Army construction," the message said. Force in Burma. to assist. After a short consultation an of the 10th Air than 30,000 tons of enemy Schlkevlts. N. Q. Gould, J. C A. tello, Infantryman who also is shipping. naval Shortly afterwards one of our planes Lt. Joseph L. Padgett, for service with the doctor, it was de- Morrissey, G. t. Hodge, Albert Z. in the Southwest Pacific, and Pfc. Oolt. Francis J. Riggs, Edward B. radioed, “cave and tracks of a naval combat termined that Dr. Kennedy should Howard Costello have met Without Shot Fired destroyed. as commander Third Oak Leaf Cluster Graham. John V. Moote, James E. three Being Construction Juenemann. H. J. halted." demolition unit during the invasion operate. Johnston. D. T. times on a Pacific island since they How four German forts fell to around with thr who S/Sergt. Francis Norman Libby, The next Evans, Harold 8. Towles. WUUam L. sergeant, Southern France. He is now as- morning the doctor re- Hughes, went overseas. a of bombardier, 523 Tuckerman street Bernard J. 7th Army unit without the firing called out the names of each of Coast Guardsmen Aid Landing. sistant officer in charge of a project of a was a N.W., now in the 8th AAF in shot explained in letter the men in the forts. One after Coast Guardsmen Whitney C. Va. His wife lives Eng- in Alexandria, land. 9 D. C. Area Men from Lt. Bernard Lieb to his wife, another, they came trooping out. Brill, petty officer, first class, of at Marion, N. C. Help who lives at 5822 Colorado ave- "Yesterday was a field day. I 3891 Porter st. N.W., and William ric. uominic in. nosa, nui Mary- Air Medal Sink Nazi Submarine nue N.W. never saw so many prisoners in my J. Hawk, jr„ coxswain, of 512 Sixth land avenue N.E., with the 30th In- Lt. who won the Silver Star life. One fort after another street 1st Lieb, hung S.W., Washington, D. C., in Lt. George W. Barnes, Jr., 1219 Nine District men were fantry Division Germany. aboard for bravery in action last Novem- up the white flag as soon as we made were aboard a tank-landing D. 3542 Thirty-third street N.W., for meri- the four escorts ship Corpl. Jefferson Pack, destroyer recently ber, wrote the letter in the “living the initial break-through. What a at Okinawa. torious achievement “while Thirteenth street N.W., for heroic partici- reported to have sunk a German room of the best house in town.” sight to see these ‘supermen’ stream- on 5th pating in aerial flight a pe- submarine achievement in action the during in the mid-Atlantic. “Things were Just a bit too warm ing out, terrified, throwing away Al- riod of sustained operations in the Three Men Win Army front in Northern Italy. On the U. S. S. Varlan were Sea- during the last few days—in fact, their guns and helmets. All claimed Wings ar- Mediterranean theater of opera- PORT LAUDERDALE, Fla.—Three though subjected to sporadic man 1/c Charles Emler Heinbaugh, last night’s sleep was my first in to be good Germans now and, of tions." His squadron has been Washington men received here re- tillery and mortar fire, he continued flying Jr., 2024 Jackson street N.E., and four. I didn’t know I could go so course, hated Hitler. They must missions in direct tactical support of cently Navy air crewman clearing an area of antipersonnel Steward's Mate 1/c Joe Stevens, long without any,” he wrote. have believed I was the official tor- wings the 5th Army ever since the beach- after combat in Grum- mines. After working several hours, 1600 Meigh place N.E. ‘”nie first days of the past four turer when I came to question them. training ma- head landings at Salerno. man Avenger torpedo he came under grazing enemy Aboard the U. S. S. Otter were were the grueling ones, but on the I had a six-day growth of beard, no bombing his 1st Lt. Lloyd P. Salyer, B-24 planes. John Bohonis, husband of chine-gun fire but continued SM 1/c Orville Aiken, 1810 H third, we began to crack them. sleep for three days and dusty. 3937 street place; McGehee task and completed it before day- pilot, Legation N.W., Fireman 1/c Robert Warren Rus- That’s when four forts were taken "I got a cut across my nose when Evlynn Bohonis, and later were now in Italy. He is with the 15th Thomas L. Long, 18, son of Mr. and light. Attacking troops sell, 2821 North Franklin road, Ar- without a shot being fired. I walked into the door of one of the area with- AAF and has had 14 air fights. Mrs. James P. both able to pass through the lington, Va.; Quartermaster 3/c Al- “The infantry had taken one fort forts because I couldn’t keep my Long, aviation radiomen, third and Wilson out suffering casualties. bert Caya, Jr., 1719 D street S.E., and and prisoners were brought up. eyes open for lack of sleep. class, P. Unit Citation D. son of Mrs. Vera E. Lt. Col. Argyie Jones, for meri- Distinguished and Electrician 1/c James I. Collins, Spotting a lieutenant who didn’t act “Yesterday was a picnic (mem- Shealy, an aviation torious service in England. S/Sergt. Patrick H. Barber, now 1927 Park road N.W. like a Nazi, I started to question ories of days in Southern Prance). Shealy, machinist's third class. Capt. Robert L. Simpson, 4725 in Belgium, 2026 Thirty-fourth Attached to the U. S. S. Hubbard him, outlining meanwhile their situ- The only difference is that people mate, Colorado avenue N.W., a medical street S.E., received the Distin- were S us. KUNMING, CHINA—The four founders of the Washingtonians- 1/c Henry Eugene Adams, ation. I tried to have him re- aren’t cheering Instead, we officer of an air evacuation guished Unit Citation as a member 324 Eighteenth street N.E., and turn to the other forts and ask throw them out of their homes when Col. Burgess Assigned in-China Club get together for dinner in a Kunming restaurant. squadron with the 12th Air Force of the 9th AAF 10th Reconnaissance Water Tender 3/c John Rudolph them to surrender. He refused. we take over. At first, I didn’t like Assignment of Col. Woodbury M. was cited for They are (left to right): Maj. Milton F. Jacob in Italy, meritorious Group who flew in the face of in- Wertz, T/Sergt. Emcke, 195 Thirty-fifth street N.E. For 20 minutes I argued—until the job, especially since they’re all Burgess of Bethesda, Md., as deputy in 1355 street F. Riordan and achievement setting up forward tense enemy fire at an altitude of Wilwitt, Ingraham N.W;; Lt. Don George Ralph De Paul, fireman, he broke down and brust into tears. old. However, one look at their chief of staff for administration of for the evacuation points wounded. 25 feet, unarmed and unescorted, Capt. Joseph W. Marshall, 4260 Wheeler road S.E. first class, was a member of the He gegged me to send a sergeant swastikas and their literature and the 20th Bomber Command in India Pfc. Richard W. Montgomery, Jr., to photograph beaches on which —U. 8. Army Signal Corps. crew of the U. 8. Hayter. I in his place. Therefore, we w?nt I’m happy to do it to those rats.” has been announced. «