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JUNE 1977 Volume 102, Number 6 National Commander
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Scott Key's famous line in "The Star- NOTES ON Spangled Banner" will still apply. Which one?
. . still ." OUR DESK our flag was there . .
Letters to the Editor
Sir: Until I read the April issue I thought the Legion had forgotten us World War I veterans. But one issue cannot tell the story. The Legion . . . ourflag was still there . . should now get behind a $150 a month pension for the thinning ranks The Bicentennial celebration did Carter's "human rights" pronounce- of World War I veterans. They de- not end last Dec. 31. The win- ments underscores continuing faith serve to live out their years in dig- ning of American Independence and in the American ideal. nity. It would be a pittance compared the forging of the Constitution was We don't know who really con- with the $35 billion spent for younger a process that spanned more than a ceived the first flag of 13 stars, which veterans' benefits. It's about time the decade. On June 14, Flag Day, the have grown to 50. And unfortu- Legion and the country woke up to Stars and Stripes will be 200 years nately, the Continental Congress did the needs of the men of WWI. As old. not specify an arrangement for the Commander Rogers said in his fine A lot has changed; today we live stars. Many variations followed. April message: "Germany could in an age of satellites, missiles and Many historians feel there is not have emerged as the dominant force airplanes, but name one thing that enough evidence to confirm the leg- in Europe, the No. 1 military power flies higher than Old Glory in the end that Philadelphia seamstress in the world. Only God knows where hearts of Americans. Betsy Ross made the first Stars and that would have taken all of us." It was June 14, 1777, when the Con- Stripes. But true or not, the original E. M. Moody tinental Congress, meeting in Phila- flag with 13 stars in a circle is pop- Houston, TX
delphia, resolved "that the flag of the ularly known as the Betsy Ross flag. Sir: Your Bicentennial year cover- thirteen United States be thirteen That's good enough for us. age was wonderful but the April stripes alternating red and white, The important thing is that the World War I issue was the best. It that the union be thirteen stars, flag is still here. In recent years the made me really lonesome because I white in a blue field representing a flag has been disgraced in violent lived through all of it. I was clerk new constellation." scenes at home and abroad. It has of Draft Board No. 2 in Cleveland How prophetic. A "new constella- been torn down, stomped on, burned. during WWI. Mrs. G. E. McAtee tion" implies something unique in Yet as reprehensible and repulsive as Homestead, FL the universe, a nation of freedom these acts are, they demonstrate that with laws above men. That is what the culprits recognize America's Sir: Navy veterans of World War I the United States is all about—a na- greatness. To insult greatness is a were disappointed that attention was tion that was to embody hope, not cheap path to publicity and notoriety. not given in April to those who took only for those of 1777, but for gen- But the path to greatness hasn't the AEF over and brought it back erations of men and women of di- been cheap. Brave men and women safely. C. L. Links verse thought, tradition, culture and have carried the Stars and Stripes as New York, NY custom. a symbol of freedom to the farthest Today, the United States remains corners of earth. Astronauts have Sir: Thanks to Commander Rogers the great hope of freedom-loving planted it on the moon. Each act has for his April message on World War people everywhere—whatever the renewed every American's pledge of I and thanks for the magazine's in- prevailing circumstances in South allegiance, acknowledged our debt to terest in veterans of World War I. I America, Africa, Asia and Europe; the past and confirmed our responsi- attended the Paris caucus of the yes, even inside the Soviet Union, bility to the future. American Legion in 1919. Communist China and their satellites. We can only pray that when the Dr. Maynard Mires The popular reaction to President 300th Flag Day rolls around, Francis Redwood, NY
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Sir: The April World War I issue is Sir: To resume relations with Hanoi outstanding. I was there. is to forget our 52,000 dead and the Dunphy's Irish. Glenn Pullbn thousands in our VA hospitals who San Gabriel, CA are crippled for life. William J. Sebekos The luck of Sir: As an amateur history buff, I Fort Lee, NJ recommend the April issue to anyone Sir: Your article on women in the interested in World War I. the Americans. military (March) was praised highly John C. Spence III at National Commission on the South Pasadena, CA the International Women's Year which Sir: I remember World War II inci- met recently at the State Depart- dents when union seamen refused to ment. Tom Mahoney sail into war zones. For God's sake, Poughkeepsie, NY do not put the country at the mercy Sir: I had two women in my reserve of a union vote. J. N. Rizzi engineer company. They were a real Tarrytown, NY asset, but we were classified a com- bat unit and they were forced to Sir: The U.S. lead in space technol- leave. We should work to see that all ogy is the cornerstone of our national members of the armed forces are defense. The cruise missile and laser treated equally. defense against ballistic missiles de- 1st Lt. W. J. Bloedorn pends on continuing research. NASA Oconomowoc, must be funded. Rand Corp. says our WI space program to date has returned Sir: I've just read your March ar- 14 to one as an investment. No ticle on women in the military. I 'make-work' project can match didn't know the American Legion that. William H. Angevine had turned into a bunch of women's Columbus, OH libbers. Women do not belong in the armed forces. This is debasing the Sir: I resent the references to retired whole system. The term "MS" is a military personnel now working for communist introduction. government as "double dippers." We Tony Koehler are simply paid a day's wages for a Jefferson, WI day's work. It is good practice for Sir: The government is apparently any employer to hire someone with V&y Ctioiee * Pan? Sheeted experience to insure maximum prof- aggressively promoting a unisex mili- Bfended hush Whiskey its. Why is it bad practice in govern- tary policy and ultimately will be ment? B. Lee Reeves placing women into combat units. Collinsville, IL Let's wake up and take a good look at the women's liberation movement Sir: Your April story on the Salva- as it affects the military. tion girls Army donut reminded me John J. Gmerek of my late Navy husband's accounts Forest Hills, NY of Salvation Army girls in China, bringing coffee to Navy men on guard Sir: Regarding Cdr. Rogers' call duty in 1912 in the old China Sea for open debate on the Panama Canal Patrol. Philip A. Starr issue (April 1977, p. 2) there is no - Mrs. What luck! Irish whiskey - San Diego, CA issue to debate. The Panama Canal is specially for the U.S. property and we should keep it. blended Sir: We in South Dakota are proud Omer E. Brooner American palate. The first of the April tribute to Harvey Dunn, Vinita, OK Irish with a new, soft taste. "Artist of the AEF." Sixty-one of his Sir: Right or wrong, the draft evad- So smooth and mellow. finest paintings are shown in the ers have been pardoned. South Dakota Memorial Art Center Let's go on Here are two refreshing ways to other things. The American Legion on the campus of South Dakota State to enjoy Dunphy's: needs the cooperation of President University at Brookings. We invite Red-Haired Mar Carter. Harold L. Jorgenson y all Legionnaires to visit the center. Lincoln, NE \V20z. Dunphy's Robert J. Caere 4 oz. chilled tomato juice President of Board Sir: Based on letters printed in the Lemon wedge South Dakota Art Center April issue, one might assume that AdashofTobasco not a single Legionnaire agrees with Sir: I found the March article on Salt to taste the pardon of Vietnam war resisters. women in the military most informa- Cucumber spear optional. As a Legionnaire for more than 30 tive. Their opportunities are expand- years I favor the President's action Irish Sunset ing. But I disagree with those women without qualification. V/20Z. Dunphy's who seek combat status. Combat is Paul Brown 1 V2 oz. orange juice a very dangerous and physically de- Kansas City, MO V2 oz. lime juice manding job . . . The security of our 4 dashes Grenadine country is too serious a business to Editor's Note: As the April issue Shake with ice and pour be left to sexual politics and strident went to press letters were running ingredients and ice into tall glass. voices. 15 to 1 against the pardon. The ratio
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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JUNE 1977 3 The Commander's Message
It's Time to Look To Our Defenses
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Since its birth almost 60 years ago, the American Soviet effort. There is something ominous about in- Legion has steadfastly preached national security, creasingly blatant Russian moves aimed at chaos in convinced by the lessons of war that we live in a world southern Africa that could seriously affect our energy where predators respect only power, and where peace and mineral supplies. is possible only when totalitarian bullies are confronted Add to this reports that a dozen nations are currently with unacceptable punishment. seeking nuclear weapons and that within 10 years the Often, The American Legion has been a voice in a world's nuclear power plants will create more plutonium the seeming wilderness ; sometimes it has been scorned and — basic ingredient for atomic bombs—than now reviled and resented. Defense is a costly business. It exists.
forces sacrifices on all of us ; it postpones favored public The potential for miscalculation and mischief is projects and private dreams. But history has demon- beyond our imagination. strated that the Legion's commitment is a proper com- Given this situation, The American Legion must re- mitment. new its demands that this nation move ahead vigor- This spring the issue of defense is before us once ously to maintain and strengthen its military superior- again. ity. We already endorse the cruise missile, MX missile, For several years evidence has been mounting that B-l bomber and Trident submarine programs. We must the Soviet Union was bent on global military superior- also impress on our elected leaders the need for inten- ity. Today it has come perilously close to that goal. sive scientific and technological research programs Moscow's cavalier rejection of President Carter's plan aimed at developing new offensive and defensive weap- for nuclear weapons reductions reflects its new strength. ons systems. Funds must be available to investigate Adm. Stanfield Turner, director of the Central Intel- laser defenses against ballistic missiles and other exotic ligence Agency, warned recently that the Soviets think programs. The NASA space program must be viewed "in 19th century terms." A viewpoint associated with realistically as a national defense investment and en- Bismarck or Victoria has little understanding for the couraged. sophisticated approach of the last six American Presi- None of this suggests that we should not continue to dents to the problems of disarmament. seek strategic arms limitation agreements with the "I think (the Soviets) are trying to compensate for Soviets. They should be pushed hard. If they succeed, their weaknesses, economic, ideological and political, by the door would be open to worldwide agreements. But building a military force that they hope will weigh in in very uncertain days, when leadership changes seem the balance," Admiral Turner said. likely within the Kremlin and when atomic weapons
"They hope that this power . . . can be translated into could spread like mushrooms, American military superi- political opportunity, to political leverage on the rest ority must not be in question. of the world and therefore that they can, without neces- sarily going to war, gain an overall political advantage." Turner said the military balance is gradually eroding to the Soviet side, but he said it is not too late to regain our superiority. "I think the people of the United States are perceiving this need," he said.
Americans must perceive it. There is something chilling about Moscow's flat re- jection of President Carter's proposals and the counter demand that the U.S. abandon nuclear bases in Europe. There is something frightening about every new set of military and civil defense comparisons that reflect the
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It's been more than 40 years since coast schedules in slightly more than Gooney Bird exploits are legendary the first Douglas DC-3 twin- 50 hours. and were the favorite subjects of dis- engined aircraft rolled off the as- With World War II, the DC-3 was patches, poems and songs. One crip- sembly line in Santa Monica, CA, modified into the military C-47. GIs pled DC-3 landed safely after its and some 3,000 still are flying every in the Pacific affectionately pinned crew had bailed out. Another seem- day here in the United States and in the "Gooney Bird" label on the C-47 ingly stricken DC-3 bounced 50 feet some of the most remote parts of after the region's ubiquitous birds. in the air when the pilot attempted the world. Ten thousand were built. The modified DC-3 became the an ocean ditching, recovered and flew The DC-3 certainly earned its rep- basic troop and cargo carrier around on to its base. And then there was utation as the most durable, versatile the world, a hospital plane and some- the DC-3 that scraped a mountain and ubiquitous plane ever built. In times a bomber. Dwight Eisenhower peak but landed safely with 12 feet its own way, it was almost as much praised the plane as one of the five of its wing sheared off. a pace setter in American aviation pieces of equipment that did the most The first DC-3 (for Douglas Com- as was the Wright Brothers Flyer to win World War II. The others mercial) was flown from Clover Field - that made the first powered flight at were the bulldozer, the Jeep, the 2y2 in Santa Monica, Dec. 17, 1935. It Kitty Hawk, NC, in 1903. ton truck and the amphibious "duck." was conceived and built by the Doug- Versions of both are on display in The C-47 scored again in various las Aircraft Co. which has grown the new Air and Space Museum in capacities during the Korean and into today's McDonnell Douglas Corp. Washington. Vietnam conflicts. It was both the first luxury trans- It's the commercial version of the In Vietnam, the C-47 served not port for commercial service and the Douglas transport that is called the only as a transport but also a flare bellwether of air travel to come. Its DC-3. It brought transcontinental plane and night gunship, ferreting cabin configuration provided 20 to commercial flight. It was the first out enemy positions and sometimes 30 seats for passengers. Its heated commercial transport to turn a profit strafing them, particularly in the Sai- cabins, soundproofing and power with passengers on regular coast-to- gon perimeter. (Continued on page 40)
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Prime Minister Churchill and President Roosevelt at 1943 meeting.
It was a warm summer night at would be slowed down until Germany crossing operation in 1943. His mis- the White House in June 1942. was demolished. Marshall wanted to givings were many, as were his Present were President Roosevelt, win the European war as soon as doubts and forebodings. He argued Prime Minister Winston Churchill, humanly possible and as economi- firmly and convincingly for the Gen. George Catlett Marshall, Gen. cally as possible. This was the best British point of view. Albert Wedemeyer—and a number of way to do it in his estimation, but he And then came Winston Churchill other top war strategists. It was a had to sell the idea to the British. on June 18. Churchill wasted no time night when Churchill's magic with Marshall made a brilliant presen- as he frankly went to work at unsell- words in all probability changed the tation, off the cuff, using few notes, ing Roosevelt on the 1943 attack course of world history. but there was considerable opposi- plan. His argument centered around The almost forgotten tale actually tion. Heated debates were held at 10 Britain's inability to keep its masses began approximately two months Downing Street, one of which was of troops inactive for such a long earlier, in April, when Roosevelt's attended by King George VI. Finally, period. The public was clamoring for top man was sent on a special mis- because of Marshall's selling ability, action and results, he said, and the sion. Harry Hopkins was the Presi- and because of the high respect the troops were in desperate need of an dent's eyes and ears, as well as his British had for this military genius, offensive to bolster their morale. official mouthpiece, when he headed they agreed to a 1943 invasion plan. His solution was to take the offen- for London to undertake a highly Harry Hopkins and Marshall flew sive somewhere in the Mediterranean secret negotiation with the British. back to Washington. area. First the Germans must be With Hopkins went Gen. Marshall As soon as these men left England squeezed out of North Africa, then and a number of his top staff mem- the wheels of dissent began turning. southern Italy should be taken and bers. The men were convinced that Strange things were initiated by the occupied, and lastly, Europe should the Allies should invade Europe by British when Lord Louis Mount- be invaded through the Balkans. crossing the English Channel in early batten arrived in Washington on The Prime Minister's argument July 1943, not in 1944, and they June 3, 1942. Lord Louis was aristo- was not new. The strategy he pro- wanted to strike Normandy. cratic and widely noted for his socia- posed to take control of Europe was Almost all of the Allied might bility, and Roosevelt enjoyed his af- historically familiar—a major inva- could be massed for this all-out fable story-telling ability. Soon after sion along the Belgrade-Warsaw axis. victory operation—shipping, fire his Washington arrival, Lord Louis He kept stressing to Roosevelt the power, air power and manpower. spent five hours with Roosevelt military strategy behind his views, The Pacific war against the Japanese trying to turn him against a Channel but as it turned out, his reasoning
8 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JUNE 1977 was entirely political. was no doubt one of the decade's Britain was greatly concerned most dramatic. Most of those present with its waning relations with coun- felt that Wedemeyer had won hands tries such as South Africa, Egypt, down. He began with logical reasons Australia and India. Government why an all-out offensive into France, officials were worried about the by crossing the English Channel, frame of mind of England's subjects should be undertaken in 1943. The —the will to win, even the will to Allies, by using this strategy, would survive was fast disappearing, be- go up through Germany and into cause of the nation's unwillingness Poland, thereby offsetting any pos- to take concrete action. But, Churchill sibility of Russian offensives at the believed, if England could win firm same time. Wedemeyer quoted im- control on both sides of the Mediter- pressive figures to his listeners and ranean, she could reestablish the stressed how, with the Pacific front Empire's lifeline. He was convinced slowed down, the Allies could com- that South Africa and Australia plete the job in 1943. There was no would be rejuvenated in their en- good reason the Allies shouldn't go thusiasm for Britain's leadership, ahead in 1943, according to the and that such action would securely colonel, because the Allies had the bind Egypt and India to his island men, the weapons, the ships and the Empire. And lastly, the war had to Gen. Marshall planes necessary to win. be directed away from England, in But Wedemeyer lost. colonel would dis- order to give Britishers a chance to nounced that the Many of those present found the catch their breath. This was most cuss the American argument for a solution agreed upon between Roose- 1943 Channel crossing, and would important thought Churchill. A re- velt and Churchill a little difficult to spite from the storm would revive present reasons against any prior swallow. The President was obviously diversions as those suggested by his people's resistance. such influenced by his admiration of the Churchill. Roosevelt listened intently during Prime Minister. Churchill won his The lean colonel was Albert Wede- his after-dinner discussions with the case to avoid a 1943 Channel cross- meyer, later a general and the Com- British Prime Minister. He was im- ing operation, but his desire for an manding General of the 6th Army pressed with the arguments put forth offensive from Belgrade to Warsaw between 1949 and 1951. by Churchill and on that fateful June Wedemeyer was quickly scuttled when Russia had studied at the German War night, a little after the clock struck got wind of the plan and screamed College in Berlin for almost two 10, Roosevelt summoned all of his her objections. Churchill and Roose- years from August 1936 to June military strategists to the White — velt backed off from the Balkan plan, 1938. He had written a detailed 100- House. After everyone had arrived and in place of this, the President page report of what he had learned and was seated, Churchill began his agreed to invade Sicily, and the long while in Berlin, a copy of which was impassioned plea—to some in atten- and bitter battle up the boot of Italy read thoroughly by Marshall. Mar- dance it was his most brilliant dis- was ordained. shall was so impressed with Wede- sertation of the war years. Documents we now have indicate meyer's abilities that in 1940 he Churchill stressed that in his that 1943 might have been the best made him one of his key staff opinion, 1943 was much too soon for time to undertake the Normandy planners. As a top Marshall aide, the Allies to go all out in a Channel invasion. In the summer of 1943 Wedemeyer had a leading role in crossing operation. He said that the Hitler had only 29 divisions in the preparing the attack plan for the German war machine was as yet Low Countries and in France. The 1943 Channel crossing offensive. He unimpaired and that such a military Allies found 58 waiting for them had been a key spokesman at the move would prove to be another when the Channel crossing was made secret London conferences in April. Dunkirk or Dieppe—but on a more in 1944. The Germans gained valu- The debate between Churchill and colossal scale. His second point cen- able time and were subsequently able Wedemeyer that fateful June night tered on the belief that a major to strengthen their defenses of the offensive was an absolute necessity beaches and their West Wall. long before 1943 rolled around. Then Wedemeyer's prediction that the he began using a colorful wall map Russians would utterly destroy the to sell his idea of a great North German Sixth Army during the
African sweep ; and a drive from the winter of 1942-1943 proved correct. Mediterranean through Belgrade and The Wehrmacht was encircled and to Warsaw. He quickly traced his destroyed at Stalingrad, and the hor- wooden pointer across the map and rifying German military might, so as he did, his oratorical talent drove feared by Churchill, was decimated. home the picture of a Europe almost Was the historic White House entirely occupied by victorious Allied decision that June night in 1942 troops. Russia, he pitched, would be right or wrong ? We will never really kept away from the Mediterranean know, but the result is still with us and the Adriatic, and held within her today. The advantage we might have pre-war borders. had over Russia in Europe was lost. When Churchill finished and sat Turn the clock back and imagine called down, Roosevelt on Marshall. for a moment what it would be like Marshall had little to say at this today, if the Anglo-American mili- point, as Chief of Staff, but he tary might had swept over all of nodded toward a tall slender colonel Germany and into central Europe. sitting to his right. He merely an- Gen. Wedemeyer —Robert W. Pelton
THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JUNE 1977 9 Air National Guard tankers from New England refuel Air Force jet fighters over Atlantic. Jets head for NATO duty.
a time when most Ameri- six four-engine flying tankers that the $100-million bomber. Atcans were worrying about vaca- the 126th was deploying to Europe Over the tanker intercom came tions, Capt. Larry Allen, a Gaines- for air-to-air refueling of U.S. Air word from the boom operator to the ville, FL, architect and a member of Force jet fighters taking part in pilot, "B-l in sight and moving to- the 146th Signal Battalion, Florida NATO exercises. ward hookup." A few seconds later, Army National Guard, received or- And at Harrisburg International the B-l took the long boom connec- ders directing him and 27 enlisted Airport in Pennsylvania, members of tion into its fuel intake valve and members of his organization to pre- that state's 193rd Tactical Electronic commenced to suck in some 10,000 pare for movement to Illesheim, Warfare Group were preparing to pounds of jet fuel. Germany, for a month's duty. fly their aircraft EC-121, loaded with While on its West Coast refueling Two weeks later the detachment exotic and highly classified electronic mission, the New Hampshire group moved to Fort Campbell, KY, where equipment, to the U.S. Air Force was ordered out over the Pacific to it was integrated with the 501st base at Rhine-am-Main, Germany. It refuel squadrons of Air Force fighter- Signal Battalion of the Army's crack also was to be involved in the NATO bombers returning to the United 101st Airborne Division. The Flor- war games, flying supersecret mis- States after deployment to the Far idians were filling vacancies in the sions over Europe. From Germany, East in the tense days following the 501st, bringing it to full strength and the unit would fly to Norway to take murder of two U.S. Army officers at effectiveness for participation in part in other multi-nation exercises, Panmunjom. REFORGER, a massive field exer- flying well above the Arctic Circle, George Washington, patron saint cise designed to test the Army's more than 3,000 miles from its home of the militia, would never have be- ability to deploy rapidly to Europe base. lieved it. Nor would he be able to in a real war situation. Probing the skies over California, comprehend the idea of Army and About the same time, the owner of its fuel tanks half empty, the coun- Air National Guardsmen scattered a Chicago air conditioning business, try's newest experimental bomber, around the world, training with reg- Lt. Col. Willard R. Borkenhagen, the B-l, sought the refueling boom of ular outfits on ground where they Jr., a pilot in the 126th Air Refuel- a KC-135, a jet tanker of the New might, one day, be called to fight a ing Group, Illinois Air National Hampshire Air National Guard, real battle against a real enemy. Guard received orders to fly one of somewhere above and out front of The National Guard has gone
10 TH T AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JUNE 1977 global. Or, as Maj. Gen. LaVern Weber, Chief of the Pentagon's Na- tional Guard Bureau, put it, "We have come a long way from the village green and the local armory." There isn't anything that new or secret about most of this. Some units of the Guard and reserves have been involved in joint and combined exer- cises in the United States and over- seas for several years. But for one reason or another, the story hasn't been very well told and much of the American public still views the Na- tional Guard as an organization of a few hundred thousand young fel- lows who put on a uniform once a week and report to the local armory for a couple of hours of squads right and left. Too often, Air National Guard pilots are presumed to be doing nothing more for national de- fense than boring holes in the clouds over Peoria. Under the direction of the Strate- gic Air Command, units of the Air National Guard have been providing air-to-air refueling of jet fighters over Europe for nearly a decade. Flying obsolete KC97L four-engine, propeller driven planes, the Air Guard has, at times, handled as much as 70 percent of European refueling requirements, thus freeing SAC tank- ers for missions elsewhere around the globe. Dubbed "Operation Creek Party," the European refueling project re- quires that at least once a year Air Lt. Col. Clarence L. Withers Jr. (center), commander of the 201st Red Horse, Ft. Guardsmen in a dozen states shuck Indiantown Gap, PA, discusses a project with engineers at the Rhein-Main Air Base their civilian clothes, take leave of their jobs and families and fly to Germany where they remain for 13 days, flying daily refueling missions on courses that extend from Italy to Norway. The National Guard Bureau maintains a small operational head- quarters at the Rhine-am-Main air base. But each unit brings to Europe its own operational staff and ad- ministrative and maintenance per- sonnel. They thus can operate almost independent of the Air Force, except Pennsylvania for mission assignments. Air Guard crewmen with the 193rd TEW Group discuss operations with two Royal Norwegian Air Force officers during deployment to Andoya Air Station, The Guardsmen are not on active Norway. They are (left to right) Maj. Larry Rutt, Capt. Bjorn Velle, Lt. Col. Ed Boggs, duty, but on "active duty for train- 1st Lt. Tom Mills, Capt. Rolf Markussen and Capt. Terry Eichelberger ing," a fine distinction which, under the law, leaves command and control rarely missed a rendezvous. 11 Guard groups fully qualified and of the units with their home states. Retirement of the old KC97L's flying global missions for SAC. When a unit completes its 13 days took place at the end of April and About 20 percent of SAC's flying of duty in Europe, it heads for home assignment of all-jet KC135's to the tanker fleet will be maintained and and is replaced by a refueling unit Air National Guard was nearly com- operated by the Air Guard. Air from another state. In the nearly 10 pleted at that time. United States Guard units will have tankers on years that "Creek Party" has been in fighter aircraft in Europe now will "runway alert" at all times, ready to operation, Air National Guard air- be refueled by active Air Force and fly anywhere in the world to refuel craft have flown more than 6,000 Air Guard tankers flying mainly SAC bombers. sorties, made 44,931 hookups and from bases in the United States. At a time when tight ceilings on delivered more than 131 million Four Air National Guard refueling defense budgets restrict military pounds of jet fuel to thirsty fighters. groups are already operational in the manpower and operations, ready Guard planes have been on station KC135's and others are receiving the availability of Air National Guard over Europe 365 days a year; have more modern aircraft and training tankers provides SAC with an active never had a major accident and have crews. By October 1977, there will be reserve tanker fleet that it has never
THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JUNE 1977 H before had at its disposal on a world- missions, Army Chief of Staff Gen. not miss a single day aloft during its wide basis. Not only does this ease Bernard W. Rogers is pressing for tour in the active war zone. the strain on SAC, but it assures better equipment and further inte- The highly classified mission of the realistic training for the citizen- gration of Guard and reserve units 193rd can only be described gen- airmen, better preparing them for into active force training exercises erally. It uses its very complex the jobs they would be called on to at home and abroad. General Rogers broadcast and receiving equipment to do in the event of war. And it eases considers the priority Guard units as intercept "enemy" transmissions, jam up on the defense budget because the elements of what he describes as the communication nets and missile Guard can perform these missions on "cutting edge" of the fighting force. guidance systems and do other bits a continuing basis at much lower While most overseas missions of of electronic magic. It is the only cost than the active Air Force. the Guard are for training, there such unit in the country's defense The KC135, which compares with have been many instances when the establishment to have its particular the 707 commercial airliner, carries Guard has been called on to provide type of task. Thus, it is called more —and can offload—80,000 pounds of support for a deployed military force. frequently than any other Guard fuel, enough to refuel a whole covey While National Guard organizations unit for special missions, largely of fighters. It has a flying range of were not ordered into federal service overseas. In recent years it has been 5,000 miles and a great deal more if for the war in Vietnam until the final on station in South America, the it wants to draw down on its refuel- years, Air National Guard squadrons, Middle-East, Central America and ing tanks. This means that it can assigned to the Military Airlift Com- all of the NATO countries. take off from a base anywhere in the mand and flying propeller driven The Air National Guard has yet United States and fly to any point transport planes, flew thousands of another type of unique unit—engi- on the globe to suckle thirsty air- neering squadrons that are loaded craft. with civilian experts in the construc- Some missions call for a KC135 to tion field. Pennsylvania has one accompany a flight of fighters on an of these—-the 201st Civil Engineer overwater flight. In these instances, Flight. the big bird acts like the mother hen. Called "Red Horse," short for
Not only is the KC135 there to re- Rapid Engineering Deployable . . . fuel, but to handle most of the Heavy Operational Repair Squadron navigational chores with its more Engineers, the unit has men of all extensive and sophisticated naviga- technical skills and equipment ready tional instruments. to go anywhere in the world to build Operations of this sort demand the anything from a railroad to a jet closest kind of cooperation between runway. the regular Air Force crews and the The outfit, commanded by Lt. Col. Guardsmen. Beyond that, they de- Clarence L. Withers, Jr., a profes- mand confidence and respect, for sional engineer from Reading, PA, there are no filling stations out there has built structures on United States in that vast airspace, just that flying Air Force bases in Europe, installed tanker which more often than not is tons of war supplies to American arresting barriers for supersonic jets handled by a largely citizen-airmen bases in Southeast Asia. In most at a Maine Air Force base in sub- crew. It requires exact navigation, cases, the Guardsmen were in active zero weather on a rush basis and laid expert handling of the boom and duty for training status. railroad tracks at another base. In the crews the it will de- close coordination between What this means is that the months ahead have of the two planes. banker, the baker and the automobile tachments doing major demolition The 10-year association between maker took leave from their civilian and construction at Travis AFB in active and guard crews during jobs to serve in aircraft crews flying California and Hill AFB in Utah. "Creek Party" developed an enthu- transports on long, over the Pacific In five years, according to Colonel siasm and genuine mutual respect, flights to Saigon and other places in Withers, the 201st has completed not previously a hallmark of active the war zone. more than 35 major construction duty and guard relationships. For Pennsylvania's 193rd Tactical projects at a saving of several mil- A move equally as significant as Electronic Warfare Group, last sum- lion dollars for the government. the assignment of jet tankers to the mer's assignment to Germany and During January and February Air National Guard is a proposal Norway was not a new experience, 1977, the 146th Tactical Airlift Wing now under consideration by the even though it was the unit's first of the California Air National Guard Army to pre-position in Germany crossing of the Arctic Circle. It was furnished cargo planes from its units self-propelled artillery allocated to deployed for six months in Thailand at Van Nuys, CA, and Cheyenne, Army National Guard units. Under in 1970 in support of American WY, to support "Operation Jack this plan, Guard units would be forces in that country, Cambodia Frost," a joint Army-Air Force flown to Europe every summer for and Vietnam. maneuver in Alaska. two weeks of training. Not only will For its performance on that mis- And that is just the start of pro- this arrangement provide more real- sion, the 193rd, commanded by Col. grams that will see an increasing istic training, but it will assure that Nicholas J. Bereschak of Hershey, number of Army and Air National in the event of Soviet attack, the PA, received the U.S. Air Force Out- Guard units in the coming years Guard artillerymen could be flown to standing Unit Award for valor. It is playing roles in war games around Europe on short notice and have the only Guard unit to have been so the world, far removed from the vil- their artillery in position in a matter honored. lage greens on which the original of days. Only by rotating its members on Minutemen drilled, and light years Recognizing that there will be short tours, normally not exceeding away from the old concepts of week- little or no time in a future war for 30 days, was the 193rd able to sup- ly drill at the local armory. training Guard units with priority port its operation. But it managed to —James B. Deerin
12 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JUNE 1977 Where Are US Drivers Going':
General Motors, Volkswagen Chiefs Look at Tomorrow
By J. STUART PERKINS By ELLIOTT M. ESTES President, Volkswagen of America, Inc. President, General Motors Corp.
Whenever someone mentions the car of the future, Americans should be able to expect just about any- we think of electronic controls that guide a thing we want from the automobile of the future. vehicle safely at high speeds, miracle fuels that power We will certainly want our cars to be designed for it indefinitely and sleek styling that resembles a rocket our different individual transportation needs and life ship. styles in the future—whatever they will be. And we That is science fiction. The hard facts are that as the will certainly want them to be energy-efficient, pollution- auto industry plans for the 1980's and 1990's it must free, safe and affordable. work with the more practical, if imperfect, materials I have both confidence and concern whether we really at hand. A later generation will have to build the can expect them to be all these things. dream cars of the 22d century. My confidence is that our technology holds promise for The cars of the next decade or two will still have major improvements in our cars of the future. four wheels they will still ; have an internal combustion My concern is over who will decide what those cars engine; they will still burn fossil fuels, and will still will be like—whether we will be able to make the be driven by the driver, not some electronic gadgetry. choices from competing products in a free marketplace. Two factors that will determine Increasingly—and alarmingly—some what the car of the future will be people think the government should like are the energy crisis and federal make those decisions for us. They standards for safety and emissions. advocate more and more regulations These mean the car of the future that would restrict the kind of cars must be economical and must be safe. we will be allowed to have. Auto design will have to conform to It's true that those regulations, for certain standards but this does not the most part, are aimed at impor- mean that the car of the future will tant and necessary goals. And it's be dull to drive and available in only also true that government must reg- one standard version. ulate in some areas where the We are selling cars now—VWs, mechanics of the free marketplace Porsches and Audis—to fit the needs won't provide solutions necessary for of the next 20 years. While the three our common needs; an example is makes have distinct personalities, automotive emissions. But when reg- they share such attributes as excel- ulation is necessary, we should be dent use of space (small outside and sure that it is rational, cost-effective big inside), exceptional economy, and based on sound technical evi- spirited performance and something dence—so we know what we are that has been a rarity in many cars doing and what we're getting for lately, driving fun. what we're paying. Among subcompacts of the future, For most of our vital goals, how- Perkins the better ones will be like our Rab- ever, the tried-and-proven competi- Estes bit: front wheel drive, a transverse tive marketplace remains the fairest, engine for more interior space and less overhang, full most effective and most efficient regulator. We should independent suspension and a flexible interior that will rely on it whenever it will do the job, because it lets accommodate people or packages thanks to rear seats the consumer be the center of power and the maker of that fold out of the way. the final decisions. The Rabbit, which will be built in the United States Competition in the free marketplace is the best way to starting early in 1978, will be available with a diesel assure better gas mileage, for example. The consumer engine option this year. In tests by the Environmental knows its in his best interest to choose more efficient Protection Agency, the diesel achieved 52 miles per gal- vehicles when they meet his needs. That's why we at lon on the highway and 39 mpg in the city. General Motors have committed some $15 billion to Our work on experimental safety vehicles—we have completely redesign every car we make by the end of built two of them, one Rabbit-sized and the other the this decade. The results are already showing. We have size of our elegant compact, the Dasher—has shown us boosted the average fuel economy of our new cars by cars can be lightweight, small in size and safe. Many of almost 50 percent since 1974. the features developed for our ESV, such as the Rabbit's But if some misguided regulation limits the size of passive restraint system, have been incorporated in cars on the market to something too small to serve a modified form into our new generation of front wheel consumer's needs, he can exercise his free choice to drive cars. keep driving his less-efficient old car. Or if unwise regu- Cars like the Audi Fox and the soon-to-be-introduced lation keeps the price of gasoline below its real value, five cylinder Audi show that top-of-the-line cars do not he loses his incentive to choose more efficient cars. have to carry fuel-robbing weight or bulk. Many technological innovations have been brought to (Continued on page lf0) (Continued on page 40)
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seven sisters and no brothers. Adept XVI's wife, Marie Antoinette, and watchmaker, while pleading for the musically, he played the harp, flute in triumphantly recovering war- Americans, completed his third full- and violin. Determined to instill dis- provoking papers from a former length play between secret service cipline in a 13-year-old son more French minister plenipotentiary to assignments. It opened at the Come- inclined to hi-jinks than studies, London who had been causing a sen- die Frangaise in 1775, exactly one Andre Caron forced the boy to quit sation by posing as a woman. month before Patrick Henry's mem- school and serve as his apprentice. On July 3, 1775, George Washing- orable speech to the Virginia Revo- Pierre, at 19, developed an escape- ton assumed command of the Con- lutionary Convention. The Barber of ment for watches that streamlined tinental Army. Every European Seville was a resounding success, and them down from bulbous affairs to thought the Americans would be inspired no less than 11 operas from the flat pocket watch still used today. crushed by the British Army. Brit- 1782 to 1922. This earned him an invitation to Ver- ain's troops were well trained and In 1776, Thomas Paine published sailles for an audience with King supported by a population four times Common Sense, while Beaumarchais Louis XV. Pierre told the French that of the colonies. Also, Britain harried Louis XVI's powerful For- monarch that thanks to his escape- had banned shipment of all arms and eign Minister, the Count of Ver- ment, watches could be made small ammunition to the colonies in 1774. gennes, to consider French aid to the enough to fit into a lady's finger ring. Beaumarchais, alone among influ- colonies. In February, Beaumarchais Louis XV immediately ordered one ential Europeans, realized that the returned from London with the war- for his mistress, Madame de Pompa- Americans would never give up, that provoking papers he had negotiated dour. When Pierre Caron was subse- war was inevitable, and that without so long to obtain. For this the grate- quently appointed "Watchmaker to outside help, the colonists could hope ful king later restored Beaumar- the King," he unwittingly slipped his MHHIIIIDIH»H|IJ chais' civil rights. foot into the door of history. He Beaumarchais realized that finan- married a wealthy widow and as- cial aid would do the colonies little sumed the noble last name "de good. What the Americans needed Beaumarchais" from the of a JSafayette name ; were arms and supplies, which they property owned by his wife. could exchange for tobacco, indigo When she died the next year and rice. In 1776, he wrote Louis (1757), he broadened the scope of XVI: . . We must aid the Ameri- his activities. taught harp and He cans! If it is replied that we cannot guitar to Louis XV's daughters, and aid the Americans without drawing found time to author a dozen one- upon us a storm, I reply that this act plays, a staple of the nobility's danger can be averted if the plan be amusement. He sat once a week for adopted which I have so often pro- years as a judge, observing with re- posed, to aid the Americans se- vulsion an antiquated and harsh cretly. . . . system of justice. He then offered to personally take With his courtly connections, he charge of the operations he de- performed a service for the foremost scribed. He put forth his most per- military supplier of 18th century suasive argument: that war between France, Joseph Paris-Duverney. Du- the British and the Americans was verney had amassed colossal profits inevitable, and that if France did not during the Seven Years' War (1756- side with the Americans, she would 1763). Duverney appointed the ur- Bicentennial stamp honors role of the then have no hand in the conditions bane young courtier as his agent, Marquis de Lafayette in the Revolution of peace. ("Conditions" among other and the energetic and ambitious for no more than long, inconclu- things meant regaining territory Beaumarchais quickly acquired wide a sive guerrilla war. The colonial lead- lost in the Seven Years' War.) The expertise in military supplies and fi- ers had, by provocative word and king remained unmoved by this per- nancial affairs. When Duverney died brash act, no choice but to fight or suasive logic. in 1770, Beaumarchais was well- die. Ben Franklin said it best at the Finally, the British themselves remembered in the will, much to the signing of the Declaration of Inde- provided Louis XVI with the excuse outrage of Duverney's nephew. When pendence: "We must all hang to- he needed to accede to Beaumar- the ensuing court case ended three gether, or assuredly we shall all chais' plan they seized an Ameri- years later, Beaumarchais won his — hang separately." can ship bound for Nantes. In short just inheritance, but lost his civil Ten months before that signing, order, the French king loaned Beau- rights. To regain those rights, he Beaumarchais wrote Louis XVI urg- marchais one million livres (equiva- volunteered for the king's secret ing French support of the colonists. lent to about 2.1 million dollars), the service, hoping to win a royal In November Spanish government contributed pardon. 1775, England de- clared the colonies under naval another $1 million livres and Beau- Over the next three years, he suc- blockade. So Beaumarchais wrote marchais raised another $1 million ceeded brilliantly where many other the king again, arguing that an ex- livres from prominent merchant secret service agents had failed: in cess of justice toward his enemies friends. Totally caught up in his mis- preventing the publication of a libel- would be a flagrant injustice sion, he added in his considerable ous pamphlet on another of Louis to his own subjects, who would have to fortune. With this money, he estab- XV's mistresses, Madame du Barry; pay the price. Louis XVI did not lished a front company called Roder- in squelching the publication of a budge from his official position, al- igue, Hortalez et Compagnie; a scandalous pamphlet about Louis though one must assume that Beau- Spanish name to disassociate it geo- marchais' compelling logic was in- graphically from its real purpose. St. in the Caribbean Eustatius Island clining the king toward a far differ- Guns, muskets, blankets, shoes, played a key role as a supply port for the ent position. cannon, gunpowder and other mili- American Revolution. Inset is Baron Pierre Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais Not one to be idle, the former tary supplies from French govern-
THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JUNE 1977 \J ment arsenals were secretly put at his disposal for dispatch to the col- onies. Two months before the signing of the Declaration of Independence, a wealthy Frenchman at the head of a complex organization, fueled by zeal and secretly supported by a power- ful government, stood poised for ac- tion. On Aug. 17, 1776, news of the Declaration of Independence reached France. While the French rejoiced, Beaumarchais whirled from Paris to Bordeaux, Nantes, Le Havre and Marseilles, enlisting major merchants as agents, gaining the support of in- fluential nobles, hiring sea captains and crews, buying and outfitting ships and initiating portward move- ment of materiel from arsenals all over France. Prospects dimmed in the colonies as Washington was defeated on Long Island, and the British cap- tured New York City. In September, Congress agreed to send a commis- Forging sion to France to secure economic arms for the American Minutemen, from an old print and military assistance. The mem- tained "wine and dry goods"). In Domingo, but actually sailing to the bers were Silas Deane (already in February 1777, three arms-laden colonies. Paris), Thomas Jefferson and Ben- ships slipped out of Nantes and Le Beaumarchais was also solely re- jamin Franklin. Jefferson later Havre with 46 volunteers on board. sponsible for Baron von Steuben's bowed out due to his wife's illness, Sailing towards Santo Domingo, the contribution to the war with Britain. and he was replaced by Arthur Lee. ships swung north at the last mo- Captain von Steuben had left the the end of 1776, Beaumar- By ment towards a landfall in Ports- Prussian Army in disgrace. Forced chais had assembled a fleet of ships mouth, NH, where the much-needed to leave his next post for rumored loaded with war supplies, but he was military supplies were unloaded. "unsavory conduct," he enlisted in plagued with annoying delays. The Beaumarchais' "Navy" (as he the Danish Army, but soon left. He English ambassador to Paris, Lord liked to call it) continued funneling approached Vergennes, who sent him Stormont, prevented the fleet's de- arms into the northern sector of the to Beaumarchais. The secret arms parture ordering continuous in- by war throughout the spring and sum- supplier, combining his showman- spections of all French ports to mer of 1777. Without these supplies, ship with practicality, put the dis- enforce the English arms embargo. American General Gates could never graced Prussian captain up at his supportive Outwardly neutral and have continued his campaign at full house, dressed him in the uniform govern- of the blockade, the French strength, much less have won at Sar- of a Prussian Lieutenant General, ment could do nothing to prevent atoga. Burgoyne's surrender there had him escorted about by a fake inspections. of Beaumar- these Some on Oct. 17, 1777, was the turning aide-de-camp and a fake military for chais' ships were to stay in port point of the war, and Beaumarchais secretary, and finally introduced him year. almost a personally made it possible. to an impressed Ben Franklin, who Benjamin Franklin's arrival in At first, the urgency of the Ameri- gave him a letter of recommendation Paris was accompanied by public ac- cans' plight took precedence for for Washington. Beaumarchais then colades unsurpassed until Lind- Beaumarchais over the necessity of lent him $6,000, packed him and his bergh's flight. Perceived as the reimbursement. All the ships calling nephews off to the colonies on his symbol of America, Franklin was at Charleston on the way back that ship Le Flamand, and never saw von lionized by the Parisian elite. summer arrived in France without Steuben or his money again. In the waning days of 1776, Lee, the promised payments of tobacco Congress appointed the erstwhile Franklin and Deane entered into and rice. By the end of 1777, Beau- captain Inspector General of the en- secret negotiations with Vergennes. marchais was over $6 million in tire Continental Army. While he did The meetings were enormously com- debt. What he had not counted on train the troops admirably, he made plicated by intrigue, Stormont's spies was Arthur Lee's misleading corre- a nuisance of himself to Washington, and Lee's vitriolic criticisms of spondence with a friend-and-relative- threatening to resign unless put in Deane, Beaumarchais and even of filled Congress, stating flatly that command of a division of troops. Franklin. The critical importance of the French military supplies were After the war, Congress gave him ". these negotiations was underlined by free: . . the [French] ministry 16,000 acres of land and large grants the fact that Washington's army was have repeatedly assured me that no of money which he squandered ex- now down to 4,000 men. returns are expected from these sub- travagantly in New York City. To Only by cannily changing the sidies." top it off, Congress later voted him names and destinations of his ships Beaumarchais' ships continued to a life pension of $25,000 a year. was Beaumarchais able to outma- slip out of Dunkirk, Bordeaux, Mar- Alarmed and astonished that the neuver the English (informing Stor- seilles, Le Havre, Nantes and Bar- brave, honest Americans should have mont, for example, that they con- ques, officially destined for Santo (Continued on page 36)
18 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JUNE 1977 Rhode Island's Alamo Hero Family Marker Recalls Son Who Never Returned
A 12-1'oot redstone monument, News of this confrontation brought tain death, they deserted enroute to erected in 1858, guards the Martin 100 or more American volunteers to San Antonio. family plot in North Burial Ground, Gonzales. Sensing a Mexican attack, The recruits were led safely the oldest cemetery in Providence, Captain Martin beat the enemy to through an opening in the Mexican RI. Among the family names in- the punch by staging an early morn- lines and they were within sight of scribed on the shaft is a notation: ing assault on their camp with a bar- the fort before a rifle shot cracked "Albert Martin fell at the Alamo, rage of musket fire, augmented by the stillness of dawn, followed by an March 6, 1838, in service to his a hail of nails and horseshoes fired outraged yell from one of the volun- adopted country." from the cannon. The surprised Mex- teers who had been hit in the foot. Last Memorial Day, for the first icans retreated and regrouped for The sentry quickly recognized the time in 140 years, the memory of what was to be their date with Col. American curses and ordered the Albert Martin was honored as Amer- William B. Travis, Davy Crockett, gates opened. ican flags were placed on his sym- Jim Bowie, Martin and other Texas On March 6, 1836, the Alamo was bolic grave by members of Rocham- immortals at San Antonio's Alamo. overwhelmed and its defenders were beau American Legion Post 57. As Santa Anna's troops closed in killed. Some accounts of the siege of the on the Alamo, Colonel Travis dis- A New Orleans newspaper had this Alamo at San Antonio have mis- patched Captain Martin under a flag to say about Martin: takenly identified Captain Martin as of truce with a note to the Mexican "Among those who fell at the a Tennessean. But it was a native general suggesting a peaceful solu- storm of San Antonio was Albert New Englander who escaped from tion. It was rejected and the siege Martin, a native of Providence, R.I., began Feb. 23. Travis sent Martin and recently of this city. with his historic appeal for help. "Albert Martin died a not unapt Off The Highway At dusk that day, historians agree, illustration of the postern of the old mission was New England thrown open and Martin, mounted heroism. He has the surrounded mission to call for on a speedy horse, sped from the left his family help "to the people of Texas and all fort so quickly the enemy had no and perhaps the Americans in the world" and who time to think what was happen- nation an exam- then rode back to the Alamo and cer- ing. The 28-year-old Rhode Islander ple of heroic tain death with 32 volunteers. headed for Gonzales. He rode all that and high-minded The Southwestern Historical So- night and most of the following day chivalry which ciety's account of the battle judges through the wilderness to reach the can never be Martin's action "perhaps the bravest town and alert it to the desperate forgotten, and and most self-sacrificing incident in situation at the Alamo. The men of which is worthy the defense of the Alamo." Gonzales relayed the message of the best days A descendant of Silvanus Martin, through the countryside, urging vol- of Sparta or of a prominent Massachusetts leader, unteers to assemble at their town. Rome!" — Wil- Albert was born in Providence and Housewives joined the cause, mold- liam L. Joyce was graduated from Captain Par- ing bullets from available lead. The Alamo at San Four days after his exhausting tridge's Military School in Connecti- Antonio, TX (be- ride, cut. He is known to have been a part Martin, together with Lt. low) and the red- owner of Martin, Coffin & Co., in George C. Kimball, a businessman stone monument (right) New Orleans, when Mexican authori- and an officer in the local rangers, in Provi- dence, RI, just off led a hurried return to the fort with ties were offering American colonists, 1-95, that remem- i tax free for 10 years, large tracts in 32 bedraggled men. That many more bers Capt. Albert the Texas country at bargain prices. had been recruited, but, sensing cer- Martin. hh
He had acquired business interests in . Gonzales, about 70 miles north of J' 1NS11I1 San Antonio, when friction developed Met between the Mexicans and colonists «*«,>. over the rules of President and Gen-
THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JUNE 1977 19 Curtain of antiaircraft fire greets Kamikaze pilots (circles) attacking American ships;
amikazes a comin'!" was not inspired by simple earthly K The shout made the blood rewards such as medals or recogni- run cold aboard U.S. Navy ships ply- tion by commanding officers. Bushido ing the South China Sea off the coast held that the highest award of all, of Luzon in the Philippines, late in death or the privilege to die, was ob- World War II. tained by a pilot driving his plane The accounts of fierce naval battles into the bowels of an American ship. in the Pacific during the months fol- That fanatical spirit of deliberate lowing October 1944 tell of intense self-destruction was stated in very antiaircraft fire spouting from U.S. succinct terms by Tadakazu Yoshi- ships that were protecting aircraft oka, a staff officer of Japanese carriers. These carriers, with their Imperial Navy's Vice Admiral Taki- precious runways and repair facili- jiro Onishi. Yoshioka was inter- ties for aircraft, were vital to retak- viewed during his 1976 pilgrimage ing the Philippines. Yet even with to a Kamikaze Shrine near the fleets of ships filling the sky with Filipino sugar-processing town of walls of shrapnel, the kamikazes Mabalacat. The town is adjacent to drove their aircraft toward targets the sprawling U.S. Air Force's Clark as if propelled by some invisible Air Base in Central Luzon's Pam- oriental spiritual force. panga Province. Indeed, the pilots believed they It was in Mabalacat, some 60 miles were driven by the "bushido" spirit north of Manila, that Onishi created of the samurai warriors. This "high- the Kamikaze concept. est norm of conduct" dictated that Yoshioka, who held the rank of the Kamikaze warriors would, at lieutenant, gave his view of the con- any cost, preserve their country and cept. The Kamikazes, he said, sacri- Sign marks first Kamikaze base their enemies. Such an effort ficed their lives for their country. Clark Field in Philippines defeat
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Yoshioka said the Filipino could understand the dedication of Japa- nese airmen when he compared Kamikaze actions to someone dying for his lover or sweetheart. At one point in the conversation, the inter- preter interjected that the Kamikaze died for his homeland and the em- peror. Yoshioka denied that. In his mind, the Kamikaze primarily gave his life for the homeland. In 1944, the Mabalacat East Air- field was part of the Clark Field complex. There is little visible evi- dence remaining of the Kamikaze Two Japanese pilgrims prepare for me- morial ceremony for Kamikaze pilots forces once launched from these sugar cane fields. But travelers driv- ing on Luzon's MacArthur Highway find a memorial just north of Maba- lacat that marks the Kamikaze First Airfield. Near the village of Barrio Delores, the memorial stands in quiet solitude among the gently waving cane and elephant grass. The Japanese me- chanics and maintenance men and pilots have given way to Filipinos harvesting cane. Japanese tourist groups occasionally visit the shrine to pay respect to comrades, fellow Daniel H. Dizon and Mrs. Lulu Lolarga countrymen, acquaintances per- or inspect photos from Japanese friends haps relatives. (Some Japanese carry maps and shovels to search for trea- sure reportedly buried near Mabala- cat by Japanese commanders fleeing the American onslaught.) As the American advance con- tinued, Onishi is said to have recalled that according to legend based on historical fact, Japan, once threat- ened by a horde of Chinese, was at right, stricken Japanese bomber falls saved by a miracle. Five surviving Kamikaze pilots pose with In 1518, a Mongol ruler of China Admiral Onishi's widow The deep reverence with which gathered a huge fleet of ships to the Japanese aviators approached attack Japan. Hundreds of ships three other airfields added later. their final flight was almost beyond manned by thousands of fighting Yoshioka remembers the Kamikaze comprehension to Westerners. But men set sail towards Japan, then pilots taking off into the rising sun there are clues in the so-called defended by poorly armed men. A towards Mount Arayat, the lone samurai bible, the "Kagakure," writ- seemingly helpless situation existed mountain protruding from the Cen- ten about the year 1716. when suddenly a wind rose to ty- tral Luzon plain. Dying is addressed in the phrase, phoon force, destroying the attacking The text of the historical marker Bushido to wa shinu koto to mitsu- fleet and drowning all the invaders. in Mabalacat marks their first flight ketari. The key words of the dictum, That opportune storm was consid- "At 0725 hours, on 25 October according to Japanese scholars, are ered a "divine wind" which the 1944, the Shikishima Unit (of the shinu koto (dying) which mean be- Japanese called Kamikaze. first Kamikaze Group called the coming "pure and simple" in the Yoshioka remembers both the be- Shimpu Special Attack Corps) . . . spiritual sense. ginning and the end of Kamikaze take off from this airfield (near Bushido, the way of the samurai, activity at its birthplace in Luzon. Mabalacat) led by Lt. Seki ... at is, therefore, an attitude toward self- He related that on Aug. 15, 1944, he 1045 hours on the same date the imposed death (suicide) which helps and other Japanese officers visited unit hit enemy targets near Leyte." explain the fact that in parts of Clark Field. At that time he was Lieutenant Seki's plane hit first, Japanese society suicide has never already 36 years old, much older striking the U.S. carrier St. ho, been regarded as a sin or a shame. than the average age of 19 or 20 for which sank 20 minutes later. The key is the manner of committing a Kamikaze pilot. Principally a Jap- The first attacks by Kamikazes the suicide. If it were a self-composed anese army exercise area at that against American warships during act, it could be taken as respectable time, the advanced party of aviators the Battle of Leyte Gulf were rela- achievement. decided Mabalacat would be a good tively unsuccessful, but they did It is not that the Japanese could airport. According to Yoshioka, there shake the confidence of American do such daring acts because they were initially three airfields in use servicemen who could not compre- emotionally have less fear of death. by the Japanese suicide pilots, with (Continued on page 39)
THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JUNE 1977 21 . , .
Dateline Washington INCREASING DEBATE ON NUCLEAR POWER. KEEPING PRIVATE MAIL PRIVATE. OFF-ROAD VEHICLES OFF LIMITS?
The nation' s nuclear power program is was still in draft f orm, the White House undergoing sharp reexamination these days in has heard a message loud and clear from the the hearing rooms of Congress—spurred by- owners and users of such vehicles demands that U.S. halt the export of nuclear Carter is reported planning to amend an technology and declare a moratorium on new executive order'issued by former President nuclear plants. Consumer activist Ralph Nixon in 1972 which authorized federal Nader is leading a petition drive in support agencies to prohibit of f-the-road vehicles of the Fish-Pattison Bill, which would on public lands where they threatened the hold up new construction of nuclear plants environment * until questions of safety, waste disposal, reliability and economics are answered. has PEOPLE & QUOTES Meanwhile , expansion of nuclear power because of rising come nearly to a standstill NO FREE LUNCH NYET, NYET which are making construction almost costs, "There will be no free "We will not tolerate inter- prohibitive, and because of the difficulty lunch in this energy cure the ference in our internal affairs v in getting approval for new plant sites . nation is about to undertake." by anyone and under any pre- Congress also is looking into avariety Federal Energy Administra- text. A noimal development tor John O'Leary. of relations on such a basis problems , such as energy of other nuclear is, of course, unthinkable." alternatives, giving states a bigger say, FOREIGN INFLUENCE Soviet leader Leonid Brezh- improving the efficiency of the nuclear "If that dependence (on nev. regulatory process, and the use of plutonium foreign oil) continues, the TRUE TO FORM foreign policy consequence as a fuel. Today, the sure thing about "The history of reorgani- will become inevitable. Other zation has been that once it nuclear energy is that it will become nations will attain a degree starts stepping on bureau- increasingly controversial. of influence . . . that we cratic toes, the special inter- should not willingly accept." ests and the powers on the government scandals have Ex- Secretary of State Henry (Capitol) Hill, it bogs down." The recent U.S. Kissinger. Delaware Senator William had one beneficial effect— the U. S. Postal Roth. Service is proposing to tighten its regu- FBI REFORM LIKE CHILDREN "The press and public ". lations on prying into the mail of citizens. . . the (airline) industry seemed overwhelmed by sto- The new rules would require a federal search seems a little bit like children ries of the old abuses and un- from a broken marriage. They , by a court to open changes warrant authorized derwhelmed by the exist and muddle through but the mail The new regulations spell out in we were making." FBI Direc- have no guidance from their detail who can and who cannot open mail in tor Clarence Kelley. governmental parents." In- ternational Air Transport As- the public interest . Postal employees NEIGHBOR TALK sociation Director General in dead-letter offices , and those handling "I'm saying that Canadians Knut Hammarskjold. potentially dangerous mail like letter as a whole have been trying bombs, would be permitted to open mail. to get more out of society NOT EQUIPPED Agriculture Department employees could than they've been putting into "In this country we have But it." Canadian Prime Minister some 330,000 practicing open mail to enforce plant quarantines. Pierre Trudeau. physicians, many of whom the Customs Service, which claims authority are not equipped to meet BETTER TO ERR to intercept mail from abroad, would the needs of today's 23 mil- and con- no longer be permitted to do so. "In areas of doubt lion old people—a situa- flicting considerations, it is tion which is likely to grow Under the proposal, the President ' s the ." thought better to err on worse . . National Institute vague authority to open mail for foreign side of free speech." Federal on Aging Director Robert N. intelligence purposes would have to be Judge J. Edward Lumbard. Butler. Congress. clarified by LESS IS BETTER ADVISE & CONSENT "The interest of this gov- "... I think Jimmy does President Carter ' s plan to immobilize ernment is less government. respect my opinions about of f-the-road vehicles such as snowmobiles, We are firm believers that things I'm interested in and dune buggies, motorcycles and the like on anything we can do to regu- know about, but I can't ad- vise him on Idi Amin and lands has stirred a late business, business could government-owned do better on its own." Com- things I don't know anything vociferous flap. Despite the Carter Ad- merce Secretary Juanita about." First Lady Rosalynn Carter. ministration ' s caution that the proposal Kreps.
22 THt AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JUNE 1977 It was April 1923 and the first as they chugged across the huge rail- occupied for a week. When they signs of spring were evident in road bridge that spanned the river. finished, the demolition chambers Germany's Rhineland. The Great One day, musing in this vein, Du- were solid concrete—firm as the War had ended but this area was pont began to think about the bridge bridge itself. still under Allied occupation. itself. He knew the bridge contained But wars were not over, and more In a small village, a French lieu- deep built-in chambers designed to than 20 years after the lieutenant tenant (we shall call him Dupont) accommodate .enough explosives to had vanished into the mists of was inspecting the storehouse his blow it up, if the need arose. This French Army records, new conquer- men had just completed for their seemed folly to the lieutenant. ors came to the little village on the equipment. His detachment belonged Imagine planning the destruction of Rhine. It was March 1945, and the to the genie—the French Army En- a tremendous engineering work at invaders were Americans. gineer Corps. Dupont belonged to an the moment when it was just being When forward elements of the old school of Army thinking—the completed ! "TJne betise" he thought. Ninth Armored Division arrived on way to keep men out of mischief was "A stupidity." the hill above the town, they were to keep them busy. He glanced So, when no new orders came from surprised to find the bridge still thoughtfully at bags of cement that higher headquarters, the lieutenant standing. But not too surprised. The had not been needed in the just fin- decided on a local project of his Germans sometimes waited until the ished project. own. He would use that leftover ce- last moment, so that all of their own Occupation duty was not unpleas- ment to fill the demolition chambers troops could get across. Then they ant. The weather wasn't bad, some on the railway bridge. He got the blew the bridge. Every bridge. They of the fruit trees were already in blueprints from the railway engi- rarely missed. bloom. His men were comfortably neer's office. The job kept his men (Continued on page 38) billeted. The food, while not up to French standards, was adequate. The town was nice enough. War hatreds were fading gradu- ally, and the lieutenant approved of this. After all, France and Germany were neighbors, and they simply had to get along together. Never again would there be a terrible calamity like the Great War. Dupont used to think about these things as he walked along the Rhine and watched the barges passing by or the trains Bridge at Remagen, captured intact, enabled U.S. troops to cross the Rhine
THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JUNE 1977 23 .
WASHINGTON Opposing Views by Congressmen on The . . PRO & CON Question
Should Congress Make
Congress must act to make lifesaving airbags and We all share the cost of automotive seat belt systems standard equip- accidents through higher ment in all new cars at the earliest possible date. taxes and insurance pre- The evidence that airbags and other passive re- miums; the diversion of straint systems save lives is overwhelming. A police; for ambulance, former General Motors vice-president, Mr. John medical and other re- DeLorean, stated recently that delaying the instal- sources urgently needed lation of front seat airbags over a three-year period elsewhere. We all pay for would result in over 36,000 deaths. medicaid, medicare and By 1980, cars with airbags will be available. Man- other forms of public ufacturers have agreed to aggressively and affirma- health care. We all pay tively promote them to dealers and the public. the Social Security disa- Rep. James H. Scheuer The three major insurance trade associations have bility and survivor bene- (D-NY) long endorsed the mandatory inclusion of airbags fits, welfare benefits, in all new cars. Some major insurance companies pensions and unemployment insurance which traf- have even slashed medical coverage rates in premi- fic accident victims and/or their families may re- ums by 30 percent for owners of cars equipped with quire. It is estimated that the cost to society—to full-front airbag systems. the taxpayer—of needless injuries and fatalities is "Yet," airbag opponents claim, "to require such more than $3.5 billion annually. The cost in human an additional expenditure is to curtail freedom of terms is incalculable. choice." This argument is patently absurd. We must make passive restraint systems manda- Over the past decade, the government has re- tory. Despite the extreme cost-effectiveness of safe- quired automobile manufacturers to install, and ty belt and airbag systems in preventing us from consumers to pay for, a wide variety of safety being killed or seriously injured, Americans have equipment. Such requirements clearly restrict con- not voluntarily buckled up; states have not re- sumer "freedom of choice" and demonstrate recog- quired their citizens to do so; automobile manufac- nition of the basic principal that the voice of the turers have not voluntarily incorporated these marketplace doesn't necessarily represent the ulti- safety measures into equipment that comes with mate best interests either of the individual con- each car, and Congress has not taken action to save sumer or of society at large. The consumer must lives. It should. pay for these safety features, a combination of which probably prevents fev/er deaths and injuries and costs more than airbags or passive belts. And we now require the consumer to pay $60 for safety belts which are not used by 80 percent of the people. To discuss freedom of choice given this back- ground is pious sanctimony laced with hypocrisy.
If you wish to let your Congressman or one of your Senators know how you feel on this
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Automotive Airbags Mandatory?
ow is not the time to pie realize that the cost of replacing a deployed air N force air bags on bag—even one inflated by a bump in a parking lot American motorists — a —is about $500. system which is costly, There is a much cheaper solution to highway in- unproven and unlikely to juries—the lap and shoulder belt system. Belts save more lives than use saved 3,000 lives last year even though only a quar- of lap and shoulder belts. ter of the motoring public used them routinely. Former Transportation About 11,500 lives could be saved yearly if only 70 Secretary William Cole- per cent of the motoring public used their belts man made a sensible de- that's the same number that might be saved if air cision—to give the air bag bags were put in every car. a fair test in thousands Polls indicate that a large majority of Americans Sen. Robert P. Griffin (R-MI) of cars built for drivers oppose having air bags forced on them. It is likely, who want air bags. therefore, that a backlash similar to the ignition in- Quite predictably, the Coleman plan was at- terlock fiasco would result if air bags are mandated. tacked roundly by some so-called consumer advo- An overreaching government could even harm the cates as a "cop-out," designed to "doom thousands cause of highway safety by imposing heavy-handed, to needless death and injury on the highways." unwanted controls. Such rhetoric obscures serious questions about Unfortunately, a growing number of self-ap- safety and cost-benefits of air bags and completely pointed consumer advocates seek to impose their sidesteps whether they ought to be mandated. pet programs by cramming them down the public's Everyone wants an end to the senseless carnage throat with government power. They would rather on our nation's highways. But air bags are an un- compel than convince. The Coleman plan was a tested solution. A voluntary trial of the air bag, welcome switch from that philosophy. such as Secretary Coleman proposed, is the respon- sible way to proceed. Experience with air bags is very limited. On the test track they have worked well, but on the road —with people going about everyday business there have been some real problems. For example, they afford no protection against rear or side crashes, and they are not even effective in front-end collisions unless the passenger is positioned prop- erly in the seat. Thus, air bags really are not effec-
I have read in The American Legion Magazine for June tive without seat belts. the arguments in PRO & CON: Should Congress Make Air bags don't always inflate when they are sup- Automotive Airbags Mandatory? posed to. Six per cent of all deployments have been IN MY OPINION THE ANSWER TO THIS QUESTION IS: YES NO
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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JUNE 1977 25 Soaring Prices Put Emphasis on Careful Planning
Buying a house? 4. What is the trend of property If you are looking at condomin- "Be sure to do your homework. values in the area? Declining values iums, check the floor plans of the Home ownership is a symbol of are an obvious damper. units surrounding you. If your neigh- achievement, and getting there can 5. Is the house on a major bor's living room is only a thin wall really be a joy—how much of a joy thoroughfare? away from your bedroom, listen as is up to you." 6. Where is the nearest airport? well as look before you leap. The man who said that makes it Conceivably, you could be right un- Take time to thoroughly inspect his business to see people in their der the glide path for 747's or Con- the home: own homes. He's Jackson W. Goss, cordes. 1. Does it have enough bathrooms president and chief executive officer 7. What is the commuting time and bedrooms? of Investors Mortgage Insurance from your place of work? 2. Check adequacy of closet Company, of Boston, MA, and a 8. Are there churches, schools, space. leader in the private mortgage insur- recreational areas and shopping cen- 3. Is the traffic pattern adequate ? ance industry that . insures 20-25 ters within reasonable distances? Can you get to the kitchen without percent of high-ratio conventional 9. Is there anything nearby to going through the living room? mortgage loans. produce excessive smoke, odor, 4. How good is the balance be- "Even before you begin to shop, tween the active area and sleeping realize that there is no such thing areas ? as a perfect home," Goss counsels. 5. Does the living room have "Establish some priorities. Plan to enough unbroken wall space for a make some concessions." large sofa? President Carter has promised a 6. Does the house conform to its major national housing program. environment? This, plus the rising interest of Viet- The one-story is one of the most nam veterans in home purchases sig- expensive to build per square foot nals intense activity in the real estate because the entire floor area must market. rest on a foundation and be covered Surveys show the average new by a roof. home today costs $48,000. And some "But, for this added cost, you have claim that average could jump to the advantage of living on one level $90,000 by 1990, with buyers forced without having to climb stairs," says to pay $23,000 down. That's a lot of Goss. "This is a favorite with senior money. It requires careful handling. citizens." Goss suggests a checklist of house- The one and one-half story resi- hunting and buying tips to save time dence has its particular charm. The and effort and avoid heartbreak and upstairs may be used as the sleeping headaches: DOWN? area or as storage space. It is usually Know what you can afford. As a the darling of the newly married rule of thumb, the home should cost fumes or other forms of pollution? couple. fire no more than 2y2 times your annual 10. Are adequate police and Next comes the townhouse, a after-tax income. Monthly payments protection provided? structure that goes all the way back should not exceed 25 percent of your Goss believes that the neighbor- to the Middle Ages. It was originally monthly income. hood itself is of great importance called a rowhouse—rows of attached Remember that your dream home when choosing a home. houses stretched uniformly down the may well be a compromise between "It is more than houses, landscap- street. needs, emotions and what you can ing and traffic. It's people. How "During the 19th century, in cities afford. much of your life do you wish to such as Washington, DC; Boston; Ask questions: share with them?" Baltimore, and Philadelphia, row- 1. Is the neighborhood stable or Moving closer to the actual house, houses mushroomed," Goss said. Re- in transition ? A single family house Goss offers some further pointers: cent restoration activities have led in an area where multi-family Consider architectural design and to renewed interest—the concept has dwellings are sprouting can be a appeal. Look at the house from the moved out into the suburbs. liability. The same is true of a good point of view of living in it. While Combining the advantages of house in a decaying neighborhood. exterior design is important to the suburban life with the atmosphere 2. Is the house too close to com- success of a home, the interior design of city life, the townhouse attracts mercial areas? Zoning laws can is crucial—inside is where you will singles. It gives the young unmarried change quickly in rapid growth be living. man or woman a lot for his or her areas. Try to predict your needs. Try to housing dollar—plus a very pleasant 3. Is the house an architectural imagine how you will be using the style of living. sore thumb? Futuristic designs are house—moving around in it, enter- Condominiums? That means you fine for those who like them, but taining in it, sleeping, working in it. buy a single unit within a develop- comes resale time—look out. Check it from all angles. ment. All the owners of individual
26 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JUNE 1977 — — units join in association to maintain on the money that a lender has ad- Title search—a thorough examina- common property and facilities, and vanced for his mortgage loan. The tion of all recorded deeds and docu- exercise restrictions on the workings amount of interest declines with each ments relating to a piece of property of the development. monthly payment. to insure that there are no hidden Housing styles are even more Mortgage—the technical term for claims or any other involvements varied. a loan made to a home buyer, with that would prevent a clear title for is purchased used the new owner. a. ) Colonial derives from early New the dwelling that England's English heritage. But, as collateral. These are by no means all of the in reality, there are many types Points—the fees added by a lender words or phrases a home buyer may of Colonial styles. It can also in return for his handling of the hear from a lender, real estate mean the French New Orleans mortgage loan. These costs may be broker or builder—but they are look or the classic Monterey paid at the time the loan is finalized among those most frequently used. Spanish look. or added to the monthly payments. Finding the perfect home is not covers a wide Either the buyer or seller—or both the easiest thing in the world. It b. ) Contemporary gamut of new or typical modern may be required to pay points. For takes a lot of thought, planning and trends. example, in the sale of a $30,000 work. Before you go looking, Goss loan, adds one last bit of advice: c. ) Mediterranean has only recently home with a $25,000 mortgage become popular. It often is seen the seller might be required to pay "Put your money where your in the Middle West—it's a two- five points—5 percent of the loan or values are—convenience, transporta- story house, usually of stucco, $1,250—as a lump sum at the time of tion, neighborhood—and invest- with curved windows and built in closing. ment." end an L-shape. Ultimately, the goal of both style and structure is to make a house look like it belongs in the area in which VETERANS! it is built. "Amortize." "Points." "Escrow." RETIREMENT Greek to you? FLORIDA "Too often it is just that to con- STARTS AT $1 7,990* fused home buyers who have finally / fY\ decided on one of the above dream houses—and now have to get down to NO CASH DOWN! NO CLOSING COSTS! the hard, cold facts of purchasing it," says Goss. "This is where dreams ft $1,000,000 clubhouse and hard-nosed fiscal dialogue come (membership optional) together." ft No need to touch savings
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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JUNE 1977 27 . .
Wmm Veterans Newsletter
CHANGE IN GI BILL PAYMENT PROCEDURES: will recommend amnesty for long-term aliens Effective this month, GI Bill checks will now in U. S. without proper permission. reach vets ' pockets at end of month instead
DISABILITY PAY CALLED "WELFARE" : A of beginning. . . 1 . 5 million vets , dependents and service members affected. . .Most imme- proposed move by HEW would label compensa- diate effect is on continuously enrolled tion to disabled vets as "welfare" . . .HEW summer students. . .Their last VA check on says it will include vets compensation pen- May 1 will have to last until July 1 when sions in study of welfare reform requested
. they will receive June payment . . .Also by President. .Sen. Alan Cranston (CA) , head of Senate VA Committee, has protested to changed . . . two-month advance payment , pre- viously automatic, now available only upon President Carter, saying compensation for request by student. . .and school must agree loss of limb in combat is not welfare. . .asked * to process advance payment. . .Contact vet rep for President s "early personal considera- on campus or local VA office for more info. tion and clarification of policy" regarding
scope of HEWS study. . .ON SAME SUBJECT. . . BACKING THE VETERAN: Los Angeles City Cong. John Hammerschmidt (AR) warned HEW Councilman Gilbert Lindsay told council Secretary Joseph Califano that any attempt recently military preference credit should by Carter Administration to consolidate vets be retained. . . "Who is better qualified to affairs under HEW would be vigorously hold any j ob in these United States of fought by Congress. . .Hammerschmidt says America than the person who saved the nation, Califano ' s plan to include vets compensa- while the gutless ran off. . . it ' s just that tion in welfare reform is beyond bounds of simple ... I couldn 1 1 sleep fora year if I HEW authority and an insult to veterans. voted against the men who left their families , wives , loved ones . . . to fight for VIETNAM MEMORIAL DAY PROPOSED : A resolu- this nation and then they come back and you tion calling on the President to declare talk about taking the credits away from April 30 as Vietnam Memorial Day has been them. . .You ought to be giving them double introduced by Cong. Bob Michel (IL) . . . the credits rather than lessening credit." Michel says proclamation would draw atten- tion to the "systematic and wholesale denial NEW JERSEY UPHOLDS VETS' PREFERENCE of basic human rights which has been the
LAWS : Department Cmdr. Lester Harris calls trademark of the Communist regime now it most welcome. . . "an important decision governing that country." affecting thousands of veterans and their families across the state. " VA VANS ON THE ROAD AGAIN: VA's mobile vans are on America' s highways traveling TOLL-FREE CALLS FOR SOME: Critics have to 33 states and D. C. to assist vets and noted that vets with less than honorable dependents with info or applications for VA discharges can make toll-free calls to benefits. . .Vans will stop at shopping centers, armories, town halls, vets orgns, authorities. . .but, honorably discharged veterans and amputees do not get that and state and county fairs . . . Special effort privilege is made to contact citizens to inform them of gov' t programs designed for them. . . Since MIHAILOVICH MEMORIAL PROPOSED: A bill 1972, vans have travelled 445,000 miles., has been intro'd in the House to erect visited 4, 170 communities . . . conducted memorial inD.C. to Gen. Draza Mihailovich, 203,867 interviews. . .31,729 were first WW II nationalist resistance leader in contact for Viet vets. . .For VA van visit Yugoslavia who rescued more than 500 info, contact VA local office. . .toll free American airmen. phone service available in many areas. . listing in U. S. Gov' t section of phone book. AMNESTY FOR ILLEGAL ALIENS? NY Con-
1 DEADLINE gressman Badillo intro d legislation calling NEW HAMPSHIRE VIETNAM BONUS for filing for granting amnesty to all illegal aliens NEARS : Aug . 21, 1977 is deadline application for N.H. Vietnam Bonus . Hon- residing in U.S. before July 4, 1976. . .Mr. who served between Badillo cited President Carter' s pardon orably discharged vets of draft evaders and says country needs Aug. 5, 1964 and Aug. 15, 1973 or who served , and sense of "forgiveness" ... Says national eco- in Vietnam area between July 1 1958 nomic woes cannot be equated with 8 to 10 Aug. 5, 1964 and earned Vietnam service million unregistered aliens now living in medal or armed forces expeditionary medal are eligible . . .Must have been N.H. resident this country. . .Carter Administration at time of entry into armed forces. . .De- apparently supports the principle. . .legis- 1 s next-of-kin may apply. . .Forms lative proposal is due out soon. . .Labor ceased Sec. Ray Marshall suggests that special available at N.H. Legion posts or write committee studying illegal alien problem Adjutant General, Concord, N.H. 03301.
28 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JUNE 1977 AMERICAN LEGION NEWS AND VETERANS AFFAIRS
A ZW Thompson Carr Won Mahoney Illinois Pennsylvania Hawaii Louisiana Illinois Youth Is Top Orator
Mark Richard Thompson, 16-year- Commander Joseph V. Adams. James The $18,000 in scholarships won at old junior at Glenbard South High Carr, of Pittsburgh, PA, was awarded the national finals brings to $44,000 the School, Glen Ellyn, IL, has won The a $5,000 scholarship for second place; amount of scholarship money provided American Legion's 40th annual Ora- Gregory Won, Kaneohe, HI, received this year by The American Legion Life torical Contest held this year at histori- a $3,000 scholarship for third, and Insurance Trust Fund. Total scholar- cal Washington Crossing, PA. Peter Mahoney of Baton Rouge, LA, ships awarded since the contest first
"The Constitution Works : Our Source won a $2,000 scholarship for fourth. started in 1938 is now over the half of Pride," was the title of the winning Dr. A. Hal Reede, State College, PA, million dollar mark. oration. Mark, youngest of the final American Legion Oratorical Chairman Mark Thompson plans to attend four contestants, pointed to the Consti- and member of the Board of Trustees, either Duke or Brown University to tution as the catalyst that carried the Washington Crossing Foundation, was pursue a degree in economics and po- nation through the period of presiden- in charge of the national finals. litical science with an ultimate goal of tial transition from Nixon to Ford. Dr. Reede praised the contestants, a graduate law degree or an MBA in A scholarship check for $8,000 was stating that only a few points separated business. He was sponsored by Glen presented to Mark by PA. Dept. the first and fourth place winners. Ellyn Post 3.
Africa Rouses Concern
The American Legion is directing larly those produced in South Africa. increasing attention and concern at National Commander William J. Soviet ambitions in Africa, particularly Rogers called for the review of U.S. in countries south of the Sahara Desert, African policies in light of recent So- and in the racially-troubled states of viet gains and in concert with the 1976 South Africa and Rhodesia. American Legion Convention resolution Alarmed by Soviet successes in An- calling on the U.S. government to op- gola and Mozambique which threaten pose vigorously any Russian attempts to establish a Marxist "belt" across to control southern Africa. Rogers Africa (see map), the Legion invited urged special attention to the strategic three experts to the spring National importance of South Africa. Executive Committee meeting in In- "If the Soviet Union gains control of dianapolis. They were William B. Ed- the strategic reserves of South and mundson, deputy assistant secretary of Southwest Africa," warned Rogers, "it state for African affairs; Earl Noffke, could hold the world at ransom." Con- information officer at the South African trol of southern Africa would give the embassy in Washington, and Donald Soviets control of 90 percent of the E. de Kiefer of the Council of Special- world's uranium and platinum, 80 per- ized Steel Industries. cent of the world's gold and vanadium De Kiefer was invited to explain (a steel alloy, also used in nuclear ap- U.S. dependence on minerals, particu- (Continued on page 31) STAEBUOK^-
THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JUNE 1977 29 Rogers Hits Terms TAPS
Dr. David P. Lauer, Chevy Chase, MD, Vietnam Veterans Eligible part-time consultant in psychiatry and neurology with the staff of the National Veterans Affairs and Rehabilitation Di- For Upgraded Discharges vision since 1955.
President Carter's program to up- The toll-free number for the conti- Edward A. Milligan, 73, Bottineau, grade less-than-honorable military dis- nental United States, except Missouri, ND, Past Department Commander charges for Vietnam era veterans has is 800-325-4040. Interested persons in (1949-50), widely recognized authority drawn sharp criticism from Nat'l. Cdr. Hawaii, Missouri, Alaska and Puerto on Indian lore. William J. Rogers. Rico may call collect to 314-428-3500. In a letter to Secretary of Defense The program applies to persons who Elsa E. Fisher, Punta Gorda, FL, mem- Harold Brown, Rogers termed the im- served in the armed forces from Aug. 4, ber of Honor Society of Women plementation of the program "an insult 1964, to March 28, 1973. Bad conduct Legionnaires, Past Department Aide and to the men and women who served and dishonorable discharges resulting Past National Aide. At time of death honorably during the Vietnam war," from court-martial convictions are not she was Secretary of both Florida and and predicted the program would cause considered for review. General, unde- National American Legion Press As- "great difficulty" should a future emer- sirable and clemency discharges may be sociations. gency require a citizen draft. upgraded, depending on circumstances. The Pentagon has opened a special Deserters who are still at large must office in St. Louis to handle applications turn themselves in to military authori- from Vietnam era ex-servicemen. The ties before they can become eligible for Denver Joint Liaison Office, representing all consideration. armed services, will be in operation for Of the 432,500 former servicemen six months. eligible to apply for the upgrading, Gets Ready Applicants may call toll-free and 173,000 who received undesirable dis- have their questions answered by per- charges will be eligible for veterans
A mile high . . . and a mile long sonnel who man the 50 telephones dur- benefits and some back pay for accrued . . . might be descriptive of The Amer- ing the scheduled 13 -hour day. The leave time. The 259,524 veterans with ican Legion parade as it winds its way office is collocated with the Military general discharges did not lose their through the streets of Denver, CO, Personnel Records Center in St. Louis. VA benefit entitlement. VA officials said highlighting the Legion's 59th Annual During the first few days of operation it is too early to estimate how much the Convention, Aug. 19-25. more than 3,000 calls per day were re- benefit programs would cost for those For the first time in Legion history, ceived. After three weeks, 20,726 in- who are successful in obtaining an up- the parade will be locally televised, ac- quiries had been made. graded discharge. cording to convention director, Bill Miller, who has been in the Mile High City making arrangements since August. Labor Dept. Promises Empty The parade will start at 2:40 p.m. on Sunday, Aug. 21, to facilitate KWGN television camera pickup. As More Viet Vets Hunt Jobs General convention sessions will be held Aug. 23-25 in the auditorium arena of Unemployment among Vietnam vet- in testimony before the committee. the Convention Complex. The national erans jumped this spring to 17.1 per- Ronald Drach of the Disabled headquarters office will open Aug. 15 cent, nearly 7 percent higher than American Veterans pointed out the ad- in the first floor conference rooms. non-veterans of the same age group. ministration has implemented "several More than 5400 rooms in 35-40 hotels The American Legion and other vet- programs to assist those who evaded have been reserved. The Legion head- erans groups took the March statistics the draft and those who failed to serve quarters hotel will be the Brown Palace and their complaints to the House honorably during the Vietnam era. and the Auxiliary will be headquartered Veterans Affairs Committee. They However, we fail to see any concerted at the Cosmopolitan. voiced disapproval of Carter adminis- effort to assist all disabled veterans who The "Musical Spectacular," featuring tration veterans' programs, particularly served their country honorably." the finals of the Drum and Bugle Corps alleged inaction among job agencies Three major programs designed to competition will be held at 7 p.m., within the Labor Department. put veterans to work were announced Aug. 20, at Mile High Stadium. Ticket Austin Kerby, director of the Le- in January by Labor Secretary Ray prices are $5.50 and $2.50. The pre- gion's Economic Division, told legisla- Marshall but Congress has delayed ap- liminary Drum and Bugle Corps con- tors the Labor Department has been propriating money needed and advance test will be held at Brooks Field, dragging its feet for three months. He work has been slow. Colorado School of Mines at Golden cited the department's delay in naming Veterans programs were to receive starting at 8 a.m., Aug. 19 and 20. Five a deputy assistant secretary for veterans $1.3 billion of the $4 billion economic senior and 57 junior corps will be nar- employment, a new position that is stimulus package recommended by the rowed down for the finals. supposed to cope with the problem. administration but veterans organiza- Dealers in the Denver Metro Olds- Other veterans groups expressed their tions feel U.S. Employment Service and mobile Advertising Association and the frustration and cynicism. "In our opin- other government bureaucrats will not Oldsmobile Division of General Motors ion, the way the programs have been guarantee veteran priority when the Corporation, Lansing, MI, sponsors of developed there is little chance of mak- programs are fully implemented. television coverage of the parade, will ing any significant reduction in the un- Kerby charged those responsible for provide vehicles for the parade and for employment rate," said Lawrence Rof- enacting the programs have "an anti- use by department commanders during fee Jr. of Paralyzed Veterans of America veteran attitude." the convention.
30 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JUNE 1977 And Washington Listens They Beat The Legion's Drum
"Our job is to make sure Congress knows how the American Legion feels." Mylio Kraja sums up very aptly the complex role of his Legislative Division that operates out of the Legion's Wash- ington Headquarters. The division is responsible for conveying to the House and Senate the national policies and positions voted by the Legion. "When we present the Legion's posi- tion on the Veterans Administration and other matters concerning veterans' benefits, we are working for all Ameri- can veterans," Kraja said. "More than half of the legislative matters we work on affect a much broader base than just the Legion." Kraja, Ed Lord and Phil Riggin are the Legion's three registered lobbyists authorized to represent The American Legion on Capitol Hill. Lord and Rig- gin are Vietnam era veterans. They may present testimony on matters ex- Kraja Hamilton pressly concerning Legion mandates and policy. present the general They may Frequently the Legion is asked to veterans organizations with exercising testimony themselves or they may ac- submit an opinion to a lawmaker who strong influence in continuing the Sen- witnesses Nat'l. company expert such as is trying to better understand a specific ate Committee on Veterans Affairs and Cmdr. William J. Rogers or Ed Golem- issue. More often the Legion initiates also in other areas affecting veterans. bieski, director of the Legion's Veterans the contact on the Hill. Direct contact by lobbyists is not the Rehabilitation Division. Affairs and "We deal with legislative staff people only way the Legion gets its point The Legion's National Legislative to get our position before a congress- across to Congress. Legionnaires Commission includes a number of man," said Ed Lord, assistant legislative throughout the country are frequently lend legal advice lawyers ready to and director. "We do not slam fists on desks most effective in personal contacts with assistance, years of experience based on to get our point across; ours is a national legislators. The write-in cam- technical expertise, to the Legion and business-like approach. It's much more paign for continuance of the Senate legislative crew. Frank I. Hamilton, effective." Veterans Committee was a case in chairman of the commission, is a prac- The Legislative staff will go to great point. "I've never seen anything like ticing attorney at Greensburg, IN. lengths, however, to satisfy a Legion the campaign the veterans have or- Of the more than 20,000 bills intro- mandate. At 2:30 a.m. on the morning ganized," said Sen. Claiborne Pell (RI). during last year's 94th Congress, duced after the 94th Congress was scheduled Kraja also maintains a list of people only 588 became law. Legion resolu- to close (they stopped the clock at 11 he calls "legislative counsels." These tions were satisfied in 101 of those pub- p.m.), Mylio Kraja worked with key are friends or associates of every con- lic laws. evidence that the "That's Con- legislators on a bill to increase G.I. gressman and senator who are willing continues to listen react to gress and Bill benefits eight percent. It was the to help make sure the Legion's position legislative the priority goals of The next to last official act of the 94th and reaches the lawmaker's desk. American Legion," says Kraja. the testimony must have helped as the CONTINUED FROM PAGE 29 "We were not the only people inter- extra benefits were written into law. ested in passage of these laws," he Did the Legion play a major part? Africa Rouses Concern added, "and we don't want to take un- "We were the only organization re- plication), 76 percent of all chrome, due credit, but The American Legion presented there that night," said Kraja. and 75 percent of the world's man- is Congress recognized by members of For 1977 the Legion has 117 resolu- ganese. Control of these minerals es- information. as a credible source of tions to be satisfied. During a four-week sentially offers ultimate control of the a reputation." We enjoy good period in April the Legislative staff industrial base of the world. presented 24 pieces of testimony de- Geologists point out that South Af- signed to affect legislation. rica has the largest deposits of every "Our big push for this year," said industrially important mineral except Kraja, "is an increase in veterans' com- one—petroleum. But control of South pensation, pension and education. We're Africa's strategic Cape of Good Hope very optimistic about these three areas." is also the key to controlling the ocean The effectiveness of the Legion and transport of oil from the Mideast to the other veterans organizations on Capitol United States, NATO and Western Eu- Hill was noted in the March 6, 1977 rope. Thus Soviet control of South issue of The New York Times. Re- Africa's naval bases could cut the West Lord Riggin porter lames M. Naughton credits the off from oil and other essential minerals.
THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JUNE 1977 31 ''Meals on Wheels" kitchen at Indiana,
PA is operating again after a fire de- stroyed their building. Post 141 offered the use of kitchen facilities allowing Meals on Wheels to continue their service of delivering meals to elderly and shut-ins without missing a day.
Nobel Laureate, Dr. Milton Fried- man, receives American Legion Cita- tion for Meritorious Service from past Nevada Cmdr. Dave Horton. Dr. Fried- just as they were when the stadium first opened 15 years ago. Legionnaires, above man won the award for statements made are, front row: Bill Orr, Herb Connaughton, Dept. Public Relations Commissioner that into Sy Sussman, Paul Loveless and Tom Golden. Back row: Ed Price, Virgel Ryan, Mike on Rhodesia were incorporated Yurich and John Harrigan. Frank Sinatra sang the National Anthem at the opening the department's Rhodesia resolution, day ceremonies in honor of his friend Tom Lasorda's appointment as the new adopted as The American Legion posi- Dodger manager. Sinatra, inset, is flanked by Lasorda and Sussman. tion last August.
Post 61, Perham, MN Cmdr. Earl POSTS IN ACTION Lehmkuhl received $500 check from John Burelbach to be donated to "Operation Heartbeat," department fund For as long as the home folks can Post 126, Jensen Beach, FL co- drive to finance heart research. Occasion remember, the city of Appleton, WI sponsored Third Annual "God and was ceremonies honoring Burelbach has held a Flag Day parade on June 14 Country Day" with All Saints Episcopal who, at the age of 90, has 57 years and they're going to carry on the tra- Church. Rear Admiral John J. O'Con- continuous membership in the Legion. dition again this year. Post 38 of Apple- ner, Chief of Chaplains, USN was prin- Post is named in honor of John's ton puts forth a large effort to make cipal speaker. More than 1,000 attend- brother, Nick, who was killed in action the parade a success. Past post 38 ing the event heard students read prize in France in WW I. commander, Police Captain Robert winning Americanism essays and Lathrop serves as assistant Flag Day watched the Navy Band perform. Cmdr. Paul Ennis, Post 124, Greens- chairman and the entire post will be burg, KY presents American flag which involved as will thousands of other will fly over Green County Library to Legionnaires throughout the country in Dept. of PA recently set up an Ameri- librarian Roxie Mahan. Officer Arthur their hometowns. can Legion information booth at a Creason, also a member of Post 124, shopping mall in Allentown, PA. Hun- voluntarily raises the dreds of people stopped for information and lowers Receives Award—Chris Falconer, left, flag each day. also performs this and some were provided direct service. He 20th Century-Fox retiree, was recently courthouse west of In photo, a woman receives claims sup- duty at the oldest presented award of merit from Studio the Allegheny Mtns., which is located port from a volunteer service officer. American Legion (CA) Post 563. Cmdr. Department Commander Joe Adams on the square in Greensburg. Post 124 Peter Hochberg presents the plaque that these flags and flags for the (back to camera) and Robert Vogel, assures while William T. McDonald looks on.
Falconer was cited for his 45 years of Veterans Affairs and Rehabilitation Di- entire Green County school system are service to veterans in VA hospitals. rector, helped man the booth. replaced when needed.
32 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JUNE 1977 Arkansan Named June Legionnaire
A modern Pocket Watch patterned in the trad tional Railroad Style used fur decades by railroad men to keep exact, split-second time. Accurate Dependable! A watch you'll be proud to own oi give as a gift — now at an amazing LOW price Precision movement, extra large markings, second hand, and heavy-duty case finished in polished jeweler's Gold-Tone with swivel. A steom locomo- tive is handsomely embossed on the backplate! Two styles of Gold-Tone Double Link Watch Chains are Lawrence E. Fisher, 68, member of munity, his state, and his country. At available or a fine quality leather holder to keep your watch securely on your belt. Supplies arc M. M. Eberts Post 1, Little Rock, AR, recent post ceremonies, Nat'l. Cdr. limited—order today. Money-Back Guarantee! is Legionnaire of the Month for June. William J. Rogers cited the native Ar- No. 5131A—Railroad Pocket Watch 11.95 No. 5145—Double Link Watch Chain 2.49 A veterans of WW II, Fisher joined kansan for his concern and devotion to No. 5146—Deluxe Heavy Watch Chain 2. the Legion in 1946 and has been post the smallest post in the state as well as No. 5135—Leather Watch Belt Holder 4.98 finance officer for the past 18 years. He the largest, and for his interest in local was department commander in 1961- community activities as well as the Heavy-Duty Professional 62, and has served two terms as an affairs of the nation. Type alternate National Executive Commit- On behalf of the members of Post 1, teeman and four terms as NECman Rogers presented Fisher a likeness from the Department of Arkansas. carved in solid Arkansas walnut in A retired businessman, Lawrence honor of Fisher's efforts in The Amer- Fisher is the kind of man who will ican Legion. The carving, the work of never retire from active participation Ozark artist John Steely, will be hung in The American Legion, his com- in the post home.
COMRADES IN DISTRESS 20006. Notices should be received at least five months before scheduled reunion. No Readers who can help these veterans are written letter necessary to get form. urged to do so. Usually a statement is needed Earliest submission favored when volume in support of a VA claim. of requests is too great to print all. Notices are run only at the request of American Legion Service Officers represent- ARMY ing claimants, using PAINT Search For Witness 1st Arm'd (Aug) Forms available only from State Legion Div— Russell Anderson, 120 E. Broadway, Louisville, Service Officers. Please contact KY 40202 CID # , 1st Div (Aug) Arthur Chaitt, The American Legion Magazine, 1608 — 5 Montgomery SPRAYER "K" Ave., Philadelphia, PA 19118 Street, NW, Washington, DC 20006. 1st Med Regt & MFSS—(Aug) Lawrence Tired of messy paint brushes, rags, rollers? 1467 Ft. Oglethorpe, SCU GA—Need informa- Brown, 1921 Rutland St., Camp Hill, PA tion from comrades who recall Clarissa S. 17011 This new 1977 Model ELECTRA-SPRAY Electric Lasseter (Borders) had Bronchial Asthma 1st Spec Serv Force— (Aug) Wm. Story, 240 Paint Sprayer gives professional results with- and was hospitalized from Jul. 15, 1975 to Thornwood Rd., Stamford, CT 06903 out mess or bother! Simply plug in, squeeze Dec. 15, 1975 at Ft. Oglethorpe and Batty 4th Cav— (Aug) M. J. Loberg, 4th Cav Spur, Gen. Hosp., Rome, GA. CID #374. Annandale, MN 55302 the trigger, and you're spraying or painting USS Blueridge—Need to hear from comrades 5th Eng Comb Bn (WW2)—(Aug) Joseph with any liquid that pours automatically! You who remember Frank J. Charez fell Crute, 229 Stanford, Fairless His, PA 19030 — through a manhole and injured both el- 6th FA Bn (WW2)—(Aug) Joseph Gobrick, get a smooth, even paint job without waste, bows and shoulder while stationed at San RD #2, Box 94-C, Weatherly, PA 18255 reach out-of-the-way corners easily. You can Diego during June 1954. CID #374-A. 6th Inf Div— (Aug) Donald Dobson, 1308 89th Inf Div HQS—Need information from Sunrise Ave., SE, Rochester, MN 55901 save up to 80% of today's high labor costs comrades who recall John J. Helinski con- 6th Port HQ— (Aug) Anthony Vasaris, 15939 by doing it yourself. ELECTRA-SPRAY tracted Rocky Mountain Spotted Fever Middle Belt, Livonia, MI 48154 comes while stationed at Camp Carson, CO, dur- 11th Arm'd Div—(Aug) Alfred Pfeiffer, 2328 complete with Paint Jar Cord, Viscometer ing bW Sept of 1943. CID #374-B. Admiral St., Aliquippa, PA 15001 and Instructions. ELECTRA-SPRAY will 2nd Air Force—Need to hear from comrades 11th Inf Reg't (WW2)— (Aug) Richard Deh- See how who remember Robert R. Dvoran received ler, 1017 Province St., Pittsburgh, PA 15212 pay for itself the first time you use it. an injury to his right foot from a fall off 11th Inf 5th Div Co E—(Aug) Fred Mackey, a B-29 Bomber Wing while stationed at 630 Lindemann Ln., Mason, OH 45040 No. 2073FC—Electra-Spray Outfit $14.99 Alamogordo Air Force Base, NM. CID 16th Arm'd Div— (Aug) Lester Bennett, RT #375. #5, Box 31, Napoleon, OH 43545 24th Inf Div & 5th RCT (Korea)—(Aug) FOSTER-TRENT INC., DEPT.200F OUTFIT REUNIONS Howard Lumsden, 167 Hickory St., Wood River, IL 62095 2345 POST ROAD, LARCH MONT, N.Y. 10538 Reunion will be held in month indicated. 40th Mobile Comm—(Aug) Irvin Kirch, 34 For particulars write person whose address Hoss Rd., Indianapolis, IN 46217 Please enclose 90 1 with order to cover is given. 41st Inf Div— (Aug) Allen Jones, 4224 SE shipping cost. (N.Y. State residents add Notices accepted on official forms only. Hawthorne, Portland, OR 97215 appropriate sales Tax). For form send stamped, addressed return 44th Cav (Aug) Ren Sqd— Archie Largent, ©1977 Foster-Trent envelope to O. R. Form, American Legion RT 3, Box 171, Berkeley Springs, WV 25411 Magazine, 1608 K St. N.W., Washington, D.C. 44th Eng Comb Bn (WW2)—(Aug) Wm.
THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JUNE 1977 33 Squires, RT #2, Versailles, IN 47042 235th OBSN Bn— (Aug) Robert Samboe, 403 44th Tnk Bn— (Aug) Mervin Herndon, 8115 Baubice St., Pioneer, OH 43554 Seward Ave., Kansas City, KS 66109 240th Eng Const Bn Co C— (Aug) Don Mus- 45th Air Depot Gp— (Aug) Charles Guemel- ser, 1658 8th NW, Cedar Rapids, IA 52405 ata, 119 Aigler Blvd., Bellevue, OH 44811 242nd Fid Art Bn— (Aug) Lawrence Wiech- 45th Trans AA MT— (Aug) John Formo, Star man, PO Box 113, Funk, NE 68940 Riute, Walker, MN 56484 261st Inf 65th Div, Co L— (Aug) Herman 56th Pioneer Inf (WW1)— (Aug) Mrs. Ed- Barthold, 8024 Jefferson, Munster, IN 46321 ward Bedlow, Continental Falls Apts, Bldg 273rd Fid Art Bn 12th Corps (WW2)— (Aug) E-A 11, Norristown, PA 19401 Robert Glasgow, 3200 Larch Way, Alder- 60th Sig Bn Co C (WW2) — (Aug) Albert wood Manor, WA 98036 Bennesh, RT 2, Sun Prairie, WI 53590 291st Sig Co— (Aug) Frank Davis, PO Box 63rd Eng Co A 44th Div— (Aug) Melvin 1342, Murfreesboro, TN 37130 KirchotT, Box 223, 500 N. Lange, Maryville, 304th Inf Reg— (Aug) Edward Cain, 45-09- IL 62062 159 St Flushing, NY 11358 65th Inf Div— (Aug) Fred Cassata, 123 Dor- 331st Fid Art Bat D (WW1)— (Aug) Joseph chester Rd., Buffalo, NY 14213 Connolly, 248 Central Ave., Montello, WI 69th Bmb Sqd— (Aug) Lou Kieran, Box 1835, 53949 Pittsburgh, PA 15230 337th AAA Gun Bn Bat D ( 1951-52)— (Aug) 69th Ind Div & 777th Tank Bn— (Aug) Clar- Kenneth Fryer, 709 N. 4th St., Hamburg, ence Marshall, 101 Stephen St., New Ken- PA 19526 sington, PA 15068 338th Inf Co E (WW2) —(Aug) Walter Mc- 74th-372nd Assoc. (WW2) — (Aug) Elmer Phail, 108 Woodland Way, Abbeville, SC Boyd, PO Box 95, Sparta, OH 43350 29620 75th Inf Div— (Jul) Peter Dounis, 728 Dart- 359th AAA SI Bn—(Aug) Leo Knisely, RD 2, mouth Ave., Silver Spring, MD 20910 Box 138, Bedford, PA 15522 80th Div— (Aug) Robert Parks, PO Box 359th Eng Rgt Co B— (Aug) Howard Law- 90008, Nashville, TN 37209 rence, RFD #5, Wooster, OH 44691 81st Inf Div (WW2)— (Aug) Raymond Ross, 368th Eng (WW2)— (Aug) Alex Andreski, RR #2, Bryon, MN 55920 460 Bostwick Ave., Janesville, WI 53545 83rd Inf Div— (Aug) Samuel Klippa, 1500 439th Eng Const Bn— (Aug) Harold Scott, Mutual St., Pittsburgh, PA 15204 509 S. Maple, McPherson, KS 67460 84th Inf Div— (Aug) Robert Le Blanc, Box 455th AAA Bn Bat D—(Aug) Buford Devers, 227, San Antonio, TX 78291 405 Glengarry Dr., Nashville, TN 37217 June 14 nearly al! Americans will "sa- 86th QM Co B & 3482 Ord Co— (Aug) W. J. 456th Ord Evac Co (Aug) George Parker, — lute" Catoe, Box 426, Kershaw, SC 29067 60501 Grand River L400, New Hudson, MI the American Flag as we celebrate 95th Inf Div— (Aug) Theodore Nelson, PO 48165 the 200th birthday of the flag. It wasn't 1274, Chicago, IL 60690 476th (Aug) Ring, 351 Box AAA Bn— Horace always so. On May 8, 1970, on Wall St., 101st Arbrne Div— (Aug) Wm. Olsen, 3057 Ocala Dr., Nashville, TN 37211 Unkaterrin Ln., Orlando, FL 32806 490th Bmb Sq Burma Bridge Busters (WW2) New York City, the flag in the picture 110th Inf 28th Div (WW2)— (Aug) Wm. Zo- — (Aug) Joe Meier, 765 W. Monterey, above was being torn by a man. He was zula, Box 286, Scottdale, PA 15683 Chandler, AZ 85224 stopped by a construction worker who 110th QM Bakery Co— (Aug) Harry Tucker, 513th Eng Lt Pon Co ( 1942-45)— (Aug) Wm. 510 Burton St., Raleigh, NC 27608 Hicks, 7660 Red Bank Rd., Germanton, NC then draped the flag over the statue of 112th Cav— (Aug) Claude Rigsby, PO Box 27019 George Washington. Legionnaire John 112C, Cedar Hill, TX 75104 517th Parachute— (Aug) Melvin Edwards, Kidd, Post 159, Venice, FL snapped the 113th Med Bn, 38th Div (WW2)— (Aug) Gor- 2117-67th St., Lubbock, TX 79412 don Lucas, 700 S. Milton St., Rensselaer, 533rd AA—(Aug) Bill Picha, 314 12th Ave., picture to mark the event. IN 47978 North Hopkins, MN 55343 120 Ord Co (MM)— (Aug) Denzil Williamson, 546th AAA AW Bn Bat A—(Aug) J. C. Boat- RT 2, Box 88, Pauls Valley, OK 73075 right, 7000 S. Walker, Apt 71, Oklahoma bruster, 494 Beaver Ave., Columbus, OH 149th Assoc— (Aug) Marion Williams, 2005 City, OK 73139 43213 Redleaf Dr., Louisville, KY 40222 552nd MPEG Co— (Aug) Joseph Meyer, 56 743rd Tnk Bn—(Aug) Karl Mory 5616 Elliot 152nd Sta Hosp— (Aug) A. C. Metzger, 6714 Harris St., Patchogue, NY 11772 Ave., S, Minneapolis, MN 55417 Porter Central Rd., RT #1, Centerburg, 648th TD Bn—(Aug) Melvin Colby, PO Box 746th Bat C AAA CA 251st Reg (1941)— OH 43011 209, Excelsior, MN 55331 (Aug) Raymond Brown 1567 E. 600 S., 174th Gen Hosp (France WW2)—(Aug) Ber- 656—771st TD Bn— (Aug) Louis Lorincy, 5434 Jonesboro, IN 46938 nard Beckman, Box 383, Kinsey, MT 59338 N. Broad St., Library, PA 15129 761st FA Bn— (Aug) John Camerota, 403 178th Ord Depot Co— (Aug) Chester Kuz- 697th & 698th Fid Art Bn— (Aug) Howard Taylor St., Pittsburgh, PA 15224 drowski, RT #1, Box 116, 15510 Clyde Ave., Green, RT 4, Box 214, Candler, NC 28715 775th EPD Co CBI (WW2)—(Aug) John S. Holland, IL 60473 702nd Tank Bn (WW2)— (Aug) Col. Wm. Kleinfeldt, 1348 Raymond Dr., Aurora, IL 179th Inf 45th Div Co D— (Aug) D Comp Miller, PO Box 8791, Madeira Beach, FL 60538 Assoc, Box 225, Norman, OK 73069 33708 786th Eng Pet Dist Co— (Aug) Joseph Mc- 187th Arbrne Inf Co E (Korea)—(Aug) Roy 709th Milit Police Bn Co D (Germany 1952- Garvey, 201 Fairmount Sun land Estates, Milliken, 3136 Carolina NE, Albuquerque, 58) —(Aug) Brad Mitton, 52 Scadding St., Sanford, FL 32771 NM 87110 Taunton, MA 02780 802nd TD Bn—(Aug) Norman Bjork, 79 195th Fid Art Bn (WW2)— (Aug) Alfred 717 Tnk Bn— (Aug) Robert Ventura, 10 Jacob Washington Pkwy, Hicksville, NY Orrison, 2104 Longview, Dodge City, KS St., Uniontown, PA 15401 805th TD Bn Co C— (Aug) Robert Rager, 67801 718th Rlrd Oper Bn (WW2)— (Aug) Thor 32 Maple Ave., Blairville, PA 15717 198th FA Bn, 138th FA Regt & Bn (WW2 & Levisen, 1709 W. Main St., Marshalltown, 811th TD—(Aug) Virgil Murphy, 5583 Korea) —(Aug) Andrew Cowherd, 119 Ar- IA 50158 Concord-Fairhaven Rd., Camden, OH 45311 bor Park No., Louisville, KY 40214 729th Rlway Oper Bn— (Aug) A. H. Colello, 813th Avia Eng Bn— (Aug) Herman Eichler, 203rd QM Bn, Co B— (Aug) John Dykstra, 4251 4th Ave., Altoona, PA 16602 5202 Ferrer Way, Fern Creek, KY 40291 120 6th St., Box 158, Sand Lake, MI 49343 730th Rlway Oper Bn—(Aug) R. E. Arm- 813th TD Co B—(Aug) Harry Dunnagan, 429 Pine Ave., North Myrtle Beach, SC 29582 818th TD Bn— (Aug) Glen Clopton, 544 North Meridian, Valley Center, KS 67147 831st Sqd 485th Bmb Gp—(Aug) Howard Woodyard, 3539 Butternut Dr., Lambert- ville, MI 48144 835th Eng Avia Bn—(Aug) Joe Ray, 521 Goethe, Kirkwood, MO 63122 Stop Denture Pain 899th TD Bn Co A— (Aug) Joseph Krall, Gheen, MN 55740 977th Eng Maint Co—(Aug) Walter Free, 9539 Carriage Ln., Ft. Wayne, IN 46804 993rd Eng Tdwy Bridge Co—(Aug) Philip Hendricks, 305 E. Maplewood Ave., Little- ton, CO 80121 1021st Eng Tdwy Bridge Co—(Aug) Daniel and Toothaches Fast Miller, RD 6, Box 1, Chambersburg, PA 17201 1138th Eng Co— (Aug) Verlyn Bourgoin, 8224 165th St., N, Hugo, MN 55038 1991st Truck Co QMC—AC— (Aug) Louis with effective Scobee, 39129 264th Ave., SE, Enumclaw, WA 98022 1256 Comb Eng (WW2)—(Aug) Gerald Holli- baugh, 13 E St., Van Buren Homes, Beaver, PA 15009 ERTC-HQS Weapons Sec— (1941-46)— (Aug) Allen Koops, RFD, Cawker City, KS 67430 Numzident WAC Vets Assoc (Aug) Jean Doum, 2217 — Also recommended for cold sores. 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N, Purepac, Elizabeth, NJ 07207 16th NC Bn—(Aug) Harold Halvorsen, 1037 Vallejo St., Santa Rosa, CA 95404 21st NC Bn—(Aug) Dale Nease, 24 High- 34 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JUNE 1977 USS Koiner (DE 331) (WW2)— (Aug) James 49th Ftr Sqd, 14th Ftr Gp, (WW2)— (Aug) Oldest Medal of Honor Focht, PO Box 1339, NAS, Lemoore, CA Sheril Huff, 3200 Chetwood Dr., Del City, 93245 OK 73115 Celebrates USS LaGrange— (Aug) Marvin McAbee, 288 62nd Trp Carr Sqd (WW2)— (Aug) David Winner Buena Vista, El Centro, CA 92243 Mondt, Box 155, Boone, IA 50036 ) USS Maryland (BB 46)— (Aug) Wm. Chick, 65th Trp Carr Sqd ( WW2 — (Aug) Bud 100th Birthday Jr., 5709 N. Holly, Kansas City, MO 64118 Hawkey, 106 Union Dr., New Madison, OH USS Nereus (WW1)—(Aug) Nathan Wood, 45346 Retired Navy Lieutenant William 306 Emily St., Mt. Morris, IL 61054 71st Bmb Sqd (M) (WW2)— (Aug) Geo. USS Pargo (264) (WW2)— (Aug) Jerrold Sevy, 450 S. 150 West, Cedar City, UT Seach of Weymouth, MA, the oldest Graves, PO Box 248, Maupin, OR 97037 84720 USS Pawcatuck ( AO-108)— ( Aug) James 82nd Ftr Cont Sqd—(Aug) Emil Papa, 321 living Congressional recipient of the Parks, 516 E. Locust St., Mt. Sterling, KY Ave. W, Brooklyn, NY 11223 Medal of Honor, celebrated his 100th 40353 303rd Bmb Gp—(Aug) Joseph Vieirs, PO Box USS Rankin (WW2)— (Aug) Howard Nes- 8531, Pembroke Pines Branch, Hollywood, birthday on May 23. tingen, 2520 Edgewood Place., La Crosse, FL 33024 WI 54601 388th Bmb Gp— (Aug) Edward Huntzinger, A member of Posts 79 and 301, Wey- USS Salt Lake City (CA 25)— (Aug) C. H. 1925 SE 37th St., Cape Coral, FL 33904 mouth, Seach was a seaman on the Carroll, 200 Timbercove Cir., Longwood, 485th Bmb Gp, 828th Sqd— (Aug) Robert FL 32750 Deeds, 4643 286th St., Toledo, OH 43611 U.S.S. Newark when he was sent to USS Saratoga (CV 3)— (Aug) Jack Frost, 397th Bmb Grp, 596th, 597th, 598th, 599th 2659 Belvidere Ave., SW, Seattle, WA Bmb Sqds (M)— (Aug) Earl Trull, 1210 Peking, China, during the Boxer Re- 98126 West Ave., Austin, TX 78701 bellion and was cited for courage un- USS Seahorse (SS 304)— (Aug) Sheldon 432nd Bmb Sqd (M) 17th Bmb Gp— (Aug) Stubbs, 2655 NW Mehama Ct., Portland, Charles Miller, 615 Carved Terr., Colardo der fire as part of the Expeditionary Or 97229 Springs, CO 80919 USS Seer (AM 112)—(Aug) M. L. Theel, 452nd Bmb Gp, 8th Air Force— (Aug) Rom Force sent to relieve members of the RT #2, Fremont, NE 68025 Blaylock, 2103 Center Ave., New Bern, Svesens (Aug) 28560 foreign legations under seige by mili- USS Richard W. (DE 342)— NC Richard Sparr, 8041 S. O'Dell St., Bridge- 703rd & 15360th Co, 5th Air Force— (Aug) tant Boxers and members of the Chi- view, IL 60455 Jim Christilaw, 1215 Grove St., Oshkosh, USS Thomas Jefferson (Apa 30)— (Aug) WI 54901 nese Imperial Army. Walter Riedel, 114 S. Third Ave., Fern- 829th Bmb Sqd— (Aug) E. L. Bundy, 5773 dale, 21061 Middlefield Dr., Columbus, 43220 Mr. and Mrs. Seach celebrated their MD OH USS Topeka (CL 67) (1944-49)— (Aug) James 830th Bmb Sqd— (Aug) Lyle Talbott, 310 65th wedding anniversary on March 28. Wilson, 618 Abbott St., Muncie, IN 47303 Mohican Dr., Crooksville, OH 43731 USS Wharton—(Aug) Geo. Howlett, 110 843rd Eng Avia Bn— (Aug) Andrew Salmon, Central Ave., Maiden, MA 02148 9900 E. 81st Terr, Raytown, MO 64138
land Dr., Chickasha, OK 73018 AIR Miscellaneous 25th NC Bn— (Aug) John Owen, 2110 W. 40th St., Lorain, OH (44053) 4th Ftr Sqd—(Aug) Tony Kalenic, 3603 N. Bataan-Corregidor—(Aug) Wayne Carringer, 29th NC Bn—(Aug) John Krup, 388 E 271st 84th St., Milwaukee, WI 53222 Promotions Off., Fontana Dam, NC 28733 St., Euclid, OH 44132 8th Air Force— (Aug) John Woolnough, Box China-Burma-India Vets— (Aug) Lester 43rd NC Bn—(Aug) Thomas Gifford, 100 4738, Hollywood, FL 33023 Dencker, 10425 W. North Ave., Milwaukee, Ives St., Waterbury, CT 06704 8th Ftr Gp (WW2)— (Aug) Geo. Trull, 1710 WI 53226 52nd NC Bn—(Aug) Herbert Wardlaw, Box W. Mission Bay Dr., San Diego, CA 92109 Christmas Isle APO 915 (WW2)— (Aug) 40, Altheimer, AK 72004 10th Air Depot Gp (Europe)— (Aug) Wm. David Buente, 120 Arch Ave., Pittsburgh, 59th NC Bn— (Aug) Roy Robinson, PO Box Bowman, 3844 Waterbury Dr., Dayton, OH PA 15202 506, Robbins, NC 27325 45439 Guadalcanal Camp Vets— (Aug) Chuch Brei- 88th NC Bn—(Aug) Lavern Roepke, 318 13th Trp Carr Sqd— (Aug) Dom Finelli, 1027 jak, PO Box 16154, Seattle, WA 98116 Park Ave., Wilmette, IL 60091 Bell Ave., Yeadon, PA 19050 Lost Battalion (2nd Bn, 131St Fid Art USS 96th NC Bn—(Aug) Harold Mercer, 2147 SW 42nd Depot Sup Sqd— (Aug) Wm. Gilbert, Houston) —(Aug) Crayton Gordon, 1617 79th St., Oklahoma City, OK 73159 7511 Brightside Ave., Baltimore, MD 21237 Carl, Ft. 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THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JUNE 1977 35 (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 18) in the arsenals, on condition that Barques, France. In July, the convoy Invisible Hero of the Revolution he replace what he took." was drawn into the Anglo-French The letter touched off a fiery de- sea battle of Grenada. Ten of his forced him into such enormous debt, bate in Congress, with the Lees and ships were captured or destroyed, and determined to assure the success Adamses leading the opposition. with only the Fier Roderigue escap- of his venture, Beaumarchais dis- After a long, acrimonious fight, ing. Undaunted, the energetic fleet- patched Thevenaud de Francy, a Deane finally convinced Congress master obtained another loan from trusted Roderigue, Hortalez em- that he and Beaumarchais had been Vergennes and rebuilt his Navy from ployee, to the colonies. By the time slandered. But Silas Deane, who car- scratch. de Francy arrived in late 1777, the ries the distinction of being our first By April 1781, the U. S. Congress news of the Saratoga victory had American diplomat, emerged from owed Beaumarchais almost $8 mil- reached France. Beaumarchais wrote the debate with a ruined reputation lion. Despite this debt, Beaumar- de Francy: and a bitterness that in later years chais' navy-turned-merchant-fleet "In spite of all these annoyances would turn him against his own brought him riches in the postwar the news from America over- country. period. He also found time to com- whelms me with joy. Brave, brave On Jan. 15, 1779, John Jay, Presi- plete his greatest play, The Marriage dent of Congress, apologized to •people, whose warlike conduct jus- of Figaro. Although the play es- tifies my esteem and the noble en- Beaumarchais: poused radical egalitarian ideals and thusiasm felt for them in France! "The Congress of the United mocked the nobility, the nobles them- In short, my friend, I want some States recognizing the great ef- selves loved satire and had the play return cargoes only to be able to forts you have made in their favor, privately staged. ..." present to you their thanks, and serve them anew. In great contrast to his wide fame assure you their esteem. They The Saratoga victory to which of as a playwright, Beaumarchais lament the inconveniences you Beaumarchais' aid was so essential seemed to suffer from almost total have suffered in support of these jolted Louis XVI into the realization anonymity in America for his "exer- States. Unfortunate circumstances that, as Beaumarchais had been tell- tions on our behalf." Some years have prevented them the fulfill- ing him, the Americans could win after the war, while Beaumarchais ment of their wishes, but they will with a little help, and France could was an impoverished exile from the take the most effective measures avenge herself for England's victory French Revolution, Benjamin Frank- to acquit themselves of the debt in the Seven Years' War. lin inquired of the French govern- they owe you." A French fleet of 12 battleships, ment about an unaccounted $2 heartened four frigates and thousands of sol- Ever-trusting, and by million that was supposedly given this letter, Beaumarchais sent diers and sailors sailed out of Toulon more to the United States during the 1776- supplies, but still his ships returned Harbor under Admiral d'Estaing, of 1778 period of secret supplying. Not empty. whom the present President of only did the French government re- France is a descendant. Accompany- If Beaumarchais' indulgent trust fuse to release the name of the indi- ing the fleet were the first French of the Americans seems incompre- vidual to whom this money had been ambassador to the United States and hensible today, allowance must be given (Beaumarchais, of course, who times, Silas Deane, who had been recalled made for the temper of the had used it to send supplies), but the by Congress because of Lee's charges and for Beaumarchais. For Ameri- French Archives did not release the that Deane and Beaumarchais were can patriots and French volunteers, information until 1886 . . . exactly making huge war profits. certain principles held dear were 100 years later. worth fighting and dying for. General Washington greatly ap- Thus, due to a conspiracy of cir- preciated the July 1778 arrival of In May 1779, Beaumarchais dis- cumstances deriving from personal the French naval forces. His later patched 11 supply-laden ships from jealousies, secrecy and Congressional brilliant strategic coordination of the ingratitude, Beaumarchais has re- French Navy with the American mained invisible to history. Army made him the second person On April 10, 1795, in Hamburg, indispensable for our victory in the Germany, a desperately poor Pierre War of Independence. Caron de Beaumarchais wrote the American statesmen on both sides American people at large. If today of the Atlantic were sufficiently con- his words fail to rouse a dormant fused about the origin of the mili- American conscience, his anonymity tary supplies magically appearing on may well be assured for two cen- their shores so that Franklin wrote turies more: to Vergennes, on behalf of Congress, Americans, I have served you with asking whether the French govern- indefatigable zeal and I have re- ment or Beaumarchais had provided ceived throughout my life, only the aid. Vergennes wrote back: bitterness as a reward for my ser- "M. Franklin and his colleagues vices. I die your creditor . . . [If I would like to know which of the am again rejected, I will travel] to articles have been supplied by M. the door of your National Assem- de Beaumarchais on his own ac- blies, and there, sitting on a lonely count, and they insinuate that con- stool, holding out the liberty cap— gress is convinced that all, or at which no man on earth helped you least a large portion of what has wear more than I—for all to see, I been sent came from His Majesty. should cry out, "Americans, give I am about to reply that the king alms to your friend, for all his has not furnished anything: that services to you have brought "I dreamed I ate a ten-pound he has merely allowed M. de Beau- marshmallow." naught but this reward." marchais to take what he wanted THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE Randolph W. Hobler
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38 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JUNE 1977 (CONTINUED FROM PAGE 21) Kamikaze pilots while he talked have been different. Japan had ob- of one tained German plans for rocket and Kamikaze Shrine about his personal recollection pilot in particular. Although Dizon jet-propelled aircraft, but American was just a lad then, he recalls con- atomic bombs erased any dreams hend why the Japanese would at- versations with this pilot who would that they might be decisive. tempt to smash their aircraft into propaganda leaflets or American warships with apparent bring along The solemn, tender attitude dis- hand-drawn pictures. played by those Japanese at Maba- disregard for their own lives. Onishi Dizon recalls that his father would lacat could be scorned by Americans continued to be a driving force of the berate him for being too familiar who suffered during the Kamikaze Kamikaze effort until Vice Admiral with the Japanese. The museum and it is Matome Uzaki took command during attacks. But always profitable to library in Dizon's home is perhaps ponder an enemy's actions and reac- the battles around Okinawa. the only one of its kind in the world. Uzaki wrote a manual of Kamikaze tions. Insight into the reverence of the tactics which improved the effective- pilgrims towards the Kamikaze fliers ness of suicide attacks. died in battle near the end of The Kamikaze aircraft were often who II and the composed fatalism obsolete aircraft with just enough WW — of the fliers themselves can be fuel for a one-way trip to their tar- — gained from excerpts from a trans- get. Indeed, the Kamikaze's fate was lated farewell letter of a Kamikaze usually sealed by physical limitations pilot now among papers in Dizon's of his aircraft even if courage museum. The pilot was a graduate faltered at the last moment. The of Rikkyo University in Tokyo. He Kamikaze attacks did bear fruit for flew one of three Zeros belonging to the Japanese, although the effort fell the Yamato-tai Attacking Team miserably short of its objective. which took off from a base at Cebu, Between Oct. 25, 1944, and Jan. 11, in the Philippines, and headed to- 1945, 16 American ships of more ward Leyte on October 26, 1944: than 1,000 tons in size were sunk during the Philippines campaign. "To my beloved Daughter: During the bloody battles for "You often did smile me into good Okinawa, 40 American ships were humor when you were a baby. In listed as sunk or damaged beyond my arms, I recall, you used to fall repair by Kamikazes and over 350 asleep peacefully. . . . Growing up others that were damaged could not enough to know about your father, be repaired before the war ended. please ask your mother and aunt Over 9,500 U.S. Navy personnel were to tell all about me. My own album This 250-kilogram Japanese bomb was casualties. Those losses occurred be- is being kept for you in our home. unearthed by Dizon near the Mabalacat April 2 and July 28, 1945. When you were born I did name tween airfield, the home of the Kamikaze pilots Also during those battles, the Jap- you Motoko, hoping that you shall anese lost over 7,500 aircraft. An Dizon's research with former become a straightforward girl with estimated half of those destroyed Kamikaze officers who trained pilots sincere hospitality. Even if I shall were suicide planes. Japanese records in Mabalacat and his initiative with pass away from this world while list over 4,600 fliers lost during the the government of the Philippines you are too young to recognize me, Kamikaze missions. has brought recognition of the Kami- you must never feel miserable of The end of Kamikaze activity at kaze Shrine. The Department of it. ... I would recommend you to Mabalacat came in January 1945, Tourism of the Philippines is now visit the Yasukuni Shrine in when American planes attacked actively supporting expansion of the Kudan where [are] enshrined Jap- Clark Field. According to Yoshioka, Mabalacat Kamikaze Memorial. anese soldiers and pray to the Gods he was one of about 30,000 Japanese Dizon was the primary contact for from the bottom of your heart; who escaped to the nearby Zambales the 24 Japanese visitors who re- then, your father shall come alive Mountains which extend along the turned to Central Luzon in 1976 in your mind. I, your father, think western side of Luzon. They lived in along with Yoshioka to memorialize of you to be a happy child. You the mountains for about six months the founding place of the famed look like your father very much, I with "no food—no arms—no noth- Kamikazes. The party included the think, and everybody says so while ing." Toward the end of the six widow of Admiral Onishi and five looking at you. You must never months of hiding and running in the Kamikaze pilots who were unable to think of yourself to be a fatherless mountains, the Japanese soldiers complete their final flight. child even if I shall become no "only fought with stones," according Americans had to watch with curi- more alive in the future. I, your to Yoshioka. In the end, only 445 ously mixed feelings—feelings that father, will always be with you to Japanese were alive to surrender. were underscored when the Japanese protect. Please make yourself be- One of the men knowledgeable with bowed heads listened first to the come a nice and gentle girl whom about Kamikaze activity is the Japanese National Anthem, then the everybody loves. Filipino artist-historian Daniel H. Filipino National Anthem—both On a good day in 1944 Dizon. Dizon has an invaluable col- competing with the constant sound From your Father lection of Kamikaze memorabilia in of American aircraft overhead from "P.S. In our fighter-bomber I am the KAMESO museum at his home Clark Air Base. keeping your doll which you were in Angeles City, a few miles from If there was resentment, there playing with when you were a Mabalacat. Dizon has made a pains- could also be understanding if some mere baby child. It reminds me taking research of Kamikaze activ- Japanese seemed to look wistfully that you are always with me. I ities. toward Mount Arayat as if wonder- will let you know this lest you for- During a recent visit to his home, ing that with a little additional time get it." Dizon donned the headgear worn by and a little luck, the ending could Story and photos by Herb Meyer, Jr.
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EVER SO . . . To most female teen-agers a thing of beauty is a boy forever. —Mary Allen BUSY DAY PERPETUAL MOTION "No, I can't give you an appointment; I have 18 cavities to fill," said the dentist. Summertime: When children slam the "But, Doctor," exclaimed the nurse, "you don't have any appointments doors they left open all winter. for this afternoon." —Audrey Earle "Oh, yes, I have," answered the dentist, picking up his golf clubs. —Gene Fobster PARADISE FOUND HOW'S THAT AGAIN? We've found the one vacation spot After listening to her husband's tirade about her spending, the wife Where tourists never roam, remarked, "Well, I just wish you had the spunk the government has That stays unspoiled and natural, it doesn't let being in debt keep it from spending," That one place is home! —Lucille Goodyear J. —Ardis Thompson DOWN MEMORY LANE Information on a church bulletin: "A new loudspeaker system has been installed in the church. It was given by one of the members in memory of his wife." —Gladys Kent BACK TROUBLE The office workers were discussing weekend sports activities. "I can't indulge in water skiing, mountain climbing, snorkeling or scuba diving because of my back," said one. "What's wrong with your back?" asked a co-worker. "It has a big yellow streak." —Fran Allen FINAL BID Overheard at an auction sale: "Sold—to the lady with her husband's hand over her mouth." —Mary Ruddy STUDENT'S SOLILOQUY My moving finger having writ I'll never pass English Lit. "I could use a coffee break." —R. E. Marino THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE
48 THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE • JUNE 1977 For information on how you can start a Pitch In! program, write U.S.B.A. 1750 K. Street N.W., Washington, D.C. 20006 UNITED STATES BREWERS ASSOCIATION . ! ! ! BABY YOUR FEET/ Afternoon delight Cushion Step Shoes have EXTRA THICK CREPE HEEL & SOLE!
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