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E PHI MM E.' LTA The Salt of Bataan Into Their Wounds Major-General Charles A. Willough-by (Gettysburg '14) Enters Manila Conference Room With Japanese Lieutenant- General Torashiro Kawabe PRESENTING I ff f 1 9 4 6 F. r) r T PHI GAMMA DELTA We HE BALFOUR (Registered U. S. Patent Office) BLUE BOOK A MAGAZINE PUBLISHED CONTINUOUSLY SINCE 1879 BY THE FRATERNITY OP PHI GAMMA DELTA Jut riguing new jew • I ry and fine gifts are billed with an exciting array of Balfour Parade favorites to make the 1946 editit NOVEMBER, 1945 No. 2 the BALFOUli BLUE BOOK the fine,1 Just a few of the many TABLE OF CONTENTS interesting things you will find .. Our War Story—Continued 99 121 Here you will find forty pages of .13:: An Editor Reaches His Anecdotage The NEW 1946 139 edition quality fraternity jewelry: Beautiful rh: The Fraternity His Hobby-Horse 143 BALFOUR BLUE BOOK •(,e the new Identification Ring! — finel Fame's Accolade for 59 Brothers lets, pendants, lockets, chapter weddinit In a Snug Little Nook by the Fireside 147 service billfolds, writing portfolios, Fratres Qui Fuerunt Sed Nunc Ad Astra 152 ery, place cards, honor rolls and schar Gleams of White Star Dust 156 Doing Double Duty scrolls. Fijis Here, There and Everywhere 159 165 Mail post card for Fijis As Press Sees Them 167 FAeTt)RY is proud of Chapter Days—and Nights YOUR FREE COPY! UR 191 O the part it has played dur- This issue as the Editor Sees It ing the war years in the fur- nishing of vital war materials COMPLETE BALF01 1: for the protection and aid of SERVICE the men in the armed forces. 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DELTA should be in the hands of the Phi atter intended for publication in THE PHI GAMMA Comma Delta a complete jewelry display. or at least one month preceding month of publication. CECIL J. WILKINSON (Ohio Wesleyan '17) Manager L G Editor and co.) St., N.W., Washington, D. C. BALFOUR Rust Building, 1001 15th FACTORIES A TTLEBORo MASSACHUSE In Canada .. Contact your nearest BIRK'S store. Vat- - Novr. m Brit, 1945 No 14%4 THE PHI GAMMA DELTA Our W‘cr Story—Continued Fiji Major-General Receives Japanese Surrender Envoys in Crowning Tribute to Our Fallen Men By CECIL J. WILKINSON (Ohio Wesleyan '17) Editor of THE PHI GAMMA DELTA WARFED by their clanking tribute to the memory of our fallen D samurai swords and by the tall dead! American soldiers on the scene, 16 * * * glum-faced Japanese on August 19, The silencing of the guns on all 1945, left the transport plane which had fronts still has the aftermath of new brought them 4 to Manila from the tiny names on the roster of those who have isle of le Shima, next to Okinawa. been killed in action. Twelve more Fijis Across Nichols Field, where a gal- who have made the supreme sacrifice lant Fiji had been slain by a bomb dur- at grips with the enemy are here re- ing the first few days after Pearl Har- corded, bringing our total roster of r, the enemy envoys walked — like battle deaths to an even 200. Future many wooden soldiers. Some irre- issues will round out the golden star pres,ilde G.I.s yelled, "Banzai! Ban- scroll, as other reports come belatedly 72i! to this magazine. en to the courtly. Killed in action: towl ring Major-General Cha: DAVID RICHARDSON, A. Willoughby N LA P. JR. (Dartmouth (Gt' yslairg '14) the lit- '42), navy lieutenant (j. g.), tie :-ellows, garbed in was killed in action on Pad y,1 suits and sheep- March 19, 1945. off Kobe, ski! cd Japan, when the airplane presented carrier Ben Franklin, on 'elves — for surren- which he was fighter direc- mrposes. tor, was seriously damaged ice again the impress by Japanese bombs. He was born in Mobile. Ala., in 1921. ii Gamma Delta was ly upon ROBERT MEREDITH World War GREEN (Hanover '42), hir brother received artillery private first class, Token foe. What a was killed in action in North- THE PHI GAMMA DELTA THE PHI GAMMA DELTA IOI ROBERT McDONALD K E N DA' AMIN CARLYLE WELCH, JR. ROBERT VERNON WETZEL (Penn- 1 (Indiana '41), air forces lieutenant, ee '46), infantry private, was killed sylvania State '43), navy ensign, was killed killed in action on November 8, 1944, on October 30, 1944, while serving in an airplane accident in the Asiatic area on 1945, an operational his B-29 plane was shot down while ele e Rangers during the invasion of February 23, while on mission. He was born in 1923 in Trenton, bombing mission over Iwo Jima and France. The son of Benjamin C. Bonins. It was his second foray , Sr. (Tennessee '15), he was born at N. J. against * * * enemy. He was born at Crothersville, : 'Union City, Tenn., in 1924. in 1920. PAUL ANSON WINTER (Bucknell Missing in action: CHARLES WALTON MILLET- '43), navy lieutenant (j. g.), was killed on JOHN THOMAS PUCKETT (Kansas homa '27), air forces major, is rn,,,s May 4, 1945, when the U. S. S. Luce, a de- '45), infantry private, has not returned from sumed by the War Department to have :- stroyer. was hit and sunk by a Japanese a combat patrol on which he set forth near killed in action on December 15, 1944 suicide plane off Okinawa. He was born in Elsenborn, Belgium. He has been reported was listed by the Japanese as one of the. 1921 at Lewisburg. Pa., and is survived by a as missing. He was with the 394th Infantry prisoners who lost their lives when a t. Fiji brother, Charles W. Winter (Bucknell Regiment of the 99th Division. port, presumably on the way to 11). Japan BENJAMIN SETLIFF Manila, was sunk. He • * • EDWARD was born in 1904 lieutenant, Sapulpa, Okla. mori. (Oklahoma '44), air forces first Duice et decorum est pro patria is still reported as missing in action after CHARLES CLARK PARKER (P The following Fijis have died in the his B-29 failed to return from a bombing sylvania '45), air forces lieutenant, service, although not at actual grips mission over Kogoshima. Japan, on June 18, killed by two brutal which had German police gua. with the enemy: 1945. He was flying in a plane in Northern Italy on March 19, 1945 - been named "City of Clarksburg." It was he had bailed out of his plane over R,- EDWARD PAYSON FERRY (Wash- Lieutenant Setliff's 15th mission. Italy, -commander, died two days earlier. The actua1 ington '24), navy lieutenant * * * have been made prisoners and will ,t on June 22, 1945, at Seattle, Wash. He was on trial by the War Crimes Con born in Salt Lake City, Utah, in 1900. Lieutenant Parker had been flying JAMES FRANKLIN GILKIN SON 12th Air NAVAL Force. He was born at Ne‘k (Yale '15), navy lieutenant-commander, died OFFICER IS KILLED Conn., in 1922. on March 26, 1943, in Brooklyn, N. Y. He el Lieutenant (j. g.) David R. Dunlap, Jr. ORLANDO RICHAF was I.)rn in New York City in 1893. (Dartmouth '42) lost his life when the ASHLEY air- JR. (Alabama '41), plane carrier Ben Franklin was damaged infantry captain ROBERT ERNEST GROSS (Witten- by February 1, enemy fire off Kobe, 1945, as the result of berg '40), air forces captain, died on August Japan. received in action while crossing the 12, 1545, in Tampa, Fla. He was a veteran River in France with the 756th Tan, of 55 missions and 330 combat hours in the ern Italy on talion of April 19, 1945. He had trained the 3rd Division. He had Burtna-India-China theater of operations and at Fort paigned Knox, Ky., and went overseas in across Africa and was a mew' had won the Distinguished Flying Cross December. the 1944. He was born at Highland, first light tank division to land in E.. with one Oak Leaf Cluster. Bob had re- 0., in 1916. -at Salerno. He later saw service at Cass turtle to the States in February, 1944. He and entered Rome. He was born in 1920 Was GEORGE BAXTER HART (Wittenberg born in 1918 in Massilon, 0. '33), Montgomery, Ala. infantry major, was killed on December FRANK PIERCE (Syra- 15, SWARTOUT 1944, when the Japanese prison-ship on RICHARD ALBERT VAN cuse '45), air forces second lieutenant, was which he was being transported from the (Massachusetts Tech. '41), air forces ki4le1 on June 11, 1945, when a life raft Philippines to Japan was sunk by an Ameri- tenant, was killed in action on Dec loosened and became entangled in the tail can submarine. George had been in the Philip- 28, 1944, while on a bombing mis.