With the Armed Forces SINCE the opening of the new Allied the- neth M. Taylor, '40, Hominy, has won the ater of operations in North Africa, news Purple Heart in Pacific war action. Cap- has reached the Alumni Office about Soon- tain Taylor left Hawaii in mid-October, ers in all branches of the armed forces who three days after his promotion from first are participating in the land, sea and air lieutenant to captain, and was reported in offensive. the South Pacific. He received the Distin- 1 Dispatches from the African battlefront guished Service Cross for heroism at Pearl reported that Maj. Clark Kegelman, '34236, Harbor, was the first alumnus of the Uni- El Reno, was leading a squadron in bomb- versity decorated. ing raids in Tunisia. Major Kegelman was > Lt. Paul Irving Williams, '34239, Nor- awarded the Distinguished Service Cross man, was awarded the Distinguished Fly- for heroic action in a raid last July 4 over ing Cross and the Silver Star for bravery Nazi-occupied Europe with the same group in an aerial attack on Rabaul, New Guinea, of fliers . in October. According to dispatches from 1 Services for the first American dead in the South Pacific, Lieutenant Williams took the African campaign were conducted by his Flying Fortress dangerously low in or- Lt. Phineas M. Casady, '29ba, formerly of der to strafe and bomb a Japanese airdrome Oklahoma City, in a cemetery at Fedhala, at close range. He was reported on duty French Morocco, on November 10. The As- in the Solomon Islands area. sociated Press dispatch from Africa said > Adding to his already impressive list of in part, "Even as the fallen were paid final honors, Capt. Nathan H. Blanton, '36-'38, honors, the distant sound of firing told of Earlsboro, recently received the Purple the progress of their comrades marching Heart for action in the Lingayen Gulf, against Casablanca . The sun broke Philippine Islands, on December 20, 1941. through as Chaplain Casady intoned the DL:CORATED FOR BRAVERY He was previously awarded the Silver Star and service." Lieutenant Casady, former rector Lloyd Childers, '40, Oklahoma City, an Oak Leaf cluster. of Episcopalian churches in Clinton and aviation radioman third class in the > For the second time since going on for- Alva, was a rector in Berkeley, California, Navy llir Corps, was awarded the Dis- eign duty, Lt. Don Sutliff, '39240, Black- before going into active service as an Army tinguished Flying Cross for heroic ac- well, has been reported missing in action chaplain . tion while serving as tail gunner in a and later found . The War Department, > Accompanying the first American Navy torpedo plane during the Battle which announced that Lieutenant Sutliff troops into North Africa was a medical of Midway. was missing in the South Pacific as of No- unit commanded by Maj. Paul Sanger, '28 vember 22, notified his parents on De- ba, which for the first time in U. S. mili- Nimitz read in part, "Without regard for cember 7 that he had been located, was tary history set up a field hospital as part extreme danger from anti-aircraft fire and alive and well. Similar reports about the of landing operations . Major Sanger, for- overwhelming fighter plane opposition he pilot were received once before. mer physician in Charlotte, North Caro- vigorously and with heroic determination > Lt. Alfred Naifeh, '37ba, '401aw, Nor- lina, supervised establishment of a hospital repelled enemy air attacks. Even though man, was killed in Naval action in the Pa- on the beach to care for wounded as soon wounded and unable to continue to fire his cific according to an official Navy Depart- as the battle started . Two hundred soldiers free machine gun, he continued to fire on ment report received by relatives on No- were awarded the Purple Heart in the hos- attacking enemy planes with his .45 caliber vember 25. Details were not disclosed. Lieu- pital tent. Work of the evacuation hospital pistol." After receiving the award, Mr. tenant Naifeh entered active service as an was described in a dispatch to the Chicago Childers was home on leave and recently ensign in the fall of 1941, was stationed Sun from African Correspondent H. R. returned to duty in San Francisco. at Soldiers Field Station in Boston before Knickcrbocker. Oil- Lt. Col. Stuart M. Porter, '38bus, Mus- going on sea duty. Former secretary to A. Flying over the unfamiliar hilly terrain kogee, was awarded the Purple Heart along P. Murrah, '281aw, federal circuit judge, of Kwangsi province in southern China, Lt. with other crew members of a Flying For- Lieutenant Naifeh held a master's degree Joe Griffin, '38-'40, Pauls Valley, in late tress which took part in a raid on Lille, from the University of Michigan. While a November chased a Japanese bomber away France, October 9 . Colonel Porter, acting student in the University he was a mem- from its objective, an air field used by Gen- as observer-gunner, was injured when the her of Bombardiers, Phi Eta Sigma, Phi eral Claire Chennault's flying forces, after plane was hit by anti-aircraft fire which Beta Kappa, the President's Class and the two other enemy bombers had been shot ripped the right wing-flap and tore a hole Debate team. He was president of the Men's down . Lieutenant Griffin pursued the in the fuselage. The crew members brought Council in 1936, college secretary of the enemy craft through dim moonlight de- down a number of German planes despite State League of Young Democrats and spite danger of crashing into a hillside . personal injuries and damage to the plane's president of the University chapter. Sur- When he returned from the chase, his plane oxygen lines. vivors include his mother, Mrs. Rathia bore bullet holes and oil splashed from the > Lt. Dugan Woodring, '36-'38, Noble, Naifeh of Norman ; three brothers, Pvt. Japanese plane. was awarded the Silver Star for gallantry Robert Naifeh, '38242, with the Army Air Lloyd Childers, '40, Oklahoma City, in action in South Pacific aerial battles . A Force in Denver ; W. M. Naifeh, Norman, aviation radioman third class in the Navy pursuit pilot, Lieutenant Woodring is a and Mitchell Naifeh, Camp Carson, Colo- Air Corps, was awarded the Distinguished member of a pursuit squadron which up rado ; and two sisters, Helen Naifeh,'42bus, Flying Cross, for heroism in the Battle of to last September was credited with de- and Julia Mai Naifeh, a junior in the Uni- Midway last June. He was severely wound- struction of 24 Japanese planes. He majored versity. ed while serving as tail gunner in a Navy in engineering while attending the Univer- > Ensign Gerald Gault, '40bus, Sentinel, torpedo plane which scored a direct hit on sity. has been reported missing in action by the a Jap carrier. The citation from Admiral > Word has been received that Capt. Ken- Navy Department. Before going on sea 7 JANUARY, 1943 duty he was stationed for a time in New gram of Army remedial training has been four ferrying missions. Mr . Haynes told of piloting Orleans and later assigned to the Navy set up. General Robertson is the brother a bomber through a cloud of locusts, each several inches long, which hit the plane with the force School of Supply at Harvard University of Mrs . Garrison H. Buxton (Virginia Rob- of baseballs. The involved state of African politics in Cambridge, Massachusetts . Ensign Gault ertson, '29fa), Oklahoma City, and Mrs. bothers pilots too, as they can never be sure whether was employed as an accountant by the Wyatt Marrs, Norman, wife of Professor the territory they are flying over is friendly or Louisiana Ice and hostile, he said. Sand in the engines, necessitating Electric Company at Marrs on the University faculty. constant repair jobs, and the great distances be- Alexandria before entering Navy service . > Flight surgeon with a Naval squadron, tween air fields add to the uncertainty of the work. While attending the University he was a Lt. Neville Bowers, '39med, of the Navy Mr. Haynes expected to go back to his job with member of Phi Eta Sigma scholastic fra- Medical Corps, returned to his post with the Ferry Command, now under Army control. ternity and Beta Gamma Sigma business the Pacific fleet last month after a short Ensign Richard Wray, '406us, former Oklahoma City insurance salesman ; was home on leave in fraternity. Survivors include his parents, visit at his home in Oklahoma City. Lieu- December after returning from Africa where he Mr. and Mrs. John Gault of Sentinel . tenant Bowers flew to the U. S. in a trans- participated in landing operations. Among other > Capt . Walter L. Callaham, '39bus, port plane with a group of wounded men duties he served as beach master in charge of land- Broken Bow, was reported ing teams from his convoy, senior boat officer, co- missing in ac- sent back for medical attention . He has ordinator between Army and Navy forces on his tion with the Army Air Force in the Heb- served in the Solomons and Guadalcanal transport and assistant gunnery officer. Before he rides Islands in an official War Department areas, sometimes right up in the front lines left Africa to return to the United States he ran notice November 27. Captain Callaham in the thick of fighting . into Lt. Sam Moore, '38med, former Cleveland, Ohio, physician now in the Army Medical Corps, had been on combat duty in the Pacific since > Capt . Alvan M. Muldrow, '331aw, Nor- who landed in the same convoy group. last May when he ferried a bomber from man, recently was awarded a Soldiers' Home on leave after months of patrol duty out the U.