With the Armed Forces was first reported missing in action over Germany Liberated in February, 1944 . Lieutenant Whittet was at La Lt. Col . Victor E. Warford, '40bs, Chickasha, who Havre, France, awaiting passage home in late May . was a prisoner of war in Germany, has been 0- Lt. Owen Smith, '34-'36, Norman, has been liberated . Colonel Warford was first reported released from a German prison camp . Lieutenant missing in action over Czechoslovakia on October Smith, who was with the 569th Bombardment 11, 1944 . He was with the 309th Fighter squadron . group, was first reported a prisoner of war in He has been decorated with the Distinguished November, 1943 . Holder of the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Air Medal. Flying Cross, he was at St. Valerie, France, awaiting It Capt . Murray F. Gibbons, Jr., '411aw, Okla- transportation home . homa City, has been freed from a German prison 0- Lt . Roy D. Clem, '39-'42, Granite, has been camp. Captain Gibbons was reported missing in liberated from Stalag Luft No. 3. Lieutenant Clem, action in Germany on December 21, 1944, with with the Army Air Forces, was reported missing the 423rd Infantry Division . in action in the Mediterranean area in February, No- Lt. Leonard A. Wall, '40-'42, Dombey, has 1944, and in March was reported a prisoner of been liberated from a German prison camp after Germany . having been listed as missing in action over NO- Lt. C. H. Jameson, Jr ., '36, Sulphur, has been Germany since February 3. He was attached to the freed from a German prison camp . Pilot of a B-17, 532nd Bombardment squadron . he was shot down over Germany on November 00- Capt. Woodrow L. Pickhardt, '37med, Lawton, 26, 1944 . has been released from a German prison camp. 0- Lt . Joe H. Bishop, '37-'38, Blackwell, has been Captain Pickhardt, a Paratroop doctor, was re- liberated from a German prison camp . Lieutenant ported missing the day following the Normandy Bishop enlisted in the Army Air Force in July, invasion, and was reported a prisoner of war last 1942, and was a bombardier on a B-17 . He was September. reported a prisoner of war in July, 1944 . 10- Lt. Frank C. Sneed, '42ba, Lawton, has been 10- Lt. M. Herschel Higgins, '40, Duncan, has freed from Stalag Luft No. 3 in Germany . Lieuten- been liberated from a German prison camp. Lieu- ant Sneed, pilot of a B-24, had been a prisoner tenant Higgins was a pilot of a B-17 which was since his plane was shot down over Germany. downed in a big raid over Germany on October No- Lt. Richard J. Keough, '40-'41, Oklahoma 15, 1943 . City, has been liberated from a prison camp in 0- Lt. Harold K. Wood, '41, Norman, has been Germany, where he had been held since he was LOOKING OVER TnE DAMAGE liberated from Stalag No . 7A in Germany. Lieu- shot clown in action in the European theater in Capt. Joe N. Magee, Jr ., '41eng, Robstown, tenant Wood was reported missing in action in August, 1944 . He went overseas soon after receiving Texas, (left), engineering squadron officer Africa April 5, 1943, and was listed as a prisoner his wings in April, 1944, and was with the Eighth attached to the 458th Bombardment group of of war in Germany in May, 1943 . Lieutenant Wood Air Force. the Eighth Air Force, was recently taken, is in the Army Air Force. along with many other ground personnel, on t Sgt . Elbert Lee Hoffman, '44, Oklahoma City, 0- Maj . Herbert A. Von Tungcln, '34ba, Norman, a has been liberated from a German prison camp. a flying tour of Germany to view the results has returned home after being liberated from Major Von Tungeln was reported missing in action of the work he had done. He is shown viewing German prison camp on April 23 . He was taken the ruins of Koblenz with a friend, Capt. prisoner last December, and spent time in five on August 24, 1944, when his bomber went . Sergeant down over Germany, and was listed as a prisoner John A. Castle, Santa Rosa, California . different camps before his liberation of war December 27, 1944 . He holds the Air Medal Hoffman was with a mortar gun crew with the 106th Infantry Division at the time of his capture. for meritorious service with the Air Force in the December 5, 1944, and was reported European theater. Germany on At the end of his leave at home he was to report a prisoner of war in March, 1945 . to Hot Springs, Arkansas, for rest and reassign- t Lt. Hubert W. Fraker, '39-'42, Pine Valley, 0- Lt. John R. Eskridge, '41, Oklahoma City, has ment. has been liberated from Stalag Luft No. 1. Lieuten- been liberated from a German prison camp. Lieu- ant Fraker, who was with the 366th Bombardment tenant Eskridge, pilot of a P-51 Mustang fighter, squadron, was listed as missing in action over was shot down August 26, 1944, over Germany . Back from Battlefronts Germany January 5, 1944, and was reported to He has been awarded the Air Medal with two Capt. Glenn N. Houston, '37eng, Norman, has be a prisoner of war in Germany in February, 1944 . Oak Leaf Clusters, which were pinned on his returned home after serving three years in the During his absence his wife, Mrs. Carol Fraker, mother, Mrs. T. H. Eskridge, Oklahoma City, at a South Pacific theater. Captain Houston was an made her home in Oklahoma City. special ceremony March 23, at Tinker Field, Okla- Ordnance maintenance and supply officer in that 10- Lt. Beverly R. Polk, Jr ., '40, Oklahoma City, homa City. area . He spent most of the three years in the was liberated from a German prison camp on 10- Lt. Harry F. Lorenzen, '42law, El Reno, was Solomons and New Guinea but his duties took April 28. He had been a prisoner of war for freed from a German prison camp on May 6. him to practically all the major South Pacific islands. nearly two and a half years. He received his Lieutenant Lorenzen participated in the landings on At the end of his leave in Norman, Captain wings and commission in June, 1941, and went Sicily with the Third division and was captured Houston was to report to Hot Springs, Arkansas, overseas soon after. No direct word had been by the Germans on July 11, 1943 . A Field Artillery for re-assignment. received from Lieutenant Polk by his family since officer, he was reported on his way home in May . Staff Sgt . Walter S. French, '29bus, Tonkawa, last November . 0- Lt. Richard W. Bell, '41bus, Oklahoma City, has returned to the United States on leave as a Lt. John F. Shirk, '40, Oklahoma City, former was freed, after being a German prisoner for almost veteran of the First Army campaign in Europe . O.U. football star who has been a German prisoner two years, from Stalag No. 7A on April 30. He was Attached to headquarters of the First as chief clerk since the Battle of Salerno, has been freed. Lieu- attached to the Eighth Air Force when shot down of an air sub-division, Sergeant French participated tenant Shirk held a reserve commission in the in a raid over Regensburg, Germany, on August in D-Day activities . He holds the Bronze Star Field Artillery and was called to active duty in 17, 1943 . Lieutenant Bell was a bombardier on a medal. February, 1941, going overseas a year later. He B-17 . to- Lt. James D. Holt, '38-'41, Clovis, New Mexico, participated in the North African and Sicilian It Capt . Edwin Curtis Yeary, '39med, Oklahoma has been in the United States on a 45-day leave. campaigns before being captured on September City, reached the United States in May after being Lieutenant Holt has been in Iran and Burma with 6, 1943 . released from a German prison camp . Captain the 352nd Engineer regiment. His work in Burma No- Lt. Charles P. Ray, '39, Oklahoma City, has Yeary was aboard the first glider which landed in consists of construction of roads and air bases. At been liberated from Stalag Luft No. 1, Germany . France on D-Day with a surgical team . He helped the end of his leave he returned to Burma to resume He was a co-pilot on a B-17 which went down establish a clearing station for battle casualties . his duties there. over Germany January 29, 1944 . He was reported Captured at Bastogne with the 101st Airborne 10- Capt . Felix F. Simmons, '42bus, Oklahoma a prisoner of war in March. Lieutenant Ray holds division, he was reported missing in action last City, has returned to the United States and is the Distinguished Flying Cross and the Distin- December. stationed at Strother field, Kansas, as a fighter pilot guished Service Cross. No- Lt. Robert L. Whittet, '37-'41, McAlester, instructor. During Captain Simmons' service in tle t Lt. Norval Covington, '43, was liberated from member of the Air Force reported a prisoner of European theater he was awarded the Distinguished a German prison camp on May 13. He was first the Germans in April, 1944, has been released Flying Cross, the Air Medal with six Oak Leaf reported missing in action with the Air Force over from the prison camp in which he was held . He Clusters, and the Presidential Unit Citation. JULY, 1945 It Master Sgt. Everett R. Thomas, '396us, Norman, as pilot of a glider . Lieutenant Barrowman was City, after returned serving 25 months overseas, has returned to the United States on furlough early recovering from a hand injury .