Navigated Mac Arthur

NAVIGATOR OF THE HISTORIC FLIGHT of General Douglas MacArthur from besieged Bataan peninsula to Australia, was Lieut. Rob Roy Carruthers '42. Lieutenant Carruthers, whose home is 225 Rockingstone Avenue, Larchmont, N. Y., left Dartmouth after two years and joined the U. S. Army Air Corps in March 1941. He took-his primary flight training at Maxwell Field, Ala., before being transferred to Miami where he won his wings as 2nd Lieutenant.

Lieutenant Carruthers got into the war at its beginning. He was reported by newspapers as being among those landing a flight of bombers from California at Hickam Field, Honolulu, when the attack on Pearl Harbor took place.

Lieut. Frank Bostrom of Bangor, Me., who piloted the Mac Arthur plane through the Japanese blockade, said of Carruthers' navigating ability, "He could find a fly speck in the middle of the Pacific."