1943
With respect and sorrow we are obliged to record this month the death of two '43s whose heroic service was described in last issue's "Overseas Column." Volunteer Donald Harty was killed in Italy July 5 when his American Field Service ambulance hit a mine. FirstLieutenant John Card died in Algeria on June 30 as the result of injuries received ten days earlier.
Lieutenant Bill Stein, pilot of a Flying Fortress based in North Ireland, has been missing in action since a raid on Germany July 20. He joins Lieutenant John Bartemus on the list of '43s missing in action.
OVERSEAS NEWS
Captain Bob Brown, former president of The Players, was seriously wounded by machine gun fire in a little town near Rome on the day before Rome fell to the Allies. Bob is back with his regiment after spending almost all of June in the hospital. He has been awarded the Purple Heart and a Bronze Star Lt. Warren Van Dyk, after 250 combat hours and 54 combat missions as a P-47 fighter pilot, has been awarded the Air Medal and two Oak Leaf Clusters for combat missions over Europe Lt. Tracey Breed was awarded an Oak Leaf Cluster for his Air Medal, both received for piloting Fortresses over Europe.
Sgt. Dave Cooper who is in a rifle company in Italy, writes, during a break, that at present "there are no artillery barrages, no sound of Jerry's 'screaming Meemies,' no counter-attacks to withstand, no patrols to endure. ... . But that was in late August, when Dave's outfit was preparing for a. big push Dave records that Rog Wolbarst is sweating it out in Burma. .... Cpl. Bob Fieldsteel, with an infantry regiment in France, writes that he has little time to get bored.
Pfc. Judd Waldron from an infantry regiment in Italy writes of his more-than-250 days of combat duty: "It's a second education—college was one of ease—this is life at its worst. I've learned what it is to fear .... there never was a man who wasn't afraid in war—actions are performed in spite of fear." Incidentally to his account, Judd mentions bitter cold, wet clothes and blankets, and occasionally little food. "With this training, however, I feel I have become a better man," he adds.
Marine Capt. Don Walls is in the Pacific and his father writes that in the last two years Don "has made unexpected calls on the Japs in Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Saipan, and Tinian Islands." Cpl.Clarke Lyon is in an Air Force unit in Italy Ensign Jim Elleman was on a Normandy beachhead on D-day on LST duty Lt. Weston Dunaway is in the Pacific and misses Hanover snow
Cpl. Dick 'Mieher is in the South Pacific with an anti-aircraft battalion Ensign Doug Kipp is on a PC boat in the Pacific Ensign Don Clark is doing gunnery-plotting room work on one of our large new battleships in the Pacific. He hears occasionally from Cpl. Dick Dunbar who is "getting accustomed to temperatures up in the hundreds" somewhere in West Africa Marine Lt. Jack Pfeiffer is with a Marine detachment aboard a cruiser in the Pacific He reports Lts.Rip Lowman, Moose Kearney, Harry JLockwood, and Ged Carrington of his OCS class, in the Pacific, and Dacy Stevens in Bermuda Lt. DonCrance runs an LST off France. He and wife, Pat, have a new model daughter, Stephany.
LOCAL NOTES
Pfeiffer in the Pacific has heard lately from Pfc. Bob McCaw at Camp Atterbury, Ind., and Pfc. Bob Pinto at Drew Field, Fla Navy pilot Ens. Art. Lynn is at a base near Atlanta, Ga. . ... Lt. M. P. Goodfellow is at Carlsbad AAF in New Mexico Olin Smith is working for the N. Y. Central near Buffalo, expediting P-405..... Pfc. Jim Stewart and Paul Harvey have been joined by Pfcs. Harry Bishop, Ed Porter, Bud Clark,Glenn Behringer, and Chet Solez at Harvard Med. .... Pfc. Bob Craig ran into John Milburn and Cliff Baldwin at Med School in Philadelphia and saw Bill Chilcote of the Ferrying Command some time back Nobu Mitsui is working at the University of Chicago Pfc. Bruce Anderson is with the ski troops at Camp Hale BradleyMorse is a chaplain at Gare Field, Montana
O/C Jim Hooker is at Transportation OCS in New Orleans and hears from Bill Whitmarsh who was with a Reconnaissance Troop at Fort Dix, N. J., and from Bill Wolf, who does classification work for the Third Service Command out of Baltimore Lt. Gers.cn Rosenthal is a weather officer at Independence, Kansas, and hears from Pfc. John Reps at Buckley Field in Denver. John is doing work on the Army Orientation Course there Lt. Bruce Jones is flying C-47s out of Maiden, Mo.
Ensign Hal Lindley flies Corsair F4Vs from Green Cove Springs, Fla Bill Korns, who finished at Harvard and got a Rockefeller Fellowship for Chinese at Yale, is teaching Chinese to Army officers there now Pfc. Herb Harrigan is now a gunner at Harlingen, Texas, after an ASTP start M. A. McCormick was at Midshipman's School at Columbia in May Sgt.Bob Perkins is now with the Ski Troops at Camp Hale A/S Ralph Higgins is studying at Boston University School of Medicine Pfc. Warren Williams is with a Bomber Group Hdqs. which was at Grand Island, Nebr., this summer. He says Don Taylor is in England doing classification work Ensign Cal Osberg is working in New Orleans Paul Schroeder has been commissioned in the AAF Lt. Bob Mara was at Quantico this summer A/C Bill Davies is at Ottumwa, la Lt. Ernie Armstrong is at Camp Carson with an infantry regiment Lt.Bill Milmore, who left school freshman year for West Point, is with an anti-aircraft battalion at Fort Bliss, Texas and says Stan Calder was following him through West Point Pvt. CharlesDittmar was at Camp Crowder (Mo.) radio school and notes that former roommate Brad Copeland and wife are living at the U. of Penn
HAIL GROOM, HAIL BRIDE
Marriages during the summer include: Muriel Kennedy to Ensign Con Young (now on a subchaser in the Atlantic) Sgt. Bob Costello and Mary G. Eddy on July 12 in North Africa Beverly Rich and A/S Dave Hoffman on June 10. Georgia Yaungson and Ensign Kelly Coffin on June 27 Janet Mac Coll and Lt. AldenTaylor, June 6 Nancy Bruce and Capt. DanKramer (who won the DFC as navigator in Tunisia, Sicily, and Italy) Elaine Schulman and Cpl. Gil Augenblick (now at Fort Custer, Mich.) Mary Urquhart and Pfc. Rog Thomas (now at Camp Grant, 111.) Geraldine Krayer and Sgt. Bill Burr on June 4. . . . . Lt. Joe Hirscbberg (now overseas) married in the middle of January Lt. Roland Higgins (Marine fighter pilot) married the former Hazel Longnecker early this year
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