Escape

Bagging a Messerschmitt on his twenty-first birthday, which also turned out to be the day of his toughest mission, is only one of many adventures which Sergeant Joseph Anthony Garry '44 has taken in his aerial stride during the past two years. A veteran of both Sicilian and Italian campaigns, he was a gunner on a B-24 Liberator which was returning from a bombing raid over Greece last December when he was forced down in enemy territory. Before he succeeded in making his escape into Italy, he spent 35 days in Greece, where, he said, "conditions are terrible," and he was one of the very few American flyers to get out of the country.

Even among aviators, Sergeant Garry is considered outstanding as a manabout-the-world. He has crossed the equator four times, twice by boat, and twice by plane, and belongs to two international societies: he is a Son of Neptune by virtue of his first crossing of the equator, and his return journey to the United States via plane has made him a member of the Short Snorters' Club, the exclusive organization for travelers who have crossed the ocean by air. Garry has flown in New Zealand, Australia, India and Africa. He enlisted in the Royal Canadian Air Force while at Dartmouth, immediately after Pearl Harbor. A year later he was transferred to the United States Army Air Corps.