Laureled Sons of Dartmouth
Men Cited for Heroism and Meritorious Achievement
MAJOR GENERAL WILLARD S. PAUL '16, AUS, commander of the 26th (Yankee) Division has received the Distinguished Service Medal for his "calm, capable leadership" of the troops from October 8, when they hit the enemy lines, till December 12 when they made the Maginot Line smash.
His citation reads in part: Through skillful employment of the elements of his command he developed the maximum power required to achieve breakthroughs of successive strong enemy defense lines, and forced the enemy elements opposing him, including battlewise Panzer units and fanatical SS troops, into a series of withdrawals.
The division successfully accomplished all missions assigned it and inflicted heavy casualties upon the enemy, including the capture of 2500 prisoners.
Throughout these operations he inspired his front-line troops by his frequent presence among them.
His calm capable leadership was particularly helpful to the infantry.
LIEUTENANT COLONEL JOHN D. BREWSTER '12, AUS, of Forty Fort, Pa., received a certificate of commendation from Major General Philip Hayes, commanding the Third Service Command, at retreat ceremonies here for his "meritorious and outstanding performance of duty as post training officer and assistant to the post commander."
LIEUTENANT (JG) RUPERT S. RAY JR. '45, J USNR, has been awarded the Air Medal by Vice Admiral T. C. Kinkaid for meritorious service during 26 combat missions over enemy territory between June and October 1944.
The citation read: "For distinguishing himself by meritorious acts while participating in aerial flight. During the period from June 1, 1944, to October 5, 1944, he participated in 26 combat missions, totalling 294.7 hours of flight, over enemy territory in the vicinity of operation enemy airfields, during which enemy opposition was probable and expected. His actions have distinguished him among those performing duties of the same character."
COLONEL HORTON L. CHANDLER '18, AUS, for "exceptionally meritorious conduct" in the Dutch East Indies has been awarded the Legion of Merit by command of General Douglas Mac Arthur.
The medal, one of the four top-ranking awards of the Army, was awarded in recognition of "extraordinary fidelity and essential service in the performance of duty on Morotai in the Netherlands East Indies from August 7, 1944, to January 25. 1945."
LIEUTENANT COLONEL EDWARD E. SHUMAKER JR. '38, AUS, has been awarded the Bronze Star Medal for meritorious service in connection with military operations from 16th December 1941 to 26 March 1945. As aide to the Commanding General Jacob L. Devers, Lt. Colonel Shumaker was charged with many complex problems requiring an unusual amount of responsibility and efficiency in dealing with many American and Allied officers. He displayed great foresight, initiative and devotion to duty by the manner in which he applied all his energies to a successful undertaking.
FIRST LIEUTENANT BRIAN E. ABBOTT '39, USAAF, flying from an 8th Air Force Bomber Station in England has been awarded the Air Medal and One Oak Leaf Cluster for "meritorious achievement" during bombing attacks on German military and industrial installations.
During the . 14-day non-stop offensive from the 14th to the 27 th of February, the 493 rd Bombing Group, of which Lt. Abbott is a member, dropped an appreciable share of the 36,000 tons of high explosives dumped on targets by Eighth Air Force heavies, more than double the tonnage dropped in the entire first year of operations over Europe.
He is pilot of a B-17 Flying Fortress.
FIRST LIEUTENANT BLISS K. THORNE '3B, USAAF, has been awarded the Oak Leaf Cluster to the Air Medal for meritorious achievement as a pilot in the China-Burma-India theater of operations. He has to his credit 1100 hours of flying time, including 174 trips over "The Hump," famed air supply route between India and China. (See February '45 issue.)
CAPTAIN WILLIAM O. LUCAS '30, USAAF, flying with the 10th Air Force in Burma has been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross with One Oak Leaf Cluster.
Captain Lucas has chalked up more than 300 combat hours during his two years of service in the India-Burma theater. In 1944 he participated in night landings in Burma during the invasion of Burma by forces under the famed General Wingate and Colonel Philip Cochran.
CAPTAIN GENE MARKEY '18, USNR, has received the Bronze Star Medal. His
citation reads: For meritorious service to the Government of the United States in a position of great responsibility from May 7, 1943, to July 22, 1944. Consistently exercising sound judgment and keen foresight, Captain Markey served with distinction and contributed materially to the efficient planning of military operations against the enemies of the United States. His outstanding leadership and steadfast devotion to duty throughout were in keeping with the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service.
Captain Markey has had three years' duty overseas and in 1942-43 was on the staff of Admiral Halsey, from whom he received a citation for leading a reconnaissance party in the Solomon Islands.
LIEUTENANT GEORGE M. ROUNDS JR. '42, USNR, was recently presented with a special commendation letter and ribbon for his outstanding performance of duty while serving as assistant operations officer on the staff of a carrier group commander prior to and during the amphibious invasion of southern France in August 1944.
MAJOR COLIN E. CAMPBELL '40, USAAF, has been awarded the Bronze Star Medal for meritorious service in direct support of combat operations in France as communications officer of a veteran troop carrier group of the 12 th Air Forces. (See April '45 issue.) .
CAPTAIN WALTER D. LEACH JR. '39, AUS, for gallantry in action in the Battle of Manila, during which he voluntarily exposed himself to enemy fire to bring sorely needed relief supplies to Allied nationals in the Santo Tomas internment camp, has been Silver Star Medal.
He had previously won the Bronze Star Medal. (See February '45 issue.)
LIEUTENANT STANLEY M. GATES '46, a B-24 pilot with the 7th Bombardment Group of the 10th Air Force in Burma, has been awarded the Air Medal for "meritorious achievement" in operational flights over Burma. He has 15 missions and 151 hours of combat flying time to his credit.
SECOND LIEUTENANT ROBERT E. LESLIE '46, USAAF, navigator of a B-24 Liberator with the 15th Air Force in Italy, has been awarded the Air Medal for "meritorious achievement in aerial flight while participating in sustained operational activities against the enemy."
He has also been authorized to wear the Distinguished Unit Badge as a member of a veteran 15th Air Force Liberator group which twice has been cited "for outstanding performance of duty in armed conflict with the enemy."
SERGEANT DAVID A. COOPER '43, AUS, has served overseas ten months and has been awarded the Combat Infantryman's Badge, the Purple Heart, and the Good Conduct Medal. He wears also the Mediterranean Theater Ribbon with two Battle Participation Stars.
SECOND LIEUTENANT ROBERT M. HOOPER '46, USAAF, bombardier in a B-26 Marauder flying with the "White Tailed" 323 rd bombardment group, has won the Air Medal with two bronze Oak Leaf Clusters.
This group has piled up more than goo combat operations in twenty and a half months and flown 12,000 sorties to drop 15,728 tons of bombs on German targets.
SECOND LIEUTENANT RODERIC SHEARER '45, USAAF, with over 20 missions to his credit has won the Air Medal and two Oak Leaf Clusters.
Last April Lieutenant Shearer was flying over the Ruhr (9th Air Force) Valley with seven other P-38 Lightnings when he spotted a "phantom" haystack.
As the squadron dived low to examine the odd looking haypile it began to move. Shearer gave it a quick burst of lead. Smoke and flame billowed up as another strafing pass by the Lightnings revealed a Tiger tank hidden beneath the horse feed. German crewmen scrambled out of the camouflaged tank and were mowed down by the squadron's 50-caliber guns as they ran for cover. The tank was destroyed.
CAPTAIN THOMAS B. GIST JR. '39, USAAF, for his development of a bombing computer now being used in combat has recently been awarded one of the Army's highest decorations, the Legion of Merit.
The computing device can automatically solve any of 10 conditions which affect bombing calculations. Employed to overcome the most prevailing of errorcausing conditions encountered on a mission, the device greatly increases bombing effectiveness. It is used only by the lead bombardier in formations.
Captain Gist is now serving at the Carlsbad Army Air Field, Carlsbad, N. M.
SERGEANT RICHARD G. TRACY '45, USAAF, radio gunner on a B-24 flying with the 15th Air Force in Italy, has been awarded the Air Medal "for meritorious achievement in aerial flight while participating in sustained operational activities against the enemy from 18 September 1944 to 4 October 1944."
Sergeant Tracy has been a prisoner of war in Germany but at this writing has probably been released by our conquering armies.
CAPTAIN JOHN C. MOORE JR. '43, USAAF, pilot and flight leader with the 9th Air Force has completed more than 60 tactical missions and has a total of more than 250 combat hours over the Western Front. He has been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for a successful pinpoint attack on an important target in Trier, Germany.
On October 7, 1944, Captain Moore, deputy flight leader of six light bombers, was dispatched to attack an important warehouse at Trier which was being used to store supplies being sent to German troops confronting General Patton's Third Army.
Shortly after takeoff, the flight leader was forced to turn back to the base because of engine trouble. Ca.ptain Moore assumed the lead of the formation. Intense, heavy flak was encountered at the target. Several Havocs in the formation were hit and damaged before starting the bomb run. Captain Moore, determined to demolish the objective, continued on course, and made a bomb run that enabled his bombardier-navigator to toggle his bomb load on the target which was demolished. Captain Moore also holds the Air Medal with 13 Oak Leaf Clusters.
LIEUTENANT LAURENCE E. GILBERT '39, j USNR, skipper of an LST, has won the much-coveted Navy Cross.
His ship was hit by an aerial bomb off the coast of southern France on D-Day. He became a casualty receiving a compound fracture of the ulna bone of his left arm. In spite of this broken arm he was able to get two badly wounded men off the ship, which had caught fire, and its ammunition began popping off right and left. For this disregard for his own personal safety in saving two men, Lieutenant Gilbert won this high award.
CAPTAIN RICHARD A. B. SHEDDEN '41, USAAF, has been awarded the Dis- tinguished Flying Cross in the Marianas. He pilots a B-29, and, as flight leader, he participated in four low level bombings over Tokyo, Nagoya, Osaka, and Kobe in eight days. (See August '43 issue of the MAGAZINE.)
MAJOR HOWARD E. SOMMER '40, AUS, has been awarded the Bronze Star Medal for outstanding work done during the occupation of Paris.
CAPTAIN JOHN S. REITZELL '40, USAAF, a pilot with a fighter squadron of the 10th Air Force has completed 75 missions over enemy-held Burma and China. He holds the Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster, and has recently been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross.
STAFF SERGEANT JOSEPH R. BRENNAN '46, AUS, for heroic achievement in action on February 21 near Mt. Serrasiccia in Italy with the 10th Mountain Infantry Division, has been awarded the Bronze Star Medal.
LIEUTENANT DAVID D. WILLIAMS '35, i AUS, serving with the 2nd Engineer Special Brigade in the Philippines, was recently awarded the Bronze Star Medal for heroism in action against superior numbers of the enemy near Arawe, New Britain, in December 1943. His ribbons carry five battle stars.
MAJOR WILLIAM F. FRICK JR. '36, of the 11th Airborne Division, a paratrooper, has been awarded the Silver Star Medal for "gallantry in action on Luzon." During the advance on Manila after the parachute jump on Tagaytay Ridge, Frick was with the advance elements of the 511 th Parachute Infantry when they were held up by the Jap garrison intrenched in the Imus barracks. They had blown up the main bridge on the highway leading into Manila, and the bridge spanning the detour highway around Imus was covered by the guns of the Imus garrison. Major Frick, however, making a quick reconnaisance, cut through the Nip machine gun and mortar fire to seize this span and held it before the enemy could make a move to blow it up.
With this second bridge blown, the main advance would have been held up by three days, according to estimates of the engineer officers. Major Frick's quick thinking was directly responsible for the continued advance of the attack.
FIRST LIEUTENANT STEPHEN D. WEATHERBY '45, USAAF, pilot of a B-26 with the 9th Air Force was killed in France on April 5, 1944. He was awarded the Air Medal for successful and continuous operations against the enemy.
LIEUTENANT JOHN K. SNOBBLE '44, l USAAF, co-pilot of a B-17 with the Bth Air Force in England, has been awarded the Air Medal and one Oak Leaf Cluster.
LIEUTENANT WALLACE W. BARNES '45, i AUS, for heroic action in the Battle of the Bulge won the Bronze Star Medal, an Infantryman Combat award, and a battlefield promotion to first lieutenant.
FIRST LIEUTENANT RICHARD V. DARGIE '44, USAAF, pilot of a B-24 flying out of Italy with the 15th Air Force, was killed in action over southern France on July is, 1944. He won the Air Medal with two Oak Leaf Clusters and his unit won a Distinguished Unit Citation.
THE Navy Cross was awarded by the late President Franklin Delano Roosevelt to LIEUTENANT WARREN GRIFFITH PARISH '3O, Medical Corps, USNR. The citation to this posthumous award reads as follows:
For extraordinary heroism while attached to the Third Marine Division Hospital at Guam, Marianas Islands, during an attack by enemy Japanese forces on July 26, 1944. With the hospital subjected to a fierce and organized attack by hostile rifles, machine guns and mortars while he was performing a series of surgical operations on the wounded patients under his care, Lieutenant Parish calmly and deliberately carried on in the face of bullets and fragments which continually penetrated his station. Only when this vital task had been completed and his patients evacuated, did Lieutenant Parish leave his post to render further service by ministering to combat casualties and was himself mortally wounded while proceeding in front of our lines to assist another wounded man. His great per- sonal valor and high professional integrity, maintained in utter disregard of all danger to himself, reflect the highest credit upon Lieutenant Parish and the United States Naval Service. He gallantly gave his life for his country.
CAPTAIN WILBUR R. SMALLWOOD '40, USAAC, has been awarded the Bronze Star Medal for "meritorious service in direct operations against the enemy," in France.
FIRST LIEUTENANT DOUGLAS R. STARRETT '42, USAAC, pilot of a B-17 with the Bth Air Force in England has been awarded the Air Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters.
STAFF SERGEANT DONALD M. RICE '45, Army Engineers, is with the 9th Army in Germany. He was temporarily with the Ist Army in the Battle of the Bulge and won the Bronze Star Medal and the Purple Heart.
CAPTAIN PERCY A. RIDEOUT '40, AUS, in the 10th Mountain Infantry Division, has seen plenty of action with the 5th Army south of Bologna. He has been awarded the Bronze Star Medal for heroic achievement on that front.
LIEUTENANT COLONEL PHILLIPS N. DAVIS j ' 16, serving with the U.S.A. Medical Corps in France, has been retired with permanent disability. He has been awarded the Bronze Star Medal and the Purple Heart.
LIEUTENANT HENRY P. INGE '43, pilot in the 15 th AAC in Italy, has been awarded the Air Medal posthumously for operational activities against the enemy from August 3, 1944, to August 10, 1944. LIEUTENANT WILLIAM F. ALWORTH '46, AAC, a Thunderbolt pilot in Italy, was killed in action on February 11, 1945. He had received the Air Medal for "meritorious achievement."
LIEUTENANT (JG) JULES B. FINNELL JR. 1 '44, USNR, has two Air Medals and a Unit Citation. He has been reported missing following a carrier landing accident on February 26, 1945.
MAJOR LAWRENCE A. HERMAN '40, AAC, of the 8th Air Force in England, has been awarded the Air Medal.
RECEIVES LEGION OF MERIT for developing a bombing computer: Capt. Thomas B. Gist Jr. '39.
THE BRONZE STAR MEDAL IS AWARDED to Lt. Colonel Edward E. Shumaker Jr. '2B with General Jacob L. Devers, commanding general of the 6th Army Group, making the presentation.
AN OAK LEAF CLUSTER has been added to the Air Medal which Lt. Bliss K. Thorne '3B AAF holds together with the DFC, the Asiatic-Pacific service ribbon to him at Quonset Point Naval Air Station.
WEARING HIS NEW AWARD, Lt. George M. Rounds Jr. '42 USNR is shown just after the pre- sentation of a special commendation letter and ribbon to him at Quonset Point Naval Air Station.
