1944

With sadness and respect we report the death of Flight Officer Bob Mulhern, killed in action off Derwin's Point, French West Africa.

This month comes a long letter from GusPratt who was on Okinawa when he wrote it. He encloses a clipping from an Honolulu paper about Johnny Peacock, written when John was a pilot on the carrier Bunker Hill. Gus writes: "Ted Brush, Fred Campbell, Carl Eldridge, Wes Shell, Jake Dahl (all on Iwo), myself and all '44s in 42nd R.O.C. were made first lieutenants as of March 31st. Ran into FredKennedy on way up here." (A release sent us states that Fred emerged from two assaults on savagely defended Sugar Loaf Hill on Okinawa, with only thirteen unhurt Marines from his group.) "Worked under Major Hunter C.Phelan D' 39 here and saw considerable of Lt. Kelley Wehmes '42 (or '43) who is an A. 0. same racket as Eldridge and it's plenty hot stuff. Don Kleckner '45 is in the First Marine Div. here. Talked to him today and he remarked about hearing a group of First Marine Div. officers singing 'Dear Old Dartmouth' in the distance. Hope to end up near them."

Ross Higier is now a jg and aboard a destroyer escort in the Atlantic Fleet. Ditto tor Ens. Merle Hagen, who is married to the former Nancy Stebbins of Deerfield, Mass. S/Sgt. Jay McMullen, correspondent with the 6th Army Group, has been awarded the Bronze Star for outstanding achievement as a frontline radio reporter in action in France and Germany. With a mobile recording unit, he recorded battle stories and interviews with infantrymen during combat..... Lt. (jg) JohnDenison when last reported on was in the Pacific on an escort carrier and had participated in the invasions of Southern France, Luzon, and Iwo Jima Eben Blackett is another jg and on board a seaplane tender in the Atlantic First Lt. Bill Pollan during an attack on a Jap naval base on Mindanao is credited with the destruction of one Jap PT boat, seriously damaging another, blowing up an ammunition dump and damaging a dock and two houses. He participated in pre-invasion attacks on Jolo, the Sulu Archipelago and Davao, Cagayan and Malabang on Mindanao. He is married and his wife is living in West Newton, Mass..... Bill McCloskey has been a Navy aviation ordance man and is married to the former Lillian Anderson Don Oakes was recently reported to be at Columbia Mid shipman's 5ch001.....

Ed Crawford was wounded on Okinawa with the 77th Inf. Div. He had been overseas sixteen months and had fought on Guam and Leyte. .... Ted Colwell, at latest word, was at Kelley Field and contemplating matrimony John Murphy who had 40 combat missions as a bombardier before becoming a German prisoner, recently passed through the Redistribution Station at Atlantic City, his fate there being unknown to us. .... Joe Goldstein was commissioned a and Lt. in the Signal Corps a short time ago. A recent release lists Sam Coombs as a technical writer, further details lacking.

In the promotion list for this month we have the following: Lt.(jg)s: Bud Baker, Bill'Benoist,Bill Davies, Junie Hoffman, Alex McPherson, RayZrike. Ensigns: Stan Barr, Bob Adams, and FranDougherty, the last from Annapolis; Capt. "Tornvunau, 2nd Lt. John Connor. Del Jackson is with the First Fighter Squadron in the Pacific. Among those joining civilian ranks of iate are Ja Densmore and Ward Weimar. Ja is in business in Leb., and Ward is back with the books in Hanover.

Brides and Grooms: Bill Brewster and Harriet Bullitt of Seattle, Wash., were married September •> in Seattle; Dave Brown, a senior at Long Island Medical, and Dorothy Naumer of Brooklyn were wed August 6; Joe Buckley, still another medic, at New York Medical College, and Grace Brown of Ogdensburg up-the-aisled-it on August 18; First Lt. Perry Craver and Betty Hill were married in June and spent their wedding trip in Hanover; Lt.(jg) J'm Donnelly and Margery "Tommy" MacNeil were married August 3. Just after returning from service in China as a 14th Air Force pilot, "Red" Taylor was wed to Faith Beecher of Holden, Mass.; Wbit Wells and Emmy Baker of Sebring, Fla., round out this month's group.

Engagements Reported: George McElfatrick and Louise Wynkoop of Baltimore. George is in his last year at U. Maryland Med. School; Lt. DickRevenaugh and Virginia Stevens of Bridgeport, Conn.; Ed Seidman and Jean Hirschberg of New York. Frank Ebaugh and Penny Newman of New York; and Jack Tope and Midge Herrman of Oak Park, 111. Frank is in his last year at Cornell Med, and Jade ditto at Northwestern Med.

PACIFIC VETERAN, Cpl. Dyer S. Tailey '44, former Dartmouth football star, has been fighting in his third campaign of the war; this time with the Marines on Okinawa. Overseas 25 months, he has been in action at Cape Gloucester and Peleliu.

AT A JUNE WEDDING, Lt. Paul Craver '44, AAF, was married to Betty Hill at Champaign, 111.

Secretary, Cornell University Medical School 1300 York Ave., New York City