Laureled Sons of Dartmouth
Men Cited for Heroism and Meritorious Achievement
MAJOR JAMES C. OTIS '37, USMCR, leader of a squadron of Fourth Marine Air Wing Corsair fighters, has been awarded the Air Medal with two Gold Stars in lieu of a second and third Air Medal. and the Distinguished Flying Cross. He took part in raids over the Japheld island of Nauru and other atolls in the Central Pacific.
LIEUTENANT (JG) WALTER B. ELCOCK JR. '42, fighter pilot, for destroying fifteen Jap planes in a low level sweep on an air field in the Tokyo area has won the Distinguished Flying Cross.
FIRST LIEUTENANT JOHN L. STERLING '44, USMCR, has won the Silver Star Medal:
For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action against the enemy on Guam, Marianas Islands, on 21 July 1944. Serving with an infantry company, Lieutenant Sterling was given the mission of defending a hill at Bangi Point with a force of two squads and a machine gun section. The enemy launched a fierce attack shortly after dark and repeated counter-attacks that lasted throughout the night. Although heavily outnumbered, he so inspired his small force that the enemy were beaten off with very severe losses, even though most of his men were casualties before morning. On 28 July he was seriously wounded while leading his men in an assault on some Japanese held pillboxes on the Orote Peninsula. He displayed outstanding courage and devotion to duty and his conduct was in keeping with the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service.
TECHNICIAN/5 J. R. WALDRON JR. '43, after spending more than two years in the ETO, has been awarded the Bronze Star Medal for "meritorious service in combat from August 2, 1943, to April 30, 1945. in Sicily, Italy, France and Germany."
SECOND LIEUTENANT NICHOLAS ARTHUR C. O'BRIEN '46, USAAF, after four months as a pilot in England has been awarded the Air Medal. Fie has the rating of a Class 5 pilot (four-engine) and has a total of more than 700 air hours.
GAPTAIN GEORGE S. TAMI.YN JR. '41, USAAF, served 13 months as a B-26 pilot in England and is the holder of the Air Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters.
MAJOR SYLVESTER J. DORSEL '24, USAAF, has the Bronze Star Medal, the Unit Citation for the bombing of Ploesti, and four campaign stars.
LIEUTENANT ROBERT J. STRASENBURGH '42 j USNR, who has been in the submarine service, has the Bronze Star Medal and a Commendation Ribbon.
CAPTAIN ROBERT E. LANG '38, AUS, serving with the OSS in India, has been awarded the Bronze Star Medal.
Staff Sergeant Gregory Stillman '45, AUS, has served in the Army for 38 months and has eight battle stars, a Distinguished Unit Citation with the Oak Leaf Cluster, and has recently been honorably discharged. He will reenter Dartmouth.
MAJOR EDWARD A. BRAZIL .'30, USAAF, has been awarded the Bronze Star Medal, a Letter of Commendation, and wears a Distinguished Unit Citation ribbon. He has five campaign stars for the ETC) and two for the Asiatic-Pacific theatre.
COLONEL JOHN L. AMES JR. '16, AUS, has been awarded the Legion of Merit by the General of the Army Eisenhower for exceptionally meritorious service as a member of General Omar Bradley's 12 th Army Group Staff. Colonel Ames has also been awarded high decorations by the French, Luxembourg, and British governments.
PRIVATE FIRST CLASS HENRY W. HUGHES '44, AUS, for gallantry in action at the Remagen Bridgehead won the Silver Star Medal.
CAPTAIN JOSEPH J. DUNCAN JR. '40, AUS, was killed in action in Italy on April 17, 1945. He was awarded the Bronze Star Medal posthumously for very meritorious service.
LIEUTENANT FREDERICK K. UPTON '39, USNR, has recently received the Bronze Star Medal with a Gold Star in lieu of a second medal for his contribution in sinking three German submarines.
The following men have been awarded the Bronze Star Medal for meritorious service: LIEUTENANT JAMES W. KEATING '41, LIEUTENANT HAROLD L. BOND '42, LIEUTENANT COLONEL ROBERT H. RYAN '30, MAJOR WILLIAM B. SWIFT JR. '31, LIEUTENANT (J.G.) ROBERT W. SHERWIN '41, FIRST LIEUTENANT GEORGE A. BROWN JR. '46, LIEUTENANT WILLIAM M. BELDING '41, LIEUTENANT COLONEL JAMES S. WHEATON '24, T/4 FREDERICK A. FISHER '23, LIEUTENANT BERTRAM T. MARTIN '45, T/5 PAUL F. SAN- BORNE JR. '45, LIEUTENANT ROBERT G. THOMAS '41, S/S WILLIAM R. WAGNER '40, and PFC. WILLARD W. PRINCE '46.
The following men for meritorious service have been awarded the Air Medal: LIEUTENANT COLONEL ROBERT J. LOUGHRY '39, CAPTAIN RICHARD C. POTTER JR. '35, T/S MERLE PERKINS '41, LIEUTENANT ROBERT W. RADAR '44, CAPTAIN CLAYTON F. GRAY with DFC, LIEUTENANT WILLIAM P. WARWICK '46, LIEUTENANT H. WILLIAM TREASE '44 and S/S C. HERBERT HARRIGAN JR. '43.
PRIVATE FIRST CLASS J. CLIFFORD COSGROVE '45, AUS, has been decorated with the Silver Star Medal for gallantry in action. He earned this medal and also the Purple Heart for service at Leyte in the Philippines where he first saw heavy combat with Company L (136 th Infantry) which suffered 65 per cent casualties during 38 days of continuous lighting. Cosgrove was a BAR rifleman and was a member of a lead patrol probing enemy strongpoints in preparation for a battalion advance. When Jap positions on top of a small hill were discovered, the patrol leader, underestimating the enemy strength, ordered a bayonet assault. The Yanks charged, but were met by a hail of rifle and grenade fire. Several, including the patrol leader, were killed instantly, and most of the remainder were wounded. Cosgrove and his assistant BAR man held their ground and together accounted for a number of Japs. Reinforcements that had come up were forced to withdraw by heavy fire from machine guns on commanding ground. Although his companion was killed by a Jap rifleman concealed a few yards away in the heavy screen of four-foot cogon grass, Cosgrove laid down fire with his automatic rifle to cover the retreat and the evacuation of the wounded. Though hit himself, he was able to pull out and rejoin his battalion.
CAPTAIN MALCOLM F. SCOTT '41, AUS, was awarded the Bronze Star for meritorious service in the ETO. He was wounded in December 1944 in Germany and has since been discharged.
MAJOR EDWARD C. DYER '35, AUS, serving with the Medical Corps saved many lives by evacuating wounded under enemy fire and has been awarded the Silver Star for his work in the Italian campaign.
CAPTAIN RICHARD VANDIVORT '41, USAAF, was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for gallantry and skill as pilot of a B-25 aircraft in the Italian Theater. (See August 1943 issue for previous awards.)
FIRST LIEUTENANT MALCOLM MCLANE '46, recently liberated from a German prison camp, won the Purple Heart, five battle stars, a Presidential Unit citation, and the Air Medal with 12 Oak Leaf Clusters.
CAPTAIN PERCY A. RIDEOUT '40, AUS, of the Mountain Infantry in Italy, has added a Silver Star Medal to his previously awarded Bronze Star.
MORTON B. STRAUSS '41, of the American Field Service, has been awarded the British Empire Medal for gallantry in action while serving with the A.F.S. in Italy.
MAJOR W. LANGDON POWERS '34, AUS, received the Purple Heart Medal in August 1944 for wounds received at St. Lo, France. He has also been awarded the Bronze Star Medal for meritorious service in connection with military operations against the enemy in France, Luxembourg, Belgium and Germany between February and May 1945^
COLONEL EARLE E. HAMM '24, ATC, has won the Bronze Star Medal for meritorious service from April to July 1945.
LIEUTENANT EVERETT H. LORD-WOOD '41, AUS, of the 10th Armored Division has won the Bronze Star and the Silver Star medals for gallantry in action, but no details of his exploits are available.
TECHNICAL SERGEANT RAYMOND M. HELLMAN '46, AUS, who served eight months in Italy with the 10th Mountain Division, holds the Purple Heart Medal and the Bronze Star.
SINCE THE OCTOBER issue appeared we have learned that LIEUTENANT CHARLES W. BRADLEY '43, USAAF, who participated in the first B-29 Tokyo raid, has received six Oak Leaf Clusters to his Air Medal and also the Distinguished Flying Cross with Oak Leaf Clusters.
PRIVATE FIRST CLASS GEORGE E. RICE JR. '45, AUS, has been awarded the Silver Star Medal for gallantry in action. On 27 January 1945, during a house to house fight in Schillersdorf, France, Private Rice took command of a machine gun squad when his squad leader was wounded. Placing his squad in a safe position, he crawled forward alone, carrying his machine gun. Remaining in an exposed position, and disregarding bazooka and heavy machine gun fire, he knocked out the enemy bazooka with his accurate fire. Private Rice's actions which enabled his company to continue-its advance reflected the highest traditions of the military service.
He has also been awarded the Combat Infantry Badge for outstanding performance of duty with the 103d Infantry Cactus division in ground combat against the enemy.
LIEUTENANT CLARENCE G. MCDAVITT '26, J USNR, won the Bronze Star Medal and his citation signed by the late Vice Admiral J. S. McCain reads as follows:
For heroic service in connection with operations against the enemy while serving as Officer of the Deck on a United States aircraft carrier in support of amphibious operations against Okinawa Jima on 7 April 1945. When an enemy plane exploded on the flight deck of his ship, he immediately took over the duties of the dazed steersman, skillfully steering the ship and at the same time properly executing his duties as Officer of the Deck in the midst of exploding ammunition. His cool and deliberate action was an inspiration to others nearby, and his efficient execution of duties contributed greatly to successful extinguishing of the fire. His skill and devotion to duty were at all times in keeping with the highest traditions of the United States Naval Service.
FIRST LIEUTENANT JAMES G. FOWLER '42. AUS, killed in action fighting with the infantry, has won the Distinguished Service Cross:
For extraordinary heroism in action near cisterna Di Littoria, Italy, on January 30, 1044. When the First Ranger Battalion was ordered to infiltrate five miles through the enemy lines and capture the town of Cisterna pi Littoria, Lieutenant Fowler, commanding Company F, personally led the point of the advance guard. After moving forward about one mile and when contact with the enemy outpost had been made, Lieutenant Fowler accompanied by three members of his command crawled forward and moved to the enemy outpost, where he drew his knife, silently disposed of the German sentry, and signalled for the march to continue. Another enemy outpost was contacted within two miles, and Lieutenant Fowler again silently eliminated the sentry. When the Battalion proceeded through an enemy bivouac area about six hundred yards from the town, the raiders were discovered; the enemy opened intense fire and during the ensuing fire Fowler personally killed ten enemy soldiers while leading his company into a firing position. In the course of this action he was struck in the legs by a burst of enemy machine gun fire, dropped his radio and in attempting to recover it by crawling from a depression into which he had fallen, he was struck by a second burst of enemy machine gun fire and killed instantly. His inspiring courage and devotion to duty are in keeping with the highest traditions of the Armed Forces of the United States.
MAJOR LEO J. FITZPATRICK '24, AUS, serving with the and Auxiliary Surgical Group, wears the European-AfricanMiddle-Eastern Theater Ribbon with six bronze campaign stars, and won the Bronze Service Arrowhead for the amphibious landing in southern France. His unit has also won a citation for meritorious service.
COMMANDER LEWIS H. LEE '18, USNR, has won the Navy Cross, second in importance only to the Congressional Medal of Honor, but I regret I have no details.
CORPORAL WARREN P. SCHLEICHER '45, USMCR, has won the Bronze Star Medal, the Purple Heart, and won a citation for meritorious service at Iwo Jima.
PRIVATE FIRST CLASS GEORGE D. CUMMINGS JR. '44, AUS, won the Combat Infantryman's Badge for "exemplary conduct in face of the enemy."
LIEUTENANT JOSEPH J. GUIDREY '41, USNR, for extreme bravery under enemy fire during D Day at Norijiandy was awarded the Bronze Star Medal.
LIEUTENANT ROBERT C. HARVEY '38, USNR, has won the Bronze Star Medal "For outstanding work as the'officer in charge of a rescue party which, under adverse weather conditions and attacking enemy planes, saved the lives of all the men from a landing vessel.
FIRST SERGEANT WALTER R. HARD JR. '37, in Italy with the 10th Mountain Division, has won for gallantry the Silver Star Medal, the Bronze Star Medal, and the Purple Heart.
PRESENTED BRONZE STAR. The Commanding General of the 9th Army, Lt. General William H. Simpson, pins the award on Lt. Col. Ralph E. "Lanky" Langdell '28 at the 9th Headquarters in Germany.
THE LEGION OF MERIT IS AWARDED LT. COL. T. T. METZEL '23, AC, by Brig. Gen. Alden R. Crawford.
