1928
The Silver Star has been awarded to Major Buck Serrell for gallantry in action at Bastogne. Turn to the Laureled Sons of Dartmouth feature in the front of this issue and read his citation—it's an inspiration to all of us.
Lt. Roy Myers' father says, "Roy was in Belgium last we heard and survived a bombing which blew up the house next door."
T/Sgt. Bud Weser managed to get to Paris when he heard his old pal Jack Hubbell '21 was going to be there and they staged a twoman reunion similar in many respects to a pre-war Hanover reunion. Bud is still with the Finance Department, near Paris.
Capt. John Lawrence is at Supreme Headquarters in France and has been there for several months, except for a few weeks when he went to the Army's Disarmament School in London.
Ed Sawyer, recently promoted to lieutenant colonel, is at Quartermaster Corps headquarters in London, and has been overseas twentysix months.
Walt McKee, another new lieutenant colonel, is in Washington, after thirty months in London. Walt, incidentally, is the only one of our ten lieutenant colonels who rose to that rank from private. He was inducted four years ago this month.
Capt. Milt Hoefle is with a general hospital unit in England.
Helen Perkins writes, "Arthur is still in England and apparently still camouflaging, although it seems to me that after two and a half years he has had time to personally conceal all of Europe. He never answers questions so consequently I know exactly nothing."
S/Sgt. John MacLeod is in an infantry regiment with the 7th Army. He was sent to France in October 1944.
Pvt. Jim Woods of St. Johnsbury, Vt., is in Italy. Margaret says he has received the Combat Infantryman's badge.
Tax Connell, Dartmouth professor on leave of absence, is in Italy He has covered the Mediterranean theatre thoroughly North Africa from one end to the other, Sicily, Italy, Corsica, Sardinia, then on up through France on the heels of the retreating Nazis after the invasion of southern France. After two months in France he returned to Italy in November and at the same time was promoted to the rank of major.
Haze Sturtevant. who enlisted in the Marines as a private a year ago, is in the Pacific combat zone.
Lt. Gen. Knudsen gave a dinner at the Raleigh Hotel in Washington on January 11 for the Army staff which hands out the "E" awards. Just one rising vote of thanks was taken—to honor Major Bob Clark. His promotion to lieutenant colonel came through two weeks later.
Lt. Comdr. "Hutch" Hutcheson was placed on inactive duty by the Navy on January 10 and is now back in New York with the Peerless Woolen Mills.
Lt. Ken Graf is assistant prosecutor at the trial in New York of two spy suspects who landed on the coast of Maine from a German submarine.
Lt. (jg) Chuck Bennet, after a year in the New York Port Director's office, flew to Balboa, Canal Zone, where he is in the office of the Port Director.
Lt. Howie Rogers and Alice have another daughter, Janet, who was born January 25 in Washington.
Lt. Col. George Lee was placed on inactive duty January 23, after four years in the Army, and has returned to the H. D. Lee Cos., garment manufacturers, as field sales manager. His home is in Kansas City. In 1943 George left the Kansas City Quartermaster Depot, where he was Chief of the Procurement Division, and was sent to Supreme Headquarters and detailed to the General Staff Corps. It was his good fortune to participate in the planning for the invasion and in the carrying out of these plans.
Most recent arrivals in Washington are Lt. Comdr. Dick Frame, from Pearl Harbor, and Lt. Kewp Munson, from Los Angeles.
Having completed the Military Government courses at the universities of Virginia and Michigan, Lt. (jg) Bill Hobson is at Fort Ord, Calif., and expects to continue westward soon.
Comdr. Chuck Hazzard is singled out for praise in a recent book "The Wounded Get Back" by A. Q. Maisel. Chuck, who spent eighteen months on the hospital ship mentioned below is now at the Chelsea Naval Hospital. Boston.
During all the long voyage to the Pacific, one did not see the doctors on the "Relief" under the best of circumstances. For any group of men, deprived of work, will rot and mildew a bit in the heat of the tropics. One felt the tendency affecting each of the doctors differently. But it did seem to affect all to greater or lesser degree —all, that is, except Charlie Hazzard. Lt. Comdr. Hazzard was our urologist, more frequently referred to as "the plumber." A tall, heavy-set man with pink baby skin, half gray hair and a forehead like a cliff, Charlie seemed to be the only one of all those on board who realized that the prolonged, enforced vacation was not doing anyone any good. He, at least, was the only one who did something decisive about it.
As we crossed the Equator and moved into the last long lap of our voyage, he began to send his corpsmen out "ambulance chasing" among the crew. A few days of their missionary work rounded up a dozen men who needed circumcision. And thus, when boredom and idleness had set most of the others to introspection or to bickering, Charlie Hazzard was busy in his operating room, keeping his hands in practice, training his corpsmen and relearning the skills lost in weeks of watching the sea go by.
HEAD OF "COMBAT COMMAND COSTELLO," a special task force named for him, Col. Normand Costello '2B is stationed on the German front. He is a graduate of West Point and before the war was 1928's only Army officer.
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