1928
Lt. Cmdr. John Scott survived the sinking of the USS Bismarck Sea by the Japs on February 21 off Iwo Jima. The loss of the carrier, on which John had served since October as operations officer, was announced March 23. I have just received a note from John's mother in New Rochelle, N. Y., stating that he has arrived in California wearing the Purple Heart, and expects to be stationed in Florida. He was also in the Leyte and Luzon invasions. An A.P. dispatch on March 22 described how Kaiserslautern, German city with a population of 61,000, was captured by Col. Norm Costello's 319 th Regiment, which is part of General Patton's 80th Division. Fran, who lives here in Arlington, was excited to read about her husband because she had not heard from him in a month.
The number of '2Bers overseas is steadily increasing. In the past month I've learned of six more serving outside the country, bringing the total to 65—out of our 170 men in uniform.
After two years in Boston, Lt. Fran Young has a new address: Navy No. 121, FPO, New York. . ... Lt. Ken Cuddeback is in the Pacific on one of our largest carriers.
Bob Heald has gone out to the Pacific with a Seabee battalion. He enlisted two years ago, went through Officers Training at Camps Peary and Endicott, and was appointed a warrant officer.
Lt. (jg) Clark Myth's address is: Naval Air Station, Navy No. 14, FPO, San Francisco. Lt. Cdr. H. Hoyt Thompson is at Naval Air Facility, Navy No. 804, FPO, New York.
Alex Taylor has arrived in England for assignment as an American Red Cross photographer. Until his Red Cross appointment he was news editor for the Tass Agency and an instructor in the Photo League School, New York.
Bob Porter, banker in St. Joseph, Mo., until last summer, is a seaman second class on a destroyer escort in the Atlantic Lt. Cmdr. Bill Alford is at the Acorn Assembly Training Unit, Port Hueneme, Calif.
Lt. H. L. ("Jimmy") Fowler is on the staff of the Naval Academy Preparatory School, Bainbridge, Md Lt. Bob MacPhail has been transferred to the Naval Air Base, Boston Major Francis Reynolds, back from the Pacific, on the staff of the Station Hospital, Weingarten, Mo Gene An- dres is personnel manager of the Continental Can Company's two Seattle plants.
Art Gow, who is in charge of manufacturing at the Seamless Rubber Cos., in New Haven, is to be congratulated for the fourth star on its ArmyNavy "E" pennant, received from the Under Secretary of War on April 14. This means Art and his men have won the "E" five times, according to Lt. Col. Bob Clark, Chief of the War Department Awards Section.
Lane Dwinell is now running Carter & Churchill Cos., Lebanon, N. H., manufacturers of sports clothes and Army parkas.
It looks as if another 28er has up and done itl Recently there appeared in the Boston Herald: "Doctor and Mrs. Harrie Yeats Nutter of Winchester announce the engagement of their daughter Dorothy Douglas, to Mr. Frederick W. Cole, also of Winchester." Fred is an account executive with the Daniel F. Sullivan Cos., advertising agency in Boston, and chairman of Boy Scout activities in the Winchester district.
This column's European correspondent, Lt. Col. Curly Prosser, has sent his first dispatch from London:
The only '2Bers I've seen here thus far have been George Davis, who was here on a temporary escape from the Pentagon, and Walt McKee who is to be seen with great regularity in the best spots about the town and always in the company of attractive, eminent, and socially impeccable ladies. He said Buck Serrell would soon come to London for a little RR & R (rest, relaxation and rehabilitation) and that we'd have a get-together. Your lists of '2Bers overseas have been scrutinized but few appear to be in spots where I'm likely to see them. However, I hit the trail within a week for some pretty rugged living. It will be a strange war if a couple of '28 ers don't pop up at unexpected, welcome and useful moments.
In a dispatch to the Herald Tribune and other papers from the Hawaiian Islands on April 8, columnist Stanley Woodward described the jungle fighting school which every soldier and flyer going to the Pacific is put through,. He mentioned that he and his companions, Lt. Dick Rendell and Capt. Jim Braddock, former heavyweight champ, took the course in capsule form, and sugar-coated, riding from point to point. Dick had just returned from a swing through Guam, Saipan, Pelelieu, New Hebrides, New Caledonia, Guadalcanal, etc.
A few weeks ago I sent to our men overseas a list of mail addresses of all classmates in their part of the world, hoping to promote a number of reunions far from home. Apparently my efforts are already bearing fruit because Major Ray Hyman, in a V-mail just received, says, "Nice hearing from you, Os. Should have occasion to look up Dan Hatch within a day or so. Have met several of the boys at the monthly Dartmouth Alumni meetings in Honolulu.
"The Army transferred me from cryptology to Special Services, to help coach the 7th Air Force football team in September 1943, and I have remained in that work ever since. I am executive officer of the Division and in charge of all activities in the forward area."
Capt. John Lawrence writes from Paris:— Your note gave me a comfortable feeling this Easter of 1945. I think you boys back home are doing a wonderful job in keeping us posted and in maintaining the ties. I've carefully gone over the list of boys in this theatre. I missed Rocky Keith and there is no one listed where I am, but before long I should be able to look up Norm Costello and Lanky Langdell. Ed Sawyer is the only '28er I've met in the 30 months I've been in the Army.
At the class dinner in Washington on April 4 were: Capt. Ed Abbott, Vic Borella, Lt. Cmdr. John Cronin, Lt. Col. Bob Clark, Lt. Col. George Davis, Lt. Cmdr. Art Hassell, Paul Kruming and your secretary. George Davis returned recently after seven weeks in England. Since his return a buzz bomb damaged the London hotel where he and Walt McKee lived. George is one of General Somervell's right-hand men at Headquarters of the Army Service Forces.
Vic Borella is assistant coordinator of Inter-American Affairs. He said they are going to miss Paul Kruming, who is returning to his advertising agency in New York, May 1. Paul has been associate director of the Radio Division since September.
Bill Treanor called me a few days ago and we got together for lunch. He is a member of the review committee of the National War Labor Board, and was here for some meetings. He is with Union Carbide in New York, handling their labor relations.
He reports that Bill and Gertrude Heep have a son, William H. (not Jr.) born March 4. That samei day the N. Y. Times carried a picture of the beautiful house in Bronxville which Bill had just purchased.
Have you mailed your Alumni Fund contribution?
SURVIVOR OF CARRIER SINKING off Iwo Jima, Lt. Cmdr. John J. Scott '28 was operations officer on the USS Bismarck Sea which was lost in February in the invasion of the Jap island base.
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