1938
Room 4823 Navy Dept., Washington, D. C. For those of you who need a reminder, let's get that Alumni Fund lettuce in before the end of this month. I think the Pace Setter has grabbed most of the news, but here we go. Charlie Wiggins got his promotion to major and wife Helen here to first lieutenant, WAC. She's at Kelly Field and Charlie is staff gunnery officer for the AAF "Jungle Air Force" in the Pacific. From Ons Gordon (Captain): "I'm commanding a Collecting Co. with the Division. The Collecting Co. is a part of a combat team and is responsible for the medical support of the team. We set up in the same beat-up houses that follow in the wake of every army." Walls has gone to Bermuda with the ATC. From Heinie Beck, "I've been living here in Honolulu for the past sixteen months under rather luxurious conditions, as conditions go out here. From time to time I've seen a number of Dartmouth guys including Mai, Reno, Duckworth, Warren Flynn, Borneman, Jim Donovan '39, Tel Mook, Clarke Barrett, Bud Devlin. (That's the first word of Devlin in some time). I'm now aide to a flag officer, which is not a bad job at all, as Navy jobs go. Have hopes of getting home on leave at the completion of twenty-four months out here, but my boss tells me I'm out here for the duration." Herb Christiansen says he's about to shove off once again.
We are sorry to report that Capt. Bill Sullivan was killed in an airplane crash at Smyra Army Air Field, Murphysville, Tenn.
From Bob Emlen. "I'm now with Day & Zimmerman, Engineers, Phila. At the moment I'm assigned to E. G. Budd, working on an analysis of productive floor space." From Harold Rugg, Baker Library, "I had an interesting letter from Bob Lang dated March 24 in which he states that he has been in China, Assam, Burma, Ceylon and is now in Calcutta. On the way over he had three days in Algiers, six in Rome and two weeks in Cairo, and that in Chungking he had the pleasure of attending the first known meeting of the Dartmouth Club of China held at the home of Dr. Pan '27." From news items:
The "Three Behrs" have had a reunion in France. The Behrs are the brothers, Richard, Alex, and Charles, all first lieutenants from Wonalancet, N. H., and they climaxed their first meeting in two and one half years ' with a Cook's tour of France in a Ninth Air Force B-26 Marauder, piloted by Richard. Brothers Alex and Charles, infantry operations and communications officers respectively, unexpectedly met leave in Paris, and then paid a visit to Brother Richard, Marauder pilot with the Bomb Group Augustus W. Hennessey Jr. was recently promoted to captain, it has been announced by the commanding general of the India China Division ATC. He has served in the division as a classification and assignment officer First Lieutenant Bliss K. Thorne has been awarded the Oak Leaf Cluster to the Air Medal for meritorious achievement as a pilot in the China-Burma-India theater. He holds the DFC, the Air Medal, and a distinguished unit citation. He has to his credit 1100 hours of flying time, including 174 trips over the "Hump," famed air supply route between India and China.
Promotions: Lt. Comdr. A 1 Raymond; Major Dave Duffy and Myron Reinman; Captains Jim Cooney, Bob Owen, Chuck Mock, John Godfrey and Bill Dennen. Lt. (jg)s to Howie, Casler, Win Mayo, Johnny Jameson and Ben Williams; Ist Lt. Gil Kruschwitz, and 2nd Lt. George Mitchell.
John Tower is with Lockheed in Burbank, Calif., in Public Relations. From Chuck Mock, "I finally reached the continent and am pleased. England was nice, but the change is welcome after seven months, and France has its good points. I am far from the fighting, but there is still plenty of evidence of war about me. I am out of a general hospital for the first time in my army career and welcome my first responsibility. I have a nice office practice in a good dispensary, run by a small detachment of a dentist, eight enlisted men, and myself as CO. We serve 2000 G.I.S, French, Russians, and Germans. Joan and our two children, Penny, 28 months, and Bucky, 9 months are well, though missed greatly."
A COMBAT AIR TRANSPORT PILOT in the South Pacific, Marine Captain Kenelm W. Herschel '3B is credited with 700 hours of overseas flying time.
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