Broberg Loses Arm

Gus Broberg '41, Marine fighter pilot and former captain and high-scoring ace of the Dartmouth basketball team, suffered the loss of his right arm above the elbow in an amputation operation in a Navy hospital in the Marianas on July 5. His arm was badly fractured in a plane crack-up at night on a runway on Okinawa.

Lieutenant Broberg was the scoring sensation of the Eastern Intercollegiate Basketball League while at Dartmouth. He was regular forward for three seasons and captained the Green five in 1940-41. He was taking a course in administration at Syracuse University when he enlisted in the Marine Air Corps in 1942. He bad been overseas only a few months when his accident occurred.

Word has also reached the College that Dick Rondeau '44, former Green hockey star and captain, who is a Marine lieutenant, has been returned to Pearl Harbor in a brace from hips to head, following an accident on Guam. After going through' the entire Iwo Jima campaign without a scratch, he snapped a neck vertebra while diving into a swimming pool at Guam.