The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1942-09-03
With Our Men
In the Service

In the Service \
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The dramatization of Lieut.. Jack
O'DonnelPs flight over New Guinea
on a bombing mission, was heard by
many over the air on Sunday evening
with Gene Autry playing the part of
Jack in his successful effort to bring
his twin-engine bomber back to base
after one of his motors had been sill
enced by Jap fighters.
The story of Jacks episode APP
peared in the June issue of The Re-
publican. He became suspicious of his
left engine while on the mission. Jap
fighters silenced the right engine but
the suspected left one kept the bomber
in the air while its two gunners shot
down four Zeros. Then it pulled the
plane home safely despite hits in the
tail and other places. O'Donnell
radioed he probably would have to
make forced landing. He edged
along the coast and just as officers
were about to score his plane as miss
ing he flew in. The plane, with left
tire flat from a bullet, spun off the
runway and back on again and
crunched to a stop with all hands safe.
O'Donnell is a son of Mr.. and Mrs.
E. R. O'Donnell, of Mt. Lake Park,
and Washington, D. c,
First Lieut.. Thomas A. Gender, Jr.,
who has been stationed at Camp
Shelby, Miss, as medical officer, is
home for a few days furlough before
reporting Friday at Carlisle Bar
racks, Carlisle, Pa, where he will be
stationed for several weeks.
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Sgt. and Mrs. Joseph Whorton, of
Oklahoma City, Okla arrived in Oak
land on fifteen-day vacation. Sgt.
Whorton is stationed at Will Rogers
Field, in the army air corps. The cou-
pie were just recently married.
Pvt Richard Wolfe, of Camp Ed
wards, Mass, returned to his duties
after short furlough spent in Oak
land with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
Ed Wolfe.
Sgt. Cartwright May, attending Of
ficers' training school at Camp Lee,
Va, spent Saturday and Sunday with
his mother, Mrs. C. S. May, at Mt.
Lake Park.
Lieut.. William Fridinger, Edgewood
Arsenal, Md, visited his mother, Mrs.
Mary Fridinger, this week. Mrs.
Fridinger and daughter, Miss Dor
othea Fridinger went to Cumberland
on Saturday, accompanying the for
mer to Oakland on Monday.
Mrs. Manila Friend, Deer Park. has
received word that her son, Corporal
Claude Friend, has arrived safely
overseas. He was formerly stationed
at Fort Bragg, N. c.
John Wood, son of Mr.. and Mrs.
Costello Wood, Mt. Lake Park, has
returned from Fort Belvoir, Va, where
he has been for the past year Wood
has been in the hospital there for sew
eral months and was ordered home for
an indefinite period.
Edward A. Paugh, nephew of Miss
| Kate Shirer, and former resident of
Oakland, is now located at Fort Leon
ard Wood, Missouri. He is in the
engineering corps of the U. S. Army.
A cablegram was received by Mrs.
Imam, at Kitzmiler, that her husband,
Gerald R. Imam, private first class
in the Army Air corps, had arrived in
Great Britain.
Cecil C. Lowdermilk, son of Mrs.
Lester Lowdermilk, Fricndsville, who
recently enlisted in the U. S. Navy,
is now going through recruit training
at the U. S. Naval Training station at
Great Lakes, III.
George Stuck, who enlisted in the
Army Air Corps, has been promoted
to the rank of sergeant, his parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. H. P. Stuck, have been
informed. The youthful soldier is on
foreign duty, having left the Allan
tbs coast.
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Clyde Dahlgren, principal of Oak
land Elementary school for several
years, enlisted yesterday at Cumber-
land in the Army Air Corps and has
gone to Baltimore for further exam
nation.