Nogales international., 1942-11-13
(By CRAIG POTTINGER)

(By CkAIG fOII1NGER)
Decorated for outstanding gall
lantry in action, NOgales' No.
hero of World War III to date
Captain James Harrison Man.
gan, 23-year- old Army aviator,
son of Mrs. Marshall Quesen-
berry and grandson of Senator
and Mrs. James A. Harrison
was home this week for the first
time since going overseas to the
South Pacific a year ago.
The Captain reached NOgales
from Australia last weekend
and left yesterday for Tampa,
Florida, where he has been or
dered by the War Department
to become an instructor in the
air corps.
One of the two highly priced dec
orations possessed by the handsome
brown-eyed young man is silver
stan, awarded for having taken part
in General Royce's raid on the Japs
in the Philippines on the day that
Bataan fell in April of this year.
The other decoration-a DFC
distinguished Flying Cross)-is for
operations in Darwin and New
Guinea.
BORN IN NOGALES
We had the pleasure and honor
of interviewing Captain Mangan on
Tuesday of this week at Senator
Harrison's home, 531 Morley avenue,
where Mangan was born on May IL,
1919.
Mangan, who was made a Captain
six weeks ago, lived in Nogales un-
til he was eight or nine years of
age. After leaving with his par
ents, who were army folks, he lived
at various army posts, visited here
quite often, and always considered
this city his home.
Counting the time he was an en-
listed man, he has been in the SER
vice about four and one half years.
He enlisted at the age of 19 at Fort
Sam Houston, Texas, where he at
tended a West Point preparatory
school about a year Right after
that he went into the air corps.
He was commissioned second
lieutenant about two years after en-
listing, then first lieutenant in
May cf this year. and captain
six weeks ago. He is the only child
Of Mrs. Mary Quesenberry MARY
E{arrison), whose husband, Col.
Marshall Quesenberry. when last
heard from, was on Bataan PENN
sula in the Philippines last spring.
ONE OF 1000 SAILING
FROM SAN FRANCISCO
Captain Mangan was one OF
thousand aviators, who had been in
raining at Savannah, Ca, sailing
mder sealed orders, destination un-
znown. from San Francisco for the
PHILIPPINES on November l of last
year.
They were sent to the Nichols
and Nelson air bases near Manila.
On the day that war broke out
Mangan was at Fort Mckinley in
the Manila area. First attack on
Nichols and Nelson fields came at
3:15 m. on the morning OF Dec. 8, ;,
said Captain Mangan. CLARK Field
in Luzon had been attacked on the
7th but the Jap bombers didn't get
down to Manila until that night.
when war came, Col. Quesen-
berry left to join the north Luzon
forces. I haven't seen him since
war began. I think he is prisoner
of war. He was stationed at Fort
Mckinley and we lived there to-
:ether for awhile -
OF the thousand young aviators
ailing from San Francisco a year
ago this month, Mangan is one OF a
very few in the United States at
the present time. Hundreds are
missing, some having been killed IN
action and others now being prison.
ers of war, principally in the Philip
pines where most of these fine
young. men were turned into infan-
trymen, handed rifles and placed IN
foxholes son Bataan because CT
lack of planes and other equipment
for the airmen.
Captain Mangan, one OF the few
managing to escape from the Philip
pines, left there for Australia just
before Christmas last year and
went to the continent down under"