Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1944-12-03

/ equipment to the front-line combat
units. He was the first metropolitan
policeman to be called to active
duty.
Carried Wounded Under Bridge.
Sergt. Lewis, observing two men
lying wounded near bridge in italy,
went to the aid of the injured pair
with complete disregard fol. personal
safety. Under artillery fire, he and
a comrade carried one man under
the bridge and returned for the
other. They administered first aid
and called the battalion surgeon who
went forward and administered blood
plasma.
Staff Sergt. Thomas M. Yelving.
ton, ball gunner on a Lberator, has
been posthumously awarded the Air
Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster for
completing separate combat bomber
missions. His wife, Mrs. Pauline
Yelvington, Atlanta, Ga, received
the award.
The following men have been
awarded the Air Medal:
First 1t. John s. Tetlow, BIS
pilot, Dale drive, Rockville, Md, in
Corsica.
sergt. Carol E. Fulton, tail gun
ner, 1914 Seventeenth street NV, In
England.
1t. Jean A. Hoffman, U. s. N. R..
patrol plane commander, stationed
at the Naval Air Station here in
Anacostia.
Sergt. James r. Wilson, tail gun
ner, 1888 Potomac avenue Sc, in
England.
Flight oficer Henry o. Kirkland,
jr., "A, troop carrier glider pilot,
son Of Capt. and Mrs. H. o. Kirk
land, Camp DERRICK, Md
Kirkland piloted his glider to un-
favorable terrain with precision
after long over-water flights at low
attitudes against enemy opposition
and through treacherous fog con-
ditions. He also received the Presi-
dental Unit Citation. His mother
recently learned that he crashed in
the North Sea while participating
in the invasion of Holland. Within
Is minutes he was rescued uninjured
by spitfire. (See story elsewhere on
this page.
Other Flying Awards.
Two Washington men have re-
ceived their third Oak Leaf Cluster
to the Air Medal. They are:
First 1t. Elmer L. Mercurio, 21O8
Thirty-first place Sc, fighter pilot,
In England.
First 1t. William r. Perez, jr., 3615
Newark street NV, fighter pilot, in
England.
Two men from this area have re-
ceived the first Oak Leak Cluster
to the Air Medal:
Sergt. Edwin r. Miller, II, radio
gunner. 234 Tenth street NE, In
England.
Second 1t. Irving B. Portion, bonn
bardier, 1924 Second street NV, In
England.
Pfc. George A. Reed, jr., ambu-
lance driver in Liberator bomber
squadron, 1915 Edmonston drive
Berwyn Heights. Md, wears the Dis
tinguished Unit Badge with one
Cluster for an attack on the Pru-
fleming aircraft factory at Regens-
burg, Germany, on February Is, and
the Cluster was added for a mission
over Ploesti oil refineries April 5.
The group has been twice cited by
the President. Pvt. Reed was re-
Gently awarded the Soldiers Medal
for rescuing an injured crewman
from burning Liberator.
Pvt. Harvey Ira Gadd, infantry
son Of Mrs. Anna Gadd, $40 G
street Sc, has been awarded the
Purple Heart posthumously for
Wounds received in France.
Marine Pfc. Oliver L. Corbin, q,
bazooka operator, 3404 N street
NV, was awarded the Purple
Heart somewhere in the Pacific for
wounds suffered in the battle for
Saipan.
Marine Corpl. Charles H. Grimm,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry F,
Grimm of 400 East Howell avenue,
Alexandria, Va, was awarded the
Purple Heart for wounds received
during the battle Of Saipan last
June. He has fully recovered and
returned to active duty. His brother.
Pfc. Henry Franklin Grimm, jr., q,
serves with him in the same bat
talon and was standing alongside
him when he was hit