Evening star., 1944-11-25
Gen. DooIitt|e Wins
Cluster 10 His DSM:
Others Decorated

LIT. Gen. James HI. DOOlittle, COM
manding general of the 9th Air
Force, has been awarded an Oak
Leaf Cluster to the Distinguished
Service Medal for directing par
alyzing blows" to the German Air
Force before and after the landings
in Normandy.
Previously awarded the Congress
sional Medal of Honor for leading
the first air raid on Tokyo, April 10,
! 1912, the latest award to Gen. Doo-
little was announced coincidentally
with yesterdays first follow-up raid
on the japanese capital by B-29
Super Fortresses.
Gen. Doolittle's wife resides at the
Carolyn Apartments, $500 @ street
NV.
Several other decorations were
made known here:
Capt. Adelbert F. Converse, U. S. N,
whose wife lives at 1918 Sleaford
place, Bethesda, Md, received the
Gold Star in lieu of a third Legion
of Merit for service as commander
of screening destroyers during the
Normandy invasion and the engage
ment with enemy coastal batteries
at Cherbourg, the Navy announced
yesterday.
Commander George G. Palmer,
Alexandria, Va, received the Silver
Star Medal for conspicuous gall
lantry and intrepidity as command
ing officer of the U. S. S. Harding"
during the invasion of Southern
France, the Navy announced He
also was awarded the Gold Star in
lieu of second Silver Star Medal
for action on the Harding in the
Bay of the Seine.
Capt Charles ]. Moore, 332 Cleve-
land ave, NV, was awarded the
Legion of Merit for his work as
chief of staff to the commander of
the 5th Fleet from August, 1943,
to September, 1914, the Navy an
nounced.
Capt. Samuel r. Shumaker was
awarded the Legion of Merit post
humously for service as command
ing officer of the u. S. S. New Or
leans against the japanese in the
Solomons area. The Navy presented
the medal to his widow Mrs.
Eleanor Mcknight Shumaker, 3512
Rodman street NV. Capt. Shu-
maker died of a heart attack at
Pearl Harbor last May.
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201 Chamberlain avenue, Chevy
Chase, has been awarded the Navy
Cross for his work as Helldiver
pilot in scoring direct hits on Jap
fleet oiler June 20 in the Philippines.
His citation states he fought of
enemy fighter planes and was sub
jected to intense antiaircraft fire
before he was forced down when
his ship ran out of gas. He and his
crewmen were later rescued.
Boatswain's Mate First Glass;
Robert Emmett Dennehy, As, 915
South Seventeenth street, Arlington.
has won the Navy and Marine Corps
Medal for heroism and devotion to
duty July 81 when a flying bomb
made hit on an Office building in
a United States naval base. He
collapsed from shock and exhaustion
after refusing medical aid until he
had helped in rescue work. His wife
Mrs. Vivian Loveless Dennehy, lives
at the Arlington address.
Capt. Lorenzo S. Sabin, jr., As,
1925 Window place NV, now as
signed to the Office of the chief of
naval operations was awarded the
Gold Star in lieu of second Legion
of Merit for exceptionally meritori-
GUS conduct as commander of a
gunfire support craft June 6 in the
invasion of Normandy.
Ensign Elizabeth A. Leovy, %, of
2601 Sixteenth street NV, received
her husbands posthumous award
of the Navy and Marine Corps
Medal. He was It. q. g. Thomas
Monroe Leovy, %, who commanded
a Navy armed guard aboard the
steamship Examelia which was sunk
October 9 in the South Atlantic
as result of enemy submarine
attack. He aided in the rescue of
IA survivors. Later he was aboard
another craft when it was torpedoed.
1t. Leovy turned over his life belt to
another man who could not swim
and refused to go aboard an over
crowded lifeboat, losing his life as
a result.