Evening star., 1944-07-23
District Men Bolster
Mediterranean Area
Air, Ground Forces

MEDITERRANEAN THEATER.-
Increasing numbers of men from
the District of Columbia ard nearby
areas are arriving at this wa,
theater.
Ten are stationed with the 18th
Army Air Force. First 1t. Frank w
Loops, pilot of a B-26 Marauder, has
flown a combat missions. He for
merly lived at 5418 Thirteenth street
NV.
Second 1t. Paul A. Plott, 2414
Thirty-ninth place NV, recently
was assigned to a coastal fighter
squadron at an advanced airfleld.
Staff Sergt. Lewis p Williams, 5729
Colorado avenue NV, keeps B-25
Mitchell bomber in repair at a
maintenance section of the bomb
base.
Tech. Sergt. Edgar L. Grubbs,
5607 o street, Capitol Heights, Md,
has flown So combat missions in his
13 months overseas as radio gunner
1t. Col. Charles G. Robinson, whose
wife lives at Army War College
quarters. veteran of 80 missions, has
served 13 months as deputy COM
mander with a Marauder bomb
group.
Corpl Bernard r. Lipscomb, $500
Ontario road NV, has been arma-
mont cnpaio1fct vrifh In,.
bomb group for 81 months. Sergt
Frank Derrickson, 1414 A street Sc,
has served overseas 20 months as
chemical warfare instructor.
First 1t Jack H. Thompson,
Grayton, Md, is assistant engineer
ing officer with a Marauder bomb
group Corpl. William H. Wilson,
149 Rhode Island avenue NE, serves
as radio mechanic, and Pfc. James
F. Bird, 1877 Hamilton street NV, is
teletype operator with Marauder
bomb group.
Delivers Meat to Front.
Corpl. Harry H. McDaniels, 61O
Tennessee street NE, is a member
of mobile quartermaSter refrigera-
ton unit which delivers thousands
of tons of meats and other perish
able foods a month to front-line
troops.
Four officers with the adjutant
general section, central Office of rec
ord for the Mediterranean theater,
are Col. Ralph c. Tilley, 46 North
Fenwick street, Arlington; Capt.
William G. Cunningham, 1O3 Rose
mary lane, Falls Church; Capt.
Renaud j. Maltais, 1923 Sixteenth
street NV, and Col. August c.
Hahn The sections most vital
function is the verification and ex-
pediting of casualty reports.
CT stevedores of a United States
Army port battalion in North Africa
are Negro soldiers who hold the re-
sponsibility of loading and disposing
of equipment The battalion in
cludes Pvt. Joseph w. Carter. 1923
Bryant street NV; Staff Sergt.
View F. Davis, 1929 P street NV:
Corpl. Robert M. Blackwell, Ills
Forty ninth street NE; Staff Sergt.
Franklin H Brown. 1905 Capitol
avenue NE; Pfc. Albert Daniels,
422 Butternut street NV, and
Sergt Christopher Ford, 703 Lamont
street NV
Other colored port battalion per-
sonnel are Pvt. Robert E. L. Barks-
dale, 64o0 Blair road NV; Corpl.
Raymond I. Morris, 500 Division
avenue NE; Corpl. Lloyd G.. Nc
Kenzie, $50 Hobart place NV:
Corpl. Leon E. Proctor, jr., 2609
Eleventh street NV: Pfc. Clarence
J. Hall, 210 Balls court NV, and
Corpl. Arthur R. Marshall 1857
Third street NV.
Maj. Flagg With Corpsmen.
Tech. Sergt. Richard B. Line
baugh. 25 East Baltimore street,
Hagerstown, Md, and Maj. Louis F.
Flagg, 318 Holly avenue, Takoma
Park, Md, are members of the Sig
nal Corps headquarters and school
which maintain communication net
works in this theater.
Other Signal Corps men are: Maj,
Aired Cottrell. 1929 Columbia road
NV; Pfc. John H. Averill, jr., 1881
Meigs place NE: Pvt. Robert Bos-
we'll 1912 U place Sc; Corpl.
Charles L. Peele, jr., 1853 INLAND
terrace NE; Pvt. Clyde Porter, Gal
East Capitol street; Sergt Robert N.
While, 300 Tenth street NE; Staff
Sergt. Claude D. Hunkins, jr., 1926
Twenty first street NV; and Sergt
Joseph G. Hall, 27 v street NE.
Capt William M. johnson, 1922
N street NV, serves with con-
tingent of prisoners of war admins
traitors who guard and supervise
prison camps and stockades in North
Africa.
On Battle Training" Faculty.
Serving on the faculty of Medi-
terranean Theater Leadership and
Battle Training School is First 1t.
Elisha A. Moeks, jr., 2814 Key boule-
ward, Arlington. The school accus-
toms soldiers who are going into
battle for the first time to the most
terrifying sensations encountered on
the battlefield.
Pvt. Roy Passin, son of Jacob Pas
sin, 3 Kennedy street NV, is at
tached to freight dispatch COM
pany which regulates the flow of
equipment from ships to depots.
The following men handle all
types of ammunition and explosives
as members of North African Ord
nance battalion: Tech. Sergt.
Charles M Marshall, TAI Girard
street NV; Sergt. LIE Roy Clarke,
1887 Swami street NV. Sergt. EN-
NETT E. Wornsing, 1915 Belmont
street NV, and Pfc Frank E. Davis,
1928 Dennison place NV.
D. C. FLYER Guided Fire