Evening star., 1944-05-28


over France, Belgium and Holland.
Recently, after a raid on a Pas-de-
Calais target, which was stoutly de-
Tended, 1t. Foote, pilot of the Ma
rauder Merry Jerry, was praised by
his commanding officer as "a re-
sponsible party to this superb bomb
ing"
Many Backing Our Airmen.
Behind the scenes, supporting the
airmen who attack Occupied Europe,
are many former Washington area
residents.
When a pilot lands safety after
parachuting from a battle-damaged
aircraft, one of his first expressed
desires is to "thank the guy who
packed my chute"
Tech. Sergt. Andrew B. Sabin, %,
of West avenue, Kensington, Md,
has served l6 months as a para
chute "rigger" with an 9th AAF
unit. In addition to parachute
packing, Sergt. Sabin and his men
repair flying equipment and cloth
ing, improvise covers sfor special
equipment, sew earphones into he'll
NETS and restitch wiring in elec-
trically heated suits. The station
commander recently presented the
sergeant with q scroll for "meritori-
GUS service in the promotion of life
saving devices while engaged in
operating an unusually efficient base
parachute repair shop"
First 1t. James L. Gagnier, 26, of
2301 Thirty ninth street NV, for
mer lawyer and investigator with
the Department of Agriculture, is
intelligence officer at an 9th AAF
station. His duties include briefing
of fight crews, interrogating them
on their return and filing reports
following each mission.
Gold Writes of Activities.
Staff Sergt. Irving Gold, formerly
of 4810 Georgia avenue NV, writes
of the activities Of thousands of
troops stationed at large general
supply depot.
When crippled bombers and fight
ers return to their bases it is the
work of sheet metal specialists like
Corpl. Lawrence w. Robinson, 1904
L street NV, and Pct Daniel E.
Brown, 1701 Sixteenth street NV,
to repair the damage. a
Staff Sergt. Albert I. Levinson,
200 Rhode Island avenue NE, acts
as an administrative clerk for his
squadron's commanding officer on
matters pertaining to classification
of enlisted personnel.
Poms With 9Th AAF Depot.
Pvt. Jack poms, 20, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Rudolph Poms, 3616 Fifteenth
street NE, former index clerk at
the Veterans Administration, now
serves as supply clerk with 9Th
Air Force depot area ordnance COM
pany. He attended Benjamin Frank
lin University.
Corpl. Louis Mills, of Hyattsville,
Nd, set record as mastercrafts-
man, a release from Liverpool, Eng
land reports, by building a table
tennis table in 120 minutes fiat.
The table. built for the American
Red Cross Club at Mount Pleasant,
was comprised of few boards from
a discarded piano, odd slivers of
wood from a dismantled stage and
a handful of used and twisted nails.
Corpl. Mills and his brother, Tech.
Sergt. MacD. Mills, Ordnance Air
Force, have been in this theater over
a year Through the Red Cross the
brothers arranged meeting in
March. They are the sons of Mr..
and Mrs. J. C. Mills, 4703 Fortieth
avenue, Hyattsville.
1t. Hugh c. Bowers, 5004 South
Eleventh street, Arlington, Pvt. AL
bert H Burch, 1882 Fourth street
S.W., and Pvt. Robert E. Farrell
4423 Volta place NV, have arrived
overseas and participated in course
designed to bridge the gap between
training in the United States and
soldering in an active theater of
war