Evening star., 1945-05-13
News Of Returnees;
One Enjoys Gunnery
Despite Neck Injury

crewman, received a fractured
cervical vertebrae on March 81, but
it isn't slowing him up much. Now
at Pratt Army Air Fields station
hospital, he has insisted on at
tending gunnery classes while con-
valescing from his spine injury. He
has managed to garner more than
five hours of such training without
feeling the handicap of restricted
movement imposed by the cast
which reaches from his ears to his
chest. Corpl. Fowler's home is at
1874 Monroe street NV.
Another combat returnee is Ma
rine Corpl. John F. Lartz, %, who
photographed some of the first
Americans released from Jap pris-
ons in the Philippines as we'll as
enemy gun positions in Rabaul as
they fired at his dive bomber.
Corpl. Lartz is home on furlough at
207 Quackenbos street NV.
While attached to the Marine
Raiders on New Georgia during his
first "a months overseas, he was
wounded by fragments of a Jap
knee mortar shell. Recovered, he
was assigned to the 1st Marine Air
Wing operating from Bougainville.
He flew on 80 dive bombing mis-
sions over enemy gun positions on
Rabaul and later moved up to the
Philippines as public relations
photographer.
After more than 60 missions over
targets in Western Europe, Can't.
John M. Davis. %, Is returning to
his home at 4707 Connecticut ave-
nue. NV.
He flew an A-20 Havoc light
bomber in preinvasion attacks on
coastal guns and airfields in occu-
pied France and on D day flew with
the 409th Bombardment Group in
a dawn attack on road functions in
the Cherbourg Peninsula that cut
off German troops racing toward
the break in the Atlantic Wall. On
his last mission, Capt. Davis bombed
a German railway yard as the 9Th
Army drove toward Hanover. He
was based in France with the 9th
AAF.
Marine Master T/Sergt. David w.
Huber, %, of 1441 Euclid street NV,
has returned from the Pacific for
furlough and reassignment. He was
an aviation armorer with a Marine
air wing dive-bomber squadron that
was based on Midway and in the
Hawaiian Islands.
William r. Simmons, seaman &c,
U. S. N. R.. has reported for duty
at the Anacostia Naval Air Station
after tour Of duty that took him
into France during the Normandy
landing. His home is at 604 Forty
sixth place Sc.
Two naval aircorpsmen who flew
with The Vipers" squadron against
the Japs in the Pacific, have come
home. They are: 1t. Comdr. Charles
w. Shattuck, 4827 Sixteenth road
north. Arlington, Avenger torpedo
bomber pilot, and John L. Moyni-
han, aviation radioman &c, 20
Adams street NV, radio gunner
on a Helldiver Their squadron
holds the record for one days de-
struction of enemy planes in the
air by carrier-based air group-71
Jap planes shot down in the first
day of the Tokyo raid Comdr.
Shattuck wears the Navy Cross and
the DFC.
M/Sergt. Nicholas NJ. Cocuzzi, 27,
of 4010 Thirty eighth street. Brent
wood, Nd, is completing his train
ing as a fight chief with a Super
Fortress group at McCook, Nebr. He
has already served nine months in
Africa and three months in Eng
land.
LIST 1t. Thomas F. Walsh, 1919
Ninth street NE, has been assigned
to duty at Pope Field, N. C. He
formerly served Is months in the
China -Burma-India theater.
Previously a Bit navigator with
the 18th AAF in Italy, 1st 1t. San
ford A. Witkowski, 824 Allison street
NV, has been assigned to the AAF
Training Command headquarters at
Fort Worth. Tex. He is in the wage
and administration unit of the
civilian personnel section.
Robert Seeley, 25, watertender,
&c, U. S. N. R., arrived at the Naval
Training Station, Norfolk, Va, to
undergo training for duties aboard
a new destroyer.
Capt. Bernard NJ. Lewis. an Ar
lington dentist, has reported for
duty at the Camp Davis, N. c., con-
valescent hospital and redistribu-
ton center of the AAF's Personnel
Distribution Command, as assistant
post dental surgeon Capt. Lewis
parents live at 4018 Kansas avenue
NV.
Now administrative officer of the
AAF Training Command Radar
School at Langley Field, Va, 1st 1t.
Samuel r. Graves, 4716 Third place
NV, has had IS bombing missions
in the European theater. A heavy
bomber pilot, 1t. Graves was
wounded during the last of the
missions.
Pfc. Otto r. Satterfield, 1904
Fifty-eighth avenue Sc, has been
admitted to Moore General Hospital,
North Carolina, for treatment. He
served in the European theater with
the 102d Division as a member of
a field artillery unit.
Sergt. Snowden E. Chambers,
1850 Connecticut avenue NV, has
to the AAF redistribution
station at Atlantic City, N. j. He
served 16 months in the South At
lantic theater of war as public re-
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