Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-04-22

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After raiding the Tokyo area with
Air Group 4, Ensign Ronald w. Hin
richs, u. S. N. r., 1908 Jasper street
Sc, has come home.
The 23-year-old flyer hit an en-
envy airfield on Tokyo Bay, south
Of the blasted Japanese capital, dur
ing a virtually unopposed fighter
sweep. He has been in the Leyte.
Luzon and Mindoro campaigns and
raided shipping in the South China
Sea, struck at Southern Japanese
islands, including Okinawa and
supported the Two Jima landings.
According to the Naval Aircorps-
man, he had one narrow escape,
and that was when his Hellcat's
flaps were shot away by antiair-
craft fire over the Pescadores Is
lands. He had an exciting" time
getting his plane back to his carrier.
Ensign Hinrichs is one of dozens
Of Washington men who have seen
action and have come back to tell
about it. And some of them are
waiting to go back.
Pvt. Harry F. Robinson, 1907 Mas
sachusetts avenue Sc; Pvt. John X.
Natheopoulos, 2440 Eighteenth street
NE; Pvt. Victor J. Quintano, 10
Sixth street NE, and Sergt. Coy E.
Simmons, 1918 Sixth street S.W., are
being processed for redistribution at
Miami Beach. Ali have had long
tenures Of service. Robinson has
been in service since 1888, the last
20 months as tank commander in
Europe. His ribbons show five cam
paigns.
Sergt. Simmons served SO months
as chief telephone operator in the
China -Burma India area. Quintano
served At months in field artillery
corps in the South Pacific. Natheo-
poulos was in two campaigns in Eu-
rope and wears the Purple Heart.
A man who has received eight
concentrations from as many Allied
admirals and generals is Seaman 10
Bryan Harold Heller, 5239 Kansas
avenue NV, now attached to the
Afoat Instruction Department Of
the Naval Training Center at Miami.
He served 20 months aboard cruis-
er in the Mediterranean.
I'd 1t. Albert A. Pagnotta, 1889
F street NV, longtime AAF pilot
in Europe, has just concluded a
postgraduate course at Lubbock
Field, Tex, and will return soon
to his base overseas to train other
flyers in the latest methods of all
weather" instrument flying.
Pvt. Robert w. Cady, 1922 Twenty.
fifth street NV, is back after six
months of fighting the Germans
and is at Atlantic Citys Thomas M.
England General Hospital Pvt.
Cady was in the infantry and his in
juries were suffered when he crossed
an area in which a land mine had
been planted
Eugene Eliza Beavers, 423 Fiji
tenth street Sc, and John S. Boul-
den, 1735 Galen st. Sc. both Of
whom saw plenty of action from
LIST decks in the Atlantic and
Mediterranean, are recent returnees.
Gunner's Mate lie Beavers has re-
ported to the amphibious training
base at Camp Bradford, Va. Phar-
macist's Mate 1/c Boulder helped
shuttle supplies from England to
France.
After 10 months in the Caribbean.
during which time he participated
in an action that ended in sinking
submarine, Radioman &c r. A.
Holt, 1860 Fairmont street NV, re-
turned to the States last Septem-
Der and has been an instructor at
Naval Air Station, Corpus Christi,
Tex. He was recently transferred
to Florida.
Fighter escort pilots validate q
bomber's round-trip ticket, accord
ing to a veteran Of 81 missions,
T/Sergt. Hal r. Cooper, 1888 Six
tenth street NV. He few as q
tail gunner and bombardier on
Bit. During his first tour of duty
he bagged three Nazis when his
plane was jumped by fighters on
"a out of 26 missions. That was
in the unescorted days, he said.
The bomber crewman is. now at an
AAF redistribution station at At
lantic City.
TISergt. Everette r. Edwards,
1880 Blaine street NE, completed
255 hours of action as an aerial en-
gineer in the South Pacific and Is
on his way home. Sergt. Edwards
helped design and build the first
successful helicopter for the Gray
Goose Always. Inc, and designed
the first practical emergency am
bulance conversion of taxicabs.
Pvt. James Baylor, engineers, has
returned from 81 months overseas
and is temporarily being treated at
Stark General Hospital, Charleston.
S. c. His home is at 30 D street
S.W.
| Assigned to duty as an entertain
ment specialist at the Great Bend
(Kans) Army Air Field, Corpl. Jack
Jacobs, 813 Delafield place NV,
recently returned after "a months
| in the Asiatic-Pacific theater
where he entertained the fighting
troops.
rs William G. Collier, 705 Eight
zenith street NV, will spend two
weeks at the redistribution station
at Camp Butner, N. c., before re-
porting to his new assignment in
the United States. He served IL
months as a truck driver in the
China Burma India theater
Sergt. Junior A. Dom, 500 Sixty
first avenue, Capitol Heights. Md,
has successfully completed the ter
mination accounting and auditing
course at the Army Finance School,
Fort Benjamin Harrison, Ind. The
sergeant was overseas 20 months in
the European theater.
Expected home shortly from the
ConvaleScent HospitaI Camp Pick