The Union County journal. [volume] (Marysville, Ohio) 1875-1951, 1945-07-02

News Items about Union
COunty's boys In the armed SER
vices OF the United States, for
publication In this column, are
nnvited by the JOurnal. Contri-
buttons should be mailed to the
Service Editor of the Journal,
or telephone to MRS. w. V
Behrens, Phone 4-267I.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde Cramer of
Redwood Rt. 2, have received
word that their son, Pfc. Ernest
Cramer, has arrived back in the
States and would be home soon. He
has been overseas for 80 months.
The Bronze Star for "meritori-
Gus service" has been awarded to
lst 1t. William d. Lee, %, of Plain
City, an administrative officer in
the Army Medical Corps. A fun
eral director for the Shaw-DaviS
funeral home, Columbus, before
entering the Army four years ago,
he has been overseas 20 months
and is a veteran of the invasion of
Normandy
A posthumous award of the Dis
tinguished Flying Cross to Capt.
Richard V. Miracle, Mt. Gilead, has
been announced. An invader bomb
er pilot, he was shot down over
Munstereifel during the battle of
the Ardennes' bulge.
Capt. Miracle was the son of
Harriet Snyder Miracle, former
ly of Marysville. Her family at
one time operated a dry goods
store in this community and will
be well-remembered by the older
residents of Marysville.
WITH THE BID INFANTRY d.
VISION, Northern Luzon, p. L.
Staff Sergeant James II. Evans,
son of Mrs. Dana H. Evans, 176 FL
wood ave-, is returning to the u
nited States on furlough, after 80
months overseas.
Sgt. Evans, motor Sergeant of
Headquarters Battery, Division Ar
tillery in the famed 32d Red Ar
row" Infantry Division, entered
the Army in February, 1912 and
came overseas in December of the
same year
The division has cleared the inn
portant Villa Verde Frail, COM
munications link over the mile
high Caraballo Mountains to the
last Jap stronghold, the Cagayan
Valley. For 119 consecutive days
they blasted the Japs out of caves
and natural Notifications, pushing
% milees over some of the most
difficult terrain ever to be fought
over, and killing over 5000 of the
enemy.
Evans holds the Asiatic Pacific
Theater ribbon with three battle
stars and the Philippines Liber-
alton ribbon with one star.
He graduated from Marysville
high school in 1888 and attended
Indiana Technical College at Ft.
Wayne, Ind. He was formerly en-
ployed by the Zimmerman Sales
Co. at Lima.
ABOARD A u. S. BATTLE
SHIP, Off Okinawa-Lew H.
Warner, 18, seaman second class,
who resided withMr. and Mrs. A.
C. Warner, Claiborne, had a
grandStand seat from which to
view the invasion of Okinawa.
This hard-hitting ship, while un-
der threat of air attack, moved up
within 5000 yards off the shore,
cruising slowly black and forth and
pulverized the beach targets at
point-blank range. The crew could
clearly see the explosions from
the ships shells as her guns smash
ed pillboxes, gun emplacements,
warehouses and trench fortifica-
tions.
The ships anti-aircraft gunners
fought off deadly air assaults dur
ing the bombardment period, and
on one occasion only skillful ma
neuvering of the vessel by her COM
manding officer saved her from a
torpedo which had been dropped.
At one time a Jap ''Zeke' bomb
er, pursued by two u. S. Navy
planes, came within range. of the
ships 20-mm. and 40-mm, guns,
and crew members of this ship and
those of another close-by had the
satisfaction of seeing the enemy
crash into the sea. Another time,
bombs from a Jap plane fell only
200 yards off the port bow.
TTNVON RITRAI GRAHVJATE