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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-11
Flyer S Pants Get Torn
Bai|inq Out Near Front

AN AIR BASE IN ENGLAND
A torn pair of pants was the only
injury I'd 1t. James A. Graham of
Washington. D. c.. got when he was
forced to bail out Of his crippled
Bit, Lady Be Good, over American
front lines in Europe.
Lady Be Good was hit by German
flax Immediately after she dropped
her bombs on Hanau, Germany.
One engine was knocked out and
caught fire, but as the bomber be-
gan to lose altitude the wind smoth-
cred the flames.
The plane was still dropping rap
idly so everything unnecessary to
flight was thrown out. I'VE were up
about 10000 feet, nearing American
lines, but still going down." 1t.
Graham explained. Then another
motor stopped and We were forced
to bail out
MY parachute opened easily and
1 tioated lazily earthward," 1t.
Graham explained Il landed in a
heavily wooded area and tore the
seat of my pants on my way to the
ground through the thicket."
1t. Graham, navigator of the Lady
Be Good, is the son of Mrs. Mae
Graham, 1929 First street NV.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-11
German Whistler
|UnknowingIyAid
III. S. Soldiers
1t was an American tank all right
"a Gen. Sherman.

1t was an American tank all right
"a Gen. Sherman.
Corpl. Osborn Belt, %, of 6505
Meadow lane, Chevy Chase, Md,
and others of his artillery battery
almost ran out of the woods to
where it stood. They had been
hiding since the Germans had
swept past in the battle of the bulge.
Then, suddenly, the corporal heard
some one in the tank whistling a
familiar tune-a tune which made
him hesitate.
It was "Du, Du Liebst Mir i'm
Herzen."
You know, mother" the corporal
wrote, lone of those German tunes
that father used to murder"
The tank was a captured one,
manned by Germans.
He warned his companions to
keep under cover, which was fortu-
nate because they all were rescued
several days later.
Thus closed another adventure for
Corpl. Belt behind the German
lines. Others have been coming to
his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Rigel o.
Belt, piecemeal in letters from a
hospital in England. The corporal
is convalescing there from ex-
posure.
A previous letter told how he and
his companions escaped capture by
hiding in haystack.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-11

ribbon by the Commonwealth Gov
eminent of the Philippines for par
ticipating in the campaign to free
the islands.
Warrant Officer Courtney c. Hood,
Glen Echo, is serving with the head
quarters staff of veteran infantry
division in the Philippines.
. The Army's LIST Corps, commanded
by Maj. Gen. Innis P. Swift, former
ly of Washington, with six other
District men included, advanced
Gen. MacArthur's forces more than
thousand miles nearer the Philip
pines and the current invasion of
Luzon when they cut off an entire
japanese Army during the Hollandia
and Biak operations, dispatch said.
The men were: Capt. William j. Co.'S
tello, Glenn Dale, Md; Capt. Robert
L. Smith, 1918 Wisconsin avenue
NV; 1t. Morris Violin, 1852 Third
street NE; Chief Warrant Officer
Robert Atwood, 1888 Twelfth street
NV; Corpl. William E. Marshall,
4700 r street Sc, and Corpl. Morris
West, 1907 North Harvard street,
Arlington.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-11
Col. Collins, on Two,
EIudes SHIPPER After
Putting Out Tank Fire

TWO JIMA.-Marine It.. Col. Will
liam r. Collins of Washington. d. c.,
ran into double trouble when he
took his tank out on a lone recon-
naissance mission shortly after his
5th Marine Division unit hit the
beaches.
Col. Collins tank was only a short
distance up the western slope of
the island when Jap guns opened
fire. The tank Immediately burst
into flames.
Col. Collins and a member of his
crew jumped clear and began SHOW
cling sand onto the flaming tank
with their bare hands. No sooner
had they extinguished the flames
than Jap sniper opened fire on
them.
Within a minute both Marines
were back in the tank and on their
way to safer spot. No one was
injured.
Col. Collins father, Ralph r. Col
Inns. lives at 5000 Forty first street
NV. His wife lives on route /,
Gaithersburg, Md.
This fighting is typical of the bat
ties on the island, described in re-
cent dispatches. According to First
1t. "Mung Ho'' Lohan, 1880 Massa-
chusetts avenue NV, the place is
"swarming" with Marines. 1t. Lohan
is pilot of a carrier based bomber
supporting the invasion of Two.
Commanded Lost Boat.
Richard Roderick, %, of 316 Blu
chanan street, Alexandria, was a
member of the four-man crew of
one of the boats lost on the beach
His boat was wrecked. when the
coxswain tried to maneuver it so
as to save the life of a Marine who
had fallen and rolled beneath the
unloading ramp. The craft was
caught by heavy sea and tossed
sideways on the beach.
"We were lucky to get off without
getting hit" Roderick said. 1T was
my first experience at a beach land
ing and I hope it's my last. A lot
of the boats got it, too, but we were
lucky, even if we did lose the boat"
Like a Hot Griddle.
Whitney C. Brill, pharmacists
mate, first class, 1891 Porter street
NV, gave aid to wounded ship
mates on one of the first LISTS to
hit the beach at Two. The action
was SO 'hot" he said, that by the
end of the day he felt like "hot
hamburger on a griddle." Just call
men "Grilled Brill" he said when
things had cooled down.
Coast Guardsman Benjamin L.
Hayes, Seat Pleasant, Md, realized
he had lost birthday en- route to
Two.
Hayes, member of an LIST crew
that went in on the initial landings
on the Jap-held stronghold, lost the
birthday when the invasion convoy
passed the international date line.
Roland ]. Swami, motor machin-
lists mate, first class, 1866 Branch
avenue Sc, and Coxswain William
]. Hawk, jr., 512 Sixth street S.W.,
were also in on the Two landings.
The two local coast guardsmen
served on landing chaft that brought
the Marines into the beaches.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-11

Sergt. Engelberg, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. Jerome Engelberg of 3716
Yuma street NV, is the holder OF
the Bronze Star with one Oak Leaf
Cluster and has combat award
He has been overseas one year.
Both were graduated from West
ern High School in 1885.
Staff Sergts. Edward A. Lucas
231 Twelfth street NE, and John
G. Barbour, 1900 Allison street NE.
both aerial gunners on B-24s, held
a reunion recently at an 9th AAF
Liberator station in England.
Both graduates of st. Johns
College, the sergeants entered the
service in August, 1913, and were
sent overseas within a day of each
other the following May. Sergt
Barbour has flown 81 bombing mis-
sions and holds the Air Medal with
three Clusters. Sergt. Lucas has
completed 81 missions and wears
the Air Medal with two Clusters.
After two years separation Pfc
Lewis S. Reese, 80, and his brother
James, 81, shipfitter, third class, en-
joyed four-day leave together in
London, they wrote their parents
Mr.. and Mrs. Lewis S. Reese, 1872
H street Sc. The sons were in the
sheet metal business before entering
the service in 1943. James is now
stationed at ship base in England
and Lewis is in Germany.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-11
Twin Sisters Meet in Indies:
Other Reunions Reported

1t was like an evening at home,
they all said in letters. For even
though they were thousands of miles
away, there were five reunions Of
people from the District area re-
Gently. Twin sisters, brothers and
two sets of boyhood friends were
among those who got together.
After more than three years sep
aration, United States Army Nurses
Elizabeth and Helen Gray, twin
daughters of Mr.. and Mrs. Richard
Gray of Ashton, Md, have been re-
united at a forward Army base in
the Netherlands East Indies.
Helen. a major, and Elizabeth, a
first lieutenant, parted for the first
time in their lives in January, 1912,
when Helen was sent to the South
west Pacific and Elizabeth was as
signed to an organization bound for
Iceland.
The twins are now on duty in the
Office of the Chief Surgeon, Head
quarters, United States Army Serv-
ices of Supply, where Helen has been
assigned since last July. But the re-
union is likely to be short for Helen
is now eligible for transfer to the
United States.
The Gray sisters were graduated
from Western High School and at
tended Wilson Teachers College
here.
Privates, first class. Frederick I.
and John Thomas White met for the
first time in two years at the front
in Germany recently.
The brothers, sons of Mr.. and Mrs.
John T. White of Clinton, Md, were
able to spend only an hour together,
"but it was the thrill of lifetime"
they wrote, "the next best thing to
being home"
Both had been overseas about Is
months and on the front line since
the middle of June, Frederick with
the infantry and John with the
engineers
1t. Louis Evans Schneider and
Master Sergt. Jerome Keene Engel-
berg, two lifelong buddies, EN-
braced like a couple of schoolgirls"
in a recent reunion in Luxembourg
after a four-year separation.
1t. Schneider, son of Mr.. and
Mrs. P. c. Schneider. of 1887 War
rem street NV, is with the 18th
Armored Division. He went over
seas in 1914
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-11

posed position and killed the three
fame throwers.
Marine Staff Sergt. Alvin M.
Josephy, jr., 20, combat correspond
ent, $500 Woodley road NV, in the
Pacific. He made available for
broadcasting the first recordings of
troops on Guam. although men
fell about him, he continued his re-
cording until the amphibian tractor
which carried his equipment, was
stopped at the front lines" his cita-
ton said.
Marine Staff Sergt. John F. Reilly,
n, combat correspondent, former
Reconstruction Finance Corp. en-
ploye and Georgetown Law School
student, now in the Pacific. When
Sergt. Reilly landed with the 4th
Marines on Orote Peninsula his type
writer was broken. With a piece of
wire and a couple of canteens as
substitute repairs, he wrote go news
stories.
Pfc. Granville C. Shenk, 20, Army,
1926 Forty fourth street NV, in the
European theater.
Sergt. Rick La Falce, Army, in
European theater, brother of Frank
La Falce, Route l, Alexandria.
Marine Capt. Frederic F. Draper,
q, of 7039 Wilson lane, Bethesda.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-11
Marines Air Corps
EIevates D. T.. Men

Two District Marines have been
named executives in the Marine Air
Corps.
Col. Caleb T. Bailey, a graduate
of the University of Maryland, was
named chief of staff, Marine Air
Fleet, West Coast, at the San Diego
Naval Air Station, and Maj. Cecil B.
Brewer, 4720 Linneau avenue NV,
has been n de operations officer in
the first an-Marine aircraft carrier
group.
Col. Bailey, As, spent his youth in
Washington and was educated in
schools here. He was awarded his
wings in the Marine Air Corps at
Pensacola, Fla, in 1880 and served
aboard the aircraft carrier Saratoga
three years.
From 1886 to 1899 he was attached
to the Bureau of Aeronautics in
Washington. A veteran of the Bou-
granville, Green Island and Palau
campaigns, he returned from his
last tour of duty overseas last Christ
mas.
Maj. Brewer, Is, was born in Wash
ington and was graduated from
Western High School. He attended
Georgetown University School of
Foreign Service and entered Marine
Aviation in 1949. He already has
completed 80 missions in the Pa
cific as an executive officer Of a
fighter squadron.
Although Marine flyers served
aboard Navy carriers in the past. and
are still doing SO. Maj. Brewers
group will be the first to be made
up of all-Marine carriers. Primary
purpose of the group now in train
ing at the Santa Barbara Air Station
will be to support Marine amphibious
landings in future Pacific warfare.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-11
Mount Rainier Observer
Spots Tanks, Kills 7 Nazis

Sergt. Robert L. Senser of 1914
Mount Rainier avenue, Mount
Rainier, Md, was recently credited
for calling for fire which knocked
out two German Tiger tanks with
direct 155-mm. guns, dispatch
said. He is a forward observer for
cannon company. The next day,
Sergt. Senser and his radio operator,
Weathered shower of German
hand grenades tossed into the house
from which they were observing.
When two Germans attempted to
enter the house, Sergt Senser killed
them, the dispatch said.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-11
D. c. Area Promotions Include
Two Lieutenant CoIoneIs

Hunter Melton. AAF, 215 East Bellefont'
ad1teSt AAP f fsss street
in England.
- Jesse Jones, jr.. AAF. 100 Third street
Robert senser. Infantry. 4214 Mount
Rainier avenue, Mount Rainier, in France
Corporal.
Donald West, Ut Twenty-sixth street
Earnest Aibrittain. Infantry. 1910 q
street esorse FL charu lfay Cavalry 1901 Forty,
Walter Grouse. Signal Corps, 1445
Vrs stI Naon is4a EuGsRai
NV, in Belgium.
Private First Class.
william Britton, AAF. 2o3 Twentieth
Charles FinzeL IT,, AAF. AS Newton
D? ssm N.Y. M in dnais AAr 1924 Seven
William Smith. jr.. AAF, 1881 Jocelyn
srses a Mud IL t hAr .tssee
COAST GUARD.
Commissioned Ensign.
:. Louis Donohoe, 29ls Forty fourth street
NV. at Pensacola (Fqa) Naval Air Station.
Petty 0nicer.
n radioman Cnrst class. in the South
MARINE CORPS.
stan Sergeant.
Sidney Wolman, S56 whittier place NE
NAVY.
Commissioned Ensign.
Cameron Albin. Arlington, Va, at the
Cathedral Of st. John the Divine, New
Wayne KENNEL. 1898 verplanck place
NV, at Pensacola (Fla.l Naval Air Station,
Joseph Woodson, 5000 Military road
NV, at the Cathedral Of st. John the
Divine, New York City.
Charles WOLF, 31O1 Vista street NE. at
the Cathedral Of st. John the Divine
New York City.
Joseph Redmond. jr. 4714 Baltimor.
avenue, Hyattsville. Nd. At the Cathedral
Of st. John the Divine. New York City
Lawrence Cecil. 81 Viers Mill road
Rockville. Nd, at Corpus Christie (Tex.)
Naval Air Station.
Petty Ofacer.
Lawrence Herman, 1923 Hamlin stree
N l.. aviation machinist's mate, third class
Seaman First Glass.
william Butler, AIS K street NV. b
3ssS 1sSaa sos = stssss M. = u,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-11

Harry z. Hasslinger. 313 v street NE,
and RICHARD bard dascSisen Lyme r..
Haven. .Aiexandria. have been advanced
70 lieutenant colonies other DISTRICT
Major.
o. James stoyer. Finance Department,
sec n. Wso aoa sRs nsnss Department
~ PouFI S' %ss S1;ss zAF: $500 street
7s s osis P pises SW TRANSFORMATION Corps
,si1 STREET. Corps
Howard Nichols. AAF. 1856 Hawthorne
James w Young. r.. Infantry. 1910 Thirty
nri kss street c S $50 g uz Nicholson street.
Arthur Hosick, AAF, 1882 Euclid street
Robert Barnes, .AAF. $500 Fourteenth
Robert Durand. Field Artillery On
tario road and Fifteenth street NV. in
Robert Mason. Army Service Forces :
Forester street S.W., in Italy.
First Lieutenant.
Harry Gaghan, Signal Corps, e25 East
Henry Fischer. Signal Corps, 1415 South
Edgewood street, Arlington.
vi. William !, H.! Coz signal corps 1888 FIJI
sa1 Ssst ssss stEs;t STE Street
Edgar Keller. AAr 5o17 Newport ave-
nue. NV, in India.
Commissioned Second Lieutenant.
Russell Craig, infantry, 173 westmond
drive. Alexandria, on the western front.
Robert Hutchins. Infantry, 2714 Ord
way street NV, in Germany.
Catesby Jones, Infantry, 1887 Tilden
street NV, at Fort Benning, Ga.
Jacob Gordon. Quartermaster Corps, 437
Kennedy street NV, at Camp Lee, Va.
Technical Sergeant.
william Wright, AAF. IA Rudder green
|S.W., In China.
stan Sergeant.
Louis Steinkamp, Tank Destroyer Corps.
1911 Vermont avenue NV.
Melvin Wright, AAF, Mclean, Va, In the
Mediterranean theater.
John Conway. AAF. 10 East Granville
drive, Silver Spring, In England.
Ssfseant.
walter epsnss. sass Thirty-ninth plass
NV ~ 1Eooess
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-11
Butt Brothers Meet
At FoxhoIe in France

Sons of William L. Bait, vice
chairman of the War Production
Board, and Mrs. Bait, met in France
after separation of two and one
half years. The family resides at
3019 N street NV.
The sons, Maj. William L. Bait.
jr., and First 1t. Robert Bait. met
near the latter's foxhole after the
armies of Gen. Patch and Gen. Pat
ton were joined. Maj. Bait, u,
Harvard graduate and formerly en-
ployed by the Departments of La
Dor and Commerce, went to London
in 1941 as an aide to w. Averell
Hartman with the Lease-Lend Adj
ministration. Both brothers for
merly worked for WPB.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-11

eXandrla, for his
services as bat
talon wire chief
at Leyte.
Corpl. Gran
vile Sylvester,
1882 M street
Sc, somewhere
on the southern
flank of the
western front.
Maj. F. J. DON
0hue, As, combat
intelligence Off
Ger at a Flying
Fortress combat
bomb wing of
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-11
Three LocuI Men Push
Forward Into Reich

Three Washington area infantry
men of the 10Th Division recently
participated in a battle pushing
steadily into the Reich. The out
fit advanced mile beyond Set
ternich, a small Juelich suburb, and
occupied German defensive posi-
lions to the north of the Cologne
road, 3 miles east of the Roer River,
an Associated Press dispatch from
Germany said.
They are: 1t. Col. Copper B
Rhodes, 1901 Cathedral avenue
N. W.; 1t. Col. Louis Gosorn, 1915
Jannys lane, Alexandria, and 1t
Col. Lloyd Mari, Silver Spring, Md
The division suffered few casual
Ties for the size Of the operation.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-11

Pfc. Granville c. Shenk, 20, Army,
5236 Forty-fourth street NV, in
France.
Staff Sergt. Alfred Eanes, field
artillery, 1112 Sixteenth street NV,
in European theater.
Tech. Sergt. Frank Whisonant,
platoon sergeant of an infantry divi-
sion, Alb w street NV, In Italy.
1t. u. g. Demarest Lloyd, IT,,
U. S. N. r., 2O29 Connecticut avenue
NV, has been posthumously award
ed the Air Medal for achievement in
aerial flight as pilot OF carrier
based fighter plane in action against
Jap forces in the Marianas Islands.
First 1t. John E. Lamb, jr., %, Bit
co-pilot, 618 D street NE, now in
England, has been awarded the fifth
Oak Leaf Cluster to the Air Medal.
Two men have received the fourth
Oak Leaf Cluster:
First 1t. ]. r. Satterfield, 81, Bit
co-pilot. Spencerville, Md, now in
England.
Second 1t. Charles E. Hicks, 20,
Bit co-pilot, in England.
The third Oak Leaf Cluster was
awarded Second 1t. Manuel A.
Torres, 26, bombardier, ASA
Eleventh street Sc, in England.
Six Washington men were re-
cipients of the first Oak Leaf Clus-
ter to the Air Medal:
First 1t. w. c. Edwards, jr., bonn
barber, 2342 North Fillmore street,
Arlington.
Tech. Sergt. Edwin F. Miller. 81,
radio gunner, 234 Tenth street NE,
in England.
Staff Sergt. John d. Keesee, "a,
waist gunner, 829 Third street NE,
in England.
Second 1t. Patrick I. Fenlon, %,
Bit co-pilot, 2131 Fifteenth street
NV, in England.
Staff Sergt. Samuel M. Lane. 20,
radio-gunner. 4436 First street NE,
in England.
Staff Sergt. David M. Tarner,
aerial gunner, 237 Fourteenth street
NE, in England.
Staff Sergt. Leonard A. Blush,
tail gunner, 304 Thirty seventh
place Sc, in England.
Air Medals have been awarded the
following men:
Staff Sergt. John London Stitt, 20,
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1945-03-11
Bozooku Shells
Finally Awaken
ID. C.. Soldier

A bazooka shell does nicely as an
alarm clock for Pfc. Robert Frost,
2410 Third street NE, now in Italy.
According to a, 5th Army dispatch,
Pvt Frost slept through mortar
barrage in an outpost.
When a Nazi bazooka shell hit the
side of the building, Pvt. Frost
turned over. He hoped out of bed
when the next one hit. After the
third shell struck, he went to a
window to see what was happening.
BY this time, Pvt. Frost's buddies
had discouraged the enemy and they
left hurriedly. The dispatch doesn't
say whether Pvt. Frost, who used to
work at the Wardman Park Hotel,
got back to sleep or not.