Evening star., 1945-05-20
Bomber Pilots Await
New Assignments
After Blasting Japs

After bombing and strafing Ra-
baul's Simpson Harbor, Kavieng
and Buka passage, Marine 1st 1t.
Robert ]. Weaver, 27, Mitchell medi-
UNI bomber pilot, 6315 Connecticut
avenue, Chevy Chase. Md, and
Marine 1st 1t. Edward i. Lupton,
23-year-old torpedo bomber pilot,
l348 Ingraham street NV. have
returned to Miramar, Calf, for
leave and reasSignment.
During 1t. Weaver's So missions
his plane was hit by anti aircraft
fire several times, but he escaped
injury. His squadron was part of
the 1st Marine Air Wing based on
Green Island He helped neutralize
Japs hemmed in the Northern Solo
mons.
1t. Lupton and his squadron few
from Tinian and participated in
Two operation.
T/Sergt. Robert E. McKnew, 1872
Thirty-second street Sc, So COM
bat missions. has been sent to
Chanute Field, Ill, to be assigned
to an Army position. He was re-
Gently discharged from the AAF
Convalescent Hospital, st. Peters
burg, Fla. Sergt McKnew was en-
gineer gunner on a BIS in the
Southwest Pacific theater.
1t. Thomas F. Gowen, U. S. N. R.,
100 South Glebe road, Arlington,
has returned from tour of duty
as flight surgeon with blimp
squadron located in South America.
He was serving with a lighter-tha
air maintenance squadron, servicing
blimps being used for patrol, escort
and rescue work along the Atlantic
Coast.
1st 1t. Ebert Taylor, executive
officer with a rife company of the
362d Infantry Regiment, 91st Pow
der River) Division, is returning to
his home at 1923 A street NE. for a
45-day furlough. He was in the
push on Bologna.
Capt. Kenneth Seymour, SOL Sligo
avenue, Silver Spring, has arrived
at the Army Ground and Service
Forces Redistribution Station at
Asheville, N. c., where he will have
two weeks of relaxation awaiting
reassignment. Capt. Seymour spent
80 months in the American theater
of operations with the Medical Ad-
ministrative Corps.
Two Washingtonians were among
the TOO veterans who have arrived
at Camp Pickett, Va, aboard hospi-
tai trains and planes: Ti3 Robert w.
Thornton, 49, of 1886 Ames street
NE, and ia John Gabriel, 80, of
1888 Maryland avenue NE.
Pfc. Joseph M. Sponaugle, who
served six months as an IBM ma
chine operator with the 5th AAF in
New Guinea, has been admitted to
the convalescent hospital at Pawling,
N. Y, for treatment and rest. Pvt.
Sponaugle's address is 1876 Hill
top terrace Sc.
1st 1t. Melvin w. CorrelI, 210
Maple avenue, Takoma Park, D. c.,
and Pvt. Robert S. Swavely, 218 E
street NE, are in the Valley Forge
General Hospital, Phoenixville, Pa,
after duty overseas. 1t. Correll,
forward observer in the field artil-
lery, received splinters in his face
when a shell hit the turret of his
tank in Belgium. Pvt Swavely was
blown out of a truck and hit his
head against tree.
1st 1t. Henry w. Millington, 1919
Thirty eighth street NV, has been
selected to attend the battery ex-
ecutive course of the Field Artillery
School at Fort Sill, Okla. He is a
veteran of the European theater.
Now being processed through the
Army Ground and Service Forces
Redistribution Station in Miami
Beach, Sergt. Philip d. Dressed, 25.
of2209 Shanning street NE. is back
after six months as squad leader
in the Central Pacific.
Eight other District and nearby
men are at Miami Beach, Fla,
awaiting reassignment at AAF Re-
distribution Station No. 2. They
are:
1st 1t. Ribert d. Valance, %, B-24
navigator who few so missions in
the Southwest Pacific area. His
home is at 3016 Forty-third street
NV.
S/Sergt. Benjamin H. Nicol, jr.,
"a, an armorer in the Caribbean
area, 3709 Thirteenth street NV.
Sergt. Charles T. Farmer, a.
served in the American theater
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