The Coolidge examiner., 1945-02-09

and loading planes. The Jap shells
had already begun to fall in our
destroyer screen, but when our
planes hit them it turned them
away. In a little while more Ma
nilla Bay would have been under
fire from their heavy guns and we
were fighting to save our ship and
our skins. We threw everything
we had at them from rocket to
depth bombs.
THE defeat of the Jap fleet was
the big event of the day, but that
evening they sent over about 80
planes to hit us. Our same pilots
that had flown about or hours
of combat that day went out and
knocked them down so fast that
not one got a chance to drop a
bomb near our ships. We're pretty
proud of the baby carriers. We
have demonstrated that Baby" can
be pretty mean when annoyed and
perhaps now she will get the re-
pect she has always deserved.
Coker was born May 3, 1925, at
Hugh. Oklahoma, and came to Cool
idge in 1912 to make his home. He
Joined the navy in November of
1943. His father, +. c. Coker, lives
in North Coolidge.
PFC. JOHN L. MORESCO, serv-
ing with the 31st Dixie Division on
Morotari was among the group that
began an 11-day march with full
field equipment on Christmas day
trudging over the jagged peaks and
through the dense jungles of Moro
tari's wild interior So rugged was
the uncharted terrain over which
the infantry company moved in
quest of Japs that in one days
climbing from sun-up to sun-down
ii made only $50 yards as meas
ured on the map. Several men
came in with towels around their
feet instead of shoes, and the skin
came off with the socks of one. in
fantryman. When the company be-
gan the return trip on New Years
Day it was necessary for them to
| call for artillery fire so they could
determine their location. A cub
| plane lowered overhead to show
them the way out. 1T was the
| tun
through" veteran infantrymen de-
clared Moresco"s wife, Mrs. Ra-
quel NJ. Morescoc makes her home
in Coolidge.
T/Sst. DoRMAN BRYCE, recent
ly transferred to Municipal Airport
| Daggett, California. writes to say
how much he enjoyed the Christ
mas Edition, which he received
about five days before his transfer.
He is the son of Mr.. and Mrs. David
Bryce
PFC. PAUL BORREE writes his
mother. Mrs. Josephine Borree,
from England that the Christmas
packages the family sent reached
him in good shape "and the candy
and everything sure was good. l
received my Christmas Edition of
the Coolidge Examiner, too, and it
is the incest one they have ever
printed. | showed it to the fellows
in my hut and they sure wished
their home towns had gotten out
something like that. l think / am
the only one who received a Christ
mas paper with all the fellows
pictures in it," Pfc. Borree has
been overseas since June of 1943.
ERNEST J. GREGG, S NC,
writes from the Marianas Islands
to let the folks at home know he is
all right. He recently spent. two
hours with M. E. Sweeper, NM 1/C,
(serving in the Sea Bees) and they
had a good talk about home:
Il just received my Christmas Edi-
tion of the Coolidge Examiner and
sure did see lot of guys in it
know" 1t made him homesick,
Gregg says, although it was good
to see the faces of so many old
friends again "someday, when
we're home again, all this over here
will seem like bad dream" Gregg
is the son of Mr.. and Mrs. Roy
Gregg and has brother, Cpl. Don
Gregg, in the armed forces. En-
nests wife is the former Lodene
Looper.
S/SGT. ROBERT JAY Ed
WARDS, serving with the marine
corps in the South Pacific, writes
that he has been receiving the Ex-