Evening star., 1945-08-23
Washington General
Leads 82d Air-Borne
In Occupying Berlin

eran of four major campaigns in
Europe and which recently took
over the job of occupying the
American zone in Berlin, includes a
number of men from the WASH
ington area, as well as the COM
manding officer. Maj. Gen. James
M. Gavin, zoos Columbia road NV,
according to the Associated Press
Gen. Gavin and members of his
staff jumped from CAT transport
planes onto the Tempelhoff Air
drome near Berlin Sunday in a test
drop, the dispatches said. It was
the generals 59th jump and was
made in accordance with his policy
of always being the first out,
whether in battle action or peace
time tests.
Ninety-nine officers and men of
the 82d, many of whom participated
in the four major battle drops, para
chuted onto section of Berlin yes
terday to realize their ambition of
some day floating down on the Ger
man capital.
Gen. Gavin, who has fought with
the 82d since the air-borne invasion
of Sicily and through subsequent
landings at Naples, in Normandy
and Holland, was home on leave
last month.
Also Gets Berlin Duty.
Another Washington officer de-
tailed to serve in Berlin with the
82d is Brig. Gen. Francis A. March,
division commander of artillery.
Continually serving with the 82d.
Gen. March has not seen his family
for more than two and half years.
His wife, Mrs. Josephine March and
their two daughters, Carroll Kelley
and Joanna Conway, live at 4343
Reno road NV. A son, Corpl. Fran
els A. March, jr, now stationed with
an air-borne outfit in Kentucky, ex-
poets to receive orders soon for oc-
cupation duty in Japan, his sister
said.
+ Col. Joseph w. Heating, I'll Tay-
lor street NV, native Washing
tonian and graduate of Western
High School, also serving in Berlin
with the 82d, transferred to that
outfit recently after serving with
the 18th Air-borne Division. An
artillery officer, Col. Keating was
among troops of the 17th who Drop
ped into hostile territory east of the
Rhine.
Others With 82d Division.
Other District area men listed as
serving with the 82d are:
Pfc. Joseph A. Oiomei, 1880 Brent
wood road NE; I'd 1t. Raymond T.
Eareckscn, 3605 New Hampshire
avenue NV; Sergt. Henry S. STAN
ley, 5712 Georgia avenue NV; Pvt.
Richard Maomber, 8712 Colesville
road, Silver Spring, Md; Sergt.
Frank A. Haynes, 1908 G. street NE;
Pfc. Paul E. Mikill, 5214 Illinois
avenue NV; Pvt. Claude C. DIM
motto, 6227 Ninth street NV; Pfc.
Daniel F. Scanlon, 1926 Sheridan
street NV; Pfc. Millard F. Barn
cite, 915 Emerson street NV; Pfc.
James S. Wells, 1921 Columbia road
NV; Pfc. Clarence Carey, 146
Thirty sixth street NE; Pvt. VIII
liam Ryan, 1872 Longfellow street
NV; Pvt. James E. Ward, 4l6
Third street NV: Sergt. Albert
Rathner, 1406 Perry place NV;
S/Sergt. James E. Beach, 730
Seventh street NE; Sergt. Albert
j. Bladen, TAT Twelfth street Sc:
Sergt. Joseph Barnarp, 2608 Thirty
second street Sc; Pvt. John r.
Copsey, 1109 Montello avenue Ne;
PFC. Stanley M. Engeberg, 514 Jack
son avenue, Takoma Park, Md;
Pfc. Leonard Prencipe, 234 Ran
dolph place NE; Pfc. Leonard
Longerbeam, 927 Twenty-first street
NV; Pvt. James Schwartz, jr., HOT
Staples street NE; Sergt. James W..
Beard, 1926 Rock Greek Church
road NE.
Additional d. C. Area Men.
Also, Corpl. Charles w. Knight,
2809 Buena Vista terrace Sc; Corpl.
Richard A. Biebel, 4516 Van Ness
street NV; Corpl. Charles w.
Sims, 1025 Tenth street NE; Pfc.
Stuart Givens, 1929 Blagden avenue
NV; Pfc. Roy Burke, 238 Ninth
street NE; Pfc. Raymond A. Fig
gins, 800 v street NE; Pfc. Robert
M. Porter, 634 F street NE; S/Sergt.
Robert E. Beck, 63 Adams street
NV; Pfc. Neil r. Kinney. $40
Thirty-seventh place Sc; Pfc. Dom
aid E. Beyers, 1851 Owens place
NE; Pfc. Perry J. Fliakers, 3l4l
Mount Pleasant street NV:
S/Sergt. Floyd r. Miller, 315 r street
NE; Sergt. Louis E. Cattaneo, 1901
Seventh street NE: Pfc. Russell S.
Henderson, 1883 Sixteenth street
NV; Maj. John G. H. Lee, War De-
partment; 1t. Col. Nicholas e. Allen.
l5 Blackstone road, Westmoreland
Hills, Nd; Pvt. James w. Simpson.
llO7 Prince street, Alexandra. va. 4
lst 1t. Marion M. McGrady, Alex
aPdria; s/Sergt. Tracey Reed, 26l2