Evening star., 1945-05-13
Patrol Blasts Japanese
Installation on Island:
D. T.. Men in Action

OF the 4oth Infantry had orders to
blast huge enemy installations
there-including electrical equip
ment valued at more than half a
million dallars.
In less than "a hours after a sur
prise landing, the job was COM
pleted. While patrolling an unex-
plored road, the detail came upon
shack from which the Japs had
fed during the blasting. In the
shack on a fire they found a chick
en- and rice ready for the table.
After posting guard, the men sat
down and enjoyed hot meal per-
fectly prepared. While they were
eating the telephone rang and they
answered, hugely enjoying the ex-
cited jabber of Jap on the other
end of the line.
While in action against enemy
pillboxes and caves on Cebu, 1t.
John II. Dimond, 1868 Columbia
road NV, killed Is Japs. His
platoon attacked japanese strong
point that stopped an infantry unit.
Automatic rifle fire covered their
advance. After the first strongpoint
had been silenced, 1t. Dimond
climbed on top of another cave and
placed his explosive charge. Five
JapS, including an officer, made a
dash for it but were killed by the
support fire. The remaining Japs
were sealed off by the explosives.
Navy 1t. Alan r. Grain, 2943
Tilden street NV, former doctor
here, has an Office on Okinawa
where business is brisk serving a
Navy Seabee battalion. His first
patients were three Marines of the
1st Marine Division who were
wounded by shell fragments. "The
worst hardships are living in the
ground-and the mud" he said in
recent release
Corpl. Jackson A. Cooper, Belts
vile, Md, can claim the distinction
of having built roads from Australia
to the Philippines. He can also
consider himself one of The real
veterans of this war since he is
serving his fourth year overseas,
information from his 32d Red Ar
row Divisions Hath Engineer bat
talon said. His division claims
more combat time than any other
United States division in the pres
ent war
1t. Col. Norman P. Blake, 421O
Second road north, Arlington, has
been designated assistant chief of
staff, Priority and Traffic Section.
European Division of the USAAF
Air Transport Command, it was
announced
Although spring is here, the Snow
ball keeps rolling, and S/Sergt.
Milton c. Kurland, 33, of 1903
Warder street NV, is a radio
operator with Snowfall, which is
an Army transport outfit flying
priority cargo and passengers from
Presque Isle, Me, to Paris, and
bringing litter patients back. Dur
ing March they evacuated approx
mately 1000 wounded from the
French capital With this group
Sergt. Kurland has crossed the At
lantic "a times in the last nine
months.
Col. /. Bradfield Smock, COM
manding officer of the 218th General
Hospital since September, 1912, and
outstanding in the field of medicine
on the Hawaiian Islands for the past
four years, is returning to the main
land for reassignment. Col. Smock
will be succeeded by Col. A. L. Tynes,
formerly in command of the Hos
pital Construction Branch, Surgeon
Generals Office, here.
Col. Smock is credited with being
the first to set up an Army provi-
sional hospital in Hawaii at the out
break of hostilities.
When the 4th Infantry Division
swept into one town in Southern
Bavaria, 1t. r. Fred MacGillivray,
1882 Tennyson street NV, found a
German soldier walking the streets
with no one to guide him into
prisoner -ofWar cage. 1t. MacGilli-
vray was astonished when the Ger
man assured him it was all right for
him to be at large as he had valid
furlough papers in his pocket that
had just been issued only the day
before.
1st 1t. Jack S. Chamberlin, o.
year-old command pilot of the B-24
Diana Lynn, has completed his Goth
mission. He is stationed with the
18th AAF in Italy with the 456th
Bomb Group. His home is on Old
Dominion drive, Arlington.
1st 1t. John F. Sellar, 1926 M street
NV, was member of the first class
of service officers to be retained for
infantry combat duty in an eight
week course at the Ground Forces
Training Center in France.
Capt. David T. Miles, formerly of
Washington, and some other men
from the 4th Infantry Division, were
jeeping into new area in Bavaria
when they picked up four German
prisoners along the road and scared
four more out of culvert with the
jeep's machinegun. The captives
said there were no other Germans
in the area, but Capt. Miles and two
others decided to investigate Ad-
vancing into wood they spotted
a German. All dropped to the
ground and prepared for a fight,
but after thinking things over, the
German marched out, using his un-
dershirt as flag of surrender. Soon
thereafter 18 other Germans threw
down their arms and joined the pa
rade. A count revealed total of 80
captives.
Capt. William r. Shelton, 514I
Nineteenth street NV, BIS pilot,
has flown 10 combat missions. He is
based with the 18th AAF BIS group
in the Mediterranean theater.
1st 1t. Charles III. Alvord, jr., Lib
orator pilot with the 18th AAF in
Italy, recently completed his 50th
mission. The highlight of his aerial
career, he said, was the aerial bonn
bardment of the Florisdorf oil re-
f1neries in Vienna. His plane was
riddled with shell fragments that
shot away the main gas cells. With
gas fumes spread throughout the
bomber, 1t. Alvord said he and the
crew were afraid spark might blow
them up at any moment.
Jerry fighters meanwhile were at
tacking the air group, but 1t. Al