Evening star., 1945-10-16
News Of District Area Men
In the Armed Forces
lKiIIed Randol streetN w

Morgan, 52I Randolph street NV; serst.
Me- e., corpl; David D, Danner. Upper
Nineteenth street Sc: TIsergtT. T Robert agf
Ma aIssFsss s1ssrs rrseT
aarotoS aSma sass ssFfst s%
Arriving on the smaller ships
were:
rlsstrxse Be- seFs john saiE kootS RstSn
y Wade; Wsshinston; Pfc. Ernest W.
washinstoa fla psie fHsBb Habbes s.
Washinrton: Pfc. Amos M. umble. Wash
as evt ons S"ssrt E boto znson RHna sysI Sa
sssIses bsyIs h.Sisi 81 W.sa
koms PARK CAPT. Fred % j. Wertz, AsSs Wsshins- s-
ton, ton; IA Harry "; Swami. washington;
i2ss TSsn1:ea IssE Silver wssainst0n r/6 John R.
u, PIC: " walter J. Lamm, % Washington; Pfc,
John NJ. Redmiles, 316 Laverne avenue.
alexandria; Capt. Perkins Coville, 2b2O
= so,.E Buchanan r. an street, arlington; Capt.
e: Gray, washinston; Pfc James Green,
e. william william esl:sss9
washinston: Tt5 william william Darby. WASH WASH
IngEton TgE a. TL5 joseph Ly.le. Washinston;
Louis Mann, a. wasSinrton; S Ma'ns'en T15 Thomas mas
Scott, WASHINGTON; Ti6 Arthur Terry, IT,,
washington; PFC. Leon p; Butler. Washing
sn1s son; Pfe MS Esworth p;r Dorsey Gathers.
Capt. George P: Parton. jr.. washington;
Tl4 T., John R. Cummings, 1888 Sixteenth
Due to arrive at Boston today
aboard the S. S. Exchequer, accord
ing to the Associated Press, are the
following Washington men:
, T.5 William H. Brooke, IT,; uTL5 Mauric.
Walter Burk, IT,; lst 1t. Henry D. Hill,
Wisniewski; also ia Edward q. Arthur, r.
Alexandria.
Decorations
Col. John K. Waters, son-in-law
of Gen. George S. Patton, was
AWARDED the Silver Star and Bronze
Star Medals for gallantry yester-
day by Gen. Jacob L. Devers, chief
of the Army Ground Forces.
The Silver Star was for Col. Wa
ters' disregard of danger. in carry
ing a flag of truce between Amer
lean and German forces battling
aroung a prisoner-of-war camp at
Hammelburg, Germany, in which
the Serbian prisoner compound of
the camp was endangered. Col.
Waters was prisoner of war in
the camp at the time and was
wounded by a German bullet dur
ing his heroic mission.
He was given the Bronze Star for
performing duties of vital assistance
to fellow prisoners at great personal
risk to himself, while held by the
Germans.
Col. Waters. whose home here Is
at 5000 Tunlaw road NV, was cap
tured in Tunisia on February IA,
l943. He first was held at the no.
torious Oflag GA in Poland, but when
the Russians advanced he was
among the prisoners moved west
into Germany He was found badly
wounded in the prison camp south
east of Hammelburg when an Amer
lean infantry column reached there
April 6. He eventually was brought
to Walter Reed Hospital, where he
recovered from his wounds.
Col. Waters, 38, was born in Balti-
more. He attended Johns Hopkins
University and was graduated from
West Point in 1881, ~
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Connecticut avenue NV. has been "a, awarded S
Service Medal for duties from November, t
oee H. vas Gnaetor e aFTy Al TX sers
SSuirements and stock control division at
The Distinguished Service Medal also
at GsH sssnss ss'fs1 sf'e s xim;
aaauss fls ssFvlSss iSas division from July 1917 70
Va, y, director Of Defsonnel from jnly. 1872
Mai MAI, Gen: Frederick H. Osborn, 2314
sd1 isd es9issae e. epsemS Ssyp s4s
Foxhail road N, ". airecter Of The hen control nG1i
ddlnvllssion' dnlsn from March. 1912. to February.
BIis: Gen. joseph F: B.ttIey.. as44 South
Lynn street., Arlington, va, deputy chief
Of Of staff fot fer service conmamands. from Jan
Bris. Gen. Don &. shinsler. 1920 Thirty
eighth street NV, actins director and d.
Noysmbsr. Is4z. 70 Ausust. 1913. sH' ''0"
Col Maurice Hirsch Of Houston Tex.
chairman CHAIR Of the War Contracts Price Ad-
ment Board, the War Department Price
Division director, all from June. 1914. to
Col. Curtis iStG e. Pratt, Yves. Enslewood,
Col. James NJ. Roamer. 354o cumber-
land street NV. for services from March.
saecessively. q the Security services Sc Hs'sSf 81
fice, the Security and Intellieence Divi-
sion, and the Intelligence Division.
The Legion Of Merit was awarded to
me ioiiowing omcers in the Army Services
Mai Gen. Clinton F. Robinson, 3ola
Foxhall road tthen colonelJ~ as former
e oee chief n Sa as
ssraL srL from December, 1910, to Decem-
Col; Merri. X; E.rro., sr, 1925 Twenty
Msaintens6ce sna,te me Division from January to
Il. Col. John D. Millett, 271o South
hayes fnl street f Arlingtons Va, as chief his
q. Col. Sydney X. Bradley, formerly of
AArlneson Va. who now is in business in
Merit for services ss former % assistant Dt
chief and chief of the Small war Plants
branch from September. 1943, to septem-
First Yank in Tokyo Swaps
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