The globe-independent. (Hagerstown, Md.) 1943-19??, 1945-07-26

Paul E. Fouke, of 248 South Po-
tomac street, Hagerstown, Md,
served aboard this ship during
many of the major commandments
and invasions in the Pacific.
Participating in the invasion of
the Ryukus, this ship made the first
landing of the campaign on a small
island to the west of Okinawa.
After successfully completing that
invasion she took part in assaults on
Okinawa and lie Shina.
Under constant threat of enemy
air attack during these operations,
the ships gunners succeeded in
knocking down a japanese fighter
bomber during one of the assaults.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clyde Gordon, RI
2, Hagerstown, have three sons in
the Service-Calvin, Dick and
Dolan.
Pfc Calvin j. Gordon, who was
twice wounded in action in Ger
many, is now recuperating in an
English hospital and may be re-
turned to the United States in the
near future. A member of the In
fantry, he has been in the Army a
year and overseas since October,
1914.
Cpl. Dick V. Gordon is a gunner
on a Bog and expects orders
shortly to leave for the Pacific.
Recently home on eight days leave,
he is now stationed at an airfield at
Topeka, Kansas. In the Service
about year, he received his train
ing at Sheppard Field, Texas, and
Fort Myers, Florida.
Pfc. Dolan c. Gordon, of the En-
gineers Corps, who has been in the
Service for two years, has spent the
past II months overseas and is now
based in Germany. He writes home
that he has been through it all over
there and expects that his outfit
will become part of the Army of
Occupation.
Calvin and Dolan are both mar
r1ed, their wives, in the absence of
their husbands, making their homes
in Hagerstown.
ABOARD THE USS QUINCY OFF
JAPAN, July 14-Otho D. Mozart.
"a, seaman first class, USNR. Main
street, Hancock, Md, and Edgar L.
Myers, %, fireman, first class, USNR,
Washington street, Hagerstown Md,
went to the shores of Japan today
and helped a mighty naval task
force hurl dynamite into the Japan
csc homeland.
In a force of 3rd Fleet warships
the QUINCY turned her powerful
guns on the Honshu steel city of
Kamaishi, 275 miles north of Tokyo.
More than 1000 carrier-b based planes
also figured in the attack.
The first ship to be fired upon in
the Normandy landings-she was
under fire for 10 days without a
single casualty. Crew members dis
played the same determination off
Japan's shores that was exhibited
when the ship sailed into an eight
day duel with a 14-inch German
coastal gun off the coast of southern
France.
In January, 1945, the QUINCY
was temporary headquarters for the
late President Roosevelt and his mil
itary and diplomatic stats during
the trip to the historic Yalta con-
ference. Earlier this year she
fought at Okinawa.
ABOARD A DESTROYER-M MINE
SWEEPER IN THE PACIFIC-L.
w. Metz, fireman, second class.
whose parents live on Route l, Hag-
erstown, Md, served aboard this
ship when it swept sea path
toward the Okinawa beaches for the
rest of the invasion fleet, then stayed
to help blockade the Japs trapped
on the island.
One of the first ships to enter
Okinawa waters, she arrived week
before the initial landings to clear
the seas of mines sown by the
enemy.
In desperate attempt to break
the blockade set up, the Japs fought
with all their suicide weapons
against patrol ships - Kamikaze
pilots who tried to crash-dive on
decks of American vessels: motor
boats loaded with TINT trying to
ram ships; jet-propelled Baka bombs
steered by suicide pilots and swim
mers sneaking through the water to
blast holes in anchored ships.
Ships like this one turned back
the attack, however, and the block