Evening star., 1945-10-24
News Of District Area Men in Armed Forces

L Area men IN
with the Army Service Command.
Base G, under 1t. Gen. RobertsL.
Eichelberger, commander of 9th
Army.
In the citation accompanying the
decoration, Gen. Tansey was praised
for his performance of duties of
great responsibility" while serving
In the Operations Division, War De-
partment General Staff, from
March, 1912, to June, 1945. During
this period he served as member
OF the Combined Munitions Assign
ments Committee and as Chief of
the Logistics Bureau.
Col. Gerson X. Heiss. of 3407
Quebec street NV, was awarded
the Oak Leaf Cluster to the Legion
Of Merit for services in the Offce
of the Undersecretary of War from
September 8, 1899, to May %, 1912.
He was charged with insuring an
adequate supply of critical and
strategical materials for the ma
tional stockpile of war supplies.
1st 1t. Francis p. Held, whose
wife and son Paul live at 374 North
Granada street, Arlington, has re-
ceived the Silver Star Medal for
heroic action as element leader of
a B-29 formation while participant
ing in combat mission over Ma
goya, Japan, combat dispatch
from Guam revealed.
Although he had lost one engine
near the start of the mission, the
citation said, 1t. Held continued on
and successfully carried out his
bombing attack Returning to base,
he risked his own safety in the
damaged plane to fly low to drop
emergency equipment to survivors
of plane which had been downed.
Award of Bronze Star Medals to
the following area men has been
announced:
M/Sergt Edward Borrell, Capt.
Frederick H. Evans, 1t. Col. Charles
w. Morgan, 1t. Col. Charles M.
Trammell, jr., lst 1t. Harry F. Low
man.
Returnees
Seventeen men of the Washing
ton area are. due to arrive today at
Boston aboard the transport Mari
posa are among 38 more men from
this area arriving at East Coast
ports.
Arriving at Boston today are:
rdI;. Pfc y WIliard ! J soueie; 10 q BUCHANAN
Pfe cari A 0sHn Haaist Gofs serss t.
oveTsths T15 WiIiism j. Miller: s rserst.. t.
CAPT, Richard Hiiiider. sisersf. Hairy eH, dev.
inson' Ils2 T.4 Kenneth h p Pa McPonneli. TzS
and Pvt Brannin W. Giles, Alexandria.
Due to arrive tomorrow at New
York aboard the Hagerstown Vic
tory:
street S E: 1st 1t: Robert NJ Bately. Stat
soras & H'tf i ss kIkpsfla sTI Ssss,h +
Fssrs M pafs ssy husSs cisy
se IGe warren T. esTser B. pe William
Russell and TIA Donald E. Heathcote, ali
OF washington
Arrived Monday at Camp Patrick
Henry, Va:
v,Iln Rirs, T. H;s1. samss .sId ssrgt
Twahani and Pfc. Frank J. Bubba. all of
Washington. and TI5 Reed n. Lewis. Ar
lington.
Discharged
District men discharged from the
Army recently at Fort Meade,
include: "a
Tl5 Robert T. Patterson, 1923 Thirty
eishth street NV; PFC. Angelo J, ,yamani-
Vita %sm keaR.y saS Na. isai ssnent ssIse
Ne. TI5 David n. Cohen. sos s7ss . ssEhfsa Third
mister Street s% aorp sob.rs sse
Roland, 44OO Kansas avenue NV; Corpl.
eugene E 81 NJ, CABBAGE l4o7 oTren street
White, 1906 twelfth stfeet Nv; Pic.
Pc %ssi ssl Msacan annas sr5 Se4sg
Memas L, Dorsey, 34e4 Baker street NE:
street NV: corpl Harold e. Williams
la52 H street NE: IA Leonard Shoe
maker, b447 BROOKS lane Sc; PIC. Joseph
GDrDI Co av.ch: Charles H oarloek' a2ao wiseon
corpl. Edward Lovinger, 1889 Shepherd
street NV; Corpl. Williams A. Simonds.
Srsber. 1879 Spring road NV: serst.
NE, s/Serst. Denis c. Worley, 2642
Myrtle avenue NE; Tisergt. Carroll F.
Warner, 3124 Benton street NV; Ttsergt.
T Lsergt Delbert L. Ebeling, 623 6 Street
Sc: T/5 Maurice D. Crosley, $40 Buchan-
an street NV: T/5 William H. Brooke. il,
3Sl5 Twelfth street Sc; Pfc; Oscar R.
1ebn 1sls sa snIn. street NM ,0.
NV; Pic George VI. Howlin, SIS Morris
place NE ia Harry NJ. Pauley. liz Fifth
street Me- TIA Charles w. Moore. IL D
street sW,; T/5 Alvin Stamp, s5l1 Old
2o2 street Ne: Pvt. John D. Benton,
920 street S.W.: CorpI. Paul l. Mat
thews, 1850 Connecticut avenue NV: Pfc.
Georse Boliyer, 1904 street NV; Pvt,
NJ; corpi Bsif B e campSei fDs6 so1s s'THf. 1iii
nois avenue NV: s Lsergt. Roland L. Pet
tingill. 1889 Thirty fifth street NV; Pfc
Myer w. Epstein, 1915 Allison street NV;
Tn4 Martin n ]. Vaseuez' 1412 Massachusetts,
corpl. Abner Drury, $500 Connecticut
Flsgler place NV; Sergt. William Acty,
oGa5s Sias SM sssset tsssEst asS1se
William e. Wtlkerson. 1910 First Street
NV; ia SCHUYLER W. shevmaker, 500
Rhode Island avenue NE; Pfc. Julian NJ.
street street NE; ES T1serat. rri Herman II M. Vikis Winkier.
1434 Holly street NV: Corpl. George w.
Knepley. 1929 Perry street NE; Pfc.