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Grand Valley State University
Veterans History Project Interview
Vietnam War
Ron Oakes
Length of interview: 01:52:08:00
Pre-Enlistment (0:00:20:00)
Born in Grand Rapids, MI on March 21, 1949; grew up in Grand Rapids and graduated from
Grandville High School in 1966 (0:00:20:00)
Father worked for Sears and Roebuck for over 30 years (0:00:33:00)
5 kids in the family, 3 girls and 2 boys (0:00:45:00)
After high school, he went to Grand Rapids Junior College for a year and at that time,
Vietnam was going on and all his friends going off to war, either through the draft or
enlisting, he was the last one left (0:00:57:00)
In June, 1967, he went to Detroit for what he thought was a physical and as it turned out, he
raised his right hand and was on a plane going to San Diego for boot camp; thought he was
going home that night and instead he was going West (0:01:12:00)
He enlisted and was not drafted because he felt it was the right thing to do (0:01:35:00)
o He is a volunteer person and when Vietnam was there, he would not wait (0:01:42:00)
o He had a high draft number because of college but college was not working out and he
could not keep his mind on his studies and he enlisted in June (0:01:48:00)
o Rough on his parents because at the time, his father was only 38 or 39 at the time and
when Oakes turned 38 or 39 and his son turned 18, he knew how his father felt at the
time when Oakes took off (0:02:00:00)
When he enlisted, he knew Vietnam was in Indochina and we where fighting the communists
who were trying to take over the country and we where helping a smaller country, much like
South Korea (0:02:23:00)
In the back of his mind he knew it would be dangerous, but being 18, he did not view it as
such (0:02:53:00)
Enlistment / Training (0:03:15:00)
Basic training was in San Diego, California at the Marine Corps recruit depot, where he went
through boot camp and then he went up to Camp Pendleton for the rest of his training
(0:03:15:00)
Went out to California on a commercial airline from Detroit to Chicago and the aircraft was
late getting into Chicago, so they held the next flight waiting for the 12 men going to San
Diego, although the other people on the plane were understanding because they did not get
upset (0:03:38:00)
o In Detroit they gave them airline tickets and picked someone to be in charge and make
sure everyone got on the plane (0:04:03:00)
o Recruit depot had a bus at the airport to pick everyone up and the Marines knew who
was coming and they checked everyone’s name off a list; from that point on, they
belonged to Uncle Sam and they did not go anywhere without a check list
(0:04:15:00)
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At that point in time, the arrival was different from today; there was a lot of screaming and
hollering, such as “you're in the Marine Corps, you're not at home anymore, and you belong
to me” (0:04:29:00)
In boot camp, they went through a lot of training, such as how to use a rifle and how to
maneuver, and a lot of physical training, as well as classes on how to put on battle dressings
and sanitation and hygiene (0:04:50:00)
The drill instructors were Vietnam veterans that already had a tour or two in Vietnam and
returned and went to DI school and at that time, the drill instructors could be abusive and
harsh depending on what their attitude was (0:05:23:00)
o Oakes grew up saying “yes sir” or “no sir” to anyone older than him, and this made it
so he had no problem with authority while going through boot camp but some of the
people he was training with could not get the grasp of “yes sir” / “no sir” and they paid
the price for it (0:05:50:00)
If someone was overweight, the DIs placed them in a separate platoon to lose weight and they
had one instance when they were training, the fat platoon came by and one straggler collapsed
(0:06:23:00)
o They put him against a tree and being the middle of summer in southern California, it
was hot and he was suffering from heat stroke but they did not call medical attention
for the man and instead went on their 4 mile march and when they returned, he was
dead (0:06:40:00)
o Oakes's unit left and when they came back, all they saw was some people carrying a
body away (0:07:06:00)
In boot camp, they learned hand-to-hand combat using pogo sticks (0:07:16:00)
o Two guys would start and when one was knocked down, another would step in and the
man at the end had the best chance to be number one (0:07:25:00)
o Pogo sticks were long sticks with padded ends used for fighting and training for using
a rifle with a bayonet (0:07:44:00)
The original training was basic because they received more input from the instructors in the
Infantry Training Regiment at Camp Pendleton (0:08:24:00)
o Received their heavier training there, such as rifle qualification (0:08:38:00)
o Had staging battalion where they put the soldiers through a mock-up Vietnam village
which showed them how the bobby-traps were developed and what to look for and
what not to do (0:08:47:00)
o What they normally did, the American way of doing things, they changed, because
they enemy learned to use them against the American soldiers (0:09:12:00)
If there was an opening in the forest, that was where they would go because it
was easiest and the Americans did not want to take a machete and hack a new
path (0:09:24:00)
However, most of the time the opening was bobby-trapped and if you wanted
to get through a tree-line safe, you cut a new path and made sure it was away
from the opening (0:09:30:00)
Boot camp was 8 weeks and about 8 weeks in infantry training and after about 16 weeks, they
were allowed to go home on leave (0:09:54:00)
o Went home on leave in October and at that time, they went home in their Class-A
uniforms because the anti-Vietnam sentiment was not strong yet in 1967 (0:10:03:00)
o Being the first time he had ever been away from home, he was glad to get back and he
went around and visited family, slept in and ate a lot of good food (0:10:44:00)
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The food in the mess hall was not bad and they could eat all they wanted and
while in boot camp, Oakes had to serve the officers and the DIs their meals
which caused him to miss out on the really dirty jobs in the mess hall
(0:10:59:00)
o Already knew where he was going because his orders already told him that he was
returning to Camp Pendleton to a staging battalion (0:11:38:00)
In boot camp he trained on the M1 and qualified on the M14 and in the staging
battalion, they trained on the M16 (0:11:46:00)
o On his last Saturday at home before returning, a buddy from junior college asked
Oakes if he would go on a blind date; Oakes agreed and went on the date, a canoe trip
in the Pine River with a woman named Cathy and they got along well, he took her
home that night and the next morning, at 7 o’clock, he was on a plane for Chicago
then on the Camp Pendleton (0:12:02:00)
Normally the staging battalion lasted 2 or 3 weeks but they had only been there for a week
before a list of people came out (0:13:02:00)
o Every morning they would fall out for formation and roll call and one morning, they
said that the following Marines step out and stand aside (0:13:13:00)
o Oakes was one of the six or eight chosen; they dismissed everyone else and told them
to get on the trucks for training and they then told the small group to get their gear
because they were returning to the main part of Camp Pendleton (0:13:24:00)
o Told that their named had been pulled and they were going to language school to train
to be interpreters, which got them out of training (0:13:39:00)
Went back and spent two, almost three weeks waiting for the Marines to get enough people in
because they need 150 men with the right test scores and when they had enough, they bused
the men up to Monterey, California (0:13:54:00)
o On the way to Monterey, some motorcyclists saw that it was military people and they
began gesturing and messing with the bus drivers but they eventually made a mistake
and getting in front of the lead bus, they slowed down too much and the bus driver
floored it and the last thing Oakes remembers was seeing the 3 motorcycles going into
the sand and the riders going flying, to which all the men on the buses cheered
(0:14:37:00)
Was not really great on language (0:15:39:00)
o At that point in time, they had cassette records with 8 inch tapes that they would listen
to and their instructors were 18 year old Vietnamese girls who trained in the
traditional clothing and who could speak enough English and naturally, very fluent in
Vietnamese (0:15:41:00)
o They went through the 12 weeks, had a good time in school, and everyone graduated
because at that point in the war, everyone passed (0:16:06:00)
o They were told by the Marines that the more they used the language in country with
the dialect, the better they would get and the Marines were right (0:16:18:00)
o While they were at the school, they were adopted by a Chinese family in Salinas,
California, who had four of the soldiers over for Thanksgiving (0:16:31:00)
A lot of families in the area were adopting military people for the holidays and
one weekend, the family took the 4 soldiers to San Francisco, where they went
to a very fancy restaurant and the soldiers played the roles of “guards”, with
two in the front in their Class-A uniforms and two in the back, also in their
Class-As (0:16:56:00)
o Language school lasted until early 1968 (0:17:45:00)
�Deployment (0:17:51:00)
Flew from Travis Air Force Base, north of San Francisco, to Okinawa, where they were for
four of 5 days getting shots (0:17:51:00)
o The only gear they were carrying was their clothes and the gear they would normally
be issued; they were not issued any combat gear or rifles (0:18:08:00)
o The time in Okinawa was getting their paperwork and shots done and because they
had to work on typewriters, the process took a long time and whereas nowadays, a
person will normally receive their orders with only their name on it, then, they might
put 200 names on an order because they would only type it once and then make copies
for everyone else and they always carried multiple copies of their orders because they
did not know when they would need to show someone their orders (0:18:17:00)
One day, the Marines took the men out to a Continental airlines jet, which was contracted at
the time, and flew them on a short flight to Da Nang and when they landed in Da Nang, as
soon as they opened the door there was a stairway down and they hurried the men off the
plane because Da Nang airfield was always getting hit with mortars or rockets (0:18:55:00)
When they were off the plane, they were taken to transit barracks, two story, wooden barracks
which were not air conditioned and only had screen windows, where they spent a day or so
there while the commanders decided where they would go as replacements; Okinawa was just
processing and the Marines did not know where they would send him until he was actually on
the ground (0:20:47:00)
Every morning, they had a formation in the rear-area to make a head count and keep track of
people (0:21:17:00)
o One morning in formation, they began calling names off, Oakes was one, and they told
them to get their gear and be in formation at another spot in 30 minutes (0:21:26:00)
They got on a truck and started heading south on Highway 1 (0:21:41:00)
o Around 20 minutes passed and they arrived at their new position at Camp Dong Song
Two, a Vietnamese village that was replaced by the Marine camp along Highway 1,
just south of a bridge south of Da Nang (0:21:45:00)
o The compound was the rear-area for the 27th Marine Regiment, as well as the 1st
Battalion of the regiment, with Alpha, Bravo, Charlie, and Delta companies
(0:22:02:00)
Once the soldiers were off the truck, the commanders divided them up amongst the companies
and some of the guys were the same guys Oakes had gone to language school with
(0:22:15:00)
The base was rudimentary (0:22:40:00)
o Some of the buildings were a 2x4 frame with canvas sides and others were a frame
with screen windows and wooden flaps that would come down at night and all had
corrugated roofs (0:22:48:00)
These were the offices, mess hall, barber shop, and med center (0:22:58:00)
o Living quarters were GP medium tents and they had bunkers, wire, and claymores on
the perimeter and 50 meters behind that was the living area (0:23:05:00)
o There was also a berm which made it harder for the enemy to shoot at the tents
(0:23:24:00)
o If they incoming fire, they had bunkers that they could jump in, most of which were
made out of sandbags and some had corrugated metal or railroad ties (0:23:34:00)
Assigned to 3rd Platoon, Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 27th Marines (0:23:54:00)
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Was there as a regular rifleman that knew Vietnamese, but at that point, they were short of
radio operators (0:24:03:00)
The 27th Marines had just gotten to Vietnam themselves just a couple of weeks before and
they were short handed, which was why a lot of replacements were going to them
(0:24:16:00)
o They were on a float out of Hawaii and the President diverted them to Da Nang and
they were understrength, so they were building back up because they did not have the
critical MOS jobs: the radio operators, squad leaders, or machine gunners and as
replacements are coming in, they were filling in the positions to get up to full strength
(0:24:23:00)
o They never got to full strength; they were always around half (0:24:44:00)
The morning after he arrived, the platoon Lieutenant came out with the platoon sergeant and
asked who did not know how to operate a radio and four guys, including Oakes, raised their
hands, which was a mistake that Oakes learned, because they were now radio operators, even
through Oakes had never even seen a military radio before (0:24:54:00)
o They put them through on the job training; telling him to report to a corporal and he
would show them how to use a radio and they had a little class that showed them the
radio, how it worked, how to operate it, what to do and what a radio report was, all for
about an hour (0:25:20:00)
The next day, they were out on patrol and Oakes had eight or nine other guys out there and he
was the only one with communication and the others were in trouble because he did not how
to operate the radio (0:25:37:00)
o However, it only took him a couple of days to learn how to use the radio because his
and the other guys' lives depended on it and every chance he got, any question he had,
he asked somebody about how to use the radio properly (0:25:55:00)
Was a squad radio operator for two or three weeks and they would have two patrols a day, one
in the morning and one at night (0:26:03:00)
They were in what was termed “the rocket belt”, the area where the Viet Cong and the NVA
would shoot 120 mm rockets at Da Nang (0:26:23:00)
o All they needed was a mound of dirt to lay the rockets on a shoot it; they did not aim
it, they just pointed it at the airfield and hoped that it hit something and it was mostly
HI (Harassment and Interdiction) fire to keep the people awake (0:26:32:00)
The Marines’ job was the patrol and at night, they would go out just before dark and set-up a
position with a perimeter and would rotate as guys ate their C-rations (0:26:46:00)
o After dark, they would move from the position because the enemy saw they dig in and
the Marines had to keep it in the back of their mind that they were always being
watched, especially around Da Nang because of its civilian population (0:27:02:00)
o They would move around 100 meters and set up an ambush site because if the enemy
knew where the Marines were in the day, then they would be coming at night and the
Marines would set up on a likely trail down which they would come so instead of the
enemy ambushing the Marines, the Marines would ambush the enemy (0:27:24:00)
o Some nights they did not set up ambushes and they would just have a two to three
hour patrol in the dark (0:27:39:00)
They always had check points to report back to the company commanders and
the radio operator had a map, knew right where everyone was going and in his
log, he would report where everyone was and then everyone knew where the
patrol was (0:27:47:00)
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o Did it day and night mainly to keep their presence in the area and to keep the enemy
off guard (0:28:02:00)
o At night, they would go down set paths but they never went down the same route two
nights in a row (0:28:10:00)
o On a map, it was divided into 1000 meter quadrants and they tried to have a patrol in
every quadrant, every day, so they could be on one side of the base patrolling at night
and be on the opposite side the next day (0:28:23:00)
o Occasionally, they would have movement and the point man would alert everyone
else, who promptly “hit the ground” (0:28:41:00)
o During the first couple of weeks, he does not recall much in the way of contact; other
units had contact but Oakes’ patrols did not and it was not unusually to have
something going on every night (0:28:52:00)
Was with the squad for a couple of weeks and was then promoted to platoon operator because
their original platoon radio operator had tipped a bobby-trap and was medevaced out and
Oakes was the next in line (0:29:20:00)
o When they had a platoon operation, then he would go wherever the platoon leader
went, whether it was to inspect a patrol base or the lines and he stayed with his
original platoon leader until the Lieutenant tripped a booby trap (0:29:37:00)
o Oakes became the platoon radio operator at the end of March (0:30:11:00)
In the first part of April, they moved up to Hue to take over some territory formerly held by
the 3rd Marines and they were still doing a lot of clean up from the battle of Hue during the
Tet Offensive (0:30:21:00)
o There were still a lot of North Vietnamese in the area and they did not care about
getting into firefights with Marines (0:30:34:00)
o Over the years, they had built a lot of heavy bunkers and a lot of fortifications in the
villages and the fortifications could not be seen from the air because the vegetation
quickly overgrew it (0:30:46:00)
They were in Da Nang for a couple of weeks and the first week of April, they were moved by
truck convoy to the Huế area, to a position south of Huế by about 6000 meters (0:30:58:00)
o They were still along Highway 1 and Oakes’ platoon was assigned the job of guarding
a bridge and part of the oil line that went from Phu Bai to Hue and their main patrol
base was across Highway 1 about 500 meters (0:31:16:00)
The base was built on one big mound of dirt, almost 100 meters tall, from
which they could see a long way and everyone knew that they were there
(0:31:36:00)
While they were at Huế, they did a lot of “no-name” operations when a couple of companies
in line would push the enemy towards another company, essentially catching them in a net
(0:32:04:00)
During one of the operations in the 2nd week of April, around the 13th, Oakes’ platoon was
detached to stay behind and protect the company area and the other two platoons went with
Bravo and Charlie companies to sweep through a Vietnamese village (0:32:30:00)
o The units swept through the village and got ambushed and Oakes was on radio watch
at the bridge and he could hear the ambush over the circuit (0:32:52:00)
o They had 26 killed and 46 wounded on that operation alone (0:33:24:00)
o Was in more combat in his seven months with the 27th Marine Regiment than in the
rest of his tour with the 4th Marines (0:33:29:00)
�o They could hear the fighting on the radio, as wells as screaming and hollering and they
could vaguely hear gunfire because, although the ambush was a ways away, it was
flat, so the sound echoed (0:33:41:00)
o Reinforcements eventually arrived and they managed to pull the Marines back during
the night but Oakes’ company was totally decimated (0:34:20:00)
They left 3 or 4 bodies on the battlefield because they could not get to them at
night and the next morning, they went to retrieve the bodies, which had been
stripped, mutilated, and had their equipment taken by the Viet Cong
(0:34:30:00)
o In the days following the battle, they took a third of Oakes’ platoon and put it into the
other companies and pulled the rest of Oakes’ company out of the area and into a safer
area to regroup (0:34:49:00)
They transferred people in from other companies to beef up Oakes’ company
because they were half the strength that they should have been before the battle
and after, they were even worse (0:35:02:00)
o That was the worst time because being in the hooch and hearing the battle and not
being able to help their friends was hard (0:35:17:00)
Close Calls (0:35:36:00)
There were few times when he got into dangerous situations while with the 27th Marines, such
as having his radio antenna shot off twice (0:35:36:00)
o One instance, they were on a patrol, it was raining and they started taking sniper fire
and there were only eight men in the patrol (0:35:50:00)
They hit the ground behind some logs and when Oakes went to use the radio,
he could not; the Viet Cong had a captured radio on the same frequency and
they kept flicking the microphone and when Oakes heard that, he knew that
they had been compromised (0:35:59:00)
He went to go to the secondary frequency and he heard the same thing; the
NVA were effectively jamming the radio signals (0:36:15:00)
The 8 men were in a circle, in the rain, taking sniper fire and they sat there for
two hours and because the NVA did not know the Marines’ true strength was,
they did not rush them (0:36:21:00)
After about 2 hours, the sniper fire stopped and they retraced their steps and
got out of the position (0:36:34:00)
o That was the first time that Oakes was a little leery of how long he was going to be in
Vietnam (0:36:42:00)
o Another time, he stepped on a booby-trap 105 round that did not go off and Oakes was
very fortunate because it would have taken out four of the Marines (0:36:50:00)
They were on a patrol in the 327 area because the Marines had moved them
back to a desert / sandy area near the coast and they were keeping fifteen to
twenty feet apart (0:36:58:00)
Oakes was always behind the Lieutenant, either to his right or his left,
so that he could get the radio to the Lieutenant as quickly as possible of
they got attacked (0:37:18:00)
They were walking and the Lieutenant must have just missed stepping on the
bobby-trap (0:37:35:00)
They never walked on the paths because that was where the Viet Cong placed
the punji sticks and trip wires (0:37:43:00)
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Oakes was on one side and the Lieutenant was on the other and Oakes’ side
was where the hole was and Oakes stepped on the trap, a C-Ration sleeve, a
105 round, and a board with a nail in it, and if he pushed down in the cone, the
round would have exploded (0:37:54:00)
He stepped on the edge and pushed the round away and as he felt himself
going into the hole, he instinctively fell to his left because he had the radio on
his back and as soon as he fell, he crawled away as fast as he could in case the
trap had a delayed fuse (0:38:25:00)
Oakes made a noise and Lieutenant, seeing what was happening, dived as well
and soon everyone else on the patrol was diving for the ground (0:38:52:00)
The Lieutenant and Oakes crawl back to the hole and seeing what was in the
hole, move away because they feared a Viet Cong would be waiting nearby
with a detonator but as it turned out, nobody was around (0:39:07:00)
Oakes took a couple of pictures of the trap with a camera that he carried and an
engineer with the patrol had some C4 with him and he put C4 around the cone
(0:39:32:00)
Nearby was a trench that a bulldozer had dug because whenever they had
finished a firefight, a small bulldozer was helicoptered in to dig a trench for the
Viet Cong bodies (0:39:56:00)
There was nothing in the trench and after setting up a perimeter with soldiers
look in every direction, they yelled fire in the hole to alert everyone to what
would be happening (0:40:15:00)
While they were in the trench, someone suggested that it would be
funny if the Viet Cong had rigged the trench to explode when the
booby-trap did (0:40:34:00)
Everyone got out of the trench and after lying flat on the ground, the
Lieutenant had the engineer explode the booby trap and luckily, the trench did
not explode as well (0:40:56:00)
o Booby-trapping the hole would have been something that the Viet Cong did because
they knew the patterns of the American soldiers (0:41:06:00)
Americans always took the easiest way and this got a lot of people killed in
Vietnam because either they were not think or they were thinking Stateside, i.e.
the easy way (0:41:27:00)
o Had a B-40 rocket impact a wall near him (0:41:50:00)
During Operation Allenbrook, they had a unit in the middle of the rice paddies
with a perimeter and some amtraks and the unit got hit during the night and
Oakes unit was about 500 meters away in a hamlet (0:41:57:00)
A Viet Cong fired a B-40 at an amtrak and the rocket went over the top of the
Am-Trac (0:42:19:00)
Oakes’ unit was watching fighting because the commanders feared that the
Americans in the rice paddy would mistake them for the enemy and shoot at
them and they watched as the rocket came towards them and impacted on a
wall behind them (0:42:23:00)
o Within twenty-four hours after the rocket incident, after the battle in the rice paddy,
Oakes’ unit received intelligence from a village that about fifty NVA were moving
south and since they had not been in a battle, it was their job to sweep the battlefield
and move south and attempt to capture the fifty NVA (0:42:42:00)
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About Ninety minutes after they started, they were two klicks south and they
had contact with an aerial observer who tells that he sees the NVA moving in
the open and he says that he is calling in some fixed wing aircraft (0:43:05:00)
They were watching at the edge of rice paddy dike and Oakes is listening to the
observer, who gives him the coordinates of the NVA, which Oakes showed to
his Lieutenant, who told him that those are the unit’s coordinates (0:43:26:00)
The unit turned and watched as a pair of A-4 Skyhawks came around and
towards them and the Lieutenant yelled for everyone to get down and the first
A-4’s bombs impact in the woodlands beyond the dike and the men can hear
the shrapnel sailing over their heads (0:43:51:00)
As the second A-4 came around, Oakes was yelling into the radio and
everyone else was popping their smoke grenades (0:44:25:00)
The pilot must have got the word because he did not drop the bombs and he
began wiggling his wings (0:44:46:00)
The flyboys would protect the infantry and the infantry would do
anything to protect them (0:45:25:00)
On Go Noi Island, his platoon was in a company perimeter for the night during another “noname operation” an at about 1 o’clock in the morning, he got a radio call from one of the
squads saying that they saw campfires to the north (0:46:02:00)
o The Lieutenant and Oakes went out the perimeter and got into a foxhole with one of
the soldiers and sure enough, about 1000 meters out, they could see the campfires and
it was obviously not Americans (0:46:31:00)
o Right off the bat, the Marines know it is a ruse because the NVA knew where the
Marines were and they would not build campfires; the NVA were just trying to get
someone’s attention to see what was going on (0:46:43:00)
o First, the Marines alerted the other units at the south end of the perimeter to keep their
eyes open because there was something going on and it might have been heading their
way (0:46:56:00)
o Meanwhile, the Marines called in “Puff the Magic Dragon”, who saturated the
campfires and if anyone was building the campfires, they did not survive (0:47:05:00)
“Puff” could put down one round every square foot and could cover the area of
a football field in four seconds (0:47:12:00)
At that point, “Puff the Magic Dragon” was a C-47 converted with Miniguns in
it that would fly at a bank and in such a way that all the firepower was
concentrated in one position (0:47:21:00)
They could see a red line from “Puff” to the ground, this was from tracers, but
in between every tracer were four other bullets and from a distance, all they
heard was a “whirring” noise (0:47:41:00)
o “Puff” fired for about 10 minutes and there was no chance that anyone was alive down
by the campfires, if there was anyone to begin with (0:48:01:00)
o Believes that the NVA knew what the Marines would do, so they lit the fires and got
the “heck out of Dodge” and they knew that the Marines would retaliate with artillery,
aircraft, or something (0:48:10:00)
o The whole perimeter was then on alert and nobody was sleeping and around three
o’clock, they received a call from the squad on the south end; they had movement in
from of them (0:48:25:00)
They figured that something would happen somewhere and here came the
movement (0:48:39:00)
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o The squad on the perimeter kept watching as the movement got closer and they started
seeing crawling bodies in the moonlight and at three o’clock, someone blew a whistle
or a horn and the enemy all stood up and charged (0:48:48:00)
o The Marine M60 gunners were ready for them and all the Vietnamese had homemade
grenades wrapped around their waists, so as soon as the first Vietnamese stood up, the
machine gunner hit him in the belly and exploded the grenade and started a chain
reaction and they later learned that the first Vietnamese was blown in half
(0:49:02:00)
o As Vietnamese were attacking, Oakes was sitting in a bomb crater holding two radios
because the other radio operator went with the Lieutenant to the line and leaves were
falling around him from the bullets flying over him (0:49:45:00)
Had one radio in each hand talking to both the company and the battalion to let
them know what was going on and he was trying to be as calm as he can while
ducking into his flak jacket (0:50:03:00)
Looking back, it was slightly comical how he was able to be so calm in the
middle of the fight (0:50:24:00)
o While the fighting was happening, the battalion was preparing a reaction force to
come at first light, 5:00-5:30 in the morning and the firefight continued for the rest of
the night (0:50:50:00)
o The NVA never got into the perimeter and apart from a few scratches on some guys,
Oakes’ platoon came out of the fight okay and the next day, they counted 24 dead
NVA (0:51:05:00)
o The tragic part about the fight was near the tail-end of the fight, they called in their
own 81 mm mortars and the first round dropped inside the Marine’s perimeter
(0:51:25:00)
The unit’s corpsmen had been moving around the whole night and when they
returned to their position, the mortar round struck the tree above them and
blew both their heads off (0:51:37:00)
Oakes knew them and he collected their bodies (0:52:04:00)
Does not think that they ever got use to what they saw; they buried it, which is why there are a
lot of soldiers are with problems, and they did not have time to think about it, only time to
react (0:52:28:00)
Go Noi Island / Operation Allenbrook (0:52:52:00)
During Go Noi Island, they were at another base / patrol area with a perimeter, it was raining
heavily and 81 mm mortars were shooting illumination rounds out because there was
movement outside the perimeter (0:52:52:00)
o Oakes was on radio watch with the platoon sergeant and they had dug a small hole for
2 people that had begun filling up with water and all of the sudden, a mortar misfired
and the round went straight through the poncho covering the hole and landed between
Oakes and the sergeant and although it threw mud into the ears of the sergeant,
causing him to be medivaced out, it did not detonate (0:53:07:00)
o When the round landed, both men said a few quick words and they got out of the hole,
leaving everything behind, even the radios (0:54:01:00)
Go Noi Island was south of Da Nang during Operation Allenbrook (0:54:24:00)
o All companies from all battalions in the 27th Marine Regiment eventually rotated in
and out of the island (0:54:34:00)
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o Was an NVA staging area for attacks on Da Nang, with the 36th and 38th NVA
Regiments there, hardcore regulars not apt to run away like the Viet Cong; they would
stand and fight, which cost the Marines a lot of battles (0:54:38:00)
o The NVA would wait until the Marines were right on top of them and then ambush
them (0:54:57:00)
They knew that the Marines could not call in air strikes and were reluctant to
call in supporting fire and they would envelop the Marines and come around
the sides (0:55:03:00)
During Operation Allenbrook, the company radio operator was wounded and Oakes was
chosen to replace him (0:55:19:00)
o The next day, the man that Oakes chose to be his replacement in the platoon went out
on a platoon patrol and they were not gone more that 30 minutes before they heard an
explosion; the replacement had tripped a booby-trap (0:55:32:00)
The trap exploded behind him and the radio absorbed most of the shrapnel, but
the back of soldier’s legs and arms were torn up and the trap also took out the
platoon Lieutenant and the corpsman (0:56:04:00)
Operation Allenbrook was an effort to eradicate the NVA from Go Noi Island, what
intelligence called a “second Tet” (0:56:53:00)
o The Marines rotated units in and out if the area, with the 3rd Marines going first,
followed by the 27th Marine Regiment, who at one point, had all the battalions in the
regiment in the area because the fighting was so heavy (0:57:26:00)
o There was fighting almost every day (0:57:47:00)
o The “island” name was kind of bogus; it was in the rice paddies south of Da Nang and
a river went around one side and canals went around the other (0:58:01:00)
o There was easy access to the island and NVA troops had been on the island for a while
because during the Marines’ search and destroy mission, they found hospitals, R&R
centers, barracks, mess halls, caches of rice and weapons (0:58:32:00)
o Eventually, the Marines finally sent in engineers with bulldozers to flatten the island
because all the villages on the island were fortified with a fort underneath and the huts
on top (0:58:54:00)
“No name” operations were hammer and sickle operations when two companies would sweep
in different parts of the island that intelligence said had a large force of movement of NVA or
Viet Cong in an area (1:00:36:00)
o They would move a company in behind the NVA, either with helicopter or marching
at night and the other two companies would march and sweep (1:00:55:00)
o On Go Noi Island, just about every sweep was successful; they had contact on all of
them and everyday on Go Noi Island they heard gunfire; somebody on the island was
fighting somebody (1:01:11:00)
o Has pictures of his unit in a tree line watching as F-4 Phantoms dropped napalm in
assistance of another unit (1:01:22:00)
They did not know who the other unit was because they were on their own
radio frequencies (1:01:33:00)
o The only frequency he had was with battalion and he could hear the other companies
calling in and asking for assistance (1:01:35:00)
He could also hear the platoons talking to the company and the squads talking
to the platoon (1:01:47:00)
They had good coordination although occasionally, in the heat of battle, there would be
misidentification of units (1:02:21:00)
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o More than once, friendly fire would take someone out, whether it be an aircraft, as
what almost happened to Oakes at the rice paddy, or 81 mm mortars (1:02:34:00)
o More than once, they heard “cease-fire, friendly fire; your firing on friendly troops”; it
did not happen all the time but it was not unusually to hear about it (1:02:44:00)
o When they put in a call for support, the response from the air depended on who was on
station; most of the time it was not hard to get because it seemed like the air was full
of aircraft (1:03:21:00)
The only problem was that artillery could not fire if aircraft were in the area
(1:03:32:00)
o Any operation they had, they were covered by artillery (1:03:44:00)
They could be within 20 miles and still cover the Marines (1:03:48:00)
They were attacking a tree line one time in Huế and they were taking fire from
a pagoda and they called in artillery, which was the first time Oakes had seen
their artillery firing (1:03:54:00)
The artillery was firing air burst rounds and some of the rounds were
detonating behind the Marines, instead of in front of them (1:04:08:00)
Any time they had artillery firing over them, the Marines got flat on the ground
(1:04:16:00)
Artillery had several different rounds (1:04:23:00)
Air burst rounds looked like fireworks with a puff and the shrapnel was
away (1:04:25:00)
Rounds that detonated 3 feet off the ground and acted like daisy cutters
(1:04:31:00)
Hard rounds that just dug a hole in the ground and exploded
(1:04:38:00)
They were never denied fire, although sometimes, it was really quick and
sometimes it took a bit because the artillery might have been supporting
another mission and they were never told that the artillery was out of ammo
(1:04:51:00)
At Da Nang and Go Noi Island, the camaraderie was always there (1:05:17:00)
o Did not matter if it was Marines or Navy flying the aircraft, there was always
something up there, whether it be jets or helicopters (1:05:19:00)
o If helicopters were making supply runs and the Marines called in for medivacs, the
supply helicopters came in (1:05:37:00)
o One time during Allenbrook, they called in for a medevac and the helicopter that came
in had the highest ranking Marine Corps general in the theater on it (1:05:58:00)
o If there was a medevac, everything stops and they got the wounded soldiers out
(1:06:21:00)
Believes this was why the casualty rate was a lot lower than World War II,
because they did have good medevac capabilities (1:06:24:00)
When he was on a hospital ship, he would see medevacs come in every hour
with Every kind of helicopter, from the old Korean era to Hueys to Chinooks
to C-46s (1:06:31:00)
o Depended on whether the medevac call was routine, priority or emergency
(1:07:03:00)
Routine was when they got a chance, stop; such as the platoon sergeant with
the mud in his ears who was not critical and in danger of death (1:07:08:00)
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Priority was when the soldier was not in danger of dying then but their was a
possibility i.e. getting shot in the leg (1:07:22:00)
Emergency was when the soldier was in dire straits i.e. sucking chest wound
and if they did not get the soldier out immediately, he was gone (1:07:37:00)
o The fact that the helicopters were always there gave the Marines a sense of safety and
it took the edge off of being alone cause they knew that they always had someone to
help them (1:07:58:00)
o When he first got to the squad, he was in a foxhole one night and the platoon sergeant
came up and Oakes asked when they would be getting more people in the foxholes
(1:08:10:00)
The sergeant said to just remember that for every 1 Marine, there were 16
others in the supply chain to supply them with everything that they needed and
Oakes said that all he needed was about 3 of them in the foxhole with him
(1:08:27:00)
4th Marine Regiment / Khe Sanh (1:09:01:00)
On September 12, 1968 the 1st Battalion of the 27th Marine Regiment folded their flag and
went home as part of President Johnson’s de-escalation (1:09:01:00)
o Everybody that still had a long time to go on their tour in Vietnam transferred to the 1st
Marine Division at Quảng Trị (1:09:13:00)
o Everyone on their second tour and the short timers went home with the 1st Battalion
but only twenty men from the battalion went home with the flag (1:09:25:00)
However, as they stopped in Hawaii and Okinawa, the Marines added more
people to the battalion so that when the battalion was on parade in San Diego,
hardly anyone was originally from 27th Marine Regiment (1:09:42:00)
o On the 12th, they flew to Quảng Trị, specifically Dong Ha Air Force base and they
were trucked into Quảng Trị (1:10:01:00)
Quảng Trị was the rear-area for the 4th Marine Regiment and Oakes was
assigned to Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment, where he
stayed for the remainder of his tour (1:10:14:00)
In Da Nang, it was a lot of rice paddies, villages, and interactions with villagers; in Quảng Trị,
it was the North and any villages in the jungle had been evacuated and the area was a free-fire
zone (1:10:34:00)
o If they saw somebody, no matter who they were, the soldiers shot them and all the
villagers knew that the areas were free-fire (1:10:49:00)
After they landed, they spent the first couple of days getting acclimated and being assigned to
units and Oakes had to take a convoy up to his unit at LZ Stud, Vandergrift Combat Base, on
Highway 9 and he happened to get into a truck carrying artillery rounds (1:11:18:00)
o LZ Stud was the jump-off point for the relief mission to Khe Sanh to break the siege
(1:11:54:00)
o The trip to LZ Stud was through the mountains and on dirt roads and every so often,
they would see a squad protecting a bulldozer that was repairing a hole in the road
(1:12:08:00)
When they got to LZ Stud at twilight, the unit Oakes was assigned to was a mile further down
Highway 9, right where Highway 9 made a direct turn to the west and at the turn was a
platoon base camp with wire surrounding it and a heavy communications bunker (1:12:46:00)
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o Right away, Oakes was assigned to the radio section because radio operators were
high priority targets and they were short and he ended up working with the platoon
radio operator (1:13:45:00)
o They never got hit in the camp because there were no NVA units in the area
(1:14:06:00)
o The second night Oakes was in the camp, he was on radio watch and a Marine came
into the bunker with a loaded weapon, intending to kill everyone in the bunker
(1:14:16:00)
Oakes was in his bunk while the Marine raved about how he was not going to
do it any more, that he was not going back out and that they could not make
him (1:14:35:00)
Oakes fell off his bunk and crawled out the door with the man next to him and
they went around and got the platoon sergeant who was checking the perimeter
and brought the sergeant to the door behind the crazy Marine to jump him
(1:14:49:00)
They eventually disarmed the man and sent him to the rear and when Oakes
went to the rear in February, the man was still there (1:15:06:00)
How the man survived Oakes does not know because there was more than one
fragging incident with men who put other men in jeopardy in the field
(1:15:38:00)
The platoon eventually got pulled back to LZ Stud with the rest of the company and a few
days later, they were out on a combat mission south of Khe Sanh, doing a search operation
looking for ammo dumps, mass graves, or current troop locations (1:15:52:00)
o Did tours like this for the rest of his time in Vietnam (1:16:31:00)
o The first time the Marines hit they did not have any contact (1:16:42:00)
o They were helicoptered into a cleared hilltop and after setting a perimeter and
receiving more troops, they would single file through the jungle on a certain path
(1:16:53:00)
o One day, the 60 mm mortars were lobbing rounds down the hill in case someone was
forming and they hit at an enemy ammo dump; they sent a patrol after the explosions
ended and they found a hut with 60 mm mortar rounds lined up on shelves and they
had hit it (1:17:0:00)
Eventually, they were pulled off those operations and back to LZ Stud for a couple of days
(1:18:14:00)
o There were three fire bases in the area: (1:18:24:00)
o LZ Russell, which they closed (1:18:26:00)
o LZ Gurkha, which was as far north and west as they could go in South Vietnam
(1:18:28:00)
From LZ Gurkha, they could look to the west at night and see the NVA troops
moving down the Ho Chi Minh trail in Laos, however, they could not attack
them, even though they were supplies and troops going south to the enemy
(1:18:39:00)
This did not sit well with the Marines and one time, they decided to run an
ambush to the west, so in the early morning, they went out past the claymores
and as it was, to a knoll that they though was hay but turned out to be elephant
grass (1:19:01:00)
When the Marines were walking through the grass, they could not be
more than 10 feet apart or they would lose contact (1:19:32:00)
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Going along a trail in the grass, one of the other Marines alerted,
“beware of hole”, a three foot diameter hole that they could not see the
bottom of and that they surmised was an undetonated bomb dropped
from a B-52 (1:19:45:00)
Someone suggested that they drop a grenade down the hole in case it
was an enemy hole but when Oakes suggested that he could not out run
the explosion if it was a 2000 lb bomb, the man changed his mind
(1:20:11:00)
They always tried to make levity of the dangerous times just to break the ice (1:20:30:00)
While he was with the 4th Marines doing the searching, resupply was hard and they were
going days without getting resupplied and they eventually ran out of water and halizone
tablets (1:20:44:00)
o If they came across a fast running mountain stream, they could drink it because it was
pure; Oakes came across a stream that he thought was moving fast enough to be pure
and he filled his canteen and a few weeks later, he had dysentery (1:20:59:00)
o After doing their searches, they put the Marines into a firebase rotation; they would be
at one base for a while then move to another (1:21:37:00)
o They were in the later part of October / beginning of November and Oakes remembers
having “bloody shits”; he could not eat or drink anything because it would go straight
through him and he lost a lot of weight (1:21:57:00)
o Oakes knew something was wrong and the only thing that the corpsman could suggest
was taking his malaria pills along with his salt pills (1:22:21:00)
o Went for a month to 6 weeks and it ended before Thanksgiving (1:22:32:00)
Mid-November, Oakes received orders to report to the rear because he has been chosen to be
the mail orderly and Oakes was glad because the job got him out of the bush and the rain
(1:22:49:00)
o He went to the rear and while waiting for the supply helicopter, he told the men that he
will get them their mail (1:23:02:00)
o After spending the night in a tent, Oakes reported to sick call because he was still not
feeling well and when he walked in, there were twelve people already there, so he got
in line (1:23:15:00)
After being examined, the corpsman handed Oakes a form, told him to sit on a
bench and told Oakes that he had dysentery and that he was going to a hospital
ship (1:23:28:00)
o Oakes did not know the Americans even had hospital ships (1:23:48:00)
The ships would rotate with one up near Hue taking casualties for three days
and then returning to Da Nang for fuel while the other took its place
(1:23:58:00)
o The next helicopter that came in, they put Oakes and a couple of other men on it and it
took them out to the U.S.S. Repose, where they checked Oakes in, took his clothes,
made him take a bath, gave him a hospital gown to wear and made him go to sleep
(1:24:13:00)
o For the first 3 days, he was fed in bed and he did not get out of bed, but eventually, he
became ambulatory so that he could help feed the other guys in the ward (1:24:51:00)
o Spent 4 weeks on the hospital ship, including Thanksgiving, and he saw an Australian
USO show (1:25:11:00)
o While he was on the hospital ship, his platoon was pulled out of the bush and was put
on the U.S.S. New Jersey with 3 days liberty and they were on the New Jersey waving
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at Oakes on the Repose and he was waving back, although he did not know it was
them at the time (1:25:24:00)
Was on the hospital ship for thirty days, was left out in Da Nang and eventually returned to
Quảng Trị where the regimental rear-area was, but before going back to his unit, the regiment
was in the middle of an operation and they were grabbing everyone that could fire a weapon
and putting them into an ad hoc group (1:26:09:00)
o They were going to circle a village that they had reports of deserters in a village with
Viet Cong and NVA and in the middle of a rainstorm during the night, they got off
their trucks some led the soldiers around the village, which had a perimeter at least a
mile long (1:26:44:00)
o When daylight came, they had tanks plus the soldiers, who had dug holes when they
first arrived and improved them during the daylight and they stayed for three days
(1:27:21:00)
o It was neat watching the tanks fire, which had Starlight scopes on the tank, meaning
that they could fire at night and one night, Oakes, who had gotten to know the tankers,
was called over to a tank and they showed him the Starlight screen (1:27:41:00)
On the screen, Oakes could see a log about a mile out from which behind
enemy heads would pop up and telling Oakes to continue watching the screen,
the tankers maneuvered the turret and fired, destroying the log (1:28:04:00)
When the operation was over, the Marines were sent back to the rear and Oakes rejoined his
unit, where he served as platoon operator again (1:28:45:00)
o Rejoined his unit on Firebase Gurkha, where they went on the patrol in Laos and from
Firebase Gurkha, they returned to LZ Stud for rest, recuperation, and resupply then
went to LZ Neville, which, while at the north end of the Khe Sanh valley, was further
east and just south of the DMZ by maybe three or four klicks (1:28:59:00)
o Spent the rest of his time at LZ Neville, his last 3 weeks in the field in March
(1:29:26:00)
o Whereas LZ Gurkha was on a grass knoll and on the slope to the east was a trail that
went down to water, LZ Neville was on a mountain that was all rock that came up like
a shoe where one side was really steep and the other was sloped (1:29:44:00)
They built a command bunker when they got there, although it was only empty
ammo boxes, steel rails, ponchos and rope and whenever a resupply helicopter
came in, the bunker blew over because the firebase itself was so small
(1:30:21:00)
If they did not come in right, the pallet of C-Rations would go down the
cliffside (1:30:55:00)
o At night, they would drop grenades to deter anyone from crawling up the side of the
cliff (1:31:16:00)
o They thought that they had activity one night, but they never got hit and only after
Oakes left did the LZ end up getting hit (1:31:42:00)
o On the sloped part, they put out listening posts out at night, much like every night he
was in Vietnam and one night, they heard noises and threw some hand grenades
(1:31:47:00)
The next night, about a dozen rock apes came up and started throwing rocks at
the men in the post, who could not fire back, lest they give up their position
(1:32:15:00)
o They did a run a patrol into a ravine and up a hill, and halfway up, the point man
signaled; they had run into an NVA bunker complex (1:32:45:00)
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The complex was older and no one was there but they had walked passed and
did not notice it, thus indicating how well they were concealed; they reported
the complex, turned around, and returned to base (1:33:11:00)
Around March 1st, he got pulled off of LZ Neville because he was a short-timer with thirty
days left and the Marines took him out of combat and placed him in the rear and he spent his
last thirty days as the NCO in charge of transit (1:33:31:00)
o Every other night he had perimeter guard duty and during the day, if someone new
came in, a replacement, Oakes took them to supply to get their weapon, flak jacket and
everything to get them ready to go and when they time came, he took them down to
operations so that the replacement could get on the next resupply helicopter
(1:33:44:00)
o One night when Oakes was not on guard they got hit by 82 mm mortars (1:34:35:00)
Oakes heard the first round thump and explode and he then stuck his head out
the bunker flap and the next round landed in front of an Army bunker in front
of Oakes’ bunker (1:34:51:00)
Oakes went looking for some new soldiers at the other end of his bunker and
he could not find them and he eventually finds them huddled in another bunker
shaking (1:36:04:00)
o Another time, when Oakes was on guard duty, they kept hearing movement in front of
them, so one night they reported it and the next night, they had an Army “Duster”, a
tracked vehicle with four 40 mm cannons, clear all the trees off of the bank
(1:36:38:00)
o Another night, they heard more noise and Oakes told the M79 soldier to fire a couple
of rounds onto the bank, as well as their machine gunner and when they do, someone
on the radio demanded to know what the firing was (1:37:29:00)
Oakes told him that they heard noise, fired and he asked what the man was
going to do about it (1:37:49:00)
Oakes was short, so he did not care (1:37:54:00)
o As a parting joke, on his last night on perimeter, he took out an eight man patrol with
him on point and they just went around the perimeter and returned in thirty minutes
(1:38:02:00)
The Marines flew him and a couple of others down by C-130 to Da Nang and in Da Nang,
Oakes met up with some of the men he had come in with (1:38:22:00)
o They figured out what happened to the other guys they came over with and they spent
2 days in Da Nang waiting for transport out (1:38:42:00)
o Went back through Okinawa for more shots and from there, some of the men went to
El Toro Naval Air Station in Los Angeles (1:38:57:00)
o Because Oakes was a short-timer, if he had gone home on thirty days leave and come
back, he would have only had two weeks left; instead, if someone had less than two
months less, they just discharged him (1:39:09:00)
Once Oakes got on the radio, he used his language training once; the rest of the time was used
learning how to use the radio and how to call in reports, air strikes, and artillery strikes and
they did have an interpreter with them and they used him most of the time (1:39:36:00)
He had a lot of contact with the civilian population in Da Nang but when they were in the Khe
Sanh area, they did not see any civilians (1:40:05:00)
o In Da Nang, the relations depended in the area; on Go Noi Island, they could sense the
hostility (1:40:17:00)
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o In Hue, it was totally different; when they were guarding the bridge, Oakes went to
check on the guards and when one took a break, Oakes took his place (1:40:25:00)
Oakes heard screaming and hollering coming from the village and a lady
walked up on the roadway and came running towards the bridge carrying a
baby, that was blue and ice cold (1:40:46:00)
The baby was dead, it had fallen into a bomb crater filled with water and
drowned, and this was Oakes’ first encounter with death and although he felt
bad, there was nothing he could do except explain in his broken Vietnamese
that there was nothing he could do (1:41:12:00)
o There were times when they would sweep through a village and everyone would be
waving and when they turned around, the Marines would trip all the bobby-traps
(1:42:00:00)
o They never went through a village where they did not find booby traps (1:42:23:00)
o When they surrounded the village looking for the deserters, the children would come
out the perimeter looking for candy, although looking back, Oakes realizes that they
were just scoping out the location of the soldiers (1:42:35:00)
Whenever they had an operation with the Vietnamese Army, they never found anything, and
if the ARVNs suddenly disappeared, the Marines knew that they were going to be in combat
(1:43:12:00)
o Oakes met some good officers in the ARVN but for the most part, their commanders
were bad (1:43:41:00)
o Worked with ARVN mostly around Da Nang and Hue (1:44:03:00)
At the time that Oakes was in Vietnam, the morale of the units was high, partly because they
were isolated from news about back in the United States, with no newspaper and radio and
they had to rely on people coming in, although they did occasionally receive Stars and Stripes
and there they read about the riots (1:44:31:00)
o For the most part, the morale of the troops in the field was good, apart from
complaining about the lack of food or water, the muddy conditions (1:45:03:00)
o As far as fighting in the war, there was very little, if any, anti-war sentiments
(1:45:14:00)
He got more worn down with the 4th Marines because it was always wet and subdued and they
were always walking and climbing (1:45:32:00)
o In Da Nang, it was not as intense, although they were under fire all the time and in the
DMZ, they were fighting mother nature more and picking up the remnants of the battle
of Khe Sanh (1:45:53:00)
Going Home (1:46:35:00)
Landed at El Toro Naval Air Station and got discharged out of there and he went with 5 other
guys that he went with through Chicago, where they split (1:46:35:00)
o The bus driver recommended that they take off their uniforms and travel in civilian
clothes because of the strong anti-military sentiment (1:46:52:00)
Got home and his whole family was waiting with a big sign on the house (1:47:16:00)
o He was in Vietnam and in combat one day and a couple of days later, he was at home,
so there was not a lot of transition time; the family could be sitting talking about less
important things and he could still be think about Vietnam and the patrol and the
firefight from the night before (1:47:24:00)
o Was lucky because he came home to a stable family (1:47:53:00)
�
o His father was a deacon with the Baptist church and being in the Marines had changed
Oakes’ vocabulary, so he had to watch himself and he was very cautious about what
he said (1:47:58:00)
Getting back to normal took a while (1:48:26:00)
o During a church softball game, a friend who had only been back from Vietnam a few
weeks was on first base and Oakes was on third and a car backfired in the parking lot;
instinctively, both men hit the ground while everyone else laughed (1:48:30:00)
Got back to dating girls (1:49:03:00)
o One time, he asked one girl out whom he had dated before leaving, but her father,
meeting him at the door, said that he did not trust Oakes anymore because they had
heard the stories about returning soldiers and how they treated girls (1:49:05:00)
While he was in Vietnam, he would have to write to someone about everything that was
happening and he would write to the girl he went on the blind date with before leaving for
deployment (1:49:37:00)
o Never wrote anything to his parents because they would worry (1:49:43:00)
o Eventually met up with her when he got home and they dated off and on and
eventually, they were at his parent’s house with another couple and they were going
for pizza when Oakes asked if she wanted to get married (1:50:05:00)
o She thought he meant go for pizza and he said “no”, and she said, “yeah okay” and
they got married eighteen months after he returned from Vietnam and they have three
children and five grandchildren (1:50:41:00)
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Persian Gulf War, 1991--Personal narratives, American
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Ron Oakes was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan in March 1949. After briefly attending junior college, he enlisted in June 1967 and received training at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot and Camp Pendleton, California. He then received instruction in the Vietnamese language before being sent to Vietnam. Once he arrived, he was trained as a radio operator and assigned to a squad in the 27th Marine Regiment in the Da Nang area, soon becoming his platoon's radio operator, and saw extensive combat experience. When the 27th was rotated home, he was reassigned to 4th Marines at Quang Tri, and operated between Quang Tri and Hue before being sent inland toward Khe Sanh. While in this area, he contracted dysentery and was sent to a hospital ship where he spent a month aboard a hospital ship before being returned to his unit. When his tour was over, re was sent home and discharged in 1969.
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Korean War, 1950-1953--Personal narratives, American
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Persian Gulf War, 1991--Personal narratives, American
United States--History, Military
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United States. Navy
Veterans
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Dudley Hoare Garland served as an artillery officer in the Ninth Infantry Division during World War II. Assigned to Battery A, 26th Field Artillery Regiment, which normally supported the 39th Infantry Regiment, Garland eventually became its commanding officer, and then moved to the staff of the divisional artillery when promoted to the rank of Major. Garland landed with his unit in North Africa and served in North Africa, Sicily, France, Belgium and Germany. He was assigned to return to the US in March, 1945, and while there, he visited the office of his brother George in New York City, and recorded some of his experiences on his brother’s office Dictaphone. The original recording was not preserved, but George’s daughter, Kent Garland McKay, had the transcript, which she has shared with us for posting to this archive. This file also includes information given to Garland by his former commanding officer, Lt. Col. Lewis Lockett, when Garland visited him in a hospital in 1943. The transcript covers a variety of topics, including having his ship sunk off the coast of Algeria, fighting in Tunisia, Sicily, Normandy, Belgium and Germany, relationships with other officers and civilians, meetings with high ranking generals and political figures, and different aspects of daily life in the countries where he was stationed.
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�Ronsing'\Veteollle
To 1536 YD Heroes
The welcoming bands played "Hail, Hail, The Gang's All Here" as Boston roared a noisy greeting to veterans of the famed Yankee Division yesterday, but the home-coming troops knew it wasn't so-because they left
1714 of their comrades sleeping beneath neat white crosses!
on European battlefields.
Bringing 1536 heroes of the one-time "all-New England"
fighting
division,
now largely
·. made
up of
equally stout-hearted
boys from _New York, the South
· and the Mid-West, the transport
~ Lewiston Victory docked at the
• Army Base after a triumphant
trip up the harbor.
GOV. TOBIN, REP. McCORMACK, MAJ. GEN. GROW
But only 13.5 New Englanders
were among the troops lining the
Gr':!!fed Ref_!!_rning YD Heroes af Army Base, South Boslon
transport's decks to receive the
-r..wt- fousing reception the city
has accorded a returning troopship.
Mayor Kerrigan, a World II
veteran, and a group of city of!.. ficials went down the harbor to
greet the Yankee Division veterans aboard the official welcoming tug, while Gov. Tobin, Cong.
· James M. Curley and Cong. John
.
W. McCormack and other _ofNEW YORK (AP)-The cruiser Portland arrived here ficials greeted them at the pier.
f
3 Dead, 22 Burt;
•t c •
'
Ga Ie D I S rnlser'
with troops and sailors telling of terrific gales on the At,...Ji!,ntic which took a toll of two soldiers dead, one missing and I
·
Orm at
st
·
Sea
- j22 injured.
Worse
-
I
GENERALS ON HAND
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1
GHOST OF OLD -YD
ALONE REMAINS
IFew Officers and No Enlisted Men
· of 1940 Division in Group of
1536 Vets Welcomed Home
World War I officers ?f the YD
who greeted the returnmg veterans of World War II mcluded Col.
John J Higgins of Springfield; Col.
Vincen"t C. B. Green of Boston, Lt.
Col. John E. Turner of Attleboro,
Lt Col John J Reilly of Boston
· C~ t. D~vid Brickley of
Bo~ton p
Also· there to extend a welcoming hand was Bert Ford of the
Boston Record - American, w_ho
served as war correspondent with
the old YD in vyorld War I and
who came home with the famed
division in 1919 when it was _
greeted with the gr~ates_t welc?m,e ~ome celebrat10n m the (
city s history.
The 20,000 ton vessel, which saw
15 engagements in three years of
ll
S Pacific warfare, docked with her
· t
radar antenna bent back agams
her foremast and her starboard
NEW YORK, Dec. 28 (AP)- hangar bulkheads ripped off by
The cruiser Portland arrived the storms. She carried 1159
here today with troops and sail- troops,
.
ors telling of terrific gales on
The Portland's captam, Lowe
the Atlantic which took a toll H. Bibby, of Alexandria, Va., deof two soldiers dead, one miss- scribed the weather as "the worst
ing and 22 injured.
storms I have seen in 28 years of
The 20,000-ton vessel, which naval seafaring."
saw 15 engagements in three
Echoing the Portland's captain
years of Pacific warfare, docked was the skipper of the light CITED 7 Tll\1ES
with her radar antena bent cruiser Boise, Capt. Cl;arles C.
Also greeting the troops was
back against her foremast and Hartman of Santa Momca, Cal., Maj Gen. Robert w. Grow, who
her starboard hanger bulkheads who said it was "certainly the retu.rned home by plane and was
:ripp~d off by the storms. She worst crossing I ever made."
recently named commanding genearned 1159 tro?ps.
.
The Boise, originally due to ar- eral of the YD to succeed Mtj.
Th~ Portland s captau~, Lowe rive by Christmas, docked today Gen. Willard S. Paul of ShrewsH. B!bby, of Alexandria, .,Va., 1with 1189 servisemen. No cas- bury, now in the War Department
described the weather as . The aultics from the storms were re- in Washington. He was accomworst storms I_ ha-:,;e seen m 28 ported aboard it.
panied by C<:>l. Dwight T. Colley
years of se~farmg. .
The Portland's two dead, killed of Sa~dervi!le, R. I., . awarded
ON ARRIVAL AT CA11P MYLES STANDISH
.
Capt Bibby _ estrmate~ the when a giant wave hit the star- the D1stmgwshed SerVIce_ Cro:>5 ,
waves 50 feet high and wmd of board hangar, were Sgt. Noah L. for heroism as a YD officer m
Left to right, Lt. Col. Clayton Mausert of Camp Myles Standish, Col.
80 miles an hour struck the Daniels of Amity, Ark., and Sgt. both World War I and World
Ral h Palladino of Somerville; Maj. Robert N~tter; Lt. C?l. Hugh S.
p
Donaldson of Pittsfield, and Lt. Col Lewis W. 11clntyre.
Portland.
Louis S. Csurics, Steeleton, Pa War ~
_
Scenes of horror and confu- The missing man was Sgt. J. M.
Semor officer aboard the trO?Psion in the blackout of the star- Lewis of Springfield, Col.
ship was Col. Ralph A._ Palladine r
BY LESTER ALLEN
board hanger were described
Capt. Bibby estimated waves 50 , of_ Putnam rd., Somerville, ~hose a
by men who slept there when feet high and wind of 80 miles an , wife, ~elena, was at t~e pie~ to 1:
CAMP
MYLES STANDISH, Dec.
Cont inued from the First Page
the mountainous wave roared hour struck the Portland. Comdr~ gr~et him. The Som_erville officer
in, causing the casualties.
1A. D. Jackson of Bryan, Tex., the· hoids seven decorations.
l 28-The ghost of the YD ca'me home
today to a~ army camp that didn't
"I was sleeping on the bot- navigator, said he believed some
Brig Gen William J. Blake,
exist when 1t went a,vay to war and head of the Veterans' Administom tier just before the wave of the ~vaves were moi:e than 100
_
~Y,..1'.YVSDAY
struck" said Sgt Thomas Lan- feet high and the wmd "much'·
DUEi c':'t.,.,...~..,
l which soon will be no more, and tration in Boston, will represent
cian, i51 Jefferson av., Ever~tt, more" th~n ~O 1:lil~s an hour.~
~ ~e$:~~"')iews
looked with wondering eyes upon the the YD Veterans' Association
Mass., describing the crossmg The vessels w~nd md1cator broke 5 MEXICO
rousing welcome accorded to a phan- in the party. Brig Gen William
as worse than the famed Battle at about 45 miles an hour.
•
26th DtY,:
~UAY JAN. 5
J Keville state Adjutant Gentom.
of the Bulge, in wnich he was
Scenes of llorror and confusior
DUE S~ .t. ,.,,.
' V
e~al; Col' John J. Higgins of
wounded.
lin the blackout of the starboar<
N~!'l"-)ri""".i:-;~ws, a.
Springfield and Lt Col John E .
Conilnued
on
Page
2Thl.-d
Col.
"Water had been seeping hangar were described by me1
PEI'ER
Turner of Attleboro also will be
under the bulkhead doors, and who slept there when the moun
26th '":..., a,·,~•aboard.
I climbed up into the rafters to tainous waye roared in, causin
~~~'t>Mit<WORT..
This will be the largest conth
'Yankee Division
prevent being soaked. I had 1,,=e:::::a:c_a_su_a_l_ti_e-'s"'.
tingent of veterans of the famed
hardly climbed there when
26th Division to arrive in Bosthere was a terrible roar as the
Lands, Last Big
ton since the end of the Eurobulkhead was ripped off and the
pean war and will incl!-ide memBoston Arrival
water rushed in.
bers of the 101st Regiment HQ
"The lights we.at out immediAdvance elements of "New Engand HQ special troops, with
ately and the place was filled
land's Own," the Yankee Division,
band; HQ Compan¥; Antitank
with moans, shrieks and cries."
arrived in Boston yesterday aboard
Company, 1st Battalion; HQ and
"It was a hell of a lot worse
HQ Company; 104th Infantry
the Lewiston Victory, last schedthan Salerno," said P.fc John
leave from the Army Base at
Regiment; HQ and HQ Comuled
troopship
to
dock
here
as
the
Gov.
Tobin,
accompanied
by
Rocciolo, 1044 Saratoga st., East
9:30 and expects to be back ~t
pany, 328th Infantry Regim~n~;
port
ceased
:full-scale
handling
of
his
military
aids
and
leading
Boston, Mass., who fought in
10:45. With the Governor w11l
HQ and HQ Battery, 26t~ J?1:v1troops.
that bloody battle with the 36th
military figures in the state, will
be his first secretary, Eugene A.
When the rest of the 26th ars1on Artillery. and D1v1S1on
Division.
go down the harbor this mornHudson, recently discharged
rives, ships will put in at New
HQ and HQ Company.
York.
from the Air Corps with the
ing on a tug to welcome home
There
were
only
135
New
Engrank of lieutenant colonel; Maj
1535 Yankee Division veterans
landers yesterday among the 1535
Earl Barnard, Maj Vincent P,
Y-D troops. Gov. Tobin, Mayor
returning from Europe aboard
Breen and Lt Col John Riley.
Kerrigan, Mayor-Elect Curley and
the Lewiston Victory.
representatives of veterans' organPage 3
The welcoming party will See YD
izations welcomed the boys.
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rt an gree
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28 Aug_ 15
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Merry Chnslm>s I h••• full con[1dcne< tn your coura;c d,,,,,lton
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OISE INTERMEDIATE SECTIO:?
THEATER SETIVICE FORCES
EUROPEAN THEATER
AC 201
APO 513
30 October 1945
(10-606)
SUJ JEC'l':
Orders
TO ;
Pfc James W Ochs, 36408043,
239th Signal Operations Co
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o/a ,31 OctQber 1945
days to carry out the instruction of the CG. Upon
completion of such TDY you \7ill return to your proper sta. TCtiT. Travel
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on
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60- 114 P 432-02 A 212/60425.
DY COM1iAND OF DrtIGADIER GENERAL THRASHER:
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Colonel, AGD
Adjutant General
DISTRElUTim; :
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2 - Pfc Ochs
1 - AG Records
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OISE IFTE!LEDIATE SECTIO!:
TEE~TER SERVICE FORCES
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3908 Sig SV Bn,, Paris" France
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Novembe.r
1945
November 1945
the CG . Upon
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A 212/60425.
BY C o~.::JJm OF BRIGLDIER GZ.3RL.L BRESr:L>!!ff :
GEORGE E HORTOf , JR .
Lt Colonel, 1.GE
J,cting J~djutant General
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OISE Tt TER.:EDIATE SECTIO::
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AG 201 - Ochs , James ! ( :nl)
13 November 1945
SUBJECT:
Orders (11- 24$)
TO:
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by rail L-nd/or Govt motor T is c..tzd. TDr. 60-114 P 432-02 A 212/60425.
DY C OLZJJJD OF BRIGJ.DIEH GZE3Ri.L BRESI,Ui.F.JiE:
GEORG-E E iJORTOf, JR.
Lt Colonel., J,.GE
J.ctil:J.g Ld j uts.:r;i.t Genera 1
DISTRIBUTION:
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Commander, under the provisions of Sec VI, Cir 155, WO, 28 May 1945, to retain as his personal
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2.
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3.
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AG USFET Form N • 33
Lei. B-46 5.CXXl.CXXl 78. 920
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TRAVAUX A EXtCUTER
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and his buddies hear an orientation lecture on the operation of the Colas Staging
. The men relish this lecture-one of their last-as it means "going home" to them.
s Staging Area in Southern France is
Realizing he can't take all of his "loot" home with him, Russ checks over souvenirs he
picked up in Germany. German Luger and Afrika Korps helmet he can show back home .
"end of the rainbow" for thousands of
M.ore than 500,000 Army troops were returned
from Europe last month--and nearly an "cleared''
the continent through staging areas. Cpl. Fritz
Olsen of Army Pubiic Relations presents a firsthand account of one of these staging areas.
•weary soldiers and officers in-Europe
A half hour's. jeep ride from Marseilles on the
Mediterranean coast of France is a teeming Army
tent city. Once an assembly area for American
troops that battered their way into fortress Germany, it is known as the Calas Staging Area.
To officers and enlisted personnel of the United
States Army, Calas is the proverbial "end of the
rainbow." It is the last stop in Europe before that
happy passage from Marseilles to home.
The soldier that reaches Calas knows he won't
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Annie Lecat, a French girl Russ met at the Red Cross, volunteered
·-"
to show him the city. Marseilles harbor was an inspiring sight.
during the short stay at Calas and they while away
hours at theaters or Red Cross clubs or take passes to
Marseilles, where the hurly-burly of the Mediterranean
melting-pot offers many and varied amusements for
servicemen.
A soldier's happiest moments at Calas, however,
are those final moments when he wayes "farewell"
and starts his journey to the United States and home.
Back at Colas, Russ exchanges his French money for American-this
means he is about to ship out. He hopes to take Amber with him.
PARADE QUICK QUIZ:
• QUESTION A: What former Germon luxury liner recently hos
been converted into on American troopship?
B: Who is the Commander of the American Army
Forces in Europe: Gen. Eisenhower, Gen. Spaatz, or Gen. McNarney?
• QUESTION C: Which of these ports is the main Mediterranean
base for the French fleet: Toulon, Marseilles, L'Orient?
e QUESTION
Answers Below
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JUNE 1945
WELCOME!
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Just *transfered
to the
l.a • ,,Oiciir Oa:amU~o .
Lt. Okamoto and llr, lfiesenhutter
were ro-tes when they were at
Vonmouth as enlisted men and
had not seen each other since,
until they met
at the
Co,
Otticeris Vess,
* *
N0.2.4.
VOL.
* *
MCKEND EXPANDS! Vr. 1f esenhutt.er
negot a
a co rac wi t h
Sgt. VcXend whereby the latter
becomes chief understudy to Sgt.
Ca~hael, in anticipation of)
•Der Tag•
(speaking or Points
tor our genial Supp ly Sgt.
has
" *
We have a permanent
salon , and
WHAT a salon, back i n the Co.
day-room. Thanks t o the efforts
of Sgt Robert Sawyer ann T4 B.J.
Caliendo, many of the 16 x 20 •~
are backstage shots of the feminine pulchritune of Bal Tabir i n
and the Cas ino. Come in and see
them beys, theytre on hcrses, on
stairways,dancing,bounc i ng , heng ing fro m chandeliers, acres and
acres of them -- 4- wonderful JI
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'THE
166T"
SIGNAL.
PHOTO COMPANY
Lt. Hunter presents the company to Col, E, F, H..-ond,
Si nal Otfice·r, THIRD U, S, ARIIY, Immedhtely tollowin:, Col, Hammond presented awards to 21 Officers and
men or the company, Photo by Lt, Don English, 3 June,
. .
* •.
DISAOREEVEN'l': Lt. F.lk Wl'lnted to
CONVpYS "'IL-!,
go e:rt --the
e ,.i.sel.~ e o---gv-GET SHIP-TO-SHIP PIX
to the fight. He (L~ Elk) is now
New York,--Killions or servicerecuperating in a hospital with
men
being
re-deployed
from
two breaks in his collarbone, He
Europe to the Pacific will be
is being eYacuated.
The horse
provided by the motion picture
is doing fine!
industry with shipboard motion
*
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picture entertainment while en
GRAND TOTAL! From Kay 144 thru
route.
Vay 145 . the Compeny Lab
has
Hundreds of ships will be used
turned out over 212,000 official
for the job,
Pictures may haYe
prints and 32,000 negs, Quite an
to be bicycled from ship to ship . accomplishment
tor a •Kobile
in convoys.
tlDit"I
PACIFIC
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*
Lt. Bell is back from the Riviera
feeling awful and glad t o be
bac k from his va ca tion so he c an
get some rest. 1!e still carri es
two lens es in each pocket and
the only way to get his eye s to
open up to F2 is by saying,"Dyawanna trade?"
2nd Lt. Wm. Lineweaver,
newly
commis s ioned, is congradulated
by Lt. Adrian Salvas, his former
Unit Commander,
Lt. Lineweaver
(recently 11 Sgt•) has been doing
yoeman duty these past severel
months under Lt. Threlkel in the
Photo
Office,
Everyone
was
glad to see him receive this
reward tor
concientious
ane
errecient work. CONGRATULATIONS,
LmtlTENANTI
* *
PROGRESS : Our G:rmtn LAB techn•ns
are ra pidly becoming accustomed
to our ways and e quipment. We•ve
some good technici ans -- men who
formerly worked for well-known
firms. we a re ge tti ng bCCU~tomed
t o them al so, altho rumor has it
tl~t Lt. Isham, Sgt . Alvin, Sg t.
De man and T5 Jones are spending
their spare time learnini: how to
click their heels between every
sentence.
* loan
*
Sgt. Rondone, on
out from
the Lab is wrestling with "captured e~emy materiel"--at Signal
Supply.
We hope to see hts
smiling face again~ soon,
Photograph, by Lt, English, ot
photographer Creath photographing
photographers being decorated by Col. E, F. Hammond, in
recognition of past photographic
accomplishments, Wildbad Kretith,
Ger.
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AWARDS
N0.2.3
VOL. 1
JUNE 194-5
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fo Lt. Kenneth B. Hunter,
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PROMOTIONS
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Effective l June 1945
c,o••••
BRONZE STAR AWARD
* *Company
KOVIES---The
HOIIE
has
finally acquired a motion picture projector, and the K.P. men
are now able to view all their
own Staff and Combat Reports at
will.We•ve also seen some enjoyable features in the evenings-thanks to Sgt. Hallberg for acting projectfonist (with no union
feesl)
*
PX--Sgt Tomko is* helping
out Lt.
Zinni and his strenuous Special
Service program, and has taken
over the . job of running our Co.
PX. Whatl no Coca-Cola yeti
* *
Glamor Girl--In a recent poll
taken by
the Army Pictorial
Service, Rita Hayworth was voted
the most popular movie actres~
among G.I.s overseas.
John P, Boland
William Hansel
August Stepura
* *of all, were
BON VOYAGE--Envy
the second group of •high pointers" and "old agers• to leave
the Company, Included were T/4
Walter Snowden1
T/4 John Raia,
T/5 Clarence DeWalt,
and Pfc
Howard James, They are bound for
the U, S, and will drop their
•Army ranks" to add "Mr," in its
place, We shall miss them all-and to each the best of luck in
the rugged civilian life ahead,
* *Jerry
Friends--T/5
Old
Horton,
and Pit: Maitland Stewart ,formally
166th men,are still fighting the
battle of A,P,S, in Paris, Such
things as Wacs, passes, and the
gay city, interrupts their vrork
continually! They both wish to
be remembered to all.
* * Nichols and
3 FOR A DIME-~-Sgt,
crew are off to en Army Hdq s , to
photograph a huge amount
of
Identification pictures.With him
are Pfc Laczko, Pvt. Gonez, and
Pvt, Greenamoyer, The boys are
also developing and
printing
their shots "on the spot•.
... *
t)''PAss in Review''
166TH SI NAL PHOTO CO, BOARDS
BOAT AT SOUTHAMPTEN BOUND FOR
FRANCE, July 2, 1944
* * last week,
Casualty--On Okinawa
~ Jap
shell fragment seriously
injured Life photographer VI, Eugene Smith,
just
as he was
shooting a final picture for a
layout on "A Day With A FrontLine Soldier•. Later Smith commented: "I forgot to duck but I
got a good picture of those who
did•,
* * popular spot
LABS• RIVAL?--Most
at Co, Hqs., day or nite, is the
E,M, Darkroom, where •amatuers•
can soup and print their own
super rolls, This is a treat to
those who enjoy printing their
own negs--in fact more than one
man has become so engrossed in
his work he has stayed up all
nite printing!
* men,Sgt A.M.
Newcomers--Four* new
Peterson, T/5 R.J, Chapman, Pvt,
I,C, Jones, Pvt. N.G, Klecinsky,
have joined the Company, All but
the later have left for their
first Company assignments,
and
Klecinsky is at work in the Lab.
* *
A Second Tho-wi:ht?
Newsreels orGerman atrocities
sent to Bneno~ Aires early in
May were held up,heavily censored and then, finally barred, Unofficially, Argentine spokesman
explained that the films were
•morbid",
Last week
however,
unexpurgated ver sions
of the
Ktroci-cy
* *
hit * its*
Our team
old stride on
June 14 by winning over the 503d
IIPs by a score of 6 to 3 1 a Dick
Kerriwell rally in our last turn
At bat, put the game on ice,
So far our teAm average is ,666
ms were- s uauenly re -
leased in Buenos Aires
and,
according to State Dept reports,
greatly impressed local moviegoers.
DRAKE "FANS"I! photo by
The score:
512th IIPs--4 l66th--2
The IIP•s attacked us in force
with marks sticking out of every
pocket. After the game they were
all smiles but they left us forlorn and dejected, Marvelous how
a keg of beer and two tiny cubes
can change one• s outl ook on life.
* *
* *
Another
*
One-Nite
*Standl---This
Photographed by
T/5 Miller and T/5 Ornitz
was the Lab set-up
in the woods
at Courcy, France in Au~ust •44.
That•s T/5 Stum bending over the
bucket and he•s not doing hi~
laundry--he 1 s mixing developer!
Note Lab Office under the tarp-we•ve come a long way since this
picture was taken.
* *
SLIGHT OF HAND?---Lt, Oakamoto;
newest addition to the Company,
certainly keeps us baffled witn
his card tricks. It takes some
persuasion to get him started-but he can keep you amazed as
long as z.2.1:! can take 1tl
....
T/3 JACK WARD back from the
Rivieria has the follo•ing story
to tell about his trip to Nice,
Ward went into a small care and
ordered
champagne, drank it,
chewed up the bowl of the glass
and threw the stem over his
shoulder. He continued this for
about six drinks when he noticed
the bertender staring at him.
"I guess you think I•m crazy,
don•t you?" asked Ward,
"I sure do,"
the
bartender
replied, "The stems are the best
partl•
* *to '114 Kurshan
What ever happened
and his S.I.s. Detachment?
Table For Two?--Men of the Co,
enjoying a meal in our popular
E,M, Mess Hall--with•music while
you eat•. (That•s quite a mouthful Sgt, Caliendo was trying to
manage at the time the picture
was sna pped by T/5 Hitchcock)!
* *
New Assignment--Lt, English has
left Co. Hdqs, again and is now
?hoto Officer at a new Corps.
With him are his two old stand
bys---T/4 Miltenberger and T/5
Boland.
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2.4- JUNE ·1945
VOL. 1
NS! 24-NSZ25~
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* *ent
•30"--For The Pres
This issue marks the final
edition of Volume #1 of the
KODACHROME. Under th~ editorshi p
of Lt. J.C. Isham, our Company
paper has appeared weekly since
it•s first publica tion on Dec. 3~
1944.
We•ve tried to bring all the
news and intere s ting happ enings
of the Company to each member-also making the perfect souviner
of our highlights in the E.T.o.
Watch for Volume #2 in the· not
too distant future!
* *Soott is givAdded Help-TS Elmo
ing Pfc Smith a hand in
the
Barber Shop the s e days, and now
we have 2 barbers working daily
--keeping us •·trimmed" w1 th the
latest in summer hair-dots.
CORGRATULATIONSl---On June 16th,
Lt. K.E. Hunter, our c.o. was
promoted to the rank or Captain.
He is shown above on June 24thi
as Col. E.F. Hammond., Signa
otticer, TUSA presented him with
a Bronze Star award.
* *
Nite OWl--Sgt. *
Teas* is looking a
little "bleary-eyed• these daysas he•s been •all niting" it in
the E. M. darkroom continually.
(His usual hrs, are 10PM to 6A1l)
From his efforts, have come some
new and outstanding prints for
the E,K. Day Room. Portraits of
Sgtts Butterfield, R. Meyer, and
Blankenhorn are among them.
* *-Recent movies
•Girls" & "Tokio"seen and enjoyed by the Co. in,..
eluded a double feature•Bring On
The Girls• and a Army Pictorial
short •on To Tokio!' The later is
also being rushed into
release
ip the States,as it answers J118IIY
questions on re-deployment that
fuilies at home are asking.
U.S. ARMY LANDS IN FRANCE.
UTAH BEACH, JULY ·5, 1944.
l''PAss in Review•·· THIRD
* the "I" with
REUNIONI--We•ve*had
us right along, and once more the
"E" has joined him.
Thus, Lt•s
Weber and Sa lvas are back to
work again as the later has latt
Corps and is ta ck here at ao.
Hdq s . I & E Jll8.rches onl
* *
* ' *1 s. Downardl
Prague Bound--Sgt
Butterfield, and Harding are ofr
to Prague and a new assignment,
the s ame crew having
recievea
much praise on their last story
in the same city.
* *trailer is beLike New--The Lab
ing •rejuvenated" these days and
is getting a new coat or paint
inside and out. Since landing
in France, she•s been on the go
continually and really stood up
to the rugged ba ttle she went
thru. When compl eted, she 1 ll be
all set to do it over againl
* *
RBKEIIBER-The start of our famous
Baseball Team-Nehou, France.July ·
144,
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The Big Three--LtoR, Capt, Lewis
163 Photo Co.~, Capt.
Hunter
166 Photo Co. ,end Cspt, Hawley
~165 Photo Co •• Tpe three CO•s
were talking things over at 166
Hdqs.
FINAL EDITION
* ers and E,M.
AWARDS--Twelve *
Offic
ot our Company recieved adwards
trom Col, E,F. Ham'!nond on June
24th, Included was the Air Medal
to S/Sgt Raymond Graham, who was
the first member of our org anization to recieve th1s honor,
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* * trom France
Safe and Sound--Back
.came S/Sgt Luther Joyner
who
spent an •exciting• week at the
Riviera, and T/4 Simon and Pfc
Kallinder from gay Paree. Sgt
Joyner,we heer,certainly enjc,yed
the sun bathing end sight-seeing ·10 Minute Break---T/4 Tomko,
ffewhouse, and T/5 Scott are seen
trips that Nice had to otferl
relaxing in our comfortable E. M.
Dayroom, in this shot by
T/5
* men
* have joine~ Hitchcock.
Welcome--Six new
Note salon prints by
tpe Company in the pest
week. members of the Company.
~hey include T/4 H,T.· Regas;Cpl,
*
L. Friedman! Pfc J.E. Gail,Ptc,
Visitor--•Xenny"* Parker,
rormer
J,W. Ochs, PVt, F. Bate1li 1 Jr. 1
memb~r
or
the
l66th
now
7 whoan is Arm•d
-Pvt, W.E, Dillon, and Pvt. J,L PRO photographer with
Fleming •
l)i..,~-stop_Eed in to s~ hello.
he Lab Trailer set up in th•
now at Belvaux, Lux. Jan 145,
* *
How to Make Good Pictures!
Twenty five men each week will
be arriving at Co. Hqs., so 1f
you see many strange faces don•t
think y0u•re in the wrong spot.
We have started a school here
to teach soldiers who wish to
learn photography under the IR
program. Seven of our photogls
Will act as instructors.
* *the custo• er
Did you hear about
who complained to the
w~iter
about a fly in his soup.
"It••
just force of habit sir•· was the
waiters• explanation, •our chef
used to be a tailor,"
�HB:J}.Wiu.l.TERS
THIRD U.f\JIT~~D ST.[1.TES ARMY
l~PO 40::i
23 :r.:o.r ch 1945
TO T:IB OF'FICE:lS
.:u D HE~J
OF TEE THLi..D AiJ'..Y
In the pcri,.c'1 :2r·n 0L,n 1J.t~ry ?9 tr~ Fc.rch 22 , 1945 , you hc,vo
w1·esto-:1, · 6 , ~84 s:iucro ·:i.l •::.s -:,.t tcrri-':-1•:T· :r'rc1;i the enomy .
Y::u hc.vo
tc,1.:Gn 3 , 072 ci-\..i<.s , t.•.ms , -::..1t'. villl.:;cs , jncl\Hlin,; o.m~n; thv f .. r:;ior :
TT?.L~l., roBLEiJZ , B ur.1J.,J, ';01..I:S , 1 !i.r:z, lJ-1.L:, E",tS L \UT1fa.:1 ' Gnd LUDWI GS j_L:',FEN .
You hc.vc cr.+turoc. 140,112 ,.mE.;·.1y ::ic l.liors , end h'lve killed Gr
W'... UY!t.lo~ c,n o.r~c'.iti~nc.l :)9 , DOO , t11cr0"by ,,l.i.rLwting pro.DticL,lly c.11 cf
the Gonnc.:-i 7th c.nc; 1st Lrrni-:-s .
R:i,story rc·C(\r ..',s no c r oo.t :..ir c.cr. iov1;11c~1t
in. so l mi to~~ o. ti:.1d
This c r ot'.t cc.i:i.pc.i;n wc-.s cnly nc..do psssiule by ?C"J.r discipl:i.nGL1
vr.lcr, uns\rnr·v·in; ccvo '..;ic~.-:. t,. cl.:,ty , c ourlec;. with thE:: ur,r,ecrc. ll elv:i
c,u,.lc.c i ty c.nc. sp1,0d L f ycur c.,1vc.;.1cc on the r;rcund ; while frou the c.ir ,
tho pe:.. rloss f i:_;htor - O...;iJbcrs 1~0pt u~ o. relentl ess r e. urtd- tho-clc- ck
::,tt::.ck upc.n the dis e r _:;c.nizcJ 0::-:.,::.-:-.y.
The wcrl'l r~.nGs with your ::'rc.isos : bettor still, G0n0rc. l
!1::.r s h~.11 , C\..,,i;,r2.l E::.s or,ho·:rnr, c.::-:d S-un'.,ro.l Brc.,:le.y he ve al 1 perscnc.lly
· c ·:-:.::.'''len,kd y, u.
Tho hi,;host :1cn0r I h~.ve ev0r u.ttu.inoct is thc,t c;f ho.vinri;
r.:y :1~.r:i.c: c:1upL:L:l with yours in thcs0 r;rc.t events ..
Ploo.s o o.ccc"'t ~'Y hc::.rtfc:-1 t t-birc t i c11 1:md th<J.nks fo r whc,t you
hc,vo d:::r.e , c.nc1 rar!lU-'bor thc,t y s'.1r 1:.ss~.u1 t cr c,ss in :; cvvr the Rhir.e a t
£200 h-:--t~rs 1~.st ni,,;Lt cssnr0s y.,u (,f ::ive:1 groo.ter p.;l8r y tc c c:r:10 .
/:,/, f ·
S . ro.tton , J r,
/t/ G. S . Pl,T?ON , J~: .,
Lio1,~t. General, u . S . 1-.rmy,
c(. -:unc.n(.i '1~.
DIS T~:IBUTIC! :
~ & n c';r-
Tw ,._, lf-l.; h ..:.rmy Grcup
XL~ T."i.C
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�I-L-S ,~.r:q; .'./'J1!:'.l't,S XX 80HPS
OFFICE of t he COMl.'.;\NDIHG m;NT~AL
1' Po 340
27 Mnrch 1 9/i~
SLTB,JJ~'I'!
Commond::i.ti on .
ro
Corr.111anding Gene ral., 26th Inf.:mtr-y- Div1.d.0n , ,:.• ::. o. 26 , :,r. 3 . Al'ITT.';( ·
:
'rr-mu
1. Upc n th,, dc.:partu1·e uf the 26th Infantr s- Di vi._r-:: L., n fr cm the XI. Cor.p s I
de s i r e t o c om:;:1end y ou 3.n°1 y our c omr,,arnl f o r the~ out s t mding mr.umc r i n which you
::ind they havo oce cmplir,l'•e<l ii.J y " ur .as r.dgned missi ons . Yolit' r~icen+, ope r ati ons
·:mst cf t h e, Rhi ne VE:: r -"J und..: r t,·'.1!-cn and ~omr•let ed i n a s upe ri 0r ':iarm0r .
1
2 . The 3.t<:gr es :::i ve dnd .-:Jt.' fi<.:i(mt r:1·..nn</f i n nhi ch you c arried out you.r
appointe d tJ.sks r efl cctr, gr 8 '1t C!'fJd:l.t u.pon y:·;ur dhrisi on .'."nd up on y ou :is its
C0i•:1J-:-r..,ndirJ g Gert,_ r3.J.. Yri1.,r sc-und .:;urlo zeut , untirtng cf "orts md the hi ghly
effir,i ont r.--.:mrc r i n whi (!h y c·11 0'"'Wl'\,tiJd Y'mX uivisi. L1n m d ott::i.ched tror p s c ontribut e d t1 -:;,t e ri::il1y tj c th ,) Cfib r ,-:i:t;i ·rn :i, t:P.1cc,~1:i s c.f th0 XX Corps . 7 our i mme diat e
and accu r ::1te 3.pr; r:ri ;:; :11 of ev,:; ry oi tu.~tie,:·1, and ths c omp)_r..; t o c oopcr:::.ti-:n t ende red
by y ou , t ogether vri ~h t he vi go r i:rj:th ,-rh:lch ;(C\Ur t r ccps unJ.e rt ook t hesG mis s i ono ,
hao been most not;cw,.rt}iy .
J . I extend. my p r::r ;;,Jr,.:iJ. th:mkri •and t h o;; c of the ;:y fJ c rn c t o y ou 'm(1 t o
your c-fficer3 , warr"mt d ' fj c ,.?r:; -~nd eriU.s+.ed ti0-11 f -·,r 1 3pl(,11clj ri 8X'.JJrple of
chee rfulnes s , j_nd.G:7li.t ab1e .spi:r:i:t nn I c -,uro.g~ unde r tryin;~ b ::i.ttle c onditi ons .
/ s/ 'thlt on H. Wnl kcr
/t/
W.'.LT ON H. V!;\LKER
l:i~.j or Gc ner::11 , Unite d St::1t0s Arrry
Cor:un.:-.m~U.ng
l\.G 330 . lJ
( 27 i.~3.r h5)' - GNMC,\-5
HQ THIRD i,T.S ARJ;Y, itfO
1st lnd .
403,
U.-S. Ar my,
15
Apri l 19l.i.~.
u.S.
TJ-W,U:
Ccmm::mrling Gcpor ,i.J , XI I Corp~.: , ,\.PO Jl2 ,
TO
Comr:12.ndin;; Gene ral , 26th in.fant,I'1J D:Lvit1 i on , AFO 26, U. S. Ar my.
Ar my .
Th,, Cor.m,:in.d i ng Gc nc r:i.l. i s pl e ased to not e and :for ward this l etter
of c ommend ati on .
�.;ONFJDENTIAL
HEADQUARTERS 39TH SIGNAL COMPANY
APO 26 C/0 P.M., NEW YORK, N.Y.
5
JULY 1945
SUBJECT: CRYPTOGRAPHIC CLEARANCE OF (OCHS, JAMES W, PFC ASN
36408043).
TO
: COMWiANDING OFFICER, 166TH SIGNAL PHOTO COMPANY, APO 403.
1. IN ACCORDANCE WITH INSTRUCTIONS FROM TWELFTH ARMY
GROUP, WE ARE ENCLOSING THE CRYPTOGRAPHIC CLEARANCE or THE ABOVE
MAN WHO WAS A MEMBER OF THIS COMMAND.
2. THIS CLEARANCE SHOULD BE FORWARDED WITH THE SOLDIERS
RECORDS UPON TRANSFER TO ANOTHER HEADQUARTERS.
,4-~w. 13~
w.
GEO~
BELLIVEAU
WO(JG)
AUS
ASS'T CRYPTO. SEC.O.
ENCL:
CLEARANCE RECORD.
CONFI
�! . . f.AD-Q'U_,_r. T:s~·13 26~:r· r~,-:-y \J~TR.Y DIVIS IO}J
L..:.'O 2. c.., u- . 3 • nrr:1.y
20 Doc ember 194·1
TO : · All Of fice r s 8.nd :Snlisted I.'en , 26th Tn:P&nf-r v Division .
At. t 1~is Chris+.ma.r3 S()O. .so:: I Y,'.":~_s}·,. to o:ctend to eac::". £1.r.d (••rery in.div~idua l my
s ir1c Gr C!S +-: wish os for 1J~;.r ~-s t::;.;;_ci s :Je.-_r r ·1.cl _:rt, i/JB r":nss t i':.o ·--- (~s +hr t t> e c om~_Il ·~ :rec.r
1.firil!.. , \:itI1 t>_e con-··:~.n~_:,:..~d c'.f:·cr .-:s jf c .,r,::;cl·;.rvs ::n-:-1 cJ.r co::-,rf.'~~es , see our returr1
to <:.he frrmj_lits en-:.} fr·i_e}.:.r}s vr}·!o :p:;... e.y· _{··or t~:-~c fi11e,1. 1rJ.ctory .
1
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In or ~er to o.cti ve ttat soQl , 02c~ of ~s must stiJk to the job set befor e
us end corriplc,te it to o,J:~ utmcst ':..bi1::ty- v,r;·:e-'.)ier 01T plo.ees of duty he h1 rmck
of the l ine or in the li~J.e :tts,;lf e Ec.C~i. o:f t;3 rr:.J.st livt; up to t~1e fj_~--~11-:·.in;
zeo.1 o.nd ten.Dcit·y • :hs\.t al-1.rs.:/s ;_:8.s xn.c.cle the YD n t1·rinb0l of hcroisn . \Tc are no1N
addin,o; to that ,dor·ious trc.cUt~on . Lot .rn neve r :Por ,:_;ct those, whose sunr2,,1e
se.crifico mad0 -L-'-1-·o pr.\t}:_ to ·victcr~.r possi;Jle .
0
1
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and de-:;··otion to d 1.J_-,_r r1s,d{:) ··,oss·~. bl:.; tl·i.c-: ~r-;_:_shir1P: of st1..::.bi-)crn ~Ia.z.J. rGs:.stc:.1.co in
c'.:.r fro11t .
Tha-~ t\.o ( i_ ·v.~sic:1 ;n:.s 8.~lo tr) erd,,cr G-c~rs.nrrry itself e.r~ter e. lon_;
Q GYli::i.r:~ucd dr i ~re; T,rc.s d , r-- -i_,c ·Jc,·;_:1· o c',r c. '"'e f :1.d d et erI!· in,,., ti en 7 o r.1 c · --]7 o .~! o :J d ·3S '"'it e
vvcctt.or r.nd ~~e:,r:rr_ 7_(\ -~1 j_,-~:--.. ct. t.i.r.t.C:.:3 sc-..::·:,3,} i:c.sur1nc:u1tc-."'r,le .
Irt fu-tu.rc histJrios
¥rill ·oo recorded 011r :~cr-C: i~J. ..:1.'·,:s ".,"£•.r.; -1_-~ it3 f.:_t-~:nr; -t.~[-+. ~-ou :r,.sv·c do::1or.s·:~rated
t:h e Su.;~: er j_ o r f i n:~·1.t-:°Lf.\ ·~. c,1..: ~~ l. ~- -}_-.:~cs t~1c.-~ C·,;~-l:~r ~JC. 1,r,:: lT 9 cl. e ":[D !ti S ·I:; or·v •
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SS LE1lISTOl\'f VICTORY, D:rJCEtlEER 18:
-----Even landlubbers aboard the Leuiston
.Al thoug:0 be:ne ~it ti 1g every veteran
Victory can tell that she spins a r.1ean
of this w~, ·1 ;he ,, C.::: , ~l!LJJ OJJ' RIGHTS If
propeller, but few realize that she is
is espe(:iail y hbl:p::'U~L tc• the_ nan who
one of, if not the, fastest Victory
plans to con::,:lnue/is ecuc1::,t,ion , Genership on the seas.
ous ,.10:i.etary• alloua1ces (up to $500)
The Lewiston holds two vo~;~e rehav-e been px·cvidea. ·'or tu.it;i.on, books
cords, having r.1ade the ·5,892 nile jourand eq_ui.:p:::ieut, with additional provisions
ney fron·Marseilles, France, to Galvesfor su·bsist,3nc1,.
ton, Texas, in 12 days, GO hours) and
Every ~a.1 is entitled to at least
fron Galveston to liiev York, a run of
one ;vear of edv.cation or training if he
1900 niles, in 4 de.ys and 2 hours.
has 90 dPya of active seryice between
No records are likely this trip,
Sept. 16th 1940 and the end of the ,war,
since the Atlantic weather is usually
and has pe€n honorably discharged, or
unfavorable. for such swift runs at this
has served a shorter tine than thE>,t and
tine of year. However, Capt. ,J .H.Huber, h a s a serv:1.ce cori..nected discharge. In
Master of the Lewiston, always pushes
addition t,~ this one year) there are
her as though he had a sor. ,-Ji th 123 pts. provisions for further education up to
abocird. r;,,rualif'ied observers are prea total of 48 nonths.
If, for e::anple,
u.i.;ti!.b t:,_,;t '"" -;.r.,_l:. c ....- _. • tu :B-cr';~~
V!.,,t e... i ,mtt- ~ ~L., BL.rV'!ce "tre::.ore
Harbor 11 sonetine 11 \lednesr1e.y, Dec .. 26th.
oachL1b ,•;5, he is ontitLid to one nonth
Chief Engineer, Jolm ilhi te of Portland,
$tudy or tre.inLi.g for every ..1onth spent
Oregon, says the J;iewiston has actually
m the Aniy, exclusive of tir.1c spent in
been clocked at 23 1/2 knots and it is
·.,1-STP towa::cis co~rpletion of trr,ining conestiraated that •she can do 25 knots per
;inued fr ,)r.1 civilin.'1 life, - Tr.e sane
,
hours (1 knot equals l 1/? nph).
:lrov-ision,3 n.ppl;y to Vzts oldGr tr..an 25,
Built by the Oregon Ship Co., a
vho cn..,_'1. p:·ove thd their education or
Kaiser subsidb.ry, the ship was launcl\ed rainin5 was :::iaterially interl"1Xpted or
in Decenber, 1944, and was co:onissioned'_ .. r.ipeded by enterin.-_; nilitary eervice.
on 29 January, 1945. She was na,,-:ied after
The VA will provide a nonthly subthe town of Lewiston, Idal10. She
dstence allo\1.::.nce of $50, to oen ,-,i th
r.1easures 453 ft,- (overall) len.;th, 62 ft. ro c.eper..i ents and fp75. t ·o those with
in width, and is propelled by 8500 hp
""per.de:1.ts. 'Ihis pi:~ynent t1a7 be elir.iiengines, one of the few Victories with
ri:ited in the cases of uen working fu1.l
r.1ore than 6500 horse power.
ir.1e, 0r sca led down in the cases of nen
As the first issue of the 11 Logtt
, orking pe.rt tin e, or for those who are
hi ts 11 newstands 11 this norni:-ig, the
t einc.; pe,id for ,.-,ork done a s e, p c1,rt of
Lewiston has tr, ,velled appro:Kinatcly
'I: 1c ir trair'. b (; .
340 niles on h0r 4,000 Diles journey to
Ve
fr,
1. -~ t- e;-.,r .. ~ _ o::
Boston. Since the Lewiston is now
oa. he ::ieE:1ts
uainta:i.r.s
functionihg on only one boiler, we will
tJucationrl standerds of that school.
probably pass the historic Rock of
~ he Veterans J~dainistrRtion pror.1iser;
Gibralter, through the Straits and into
t ~ pay up to $500. for the rcgu.lar nine
the Atlantic Ocean late Wednesday after- l1 nth school year.
noon. We are due to pass Cape St.
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Vincent on the coast of Portugal in the ~t CK OF Till:J SEA? Do your knees go in
wee hours of Thursday norning. Troops
c,uposi te directions without your ::nowing
aboard the Lewiston oay have a chance
• t until ~rouive had a forced lane.in5 1
to catch a glinpse of the Azore Isle
sten to Doc Nostrun, Physician at Sea
of Santa Maria, but after this we will
nee he got his license. Doc ad.yj.ses a
not sight land again until we enter
ng walk around the deck, deep breathing,
Boston Harbor.
d a big wad. of chewing gw:1.
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,_QTOGRAI HIC CO.
1 f.
U. s. A • Y
20 August 194.5
uUBJ~CT:
Requ~st fo r p ass
TO
Co mmanding Officer,
fhotographic Co ., APO 403.
1 60th iJirnal
1 • Request three (3) day pass beginning Thursday, 23 August 1945 .
2.
_,,_ddress -,,hile on pass
•ill be:
care of Leat _ilcle Y-.arger,
eo.ange,
Luxemburg .
.
1944.
3.
'I'he date o f my last f rlou2'
4.
.rhiss rey_uest conforms ,it 1 sec D, par 1 , Cir 57, sec ,., 3 and C,
57, _leadquarte;.~s AAC., dated. -24 ifuly 1945 .
_-ar 2., Cir
as Aoril
J/::;;;oc::: cJc-L
Pfc, l oo §i g rhoto Co .
KEH/rvl.
1ST Ind .
Hq 166th Signal Photo Company , iiJ?O 4.03, U.S . It:rrrry , 20 h-Ugust 1945 .
TO :
co,
522nd
l.
Approved .
Group ,
~o
752 ,
u.s.
,.:rm.y.
~~Captain , Signal Corps
Comdg., 166 Sig Phot o Co .
2d Ir.d
Bq 522d Quartvrm&ster Gro'P,
To:
'Jomrna di
PC 758,
S .r~y (Jo
· crLans) 21 A.:.
o~flicer 166th Sig Photo Oo, APO 4)3, JS Ar~y
A.p-orov~d.
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45
�F.2AD';_;::r' "' L':SR S
OISE :'..r'.T.:-1;·. ,i: .,. ,':'E SECI'IOH
The rcom. in ·.1hich the Gerrrre.ns capitulated in World Vial' IT ,;,as _pe.rti tioned
'cff from r1hct ·:i~s once a large assembly- room on the first floor of the Ecole
Professionolle i'n Rems. When SU.promo Hcadq_uartors novod to Reins, it bocm110
the Vl/s?. Roo:rr. o:f SHl.EF For1.1ard -- the brain' center of tho Ji.llied Fcrcas end
workshop c f General ·Ei senho,JOI," and h:iS.sto.ff •
With triG exception of minor changes irr furnishings, the ro o.':1 astur:icd ovo_
to the city of Ro:ins in .,: ceremony on ;ruly 7, 19i.i.5~ is the sa71e as it ·::us on·
May 7, 1945, ,-;hon surrc :Oc~· negotiations Tiore in progross. Meps, ch2rts and
fi gures ho.v::, beon restored as they oxistoa: on that date.
Upon entering tho Wl\R Romm, ono secs on the ri r"ht o l argo geographical
survoy map showing terrain elevations in color. This · is c2Eed.the 11'Inst[:llatio.:is !-:op 11 • and is spotted ,1ittsu1e.ll s~uares of colm~o,~ r~21rc .:i ~"d roprcs0r...tirtg ·
sui:ply · depo ts in r.orther.:i Franeo, B0lgium 0nd k 1xo·1l: J1' l'g-. ::: 1, also sho-:w. rire lincs feeding g2soline to tho front lines fromtll:cc Boulog::10-Sc::Ic:is coasta l arc·
and fFon Chorbourg. Thero a~e notations showing tllo tor1:1in0ls of undcr71'ater
11
11
pipelines oxtending frc~1 England to Fronce.. Thos0 ere identified as plutos
-- a code name. J. thir,i ro"il of pipelines extends nortlmard intc t l e combat
zones :fr c .r I'.Cars__,illes, -;-;i tl1 a s:mollor inset mar sho11ing t he southern part of
this li no . Fuel and oil store.go du:;.1ps ero dosi,;nated on fue ne p '\7i th a caFd
s!'lowing tho q_uenti~y cf supplies on hcnd.
'.'lalkinb count0r-cl0cb.is0 around tho roo1:1~ one s0os on the nr>.xt m:ill a
:railroads me:p sho:7inc; in blaek lines tho routes of all single and double tract
railroads 0r:. tl1e co:1tinenit., Red lines des:ignot ,:- r nilroElds ur:d er ropoir orr 1.1Iay
7th. · Tno cha~ts flac1.k this na11 on the left. Ouo· lis,t s the r1u.TJ1ber of imported
and captured locor:rotives nnd freight cars boi.rcg used by the J,.lliod Forces on.
J.pril 19, 1945 . The othor lists t ;1e r:rilitc.ry to:mage transported hy r£:.il on
I.;Iay..
6, 1945•
Porhcps tho next chart is the most striking of ell.. Lt is a gJ.''.l.'11 bloc·k s·.7ast iI~o. with o red thermometer in the center, s :1owing tho nurr..bcr of' German
Boldier-s captured by the J:,.llied Forcos. The chart disclosed thet 161 Qer1:::cn.
divisiono, representing 4.0.35,051 troops; hed been captured from Juno bt 1941r,
to May 7, 1945.
Dirc,ctly bonor:iih tho s,,estika are t,,o statistic2l chart.s . one shews U. 8
and Bll'i.t ish plmmod a!Id aetuol unload ings of cupplies at the French chonnd
:ports. Tho second chc:rt · fs sub-divided irito three sec'tions; one [l breakdown
of tho nmr.ber· cf Gornens cnptured by oach Lllied J,.rr:w· Grou:--; tho scocnri. o.
11 Storos Disch1:rgecTlf ch1::rt listing t!lo volUJ.110 of troors , vohicl os end supplies
unloaded c ::i. tho contino:::t; and tho thirrd listing Lllied Ground Forces casual ties 021 t ho '\"Jostorn Frcnt, sho...-ring t'otal cnsuel tfos u p to j\~eiy 7th as 661 ,900.
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chert listing ship ton113ge s r,rrivi nt; , unJonded, ond cloarod at tho vrrici.is
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CERTIFICATE OF
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AND CUSTOMS DECLARATION
(strike out portions inapplicable)
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Has by authorily of this Theater Commander been autbo-rized to retain the following Itemn
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CUSTOMS DECLARATION
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�DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
UNITED STATES EMPLOYMENT SERVICE
208 E. Mitchell St.
Petoskey, Michigan
January 8, 1946
James W. Ochs
202 Clinton Street
Charlevoix, Miohigan
Dear Sir:
We understand that you were recently separated from the
armed forces. We are off'icially informed of such separations
so that we may be prepared to place our services at the disposal
of returning veterans.
If, for any reason, you wish to discuss yrur employment
plans, please call at this office. The Michigan Unemployment
Compensation Commission located in the same office, will file a
Serviceman's Readjustment Allowance Claim fctr you in the event
no suitable e~loyment is found~
In any event please consider this as your office and feel
free to consult us at any time on veteran matters, since we are
prepared to give information about the State and Federal provisions
for Veterans.
May we suggest that at the time of your interview you bring
in your discharge papers and social security card.
Office hours: Every Monday 10:00 a.m to 2:30 pm, at
City Halle
Very truly yours,
LOCAL OFFICE MANAGER
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APR!
THE
WEEKLY
9, 1945
FIVE CENTS
NEWSMAGAZINE
PO\I'(
THIRD ARMY'S PATTdN
The enemy has reason to fear him.
( World Battlefronts)
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�OFFICES:
CLARENCE 8. MEGGISON, CHAIRMAN
BOYNE CITY: 118 RAY STREET
WM. A. CAMBURN, VICE CHAIRMAN
VETERANS'
CHARLEVOIX: CITY HALL
COUNSELING
CENTER
WM. SHEPARD, VICE CHAIRMAN
FENTON R. BULOW, SEC'Y-TREAS.
EAST JORDAN: CITY HALL
CHARLEVOIX COUNTY
®fftrt nf ]teteraus Affairs
GILBERT M. LINDSAY, COUNSELOR
iSnyur (!rtty, ilidJigan
January 21, 1946
James Ochs
202 Clinton st.
Charlevoix, Michigan
Dear Friend:
We have been notified by the Veterans Administration that you have been discharged from the armed forces.
Let us be the first to congratulate and thank you for the
services you have rendered your country and community.
You know the Office of Veterans Affairs. has been organized in this county and a
counseling center has been set up, and is now located at 118 Ray Street, Boyne City.
The purpose of our organization is to help you in any problems pertaining to your
rights as a veteran.
These include: loans, pensions, education, tax relief, re-employ-
ment and many others too numerous to mention.
We would be happy to have . you visit us at any time to discuss your problems
with us.
Sincerely,
Gilbert M. Lindsay, Counselor.
P.S. I am in Charlevoix at the City Hall Monday and Tuesday.
�your equipment and supplies -
to the world's far-
Aung battlefronts. Now it is engaged in a happier
task- that of returning you, our gallant, victorious fighting men -
Visual Acuity (Binocular)
Without Correction Hith Corr~ction
Fa1·
and women -
home. Ou r ma-
chinery is geared to the accomplishment of your
return with the greatest possible spee d. So fa st-
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moving is that routine that it is impossibl e to pack
into it the full warmth of our welcome anti the
depth of our pride in your achievements. But that
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illustrates, outside agencies have joined us in
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for the co,weniences you will find in the Disposition
Center to which you will be sent. As this pamphlet
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preparing for your return. All America joins us in
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If this card is lost, report loss at once to
your organization commander.
If this card is found and owner cannot be
locat ed drop in United States Mail without
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BE ALERT
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been classified by-
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W. D., A.G. 0. Form No. 28
30 September 1944
(This form superse.des W. D., A. G. 0. Form No. 28.
March 26, 1942, wluch may be used until existing stocks
are exhausted.)
NOTICE OF
CLASSIFICATION
, J..ame_a_ W__lliam __ Ochs_____ _
Retain on your person at all times when
you are separated from your organization.
Changes or alterations can only be made
by your personnel officer.
(Rev. 6-30-41)
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When the Cennan counterattack began, t1.e Third
Anny picked up its men, equipment and supplies
and within two days went into action. This is how
the 26th Division made th~ quick move up north.
26TH DIVISION, L1JXEMBOURG--The
last fortress at Metz had been cleaned
up six days before and the divisi6n was
resting in the city, looking forward to a few
weeks of reorganization and training of its
reinforcements before going back into the line.
-no small move for an entire division of more
The s\aff officers were having a plea_s ant
than 15,600 men with their equipment. V.!hicles,
evening in the cafe of their hotel. Somebody
and supplies. The assistant G-3 was called
had dua up some Red Cross girls and one of
from the social gathering in the care. Then
them w~s from !lassac-husells, lhe home of this
the G-2 and· the G--1. The other officers looked
~ational Guard outfit. Aroun~ 2000 an ai_de
at each other and knew that something was up.
came in and whispered sometbmg to the chief · ·· "Guess we won't ;ae spending Christmas here
of staff. He got up and . excused himself and
after all," one or them said.
left the room.
It was the corps chief of staff on the phone.
The wire was probably- tapped; so he bad to · THAT was how the 26th Infantry Division,
avoid specific detail.
better known as the YD or Yankee Divi"Get ready to move north the first thing in
sion, learned on the night of Dec. 19 that it was
the morning," he told the division chief of
going to take part in what future historians
staff. "I can't tell you now where • you're
will probably describe as one of the most imgoing but it is near a place that rhymes with
portant strategic maneuvers of the war- the
something that women wear. And you will
lightning-like sh"{' f the bul-k of Lt. Gen.
be prepared to move from there immediately
George S. Patton Jr.'s Third U.S. Army from
against the enemy \fl a meeting engagement."
the area around :\1etz and the Saar Basin to the
The division chief of staff, Col. B . .M. M<;virtually unprotected front being pened by
Fadyen of Columbia, S.C., called the comthe new German counterattack at the north
manding general. Maj. Gen. W. S. Paul of
around Bastogne and the Sure River. It was
Shrewsbury, l\lass .. and they looked at the map.
carried out; that slopped the Germans from
They decided that the destination that corps
reaching France and spreading down toward
was hinting at was near Arion, which rhymed
Paris, where they had expected to spend New
with nyloµ. Arion was a good 50 mjles away
Year's Eve. In terms of American geography, it
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was almost the same as if an army, facing an
enemy force along the New York-Connecticut
border, suddenly beard that a second enemy
force from Western Massachusetts and Vermont
was pouring through Albany toward the middle
or New York State. And then turned away from
its Connecticut front, picked up most of its
men, eqnipment, and supplies, and hit the road
for the north to smash the second enemy force
on ils southern flank. The Third Army did
this on a few hours' notice, despite the tremendous complications and work involved in
moving each of its divisions, reached its new
assembly areas less than 24 hours later and
went into action ,against the surprised Germans within the next two days.
The most spectacular role in the move was
that played by the Fourth Armored Division
which dashed to the aid of the beseiged 101st
Airborne Division at Bastogne. The story of
what happened during the same lime to tile 26th
Division, -which moved up on the Fourth Armored's right flank and tackled the tough job
of crossing the Sure River to the east of Bastogne without getting much of a play in the newspapers, is less dramatic but more typical. It
�T /Sgt. Melvin Foster of Gloucester, Va., hid in
a farmhouse for 30 hours with his platoon.
gives you some idea of what it was like for the
average-infantry outfit that was in on this deal
during the joyous ·Christmas season of 1944.
Nobody in the 26tl}. Division can get over the
way their part of the Third Army made its
move north from Metz. Probably no military
movement of such a large scale was ever ·carried out with more speed and less red tape.
The book was thrown out · of the window and
all the OCS rules about road discipline were
forgotten. Each outfit simply tried to get its
vehicles on the road as soon as possible and,
after they were on the road, to keep moving.
"And them roads was jammed,". one of the
truck drivers said. "Us and the Fourth Armored and God only knows how many other divisions. We were bumper to bumper all the way.
Good thing it was a cloudy day. If the Germans
ever had air out, they would have slaughtered
us."
Nothing was left behind. An outfit even
took a truckload of its German prisoners along
with it -because it didn't have time to dispose
of them through channels before· taking off.
One GI couldn't believe bis eyes when he saw
them rolling along in the column behind an
ammunition trailer and in front ·or a battery
of Long Toms.
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«what are we doing?" he said. "Bringing
up replacements for the Jerries, too?"
The MPs were on the roads that day for only
one reason-to keep the v,ehicles from slowing
down. There was 110 stopping for anything.
The troops ate K-rations while they moved. ·
There were no urine calls. A rifleman in the
328th Infantry Regiment with the Gls had to
sit ' on the strap across the back of his two and
a half-ton truck and let go at 35 miles an hour.
The speed paid off. Despite the apparent
confusion, the move was completed in remarkable time. Later in the evening of the 19th,
after the chief of staff had received that first
warning phone call from corps, the division
learned that it was headed for the town of
Eischen, to the east of Arion, about 56 miles
away. The recon unit started out shortly after
midnight. The infantry regiments-the 101st,
the 104th, and the 328th-were all packed and
ready to -go at 0830 the next morning. There
were some delays due to the congestion of the
roads. For instance, all the units in the city
of Metz and to the south of it had to cross the
Moselle River in single file over only one
bridge; all the others had been destroyed.
There was a shell crater on the main highway
beyond the bridge which made another
bottleneck, One of the division 's infantry
columns was held up there for two hours and
did not finally get away from the Metz area
until 1030. It was late in t-he afternoon before
the last units-ordnance, quartermaster and the
headquarters section of the signal companyleft the city. But the whole division and all
its equipment was in Eischen and the surrounding countryside by 2300 that night.
"Everything c nsidered. it was on,e o f the
smoothest moves we ever m:ade," says Lt. Col.
Walter H. Lippincott of Philadelphia, Pa., the
division G-4. "And it should have been one of
the toughest. The men were settled and
relaxed in buildings. It is always harder and
slower to move from a city like that than it is
from a CP in the field. We were eating B-rations which had to be changed to combat
rations before we could start. And we had no
information about supply dumps ahead-we
had to assume they had been over-run by the
enemy and take everything with us. And after
we left Metz, we had to give the Fourth Armored priority on the main highway and take the
secondary .roads which were longer and narrower. A lot of the trucks that were assigned
to move us didn't arrive un til 0300 and 0400
in the morning. And, of course, we didn't
know how, when or where we were moving
until about 10 hours before the starting time."
Naturally the townspeople and the few U.S.
troops they found in the north were jittery
about the German counterattack and glad to
see the -division come. Lt. Col. John Cotter of
Lynn, Mass., arriving in Arion with the advance
party, found the city in the hands of a small,
nervous engineer out.fit whose CO assured him
. that everything was well protected.
"How about the bridges?" Lt. Col. Cotter
asked.
"Don't worry about the bridges," the engineer said. "They're well co,rered. We've got
two men on -each bridge."
Nobody knew how far a,~ay the Germans
were and ther,e were all kinds of rumors and
reports. The reconnaissance troops, supported
by TDs, went probing ahead to find out som
thing definite. The infantry dug into foxhol
in the freezing cold forests and wait,ed for them
to bring back the bad news.
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bridges with TNT and to put more explosives
in the sides of trees which could be blown
down to block the roads in ca,<;,e of a retreat.
Maj. Gen. Paul called the division signal officer.
"If we don't get communication on this
meeting engagement," the general said, "I'll
grind you into the ground."
The infantrymen walked mor,e than 16 miles
that day before they met the Germans. Their
move up from Metz had evidently caught the
enemy a.hnost flat-footed. Three German divisions in that sector had been moving westward across Luxembourg toward the region
south of Bastogne. The three American divisions of the Third Army driving up to their
southern flank, the Fourth Armored, the 26th
and the 80th, smashed into them before they
had a chance to make a complete left face and
meet their new opposition head-on. They were
still wheeling around to the south on Dec. 22
when the First Battalion of the 328th Infantry
went into them and took the town of Hostert Jes
Folschette and the 104th Infantry advanced
through stubborn resistance to the high
ground south of Grosbous.
The Second and Third Battalions of the 328th
followed the First Battalion on the north toward Wahl and Grevels Bresil and then the regiment ran into real trouble. "There we were
on the road in column of battalions, " says Maj.
Albert Friedman of Bangor, Maine, who had
charge of the Second Battalion. "I went up
ahead and found the First Battalion with its
hands full of Jerries. Then I came back and
somehow managed to get our battalion to
make an about face and start back down the
road to Hostert. How the hell we turned around
those kids who had .been walking since God
knows when and all the vehicles and got them
going -back to Hostert without a mix-up, I don·t
know. If the Germans had ever broken
through on us while we were turning around,
there would have been a panic."
Hostert, the battalion set up a perimeter
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defense and received word that it was to
become a part of a task force, to be called Task
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Force Hamilton, under Lt. Col. Paul Hamilton
of San Antonio, Tex., with attached ack-ack,
engineer and TD units, and tanks from a tank
battalion. The Third Battalion was to go up
with the First Battalion straight north. Task
Force Hamilton was to tackle the dirtiest job
of all on the morning of Dec. 23. It was assigned
the mission of taking the town of Eschdorf,
which was loaded with German arm·o r, and
pushing on to cross the Sure River and establish a bridgehead for the rest of the division
to go on toward Wiltz,
"The boys hadn't had much rest or hot food
since WP. left Metz and they had walked about
20 miles," .Maj. Friedman said, "so I wanted
them to ride as long as they could. We sent
them out that morning riding on the tanks and
TDs."
Easy Company under Capt. Vaughn Swift o.f
Manzanola, Colo., went out in front north of
Grosbous and ran into strong German opposition on the high ground in front of Hierheck,
a cluster of houses at a crossroads before
Eschdorf. They were pinned down there for
the rest of the day. That night Capt. Swift
sent a squad over to the road at the left which
the Germans were using as a supply route. The
squad laid a hasty mine field and as soon as
they had finished a party of Germans came
down the road in a U.S. jeep and were blown
to pieces.
"Just goes to show that mines ought to be
issued regularly to the infantry," Maj. Friedman says. "But obody ever gets them except
the engin
't ask me why."
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F Company, commanded
f Bt-rwick, Pa., replaced
' igh ground. When F
troops met a large
e reverse side of the slope,
yards away. The Germans,
aged in the snow with white capes,
opened a murderous rifle and automatic
weapon fire. Capt. Seely went back and _call~d
for a tank. He led it up the slope, walkmg m
front of it to guide it. The tank was demolished by an 88 flrint from a farmhouse at the
bottom of the' hill. "The concussion," said
Capt. Seely, "knocked me on my can."
He went back again and this time selected
a bazooka man, Pfc. Dominic Giovanazzo of
Ravenna, Ohio. Giovanazzo crawled up tl_le
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James Wi:n.i-8..I:l E7Chs
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Dear Sir :
On Special Orders Jo .
160 of November 4, 19u2.
In cooperation with the U. S. Arm,.v Induction Station at
Kalemazoo , Micnige.n we are hereby instructing you to report at the
City Hall , Charlevoix , Micr..igan at 3 :00 u . m. on _fovember 18, 1942
for assembly and roll call .
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transportation and meals for your trip to Fort Ouster . You will
leave Charlevoix at 4:oo p.m. by train .
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James Ochs collection
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Ochs, James W.
Description
An account of the resource
Collection includes a photo album of images taken by Ochs, 16 photos taken by the Army Signal Corps of the 26th Infantry Division, and document his tour of duty in France with the 26th Division, friends he acquired in France, and his leisure time activities
Coverage
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World War II
Date
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1942/1945
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<a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/482">James W. Ochs World War II collection (RHC-55)</a>
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World War, 1939-1945
United States. Army
France
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Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives
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RHC-55
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eng
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RHC-55_JWOScrapbook
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WWII scrapbook compiled by James W. Ochs
Subject
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World War, 1939-1945
United States--History, Military
Michigan--History, Military
United States. Army. Signal Photo Company, 166th
United States. Army. Infantry Division, 26th
Scrapbooks
Photographs
Soldiers
Military life
Description
An account of the resource
Scrapbook of photos, brochures, documents, and memorabilia compiled by James W. Ochs of the 26th Infantry Division of the US Army documenting his WWII service.
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Ochs, James W.
Publisher
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Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives
Date
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1942/1953
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Image
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application/pdf
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James W. Ochs WWII collection, RHC-55
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1944, 2010
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eng
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Title
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James Ochs collection
Creator
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Ochs, James W.
Description
An account of the resource
Collection includes a photo album of images taken by Ochs, 16 photos taken by the Army Signal Corps of the 26th Infantry Division, and document his tour of duty in France with the 26th Division, friends he acquired in France, and his leisure time activities
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
World War II
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1942/1945
Source
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<a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/482">James W. Ochs World War II collection (RHC-55)</a>
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World War, 1939-1945
United States. Army
France
Publisher
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Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives
Identifier
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RHC-55
Language
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eng
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RHC-55_JWOPhotoAlbum
Title
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James Ochs photograph album
Subject
The topic of the resource
World War, 1939-1945
United States--History, Military
Michigan--History, Military
United States. Army. Signal Photo Company, 166th
United States. Army. Infantry Division, 26th
Scrapbooks
Photographs
Soldiers
Military life
Description
An account of the resource
Photograph album containing 524 black and white photographic prints (3"x4", 2"x"2", and 4"x4") documenting the European travels of James W. Ochs during and post- World War II. The album contains a portrait photo of Ochs, as well as images of French cities and countryside, buildings, street scenes, nature, soldiers, Ochs' friends and acquaintances, a parade and entertainment show, skiing in the Alps, planes and ships.
Content Warning: Some photographs in this album depict mass burials, death, and human remains.
Creator
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Ochs, James W.
Publisher
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Grand Valley State University. University Libraries. Special Collections & University Archives
Date
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1944
Type
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Image
Format
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application/pdf
Source
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James W. Ochs WWII collection, RHC-54
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
World War II
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eng
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!Brothers· Meet
,After 5 Years
Philippines
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Best Christmas gift of all for
Sergeant Richard Platte, 28, and \
his brother, Private First C13.ss
Herbert, 24, was their meeting Dec.
18 somewhere in the Philippines,
first time they had seen each other
for five years.
A letter from
the men to their (;;'-~
parents, Mr. and fit
Mrs. Richard ·
Platte, 153 Val-
ley ave., NW., \
was partly writ- ·=
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an d described
their three-day
visit which
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spent mo
talking
checking up
family news.
HERBERT
Herbert, 24 1
enlisted in the army five years
ago and Spent three years in Panama, but was at home on furlough last spring on Mother's day,
so he had fairly recent news of
the family to give to Richard.
Richard, 28, was one of the first
selectees to enter service, was assigned to the
32nd div is i o n
and has been
overseas w i th
the 126th Infantry for 37
months.
After Herbert's
furlough
last
spring, he was
sent to New
Guinea and the
parents
hoped
the men might
meet there. But
RICHARD '
in the meantiine
Richard had gone on to the Dutch
East Indies. A few weeks ago separate letters from the brothers revealed that both were in the Philippines.
Mrs. Platte wrote back in haste
to tell them the news and the result was, as both described it, "The
happiest day of our lives!"
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The showdown battle for the Phlllpplnes opened
Tuesday when huge American forces invaded Luzon, main island of the archipel~go on which 11
Manila, the capital. Gen. Douglas ··MacArthlir,
making good his promise: "I will return/' led his
troops ashore on the Lln&"ayen gulf beachet11, 100
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miles north of Manila. Arrow • hows recent feint
Invasion move from Mindoro, invaded earlle.r, to
the island of Marinduque. Inset is the Manila bay
area, MacArthur's ultimate objective Where Ba,,.
taan and Corregidor will be avenged.
Ph~lippine Chief
,,10 ·""' Hails Invasion
Leyte, Philippines--{IP)--P_r~sident f
Sergio Osmena of the Ph1hppmes I
Thursday had · proclaimed. the I
American landing on Luzon island t
1the answer to our prayers."
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"Gen. MacArthur has called upon j
us to rally behind him and I. k,n?w
every patriot, guerrilla and c1V1han 1
will heed the call so the enemy
1
may feel the strength of our o~t- \
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raged people/' the proclamation
said.
Highlights of the war in the
Philippines:
Manila first bombed by the
, Japanese Dec. 8, 1941.
Japanese land in Philippinef!
Dec. 101 1941.
Japanese ta.ke Manila Jan. '
1942.
Gen. Douglas MacArtht
dered out of Philippines, a
in Australia Mar. 17, 1942,
ing "I will return."
1:fataan surrendered April 9,
1942.
Corregidor falls May 6, 1942.
+ + +
Japanese navy sustains heavy
losses, June 18 -19, 1944,
in
first battle of Philippine sea,
fought between air and surface
forces at the time of the American invasion of the Marianas.
MacArthur's comnlu-nique of
July 24, 1944 makes first men•
tion of Philippines, report!
raids on enemy ahipping
Mindanao,
First raids on the
pines, staged from sout, ,.,
Pacific Aug. 6-8, 1944, since th'e
April 15, 1942 attack from Co»o
regidor on Clark field,
First/ heavy bomber strike
against Philippines, Sept. 3,
1944.
First American carrier aircraft I attack on archipelago
made y1ce Admiral William F.
Halsey~ task force Sept. 8
1944.
Other carrier attac
quickly followed~
First carri:~in;-- ,m:,r, a
Manila Sept. 21, 1944.
On Sept. 24, 1944, Admlra
Chester W, Nimitz said car.rte
operations had forced "the en
emy to .withdraw his nav
forces from their former a
chorage in the PhUippines an~
to seek new refuges in t'
same general area."
American amphibious forp
land Oct. 20, 1944 on Leyt
island, in first ie-l11vaslon o
the archipelago,
+ + +
Japanese navy meets its
ond great disaster in Philipp·
waters Oct. 21-26, 1944, lost
many warships in costly a
tempt to interfere with the in
vasion of Leyte.
Americans land on Mindoro
island, Dec. ''115, 1944, just sout
o! Luzon, virtually without OJI
position.
Tokyo radio, on Dec. 17, 19
broadcut warning that t>
;!~;o; ~~r~i~to:;~:~~:,:sj
0
itary situation.''
Marinduque island, just
of Mindoro and south of I
by Americans
Mindoro on Jan. 6.
invaded
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ew Luzon Invasion Blocks
Japanese Retreat to Bataan
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Yanks Sever
Escape Road
Advance From Beaches
North of ·Suhic Bay
Gen. MacArthur's Headquarters,
Luzon - {JP)_ - Land~ng unopposed
from 150 ships 60 miles northwest
of Manila, strong United States 8th
army forces Wednesday had blasted any hopes the Japanese might
have held of a large-scale with•
drawal to Bataan.
The 8th army is driving swiftly
east toward a juncture with the
6th. army. Such a junction would
seal off historic Bataan. Already
the inland push has put the 8th
astride the Japs' only escape highway to Bataan.
The second invasion of Luzon,
timed with a 6th army push now
within 30 miles of Manila, was
disclosed Tuesday night by Gen.
J?ougl?.~ MacArthur. The 38th divis1on and a combat team of the
24th were put ashore Monday on
Zambales province in the 10 miles
between the Santo Tomas river
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Bataan Retreat Blocked. - Japanese soldiers in mountains
north of Bataan, including forces
trying to prevent the Americans
from using Clark field and Fort
Stotsenburg, cannot withdraw into
Bataan. Neither can Japanese in
the central Luzon plains.
Japanese in the Manila area are
separated by waters of Manila bay
from Bataan and the bay is patrolled
by American planes which pou11.ded
Corregidor and Cavite naval base
with 509 tons of explosives Monday.
In the mountains of eastern and
northern Luzon there still is a
sizable enemy force, If Lt; Gen.
ITomoyuki Yamashita, or who.ever
commands the Japanese on Luzon,
phns a last stand of dr~matic proportions comparable with Bataan
Ithree years .ago, northeastern Luzon may provide the stage.
Mum on Inland Push.
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CUT OFF JAP ESCAPII TO BATAAN-Invading Luzon Island
between San Narciso and San Antonio, both of which were captured,
the American 8th army Wednesday had smashed any Japanese hopes
of retreating into Bataan for a "death stand." The 8th army spearhead, driving east for a junction with the 6th army, which is advancing south of San Fernando on the road to Manila, cut across the only
road into Bataan from the north. The invaders also threatened early
I seizure of Olongapo naval base in Subic bay, south of the invasion
1 • scene, by stabbing Inland to seize several towns, including San Felipe,
!
San Marcelino and Casetillejos.
ut All reports from Lu~on Wednes-day focused the spotlight on the
Menace. Olongapo Base.
1sth army operation.
In the 6th
The Yanks of Lt. Gen. Robert L. \ army's sector no official word was
Eichelberger posed an immediate given concerning progress of armenace to prized Olongapo naval imored columns last .. eported ap ..
b~se i? Subic bay by racing 11 preaching Calumpit, . be1ow . ~an
miles mland the first day to oc- \ Fernando. Calumpit 1s 25 a1rlme
cupy such towns as San Felipe, San miles from Manila.
Narciso, San Antonio, San MareeAround Fort Stotsenburg Yank
lino and Caetillejos and seizing an I troops cleaned out enemy pocket.I
airfield-the twenty-third airbast Iin the hills.
won on Luzon.
Well to the northeast in PangaThe drive toward Olongapo fs sinan province 1st corps troops
led by Maj. Gen. Charles R. Hall's which captured Rosario inflicted
11th army corps. He is moving heavy losses on the Japanese in
against a base which he reported mopping. up operations. · Those
in a survey 12 years ago would be Yanks are less than 15 miles from
easy to defend. The road there Baguio.
from the beachhead is hemmed in
Near the eastern end of the provbetween abrupt hills. The road Ince 25th division troops which won
east fro~ Olong~po skirts a swa~p the highway town of San Quintin
and a river, with a rugged hill advanced seven Il)iles southwest.
across the river.
' -- -Suggesting, however, that the
area is wide open to American
conquest, native Filipinos said nc>
enemy forces had been stationed
in the new invasion area since
1942,
Convoy Is Unscratched.
The invasion convoy v.1as not at ..
tacked by a single ~emy plane,
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t!~~e
by the 800-ship convoy which was
raided continuously en route to the 1
Lingayen gulf landings of the 6th
army on Jan. 9.
The Monday maneuver gives the
Americans control of both ends of
a 60-mile road, the onl,Y one leading
into Bataan. The 8th now holds
more than 10 miles of the west end.
The 40th and 37th divisions of th9
6th army on the east end have
pushed an unspecified distance
southwest from fallen San Fernando
while other columns rolled south ot
that Pampanga province capital
along the main highway to Manila.
It now is too late for the Japanese command to attempt what
Gen. MacArthur s\lcceeded in doing in . DecemberJ 1941-pull baclt
dispersed and outnumbered fore~
in a converging withdrawal int<..)
rugged Bataan where the Ameri•
cans held out for four months.
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Sgt. Dick Platte
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West Michigan's 12.6 th
Left Three Years Ago.
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(Identification of the 1:Wth infantry as part of the 32nd division and locating It in
action In l'l"ew Guinea has, until now, been suppressed military Information.
Thf>
Herald ont&ined from Washington this week, however, permisison to so identify and
locate -the regiment.-Ed.) .,_
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) By E. W. MURPHY
The 126th regiment of the Michigan National Guard, Grand Rapids' own regiment, left for
federal service just three years ago this week.
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An epoch-making three years it has been for the 1,300 officers and enlisted men frorµ
throughout western Michigan who marched away in October, 1940. A long and lonesome I!
three years it has been for the families they left behind.
They were "rookies" then-business and professional men, factory workers and farmers,
fresh from .offices, shops, the land-and few expected to be gone more tha.n a year. All shared
the hope, tlien pr,,v'alent, that war would stay away from our shores.
Now veterans of the war's bitterest fighting and heroes proved by victory, they are 12,000
miles away and entertain less hope of an early return than on the day they boarded their
troop trains for Louisiana.
This picture was taken three y ears ago this week, when membe:rs
of the 126th infantry regiment., Mlchlgan national guard, left Grand
Rapids for active service. It wa6it only for a training period, then,
but western Michigan men in the regiment wrote history on New
Guinea.
PRIDE OF NATION
In the intervening years, they have risen to the heights in patriotic service and valor.
Their achievements are the pride of the nation and mark a milestone in the history of the war.
'they helped stem the Jap onslaught against Australia and saved the day for the
United Nations in the Far East.
Theirs was a heart-breaking price in d~ad and wounded, sick and disabled, but they made
the Japs pay a much higher price.
The Japs are believed to have lost at least 15,000 dead alone in the defense of Euna and Gona.
Western Michigan troops at one stage of the campaign helped drive who!~ comp.anies ofl)
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.. _ .,~.,....,.1 1 Japs terror-stricken mto the
ocean so that their bodies littered the shore for miles.
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In this photograph, taken in New Guinea during the Buna-Gona
campaign, Gen. Robert L. Eichelberger Js shown congratulating members of the 126th infantry on their successful drive against the Japa.
Both Eichelberger, who commanded the S2nd division, and the
division we.re cited for bravery and devotion to duty.
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When three years ago, the 126th )
regiment departed for Camp Beau- •
regard, La., they could scarcely 1
imagine the • ufteringa, privations. !I
and sacrifices they would endure 1
in the days to come. Soldiers, who 1
once might have complained of 1
walking a few city blocks, were ,
obliged to climb towering peaks
10,000 fest high, pierce den~e jungle,
cross .swamps and, all but exhausted after days or torturing 1'
travel go into battle with hardly
any rest.
West Michigan troops learned
to survive in a climate where
rain seldom ceases, where
clothes rot from mildew, where
the alight.est cut will abscess
and open wounds refuse to
heal, a 'green hell' where
strange diseases_, fevers and
infections baffle medicine. . .
The 126th fought and conquered Ii
an enemy of incomparable ferocity.
Visions of death and sacrifice in
little known lands were far from
the thoughts of Grand Rapids
guardsmen when, on Oct. 15, 1940,
they were sworn into the federal
service and told they would immediately proceed to Louisiana. It
was the climax of the campaign in
which President Roosevelt prom-• ·
I ised not to send American troops
to fl.ght on foreign soil except in
case of attack.
PASS IN REVIEW
The first advance party o! the
}!!!:
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~~st. s:~e~~~d t~~ j:
city gave the troops a rousing farewell on Friday of the same week.
Thousands lined Monroe ave. to 11
watch some 600 troops representing
the Grand Rapids contingent of ,
the 126th regi~en~ pass in review. 11
Thanks1,:wing Day, 1943.
Dear John:
1 nave just finished reading
"The Alert" while ]ying on my
bunk and really feel ashamed for
not having wrHten sooner, because "reading this paper certainly
brings. back oJd memories.
The
place does not sound like the old
place I used to work at, but from
the sound of things you are really
doing a swe]l job for us boys over
here. Keep it up, we certainly appreciate an that you are doing,
and the more bonds you buy the
sooner we men will return and
start the wheels of peace-time.:,jfdustry and again turn out peacetime necessities.
It certainly has been a long time
since being in good old Grand
Rapide, twenty-five months to be
exact, and I am a bit lonesome for
the old place. I was transferred
out of my old unit a few months J
ago, but hope to return and get
I
back in the fight.
I still have a
few scores to set Uc yet and bdng II
my hunting season's score a bit
higher. I am feeling my old self ,
once again and regained the thirty
pounds I lost when in combat.
Had a very nice Thanksgiving
day, much different than the lastI didn't have to eat a can of bully
while lying in a trench ; today has
really made me thankful for many
things.
I really appreciate "The Alert,"
but wou]d like to see a few of the
old timers' names in it, so John if
you don't care to drop a line, put
it in Hhe Alert."
Do you see much of Dad? He
certainly is proud of his little
!
anny and we three (all old Hayes
employees) feel the same about
him Well, John, I can't say as
much as I would like, due to cen•
sorship, so win close for now and
hope you drop a line soon.
As ever,
DICK.
Sgt. Dick Rlatle-6155618.
Co. H, 6th Army Training Center,
A.P.O. 9"26, c!O Postmaster,
San Francisco, California.
�~trange Sights B~come -Vominonpla~e as War
Spreads Through Lands of the South Pacific
-U.
s. Marine
Coros photo from A,cme
At Guadalcanal, a United States Marine, second from the left, wearing a captured Japanese ·sword and canteen, and three
members of the native police force assume their best poses for the camera.
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�chigan Men Routed Japs at Buna
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day• ago, preceded by a 211-pounder
barrage. These tlaell •,
however,
bounded off tht topa of the dug-
By GEORGE WELLER
ht by T • Detroti !ol'ew• and &be Cb
,o n ly New11
triangle of Buna a thick-rooted tree sfta I he rd the Village and Buna Mission diverge outs.
at the thunder of story of the taking of the bloody left and right, or west and east. One gallant attack was under the
re and t_he ke mng song triangle from the men who accom- The word road ts used here in the leadership of Capt. James Workwhammmg !nto the reHis ht'ad lowered
e 1n ntrymen n front and
dh
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oot
poc:markcd triangle to
the advanced post where Jay,
d r ftre, three of the men respontbl for this achievement.
A few yarde ahead was a. cont mighty threshing noise of
nd lated f o Ila g e as crawling
my guru ers powided the snipendlessly with .45 .slugs. r lay
the foot of a tree whne one
aniper had just been shot
~.
was flr t, lying concealed from
p gunners by some bushy foliage,
n, after the ftre srew more peri tent, with other American 10!•
lera In the motherly protection of
Jal ·
;~r e/o~sp:~~!:!
::i~
phshed this coatly task,
Papuan sense, meaning a partly man, a tall, gaunt Southerner, After
BRA\'
JAP FIB.IC
dry narrow lane lifted above the the failure of this attack 1 the com.
surrounding moraas, big enough manding general said be would
1
lblS outpo t upon a for a bicycle but not for
jeep.
give high honors
any group of
field do . ln_ated by Jap lire by a NEW JUNGLE PATH
men who would penetrate to the
long, tw sUng course around an- To take Buna Village two weeks pillboxes.
other field, carr mg on my back
.
Last Thursday (Dec. 24 l another
the knapsack of a runner who had 11.go the Americans hewed a new attack got under way, led by Lieut.
been sent for "nter, This runner, jungle pa.th around the left 11ide of William Flanagan, of Meriden,
Nelo Krueger, of New Buffalo, !the left-hand road, They desired to Miss. This attack also, although
.Mich., carr1 d filled flasks strung go straight through simultR.neously pressed home with the greatest
by their chains upon a stick while on both roH.ds but on the &ight were courage, was unable to penetrate
Delbert A hbrook. of flort Worth, prevented by a Jap pillbox of heavy Jap fire. When the American gen•
Tex., and Chuck Robert, of Milan, palmetto logs filled in w;,th earth era.I reitr.rAted thAt this fork was
Mich., covcrPd us with tommy guns lying squRrely athwRrt the trail. the key to Buna Mission and must
as we ran dR. hed to the company Deep quagmire flanked bnth sides. be ('Onquered, his own aid volun•
that had broken the triangle.
F('lr nearly a fortnight the Amer•
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The triangle is that scarred icans launched every conceivable
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swamp of pandanua and betel nut type of infantry att&ck aaaln • t the
tree• and thlr.k gras• that lie• In rigbt-hand fork to Buna. MtS1ion.
the fork where the roads to Buna Our flrBt heavy attack came 10
reached
a
How Michigan Men
Routed Japs at Buna
Michigan Heroes
Take Time Out
(Concluded from P•I'• One)
teered, but the losses obliged him both of Manitowoc; Robert Bre.w•
to withdraw llkewise.
ster, ot Monttc~llo, Ark.; Alo.ystus
Nowak of Milwaukee: Wilbert
Yet anothe:- assault upon thes~ Romba~h. <>~ Youngstown; David
pillboxes, then numbered ~t three, Hamm, of Detroit; Corp. Howard
was made by a group of l~fantry• Reed, of Grand Rapid~; Leroy
m~n .le~ b~ Lieut. Paul Whitaker, a Beaup_fl!, of Two ·Rivers, Wis.;
M1ss1sslpp1an.
Sergt, Charles Folletti of La~sing,
to FEET FROM PfLLBOX
Micb., and RAieigh Powell, believed
When all these efforts to circum- to 7be of Youllgst0wn·
vent the pillboxes bad failed, Sergt. ADVANCE ON PILLBOXES
Harald Huyck, of Adrian, -Mich.,
~be group was broken up into
led another assault straight down three parties with Wagner, Gr~\
the ditches tlanklng the foot-wide and Logodon In the lead. They
pat'h. This party managed to make crept from a})ellhole to 1bellbole
40 feet from the pillbox ~efore the and tlnally got within 15 feet. Each
Japs opened fire. Walter E. Miller, carried a barigalore torpedo. They
of Hillsdale, Mich.; Corp. Frank L. made the l11Bl ruah, threw the tor·
Hoyt, of Norristown, Pa., and pedoea inside and ran. The pill•
Bernard R. Snyder followed Huyck, box blew up. No tire developed
but were unable to get closer to from the others. Then the whole
the foremost pillobx. (These three party ru1hed the pillboxes, one by
men also described their attack to one, getting more cautious a11 they
the writer after emerging from the approached the far end wht>re
swamp with faces blackened with American ftre might be met.
mud and bemired to the hip.s).
Sergt. Follett volunteered for ,he
The block to the Americans' last dangeroua task of advancing
progress toward Buna Mission toward the American posts-the
forced them to undertake a clrcui- J a p I have frequently donr~ed
tous western attack through Buna American uniforms for deceptive
v·ll ge
purpoaes, be It noted-and told
1
T~e i.hankless task fell to Capt. them the trian1Ie'1 defenders had
James L Altord, of McComb, Miss. fled.
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It
· 'th Alford that I talked
Doubling back through the hne
was WI
of blackened p1llboxes, the writer
beneath the tree today.
had time between spurt.A caused by
ATIACK DESCRIBED
a sniper on the east to see the
"First we decided we must 10 blackened shafts of a litter. In
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one pillbox a medical unit, includaround the Japs thr~ugh th e swamp ing Victor Esposito, ot ~icago,
and see how the p11lboxe• looked was taking shelter temporarily. Atj
from the rear/' 41\.lford said.
the other end, in the bloodie1t ?ill·
· hi
box of all, lay chterfully Lieut.
Alford began by estabhs nc a Thomas Wri1ching, of Wicken•
small sniper-free area in the jungle burgh, Ariz., along with Harold
bordering upon the creek and coco- Schloeser, of Pine City, Minn.
nut grove at the Jap rear.
I walked out with Henry Gibbon,
''We began by killing three snip· of Holland, Mich.. and Samuel M.
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era. Our best shot, Andrew Siem~ !~<;°.!sie~f !!:!;~r~ '-;;f t~~ a~~~~~
bieder, of Youngstown, O., got two, which had been in the field iu•t 1
he oa1d.
h
If .. beyon Alford"• command pool,
"And you got t ree yourse ' under ftrf: Jn the sun.
prompted Sergt ... Harold K_och, of '"Feel tllkt," 1ald Gibbon, proferManitowoc, Wis.
ring his lf'elmet. It was like fire.
Having cleaned out the .snipers, And th~n began, over this foughtAlford's company then e•labllsh~d for gro1111d, a long walk to the
\ a tree-top lookout, Jap style. Their peep-he,i,d.
first important disco".er~ from this
lnew vantage ~~ Ja.o
lines.,. . .. .....,not
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~t~h ..
t
ce but with 14
r;o~T:~rd's next attempt wa• tff
otart a. bushfire hoplnfh~o p~U~x:s.
the fohage cover on
ful but
The fire was partly success '
d
a backfire by the Japs put an enw
it However, Alford was no
\1e ·to call for mortar fire. Even
fhough the palmetto logs t:re;
them off the projectiles ma e
ssible to harry the Japs in their
l
But their tire continued.
o,;:~ turning point came today. i
Without telling Alford the r
plans, Supply Sergt. Charle• GWag•
and Runner James
reen,
~~~h ot Manitowoc, started tor the
h
pi~;;~~r is a hairy. fellow wh~
wears torodor-Hke s 1 deb urns,
Green ta sallow and small. Wag•
ner had a revolver; Green. beintg I~
un-ner bad no weapon. -The~ o.
d • th('Y intended to viiut hts
Id orcommand pnst which, before
~he tree-top ouJ.look was estab·
1' bed had been a 11maU gulch in
t~e ,;.iddle of a field under Jap
fire.
AW NO FIRE
Instead of going to the old. co~mand post the duo made a aeries
daring, circuitous appro~ches
ard the first pillbox. Finally
heY.: got within ~5 feet of one
Get Patched Up for
Next Go With Japs
to
Japs Cleared From Buna
NEW GUINEA
1-..lL.=...!t:.'.
SOMEWHERE IN NEW
\GUINEA,
Dec. 3.-CDelayed)--{IP)"I would a thousand times ratl1er
, go back up. there than go through
I this ," said Corp. Boyd Lightfoot,
of Sault Sainte Marie, Mich., as he
\ rested today in an American field
hospital.
Lightfoot ·had been through four
different attackl; on Japanese po•
sitions when he was stricken near
Buna with what he thought was an
old - fashioned stomachache, but
which the doctors tabbed appendi•
citis.
His chief disappointment is that
the time needed for the operation
will cost him a chance for more
good shooting. He's a1re.~dy wear,:
ing one_ set of Japanese dog tags
around his neck, taken from a
sniper he nailed.
Pvt. Wenzel Thompson, of De•
troit, was sporting a shiner which
his comrades joked about. Thompson's outfit was charging a Jap•
anese machine-gun pof>ition when
a bit of shrapnel cut his forehead
slightly, and the bl.ick eye was the
main result.
Pvt. Herman Wilbert, a Grand
Rapids, Mich., mortar gunner who
,was injured when a Japanese shell
1landed nearby, hopes to get patched
'up in time, he said. for "the kill at
Buna." which he believes is comini
soon. (Editor's note: It did.)
Pvt. Hubert Mennega, of Byron
Center, Mich., ,,·as on patrol when
a sniper caught him with a small•
caliber bullet. Mennega continued
some distance before ht. realized he
was wounded. Hi;; main grievance
was that hospitalization cost him a
flowing beard Vflhich he had wanted
to save until it could be phnto•
graphed.
Nurses who are mJking y,~wly
arrived casualties comfortable said
a. cold drink of water was the most
popular item. They reported all the
patients were in excellent condition
considenng they had only been
treated at field dressing stations.
Even men with fractures arrived
with their arms and leg1" in casts as
good as a city hospital could pro•
vlde, they said.
All these men, like others who
have come out of the swampland
battle, were in high spirits.
heavy- 1 ed 1
ho.v to make the teat. They
arose
aufflcient arms. Finally,
~ckecler exposed himself slightly
getting no action, stood u~.
The're was sniper fire but api~
nothing from within. Wagnel s~n
d.()wn
Green sto~d up.
sa
ncJthi~g from the -p1llb0Xe8 • •
They crawled back-the JOI1~n~~
taking
~h!frurtri~. T~ey,
00
ked pe ·mission to take out a
arty This time Charles Lo1adon,
f Louisville, Ky., a thin-faced
with a small moustac~!•
to be in the advance w1tn
h
The plan was to have a
em. arty in the rear, also vol-
an't"'
~\re~
::~d
request t:rr volunteers,
man asked to go..
ted Harold Evan•, of
cover the three lead< my gun. It was dilll·
o
e part~.
., tected were George\
Clarks Mills, Wio.; Rich·
, ot Youngstown, O.;
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The black shading indicates the allied drive in New Guinea
across the Owen Stanley Mountains that culminated in the
elimination of all J ap troops from Buna. One pocket of
resistance in the area remains at Sanananda (Jap flag). Farther
northwest, allied forces heavily bombed Jap positions at Lae.
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Back in February, 1934, the Solomon islands and Guadalcanal
broke into print when it was sugg~sted in congress that England
give them to the United States as part payment on her World war
I debt,
In August, 1935, Bishop Thomas Wade, then Catholic apostolic
vicar to the Solomons, came back to report that visiting anthropoloa
gists were not the least of the hardships encou\nte!':ed by missionaries
to the cannibals <;>f the Solomon islands.
Except for these notations and an occasional report of .an uprisa
ing in which missionaries or white traders were involved, newspaper
files on the Solomon islands are for the most part barren until World
war II put the s6uth seas back into the layman's geography.
On Jan. 22, 1942, Japanese planes raided the SololTlon islands and
lirought them up to date, to the amazement of the natives who stared
bug-eyed and open-mouthed at four-motor bombers. The Solomons'
folder in news libraries has grown steadily since with these high
poir~ts in only eight monttis of war:
Jan. 24-Japs land in Solomons, New Guinea. New Britain.
May 4-American flyers sink Jap warships in Solomons in prelude to the battle of Coral sea.
·
Aug. 7-United States warships and marines invade Tulagi•
Guadalcanal area in surprise night attack.
Aug. 8-Marines continue landings, spread to other islands.
Aug. 8-9-Jap cruiser and destroyer force driven off in attack on
United States troops, supply ships. United States loses three heavy
cruisers, Australia . loses one.
Aug. 14-Marines consolidated and supplies move in under army
and navy air attack on Jap bases.
Aug. 17-Navy announces shore positions ••now well established.''
Aug. 19-Marine patrols hunt out Jap remnants in jungles.
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Wide World fe,t • res
Aug. 20-Japs land reinforcements at night; hand-to-hand fighting on beaches.
Aug. 21-Seven hundred enemy wiped out by lat: afternoon in
full-scale battle.
Aug. 23-Enemy aircraft attack with heavy losses. Jap destroyers shell United States land positions at night.
Aug. 25-Great Japanese armada t urned back by United States
air and naval forces short of United States•held islands.
Aug. 29-Marines wipe out Jap forces, tightening grip on six
Solomon islands.
Sept. 3-Small Jap landing parties hunl<!d down in Solomons.
Sept. 7-Forty-six Jap planes raid Guadalcanal.
Sept. 7-Japs try to reinforce Guadalcanal forces, lose heavlly In
troops and small boats. Forty-six Jap planes raid island.
Sept. 7-United States destroyer B1ue and a transport sunk while
supplying land forces.
Sept. 15-Reinforcements help Japs strike hard on Guadalcanal
but marines hold.
Sept. 29-United Stales dive-bombers blast Jap-held villages on
Guadalcanal.
Oct. 5-Japs land reinforcements despite United Stat.es air attacks.
Oct. 6-7-More Jap reinforcements land, pointing toward battle
for Henderson field.
Oct. 8-Navy planes damage five Jap ships, destroy eight planes .
north of Solomons.
Oct. 10-More Jap reinforcements land on Guadalcanal.
Oct. 13-United States troops balk Jap landing on Guadalcana.l,
sink six Jap warships, damage two others.
Oct. 14 to Datc-Jap navy shells United States stations on Guadal•
canal, then lands reinforcements. Artillery uhits attack marine outposts. J ap aerial assaults increase and both sides rush reinforcements
and relief task forces and step up bombing of enemy supply ah!~
�-NEA Telephoto
FEAST FOR A JAP-
A Jap prisoner taken in Aleutian ,,·aters gets the best food he
ever ate, in the brig of a United States navy ship en route
to Dutch Harbor, Alaska. (Official nayy photo.)
tted line shows battle line of
o weeks ago. Solid white line is
y's approximate line. Scale: 6
to½ln.
"'m the jungle•covered Bij.taan
peninsula and its "little Gibraltar,"
Corregidor island, American and
FIUptno troops under Lieut. Gen.
Jonathan M. Wainwright are staglllg an unremitting defense against
superior Japanese forces on the
mainland and on Luzon bases only
a few miles away.
Am e r i c an mllltary experts
learned from the Filipino insurrection at the turn of the century that
Bataan peninsula has few equals
as a defensive position. From 12
to 20 miles wide and 30 miles long,
the area is choked with jungle
growth and its hilly, mountainous
terrain-lined with only a few decent roads - defies the extensive
o}!leration of motorized equipment.
Off the point of the peninsula
lies Corregidor, whose natural defenses have been strengthened by
art i 11 e r y emplacements, underground galleries and warehouses.
The guns are capable of shelling
Japanese .. held Cavite, 22 miles
away.
Manila bay cannot be utilized as
a large-scale naval base by the
Japanese so long as the United
States controls Corregidor, the entrance, and heavy Japanese bomb-ings of recent weeks have indicated acceptance of this fact.
American authorities-, h owe v e r,
said damage to the fortress has
been ne gllgible.
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Clashing Anew
In New Guinea
(By Associated Press I
Allied mountain troops in N.ew
Guinea were reported skirmishing
Tuesday with the Japanese in the
region of the "Gap" through the
Owen ~tanley mountains.
A spokcwman for Gen. Douglas
MacArthur said allied forward elements had made some progress
forward. From the "Gap" t~e
mountain trail drops 5,000 feet m
12 miles.
No details were given as to the
strength of the Japanese, who have
been withdrawing steadily from
position.s in the Owen Stanley
I
m1rrnt:~~:~ity was on a reduced
scale, but medium bombers an~
attack planes again raked the trail
to Buna along which the Japanese
must bring up their supplies and
reinforcements. Japanese lnstalla• 1
tlon.s at Buna also were bombed. I
QUIZZING CAPTIVE IN ALEUTIANSOne of five Japanese prisoners captured in the Aleutians and brought to the United States Is ·
shown, left, being questioned by navy officers at Dutch Harbor. In the center is LIEUT COl\IDR,
PETER HOLM. (Official navy photo.)
�JapsW
Ind:
<IIFMlileli11111:PrWJ
Allled mountain troopt.
forced the Japanese to Wi
a short distance In the Owen Stall•
ley mountains of New Guinea and
fighting is continuing and increasing in scope, Gen. Douglas Mac] Arthur's headquarters announced
Saturday.
The allied advance was made In
the vicinity of Templetons Crossing as alJied planes machinegunned villages at the mouth of the
Mambare river, 40 miles north of
Buna on the northeastern New
Guinea coast.
8uUetin 10 • 1i·Y~
GENERAL MAC ARTHUR'S '
HEADQUARTERS (Sunday) <lP> -
Dates give time of re•
capture by Australians
AustraJlan troops on the offensive in southeastern New Guinea, backed by allied bombers, have regained
most of the mountainous area taken by Jap invaders a month ago. Only a trail through the hllls and
Jungle erosses the mountain range at the divide kn own as the Gap, making milltary moves precarious.
Here the Japs were pushed back towa ard their main advance base at Kokoda.
ZERO HOUR IN THE SOLOMONSThe upper map shows sectloh of Guadalcanal island where
American marines, soldiers and sailors are meeting the assault by Jap troops who have forced a landing. Lower map
shows scenes of other action in the Solomons.
Allied N atlons' units yesterday
heavily bombed the Solomon fs...
lands, where ;Japanese forces are
attacking Amerlcan..held installa- 1
tions, General MacArthur'• headquarters announced today.
The dlaclo"'!re that MacA>Jtharls
air force was givJng powerful: sup-:
port to Americans In the Solomons,
by hammering the Japanese bases
and ships, was accompanied by the
announcement that Allied ground
troops had captured Templeton's
Crossing high in the Owen Stanley ,
mountain range of New Guinea.
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GEN. MAC ARTHUR"S
HEADQUARTERS, Australia
(Wednesday) <A»-AIIIP-d bomb..
JAP PRISONERS LINE UP FOR ROLL CALL-Japanese prisoners captured by United States marines on Guadalcanal island line up for roll
call. These prisoners are largely naval reservists used by the Japanese for construction work.
This picture was radioed from Honolulu to San Francisco,
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ARE CAPTURED JAPS DOWNHEARTED? NOJapanese prisoners on Guadalcanal island look anything but unhappy as they light up American
cigarets, of which they get 10 a day, after being captured in recent fierce fighting there.
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ers were believed to ha,'e Ju..
tucted extensive damait:e in an..
othrr blow at the Japanese
hase of Buin in the northern
Solomons, it was announced today, while Australian troops
forced back the Japanese th1·ee
miles in the New Guinea land
fight b et ween Templeton's
Crol'l'.slng and Kokoda.
"Continuing to support operations In the Solomons," the
communique said of the Buln
raid, "Allied mf'dlum units
made another night attack on
the alrdrome and enemy shipping at tht!II base. Extensive
damage is believed to have
been inflicted. There was no attempt at Interception. All our
planes returned safely."
Butn I~ at the southern tip
of Bougalnville island some 315
miles northwPst of the U, S.
base at Guadalcanal.
The setback for thP Japanese
at Templeton's Crossing meant
a re~umption of their retreat
from their unsuccessful land
assault across the Owen Stanley mountains directed at Port
Moresby.
[Aussies 10 Miles:~"'
Fro,,:;, Kokodq~ in
Guinea Mountains
Gen, MacArthur's Headquarters
in Australia-<lP>-Allied troops
have driven the Japanese from
their defense positions near Eora
creek in the Owen Stanley mountains of New Guinea and are .continuing to press successful attacks,
Gen. Douglas MacArthur announced Thursday.
The new advance brought the
allied ground troops within 10
miles of Japanese-held Kokoda by
trail 1 and only about 6 miles by
air •
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Marines Move Through Jungles on Guadalcanal
canal island to get into position to attack the Japanese forces en•
trenched along 1\-fa.tanikou river. This picture was sent by radio
from Honolulu to San Francisco.
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GENERAL MACARTHUR'S ,
HEADQUARTERS, Australia, (Fri, day), UP)-Japanese and Allied
bombers exchanged blows, the Japs
bombing Po1-t Moresby and the Al•
lies Buin while Allied ground forces
I were continuing to push the Japa-
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high command reported today.
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The AJlied bomber attack on Buinl
at the southern tip of Bougainvllle
island in the Solomon islands to the
of embattled Guadalcanal,
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opposition. Such shipping concentrations have ben sought out by
the Allies to weaken any ~DPding
assault upon American-held· Guadalcanal.
Ten tons of bombs were dropped
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by the planes, all of which located
their targets at Buin and later returned safely to their bases.
Three Jap bombers made a night
raid on Port Moresby. The com..
munique reported that the raid
caused neither casualties nor damage.
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FIRST JAP PRISONERS REACH AMERICAAn official navy photo of blindfolded, heavily •guarded Japs, captured in a naval engagement in
the Aleutians, arriving at Dutch Harbor. Five · of them ha,•e been brought to the United States
for questioning and detention.
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�FRIDAY,
OCTOBER 23, 1942.
Brin~s Home Bacon in Solomons
Roast wild pig is not on the daily diet of the marines on Guadalcanal island-in fact it probably is not on their diet at all now that
the men arc fighting desperately against invading Japs. But before
latest Jap 1msh PVT. M. G. WIGGINS bagged this beauty,
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SHOWER ON WHEELS IN NEW GUINEAA nice cool shower is in order on many a hot afternoon in New
Guinea and these United States troops stationed at one of the
allied nations' airfields know how to get it. A water wagon,
used to keep the ever-present dust down on the field, makes
the rounds regularly and the boys step under the spray for
a quick cooling-off.
JapsThrown
Off Schedule
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Nonstop Raids by U. S.
Flyers Delay Attack
on Guadalcanal
(BY Associ~ted Press.)
-Cenlral Press
YANKS LAND AT A BOMBED AffiFIBLDAmerican troops fill in bomb craters at an American airfield
near Port Moresby, New Guinea. Soldiers are watching a.
Flying Fortress circling over the field, which has just been
bombed by the Japs, as the pilot awaits the signal to land.
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Persistent allied air bombardment
of a large Japanese war fteet in
the southwestern Pacific appeared
Friday to have thrown a long-ex•
pected Nipponese invasion thrust
against Guadalcanal off schedule
while giving Americans valuable
time to bolster their forces.
The enemy warships and trans•
ports have been the target for an
almost constant rain of allied aerial
bombs for the last 10 days.
The lat~st attack on the enemy's
ship concentration came Thursday
night when allied bombers under
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's Australian command dumped 10 tons of
explosives on Japanese vessels at
Buin at the southern tip of Bougainville island.
The nocturnal raid drew strong
anti-aircraft fire, but aU the planes
found their targets, MacArthur's
communique reported, and returned
safely to their hases.
Meantime, the navy disclosen that
Japanese troops in the hea~ jun~
gle on northern Guadalc3nal had
attempted a minor thn1st at the
American positions on Oct. 20. The
"feeler" was repulsed.
An enemy bomber, believed to
have b(;en on a reconnaissance
mission over the island, was brougti,t
\ down by anti-aircratt fire.
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Allies Pushing
Guinea, Attack
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(Bv Associated Press.)
AUied jungle troops in New
Gui)lea were reported Satur~ay to
be attacking the Japanese m ~he
area south of Alola,. less than nme
miles from the advanced enemy
b~~::i!~k~:~ier pl~nes harassed
enemy positions outside Ko~oda.
The Japanese air fo_rce, ~h1~h has
been comparatively mact1ve m the
New Guinea area since the operations in the Solomons. started. made
a light bombing attack on the al~
lied airfield at Milne ~a~ on the
southeast tip pf New Guinea, but
caused neither dama_ge n~r casualties said a commumque issued by
Ge~. Douglas MacArthur.
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TOKIO WJLJ; PAY FOR TIDS, TOO, SOME DAY SOON!BR~G, GEN, MA~TIN F. ·mDKE) SCANLON, right, of the, United States army, with two Australian officers, v1e~s !he smoking ruins of an American 1,omber, victim of a direct hit by a
~apanese bomb. This picture, taken somewhere in New Guinea-, was approved by the united na•
tions censor there.
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Jap Pane Tender
at Rabaul SmasHed
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SUPPLIES REACH E~IBATTLED MARINES IN SOWMONSStripped to the waist, United States marines carry supplies ashore from landing barges in one of
the Solomon islands, where they are standing off concerted Jap drives to dislodge them. (Official
marine corps photo.)
GENERAL MACARTHUR'S
HEADQUARTERS, Aust r a Ii a
(Sunday) ·(JP)-A lal'ge Jap sea.plane tender was believed destroyed at Rabaul, New Britain, by
Allied bombers, the high command
announced today.
The seaplane tender was one of
the targets picked out by a flight
of heavy bombers which again
struck at the harbor of Rabaul
whel'e Jap ships have concentrated,
presumably for an impending as.
sault on American-held Guadalcanal in the Solomons to the southeast.. An assault the day previously resulted in the sinking or damaging of 10 Japanese ships, including a cruiser and it destroyer.
Today',s communique said the
second assault, made at night, resulted in a hit amidships with 8.
500-pound bomb of a seaplane tender of the Nisshin Maru class of
17,600 tons. Flames and black
smoke envelop'ed the ship which
was believed ''to be completely destroyed."
The communique also reported
the destruction of at least two and
probably four Jap bombers in a
raid on Lae, vital Jap base on the
north coast of New Guinea and a
raid by 12 Jap planes on Darwin, 1
northern AustraUan port, which I
caused "only slight damage."
Allied ground forces, meanwhile, :
continued their advance upon Kokoda, Jap-held _base in the Owen
Stanley mountains.
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GEN. MAC ARTHUR'S HEAD·
QUARTERS, Australia, (Tuesd~y)
_,.(lp)-Allied warplanes made wide- 1
spread raids on Japanese bases in!'
New Guinea and Dutch Timor yesterday, General MacArthur report1
edA\~~:{~ were made against Koeang the Japanese airdrome on
fhe 'southwestern tip of Dutch
Tim or and against Lae •and Salaua , both on the northeast coast
N;w Guinea, and against Kokoda, on the trail from Euna to Port
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M;~:b:~emy meantime raided Dari
Australia, and Port Moresby
;n~' Milne Bay in New Guinea, the
communique said.
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tion of this war, with an Allied
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he boys are trained razor
The 126th infantry, west Mich"This time, we've really com\
rp and are eager to tangle with
igan's own, is now on New Guinea a des?late spot and 3:r~ _ItvinW
he sneaky Jap. No _doubt by the
where the Allied armies have been th~ wilderness. The c1v1han vo~ffl'II, you r ecev? this letter, you
labon has been evacuated and there wi)l ha.ve read m the newspapers
bat.tling the Japs for weeks and, are no stores left in which to t.u,Ut large Allied successes in this
according to latest dispatches, are anythi.1:g. Therefore, t~e only thin~
of the woz·ld, I believe that
steadily pu'Shing the enemy back to do 1s to work during the day,
amibition of the boys is to lick
in the Owen Stanley mountains.
\lap off thiJ island, and then
This news was received in Grand
kick him all around the Pacific
Rapids Thursday in a letter to
~ he is exterminated.
John English, superintendent of
11:EART OF TROPICS
the Grand Rapids armory, from
"h first we found the living
1st. Sergt. Jack J. Wester of servondittons very difficult to accusice company, 126th infantry. The
liourselves to, but after a few
letter, written Oct. 7, does not say
s we managed to do all right.
how long the troops have been on
twisting and turning on the
the island north of Australia, for
for a couple of d.aye, and
~o~se.ssion of which a terrific fight
~1',laJW:et;a
1s oemg waged.
)'iei<'fe
The letter, which was written
to ldn
shortly after the men arrived in
und and now we llle.,,.-ve1'Y
New Guinea, was paesed by the
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military censor.
•'J'rom lookng at the map, you
Wester simply says, "We have
can see we are in the heart of the
left the mainland of Australia and
tropical zone, and it is really hot
are now resting on the island of
ere.. I am told that the hottest
New Guinea." He makes no menmonths are from December through
tion
the fighting, confining his
February, but by the time that
letter to the country and living
period arrives, we will have
conditions.
soaked up enough of the sunshine
"WITHOUT INCIDENT"
to have become acclimated. Most
te:•T::s c~~s::::u°iii :ned s!~~;~t ~:~
of the boys are almost the color
of the natives already. Speaking
cident," the letter runs. "There
This map shows New G ~ of the natives, they are very friendrd
wasn't mu~h to do while abo.a
north of Aus,tralia, where
Jy here and should prove a valuable
ship and Just a~out all. my time 126th Infantry is now Ioca
aseet in seeking out and fighting
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::; :::kei~gui~ : :hsu~l:~:e~
and, when the sun goes down, ~oot
Jap. ,
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our traveling on dangerous waters the bull with the boys. T his type
Guess ; ve written Just about all
for quite a few days. you can just of life is hard and boring but inust I can th mk o! that would pass
bet that every one of us breathed necessarily be contended with if th e 'Censor. Needless to say l
big sigh
relief when we set there is to b+:>. successful culrninat~~~1:n:ni~ ; 0 th~~~
foot on good old mother earth.
See 126TH INFANTRY -Pace .11 · far dist~nt when I will be back
W.,.re following the normal pattern
of Ufe again, Who knows but what
thjs latest move is the first leg of
o
ourne bac
o
e goodold
USA. If you don
ear from me
lor quite awhile, you should know
that conditions make it impossible
MICH., MONDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1942.-:
for me to write; therefore, don't
wait for answers to your letters
before writing again since the main
source of enjoyment to the soldier
is, at present, receiving letters
from home."
LEFT IN 1940
Wester, who was ~mployed In
the mail division at ,,the Union
depot here, left with the first group
of the Michigan national guards
on Oct, 20, 1940, for Camp Beauregard, going with the convoy divis!Qn. The second group left Oct.
of
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Marines Hear 'Mass as Japanese Guns Bark
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Early in 1941, the 126th moved
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Mass. , then moved to Australia, 1
where they ]anded in May of 1942. 1
Mr. English said he received a
letter from Staff Sergt. William
Zarafonetls of gervice company,
written Sept. 16, but there was no
mention of a move to New Guinea.
He a1so heard about the same time
from Capt. Edwin Henry of Grand
1Haven, who was also in Australia,
and made no mention o! an expected move.
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This letter :from First Sergt.
Wester is the first word received
here that Grand R'apids men are
in the thick of the fig hting in 1
New Guinea.
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While nearby guns bark and United States troops mop up Japs in
the Mantanlkou river section, Cathollo fighting men kneel before
an outdoor altar as FR. REARDON, marine chaplain, says Sunday
mass
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NOTCH A JAP BOMBEJ.t
~larked~ by a thin plume of smoke, a Japanese bomber plunges
earthward a(ter having been blasted by mq.rine fighter planes over
Guadalcanal. The plane crashed and exploded. (Marine photo.)
Strange to American fighting
men is the environment in which
they find themselves at Port
J.\,loresby, the vital allied base on
the southern coast ot New
Guinea. The natives, the customs
and the land itself they may
have read about or studied in
school, but seeing them firsthand is a new experience. Sightseeing, however, is purely incidental. They have a job to do
and they're doing it.
�\Makes Direct Hit on Jap
Ship With 500-Lb. Bomb
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Japs Battered
In New
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down in his DOok thus: "Mission
SOMEWHERE IN NEW made- bombs in target area."
GUINEA, Southwest Pacific (De(Gen. MacArthur reported two
layed) ,(]p)-Boring through some enemy bombers were destroyed,
of the stormiest weather yet en- two more probably destroyed and
countered in the southwest Pacific, an anti-aircraft position knocked
Flying Fortresses of Gen. MacAr- out by A1lied !'aiders in a \Surprise
thur's command arssaulted Rabaul attack on the Japanese at Lae,
in another pre-dawn raid and New Guinea.
scored a direct hit with a 500-pound
(Continued progress was reported
<\.Hied Troops Win Strong,
Moun ta in Positions
in 'Apache Attack'
(Bv United Press.)
bomb on a big Japanese ship, the meanwhile by Allied forces drivin·g 1
11th enemy vessel sunk or dam- against the Japanese ·in the Owen
aged there in two days.
Stanley mountains.
The enemy,
(A Sunday communique from Al- fighting from prepared positions,
lied headquarters in Australia iden- was using light a r tillery and mor-
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of the 17,600-ton Nis'shin Maru - class and said it was believed to
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have been destroyed. When last
seen the vessel was reported
ing great columns of flame and
spout-1
black smoke.)
FOLLOWS HEAVIER ASSAULT
This attack followed a heavy assault the night before in which 10
ships, including a cruiser and de-
Allies Lash at
Japs' Lae Base
in N,e w Guinea
stroyer, were sunk or damaged at
Rabaul in New Britain, used by
the Japanese as their main supply
base for their forces battling Americans at Guadalcanal in the Solomon island'S. The Allied bombers
had to dodge over and under rollin·g thunderheads to get to Rabaul.
Lieut. William Smith of H-onolulu piloted the first bomber to get
there. His navigator, Lieut. James
Buchanan of Holly Springs, Miss.,
said they made one run from a
very low level.
"I picked out the biggest ship
in the ha1•bor," Buchanan said.
"Smith made a diagonal run and 1
let go with our 500-pounders. From
that string we got one direct hit
amidships and the othcr'S were
spaced enough to do lots of damage."
Capt. Clyde Kelsey of Marlow,
Okla., piloted another Fortress and
his bombardier, Lieut. Joseph Howard of Bishop, Tex. , said its bombs
caused fire aboard a ship followed
by explosion'S, apparently from ammunition stores.
"BOMBS IN TARGET AREA"
Considering the weather, Maj. Elbert Halton of Clifton, Tex., squadron leader, said the raid would go
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GEN. MAC ARTHUR'S JIEADQUARTER'S, Australia (Wednesday) (lP) Allied fighter pilots
made a strafing attack on the Japanese base at Lae, New Guinea,
yesterday, giving remote support
to their embattled comrades on
Guadalcanal, 900 miles to the
southeast.
The Allied formation destroyed
three barges and silenced anti-aircraft positions at this important
Japanese base, Allied headquatters
said in announcing the raid in its
noon communique today. One A111ed plane was missing.
Northwest of Australia Allied
medium b?mbers raided Dili, Portuguese Timar.
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Allied troops have smashed into
Japanese lines, capturing vantage
points on the Kokoda trail, Gen.
Douglas MacArthur reported Friday.
Halted earlier by stiff Japanese
resistance in the rugged Owen
Stanley mountains south of 'the
village of Alola, the allies staged •
an "Apache charge" with bayo•
nets. The screaming, charging in~antrymen, bayoneting their way
1~to the entrenched Japanese positions, broke the enemy's nerve cap•
tured 20 soldiers and won se~eral
strong points, Gen. MacArthur reported.
''We have not yet reached Aloia"
a headquarters spokesman said
"but we have removed strong
Japanese defensive posts which
have been impeding our advance.
The Japanese forces routed were
not necessarily a rear guard, be•
cause they have been holding up
the allies strenuously tor several
days. It is believed that the Japa•
~ese suffered considerable casualties."
From Alola the mountain trail
plunges sharply down to the enemy
s~rong point of Kokoda and the
airfield tMre.
A formation of allied bombers
made two daylight sweeps over the
enemy-held trail between Kokoda
and Alola Thursday, bombing and
strafing Japanese positions, including the villages ot Isurava and
Abuari, north of Alola.
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Jnps V se Truce Flags to Lure \
Yanks to Death, Navy Reveal~
One of the men walked over 1·o
Washington-(!P)-An example of make the Jap a prisoner, but wh n
Japanese treachery in the south he got within five feet of the f p
Pacific warfare was made public by he was shot and killed.
the navy Friday in releasing a disAgain several marine lan4ipg
patch written by Sgt. Richard T. boats were entering a cove ~n
Wright, a marine corps combat Florida 1s18.nd in the Solomolls
correspondent.
when a large white flag was seen
Honoring a flag of truce borne by
a Japanese officer, 28 of 30 marines waving from a tree on shore.
Fire Returned.
were massacred when they sought
to take custody of "a bunch of The boats were maneuvered
Japs" who, the sergeant said, were toward shore to investigate, but
isolated on a nearby island and when they were about 150 yards
from the beach the enemy opened
wanted to surrender.
As the 30 marines drew near the fl.re.
"Fortunately we were ready and
island they were met without
warning by 11 a terrific burst from blasted them right back," related
Sgt.
Harry W, Schuler of Napa,
several machine-guns hidden in
the underbrush," Wright wrote.
Calif.
"They were mowed down like so
Other treacherous acts attributed
many stalks of corn," he added, to the Japs by Sgt. Wright included
"except for the two escaped and the issuing of fake orders in English in night action, and the use of
swam to safety."
Sgt. Wright told of other in• "booby traps" which consist of a
stances of Jap treachery conceived weapon or other apparently dis•
around use of the white flag. carded article attached to a grenOn one occasion two United States ade which explodes when the ob\ soldiers on patrol duty saw a Jap ject is picked up or moved.
on horseback waving a white flag.
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Wasp loins Lexington, Yorktown at Bottom of Pacific
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Sinking of the USS aircraft carrier Wasp,
top, was announced by
the navy Monday night. It was sunk by a 1'fi>anese submarine in the
Solomons Sept. 15, sinking a few hours ffter the submarine had
scored three mortal hits. Third United Stites aircraft carrier to be
lost in the Pacl:flc, the Wasp, lower right, was ablaze from stem to
stern before it sank to join the Lexington and the Yorktown at the
bottom of the Pacific. CAPT. FORREST P. SHERMAN, Jell, was in
command of the Wasp.
Aussie Force
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Contest in Jungles
of New Guinea
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LIEUT. COMDR. JOHN R.
HUME, officer of the United
State aircraft carrier Wasp,
which was sunk in the Solomons battle Sept. 15, is on fur-
lough at his home at Port Huron. Comdr. llume praised handling of the ship by Capt.
Forrest P. Sherman and lauded
work of medical officers, chalflains and other personnel in
treating the wounded and get-
ting them clear of the ship after
word to abandon It had been
ordered.
GENERAL MAC ARTHUR'S
HEADQUARTERS, Australia
,l (Friday) (IP)-New Allied gains
-,.. on the ground in the moun' tain8 of New Guinea and a
6 Flying Fortress bombardment
l'l of Bulnt on the southern tip
' or Bougainville island in the
') northern Solomon8 wer<" an- nounced t-oda~, by the Alllel
hlg-h <'.ommand.
In an attack last, nlg~t on th•
,Ja.pan~e naval base
Buln.
the Fortnsses straddled five
unldPntlfted vessels with bombs.
There was a heavy explosion
on one ship as a result of the
bombing.
The bombers sped through
anti-aircraft fire but encountered no aerial interception.
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In the ground fighting on New
Guinea, it was announced Saturday that Australian troops have
occupied Alola, seven miles south
of the Japanese-held village of Kokoda, and forward elements are
continuing the advance.
The Japanese ' had offered stiff
resistance in the Aiola region and
·held up the allied advance there
for several days. This pocket of resistance was taken Friday in an attack at dusk after an allied flanking group attacked with hand grenades. A frontal bayonet assault
completed the action and routed
the Japanese.
The capture of Aloia means that
allied troops will be able to continue their drive in more favorable
country.
The Japanese apparently had established well-stocked strong points
along the line of retreat where
their men were expected to fight
to the finish, dispatches from the
front said.
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�MARINES WHO TOOK TULAGI RECEIVE COMMUNION
United States marines who partlcipated in wresting Tulagi island in the Sofomons from the Japs kneel
on the sands of thf:' tiny island to receive Holy Communion from a Catholic chaplain. The battle rag8d
shortly before this picture was taken. Now Tulagi is again a battle area.
Allied Bombs
Hit Jap Bases~
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Force Sustains Its
Attack on Islands
GEN, MAC ARTHUR'S HEAD-
QUARTERS, Australia (Monday)
-(AP)-Continuing their methodical hammering at Japanese
bases in the Solomon area, Allied
bombers swept over Buin a.nd 1
Faisi for the fourth consecutive \
day Sunday, dropping 33 tons of \
bombs, Gen. MacArthur's headquarters announced today.
Buin is a town at the southern
Up of Bougainville island about
300 miles northwest of Quadalcanal. Faisi is a small island south
of Bougainville.
Seven ships were believed to
have been sunk or damaged, the
communique said, although ac- 1
curate observation of results- was
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Stamping Division Tums Out Tools for War Machines
Five freight cars are being loaded with machines for shipment to war production plants in
this scene ln tht'I Grand Rapids Stamping Division
plant of General Motors which ls producing at a
record rate several types of vital machine tools.
In the foreground the bed of a rugged vertical borIng mill Is OOing lowered onto a flat car. The mlll,
used ln tank production, ls 110 large that two
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freight cars are required to carry a. single machine.
By building the critlcal boring mills not only for
Jts own tank arsenal but for several other tank producers as well, together with the planers, other
types of boring mills and drills, the stamping dlvislon's machine tool production activity has become
an important phase of the armament ptorra1'1,,
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dig~c:l~f our planes failed _to re-J
turn.
Continuing support of the action
in the Solomons, two heavy coordinated night attacks were carried out by strong formations of
heavy and medium A1lied bombers.
The attacks were pressed home
at low altitude in the face of intense anti-aircraft fire, the communique said.
Medium bombers also attacked
Lae on the northeast coast of New
Guinea in early-morning dSJ'kness.
One of our attack units was in·
tercepted south of Lae by 20 Japanese Zeros. Three of the enemy
fighters were shot down and one of
our fighters failed to return.
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}uadalcanal and land forces have
lestroyed a total of 12 J~panese
ight tanks in action dunng the
\Aussies Push.
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rea have "met this onslaught a nd
he skill with which t hese ~oJces
,ave been handled. They l
a
uperb job," he said.
Bombers Smash Enemy's
Attempt to Reinforce
New Guinea Force
,;;:;ica!ec;;;~~r afs:ve~~:e
anks on the island , a fact ~hie!
tas not previoualy be:n ,:en ~~;t
n navy announ cemen s. e as
•d however t h at there was no eviie~ce as y~t o! a ny tank battle
)etween t he opposin g tank forces.
'PURE SPECULATION"
He described reports th at la:ge
AJ;ied rn;r:~:::t~do:;;;• l Tuesday
captured the Japanes 1 base at Kokoda after a gruelling drive over
the o,.. en Stanle,• mountains in ,
I~:~~
Smash at Foe
in Buin Raid
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NeW Guinea and continue to
shove the Japanese troops towa rd
their coastal base at Buna.
Aware of the precarious posi-
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Jap Carrier Among
Four Ships Hit by
Jap Warships Withdraw as First
Round of Guadalcanal .Fight Ends
By INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE
WASHINGTON - Secretary of t e avy nox ec are n•
~:?at!~ tha~t:: ;i!~~e~ef :::tr~~t~: :~: ~~a!~~:a::]:e e"::;
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can bases as "pure speculation.
carrying an estimated 7,000 sol'They could strike anywh ere, even
diers, to Euna to bo1ster their reth
1t Alask a," he said, "but
at is
treating for ces, a11 allied communerely speculation ."
nique said.
th0
But regardless of where
se
Allied heavy bombers attacked
th
fo1·ces might next' appear th e secthe transports, escorted by a light
t
retary was certain batb
e
I cruiser, a destroyer and nine fightnaval u nits which have _een si . - ~ er planes, scoring many near
ed near the Shor t.l and islands in \' misses and shooting down five of
th e n orthecn Solomons A.11.d enemy I
f' ht
tOrcee w h ich -.rticlpated l n t he I the Japanese ig ers.
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week•end battle some 400 'M~~
Bombers Strike Repeated y,
n ortheii.et' 1t1f Guadalcanal (UWe
Medium bombers attacked later,
dropping bombs ,,vhich missed the
e declined- to aaY Whether ~e transport only narrowly. The con,i,w-: aaa "'Wtthdra'Wft an the way voy withdrew, but the bombers
lNl,.telt l h the mid-P aci.fie.
struck again and scored a direct
"'he f act t h e .Taps have wl th- hit on one of the transports and
""'11 the large naval u n its known near hits on both. One transport
•ta ,.lu de baitleships and at leaSt was burning when last seen off
o -aircraft carriers ~rom t~e Gasmata on the south coast of
S,o1omons area is considered m New Britain, it was stated offiava.1 circles here as the most cia11y.
beadentng news. from the south- The JapanPse landed first at
west Pacific since the last phase Buna on Ju1y 2:1 .;. nd within two 1
of th• battle b~gan on Oct. 13•
,~-eeks had advanced 60 miles
LD "EVERY · I NCH "
across New Guinea to Kokoda.
That American land forces de- , Backed by superior forces, the
en ding Guadalcanal still occupy , Japanese fought their way through
eveg inch of grounQ." they ever •'the gap" in the mountain range
nti-olled strikingly reveals that and were facing allied troops at
Jap attempts to blast the Ionba1wa, only 32 miles from Port
lc8.Ils out of their positions Moresby, when alhed defenses st1f• lailed at the expense of tell- fened and finally started to ad~~s in ships, planes and men. van~ce back over the mountains to
::i~'t;~er military experts here Kokoda.
i4', ni~ht warned against u ~- Along_ the road fr~m Kokoda. to
e optimism over this victory m Euna, .1.ungle at?d rivers combine
..ftrst round," pointing out that to provide form1da~le natural obµte m enacing Jap forces have not sta:Ies to the aI11:s. and more
been destroyed but inst~ad have easily defended pos1t_ions for t.l)e
tir ed from the scene.'
~apanese, who are expected to
4,
r~h ether that is for the pur pose [ight with everything a~ailable to
of regrouping and striking again old the north New Guinea coast.
at the Solomons or perh~ps at
the American held bases m the
New Hebrides or Fiji islands remains yet to be seen bu~ in a ~8:ttle
f or such vitally strategic positions
t Is not to be expected that th e
Ja ps have withdrawn wi!h any
idea o? suspending operations in
u,Ja area.
Further, it is emphasized t~at the
:faps are known to have sizeable
forces on Guadalcanal which they
paid heavily to land there and it
is certain they will not aba~don
the positions they have gained
there at the expense of such great
losses.
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Pos·1t·1ons, Knox Says
h ad" and that en em y naval forces h a v e retr eated f r om the Solom ons area after a severe a ir-sea b atterin g .
Asserting t h at " we are getting s u p plies into the Solomons . • •
there have been no interruption s in our com munications," the
secretary stated "we are still in Guadalcan a l o ccu pying every
inch of ground we ever controlled."
''There is practically a lull" in op erat ions, Knox said at his
--1
weekly press conference. "There is no action on the surface
t h e Solomons. Th e enemy has retired from the scene."
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"I'd say as a. figure of speech
tha t t he fi rst round is over and
they are waiting for the second
round to start," he continued, but
added that navy, marine a n d army
airmen
r
t·n
t·
d
Guadalca~a~
t:~/v~he::o~:s
Inear
:n~
~!:~n"goitr sti!~r~~::n fig:!~ng :;;
enemy.''
He refrained :from makin g any
prediction!, however, as to when
th e .!!leco n d rou n d might commence or what .th e outcome might
be, merely limiting h imself to "I
haven't any idea juS t what the
next developme nt m ay be."
Earlier in th e day th e navy revealed th at American land , sea
and air forces defending the Solomon~ have damaged an additional
WASHI NGTON V:P) - Secret a ry of t h e Navy Knox Friday
su pported a statem en t made by
W ar Secr etary Stimson t hat
there Is complete co-operation
between the a , my and na,•y in
t h e Solomons area.
"I want to say, qul t P u em•
p h atically as I can," K n ox asserted, "that t h e army in ever y
possibl e way is co-operatin g."
T o back up t.hat stat em en t,
h e quoted a r em ark by Under..
M>cr-etar y o f t he Navy Jam e!l!I
V. Fo rresta l-"th e cl oser to t h e
f r ont you get the closer t h e
co-operation becomes."
' 1Th e a rm y a ir arm," h e said,
"Is carr3·ln g on a vigorous of•
f ensive a gainst the enem y."
MacArthur Bombers
GEN. MAC ARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Australia, (Saturday )
UP)-Allied bombers probably dam•
:!~~::
tf?~1~:ro~::~~:·:~~;: i::
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battleship, probably damaged still
another cruiser and left an unident fl
.
i ed shtp ablaze in a raid on
~:~~•cedtht:da:1;,~gh comma nd anThe raid was the second in as
many days on the Japanese-held
harPor on the southern tip of
:z
1~~!:~~ll;fs::sd ~; ::; fho;·t!C:s~
.damaging aerial blow announced
recently in attempts to checkmate
an all-out assault or the Japanese
on Guadalcanal to the southeast
of Buin.
THREE ATTACKS
Allied medium and heavu bomb.}
ers delivered 1hree attacks last
night on shipping concentrations
at Buin. Twenty-seven tons o!
explosives were dropped on the
Nipponese vessels,
"The first wave of heavy bombers scored two bits on a heavy
cruiser or battleship," the communique said, "and placed other
bombs very close to a light cruiser
and an airplane carrier, probably
causing extensive damage."
Reports from medium u nits
which made up the second wave
have not been received. Heavy
bombers formed the third wave.
They set the unidentified vessel
ablaze and also scored two possible
hits on a destroyer.
In contrast with Thursday
night's raid by Flying Fortresses
when no interception was enGountered, last ntght'A raiders
drew an interception ,i_tt.empt by
three Jap float planes but it
failed .
A small force or Allied medium
bombers also delivered two at...
tacks last night on Jap~held portions of the town of Dill!, on the
north coast of Portuguese Timar.
Results were not observed,
Gen. MacArthur also announced
that Allied troops pounding steadily at the Japanese in the Owen
Stanley mountai ns of New Guinea
have occupied Aiola, within eight
miles of Kokoda, and Allied forward elemen ts are continuing their
advance.
Jap d estroyer in a new u. S. motor t orpedo boat a ttack, b.a_v
en oft furl.her Jaj:, attacks: agai
Aµier ican positions on GuadalcanalL,.__ _ _ _~
and repeat edly bbm bed and strafed
enemy positions to ,\.he, west of th
Amerl
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MacArthur Stops Enemy Fall Back on
Reinforcements at Buna Guadalcanal
Japs Retreat Slowly
Before Americans:
Subs Down 7 Ships
GEN. MAC ARTHUR'S HEAD- and they appeared to be ,till unQUARTERS, AU!~tralia (Tuesday) able to cope with the Australian
--AJlied ground forces have reca:ir jungle :torces.
tured Kokoda, chief inland base of
A~~=i:ns cocr:~r:~~~e
t:ai!ur!~:
WASHINGTON (IP) A slow
beyond Japanese retreat on Guadalcanal
fru~trated a Japanese attempt to Kokoda.
b1land wa:s announced Monday by
land strong rein!oi-cements at
Allied bombers 11urprised the .Jap- the navy, together with word that
Buna, the 8trategic coastal ba.,e 60 anese convoy as it was attempting American submarines had sunk
miles east ot Kokoda, the Allied to land troops near Buna. The con- ,uwen more enemy Bhips in the far
command Rnnounced today.
voy consisted of two large trans- Pacific.
The mid-d11y communique told ports of approximately 12,000 and
The Japanese withdrawal began
how Allied bombers chased aw11y 10,000 tons, the communique s11id. Sunday (Solomons Island Time)
the enE'my convoy and carried on a
In the escort were a light cruiser after the Americans unleashed &
running f\ght with it throughout and a destroyer, protected by nine battering assault by dive bomben,
Monday, damaging two transports Zero flghten1. The attack started in Flying Fortre11ses, fighting planea
carrying about 7,000 men by many midafternoon when medium bomb-- end a. small force of marines. The
near hits and at least one direct hit en swept tn and scored medium marines crossed the Matinikau
on one vessel.
hits on both transports.
river, attacked to the westward.
The reinforcemente apparently
Two bombs hit within 15 feet of and one wave of the devil-dogs
were Intended to strengthen the one transport and two more bombs "made an advance of two miles
hard-pressed Japanese forces in hit within 2:S feet of the other ves- with comparatively few casualtie.s,"
the Kokoda area. which have been sel.
a communique said.
pushed back steadily for l!leveral
This attack was followed at dusk
While Flying Fortres~e,i: sup.weeks from the south side of the by an assault ott the south coast ported thi8 thrust by hammering
Owen Stanley mountains, where of New Britain with heavy bomb- the withdrawing foe, American
their drive on Port Moresby bad ers, which scored a direct hit on fighter pfa nes and dive bombP-rs
collapsed.
one transport and many near hits strafed and hlasted at E"nemy poalThese troops. weakened by week1 on both. The Allied planes also tion:!I throughout the d11y.
or jungle fighting, have offered heavily strafed both the transports ENEMY'S FIRE SILENCED
su:slained resi.stance at only one and the escort vessels with ma"Enemy artillery fire waa • i•
or two poJnUJ in their withdJ'awal chinf'-gun fl.re.
lenced." the navy :said.
Dul'ing thf! same day, naval
fighting planes, Gumman "Wildcats," carried the attack to the
Japanese base at Rekata. bay.
They strated buildings, started a
fire and destroyed :five enemy
planes on the beach.• Heavy anti•
airc1•aft fire damaged some ol the
"Wildcats/' but all planes returned
safely.
the Japanese in New Guinea, and the
retreating
Japanese
Allies
on New Guinea
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Push Japs on
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MacArthur Forces
Forcing Enemy to
Northern Coast
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GEN. MAC ARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS (Wednesday) UP> Allied ground forces which captu1·ed Kokoda, advanced Jap base
for the 111-falcd mountain thrust
at Port Moresby, are continuing to
push the Japs back toward the
north New Guinea coast, the Allied
high command announced today.
The advance units now are approaching Oivi.
Dilli harbor town on the north
cout ~t Portuguese Timor, northwel!lt ot Australia, was attacked
b two waves or Allied bombers
.:hich found fires sl~ll b~rning
from the previ•us days ra1d and
started new ones in the town and
wharf ar_e_as_._ _ _ __
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GEN. MAC ARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Australia (Fri~ay)
UP)-The Alllcd ground fo1ces,
which on last Sept. 29 began hur_l.
back the Japanese from their
~np~roach to within 32 miles o~ Po~t
Moresby, arc continuing their a vance beyond Kokoda toward ~he
north New Guinea coa'St, th~ h~gh
command said today. Ind1ca.~mg
bitter fighting, the commun1~~e
stated the troops were advancmg
slc;t::- the second straight day, Allied bombers struck at ~he Japoccupied towns of M:3-ob1sse and
Ailey in Portuguese T1_mor, to t~~
orthwest of Austraha, and
~alamaua, Jap base on the north
shore o! New Guinea ab~ve the
port of Buna toward wh1c~e t!~
Allied ground forces now a
th~t:::;chbombcrs ret~~ned_ last
i ht to the Buin-Fa1s1 at ea in
northern Solomons where Mai
Arthur's raiders already have sun f
or damaged more than a score. o
ships, including an aircraft carrier.
~h:
GENERAL MAC ARTHUR'S
HEADQUARTERS, Australia
(Thursday) (JP)-Allied troops
"swf'pt aside strong enemy re-I sistance" three miles west of
Olvl in the New Guinea. jun•
the
\t) gles, "and a,re continuing
~ advance" aimed at Buna., the
.,,.. Japanese coastal base which ls
being pounded st-('adlly by Al~
Jied planes, a communique said
;:;e~=~::.
sinking !even Jap ship!, damaged
in recent forays in th•
This toll was Jn addition to the
t
to~;'~. operating several miles
beyond Kokoda, mid-way point
across the 120-mile waist of
New Guinea, the Allied troops
were aided by their aerial artlllei·v whlch not only blasted
nu"na. and Olvl, but ranged far
up the coast to hit the subsidiary Japanese bases of Lae and
Salamaua. These latter attacks
ob,·lously were to hinder any
Japanese att.empts to send sea.-borne reinforcements to Buna.
Summarizing activities for th•
day and a hal! which preceded
these developments. the navy said
American Bitcraft made fonr atb.cks on .Japanep;e positiom1 on
Guadalcanal. Five Wildcats look
on a. formation or 60 enP-my fight•
er planes ~nd destroyed four of
them without dam3.ge to them•
selves.
These four Japaneu plane!, and
the five destroyed at Rekat& bay.
brought the announced total ot
enemy planes downed in the ftght,.
inAmg
inert1·chaenSolsoumbmona•ritnoes5,29,beslde•
heavy damage inflicted on the
Jbaapttalne esOectfl. e2e6t OJ~ athegrSetaetwas;at-~~
a
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lands, which forced the enemy to
withdraw at least temporarily from
the critical struggle !or the Solomons.
The communique reporting the
bag oC American subroarine'ff did
not di~elo5e the, ar~ft of the op~ra•
lions beyond the term "Far Ea.st-ern waters," but the navy'a 1tatement tha.t "these actions have not
been Rnnounced in any previous
: navy department communique" 1n•
dicated th11.t the submarine acttvity wns not a direct part of the
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in
::i::t;!:~k: probably
action~ wfl!tl within thft zone of Ja.pa•
ne.se control in the west PaciAc,
were two large tankers, a. large
passenger.cargo ship, two mediumsized and two small cargo . ships.
One of Japan's converted aircraft
carriers was damaged and set afire,
and the submarines also _dam8:ged
a destroyer and a medmm-s1zed
Japs in Guinea
Still Retreat
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Allied Army Advances
Six Miles Beyond
Captured Kokoda
(By Associated Ptt11.)
The allied army in New Guinea
Wednesday pushed nearly six
miles beyond Kokoda, inland Japa ..
nese base captured Monday, a~d
ts approaching the village ot O1vl
on tl)e road to the important
Japanese coastal base at Buna,
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's headquarters announced.
Th.e retreat ot the Japanese to•
ward Buna is continuing, the communique sald. There apparently
ls little fighting. There ls a narrow
road leading from Kokoda to Buna
and the allied supply problem now
ls eased because Kokoda has a
small airfield permitting the land•
Ing ot ,upply planes trom Port
Moresby, main allied base in New
Guinea.
Timor Bue Fired.
Although under almost daily at•
tack by allied bombers, the Buna
garrison has been supplied by
barge and larger ships from the
Japanese bases at Lae and Salamaua, farther north on the New
Guinea coast. and from Japaneseheld New Britain.
~e most recent attempt to reinforce the garrison was frustrated
Monday, however.
While the ground forces under
Gen. MacArthur's command pu~sued the retreating Japanese m
New Guinea, his bombers con•
tinued their support by raiding the
Japanese-occupied town and _dock
areas of Dilli in Portuguese T1mor,
northwest of Australia, and found
fires still burning from the ~aid
of the previous day. New fires
were started.
ta;~~:· was the first summary by
the navy of its submarine opera•
Uons in the Pacific since Oct. 14,
and it brought the total score_ of
American undersea craft agamst
the Japanese to 86 ships sunk, 20
probably sunk and 27 damaged, a
total of 133 sunk or damaged.
In the Solomons battle, the navy
has announced the sinking of 12
Japane'Se ships, plus three probably
sunk and 16 damaged, principally
by land-based or carrier-based 9:trcraft, against 16 American ships
sunk and at least three damaged.
American forces also have destroyed at least 520 Japanese planes
in the So_l_om_o_n•_·_ _ __
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New Guinea Enjoyin9
Boom in Grass Skirts
~llied Troo~ Meet\
S t~b'hg Re,utance
ln Guinea ..4lvance
Gen.
ti!~~lt":h=iir's
NEW YORK (INS) -
Aus-
tralian command announced Sat•
urday that the allled troops which
have J>Ushed the Japaiiese back
mor~ than half way across New
Guinea from their dtjve on the
Port More!iby base had ;encountered strong resistance nor Oivi.
Allied bombers for the tlllrd successive day raided enemy~occupied
towns in Portuguese TimOr. north·
west of Australia, dropping explosives on barracks and supply installations and starting several
fires.
e· : _•••
the demand for grass skirts that
Australians and Americans require
to send home ae Christmas presents."
This new form of boosting local
industry bids fair to put the New
Guineans in the higher income tax
brackets. They get from 30 cents
for an ordinary grass garment to
$1.50 for a really fancy one.
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GUADALCANAL has many of
the same problems of supply
and reinforcement that contrib•
uted to the defeat of the defenders of Wake island and Bataan,
but has the advantage of being
near to several united nations
south Pacific bases, links in the
supply chain from America.
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Pacific Ocean
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Qt_MA~IN
GILBERT_ISLAll:fDS
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Noumea
Australia, 1,100 miles away, and
Hawaii, 5,000 miles, are two main
supply bases for Guadalcanal .
The Japs-as is usually the p-·2
,vith the axis-have shorter SllP•
ply lines for the battle of Guadalcanal. From their main production front in Japan, it is only
3,500 miles against our 7,500 from
the United States. Even closer-at
, Truk'-the Japs have a great supply
Ibase for naval and land operaItions, 1,300 miles away against our '
5,000 from Hawaii.
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CALEDONIA
At close range the Japs are at
Lae, New Guinea, 1_000 miles
away; at Rabaul, New Britain,
650 miles; and at Bougainville,
!~~!Guadalcanal.
;~~s, ~~frwi~~f!h~~~
0
"Norfolk
t.
Girls, If
you get a grass skirt from that
doughboy, satlor or marine out in
the Pacific as a Christmas present,
you'll know he's in New Guinea or
somewhere near there.
The Australian radio lifted the
veil today. As CBS recorded the
broadcast, the New Guinea natives
"are working overtime to supply
~~l~;
1
of
It is these nearby enemy bases
that are the targets of swarms of
allied bombers operating from New
Guinea and New Hebrides fields.
United States flyers have also won
air superiority over Guadalcanal,
but to hold it must have reinforce•
ments in fighter planes and divebombers as well as long-range
heavy bJ'mbers.
1 The big jobs-the Flying For•
tresses-can hop to Guadalcanal
from Australia, New Guinea or
New Caledonia easily. But only
Milne Bay, New Guinea, and Es•
piritu Santu, our New Hebrides
base, are within range of fighter
planes carrying _e xtra gas supplies. i
Otherwise it is up to aircraft carriers to bring in the smaller
planes, and the United States has
·a lready lost one carrier. in the Solo•
mans and had another damaged.
NewZealanc/Sea
TASMANIA
Pacific Ocean
To keep 'em flying, Guadalcanal's planes need oil and gas,
ammunition and bombs - all ot
which must be brought In by vulnerable tankers and supply ships.
These vessels must run the gantlet in waters infested by Jap submarines and other enemy naval
vessels.
Food and ammunition
for the troops holding the Guadal•
canal airfield also come by sea.
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Unlike Bataan, Guadalcanal Is not ·
by the enemy. Unlike ·
::J;, !1'.:'er!!!~eh::~o!~ ';;c!.,~;
- - - - - - - - - -lAPS' ADVANTAGEShorter supply lines give the laps . , ~vantage In the battle
of Guadalcanal, bnt nearby U. S. bases like the New Hebrides,
FIJl lalands, New Guinea, New Caledonia, New Zealand and
Australia make our reinforcement problem much easier thall
It wu at Bataan. Bottom map shows how Japs held supply
line edge In battles of Wake and Bataan, as well as at
Guadalcanal.
the supply lines a,:e open, though
Jong_ and because we went into
the Solomons prepared for the risk
~nan~ff:j[;;/ci/.~i•
will hold.
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Crash in Florida
Kills. G. R. flier
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Plan Military Funeral
Sunday for Army Flyer
Military funeral services will be
held at 2:30 Sunday in Sullivan's
chapel for 2nd Lieut. C. Ario Chriitensen, 22, army air force bombardier, who was killed Monday ·in
a crash near Gardiner, Fla, The
body will arrive at 8:20 Saturday
night.
Officiating will be Rev. L. B.
Niles, pastor of Burton Heights
Methodist church, of which Lieut.
Christensen was a member. Former classmates at South High
school will be bearers. Burial is
to be in Rosedale Memorial park.
He was a son of Mr. and Mrs.
Fred Christensen, 246 Griggs-st.,
S. E.
Members of Custer post, Veterans of Foreign Wars, will be in
charge of the military rites.
The body will be accompanied
on the way here by a fellow-officer
from the air force.
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Local Officer
Plane Victin1
Parents of 2nd Lieut. C. Ario
Christensen, 22, of the army air
force, were informed Tuesday of
their son's death in a crash near
Gardiner, Fla., Monday and told
the body \.VOUld be sent to the Sullivan mortuary here. No ,vord as
to the time of arrival was given.
Lieut. Christensen, a former
South High bask~tball player, and
Junior College student, st~ed
training with the air for(~ in
I
T)le c;._;; ~-,l'~rmy airplane
Monday near Gardiner, Fla., took
the life of a Grand Rapids youth,
Lieut. C. A. Christensen, 20. His
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Christensen of 246 Griggs st., SE., were
Jlotifled Tuesd1ty of his death.
The body was shipped to th
Sullivan Funeral Home here, but
late Wednesday the parents had
had no word when it would arrive.
Lieut.
Christensen
attended
South high school and Junior college here and star.tea his air force
training last March. He was commissioned a second lieutenant last
Sept. 7 at the air field at Albuquerque, N. M., and classified as
a master bombadier.
A furlough home here 10 days
ago was cut short when he was
called back to duty.
Lieut. Christensen was a member of Burton Heights Methodist
church.
Besides his parents, a brother,
Vern, survives in Johnstown, Pa.,
and his grandparents, Mr. and
Mrs. Ole Christensen.
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LIEUT. C, A, CHRISTENSEN,
March of this year and ,vas graduated from the field at Albuquerque, N. M., last Sept. 7. He was
commissioned then as a bombardier second ]ieutenant.
He had been a member of Burton
Heights Methodist church in
Grand Rapids. His father, Fred
Christensen, 246 Griggs-st., S. E.,
is a railroad engineer.
1
Besides the parents he is survived
by one brother, Vern, in Johns •
town, Pa., and his grandparents,
Mr. and Mrs. Ole Christensen.
Lieut. Christensen was one of six
flyers killed in the accident Monday.
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Obituaries
CHRISTENSEN-Lieut. C. Ario Christensen, aged 20, of 246 Griggs '5t.,
SE., passed awa.y Monday near Gard·
ner, Fla. SurYiving are the parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Fred Christensen; one
brother, Vern of Johnston, Pa., and
the grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Ole
Christensen. Lieut. Christensen will
a.rrlve late Saturday evening and will
be taken to the , Sullivan Funeral
Home, Inc., where funeral services
will be held Sunday afternoon at
2:30. Interment In Rosedale Memorial
park. Rev, L. B. Niles officiating.
Military Services 11 ·1 ·t"for Army Flier Here
1
Military funeral aervlcel!I for
Lieut. C. Ario Christensen, 22, army
air force bombardier who was
killed Monday will be held Sunday
afternoon at 2:30 In the Sullivan
funeral home. Burial w111 be in
Rosedale Memorial park.
Lieut. Christensen, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Fred Christensen of 246
Griggs st,, SE., was killed whE'n
a plane crashed near Gardiner,
Fla.
He was a former student of
South high scho61 and his former
classmaters will be pall bearers.
The military rites will be undP.r ,
auspices of the Custer post, Veterans \ of Foreign Wars.
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Nestled amid palms and the luxuriant vegetation of the New Guinea jungle, this village near Port l\Ioresby learns there's a war going on
when United S tat es Negro soldiers occupy it,
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f}eneral CJJouglas :Jr{ac_A.rtbur
'\ en Japan aunched the attack against our island possessions in the
;)ac fir the eommander of the armed forces in the Philippines was
Gr-n r Dou .,.las ).lacArthur-a brave leader-a man who is a symbol
Ar. eric.1'-s fighting spirit.
Th· oug 1 his courage and leadership, American and Filipino troops
v; · 01e a glonous chapter in our history by their heroic defense of
Bataan pcuinsula-a stand which disorganized Japanese plans and
g ve Amcric:-'l and her allies much needed time to build up their
t er th.
• successful was GenP.ral MacArthur in the Philippines t 1at he wns
de"'Pd o proceed frorri Bataan to Australia and was placed in
supreme c·ornmand of all l nlted Nations forces in the far Pacific.
His worL of 1,ropbccy upon his arrival in Australia will long be
r-"mct :>ered- ''l came through and I shall return." That General
Mac \rthur was well qualified is recognized by a glance at his backrou d of tra n ng.
He was born January 26, 1880 in Arkansas-son of a soldier father,
Lieuten int General Arthur MacArthur, who also commanded in the
Ph lipp1 cs, and organized the Philippine Scouts.
,,uglas MacArlhur graJuated from the r"nitcd States Military Academy
1 1 l03, nd was commi"'-"'-ioned a Lieutenant in the J<~ngineers.
Bv 1} 5 he had adva ced to the rank of Major and had served in the
Ph1hppme, in Japan, a1d t e Vera Cruz expeC: io1 of 19 4
~;. was a member of the Gener~! >ltaff from 1913 to 1915, and aga n
rr m 1 16 to .917
In
p,
1
)17 "£ I "'Wing the heginn.ng of tho first world war he was ap
t d c h cf of Staff with he 42nd Rainbow Division, with the rank
01 ( 01, nc
Was made Com nande
of the 84 1 h Infantry Br •ade ,n Au •ust, 1918- b1• n the follo\\ mg Novem:)€ returned to the 42nd Division as its
011mana r
,v
h h div s on '-ie fought on the Champa ne front in the offrnsive
~t Mihicl the Meusc-Arg nne and the Sedan. He was wounded
we
[Jenera/ :A{acA rthur
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1mr,ortant nutritive values.
"!' 'Vitamin C as well as calcium ,
supplies protem for body n
are a good energy food.
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:iALLIES FR ONT
·u. s. FoA.f rica
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Move Forestalls Axis;
Eisenhower Is Leader
oken Aris
rces
Flee
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100,000 of Rommel
roops Stampede
oward Libya Line
By ASSOCIATED PRESS
he remnant of the .shattered
s African a1·my, with perhaps
,000 of its 140,000 f1•ont line ef..
tives 1·eported either captured
trapped, fled westward toward
ya Saturday night in a desper~
effm·t to avert total disaster
merciless liquidation by Allied
nes, guns and tanks.
.
he Axis' chances of escapJJ1g
er destruction in Egypt grew
mer by the hom·. Already the
CAIBO
f events
e are 50
an and
(.:'F)-The movement
in the Egyptian batrapid that some GerItalian soldiers a1·e
ving difficulty falding any-
ody who has time to take
hen1 prisoner.
One Ia1:ge pa1·ty o:t Germani
vertaken at an advance airase asked RAF inen to take
hem I>l'isone1·s, but were told
they were too busy.
"itun off and get captured by
somebody with more time to
spare," an RAF officer said.
rmans had been driven 102 miles
yond Matruh, halfway to Libya,
d the announced bag of 20,000
isoners mounted.
.
Six Italian divisions numbering
000 men were by-passed and left
'hind by the running Germans.
hey bad little food, water or am..
unition and were waiting only
r a chance to surrender.
President Broadcasts Plea to
French; British Aid in Thrust
Pvt. Davis ·with
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
126th in Guinea
The United States and Britain Sunday opened the long awaited
second front by large-scale landing operations in French African
colonies both in the Mediterranean and on the Atlantic coast.
At the same time President Roosevelt broadcast a message to
the French people, calling upon them to aid in the campaign
which was described as a move to "forestall an invasion" by
Germany and Italy.
The landing took place in the early morning hours of Sunday
(African time) and was carried out both at points in the Mediterranean and on the Atlantic coast.
It came as the British army was pursuing and hacking to
pieces Marshal Erwin Rommel's. Africa corps in the Egyptian
desert and no . doubt was timed to coincide with the Egyptian
debacle.
Rommel now has Allied forces both to the front and to the
rear of his hard-pressed forces.
TO "FORESTALL INVASION"
Edit~,',; &;iot.?';vt. Ray W.
Davis, 19, son of Mr. and Mrs.
R. C. Davis of Riverside ave.,
NE., attended Creston high
school. He left Grand Rapids
with the national guard'S in
October, 1940, and was stationed at Camp Livingston, La.,
until the spring of 1942. At this
time he was sent to Fort Devons, Mass. In April, 194~, he
went t0 California to ship to
'.Australia.
His parents have
just received word from J:im at
New Guin.ea, where he 1s seeing active service.
Defense Editor: You ought to be
down here, . we have palm trees,
cocoanut trees and banana trees.
Not to mention crocodiles and
snakes. The natives down here loo~
just like the "fuzzy-wuzzies" y~u
see in the movies. Big bushy hair,
beads, bracelets and all the fixings.
It sure is warm here! It gets way
past the· hundred mark in the
shade. All we wear are ~horts and
a hat. At night we change to l_ongs
because of the malaria mosqmtoes.
We go swimming in the ocean
when we can, but have to be care-
The White House announcement said the operations against
the French colonies were undertaken to 14forestall an invasion"
of Africa by Germany and Italy.
The French government was informed of the action and told
that "the Allies seek no territor}' and have no intention of interfering with friendly French authorities in Africa."
The operations were carried out by the navy, army and air
forces, supported by units of 1.he British navy and the RAF.
Lieut.-Gen. Dwight D, Eisenhower,. commander of U: S, forces
in Europe, is commander-in-chief of the,operaijqns.
fu~o~fn s~:l'l~!~ head through t?i's
jungle I'm going to hire a nat~ve
to carry my pack. You can hire
one for a handful of food; and can
trade them a bright button, o~ a
piece •of bright cloth, for anythmg
it I~e~~~sn't pay to worry about us,
as everyo~e is wonderful to us.
We're really the fair-haired boys.
PVT. RAY W. DAVIS,
Somewhere in New Guinea.
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from_ Was
and London.
The President dellvered t
,pge In French:
!'.He1p us where you are a
trt,?nds, and we "Bhatt .....
the glorious day when· Ube
peace shall reign ag8.in on
"Vive la France eternelle
The President asked the·F
"Do not obstruct, I beg o
this great purpose."
Mr. Roosevelt declared t
: k ~ ; th~u~':,'.'i:',~
Fhrnce in l9I8" and held
life the deepest friendship r
French people.
''No two nations exist," ha
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answer to its attempts to "fish
"'1d mutually friendly ties th
~~~o;:a!~o~~ae~ !~1~:gc~i~~~~ft
::r:."of France and the
MOBE COMING
oys escrtrted by warships musterThe White House announcement
at the Rock of Gibraltar in
said the United States forces in, wlth'lrlestdli, J'ranch au~~ lnling
recent days,
the immediate future would be
Africa.n
YANKS FROM BRIT<UN .
inforced by · "a considel,'able nllJ:D,,,
The goveI'nment of France and The troops apparently were some
bei~ti:u~ri:~seh st;rc;e!t~~~lhe its people and the French posses-jOf those which have been concenPl'imary purpose of the operatlonat sions, the announcement continued, ~rated in the British Isles for s.o,r,e
was t;. prevent an Axis invasion have been requested to co-ope:- time, itching for action as ~
~• 'With and assist the Ameri- ei:it through .t~e final stages o
of the colonies, it also declar
can; e'Xpedition °in its effort to heir battle trammg, for they wen,
they would "provide an effect!
second front assistance to our repel the German and Italian in- omma~ded by Lieut. Gen. Dwight
teniational criminals, and by so
E1senpower,
commander-In
heroic Allies in Russia."
doing to liberate France and the hief in the _European thea.t
PURPOSE TWO-FOLD
French empire from the Axis hose headquarters had been tn
· The W11ite House statement sa.id yoke."
ritain.
,
the purpose of the move was two- 4
'MAJOR EFFORT"
Eisenhower broadcast a message
fold:
0
1. To forestall an Axis invasion
Witheut specifying the exa~t fri~~e 0 ~e~~~ealr°fof ~~eenC:re~~~~.
there which "would constitute a 'points where the powerful Ameri- . ssuring them that "we come
cl.irect • threat to Ame1·ica across c&n _force had disembarked, . !he jtmong you solely to destroy your
the comparatively narrow sea announcement . said the ~xped1tion ~nemies and not to harm you" ~nd
from western Africa."
"Will develop mto a maJor effo~·t .ssued a proclamation insti·ucting
2. To provide "an effective· sec- by tbe Alliet ;atio~:
~~l~e ~: ;hem how to co-operate.
ond fronti assistance to our hel'oic
ar~:mn: the planned To si_gnify co-operation, the gen~
allies in Russia."
th at th ey fly . the
Thus the Axis had an emphatll, German and Italian invasion of ~r~l dire~ted
Atrl<?a. and prove the first historic ~ i ench tri-color and the American
t
to· th l"be
tion and restora- l~g, one above the other, o_r two
1
ep
e
n-colors by day and shme a
ton of France.
.,earchlight vertically into the sky
by night. He also directed French
naval and aviation units to 1·emain idle.
Eisenhower's message indicated
that the troops were pouring
ashore in Morocco, which has both
Atlantic and Mediterranean.shores, /
and the remainder Qt' ]fdnch North
Africa 'fltltich eomprts~ :Algeria
and Tunis on the Mediterranean.
Landings .also presumably were
being made in the french Wes
Aftlcan colonies, including ·senegal,
whose capit_al ot Dakat lies only
1,870 miles across the South Atlantic from the bulge of Bra'.zil.
The announcement gave no details ot the composition of the
troops and their equipment, for
obvious mllitary reasons, but said
that they were equipped with
"adequate weapons of warfare"
and that they would, "in the im•
mediate future, be reinforced by
a considerable number of divisions
of the British army."
There was no doubt that the expeditions were made in heavy force
with tanks, artillery and all the
accoutrements of modern warfare
for this new and promising phase
of the conflict.
FRENCH INFORMED
The President's statement wen
on to say that the French gave
ment and people had been infor.r';··
of the purpose of the Americe1
J
editio
aa h-.,,........._._
r..,
thi~:e g!~! can't call me "Squirt"
any more. I am now six feet tall
and weigh 185 pounds, or 13 stone
and three pounds, as they say
Simultaneously with the
presidential statement, the
Houae made public a R
radio recording which was
ct.It tonight to the French
rn:
=~:!!.~f ~~
!
,;a
by ..hortwave
':t;,e
~ FUTURE'
hnerlca:n.s, with the assi
FOB
=
df
the United Nations, Mr. [
a::ed, ~~~:/t;i:i~e;;ror
:;e::,
0
0 0
: ~ t':,e ~e1!~c~';,,"c~s~/~~
who have lived under the tr!
uw8 come among you to r
the cruel invaders who woul
mov.e forever your rights of
government, your rights to reli
freedom and your rights to
your own lives in peace and s
ity.
"We come among you sole
defeat and rout your enemies.
tafth in our words. We do not
to tausa you any harm.
''We assure you that once
menace of Germany and Ital
removed from you, we shall
1
,;r ::~~;{al~go~e;our real
to your self-interest and nati,
ideals."
�GRAND RAPIDS,
MICH.,
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 9, 1942
PRICE T~REE CENTS
URRENDERS TO U. S.;
YS FLEET IN ACTION
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Africa
More Landings
;Are Made by U.S. Troops
French Offer Little
Resistance to Yanks
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
IN FRENCHNORTHAFRJCA
(Monday)-(AP) -Lieut. Gen,
Dwight D. Eisenhower today
established advanced frontllne
headquarters under the com•
mand of his deputy, Maj. Gen.
Mark Clark. A small moblle
Threaten Jap
a t BUlla
B\ase
\ _4 \ ~
Huge Air-borne Allied
Forces Hack Path
Tliroug h Jung Ie
Somewhere in New Guinea-(JP)
-Green-clad Arn.erican doughboys
carried into the midst of Japanesecontrolled territory in probably
the great'est air-borne infantry
movement of history, hacked their
way through dense New Guinea
jungle Monday to within striking
distance of the enemy's base at
B~e~~- Douglas MacArthur's comd th
A
1
: : ~ I~:an~~;~~~ceand !~str:it:~
veterans had penetrated to the
Buna area after being transferred
"You and your co
d
_
with the hopes and m~an
sail
America. For month piayers c,f
planned, trained ands yo:T hav~
1
yourselves for the great ~in toned
GodspeE:d to your succ
sk ahead.
co~1plete confidence in ;~~r
hav~
ship and in the ago-ressiv fl ead_f't
quality of your tro~ps." e ghting
Just how ma
peditJon had be;: months the exspecified but 1·t
planned was not
kept until th s secret was closely
bower's unifl : zero hour. EisenIestablished ;'so~mmand itself was
said a war d
~t months ago,"
que earJy in t~~aid ment co.mmuninot be made publfc~Y, but 1t could
fr~:n~u:!~~:fh~:.~e\~~d~i~~~~~:~
said the general situation was unchanged in the Buna area where
Australians are making a front'al
attack at Oivi, approximately 50
miles south of BUJ1a. The com.munique told of widespread allied
air attacks on Buna, _Oivi, Salamaca on the New Gumea Coast,
~asmata on New Britain, Maklo
island off the southwest New Britain coast, and Koepang in Timor.
Ferried by huge transport planes
to a natural landing strip, even
bringing their jeeps, the Americans and Australians pushed
afoot across the Owen Stanley
mount?,_ins on a trail seldom used
by whtte men.
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Allied Forces Also
Occupy Another Isle
Near New Guinea
;~::s1e f:t~~i~
1
in the knowledge that "the Jfopes
and prayers of America" sailed
with them, in the words of General
George C. Marshall, chief of staff.
!1:s~r~;~f~~~v:n~t
and Algiers on the Mediterranean
under plans long laid 8.I'ld With
h
t
th
t
nounced Sunday night - "and other w~r;YF1~e~~~g resi:~~c:i:ed to deal
landings continue.''
Disclosure of the· present part
Further, said a communique, "the played by Doolittle, who led the
lack of resistance encountered at
most of the North African beaches"
indicated that the French there
"had no desire to oppose the entry
of American troop's."
la;"t1!
:t~!~
~:~h ~nygo AamsteAripcarn,.I, ,bvoams bmera·dera ind
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"Our naval forces are in control," ~:!~l~~-ii;hi!;~enhower as comthe communique declared after noting that only the French navy units, LANDING COMl\lANDER
commanded by British-hating AdCommanding the West African
miral Jean Darlin, appeared to be landing is Major General George
contesting the advance of the sub- S. Patton, colorful armored corps
stantial American force upon which / commander who bears the se1·vice
rests a hope of striking decisively nic~name of "Old Blood and Guts.''
at the point where the Axis appe"ars MaJor General Lloyd R. Fredenmost vulnerable in this global war ~all commands at Oran and Ma_ the European shores acroiss the Jor General Ma~·k ~- Cla1·k, depMediterranean from North Africa. 1ty ~~mmander-m-c~1ef, and Rear
AIRFIELDS OCCUPIED
mdamnduearl. HA.llKfl.vHe eawr1ett,1·nnatvhael1·rco4mo•s-
I
GENERAL MAC ARTHUR'S
HEADQUARTERS, Australia, Sunday
(jp) American
combat
troops are in action near Euna
vit~l Jap base on the no1·th Ne..;.
Gumea coast, Gen. Douglas MacArthur disclosed today.
Simultan.eously, General MacArthur disclosed that the Allies have
occupied Good Enough island to
the northeast of New Guinea off
<ioHYJ~ood bay, fo an ob;ious
~nking movement.
It was from Buna, in mid sum~er hat the Japanese began a
dfri ~ s s tortuous trails of the
"tttanley mountains which
cpr•'4 tp within 32 miles of Port
::!Jflrllb)c., Allied base on the south
-b41.f9re _it was stalled. Late
fp1. Sf.ptt;mbcr the Allies began .enj1 liag, and infiltration movements
'1h1 h T01led the Japs back and
~turd y'.s communique had mentlo n;d ~jtter fighting at Oivi, which
1, 5... miles south of Buna.
"Ai:nertean ground troops m
force, transported by air from Austi·alia during the last month, have
penetrated central and northe1·n
Papua to the vicinity of Euna,'' a
communiq!:!_e stated.
"The Allied forces now control
all of Papua except the beachhead
in the Buna-Gona area."
The surprising development came
as a thrust around the eastern
end of New Guinea from Milne bay
where Jap troops landed in ~uly
enly--to b~ pinned aplnst tlie
I
•n.~ s~ain or forced to theft' ships./
Units from Milne bay." ~
communique said, "hav~ now· completed clearing remr1:ant~ ef ·hostile
forces from the. islands to the
north and have ot:cupied 8.djacent
strategic points."
While this disclosure was being
made, Austrtlian ground forces
still were ieeting fierce resistance at Oivl where the retr~attng
Japs are ma ing a stand. Today's
communique (Said the Australians
maintained cbnstant pressure and
were resorting to their hitherto
successful tactics of local encircling
movements in efforts to dislodge
the defen~d_e_rs._ _ _ __
<Jwe~:
~vh:~r it=~~~t~e~~re~nnn~~jocre~!~~
erals commanding in the three
African theaters under Lieut. Gen.
"Several important airfields have or early 50's.
been oc_cupied by the United States At the same time the war departarmy air forces and the Royal Air ment announced that Lieut. Gen.
.E.orce," the communique said, add- Frank M. Andrews, who had heading that the Rangers, hard-bitten ed the Caribbean defense comAmerican version of .the British mand, was given command Nov.
"The establishment of the All" d
Commandos, are taking part.
4 of United States forces operat~or~e ~eadquarters has marked ;~e
Navy losses were listed as two ing with the B1·itish in the Midt~gmning of the offensive phase •lf
small ships sunk in Oran harbor die East, which includes Iran,
N:ti:n~r,.on tthe part of the Unitfid
and one transport damaged.
Iraq, Egypt, Syria and Palestine.
clared ',.u 't e communique <leThe men aboard this transport; Andrews, an air force officer,
(E
·
m Y of command in this
under an unidentified commander displaced Major General RusselJ
, uropean) th eater has long been
"who refused to be idle" even L, Maxwell, an otdnance officer
~.uged by bo th British and Ame
though his ship had been torpedoed, who was sent to that -theater on
~caasn leaders. That this comman~1·
took to their landing craft and, the eastern side of Africa months
for some time been a realit ',
~ome hours and 120 miles later, ago when the problem of amassing
could not be released to the p b/
landed at their objective Sunday supplies there was the dominant
beginning of the pre~et~~
morning.
/problem, rather than actual flght-1
The operation opened at 9
THE COMMUNIQUE
,ng operations.
(Eastern War Time) last ~j
The communique, No. 234, said:
Lieut. Gen, George H. Bre!t, w~o
;~hen t~e _troops started ashore fnd
HNorth Africa:
_commanded United Na.tio?s 8.11·
e thril_hng news was broken to
''1. Landings by United States ~ s in the southwest Pac c . :
th e public at that hour in an an.fl"\ _., on the Atlantic and Me'diter~ til las summer, succeeded Auctie:11~
~~~ncemcnt from the White Hou:3e
il'i.~'eh-m::t;tqrrerr,,y'tne---amt:etr in the Caribbean command, retarna war department communiStates army air forces an_d the , ing an air force ~n th.at wide a nd
que.
Royal Air Force. Ranger umts are vital theater which mcludes the
of
announcement's description i - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - ' I participating in the operation.
Panama Canal.
e expedition as a "powerful
"3. The lack of resistance en- MARSHALL SENDS WISHES
countered at most of the beaches
Marshall sent a message to EisAmerican force" made it evidcn
indicated that the French armed enhower as the big expeditionary
~hat Jt was _equipped to deal with
forces in North Africa had no de- force left the British Isles which
d:; ncRh resistance, although Presisire to oppose the entry of Amer- [os~ajl
idL;_:_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _J
1 ooseveJt and Eisenhowe
ican troops into this tenitory.
pealed to the French f
r
"4. The forces that landed during
tion.
or co-operathe night and early hours this
.confident ~ttitude was apparmorning are advancing rapidly, and
befo~; ththe national capita!. Eve,1
other landings continue. Resistance
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t· e report came of the bre:i.k
ppears to have been confined mainin re 1a 10ns with Vichy it
ly to navy and coast defense arl erally understood th t' th was g~ntillery. Owing to the confused naAmerican attit d t a
e offtcia!
ture of the fighting, precise results
t
u e oward a formal
rup ure would be one of indiffcrare not known,
ence. Con~ressional JeadP.rs ex"5. Our naval forces are in conpressed satisfaction at the mTt
,
trol and suffered no losses, except
1 1
undertaking.
aty
for two small ships which entered
Ft·ench. North African garrisons
Oran harbor.
e~t:rnated authoritatively but
"6. During Saturday, one of our
cia Y here at some 100 000
transports was torpedoed and distroops, indifferently equipped ' d
abled. Our troops aboard, under a
lar~ely lacking the mechani:~d
commander who refused to be idle
eqmpment which has played such
during the operation, took to their
_!. big _part in the British desert
light Ian.ding craft and continu d
f
Nearing·Buna
toward their objective 120 miles
away, landing there this morning."
DOOLITTLE IN COMMAND
Brigadier General James H.
(Jimmy) Doolittle of Tokyo fame
is commanding the air forces
which supported the American
doughboys in their landings.
Clark,
WASHINGTON OP> - American
forces smashing forward by land,
sea and air along the shores of
French Africa "are advancing rapidly,'' the war department an-
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Retreating Japs Make
Stand at Oivi, Fight
Grows Decisive
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's com•
mand in Australia reported Tues•
day that allied forces in New
Guinea had inflicted heavy casual·
t ies on the enemy in enveloping a
J apanese position behind Oivi, 55
miles south lof Buna, Nipponese
s upply base.
.
.
Raking the enemy with maclune•
gun fire and dumping loads of
bombs on communication lines, allied fighting planes worked closely
with ground troops, Gen. MacAr•
thur reported.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
FRENCH NORTH AFRI CA UP)The city of Algiers surrendered
at 7 P. m. (3 p . m. EWT) Sunday
night to the attacking American
forces, paving the way for occU•
pation of the surrounding defense
area.
The armistice at Algiers was
negotiated by the French garri•
GEN. MAC ARTHUR'S HEAD-
:t~7n:e
s~~;~. ~~t~~o1;:;~i:: ;~;~;a:f \
t heir farthest advance across the
Owen Stanley mountains upon Port
Moresby. Since Nov. 3, the Allied
forces have been close to Oivi a n d,
encountering stiff re•s istance on a
scale they had not faced since the
Japs began backtracking, called
upon their planes and tried encircling and infiltration tactics to
crack the Japanese defenses.
While the ground attack moved
cupation of the city at dawn Mon•
day.
with
by
British
encountered
naval un its
at the two
being dealt
and
American
naval forces.
Allied fighter squadrons immedi-
the Jap's northeastern New Guinea
coastal base on Euna near which
American troops, aerially transported, already are fighting.
Ammunition dumps were destroyed and heavy anti-aircraft
guns were blown from their emplacements by planes which bombed and strafed the Soputa area between Euna and Oivi.
captured airfields.
Two of the bases taken over by
U. S. army fliers and the RAF,
the Maison Blanche and the Bleda
airfields, were in the Algiers a rea.
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1942
MacArthur's Men
Creep Up on Buna
GEN.
MACARTHUR'S
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be~:;~~~~ie, the advancing Allies (
have moved into the vicinity of
Ilinow which is between Gorari
and the n ortheast coastal base of
Euna, Jess than 50 miles away.
1~~:;;dwe:e :!~~t~~t:eee~vyOiv~e~!:"~
ately started operating from the
HEAD-
QUARTERS, Australia (Monday)
UP) American and Australian
ground troops, converging on the
strong Japanese beach-head at
Buna, New Guinea, have joined
forces and are continuing their
!advance, Gen. MacArthur reported
today.
The Allied forces have been fighting their way toward Euna on the
northeast coast of New Guineathe Australians coming directly
over the Owen Stanley mountains,
the Americans moving in from the
south, through the steaming jungles. Having joined forces , they
now Har~ jointly moving in to attack," the communique said.
"The enemy, under command of
Lieut. Gen. Tornatore Horri, now
faces the Allies to the west and
south, with the jungle and the sea
at his back," the communique
added.
To the northeast of New Guinea,
a strong formation of heavY bombers attac~ed Japanese shipping in
Rabaul harbor. Bombers smashed
directly on at least two ships, one
of which exploded.
Allied planes, raiding Buin, an
enemy advance base on Bougainville island, destroyed eight ;-rounded aircraft and damaged many
others. Numerous fl.res were started
in supply and fuel dumps.
u rday) UP)-Heavybombers blasted
two light J ap cruisers and set fl.re
to a transport in the same Buin•
Faisi area of the north Solomons
wh ere only yesterday four troopladen t ransports were bombed, the
Allied high command reported today.
Dropping down to with in 1,000
feet, in the face ,,llf heavy anti• 1
aircraft fire, the bombers also
scored a near miss on a destroyer,
left the 8,000 ton transport ablaze
and cratered the runway of the
Kahili airdrome, then got away
safely.
The same communique told of
conti nued success of the Allied
groun d troops fighting t h eir way
t oward the northeast New Guinea
coast. I n the Gorari area, where
a Jap force was surrounded a n d
annihilated earlier in the week, t h e
bodies of five officers and more
than 500 men have b een counted in
the jungle. At Oivi, where another Jap force was pocketed, sev• 1
eral h undred additional dead h ave
QUARTERS, Australia (Wedne'S•
day) {/P)-The battle for Oivi, 55
miles from the northeastern New
Guinea coast, between Japanese
and A1lied ground forces now is
approaching the decisive stage, the
high command announced today.
Heavy fighting is in progress at
Oivi where the Japs elected to
son commander and U, S. Maj.
Gen, Charles W. Ryder.
It provides for American oc-
Heavy fighting was
from several French
and shore batteries
ports, but this was
G E NERAL MAC ARTHUR'S
HEAD QUARTERS, Australia (Sat-
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(By A~i~f~1,r~s.)
Surrender Paves Way
for Occupation of
Surrounding Area
MacArthur Again
Hits Japt•sfiips
New Guinea
Jap Casualties
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Are Heavy South \
Of Base at Buna ·
Algiers Taken
by Uu S. Forces
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MacArthur in
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Closing Trap
On Jap Base
Yanks and Australians
Combine in Drive;
,Superior in Air
Directs Campaign
to Drive Enemy
from New Guinea
Gen. MacArth ur Leads 1
T r oops in Onrush
Aµ;ains t Bun a
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Gen. MacArthur's Headquarter s,
Australia - \JP} - Converging col•
umns of United States and Aus•
tralian troops moved on the battered Japanese troops under Lieut.
Gen. Tornatore Horii Monday f or a
showdown fight for the Japanese
base of Buna, New Guinea.
The Japanese beachhead was
steadily shrinking as the two columns of allied troops, now in contact with each other, ad\7anced to
battle. Allied planes moved constantly overhead, attacking the retreating Japanese forces .
The American and Australian
forces met Sunday north of the
Kumusi river. The Japanese now
face allied forces to the west and
south and have the jungle and the
sea at their back, the communique
from Gen. MacArthur's headquar•
ters said.
The advance was made difficult
by heavy rains which caused . the
Kumusi river to spread to a width
of between 200 and 400 feet .
Gen. Horii is k:nown as a special~
ist in landin& operations. The clos•
ing of the American-Australian
pincers put him in a new rolethat of directing a "back to the sea
defense" in an area over which
the allies hold virtually unchallenged air mastery.
Flying Fortresses of Gen. MacArthur's command hammered at
Japanese shipping at Rabaul, New \
Britain, Sunday night and scored
direct hits on two !;ihips, one of
which exploded, the communique
reported. In addition, fires were
started in a supply dump and dock
area and eight explosions were ob•
served by the flyers.
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GE1'1. MAC ARTHUR'S HEAD-
(By Associated Press.)
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QUARTERS, Australia (Tuesday) \
UP)-Gen, Do~glas Mac Arthur has l
taken the field himself to direct
the Allied campaign to drive the
J apan~se from their invasion b~se
at Euna, New Guinea, the high
command announced to~ay . .
Allied forces are closing m rapidly on Euna, both from the west
and from the south, and the enemy
is steadily retreatingi the commu-
ni1_~~e~ai:ghter planes and bombers are pounding incessantly at the
fleeing Japanese. Heavy bo~b~rs
also smash ed at enemy sh1ppmg
in the Buin-Faisi area in the 11:orth•
ern end of the Solomon archipelago, damaging a destroyer and a
tr~~~eor~~mroander•in~hief of the
southwest Pacific, Gen. Douglas
Mac Arthur, with the advanced
eschelon his headquarters, and the
commanders of Allied land forces
and air forces, Gen. Sir Thomas
Blarney and Lieut. Gen. G;~_U. ,
Kenney, are personally conducting
from the field in Papua," a spokes- I
man said.
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Led personally by Gen. MacArthur, jungle-toughened American
and Australian troops Tuesday
forged \'Jithin heavy cannon shot of
Buna, ready to fight the Japanes_e
for the key Papuan base or take 1t
by default.
The commander-Sn-chief of the
southwest Pacific went into the
field himself to direct the cam·
paign and with him are Gen. Sir
Thomas Blarney, his commander of
allied land forces, and Lieut. Gen.
George C. Kenney, his commander
1 of allied air forces.
Australian patrols already have
reached the vicinity of Awala,
only 30 miles by tral.l from Buna,
with Australian and American
forces closing in rapidly from the
west and south against a steady
retreating enemy.
Buna is the J aps only coastal
toehold in Paula, but u.p the New
Guinea coast they have strong•
holds at Lae and Salamaua, some
150 miles away.
American B25 medium bombers
and A20 attack planes are teaming with Australian Beaufighters
to strafe and bomb the retreating
enemy around Buna and along the
Kumusi river.
Gen. MacArthur's presen ce testi•
fied to t h e importance attached to
the job of clearin g the ene)llY out
f Papua.
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TUESDAY,
NOVEMBER
PRICE THREE CEN'l'ff
17, 1942
ONS BATTLE WON BY U.S.
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Ships Sunk; 7 Damaged
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24,000: Nips Die;
U. S. Loses 8 Ships
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WASHINGTON - In the greatest naval battle since Jutland,
United States forces have sunk 23 Japanese ships and thus
smashed a tremendous enemy armada which sought to drive the
Americans on .Guadalcanal into the sea, the navy disclosed late
Monday.
Backed by MacArthur's bombers, surface and air units of
the navy destroyed 11 Nipponese warships and 12 transports and
damaged seven other vessels in a three-day running battle, much
of it a vicious, close-range duel in the darkness.
The only American vessels so far reported sunk in the engage•
ment were two light cruisers and six destroyers, and naval men
here said they did not believe American personnel losses were
extremely large.
24,000 JAPS KILLED? .
But probably about 24,000 Japanese soldiers died when eight
transports, part of a large force beaded for Guadalcanal, were
sent to the bottom by air attack the morning of Nov. 14. Four
others kept moving toward Guadalcanal, and may have sue•
ceed~d in getting men ashore, since the Americans discovered
four cargo transports beached at Tassafaronga the next day,
and proceeded to smash them with a concentration of air, artillery and naval gun attack.
However, only a fraction of the huge force dispatched by the
imperial Japanese command ever
reached the southeastern Solomans, and it seemed a safe assumption that this battle had
clinched the American dominance
of that area.
ALLIED FORCES CLOSE IN ON BUNA-
American and Australian forces have reached Awala from the west and American forces are piling
in from the south to close in on Buna, the Japanese coastal base in Pa.puan New Guinea.a' Gen,
Douglas MacArthur and his aides, Gen. Sir Thomas Blamey and Lieut. Gen. George Kenney, have
gone into the field to direct the campaign to push the Japs into the sea. Some retreathtg Japanese
took canoes and retreated along the Kumusi river, Allied warplanes strafed them.
126th 's Commander 0·1es
1n New Gu·1nea F·1nht·1nn
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ceased firing and, in the restrained
language of the communique "re-tired to the northward."
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Later during the day of Nov, 18,
MAY TRY AGAIN
American planes kept up a con-P;esumably, the enemy could tinual running attack on the dam..
gat~er anothe~ great force and :ry aged enemy ships still trying to
,•.gam, but with such staggermg limp away from the .scene of t,4e
l ?sses to count it was thought un- fighting, and in the afton;loon the
l.lkely )1.er~ that the Japs would planes discovered 13 ttansp,9.ilJ;
c: ca to r1sk what strength they under heavy naval escort hta,d d
h 1.ve lc(t io. a nev: attempt to re- for Guadalcanal fro~ lb& -l'fcini~
ta k• the strategic Guadalcanal of Bougain.vi.Ue jeJAnd. 260 miles t~
area.
the northea1;1t.
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Ev•n J.
theCallaghan,
death of Rear
Admiral
D;!intel
beloved
"Un- 8 TRA~•oRTs s
uJ.,.n.
cle .fJv!']" to many a navy man and
T~P Warships moved up that
a
r ormer na.m1l aide to President- ni,;,;J.t and bombarf;led the American
,>ositions on Guadalcanal, but before the t1·a11sports could mvve up
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the morning of Nov. 14 they were
Word was received in Grand of a Grand Rapids woman was
Ya_nks rolled a natural on
caught offshore by aircraft and
Rapids Tuesday that Col. Law- reported dead Tuesday of w~unds
Fritlay th0 13th•
eight of them were sunk, leaving
rence Quinn, commander of the received in action on the island of
In the naval battle starting
four-probably those found later at
' 126th infantry, made up largely of New Guinea in the south Pacific.
that day ~hey damaged seven
Tassafaronga - proceeding toward
western Michigan men, had been
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
Jap warships and sank eleven.
the island.
killed in New Guinea.
Louis Ambrose of Wayland and
,
Enemy warships in the GuadaJ..
Col. Quinn succeeded Col. Wil- brother of Miss Katherine Am•
Roosevelt, in the furious, close• canal area were engaged again by
liam Haze of this city in command brose of 206 Summer ave., NW.
range engagement which opened the American fleet the night of
of the 126th when the division was The sister had received a letter
the three-day bai.Je in the early Nov. 14-15. Detailed reports on thia
intraining at Camp Livingston, La. from Pfc. Ambrose a week ago
morning of Nov. 13 could not fight have not been received in
Col. Quinn was regarded by fel- from the south Pacific area in
dampen the elation with which na- Washington, but the next morning
low ol'f~cers _as a top-notch soldier. which he stated his outfit was 'preval officers announced the victory. the remnants of the battered Jap•
!le enltst~d m the first World war paring to "move up." Relatives
anese ~ e were found withdraw•
11 WARSIDPS BLASTED
m Washington, D. C., and after received official notice of his death
ing to"'t',._~nofth, and no reports of
the close of hostilities continued from the war depal'tment.
In a leng t bY communique, the any further action have come
his mili~a~ career in the regular
Pfc. Ambrose, who left two years
~:";hf:~c;~!ei!!1eeri:::iof:~c:ct~:~ through.
5
army, nsmg finally to rank of ago for active duty with the nacoloneI.
tional guard, has a brother, Felix
sunk a Japanese battleship, three JAP VS. U. S. LOSSES
carriers _
. Pfc.' Joseph Ambrose, 20, farm Airl:brose,. on duty with the coast
heavy cruisers, two light cruisers,
The punishment dealt out to the
th
. .
the first time smce ,yland and brother artillery m the east.
five destroyers and eight trans- Japanese fleet in this battle
e Pacif1c war started that their
ports, and damaged a battleship brought the enemy's losses in the
pre~ence has not been noted in a
and six destroyers.
Solomons to date, as reported by
maJor_ engagement. The Japs had
Preparations for a major at- navy communiques, to 35 ships
10st snc of the eight with which
tempt by· the Japanese to recap-, sunk, 5 probably sunk and 71 damer:-ter~d the war before the
ture the southeastern Solomons be- aged, or 111 vessels of all types
h . fight_mg opened and may be
came evident early this month, the sunk and damaged..
inavmg se~ious_ difficuly in replac• ,.__ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ___. navy reported, when aerial reconAgainst this, the United States
in~ them m view of their limited
naissance revealed a heavy concen- has reported the loss of 24 ships
ust al ca acit •
tration of transports and warships sunk, including two aircraft car..
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of the enemy fleet in New Britain riers and three cruisers, and at
and the northwestern Solomons.
least 5. damaged. In addition, the
The huge expedition got under Austrahan cruiser Canberra was
way the morning of Nov. 10, with sunlc while operating as part of the
Japanese naval forces approaching naval force covering the initial
Guadalcanal from the north, while American landings in the Guadalother detachments, including large canal-Tulagi area in August.
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The navy credited the army
bombers of Gen. Douglas Mac Arthur's command with . supplying
"great assistance" in the early
phase of the Ioommg fight, by makmg repeated successful attacks bn
the invasion fleet at RabauI and
Buin, as, reported in communiques
from Australia. Mac Arthur's aircraft also gave valuable aid afterthe naval actions developed.
The Japanese expedition moved
toward Guadalcanal behind a warship spearhea? of two battleships,
wo heavy crmsers, four light cruisers and about 10 destroyers, which
eached the American-held island
sh1~rt~a:fi~:i:i!~ie~~~o~,o:ai!• the
com~unique, to bombard navy. arme forces ashore in .p repara10n fo
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r a arge sea e landing from
he following transports. The batle units moved to the attack in
hree groups.
APS FIRE ON JAPS
However, instead of the easy conu~st they expected, they ran into
m_ts of the United States fleet,
h1ch engaged them at close range
~he darkness, not only landing
11mg blows on the Nipponese warips but creating such confusion
the enemy fleet that before the
ght was over two of the three
i:t~t
:i::::~!tw~!d ~:~:~~r~he ~~:r~ NO CARRIERS LISTED
ican positions from Rabaul and t In detailing th e composition of
Buin, where the enemy had been the enemy armada smashed in
assembling its expeditionary forces. ~e ~~cent action, th e communique
sigmf1can~ e tioned no aircraft
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inFightinginNewGuinea'sJungle~
American 1oldler1-perhap1 Including Michigan troopo-who have Joined the Australians in a drive lo capture the Ja1, base at Bona in New Guinea are pictured
above making their way through the tropical jungle• of the Island, They enjoy a rest period during a march, left, while native porters plod on with supplies. Drivlns
a peep In New Guinea la considerably different, right, from speeding down an American highway,
AMERICAN ACK-ACK 1'1LUl SKY-
Anti-aircraft batteries of an American navy task force throw up a curtain of aek-acl< In
repelllns • fourth attack on the aircraft carrier In the center by Japanese torpedo and dlwe-bomben In the battle of the Santa Crus Wanda In the Solomons Oct. :e. The circle upper left la a Jap
bomber e"Plodlns, Circle upper rlsht, a lap bomber starta its dive. Circle lowv 1'16bt, divebomber ap-hins the carrier. Circle lower left, another Jap plane, The n&V)'-approTed capUan
with 1h11 picture said flames of 11,r other planes lhot down are flllble en tile ho
ud enen17 plane 11.1111 fallen close to the item of the carrier u the picture made.
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the battle were a deatro:rer and aircraft carrier, but the Ja lleet wu for ed
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Circle Buna
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as Aussies Close in
From West
( By Associated Press.)
Allied
jungle
troops
Thursday
advanced to within a few miles of
the Japanese base of Buna, on the
northeastern coast of New Guinea,
while eight enemy destroyers
prov.led offshore apparently in an
j
effort to support or evacuate the
Buna defenders.
American troops, moving northward toward Buna, were reported
meeting no opposition as they
pushed steadily ahead while Aus•
tralian jungle troops, advancing
from the west, reached a point 20
miles west of Euna.
The Australians have reached
the motor road sweeping up to
Buna, after slashing down from
the Owen Stanley mountains over
the winding native trail which
threads 120 miles across the island
from Port Moresby to within
about 25 miles to Euna.
Bombers Hwtt' Destroyers.
A communique from Gen. Douglas MacArthur's headquarters a.dded that Euna was being surrounded
1rapidly.
United States Flying Fortresses
flew through spotty weather in
seeking out the destroyers, the allied communique suggesting the
destroyers possibly represented a
Japanese eleventh hour attempt to
reinforce the Buna defenders.
TI1e destroyers, appearing off
Euna Wednesday, were divided
into tv...o groups and apparently
were playin g a grim game of hideand-seek with the American Flying Fortresses.
Allied medium bombers continued to blast Japanese defenses and
installations behind the lines while
PORTLAND FLYER REPORTS
IIlTS ON JAP SIIlP.
Somewhere in New Guinea(lPl-Maj. H. J . Bullis of Port•
land, Mich., commander of a
bomber force which attacked
Rabaul Monday, had reported
Thursday that two direct hits
were scored on a Japanese
transport.
other of MacArthur's planes battered the twin Japanese bases of
Lae and Salamaua, 150 miles up
the coast from Euna, as well as
other bases in New Britain and
Timar islands.
Attack ~'Feeder" Base.
Mediuffi bombers blasted the airdrome at Salamaua, damaging the
runway and nearby !Juildings. Oth-
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;fn:J~~~f;r
a~ra::ei;-:~;
airdrome and adjar;ent buildings
ii.nd instaJiations at Lae.
New· Britain was attacked twice.
Medium bombers attacked the airdrome, runway and plane dispersal
areas at Gasmata, on the south
coast 220 miles northeast of Euna,
Flying Fortresses made a night attack on Rabaul, Jap "feeder" base
for the southern Solomons operation'i, blasting airdromes and dispersal areas,
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Japs at Buna
in Last Stand·
AlliesMove
Nearer Buna
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Another Destroyer
and Cruiser of Foe
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Closing In
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MacArthur Forces
30 Miles from Jap
New Guinea Base
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
AUSTRALIA, (Friday) ,{}.PJ-Allied
land forces have the retreating
Japanese in northeastern New
Guinea with their backs against
the sea between Gona and Buna
while in the air bombers have
sunk a Jap cruiser and destroyer,
the Allied high command an•
nounced today.
"Our ground forces have - rapid..
ly closed in," the communique said
regarO.ing the fight for conti"ol of
New Guinea, "and now pin the
enemy down in the narrow coastal
strip from Gona to Buna. We are
fighting on the outskirts of both
places."
Heavy bombers, using flares and
500 pound bombs, Thursday night
surprised a J ap light cruiser and
two destroyers seeking a rendez..
vous off Gona's shore with some
landing barges. The cruiser and
one destroyer were sunk and the
other destroyer was damaged be•
fore it fled. The Allied plan~s t hE!n
bombed and strafed the barges.
Japanese air units seeking to cov•
er the naval forces were driven
of with a loss of three Zeros.
The land success, with Gen .
' Douglas MacArthur personally on
hand for the killing thrusts, placed
the Allies within grasp of their
first importan t harbor on New
Guinea's north shore. It brought
nearer the climax of a drive across
jungle trails of the Owen Stanl~y
mountains which began late 1n
September. Possessioil. of Euna
would put the Allies within menacing reach of two other north New
Guinea bases of the Japs, Lae an d
Salamaua, and would place t_hem
closer to the island of New Britain
with iti! much bombed Jap base at
Rabaul.
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ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
AUSTRALIA (Wednesday) UPI - I
Ground troops un'der . pe-rsonal com- !
mand of General Douglas MacAr- 1
thur, who is in the field, have j
moved closer toward the Jap-held
port of Buna in northeast New
Guinea while in the air Allied
bombers ranged far to strike new
blows, including hits on a large
merchantman, the high command
announced today.
The ground troops, compl"ising
Australians and Americans, last
were reported within 30 miles by
mountain trail a ntl probably close1·
in cases where they were transported by air. The communique
stated succinctly the advance "continues" while planes constantly attack the retr eating enemy.
A raid by heavy bombers on shipping in the harbor of Rabaul, New
Britain island, northeast of New
Guinea, set a blaze the large merchantman last night. At Euin, in
the Solomons northwest of Guadalcanal, medium bomberis last night
started fires and explosions on the
airdrome and destroyed three
enerny aircraft.
The enemy, aroused by the Allied
pincer on Buna, sent its fliers to
harass the advancing · troops. Allied bombers with a fighter escort
surprised the Japs at Lae, above
Euna on the New Guinea north
coast, destroying seven enemy
bombers and seven fighters in low
altitude attacks. A Zm"o which attempted to intercept was shot
down.
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Jap air forces made a feeble ef•
fort on Thursday night to cover a
light cruiser and two destroyers
seeking to relieve the situation but
the Jap fliers were driven off with
a Joss of three Zeros. The cruiser
and one destroyer were bombed
a nd sunk and the other destroyer,
damaged, fled the scene.
Allies Striving to
In Portuguese Timor, which the
Japs have been reported re•en_forcPUS h J apanese Off
ing their bases above Austraha as
New Guinea Island
their bold in New Guinea weak·
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ened , Allied bombers made a sweep
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN over Manatuto and Baucij.U. Ra•
AUSTRALIA (Saturday ) UP) _ baul 1 in New B!i_tain island, a Jap
base whose position becomes more
Heavy fighting is in progress for endangered if Buna falls, was visthe northeast New Guinea ports of ited by medium Allied bombers FriGana and Buna as Australians and day night which attacked enemy
Americans, who reached the out- installations.
skirts Friday, strive to ~ush the
Other Allied aerial units attacked
Japs into the sea, the high com- the airdrome at Kavieng, on New
mand announced today.
Ireland above New Britain.
The tempo of battle rose to high _
'
})itch all along the coastal strip
between Buna and Gana where the
Japs are being forced back toward
the shore.
Japanese planes, whose appearances in the sector have been infrequent, have entered the engagement in an attempt to forestall
what appears to be a growing disaster for the enemy.
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Gona'and Buna
Battle Rages
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Enemy Destroyers
Off Buna May Try
to Evacuate Forces
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
AUSTRALIA (Thursday ) {}P}-U,
S. and Australian troops closed in
on the Japanese New Guinea base
of Euna today as heavy bombers
streaked _ahead to attack eight
enemy destroyers "maneuvering off
the north coast, apparently in support of the enemy ground forces, "
a communique announced.
"The advance of our ground
force's on Buna continues with forward elements now -;:losing in on
their objective," the communique
said. "Our medium units bombed
enemy installations and positions.
"An enemy naval force of eight
destroyers, divided into two groups
is maneuvering off the north coast,
apparently in support of the enemy
ground forces. Our heavy bombem
are endeavoring to e nga·ge them."
TRY TO SAVE JAPS?
(There also was a possibility that
the Japanese destroyers were a t
Bu'na in an attempt to evacuate t h e
remaining Japanese there. It was
recalled that Japanese destroyers
were used for that purpose to !Save
the remnants of the smashed Jap1anese landing at Milne bay last
summer on the southeastern tip of
New Guinea).
Gen. Douglas MacArthu r n ow ii
in the field in New Guinea directing the Buna clean-up,
In the air, MacArthur's bombera
fanned out for widespread operations. Some bombed enemy installations and positions at Buna in support of the ground troops.
CONTINUE AIR ATTACKS
Medium bombers and twin-cn-gined fighters attacked the air•
drome, nearby buildings and instal•
lations at Lae, on the north New
Guinea coast above Euna. On the
same coast, medium bombers raided the Salamaua ai:-:drome.
At Gasmata, on the i'Sland of
New Britain northwest of New
Guinea, medium units bombed t h e
airdrome runway. At Rabaul, a lso
on New Britain, heavy bomber•
raided enemy airdromes last night .
Northeast of Australia in Portu•
guese Timar, medium bombers
started fires among buildings occupied by the Japanese at Baucau
and attack plane'S conducted a
sfrafing sweep over Maobisse, a
frequent Allied target recently.
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Enemy Losing
Grip in Guinea
~~
/Tojo Stooges
Changing Tune
I
(By Associated Press.)
Japanese forces trapped in a narrow coastal strip in the Buna-Gona
district of New Guinea were reP"' ted fighting back desperately
;1a:-J..1.C.Jj a~ -\.merican and Austra-
lian ground troops moved in reONE ZERO SIGHTED,
SAME SHOT DOWN,
Somewhere in New Guinea(.lP)-From a morning reconnaissance flight over northern
New Guinea, Capt. "Rabbit"
Lonacre of Stockton, Calif.,
brought back this report:
"One Zero attacked - two
passes-one Zero shot down."
His gunner, Sgt. Leslie Stewart
of East Chicago, poured lead
into the enemy plane and saw it
explode barely 20 feet off the
water.
lentless]y to drive them into the
sea or force their capitdation.
One United States for1.. js within
a mile of Bupa and engaged in
heavy :fighting and another is attempting to wrest a landing field
on the outs:!-cirts of the village from
the defending Japanese. This second unit reported that it had rnet
heavy machine-gun fire within 500
yards of tile field.
Japanese fighter planes entered
the fighting near Euna and seven
Zeros strafed allied troops already
under attack from light artillery
and mortars. Allied observers said
the Buna area also had been reinforced with anti-aircraft guns.
Heavy fighting aJso is in progress
at Soputa, about eight miles inland
from the coast on the KokodaBuna trail.
The main body of the Japanese
forces, however, has been driven
into. a t~iangular area bounded by
a six-mile coastal strip between
Euna and Gana and irregular lines
running inland from these hamlets
to Soputa.
(By
United Press.)
Japane-se propagandists blar·ed a
confused tune Saturday on the
Solomons naval battle as Tokio
newspapers quit trying to make
the outcome a "victory" for Japan
while- an official spokesman still
I talked of the "disastrous" American setback.
Apparently as muddled as was
the Japanese fleet ·which lost at
least 28 ships in the Solomons
engagement, Tokio broadcast victory claims and admissions of ~ostJy losses in sequence.
The newspaper Nichi Nichi
acknowledged that Japanese losses
were "by no means slight" and
that Japan must "reconstruct
where losses have been sustained
and push onward toward victory."
Regret Their Losses.
"We regret that the lives of
valiant fighting men were lost,"
it said.
The newspaper Asahi, seeking
to explain Jap losses, asserted the
United States was trying to decide
the issue of the Pacific war in
the Solomons campaign and had
thrown its "entire naval strength"
into that area.
Meanwhile Tomol<:azu Hori, official spokesman of the Japanese
board of information, "revealed"
that official quarters are "greatJy
amused" by the American "communique of victory" and said it
is a great pity the American
people have been bamboozled into
believing the Jap na~y has been
crushed.
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Gona Entered;
Buna Resists
\l-),,lf--'t~
(Clim~~-~ears
In New Guinea
I .
(By Associated Press.)
A1l1ed troops, fighting a desperate Japanese force in the thick
New Guinea jungles around Oivi
whHe allied aircraft attacked th~
only remaining path of withdrawal
for the enemy, are bringing their
battle to a decision, Gen. Douglas
MacArthur's
headquarters
announced Wednesday.
The allied flyers flew up and
down the line of Japanese supply
between Oivi and Buna on the f
northeastern New Guinea coast
raking ammunition dumps and
troops with machine-gun fire and
~~~~~~g gun positions and supply
The communique repOrted that
serious damage was inflicted on
the Japanese installations and that '
ammunition dumps were destroyed,
Many guns in the vicinity of the
fi.ghting were silenced, the commumque said, and heavy anti-aircraft
guns were blown from their empJacemenls. Severe casualties were
reported inflicted on Japanese
ground troops.
MacArtlfur Whips Japs
at Oivi; Foes in Irap
lb:!. I- 't~
Japanese Propagandists
Quit Claiming Victory
in Solomons Clash
Yanks, Aussies Pushing
Jap Troops Back
Toward Sea
Capture of Second
Airbase by Allies
Expected Hourly
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
AUSTRALIA (Tuesday) UPl -The
Japanese New Guinea coastal base
of Gona has been entered by
Australian troops, but the enemy
still is putting up heavy resistance
at Buna, 12 miles to the south, a
communique said today.
Supported by Allied warplanes,
the Australian left wing of the
Allied adva~entered Gona after
several dayit°'of heavy flghting, then
wheeled southward along the coast
toward Sanananda, an intervening
enemy-held point, in the attempt
to link up with an American army
drive from the south,
! The southern wing of U. S. troops
occupied Cape Endaiadere in their
advance to Euna, the communique
said, without giving any details of
the operations.
The occupation of Gana now has
deflniteiy pinned the remaining
Japanese against the sea, and they
face annihilation.
1
The communique made no men-'·
tion of any further enemy ship- 1
ping off the coast in a possible
attempt to save the land forces, the
presence of Allied bombers in the
area made any such enemy venture
exceedingly risky,
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GENERAL MAC ARTHUR'S
HE-AD QUART E R S, Australia
(Thursday) (lP) - Japanese forces
have been routed at Oiv~-,and face
entrapment while another enemy
group at Gorari has been enveloped
and destroyed in battles for control of northwestern New Guinea,
the high .command announced today.
As the climax of a week-long
battle at Oi\ri, 55 miles southwest
of the coastal base of Buna, Australian troops which have been
battling their way across the Owen
Stanley mountains, forced the Japs
from their positions, inflicting
heavy losses.
But the Japs only course of retreat is into the hands of American
troops which were flown by aerial
transport to the vicinity of Euna.
Allied planes were active near
Jap coastal bases at Lae and Sala-
•
maua on the north New Guinea
coast above Euna and also attacked
~~f!~=~ ~~j !~~opBi~;_centrations
"The enemy was forced from his
main positions near Oivi with
heavy loss/' the high command announced.
"His retreat has been blocked by
our enveloping troops astride the
main track and he is endeavoring
to cut his way through to the rear.
Simultaneously out forces enveloped and destroyed enemy forces
trapped south of Gorari."
Off Lae, Allied planes bombed a
Jap destroyer last night but did
not observe results. Off Salamaua,
Allied planes shot down two out of
four Zeros which attempted interception.
Near Shortland island in the
Solomons, Allied planes shot down
two enemy fighters out of a formation of 10.
\\_, i ........ a.- -
y ank Troops in New Guinea
Tell of Fighting in Jungles
(By Murlin Spencer.)
With United States Forces :;;ome•
where in New Guinea-(JP}-Unit·
1
ed States troops fighting a Jung e
battle over- what they say must be
the world's worst battleground are
taking everything the Japanese
have in their full bag of tricks with
comparatively few casualties.
The troops edge forward cautiously because the Japanese are
trlcky. For instance, one wounded
Japanese lying among the dead
was caught lifting a hand grenade,
but a bullet in the head finished
him,
Corp. Clinton Brownell of Platteville, Wis., describes the Japanese
as "big fellows, well - equipped,
fighting from well-prepared positions in slit trenches, behind log
barricades and some barbed wire."
Use Sound Effects.
The enemy stages a regular show
with sound effects - firecrackers
and shouting.
The assault started at dawn Nov.
19. rrhe troops in the unit I was
foJiowing first had 1o cross a deep
stream. On the other side was a
machine-gun nest, but the Japanese let the first troops cross before opening fire.
Corp. Delos A. Leland of Alexandria, La., and Pvt. John Wilson
o:! St. Louis stumbled on a machine gun and Leland was wounded by the first burst.
"The bullet knocked me down
and that was the first I knew the
Japs were there/' said Leland. "I
could hear Wilson crawling toward
them, so I opened fire with my
rifle. I could hear Wilson firing,
too. We got four Japs, but I had to
come back to the hospital."
The first objectives were Cape
Endaiadere, which juts out into the
sea, and a Japanese airdrome about
three miles south of Buna. Fight•
ing was intense at both places.
(Tuesday's
communique
from
Douglas MacArthur's headquarters said the Americans had cap•
tured Cape Endaiadere.)
In the advance on the cape, th'e
Japanese were pushed back into
the comparative open of coconut
trees and an American barrage
from rifles and mortars killed at
least 25 of the foe.
Sgt. Charles F . Ester of Vyandotte, Mich., said the dead included
Japanese officers.
.
It was in this action that Sgt, Vic
Reigal of Marshfield, Wis., distinguished himse1f. He still is at
-the front, but let Ester tell the
story:
"Our group ran into machineguns and pulled back, but Reigal
sta,yed. When the Japs charged he
got five with his tommygun. Reigal had a time getting back, but
he made it."
Other troops told of the deeds ot
Sgt,. Chester Curley of Hamtramck,
Mich., and a group of specially
trained men he was leading.
On the eve of the attack, these
rangers crawled up to their positions and when morning came Cur•
ley tossed a grenade into a machine-gun nest, getting four Jap•
anese.
Blacken Faces With l\Iud.
Because of limited communica.
tions between units, it is difficult
to say who killed the first Japanese in action here, but among the
first was Corp. Brownell who,
while leading a patrol, spotted a
Japanese walking across a vi1lage
and cut him down with five shots.
Our troops, who have gone into
battle with faces and hands painted
green or blackened with mud, have
not escaped unscathed but fatalities have been comparatively few.
Japanese marksmanship, they said,
is not up to past performances.
Maj. Parker Hardin of Charles•
ton, Ill., who commands a mobile
hospital unit believed among the
first to go into the field of combat, paid high tribute to the men.
"None of these boys who are
broug,ht back here complain," he
said. "They went up there as boys
and they've come back ais men."
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American
Troops Hem
Enemy On Three S·,des
~
lmlles north of Buna traveling at a .-1. An assa"ult- Ul)on B"una
U. s. Bombers Are in Hot Pursuit of
and 4 Destroyers
'
N'.pponese Convoy
proper]
i~=~~'.~!. f~:..
2. An attack upon Sanananda !
point nearby, where the Japanese
~i:~fr~·:~.~~do;t ~~e:e:r i~\:i r~r~;:~anse~~:;·
The dispatch failed to say la
which direction the convoy was
moving but earlier reports said
Japanese warships had been maneuvering warily offshore presumab1y for a long-shot chance to land
reinforcements or rescue survivors
of the badly mauled Japanese gar•
rison.
By DEAN SCHEDLER
are dug in with good natural de1
fenses.
3. Australian patrol activity in
the Gena mission area.
The Japanese struck back savagely and some o! the fiercest figbt•r--- - - - - -~ ~ - - in~ of the enti~e N~w Guinea cam- the enemy anti-aircraft fire had
pa1g~ was :aging m that obscure developed into wild, inaccurate
tropical settmg. Gen. Douglas Mac- shooting of only mode)·ate inten•
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA (Monday)'=vr,
Allied bombers have sunk a Japanese destroyer-which apparently
was attempting to land troops at Buna, the enemy's base on the
th t
f N
G •
h
nor eas coas! o . ew mnea w ere Australian and American
forces are closing 1n, the high command said today.
GUSIONEMAE"[~> E_RAmE eirN1·canNEd!Wve Arthur .is in personal command of sity.
ur
the Alhed forces, which Saturday
The Allies pointed for an ear1y
bombers plowed up the Japanese h~d , sent ~ne strong column to decision at Euna, for victory thei·e
atrdrome at Buna Saturday during w1thm a mile of Euna.
wou1d open the way for extension
more than• 100 Allied aerial sorties
Any hopes the cornered Japa- of their drive to eject the enemy
aimed at softening up the enemy nese had of a getawa:y suffered a from his remaining New Guinea
base for a knockout blow from sharp setback by clearmg weather, invasion bases directed at AusUnited States and Australian forces making it easier for Allied planes tralia.
to. spot any da1h by enemy warBesides Euna, which the JapaSYDNEY, Australia - The capture of Buna, beleaguered Japa• closing in from all land sides.
With American ~roops poised to ships towards the shore.
nese occupied last Aug. 23, Salanese invasion base in New Guinea, by United States forces is seize
the airfield lying on the outThe Japanese themselves were manaua and Lae seized farther up
imminent, dispatches from the battlefront said Sunday night.
skirts of Euna village, A-20 dive back in the air again after a. long the coast, last March 8, are the
American forces were declared threatening the Japanese from bombers swept in from treetop level absence, an~ in Saturday dogfights main footholds held by the inthree sides, possibly indicating the enemy communications to in repeated bombing aid strafing two of their fighters were shot vader. An enemy excursion into
H
. Milne bay, at the southeastern tip
Gona, 32 miles to the northwest, had been severed by the Allies attacks. Twelve tans of bombs and down:
thousands upon thousands of . MaJor Don all .0 f Corpus Chris- of New Guinea, four days after
closing in upon the Japanese caught in a steadily constricting rounds of ammunition were used in tt, Tex., led th e dive-bombe~s Sat- the Euna landing, ended in quick
triangle with the sea to their backs.
these and other assaults upon ene- u rd ay, diving t~ro_ugh intense ·d isaster for the Rising Sun.
heavy caliber anti-aircraft fire.
The Euna fighting has been along
Late in the day, front dispatches said, a powerful Australian my defense positions.
Allled possession of the airfield
Their. ~ombs. ailenc~d on~ ack- a triangle, its base running along
pat r o 1 temporarily penetrated
.
would decimate the remaining ack position wit~ a direct hit a nd the irregular shore between Euna
Euna itself and inflicted heavy
losses upon 'the Japanese defend- used !ts biggest mo~tars and. heavy strength of the badly depleted Jap- set off an .e~plos1on, apparently in and Gona and its apex extending
machme gun fire m a f~tile at- 1 anese air force and apparently an ammunition ?ump, ~n the woods eight miles inland and pointing _
ers before retiring.
.
impotently now - toward the AlAmerican troops who almost sur- tempt to stem the American ad- woul'd seal the doom o! the enemy's east of the landing strip.
scant foothold.
~n co-ordr::inated attacks B1~ly lied base at Port Moresby, once
rounded the airfield at Euna's edge, vance.
2
A Japanese convoy -with four
The powerful, co-ordinated Allied Mitchell B- ·~ bombers led_by MaJor threatened by the Japanese before
cleared Japanese from their positions near Cape Endaidere, where destroyers was sighted about 90 land and air attack appeared Sun• Alex Evanoff of _Belle Plain~, Iowa, they were sent reeling back across
the enemy, established in strength,
day to revolve aroun'd four ele- ~~~bc:~s~:ld a~;~~~ed the airdrome the Owen Stanley mountains.
ments, the first of which is the
The major's pilots returning from :
struggle for the airdrome, stu~ th . ft 1 1 1
f th d
id
bornly defended by the Japanese
e1r na m ss on o
e ay sa
with heavy mortars.
The others include:
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Buna-Gona
fNarrow Jap
Climax~ear
IA
Sa.,n2.!i,.rG!.,~day
THE JAPS
Time was we sold our metal scrap
Unto the little wily Jap.
We even drained our tropic soil
To fill his storage tanks with oil.
Time was unto the wily Jap
We gave our every chart and map.
We even let him fish the sea
Just where our Navy chanced to be.
Time was we couldn't quite believe
He kept a dagger up his sleeve,
IAnd meant when vigilance grew slack
I To spring Pearl Harbor's sneak attack.
Now ma"ly, many years will lapse
' Before again we'll trust the Japs.
Their cunning went a bit too far.
We know them now for what they are.
s . 'f d-..
Allies Battling Fiercely
in Hand-to-Hand
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
AUSTRALIA (Wednesday) 00 Heavy fighting by both land and
air raged today throughout the
Euna-Gona sector of the northern
New Guinea. coast where Japanese
troops, trapped within a. constricting area by Allied forces and the
sea, continued to fight bitterly to
maintain a precarious hold on the
beach.
The Allied high command's noon
communique said fighting in the
Buna-Gona sector was accompanied by Allied bombing forays on
JapaneEie plane bases on Timar,
New Ireland and at J'..Ae, turther
up the New Guinea coast.
"Heavy fighting by Jand and air
rages throughout the position,'' the
communique said of the BunaGona area.
Yesterday's communique reported the Allies had entered Gana, 12
miles up the coast from Buna, and
were cJoslng in on the Jap's on1y
remainnig foothold in the sector.
The command reported heavy air
units dropped 1,000-pound bombs,
the most potential so far reported
in use in the New Guinea fighting,
on the airdrome runway at Lae,
a J ap base northwest of Bun a
from which the enemy could be
sending aerial support to its beleaguered troops. That raid occurred Tuesday night.
Allied planes raided Portuguese
Timor. where the Japs recently
have been reported sending troops
and equipment.
The Japs sent 18 enemy bombers
for their first raid in force in some
time on Darwin, Australia~ Tuesday night but the communique reported "no damage."
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Time was we let him roam about
And ferret all our secrets out.
He seemed so grateful and so glad,
We showed him everything we had,
'
Grip---1!.:.3.
atBuna
'.Allies Backing Jap
Troops Into Narrow
Pocket Toward Sea
CLAPTRAP JAPAmerlcan .. born and educated
CHARLES HISA,O YOSHil ls
the moutllplece tqr all JJlpan•••
broado..t1 In Eq\l'h· At t h e
University of Or1,so11, whor, he
went to college, he ls known &!I ·
the Yokahoma Yoko!.
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Combat
(Bv United Press.)
American and Australian troops
Wednesday were battling hand-to hand with Japanese desperately
' trying to hold the inner defense
ring of their dwindling BunaGona beachhead in northeast New
Guinea.
Enemy casualties are heavy.
The allied troops, assaulting an
apparently strong defense line, are
systematically silencing one cleverly concealed machine-gun nest after another, overpowering other
prepared positions and cleaning
numerous Japanese snipers from
camouflaged nests.
A communique from Gen. Douglas
MacArth ur's
headquarters
sL.mmed up the situation in one
sentence-"heavy fighting by land
and air forca{l throughout the position"-~but there t\'as pvery irn:li·
cation that the ""panese were
waging a 1osing battJc.
American forces, battering primarily at Buna, and t h~ Australians, concentrating on Gona and
Sanana.nder, about five miles
northwest of Buna, are making full
use of artillery.
The allies• big advantage, however, is air power. Allied bombers
are continuously blasting Japanese
huts, anti-aircraft positions, ar•
ti11ery emplacements and machinegun nests.
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�"Bat~an in Reverse"
That's How American Officer Describes Yanks'
\\-'l.."\·'1-.,__ Tough Fight in Guinea
(By Don Caswell.)
Men who have been out on advance patrols have given a vivid
description
of the fighting that
Somewhere in New Guinea-(U,P.)
-The American thrust against goes on in this overgrown stretch
of fertile tropical soil. One of
Buna along the northeast New them said:
Guinea coast, where the allies had
"First you come to machine-gun
hoped for a quick and easy victory, nests just off the trail. You have
has turned into a serious cam- to stick'. to the trails pretty much
paign against a stubborn and because the jungles are so thick.
skilled Japanese defense.
"Three or four Japs may let a
·, 'This is turning into a tough couple of hundred troops go
job," the commander of the Amer- through and wait for the officers.
1
ican forces said Friday. 'It is like They kiJl as many as they can,
a miniature Bataan in reverse-a then throw firecrackers and morsmall, well-developed defense force tar shells all over the place, makholding off a more powerful of- ing you think the woods are full
fensive. We will have to dig 'em of them, then try to slip back to
out of their holes Jap by Jap, tree their lines. The only way to find
by tree, machine-gull nest by ma- the nests ls by working in twos or
chine-gun nest."
threes with plenty of covering fl.re.
\Veil Entrenched.
Leave No Marks on Trnf':s.
The Japanese have these points
"The men up front draw the fire
in their favor in the fighting and we blast the nests with grearound Buna:
nades, tommy-guns and mortars.
1. Tlley are well entrenched with
"But when you chase them out
a deep chain of machine-gun nests of their nests they go up the
and pillboxes, some with concrete trees, strap themselves tight and
walls covered with foliage which throw grenades or snipe at us.
blends them into surrounding thick They have rubber grips on their
jungle growth.
shoes for climbing trees without
2. A better knowledge of the leaving marks.
trails, terrain and artillery ranges.
"The best thing we could have up
3. Their defenses are manned by here would be lots of shotguns, to
fresh reinforcements. These men clean them out of the trees."
apparently are well-ti.ained and
One thing has been learned about
strongly equipped.
that air superiority of which all
4. Jipanese tactics fit perfectly the experts talk so glibly-the side
the terrain around Euna, which is which happens to have the planes
covered with lush jungle growth, overhead riggt now has air supericoconut groves and kirakira grass ority. Fighter cover is fine but
growing eight feet tall.
?urs has to come from the other
side of the jsJand and the fighters
can't hang around.
The other day our area got a fine
sample of air warfare by seven
Zeroes and three Japanese dive~
bombers which gave our village an
artistic lacing.
[
Australian veterans who had
been through the war in Greece,
Crete and north Africa said it was
i "neater" than anything they ever
got from the Germans.
Those dive~bombers were good!
They put the heavy stuff "down
the rain barrel," and big jagged
chunks of bomb casing snipped off
coconut trees a foot from the
ground, while small pieces whizzed
through the weeds around my slit
trench. The concussion made my
clothes balloon out as I lay flat in 1
the trench, praying the Japanese
would run out of bombs.
(United Press Slat! Correspondent.)
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'I - 't· 't t. NEW GUINEA MOUNTAINS SCENE OF JAPS' JUNGLE DRIVE
In the jungled mountains of southeastern New Guinea (Papua) Jap troops have passed the peaks of the
Owen Stanley range and threaten a downhill drive to Port Moresby from their positions at Efolgi,
Myola. and Kokoda. This map shows the mountains, jungles and slopes in this sparsely~settled area. Only
a few native villages lie on the 50 miles of hilly road between the enemy and the great United StatesAustralian base at Port l\foresby.
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WHERE THRUST HALTS
Australian troops Were reported Monday to be holding the Japanese advance toward Port l\Ioresby
though fierce figh,ting still was raging in the Owen Stanley mountains. Broken lines indicate the route
of the enemy attack.
MacARTHUR ALIGHTS-GEN. DOUGLAS MacARTHUR
steps from his plane at an advanced aUied base somewhere in
New Guinea where Americans '.
and Australians are battling the
Jai,anese in the Gona-Buna sector,
l>·o 0 • 't.,_
�GRAND RAPIDS,
MICH.,
THURSDAY,
NOVEMBER
26,
1942
MAC ARTHUR SMAS
SHIPS LOADED WIT
HES 3 JAP
~ TROOPS
Allied Air Attacks
Balk Enemy at Buna
1
Tw·o Foe Destroyers Sunk, One
Other Is Damaged by Bombers
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA (Thursday)
UP)-Heavy and medium bombers operating under General Mac•
Arthur's command smashed a Japanese attempt to land rein•
forcements at Euna yesterday, sinking two enemy destroyers
and damaging a third, apparently all heavily loaded with troops,
Allied headquarters announced today.
A Japanese light cruiser and a fourth destroyer also in the TREE-TOP SNIPERS CO;\1E DOWN TO EARTH- II - -.'1 ~ 'I- .._
action beat a hasty retreat from the northern New Guinea shore
"Go climb a tree," was meant literally when the command was gh·en Jap soldiers by their officers
under the heavy Allied pounding, carried out in darkness by
on Guadalcanal. United States marjne sharpshooters, howe\"cr, brought the nimble climbers down
planes which first dropped flares and then blasted their lighted
even more rapidly than they went up. Note s1>lit-tocd tree-climbing shoes on prisoners in lorctargets with 500-pound bombs.
1round. (Marino corps photo.)
This latest success was announced in a noon communique
which disclosed that the fighting
on land, continuing heavy, is slow
and difficult in "low, tropical jungle, interspersed with swamp and
tidal creek," and that lhe Allied
troops "are now encountering carefully prepared positions strongly
fortified with barbed wire, dugouts
and all the defensive attributes of
a fortress."
The destroyer damaged off Buna
probably also was sunk, headquarters said.
STORY OF BATTLE
The communique told this story
ot the air battle against the enemy
ships:
"Enemy naval forces under cover
ot darkness again attempted to
land reinforcements to the beleaguered garrison but were shattered and repulsed and the attempt
was unsuccessful.
1
'A light cruiser and four destroyers made the sortie. Our heavy
and medium bombers intercepted
with flares and 500-pound bombs in
Huon gul! and sank two destroyers
with direct hits and sever.el
am.aged a third.
"'Thls latter was dead in the
waler for 25 minutes and then was
seen heading for land at a speed
ot six knots. It is probable she
also sank, as our !ear air cchelon.s
searched her possible area of position without seeing her.
LOADED WITH TROOPS
"The
ships were apparently
heavily loaded with troops and
those on the destroyed units undoubtedly were lost.
"The light cruiser and the remaining destroyer fled to the
north."
On Nov. 19, dropped flares disclosed a light cruiser and two destroyers in a similar sortie. The
MacArthur bombers sank the cruise,: and one destroyer and damaged
the other ship. Nov. 22, another
Jap destroyer was bombed and
sunk.
Today's communique also told
of additional Allled air raids on
Portuguese Timar and of two raids
by Jap planes on Port Moresby,
the southeast New Guinea Allied
base from which the land push
over the Owen Stanley mountains
toward Buna began late last September. The Jap bombs intended
for Port Moresby dropped harmlessly in the brush, the noon com! munlque stated.
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It took tJ11, old rellablo mu1clR power to mo\.'e £'Uns througlt the d,nse jun1JR H th~ Au1&i~s pursued the Japs acros8 the Owen Stanley mountains in New Guinea. Here a &"Un crew atruggles with
a 25-pounder. The allies now have reachf'd Buna, principal Jap base.
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�Fierce Jap Stand
Stalls Buna Push
Allied Troops
Creep onBuna
laps Slron-g
Before Buna
\1-1,-+.._
CLASHING IN SKIES
Yanks Face Tough Job
Dislodging Them, Gain
Only by Feet
(By Associated Press.)
Reinforced by strong and well-
equipped marine units, Japanese
troops crammed into the narrow
Buna-Gona beachhead are holding their major positions in the
By nmRLIN SPENCER
face of daylong air assaults and
steady but slightly abated pressure
from allied ground forces.
Comparatively meager official reports from the New Guinea front
Friday disclosed little geographical change in the battle picture in
the last 24 hours.
But a check on the Japanese dead
confirmed earlier indications that
the enemy, despite .severe blows by
Gen, Douglas MacArthur's aerial
squadrons, had succeeded in bringing reinforcements into action.
Seven Ships Sunk.
Since the night of Nov. 19 United States and Australian bombers
have sunk a Japanese cruiser, four
desrtoyers and two ]anding boats,
have heavily hit and probab1y sunk
a fifth destroyer and damaged another moving toward the 12•mile
beachhead.
A dispatch from the New Guinea
f:ront said fanatical Japanese resistance and "beautifully•placed defense positions" confronted American troops.
Maj. C. M. Beaver of Yankton,
S. D., commented that "whoever
said the Japanese can't fight defensively are crazy."
"The Japanese are in there to
stay until we kill them," he said.
''They have had a long time to
prepare for our drive and they
have made the most of it. It may
take a long time to dislodge them,
but we will lo it."
Sky Battles Raging.
The allied headquarters communlque Friday said some Japanese
dead bore marine insignia and
markings "indicating special landing forces of shock troops.'' The
new uniforms of the Japanese marines and their excellent physical
rondition provided further evidence that they had been landed
recently in the frequent sorties off
the north coast.
Attacking allied air units were
out in force throughout Thursday1
but so were Japanese planes.
Formations of Zero fighters and
allied bombers and fighters worked
in relays over the narrow battlefield, interrupting low-level attacks occasionally for dogfighting.
Six Zeros were said to have been j
shot down against a loss of three
United States and Australian
planes.
Twelve Japanese bombers raided
the Australian port of Darwin and
its airdrome overnight, but the
cc-.mmunique reported that damage
was slight.
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WITH THE AMERICAN
FORCES SOMEJWHERE IN NEW
GUINEA {Delayed) UP>-Fanatical
Japanese resistanu and "beautifully placed defense positions" are
confronting American troops in
their drive to uproot the Japanese
from the rain-soaked jungle defenses guarding the approaches to
Buna, but the Americans are determined they· will drive out the
Japanese in the end.
It is becoming increasingly apparent that the task of knocking
out the Japanese on the Papuan
peninsula strongholds of Euna and
Gona is more difficult than the observers anticipated .at the start.
The Allled advance has been tortuously slow, measured in feet and
yards, not miles.
JAPS CAN FIGHT
"Whoever said the Japanese can't
ftght defensively are crazy," said
Major C. M. Beaver of Yankton,
S. D . "I've seen the Japanese defensive positions and they are
beautifully placed,
"The Japanese are in there to ,
!tay until we kill them. They have
had a long time to prepare for our
drive and they have made the most
of it. It may take a long time to
dislodge them but we will do it."
Our airforce has been performing heroic . work in covering our
troops but, operating from a base
some distance from the battle lines
they are unable to be there all the
time and the Japanese Zeros and
bombers are taking advantage of
the lapses to strafe and bomb.
Australian artillery is attempt~
1ng to blast the Japanese out of
Cape Endaidere, where the Japanese are resisting the advance of
the Ameircan unit I have followed.
WOUNDED YANKS
The front is not more than 200
yards wide here, but the savagery
of the fighting is shown by the
long lines of American wounded
coming back.
The cape juts into the Pacific.
It is heavy jungle up to the 300yard tip, which has a shoulder of
high vegetation where the Japanese
have constructed machine gun
nests, hidden by undergrowth.
So well entrenched are the Japanese that it is necessary to take
the gun positions one by one.
This is the land in which the
Americans are waging their first
big-scale ground action in the
southwest Pacific area since the
Philippines.
IT'S A GRIM FIGHT
For seven days they have been
battling under the worst possible
conditions, It has rained five nights
of the seven since they moved into
the front lines.
They have eaten cold food day
aftc·r day.
Behind them other soldiers are
trying to supply a modern army
with methods a century old.
Small coastal boats which run in
defiance of the Japanese air force
are unloaded by outrigger canoes
and canvas rowboats.
The wounded, loaded into the
coastal boats by the same canoes
and rowboats, don't complain.
Here is the Thanksgiving dinner
menu on this front:
Bully beef and biscuits.
In seven days with these troops
I have heard no complaints; only
a determination to finish the job.
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ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
IN AUSTRALIA (Sunday) (/P)
- Riscking the deadly },tombs
of Gen. Douglas MacArthur's
planes, Japanese naval force
again is m aneuvering off the
New Guinea coast neat Buna
wh ere theh- ground forces have
been pinned against the sea the
high command announced t;o..
Australians and
Yanks Inch Forward
Under Heavy Fire
\\ • a.'\ - 'I-..,_
Reinforced Foe Troops
Battle Desperately to
Hold Positions
YankFliers
R~l4)~P Base
By LEE VAN ATTA
UNITED NAT ION S HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA (Saturday) - (INS)-Fierce Japanese counter-attack in the BunaGona area 10f northeastern New
Guinea were repulsed with heavy
losses Friday by slowly advancing
American and Australian troops, it
was officially announced today.
Inching forward in the face of
concentrated Jap fire, Allied troops
are making steady progress against
the desperate resistance of the enemy garrison holding the tiny Buna
beachhead.
Throughout the day artillery
duels, punctuated with screaming
strafing planes of both the Allied
and enemy air forces, made the 40square-mile battle strip an inferno
of steel.
JAPS REINFORCED
Crack Japanese marine shock
troops that have reinforced the
Buna garrison sustained heavy
casualties in futile counter-attacks
against Allied forces throughout
Friday, the communique revealed,
while Allied air forces again dominated the skies over Buna.
Marauding B-26 an d attack
bombers assisted the Yank and
Aussie groun,d troops in repelling
two Japanese attacks during the
day.
Meanwhile, a new and significant
development was reported at Huon
gulf with the announcement that
Allied air units had bombed an
enemy submarine there.
Thi! is the first time a Jap undersea raider has been reported in
waters near Lae and Salamaus.1
and it was interpreted as an indication that the Japs may be . endeavoring to cut off Allied sea
lanes, to the Papuan coast.
40 MILES OF FIGHTING
An official spokesman said fighting on the northeastern New
Guinea coast has been reduced to
an area only 40 . miles square, embracing the . coastal sector just
south of Bu;na to a po:int near
Gona-which ts not yet conquered
although occupied by Australian
forces - and as far inland as a
point near the Soputa crossing.
Elsewhere on the South Pacific
front Friday, B-25 bombers raided
the Lae airdrome and raked dispersal areas with strafing fire,
while flights of Hudson bombers
and Beauflghters ranged against
Timer, smashing at installations in
the Novalusa and the Beco secton.
Port Moresby, Allied base on the
south coast of New Guinea, waa
raided by three Or four Jap planes
Friday night but their bombloadti
dropped 'harmlessly into the bush
fringing the town and airdrome, it
was announced.
·
day.
By JOHN M. HIGHTOWER
_WASHINGTON (JP) - American
aircraft, !Striking heavily at Japanese bases in the northwestern
Solomons, were reported by the
navy Saturday to have destroyed
all buildings in the Munda area of
New Georgia island and blasted
the Kahili airdrome on the island
of Bougainville.
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GUADALCANALMOFUP
WASHI NGTON UP) - Amer ican
ground troops on Guadalcanal tsI 1and spent Thanksgiving day mopping up isolated Japanese p_a trols,
the navy reported Friday, and Secretary Knox declared that tp.e situation in the southeastern Solomon
islands "looks very well.''
The secr etary reiterat ed at his
pre,'s honference his belief that
the enerny would mak e another
attempt at reconquest of the islands, but he said that at the moment interest centered on the cam~
paign in New Guinea where the
fighting is "very stiff'' and "our
progress is pretty slow, as it would
be under the circumstances."
The Japanese on New Guinea,
he explained, have been pinned
back close to the coast around
Buna but have dug themselves
into strong positions so thoroughly
that very stiff fighting has resulted.
. Ground operations around American positions on Guadalcanal island were limited to local t:;kir1:1ishes. In a series of these a.-;.,
hons our patrols killed 50 Japanese
and captured a number of machine
guns Friday about six miles west
l ~;q~~e s!:.erican airfield, a commu';['wo enemy bombers made the
third straight night nuisance raid
on American positions on the island
Friday night. They dropped bombs
n.ear the mouth of the Lunga
river, but caused no damage.
FOE LOSS HEAVY
!n contrast with this greatly curtailed enemy activity, the result of
smashing blows dealt the Japs in
tht Solomons earlier this month
was a rep.ort made here Saturda;
by a marine combat engineer on
the first two months of the American occupation of Guadalcanal.
Capt. Walter R. Lytz said the
airfield was repeatedly and accu- ,
rately bombed while he was there,
alt.hough damage was quickly repaired; that day and night aerial
attacks and night naval bombardments were frequent and that the
Japan?se on land were constantly
punchmg at the American lines so
j that t~e engineer~ completing and
extendmg the airfield sometimes
had to fight all night and then
work all day,
I Saturday's communique, like all
?th~rs issued in the last two weeks, 1
rndicated that the Japanese have
been enfirely on the defensive, excep_t for nuisance activity, since
their greatest effort at reconquest
of the southeastern Solomons was
crushed by American air and naval power two weeks ago.
That they are collecting for another big push, however, is gener. ally accepted in high naval quarters here and it is this fact that
gave special significance to the
destructive
aerial
attacks
on
Munda and Kahili-ba'Ses which
the Japs would use in gathering
their ships, planes, men and sup~
plies for their next try.
Lytz, talking with reporters at
the navy department, said that enem)'.' casualties -were very much
higher than ours because the Japane'Se never let up when they try to
take a point until they succeed or
die.
"Jap soldiers are either courageous or crazy," he remarked. "In
a fight they're hell. "They rush a
position at night, screaming. You
shoot the hell out of them and
they keep on pushing in. Their
snipers get in the trees sometime'S
and stay there for days.''
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�HES 3 JAP
rl TROOPS
Allied Air Attacks
Balk Enemy at Buna
Tw,o Foe Destroyers Sunk, One
Other Is Damaged by B·ombers
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA (Thursday)
(}P)-Heavy and medium bombers operating under General Mac:•
Arthur's command smashed a Japanese attempt to land rein•
forcements at Buna yesterday, sinking two enemy destroyers
and damaging a third, apparently all heavily loaded with troops,
Allied headquarters announced today.
A Japanese light cruiser and a fourth destroyer also in the. TREE-TOP Sl\'IPERS COME DOWN TO EARTH- \I• :i.i• 4--,_
action beat a hasty retreat from the northern New Guinea shore
"Go climb a tree/' was meant literally when the command was given Jap soldiers by their officer!
under the heavy Allied pounding, carried out in darkness hy
on Guadalcanal. United States marine sharpshooters, however, brought the nimble climbers down
planes which first dropped flares and then blasted their lighted
even more rapidly than they went up. Note split-toed tree-climbing shoes on prisoners in foretargets with 500-pound bombs.
1round, _(Marine corps 11hoto.).
This latest success was announced in a noon coIIl:munique
which disclosed that the fighting
on land, continuing heavy, is slow
and difficult in "low, tropical jungle, interspersed with swamp and
tidal creek,'' and that the Allied
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troops "are now encountering carefully prepared positions strongly
fortified with barbed wire, dugouts
'·
and all the defensive attributes of
a fortress."
The destroyer damaged off Euna
probably also was sunk, headquar·ters said.
STORY OF BATTLE
The communique told this story
of the air battle against the enemy
ships:
"Enemy naval forces under cover
o! darkness again attempted to
land reinforcements to the beleaguered garrison but were shattered and repu1sed and the attempt
was unsuccessfu1.
"A light cruiser and four destroyers made the sortie. Our heavy
and medium bombers intercepted
with flares and 500-pound bombs in
Huon gulf and sank two destroyers
with direct hits and sevet:,ely....damaged a third.
"'Tb~ latter was dead in the
-water for 25 minutes and then was
.. seen beading for land at a speed
of six knots. n is probable she
also sank, as our r ear air echelons
searched her possible area Of position without seeing her.
LOADED WITH TROOPS
"The
ships were apparently
heavily loaded with troops and
those on the destroyed units undoubtedly were lost.
1
"The light cruiser and the remaining destroyer fled to the
north."
On Nov. 19, dropped ' flares disclosed a light cruiser and two deStroyers in a similar sortie. The
MacArthur bombers sank the cruiser and one destroyer and damaged
the other ship. Nov. 22, another
Jap destroyer was bombed and
sunk.
Today's communique also told
of additional Allied air raids on
Portuguese Timor and of two raids
by Jap planes on Port Moresby,
the southeast New Guinea Allied
base from which the land push
over the Owen Stanley mountains
toward Buna began late last September. The Jap bombs intended
for Port Moresby d1·opped harm' Iessly in the brush, the noon communlque _s_ta_te_d._ _ __
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TOUGH GOINGII- a.S- 'I-;,_
It took the old reliable nm1cle power to move i;:um1 through the dense junrle as the Auaaifll pur•
sued the Japs across the Owen Stanley mountains in New Guinea. Here a gun crew 1trug1Iet with
a 25-pounder. The allies now have reached Buna, principal Jap base.
�Knock Out 21
Jap Warplanes
\~-..-'tl.-Yank Flyers Fire Foe
Base in Timor, Sink
Barges Off Gona
(B\· United Press.)
Twenty-one
more
Japanese
planes were out of the war in the
south Pacific area Friday, all destroyed on the ground in Timor,
as bitter ground fighting continued
in New Guinea.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's air
force Thursday night made one of
its most successful raids on the
enemy's air base at Kupang, Dutch
Timer, leaving 18 Japanese bombers and 3 fighters damaged or destroyed, with smoke from the
burning fu el dump bilJowing 1 1500
feet into the sky.
The air force also sank two i
barges of Japanese troops off '
Gona.
Lieut. J. Dennett of Sydney, who
led the raid on Kupang, said the
Japanese were surprised and did
not have time to man anti-aircraft
guns.
Fires Visible 50 l\Iiles.
Fires from burning aircraft and
fuel dumps were visible for 50
miles as the raiders left.
Allied forces on New Guinea Friday were wiping out more enemy
machine gun nests and snipers on
the fringe of Japanese defenses
around the Buna mission and at
Sanananda point.
Australians who have narrowed
the enemy position at Gona, northwest of Buna, to the point where
it extends only 200 yards from
the beach. captured two strong
machine gun positions Thursday.
killing 10 Japanese.
G. R. Sold·ier Has
Slug from Leg
as Souvenir
11•30•'1->-.
SOMEWHERE IN NE,W
GUINEA (Delayed) UP) -Wounded
American dougb.boys came out of
the jungle battleground near Euna
Saturday and they all expressed the
same idea - to get back into the
field again and take on the Japanese.
Corp. Louis Carpenter of Ronson,
Mich., displayed a tobacco can
which, be said, had saved his life.
"I felt a bullet whang into my
side with a sharp bite/' Carpenter
said. "It glanced off this can and
cut a nick in my arm."
Sergt. •Richard Misner of Grand
Rapids, Mich., proudly displayed
his souvenir - the end of a small
caliber slug which doctors had removed from his leg.
Misner said he was on the Soputa trail headed for Buna when
bullets started whizzing around him
so fast from both sides he didn't
1 know he was hit until his leg gave
way. The next thing he remembered was waking up in the morning and finding the bullet tied
around his neck.
Another Michigan boy, Private
Raymond Worst of Coldwater received shrapnel wounds in the
shoulder in the fighting around
Cape Endaiadere.
Richard Misner is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. Roy Misner, of 4027
W River rd., Comstock Park.
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DECEMBER
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1942.-
Japs Do 'Suicide' Dives
[on Ship~,-~en All's Lost
PushAttackr,
lnGonaArea
!
Allies Seek to Widen
Wedge Splitting Jap
Forces
DESTROY
By CHARLES M'MURTRY
WITH THE U. S. FLEET IN
THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC UP)
-Jap suicide divers? No! Crash
divers, yes-plunging their planes
, into our ships after their own fate
already is sealed. Afire and knowing they can't save themselves,
these smart little monkeys inflict
the greatest damage possible before they die. It is a first rule ot
war. But suicides-never.
The pilot or a furiously-burning
BARGES
(By Associated .P ress. )
With only a matter of yards
separating the Japanese and allied
lines in the jungle, savage fighting
flamed on the left flank of the
New Guinea battlefront Tuesday.
A spokesman for Gen Douglas
MacArthur said th e fighting was
"c1ose in" and particularJy heavy
on the Gona end of the 20-mile
strip of beach which represents the
sole Japanese foothold left in
Papua.
In reaching the beach, allied
patrols have driven a wedge between Gona on the west and Buna
on the east.
The allies Tuesday were using
heavy mortar fire to destroy Japanese me.c;hine gun posts in the
Gona area. Reports from New
Guinea said artillery hits had destroyed four barges and started
towering fires among stores around
Gona.
Destroy Nine Jap Planes.
Allied flyers actively supported
the ground units and, carrying
the air battle to the Japanese
with smashing blows, destroyed
eight Zero fighters in the New
Guinea area while anti•aircraft
fire accounted for another over
Darwin, Australia.
In the biggest of the day's sky
conflicts, a dozen American P40s
and an equal number of Japanese
Zeros tangled in dogfights over
the Owen Stanley mountains and
along the coastal jungle strip
where the ground forces are locked
in combat. The American fighters
blasted seven of the foe's aircraft out of the sky. They lost two
of their own planes, but the pilots
were saved.
Another Zero fell the victim of
the guns of a Flying Fortress over
Vitiaz strait, off the coast of New
Guinea between it and New
Britain.
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(The following story was
written by Charles McMurtry,
Associated Press correspondent
wounded when a Japanese
plane crash-dived a U. S. carrier which the navy announced
was sunk in an October engagement in the Pacific.)
Tighten Ring
on Buna~s
.a\1.
~
Enemy Atte ting
Reinforcement; 4
Destroyers on Way
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
AUSTRALIA, (W..dnesday) uP) Americans and Australians slowly
drew tighter their ring of men
and steel around the entrapped
Japs at Euna in northeast New
Guinea and the enemy, aware of
the growing peril, is sending four
destroyers in a n apparent reinforcement attempt, the high coinmand said today.
.
Having divided the .lap forces at
Buna anU, Gona by penetrating to
the north coast 900 yards fro:n 1
Gana, "our ground forces are slow- 1
ly contracting their grip on the
enemy," Gen, Douglas MacArthur's
noon communique stated.
Even as the advancing Allies
pushed the Japs closer to the sea
supporting planes pressed horn~
deadly straffing and bombing attacks. An enemy dive bomber and
two fighters were shot down.
/ The approach of destroyers has
been a signal in the past to watch
for attempts at reinforcements.
Similar attempts already have cost
the Japs a light cruiser and four
destroyers certainly sunk and three
others. probably sunk as a result
of Allied aerial bombings.
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Japs Use 'Chutes I
to Aid Trapped
Buna-Gona
Units
1:>..-s- 't:l.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
AUSTRALIA (Saturday) (AP)Hard•pressed Japanese, apparently :finding too costly in ships their
repeated attempts to aid trapped
forces in the Buna-Gona ' area,
w~re reported today dropping supplies by parachute in an aerial attempt to relieve their beleaguered
comrades.
The noon communique told of
mopping up of pockets of opposition left behind by the Allied
spearhead which fought its way
to the coast near Gona and then
turned toward Euna. More than
400 enemy dead have been counted. In addition, an estimated 40
Japs drowned · when two large
barges were sunk from under
them by bombers of Gen. Douglas
MacArthur's air force.
The fighting in sectors other
than around Gana was ref . . rred
to as intermittent.
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Jap Women Fight
Along w,ith Men
on I>..Guadalcanal
·I· Y.;,...
AKRON, Ohio UP) - Uniformed
, Japanese women have participated
in the Guadal"canal campaign, Marine Corp. Richard Fraley reported
Monday.
"Sdveral time our gunners have
picked off Jap snipers in the trees
in the jungles, only to find that
1 they were women in unif&rm/' de' clared, F1·aley1 heme on turlougb
after- 56 hectic days of fighting in
the Solomon islands.
"Once a bomber crashed near us
and, when the boys ran to the scene
, of the wreck, they tound a Jap girl
lying nearby, dead and with her
, uniform partially blown off. They
thought she might have been the
bombardier or wireless operator.''
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Jap plane baa only one questionwhether to fall harmlessly into the
ocean or to crash-dive a ship
knowing he'll set it aflame and
perhaps strike a disabling blow.
There's only one answer-to crashdive. So crash-dive he does.
,Five Japs tried to crash-dive our
carrier Oct. 26 in the Santa Cruz
i!!lands battle. The :vtane of each
was enveloped in flames.
They
knew death was but a matter or
seconds. Three missed, by 30, 50
and 80 feet. Two hit. One started
a bad fire which eventually was
extinguished. The second, which
already had torpedoed us, started
a lesser blaze.
The one which started the Worst
fl.re carried three bombs, fortunately, the largest-a 500-pounderdidn't explode.
A 100-pounder
killed three men, wounded others,
and started the fire. The second
100-pounder spread · fire but probably did little other damage.
Suicides? No. They were only
playing the game of war to the
limit-smash the other fellow with
everything you've got.
All who could unloaded their
bombs and torpedoes and fled to
fight another day. That's smart,
too-escape, get more bombs, and
attack again.
They can inflict
far more damage that way than
crashing with a damaged plane.
I talked with many officers and
men not only on the carrier but
other ships. None recalled ever
seeing a Jap attempt to crash a
vessel unless his plane was on fire.
I pointed out that the Japs, then,
were not sutcidicg. All agreed.
They hadn't thought ot it that way
before,
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Buna Convoy
Driven Off
'l-3-'t~
Allied Airmen Down
23 Zeros; Yanks Mop
Up ,~uadalcanal
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
AUSTRALIA (Thursday) (AP)Allied airmen have downed 23 Jap
Zeros and driven off a naval convoy which attempted to reintOTce
the entrapped Japs at Buna on
the northeast New Guinea coast
the high command announced t~
day.
The ground ftghting for control
of all northeast New Guinea continued in favor of the AIJies.
"With support of our artillery
and with close bombing and strafing by our air units, our troops
have -driven in from the left beyond Gona and are advancing
alQng the beach toward the center of the enemy's position at
Sanananda,'' the communique stated.
"We are mopping up atrong
points which were overrun on our
Iattack."
WASHINGTON (AP)-Fighting
through the jungle on Guadalcanal, American troops are carrying
on a mopping up operation against
scattered enemy groups, the navy
reported Wednesday.
r
In one day of what the navy describes as "patrol operations" soldiers and marines knocked out at
least three enemy installations
kiliing 51 of the Japanese, captur~
ing three light artillery pieces and
takin~ six mac~ine guns.
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�splints and devices to immobilize
fractures are available at the front
line stations, Nicks sald the pref•
erence still is for plaster casts.
"It is too early to forecast the
final verdict for these wounded
from the Buna front," Nicks said.
"We may have to perform some
amputations yet if the wounds do
Miracles in New Guinea
\1•'° ~'tl,
Army Surgeons Daily Are Performing Medical
Wonders in Jungle Hospitals
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not heal
Butprimary
we do know
that
the properly.
number of
amjungle before obtaining primary
(By Don Caswell.)
putations has been greatly reduced
and troops now have a far greater
Somewhere in New Guinea-<LP} dressings.
-In the swampy, feverish jungles Drenched with _perspira!ion after cha.nee to survive than in the past.
of New~uine~ ar~y surgeons ar~
performmg daily miracles unheard
of in World war No. 1.
I have just visited an American
field hospital in New Guinea bush
country wh~re more tban 200
~~~rs~l~fer;•:~{il~rn;,h:nJ~~-~~-~1~t~
the medical successes to the wide
use of sulfa drugs and blood plasma
and the inoculation of soldiers
with activating shots_ \.vhen they
th
nd
!~!e~v~u~aJ!~~ a
agam when ey
:i~~~d:ieso~~~~s ~-:r~~~i~:n ~~:~i:~
Nov. 19.
In the last war surgeons would
have expected at least a score of
amputations from such an assortment of damaged bodies. But up to
Thursday not a single one has
been performed here.
"Wonderful Job."
Chief Surgeon Capt. Frank Nicks
of Colorado Springs, Colo., said the
record is all the more remarkable
because some of the wounded spend
two or three days in the feverish
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Prefe~ Plaster Casts.
"_T he advanced dressing stations
also are doing a wonderful job,"
Nicks said.
Doctors at these staticns diag•
nose the wounds and apply primary
treatment, usually sprinkling the
injury with sulfa powder, and give
sulfadiazine tablets to combat infection internally.
At the field hospital great quan•
tities of sulfathiazol are used and
a gangrene serum is injected.
Although many new types: of
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH., THURSDAY,
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Yanks March to Front in New Guinea
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"JAPS GET NO REST,"
WRITES CORP. WILBERT.
American troops in New Guinea
are "giving the Japs no rest," it
is reported by Corp. Herman Wilbert, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Wilbert, 412 Fifth-st., N. W. One
of several Michigan soldiers who
recently have been on the fighting
front around Buna, according to a
press association dispatch from
New Guinea, Corp. Wilbert declared: ''We keep our mortars going day and night. It's hard on us, 1
but think what it must be for
them."
Corp. Wilbert is one of the
"three musketeers" from Grand
Rapids who together last spring
cabled 1jews of their safe arrival
in Australia to their parents. The
otl:).er two members of the trio arc
Sgt. Russell E. Young, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Roy E. Young, 108 Sum•
mer~av., .N. W., and Corp. James
DenBraber, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Martin DcnBraber, 223 Mt. Vernon-av., N. V,.,7•
Another Grand Rapids soldier
mentioned in the dispatch is Sgt.
Bob McGee, who told how the
Japanese had sent over several air
transports
with
accompanying
Zeros to drop food to their troops
by parachute. ' 1They must be running short of food," he said.
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Allies Maintain
Wedgt\1:l't~una
Repulse Jap Attack on
New Position Taken
Near Mission
Allled Headquarters, Australia(A')-Allied troops maintained their
newly-driven wedge through Jap·
anese posltlons to the sea between
Buna village and Buna mission
Monday and threw back a strong
Japanese patrol which penetrated
American lines at Cape Endaiadere.
Allled forces cut the Jong, nar•
row Japanese beachhead on northeast New Guinea into new segments Sunday by driving to the
beach near Buna village. The advanced allied position was under
fire from Japanese guns within the
vlllage all day.
Australian 25'-pounders hammered
at the mission area throughout the
night in answer to heavy machine•
gun and artillery fire.
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The Japanese were reported to
have suffered heavy losses in their
attacks on American lines at Cape
Endaiadere.
The allies now have retched beach
positions at four places-on each
side of Buna and on each side of
Gona.
Three Alternatives.
At the point of the latest allied
penetration the Japanese have a
series of stockades along the beach
and reports from war correspondents said the foe had but three
choices, to fight to the death, to
surrender or an attempt to escape
by the sea.
Fifteen Japanese bombers and sixteen Zeros attacked one of the al•
lied rear positions shortly after
noon Sunday but no damage was
reported.
Flying Fortresses raided Rabaul.
Japanese base in New Britain,
shortly before daylight Sunday,
lighting their targets with flares
and then dropping explosives and
incendiazy bombs on the town, air•
drome and harbor.
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. Tells Japs
War Has Reached
Critical Moment
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NEW - .,,.ORK (INS)-The Japanese people were told Tuesday by
their premier, Gen. Hideki Tojo,
that Japan has entered "a critical
point in this ·war" and that the nation "must use all it'S training and
skill to foil the enemy."
In a broadcast meant only for
.Japanese ears but recorded by the
federal communications commission, the Japanese leader stressed
what dangers lay ahead for Japan.
The !9peech was in marked contrast to Japanese transmissions
meant for the United :States, which
consistently give an optimistic and
rosy picture of developments witb'.in Japan.
Capt. Nakae Yahagi, chief of
the .Japanese army press section_,
complained that the "Japanese
people do not feel the fighting
spirit" in another broadcast to the
empire. He warned that "America
believes she will win this war if it
is a long one."
YANKS "GO NATIVE" IN NEW GUINEA-NEA Telephoto
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United States troops head into midstream in a native "outrigger" to board small boats that will take them to a. forward
position in 1'ew Guinea. They are part of the allied force 1
pushing Jap forces toward the sea near Buna.
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1942.
�MAC ARTHUR
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Japs' NEl.oosened as Cona Falls
Buna Hemmed
In by Allies
Bombers Rake Anew
Tom, Narrow Strip
Held by Nipponese
MELBOURNE UP)-Japan's disastrous foray in to southern New
Guinea as a preliminary to invaadon of Australia neared its final
phase Thursday with the announcement that Allied jungle fighters
under personal command of General Douglas MacArthur had wiped
out the stoutly-defended enemy
beachhold of Gona and were closing in on Buna to the south.
With the fall of Gana, announced
by Prime Minister John Curtin of
Australia, the surviving Japanese
karrison of the ambitious force
that tn mid-swnmer threatened the
main Allied base of Port Moresby,
on the south coast of New Guinea,
was left holding only a few miles
IEPULSES JA~PS
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 11, 1942,
ews of a World at War
of bomb--torn ground at Buna.
CAN'T HOLD l\lUCH LONGER
That Buna could hold out much
longer against American forces already at ite outskirts and fighting
bitterly for possession of its airfield was doubtful. Dispatches from
that sector said American troops
were entrenched at two places at
one end of the Buna landing field,
with Japanese blazing away from
the other end. Allied bombers were
reported raking the narrow Japanese-held zone between the air field
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Foe's Second Try
to Escape from
Buna Trap Foiled
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
AUSTRALIA, (Saturday), UPl-Repulse of Japanese counter-attack•
at Sanananda, between Gona and
Buna on the northeast New Guinea
coast, was announced by the high
command today.
41
South of Sanananda the enemy
repeatedly counter-attacked bnt we.a
bloodily repulsed/' the noon communique from Gen. Doug1as MaoArthur reported regarding the
showdown batl1e for control of all
northeastern New Guinea.
In the Buna area, anti-aircraft
and machine gun positions of the
trapp~d Japs were silenced by Allied artillery and mortar fire.
MANY JAP DEAD
In the ftnal stages of the battle
which resulted tn the A1Ued conquest of Gona, 12 miles up the coast
from Buna, at least 440 Japs were
slain, with other dead yet to be
counted. Sixteen were taken prl1oner.
The failure of the Japs to break
out of entrapment was the second
such reported 1n as many days.
Yesterday's communique told ot
the repelling of counter-attacks in
the Buna sector.
Jap planes dropped supplies tG
their beleaguered ground troops.
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and the sea.
Prtor to Curtin's announcement
that MacArthur's men had cleaned
out the Gona sector, the regular
communique from AlUed headquarters had told ot the 8mashing of a
Japanese attempt to break out of
the coastal trap under cover of
darkness. Ninety-five of the enemy
were reported killed and four
tured, bringing to more than 400
the number of Japanese reported
slain in that area in recent weeks.
THRUST BEGUN LAST JULY 7
The Japanese made their initial
Janding at Gona last July 22 and
from their Gona-Buna beachheads
atarted an invasion drive which
carried them across the towering
Owen Stanley mountaints to within
32 miles of the important Allied
base at Port Moresby. Then they
w~re halted and subsequently were
forced to begin their first real retreat of the war back across the
mountaim3, finally to be hemmed in
on the narrow strip between Buna
and Oona and cut off from relief
from the sea by American bombers
and warships.
Curtin in his announcement of
the fall of Oona paid tribute to the
American planes and fighting ships
in preventing the Japanese from
reinforcing their troops either in
New Guinea or at Guadalcanal.
"American 11uperlority by land,
sea and air and American capacity
to reinforce Guadalcanal are good
omens of ultimate success in the
conflict tn the southwest Pacific,"
he •aid.
Allied headquarters, expanding
on the continuous and deadly assault on Japanese communications
and supply points in the Solomons,
reported that 10 enemy planes had
been destroyed and four others
damaged so badly they probably
crashed when American Flying
Fortresses and Liberators bombed
the Japanese airdrome at Gasmata,
New Britain. Every Amerl'.an
plane was said to have returned
from the raid.
Blocks Enemy
!in Showdown
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l\lAIL l\lUST GO THROUGHConstant vigilance ls maintained in New Guinea by United States troops against Jap snipers, even
when the mail arrives. Theso American troops are sorting- the mail while an efftcient-lookins
sharpshooter, left, keeps his eyes open for any trouble. The photo was taken near the Buna area
where allied troops have tho Japs trapped with their backs to the sea.
THEY'VE STOPPED JAPSEnterprise and good jungle-fighting ability on the part of Australian and American forces have
brought the Japs to bay along New Gulnea's north coast after a drive across the island. Allied
soldiers of the two countries are shown, top, marching from the transport planes that landed them
on the Jap flank.
ONE DOWNS 5
WASHINGTON, UP) - A Ion•
army Flying Fortress recently
fought off 15 Japanese Zero fighters over the ts1and of New Georgia,
destroyed five or them, and returned safely to its base, the navy
announced Friday.
A communique reporting this tn-ctdent announced also that the
auxiliary cargo ship Alchiba had
b?eTJ. i-unk in the Salomons area
by enemy action.
Reports teaching here indicated
that only three men were lost in
the destruction of the ship and
those were listed as missing.
The destruction of the five Zeroes
raised Japan's plane losses in the
Solomons, as announced by the
navy here, to 631.
Loss of the Alchiba boosted the
total of announced United States
ship losses tn the Solomons area to
27 sunk. An unannounced number
of American ships have been damaged. The Japanese ha\•e lost ~2
sunk, 4 probably sunk and 79 damaged.
�GRAND RA
PRICE THREE CENTS
FIFTY-EIGHTH YEAR
MACARTHUR~
MOVE
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\~ ~1-'rl,, - Four Reported Wounded
in New Guinea
Fighting
Bom hers Fire Destroyer,
Chase Others Carrying
' Airl to ~ew Guinea
Four Grand Rapids soldiers have
been reported thus far as wounded
in the fierce fighting on New
Guinea in the southwest Pacific on
Nov. 26 (Thanksgiving day) and
Nov. 27.
Official telegrams from the adju-
tant general's offices in Washington have been received by parents
of the injured fighters.
Three of the soldiers were reported wounded seriously. They
are Corp. Franklin Bice, 21, son
of Mr. and Mrs, Royal E. Bice, 321
Franklin-st., S. W ., and Pvt. Clare
R. Earlywine, 18, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Louis Earlywine, 904 Arianna-st., N. W., and Sgt. Donald
Atchison. 23, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Robert J. Atchison, 1652 Jefferson-av., S. E.
Slightly Injured.
''Slightly injured" was Tech.
Corp. Bernard C. Schondelmayer,
24, son of Mr. and Mrs. Corna
Schondelmayer, 247 Dickinson-st.,
S.E.
Scl:ondelmayer, who was attached to a cannon company;
Atchison, who attended Davis
Tech and South High schools, _and
Earlywine
were
injured
on
Thanksgiving day.
Corp. Bice was wounded Nov. 27.
With Corp. Bice on the Pacific
island is a brother, Sgt. Debera
BL::e, 22. He wrote in a letter
to his parents recently that Franklin had been in the hospital in
October, but had recovered.
Were Guardsmen.
Earlywine and Corp. Bice left
Grand Rapids with the national
guard in October, 1940. Bice enlisted in the guard when 17. Pvt.
Earlywine attended Harrison Park
Junior High school before enlisting in the guard at the age of
16. He has a brother, Louis Earlywine, jr., in the army at Hawaii.
Sgt. Atchison left Grand Rapids
to join the army in April, 1940.
His older brother, Willis, 34, is In
the navy and is stattoned at Norfolk, Va.
Corp. Schondelmayer was inducted into the army April 20,
1941. His mother received a camp
Christmas greeting from him, entitled "Hi Folks," last Friday. The
greeting had been mailed Nov. 17.
The corporal jotted on the greeting, ''Everything ok." A brother.
Pvt. Daren Schondelmayer, 20, is
in the armed force at Fort Knox,
Ky.
AU of the parents were advised
in the official telegrams that
"period reports will be forwarded
\Vhen recPJved" in Washington,
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Repulse Japs
Off Buna-Gona
Another Jap
Local Soldiers
Hurt in Battle
MacArthur Fliers
Send Foe Convoy
Scurrying Away
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AUSTRALIA (Wednesday) (1p) _
Anothe1· frantic attempt of the
Japs to rush warships to the aid
' of their faltering forces pocketed
at Buna and Gona on the coast of
northeast New Guinea has been
repulsed by planes of Gen. Douglas
MacArthur's air force, the high
command announced today.
, While Allied ground forces at
Buna were throwing back a counter-attack with heavy Jap lo'sses
and Allied planes constantly harassed the entrapped enemy, this
~:;~~se~as given of the warship
·A~ sociuled Press.)
Allied bombers Wednesday had
broken up a new attempt by the
Japanese navy to reinforce troops
in the Buna•Gona I area of New
Guinea, setting one of six enemy
destroyers afire with two direct
hits and forcing the remaining five
to flee northward, an allied com·
munique reported.
American
bombers,
inc1uding
Flying Fortresse_S', flew to the attack and scoted direct hits on the
leading destroyer with" two 500pound bombs~ Bombs fell close
to another destroyer and it was reported listing badly as the fori::
turned northward. The communique said the leading destroyer
was "enveloped in flames," but ~ts
ultimate fate was not disclosed.
It was the fifth time the Japanese have attempted to ,ferry relief
to the ground troops in the EunaGena area. One light cruiser and
four destroyers were sunk in the
previous four attempts.
1 On the New Guinea shore, allied
forces which drove a new hole into
Japanese lines a few days ago and
reached the beach near Euna
fought off strong counter-attacks.
At least 40 Japanese \Yere reported
killed in the fighting.
Allied troops advanced slightly in
the fighting around the Euna air·
drome and the communique reported that a11ied planes were continuing their attacks on Japanese
positions.
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Hides With laps
l~-ll-'f-J,
Un der House, T hen
Helps Kill Them
Washington - (JP) - A Unitf'd
States marine
corporal from
Brooklyn, N. Y., spent several terrifying hours hiding under a house
in the Solomons with 16 Jap riflemen, the navy reported Friday,
before he got away to direct an
attack on the party by marine
machine gunners.
The corporal, Robert B. Pape,
became separated from his comrades when the Japanese attacked
his invading party on Tulagi island
Aug. 8.
He ducked under a house to hide.
Then marine machine gunners
opened up on the Japs and 16 of
them crawled in with Pape. For•
tunately it was before dawn and
they did not recognize him as an
American.
As t~e dawn brightened, Pape
began mching his way from under
the house, hoping to escape.
A Jap officer recognized him and
s~ot him ill: the leg. Pape got outside, however, and yelled directions
fo!' nearby machine gunners, who
wiped out the Japanese.
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"An enemy naval force of six des~royers attempting for the fifth
time to bring relief to their ground
b'oops Wa'S intercepted and attacked by our heavy bombers. Two
direct hits with 500-pound bombs
were ~cored on the leading destroyer which was quickly enveloped in
~i::,;s, The remaining convoy
The previous four Jap navy attempts at reinforcement and assistance have cost them a crui'ser and
at least four destroyers.
Today's noon communique also
highlighted charges that Japanese
aerial units ''have violated the
laws of war by repeated attacks
upon Allied hospital installations
killing doctors, medical personnei
and patients."
"On Nov. 27,'' the communique
stated, "an Australian field ambu~
lance unit in the Soputa area and
an Aplerican regimental dressing
station werE; bombed, killing 29
and wounding 31. On Dec. 2, an
American field hospital in the
Buna area was bombed without
damage. On Dec. 7, this same unit
was bombed twice in a single day
by Jow altitude divebombers with
casualtie'S of seven killed and 30
woundec;l. In each case, the tentage
was conspicuously marked and the
medical cha1·acter of the installation was unmistakable."
On the Allied aerial front, a
bom!:>e1· attack was reported made
on the airdrome at Lae in New
Guinea, which caused explosions
and fh•es among fuel and ammunition dutnps; the airdrome at Ga~mata on New Britain island was
bombed and strafed; and two enemy fighters were shot down by a
reconnaissance group over Rabaul
New Bl'itain.
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PVT. CLARE R. EARLYWINE, 18, left, of 904 Arianna-st., N. \\'.,
and CORP. FRANl;{LIN BICE, 21, ot 321 Franklin•st., S. \ V., who
were wounded seriously in the New Guinea fighting with the United
States army Nov. 26 and 27. They are two of four Grand Rapids
soldiers reported thus far to have been wounded in the battle on
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the south Pacific island.
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WEDNESDAY,
DECEMBER
9,
1942.
B eat Japs at Own Game
Marines on Guadalcanal Adapt, T heir Fighting
Ways to T hose o f Enemy
(By J. Norman Lodge.)
"The Japs are good fighters but
Guadalcanal-(JP)-The marines poor soldiers."
Japs Meet Their l\Iatch.
again have the situation well in
''This is the first time they've
hand.
I have just returned from the ever met their match. They won't
Jines and an interview with Lieut. surrender, It's a fight of exterCol. Cornelius P. VanNess of San mination. Even when we have the
yellow-bellies downwind we have
Francis<;:o.
''We have been averaging 50 to l to blow them out of their fox holes
shoot them down, blast them out
in fatalities,'' Col. Arthut said.
"In one raission we counted 400 of caves and bayonet them."
Several times in the interviews l
Japanese dead without a single
"hit the deck." The snipers scored
marine fatality.
several near-misses, but the colonel
JapS Skilled Figh ter s.
talked on as if he y.,as on the back
t•we've learned that the Japs porch of his South Carolina home.
facing us are veterans of Burma The fighting strip is the most inS!ngapore, Sumatra and the Philip- accessible I ever have encountered
pmes, and are thoroughly skilled I've fought at Be11eau Woods and
fighters. They fight only by night the Argonne, but those woods were
and snipe by da,y.
like a picnic ground compared
"We are beating them at their with thls.
own game and are greatly aided by
Tak e It in Str ide.
our ack-ack (anti-aircraft), which
has been truly mag_nificent. Those There are flies as big as B17's
boys are so darned good they sur~ m~squitoes seemingly as large a~
prise us every day. They've been flyrng boats, a terrific sun by day
averaging so many hits the Zeros and rain by night.
no longer strafe our boys, which is Slimy salamanders as big as baby
1 a Godsend.
Tl').e snipers are bad crocodiles scamper along the'
enough because it's almost impos~ ground, and although they are
sible to spot them in the trees to ha~mless they give one a creepy j
fchng. But the marines .;.nd sol~
which they've tied themselves.
_"The Japs infiltrate in the night, diers have been taking it in stride, i
hide out in the tree-tops, and al- :t~fde~.hey-e made might" long
though it's suicidal they continue
such tactics day after day.
�1tnt;;;;ting
More Bor'1.~!.3 for Japs
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(By Maj. Gen. L. K. VanOyen.)
Jackson, Miss.-m.P.l- The black•
est day of our Jife w as March 7,
1942, when Java fell and we had
to obey the orders of our govern•
ment to ~ withdraw to Australia.
Now, a year later, the road back
to Java has been charted and
needs only to 1/e paved.
ln the last year, 1 am happy to
report, the air force units under
my
command
have
become
stronger and better equipped than
they were when the Japs swept
down on the Indies. A part ot my
men- now the instructors in JacktK>ll-escaped at the end of the
fight, which was gallant' but hopeless against an overwhelmingly
superior Japanese force. They
aow are taking to the skies again
in new equipment and they are
taking with them a great nlim.ber
ot younger boys, trained . by them
as pi1ots, gunners, observers, etc.
Outlook Was Dark.
On March 6, 1942. it had become
~Jear that the fight was finished,
as far as our air force was concerned. We had thrown in everything we had. Our men had
pounded at the invasion forces and
blitt exacted a h'ige toll from
them. I can give no detail, but the
number of Jap cruisers, destroyers and transports sunk and damaged by our bombs was greater
than the number of bombers we
had at the beginning of the war.
We had already Jost a part of our
air strength-what little there was
-of it-in aiding our allies in Malaya and we had virtually no rep]acements.
Our
fighter
and
bomber force was virtuaBy gone
in the first days of March.
On Saturday, March 7, we
boarded a small army transport
plane on a secret landing strip
1south of Bandoeng and the pilot
ilook off from a road used as a.
Clte1 U. S. Off.er.
Arriving In Australia I found
thing but sympathy for The
etherlands East Indies. The
tnerican and Australian force ~,
offered us all co-operation in reconstructing our air force. Our
alli~s were as anxious as we to
speed the way when we could embark on the road back.
A large number of our air men
were jn Australia because our ttying school and that of the Royal ,
Netherlands navy already had 1,een
sent to that country in February
as a p'recautionary measure. We
worked out plans whereby all
these men would remain in Australia for Lraining with new
equipment. But AustraUa lacked
the facilities to train all of th'em. ;
and then the United States stepped
in to help us. We asked for and
got facilities at American bases for
training of our bomber !J.Ild fi g hter ,
crews.
Ar; a re;ml · the Royal Nelhevlands military flying school was set
up last May at the .Jackson army
ait base. Thanks to magnificent
co-operation from the Americans,
w e have been able to do a good
job.
Good Training.
'Xhe boys are getting better training than we dreamed possible a
year ago. The recent graduation
class showed its wings in a ma~
flight across the United States Jn
January. Flying bimotored planes
they spent a week in mass and indiv idual maneuvers that took them
to Los Angeles and back, over unfamiliar terrain, fl ying in the face
of bad weather.
Now they are going back lo the
war theaters and they will carry
with them a love for the Americans with whom they worked in
close harmony here. I don't believe any of The Neth,erlands airmen will forget what Maj. Gen.
Ralph Royce, commander of the
soµtheast training command, told
them at the graduation of Feb. 13:
"Take along a few extra bombs
and drop them off for me.''
They are aching to get back into
the fray. Most of the older ones,
the instructors, have personal
scores to settle with the Japsmen who Jost their homes and
familles and all of them have a
national score to settle. One day
soon these men will help in bomb- ·
ing the daylights out of the Japs ,
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By KIRKE L SIMPSON
AMoclated PreH War Anal)'llt
Th, hattle of the Bismarck sea,
at <
,,.troke set invasion appre•
hens1uns in Australia definitely at
rest. To what extent the .Japanese
offensive-defensive perimeter in the
southwestern Pacific, alrady dented
at Guadalcanal and Buna, was fur•
ther buckled and rendered vulnerable is yet to be revealed.
There can be no doubt, however, ~ t a blow to Japanese
prestige and to Tokyo's dream
of conquest out of all proportion to the one-sided losses In•
fllcted on the foe has been
dealt. It hi>• definitely moved
up the hour when Japan can be
brought to grim reckoning.
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The only logical explanation yet
available of Japanese purposes in
risking the disaster was to rein•
force beleaguerd and critically im•
portant outposts in northeast New
Guinea. MacArthur is steadUy closing in on Salamaua ·a nd Lae, southeastward protective redoubts for
the whole Finschhafen peninsula.
That bold promontory juta eastward to form the southwestern
shoreline of Vitiaz strait, the narrow waterway that separates New
Guinea and New Britain. In Allied
hands it would be a menacing jumpoft across 60 miles or so of sea to a
landing on New Britain. It also
would bring Anied air bases within
less than 400 miles of Rabaul, main
Japanese concentration base and
from which the ill-fated relief convoy started. Rabaul lies on the
northeastern tip of New Britain,
tack. That was due in part to
previous Allied bombing of every
Japenese advance fteld in New i
Britain, in part to waning Japa...
nese ability to replijce her air
losses.
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The American air attack that
led to that enemy disaster was
two--fold. Enemy air bases at Lae
and Salamaua were effectively neu•
trallzed by MacArthur's bombers
while the sea-air action was in
progress. While a break In the
bad weather front appears to have
helped materially, there is every
evidence that the foe Balled into
a carefully prepared Al}ied trap.
One immediate result · must be
to release additional elements ot
MacArthur's forces for offensive
use in his campaign to clear
northeastern New Guinea as wen
as the Papuan peninsula of Japanese toothoids.
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It took weeks of preparation at
Rabaul and elsewhere to the north
for the enemy to prepare that reinforcement expedition. . MacArthur's bombers were hac,ing at it 1
day and night at long range. To
the :final losses must be added
those previously wr0ug!f at Rabaul and at sea by Jnceasant Allied bomber raids. The ~•Ible aggregate Japanese loss must run
to more than 30 ships of all types,
more than three score planes and
above 20,000 lives.
If the Japanese hold on the
vitally important Flnschhafen pen-l
insula ls to be strengthened, obviously a much greater effort wtll
+ + +
be required. A major concentraIt Is to be assumed that Jap- tion of air and sea power, requiranel!le strategy in hoping to run ing time and exposing ships,
the Australlan•American air gant- planes and men to Allied bombers
let to New Guinea relied both on as It ls being effected, w~uld be
weather and on a protective air necessary.
umbrella. The expedition moved
Without that major effort-
down the coast of New Britain to
enter Vttiaz strait 10 clo.se inshore
until It was scattered by the Allied
air attack that short-range Japanese planes based in New Britain
should 11,ave been available to cover
which Tokyo well may not dare
risk, as Jt dared not risk a fullscale etrort to recapture Guadalcanal-the loss Or New Britain
footholds is foreshadowed. ,
it.
They proved utterly incapable
of doing that againl!lt the sus-
tained lon.--rango Allied air at•
and helping to roll back the tide
of invasion. Americans might Hke
to remember on th&t day that
lhe~e b_oys c_arry 'lhe St~rs and
Stripes m the1~ h ea r ts next to The
Net herlands tricolor.
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Allies Keep
Japs Ducking
;j·K-'f-)
Pepper Nip Positions
Over Wide Front in
Southwei~ rn Pacific
By VERN HAUGLAND
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
AUSTRALIA (Monday) (lP}-Allied
airmen struck at a half-dozen Japanese positions over a wide front
in the southwest Pacific yesterday,
bombing an 8,000-ton enemy cargo
ship off the New Guinea coast and
shooting down a lone reconnaissance bomber off Darwin, Australla,
a communique announced today.
, The acceleration of aerial activity following the Bismark sea vtctory found the Allies hitting airdromes and ~uildlngs on th:e w~st~u:n:-:t~:!:r!~lt:,~:• 8~:i:alr~
' SHOOT DOWN 8TH JAP
SALAMAUA BASE RAIDED
British Spitfires, in action only a
Heavy units also raided the airfew weeks, shot down their eighth drome at Cape Gloucester, New
Japanese plane in the Darwin sec~ Britain. Bombs were unload~d .,on
tor, and a Liberator bomber crew the runway and near anTRi1rcraft
bombed the enemy cargo ship in positions. The Jap base of SalaStephan strait along the northeast- m aua on the nm-theast . coast of
ern New Guinea coast. Although New Guinea also was raided by a
the extent of the damage was not heavy unit.
determined, the ship was seen to reNin e enemy medium bombers'. esduce speed.
carted by 15 fighter planes, raided
The strongest Japanese aerial re- the Vivigani area of Goodenough
ply was made upon Goodenough is- island Sunday after~oon. They
land in the D'Entrecasteaux group I caused neither casualties_ nor damoff the Papuan coast, but no dam- age, the communique. said. .
age or casualties were inflicted, the
"Our a ttack planes, m two fhg~ts,
communique said.
bombed and thoroughly machme•
Allied bombers were active over gunned the Guadagasal saddle are~
a wide area. Two flights of medium (nea r Mubo) in 31 strafing passes,
units bombed and strafed Toeal in the communique continued.
the Kai islands, "causing further
"In subsequent sweeps along the
heavy damage and many fl.res in coaet our aircraft strafed a num~er
.the waterfront area."
\ of loaded supply barges near MmHeavy_bombers scored direct hits drugtu island and raked the runon· the runway of the Japanese air•
way at Dona.''
drome at Gasmata, New Britain.
- - - - -- The 8,000-ton Japanese ship was
sighted in Stephan strait off New
Guinea, the communique said. Re- i
sult of the attack, made by a reconnaissance plane, was not report- I
New Guinea, and the Kai islands ed.
n rthwest of Australia,
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Bismarck Sea Defeaf May
Cosf Japs New Brifain
Dutch Flyers, Trained in U. S., Are Going Bf!..ck
to Even Score With Hirohito
,
lEditor' s Nole: One year after the
fall ot Java, Maj. Gen . L, K. Van
-Oyen, commander ot The Netherlands
Indies air force, describes t,lans that
are being lni.d to win bar'k 'The
Netherlands East Indles. Gen. Van
Oyen was at Honolulu when the
Pacific war broke out and witnessed
the Jap attack on Pearl Harbor. He
served In the Indies durinli:' the i nvasion and was one of the few hi~h
offlciab ordered to w ithdr aw from
.Ta"8. at the eleventh hour. HI'! has
J1UK'e organized the tralninlil: o:t Dutch
flyers In the United States.)
the War News
�Jap Airpower Grows in S. W. Pacific
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Nippon's Air Force Reported Growing
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Strong Force of Bombers
Sinks Ship Off New Guinea
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
AUSTRALIA, (Tuesday) (lP)-A
strong force of Japanese bombers
sank a small Allied merchantman
at Orobay on New Guinea yesterday, emphasizing official warnings
that Japanese airpower is growing
in the southwest Pacific, while in
land, fighting 92 survivors o:t the
enemy convoy smashed in the Bismarck sea have been killed or
captured on New Guinea and
1Goodenough islands, the Allied
high command reported today.
Nine bombers escorted by 13
Ztlroa· swept over the little vn..
)'age south of Buna on the New
Guinea coast Jn broad daylight
to send the cargo vessel to the
bottom.
A spokesman for Gen. MacArthur, commenting on published
reports from the United States
hailing the heavy superiority of
Allied airmen in this area as a resutt ot the Bisme.r,ck sea battle,
warned that th~piy alr!orce
should not be un,derestimated.
"Japanese alrpower, in this
area. at least, certainly isn't on
the wane. Quite the contrary,"
he said. "It fs a well-known
maxim that the loser always
45 Jap Planes Stage 3 ·
Raid on Wau, New Guinea
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looks bad even though the margin that brings victory-sometimes overwhelming victoryma;r be hardly more than an
eyelash.
"Japanese air forces are increasing in atrength here notwithstanding past losses and defeats.. · .His
planes are good and 80 are his
fliers. Any disparaging discount
of his air potential ts not only
incorrect but dangerous.''
Fifty-five Japanese survivors of
the disaster in the Bismarck sea
drifted ashore between Longan!
and Wa.nigela, two small native
villages south of Buna, New
Guinea.
All were killed or captured, the
communique said.
At Goodenoug}l island, another
Party of 42 drifted ashore and
Allied ground patrols immediately
attacked, killing 34 in bloody fighting and capturing three.
Five
others escaped but are "being pur!med."
The communique did not mention
~ J ! l e r e were casualties in
the "Mt1p's crew in the sinking of
the Allied ship yesterday,
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN Japanese airdrome, was attacked
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ably destroyed. The Allied plane returned home safely.
The raid on Wau Tuesday occurred shortly after noon, with the
planes coming in from the north- 1
west. The bombers, in a tight "V" f
formation, made a single pass in :
their customary patte,n of bombing.
There was no indication that
the raid was co..c,rdfnated With an
increase in land activity, which ha.a
been on a minor scale since the
Japs were driven be.ck after approaching Wau.
FIND POWER BARGE
al~:i~d Y~~t!::!~uda:~:ie:a~~~munique had told or' the sinking of an
Allied merchant ship by Jap bomb-ers in Oro bay b"elow Euna1 New
Guinea.
Wau is in the area where Af..
Ued advance patrols have been
throwing the. Japs back toward
A further search tor Japanese
troops who landed on Goodenough
island and on the New Guinea
mainland was fruitless, but a power l..
barge was found on the beach at
Goodenough.
The barge gave evidence how the
s1;1rvtvors managed to cover_ a con~
Salamaua.
:~;!a~efrt~tar;:-~~~m:~:s s:!
where the big Japanese convoy was
Today's communique, one of the ]destroyed last week.
brie.f est in recent weeks, reported
Of 42 Japanese landing on Goodthat an Allied heavy bomber on ~nough, five escaped, Near Tufi on
l~.fpnnaiSiSan,s::e in . the vicinity o:t New Guinea 55 wera killed or cap<!laam!Lta, N~w. Br,taln, site 9f a. Jured,
BRIEF COMMUNIQUE
West Michigan Veterans of New Guinea
Back in khaki again after the strenuous campaign at the Papuan
front, these American soldiers, many of them from Michigan,
show with broad smiles how they feel about sleeping in cots again
and getting plenty of nourishing food in their rest camp I in
Australia,
Names of MiChigan veterans of the New Guinea campaign are
iti capital letters, Left to right, sitting, are Lt, Charles Kanapaux, Charleston, S. C.; Pvt. Allen Taylor, Fostoria, Ohio; Pvt.
Glen Robert!llon, Elwood, Ind.; Pvt. Donald Stroup, Kokomo, Ind.;
Cpl. Donald Stringer, Farnhamville, Iowa; PVT. ONNI SIIMES,
Rock; Pvt. Albert Johnson, Lead Point, \Vash.; Pvt. Dale Wakehouse, Pisgah, Iowa; Cpl, Eddie Eben, Rosenberg, Tex.; PVT.
FERDINA:ND ROCHALSKI, Grand Rapids; CPL. HOWARD
DUTCHER, Sparta; SGT. DON FITZGl'JBALD, Grand Rapids; Pvt.
James Workman, Caddo, Okla.; CPL. 'l;'EEMAN ROSS, Lapeer;
Cpl. Eugene Makynen, Spokane, Wash.; SGT. ROSARIO RUSSO,
Grand Rapids; Pvt. Clyde Leonard, Yelm, \\:ash.; PVT. GLEN
GROTH, Tyre; Pvt. Clarence Wilkins, New Virginia, Iowa; SGT.
ANTHONY MAZZARELLI, Grand Rapids; Pvt. John Nalepa, Cleve•
land, Ohio; Pvt. James Kelly, Walla Walla, Wash.; SGT. GLEN
FOLLETT, Traverse City; Pvt. John Jalsevac, Cleveland, Ohio;
PVT. KENNETH BONDY, Boyne City; PVT, CHARLES FREI•
AUSTRALIA, Wednesday, QP) Forty-seven Japanese planes have
raided Wau, New Guinea, the Allied base some 35 miles southwest
of Samalaua, the high command
announced today.
This heavy raid on an Allied base
where last February the Japs suffered one of their biggest aerial
defeats of the war added emphasis
to a warning by a spokesman :for
General Douglas MacArthur. He
said the Jap aerial strength in the
southwest Pacific was growing and
that recent Allied victories, such
as the sinking of the 22-ship convoy in the Bismarck, should not be
in Australia
-Photo from Robert J. Doyle, Detroit News Correspo
BURGER, Grand Rapids; PVT. JOHN SUTTER, North Branch;
CPL. ER~TEST RICHNER, East Jordan; Pvt, William Stover,
Ottawa, Ohio; SGT. WILLIAM HELENIUS, Cedar Springs,
Left to right, kneeling, Pvt. John Weiss, :Fort Dodge, Iowa;
PVT. PAUL OSTROM, Grand Rapids; Pvt. Ray Sullivan, Bloom•
ington, Ind.; Pvt. Beryl Schoepf, Lorenzo, Tex.; SGT. DAVID
l\IATCHETT, Charlevoix; Pvt. Philip Kerwin, Clevelan<l; PVT.
WAYl\"E WWING, Grand Rapids; Pvt. Carlos Salcido, Nogales,
Sonora, Mexico; SGT. NEIL THOMPSON, Lapeer; CPL, WILLIAl\1
WELDON, Lapeer; SGT. CARLTON SMITH, Charlevoix; SGT,
CASEY VANOS, Grand Rapids; Sgt. Oliver Hudson, Baker, Ore.;
PVT. GEORGE MOSHER, Pigeon; SGT. ROBERT HEISE, Charle•
voix; SGT. RALPH VAN BRUNT, Grand Rapids.
Left to right, standing, Pvt. Kenneth Royal, Bryant, Ind.; PVT.
FRANK KRULAC, Wayland; PVT. JAMES STUART, Attica; Pvt.
Edward Thompson, JohnstoWn, Pa.; Pvt. James Kohl, 1.i'ruitland,
Wash.; PVT. WILLIAM THOMPSON, Lapeer; Pvt. Paul Jahrlg,
Plattsmouth, Neb.; PVT. CLYDE McDOUGAL, Hamtramck; Pvt.
Samuel Rehm, Eads, Colo.; Pvt. Robert Wilcox, Vinton, Iowa; SGT.
RALPH ABBOTT, Lapeer; Pvt. Eugene Underwood, Anaheim,
Calif.; SGT. MONTE RUDNER, Detroit; Cpl. Thomas Thompson,
West Frankfort, DI.; Sgt. Lyle Morse, South Bend, Ind,
�spaper
The Detroit News
Tiu Only Aft,r11oon Paper i11 Michigan With Associated Preu Wirej,hoto Sn-w•
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Heroes of New Guinea Who· Won MacArthur's Praise
The photos on this page recall the recent order of the day in which Gen. Douglas MacArthur honored the troops who brought victory to the Allied forces in the almost
concluded campaign in eastern New Guinea, during which the Jap stronghold of Buna
was taken. The 32nd Division (Red Arrow) , composed largely of Michigan and Wis-
consin troops, was mentioned in the order, thus carrying on the proud tradition the
division established in World War I. In the photos below the Army has identified
some of the Michigan men who took part in the battles that led to the capture of Buna
and other strategic places, a significant Allied victory.
Under cover of an artillery barrage that tossed Ja panese out of shoreline pos1t10n• (background ),
American infantrymen swarmed across the wreckage of a bridge over Simemi Creek on the road to
Buna, New Guinea. Ten minutes before the photo was taken. Jap fire covered the bridge from the right
bank of the creek.
American machine gunners occupied sandbagged positions along Simemi Creek at Christmas time. The
Japanese positions ar-e- just beyond the tre~ .
Grinning Sergt. Walter A. Baron, of Grand Rapids
heaped his mess kit with food, his first hot meal in 22
days of fighting on the anananda front.
Half an hour after these American soldiers sat in a captured Jap bunker
on the Buna front, Dec. 23. and opened Christmas presents, they went
into ·action against the enemy. At the extreme left of the photograph is
P rivate Felix Ochod, of Detroit.
�Charging~ Yanks Rout Japs With Bayonets
By FRANK HE\VLETT
(Copyr ight, 1943, by United Pre!s)
WITH THE AMERICAN ARMY
AT THE J3UNA GOVERNMENT
~TATION IN NEW GUINEA, Jan.
3 .;..,....(Delayed}-The Yanks wenL
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over the top at 10 -15 a. m. Saturday to take the government station
area at Euna.
At 4:27 p. m. they flashed this
message to he~dquarters: "Station
sector entered.
It was entered at the bayonet
point. There were no tanks in this
tattle.
The field guns, mortars and
planes gave the Japanese a final
softening up before the zero hour,
and laid down a barrage as the
troops advanced. But the infantry
won the battle, the biggest vJctory
to date in the Sout,hwest Pacific.
Today the Americans and AustralianS mopped up, They searched
the coconut groves all round the
sector for hours, picking off snipers
in the trees and the machine gunners who . had remained in their
!1ests, playmg possum and pretendmg they were dead. They do not
have to pretend any more.
Now the burial squads are burying the bodies of our dead. A rifle
marks each grave,
The Japanese dead ~re being
buried where they fell, some in
in their trenches. The earth
to bury them is bei~g taken fro1:1
the slit trenches which the Amer1~
cans and Australians are digging
a few feet away as cover from
enemy planes.
The troops who won the battle
are an inspiring cross-section of
young America, national guardsme~ and selectees .. Most of t~eir
officers are reservists. One h~utenant, a veteran of the Spamsh
civil war, was a Communist Party
organizer in Ohio a few months
ago.
I was here for the kill, to watch
the Americans clean up the Euna
mass
f!
situation after six weeks of tough
:fighting in which they and the
Australians all but ended organized
Japanese resistance in the Papuan
area of New Guinea.
I never have seen such destruction, and I covered the Batan and
Corregidor campaigns in the Philippines.
Every building is in ruins. The
area is a mass of shell and bomb
craters, some 15 feet across. The
coconut trees have been •shredded.
The battle for this government
station, the peacetime administrative center for Papuan New Guinea,
opened at 2 a. m. Saturday. About
20 Japanese, desperate, tried to
\ Michigan Men T!!~~- I~ ~-n!_~~ ew~ Fr!_"!_I!_om~-~-'-· I-D.,,..,..-'f- .3
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break through the American lines. :
They chose a narrow sand spit at
~hes:!fit :~~~eof0
been holding for four days
The men in the forwa;d out-1
posts let the Japanese sift past
them.
They swung around a
machine gun and at the right
moment let tha japanese have it.
Nearly ~very one was killed
Some of the Yanks, ju~t off
death-dealing duty, are bathing,
using empty ammunition boxes for
basins. Corp. L. LaBoda, Detroit,
was cutting the hair of Lieut. W.
A. Sikkel, Jr., Holland, Mich., using a large silk Japanese flag as a
neck cloth.
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American troops in
New Guinea, which include a large number of Michigan and ~isconsin soldiers, sit
hut and listen to American news over the radio.
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�THE DETROIT NEWS, THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1943
to New Guinea
Follow
the
Flag
• • •
Men Fight
Japs and
Jungles
(Tenth In a Serles)
By MIRIAM ALBORN
HAROLD J, COOLSEN
.3 ·IS· l'-.3
Harold J. Coolsen
Missing in Africa
Corp. Technician Harold .T. Coolsen was reported missing in action
in North Africa in a war department telegram received Sunday
noon by his wife, Mrs. Joan Coolsen, who lives with her parents,
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Wrosch, at
812
First st., NW.
Mrs. Coolsen had received two
letters from her husband this
~eek~e:::d f~!ieiai-eet. ~~b, lie a;!i
sured hel' in both letters that he
was "getting along fine'' and not
to worry. 11 When I get back," he
wrote, "I will have plenty to tell
1you." He gave no further hint of
impending action, Mrs. Coolsen
Isaid,
Corp. Coolsen was inducted into
the army in February of 1941 and I
was with the largest United States \
convoy to land in Ireland, in the
late spring of 1942. Prior to leaving the states, he trained at Fort
Sheridan, Ill., Fort Knox, Ky., and
at Fort Dix, N. J. He attended
the armored force radio school at
Fort Knox for three months and
was made a rac!io operator in
tanks, scout cars"-ti.n9 jeeps.
He is a son of• Mr. 4,~d Mrs.
Frank Coolsen of 853 H..ovey, st.,
sw.
NEW GUINEA is one of
the far places of the
world that Americans never
gave much thought to before
the war.
It wa; just one of those
islands way off in the Pacific. Anthropologists were
interested in the natives.
British, Dutch and Austratralians got out a little gold and
rubber, copra and coconut-but
very few of them went there to .,
live
'
But now that New Guinea is
~~c!n~~r~~lr~:ir:p!~n~~ ~~~~
American boys are over there in
the jungle-let's find out what
the place is like.
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WHERE 18 NEW GUINEA?
New ~uinea, otherwise known
as Papua, is just under the
Equator, directly north of Aus•
tralia.
HOW FAR from Australia la
New Guinea?
At the nearest point it's less
than 100 miles across to Cape
York.
n!:!!~?FAR Is New Guinea from
:n,
NATIVE VILL"AGE in New Guinea-grass roofed huts on stilts in one of the
island's many small bays.
top war news, considered very
Greenland)-more than five times
the size of Michigan.
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• •
\VHAT KTh"D of weather does
New Guinea have?
The weather is hot, damp, monotonous and generally undesirable. Rainfall is a little more or
less than 100 inches a year, de•
pending on the part of the island.
The northwest section, which is
nearest the equator, has constant
::~fl~se:iinn'1~;ir~ns~J~te
~~u:~;
~~~t1~fe;,oes on, is a little calmer
WHERE IS Port Moresby?
;r
The town lies among low
green hills that encircle the harbar. Behind is a rising plain leading up to the Owen Sta nley Mountains, which are high and rugged.
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WHAT ARE th e chief il11pedi•
menis to fighting on New Guinea?
Rain and swamps . . . mosquitoes ... tall razor-edged grass in
the open spaces . • . underfoot
tangles in the jungle ••. rough
mountain terrain •.• and every•
where perfect hideaways for
snipers.
N!~o:..I~~ PEOPLE live on
From Detroit to Port Moresby,
a
~;:0 ;~s~~ wt!~~oIT"u:~;:,e:
Estimates range from 250,000 to
1
the capital of British New Guinea, half way down the southeaStern• 350/00 ~ersfn4.
Census;.taktn;
is ·
1
1
is roughly S,OOO statute miles.
most peninsula of the island,
~r:da~~r~ft~:;.. veB;~o~:
HOW BIG is New Guinea?
above the Coral Sea.
the war there weren't many more
New GuinEca is the second largWHAT DOES the country look than a thousand white persons.
est island in the _w_o_rl_d_<_af_t_er__l_ik_e__:frc._;o_m_P_o_rt_11_r_o:..:r•..:•..:b.::.y:..:?_ _ _ _ _..:.WH:.=..:'1..:T:...:::::ABOUT head hunters?
r; :~e~
es
The natives still have plenty of
tribal peculiarities, but head
hunting is said to have gone out,
and on the whole they' re pretty
peaceful with each other. They
do like their sorcery, though
WHAT'S
NICE
about New
Guinea?
The birds are pretty-birc.s of
paradise and other brightly col•
ored species • • • flowers are
abundant, particularly the hibiscus, which the natives wear in
their hair ••. butterflies are gay
and numerous ••. nights in the
mountains are cool and starlit
••. and the primitive a1t is eagerly sought by collectors.
WHAT TIME ls It In New
Guinea?
Port Moresby is 15 hours ahead
of Detroit War Time. When it's
noon in Detroit it's 3 a. m. the
next morning in et1.stern New
Guinea.
Michigan Men Are Among U. S. Fighting Veterans in New Guinea
-A ssocia ted Prc~s Photo
Veterans of action if, New Guinea, these members of the United States fighting forces line up for a i;;rr.:.p .hot alongside
- - - ~ of a native hut. Michigan men in the picture are: front row, ' Lieut. W. A. Sikkel. of Holland, Mich.
>urth from left) and
Fr, Stephen Dzienis, of Detroit, (sixth from left). In the rear row are Lieut. William Wills, o'f - <egon, (second from
left and a t Lester Se al U. S. Marine Cor s of Ann Arbor fifth from left).
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�lie Chips Are Down in New Guinea--tY on the Far-Off Jungle Front
Taps' Last Papuan Toehold .
Wiped Out'by Yanks, Aussies
•tcd
~11Australian
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<Bv ~,;;~
States and
down from Cape Killerton and
Wye point on the northwest while
t the Americans drove from the
ops have taken Sanananda pom southeast, between Giruwa and
1 Sanananda village, th e laSl Tarakena villages.
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panese strongholds ln Papuan
~ew Guinea, Gen. Douglas Mac-
Japs Abandon Guns.
The allies left behind them, as
,\rthur announced Tuesday in a they advanced furlong by f~rlong,
ecio.l communique.
abandoned Japane~e equipmeknt
P
d remnants of mfantry pac s
Japanese remnants, all who were
!~a
ammunition. Japanese dead
eft of the enemy's Papu_an ar~y were buried where they fell.
! 15 000 shock _troops mcludmg
mv As~ociatcd Press.)
al 'ianding pai:.lies and marines,
ere sliced into four isolated P?Ck5 two on the north New Gmnca
)~re, t\\!O inland, and their posin is regarded as hopel~ss.
The climax came in a triple atThe Australians pressed
Sanananda point, lying between
previously captured ~oi:ia and
Buna was the last remammg Japanese' stronghol~ i~ northeast~rn
New Guinea. With 1t gone, action
against the three pockets of
trapped forces inland took o~ the
character of a mopup operation.
What Japanese now ar~ left in
the corridor are inclosed m pockets roughly a mile west of Sanananda, about 1,500 yards e~stward
from the point and behmd the
main track roadblock.
Using rifle bullets for chips, American soldiers play cards during a rest between battles on New Guinea while
,_ 1,-Y:) natives look on in bewilderment at the Yankee pastime.
Closeup of War in New Guinea
Sink Cargo Ship.
On the aerial front, allied bombers sank an 8,000-ton Japanese
cargo ship in the Blsmttrck s~a and
blasted enemy airports and installations over a wide area of the
southwest Pacific, an allied communique said.
Heavy bombers scored two hits
on the cargo ship and it "burst
into flames from bow to stern,
sinking in eight minutes/' it was
reported.
Allied planes again visited New
Britain island, attacking Japanese
shipping in the Rnbaul harbor and
bombing the airport at Gasmata.
Medium bombers and long-range
fighters attacked Japanese supply
dumps and installations at Lae,
New Guinea, setting fire to two
buildings and destroying a Japanese fighter plane on the ground._
Meanwhile land patrol groups m
the area of Mubo, near Salamaua,
skirmished with Japanese troops\
and killed 40 more Japanese, the
communique said.
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No maneuver, this, but actual battle action in the Papua sector during the successful drh c to
Buna as Australians, under heavy fire themselves, clean out. a Jap pillbox only 30 :,,ards away. In
the center is a U. S. built Gen. Stuart tank, manned by Aussies.
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Pat Robinson Tens of New Guinea Battle Front
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Sniper Shot 30
Japs, Then Ate
American Fi9htin9 Men in Land
of Jun9le Are Grandest in World
This is the first article in a
•v•e•t·i e sa of sNix byaPratcoRrroebsipnosnodn_,
0 1 0 1 8 '{v
B!~fm!:~s}J('!{l~~ An\
marine used a chicken.
\ingenious
for Jap bait and killed 30 of the\
enemy in an afternoon.
ent, about the New Guinea
battlefront from which he has
just rrturned. Robinson, dean
of Amel'ican war correspondents on the strangest of all
battlefronts, spent more than a
year in that war zone with
Gen. D o u g las MacArthur's
forces. Thousands of Michigan
troops have been i"l action on
the New Guinea front and Robinson's articles should hold
real interest for the home folk,
especially in western Michigan.
Corp. Howard H. Hoyt, Ill, San
Francisco, veteran of the Solomons campaign, told the story here
Saturday. He said:
.
.
"This marine tied a wild chicken
to a stake atop a small knoll and
concealed himself in the brush.
The cackling of the chicken attracted the Japs' attention and as
they approached the knoll, this
sharpshooter picked them off.
"'After each kill, the marine
would drag the victim away in tho\
underbrush.
"Then the marine topped off the
day by having the chicken for SUP- I
per."
\
By PAT ROBINSON
(CopyrigM; 1943)
I
jungle, swamps and head-hunting
cannibals.
I have lived with some ol
the grandest kids I ever met
-tho eagles of the American
air corps and the 1'flatfoofB"
of the American infantry under Gen. Dougfa& 1'-lacArthur.
+ + +
I have b;id the exciting privilege
ot flying two bombing missions
over Rabaul and Lae in the "hottest,. fastest bomber we have _
the B-26, sometimes called the
Marauder. Incidentally, the boys fo
the air corps never refer to the
fancy names for their planes used
by the public.
They call their
bombers the B-17s, B-24s, B-25s,
B-26s, A-20s and the pursuits P38s,
P39s and P40s, which respectively,
are the Flying Fortress, Liberator,
Nor-th American, Marauder, Bos•
ton and Lightning, Airacobra and
NEW YORK (INS) - I have
just returned to the United States
after a year and two months spent
in Australia and on the strangest,
toughest fighting front in the Klttyhawk.
I wanted to make more than two
world - New Guinea. - land of
I
I
combat flights with the B-26s ,md
a few with the B-17s but Gen. M:acArthur refused to let me go on
the ground, as he said, "that a
dead newspaperman can't write
many stories." I tried to point out
that a dead soldier can't fight
many battles, either, but you know
how much luck I had debating the
point with a four-star general.
MacArthur's funny that waywhen he gives nn order he makes
it stick-as I discovered when I
served un~er him with the Rainbow division in France 25 years
ago.
+ + +
Strangely enough, MacArthur
was right and I was wrong. I had
arranged to go on a third mission
in a B-26 flown by Lieut. Randy
Lanford of Anniston, Ala., the slowest drawling youngster in the air
corps.
Randy was t,. }eave on a Sunday and I was to go along with
See :NEW GUINEA-Pai,e 7
IAmericans in New Guinea
1Best Fighters in World
(Continued from Page 1)
him, but Saturday night the order
arrived barring me from going and
Randy left without me.
I sat around all day Sunday cussing my "tough" luck.
When the boys returned :from
bombing Lae, Randy was not
among them. His plane had
been shot down in flames five
miles off Lac. Ho went plunging into the sea with both engines afire and the last thing
the other boys heard from him
was his slow drawl over the
radio saying as calmly as if he
were announcing he was going
for a walk-''Boys, I'm going
dowq."
That was. a year_ ago. ~andy wa_s
reported missing m action and it
may be that he or one or more
members of hfs crew might _have
escaped somehow and been picked
u~ by a Jap ~oat. But the othe,r
pilots doubt it. A B-26 doesn t
float and it's almost impossible to
bale out of ono of them.
He was a. g:an: :id and a game
one and one of the best little pals
a man ever had. But gameness is
no rare attribute among our kids
in all branches of the service. I
have seen remarkable and extra.ordinary feats of heroism among air-
death. But they have met and
licked the Jap on ~is favorite fighting grou;1d-the Jungle-and they
know it 1s only a question of time
until they finish him.
+ + +
How soon these boys can finish
the Japs depends on how !ast you
give them the needed plA.1.~s, -uns
and reinforcements. It's· 1p tc you.
Give MacArthur and hif gang the
necessary equipment and they'll do
the job for you as it st.ould be
done.
The boys are ftghtlnr as a
team over there. Airmen, intransport and supply men all
::!~dto;::h:~c:e:~~:~~t ~::
other and they all are aware
of that fact.
The infantry couldn't get to first
base without the airmen; the alrmen couldn't take an inch ot
ground without the infantry; and
neither could get anywhere at all
lthout the engineers to build
~ads, bridges and air flelds-cutUni them out ot virgin jungle land
-and the ordna'?ce men to feed
them the ammunition.
+ + + I ltl
un le
ou_r men lead. a pr m ve j g
life m New ~umea.
the slee
In the fightmg zones,
.Y
P
on the ground, rolled up m their
2;~i~~1~t~J;;l~~t~~~~• Ii; ~~~::l;~: nt: ;
might easily have saved themselves
by bailing out and letting the
plane crash.
I've seen wounded kids muster
a smile no matter how badly injured and I've known them to insist on manning a machine gun
despite their wounds.
They will raise hell about thelr
grub or lack of amusement or living conditions, perhaps, but never
will they complain about any hardships they may have to undergo in
combat.
They are fighting fools and to
a man all they ask is a chance
to finish the job and get back
home and their !dea. of finishing the job ls to wipe the Japs
off the face of the earth and
march into Tokyo.
.
Everyone . of them realizes the
1task that hes ahead. They know
the Jap is not a pushover. They
don't nderest111;1ate hi"?. Neither
do they overestimate him.
They have found him a wily,
1
1
:r:a:::•t:h:i :::
their little pup tents between trees;
and farther behind the front they
often get the natives to help them
build crude huts of bamboo poles
and kunai grass with sloping
peaked roofs for protection against
the rain.
Except for cocoanuts which
abound in some sections of New
Guinea, our troops live almost enUrely on canned and dehydrated
foods, flown over to them by trans•
port planes from Australia.
The bill of fare 1s by no means
fancy.
There ts the traditional
tinned bully beef, beans, hard tack,
canned meat and ve~table rations,
and sometimes dehydrated portions
of meat and potatoes. The only
beverage is coffee.
The army
cooks build their fires and sltng
up their big pots just like native
tribesmen.
It may be a somewhat montonous diet, but the boys know they
went into New Guinea to fightnot to feast.
!~i~~r1;;:;·d-~i;~~~ li~~~henct~!~::a~ I
frenzy and who often fights to the I
I
�Journal of Slain Yank Officer Reveals
"'-'s·~ ~ Trip to Guinea Front Was Tough, Too
standing and enthusiasm. ThlnlDing quite a bit of J. these days.
How much there is to live for now.
How much there will be to do after
this war. I must pull through; I
~~P~~=tl~~1ge
\V~~~~~e:cfy
~'
;
~:
tlnguished for his superb coverage of
will; I've just begun to live.
the warfare in Papua. This dispatch
Funny how little significance
was sent by special radio to the Chicago
Daily News foreign .service- and The
time has to us now. Only today
Grand Rapids Press. It will appear~
seems to matter. Increasingly, both
two chapters.)
past and future cease to influence
(Copyright, Chicago Daily News, Inc.)'
our outlook and sensations of ex~
Buna, New Guinea, Jan. 14.-This istence. Today is here, quite real
is a journal of a voyage such as and not unpleasant; the past weeks
thousands of America's fighting and months 6eem to have rolled
with miraculous ease and spee.i
men have taken, the voyage to into a half-forgotten limbo; tomorNew Guinea. For the brave and row is hazy, intangible and only
high-spirited young man in this rell\otely thought of.
Land Sighted,
story it was a journey without re turning. The man who wrote these Nov. 18, 1942.
line:; now sleeps wit h the men he A beautiful morning. Sighted
land off the port side. 'Rocky, barled in the wet, dark soil of Papua,
ren crags, about five miles west..
where he fell.
ward. Usual bad dreams last night.
This is not a journal of advenFortunate action is not far off;
t ture; it is a spiritual journal. At
resolve all these phantoms. It's hot
the time this young officer wrote enough to broil the skin half off
these lines he had not yet been in half an hour's exposure but this
under fire. He had never led men
is becoming a beautiful trip; just
against the Japanese.
This is not, then, a journal of like a travelog.
But this warm, lazy life doesn't
ordeal by battle. It is the journal create much of an appetite. How
ot the ordeal that precedes battle, I'd like to dive overboard for a
the struggle with self. In this swim. We're all becoming brown
journal of a voyage by sea to New as nuts. Everyone in the pink of
Guinea is the self-questioning that condition. This would be a wonis the spiritual preparation of derful trip to take in peacetime.
democratic men for battle. Here Now there is too much of a burden
is the examination of conscience. on the mind. The prospect ahead
Here is the weighing of motives, t ends to sober u s all and diminish
political and moral.
the enjoyment of these natural
Typical American.
wonders which otherwise would be
And in this journal, after this so acute. Rumors that in a big
typical American self-questioning, naval engagement up north, the
is the final decision, with clear Japs lost 15 ships. That would be
intimations that this sensitive as something to hope for, but hard
well as courageous officer guessed, to believe.
even as he wrote, that the final Nov, 19; 1942,
sacrifice might be his own.
Up at 6:30 at usual. Can't sleep
Margos D. Margosian was a sec· any later; force of habit and the
ond lieutenant. He was of Arme- rattling of cans on deck as breaknian origin. His home was in Wor- fast is prepared. Very little appecester, Mass. In him the older New tite; but never felt better. AnEngland tradition was mingled chored early this morning, to re with his own volatile but quiet na· ceive orders.
ture. Margosian was about 5 feet How I'd love to explore all these
1 8 inches tall and had a narrow face bays and islands with a sailboat.
with dark hair and eyes. He was Rifle inspection at 10 a. m. Pretty
in his early tw_enties when he died, good condition. The boys don't
Here is the journal:
need much prompting now to care
Nov. 15, 1942,
for their weapons.
Boarded ship for trip north. Getting_ _ browner by the day.
1
Probably headed for Port Moresby. Coming closer to the equator every
Men in pretty good spirits, al- day. A number of the officers are
though obviously depressed at bot- cutting their bayonets down. The
tom. Most of them are so young, result i~ an evil-looking dagger,
so in love with life, so fearful of sturdy and capable. Discovered:
the unknown terrors they imagine Chess players and two sets of
lie ahead. Again, it is the old chessmen. Had my first game with
story: If oilly they possessed a the doctor.
real understanding of his war; why Nov. 20, 1942.
it must be fought to a victorious Strange to be writing Nov. 20, in
conclusion if we have to pursue the midst of such tropic heat. Still
the Fascists to the ends of the anchored in the bay. Rumored
earth; a new- era in our lives open- that there is another showdown
ing up. It is definite now that we scrap going on in the Solomons,
are going into action.
and that our orders are being held
Wo all realize that there will be up, pending the decision reached in
some of us who d:o not come back. this latest battle. Wish we could
It is a sobering influence, and con• get to a newspaper. For all we
ducive to thought.
know, a second front-land frontin Europe may by now have been
The troops are really packed on successfully opened.
this ship. It is actually a cargo This shipboard Jife seems to he
vessel, with equipment in the lower like that in another world. Is<?lated
htolds, anld mien in rthteheu~riorr h~~~ completely. Nothing to do but laze
s rewn c ose Y ave
, .,
only ·a blank~t for a bed.
Awa.its Test of Belief.
Nov. 16, 1942,
A cloudy, dismal day today. Still
in the. bay. 'l'he prospect of action
is like the influence of the flame
on a moth. How many of us will
this fire destroy? But that is
something I, for one, am not wasting time thinking of. Sufficient
that I will finally have the chance
to act, to test my belief, to prove
myself worthy of a wonderful
woman. It is all very exhilarating. l
Already, I can foresee that the life
ahead will lift us out of ourselves,
(Editor's note: The unusual journal
of a "Journey to New Guinea," in
which an American second lieutenant
bares his heart and mind while at sea,
bound for jungle war in which he met
1
I , e~f:V
A Soldier 3Comes
Home
-,B
·l':;3
around all day, read, write, play
chess, bask dreamily in the sun,
gaze out over the bay a t the sharppeaked islands ringing us around.
There is a calm beauty about
tbis · all that seems to banish all
care and worry from the mir.d.
Our boys look more like beachcombers every day. Tanned, with
heavy beards, in all stages of undress. Some few remain keenly
aware that this m.ay be the lull
before the storm. No doubt it is.
Closer to Primitive.
We are so tar away from home;
the future is so uncertain; our environment so new, that it is hard
to retain clear memories of the
past; of home and loved ones.
Daily we are getting closer to the
primitive, with all its demands on
the faculties; the 100 per cent attention and concentration which
must be if survlval is to be had.
However, the unconscious persists,
and our dreams remind us of what
consciousness, struggling to conform with a stranger reality, would
forget.
Once in a while, too, I yearn
with a heart-burning desire for
J., and at times I wonder if she
has new men friends, who they
are, to what degree they claim her
attention. Then I get momentarily savage; then it' vanishes as
quickly as it came. We are learning to be very sensible in this new
life. The emotions are bowing to
a discipline never before endured.
Began reading book on New
Guinea gold fields. Marvel at the
courage and tenacity displayed by
these
Australian
pr ospectors.
Makes one wonder at the timidity
felt by some at the prospect of
landing on this island; with all the
aids of a scientific civilization, and
in organized numbers.
But then we will be facing more
than the usual evils of jungle sickness, vermin, head hunters and
whatnot. There will be a savage,
numerous foe awaiting us, at least
as well equipped, and more familiar with the jungle. What a
wilderness this New Guinea must
be. The last stronghold of the
primeval. Increasingly, the idea
is taking hold on me: to bring J.
here after the war, to give her all 1
W ounded Local Officer, in Battle Creek
llospital, Tells His Reactions
How it feels to go t o the end of
the earth and return to your own
country within one year is set
forth eloquently in a letter
~:n:i:ni~
0
~s~
pita! by Lt. Edgar Foster, 22,
to his parents,
Mr. and Mrs.
Edgar B. Foster, 3425 Oak-
leLt'i os; ;':;·r, f
who
was
wounded in action in the New
i Gu i n e a campaign, arrived
in San Francisco last week.
By a curious
LT. FOSTER,
coincidence, his
father, who was attached to the
17th ambulance company of the
medical corps in World war I, also
served under Gen. McArthur and,
like Lt. Foster, received a serious
injury to his right ankle.
''Everything is going backwards,"
the son's letter · begins. "From
Michigan to Massachuse tts to Cali•
fornia t o Australia to Port Moresby, over the Owen Stanley m oun•
tains on foot to Buna. The n, 'Ba'.ng,'
and the machinery is slapped into
reverse. From Buna back over the
Owen Stanleys by plane to Port
Moresby to Australia and back to
California."
Now in Bat tle Cr eek.
Actually, Lt. Foster is Qack in
Michigan already. Just after his
letter reached home, his parents
learned he had been ·transferred to
the Percy Jones hospital in Battle
Creek.
"It is good to be ho~ again,"
his letter continues. "It is good to
be back where the people talk
American, look American, and
everything wears the stamp 'Made
in the USA.' To see lots of automobiles on smooth, wide streets,
tall buildings, dime stores and
T'0 k yo W Orff$
Jap·a'nese to
Exp_ect B,ombings
J -~ 'I--- If~
NEW YORK, <lP,-Tokyo broadI
casts are warning the Japanese
people to expect air raids over
· Japan and Increasing submarine
tt k
"'!
a ac s upon s,. PP1ng.
A war review broadcast, report:i~n~~a~:e flr::c:nZ~ywr: ;~fi°r~:=
tinuing air raid• on ou1• forces.
A
"'
!:~u~:~:ics~~e~~~~:~;; ;:!nfh:~=
fore ihe enemy hopes to carry out
raids over Japan. Chungking has
many plane factories and field repair shops. We must realize the
situation." _
As to shipping, the broadcast
said ''The enemy is using her submarines in the hope of destroying
our supply lines. Of course, we
cannot underestimate submarine
activities. We m ust expect further
activities by enemy sub marines
and therefore must build more
ships to replace our lost ships.''
~~~s ;r~~ ~f;hb;~~!~j!i
which we all possess. We are
playing for "!;>ig stakes. It is all_ a
gamble, dangerous but worth while
for no other way can a man's sensibilities be so sharpened.
\i~
Al rP .. ,1 . .
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h amburg joints. It's good to be
able to read the comics at Sunday
mor ning breakfast, even to have
Sunday breakfast."
Describing the voyage home, Lt.
Foster writes: "The ship is being
used as an army transport. The
crew is all Dutch. There was a
doctor on board, a tall, lanky
Texan, and nine enlisted men to
take care of the bed patients. The
trip was very pleasant. It was a
rest from hospital routine. We
didn't have our temperatures and
pulses checked four times a day.
We were left alone unless we hol ..
lered for something. The meals
were good, and the sea air gave us
a huge appetit e. By permission of
Col. Landis and t he doctor we
were able to have a bottle of beer
each day. That was a welcome a nd
appreciated treat. Each afternoon
a Javanese boy, one of those acting as stewards and cabin boys,
came trotting in with the beer. A
Javanese, like the elephant, never
forgets.
H omeland on t he Hor izon.
t'The weather was exceedingly /
calm. I have never seen the Pacific
as smooth as it was during t he
days we were in the tropical zone.
I have seen it plenty rough while
we were in the Coral sea. It was so
rough that the liferafts were
swept into the sea and three men
were lost overboard. But never
have I imagined an ocean could be
so perfectly smooth, without a rip~~~/r a break, as it was those [
"We docked just at noon, Fridar,
March 12. A month less than a
year ago I had left the United
States for Australia. I saw again
all that I had looked at last and
watched fade from view - the
Golden Gate, Alcatraz, Treasure
Island, the Oakland bridge, San
francisco. I had walked off Ameri ~
can soil, but was carried back on,
minus only a few splinters of bone
and hunks of flesh. The big thing ·
is that I got back, when I never
really expected t o."
Lt. Foster left for service with
the national guard, in which he
had served two years, and gained
his commission by advancement
through the ranks. A brother, Pvt.
Kenneth Fost er, 21, is attending
aircraft mechanic school at Keesler field, Miss., and an uncle. Staff
Sgt. Gordon Foster-who is four
months younger than his nephew
-also served in New Guinea and
now is in an Australian rest camp.
, a ozen tunes,
ave
argued_the necessity of my playing
:h leadmg role. I am convinced
~re is no alternative. I wo1.1ld
no want it otherwise. With so
many millions of brave men dead
th r ough resistance to the Fascist
terror; w;th millions 1nore right
!1°w locked in mortal struggle with
it, should I, such a small part of
the whole scheme, begr udge by
services, even if it be required that
I make the absolute sacrifice?
I see now, clearer than ever be~ore, that life is meaningless a1;1d
mtolerable when a man does not
have a cause he can devote himself
to, h eart and soul. And that a
;i~ahnyvcaaluuse•. • pregnant with high
Nov. 17, 1942·
We!l out at sea now; going north.
Su_n 1_s really hot, burning the bare
skm m a few minutes. In a couple
of more days it Should be· really
warm. The sea is choppy today
and !1- beautiful deep blue. Lj.ke a
precwus jewel with light in boundl~ss depth. Was slightly sick last
mght. Threw it off in short order
:~~e~r::.cked breakfast with a good
_Can see that this trip will also
give us the opportunity to read,
la~e ~round, and do some serious
th m.k~ng. ~ood thing I came well
fortified with reading matter. Today read Tom Wintringham's "New
Ways of War." Excellent. Some- _ _ ___,..,1
t~mg every man on board, espe•
ciall:r ~he officers, should read.
It IS hard to be part of a common effort and yet to be so iso•
lated for lack ot a real under-
�1ournal of Slain Yank Officer Reveals
~!> ·"'°:> Trip to Guinea Front Was Tough, Too
(EdilM'I note: The unusual journal
or a "Journey to New Guinea,'" In
which an American aecond Jleutenant
bares bis heart and mind whlle at seat
13. i:U-P::s:1:!~r bhe a:.
respondent George Weller, a lreaa'y dls-
~sun~J::e&~
ttnguiahed for his superb coverage ot
the warfare in Papua. This dlr.patch
n:r1t~nJe~s ~~~~~adi~~c~ea~lc,We
It
Grand Rapids Press.
will appear~
two chapters.)
(Copyright, C ~ y News, Inc.)
Buna, New Guinea, Jan.14.-This
is a journal of a voyage such as
thousands of America's fighting
men have taken, the voyage to
New Guinea. For the brave and
high-spirited young man in this
story it was a journey without returning. The man who wrote these
line~ now sleeps with the men he
led in the wet, dark soil of Papua,
where he fell.
This is not a journal of adventure; it is a spiritual journa1. At
the time this young officer wrote
these Jines he had not yet been
under fire. He had never led men
against the Japanese.
This is not, then, a journal of
ordeal by battle. It is the journal
ot the ordeal that precedes battle,
the struggle with self. In this
journal of a voyage by sea to New
Guinea is the self-questioning that
is the spiritual preparation of
democratic men for battle. Here
is the examination of conscience.
Here is the weighing of motives,
political and moral.
Typical American.
And in this journal, after this
typical American self-questioning,
is the final decision, with clear
intimations that this sensitive as
well as courageous officer guessed,
even as he wrote, that the final
sacrifice might be his own.
Margos D. Margosian was a second lieutenant. He was of Armenian origin. His home was in Worcester, Mass. In him the older New
ataa4ing and enthualaam. 'rblnlllo
Inc quite a hit of J. these da7L
Bow much there Is to Jive for now.
Bow much there will be to do after
this war. I mu1t pull thronrh; I
will; rve just begun to Jive.
Funny how little significance
time has to us now. Only today
seems to matter. Increasingly, both
past and future cease to influence
our outlook and sensations of ex•
istence. Today is here, quite real
and not unpleasant; the past weeks
and months seem to have rolled
with miraculous case and speeC
into a hatf-forgottJ!n limbo; tomorrow is hazy, intangible and only
remotely thought of.
Land Slrhted.
Nov. 18, 1942.
A beautiful morning. Sighted
land off the port side. «tocky, barren crags, about five miles westward. Usual bad dreams last night.
Fortunate action is not far off;
resolve all these phantoms. It's hot
enough to broil the skin half off
in half an hour's exposure but this
is becoming a beautiful trip; just
like a travelog.
But this warm, lazy life doesn't
create much ot an appetite. How
I'd like to dive overboard for a
swim. We're all becoming brown
as nuts. Everyone in the pink of
condition. This would be a wonderful trip to take in peacetime.
Now there is too much of a burden
on the mind. The prospect ahead
tends to sober us all and diminish
the enjoyment of these natural
wonders which otherwise would be
so acute. Rumors that in a big
naval engagement up north, the
Japs lost 15 ships. That would be
something to hope for, but hard
to believe.
Nov. 19, 1942.
Up at 6:30 at usual. Can't sleep
any later; force of habit and the
rattling of cans on deck as breakfast is prepared. Very little appetite; but never felt better. Anchored early this morning, to receive orders.
Bow I'd love to explore all these
bays and island& with a sailboat.
Riffe inspection at 10 a. m. Pretty
good condition. The boys don't
meed much promptin&' now to care
for their weapons.
Getting_ browner by the day,
Coming closer to the equator every
day. A number of the officers are
cutting their bayonets down. The
result i~ an evil•looking dagger,
sturdy and capable. Discovered:
Chess players and two sets of
chessmen. Had my first game with
' the doctor.
I see now, clearer than ever before, that life is meaningless and
intolerable when a man does not
have a cause he can devote himself
to, heart and soul. And that a
worthy cause, pregnant with high
human value.
Nov. 17, 1942.
Well out at sea now; going north.
Sun is really hot, burning the bare
skin in a few minutes. In a couple
of more days it should be really
warm. The sea 1s choppy today
and a beautiful deep blue. Like a
precious jewel with light in bound•
less depth. \Vas slightly sick last
night. Threw it off in short order
and attacked breakfast with a good
appetite.
Can sec that this trip will also
give us the opportunity to read,
laze around, and do some serious
thinking. Good thing I came wen
fortified with reading matter. Today read Tom Wintringham's ••New
Ways of War." Excellent. Some- ..
thing every man on board, especiaJly -the officers, should read.
It Is hard to be part of a common effort and yet to be 10 isolated for lack of a real under-
ROund all day, read, write, play
cheu, haak drea.mlly In the sun,
gaze out over the bay at the sharppeaked bland& ringing u1 around.
There is a calm beauty about
tbis all that seems to banish all
care and worry from the mind.
Our boys look more like beach•
combers every day. Tanned, with
heavy beards, in all stages ot Un• ·
dress. Some few remain keenly
aware that this may be the lull
before the storm. No doubt it is.
Closer to Primitive.
We are so tar away from home;
the future is so uncertain; our environment so new, that it is hard
to retain clear memories of tbe
past; of home and loved ones.
Daily we are getting closer to the
primitive, with all its demands on
the faculties; the 100 per cent attention and concentration which
must be if survival is 1:0 be had.
However, the unconscious persists,
and our dreams rernlnd us of what
consciousness, struggling to conform with a stranger reality, would
forget.
Once in a while, too, I yearn
with a heart-burning desire for
J., and at times I wonder if she
has new men friends, who they
arc, to what degree they claim her
attention. Then I get momentarily savage; then it vanishes as
quickly as it came. We arc learning to be very sensible in this new
life. The emotions are bowing to
a discipline never before endured.
Began reading book on New
Guinea gold fields. Marvel at the
courage and tenacity displayed by
these
Australian
prospectors.
Makes one wonder at the timidity
felt by some at the prospect of
landing on this island; with all the
aids of a scientific civilization, and
in organized numbers.
But then we will be facing more
than the usual evils of jungle sickness, vermin, head hunters and
whatnot. There will be a savage,
numerous foe awaiting us, at least
as well equipped, and more familiar with the jungle. What a
wilderness this New Guinea must
be. The last stronghold of the
primeval. Increasingly, the idea
is taking hold on me: to bring J.
here after the war, to give her all
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Wounded Local Officer, in Battle Creek
llospital, Tells His Reactions
How it feels to go to the end of
the earth and return to your own
country within one year is set
forth eloquently in a Jetter
written from a
California hos- ~
pita! by Lt. Edgar Foster, 22,
to his parents,
Mr. and Mrs.
Edgar B. Foster, 3425 Oakley-av., S. W. (
Lt. Foster,
who
was
wounded in ac• ~
tion in the New ~
Gu in ea campaign, arrived
in San Francisco Jast week.
By a curious
LT. FOSTER.
coincidence, his
father, who was attached to the
17th ambulance company of the
medical corps in World war I, also
served under Gen. McArthur and,
like Lt. Foster, received a serious
injury to his right ankle.
''Everything is going backwards,"
the son's Jetter begins. "From
Michigan to Massachusetts to Ca1ifornia to Australia to Port Mores•
by, over the Owen Stanley mountains on foot to Buna. Then, 'Bang,'
and the machinery is slapped into
reverse. From Buna back over the
Owen Stanleys by plane to Port
Moresby to Australia and back to
California.''
Now in Battle Creek.
Actually, Lt. Foster is ljack In
Michigan already. Just after his
letter reached home, his parents
learned he had been transferred to
the Percy Jones hospital in Battle
Creek.
Hit is good to be ho~ again,"
his letter continues. "It is good to
be back where the people talk
American, look American, and
everything wears the stamp 'Made
in the USA.' To see lots of automobiles on smooth, wide streets,
tall buildings, dime stores and
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Stra!1ge to be writm~ Nov. 20, ~n
the midst of such tropic heat. Stlll
anchored in the bay. Rumored
that the~e is a~other showdown
scrap gomg on in the ~lomotrs,
and that_ our orders_ are bemg he!d
up., pending the dec1sl?n reached 1n
this latest battle. Wish we could
get to a newspaper. For all we
~now, a second front-land frontm Europe may by now have been
succ~ssful_ly opened.
ThlS shipboard life seems to ho
like that in another world. Isolated
~~mplelely. Nothing to do but laoe
A Soldier Comes Home
ExP,ecf Bombings
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NEW YORK, <lPJ-Tokyo broadcasts are warning the Japanese
people to expect air raids over
Japan and increasing submarine
attacks upon •lilpplng.
A war review broadcast, reported by the office of war information, said "the enemy is still continuing air raids on our forces.
The American planes Jn China will
be further strengthened and therefore the enemy hopes to carry out
raids over Japan. Chungklng has
many plane factories and field repair shops. We must realize the
situation."
As to shipping, the broadcast
said ''The enemy ts using her submarines in the hope of destroying
our supply 11nes. Of course, we
cannot underestimate submarine
activities. We mu.et expect further
activities by enemy submarines
and therefore must build more
ships to replace our lost ships.''
hamburg joints. It's good to be
able to read the comics at Sunday
morning breakfast, even to have
Sunday breakfast."
Describing the voyage home, Lt.
Foster writes: "The ship is being
used as an army transport. The
crew is all Dutch. There was a
doctor on board, a tall, lanky
Texan, and nine enlisted men to
take care of the bed patients. The
trip was very pleasant. It wa~ a
rest from hospital routine. We
didn't have our temperatures nnd
pulses checked four times a day. ·
We were left alone unless we hol"\
lered for something. The meals
were good, and the sea air gave us
a huge appetite. By permission of
Col. Landis and the doctor we
were able to have a bottle of beer
each day. That was a welcome and
appreciated treat. Each afternoon
a Jav.::mese boy, one of those acting as stewards and cabin boys,
came trotting in with the beer. A
Javanese, like the elephant, never f
forgets.
Homeland on the Horizon.
••The w~ather was exceedingly
calm. I have never seen the Pacific
as smooth as it was during the
days we were in the tropical zone.
I have seen it plenty rough while
we were In the Coral sea. It was so
rough that the liferafts were
swept into the sea and three men
were lost overboard. But never
have I imagined an ocean could be
so perfectly smooth, without a rip•
ple or a break, as it was those
days.
''We docked just at noon, Fridar,
March 12. A month less than a
year ago I had left the United
States for Australia. I saw again
all that I had Jooked at last and
watched fade from view - the
Golden Gate, Alcatraz, Treasure
Island, the Oakland bridge, San
francisco. I had walked off Ameri•
can soil, but was carried back on 1
minus only a few splinters of bone
and hunks of flesh. The big thing
is that I got back, when I never
really expected to."
Lt. Foster left for service with
the national guard, in which he
had served two years, and gained
his commission by advancement
through the ranks. A brother, Pvt.
Kenneth Foster, 21, is attending
aircraft mechanic school at KeesJer field, Miss., and an uncle. Staff
Sgt. Gordon Foster-who is four
months younger than his nephew
-also served in New Guinea and
now is in an Australian rest camp.
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In War's Strangest Air Baffle Zone
In the Hcond article of hts
series about the New Guinea
front from which he has just
returned, Pat Robinson, veteran
INS war correspondent, teU1
why this ts one of the atrang•
est aerial battle zones of the
war.
By PAT ROBINSON
(Copyrla-ht, llHll)
NEW YORK (INS)-You ha.ve
re&d, perhaps, of how our men
drov.1 the Japa out of Buna. Gona,
Cape Endaladere, and Sanananda
Point. But I wondei-· If you realize
the hardahlps they underwent or
the fierce fighting that took place
before that task was finished.
To get a cl-ear picture of what
happened, you must first realize
the nature of the terrain and how
the Japs coni:l~
Buna., for instance, is hardly
more t\lan a name on a map. Before th• Ja.ps took It Jut JUll••
:t.
Rob.Inson .
th-ere were exactly six European
houses and a. few native buts
there. But it's strategic value ls
immense, because with that region
in our hands we can build and uae
airfields there and step up our
bombing o! other Jap stronghold•
a thousandfold.
Between Port Moresby on the
western aide of the peninsula,
which form• the tall of New
Guinea, affll the Buna recton
on the east., lies the Owen
Stanley ranre which contalrul
110me of the densest Jungle on
earth and which rises 13,000
feet Into aides of cobalt blue.
It 11 a pra-eously beautiful
land but it is a poisonou•
brooding beauty that alway•
seems to hold the prom.lie of
death.
Before we took Bun& we had to
fly across tbat range from Moresby to get a crack at any J"ap
1tronghold, Tha.t requir• onlY, 20
mtnutea ot flying ttme and you
might • uppose it would be easy
Actually, there are day• when
neither the Jape nor ourselves can
get acroH the range.
Dense clouds close down over
the mountains every afternoon
and any pilot would have to fly
blind to pt across and perha:P•
crash into a mountain aide. Many
a. plane hU been lost In just that
way.
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over there but it is far more so at
night when a pilot may run into ,
a thunderhead at any time. Theae
thunderheads have both a down·
draft and an updraft and they
are strong enough to tear the
wings of! even our biggest bomben.
Capt. Dick Robinson, a redheaded pilot of a B-26, once ran
into a thunderhead at 10,000 :feet
and in a flash bis plane dropped to
1,500 feet before he came out of it.
Fortunately, he was over the sea
at the time. Had he been over
the mountains-well, he would not
have been able to tell me about it.
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Those mountains have been both
a blessing and a curse to us. They
were a blessing before the Japs
started their drive over them
toward Port Moresby because our
listening posts stationed ih the
mountains could give us warning
ot an impending Jap air raid.
As the Japs drove on over i.he
Kokoda trail toward Moresby we
Jost our "eyes" and uears" and
there came a time when we had
no warning at all ot a raid and
the Japs would be over us bombing and strafing, before we had a
chance to get a plane oft' the
ground. When ,ve drove the Japs
beck over the range and took Buna we recovered all our listening
poe:ts and now the Japs dare not
come over raiding except at night.
The mountains were a curse to
us when we had to cross them
ourselves, driving the Japs betore
us. But cross them we did, and
the way our own troops crossed
them made aviation history.
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The weather "builds up," as the
pilots aay, on the Buna. side of
the range to make it the worst
flylna- weather to be found &nY•
where on ea.rth. Thick clouds rise
from sea level to more than 50,000
feet and tho.t "front" ts usually at
least 100 miles wide and 1,000 miles
long. It ts almost impossible to go
through it, around it, under it or
over ~t.
It 111 alway• dangerous to fly
too long to transpcrt th"!" to
New Guinea by water. He convinced MacArthu~ the job could be
done and MacArthur, having explicit faith in Kenney, told him to
go ahead.
Kenney at once commandeMed every old transport
plane he would ftnd, stuck a lot
of darJng young pilots in them,
and told them to go ahead. Belle,•e it or not, they tranalM)rted
thousands of troops. most of
whom had never flown in their
Jive", without loss of a single
man.
I saw tliem land in New Guinea
and I saw them take off again to
fly over th e mountains. Again the
job was completed without loss:
Not only did they fly aU the troops
but th ey also flew ammunition'
clo th ing, food, jeeps and even larg~
dismantled guns.
It was a job surpassing even
that accomplished by the Germans
at Crete.
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Famous ,'l2nd Division Drops Old Marching
Songs to Go All-Out for Swing lllusic
Somewhere in New Guinea--(JP)So you'd like a story about blaring
bands, wavirrg flags and men
marching to stirring music? Brother, there just isn't anything like
that for Americans fighting in the
jungles in this part of the world.
War these days has lost its glamor.
The bands, the stirring
marches, the pretty women waving
goodby have been left far behind
by the Americans over here-say
about a thousand miles or so behind.
When the 32nd <Red Arrow I division set o:fr for the front lines at
Euna they rode in big trucks over
dusty roads to airfields, climbed
aboard
transport
planes and
]anded at some jungle flying strip.
If they saw ,vomen at all on their
arrival it was probably some dusky
natives.
TrooJ)s Still Singing.
Not that there isn't music of a
sort in the front lines. You couldn't
take that away from the Americans, but the chances are it is some
barbershop quartet singing "White
Christmas," "Mister Five by Five"
or some other swing number they
heard over the radio.
Swing is the thing over here.
Such marching songs as ''Over
There," which the soldiers sang in
the World war have taken a defl•
nite back seat. The soldiers in New
Guinea prefer a quaint little number entitled: "Hardships, You So•
and-So's You Don't Know What
Hardships Arc!"
It tells the story about more fortunate men who stay behind in
Australia drawing their pay while
the rest of lhc boys go to the front
lines to fig~t.
They've _also taken up a couple
of Austrahan songs Jike "Bless 'Em
All" and "Waltzing Mati1da." They
have added a few verses to "Bless
'Em All" which you may hear when
the boys come home-but not in a
drawing room.
Both the army and navy could
use some good service songs. One
navr favorite still is "The Armored
Cruiser Squadron," which •goes !
: back at least a s far as the Spanish-American war.
T~e marines have a good song,
which the motion pictures have
made even more popular and even
the army sings "From 'the Halls
of Montezuma." But just to show
how far swing has taken hold down
here there's the story about the
arrlval <?f the first American troop
convoy 1n New Zealand.
Ea.ch Has Swing Band.
The Anzac band on the dock
struck up the "Stars and Stripes
Forever" and the Amerkan band
on the first ship replied with "The
Beer Barrel Polka."
Every o_utfit has its 1itt1e swing
ban~, which g~es in for hot jam
~es5 ions. ~he _biggest drawing card
in . AuS t raha is the 32nd division
swmg band, composed of some 15
pieces. It is comparable with
some . of the best dance bands ifl
Amer~.;a,
As for good o]d marches, you can
;!~de: the word of one sergeant, who
"We don't need them because
we aren't doing any marching, any:vay. And say-don't you go givmg them any ideas, rither!"
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But· the job had. only begun. For
many weeks thereafter the trans•
port boys had to keep those troops
fed and to do it they carried 600~ pounds o.t stuff a day, shuithng back and forth as many as
seven times a day. They'd take
over supplies, land on fields where
no civilian plane would dream of
landing, and bring back wounded
1
men.
They gave one of the., grandest
examples o! American initiative,
pluck, skill and daring the world
has ever seen and when the story
of this war is written no little
credit must go to the boys of the
transport command.
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Lieut. Gen. George Kenney, head
ot the air corps over there, proposed to transport thousands of
troops from Australia to New
Guinea and then over the Owen
Stanley range by air. The Australians thought he was crazy and I
have an idea some o! our own
military men also thought so.
The troops were needed in a I
•l'Ur<Y. a.nd Kenney knew It lll'.Ould
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Jeep just out of the New Guinea juncle tank• up at ''.fllllnc 1tation"
for military vehicle• run by three American •oldlen. "The Three
Yanks" have posted the USll&I gasoline 1tatlon • ip1, ineludinc "No
S1_11okln&" and "U•Curve Inn.''
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~ Their Idea of Heaven
ew Guinea Veterans Enjoy Good Food•. , Music
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Maj~ W. D. Hawkins, Bronxville,
With American Troops in a N. Y., has added eight pounds,
Southwestern Padfic Rest Camp- ' which he believes is about aver(A')-Pvt. Paul Phillips kicked the age.
loose sand at the foot of his cot The American soldier in rest
with a polished shoe and said:
camp is placed in strict quarantine
"This is my idea of heaven."
for 17 days after he comes out of
If you had been at Buna or Sa- the jungle. Medical officers watch
nanda .>r Sr•.i.v ,ta or any of the bat- hil"(l closely as he gradually retered, rain-soaked New Guinea duces his daily dose of quinine.
villages like them, yoti would Frequent blood tests determine
know what this Niles, Mich., youth whether the malaria germ is in the
meant.
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Yanks on Jungle Fron#
This is the fourth article
in a series by Pat Robinson,
veteran INS war correspondent, about the New Guinea
front from which he has just
returned.
streams and followed their winding course until they ran into a
native village hidden in the jungle
fastness and were given food and
drink and first aid by the friendly natives.
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so narrow, step and tortuous that
it takes five days to cover five miles
afoot in .some parts although tt requires only minutes to go from
Moresby to Buna by air.
You can stand on a mountain at
By PAT ROBINSON
(Copyright 1948)
NEW YORK (INS)-New Guinea
is a land of mystery a brooding
silence seems to ba~g over its
swamps and jungles, unrelieved ex•
cept for the popping of machine
guns, the roar of cannon or the
blast from a falling bomb.
It is hot by day, cold at night,
especially
in
the
mountains.
Streams flow silently down its
mountain sides, rivers through its
deep unexplored gor,es. Many of
the maps of New Gunlea are worse
than useless. Thus far our army
has found them mines of misinformation. Even the best of
maps will carry some such nota•
tion as this: "Probable course · of
river."
~our first glimpse of Ne_w
Guinea when flying from Austraha
reveals tree-covered hills sweeping back from the curved shore
around Port Moresby. Outside the
bay is a coral ·reet' of amazingly
varied colors - deep blue fading
into pale shades of green and
purpli$h brown combinations
that must be seen to be believed.
That reef is a constant barrier
to any invading fleet. On it lies a
ship which ran aground there 20
years ago and which our pilots use
for practice in dive bombing.
A few miles back you can see the
tall, menacing, imposing peaks of
the Owen Stanley range which
splits the tail of New Guinea.
If you look at a map you will
note that the island is formed like
one of the giant Iguanas which inhabit it. The head is poised toward
the equator on the west, the left
leg under th~ body looks a~ if
ready to spring, with the foot
formed by Henry island, and the
right leg is formed by the peninsula which holds Lae1 a Jap
stronghold, at its base.
The tail is formed by the long,
narrow peninsula stretching do:wn
to Samarai with Port Moresby halfway down on the left and Buna on
the right.
~:w~n:;:e:ho~;kac~~~s toe a friend
h nd d
Y P rhaps a
8
u re yar
away. You tell him
you will be right over to see him.
But to reach him you will have to
spe nd hours climbing down your
mountat_n and up his and if you
reach him after 12 h~urs of climbing you may consider yourself
lucky.
Heaven on earth in the eye9 of bi~d. is examined for othe{ disa battle-worn soldier is any place eases.
where there is dry underfoot, dry
While the men know the close
clothing, big steaks on the fire, check is necessary, they're impa1fresh vegetables in the pot and tient to get away and into the
fresh milk for the asking.
nearest city. There's a reason
It is a place where a soldier can for that, too. They've had their
get out and play catch with a first pay in five months, an averfootball as Sgt. Lewis Shannon, age of $300 per man, and it's
Jefferson, Wis., and Pvt. Peter burning holes in their pockets.
Paget, Detroit, Mich., were doin~.
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That's more fun and a lot
Neither white man nor black
healthier, too,
than
throwing
has set foot on much of New
grenades.
Guine?-'S deepest jungles although
Like Guitar Music.
our ptl?ts have flown over almost
It is a place where a soldier can
every mch of it.
go in the surf like Pvt. George
Many ot them, running out
Ney, Riddlcsburg, Pa., and Sgt.
of gas, or lost, or shot down
Paul Cummings, Novi, Mich.,
tn combat; have spent days
were doing, You could do that at
and even weeks trekking
Buna-if you figured you could
through the Jungles, cutting
swim or run 'fast enough when a
their way through dense unJapanese Zero happened by.
dergrowth where not even the
It is a place where you can sit
narrowest native path ex•
down and listen so Cpl. Edward
lsted.
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Vatassek, Anita, Pa. 1 play his
Many failed to come out and
Between Bun a and Moresby,
guitar-and know that a Jap won't
they rest where only the purling stretching doV{n the peninsula and
hear you.
of a brook and the soft call of forming its ba'ckbone is the Owen
It is a place where there is no
strange birds play their requiem. Stanley range.
marching, no drilling.
Others found their way to
The trails across that range are
Uncle Sam is "going all out" for
the soldiers of this regiment which
saw probably more action than
any other in the battles around •
Buna. Fresh meat and vegetables,
beer and ice cream-all they can.
eat and drink-are filling out hollow frames.
t
And how those boys eat. Figures
aren't available for the exact
amount of food consumed by each
soldier, who was lived for months
on canned rations and powered .
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ageous leadership and 1rut1at1Ve m
milk, but it's plenty.
Battle Creek-(A')-If the army leading his platoon in an attack on
Pvt. Myron Frazier, Merill, Wis.,
has
a
silver
star
award
for
Sgt.
estimated, however, that each solvillage on Nov. 30."
James K. Broner of Muskegon, Buna
dier averaged a pound of meat a
So the question was put to Sgt.
he's at P€:rcy Jones General hos- James K. Broner-not Brower.
day. He should know. fie was ,
pital-and he can't believe it.
slicing huge steaks in a tent.
"What did I do on Nov. 30? Well,
The 20-year-old veteran of the Jet's sec," he paused a moment, reOh Boy! What Food!
New Guinea campaign, his left leg calling the period after the famed
One hundred and fifty men will
, amputated above the knee, sat ~n 32nd division marched 41 days over
put away about 150 quarts of milk
his bed here Wednesday and said the Owen Stanley mountains.
a day, probably more. They'll use
he hoped reports of such a citation
"Oh, yeah. That was the day we
60 pounds of potatoes a meal and
were true but added that he started to take Buna village. And
top it all off with 12 gallons of ice
wasn't going to worry about it.
were we ever mixed up?" he
cream. Chances are, too, they'll
Broner became involved in a grinned. "I was leading a rifle
do a little piecing between meals.
mixup of names Tuesday in a di~- platoon supposed to cover the rear
Results of the feeding already
patch
from allied headquarters m in the attack. But something hapare noticeable. Phillips has added
Australia reporting that Lt. Gen. pened. we turned to the right in12 pounds; Pvt. Edward Sienko,
Robert
L. Eichelberger had cited stead of the left and I was out. in
Milwaukee, 10 pounds, and Pvt.
two Michigan men for the silver front with the 34 boys-leac.ing
Lawrence Ekdahl, Lueders, Tex.,
star
medal.
The cable listed one
d - n thing!
1 22 pounds.
of the men as Sgt. James K. the
It's working on the officers, too,
"Those Japs were ,aying down a
Brower, RFD No. 3, .1':'1-uskegon, swell barrage, but we had to move
·
~-:_ It said he exh1b1ted. cour- in with our rifles and hand gren\
ades, feeling our way across an
open field, and tossing all we had.
It was quite a party.
"I guess the Japs didn't like it,
either, 'cause after a few hours we
moved 'em back about 300 yards
\ and tooli: over a big stock of supplies."
Shell Costs Him a Leg.
On Dec. 7-fate played , tricks on
Broner that day - word passed
down the line that his brother,
Sgt. Willard Broner, member of a
platoon fighting in a nearby sector, had been killed by a Jap ma•
chine gunner. Within a few hours
the sergeant himself walked into
the path of a .25-ca~iber e~plosive
shell, felt it pound mto his knee,
and finished his part in the campaign.
"I weighed 170 pounds when we
started the trek across the mountains," Broner says, "and they
carried 110 p~und~ of me away
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from New Gumea.
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On the other side of the range,
around Cape J!:ndaiadere, Buna,
Gona and Sanananda point from
which .we drove the .Japs after
many weeks of terrific fighting, are
swamps interspersed with coconut
groves and dense undergrowth and
jungle.
Our troops had to wade "through
tall razor-sharp kunai grass 1 taller
than their heads and with water
coming up above their waist.
Whe it at
d d
th
campar n
r:i~~da~a u;lng d e
they w:re constantl
~ta er ay,
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The mosqultos were a coi;astant menace, They carried
malaria and our casualties
from their poisonous sting were
probably far greater than from
guns and bombs.
Dysentery. too, took its toll, and
sometimes a soldier had both
dysentery and malaria at the same
time. The Japs, of course, had the
same diseases. but in their case
they had the further handicap of
starvation and lack of medical
supplies. Our bombers saw to
that.
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The .Japs would try to sneak In
reinforcements by small boats but
our airmen managed to kill great
numbers of them.
On one memorable occasion they
caught a ship unloading hundreds
of oil drums three-quarters fiJled
with supplies wbtch were lashed
together on rafts in groups of
forty.
Hundreds of Japs jumped overboard to guide these rafts ashore
but they never got there. Our
A-20, B-25s and 26s, P-40.s and
P-39s swept down within ten feet
of them machine-gunning the
drums and Japs with equal fervor.
Hundreds of them were either shot
to death or wounded and drowned
and the drums and barges all set
afire.
I can imagine how starving Jap
troops entrenched fn the jungles
along the shore must have felt
watching all that vital food blaz..
ing and sinking in the bay.
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I'll never :forget hQW the pilots
chuckled and yelled when they
finished that job.
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Capt. Al Schinz, a little fire.
brand from Ottawa, DI., said:
"Boy, that was one of the finest
sights I ever saw. Those little
monkeys were diving overboard
trying to escaipe and in the water
thiey'd try to duck under as we
swept over them but they never
had a chance. We simply kept
our guns blazing into them until
we'd cleaned them all up. I hope
our flatfoots (infantry) were eatls-fled."
You may take my word for tt.
the 0 flatfoots" were delighted.
Nothing raised their morale more
than to see and hear the J aps
getting hell from the machine
guns and bombs of our airmen.
�Vet Says It's a Double Fight .
In Guinea,_laps and Nature
Battle J;ei!;.,;!j~Pfc. Elmer clung to an old vine inside the free
they hacked away the bark,
C. Krauz of Jackson was up a crushed their way through and
stump-and no foolin',
hauled me out."
It Was a big stump standing in
Excited? Krauz admits he was,
the snaried, damp, half-darkness but adds that his biggest thrill
of the New Guinea jungles. The came later that day-Dec. 24light of dawn had not yet faded when Lt. Gen. Robert L. Eichel•
l
berger walked past his litter at a
jungle first aid station, stopped,
smiled and said, "Merry Christmas, lad."
Krauz and 240 other casualties
of the Pacific fighting are recovering from their injuries-some are
medical ca!e~-at the army's new
Percy Jones General hospital here.
"You have a double fight out
er for a makeshift piJibox and it there/' Krauz went on. ''You fight
didn't take long for the tracers to the Japs and nature. You get hot
burn their breeches. Those three and sick and you can't eat and the
birds never got where they were bugs are awful and there are Japs
aild more Japs. I have two broth•
going, that's sure."
ers at home" (he w~s stern now)
Drops Into Tree.
"and I'd rather go back myself
It got lighter. And then it came; than have them go."
the bullet with the name Krauz on
Sgt. James K. Broner of Muske ..
it, an explosive shell that ripped gon , another member of the famed
into the bark of that makeshift 32nd division, thrilled at the first .
blind, tore into the 25-ye~r-old sight of his mother and father and
gunner's left knee and dropped sister and brother Tuesday after•
him, like a bag of sand • h~ says, noon, the first since he left for
into the tree, his helmet rolling on Australia months ago.
the ground.
A member of a battalion which
"My buddies, the four who had left Port Moresby to march across
crouched at the base of that tree, the Owen Stanley mountain range
knew something was wrong when to Buna, Broner walked the hard,
they saw my helmet and while I dry mountains 41 days and then,
finally in action against the Japs,
! fell before a 25-calibre explosive
1 rifle bullet. His left leg was ampu1 tated below the knee.
All in G3od Spirits.
There are many men with miss•
ing limbs among those who ar-rived here this week. There are
men with eyes shot out and
the streaks of tracer bullets whizzing through the trees when
Krauz, up to his armpits in a hallow tree, swung his machine gun
in the direction of Buna Mission
and let it go.
"You couldn't see anything
much," he recalls. "Maybe there
were Japs there and maybe not. I
saw three of the little guys scamp-
mouths ripped open by shell and
shrapnel.
All of the men, many of them
seriously injured, appeared in good
spirits following their long train
ride from the coast, Maj. Albert C,
Krukowski, hospital executive of..
ficer, said.
Their spirit was typified by MeCligott who, along with scores of
others, will be awarded the purple
heart shortly,
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!Bombers Lash
at Jap Convoy
J - 31 , '1-3
Destroyer Believed
Sunk Off Finschhafen
as Enemy Ships Flee
AN ADVANCED BASE IN
ALASKA, (Delayed) - (ii.') ~till-smoking Klska shook
again Tuesday under the Impact of 37 more tons of steelencased TNT as medium and
heavy army bombers swept in
at levels ranging from 1,700
to 7,000 feet, eleventh air force
headquarters announced.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
IN AUSTRALIA, Wednesday
UP)-A Japanese destroyer con•
voy is believed to have been
Beat laps at Own Game
I~ the fifth article of his
series about the New Guinea
front, Pat Robinson, veteran
INS war correspondent, describes Jap trickery in jungle
fighting and tells how th e
.American forces learned to
beat the wily warriors of Nippon at their own game.
By PAT ROBINSON
(Copyright
)
which we had to rout them. And
they were tough to rout. Even
when
facing
starvation
they
would- fight to the finish. It usually had to be to a finish because
neither side was pl'isoner-minded.
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Jap snipers would hide in the
trees trying to get ·a shot at an
American. Their object at all times
was to make one of our boys re1943
veal his position and to get him
NEW YORK, (INS) - Fighting to do so they would resort to all
for the region around Buna was sorts of ruses.
:~r;.~~:o~v:!a!!~~aap~r~;,a ;
One favorite trick was to call
ample. Here the Japs had 0 their out for somebody in English and
backs to the sea. Then there was it was surprising how many of
a layer of Australians furth er in- them used good English. They
land, then another island of Japs, would call, for instance, ' 1Say,
then a layer of Americans
Sergt. Smith, where are you?" or
They were all so intermixed
"Is Capt. Jones there?"
that they often used the same
Of course, our boys soon learned
trails to bring up supplies and
all about these tt"icks and invaroften opposing carriers would
iably answered with a burst of
meet on the trail and a battle
fire from their own guns toward
to the death would ensue,
the sound of the voice.
One one such occasion three
On one occasion a Jap kept callJaps suddenly came upon two ing from what apparently was a
young Americans as they both machine gun nest to some opposcame out of the jungle into a small ing Australians,
"Oh,
digger,
clearing. The first Jap threw his where are you?" One of the Ausritle like a spear. the bayonet tralians crawled around in back
pierced one of the Americans' fore~ of the nest, got silently above it
arm. That was that Jap's last act and threw in a hand grenade on
on earth, for with his other hand top Of the Jap with the remark:
the Yankee kid shot the Jap be- "I'm here, you bloody b - , but
tween the eye_:.. • •
where are Y01!,_?''+ +
The Japs were heavily enThey had all the advantage ot
trenched in deep machine gun pits. position and they made the most
Otuside these pits they had several of it.
small foxholes spaced several
Individually, they were not good
yards apart and leading to an ad- shots. They seemed unwilling to
jacent machine gun. The machine risk a long shot while our boys
gun pits were heavily reinforced. could and did shoot faster, furOverhead and in front they had ther and mol'e accurateI:v..
built logs seven feet deep.
But the · Jap didn't have to be
When trench mortars were a good shot' to cause casualties.
dropped on them they simply He had fields of fire plainly
skipped out of tfieir machine gun marked out for the sweep of his
pits and crawled into their fox machine guns and our boys had to
holes. Then when our troops or go through a living hell to reach
the Australians tried to rush them, them.
they would skip back into their
However, they kept the Japs so
pits and resume firing. They could busy on the ground and our ail·always reach the pits before our men raised so much hell with them
boys reached them because we in- from the air that the Japs rarely
variably had to wade through had time to bury their dead.
kunai grass and swamp land.
Dead Japs laid outside emplace• + +
ments for weeks and a few days
I don't know when we'd ever in that climate were enough to
have got them out of Cape En• decompose a body and force the
daiadere if we hadn't used tanks. Japs to use gas masks in self deThese tanks would roll rough fense. Our boys agre-ed that a
shod over the Jap emplacements dead mule was sweet compared to
and the infantry would follow the a dead Jap.
tanks in to mop up.
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Often the Japs were only 20
Yes, the going was extremely
yards away from our own boys, tough and we didn't make headrbut the Japs, of course, were in way without casualties and many
~viously prepared positions from of them. But we did advance,
t~!~
inch by Inch, yard by yard. until
the last Jap was cleared out ot
the entire region. Some managed
to slip through our lines and
-escape to the horth toward Lae
and Salamau. Others c!ied trying
that same route,
Through it all, the air corps
gave unceasing support to their
pals on the ground, they'd show
up at daybreak from across the
Owen Stanley range and start dropping bombs. Th-en they'd go to
work with machine-~111
They ope1~ted on a regular time
schedule. The A-20's, say, would
bomb and strafe from 8:05 to 8:15
a. m., then the B-25s from 8:15 to
8:25 and so it continued all day
long with bombers and pursuit
boys following each oth-er over
the target in unceasing relays.
The Japs actually grew bomb
happy under such a hell from the
sky and at times they could be
seen hopping out .of their holes and
rundning around in circles, driven
ma e by the born, trdment, and so
t~ey were easy targets for our
s arp-shooting kids to pick off.
T
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bea~s~gtrsf.taidal~-e~u~n:t~:~~~:
f
fer ~rmed miracles, 1!raving death
ear essly at all times to bring in
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fat':~u~:-eda~:~er T~~ nce:i;r 0~ ;
wounded man and often these
angels ot mercy were wounded or
killed themselves in trying to reach
a wounded man.
The Japs paid no attention to
the Red C1·oss insignia. It ts not
that kind of a war. . It's simply
kill or be killed and our boys are
1;!~rmined to do most of the kill0
blocked in an attempt to supply (The Japanese have attempted Or Japanese ships suffered damthe New Guinea area, the high destroyers for convoying before age but was believed to have land-
command announced Tuesday. when they found the slower trans- ed troops at ' Wewa~ to the northA large destroyer probably ports were patticularly good tar- west of the Flnschhafen area.
was sunk off Finschhafen as the gets for Allied bombers.)
There also a_re other- Japanese
convoy
was
"The convoy was fl.rat sighted bases
reported
along 1he
coast
between
fleeing southwest of Kavieng (which is Finschhafen and Wewak.)
north.
Finschhafen is on the Huon
peninsula, 60 miles above Lae, a
vita! Japanese base on which Allied ground troops have been moving in the vicinity or Mubo, south
of safamaua.
That is in the same area of
northern New Guinea, where in
the first week of March the Japanese sent forth a 22-shlp convoy10 warsh~ps and 12 transportsall of which were sunk by Allied
planes. causing a loss of 15,000
enemy troops.
"The enemy made an attempt
to _contact his troops in New
Gumea by means of a fas t convoy of destrnyers," 1·eported the
noon
communique
from
Gen.
Douglas MacArthur's ,headquarters.
on New Ireland,
approximately
550 miles north of the Allied base
of Port Moresby, New Guineaj
New Ireland is just above the island of New Britain.)
"Bad weather prev-ented further observation or attack until
our heavy bombers located the
convoy off Finschhafen.
· "We attacked shortly after midnight with aid of flares, scoring
a direct hit on the stern of a large
de5troyer, severely damaging and
probably sinking the ship. The
convoy immediately left the area
at full speed to the north ."
Apparently the reluctance of the
high command in claiming the
purpose of the convoy had been
completely frustrated lay in the
fact that recently a Bmall convoy
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"Beginning at dawn, our heavy
medium and attack units with
long-range fighter cover pounded
the docks and waterfront at
Finschhafen with heavy bombs,
causing great damage and starting many fires. Barges and boats
in the harbor were also effectively machine gunned. The enemy
made no attempt at interception.
"It is believed that any attempt
to deliver supplies failedl"
�First Red- Arrow Veteran of New
Faced Death
AtSanananda
Campaign Returns to Cityl
Sgt. Grant G. Sullivan,
Convalescent, Visits
Mother Here
(By John J. McGinnis.)
It's a long way from Bti.na village
and Sanananda road in New
Guinea to Lyon-st. In Grand Rapids, but the first of the local "Red
Arrow" boys has made it,
Sgt. Grant G. Sullivan, 20, who
was with Grand Rapids national
gual'd troops in the blood and mud
of the Papuan campaign, is back
With his feet under his mother's
table.
Sgt. Sullivan is a casualty of that
fierce jungle battle, wounded at
the base of the skull by a Japanese bullet about midway in the
November-December fighting that
drove the Japs out. Doctors tell
hL"n he's fortunate to be walking
again, and he agrees with them.
A patient at Fort Benjamin Har.
rison army hospital at Indianapolis
along with a number of other
casualties of the New Guinea area,
Grant has recovered sufficiently
to be granted a three-day leave to
visit his mother, Mrs. Frank Plite,
30 Lyon-st., N. E. He was returned to the hospital Tuesday.
Sergeant at 19.
Sullivan is one of the youngest
men of the Grand Rapids guard
organization, a Union High school
student who left his books to go
into service with the 126th infantry in October of 1940, although
still less than 18 years of age. He
was one of the youngest noncommissioned officers in the division
having gained the rank of sergeani
a year ago before his outfit left
Fort Devens, Mass., for service in
the South Pacific area. He is a
grandson of Mr. and Mrs. George
Filkins of Comstock Park.
. The young sergeant wound up
his part of the New Guinea campaign on the night of Dec. I on Sanananda road. The Japanese bullet
flattened him so completely that
his co_mrades first thought he had
been killed. A first aid man discovered he still lived, although he
was temporarily paralyzed. The
bullet, which had splintered
reached his spinal column. Frag~
ments of the missile are still imbedded in his neck.
Three and one-half days later i
when Jap fire subsided for a tirn,e: I
others of Sullivan's company were
able to get him back to the battalion dressing station,
I
uI don't think it was so very appeared particula;ly fit and we11
far back to the station where equipped.
the doctors were,' but with the mud "I saw some Japs who were six
and the jungle it took the boys a feet tall. They were part of the
long time," said Sullivan. We marines that had been put ashore.
started about 1 a. m., I think, and The Japs had about everything in
it was the next afternoon before there, ipcluding marines, soldiers,
the doctors got to work on me.''
labor units and sailors put ashore
from some of the ships.
With ''Lost Company."
He was cattied out by> four
Couldn't Take Chances.
fellow soldiers, two from Grand "We didn't see any prisoners, alRapids and two replacements though I guess a few were taken.
from other states.
Most of the time it was a case of
"It's about 50-50 in our outfit just keeping on shooting until you
now, or was when I left it," Sul- were sure everything was under
livan said. "There are men in the control. The Australians that were
regiment from almost every state in there before us and others had
in the union, I guess."
learned long before that you just
His unit was one of those en- couldn't affo:rd to take any chances
gaged in the movement to block and that a "dead" Jap might be
Sc.nananda road, the incident that playing possum.
developed into the "lost com• The Japs would keep pretty quiet
pany" episode of the New Guinea most of the day and start making
campaign, described in The Press a lot of noise at night, Sullivan
two months ago by War Corre- said. Recalling the Jap night cttspondent George Weller. Sullivan
after he was wo1.1ndr.d, h t.
was hit early in this maneuver.
HI don't know so much about
"They came right in and mingled
all that happened, but I have with us. One Jap stepped on me
gone through some of the clip- (Sullivan was still in a paralyzed
pings mother kept for me and they condition and could do nothing).
just about tell the story," Sul~ There was plenty going on for a
Jivan declared.
while and four of our boys W'err
"We really were more than a hurt.
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company, It was the actives of an
I remember another time when
entire battalion, after counting out we had put out an advanced post
the casualties earlier in the month under fire. Some of our boys were
and those in supply. We had been on one side of the road and the
reorganized and many officers had
been lost. That's how Maj. Zeeff Japs were on the other side. One
(Maj. Bert Zeeff, Grand Rapids fellow from Grand Rapids called
officer mentioned in Weller's story to another, named Lillie. Pretty
of the "lost company") happened soon the Japs across the road
to be in command. He was placed started to call the same name, trythere when the others were casual- ing to locate our man, but they
ties.
~:;i.~·t
very well, and he r
Praises Capt. Shirley.
Sullivan has the highest regard
"Capt. Shirley, who was right with
us, (Capt. John D. Shirley, killed and praise for the medical and
De~. 2, a day after Sullivan was surgical divisions of the army. "I
hit) was one of the finest officers had malaria five times, but they
I knew and certainly did a lot for always took care of it."
us until he was hit."
Saved ms Life.
It was Shirley who had com~
He believes he owes his life to
mand of the "lost company" that the hospital aid man who took care
later was taken over by Capt. M. of him soon after he was hit and
M. Huggins of Salem, Ore., the
officer for whom the long-held to the sulfanilamide powder he
road block, maintained by the unit placed on the wound. "That's all
they were able to do for about
for three weeks, was named.
Although the Sanananda road ac- four days/' he said,
When he got back to the field
tion was the one which has re~
ceived most attention by the folk hospital at the jungle's edge he
back home, the Grand Rapids was treated and flown back over
guardsmen had plenty of fighting the Owen Stanley range by plane
before that, Sgt. Sullivan related, to Port Moresby, where he was in
starting almost at once after .they the hospital two weeks. Then he
ctossed the Owen Stanley moun- was evacuated by hospital ship to
tains from Port Moresby.
a large army hospital at Bri/,bane.
"We kept running into the Japs
"I worried more about the trip
all the time and the boys got a lot by ship than at any other time,U
of them. It got so we had to be he said. "I was still unable to
careful about our tommy-gun am- move my arms or legs and the
munition. That was the main ship had been bombed by the enproblem in the supply line, so far emy on its previous trip, they said."
as munitions went, but we also had The young sergeant hasn't seen
some Jong spells without eating. any of his outfit since he left
Some of the boys were making them, although the force returned
good batting averages with the
tommy-guns, though. One ser- to Australia from New Guinea begeant was up to 30 Japs when I fore he left there for home. He
was hit, and still going strong." saw his company, what remains
of it on active duty, in a picture
Pal of. Sgt. DeVrles.
published in The Press and clipped
One incident in which Sullivan for him by his mother.
had a part was the action in
Wants to Go Back.
which Sgt. Sidney DeVries of
Grand Rapids was killed, on Nov. The young Grand Rapids soldier
23, just a week before Sullivan is not convinced b6 won't get back
was wounded. The two were close to active service, although doctors
so far have refused to give him
friends in the same company.
"I think I probably was the last much assurance. They tell him
man to talk to DeVrles before he that by ordinary rules he should be
was killed," said Sullivan. "He paralyzed. He is In full control of
certainly was doing all right up to arms and legs now, however, and
the time he got hit. (DeVries, ac- is gaining weight. He had lost
cording to the accounts of his nearly 50 pounds.
death, made an attack on a Jap "That's not all from sickness,
machine gun nest and killed 17 though. We missed quite a few
Japs before losing his own life.) meals. You can· say what you want
He was about as handy with a about how much the soldiers like
mail, and it's about the most imtommy-gun as anyone we had."
SuUivan is quick to admit that portan\ thing when you're eating
the . Jap is a tough fighter-''ex- regularly, but sometimes out there
cept, they don't seem to like the in the jungle a can of bully beef
bayonet." He said most of the or a chocolate bar really had the
·
troops that were opposing his unit first call."
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Wounded, Comes Home From Jungle
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Lying paralyzed three days in the New Guinea jungle with_ a Ja~
bullet in the base of qis skull gave home a very speci,-J meamng this
week for SGT. GRANT G. SULLIVAN, 20, first Red Arrow veteran
of the Bona. and Sananada road campaigns to rehl~n to Grand Rapids. His mother is Mrs. Frank Plite, 30 Lyon-st., _N ·. E. Tu.esday he
returne<l to an army hospital in Indianapolis, Hts mterestmg story
is on page 13,
�Veterans of Southwest Pacific Action
Back From New Guinea
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17- "'-'
Grand Rapids Soldier, Who Served at Advanced
Rations Post, Gets Medical Discharge
Five western Michigan soldiers,
wounded in action in the southwest Pacific area, are recuperating at the army's Percy Jones
General hospital in Battle
Creek. They are: Top, left to
right: LT. ALBERT COLE of
Cascade, RFD No. 3; CPL.
LEONARD P. BATES of Hastings, and PVT. ABRAHAM
BOLLE or Grand Rallids. Lower
row: PVT. JOHN W. HAFER
of Watervliet, RFD No. 2, and
PVT, MERLE C. COMEit of
Ionia, RFD No. 2.
Maj. Boet and the portable hos-
pitals which stud the evacuation
Sulfa drugs and plasma
were responsible for a good many
miracles in the Buna campaign, he
reported. He credited both with
route.
saving his life.
"Japs are crazy as individual
fighters, but swell at setting up de•
I
tensive positions," he commented.
"They are masters of camouflage
and the most disciplined soldiers
in the world."
Comer was in the first party Co
enter · Buna village after with•
drawal of the enemy to make cer•
lain no Japs remained. ''There
wasn't much of a village Jeft/' he
reports. "OnJy two native huts
were left-both badly damaged.
The palm trees were pretty weIJ
wrecked too."
Comer also received his put pJe
over dense jungle trails in three heart decoration in Brisbane. He
days.
left Ionia High school in 1937 and
Bates ~ing:s loud praises for the enlisted in the Michigan National
New Guinea aborigines, affection• guard the same year.
ately nicknamed "fuzzy-wuzzies"
An attack on a cleverly-con•
by American troops, who carried structed Jap pillbox was responsi•
him back 12 miles to the most ad• ble for the wound Pvt. Hafer re•
vancect field hospital. The natives ceived in his left thigh in the
didn't like the scientifically-de· Sanananda front in New Guinea.
signed army litt~-as, °'ates reports, Hafer was only 25 yards from the
because, they sai , ey were too pillbox when hit.
hard to carry for long distances. Jap pillboxes were- "hard nuts to
They constructed their own from crack," according to Hafer. They
long poles crisscrossed with were constructed of hard, coconut
branches and bark.
logs, covered with dirt and more
Bates attended Hastings High than half buried in the ground.
school until 1937.
Machine guns inside were arranged
Pvt. Comer was on an advanced to cover front and rear, he re•
patrol after the capture of Buna · ported.
when his party ran into a 1,;I.rger Hafer was driving a truck in Port
force of Japs and he was wounded Moresby when he was assigned to
in the left leg. He was treated the Sananada front. His unit was
by Maj. Boet and then taken by flown •across the Owen Stanley
"fuzzy-wuzzy jeep and plane mountains, dropped off on the
back to Port Moresby. Like many Japanese side of the range, then
of his buddies, he is especialJy out- walked 100 miles to their destinaspoken in praise of the work of tion.
Wounded Men, Praise Jungle
Surgery of Local Physician
Battle Creek - Five western
Michigan soldiers, wounded in
fighting in the southwest Pacific
area and now in the army's Percy
Jones General hospital here, Wed·
nesday related how they were
forced out o( action. The five in•
elude Lt. Albert V. Cole, son ot
Mr. and Mrs. Claude C. Cole of
Cascade, RFD No. 3; Pvt. Abraham
Bollc, son oC Mr. and Mrs. Marinus Bolle, 36 Stormzand-pl., N. E.,
Grand Rapids; Cpl. Leonard P.
Bates, son of Mr. and Mrs. Victor
A. Bates of Hastings; Pvt. Johnny
W. Hafer, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Rudolf Hafer of Watervliet, RFD
No. 2, and Pvt. Merle C. Comer,
son of Mr. and Mrs. George W.
Comer of Ionia, RFD No. 2.
Lt. Cole was the hero of a bomb·
ing raid on a Japanese convoy off
Lae, New Guinea, early in January.
Cole was struck in the face and
legs by anti-aircraft fire as his
plane neared its target, but he
appealed to the pilot of the plane
to "keep going." Although seri•
ously wounded, Cole remained at
his position and dropped his cargo
of bombs on the Japanese ships.
The bomber in which the Grand
Rapids man was flying, however,
was crippled Qy anti-aircraft fire
and was unable to maneuver to
escape the fire of Japanese Zero
planes.
Outraces Jap Ranes.
The big bomber did manage
eventually to outrace the Zeros and
forced to fly in a straight line,
crash-landed on the toit of a moun•
tain and burst into fire. Cole and
his fellow airmen c:i;awled from
the plane and extricated the body
of the rear gunner who had been
killed.
Some time later their
shouts attracted the notice of two I
Austra1ian "commandos" who roam
the jungles searching for crashed
er,;.
-Grand Rapids Press Photographer
A Japanese field book, acquired in the battle of Bona, is the
favorite souvenir of PV'l'. BERNARD CZAJKO\VSKJ, 25, 24.Z
Grand-av., N. E. He shows his mother, l\1RS. LUCILLE CZAJKO\V•
SKI, some of the inserts which cover instructions in 1irst aid, bridge
building, weather and general ' 4hel1>ful hints" for the Jap soldier.
After a few weeks of "taking it
easy," Pvt. Bernard Thomas Czajkowski, 25, expects to hang up his
uniform, don civilian clothes,
frame his honorable discharge
from the army and look for a job,
Pvt. Czajkowski, son o( Mrs. Lucille Czajkowski, 242 Grand-av., N.
E., isn't likely to find anyone who'll
object to his taking a few weeks
to acclimate himself to life on the
home front, for he's been invalided
home after more than a year's
overseas service with the 32nd di·
vision in Australia and in the New
Guinea-Buna campaigns. Pvt. Czajkowski received his medical dis·
charge at Billings General hospital,
Fort Benjamin Harrison, Ind.,
where he underwent two months
of medical care for shell shock.
Couldn't Strike Back.
As a member or the regimental
headquarters company of the
126th Infantry Pvt. Czajkowski
was close to the fighting front
throughout the New Guinea-B~na
campaigns and the advance ration
dump at which he was assigned
1was under almost constant artil•
lery fire. Althou~h headquarters
company was involved in little
close quarters combat, the personnet performed their duties prepared at all times for possible di·
rect action.
"We were all fully camouflaged
all the time, our faces were painted
and we worked· under arms," he
explained. "It was tough to have
the Japs throwing shells at us all
the time and not be able to strike
back."
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Readers of The Grand Rapids
Press, which has published detailed
dispatches from the southwest Pacific, probably have a cleai:;er idea
of the New Guinca-Buna cam-1
paigns than many of the men who
took part in them, Czajkowski be•
Jieves. "We couldn't tell much
about the whole picture," he ex•
plained, "but we did get a good
idea of what was happening to va~
rious units of the regiment when
the nightly details of six men commanded by a sergeant came from
each outfit to pick up the next
day's rations."
Czajkowski was assigned to the
126th infantry after his induction
in April, 1941, and joined the out•
tit at Camp Livingston, La. He was
Hrst in Company K and then transferred to the headquarters company, where his brother, Arthur,
who left here with the guard unit
the previous October, was serving.
Arthur, now a corporal technician
at Fort Devens, Mass., was in the
hospital there when the regiment
left for the west coast and Aus•
tralia.
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Has Many Medals.
On his uniform Czajkowski wears
the fouragere with which the 32nd
division was decorated by the
French army fn the first World
\\'ar, ribbons for the Liberty medal
the .g.ood conduct medal, the 5?Ut_h
Pacific !11-edal and the Asiatic
~e<lal with two bronze stars. On
his lower l~ft sleeve ~re. tw~ inverted gold .chevro~s ind1catmg . ,_
year of foreign service.
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Enjoying a much-deserved rest period, thcso 75 members of
headquarters company, 126th infantry, were photographed early in
February in Australia. These men were in the New Guinea cam ..
paign with the heroic 32nd (Red ArrO\V) division. l\Iost of the
soldiers are from Grand Rapids and western Michigan.
The photograph was passed by military censors. CAPT. EDWARD
J. \VOLTJER, acting major and commanding officer, is believed to ·
have sent the first copy received here to his wife at their home,
42 Pennel1•rd., S. E.
First row, left to right, PFC. JESSE MARTIN, PFC. HAROLD
WEINR.JCH, PVT. JAMES ST. PETER, PFC. JOHN JOHNSON,
PFC. CLAUDE MARTIN, SGT. WILLIAM HARISHIMA, PFC.
MERLIN YOUNG, CPL. HENRY KOSTER, CPL. GERALD L.
HARVEY, PFC. GAYWRD HALL, PVT. IRA S. McKAY, PFC.
LOU B. H. FOX, SGT. JAMES TOMPERT, SGT. WALTER HILL,
SGT. HERBERT GARDNER, PFC. ROBERT KRUTHAUPT and
CPL., ALLAN WALTON.
Second row, PFC. LOUIS J. PELLERIN, PFC. JAMES ROBIN•
SON. PFC. JOSEPH RAVETTA, PFC. WALTER BAJDEK, PVT.
GEORGE FOMIN, PFC. HARVEY HILL, CPL. LEONARD BOLLE,
SGT. STEVEN KRAUT, CPL. THEODORE OLINGER, PFC. ORA
E. RAMSEY, PFC. JEROME SCHULTY, CPL. RICHARD ROSS,
PFC. ROBERT DURBIN, PVT. HAROLD PAGELER, SGT. JOHN
QUAKKELAAR, CPL. MINOR EDWARDS, PFC. MAURICE
CARPENTER and PVT. FERD RADENSLABEN.
Third row, "CPL. FRANCIS PLOTZKA, CPL. ELDEN ANDERSON, STAFF SGT. STANLEY KETCHEL, SGT. ALBERT
RABASKAS, SGT. ROBERT ECKBERG, PFC. EARL DE VORMER,
PFC. JOHN J. GLOWICKI, PVT. JACK CARMICHAEL, PFC.
KENNETH MILLER, SGT. STUART KREGER, PVT. JOHN
PETERSON, PFC. EMIL F. PETERS, SGT. 1!,ICHARD PLATTE,
STAFF SGT. RICHARD NEWTON, PFC:--LESTER SPADER, PFC.
MARTIN BOLT, STAFF SGT. ROY • H. JURGENS and SGT,
JOSEPH SKIBA.
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Fourth row, CAPT. J. J. SULLIVAN, 1ST SGT. ALFRED BUSH,
STAFF SGT. BERNARD DOYLE, SGT. FERDINAN FICELI, SGT.
JOHN AESCHLIMAN, PVT. RUDOLPH SOCHA, PVT. JEROME
KOZAK, PVT. WALTER PLASKA, PVT. HAROLD KELLY, PFC.
JOSEPH TUSCAN, PFC, JOHN MULVEY, PFC. EDGAR McGASKILL, SGT, ANTHONY CAROWITZ, PVT. EDWARD ZOLENSKI,
CPL. ROMAN LEIBECK, CPL. ROGER ANDERSON, CPL. GERALD
PALt~R, CPL. ROGER A. GOLDSMITH, TECH. SGT. JOSEPH
KROLL, TECH. SGT. HERMAN STEENSTRA, MASTER SGT.
ABEL POTTS and Capt. Woltjer,
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Raised to Major
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Halsey, MacArthur to Join
for
Early Attack on Japs?
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A SOUTH PACIFIC BASE ·UP)New American offensive actions in
the south Pacific theater are believed probable following a lull in
, which command staffs have taken
time to co-ordinate plans for future operations mapped at the
Casablanca conference and in the
recent Pacific strategy sessions at
Washington.
The nature and direction of the
probable next American pushes of
course are not open to conjecture,
miral William F. Halsey, commanding U. S. naval forces in this area,
and General Douglas MacArthur.
who is directing the southwest
Pacific operations from Australia.
These sources say it is logical
the navy's south Pacific command
and General MacArthur should collaborate so that any future thrust
by one will strengthen the blows
of the other and so that both will
have the same major objective.
The offensive emphasis after the
i ~~i~k ~:1~er~:is:iere c~~\~fe~e c~~~=
:~ft~;;sto
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MAJ. HARRY MENCLEWSKI,
Harry C. Mendewski, formerly
commander of Headquarters com- I
pany, 126th infantry, 32nd division,
has been promoted from captain to
major, a cablegram to his ,vife, 825
Aberdeen-st., N. E. 1 revealed Monday.
The promotion was another step
in a career with the national
guard unit in which Menclewski
advanced through every grade of
noncommJssioned ranks to a commission. He was promoted to captain after arrival in Australia last
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0 ~~:,d~:r::
~!~ax:~hu r~s
liaison and teamwork between Ad· theater, which is closer than Admiral Halsey's island bases to Ra, baul. That big port on the north•
\ eastern tip of New Britain is the
most powerful enemy stronghold
beyond the Japanese key naval
base of Truk island.
The south Pacific lately has become a theater of holding opera~
tions by both our forces and the
Japanese. It is unlikely, however,
that the aggressive character of
Admiral Halsey and his forces will
permit the lull to continue.
KEEP JAP ON HIS HEELS
Most observers here held the
view that a constant jabbing at the
enemy from the south Pacific is
essential to keep him busy and
disperse his strength, They feel,
however, that an all-out drive
against Japan from this area Ls not
probable, fl-S it would mean an ls.
land-by-island, step-by-step advance
at a likely high cost in American
lives, planes and ships.
No Japanese transports and few
warships have been observed recently in the Solomon area. The
enemy fleet, however, is known to
be based in full power at Truk and
could be moved quickly into a
field of action at any time.
For that reason, it cannot be
said that Japan has withdrawn its
fleet from this theater any more
than it can be said our fleet force
has been withdrawn.
�Halsey, MacArthur to Join
!for E~rly Attack on Japs?
1o~H
Raised to Major
4 -S -4.3
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t.JIFIC BASE llP>- 1miral William F. Halsey, commandNew American offensive actions in \ ing U. S. naval forces m thts area,
the south Pacific theater are be- and Gener~l ~ouglas MacArthur,
r d robable following a lull in \ who is d1rectmg the southw:est
,~~~~h ~ommand staffs have taken Pacific operations from Austral~a.
t·
t co-ordinate plans for fu- These sources say_ it is log1cal
ime O
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ma ed at the the navy's south Pacific command
~r:abtC:ne::t~::sferenfi' and in the and General MacArthur should cola ent Pacific strategy sessions at laborate so that any future thrust
rec
by one wm strengthen the blows
w;~~inJ!~~;e and direction of the of the other and so that bot_h will
xt
American
pushes
of
have
the same major objective.
1
:r:enot open to conjecture,
The offensive emphasis after the
but well advised sources here Japanese collapse o~ Guadalc~nal
thi k it certain there will be close shifted to MacArthur s New Gumea
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l' .n
and teamwork between Ad- I theater, which is closer than Admlral Halsey's island bases to RaI iaison
baul. That big port on the northea stern tip of New Britain is the
most powerful enemy stronghold
beyond the Japanese key naval
base of Truk island.
'
The south Pacific lately has become a theater of holding operations by both our forces and the
Japanese. It is unlikely, however,
that the aggressive character of
Admiral Halsey and his forces will
permit the lull to continue.
KEEP JAP ON HIS HEELS
Most observers here held the
view that a constant jabbing at the
enemy from the south Pacific 1s
essential to keep him busy and
disperse his strength, They feel,
however, that an all-out drive
against Japan from this area 1s not
probable, ~ it would mean an Island-by-island, steirby-step advance
at a likely high cost in American
lives, planes and ships.
No Japanese transports and few
warships have been observed recently in the Solomon area. The
enemy fleet, however, is known to
be based in full power at Truk and
could be moved quickly into a
field of action at any time.
For that reason, it cannot be
said that Japan has withdrawn its
fleet from this theater any more
than it can be said our fleet force
has been withdrawn.
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MAJ. HARRY MENCLEWSKI.
Harry C, Menclewski, formeriy
commander of Headquarters com•
pany, 126th infantry, 32nd division ,
has been promoted from captain to
major, a cablegram to his ,vife, 825
Abcrdcen•st., N. E., revealed Mon•
day,
The promotion was another step
in a ca reer with the national
guard unit in which Menclewski
advanced through every grade of
1 noncommissioned ranks to a com•
mission. He was promoted to cap•
tain after arrival in Australia last
May. Before leaving for service
with his unit in October, 1940, he
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was
president of Grand Rapids
Typographical union No. 39 and
was employed in the composing
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room of The Press .
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n oy ng a much-deserved rest period, these 75 members of J1eadquarters corupany, 126th infantry, were photographed early in
l?ebruary in Australia. These men were in the New Guinea campaign with the heroic 32nd (Red Arrow) division. ~lost of the
soldiers are from Grand Rapids and western l\llchigan.
The photograph was 1>assed by military censors. CAPT. EDWARD
J. \VOLTJER, acting major and commanding officer, is believed to
have S('nt the first copy received here to his wife at their home,
42 Pennell-rd., S. E.
First row, left to right, PFC. JESSE llIARTIN, PFC. HAROLD
\\IEINRICH, PVT. JAllIES ST. PETER, PFC. JOHN JOHNSON,
PFC, CLAUDE JIIARTIN, SGT. WILLIAM HARISHIIIIA, PFC.
l\lERLIN YOUNG, CPL. HENRY KOSTER, CPL. GERALD L,
HARVEY, PFC. GAYLORD HALL, PVT. IBA S. McKAY, PFC,
LOU B. H. FOX, SGT, JAllIES TOllIPERT, SGT. WALTER HILL,
SGT- HERBERT GARDNER, PFC. ROBERT KRUTHAUPT and
CPL, ALLAN WALTON,
Second row, PFC. LOUIS J. PELLERIN, PFC. JAMES ROBIN•
SON. PFC, JOSEPH RAVETTA, PI•'C. WALTER BAJDEK, PVT.
GEORGE FOllIIN, PFC, HARVEY IDLL, CPL. LEONARD BOLLE,
SGT. STEVEN KRAUT, CPL. THEODORE OLINGER, PFC. ORA
E. RAJIISEY, PFC. JEROME SCHULTY, CPL. RICHARD ROSS,
PFC. ROBERT DURBIN, PVT. HAROLD PAGELER, SGT. JOHN
QUAKKELAAR, CPL. MINOR EDWARDS, PFC, MAURICE
CARPENTER and PVT. l'ERD RADENSLABEN.
Third row, CPL. l ' RANCIS PLOTZKA, CPL, ELDEN ANDERSON, STAl'F SGT. STANLEY KETCHEL, SGT. ALBERT
RABASKAS, SGT. ROBERT ECKBERG, PFC. EARL DE VORMER,
PFC. JOHN J. GLOWICKI, PVT. JACK CAR)UCHAEL, PFC.
KENNETH MILLER, SGT, STUART KREGER, PVT. JOHN
PETERSON, PFC. E~DL F, PETERS, SGT. RICHARD PLATTE_,_
STAFF SGT. RICHARD NEWTON, PFC~LESTER SPADER, PFC.
MARTIN BOLT, STAFF SGT. ROY H. JURGENS and SGT.
JOSEPH SKIBA.
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}'ourth row, CAPT. J. J. SULLIVAN, IS'J' SGT. ALFRED BUSH,
STAFF SGT, BERNARD DOYLE. SGT. FERDINAN }' ICELI, SGT.
JOHN AESCHLil\lAN, PVT. RUDOLPH SOCHA, PVT. JEROllIE
KOZAK, PVT, WALTER PLASKA, PVT. HAROLD KELLY, PFC.
JOSEPH TUSCAN, PFC. JOHN l\lULVEY, P.FC, EDGAR lUcGASKILL, SGT. ANTHONY CAROWJTZ, PVT. EDWARD ZOLENSKI,
CPL. ROMAN LEIBECK, CPL. ROGER ANDERSON, CPL. GERALD
PALllIER, CPL. ROGER A. GOLDS)IITH, TECH. SGT. JOSEPH
KROLL, TECH. SGT. HERMAN STEENSTRA, l\lASTER SGT,
ABEL POTTS and Capt. Woltjer,
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Escaped I Jap Territory,
AN ADVANCED BASE IN THE just across a strait from a heavily- Little, Three Little I~dlans,.. and
SOU'l'H PACIFIC, (April 29-De- manned Jap base. Shottly after "Hallelujah, I'm & Bum."
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they were joined by Wiley, who
The natives insisted on shaving
layed) (INS)-Ten American air- had given the natives their first the Americans twice a week with
men told today how they "went news of the war. Wlley also had broken beer bottles, left long before
native" on a jungle Isle under the been active In organldng c!usc1 by Jap raiders.
nose of a big Japanese base. Dur- for native youngsters.
"They seemed very particular
about keeping us clean-shaven.''
Ing their two-months' stay, they TAUGHT ClDLDREN
said
Ruiz, ..and shaved us a hair at
drank a potent beverage designed
He passed the time teaching the
to make them invisible, organized children the alphabet and how to a time without once cutting us.
The
women seemed to prefer the
schools for native youngsters and count. and had them chant in uniwere shaved twice weekly wltQ son up to 200. Wiley also taught job, and there was nothing we
could
do but let them have their
broken beer bottles.
, them the songs, "One Little, Two
fun."
NJne of the survivors, who
reached Guadalcanal on April 16,
The boys also were introduced to
were army men, members of a
"kabong,'• a native beverage made
Flying Fortress crew shot down In
from a coral growth m1xed with
the Pacific. The tenth was a navy
palm leaves, then burned and mixed
radioman of an Avenger torpedo
with another mysterious native
plane, also shot down by Jap
liquid. This could be, and was,
plane~ whlle on patrol from an ;
used on wounds, drunk as a beverAmerican aircraft carrier.
age or used to caulk a canoe.
Tlie navy man, 21-year..old Del•
They also were introduced to
mar D. Wiley of Glenwood, Iowa.
"woofy." This waa a white powder
had been reported missing since
made by grinding the bones and
Aug. 24. He joined the nine crew
hair of a decased native noted for
members of the Fortress after
his surly nature.
they had made their way to a
"INVISABILITY" l'OWDEB
neighboring island, thinking they
The powder then was mixed
were a rescue party sent after
with "kabong." The result, the nahim.
tives believed, rendered them in66 DAYS BEFORE RESCUE
visible, thus insuring protection
The army men, who left their
against Jap planes, bullets and
sinking bomber, the "My Lovln'
other dangers.
Duck," 66 days before their rescue,
On March 27, Classen, Dorwart,
included:
Gibson, Wiley and a native skipper
Capt. Thomas J. Classen, 24:, or i
set out in a sail canoe. Thtee-andWest Depere, Wis., the pilot; Lieut, 1
a-half days later they landed on
Ernest C. Ruiz, 24, of Santa Bara Jap-.controlled island, after narbara, Cal., Lieut. Robert J. Dor-rowly escaping death when spotted
wart, 24, of North Seattle, Wash.,
by two Jap Zeros. Then enemy
Lieut. Balfour C. Gibson, 28, of
fighters ignored them, however, apBerkeley, Cal., Sergts. Donald ~parently not believing Americans
Martin, 25, of Decatur, Ill., W1II could remain undetected in the
1lam H. Nichols, 24, of Keiser, Ark.,
heart of Jap--held waters.
James H. Hunt, 21, of EfCingham.
Aided by other natives, the four
Ill., Theodore H. Edwards, 23. of
men finally reached a spot within
Burbank, Cal, and Robert J. Turnrange
of Allied patrol bombers.
bull, 27, of San Antonio, Tex.
On April 10, a navy flying boat
After 15 days on a. life raft, dur-picked
them up and flew them to
Ing which they drifted 643 mil6S,
Florida island.
the nine men staggered ashore on
A
Flying
Fortress was sent to
a coral spit, part of five islanda
supply the men who remained on
the native isle, and a few days
later a navy flying boat brought
them to Guadalcanal.
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MacArthur and Eisenhower /
Made
Knights of The Bath
s-'-'1- 'f--'
LONDON, (INS)-Klng George mand ot the troops ot the Allied
VI has honored Generals Dwight nations."
D. Eisenhower and Douglas MacGen. John J. Pershing, the Amer-
I::~~~r
I" th:y
1;:t~~g
cr~;s
m~~~mho~~~::i: ican commander-in~hief In World
order of the Bath, it was an- war I, was similarly honored in
'nounced Wednesday night.
1918, it was recalled.
If
were Britons, the two
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American war leaders w0tltd hence- time waa to Flight Lieut. Joseph
forth.. ~e ,,entitled ~o use. the prE"-- Charles McArthy of the Royal caftx
Sir. The distinction~ how~ nadlan Air force, who hails from ,
ever, does not apply to alhed n&- jLong Island, N. Y. He received th•
Uonals.
, distinguished service order tor gal,
The awards were made, ft wa.s Jant work while pa.rttcJpatln~ in
announced., in recognition of their the destruction ut the two Ru.hr
"moat valuable service, In com,. c1amo May 18.
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"Missing in action" Isn't always
quite so grim as it sounds.
From two Grand Rapids soldiers
reported ''missing in action"
in north A!rica
their families
have received
letters saying
they are prisoners or the
German army.
The soldiers
are Cpl. Tech.
Harold J. Coolsen, 29, son of
Mr, and Mrs.
Frank Coolsen,
853 Hovey-st.,
s. W., and Sgt.
Charles
DeSGT. DEJO G Jong, 26, son
of
Mr,
and
Mrs,
1
Hessel DeJong, 652 Hogan-st., S.W,
Cpl. Coolsen, attached . to an
armored force unit as a radio operator, was reported missing Feb, 14.
His Jetter is dated March 18.
Sgt. DeJong, reported missing
]n early March, aJso wrote his
letter on March 18. He was in the
artillery when captured.
Whether the men are in the same
camp is not definitely known, nor
even whether they are acquainted.
Cpl. Coolsen's letter was ':'ritten
•1o his wi!e, Joan, of 812 First-st.,
N, W. Things They Need.
Don't worry/• he wrote, "and tell
Dad liwl all the rest that I am OK.
Please send me a toothbrush,
paste, ]1andkerchiets:, face towels
and a S\veater. All that you send
will reach me."
Here is what Sgt. L'cJong wrote
liis family:
''Dear Folks: I am a prisoner of
war in Germany, We live in nice
barracks and are given plenty to
eat by the Germans and also get
packages from the Red Cross, so
you don't have a thing to worry
about. I have put on some weight
since being here. We are treated
just swell, I won't be writing any
letters to anyone except home a
couple times a month. If you don't
hear from me for a long time don't
worry because we really do have it
swell here. How is everything
there? \Vhen you write me let me
know jf my allotment money is
getting sent to you. Boy, I'll bet
little Johnny (a nephew) is getting
to be some guy by now~ I'll sure
be glad to see him again some day.
\Ve can get books to read here
from tq.e library so that is a good
way to spend the time, I read my
Testament a lot because we have
lots of time. We have church services on Sunday, which I attend.
Try and get in touch with the Red
Cross and find out about writing
me and sending me packages. I
could use tooth brush, towel, shaving- outfit, etc. By now! CHUCK."
Coolscn was employed by the
Globe Knitting works before entering service. His wife is employed
there in a department engaged in
war production. He was inducted
in February, 1941, sent to Ireland
in May last year and landed In
Africa Dec. 24,
Both Sides Censor Mail.
Sgt. DeJong was inducted :u·y
7, 1941, and received his training at
Fort Bragg, N. C., and Camp
Blanding, Fla. Last August he
went to England and was transferred to the fighting front in Africa soon after the invasion by
United States forces. He was educated at the Christian school in
Byron Center and before his u<duction was employed by Keeler
.Brass Co.
Letters from both men cami
through the m:ual channels for ex
change of mail with prisoners o
war. The Jetters bore censor
stamps of both the Germans and
the allies.
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amoto Perpetrator
T f a T .~~ ~t 2om-Page :
Hal
f Pearl Harbor ..3Attack
He came up the hard way.
was born poor, at Nagaoka, in the
northwest Japanese oil region,
B;y THURSTON MACAULEY
impression than on Yamamoto. hence learned at an early age the
International News Service
Hausofer's "geopolitics of the Pa- great value of oil to a nation that
ciflc ocean" became his Bible. was ' destined to cor ._ uer.
Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto
Geopolitics helped plan the grand I He was trained as . soldier from
will go down in hfotory as the
strategy that won Hitler most of the age of 6, and ; Jroughly inperpetrator of the sneak J apEurope. Geopolitics to Yamamoto doctrinated with th• Shinto dog- - - - - - - • - - - ~ - - • ma of Japanese raci a.l superiority.
anese air attack on Pearl
Later· Yamamoto w~nt tr $e.a in
Harbor.
windjammers. He se , red '"'aJ' an
As far back as 1915 Yamaensign
on the Mik:1sa, the flag-.to was thinking in such
ship of Admiral 'T ~go. and saw
.., me. He was ask ed whether
·
at
first
hand the defeat of the
battlesh ips or submarines
Russians in 1904 by an attack
would control the seas.
that was a perfect prrlude to the
"Neither!" he retorted. "The
shape of things to come later at
most important ship of the fu ...
Pearl Harbor. He lost two fingel's
tu:re wlH be a ship to carry --:in that war.
airplanes!"
Yamamoto could be as wily as
Then in 1934, when he was Nipthe rest of his
"untrymen. In
pon's No. 1 delegate to the LonLondon h e made f r\Pnds with Addon naval conference, Yamamoto
miral William H. .J lc. ndley of the
declared:
\\ American delegati.on and now
"We consider the aircraft carrier
United States ambassador to the
the most offensive of all armaKremlin.
ment."
DIPLOMATIC YI,cW
STARTS NAVAL RACE
In 1935 Yam , .,10;,o announced he
foresaw a "peaceful Pacific soluYamamoto was the man who
tion
in naval problems affecting
torpedoed the London padey. He
Japan and the United States."
wouldn't stick to the 5-5-3 ratio
As
late as Feb. 1938 he declared
but demanded parity with the
that "Japan will not engage in
United States. That started the
a
building
race. Instead she will
naval race. Japan went to war
build what is necessary to dewith twice as many carriers as the
f end her own shores and preserve
United States.
peace and order in the Far East."
The admITaJ, an eX}Jert flyer,
meant domination of the Pacific
However in January, 1941, YamafOt h is ideas on global war
world.
moto wrote this letter to a friend:
from the same source that in- POKER CHAMPION
· "Any time war breaks out
spired Adolf Hitler in Germany
between Japan and the United
Yamamoto had other claims to
- a German artillery officer
States I shall not be content
fame. The stocky, aggressive litnamed Karl Hausofer.
merely
to capture Guam and
Hausofer instructed Japanese tle man was poker and chess
the Philippines and occupy Ha..
champion
of
the
Japanese
fleet.
cadets between 1909 and 1912. On
waii and San Francisco.
Seo YAMAMOTO-Page U
none did he make a. more lasting
"I am lookin g forward to dictating peace to the United
States in the \Vhite House at
Washington.''
A broadcast of Darnel, official
Japanese news agency, made that
letter public on Dec. 17, 1941-10
days after Pearl Harbor.
The broadcast added that Yama, moto had written in the letter
about the "humiliation" that was
"felt by all the Japanese navy at
the time the 1934 naval disarmament conference at London
1 failed.''
: Yamamoto, who became com. mander in chief of the Japanese
· fleet in August, 1939, knew what
s - .t,.',-'r.3
~ Washington wu; like. He was naval
attache in the American capital in
the 1920s,
Because he was such a firm believer in air power, Yamamoto has
been referred to as the Billy Mitchell of Japan.
There was a difference, though,
in Yamamoto·s case. Unlike Billy
Mitchell, Yamamoto had things the
way he wanted them.
Southwest Pacific .Assembly Line
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Mass production comes to the sou thwest Pacific as American army
mechanics put war machines together in assembly line fashion at a
base "somewhere down under." A truck that was shipped in sections
is assembled h1 rush order time, while a row of heavy tires await
the rest of the vehicles they'll roll. (United States army air forc e
~hotos fro1n NEA.)
y ;;nk Flyer From China Says
l Bombin!! Japan-Will End War
It~~ 'i· 'r.'.l
-NEA Telephoto.
ADM. MINEICIIl KOGA has
succeeded to connuand of the
entire Japanese navy as the result of the death in air combat
of Ad1n. (soro"-u Yam amoto,
Jap fleet comm,nder who once;.
boasted he would dictate peace
terms fron1 the White House' t
u
New York-(JP)-You can take it from Burma; conducted a combat
from "Dude" Higgs, who knows: school for Chinese pilots; :flew
When you're flying a cargo plane such notables as Generalissimo and
without guns and a Jap Zero Mme. Chiang Kai-Shek and WenI comes along, you either hide in dell L. Willkie when the Jatter
the clouds or you leave the scene visited China on his world tour.
-but quickly.
But the most excitement in that
And you also can take it from exciting career, he said, was during
"Dude" Higgs: Flying munitions, the Hong Kong period, when he
war materiel and passengers for was ferrying as many as 80 eva~uthe last civilian airline over a war ees per trip from the city to Free
zone is far more exciting than China. Both the British and the
actuaJ aerial combat.
Japs fired on him.
,
Through 20 Air Raids.
"I was getting ack-ack from botl}.
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Capt. Frank L. Higgs of Colum- sides," he grinned. "The runwaf
bus, Ohio, back in the states for was mined and I had to bring my
a few weeks to procure lease -lend cargo plane down on a tiny strip.
planes and ferry pilots for China, That was something.
has done both. For three years he
Wants Japan Bombed.
fought the Japs in China-and the
"I'd load up at Hong Kong and
\ day after Pearl Harbor he was leave at dawn. During ...th.. day
jn Hong Kong as chief pilot of I'd stay in Chungking', ·so the Japs
the China National Aviation corpo- couldn't bomb my plane. Then I'dt
ration-the first pilot there to fly back to Hong Kong at night
evacuate civilians to Free China. for another load of passeilgers.
1 Capt. Higgs, with more than You can't possibly picture what it
' 6,000 flying hours to his credit1' was like.
I
I
experienced more than 20 air raids;
I fought in China and Burma as a
member of the American Flying
Tigers; helped evacuate the Tigers
�A IQD D9I P '9 NJ
I lhlllk abnl 70ll ofta,
I 'cl vrlte 7ft ner, cla,1',
h i there '• little thOQCII
'!bat • ee• worth vhll• \o eq.
And
It either ralu or doea 1 1 rala,
It'• el tller hot or oolcl,
The aeve 1• all ulnteree\1111
Or elH 11 1 1 all be a
told.
'l'he oal7 thlJII that •l\en,
h t he fact that 7ft are \here
And I u here w1 thcnat ;roa
And 1t
loaH OM ner, where.
I.
I thlllk about the vq 7ft nlle
tcnaoh
And clbtanoe lncle IDGhazat• al
Aacl - - - I • lH 101l Tl~ • llOh.
And recall 7ov
e Brought the Skirt from Samoa
oni Ann, 20 months, doesn't know what to make
creat big- stra nge daddy who came t.o see
from thousands of miles away a nd brough t her
rra,as skirt and shell beads from Samoa. She
only t h ree months old wh en L ieut. (Dr.) Frank
ams, 1588 W lddic~mb ave., NW., lef t fo r navy
duty. H e wooed h er with her first lee cr eam cone
but sh e's still mak in g only the sh yest ot friendly
gestures towa rd "that m an.'' I n cidentally, sh e was
just as much of a surprise to h er daddy, who
couldn't h elp picturing her stlll In swa ddling
clothes.
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More Wounded Local Soldiers Arrive
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s~r:.,.J At Percy Jones Hospital in Battle Creek
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Onf! or Tholf' Am ar.in c )lat hr ~henom en& \\'e Somf" t ime, EuC"<mnte r Applied to \\'orld \\"ar.
Erlitor Chronicl(>: ·A frif'nd or mine handed me a card the other
da)·. lt.s content i~ha~r~~\\~w~i1ler Roo~p,·elt 11 Duce
li~r
Born
Took Offic,
. 1940
1933
4
11
Years In Office -
Total
End of war
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1944,-~ ~;~~ 1~;, supreme Ruler, take the !irst letter ol each ol tne
abo,·e nRmes listed;
CHRIST!
,n:RDINAND NELSON.
757 Dale
A,,.
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Two more Grand Rapids so1diers,
casualties of the fierce campaign
against the Japs in New Gui nea,
have arrived at Percy Jones Gen•
eral hospital in Battle Crer.k, accordi ng to word from the hospital
Friday.
They are Sgt. Milton H. DeVries,
24, son of Mr. and Mrs. Homer De
Vries, 2055 Beals-rd .. S. W .. a nd
Pvt. Earl \V. Brov,rn, 23, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Victor H. Brown,
1036 White-av., N, W.
I
Sgt. DeVries was "seriously
wounded'' on Jan. 2, the day that
Buna was captured by the American forces. He was struck in the
abdomen while leadi ng a rifle
squad helping to drive the last of
the Japs from their positions along
the shore. DeVries' squad was attempting to clean out a nest of
enemy soldiers hidi ng in a landing
barge on the beach.
Ca rried and F lown Out.
Carried back from the front by
' natives, he was flown over the
, Owen Stanl ey mountains to Port
· ~
SGT. M. ff. DE VRIES.
l {;10~~1:~r j~ntu!t:~i:v~~u!t;idp~~a~ }~~~: =~:;e t:;o~i~~eh~~a~~~!~
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lyzed for a time but later recov- to an Australian hospital and only
ered use of h js legs. At Letterman t his week his parents received a
Gener al hospital in San F rancisco, letter that he had arrived in San
where he was under treatment be- Francisco. They were unaware,
fore t ransfer t o Battle Creek, he however, that he had been transreceived the decor ation of the or• ferred to Battle Creek. T hey
der of the purple hear t.
had not been informed of the m an•
A graduate of Grandvi1lc High ner in which their son was inschool in 1936, he entered the serv• jured and had not previously anice in April, 1941, a nd was as- nounced that he had been hos•
signed to the 127th infantry of the pitalized,
Red Arrows, 32nd division, with
Regarding his experience, Brown
which he went overseas a year. said: "'All that was left of my
1ater.
I truck was three pieces of tire." He
Pvt. Brown was Incapacitated was injured two months after arwhen the ammunition trurk of rival Jn New Guinea.
wh ich he was a driver was blown A former Union High sch()Ol stuup near Port Moresby by a direct dent, Pvt. Brown enlisted ln tile
bOQlb lilt from a J-,p plane. Brown national iUard In Januar_.y, 1940,
wi:11- .; lbort dlllilnce ttom th• and went with hla unit l ','O fed•
PVT. EARL W. BROWN.
eral service the following October.
In April, 1941, he was transferred
to the quartermaster battalion of
his unit. A brother, Herbert, 23,
who enterec! service last Dec. 15, 1
now is in the chemical warfare ;
service at Camp Sibert, Ala.
Another Grand Rapids guards•
man, Lt. Raymond CoUier, former
newspaper man who Jived in North
Park, also has arrived at Percy
Jones hospital for treatment of a
shoulder ailment which incapacitated him in Australia. He was in
California hospital several months
after retur n from overseas. His
wife Is night supervisor at Butterworth hospital. Lt. Collier recently
visited Hastings to see his daughter, bom after he went to Australia. The daughter Is with Mn.
Collier's parent.I there,
�GRAND RAPIDS, MICH., TUESDAY, MAY 25,
It's a Far Call From Louisiana to New Guinea!
Bully Beef
Bombardiers S-3 1-\:,
Corresponp.1mt Pays Tribute to Local Men for ,;
Herofo Service of Supply in Papua
WJ1en t h e regimen t goes in to action the band goes, too, fighting
and work ing alongside t he others. Wh en Chief Warrant Officer Oscar
E. K u tsch inski of Grand Rapids, in charg e of the ba nd of t h e 126th
infantr y, got 10 of h is men t ogeth er in New Guinea h e photo graphed
them (up per picture) "to show the folks back home h ow t h ey look
aft er a f ew m onth s of jungle life." S tanding, le~t t o right, SGT.
CHARLES R. BERRY, Graml Rapids; P FC. RALPH FREEMAN,
Gran d Rapids; CPL. N ORl\IAN BER RA, Saginaw; P FC. KENNErH
COLYER, Blissfield ; Pl•~C. D E AN COOK, Tipton; kneeling, le.ft to
r ight, CPL. FLOYD J OHNSON, Grand Rapids; TECH . SGT. GLENN
J OHNSON, Gran d Rapids; PFC. H AR OLD GREEN, East l\Ioli.ne, Ill.;
PFC. IRWIN H UFF, Grand R apids; CPL. R OBERT M. SCHADE,
Gr and Ra1>ids. I n the lower picture buglers fr om th e 126th band a re
sh own at pr~cHce while the regiment was in · basic t raining at Ca,np
Livingston, La., in December, 194.l. rndt!'.r g-uidancr. of U-.e chief
cornetist, SGT. CHARLES , l. MZRCY",, w ith MR. KUTCHINSKI
look init on, the trumpeters are, left to r ight, PVTS. E D\VARD \ V.
F RANTZ, EDWARD J. VAN TASSEi{, R OBERT P. ROOSIEN, ,
WILLIA~I H. GROTERS, LYLE J . BIESCHKE and ESTELL J ONES,
all except VanTassek from Grand Rapids. Van Tassek's h ome is in
H olland.
Memorial day brought with it
the first detailed story of the large
part Michigan and Grand Rapids
men played in delivering life-ordeath supplies to their comrades in
the thick of the fighting in New
Guinea's jungles last fall and winter when victory over the Japs
was still a long way ahead.
/ there
The saga of the "Bully Beef
Bombardiers" is told by Robert J.
Doyle, a special correspondent for
several
American
newspapers.
They got that name from the battling infantrymen who kept an
alert eye skyward to keep from
being hit by the welcome cases
of food and ammunition kicked
from circling transport planes.
Air supply of the troops had to
be resorted to beginning in September, when 1.he Red Arrow division was hurried to New Guinea
by ship and ai r to ~em the advancing Jap tide on Port Moresby.
So difficult was the terraili of
troops crossing the Ow n Stanley
mountain range that ·hey could
not carry their own SUf' )lies.
B an dsmen Forget Horns.
For two months, men gathering,
loading and delivering supplies to
the jungle troops toiled night and
day, sometimes dropping from
sheer exhaustion. Bandsmen of
the old Grand Rapids national
guard unit were among the foremost of these workers. With them
worked clerks, administrative and
finance officers and a· illerymen
not otherwise occupieL
Mentioned ~pcciaIIy · the correspondent for their st. ... lwart ef- )
forts in seeing to it that men at
the fighting front got what they '
needed were Maj. Harry Menclewski, 825 Aberdeen-st., S. E., who
was then a special services officer
and was plane-loading boss; Maj.
Clarence Schnipke, 641 Lambertpl., who directed ordnance supply;
Capt. Kenneth Thomas. 705 Watkins-st., S. E.; Chief Warrant Officer
Oscar
E.
Kutschinski,
formerly 1908 Wilcox Park-dr.,
S. E., bandmaster, and \';.-~ rant
Officer Amos Gill, 958 Bates-st.,
S. E., who was transportation of-
ficer.
To these men and their ai
fell the terrific task of fil
"urgent," "most urgei, H
''super-priority'' requests
from the front. Some
;=~~te~~)
~!~edi~n~~~t 1
what plf:ir e,s, would
It was .up to them
and transport- to the la:
the supplies 0-fa~r ed_.
for the first flights a•
and night they ate when t~
a chance. No semblance of 1
meal hours was attempted.
was foresaken until exhr,
compelled a halt.
T he P arachute Probler
It was a Grand Rapids man1
solved one of the toughest l
lems ln the early phase of
operation. Folding of parach
to float the supply loads to •
stumped the supply men
they discovered that Sgt.
Slaughter of Grand Rapids
a former professional para1
jumper. He taught the other~
trick of parachute folding.
Pilots, working in a fre
xecitement, grabbed a sani
in between times and ~
many as five round trips
1,000 miles or more in al
out rest.
"Red Arrow division sold1t.
some pioneering in the a
well as on the ground in Pa
the correspondent concludes1
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am relaying to the readers o[ this
column a poetic comment on
~trikes In war industries written
by one of our bo}s now in New
Guinea and relayed to me hy a
fri~nd al!!o in the ~erdct' there:
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D0!:GHBO\' TO JOHX L. LEWIS
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IRTLER
rm
Lieut. ,Tame111 Martin Mcinerney (left), who was
commissioned Jn the marine air force recently, and
Maj. RobeJ't w. Zant, his Jone-time pal, who has
Just returned from 10 months • pent helping bomb
full of damned malaria,
I !-hake the whole day long,
The quinine's ringing in my ears,
I'm anything but strong,
Mosquito biles all over me,
You'd think I had "the ilch,''
My cars arc full a ''Guinea mud ,"
My hunk-a muddy ditch!
Rommel lnt.o a nervous breakdown, got together
Monday for the ftnt time Jn many months and
twirled the globe to try and guess where orden
would take them when their present leaves are up.
I'm li\'lng in a jungle.
a bomber, Maj. Zant said, and
FLYING FRIENDS MEET HERE ON LEAVE
much about It."
Lots
1
0ne Saw Baffle in Egypt,
Other Awaits first fight
It's hot as merry he11,
"C'' ration is my menu,
No cookin)it can I smell,
For thi!5 I _get two bucks a day,
Anci a chftnce for a 1itt1e ground
That measures four by six by four,
And a co\·ercd grassy mound.
"lou get so you don't think
of
fu nny
things
happen
I when you're !lying, Maj. Zant as-
sured Lieut. Mcinerney and then
told about his personal "biggest
sc~re" o! the whole African cam' paign.
His outfit was rPlurning from a
Maj. Robert W. Zant of the ar~"""?.1 SUPPORTED MONTGOMERY
' flight to Greece, he said and the
air corps, who received bis majority
There his outft.t was aulgned to I ship had attained high altitude
1 I;° ;:'~~i:•i:i:~~!
:. w:e~~::.,;fter
E
t
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My pal who came down here
the support of the Eighth army un- 1 when a terriflc exploislon occurred
c:::l~; w:; ~om:;,~~~~~!d ino t~e; , .reaching Rommel.
Reconnaissance happened?" his crew asked Zant.
kept the watch, told :where the KEEP GOING
supplies were to be located and
"I don't know," the captain told
the Americans, flying Liberator• them, gritting his teeth, "but we're
which had a greater range than still flying. Let's keep going."
any British ship• that were avallNot knowing what terrific injury
able during the first months of the the ship might have suffered, the
campaign, bombed the ships indl• pilot "kept goin•g." The ship, micated to them at na and harbor raculous to relate, responded norand dock Jnata1latton1.
maJly and he }anded. Then he and
For . the first ftve months of hl• the rest oC the crew made their
duty in Egypt Maj. Zant wu a j way warily to the cockpit where,
pilot aDd flight leader an~ for the by the sound, the damage had
second flve months operations offt-, taken place.
cer.
It was damage all right-! Just \
Last Jan. l, he received the
before the ship began to climb,
Dlst.lngulshed Ftylng Crou for
somebody had placed a can of
"meritorious achlevem:nt and
beans on the heater. Then the ship
The major and the lieutenant
conspicuous leadership and at
went up, the air J>ressure on the
have been friends most of their
~e
:,me the alr medal.
\ outside altered and there was steam
lives. Both are Catholic Central
1
ur
ng
is
service
in
·
Afr
ca
l
inside that can.
alumni, Maj. Zant graduating in
Maj. Zant was for three months
"The can literally dlsinte1935 and Lieut. Mcinerney in 1937. in the deaert, where terrific heat
crated," said the major. "There
Maj. Z&nt i• the son of Mrs. was less a problem than the conwere beans all over the cockRudolph, zant of 2115 t.eonard st., slant gales of sand. Water supply
pit and the one man who waa
NW., ana Lieut. Mcinerney the was so limited that he could write
In there was covered with
son ol Mr. and Mrs. James L. Mc- home triumphantly, "I feel finebeans and tomato sauce--othinerney of 516 College ave., SE.
just had a bath and a. shave in two
erwtse there were no casual.A week ago Maj. Zant wa.a in quarts ot water. Things are lookties."
Cairo. He left (by air) the day i~:t.~P· Last week I had only a
Lieut. Mcinerney, listening eagerafter the triumphant finish of the
ly to his friend's flying yarns, deP
Tunisian campaign.
CHASED "VABSITY"
, clared vigorously that "the air ts
Hlo ontftt didn't ret Into TuHe speaks casually or !lights to It the only thing," and then grinned
nl•la to apeak of, but they had
Greece and Italy, tells bow his out- to look back on his own younger
a job which may have been •
flt chased what they fondly termed pelt. When Bob Zant was learning
con•lderable factor In slvlnr
the "varsity" crew of German antl- flying in 1939, it seems, young McRommel that nervo119 breakaircratt gunners from Tobruk lnerney declared hie friend wu
down of which we now hear.
to ItaJy. The Americans grew "crazy.'"
Maj. Zant went to Egypt las~ clear
accustomed to flying through antiNow nobody ts more alr-mtnded
July. In his senior year at Michiaircraft
fire that blackened the sky than Lieut. Mcinerney.
gan State, where he was graduated,
with smoke like the approach of a
Mcinerney entered Notre Dame
in 1939, he took up flying and be- heavY thunderstorm. Casualties, university after his graduation
came an aviation entbuala1t. FolMaj. Zant says, were few, but there from Catholic ~entral but tn 1939
lowing hts graduation from colle&e was one outfit of Germans whose returned to go mto the Mclnerney
he was employed here by the International Harvester company but fire was so accurate that the Amer- Spring and Wire company with hts
\ 1cans dubbed them the varsity, father when ft.re destroyed their
enlisted in the army air corp•
k former plant.
April 25, 1941, and, after tralnlnii and ~eheved they traced th 1I crac
During the first halt of 1942 he
at Stanford, Tex.. Randolph ft.eld
outft.t II successive. stands clear was tn Washington with the ship-\
and Brooks fleld, was commlsstoned
acroH Africa and into Italy.
building branch of the war produca. second lieutenant Dec. 12, 194.1,
Only a direct hit of anti.Uon board and on June 1, 1942, enand u • igned to heavy bombing.
aircraft fire ls effectlvf! f.Calnei
listed in the marine air force. He
He waa stationed at Barksdale
See FlUEND-PIIP 11
took his pre-flight training at Athfteld, La., and Ft. Myers, Fla., beens, Ga., and his basic training at
Anacoata and was then ordered to
fore belnl' sent to Egypt.
Corpus Christi where be has Just ,
received his commission in the marine corps reserve.
marine air force, got together·
Monday tor the first time lh many
months to swap stories of the air.
The agE's of the two young men
total under 50 for Zant 111 a major
at the Hrlpe old age" of 26, and
Lieut. Mcinerney ts three years his
junior. Both are here on leave,
having arrived the past week.end.
Maj. Zant is unassigned, awaitIng orders from Washington. Lieut.
Mcinerney is to report back to
Corpus Christi, Tex., where he was
commissioned May 1.
LIFELONG FRIENDS
The lad was just eighteen,
.(;ot him a bed he'll never 1ea\·e,
The coverlet is green.
Another one wilt see no more-,
Another lost an arm,
And hundreds more I do not kno,11,•.
Are now safe from all harm!
I
f'me
I
with '
me.
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d ht
i
der Gen Montgomery Their or- somewhere gn the bomber.
ti • Ma 8 econd ; eut. den we;e to keep .,;ppllea from
"What happened, captain, what
J as • a~
.
I
But when I hear a bunch of guys,
Are sa fe and far away,
Refuse to work because they want
Two dollars more a day,
r only wish we had them her~.
For just a week or two,
To Jh·c In •'Guinea jungle~·•
And there we'd let them stew.
Hitler called the Devil upon the
phone, one day.
The girl at central listened to all
they had to say.
"Hello," she heard Hitler say, ••11
ole man Satan home?
Just tell him it's the Dictator who
wants him on the phone.'•
The Devil said, 1'Howdy," and Hlt•
ler, "How are you?
I'm running hell here on Earth ao
tell me what to do"
'
"What can I do,'' the Devil said,
unear old Pal of mine?
It seems you don't need any 'belp
you're doing mighty fine.';:.
a while ago
When a man named Roosevelt
wired me to go slow.
He said, 'Dear Hitler, we won't
want to be unkind
But you've raised hen' enough, 80
~~d.~'ad better change you
"I thought his lease lend was a
bluff and could never get It
through.
But he just put me on a spot,
when he showed what he could
do.
Now, that's why I called yo
Satan, I need advfce from you.
For I know that you will tell me,
Just what I ought to do."
"My
dear Hitler,
there
lad,
ter for you than it is in hell.
I have been a mean old Devil, but
not half as mean as you.
So t~e ~lnute you get here, the
Job 1s yours to do.
1
11
1'11 be re~dy for your coming,
and I will keep the fire bright.
And I'll have your room nljdy
when Sam begins tl> fight_ '
For I see your days are numbered
.
I
and there's nothing left to tell,
So hang up the phone, get on youi'
hat, and meet me here In
hell!"
PVT. CECIEL JEMRINGS.
Base Hospital, Ward 520
Camp Robinson, Arkansas.
bet this guy would
enough,
At home- he'd gladly stay.
No strikc-s. he'd start right soon :
again.
For "t\\'0 more b~cks a day!"
AGNES BALCAVAGE.
282 ~-f'bster Ave.
Is not
much left to tell
For Uncle Sam will 'make It hot•
Fr,.-r. North, South, \Vest and
~st.
\Vf''d make them sleep in fqx holes,
\Ve'rl feed them from a can,
\Ve'd !Pt a hot sun blister them,
'Twoul<l he no "Palm Beach tan!"
\V e'rl lrt 1hem hear the wounded
moan.
\Ve'd let 1hem see them die,
\Vith ~nipcn' bullets whizzing by,
And star shells in the sky.
An~. then we'd send them home
again.
. To their ten buck a dav.
To tell others what the):'d seen,
\Vay down New Guinea wa;y.
'
"Yes, I wa,s doing very well until
We'd give thflm all malaria,
Let mosquitoes have a feast,
We'd make them bury many a
I'll
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�CH.,
TUEsbAY,
MAY 18, 1943
HOSPITAL SHIP SUNK
IS PLACED AT 2991
Mercy Craft Torpedoed
Deliberately; 64 Saved
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MacArthur Scores 'Savagery'
in Loss of Australian Vessel
UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA
(Tuesday) (INS)-Sinking of the Australian hospital ship Cen•
taur by a Japanese submarine with the loss of 299 lives wal
disclosed Monday by Gen. ·Douglas MacArthur's headquarters.
The 3,220-ton mercy vessel, it was revealed, was torpedoed
and sunk Friday about 40 miles east of Brisbane. Only 64 aboard
the doomed craft survived.
The Centaur, its Red Cross fully illuminated, was attacked
without warning in the most disastrous tragedy in Australian
, maritime history.
Ablaze its entire length after
, the torpedo exploded her fuel
tanks. the Centaur sank within
three minutes.
Survivors,
among whom sharks took a
heavy toll, were picked up by
an Allied vessel.
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SCORES "SAVAGERY"
General MacArthur, commentin&'
on the unnecessary sinking, deplored it as an act of cruelty
and scored what he bitterly called
the "limitless - savagery" of "ihe Australian nurses,~f whom only
"Northeastern sector:
Japs. He warned the Japs that one was known to have survived.
"Gasmata: Our medium ai:id
1 Sinking of the Centaur in an :un- heavy bombet·s attacked the airtheir sa'.'agery :wm. not h~lt th:
Allied drive to "mev1table victory. precedented display of barbarism drome, destroying an enemy bomb"I cannot express the revul•
shocked Allied leaders in Australia er caught on the ground an~ carsslon I feel at this unnecessary
who asserted that it was impossible ing numerous expl~sions m he
act of cruelty," MacArthur
the Japs could have mistaken the · supply dump and dispersal areas.
said. "It's limitless savagery
vessel's identity , with its clearly I "Cape Gloucester: Our heavy ~erepresents the continuation of
lighted crosses.
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\ connaissance units bombed th e aira calculated attempt to create
It was believed the first t~me in I <_!.rome.
a sense of trepidation through
this war that any mercy ship had "SLIGHT DAMAGE"
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the practice of horrorg debeen deliberately torpedoed.
, "New Guinea-W~u: Twenty-two
signed to shock normal sensl•
BOMBING RAIDS
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Torpedoing of t~e Centaur and fighters, bombed the a1rdrome,
·'The brutal excesses of the
the great loss: of hfe among nonausing slight damage and casualPhili11pine campaign, the execu•
combatants was included in the ~.1 es
tion of our captured atrmen,
noon communique from Gene;al
41 .Australia: At 0410 on 14/5 (4_:10
the barba.rltY of Papua are all
MacArthurs' head4uarters, which
May l-!) an enemy submarine
of a. pattern. The enemy does
also announced .raids by Allied ~;l~~doed and sank witho:1t war-?-not understand; he apparently
bombers on Jap airdromes at Gas- ing the Australian hospita~ ship
• cannot understand, that our in•
mata and Cape Gloucester, New Centaur 40 miles east of Brisbane ,
vincible strength is n9t so
Britain.
bile en route from Sydney to New \
much of the body as it is \-..f the
Text of the commu_nique:
~uinea. The vessel was tra~eling
soul and rises with adversity.
"Northwestern sector.
t d was f.ully illuminated
fa~'!!e u:,;!, ~{;:ss fo:f" bl=!,~ ~
"Dutch New <?uinea-Nappl post~ ~::s:~r~;d with a Red Cros~ ~nd
Three enemy aircraft bo'mbed an
was compiying with all prov1s1ons
Its light of mercy will but
strafed the area.
f . t
ational law governing hosshine the brighter on our way
i'Timor-Koepang: One of our o. in er~
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0 war.
to inevitable victory."
me1iium units attacked Penfoei air- p1tal ships m time f clear and
Allied fliers were infuriated at, drome starting fires.
"The weather was
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"Ba;ique: Our medium units visibility excellent .. T~~ ;:;:el mi~raids on the Jap-held base at Ra- bombed the enemy-occupied town, sized and san~
Of the 363
haul, they have deliberately re- starting fires.
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. and medical
trained from dropping bombs on a
"Dili: one of our medium units members o:f the cre~oard 64 were
big Jap hospital ship permane~tly bombed the airdrome.
staff and nurs~s on
re 'iost The
moored in the harbor, even making
uKai Islands _ Langgoer: Our resc~ed. Remainder w:nem • subsure that their missiles did not long l'.ange fight~rs attacked the surv.1vors ~aw th0 ·tl afrer the
drop anywhere near the enemy airdrome destroying three enemy marme smface shot Y
vessel.
fighters ~n the ground.
1 attack."
OBSERVED REGULATIONS
The Centaur converted to a hospital s)lip thi; year, was making
her second trip to New Guinea, observing all international regula•
tions when sunk.
Sh~ was loaded with medical
personnel. Among them were 12
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'llh.n the days ere cold• dl d HG keep 7r,o. WI.T'II .
Did He spa.re 700. ho slck:ncas. l onliness. tear.
And remind y
er.eh ieht to pra,.v t o Hill. ear.
Ilid He bring your ahip t o its destined Port.
l t .out aey tr oubles or~ aort .
I~ 70 •re vherG it ' s hot, vc s it cool ar todt11,
And t he \nMJcta. the e;eZ'IIIII. has Re ltcpt them •wat•
• He gi ven 7 at~h for t he dqa ahead,
fo ca:r17 700. thro~ t.he *Hell• yoo. dread.
And brlng you ~ck to your friends and to 119,
Just yaur 11a11e d r aelt, f or all that :-011•11 ••••
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teheil ovt;r you.
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Eighty-Fifth Year
Muskegon, Michigan, Saturday, July 18, 1942
ASSOCIATED PRESS
EDS' LINK TO MIDDLE EAST IS
As Japs Staged Reception for Convoy at New Guinea
Almost obscured by bomb bursts is t his United Nations' ship lying at Port Moresby, New Guinea,
aiter arrival in convoy of troops and supplies. Japs raided harbor before ships could be unloaded.
Tr~ps and stevedores run for shelter as an air raid alarm in~rrupts their work of unloading re
centl!if arrived convoy ships at Port Moresby, New Gu inea.
"~,~'\ Hitler Youth Writes Hatred of Naz_i, Bestiality
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Allied Headquarters, Al giers,
Jan. 3.- (JP) -Allied headquarters
tod ay r eleased a diary of a former
storm troo_p leader in the Hitler
youth movement captured in ItalJ'.
which showed that the young Nazi
had had a complete change of
heart after less than a )ear of
I fightmg.
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h diar
as re~
Extracts from t e
Y{ncluded
leased by headquarters,
thcs~an 15, 1943-' What excite•
ment. My first day as a real
sol dier."
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man. All this retreating doe s
odd."
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not agree with m e."
Feb. 15, 1943-"Gradually 1
On Dec. 22, the day before 1his
am beginning to feel myse"lf a
capture, the official -statement
real soldier."
said, the following \vas found) in
There followed a long , poem his diary:
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about the armored grenadiers. In
''Yesterday rn_ght. dunn~ ~6i_·
September, the ex-storm t roop ; treat, I br.oke fmal ly ~nd ine ·
leader came to Italy. and in Novocably with my old hfe. Gonevember the tone of the diary
are all the old va lues, all that.
changed. There were references to
was precious to me. In .my
the weight of .. Tommy's artillery
soul only one thi1~g. remams,
! fi re" and the number of German
hatred for the besllahty of th,e
casualties.
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German army. For at last on\!
Then in December tl1ere was
is human.
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this notation:
"\Vhat have we to flgh~ for
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Everyone cursed the Nazi go~-
ernment but few have the
courage to run against it.
Why? Because brutality 8.nd
the pov,;er of oppression are
still strong. If only the opportunity offered, I would help
strPngthen 'the thousands who
long for the day of the final
collapse. :x x x If I e\·er survive to leave the front alive at
least I shall haYe seen through
the tawdry facade of N azi politics, I shall know the points at
which the Nazis are weakest.
x x x Why was I born a Ger•
man ? I feel myself alwaj'S a
slave."
�..:ontnbutton.. muat oe •ISINO D)'
«ttll addrlH, ,'(m.lteCI to aeYen lour-lbN
tanzas or equ1vaJu1t.
Memarlal cs abltnot e::cepted.)
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1Listen, all you
BIG STRIKE
children, to ~·our
story for tonight.
Now the Army, the Marine Corps
and the Navy went on strike.
'Twas long .before you children
ever saw the light of day
That the men who fight for free, dom went on strike for higher
pay.
The Japs had bombed Pearl Har".
bor and the struggle had begun
'Tween the forces of Old Glory and
yellow Rising Sun.
The yellow men took Guam and
Wake, Manila bowed its head, 1
And then Bataan was covered with
the mangled, bloody dead.
MacArthur's boys were straining
in a bitter fight for life,
When news from home came to 1
them of another kind of strike. I
"Another Plant is Closed"; ''Two
Thousand Men Lay Down Their
Tools.''
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"Shorter Hours, Longer Pay; We 1
Are Not a Bunth of Fools."
"And nor are we!" the soldiers
said. "our hours are too long,''
"We don't get paid for overtime to
save that silly throng."
"And ,.. -hen a Jap is standing with
a bayonet at your throat,
Just tell him thaL the whistle blew
and he might see the joke.
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The Navy joined the chorus •and
gob was heard Lo say:
"\1/e might as well knock off now.
"We've earned our monthly pay."·
And then the bearded leatherneck
turned slowly on his heel;
"I'll tell you. boys, let's go home,·
if that's the way they feel.''
"Since this. fight is just for money,
my life's worth more than that,
So let's go where the jobs are
soft, and leave this damn war
flat.''
So all the boys went trooping oft
to find a safer place,
They thought it best to save their
skin, instead of "saving face".]
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And soon the Japs i1waded this
land of brave and free, ,
The strikers ha<l to quit their
strike, these maniacs to flee.
Towns v,:cre burned and pillaged
and all put to sword;
The wives and mothers ravaged~
by this im·ading horde.
IBabies, torn from mother's arms,
were murdered everywhere.
But the Army, the Marine Corps.
aJlSl the Na,-y didn't care,
, For they were far away from
home and couldn't sec this sight,
With mo,ney, wine and women, .
they enjoyed their turn to strike. ,
Now this is just a stor)', don't believe a word I say,
If these brave boys had gone on
: strike, you'd not bo here today.
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Aussies string barbed wire along their beaches as the hordes of Nippon draw near for their inva ..
&ion attempt against American bolstered defenders.
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When Japs Raid
Bataan I--J;ospital
As Japs Saw U. S. Surrender at Corregidor
Soldiers, D o c t o r s,
Nurses Victims; Surgeon in Midst of
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-(Delayed)-Shortly before 10 a.
m. Tuesday three heavy Japanese
bombers ...unloaded big bombs o~ a ,
base hospital on Bataan, scoring i
direct hits on exposed wards and I
woundtcg numerous soldiers1 doctors and nurses.
Weary, grim Filipino and Ame.r- j
ican soldiers, wounded in the bitter
front-line
fighting,
were
\embed out of their hospital beds.
Only recently Japanese planes '
dropped stick bombs on the h?spital base, clearly marked by w.hite
sheets forming crosses. Amencan
protests drew an apology from ~he
Japanese high command at Mamla,
which calJ.ed it unintenUonal.
Edwin R. Nelson of Huntingt?n,
W. Va.. who had been work~ng
night and day in the opera~mg
room treating wounded sold1~rs,
was in the midst of an amputat~on.
The patient was under a sp~nal.
anaesthetic, and Nelson'~ at~es
were trying to comfort him with
assurance that the bombers were
a safe distance away.
A bomb struck the ward, and the
' surgeon and his staf.f dropped to
the floor. The operatmg room was
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resumed the operation, though his
instruments and gloves were no ;
longer sterile.
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Through it all the patient neve1
complained, although the anaesthetic had worn off.
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Nelson described the bombing as
!, a "nightmare I never want to see
ag~~l;:nts in triple-tier beds ,~ere
scattered about like toy soldiers.
Doctors and nurses sought . frantically to restore _order' calm th_e
hysterical, give aid where poss1.·
ble, sometimes operate on the spot.
(Buddy's poem submitted by}
SERGT. JACK ROBINSON.
Grand Haven,
(Somewhere in N. A[rica.)
On the eve of the anniversary of the fall of Corregidor, this photo of brave, but outnumbered
American troops, hands raised in &urrender as they yielded the island fortress, was released by the
U. S. war department. It is from a Jap film released to News of the Day Newsreel by OWi. Corregidor !ell May 6, 1942.
(NEA Telephoto.)
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By MARK FOOTE
Chronicle Staff Corre:spondent
Washington, Sept. 19. - Friday,
Sept. 18, 11 years ago the idealis-
tic nations, now known as the
United Nations, gave the green
light to the outlaw nations which
resultec! in World War II. President Hoover and then Secretary of State Henry L. Stimson moved
heaven and earth to get them to
join the United States in sending
a fleet to prevent Japan stealing
Manchuria from China. But Great
Britain, especially, was not interested.
Result, the world is now plunged
into the most frightful war in all
history. If Japan could steal Manchuria, Hitler could do away with
the German republic; - Mullolini
could grab Ethiopia; the Nazis
could scrap the Versailles treaty,
reoccupy the Rhineland, annex
Austria a11d the Sudetenland and
invade Poland.
Friday was the eleventh anniversary of the so-called "Manchurian incident."
Two forces
were then competing for control of
Japan. One was a group of Hberal
business m~m, statesmen and dip. lornats and the other was a medieval-minded military clique which
did not hesitate at murder to accomplish its ends.
The military caste started the
ball rolling by dynamiting the
track of the Japanese-owned South
Manchurian railroad, near Mukden.
Manchuria was then a part of
China. The explosion did less than
$100 worth of damage, but the
Japanese promptly blamed it on
the Chinese and held them responsible. Using this as a pretext, the
Japs marched into Mukden.
Japs \Vere Fearful
History shows, 11,pwever, that the
Japs were fearful that the powers
would intervene. So they proceeded with great caution. The Jap
army did not immediately go barging around all over the map. On
the contrary, after occupying Mukden and a few other strategic ·
JJofnts along the railway line,
Tokyo announced to the world
that Japan's intentions were strictly limited. They only wanted to
preserve order and protect their
property interests in Manchuria.
If China would stop depredations,
the troops would be promptly
withdrawn to the railway zone.
It was made eminently clear
that Japan was afraid she might
get into trouble with the great
powers. Both Japan and China fit
the time were members of the ~
League of Nations. Both were sig~
natories of the Kellogg pact to
outlaw war. and the nine _poJ..ver
t-reaty- !or preser ving peace in the
Pacific. 'l'he United States also 1
was a signatory of the Kellogg I
pact and the nine power treaty.
But having taken the first halting step in world aggression, Japan
stopped to get the reaction. Nothing happened. The council of the
League of Nations at Geneva took
notice of the event. So did the
United States which was not a
member of the League of Nations.
But nothing came of it. So the
Japs advanced another step and
stopped afI-in to wait develop•
ments. Still the great powers
failed to !lH.
U. S. Sought Action
Alone of all the great powers,
the United States, standing outth
~iis~d ~r~s~f ueac~fon~ a t~~~si~;1~l \
Hoover and Secretary of State
Stimson, both of whom had a
world outlook, were increasingly
anxious. They agreed that the
time had come to invoke the Nine
Power treaty.
The American
fleet, then three times as powerful
as the Japanese Navy, had been
holding maneuvers off our west
coast. It was ordered to stand by
at Hawaii.
President Hoover suggested to 1
Stimson that he put the matter up
to the British foreign minister,
Sir John Simon on the Transatlantic telephone.
Britain was
asked to join the United States in
calling Japan to terms under the
Nine Power treaty. Sir John hes•
itated. Secretary Stimson called
him again the next day. Still Sir
John procrastinated and made excuses. Four times in all on successive days Stimson urged Sir John
to action, but he remained noncommittal. So finally the whole
thing was dropped.
All the time the Japanese war
clique was standing by to see
whether there would be a protest
backed by a little force. Japan was
not ready for a world war 11 years
ago. Gradually realization came
that nothing would be done. Soon
Japan swallowed the whole of
Manchuria, set up a puppet gov•
ernment called Manchukuo. This
was the beginning and the prelude
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Shouldering their barracks bags, a contingent of United States troops piles ashore from the
Liberty ship which took them to Port Moresby, Allied base in New Guinea now in the spotlight in the war in the southwestern Pacific. They are welcomed by campaign-hatted Australian
troops.
Vital Objective in Jap Drive on Australia
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This down•at-the-heels place is Port Moresby on the southern coast of New Guinea island across
from the
ea. st tip of Australia. This town is believed a Japanese objective to be take:q.. before
a full-scale , assault on Australia.
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in the Stamping Plant, has been.
employed at Hayes continuously
since May 20, 1918. He is married, ·
the father of seven children and
DICK PLA'I.TE
Coral Sea
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tropical New Guinea resembles a great turkey with
I~itsOUTLINE,
head ·lowered to keep from bumping the equator. One of the
least penetrated areas in the world, it served as a 1,500-mile barrier
that stopped the Jap sweep toward Australia. Fighting of the last
two years (Yanks and Australians against the Japs) has been limited
to the tail and back of the New Guinea "bird." At right, native
carriers help soldiers transport supplies to the front in tropical
New Guinea.
ACME PHOTO.
the gra:,dfather of four. He has
three sons in service: Sgt. Richard,
who served with the 126th in New
Guinea; Pfc. Herbert in Panama,
and Pfc. Gerard with the U. S.
Marines, somewhere in the south- 1
west Pacific.
Dick says, 11Hayes must be a.
pretty good place to work; look.
how long I've been here, and I
hope to die in harness."
We hope, Dick, that you will be
here a long time yet and that you
will contbue to be as va1uable and
well-liked as you are now.
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By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS of the day on the brilliant Papuan
In the far-off jungles of New campaign. singled out several offiGuinea the fighting men of the cers for citations and then went
Reci. Arrow division-which Mich- on to say:
igan likes to call it,; own-have
"The magni!icent conduct of the
kept the faith with their heroic troops and elements of this com-·
predecessors of Europe" battle-- mand, operating under difficulties
fields in the First World war.
rarely if ever surpassed in a camAn eloquent testimonial from paign, has earned my highest
General Douglas MacArthur to his praise and commendation. In spite
Allied forces in New Guinea, which of inadequate means in many
include the 32nd, or Red Arrow, categories, their resourcefulness
division, made that conclusion un• and their adaptability have promistakably clear today.
duced a self reliance that has
"Magnificent con.&tct,"
"skil1 overcome all handicaps and deand courage" ana "indomitable ficiencies.
will 11 were some of General Mac
"Through the skill and courage
Arthur's expressions in extending and indomitable will for victory,
his "highest praise and commenda• they have defeated a bold and ag•
tion" to h1s command for winning gressive
enemy
possessing a
the Papauan campaign in eastern marked superiority of resources
New Guinea.
and potentialities in areas of
The 32nd division is composed campaign and combat.
to great extent of Michigan and
.. While all ground troops have
Wisconsin men. There are many performed admirably, elements of
thousands of M1ch1gan soldiers 1n the sixth and seventh Australian
its ranks.
d1v1smns, of the 32nd and 41st
IJJ the last war the Red Arrow Umted States d1vis10ns, the Sixth
distinguished itself at Chateau mdependent commando unit, moun•
Thierry and durmg campaigns of tam artillery batteries of the FJrst
the ~arne and the Argonne. When Australian. c?~ps, squadro~s of the
soldiers from the Red Arrow en- armored d1v1s1on (Australian) and
tered Alsace in May of rn,tS, they native Papuan earners have been
were the first of the Amencanlespec1ally prominent.
armed forces to set foot on Ger•
"To the American Fifth Air
man soil.
Force and the Royal Austrahan
General Mac Arthur, in an order Air Force, no commendation could
sea constituted the keystone upon
which the whole arch of the cam•
paign was erected. They have set
new horizons for the air conduct
O OrCeS It
of the war.
"To Almighty God, I give thanks
for that guidance which has
brought us to this success in our
great crusade His is the honor
WhiJe General MacArthur the power and the glory forever'
did not name specifically the Amen.
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"elements" of the various di(Sjgned)
visions he cited for valor in
"Douglas MacArthur, General
New Guinea, more thari 100 U. S. A'tmy Commander•in•Chief."
Greater Muskegon men are
General MacArthur awarded the
serving with Company G, 126th Distinguished ServiCe Cross to the
Infantry. 32nd Division, in New Allied land commander, General
Guinea.
Sir Thomas Blarney, and to Lieut.
They marched down \Vestern Gen. Robert L. Eichelberger. comavenue to the Pere Marquette mander of the American troops in
station Oct. 25. 1940 and went Papua.
to Camp Beauregard, La.. when
For
"extraordinary
courage,
the United States was only in marked efficiency and precise
the preparedness phase of the execution of operation" the fol·
global war.
110,ving officers were cited:
They are carrymg on the I Lieut. Gen. George c. Kenney,
tradition set for them "by Com- rommander of the Alhed A;r
pany G of the first World war, lorces; Lieut. Gen. Edmund Fran•
when 17 of their number were c1s Herring, Australian field com•
killed m action and many re• mander· Major General Richard
ceivt=-d decorations for bravery K. Sutherland, chief of staff, genin France.
eral headquarters of the South
,__ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _...J ac1fic area; MaJor General George
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Allen Vasey, Austrahan field com•
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ieir outstan mg mander; Brig. Gen. Charles A.
efforts rn combat, m supply and m Willoughby, U.S.A., chief of intel•
transportation over both land and Jigence; Brig. Gen. Ennis C. White-
Muskegon Unit
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By MacArthur
head and Brig. Gen. Kenneth
Walker, American Air Force commanders; AuStralian Brigadiers F.
G. Wootten and Kenneth Eather,
and Australian group Captain Wil·
liam Garing.
--Detroit, Jan .. ~--:-(}P)-The 32nd
(Red Arrow) dIVJSJ.on was formed
on July 18. 1917, three mon ths
after the United States entered
World War I., but long b.efore that
Michigan an~ Wisco~sm . troops
had fought side by side-m th e
Army of ~he Potomac,. st Ge~tys•
burg an? .1~ the war wi th Spam.
. Th~. division took over th e front
lme i~ Als~ce on_ ~1ay 18, .19l8,
af~er mtensive tram~ng, a nd 1~ so
domg became the ftrst Americ8:n
troops to set foot on German soil.
Fro~ then on until A:rmistice
day, it was under fire continuously
save for ten days m a rest area
The 32nd's reputat10n for consistently attammg its obJectives
won it the Red Arrow des1gnat1on.
ln killed, wounded and missmg
in action, 1t lost 14,000 f!lell It de•
feated 23 German d1v1s1ons. cap•
tured 2.153. prisoners and took a
heavy toll m booty from the Ger•
mans.
After the a.rmisllce, the 32nd
served m the Army of Occupation,
not returmng from Germany until
the spring of 1919.
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On-the- Spot Accounts by Special Correspondent Tell How Soldiers From Grand Rapids and
Nearby Towns in the 32nd Division Fought a Desperate Three-Week Battle to Maintain a Jungle Pocket Outfl,anking Japs on Sanananda Road
Editor's note: Grand Rapids
and west l\lichigan men played
leading roles in perhaps the
most dramatic, story that bas
come out of the American-Australian victory in New Guinea-the account of the "Lost
Company" of the 32nd (Red Ar-
row) division. Although attention was drawn to the Sanananda front only after the fall
of Buna, fighting was continuous at Sa.nananda seven weeks
before that. The story of the
"Lost Company," which held
out for three weeks in a road-111
block on the Sanananda. road,
entirely surrounded by Ja11s, is
told in a series of articles by
George Weller, Chicago Daily
News correspondent, whose dis•
patches have been released exclusively to The Grand Rapids
Press in this territory. The
first four cha1>ters follow.
CHAPTER I.
(By George Weller.)
(Special Radio to the Chica.go Dally News
:Foreign •Service,)
(Cop,yright, 1943, Chicago Dail)' News, Inc.)
With Advanced American Troops
at Sanananda, Jan. 21.-(Delayed)
-Japan's most prized weapon is a
stab in the back. Nobody to whom
Pearl Harbor means anything
needs to be told that. But the
thrust from the rear has even a
more honored place in the Nipponese lexicon of military tactics
than in diplomacy. Jap army commanders will do anything possible
to get a harassing force in their
enemy's rear. If they cannot give
the fatal stab in the back, the
Japs feint and try to cause the
enemy to yield that "iook over the
shoulder" which can be the beginning of the disintegration of
military forces.
The story of Sanananda's "Lost
Company" is that of the American
use of this weapon of trickery. It
is the story of how a small but
sternly resolved American force,
entirely encircled by Jap troops
whose entrenchments were ~uperior was able to cut the Sanananda
road and hold a dagger at the back
of the Japanese front-line troops.
It is the story of men who fought
and some who died to maintain
the "island" amid Jap forces until Buna's fall released the main
body of American and Australian
troops for Sanananda.
The plan to strike the Japs' rear
and cut off their forward lines
from using the Sanananda road,
which was three and one-half
miles from their beachhead to our
front lines, was first led by Maj.
George C. Bond of Adrian, Mich.
Two units of American infantry
plus another company equipped
with machine guns and rifles comprised the force selected for the
daring operation. Two companies,
I and K-their regiment cannot be
designated for reasons of security
-were under Bond's direct leadership, while their support from the
point where the American and
Australian forces already faced the
Japs across the 10-foot wide muddy
road, was in the hands of Maj.
Bernt Baetcke of Traverse City,
Mich.
Flown Over Mountains.
The infantry companies both had
been flown over the Owen Stanley
mountains to the vicinity of battle,
where they landed on primitive
fields. hacked out by American enginee-rs. But the third company was
the famous "Wairopi patrol,"
which, under Capt. Alfred Medendorp of Grand Rapids, had made
its way through the forbidding
mountains.
The Wairopi patrol already had
killed 26 Japs before it reached the
northern Papuan marshes. At Sanananda it reached the village of
Special mention of the bravery
of SGT. ROBERT H. DEV•
EREAUX, former South High
football captain and Golden
Gloves champion, in the battle
of the Lost Company" in the
New Guinea. jw1gle, is made
by George Weller in bis dis-patches describing this action,
Sgt. Devereaux is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. F. L. Devereaux of 340
Grant-st., S. \V., and formerly
was employed in the composing
room of The Press.
Soputa behind the allied lines on
Nov. 29 and went straight out on
the riskier ventures the next day.
Company K, which was a reconnoitering company, started forth a
week earlier, on Nov. 23, in an attempt to establish an advanced
command post deep in the jungle
on the left side of the Jap-held
road between Soputa and Sananan-
da. Led by Lieut. Wilbur C. Lytle
of San Antonio, Tex., they set forth
through mud varying from ankle
to waist depth. Often they tripped
on giant roots buried under the
mud and fell.
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Behind Jap Lines.
But finally they discovered a
place so far behind Jap lines that
it was parallel with Jap artillery
positions about a mile distance in
a straight line across the jungle,
but three hours' floundering for a
packless man from the road.
In bypassing the Jap lines in a
broad sweep curve westward Company K underwent only desultory
sniper fire. But that was enough to
show that the Japs knew, some~hing Was coming.
On Nov. 13 Company I, commanded by Bond, leaving a third
of the company and K protecting
the thin ridge of earthern rampart
a.round the new command post,
started out on the main venture to
cut the road, accompanied by a
force equipped with 50-calibPr machine guns.
"Follow the sun," were the orders. The only maps available in
this area were inaccurate but it
v.,:as certain that by heading eastward they would break across the
road somewhere.
From 7 :30 to
1 :30 they crept forward through
the swamp. The snipers had fallen
off. There was a deadly lull.
In Jap Ambush.
HWe followed our point." Point is
the infantryman's term for three
or four leading members of a
jungle patrol. 'l';hen they reached a
dry patch of kunai grass. In the ,
middle was a huge fallen log 5 feet
thick. When the point, creeping
low, rounded the end of this log
terrific fire suddenly opened up
from all around. There was a Jap
machine gun on the left and snipers were in the tree. There was
2-inch mortar fire-not that of a
/
Charley McCarthy mortar, which _!"'
(Continued on page 19.)
Pacific Ocean
WAKE
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Tll\lETABLE OF ALLIED CAMPAIGN-The boxes in this map
indicate dates of important allied conquests in the New Guinea ca~ ..
paign, topped by the announcement of the invasion of Hol~and1a
aml AitapP, Japanf:"se Uags locate areas where Japs remam.
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HOLLAl~IA'S POSITION IN PACIFIC--The concentric arcs centered on Hollandia', New. Guinea, and drawn to (lenote distances of
1 000 and 2,000 statute miles show its position. American troops are
,
driving toward the thrPe ~apanese airfields in the area.
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�Ma-rincs tineeJ in prayer for 1heir fallen comrades at memorial serYice in a Bougaim·ille ceme•
tery in the South Paciiic Solomon Islands.
�Western Michigan',s Glorio_us -"Lost Company"
Rain, Lightning and Strand of Wire Help Save One Encircled Group; West State Soldiers Launch
New 'Attack on Japs in Banana Grove; Deeds of Valor Told
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Dear Mc:
Imagine Frank Russell's surprise-and his
,vife'i-, also!
Recently, the:,,· entertained a soldier at their·
home-one of the Big Rapids bo:vs of the former National Guard Co. ~ (Louis T. Simp1 ~on told me 1:1bout H.
Louis runs a drugstor,e
on Apple avenue. Frank relieves whf'n LouiJ;
is off duly. One night Frank was late--apolo•
gized to Louis. They had a soldier guest at
their home, 1750 Pine street, near Larch a\·enue).
"VVould you like to tell us about your life
in the army. or shaJJ we _;ust talk about ou
friend.,; and relati\"es in Big Rapids?'' Mr. Rus•
sel I nsked.
Tl1ey had clisco\·erecl they had mutual
: friends in Big Rapids,
•'Oh, let's 1alk about our friends in Big RapM
ids." the soldier said.
So they dict and had a fine time recalling
folks they both knew- "It's a small world"I
conversation- you know llow that would be.
''Let's have a bite to eat,'' Frank said.
Shall we eat in the dining room or the
kitchen-sort of apologizing because he and
his . \\·ife frequently eat in the kitchen rather
tlrn.n dining room.
"Let's just ::i:it in the kitclwn,'' Mid the
soldier.
It \\·a!. fully· two ,,·eeks la1& that the
R1.1ssells read in The Chronicle of a Saturda\
Evening Po~L aTticlc. The article told of tll'e
hra\"el'y and rlaring of a ;,·oung lieutenan1
from Co. E. Big Rapids, in leading his men,
many of them just Western Michigan farm
and small town boys, O\"er the jungle trail:;
of the Owen Stanley mountajns in New Gut--nea - one of 1he epics of the present war.
His name?
Yes, it \Yas Lt. Paul T. Lutjen.-:. 25 vean.
old, who ate in their kitchen. and talked 8.bout
mutual friends in Big Rapids. but never e\·en ·
a word about his braver~• in New Guinea, nO\\
known to millions of Americans.
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Grand Rapids, recently reported
wounded ffl New Guinea, was
one of the leaders of a. relief
attack which sought to open
the way to the "Lost Company"
on Sanananda road mentioned
in today's installment.
of Ionia was one of the "first
to volunteer0 for patrol raids
into enemy territory and gained
rapid advancement as a result
of his exploits. according to today's account of the experiences
of the "Lost Company."
Grand Rapids, is described in to...
day's instalhnent of the "Lost
Company'" story, as one of the
leaders of counter attacks to relieve the unit from it's precarious position in a Sananand&
road jungle pocket.
men volunteering to rescue
wounded comrades, PVT. ORIN
SUTTON of Charlevoix. en ...
gaged in a successful hand-tohand encounter with two Japs,
yesterday's story said.
IHuggins
lated roadblocJ.-: company
and Dalponte,
under ant of exactly where the Huggins~ machine gun leader, led in fighting
by creat- Dalponte force was in the jungle, the Japs trying to attack down
ing a secondary line of communica• hit the road behind the Jap lines the road.
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tions around the Jap lines on the too near ours and itself became A midway roadblock by Zeeff's
force meant that the·,Japs ', early
CHAPTER vm.
right-hand side, bogged down in cut off.
With Advanced American Troops the swamp because two and a half
In an effort to pry the force loose December had their oqly line of
motor
transport from fhe beachat Sanananda- (Delayed) -The platoons under Maj. Bert Zeeff. from the Jap circl~ of fire. Lieut.
American effort to relieve the iso• of Grand Rapids, who . were ignor• Herbert Crouch of Saluda, S.
head to theirfront line cut in two
places by American roadblocks.
·The Japs attacked the Zeeff force
viciously.
Zeeff, to whom this correspondent talked, immediately on
emerging from the jungle had
asked by phone for reinforcements
but they were unavailable.
(By George Weller.)
(Special Uadlo to the Chicago Daily Nnn1
(Copyright,
1:fa~i~ic~-:ov~~·11y New11, Inc.)
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TIN HATS
c.,
By Stanton
In the words of Pvt. Eddie Eben
of Richmond, Tex.: "We simply
dug in with everything we had.
We hacked into the muf' with
messkits, spoons and baya . ets, as
well ac: short shovels and a' .es. and
got 6 int:hes of earth around us
-enough to protect us from Jap
machine-gun fire sweeping the
road."
Finally rain came which, although it made the swamp de,.eper,
made escape possible because of.
the noise in the leaves. Zeeft led 1
the men out in utter ciarkness
lighted only by the storm's flashes.
The fact that the Japs did not cut
the phone line made it possible for
Zeeff to trace the wire through his
fingers after days of isola._ion.
Another attack on Ja
lines
from Blarney's banana grove
started at 7:45 on Dec. 5 with
Capt. Mitchell Haan of Grand Rapids in the lead and Lieut. Crouch
handling the machinegun fire. It
was preceded by a creeping barrage of artillery fire. Ten mortar
shelis hit one Jap dugout occupi-ed by fiieven,..;. -ground
niper-s..
Three came out alive.
·
Ordeal of Sun and Gunfire.
The Americans advanced 50
yards with some losses, but at 75
yards were halted by machine gun
tire and snipers. James Kelly of
Walla Walla, Wash., described his
experience.
"Another fellow and 1 were ly•
ing 20 yards from a Jap piHbox,"
he said. 1'We got about eight Japs
between us before being pinned
down. We lay in the sun, not
moving, for 3½ hours. The kunai
grass was short and we knew the
Japs were watching. I suggested
we run. He sAid, 'You go first.' I
agreed but said he should wait 15
minutes, then run, not crawl. I
ran but he fried to crawl and they
got him through the spine.''
Talk Over Plans With Men.
ln these attacks the Americans
under Lieut. William J. Johnson,
I a young Grand Rapids lawyer, fol•
lowed the practice established by
Maj. Boerem and Maj. Baetcke of
talking over attacks with the men
beforehand.
The chances of success or failure were weighed, suggestions invited and tbe main purpose of relieving the isolated Huggins-Dalponte force kept always in
view.
Here in the embattled banan,a
grove sergeants were the mainstay, as in the "lost company"
itself. Oliver McLaughlin of Carl•
ton, Mich., stood extra hours of
sentry duty in the jungle when
malaria and dysentery had thinned
the men.
Pvt. Lawrence Marion of Ionia,
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Mich., leaped quickly to the rank
l2L_ser.2eant w.he
it
W.R..111.! found
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�lT7 estern Michigan's Glorious "Lost Company"
Ho1t· T'hree Grand Rapids Sergeant "Musketeers" Kept Spirits Up; Besieged .l'tlen Heroically Warn
\- i~-t) Own Supply Trains, but Pack Carriers Fight Way Through Swamps
(By George Weller.)
(Sp,elal Radio fu the Chicago Dally New1
l<"or<'h:n Sf'n·lce.)
Cop)ri&"ht, 19.f:J, Chlrago Ually New&. lbC,)
CHAPTER IX.
With Advanced American Troops
at
Sanananda -
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(Delayed> - The
sector called "Huggins" had been
held together, meanwhile, during I
Capt. M. M. Huggins' tenure as
commander, by what he called the
"three finest serg-eants in this or
any man's army."
When this correspondent talked
with Capt. Hu~gins, a[ter he had
emerged, he said that Sgt. Russell
Young, Sgt. Alfred Wentzloff and
Sgt. J. Co1lins, presumably Gerald
(Jerry) Collins. all of Grand
Rapids, were true heroes who held.
tht:- garrison together-Young by
fighung his way through Jap ambushes tor stretcher and food par1ies; \Ventzloff by his adroitness
m handling those suffering trom
tever and Collins by crawling under :tire from one slit trench to
the- next whispering words of encouragement to the wounded and
fevered men.
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Veterans of Guard.
A trio of Grand Rapids sergeants provided a "three musketeer" angle to the drama or the "Lost Com(Sgt. Young, 24, is the son of Mr.
and Mrs Roy E. Young, 108 Sum- \ pany" in New Guine& as recorded in today's installment by Correspondent George \Veller. STAFF SGT.
mer-av., N. W., a graduate of RUSSELL E. YOUNG, left, 108 Summer-a\·., N. \V.; SGT. GERALD (JERRY) COLLINS, center, forUnion High. SC'hool in 1937 and a
merly of 236 Henry-av., S. E., believed to be the Sgt. J. Collins named in the dbpatch, and SGT. ALFRED
former rPsidcnt of Muskegon,
\VENTZLOF'F, UZO Third-st., N. \V., received commendation from their commanding officer for their
where ne 11act spent most of his life
work in holding together the isolated unit cut off in the jungle and in keeping up the spirits of the men
before coming to Grar.u Rapids in
.1934. fie is a native of Indiana.
until relief arrivrd. Other pictures of nwn mentioqed in this serif'!'; are on page 2.
He enlisted in the Michigan National Guard just before it was mcrly o( 236 Henry-av., S. E., and unit, is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Emil man, who had nlwoys wanted to
<'a11ed to federal service in Oc- a nephew of Mayor John A. Co'lins W.
Wentzloff, 1120
Third-st., be a minister some day and who
to JCr, 1940. Bt"fore his enlistment of East Grand Rapids. Hs. was an N.W.l
prayed over each man as he
he operat('d a sheet metal shop ROTC sergeant at Central High
Huggins' early period was sus- sprinkled sulfanilamidf> powder,
, on Bridge-gt., N. \V, Sgt. "Jerry" school when called into federal tained, too, by the work of the "Cort's powdt:r," into the men's
service with the guard in 1940. Sgt.
~:t:ofitM~~tp1~~: Wentzloff aLc;o a veteran of the ''praying palcher," Ezra Davis of woun,ds and _gayc them ~ulps of
Williamsport, Pa., medical aide• ,chlorinated water from hls tlask
to carry down the quinine and
sulfa tablets.
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West-e~n Michig. an's Gloiiou_s "Lost Company"
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L t After Two lsolate·d PostsAre Joined by Fierce Attack• Red Arrows Can't
elief Arrwes at as
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Believe It When Aussies ,rea
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peclal
(By George Weller.)
Jtadi.;0::1,t!e~~)I~~~: DallJ'
New•
opyrll{ht, 19-1.3, Chicago Dall)' NeWI, lnc)
CHAPTERX,
With Advanced American Tro;~:
t Sanananda - (Delayed> . ad-block force behind the Jap
~es, under Capt. P~ter Dal Pon\~
of Three Rivers, Mich., i::n,~de e J
forts to meet Lieut. ~V1lham .
Johnson's force by sending out ?atrols but the jungle was gettmg
dangerous day by . day.
Neither the Japs nor Am_ericans
were certain of their location.
that was certain was how
strips of the two forces lay across
the road.
VIII
(It was related in Chaple~
that a contingent under MaJ: Be~~
Zeeff of Grand Rapids, seeking "
contact the "Lost Compan~,
ached Sanananda road at a d1f~:rent point and itself was cut off,
thus creating two isol_ated pockets.
A third unit under Lieut. ?ohnson
(Grand Rapids) meanv,rhtle was
attempting to relieve both road-
mo;~
t;!
blX~kt~e south were the Am~rican lines next came opposing
Among the west l\Iichigan and R~pids men who proved their courage in the battle of the "Lost
Company" on Sanananda r,w Guinea, according to George \\'eller's account today were PVT
Japs, next'came Zceff's r':,"~-b~~~~ DAVID MATCHETT ot Clx, _left; SGT. RAYL. EVANS ot Grand Rapids, center, :nd MASTE~
next cam~ ~;~~ ::~~~ ~oad-block SGT. ABEL FOTTS, Grand, right, who appare~t1y is the "Sgt. John Potts" referrecl to in the
th~ 1J~~n;5ihe solid force of hun- story. l\latchett was one of 1 e~caped unsca~hcd ma party of ammunition carriers who ran the Jap
~~eds of Japs stretching ~o Sananlines; Sgt. Evans was lead~het patrol ~vh1ch plastered Ja1> positions with grenades, aml Sgt.
anda beachhead three m1l~s aw;:·
Potts was leader of an un.l patrol wh1c~ sought to make contact with the main American force
After numerous harassing
~
•m the "Huggms-D:il Ponte" 11 ocket.
\ ttacks Dal Ponte sent out a patro
~n Dec. 20 to atte~_Pt to re~~~t~h: out of eight and returned 1lawa Hills High school, he was ThrC'e days Inter, determined
Johnson force_ str!vmg ~o c O n the '\finding Johnson's force.
.e. mployed as a surgeon's attc.ndant that the road-block should somenew c?mmunicauons lme
(The Sgt. Potts me~tionem.t Butterw~rth hospital before be-- how be relieved before Christmas
right side of the roa d . d
d' atch quite likely 1s Masmg called into federal service in Johnson discussed with his me~
Local l\lan Lea er.
nd ~~~l Potts, 29, son of Jo?ctober, 1940. His brother John, th~ possibility of staking every, Sgt. John ( ?) Potts of ~ra
Potts, G41 Neland-av., S .• 7, \vho ~as been in the army 10 thmg on a final thrust.
.Rapids
(the name appatcntl~ h s been with his Red Arrmonths, is a member of a tank Johnson, who is modest to the
should.be Sgt. Abel Potts) who_ led ant 10 years. A graduatdh·ision station
. California.)
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, the patrol, lost two men l< llle
me
Durln~a•~:ig;~..8·:::i::·
they
were sustained, too, by the efforts
ot officers like Lieut. Henry Gibbs
of Greensboro, N. C., who, marooned behind the Jap lines at the
half way battalion post, tried to
keep the food and ammo trains
always ready to start whenever
the swamp fell below armpit level.
Some time in both the nine-day
Huggins and founeen~day Peter
Dalponte periods, supply trains
known to be threatened with am~
bush were halted by the needy besieged themselves. At least once
the train led by Walter B. Ellis
of Houston, Tex., was stopped midway by Telephone Man Joseph
Kramarz of Grand Rapids-one
of those who proved their courage
dozens ot times-who tapped In
and told Ellis:
.. Don't come in today.
We've
just had a counter attack from
the Japs. It's too tough for you
to make." {Kramarz, son of Mr.
nnd Mrs. John Kramarz, 823 Crescent-st., N. E., was reported last
week as killed in action.)
Sometimes altercations would
! develop when pack carriers wanted
to fight their way through anyway, knowing how desperately
they were needed.
Lieut. HaPy Richardson of
Washington, D. C., fought one
party through, a grenade in each
hand. When Dalponte was lead- I
ing the ration parties he tried
three times to get one party
through. Maj. Bert Zeeff of Grand
Rapids had told him:
"You're in cornmand-do what
you like."
Dalponte replied: ''I'll try once
more."
This time Lieut. John Filarski
ot Coldwater clrc\!'d the Japs,
tossed a grenade qnd frightened
away the "wood ohopper4" The
party i:ot through.
�Western Michigan's Glorious "Lost Company"
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Chief Salutes
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ow •Supplies Got Through to Sick and Weary Men in Papuan Jungles Recounted by Special
Correspondent; Grand Rapids and West State Soldiers Outfight and Outtrick Japs in
_ 1_ '-f
Hand-to-Hand Encounters Along Sanananda Road
3
George Weller.)
Radio to the Chicago Dally New!
Foreign Service.)
rla-ht, 1943, Chicago Daily News,
Inc.)
CHAPTER VI.
troops
t Sanananda-(Delayed)-For six
days, from Dec. 9 to 15, the "lost
company" was literally lost in its
roadblock 1,800 yards behind the
Japanese lines. Dysentery, malaria
and ringworm infected some of
the men in the water-filled fox-
two Jap lines of fire, plugging i
along behind him. The dirty,
hungry worn-out men dragged
themselves up from foxholes and
met the newcomers with hope in
their eyes.
The "guys back there" had, after
all, kept faith and had not abandoned them. There was quinine to
batter down their fever, belts of.
gleaming cartridges for their guns,
more cans of beef and beans, more
bars of chocolate and more crackers. And best of all there was
Dal Ponte, who knew the jungle who had shot their way through something incredibly vtgnder:f=ul in
the sacks on the back of the men
drenched to the waist. There was
canned heat.
holes and the number of cases in•
creased before it was possible to
evacuate them.
The food ran lower and lower.
Discouragement too, made inroads
in the weakening men under Capt.
Dal Ponte of Three Rivers, Mich.,
a tan, thin, resilient young com~
mander. In order to keep the
garrison well deployed throughout
the 350-yard stretch of snipersurrounded road, it was ordered
that no more than two or three
men should gather together.
trails better than anyone else,
assured his men that even though
the phone was cut food would
come through. It was impossible
to drop supplies or orders from
aircraft because the Japs ahead
and behind dominated the air with
their 50-caliber machine-guns.
Then came the afterrioon of the
Dec. 15 when Lieut. Zena R.
Carter of Chicago and St. Petersburg, Fla., broke through the
jungle from the left with a long
line of green-clad perspiring men,
Al I Aboard for Nassau Bay
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For 15 days, unable to light fires
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to heat water, they had 1ain in
the coffin-shaped water-filled foxholes under the whispering bullets
of Jap machine guns and thE;: loudsmacking bullets of snipers'. Not
once had a warm drink brought
life to their chilled bodies.
Now there was heat-heat that
was safe, heat without smoke. At
their first drink of tea, for which
the men tottered from their holes,
life began to come back into them.
Their deeply-lined, bearded, mudmarked faces relaxed as the first
warmth in 14 days made itself
felt deep within them.
CHAPTER VII.
From -:..he time the roadblock behind the Jap lines was conceive;d,
it was planned to have not only a
line of communications around the
left, but also to the right of the
road where Jap fortifications were
stiffest. The Buna front on the
east had drained most of the manpower necessary for double-pincer
operations both left and right.
So, while "Huggins" was · estab1ished on Dec. 1, more than three
weeks of fighting under Maj. Bert
Zeeff were required before the Jap
line of dugouts could be pierced.
In the first encircling movem•ent
the force under Capt. Bevin D. Lee
of Albany, Ga., Lieut. Bernard S.
Howes of Oklahoma and Lieut.
\.Villiam J. Johnson of Grand Rauids started forward. The attaCk
was to be launched from a banana
packs, Australian soldiers embark under the palms for Nassau Bay, New Guinea. Amer- barges carry them and supplies to the front where Allies are closing in on Salamaua.
plantation held
nto.,J
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Seven Questions of the World
by Capt.
John
Blarney, nephew of the allied
ground force commander. Blarney's
force had captured a Jap supply
dump. The Japs were d'ug in across
the stream bisecting th I plantation
and~sa.,n.,:..--~-· ·
Four-s.tat ; Gen.l Dwight Eisen;
bower? weatirig the Grand Cross
of the French Legion of Honor,
comes to a salUte in Algiers
with the stars and st!ipes in
the background.
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Use Jap .r-Tactics.
The Americans had machine gun
and mortar support commanded by
Lieut. Harold C. Gibson of Greenville, N. C., Lieut. Osborn Voss of
Holland, Mich., Lieut. John Wax
of Baton Rouge, and Lieut. Herbert Crouch of Saluda, S. C.
In the first fight this force am•
bushed from a kunai grass patch
a mar?hing column of 30 Japs, by
moonhght. The grass was seven
feet high and the American use
of Jap tactics caught the Nippon- 1
ese by surprise. In this fight were:
Sgt. William Helenius of Grand
Rapids, squad leader in Johnson's
iorward- platoon and Sgt. Robert
R. McGee of Grand Rapids who
shot one Jap, grabbed the man's
rifle, freed the bayonet and
stabbed another, then broke the
rifle around a tree.
The
Japs
counterRattacked
against the column commanded by
Voss, which was hidden behind a
log. Their light machinegun fire
was high but when they used fire~
crackers to draw fire, the trick
was partly successful.
Shout Defiance.
"We were new in the jungle and
not as smart as we became later,"
says 31-year~old Lieut. Johnson
who is a lawyer and graduate of
Princeton and the University of
Michigan.
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Howes, "wild man from Okla- can of meat and beans, four crac
homa," stood up on the road in ers and one chocolate bar dai
the moonlight and shouted, "You Then the Aussies captured thr
Japs throw firecrackers and us tons of Jap rice with canned c
Yanks will throw lead."
bage and onions lifting the r
The Jap counter-attack had an tions crisis.
eerie quality. The Japs came
Praise From Aussies.
across the road in four waves of
The Americans attacked acr
four men each.
They were
crouched over and wore wound the creek, Johnson and Howes
leggings and helmets and kept the right. They captured two 1
chine guns from the men they h
saying, "good da:y, good day."
The attacks were held off prin- killed. Sixty Australian vetera
cipally by Corp. Thomas Thomp- who .had fought overseas and b
son of W-est Frankfort, Ill., Jesse tled the Japs through Wair
Sommers (residence unavailable), Templeton's Crossing, Oivi
Casey Vanor of Grand Rapids and Popendetta, said: ''That was
Harry Vincent, former Phila- d-d strong attack."
Wayne Lowing of Jenison, Mi
delphian, now of Indianapolis.
Every Jap was killed or wounded. was the spearhead of the Ameri
The counter-attack broke before assault. Eddie Eben of Richmo
the Japs could send over their Tex., who carried out the atta
main force. Their fire ceased and told your correspondent:
"One Jap got himself puzzled
the Americans proceeded.
This force under Zeeff, however, and came for me all alone y
bayonet
fixed and carryinr
was cut off later on the road.
rifle at high port and I shol
Charlevoix l\Ian Hero.
Afterwards, we could hear
After passing thro,ugh Blarney's Ja.Ps calling. and trying to
position the Americans attacked him."
again at 2 o'clock the next afterIn this attack Capt, Blame)
noon with Howes and Johnson hit- killed. Howes made the ~f:~
ting the side of the plantation still tack, cleaning out the Ja!lt.
held by the Japs. With his tommy After first repelling, "lit,
gun Warren Sutton of Charlevoix, attack by the Japs, "e t i
Mich., killed three J aps and took along the road fou1?QJ'1Jf
a machine gun nest single handed. under heavy fire by nig ...,
The creek ran thro1Jgh Blarney's five days' isolation-th
banana plantation, the Japs hold- right hand side of the
ing the western and the Americans the left-the America,
and Aussies the eastern side. The peatcdly under snipe
force, after the Yanks arrived, con- phone wire back to
sisted of 60 Aussies and 150 never cut.
!Americans.
In an attack led
Rations at "Blarney'.-:,'' were one Sgt. McGee on .Ja
in a dugout up "
Teller, a San
er, and C?ro.
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-These are seven of the many questions the world ponders as the war approaches the beginning of its
fourth year.
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�Grand Rapids Soldiers Are:
tint w4'llt out only with the columns of "trains" which carried
food and "ammo" up and wounded
and fevered back. But the trains
could not be held up while Nye
searched for breaks and besides the. '
_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ wire was sometimes cut as quickly
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has a saddle so that a Jap Infantry- half-dived, half-floundered In upon being spliced. At one time Capt.
the enemy.
P~ter Dalponte of Three Rivers,
man can place it upon his knee
The trenches were cleared.
Mich., ordered him to remain withlike a ventrlloqulst's dummy-but
Within a few minutes the Amert- in the perimeter two days, Jap fire
cans burst from the swamp onto being especlaUy heavy.
heavy mortars.
The road party was completely
What happened was that the the road.
They had no choice and could not cut off during this time and Nye
Americans had crossed the Jap dare
to push either forward or got restless and asked for two
trail through which their front back toward a better location. tom.my ganners and went out himlines were supplied whenever the They had {o take from the jungle self, leading with a tommy gun
road was under Australian artil-- grabbag that strip of road where Fingering the wire backward along
had happened to blunder first. the trail, he reached the famous 1
lery fire. It was an ambush. The they
Today, standing where the first log where e"Very train aJways un367 men In the party were com• mud-bllnded tommy gunners fol- derwent Jap fire at the crossing of
manded by Bond, also by Capt. lowed by the sweating carriers the Jap and American trails.
John Shirley of Grand Rapids, with the wounded on litters be- "I looked at the log and noticed
hind, saw a 10-foot strip of wide, something that seemed funny.
Capt. Roger Keast of Lansing, muddy
road amid the hostile jun- There was a bush growing there.
Mich., one-time star footballer of gle, the writer cquld appreciate I had crawled by the other end
Michigan State; Lieut. Walter Ellis how lucky they had been. Al- often and never remembered seeof Houston, Tex.; Lieut. Herschel though frequently flooded, the Ing the bush. I signaled the other
road here was flanked by jungle guys to keep quiet, I watched.
G. Horton of Aurora, Ill.; Capt. with
some sand mixed with the Pretty soon the bush moved a litPeter Dalponte of Three Rivers,
It was, therefore, possible to tie. I saw a Jap's legs and arms
Mich., and Lieut. Herman Davis of mud.
make
some holes for shelter im- behind. The bush was tied around
Sandy Creek, Mich.
mediately. It was possible to cut his waist and he had more bush on
Calla for Volanteen.
shallow trenches and place ma- his helmet,
Sgt. John Mikita of Grand Rap• chine guns in them as well as
•'Bush" Runa Away.
Ids, leading the point platoon, heavier guns-pointing both ways. "I was pretty far off but I took
asked for volunteers to get the
Find American-Made Trucks,
aim and squeezed out a short burst.
machine gun whose fire was sweep• The Japa apparently knew they That bush got up from the end of
Ing the field. Sgt. George L. May had been outmaneuvered. Where the log and ran intd the jungle."
of Six Lakes, Mich., responded, the Americans hit the road there The Japs had a phone line on the
taking 10 men with two automatic had been a small supply dump and other side of the road, but once
rifles and one tommy gun between repair shops for rear lines. The Nye also found an experimental
them. Edwin Cox of Las Cruces, road was deserted.
wire made from American splic•
N. M., who was among the surWhat they began to call "our 5 lngs, which he gleefully reD?!red
vivors of this attack, says:
o'clock rush" had yielded them unworkable. He failed to splice our
"May told us to load up "1th some modest prizes. There we.e wire on only four days.
grenades and we started out on two American•manufactured !:!lg The Americans' first declalon
our bellies through the grass. Ma• supply trucks fitted with motor after finding they were isolated by
chine-gun fire was everywhere just maJntenance equipment, lathes phone cuts was to decide to at•
above our heads. Finally, we got dies and extra clutch disks. Ther~ tack. In a council between Capt.
within 30 yards of where the Japs were two a11acka filled with -tor Roger Kerst of Lansing, Mich.,
w,-re. Then May ralled up tll aupplles, And belt of all, there and Capt. John D. Shirley of
throw his grenade and the others were several tin cracker boxes and Grand Rapids, it was determined
threw theirs. After that the fire bags of fresh onions-an unbellev- that a response must be made to
stopped."
able treasure in can-fed Papua.
the Japs who for three days had
During the terrible days that
This find-symbolic of the dif- been throwing two-inch high exwere to follow, fights like the !erence between being supplied plosive mortars into the position
above were to occur many times at food by sea, as the Japs were, and where the Americans lay in their
this point. The Japs stubbornly by transport plane and parachute waterfllled foxholes.
held this bottleneck on the Amer- a~ the Americans were-delighted There was a Japanese encamp•
ican line of communications. It Lieut. John J. Filarskl of Cold- ment southeast of the road-block,
came to be known simply as 0 the water, Mich, Filarskl's cheeks have that Is back toward where the
log." Where '.he Japs would lay not yet filled out completely from American and Jap front lines were
ambushes for food and ammuni- his sojourn as supply officer of the already Interlocked. Keast led an
tion columns was never certain. "lost company."
attack, started as a patrol which
But It was always certain that
The officers, after a council, turned Into another bayonet as•
when the Americans passed the log marked
out
as
dusk
fell
an
area
sault
such as had gained the AmerthPv woulrf hP flr,.t1 nnnn
r.mnlng 350 yards along the road leans the road before.
and extending 125 yards into the
"We knew the Japs were on the
jungle as the "perimeter..
road both south and north of us
The word perimeter, ·which ls and figured that o~ best C!hance
standard now in jungle fighting I w~s to strike ~hose to the south,"
means any area where you can dig said one survivor ot this attack
an encircling line of foxholes with afterward.
the command post inside and
!"ai!'tain fire directed outward. It
is sunply the jungle equivalent of
the pioneers' wagon train circle to
repel Indians.
Outmaneuver laps in Jungle
In.Epic of Sanananda Road
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"As we 1ost men it was neces
sary to fill up our columns with
new ones," said one officer. uey
experience we came to know that
it was necessary to crawl the full
length of the log, go around the
ena. then double back. Jap fire
went straight along the log's top.
But always there would be some
wise guy who would hear voices
of the men in the point on the
other side and decide to take a
short cut crawUng over. Almost
Invariably they got him."
Why, it may be asked, durln~
the weeks that the "lost company
was to be supplied along this slender swamp path, was nothing ever
"°'I.!. ta e!Bll,lu!te !!W JfD.»ll]boX
here permanently?
The reason was that because the
Americans wer:! looping around the
Jap lines, while the Japs still sup•
plied their front lines, It was In•
evitable that Jap and American
paths should Intersect somewhere.
The famous log furnished protec•
Uon against machine guns, whereas
any new crossroads might have
proved even hotter.
CHAPTER u.
Life In a Perimeter.
What life is like within such a
perimeter, always exposed to ene•
my sniper fire from the outside,
may be imagined from the fact
that on the edge of the "lost company's" perimeter seven tree snip.en were killed, nol only after the
- . - . - ~le!K'ffl t,y-HeY!n
troops but after the Australians
had taken Sanananda and joined
the Americans cutting off the Jap1.
from the sea,
When they dug Into their foxholes with their short shovels, the
Americans were under the lmpresslon that they were located some
600 yards beyond our own lines.
Actually, as readable aerial photos
taken many days later by AustralIan Wirraway pilots were to reveal,
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Deep within the Jap lines the ~~re~~~ ~u~~!
American column, having estab- front lines.
llshed a supply dump and advanced
d
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battalion headquarters In the Jun- Ahead, it was two an one- a
J
miles along the road to the Jap
gle and shot their way to th e ap- beachhead. They were so far Inheld patch leadll\fl to the Jap front side the enemy that his single
ltnes, continued eastward following precious three-inch anti-aircraft
the sun, seeking the narrow trans- gun could be heard belching be·
jungle road where they were de•
t~rmlned to cut the Japs' main line tween them and where the oppo.!•
of motorized .supply from the San- Ing front lines spanned the road.
ananda beachhead.
CHAPTER m.
They were still uncertain how The "lost company," which broke
far along the road they would the Jap motor supply road
strike because maps of this swamp from Sanananda beachhead and
were nonexistent. But they knew entrenched itself behind the Jap
that by pressing east they must lines, almost immediately cut
strike the Japs' road somewhere. oft from Maj. Bernd Baetcke of \
After a clash at the intersection Detroit, the commanding officer.
of the Jap supply trail, the Japs The thin phone line running
evidently phoned back word that a though quagmire and giant fem
large American party was fighting kunail grass, clearing, and more
its way to the road.
quagmire, was immediately' sevWhen the Americans, mudded to ered by the Japs. The road-block
the hips, laden with sacks of am• had been placed at such a distance
munition and food, and sweating from our lines that walkie-talkie
streams in the humid, breathless radios were unworkable.
shadows of the swamp, rea('hed 8
This meant that the force could
point afterward determined as 200 communicate only by runner. It
yards from the road, suddenly Ill!'· required one whole day for a runchine-guns bit the open, green- ner to get back to the front lines
hung quagmire ahead.
and the next to return with excelAs they flattened, Jap snipers lent prospects of being ambushed
In the trees opened fire. It was the by the several Jap strong points
regular Jap sequence of pinning near our transjungle line of comdown with machine.gun fire, then munications. So it was necessary
picking off with snipers. The party to try to repair the phone lines
stopped and took over as well as dally and get messages across be·
possible behind the giant-roofed fore the Japs severed them again
mangroves while bullets hissed as they did once and sometimes
among them.
twice dally.
Pan. Gets "Hot.N
Two-Man Repair Crew.
The Amedtan officers discussed The two phone men for the "Lost
plans. The sun was getting low company" who attempted to keep
and soon darkness would overtake the line working back to the ad•
them. The party thus Isolated deep vanced battalion command post eswithin the Jap lines, would be easy tabllshed In the jungle were: Marprey for raiding snipers. Ignorant cellus Mye of Saginaw, Mich., and
of their own whereabouts, they Herman Dollinger of Grand Rapwere uncertain whether they could Ids. Nye, a short, stock 28-year-old
find the roal before darkness.
former cab man, used to work for
They decided to send out patrols. a phone company but gave up the
The patrols paddled through the work because he preferred hackencircling muck a while without Ing. Nye says:
drawing Jap fire. The order came "Mostly we worked In water to
"Column proceed." They had gone our knees. Only one day machine•
hardly 75 yards through the swamp gun-fire caused a break. The other
when the machine-guns challenged times It was always Jap clippers.
them again. They felt they were It was easy to splice In the Kunai
getting near the road. The fire was because the bulJets went over your
stft~as · Capt. John Shirley of head. Sometimes they tried cute
tricks. They would nearly always
Grand Rapids, Mich., who decided remove the wire, say about 50 or
the Issue. "Let's go
get
those'
so
100 feet, Increasing each time and
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and so's," he said. Flx your bay• trying to get more than I could
onets and let's cut the guts out carry a., replacement.
of them."
"It was their idea to make me go
Loeal Man Leads Charge.
back for wire and Jose another day.
Shirley led the charge, It was They were always thinking up new
not a charge, such as history books fast ones. Once they cut out the
describe, at full run. It was hall longest piece yet. The gap was
wading, half swimming with fire fully 120 yards. But they left
flickering all around. The knee• piece there, as though accidentally
deep mud made the charge at once all coiled up. When I began work
gallant and clumsy. Roots hidden Ing to join the ends across th
deep In the mud threw the men on swamp I got pretty well along
their faces; they struggled up and fore I dlacovered that they had,.
went on. Flnally, Shirley and some ott juat enoush so that the e
of the men reached the :laaed lln• would not quite meet.
• of
the ;i'IPI ACCOZlllpg to the ordera ot
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Blood, Sweat and Tears,
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Dear Ma:
out a rlPccnt burial.
,
Their l)lood and sweal and the
"Chaplains arc ver;,., busy men. 1
tears of the folks back h~me. c.on- I've seen chapl~ins come up \\·.ith :
qucrcd the Japs in New· Guinea.
an armful of little crosses which
~others of the \'aliant soJchers they hafl made and work, under
o(- the 126th Infantry1 32nd Divi- fir<' if nec~ssary, until. every man·
sion now can learn first hand who had died was buried.
•wha1: those men ,,·ent through to
'It is one of the duties of a com1gain their coslly Yictory.
pany commander to see that _ever_y
· ,Captain Russell Broner, com- man who deserves a decoration 1s 1
mender o( Company B,. himself rec.·o_m mended fop H. Well.. I't'"c;,
pays a tribute to those men. His seen so !nany acts of ~xc~pti~nal
brother, Sgt. Willard Ivan Broner, brav_ery _it has heen a big .1ob .Just
gave his life, and his other brother, sending m U10~e -recommendations.
Staff Sgt. James Broner, ,vas· I h~\'C lost 22 __men so far, and t
wounded
thats no1 countrng the wounded. !
"The J aps are Lough and obMrs. Ch_ester Broner,_ Wh,tehal_l Etinate fighters and had plenty
road: Fruitland to,~nsh1p, mother, goor! equipment here.
rece 1v:c1 the revealing letter from
"I believe thP long hard march •
C~plam ~r_oner that not only told through t Ile jungle was one feat
al th~ kill~ng of one brol h er but , ,vhich will go down in military
the \\Dtmdmg of th e 0th er.
history as one of the' grOOtest ac"I bc>lieved tlrn~ other mothers complishments any army ever
,of men serving H1 New Guinea made. We went through country
would be interested_ in learn_111g of that was classed as impossible by
the bravery of their sons in the the Japs and Aussies-and il
!service of their country," said Mrs. damned near was!
Broner.
''Company .B ,\·ent over 82 miles
The letter in part is as follows: of s,vampy Jungle ,vhere a white
"Dear Ma.
man had never been before, with"That hellish nightmare ·we have out losing a man. Other outfits
been through is something that who followed us lost many from
seems unreal and impossible now. fever, etc. -(\- person_ IT.lust take at
We Jook around for friends who l~aS t ~5 g.rams of qmmne and two
are not here and must think twice vitamm pills a day a1:ct every a.rop
to realize that some of them we'll ?f u/ater must be boiled or chlornever ,see again. Of course, many m~te.d.
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\\"ill return t.o their outfits from
Li~tlc sc.hatches ~rom vines will 1
the hospitals
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turn mto big festering sores and a
,. ,
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. cut from a tincan will usually '
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Ive foun? out at last how Wil- 1necessitate hospitalization.
lard was killed. It was on ~e''For 37 days we lived on two ~
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cemb.e:r 6 ,vhile light meals of cold food a day.
he wa_s on a re"Picture a little handful of mer 1
connaissance th ~t _ragged, dirty and looking like ~
he was c8:ught Ill trembling ghosts. That was us in '
Jap machme gun the jungle,.
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fire. A bullet hit
. . _·_ _ _ _ __
him in a vital 1
spot and he died
instantly.
"Jimmie w h o
had been acting
as a platoon
leader ,vas about
200 yards away.
He heard that
Bill was hit but
didn't know how
bad so he started
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Somewhere in New Guinea the American flag is lowered at sundown by a trio of U. S. engineers. Corporals Donald Braithwaite,
New York City; Willis Agnew, Columbus, 0., and Percy Gray,
Kentwood, La., are members of the Army engineer unit composed
of Negro troops that have been in New Guinea more than a year.
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Rest Welcome to Yanks in New Guinea ,
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Ca.pt. Broner
~~d
t:asse~1iti:
the knee by a Jap rifle bullet.
"I took a hike to where Bill was
buried and tool< some pictures. It's 1
a _beautiful spot near a native village with a couple of tall palm
trees shading it.
"The rumor had gotten around
(hat I had been killed so both Bill
and Jim had said they were going
to get a dozen Japs for that."
Do mothers want to know what
to send a boy in the hospital?
Captain Broner advises his mother
that his brother, Jim, would appreciate candy bars, chewing gum,
magazines, snapshotS, and of al I
things, a Scars Roebuck catalogue! ;
Here's more about that fight in
the New Guinea jungle:
"The worst of this particular
!battle is over and now the grave
registration men are busy. No
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Foot we~ry and of sober mind, these members of the heroic 32nd Division sit beside a jungle trail
for rest during march to Euna sector of New Guinea where their unit won 55 Distinguished
Service crosses in Jap rout. The 32nd Division was originally a Wis'Consin and Michigan National
Guard outfit:
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pcd that within a few minutes
aft&L a Catholic mass has been
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concluded, the necessary changes
can be made to have th, bui
ing in readiness for a Protestant
service.
And should a Jewish
I chaplain desire lo conduct a service after the Protestant service,
the ch::::pel could be rearranged
quickly to meet the needs by mov-
l
ing the altar back into a rC'cess
and by opening the ark prodded
for the scroll.
Same Hymnal U!'led
The equipment provided for •
the chaplains is also indicative of
the brotherhood found among
them. The hymnbook for use in
the c h a p e 1 s-"The HymnalArmy and Navy''-is divided into three sections, Protestant, Catholic and Jewish. and can readily
be used
,
by
each
group.
Within
the short space of a few hours,
these books arc often used for1
three different services for three
different groups.
Regulations
require
that
R
chaplain hold appropriate religious services for the entire command to which he is assigned. It
is customary to hold two services
on Sunday, one for everybody
and the other when it is desired
for the particular faith of the
chaplain. Should a chaplain be
unable to minister to men of another religious faith. he tries to !
obtain a chaplain !ram a neighboring unit or a tocal clergyman
to hold services in the camps or,
to arrange for transportation to
churches in nearby communities.
Counsel for All
In his pastoral duties, the chRp-,
lain serves as a friend, counselor
and guide without discrimination
to all members of the command
to which he is assigned, regardless
of creed or sect. ln his inten•icws
Service chaplains share the hardships of their flocks, accom•
panying the troops right into combat areas. The photo above,
taken in a jungle clearing' near Bun a, New Guinea, shows American
soldiers standing wi{h bowed heads as Father Stephen Dzienis
administers absolution before battle.
By \\'ILLIA:'.\I R. AR~OLD
The student chaplains live in he oft.en finds· l1e_ is .dealing with (
Chief or Chaplains,
dormitories. Assigned to rooms, a. soldier whose faith 1s o_ther th~n
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they often find that Protestant t his own. Should the problem 111
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Jew, an'cl Catholic occupy the sarn~ questi~n require t1:e servi~cs ~f a
V1s1t?rs to t~c Office. Chief o! quarters. This close association en- cha?lam of ~hat fa1~1:, the mqu1r~r l
Cliaplams a\ times register sur- ables \he ,haplains to become bet- obviously will be ctn ee\ed to such I
pnse when they learn that. ]~ere ter acquainted with one another, a chaplain.
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members of the three r~ltg1ous and the mutua1 ex change of ideas
The . wofk of the chaplam 1s
groups-Protestant. Catholic, and in their dormitory discussions tends recognized as a help to the mor- 1
lJewish-work side by side, in. ~ar- to a better understanding of in- ale of the command he servea.
many and unity for the rellg10us dividual viewpoints.
- --program of th e Army.
The cantonment chapels are
That which in civilian commun- mute but potent re mind e rs of the
ities_ i~ .often tholight of as an im- brotherhood to be found among
poss1b1l1ty has be come an e\7 ery- the chaplains. Ha rl so meon e preday occurrence with u s. The chap- dieted a few y ears a,,.o
that in
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lains in thi s offi ce, each true to 1943 there wo~ld be more than
his own religiou s convictions an.a 1000 of the se chap els, so coneach respecting the beliefs of Ins structed that tl1ey could be used
fellow chaplain, give : :m excellent for Protestant, Catholi c, and Jew- I
example of how chaplains through- iDh s ervices, it would have been
out the armed forces promote labeled a fanciful dream.
And
brotherhood.
yet this has come to pass.
In this offipe, where the Chief
These spired houses of God
of Chaplains co•ordinates the work have been so planned and equipof the Corps of Chaplains com- 1- - - - - - - - - - - - - j posed of ministers, priests, and
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rabbis, it is always kept in mind ~
that this work is in the inte.r est
of all the religious groups. Problems are discusseri in that light
and the answer is sought which
will serve the common good of alL
ti An important institution is the
Chaplain School, where the majority of newly-appointed chaplains receive their first training.
'. The Commandant and his instruc-
GRAND RAPIDS ~ MONDAY,
FRANK TODISH WRITES TO COL, HAZE
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Lefter from Australia
Gives News of G. R. Men
Late news of Grand Rapids and
western Michigan men with the
32nd division in far-off Australia
h; contained in a letter received by
Col. William Haze, former commander of the 126th infantry, from
Frank 0. Todish, chief warrant officer of a service company in the
32nd division.
,vriting from Australia under
date of June 20, Todish said:
"Here I sit with a lantern in
front of me, trying to catch up on
my correspondence. I sure have
been through a paper war, as we
call it, since we got back from New
Guinea. We train here and theredifferent type, as you understand
-but it sure is good rough and
tough training.
"We have a peach of a colonel
now, a dandy lieutenant colonel,
and of course a fine group of officers as always, but you wouldn't
know many of them now. Rememher the group that were inducted
in 1940? Let me name the ones that
are left: Schntpke, Menclewski,
Boet, Henry, Wildey, Navarre
Woltjer, Nummer, Lutjens, John~
son, FalB.rski, Schu.lz, Kutchinski,
Gil1, Garland, Saganski, Harper
and
myself."
(Maj.
Clarence
Schnipke, Maj. Harry Menclewski,
Maj. John Boet, Capt. Edwin Henry, Capt. Russell Wildey, Capt. Ed"*ard J.' Woltjer, Capt. Erwin Num•
m~r,_ Lieut. Paul Lutjens, Lieut.
Wilham J. Johnson, Chief Warrant
1 Off!cer Oscar H;utchtnski, Warrant
Officer Auiol!I Gill, Warrant Officer
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Paul Garland, Warrant Officer
Clarence Saganski, Capt. Jack Harper).
NEXT OUTFIT
"Howe and Medendorp (Col.
Merle Howe and Capt. Alfred Medendorp) are with the outfit next
to us. Just heard that Doerr (Lieut.
Col. Lester C. Doerr) is at higher
headquarters. So is Col. Ray E.
Cotton). Too bad about Warmenhoven (Lieut. Col. Simon Warmen•
hoven, who died of a gunshot
wound).
"I must say we have had a
few colonels since induction. I
can count 12 who have commanded the regiment since that day,
While on leave a couple of months
ago I met Apted, Lawyer, Thoman
and Briggs of the old gang (Lieut.
Col. Clark Apted, Capt. Charles
Lawyer, Capt. Kenneth Thoman
and
Warrant
Officer
Russell
Briggs). They all have nice rooms.
hot water baths, good living con- I
ditions.
The letter also comments on
:•:yt:~k:!u~~ t~mm\~ ;;gheitchh,eTatoded- 1
i:~
under the collar. There are a lot
of things I would like to tell
you," he. ~dds, ''but,, you know
the restrictions on us.
NEWS OF COMRADES
Continuing with news of his comrades, To dish says: ''I forgot to
mention Wild Bill Gleason Masalkowski and Sprague, (Staff Sergt .
Bill Zarafonetis, Staff Sergt. Harold Gleason, Staff Sergt. John Ma.salkowski.) Bolthouse {now Second
Lieut. Mynar Bolthouse) will graduate from OCS school at the end
of this month. Cliff Hughes (Staff
Sergt. Clifford Hughes) has left us
for limited service. All the band
boys are doing fine.
Religious Rites in the Jungl~_,.... "I"~
Veterans' Insignia
\~~~J \~~~~~:~t~!if::.1 ~ii~~ ~~~}~s~~1~
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mus say
e o gang 1s
ting smaller every month. j
fever has left its mark on qui~
c::,
;~;:·a:;m\ha~:a~~ne t~a:he
(Lieut. Col. Henry Geerds) had,
for home, but now I understand
is still here."
. Commenting that "the war n
I
to impart instruction to large
cla~~es composed of c.:haplains ,..,,110 L
~rlong to mc1.ny different religious ~
grouv_s.
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;o:~~h d~:~~~~e~or t~~r ;!~~e:l
mate in Australia thus: "We
going through our winter sea
here without snow, of course,
many nights we go to bed to k
warm. No heat of any kind. I
just picture the warm days of J
back home. Hold it, Todish, or
will get homesick!
This is the new lapel button of gold-plated plastic which \dll
be awarded to men and women who receive honorable discharges
from the U. S. army during the present war. The design is an
eagle within a circle. The wings extend beyond the edges of
the circle.
Divine ser\'iCe is being held in 1J1is ju~gle chapel, nea~ "How is ou: old friend Jo
New Guinea. by Chaplain M~i:cus W. Johnson of Norfol" (John D. E~ghsh, custodian o!
for an American infantry section stationed in that area.
armory.) Fme, I hope. I recei
!
_
a letter from Guy Roest (firer
at the armory) the other day
which he says he is still maste;
the shovel and broom. I'll
he di4. do a. lot of shnvelfng
snow the past winter."
PRAISES ZEEFF
Paying ·a warm tribute to
soldier1y qualities of Maj. 1
Zeeff, the writer continues: "J
Harper and I were just speal
,.___________...;;,:;;..-'!?f ~eeff. He is doing fine. Tl
1s one man that did a swell jo
New Guinea. Believe me, he is
right type of battle leader."
Commenting on events at hi
To dish says: ''I see where Done
and Barendse (Col. Lewis J. D
van and Maj. Ben M. Baren
·w ere pushed up in the state trc
I sure was glad to hear that. S
about Rosecrans (Adjt. Gen.
bert M. Rosecrans, former hea
s~lective service in Michigan,
died recently). He was a
fellow.
"Guy tells me that the arr
is being fitted up into a bi
building. I still think they sh
have built when you wanted t
to a few years back.
"It's getting a little cool, so
to bed to keep warm. With
best of regards to you and
Haze and remember me to
gang at the armory.
ODISH'-'
�le.RAND llAPIDS, MICH., TUESDAY,
AUGUST
10,
1943.
After the Battle; the Glory-for Grand Rapids Fighters
First Meeting Since New Guinea
Two wounded veterans of the New Guinea campaign, both. Grand
Rapids youths, held a reunion last week following JI war bond rally
at the plant of the Hayes Manufacturing company. Lt., E. M. Foster,
left, who is a patient at Percy Jones army hospital in Battle Creek,
was chief speaker at the rally, Edward Joswick, discharged from the
army for wounds in New Guinea, ls back on his old job as an electrician at the Hayes plant.
DISCHARGED CORPORAL IN WAR PLANT f-lERE
Wounded Buddies of Buna
Meet Again at Bond Rally
When, Lt. E. M. Foster of Grand
Rapids, wounded south Paclfic vet' eran, ~ast week spoke at a ~ar bo nd
rally m Hayes Manufac_turmg co~pany plant her~, he kindled vivid
memori~s for Edwa rd Jo~wick,
1101 Third st., NW., who was m th e
crowd that heard the talk.
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1Heroic Exploits
In New Guinea
Gain Recognition
Successfully carrying out their
difficult assignments in the extremely hazardous fighting in New
Guinea, two Grand Rapids soldiers
have been rewarded with decoraUons which were pinned on their
uniforms by Maj. Gen. William H.
Gill of the 32nd division.
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The local fighters are W, A. Bajdek, a technician, and Ptc. Joseph
Freiburger. Bajdel( received the j
distinguished service cross for
swimming lwo jungle rivers
a telephone and wire line on his
back to establish a vital communication line.
Pfc. Freiburgl;f \.\'as awarded the
silver star fol' having led litter
bearers around Japanese positions
in t he jungle to the main trail and
a J-1,ospital.
with1
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~Pholos by Signal Corps, U. S. Army.
For heroism in action in New Guinea two Grand Rapids soldiers
1•ecently were decorated by MAJ. GEN, WILLIA!.\{ H. GILL. Top,
Gen Gill shakes hands with PFC. JOSEPH J:i..,REIBURGER, awarded
silver star. Lower, he pins distinguished · service croS!'i on \Y, A.
BAJDEK, technician. (Photos hy army; signal ~urps,)
Joswick is also a wounded veteran o! the New Guinea campaign
having served tn the same outfit'.
and fought in the same battles as
Lt. Foster. Quiet, reserved and llttle given to talking about his wS:r
exploits Joswick stood in line to
shake bands with Lt. Foster\t\t the
conclusion of the latter's address, - ·
dealing with Jap atrocities. ..
"Maybe you remember me," Joswick remarked after congratulating the lieutenant. "I was with
you in New Guinea.''
"YOU BET"
Lt, Foster paused an instant and
·then put his arm around Josvl'lck.
"You bet I r;member you," he
said, then turning to George C. Rowald, co-chairman of the payroll
savings division or the Kent county
I war finance committee, explaini}d
that Joswick served in his bat'l3]lion and they had known each other before being inducted into the
service.
"This fellow can tell you better
than I can about the fighting in
New Guinea," Lt. Foster declared,
Joswick suffer~d wounds in the
back and leg caused by a n;i.ortar
shell during the Buna Mission battle in which Lt. Foster became a
Casualty. The shell which hit Joswick ki1led three other soldiers a·nd
wounded a fifth member of his
squad.
NARROW ESCAPE
Joswick served as a corporal in
the battlea of Sanananda and Bu,na.
He praised the hero1sm of bta scf.uad
and said they "fought like tigers."
Although unwllllng to talk about
himself, Joswick did recall one nar-
1~~:Pw!i8a~ii~!
l~~;ine:c:p:~g 1!~e~
gun let loose at him, making chips
fly from. the top o! the log.
The most heroic act he saw in
New Guinea was, he said, the at~
tempt o! a doughboy to rescue a
comrade wounded in the stomach.
\ The soldier died in the attempt.
Joswick was evacuated from
Guinea in November and remsm~
in an army hospital in Austral
untll April when he sailed for hom
He returned recently to his old jo
as an electrician for the Hayes
N\_.
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�RAPIDS HERALD
MONDAY
OCTO ER 25
9 3
UOUS TRAILS
art of the 126th followed the
narrow and tortuous jungle trails
over the Owen Stanley range and
the rest were flown over the Owe~
Stanley mountains, but one bat
talion then had to surmount on
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another
mountain, chain
1 known as Hydrographers ran~e.
OLE REGIMENT'S BRAVERY IS HISTORY; SOME ACTS STAND OUT
, The Owen Stanley mountains
reach a height of 13,000 feet and
few white men had ever before
penetrated the range's !aalnesses.
Ranier, in Washington, one
I ofMt.
the three loftiest peaks in the
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BattIe Record Of th e 126th Inf an t
New G u,nea
Is Packed with Heroism of Western Michigan
PRESSING JAPS
By the latter part ot November, ;~:: !~~ ew!~re~:e::~d wfth
the 126th was over the mountains French croix de guerre with pa
all d f;~:t~g th e Japs entrenched
Fellowing the New Guinea c.:
ab;~e first battalion of the 126th paign, ~he divis~on w~. ag~\n gt·
regiment and Austr9:lian troops
moved from one direction on Buna
.
t H t h
mission a short distance from ?as called its conduc mac
Euna vi11age. The second battalion in bravery and devotion to du
crossed a river about 100 yards
wide, running to ocean between
Buna and Gona and the third battalion hemmed in the Japs from
still another direction.
A tiny place called Sauputa,
a few miles lnland from Buna,
~e~:~tcs, is only 14,500 feet.
Heroiam of the 126th regiment officer of the 32nd division. Col. earned the admiration of bis com- Willard Broner died under Jap fire
New Guinea, which departed Howe risked his iife a hundred rades for his tireless devotion to and James Broner lost a leg at the
or federal service just three years thi:ies during the critical Buna cam- duty during the difficult crossing Sananantla battJe.
te!~~~tln~~;l~~n,Macfrthu1;e,;
marked the front line for the
n
go, haa been acclaimed in n~wsapers, magazines and newsreels.
heir exploits never will be fully
ucrtbed but here are a few ac~
ounta: of individual acts o! bravry and devotion.
To Sergeant George Zeitlow of
olland and his machine gun squad
oes credit for kllltng more Japs,
erhaps, than any other unit of
e 126th.
Capt. Mitchell Haan,
ow home on leave, says he has
en th-e jungle littered with Jap
odte• In front of Zeitlow'a gun
mplacement.
pa~~dely known is the bravery of
Capt. Simon warmenboven, Grand
Rapids physician, killed in New
Guinea, and posthumously awarded
the disting_uished service cross. Another medical man, Capt. John T.
Boet, of Grand Rapids, likewise has
~~et~~ti~:~~a~t;:i!~~erd~nge
and tn
The Broner family of Muskegon
sent three heroes with the 126th
regiment to New Guinea. Capt.
Russell A. Broner dodged death
many times but his two brothers,
hath sergeants, were not so lucky.
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Once, a Jap officer discovered
Sgt. Zeitlow lying in his slit trench
d, with drawn sword, was about
o ~x the Holland soldier. By a
1\li\c movement, Zettlow seized
ht lap by the legs, toppling him
nto the trench and the sergeant
hen choked him into unconsciouseas and ran him through with
he Jap's own sword.
IDN'T COME BACK
There was Sgt. John C. Putt, a
emb-er of company I, of the third
attalion, who volunteered to lead
patrol through the Jap lines in
earch of Company L, the 'lost'
c 1pany. He never came back.
Outstanding was the feat of Maser Sgt. Harold M. Lester1 of Grand
Rapids, senior first Hrgeant of the
126th regiment, who with Sgt. Ber. ard A. Fonger fought their way
hrough the Jap lines to the 'lost'
mpany.
Commander Salutes 126th
Col. William Haze ls pictured 8alutfng the 126th infantry regimen~
Michigan national guard, during ceremonies In Fulton park three
years ago Sunday, eve of departure of ftnt units of the 126th for
active service.
to~n i~h~!:1~f ;~;::;n~~ h~~~~d
Rapids, winner of the distinguished
service cross for holding his posi~
tion in the fact of repeated Jap
attacks. .
Returning mez_nbers of the 126th
~~!~m~~iic~:Yotf~ g~~u~esl:r t~~
Doerr, chaplain of the 43nd division, who labored day and night
at Port Moresby to make the lot of
the wounded easier during their
evecuation to Australia, and to Sgt.
Harold Gleason who was tn charge
of bundling food and medical supplies dropped from air to the 126th
regiment during the trek across the
Owen Stanley mountains.
Another hero o! the 126th is Capt.
D on a 1 d Bush of Kalamazoo,
wounded in the leg and thigh, who
recently returned to duty at Fort
Custer following convalescence at
Percy Jones army hospital in Battle
Creek.
Bush won his captain's bars the
same day that Capt. Mitchell Haan
o! Grand Rapids, also here on
leave, won his. Capt. Haan deserves special mention as commander of a unit which went to the
rescue o! the lost company on the
Sanananda road.
The Grand Rapids officer mlract.lously escaped Jap bullets but
fell victim to malaria.
A hero of Haan's outfit was Sgt.
Jerry Bonzelaar of Holland, one o!
two men who braved intenee Jap
fire to rescue four men buried
under debris caused by the explosion of a Jap aerial bomb.
Mourned by the whole regiment
is Capt. Herald M. Hootman of
Muskegon and Grand Rapids, popular officer and fearless soldicr1
whose body was found floating in
a stream several days after he had
been picked off by a sniper's bullet.
This account of the valor of the
126th regiment could continue at
great length. It would be wrong to
think there were none in the regiment found wanting during the
New Guinea ordeal but their number was negligible and it can be
proudly said that nearly every man
o! the hundreds who left their
homes three years ago has earned
the gratitude and admiration not
only of Western Michigan but of
the whole nation.
~New Landi,{·~·
at Saidor
Stuns\. JaPis
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By LEONARD M LL.IMAN
Associated Pres°' ,var Ed11:ior
American amphibious troops
landed unopposed on the northern
coast of New Guinea, capturing the
harbor and airport of Saidor and
trapping Japanese forces between
them and Australians advancing \JP
the coast of the Huon peninsula,
Gen. Doug I as MacArthur a.nnounced Monday.
Saidor fo about 110 air line miles
northwest of Finschhafen, starting
point of the Austi-alian march up
the coast, and 55 miles southeast of
Madang, nearest major Japaneee
base toward which another column
of Auetralians is driving from the
Ramu valley.
The landing, made by midwestern
, elements ot the 32nd division of the
Sixth army, took the Japanese by
complete surprise. A 200-ton bombardment by warships and plane~
left the Japanese garrison so
stunned they offC"red no resistanre
as the sold.ier~ poured ashore ,1.t
Ithree points. The troops, hugely
from Wiscon~in and Michigan.
went a11hore behind a smoke screen
and quickly overcame slight Japanese resistance as they advanced
and established firm control over
the airfields and harbor.
The amphibious operation represents an overnight gain that would
have taken a month or longer to
accomplish by the laborious march
through the coastal jungles. It
poses a new threat to Madang and
its subsidiary bastion of Bogajim,
which is about 45 miles west of
.Saldor.
In the overall picture this is another extension of MacArthur's
route back t , the Philippines, furthet'ing the movement started when
Sixth army units landed on the
Arawe sector of New Britain Dec.
15. Along this route marin~s are
1developing the Japanese-built alrdrome at CapE'! Gloucester, New
Britain. but there ha~ bPen no word
since the Dec. 26 lnndin~ or AmerlC'an forC'es on LOng i~land. off the
New Guinea coast c1hout 50 miles
eR~l or Saidor.
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Cloudy, Warmer
Full U. S. Weather
Bureau Report on Fare I
FIF'rY-NINTH
n~ ~pi~s _~tnda
<fkt
GRAND
YEAR
'IDS,
MICH.,
MONDAY,
JANUARY
3,
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1944
AMERICAN ~
lMPHIBIOUS FORCES
LAND. AT S·1·DOR, NEW Capture
GUINEA·
Airfield; Foe
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War Echoes in Grand Rapids
Resistance Is Feeble
32nd D,iv,ision Aids ·in Landing
Operafi,ons M,enacing Jap Bas,es
ADV AN CED ALLIE D HEADQUARTERS, New Guinea UP ) Gen. Douglas MacArthur landed veteran American army troops ,
including elements of the 32nd division, on the beach at Saidor on
the north coast of New Guinea, without opposition Sunday to
strike the third lightning blow in 18 days against the Japanese in
the southwest Pacific area.
'
The troops, commanded by Brig. Gen. Clarence Martin and
Col. Slade N. Bradley, pushed inland, immediately to capture the
- _ _ 1airfield and reported shortly
after landing they had encountered slight resistance.
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With the Japanese still reeling
from offensive thrusts at Cape
Gloucester and Arawe, both on
New Britain island, all since Deo.
15, MacArthur caught them again
by surprise by landing the soldiers
behind the enemy's lines only 55
miles southeast of Madang, the
Japanese' big base on Astrolabe
bay.
By
this
amphibious
operation
MacArthur cut off a considerable
force of Japanese still battling the
Australians a few miles north of
RED ARROW J OB--1\lrs. Hazel
Marker , 842 Alpine-av., N. W.,
displ ays t h e h a n diw ork of her
son, S/Sgt. Stanley Ketch e1, 27,
veteran of New Gu in ea cam paign s, who has acquired skill
i n knitting and weaving w hile
convalescing in an Australia n
h ospital rou owtng attaeks or
malaria.
his uncle, the late Stanley Ketchel
of Grand Rapids, famous middle weight boxing champion.
Graduated in 1936 from Union
i.n..h........,._~
Blucher point, which is above the
Aliied base at Finschhafen, and
the commanding general said the
enemy was "trapped with n o
source of supply, and they face
disintegration and destruction."
�Capt. Charlea
of the headquarter•
detachment, third b'attellon, l:l8tb Infantry
32nd dlvl1lon, U. S. A., called upon m.-iut
week Thursday. That was a call worth
having for we mighty seldom nowadays • ee
a aoldJer with the famous Red Arrow on
his shoulder. The boys who wear this Jn•ignia are over in New Guinea, have just
made a new landing there and since the
first troops went into action in the south
Pacffjc, the Red Arrow division has been
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pretty busy killing Japs.
So from Lawyer, who has been with the
126th a long time before this war I got
a pretty goo~ glimpse of what the boys
have been doing and the conditions under
which they have been doing it. Charlie like
most of those who have seen real figh.Ung
will say Httle about that phase of ft ):,\l"t
he did te11 me something of the difficuJtles
:~dte;is ~ : : the boys have been fighting
Capt. Lawyer is home because he, like
many another, says, "This is a young man's
war. The tremendous exertions required
and general hardships endured are just too
much tor the ·ticker' or even a middle-aged
man, a man say in his 40's." That's the reason Lawyer Is home and hereafter will be
doing only limited service. They wanted to
give him a medica l discharge but he said:
''After being in the service 25 years, I don ·t
wan~ t~ quit in. the middle of a war. I can
do l1m1ted service." They took him at his
word and so he still wears Uncle Sam's
uniform with the Red Arrow on his shoulder.
In describing the toll which the exertions
ot this war take, Lawyer enumerated many
ot the original officers of the division
Most of those high up in rank were in
their 40's, even up to 48. Today just one
officer is above 40 while very few of the
rest or the officers are above 30. Many a
captain and major and even colonel are
in their early 20's for they are the ones who
can take it.
Moreover, Lawyer said that when the
32nd went over, 88 of the officeu were virtually local and well known. Today only
seven of those original officers are left.
Many, of course, are with other outfits but
so far as the 32nd is concerned, those of
\ us who once knew officers and men would
find mostly strangers.
On the other hand, one of the reasons for
the great weeding out of local men is th').t
the 126th perhaps has sent more non-coms
and enlisted men to officers' training
schools than almost any other similar outfit. Lawyer says the boys are the finest of
soldiers and know their stuff so that a
great many or those who started Out as en•
ll• ted men are today wearing bars on their
aboulden.
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Australia Is Fine;
New Guinea, Terrible
Capt. Lawyer says Australia is a splendid
country and the people so very much like
Americans that they all get on wonderful1y
well together. He said the Australians just
naturally took the Americans to their
hearts, opened their homes to them and
generally palled around with them. Every•
thing was wonljJer!ul and still is wonderful
in Australia so far as the American boys
are concerned and the Australian fighting
men a,re wonderful. But New Guinea he
aays, is something different. We've all ;ead
and heard about the men fighting through
mire and water up to their necks and of
malaria and mosquitoes and other insects
but La~er says we have no conception of
just what that all amounts to.
''The boys in therE! fighting today are
very much better equipped than we were
":'hen we went in at Port Moresby the first
time," he said. ''We had no carbines, no
jungle packs, no proper rations. Today the
boys have all the supplies and equipment
which we have learned from experience Is
necessary for fighting in that kind of ter•
rain and climate. They have everything
now and that helps a lot."
During the advance of the 32nd over the
Owen-Stanley rnnge from Fort Moresby
• Lawyer's out!it was given the job of seeing
that the men On the march got their BUPplies. Having had no expel'ience and no informal.ion on the subject they just had to
figure it out for themselves. It was a case
of dropping the supplies from planes and
of that they knew nothing. They cxperi•
mented and Lawyer says that Maj. Harry
Menclewski did a wonderful job of Jt.
After they finally had the whole thin
figured out and were doing the job, along
comea complete Information from Washington. But they had figured it out long before
and their system was already in operation
Md successfu!Jy. The natives of New Guinea, Lawyer said, fortunately are very
friendly and help the Australians and the
Americana all they can. They hate the Jape
and are used n?t alone as carriers and
aborers but the selected ones are Invaluable
gaining tn!ormation and reporting tt to
proper ofClclals.
• Jr anybody thinks the 32nd is havln11
in N
Guinea, Lawyer says they
on
or, 1111e11 comln . .
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With American Troops at Saidor.
New Guinea-()P'}--The Japanese
t sent nine bombers to raid thP
Ametican beachhead at Saidor Sunday afternoon but found a completely Integrated force of jungle
veterans in command of the area,
. delayed reports disclosed Tuesday.
" It \\·as the first report of an enI emy air attack on Saidor since
Michigan and Wisconsin troops, ele•
ments of th~ 32nd division which
had their baptism o[ lire in the
Papuan campaign, stormed ashore
at dawn New Year's day. (Grand
Rapids members of the Red Arrow
division participated in the land•
ing.)
Only One Man Killed.
One man was killed in _the
and three wounded.
Sunday night Maj. George Bond
of San Angelo, Tc:.-:., summar1zert
I the situation which established this
as one ot the most cheap1y-ga incd
land in gs in the southwest Pacific.
"By that time we held a beach•
head or some five miles," he c;;a id.
"The main objective, securing of
the landing strip, was achieved not
long after noon."
At least 11 Japanese dead havt''
been counted and one enemy sol•
<lier taken prisoner.
One of the first men · to recon•
noiter the area thoroughly was Col.
J . S. Bradley of Ml. Pleasant. S. C.,
c:enior officer of the American in•
fantry force. He was one of the
first, too, to swim the nearby Nankina river.
"I was so hot by then I just
walked right in with my clothes
on," he sairl.
Maj. Boet Spots Bivouac.
Maj. John T. Boet of Grand Rapids. division medical officer, and
Capt. Dubberly went on a scouting
expedition of their own and found
a Japanese bivouac below the
southernmost of the three landing
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more Grand Rap~ds men were
named Tuesday in Associated
Press dispatches concerning the
Red Arrow occupation of Saidor,
New Guinea. Capt. William J.
Johnson, left, was in command
of one of the landing boats; Cpl.
Joseph R. li..,reiburger, Jr., 21,
center, was among the assault
troops, and l\ilaj. John T. Boet,
2U, r~gimental medical officer,
was in charge of a patrol.
·_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ __
~,,.te9ic,11•ouctfll••!.a..,
C.•peGl011c:e,1t••11dLo111lll...
,1i1tJ•p11i1Pf1,h11nlro111~,.
Ne•Ulil111n tot.boul 1olr1.0111,ol
..... ,,..1\11 to11••U \-e,,,h•Pl
"'"'"'°''""orc:l'",h,rlW"9
ganized, then pushed on inland and
in the direction of Saui point.
The main line followed the trail
while riflemen, singly and by twos
and threes poked into undergrowth
to either side.
Spot Native Hut.
U111trellN ~ the J•pallCM...,
RED ARROWS SCORE AGAIN-Spearheaded by l\llchigan and
Wtseonsln troo1>s of the 32nd Red Arrow division, American forces
have captured the harbor and airfield at SaJdor, New GuineL
beaches.
At the trail junction the men
Bradley said he believed the heavy spotted a native hut. Everyi>ody
rd
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~:b~ ;;i~~ brooi.~ ~o a~o:~r~~ :aaic~r~~~d t~ss~~opi/~il~r:~a~~:
explosives on the area, probably There was no return fire. Then
0
~~~ 1/~~~edre:~f~de / e\~~eren;:: Capt. Johnson came out of the
scrub to the left of the trail and
caught
by or fled ahead of th e pre• said, ''H-1, there's nothing therend
la ing naval sheJJing.
we came through that about five
Capt. Johnson Leads Unit.
minutes ago."
One landing boat was in com•
IncJudcd in the landing party was
mand of Capts. William J. Johnson Cpl. Joe R. Freiburger of Grand
of Grand Rapids and Peter L. D:il- Rapids. Most of the troops were
nonte of Three Rivers. When ft hit with the units which participated
the beach the men filed out on the in the Jong hike over part of the
doublc and proreeded inland on a Owen Stanley mountains in the
narrow trail to a native hut. There early days of the New Guinea cam•
they halted momentarily to get or- paign.
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More p apuan Vets a t· Slll,"d or
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Further evidence that many Cpl. Joseph R. Freiburger, jr., 2l,
Grand Rapids veterans of the gruel- whose home is at 2037 Edgewood•
Jing Paouan campaign of a year av., N. E ., Is another Papuan vetago again are in action in the oc• eran in th_e Saidor campaign. ~e
cuption of Saidor, New Guinea, was won the silver star medal for_ his
revealed in Associated Press dis- action in the earlier New Gumea
patches Tuesday listing local of- campaign, leading Utter· bearers
ficers and enJisted men.
around Japanese positions to evacu•
Capt. Wi11iam J. Johnson, son of ate wounded comrades. A former
Mrs. Edgar Johnson of Ada, who Union High school student, he was
was tn command of one of the employed by the Grand_ Rapids
landing boats, was one of the of• Hardware Co. before enterm; servficers with the "'lost company" on J 1cc. A brother, Donald, 1s m the
the Sanananda roadblock late in navy.
1942. In the description of that Maj. John T. Boet, who apparent.
battle it was related that Johnson ly 1s doubling as a patrol leader
then a lieutenant, led m the cap- officer, was promoted to his pres•
turc or a Japanese supply dump ent rank after the Papuan camwhich helped sustain the company paign. He was a close fnend of Lt.
m its bitter 2l•day stand. Capt. Col. Simon Warmenhoven. medical
Johnson is a grandson of the late ofhcer, \\ho ,,.as killed Jn action in
w,mam Judson of ~he JudsOn tho campaign a year ago. Maj.
G~ry Co,
; Boet Is the son of Dr. and .Ml'I.
With Cllpt. Johnson In the Saidor Frank A. 13oet, 849 Scribner-av••
attack wM Capt. Peter L. Dal• N. W., and 1s a graduate of Union
ponte of Three Rivers, who for a High school, J~nior college !ind
time was in command of the "lost\ Marquette
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TWQ SECTIONS
SECTION ONE
GRAND RAPIDS,
MICH.
THURSDAY,
JANUARY
27,
1944'.- 26 PAGES
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ON NEWS STAND.
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ed Arrow V etS to Return Home Soon
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First Quota Will Leave
Jungle Front in March
126th Left City 39 Months Ago Buna Troops
Revelation that veterans of the
32nd (}J.ed Arrow) division will be
returned borne this year means
that members of the 126th infantry, former Michigan National
Guard regiment from Grand Rap ids and other west Michigan cities,
will be back in Grand Rapids after
nearly four years of service, including two overseas.
It was in October, 1940, that some
600 members of Grand Rapids coma nies left the city for trainin g in
Camp Beauregard, La. Col. William Haze, then in charge, later
was retired and many of the men
who left with the original contingents either have been transferred
or have been incapacitated in training or in combat. But of the 1,300
from this city and west Michigan
who went south, several hundred
still remain with the Red Arrow
division in Australia and New
Guinea.
After 16 weeks at Camp Beaure-
gard the division was moved to
Camp Livingston, La., for further
training. Early in 1942 the division was sent to Camp Devens,
Mass., apparently for transfer to
Uie European theater, but later Len gth of Service
orders sent it across the continent
Order of Release
to a Pacific coast embarkation point
where it left in April , 1942, for
Milwaukee--(IP)-Robert J. Doyle,
Australia.
The 126th infantry, with Grand the Milwaukee Journal's staff war
Rapids companies making up part correspondent, in a radio dispatch
of the spearhead attack, rolled from Sajdor, New Guinea, reported
back the Jap invaders in New Thursday that the first group o:t
Guinea in October, November and 32nd division soldiers who would
December of 1942, the campaign return to the United States were
continuing into the early months scheduled to leave the southwest
of 1943. In this campaign heroic Pacific early in March.
chapters were written by the local
"A new army order provides for
troops over the Owen Stanley return on a monthly quota basis,
mountain trails, at Euna and along beginning in March, of army perSananada road. Many Grand Rap - sonnel with 18 months' service in
ids and west Michigan youths won the southwest Pacific area," Doyle
awards for their heroism in this said. "Preference is to be given t o
those with six months or more in
action.
A few weeks ago local units were tropical areas-northern Australia
reported in a landing at Saidor, and New Guinea and other islands ..
S oldiers T hrllled.
New Guinea, where they probably
still are in action.
"This is the biggest news Red
History of the 126th infantry and Arrow soldiers have heard sirlce
of the 32nd division goes back to they were sent overseas. From
the Spanish-American war. The morning until night they talk o f
division also was in the Mexican little else. Almost every soldier
border campaign of 1916, served in I have talked to in the last y ear
France w ith unusual distbction in has asked, 'When are we goin g
1917-1918 and then was part of the home?' Soldiers have nursed r earmy of occupation in Germany. It turning-home rumors since the
V./as one of the first units calleQ, Buna campaign.
into federal service in 1940 when
"Even though Red Arrow per•
orders for
mobilization
were sonnel officers a1:1e compiling lists
issued.
at the direction of division head ..
quarters, naming men qualified for
return, some soldiers are afraid t o
believe it.
"Quotas are secret, but it appea rs
that they will be relatively small
j<That's wonderful!" exclaimed for the first few months, but may
Col. William Haze, former com- increase when the machinery is
mander of the 126th infantry, when running smoothly and more ship•
informed at his heme Thursday of ping and replacements are avail•
the plan to return to this country able.
veterans of the 32nd (Red Arrow)
'1Juna Boys" First.
division.
"Among soldiers who arrived in
"I doubt that any news could lift Australia more than 21 month•
the morale of the men at home as ago with the 32nd division, pref•
•.vell as those in the fighting as erence probably will be given
much as this. It gives to those who
still are to go overseas some assur- those with the longest service in
ance that they may expect to re- New Guinea. Red Arrow infantryturn home after they have had men still v-.'ith the division who
fought in the Buna campaign have
their share of the battle and of had nearly nine months' tropical
course it gives similar assurance
service. Fjrst quotas will consl,;t
to tho.se..~~ th..:_ :~~~t_:~~~~t~er_;v~l~ chief!}' of "'ll<'h vetetans.
Get Priority
Rule!i
Boost to Morale
Asserts Col. Haze
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FEBRUARY 11,
APS WIPED ·OUl
Wipe Out 14,000 Japs
in New Guinea Victory
32nd Divis·ion Yanks, Aussies
Effect Juncture at Saidor
ALLIED ~EA_DQUARTERS IN THE SOUTHWEST PACIFIC
(Fnday) <.1P)~V1ctonous conclusion of a rugged New Guinea
Jungle campaign which trapped 14,000 Japanese and wiped out
the "great bulk" of them was announced today by Gen Douglas
MacArthur.
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.Australian ve.terans of African battles with the Nazis climaxed
a five months drive over the Huon peninsula's treacherous terrain
by effectmg a Juncture Th~rsday morning with American invasion
forces near Sa1dor-puttmg both in position to th
t t
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bomb-paralyzed Madang.
rus owar
The Aussies and Yanks
joined forces at old l'.agoml,
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U miles sout heut of Saidor.
Th e Australian Infantry :force
and citizens mllltary force
(mllitla) met the Amerlcarus
Jncludhtg Buna. veterans of the
32nd division , on a hot, flat
coastal plai n.
The Aussies had pushed 150 miles
northwest from Finschhafen Bince
that peninsula ~ase was captured
last Oct. 2. They fought bitterly
ove.r towering mountains ot the
Finisterre range and a Jong the unhealthy coastal plain. They had
to ford approximately 60 streams
running down from Saruwaged
and Finisterre.
CPL. \VELDON G. LUSKIN
S/SGT. WALTER CHESLOCK
\VAR TAKES LIVEfi OF FOUR-Action at Saidor, New Guinea, on
:Feb, 22, brought death to three Grand Rapids soldiers of the 126th
infantry, according to messages received by their parents. Sgt.
Robert Stefans, 21, w·ho had celebrated his twenty-first birthday
i,~eb. 20, is the son of l\lr. and l\lrs. Frank Ste(ans, now of i\Iuske~on
Heights. SJSgt. Russe ll E. Young, 25, is the son of l\Ir. and l\lrs.
Roy E. Young, 1U8 Summer-av., N. \\'. S/ Sgt. \Valter Chc-slock, 31,
I~ the son of l\lr. and Mr!ll. John Cheslock, 9,19 Twelfth-st., N. \V.
All th r ee attended Union High school. Cpl. \Veldon G. Luskin, 18,
of t he marines, son of A. W. Luskin, Ludington, was killed in a
plane accident in the southwest Pacific.
Two JI ore Red Arrows l(illedi
T\',.'O more vetPrans of 32nd divi- looking forward to the promised
sion action in the southwest Paci- , return of their outfit to th e UniV'd
States. The new reports brought te l
fie, who have gone throu gh the bit- thrPe the number k illed at Saidor.
terest fighting with the 126th inThe lat<.'sl Grand R a pids casunl!antry, met d('ath in action against ti es. reported to their pare nts in
the Japanese at Saidor, New official war department telegrams, t
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; Sgt. Robert Stefan:;;, ':!1, son o ... 1
Mr. and Mrs. Frank Stefans, Muskcgon Heights, formerly of Grand
R:~~ct;;ted
Wednesday
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the
death ol S/ Sgt. Walter Cheslock,
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lock, 949 Twelfth-st., N. W.
Sgt. Young who w as cited by his
\ company commander, Capt. M. M.
Huggins, for heroism in the battle
of the Sanananda track in the
Buna compaign more than a y ear
ago, was a warded the silver star
for gallantry. He w as born in
Shelby county, Ind., and moved to
Muskegon Heights with his par~
ents, where they lived before coming here. He was gradua ted from
Un ion High sc hool in 1937 and
was a member of th e local national
guard unit when it was caJled to
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in the fall of 1940. He operIduty
ated his own sheet metal shop on
Bridge-st., be fore his enlistment.
Sgt. Stelans left Union High
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school, where he was a sergeant in
the ROTC unit. tc go to active
duty with the 126th infantry in the
fall of 1940 and was with the outfit throughout ~ ct ion in 1hc Buna
campaign. Besides his parents he
is surviv d by a brother, Pvt. ,
Thoma
~~Y Stcfans, station,d ~
army air base, Pratt,
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SAIDOR LANDIN<:,
The Americans landed from the.
11ea at Saidor Jan. 2 thereby squeezing J a panese between them and
th e Australlans, then about 50
miles away. Many of these Japa- 1
nese were drowned when PT boats
sank the barges on which they
tric to esca pe..
Others fled into the mount a ins
a nd starved to death a long the
jungle trails.
The juncture of the fo r ces probably signalizes a driv1;1 on the
coastal base of Madang, about 60
miles by coastline above Saidor.
Fliers already have reported indications that the Japanese may
have abandone.d that coastal base.
SIX JAP Rl';GIMENTS
In thEJ Huon campaign, the Japanese forces destroyed included six
infantry, artillery and engineer
regimc.nts.
Headquarters.
in
announcing
the ground sOccess today, also reported air blows at Japan's two
principal Southwest Pacific air
bases of Rabaul , New Britain, and
Wewak, New Guinea.
An air raid also was made on
Al1:xishafen, air support base for
Madang and Kavieng, New Ireland,
s taging dr.pot for Rabaul.
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NICE TOWN - Grand Rapids
looks "pretty swell" to T / Sgt.
Jack Dezeeuw, Red Arrow veteran, who maintained radio
connections between the front
lines and headquarters in the
Battle of Buna, a.nd at Saidor
and Altape. He is home on furlough for 21 da)·s, visiting his
sister, 1\lrs. Edward Broekstra,
843 \Vatk.ins-st., S. E., before
reporting at Fort Sam Houston, Tex., for reassignment.
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(In one Of the most dramatic
moves of this war, the United
States army forces on Luzon
have rescued 510 Allied prison.
ers
from
a
Japanese pril!1on
stockade far behind the enemy
lines.
(Clark Lee, veteran Interna•
tional News Service war correspondent who covered the fall
of Bataan, accompanied the
picked group of U. S. Rangers
eued men, dre11ed In rags and
ploit of the Paciflc .war, 407 Amer•
ican Rangers and Filipino guertatten, staggered or were .carrillas stormed a Japanese prison
ried to the safety of American
carnp in eastern Luzon Tuesday llnes under heavy fire from the
night and freed 510 Allied captives,
Jap prison gua~
· Tragically,
mostly American ol'ficers and sol•
two died with
lght of an
diers, afer killing 523 Japs of the
American army
p.
brutal garrison.
WAVE OF REJOICING
Pitifully weakened by starvaAgainst the astoundingly heavy
tion and horrors perpetrated by
their ruthless captorsJ the resJap losses, the heroic band of res-
who knifed through 30 miles of
enemy territory to rescue the
men. The following is his eyewitness story of the deliver-
ippines, hastenCLARK LEE
ed to make public the names and addresses of
the freed men.
"No Incident of the campaign
has given me such personal
satisfaction," he declared. '"The
mission was brlliantly successful.'J
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By CLARK LEE
International News Correspondent
WITH AMERICAN RANGERS
NEAR CABANATUAN, Luzon (Delayed)-In the most electrifying ex-
Led Luzon Prisoner Liberation
Lt. Col. Henry A. Mucci of Bridgeport, Conn.• (above) led the
daring and dramatic rescue of American and Allied prisoners from
a Japanese camp on Luzon, He commanded 121 picked U. S. Rangers
e.nd 286 Filipino guerrillas In the raid. Mucci's wife and young
daughter, who live in Denver, are pictured on page 2, (Ar Wirephoto).
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Sanananda Sergeant Ca,ual About It
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The man who, with a patrol of
30 under his command, fought nis
way through to the famous "lost
com9a ny" of Sanananda road block
fame In the early fighting on New
Guiri<li,, ls home again for 30 days
~happy in spite of the fact that
he feels Impelled to do some goodnatur~d "explaining."
He ls- Sgt. Thaddeus C. (Ted)
· Gclembi'&wskl, 22, son ot Mr. and
Mrs. Stanley Golembiewski 757
! Lake Michigan-dr., N. W. •
Twice reported wounded, he
,vants to clear that up. His first
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"wound," just after the Sanananda
epic, was simp]y malaria. The second wound was "OK"-a bullet in
the ribs at Saidor. For him, the
malaria was worst of the two.
That, he said, "really got me
down,'' and he was repeatedly hospi ta1ized in Australia.
"Explanation" No. 2 has to do
with. the widespread publicity he
received as a hero. He laughs that
off with a simple: "I only did what
I was supposed to do." (What he
was "'supposed to do"-and did was What really bothered Sgt. Golemlo take hi s patrol and establish biewski was a Detroit newspaper's
contact with the Red Arrow sol- c~ual statement, in a story about
OY IN HOT SPOT-Carrying canteens of water'
I dicrs holding the Sanananda road his feat, that "Sgt. Golembiewski
up a ridge on the island of Guam was t he task of Pfc. Gerard J.
1 block and surrounded by Japs. He is married.''
Platte, son of 1\-lr, and Mrs. Richard Platte, 153 Valley-av., N. \\'.,
made it, with the Joss of two men>. / •'That," says the sergeant, "'has I
when this picture was taken. Pfc. Platte enlisted In the marines In
called for a lot of explaining! It
just isn't so."
January, 194%, and hu bfien In the south Paclftc many months. He
After his leave, Sgt. Golembiewtook part In the flrhtlng on Bougalnvllle and other operations In that
ski reports at Fletcher General
theater. He Is a graduate of Catholic Central High achoo! a nd wa1
1 hospital, Cambridge, Mass., for reIO •\'l • ~'t
employed by Hayes Manufacturing corporation.
assignment.
He is a graduate of Union High
school. He left here with the naTHE DETROIT NEWS, SUNDAY, APRIL 2!, 1944
tlonal guard in October, 1940, and
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in April, 1942. Hls brother Edward
G., is a seaman first cl~s, based
at GuJfport, Miss. Two ha1f-brothers also are in service. Cpl. Bernard Sobotka, in North Africa, and
Lt. Harry Sabotka.
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REUNION SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA-U. S. servicemen from Michigan get together for a group photograph in an American Red Cross Service
Club.
Their names, addresses, and length of service in the Southwest Pacific, as of the middle of February, are listed below, from left to right.
Row I: Pvt. Fabian Maka·•wiez, Fosters, 8 months ; T / 4'
rry Ball, 6457 Jos. Campau, D•18 months; T /5 Edw~d J.
23 Elm Park boulevard,
t Ridge, 22 months ; Corp.
Corace, 2307 Van Dyke,
9 months ; Pfc. Harold A.
ly, 4 month•; Pfc. Frank
~720 DequJndre, Ham-
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c Robert A. Franta,
otreet. Detroit, 5
months; Corp. William Dzioba,
Battle Creek, 10 months; SergL
R a ymond Branstrom, Chassell, 24
months; P. 2/ c Toney A. Baade,
New Haven, 12 months; S l.'c
Michael J. O'Connor, 31'5 East
Loun avenue, Detroit, 8 months;
Pfc. Thomas J . Spencer, 631 Selden avenue, Detroit, 1 month;
R. M. 2/c Hillard Ganga, Iron
Mountain ; Pvt. George P . Dettloff, M35 Yorkshire street, Detroit,
1 week: Corp. Clinton McNeven,
E88exvllle, 19 montb1; Sergt.
Daniel McGreevy, 012 Carter avenue, Detroit, 20 months.
Row S: B. M. 2/ c William Coleman, Bronson, 2 years; Sergt,
Earl E . Krause, Flint, 23 months;
T / :S James V. Bis, Kalamazoo, 21
months ; Pfc. John Mierzwa,
Jackson, 8 months; T / 5 Fred L.
Peters. Gladwin, 10 months; 2nd
Lieut. C. A. C., Norman Petrak,
22538 Beech st., Dearborn, 4
month •; American Red Cross
worker Trudy Johnson, 15371
Asbury Park, Detroit, 8 months;
C. M. 2/c Alen W. Bundy, Battle
Creek, 2 years ; T / 5 Ben Brown,
1535 B1aine avenue, Detroit, 9
months ; S; Sergt. Jot11eph Marka;t
Flint, H months; F 2 /c Fritz F
Schossau , Wyandotte, 3 '6ths:
Pfc. Leo Bomber, 3300 Martin
atre~t, Detroit, 19 months.
Row 4: Pfc. John Sumner, 1071
Hubbard street, De-troit, 2 )'ears;
Pvt. John E. Stockmeyer, Saglna.w. 7 months; Pvt. Edward V.
Ander1ite, 2180 Lemay avenue,
Detroit, 22 ,.tbs; Sergt. Elwood Somers, Lincoln, 10 months:
F 2/ c Harry M ~ 4155 Rlopelle
street, Detroil 3 months; SergL
;Bl&nz E. Toensfeldt, 3419 Hamlllon avenue, Detroit, 8 months;
Pfc. Warren Geiger, Kalamazoo,
, months; Pvt. Arwin Bates,
Whilehall 1 week; Corp. Garlo F.
Andreoli, .079 Townsend avenue,
Detroit, 13 months ; Pfc. Seymour
Matenky, 13331 Fourteenth street,
Detroit, 3 mont.ha.-Pboto from:
American Red Crosa.
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Dashes Hopes
Hope that Pvt. Allen Wllcox, Jn•
fantryman inissin1 at the An.z:io
beachhead since Feb. 8, might have
been taken prisoner by the German~ and still
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AT SAIDOR. NEW Gu!NEA, during a Juli in fighting, Sgt. Joseph Raffertr, at left,
son of Mr. and )!rs. A. F. Rafferty, 1987 Harding avenue, )Iuskegon, takes time out lo
do a bit of bull-threshing with Sgt. Wilbur Smith, Big ·Rapids. The main subject of such
session~ is the "good ol' U. S . .A." T,hese three nre m, 'rr bcr5 of Gener~! :.\JacArthur'z forces
that made the successful inrnsion at Saidor.-\U. S. Si ,nal corps photo.)
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Pvt. Wilcox, son of Mrs. Bern•.c•
Wilcox, 48 LaBelle-st.. S. W.,
married here last July whlle en
leave from a Texas camp to Mils
Patricia Bilsborrow, who reaidea
with her parents, Mr. and Mr-..
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ford-dr., S. E. She received word
on March 16 that her husband wu
missing.
Pvt. Wilcox was a native ot
Grand Rapids. graduate of South
High school in 1942 and former
manager of a C. Thomas store on.
Eastern-av., S. E. He had been
overseas since November.
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�AFTER FIVE DAYS. RETURN TO
Fifth Year of War Finds
Invincible German Army
Awaiting Certain Defeat
By Chronide Staff Writer
World War II becomes four years old at 11 :35 a. m.
Wednesday.
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It was on September 1, 1939, word was flashed to a tense
world the long-feared hostilities in powder-keg Europe had
burst into cataclysm.
'11.
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The Associated Press carried this bulletin announcing the
start of the warWarsaw, Sept. 1.-(5:35 p. m., 11:35 a. m., E. S. T.)(AP)-German warplanes swooped over ,Yarsaw this
afternoon in an air attack in advance of three German
armies .invading this country.
Through horrible months that followed, the Luftwaffe and
invincib1e German armies pyramided ..one victory upon another. Even darker days came in 19-10 when the Blitz of
London was begun. But the RAF stalled the Luftwaffe and
the campaign ended in a victory for Englai;,d. From that
date until now the 44 invincible" Germans have known their
war must end in defeat. Today, jittery, they await the im·asion of the United Kations aimed at the liberation of all
Europe.
Briefly summarized, here are events of the four years a'!
war:
1939-4(}
Adolf Hitler touched off history's greatest
war with his invasion of Poland on Sept. 1,
1939. After a winter lull in the west, while Russia fought
Finland, the Nazis attacked Denmark, Norway, The Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and France, and swiftly • conquered all by June, 1940. ltaly enle1'ed the fight in time to
jump on fallen France and began attacking the British in
Africa. As the first year of war ended the battle of Britain
was beginning- an air blitz in which London, Co,·entry, anti
other cities were ..bomb Yictims, but a campaign that ended
in victory for England because the RAF beat off the Luftwaffe. ·
1940 • 41
Pompous Mussolini invaded Greece in ~ovember, 1940, and promptly got_ pushed back
on his heels by the "army in skirts " Hitler came to the
rescue in the s:pring of 1942, attacking Yugoslavia, Greece
-and Crete. Germany surprised the world in June with the
invasion of Russia, an ill-starred campaign that has gone on
for more than hvo years, taken millions of German and
Russian soldiers' !ires, and left many thousands of Soviet
civilians dead, too-the victims of brutal Nazis who murdered as they retreated under l;(.e d Army pressure.
attack on Pearl Harbor on historic
1941 • 42 Japan's
Dec. 7, 1941, turned the war from a European struggle to a global coi1flict. There followed a series
o[ defeats in the Pacific, but by the summer of 1942 the
Tlnited States was winning battles like the naval-air
clashes in the Coral Sea and at Midway and had scored a
stunning surprise with the raid on Tokyo. American fight,g men and flyers were sent to all parts of the world-to
Australia and New Guinea, to the Jap-inrnded Aleutians, to
England to prepare for attacks on Europe and Africa, and
to· the Solomons, where the United States started pushing
the Japs back in August, 1942.
1942-43
While '.Americans and Australians battled
Japs in the jungles of New Guinea and the
Solomons, the war spotlight swung back to Europe with
the invasion of North Africa in November, 1 942 . Allied
troops struck acrpss Morocco and Algeria while Britain's
Montgomery chased Rommel out of Egypt and Libya. The
combined armies cleared the Axis from Tunisia by May,
1943, and invaded Sicilr two months !ale,·. .\leanwhile
Germany and Italy were bombed by the RAF and uSAAF
in an unprecedented aerial blitz. 1\ew o(fensiYes were
ahead in the Pacific as the Allies took Atlu and Kiska and
bombed the Japs in the Kuriles and points South.
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Men of 126th
Say Japanese .?-'/" ,
Are Cannibals _
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The barbarism of the Jap troops
is perhaps the bitterest recollection of returning members of the
126th regiment, composed of west
Michigan troops, who fought so
well in the New Guinea campaign.
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Capt. Mitchell Hann, 1242 Walker
1 ave., NW., home on leave, is o~
the opinion, shared by many offl."'I
I cers and men of the 32nd division,
that the Japs resorted to canni-
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M~\~osfe~:V343iu6:~~
ley ave., SW., wounded New Guinea
veteran, has reported seeing wounded and dead AustraHan soldiers
with pieces of flesh cut from their
bodies.
It is the theory of Capt. Haan
that the Japs, although they themselves, perhaps, did not actually
eat human flesh, did use it to feed
!south Sea natives and Korean
coolies used in building military
installations in New Gunea. He
said his troops one~ , ea.me upon a
pot of meat in J-r:S'ap Camp whic~
ion inspection closely reseIXJ,blld, 1
ihuJilan flesh.
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�Around tlw Town
Sp,\ing on the ,Taps iJ1 Ne\.Y Guin0a from. an
inland peak, ·while li\"lng among the natives
j
in r1. 1rnpical \\"ildf'rncss 12 cla:vs is vi,·idly de- ;
~cribcd hv L1. AHred Kirelwnhwuei, 23 years
old, of lliuskegon. in ,i letter to his ,,.- ife. the
(ormer Hester A11.it1•c\\·s.
The
).!11skegon t'fman
who left
hf're
as a
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THE GRAND RAPms HERAI.l).
serireanl in tlw J!,fadriuarters company of the !
126th Infantry, ,,·as with Co. E when it
made ils famous march o,·cr 1l1e Owen StanA
lf'\' mounta1m.
He has b€'cn ill with ma•
la~ia fi\'f' 1imes. but got hack in
action.
MUSKEGON HEIGHTS SOLDIER RECOVERS FROM MALARIA
Jap Attack Put Damper on Christmas
in New Guinea, but Yanks Setfled Score
in
, rec·ent months and ha~ had sc,·eral narrow
escapes from death, M.rs. Kirchcnb<1uer reports.
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Lieu1enant Kin:hcnbauP-1' is the ~on of Arthur KirchenhauC'r, 1206 Oak Grove a,·enue, 1
a~ of i\11·s . Ca'.Jil~ n Kirc-henbauer, 216 Allen ;
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Muskegon Bureau
says Vos, "so the next morning ,we
t Cl
Ghrand Raplds dHerahld
jumped on the Japs and heaved
an a
aus ad spanne t ousands ~f miles of ocean, dodging them out of there."
submarmes and other modern 01;
Unfortunately, however, the enr~~unia~ld
emy soldiers had feasted on the
puffed over the Owen Stanley
• mountains to boot, just so that the
brave band of Yanks cracking at
Buna Mission should not miss his
annual visit.
And he made it, too, in time for
Christmas eve, 194.2,
Men of the famed 32nd division
were jubilant, For many weeks
they had eaten no baked goods, no
candy, nor had they had ·a pull on
a good cheroot. The yule packages
appeared destined to end all this,
and thus the soldiers fell to with
a will, tearing bright colQred inner
wrappings off the parcels.
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The ~old1e-f ,~s that ).luskegon )io;> s
(rom He.:1rlquarters compan;-, and Co. C
€',tend their greetings to former men or 1
!he outfit and to their familirs and other
friends.
The letter dated Feb. 15 and receh ·ed March
10, co,·er.~ an cxpC'dition of Jan. 31 to Feb. 10,
and is a.s folio\\'~:
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~~:~:.s ~n:
left the Bn. C.P. ,vith 10 men from 1
Co. C..
Sgt. Frankffdtch from lviuskegon
Heights is the sql.lad leader. Also along are a
sergeant and private from the Intelligence
section and SgL VanWiegen from Co. F: a
nati,·e police hoy, Sapol, and :n natiYe earriers "·ith our packs and rations. \Ve loaded 11
on a harg-e and after a five mile ride landed
at our out post.
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From !here on foot we followed a native trail •
inland up a mountain range.
The natives,
.sure and trail wise. pojnted out lreachcrous ,'
plaee.s. Tll0y seem to be ahle to smell Japs, 1 1
and for safety we .send them ahf'ad to scout. I
Tlle nati\·es each carry about 4.0 pounds al I /
rla~. \Ve nen'r stop longer than five minutes to rest hccause this stif(cns 1he legs anrl i 1
cools one too much.
Thr natives pushert ~
ahead to a cocoanut g1·on' and had waiting · I
for -us cocoanuts whose juice was refrPsh- l
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ing.
This afternoon
~~~~~d a1~~ll~~i~-el
we
0
s1 opped
at
an
i~~tt 1!~~a';1;ti;;-e~~~~~l
ed other articles, such as socks and
houseslippers, prized wants in the
New G uinea area.
The men were making ready to
eXchange this or that, or had tossed
a Jump of candy to a partner, when
who should come u p but an u nlnvited guest, in the form of a Jap
attack. The Nips were in force and
drove the Americans back.
PACKAGES DROPPED
Ptivate John Vos 1 281 of Muskegon Heights was th ere and he and
every othe~ Yank dropped hia
Christmas package.
"That made us good and mad,"
(
a ban- )
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o7:l ~;~at'1~t~(~.
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n\::i;~ ~~:i)~~g~roi1~~; 11
remarkahle 1he work the missionaries ha,·e c
nccomp\ished here.
I learned later these I t
\\"f'J"f' German Lutherans.
f'
I The nath·es. whene,·er dogs came ne11r 1
would yel! "Doust." a German word. We 1
didn't Ji.kc thr dogs either for the;-r Rte dear[ J
Japanc$e.
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After a. restless night on hard bamboo hed s. ' '
Ke ate a hot breakfaH from the famous 1~
army ''J" ration, hit the trail and soon our 1
kinks and aches _we1p gone. The tr~il steep- l 1
encrl c1nrl " ·a~ slippery from the ram. Soon
our jungle greens were soaked with sweat, (
hence we wc-lcomed mountain stream!- to 1<
c-ool our hands and face~ and lappcd handfuls · 1
of watC'r. nath-e fa!:ihion.
About 11 :.30 we reached our destination near
a nafi,·e ,·illagf'. The occupants would !ell I
m:v police bO;>' all they knev.f ahout the .T~ps l
and he repealed it 10 me in pidgin English.
\Vhile obserYation posts were being- established
thl" na1i,·es built us two huts and a cook shack
anrl a hut for themseh·es. My carriers all
belonged to Angou, controllP-d b;>' Australia.
so I sent them back the ne:d day, leanng
Sapo! crnd four cook boys with us.
T\,'.O
of our outpo~ts <fff' in trees. and the other 1s
on a hill. a 10 minute clirnb from my command po~L.
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th!:
Q~x::~~:1ci ~~~eg~~t: t;:~e d:~~
and in addition there were assort-
::md made our herls _iust hefo1·c it hegan to
rain. After darkness all was quiet except fo1• 1
I he rust ling in the hrus)1 of a native pig, and . 1
!hf-" swishing of banana and cocoanut ]Nn·es. 1~
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His battalion, he says, was the
only American unit to make the
complete trip over the Owen Stanley mountains, a 125 air-mile trip,
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rnd ~ith altitude at 9,000 feet at
PVT. JOHN VOS
he highest point. The Fuzzy Wuz_ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ zies, or New Guinea natives, alChristmas sweetmeats and had ways helpful to the Allies, were
passed the other presents back, so a distinct aid on that trek, Vos
while the Americans recovered the d?clares. The going was no picposition, they had no luck in get- me at any time and for three
ting their .p ackages again.
months Vos recalls his outfit slept
This score was only one o! many on th e ground with no covet to
the Yanks settled when they and combat rains or insects. The same
the Aussies took Euna Mission and pair of socks ~id duty 10 days or
Sanananda, after a gruelling cam- ~~;: ao d boo.ts of so_me soldiers
paign but Vos recalls it vividly
d on th eir feet m the slog
today' as he looks back over,seven th rough swamp mud.
The Americans had food all the
time, Vos says, but once in a while
the supply was low. The Japs at
Buna Mission had eaten dry rice
several days before they were capID-~:!> -D
tured, the Heights man says. The
Yanks cut ofl' the water supply to
the mission just before the place
was mopped up.
SAYS JAP SAVAGERY TRUE
Vos declares stories of Japanese
ati-ocities and · savagery are only
50 per cent strong enough. "They
just aren't human," he says he is
convinced after contact with them
on the island. Vos had many close
calls, one especially. when a sniper
shot and killed his partner. The
shot might just as well have been
intended for him, Vos believes,
since he was less than 10 feet away.
He has trophies ot the jungle
campaign, a Jap wrist watch, shaving brush and toothbrush-none
of which he is very anxious tp
handle, even himself-please. ""'1""'
don't like to touch their belon!o
ings," he opines,
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AUSTRALIANS FRIENDLY
The Australians are a forthright
and friendly people and Vos likes
the island continent, but there's
nothing like the United States, aft' er all. He likes the Australian
girls, even if they don't understand
football, and he calls the Aussie
soldier a most ferocious warrior.
•He hopes soon to be transferred
to Percy Jones hospital, Battle
Creek.
While home, Vos fs visiting
friends and relatives. He also is
speaking now and then at war bond
i and incentive rallies in the factories
I here.
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,ve see Japs mo,·ing along the bE>ach, batll~
ing and washing tlothes, and \\.·e see . the
smoke from their cooking fires. The natives' I
' information is depenrtablc. For example, they I
told me \\·here two mountain gun~ were,
whirh later was corifirmed by a pri sont'r of
,var.
The nati\·es abanrloned their beac h
yilJages and moved high into !he- rnounta)n::;
but freQuentl;-• yj~itect thf'ir garclen.s anrl. ~pied
on !he hated Japs \\'ho steal their food, ~-ho~t 1
their pigs .ind .in some case's harm their l
women.
.
Sapol, at m;- reques1. asked the Lu Luai,
ot' No . 1 man of !he village. to ~end ~ome
nath·e food for hart er. as mone;-' isn't much I
good here. 'vVe use main!;-· salt. razor hlades. I
tobacco and calico. Salt is almost lil;:e gold. and I
one spoonfu l normally wm bu:v about 20 pounds l
of natiw· food. Since the Japs moved in,j
most of the in1and Yillages ore over~
I crowded and there is a food ~hortage: so l hey 1j
1 , ...·elcomc
rice and meat.
Our natl\·e food
I arriYecl. so for a
change we had a stew of
yams, pumpkin. squash. onions. bull;-' bee(
~nrl our own canned pea,. l t was really good! I
\Vhile the Lu Ltiai i~ lhe No. 1 man of
the village. the No. 2 man is Rune -Tune and \
No. 3 is the Doctor Bo;>'.
Our No. 1 cook bov has bef'n chewing an
over suppl;-r of betel nut, and has llalf a
_iag. fle is ga;- and 1alkalive as he washed
the cups and tin~ in hot water- and GI soap .
His mouth is red from. the juice which ap- l
parenllr has an akohol1e effect.
months spent in New Guinea. He
is home on furlough from a Texas
hospital where h has b
_
ering from mafaria f=~~r re:i;_
tracted last March.
Remembering the boys of the
outfit he served with, who are still
in the tropical hell of New Guinea,
Private Vos dispatched this week
what he says is a favorite gift to
men overseas, particularly in the
South Pacific-a box of cigars.
In fact, he sent along four of
them.
The Heights soldier, graduate of
Heights high in 1938, went to camp
in October, 1940. He served in
Camp Beauregard and Camp Livingston, La., and in Ft. Devons,
Mass., before going overseas to
Australia.
MADE MOUNTAIN TRIP
Pope Prays Amid Rome Crowd for End of War
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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 26, 1943
Hands clasped devoutly, Pope Pius XII prays amid a Rome crowd for the end of the bomblIJ.g
of Rome a f\d the end of the w a r-a prayer partially answere4 on Sept. 3 when Italy surrendered.
This picture as made as the P op e visited bombed areas of Rome after Allied raids, Aug,.13.
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Fuzzy WOzzy Angels
J.'any a Mother in Australia, when a days work: is done
Sends a prayer to the •lmighty
for the keeping of her son
Asking that an angel guide him and bring him safely baok
Now we see these prayers are answe-ed
On the Owen Stanley track
for theyhavent any halos
Only a hole scratohed in thier ear
and their faoes worked by utoos with soratoh pins in
their hair.
Bring back the badly WOllnded
just as steady as a hearse using leaves to keep the rain
of
And as gentle as a nurse slow and oareful in bad places
Onthe awful mountain t~ack, and the look upon their faces
\'lould make you think Ohrist was blaok
Not a move to hurt the wounded, as they treat them like a
saint.
Its a picture worth reoording that an artist yet to pain•
Many a lad wi 11 see his mother and husband see their wives
Just because t he fuzzy wuzzy oarried them to save their
lives.
From mortars, bombs and machine gun fire
a chanoe surprise attach to safty and oare of dootors
at the bottom of the taack.
May t he mothers of australia when they offer up a pr~er
Mention the impromtu angels with the fuzzy wuzzy hair
'l'he Fuzzy \Vuzzy Angels ·
of Kakoda Track
Many a mother in America when the busy day
Sei~d~o:~rayer to the Almighty for the keepi!"g
A;ti~;r t:~~· an Angel guide him, and to bring
N:~;:r:!! ~;i:e
-;ayers are answered, on the
Owen Stanley track.
Though they haven't any haloes, only holes
slashed through the ear,
.
And their faces marked with tattoos and with
scratch pins in their hair,
.
Bringing back the badly wounded, Just as
steady as a hearse,
Using leaves to keep the rain off, and as gentle
Sl~~ aa~:r::reful in the bad places on the awful
0
A~ fu!ai~oira:~n their faces makes us think
that Christ was back.
Not a move to hurt the carried, as they treat
him like a saint,
. ,
It's a picture worth recording, that an artists
yet to paint.
Many a lad will see his mother, and husbands
wee 'uns and wives.
.
Just because the Fuzzy Wuzzies carried them
Fr:;~~ri~:i~~~v~achine gun fire or a chance
surprise attack
To safety and care of doctors at the bottom of
the track.
May the mothers in America, when they offer
M~~tio~\~:~ impromptu angels with the fuzzy
wuzzy hair.
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Our Boys at Buna
Kept on Alert
Even While "Resting"
stands guard, alert for any enemy surpris~~ilt-~
in a flowing stream.
American and A ustralian anti-aircraft gunne1·s, enjoy a bit
of n:laxation after taking r~rt in a battle in which 300 Japs
were killed. A captured Jap flag is hung as a trophy on
the wall.
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EvCn when our soldit:r~ line up for chow, armed guards
are posted to keep watch for lurking Japs. Soldiers eat,
so to speak, with a spoon m one hand and a gun in the
other.
�Men in deeply dug emplacement lob a moccar shell over ro the
desperately resisting Japanese lines. Two Australians man rhc
final conquest of tiny Gona village. Scories of the
fighting in this jungle- which looks like a Gauguin painting, sounds like a good-sized earthquake and smells like a charnel house- sound
like the battles of che Somme or Passchendaele or
Vimy Ridge. All is the same- artillery barrages,
sniping, night patrols across no man's land, bayonet charges, enfilading, machine-gun fire.
Here, in what these soldiers once thought were
the glamorous tropics, are the same old scories of
bayonet charges, blinding rushes against Jap pillboxes with walls of timber 7 ft. chick, desperate
hurling of grenades. Here are men with stomachs
twisted in anxiety crouching around trench parapets, waiting for the zero hour; men on their
bellies squirming across the stinking black swamp
mud of no man's land, with eene red and white
flares painting their muddied faces in weird contortions; men involuntarily flinching at the roaring crash of artillery shells that follows the sheet
of lightning and the /licker of guns encircling the
black belt of the jungle; men hacking and fighting
their way through co establish tiny, desperate! yheld salients.
As a general, who himself was using a commy
gun co pick off snipers from che treecops , said co
mortar, while an American behind them keeps a sharp watch
for snipe rs. Soldiers in Bun.l sec tor are a mi xtu re of both na•
tions, disposed to fight a bloody, old•style brand of trench warfa re . Th ey ha ve been bearing th e Japanese with these tactics.
me: "Damn war's gone old-fashioned on us up
here."
The Jap is a heartless, stubborn fighter and
you've got co be heartless and stubborn co beat
him. Physical courage isn't enough. You need
mental courage coo co seek out an enemy you can't
even see, to go into action along a track down
which are moving bloody, bandaged soldiers, co
know as you see this long column of men remporarily shattered in everything but spirit that
luck goes three ways. If you're lucky you coo will
be coming back this way with a grimy dressing
slapped over a bloody wound. If you're extra
lucky you won't be hit at all. If you're unlucky
you won't come back at all.
kill or be killed. They know coo chat if the ,laps
beat them their only line of retreat is across
r 50 miles of the most terrjble mountain jungle
country in che world. So they don't intend co
be beaten.
In this sort of warfare individual example
means everything. That's why American generals are exposing themselves night and day,
with bullets flying all around them, why full colonels are crouched in muddy front-line trenches
alongside buck privates. Morale is upped 100%
whenever a scary of a feat of individual gallantry travels from man co man by "grapevine telegraph."
When news came chat the Australians on the
left flank at Gona had bloodily slaughtered more
than 6oo Japs, the Americans cheered and artacked with a ferocity chat swept Jap resistance
aside and overwhelmed the strong Jap pillboxes
at Buna Creek, which had held up the Americans
for days. In fierce hand-co-hand battle the pillboxes were scormed, Jap gun crews slaughtered.
One Jap was strangled co death by the bare hands
of a big corporal from Chicago.
There have been many examples of individt• cl
heroism.
There's never any flinching
That's a grim test for these young doughboys
fighting to kill for the first time in their lives, but
there's never any flinching as columns of greenclad troops march steadily northward toward the
road and the clangor of battle.
They know that the Japs are well supplied
and dug in so strongly that they must be dug out
almost man by man. They know that they muse
�"OUT THERE"
(continued)
The men couldn't help following Captain Harold Hantlernan of
Iowa, though they knew the job of tackling Jap machine-gun posts
chattering from a belt of trees across a wide grass clearing was the
toughest yet. Hantlernan crawled across no man's land with a pocketful of grenades, got underneath rhe timber barricades fronting the
Jap guns and tossed over grenade afrer grenade, all rhe time shouting
"Come our and fight, you litrle bastards! Come out and fight or we'll
come in and make you!"
The Japs replied by tossing over grenades themselves, but somehow Hantleman escaped, crawled back to his unit, directed a mortar
barrage onto the enemy pillboxes, then led the final assault that took
the post at bayonet point. "I told you we'd come in and make you
fight," he cried as he emptied a pistol into the last group of Japs
still fighting.
The story of Sergeant Herman Bottcher, so far Papua's Sergeant
York, has already been rold. This 33-year-old, German-born soldier
of fortune, a late captain of Spain's International Brigade, established a tiny salient with twelve men right in the Jap positions at
Buna, fought off two full-scale counterattacks, killed more than 6o
Japs for certain, and probably killed and wounded nearly a hundred
more. In the face of terrible fire from the Japs he held his salient for
seven days and nights and paved the way for the capture of Buna
Village.
The quick or the dead
on·a jungled tracknearSanananda, where a gallant American patrol
held a road block against two ferociousjap counterattacks for many
days, it had been quiet for more than an hour. A twig cracked somewhere. A sudden gunflash scabbed the tropic blackness and a bullet
whistled and rattled through the thick foliage overhead. The tall
green-clad man on guard, his face merely a grey blur against the
tree trunk, moved almost with the speed of light. He sprang a few
yards to the ocher side of the track, fired a burst from his tommy
gun at the place where the Jap rifle had flashed, then with equal
speed slipped back to his original position. As he did so a bullet
thwacked into the tree from which he'd fired a second before. Private Carl Kelson of New York grinned and whispered, "The quick
or the dead."
Which is a pretty good slogan for this battle of Buna. Within a
few weeks the Americans have gained years of batrle experience.
They are now grim, hardened, skillful jungle fighters. They need to
be. This battle is nowhere near over. There might be weeks, perhaps
months, of bitter bloody fighting ahead.
Destroy your opinions of this as a little sideshow. Numbers of
men involved and the strategic importance of the objectives are
relative things anyhow. The basic fact that counts so far as these
youngsters, fighting ro,ooo miles from home, are concerned is that
nowhere in the world today are the American soldiers engaged in
fighting so desperate, so merciless, so bitter, so bloody. I repeat char
word "Nowhere." It's kill or be killed. The quick or the dead.
Exhausted Jap soldier captured near Buna is surrounded
by his American captors. The hard and bitter fighting around Buna has been due tojaps' fanatical resolve to die before yie-lding an inch of ground.
Wounded American is
to
given attention at a small field dressing Station. Next he will be flown back
a basi; hospital behind the Jines. Wound fatalities have been held down in the fighting arountl Duna.
�Moving up lo Buna balllefield, the American and Australian
troops file through the jungles with heavy packs. These men
were flown co advance combat areas from the south, cover the
last miles on foot. This particular piece of terrain is much
easier to march through than the usual narrow, twisting rrail,
ics surface a quagmire filled with hidden roots and branches.
"O~l TH[R["
he fighting around Buna, which started out as
a local action, has turned into a bloody battle
for control of New Guinea.
Today's sky is filled with the throb of many
aircraft. The air is shuddering with the ceaseless
pounding of artillery, the endless rumbling echoes
of bombs. A cloud of brown dust and grey smoke
hangs almost constantly over the battleground,
but the enemy positions, though battered, are
still holding out. Lulls in the rattle of machine
guns and the cmmp-cmmp-crmnp of mortars cell of
watchful breathing spaces, not positional vicrories. Artillery, bombers, fighters and warships
have been brought into this fierce battle by the
Japs or the Allies or by both, but it's still a war
of the infantry soldier pitting his wits or staking
his life against another infantry soldier.
For the first time in this highly mobile World
War II, the tactics of swift movement have given
way to the age-old tactics of attrition. I have
been watching men fighting in trenches, making
.. hop-overs .. across no man's land with fixed
bayonets, behind smoke screens laid down by artillery and mortars. This vividly daubed jungle
battlefield in the steamy tropic heat, 9° below the
equator, is scenically the antithesis of the frozen,
tortured mud of Flanders in 1918, bur from a military point of view that's the only suitable comparison. The jungle, scene of ambush, infiltration, new methods of penetration and swift secret
movement, has forced the two armies, equipped
for mobility, back to the old static trench warfare
of 1914-18.
"Damn war's gone old-fashioned"
in steamy jungles of New Guinea
by GEORGE JOHNSTON
When Captain Eddie Rickenbacker came home
from his Pacific ordeal he brought a message. It
was from "out there" in the jungles of Guadalcanal and New Guinea, where he had seen
U.S. soldiers fighting Japs: "If only our people
back home could know what those boys ore doing for us and for future generations, I think
we would take this war much more seriously."
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In this dispatch from the New Guinea front,
LIFE Correspondent George Johoston gives
a vivid picture of the fighting "out there."
T
Trench war in the tropics
At the front I've spoken with senior American
and Australian officers who have served in both
wars, and they themselves are mildly astonished
at the sudden change that has come over chis
battle for a tropical beachhead. The last war
proved chat trench warfare could be fought on! y
at che cost of heavy casualties. That still holds
true today, a quarter of a century later, on the
bloody Papuan beachhead. Allied casualties,
mostly wounded, are mounting steadily as piles of
Jap corpses roe in the jungles and swamps and on
the beaches.
On the left flank of our line the Australians, almost overcome by the stench of rotting bodies,
have just buried close to 700 Jap corpses killed in
the trench vs. pillbox fighting which preceded the
�l[NA HOHN[
Young Negro with haunting voice
charms New York with old songs
GOLDFISH, IN THE PRIVACY OF BOWLS, 00 IT
E
ach year in New York's alter-dark world ol' supper
clubs there appears a girl singer who becomes a sensation o,·ernight. She stands in the middle of a dance
floor ina white dress and a soft light,and begins to sing.
The room is hushed and her voice is warm and haunting. Iler white teeth gleam, her eyes move back and
lorth, and her soltly sung words seem to linger like
cigarct smoke.
This year tliat girl is Lena.Horne, yow1g Negro who
has been appearing at the Savoy-P1aza's Cafe Lounge
PEOPLE SAY, IN BOSTON, EVEN BEANS DO IT
(see left). Born in Brooklyn, she started her career at
16 by dancing in the chorus of Harlem's Cotton Club
Review. Since then she has been heard in night clubs.
traveled across the country as Yocalist with orchestras,
and appeared briefly in the rcccn t screen version of
Panama llattie. Soon she will be featured in the allNegro musical Cabin In The Sky . Singing without a
microphone, Lena Horne makes old song favorites
sound new and exciting. Delow, with words and ges•
turcs, is her treatment of Cole Porter's Let's /Jo It.
LET'S DO IT-LET'S FALL IN LOVE
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1929 8Y HARMS INC., Rtrl!IHTED 8Y SHCIAL PUMLSS\ON
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�, In the New Guinea Jungle With American Troops and Their Commander .
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-AssuC1t1.!.ed Pr'ess Photo
A jungle river in New Guinea is spanned with a rough bridge byi:hese "'· S. Army engi--
neers who are opening up new routes for the 'advance of allieC!•forces•.,,,Jlinst the Japs.
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-A11sociated Press WJrePnoto
The U. S. commander in New Guinea, Lie,ut,-Gen, Robett L.
Eichelberger, kneels on a bridge to wash before·!unch.
PVT. JOHN W. HALSEY of Stanford University, California, and CORP. JOHN A. ALLMAN, of Horton, Mich., man a
,;,achine gun set up for beach protection at a native village in New Guinea. I - IP - ¥- 3
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Two U. S. soldiers carry boxes of ammunftion to the front in the Buna area of New
Guinea. At the left are loaded machin,e-gun belts.
Trained to Defend New Guinea
These native constables of New Guinea have completed six months'
training by the Australian New Guinea administration unit to fit them for
the life of a soldie r, so t hat they wiU be able to help guard their island
against possibl~ invasion by the Japanese.
ree-s Photo•
Natives carry an injured fighter on their shoulders. Tltey are passing an allied machinegun nest in the New Guinea jungle.
�New Guinea Adventure
(continued)
Airmen on boat make friend s with buxom n.tlivcs who
came clown lo admire pbne :md the stra nge wh ile men.
Tommy gun awes natives who were impressed by its chattering noise.
Beca use of excess weight, crew removed all machine guns from plane.
llribcs
Crew climbed for coconuts wbosc milk ,wis more palflt.
able tlrnn biller waler. "Fra nk Buck" is in background.
At native village built on stills in wntcr, crew members were given
Cood. They were also sold souvenir grass sk irts by the canny natives.
Anative catamaran wns used for occasiona l fishing excursio ns
nnd trips lo native villa!;C- It was perfect for lnzy sunbat hing.
Fishing party returns and moors its boats near "Frank
Buck's" win.£!. Fish laskd good nftcr <.'nnnrd bully bed.
Native children loved lo pose together for pictures near plane. They
w<'re in terested in its SJ)C'('(I and where " Bo~s .:\fon" who made it lived.
or bomhrr rrrw nt a cost of 8200 nnd
Some girls were shy and ran quickly past plane and it s crew.
or tobncco :rnd c:rndy sortc ncd up most of' the shy ones.
Steel runway mat
was
laid by -mo natives under supervision
160 Jb. or twi~t tobacco.
CONTINUED ON PAGE JG
�AMERICAN ANO AUSTRALIAN PLANES DROPPED FOOD AND SUPPLIES TO CREW OF THE .. FRANK BUCK. " LANDING MAT WAS FERRIED IN 8Y BOAT AND WAS UNLOADED BY NATIVES
ADVENT~~[ IN
N[W ~~IN[A
U.S. pilots save Flying Fortress
arly on the morning of Sept. 16, the B-17 "Frank
Duck" was heading home for her Australian base
after a successfu l night raid on Rabaul. Somewhere
•\-er the southern ~cw Guinea coastline. trouble de\·elopcd. In the ll,in, early light, her pilot, Lieut. R.
B. Holsey of .\llus, Okla., spotted a desolate beach
below and. by a miracle or skill and luck, put her down
safoly. Then his worries really began.
A Flying li'ortrcss is a precious commod ity on any
fightin g front and this one had to be sa\·ed. The main
problem was lo lay a steel mat over the soft, short
beach so the heavy bomber could take oft'. Incidental
problems were brackish waler, scarcity or rood, mala-
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Crew members of "Frank Buck" pose in grnss skirts they bought from natives for five 'ihillings ap iece.
ThC' plane originally carried a crew or nine. Others were sent back to hombcrhn.'iC' due to food ,;c:1rcity.
ria, pythons,sharks, giant rays, mosquitoes, Jap pla11cs
and .Jap com mandos in the surroundin g jungles.
To help Lieut. Holsey and his crew, an .\ustralian
officer landed near the downed Fortress in n. sma ll
plane. With him came LIFE Photographer George
Strock who, between picture-laking, helped lay the
mat, forage ror food and amu~e the friendl y nati ves.
:Finall y, on Oct. 2, with tlic plane repaired, 700 ft. or
mat laid (some of it in water) and with eve ryone's
fingers crossed, the "Frank Huck" thundered clown
the makeshift runway and, after an agonizing moment when its left wing dipped into the sea, rose slowly
above the jungle trees and flew proudly ha.ck to its base.
Natives bring food to b:irter for tobacco and candy from Army's Ration C. Thc'iC
baskets held banana", m:rngocs, tomatoC'S, pumpkins, sour oranges, yams :wd 6sb.
CONTINUED ON NEXT PAGE
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BOOTY AT BUNA
(continued)
AN EXHAUSTED AMERICAN SOLDIER falls s~und
asleep on the Leach, rtl the foot <'fa tree wl1 ose lop has been
shot off by mortar fire. I t is ju.:.t after the tall of Buna 'Mission
and the so ldier is not aw~,ke ned by Photographer Strock tak-
ing the picture. Said Strock: "This boy was typical of alL.
After the battle they jm;t fe ll asleep wherever they ftuppr cl ."
�Si\lALL ]AP CARRIAGE is used, after Americans have cap~
hired it, lo Jiaul mtions lo gun positions. The closest American approxinmtion is the wheelbarrow. Jap soldiers gel 82.86 a month.
field. IL is 53 in. tall, 9.4 in. in diameter, was probably carried
by a. light bomber. The largest-known Jap bomb weighs 2/lOO Jb.
Sl\1 \SHED JAI' ZERO PLANE was captured on the old landing strip when the Americans seized
it. It had been riddled with bullets and been rather badly camouflaged. l\Iany captured Zeros were
recent July 1942 models. Some of the Zeros in good condition may eventually be sent lo the U.S.
taler is on muzzle.
J.\I' IIISINC SUN FLAC is used as wrapper by
Lil\\ rcnce J,alloda of Detroit while he cuts hair of
Second Lieut. William Sikkcl Jr. of Holland, l\1icl1.
CAPTURED JAP TRUCK looks like a Chevrolet. Possibly ,twas made in U.S. or
in Japan under license from General l\lotors. Po~sibly loo it had been captured from
British. Because of dependence on air transport, U.S. used no heavy trucks at Buna.
Schwartz. Di~hes are still stacked together on ground. At JJuna
Japs always had good medical equipment with plenty of <1uinine.
JAP "KNEE ~IOH.TAU" is repuled lo be tire,1
from kaee, but American who tric<l lhe trick hroke
his leg. It fires a 50-mm. grenade. \Veight · 10¼ lb.
co•
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_:acArthur Pens Enemy Forces
Ormoc Area with Road Block •
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ENERAL MAC ARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Philippines
rday) UP>--Units of the American 24th division have estabdd a strong road block on the Ormoc road, four miles south I
Carigara bay on Leyte island, completing their double envelop- 1
t maneuver around remnants of a Japanese regiment, head,arters reported today.
A communique mentioned the U. S. 32nd division for the first
e in the Philippine compaign, reporting that elements of the
ce now are deployed in the sector north of the front Japanese
f an,l have driven a deep
ge intQ isolated enemy Inceasant artillery fire continued
c1u&t,0ints.
hls action fa swirling • outh of
mon, key village on the mountain
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By INTERNATIONAL NEWS
Supply column• dispatched from
Ormoc by Gen. Tomoyuki Yamashita. to aid his 1trioken forces on
northwestern Leyte attempted to
br•k through to Limon and were
to pound the Japanese in all • ectors while Filth army air force
fighters struck once again at Ori:ioc and hit enemy shore fnstallations to the south. Small craft
in Ormoc bay, presumably laden
;~t:fe~P troopa, were bombed and
In the Du.lag area. on eastern
Leyte approximately 30 Jap planes
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G. R.'s Own Regiment
Probably at Leyte
=~~!elyco=~~~e revealed
for the lint time that the 32nd
dlvl1lon bad been fiunr Into
the battle of Leyte, making •
total of four dlvi• lona now
Oftlclal announcement by
Gen. MacArthur that element•
of the 32nd division are fightIng In the Phlllpplne1 conftrmecl
beliefs of many Grand Rapida
famllle11 who•e relatives are
Red Arrows.
It Is conslderecl likely here
tbat: •ome members of Grand
Raplds' own regiment, the
128th, are enpged ln the bat.
tie of Leyte. Recent letten
from 128th vet.erana told ol
new lnnoculatk>l!• &D4 hinted
known to be on tbe liland on
which Yamashita"• forces are
~ a desperate atand to
a (oothold.
UICIDE" CHARGES FAIL
outheast of the Limon battle
e, dismounted cavalrymen of the
,tat division and element.I of the
h mopped up pockets of J ap
ststance in the newly captured
Sma~l
J p
t. Mtm,ro-Dadlan
partiea made suicidal "b
'
charge• in some areaa and were
completely wiped out.
On the co, 11t road south of Or-
ar.,._
Arelnvadedl
Encircle Foe on Leyte;
Yanks Mop Up Mapia
Allied Headquarters, Philippines
-<U.PJ-American landing partiesi
completing occupation of the Mapia islands off northwest New Guinea, have jumped 215 miles to the
west and invaded the Asia group
to knock off another Japanese
warning post on the born.bing
route to the Philappines, it was
announced Monday.
The four-day conquest of the
Mapias and new landings in the
Asias were disclosed as other
American forces on Leyte in the
central Phi1ippines tightened their
encirclement of the remnants of a
Japanese force of 3,000 in the Limon pocket.
Jap Casualties 53,000,
American troops on Leyte already
Filipinos Clear Way for Sniper Hunt
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gulf.
Only slight resistance was en•
countered by the small American
}anding parties which pushed
ashOre Sunday in the Asia islands,
130 miles north o! northwest New
Guinea and 800 miles southeast of
New Guinea.
Leyte.
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On Leyte the Japanese moved up
additional tanks and artillery for
new attempts to break through the
American road block south ot
Limon to relieve their trapped
forces. One counter attack Friday
was repulsed after a bloody threehour battle.
The 32nd division struck deeper
Into the center of the pocket in a
frontal advance down the Limon•
Ormoc highway.
Torrential rains continued to
slow the American offensive.
(Radio Tokio claimed the 32nd
division had been pinned against
the north coast of Leyte and "com~
pletely Isolated:'")
Yanks Take Ship Toll.
American motor torpedo boats
blocking Ormoc sank two enemy
torpedo boats. !our barges and a
coastal vessc: attempting to run
in reinforcements and supplies.
Fighter planes sank five more
barges and a coastal freighter.
MacArthur
listed
Japanese
ground
casualties In the
I
first
month of the Leyte campaign as
45.000. Including 10.000 killed or
wounded in the past week alone.
A spokesman said 8.000 additional
troops had been wiped out in an
abortive attempt to land reinforce-·
ments at Ormoc Nov. 10.
American casualties, MacArthur
said, v.--ere 1,133 men killed, 126
mlssin& and 4,432 wounded for a
grand total of 5,691-approxl•
mately one-tenth of tboae of the
ellflJl7
_
\lov.,
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t'
their campaign there at a cost of
:!i~~ d~!~.~:•:m:~~•d ~o~:r ~~ 1 - - - - - - - - - - - - -
were alight.
Asia Isles
Douglas MacArthur reported.
A Japanese communique said Jap
planes sank three American transports Saturday and damaged and
set afire four othern Friday and 1
Saturday in actions in the Leyte
heroic et.ands at: Buna and
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5,691 casualties of their own, Gen,
atonr the northern 1hore of
counter attack at Tabgas, only 11 attacked American ground inatallamilea below the •nemy-held town. tions at duak. They were intercepted by our air patrols and in
the ensuing 1ky battle 15 of the
enemy planes were shot down and
five more were bagged by antiaircraft batteries. American lo111es
.U.S. Malies New
Pacific
Landings
j:__
had killed or wounded 53.000 Jap•
anese troops in the first month of
of lmDilnffs- ~ for
new battlellelcla following- the
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They Got Their Man, a Jap, Alive
Soldier~ from Muskegon and Bailey are among this commando group comprised of an officer
and 1~ enlisted men of the 32nd division, somewhere in New Guinea. They were given the order
to "bring back a 1ive Ja~." Under cover of darknes·s they ]anded in Jap-held territory, ambushed
an enemy patr~l of 15 Nips and got their man, returning him to headquarters. This picture was
~ade upon their- return and after they had removed their greaspaint. Standing, second from left,
1s _Pvt .Earl Vannetten, of Muskegon, and kneeling, fifth from left, is Sgt. Lauren Brown, of
Bailey.-<U. S. Army Signal Corps photo.)
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Two former Co. G men from
Muskegon, S/ Sgt. Lauren A. Brown
and Pfc. Earl Vannetten, rec.e.n.Uy
invaded a Jap stronghold jn N'ew
Guinea as a member of a task
group assigned to "bring back a
live Jap."
How they were successful dur1ing the thrilling adventure, is reported to The Chronicle from general headquarters of the SouthConduct of the 32nd division in
west Pacific area, as related there
t h e vicinity of the Driniumor rivby Second Lt. A1bert P. Pollicl<,
/ er, British New Guinea, has
Pottstown, Pa., in command. The
1brought congratulations from Gen.
group resorted to amphibious travel,. camouflage dress and comman- [
MacArthur and Gen. Krueger. To
do · tactics to achieve their mission. 1
these have been added a message
of commendation from Maj. Gen.
Jled Arrow divfaion headquarters
·w.
H . Gill, commanding officer
needed definite information only a
Of the divisio n,
prisbner could provide. Previous
"By
your skill and courage you
attempts of inland patrols had been
h a".e broken all organized enemy
futile, as the cornered Japs would
r esistance in this area and have
commit hari-kari by releasing a
decisively defeated the 18th Imhand grenade against their abdoperial Japanese army,'' Gill's mesme11s trilther than HJose face" by
sage 1·eads in pad. "No greater
capture.
reward could come to a field comThe group, selected from numermander than to command you
ous volunteers, boarded a boat
a g;iin in an operation against anearly Thursday evening, Mar 25,
other Japanese army, which is now
and reached the destination picked
my sincere wish."
with the aid of maps and aerial
, He concluded by expressing his
photostats about 10 p. m. They
p
ride in each member of the divi~
climbed into rubber boats about 800
sion which has fought so well
Yards offshore, with Sergeant
sin
ce the outset of ground combat
Smith in charge of th<! No. 1 boat
in t.he Pacific area_
in which Private Vannetten wlra
also. Half of the men were in the
other craft.
They paddled as noiselessly a~
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_
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pos?ible .to shore where they,. had Brown, "imagine a gang ot. cut- s~eding down the beach toward
noticed lights, but ha~ bareJy land- throats like that not being 8.bJe to tbe landing place, but too late.
~d when th~y were discovered. All sleep for worryin' about us." How"It happened so neat and fast
lights vamshed and an uproar ever, after reporting to a mem- we didn't have time to get scared
surged from the. Japs. Two barges ber of General W. I-I. Gi11's staff, We all felt pretty good on the waY
were seen puttm,g out to cut off at headquarters, the officer and back, for although every one of
escape, hence the commandos had his group was allowed another try. the fellows has at least one dead
to embark f~st.
Two nights later they went back Jap to his credit, this was the first
It was a d1scou~aged bunch w~o and landed less than 200 yards time any ot us . ever took one
~ound most of their company wait- from their first landing point, alive," Lieutenant Pollick 5 ~ id.
mg for them at the beach.
rather than to try an unfamiliar
Celebrate Feat
"Yah," ex c 1 aimed Sergeant spot. As they ca·me ashore they
Back on the boat they all ccledetected a chatt€ring .Jap patY;ol brated with hot coffee, singing and
Red Ar~9,~~fgain
Are Commended
\~tJ; ~~~in;hoT~id~'~p~~:1 ':~~t:~.e only
;i:~ifo~c:i~tre~:~~~ ;1~~:e:s
crouched in the darkness behi1id
a wrecked Jap barge.
Surprise Enemy
When only 10 yards away, Lieutenant Pollick gave the signal,
"Rush,'' and they an dived at the
patrol's center, waving clubs and
knives,. but making as little noise
as possible. There were about 15
of · the enemy, all carrying rifles,
but they were so surprised they
"froze" in their tracks momentar•
ily.
Sergeant Brown and Pfc. Edward H. Henson, E. Prairie, Mo.,
downed one of them with flying
tackles and S/Sgt. Wesley L. Smith,
Los Angeles, Calif., and Private
Vannetten lowered another. The
other Japs by this time realized
what was happening, dropped their
rifles and fled. The two captives
resisted being put in the boats so
strenuously that one had to be
killed. The Ql:her one quieted down
then, and they sh oved out to sea
ll1Q;
only one wounded was Sergeant
Brown, whose fist was cut badly . .
He claimed he did not know how
it happened, but his comrades suspected that Japanese teeth had got
in the way.
The son of Mrs. Hattie Brown
of Bailey, Sergeant Brown, was announced recently here as having
been awarded a Purple Heart, and
cited for a Silver Star.
Private Vannetten, son of Mrs.
Anna Masterson, 1722 Mona avenue, Muskegon Heights, was with
the group which marched over the
Owen Stanley ·mountains, got ma-1
laria and recovered in Australia
before going back into action.
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From Ba tt legro unds to Tennis Courts
'o6~*
Tennis is going to be one of Sergeant Jack DeZeeuw's chief
cupations fo~ the next 21 days as he relaxes after 27 months of over~
seas ~uty with the 126th regiment. His sister, Mrs. Edward Broek~t.ra,. intends ~o see that nothing interferes with his happiness until
its time for him to report for duty again,
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One of His 10 Sisters
Surprises Vet of 126th
The long montha of waiting for front lines, Before entering the
her brother, Sergeant Technician service he waa employed by the
Jack De Zeeuw of the 126th in- Consum~rs Power company here.
fantry, to come home from the
~e will spend his furloug~ with ·i.
M1 s. Broekstra-between trips to
far-off south Pacific had a sur- the lake shore-and in August w\ll 'O
prise ending !or Mrs. Edward report at Fort Sam Houston, Tex:
n
Broekstra, 843 Watkins st., SE.
.
In fact, it was a surprise for Jack,
too.
Knowing that the last lap of
his 12.000-mile trip might be a
dusty one, he carefully did not let
his famlly know wheu to expect
him, hoping for a chailce to clean
up a bit before he burst in on
them.
But a lucky hunch sent his sister to the Union depot late
Wednesday night to meet the train
. . • so he had a royal welcome
after all, even though he wasn't
as spick-and-span as he had wanted to be for the occasion.
In the group meeti:r'rg him were
several more of his 10 sisters, an
of whom plan to devote the next
21 days to making Jack's longawaited furlough a happy one.
Cooking his favorite meals and
keeping his clothes in the pink of
condition will be a pleasure to
them.
As far as his own plans are conrcerned, -au he wan1s · ·1s a chance
to "work out on the tennis court
and make as many trips to the
Lake Michigan beach as possible."
Sgt. De Zeeuw, who celebrated
his 25th birthday last Saturday,
served as a radio operator with
the headquarters company of the
126t1J,, and saw action in the Euna, ;
Saidor and , Aitape campaigns,
sometimes only 100 yards from the
.,.,,,
�Gwilll··"r't
Wear
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Division Makes Steady Progress
Against Foe in Limon Sector
Hack ~Jap \
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Line on Isle
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GENERAL ¥A~ ART~·s HEADQUARTERS, Philippines
Tuesda?) ~>-Grim American infantrymen of the 32nd division
re mak,~&: steady p~ogress" in reducing strongly fortified Japf nese positions near Lunon, at the northern end of Leyte Island's
, rmoc corr1d?r, headquarters reported today.
~
1 The American road block across Ormoc highway south of
111_on stiU ?olds, despite heavy Japanese attack. The
· 1)'1rst d1vmon, aided by artillery and armor, is attem
:i.,
break through the trap enfolding them around Limon.
, ,.
The Yanks repulsed a~....,,
enemy counter-attack west
Ormoc road, where a three-ho
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Leyte Yanks Knock Out
Enemy fostallations
(By Asi.oc1ated Press.)
American infantrymen Wednes•
day knocked ~ut Japanese de•
fenses on northern Leyte island
piece by piece as official commu•
niques 8.dded t.o the mounting enemy losses of men, ships and
planes in the western Pacific.
Fresh units of the 32nd division
relieved pressure on the battleweary 24th infantry after it. had
smashed back a strong enemy attack on a road block across Ormoc
highway.
Limon Siege Continues.
The 32nd division is subjecting
Limon, Japanese stronghold, _to
steady pressure and Nipponese m•
stallations are being put out of
commission steadily.
Gen. MacArthur's communique
said "the enemy has committed
his 1st division in a desperate ef•
fort" to hold its bastion at Limon.
The Japs are believed prepared to
sacrifice the whole division.
The Americans have occupied all
strategic positions in the north
except Limon itself.
There has been some infiltra•
tion of the American lines, but
in most instances these small en•
emy parties have been ht\nted
down and destroyed. These fil·
terinll_ tactics, .together \vith ty•
phoo.;7wreck~d roads, have added
to the American supply problem.
Using Leyte Airbases.
American· heB.vy bombers are
now operating from Leyte bases,
MacArthur disclosed in announc•
ing a Japanese light cruiser was
blown up at the Brunei naval base
' and another sizable warship badly
damaged in the third strike by
American Liberators within four
days at the )Jig Borneo harbor.
The second ship, returning air•
men said, was possibly a light
cruiser.
In previous strikes reported by
MacArthur another cruiser, a battleship and a destroyer were hit.
Other planes sweeping over
Mindanao and the Visayan islands
of the Philippines probably sank
a 3,000-ton merchant ship, wiped
out five Nipponese planes and
cratered runways of airfields.
Revised figures announced by
Adm. Chester W. Nimitz raised
to 126 the number of Japanese air.
craft destroyed by 3rd fleet carrier
planes in a slashing assault on
Manila Saturday.
Previously it
had been announced that 118 had
been aestroyed, 100 of them on the
ground.
Three merchant vessels lying in
the harbor were set afire.
Nimitz also disclosed that nearly
9,000 more Japanese \\"ere killed
or captured by United States ma•
rines and soldiers mopping up in
the Marianas and western Caro•
line islands. A tota\ of 63,388 dead .
enemy troops have been counted
and 3,267 taken prisoner on Sai• 1
pan, Guam and ':!-'inian of the
Marianas and Pelehu and Angaur
of the Palau group.
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YANKS TAKE LIMON ON LEYTE-United States troops
have taken Limon and driven to the Leyte River, and Japs
are being mopped up near Pinamopoan and Capoocan. American aircraft (plane symbol) bombed Jap supply dumps and
barracks at Ipil, while light naval units sank enemy craft
off the Camotes Islands (A).
Limon Victory Eases
Yank Task on Leyte
MacARTHUR'S HEAD QUA R·
TERS Philippines, Nov, 24.-{JP)Mud-siogging American infantrymen lunged southward from Limon
today after capturing that bastion
of the Japanese Yamashita Line in
the climax to the longest and bitterest fighting of the entire Leyte
Island campaign.
The Japanese 1st Division has
been virtually destroyed, Gen. MacArthur said in aJtnouncing that the
Yankee 32nd had smashed into and
through Limon Thursday after a
typhoon•slowed battle that had re•
mained fairly static for two weeks.
Easier country lies ahead, but it
was emphasized that this does not
mean the heavy fighting is over.
The terrain is such that the Japa•
nese will be able to make defensive
stands and force the battle•worn
American doughboys to dig them
out of machine•gun nests and pill•
boxes.
Gen. MacArthur In his com•
munique said the victory at Limon
may res.ult in the ~olling. up of
::ic;n:tree e:ea:yas~~~~ntmi~ ~i~
fight to hold Leyte.
FIGHT STARTED oar. 25
The communique said the Ameri ..
cans had advanced 1,000 yard.,
south of Limon and had reached
the nearby Leyte River.
It fell to units under Col. Joh11
A. Hettinger, of Colorado Springs.
Colo., to break down the last re•
sistance in the battle for the mount.ainous defile leading into the
Ormoc corridor.
The fight started after the Japanese had landed heavy reinforcements at Ormoc Oct. 25. The op•
posing forces-great in number for
this type of warfare-launched almost simultaneous attacks.
The weight of American arms
threw the enemy off balance and
forced him to take the defensive.
In his communique announcing the
victory MacArthur credited Yankee
artillery and superior infantry fire
power with inflicting ' 1terrific
losses."
It was the second time MacArthur had announced the virtual
1 destruction of a Japanese division.
Earlier he had reported the destruction of t:tie ,Japanese 16th,
which had played a leading part at
Bataan.
PLANES AND SllIPS HELP
American warplanes ranged the
air and dealt other damaging
blows. Heavy bombers blasted supply dumps at Ipil, south of Orrnoc,
and destroyed large warehouses.
Fighter planes wrecked a Japa•
nese motor pool and strafed com-.
munication lines below Valencia,
about 12 airline miles south ot
Limon.
Light naval units maintained
vigilance against any enemy effort
to land reinforcements or supplies,
sinking a small freighter, two luggers and three troop•laden barges
off the Camotes Islands. Enemy
air action was inSignificant, MacArthur said, and American patrols
shot down one plane.
On another sector, Elmont Waite,
Associated Pre s s correspondent,
said that units commanded by
Lieut.-Col. Isaac Gill, Jr., of Rhode
Island, had advanced south from
Pinamopoan, on the west side of
the Ormoc road, almost reaching
that highway.
?>renchinC rains, - which
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Jungle Veterans Facing
Bittere,st Battles
Gen. MacArthur's Headquarters,
Philippines-UP}-The famous 32nd
(Red Arrow) division, veteran of
sopie of the toughest fighting in ,
the southwest Pacific jungles, still
may have its bitterest battles
ahead, it was indicated Saturday
in Gen. Douglas MacArthur's an•
nouncement that it had been
thrown into action on Leyte island.
Made up largely of Michigan and
Wisconsin men who have been·
overseas nearly three years, the
LOCAL MEN MAY BE THERE.
Although many Grand Rapids
and western Michigan soldiers
who left with the 126th infan•
try have returned froni the
south Pacific area after action,
others are believed to be with
the 32nd division in its new
action. The western Michigan
regiment's makeup had under·
gone many changes in personnel
even before going to duty in
Australia, but it is likely there
still are many of the original
personnel with the outfit in its
present action.
Red Arrow division 8.lready has
made some advances in the Ormoc
road sector, MacArthur said. It
is the fifth division to enter the
struggle for Leyte.
Much of its personnel has
changed, but it remains one of the
best known trouble shooters in
the Pacific. On the way to the
Philippines Ja anese
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rans art
carryip~
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there were no loss.es.
The division earned its first bat•
tle flags in this war in the fantastic Papuan campaign when it
marched over the Ow<en Stanley
mountains to wipe out a large
Japanese force at Buna, New
Guinea. The fighting there was
regarded as among the heaviest of
the war up to that time.
At Saidor the division found the
Japs a little easier, but at Aitape
the Red Arrows met the Japs
head-on as the enemy attempted
to break out of the now-famous
Wewak trap.
Formerly under the command of
Maj. Gen. Edwin F. Harding, the
32nd sow is led by Maj. Gen. Wil•
lia,m .}f. Gill of. Denver, Colo.
bloody battle was reported in y
terday's communique.
Leyte•based American ftghtera at
tacked enemy communication Un
and installations throughout the
Ormoc corridor.
Thirty.five enemy fighters and
divebombers ineff'ectlvely raided
American positions. Seven wer&
~hot down by tlghtera and anti•
aircraft fire.
TYPHOON STRIKES AGAIN
Another tropical typhoon with
continuous rains, lashed the' battle
area.
Brld&"es have been washed
out, streams flooded and road1
:ii:.
~te:=i;
!:°e':is::~~s
by ground and sea is "fraught
with great difficulty and ha2ar4
and battle condition• are becoming static."
The Japanese were reported 111
frontline dispatch yest&~ to
Ilnflltrat.lng American posit.teas
northern Leyte, around Lhnon
near Carigara bay, more than. ~
miles northward.
Small enemy force• attaeke4
near Plnamopoan, more than
two miles north and In the rear
of Limon, where a condderable
Nipponese force Is trapped, and
also east of Plnamopoan. Both
attacks were repulsed.
.JAP CASUALTIES
Gen. Douglas MacArthur'• Monday communique reported enemy
casualties in the ground llghtlng
on Leyte b the llrat month al!. battle had passed 45,000. American
casualties :were placed at 1,133
killed, 126 missing and 4:,432 wounded. a total of 5,691.
The high ratio of enemy casualties was ascribed to the deployment of Yank artillery and t,be by
passing and envelopment tactics
used so successfully by the liberation forces.
.
Landing of Allied force• In the
Asia island group, 130 milea off the
northwe• t tip of New GUinea. and
completion of the occupation of
the Mapla islands in the same are
were announced by MacArthur, Occupation of the small Asia Islands
apparently was for the same purpose as that of the Mapla groupto remove enemy observation out--
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• Leyte Battle
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Limon Assault, Costly to Enemy;
32nd Division ClosinCJ on Town
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By HOWARD HANDLEMAN
Int.ernatlonal News Service Staff Correspondent
GENERAL MAC ARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Philippines
(Wednesday)-Veteran American infantrymen have hurled back
three desperate enemy counter-attacks against the block astride
tire Onr.oc road near Limon with severe losses to tne J aps, Gen.
MacArthur disclosed today, and are now but a few hundred yards
from the town.
The three attacks occurred in the period thro~gh Nov. 20.
Meanwhile, bloody fighting continued to rage through the
block ha• been amB.Qled, despite \
Ormoc valley head with the
Yanks n.ttacking ''piecemeal" in now but a short distance from the the tact that the en-.my bu concentrated art!llery fire Oil It.
an area where opposing lines a:e
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so close and confused that _art1It~~~~:~l;~r our troops 18 all
Over 200 Jap dead were counted
following the last of the three assaults which was beaten off by the
wester~ arm of the pincers slowly
squeezing in on elements . of the
trtirit;! ~n::: YF~:t a:!~is~~n: io
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vis n
are stepping up ~ eir pressure
against besieged Limon, and are
~e;r
;~;;:~c:ng. :nt~i;gde~~~~i;!iffJa~:~
Heavy pillbox fortifications and
rough terrain are aiding the Japs,
;nd :~vT momentarily blunted the
;?he r evne;my counter thrusts,
launched in a tropical typhoon
was not unexpected.
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American commanders in the
fteld h~d eipected just such an assault since the Japs once previousJy counter-attac~ed guerrilla fo1..:es
on the island during a. raging typhoon long before the' American
liberation army landed a month
ago on Leyte.
USE CRACK DIVISION
The Japs threw their Imperial
First division headlong into battle
in an effort to retain their hold
on the critical Limon area at the
northern end of Ormoc valley.
A reinforced Jap regiment ts
A1l the late,t Jap offense agalnat
the road block was hurled back
with additional enemy casualties to
the previously announced 4!'i,OOO on '
Leyte, the doughboys of the 32nd
exerted further pressure on the en~
emy bastion at Limon.
.,Units of the 32nd division are r
maintaining unrelentless pressure"
on the enemy troops trapped at
Limon, the communique said,
SEEK .JAl'S OUT
i~e
Meanwhlle, to the west Yank • of
th• 24th division combed the area
west and aouth ot Capoocan on cariga.ra. bay of Jap forces which infiltrated behind American line • but
un • uccesstully tried to sneak into
th • American command post, artll·
lery po• ltton• and supply dumps.
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ha! compelled the doughboys to• toward ~rmoc, an isolated Jap
time consuming, piecemeal destruc- strong po nt was crushed.
tlon of enemy pill boxes, MacArSouth of ormoo on Leyte'I' west'
thur's Wednesday morning ccu::a,- coast, the Seventh division veterans
munique reported.
of Attu and Kwajalein easily re1 pulsed & small counter-attack.
LOSSES SMALL
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By this cautious approach on tlfo
enemy entrenchments, Yank lossls
are being held to a minimum.
.
"The enemy has committed h1~
First division in a desperate effdllt
to retain this critical position," t: ~
communique said. "Relieving forces
have again been bloodily repulsed
and swept back tn a desperate effort to break our road block in its
rear.'"
The Japs have hurled several attack!l at the strongly forti!i~d road
block which has p1·evented the
' enemy from sending reinforcements
and supplies to the trapped regiment at Limon.
\ Every Jap attack on the road
A tragic preview of his own fate Is contained In the photo above, the last one taken by the late
Frank Prist, Jr., ace war photographer ot Acme Newspictures-NEA Service, who, 30 minutes later,
was instantly killed at the wheel of his jeep by a J ap sniper on Leyte Island. The photo shows the
body of an American lnfant»1fflan lying beside his jeep after being killed by Jap mortar fire,
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the Seventh bas reached a point approximately ten mile • south of Ormoc
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Progress on al~ fronts has been
• lowed to a snail• pace because of
the typhoon which lashed the lBland, with continuous rain turning
all roads into "waterways.'' Streams
are running bank-full and in many
instances have overflown, turning
the surrounding area into quagmires of mud..
Liberator
bombers,
ataglne
through Leyte airfield•, hit hard at
Jap supply and shipping install&·
ttons at Palompon on the Island's
west coast, northwest of Ormoc.
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Palompon Christmas Day,
MacArthur Reveals
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Japs Back Halt Mile
to Leyte River
(By Assoclated Press)
A Christmas morning surprise for Japan 'fn-the form of an amphibious invasion of Palompon harbor brought the bloody 67-day Leyte-Samar campaign to an end except for moppitig-up operations, and Gen.
Douglas MacArthur Tuesday hailed "perhaps the greatest defeat in the
military annals of the Japanese army."
The United States 77th division,
moving up from Ormoc into Pa-
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Iompon, the enemy's last remaining port on Leyte, stormed ashore
under covering fire from patroltorpedo boats and artiilery. The
Japanese, caught between th~se
,troops and others moving overland, could offer only token resistance,
77th's Christmas Gift.
By nightfall of Christmas day
Maj. Gen. A. D. Bruce, commander of the 77th, messaged
headquarters:
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The 77th infantry division's
Christmas contribution to the
Leyte campaign is the capture of
Palompon."
The magnitude of this first phase
of the Philippines liberation was
reflected in MacArthur's announcement that 112,728 Japanese had
been killed and 493 captured 0n
Leyte and nearby Samar island.
The Americans lost 2,623 killed,
8,422 wounded and 172 missinga total of 11,217.
"The enemy's ground forces participating in the campaign ha\'e
been virtually annihilated," MacArthur declared.
Some of Nippon's best troops were committed
to the defense of Leyte, which
Tokio considered ''the decisive bat- 1
tle for our homeland."
2,748 Jap Planes Destroyed.
Further, the triumphant communique said, 2,748 enemy planei
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and a total of 27 warships and 4'l
transports sunk as 10 convoys
seeking to reinforce the besieged
Leyte garrison were smashed. The
totals did not include enemy losses
in the naval battle of Leyte gulf
Oct 25.
In'vasion of the east coast of
Leyte involved the ~ost power.f;-11
carrier force used m any Pac111c
operation. The fate of the campaign hung in precarious balance
early Oct. 25 when Vice Adm.
Thomas C. Kinkaid's 7th fleet met
and defeated a Japanese battle
force in the largest fleet action
of the war in any theater.
Then the Americans fought inland and around to the northeastern shoulder of the island and on
Dec. 8 secured a grip on the west
coast by landing daringly in Ormoc
bay. They seized the port of Ormac three days later.
Sealed off at Ormoc the Japanese had to depend for reinforcement on Palompon. Its seizure
----.._ _.,..... meant the end of the Leyte camp~ign for .Ja pa.n.
Breaks Down Jap Losses.
In the last week or so Japanese
dead have been picked up at a
rate of 1,500-.to 2,000 a day, so furious was the fighting.
MacArthur's announcement of
112 728 Japanese killed on the two
isla~ds was broken down into 54,338 abandoned dead, 18,500 estimated dead not yet collected, about
30,000 troops drowned in the destruction of reinforcement convoys
and 9,890 crewmen aboard these
sh~~!~n combat divisions-the 7th,
77th, 24th, 32nd, 96th, the 1st
cavalry and 11th air-borne--were
committed to the operation in addition to army engineers, :1avy se.abees, aviation construct10n units
and supply forces.
Carrier planes of the 3rd and '!th
fleets the 5th airforce and marme
air u~its provided direct air sup-
LEYTE
CARRY WOUNDED FROM
FRONT--8even members of an
army litter squad'° ease a wounded Yank down a steep slope on
northwestern Leyte island, Phillpplnes, as they head for an evacuation hospital three miles away. (AP wlrephoto from algnal corps.>
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Mindoro island to the north- ·
west invaded Dec. 15, the Japanese
furnished little opposition either
on the ground or in the a.ir, but
American bombers and fighters
were active.
By HOWARD HANDLEIIIAN
GEN, MAC ART HUB'S
HEADQUARTER•s, PHILil'PINES (INS) - American Infantrymen, with Limon llrmly
in their hands after one ot the
bloodiest battles of the Leyte
campaign, smashed down the
more favorable terrain of the
Ormoo corridor FrldaY-ill. .a
drive that threatens to roll up
the entire Yamashita line.
Troops of the Thirty-second divi•
sion ended the two weeks' stalemate• by cracking the northern anchor of the line at Limon and
pushed a half mile beyond to t'tla
Leyte river. Heavy casualties were
intlicted on the Japanese force•
and the Jap First division virtu•
ally annihilated in a series of local
actions. heavily supported by dead•
Jy American artillery fire.
SEIZE LOG BRIDGE
Hard-hitting Yanks seized a log
bridge on the Leyte river, a atream
which forms a natural border line
i between the mountainous terrain
at the head of the Ormoc valley
and the rolling country to the
south which will give American
forces a far greater freedom ot action. However, the valley offers
several favorable defensive post•
tions to the Japaw~se, who are
fighting fanatically to protect the
town of Ormoc, their last major
defensive center on Leyte.
Gen. MacArthur, indicating the
importance of the American gains.
declared the Japanese have been
forced to abandon "a critical d•
fensive line at a mountainoua defile with open rolling terrain farther south in the Ormoc corridor.
The whole Yamashita line ill in
danger of being rolled up."
�Yanks in San Fabian, First Luzon Town Taken
Capt. Rufus Home Unscathed
Private Walter Plallka, Bed Arrow veteran (right), polnt11 out
the bulre In the tummy or his teddy bear mascot Rufus to hi•
brother, Corporal Joaeph Pluka, veteran of the African campaign,
to prove . that Rufus didn't lo.., any of his sawdust In the rurced
ft&'btlnr at Buna, Saldor and other campaigns or the 32nd. Rufuo
baa lhoe button eyes and. wears a corduroy 1ult with a GI necktie,
Natt,·es mlnrle with American troops In front ot
the municipal ball at San Fabian, 8nt town on
Lnoon laland or the Phlllpplneo to he recaptured
by Gen. Hac~ur'a forces, (AP WJrephoto from
Stena! Corps Blldlophoto),
plus a I captain'• bars.
RED ARROW MASCOT'S WAR DAYS END
From Gutter to Fame
Capt. Rufus,
corduroy-clad
was quite a promotion, for he
h ad been a buck private.
Pvt. Pluka was 32 months
and nine days oveneas.
Cpl. Pia.ska was 18 months in
Africa and saw service during
the Algerian and Tunisian
fighting. He has been in • ervice three years and now is stationed at Camp Lee, Va., where
he ·returned Tuesday.
The current reunion of the
PJaska brothers was the second
alnce they met at Camp Roberts April 20, 1942. They a r u
the sons of Michael Pluka.
The Plaska family retrlmmed
a Christmas • e tor the boys
after the original one fell apart.
It wa• a epeeJlt request tnade
in telegrams sent by Pvt. Pluka from San Franclaco and
Chicago,
teddy bear mascot that cam..
palgned with the 32nd diVlaion
in the 11outhwest Pacific, ts
home from the wan with his
muter, Private Walter Plaska,
31, Red Arrow veteran, ot 624
Fremont ave., NW.
And he was as aurprised a •
Pvt. Walter when Corporal Jo•
• eph Plaaka, 28, veteran of the
African war theater, greeted
them In the Pluka home. The
latter wu home on an emergency furlough to He hi • wife,
Mary, In Butterworth
hoopltal
recovering from an operation.
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Re• cued from the gutter of a
New Orlean• • treet on New
Year'• eve, 19"1, by Pvt. Pluka,
Rufua wu christened in the
presence of no leu a penonage than Don Faurot, former
Unlvenity of MlHOUri football
coach, now in the service.
"Rufus wu my con• tant companion through the fighting in
Saldor, Buna, Altape and Ea • t
Indle•, '' the private • a.id, "and
now he' • to be retired to the
care of "my family here.''
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When Rufuo arrived In SydAuotralla. Pvt. Pluka ao• erted, the tiny mucot wa •
much the worae for ht • long
joumey, and "I took him to a
department etore where they
referred me to the up'1ol1tery
department." What a tran • formatlon after the girl1 there ftn•
labed with him!"
He came out re-etuffed with
a complete enaemble Including
a
• le captain'• bars, which
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have oeized oeveral towns and to have driven inland toward the broad plain• tha$ lead ooutb toward
Manila. The American force• were reported utrlde blrbwayo couverclnr en Manila mm the nortb.
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Co,n,nandos Free 513 B taan, Other Prisoners From
(By C. YATES McDANIEL)
Gen. MacArthur's Headquarters, Luzon-(JP)-Men of Bataan,
Corregidor and Singapore - 513 of them - were snatched from
under the muzzles of Japanese guns Tuesday night in an exploit
of unmatched daring.
(The liberated prisoners included Cpl. Frank C. Potyraj of 320
Lane-av., S. W., Grand Rapids,)
Some 400 picked men of the 6th Ranger battalion and Filipino
guerrillas made a commando raid 25 miles behind Japanese lines to
empty a prison camp at Cabanatuan, thereby partly fulfilling one
of the Philippine objectives closest to Gen. MacArthur's heart.
They took Japanese guards by surprise and rescued 486 Americans,
23 British, 3 Netherlanders and 1 Norwegian - all that were left
in the prison camp in N'ueva Ecija. province of eastern Luzon.
· Many more hundreds of able-bodied war prisoners had been sent
to work camps in Japan. Hundreds of others had died.
TWO DIE AFTER RELEASE.
All but two of the men were brought out alive by the 121 men
of the Rangers who stormed into the prison stockade under command of Lt. Col. Henry Mucci of Bri.ort, Conn.
The Rangers attacked with such merciless precision that not
one of the Japanese stockade guards was left alive or able to
resist. And they attacked with such care that not one of the
prisoners was scratched.
Within a matter of minutes all had been released and were on
their 25-mile journey to freedom, walking1 carried on backs of husky
Rangers or riding in carabao carts.
Nearly 100 were so weak from malnutrition, sease and wounds
that they could not walk when they were cut loo from bondage.
The rescue cost the lives of 27 Rangers and F ipinos who fought
off a savage tank-led Japanese attack along the ntire return trip.
The raiders killed 523 Japanese - more t n one for every
prisoner released - and knocked out 12 enemy t ks.
This first mass liberation of allied prisoners of ar in the western
Pacific was accomplished by an all-night forced arch east of the
central Luzon plains where the United States 6th rmy has made iis
deepest penetration.
LIBERATORS DECORATED,,
The commando raid, ordered on short noticthen intelligence
reports disclosed whereabouts of the camp, was ch a success that
Gen. MacArthur decorated every man in the fore,
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It was the last of many marches for the rescued men - marches
which began with the brutal "death march of Bataan."
The freed men showed their happiness, despite their sores and
ulcers, wasted bodies and ragged clothes.
Some looked helplessly up from litters. Others were proudly
erect. There were old men with grey hair and dazed, sunken eyes.
Some were surprisingly young and almost at their normal weight.
Others were limp from beri-beri.
Their shirts were tattered. Shorts we:r;e patched and repatched.
Several officers still proudly wore their emblems of rank. There
were battered campaign hats, overseas caps and one prewar-type
helmet.
But no men ever tried more valiantly to regain the pride which
the Japanese had smashed and to control their emotions than these
captives who glimpsed again the almost forgotten outside world.
NOTHING MUCH TO SAY.
They were happy, yet most of them found it difficult and confusing to return to this world. Perpetually wearing a broad grin,
some · would start a conversation with "Hello, Yank, glad to see
you.' 1 And then there was nothing more they could say.
One of the liberated Yanks suddenly broke into sobs when he
caught sight of an American flag.
AU of them glanced eagerly at the new weapons and helmets of
soldiers who lined the road. They peered far ahead at the plain
stretching interminably - with no barbed wire, no guard to bar
their free passage.
Little by little they began to talk of f.ood, of wives, children,
captives received
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It erupted suddenly with the ~rattle of automatic weapons just
as a ship's bell, which was the camp timepiece, tolled 1908· (7 p. m.)
over the weary tired men.
Most of the prisoners headed for the ground or the floor, thinking the gunfire meant the Japanese we,e liquidating them - a fate
many long had expected. Then they saw the Rangers.
It all happened so quickly most of them couldn't believe it was
true. But back at the 92nd evacuation hospital the dream gradually
became real as they were given medical care, toilet 8.rticles and
showers.
The captives gradually relaxed as they realized they :\\.tt~i-a,t
dreaming, but actually were free men again.
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WANT TO STAY ON.
These experiences lay heavily upon them. Details were palnf~to recall. Yet many of them forswore the probability of retumlnc
home immediately to stay and "drop just a few Japs first."
The prisoners had heard the preinvasion bombardment of Luzon
and news of the landing, but the rescue came as a complete surprise.
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sweethearts ..and parents from whom the majority have heard
nothing for more than three years.
They talked in low tones of Japanese brutality and the death
march o! Bataan, of the final terrifying week of bombing and
bombardment which hit Corregidor, of men dying like flies, ot
disease, of 10 hours daily in prison camp under the hot sun, of wading
waist deep in water of rice paddies under hard eyes, of frequent
beatings and shootings,
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32nd Paces Grim Fight
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Yanks on Alert for Japs on Luzon
American solcliers, rifles ready, crouch beside an
"alligator" tractor, b1·ought to a halt by enemy fire,
and try to locate Japanese soldiers. The action is
south of Lingayen on Luzon island, Phillpplne8.
(AP Wirephoto from Signal Corps).
MacArthur's Troops Sight Manila;
Japs Brace for Showdown Battle
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_O"ll,ARK LEE
,.,Jverlooking, Manil~ ~ Y fmport-
GENERAL MAC ARTHUR'S
HEADQUART'.':RS, LUZ ON
(Satorday)-All major _roads
leading to long suffering Man•
Ila were dominated today by
powerful American forces some of them within sight of
moking sections of the Philipine capital - Gen. Douglas
cArthur announced in a
mmunlque as the great city
ed itself for an 1.mpending
tie of liberation.
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advanced spearheads acstanding on
high
ground
er's Eighth artny:-U.lts, c!JJl.,g,,.
t"ant highway and railroad on Luzon's central plain was firmly held
by MacArthur's liberating armies
and all Japanese main lines of
communication on northern and
southern Luzon were smashed.
Lt. Gen. Robert Eichelber- 1
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ing inland from the latest Lu..
zon invasion front in Batangas
province, can clearly make out
Manila from the top of Tagitay
ridge, less than 15 miles southwest of Cavite naval base In
Manila Bay.
Fall of Manila was imminent as
the Sixth and Eighth army pincers
tightened on the capital. No less
than seven combat divisions, totalling perhaps 100,000 men, were all
ai!fied at 1:_he queen city ot the
Philippines...
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Troops in all sectors are keyed
to a high pitch of electrifying enthusiasm and are hittini with
everything they have.
32ND IN ACTION
Fifth alr force pilots who flew
over Manila earlier today assertjd
Japs Tell of Attack
on U. S. Transports
By The Associated Press
A claim, unconfirmed by any
Allied sources, was made Friday by Tokyo 1·adio that Japanese submarines torpedoed
and probably sank two large
American ti·ansports and a.n
oil tanker off the west coast
of Luzon Tuesday.
a pall of smoke was hanging over
the waterfront and several large
fl.res were visible.
The 82nd (R<,d Arrow) division, composed largely of Michigan and \Visconsin troops,
was reported by headquarters
F:r-iday as one of the forward
elements in northern sector of
the Luzon front. These troops,
of the First corps are moving
eastward to clear the north
area of the Luzon plain. They
have seized San Nicholas, sealing off Jap re-inforcements In..
tended for the Manila sector
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action.
Gen. MacArthur's Headquarters,
Luzon-{JP)-Manila is in a deadly
American trap.
United States 8th army invasion
troops Friday had fashioned a
pincers on the Philippine capital by
landing on the Batangas province
coast 67 miles southwest of the city
while 6th army spearheads drove to
within a bar.e 20 miles of the capital on the north.
Virtually Unopposed.
The 11th air-borne division Wednesday swept ashore from landing
craft virtually unopposed along
five miles of Batangas beach near
Nasugbu and quickly pressed eastward toward 2,000-foot Tagaytay
ridge, which commands highw8:ys
leading to Manila and the Cavite
naval base in Manila bay, 32 miles
away.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur reported this third Luzon invasion-the
second by the newly-formed 8th
army in 48 hours-had caught the
Japanese by surprise.
"We landed without loss," he announced explaining that the landing "largely seals off the possibility
of the enemy troops south of Manila joining thc1'se in the north, and
definitely outflanks the enemy's
defense line in southern Luzon."
Hit Shore Without Shot,
The first wave of Maj. Gen. J.
M. Swine's 11th division troops hit
the shore without firing a shot and
captured Nasugbu. A half hour after the first Yanks were ashore Japanese in caves to the north brought
machine-gun and 77 mm. fire to
bear on the !anding beach. This
was quickly silenced by naval gunfire and m.obile artillery,
Meanwhile the fast-rolling Amer~
ican 6th army's 1st cavalry division-still unchecked-reached Angat river, 25 road miles north of
Manila and patrols were reported
to hav~ reached Malolos, 20 miles
from Manila.
Eighth army troops which landed
just north of Subic baY on Monday
are moving eastward from captured Olongapo naval base against
light resistance. These troops are I
heading toward a juncture with
th
eR:~h A~::!s ~~l;r:;~~h Fi;_ht. _ \
MacArthur also announced 1.6kt
the 32n~ (Red Arro;,•) divis\Ol'\ is
spearheading the stubbornly ~eld
northern sectol' where the lst,,torps
is moving eastward to cJEt,a.r the
north end of the c~traJ Luzon
plain. Here the Yanks are four
miles east of Tayug and six miles
east of San Manuel, where they
seized San Nicholas on the Cagayan
valley highway, vital to Japanese
reinforcements or retreat.
MacArthur reported an enti_re
Japanese column, trapped between
two American forces on the Balungao-Umingan road in this northern sector, had been annihilated.
Eight tanks, eight artillery pieces
and considerable other material
was destroyed.
Blast Jap Defenses.
Defenses in the Manila bay sector
took another severe aerial pounding as Liberators dumped 152 tons
of bombs on Corregidor and the
Cavite naval base, causing extensive fires and explosions.
Two airdromes on Formosa weve
targets for patrol bombers.
Six
Japanese planes were destroyed.
Other bombers scored direct hits
on a 10,000~ton tanker and a
smallei'-- freighter in the China sea
south of Formosa. leaving the
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Up and Down Broadway with WALTER WINCHELL
Portrait of a Hero
"'.\OTIIJ:\'G has stood longer unles& it be i\IacArth ur,
the bills and the de,·il." Bel ieve it or n ot , that's a n old
8cotch proverb! . . . The l\1acArtburs are the oldest known
Scotch clan. According to legend, the first MacArthur,
S mervic ~Iohr, was the son of King Arthur of the R ound
''fable. (l\'!acArthur rneans-"son of Arthur") . . . General
Douglas MacArthur p r o v· e s
once again that the Scots have taken by six o'clock the followwhat it takes. Previous yankee ing evening. Ma cArthur's andoodle heroes of Scotch origin swer was: "We will take the Cote
include John Paul Jones, An- de Chatmon by six o'clock todrew Jackson, Jeb Stuart and morrow or report a casualty llst
Ulysses S. Grant <Scotch and of 6,000 dead. That will include
soldier, pun my soul!).
me."
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MacARTHUR is like this:
I N FRANCE, instead or reWhen he commanded the Rainbow Division in France during maining safely in the rear like
World War I, his superior officer other staff officers, MacArthur
told him one day that he wanted always accompanied his troops
the Cote de Chatillon <a strongly into "no man's land." Once,
fo rtified German key position) when he was asked why he took;
the unnecessary risk, MacArthur
retorted: "I wanted to let the
boys know that somebody at
headquarters was willing to go
with them!"
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SHORTLY after the first
American troops arrived in
France under MacArthur, the
French, who didn't think much
of the Yanks as scrappers, fig ured they'd put on a show and
give MacArthur an idea of what
real soldiers were like. Placing
MacArthur in a spot where he
could safely watch the Frenchies
do their big stuff, they staged a
surprise raid on the Germans
across the line. Machine guns
started to bark, shrapnel burst,
and men were dropping all Over
the place.
MacArthur, armed
only with a riding whi p, jumped
into the battle. When it was
over, MacArthur walked over to
the wide -eyed Frenchies, lead ing by the ear a German officer
whom he had captured with
nothing but a whip!
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THE BITTER irony is that
when MacArthur· was Chief of
Staff, he made a mob of enemies
and was branded a warmonger
because he pleaded for preparedness! The campaign to smear
MacArthur hit a peak half a
dozen years ago when he retired.
Wi th Pres. Roosevelt's approval.
to take on the job of building the
Philippines' defenses. His enemies screamed that Manuel
Quezon was paying him a salary
of $18,000 a year to help him
establish a military dictatorship.
MacArthur's withering reply
was: "I wouldn't sell my sword."
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BACK IN the early th irties,
when he was Chief of Staff,
MacArthur prophetically warned
that the coming war would be
a mechanized affair and repeated ly begged Congress for a
giant alr force and a motorized
army. Instead of opening their
minds to let in some fresh air,
the Rip Van Winkles quipped
that the reason MacArthur was
anxious to motorize the army
was because of his well ,known
dislike for riding a horse ! . . .
Later, when he was busily trai ning his little native army in the
Philippines, man y Am ericans
there referred to him sneeringly
as "the Napoleon of Luzon."
(They didn't know it, but t hey
weren't kidding !) ... Unlike the
second-guessers now beating the
drum for the hero they once belittled, Pres. Roosevelt was a
MacArthur fan away back.
When MacArthur retired as
Chief of Staff !or what seemed
like military oblivion in the Philippines, Mr. Roosevelt told his
aides : "I must always find a way
to keep MacArthur close to me.
II there is ever another A. E. F.,
he's the man to take it over! ''
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MacARTHUR, who wouldn't be
in his present plight if ,the Rip
Van Winkles h ad listened to his
preparedness pleas, hasn't lost
his sense of humor in spite of it
all. When his Philippine troops
were incorporated in to the U. s.
Army last July, MacArthur's
first message to Washington
was: "Send me airplanes, trucks
and guns." To which he added
the postscript: "II you can't
spare anything else, send me
some French -and -Indian war
tomahawks."
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MacARTHUR is one man who
wasn't caught napping by the
Japs. On Dec. 6-the day before the Pearl Harbor attackhe called the reporters in to his
Manila headquarters and told
them: "Boys, it's here !" ... When
news of a successful raid on the
Japs reached Washington, an
army officer remarked : "MacArthur is always in the thick o!
the battle!" ... "You mean ," corrected a Rainbow Division veteran, "the thick of the battle
is always where MacArthur is!''
... Floyd Gibbons, commenting
once on the rakish ti lt at which
MacArth w· wears his hat, wrote
that it was just the tilt which
permitted his personality to
emerge withou t violating Army
regulations.
(Tratle Mork 1t r-i;i11.t red.
Cop7rl&"ht, JOt2 , Dall1 M.lrror, J.ne,)
Uq>rintcd by 1>cr111i!!siOn of Daily Jlirror , l 11c.
�•Gona Falls to Allies;
Member of 126th
Reported Wounded
Tighten ,,Y!~e on Japs
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Nea t Bu n al,
week ago. They now Will puslt
down the shores of Holnicote bay '
toward Sanananda, where the eflri
emy has been holding off a m~
' Austra1ian~American fo~c.P.' attacking down the trail from Soputa.
Australian patrol,( first penetrat•
' Yanks, Aussies Advance
Against Last Enemy
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cupied the Gona are_a in. New
t th
menace to their rear agains
e
remaining· Japanese forces in the
Buna-Sanananda area, Gen. Doug•
las MacArthur announced Thurs•
Guinea and are advancing without
cd Gona viUage Nov. 22, but with•
drew as Japanese forces dug in,
with protection from mortars, ma-:
chine guns and automatic weapons.
They held the Aussies off for three
weeks in the toughest fighting af
the New Guinea campaign,
The Japanese occupied the vii•
!age July 22. It has been so battered and bombed that it now Is
little more than a name on maps.
A spokesman at MacArthur's
headquarters warned that the ad•
vance down the beach toward
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Buna, against
e s rong e
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positions in the. Sanananda area,
would not be easy. The Japanese
have erected a series of barricades
along the beach.
Allies Win Air Battle.
dfhe Japanese now are pinned into
It was announced last week that
a narrow coastal strip, with allied MacArthur had moved American
air forces maintaining a continu- 105-mm. howitzers, complete with
ous bombing and strafing in sup• tractors, from Australia, by air, to·
port of artillery and ground forces. help blast the Japanese out ot
tBY Associated PreH. >
their fortifications in the jungl~
Official reports said American and to overcome their advantage
forces striking at the lower end of of artillery brought in by sea from
the salient were making progress bases at Lae, 165 miles northwest
agaim:t defenses of the Buna vii• of the Buna-Gona front, and from
lage sector and a Japanese airfield. bases on New Britain and New
Bitter fighting raged for posses• Ireland.
sion of the airfield, advices from
1By Associated Press.)
the front said. Allied detachments
Allied headquarters meanwhile
are entrenched in two places at announced that American Flying
one end of the landing strip 1nd Fortresses and Liberator bombers
Japanese hold the other.
had scored a victory over a forma<B.v United Press.)
tion of Japanese fighters in a furl•
Gen. MacArthur announced the ous duel off the coast of New
capture of Gona three hours after Britain, shooting down 10 ?f the
he reported the Australian jungle enemy planes and damaging 4
fighters had beaten back strong en• others so badly they probably
emy attempts to escape from their crashed.
surrounded positions, killing at
"All our planes returned," the
· least 95 Japanese and capturing 4. communique said.
This brought enemy casualties
The air battle develope_d in conaround Gona for the last week to junction. wit.µ a heavy allied bomb•
about 400 killed.
I ing assault on the Japanese air•
Base Laid Waste.
i drome at Gasmata, New Britain,
Australians reached the beach. unloading 500-pound ~ornbs in dispersal bays and causmg consider•
b oth nor th and south of Gana a able
damage.
Yanks Shell
Foe at Buna
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Word haa been received by hi•
sister, Mrs. Leo J. Dornbos, 944
Graceland st., NE., that Sergt.
Willfam Hughes, 25, of this city,
was aerlously wounded Nov. 22
while aervlng with the 126th infantry In New Guinea.
Hughes, who left with his regil b::t.ent 1n October of 1940, trained
at Camp Beauregard and Camp
Livingston, La., before being sent
to Australia and New Guinea. He
is a native ot Muskegon and a
Artillery Blasts Japs
After Counter-Drive
Is Repulsed
(Bv A~sociatcd Press.)
United Sta es forces holding the
approaches to the Buna airdrome
Friday laid down punisiling artillery fire on Japanese beach positions after throwing back a Japanese night counter-attack near
Buna village.
With the Gona area, 12 miles to
the north, clPared by the Au~~ralian fare~ that swept up the nver
vaJ1eys and 9't>rmed the tnission
post, Australlal1{ patrols now are
reported advancin&t down the coast
toward Cape Kil'ferton, ,six miles
northeast of Buna, and the big
push to drive the Japanes~ out_ of
their beachhead pockets 1s being
c~1\::~tzea~~ forces continued to I
support the land fighters, layin_g J
their bombs on the Japanese pos1- j
tions from Cape Killerton southward through Euna to Cape Endaiadere, three miles southeast of
Euna.
Isolate Inland Base.
One other enemy force was reported still holding out near Soputa, about six miles inland from
Euna, and P40's strafed and
bombed this enemy position. The
size of this force was not indicated.
A communique describing the
Japanese counter-attack at Euna
said that "bitter hand-to-hand
fighting ensued throughout the
position in a struggle for piUboxtype enemy machine-gun emplacements" and reported that it collapsed under heavy fire.
The Japanese employed 75-mm.
guns and mortars against the allies' 105-mm. howitzers and mortars that threw 25-pound shells.
Direct hits were scored on an
enemy anti-aircraft gun.
leun~ Torn by
• SJ!;RG~ WILLIAM HUGHES
graduate of Muskegon high school,
subsequently attending Grand Ra~
ids Junior coUege and the University of Michigan.
While in Grand Rapids, Hughes
resided with his sister, Mrs. Dornbos. Before leaving with the 126th
infantry he was employed at the
Allen Calculator plant.
One Grand Rapids soldier, Pvt.
Walter L. Floyd, 36, of 1042 Lafayette ave., SE., was reported Friday to bave been kill~d in action
during the commando raid last
Aug. 19 ·on Dieppe, France. Word
of his ·•en's death was aent his
fll.ther, Charles F. FlOyd, of the
san?e ,ddress, by the American
Red Cross.
Two marines, Pfc. Hubert D. Milanowski, 123 Travis st., NE., and
Pfc. Daniel C. Stevens, 925 Milwaukee st., SW., Wyoming Park, have
been reported wounded in action
in South Pacitto action agl;linat•the
Jape. Pfc,. Stevens wu employed,
before enlisting, with Winters and
Crampton, Inc., Grandville, while
Milanowski was a pupil at Creston high school. He is a brother of
Mrs. Joseph Budnick, 125 Travis
st., NE,
Shell Torrent
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Artillery, Mcaftars
Pound Jap Positions,
Patrols Mop Up Gona
JUNGLE JOURNEY- la_ ~li • tf~
By plane, boat, jeep an'd. afoot, united n~tiOns forces are Mfving against the Japs m
New Gulne'Cllere dough boys ford a Jungle
i\rftin. Native porters bring up the rear. I
(~sed by censor.)
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ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
AUSTRALIA (Monday) UP)-Allied
forces poured a continuous torrent
of artillery and mortar shells into
enemy positions in the Buna area
ot New Guinea Sunday, the high
command said today.
American an~ Australian patrols,
meanwhile were mopping up Japanese stragglers west of Gona,
which the Allies occupied several
days ago. Fighting planes bombed
and strafe4 the enemy throughout
the day, the noon communique
said, and an Allied reconnaissance
unit shot down two Japanese fighter• which attempted an interception.
In1tallation1 at Salamaua, Japanese base some 125 mlles north Of
Buna, were attacked In & night
raid.
}ap~S~y Vanks
Still Hold Isles
In Philippines
New York-(,l')-The Vichy radio
Thursday broadcast a dispatch
from Tokio reporting that certain
of the Philippine islands still were •,
Hheld by Americans" and that Jap~
anese marines had been landed
there to end resistance.
The dispatch said Jal)6llese naval
headquarters had announced "vioq.t :fighting is now in progress."
•rfie Berlin radio also said Japanese forces had been landed on islands where Americans still were
resisling and added that "'in fierce
fighting the Americans gradually
are being forced to surrender."
Only 1ast week the Tokio· radio
admitted American and Filipino
l resistance was continuing.
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Buna Captured
by MacArthur
By FRANK ROBERTSON
clouds and a gentle sea breeze
WITH AMERICAN GROUND stirred the palm frontls.
It was a peaceful and pleasant
FORCES IN PAPUA (INS) - Ex- scene - for about two minutes!
cept for the shooting, it was as Then our artillery started up again.
good as a ride on a roller-coaster. Shells which sounded uncomfort-
f!i!
The rains had started at last and
~~:seJ::ri;:s~i;;:.r us to thud
we slithered and bucked our way
One of the Jap machine guns
to the front line.
opened up. We heard the swish of
I sat on the jeep's bonnet. Be- bullets a.nd bits of foliage floated
hind me -was the commanding down on us as a hail of lead cut
through the dense jungle.
general and staff officers and
We edged our way back under
cover and carefully worked ourselves up until we were almost on
the beach. A black-bearded but fair ,
skinned man rose from behind a
machine gun to meet us. This
was Staff Sgt. Herman Bottcher,
the "one-man army" from San
Francisco, · With a small unit, he
had held this beachhead wedged
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between the Ja.p beach positions for
almost a week, killing nearly 70
Japs who tried to shiH him away.
Bottcher is more than a hero to
the men behind him. He ho.s become a symbol. His presence on
the beach between the Japs has
That the score or more of Grand
had a tremendous effect on the
Rapids men reported wounded remorale of the doughboys fighting
cently in action in New Guinea
behind him.
have had sympathetic medical and
We crouched behind low cover
surgical treatment was indicated
as the general told this grimhere Monday in a press associafaced, mud-spattered sergeant that
tion dispatch which mentioned
every officer and man on New
Maj. Simon Warmenhoven, former
Guinea was proud of him.
"Tell that to my men," Bottcher
told the general. "They've done
more than I have."
He went back to his gun to answer a Jap machine gun which
had opened fire on his position.
"And tell them back there that
the Japs aren't going to shift us
from here.'' he shouted through
the noise of his gunfire as we
started back.
Mafor Strong Point
Held by Japs on
New Guinea Falls
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Former Surgeon
In Local Hospital
Is in New Guinea
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
AUSTRALIA (Tuesday) UP>-Allied
infantrymen swept over Japanese
troops at Euna village on the eastern New Guinea coast. yesterday to
capture one of the major strong..
points of the enemy, and "largely
parried" a heavy reinforcement at•
tempt in the immediate area.
An official communique telling
of the wresting of this important
Japanese foothold did not mention
the fate of nearby Bu•a Mission
which also has been held stubbornly by the enemy.
The communique said:
"Buna viUage bas been taken.
It was occupied by our troop1 at
10 o'clock this morning, Dec. 14.
The attack was preceded by a
heavy mortac barrage which was
followed in by the infantry." ,
REINFORCEMENT THREAT
Then, telling ot the new Japanese reinforcement threat the bul•
Ietin said:
"'In another attempt by the
enemy's naval forces to reinforce
their ground troops in the Buna
area, the enemy launched a corr..
voy of two cruisers and three
destroyers for a landing at Mam•
bare and Kumusi estuaries."
These two rivers empty into the
sea about 20 and 40 miles, respec-tively, northeast of Buna, and obviously the enemy was attempting
to outflank the entire AIUed assault which had resulted tn the
capture ot Goila and Euna.
'HEAVY CASUALTIES'
"Our air force,"' it added, -Jntercepted this convoy. In heavy
bombing and strafing attackl!I, the
enemy's landing barges were sunk
or disabled.
,.,
"Survivors attempted to reach
land by swimming, suffering heavy
casualties.
"Supplies were set afire.
~rat
hits and many near misses Wl!l'e
made on the war vessels."
A Japanese bomber and two
fighters also were shot down out
of a screening force, and the com..
munique added:
"It is believed that the major
enemy effort was largely parried.,.
A TOUGH _FIGHT
The enemy relnforcemen.l, move
was consistent with Japat'lese efforts to hold at almost any cost
the toeholds they established last
summer in the Buna-Gona area.
The Allies have blasted to the
ocean bottom a sizeable numtrer·
of enemy ships and landing barges
within the last month, and on
ground have had to fight every
foot of the way along the coasL
The fall of Buna. village was
considered an event of ci:wttat im.portance in the steady annihilation
of the Japanese whose presence in
that area had given the Australian
mainland government an1dous mo-ments until General MacArthur
began his drive S:cross the Owen
Stanley mountains from Port
Moresby.
The Japanese still have two
strong bases in New Guinea, at Lae
and Salamaua, the latter being
about 140 miles above Euna. Both
points have been under freq~e
Allied air attack and occasion
their have been patrol skirm i
I
I
PVT. EDWARD ZIMl\lERMAN,
at top; SGT. WADE L. KRY•
GER, ' lower right, and SGT.
GRANT SULLIVAN, left, all of
Grand Rapid!!;, 3.re amo~g the
latest casualties from the south
Pacific. All are reported "seri•
ousJy wounded."
Two in JI!iendly Group Wounded _
se,
MAJ. WARMENHOVEN,
senior resident in surgery at St.
Mary's hospital, as the officer in
command of a group of army surgeons working "in primitive sur- 1
roundings.''
Maj. Warmerhovcn, who 1eft
here ,vith the national guard in
October 1940, as a captain, was
promoted to major and placed in /
command of the regimental medical detachment shortly before I
leaving the United States last
spring.
Maj. Warmenhoven was born in
The Hague, The Netherlands, Jan.
17, 1910, but has been a Grand
Rapids resident most of his life.
He is a graduate of Calvin college
and Marquette university medical
school · in Milwaukee. His wife resides at 2446 Boulevard-dr., S. W.,
Wyoming Park, with their three
children; Muriel, 5. Ann Elizabeth, I
20 months, and a 3-month•old son, I
Simon, jr., whom he has never
seen. He received the cablegram 1
announcing his son's birth just bef9re leaving for the fighting ftont.
His parents, Mr. and Mrs. Paul
C. Warmerhoven, live at Sunny- '
j side, Wash.
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-Grand Rapids
Press PhotOl'rapher.
SGT. EDWARD FORTIER, left, was wounded In the fighting In New
Guinea and his bunkmate, CORP. MARVIN WEIBENGA, right, was
reported recuperating in a New Guinea hospital when last heard
from, but they look forward to a reunion with their friend, CORP,
ROBERT MYERS of the marines, who last wrote his parents, Mr.
and Mrs. C. W. Myers of Bootwlck Jake, that he was on a south
Pacific island ''that you read a Jot about in the papers." Myers and
Fortier, classll\ates at Creston High ochool, met for the first time In
18 months when this photograph was taken In April. Myers was en
route to the west coast after eervice in Iceland. Fortier and Weibenga
soon afterward ~ Austnlla and thence to the New Guinea front,
�Tighten Hold
InBunaArea
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Allies Increase Pressure
Against Remaining
Jap Defenders
(By United Press.)
Allied forces iJ1. eastern New
l Guinea increased pressure Thursday against what was left of Japanese positions on the Buna front.
The Japanese defenders are under
direct orders from Emperor Hirohito to resist to the last man.
The heaviest fighting was reported, _in the_ allied communique, I
m the immediate Buna area, just I
south of the government station.
Allied bombers and fighter planes
continued to blast Japanese positions from Cape .Endaiadere, about
three miles east of captured Buna,
all the way up th.e coast to the
Mambare estuary, 40 miles northwest of Gona, where eriemy ;re ..
inforcements moved ashore Sunday night.
An explanation of the fanatical
Japanese resistance came in the '
questioning of a 24-year-old lance
corpop,b.9i ~~ mountain arVJlery, tapftii ?d recently
This prisoner said that when word
reached the emperor of the imminent crisis at Buna, he asked that
every man glve his life, if neces-
Win Citations at New Guinea
These Grand Rapids members of the 128th Infantry, Sgt. Edgar
. Marsh (left) and Corp. Donal L. Mmray, signal corpsmen were
olted for bra.very in the severe fighting before Buna in New o'utnea.
Two G. R. Guardsmen Cifedl
for Bravery Befbre Buna !
sary, to hold it.
PVT. ALBERT THOM.<S
P.t'C. ELLSWORTH H. NEELY
These :four soldiers were added t.o the casuattY list ·o:f Grand
Rapids men serving on foreign fronts in notices sent to their faml...
lies Tuesday by the war department. Staff Sgt. Madigan and Pvt.
Sandusky were listed as killed in action, Sandusky In the Mrican
area and Madigan in the· South Paclflc battlefront, while Pvt. Thomas
and Pfc. Neely were reported to be wounded seriously during _fight,.
Ing in the New Guinea area.
\ ).•\S- 'tJ...
Sergeant's Tough!
Rams Wedge Into Buna Lines
and Plays Hob With Japs
Both on Land and at Sea..
j
\Vith American Troops in New
Guinea-(De!ayed) - (IP) - Some
American doughboys are Jiterally
thumbing their noses at the J ap ..
anese in one of the hottest spots
on this jungle battlefront-and
that's where Sgt. Herman Bottcher
of San Francisco comes in.
Bottcher and his small group of
men smashed through the Japanese defenses between Buna and
Buna mission, killed 50 or 60
Japanese, and established a beach•
head.
The Japanese made at least two
attempts to remove it but Bottcher
and
his
men
stuck
tight.
B?ttcher is rapidly establishing
himself as a ohe-man army. When
the enemy attempted a dawn at- 1
tack. Bottscher was ready. The
Japs were repulsed, leaving 40 to 50
dead.
A Japanese machine-gun nest be•
gan causing trouble. So the ser•
geant took a pocketful of hand
grenades, crawled through the
brush and disposed of it. The next
night the Japanese attacked from
two sides But Bottcher heard
them corning, sent up flares and
they were blasted back to their
own lines, leaving seven dead.
Bottcher then spotted a Japanese
launch apparently trying to take
supplies to Buna village.
He
turned his machine-guns on it and
set it afire.
Bottcher obtained experience on
the Loyalist side in the Spanish
civil war. He was born in Lands• i
b~rg, Germany, 33 years ago and
st!II s~eaks with a slight German
Report More/
Men Wounded
,~~
Five From Grand Rapids
Added to Pacific I
Casualty List
Word that five more Grand Rapids m~n,_ known to be serving in
New Guin~a; were "seriously
wounded in action in the south ,.Pacific" has been received by their
next of kin.
The men are Sgt. Peter W. Kos•
tcr, 30, son of Mr. and Mrs. James
Koster, 1421 Widdicomb-st., N. W.;
Sgt. Wade L. Kryger, 21, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Martin Kryger, 123 Annst., N. E., and husband of Mrs.
Margaret Kryger of Detroit; Sgt.
Arthur Simmons, 22, husband of
Mrs. Helen Simmons, 509 Coit-av.,
N. E.; Sgt. Grant Sullivan, 19, son
of Mrs. Gladys Flit!,, 30 Lyon-st., N.
E., and Pvt. EdvA.rd Zimmerman,
22, son of Mr. and Mrs. Leon Zilumerman, 752 Sixth-st., N. \V.
Sgt. Koster, graduate of Union
High school and Junior college,
was a tool designer at General Mo~
tors corporation before leaving
here with the national guard for
· active duty.
Sgt. Kryger, member of the national guard since 1939, left with i
the local troops in 1940, after
graduation from Creston High
school. He was promoted to corporal en route to Australia and to
;.;::::rgeant soon after arrival.
Sgt. Simmons, an employe of the
VandenBroek Roofing Co., left her~
wHh the national guard in 1940.
Sgt. Sullivan loft Union High
school in his senior year to go to l
active service with the national
guard. He is t!1e grandson of Mr. ]
and Mrs. George Filkins of Com- I
stock Park.
I
Pvt. Zimmerman, .~ former stu- ·
den~ at Union High school, was
employed at the W. B. Jarvis Co.
when the national guard was called
to active service. He was a mem-1
ber of the medical detachment.
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t
/
T~o more members of Grand
~ap1ds' own 126th infantry~ were
cited_ for bravery in the furious
fightmg in N~w Guinea in news
reports reachmg Grand Rapids
Monday.
They were Sergt. Edgar C.
Marsh. and Corp. Donald L. Mur'ray, signal corpsmen attached to
the headquru.·ters company of the
126th.
The news dispatch, written by
Frank Ro~ertson, International
News Service correspondent. described Marsh as "one of the crew
of unsung heroes of the New
Guinea battlefront," and related
that Murray and a companion
walked through heavy Japanese
fire to hook up a telenhone line to
an American advanced post.
~urray wa!: wounded Nov. 28, appare:ntly later in tne sarn:e action
described in Robertson's report, his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Marrel B
Murray, of 322 Robey pl., SE., point~
ed out Monday. They added that
their son's wife, Dorothy, of 206
Garfield ave., NW., received a cablegram from him Sunday, congratuJating her on her birthday and telling her not to worry.
Robertson's story was as foJfow,3:
"Sergt. Edgar Marsh of (;.rand
Rapids, Mich., is a signal corpsman, one of the crew of unsung
heroes of the New Guinea battle•
front Who string communication
wires to forward positions around
Buna.
,
..I spoke to hi~ from a command
post 200 yards behind the shallow
trench he had been lying in for
seve1·al days, acting as communications officer. He's only a shoi·t :
distance from a Japanese machine
gun nest that has defied all Allied '
efforts to knock it out
1I
"'How are thing& ba~k there in
civilization?' he 3-sked, referring tcr
the command post which at that i
moment, was receiving so~e atten- 1
tion from Jai:>anese mortars.
TOOK OVEJ.t
.
"~arsh ~ook over ~s communi- i
cations. chief when hts command-1
ing offtifr volunteered ~o take a
plat.oon m an attack agamst Buna
durmg a temporary shortage of
line officers.
"Two other signal corps men who
br8:ved f~1·ious enemy barae-es to
String wire to advanced positions
were Pvt. Robert Shearer of Granu.da, Miss., and Corp. Don Murray
ofuGrand Rapids, Mich.
An American platoon had made
a successful sortie deep into Japan_ese lines _and was holding its posibon despite the hottest fire the
Japs. co~ld th.row at them. Commumcabon with the main AIHed
force had to be established, so
Shearer and Murray took the telephone wire and waded through the
Jap crossfire to the advanced post.
After hooking up the line they returned once again through the hailof bullets, arriving at their base
unscathed."
MADE CORPORAL
Corp. Murray, who is 21 years
old, attended Ottawa and· Davis
Tech high schools here, and was
mobilized in October, 1940, with the
national guard, which he had
joined sortly before. He was made
a corporal while at camp in
Louisiana.
Sergt. Marsh, who is 24 years old,
is a vett!ran guardsman, ·aavlng
joined up nine years ago at a quite
tender age. His father, Francis W.
Marsh, cashier in the city treasurer's office, recalled that Edgar,
who graduated from Central high
school, had adopted radio as a hobby, and had planned to go into the
mechanical end of radio as a busi-'
ness.
He was a corporal when the national guard was mobilized, and between May and September, 1941,
was promoted to the rank of sergeant, staff sergeant, and then technical sergeant. He served as acting communications chief at Camp
Livingston, in Louisiana.
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I
�ilht Omln~\~pi~li ~tnd~ EXTRA
FIFTY-SEVENTH
RAND
YF..AR
RAPIDS,
MICH.,
MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1941
PRICE
THREE
CENTS
JAPS ATTACK PACIFIC BASES;
U. S. WINS'.: IN FIRST BATTLE?
leans Cabinet
All Army Men
Ordered Out
Sunday Night
Navy Prepared for
lxpect President to
'5k Congress for
ar Declaration
Jap Attack; Hull
Scores Two Envoys
WASHINGTON (}P)- The war department Sunday night or dered all
milita ry personnel in this country
into uniform.
Naval officers said informally
that for several months all American warships in the Pacific had
been in constant readiness for bat-
INGTON - The President
ed his entire cabinet to an
esident was expected by
TOKYO (lllonday) (}P) - .Japanese Imperial headquarters announced at 6 a. m. today that Japan had entered a
state of war _with the United States and Britain in the western Pacific as from dawn today.
+ + +
NEW YORK (}P) - .Japanese warplanes killed 35 men
at Hickman field and set fire to the U. S. battleship Oklahoma Sunday in a sodden raid on Pearl Harbor and Hono•
Iulo, an NBC observer radioed direct from the scene today.
Two other ships in the harbor also were attacked, he reported.
+ + +
congreWonal leaders to deliver a I VESSEL SENDS SOS
messag
WASHINGTON UP) - The White Honse announced at 3:35
ing fo
p. m., (EST), Sonday, that the army had just received word that
again st
n.
Repub
Senate Leader Mc- an American vessel, believed to be a cargo ship, had been sendNary or
gon , said he talked late ing out slgnals of distress approximately 700 miles west of San
today wit Vice P r esident Wallace
over the
ephone and that Wal- Frandsco.
Whether it had been torpedoed was not immediately learned.
lace had · ed h im to flash word
tle.
President Roosevelt conferred
'With the secretaries of navy and
war.
At London Prime
Minister
Churchill conferre'd with John G.
Winant, U. S. a mbassador to Britain, and the British waited f or fulfillment of Chur chill's promise of
Nov. 10 to declare war on Japan
.,within the hour" if she attacked
the United States.
Presidential Secretary E a rly declared that so far as is known the
attacks were "made wholly without
w a rning- when both nations were
at peace"-and were delivered within an hour or so of the time that
the Japanese ambassadors had
gone to the state department to
hand to the secretary of state
Japan's reply to the s ecretary's
memorandum of the 26th.
MAY BE "TO SAVE FACE"
There was a disposition in some
qua rters here to wonder whether
the attacks had not been ordered
by the Japanese military authori-
WAR BULLETl~~S
Manila Under Attack
A general vlew
of
Manlls, Philippines capital and largest city,
reported under attack from Japanese air forces Sunday
to Republ
senators to hasten
to Washin
''I antici
message fr o
for a decl.1
Japan.
This was
nflrmed by White
House Secre
Stephen Early,
who said tha the President was
assembling
information as
quickly as p
ble and will present it to con . as in an ''informative report." p)()bably in the form
of a message to a joint session.
The attack WlS launched at the
very moment J~anue "peaee" envoys in Waahing-.OD aougbt to continue peace conv,raationa with this
country.
.:
Pearl Harbor, tle •'6,m.erlcan naval "Gibraltar" at ~ • and the
Philippine naval ·, ' at Ca.vlte
.,
near Manila, took 11
brunt of
~1:!t•~e~~~::t t:::o!f:i~:!st1:itr~~~ !- - - --~--- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - emperor might lead to an aboutthe first attacks.
_face in Japanese policy and the
consequent loss of face by the present ruling factions in Japan.
No o(ficle..t µ .sf' d tho w ord u
Japs Arrested
l
Canadian Medium
Nav
,,_,,
u.- s.
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smP TORPEDOED
WASHINGTON UP) - The White House announced today
that an army transport carrying lumber rather than troops had
been torpedoed 1,300 miles west of San Francisco. This placed
.Japanese naval action well east of Hawaii, toward the mainland.
There was no information whether the transport had been
sunk. .o r whether there was loss of life among the crew.
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HONOLULU (}P) - .Japanese bombs killed at least five per•
sons and injured many others, three seriously, In a surprise
morning aerial attack on Honolulu Sunday,
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NAVY MEN ORDERED TO POSTS
NEW YORK (}P) - A naval official who declined to be quoted
said today that the navy department had sent out an urgent
call to all officers on leave to report at once to naval districts
In wlilch they are located.
The second corps army area headquarters here revoked all
leave11 and furloughs and ordered all men to report to their posts.
+ + +
Report Americans Have
Control in Hawaii Area
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
WASHINGTON - Japan attacked the United States Sonday, striking with naval and air units at the great Pearl
Harbor naval base at Honolulu and at l\lanila, and latest
reports indicated that the United States had won the fint
battle in the new World war.
"The army and the navy, it appears, now have the air and
sea under control," said an NBC broadcast from Honolulu,
a few hours after the .Japanese opened the assault.
Adopting Adolf Hitler's surprise tactics of striking over
the week-end - ignoring President Roosevelt's personal lasthour appeal for peace to Emperor Hirohito Saturday night
- the .Japanese attacked the two keystones of American
defense in the Pacific at approximately 9:20 a. m. Honolulu
time (3:30 p. m. EST).
WASHINGTON UP)-Japanese airplanes Sunday attacked
American defense bases at Hawaii and l\lanila, and President
Roosevelt ordered the army and navy to carry out undisclosed
orders prepared for the defense of the United States.
The White House said that .Japanese bombed vital outposts
in the Pacific-Hawaii and Manila-at 3:20 p. m. (EST) and that
so far as was known the attack was still in pro;,:ress.
ATTACKS WITHOUT WARNING
Announcing the President's action for the protection of
American territory, Presidential Secretary Stephen Early declared that so far as is known now the attacks were "made wholly
without warning-when both nations were at peace--and were
delkered within an hour or so of the time that the .Japanese
ambassadors had gone to the state department to hand to the
Secretary of State .Japan's reply to the secretary's memorandum
of the 26th.
Promptly, navy officers said that long prepared counter measures against .Japanese surprise attacks had been ordered Into
operation and were "working smoothly."
And within a lf/W minutes, the war departmeaj; ordered all
,llt.Bnt DP""'nn@U fn .thla.....,..allllJL...l.Dt.o........J.1nlf~
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�son
New,,..,Guinea
.......
Only Small Number
Survive Blasting
by Allied Planes
By DEAN SCHEDLER
SOMEWHERE IN NEW GUINEA (Wednesday) (.iP)-Japanese
tl'Oops have landed nol'ihwast of
captured Gona and Euna in New
.
.
.
Gumea m a new remforcement attempt, but Allied headquarters announced today that their alreadytorn ranks were under a deluge of
bo,~tse ~~h!ul!:~: is strewn with
derelict barges, wreckage and ene:;'Jd. dead," today's communique
"Our troops maintained heavy
pressui·e on the enemy in all sectors" n, the Euna front where
u. s. 0and Australian troops took
auna village two days ago in
.~rce hand-terhand strugg1e pree-eded by a torrent of mortar
shells. Euna mission and other
nearby coastal points still are held
by the Japanese, however.
Perhaps 1,000 Japanese troops
were believed to have weathered
Allied air attacks to gain a new
foothold in an obvious attempt to
turn the Allied flank and relieve
the enemy units that are being cut
to shreds in a constricted coastal
sector.
The new enemy -18.llding was
made in the Cape ward Hunt area,
4.4 miles northwest of Buna on the
northeast shore of New Guinea
despite a sizzling "merry-g~round';
attack by Flying Fortresses, Havocs, Atracobru and Beaufi hters
which smashed Japanese 1!ndin
boats, left Japanese dead drape~
over the sides of barges and scattered on the beaches, and wrecked
~upply afts
r
·
war •
ut It waa ilOt
claimed any were sunk.
This was the seventh Japanese
attempt thus virtua11y thwarted to
reinforce their troops in the Buna
area.
fleeing no
Two Japanese cruisers and three
destroyers 1eeldng to effect the
landing bad only two hours before
dawn to e¥ecute the operation.
I From each of the five ships four
1·
motor landing craft-20 in alleach with an estimated capacity of
50 soldlera were lauilched.
The first wave of probably 1,000
Japanese got ashore and the barges
were tn the process of repeating
the operation when the Allied
dawn patrol came on the scene
with machine guns a.nd cannon
blazing.
Hundreds of Japanese leaped
overboard. At least five of the
barges were strafed and sunk and
many others were damaged beyond
repair. One was seen drifting out
of control with Japanese dead
hanging over the sides.
180 SWIMMERS KILLED
Observers here believed they had
intended to land at Buna but
turned aside because of the mili·
tary situation there to the Cape
Ward Hunt area between the
marshy Kumsul an~ ~mbare
rivers.
It was possible that a substantial
body of men got ashore to estabUsh a beachhead somewhat less
than midway between Buna and
the other Japanese bases at . Lae
and Salamau,a ,. 160 and 140 miles,
respectively, up the coast from the
Euna area, But it was believed
that their supplies were largely d~
strayed.
The cruiser and destroyer force
was sighted two days before the
At least a hundred swimmers landing attempt was made Monday
::~e e~~li~~t!~. the water, the air- as it steamed into the strait beThe Japanese had unloaded Into ~7:en New Guinea and New Britthe water at least 500 oil drums
lashed together in rafts of 40
drums, and crates in nets were
18.'Shed to the underside where they
would draw the least fire,
The Americans and Australians
fired thousands of rounds into the
small swarming area of water,
blowing up the rafts and scattering
and killing swimmers who were
towing them to shore.
Supplies which had been put
ashore and stacked on the beach
were blown to bits.
BAN LIKE MAD
I
Japanese r~n Jike mad for the
Ishelter of foliage and hugged the
I
Flying Fortresses and Liberators
dropped bombs in their path and
the four-motored bombers took up
the pursuit Tuesday.
The Liberators were attacked in
the New Britain area by seven
Zeros Tuesday and two of the
enemy fighters were shot down.
Another flight of Liberators was
attacked by 15 Zeros when the
fleeing warships were 150 miles
from Euna, and two of these fighters were brought down.
An American general led the
attacking force which s ;"' e pt
through the churned-up rums of
Buna and captured the place under
a heavy mortar barrage at 10 a. m.
Monday.
Japanese casualties were ex•
pected to be high when the count
is made,
Capture of Euna left the fighting
centered in two main areas, the
Cape Endal~dere and Euna mission
area immediately east of Euna and
the Cape Sananada area just to the
northwest of Euna.
-
beach as tracer bullets ripped
acr~ss th e sand lined witb dead.
Fire quickly spread th rough the
whole area. The Duvtra mission
wh~re the Japanese m?'de their
mam landing went up in smoke,
~nd_ as the Americans and Austrahans departed abandoned barges
~nd broken supply rafts were drift•
mg four miles out to sea.
~h: cbruisers atndd testrboyherlts werde
ra e
y repea e
om
a an
near misses and were last seen [
I
MacArthur's
Net Tightens
\1•1'1 ••"&--
Heavy Fighting
Erupts in 4re_a
of N. E. New Guinea
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
AUSTRALIA (Saturday) UPl Tightening of Allied rings about
the trapped Japs on either side of
Buna village erupted into heavy
fighting m northeast New Guinea,
the high command announced
today.
The heaviest fighting has broke~
out on the Allies' right, which is
the Euna mission sector.
Allied planes kept up their unceasing attacks on the enemy
ground positions. Allied -bombers,
meanwhile, paid another visit to j
Portuguese Timor, where enemy inetallations were attacked in the
towns of Mao Bisse and Mindelo.
It was the second visit in as many
days to Mindelo.
Troops under Gen. Douglas MacArthur's person.al command closed
Jn on the stubbornly resisting and
isolated pockets around Buna and
Australian patrols maintained pre~
1mre on enemy outposts guarding
Saiamaua, an older and perhaps
1tronger base.
Allied artillery destroyed an im..
portant bridge leading the Buna
government station, and Australian
and American t~oops fought &
i,mall battle to the death in a c~
coanut grove to the west. The grove
was occupied and held, although
Japanese counter-attacked under a
mortar barrage.
T:wenty Japanese were killed and
one surrendered. Fifteen others
were killed and one captured trytng to infiltrate Allied positions
near Gona.
JAPS STll,l, STICK
Euna village and Gona both are
tn Allied hands, but the surviving
Japanese still are dug in 4eeply
along the forlorn jungle be.,Ch for
abQut niIJ.e mHes in at ~e st two ,
separate pockets.
Japanese outposts in t e Salarnaua area were reporte pushed
back. One reason for t e Allied
moves in that area was✓,
protect
friendly natives whoi,{ the Jap.
anese have b~J.tte.fiipting to enslave as carriers. Besides Salamaua, the ietlemy on New Guinea
still hOlds the port ot Lae, a little
further to the noNhwest.
Freshly made mounds of earth
In the Kumusi-Mambare river region 45 miies northwest of Gona '
were spotted by aerial reconnnais1ance, indicating the deadly toll
of Allied planes which raided a
Japanese 1a:nding there Monday.
Allied planes made 230 sorties
there, sprayed the reinforcements
with 34,000 rounds of machine-gun
and cannon fire and cascaded 82
tons of bombs. The beach was littered with broken landing barges
and burned out native buts.
It
was considered doubtful that the
.Ta"f}anese landed any appreciable \
force.
J
Particularly effective were frag- [
mentation parachute bombs devised
by Lieut.-Gen. George C. Kenny, air
commander in the southwt!st Pa..
cific. Gen. MacArthur decorated
him for developing the exp!osives,
released from planes q.t 80 :j.o 100
feet. Kenny spent seven ye s perfecting the .bom.R..
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BUILDING BRIDGES IN NEW GUINEAAmerican and Australlan forces constructing a bridge over which the aUies moved ,to di~ge the
Japs In the Buna-Gona area. This is one of the many tasks that confronted the allies 1n penetrat•
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Some En~my Reinforcements Put Ashore in
New Guinea Despite Frightful Cost in Men
and Supplies Inflicted U pcm Landing O.Perations·; Allies Take Euna Village.
Allied Headquarters in Australia, Dec. 15.-(AP)-American
jungle fighters', supported by Australians, stormed into Euna
village yesterday and heavy fighting raged about the .Japaneseheld Buna mission to the east today while Allied bombers
smashed at new enemy invasion expeditions put ashore by a
strong cruiser and destroyer force at two points farther up t he
New Guinea coast.
The Americans slashed their
Convoy ca ers
way into the village five days After absorbing two days of
punishing raids, the convoy scatafter the capture of Gona, 12 tered northward.
miles to the northwest. These
As matters stood today the
were the main bases of the Japanese in the Buna•Gona. a~·ea
foothold established by the still were clinging to Buna M1ss1on
and Sanananda Point, just to the
Japanese last July 23 in their 110 rth, some positions of un~isclosed
closest t hrust toward northeast depth in the east, and possibly the
Australia.
newly established though heavily
(War front dispatches reaching battered toeholds up the Papuan \
,,- a., - •p..
Thi's truck loaded with A merican infantrymen m starting from a
New Guinea beach-head to the fighting front.
:Melbourne said the Allies were coast.
squeezing the .Japanese from three
Their main New Guinea bases,
sides on the central sector of the however, are at Lae and Salamaua,
Gana - Euna battleground, with 150 miles to the northwest, where
Australians pressing in from the their initial landings were made on
left, Americans from the right and the island last March.
both Australians and Americans
The July landings at Buna and
attacking through the center at Gana, which presented the gravest
Sanananda Point, above Euna vil- threat to the Allied outpost at Port
!age.)
Moresby, were followed by a disDes'pite the frightful cost in men astrous attempt to gain a foothold
and supplies inflicted upon the in Milne bay, at the southern end
new Japanese landing operations, of NE!w Guinea.
~are~adio~:te~~i~z~::~~il;~e
The occupation of Coasta1--Gona,
put ashore by the heavily protected 12 miles to the northwest, Was anconvoy standing off the mouths of nounced last Thursday, and the
the Kumusi and Mambare rivers, Australians who comprised the
some 20 and 40 miles, respectively, main force of that advancing arm y
north of Euna.
then turned southwa'rd toward
"In heavy bombing and strafing Sanananda.
attacks, the enemy's landing barThe occupation of Buna village
ges were sunk or disabled," the cut off the Japanese forc~s in the
cominunique said. "Survivors at- Sanananda area on the west from
tempted to reach land by swim- those eastward near the mission
ming, sufiering heavy casualties. airstrip and Giropa point.
Supplies were set afire. Several
The village was one of the
hits and many near misses were smaller Japanese pockets.
made on the war vessels.
Clima x of \ Var
Enem y P lanes Downed
The capture of Buna and Gan a
''The enemy's air force inter- marked the climax of one phase
vened unsuccessfully, an enemy of the war in the Sout hwest
bomber and two fighters being shot Pacific.
Early in their spread
down and the remainder disper~ed. southward, the Japanese invaded
It is believed that the major enemy New Guinea, taking Lae and Salaeffort was largely parried."
maua, ports some 140 miles north
(The Melbourne Herald's car- of E una, last March. They still
respondent in New Guinea said hold those points.
that although a big proportion of
Their penetration of Papuan New
the Japanese were believed slain Guinea were first made at Gana
before they reached shore, the and Euna on July 22 and they
landings in the M<!-mbare and Ku- drove with little resistance to Iorimusi estuaries "means that th e baiwa, only 32 miles from the major
enemy has established an a~dition- Allied base at Port J\'foresby, by
al sector on the Papuan coast.")
mid-September.
Japanese soldiers u nd er full pack
General Douglas MacArthur then
were reported to have plunged
wildly into water coated with blazp~~~eJit~:lJaf;~~e~~ b:f::n;!:~
ing oil and littered wi th wrecked the Owen Stanley mountains to t he
~l1e~Ul~!:;;e~ang;.~~e b~!~~ a~hte~~ Wairopi bridge. One Australian
wave assaules on the convoys.
force pursued the fleeing Japanese
After being attacked by Libera- up the Kumusi river and then
tors and flymg forll esses the turned ba~k down tow~rd Gona ..
crmser- and destroyer-protected
A combmed Australian-American
Japanese vessels stood off the coast force drov7 eastwar? along the
Sunday night and began landing Kokoda trail to la~ s1ege to Euna
operations under cover of darkness.' and another. Amencan force was
Early Munday fortresses , Havocs, landed by air transport south of
Airacobras and Australian Beau- 1Buna to work north.
fighters swarmed to the assault, ' Meantime, a Japanes flanking
bombing and strafing the landing threat was wiped out by Allied
area in a ceaseless shuttle service action in cleaning out a nest of
between ship and shore. Every one Japanese in Milne bay, on the tio of
of the enemy landing barges in the Papuan peninsula, and Allied
one group of 20 was sunk or set forces occupied Goodenough island,
afire.
off the coast southeast of Buna.
Barrels filled with ammunition,
Allied airmen carried the war to
oil and other supplies were lashed the Japanese supply lines with
together with nets and attempts bombings of Lae and Salamaua,
w~re made to float them to shore, and by smashing at Gasmata and
but Allied. airmen_ said they had a Rab~ul in New Britain, and a t
field day m sending them. to the Kavieng, in New Ireland.
bottom in low-level strafmg atThrough all this they h ave taken
tacks.
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a heavy toll of Japanese aircrECft,
Many of the ammumtion -f1lled warships, merchant-transport ships
barrels were reported to have ex- and men.
'
ploded with a mighty roar, destroying nearby barges loaded with
;:e~;
The Detroit News P ictorial for November 29. 1942
and 1n
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Australian an<l Amencan soldiers inspect disab led J apanese tanks in New Guinea
1lon2: the line of march co wa r d Buna.
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at Yalta Palace, Crimea
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'Nobody Saw Them; They Were Heroes Just the Same'
"Nobody saw them fight and no-:
body saw them die, but they were
heroes just the same."
This sincere tribute, in praise of
the men of the 32nd division at
Sanananda, was made by Capt.
Alfred Medendorp, 1914 Stafford
ave., SW., and Capt. Russell J.
Wildey, 833 Oakleight rd., NW.,
veterans of New Guinea campaign
now home on leave.
The two officers were eager to
point out the heroic action of local
men in their outfits who had received no mention in news dis-
patches sent out during the Papuan
campaign.
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RE(1ALLING the march over the
Owen Stanley mountains in which
he commanded the antitank and
cannon companie's which led the
way, Capt. Medendorp mentioned
the work of Sergeant Maurice DeMey of cannon company who
"made a very creditable record :for
himself iti the mountains. He was
usually on reconnaissance and that
meant playing hide and seek with
Jap patrols in order to get information back to us."
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STAFF SERGEANT THERON
ROSE shot the first Jap for the
division. It happened on Nov. 7
during the Wairope patrol. "Every'one sa.w Rose's man :tall and that
~as the signal to begin firing,"
Medendorp said.
Capt. John D, Shirley, commander ot I company, and Capt. Roger
Keast, commanding ' antitank comany, who established the Sananana road block on Nov. 30, were perponal friends of the two _returned
officers. "It took all day to put
l:hat block through," they recalled,
i"Those companies had to fight
every inch of the way.''
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DEAT~;
these two officers-Keast was killed on Dec.
1 and Shirley on Dec. 2-were felt
deeply by all their men.
S/Sgt. Joseph J. Kramarz, another Grand Rapids man, met his
death Dec. 6 while on a patrol
lwith 80 men lead by Maj. Bert
eeff and Capt. Wildey. They were
ttempting to g-et through to the
ad block.
th18:te~~:~ ~~~lu~::tir~edS~
d L ester, l • t Sgt. Jack Wea- _g. Technical S1t.. Bert A.
\w"skl.
·ndey was wounded. Dec.
>n which won him the
'ed service cross. He
g his men against a
nded Jap sector and
penetrate the enemy
r being slopped gnce
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Home from three years' service in the South Paclftc, Grand Rapids Red Arrow men are pictured in sQme of their not--so-serious mo..
ments. Above, Capt, Russell J. Wildey (left) and Capt. Alfred Medendorp look over some notes the latter wrote concerning parts of
the Papuan campaign. Below, Pvt. Don Miedema, left, and T-Sgt.
LeRoy Stutherd-. right, do a pantomime of the old army song,
Some Day I'm Going to Murder the Bugler. Pfc. Lyle Bieschke,
center, was company bugler during their training period in Louisiana before going o'terseas,
----------------~---------by automatic fire from the front home were instructors at an am•
and left flank.
phibious training school.
He was evacuated to Port Mores+ +- +
by because of very serious wounds
ON THE WAY home their ship
and a few days later was joined stopped on the New Guinea coast
there by Capt. Medendorp who had long enough for them to v:isit the
to be sent back because of malaria. military cemetery at Soputa. This
The two friends were "boarded cemetery now contains the graves
out" of the regim'ent eventually of all the 32nd men who were killed
because of malaria and at the during the Papuan campaign,
time they left New: Guinea to come bodies having been moved there
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servicemen saw each other in New
Guinea was in a hospital at Port
~oresby. They next met in a mess
hall at a camp in California, after
dis~mbraking from the same troopship. All the way Jrom the south
Pacific they had been on the eame
bqat and not seen each other.
"I was busy taking care of patients," explained Bieschke, who
was assigned to the medical detachment after the Papuan campaign,
He even gave a blood transfusion
on the way back.
.
The White Cloud soldier will report back to his base in New
Guinea, when his furlough is up,
but the two local men will report
to Miami Beach for reassignment.
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President Franklin D. Roosevelt (right rim o( iahlc) with members of their staffs as they met jn ronferenc-e nt Yalta Palace, Crimea.
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fell.
Capt. Wildey disclosed the fact1
that the cemetery was on the exact
location where the third battalion:
was briefed before the Americans'
made first contact with the Jap
on the Sanananda track.
"It is beautifully landscaped,'1
Medendorp added, "and a nativebuilt chapel is located centrally
on the grounds. Bushes with flamecolored and yellow leaves are
planted around the circular drives.''.
The men drove down the road
to the old main front and identifle'.'I
several familiar points along the
way. They even tound foxholes
and slit trenches they had dug
near the battalion command post.
"It seemed queer to be standing
upright, walking without caution
and talking as loudly as we
pleased," was their comment,
They s t opped again for a
moment at t h e cemetery on
their way back to the ship.
"We were in t h t;i, midst of a 1
host of friends and acquaintances-yet not a sound."
Othe"r Red Arrow veterans who
have returned recently include'
Private First Class Lyle Bieschke,1
912 Arianna st., NW., and Private
Don Miedema, 877 Crosby st., NW.
They were accompanied home by
Technical Sergeant LeRoy Stutherd
o! White Cloud.
Miedema was in the antitank
company going over the mountains
and the other two were in Shirley's
company. The three were together
in the road block for the 23 d:i,ys
ihey were there.
Just before Christmas their units
were relieved and they went. back
to the main lines to their :first hot
meal Jn nearly a month. "Everyone of us got sick on that meal,"
they said. "We just ,weren't used
to it."
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Seated erect in his jeep, disregarding any danger, Gen. Douglas MacArthur crosses a span on
hastily-constructed planks on top of a bombed-out bridge piling near Camiling, Luzon. The gen•
eral was on his way to Manila to keep a three-year-old promise-·'! shall return." This is an offi ..
cial United State Army SigE.4L. Corps ~~~otograph.
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,-~~·"' MacArthur's Troops Push on ~oward Manila
Japs Massacre 60 More
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tb .alions ot the 148th and 129th
.try regiments met heavy fin
Only 10 of 70 in ilfanila Church Refuge Escape
Manila-(.4>)-The wanton slaying They were cut down after running
of at least 60 priests and women a few steps. Still others reached
st
and children refugees in De La ~::rd ;~~'':[ap~?.d b~f~v!t!r!f~u;~:
Salle coBege in :Manila's Malate tered on the stairs. Still others
district by Japanese soldiers was reached the chapel before the Jap~~~e~~iu!:i~~d~~d]:~th recovery of anese killed them, at the doorway
Of 70 persons caught in the college only 10 survived, said one of
them, Fr. Francis J. Cosgrave, 47,
a Redemptorist priest of Sydney,
Australia.
Fr. Cosgrave, recovering from
two bayonet wounds in Santo
Tomas hospital, said that until last
Monday the Japanese garrison had
remained in one wing of the col-
a}~.e~~~g~:~~r:s!~~e~l~a:~matically. After the first attack he found
himself under two or three others.
He remained there until 10 o'clock
that night. The'1, when all was
quiet, he crawled painfully up the
stairs into the chapel where he hid ;
beneath the altar. Although suffering two chest bayonet wounds
he remained hidden in the chapel ,
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Ott concrete piJiboxes and upper
otrs of battered buildings.
Bo The First cavalry cUvlslon,
rathe flnt unit to enter Manila
'a week" ago Saturday, now haa
Joined the 31th In the flrht
900th
of th9 Paalg.
Headquarters disclosed the First
cavalry • truck east through New
Manlla and then south, crossing
the Pasig river near San Pedro
MakatJ "to operate in conjunction
wttb the 37th division."
New Manila ts a mile north of
liberated Santo Tomas internment
camp.
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;~:~/~!~:s 8°n~'~!:~e~~a~~=~ 1 CORBEGIDOB BLASTED
Then, last Monday, the Japanese for holy communion. He frequentIn the M~nila bay sector, where
stormed into the priests' room as Iy crawled from his hiding place to Tokyo radio has reported th@
the religfous group and refugees administer extreme unction to , American navy is preparing an
were finishing a simple lunch.
those who were dying from wounds~ i entry, bombers blasted the island
A Jap officer screamed some- Nearly half of the 70 victims were{ fortress ot Corregidor and Mart•
thing, then fired point-blank with women and chi1dren, many of them velea on th~ south tip ot Bataan
a pistol. Then 20 Japanese soldiers babies who died whi1e reaching to- penln• ula with 101 tons of explocharged into the sobbing, terrified ward the protection of their par- live••
throng of yictims, firing guns and ents' hands. Some had been bayoDespite the bitter • tow fight
slashing right and left with their neted repeatedly.
within Manila, where large 1ectora
bayonets.
Ten ot the victims were be1ie\·ed of non-mnttary structures have
Bodies of the victims were found to be American priests. The othC'rs been bla• ted and tired by the eneas they fell in the blood•smeared included 14 German 2 Irish broth• my, today'• communique 1ald the
interior or what once was a mod- ers of the Christia,; Brothers or• • ttuatlon Is improving.
ern coUege. Some evidently raced der, a Spanish family. a prominent
"The spirit and morale ot the
out into the :flrstafl.;;o~o;;:_
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1 highest," headquarter• aald.
A g-roup of Genc-ral MacA1·thur's Philippine in,·adc-rs and
church on the way to Manila on thC' island of Luzon. Yank troop~ han• ml"t Yery 1ittlc ll!erious
oppoc.;ilion from the Japs so far, though it is reported that some Japan<'~e units have Janderl to
the rE'ar o[ th<' American lin<'!ii.
FOOD IS AMPLE
MICH., TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 13, 1945.-H
"There la ample food and relief
agencies are active and efficlenl
Order ls maintained."
The movement of the First cav.
airy at Manila tends to curl an
arm around the embattled southern
sector. In addition to moving
cloae to San Pedro Makati, its patrols were report e d operating
through the Mariklna valley to the
east ot the city.
,
A continuing tough tight In the
auburban • area on the 1outhern
edge of :Manila was Indicated by
the communique reporting the 11th
airborne division ..ls clearing
Nichols field."
Those Yanks
reached Nichols field, at the edge
or Pasay, a week ago today.
MUSKEGON<
pital Ponders
esident's Left
; f Center Course
"BIG TIIBEE" CONFERS IN CRIMEA-Prime Minister Churchill,
President Roosevelt and Premier Stalin, left to right, pose for a
photo in an interval at their conference at Yalta on the Crhnean
coast. (Associated Press Wirephoto).
On all 11n, were tile 'frlenda and time overdue.•
comradu t'lf the dark da:,a of Ba+ + +
taan and Corregldor and among Tbe pneral vll!te<I .,,,ry • ectlon
the llrr. of thoH to reach hi• aide of the prl• on and oent' offlc..-.
wu the wife of Brig. Gen. earl ahead to ten the liberated men he
Sealea of Birmingham, Ala., :Mac- wanted no one to at.and at attenArth\lra former adjutant general tlon.
lmprl• oned In Japan with Lt. Gen.
"I don't need any guard• here.''
Jonathan Wainwright.
he said, "and I don't want &nYon•
Clasping the slim woman fn a 1tandtng at attention. I am among
warm embrace, General MacArthur my- own men. I &Ill one ot them.''
laid:
To the 1>rl1oners, the men bound
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Well, Marraret, you look ftne-a to him by the commonly • hared
little thin-bu~
~~"!,~~~• and deapalr of Bataan,
The cruh ot American arttnery
..1 owe you a Jot. Now that rm
ftre • book the building, machine- tlnalty here rm going to do everyruna chattered trom position• along thing I can to get you aH home
th~ rtm ot the camp and choking quickly as poa• lble. You're all gocloud• of 1moke from the blazing Ing home and you've got Iota of
downtown aectlon of the city drift- happy • urprlae• coming."
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can invasion of Samal island, j
of! captured Davao City, was
nounccd Thursday as bitter :fig
ing rage-d on the Mindanao ma
Itnd, where doughboys sought
outflank a Japanese force whi
has virtually isolated a Yank b
talion.
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campaign on Tarakan island,
Borneo, neared completion.
allies held all of Tarakan Ci
seized strategic 'Api hill, and clo
in on the Djoeata oil field. T
already have the big Pamoesian
lleld.
Yank, Prote<'t Flank.
Toklo radio reported Ameri
1\egro troops were fighting
Tarakan.
Elemcn ts of Maj. Gen. Ros
Woodruff's 24th infantry divl
invaded Samal island Tuesday
protect the American flank in
drive up the Davao gulf co
There were few, if any, Japan
believed to be on the island.
Other units of the 24th divls
established a bridgehead ~. cross
Talomo river, west of Davao C
in a flanking move to liquidate
Japanese force which, in a count
auack Monday, almost ringe
United States battalion. There
no further word on how this
talion was faring.
The 31st division under Maj.
Clarence Martin advanced se
miles eastward from Kibawe,
central Mindanao, while ano
col urnn moved northward and
gaged a Japanese force near
southern airstrip of the Mara
airdrome.
Red Arrows Advance.
Elsewhere in the Philippines
25th and 37th divisions on north
Luzon fought fiercely as they
proached the important Ba
pass in an encircling move.
32nd division advanced 700 y
along t1i'e Villa Verde trail nea
East of Manila, the 43rd divi
speared within three miles of
dam, source ol at least one-thir
the capital's water.
�RED ARROW OFFICERS SING PRAISES OF UNS UN~ NEW GUINEA FIGHTERS
'Nobody Saw Them; They Were Heroes Just the Same'
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"Nobody saw them fight and no-,
body saw them die, but they were
heroes just the same."
This sincere tribute, in praise of
the men of the 32nd division at
Sanananda, was made by Capt.
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Alfred Medendorp, 1914 Stafford
ave., SW., and Capt. Russell J.
Wildey, 833 Oakleight rd., NW.,
veterans of New Guinea campaign
now home on leave.
The two officers were eager to
point out the heroic action of local
men in their outfits who had received no mention in news dispatches sent out during the Papuan
campaign,
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RE(JALLING the march over the
Owen Stanley mountains in which
he commanded the antitank and
cannon companiel:s which led the
way, Capt. Medendorp mentioned
the work of Sergeant Maurice DeMey of cannon company who
1
• made a very creditable record for
himself in' the mountains. He was
usually on reconnaissance and that
meant playing hide and seek with
Jap patrols in order to get information back to us."
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STAFF SERGEANT THERON
ROSE shot the first Jap for the
division. It happened on Nov. 7
during the Wairope patrol. "Everyone saw Rose's man :fall and that
was the l!lignal to begin firing,"
Medendorp 21aid,
Capt. John n. Shirley, commander of I company, and Capt. Roger
Keast, commanding · antitank company, who established the Sanananda. road block on Nov. 30, were personal friends of the two returned
officers. "It look all day to put
that block through," they recalled~
"Those companies had to figPt
every inch of the way."
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Moments Are Lighter Now
THE DEATHS of these two ofHome from three y0ars' service in the South Paclftc, Grand ltapficers-Keast was killed on Dec.
lds Red Arrow men are pictured in some of their not--so-serlous mo-1 and Shirley on Dec. 2-were felt
ments. Above, Capt. Russell J, Wildey (left) and Capt. Alfred Medeeply by all their men.
S/Sgt. Joseph J. Kramarz, an- dendorp look over some notes the latter wrote concerning parts of
the Papuan campaign. Below, Pvt. Don Miedema, left,, and T-Sgt.
other Grand Rapids man, met his
death Dec. 6 while on a patrol LeRoy Stutherd) right, do a pantomime of the old army song,
Some Day I'm Going to Murder the Bugler. Pfc. Lyle Bieschke,
!th 80 men lead by Maj. Bert
eeff and Capt. Wildey. They were
center, was company bugler during their training period in Loulsl..
ttempting to &et through to the
ana. before going overseas.
ad block.
ther local men mentioned in
ntervlew included lit Sgt. by automatic fire from the front home were instructors at an am•
phibious training school.
d I.eater, lit Sp Jack Weo- and left flank.
d Technical S1t. Bert A.
He was evacuated to Port Mores•
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ski,
by because of very serious wounds
ON THE WAY home their 1hlp
ildey was wounded. Dec. and a few days later was joined stopped on the New Guinea coast
on which won him the there by Capt. Medendorp who had long enough for them to v.isit the
ed service cross. He to be sent back because of malaria. military cemetery at Soputa, This
g his men against a
The two friends were 1 'boarded cemetery now contains the graves
ended Jap eector and out' 1 of the regim·ent eventually of a.11 the 32nd men who were killed
penetrate the enemy because of malaria and at the during the Papuan campaign,
r being stopped once time they left Nev..'.'. Guinea to come bodies having been moved there
from Buna, :from along the mountain trail and wherever elBe they
fell.
Capt. Wildey disclosed the fact
that the cemetery was on the exact
location where the third battalion
was briefed before the Americans
made first contact with the Japs
on the Sanananda track.
"It is beautifully landscaped,''
Medendorp added, "and •a native-,
built chapel is located centrally
on the grounds. Bushes with flam
colored and yellow leaves are
planted around the circular drives.''
The men drove down the road
to the old main front and identifle,;:l
several familiar Points along the
way. They even ~ound foxholes
and slit trenches they had dug
near the battalion command post.
"It seemed queer to be standing
upright, walking without caution
and talking- as loudly as we
pleased," was their comment.
They stopped agaht for a
moment at the cemetery on
their way back to the ship.
';We were in the midst of a
host of frlend1 and acquaintances-yet not a sound."
Othe'r Red Arrow veterans who
have returned recently include
Private First Class Lyl~ Bieschke,
912 Arianna st., NW., and Private
Don Miedema, 877 Crosby st., NW,
They were accompanied home by
Technical Sergeant LeRoy Stutherd
of White Cloud.
Miedema was in the antitank
company going over the mountains
and the other two were in Shirley's
company, The three were together
in the road block for the 23 dayfi
lhey were there.
Jul!t before Christmas their units \
were relieved and they went- back
to the main lines to their first hot
meal in nearly a month. "Everyone of us got sick on that meal,"
they said. "We just ,weren't used
to it."
+ + +
THE LAST TIME the three
servicemen saw each other in New
Guinea was in a hospital at Port
M;_oresby. They next met in a mess
hall at a camp in California, after
dist?mbraking from the same troopship. All the way Jrom the south
Pacific they had been on the 15ame
boat and not seen each other.
"I was busy taking care of pa,.
tienta," explained Bieschke, who
was assigned to the medical detachment after the Papuan campaign.
He even gave a blood transfusion
on the way back.
.
The White Cloud soldier will report back to his base in New
Guinea when his furlough is up,
but the two local men will report
tg Miami Beach for reassi~nment. ·
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'Big Three' 1n
Conference at't-S Yalta Palace, Crimea
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~rime Minister Win:-;wn Churchill• (back to camera lower Jeft) M h
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President. Franklin D . .Roosevelt (right rim of lab! )
b ' f ars_ al Joseph Stalm (.second from left around table) and
To the left of President. Roosevelt are Adm Willtant L;~~ m~mG ers ~ the1r staffs as they met in conference at Yalla Palace, Crimea.
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Y an
en. eorge C. Marshall. (AP \Virf'p!ioto .frnm Signal Corps).
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�SIXTIETH YEAR
TUESDAY,
FEBRUARY
6,
1945
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PRICE FIVE CENTS
YANKS ARE APIDL Y CLEARING
ENEMY THO S FROM. MANILA
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"Japan fa oar ftnal goal, and
our motto la 'on to Tokyo.'.,
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Manila sent the message to
Bilibid Prison Captured and
1,350 Prisoners Liberated
President Roosevelt In reply
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the Fillplno people on the fall
of lllanlla.
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Bataan peninsula, where Amer!- Allied prisoners held at filthy Bilibid penitentiary to the more
cans andndFllipinos made their he- than 3,700 saved at Santo Tomas.
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Sixth army columns have junctured clear the hberat10n 1s, 1n the broadest sense, already accomat the base of the peninsula and plished with three Yank divisions "rapidly clearing the enemi
control all roads leading into it,
from Manila." He said destruction of all surviving Nippone~
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�GRAND
SIXTIETH YEAR
RAPIDS,
MICH., MONDAY, FEBRUARY 5,
1945
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PRICE FIVE Clillrn
MacArthur Bae
in Philippine Cit
S,000 CJVlLIANS IN pRJ.SON
Santo Tomas is perhaps the area in Manila cluaest to the'
hearts of Americans and British. Within Santo Tomas th<
American and British civilians - 3,000 men and women &'
one time - have waited deliverance for three long yean
Liberation of the prisoners began unmediately Sund&:
Santo Tomas Concentration
Camp Taken; 1st Cavalry Leads
It was just three years and six weeks ago that the las•
night;
units of MacArthur's tired outnumbered Filipino and A.mer·
ican
forces
the cavalry
capital. and 37th infantry divisions al·
With
theleft
First
ready within Manila, a new paratroop invasion behind enemY'
lines in Batangas province spearheaded the 11th airbOrne'
division's drive along a straight, downhill road 18 miles f
By C. YATES McDANIEL
GENERAL MAC ARTHUR'S HEADQUARTERS, Luzon
(Monday) UP) - American troops reached the heart of
Manila yesterday and raised the Stars and Stripes over the
great Philippine capital for the first time in· more than three
years.
Yanks of the hard-hitting First cavalry division, in a wide
encircling move by dark, entered the city Saturday nigh·
against harassing sniper fire and quickly captured Malacanan
palace and the large Santo Tomas concentration camp where
thousands of Americans and British civilians were internee
The northern half of Manila, Pearl of the Orient, was i'
American hands as elements of the First cavalry and 37t:
infantry division, the latter entering from the north, presse~
for the knockout.
the southern fringes of the city.
FIRST CAVALRY LEADS
The First cavalry division, lighting in memory of thei
former commander, Lt, Gen. Jonathan W. Wainwright who:
was captured by the invading Japanese in early 1942, wa:
1
theGen,
iirstMacArthur's
to enter Manila,
triumphant communique Sunday saio
advance units of the First cavalry were guarding the Santo
Tomas internees "while the rem.tinder of the division I~'
coming
up Tokyo
from the
east." reported that American fore,
(Radio
strangely
had been "cut off" in the Clark lield area - 40 miles nor
of Manila - and "are now on the verge of being isolated.
The enemY radio made no mention of MacArthur's entr1,
NORTH PART OF CITY TAKEN
into Manila,)
SNIPER FIRE JlEAVY
MacArthur reported that considerable harassing snipe:
lire was being encountered in Manila "and the enemY seem•, ,
to be attempting demolition destruction."
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FR()M. NORTll AND sollTll
This 11th airborne group seized T;,.gaytay in a parachute
maneuver. This 2,000-foot heights dominates the Cavite
naval base and ftne roads to Manila from the south,
Thus, just 26 days after the initial invasion at Luzon at
Lingayan gulf, Gen. MacArthur was back in the great com·
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monwealth capital.
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The Japanese in the northern part of the city offered no
major stand, but explosions were heard and fires were seen
south of the wide and deep Pasig river barrier which splits
the city in two.
The Japanese may put up a bitter and bloody fight for
the historic and commercial center of Manila, but for those
who might survive, there will be no escape.
While the 37th division cautiously pushed through the
Grace park airdrome from the north Saturday night, Fi
cavalry spearheads circled into the city from the east an,
Sunday morning reached Santo Tomas university grol.lllds'
and threw . a protective cordon around it's concentration
Japs Took Over
army headquarters of the commanding general Dispatches Monday
moriilng Indicated that the Japanese had deployed several thousand
troops along the south of the Pasig river, the south bank of which
is reportedly heavily fortified.
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�... AND HERE IS ACTION ON THE NEW GUINEA FRONT
, Nunica Soldier
Dies"--2.0
in Action
-If-').,_
Three more men were added to
the growing list of war casualties
in area of Grand Rapids and vi•
cinity, according to word received
here late Saturday.
Lieut.. Edwin J. Nummer of
Lowell, and Pfc. Abraham Bolle,
Grand Rapids, were wounded,
while a third, Pfc. William F. Roth,
Nunica, was killed in action.
Pfc. · Roth, 22, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Glen Roth of Nunica, was
killed in action on Dec. 4, according to a 'statement from the war department which reached the par•
ents late last week. Formerly employed by Jarvis company, metal
concern of this city, Private Roth
left thei~· service upon induction
into th~ ::i.rmy in April, 1941. He
received his training at Camp Liv•
ingston, La., and in Boston, Mass.
From Boston, he was sent to San
Francisco, Cal., and later overseas
to Australia.
Surviving are the parents, five
l!listers, Uldine, Doris, 107 Packard
ave., SE., Frances, Jean, Ruth and
three brothers, Max, Richard and
Raymond.
Pfc. Bolle,, 22, son of Mrs. M.
Bolle, 36 Stormzand pl., NE., entered service in October, 1940, and
has seen overseas service since last
spring in the Pacific area, where
he was wounded in action. Two
brothers of the wounded soldier
are also in militray service, Pvt.
Orrie Balle, 40, at Camp Shelby,
Miss., and Sgt. Leonard Balle, 28,
who is in the southwest Paci.fie
front.
Lieutenant Nummer was slightly
injured somewhere in the south
Pacific region, according to word
received by his wife Saturday.
Mr•. Nummer is a former army
l ~ -40 -'f- 3,.
Associated Press Wirephoto~
A YANK (left), Pv't. Earl Albin, of Plainview, Neb., watches as Aussies blast away at the Japs. The Aussies fire a three•
inch mortar from a foxhole near the fighting lines where Allies have scored victories.
IAllie~).r..Y~~i Drive
in Newuumea
UNITED NATIONS HEAD·
QUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA.
(Wednesday) (INS) - In a smas~ing drive through Japanese positions in the Buna battlefront of
northeastern New Guinea, American and Australian jungle fighters
widened a wedge on the. Jap ri~ht
PFC. WILLIAM ROTH
Nations h1gh
command announced Tuesday.
On the left flank, a Japanese I
strongpoint containing 13 bunkertype pillboxes was leveled in & dusk
attack Monday by AJiled ground
troops, which moved in to mop
up the captured ground after repulsing a weak enemy counter- 1
attack.
Meanwhile, airmen of Lieut. Gen.
George C. Kenney's command car•
· ried out an extended attack on the
Jap--held airdrome at Kavieng, New
Ireland. Large fires were set by
the raiding medium bombers, and
one blaze burned for an hour and a
flank,
the
United
I
ha.g~spite heavy anti.aircraf~. ftre
from Jap ground batteries, all
Allied bombers returned to their
base, it was announced.
Other medium bombers blasted
the Jap airfield at Gasmata, New
Britain, while heavy bombers eet
ft res in the dispersa I areas or the
Lae airdrome, 125 miles north of
Buna, on New Guinea.
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nurse. She met and married the
lieutenant while both were in
service in Louisiana. He has been
in service since October, 1940.
Lieutenant Nummer's parents reside on a farm east of LoweU. He
has two brothers in the armed
forces, Pvt. L. J. Nummer of Camp
Forest, Tenn., and Pvt. Oscar Nummer, in an evacuation hospital in
the southwest Pacific.
�TIN HATS
By Stanton
ls~est Christmas Pr';s~n""l for Americans
on Buna Front Was Bundle of Home Mail
A huge consignment of mail
provided the best Christmas
presents for American troops
on th~ Euna front in New
Guinea, according to a dispatch received today from
George Moorad, American Red
Cross representative in that
area.
Under giant palm trees, as
U. S. artillery kept the Japanese on the jump along the
Papuan coast, the American
soldiers munched dried fruit
and hard candy on Christmas
eve, and talked about Christmas at home.
along the Buna front. There are
no gaily lighted Christmas trees,
no holiday rejoicing among the
men in jungle green. Around us
are the eerie noises made by
night insects, broken now and
then by the crump of heavy artillery,
But across the path near the
mess tent a group of men softly
sing ''Silent Night, Holy Night,
All Is Well, All Is Bright." 'rheir
cigarets glow softly under the
giant palms.
thre!=l of us, Red Cross workers,
hj.ve spent Uie day in lines which
Sfretch around the besieged Jap
garrison supervising the distribuBy GEORGE MOORAD
tion of American Red Cross packWITH
THE
AMERICAN ages.
We saw natives carrying big
FORCES
IN NEW GUINEA
(Delayed) - It is Christmas eve boxes along the sago swamps, men
Movies in the dugout tonight? Geee~I hope they have
a good ol' Western THRILLER!"
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
IN AUSTRALIA (Sunday)-(lP>
-The Allies' ground troops in
New Guinea have captured
Cape Endairdere to the east o1
Buna village and Flying Fortresses have sunk a Jap cruiser
near Madang, Gen. MacArthur's
communique reported today.
marching to the front with rifles
and Christmas boxes.
We sat in foxholes fn captured
enemy pillboxes with soldiers
munching dried fruit, har'd candy,
and talking about Christmas at
home~
[
Best Of all Christmas presents in
this area was the huge consignment of mail sent up to the very
front lines.
I saw one lad with 20 1etters,
some dated Dec. 11.
Another just 50 yards from the
Japanese positions, was disgusted.
1
' Me
in the jungle and my girl
gets married.'' he mourned.
We spent the night at an American receiving hospital 500 yards
behind the lines.
Capt. J. C. Campbell, whose wife
is an American Red Cross worker
in Great Britain, told me they
were "burning up" their supply of
blood plasma.
It is particularly needed here
because malaria makes direct
transtusiort Jmpractlcal and also
because of the many abdominal
wounds which make feeding impossible.
Maj. George Marks of Boston,
commanding officer, said he was
grateful tor the surgical dressings
made by American Red Cross
volunteers, but said his supplies
were running low. He showed me
boxes of dressings trom Portland,
Ore., Detroit, Mich., and other
cities.
This portable hospital is revolutionizing wartime practice with
major surgery along the front
lines. Medical officers with whom
I spoke credited their remarkable
success primarily to the quick use
of sulfa drugs and the b lood
plasma contributed by thousands
o! Americans back home.
American soldiers inspect what was le!t 0.f a Jap. f<;>od supply dump
after an American bomb hit. One soldier 1s examining the construction of some lap bicycles.
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This curly-headed
Guinea native helps
oil on trucks.
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rress
UNITED STATES TROOPS STOP TO STUDY MAP IN NEW GU'!NEA~ \1. •:ll•~
Huge transport planes flew American troops across New Guinea to the Gona-Bun& area.- But
before the soldiers reached Buna they had to hike through the tropical jungle for six days.
This trio ef .United States officers is shown looking over map 1n the heart of. the jungle and
checking the ·route before going on to capture the vital Jap-held b~es. This is a phonephoto.
�Jap Toehold Menooed,
The capture of the airstrip and
1Rout Japs From
triangle left the Japanese only two
major points of resistance in the
Buna Barricades
Yank Troops Capture. Series of 13
Fortified Bunkers rn "Bloody
Triangle"; Find One Enemy
Soldier Operating 8 Guns
Foe Still Is Resisting Fiercely
(By Associated Pr<!ss.)
Hard .. fighting American troops in New Guinea were offic~lly
credited Wednesday with the capture of the 41 bloody triangle,''" a
series of 13 fortified bunkers bitterly defended by the Japanese,
while other allied forces slowly closed a trap around the enemy's
narrow beach corridor at Buna.
•
- --Front• line dispatches said the
Americans drove out the Japanese
piecemeal and then inflicted heavy
casualties in beating off an enen;,:y
counterMattack.
With the smashing of the Japanese barricades, Euna airfield,
from which Japanese bombers and
Zeros once started raids on allied
bases, fell completely into Amer•
ican and Australian hands.
, _3.-,..3
The field, now overgrown with
tall jungle grass, was occupied
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
fully as the American artillery, firIN AUSTRALIA (Sunday) UP)
ing at point•blank range, smashed
--General Douglas MacArthur
the enemy's defensive bunkers.
announced today that assaults
Find \Vrecked Planes.
have broken the back of Jap
Only wrecked enemy bombers,
resistance in the Buna area of
their bright orange rising sun em ..
New Guinea.
blems still glistening in the sun,
The noon communique, her•
and damaged Zeros remained o:ri
alding the approach of . co~u,e once•important field. American
piete triumJlh for the Alhes m
planes long ago had made it untheir bid for control of all
usable for enemy planes with
northeast New Guinea, also an•
nounccd another devastating
frequent bombings.
Jeeps were moving up and down
raid on Lae, above Buna.
Huge fires were started at
the airstrip within hours after its
that Jap-held
port where
capture, hauling supplies, f~r the
allied troops, who consohdated
earlier in the week P -38s hacl
their holdings and moved forward
swept aerial interceptors from
to attack new enemy positions.
the sky after which bombers
The fierceness of the Japanese deand attack planes sowde~ ~
fense was illustrated when Ameri1
struction ,mong groun e
can
soldiers mopping up one sector
units and installations.
found a single Japanese operating
eiaht machine•guns by means of
st;ings and wires rigged in a series.
"Mopping up of captured positions is in progress," Gen. Douglas
MacArthur's
headquarters
announced. "Our troops expaij.ded
their initial wedge still farther to
the west."
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BULLETIN
Cord on Buna
Bag Tightens
Buna area-the Buna government
station and Giropa point where
they may make their final stand.
The triangle was formed by a
fork in the trail which branched
to Buna village and the government station. Thf.: bitterly-defended
bunker triangle, about 1,500 yards
from the coast, had been bypassed
earlier in the allied drive toward
the Buna government station.
It was surrounded by allied
troops several days ago, after tanks
and infantry had forged ahead to
smash through to the coast and
then turn westward to advance to
the end of the main Buna air strip.
Enemy pockets in the area were
reported being slowly squeezed to
Allies Drive Wedge
Into Japs, Narrow
Pocket of Defense
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UNITElD
NATIONS
HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA
(Thursday) (INS)-Allied troops in
the Buna Mission area on New
Guinea are forcing the enemy into
an ever•narrowing pocket and havedriven a wedge to the sea and
split the enlttly'a defensive zon e,
the noon coinmtfnique from General MacArthur's headquarters announced today.
The communique follows:
"Buna- In a tireless local assault
the enemy is being fought into an l1
ever.narrowing area. On the left, I
our troops have driven a wedge
to the sea and split the en emy's
defensive zone. On the right, an
attack with tanks broadened and
deepened their wedge, capturing
much equipment inc~u~ing a threeinch naval gun, anh•a1rcraft guns,
and a m~chine gun. Our a ir force
is aCtive in supporting the ground
troops.
"Rabaul - In a dawn attack
against enemy shipping in the
harbor, our heavy bombers set fire
to two large vessels of 8,000 to
10,000 tons each with direct hits
by 500 pound bombs. An 8.000-ton
transport was also directly hit in
a mast higl'\ attack. Despite intense
anti-aircrafl fire all planes re-turned.
"Timar - Ou't attack plan es
strafed F\liloro airfield and en emy
occupied huts at Betano.
"Gasmata-An Allied h eavy plan e
bombed the airdrome."
death.
(By
)
United Press.)
The expanding allied wedges in
the Japanese beachhead threatened to isolate enemy forces still
holding out in a section of jungle
and swamp about one mile long
and only one thousand three hundred yards wide at its widest.
The al1ied wedges are working
toward Gairopa point, from the
east and west, in a pincers movement.
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Patrols Raid Japs.
While the Buna beachhead was
being slowly eliminated, measures
were taken to prevent the Japanese
gaining toeholds farther up the
coast.
Australian and American patrols
were active around the mouths of
the Kumusi river, 18.5 miles northwest of Buna, and the Amboga
river, 9.75 miles northwest of
Buna. In both sections small
enemy patrols were killed or cap•
tured. Douglas A20 attack bombers strafed the Amboga area and
the na.tive village of Lokanu, which
is occupied by the Japanese.
Allied Catalina patrol bombers
Tuesday night attacked the Jap•
anese airdrome area at Kavieng.
on New Ireland, dropping 250•
pound bombs on hangars, runways
and dispersal areas. One of several
large fires burned for more than
an hour, the pilots said.
ConsoJidated Liberator bombers
attacked the Lae airdrome, starting fires in the dispersal bays.
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The Guy to Get m 1943
~n's\ilNb
WOUNDED
HOLIDAY GREETINGS HOME,
The holiday season was made
much brighter for at least four
local families through receipt of
encouraging reports from boys in
New Guinea.
Three soldiers reported wounded
sent word since that "all's well."
Sgt. Herbert Wendlandt, wounded
Dec. 5, reported in a letter to his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Paul Wendlandt, RFD No. 1, Comstock Park,
that he is 40 getting along fine."
Sgt. Richard B. Misner, son of
Mr. anjl Mrs. Roy Misner of Comstock Park, and Staff Sgt. Richard
Mooney, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry
Mooney, 1030 Prospect-av., S. E.,
botti. cabled greetings and news
they are recovering.
Mr. and Mrs. Richard Platte, sr.,
153 Valley-av., N. W., had received
no word from their son, . Sgt.
Richard Platte, jr., since Nov. 2,
but he, too, has cabled his gree_t·
ings. He has two brothers m
service, Pfc. Herbert Platte, with
the coast artillery in the Canal
Zone, and Pvt. Gerard Platte with
the marines in Hadlock, Wash,
1
Right in der fuehrer'1 face we'll say that this is probably the ugliest
mug we've ever set eyes on, Wtler's hair and mustache, Hirohito's
eyes and gold braid and Mussolini's famous chin make this grewsome composite that • hould Inspire every soldier to fight harder,
every civilian to bUf more war bonds in 1943.
�Tokio General
At
Buna Slain
\l.•l.1-~
Allies Tighten TraJl on
Japs With Capturti of
Endaiadere
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-Central Press
\Veary, dlsheveled American soldiers make their way back along a jungle trail carrying a wounded comrade on a Jitter after
fighting the J'a ps at Buna ,in New Guinea. It was jn this bat tie that the enemy was driven from his positions at Buna. The pictur.at left is & closeup of one of the 1\mks there.
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Allied Headquarters in Australia
-(IP)-Allied tanks and infantry
smashed Monday at dwindling
Japanese forces trapped in a horseshoe pocket in the Euna Mission
area of New Guinea, and allied
headquarters said the enemy com- ;
mander, Lieut Gen. Tornatore
Horii, had been reported killed In
action.
The bloody trap was drawn tight•
er with capture of the Cape En-
Scene in Pre,{~;. --tFrom New Guinea,
Shows Local Boy
A photograph of their son, Pvt.
Martin Bolt, appearing on the picture page of Tuesday's Grand Rapids Press, was
the first indication in six
weeks that Mr.
and Mrs. Henry
Bolt, 509 Hall•
st., S. W., have
had that he was
wen.
'l'he picture,
fjom New
G"u,inea, showed
Pvt. Bolt clear•'
Iy as one of
f o u r stretcher
bearers bf i ng! ing~ wounded
comrade from
the fi gh ting
PVT. BOLT,
I' ~r;~ts
tion.
r "It's Marty, all right," Mrs. Bolt
assured The Press. "But he's lots
~~~~~;' than he was when ~e we't
daiadere region Friday by Australian shock troops, and Gen. Mac- I
Arthur's command announced a
general attack, spearheaded by
tanks and artillery, was now under
way against the Japanese rem- 1
nants on this right flank. A communique declared the "enemy's po- t
sition is deteriorating."
It was the first time the allies r
1
had used tanks in a general attack on this front,
Foe Casualties Heavy,
The Mikado's men at Buna Mission represent one of the last two
remaining pockets of enemy resistance on the Papuan peninsula, aft- I
er successive allied capture of
Gona, Buna and Cape Endaiadere.
'The other pocket is at nearby Cape
Sanananda.
The allied noon communique declared ground had been gained in
other sectors of the New Guinea
battlefront, and added:
''The enemy's casualties have
been heavy. The Japanese commander, Lieut. Gen. Horii, is re ..
ported to have been kitled in action."
No details were given of Horii's
reported death,
The Japanese still hold, however,
the big strongholds of Lae and
Salamaua, about 180 miles farther
up the New Guinea coast.
Allied airmen continued to hammer at Japanese forces on the New
Guinea front, concentrating their
attention on Madang north of Vitiaz strait, where the enemy was
believed to have landed troops on
Dec, 19.
!~~';"fta~
el
-NEA Telephoto
GIFTS FOK GIRL FRIEND- \ ~ ' Zlo ' 't-....
CAPT, BYRON M. SHIPLEY, center, of Albia, Iowa, examines
a string of beads in a New Guinea village and barter• for some
trinkets to send o the folks back home. Payment Is American
clgarets and canfft',
Pvt. Bolt, who formerly was
ployed by the Michigan Bell Tel •
phone Co. here, entered the arm
in April, 1941, and received hi~
training at Camp Livingston, La.t
1
, later was at Fort Devens, Mass.,'
and went overseas about a year
after his jnduction. He was assigned to a communications unit.
He is a graduate of Catholic Central High school and of DavenportMcLachlan institute.
His parents and his fiancee, Miss
Virginia Cutler, 28 Grand-av., N.
E., had not had any word from
him since the middle of November,
when he wrote that he was in New
Guinea.
�HALSEY SEES
1943 VICTORY
1Halsej Sees
11943 Victory
SUNDAY, JANUARY 3, 1943
"We have goc@eV!dence -of-your~-;-we have enough rn-ateriel l
atrocities and know where they het'e to conduc.t the offensives prewere perpetrated. They'll be prope1·- viously mentioned?"
ly"~~~:~amoto:
"You will be present at the peace
if you are still _alive. Tha t peace
will be in the White House but the
White House will not be as you
THE BELLS TOLL
"No man in military histo1:y ever
had enough men and materiel but
he has always gone ahead and done
it just the same."
envisaged.
"Have we passed from the defenAdmiral Includes
"FINEST FIGHTING MEN"
sive to the offensive?"
Japan in Forecast
"To the Amerlf,P..n people:
"Definitely. All the Axis is heart.Under my coxnfnand the United ing the tolling of the bells. And
of Axis Collapse
·i Nations in the south Pacific have we are doing the rope pulltng." He
By J',. NORMAN LODGE
~1the finest :fighting men our coun- smiled.
,
try ever produced. They ai·e imbued
i•Do you anticipate further JapaWITH THE UNITED STATES with a fighter instinct and it is nese action against the Solomons?"
FLEET IN THE SOUTH PA• conceded we will not stop until
"I foresee action -wherever we
CIFIC 1(1Pl-Victory for the United there is a complete victory.
n find one.''
Nations this year is the prediction
"To th e Japanese pe.ople:
h
•ca"Do you mean that the Japs are
.
"That heavy rumbling you ear
?'•
of ~d~u·al William Hal~ey,. com- now will gradually grow into a h~~-der t? fin~ now.
,
mandei of the south Pac1f1c force shock of bursting bombs the
Definitely.
b.
f
of the Pac_ific fleet.
shrieking of shells and the 'clashi•Do you forese_e the ~.om mg o
. The. admiral made this statement ing of swords on your own soil. the Japanese mamland.
m an interview during which I You bad better stop now before i.t
"I hope so." .
learned that you don't beat about is too late."
"You have given us messages to
the bush when ,tal~ing to. him. Di- , Captain Miles Browning, chief of the Japanese war lor?s, the emrect approach . brmgs direct an• . staff, interposed, saying:
peror, an~ the Amer1c¥l people,
swers. .
.
"'I think the admiral will agree can ;rou give us a message to tl\e
. ,1 wanted him to gaze into the tt is safe to .say at this instance flghtmg force~ as to whethe~ there
c1 ystal ball t.o see what the year that we are engaged in a highly is a good hberty town m the ,
1~43 would b_rm~ forth so I put the hazardous effort to rescue some offing?" I asked as. a personal fad1;,ect question.
white women from an island where vor for my navy friends.
th.ec::wy:~rg~:~d~~na~toii!e;, what they are m i?1minent dan~~r of TOWARD "LIBERTY TOWN"
This was his answei.
personal violation and death
Admiral Halsey swurtg al'ound in
"Victory for the Umt~d Nations.
There w_as no further elucidation his swivel cha!r, pursed ~is lip~,
Complete, absolute defeat for the or approximate location of the 1s- again let a twmkle come mto hts
Axis powers.
But let's not be land
eyes and with all seriousness re- ,
stopped this time unitl we fix HANDWRITING ON WALL
plied:
things up so they will never"b'I""" "What do you thmk is the sig•
"Liberty for the boys, yes. We
able to rise again."
_J
mflcance to Tojo's recent ie- will by-pass all smaller towns and :
11This year?"
marks?" I asked Admil'al H alsey. let them loose in Tokyo. That will 1
'iYes.''
"He· sees the handwriting on the be a liberty town they 'll really en''Do you Include .Japan?"
wall," he replied, adding:
joy."
SOME HALSEY MESSAGES
"It was only a month ago that he
And if the dteamy look on his
"Yes, air, and here's a few annihilated the United States fleet countenance meant what I tool< it
messages I wish you would send to for the fourth time.''
to mean, Halsey will not be loath
.
-, to take liberty in Tokyo himself.
J~f;~ ir~~o~:~:
"Do you foresee a United NaHe was asked his opinion of 1
tions offensive in all parts of ?~•he young recruits and llaval reserves
"As emperor and leader of world in a short space of time.
in the Pacific.
~~~it~::~: ~~d :errut~ufa:rt~.ct~~!
.~I definitely hope so," t~e ad"There ts only one W(1!.'d t? depeaceful peoples, _)"Our time is mlral said as his eyes tV:'i~kled. sc:!.'ibe them,'" Halsey said qmckly.
short,
"And I hope Hitler, Mussolll)~ a~,d "Superb. The officers a.n<l men of
, "Tcf 'l'"ojo:
Hirohito will see the same thmg.
the USNR are . doing things we I
"When you unleashed your
"What is the importance of air d_idn:t dr~am the~ capable of, and
coWa:rdly attack on Dec. 7 you ower as demonstrated in the Solo- didn t thmk possible. A.; for t~e
started something you can't finish. P
?" a correspondent asked.
regulars-God bless theln-there Is
Beneath your
veneer of civil•
ower, when properly used nothing oll;r count_ry can do for
ization lies the dominant instinct
P
•
1 th necessary them that 1s too good.
to kill. Because of thls you have in conjunction w
And as abruptly as the interview
released the g1·eatest inslinct to \ ground a nd ~ea for~e~ ~~ a tremen- began it stopped. Halsey is like
fight in the American people ever dous factor m war ate.
that.
in history.
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Paul MaUon Views
The ' ,--t· *~
Washington
Scene
•••
Paul Mallon, The Herald'&
:Washington news analyst, re,.
tnnnes his column today after a
month's vacation, His articles
from the nation's capital wlll
: :~n:;.~pear regularly fn this
1
By PAUL MALLON
WASHINGTON
A _IDGHLY PLACED British authority expects the German war
front to collapse and bring peace
to Europe by April.
~oth~r British official, whose
Opm1on 1s less to be respected than
t~e first authority, has more defln1tely marked Easter, April 25, on
his calendar as
the ultimate
day to which
Hitler can hold
out.
Both of these
opinions are
o n 1 Y personal
guesses - but
well-made
i\ ) }J
/A )1
g~:~~s. are . not
necessar1 I y
based on any
apeciflc knowledge of events to
come, but rather represent superior
judgment on the prospects which
all can see - namely, the pressure
of the Russian winter campaign
plus the closing Anglo-America~
•trangle-hold on Italy, and lntensl• /
lled bombing ot the continent (If '
not a new front fn northern
Europe) should break the war--wW
of the German army.
J'apan ls another matter, a matter ot at le841l a
or more.
JU::
�Japs Are Slaughtered
II in Droves
in Buna Area
\-~-'t~
1
Foe Near Buna
\
,~_.,_,~plit by Allies!
Wedge Is Driven to Sea.
Isolating Two Jap
Garrisons
SEIZE
BIG
GUNS
(By Associated Press.)
The thinning Japanese defense
lines near Buna, New Guinea, were '
split Thursday by allied troops that
have driven a wedge to the sea,
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's headquarters announced.
"The enemy is being forced into
an ever-narrowing area," a communique said. ••on the Jeft, our
troops have driven their wedge to
the sea and split the enemy defense
zones. On the right, an attack with
tanks broadened and deepened the
wedge, capturing much equipment,
including 3-inch naval guns, antiaircraft guns and machine guns."
1
The communique called the
ground action "tireless local assaults.''
The allied wedge now was lodged
on several hundred yards of beach
between Buna mission and Giropa
point, thus effectively isolating the
Japanese garrisons at those point.s.
Tanks Batter Japs.
Fighting in the swamps and coconut groves of the Euna front
reached a new intensity as the
Americans and Australians hammered the desperate Japanese back
to their last lines of defense.
United States-built tanks smashed
at the enemy's outer defenses on
Giropa point until their cannon
smoked with their own heat.
In the Buna government station
sector one expert anti-sniper, Pvt.
Charles Hawk of Fostoria, Ohio,
was credited with bagging four
concealed riflemen.
Guerrillas Defy Japs.
The allied air force Wednesday
ranged over the strong Japanese
base at Rabaul, New Britain, to lay
500-pound bombs directly on two
vessels of from 8,000 to 10,000 tons
each and to hit an 8,000-ton transport in an attack at mast-height.
The communique said that intense
anti-aircraft fire met the allied
flyers, but that all of the planes
returned.
Strafing of the Fuilaro airfield
and a collection of huts at Bctano,
on Timar island, also was reported.
It was disclosed, meanwhile, that
Australian commandos and Dutch
guerrillas who have rejected .Japanese demands to surrender still are
at work throughout much of
Portugese Timar, blowing up
bridges, burning camps and sniping
at the ene-;ny-killing them in the
ratio of 100 Japs to 1 commando.
JapsPushed
Into
Pocket
,-~
Allies at Buna Close in
on Last Foe Position
at Sanananda
(By Associated PreH.)
Surrounded and facing annihHa•
tion, the orily Japanese forces remaining in the Buna area of ~ew
Guinea were confined Monday 1n a
narrow pocket on Sanananda point
by American and Australian troops,
"The enemy's position is hopeless " declared a communique frQID
Ged. Douglas MacArthur's hea'd-
quarters, adding that allied troops
already were moving up for the
kill.
Tersely the bulletin announced
that the allies had "completed the
destruction of the enemy's defeated forces" around the Euna government st~tion, a statement whic~
a headquarters spokesman ampllfied by declaring that 650. Japanese had been slain in moppmg up
operations following the capture of
Euna Mission.
Japs Lack Ammunition.
Capture of the Sanananda position will complete the destruction
of Japanese forces which advanced
to within 32 miles of Port Moresby
only last September and will leave
the enemy with no bases on the
eastt-rn New Guinea coast south of
the Lae-Salama ua area.
Aw..td forces methodically engagcu ..~n ellartfuatm;; the last small
pocket Qf enemy resistance reported the enemy troops wei:e short
of ammunition and food. Their
elimination is regarded as little
more than a mopping-up operation.
Enemy casualties included 60
prisoners, including 35 coolie laborers, Koreans among them. Members of the labor gangs showed obvious signs of maltreatment. They
were undernourished. The laborers
are being looked after carefully
and not treated as prisoners of
war.
Bomb Jap Airbases.
\-Vhile the allied land forces were
writing the final chapter of the
Euna campaign, allied heavy bombers stabbed again at Japanese bases
on New Britain, blasting shipping
and harbor installations at Rabaul
and strafing the Gasmata airfield.
Cloud cover prevented observation
of the results of the Rabaul attack,
but returning airµien said they saw
flames rising from a 10,000-ton
-ship which apparently had received two direct hits.
Other allied planes bombed the
Japanese airdrome at Madang,
·New Guinea, and the aldrome at
Lae, where a medium bomber and
two fighters were destroyed on the
ground.
\
By MURLIN SPENCER
around, stopped, and blasted at the
WITH AMERICAN TROOPS IN bunkers in a cocoanut grove.
NEW GUINEA (Delayed) UP) - RENEWS ATTACK
Japanese were slaughtered in
Then it returned to the grove
droves in the New Year's day push and, as one soldier said, "began
by Australian troops, with Ameri- raising hell again."
can help, which took Giropa Point,
The fire of the tanks and the
the Japanese command post in the Australian veterans was deadly.
Buna area.
Some Japanese were lying atop
, Japanese lying atop cocoanut- airplane revetments in dispersal
palm bunkers were mowed down bays at the end of an old air strip.
by machine-gun · fire and others In one case a number were wiped
fighting from inside the bunkers out by cannon and machine-gun
.were flushed out and destroyed by fire from less than 30 feet.
cannon, rifle~re and grenades as
The cannon drove the Japanese
Australian veterans teamed up out of bunkers. The infantry folwith u. S.-built tanks to take this pawed the tanks closely, tossing'
strongly defended spot tear the grenades.
Buna government station.
Seven Japanese supported by
While there was no official esti- waterwings sought to swim to
mate of the enemy dead, the Aus- safety. American machine-gunners
tralians spoke of "hundreds killed." commanded by Maj. E d mu n d
AUSTRALIAN SHOW
Schroeder of Oconto, Wis., wiped
The taking of Giropa Point was them out.
primarily an Australian show, but
In anoth~r instance two Japathe American forces gave support nese were sighted in the ocean off
by keeping heavy pressure on the Siwori village, northwest of Buna.
Japanese between the Point and jLieut. Louia Chago11 el Rhi11elaad•
the government station to prevent er, Wis., called to them to surthem from withdrawing troops to render. But the Japanese refused
reinforce the Point.
and were killed.
The Giropa push wis the sixth WEAK DEFENSE
time the 13-ton General Stuart
The defenders had built a line ot
tanks ~ad been used in the Euna bunkers from palm logs and had
campaign.
· even drawn up trucks and automoFlghting opened with a heavy biles as defenses. I was told, howartillery barrage from 25--pounders ever, that the bunkers were not so
firing at almost point-blank range. solid as those the enemy had built
In the early. morning t>:e tan~s at nearby Cape Endaidere, recentvy-ent into action with thei_r 37-mil~ ly taken by Allied forces.
bm~ter cannon h~mmermg and
A direct hit on the gas tank of
their treads plow~ng the black one of the trucks sent flames high
earth. Forty-five mmutes later the and soon ended the defense of that
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~~~-~~hge:
d::::tes
~:~ p~:~~d
t:ht~e
Americans holding the narrow
conidor between the station and
the Point watched as the tank
[pushed' into the white sand swung
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particular sp9t. .
Instead of making a frontal at:.
tack, the tanks struck the Japs
from the side to drive, through to
the Point. Then the force turned
westward and pushed to Giropa,
creek, .which was their objective
for the first night.
Another force turned and started
mopping up Jap remnants left between the Point and Sinemi creek,
to the east, but this position was
not completely cleaned up by New
Year's night.
(Later dispatches indicate that,
except for snipers, the Japanese
abandoned defense of the Point,
swimming with life belts and on
logs to reach their comrades at
the government station.)
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AID IN NEW GUINEA, 100 YARDS FROM JAPS- \• :t - 't '
First aid is administered to & wounded soldier near Gona, New Guinea, le81 than 100 yards fro,
the Jap lines. The dressing station was set up In thl1 fighting zone 10 that Au1trallan1, woun
In the bitter Jungle fighting, could have their lnjurie1 attended to before they were carr
ko1pltal1 In the rear.
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Dropped by Japs on Guadalcanal
This invitation to natives to join forces with the ' 4Navy of Nip-,
pon" was d1·opped on Guadalcanal by Jap aviators. The- copy re-produce~ here is among the souvenirs Edward J. Kornoelje of the
United States navy brought home wJth him wheti he arrived fo.r 1 a
brief leave this week. How the natives were expected to read Eng•
Ji,;h, even a Jap's version, was not explained.
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Greenville Soldier Huddles in Assault Boat With
Dead Companion for Three Days
(By Murlin Spencer.)
With American Troops in New
Guinea-UP)-There are men with
strange stories to tell in the jungle
swamps near Buna.
They are bearded, weary men
who have fought a long time
against the Japs and are used to
the heavy odor of death which
hangs over the corridor.
Capt. W. G. Page of Menasha,
Wis., told me the story of Pvt.
Thomas Jager of Greenville, Mich.,
who huddled in an assault boat
with a dead companion for three
days and two nights before he was
able to get out.
Jager, Sgt. Leon Gorski of Mil~
waukee and others were in the
boat, which attempted a landing
on the Japanese side of Entrance
creek. The machine gun fire was
extremely heavy and killed one
man, who fell atop Jager.
Bright Moon Blocks Escape.
Jager and Gorski huddled in the
bottom of the boat until toward
dusk. lf'our Japs approached from
the shore. Gorski said he told
Jager to get ready and when he
threw a grenade at the Japs to
dive overboard and swim ashore.
When the Japs drew close, Gorski
hurled his grenade into their faces
and jumped into the water. He
said Jager apparently hadn't heard
him, because he did not follow.
A bright moon that night made
escape impossible, so Jager remained in the boat. He stayed on
through the next day and night
and then a third day, On the third
night he managed to get back, He
brought the boat with him,
Then there is the story of the old
.44 pistol. One of our men captured it from a Jap. He was killed.
Three other Americans carried it
in turn. They were killed. A fifth
man picked it up. He was wounded and sent to a first aid station.
That night the station was shelled
by a Jap mountain gun. Now the
gun has been sent far back of the
lines. No one at the front wants it.
Pierce Enemy Lines.
From a cheerful little guide, Pvt.
Arthur Christofor of Milwaukee,
Wis., I heard the story of five men
who dared go unarmed through
enemy lines to take medical supplies to an isolated company.
They were Pvts. Ray Jackson of
Arlington, Wis., Sam Scarfo of
Youngstown, Ohio, Gerald McCarthy of Waterloo, Ill., Vernon A.
Pyles of Lagrange, Ky., and, Capt.
Rafael R. Gamso of New York city.
Gamso stayed all night to treat the
wounded and returned the next
day.
In an open trench under a baking
sun overlooking a wide field, young
Pvt. Frank Horvat of Akron, Ohio,
told me of the long minutes he
spent in the company of a Jap patrol the day before Christmas.
He had crossed Entrance creek to
the enemy side of the river and
:1ad reached a point 10 yards from
the Japs when they opened up with
a machine gun, killing a man near
him and forcing him to hug the
ground.
Later a seven-man Jap patrol
came out and sat down near Horvat, examined the body of his companion but left him untouched.
<lone Jap placed his rifle across
my leg," Horvat related. "I was
petrified
and almost stopped
breathing as I watched them
through a peephole between my
arm and helmet. Finally they went
away."
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YANKS ALERT, EVEN AT MEAL TIMEArmed guards keep watch for lurking .Taps whUe United States soldiers line up for chow somewhere In the New Guinea battle arlllO!ltba of Jungle warfare
made them -ry of Jap tricks.
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FIFTY-EIGHTH YEAR
tmlb
GRAND RAPIDS,
MICH,,
WEDNESDAY,
EX'T RA
PRICE THREE CENTS
27, 1943
C
· President Reviews U. S.
Troops in North Africa
Meets Churchill, Maps
Axis Surrender Plans
F. D. R. Flies 5,000 Miles for
Talks; French Leaders in Unity
Yanks' Eyes Pop as Their Chief
Greets, Eats Lunch with Them
By WALTER LOGAN
REPRESENTING AMERICAN NEWSPAPER CORRESPONDENTS
IN NORTH AFRICA
(Distributed by the Associated :Press)
CASABLANCA (Delayedl-President Roosevelt,
American Chief Executive to leave the United States in wartime
and the first to fly the Atlantic, today (Jan. 21) inspected American troops in French Morocco, surprising them by his presence
and leaving their faces wreathed in smiles.
The President reviewed the troops from a jeep driven by
Sergt. Oran Lass, from Kansas City, Mo., who was the proudest
soldier in the U. S. army but maintained an air of impeccable
dignity throughout.
·
In the jeep with the President were Lieut. Gen. Mark W.
Clark, commander of the U. S. fifth army; Charles Fredericks,
the President's personal bodyguard, and the general officer com-
-------------l manding
F. D.R. Covers
10,000 Miles
in Air Trip
CASABLANCA (Wednesday)
(INS )-To attend the conference in Morocco with Prime
l\linister Churchill, President
Roosevelt undertook a drama tic round trtp aerial journey in an American trans1>0rt
plane that had to cover more
than 10,000 miles to carry the
~
----t..~
during the inspection of
the troops.
Immediately behind the presidential jeep was another- with bodyguards, and the :following jeep contained Maj. Gen. George S. Patton, Jr., commanding U. S. troops
in French Morocco; Rear Admiral
Ross McIntire, the President's physician; and Earry Hopkins, presidential adviser.
Riding in another car were Robert Murphy, American mini:;,'\cr for
French Africa, and W. ·Averill Harriman.
ITHEIR EYES POPPED
.........,-. .. ,,..,.,.,.-_._LI...,... . , . _ ~___..
By WES GALLAGHER
CASABLANCA, French Morocco UP)-President Roosevelt
and Prime Minister Churchill, in the most unprecedented and
momentous meeting of the century, have reached "complete
agreement" on war plans for 1943 designed to bring about the
unconditional surrender" of Germany, Italy, and Japan, it was
disclosed Tuesday.
Defying every tradition, the President of the United States
flew across 5,000 miles of the Atlantic ocean for a 10-day
meeting with Winston Churchill which saw the leaders of
the two nations bring Gen. Charles De Gaulle and Goo..
Henri Honore Giraud together for the first. time in a little
villa just outside this city.
Virtually the entire war staffs of both nations participated in
day and night discussions which ended Sunday afternoon with
a press conference before a group of war correspondents flown
secretly from Allied headquarters halfway across North Africa.
IDGH SPOTS OF CONFERENCE
These are the high spots of the conference, which Roosevelt
and Churchill agreed was unprecedented in history and may
decide the fate of the world for generations to come:
One-The leaders of America and Britain, both military
and civil, have agreed on a war plan for 1943 designed to
maintain the initiative in every theater of the war;
Two-Churchill and Roosevelt agreed that peace can
come only through "unconditional surrender" of Germany,
Italy, and Japan;
Three-Generals Givaud and DeGa!Jlie, meeting for the
first time under' sponsorship of the Presifle;,t and prime min•
ister, are negotiating for a united French movement designed
to put French armies, a navy and an airforce again into the
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WASHINGTON UP) - Casa•
blanca, the French Moroccan
port where President Roose-velt spent the last fortnight in
important war conferences, is
the Spanish name for-of all
things--"whlte house."
by air ever undertaken by any
American
est such
self had
first time
president, the longtrip Roosevelt himever made, and the
a chief executive of
the United States had set foot
1
~n
~~r.while his counry
.:,::g:t
Ilater that
Herald A,manack
presence in Africa, and confessed
they had assumed when
they rehearsed the day before for
the affair that the party would be
"another bunch of brass hats."
Standing rigidly at attention and
The all-time high crest of Grand :::~:e
~~e
d~~:~: .
1
;:~si!:ntt~aS
river at Grand Rapids was 20.4 each was surprised in turn as Mr.
I
n.t=c..tJiY
i:~~.i~:i;.~c~e~i ~:.sevelt's
over flood level.
Highest since
then was 16.1
feet on March
20, 1942. By comp a r is on, the
Ohio river at
Cincin n ati on
Jan. 26, 1937,
reached a high
mark of 80 feet.
Flood level there
ts 52 feet.
+ + +
DO YOU REMEMBER? Last
year on Jan. 27 the temperatures
ranged from 33 to 37. Highest of
record this date, 62 in 1906; lowest,
U below zero in 1925.
+ + +
.
FACT FOR TODAY: The net income of American railroads last
year was estimated by 1;he. Interstate Com~erce comm1ss~on at
.$950,000,000 - largest earnings in
their history.
+ + +
THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Do the
duty which lies nearest to you.
Every duty which is bidden to wait
returns with seven fresh duties a.t
its back.
Help Defense
opposite
The
Allied occupation of French
North Africa brought a number ot political problems leading up to the Roosevelt.
Churchill conference there. The
major events were:
Nov. 7-American troops invade French North Africa.
Nov. 11-Algeria and Morocco under Allied control as Admiral J e an Darlan orders
French to surrender; Hitler occupies all of France.
Nov. H-Civil administration
set up under Darlan.
Dec. 1 - Darlan proclaims
himself chief of state in French
Africa.
Dec. 8-Darlan brings French
\Vest Africa, including Dakar,
to Allied side.
Dec. 24-Darlan assassinated.
Dec. 26-Gen. Henri Giraud
succeeds Darlan as high commissioner.
Dec. 30-Twelve arrested in
a 11 e g e d assassination plot
against Giraud and Robert
Murphy, U. S. minister.
Jan. 6-Giraud agrees to
meet Gen. Charles De Gaulle,
Fighting French leader, to promote unity.
Jan. 1'1-President Roosevelt,
Prime Minister Churchill, De
Gaulle and Giraud open conferences.
Jan. 19-Marccl Peyrouton,
former Vichy minister, appointed governor-general of Alg~
ria; Fighting French assail ap..
pointment.
Jan. 24-Roosevelt-Churchill
conference concluded.
:PRESIDENT
jeep drew
I- - -THE
--------Eyes literally popped as the
President and commander-in-chief
passed only six feet away in front
of the men with a big smile on
his face. Few soldiers were able
1
to wipe off their own smiles of
1
pleasure.
The presidential convoy formed
at 9:30 a. m., skirted CasabJanca
WASHINGTON (INSi-An abor- ,O f
and drove directly to the review tive Japanese attempt to stage a
area, ,some miles north,
WASHINGTON (lP) - The last! "Note to editors and broadcastThe convoy consisted of official large-scale air raid on GuadalHmouslnes, armored scout cars canal was announced Tuesday by fortmght brought many mtima- ers-strictly confidential and not
with 50-caliber machine guns, and the navy department as United tlons of a new Roosevelt-Churchill for publlcat1on.
weapOns carriers bearing official States troops pllshed their offensive conference but the actual fact of ~'The President is taking another
signal corps photographers. It was deeper into Japanese territory President Roosevelt's sensitional :trip. The attention of every editor
preceded and followed by military along the island's northwestern flight to North Africa was a mili- au d broadcaster is directed forcepolice on motorcycles.
t
tary secret until its official an- fully to the code provision restrictU11IBRELLA OF PLANES
coas ·
.
.
nouncement Tuesday night.
ing any information rega1·ding the
A commumque said that AmerUnder the voluntary code of cen- mo:7ements of the Commander-inThe -convoy drove- by the airport
where scores of fighters took off ican aircraft last Sunday (U. s. sor'Ship to which the press and ra- Chief and any other ranking offito form a vast umbrella over- date) intercepted, out-fought and dio . adhere, movements of the ~ial'S of the. government._ Upon his
head throughout the day. The routed an armada of Ja anese President. may not be publicized le.turn detailed ~ews o! his trip
President, wearing a gray felt
.
.
.
P
unless officially announced.
Just will be made available to all simulhat, a gray suit with a white pin dive bombers, twm-engmed bomb- so the press and radio would know taneously."
stripe, and white pullover sweater, ers ~ and fighter planes, which was that Mr. Roosevelt was on th e The phrase "another trip" a arrode the limousine of Lieut. Gen. headed for Gu~dalc?'nal.. It was move-and be reminded that this ~ntly was in recollection olpthe
Dwight D. Eisenhower, Allied com- the first occasion m six weeks was confidential-Byron Price di- _fwing around th
t
th
mander-in-chief in North Africa. that the. enemy had riske<l: mo7e rector of censorship, is~ued
11 ent made last ~a~f~~s~cti!gP~e:;
The morning' was chilly and than a single plane at a time m p. m., Jan. 9, the following memor- lants. Reporters from the three
somewhat cloudy when the party
See GAUDALCANAL-Page 14
andum:
Se SECRET
e
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started, but the warm African sun
Big Scale Jap
Raid Foiled
Newsmen Guarded Secret
F.D.R.-Chu~chill Meet
a't
!~~~:db~f!J!~ga~o:~: ~~~~~~hs~:~
hills. Soldiers, not knowing whom
they guarded, were stationed along
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LAST TRAIN fro m B ERLIN
THE PRIME MINISTER
Stalingrad Is
Nearly Freed
By NATALIA RENE
~OSCOW (~S) - The oncemighty Ger~an siege army trapped
before Stalingrad now has been
t
almoS totally annihilated, with at
least 208,000 of its offi~ers and men
knocked out after the killing of
another 40,000 and the capturing
of 28,000 in the past_ 10 days, it
was announced Tuesday night.
Of the 220,000 enemy troops who
~ere laying siege. to the Volga
C1tY_ when the Sov1e~s opened their
encirclement offensive last Nov.
19, only two wretched remnants,
comp~ising 12,~0 survivors, ,n ow
rem~m, a special Russian communique declared.
The others
have been .k.illed or ta_ken prisoner.
. TheS o~ic1al bulletin, annol'..lncmg
oviet reconquest of more
See STALINGRAD-Page 14
by Howard K. Smith
1-::::::::::::::;::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::::Ip rom,se
. Of V.
f
B
hi arms
of the lustful. hungry Ger- positon. So we of the fourth estate
. IC ory roug
man -Mars.". . • And on that, gen- had no_ choice but to believe these
G reaf Joy f O G e rma n$ I
the road at regular intervals. Every
See REVIEWS-Page 2
.,,.
Two Leaders Have
H Id F
e
OUr
M
f
ee lnCJS
. WASHINGTON (JP)-Frankhn D. _Roosevelt and Wi~ston
ChurcWll have met four times
Prevent Accidents
JAN. 26
::r~~~::n!i!:! !f!i:ee ~~::
ca's entrance into th e war
and once before It. Times
and places were ·
Aug. 9, 1941, 0.ff' the New-
City
tlernen, I stake my whole journal- dramatic assertions were gospel
istic r eputation!" Dietrich shouted, tru th ·
.
swinging his fist high in the air
Upon my . cons. ciousr:i,es.s settled
in a d ramatic gesture.
the more pamful convichon-com-
CHAPTER III
To understand how big Dr. Dietrich's story was one must re.
.
.
.
member the circumstances. This was the first substantial news
about the mighty, new offensive. It came directly from Adolf
foundland coast for three days [Hitler himself and could not be doubted. Dietrich continued : beCounty Outside City
or more.
.
'
th G
•
Dec. 22 , 1941, to Jan. 14 ,
hmd the two_ pockets there stood betwe_en
e erman arnues
One death since Jan. 1.
and Moscow Just so_muc~ s~ace_an~ nothmg more. As one correNineteen daYs without a j 1942, _when Churchill came to
Washmgton on a battleship
3pondent later put it, Dietrich indicated t~at between ~ermany
death.
aatl flew home, .
.
and the complete conquest of the untold riches of Russia there
1942 record: Five deaths to
June
18,
1942,
m
Washing•
. d
"th ti
•t t k
and machine t cover the
.Jan. 26.
ton, with ChurchlU flying here
remame on1Y
e me i
a es man
1
'
a ears
for a week's conference,
given
distance."
After
seven
sho:t
days,
the f~~hrer's offensive
1
PauJ Mallons Co umn PP
Jan. 14-24, 1943. in Nor th lhad smashed the Red army to splmters, the decision was reached
14
today on page ·
Africa.
~nd the eastern continent lay, like a limp virgin in t he mighty
One death since Jan. 1.
Five days without a death.
1942 record: One death to
Jan. 26.
0
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.
:~~ ta:ll0 ;:;~·e~:.atp!~~a;:~t~~~
decision in the entire conflict lay
in Hitler's hands.
N~w nobody will con~est the c?ntention that th e Nazis . te~l hes,
and great big ones, But 1t 1s true
t hat Hitler 'himself has never told
a l~e about a specific military fact
which can be checked. There are
t wo good rP~ons for this. First,
he does not hafe to lie about them;
you don•~ , h ~ve to tell a fib when
yo.u_'re wmn mg .~econd, a specific
military fact . 1_
be so easily
checked, and 1f '\ were found out
that the "Almig\ty" had told a
blunt untruth, ~pecially about
/something !3:o big 8'i this particular
. When DiP.tric? ~inished te~se exc1temen t preva1le~. The uniforms
g~thered round him and pumped
his hand a~ a sort of mutual cangratulation on the Germany vietory. The agency men had but'St
through the doorway and were giv•
event, it would be <i_sastrous to his
(Continued on Page HJ
•,. •
•
Congratulations
W ere •1n O rder
Four..::.Premier Joseph Stalin of Russia was kept informed of the results of the conferences. In fact, Churchill
and Rooseveit offered to meet Stalin "very much farther to
the east," but the Russian chief was unable to leave the
USSR, due to the need of his directing the present Red army
offensives.
The President and prime minister also have been in communication with Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek and "have
apprised him of the measures which they are taking to assist
him in China's magnificent and unrelaxing struggle for the
common cause."
Five-Maximum material aid to Russia and China will be
one of the prime aims of the U. S. and Britain.
Six-Roosevelt visited American troops in the field in
North Africa, the first American president io visit an active
war theater since Abraham Lincoln.
The meetings were held in a closely-guarded, barbed-wiresurrounded inclosure at a hotel in Casablanca under the greatest
secrecy.
ALL-NIGHT CONFERENCE
Prime Minister Churchill arrived for the meeting first. When
President Roosevelt arrived by plane a few hours later, be dispatched Harry Hopkins to the Churchill villa, and the prime min•
ister i=ediately came to start the meetings.
Tbe first began at 7 o'clock in the evening of Jan. 14 and
lasted until 3 o'clock the next morning.
President Roosevelt met correspondents in the garden of
his villa Sunday afternoon.
Protecting American fighters and Spitfires roared overhead
as the conference was held. The only woman present was WAAC
Capt. Louise Anderson of Denver, Colo., a stenographer from
Lieut. Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower's headquarters.
Hopkins was among the first to arrive, along with the President's flying son, Lieut. Col. Elliott Roosevelt, who was wearing
the Distinguished Flying Cross recently awarded him.
While the President's envoy, Robert Murphy, flitted in the
background, Generals Giraud and De Gaulle, clad in French
army uniforms, appeared from the President's quarters. They
were closely followed by Roosevelt himself, wearing a light grey
suit with the usual cigaret bolder held at a jaunty angle.
Churchill, in a dark grey suit and with the inevitable cigar,
followed them to the four chairs in the garden.
FRENCH LEADERS "SHAKE ON IT"
As De Gaulle and Giraud shook hands for the benefit of
photographers, the President opined that it was a momentous
moment.
Giraud and De Gaulle immediately went back into the house
and the press conference began.
The President on behalf of the prime :1inister and himself,
expressed regret at the death of the Canadian Broadcasting corporation's war correspondent, Edouard Baudry, who was killed
by a machinegun bullet when the plane in which he was riding
with other cdrrespondents en route to the meeting was lost ·over
Spanish Morocco and was fired upon by Spanish ground defenses.
The President then went into the background of the meeting, saying that it became clear when the North African cam•
paign was launched that a meeting between himself and the
prime minister would be necessary,
STALIN TOO BUSY TO ATTEND
He said Stalin had been kept advised on all details worked
out at the meeting, and in the words of the communique added
that Stalin had been "cordially invited to meet the President and
,rime minister, in which case the meeting would have been held
very much farther to the east." Stalin, however, was ''unable to
leave Russia at this time on account of the great offensive which
he himself as commander-in-chief is directing."
While the prime minister nodded assent, the President said
See ROOSEVELT-Page I
�oe Chased
to 1-C\-'t~
Lae Harbor
Buna' s Capture Is Described
By \-'1
Witness
of Fierce Struggle
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Vast Havoc Wrought
Enemy in Battle Off
New Guinea Coast
!Bombs Shatter
Japs at,-,•-'t~
Lae
By LEE VAN ATTA
'
UNITED NATIONS HEAD•
QUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, (Saturday) (I NS)-The Allied air forces
pounding a great J apan ese convoy
in the Huon gulf off the northeastern coast of New Guinea were re, vealed Friday to have sunk a
t hird enemy transport, damage.I
another, and to have destroyed at
least 24 and posstbly !6 more Nip-ponese planes.
This raised to five the number
or enemy transports sunk or dam.
aged, and to 73 the total of Jap
p lanes either shot down or put
out of action.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's noon
communique reporting on the ac•
t ion indicated that the battle, which
began Wednesday, end~d when the
American and Australian air forces
pursued remnants of the Jap fle~t
into Lae harbor Thursday.
So great was the havoc wrought
on the enemy naval concentration,
said the communique, that only
"fragmentary" troop elements coul rl
have been ]anded at the enemyheld stronghold.
HEAVY TOLL
The three-day toIJ of enemy ships
and p1anes was:
Ships:
1 Three transports sun k, fncludfng
one sent dow·n with all hands, an
estimated 2,000 or more soldiers.
One transport probably sunk.
One transport damaged seriously.
Planes:
At least 42 destroyed.
12 p1anes probably destroyed.
19 planes dam~ged.
During Thursday's hot action.
Gen. MacArthur's airmen chased
the shattered convoy right into the
harbor of Lae to sink a transport
Rnd score two direct hits on another transport. In Wednesday's
fighting. two transports were sunk
and a third badly crippled.
20 PLANES D OWNED
Twenty Zero fighters were !!hot
down Friday and two fighters and
two bombers were destroyed on the
ground at Lae. Eighteen planes
were shot down Thursday, bringing
the total number of Jap planes
destroyed to 42. In addition, seven
Zeros were probably destroyed a nd
15
damaged
Thursday wh ich,
coupled with the previous d ay's
score of five probables and four
dam aged, brought the gran d total
of en emy warplanes k nocked out
of the battle to 71 Zeros and two
bombers.
As heavier A11ied planes blasted
the convoy, fighters and attack
bombers strafed the Lae airdrome
as welt as barges and beachheads
· by whioll the Japs sought to land
their troops.
FEW TliOOPS LANDED
"Such troop elements as were
landed by the enemy," said the
communique, "are believed to be
fr1tgmentary."
Other Allied
planes
rangea
against the Jap airdrome at Gasmata, New BrJtain, setting large
fires in a blistering night attack,
and against shipping off Kai island. A direct h it was scored on
a Japan ese torpedo craft off Kai,
and it was beiieved to be at least
severaly damaged, if not sunk.
Ground fighting in New Guin ea,
although confined to patroJ activi...
ties,
was
in creasingly
fie rce.
Th irty-two Jap soldiers wer e kiUed
in close fighting Thursday at Sana ...
nanda point, last remai n in g Jap
salient in Papua, the commu nique
aai d.
AUied 1osses in latest phases
ot the sea-air conflict "'were not
heavy," Thursday's commu nique
aaid. On ly light !Oases were suf ...
tered by the Allied airmen In open ...
Ing stages of the ba ttle, indicating
that the overall a~oun ting of the
(By l\lurlin Spencer.)
planes. The campaign ended on
WH h American ';rroops in New the same savage note on which it
Guinea-(Delayed)-(JP) -Cleanup b~gan-no quarter asked and none
g~~~· once-scenic Buna govern~
ment station, with its coconut
palm grove overlooking the ocean,
looked as if a cyclone had hit it.
Its half dozen buildings, some of
corrugated iron and the most pretentlous in Paua, were shattered,
twisted and pocked by shrapnel.
Others were burned to the ground
and still smoldering when I crossed
a shaky bridge and walked to the
station
The ground, churned by bombs
and shells, helped to explain the
hunted look of the Jap prisoners.
Mostly coolies who had been forced
to labor, they bowed to their captors. Weak and emaciated, they
gulped down the food given them.
The day's battle started and ended spectacularly. In the half light
of ,the early morning a score of
Japs made a desperate try to break
through, but a grenade-throwing
young private who pitched like
Lefty Grove in his heyday-L indsey Wagner of Woodward, Okla.and others stopped them. They had
waited a long time to get the Japs
in the open, and they made the
most of it.
Petoskey Soldier Spots 'Em.
About 6 :20 a. m., Pvt. Raymond
Krussell of Petoskey, Mich., standing watch west of the government
station, saw a small group of Japs
walking toward the beach. Then
a small boat towing a raft put out
from shore, heading seaward presumably in hopes of reaching Jap
positions in the direction of Sanananda.
Krussell warned Sgt. Lavern
Schultz of Oshkosh, Wis., a machine gunner, and three others.
Other riflemen in beach trenches
awaited the signal.
When the boat and raft were directly offshore, they fired and sank
the boat. There were heads bobbing in the surf as our troops
waved a white flag and motioned
the Japs to come ashore. The enemy made no effort to start for
shore, refusing to surrender. So
the boys resumed firing. Machine
gun and rifle bullets sent up little
spouts of water around the Japs.
Then the airforce was called in
and the planes strafed the swim.mers. They found an additional 60
farther west and strafed them, too.
Tough Going.
Japs on the ground crouched behind large bunkers while artillery
pounded the area and smashed
trucks. When the full attack started at' 10:15 a. m., the govet)lment
station area was covered with dirty smoke from the artillery barrage.
The attack opened east of the
station and moved west. It was
hard going for the Americans af
first against the bunkers from
which the Japs fired machine guns.
Dense undergrowth made observation of progress difficult, but I
found a spot of beach and watched
the
men,
crouching
behind ,
trenches, Dring at the Japs who
fled from the station buildings and
attempted to hide behind one of
five beachecl landing barges.
The commanding general of the
American ground troops in New
Guinea also was watching, When
the Americans' first bullets missed
h e said "squeeze the trigger, boys,
don't pull 'em." They did.
By 3 :30 in the afternoon, the
command post west of the station
reported it saw our men advanc~
ing through the palms. At 4 :27
p. m,. it announced we had taken
the station.
units of an American ground force
drove through the las t en emy defenses Saturday to capture the
bomb-shattered Buna government
station after many Japanese had
fled into the sea in a mad effort
to escape.
.
I~ was mamly through sheer
we1ght of numbers that the Amer icans, their jungle green _unifon_ns
mud-splattered and thell' bodies
worn by six weeks of battle against
the Japs, broke down the enemy's
bunker defenses.
The Japs sought to flee by r!llt,
b~ small boat .and even by sw1mmmg. On then· refusal to come
ashore and s1:,1rrender, many ':ere
shot by rnachme-gunners and riflemen while others were strafed by
/
MacArthur's Fliers
Pound Desperate
Foe on New Guinea
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
AUSTRALIA (Sunday) (.'Pl -The
desperate Japs, who lost three out
of four transports with which they
\
tried to reinforce their Lae garris·on in New Guinea, sent in two
more transports and both were
bombed and set afire by ~ ll!e~
planes of all categories, raiding
around the clock, Gen. Douglas
MacArthur reported today.
In addition, a merchant vesse l
(perhaps t he damaged transport
which managed to get some troops
shore) was bombed while beached.
a The · J ap convoy, wh ich has been
under conti nuous attack for m_o re
than two days and nights, withdrew u nder cover of darkness
"after u n loading."
At Sanananda, where the l~st
remnant of a Jap Papuan peninsula army which once totaled 15,000
is making a stand, Allied gro~nd
troops were reported "increasmg
their pressure."
Gen. MacArfhW", considering the
1 campaign at an end, has return~d J
\ to his general headquarters m
Australia.
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LDIERS PLAY CARDS BETWEEN BATTLES-
,~,- 'f.,
t-
~wlld•red New Gubtea natives watch American soldiers play cards In a r est period b•;w~:n : . .
ties, The Yankl use ,45-caliber bullets for chips. The shuffling of the printed cards an
P
Inc of the •chips" bad< and forth faacina~ the •~ ••ken.
�Gen. MacArthur Citation
of Heroic 32nd Division
1-111 -
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Gen. MacArthur's communique clling the 32nd divlalon for its
valarous part in the successful New Quinea campaign says:
"The magniricent conduct of the troops and elements of this
command, operating under difficulties raJIC).Y, if ever. surpaHed in
a campaign, has earned my highest praise1U'ld commendation. De1 spite inadequate meanB in many categories, their resourcefulness
and their adaptability have produced a self-reliance tbat has overcome all handicaps and deficiencies.
"Through the sklll and coul'age and indomitable will !or victory,
they have defeated a bold and aggressive enemy possessing a
marked superlo1ily of 1·esourccs and potentialities in areas of
campaign and combat.
''While a11 ground troops have performed admirably, elements or
the 8th and 7th Australian divisions, the 32nd and 41st United States
divisions, the 6th Independent Commando unit, mountain artillery
batteries of the first Austi·alian corps, squadrons of the armored
division (Australian), and native Papuan carriers have been espe•
cially prominent.
"To the Ame.rlcan 5th air force and Royal AustraJian air force,
no commendation could be too great. Their outstanding efforts in
combat, in supply and in transportation over both land and sea
constituted the keystone upon which the whole arch of the cam•
paign was erected. They have set new horizons for the air con•
tluct of the war.
"To Almighty God, I give thanks for that guidance· which haa
brnught us to this success in our great crusade. His is the honor,
the power and the glory, forever, amen.
.
"DOUGLAS MAC ARTHUR, Genetal United States Army, Com•
mander-in-Chiet."
,/
Gen. Char
of Intelligence; Brig. Gen. Chari•
, A. Willoughby, chief of lntelllaeaae;
.'and partt
Brig, Gen. Ennla C. Whitehead and pated la
Brig. Gen. Kenneth Walker, ~ lllbtln&' I& ilnli,apiii'JaNiilMi. tile
lean air force commanden; AD- batU• front wu I the .AJaao,
trallan Brigs. F. G. Wootten~ LOrraille MCtloa
wu rela,,
I Kenneth Eather, and Australian Uvely quiet at tile 'time. It wu
Capt. WIiiiam Garing.
here however that the dl.i.ton
General Cites Unit
In citing the 32nd division for • uttered lta ftnt casualtlea.
outstanding achievement In the
When the Germana threatened
Among Others for
south Paclftc battle area. Gen. Paris In the Kaiser's second great
Valor in New Guinea Douglas MacArthur follows In the Marn<" offensive, the division moved
,-,,. If,'\
footsteps of Gen. Pershing who, by forced marches to the new
GEN, MAC ARTHUR'/< HEAD· during the closing days of the f\rst front where together with a maQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA (Sat- World war, decorated the battle rin«- division, the 42nd and other
flags of the Red Arrow division fresh Yankee units, it checked
Ul'day) - Returning to his head- for similar outstanding deeds of the advancing Germane and forced
, quarters here today after personal- valor.
them into a dll1asterous retreat.
1
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; ly directing A1lied forces in the
The history o~ the division un- in F~~~e!::r :heu~~dt~r:::
victorious Papuan campaign In
der
other
insignias
goes
far
back
sion
was
under
fl.re
tor
all
but
New Guinea in which approximateth e na- ten days when It was In a rest
rd
ly 15,000 Japanese troops were into the w~r reco s of
Uon.
The
division,
however,
as
we
aren,
fighting
on
five
fronts
in
wiped out, Gen. Douglas MacArthur cited the 32nd (Red Arrow) know it today, was _formed of three major offensives - AisneMlchlgan
and
Wiaconsm
men
at
Marne
Oise.Alane
and
Meuse-Ar1
division and other units or his command for their "indomitable wilt, the beginning ot the Jast war of gonne.
magnificent conduct, skill and cour- national guard units of the two
In killed, \\·ounded or missing fn
age" in the successful operations states. It was overseas and ready action is lost 14,000. It defeated 23
for action before Michigan's other German divisions, taking 2,153 prisnow concluded.
In addition to the 32nd division, famous World war division, the oners, 2,000 rifles, 200 machine guns
85th,
was trained and equipped at and 100 cannon. In four major atmade up largely of Michigan and
tacks launched at critical moments,
Wisconsin men, Gen. MacArthur Camp Custer.
After
nine months on the Mexi- it advanced 24 miles and repulsed
highly commended the 41st U. S.
division and his Australian troops can border In 1916, the units which without loss of ground, every counfor their valor in the Papuan vic- went into the making of the 32nd ter-attack.
tory which, the general said, should consisted ot hard and well-trained
It captul'ed Fismes In the Alane-make "the dead of Bataan rest a fighting men when war upon Ger- Marne offensive and was the only
little easier tonight."
American unit in General Mangtn's
many was declared.
(The text of Gen. MacArthur's
It was organized at Camp Mac- famoua tenth French army in the
citation appears below.)
It was
Arthur, Waco, Tex., July 18, 1917, OIM-Alsne offensive.
three months after the United twice In the front line In the
HONORS AWARDED
Meuse-Argonne
where
it
fought
for
States
became
a
belllgerent,
with
Gen. MacArthur awarded the
20 days an'll penetrated the "ImDistinguished Service Cross to the Gen. jam.es Parker in command. pregnable · Kreimbllde line." On
Atl
Or
the
Grand
Rapids
national
Allied land commander, Gen. Sir
Nov. 10, It was attacking east of
Thomas Blarney, and to Lieut. Gen. guard units were incorporated in th
Robert L Eichelberger, commander its formation. These consisted ot i e ~eus~ and upon the following
four companies of infantry, a full day, it h~d smashed the_ 192nd Gerof the American troops in Papua.
In fact· a fteld hospital, m~n division and was 1n full purFor "extraordinary co u rage, battalion
_ , __ •
suit when the armistice brought
marked efficiency and precise exethe
126th
Infantry regimental the conflict to an end.
cution of operation" the following
band, a supply company and a
The French called the division
officers were cited:
the "Les Terriblee" - the terrible
Lieut. Gen. George C. Kenney, machine gun company.
At this time the Michigan na- ones - and the Red Arrow boya
commander of the Allied air forces;
Lieut. Gen. Edmund F1·ancis Her- tionJI guard had its full war lived up to their reputation tor
ring, Australian field commander; strength of 8,000 soldiers and 230 fearless, Intrepid ftghttng power.
these same qualities in the
Maj. General Richard K. Suther- commissioned officers but some · Perhaps
32nd division have won the
land, chief of staff, general head~ recruits were taken in and war new d
ence of General MacArthur
quarters of the south Pacific area; department records credit Michi-1confi
nd prompte~ him to call upon the
Maj. Gen. George Allen Vasey, gan with having 9,973 guatdsmen a
boys from Michigan and Wl~consin
Australian field commander; Brig. in the World war.
to
1 handle__ ~he _Ne~ Guinea Job.
32nd Lauded i
by MacArthur I
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w:tcb
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SOMEWHERE IN HEW GUINEA
Somewhere in Ne\f ( ; u i n ~ r e the sun is like a curse.
And (-aeh long da.\' ts followed by another slightly ,,orse,
\Vl1ere tlte lnit-k-rrcl dust blows tl1kkcr
than the shifting dc!--ert sa11d.
And ¥11 tl1~ men drram and wish for the fairer. Kreener !:ind.
I
Somewlie:-e in New Guinea, where a woma11·s twvn !-.N'n,
\\'here tile sky is never <•lnudy and the frrass is 11e,·er green,
Where t Ile ding-ocs nizhtl.v howling.
roUS a m.-t n of hlef-sed ~lePp,
Where tlu,'re i~t1't a11y wlii~key and tile \Jeer is out of reach.
Somewhere in New Gui11C'a.
when• tile 11igh1,;,. are made for love,
Whc>rf> the moon is Iii.:(~ a searehligl,t
:111d the Sout ller11 Cross ahm·e;
Sparkle:-. like a diamond. in "palmy. tropic night,
·Tis a :--hameleR!-. waste of beaut),
\\ hen there's not a girl i11 sight
Somewlif'r<'1n N'Pw Gui11e<.1, wliere the mail is alway:-. late,
And a ( 'lirbtma'- l':t r<l i!I April, is con~idered up to date,
·w11ere we never ha,,t~ a pay day, and never have a <·ent.
BuL we 11cver 111iss t11c 111011ey 1cau~c ,,e'd ne,·er get it spent.
I'.~~::===
•~~~=~~~~~e"=:.: •=~--~
Snme\\liere m Nt'W Guinf',t, where the a11ts ,ltld ll;,;,1rds pl.1y.
Ami ,t l111mlrr1i ltl'Sl1 lllOsquitoes,
take th" p!al'e or ever_y one you slay,
Sn l,tkf' me h,H-'.> to Ille P !-;, A.
s11bst1 , 11te for il c ll.
to_..
For some, war is dirty business. Here's an American
soldier in sniper suit, plus camouflage markings on hands
and face The soldier blends perfectly with foliage and
is virLuall,1• invisible from a few yards awar.
:~t
�Informal Portrait
Where Jap Ships Were Sunk
- ~ • MAIN JAP"N!<;E IIASES
•"'
' IR£LAN1>
&
roo
tu:w
RABAUC
""•
ooo.Ai;f,
,.
SIJ'A
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This lTlap of the Solomon island area shows how the Japanese
armada invaded the Guadalcanal area from three dir ections only
1
w·th
goggling natives rear, as a n interested audience, ,Gen . Thoinas
A. Blamey, second tro'm left, Australian_chief of Allied Land F o~ces,
chats with some of his informally athred men at a New Gwnea
base. (P assed by censors. )
to be routed by the U. S. Navy in a three-day n aval battle ena~·n,,
In victory !or the U. S. A total of 23 Jap ships, lncludin
battleship, cruisers, destroyers and transports, w ere sunk by o
U. S. American losses were put at eight ships by the N avy. ~
Letter From Soldier:
Short, but Eloquent !
Harrisburg, Pa., Nov. 24-(JP)
-When Private Dick Theurer
of the Marine corps came home
on his last furlough, his ~ather,
Symbols of War-and of Peace
Ben Theurer. as}.:ed h~m to
write frequently •'even if you
have no news to tell.''.
,
The father has just received
this letter:
Dear Dad:
.
Affectionately yours, Dick.
P.S.-Boy, am I tired!''
A tiny fairy tern, taking advantage of a lull in the roar of
battle which rages in the Pacific, lights for a moment on this
United States Marine's tommy gun. The little white bird, re.
semb1ing the dove of peace, appears quite comfortaQle, thank
you, on the grim gun barrel, which is ready to spit fiery death at
the 1 sight of a Japanese. Picture was taken on Midway island.
d re fi hting southward to Sanananda, in an effort
Australian troops have entered Gon\ '.'1-n f~rmel by American troops in Gen. Douglas Macto close circle
around
a~ Euna_
Arthur's
command,
whoJap
arf'base
slash111g
their. eing
way nor th through the jungle. Capture of Buna would
throw Japs out o! entire Papuan New Guinea.
��MacArthur in
as
New
Guinea Drive Gains
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GENERAL MAC ARTHUR'S when fol'ced to make a parachute
HEADQUARTE-RS, Australia, jump from an army plane.)
(Wednesday) LPJ- The Allies' co- MYSTERIOUS RETREAT
ordinated land and air offensive
The mystery of the Japanese
against
the
Japanese
Guinea continues in full
in
New overland retreat, now in its 10th
course day, was heightened by the Japa-
nese convoy which American bomband still without major opposi- ers caught Monday as it •sped
tion, the southwest Pacific com- northward from Buna. It was not
mand announced today,
Australian jungle troops pressed
on from Kagi, only a scant four
miles from the narrow pass leading through the Owen Stanley
mountains, the communique said,
picking up still more territory in
their so-far unimpeded advance
toward the enemy's main positic,ns
on New Guinea.
MAC ARTHUR •1N FIBLD
Allied bombers, at the same time,
returned to the attack on Buin and
Buka harbors in the northern Soloman islands. Still other air units
visited Ceram, far to the west
between New Guinea and Celebes
in the Dutch East Indies.
(GeneraJ MacArthur was on the
scene giving personal attention to
· operations in New Guinea, it became known yesterday. A delayed
dispatch from "somewhere in New
Guinea'' disclosed MacArthur was
on the island Oct. 3, when he presented the U. S. army's Silver
Star award to Vern Haugland, Associated Press war correspondent
who made his way to safety after
being lost in the jungle 43 · days
ADVANCE BASE
Two P39 pursuit :ilanes of the United States a rmy take off for
combat from a new advanced Am er ican base in New Guinea. From
bases like this, American bombers ha.ve been taking off for heavy
r a ids ·o n Jap bases north ot Australia.
Forced- Down, U. S. Army Flyers Make New Friends
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Tin Hats
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When these crew memb~rs of a U. S. Army Flying Fortress were forced down In New Guinea
while returning from a raid on the Jap base at Rabaul, New Britain, they passed the time ,\•aiting
for help by making fricnc;ls with the natives from a nearby village. They are pictu red above with
some of the village's feminine. population. The bomber was enabled t o take oft by portable metal
landing strips flown from an American base.
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clear immediately whether this con..
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reinforcements there.
There was a possibility that the
Japanese might make a stand at
Kokoda, some 50 miles inland from
Euna. But the speed of their head..
long flight raised the question here
that they might be rel eating their
performance at Milne bay, south
of Buna, from where they with drew
an invasion fo1·ce i n the face of
great Allied odds.
Monday's attack on a convoy,
which consisted of two destroyers
and a largf> transport, was but one
phase of Allied aerial operations
in which the Japanese were pounded all the way .from Rabaul, New
Britain, in the north to Euna.
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(Releued. b'J' The Bell e
dtcate hie.
''It's simp1e, Butch-six deft strokes an' the spud is peeled-an' the
boys can't say they ain't gettin' a SQUARE MEAL!"
�2Transports Sunk With
Thousands of Troops
Six Enemy Warships Destroyed
in N,ew Reinforcement Attempt
By INTERNATIONAL NEWS SERVICE
WASHINGTON - American warships have utterly crushed
another Jap reinforcement force bound for Guadalcanal, the navy
announced Thursday, and in a furious battle north of the island
Monday night sank two enemy cruisers or large destroyers, four
other destroyers, two transports and a cargo ship.
Naval spokesmen estimated that the Japs lost 4,000 to 5,000
troops alone when the transports were blasted to the bottom,
and not a single enemy soldier reached shore except as a prisoner.
The second triumph in a month over Japanese naval forces
in the Solomons was said to have cost the United States one
light cruiser and damage to several other vessels.
Giving the lie to the Tokyo radio which stated earlier in the
day that American war ships had
been blasted right and left against
the loss of a single Jap destroyer,
the navy figures gave U. S. forces
& top-heavy victory,
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J'AP·TRAP WORKS
The Japs apparently fell into a !
well-laid trap. They had been generally expected to make another
attempt at reinforcing their troops
scattered in the hills of Guadalcanal as soon as they were able to
patch their wounds suffered in the
!devastating defeat earlier in No'Vember which cost them 38 ships
''Y'know, Sarge- sorneOm es_ I \'\_'onder why the Nips tried so hard
to HOLD this blmkety-biank island!"
su~~o~;i:~:J;! from the north-{
ern Solomons late on Nov. 30 (Sunday U. S. date), the Jap flotilla
was intercepted by an American
te.Rk force apparently lying in 'wait.
The battle continued through
part if not all of the night. Whetl\_er the entire enemy force WW! ,
wiped out or whether some man
l~~r1!~11- ~~~~~erani:e es~~;Z~
1not
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w:!
me.de known.
FEW JAPS LEFT
But the only Japanese mentioned
as being in the vicinity the next
day were several sailors on a life
raft. · They identified one of the
ships in the smashed invasion
force as the destroyer Takanami.
The desperate straits of the
Japanese still holding out on
Guadalcanal was made apparent
by the enemy's effort to reinforce
them regardless of cost. It has
been considered likely that all resistance to the American marines
and army troops must ceBBe soon
unless fresh supplies are brought
through the now iron blockade
around the island.
FOES FALL BACK
The Japs on Guadalcanal have
been falling back steadily and jn
the past ten days have shown no
concerted. res1stance, let alone of• 1,
fensive spirit.
In a n earlier communique Thursday the navy said the 55 Japs had
been killed in patrol clashes northwest of Henderson airfield. The
navy reported Wednesday that 51
of the enemy had been slain in
similar jungle skirmishes when ma..
rines and soldiers wiped out several
artillery and machine gun nests.
Steady depletion of the enemy
forces on land, however, has been
overweighed by the terrific cost
in men and materiel suffered by
the Japs at sea. From 30,000 to 40,.
000 Nipponese were said to have
perished tn the Nov. 13-15 naval
battle.
Allies Smash
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.TAP PRISONERS-Japanese prisoners, captured on
Gt1ada leana l, wearing split-toed shoes to aid them in climbtrees to spy on and ~nipe at their enemies. Chinese call
• them "ti2~nkey men", \ ~ ·) _ 'f-:i,
MacArthur's Airmen
Blasts at Foe on •
Portuguese Timor
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ALLIED HEADQUARTERS . IN
AUSTRALIA UP) - Gen. Douglas
MacArthur's plane-s, which on Wed..
nesday scored a big aerial triumph
by downing 23 Jap Zeros ovet"
northeast New Guinea, have de,.
stroyed or damaged 21 more Jap
Ia.n~ in a raid on Koepang at theout1}{\~st tip of Portuguese Tlmor,
~ he '/ugh command announced
Thur.3day.
This raid, which caught the Japs
so completely by surprise that their
:,grounded planes were devastated
by the cannon and machine gun
flre of the low-flying Allies, over4
shadowed the news from New
Guinea where split groups of en•
emy defenders are entrapped at
Gana and Buna.
The noon communique reported
only Intermittent ground fighting
in t~ose areas in which the Japa,
cleverly dug in, were 11 resistingstubbornly."
The Koepang raiders damaged
or destroyed 18 Jap bombers and
three fighters, leaving fires among
the aircraft and fuel dumps which
were visible for 50 miles away.
Much bombing attention has
been directed by Gen. MacArthur
at Portuguese Timar, northwest of
Australia, since receipt of reports
that the Japs, faced with possible
loss of New Guinea, were moving
in troops and equipment. Many
of these plane raids have been occupied with the strafing of troops
in Timar towns.
�Remember Pearl Harbor, Tojo?
This "madated J ap is typical
of- the prh1onen taken on Guad,..
aloanal where American encirclement kept supplies or reinforcements from reaching the
enemy.
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Jap Diaries
Reveal Fear
~-\°'_,...3 Enemy Get~ Jittery at
Inability to Fight
Flying 'Forts'
Bayway, N. J. - ''Our combat
planes cannot get close to the
enemy Flying Fortresses. It is
very regrettable that the nly alternative is for us to flee from
being killed."
So reads an excerpt from thE!
diary of a captured Japanese, as
translated into English and made
public by Lieut. Col. Charles E.
Kerwood, army air force.
"Due to our anti-aircraft guns
being ineffective," reads an excerpt from another diary, ''United
States planes circle around a~d
drop their bombs on essential
places. As we have only rifles, our
only alternative is to flee from
that area. It doesn't seem sol•
dierly for us to flee as we watch
the planes. l believe if friendly I
planes were here-even those inR
tferior seaplanes-the enemy wou~d
disappear. I often think that antt•
aircraft guns and machine guns
are not very effective."
Diary Oriticize& Officers.
A translation from a third diary
HE'LL WHIP JAPs-Japanese warlords didn't count
on Gen. Doup;las l\'lacArthur a year ago. Pictured above,
hero of Bataan is seen inspecting United Nations positions
in New Guinea from front seat of a jeep. \ ~-S-'f-l...
r~~:e started to construct the
air•raid shelter at 5 a. m. However it was behind schedule. T~e.re
~s n~t even a single high official
wb.o can look into the future. An
air assault occurred at 9 :30 a. m.
and every soldier fled. The com·
manding officer was very dis·
pleased and gave a l~cture, saying;
•It is soldierly to die by bullets.
However, when it comes t? actual
bombardment he would disappear
first and the subordinates are
very' unpleasant about this situation."
That the Japanese In the South
Pacific are in a state of jitters ii
indicated in 8.nother ~xcerpt.
"Last night," it reads, ..I stoorl.
guard at the working place but
there was no air raid. Even the
motors of the automobiles wcttld
get us all _e_x_c1_te_d_.•~•- - ~
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BUNA JAPS
IN DR.OVES
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Three G. R. Men~ Trapped
by Jops, Outwit Them
Surrounded by Japs in a swamp
e .~ s fnade ·a maj<f'
¥arch~
between the sea and the ma'.in
-1942. Hts wife reside(• in Ht>llandr1
American lines, an Amerjcan raidMich.
ing party composed of Michigan
Sergt. Kramarz was a radio man
men, including three from Grand in the trapped outfit and volunRapids, spent a whole night lying teered to accompan} another man
in the sticky Pacific mud, hoping :;. reach the closest American p,rand praying for rain or help.
"I'm not going to order you lo
The silence was broken by the
continual chatter of a Japanese go," Major Zeeff told Kramarz.
officer, evidently American edu- 1 "Major, it it will do any good,)
cated, who kept calling: "Give up, I I'm goin' !" Kramarz answered.
fellows; come on, give up."
And he went.
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Not a single American soldier
Sergt. Kramarz. who is only 27, I
dared to answer, for to have dontf has a son, Jol'!eph, Jr., whom he
so would have been to give away j Ihasn't seen, since the youngster ts
their lmsitiqn, aerowtng fo .a." ,.~ but three months old. Mrs. Kraport ll'om a correspondent for a 1 marz, 413 Cass ave., SE., is assistChicago news service. The slant- ant to Dr. Louis Chamberlain of
eyed officer continued his entreaty, this city.
but ths American party knew what BOXING CHAMPION
awaited them if they b?lieved him
She expressed surprise and pride
-for ahead, hair buried in the over her husband's heroic work. ,
tall swamp gra~s, lay the bodies "He used to be quite frail several I
of wounded soldier~ who had been years ago,•• she chuckled, "but he's
surprised by a Nipponese patrol. quite a he-man now.''
THREE G. R. MEN
f
Sgt. Kramarz was the middle- I
Meanwhile, Maj. Bert zeeff of weight boxing champion of the regGrand Rapids, with a youthful ap- iment the year it entrained at
pearance that belied his 44 years Grayling. Mrs. Kramarz echoed
even though he was decorated in her husband's admiration for Major
1 World war I
and carries a Ger- Zeef.
man bullet in his right shoulder,
"In fact," sne smiled, ••it was
1
' hugged the jungle floor beside through Major Zeef's efforts in J
his troops, while the Jap officer Louisiana that my husband was .
kept repeating his plea for sur- ! able to advance to his present rank,
render, In his party were staff so we could get married." The
Sergt. Joseph Kramarz and Corp. couple was married in Louisiana In
Robert McGee of Grand Rapids July, 194~, shortly after Krama~z
and Maj. Bernt Baetcke of Trav- had attained his staff sergeants
erse City.
rating. An existl~g. army oi,:d~r at
This officer of the Mikado must that time proh1b1ted marriages
have been American educated, ac- am?ng enlieted . men below that
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cording to a dispatch received tty ratmg, she explained.
ISJ.. ~cial cable from the scene for
Major Zeef, in the Japanese epi1 the Chicago Daily News. Usually sode, sent word to the colonel comJaps avoid pronouncing any Eng- mantling the unit statlhg: "It's
lish words containing the letter pitch dark here and we've got four
"L,'' but this fellow was not imi- men to bury and nine wounded with
tating an American office1· as they I only three stretchers. Can't you
frequently attempt to do, the dis- send us any reinforcements?''
patch 1·evealed, but was calling for
The colonel answered that reinthe surrender of the trapped party. forcements were impossible to seAcco1·ding to the spe ~ial corre- cure and that Zeef would have to
pendent to whom Major Zeeff maneuver his men out of the trap
poke, the JapB were being ex- as best he could.
traordinarily accurate with their MADE STRETCHERS
~achine gu_n fire .. On 01_1e occaMa •or Zee! says "We ra ed f~r
s1~n, a ~old1er behmd. MaJor Ze~ff rain !nd we got s~me _ Pan:way, a
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~r~~~~ h~s ~:;z:tet 0~ : :ih1:~d g~n; little. . We needed that; b~cause
fire hit the mud ahead of him, when 1t. rains the pattering m the
twice piercing his mosquito net- ~or:st th1des allt~ther ~oise:. wre~
ting about his face.
mak~!g g:i:e mo~e orst::tchoerss a:
WON PURPLE HEART
knowing that we were under lire "He just looked at me and his I said that hatchets could not be
eyes seemed to say, 'I'm all right','' used because of the nolae, and that
disclosed Major Zeeff. ''He didn't the men must whittle them out
dare move his face."
of saplings with jackknives. Some
Major Zeeff was born in The of the men murmured that tt was
Netherlands, but came to America impossible. But they made them
d Grarui.Rauids a.La.n..earJy ~ all the same."
During t~e World war, be enlisted
Sergeant McGee of Grand Rapas a pnv~te in_ company K, a ids, formerly a fo~tball player for
Grand Rapids umt of the 126th in- Central high school who made the
fa.ntry regiment. He rose rapidly i 1939 all-city team as an end proved
through the ranks, was awarded to be the jungle guide tor ihe out--
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Order of the Purple Heart and
lit In the return trip back to the
as~:~~~ Cluster for his over- American lines and safety. All the ,
\fter the war he served with
mounted division of the MichlState police in Lansing He
'uated from the Fort Be~ning
try scbool and was commis•
4 U.utenant In 1923,
dead were burled and the nine '
wounded ~en ~ere dragged back i
into American Imes after two holl;ra
of stren~ous maneuvering, the dispatch disclosed.
Jap'S pocketed in the Cal'"'
anda sector.
It is these poh.. lS
which Gen. MacArthur has report.
ed intricately fortified by the Japs
who are understood to be under
orders o! their emperor to fight to
the death.
11
0ur air units are active in the
( (:Suna) area and northward along
the coast," the communique re-MacArthuis Men
ported.
The bombing and sinking by the
Bury Hundreds of
Japs of the British corvette, HMS
Foe on New Guinea
Armidale in recent action near
Portuguese Timor wa'S disclosed.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
Allied bombers raided the air•
AUSTRALIA (Thursday) UP) - ,p.rome at Cape Gloucester in New
Japanese enemy fortifications have Britain island and at Jacqulnto bay
been breached in many places in in the same sector a reconnaisthe Buna area of New Guinea by l sance unit shot down a Jap fighter
Allied troops, Gen. Douglas Mac and damaged two oth,ers. Also in
Arthur announced today.
~ &rM, Alliccl. plan&s ,strafed a
"Many hundreds of his (the 'Jap cargo vessel anchored offJapanese) dead are being buried 8hore.
by our. troops/' the noon communi• TJIREE OFFICERS WOUNDED
que 'Said.
Th
d.
t
"His situation must now be ree wo~n 1.ng of hre& United
garded as desperate.''
~tate_s br1ga?1er generals in the
f1ghtmg against the Japs in the
HEAVY FIGHTING
Buna area of New Guinea was an•
The 1ocation of the breached 1tnounced today by Gen. MacArfortifications was not stated but thur's headquarters.
recent communiques have told of
The generals wounded were Hanheavy fighting between Euna vil- ford McNider of Mason City, Ia.lage and Cape Endaiadere to the previously reported - Albert W.
east, both places now in •Allied Waldron of Rochester, N, Y., and
Allies Breac~
Enemy's Forts
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~~~e~;~~h~~n~!!! ~~;~ Clovis E. Bye~ of Columbus, o.
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SOLDIERS IN THE FIELD UNDERGO HARDSHIP TO TRANSFER SICK AND WOUNDED TO HOSPITALSThe sluggish New Gujnea rivers are no barrier to stretcher-bearers when a
Wis. The other men are not identjfied. With every man needed to carry the fight
sick American soldier needs hospitalization. The two men at the left are Corp.
to the J aps, no time is lost in giving expert treatment to those overcome by
Wiley Parrish, of Detroit (extreme left) and Corp. Albert Perhai, of Superior,
wounds or tropical ailments in the jungle country,
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TIN HATS
United States troops with field equipment head into midstre.am in an outrigger to board small
boats that will take them down an unnamed river to a forward position in New Guinea. They are
among forces pressing Japs in the B 1na vicinity. (;).... ··\ 0 . 't- 2...
By Stanton
�TIN HATS
By Stanton
Side by side at the army's Aberdeen, Md., provin& cround • it an
American jeep, left, and a German volksvagen, people's car.
IMacArthur Cites
12 High Officers
~MC. 1 1f-3
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Surgeon Gives
His Own Blood,
Saves Soldier
"lt'b pretly, Sarge-but if thos<' Nips had w"Jrn hE.·imets in assorted
·
colors, it'd look more like a •CHRISTMAS TREE!''
Xhey'll Do It Every Time
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By Jimmy Hatlo
Somewhere in New Guinea, Jan.
4.-(Delayed) - (UP) - A soldier,
stretched on an operating table in
a stuffy little hospital tent near
the Bumi front, was dying New
Year's Eve despite everything Lts.
Raymond Tice and Irving Maisel,
the Army surgeons, could do.
The soldier's arm and shoulder
had been shattered and the doctors
had amputated immediately because gas gangrene was setting in.
But the shock was proving too
much for the soldier and injections
of blood plasma were not helping.
Suddenly Tice _of Summerville,
Kas., who joined the Army last
March immediately after he finished his internship, had an idea.
The soldier's dog tag showed that
his blood and that of Tice were the
same type.
Minutes later Tice was making
a transfusion of his owil blood dlrect to his patient. Sweat poured
from the young surgeon's brow_ as 1
the blood flowed from his veins to
that or the unconscious man on the
rude table,
Gradually the wounded man's
condition improved. His heartbeat
became stouter. Three hours later
he had passed the crisis and by the
time this story reaches the United
States he will have been flown to
a modern hospital in Australia.
Tice and Maisel, from Newark,
N.J., hadn't planned to spend New
Year's Eve in the operating room,
for they had a date with another
officer to split a can of grapefruit
juice and cut a fruit cake that pad
arrived from home. But when eight
natives arrived, after carrying the
wounded man on a litter through
several miles of ankle-deep mud,
they forgot their plans and went J
to work.
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for BunaVictory
Two U.S. Divisions
Praised; Midwestern
Youths in One Group
United Nations Headquarter:.,
Australia, Jan. 9. - (UP) - Gen.
Douglas MacArthur, in an order of
the day citing officers and men of
the United States and Australian
Air Forces for bravery and cffici ..
ency in the Papuan campaign, said
today:
"To God Almighty I give thanks
for that guidance which has brought
us to this success in our great
crusade.
"His is the honor, the power and
the glory for ever. Amen.' 1
MacArthur said it was his high
honor to cite for extraordinary:
courage, marked efficiency and precise execution of operations 12 high
officers who led the victorious cam ..
paign.
All Awarded.
T~e cited, all of whom received
tht:..
~s.tinguished Service Cross,
"the highest decoration at my disposal," were:
Gen. Sir Thomas Blarney (Australia), commander of Allied ground
forces in the Southwest Pacific.
Lt.Gen. George C. Kenney, rom-mander of Allied Air Forces.
Lt.Gen. Edmund Francis Herrin~
(Australia).
Lt.Gen. Robert L. Eichelberger,
commanding U.S. troops in Papua.
Maj .Gen. Richard K. Southerland,
chief of staff, Southwest Pacific.
Maj.Gen. George Allen Vase
(Australia).
Brig.Gen. Charles A. Willoughby,
assistant chic! o! sta!!, intelligence,
Southwest Pacific.
Grig.Gcn. Ennis C. Whitehead,
air forces, New Guinea.
Brig.Gen. Kenneth Walker, air
forces, New Guinea.
Brig. George Frederick Wootten
(Australia).
Brig. Kenneth William Eather
(Australia).
Group Capt. William Garing,
Royal Australian Air Force.
Two U.S. Div'isions Cited.
Specially cited among the ground
forces tor "magnificent conduct •..
operating under difficulties rarely
if ever surpassed" were the 32d an
41st United States Army divisio
in addition to the Australian 6
and 7th divisions, 6th Independ,n
Commando unit and other elements
and the native Papuan carriers.
The 32d is composed largely o
Wisconsin and Michigan men an
the 41st of Oregon, Washin&to
Idaho
and
Montana
Nation
Guardsmen.
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RAPIDS HERALD,
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SUNDAY,
JANUARY 3,
1943 1Work of Task Force in
Soufh Pacific Described \,.,... ,-t)
A steamy jungie frontier, lush in the Pacific is told1 they are go-.f - --
with palms, mahogany and teak, ing to be amazed at the area ingay with vari-hued orchids and volved."
ever-bloominoshrubs and inhabI~ a general wa1, the force of
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which Sergt. Burdick was a part
ited by tribes of smiling black na- moved north from the Cor al sea to
tives, clad according to sex in the Solomons.
While they were
clouts or mother hubbards building island bases, the Japanese
Ibreech
of dazzling dyes - that is the ro- w~re attempting _to do the same
I mantle background for the ultra- thmg, ~o their Journey was far
realistic type of modern warfare fr?m bemg _a pea ceful construction
in which Sergt. Carl W. Burdick, tt•1p. Sometimes tq.e. .lapa_nese were
now home on furlough, has been already ensconced on an ~sl~d antl
engaged since last April.
th~n there was sharp fighting to
Strictly speaking, Sergt. Burdick drive them off:
is here not on furlough but what
From the skies the Japanese_ atis known as delayed routing, for tempted to watch th e American
he has been ordered to this coun- movemen~s and th e task force was
try to enter officers training school several times bombed. They w_ere
at Aberdeen provin? grounds, Aber- ~eetl!f1~ ~fn•~ {:P~~=~e
deen, Md., and will_ report . the_re rate it's clear th!t th~ task fore!
?-bout ~an._ 8. Meantime_ he is v1_s- was always able to continue its is1ttng h1s sisters, Mrs. Nick Stelhn land-to-island mission, so that the
of 265 Alger st., SE., and Mrs. Hen- Japanese opposition cannot have
ry Warren of 500 Delaware st., SE. been too effective.
GRADUATE OF SOUTH
GREETED BY CHIEF
The sergeant is a graduate of
.
South high school and attended
Some of these islands ar7 so close
Junior college here. Before his in- together, two or ~hree miles only,
duction into the army he was em- tha!
t~e A~er1cans
employed
ployed at the Haskelite Manufac- ~:;1~~:!n ~:\~~e~e~~~:~:f~~i~;f;
~uring corporation. He '_Vas ftr~t friendly, . the American soldiers
~~~fc!~~ i~!ofoi~o~i~~m6ct~~e~~~~ fountl.
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released under the order given at . "Wh;,n you go i~to a_ n~hve
that time releasing selectees who village, . Sergt. Burd1c~ s~d, you
th
always fmd that the prmc1pal coral
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w~: ~~~e call!~ b;ck into service path leads to the hut ~f the chief.
in F b"r a
d
ft
When
we approached his house the
1942
mont~'s ~r:~ing in' c:~for!ia~~a~ chief always came out to welcome
sent with a task force to the south- us and usually pres_ented us _wtth a
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April just in time to take part m to work for the Americans but
~~e ::i:le i~f !!1:s C~rr~n~eash'~~~e~~ quite child-like."
more than one sen!'e. y
Most of the nativ~s have learned
,A: task force, Sergt. Burdick ex- s~me wo rd ~ of Enghsh, .sergt. BurPl8;1ned, is a fully self-sustaining dick expla1?~d, and w1_th gesture
unit, with engineers, medical corps and repetition, A~encans can
and other branches of service as· manage to talk with them. and
well as the combat services. Sergt. give instructions for simple tasks.
Burdick is in ordnance.
A native would take a party of
The mission of this particular Americans in his outrigger canoe
task force was to work among the for a nickel or a dime when the
myriads of islands in the southern task force first came to the region,
Pacific, building permanent bases the sergeant added, but now that
and airfields whei·ever among the friendly natives have learned
these mountainous coral islands more about American money, "a
such fields were possible.
Small dollar" is their standard fee,
hospitals were erected at the
.
bases, also. As soon as one base
Most of the larger _Islands, he
was completed the task force sai?, have coconut ~r coffee planmoved on, so that it became a say- tations run by Engltsh or French
ing with the men that just as soon planters. An imported race, called
as they got. a - place fit to live in by the soldiers the Tungunese, a
they moved out of it.
branch ot the yellow r~ce, are e~THOUSANDS OF ISLANDS
ployed on th e plantations a nd m
"Nobody can imagine the thou- the homes of planters as servants.
sands of islands there are in this MoS t _ of t~iese yellow men 1:new
area of the Pacific," said Sergt. English fairly well, th e A~ertcans
Burdick. "People know of the fo~nd , but they were withdrawn
Solomons antl the Coral sea, Aus- a~d unwilling to talk, muc~ less
tralia, New Guinea.
They don't frte?dly characters t~an the island
realize how much other territory natives. To the mmd of Sergt.
is being covered in this war, and Burdick, the Tungunese also conwhen the whole story of the war trasted very unfavorably with the
~~t1;,fr:::t
,m the most remote quarters of the southern Pacific come
pictures, censor-passed and brought here by Sergi:. Carl w.
-(k of Grand Rapids, now on furlough before entering officers'
) ft school. Above, a typical group of South Sea natives, among
11\ his task force has worked; below at left, a washroom, built tor
th'W" soldiers by natiyes in their own style with woven coconut
branclaes and grass roof. Right, Sergt. Burdick, standing on the
lawn ot a French commissioner's home.
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neat, clean, intelligent Javanese could. Sometimes a letter from
employed on certain islands.
home got through in 12 days and
BRINGS GRASS SKIRTS
sometimes it took four months.
.
No games that took more equip-,
Just to show h_e'd really been_ in ment than a deck of cards were
the southern Pacific Sergt, Bu rd_tck available. Carving mahogany and
brought . back so~e g1·ass skirts teakwood fragments was one pura~ong ht~ souvenirs. However, he suit that met some favo:r in leisaid, the islanders no long_er wear sure hours.
t?ese ex~e~t upon. ceremonial occaThe task force labored on, also,
s1.0.ns __1'.-r.u.:;:nonary- mfluen~e has put without benefit of any cheers from
the girls a11d women 1n mother the general public. First to last,
hubbards, which they make them- Sergt. Burdick said (though with
~elves f~om the brightest hued cal- no sound of complaint in his voice)
ico obtamable.
the work of this unit has been unLittle general stores, not unlike publicized. The men on their lonethe country store of a generation ly jungle-swathed islands listen in
or two ago, are found on the is- on short wave radio to many news
lands, run ?Y the British and p,rograms. But their _ force, fo
French tradmg ~rms , or by Tun- good reasons which will occur to
gunese. Some mter-island com- any ~eader, was rarely or never
merce and .$Orne commerce with mentioned,
.
Australia is still conducted, with Due ho1:or and. recogmtion cansmall steamboats or even wooden not be given this tas~, force at
sailing vessels.
pres_ent. But perhaps 1t s enough
Copra is the principal export and for its members to know that over1
coconut groves a prominent fea- the island-dotted southern Pacificture of any island large enough today, in some of the most remote
to be cultivated. .
Iparts of the inhabited world, there
For Amerlcanr. weather is so tor- are stepping stones for Allied
rid" that whenever possible a rest ~~~n~~:no~ ~~:• j~~z~;dsc:;vde:a~~~
period is observed from 11 a. m. fof the coral, which wo~ld not have
to 3 p. m. Sun helmets and sun ~been there but for these frontiersglasses must alwa~s be wa.rn when men of the Pacific.
the men are outside during dayli~ht hours. ~n the rainy season
ram may coritmue for three weeks
at _a time,. so that clQthing and
eqmpment is never dry.
HEALTH IS GOOD
Quinine and one of the new
sulpha medici~es are a r_egul~r
r:;t ~~ei:e ~~ezn. b:;~ s~:~:;~t;:
against many diseases by shots
before they are sent there.
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In genez:,al, health conditions
were good t_n the task fore~, Sergt.
Burdick said. The force hved on
canned goods or on concentrated
ratio_ns when necessary. There's
no th mg very cheery about ea _mg
a meal of the ~oncentrated _ration,
the ser~eant said, bu~ he, said !hat
the ration does_ 1:1amtam weight
and strength_ as it IS claimed to do.
As an experiment a group of men
in his outfit, of whom he was one,
lived for two weeks on the concentrated rations. None of them
lost weight.
Though Sergt. Burdick, healthy, Ii
cheerful and well-poised, iS clear
proof that morale can be maintained in a rain-soaked jungle, it
is obvious that there weren't many
outward aids to morale in the assignment his task force drew. Certalnly there were no cozy USO
huts, and they hardly ever struck
a base large enough to have even
a pocket movie.
Mail pursued them as best it
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Papuan Victory Hailed~
by Allied Leaders , A•,,
Br the Auoelated Pre.:
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
AUSTRALIA, Jan. 9-The triumph of Gen. Douglas MacArthur's troops in wresting the
Papuan Peninsula of New Guinea
from
a
Jap
Army
of
15,000
brought the General messages of
congratulation today.
Gen.
George
C.
Marshall,
United States Army chief of ataft,
wired:
"Heartiest congratulations for
capturing Buna and on entire campaign in Papua, With the very
limited mea~ available, the
amount that , you have accompliehed is a tl"ibute to your leadership and to the fighting qualities of your soldiers. The wonderful work of your air force was
an out.standing feat of the operations."
Gen. Sir Archibald P. Wavell,
commander of the British forces in
India, wired:
"Your success in the Papuan
campaign. elicits my warmest congratulationJi.''
Gen. 11(' Arthur, In an order ot
the day i.nnounced earlier, praised
the officers who had the leading roles in the Papuan triumph
and singled out elements of the
32nd (Red Arrow) Division and
j other American and Australian
units for the heroic parts they
played in destroyed the Jap
forces.
The 32nd Division is composed
largely of Michigan and Wisconsin soldiers.
Associated Press photo
HOT FOOD COMES TO AMERICAN SOLDIERS AT THE FRONT in New Guinea near Buna.
The1e soldiers were in the line I I days.
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move up to the front at Buna.
•-Those familiar with the Red Arrow - They arrived at a time when the IN FRENOH GROUP
know that it never gives any otller Marne had been captured and the
And so it went. They fought in
kind of performance.
battle of Chateau Thierry had been the Oise-Aisne offensive as the
TRUE TO FORM
fought. .Fresh troops were needed only American outfit in Gen. Man"What else do· you expect," they to keep the advantages that had gin's Tenth French Army. They
ask, 'from an outfit that fought been gained and to press for more. marched 300 kilometers to the
on five fronts in three major offen· The Red Arrow men were sent Rhine as front-line element of the
sives in World War I, and that j into the hottest sector of the line. Third Army. For four months
:vanquished 23 German divisions?" OVER THE TOP
they occupied the center sector in
That, of course, is only a sketchy
Under German fire, they re• the Coblenz bridgehead, holding
idea of what the Red Arrow did relieved the Third Division. Three 63 towns and 400 square kilo• 1
in the last war. It also had the hours later they went over the top meters of territory.
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distinction of being the first Amer- for their first full taste of war.
By the time It was over, more
ican unit on German soil.
They dashed across a clearing than 800 officers and men__._.l:lad
Group Was First
For six months the Red Arrow and lodged themselves in an been decorated by the American,
lived continually under fire. It enemy woods. It was then they French and Belgian governments.
American Unit
struck heavy blows in the Aisne.. began the fierce assault that won
Back in America, the Red Arrow
Marne, the Oise•Aisne and the them their name.
kept its traditions alive and be..
to Battle Its Way
Meuse Argonne campaigns. It . Before them was a hill bristling came one of the . nation's crack
gained 36 kilometers in fou~ at• :rwith German machine guns. The National Guard outfits. In Octa ..
onto German Soil
tacks and repulsed every enemy ;;mall woods in front of and be• ber, 1940, it was mustered into
counterattack.
hind the hill concealed other gun Federal service again and began
In 1918, Michigan's Red Arrow BROKE EVERY LINE
Jlests. But the hill had to be taken. trammg in Loms1ana. A few of
Division blazed through the ArIt gained its name from the fact
The men of the Red Arrow, 1 the men were 1918 veterans; many
gonne Forest, leaving a glowing that it shot through every line the With no cover and with almos_t no , were sons of heroes of the old
streak of history behind it.
enemy put before it. The French, combat experience, were pitted Red Arrow.
Today, a quarter of a cent~f? though had a different name for against well-protected Germans I
ADY FOR ACTION
later and halfway ar_ound
e the me~ of the 32nd.
who had been ordered to die at RE
.
globe, that stre~k of. ~1sto~ has I They called them 11Les Terri- their posts, if necessary, but to
By the time the Japs struck at
reappeared, and its bnlhance 1s un- bl .,
hold the hill.
Pearl Harbor, they vtere ready to
dimmed.
;hile this may have an uncom•
Despite the odds, the men of
go into action. They left '!,he coun·
The Red Arrow, Gen. Douglas plimentary sound to young Amer- the Red Arrow attacked. With
try early in 1942, but. ~heir whereMacArthur has revealed, pl~yed a ica, the French didn't mean it that ma-0hine•gun bullets swarming abouts had been a m1,htary secre~
stellar p~rt in the. ~mashmg of way. They meant that the 32nd at them from the front and sides,
until Gen. MacArthur s announce
the Japs m New Gmma.
:was ''terrifying" to the e!1emy.
they crept and shot and slugged ment.
.
.
"While all ground troops have
,II'he division, or a port10n of It, their way ahead.
.
While Michigan ltkes to think of
performed admirably,,, the Gen- ~o~tered· :(la.ng-er __before Jt got
When it was over the Red Arrow the I:,ed An-ow as its own division,
eral announced Saturday. "ele• t 9 France. About 200 of their had the hill
this isn't really true, bec_ause ~ome
ments of the • • • 32nd (Red number were . killed when a Ger•
The adva~ce continued, and on of it,s units are from W1sc.onsm. !
Arrow) Division ••• have been man submanne torpedoed ~he the seventh day they marched into
But little strife has arisen _be•
especially prominent."
(Gen. transport Tuscania off the Scottish :Vesle. They had covered 12 miles, tween the two. ~t~te~ over rival
MacArthur cited several other coast.
where a gain of 12 yards would claims to the d1v1sion 5 glory.
units also.)
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Perhaps this is because both
Announcement that the Red their fighting spirit, however, They had captured 18 vllla,ges and states realize that when the boys
'Arrow had been in combat in New it was only to inflame it. They trainloads of enemy supplies and of the Red Arrow are in there
Guinia was news to many ot the had been In France only a brief the Germans were in hurried re• pitching there's sure to be glory
folks back home. AMouncement time when Gen. ·John J. Persh.. treat.
enough for all,
Ing became impressed by their ,
that Its performance had been
spirit and complimented them
------especially promi!}ent" _ was not. on It.
1918Deeds
Are Recalled
After Praise
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Count Toll of 116 Japs
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IAllies Breach Last Jap
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bombers and fighters maintained
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN their daily pressure on Japanese
(Friday) UP)-Allied landing strips and bivouac areas.
IAUSTRALIA,
jungle fighters counted 116 dead striking along the New Guinea
. Japanese Thursday and beat the coast from Sanananda to Madang.
bm~hes for more bodies after a
By TOM YARBROUGH
tured after the forward positions
ALLIED HEADDUARTERS IN were destroyed,
The heaviest raid was aimed at
AUSTRALIA (Saturday) ~ - An
Allied break-through at Sanananda,
New Guinea, in which at least 152
Japane!e were killed in one day's
fighting Thursday was reported in
today's noon communique by Gen.
Douglas MacArthur.
Sanananda, immediately northwest of Buna on the northeast
New Guinea coast, is the only spot
in aU the Papuan peninsula still
held by a fragment of a .Tap army
which once totalled 15,000. There
jungle fortifications plus swampy
conditions caused by recent rains
had slowed up the cleanup drive.
A spokesman a.t General MacArthur's headquarters did not amplify the official report which l!laid
the arms and eQuipment ~er• cap-
' two-day foray against the enemy Lae where the Japanese made
in the Mubo area, inland from Sa• no attempt to interfere while
lamaua, and 12 miles to the south, Mitchell bombers, escorted by !
Lightnings, started big fuel fires I
in New Guinea.
It was the first reported land along the shore. Absence of Jap !
clash in that area in months.
aerial opposition was in sharp con(However, increasing attention trast with last week when the enhas been given trails of the area emy sent over swarms of planes
by starfing planes, according to in an attempt to provide cover
recent communiques) .
for a reinforcing naval convoy and,
Continuing rainy weather kept for their plains, suffered the loss
figl}ting down to a minimum on or damage of more than 130
the Sananada front but the en- planes.
emy is being nudged back by pa- In ihe Salamaua sector, a forcP.
trol activity. Sanananda is the ot Bostons made 16 strafing runs \
only point in all the Papuan pe-- over some enemy troops which
; nlnsula where remnants of a JaJ) might have been remnants of a
,army which once totalled 15,000 recent attempted landing at Mamistill are holding out.
bare or stragglen from AlliedGeneral Douglas MacArthur's conquered Gona..
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1943
is !!!t~Pa!~ei:~a:! ~Jo!!uJ:ia:!~!
another Allied force concluded a
three-day assault in which "heavy"
casualties were inflicted and the
Japanese area headquarters destrayed. Yesterday's communique
listed Jap dead there as totalling
at least 116.
Bombers meanwhile struck far
and wide, bla.Ating targets in the
Tanfmbar islands, in the Aratura
sea. harbor installations at Rabaul,
New Britain, and supply dumps at
Lae, New Guinea.
A Liberator on reconnaissance
shot down one of two intercepting
fighters over Celebes, in the Dutch
East Indies, and near Lae another
Liberator knocked down at least
two out of six.
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Fighting Red Arrow J)ivision
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ARROW INFANTRY IN ALSACE IN WORLD W.AB I
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32~ DlvWon have made history again In New Guinea hy hel11ing to mog up the Jal'!.
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�"What the hell's the use of
being up here, if nobody knows
out to tired troops wbom he met I'm here?" he demanded. "I
en route.
want these- boys to know I'm
Chlcpgo Tribune J:!'orblgn Service
SOMEWHERE IN AUSTRALIA, gr~::· 1o!!~~':~fertab~:'s
in there with them."
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Jan. 9-Lieut. Gen. Robert I. Eich• vitamin capsuleJi. These he dis•
The field telephone in its leather
el berger, whose leadership of tributes with a lavish hand case on a tree jangled insistently.
BY F. R. NODERER
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A1:1erican tPOops in the Buna cam•
a;~,e t~alt' ;::;~h!~r~~~a~~:i!e ~!fdr;~~-o~n~;c~!{~ie;_} :.,lb:~
pa1gn was revealed today, !?rob- j Eichelberger boomed out greetings swered it.
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ably has been shot at and missed to his soldiers as we fought our
The artillery is falling short,"
more th)le~ than any ~ther. three- way forward thrOugh the jungle. said an excited voice. "It's fal1ing
star Amerlc{l,11 general m this war. Near the front we encountered a near our advanced observation
Eichelber~er is a soldier's sol• wo1.tnded soldier lylng in the mud, post."
dier. Rll;Ilnmg a ~ar by remo~e his face pale and drawn,
While Waldron was trying to
control is somethmg he doesn t
Eichelberger looked down upon get the artillery commander on
understand. Instead of a rubb~r him and said quietly:
the telephone to tell him to raise
stamp, which forms the principal
"Son, I am sorry you got it.''
his range, Eichelberger announced
~fir,1;11ame~t of many gen~rals,
The boy was silent a moment, as that he was going up front to see
Ike earn~~ a tommy gun. (He if polling himself together, and for himself if our shells were fallnot only cart1es lt-he .£~es it.):
then answered:
ing short, and he invited me along.
"Sir, I wouldn't be the first man
When we got there we found·!
Am-ong the troops under Eichel- to die for freedom,"
that the artillery had been falling
berger's command in New Guinea ARRIVE AT POST
a little short. There was a crater !
were elements of the 32nd (Red
In about 20 minute! we reached 25 feet from the advanced obserArrow) Division, which is com• the advanced command post, in vation post, but nobody had been
posed largely of Michigan and the shelter of huge trees 300 years hurt.
Wisconsin men.
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old. We waited there While the
The observ&tion post was in a
(A : New York Times Foreign
artillery preparation went on.
clearing in the jungle, where the
Service dispatch from "SomeAs we sat there, the enemy Japs had established a bivouac.
where in New Guinea" said that treated us to an air raid. Bombs' Gen. Eichelberger displayed a
the Red Arrow troops, under fell so close that the trees shook. total disregard for Jap bullets. On
Eichell;)erger, were concentrated Many of us crouched low, but numerous occasions I saw bullets,
largely on the eastern sector of. Eichelberger sat erect on an up- which had crossed his shoulder 1
the Buna front, · which included tu,r.\l.e4 box. never batting an eye. and smacked into the mud of the
the area from Buna village eastEichelberger is like--'- that. .He track from Buna, '150 yards away.
ward through Cape Endaiadere. exudes confidence.
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'"It won't g~ you unless- it has
In the later stages of the fightThe Gener a I's subordinates your name on it," he said to me.
st
ing, the Americans were joined
t~isre~z1:~ t!~e!h~: Ies<:~n-::_~~~~~
ht: f~atd
nd
~6r!~.~traJi~n tank a .infa:"tr~ I went to the front, telling him that moments firing a tommy gun into
the Japs always try to pick off the trees, trying to get some Jap
American officers.
snipe rs, Evenutally he was
(The Times correspondent, F.
wounded.
Tilman Durdin, added: "The men
JAPS HIT BACK
of the 32nd in Buna met Japanese veterans at jungle warfare
In the afternoon the Japs beand in their first fighting in this
came angry and started a counter- I
war bested the enemy.'')
attack. Branches began fluttering
down out of the trees as the firing
Gen. Eichelberger arrived on the
cut them off.
Buna front on Dec. 1. Five days
Pretty soon the Jap• sttlrted
later he launched an attack, and
working down the trail .with
invited me and another corresponmortars,
each bomb falling a
dent to go along·and see the fun.
little closer.
We rode for 45 minutes in a
Pretty soon the Jape started
jeep, then struck out through t.he
working back up the trail toward
jungle swamp, slithering and slidBuna.- nice systematic fellows,
ing through ank1e deep mud. In
those Japs.
his hand the general carried a box
In the afternoon the General,
of salt tablets, which he passed
who had been enjoying himself all
day, announced that he was going
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right up that trail to Buna Village.
The revelation that Gen. Eichelberger led the American troops in
thls campaign was made today
when it was announced that he had
been awarded the Distinguished
Service Cross.
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Daily Attacks on
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A1lied planes Wednesday pounded 1
Japanese bases at Lae, Salamaua,
Madang and Finschhafen in northeastern New Guinea as heavy rains
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slowed operations to stamp out the
t_:i;apped enemy garrison at Sapf• '
nanda point on t])e Papuan pertlnsuta, Gell. Douglas MacArthur·~
headquarters announced Thursday.
Lae which has been blasted r~lentl~ssly from th_e air since th<>
Japanese landed reinforcements
there last week from a badly battered convoy, was the target of
especiaUy heavy raids.
"In a series of co-ordi1'aled attacks our heavy. medium and attack units with strong fighter cov~r
bombed the airdrome, harbor installations, stores. and barges," the
communique said. "Damage was
heavy and large fires were started.
Supply dumps and barges along
the shore were effectively strafed
and ar.d an enemy fighter caught
on the gro1,md at .Malaband was
destroyed."
At Madan_g and Finschhafen, far•
ther ur the coast, the allied 3.ir• J
men bombed and strafed enemy
airdromes, while in the Salamaua
area attack planes hammered en• I
emy communication lines.
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An allied reconnaissance plane I
also was cred,ited with shooting 1
down two Japanese fighters and 1
possibly a third when intercepted
by six enemy aircraft over Gas•
mata, New Britain.
The communique said nine enemy
bombers had raided the wharf area
at Merauke in Dutch New Guinea
but h'°d caused neglizible damage.
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In Guinea
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Tells of Talk With .
Ada Soldier
(By William F. Boni.)
With American Troops in New !'I
Guinea--(JP}-The very character
of the front laughingly called the
Sanananda front accounts in large
degree for the slow progress of allied troops in cleaning out the
vestige of enemy strength on the
Papuan peninsula.
An attack in force is due to be
launched in time, but naturally it
won't come until the Jap positions
- well - concealed machine gun I
posts, gun empl?cements and pill•
boxes-have been located by small l :patrols which constantly are work- '
ing the area.
I visited this "front" this week ,,
with a unit of American troops
and had an opportunity to survey [
it closely while the men reste1
I along the · jungle • bordered trru ·
leading to Sanananda point itself.
I swapped stories about the States
(they're all eager to know if prohibition has been put into effect)
with Pvts. E. E. Brown of Ada,
Mich., and Maurice Derdey, jr., of
Fort Smith, Ark.
Actually, the front is composed
~~j~~~::a~~ifs~ps and Americans j
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His :first hot meal in 22 days
brought a grin to the tired face
of SGT. WALTER A. BARON,
son of Anton \\'. Baron, 719
Scribner-av., N. W., on the
Sanananda
front
in
New
Guinea, according to an Associated Press description with
this picture. Sgt. Baron heaped
his mess trays with "hot chow"
after more thar.. three weeks
spent In fighting the Japs in the
jungles.
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Beyond one allied force, for in•
stance, the enemy holds a wedgeshaped position between the main
Sanananda track and another trail
branching off to Cape Killerton.
But beyond those Japs there are
Americans who have closed off a
part of the enemy's possible line
of withdrawal. And within earshot
of those Americans there is a Jap
force less than 50 yards away.
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MICHIGAN MEN ARE VETERANS OF NEW GUINEA FIGHTING
SERGT. NELSON WATERBURY, a soldier from Ypsilanti,
l\lich., ascends by means of
climbiug-irous to a palm tree
telephone pole at Buna, New
Guinea, to keep the all-impor ..
tant communicaUons line clear.
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LINED UP alongside a. native hut in New Guinea, where Michigan's famed Red Arrow Divisfon
has made new history, are these veterans, from teft, front row: Lieuts. Zina R. Carter, St. Petersburg, Fla.; Henry Gibbs, Jr., Morehead City, N. C.; Harold Evans, Robersonville, N. C.; \V. A. Sikkel, HOLLAND, ~JOH.; Charles Kanapaux, Brooklyn; Father Stephen Dzienls, DETROIT; Guy
Willars, Indianapolis. Rear row: Lieuts.
Lytle, San Antonio; William W111s, MUSKEGON,
MICH.; John O'Sullivan, Medford, Mass.; Phillip Goldberg, of the l\larlnes, from Brooklyn; Capts.
Lester Segal, Marine from ANN ARBOR, MICH.; Francis Larldn, Marine from Uniontown.
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LT. GEN. EICHELBERGER
AND NATIVE CARRIERS
Th <' <'ommandcr of American
troops in New Guinea, Lieut.
(;en. Robert L. Eichelberger,
Istands shirtless with a group
of Papuan carriers who won the
praise of Gen. Douglas MacArthur for their aid in transporting supplies to the battle front.
A~SOCIATED PH.ESS PHOTO
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IIK\KII\G TIIMI( WOl:I\DJ,;I) on a shoulder-high stretcher, American soldiers on the Soputa
front near Buna, New ( :uinca, return to headquarters afle1 11 days fighting the Japs.
�!Eichelberger-ls Tops, Sayi7
G.R.Man Who WosHisAidel
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If' you've a son, husband or At the" eiid of an hour I felt
sweetheart serving under Lieut. lieved that he did not ask me to
· Gen. Robert L. Eichelberger, com- butt my head against the wall of
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mander of }he Ahierican trq,ops in l tl].e building, for if he h_ad I would
Papua, you can-be thankful that l h~v~ do1;,e so unquestioning- and
your soldier is under so capable a w1Jhngly.
commander, A. L. Cooley of 717 Eich_elber~er proved to ?e a str!~t
Kellogg st., SE., who served under but fair officer, a man with an
Eichelberger in the first World cellen~ sens~ of humor, a comwar, said Monday.
~andmg ~ff1cer Vfho could both
Eichelberger was awarded the give attention to mmute d~tails and
tinguished Service Cross Satur- ~:!~ul~;.rough large proJects sueday by . Gen. Doug!as ~acArthur
Before Cooley and he separated
for serv1c~ in. the v1ctor_1ous Papu- Eichelberger bad been promoted to
an campaign m Ne~ _Gumea, Th~re major in command of the first batts a strong probab1hty that some talion and Cooley was his adjutant.
Grand Rapids soldiers particiBy that time Cooley had learned
pated in this campaign.
one of his superior's weaknesses, a
Lieut. Gen. Eichelberger, now 55 passion for boots. Maj. Eichelberyears of age, after service with the \ ger was forever buying them, until
infantry in this~ountry d°uring tbei· Mrs. Eichelbergei· was at her wit's ~
first World war, was chief of staff end to know where to stow ~hem,
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• Sib i • J.9l8One day shortly before E1chel1~
~:ted :~~ \~!;fH.cu- berger was ordered _to Siberia, in 1
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ous gallautry and bravery when 1918, Cooley came _mto battalion
he rescued a wounded enlisted man headqua_.rters, I we:.~ngb at brand
at great personal risk. Prior to\ new pair of e k 1 e 00 s.
the outb~·eak of this war Gen. Eich- MAJOR IN WAITING
elberger was superintendent at
Eichelberger spotted them at
West Point, the youngest man ever once, questioned his adjutant
to hold this position..
where he had got them and
MET IN UTAH
learned with visible regret that
th
Cooley's acquaintance with Gen. ;t:~:: had bought
e last pair in
Eichelb~rgcr goes back to days
"He :went back to his desk,"
when the general was a captain of Cooley added, "with the words,
infa.&1.try at Ft. Douglas, near Salt •If you ever get tired of them,
La.Ke City, and Cooley was a brand you've got a customer right here
new second lieutenant just out of waiting for them.'
See EICHELBERGER-Page 10
"'Well,' I replied jokingly, •the
o~~aining campMd scared only way the major can get th~se
to his shiny bootheels at reporting boots is ,to command me to give
th
to a re~ular army officer for his
;~;~· he laughed •but if they
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fi~t as~i~ment.
were b orses I'd ran k you out of
Rea~1zmg ~y many deficiencies them'-this referring to the old
and being anxious to make good"
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said Cooley Monday, ..1 had take'n army custom that entitles an off •
steps to provide m self w·th
cer to take a horse ~ro~ another
k
y
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every of lesser rank or semor1ty."
cii;;~yvo~~::~;t~~~n~~gt~il~~:~
"~he~ Eichelbe~g~r w~s ordered
ice. All during the long train trip to S1ber1a,_ he agam mqmred about
from the middlewest to Salt Lake the elk ~ude boots and Co~ley. reCity I absorbed, to the best of m
peated his asse_rtion that he d. yield
ability, their contents.
Y them only on command but winked
"Captain Eichelberger was seated rh~n h,~ added, i•If you command.
at his desk when I came in, la.?L-~t Cooley " Eichelberger reboriously struggling with the in~ spon~ed · "you 'are hereby com ..
trtcate problems of a company mantled' to divest yourself of one
fund book. He looked u?. I stood
air of elkhide boots and deliver
:
~nee transfixed, expecting at any fhem immediate}y to Maj. Robert
0
my h:Jd t;nitt~:g u~~~:h~~itt~fs': L. Eichelberger and r~ceive from
of my general looks and bearing to hi~ tl~e sum of $15 m paymen~,
castigation of my ancestors from
which 1s too - - much but thats
Adam to the present time.
what I'll pay."
"Then he smiled, A broad, conCooley complied.
tagious smile.
"KNOWS ms JOB"
"'!'here was a slight lift in the
"When 'Ike' left us for that meclouds of distressing expectancy.
morable trip to Sibei·ia," he con•
WARM GREETING
tinued, "I noticed a huge sheet of
light canvas about the size of a
.. He arose, came from behind his
_larre bed lslleet. tied at the corners
desk with extended hand and shook
mine with a brand of sincerity not
and containing heaven only knows
to be mistaken for polite formality.
how many pairs of boots. I wonder
His first words were an inquiry as
if he still collects them."
to whether or not I had found
"The soldier who is serving uncomfortable quarters.
der Gen. Eichelberger," Cooley con4<He then reached over, closed
cluded, ' 1 is under the command of
the company fund book and escorta man who knows his job and
ed me, first to the first sergeant,
works at it every conscious mothen to other non-commissioned
ment. If my son were going into
officers present, after which we
the armed service tomorrow for
made a brief tour of the company
active service, I would get down
quarters and returned to his ofon my knees and pray to God that
fice, where we talked for some time
he be permitted to sarve under
on everything but military matters.
'Ike' Eichelberger."
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Commands Many Michigan Troops
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Lieut. Gen. Robert L. Eichelberger, who was decorat.ed last week
for distinguished service in New Guinea, is the man you'd like to
ti;; !:1"~':~- s~ s;;::::-,19~~ori~~oti11!~n~~rc:~•ex;!1!!1!
troops In Papua, Elchelberger's forces include many soldiers from
Michigan and Wisconsin's S2nd and 41st divisions.
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�calls for watchful vigilance of this Michigan soldier, Corp. John A. Allman (right), of Horton, and his companion. Pvt. John W. Halsey, or Califomi:i.
ey are manning a machine gun in front of a native village. Both are with U. S. forces which are wiping out Japs. Note contrast between straw thatched hut and tarpaulin which covers their dugout.
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Japs Doomed at Sanananda
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ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
AUSTRALIA (Wednesday) UP) American and Australian jungle
fighters tightened the 1 r lines
around four pockets of doomed
Japanese In the Sanananda sector
or New Guinea Tuesday after tak
:2Jap Bases
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Allied Troops Grab
Two More Positions
in Papuan Sector
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
AUSTRALIA (Tuesday) UP) - Al•
lied ground forces pressing in from
the west Monday destroyed two
strong Japanese positions that pro-tected Sanananda Point, New
Guinea, while other troops on the
east moved forward with artillery.
On the west side Gen. MacArthur's men took Cape Killerton, a
.Allies Closing In
on Papuan
Japs
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mile and a half up the coast from
Sanananda, and then proceeded
against Wye Point, 700 yards far-,
ther a long. There they encountered
stiff resistance but. overcame it.
The communique sized up the
situation as a continuation of "gen-
1eral
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ing the village and Point Monday.
Japanese were pocketed on the
coast on both sides of Sanananda
Point and in two places along the
swampy Sanananda road which
leads to the beach. Enemy casual•
ties :were described as heavy but no
figures were given. Twenty•seven
were captured. Some Japanese escaped from dugouts and were wandering at large.
Eighteen Jap bombers raided the
Sanananda area in an attempt to
aid their beleaguered ground forces
but the communique said the at•
tempt was unsuccessful.
The first disclosure of the presence of any enemy submarine in
Australian waters in several months
came with the announcement that
a small Allied vessel had been tor-pedoed and sunk. There were two
casualties.
Four Japanese bombers raided
Milne bay "without effect" Monday
night, following up a much bigger
raid about noon Sunday.
Allied air raids were reported on
the Gasmata airdrome in New:
Britain, supply dumps in the Lae
sector, buildings and huts in Por•
tuguese Timar and a town in the
IKai lolanda,
liquidation.''
Patrol activity in the vicinty of '
Mubo vllage near S4Jamaua 4, ,e.ecounted for the 40 Japanese caaulittes.
A bomber on reconnaissance over
the Bismarck sea west of New Ire11and had good fortune in finding '1
\ an 8 000-ton Jap cargo ship. The
bomber planted two direct bits
that set the ship ablaze and it sank
in eight minutes.
Two formations of bombers _and 1
fighters, which the commumque
rated as large, hit Lae on New
Guinea again in two separate dayUght attacks, destroying one fight•
er on the ground and starting flree
among suppl~stallations,
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ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
AUSTRALIA (Sunday) UP)-Allied
ground troops are closing in on
the Japs at Sanananda, the last
point held by the enemy in the
Papuan peninsula of New Guinea,
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's head•
quarters reported today.
An intimation of this approach•
ing climax to the Papuan campaign
had been supplied in yesterday's
communique which told of an
Allied break-through at Sanananda,
which is immediately northwest of
Buna. This thrust cost the enemy
at l&ist 152 casualties.
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Smash Grip-of \
Japs on Papua:
Allied Forces Moving
So Fast They Haven't
Time to Count Victims
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ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
AUSTRALIA (Thursday) UPJ-AlJied juhgle fighters, moving so fast
they didn't have time to count the
enemy dead, further compressed
Japanese pockets around Sanananda Point in New Guinea while Allied bombers attacked 10 points
embracing practically the whole
south Pacific area yesterday and
the day . before.
"The whole thing is crumbling,"
said a spokesman at Gen. Douglas
MacArthur's headquarters concerninc tt,e ~apuan ground resistance
of tl!e Japs.
An enemy pocket northwest of
the point wh,re the Sanananda
road reaches the beach still \i..resisting and there is heavy flgh'\.mg
on the other side of the point be~ tween Giruwa and Tarakena where
the Japanese attempted to break
ou~wo other enemy groups still are
showing some fight along the inland
road. One aboqt 2,500 yards inland
has been split up.
The bombers made their strongest call at Lae, starting new fires
among supply installations.
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WASHINGTON UP) Heavy
bombing attacks on Japanese bases
in the northwestern Solomon ta.
lands .were reported Monday by the
navy, which said that one bombing
raid, on the island of Ballale, started fires visible for 50 miles.
As both army and .n avy bomber•
blasted the Jap positions 300 miles
distant, ground troops on Guadal•
canal island mopped up pockets of
enemy resistance in newly con•
quered areas on the flanks of the
American posc.it:_io'-n_s_, _ _
War Echoes in Grand Rapids
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NEW GUINEA NATIVE BOY
WRITES TO CORPORAL'S KIN,
Iworth
While in Australia Corp. EllsWoolpert, 30, made friends
with a Koala bear and a carpet
snake, he indicated on a postcard
picture sent to his home here.
Transferred to New Guinea, he
became acquainted with a 6-yearold "Fuzzy-Wuzzy"-or New Guinea native-who had been taught
by missionaries to speak and write
Englisjl,
.
Corp. Ellsworth persuaded the
boy, whose name is Joine Tau, to
write. a letter to his 8-year-old
nephew, Russell Swanson, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Julius C. Swanson,
1741 Kalamazoo-av., S. E. The letter now is , one of Russell's most
prized possessions.
Although Corp. Ellsworth Is
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he ttnO~ time to write frequent
letters, Be told his parents, Mr.
and
Samuel C. Woolpert,
1044 Lake Michlgan-dr., N, W.,
that Thanksgiving day had been
"particular1y eventful" but· that he
had come out of the experience
unhurt. According to his most recent letter, dated Jan. 2, he still Among ·the "friends" that CORP. ELLSWORTH WOOLPERT made
1 is well.
in Australia before transfer to New Guinea were a Koala bear and
Ellsworth was inducted In April, a carpet make-friendly at least while this picture was being taken,
1941, and left for overseas service
a year later. He is a graduate of .
Union High school and Grand Rapids Junior college, and formerly .
worked for the state as an oir
Mrs.
surveyor.
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They Could Mean Kisses, but Censor 'Also
Recognizes They May Be Code
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Washington - (JP) of
love and X X X X X-Hiram."
".!'hose five crosses might very well
mean:
"Nyaaaaa, Mr. Censor, ya can't
keep me from letting my gal know
I'm going to north Africa with my
outfit."
So Mr. Censor cuts them out.
Because Hiram might have it
fixed up so that one cross would
mean he was being sent to Australia, two to Papama, three to
Iceland and so on. The Hirams
and their girls will go to surprising
lengths to keep each other infoTrmhaet~s• ywouhaktnot,hve. censor has to
guard against-their saying something that might get to the enemy
and give him vital information.
Uncle Sam has thrown such a
ring of censorship around this
country t hat it keeps 13,500 censors busy.
Keep Close \Vat ch .
The letters people write are ~n1Y
one item that th e censor;v~tc e~.
Under Direct or Byron nee, t e
office of censorship in Washington
directs a sifting process-mostly at
the country's borders-for all letters, cables and telephone conversations that cross the borders of
tiol\ of freighter planes; buildings
and equipment for handling planes
at a certain base; information about
anti-aircraft defenses, troop disposals, oil suppl~es and steamer
routes.
Some of this information was
culled from letters written by the
second type of uffender--..the person who doesn't realize he's possibly
supplying vital information. Many
persons apparently still don't understand just whcit the censor is
looking for.
Can't Ta ke Cha nces.
Now you may be writing to
someone outside the United States
without the slightest intention of
divulging any th ing th at would aid
th e enemy, but because of some
st range or unusual phrasing you
employ th e censor may have to
hold your letter up.
He can't take chances. He's got a
tough an(;]. thankless job. H e has to
look very carefully int o such innocent-appearing thi ngs as grades
of a student in this country writing to his parents, say in P uerto
Rico. They might be a code.
municating with the enemy was
discovered through some samples
of stamp collections he was mail•
ing out. These were all neatly
pasted up-so noatly that t he initial
letters of the various countries
spelled out a message.
When the censor holds up a letter which might contain something
dangerous it merell{_ may be delayed until any information it might
impart becomes useless because it's
out of date. Or it may be turned
over to decodin g experts to see
whether it's really a code. In certain cases 'it may be suppressed al together. F inally, if the rest of the
letter is beyond question, the doubtful part is cut out.
Generally, in all but the doubtful
cases the average maximum delay
is 24 hours, says the office -of censorship.
If you're sincere and aren1t trying to put something across, just
remember that anything unusual
about your letter makes it fair
game to be held up and investigated.
American good nature often
comes to the censor's attention.
T here \Vas the gal who addressed
a marine censor:
"I Jove this Jeatherneck and if
you take ou t a single sweetie-pie
I'll never forgive you."
One young lady got a much cu t ~
up letter from her soldier boy
friend with this note from t he
armv censor:
'Y
Id
·11 1
' our so ier st1 oves you, but
A dangerous agent who was com- he _ta_l_k_
s _to_o_~uch."
I co;~rft~:~~1{~~el~t~!;!e:~d
cables
that the censor really gets into his
job. Personal letter writers let
down their hair and speak their
mind.
First of all the censor has to look
out for dodges used by people consciously trying to slip something
through.
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T h ese may be enemy agents, such f
as the man in Alaska who wrote to
a firm in this country asking for
instruction:; about using invisible
ink.
L earn Secret Plans.
Or the Alaskan who wrote to a
neutral address that he was going
a hundred miles into the deep
woods to operate a radio station.
• Censorship picked up ·a complete
and detailed account of the Pearl
Harbor disaster which, if it had
reached Japanese hands, might
have advised them as to the possibility of a followup attack on Hawaii.
Here are some of the censored
items from Alaskan mail : The number of planes at a cert ain poi nt;
information on a convoy of mili- 1
tary transport s; bases and distribu-
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GRAND RAPIDS, MICH., SATURDAY,
JANUARY
23,
Paid With Lives for Victory in New Gu,inea
MAJ. HAROLD M, HOOTMAN,•
c enter ; CAPT. JOHN D. SHIRL EY, r ight, and TECIL SGT,
BE RT A. TOCZDLOWSKI, left.
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MA6HIFtCEHT CONDUCT,Sl(.tLL AND COUIU6E'
'mac~
812.IN61N6 NEW GLOR.Y
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�Troops Battle Mud, Malaria
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(Editor', n~, The
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follo~~:lIi;)w:pidndgM!!ut l~pr Pockets
pakh Js the first eyewitness account
o! the fighting that broke the last or:
Japanese resistance .on Papuan New
,
oun e
arch Back.
Then we m t th
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coming f
e th e first traffic
the Amer~~:.
e other way-
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hat happened right away, The
boy from Montana stepped out' in
Guinea.)
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the middle of the road· and yelle~:
(By Frank H. Bartholomew.)
there were th wiu nd ed. Usually
"All you guys who got no bus1With the Allied Forces on the \ jeep on str t ~e 01Y.sdon a tople£S ness on this road get the h-1 off
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e c ers ai crosswise-- of it and keep off Gun crews
Sanananda Front--<lPl - American one across the hood and two across service each mortar ~ith 20 round~
and Australian troops in close co- tht ~ back seat. Another boy of ammunition Guns will fire in
r1pped
· t , r1'des with
. ' salvos 30 secon.· ds apart. I'll give
operation really belted h-1 out of sthe
d 1. to the
d w ais
the Japanese in the last fight of over 1ver an dwaves palm fronds the signal from the middle of the
.
le woun ed to keep the flies road by dropping my arm_ I'll /
Papua, which started when a lad ~way and provide a breath of air have my helmet in my hand so you
from Montana stood in a jungle m the dank stillness.
can all see it'. We wart salvoes,
road and dropped his arm in a f Thf~ wound~d boys were bound no ragged firing. Get it? All
start firing" signal and ended or ield _hospital tents. There was right. •. "
when the count of dead Japanese no moanmg nor complaining.
His arm went down.
stood at 475.
S Next came t~e walking wounded.
The noise of-,he first salvo was
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The troops were called at 5 o'clock . ome had the r arms in slings and blended into one heavy concus50
and ~t was a black and heavy th~~ ~~~s t::porary patches over sion, but the show didn't really
mornmg. But they. were glad !o
d n_ecks. Son:~ stum- start until a few seconds later
get up because 10 mches of ram ble~ al~ng sick with maJanal fever when all shells land together on
had failen in the night, a good which lS th e curse of this Guinea the stubbornly held Japanese posipart of it coming through the coast.
tion
leaky tents and flowin~ down the b The. jeep ne~t entered a long
The whole earth around the
collars of the raincoats in which ;,d m th e ~rail toward the right. Japanese position seemed to go up
because they had no Am:ri:~ear~y~~;~;~~~~ith the in the ' air.
Furthermore, the cots were made .More will be heard about Hug.
Road Blasted Out.
from uneven tree limbs and jungle gms wh_ei; ~he war is over and the
t'There goes my corduroy road,
growth, which was not helpful to 32_nd d1vis1on goes home to the d-n it," says an officer of the
getting a night's sleep, and most midwestern states. Huggins was engineers. "Now when the Japs
of the men spent the night looking blast~d out of a thick jungle by are finally blasted out of there we
out into the tropic downpour at gunfire ~nd gets its name from. a got to wade around in tbere and
luminous toadstools on hummocks staff officer who took over com- rebuild the whole thing."
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a:nd listening to the quinine J)lay ma?d of a company when its own
The boy from Montana still stood
tunes in their ears.
officers were killed.
in the road, his arm falling regu·
Up Without Regret.
No Qovering.
larly every 30 seconds. I began to
A good part of. the night those
And this was the American base wonder how many ..Japanese lives
men wondered why three nations for .. the final surge to clean out come to a sudden end every time
. wanted thls hot, drowned country the Japanese from Papua.
he swung that gI'€en helmet downbadly enough to fight for it.
yve f~lt sorry for ourselves last wa rd ·
So they were up without regret ni_ght m _that 10-inch cloudburst
But I didn't feel sorry for the
· and off to the front six or seven with nothmg but a leaky tent over Japanese after I looked across the
miles down the Kokoda-Sanananda us, but we don't mind any more. road and saw an American cemeI trail in jeeps.
'!hese boys we~t through the night tery started a few days ago and
This is the trail over which the m open or 1n half-shelters or still being .filled. The crosses are
triumphant Japanese marched to thatches or anything they could made out of box wood from muniand qcross the Owen Stanley crawl behind or under. And here tion cases, and there are families
mountains only five short months !hey are by the .hundreds, wearing back home on the other side of the
ago in a drive to capture Port Jungle green uniforms.
world who do not even know that
MQresby and get set for the invaAfter reaching Huggins I took a their boys already have been sision of Australia. Last month they stroll up t~e road with Frank ~~n~~;.o~~r~~a~nto the black earth
marched back down the trail again Hewlett, United Press . correspondtoward the sea with Americans ent, who went_ through the siege
Suddenly I noticed a strange sland Australians in vigorous pursuit. of Bataan and IS one of th_e.youth- lence. The Japanese machine gun·
At Sanananda on the sea the ful veterans among Pacific war fire had stopped.
Japanese were defeated and now correspondents.
s~J~f!~try forward," an officer
remained only in the defensive
~uddenly a sentry yelled:
.
perimeter at Huggins and one
Hey, where are you guys gomg?
Another officer mumbled to Gen.
other. The Sanananda trail shows O~er ~? the ?aps?"
Vasey, "I've told them to look out
on the map as "MR"-motor road . No, . rephed Hewlett. ••we're for tricks, general. Yesterday
-but actually it is just barely J~~t trymg t~ get up t? ~~e front." when our boys moved in on a hos•
passable in a jeep and goes through tr Wsenlal, yeodu ve found it, the sen- pital dugout to see if any Jap surswamp1and all the way. Most of it
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vivers needed treatment, they
is of corduroy constru'ction. Bu1'It
Mortars Open Up.
found the place apparently filled
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only with dead. But one Jap with
with round logs laid crosswise and The mortars st.arted firing an.d a hidden machine gun raised himbound together.
we started back.• The Japanese re- self from among the corpses and
~o Saluting.
plie·d ·With machine-gun fire and! let them have it headon. The other
For the first half hour on the suddenly felt real enthusiasm for Japs had been dead for days and
way to the front we overtook following the sentry's suggestion. th e st ench was so terrific that the
many marching men. There was Several thoughts crossed my mind. . ~idden machine gunner was wear•
no saluting, no attempt at the· I wished I had been issued the mg an inhalator.''
military formalities. In one bog proper size steel helmet that
Ends Quickly.
a signal corps man was waist wouldn't wabble as I lopped along.
A :field telephone rang.
deep in stinking mud splicing a
We watched as the shells left the
"No opposition, no enemy :fire"
telephone wire.
muzzles, then saw from the jungle t?e message said. "Forward pos'i"~ello there, sir," shouted the a quarter mile ahead a great cloud tion. now reports infantry is traofficer \~ith us. "Are you keeping of branches, water and mud leap versmg the perimeter."
your chm above water?"
up 100 feet or more in the air
Min~tes later Lieut. Gen. Robert
''Yes sir-just." the man replied I closely followed by a terrili~ L. Eichelberger, who commands
grj.nning.
1"whoomp."
the. allied advanced forces in New
Late~ we passed a tank that had An Australian plane circled over Gumea, announced: uwe have just
1:>een ditched and was almost block- the target radioing the range and heard from ~uggins that the peri-•
I~g the road. Ahead were other the results of the firing to the meter has been exterminated. Alditched tanks.
mortar crews.
.
ready 475 Japanese bodies have
By the roadside were a wrecked
The mortar fire continued for a been recovered. I doubt if ~ver beJapanese command car, smashed half hour and then suddenly fore American troops have fought
truck_s and a jumble of Japanese ~eased. Then it was the Austral- so b~~veJy and under such handi•
clothmg, helmets and war ma.. ians' turn at bat and they did their caps.
terials. And suddenly the jungle stuff with artillery.
It's all over. The last Jap pocket
ended. The trees and the growth
"Excellent marksmanship" said in ~apua has been wiped out. And
have been· blasted right down to the pilot overhead. "All sh~lls are :.,gam one. s~arts thinking of the
t~~ :hel.1-cratered ground.
landing inside the perimeter."
/~~~eclb ridmg 0 n. bouncing jeeps,
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v\ e finally ran the little devils
"We'll Show 'Em,,
t
oys walkmg along with
out of here this week " said Ma·
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emporary patches on their faces
Gen. G. A. Vasey, who was witt
"We'll teach those mo~eys to and their eyes glazed with fever,
try and hold the only high, dry and of the box wood crosses in the
sandy spot In the whole d-d cemetery up toward Huggins
swamp and make· us sleep in the
muck," a soldier yells. "The Aussies will get a ha}f hour at 'em
and then watch what WP.'ve got for
them."
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Corp. Robert Vorenkamp, 26, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Vorenkamp Of 561 Shamrock-st., S. _W.,
was killed in action in New Gmnea
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CORP. ROBERT VORE?o.'KAMP,
Nov. 26, the partents were notified
by the war department Tuesday
night.
The parents received word Dec.
13, 1942, of the wounding in action
of another son, Donald, 23, a cor~
poral technician, now reported recovering in a base hospital.
Corp. Vorenkamp, graduate of
South High in 1935, was inducted
April 20, 1941. He was a member
of Grace Reformed church. He
was employed as a clerk in the
Pere Marquette yard office before
entering the aimy.
Besides the parents and tne
brother Donald, he leaves another
brother, Arthur, at home.
He was engaged to be married
to Miss M11xine Snyder, daughter
of Mr. and Mrs. P. F. Snyder, 138
Straight-av., N. w., it was said by
his brother here.
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�SATURDAY,
JANUARY 23, 1943
PAPUAWOM
BACK FROM JAPS
Japs' Papuan
Army Crushed
Grimd Rapids Men
Take Heroic Roles \
ln Jun§le Fighting
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hqoic role in three weeks ?f
' TRANSPORT EXPLODES
An 8,000-ton transport was seen
to explode after two direct hits
set it afire, while a 4,000-ton vesJapanese. It consists of about
sel with a lighter tied alongside
90,000 square mlles and has a
sank within 14 minutes after it was
population of about 300,000.
hit. Another 8,000-ton ship was
Enemy's Resistance
iµostly dark-skinned natives.
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shaken by a sel'ies of explosions
Ended; 4 Nippon Ships
after three direct hits set it afire.
Once again all the Allied planes
Are Sunk at Rabaul
I carried out a daring pre-dawn
return€d safely.
! raid to destroy the four enemy
The destructive blow to Japa•
By LEE VAN ATTA
ships in the harbor.
nese shipping in the New Britain
UNITED NATIONS HEAD- MOPPING UP
theater was announced in on offi;
cial
statement that said all or·- ,
QUARTERS IN AUSTRAL I A,
sr:a~:;~~. ~~!~~:~as1~:~:
(Saturday (INS)-All Japanese re- ican and Australian ground troops ' ganized Japanese resistance in the
Sanananda area of New Guinea
sistance in Papuan New Guinea continued mopping-up operations had been crushed by Allied jungle
has be.en crushed, it was an- after crushing the last organized fighters at heavy cost to the enresistance. Another 75 dead ,Tap- emy.
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"At Sanananda," the c;ommunig ~:fr:yat:td~~~~~!:tb7:
que said, "all organized enemy
Jap base at Rabaul, New Britain,
resistance has been overcome.
in which four ships totalling 24.000 :~~~ ~~~!~;' 0~h:~e:;r:o~!r:i:t~ii Mopping up operations ~re progressing. Seven hundred and seventons ~er~ sent to. the bo~tom.
, to be counted and buried.
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A ~onsiderahle quantity f)f en- 1 ty-five Japanese dead have been
found
in addition to those prehas blasted shipping and a1rdromes em supplies was seized as the
in the Rabaul area almost daily, ATJfE:s moved thi·ough the Sana- viously reported, with many more
yet
to
be counted, A considerable
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's airmen n,.,µ.da Point and Sanananda vilquantity of enemy material and
Ja&e area, six miles north of the equipmen,t has been captured, inAllied-held Buna-Gona s e ct o r. cluding field guns, trucks and amBooty ·included field guns, trucks munition.
and ammunition.
Thursday's Rabaul raid was
made by heavy bombers that
swooped over the harbor at daringly low level. Direct hits were
scored on a 4,000-ton cargo vessel
and the ship split in two, sinking
::;1~:f
fi~ting on tho Sanananda road m
New Guinea, according to current .
dispatches,
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Aim of a local group on a spe-
With the Allied victory over
the Japs on the Papuan peninsula that territory became the
first
complete
geographical
unit to be won back from the
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By ASSOCIATED PRESS
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wicte road the Japanese were usmg P,
to supply their front lines.
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Capt. Alfred Medendorp _of th1~ !
city is mentioned as havmg led
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Onl Half T hose of Ja panese
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CAPT. ALFRIJD MEDENDORP.
:he "Wairopi patrol'' tH.rough. the
"Il.ountains. Twenty-six were killed
Jefore the patrol reached northern
?apua, dispatch rel8:tes.
Other Grand Rapids men !l1entioned were Capt. Dou4las Shirley,
whose death recently was reported
by the war department, ~nd Sgt,
John Mikita. Two compames ilo:'n
over the Owen Stanley mountams
established an advanced comm.and
post so far behind the Jap lm:s
it was parallel with ene1:1y artillery positions about a n:117 away
in a straight line. Sgt. M1k1ta was
leader of a "point" of three or
four men sent out from the com•
mand post to break the road an_d
which established and held a position which was the scene of re•
peated battles through the threeweek period.
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<BY Umtcd Press.)
life and resources."
Gen. Douglas MacArthur . an- The communique also reported
nounced Thursday that Amencan Finschafen, Lae and ~he ~-~laand Australian ground losses in maua areas of the N ifw. Gum~!
victorious Papua campaign coast were attacked aga.m. rrlathe "less than half" those of the mile-long isthmus on wt1cp dSand
;ere se and that probably no maua is located was s ra e a
ffi:;e offensive drive in history tires were started.
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duced such "complete and deDestroy Jap Bulldings.
~fs~ve" results with a lower exAttack planes bombed and strafe!1
penditure of Hfe and resou!'ces.
Japanese positions near the (?arriAllied casualties totaled no more son hill area of the Mubo village
than 7,000 men, if that many, sector, 12 miles south of Salamaua.
observers estimated.
Several buildings were de~troyed
MacArthur's communique went and one heavy machine-gu!l nest
on to say that allied losses reversed was silenced. Long-r~u_-ige fighters
the usual results of a ground. of- strafed hostile locahttes on the
fensive
campaign,
espe~ially Waria river near Salamaua.
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against prepared positions defended The airdrome at Gasma~a _on the
to the last, in that tqe losses 0 ~ the south coast of New _Britam, reattacker "usually are several times ceiveu its daily poundmg from an
those of the defender."
allied heavy bomber.
Didn't Rush Atta.ck.
Medium bombers . al5? attacked
It said that two fac~ors con- ar;yRbo~!:fs i~n~~:t~~ ai~!!~~
tributed to those res~lt.s. y to at- !~out 400 miles north of Darwin.
"lk. T:ere wa~h~o ti~~r element In the Arce islands, some 175 11:Hes
~:,c ~his e~!~ese was of little impor- east of the Kah~ grgo;f~e:edi:~
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mac met~;ce.For this reason no attempt bombed unidentified Japanese su;;
was· made to rush positions by mass face. craft ;.t a /~c~b ~re lugg
and unprepared assaul~r . J:~e ci~: rcdft~e:setfs1ani in th; gulf of
most ~are was tak;n f
·u the Carpentaria on the northern coast
servaUon of our orces wi 1 .
. Australia a small allied mer~esul~ that pro~abiy notl~i~~:~1; ~~ant vessel'was bombed and sunk!
. m history agams a
ro - by Japanese planes.
The bul- \
> trained and preplatred adrmd~cliive letin said casualties were light.
duced such comp e e an
�Form of Campaign Proves Success
Airpower Points Way to Ultimate
Defeat of Japs, Says MacArthur
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN a "dilatory and costly isl.and-to- provided all-around reconnaissance.
AUSTRALIA (JP) - Gen. Douglas island advance," he predicted.
protected the coast from hostile
M cArthur, Allied commander-in- TEXT OF COMMENT
naval intervention and blasted the
chief in the southwest Pacific, said
Sunday that in his forces' hardfoul')lt but winning bl!ttle for
Papua ''a new form of campaign
was tested which points the way
to the ultimate defeat of the enemy in the Pacific."
ge~:!:1 ne:a_i:,et~~fm:rri~arf:-!~1~~:
"the continuous, calculated application of air power."
remarked particularly that in
the northeastern New Guinea fighting the Allies' airi arm had been
found effective and important not
only as an offensive-defensive
weapon but as an instrument of
troop transport and supply.
"Our air forces and ground
forces were welded together in
Papua, and when in sufficient
strength with proper naval support. their indissoluble union
points the way to victory
th.rough new and broadened
1 strategic and tactical conceptlons," MacArthur said in writ-t.en comment on the action now
concluded.
Close co-ordination between air
and land units will permit "swift,
massive strokes" against the enemy and preclude the necessity for
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comment:
"Tho destruction o:" r'1mnants of
the enemy forces in the Sanananda
ai·~a con clutles .. th e Pap1:an cam~~1!7ta~h~~~~rl~o%::~~:~u:h:::~
timated 15,000 Japanese troops in
Papua) has been annihilated.
.,The outstanding military
lesson of this campaign was
the continuous, calculated application of air power inberent
in the potentialities of every
component of the air forces
employed in tbe moS t intimate
tactical ao d logiStical union
wi th grouo d troops.
"The effect of th1 s modern inst rumentality was sharply accentuated by th P. geographical limitations of ~his th eater. "!3'0 r mon th s
on end, an· transport with constant
fighter coverage moved complete
infantry regiments and artillery
battalions across the almost impe11etrable mountains and jungles
of Papua and the reaches of the
sea, transported field hospitals and
other base installations to the
front, supplied the troops and evacuated casualties.
HFor hundreds ot miles bombers
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forward.
"A new form of campaign was
tested which points the way to the
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ultimate defeat of the enemy in
the Pacific.
"The , offensive and defensive
power of the air and the adaptability, range and capacity of its transport in an effective combination
with ground forces represent tactical and strategical element'S of a
broadened conception of warfare I
that will permit the application of
offensive power in swift, massive
strokes rather than the di1"1.tory I
and costly island-to-island advance
that so· ·1e have assumed to be neeessary in • lheatl".t' wP~re the enemy's farflung stronghold's are dispersed throughout a vast expanse
o! archipelagos.''
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Corp. Robert E. "\"brenkamp, left, of 581 Shamrock st., SW., and
Staff Sergt. Louis Burnett, Jr., of Sparta, whose parents received
notice Tuesday that their sons had been killed in action against the
Japanese in New Guinea, both on Nov. 26.
Southwest Pacific Fight Claims More Local Soldiers
Three more Grancl Rapids soldiers who J1ave given their lives for their country in the south Pacific are
STAFF SGT. JOSEPH KRAMARZ, 26, left, of 413 Cass-av., S. E.; P.l!'C. GERALD M. HOSMAN, 21, cen•
ter, of 3'17 Scribner-&,',•
\V., and SGT. NORl\lAN L. S\VANSON, 21, of 3852 Di'Vision-rd,, S. Relatives
were nolllled late Sunday of the death,,
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Japs on-·R~
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Pursuit Nears
come in for
pounding too.
its
SUNDAY, JANUARY 31, 1943
Sidekicks of First War Again Together
32nd, 41 sf Divisions in
Thick of Jap Fighting
Between March 6 and April 6,
1917, all of the privates and captains of the 128th infantry were
transferred to the regular army
Recent citation by by Gen. Doug- first division as replacements for
las MacArthur of troops fighting in casualties. Through the efforts of
New Guinea and his special men- Maj. Gen. Haan of the 32nd, who
tion of the S2nd (Red Arrow) and had concentrl:ted . a~l. his attention
t d' . •
on making hts d1v1s10n a combat
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~ec!us t~vi:~~~ organi~ation, the troop~ were finalthe fact that ly ~gam concentrated m the tenth
these two divi- traming area near Longes for comi o n s also bat duty.
:ought side by After a month of training the
side in World division was ordered into a trench
war I
area near Belfort, but in order
The· 41st di- again to complement the 128th invision
arrived fantry to its full strength, some
in France bJ- men had to be transferred from the
fore the 32nd three remaining regiments, the
and was in 125th, 126th and 127. Every fourth
tra inin<>' there man on the payrolls of these three
when 'the 32nd regiments, w\thout any deviations
COL. HAZE
a rrived. At fli•st for favoritism, was ordered tra?-sthe 32nd was considered a replace- ferr ed to the 128th ~nfantry, which
ment division and during the early left t~e other regiments equally
days of their oversea s service, the short in numbers. .
various regiments were on duty in
Jn order to fill t h e ranks of these
all sections •of France. The 126th regiments, replac4j1:ments were reinfantry did warehouse duty at St. ceived from the 31st division, which
Nazaire, where recent raids of the comprised national guard troops
Commandos and American air from Washington, Oregon and
forces were directed against nub- Idaho. They were welcomed into
marine bases.
the 32nd and found to be men of
high caliber and excellent training. As veterans of the 32nd will
remember, they seemed to "flt in"
well and went all the rest of the
way with the 32nd, through ensu~n.g
campaigns, the army of occupation
and the journey home.
It is an interesting coincidence
that these divisions are again fighting together in New Gui?-ea and doing as good a jo~ as their predecessors did in the first World war.
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(Former Commander, 126th
Infantry)
share of this
HIT JAP Sllll'S
WASHINGTON UP) - American
troops continuing their war of extermination against the Japanese
on Guadalcanal island captured a
large
enemy
command
post
k
Wednesday, the navy announced
Friday. while warplanes struck
Menaced; Five Enemy heavily at Japanese ships and base
installations in the central SoloShips Knocked Out
mans.
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
A navy communique gave these
AUSTRALIA (Saturday) 1UP)-Gen. results of operations Wednesday
Douglas MacAdhul"s forces are \ and Thursday;
pursuing strong Japanese patrols
Two Japanese destroyers, two
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towatd Salamaua. 140 miles north- c argo sh ips and a tanker were
west of Buna Jn New Guinea. aft- damaged by American bombing ater repulsing an attack west of tack. One of the cargo ships p rob-Mubo, an AUied headquarters com- ably sank.
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munique announced today.
Thirty-six Japanese were . killed
At the same time an official
and three captured when the c.o m- 1
announcement said t hat the
m and post was taken. Two ~d4.t
death of Lieut. Gen. Tomatorl
tional pockets offering resistance
Horii, wh o commanded t h e
were wiped out. A large amount
Japanese army of 15,000 m en
of enemy equipment fell into
which was practlcall'y extermiAmerican hands.
nated In months of fighting In
AIR SCORE, 16 TO 4
the Buna area~ h a d been conTen enemy Zero fighters were
fir med by captured documents
shot down with a loss . of four
and prisoners. •
United States planes. SJJC. other
The communique announcing Jap planet1 were probably dethat, New Guinea warfare was now strayed,
being transferred aggressively by . Enemy . installations on Kolomthe Australians and Americans to bangara island were bombed by1
the Salamaua area said the Jap- army medium bombers wh ich i
anese patrols attacked the Allied started a large fire at the Jap
positions west of Mubo, 12 mile.fl \base.
south of Salamaua, but w er'f, r<."-" The 36 J apanese killed at the
pulsed
command post raised to 715 t h e
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n umber of enemy troops report ed
SURPRISE RAID
slain in Guadalcanal fighting in
The outpost was the scene of a the last 10 days. In addition 48
surprise raid by Allied forces in have been reported captured. Thus
which more than 100 J apan ese about one-fffth of the enemy troops
were killed and an enemy head- estimated to 1,mve been on the
quarters and a radio station de- island 10 days ago has been put
strayed during & recent th1·ee-day out of action.
action.
Japanese plane and ship losses
Salamaua is only about 20 miles in the Solomons to date, as comsoutheast of Lae, the most import- piled from navy communiques,
ant Japanese base in all New stand at 791 planes destroyed in
Guinea. Lae has been the target combat and 57 ships sunk, seven
in some of . the heaviest Allied probably sunk and 98 damaged.
aerial assaults of the southwestern Pacific war, and Salamaua has ,
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'At Front' Story
ls Not Believed,, i
:1.-.l._·'/-.'.3(INS) - Considerable \
LONDON
speculation has arisen in Germany
over the whereabouts and health 1
of Adolf Hitler, Reuter's News
agency reported Monday night in
a dispatch from the German. frontier.
The absence of the Nazi chief
from thP. anniversary celebration
of his party set off the wave of ru~
mo:r'S, Reuter's reported. The announcement that Hitler is at the
Russian ft'ont is not generally believed, the dispatch added.
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Week Battle to Maintain Jungle Pocket on Sanananda Road
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in the jungle remained, but p
ably were hammered into m
death later.
The American response to t
Jap attacks was to send out P3:.~~
for harassing purposes. Lieut. \l\'j
ter Ellis of Houston, Tex., mt
aged to keep his spirits alert
plans for,. new aggressive patroh.
The Japs' response to the patr1
was to put their mountain gun,
addition to mortars, on Huggins.
If a man lived past the regul;
Jap morning shelling at 5:30, l
was certain of life - except f1
mortars and snipers-until the
o'clock evening shelling.
Sick Japs T urned Out.
The Japs were continually war
dering into the American perimet1;
that stretched in a series of fo.
holes at the jungle's edge for 35
yards along the road. Some we"
(S1)ecial Rad io to t he Chicago Dally News
Foreign 'S ervice.)
(Copyr irht, 1943, ChJcago Dally News, tne,)
CHAPTER V.
With Advanced American Troops
at Sanananda - (Delayed) -The
American "lost company" at the
road-block named Huggins, in the
Jap rear on the Saputa-Sanananda
highway, drew four full-scale Jap
counter - attacks. Two occurred
While Capt. John Shirley of Grand
Rapids was in command and two
more while Capt. M. M. Huggins of
Salem, Ore., headed the snipersurrounded garrison.
The Japs attacked successively
from the northwest (beachhead) direction; from the southwest, that
is, from their threatened frontline;
from the northeast, or Buna direction, and finally from directly down
the road.
Usually the Jap attacking force
was divided into squads of 10 to 12
men, trying to find a loophole in
the American rectangle of machinegun flanked portholes.
Foe Builds More Pillboxes.
When these attacks all failed to
pierce the little American Tobruk
within the Jap lines, the Japs began trying to make Hu ggins use1less by building more pillboxes on
both sides above and below on the
road.
It js these pillboxes which the
writer has seen bombarded day
after day with mortar fire. One,
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MAJ. BERT ZEEFF.
Another Grand Rapids soldier
mentioned in today's description
of the lighting in N cw Guinea.
taken in the afternoon at the left•
!,and side of the road, above Huggins; revealed 150 Jap bodies.
'.I'hree other such Ja strong oints
men seemed_ to be afflicted w~·
dysen tery or malaria and t urn°
out as beyond recovery. Behh
them were many well-fed Jal
plentifully supplied with ammunn
tion.
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Volunteer patrols, led by me1
like Norman H. Schaefer of Be
midji, Minn., often ran into tre~
snipers. Frequent rains held the
Americans to their water-filled foxholes. Once Peter Dal ponte had a
whole party pinned down en route
to Huggins with food and ammuni•
tion. The "point," or the leading
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�~ y 6 r- the- ueve1op-ments, but with the series of events
there could be no doubt that the
CAMP BORDEN, Ont. UP)- Cadirector of nadian armored warfare experts
NORFOLK, Va. ClP)-Col. Charles
far eastern situation had at last B.
Borland, Norfolk
:one~!
exploded, that the United Sta~es public safety, immediately oi·dered ar~ putting the newest and biggest
WASHINGTON
(INS) The
wa~ at -;:a,r~nautlinlba~;~
t.he _arres~ of all J_apanese nation- of Canadian-produced tanks through navy swu:1g into he battle with
whlC'h. eg
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P ld
als m this strategic naval center paces at this military camp, and Japan, with all uns ready and
&preadmg over he en ire war ·
Sunday as soon as he learned of
Kichisaburo Nomura, the Jap- the Japanese attacks on the United
anese ambassador, and Saburo States Pacific bases.
Kurusu, the special Japanese enBorland said his orders were isvoy, wer.e a.t the state ~epartme~t sued to Chief of Police John. F.
at the time of the White Houses Woods and every available officer
announcement of the attacks.
was J)ressed into roundup work.
The two Japanese went to see The number of Japanese here is
Secretary of State Hull at 1:35 P- not large.
20
nd
m: (EST) a
remained about
~?ods at once informed police
:minutes.
officials of Portsmouth, where the
HULL CHARGES FALSEHOODS great Norfolk navy yard is located;
After their departure, the state Newport ~ew.s, :where the Newport
department announced that Hull News ShtJ?bUil~m?" an~ Dry_ Dock
ha.d informed the Japanese that a com'?any is d b~!dmg m~e a1rcraf!
document P.re~nted by them was ~~~:~er!e:r~y cit~== i:u~~:rs~c~~n
"crowded with mfamous falsehoods Norfolk had taken He suggested
and distortions."
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The department's statement said th ey take similar action.
that Hull ,had read the Japanese
O
reply and "immediately turned to
the Japanese _ambassador az:id with
the grettest indignation said:
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~''I must say that in all my converaations with you (the Japan?se
ambassador) during the last nme
MEXICO CITY UP) - A charge
months r have never uttered one that the captains and crews of 10
word of untruth. This is borne out Axis vessels seized by the MexicaIJ.
absolutely by the record.
. government at Tampico last April
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'In all my 50 years of pubhc ha~ plo_tted to destroy not 01;1Iy
•ervice I have never .seen a do?u- th_eir ships but the port .of 'l'am~ico
ment that was more crow.ded ~1th as .well was made by Vice Admiral
infamous falsehoods and distor.tions Lms Hurta~o de Mendoza.
-infamous falsehoods and d1storIn ~ pubhsh~d statement, Hurtations on a scale so huge that I ?,o ~a.id the seizure ..was an act of
never imagined until to.day that legitimate defense..
any government on this P!,anet .He as.serted the ship~ were load_ed
was capable of uttering them.
with highly combusb~le material
At Berlin, a German spokesman a nd a plot had been. discovered. to
-"'.'". blB.red Sunday night there could set th em_ on fire, wi th th e obJect
be no reaction from Germany to of spreadmg th e flames to t?e whole
the announced Japanese air. attack port where much gasolme was
on Pearl Harbor until all sides of st0 red. _ _ _ _ _ _ _
the case were at hand.
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"We
cannot comment,"
the
y.nam1te- a en Barge
spokesman said, "until full and ex- Burns Near Alaska Base
act details of the Japanese as well
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as the American statements are
STIKA, Alaska i(lp)-~ dynamiteavailable.''
laden barge caught fire m the chanAn NBC broadcast from Honolu- nel between here and the Sitka ~ir
]u said the Japanese attack had in- b~se Saturday and a ne:3-rby native
flicted untold damage on the U. S. village. was. evacuated m fear the
naval base at Pearl Harbor and on dynamite might explode before the
the city itself.
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blaze ~ould be subdued.
The NBC observer, standing on
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~he roof of the ~dvertiser building ba!:eatos~tX::-U:~~l~~s!~\;~v:la:~
th e planes, U?- district headquarters at Seattle it
m Honolulu, said
doubtedly Japan.ese, made th e raid was feared the barge would be a
unexpectedly. His report was sud• total loss. AU hands were safe. The
denly bro~en _off,
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presence of 25 cases of dynamite
Befor~ . its mterruptlon, hts re- aboard prevented effectual fire
port said.
fighting
thi
"We have witnessed
s morn-liii~-~i!!iemiliii
ing the attack of Pearl Harbor and
a severe bombing of Pearl Harbor
by army planes, undoubtedly Japanese.
"The city of Honolulu has also
been attacked and considerable
damage done.
lt'lbll..-JT
waves Of Planes swoop
1n Attack on HonoIuIu
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1n Mex1co
HEADS YACHT GROUP
TOLEDO, O. UP) - Ho:"ard A.
Finch of the Crescent Sall Yacht
club, Detroit, was elected commodore of the Inter Lake Yachting
association Saturday. Harry C.
Kendall of the Detroit Yacht club
v..·as
named
secretary-treasurer.
Da.tea for the 1942 ILYC regatta
will be Aug. 10-14,
MILITARISTS DESPERATE
There was a. ,disposition in some quarters here to wonder
whether the a.tta.cks had not been ordered by the Japanese military authorities because they feared the President's direct negotiations with the emperor might lead to an about-face in Japanese
policy and the consequent loss of face by the present rnling
factions in Ja.pa.n.
A little later, the White House reported that and army
transport loaded with lumber ha.d been torpedoed 1,300 miles
west of San Francisco.
This is well east of Hawaii.
The first announcement did not say whether the ship was
sunk or whether there was loss of life.
FAR EAST EXPLODES
No official used the word war in reporting any of the develop..
ments, but with the se~1es ~f events there could be no doubt
th~t the Far Eastern situation had at last ~xplod~d, that t~e
Umted States was at war, and that the conflict which began 1n
Europe was spreading over the entire world.
LittM information was immediately availl;\ble regarding the
strength of the Japanese air attacks.
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Dispatches from }!ono_ ulu sai '. owev~r,. th~t at east. ~,vo
Japanese bombers, their wings bearing the 1ns1gma of the R1s1ng
Sun, appeared over Honolulu at about 7 :30 A. M. (Honolulu time)
and dropped bombs.
backed by a decl ration of Secreta1·y Frank Knox that the fleet is
equal to ·any na, afloat.
Japan's surpris blows found the 1 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - navy dep.artme t's plans f,ully
made. While th :1avy s operations
and maneuvers m the . strugg~e
now under way naval officers said
the strate?Y has. all been· worked
,
out for th !~ contmgency.
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It was every man at his s
tion" ~t the n~vy depart~ent Sund~!s n~!:t, ot;~~h ~::.i:ra;~:~iio~~
¥un blast
H O N O LULU UP) _ Japanese the attackers came over. Several
Latest ·publicly-disclosed figures bombs killed at least seven persons enemy craft chased him, but he
on the strength of the navy showed nd i jured many others three got away safely.
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that it has 311,861 enlisted men, a . n
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Most of the attackers flew high,
including reserves. In addition to seriously, m a surprise :morning but a few came low. Five came
these were 64 ,053 marines. Forces aerial attack on Honolulu Sunday. down to under a hundred feet elein Hawaii and the Philippines
Army officials announced that vation to attack Pearl Harbor. An
have been increased in recent two Japanese planes had been shot oil tank there was seen blazing and
weeks, although the numbers are down in the Hon~lulu a-:ea.
.
_ smoking. Others apparently headed
a naval secret.
, The dead, not 1mmediately ~den directly for Hickam field to drop
At present the navy has 344 bfled, included three Caucasians, bombs.
STILL IN PROGRESS
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[the P1·esident directed the army
combatan,t .ships -. battleships, air- two Jn.panes? and a 10-year-old
Spectators said they saw the
Dispatches from Hano.lulu, sai_d a and navy to execute all previously
plane ca+rrnrs, crmsers, destr&yers Portuguese girl.
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Japanese rising sun emblem on the naval engagement was m progicss prepared orders lookin to the deYouth Held for Kdhng
and submarines. In addition, there . Sevei·al fires were st~rted i~ th e low-flying planes.
off Honolulu, with .at ~east ~ne fense of the United Stat~s. The PresS
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are hundreds of auxiliaries, mine city area, but all were immediately
Japanese Consul General Sajao enemy aircraft earner m action ident 1·s n
ith th s cretaries of
tate O1iceman
craft, supply ships and patrol ves- controlled.
.
_ Kita said he believed the bombing against Pearl Harbor defenses.
nav · ando~v:i·.
s:ep: are being
0
MIAMI, Fla. UP) - Less than 24 ~els. T~e gra~d total of ~8:va~ craft
~ov. Jos:ph
1;:cext::f::;e was "by Unit~~ States army planes
The army's order affected not tak{n to advise the congressional
hours ~fter a state road patrolman 1s 942, mcludmg the aux1haries.
claime~es~~:'ediate/ in ~ffect. He on maneuver.
only the thous3:nds of officers on lec.ders."
wa~ killed south of here Sunday,
:eaosi~~ed Eduard D~ty in charge STILL DOUBTS
duty in washmgton, . who ~ave
of~1cers 8:rrested a ~an who they
o¥~he major disaster council.
When told there were dead and thus far performed t1Ien·. func;1o_n.s
said admitted the crime.
wounded as the result of the at- in civilian clothes to avoid a • mihAssistant State Attorney .Joseph
M-DAY CONTROL
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tack, Kito still expressed doubt taristic" appearance, but all offiOtto said a 22-year-old youth
The ~-~~y pr?~lamabon estab- that they were caused by .Japa- cers in every corps area, the United
booked both as L. E. Humber and
hshed civillan-m1htary control of nese planes.
States' possessions and outlying
as Byrd! Hudgins told of shooting
traffic and r?ads, and pe~mits the
Unconfirmed reports said the at- bases.
Patrolman L. P. Danil!ls because he
PHILADELPHIA (lP)-Directors governor to issue food ratum regu- tackers came from two carriers.
Washington was expected to blos"always gets nervous when I see of the American Medical Women's lati~ns.
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United States destroyers were som Monday as a city of uniforms,
policemen.''
association sent resolutions to PresFirst reports said 10 or more per- seen steaming full speed from because huge numbers pf officers
DANVILLE, Ill. (}Pl-Ren FritThe man was booked for investi- ident Roosevelt asking that women sons were injured when enemy Pearl Harbor, and spectators' re- have been pouring into the city man, who had spent a lifetime
th
gation while officers questioned doctors be admitted to the army planes sprayed bullets on
e ports of seeing shell splashes in for months to perform the army's seeking his true identity died Sathim. A warrant issued earlier at and reserve corps on the ~ame streets of Wahiawa,. a town of the ocean indicated there had been "overhead" functions.
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Homestead, Fla., charged Louis basis as men.
ar.ound 3,000 population, about 20 an engagement between United
Early said that so far as the urday at the estimate~ age of 97.
Elmer Humber, Jr., with murder.
Although the army does not _spe- miles_ northwes~ 0 ~ Honolulu.
. States and Japanese ships.
President's information went atHe became lost durmg a parade
------cifically ban women doctors, llie
This repor~ indicated. th e aerial
One of the bombs that started tacks were still in progress at in New York in 1852 and never saw
navy does, and there are no women attack was aimed at pomts on the Honolulu fl.res ~ell near Governor Manila and in Hawaii, In other his parents again. The name he
members of either reserve direc- Island of Oahu other than Hono- Poindexter's residence, but he was ords he said "we don't know that
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tors pointed out at a meeti~g here. lulu and the heavily fortified Pearl not injured.
~e japanese' have bombed and bore was given him by a New York
The resolutions request that Harbor naval base.
Fire Chief Wallace Blaisdell re- left."
orphanage.
women physicians be taken into
The attack ended at abo1.1t 9:25 ported the fires were . under conHe went on to say:
Fritman fought. in the Civil war
the army_ reserve "upon the ~ame a. m., ~2:55 P. M. EST) lash~g ~or trol, because of a radio call that
"As soon as the information of and then came west to Indiana.
SOMERVILLE, N. J. (INS)-A terms as ot.h:r members" and "with approximately an hour and fa mm- b~ought an. fh;~me.n to duty. The the attacks on Manila and Hawaii" where for 25 Years he taught
flies, he sa11,d, we1e not as bad as was received by the war and navy
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24 _ ear-old New Jerse father was all the pr1v-il;ges accorded there- utes.
ac!used Saturday niJt of stran- to" and that 'all p1:?per and ne:!cs- COUNTED 50 PLANES
I expected.
Idepartments it was flashed im~e- 1schoo~ m Canoll and Tippecanoe
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gling to death his 4½-months-old s8:~~ steps be taken to make th em
Witnesses said they counted at CITIZENS WOUNDED
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ditely to the President 3:t the "\Yhtte 0-,o-::_u-::_n-::_t_,_•-::_
•-::_-::_-::_:_:_:_:_:_:_:_:_:_:_:_:_:_:_:_:.,daughter because the child's whim- ehgibl.e for th e navy res~:ve.
least 50 planes in the initial attack,
Some streets were pocked with House. Thereupon and immediately
pers annoyed him as he was lis•
?opies
;ent to mihta.ry of- which the army said started at big holes, and several citizens were
tening to a radio program.
flcials an
• · SUrgeon general. 8:10 a. m. (1:40 p. m. EST).
• wounded by b~mb fragments.
The father, Niles Post of B~ad- s·
K·n
d Wh
A t
The attack seemed to center
Fal'l'i1;gton high ~chool was conI e
ley Gardens, N. J., was held w1thIX
en
U O
against Hickam field huge army verted into a hospital to care for
out bail for action by the grand Is Struck by Train
airport, and Pearl Harbor, where the wounded and injured.
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jury on a murder charge.
the islands' heaviest naval fortiflcaWhen the attack started, radio
Police said Post's wife had gone
VANCEBU1'.tG, Ky, 1.lP>;-Six pe-:- tions are located.
calls ordered all sailors, marines
to a movie, leaving him to care sons, all relatives, were killed whr.-n
Wave after wave of bombers and soldiel"S to report instantly to
for their only child.
a ?hesapeake 8:nd Ohio_ passengc: streamed through the cloudy sky their posts.
SHANGHAI (Monday) (INS) DEC. 7
The father who denied stran• tram smashed mto their automo- from the southwest shattering the
Soon, the sky was filled with puffs
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th
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City
gling his da~ghter said the baby bile a mile west of here late Satur. g calm
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of smoke showing anti-aircraft bat- Japanese forces durmg
e mg
Thirty-two traffic d eat h I
became "ill" and fhat he rfn up day.
.
m~e:X:aps the· first to die was Bob teries were stabbing for the high- attacked the British naval gunboat
since Jan. 1.
to the second floor of th twoCoroner H. M. Bertram 1dentiOed T c
owner of
civilian airport flying bombers.
Petrel in Shanghai harbor and the
family house to summon ]r:r. and the dead as Merle Smith, 50, a n:a e, Honolulu w:o had started to United States planes took to the vessel burned to her waterline to-One day without a death.
Mrs. Lovell Garde1:as.
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fa_rmer; ~ancy Kate Pell, 54; Ar- spi: the prop;ller of a plane when air, an~ spectators on hills back da .
1940 record: Twenty- three
They took the child to t
office thur Smith, 35, a tenant on t.hc th
One plane of the city could see dogfights over
Y
deaths to Dec. 7.
of Dr. Edgar T. Flint of aritan, !Merle Smith farm; Cl:nnie ~m,t.h, sweooe::mJO':~~~a~::~·e guns blaz- the area.
It was the first 3:r~ed J~panese
County Outside City
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N. J., Somerset county p ysician,, 15, son of Arthur; Cecil Sartm, 30, .
p d
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d d
There was a report from persons attack on any British umt and
Fo1·ty-two traffic deaths since
who found the infant w s dead. ·and ~ancy Jane Stennett, 5.
mg, an T}ce e 11 ea . .
who came past Pearl Harbor that c1:1-me sevel'al hours after Japanese
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Lewis County She,riff Henry ESCAPES ATTACKERS
one ship there was lying on its air and naval forces opened sur- ! Jan. 1.
Twelve days without a death.
throat, Dr .. Flint perfo med an Hardy said he was told by a witRoy J. T!to~sek, .Honolulu atto_r-,side in the water .and four others1~rise assault~- on Ameri~an. bas~s1
1940 record:
Forty - two
, _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _J autopsy which revealed she had ness that the driver made no effort ney, was piloting his own plane m were on fire. This could not be m the Hawauan and Ph1lppme isdeaths to Dec, 7.
- - - -- died of strangulationt h said.
to stop at the crossing.
an early morning sky ride when confirmed immediately.
lands.
AXIS sabotage Plot
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the results have been encou1·agmg.
Although her weight-about 30
tens - places her in the medium
class, observers here are calling her
Canada's first heavy. She is bigger,
faster and more heavily armed than
the Valentine mediums now being
produced in quanity.
Because of mobility and weight
she is known to the men testing
her as Ram l. Steered by tillersone for each track-she is a first
cousin to the American M-3 tank
now being s_u?plied by ~he United
states t~ Bri~~h f;_rces ~n Englan~
and Afnca. f l e d~r t as a ~as
hull, power u ra ta - ype engme,
and uses a high-octane fuel.
Her_ test crew.s are men from !he
experimental wing of th e Canadian
armored corp s , a nd she recentl~
was .taken through a ~ull demon
str~bon for representatives of the
Umted States army.
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l'iEW YORK' {Jf'J" - The British radio quoted the Reuters news
agency Sunday night reporting from Honolulu that several
planes were shot down in an attack on Pearl Harbor.
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REPORTS GUAM ALARM
WASIDNGTON UP) - The White House announced at
6:08 p. m. Sunday night that the navy had just reported a.
squadron of unidentified planes over the Island of Guam, a
dot In the Pacific between Hawaii and the Philippines.
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Asks women serve
as Army Doctors
Man Who S·ought
Identity Since
1852 Is Dead
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Say Father K"1lls
Wh"1mper1ng
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Japs Sink
British Ship
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in Hero Roles in New Guinea
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Delayed dispatches Tuesday revealed how Grand Rapids and
west Michigan men, especially
companies I and K of the 32nd division, played an heroic part in
three weeks of constant fighting
in a roadblock of the Sanananda
road, New Guinea, while surrounded by Japanese forces.
Among men known in west Michigan who were named in these dispatches were Capt. John Douglas
Shirley of this city, whose death
was recently reported by the war
department, the late Capt. Roger
Keast of East Lansing, former
Michigan State athlete, Capt. Alfred Medendorp of this city, Sergt.
John Mikita of Grand Rapids,
Sergt. George L. May of Six Lakes,
Maj. Bernt Baetcke of Detroit,
whose wife and two children are
now living in Traverse City. Other
Michigan men concerned were Maj.
George C. Bond of Adrian, who
led companies I and K, Capt. Peter
Dalponte of Three Rivers, Lieut.
Herman Davis of Sandy Creek.
T O CUT JAP LINE
The aim of the group was to
cut the muddy, 10-foot-wide road
that the Japanese were using to
A Name to Be Remembered
supply their front lines. The Sa- the Jap machine gun. Sergt. May
nananda road ran three and a half of Six Lakes responded, taking 10
miles from the Japanese beach
head to the American front lines. men.
Two compariies of infantry that STOP ENEMY FIRE
carried out the daring action Ji.ad
With a grenade thrown by May
been flown into the area over the and tommy guns the Americans
Owen Stanley mountains. •
stopped the enemy fire for the
Capt. Medendrop of Grand Rap-, time being, but in weeks to come
ids Jed the 1-W-airopi patrol" in the log was the scene ot repeated
through the mountain, and the pa- battles. When Americans passed if
trol had killed 26 Jq.Jm before it they were always fired upon. They
reached northern Papva.
learned by experience to creep the
Company K started forth on Nov. full length of the log, go around
23 in an attempt to establish an the end, then double back. Japaadvanced command post deep in n ese fire always went along the
the jungle on the left side of the log's top. However, there was usuJap-held road. Finatl.y they dis- ally a new "~ise guy" in each parcovered a place so ifar behind the ty who tried to short cut by crawlJap lines that it w9 parallel with ing across the log. The Japs nearthe enemy artillery positions about ly always got that chap.
a mile away in a straight line For a cogent reason the Ameracross the jungle b ut three hours icans did not try to wipe out perfloundering to reach from the road. manently the Japanese pillbox esIn bypassing the Jap lines in a tablished there. As they were loopboard curve westward, company Ing around Japanese lines, J ap and
K underwent only desultory sniper American trails were bound to infire.
tersect somewhere. The log fur"FOLLOW THE SUN"
nished a certain protection while a
Co. I, commanded by Bond and ne~ crossroa.ds migh t have been
leaving a third of its men and an•_n_t_ir_e...:ly'-ex...:p:...o_s_ed_._ _ _ _ _ _ __
of Co. K protecting the earthen
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Sanananda Road, New Guinea-Scene of Epic
Fight Which Grand Rapids Men Died to Win
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accompanied by a force of 50-Caliber machine guns. The only maps
of the region were so inaccurate
that the order given was "follow
the sun." By going eastward they
would break the road somewhere.
A "point'' of three or four men
leading the way :finally reached a
patch of dry grass in the middle of
which was a fallen log, 6 feet
thick.
When the point, creeping low,
rounded the end of the log, terrific
fire opened on them. The Americans h ad found an ambush, a Jap
trail through which the enemy
front lines were supplied whenever
the main road was under Austra•
lian artillery fire.
Sergt. Mikita, leading the poin t
platoon, asked for volunteers to get
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Dollinger and Devereaux Fought to Keep Lines Clear
G. R. Men Foil Wily J ops in New G~inea
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J Maps we're · ma:ccurate~ Tiienien
More of the grim detatls of cer- .l .
"fO11
d th 5 un ,. crawl)tain phases of the American vie- ~imp 1Y
owe
e . f , ed ith
tory against Japanese entrenched m? through swamps m est . w
at vital points in the New Guinea snipers, Three hours of .~h!S--8.n~
·ungle fighting-action in which then _the group. reached the log,
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Grand Rapids men fought and died ) th f
• t f fi from a Jap•
to win their objectives and, incie oca 1 P0 !n
ire .
dentally a mass citation of the anese machine gun, smpers artd a
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1 mortar. The log had to be passi,d.
Sgt. John Mikita of Grand Rap•
32nd division for heroism from ids, leading the point or hea:i
Gen. Douglas MacArthur - are the advance platoon, called f r
coming to light now in belated dis- volunteers to "get" the mac
e
patches.
gun nest. Sgt. George L. May of
Individual deeds of some Grao d Six Lakes took 10 men, a couple
Rapids and western Michigan men of automatic rifles, rw.any grenades
are mentioned in detail, including and a tommy gun and went after
bayonet cljarge led by Capt. John it. At 30 yards Sgt. May tossed the
Shirley of Grand Rapids, who, first grenade and others followed
ext day, was fatally wounded. The machine gun was sile.Pce
The action was in November a nd it was days before the Ame
early December, but news of the actually smashed Japanese c
death of Capt. Shirley Was received' of "the Jog" crossing, beyond
only a few days ago.
Jay their objective-the road.
Nume'rous Grand Rapids and
The Americans, who be
e
western Michigan casualties of known as the "lost ~ompmiy."
which relatives here have been no- held doggedly on to their ~~•·J.naecl
tified dated back to this period.
position for three weeksln all.
j •Briefly, the situation was this: . They assumed they were about 600
While the main body of Arner1- yards in advance of their main
can and Australian troops fough I body of troqps, but air checkup
to wipe out the Japs at Euna, it later showed that actu!llly they
was decided to attempt to cut off were more than a mne bis1de the
a road leading three and one-half Jap lines and completely encircled.
miles from their beachhead at
Shirley Lt,ads Bayonet Charg,_
Sanananda, north of Buna, to the
allied front lines. n was a daring
It was the final break through
that Capt. Shirley was-and ~osplan and everyone knew it.
sibly others from this areaTwo infantry units were flown killed.
over the Owen Stanley mounOO.ins
To Capt. Shirley credit w
to landing fields hacked in the jun- I for making the decision t 1
gle. A third company, made up of a vigorous attack against tt
machine gunners and riflemen- One correspondent said Ca•
the now famous HWairopi patrol/' Iey declared: "Let1s go g
· Jed by Capt. Alfred Mede nd orp of so-anq-so's. Fix your bayc
Grand Rapids-had made its way Jet's cut the guts out of t
through the mountains on foot.
Shirley led the charge"
. Swamps and Snipers.
swimming, half-wading
Maj. George c. Bond of Adrian with knee-deep mud and
was in command of the two infan- roots, amidst a hail of J
try companies. Among his leaders bullets. The Jap tl"enche
were Capt. Shirley and two other · taken and the troops burst T
Michigan officers.
to the Sanananda road.
By the time it had struggled
In this charge Capt. Roge.
through to Soputa, in the north~ of Lansing, former football
ern Pauan marshes, starting point Michigan State, was killed
for the attempt to cut the Japs1 Shirley came through, bu
Sananarula road, the Wairopl pa• kiJied in the continuing actlo
trol alrej,.dy had killed 26 of the day. It is definitely known I
enemy.
was in action with the "lost
The Americans bypassed the .Tap pany" that Pvt. Connie Cag, •
lines in a curve to the westward, of Grand Rapids, whose death
bent upon cutting the Sanananda just beell announced was kiJ
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Heroism of Grand Rapids and open because the distance. between ' A,RUNNING "BUSH" western Michigan men in the 32nd the 10st company a nd its com.At the crossing of the Jap and
(Red Arrow) division's famous ma1:1der was so gr~at th at po~table American trails, they noticed a I
"lost company," which was com- ra~ws were unworkable and it re- bush which had not been there bepletely surrounded by Japanese quired two days ~or a. tunner. t~ ·fore. Nye fired at th e bush, which I
forces after breaking their motor make. th e rou nd trip, wi th th e r~s hastily rose and disappear'ed into
supply road from
Sananan~a of bemg . ambushed by th e ~ap ·
the jungle. It was a Jap with a J
beachhead, is vividly described in
In . trymg to kee;p th e lme in bush tied around his waist and heldelayed dispatches arriving from working_ 0rd er, Dollinger 1:1nt Nye lmet. Despite perils and discour- J
New Guinea.
. worked m water .up to th eir .nee~, agements, th~ men failed only
The dispatches tell how Ger~m with bullets whistling. o~. their four times to Splice the wire.
Dollinger of Grand Rapids, with heads. It was a f;fvorite ti ick
i When th e. Americans found i
Marcellus Nye of Saginaw, worked th e .Japs Lo .remove mol~e w
themselves isolated by the severing
heroically to ke~p ~be telephone ~ban U;te ~e~air me.n cou
carry of the telephone line, Capt. John
line of communtcabon open ~ for replacement, in ·thi hope that D. Shirley of Grand Rapids, later
' tween th~ lost _company a n d ernt they would have to go back f~r killed in action, and Capt, Roger
commanding officer, Capt. B
more and thus lose a whole days Keast of Lansing, decided to reBaetcke of Traverse City, in th e time. Sometimes the wire would spon d to the Jap attack, which had
face of the fact that the Japs were be cut within an hour after it had been throwing high explosive mornd
cuttlng it at lea 5t once daily; a
been spliced.
tars into the water-filled foxholes
bow Sergt Robert Devereaux. of
Once, when Jap fire was espe- where the Americans lay. Keast
Grand Rapids, former Sou th high cially heavy, Capt. Peter Dalpon~e led the attack, which started as a
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sch ool athlete, fought bravely on of Three Rivers, would not permit patrol but ended as a bayonet asin the jungle, though he had con- the repairmen to leave the perim- sau lt.
tracted malaria a n d could not be ter for two days, during which One of the br avest fighters in
evacuated until his temperature time the party waa completely_ cut the attack was Sergt. Devereaux,
approached 106.
Iott from all communication. Fmal• who finally was evacuated over the
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T he telephone line had to be kept ly, getting restless, the repairmen perilous trail back th rough the
went out with two Tommy gun- jungle to recover from malaria.
ners.
The dispatches explain that though
temperatures of 106 seem incredible, they are common in Papua,
where fatigue brings out latent
fevers in fighting men. Often men
fight with temperatures at 104 and
then pull themselves out of foxh oles to reach a hospital on foot.
L itters are few and evacuation
t hrou gh the jungle is long and dangerous because of snipers. Some- I
times the sick men are evacuated
by air,
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road.
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tually certain.
�crumpled and toppling, the battleship Arizona poured black clouds of smoke in to the air, after the s\rprise·, 1Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7. A bomb was
reported to have passed down the smoke s.tack, exploding boiler and forward magazin e. Thls picture is an tfficial United States navy photograph.
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Wounds Fatal
·G. R. Army Man
Reported M,iSS'ing ,
in Pacific Area
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Technician Roman F. Olcneak,
·23, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph B.
Oleneak, 917 Lincoln ave., NW.,
was reported missing in action in
the southwest Paciftc area, accord•
tng to a telegram received Friday
night by his parents.
Oleneak, a former student at
Catholic Central high school, en•
listed in April, 1940. He went to
Camp Livingston, La., Fort Devens,
Mass., and in April of 1941 was sent
overseas.
Before ~nlisting. he was employed at the American Seating
cog;~-:!~k
has a brother,
servina: in the navy.
Black smoke poured from the U. S. destroyer Shaw after a direct hit by a Japanese bomb in
the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor Dec: 7. Defenders on the pier Cleft) pour water on the blaz..
This is an official U. S. navy photo. .l , )- 'f-),
ing wreckage.
Robert,
CORP. GERALD W. DE BOER,
23, who died from woumls reR
ceived in the New Guinea cam•
paign Dec. 4, according to word
received by the parents, Mr.
and l\Irs. \\'illiam De Boer, 927
Ninth-st., N. \-V, The widow,
Beatrice Lane DeBoer, bride ot
a year, resides at 216'1 Division•
av., S.
�MICH., FRIDAY, JANUARY 29, 1943.-2
Another Local
Soldier Killed
First Pictures of Local Soldiers Sent From Africa
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Clayton VanAmburgh
Added to ~ew Guinea
Casualty List
To the list of local war heroes
who gave their all was added Fri•
day the name of Sgt. Clayton Van
Amburgh, 251 who was killed in action in New Guinea Dec. 31, accoi::ding to a war department message received Thursday night by
his father, George VanAmburg
216 John-st., S. E.
Sgt. VanAmburgh was inducted
into the service April 17, 1940, at
Camp Custer, but through the in•
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History is repeating itself in the American occupation of north
Africa. As the Yanks of first World war days "adopted" youngsters
in France-and vice versa-so today's Yanks in Africa are fast
t
becoming chums of Arab and French children, as evidenced in photos
just receh,e<l from sevf'ral Grand Rapirs soldiers. PFC. IRA (PETE)
MULL, upper left, is shown in photo at upper right with an army
buddy in a jeep, as they paused to chat with an itinerant Arab. Lower
left, Mull is shown with a group of Arab youngsters. Lower right,
STAFF SGT. HAROLD ROEDEMA, left, and STAFF SGT. WILLIAM GROELSEMA, both of Grand Rapicls, and a third soldiei',
identified only as a SGT. l\.[URRAY, pose with a group of their new
pals, all Arab youngsters except the boy at the extreme right and
the girl in the cen~r, who are French.
Give Lives to,__ Win
New Guinea
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Lives of two more Grand Rapids soldJers were lost in the battle with
1he Japs in New Guinea last .November and December, parents have
jnst been notified. They were SGT. WALTER (LA J<'At:NCE)
A\iERY, 2-1, left, son of Mr. and ::\'lrs. Arthur Avery, lUO Alpine-av.,
N. W., who died Nov. 26, and PFC. GILBERT HENDRICKS, 26,
1011 of Peter T. Hendricks, 216 Carlton-av,, S. E., who was klllcd
Dec. 29.
ducement of a friend obtained as-signment to the 32nd division and
was sent to Camp Livingston, L_a .
The friend was Robert Hartmay(, a
sergeant, also serving in New
Guinea.
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The last letter received by the
father and a brother, Leroy, was
written Dec. 12. In it the sergeant
expressed hope of an early furlough and wrote he was savih
$100 to that end. Two packace
containing a grass skirt and strings
of shell beads were received Jan. 1.
Sgt. VanAmburgh was a truck
driver before he entered the service and his brother Leroy said his
army assignment was truck driving. The circumstances surrounding his death have not been
learned.
Sgt. VanAmburgh attended the
old Division school 1 Central High
school and Davis Technical and
Vocational High school. Surviving
besides the father and brother Leroy are the mother, who lives in
Piqua, Ohio, and another brother,
Pvt. Clifford VanAmburgh, staj tloned at Camp Carabelle, Fla.
�?IDS, MICH., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 6,
More Heroes of Red A.rrowi"Lost Company"
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Outstandlnr role, In the advance of the •x.o.t Company" of the ': ,American ''Bed Arrow." Into the
Papuan Junrl•• deacrlbed by Correapondent Georre Weller In ea,ller ln1tallmenll of hla 1erle1 were
taken by PFC. WAYNE LOWING, IZ, left, of .Jenl1on RFD No. 1; STAFF SGT. JOHN MIKITA, 11,
center, of 805 Jacklon-1t,, N. W., and SGT. ROBERT R. McGEE, n, rlsht, of 6WMlohlpn-1t., N. E.
Memben of Sgt. McGe•'• family reported Wednnda y that he wu wounded .Urhtl:, In the action late In
Nove,.ber, but
now c onval-lnr In Amtralla.
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Weary and unshaven, United States troops plod alonr a road 011
Guadalcanal Island, heading for an American bale after three conaecutlve week• of frontllne ftghtlllr with the ,1_,
Japs Suffer
INew Reverses
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Beaten; BaNJes Sunk
with 75 Nips Aboard
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
IN AUSTRALIA (Monday) (IP)
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Sixty additional dead Japa--
nese were counted In New
Guinea yesterday, 39 of them
after sklrmlshet1J that followed
Saturday's big air battle over
the Wau region. The 29 othe-rs wPre "stragglers" In the
BakumbarJ area about eight
mUe-s northweat of Gona.
Belated reports told of the
machlnegunnlng of two ~foot
barges, each carrying about 75
J aps, in Rieb eek bay on the
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north side of Nf>w Britain Island Saturday. Caauafttes were
reported "substantial."
Japanese planes were inactive
throughout the entire area and except for some strafing by Beaufighters in the Lae area, Allied air
activity was limited to armed
reconnaissance
with
incidental
bombing and strafing in Dutch
New Guinea, the Celebes, and Cape
Gloucester.
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WAITING FOR AERIAL AMBULANCE IN NEW GUINEAAmerlean soldiers wounded fighting the Japanese op the rugged Owen Stanley mountain ranie
of New Guinea are shown at Kokoda, waiting for the ambulance plane to take them to an Amerl•
can hospital near the Port Moresby area. The aerial ambulance service work, with smooth eJI.
eiency and fatalities from wound.a In all war areas were recently estimated at 1 per cent.
RAID FRUSTRATED
SOMEWHERE IN NEW
GUINEA (Delayed) UP) The
Japanese attempted to raid the
Wau airdrome with a large force
of planes in d_a~~igbt S':lnday and
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s uffered one ot tne most crushing
air defeats yet inflicted by the Allies in this area.
Of the attacking force, 4.1 Japanese bombe r s and fighters were
shot down or seriously damaged.
The Amer,e~ns d estioyed Ave
bombera and 21 ftghtP.rs and possibly destroyed thret- more bombers ~nd 12 tlghtera. Destruction of
two of the bombers was officially
credited to anti-aircraft gun crews.
Fliers accounted for the rest.
. Of the large defending force of
P-38's, P-39's and P-t0's, not one
wae Jost and not a crewman was
Injured. Only a few Allied planes
were damaged during the two-hour
series of battles over the forbidding mountains between Wau and
the sea.
"DESPERATION" THRUST
(The size of the Japanese raiding force suggested a desperate
effort to impede the concentration
or Allied fighting men in the sector
of Watt, 35 miles ~outhwest of
Salamaua. whiC'h would menace invasion holdings at both Salamaua
and the sister port or La.e. In view
of the euccessful uee ot AJJied alr
men and suppllee in the Papuan
transports for the movement of
campaign, the full weight of avail- ,
able aircraft probably is being
I used to mobi1ize forces for a drive
against Salamaua and Lae.)
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Topping off the succeas over I
Wau, a B-24. bomber on armed
i-econnalssance probably aank two
small Japanese cargo vesaela off
New Guinea and New Britain and
shot up two motor barges. The
bomber pilot, Henry Chovanec of
Fayettevtlle. Tex., made an admit•
tedly optimistic estimate that poesibly 300 Japanese aboard the four
craft were killed.
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No maneu\-·er this, but actual battle action In the Papua sector
in the successful drive to Bun& as Australians, under heavy fire
themselves, clean out a. Jap pillbox only 30 yards away. In the
center is an American-built Gen. Stuart tank, manned by
Australians.
Men of the United States 32nd division examine trophies in a rest
period following the capture of Bona, New Guinea. Men in the
foreground are looking at a mission bell they found while the
soldier standing, l'.enter, exhibits a Jap officer's sword. Another,
sitting at right, sh8"'s his buddies a captured Jap flag. Many western
Michigan men participated in the capture ef Buna.
Medical Heroes
Slay 100 More
GRAND RAPIDS, MICH., MONDAY,
Japs,i ~ f ~inea
Allies Carrying Fight to
Foe Southwest of
Salamaua
FEBRUARY 15, 1943.-l
Inspct lap Prisoners on Guadalcanal
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ABied Headquarters in Australia
-(JP}-Forward elements of Gen.
Douglas MacArthur's army are
pressing the Japanese southwest of
Sa1amaua, New Guinea, with increasing force and an additional
100 Japanese warriors have been
killed,· an allied communique said 1
Wednesday.
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The allied and Japanese forces
are in contact in the Wau-Mubo
area, 35 miles southwest of the
Japanese supply center of Salamaua. It was the allied airport at
Wau which enticed the Japanese
into an aerial fight last week in
which more than 40 Japanese
planes were destroyed or damaged.
W-e\day's communique indicateOthe ~ ground forces were j
carrying the fight to the Japanese .
while previously the Japanese had ,
been driving on allied positions.
Allied attack planes and Jongrange fighters bombed and strafed
Japanese positions at Lae, another
Japanese supply point a few mile
northwest of Salamaua.
H~avy allied bombers caused ex- i
tensive damage to the ~irport and I
shipping facilities at Kendra! in the j
Celebes, the communique said, and
an 8,000-ton vessel was reported '
bombed. Results were unobserved. t
A United States marine sergeant lining up a rroup of Jap prisoners,
former members of a tabor hattaliori of Jap forcellll on Guadalcanal,
for inspection and exercise. Note the J'ps' split-toed shoes.
Overcome Jungle, Ellmlnate
Rats and Snakes to Set Up
Field Hospital In mmote New
Guinea.
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With American Forces in New
Guinea-'(JP)-The six officers and
sixty-four enlisted men of the mediCal corps here cleared out Kunai
grass which was chest high. From
under every other coconut tree
they removed pilel.:o!- ,dried and
rotting coconuts that filled 75
trucks. Thus they killed great numbers of rats and snakes which were
making their homes there.
To make their surgery tent insect-proof, they sewed together at
least a score of mosquito bars. They :
took the bottom parts of t)leir '
Sibley stoves, intended to keep
their ward tents warm in cold climates, sealed the ash - removing
doors w ith ta.i- and now use them
for wash basins in the dressing station.
From the air force they borrowed
, oxygen cylinders and .pilots' oxygen masks so that oxygen could
be administered during operations
when necessary. Because they
wanted a shower and had only
straight sections of pipe without
elbow joints; they got one of their·
patients wbo was in . ordnance to
weld the sections of pipe together.
So, after tJiree months, Maj. John
B. Morey of Ada, Okla., and his
staff have a field hospital able to
take care of hundreds of patients,
to give complete definitive care, to
perform any type of major operation. One man who was accidentally shot through the stomach and
small intestine with a .45 was up
and w'll\9og in two weeks. Accurate :X-rays are developed witn•
in seven 6r .elght minutes after a j
patienl'j lifr!ftl ln th~ X-ray tent.
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CHAPLAIN FORGY
A Presbyterian naval chaplain,
Lieut. Howell Forgy (above), 34
years old, of Haddonfield, N. J.,
was credited in news reports from
\
the Pacific battlefield area with
use of the now-famed fighting
phrase: "Praise the Lord and pass
the ammunition," which gained
popularity as· part of the words
of a nationwide song hit. Some
sources suggested that the plirase
was originally used in Civil Vl/ar
days. Lieut. Forgy once played
football as Muskingum college,
New Concord, 0.
And pass the ammunition holds good for these marines on Guadalcanal. While nearby gun
barks as U. S. troops mop up Japs· on the Mantanikou river section, Catholic fighting men kneel
befo~e an outdoor altar as Father Reardon, marine chaplain, says Sundal mass.
Repo;t"'from Melbourne Tells of Mission Massacre
Melbourne, Oct. 16.-(Aneta)- and there slaughtered by t he J apa- of islands were said to have b('- Guin~a.
A
Roman
catholic Bishop and
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.seve. n other Catholic m1ss10nanes
were massacred by the J apanese
July 13 on The Netherlands East
1Indies island of Kai, it was announced today by The Netl\erlands
East Indies government information service I1ere.
According to. eyevy1tness '.3-C•
.counts the informat10n service
said, the bishop and t he seyen
others were herded onto the wharf
at Langgoer, Kai's principal port,
32nd Division
Stages Rally
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nese soldiery.
The fate of t he remaining missionary priests a nd n uns on t he
islan d, w ho are k nown t o have
falle n into Jap anese h an ds, r emains unknown.
The bishop, w ho was named
J ohannes Aerts an d was 62 years
old had Jive d on t he island most
of his life, the announcement
stated, and was revered and loved
by the inhabitants.
The populations of Kai and of
the neighboring Tanimbar gronp
come enraged over the "bestial
behavior" of the Japanese, ,vhose
actions t he information service
described as a "bloody massacre."
W hile t ile cause of the murders
was not stated, it js believed here
that Bishop Aerts and companions
were slaughtered because the
bishop had ordered the destruc tio n of. a motor launch prior to
the arnval of the Japanese.
Monsignor Aerts, who held the
rank of Titular Bishop, was Apostolic Vicar of Netherlands New
Deaths in Battle Confirmed
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Two Grand Rapids soldiers formerly reported missing in N ew Guinea
now have been officially r eported killed in action. STAFF SGT.
WALTER H . MILLER, left, son of Mr. and :l\frs. William L. l\liller,
457 Hubert-st., N. E., was buried on the battleground last Dec. 7,
the parents were informed. SGT. ADRIAN BUSH , right, son of Mr.
and Mrs. John Bush, 1S13 Nort h-av., N. E., was killed Dec. 7.
His jurisdiction a~so ineluded many of the smaller islands
to the east, among them the Tanimbat and Kai groups. His seat
was at Langgoer, where he met
his death.
He was a member of the congregation of the Sacred Heart, as
were all the priests, nuns and
brothers working his vicariategeneral, with the exception of
some Franciscans stationed to the
north . It is assumed, therefore.
that the seven who were murdered
with him belonged to that order.
The nuns in the vicariate. who
belonged to a congregation of the
order called the Daughters o! Our
Lady of the Sacred Heart, taught
in schools in the vicariate, and
served in a hospital at Lang.goer,
where a novitiate for native nuns
and brothers was also held.
Monsignor Aerts was born at
Swolgen, in The Netherlands, Feb.
8, 1880, and consecrated bishop
Nov. 30, 1920.
In 1939, the last year for which
statistics are available, there were
12 priests stationed in the Langgoer area. The number of nuns
1and brothers is believed to have
been much larger.
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Third of Japs
in Wau Slain
Mac Arthur
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They Didn't Evacuate
New Guinea, They Died,
Declares General
UNITED
NATIONS
HEADQUARTERS in AUSTRALIA (F1·iday) (INS)-Japanese forces. in
New Guinea, for the second time
in six weeks, have suffered a heavy
defeat, Gen. Douglas MacArthur
announced today. More than a
third of the Japanese
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS
AUSTRALIA, (Thursday) UPI -
tioops that
Gen. Douglas MacArthur's communique
Wednesday
virtually
' called Japan's Mikado
liar,
ing Gen. Tomatari Horti and his
army did not evacuate the Buna
area o! New Guinea at the end of
January as the Japanese claimed
but "perished.''
This pointed commentary was included along with the announcement o! a fresh A11ied ground
tory on the approaches to Sala.maua and Lae, the next Jap bases
of importance since the victor I at
Euna sealed triumph for the Allies
in the Papuan peninsula. The communique announced that the main
Jap force has been encountered in
the Wau area, some 35 miles southwest of Salamaua, and forced back
for six miles, after which our artillery continued to pour it on the
retreating enemy.
The communique's blunt giving
of the lie referred to Wednesday's
statement in a Japanese imperial
headquarters communique that its
troops pulled out of Buna.
"It ls a complete fabrication
and must be regarded as propaganda rather than ai;; a miH•
t-a,ry report," snapped MaoArthur's version of the battle.
It marked the first time Gen.
MacArthur had given the Ue direct
to the Japanese and his language
was typically forthright and in•
cisive.
He said "the necessity for such
subterfuge" as the Japanese claim
"in the name of the emperor himself represents ·a moral defeat even
greater perhaps than the physical
one he has suffered."
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The rel,)l\rf_. nl Jhe Jap setbr.~
a sayi
attacked Allied positions at WaUi
south of Salamaua, have been de•
strayed, a communique announced.
The enemy has suffered almost 1,000 killed since launching the first attack Jan. 30, the
communique said~ It was estimated that more than half of
the Jap's forward striking
units were killed and "many
times" that number were belteved to have been wounded
or died as an indirect result o:t
the Wau action.
The routed enemy force now is ,
retreating toward Mubo, defense !
outposts to Nippon's big base at
1 Salamaua, roughly 10 miles to thfl
north,
The battle for Wau, which began two weeks ago as a Jap patrol
raid and gradually developed into
a full-scale ground fight, was the 1
second defeat for the enemy since IUICHIGAN TROOPS ADVANCE AGAINST JAPSearly January, when Nippon's Pa• i
paun army was crushed in the :
\tembers of the 32nd division, originally a Wisconsin and l\lichigan National Guard outfit, wade
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Buna-Gona area.
across a New Guine& stream with their bearers, right, during the recent march on the Japs, in
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Two hundred additional Japanese
the Buna sector where members of the division won 55 distinguished service crosses for heroism
dead were counted yesterday in
in wiping out the enemy force.
I the Wau area by Australian forces,
which also took a number of enemy
prisoners during the battle, it was
officially disclosed.
With the enemy still retreating
northeast of Wau, all threat to
the safety of the Allied garrison
buried deep in the heart o! the
Owen Stanley mountain ranges of i
northwestern Papua now appears
to be removed, according to an
Allied spokesman.
Allied troops, fighting an intel•
ligent defensive warfare in the
hills and deep valleys around Wau,
suffered only "relatively light" cas•
ualties, it was announced,
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seized the initiative in that area.
In driving the Japs back six
miles in the Wau area, an Allied
spokesman said 125 more of the
enemy had been slain. This raised
Ij~p:~~le~h~:
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t~:ean~i;;::~
patrol raids or skirmishing in re-cent weeks. Despite the success
reported today, the fighting remains on a comparatively smaU
scale, although increasing in intensity.
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WEA.RY YAJ\'KS REST BESIDE JUNGLE TRAILFoot-weary and of sober mind, members of the heroic 32nd division sit beside a jungle trail for
rest in the march to Buna.
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Guadalcanal Is Free ')_. 1:3- 'I'S "
America1.1 forces have cleaned the
Japs out of Guadalcanal as well as
Papua. The Secretary of the Navy has
announced, and Tokyo has confirmed
it, that the Japs took a good and
healthy licking in Guadalcanal and New
Guinea. Many thousands of Japanese
died in their efforts to hold these two
spots in the southwest Pacific. A great
many fine American boys also lost
their lives in the battles there. But
the Government assures us that our
losses were small in comparison with
the losses of the Japs, We find some
aatiafaction in that.
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MARCH 1,
1943
JAPANESE EYES
ON AUSTRALIA
ipponese Reported
einforcing Positions
taps
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Lging and probably destroying an
1.dditional bomber and eight flght~rs u the communique said.
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';wsitions were silenced and fires
;tarted in the building area.
"Three enemy fighters, all that
tpparently remained after the d_is1ster on the ground, attempted ln1 :erception as our aircraft left the
:arget area. One was shot out of
Lction by cannon shells and the
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, Monday UP) - ,thers were driven off.
The Japanese are reinforcing their positions north of A.ustralia "All our planes returned."
apparently to prepare for action against Australia, the Allied &AID l{AI ISLANDS
high command announced toda):.
Medium bombers raided an en"Our air reconnaissance over the past weeks report a constant ~my-occupied . townh in thdeamKaga;
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stands, causmg
eavy
and growmg remforcemen 1n a _l cate~ries of en~my streng
lmong the buildings with direct
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oping the upper half of Aus•i 1Vhile heavy units of the airforce
tralia,'' the noon communique ,ombed bot~ Finschhafen and Lae
·d
j n New Gumea.
sa1 •
! Ground forces in the Wau-Mubo
"The enemy seems to be con• ,1,rea drove the enemy from th~
centrating his main effort in Naipainlng-Waipali area. Seventy
preparation on this front. Su~h fapanese dead were c_ounted _in one
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ocality the communique sa1d, but
~n . assembla~e of_ maJor force nany ~ncounted dead remained in
md1cates he 1s taking up a posi• :he brush.
tion in readiness.
"Our air attacks have apparentMAY PLAN A'ITACK
y been effective against personAsked . whether the Japanese 1.el," the communique said of aerial
were preparing to attack or de- 1.ssaults against the Japanese in
fend themselves, a spokesman at :hat area. "The enemy now has
Gen. MacArthur's headquarters )een thrown back approximately,
said:
m miles from the scene of his de"It could be either offensive or :eat at Wau.''
defensive."
Several enemy aircraft appeared
Japanese positions presently ex- ,ver Milne bay during the night,
tend more than 2,000 miles above lropping bombs harmlessly in the
Australia, from the Solomons in ;>ay.
the east to Timar island in the
,\•est
Ma.jar aerial activity in the
northweJtern sector possibly
against the enemy's reinforcemen t
activities - was disclosed in the
comnµ.inique.
ALLIES SURPRISE JAPS
Allied Jong range fighters swept
over the Penfoei airdrome in the
Koepang area of the island of
Timar at ground level just after
dawn Sunday, completely surprising the enemy.
"Eighteen thousand rounds of
cannon_ and heavy machine gun
fire were poured into enemy aircraft caught on the field, completely destroying four b?mbers and
nine fighters and seriously d amI
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foe Get-ting Ready for Acfion
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WASHINGTON (AP) - An In·
dication that America's naval
in the PacUic is about
ready to undel'take a drive ~or
positions from which Japanese mdustrial centers can be brought uni der direct and devastating attack
came Sunday from Admir3:l Ch~ster w. Nimitz, commander 1n chief
of the pacific fleet.
"We are now at the cross roads
of the Pacific campaign," Nimitz
said in a radio broadcast sponsored by the American Red Cross.
Hls prepared statement w~ released by the navy in Washington.
"Through t )l e unmatched
devotion of the men who held
t h e Jines in the trying months
of t h e past year, we have
turned back the enemy in the
South Pacific.
The loss of
Gu adalcanal marks the fir 5t
defeat of that kind suffered by
the Japanese in modern times.
oFrom now on," he continued, "the going will be
tougher as we undertake the
task of driving the enemy
from prepared positions he has
been building in the conquered
areas.
AMERICAN OBJECTIVES
Two statements in Admiral
Nimitz's brief discussion of future
operations in the Pacific attr?-cted
special attention in naval circl~s
here.
Both had to do with h1s
definition of American objective~.
The first was his assertion that 1t
is "our job" to •'neutralize" Japan's
island strongpoints; the secon~
was that from the advance positions to b e won, it is the navy's
intention to shell as well as to
bomb enemy industrial centers.
In the past,'virtually all authoritative discussion of attack ~n
Japan itself has been st3:ted m
terms of airpower - that is, that
the Japanese would be bo~be_d
from bases in China and Russia (lf
and when Russia enters the Pacific war) and from aircraft carriers which wou ld not have to approa~h closer t h an 200 miles :o
Japan in order to deliver t1;1e1r
bombers.
REGARDED AS PROMISE
Nimitz's statement was regarded
here, however, as a promise ~f
naval bombardment of the enemy s
vulnerable coastal cities by the
heavy guns of the American fleet
-an operation which would prob·
I ably be undertaken only in the
final phases of an amphibious
offensive aimed at the conquest of
the Japanese homeland.
Neutralization of the enemy empire's island strong points, it was
said, normally would precede .any
attack on Japan itselt and might
be accomplished in several ways.
The effect of ·attrition on Japanese
seapower should 11:1crease ~he
enemy's difficulties m supplying J
his more distant bases such as
Struk in the South Pacific. Moreover, many of these bases can be
outfl'anked by American sea and
air attack on intermediate stroti,g.,_ with Japan.
points linking them
l might
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Equals That of
Papuan
Battle
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(By Associated Press.)
Allied bombers with their
deadly blasting of a Japanese
convoy this week killed in just
t wo days as m a n y en emy soldiers as were wiped out in six
months of bitter fi gh tin g in the
Papuan jun~les of New Guinea.
The Japs landed at Buna in
July of last year a nd opened
the Papuan campa ign w hich
did not end until last J a nuary.
Gen. Tomotari Horii lost an
army estimated at 15,000 in that
defeat - the sa me number ,of
troops as perished in two days
time under the assault of Gen.
Douglas MacArthur's bombers,
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fleet Ready
for Japanese
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Spirits Are High
Pacific War Victims Joke About Their Experiences in Fort Custer Hospital
Battle Creek-(/P)-One hundred sniper at Guadalcanal, a wound
which brought him the purple
heart award in a ceremony Sun- )
day.
"We went out on an early-morning patrol about 1,000 yards inside
J'ap
territory and started to get a
1 this week and renewed their be1lief that there's no place at Guad- Jap gun near Henderson field when
they
got me," he related. "l just
alcanal or the Solomons or in Ausrolled over and played dead while
tralia thl:\,t compares to home.
my
buddies
went on-they got the
"My folks are glad to know . I'm
Jiere/' smiled Pfc. Arthur Ka1se_r, gun, too, by the way-and I tossed f
a
couple
of
grenades while lying
23 veteran of a 9-month tour m
A~stralia, who hails from He_rron, there just to do my part."
near Alpena. Kaiser was stricken ''Boy, this country looked good 1
when we got in San Francisco, but 1
with a stomach ailment overseas.
"Those Australian girls were when I was brought back to Michinice" he grinned, displaying a gan, it was tops," said Cpl. Walter
snaPshot of himself with a bright- C. Corda, 27, of Bessemer. Corda
eyed member of the WAAF in Aus- developed asthma in service in Australia. "I'd just as soon stay in this tralia and New Guinea.
Says He Killed 50,
country, though, when I'm better."
Played ,Possum.
Many of the men spent the first
Cheerful and glad to be back was few days after their arrival here
Sgt. James Genovese, 31, former examining souvenirs brought from.
f
Chicago railroad employe who was the battle zones.
''Quite a hunk of metal, isn't it?"
shot in the right foot by a Jap
asked Pvt. Ralph Alvarado, a Mex•
ican youth from Gary, Ind., also a
purple heart winner, whose left t
arm was held high on a splint.
"This is the shrapnel they took out
of rrty arm," he said, displaying a
3-inch piece of ragged metal. He
was at Guadalcanal.
Eight bed-ridden victims joined in I
the telling of conditions at Guadalcanal, of the fighting they had seen
and done, "And the place was lousy
with Japs," one blond youth shouted across the ward. "Everywhere
you looked you saw Japs, live ones
and dead ones. Boy, we knocked
'em off, too."
. One of the men, asked if he had
killed any of the enemy, said: "I
figure I took care of about 50 per1sonally
." The others•mumbled their
own 'scores" ranging from 15 to 35.
\
seventy-five war casualties from
the southwest Pacific area began to
1 "get the feel" of crisp, clean sheets
, and
spotless wards in the new
Percy Jones general hospital here
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Heavily-bearded, hi• uniform In tatters, SGT, LLOYD GILLMER
of Big Rapids, &its on a fallen tree at Bun~ New Guinea, to re1t
an<I smoke a cigaret, Even while relaxing from the fighting he keeps
hii 1ubm&ehlne gun ready at hand,
Capt. Hartnacke, Injured in Camp,
Dies; ~Body
Is Expected Saturday
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Capt, Franz J. HartnRcke, formerly of this city, died at 9 :10
a. m. Thursday in the army hospital at Camp Livingston, La.,
from injuries he received in the
crash of an army jeep during
maneuvers last Saturday.
Announcement of his death was
received here by David L. Cavera,
father of Capt. Hartnacke's wife,
the former Miss Roselyn Cavera,
;::en!:' w~~;e ;~;:· isp: :~fer
°':f
charge of troop reconnaissance in
the service. He served five years
in the ROTC at Michigan State
college, from where he was graduated in 1939, and was made a
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Flash,'' due to his prominence in
athletics during his first year in
high school. He was chosen on
several all-city teams in football,
basketball and track, and carried 1
his athletic prowess on to college.
His scholastic record was con- 1
sistently high.
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EXPECTED HEBE SATURDAY
In Grand Rapids he was a city ,
playground director during the '
summer months between college
terms, and upon graduation was
Capt. Hartnacke.
traffic engineer for the state high..
STAGED GALLANT FIGHT
way department here,
Since the accident, which ocCapt. Hartnacke's body will
curred in a collision of jeeps, Capt.
leave Alexandria, La., at 3 p. m.
Hartnacke being thrown out, he
Friday and is expected to arrive in
staged a gallant fight for life, and
Grand Rapids Saturday at 10 p.
three army nurses were in conm., escorted by ~ieut. :r. Cahill,
stant attendance despite the fact
who served under Capt. Hartthere were very few of them to
nacke.
be spared. Relatives had been adDue to uncertainty of train
vised to visit him in the camp
schedules and Mrs. Hartnacke's
hospital as soon as possible, and
condition, definite funeral arrangehis wife, together with Mrs.
ments have been withheld until
Greene and another sister, Mrs.
the body arrives. Memorial serv' Catherine Westrate, left Sunday
ices were held Thursday night in
night, arriving in Louisiana. Tues~
Alexandria by the captain's group,
day morning.
the 38th reconnaissance troop of
They were with him when death
CAPT. HARTNACKE
the 38th infantry division.
came, and Capt. Hartnacke r e - 1 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - 1 If the body arrives in Grand
gained consciousness long enough flr st lieutenant July 10, 1941. He Rapids Saturday, funeral services
to realize they were there. Mrs. entered active service the fol- will be held Tuesday at 10 a. m.
Hartnacke is expecting their first lowing Sept. 10 and was commis- in SL Andrew's church, with bur-child.
sioned captain Oct. 14, 1942.
ial in Mt. Calvary cemetery, The
The captain at 28 was reputed
At Catholic Central high sbhool Colpnial funeral home will have
to be tho youngest captain In he was nicknamed tho "Freshman charge of arrangements.
Parents Informed Friday
of Son's Death in Battle
Word of the death in action of
Technician Roman F. Ollneak, 23,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph B.
Ollneak of 917 Lincoln ave., NW.,
was made public Friday by his
parents. Ollneak previously had
been ieported missing in action in
the southwest Pacific.
On Feb. 18, Mr. and Mrs. 011neak received a letter informing
them that thetr· son had been killed
and that the body had been buried,
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Friday they received a postal card
stating that it would be some time
before parttclulars of his death
would be available.
Mr. and Mrs. OlJneak flrllt
learned that their son wu mining
on Feb. 5. He had jofned the armj
in April, 1940, and has gone overseas in 1941. He was employed by
the American Seating company
before entering the service.
Besides his parents, Ollneak la
survived by three brothers, Joseph,
and John of Grand Rapids, and
Robert, In the navy, and three
sisters, Helen and Leonore at home,
and a third sister, who is a nun
in the Order of Notre Dame, 1n
Milwaukee.
In an official dispatch received
In The Herald office recently for
publication on Saturday morning,
Corp. Jack L. White, 24, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. White.
120 Lamoreaux st., Comstock Park,
was listed as having been wounded in action in New GUinea.
Corp. White served ln the na,.
tional guard for three years before
he was called into service tn October, 1940. Before going overaeas
he was trained by the army tn
communications and engineering.
He waa employed by the Corduroy
Rubber company before ente
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active service.
Other casualties listed In t
official releaae previously had ·b<j
reported by Tho Herald.
�TUESDAY, MARCH
2,
1943
JAP FORCE NEARS
NEW G"UINEA
Japs Move
• on
New GUlnea
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Sight Large Convoy
Off Coast; MacArthur
Force Poises Blow
By LEE VAN ATTA
UNITED NATIONS HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA
(Tuesday) (INS) - One of the
largest Japanese convoys yet to
move in the direction of New
Guinea - consisting of 14 warships and merchantmen - was
sighted Monday off the north
coast of New Britain, it was
announced today.
The convoy, it was announced in a communique is-
Isued at Gen. Dou·gla.s Mac4"rthur's
headquarters, ls moving under
cover of an advancing weather
front and Allied heavy bombardment units now are poised waiting
for clearing skie'S and a chance to
strike at the enemy vessels.
Not since the time several weeks
ago when a big convoy, including
nine merchantmen and their warship escort tried to put in at Lae,
has a flotilla approaching this size
been spotted in New Guinea water's.
_A.erlal reconnaissance unlts
first discovered the swift enemy move only a few hours
after Gen. MacArthur had re-leased a statement warning of
tremendous Japanese concentrations in the island chain
rimming northern Australia.
The convoy wa'S spotted Monday
afternooo off Ubili on the north
coast of New Britain. Despite extremely adverse weather condi1
~~r:~in:;e inr:~:~:~~ss;~t~e t~!a~:~
emy throughout the night and this
morning the ships were believerl
west of New Britain. The convoy's definite objective has not yet
been reported.
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WEATHER SCREENS MOVE
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Taking advanta·ge of the weather
front, just a'S has been done during every Nipponese attempt to
reinforce
or
regarrison
New i
Guinea, the convoy so far has
moved free of attack from Allied
airmen. As soon as conditions
dear, however, It is expected that
mighty Flying Fortresses and Liberators will be hurled into a heavy
a'Ssault.
Meanwhile, an official spokesman
disclosed the presence of Allied
ground patrols in the Maria river '
area, ateadlly destroying the remnSee PACIFIC FRONT-Page 1Z
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ants, of Japanese troops along the
north coast of New Guinea. The
Allied patrols formed a part of
MacArthur's Gona garrison, it was
revealed1 and in a surprise attack
Monday they thrust into the Warla
rive1· mouth sector to smash four
large barges which had been dis-
covered there.
Heavy Liberator bombers made
their first attack of the war against
the Nipponese harbor at Waingra-
poe on
known
island)
of this
the island of Soemba (also
as ,Sandalwood or Sumba
in the northwestern sector
THE
theater. Enemy shipping
in the harbor of thi5 island, which
is west of Timar, was pounded by
AXIS
MONKEYS
bomber crews.
American
A-20s
bombed ~ and
strafed Japanese supply lines linking Guadalcanal with Salamaua
while one Liberator made its almost daily bombing attack against
Alexishafen airdrome,
POUND JAP BASES
WASHINGTON
(JP) -
American
bombers pounded Japanese island
bases in both the north and south
Pacific over the week-end, th~
navy repol'ted Monday, and successfully attacked a cargo ship
which blew up and sunk.
The ship was hit in the snortland island area of the Solomons
in the south Pacific where the
main weight of the American attack was directed. It probably was
either an ammunition ship or was
loaded with gasoline in drums since
it appears to have been destroyed
by violent internal explosion resulting from the hits.
The same force of planes which
sank the ship, four-engined \:iberators and Avenger torpedo car-.
riers, also assaulted enemy positions at Kahili and Ballale in the
Shortland area. Large fires were
started, a navy communique said,
and an enemy · aircraft was destroyed on the ground. One U. S.
plane failed to return.
This raid was carried out on
Sunday, Solomons time, and the
same day a Hudson patrol bomher
attacked the Munda airbase area
on New Georgia island in the central Soloinons in the 79th raid of
the war against that objective.
Meanwhile, Daunt 1 e s s Uve
bombers, with Lightning and Wildcat fighter escort, started fires at
Vila on Kolombangara island in
the Munda area.
In the north Pacific on Saturday,
medium and heavy bombers with
fighter protection assaulted enemy
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bombers returned to Kiska on
Sunday and scored hits In the
enemy camp.
All American planes returned
from both of those attacks',
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Japanese Convoy
3 ,3-'f-J, - Allied Planes Smash 4
of 14 Enemy Ships
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Nearing Guinea
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Allied Headquarters in Australia
(IP) -The crippled and widely•
scattered remnants of a 14-ship
Japanese convoy, smashed by allied bombers and fighters, staggered
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enemy base at Lae, New Guinea,
~ -rith Gen, Douglas MacArthur's ,
•. 't 1anes relentlessly on its trail.
At least four transports and cargo
!?ssels of the original armada of
even Japanese warships and seven
erchant ships have been sunk or 1·
damaged and thirteen Japanese
fighter planes out of the umbrella
of thirty or forty that tried to provide protection to the convoy have
been shot out of action, allied headquarters announced.
"Our losses are light. The battle
continues," an allied headquarters
communique said.
The bulletin said a 10,000-ton
transport had been hit five times
and 1eft awash and in flames; an
8,000-ton transport had been sunk
aftPr breaking in two; a 6,000-ton
vessel was directly hit on the bow.
and a sma1ler vessel was damaged
and set afire.
Allied Flying Fortresses and Liberator bombers, with a fleet escort
of P38 fighters, stabbed through
murky haze, thick clouds and rain
to deliver their blows in the face
of heavy anti-aircraft :fire and Japanese fighter planes.
''Other hits or near-hits were
scored against warships and cargo
ships, "results of which have so
far been impossible to assess," the
communique said. Pilots reported a
near-hit on a Japanese light cruiser.
Gen. MacArthur's airmen also
pounded Lae, concentrating on the
i:tirdrome area. Allied bombers also
attacked airdromes on Soemba
and Soembava islands, northwest
C).f Australia; destroyed an ammunition ship with a 500-pound bomb
and Wide bay, New Britain, and
smash~d at the Gasmata, New
Britain, airdrome, the communique said.
Elated pilots who participated in
the attack on the convoy saw
heavy bombs explode amidships on
the
8,000-ton
transport
and
watched it split Jn two and sink in
flames within two minutes, reports
from operations bases said. Flames
which poured from the wreckage
of other ships were visibk: fot· 1i
long distance, it was reported. ·
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''Surrender or be killed" was the ultimatum served on Guadalcanal
Japs via loudspeakers in the jungle. LT. COL. fRED MUNSON,
left, broadcast to the enemy in Japanese, pointing out the many ad•
vantages of surrendering. Some Japs surrender ed, the rest were
killed,
Sighted 200 Japs-Liquidated SanM
And Thal W role Finis lo
15,000 M en and 22 Ships
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
all that r emained to mark the
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
grave of the Japanese armada
AUSTRALIA (Saturday) - An Althat ha~ set out from Rabaul,
lied airman saw 200 Japanese
New Britain.
troops in three lifeboats - all that
"Our long range fighters and
remained of 15,000 spilled into the bomber units swept the entire area
Bismarck sea by the sinking of a (of the Huon gulf) completing mop22-ship convoy dropped his ping up of barges, lifeboats and
bombs and messaged his base: "No rafts from sunken ships of the
survivors."
Bismarck sea convoy," the noon
T hat ended one of the most
communique -of Gen. Douglas Macbrllliant aerial strokes by
Arthur reported.
American and Allied fliers in
"Effortg at escape were largely
the southwest Pacific, a spokes- fruitless and practically all were
man said today in commenting ; destroyecLThere-;;;-;c-;-r;ely a
on the high command commu- Asurvivor so far as was known.''
nique announcing ''there was
The convoy of 10 warships and ,
scarcely a survivor."
12 transports was sunk in a threeThe final score:
day attack, beginning Tuesday, as
For Japan - Ten Japanese war- the Japs sought to send badly needships, cruisers and destroyers, ed reinforcements to its garrison at
sunk; 12 merchantmen, transports Lae, New Guinea,
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and cargo ships sunk; more than
At Lae, seizing upon the op80 enemy planes destroyed or put
portunity presented by the disout of commission; and the troops,
ruptlon of the Jap plans, Mac•
estimated at 15,000, which the JapArthur's planes for the seCond
anese were hurrying to their
atraight day Kave that Huon
threatened foothold in the Lae:- I gulf base a terrific pounding•.
Salamaua sector of upper New
"A series of co-ordinated attacks
Guinea.
,
by all categories of our air force
For the AJlles - Only one
·were made on the airdromes and
bombe~. and three .fighters Jost.
adjacent installations through t h e
The mopping up of the surviv- day," the communique said.
ors off the New Guinea coast was
"Fires were started which were
carried out methodically yesterd~y visible for 40 miles. Weak enemy
by Allied bombers and lon g-ran&? forces attempted interception but
fighters sweeping the sea.
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were dispersed by our cover. Three
More than 400 J apanese perlshet! enemy planes were shot down."
in the final operations in an area
Mention of the weak intercepfrom 20 to 75 miles off the New tion appeared highly significant in
Guinea coast in Huon gulf. Barges, view of the fact that in Thursday's
lifeboats and rough log rafts to stepped-up aerial operations at Lae,
which the enemy troops were cl~~g- Allied planes had to battle more
in g were torn up by high explosives than a score of Japs, shootin g down
or ripped apart by the fighters' 17 in addition to blasting six which
machine-guns.
wer e on the ground refueling.
By n ightfall only • mall bit&
o wreckage a nd oil slick s w e:re
"Power barrea'Ioaded with ]
troops from the sunken trans..
ports were destroyed wit h all
on board."
"I n t e n s i v e an d widespread
searches by our reconnaissance aircra!t (in the Huon gulf) early ye•
terday morning failed to reveal any
remaining trace of the enemy con~
voy in the entire area beyond float Allies Down Total
ing wreckage and occasionally lifeof 82 Foe Planes,
boats and barges containing troops.
Finish Off Ships c->t3 , LAST TW O DESTR OYERS
"Two damaged destroyers which
B y The ASSOCIATED P RESS
had lasted during the (Wednesday)
ALLIED H EADQUARTERS IN n ight were attacked, hit and sunk.
AUSTRALIA, (Friday) - Aerial Earges, lifeboats and rafts still
"mop up" squadrons have now afloat were strafed and sunk. Four
completely finished off the 22-ship enemy fighters were encountered
Japanese convoy that was sma.ah-:?d and shot down without loes to ourin the battle Of Bismarck sea, and. selves."
have knocked 27 more Japanese ~ Th us in three days after beginplanes out of the sky, the Allied ning the battle off the aouthern- 1
high command announced ton ight. most tip of New Britain, along
whose north coast 'the convoy had
Sweeping flights disclosed the
s6ught to steal from Rabaul under
only remaining trace of what
protection of bad weather, Machad been a powerful army .was
Arthur's air arm had cost the en~
floating bits of wreckage of
my an army as large as that which
ships and · occasional lifeboats
.\ and barges containin g troops.
for i,ix months battled before losComplete destruction of th(' con~ ing the Papuan pen~sula of New
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voy was realized through the sink- Guinea.
ing of two remaining damaged deNow the Allied ground forces of
stroyers that had been left alloat. Papua are moving north:ward toThis major Allied victory cost ward Lae, the Huon gulf base
the Japanese an estimated 1'51000 which t he Japs sought to reinforce j
troops bound for Lae New Gµ tnea , with the convoyed troops,
to reinforce their hard pressed ANOTHER AERIAL B LOW
troops there.
Another big aerial blow at Lae
BAG 82 PLANES
was described in today's commuShooting down of the 27 addi- nique:
tional planes brought to 82 th e
"Our heavy units bombed the
total number of enemy aircraft i airdrome during the night. At day,
destroyed or put out of action.
in a .co-ordinated strike, our long
Besides the 22 ships-10 war- range fighters and attack units
ships and , 12 transports-enemy with strong fighter escort swept
barges and lifeboats carrying con- over Lae and adjacent alrdromes
voy survivors also were destroyed, in a series of strafing attacks
the high command disclosed.
from extreme low level, fl.ring 30,Even befor e tl!e final operation1:1 000 rounds from cannon and mawere announ ced the victory had chine-gun.
h,en acclaimed by Gen. Do'l_glas
"Six enemy fighters caught on
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M<:.Arthur and Under-Secreta.1-y of , the ground while refueling were
War Robert Patterson as a major destroyed, together with fuel trucks
disaster to Japan. It gravely up~ and large fires were started in the
set the enemy's war time table, building area. Our covering fightthey said.
ers were challenged by 30 enemy
Off Finschhafen, New Guinea,
where Allied planes began their fighters. In the ensuing fight, the
davastating attack an Tuesday, enemy was completely out-maneu"our heavy units strafed and san k vered and 17 of his planes were
lifeboats off sh ore endeavoring to shot out of action. Our losses were
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make land.'' the communique said. extremely light.''
Thus it was indicated that the
moment of the Japs' most severe
setback had been seized by Gen.
MacArthur to increase aerial soft- !
enin g up of the Lae defenses.
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Mop Up Japs
in Bismarck
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JAP ADMillALS GET
WOODEN CUPS.
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~ Radio Tokio said Saturday
ihat Emperor Hirohito ha~ received 13 Japanese admirals,
just back from "the frqpt" and
gave them "woo?en,. cull~" for
"meritorious service.
.
The office of war inforplat1on,
reporting the broadcast, recalled that Hirohito awarded dn
imperial rescript to Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto, commanderin-chief of the combined Japanese fleet, shortly after the
United States navy had defeated
him in the Coral sea.
Less than two weel-.:s after the
JapaneSe suffered another ma~
jor defeat in the battle of _the
Solomons, last November, ~irohlto summoned five admirals
aild congratulated them.
Radio Tokio has not mentioned the destruction of the 22ship Japanese convoy off ~ew
Guinea from which no admtral
was left for Hirohito to decorate.
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Wounded New Guinea Vets
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Laud Pl.asma, ·war N urses.
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Battle Creek--(,lP)-"God and the Jap's stomach. It was only a min•
medics" were thanked solemnly ute before Sutton had that ma-
FrictaY
by
an infantry lieutenant c~~:
~~~ giint'~
company's trek
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Lieutenants Make
Mark in Leadership
Capt. Byron Bradford, of Austin,
Minn., who is taking a leading part
with his singularly light hit group
ot men in advancing through this
difficult, steaming marsh, today
talked with your cor~espondent in
& grassy hole behind the firing line
while the crash of heavy weapons
sounded in the trees. He pointed
out that lieutenants have been outstanding ·in leadership.
"Were it not for Lieut Benjamin
Kleinsschmidt (of Oconomowoc,
Wis.), silencing a machine gun
that was sweeping our crossing of
this creek, our advance today
would ha.ve been impossible/' he
said.
Capt. Bradford pointed to his
heavily armed runners, Jack Norus,
of Effingham, 1U., -and Arlie Dye,
of Grand Rapids, Mich. t'These
are the fellows that make liaison
possible. They are the best runners any commander ever had-at
least 1 think so,"
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And that is the best jungle
fighter here," he said, pointing to
Lieut. Rogers Upton, o! Utica,
N. Y. Upton is a narrow-faced,
officer, about 26, the direct anti~
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Bottcher, of San Francisco. 1~ ,ton
aaid:
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"We simply used the Jap trick
of givi~g 1:h,em bait at the side and
then_ shppmg around them and at~
tacking from the ~ear.. Anybody
can work these things 1f he has
training enough."
2 Courses Enough
0 r the Gene ra l
The American commanding
'eral said today:
gen-
"If I had my way, there would
be just two courses taught our
men before coming here: The first
day they would have scouting a.nd
atrol, a
the second day patrol
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Your correspon9,en.t, in pillboxes
today, noticed that their bottoms
we·re concave making it possible
for individuals to Ue as though in
catacombs and protected from
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With the agility of a native,
In 20 mmute~, it. will b_e Chr1s~Corp. l\Iike Shop, of Kansas City,' mas Day. T~1s 1s ~he writer s
l\lo;, climbs this palm in New ;~~~~d t~~c~:!~1v:ei~~r1:1m;;ohat 1:
Gmnea to
for his Cent;al Malaya. There were g;eet•
•
ings today from the general on the
More munitions came up upon the southern side of the range.
backs of bearel'S.
A few voices were heard singing
Soon the patrol returned with part of .. 'Silent Night" near the
the blue of the sea showing over kitchen waterbag. A Jap bomber
their grimy shoulders. They were just came over and for once dropin part Wilson Glidden of De• ped nothing-an inverse Christmas
troit; Robert Li.egeois, of Marinette, present of y•ar.
Wis.; Harold Tigs, of Grafton, Wis., .As for trees, there are billions
and Ray Peck, of Green Bay, Wis. of them, but most of them grow
"If you don't think those guys downwards or sideways instead of
are Marines out there, here's proof," up. The only . one known to be
said Walter Brown, of Cassopolis, decorated stands along the bloody
Mich., and he handed Capt. Silver air strip among sniper nests.
a, battle emb_lem.
Inste~d of Bethlehem's sta~ it
g:~d~1~:nuts
,
M
u
By GEORGE WELLER
(Copn,ight by The Detroit News and the Chicago Daily .New•)
'1SUl (
WITH THE AMERICAN FORCES IN NEW GUINEA, Dec. 24.(Delayed)-The bitter battle of Euna grows harsher as it progresses.
Today on the right flank where the prize is a mud•slogged airdrome
with two wrecked Jap fighters on it1 tanks again pushed our line
farther up the field in what resembled a bloody gain for yardage upon
some incrediable foot ball stadium of enormous size.
If there is an uglier, muddier, dirtier, bloodier, hotter way to fight,
your mud-lathered correspondent hopes never to be obliged to witness it.
Now in the mosquito•filled twilight under a rain-saturated half-tent
by gasoline lamp which continually breaks down, making what is
written undiscernible, it is im•-r--------------1
possible to do justice to a whole the Australians progressed lP"""fleld
two days of sweat and sacrifice of th~ main Buna drome, wi£h the
I
Ofcewhicn re.'.::-Cl1ed m an o d~iiavtrsmg urn w1m.
southeastern
noon. end of the strip. In less than 10
minutes this writer thrice sought
refuge and engineers dove into the
mud as a ·Jap machine gun opened
up on the hammering men.
They were commanded by Lieut.
James B. Doughite, of Murfrees•
boro, N. C. This is opener country
and the kunai grass here is shorter. Australian tanks made some
progress.
The Japs possess !Several antiaircraft guns and high-power machine guns and .a re entrenched in
force at the northwestern end of
the strip. However, heavy pillboxes on the northeastern side of
the nearly mile-long strip facing
Semimi Creek are somewhat less
formidable.
Ser gt. Roy Finch, of New Kirk,
Okla., and Corp. Tom Nicholas, of
Newport, Ind., made a direct at•
tack on the bunkers between the
main and dummy strips.
"We threw ih ·gi·enEides till they
stopped firing," fhey said simply.
On the Snan8.nanda front, our
sappers gained unexpectedly some
40 yards in this untested Japanese
position by meeting in their trench
with .Japs and killing four of their
engineers.
i
Yanks Prove Their Mettle as
Jungle Soldiers in Steaming Papua
I .. ..
who lived through the h-1 of New after several enemy groups in a
1
Guinea battles by virtue of what flanking movement which nearly
army medical officers term "one resulted in disaster. "They had us
nearly surrounded. We caught 17
of those miracles" and, his. left _e~e of 'em bathing in the river and
shot out, continues to praise civil- wiped 'em out. But that was only
ians who supply blood plasma and the beginning. There were Japs
army nurses who hover over war all around us. At times we were
casualties in the jungles.
tossing grenades at each other
He is Lt. Burnham L. Peters of from only 10 yards." ,
Menomonee, Wis., one of 275 war
On the fourth day of the action
casualties of the Pacific area who Vos was injured and was being
arrived at Percy Jones general carried through the jungle e;n a
hospital from San Francisco Wed- litter when the Japs openect a
nesday.
machine-gun attack. Bullets ripped
Peters was moving through the a limb from a tree, he said, dropNew Guinea jungles with the ping the branch across his shrapfamed 32nd division when a Jap nel-riddled abdomen.
sniper fired a bullet directly into
Tells of Transport Sinkiug.
his left eye. The bullet coursed
Pvt. Francis J. Brunet, 28, of
j down into Peter's skull and lodged Houghton, testified that New Zeanear the base of the brain.
land was an ideal place to :fight
In a field hospital1 the eye was and Jive. Admitting he left a
removed and, days later at Port sweetheart there, Brunet said he
'Moresby, army medical officers re- probably would return for her
moved the bullet.
after the war and perhaps make
"That's when I first thanked God his home there. He was among
and the medics," he said Friday. the first troops landed at Guadal•
"But for the two of .them I should canal and suffered a bullet wound
not be here. And, believe me, those in his foot.
sulfa drugs. a!ld blood plasma are
The sinking of the troop tra~nsworth a mill10n to the guys o:t,tt j>Qft, former)y the President Coo1•
there. The same goes for those ht• idge off New Hebrides was detle army nur~es who do:1't ev:n ,?et scribed by Pvt. Harold Jones, 23,
under cover m a bombing raicl.
of Battle Creek, who said the d~Backcd by Holland Man.
ing room of the ship "split in two"
Lt. Osborne R. Vos of Holland, after the liner struck two floatlng
who received 16 shrapnel wounds mines.
in the legs and abdomen when a
"We just jumped overboard and
Jap mortar shell exploded near his swam for it," he declared. "The
position in New Guinea, echoed Pe- water was covered with oil and,
ters' praise.
when we finally reached the coral
Vos, leading a platoon on a New reefs about a quarter of a mile
Guinea trail Nov. 25, found his away, we were a mess. We lost
group surrounded on three sides everything but the clothes we were
by Jap infantrymen and fought a wearing and, if the marines and
two-hour battle he described as sailors hadn't saved a few old
"quite a sc,ramble" before retreat- things1 \;e'd have had to go native
ing. Vos' unit, counting one dead for a whi1e. We looked like the
and only two wounded, left more devil for a few days."
than seventy-five dead Japs in the
jungle, he said.
·
Vos said his outfit had been isolated 12 days in the foothills of
the Owen Stanley mountains and
had ben given up for lost.
Lauds Charlevoix Private.
t,I recall one day Pvt. Orin Sutton, a Charlevoix machine-gunner,
was dozing off when a Jap ran
from behind a tree, bayonet outstretched, ready for the kill. Sutton rolled over, grabbed his pack
in one hand and sank it into the
1
that ended this Christmas Eve.
Our very boots, mud~soaked and
gulping as we walk, deny that any•
thing like justice can be done by
anyone who has plugged miles
through mud, bounced more upon
the hot griddle in front of the jeep,
his feet on the bumper, both hands
on the stretcher of a badly wounded
man, lain in mudholes and talked
with scores of men entering or
emerging from the battle.
Leading Figure
I
tt:
f~e~~c:::rso~t
fna::r ~~~c:!r:.
In bunkers upon the other side
still with Jap blankets pinned
against the low-hung walls of
palmetto1 resistant to our mortar
fire, we talked with Sergt. Adam
Bennett, of Oshkosh, Wis.; Edward
Solaway, of Detroit; Ezra Easter,
of San Diego; Philip Clark, of
New London, Wis., and a little
blue-eyed scrapper named Orville
Bainter, of Spokane, Wash., with a
tommy gun nearly as big as his
torso.
uP
t: f~~a~~
in Mission Thrust
m~~e ~;:c;a~on;:;!f
One of the principal figures in
today's sharp thrust toward Buna
)Usslon wal!!I M'aj. Benjamin J.
Farrar, of Short Hnls, N. J., a.
solid, tubby man with a determined,
thick upper lip, whose thorough
1
~!~Ia;es~:Jb!!Y iorml~~o~~v~~=
shz~t b~~1~~n;oo~~ietly in the
trench, we crawled out a.nd
everyone took over behind piles of
captured Jap stuff, including beautifully chrdm.ed radio r':ceivers
captured from the Jap ms.rmes.
Sniper's Bullets
!:C~i:i,~e:se :~~ckl;a~::~~~cr~;!:~
flanking the so-called "island."
0Spray trees" h83 been the order
of the still nameless American
general commanding both the Australia.n and American forces here,
and this order has been punctiliously observed.
Twice today your correspondent
Runner Edmond Warren, of Billings, Mont, his shoulders heavy
with ammunition burst over the
.d
d fl
'
b •
s1 e an . ~pped down es1de us.
That snipers bullets sang whlng,
whing overhead. Your correspondent crouched behind the battered,
Whine Overhead
~~f!:!i ~f:ea:·f~!ic1;;u~~~~~!~~ rusty
cookstove that apparently!
the island, once in a squashy, mud- had falle~ through the roof of the
smeared rubber boat run upon native hut, on stilts, above us.
wires by an infantryman crouching "Think I've got some luck with
i 1;ri~~~ snipers,"
0
~1:ic;he0 ; : : 1~ea :;~;~~\1
built by engineers.
Both times the bridge and boat
were under fire. They were constructed under fire. So was another
bridge also needed to approach this
labyrinth of entrenched Japs on
this marshy tongue of land, partly
coconut palms, which Qccupies the
western side of the outthrust camp
between Buna Village and Buna
Mission, and called government
gardens~
Engineers Under
Michigan Sergeant
It
ts
simply
more
.
.
stinkini
Papuan swamp. Thts bridge buildIng was all carried out by engineers under Sergt. Albert Texmunt,
ot Gladstone, Mich. His unit is
commanded by. Lieut. Edwin Kohen
of Calumet, Mich.
Crossing, lying half-crouched in
the palpitating_ ru~ber boat with
its mud-filled mtenor, the writer
followed the men commanded by
Capt. John L. Lehight, of ~ary,
Ind,, as they , crept metbodtcally
and darted qmckly from tree to
treed.h El verbyhi_nadn nea rby laythht ka
mu· 0 e e m
a 1og or
1c •
veined tree ~hile the r~in pattered
on green sh1rt_s E-ou_r with sweat.
As we lay m th~s forward post
food was drag_ged m by James E.
Gordon, of Chicago, and_ John Le~
face, of Escanaba~ Mich. Then
w~ •pent several mmutes under a
thick tree with Corp. Chester Curti•, of Niles, Mich.
There was a Jap sniper on the
of the kunai patch and
~ trees between ourselves
s~id black-bearded 1 31yea~•?ld Vmcent Ru~so, ,.~f 8072 thoughtfulness of the America
Prairie street, Detrort, in that soldier
~~~~pti~e r~~~v ~f!t f:lr_er th ere. Thei~ patrol had h_een successfu
"U
th ,
t
d
. h Paul Legerholm, Chicago sank o
. sua 11 Y
ey re s rappe wit, one knee beside the caPtain an
th eir guns in th e trees so you cant drew out a cigaret.
ever tell \~hen you ge~ th-em be- "It will take time to clean ou
~~rse n~t~ng
outj said John a11 those Japs on our flanks bu
..
I /~ t~~neth;
a. .
we are getting into our stride now,
.
a.
.1s ,,.,.ng 10 c1ear he said
:-~fcn~~~h~~ei~ nt!~~Ji~.dT~~!s~e~! _ o;er · in Government G9:-l'den
three Japs They worked tog th " there .was an almost continuou
• .
e er. thrashmg of tommy guns.
~usso contm~ed_:
.
Standing later betWeen the Amer·
Two Jap sm~ers chmbe? a tree can cemetery wilh its rows o
an_d made a . kind of hoist. The mounds and the Japs' with thei
~e~ [h~n~s tip b? l ropte tto anonym'ou~ sti~ks thrust . th
~ •
a c e
e W. ? e s un. · ground, this writer saw a w1rrawa
I coul~ see them f1ll1~g their of that high-hearted clan which i
pockets wi th what was hoi 5ted up. often over the enemy lines, descen
J:pee~ !~~y d;~!,e~heo~~p;o~~s th~:~ ing in a low sweep.
trees together to make a kind of ha~e~!!e Sw~nihof ~oltwater, Mich
bower and cover them completely, fire to ;ur~~n a ~o~~d:~ ti~;;:a,e
One fell when I shot and all were "Budd ?" ''Hell no I d 't
gone in the morning, when I could know hi~· name" S~an s~~d eve
first see, except the dead one."
The struggle 'for the m~i~ at
strip was nonetheless exciting upo
Go Over the Top
the right, or eastern flank of th
Buna front, which is now shorten
an Reach the sea
in length upon the sea to abo
On this flank the Americans have one and one-half miles but ls ma
been meeting principally Marines times that much walking arou
•
' the circumference In ·the last t
as proved by th8 anchor wi th a days we have gained nearly 1,5
five-petal blossom found on the yards of the main strip althoug
ground. But the Marines also have Jap snipers are holding down t
a splay-toed sneaker tabi made for infantry following the tanks,
tree climbing.
lateral fire from the trees.
Suddenly a single tommy gun
•
barked and immediately it seemed Machine Gun Opens
that every ditch, tree trunk, ridge
B "d B "ld
and bunker burst with fire. There On
rt ge Ul ers
was a fusillade in which the Japs' A highlight was another brid
return was indistinguishable from which the cap,,---.___,,.,,'-"
ours. Then those ::rby went over put across the ,
~~t°
:u;!
d
tt~s
in
�American soldiers playing a gai1~e "pepper" in a New Guinea village during off hours. The balls used in '· pepper" are unhnsk;:i" ~0
~;;~~t~.N,. , -
r
Sight-Seeing in New Guinea---Americans on Leave Pay Visit to a Native Village
.
~7".
AalOClat.ed PreN Photoe
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American soldiers, on leave from the fighting front in New Guinea, arrive at a native village during
a trip down a pver. The native1 put out in small boata to creet the AmeriQUIB.
Two American sergeants in the aight.aeeing party watch a native
~ in theiJ: "front yard,"
�-
THURSDAY,
MARCH
4,
1943
ALLIED AIRMEN
SMASH
22 JAP
SH IPS, WIPE OUT
15,000 -MEN
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As the Allied- aerial onsJaught 1
vas stepped up, the weather
:Ieared somewhat, _permitting th!
~;{~·d: : :~:i:
:::•co::::h : : r
lf:£):!:-i!~ ~:a~h ;!s!~:leen;:! t.
"Enemy
MacArthur Deals Enemv
Major Defeat in Battle
Ten Warships, 12 Transports
Sunk· or Sinking in S. Pac·ific
air
coverage
became
:~~~e;caf::~edw:::e~isp!~~el;° ;:!
''SUNK OR SINKING"
1
"They
represent tonnage
esti9
flnally his remnants, isolated and
~l~t:~ea!u?Jr:ti:nai~~~- o,OOO tons.
mations as we sent them into combat," the communique declared in
graphic account.
"The air coverage of this na':al
force has been decimated and d1spersed, 55 of his planes having
been shot out of combat and many
~f1:i~~er~;• o:rer:uc~:::~:ll~ir afo~i:
f;;,~~~
ALLIED LOSSES LIGHT
~!~i::t~:m:~ed~ ~~sbg:~~~
"Our loss. es were light, one bomb- I destined to attack in New_. Guinea
er and three fighters shot down have been sunk or killed almost
and a n~mber of ot~era damaged to a man.
but returned to ~ase.
"The original convoy of U
Gen. MacArthur himself de!§hips was joined durln~ the
clared that " a merciful Proviafternoon by eight other vesdence must have guarded us in
(W}s. Our air fonP in all catethis great victory.''
I gories constant!;\' at ta ck e d
The communique asserted that
throughout the day and shill
"our decisive success cannot fa1i
By VERN HAUGLAND
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN AUSTRALIA, (Thursday, UP)-A deadly, efficient aerial armada of Allied planes
has almost completely destroyed a powerful Japanese convoy
in one of the greatest triumphs of the war, sinking or dis•
abling all 10 of its warships and all i2 of its transports,
beinf ~.t least is completely disWiJJing out 15,000 troops aboard, "almost to a man" and
loca ~d.
.
downing 55 protecting Nipponese fighting planes, Allied head•
This ;'as the convoy which ~ad
quarters announced today.
been sighted !do.nda{ advancmg
All 22 ships of the convoy, totalling 90,000 tons, were sunk fro~ New Bntam oward New
or left sinking, with "this major disaster" inflicted upon the Gumea, protected th e~ by foul
enemy at the astonishingly low cost of only one Allied bomber weather t?at keJ?t Alhed planes
from blastmg at 1t for more than
and three fighters Jost, the Allied noon communique asserted. a full day.
GREATEST AIR FORCE VICTORY
FIRST ATTACK
The battle was believed here at headquarters to be the ... On Tuesday Allied aircraft
greateset victory ever achhwed anywhere- by purely air action braved the rains and clouds to
0
0
against a naval surface force.
::teshc~~:i~:e~ : ; ~ 4w~~1!s~\!:~~
The convoy was s~ashed in assaults throughout Tuesday ing or damaging four of them.
and yesterday, despite bad weather, as it headed toward New 1 I , Eight more vessels joined the
Guinea to reinforce Japanese troops at Lae, and although the I enemy colum? yester~ay afte:nooi:i,
communique declared that all the ships 0 are sunk or sinking" , th e communique said, makmg it
it did not divide the losses.
' ~~=r ofdi:,:t~oesJ ~~we::i~lg cot~~~~:
A spokesman at headquarters estimated that possibly sev• to the New Guinea land battleera! thousand Japanese naval personnel died in the wreckage front.
of tl\e convoy, in addition to the 15,000 troops aboard, as the
"The battle of the Bismarck sea
now has been decided,'1 the comAllied planes hurled down more than 100 tons of bombs upon munique said.
the ships.
''We have achieved a victory
''MAJOR DISASTER" FOR JAPS
ot such completeness as to as-
1
or the Japanese to send out aerial
>rotection for the convoy.
In a pre-dawn raid, the commu•
;i.ique said, attack units bombed the
~e airdrome from low level, and
'ighter-bombers returned during
~he day~ith strong ~scort to dive..
bomb and strafe the field. Seven
enemy fighters
were declared
downed in air battles.
The Allied aerial fleet was active
elsewhere, too, attacking 0 the re
maining portion" of the town o
Debo in the Aru islands. demolis
ing buildings in that town whi
has already suffered devastating
tacks~ Raids also were made on
:~a~~:~~i::a_~ upon Finschhaff
Allied headquarters also announced that British Spitfires have
joined the air war in the southwest
1
Paciflc, and that they have achieved
notable successes.
''Enemy air coverage became
1 A spokesman at 4,llied headquarweake1· and weaker; his forces
ters said some of the convoy might
[more scattered and dispersed; and
have been able to reach Lae if the
finally his remnants isolated and
ships had not spent so much time
bewildered were gradually anni~
on dispersal while under air attack.
hilated by our successive air forWELL PREPARED
mations as we sent them into com~
bat.
He added that 1•our air losses
were so l!IIDall because of the planes
ALLIED LOSSES LIGHT
and the pilots and the breaksplus thorough preparation."
e/~n~-;~:::\wg~~=r~i~~~t°::::~!d
The intention of the convoy was
a number of others damaged but
' properly diagnosed, he continued,
returned to base.
and the Allied air force conditlone
and prepared for the attack.
"Our decisive success cannot
0
'.t'he convoy which had proceede
!:~~stoo!a;:em;:!!;:~
froll)t Rabaul and other strong
and tactical plans.
points ill New Britain along- the
"His campaign tor the time
north coast of New Britain · wen
through Vitiaz straits where th
being at least is comp!etel7
first
attacks were made, an
dislocated."
reached the Huon gulf in the La
The convoy was attacked a• It
Calamaua area before the final,
scattered in a wide area oft
smashing blows were dealt.
Finschhafen, New Guinea, and
The 55 enemy 'Planes shot do
supposedly was bound for Lae, on
in combat included 13 on Tuesday,
the Huon gulf, now being slowly
and
42 Wednesday. Of the total
threatened by Allied ground force•
33 were confirmed as definitely de~ sume the proportions ot· a major
coming up from the Papuan pe,..
stroyed,
and the other 22 \';ere
"We have achieved a victory of such completeness as to asdisaster to the enemy. ms
ninsula.
listed as probables, the headquarentire force was practj.cally de.
convoy first was sighted
1The
sume the proportions of a major disaster to the enemy,'' the
ters spokesman said. The comstroyed.
Monday afternoon but bad weathel'
comn:rnnique declared, and tbe whole convoy "was practically
munique listed all 55 as 1 'shot out
•'His navy component consisted , preven~ im~te attack. Bl!_t
destroyed."
of combat."
0
of 22 vessels, comp~·ising 1~ trans- ~e~:fst~~:na::z~a~1ldrt~!i:~e~\ ~~:
The triumph was believed by obJUtlcd headquarters estlm.ated
J port~ and 10 warshtps-crmsers or olanes out Tuesday morning. In
servers here to indicate a reduc•15,000 enemy grormd troops
pon
in any threat of immediate at,..;
destrn_yers.
.
lhe
initial
attacks,
despite
the
[
were aboard the transporte,
(~his was an _mcl'ease upon bad weather, four cargo or transtack upon Australia, and a. con
and these "have been sunk or
earher
repo1·ts
which
had
placed
:,ort
ships
were
hit
and
sunk
or
siderable
setback in the enemY,
killed almost to a man."
the convoy total at 4.)
eft In a sinking condition.
preparations "in readf
oi:"
All categories of A 11 i e d air
which
the
Allied
('~
strength joined in lhe mighty aswarned March 1.
sault that smash~ the convoy,
Tht! battle was so e:,hitting ship after BlliP with bombs
so many planes and
oosed from low 41Utude.
_ _ _ _ _ _ _._-,.hat observation
,_______
tetailed re o
'~:: .~i?•::~:f:l~:;~l~: : ~!:i2
~~1::~.::~ ~:.~.":.!.:gi~1!
I
I
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l
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l
I
�.1edA.1rmen 'ShOt theworks, tO :Bismarck
!! ::~r:.:.o~
-;,~-~~~i:~a~:B-17~~~ri:v£ t~~!~::nlri::ifJr:~y
]:.
h·1p Japs ·,n B·1sm ar·ck Sea v·1ctory ~::as!11i,~;er;.
1!;:
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(Continued from Page 1)
~":k. which sought to stop th• ~
5
bo~b!'!~~~r':i;
~
1
~~o~~d t~e h~ ~~~•::r~:1
0
JaXt
.3 -1, · If-3-
r:;~·
carrying th~t
I 1,000-pound bombs scored two hlts near misses on
By MUBLIN SPENCER
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS IN
AUSTRALIA (Saturday) (AP) Lieut.-Gen. George C. Kenney's Allied air force in the southwest Paciftc "shot the works" when it
destroyed a Japanese convoy of
22 ships in the Bismarck sea, offlcial reports recounted today,
Xhe reports of the bomber pilots
who participated in the overwhelming victory were released
at Gen. MacArthur's headquarters, 1 on a destroyer which stopped still
showing the sul!ltained hitting with flames pouring from its decks.
power throf{tl against the convoy,
At 3:15 p. m., B-2.5's, thler
particularly during the height of
heavy machlneguns blazing,
the battle Wednesday.
strafed and bombed and scored
1
Between 10 a. m. and 3:05 p, m.
four hits on a large transport
Wednesday, at the peak of the
which exploded, broke Into
attack, the Allied planes hit the \ flames and apparently~ sank;
convoy with everything they had,
four hits on a destroyer which
these reports said.
caught fire; and hit a transport.
a 5,000 to 6,000-ton
merchantman which exploded and I
burst into flames; one hit and two
near misses on a burning destroyer; strafed other vessels and lifeboats; were attacked by 20 Japanese fighters and destroyed four
and damaged one.
The attacks continued until late
in the evening and then resumed
the next day.
·
~!~:
s!~::
The leader of the group reported a/~h:
r::r°\~etti;!a~;:
Following are other official re- th at vessels a nd personnel in th e of planes hit the Japs. Some of
INTENSI~Y OF ACTION
;;~:Fi::~:}i~: ;~~i~:
00
ri;ts~ctf:~~ing the intensity of
;;.~
At 10:10 a. m. a heavy force of rounds of _50 caliber machinegun
~~:b~~~:r~!s oC::b~~g o!O~p::: bullets foun~ their _mark among
chantman, one hit and two near
;_w:.:~n;n::pi:t~dwnai:~
misses on a destroyer which start- ber of p_38 Lightnings tackled
~~a;o n::::e~e; o:w~ :~iio-r:nd !i°e~~j from 15 to 20 Zeros and damaged
chantman which caught ftre; one six of them.
F t
hit and three near misses on a
At S:20 hip. m., thror resses
transport, two hits and a near ! scored a
t and t ee near
miss on a 3,000-ton merchantman
mistchses onl ba des trhoyer and .
wa ed t urn;
ree near
which exploded, a near miss on
misses on a 5,000-ton merchanta medium merchantman and two
man which exploded.
hits and two near misses on a
The
Fortresses, which . were
merchantman.
bombing from a . low altitude,
At 10:20 a. m. a number of dropped low to strike four merBeaufighters joined the action and chantmen and five boats, then destrafed a transport and three mer- stroyed three of from 15 to 20
chantmen.
At 11:15 a. m. B-25 Mitchells
strafed lifeboats and liferafts
which were appearing in the water, scored a hit on a 6,000 to
8,000-ton merchantman which was
left in a sinking condition, enconuent eurted sixaczt,·eorno.s and knocked I
Jax:~~~;
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Where Allies Smashed Jap Convoy
American and Australian air forces smashed at a Jap convoy
headed for New Guinea and completely dcs.(~oy}'d 10 wanhips and
12 transports. Allied headquarters in Australla estimated more than
15,000 Jap troops perished ln the disaster, Four Allied planes were
lost and 8Z enemy alreraft were shot out of the fight.
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JAP FIGHTERS BAN
At 3 :03 p. m., A·20's moved into
Allies ·Intend to
Wipe Out Island
(Bv United Pre11S.)
Tokio radio has told the Japanese people that American and
British troops intend to land In
Japan and "wipe out completely
the entire Japanese race," the federal communications commission
had reported Friday.
The commentator was identified
as a Lt. Gen. Ishimura, a veteran
of the Malayan campaign.
"The enemy is now frantic in
preparation and expansion of mili•
tary strength, and in event they effect a landing in Japan," he i;aid,
"they intend to wipe out complete11y the entire Japanese race."
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NEW YORK (AP) - The Tokyo
radio beamed a broadcast to the
United States Saturday quoting
Premier Hideki Tojo as saying:
"Nineteen forty-three is the year
in which the issue of the World
war must be decided."
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He was speaking to the Japanese
)st..
diet in resf)onse to · a resolution
1 sherl!..,
urging "that the strength of the
pr funds, Wh
nation's fighting power be inw
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New Guinea Climate .Lfllows ·
Almost Year Around Combat
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Washington - (SS) - The apIn outline New Guinea I"esembies gcth;;- with- the ~ Bisma~ ~
proach of spring in the northern somewhat a gigantic lizard, look• Solomon islands, includes 70,000
ing westward, with its head al• square miles of mainland and 23,·
hemisphere will have little effect most touching the equater. Its 300 square miles additional on the
· on the importance of New Guinea shoulders are slightly hunched in islands. Its capital is Rabaul, on
In the Pacitic warfare. New Guinea the direction of Japan. Ita tail, the New Britain, at present OCJilUp1edlies too close to the equator to ha'\te part called Papua, extends toward by the Japanese. Its population
marked seasonal changes. It is the southeast, ridging up into the includes about 6,000 Caucasians
summer there all the time. The Owen Stanley Mountains. Port and 500,000 natives.
extreme northern point of the is• Moresby is on the south side, Buna
Land at Many Places.
land is just to the south of the on the north.
From a strategical standpoint
,.equator, the southern extremity is
It is a sparsely populated coun• New Guinea is both a menace and
:'only 12 degrees south of it.
try, with about as many persons in a protection to Australia. An in•
The snow•capped mountains in the entire area as are now in the , erny can land forces at many
New Guinea prevent the high tern.. District of Columbia. The popula- places along the unprotected
peratures that one might expect tion is estimated to be less than northern coast line, but a mech·
so near the center of the torrid a million, of whom only about lO,· anized army cannot cross over the
zone. A high mountain. range ex• 000 are Europeans. The rest are high mountains and through the
tends almost from end to end of mostly natives. Among them are jungles to the south side, except
the island. It has many high some of the most primitive people on the P~uan end. The Japs tried I
~1eaks, several more than 15,000 in the world.
thls, crofting from Buna to with•
'et high and two at least with
Have Much Gold.
in 40 miles of Port M.oresby, where
.4 [;~~r~ort~h=~~
~~s1:~
Agriculture and mining are the they ,vete repulsed.
.
"regions are the hottest parts of principal industries. Coconuts, ca• If the Japs had taken Port Mores•
cao and coffee are the largest ag• , by they still could not easily have
the country. They are covered ric~ltural exports. New Guinea 1invaded nearby Australia from
with dense tropical jungle. On the
f th
th
t b
. higher lpountaln slopes and plateus furnishes a considerable portion o
ere, as
e grea
arrier reef,
the wcrld's supply of gold. Natives extending 1,200 miles along the
the veg'etation is more like that of
d
th
old fields
Australian east coast almost from
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JEurop-e
and America. Above the are emp oye m
e g
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snow~ine at an elevation of 14 500
From Cape York penmsula, Aus- the New Guinea coast west of
feet; littie or no vegetation exists. \ tralia, it is but a hundred 1:11Ies Morestly, would have been in the
Except on the low coast lands and across the shallow Torres stra_1t to way.
on the high mountains the temper- the southern coast of New Gumea,
The value of Port Moresby and
ature ranges from 72 to 92 degrees and about 300 miles northeasterly the eastern peninsula of New
Fahrenheit' daily with very little to Moresby. From Moresby . to Guinea to the Japs would have .
variation thro·ughout the year.
Buna is approxi~ateJy 100 miles been that control of it, together
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Largest Island m World.
the circuitous route over and the Solomons, would have given
New Guinea is the largest island through the Owen Stanley moun• them control of the northern Coral
in the world, if Australia and tains.
sea and permitted attacks to be
Greenland are regarded as contiw
New Guinea is cut up into three launched against the southeastern
nents. It is approximately 1,500 political divisions. The western Australian coast, south of the great
miles in len?th. In area it is near• half belongs to The Netherlands. barrier reef.
ly three times the size of the The two eastern divisions are un~ For the united nations, Port
British Isles. It contains an area der British control. The southern Moresby and Buna, together wJth
about equal to that part of the part of it is Papua. The nortl.east- 1 the Solomons, are excellently loUnited States north of the Poto- erµ part and the neighboring is- cated as bases from which to bring
mac and Ohio Rivers and east' .of lands are under Australian ~ - action to drive the Japs out of
the Mississippi, not including date
the SOUthom I'.l!olfic.
Michigan and Wiscoj sin. It ls
Papua has about 90,000 square
• 20 per cent larger thah Texas.
mlles of territory, with 2,500 Europeans and 275,QOO natives. Man•
dated northeast New Guinea, to•
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Tojo Wants to Get It . ,t:;
Over With This Year,/''
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ta~:e ~u8;:~:~s reports showed
that individual ships were hit by
~ur bombers.
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A spokesman discl~sed mean•
while that American, Dutch,
Australians and British all took
part in the spectacular victory.
They put the finishing touches
to the destruction of the convoy
Friday by sinking two battered destroyers and shooting down straggling Jap planes, bringing the score
for the three.day battle to 12 transports and 10 warships sunk, 15,000
Japanese troops and several thou- ·
sand seamen killed and 82 enemy
planes destroyed or badly damaged.
From the New Guinea front, As•
sociated Press War Correspondent
Tom Yarbrough reported that
American bombers and fighters.
searching for remnants of the con-j
voy in the Huon gulf Friday, found
at least 10 square miles littered [
with wreckage and several hundred
Japanese clinging to ''anything
afloat."
the attack and scored two hits on
destroyers with medium bombs. /
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Eighty-Sixth Year
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Muskegon, Michigan, Monday, July 26, 1943
ASSOCIATED PRESS
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In Happier Days
l\Allies Strike
By Air With
Pent-Up Fury
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BrokenMussoliniGoeslntoShadows
IIShattering Blow
Handed Enemyi
By Crisis in Italy
German and Italian
Industries Bombed;
Foe Clings to Bare
Corner of Sicily.
Badoglio, Fascist Foe, Appointed Prime Min~
ister; Says War Continues and Calls Upon
Italians to Rally Around King; but Opening
Rome Peace Move Seen.
Bl· GAYLE TALBOT
Associated Press \\Tar Editor
The downfall of the pompous, strutting former newspaper editor who for 21 years
has been master of a nation
came on an explosive week·end
during which the Italian mainland shuddered to the impact
By 'RUSSELL LANDSTROM
of Allied
bombings and
Axis
troops clung to a bare corner of
Sicily under the hammering of
American, British and Canadian
forces.
From the west, at the sc1me time,
the great Allied aerial fleet was
renewing its onslaught against
the Germany of Adolf Hitler, the
man who led Mussolini into the
war and lo political death.
Striking with pent•up fury after
a period of poor flying weather,
u,e RAF hit the great German
shipping and submi:trine buUding
center of Hambrg with 2,600 tons
of bombs Saturday night - the
heaviest raid in history and j
I ~'esterday American flying for~
I tresses followed up with da:ylight
r1ttacks both on Hambur:--· and on
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London, Monday, July 26-(AP)-Benito Mussolini's 21 year~
of Italian dictatorship and international bullying ended sensaa
tionally last night when King Victor Emmanue]e deposed him
and installed Marshal Pietro Badoglio as head of a military
government "to stand against those who have wounded the
sacred soil of Italy."
A royal proclamation announced Vittorio Emmanucle had assumed supreme command of all .
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Italian forces. It was preceded 1ly deter~orated s1i:ice he led his
th
by an announcement that the ~~u~i:6. into war m
e summer
King had accepted the "resig- Bactoglio, long out of favor with
nation" of the man whom the Fascists, had been reported a
Prime Minister Churchill term• likely successor t? Mussolini once
ed Adolf Hitler's "tattered ::ce~ountry decided to sue for
lackey."
However, crushing Axis defeats
in Sicily and swiftly rising Allied
threats to the Italian mainland
supported the belief. that ''Musso~
lini actually was dismissed by the
The Jittle King and Badoglio
took over Italy's destinies at &
fateful moment.
Naples, Leghorn, Rome, San
Grnvanni, and other Italian cities
are heavily damaged by Allied
h.mg,.
bombers. The people are war ..
T~e 71•year~old Badoglio, called weary and hungry.
out" of retirement to become the
lta1ian morale is at a new Jow
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12 of the 700 hom bers failp
f'd .to. re~~rn to England, . a loss
_f
so ms1gmf1cant by comparison to
those incurred in previous mas,;
War That Seemed Sure was as good as o,·er. Mussolini raids OYer the Reich as to sug~est
. . looked smart..
tllat G~rn,,.any's defense aga1~st
Gambl e for Mussolini I
Tragic for Ita ly
the All1cs sledgehammer aerial
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By contrast, ,the realities pro,·ed blow~ y:as weakened out of all reB eCOffieS T raglC Of great and tragw. for Italy.
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Far fro~ ol~ta1mng any of her I It was all OYer 111 w:stern S1 ~1a 1an eop e.
coveted obJecti\es, Italy s?on be- ly exce~t for the co~ntmg of pr:s,
came shackled m the Mcd1terran- oners. Yesterday .f1:lhed headquartBy_ CARL C. CRA~.:'IIER
i ean more sec~rely than ever, her ers took a breathing spell to an.Associated Press Cable Staff
n:~t not daring- to come out. of nounce only the _fall of T~apam,
"Now the die is cast, and our Ih.iding for months after ~he first Ilast of three maJor. ports m th e
will has burned our ships be- · dt:_a~trous encounters with the weste.rn ,end of Lh~ i5 la nd , to th e
hind us:"
IButish. .
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fast-moving Amen can 7th army
'---.._Tt was June 10, 1940, an_d Pre- " Her empire was,, to r n 1_nto . of Lieut. Gen. George S. Patton,
m~r Benito . Mussolini of It3ly, s~r_eds a nd ta.tters • ~s Pnme I' Jr. .
.
chiJ\ outthrust and fists resting ~1"imster <".::hurchill pron:iised. ItalDispatches
from
A~s0?1ated
on
ips in characteristic trucu- i ian. Somaltland. and Ent_rea ~vere Press correspondents
~nd1cated
Jent
ose, was announcing the soon ~oi:ie, Haile Sela_ssl~, who1:1 \~a.t American forces rushrn~ down
famou 1 'stab in the back"-Italy's ~1:ussohm on~e could m~mlC. n:oc~- Stclly's northern coastal highwa y
entranc into the second World mgl_Y took his throne ll1 EthIOpia hB:d reached . a point within 55
War in ,what appear ed to be the , agam on ~ay 5.. 194~. The ge~s miles of Messma, only escape port
dying h~rs of France.
Ill of ~he . empire, Cirena1ca and Tri- Lo the Italian mainland now re.
w r polltama, eventually followed. Far maining open to Axis troops. The
Never d\d a d g~rr;_b~e tfn t at from being a bright. new jewel British Eighth army battling fo r
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~1e~\! dsi uebe~:n J~hemdo~~m.._::rsd 1in the empire's crown, Tunisia be- Catania on. the E~;t c~ast, also
.
f It ,· f
. h. h 1Came the dust~ dead -end of a l was approximately 55 miles from
s_p1ra 1 o . , a 1.\ s _ortu_ne; ."'' ic long retreat which in its entirety Messina.
'1tesul l~edhm\ lll1e ctAll1.ect 'smals,ont of spelled the greatest Italian ctefeal
Bombers of lhc Allied North
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crash of MLt;solini's personal caUnprepared, war -weary, badly cnpphng offens1\e agamst Italy s
reer
\
\ led, Italy proved herself far from air and rail arteries. Unescorted
Tl~e appointfr ~nt. of the career dynamic in big league war. Though flying fortresses winged 1,500
army officer M~t ' hal Pietro Bado Mussolini had boasted of 8,000,· miles roundt.rip on Saturday lo
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glio as the ltalia:1 Premier ap- 000 bayonets, he was unable to explode an ammumt10n tran and
par~ntly means thll,. the Fascist mobilize an army anything like pulverize crowded freight yards at
party in Italy has'° been swept that number of troops when it Bologna in Northern Italy..
away along with It D\ 'ce
came to the showdown.
Bologna an inland o1 ty
90
Mussolini went out }es~ than a
- ----miles northeast of the nav3.J base
week after 'Rome was ~,mbcd on
Iat La Spezia, had not previously
Monday.
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been bombed by the North African
force An official announcement
, _Confide n t a nd Sul ~
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said lhat a "lar e ro ortion" of
Conf!dent and_ sure, I'ij_-·ussolim
Irolling stock in gth? ciiy•s crowdtold his people m 1940 tl .1.t "v:1e
cd ra"ilway yards was destroyed.
are descending to bat\ ~fields
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against the plutocratic re\ ction- By THE ASSOCIATE D r Rk.ss
Other Alhed bombers
)ashed
ary democracies."
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(Southern Italy, con~entrating on
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Wha_t becomes ?f M~ssolm1 .
railroad yards, repair shops and
f 1ghters of land, sea and air,
The1 e was nothing from Rome airdromes and smashing at the
blackshirts. of the revolution and last (S~i:1) night to in~icate what source any attempt by the Axis
of the legions, me1: and women fate awaits the bulgy dictator who to move any considerable reinof_ Italy, of the em~1re ':'-nd
the rose ~o SL_Ipre~e power by the cas- lorcements or supplies to its corKingdom. of _Albama,. listen. he tor 011 his adJ~tants. ~orced do:Yn nered army in Sicily. Photographs
declared m his theatrical manner. the throats of his poilllcal enemies. showed many Itali an rail yards
But one order - "Conquer" It
aMounced merely that in complete ruin.
he shouted with a sweepmg ges- the little Hallan Kmg had accepted
RAF lancasters, flying back to
ture.
Mussolini's resignation. There ap- England
from
North Africa,
The French b·eaten, were aban- parently were no words from Mus- pounded Leghorn in the northwest
omng Pans that day "Nice, Sa- solm1 m farewell to,,those who fo~ Italian coast Axis E u1ope almost
, oy, Corsica, Tun1s1a," Fascist 21 years shouted
Duce, Duce, literally was bemg criss-crossed
mobs had clam01ed
whene he appeared, arms akimbo, bJ' the great Allied bombmg fleet.
It looked as though Mussolm1 on his famous balcony
! Begmnmg w ith Saturday's dn.ymight easily wm what he had
There was no reason to believe light raid by Amer Lean
flying
demanded
he was m custody, though he and fortresses on the Germans' big
He stood at the top of his ca- Marshal Pietro Badoglto, Italy's submarine and naval
base
at
reer He had bluffed his way new "St_rong Man," long have been Trondheim m the far nor.th of
through and won Eth10p1a m 19~5- unfnenoly. Badogl10 scored Mus- Norway, through that mght s and
36 in spite of the British Emp1_re solini from the start of his career. yesterday's attacks on Ha.mburg
a n d the 52 n_ations ,~ho had imShould h e decide to flee Italy, and Ki~ l, .the renewed aenal atposed economic sanct10ns.
the fallen dictator was handy to tac~ w1th111 24 hours gave. the
Th~ough 1935 to 1939 he ha.d the neutral soil of Switzerland. It Axis ~ foretaste of . what ~s to
s~emmgly duped French and. Bn- was either that, or appeal to his come in the long w!nter mghts.
tish .st~_tesmen. and the non-mter- friend Adolf Hitler for sanctuary
F ly 1,8 ~0 ) Ides . .
vention cornm1t~ee,. poured_ men, in Germany,
. F.orlresses ~vh1ch
participated
planes and supp1es mto Spam and
---~--m the destructive attack on TrondSf'f'n his man win in
a bitter
heim fle:v round trip about 1,800
ch·il war.
miles, mostly O\'er \\'ater,
the
\:Vith ease he had annexed Allongest flight yet mafle by Amerbania to the Italian crown in
d lican bombers in the European
1939.
theater. Another formation flew
For 18 years Mussolini's strong
rnme 1,200 miles round trip
to
arm Fascisti had cowed all op- -I
wreck a Nazi aluminum factory
position. As a re$ult of his sueLondon, July 25-UP> The at Heroya, Norway. Only one
cesses, he was at the peak of his great
Russian
counteroffensive fortress failed to return to Eng',(?pularity_.
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b~tter.ing upon O~el from three land, and it . landed in neutral
o Italians Mussol1111 looked d1rect1ons engulfed 30 more pop- Sweden to be mterned.
a winner. The objective, he ulated places and swept forward
Describing the record raid on
them, was to "break
the 2 1·:l to 5 1 '2 miles today, Moscow Hamburg, the British air miniss that strangle us in the announced in a special communi- try said ''it see4ttis to have swamped
ierranean." It looked as que, and complete encirclement and scattered ground defenses.
1 Fascism was as dynamic of the great Nazi base appeared There were vast fires, black smoke
s..solin i said - that the war only a matt er o! time.
rose fo ur miles in to the air a nd
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M~gh ty Alli ed war fleets roaring ian divisions are surrend7ring, and
over\ Italy, increasing defections the civilians are welcomm~ AlliE:d
in the Fascist party ranks, ru- troops in unprecedented friendship
mored
disagreements
between demonstrations.
Mussolini: and Hitler, and reports
Sicilians and Italian soldiers
of vtolence and sweeping arrests have been profuse in condemning
preceded the announcement.
the dictator Mussolini and their
World -wide repercussions, espe- German Allies.
cially among the German and
The number of German troops
Japanese AHies, were expected.
in Italy is not known. Their pres ..
Badoglio signed a proclamation ence long has been a factor in
saying the King, who assumed su- consi.deration of any Italian suit
preme command of all Italian for a separate peace. But there
armies, had given him ''full pow- have been recent reports that Hit ers" to a_ct at a tune when on- ler does not intend to waste too
rushing. Allied armies were sweep- many troops trying to defend Italy.
ing across Sicily toward the ItalNo matter what course Italy's
ian mamland.
new leaders take in the war the
11 Duce's fall, ~ith the shad_ow departure of Mussolini is a presof def~at and disaster . hang.mg tige blow to the A.xis throughout
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over his country, was w1d~ly re- the world, particularly in the Bal•
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ga~ded here as a ~rack m the kans where both Italian and Gersolid front of the Axis.
man occupation troops have been
Mussolini's r _e signation-probably unable in two years to crush orforced u~n him-after_ more than ganized military resistance.
a ' score ' of years of iron-handed
Fasci. st Regime in R uins
rule probably means the death of
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the Fascist party he headed.
. Mussolm1 has cr~shed ~nd with
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Signiticantly, the Rome r~dio ~;~ ~~e i;:~\~~~sc~~:g~~er~~s.~
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Minister Churchill had offered the
German propagandists apparent~ b the King and Badoglio did not on;; official London .source. said. '
Ot ·,·ta!ian people an honorable peace ly were stunned last (Sunday) s(gn off with the usual , Fascist
lt seems therelo1eththaAt !talydi
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· ht b
D' tator Mussolini's
days as a member of
e xis an
With
n O r Let ..and
a respectable place. in the ~~'t,nfall {n It~fy and they grop- p.a rty anthem, Giovin_ezza.
It consequently as a fJg'hting partner
,Europe of the future If
they .
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played only the royahst hymn. at Germany's side are numbered
b y l' would only dismiss their discred- ed for a me~ns of presertml t~e The broadcasts were recorded by
''No other construction of th~
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r~ews to th ~1r ownl pe~~ e. En {, s The Associat~d Press.
astonishing sequence of event s is
Italv unable to
defeat
the f1r st tentative exp ana ion
er m
This sensational turn in Italy's possible"
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blamed II Duce's "health.''
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fortunes was a shattering blow to
The
amazing rapidity with
By RICHARD G. )IASSOCK
bv the' British her divisions su r dot unti 1.v~ furs a er om~ the Axis partners, Germany and which the Allied troops conquered
l?ormer Ch ief of the Associated r;ndering pie'cerneal in Sicil y ;~ ~ tte orifna anntoll:nc~men Japan.
all of Africa toppled Pantelleria
Press Bureau in Ro m e)
mu st be aware that she lacks th~ i
er m rad 10 repea it m an
There was speculation that Adolf Lampedusa 'and other Mediter~
Washington, ~uly 25-UP) _-Italy military power to resist the Al - f:%fcS:i~nbr;:t c~~~t T~~!e ie~~~~ ~itler might mar~~ rerm~n tro~p~ ranean isla~ds, and then sw~rmed
sho we d the fl~St crack U1 th e Ues successfully.
homeland had been told
lJ1tO. war-we~ryn 1t
w t~\ a over Sicily these all contributed
dam of her resistance to the ~lVVhat is likely then is a token
Transocean
Ge rman·
News dogl10 warne ta f a iar:i:h ;. an_?' to Mussolini's downfall.
lies today and the Army, with . .
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. attempt to 111 er ere Wl
IS oronce the northeastern tip of
a display of defiance, made . a r~s1stance, smc~ the Army, t y~i- Agency,, quoted_the Italian Stef~m ders would be crushed.
Sicily is cleaned up the Italian
desperate mo\'e to buttress the l f!cd by Badogho, could ~ot, Wl~h- Agency as saying ~h~,t .~he ~mg
Kome's. announcement began:
mamland will be only two miles
wa r effort.
!1onor, . let the c_ountry o~n . y ha~ accepted Musso.Jim s offer to
''The Kmg-Emperor has accepted from the Italian mainland, and
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_ t~ mediately foldmg up. This 1 e- resign and a ppomted Marshal the resignation as head of the Sicil itself will serve as a huge
B~n1to Nlu~soli~i. in a tacit .con s1stance may be expected to last Badoglio as the new Premier,
government, prime minister, and . y
t
h .
. . g ltal•
fession of his .failure as a dicta• as long as Italian resources in
- -- - - -secretary of state, submitted by ~ir base o smas iemam~n
tor , stepped_ as1d_e, apparently_ de• 1arms and men hold out. That may
l11s excellency Caveliere Benito ian . strength should Ital) choose
,;:crted by Jus fair-weather friend be only a matter of months or
t d
to fight on.
A.dolf Hitler..
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M~rsJ:rnH ~i~tro Ba~oglio, a no1:- T he Allies will insist on uncon•
mmister, and secretary of state,
fascist m spint, embittered by his ditio nal surrender. That means
his excellency Caveliere Pietro
treatment at the hands. ~f the llhe Italians must accept the Al~
Badoglio marshal of Ualy."
former sergeant, 1v.1ussolm1., too lied terms, without posing any
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command o.l a military govern- cond itions of their own.
Superior, Wis., July 26.- (SpeBadoglio, the 71-year-old new
ment, 11:1plymg an end to the rule
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cial) - The $1,700,000 u. s. s. Mus- premier, had been dismissed as
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Two young people were instantly
This may well be the ftrst step
tons- was christened here Sunday 1940.
k"ll d
rl today when the auto alo'.1g t~~ rocky r~~d tov,,ard Italys
as it slid down the ways _to cc1:rry
He iss~ed a proclamation to - ~o~ileefn \vhich they were riding
uncond1t10.nal. sun ender by . the
the name of 1v!uskegon, Mich., 11:1to night tellmg ltahans:
.
left US-31 three miles north of
Army, which IS what the Washingthe war agamst the submarine
.. On orders of his MaJesty the M t
d
sh d •nto a tree
ton and presumabJy the London
menace in the Atlantic and Pa- King, I am taking over the mili- ~ne:J~~e~~- era e i
•
authorities desire. It lS a hopeful
ciflc.
'
tary government of the country
Dale G Speid el 23 years old.
sign, for the Allies want th e sur___
T.he Mus.Kegon hit the water at with full powers."
o:C 604. E L udi~gton a venue.
ien~er ~( a defeated army, so th at
Allied Headquarters in
the 12:58 p. m. (C. ~- T.)
He called on 8:11 Italians to
L udington·.
no lesui gent Fasci st m th e future Southv,.·est Pacific, Monday, July
ln an impressive ce r emony wit- ra!.1}~ around the .Kmg;,
L ois 1\1. \ Vink.el, 18 yea rs old,
m~y a_gam lead th ~ Italians t~ 26-..4>Allied bombers, attack- nessed by several thousand perI he "".ar c?ntu~ues, he add.ed.
addr ess
not
immediately
war with the asserti:,01.1 . th ~t th ~J ing Japanese posit.ions in the sons, a bottle of champagne w as
'.fhe Kmg m his proclamah~>n
learn ed.
were undefeated milita rily m South west Paci.fie with ever in- broJ~en aga11:st the ship by ~rs. said f ta_ly, "by the valor of. its
The accident occurred shortly
W_orld War . II, as. !he. German ~ creasi ng inlens1t:y, yes~erd8.y de- David Hopkms, Muskegon's first a_rmed force~ an~ .the det7rm 1:1a- before 1 a. m. while Speidel and
sald t~ey \\ ere milltanly u n d e livered t_he heaviest raids of th e Navy Gold Star_ mother of \Vorld hon of all its citizens, .~ill fmd Miss Winkel were enroUte south
feated m World Wa_r ,I.
war ~gamst two of the enemy s War
S~e 1s t~e mother of a~8:m a way of ~ecovery.
on us. 31.
. Although Badoglio ~ procla'.11a- most important bases.
~omer David Hopkins, who lost
lhese
sensat10nal
anno~nceInvesti ation of the crash was
t1011 ':'Vas double-talk rn WashingMore than 200 American planes. his J1f~ when _the Japanese sunk ments, recorded by The _Assoc1a~ed made b gDe uties Sheriff Edward
ton, 1t was taken to mean that swarmed over the key airbase at the U.S. S. Arizona at Pearl Har• Press, may be the opening Italian L , ... Yd JP
Ch rr after it
Italy would make a last des per• Munda, :Ke\~' Georgia, raining 186 bor. Jy!r. Hopkins and their <laugh - peace moyes.
.
~ nnf_ a~
am~sd
b e R~Jlie Merr
0
ate stand again st the American tons of bombs upon the Japanese ter , :t;UPn, were present.
They came as Alhed_ troops_were ~a~ ~h.[et 1~ e
Yh 1 Coroner
and British in\'aders, but that the pinned within the airbase by Amer~
Th.e rity of Muskegon was rep- sweepmg acr?SS SICl!Y off the
·
~le :
marsl a· alled
0
war,. for th~ Italians, would go 1can troops who control the sur- resented Ill tlle ce~emony by City southern Italian . mainland, less
; mas
oc. w~~
~-1 cWinkel'!li
5 1
1
on only until they were force d , ro unding jung le.
Manager Roy S. Winters, who pre- than week. after t.he 500-plane k lr coroner h ~
d :
S ·ct I
by circumstances, to surrender.
At the same lime
medium sented the vessel wit.h ~wo all - Amenca1: air attack on the Fa~- s. u v..;as crus :bl an k 11 r.fr p~~:e
President Roosevelt and Prime bombers and long-range fighters wave _rad10s purchased with con- cist capital of ~ome, and amid die:. ot a r~ss.1 ~ s .;t_ sai~cMiss
.
m an ned by Australians, swept uP tribut1ons.
reports 11:at w idespread pea~e an_ 10 erna. mJuries. e h·ch indithere were many rep orts of V lO• th e coast of New Britain for a . Among speakers on the launch- dem~nstra~1on~. had occurred 111 Wmkel hcarned a ca~ ; ~ of the
1
1
lent explosions."
coordin ated dawn attack ~n the mg program
as Walter ~utle:", Ita~y s 11;am cities.
.
.
cated ~ e was manane PDetroit. T h e
A German broadcast, purpoted- Gasmata airdrome The radio sta- head of the shipyards bearing his
Standmg Long D et erioratm g
For?
ot O r co
Y,
d t
0 a
ly from the center of Hamburg, tion was dest royed and grounded name, where the U. S. S. MuskeThe "resignation" o_f . th e bald, bodi:s were to e remove
said at 8 a . m. yesterday: "Smoke aircraft, t he runway, supply dump gon was built. It was the third squat boastful Mu~olmi e nd ed. a Ludm.gton fun_eral home.
b.l
is so black ove rthe city that it areas and e nemy personnel "thor- e:scort type ;vessel built in the career that began. with the Fasc_ist
~fficers said the autom? 1 e
is almost as dark as in the middle ou ghly strafed," the communique Supenor yards.
The previous march_ on R ome m 192~. The _in- ~kid~ed 65 to 75 feet before ciash •
of the mght. The extent of the from ·General D ouglas MacArthur's shJps were named for Gloucester, terna.t1on a~ _and domestic standmg ~ng mto the tree, It was dem ol damage cannol be • estimated yet,". h ea dquar t ers said.
Mass., and Shreveport, La.
of Mussolm1, h ow ever, has stead- 1shed.
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Germans Stunned
I
TO Be M acl e by Ita1·,ans By II Duce Ouster
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Badogho Could N
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Country Down
Immediate Fold-up~
r
Fr1gate
• Muskegon
Slides Down Ways
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TwO Are Killed
Near Montague
H eaVleSt
. R al"dS
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�.JN 1933, Hitler was
named German chancellor; Nazis gained power .
HITLER CONFERRED with Mussolini whose legions established the Italian empire. Togethe1· they became Axis
and began in 1939 conquest of Europe.
; ALLIED CHIEFTAINS met to map strategy, too. Like Hitld met Mussolini to make war for conquest, Roosevelt and
Ch1.1rchill met to mak.e war for peace_. H~re is artist's concept ioipf the historic meeting of the President a.n~ prime minister, and Gen. Charles DeGaulle of Fighting French and Gen. Hef"1 Honore Giraud, high comm1ss1oner of :Freench North
Africa, near Casablanca in French Morocco.
PEACE-LOVING,
his
hobby is stamp collecting,
not conquest of other
lands.
UP, cock,;; the
President in 1939 long was
silent on third term plans,
NEW ORDER came to. Europe. Behind barbed wire in Norway hre the bare buts of
Nazi prison camp which housed 300 prisonrs.
They contracted typhus, so were shot.
IN AFRICA, British and Aerican troops handed the Axis a major def,,at. These are
ruined buildings along watermt of Tripoli. Terrific punishment was given by the
R. A. F. to the city when stille]d by Axis.
,.,
DEADLY
Roosevelt in 1942 called
for sacrifice to bring vie~
tory in World War II.
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1943.
MONDAY, MAY
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GRAND
T;L;
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On American Soil and in Foreign Fields - In the Air, at Sea, on Land
From the Pearl Harbor Attack, Dec. 7, 1941, to Memorial Day, May 30, 1943
-11
Warmenho,•e.it, Lt. Col. Simon, 33,
husband of Mrs. Henrietta (Mantlemaker) Warmenhovcn, 2446 Boule•
:,__ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ ___, vard-dr., S. W., and son of Mr. and
Mrs. Paul C. Warmenhoven, Sun•
ARMY.
nyside, Wash. (southwest Pacific).
Adsit, Pvt. Howard V., son of
NAVY
Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Adsit, now of
Boynton, Raymou·d n., 19, seaLake Odessa (European area).
Avery, Sgt. Walter (La.Faunce), man second class son of Mr and
24. son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Mrs. Matt s. BoYnton, 726 VriesAv..,,:y, 1410 Alpine-av., N. W. st., S. W. (Pearl Harbor).
.
(New Guinea).
Brande1, Ens. Bemard B:, ~S,
Bake'r, Sgt. Jacob L., 24, son of son of W. A. Brandel, 55 D1ckmMr. and Mrs. J. L. Baker, sr., son-st., S. w .. (Aleutian islands).
F~a~cr, Rollin George, 25, boatGrand Rapids RFD No. 5 and
.husband of Edna (Helder) Baker, swam s mate first cJass, son of
135 Fuller-av., S. E. (New Guinea). Mrs. Raoul Loranger, Ada (Guam).
Fuller, Uaymond B., 21, seaman
Baylis, Pfc. James, 21, son of
Mrs. Victor J. Baylis, 1323 Hope- second class, son of Mrs. Lillian
FuUcr, Grandville (Solomon isst.. S. E. (north Africa).
Bostelaar, Pvt. Corncliu.s, 23, lands).
George, EuJ,renc F'rank, 16, season of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Bostelaar, 1020 Hall-st., S. E. (norlh man second class, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Harlow George, 129 PleasantAfrica).
Brinks, Pfc. \Vi11arcJ H., 24, son sl.. S. E. (Solomon islands).
Haveman, John Raymoncl, 23,
of Mr. and Mrs. Willard H. Brinks,
sr., 826 Thomas-st., S. E. (New yeoman, son of Mr. and Mrs. J.
H. Haveman, Grandville (Pacific).
Guinea).
Luyk, Dan~el, l.8, cook (subrnaBrown, Pfc Alman DeVere, 21,
son of Mrs. Ellen (Katzer) See, rine), brother of Hubert and Peter
formerly of 120 Fairbanks., N. E., Luyk, 5540 Division-av., S (at
now of Kankakee, 111.
(New sea).
:McGraw, Carl Clinton, jr., 20,
Guinea).
Buckowing, Pfc. Robert, 25, son fireman second class, son of Mr.
and
Mrs. Carl C. McGraw, 139
o( Mr. and Mrs. Edward Buckowing, 567 Eleventh-st., N. w. (New Lexington•av., S. W. (southwest
Guinea).
Pacific).
Bush, Sgt. Adrian, 23, son of Mr.
Platschorre, Daniel P., 28, seaand Mrs. John Bush, 1313 North- man second class. son of Mr. and
Pa u I
Platschorre, 238
av., N. E., and husband of Clarissa Mrs.
Anne (Parsons) Bush, 245 Lakc- Powell-st., S. E. (Pearl Harbor).
Smith, Lawrence, 21, son of Mr.
dr., S. E. (New Guinea).
Cagle, Pvt. Connie, 22, son of and Mrs. Nathan Smith, Gralfd
Mr. and Mrs. Willis Cagle, 618 Rapids RFD No. 4, Townline-rd.
Fourth-st., N. W. (New Guinea). (Atlantic).
Solomon, Roy Evans, 18, seaDeBoer, Cpl. Gerald \V., 23. son
-0f Mr. and Mrs. William DeBoer, man second clas.s, son of Mr. and
927 Ninth-st., N. W., and husband Mrs. William Solomon, 26 Conklinof Beatrice (Lane) DeBoer, 2164 ter.. S. W, (At1antic).
!8touten, James, 39, chief petty
Division-av .. S. <New Guinea). ,
ficcr, brother of Mrs. Roy HudDeVries. Sgt. Sidney, 19, son df
n, 2237 Stafford-av., S. W .. and
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph DeVries, 1144
McReynolds-a\{
N. W.
(New l Mrs. Mary Mate, 2019 Staffordav., S. w. (Pearl Harbor).
Guinea).
lllARINES.
Folkertsma,
agler, Pfc. Richard D., 11, son
son of Mr.
__ _.frs. Ruth A. Nagler 446 OakFolkertsma.
Dr Boer, Tim Burt, 30, chief signalman, brother of Adrian DeBoer,
1542 Hamilton-av., N. W. (New
York, N. Y.),
Hall, Ens. Donald G., 23, brother
of Mrs. Gerald Keegstra, 1211 Elliott-st., S. E., and husband of
Jane (O1s?n) Hall, Benton Harbor
(Buena Vista, Va.).
:fi:~rc~:::
ru
0
s~a~d
!~' '!\~:-s:er::~~!~
Harkins, 110 Mack-av., N. E., and
son of Mr. and Mrs. M. D. Harkins,
Wetumka
Okla
(Narragansett
pay, R.: b.
·
Rendall, Thomas E .. 33, chief machinisL's mate, son of Mrs. Ellen
Rendall, 1739 Horton-av., S. E.
(Pacific).
Rettig, Robert E., 20, fireman
second class, son o( Mr. and Mrs.
Frank Rettig, 1'136 WaH,er-a,·.,
N. W. (Atlantic).
Simpson, Ernest A., 28, naval
aviaUon, son o( Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Simpson, 1242 Fourth-st., N.
W. (Elizabeth City, N. C.).
Stone, Lt. Cmdr. George P., 33,
son of Mr. and Mrs. George L.
Ston_e, 262 Bel-air-dr., N. E. (Cali•
forma.),
CANADIAN FORCES.
Bartnick, Sgt. Vctc Chester, 23,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Bartnick, 539 Lincoln-av., N. W. (Eng•
land).
I
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Missin o- in Action
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ARMY.
Barrett, Lt. Raymond E., 24, son
of Mr. and Mrs. George Barrett of
Florida and husband of Mrs. Ellen
Barrett, 248 James-ac., S. E. (Phil·
ippines).
Betts, Pvt. Carl J., 26, son of
Mrs. Mary Betts. 1818 Division-av.,
S., and husband of Mrs. Carl J.
Betts, Louisville, Ky. (north Africa).
Dise, Lt. Henry A., 22, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Henry A. Dise. sr., 2719
Byron Center-rd., S. W. (north
Africa).
Fields, Tech. Sgt. Harley W., 20,
so~ ,ofJ,l,lit,:!!:1.d !':)'.~Her~r~
PRE 3S
Rose, Staff Sgt. Theron, 28, son 42, brother of Mrs. E. w. Chapof Mr. and Mrs. J. P. Rose, 1920 man, 420 Storrs-st., S. E., and4m~...
Walker-rd., N. W. (New Guinea). band of Mildred (Wing) Osborne,
Roskamp, P\-·t. Lloyd J., 21, son Richland (Philippines-Japan).
of Mr. and Mrs. Peter Roskamp, Pfenning, Tech. Sgt. Elmer E., 24,
1306 Taylor-av., N. (New Guinea). son of Mrs. Clara Acken, 3618
Schondclmayer, Cpl. Bemar<l C., Heron•av., S. W. (Philippines2·1, son of Mr. and Mrs. Corna Japan>.
Scllondelmayer, 247 Dickinson-st., Potyraj, Cpl. Frank C,, son of Mr.
and Mrs. John Potyra,i, 320 Lane- 11
S. E. (New Guinea).
:Simmons, Sgt. Arthur, 22, son of av., S. W. (Philippines-Japan).
Mrs. Armina Simmons, 501 Paris- Szymko, Sgt. Roman A., 34, son
a,·., S. E., and husband of Mrs. of Mr. amt Mrs. Martin Szymko,
Helen (Merryman) Simmons, 509 746 Broadway-av., N. W. (north
Africa-Germany).
Coit-av., N. E. <New Guinea.)
Soltysiak, Sgt. VJncent ff., 26, son Thomas, Lt. Edward E., son of
Mrs.
Olive Phillips, 232 Jeffersonof Mrs. L. Soltysial{, 1018 Davis•
av., S. E. (Philippines-Japan).
av., N. W. (New Guinea).
VanDuincn, Cpl. Cornelius, 25,
Stegenga, Pfc. Donald G., 24, son son of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Van
of Mr. and Mrs. Allie Stegenga, Duinen, 1118 Eastern-av., S. E.
1441 Lee-st., s. W. (New Guinea). (north Africa-Germany).
Stoddard, Pfc. Francis J., sOn of Vanoosten, l\laj. A. J., son of Mr.
Mr. and Mrs. R. W. Stoddard, 1661 and Mrs. D. C. Vanoosten, 1122
Madison-av., S. W. (New Guinea). Baldwin-st., s. E. (PhilippinesSturgis, Cpl. Richard W., 22, son Japan).
.
of l\-Ir. and Mrs. Stanley Sturgis, 8 Versluis, P\'t. Jack G.• 24, son of
Gold-av., S. W. (norlh Africa).
Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Versluis, 57
Sullh·an, Sgt. Grant, 19, son of Auburn-av., S. E. (PhilippinesMrs. Gladys Plitc, 30 Lyon-st., N. Japan).
E. (New Guinea).
Wheeler, Pvt. Ernest E., 22, son
Thompson, Pvt. Russett, son of of Mr. and Mrs. Ernest E. Wheel•
Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Thompson, er, 5050 Clark-dr., Comstock Park
Grandville (Australia).
(Philippines-Japan).
Thorpe, Sgt. Gordon A., 21, son Ziombkowski, Pvt. Tony, 22. son
of Mrs. Esther J. Thorpe, 627 At- of Joseph Ziombkowski, 1047½
wood•st., N. E. (north Africa).
Park-st., S, W. (Italy).
Tibbets, Pvt. Donald, Sl, son of
NAVY.
Mrs. Katherine Tibbets, 621 East- Boer's ma, Sidney H., 35, chief
ern-av., N. E. (north Africa).
petty officer. son of Henry BoersTichelaar, Pfc. Louis, 24, son of ma, 1115 Tamaraek•av., N. W.
Mr. and Mrs. Hans Tichelaar, Ada (Japan).
RFD No. 1 (New Guinea).
Bosch, Ralph, 32, ship's cook first
Vorenkamp, Cpl. Don J., 23, son class, son of Mrs. John VogeJ, 1316
of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Vorenkamp, Tamarack-av., N. W .. and husband
561 Shamrock-st., S, W. (New of Marie Bosch. Los Angeles (PhilGuinea>.
ippines-Japan).
\Vegcncr. Cpl. Gustave ]{ .. 25, son Cook, \\'alt<'r J., 30, aerographer,
of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Wf'gencr, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Cook,
568 Cass-av., S. E. (New Guinea). Cascade-rd., and husband of Mrs.
Weibenga, Cpl. Marvin J., fiance Dorothy (Green) Cook', Washingof Dorothy Way, 2124 Eastern-av. 1 ton, D. C. (Wake island-Japan).
N. E. (New Guinea).
Grant, Marion DeWitt, 31, chief
\Vendlandt, Staff Sgt. Herbert, boatswain's mate, husband of Mrs.
26, son of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Alice Anne Grant, 730 Second-st.,
Wendlandt, Comstock Park RFD N. W. (Philippines-Japan).
No. 1 (New Guinea).
Rider, Russell Dale, 27, chief yea ..
White, Cpl. Jack L., 24, son of man, son of Mrs. Elton V. ShanMr. and Mrs. Charles E. While. 120 non, 1012 Evergreen-st., S. E., and
Lamoureaux-st., Comstock Park R. D. Rider, Belleville, Mich. (Philippines-Japan).
(New Guinea).
Wilbert, Cpl. Herman. son of Mr. !1
II
and Mrs. Henry Wilbert, 412
Interned
Fifth-st.,N. W. <New Giunea.l
Wildey, Capt. Russell J., 32, hus- I'
11 1
band of Mrs. Gilleyn Wildey, 1260
ARMY.
Flora~st., N. W. (New Guinea).
Meyers, Staff Sgt. Wallace W., 21,
Witkowski, Cpl. Charles E., 20, son of Mrs. Reah M. Meyers, 322
son of Mr. and Mrs. Hugo Wit- Spencer-st., N. E. (Spanish Mokowski, 1424 Hamilton-av., N. W. rocco>.
(New Guinea).
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Yonkman, Capt. Robert J., 27, son
•
of Mr. and Mrs. George Yonkman,
Merchant Marine
;;:af.inecrest-av., S. E. (European
Grand Rapids Casualties in the Second World War
Died in Action
RAPIDS
r-
1036 While-av., N. W.
(New
Guinea).
Burns, Cpl. Ned, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Robert H. Burns, 353 Collegeav., S. E. (Solomons).
Carlson, Cpl. Frank J.. 28, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Carlson, 609
McKendrick-st., s. W. (New
Guinea).
Carowitz, Pfc. Anthony G., son
of Mr. and Mrs. Ben Carowitz, 434
Harlan-av., N. E. (New Guinea).
Cole, Lt. Albert, 23, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Claude C. Cole, Cascade
RFD No. 3 (southwest Pacific).
Croff, Pvt. Clyde J., 24, son of
Mr. and Mrs. George Croff, 236
Himes-SL, S. E., and husband of
Cora ~Giles). Croff <north,Africa).
CzaJkowsk1, Pvt. Bernard T., 2.1,
son of Mrs. Lucille Czajkowski,
242 Grand~av., N. E. (New Guinea).
Davis, Pvt. Ray \V., 19, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Ray C. Davis, 3262
Riverview-av., North Park (New
Guinea).
DeArmond, Sgt. James A., son
of Mr. and Mrs. Elroy DeArmond,
102 Pennell-rd., S. E.
(New
Guinea).
DenBraber, Sgt. James, 25, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Marlin DenBraber, 223 Mt. Vernon-av., N. W,
(New Guinea).
DeVries, Sgt. Gerrit, 28, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph DeVries, 1144
McReynolds-av., N. W. (New
Guinea).
DeVries, Sgt. l\Iilton ff., 24, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Homer DeVrics,
2055 Beals-rd., S. W.(New Guinea).
Earlywine, Pvt. Clare R., 18, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Louis, Earlywine,
904 Arianna-st., N. W.
(New
Guinea).
Evans, Sgt. Ray L .. 21, brother of
Mrs. Alice West, 1101 Madison-av.,
S. E. (New Guinea).
Forcht, Pfc. George E., 2'7, son of
Zilin, Pvt. Brod.I J., son of Mr. Borgman, Hubert, 18, son of Mr.
Mr. and Mrs. George L. Forcht,
1016 Kensington-av., S. W. (Guad- and Mrs. Charles Zilins1'i, 313 and Mrs. William Borgman, 1306
Leonard-st.,
N. W. (New Guinea). Butler-av., S. E. (missing at sea).
alcanal).
Fortier, Sgt. Jruward, son of Mr. Zimmerman, Pvt. Edward,~ !..1 · ouse, ~aul, 20, radioman, son
n
of
Mr.
and
Mrs. Leon Zi~,io., •
I. Cargill, 1226 Jefferand 1\trs. EdWfl'.rd Fortier, 500
an, 752 Sixth-st., N. W. ,;..2_"1~0b.
IJ • (killed jn action at
Jtllia. -st., N. E.
Guin.ea).
umea>.
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· lib_
Foster, ):.,t. Edg
M., 22, son of
MMrs. Ed
B-~ter, 3425 1
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, ...,.,.. n.,v- rt, 20, son or o_r·_Mrs. Ethel Gal1ur, 359~2 ·nivischmidt, Jamesl<'.lf'_f-lttl\vnsi'tip, and
~Brien, Pvt. Edward 1\1., 18, son Mr.l_and iyrrs. Henry Haapanen, s1oi:-av., s. (Nev! Guinea).
Ra Foote, 191:t Division-av., S. of 'irrs. Amv O'Brien, Detroit 507 ,~ lama-av., N. W. (New Gilson, Sgt. ~,,-n J.,_ 18, s~>n of
(N!w Guinea).
(south PacifiC>.
Guinea).
Mrs. Mae G. Gi_I~on, 9.J3 Ionia-av.,
Fr r. Pfc. Kenneth L., 24. son
COAST GUARD.
Huartson, Pvt. Russell, 28, son of S. W. (New Gu~nea).
a )'
• F
, 2 Field-ct
••
. . , Mr. and Mrs. James Huartson, 1514
Glass, Pvt. Cla,r E., 20, son of Mr.
of Mrs. Jessie . rarJ,
·•
Cronce, Paul R., ,...,. machimSls Forrest-av., N. E. (Philippines>.
and Mrs. John W. Glass, 243 Tra•
N. E. <New Guinea).
male second class. son of Mrs.
Kinsey Lt Joi
H 25 son f vis-st N E {New Guinea)
t
8
t
5
348
Fuller, S ftff ~~-e S ~;hi~:) ~~t George Prc t1er,
Carlton-av., Mr. and '1v1rs~ J. ~~ Ki~sey: sr., 4f3
Gol;mhie\l:ski, Sgt. Ted, 2o, son
nd
ba
of Mr',i_ 11Atd. Y Te.
{New S. E. (at sea).
Pleasant-st., s. E. (over North sea). of Mr. anq Mrs. Stanley G. Golem1~'. San
onto,
x.
CANADIAN..-FORCES.
Lippert, Lt. Rexford \V,, 24, son biewski, 7~7 Lake Michigan-ctr., N.
Gum.ea). p t J hn J b the of
Floyd, p,,t. Walter L., 37, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Lippert, \V. (New Guinea).
St~;1:d, C.v Goo~, 18 ·Na~~nal~av., of Ch~rles F. Flo.yd, 1042 Lafay- 556 Grand-av., N. E. (European
Hantleman, Cavt. Harold ~-, 205
Y nd W I
C G00 d 13 r ette-a,., S. E. (Dieppe).
area).
Lafayette-av., N. E. (New Guinea).
N. W., a
a ter ·
''<Nei
McConnell, Pvt. Gordon 1\1., 26,
Hartman, Sgt. Robert, 23, son of
Broadway-av.,
N.
W.
son of Mr. and Mrs. G. L. McCon- Mr. and Mrs. Spencer A. Hartman,
Gumea).rd
Ed .
B
Died lll Service
nell. Coit-rd. (Philippines).
32 Shelby-st., S. W. (New Guinea).
20
Haywa , Ct>~ M w•~
:' w'
Orlowski, \Villiam, 35, tank corps Hazekamp, Pfc. James E., 20, son
son of Mf. an
rs.
ermre
·
mechanic brother of William Or- of Mrs. Julia Hazekamp 1161 AtHayward, 2_6~5 Alpine-av., N. W.
ARMY.
lowski, 930 Powers-av., N. W. lantic-st., N. W., and J~hn Haze{south _Pacific).
.
., 6
Arnolcl, Pvt. Charles, 27, son of Three other brothers and four sis- kamp, Detroit (Guadalcanal).
nd
s
He rick , Pfc. Gilbert, nd
,. , i ~~~ Mrs. Mary Ro\van, ~27 Bart~ett-st., ters also live here. (North Africa.)
Higley, Sgt. Frederick C., 26, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Peter :e rJe,~ S. W., and husband_ o: La visa ArPutt, Sgt. John, 18, son of Mr. of Mr. and Mrs. Henry G. Higley,
21
61
3
nd
6_ Carlton-av., S.
·
(
nold,
_ McKe rich.-av., S. W. and Mrs. Joe Putt, 3456 Plainfield- 1138 Kalamazoo-av., S. E. (north
Gumea).
. ,, ,·
J.)
.
av., N. E. (New Guinea).
Africa).
. .
22 on (Fort ~Ix,~Hcyboer, Lt. Ech,m R.,
' 4s502 Bald"JJ1 , Cpl. Clare \V., 26 ,_ son of
Sousley, CpJ. Robert, 19, son of
Hughes, Sgt. ,~.r1Iham, brother of
of Mrs. Agnes Heyboer,
Mr . and Mrs. Roy S. Bal~wrn, 311 Floyd M. Sousley, 235 Maplewood- Mrs. Leo J. Dornbos, Charlotte, N.
Clyde Park-av., S.
andthJ~hi~ Beu~ah-st., S. ~- (Austr~ha\
st., S. E. (New Guinea).
C., _formerly of Grand Rapids (New
Hcyboer, Battle Creek (sou wes
Bright, Lt. Fred V., Jr.,_ ,..O, son
\Verner, Lt. George R .• 22, son of Gumea).
Pacific).
"'
of Mr. and. Mrs. Fred V. Bright, sr., Mrs. Tenus Markos, Holland, Mich.
Jacobs, Cpl. William J., 24, son of
Holmes, Pvt. Harry D., .. 3, son of 7 Maple-st., S. E., (New Bedford, (middle eastern area).
Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Jacobs, 759
\Vilkinson, Cpl. Dave, son of Mr. Seve~th:st., N. W. (N:w Guinea).
7M~.
2 a,nd ~1~s. F1Jn~ \.~~1o~t~~m;:~ IvI~~!/s·tcnscn Lt. C. Ario 22 son
. ~ Sinclair av., · ·
of Mr and Mrs Fred Ch;'st ~sen and Mrs. J. F. Wilkinson, now of
Ja.n1ck1, Pfc. Steve, Jr,, 19, son of
rica).
Pf G
ld l\I ,. 3 son 246 Griggs-st · s E (Gar~iner' Petersburg, Mich. (Solomons).
Mr. and Mrs. Steve Janicki, sr., 155
Hos~nan, . _c. era.
·,i7"'
s'cribTex.).
.,
·
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NAVY.
Lane-av.,
N. W. {New Guinea).
3
of Mis. Melvm Hosman, .
.
•
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.
Jelsma, Pfc. Oscar, 36, son of Mr.
9
ner-av., N. W. (New Gumea).
Dyer, Lt. James Herbert, ,.2, son
Cassidy, Frank Leslie, hospital and Mrs Miner J Jelsma 1228
Hootman, 1'Iaj. Harold. 1\-1., 4.3, ~~ M~ and M~·s. ;'·EWorth Dyer, apprentice, ~on of Mr. and Mrs. Morgan-;t,, N. w. <New Gui~ea).
brother of. Mrs. C. J. Lmdeman Tex) orden-st., . . (Sherman, John S. Casid~, _29~5 CharlesgateJoswick, Pfc. Edward J., 23, son
and father of John and James
. .
rd., S. W. {Phihppmes).
.
of Mr and Mrs Joseph p Joswick
Hootman, all o! 1407 Franklin-st.,
Hartnacke, Ca11t. Franz J., 28, _Cebelak, _Sylvester Joseph, 21, ra- 1101 Third-st .. N. w. (Ne\.~ Guinea)'.
S. E. {New Gumea).
son of Mrs. Rose Hartnacke, 342 d10man third class, son of Mr. and
l{o
Pfc ,voodro W .,
n
Ingersoll, Pfc. Donald S., 27, son Eureka-av., S. E., and husband of Mrs. Ale. :i.nder Cebelak, 549 Dia- of
and Mrs Iv';n 1, ,., 3Ko~op
of Mr. and Mrs. Leon Ester~rook, Mrs. Ro:5elyr~ (Cavera) Hartflacks, mond-av., N. E. (PacHic).
B~tterworth--st.
S.
(Ne\~
762
1304 White-st.. S. W. (New Gumea). 1 ~5? Aigentma-dr., S. E. (Camp
Nelson, Bruce Edward, 21, radio- Guinea)
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st
KiJnatriek, Sg~. James, brot11e~ of Livmg
.
. man third class, son a£ Mr. and
l{oster' S t. Peter W. 30 son
th on, 1;-a.).
Mrs. Frank Tnpp, Alanson, Mich.
l\ta ews, Sgt. Edwm J., son ... of Mrs. Axel E. Nelson, 519 Bissell-st., of Mr 'anJ Mrs Jame; K~ster
(southwest Pacific).
Mr. and .Mrs. John Mathews, 1,02 N. E. (Solomons).
1 421 W·dd" omb-~v N W (N '
Kra.marz, Staff Sgt. Jose11h, 26, ~~Iker-id., N. W. (Monroe, La).
Nitz, Theodore, 24 storekeeper Guinea/ ic
·,
·
·
ew
son of Mr. and Mrs. John K. Kra- M orgf, Lt. RRger J>., 25, son of first class, son of Mr. and Mrs.
Kozlo~ski Staff Sgt Jo ph .,
5
marz, 823 Crescent-st., N. E., and
r. an . _Mrs.
ager Morgan, 127 Henry Naz, 418 Lagrave-av., s. E. son of Mr ~nd Mrs Felixs~
husband of Mrs. Joseph Kramarz, P;:a_ock;;,,
E.E(Atlanta,
Father in navy. {Pacific.)
lowski 92 l\'lcReyn~lds-av
W
0
413 Cass-av., S. E. (New Gui-!1ea).
and&~~~- s~iom~n
Ronda., John, jr., ~7, son of Mr. (Dutch Harbor, Alaska). ., • ·
9~ 3 Divf:
Ma.digan, Staff Sgt. Frederick H., .
S (C
Bl cl"
Fl ) and Mrs. John Ronda, 1303 ColKryger Sgt Wade L
son of
28, son of Mr. and Mrs. Fred W. sw1:-av., ·
amp
an mg,
a. • lege-av., N. E. (at sea).
Mr and' Mrs• Martin·, 21 ' r
2
123
Madigan, 444 Ellio1t-st., S. E. (New rN~~chJan, Lt. /o~~P\ A., f:32bi;;~hWhitmllll,, Ens. Harry Gill, Jr., 27, An~-st N E ·
Guinea).
~vooi;l-av~m;_s E.' an~cso~n~f Mr. a:d son of Mr. a_nd Mrs. H. G. VV.h_itLema:iiski, (Jpl. Joseph P., 2s, son
1\-lartz, Pfc. Russell L., 30, son of Mrs Albert 'Nischan Norwalk ~an, 235 Umon-av., S. E. (Philip- of Mrs. Stella Lemanski 471
Mr. and Mrs. Cleon R. Martz, 1115 Calif (Plant C-ty Fla')
' pmes),
SprinO'-av. N E (Guadalca~al)
Ele~enth-st., N. W. (north Africa).
Op~cki, Cpl. kc1~vard·, '24, son of
.
1'IARINES.
Lou~hJin', sf:ari Sgt. Richard· J.,
l\11ller, Staff Sgt. Walt~r .H., 21, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Opacki, 854
Gibbs, Ct>I, .J8:mes L., 19, son of 23. son of Mrs. Louise Loughlin,
son of Mr. and Mrs. William L. Nacrold-st
N
\,V
(Springfield Mrs. Evelyn Gibbs, 2218 Horton- Ada RFD No. 2 {north Africa)
1\li~ler, 457 Hubert-st., N. E. (New Mo~).
.,
·
·
' a,"·•. S. ~-. and CJaudc G. Gibbs
:l\IcGee, Sgt. Robert R., sod of
1
Gu~! .~a).
,
,. .
,
., 9
Pickel, P,·t. Arlie E., 23, husband Xps1l~nt1 (southwest Pacific).
Mrs. Ethel McGee, 545 Michigan1 1'nison, Cpl. \\lll.,am C]J.lle, ,..,.,, of Mrs. Marie Pickel, 54 Carolinel{mpers, S~t. John J .. 20, son of st., N. E. (New Guinea).
son °£ Mrs. Nellie Olsen,_ 63 9 pL, N. E. (Fort Custer),
Mr. a.nd Mrs. George Kuipers, 63
.Misner, Sgt. Richard n., son of
~Thompson-av., S. E. (New Guinea).
Reed, Lt. \Villiam A., 25, son of Car?lme-pl., N. E. (over southwest Mr. and Mrs. Roy Jviisner, 4027
I Oteneack, Cpl. Roman F., 23, son Mr. and Mrs. Earl G. Reed Lake Pacific).
West River-rd (New Guinea).
of Mr. and. Mrs. Joseph B. Ole- Michigan-ctr. (Terrill, Tex./,
Mooney, Staff Sgt. Richard, son
nc~ck, 917 Lmcoln-av., N. W. {New
Sweet, Pvt. Clifford ]{., 21, son
•
•
of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Mooney,
Guinea).
.
of Norman B. Sweet, 207 SummerWounded 111 Action 1030 Prospect-av., s. E. (New
Rea, Sgt. Dona.Id M., son of Wil- av., N. w., (Redondo Beach~
Guinea).
ohn H. Rea, 1015 Fremont-av., N. Calif.).
:l\lullet, Pvt. Donald, lS, son of
1W., and husband of Mrs. Donald , Tunis, Lt. Jack K., son of Mr. and
ARJ.\.IY.
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Mullet 18 In~
1vr.. Rea of th e WAAC (New Mrs. Fred Tunis, 1943 Willard-av., Atchinson, Sgt. Donald, 23, son diana-av., N. w. (New Guin'ea).
IGumea).
->
S. E., and husband of Mrs, Iola of Mr. and Mrs. Robert J. Atchin- l\.lurray, Cpl. Donald L., 21, son
nd
Sa usky, Pvt. Joseph_ G~, 2,.., son (Palmer) Tunis (New Orleans).
son, 1652 Jefferson-av., s. E. (New of Mr. and Mrs. Marrcl B. Murray,
o( Mrs. Mary G. Sandusky._ 78 LaYanderVeen, Pvt. Don, 18, son of Guine~).
322 Robey- pl. s. E. (New Guinea).
gra~e-av., S. E. {north A;rica) ·
Mr. and . Mrs. Lillian V. Vandereen,
Au·stin, Pfc. J. Qarth, 25, son of Neely, Pfc. Ellsworth H., 26, son
Shirley, Capt. ~olm D., .... 7, son ?f 2119 Darwin-av., S. W. (Fort Sam Mr. and Mrs. Frank L. Austin of Mrs. Mabel Neely 232 LafaI\.frS. Madge Shirley and Melvm Houston, :rex.).
Gr d -II (
,
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Shirley Grand Rapids and husvanskaitis p,,t Frank jr 35
gnldvi_e S~uadalcanal).
yet!e-av., S. E. (New Gumea).
band of Mrs. Betty Je~n {Black) son of Flank ·vanskaiiis ''1553
a win,
·aff Sgt. Robert H., Niece, Cpl. Lawrence, 72 , son of
Shirley, 314 Fuller-av., S. E. (New Quarry-av N w (Chico' field 291 soz:i-n of Mr. an~ Mrs. Percy J. Mr. ~ nd Mrs. 0. D. Niece,_ 2l29
Guinea).
Calif.).
·•
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' Baldwi • 453 Gnggs-St, S. E. Da:win-~v-, ~- E. (north Afnca).
Soltysiak, Cpl. John W., 25, son
Vogel, P\·t. Richard \V., 38, son {Pearl Harbor).
.
Niedzwie<:k1, P~t. ~obert R., son
tJf Mr. and Mrs. Walter Soltysiak, of John Jacob VoO'el
Alpine-twp.
Bice, Cpl. Franklm, 9.. 1,. son of of Peter N1edzw1eck1, 813 Jackson0
st
21
1119 Atlantic-st., N. W. (New {Selden, Kan.).
'
Mr. a~d Mrs. Royal E. Bic~, 3
., N: W: (Pearl Harbor.)
Guinea).
Wells, Capt. Richa.rd H., 23, Fran~lm-S t ., S. W. (New Gumea). Ows•nski, Pfc. Joseph, 23, s?n o_f
Swanson, Sgt. Norman A., 21, son brother of Robert H. Wells, 926
Blair, Pvt. Albert Thomas, 2_1, Mr. and. Mrs. Lawrence Owsmski,
of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Swanson, Merrifield-av., S. E., and son of Mr. son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Blair, 2 ~2 Straight-av., S. W. {north Af3852 Division-rd., S. {New Guinea). and Mrs. Charles E. Wells, Apopka, 223. Albany-St, S. W.
(New nca).
Toczydlowski, Sgt. Bert A., 27, Fla. (England).
Gumea).
Panochyk, Pfc. Walter J., 2-i, son
son of Mr. and Mrs. Adam ToczydNAVY.
Balle, Pfc. Abra.b~m, 22, son of of_ J?hn P. Panochyk, 933 _Lake
lowski, 224 Houseman•av., N. E.
Aldrich, Cadet Reginald P., jr., 23 , Mr. and Mrs. Mannus Balle, 36 M1ch1ga~-dr., N. W. (New Gumea).
{New Guinea).
son of Mr. and Mrs. Reginald P. Sto_rmzand. pl., N. E.
(New Pollacco, Master Sgt. Robert,
VanAmburgh, Sgt. Clayton, 25, Aldrich, 1244 Dunham-st., s. E. Gmnea).
.
brot~cr of Carmel Pollacco,. 314
son of George VanAmburgh, 216 (Jacksonville, Fla.).
Borgman, Sgt. l\farnn E .. son Mar~on-av., N. W. (north Africa).
J?lrn-st., :3. E.; rnot~er l~ves in
Casey, \VHlia.m J., 21, aviation of Mr. and Mt·s. Edward A. Borg- Prmcc, Pfc. Ralph,_ 24, so~ of Mr.
P1~ua, Ohio (New Gu111ea).
machinist's mate second class, son ma_n, 1147 Alto-av,, S, E. (New a:id Mrs ... Henry Prmc~, l;:,26 An•
\ierstay, Sgt. James l\f., 20, son of of Mr. and Mrs. John E. Casey, Guinea).
me:av., N. W. (New Gumea).
Mr. and Mrs. James Verstay, 552 924 Dorchester-av., s. W. (ElizaBottraU, Cpl. Be~n~rd, 21, son R1ekse, Lt. Robert_ J., son of Mr.
Hopson-st., N. E. (New Guinea.
beth Cit· J N. C.).
of Mr. and_ Mrs. Wilham H. Bot- and Mrs. And1~ew R1eksc, CascadeI Vorenkamp, Cpl. Robert, 26, son
Davjs, Louis Daniel, 28. cook, son tra~l, 218 Diamond-av., S. E. (New rd. (north Africa).
Cl{ Mr. and Mrs. Albert Voren- '
Mr. and Mrs. Mack Davis, 570 Gumea).
Roberts, Staff Sgt. Clio, 27, son of
[kamp, 561 Shamrock-st., s. W.
randville-av., S. W. (Seattle,
Brown, Pvt. Earl W., 25, son of, J,ir. and Mrs. John A. Roberts, 141~
(New Guinea),
ash.),
Mr. and Mrs. Victor H. Brown,- 'Union-av., S. E• .<north Africa) ,
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Hill, Sgt. Robert~-, 26, (RCAF),
grandson of Mrs, Elizabeth Reeves,
549 Cedar-st., N. E. (England).
I
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r1soner
O
f W
_ __
Re d Arrow UIll"t S_ ·Bear
S
F" h •
d
evcre 1~ ling an
Large Casualties
As in World war I, Grand Rap ..
ids contingents of the famous 3 2nd
(R d A,
) d" . .
h
1_row
e
r~,iswn ave seen
the heaviest fightmg and have suffered the heaviest casualties to
date of all local men in service
.
m the current conflict.
Local Red ArrO\vs of the 126th
infantry, who were in the thick of
the_ heaviest fighting in the New
Gumea campaign, make up 55 per
cent o~ the _total _number of local
men killed m action. The former
national guardsmen lost 31 men
in the Papuan struggle, compared
with the total list of 57 deaths
in action. Those wounded in New
Guinea total 60 out of the 100
wounded on all fronts.
TJ1ree
other local Red Arrows are llsted
as missing. The New Guinea total
of 94 casualties jg 40 per cent of
the entire casualty list in Grand
Rapids to date
Second in i~portance to Grand
Rapids is the north African front,
with 28 local casualties
These
mclude five killed in acti~n three
. .
' .
;1.ss111g,. twelve wounded and eight
nsoneis.
Toll a! Pearl Harbor.
In the eai:her phases of_ the war
Grand Rapids also had its share
of tragedy. When the Japs struck
Pearl Harbor three local sailors
were killed and two soldiers, one
sailor and one marine were
wounded for a total of seven local
c~sua_lties. Another local sailor
died 1n Guam and one more was
made a captive when Wake island
felI .. In the historic battle in the
Philippines Grand Rapids _had no
known dead, but three soldiers and
two sailors are still listed as
m~ssing an~ ten soldiers. and three
sailors weie made prisoners of
Japan.
Loc_al i:narine casualties were
heaviest rn the_ Solomons.-Guadalc~nal sector, with two killed _and
six wounde~. ~wo local sailors
also ~vere_ k~Hed 111 that area and
one 1s m1ssmg. One Grand Rap•
ids army man _is missing. and five ,
were wound~d 111 th3:t action.
Grand Rapids captives of Japan
total 15. of which 13 were taken
in the Philippines. Significant of
the type of conflict waged in the
Papuan campaign is the fact that
not a single local Red Arr~w
fighter has been reported a pnsoner. In German-Italian hands
are eight local prisoners of war.
Two Families Hardest Hit
.
•
The current casualty list shows
that two Grand Rapids families
have twice experienced the pangs
of battlefront casualties. Mr.
and Mrs. Joseph DeVries, 1144 McReynolds-av., N. W., were notified
first that their son, Sgt. Gerrit De
Vries, 23, was wounded in action in
New Guinea and later received
word that a second son, Sgt. Sid•
ney DeVries, 19, had died in action
on the same front.
The family of Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Nitz, 418 Lagrave-av., s.
E., was informed first that a son,
Jack Henry Nitz, 18, had been
wounded at sea and then were informed that a second son, Theodare Nitz, 24, storekeeper first
class, was missing in action, presumably in the Pacific. The father
of these boys also is in the navy.
-·
Tnere are 10 times more accidents in which people are dis•
i,,bled than there are fires.
J
I
ar
ARMY
J .,
f
~oo 1sen, C~ 1• ~ro ~ ., "' 9'son~
Mi. a nd Mis. WFranl-..d C~o~1en,d80 ~
Hovey-St, S. . ·, an
?s an
1
t ) st ., N.
Mrs. John Coo~son, 12 FirS
W. (norltlh CAflricRa- erEma n y ·
f
Crowe , p. oya1 ., 28, son_o
Mrs. Earl Griffen, 744 Fountamst., N. E. (Philippines-Japan).
DeJong, Sgt. Charles, 26, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Hessel DeJong, 652
Hogan-st., S. W. {north AfricaGermany),
Dollnka, Sgt. Daniel, 26, son of
Mr. and Mrs. Gabriel Dolinka, 862
Dunham-st., S. E. (Germany).
Eliott, Lt. John B., 25, son of Mr.
and Mrs. James A. Elliott, Michigan Soldiers home (Germany).
Engstrom, Lt. Walter F., 27,
broth~r of E1mer Engstrom, 1147
Hermitage-st., S. E., and son of
Mrs ... A._ H. Hildebrand, Detroit
(Phrll~pmes-Japan).
l\Iartm, p,,t. Robcrt.D., 18, son _of
Mrs. Joseph Hamermk, 902 S_cnbner-av., N. W. {north AfricaGerm~ny).
. _
_
Oostmg, Sgt. \V1llll!m R., 2Q, s~m
o~- Mrs. Myra Oostmg,. ?49_ G1ddmgs-av., S. E. {Ph1lippmesJapan).
· ()sborne, Oapt. "(Dr.) Charles
id
J
In 32nd Men
.- ~
N. E. (sout~west Pacrfic).
De\Vltt, Neil, 20, seaman sccon_d
class,_ son of Mr. and Mrs. Chris
DeWitt, 2113 Stafford-av., S. ~-,
and husband of Pleasure DeWitt,
56 Stewart-st., S. W. (southwest
Pacific)
l\lcCar.tin, Ens. Dan C., son of
Mr. and Mrs. M. K. Mccartin, 1939
CoJlins-av., S. E. (Pearl Harbor).
Mlynarczyl..:, John S., 24, seaman,
husband of Mrs. John S. Mlynarczyk, 944 Veto-st., N. W. (Atlantic).
Nitz, Jack Henry, 18, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Henry Nitz, 418 Lagraveav., S. E. (at sea).
Sullivan, William E., 18, seaman second class, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Frank J. Sullh...tln, 170~ Eastern-av., S, E., (battle of Midway).
1'iARThTES.
Andrusis, Pfc, AntJ1ony, 22, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Andrusis,
1314 Muskegon-av., N. W. (Guadalcanal).
Beardsley, Pvt. Kenneth E., 19,
son of l\1r. and Mrs. Garret Beards•
ley, 44 Grant-st., S. W. (southwest
Pacific).
Gorecki, Pvt. Edmund R., 21., s~~1
of,.. Mr~ and Mrs. Roman Go1ecJ...1,
22iJ Richards-av., S. W. (Guadalcana!), .
•
KuJa.wmski, Cpl. Anthony E., 23,
brother of :fyirs. Josephine Sorum,
932 Second-st., N. W. (north
Afr~ca).
.
Milanowski, Cpl Hubert D., 20,
brother of Mrs. JQSeph Budnick,
123 Travis-st., N E., and Mrs. June
Stefanek, 1711 ·cusick-st., N. W.
(Guadalcanal),
Palmer, Pvt. Alden T., son of
Mr. and Mrs. B, Palmer, 3~0 Bealsrd., S. W. (southwest Pacific).
Shane, Pvt. Gerald D., 18, son
of Ernest M. Shane, 224 Mt. Vernon-av., N. W. (GuadacanaD.
Stevens, Pfc. Daniel C,, 21, son
of Mr. and Mrs. Daniel Stevens,
924 Milwaukee-av., S. W. (Guadal..
canal).
Thornton, Pfc. Harold l\Iilo, 18,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Milo T. Thornton, Comstock Park RF'D, No, 1
(Gu~dalcanaD.
Wiseman, Cpl. Robert E .. _20, son
1::~:~~
~il'~~c~f:s~=!t F;~
bor)
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\V'tr
H ?
f M
1
1
7
and 0 ~~·s
H~a;~rct'' Wbos%n
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Richard Platte Red Arrow Division collection
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Platte, Richard
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Collection of photographs and a scrapbook pertaining to the 126th Infantry, 32nd (Red Arrow) Division of the U.S. Army. Sgt. Richard "Dick" Platte, of Grand Rapids, Michigan, served in the U.S. Army, 32nd Infantry "Red Arrow" Division, 126th 3rd Battalion, Headquarters Company. The company trained for the war in Europe at Camp Livingston, Louisiana in 1941 and conducted maneuvers near Camp Beauregard. In the spring of 1942 the 32nd Division sailed to the South Pacific and settled in Australia. The 126th Regiment was organized into a combat team and was the first of U.S. forces dispatched to Port Moresby in New Guinea.
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World War II
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1941-1945
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Richard Platte Red Arrow Division collection (RHC-99)
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United States. Army
United States. Army. Infantry Division, 32nd
United States. Army. Infantry Regiment, 126th
World War, 1939-1945
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Grand Valley State University. Special Collections and University Archives
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RHC-99
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eng
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RHC-99_Platte_WWIIScrapbook
Creator
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Platte, Richard
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1943/1945
Title
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World War II Red Arrow Division Scrapbook
Description
An account of the resource
Scrapbook of newspaper clippings dating from 1943 to 1945 detailing events of World War II, and in particular the activities of the 126th Infantry Regiment, 32nd (Red Arrow) Division. Many articles were clipped from the Grand Rapids Herald and Grand Rapids Press newspapers.
Subject
The topic of the resource
United States. Army
World War, 1939-1945
United States--History, Military
Michigan--History, Military
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/635">Richard Platte Red Arrow Division Collection, (RHC-99)</a>
Publisher
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Grand Valley State University Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives, 1 Campus Drive, Allendale, MI, 49401
Rights
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<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">In Copyright</a>
Type
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Text
Format
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application/pdf
Language
A language of the resource
eng
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
World War II
-
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Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Richard Platte Red Arrow Division collection
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Platte, Richard
Description
An account of the resource
Collection of photographs and a scrapbook pertaining to the 126th Infantry, 32nd (Red Arrow) Division of the U.S. Army. Sgt. Richard "Dick" Platte, of Grand Rapids, Michigan, served in the U.S. Army, 32nd Infantry "Red Arrow" Division, 126th 3rd Battalion, Headquarters Company. The company trained for the war in Europe at Camp Livingston, Louisiana in 1941 and conducted maneuvers near Camp Beauregard. In the spring of 1942 the 32nd Division sailed to the South Pacific and settled in Australia. The 126th Regiment was organized into a combat team and was the first of U.S. forces dispatched to Port Moresby in New Guinea.
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
World War II
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1941-1945
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Richard Platte Red Arrow Division collection (RHC-99)
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
In Copyright
Subject
The topic of the resource
United States. Army
United States. Army. Infantry Division, 32nd
United States. Army. Infantry Regiment, 126th
World War, 1939-1945
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Grand Valley State University. Special Collections and University Archives
Relation
A related resource
Veterans History Project (U.S.)
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
RHC-99
Format
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image/jpg
application/pdf
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Still image
Text
Language
A language of the resource
eng
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials.
Dublin Core
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Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
RHC-99_Platte_014_1942_sketch
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Hillraid, F. John
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1942
Title
A name given to the resource
Sketch of Richard Platte, 1942
Description
An account of the resource
Sketch of Richard "Dick" Platte by F. John Hillraid in Boston
Subject
The topic of the resource
United States. Army
World War, 1939-1945
United States--History, Military
Michigan--History, Military
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/635">Richard Platte Red Arrow Division Collection, (RHC-99)</a>
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Grand Valley State University Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives, 1 Campus Drive, Allendale, MI, 49401
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">In Copyright</a>
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Image
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
image/jpg
Language
A language of the resource
eng
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
World War II
-
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Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Richard Platte Red Arrow Division collection
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Platte, Richard
Description
An account of the resource
Collection of photographs and a scrapbook pertaining to the 126th Infantry, 32nd (Red Arrow) Division of the U.S. Army. Sgt. Richard "Dick" Platte, of Grand Rapids, Michigan, served in the U.S. Army, 32nd Infantry "Red Arrow" Division, 126th 3rd Battalion, Headquarters Company. The company trained for the war in Europe at Camp Livingston, Louisiana in 1941 and conducted maneuvers near Camp Beauregard. In the spring of 1942 the 32nd Division sailed to the South Pacific and settled in Australia. The 126th Regiment was organized into a combat team and was the first of U.S. forces dispatched to Port Moresby in New Guinea.
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
World War II
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1941-1945
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Richard Platte Red Arrow Division collection (RHC-99)
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
In Copyright
Subject
The topic of the resource
United States. Army
United States. Army. Infantry Division, 32nd
United States. Army. Infantry Regiment, 126th
World War, 1939-1945
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Grand Valley State University. Special Collections and University Archives
Relation
A related resource
Veterans History Project (U.S.)
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
RHC-99
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
image/jpg
application/pdf
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Still image
Text
Language
A language of the resource
eng
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials.
Dublin Core
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Identifier
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RHC-99_Platte_013_1941
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Unkown
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1941
Title
A name given to the resource
Soldier posing on ground with rifle
Description
An account of the resource
Soldier posing on ground with rifle. Headquarters Company, 126th Infantry maneuvers at Camp Livingston.
Subject
The topic of the resource
United States. Army
World War, 1939-1945
United States--History, Military
Michigan--History, Military
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/635">Richard Platte Red Arrow Division Collection, (RHC-99)</a>
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Grand Valley State University Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives, 1 Campus Drive, Allendale, MI, 49401
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">In Copyright</a>
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Image
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
image/jpg
Language
A language of the resource
eng
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
World War II
-
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27e9c1cc4ab21fcd1f462c688568b399
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Richard Platte Red Arrow Division collection
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Platte, Richard
Description
An account of the resource
Collection of photographs and a scrapbook pertaining to the 126th Infantry, 32nd (Red Arrow) Division of the U.S. Army. Sgt. Richard "Dick" Platte, of Grand Rapids, Michigan, served in the U.S. Army, 32nd Infantry "Red Arrow" Division, 126th 3rd Battalion, Headquarters Company. The company trained for the war in Europe at Camp Livingston, Louisiana in 1941 and conducted maneuvers near Camp Beauregard. In the spring of 1942 the 32nd Division sailed to the South Pacific and settled in Australia. The 126th Regiment was organized into a combat team and was the first of U.S. forces dispatched to Port Moresby in New Guinea.
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
World War II
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1941-1945
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Richard Platte Red Arrow Division collection (RHC-99)
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
In Copyright
Subject
The topic of the resource
United States. Army
United States. Army. Infantry Division, 32nd
United States. Army. Infantry Regiment, 126th
World War, 1939-1945
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Grand Valley State University. Special Collections and University Archives
Relation
A related resource
Veterans History Project (U.S.)
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
RHC-99
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
image/jpg
application/pdf
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Still image
Text
Language
A language of the resource
eng
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials.
Dublin Core
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Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
RHC-99_Platte_012_1941
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Unknown
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1941
Title
A name given to the resource
Sgt. Richard Plate on K-P duty, 1941
Description
An account of the resource
Sgt. Richard Plate on K-P duty at Camp Livingston. Rear is inscribed "The famous K-P-Kid was I mad in this picture"
Subject
The topic of the resource
United States. Army
World War, 1939-1945
United States--History, Military
Michigan--History, Military
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/635">Richard Platte Red Arrow Division Collection, (RHC-99)</a>
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Grand Valley State University Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives, 1 Campus Drive, Allendale, MI, 49401
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">In Copyright</a>
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Image
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
image/jpg
Language
A language of the resource
eng
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
World War II
-
https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/a03cec07d775dafd60abd3b2e7a24f7a.jpg
976ee76906d2ca54a09a9e12e7618e0e
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Richard Platte Red Arrow Division collection
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Platte, Richard
Description
An account of the resource
Collection of photographs and a scrapbook pertaining to the 126th Infantry, 32nd (Red Arrow) Division of the U.S. Army. Sgt. Richard "Dick" Platte, of Grand Rapids, Michigan, served in the U.S. Army, 32nd Infantry "Red Arrow" Division, 126th 3rd Battalion, Headquarters Company. The company trained for the war in Europe at Camp Livingston, Louisiana in 1941 and conducted maneuvers near Camp Beauregard. In the spring of 1942 the 32nd Division sailed to the South Pacific and settled in Australia. The 126th Regiment was organized into a combat team and was the first of U.S. forces dispatched to Port Moresby in New Guinea.
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
World War II
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1941-1945
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Richard Platte Red Arrow Division collection (RHC-99)
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
In Copyright
Subject
The topic of the resource
United States. Army
United States. Army. Infantry Division, 32nd
United States. Army. Infantry Regiment, 126th
World War, 1939-1945
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Grand Valley State University. Special Collections and University Archives
Relation
A related resource
Veterans History Project (U.S.)
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
RHC-99
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
image/jpg
application/pdf
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Still image
Text
Language
A language of the resource
eng
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials.
Dublin Core
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Identifier
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RHC-99_Platte_011_1941
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Unknown
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1941
Title
A name given to the resource
Soldiers relaxing in camp, 1941
Description
An account of the resource
Soldiers relaxing in camp. Headquarters Company, 126th Infantry maneuvers at Camp Livingston.
Subject
The topic of the resource
United States. Army
World War, 1939-1945
United States--History, Military
Michigan--History, Military
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/635">Richard Platte Red Arrow Division Collection, (RHC-99)</a>
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Grand Valley State University Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives, 1 Campus Drive, Allendale, MI, 49401
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">In Copyright</a>
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Image
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
image/jpg
Language
A language of the resource
eng
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
World War II
-
https://digitalcollections.library.gvsu.edu/files/original/f193e3140b9f684c2f43566a7506beec.jpg
84e9da1feb468e2bda0374d7fcedccc5
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Richard Platte Red Arrow Division collection
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Platte, Richard
Description
An account of the resource
Collection of photographs and a scrapbook pertaining to the 126th Infantry, 32nd (Red Arrow) Division of the U.S. Army. Sgt. Richard "Dick" Platte, of Grand Rapids, Michigan, served in the U.S. Army, 32nd Infantry "Red Arrow" Division, 126th 3rd Battalion, Headquarters Company. The company trained for the war in Europe at Camp Livingston, Louisiana in 1941 and conducted maneuvers near Camp Beauregard. In the spring of 1942 the 32nd Division sailed to the South Pacific and settled in Australia. The 126th Regiment was organized into a combat team and was the first of U.S. forces dispatched to Port Moresby in New Guinea.
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
World War II
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1941-1945
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Richard Platte Red Arrow Division collection (RHC-99)
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
In Copyright
Subject
The topic of the resource
United States. Army
United States. Army. Infantry Division, 32nd
United States. Army. Infantry Regiment, 126th
World War, 1939-1945
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Grand Valley State University. Special Collections and University Archives
Relation
A related resource
Veterans History Project (U.S.)
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
RHC-99
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
image/jpg
application/pdf
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Still image
Text
Language
A language of the resource
eng
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials.
Dublin Core
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Identifier
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RHC-99_Platte_010_1941
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Unknown
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1941
Title
A name given to the resource
Soldiers relaxing in camp, 1941
Description
An account of the resource
Soldiers relaxing in camp. Headquarters Company, 126th Infantry maneuvers at Camp Livingston.
Subject
The topic of the resource
United States. Army
World War, 1939-1945
United States--History, Military
Michigan--History, Military
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/635">Richard Platte Red Arrow Division Collection, (RHC-99)</a>
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Grand Valley State University Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives, 1 Campus Drive, Allendale, MI, 49401
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">In Copyright</a>
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Image
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
image/jpg
Language
A language of the resource
eng
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
World War II
-
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176d784d376e4b671bf04bc3828c77ff
Dublin Core
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Title
A name given to the resource
Richard Platte Red Arrow Division collection
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Platte, Richard
Description
An account of the resource
Collection of photographs and a scrapbook pertaining to the 126th Infantry, 32nd (Red Arrow) Division of the U.S. Army. Sgt. Richard "Dick" Platte, of Grand Rapids, Michigan, served in the U.S. Army, 32nd Infantry "Red Arrow" Division, 126th 3rd Battalion, Headquarters Company. The company trained for the war in Europe at Camp Livingston, Louisiana in 1941 and conducted maneuvers near Camp Beauregard. In the spring of 1942 the 32nd Division sailed to the South Pacific and settled in Australia. The 126th Regiment was organized into a combat team and was the first of U.S. forces dispatched to Port Moresby in New Guinea.
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
World War II
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1941-1945
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Richard Platte Red Arrow Division collection (RHC-99)
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
In Copyright
Subject
The topic of the resource
United States. Army
United States. Army. Infantry Division, 32nd
United States. Army. Infantry Regiment, 126th
World War, 1939-1945
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Grand Valley State University. Special Collections and University Archives
Relation
A related resource
Veterans History Project (U.S.)
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
RHC-99
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
image/jpg
application/pdf
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Still image
Text
Language
A language of the resource
eng
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials.
Dublin Core
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Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
RHC-99_Platte_009_1941_126th-HQ
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Unknown
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1941
Title
A name given to the resource
Headquarters Company, 126th Infantry cabins
Description
An account of the resource
Headquarters Company, 126th Infantry cabins and sign at Camp Livinston, Louisiana
Subject
The topic of the resource
United States. Army
World War, 1939-1945
United States--History, Military
Michigan--History, Military
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/635">Richard Platte Red Arrow Division Collection, (RHC-99)</a>
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Grand Valley State University Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives, 1 Campus Drive, Allendale, MI, 49401
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">In Copyright</a>
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Image
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
image/jpg
Language
A language of the resource
eng
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
World War II
-
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d201d9c32d4171a44d569b2ee3763efb
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Title
A name given to the resource
Richard Platte Red Arrow Division collection
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Platte, Richard
Description
An account of the resource
Collection of photographs and a scrapbook pertaining to the 126th Infantry, 32nd (Red Arrow) Division of the U.S. Army. Sgt. Richard "Dick" Platte, of Grand Rapids, Michigan, served in the U.S. Army, 32nd Infantry "Red Arrow" Division, 126th 3rd Battalion, Headquarters Company. The company trained for the war in Europe at Camp Livingston, Louisiana in 1941 and conducted maneuvers near Camp Beauregard. In the spring of 1942 the 32nd Division sailed to the South Pacific and settled in Australia. The 126th Regiment was organized into a combat team and was the first of U.S. forces dispatched to Port Moresby in New Guinea.
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
World War II
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1941-1945
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
Richard Platte Red Arrow Division collection (RHC-99)
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
In Copyright
Subject
The topic of the resource
United States. Army
United States. Army. Infantry Division, 32nd
United States. Army. Infantry Regiment, 126th
World War, 1939-1945
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Grand Valley State University. Special Collections and University Archives
Relation
A related resource
Veterans History Project (U.S.)
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
RHC-99
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
image/jpg
application/pdf
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Still image
Text
Language
A language of the resource
eng
Still Image
A static visual representation. Examples include paintings, drawings, graphic designs, plans and maps. Recommended best practice is to assign the type Text to images of textual materials.
Dublin Core
The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/.
Identifier
An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context
RHC-99_Platte_008_1941
Creator
An entity primarily responsible for making the resource
Unknown
Date
A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource
1941
Title
A name given to the resource
Members of 126th Infantry eating pie, 1941
Description
An account of the resource
Three members of the Headquarters Company, 126th Infantry, eating pie with milk. Rear is inscribed "we sneaked a piece of pie and a bottle of milk. I look happy - baloney".
Subject
The topic of the resource
United States. Army
World War, 1939-1945
United States--History, Military
Michigan--History, Military
Source
A related resource from which the described resource is derived
<a href="https://gvsu.lyrasistechnology.org/repositories/2/resources/635">Richard Platte Red Arrow Division Collection, (RHC-99)</a>
Publisher
An entity responsible for making the resource available
Grand Valley State University Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives, 1 Campus Drive, Allendale, MI, 49401
Rights
Information about rights held in and over the resource
<a href="http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/">In Copyright</a>
Type
The nature or genre of the resource
Image
Format
The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource
image/jpg
Language
A language of the resource
eng
Coverage
The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant
World War II