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No. 6
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Editor of THE PHI GAM
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RicHARn A. ATIYEH
Oregon Chapter Twins Missing in Action
The unusual situation of twins being missing in action has developed in Phi
Gamma Delta, as word comes tha! Private First Class Edward E. Atiyeh (0,
'45) and Private First Class Richard A. Atiyeh (Oregon '451 have not
heard from since December 16, 1944, when the 423rd United States Infani,,
the 106th Division was attacked by the Germans in Belgium.
On that day the enemy advanced against the 423rd's position, possibly An
that they were -green- troops. The regimental
headquarters sent back a int'
that it was destroying its equipment. The entire division lost more than
men otissing and thus was neutraliced as an effective unit.
veterans
Ard plenty of stories those
than
for more
jis are now in
•;tttle. That numrt.presents about 40
-nt of the living
,rship of the frar!.1,y,
me,our brothers
to pay the intariff of total
hteen new names
-ted in the roster of
whose deaths in ac.. ave been confirmed
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since the last issue
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hs.
deat
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batt
number who have met
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man
as
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almo
It is estimated that
at
not
ough
alth
have died in uniform,
the enemy.
actual battle-grips with
Killed in action:
BAUERWILLIAM BODKINmarine corps
'43),
l
knel
(Buc
T
MID
SCH
ber 5, 1944, of
lieutenant, who died on Octo
Peleliu. Palau
at
n
actio
in
ved
wounds recei
sniper fire
nese
Japa
by
hit
Islands. He was
Sisters.
Five
The
of
while in the vicinity
the First
with
was
midt
rsch
Baue
Lieutenant
Marine Division and was ea
Guin
veteran of the New enga
gein
Brita
and New
1921
ments. He was born in
in Ridgewood, N. Y.
BOYD BLAINE CHAMBERS. JR. (Denison '43).
was
air forces captain, who Italy
over
n
actio
killed in
. Son of
on January 1, 1945Cham
bers,
Fiji Sire Boyd B.
e"
"Pet
,
'06)
ison
(Den
Sr.
in
nnati
Cinci
in
born
was
t
Poin
West
red
ente
1921. He
d in
in 1940 and was graduate29th
June. 1943, standing
was
in his class of 540. He lieund
seco
a
oned
issi
comm
372
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while a prisoner of war of
government. Lieutenant Dabney
seas in October with the 78t1
Division. His regiment went
shortly after reaching Belgian S011 d'
tenant Dabney's battalion was cut nC v
Germans during the Ardennes break-.
Rhea was born in Jackson, Tenn.. ,
At Davidson he was head of the stud,.
and President of Delta Kappa Chapter.
EDWARD JOHNSON FA'ANS (
due '46), infantry first class private
was killed in action on November I
while advancing as a Browning a
rifle carrier in the 3rd American .)
Arracourt, France. He was born in
an
apolis in 1924.
*N„
DiEs, WITH FIR:•T MARINES
1E Lieutenant
i 11 iatn B. Rauersehmidt
(Mc-knell '43; died after being hit by a
sniper's bullet in the action at Peleliu.
tenant of engineers and later received his
pilot's wings. Going overseas as pilot of a
P-47 Thunderbolt, he was based on Corsica
with the 12th Air Force and helped support
the invasion of Southern France. Later he
was stationed at Grossetto and Pisa; Italy,
in liaison with the 5th American Army. He
was operations officer of his squadron and
met his death while on a strafing and bombing mission. He was a brother of Captain
Marshall Chambers (North Carolina '44).
JAMES BILBY CL7RRAN (Los Angeles
'39t, infantry lieutenant, who died in France
on July 16, 1944, of wounds received in
action in the area of St. La the previous day-.
Bilby was born in Blackwell, Okla., in 1917.
At U. C. L. A. he was manager of the crew
and voted an outstanding senior. He received
his law degree from Stanford in 1942.
WILLIAM RHEA DABNEY, JR.
(Davidson '44i, infantry first lieutenant, who
was killed in action on December 23,
1944,
WARD CLAYTON FREI
I Nebraska '43), infantry second Ii
ant,
who was killed in action in Gemr
on
December 13, 1944. He had been
he
front five weeks with the 13th Uniti, a
Infantry. He is buried somewhere in
glum. Ward was born in Stromsburg, N
in 1918.
FREDERICK GRAY FULTC,
(Idaho '43), infantry lieutenant. WI sas
killed in action on September 21, 1944, t1/4!tile
serving with the 3rd American Army. Ht
was a replacement officer and had been
France only eight weeks. -Fritz" was
very effective house manager at Mu
Chapter during his senior year. 1.1, ,
born in Spokane, Wash., in 1919.
LAURIE JONES GREENLEAF (M
'42), air forces first lieutenant, who
killed in action over Germany on Nove:.
8, 1944. Laurie left college during his j.
year to enlist in the R. C. A. F. Lau
transferred to the American air forces .
went overseas in May, 1944, and had
cited for "outstanding courage and'
proficiency in the execution of a
attack upon a heavily-defended darn.
was born in Lewiston, Me., in 1919 and
winner of numerous trophies in outl,
motor competitions.
WARREN ARNOLD JONES (I.
geles '46), air forces first lieutenant,
killed in action over enemy-held F:
November 17, 1944. He had been •
Thunderbolt with the 9th Air Force all,.
completed more than 40 missions. Warr
was born in Los Angeles in 1924.
DELTA
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373
JR. (DeHARVEY JUSTICE RHUE,
(Idalieutenant, who
second
DONALD KJOSNESS
infantry
Pauw '42),
.STAV
Germany on Decemsecond lieutenant. who
was killed in action in
,;), air forces
while
1944,
8,
June
in combat 27 days
been
on
had
action
He
1944.
17,
,Aed in
was born in
on a combat ber
Harvey
bombardier
killed.
when he was
as a
Peninsula. He
Cherbourg
1920.
Greenfield, Ind., in
over the
while on a raid over
(Washington
i wounded
going
upon
JOHN JACKSON RILEY
insisted
killed in
was
D-Day, but
who
sergeant,
re'47), infantry
expedition which
He
1944.
2,
December
his crew on the
on
was
action in France
the
For his gallantry he
to
death.
appointee
principal
his
in
had been named
Distinguished Service Cross
Academy by one of
Military
appears
'Id the
States
which
United
Washington
sly, the citation for
the state of
in Spokane in
the senators from
was anappointment
item. Donald was horn
his
and at the time
in
missing
reported
nounced he had been
Seattle in 1925.
in
born
EDWARD LEE McGOWAN
was
combat. John
lieutenant, who
SCHULTZ (Cor.l), air forces first
while
THOMAS ARTHUR
1944.
15,
lieutenant, who
first
in action on April
nell '40), marine corps bloody Saipan on
fields. He had
oil
Rumanian
.'le
on
was killed in action
born in 1920 at
embarked
. in Italy. He was
1944. Lieutenant SchultzMarines in
of
brother
22.
June
a
was
and
4th
Ms. N. Y.,
the
with
overseas duty
account of
January, 1944. He
G'owan (Brown '42). an recorded for
Pacific theater in
is
the
Star
Silver
the
for
-1
columns.
MUNSON (Col• \N DOUGLAS
who was killed
major,
forces
air
on a combat
while
1944,
in July 19,
pilot of
,ver Germany as a fighter Douglas
rbolt in the 8th Air Force. of the
Squadron
e American Eagle
entry into
t• Force before America's
the Yankee
He then transferred into
promotions from
,rps and received
to that of
lieutenant
of second
of 105
total
a
had
He
the age of 23.
his credit
over enemy territory to
Flying Cross
won the Distinguished
the time of
At
Clusters.
Leaf
) Oak
escort
bomber
a
on
was
- mission he
Stuttgart,
near
strafing an airfield
born in 1920 at
:y. Douglas was
Y.
:Fgh, N.
NEUSWANGER
t ANK RUSSELL
captain, who wa,
-aska '32), infantry
11 (Armistice
November
on
n action
Metz area
the
in
action
1944, while in
Youngest of
Army.
3rd American
members of
brothers who were
in GreeDelta, Frank was born
William F..
are
others
The
1908.
, in
'13), Peter
FALLS
-zer (Colorado College
College '16).
AN AIR CAPTAIN
(Colorado
wanger
and
Jr. (Denison
Chambers.
'17)
(Nebraska
B.
!•:euswanger
Ia. Captain Boyd forces was killed in action
College
(Colorado
Neuswanger
of the air
was
service Captain '43) Italy on New Year's Day. 1945. He
'06).
over
•,,re going into the
(Denison
Blackfoot,
Chambers, Sr.
ifger was in business in
a son of Boyd B.
3/4
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who was killed in
action in Fran,.
25. 1944. Chan
arrived in Englan • ia
and received his baptism
of nre in ;
attached to the 9th
American I.),
communications officer. He
died :u• days of combat. Chan
was born
;
Mass., in 1917.
Missing in action :
RUSSELL BRUCE ALVIS
(P
vania State '46), air forces
sergean
has been missing since
December 24,
when he set out on an
fl
a top-turret gunner onoperational
a B-24
bomber.
EDWARD ELLIS ATIYEH
'45), infantry private first
class, an,:
.A.RD ALEXANDER
ATIYEH
'45), infantry private first class,
to
have been missing since December
(See frontispiece.)
LOUIS ALFRED BAUER
'43), air forces lieutenant who ha•
turned from a combat flight over
bourg on January 22. 1945. He wi
on a P-47 Thunderbolt,
HE GAVE HIS LIFE AT ST. 1,6
ROBINSON BILLINGS (Colgate '36)
gi Lieutenant James PiThy
Curran (Los Anair forces lieutenant-colonel, who is u
!Ides '39) died of wounds
received as an
ported after a flight on January 11, 194
infantry officer in the St. 1,6
thrust.
the Burma-China area. He has been
seas since April, 1944, and last June
• ticipated in the first B-29 raid on .1a
commanded a battery of 36
-millimeter cannon on Namur Island
bombing Yawata.
during the invasion of
Kwajalein Atoll. He landed on
KENNETH FRANK HODSW:
Saipan
on
June 15 and was killed a
State '42), air forces first lieutena, ;
week later by
artillery fire while taking out
the wounded. has not returned from a B-29 raid on o
Thomas was born in Baltimore
on November 29, 1944. He was flyn,
in 1917.
the 20th Air Force. Kenneth is a
STARR SHELLEY
JR. (Washington '44), SUTHERLAND, Brigadier-General Fremont B. H•
infantry first lieugon '20). commanding general , •
tenant. who was killed in
action in Germany
on January 4. 1945,
Orleans Port of Embarkation.
while serving in the 3rd
American Army. He had
CLYDE VERNON KNISE12;
gone
September. At Washington overseas last (Tennessee '41), air forces major. wh.‘
Starr
was
a
varsity football and
been missing in action since Janu
tennis
member of the Oval Club. player and a
1945. when he went forth on a missi
The
day before
he was killed he
Luxembourg. Clyde put in more t•-4
wrote his mother that
"... it's home, peace,
combat hours as a P-40 fighter pilw
security and health that
mean the most to us
Southwest Pacific and was then tear
here. I'll be home again
soon to wiggle my
to the European front as a squadroil
toes in front of the fire
and put on a nice
mander.
clean shirt." Starr was
horn in
Klawack„Maska, in 1921.
HARRY R1GLEY MELTON_
bama '34), air forces colonel, wan,
CHANDLER BURBANK
ported since November 25. 1943. W:
(Pennsylvania '40), infantry first WEEKS
lieutenant. commanding officer of the 311th l• •
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as a Japanese language expert am who while
attempting to talk with some Airrounded
Nips in a cave on Tinian Island was wounded by a hand grenade.
KENDALL T. DEMPSTER (Union
'46), infantry private, who won a Purple
Heart in France.
JAMES C. KENNEDY (Kansas '44),
infantry sergeant, who was wounded on
December 12, 1944, in action with the 3rd
American Army in France.
JOHN H. LATHE, JR. (Western Re(Pur;',RGE AYRES WILDHACK
'44), infantry private, who received a
serve
when
, naval reserve lieutenant, who was
severe wound on November 16. 1944,
Tinian in a torpedo plane on June
by a high-explosive shell in the
hit
was
he
spinning
was
seen
when his airplane
Hurtgen Forest battle.
one wing shot off. He was co-captain
RALPH E. LIDSTER (Denison '36).
Purdue swimming team.
been
infantry first lieutenant, who has
*
*
*
battle
a
for
Heart
Purple
awarded the
wound.
nsuners of war:
plane was
e 10th Air Force, his
manese ack-ack. The scene of the
Melton
as Burma and Colonel
into a
.1 bail out and disappear
rated mountainous region.
(AlleVIN PERRY SCHAFFNER
private, who
44), infantry first class
the 414th
ten missing in action with
12,
December
since
Germany
nt
last August.
He had been overseas since
Schaffner (Allea on of Perry B.
!BERT STANLEY AUBRY (Rutgers
. air forces lieutenant, whose parents
received a card in Robert's handwriting.
that he is a prisoner of war in GeeHe was first reported as missing in
. after having been shot down over
...sIavia on January 15, 1945, while flying
the 18th Air Force.
RICHARD LEE NEAL (Purdue '46),
i)rces second lieutenant, who is a prisoner
ar at Stalag Luft No. 1 in Germany,
having been shot down near Leipsig,
7:aany, on October 7, 1944.
DWARD ROTH'WELL SHELLY
nnsylvania '46), sergeant of infantry in
106th (Golden Lion) Division, who had
retyarted missing in action in Gerniair.
lircember 21, 1944. A prisoner's cn:
in him, dated January 16, said that hr
• "safe and not injured."
* * *
The wounded (Purple Hearts for the
cal purple hearts):
FOSTER D. ARNETT (Tennessee '43),
.:341try first lieutenant, who was wounded
-ale serving in the Southwest Pacific.
JOSEPH C. CARABELLI, JR. (Denilieutenant, who
- '7), infantry second
eived a Purple Heart for a battle
Nt L. DECKER (Richmond '43).
'Attu was attached to the 2nd Marines
Du's As GERMAN PRISON ER
(DavidFirst Lieutenant W. Rhea Dabney
former student body
son '44) of the infantry,
while a
president at Davidson, was killed
prisoner of the Germans.
,
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1944, while
Aleutians, on December 29,
during which he
leave
a
on
home
enroute
Stanford sweetheart.
was to have married a
Ishpeming, Mich.,
He was born in 1919 in brother, Edgerton
Fiji
a
by
survived
and is
Cooley, Jr. (Stanford '42).
(Berkeley '44),
THOMAS COUCH, III
was killed nonlieutenant,
air forces second
6. 1944. LieuDecember
on
Italy
battle in
22 missions as
completed
tenant Couch had
awarded the
been
had
first pilot of a B-25 and
Clusters. At
Leaf
Oak
five
with
Air Medal
member of the track
Berkeley Tommy was a Sacramento in 1921
team. He was born in
of John Couch (Stanand was a nephew major league baseball
former
ford '15), a
player.
HALE, JR. (RutHENRY MARTYN
lieutenant, was
second
forces
air
gers '451,
-motored bomber
four
a
of
killed in the crash
Hunter Field, Ga., on Janin a take-off at
1944, while serving in Norm,
175th United States Infantry
*
Duke et decorum est pro p,!,-1
The following Fijis have ,!1.,1
service, although not at
•
with the enemy:
BARCLAY BOYD BEEw
'38), air forces captain, was killed u.
her 30, 1944, in Puerto Rico, when •
he was piloting went into a crasl
He had been assigned to the Pue:
center as assistant flight director a-.
worthy combat service in Europe
participated in missions against su,
as Bergen, Norway; Hanover and
burg and was wounded over Paris
her 31, 1944. He had been decor;
the Silver Star, the Distinguishe
B. A. R. PRIVATE KILLED
C,Private First Class Edward J.
Evans
(Purdue '46), who was a Browning
matic rifle carrier, lost his life in autoFrance
while serving with the 3rd American
Army.
ROBERT J. MAcIVOR (Ohio State '35),
infantry first lieutenant, who,
recuperating
from a superficial wound, wonders
if the
copy of THE PHI GAMMA DELTA
which he
left behind him in Germany will
be dug up
and "read by a generation of
Americans yet
to come." (Lieutenant Maclvor's
father was
the commanding officer of the
unit of the
Rainbow Division in the First World War
in which your Editor
servex; )
RUSSELL K. ROBINSON, JR. (Ohio
Wesleyan '42), infantry lieutenant, who
was
slightly wounded in Germany.
Lieutenant
Robinson carried with him through
the
France, Luxembourg and Germany
advance
the side-arms which his uncle,
Clarence D.
Mills (Ohio Wesleyan '16). veteran
of the
His STAR IS GOLDEN
Rainbow Division, brought back from
the
First World War.
Second Lieutenant Ward C.
MILES C. SHOREY, JR. (Cornell '34), (Nebraska '43) of the infantry mad,
preme sacrifice while pushing for
infantry major, who was nicked on
May 18, Germany with the 13th United States .
377
FALLEN KNIGHT
Jr. (Idaho
,:ant Frederick G. Fulton, action te
infantry was killed in arrival a
.nly a few weeks after his Americo,
3rd
(molt officer in the
Army.
\O iIj R
Purple Heart.
the Air Medal and the
in Alton. Ill
1914
Beebe was born in
(Penn
BURKE,
i.,ERT THOMAS
was killed
flyer,
ensign
'45),
•
fighter plane
-y 10, 1945. when his while on a
Bay
Francisco
7
12
1{9
;
Springfield.
tamale flight. He was born in
CASE, JR.
\RLES VINCENT engineer corps
•achusetts Tech. '33),
-battle on May
t•titenant. was killed non Theater. He
African
North
3. in the
have donated
• in 1911. His parents Brown Corp.,
the Malcolm Cotton Iota's house.
114 Company for Mu of Lieutenant
poration in memory
COOLEY
:)ERICK BRONSON
lieutenant,
second
forces
• d '42), air
at Adak.
accident
•,illed in an airplane
GERMANY
SHOT DOWN ABOVE
Greenleaf
Lieutenant Laurie I.
41, First
forces was fatally
(Maine '42) of the air
mission over
attacking
wounded while on an
objective.
a German-held
378
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highest traditions
fellow fliers, reflecting the
United States.
of the armed forces of the
5, 1944, in Italy. He
was
15th Air Force. He was a
born in Ch
1923.
made!
Of such stuff are Fiji warriors
* * *
in acThe Silver Star (for gallantry LieuFirst
to
awarded
been
tion) has
McGowan
tenant Edwin Francis
corps for
marine
(Brown '42) of the
the following reason:
*
For gallantry and
intrepidity
risk of life above and
beyond of duty, the
Distinguished
Cross has been awarded
1.)osth
lv to Second Lieutenant
G.
Kjosness (Idaho '42) of the air
who not only risked his Inc for freedom's sake. In thest
he cited:
and intrepidity
For conspicuous gallantry Battalion,
21st
1st
the
attached to
while
during action
Marines. 3rd Marine Division,
forces at Empress
Japanese
enemy
against
Solomon Islands,
Augusta Bay. Bougainville.
his machineWhen
1943.
on December 16,
by intense
down
pinned
gun platoon was
advance of a
the
covering
while
hostile fire
Lieutenant McGowan
rifle company, First
an exposed position
assumed
courageously
For extraordinary heroism in action
the enemy, June 6 and June 8.
19
June 6, 1944, Lieutenant Kjosness was
hardier on a B-26 airplane on a
the Cherbourg Peninsula. Shortly 7,f•
AN AVIATOR GIVES HIS
LIFE
MEETS HIS FATE IN
41 First Lieutenant
Warren A. Jones (Las
. 1 11Odes 46) of the air forces had
completed
more than 40 missions
when he was killed in
action over enemy-held
France.
nary 19. 1945. He was born
in Westfl,-ld
N. J., in 1923.
0S A R
EDMUND PENDLET(iN
( Texas '39), infantry
corporal, was killed
in an automobile
accident at Tonopah, Ne-.
on January 15. 1945.
He had been in militar.)
service for three years and
at his death was
an instructor in a camp
at Tonopah. He was
born in Shamrock. Tex..
in 1919.
JAMES WILLIAM
PRATHER, JR.
(Indiana '371, junior grade
lieutenant, was
lost at sea on December
18. 1944, in the
sinking of the U. S. S.
typhoon in the Asiatic Monaghan by a
area. Lieutenant
Prather was a veteran of
nine major engagements in the Pacific Theater.
He was
born in 1916 at
Wheatland, Ind., and was a
nephew of Clinton C.
Prather (Indiana '16).
JAMES WILLIANI
(Georgia Tech. '45), air SWINDELL
forces first lieutenant, as killed non
-battle on December
370
RUMANIA
Lee Mc1.;eutenant Robert Edward
forces. firs'
Brown '43) of the air
a born)
missing in action while on fields, is
oil
Rumanian
ka mission over the
now presumed dead.
WINS D. S. C. Posmumousl y
C. Second Lieutenant C. Donald Is
Idaho '42) of the air forces retie
combat over Cherbourg two days a'
had been wounded and was killed. A
Republic has awarded him the Distin
Service Cross.
Kjosness was
cnemy coast Lieutenant
a shell fragby
unconscious
rendered
just before
Regaining consciousness
his post and
assumed
he
target,
the
with devastating
the bomb load
fully recovered
not
.11though he had
Kjosness on
Lieutenant
his wound,
bombardier on another
as
fly
to
- asked
At the moment
atrrniely hazardous mission.
the target he
on
released
.,Inhs were
by a large
wounded
,t and mortally
command
the
hearing
,ment. Upon
knowing that
doors,
bay
bomb
the
the airplane
e doors were closed
and be
formation
of
lobably fall out
last
the
used
he
-!et for enemy fighters, obey the pilot's
to
strength
ebbing
fast
mangled left hand
•• and died with his bay lever. The
bomb
clutching the
duty displayed by
,m and devotion to inspiring to his
'enant Kjosness was
KILLED
YOUTHFUL MAJOR IS
'42), an air
Douglas Munson (Colgate
survived more
23,
of
age
forces major at the
theater
the European
than 100 missions in wounded by ack-ack
fatally
and then was
Stuttgart.
while strafing
TIFF PHI GANIMA DELTA
THE PHI GAMMA DELTA
LieuNavy Distinguished Flying Cross: '39),
(Purdue
tenant George A. Wildhack
missing in action.
heroic or
Army Bronze Star Medal (for
not
meritorious service against an enemy
-Colonel
Lieutenant
flight)
:
involving aerial
Carolina '29),
Charles B. Aycock (North
(Kansas '38),
Major James W. Campbell
S. Combs
medical corps: Captain Peter Lieutenantcorps;
medical
(Stanford '37).
'25), CapColonel Chan F. Coulter (Iowa
(Tennessee '38), First
Kreis
W.
William
tain
(DavidLieutenant William J. Lyman, Jr
(WitMeacham
Dare
E.
son '43). Captain
(AlleMiller
B.
Charles
tenberg '42), Major
Plata (New
gheny '40), Major Richard A. Pemberton
R.
James
Sergeant
York '39),
Miles C.
(Illinois Wesleyan '46). Major Kurt R.
Major
Shorey, Jr. (Cornell '34). Major Robert
Stoehr (Northwestern '39).
'36).
K. Zimmerman (Rutgers
torious conduct in the
perform
outstanding services.
Another Fiji has recently
this decoration. He is
Colonel R
Weaver Hocker (Missouri
'12,
Fac.), who has been thus cited:
. . for exceptionally meritorio
us
in the performance of
outstanding se
commanding officer of an important
debarkation in India from January 1,
to June 1, 1944. By his ability,
resou
ness, and untiring effort, Colonel
developed an efficient and well co.,7
unit which was able to debark and
personnel entering the China-Burma
theater on troop transport. During the
gency which occurred on April 14, 1c-::
explosions and fires threatened dt of all port facilities, his outstandinv
ship in taking prompt action to prevent
ther disaster and in organizing salvage
•
THE SAD HAND OF DEATH
THE GOLDEN CHAIN BROKEN
(Washington '47)
leant John J. Riley
a cadet at
become
infantry will not
appointed.
• Point, to which he had beenFrance.
in
action
in
killed
was
he
!er
(I, One
of fiz•e blood brothers in the
bond,
Captain Frank R. Neuswanger
'32) of the infantry was killed in (Nebraska
action near
Metz.
were in a
,r the removal of wreckage, early rethe
for
responsible
measure
His keen foreion of port operations.
developments, and
in visualizing future
meeting
'red and tactful approach in
which
emergencies
and
any problems
of
processing
and
.ed the reception
a marked
at this port, contributed in
such activ..e toward the success of all
theater.
.n this
• * *
and pointed out vital targets to
his
enabling them to deliver an effective men.
attack
against Japanese emplacements.
Immediately
taking charge of a machine gun
after the
gunner was fatally wounded, he
direct the vigorous assault and continued to
later, when
the leader of the rifle
company was injured
by enemy fire, skillfully
assumed command.
Realizing that the position had become
untenable, First Lieutenant McGowan
coolly
directed the withdrawal of his
fastly remaining behind at his units, steadweapon to
cover the evacuation. His
daring initiative
and resolute devotion to duty in
grave peril were in keeping with the face of
the
traditions of the United States naval highest
service.
*
The Legion of Merit is
the United States Navy andawarded by
the United
States Army for exceptionally
meri-
381
the
His LIFE FOR LIBERATION
41 Second Lieutenant Harvey J. Rio(DePauw '42) of the infantry had
combat 27 days when he was fatally
ing the advance toward German.
decorations below
le following
been
the Silver Star have
Fijis:
Fightin'
led to the
Cross (for
iv Distinguished Flying
achievement in
extraordinary
or
Aubry (Rut: Major Victor G.
Cluster; C,aptain
'39), with Oak Leaf
'43), killed in
lt Chambers (Denison
H. Fritz
George
Lieutenant
Second
action.
-,bia '44), killed in
SAIPAN
A FATALITY AT
(Cornell
Thomas .4. Schultz
41 Lieutenant Marines was killed by artillery
'40) of the 4th
Saipan.
the wounded at
fire while evacuating
Kwajalein Atoll
the
of
veteran
He was a
operation.
382
THE PIII GAMMA DELT \
PHI GAMMA
DELTA
First Lieutenant Starr
Jr. (Washington '44), S. Stith
a former
football and tennis star for
the H
The Sigma Tau
Service Letter,
terpiece of its kind,
a letter which Starr recently publi
had
old chapter in Seattle. written to
Its ph
T
is so compelling that
we give
general fraternity:
Being over here has
impelled in
rifically deep and
pr
plied in our army far-reaching
and nation —
:as
heretofore been rather
dormant. It
•
described in words. It is like a
haE
in a football game
running down thi
headed for the goal line with
hi: \oak
damn team knocking the
opponents on their
"whose-got-it." I am a member
of the te
we're all kicking hell out of
Jerry and
will all share in the affair
evenly and
STAR ATHLETE IS KILLED
41 First Lieutenant
Starr S. Sutherland,
I Washington '44i. varsity
Jr.
football and tenni,player for the
Huskies, was killed TOW,
serving with the 3rd
American Army
Germany.
Navy Bron:e Star
Medal: Lieutenant
(j. g.) William
A. Hanger
(Pennsylvani.:
'40), Lieutenant (j. g.)
Barnum L. Jenkins.
Jr. (Richmond
'40),
Lyon (Denison '16), Captain George M
medical corps; Captain Thomas E.
Norpell (Denison '41),
marine corps.
Army Air Medal:
Captain Boyd B.
Chambers (Denison '43),
with three Oak
Leaf Clusters, killed
in action; Captain
Henry C. J. Evans
(Syracuse '38), Second
Lieutenant George H. Fritz
(Columbia '44),
with one Oak Leaf
John C. Saunders Cluster; First Lieutenant
Oak Leaf Cluster; (Denison '44), with one
First Lieutenant
H. Sherry (Williams
Francis
'34
Navy Air Medal:
Lieutenant (j. g.) Francis X. Delone
(Pennsylvania '42).
QUICK END TO HIS COMBAT
* * *
IQ Only seven days after he went into
Elsewhere in this
First Lieutenant
the sad news of the issue is recorded sylvania '40) wasChandler R. Weed•.
killed in France .
death in action of
with the 9111 American Division.
383
prove to the world that we have
•in and
can challenge. You brothers
,'")ne
dub no
artillery, quartermaster,
corps,
the air
this
corps and all — you never hear
aren't a great
you
say
doughboy
ianity
infantry boys don't
t. Don't think we
boys fly
with pride when you air corps
Jerry.
- your way to blast that damn
QMs think we aren't proud as hell
supng in those so much needed
be an
i sin prouder than I can say to
Everyone
• 171,1iiher of this great team.
lose this
can't
We
best.
your
doing
Bowl
the fourth quarter in the Rose
score.
good
of
a
hell
a
by
leading
are
.e
vitt run it higher and absolutely can't
every
When it's over I will look
"Broth-ion straight in the eye and say,
`nerever you are. you did your part"
American
I will thank God I am an
•ext to that I'll thank God I'm a Fiji.
.1 do have a few scores to settle. One
ed, one for West. one for Pigeye, one
i'atsy, one for Ralph, one for Bud [all
a
a Tao war fatalities] and a hell of
re for a hell of a lot more brothers.
* * *
by the death in action of
tenant James Bilby Curran (Los
:eles '39). former Field Secretary
\V. Johnson (Los Angeles '36)
written the following tribute, en.4d Astra'.:
id(lened
any
s has come this morn that you,
.ler,
foreign field
our fateful death on
,ittic. there in France. I ask, "For
77:41
'I need not ask. It is apparent.
were there, selected from among us.
tide
7y with force of arms a threatening
persons.
as
us,
much
so
not
engulf
would
'
'other heritage, our ideals, tenets,
our
e concepts we have taken from
,'Iders
nurtured that they might have greater
meaning
footsteps.
r younger men who follow in our
cloister
a
in
as
sat not long ago
than
heard from youths scarce older
ourselves
1.f.tterna1 doctrine —faith and hope and love,
-s
MISSING IN ACTION
(Pennsylvania
111. Sergeant Russell R. .41vis
State '46), top-turret gunner on a R-24 bomber. is missing in action.
Stemming from the world's revered religions,
The precepts of a democratic life.
While other youths in other lands were
plotting
.4nd training in the methods of destruction
To tear down all those things for which we
stand.
nearer
Yet now the end of holocaust draws
Through sacrifices such as you have made
For liberty and brotherhood and justice.
For truth. compassion. and a sense of right
That will shine out and tear asunder darkness
Which these iconoclasts set on the world.
Is that indeed the answer to my question?
Is it for that you died? I think it so.
* * *
And now here's a brigadier-general
who has been hiding his light under a
bushel!
Not until one of his chapter-mates
H.
told us did we know that George
A.A.1
A
-.Irv-4
Ts.
-1
384
THE PHI GA:\IIA DELTA
THE PHI GAMMA DELTA
Shekerjian (Colgate '10),
Morris,
Stayer (Wittenberg '03.
Lafayette
medical corps; Sumner Waite
(Maine
Lyman P. Whitten
(Massachusetts
'20), air corps; Charles A.
‘`.
(Gettysburg '14).
Our general officers in the
corps are as follows:
Major-Gener(,l: Clifton B. Cates
nessee '16).
Brigadier-General: Leroy P. Hunt
keley '14).
Our highest-ranking officer it t
navy is Commodore James E. l'ioat
(Dartmouth '12).
Our sole Canadian general "ft
I;rigadier
Hubert B. Keen!,
(Toronto '23).
• •
UNREPORTED IN LUXEMBOU'Re,
111 Lieutenant Louis .4. Bauer (Rutgers '43)
of the air forces has not returned
from a
bombing mission over Luxembourg.
Decker Lafayette '24j. at the age of
43, has a star on each of his
shoulders.
A revised roster of Phi Gamma
Delta's general officers in the
American
army follows:
Lieutenant-General — Robert L. Eichelherger (Ohio State '07).
Alajor-General — Elhridge Gerry Chapman
(Colorado '18).
Brigadier-Generals-- Thoburn K.
Brown
( Tennessee '10), Clovis E.
Byers (Ohio
State '21), Leroy P. Collins
(Union
George H. Decker (Lafayette '24). '05),
Hobart
R. Gay (Knox '17), Edgar
E. Glenn
(Georgia Tech. Fac.), air corps;
Fremont
B. Hodson (Oregon '20). Paul
W. Johnston, Sr. (Allegheny '14),
reserve; Frank
E. Lowe (Worcester Tech.
'08),
Ward H. Mans (Kansas '14), reserve;
Hugh T.
MaYberrY (William Jewell 'IS),
Ernest
Moore (Missouri '29), air corps;
Haig
*
"Yank in Italy" is a featured colun
in the Stars and Stripes. An issue of the
soldiers' newspaper in February carried
an interesting contribution to the cf,iumn by Sergeant Stanley M. Swint..!1
(Michigan '40), a member of the el!- torial staff. It is here reprinted as
excellent example of soldier journal.
-- and escape reading:
bloatNcE— Serious students of war c. location have done their best. They've writ'
treatises on how war affected widows, •
phans and the divorce rate. They've orat: •
about re-housing and moaned the decline
the banana trade with Central America. l'
nobody has paid any attention to the eff,
of war upon dogs. Some say Albert Pays:
Terhune might have done the job just
hut he's dead.
Take the case of Smuts, who is 13-yeaold and blind. A shaggy dog is Smuts. 11
curly black hair is long, his nose is alwa
cold and his tail forever wags. Smuts I
had one helluva time in this war.
Any dog will tell you food is mighty i,
portant. During the pleasant years of pG.
Smuts had a bone to gnaw on — a tasty
of horsemeat to chew upon. His mistress
a British-born woman wed to an Itali
physician — saw to that.
385
dog beneighbors and poor if they saw a
hunger. Food disappeared
him. Needing food
fed
you
brought
knew
they
cause
war
brought
naturally
Even horsemeat
desperately for themselves they
the market
difficult
mushrooming black
been
have
would
the
were bitter and it
,asric prices upon Smuts ate dried blood.
lived on vegetable
Smuts
while
them
convince
a
to
'Alt For
very tasty.
there was only the
'-ightening but it's really
soup. All during the war
blood was
dried
in and of course
then
walk
to
And
garden for Smuts
..ed it.
left
thing
trees in your
only
the
The
humans.
no other dog can visit
ei out to
garden
made from leafy
soup
was
garden.
-Srnuts
Florence last summer
As fighting flared in
person
last
the
was shelled. Three
would be
manor
dog
hillside
faithful
Smuts'
let2
k
There were airbut vegetable soup
house.
complain
the
hit
to
times artillery
the wcrld
took a firm
conceal escaped
Smuts
helps
far.
who
too
bursts. Any dog
a going a bit
pleaded
mistress
to the secret
His
listens
-.-vegetable-soup stand.
Allied prisoners and
situation like
stuff. For three
a
stern
handle
of
to
made
how
knows
is
radio
Id Smuts
strike. The
of artillery
sound
hunger
first
a
the
in
At
out
held
that, though.
the
Maybe
sniffed
basement
Smuts
the
for
lay. at lunch.
Smuts would scuttle
away.
likely.
more
turned
lot
coldly
a
seems
le soup and
he was scared. It
the whole thing
and then decided
figured
yards
Smuts
ten
about
that
•
though.
well hut a felgoing to let a stray
:nciples may he very
out. He just wasn't
ran like
and
wheeled
his postwar aim of
upset
Smuts
..ot to eat.
piece of shrapnel
been
he's
and
place
devil hack to the
vegetable soup ever since.
clandestine radio. Each
, brought the
barred the blinds
jv ins British mistress
was very cautious
She
BBC.
to
'stened
hy. A chance
close
were
Germans
-(t the
might bring
bark,
an unexplained
When the
good.
,-)wn. Smuts was very
mentioned Premier
voice
.ondon
.
Smuts pricked
;. of South Africa,
or so the
harked:
never
ears but he
goes.
prisoner, too. a
There %Nas an escaped
Barney had
Barney.
•': African named
after
recaptured
.i,ed five times and been
work through
to
tried
he
when
escil escape
he decided to
the German lines. This time
he hid in
and
him
to
let the lines come up
her busand
mistress
Florence with Smuts'
inspect
to
came
W'hen the Germans
might have given
icy did often— Smuts
at Barney's
sniffing
by
whole show away
was always
He
harking.
hiding place or
only the family was
cit although when
Barneywere inseparable
and
nuts
nS
ionis
dog used to get
In peacetime a Florentine
if he lived
especially
ut a good deal,
estates as Smuts did.
hill
spacious
:(ng the
walk and social
THIS OFFICER
.ere would be a morning hydrant there.
No WORD FROM
fire
a
and
Japan,
is at a tree here
war.
all after the
the first B-29 raid on (Collilts couldn't go out atpeople were hungry
41.. A veteran of
Billings
Robinson
Lieutenant-040nd
-China
the first place a lot of
dog
in the Burma
Indian can tell you.
gate '36) is missing
1 as an American
theater.
,at has its points.
resentment among the
Then there would be
f
11011
386
THE PHI GAMAIA
DELTA.
A gracious letter
has crime to
headquarters of the
fraternity from
highest-ranking Devil
Dog. M
General Clifton B.
Cates (Ten
'161, whose picture
cover of the March appeared 011
issue. It
a
follows:
Enclosed find my
of my graduate duescheck for $5 in
for 1945.
Please note my correct
address. ft
little additional data
on myself --keep the record
correct: Took comn.
the Fourth Division
1944. on Saipan and !Marines) on .T•
:ng
the Tinian operation, commanded it
For these two
ge•
ments the division was
awarded the I residential Citation with star.
Censorship regulations now
permit
say that I am at sea
and headed for
again.
• . . best wishes to . . .
all loyal Fijis.
* * *
A
SON MISSING
(I. First GENERAI:S
Lieutenant
(Ohio State '42) of Kenneth F. Hodson
the air forces has
returned front a B-29
not
raid on Tokio. He
a son of
is
Brigadier-General
Fremont R.
Hodson (Oregon '20).
eating horsemeat
again instead of
soup.
vegetable
* * *
The rumor is
bruited
Lieutenant James Richard about that
Young (Los
Angeles '44) and his
platoon have been
credited with raising
the first American
flag in the
Philippines after the liberation.
Notes concerning the "k7 H.:
bold" in the service of His
King and Emperor:
M. Albert Menzies (British
Columbia
who was graduated in
medicine from Que,-,),
College in February, is
interning at Kings:.,::
General Hospital as a member
of the R. c•
A. M. C. . • .
Captain Kenneth W. Re,-1
(British Columbia '44) is with
the Seafort' s
of Canada
overseas.... Ian Weir McDonri,l
(British Columbia '43) is with
the Southea-:
Asia Command of the
Royal Canadian A'
Force. . . . Pilot Officer
Lyman W. Or(Toronto '43) is posted to Calgary. .
address of Flight Lieutenant F. Lor-,
Hutchison (Toronto '22) is O.
P. R
R. C. A. F. Station,
Dartmouth, N. S.
* a *
The Bureau of
Devil Dog department. News 0:
Public Relations of
the War
Department always as help- Fijis who have the situation well Hi
ful as it can be to
hand :
TILE
DELTA, says that it has PHI GAMMA
The following Fiji
no information
marines are receivint,
which would make
it possible to sub- mail through the Fleet Postoffice, San Fran
stantiate the report.
cisco, Calif.: Lieutenant Theodore
F. Sht:
(Colgate '44). Private First Class
What Fiji can help
Fred,
verify the rumor E. Croft (Illinois
Wesleyan '45), Lieutemiii.
—and, oh br'ers! if
we could get a William A. Florsheim (Gettr;burg '43).
picture!
Lieutenant Jack Hood Vaughn
(Michigan
'43), Private First
Class Harold W. Greene
THE PHI GAMMA DELTA
387
nibalian sailormen, of no value to the
Major Frank J. Weriban, Jr.
33), Lieutenant Norman Elliott
enemy, we hope, except to put the fear
tenni 44), Lieutenant Alfred B. Beers
of God in his heart.
'44), Lieutenant John J.
Although censorship forbids the publishing
'431, Sergeant John J. Meckes
ships of navy
St.):, '45). . . Private Henry A. of the names of stations and
Island. men, the following Fijis are receiving mail
Mare
at
is
'46)
+Stanford
'vn
through the Fleet Postoffice, San Francisco:
. William Shoop (Washington and
rank
Ensign John P. Anderson (Missouri '43),
sun '411 has been promoted to the
Ensign Robert Mansur (Missouri '44), Enijor. He has been in the Southwest
sign John B. Scott (Missouri '42), Ensign
.• for two years and was wounded in
.
.
.
operation.
Saipan
John Stabler (Missouri '43), Seaman First
the
T1 during
Class Richard Sarvis (Missouri '44), Lieu,:nant William S. Rollins (Bucknell '44)
tenant (j. g.) John L. Davies, Jr. (Allegheny
:ewhere in the Pacific theater. .. . The
editor of The Chevron, corps news- '40), Lieutenant (j. g.) David M. Kinzer
(Allegheny '41), Ensign Lawrence W. Kelley
is Private First Class Norris Anderson
Outten
raska '44). The Chevron is a weekly, (Amherst '44), Ensign Henry P.
(Amherst '42), Lieutenant Robert R. Rosson
a circulation of 80,000. . . . Captain
(Berkeley '31), Lieutenant Joseph W. Bailey
.Ed H. O'Rourke (Colorado College
(Chicago '31), Lieutenant Maturin B. Bay
ominanded an assault company in the
(Chicago '29), Lieutenant (j. g.) Frederic
landings of the Fifth Marine DiviA. Graber, Jr. (Colgate '42), Ensign TheoIwo Jima. . . . Second Lieutenant
in
is
'44)
(Pennsylvania
A, Weager. Jr. (Colgate '41), Lieudore
Bremier, Jr.
'acific theater, as is also Corporal AIN. Borman (Missouri '46). . . CorS. Neil Harle (Missouri '46) is in the
kn International
_ at Berkeley. Calif
"),)to reproduced in American newsvealed Captain Thomas E. Norpell
:1 '41) of the Third Marine Division
-ining a dugout on Iwo Jima, from which
I apparently made a desperate effort
Jap's honorable head only visi.. William A. H. Barton. Jr. (Massa, setts Tech. '45) is an officer candidate at
t.amp I,ejeune, N. C. . . . Major Robert D.
(Bucknell '40), a veteran of the Pacific
_Ting, is at Quantico, Va.... Lieutenant
:.zeyincuith K. Symmes (Yale '45) is at
,erry Point, N. C. . . . Private First Class
:cis J. Martin, Jr. (Columbia '46) is at
is Island, S. C. . . . Private Richard D.
(Purdue '47) is at Camp I,ejeune.
. . Second Lieutenant Frank Horsley
,hington '45) is credited in newspaper
itches with having destroyed a Jap Zero
had been disguised with American
unia on its wings and fuselage. The
)- plane was on a field at the northwest
Negros Island in the Philippines when
-!ant Horsley made two low strafing
FAILS TO RETURN TO BASE
:t-spite anti-aircraft fire, and destroyed
(Tennessee
Major Clyde V. Kniscly, Jr.
* a *
the Pacific
of
veteran
forces,
air
the
'41) of
missing over
as
reported
intelligence.
is
fighting,
air
United States Navy
Luxembourg.
cann 4
Tidbits of information about the
388
THE PHI GAMMA
THE PHI GAMMA DELTA
DELTA
'39), Ensign Robert
leyan '38). LieutenantB. Kyle (Co.::
Jack D.
Wesleyan '48), Ensign
(Oklahoma '46), Chief Fro!
PliaMelvin K. Battee
(Oregon
Jason D. Lee
(Oregon
Adelbert 0. McIntyre '37),
(Oreguo _
tenant-Commander
Avery W.
(Oregon '29),
Class Richard G.Pharmacist's Mate Sec'
Livingston (Oregon Stat
'42), Ensign Robert
C.
'38), Radio Man FirstAshcom (Pitts
Class Hugo M.
Leidenroth (Pittsburgh '331.
Ensign Roland
J. Elliott (Richmond
'46), Lieutenant
(- g•)
Elmer R. Struyk
(Rutgers '36 '
William McB. Dehn
sign Richard R. Myall(Washington (William Je:i. -4),
Lyman G. Wickwire (Yale
'41). . .
following Fijis are receiving
mail thryagh
the Fleet Postoffice, New
York
tenant (j. g.) Edwin Wilks, City:
III (Br ,en
'43), Quartermaster's Mate
First Class Walter E. Jansen (Brown
D. Stapp (Colorado '45), Lieutenant j
'33),
Dillard (Davidson '28), Lieutenant Ty,.1,
Radar Techni
First Class Berry W. Bercaw
Purdue '44). Ensign Alvin C. (Indiana .4
Bush (N,
A COLONEL Is
Carolina '45), Lieutenant (j.
g.) Paul
Q No word has been UNREPORTED
Severin (North Carolina
'41), Lieuten,..
(j. g.) John W. Gorby. Jr.
fate of Colonel Harryreceived concerning the
(Northwest
R. Melton, Jr.
bama '34) of the air
(Ala- '29), Chaplain Edward McNair
(Occide:::
forces,
who
was shot
35), Ensign Merton E.
down over the
Sawtell (Ohio W,
mountainous region of
Burma. leyan '45), Ensign Jack K. Chandler (Ok:
homa '39), Quartermaster's
Mate Sec!
tenant Ralph H.
Class Tom P. Hadley
Dreyer
(Columbia
John T. Hannah
(Oklahoma '45). Li,
'29), tenant
(Davidson '45, Texas '45),
John D. Ligon (Richmond '34). ce:,
Lieutenant-Commander
guard: Lieutenant (j. g.) Charles J.
It.
(Georgia Tech. '31), William B. Wingo
Phail
Prestwich (GettysburgCaptain George F. James (Srracuse '42), Lieutenant (i•
W. Woods, Jr. (Tennessee '3'.
'19), Lieutenant
Henrie C. Shuler
medical corps; Lieutenant Geortre L. Mart'
'29), Lieutenant (j. g.) John (Gettysburg
E. Howe (Kansas
(Wabash '24), Ensign William
'38).
E.
Lieutenant-Commander
Henry F. Ulrich (William Jewell '44), Lieutenant t,
I Minnesota '23),
medical
Richard P. Embick (Wisconsin '41),
corps ; Lieutenant
(j. g.) John W.
Ensign Louis S. Martin (Missouri '31), corps; Ensign Richard M. Colgate (Yal.t
Campbell (Nebraska
'35), '45), Lieutenant-Commander Donald I,
Lieutenant W'illiarn T.
Martin, Jr. (North
Wright (Yale '38). . . E,nsign Robert l'
Carolina '42),
Lieutenant Cornelis E.
Shakely (Washington and Jefferson
wegen (Occidental
Groene'431 at:
'28, Stanford '28),
Ensign Robert H. Sturman (Colgate
Harold D. Gross
Ensign
'46) a:.
(Occidental
in
'45),
Jeffrey R.
amphibious training at Little Creek,
Ensign
Townsend, Jr.
(Occidental '46), • • . Louis C. Wollenweber, Jr. (Colorac
Ensign Henry A.
Bickel
Lieutenant William P. (Ohio State '44), '47) is a hospital corpsman at Norman, Ok1.3
Carey, Jr. (Ohio • .. Ensign John
State '27), Ensign
N. Rupp (Washington'34
Dallas D. Dupre,
(Ohio State '44),
is at Harvard. . . .
III
Formerly aboard tlp
P. Morris (OhioLieutenant (j. g.) Donald
U. S. S. Chanango,
State
Lieutenant
(j. g-) Virg'
'34),
(.I• g.) Arthur A.
Lieutenant L. Towner, Jr. (Bucknell
'40) is now billet&
Vanosdall (Ohio State
in Pensacola, Fla. . . .
Lieutenant (j- 8.;
t4N
r-1)
which some sailors do not like. . . . Harvey
Harman (Pittsburgh '22). former football
coach at Pennsylvania and Rutgers, has been
promoted to full commander. He is on a new
carrier. . . . Seaman First Class George
Hopper, Jr. (Wittenberg '32) is in radio
school at Gulfport, Miss. . . . Lieutenant
(j. g.) Edward R. Bartley (Indiana '42,
Washington and Jefferson '42) is with a
coast guard unit in the Pacific. . . . Predicts
Lieutenant Harrison Smith (Kansas '36)
aboard an attack transport in the Pacific:
"I am looking forward to seeing many Fijis
soon in Japan itself.". . . Lieutenant (j. g.)
John S. Atwater (Denison '35, Western Reserve '35) writes to Lambda Deuteron that
he visited the grave of Marine First Lieutenant John L. Pratt (Denison '41), who was
killed in action on August 12, 1942, in
Guadalcanal. ... Lieutenant Edwin S. Elgin
(Missouri '40) is instructing in Ventura aircraft at Lake City, Fla. . . . Lieutenant
William K. Caler (Georgia Tech. '32) is
'40) is
)hE Kristenson (Occidental
tenant61;ii)
y(
e.
i M
Portland,
E el1
stationin
.)
( g
eiranc
Archer
Livermore, Calif. . . Yen.e '41) is at
Second Class Paul W. Jones (Ohio
office
,,leyan '36) is in the public relations
Lieutenant
g.)
9.
.
.
.
Ida.
Farrag-ut,
is on
glades W. Austin (Pennsylvania '30)
. . . Captain
tile staff at Great Lakes, Ill.
'II) is at
(Pennsylvania
Lane
F.
. Ensign
• receiving station in Boston. . .
at
'ert F. Stengelin (Pennsylvania '43) is
.
s.
Kans.
an
e
)H
Hutchinson,
i
(
station
air
Herbert
enant
in
kenberg (Wittenberg '30): "Serving as
,nery officer aboard a transport, it was
pleasure to see the following brothers
a pilgrimage to Fijiland: Lieutenant
g.) Charles T. Bridgman (Iowa State
, Lieutenant 9. g.) Samuel G. Jenkins
inois '29), Lieutenant (j. g.) E. Bruce
-tzel (Brown '29) and Ensign Donald B.
:tchinson (Colgate '45). This was not, of
:rse, their destination and it took place
-.le months ago, so no military secrets are
divulged.". . . Lieutenant John R.
.iller (Idaho '38), flying a Wildcat, took
-t in the invasions of Palau, Leyte and
::gayen. He is now in Jacksonville, Fla.
. This magazine has previously reported
death in action of Ensign Daniel Ryan
:dell. It can now be revealed that he was
,ard the submarine Amberfack, which was
.:k in Pacific waters by Japanese action.
is
. Edwin K. Solid (Washington '47)
the V-12 at the University of California
Los Angeles.... Peter H. Burnett (Yale
_ is in the training school at, of all places,
Lrvard. . . Walter M. Miller (Colorado
-;) is a midshipman at Camp Endicott.
(KanY. • .. Ensign Carl B. Henrichson
,as '44) is at San Diego, Calif. . . . Lieutenant (j. g.) William R. Gilgore (Union
'29) is at Fort Ord. Calif. . . . Lieutenant
at
Robert D. Woodward (Berkeley '39) is
the supply depot of the air station at Seattle.
(Wisconsin
• • • Lieutenant Harold E. Kubly
school
midshipmen's
the
of
staff
'27)is on the
at Notre Dame. . . . Lieutenant-Commander
the
William T. Rimes (Denison '31) is on
staff of the air transport service at Oakland,
Calif. . . Lieutenant Charles M. Jones
!Ohio Wesleyan '38) has been transferred
92, New
to the receiving station at Pier
T. Jones
Robert
Lieutenant
York City. . .
Va.,
Bucknell '36) is on duty at Norfolk.
7
389
INFANTRY PRIVATE MISSING
(I, Private First Class Calvin P. Schaffner
with the
S.
(Allegheny '44) is missing in action
414th Infantry in Germany.
,Ilft".116
•
,
AAR"
390
THE PHI GAMNIA DELTA
ing to an Associated
the Japanese capturedPress dispatch.
1941, the bank cashier,Guam in Dec
Japan, destroyed all the now a prisoner
paper money.
bank building was
destroyed by the
invasion bombardment
last July, but n
vault containing its
records remained in'
Commander Willard in
president of the National peace time is
Savings and T
Co. in Washington,
D. C.... Ensign R
M. Rinnan
(Northwestern '44) reports
seven alumni of Phi
Chapter had a reu•
on Christmas day
on a small Pacific
• • . When the
Japanese attacked and •
the United States
minesweeper Ifove::
Lingayen Gulf two days
before the inva
of Luzon, Ensign
James H. F. Tr.,•
(Northwestern '45) escaped
aboard a
Within an hour he was
picked up by artu,
minesweeper. ... Dr. Ralph W.
Jack
'26), former Miami
Beach physician,
been commissioned a
lieutenant-commai
in the medical
corps
in Pacific waters. and is aboard a vc
. . . Resting from .
strenuous life of a pilot in the
Pacific Mei.
Lieutenant Robert R.
is at the hospital in Tweedle (Wabash
San Diego,
PLANE IS DOWNat AT
Lieutenant Stanley A. Tweeclle Calif.
TINIAN
(%Val.
IkNazy Lieutenant
'32) and Lieutenant 1
j. g.) F. W. 1
George A. Wi!Aria.
(Purdue '39) was
(Northwestern '43) are aboard the
pedo plane when hebombing Tinian in a tor- ship in the
Pacific. . . .
was observed to go
a spin with one
intu
James Truesdall (DenisonLieutenant (j. z
wing shot off. No
'36) is receiv.
trace
has
mail in care of the
yet been found of
Fleet Postoffice,
him.
West, Fla. . . . Ensign
Benjamin Weisba...
(Amherst '44) is at the air
executive officer of a
station in Jacksonville, Fla. . . .
the Marianas. . . . battalion of Seabees in
Lieutenant-Commarf]
Griswold
Lieutenant
L.
(j.
Bouteiller
g.)
dell Hall (Texas
'42) is aboard a ship Wen- duty in Washington. (Amherst '30) is
. . Seaman Seco.
in the
Atlantic. . . Fijis
come to the supply
Class Lucius T. Grose
school at Harvard
corps
(Arizona '46) is a r
and
Fijis go. But they
teorological student at Lakehurst, N.
pause often enough to
J.
Lieutenant Edward J. Galway (Brown
together and to enjoy have beer and pretzels
is
the
at
Camp
hospitality
Peary, Va. . . . Ensign Char
Mu at
of Iota
Massachusetts Tech.
Wade Snook, Jr. (Berkeley
Fullerton (Colorado '45) . . Robert B. in
'46) ha,
is a midshipman
training at Newport, R. I. .
at Notre
.
Dame.... David C.
Gartley (Occi- tenant (j. g.) Charles A, Bailey ((J
dental '47) is in
the V-12 at
'39)
is
in
the Pacific with a landing
Southern
Methodist University. . •
.
unit. . • . Apprentice
mander Hunter B.
Lieuttnant-ComGilkeson
Craig (Chicago '46) is Seaman Harm.
at San Pedro,
(Kansas '32) is
in the V-12 at A .
Calif. . .
Lieutenant (j. g.) sas Agricultural and
'John A. 13ookhout
Mechanical Colleg,
(Amherst '38) has seen
.a lot of service
Apprentice Seaman
in Atlantic
waters. . . . The (Washington '43, Charles W. Moffer
Bank of Guam,
Alabama '43) is in the \
possibly
the
only one in the at Columbia
world housed in a
University. . . Lieutenae
quonset hut, reopened
business in March,
for
Stanley B. Atkinson
with Lieutenant
(Indiana '35) is at tiY
mander 11'illiam
Bradley Willard -Com- armed guard center in Brooklyn. .. . Lies:
mouth '26) as
(Darttenant
(j.
g.) Richard Lloyd
manager and cashier,
Jones, Jv
accord
(Wisconsin '32) has been on
leave in th,
THE PHI GAMMA DELTA
the
.tates after a six-months' mission to
lippine Islands, where his ship carried
.asands of tons of bombs to the base of
-flies at Leyte. He has been officially cornnded. Dick in peacetime is general mana'of the Tulsa Tribune. Lieutenant (j .g.)
-kin Lloyd Jones (Wisconsin '33), editor
:he Trib., is a communications officer in
Philippine waters... . Lieutenant (j. g.)
Tr G. Meek (Pennsylvania State '32) is
4te Philadelphia yard.... Chief Specialist
Edward Chatlain (Wittenberg '41) is
...oiled in Cleveland. . . . Lieutenant-Corn-der Henry A. Sherman (Columbia '25)
it Camp Kearney, Calif. . . . Lieutenant
-nley I. Craft (Richmond '30) is in the
fare and recreation department at Samp. N. Y. . . . Ensign Douglas R. Dobson
ashington and Jefferson '43) is stationed
Norfolk. . . . Heber R. Carter, Jr. (Ten-Se '45) is in the V-12 at Rice Institute.
Specialist Allen C. Morgan (New York
is at Camp Peary, Va. .. . Commander
crt B. Simons (Kansas '30), medical
is at the ammunition depot, Hingham,
. . William F. Quesenberry, Jr.
-1c-e '43) is in aviation training at PenFla. . . . Lieutenant (j. g.) Clifford
,;rey (Hanover '43) is in the mine school
Yorktown, Pa. . . . Apprentice Seaman
.rshall R. Brownell (Wabash '47) is in
V-12 at Union College. . . . Lieutenant
g.) Robert B. Crew (Northwestern '33)
in the office of the chief of operations in
ishington.... Ensign Vernon J. Anderson
.wa '36) is at the air station in Quonset
Npprentice Seaman William
int, R. I
Schmitt (Illinois '44, Denison '44) is in
V-12 at Oberlin College. So is Appren• Seaman George C. Sternad, Jr. (Ohio
csleyan '47). . . . Commander William C.
baty, Jr. (Alabama '24), medical corps, Le. ri of Merit, is at the staff and command
->ol of the marines at Quantico.... PharMate John W. Bradley (Tennessee
is at Camp Detrick, Md. . . . Chief
.rrant Officer John A. Sloan (Ohio Wes'29) is at Chula Vista, Calif. . . The
-s of Lieutenant-Commander William
Robb (Pennsylvania '34), former Field
r'retary of Phi Gamma Delta, is Staff,
mairlant, Naval Air Station, Norfolk,
. . Ensign Richard E. Clarke (Brown
') of the coast guard is at the submarine
,ining center in Miami. . . . Richard J.
391
Brown (Purdue '44) is at the coast guard
academy in New London, Conn.
* * *
Hither-and-yon notes about the Fijis
in the United States Army as well as
the Army of the United States, with no
sequence of mention according to rank:
The following Fijis are receiving mail
c/o Postmaster, New York, N. Y.. at the
A. P. 0. given, when available: Technical
Sergeant Jerry W. Gwin (Alabama '45),
887; .Lieutenant Felix R. Helms (Alabama
'43), 18011; Sergeant Paul K. McWhorter,
Jr. (Alabama '45), 18081; Lee M. Otts
(Alabama '44), 26; Major Charles B. Miller (Allegheny '40), 403; Corporal Osborn
Belt (Allegheny '43), 350; Captain John W.
Prout (Allegheny '37), 121-B; Captain Richard H. Horn (Allegheny '36), 102; Technical Sergeant James J. Pysher (Allegheny
AVIATOR IS PRISONER
Lieutenant Robert S. Aubry (Rutgers '45)
of the air forces is a prisoner of war in Germany after having been shot down over
Yugoslavia.
11:1„
392
THE PHI GAMMA DELTA
A
OF TilF,
GERMANS
Second Lieutenant
Richard 1.. Neal (Purdue '46) of Me air
forces is a prisoner of war
at Stalag Luft No. 1
in
He was
shot down near GermanY.
Lcipsig.
'45), 339; Lieutenant
-Colonel William H.
Puntenney (Arizona '41),
29; Lieutenant
Floyd Williams, Jr.
38), 557;
Lieutenant Joseph M. (Arizona '
Billion, Jr. (Berkeley
'44), 557;
Lieutenant Robert S.
Allen
(Brown '46), 520;
seph (Brown '44),Lieutenant Donald M. Jo218;
Sergeant Abram J.
S. Gaskill
(Brown '25), 403;
Sergeant
Thomas A. Dvorsky
(Chicago '42), 339;
Lieutenant Robert W.
Hughes (Chicago
'37), 452; Captain
James E. Watson, III
(Colgate '41), 17798;
Brown (Colorado '23), Captain Frank E.
67;
(Colorado College '30), Frank M. Truby
884; Private First
Class Jacques W.
Duffy (Columbia
333; Corporal
'44),
Murray
'34), 366; Lieutenant L. Jones (Columbia
William
H. Chamber
(Cornell '43), 5;
Clark (Dartmouth Lieutenant William G.
Howard R. Mobley '41), 595; Sergeant
Private Richard C. (Davidson '30), 887;
Christian (Denison
'46),
447; Staff Sergeant
Stephen B.
(Denison '42), 149;
Minton.
Arthur H. Gem
(DePauw '43). 447;
Lieutenant-Col
Russell C. Kuehl
(DePauw '28), 4.44; Li
tenant William C.
Brandon (Florida '4
512; Staff Sergeant
Henry C. Hill (Gear
Tech. '33), 558;
Lieutenant Mike L. Kova
(Hanover '39), 16583;
Thatcher, Jr. (Hanover Lieutenant Earle
'43). 16852-ATCaptain Richard C.
Williams
17999; Lieutenant Vernon (Hanover '35
R. Dawson (Id
ho '42). 372; Private
First Class \William
Greene (Illinois '45),
518; Harry 0. Ande
son, Jr. (Illinois
Wesleyan '42), 45; Lie
tenant Benjamin R.
Arnold (Illinois We
leyan '36). 667; Private
First Class I. 'Rust (Illinois \Wesleyan
E. Prentice (Indiana '47), 200;
'39), 254;
Walter E. Brinker (Iowa
'
tenant Hamilton D. Carson38), 17351:
(Iowa
Private First Class Charles
W. V.
(Iowa '46), 104;
Corporal
shaw, III (Kansas '45), Stephen C. ii
649; Captain H.
D. Ritchie (Kansas
'40), 557; Lieuten,
Russell D. Voorhees (Knox
'31), 44; •:ate Carl Eisen, Jr.
(Lehigh '45), 520; Li'
tenant Ernest F.
Andrews (Maine '3432; Lieutenant Sheldon
K. Howard (Ma..
'39), 17567; Private First
Class Robert
Heath (Michigan '46), 569;
Major Mar.
J. Her (Minnesota '27), 557;
Private
Class Roger H. Newhall
345; Major James W. (Minnesota '41
Guest (Misso •
'
39), 411; Clinton G. Sweazea
(Misso!:.
'40), I6926-AJ-4; Captain
Harlan G. Hutc
ins (Nebraska '30),
513; Lieutenant Btnard E. Ingram (Nebraska
'39), 667; Staff
Sergeant Taylor C. Waldron
(Nebras'
,
'36), 740; Private Firm Class
John A. l‘t
Corkle (New York '45), 17808;
Lieutena
William C. Thoma (New York UH
562; Lieutenant James B.
Carg)li
Carolina '36); Lieutenant Gordon E. 6‘,0
hart (Occidental '35),
17665; Lieutena,
Robert F. Snyder
(Occidental '33, ()rep
State '33), 230; Sterling L.
Hill (Ohio Sta'
'37), 469; Lieutenant Ralph E.
Lamprna
(Ohio State '38), 492; Private
First Cla,
Louis J. Hendricks, Jr.
(Ohio Wesleya
'47), 17796; Corporal
Charles S. Huffma:
Jr. (Ohio Wesleyan
'44), 350; Lieutenar•
Edward H. Jones (Ohio
Wesleyan
461; Major Frederick T.
Merchant ('
Wesleyan '33), 887;
Lieutenant Russei.
THE PHI GAMMA DELTA
Jr. (Ohio Wesleyan '42), 80;
nt Edward F. Saville (Ohio Weswgea•
Jr.
lean '46) 412- Private John M. Hall,
Oklahoma '47), 15668; Captain Joseph W.
.1•ciip,.- (Oklahoma '41), 520; Lieutenant
461;
''- bert A. Tatlock (Oklahoma '43),
„Tutenant-Colonel Varley H. Taylor (OklaWit-.,,Tra '30). 5357; Captain Richard H.
AnaB.
Hal
Private
562;
'32),
(Oregon
n
Lieutenant
alt (Oregon State '46), 28;
'tree J. Brisbin (Oregon State '44), 76; Cor:,
:ral Charles S. Crookham (Oregon State
5L89; Captain Howard Z. Fretz (Pennsylnia'38), 508: Lieutenant Frank K. Mayers
Pennsylvania '45), 520; Lieutenant William
Newing (Pennsylvania '43), 316-A; John
Shidemantle (Pittsburgh '41), 443; Cap:.;:n William A. Campbell (Purdue '42),
2b3; Private First Class Thomas H. Leath
Richmond '45), 417; Lieutenant Howard S.
:arto (Rutgers '39), 583; Corporal Kenneth
3. Barrett (Sewanee '45), 15379; Private
rrst Class Richard F. Outcault, Jr. (Stan rd '45), 444; Sergeant John L. Twitchell
Stanford '35), 18246; John S. Hafer
Syracuse '35), 5955; Private David T
(Tennessee '47), 15371; Lieutenant
humas S. Garrett, III (Texas '42), 557;
Hvate George I. Goodenow (Texas '33),
'543; Captain George J. Hucherson (Tex'29), 200; William H. Champlin (Union
-3), 257; Captain Preston R. Clark (Union
431; Lieutenant James R. Davidson, Jr.
,'abash '44), 85; Staff Sergeant Philip C.
Jr. (Wabash '46), 345; Private John
Owens (Wabash '46), 507; Private First
:ass Milo F. Vale, Jr. (Wabash '47), 78;
Rene L. Tallichet (Washington and Lee '36).
459; Private Allan B. Kortz (\Western Re-ve '46), 454; Private John H. Lathe, Jr
,Yestern Reserve '44), 598; Kenneth C
.dley (William Jewell '33), 95; Sergeant
ward A. Appell (Williams'33), 258; Ma'Eric F.. Oulashin (Williams '36), 787:
nant Jerome K. Travers (William
%; Lieutenant-Colonel Andrew Barr,
Fac.), 253; Lieutenant William E.
inert (Missouri '44), 15661; Lieutenant
•:lph M. Major (Missouri '43), 403; Lieu'ant John C. Nowell (Missouri '43), 84;
.eutenant Charles G. Ross (Missouri '43),
1-!euteriant LeRoi Dixon, Jr. (Missouri '41),
The following Fijis are receiving
do Postmaster, San Francisco, Cal., at
e A. P.0. listed when available: Private
Ro,binsoil.
393
First Class Samuel A. Hess (Amherst '43),
958; Lieutenant-Colonel Robert P. Kirk
(Arizona '33), 201; Captain Richard P.
Jones (Berkeley '37), 72; Lieutenant Warren F. Myers, Jr. (Berkeley '45), 18103;
Corporal William A. Smith, Jr. (Brown
'45), 17943; Sergeant Gerald Finsen (Bucknell '38), 923; Lieutenant John H. Roehn
(Denison '41), 950; Lieutenant Henry H.
Triebel (Illinois '33), 241; Lieutenant
George D. Herring, Jr. (Lafayette '33),
322; Howard J. Stagg, III (Maine '37),
17984; Private Culver Davis (Minneapolis
'37), 703; Lieutenant William D. Rhodes
(Missouri '44), 957; Lieutenant Robert R.
C. Miller (Nebraska '44), 18273; Lieutenant
Milton B. Cash, Jr. (North Carolina '44),
711; Lieutenant Glosser M. Young (North
Carolina '33), 301; Lieutenant Jack H. DeVoss (Ohio State '41), 710; Captain George
A. Grossman, Jr. (Ohio State '40), 4305;
•
CAPTURED INFANTRYMAN SAFE
(Pennsyldl, Sergeant E. Rothwell Shelly
vania '46) of the infantry was captured in
Germany while serving with the 106th American Division. A card from him reports that
he is "safe and not injured."
l•-• WA
1.1.
_1..1.1
17\11
394
THE PHI GA -MMA DELTA
THE PHI C;AIM.-\ DELTA
MARINE WINS SILVER STAR
(1. The going against the JaPs at
Empress
Augusta Bay, Bougainville, was tough
the
day when First Lieutenant Edwin
F. McGowan (Brown '42) of the marines
the gallantry which won for him displayed
the Silver
Star.
Lieutenant Raymond P. Heap (Oklahoma
'43), 928; Lieutenant Richard E.
Cook
(Oregon State '42), 81; Captain John
W.
Mackie, Jr. (Purdue '39), 18141;
Lieutenant Issac C. \Vright, Jr.
(Syracuse '39),
244; Lieutenant Joseph Addison,
Jr. (Virginia '43), 16212-AJ-59; Colonel
Julian G.
Hearne, Jr. (Washington and
Jefferson '26),
244; Lieutenant Howard
T. Eaton, Jr.
(Western Reserve '39),
18278; James HLaMent (Williams '42),
15633; Sergeant
George M. Simson (Williams
'43), 181::;
Lieutenant William D. Rhodes
(Missouri
44),957; Lieutenant
'
Clifford B. Smith (Missouri '41), 920. . . .
Second Lieutenant
Charles E. Brew ick (Iowa
State '46) was
navigator of "Round-trip Topsy"
on an
eventful trip over Germany
which resulted
in the Flying Fortress
being brought back
to its base in England with two
en_
most of the oxygen system
shatti:
struments useless and a wound,
aboard. . . . Jack Hargrove ((Jr
'40) and Lee M. Otts
(Alabama 'enlisted men, are with the famed
26t
sion under General Patton. "You'll
two in the deepest foxholes from
the
reports Jack to TRE PM GAMMA
. .. Frank Austin
(Tennessee '40) is
school of maintenance for 11-29s
at '
Field, Colo. . . Captain \Villiam
gem, Jr. (Nebraska '34) is cunnecte,;
civil affairs in France.... Private
Peter I,.v
(Amherst '43) is stationed at Iraq....
Private First Class Samuel Rump
(Amher-:
'44) is in the signal corps in England..
Private James Doucett (Amherst '44) w:
soon complete his course in the Corm:.
Medical School. New York City.... Tren,
feet got Sergeant Walter F. Simmelink,
(Iowa State '43) and he has been hospitalizt,i
in England, after service in Krautland...
Private First Class Thomas P. Hans
(Union '45) is a senior instructor
radio mechanics at Truex, Wisc. . . . First
Lieutenant Cyril H. Hebrank, Jr. ( Johns
Hopkins '42) commanded the show, "Here's
Your Infantry," which toured the United
States in the interest of war bond sales...
Private Randolph N. Moore, Jr. (Kans.,
'46) is at MacDill Field, Fla. ... Licutena.
Orville W. Nichols, Jr. (Indiana '41) is
Fort Meade, Md. . . . Major Harold Lusk
Flint (Columbia '14) is at Miami Beach.
Fla. . . . Lieutenant Howard P. Barfield
(Georgia Tech. '42) is at Wright Field, 0
... Major Richard N. Fickett, III (Georg.
Tech. '28) is stationed at Camp Plane,
New Orleans, La. . . . Captain Richard Paulsen (Idaho '41) is in the Pentagon Bldi.
Washington, of all places, D. C. . Privar
First Class Robert L. Mueller (Illinois '44
is at Fort Benning, Ga. . . . Richa
Stillinger (Idaho '43) is on special assig
merit in the South Pacific. . . . Lieutena.
Arthur E Peterson, Jr. (Colgate '46) iF
Fort Ord, Calif. . . Lieutenant Hari,
Scurr (Colorado College '44) is at i
Lewis, Wash.... The Germans used to ha
a 350-foot launching site for V rockets ne.:
Euskirchen. They don't have it any mor,
Credit Lieutenant David S. McClure (IL
nois Wesleyan '45) ... Lieutenant Chard,
W. Mills, Jr. (Arizona '37), nephew
Archon Secretary Abbot P. Mills (Willian
395
(Lafaited Lieutenant Robert G. Packer
Captain
Eagle Pass, Tex. . .
the first
of
commander
being
with
'43)
yette
Fifield (Arizona '38) is at Fort
.
American company to reach the Rhine op. . Lieutenant Waldo G.
Kans.
Duesseldorf. An Associated Press
posite
Kans.
Pratt,
Jr. (Colgate '41) is at
called him "six feet of
correspondent
war
ieutenant Austin M. West (Knox '34)
Bob has been thrice
valor."
Brooklyn
Private First
Fort Bragg. N. C. . . .
Lieutenant Fred P. Gilbert,
at
.
.
is
wotmded.
'46)
(Columbia
Field,
- Walter L. Scott
Jr. (Iowa State '43) is at Bulkley
Lieutenant Roger
logLee, Va. . . First
Harvey
Lieutenant
Denver, Colo. . . .
in the in.irrier (Pittsburgh '33) is
'43) is at Goodfellow
•
State
.
.
(Iowa
Ga.
II
Henning,
ham,
school at Fort
C. Ber(Richmond
Field, Tex. . . . Lieutenant George
,nant Wallace B. Poteat
Tex.
Bowie,
Camp
at
WilLieutenant
ry (Missouri '43) is
-i at Casper, Wyo... .
Robert H. Krohne
Class
Camp
First
at
is
Private
'46)
K. Tate (Tennessee
Tex.
(Missouri '43) is at Camp Maxey,
D. C. • . . Private
0. Washington.(Worcester
State
(Ohio
Cool
'41)
B.
Tech.
. . . Lieutenant John
,lier C. Walker
Major Robert '41) is at the air base in Mount Home, Ida.
Camp Wheeler, Ga. . . .
York
Peterson
Lieutenant Robert Haklisch (New
ernley (Wisconsin '41) is at
Cap.
.
.
Ala.
Haig
McClellan,
Neil
44) is at Fort
Colo. . . . Lieutenant
(Cornell '35) is
Tex.
Bowie,
Maclellan
Camp
0.
Hugh
at
is
'41)
tam
i
...ington
Richmond, Va. . . •
(Yale
in the air forcec at
.ieutenant Tracy C. Dickson, IIIPrivate
.
.
.
Okla.
is at Camp Gruber,
(Yale '45) is
Class Chester Simmons
Private First
.
.
.
Ky.
Campbell,
'amp
'46)
(Colorado
Jr.
Stephen A. Loftus,
Michael
Fort Benning, Ga.... Private '43) is
Passantino, Jr. (William Jewell
Robert N.
..emoore, Calif.... Lieutenant Wheeler,
Camp
at
-in- (Syracuse '35) is
Davis (Idaho
. . Captain Edward G. Calif., after
Springs,
Palm
at
based
•_ is
Italy.... Private
a tour of duty on a B-26 in
interne in St.
izene Taylor (Idaho '42) is an
Stewart (Idaho
:is, Mo.... Private Gus
Corporal
is at Camp Beal, Calif. . . . chemical
the
in
is
'45)
.en Stanley (Idaho
Private First
,rfare service in Europe. . .
(Idaho '45)
Hungerford
Roger
iss
Ashville.
dying in the weather school at
'45)
(Idaho
Yocum
Ted
Sergeant
an.. . .
outfit. . • •
in France with an infantry
(Idaho
:te First Class Richard Thomas
England. . . •
in
corpsman
medical
a
is
(Tennessee '36,
Major Jerome C. Taylor
which snatched
attack
Davidson '36) led an
by the
overrun
towns
tack several French
the counterNazis in the early days of
Julian G.
offensive. . . . Lieutenant-Colonel
Jefferson '26)
and
jr.(Washington
earne,
Gamma Delta
LEGION OF MERIT FOR COLONEL
has written another song. "Phi
Colonel Hearne
Peace."
and
Wars
Through
officer of an important
South Sea island. C. As commanding India, Colonel Richard
1- with the infantry on a
in
debarkation
VanMetre (Colum- port of
Fac.) dis. Lieutenant Russel G.
Hocker (Missouri '12, Yale resourceLieutenant
ability.
his
(ia '42) is on Saipan.. .. Second
"by
'43) is at tinguished himself
effort." His accolade:
Irvine H. Forkner (Columbia
dis- fulness and untiring
Newspaper
Legion of Merit,
Maxwell Field, Ala
The
Front have creelpatches from the Western
4 at
396
THE PHI GAMMA DELTA
Private Richard J. Reynolds, Jr. (Cornell
'46) is in the medical detachment of the
387th Infantry at Camp Cooke, Calif. . .
Lieutenant Robert E. Lowry (Illinois '44)
is at the Douglas Factory School at Long
Beach, Calif. . . Private Robert H. Kirk
(Kansas '43) is at the weather station in
Pratt, Kans. . . . Major Hugh R. Bishop
(Lehigh '38) is at Patterson Field. 0. . . .
Lieutenant Grant B. Stetson (Lehigh '39)
is at Fort Dix. N. J. . . . Private Thomas
Griffith Morris (Lafayette '46) is at Camp
Shelby, Miss. . . William P. Chandler, Jr.
(Arizona '44) is in training at the air field
in Pecos, Tex.... Captain William J. Bolin
(Davidson '41) is at Fort Riley, Kans. . . .
Private Donald M. Palmer (Pennsylvania
'47) is at Camp Wheeler, Ga. . . Lieutenant Alvin L. Flake (Oregon State '44) is
at Camp Gruber, Okla.. . . Lieutenant Edmund J. Dienz (Arizona '41) is at Kearns.
Utah. . . . Private William B. Coulter
(Pittsburgh '46) is at Camp Barkley, Tex.
. . Lieutenant Frank A. Pritchard, Jr.
(Washington '42) is at Camp Robinson, Ark.
. . . Camp Polk, La., is the station of Private Joseph IT. Fluckhouse (Minnesota '45)
and of Private John B. Burns (Kansas '45).
... Thomas F. Hayes (Nebraska '46) is in
Company 8 at West Point. . .. Major Richard G. Taft (Oklahoma '34) is at the air
base at Santa Ana, Calif. . . . John Lee
Hoyt (Northwestern '46) is an aviation
cadet at Brooks Field, Tex. . . . Colonel
Lawrence B. Wyant (Ohio State '18), a
regular officer, is at Fort Devens, Mass.
• . . Lieutenant Robert W. McKinney (Ohio
Wesleyan '41) is at the air base in Pueblo,
Colo. . . . Lieutenant Loren Logan (Missouri '38) is at Dalhart, Tex. .. . The air
field at Tonopah, Nev., is the station of
Major Robert P. Doolittle (DePauw '29).
... Harry N. Beak (Illinois
Wesleyan '31)
has been promoted to the rank of
captain.
He is at Craig Field, Ala.... Captain
Richard G. Tiling (New York '41), a
veteran
of combat in the Pacific theater,
is in the
aircraft laboratory at Wright Field, 0.
.
Lieutenant Thomas P. Hull, Jr.
'41) receives his mail at A. P. 0. (Texas
603, do
Postmaster, Miami, Fla. . . .
Lieutenant
James J. Harrison (Michigan '41)
is at
Columbia, S. C. . . . Corporal Drury
H.
Cargill (Missouri '44) is in a
group at Jefferson Barracks. photographic
Mo. . . . Cap-
tain Daniel C. Easterday
(Nebraska '
is at Ford Ord, Calif. . . .
Corpora!
Clark Voss (Missouri '46) is in a -company at Camp Gruber, Okla. . .
rt.
vate Ebert Weidner (Ohio
Wesleyan .44
is in the 113th Infantry at Camp'
Pick
Va. . . . Private Robert W. Griffin (Okla,
homa '46) is at Crile General
liospitkCleveland, 0. . Captain Luther L.
haver, Jr. (North Carolina '37) is at T
General Hospital, Nashville, Tenn.
Nicholas G. Cristofalo (New York '43) is
an officer candidate at Fort Belvoir, Va.
. Lieutenant William D. Patterson (P--,sylvania '43) is at Finney general H,
Thomasville, Ga. . . . Lieutenant
Sher-y, Jr. (Northwestern '41) is in
13th Airborne Anti-Aircraft at Camp
all, N. C. . . . Private First Class C:
R. Hungerford (Idaho '45) is in t
weather station at Charlotte, N. C. . .
Major Richard B. Ott (Idaho '19) is .7
the Presidio, San Francisco. .. . Lieutenant
James R. Barracks (Illinois '44) lives in a
barracks at Fort Sill, Okla. . . . Priv:William B. Thomas (Indiana '46) is in th,
public relations office at Childress Field,
Tex. . . . Albin W. Heggen (Iowa State
'45) is at Ellington Field, Tex. . . . Private George 0. Clifford, Jr. (Wabash '4t
is on duty at the regional hospital in Wa.
tham, Mass. . . . Returned from overseas.
Captain Herbert T. Condon, Jr. (Washington '36) is now stationed at Little Rock
Ark. . . . John H. Finefroc.k (Western R
serve '39) is in the medical administratcorps at Fort Lewis, Wash. . . . Capt.
Frank B. Packard (Washington '30) cal corps, is stationed at Palm S;
Calif. ... Lieutenant A. Howe Tod,'
high '44) is at Fort Benning, Ga. . .
PHI GAMMA DELTA cannot be too
commended for its war reporting," ,
Captain Theodore G. Coursault (M1—
'34) from the exchange service in San Fray
cisco. Sem per muchobligedius! . . . Captain
Guy M. Hamm, Jr. (William Jewell '31.,
is at Craig Field, Ala. .. . Lieutenant William A. Simpson (Syracuse '42) is at Camp
McCoy, Wisc. . . . Lieutenant Walter 11
Smith (Oregon State '41) is in the engineers
at Camp Bowie, Tex. . . . Captain tVilliarn
0. liVaid (Oklahoma '32) is at Wilmingto!:.
Calif., where he has to do with troop movement
Major Paul B. Jenkins (Michigan
THE PHI GAMMA DELTA
397
received the
(Rutgers '42) is serving has
general hosWendell P.
the
.
.
at
.
badge.
is
distinguished unit
.dical corps.
John R. Rodemajor in the
Camp Grant, Ill. . . .received a first
Knowles (Rutgers '38) is a
Germany. . . . Charles E.
ashington '47) has
. . . field artillery in
Point.
staff serWest
to
appointment
Farnsworth (Rutgers '41) is a Detrick,
(Oklahoma '44)
Camp
at
artillery
field
John J. Vater
the
geant in
Lieutenant-Colonel
Robert Raney (Texas
xandria, La. • . .
Md. . . . Lieutenant
with the
squadron which is
is
Fac.)
bombing
(Yale
Barr, Jr.
Europe, '43) is in a
Sergeant Robert
in
Division
toucheing the Krauts. . .
ad Armored
with the glider
-Colonel William E.
is
'43)
Lieutenant
(Oregon
itti
C. Jones
-ColJess M.
Lieutenant
Corporal
.
and
.
Minnesota '27)
infantry in France. .
Lieu36th
the
.
with
.
•
been
'29).
Shinn (Oregon '41) has
tle Brown (Illinois (Oklahoma '45)
Italian camand
African
Finley
the
from
Robert W.
S. C. Division
River drive. . • •
englneers at Fort Jackson,(Oklapaigns up to the Rhone
(Missouri '41)
Downing
L.
William P. Freehof
Major Richard Monmouth,
N. J. . . . Captain relations officer with the IV Army
Fort
is at
is public
Pacific area. . . .
(Alabama'46) is in the
Corps headquarters in the (Missouri '42) is
•:.! Donald Holt
Lieu.
.
Calif.
Lieutenant Joseph Finley
7ces at Palmdale,
(Berkeley
office at Camp CampHarry R. Lawton
the special service
in
Sergeant
.
.
W. Fisk (Wisconsin
.
Wash.
bell, Ky. . . Perry European theater for
is at Tacoma,
Santa
at
is
'35)
in the
C. Brown (Arizona
Holdsworth '46) has been
Lieutenant Milo T.
. . . William C.Shelby, Miss. more than a year. . . .
is commanding
'43)
Camp
(Illinois
Oakland, Jr.
erst '42) is at
(Alabama
Lieutenant George LoyItaly....
in
:olonel Charles W. Moffett branch at
Lieutenant
a B-24
advocate
'46) and
.5 in the air judgeOrlando, Fla. . • . ering (Wisconsin
pilots in the
are
'45)
(Idaho
Charles Luke
;Lctical center in
. . . First LieutenKresge (Western Resame squadron in Italy.
.,,sant Robert F.
is chief
Camp
hospital.
M. Stiver (Purdue '43)
'45) is at the station
Africa, ant James
squadron at a
in
B-29
years
a
of
two
engineering officer
t-ler, Ga..........
-Colonel
E. Flemming
. .. Lieutenant
and Italy, Major John
base in \Vest China.(Colorado
'31)
College
Lieutenant
Frank W. Roberts
wn '33) is stateside. . .'34) is at
faculty at the
and
staff
(Allegheny
the
of
member
P. Gilmore
Edward H. is a artillery school in Fort Sill. Okla. . • •
field
man, Arm. . . . Lieutenant
(Idaho
from
returned
Lieutenant Joseph P. Harle
(Alabama '44) has
the engineers in
Tex. . • . Second
with
is
Hulen,
'42)
Camp
Missouri
• and is at
Hudson (Mis(Dartmouth '42,
France.... Private James F.
.tcnant Morris L. Heath
•
in France.
.
battalion
tank
C. . • •
souri 46) is Al
(Oklais at Fort Bragg. N.
Tatlock
is
'46)
(Davidson
.•Lieutenant Robert A.
mood G. Miller, Jr.
H. Jones
Edward
LieutenLieutenant
.
.
.
Calif.
homa '43) and
Stanford University,
Carolina '28)
are in the same bat(Ohio Wesleyan '38) Front. . . . Lieutenant Durwood E. Steed (North
James
Lieutenant
talion on the Western
(Yale
is at George Field, 111....
C. Eastman
Wesleyan '45) is in
ant-Colonel Hamilton -Colonel Robert J.
Parriott, Jr. (Ohio
Nebr.
Lieutenant
Island,
'31) and
'ombing group at Grand
'34) are at adjoin(Brown '47)
Wardle (Georgia Tech.
Private Roger S. Everett
engineers' outfit in France.
. Lieutenant ing desks with an
at Camp Blanding, Fla. . .
Partington (Yale '31) is
(Virginia '45) is
Major Philip F.
Private First Class
Ralph T. Holsapple, Jr.
corps....
Captain Albert in the medical
communi.
.
.
Calif.
Roberts,
(Lehigh '45) is
at Camp
Carl Eisen, Jr.
with the
at Borden GenJ. Krabbe (Purdue '34) isOkla. . . . Lieu- cations clerk in a B-24 Liberator
Junius
eral Hospital, Chickasha, Wesleyan '38), 15th Air Force in Italy.. .. Private with
is
'47)
(Ohio
(Richmond
Beall
tenant John A.
Barracks, Pa. Earle Dunford, Jr. Italy. . . . Lieutenant
mtdical corps, is at Carlisle
(Oklahoma an infantry outfit in
(Florida '46) is in
Lieutenant Harold E. Eisele company at Ralph E. Manning, Jr.
Field, Fort
Buckingham
composite
k) is in a medical
the air forces at
outfit
force
air
Camp Ellis, Ill. . . . The
Meyers, Fla.
Leonard M. Zubko
with which Captain