TACT TWELVE
The OrJEGOH- STATESMAN, Sclera. Oregon, Tuesday Morning, May 8, IS15
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Steinmetz of Toledo
Survives Bismarck
Sea's Sinking
Ens. C P. Steinmetz USNR. of
Toledo, Ore, survived the recent
.sinking' of the baby flattop USS
Bismarck Sea, which went down
under Japanese aerial attack in
the western Pacific, the navy an
nounced today, ,; '
, Ensign Steinmetz . piloted an
Avenger torpedo bomber from, the
flight deck of the Bismarck; Sea
until she went to the bottom. He
hat recently! been spending a
leave at home and will soon re
sume -flying jduty with another
navy squadron.
During many strikes against the
laps he bombed Jap underground
oflr storage, barracks, and destroy
d several small cargo ships.
He is the son of Mr. and Mrs.
fflha Steinmetz of Toledo.- He at
- tended public schools in Toledo
ad San Mateo Junior college at
Mated, Calif. ; v.
AN All SERVICE COMMAND
DEPOT, England Hailed by lead
ing civilian aircraft authorities for
, scoring one ol the outstanding pro
(taction triumphs of the war Sgt.
Mfcbael G. Miller, of Salem, Ore,
: jmd his fellow technicians at an air
; ervice command depot in Eng
land, recently overhauled- their
2500th Packard Rolls-Royce engine
After one year of operation.
A cablegram from' the heads of
.the Packard Motor Car-. Co, con
gcatulating the men in Sgt Mill
i r's ngine overhaul hangar .told
them that their' sensational record
had "topped that of any other de
pot hy 1500 engines."
s Constructing scores of new, pro
duction speeding machines and
'testing devices, Sergeant Miller
: nd other specialists at the hangar
haved the 500 hours once required
to overhaul and reassemble the en
gine's 14,000 parts, while increas
ing the combat service time of
each overhauled engine from 90 to
, 200 hours. '
Sergeant Miller is the son of
Mrs. R. Miller, 1845 North Sum
mer st, Salem, Ore. He was em
ployed by Curly's Dairy, Salens
before joining the armed forces in
, November, 1942.
,
SILYERTON For the second
time, PFC Wendel Loe has been
wounded in action in Europe. His
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Emil Loe,
'received word from the govern
ment that the wound was not
MEDITERRANEAN AIR!
TRANSPORT SERVICE " Some
where in Italy Lt Raymond E.
David, son of Victor P. David, Sil-.
verton, Ore, has been assigned to
a ferrying squadron of the Medi
terranean air transport service at
a busy air base in Italy. ,
Graduated and commissioned a
pilot from the army flying school
at Ellington Field, Tex, June 27,
1944, Lt. David was stationed at
Victorville, Calif, and Marfa, Tex,
before leaving for overseas service
in April, 1945. ' r V
A graduate of Silverton schools,
he was a student at the University
of Oregon, Eugene, before entering
the service. . t ,
Lieutenant David's squadron is
engaged in co-ordination of sche
duled air transport 'service in the
Mediterranean theatre in support
of air, ground and naval opera
tions; operation of a scheduled U.
S. mail service within the theater;
ferrying of replacements and "war
weary" aircraft between depots
and tactical units in the MTO;
maintenance and operation of a
pool of aircraft for VI Ps (very
important persons); and thme op
erational part of the theater ma
larial control "dusting" project.'
FORT LEWIS, Wash, May 7
Ronald W. Rusk, chief of the troop
training of this, army service
forces training center, has been
promoted to the rank of major,
according to a war department
announcement. Husk served in
the ; southwest Pacific for two
years with the 41st division,' was
wounded in 1943, and spent a year
in army hospitals before coming
to Fort Lewis I last July. Major
Husk, whose home is in Salem,
Ore,., was graduated in 1939 from
the University of Oregon. Major
and Mrs. Husk and their 3-year-old
daughter, Ann, are living, in
Olympia.
Sft. Loyal O. Looney, son of Mr.
and Mrs. G. P. Looney, Salem,
Ore, has - arrived , in : the United
States on furlough from the south
west Pacific theater of operations,
where he served 36 months with
the transportation corps.
Ralph Burns, seaman 1e, son
of Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Burns of
225 Hollywood, is home' on leave.
He participated in several , Pa
cific engagements, including the
invasion of Leyte, Lingayen gulf
and Okinawa.
Woodburn Airman '.,
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Aids in Destruction
A NINTH AIR FORCE FIGHT
ER-BOMBER BASE, Germany
In a sharp attack on a German air
field near I Hanover, First Lt
Staryl C. lAustjri, jrl, 24, Salem,
Ore. ai P-47 Thunderbolt in the
Germany based! 373rd Fighter
Bomber; grciuprfirecently damaged
an ME-410. hfi! f I - I ...T'-; !
'; Austin's squadron destroyed one
and damaged 1 1 three Messers-
chmidts in : its ; strafing and dive-
bombing attack. I In addition the
flyers beat; up,! eight hangars 6n
the field..: : Hi !.:' 1 i"
A member of jhe Ninth air force
group that destroyed and damaged
223 enemy aircraft on the ground
without loss in the four days be
fore R-day, I Austin entered the ar
my in September, 1942.' He is the
son of Mr. and Mrs. Staryl C Aus
tin, sr, route 3, box '740, Salem.
ATC BASE, Absdan, Iran T5
James B. Hardin of the medical
corps, stationed: at this remote but
important air transport command
base on the army's vital supply
route between ast and west is do
ing his job toward rushing in hos
pital planes more than ; 2500
wounded from Europe mn the far
east to the United States - each
month. , j .(IlliljS. h- i-'1-.: 1 .j
Technician Hardin is the son of
Mrs. Grace E, M;Garbe, Aumsville,
Ore. His wife is the former Hazei
Dell Sheridan of Aumsville.
-, He is assigned to the 19th field
hospital as a cook; Preparing meals
for patients land transient air
evacuees calls!! for skill and in
genuity, Hardin : finds, but due. to
ATCs tremendous facilities with
a direct air 1 route back to the Unit
ed States, shortages are quickly
met : 1 j ' i tu
Overseas for 28 months, Hardin
will have been in the army for
three years ont July 15. He pre
pared for his!! present assignment
at the cook and bakers school in
Andimeshk, Iran, I;
Ht attended! i Aumsville high
school andi was employed by the
Carnation Milk Co, in Portland,
Ore, before entering the service.
TSfi. Genii L. Cooper, nephew
of Mrs. Elsie Noteboom, 1049 6th
st, SalemJ Ore' has arrived in
the United States on furlough from
the Mediterranean theater of op
erations, where he served 10
months wth the 15th air force
as radio-operator and gunner on
a B-24. Hd completed 61 missions,
35 sorties, totaling 275 combat
flying hoursjjf i . h i, I f
Normandy Landing and Battle
Of France Constitute One of :
History's Greatest Campaigns
(Editor' iUt The I Uowlnr I ttorr
France was prepared fcy the Associated
taa -M-caUed Second Battle et
Press as aa appcMaf a ta we com
plete war story at pabUshed on Ipages and l of the second aecuoB of'
toaay i statesman, u rarriea wo- luaiopeaa actio iron we ame ui
. Normandy laadiaf to tae Uberatioa of rrance, Balsiaaa, tbe Netnarlanda,
... and tha -actual tmraslo of Germany Itaelf.
The first 49 days after Gen. Dwleht Eisenhower's forces landed
in Normandy j (June, 1944) wfere spent in securing, enlarging and
building up the beachhead. Extremely bloody, battles were, fought in
beating the Germans back from one hedgerow and sunken road to 'the
next Cherbourg, the Allies' Grpi ma jor portTn France,' was taken by
American troops on June 27, 1944, just thre weeks after D-Day.afier
a bitter fight ' r
Then American, British, Cana
dian and Allied troops liberated
France in one of the swiftest cam
paigns on record. They did it from
a beachhead one of the most un
usual of military feats. ;
Many Naxis Trapped . .
While ! still depending on belch
installations, for a now : pi - sup
plies, Lt GenJ Omar N. Bradley
struck out on July 25 for the gleat
objectives of the invasion. Brad
ley's . U. S. - first . army brpke
through ! at St Lo and began
throwing armored Looks westward
toward the Normandy coast which
repeatedly trapped large numbers
of German troops; v - -.iJ-Taking
command of a new Uj. S.
'third army.' Lt - Gen. George S.
Patton began a sensational sprint
southward through Avranches into
Brittany, sent roaming columns
speeding westward and southward
to Brest at the! tip of Brittany,1 St
Nazaire, !- Lortent Nantes bnd
across the Loire, then turned his
main forces eastward in a stabbing
offensive - which seemed aimed
straight at Paris. :' f
' Out-gener a 1 e d , out-numbered
and overwhelmed by superior
equipment fire ' power and air
power, the Germans seemed pow
erless in the face of lightning
moves such as' they had employ ed
so successfully; to conquer France
in 1940.
Real Intent Unmasked !
At Chartres, 55 miles south
west i of Paris, Patton suddenly
unmasked i his real intent land
wheeled northward toward the
Seine. ! : I
Field i Marshal Gen. Guenther
Von Kluge, German commander
in the west had stripped the de
f enses of : Brittany, and drained
divisions from the 15th army north
of the Seine tot bolster his defenses
in the i rugged i territory below
Caen on the Allied left flank.
where the ferocity and . detefrni
nation of Marshal Sir Bernard L.
Montgomery's British second army
and Canadians, had led him td be
lieve that , the j main attack would
be delivered. 1 1 I
Here Von Kluge held on,! de
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A thought for Americans as news jomes cf Europe's liberation
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Lord of bur far-flunr battle-line .
Beneath whose awful Hand j we hold'
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Lord God of Hosts, be with us ytt,
Lest we iorget, leste t
The tumult and, the shouting dies . .
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Still stands Thine ancient sacrifice,
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An humble and a contrite heart.
Lord God of Hosts, be with us jet, .
- Lest we forget, lest we forget 1
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spite Patton's spectacular penetra
tions toward Paris, in the apparent
delusion! that as lortg-as -the Caen
anchor positions held - the - allies
would not venture r far' inland.
From the Mortain) area he had
mounted :, his fiercest armored
counter-attack toward Avranches
in the mistaken belief . that he
could split the allied armies' and
bring them to disaster.
Beaten to Pieces ' ' - .
Suddenly, all these German forc
es were threatened with entrapf
ment The attacks y Montgomery
and - the newly created first' Ca
nadian army under Lt Gen. H. D,
G. Crerar became ian anvil upon
which Patton and Lt Gen. Court
ney K. Hodges of ;the U. first
army beat, the German 7th army
to pieces. . . i
By, August 21, General . Mont
gomery; was able to proclaim that
the - bulk of German forces in
northwestern France had met with
"definite, complete 'decisive de
feat and that the end of the war
was in sight ' ) .
. Already Patton's forces were
plunging south of Paris and across
thej Seine, northwest' of Paris to
carry i out even more - audadious
plans- I. ' -j tr-v
Undergraond Springs Up
The " underground 'in' Paris rose
in battle.: The-city of light and
symbol of liberty in the western
world was liberated on f Aug. 25,
just a month . after the- break
through, at St Lo, by French and
Amen can troops entering the city.
On August 15 the army of France
under Gen. ean de Lattry de Tas-
signy and the U. S, 7th army under
Lt Gen. Alexander M Patch in
vaded southern France from the
Mediterranean in a huge and skill
fully;: coordinated action which
speedily won control of -the whole
coast The Germans began a pre
cipitate withdrawal from all south
ern , France, - but by the first of
September the German 18th army
was fighting for its life up the
Rhone valley where it had been
intercepted by fast armored col
umns slicing across the French
Alps. "K:;r; :':',',-
While allied forces in the north
and south neared a Junction, the
American First and Third armies
began a series of amazing dashes
toward the Rhine. ' a Belgium was
invaded; September 2, along the
road to Mons, "Namur, Liege and
Aachen in Germany. - . - ,
J00 Miles In 4 Days
- Lt Gen. Sir Miles C Dempsey't
British Second army tanks made
an astounding march of more' than
200 miles in four days, roaring
through the . Belgium capital of
Brussels, the big port of Antwerp
and into the Netherlands.
On: September ,r Just three
months after the invasion and on
the 4th day of the offensive which
had begun at St Lo, and with more
than 400,000 casualties inflicted
upon the Germans who had lost
25 divisions , and suffered heavy
casualties to at least IS others.
General Eisenhower, his armies
already probing German soil,; the
liberation of France and Belgium
being all but. complete, and the '
freeing of the Netherlands pro
gressing proclaimed the battle of
Germany about to begin.'
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