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WILSON RECOVERING
Struck by shrapnel from a
German artillery shell near Tos
sy la Vire, France, Sgt. Herbert
H. Wilson, 36, 2242 Garden,
Klamath Falls, Ore., is conval
escing from wounds of the right
arm and leg at a U. S. army gen
eral hospital in England. He
has been awarded the Purple
Heart. "His condition is very
satisfactory and he will be re
leased soon," said his ward sur
geon. A squad leader In an infantry
unit. Sgt. Wilson said he was hit
as his outfit started to resume an
offensive early one morning.
"I had gone to get my instruc
tions from the platoon com
mander and was returning to
my outfit when an '88' shell hit
a tree a few yards away," he ex
plained. "Just a couple of min
utes after I was hit some medics
pulled up in a jeep with a litter
rigged up on it. They dressed
my wounds and took me to an
aid station."
Sgt. Wilson was formerly a
sawmill operator. His brother,
Otis Wilson, resides at the Gar
den avenue address.
WALTERS ON LEYTE
Pvt. Ralph L. Walters of
Xlamath Falls, member of a
heavy mortar and machine com
pany of the veteran 24th divi
sion, sampled about everything
the Japs had to offer in the line
of fire power during the inva
sion of Leyte island.
' Coming ashore his landing
craft was shelled with artillery.
On the beach and inside the
beach he encountered machine
gun bullets and flying mortar
shell fragments. All the way
across the island he faced rifle
fire from the front and from
numerous snipers operating be
hind the lines.
- A few Jap planes bombed and
strafed near his company's posi
tions. He saw some of them
shot down in flames by anti-aircraft
fire and American fighting
planes.
Walters was in action for the
first five days without letup, and
then returned to the fight after
a short rest in defensive posi
tions. He took part in the cap
ture of towns, hills, roads and
important bridges, in addition to
the establishment of the initial
beachhead.
: His wife, Oleatha, lives at
1650 Manzanita, and his mother,
Mrs. Cora Hagen, at 1721 Wall,
Klamath Falls.
REAL IN GERMANY
Cpl. LeRoy H. Real, son of
Mrs. Vera Real of Sheldon ave.,
is in Germany with the 104th
; infantry division, "Timber
Wolves," which has now joined'
the American first.
Their commanding officer is
"Terrible" Terry Allen, the gen
eral who won fame in the Tuni
sian campaigns.
The 104th was organized and
trained at Camp Adair, Ore.
FAY AT HOSPITAL
- First Lt. Lester H. Fay, 1841
Esplanade, and husband of Jes
sica C. Fay of Phoenix, Ariz.,
has been assigned to the recent
ly activated AAF convalescent
hospital at Miami Beach.
There are nine such hospitals
In the U. S., and they assume
care of the AAF battle casualties
who have progressed to the "not
seriously ill" stage.
Lt. Fay entered the army on
February 1, 1937, was dis
charged and re-enlisted on De
cember 19, 1941. He was com
missioned a second lieutenant on
June 24, 1942, and was assigned
k uaie juaDry neia, r la.
SUMMERS GETS MEDAL
15TH AAF IN ITALY 2nd
Lt. Claude W. Summers, son of
Mrs. fcva Hooper of 3335 Alva
avenue, Klamath Falls, Oregon,
was awarded the Air Medal "for
meritorious achievement in aer
lal flight against the enemy." He
is a pilot with a 15th AAF B-24
Liberator bomber erouD onerat-
ing from an advanced air base
in Italy.
Lt. Summers is a 'graduate of
the Klamath Union high school
and prior to his enlistment, in
December of 1940, he was em
ployed by the Connor radio
service as a service man. He
entered as a private and was
selected in September of 1941
for instruction in the army air
force technical radio school at
Scott field, Illinois. In July of
1942 he was selected by the
army examining board as a can
didate for officer training and
sent to Bainbridge, Georgia for
flight training. He continued
his studies at Turner field,
Ga., and was commissioned in
February, 1943. Shortly after
ward, he was given a crew and
sent to a combat theater,
MOCABEE GRADUATED
The army air forces training
command has announced that
Pvt. Daniel R. Mocabce of Klam
ath Falls was graduated from
the department of armament of
Lowry field, Denver, Colo.
Pvt. Mocabce is the son of Mr.
and Mrs. E. W. Mocabee, 435
High, and attended Klamath Un
ion high school, He er.tercd the
service on August 9, 1944, . at
Monterey, Calif.
VAN EMON FLIES 50TK
15TH AAF IN ITALY First
Lieutenant Walter Van mon,
28, formerly ot Klamath Falls,
hns successfully flown his 50th
combat mission. Pilot of a 15th
air force Flying Fortress, lie
flew his "golden" mission Oc
tober 23, when the Forts at
tacked the Skoda works at
Pilson, Czechoslovakia.
Lt. Van Email attended the
University of Oregon and the
George Washington university,
and was formerly employed by
the war production board. He
enlisted in the army May 19,
1942, and entered aviation cadet
training October 21 of the same
year. He received his commis
sion at George Field, Illinois,
October 1, 1943.
Upon leaving the United
States for flying duty overseas,
he was assigned to the oldest
heavy bombardment group in
the Mediterranean theater of
operations. This group has
flown over 350 combat mis
sions,' bombing enemy installa
tions in almost every axis-dominated
country in Europe from
bases in England, North Africa,
Russia and Italy. Lt. Van Em
on's first high altitude bombing
mission was the June 14 attack
on the oil refineries at Buda
pest, Hungary.
"My closest call," Lt. Van
Emon said, "was on the July 28
mission to the Ploesti oil re
fineries in Romania Just after
bombs away, an 88-millimeter
shell exploded above and in
front of my ship, so that a large
fragment entered the pilot's
side of the ship, striking the
steel control column, ricochet
ing off the bottom of the wheel
and finally hitting me below the
knee.
"I thought my leg had been
severed from the force of the
blow, but I was relieved to dis
cover that I was only bruised.
When we landed we discovered
the wings and engine nacelles
had a great many 'flak' holes."
Lt. Van Emon has been
awarded the Air Medal with
three Oak Leaf Clusters and
wears the European - African -
Middle East theater ribbon.
FITZGERALD GRADUATED
Recent graduate of the King
man army air field flexible gun
nery school, near Kingman,
Ariz., was 18-year-old PFC.
Audine E. Fitzgerald, Jr., son
of Mrs. Annis Catherine Fitz
gerald of 329 S. Roger street,
Klamath Falls, Ore.
PFC. Fitzgerald entered the
army at Portland, Oregon on
February 22, 1943. He attended
Klamath Union high school.
LENAERS IN FRANCE
WITH U. S. ' ARMY SERV
ICE FORCES IN FRANCE
Tech. 5th Grade William E.
Lenaers of 608 Roseway,Klam
ath Falls, is a member of a U. S.
army engineer general service
regiment which despite lack of
heavy equipment and time did
a record job of clearing roads
through a bombed-out port area
to beaches and quays now used
by landing craft, DUKW's and
lighters.
REUNION IN ENGLAND
Aflother reunion of two Klam
ath boys was staged recently
when Alvin Anderson, son of
Mrs. John Bonhorn, 3744 La
Verne, walked into a control
tower at an airfield in southern
England where Elwood Lewis,
son of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Lewis,
(Signal Corpi photo)
High man ot American aces In '
the Mediterranean theatre is
Copt. John J. Voll, Goshen, O.,
above, who raised score to 21
in recent battle with 12 Nazi
fighters. Lured into Luftwatfe
territory by a JU-88, he shot
down four of the dozen which
pounced on him.
S. 6th., Is stationed as a radio
man. Both enlisted in the navy in
1942, and this was their first
meeting since before going over
seas, Anderson a former Herald and
News employe, is an engineer on
a PT boat, and saw net ion in the
initial landing on the Cherbourg
peninsula on D-Day. and in sub
sequent . engagements with the
German fleet in the channel.
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DAUGHERITY GRADUATED
KINGMAN, Ariz. Recent
graduate of the Kingman army
air field flexible gunnery school,
situated a few miles outside of
Kingman, was 18-year-old PFC.
William D. Daugherity, son of
Rufus Franklin Daugherity of
Rt. 1, Box 1053, Klamath Falls,
Ore.
PFC. Daugherity entered the
armv at Los Angeles on Decem
ber '29, 1943.
BREAKS BOTTLENECKS
Pvt. Conwin F. Galbrcath, of
1934 Applcgate, is a bottleneck
busting driver at an air service
command depot in England.
Crippled trucks waiting for re
pairs mean bottlenecks in ship
ments of vital parts for fighting
planes, and it is the job of this
group to keep every one of their
trucks in top operating order.
Galbreath is the son of Frank
Galbrcath.
TACOMA, Dee. 13 (A) A 16-year-old
youth was held today
by police who suid ho had mado
a full written confession to rob
bing tho Pugot Sound National
bank of $5,050- yesterday while
using a five-year-old child lis a
shield,
All but $50 ot the lot was re
covered, officers said.
Chief of Police Tom Ross and
Police Capt. Albert Farrar iden
tified the youth as Gerald
Wayne Barnes. He was arrested
by Officers Stitsworth u n d
Seholtz as he was about to enter
his home after dark last night. .
The bunk was robbed during
yesterday afternoon's rush hour
by a man who walked up to
Shannon Mitchell, bank teller,
and handed her u note while ho
clutched the arm of a child, later
identified us "Sonny" Fisher.
The note read: "Hand over the
money or I'll shoot both you and
the kid he doesn't belong to
me."
The boy was left unharmed
outside the bank when the rob
ber fled after the holdup.
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