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Pyt. Frank H. Warren, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry C. Warren Sr., 1547 S. St. Johns, will long reâ€" member Nov. 24, 1944â€"the day after Thanksgivingâ€"for on that day he was aboard a boat that was torpedoed .en route to the Philipâ€" pine‘“from New Guinea. Deciding to thust to ‘his swimming; rather than to the overcrowded lifeboats, Page: 2 "I‘m not a hero, I‘m just a guy. who did my job." And I want to get back and finish it." Speaking is Maj. Fred J. Chrisâ€" tensen, Jr., of Watertown, Mass., eighth ranking ace fighter pilot of the Allied Air Forces. Miss Kathcrine..Weber,.Seaman 1/¢, (Maâ€"M), is stationed with the fleet post office in New York City. She received herâ€"advanced training in the mail school at Hunters colâ€" lege, Bronx, N. Y. Miss Weber jig.a 1941 alumnus of the local high school, and prior to joining the WAVEs, on oa.?, was employed as a bank clerk in Chicaâ€" go. Her parents are Mr. and Mrs F. J.. Weber, 619 McDaniels. I had the pleasure of interviewâ€" ing him this week. Maj. Christensen was a member of the famous 56th Fighter Group, one of the top fighter outfits to come out of this war. The team has over 800 enemy planes to its eredit. Maj. Christensen has 22â€" planes to his credit and five others that he shot to pieces on the ground. He was overseas 17 and one half months and piled up 107 missions and 302 combat hours. BLASTS FROM THE SKIES ... "Combat is not glamorous. Get that straight. It‘s rugged and mean.. And it‘s no fun. But I like a good scrap. And you can get into plenty of them with the Jerries," he told me. > Seven local men were inducted last week by the Selective Service board. _ For the army there are Arthur Grant and Donald Ronzaâ€" ni of Highland Park; Earl Malizia of Highwood. Nayy: Maurice De Bona, Jr., Highland Park, Robert J. Moley, Highwood; William E. Hertel and Paul R. Paggett, Jr., of Deerfield. _ All are unmarried. Although he doesn‘t wear them, the 23â€"yearâ€"old officer has been awarded the Silver Star, DFC with six clusters, Air Medal and three clusters, Distinguished unit citaâ€" tion and cluster, European ribbon, and Middle East ribbon with four battle stars. More medals are forthcoming. * His first victory came when his blazing bullets blew up a Nazi MEâ€" 110. â€" ~ "I didn‘t have x chance to use my gun sight, I just dived right at him and gave him a burst and down he went." * The young ace‘s second victory can be put in the jackpot class fi he knocked down and destroyed a Nazi flight commander who had bagged nine Allied pilots. â€" Wm:. L. Winters, Jr., S, 2/¢, USN, will shortly complete . his training as medical corpsman‘ in the U. S. Naval | Hospital corps school at San Diego, Calif. A graduate of the June, 1944, high school graduating class, he is 19, and the son of Dr. and Mrs. Wm. Winters, 188. Laurel. Mrs. Winters has two brothers, also, in the navy. Lt. Richard R. Parkin is on board ship in the Paâ€" cific area, and Lt. Henry Parkin is stationed at Silver Springs, Md., where he has charge of the naval ordnance ~Jaboratory, which has been in operation for about a year, They are the sons of Mrs. Harry and the late Judge Harry Parkin, 168 Central. FLIES 107 MISSIONS ... Pfe. James J. Kirk, USMC, is now on sea duty in the Pacific nrea. . He is known to have taken IN THE NATION‘S SERVICE than to the overcrowded lifeboats, he spent a long halfâ€"hour in the water before being picked up by a navy boat. _ Allâ€"his possessions, inâ€" cluding a muchâ€"prized Bible, the gift of his father, were lost. . Mrs. Warren. the former Elsic Schadewitz, and their 17â€"monthâ€" old son, Jimmie, whose father left for overseas when he was two months old, live at 631 Vine. _ > Pyt. Warren‘ has been hospitalâ€" ized .three months of his time in the Pacific area. . CHANUTE FIELD, ILL.â€" His bigiest air thrill came, howâ€" Ace Fighter Pilot Lt. Lidicker completed his basic training <at Columbia, Miss., in June, 1944, which was followed by transitional . training at â€" Lak Charles,â€" La . In the service two years, he is now 21 years of age. army signal corps in France, has been transferred from the 7th army to the 3rd_army, which is in charge of Gen. Patton. Pfc. Walkâ€" er joined the service in July,1943, and was transferred overseas a year ago last December. He is 25, a. graduate of Lake Forest acadâ€" emy anid Washington and Lee uniâ€" versity, and is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Walker, Sr., 234 Cary avenue. i‘ Former Flight Officer John F. Lidicker, son of Mr. and Mrs. John J. Lidicker, 1844 Deerfield road, is now a second lieutenant, serving as coâ€"pilot ‘of a Bâ€"26 Maurauder bomber in France. : troop transports out of the skies in two minutes! > GROUND CREW ... had mechanical trouble. My ground crew men"were tops and I can‘t praise them enough. We used to work on the plane (a Pâ€"47) together. . We learned about the speedy ship from each other. "One day my crew chief said he could get more speed if we waxed the ship. So we waxed it and by doing so jumped the fighter‘s speed 15 miles an hour. "Those fellows used to work 14, 16, 18, and sometimes 20 hours a day getting our ships ready. And they ‘never slept until we came back from a mission. The other pilots and: myself used to boast about our crewmen, each believing we had the best," the youthful piâ€" lot said with deep sincerity. "I smiled and said to myself, ‘Look at that guy trying to shoot me down with that thing.‘ Just about then there was a flash and a bullet whistled by myâ€"head. I was almost a goner that time," he part in the Luzon invasion, â€" His parents are Mr. and Mrs. James J. Kirk, Sr., 360 Orchard lane. them in rank as quickly as we could. My chief was a sergeant when he started to work.on my ship. He was a master sergeant when I left. concluded. The Alfred Bensons, 1412 Pleasâ€" ant, Ravinia, have two sons who have distinguished themselves in the service. â€"Lt. John, Bâ€"26 bombâ€" er pilot, overseas for one year, and based in England, has completed 65 missions, and is the possessor of the air medal, â€" He is anticipatâ€" ing an early furlough. "Our group was a big, happy family. The pilots used to give parties for the enlisted men in an effort to reward them for their excellent work. We raised NEAR FATALITY ... "I saw a German staff car and went after it. But I couldn‘t get the range because the driver kept turning corners just as I was ready to shoot. . Finally it disappeared and I saw a lone Nazi soldier aimâ€" ing at me with a rifle. > He recalled one narrow‘ escape from death . . . S/Sgt. Robert, with a ground crew in Italy, ‘also overseas for one year, is a member of a squadâ€" ron which has been awarded three Presidential unit citations for merâ€" itorious achievement. Sgt. Robert Roeber, who enterâ€" ed the service in July, 1943, is spending a 10â€"day furlough with his wife, Mrs. Sally Rocber, 369 Central. At the end of his furâ€" lough he will return to Ft. Meade, Md., where be is serving in a reâ€" placement depot. Sgt. Lyle L. Larson, 22, now two years in the service and overseas sinte last May, is stationed with a chemical unit in Germany. Twice wounded, he is with an outfit twice cited for meritorious service. _ * . Capt. Alvin, 28, for 18 months with the army medical corps, is serving with the army air corps in Charleston, S. C., as doctor. They are the sons of Mr. and Mrs. Axel R:*Larson, 514 Glencoe. Pvt. Richard Neelly Metzel, son of Maj. and Mrs. T. T. Metzel, 99 Sycamore, has reported to Keesler Field, Biloxi, ‘Miss., to take the Pfe. Robert F. Walker, with the I flew 107 missions and never army forces training command exâ€" aminations to determine his qualiâ€" fications as a preâ€"aviation cadet. He will be given a series of medâ€" ical and psychological tests to deâ€" cide the type of air crew training for which he is best suited by aptiâ€" tude and personal characteristics. P. D. Stokes, 226 Cary avenue, was navyâ€"snd awazded the B.S . in meâ€" chanical engineering degree at a convocation at Northwestern uniâ€" versity Thursday, Feb. 22. One hundred sixty degrees and 120 commissions in the navy and marine corps were awarded at this Lt. Edward J. Moroney, pilot of a Pâ€"51 Mustang fighter, stationed in England, has been awarded the second and third oak leaf clusters to the air medal. His fighter group has already passed the 600 mark in victories, The lieutenant‘s wife and baby daughter, born last ;;::.‘,’lin with his parents, the J. Serviceman‘s Widow Gets Purple Heart The Purple Heart, posthumousâ€" ly awarded to the late Cpl. Sergio Canarini, lost in Germany last Ocâ€" tober, was received recently by his widow, Mrs. Lucille Canarini, Letters also received from comâ€" manding officers, chaplains and comrades of her husband, tell. of his cheerfulness, courage and popâ€" ularity among the men, They alâ€" so state that his death was quick and merciful, and that his resting place, in a military cemetery in Belgium, is well cared for. Moroneys, at 573 Glenview. 130 Prairie, Highwood. Philip D. Stokes, Jr., son of the On the battlefields of. France and Italy, in the diseaseâ€"laden jungles of the Pacific, he ~ _ _ fought to give you peace, security and _ _ ~ happiness. Now he is back.«.warâ€"wounded and warâ€"weary.. . and needing the gentle care and attention that only you can give him. 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If you‘ve had no training, you may be around a pale green lagoon" about 65 miles south of Tarawa, has been called a model operation in miniaâ€" ture, but only this month was the The conquest of Apamama, that "cluster of lovely islets coiled neck magazine. _A colorful word picture of the spot is given us by Marine Sgt. Frank W. Tolbert, who describes it as "covered by a thick growth of coconut palms, except for the glaring white bands of the airstrips." _ Then, _ delightfully: "The green of the fringing coral reefs mingles with the blue and white of the surf, as if a careless artist had thrown color splotches from the beaches." In the . Apamamese alphabet, facking some of the letters of the English; there is no letter to corâ€" respond to our "j." The nearest approach to it is the letter "s." Therefore, to the naive islanders, the enemy were "Sapanese," "Saps." _ â€" dy of Pearl Harbor, they numberâ€" ed about 1000, besides eight whites â€"including two nuns and four Catholic priests. ~Many of the naâ€" tives speak English. Apamama was one point of the threeâ€"pronged amfin of the Gilâ€" berts, which inclu Apamama, Makin and Tarawa. « Appropriately, the natives found in this setting are the comely, inâ€" telligent and amiable folk we love to read about in stories of the South‘ Sea isles. Before the adâ€" vent of the Japanese, which folâ€" lowed upon the heels of the trageâ€" Omitting the harrowing details of. the beachâ€"heading, with its atâ€" tendant hardships and casualties, the climax of the operation proves the fitness of the name the islandâ€" ers had for the little brown men. Busy planning for the final exâ€" termination of the enemy, the Marâ€" ines were puzzled by the copstant rumors drifting in, to the effect that there. were no "Saps" left to finally was explained by native observers who had witnessed a mass suicide. The "Sap" leader, waving his pistol, had howled: "We shall kill all the American Devils!" when his remarks were punctuated by the tol, inflicting a fatal wound in his abdomen. What followed in the hysterical "Sap" mind can be only surmised. But on the fourth day after our Marines had landed, all the "Saps" were liquidated, having obligingly dug their own graves and lain down in them before joining their ancesâ€" tors. Oddly enough, sufficient amâ€" munition remained to have taken heavy toll of the Americans. Then from the coconut groves came swinging the handsome, indoâ€" lent young natives to perform a willing part in cleaning ‘up what one Highland Park boy who particâ€" pated in the campaign refers to, with appropriate adjectives, as a "messy detail." Graceful, goldenâ€" Attention Voters TOWNSHIP ELECTION â€" APRIL 3, 1945 You MUST be registered to vote If you have not registered, do so now at the office of W. W. Steele, 394 Central Avenue, Highland Park Last Day to register â€" March 5, 1945 Women‘s Army Corps BE A MEDICAL TECHNICIAN This advertisement is sponsored far the Women‘s Army Corp: by the Public Service Compony of Northern Illineis Army Medical Dept. skinned girls sang Sunday school hymns, with a British accent, inâ€" cluding the timely "Brighten Evâ€" ery Corner Where You Are." The cool ofâ€"the tradewinds set in. Everywhere natives left their the dusk. High were the hearts of brutal little oppressors were gone forever. The "Atoll of the Moon" EDW. LENARI APPOINTED CADET SGT. AT ILLINOIS Put. Edward J. Linari of 801 acting cadet sergeant in the army specialized training unit at Uniâ€" versity of Illinois, by Col. Leonard ‘The reserves are youths under 18 who are called away to active servâ€" ice as they reach draft age. C. Sparks, commanding officer of the 3652nd service unit, Army Thursday , Feb. 22, 1945