* * With the Armed ForcesTHREE ARTICLES telling the stories of Capt . Eu-gene Dale, '36-'38, Enid, and two other U . S .Army captains who escaped Japanese imprison-ment last fall ran in Collier's magazine last month .Appearing in the March 3, 10 and 17 issues, theserial was entitled "We Lived to Tell ." It was setclown in the first person plural by Corey Ford andAlastair MacBain as the three men told it to them .i n graphic language the articles told of the terribleliving conditions in the prison camps, the mis-treatment suffered by the prisoners at the handsof their captors, and their escape when the Japa-nesc ship they were on was torpedoed by an Ameri-can submarine .

Mrs . Dorothy Ellis Obert, wife of Maj . DavidObert, '40, Apache, who was taken prisoner bythe Japanese when they captured Manila, has beenliberated by American forces in the Philippines .Major and Mrs . Obert were married in November,1941, and were separated when he was orderedto fly out one of the last P-40's to leave Bataan .Mrs . Obert, whose parents live in Chicago, was acivilian employee of the government in the Philip-pines . Major Obert is now an operations officerwith the 15th Air Force in Italy .

The first member of his family Maj . Ralph W .Hubbard, '32med, Oklahoma City, saw after hisrelease from a Japanese prison camp was hisbrother, Capt. William E . Hubbard, '41med, whomet him somewhere in the Pacific. Captain Hub-bard, physician with the Fifth Air Force, flew 4,000miles to spend 24 hours with his brother afterMajor Hubbard was liberated . Captain Hubbardwrote his parents in Oklahoma City that his brotherhad gained 20 pounds since his rescue by Ameri-can forces, and that "he still is amazed he isalive and on his way."

DecorationsTech . Sgt. Clarence A. Pearce, '38-'42, El Reno,

has been awarded the Bronze Star and an AirMedal for his work as a combat correspondent withthe Troop Carrier Command during operations inand over Europe .The Bronze Star was awarded to Sergeant Pearce

for his part in organizing news facilities for cover-age of airborne phases of the D-Day invasion andfor service in Normandy at advanced Troop Carrierairstrips. He was decorated with the Air Medalfor meritorious achievement while engaged in in-tensive aerial activity as a combat correspondentcovering the vertical envelopment of German armiesimpeding the progress of the Allied ground forcesin Holland .The citation accompanying the Air Medal stated

that "the plane in which Sergeant Pearce rodecircled continuously over the Paratroop and Gliderlanding zones in the Eindhove-Nijmegen areasfrom the time the initial serial of Troop Carrieraircraft arrived until the final serial was in sight.In spite of intense enemy ground fire, extremelyadverse weather and damage to the plane fromenemy action, he completed his assigned missions ."

Sergeant Pearce's work with the Troop CarrierCommand has taken him into every sector of thewestern front, Holland, Belgium, France and Ger-many .

Before entering the service, Sergeant Pearce waswith the United Press in Little Rock, Arkansas . Heis a former editor of the Oklahoma Daily.

Capt . Norman G. Walker, '37-'40, Bethany, hasbeen awarded an Air Medal for his work as anavigator with the Air Transport Command . Cap-tain Walker participated in the first group organ-ized to ferry airplanes from Hamilton Field, Cali-fornia, to Hawaii. He has since flown in every the-ater of the war for the A.T .C .

Staff Sgt. David R . Johnson, '41242, Norman,waist gunner on a B-17 with the Eighth Air Force,has been awarded an Air Medal with four Oak

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Released from a Japanese prison camp afterthe American landing in the Philippines,Ralph Hubbard, '32med, now a lieutenantcolonel, was home last month with his family

in Oklahoma City .

Lcaf Clusters for meritorious achievement whileparticipating in bombing attacks on vital Germantargets .00- Capt . Carl Eley, '38-'39, Altus, has been award-ed the Distinguished Flying Cross and two OakLeaf Clusters to add to his Air Medal for serviceas a fighter pilot in the China-Burma-India theater .He recently returned to the United States after be-ing overseas for a year.

Capt . Port G . Robertson, '37bs, Edmond, hasbeen awarded the Bronze Star medal for hiswork with the Field Artillery in Europe. He isattached to the Second Division .

Staff Sgt. Robert L . Shepherd, '39m.ed, Nor-man, waist gunner on a Flying Fortress of theEighth Air Force, has been awarded an Air Medalfor meritorious achievement during bombing at-tacks on Nazi targets .

Pfc . Harry H . Harkins, '42-'43, Billings, Mon-tana, has been awarded the Order of the PurpleHeart for shrapnel wounds received in the headwhile he was helping capture an enemy pillboxnear Aachen last November 29. Private Harkins,also holder of the Combat Infantryman's Badge,was recuperating from his wounds in an Englishhospital .

Capt. Leo Huff, '41, Altamont, Kansas, hasbeen awarded the Bronze Star for meritorious ac-tion and the Order of the Purple Heart for awound received in action with the Infantry in Eu-rope. Captain Huff recently came home on leaveafter serving overseas since last May . He was inaction in France and Germany . At the end of hisleave Captain Huff reported for re-assignment atFort Leavenworth, Kansas .No- Maj . Herbert T. Hope, '42law, Maysville, hasbeen awarded the Bronze Star medal for meritoriousservice as a Field Artillery officer in connectionwith military operations against the enemy inFrance between 1 September 1944 and 10 October1944. During that time he served as S-3 officer ofa Field Artillery group, operating the fire direction

center and developing a staff that efficiently di-rected the fire of three battalions.

Charles E . Lambdin, '43, Powell, Wyoming,boatswain's mate second class, has been awardedthe order of the Purple Heart for injuries receivedin a Naval engagement in the Pacific .00- Capt . Dan D . Jennings, Jr ., '38-'40, Edmond,commander of an Armored Infantry company ofthe Third Army, has been awarded a Silver Starfor gallantry in action and the Order of the PurpleHeart for wounds . Captain Jennings has been incombat since last August 10, at Metz, St . Vith,Melun, Verdun, Chartre, Antwerp and in Holland .

Pfc . Miller Davidson, '43, Norman, has beengiven the Purple Heart for an injury received onDecember 12 while fighting with the Infantry inBelgium . He was sent to a hospital in Englandfor treatment .00- Pfc . John M . Rowntree, '43, Oklahoma City,has been decorated with the Order of the PurpleHeart for an injury received last December 21 whilein combat with a Third Army Infantry unit 12miles east of Saarbrucken . He was hospitalized inParis, returning to combat duty after being re-leased from the hospital on January 9 . Late in Feb-ruary his parents were notified he was ill inLuxembourg but received no details .

Cpl . Carl W. Longmire, '44, Pittsburg, Cali-fornia, has been decorated with the Order of thePurple Heart for wounds received in Belgium lastNovember 3 . He was wounded in the left arm byGerman machine gun fire while he was layingmines . Corporal Longmire has now recovered andis back in combat with the First Army.

Capt . John J. Ambrister, '37-'38, Prague, hasbeen decorated with an Air Medal with three OakLeaf Clusters for meritorious service as a bomberpilot in the European theater and the Order ofthe Purple Heart for wounds suffered on his 24thmission over the continent . Captain Ambrister hasreturned from foreign service and was stationed atthe Altus Army Air Field as an instrument flyingtraining instructor .

Lt . Willis A . Bynum, '39=42, Oklahoma City,has been awarded an Air Medal with four OakLeaf Clusters for his work as a B-25 pilot in thePacific theater. Lieutenant Bynum returned to theUnited States early this year after being overseasfor a year and a half . He took part in the Solomon,Bismarck and New Guinea campaigns .

Sgt . William W. Cross, '39-'41, Norman, hasbeen awarded an Air Medal for his work as anengineer and gunner aboard a bomber in France .

Capt . Wayne Moore, '39-'40, Oklahoma City,has been awarded the Distinguished Flying Crosswith an Oak Leaf Cluster and an Air Medal witheight Clusters for his work as a Mustang pilot withthe Eighth Air Force . He also holds the order ofthe Purple Heart . Recently Captain Moore returnedto the United States from England after flying 108missions and downing 10 enemy planes .

Pfc . James K. Heady, '42-'43, Oklahoma City,has been awarded the Order of the Purple Heartfor a flesh wound in his right arm received in theAlsace-Lorraine sector on January 11 . He wasfighting with an Armored unit of the SeventhArmy .

Staff Sgt . Robert L . Davis, '38, Norman, hasbeen awarded an Air Medal for his work with aBombardment squadron of the 13th Air Force. Aletter from Maj . Gen . St . Clair Street, commanderof the 13th, to Sergeant Davis' wife stated that Ser-geant Davis has acquitted himself with honor anddistinction .

Lt . Charles W. Ward, '42-'43, Tulsa, Infantryofficer with the Third Army in Europe, has beenawarded the Bronze Star for meritorious action, the

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Order of the Purple Heart for wounds and theInfantry Combat Medal . Lieutenant Ward, whoreceived his commission at Castle Heights Mili-tary Academy in Lebanon, Tennessee, at the ageof 18, went overseas in the spring of 1944 .I" The Order of the Purple Heart has been award-ed Staff Sgt . Kermit Van Leuven, '26-'29, Okla-homa City, with an Engineers company in Ger-many . Sergeant Van Leuven recently sent hismother a road sign reading, "You are now enter-ing Germany through the courtesy of the 95thDivision ."

Capt . Matha M . Miller, '38-'42, Oconomowoc,Wisconsin, has been awarded the Bronze Starmedal for his work with a Signal battalion withthe 12th Army Corps in Europe . Captain Millercontributed materially to the rapid movement ofthe corps across France by the efficient manner inwhich he organized repair facilities for the bat-talion .

Lt . Albert E . Pierce, '36-'39, Oklahoma City,who was killed in action on Guam on August 14,1944, has been awarded the Order of the PurpleHeart posthumously . Lieutenant Pierce was an In-fantry officer with the 77th Division .

Lt . Bates Stinson, '42bus, Sayre, has beenawarded the Order of the Purple Heart for injuriesreceived last September 24 following a jump intoHolland as a paratrooper with the 101st AirborneDivision . He was evacuated to an English hos-pital, where his wife, an Army nurse, attendedhim (luring his convalescence . In January bothLieutenant and Mrs . Stinson returned to the UnitedStates, and he was assigned to Schick General Hos-pital at Clinton, Iowa, for further treatment.

Capt. Neel J . Price, '42med, Oklahoma City,has been awarded the Bronze Star'medal with anOak Leaf Cluster for heroic service in combat asa member of the Medical Corps with the FifthArmy in Italy . Captain Price, as surgeon with anInfantry battalion, has been close to the front linessince the beginning of the Italian campaign. Thecitation accompanying his Bronze Star stated inpart, "Night and day Captain Price attended thewounded, cheerfully making them comfortableand evacuating them to the rear with the leastpossible loss of time . . . Through aggressiveness,force and initiative, he performed surgical opera-tions smoothly and efficiently, under great stressand strain ." Captain Price's wife, the former RuahLee, '42nurse, and their baby son live in Still-water.to- Lt. Henry H. Montgomery, '39-'42, Bartlesville,has been awarded an Air Medal for meritoriousservice as a liaison pilot with the Field Artilleryin Europe . Lieutenant Henry was home on a 30-clay furlough early this year after suffering abroken leg in action in Belgium .

Lt . George B . Snider, '39-'42, Waurika, hasbeen awarded an Air Medal for meritorious achieve-ment as pilot of a Flying Fortress with the EighthAir Force . He is a member of the 486th Bombard-ment group, a part of the division cited by thePresident for its England-to-Africa shuttle bomb-ing of the Messerschmitt plant at Regensburg, Ger-many .

Pfc . Paul Z . Beck, '42-'43, Bradford, Pennsyl-vania, has been awarded the Bronze Star medalfor heroic achievement against the enemy in Ger-many during the period from November 28 toNovember 30, 1944 . During that time Private Beck,an Infantryman, was fighting in the vicinity of aheavily fortified enemy town when assault ele-ments were stopped by intense enemy fire . PrivateBeck, with utter disregard for his own personalsafety, left his sheltered position to restore a com-munication line between his company commandpost and mortar section command post that hadbeen destroyed by enemy fire. Private Beck is thebrother of Capt . Henry J. Beck, '42eng, and Pfc.Theodore Beck, '40-'43, both also overseas .

A commendation has been received by the 12thField Artillery battalion, commanded bv Lt. Col .Alvan M. Muldrow, '33law, Norman, from Maj .Gen . W . M . Robertson, '07, commander of theSecond Division, for "outstanding performance ofduty in combat operations against a highly trained

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No Goon LUCK SWAs'rIKAShown with a captured Nazi flag (it Brest,France, are two officers with the Second In-fantry Division, Maj. Gerald H. Galbreath,'40law, (left) and Cart. Theatus Greeson,

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and tenacious enemy during the period 17 Decem-ber 1944 to 19 December 1944, in the Bullingen-Krinkelt-Rocherath area ." The citation stated thatthe fires of the 12th battalion were a deciding fac-tor in stopping enemy assaults against both theNinth and 38th Infantry regiments, which couldnot have survived the assaults without the addi-tional fire power . Stated General Robertson, "It ismy opinion that this battalion exhibited outstand-ing ability, gallantry, devotion to duty and de-termination in repelling the counterattack launchedagainst the Second Infantry Division with a mini-mum loss of American lives and equipment."

The third Oak Leaf Cluster has been addedto the Air Medal held by Lt. William Pustilnik,'39-'41, Long Beach, Long Island, New York,bombardier aboard a Flying Fortress of the EighthAir Force .I" The second Oak Leaf Cluster has been addedto the Air Medal held by Lt . Lester W. Morris,'35-'36, Oklahoma City, co-pilot of a Flying Fort-ress with the Eighth Air Force .

The fifth Oak Leaf Cluster has been addedto the Air Medal held by Lt . John W . Paul, '41-'42,Tulsa, co-pilot of a Flying Fortress with the EighthAir Force .

George S. James, '30, chief pharmacist's matenow stationed at the Navy Recruiting Office inOklahoma City, has received a personal citationfrom the commanding general of the Second Ma-rine Division for his "excellent service in line ofduty in connection with graves registration duringthe Saipan-Tinian campaign, Marianas Islands ."Mr . James laid out and established cemeteries forthe Marine dead in areas still under enemy fire.Part of his 23 months overseas was spent in a fieldhospital in New Zealand .

Maj . Francis H . Turner, '26-'29, OklahomaCity, has been awarded the Bronze Star medal forvalorous service with the Infantry in the Pacifictheater.ON- The Bombardment group to which Lt . JamesE . Fox, '41eng, Norman, is attached as a pilot hasbeen cited for "distinguished and exceptionallyoutstanding performance of duty on 200 missions ."The Liberator group has raided targets in Germany,France, Norway, Holland, Belgium and Poland .Do- Maj . Fred F . White, '38bus, Norman, has beenawarded the Bronze Star medal for meritoriousaction as a Field Artillery officer in Europe .to- Lt . Charles R . Richardson, '40, Noble, hasbeen decorated with an Air Medal for his workas a bombardier on a Liberator over Europe . Herecently returned to the United States after beingstationed in England for five months .

Lt. Kenneth E . Skaggs, '37-'39, Oklahoma City,has been awarded the Distinguished Flying Crossand an Air Medal with an Oak Leaf Cluster forhis work as a B-24 pilot in China. He flew 42missions in that theater. Recently Lieutenant Skaggsreturned to this country and was sent to the AirForces Redistribution Station at Miami Beach,Florida, for re-assignment .

Lt. Stewart W . Clark, '40-'43, Ponca City, hasbeen awarded an Air Medal for his work as pilotof a P-38 plane with the 15th Air Force in Italy .

The fifth, sixth and seventh Oak Leaf Clustershave been added to the Air Medal held by Lt. RalphE. Reiger, '41, Oklahoma City, pilot of a Thunder-bolt fighter with the Ninth Air Force in France .

Lt . Harry Culver, '40-'43, Homestead, Okla-homa, has been decorated with an Air Medal formeritorious achievement as pilot of an Eighth AirForce bomber in attacks against German targetson the western European front .Do- An Oak Leaf Cluster has been added to theAir Medal held by Lt . Robert B . Click, '42-'43,Nowata, for his work as co-pilot of an Eighth AirForce Flying Fortress .

Capt. William E. Hubbard, '41med, Stillwater,has been awarded the Order of the Purple Heartfor wounds received in action December 14 in Ger-many. Captain Hubbard is a battalion surgeon withthe Lightning Division .

The Bronze Star medal has been awarded toMaj . Paul R. Turnbull, '29eng, Hobart, for out-standing work as commander of part of a NinthAir Force Service group from February, 1944, toOctober, 1944 . Major Turnbull's team was re-sponsible for the repair and maintenance of sev-eral squadrons of P-47 Thunderbolts . Major Turn-bull went overseas in August, 1943, and has beenstationed in England and Belgium as well asFrance, where he is now .

Maj . Marvin R . Burditt, '39eng, Maysville, hasbeen awarded the Bronze Star medal for out-standing performance with the Marine Corps inthe Pacific theater. Major Burditt also holds aPresidential Unit Citation .

Lt. James W . Babb, '38-'42, Tulsa, has beenawarded an Air Medal for meritorious achievementas co-pilot of a B-26 with the Ninth Air Forcein France.

Lt. (jg) Elliott C . Fenton, '37law, OklahomaCity, has been decorated with the Bronze Starmedal for meritorious achievement as salvage offi-cer in June, 1944, during the assault and captureof an enemy-held island in the South Pacific . Theaccompanying citation stated in part, "By cool andcapable direction, while exposed to great personaldanger, he made several trips to the reef to rescuewounded men . He then directed the salvage oflanding boats for the transfer of vital cargo to thecombat troops and assisted materially in the workof an assault unit." On duty aboard a transportvessel, Lieutenant Fenton has participated in land-ings on Tarawa, Kwajalein, Saipan, Guam andLeyte .

Lt . Sidney P . Upsher, '41-'43, Oklahoma City,has been awarded the Distinguished Flying Crossfor extraordinary achievement while on a bombrun over an oil refinery in Vienna last November .His B-17 was hit by flak, two of the engines died,and he was forced to leave formation, but was ableto land at a friendly base . Lieutenant Upsher alsoholds an Air Medal with two Oak Leaf Clusters .

An Oak Leaf Cluster has been added to theBronze Star held by Capt . William B . Armstrong,'40geol, Oklahoma City, for meritorious service incombat with a Field Artillery battalion with theFifth Army in Italy .

Maj . James E. Hill, '41-'42, Stillwater, hasbeen awarded the Silver Star and the DistinguishedFlying Cross for heroic work as pilot of a P-47Thunderbolt and a squadron commander with theNinth Air Force . He received the Silver Star fordestroying two German planes and providing su-perb leadership for his squadron after they wereattacked by an enemv squadron outnumberingthem . The D.F.C . was awarded to Major Hill forstrafing and silencing an anti-aircraft battery pro-tecting a German railroad installation, thereby

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making it possible for his squadron to dive-bombthe railroad target with more safety . Major Hillalso holds the Air Medal with four silver Oak LeafClusters and the French Croix de Guerre . He re-cently returned to the United States on a 30-dayleave after flying more than 100 combat missions .

Lt . Pinkney C . Largent, Jr ., '43, Waurika, hasbeen awarded the Air Medal with two Oak LeafClusters for meritorious service as a pilot with aTroop Carrier group in Italy and the Purple Heartfor wounds received in action . Lieutenant Largentwas injured (luring a trip carrying small arms andammunition to Marshal Tito's Partisans in Yugo-slavia last summer . He was co-pilot aboard theC-47, which exploded, throwing him clear, whenit was hit. The only crew member to survive thedisaster, Lieutenant Largent was burned on theright leg. lie wears the caterpillar insignia to showthat his life was saved by a parachute jump . Lieu-tenant Largent has more than 500 hours of opera-tional flying in the Mediterranean area to his credit .I le took part in the Greek and French invasions .Do- Cpl . John M . Andrews, '44, Comanche, hasbeen awarded an Air Medal for his work as a tailturret gunner on a Liberator bomber of the 15thAir Force based in Italy .

Deaths in ServiceLt. Clyde E . Fleming, '266s, Norman, was

killed last September 7 when the Japanese trans-port vessel on which he, along with a group ofAmerican prisoners, was being taken to anotherprison ramp was attacked by an American sub-marine off the western coast of Mindanao . Newsof the sinking was first received last October, butthe War Department did not report LieutenantFleming's death until late February .

Lieutenant Fleming was taken prisoner at Cor-rcgidor, but his family did not learn of his fateuntil May, 1943 . He was held at a prison campon Davao during his imprisonmnet Before hiscapture Lieutenant Fleming was a ground officer inthe Air Force.

Before entering the service Lieutenant Flemingtaught school and coached the football team atAltus . At the University he was a member ofAlpha Pi Mu pre-med fraternity, the Zoology Cluband the football, basketball and wrestling teams .Survivors include his parents, Mr . and Mrs . C . C .Fleming, Norman, his wife, the former HazelWhitwell, '27ed, Oklahoma City, and four sisters,Katherine Fleming, '24nurse, superintendent ofnurses at Ellison Infirmary, Mrs . Rosalee Pettit,'30-'36, Wichita, Kansas, Mrs . H . F . Wells, Mani-tou, Oklahoma, and Mrs. Juanita Bartlett, '30-'33,El Reno.No- Lt . Donald Manley, '38-'42, orange, Texas, waskilled in action in Germany on January 1 . He wasup in a Piper Cub as an aerial observer for theArtillery of the Third Army, when he was shotdown by German fighter planes . Lieutenant Manleyhad been on more than 100 flights as observer andheld the Air Medal with an Oak Leaf Cluster. Atthe University he was a student in the College ofEngineering . Survivors include his parents, Mr.and Mrs . R . S . Manley, Orange, and several broth-ers in the service.

Arnold Meckenberg, '42-'43, Brooklyn, NewYork, was killed in action last September 28 inItaly, when a shell exploded near the foxhole hewas in . An Infantryman, he was given the orderof the Purple Heart posthumously. Mr . Mecken-berg entered the service in June, 1943, at Fort Dix,New Jersey, and went overseas a year later. AtO . U . Mr . Meckenberg was a freshman in the Uni-versity College . Survivors include his parents, Mr .and Mrs . Philip Meckenberg, and a sister, Rita, ofBrooklyn .No- Pvt. Paul E. Estill, Jr ., '41, Tulsa, previouslyreported missing in action, died on February 2in a German prison camp as a result of woundsreceived in action . Private Estill was first reportedmissing in the Strasbourg area as of December 21 .He went overseas last October with an Armoreddivision, and had been serving as interpreter forhis group . At the University Private Estill was astudent in the College of Arts and Sciences anda member of Sigma Chi fraternity . Survivors in-

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clude his parents, Mr. and Mrs . Paul Estill, Tulsa .DO- Lt. Geraldine Crouch, '41nurse, McAlester, waskilled in an airplane crash in Italy on October 14while returning from a leave. She was surgical nurseat a base hospital in Italy . Lieutenant Crouch en-tered the Army Nurse Corps in January, 1942, andwas stationed at Camp Wallace, Texas, until shewent overseas in December, 1942 . She was inNorth Africa almost a year before going to Italy .Lieutenant Crouch was a member of the Okla-homa State Nurses Association . Survivors includeher father, Eugene D . Crouch, McAlester, three sis-ters and four brothers.lo- Sgt. Norman Sutliff, '41, Blackwell, was killedin action in Europe on January 18 . He was aliaison pilot with the Third Army. Sergeant Sut-liff was a brother of Capt. Don Sutliff, '37-'40, whois missing in action with the Air Force in theSouth Pacific . He had been in the service for twoyears . Survivors include his parents, Mr . and Mrs .C . L . Sutliff, Blackwell .

Staff Sgt. George J . Bookless, '40-'41, Tyrone,Oklahoma, was killed in action in Belgium on De-cember 18 . He had previously been reported miss-ing . Sergeant Bookless entered the service in De-cember, 1942, and went overseas in October, 1943 .He went first to Ireland, then to England, and intoFrance at the time of the invasion . While attendingthe University Sergeant Bookless was a student inthe College of Education. Survivors include hisparents, Mr. and Mrs . George S . Bookless, wholive southwest of Liberal, Kansas .

The Alumni Office recently learned of thedeath on January 14, 1944, of Lt . John S. Cook,'39-'41, Breckenridge, Texas, in an airplane crashat Pampa, Texas . He was an engineering studentin the University and a member of Kappa Sigmafraternity . Survivors include his wife and babyson, born after his death, who live at Breckenridge .

Sgt. Robert A . Maher, '43, Oklahoma City, waskilled in action with the Air Force in England onJanuary 16. He was a ball turret gunner on a Fly-ing Fortress and had been awarded the Air Medalshortly before his death . At O. U . Sergeant Maherwas a freshman in the University College . Sur-vivors include his parents, Mr . and Mrs . MikeMaher, Oklahoma City .

Lt. John E . Sarles, '41ms, Norwood, Ohio, waskilled in action off the Palau Islands in the SouthPacific last August 28 . He was a pilot attached tothe 13th Bomber Command . Lieutenant Sarles wentoverseas late in 1943 with a Reconnaissance squad-ron . At the University he was employed as a gradu-ate assistant in biology and was a member of SigmaGamma Epsilon and Phi Sigma biological fra-ternities. Survivors include his parents, Mr. andMrs . Edgar H . Sarles, his wife, Mrs . Bernice Sarles,and a daughter, Judith Ann, all of Norwood .

Cpl . Ernest G . Shephard, '42, Purcell, waskilled in a railroad accident at St. Valery en Craux,France, on January 17 . lie was a member of theCorps of Engineers . Before entering the serviceCorporal Shephard was an employee of the SantaFe Railway Company. At the University he was astudent in the College of Engineering. Survivorsinclude his mother, Mrs . Berdie Shephard, Purcell .Mo- Maj. Richard W . Aust, '28bus, Chickasha, diedon February 12 somewhere in France of a heartattack . He was buried in a Paris cemetery the fol-lowing (lay . Major Aust, an Infantry officer, ar-rived in France on February 1, going overseas afterhe had trained at Fort Benning, Georgia, CampRobinson, Arkansas, and Camp Maxey, Texas . Be-fore entering the service, Major Aust was assistantsecretary and treasurer of the Chickasha CottonOil Company . He was a member of Sigma AlphaEpsilon fraternity. Survivors include his parents,Mr. and Mrs . J . T . Aust, his wife, and a daughter,all of Chickasha .

The Alumni office has just learned of the deathon August 29, 1941, of Lt . John J . Mitchell, '40,Pawhuska . He was killed in the collision of twoplanes near March Field, California . LieutenantMitchell received his commission in the Air Forceat Brooks Field, Texas, in July, 1941, and wasassigned to a Pursuit squadron at March Field .At the University he was a student in the Schoolof Law . Survivors include his father, Joseph D .Mitchell, Pawhuska, and a brother, Dr . Joseph D .Mitchell, '36bs, Dallas, Texas .

Lt. Charles L . Mathis, '41, Oklahoma City, wasone of the American prisoners killed when theJapanese transport they were aboard was attackedby an American submarine last September 7 off

WADDY AND CREW OF MISSING B-29This photograph of Capt . Waddy Young, '40, (front row, center) and members of his B-29crew was taken shortly before the group left the U. S. for the Pacific theater. Captain Young,one of the greatest 0. U. football players of all time, and the crew failed to return from a raidon Tokyo on January 9 and have been listed as missing in action by the War Department .Their Superfortress was based on Saipan . The All-America football star had previously served

a tour of duty as pilot of a bomber over Europe.

the coast of Mindanao Island in the Philippines.Lieutenant Mathis, a member of the Air Force, wasofficially reported missing in action after the fallof Corregidor and reported a prisoner of the Japa-nese in May, 1943 . He was a student in the Collegeof Arts and Sciences at the University, and alsoattended the University of Missouri at Columbia.Survivors include his parents, Mr . and Mrs . CharlesMathis, Oklahoma City .Bo- Lt . Leonard C . B . Jenks, '36ed, Oklahoma City,a prisoner of the Japanese since the fall of Cor-regidor, was killed when the Japanese freighteron which he was being transported to anotherprison camp was torpedoed by an American sub-marine last September 7 off Mindanao Island in thePhilippines . Lieutenant Jenks, who entered theArmy in April, 1941, went to the Philippine Is-lands in August of that year . Before going intoservice he was an officer with the Civilian Con-servation Corps . Survivors include his parents,Mr . and Mrs. John C. Jenks, Oklahoma City .

Lt. Col . Alfred C . Frampton, Jr., '36eng, Sa-pulpa, was killed in the crash of an AmericanAirlines passenger plane near Cedar Springs, Vir-ginia, on February 23 . Seventeen persons died inthe crash . Colonel Frampton had recently returnedto the United States from England, where he wasstationed for two years as an Ordnance officer withthe Eighth Air Force . Upon his return to this coun-try he was assigned to duty at Aberdeen, Maryland .Presumably he was on an official business trip at thetime of his death . Before entering the service inMarch, 1942, Colonel Frampton was a mechanicalengineer in Tulsa . At the University he was amember of Sigma Tau engineering fraternity, Scab-bard and Blade, Tau Omega aviation fraternity,the American Society of Mechanical Engineers, RufNeks and Bombardiers. Survivors include his par-ents, Dr . and Mrs. A . C. Frampton, his wife, andthree children, all of Sapulpa .

Lt. Robert D. Bass, '39-'43, Enid, was killedin action on February 7 in western Germany . Hewas with a Combat Engineers unit of the FirstArmy and had been overseas since last September .At the University Lieutenant Bass was a student ofpetroleum engineering and a member of Phi DeltaTheta fraternity . Survivors include his parents, Mr .and Mrs . Henry B . Bass, Enid, and a sister, Barbara,a sophomore in the University .Do- Lt . Cecil Dorsett, '39law, Norman, reportedmissing on February 29, 1944, on a flight to Rey-kjavik, Iceland, must be presumed to be dead, theWar Department has announced . Lieutenant Dor-sett was ferrying a Liberator bomber for the RoyalAir Force as a member of the United States AirTransport Command . He was on detached dutyfrom the New Castle Army Air Base at Wilming-ton, Delaware, and had made many flights overthe North Atlantic delivering bombers since join-ing the A.T.C. in February, 1942 . Before enteringthe service Lieutenant Dorsett practiced law inNorman . Survivors include his parents, Ralph D .Dorsett, '29ba, '32ma, assistant professor of mathe-matics at the University, and Mrs . Dorsett (DollieGriffeth, '326a), his wife, Mrs. Phila Furry Dorsett,'36lib.sci, '39law, Wilmington, Delaware, a sister,Mrs . Rosella Scott, '346a, and two brothers, Capt .Loyd G . Dorsett, '376a, '38eng, and Harold Dorsett,'40 .10- Pfc. Merrell C . Richardson, '42-'43, Beaumont,Texas, has been reported killed in action on Janu-ary 10 by the War Department . No further detailshave been released . He was known to be fightingwith an Infantry unit of the First Army in Europe .Private Richardson was a student in the Collegeof Arts and Sciences at the University . Survivorsinclude his parents, Mr . and Mrs. O . D . Richard-son, Beaumont .

Harold E . Wiley, Jr ., '43, Ponca City, sound-man third class in the Navy, died on February 19at the Naval Hospital in Brooklyn, New York . Mr.Wiley was injured in England last August and re-turned to this country for hospitalization. He wasa patient in Navy hospitals at Fishers Island, NewYork, New London, Connecticut, and Newport,Rhode Island, before entering the Brooklyn hos-pital . Mr . Wiley was a student in the Naval V-l2College Training Unit at the University . Survivors

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include his parents, Mr . and Mrs . H . E . Wiley,and a sister, Betty Jane, all of Ponca City .

Details of the death of Ensign John M . Law-rence, Jr ., '41-'44, Oklahoma City, the first gradu-ate of the University Naval R.O .T .C . to be killedin action, have been received in the Alumni Office .Ensign Lawrence was killed on December 13 by aJapanese suicide bomber while serving aboard adestroyer off the Island of Negros, in the Philip-pines . He was buried at Tacloban on the islandof Leyte the following day.

Missing in ActionLt . Granville H . Walling, '38-'39, Altamont,

Illinois, has been missing in action with the AirForce in the Southwest Pacific since December 18 .

The Alumni Office urgently re-quests the co-operation of all alumniin securing as complete data as pos-sible on University casualties of thistear. If you have any informationabout a Sooner who has died in ser-vice, is missing in action or a prisonerof the enemy, please send all the factsyou have IMMEDIATELY to WarRecords Secretary, Alumni Office,University of Oklahoma .

Lieutenant Walling was commander of the Super-fortress "Dixie Darling," which took off from aSaipan base on that date to bomb Nagoya, Japan .It has been officially reported that his plane leftthe formation on the way to the target, and headedback to Saipan . However it failed to reach thebase, and no trace of it has been found .

Pfc . Milton E . May, '41-'42, Fort Towson, hasbeen missing in action in Belgium since last De-cember 18 . Private May was attached to an In-fantry Cannon company . His wife lives in Waco,Texas .

Pfc . Frank C . Nonnamaker, '42-'43, Ponca City,has been missing in action with the Infantry inFrance since January 29 . Private Nonnamakerwent overseas last October.

Pfc. Clinton A . Sayles, '40-'41, Ponca City, hasbeen missing in action in France since January 9 .Private Sayles was an Infantryman with the Sev-enth Army.

Copt. Eldon F. Bowers, '41eng, Drumright, hasbeen missing in action with the Field Artilleryin Luxembourg since December 19 .

Lt . Sam Royse, '39-'42, Elk City, has beenmissing in action in China since February 3 . Pilotof a Liberator bomber, he had been in the Chinesetheater since last July and had completed approxi-mately 35 missions .

Sgt. Elbert L . Hoffman, '44, Oklahoma City,has been missing in action in Germany since De-cember 16 . He was with an Infantry regiment inthe Ardennes drive near St . Vith .

Lt. Richard C. Prater, '40-'43, Hobart, hasbeen missing in action over Japan since January 18 .He was co-pilot of a bomber attached to the jollyRoger Bombardment group.No- Pfc . Pleasant V . Furgason, '40-'43, Buffalo, hasbeen missing in action in Belgium since January27. Private Furgason's wife, Mrs . Theda E . Furga-son, is living in Laverne, Oklahoma .

Lt . Leonard A . Wall, '40=42, Dombey, Okla-homa, co-pilot of a bomber with the Eighth AirForce, has been missing in action over Germanysince February 3 . His wife lives in Newton, Kansas .

Pvt . William N. Childers, '44, Tipton, hasbeen missing in action with the Infantry in Bel-gium since December 18 . Private Childers isthought to have been fighting right in the sectorwhere the German breakthrough came.Do- Lt. (jg) Douglas Baker, '42, Lindsay, is missingin action with the Naval Air Force in the Philip-pines . Lieutenant Baker is credited with shootingdown four Japanese planes .

Capt. Walter R . Lamb, '30-'34, Enid, of the

Field Artillery, has been missing in action in Bel-gium since December 21 . Before entering the ser-vice in January, 1940, Captain Lamb was con-nected with the federal Soil Conservation Servicein Chickasha .

Lt. Walden Howard, '40, Seminole, pilot of aP-51 Mustang, is missing in action over Germany .He went overseas last November.

Prisoners of WarUnofficial word has been received that Maj .

William F . Prickett, '376a, Waco, Texas, MarineCorps officer who has been a prisoner of the Japa-nese since the fall of Corregidor, has been evacu-ated to Japan . He was known to be a prisoner inCamp No. 2 at Davao . On February 19 his familyreceived a form card from him sent from theDavao camp, but it bore no date .

Capt. James B . Fishburn, '41, Norman, is aprisoner of war of the German government . Hewas previously reported missing in action as ofDecember 23, when he failed to return from afighter mission over Germany . Captain Fishburnis the brother of Lt. Junius Fishburn, '42journ,Camp Howze, Texas .

Lt . Norval L. Covington, '43, Oklahoma City,is a prisoner of war in Germany . Co-pilot of a B-17stationed in England, Lieutenant Covington failedto return from a raid over Germany on Decem-ber 5 .

Pfc . Robert A . Wilson, '42-'43, Shawnee, whowas reported missing in action since December 18,is a prisoner of the Germans at a prison campat Hammelburg, Bavaria . He went overseas withan Infantry unit last October and was fightingwith the First Army . Two cards from him havebeen received by his family since he was imprisoned .

Lt . Henry W . Murdoch, '41, Oklahoma City,is a prisoner of war in Stalag Luft No . 1 in Ger-many. Pilot of a B-17 with the Eighth Air Force,he was shot down on a mission over Germany onMarch 23, 1944 . Three' of his crew were killed,three were wounded, and four, including himself,were not hurt .

Flying Officer George S . Coleman, '39-'41, Cal-gary, Alberta, Canada, is a prisoner of the Germangovernment in Stalag Luft No . 3, having been shotdown on April 25, 1944, near Karlsruhe . He wasnavigator on a Halifax bomber of the Royal Ca-nadian Air Force.lo- Lt. Robert O. Douglas, '38-'39, Tulsa, missingin action over Holland since September 17, is aprisoner of war in Germany . Lieutenant Douglaswas an Army Air Force pilot .

Staff Sgt . Simon B . Spradlin, Jr ., '39-'41, Nor-man, member of the Army Air Force, is a prisonerof the German government at Stalag Luft No . 4in Germany .

Injured in ServiceAndrew M . Price, '32-'37, Temple, electrician's

mate first class who was injured in an accident inthe South Pacific, was a patient in the Naval Hos-pital at Oakland, California . Mr. Price was up ina cocoanut tree installing some wiring when thetree broke off 15 feet above the ground . He wastastened to the top of the tree with a safety beltand fell into a foxhole with the tree landing acrossthe hole, thus saving his life.

The name of Lt. George K. Massad, '42bus,Oklahoma City, was on a list released by the WarDepartment February 25 of those wounded in ac-tion in the European area . Lieutenant Massad is aField Artillery officer.I" Cpl . Tom Henthorne, '40-'41, Tulsa, was apatient in an English hospital being treated forbattle exhaustion and shell wounds in both hands .Corporal Henthorne was with an Infantry unit inEurope . After his release from the hospital, he ex-pects to be assigned to limited duty in England .

Lt . (jg) John A. McIntyre, '44med, Tyron,Oklahoma, was injured on December 28 in thePhilippine Islands, where he was serving as doctoraboard an LST . He was returned to the Naval Hos-pital at Treasure Island, San Francisco, California,for treatment and is now almost fully recovered .

Lt . Harry G . Fender, '37-'41, Stroud, was re-turned to the United States and sent to McCloskey

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General Hospital at Temple, Texas, for treatmentof head and leg wounds received in Germany lastNovember 22 .

Rudolph F. Carney, '42-'43, Quinton, Okla-homa, pharmacist's mate third class, was woundedin action during the Palau invasion in the SouthPacific last September 15 .No- Lt . Fred A . Huston, '43, Oklahoma City, hold-er of an Air Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters,has been wounded in action in the European the-ater . His name was included on a February 14casualty list.

Pvt. John M. Hall, Jr ., '43, Tulsa, was woundedwhile fighting in Belgium . He arrived in Belgiumon January 1 .No- Staff Sgt . Eugene P . Burtner, '43, Fort Worth,Texas, was injured in action with the Infantryin France on January 5 and was in a hospital un-dergoing treatment for his wounds .0-- Lt. Col . Merton E. Munson, '31law, Lawton,was a patient in an English hospital, recoveringfrom a shell wound received in action in Germanywith the Field Artillery .No- Lt . Logan D . Campbell, Jr ., '43, Duncan, waswounded in action in Belgium on January 5 . He re-ceived a bullet wound in his hand . On February 1Lieutenant Campbell returned to duty with theParachute Infantry company .Do- Lt. Virgil T . Hill, '41-'43, Canute, Oklahoma,was recovering in a European hospital fromwounds received in the "battle of the Belgianbulge" shortly after Christmas .

Pfc . Carl Combs, '41, Davenport, has beenwounded twice in action with the Infantry in Bel-gium, once on December 18 and again on Janu-ary 15 .

Lt. Foy Rice, '40, Norman, an Infantry para-trooper, was injured in the face and right armshortly after entering Holland with the Allied in-vasion forces . He was injured near Nijmegen.IN- Pfc . Bob C. Burton, '42-'43, Tulsa, was in ahospital in Paris being treated for badly frostbittenfeet which he received in Belgium early in Febru-ary.

Maj . Alfred H . Bungardt, '39med, OklahomaCity, was wounded in action in the Southwest Pa-cific on October 25, but has now recuperated . Heis a Medical officer with the Sixth Army .

Capt. Jack Riddle, '41law, Norman, MarineCorps officer who was wounded on Saipan, is apatient in the Navy Hospital at Norman .No- Lt . (jg) D . Ross Bell, '376us, Oklahoma City,member of the Coast Guard, has been wounded inaction in the South Pacific . Lieutenant Bell com-mands a freight and personnel transport ship, andhas been in the Pacific area for more than I1months . He formerly was on duty in the NorthAtlantic .Back From BattlefrontsCapt. Richard Roys, '39med, Norman, has re-

turned to the United States after serving with theMedical Corps in the South Pacific for three years .Captain Roys entered the service in 1941 at Se-attle, Washington, where he was practicing medi-cine, and was sent first to Australia as commanderof a Medical battalion . Later he saw service atNew Guinea, Hollandia and Biak . Captain Roysholds the Silver Star, the Bronze Star and a Presi-dential Unit Citation . He expected to be stationedin this country at the end of his leave and a restperiod at Hot Springs, Arkansas . Mrs . Roys, theformer Ruth Shannon, '36ed, was secretary to thecounselor of women at the University during Cap-tain Roys' absence overseas .

George Bloch, '44eng, Tulsa, warrant officerin the Maritime Service, visited on the campuslast month while home on a short leave . Sinceentering the Merchant Marine as an engineeringofficer he has visited numerous ports in the SouthPacific and the Orient.00- Lt. Frank Crider, '306a, freshman footballcoach on leave of absence, has returned to theUnited States from foreign duty with the Navyand was stationed at the Navy base at Astoria,Oregon .

Staff Sgt . Michael Samordic, '41ba, Lacka-wanna, New York, has returned to the UnitedStates after flying five missions as a weather ob-

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server on a B-24 in the Southwest Pacific . He wasassigned to the Air Forces Redistribution Stationat Miami Beach for re-assignment processing.Now Capt . Howard P. Rice, '40m .ed, Norman, washome on a 30-day leave after taking part in fivecampaigns with the 45th Division in 19 months .He was in action as a Field Artillery battery com-mander in the campaigns of Africa, Sicily, Salerno,Anzio and Southern France .Do- Lt. Floyd P . Hurry, '35geol, Naval Reserve offi-cer from Oklahoma City, was home on a 30-dayleave after being stationed for more than 20 monthsin Australia . He was secretary to the commandingofficer of a task force and spent the greater partof his time in Australia near Brisbane . Upon theconclusion of his leave Lieutenant Hurry was toreport to New London, Connecticut .10- Lt. Amos C . Poynor, '33, Enid, has returnedto the Armed Guard Center at New Orleans afterparticipating in the invasion of Leyte as commanderof the Navy gun crew aboard a Liberty ship . Whileunloading cargo at Leyte, Lieutenant Poynor's shipwas attacked 35 times by Japanese bombers . Navygunners knocked down three enemy planes .No- Lt . (jg) Charles Titus, '43bus, Borger, Texas,visited in Norman last month while on leave fromhis Navy post in San Diego, California . LieutenantTitus recently returned from the South Pacific,where he spent 17 months aboard ship and at islandbases .

Pvt. Robert W . Barbour, '41, Norman, who wasinjured while fighting with a Cavalry unit onLeyte last November, is a patient in Borden Gen-eral Hospital, Chickasha . He was evacuated byplane to the United States early in February afterbeing treated in hospitals in the Southwest Pacific .

Lt . John E. Coenen, '41, Okmulgee, was apatient in the Air Force Regional Hospital at DrewField, Tampa, Florida, and expected to receive amedical discharge soon . Lieutenant Coenen receiveda bad back injury in April, 1943, when he para-chuted out of his spinning P-47 onto an Englishhillside . After spending several months in the hos-pital he returned to service and shot down twoNazi planes before his back injury forced him toquit flying . Lieutenant Coenen holds an Air Medalwith two Oak Leaf Clusters .

Capt. Lloyd H . Alford, '39ed, Purcell, was backin the United States after being stationed for ninemonths in the China-Burma-India theater with theAir Force .

Capt . Herbert D. Miller, '41eng, Oklahoma City,spent a month's furlough at home after leavingthe Army hospital at Modesto, California, wherehe was sent after being wounded in action in theEuropean theater of war .

Lt . Col . Russell Hunt, '27-'29, Tulsa, has re-turned from two years of service in the Africanand European theaters of war to Washington, D . C .,where he is on duty in the judge Advocate Gen-eral's Department.

Staff Sgt. Earl F. Perry, '42, Tulsa, has re-turned to this country after serving for 18 monthswith the Marine Corps in the South Pacific andseeing action on Guadalcanal and Saipan . Injuredin the back and left leg, he holds a Presidential

Teacher Freed in ManilaHelen Boyle, '276a, Oklahoma City, for

many years an Episcopalian mission teacher inJapan, was among the prisoners of war re-leased by American forces from Santo TomasUniversity prison, Manila, in February . MissBoyle, who has not been in the United Statessince 1938, was an instructor in an Episco-pal mission in Sendai, Japan, for ten years . Ayear before the war broke out, she went toManila where she was eventually taken prison-er by the Japanese . Among her rescuers wasLt . Charles McPherren, son of Mrs . MargaretJohnston McPherren, who attended schoolwith Miss Boyle . Notification of her releasewas sent to her brother and sister-in-law, DonBoyle and Mrs . Boyle (Helen Gustin, '19)Oklahoma City .

Citation. Sergeant Perry was stationed at the Ma-rine Corps Air Base at San Diego, California .

Lt . Everett F. Goins, '356a, formerly of Oak-land and Fresno, California, was stationed in SanFrancisco after serving overseas for 18 months .He participated in the landings at Salerno, Anzioand Southern France as beachmaster . In San Fran-cisco he is attached to the Port Director's Officeas boarding officer . With Lieutenant Goins in SanFrancisco are Mrs . Goins and their small daughter,Judith Lynn .

Capt. Fain H . Pool, '40bus, Lawton, bomberpilot who went overseas in April, 1944, returnedto the United States and was sent to the Air ForcesRedistribution Station at Miami, Florida, for restand re-assignment . Captain Pool holds the Distin-guished Flying Cross and an Air Medal with fourOak Leaf Clusters.00- Lt. Loyl Skinner, '39-'41, Norman, has re-turned to the United States after flying 71 mis-sions with the Air Force in the European theater,and was stationed at the Army Air Field at Char-lotte, North Carolina, as a flight instructor .

PromotionsE . H . Harrelson, '32ba, Oklahoma City, and

Everett G . King, '33med, Duncan, have been pro-moted to the rank of full colonel . Colonel

Harrol-son, formerC.C.C. official,isaG-5officer over-seas, and Colonel King, former Duncan physician,is with the Medical Corps in the Pacific.

Recently promoted to lieutenant colonel wereJames H. Ross, '23-'24, Oklahoma City, with theJudge Advocate General's Department in Wash-ington, D . C . ; William J. Kennedy,

'34-'35, Okla-'35,-Okla-homa City,overseas with theAir Force;Joe T.Dickerson, '21law, Tulsa, overseas with the AirForce, and A. D . Arnold, '37eng, former engineerwith an oil company in Bolivar, Venezuela, nowan Army engineer with an Air Force unit in thePacific .Alumni recently advanced to the rank of major

include the following : Cecil I. Craft, '32eng, NorthPlatte, Nebraska, overseas with an Air Servicegroup ; Thomas F. Thompson, '34eng, Vinita, onduty with the Artillery at Memphis, Tennessee ;Ed Hays, '34bus, Tulsa, recently home on leaveafter being stationed in Anchorage, Alaska, for32 months ; Gerald H . Galbreath, Jr ., '40law, Tul-sa, with the Field Artillery in Europe ; Elgin 1' .Fuller, '30law, Hannibal, Missouri, on duty at theQuartermaster Depot in Kansas City, Missouri ; J .R . McBrayer, Jr., '386us, Oklahoma City, AirForce administrative officer in England ; George A .Inglis, '386us, Norman, Quartermaster officer withthe Fifth Army .Marcus M . Ravitch, '306a, New York City, over-

seas with the Medical Corps ; R . R . Martin, '376us,Greeley, Colorado, overseas with a Tank Destroyerbattalion ; William A . Black, '42, Oklahoma City,overseas with the Troop Carrier Command ; SidE . Cockrell, Jr ., '38bus, Tulsa, and Floyd Graham,'29, Oklahoma City. Major Cockrell, former aideto Maj . Gen . William S . Key, was home on leavefrom Iceland recently, and was to return there atthe end of his leave. He has accompanied GeneralKey on several trips over the Arctic Circle andon an inspection trip to Cherbourg, France . MajorGraham is executive officer of the Fighter groupin the Philippines which General MacArthur said"has set a record for the destruction of enemyplanes which I believe is unsurpassed by anygroup of fighters in the war."

Those promoted to captain are as follows : PaulF. Smith, '41med, Guthrie, Fort Lewis, Washing-ton ; Robert W . Larson, '35-'37, Chickasha, over-seas ; Lloyd G . McCraw, '36-'40, Norman, at theSpringfield Armory, Springfield, Massachusetts ;John R. Whitney, '27law, Oklahoma City, withthe Quartermaster Corps in Washington, D. C . ;James A . Close, '41eng, Norman, with the AirForce at Kearney, Nebraska ; Robert T. Morgan,'42, Walters, Love Field, Dallas, Texas ; Henry W.Reaves, '41bus, Norman, with the Field Artilleryin the Pacific theater .Henry H. Johnson, '39bus, Boise City, at a Re-

placement Depot in the South Pacific ; Harry B .Musser, '42, Enid, overseas with the Ordnance ;

GLOWINc, reviews from all over the country whichcollected last month in the University of Okla-homa Press offices in Norman gave high praise toAlice Marriott's new book The Ten Grandmothers.

All the reviewers agreed that the work, releasedas the twenty-sixth volume in the Civilization ofthe American Indian series, is an excellent studyand a noteworthy contribution to its field . Par-ticular mention was made of Miss Marriott's abil-ity to write in moving dramatic style, and hersympathetic understanding of the Kiowa life .

Miss Marriott, '356a, a noted ethnologist now ageneral field representative for the American RedCross, lived for two summers with the Kiowas anddevoted more than eight years to preparation forwriting The Ten Grandmothers .One chapter of the book was reprinted in a re-

cent issue of Harper's Magazine . To give an ideaof how the book fared in the hands of the critics,the following extracts were pulled at random froma few of the reviews which have already appeared :

Chicago Sun: Once in a blue moon (which meansa fairly long cycle in my case), one who (teals pro-fessionally with new books comes upon somethingthat seems to him truly noteworthy and memorable:I reading experience which he will cherish forthe rest of his life . And when this book is originaland, Indeed, unique-when it achieves somethingthat has never been clone before-one's impulse isto rent a billboard, to hire a hall, in some way tounderline and emphasize the excitement and en-thusiasm of his discovery, so that other readersmay share his pleasure . This has been my experi-ence with The Ten Grandmothers by Alice Marriott .

. . Miss Marriott is an ethnologist . Her book isbased on eight years of work with the Kiowas-work that certainly consisted of much more thansuperficial interviews with aged Indians . There isevidence everywhere, not only of accurate scientific

John B . Doolin, '42law, Alva, Field Artillery offi-cer in a hospital overseas ; Clifford H . LeHew, '33,Pawncc, member of a Medical detachment at 45thI Division Artillery headquarters ; Robert R . Council,'36ed, Wichita, Kansas, with the Air Force atBryan, Texas : Harry R . DcVinna, '38-'41, Ok-mulgee, on foreign duty with an Engineers Boatand Shore regiment, and Edgar Nicholson, '37-'42,Wirt, overseas with the Field Artillery .Alumni recently advanced to first lieutenant are

as follows : J . Emerson Titus, '436a, OklahomaCitv, overseas with the Field Artillery ; Robert H .West, '43journ, Idabel, with the Field Artilleryin Germany ; William H . Tabb, '416a, Altus, navi-gator of an Eighth Air Force Flying Fortress ; Rob-ert N . Starr, '43bus, Oklahoma City, overseas asa Field Artillery liaison pilot, and C . EdwardPetty, '42ba, '43ma, Norman, U . S . Army liaisonofficer with the French First Army . LieutenantPetty was recently in a meeting on official businesswith a group of officers including Capt. George S .Brown, '426s, Norman, Maj . Robert J . Casey, '39bus, Oklahoma City, Maj . Herbert T. Hope, '42law,Maysville, and Gen . Paul V . Kane, former com-mandant of the University R.O.T.C . unit .

Sidney Williams, '43geol, Norman, has beenpromoted to first lieutenant, and Wilson Hervey,'37-'40, Norman, has been promoted to technicalsergeant. Both are with the Marine Corps in thePacific.

Fisher Ames, '30law, Oklahoma City, Navalofficer on duty in New Orleans, has been promotedto commander . Wallace E . Robertson, '22ba, Okla-homa City, who recently left for foreign service,has been promoted to lieutenant commander .

Richard M . McCool, Jr ., '41ba, Norman, com-mandcr of an LCS in the Pacific, has been givena temporary promotion from ensign to lieutenantsenior grade . Lieutenant McCool graduated from

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Oklahoma Booksknowledge of the material to be presented, but ofprofound human insight and understanding. MissMarriott is also a creative artist of extraordinarypowers . Her book has abundant humor, dramaand melodrama, beauty and sordidness, pathos andtragedy : all presented sharply, objectively, witheconomy, restraint and dignity . . . .The great achievement of Miss Marriott's book

is that it makes accessible to the reader of todaythe essence of a culture, a way of life and thought,now almost vanished from the earth . We have anuneasy feeling that some special meaning andvalue for Americans of today and tomorrow mustlie in the older cultures of our continent whichour own has so largely displaced . American writersfrom Longfellow on have tried with varying de-grees of success to capture that meaning for us .Miss Marriott's book shows that our feeling wasjustified .-John T . Frederick .

Christian Science Monitor : This book has amighty impact of almost Homeric beauty andwonder, tragedy, and bravery . . . . These are realpeople . Through their pitiful human failings, theirfaith and courage in the face of clanger, their oftenstaunch virtues, all so comparable to those of thewhite man, does this book carry conviction .-Mar-garet Williamson .New York Times: One of the most useful quali-

ties of The Ten Grandmothers is its sharp cleavagefrom the two most common Indian myths : that ofthe noble red man and that of the sneaking varmint,good only when dead . The Kiowas were neither,just primitive people . Many of them were kindly,hospitable and brave ; some were cruel and treacher-ous. All of them were understandably human andseem so in Miss Marriott's rendering of their owninteresting, dramatic and touching stories . Thisis a distinguished book .-Orville Prescott .

the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland, lastyear .The following have been promoted to lieutenant

junior grade : Kenneth 1 . Jung, '36bus, Okarche,on sea duty ; Woodrow G. Doak, '386us, '40m .bus,Kiowa, at Camp Bradford, Norfolk, Virginia ; Wil-liam A . Richards, '41bus, Okmulgee, on sea duty ;Bill J . Graheck, '42arch, '42eng, Norman, at theNaval Supply Depot, Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania ;L . D . Gassett, '43eng, Webb City, at the NavalAuxiliary Air Station, San Clemente Island, SanDiego, California ; Harriet Hicks, '36journ, Okla-homa City, a WAVE on duty at Camp Lejcune,North Carolina .

William R . Pratt, '41eng, Perry, on duty in theBureau of Ordnance at the Navy Department,Washington, D. C . ; James F . Summers, '42bs,Okemah, with a Motor Torpedo Boat squadron inthe Southwest Pacific ; William G. Henderson, '42eng, Norman, on active duty with the Seabees ;Vance H. Weldon, '38-'39, Mountain View, at theNaval Air Station, Beaufort, South Carolina, andRobert R . Evans, '43eng, Norman, on foreign duty.

R . W. Delaney, '30, Tulsa, on duty in the Pa-cific with a Naval Construction battalion, has beenpromoted to warrant officer.

Around the WorldPfc . Gerald F. Gardner, '37law, Norman, earlier

reported missing as of December 16, has beenreported safe and back with his unit by the WarDepartment. Private Gardner is with a fightingoutfit in Germany .

Lt . Col . Edward F. Hubbard, '386us, Fred-crick, has been appointed commander of a Bom-bardment group of the Second Air Division of theEighth Air Force in England .

In a recent letter to the Alumni Office Capt .Leland Gourley, '40, Norman, on duty at 94th

Division Artillery headquarters, told of a battleincident involving himself and two other Sooners,which he called a "Sooner triple play ." His ac-count ran as follows :

"Lt. Charley Wright, '42, Oklahoma City, wasup in one of our observation planes as an Artilleryair observer when he radioed me at the Fire Di-rection Center that he had spotted four Nazi tanksheaded for our lines. I happened to be runningthe Fire Direction Center at that time and I calledon Lt . Clyde Fisher, '426a, Blackwell, who was aliaison officer to our headquarters, to give us sonicfire from his outfit on the target .

"This he did, and the first round landed 50 yardsfrom the tanks so we let them have it with every-thing. A few hours later, a battalion executivecalled us up to ask 'who fired that mission on thetanks?' It happened that the Infantry had justasked him to place fire on these same tanks andas he was getting ready to call the battalion therounds started landing right in the middle of theKraut armor which was firing on our Infantry . Ourdoughboys said 'that was the fastest service we evergot from our Artillery .' "The first company to enter Muenchen-Gladbach,

the Rhine industrial city taken by the Allies earlyin March, was led by Lt . Frank Bishop, '40bus,Norman, Infantry officer . The Associated Press re-ported that soldiers marched afoot more than 20miles without armored support to enter the out-skirts of the city.

Lt . E liner H . Gish,'42ed, Weslaco, Texas,

isin a hospital in the Southwest Pacific, ill with atropical disease . He was formerly commander ofa Field Artillery battery in the Philippines . At thehospital in which he is a patient, Lew Ayres, for-mer motion picture star, is assistant to the chaplainand plays the organ at worship services . Lieuten-ant Gish is anxious to receive letters from hisfriends . His address is : Hq . Btry ., 139th F.A . Bn .,A .P .O . 38, c/o Postmaster, San Francisco, Cali-fornia .

In a recent letter to his parents, Lt. John Hill,'38-'43, formerly of Norman, told the story of hissecond raid as a navigator on a B-24 based in Italy .Bail weather was encountered on the raid, andthe squadron started on its homeward course anhour behind schedule. The following is an excerptfrom Lieutenant Hill's letter describing the journeyhome ."When we get out over the Adriatic we find we

are going to have to sweat out our gas supply . Oneplane goes clown in the middle of the Sea . Justas the coast is becoming visible, the plane ahead ofus falls, nearly clipping up . It was LieutenantSparks . He feathered the three dead props andmade a successful ditching, bringing her downjust in front of a convoy."We had just avoided Lieutenant Sparks when

our number three cuts out . Foran (the engineer)is working with the cross-feed valve and bringsit in, only to have the number four go out . .it's a continual juggle with that last ounce ofgas . We leave formation, just missing anotherplane, and cross the coast at 3,000 feet, where wesee a fighter strip just below us. We are too highto land, so Al (the pilot) decides to circle back .The engines keep cutting in and out. He sees hecan't make it . He lowers the landing gear . I scootback to the waist with the bombardier. A railroadwith high tension wires looms up. The co-pilotbrings up the gear . As I see them go up I say,'Oh, oh, this is going to be a rough landing .' Some-how Doug gets the gear down with just one proppulling . It cuts out just as we are 25 feet off theground . Al makes a perfect landing in a mudmeadow, dragging the tail . . We all scrambledout . . . All the plane needed was some gas anda steel mat to take off .

"Some of the surrounding gentry came up andI walked a couple of miles home with one of them .He fed me some wine, bread and cheese, and afried egg . . . . We all slept in the plane . . . weall nearly froze . The next morning Al called theMP's in-. They picked us up at nine andhad a Red Cross girl waiting with hot coffee anddoughnuts . . . . A mission doesn't end until you'reback in the sack ."

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