Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 26 November 1943 — Page 9

: ee. Tloyd G. Handy K I | LE. Donald P. Collins Missing |-

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erick, Okla. He was one of 11 lam R. Singleton, son of Wilcrew members killed in the crash. | liam Singleton, Washington; Opl. He was graduated from Tech | George Susko, son of Mrs, Elizahigh school in 1839 as an honor | beth Susko, Hammdnd, and Pvt. student and was employed at | Harold H. Walter, son of Mrs. National Malleable Castings Co, | Pearl E. Walter, Shipshewana, all a3 a chemist before enlisting. wounded in the Mediterranean Surviving besides the parents | area. > wT and wife is a brother, Lt. Eils- Sgt. Kenneth W. Wertz, son of worth Handy Jr, stationed in | Mrs. Lela Werts, Williamsport, the South Pacific, was wounded in action in the § #. =» Pacific area.

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COLLINS, bombardier with the (Continued From Page One).

army air forces, has been missing in action over Germany since charge of refinishing the floor with hard drying floor oll.

Nov. 13. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Patrick Collins, 555 N. Oxford st., Other students “using. plenty of} Telbow greass were James ‘Brock and Norman Shortridge. of Shortridge

who received astelegram from the high school; Robert Stahl and ¥ ! soothe and heal raw, {endet, ihe

war department Wednesday. James Lutz of Cathedral; Marie| qgmed bronchial mucous mems

Lt. Collins, a graduate of Tech high school, has been in the air 1 " | branes: Tell your CF Farrington of St. Agnes, and Loran anes, Tel} druggist to sell you

forces “since Jue, 1942, and has been overseas since September. etta Brinker, Joan Brower, Robert |3 bottle of Creom that your muon wi is to Riggs, James Gallagher and James be benefited and you are to like its

The 22-year-old bombardier was employed as a draftsman at Curtiss-Wright before enlisting. Watson of Howe. Watson is te »m- | quick action in Slaying the porary chairman of the board of di- | rassing cough withou! Do re ous

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cities in Germany. 0s 1 GENT. ninte their, Dor, servation of results, but the glow Up 10 Wednesday, this division—| of spreading fires turned the clouds carriers—had So Spmding Se I A eo sircraft, including among I G. Farben chemical plants, | three fighters and a torpedo plgne, including some turning out poison|in shooting down 24 Zero fighters gas; aircraft, tank, gun and machine|nine bombers and three fourtool plants, and railway worshops. engined patrol seaplanes. Frankfurt-also is a vital railway] The spokesman said that “all junction, through which much of figures are not available,” but that Germany's war materials pass, and|this represented the efficiency with one of the country's leading inland{ which the naval force under Vice Adm. Raymond A. Spruance of InBritish and American bombers|dianapolis covered the landings. have raided Frankfurt 39 times pre-! One group of carrier fighters shot viously. down 16 to 20 Zeros without loss in Swiss reports said Berlin had ala battle and 10 more were brought two-hour air raid alarm last night,/down of 15 other planes which

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Natives deserted ‘the Japanese to report enemy positions, During preparations charge, Col, Gardiner Conroy, commander of the 165th infantry regiment which was formerly New York's famous Fighting 69th, was killed in action at 3 p. m, Nov. 20. A naval barrage lasting several hours preceded the attack on Tarawa by six waves of marines who rolled ashore in little more than an

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of -Rechitsa, 25 miles to-the west. This cut the next to the last highway. .and. railway out..of the city. The evacuation took place while the Soviets were closing in from the north, south, east and west. A branch highway over which the Germans could have fled north to Mogilev was severed by the new Russian thrust to the upper Dnieper west of Propoisk, 7 miles north of Gomel.

The latest: , Soviet offensive

¢ | knocked a 3T-mile<wide hole in the

German . defenses near Propoisk, carried the Russ army across.the

g|Sozh and Pronya rivers and ‘en-

gulfed 180 towns and villages in advances of up to 27 miles, . - The Russians reached the Dnieper only a short distance from Rogachev

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driving hundreds of thou-|raced to the aid of their fellows. of inhabitants underground. The enemy's land-based planes Other hundreds of thousands were|were believed to have come from dvacuating the capital as fast as|Taroa airfield on Maloelap atoll in {the Marshalls because other fields

hour onto three beaches under heavy fire, Worden said. Conquest of the three islands which secured

hours.

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Japs Lay Curtain of ~~ Fire. *(Confinued Froth Page One) the United States marines were about to land again, and write another glowing chapter in their long and honorable history. This Was ‘D Day® -

were sald to be concentrating principally on attempting to localize the conflagrations. ‘Travelers arriving in Sweden| trom Berlin said a light rain extinguished the smaller blazes 'Thursday morning, but the explosives dropped by the twin-engined Mos-' quitoes last night kindled new fires as well as giving the old ones new

Burke Tells How He K.O'd|l 5 Jap Ships||

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speed. we.had.and finally closed the

my ships was hit, but the explosion came from a torpedo as it ended its run harmlessly.”

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“We were. chasing them with all the

range to 8000 yards. The chase was 15 minutes old when they stared firing torpedoes. 1 thought one of

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Burke said one of his skippers re-

victory “in ‘the Gilberts took 76) Jil

Mabel Metz, 883 West dr, Woodruff Place, a Shortridge high school teacher. Mrs. Mets was notified by the war department 8 Nov. 5 that her i) husband - was. "wounded but had received the message from an -army chaplain Oct. 20. Pfc. Metz, son John Mets of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Mets,

pints of blood plasma and is now

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life. The travelers said Berliners since Monday's record 2300-ton raid had been forced to wear goggles or hold a cloth over their faces to protect them from cinders-and sparks. The Reich chancellory, Adolf Hitler's peeled off “above the island. concrete office building, was the Orange flames shot into the alr only building on the famous Wil-|qnq then a pillar of black smoke 1019,” retire Nov. 30, the {treas- helmstrasse to escape destruction rose slowly. they started getting hits. The enemy ury anndunced today. -1oF damage, “they said, - “We had: hit’ a Jap ‘ammunition; PE satiny gonteantly thi Geir meyer eR Ne BS np RTA na I was assigned to a battalion commanded by Maj. Henry Pierson Orowe, 44, who-has spent 24-years in the marine corps. He won the silver star at Guadalcanal and was recommended for promotion in that tough campaign. We went down the nets at 8:30 a. m. and our boats streaked for the beach.

Curtain of Fire Then we were ashore and I

flopped down in the pand. The Jap snipers opened up and bullets began whistling overhead. Then there was a rat-tat-tat and enemy machine gunners put a curtain of fire across the beach. ; I got to my feet and started forward, but a mortar shell crashed nearby and flattened me face down in the sand. Then another ammunition dump exploded and all of us were bounced off the ground by the explosion. Coral and debris rained down as I got to my knees and started crawling: up the beach: toward a primitive command post, There I saw one of the strangest 'sights I ever expect to see in this war, Ma). Crowe, standing upright and ignoring the Japanese fire, was stomping back and forth issuing commands and carrying a 12-gauge . Every once and a while he swing the shotgun to his shoulder and take’ - potshot at a Japanese sniper. Abandon Ship 3 paused there a moment and

This was “D day” and for an hour our big battleships off shore had been pouring shells onto the atoll. Still earlier—shortly after 8 a. m.—carrier-borne dive ‘bombers

fluence of the Dnieper and the Druth rivers and at the northwestern corner of their wedge were only N miles below Mogilev.

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—Joseph E. Murphy, 65, assistant chief of the U. 8. secret service since

ported that at this point in the pursuit his engines had been driven harder than any American ship's ever had been intended to turn. ______Then the Hits Start The commander ‘ordered his few ships in various formations and|-

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entire U. 8. navy. One of the ships ‘disappeared damaged, . so Burke concentrated on the second of the group, which was one of the larger ships and might have been a cruiser. “I knew we were getting hits with our five inchers from 7000 yards, but he. wasn't slowing down,” - Burke said. “Our boys were firing so fast that many collapsed from gas fumes in their turrets and from sheer exhaustion. ” “Finally we got close enoiigh so I]. knew the shells from three ships were hitting him. He was burning and exploding all over. Just as we prepared to open up with torpedoes he sank with a terrible explosion.” An hour and 20 minutes now had passed, and the American ships were off the lower tip of New Ireland at the entrance to St. George channel leading into Rabaul harbor, Burke's ship had only 12 rounds of ammunition left for his forward guns, and other ships of his force were in a similar predicament, Te

Further Pursuit Unwise

It was impossible to continue the chase because of lack of fuel and ammunition or, all the officers of the -force agree, Burke would have driven deeper into the hostile area in pursuit of the escaping ship despite the fact Rabaul is Japan's

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