Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 March 1944 — Page 5
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y SET . The American craft “received anti-aircraft fire from enemy ground forces and from friendly naval and ground forces with losses of 23 aircraft and 410 personnel,” the statement said. It did not indicate how many of the planes may have been shot down by American forces who mistook them for enemy craft. : “The combination of ecircumstances involving the approach immediately in the rear of a hostile bombing attack at night at a relatively low altitude were the responsible factors in the loss of the planes,” the official report said. “This action was made the basis of careful study designed to improve identification and timing and prevent similar losses in the future.” Sgt. Jack Foisie, an army newspaper correspondent, first told of the episode yesterday in a speech in San Francisco. His revelation was carried to Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson during his press conference. Stimson said he had received official reports on it and that it was the result of “confusion” but declined other details. Seven hours later the army and navy issued the official report,
Blamed for Fatality NEW YORK, March 17 (U. P).— The 23 American transport. planes shot down by allied gunners “through a trick of fate” off Sicily July 10 were destroyed when they began ‘using the same routes as enemy raiders, Merrill Mueller, NBC war reporter, said last night. Mueller, who witnessed the destruction of the paratrooper-laden planes, said in a broadcast last
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" “I kept dreaming of fried chicken, great heaping niounds of it, and it kept me going. “When I finally did get back to civilization, I did my best to catch up on my dreams of chicken, but I had a long way to go and haven't caught up yet.” Holcomb lost 60 pounds on the trip. Besides having little food, he was often sick with dysentery. “Occasionally, there were canned rations ' dropped from planes. But sometimes, for days at a time, we couldn't even see Ahe sky, the jungle was so thick,” he said, Holcomb described high. mountains where men had to climb 9000 feet to reach a pass. “It was agony for weakened men,” he said. “Some places the
attacks on allied shipping, Mueller said, “our entire defense system was confused and highly nervous.” “Trigger fingers were itchy that night—as they always are munder continued bombing,” he added in explaihing that enemy planes were attacking at the time the first transports approached from Africa. “Then it was that German and American planes used the same skyway without means of identification because of the darkness,” he said.
“The resulting melee was horrible to watch, Flaming coffins crashed here and there, both American and German, Parachutes with streamers of fire floated out of the heavens, but few of the boys had time to jump.. Our planes were too low.” Mueller said he and Capt, Larry Hoover of Washington, D. C., recognized that the transports were friendly and tried to get to an anti-aircraft control center to report it. But they were driven back into a foxhole by a machine gun crew which thought they were fifth columnists,
CHICAGO OPERA TO RESUME
night that few of the American soldiers had time to jump because “our planes were too low.” After hours of German air
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drop was straight down for hundreds of feet and a misstep would cost a man his life. Going down on the other side was just as bad, for you to hang on vines and roots .to keep from rolling down the mountains.” “We marched in the daytime, gradually getting rid of equip.ment until we were down to our weapons, half a blanket and shelter half, canteen, canteen cup and a spoon,” he said. After reaching Buna, the exhausted survivors had to fight the Japanese almost immediately, “Our planes had been bombing them for 30 minutes, 'and when they stopped we started,” Holcomb said. © “Just as we hit the clearing we were caught in Jap cross-fire. All but two of the men in my squad were killed. I was hit in the foot and had to crawl several hundred yards before I found medics.”
4 CITY EMPLOYEES PROTEST DISCHARGE
The works board foday sought to pacify four former city sanitation plant employees swept out of their jobs by a “spring cleaning” move in which the broom was wielded by Sanitation Plant Superintendent W. H. Frazier, The men protested that Mr. Frazier fired them “summarily ‘and without reason” last Tuesday. ~The. ex-city job holders are John Houston, Richard Griffin, Boyd Harris and Wade Griffin.
AERONAUTICS PARLEY PLANNED AT PORT
An operations institute for aeronautics teachers in central Indiana high schools will be held tomorrow at Weir Cook airport under the auspices of the Civil Aeronautics Authority and the Roscoe Turner Aeronautical Corp. Robert C. Grubbs, Shortridge high school physics and aeronautics
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CALL ‘SMALLER’ April Quota: Drops but Termed No Reason for Optimism.
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pleted reclassification of the old 3-A group and they are now going through the 2-A and 2-B groups find 1-A material. Also being reviewed are the 2-C and 3-C agricultural classes. Col. Hitchcock said that state headquarters is now working out a detailed set of instructions relative to the new no deferment order for men in industry under the age of 26 except those who are absolutely vital.
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The effect of this order, he said, will be to release a number of single men under the age of 26 to the armed forces within the next two or three months. : “But,” he said, “while this may actually cause a small decrease in the immediate call of fathers, I don't want people to get the wrong impression. Fathers will continue to be called.
“21-Day Leave”
“Draft regulations now provide for no distinction between fathers and single men. The only deferments are granted because of occupation.” The draft director said also that a point apparently not understood by the public is that the 21-day-at-home period for a registrant who passes the pre-induction physical starts from the day he passes the physical, not from the day he receives his notice of physical fitness. Actually, however, he said, the registrant usually gets a week or more than the 21-day period before he has to report.
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