Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 March 1944 — Page 6

DAL. RICE GETS . “ARMY PROMOTION

Alda L. Rice, daughter of the acting secretary of the state board of health, Dr. Thurman B. Rice, has been promoted to first lleutenant in the army nurse corps at Ashford General hospital, White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. Lt Rice is on duty 4n the contagion ward. Robert Bracken Jr, son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Bracken, 5811 N. Pennsylvania st, has been promoted to staff sergeant at Camp Reynolds,

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Pvt. John B. Whited, 321 S. Ritter ave, was one of the first marines to set foot on the Cape Gloucester airdrome when assault forces;captured it four days after invading New Britain Dec. 26, according to a marine corps bv combat correspondent's ac~count, The 19-year-old ¢ leatherneck,. son of Mr. and. Mrs. T. A. Whited, was seeing action -forthe first time. He was one of six men attached as § scouts to two ° tanks which ap- | Pvt. Whited proached the air field. Reaching a small, wooded gully, He and two of his comrades climbed aboard one of the tanks. They swept through the gully, up the opposite bank, and found themselves on the field, A few moments later the main body of troops swarmed onto the bomb-scarred air strip from the opposite side. In Thick of Action

The final drive climaxed a swift four-day advance which swept Japanese defenses before it. Pvt. Whited, who was in the thick of the action, described the last day's

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fighting as “pretty easy compared with the first three days.” He did have one close call, however, when a sniper hit one of his buddies standing “about a yard away.” : Since that time Pvt. Whited has spent most of his time on daily patrols into the nearby jungle. On

| lone he was with a squad that was

pinned down for more than an hour by a numerically superior Japanese

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=< had us trapped on a ledge,” he said,

“but they finally withdrew before any of our men were hurt. They had us in a pretty tough spot,

{though.”

Pvt. Whited is a graduate of Howe high school and attended Purdue university before enlisting Nov. -35, 1042, At Keesler Field Pvt. Wallace R. Puyear, son of Richard T. Puyear, 2031 N. Temple ave, is at Keesler field, Miss, to determine ‘his qualifications as a pre-aviation cadet.

Veteran .of 17 months overseas service with the marines in the South Pacifle, 21-year-old Pfc, John T. Cook, is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ralph L. Cook of Mooresville. Pfc. Cook, whose father is a marine veteran of world war I, saw action with an anti-craft unit at Tarawa. He will report to Camp Lejeune, New River, N. C.

Cpl. Ubanhower in England Pvt. James J. Sheeley, 2257 N. Harding st. has been ‘graduated from the bakers and cooks school at Ft. Sheridan, Il.

Two Indianapolis men are at Keesler field, Miss, to determine their qualifications as air cadets. They are Pvts. Norbert J. Kruse, son of Mrs. Ruth Kruse, 1820 E. Riverside dr, and Elmer R, Chambers, son of Edward H. Chambers, 3107 W. Michigan st.

Pvt. Arthur J. Clements, 231 Leeds st., has qualified as expert with the score of 183 ‘points with

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