Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 16 June 1944 — Page 6

(Continued From Page One) Tech. Sth Gr. Richard R. Baker, ~ 9431 W. North st. 5

14. Carl F. Thinnes Jr, 1515 English ave. 7. Sgt. Charles Elkin, 213¢ College ave. 14. Gordon M. Allen, 3717 Brookside pkwy.

e r . CPL. WILFRED L. (BILLY) KETTLER, an office clerk with a group of aircraft mechanics in ¥ew Guinea, was killed June 3 in that area. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert KettJer. 113¢ W. 34th st, the 22-year-old soldier i a truck! hd Cadi Tally ac- School in Shelbyville and was a hagling Spy 3 r written a few music instructor at Harlin Brothers Cig Bed killed guitar studio before entering serv. Overseas since August, 1943, he | I°€entered the army Sept. 22. 1942. He! worked at Allison division of Gen- | eral Motors Corp. befor: being in-| : Z ducted and was graduated from | SECOND LT. CARL F. THINNES Shortridge high school {n 1939. [JR, who has been missing since His sister, Patricia Anne, and his, May 8 over Germany, is a German jasenta, survive. {prisoner, according to a telegram Wa TR the Red Cross. LT. GEORGE B. HUFF. son of = of - and Mrs, Carl F. Mr. and Mrs. Charles A Hu%, S30 rhinnes, 1515 English ave., the 24Grandview dr, was wol year-old officer was reported missSection in the Dayle fr Re re | In exactly one year after he re-| i eT a » Hospha Find, his ceived his wings as a navigator at Accord! a $ : So pt of as bn aie he Domi JL He 1h 1 a 2 purple heart and the ey a Based in England, Lt. Thinnes tryman combat badge for AcHON Of entered service Oct. 2, 1941, and) ihe Ansin BAN ng Pebruary, WAS. in the signal corps at Ft. Sill, | ENTE Jie wey hy January | Okla. before transferring to the ry Ie — been fighting at Cas. ir forces. He went overseas in , an i 1 sino, Anzio and Nettuno. { April. | Before being inducted, he was s = = | employed by General Motors Corp..| T. SGT. CHARLES A. ELKIN, an | Chevrolet division, and was grad. aerial gunner on an army air force uated from Shortridge high schoo! i | i d Indiana university. He also bomber, was captured by the Ger-| an er : mans after he was shot down on a,

attended Butler university mission over Germany April 18. | His brother, Charles A. Huff Jr.

Cpl. Wilfred L. Kettler , . . killed in New Guinea.

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Sh > fighter He is the son of Mrs. Mariej will receive his wings as a HET gyi, 9134 College ave, and had| pilot June 27 at Mission, Tex. completed 18 missions. Sgt. Elkin|

s = = previously was wounded and had| TECH. 5TH GR. RICHARD R.\peen awarded the purple heart and| BAKER. husband of Mrs. Daisy the air medal with two oak leaf! Baker. 3427 W. North st. Was jucters. | wounded in action in Italy with the i

paratroopers May 24. and went overseas June 1, 1943. {

1942, Technician Baker went over- prisoner of war of the Nazis, ac-

He bas an 18-month-old daugh- |

seas in October, 1943. He went to cording to word received yesterday| BERGER, husband of Mrs. Mary

Lt. Gordon M. Allen , . . prisoner of Germany.

Charles Elkin Prisoner

George Huff Wounded

Lt. Carl F. Thffmes Jr. captured by Nazis.

J. Hershberger Richard Baker Honored Wounded

by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank F. Allen, 1954 Broadway. Husband of Mrs, Betty Cox Allen, 3717 Brookside pkwy., Lt. Allen was stationed overseas as a navigator on a Flying Fortress since February. He entered the army air forces Feb. 6, 1943, ané was commishioned in October, 1943, at Selman field, Monroe, La. He took advanced training in Ardmore, Okla. A graduate of Indiana university and Crawfordsville high school, he formerly worked at Zenite Metal Corp. His brother, Pvt. Donald F. Allen, is serving with the infantry.

S. SGT. ROBERT E. PRYOR, a ball turret gunner on an 8th air force Flying Fortress, has been awarded the air medal for “exceptionally meritorious achievement in accomplishing with. distinction

He was inducted April 16 1941, | heavy bombardment missions)

against enemy-occupied Europe. He is the son of W., E. Pryor, 2459 Carroliton ave, and attended

The 28-year-old soldier. whose parents, Mr. and Mrs. Clarence! b oN EY » Baker, live in Shelbyville, is re-| LT. GORDO! . A N. who : : ‘ covering in an Anzio hospital. has been missing since April 11 on|Techaical high school. In the army since April 15 a mission over Germany, is a

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Hershberger, 1717 Olive st, has been awarded the air medal for meritorious service in the Sicilian invasion. Stationed overseas 13 months with the 32d Troop Carrier Command, he is the son of Mr, and Mrs. Addranis Hershberger, 901 Pleasant Run Parkway blvd, and is in England. = » " WATERTENDER 3-C BILLY) WARD CALDWELL, son of Mr. and | Mrs. Clarence V. Caldwell, Logansport, is missing in action.

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SEAMAN 1-C ROBERT EUGENE! RIDDLE, son of Mr. and Mrs. Ken-|

neth Riddle, Oakland City, has been | wounded in naval combat. | a = = i FIRST LT. CHARLES P. SPARKS of Swayzee has been awarded the air medal for aerial flight in the European theater. A fighter pilot with the 9th air force, he was graduated from Purdue university in 1942, and is a registered pharmacist.

NAZIS BREAK DIKES IN AREA OF CAEN

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ing hourly—could mount an effective counter-attack it appeared likely that the town would fall] within the next day or two. | Other U. S. patrols took a road! junction about 2!'2 miles south of] Carentan. They ran into sizable] detachments, as did Ameriean troops| northwest of Ponte L’'Abbe. The; Nazis had committed their 17th SS Panzer grenadiers to the sector be-| low St. Sauveur-le Vicomte, |

There was no change in the situa-| tion at Villers-Bocage, but British! tanks and infantry were steadily infiltrating the forested country in the Caumont-Balleroy-Villers triangle,

! Heavy Fighting at Caen |

Heavy fighting was in progress between Caen and Tilly-sur-Seulles, | where Marshal Erwin Rommel had] thrown in a panzer Lehr or training division, probably not so well equipped as the other armored | forces engaged in the battle of Nor-! mandy. The German position in Cherbourg was increasing hourly.

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State Flier Sees Japan on 1st Raid |

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Fla., and Augusta, Ga. He went | overseas in April. : A graduate of the Purdue uni- | {versity mechanical engineering school in 1938, Capt. Harte, son of Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Harte, 723 N.| 6th st., Lafayette, held the rank of lieutenant colonel in the Purdue R. O. T. C. He was a member of the Purdue Order of Military Men and Scabbard and Blade, honorary fraternity. The 29-year-old pilot, based in India, was graduated from West Lafayette high school and promoted to captain last fall.

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Raid Over Japan Results In Loss of Two Big Bombers.

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tense anti-aircraft fire at the Americans, the communique disclosed. (Japanese radio reports of the bombing claimed that seven U. S. planes were shot down and three were damaged. A Japanese imperial headquarters communique said that the industrial cities of Moji and Kokura were hit in addition to Yawata. All are on the home island of Kyushu, across from Korea on the Asiatic mainland.

Task Force ‘Raid’ (A dispatch from United Press Correspondent Walter Rundle, at an advance echelon of the 20th bomber command in western China, said the B-29's, flying on history's longest raid, set the imperial iron and steel mills at Yawata on fire and that returning crew members described the raid as “most successful.”) The new raids, not immediately

confirmed by any other source, were described sketchily by the Japanese Domei news agency. It said “enemy planes” identify them further, that the Japanese suffered no losses.

hit Korea but did not It added

The attack on the Bonin islands,

615 miles south of Tokyo, was carried out by an “enemy task force,” a Tokyo broadcast said, and 17

A Domel dispatch said the Japan Iron Co. plant at Yawata was hit by a “few bomb fragments” which “caused no damage to the plant facilities.” It said two workers had received slight injuries. :

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of Orio and Hakata was “slightly damaged” but that it was “repaired

service has been resumed without any hitch.” Japanese broadcasts said the big United States planes hit the suburbs of Kokura, midway between Yawata and Moki, indicating that the aerial assault blanketed the principal centers of the closelypacked industrial area of northern Kyushu. Moji is the site of the Mitsui zinc plant, the Mitsui Miike coal mine and other Mitsui properties. The bombed area includes the big Yawata iron and steel works at Yawata-Shi, largest producing unit of the Japan Iron and Steel Manufacturing Co., Ltd.

Auspicious First Mission

The raids were an auspicious first mission for the big new B-29's which the army air forces developed with a special eye to the war on Japan. As Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson put it yesterday, the B-29's—which carry - the greatest

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