Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 August 1944 — Page 10
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12 MILLION LIVE AS AXIS SLAVES
THE LINES of a derby or a Homburg may be more flattering, hut a battered old G. I. helmet | holds No. 1 chapeau appeal for
i one Indianapolis sailor, James J,
Germans, Japs Use Enemies. "To Boost Production of
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WASHINGTON, Aug. 25 (U. P.).| ~The Germans and Japanese, through * ‘calculated brutality,” have driven at least 12,000,000° citizens | of the occupied countries into slave | labor, the united nations informa- | tion office reported today in urging | close allied co-operation after the | war to reunite broken families. The report said there were two] motives behind the axis slave labor | system: To boost axis war produc- | tion and to weaken or destroy the | vitality of the occupied countries | so that they would be easier prew 1 the next war—which the axis | leaders hope to stage if they lose | this one. 7,000,000 Nazi Slaves
It said there were at least] 7.000,000 slave workers in Germany, excluding those forced to work in| countries outside Germany sel. While information on Japanese | slave labor is not complete, it said, this force includes at least 5,000,000 | Chinese who have been sent to] Manchuria or the Japanese home; islands. In addition, the Japanese have decreed compulsory labor service in the Philippines, persons between 16 and 60 to do |
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forcing 8.972. 900
one day's work a week without pay. | The report estimated that wo
oped eountries. have been forced to}
. send the following number of slave workers to Germany:
Poland, 1,700,000; Holland, 540.-|
000; Norway, 100000: Yugoslavia, 200,000; Belgium, nearly 600.000. while “hundreds. of thousands” of Russians—including 710,000 from the Ukraine alone—have been put at forced labor, as was a large proportion of the 300,000 population of Luxembourg.
DUTCH NEW GUINEA LANDING REPORTED
By UNITED PRESS Tokyo radio announced today
that allied troops landed on Mapia |.
island, 125 miles north of Manokwari dn Dutch New Guinea yesterday but were repulsed with heavy losses and that allied bombers twice ' attempted to raid “an area,” apparently on the west coast of Sumatra,- while other bombers increased i their softening-up -assault on Halmahera. There was no allled confirmation of the landing, which would complete encirclement of Japans large naval base at Manokwari, The base was by-passed by Americans when they occupied the Sarong area at the far end of Dutch New Guinea in their leap-frog drive wast along the northern New Guinea coast. The broadcast acknowledged “some damage” by raiders, identifled as a force of 23 carrier-based planes, in the Sumatra attack. It
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was indicated that the raids were
in the Padang-Emma sector, 325 miles west of the oil center of Palembang which was blasted by B-29 superfortresses Aug. 10. Other allied warplanes damaged a small freighter-transport off the Celebes and more than 200 fighters and bombers hit enemy positions on Vogelkop peninsula of Dutch New Guinea with 90 tons of bombs.
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Dwyer, son of Mr. and Mrs, John P. Dwyer, 853 N. Parker ave. Saved by the thickness of a lining in his battle helmet during the invasion of Normandy, this 29-year-old boatswain's mate 2-¢c has become a stout defender of the sturdy G. I. headdress, And the first fellow gob to slam the navy's choice of millinery in his presence is almost sure to be on. the receiving end of the tale which explains Dwyer's fondness for the hat. A member of a naval combat demolition. unit, the “Gruesome Gremlins,” Boatswain Dwyer was one of the two survivors of the init which accomplished one of the most hazardous missions of the entire D-day operation, And
| in the midst of the melee which
followed the allied landing and from which only he and one other Hoosier, Charles Bledsoe, escaped alive, Boatswain Dwyer was
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struck by a piece of German shrapnel. The missile tore a two-inch hole in the outer steel section of his
‘helmet and ripped the inner lin-
ing. The deflection of the shrapnel by the helmet lining saved
- his life and permitted him to es-
cape with minor injuries, Boatswain Dwyer was -awarded the purple heart and the presidential citation for his action, in the invasion. Released from a hospital in England, the Hoosier sailor described the action which brought him the injuries and citations. His unit was assigned to remove one of the principal obstacles in the wav of invasion—the deadly anti-invasion structure known as the outer “west wall”’—before the allied fleets sailed across the channel. _Disembarking from small landing craft which folowed in the wake of the first wave of assault troops, the demolition squad
waded through water and crawled over sand, pounds of
carrying with them explosives. Under
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“I was in training more than a year before I ever got into combat. And sometimes it was a slow grind. It was hard to understand how we'd ever need all the instruction, all the gonstant practice inteamwork operation, that the AAF pounded into our heads. But one day, over. Perugia, Italy, I understood.
“We were after a railroad yard north of Rome. And just before we reached the target, Lt. Nelson went back into the bomb-bay to arm the bombs for dropping.
“The plane was bouncing around in rough weather. And as Paul worked over the bomb-load, a defective cotter-pin broke, causing a cluster of frag bombs to fall to the bottom of the
“Bill-Miller came down out of the top-turret to help rehang the bombs. But it couldn’t be done. And we were approaching our objective with live bombs on the loose . . . bombs that might blow our whole ship to smithereens any .
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"Then John Curr got an idea. Working carefully and fast, he and Bill carried the ‘hot’ bombs back to the waist compart. ment. ..and when they heard ‘Bombs away!" on the i intercom, calmly salvoed them out the window,
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Dwyer, mate 2-¢, was one .of the two survivors of a naval demolition unit which served with the first
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wave of invasion troops. Boatswain Dwyer, who was injured, is the son of Mr. and Mrs. John P. Dwyer, 853 N. Parker ave.
: THE INDIANAPOLIS TIMES Lining of Battered Fema Saves Life of Sailor
murderous fire from 88 mm. guns, mortars, machineguns and snipers rifles, they wired the explosives to the objectives, blowing up the fortifications to’ permit waves of
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allied craft to pour through the gaps. “I never thought anything could he as rough as it was” said Boatswain Dwyer. “Thank God we had air superiority, for although we had no opposition from Nazi planes, the enemy shore batteries made up for their absence.” : The Indianapolis: man has three brothers in the army. Edmund Dwyer is stationed in the Panama Canal zone and John P, Dwyer Jr, is based in the Aleutian islands. A third brother, S. Sgt. Joseph Dwyer, holder of the distinguished flying cross and the air medal with three oak leaf clusters, is stationed at St. Petersburg, Fla. following duty with the air forces over France.
Boatswain Dwyer saw his first major action in the invasion. He entered the navy in April, 1942, and was sent overseas in November of the same year. A native of Indianapolis, he .attended Cathedral high school and was employed at JohnsManville Co,
HOTEL ASSOCIATION
RENAMES SNODGRASS
Thaddeus E. Snodgrass, manager of the Claypool hotel, was re-elected president of the Indianapolis hotel association yesterday, Jap Jones, Spencer hotel official, was named vice president; Truman Warren, Sheffield Inn, treasurer, ahd John Hewitt, executive secretary. . Members of the association whose representatives attended ‘the meeting were Antlers hotel, Columbia club, Washington hotel, - Severin hotel, Sheffield Inn, Indianapolis Athletic club, Lincoln hotel, Pennsylvania hotel, Barton hotel, Spencer hotel, Claypool hotel, Lorraine hotel, Spink-Arms, Graylynn hotel and Brevort hotel.
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"But down in the ball-turret; Mike Litvinoff was having his troubles too. While he was firing his guns, a plate holding the guide rods stuck; twisting the rods together, jamming the turret and cutting off his oxygen supply.
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SCHRICKER SUGGESTS: LABOR DAY PRAYERS
"Governor Schricker today proclaimed Labor day, Sept. 4, as a day for “prayerful rededication to the unfinished = task” in world war II Schricker urged civic groups to arrange “appropriate public exercises- to acclaim labor’s great contribution to the win-the-war effort.” He said that the days ahead presented ‘a challenge to labor.”
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*And for the second time on that mission, it was team-work —and AAF training —that pulled us through. Curr fed oxygen to Litvinoff through an emergency line while the rest of-the boys went to work with hammer and chisel to free the jammed turret. . . getting it cleared and retracted into the plane’s belly just in time for us to make our landing back at base.
*To me; what happened that day was justification for all the long months of training every man on the ship had gone through. Because if anybody had bungled his job . . . if each
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MEN OF 17. =
If you want to gy) on the “greatest
team in the world”, an AAF air combat crew . . . go to your nearest AAF Examining Board. .. see if you can nlisted serve. If you qualify, you will receive this insignia «+. but will not be called for training until you are 18 or over. -
Whenca! led, youwill be given further tests to determine the type of train. ingyouwill receive. Ifyousre trained as a gunoer or technician gunner,
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aptitudes are outstandin will be trained as a bom er, nave igor of pilex, and upon successfa] completion of training, be grad. a as a Flight Officer or Secénd Lieutenant.
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