Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 20 March 1945 — Page 2

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PACE THEINDANAPOLIS TRIES

Hoosier Heroes: Rarridon, Bredensteiner, Reinhard Killed in Battle; &

TUESDAY, MARCH 20, 1945

Wounded, 2 Are Taken-Prisoner- by" Germany-

DEAD— : is ey : ; 5 oa vo BA | a | Ship's Cook .3-¢ John Willis San- ¢ eived a letter from” him yester- southern France. Pvt. Katra is 28, By LIsLI Pfe. Clifford A. Rarridon, son of § ¥ & : | ders Jr. son of Mr. and Mrs. John "day in a hospitad.in #he Marianas. and a former employee of Kingan § and M, Mrs. Hagel B, Livingston, 122% (Sanders, 1101 Eugene st, was” Cpl. Vanstan attended Manual & Co. He has a 15-months-old United Press Michigan st. and John I {wounded aboard ship, according “to [high school and was employed by| son, Larry, IWO JIMA,

Warman ‘ave, died of wounds geceived March 3, in Belgium. He was ‘with a tank destroyer

tle of Iwo Jin third week. It was gett group of mari

| |word received by his parents. | thie Stewart-Warner Co. when hel A brother-in-law, Pfc. Harry | Overseas 15 months, he was em- | enlisted in the marines Sept. ‘14, Brown, also a paratrooper, was re ployed” by the Gulling Electric Co.!1943. ported missing after D-day. - No " unit: and had been overseas only before entering the navy Feb. 1, A» further ward has been received cone 1

: . y 3 i : *| cerni . the front line: service in March, 1943, Pvt, Rar:| = . rN : F ; school. Serhing hm s & = were about tl id OE ea worked ~ at” Schwitzer \ \ bs ® \ 2 8-8 | S. Sgt. Paris Osborne Cross, with _ridon zer- | \ a 3 i 3

D day. Cain, Co. He Was 34 | -S. Sgt. Eugene F. Helms. son of | the 106th, listed previously as miss- HONORE . | They had fc

four or. five weeks, Before entering | | 1043. He atfended Shortridge high | PRISONERS —.

A ; a ; : i el [ing since Dec. 16, is now a pris-| For i ; a Surviving besides the parents, are Lo i Ly pg | 1 TE | Mr. and Mrs. Clifford Helms, 3603 oner of Germany. pris we i alt a Foil ey two sisters, Mrs. Mrs. Aileen Lott ) . NY i: 5 (BE: 22d st, was wounded in Ger-| pe | y hold, Pfc. La H. Poland, hus- | j Tem two sisers, Mrs Mrs. Allen Lott “ny ail e has written his parents, Mr. hold, Pfc. Lawrence H. Poland, hus« » work stil] ahe: brother, Leslie Ratridon i of In- } ‘many Feb. 9. He is in a hospital in and Mrs. Hershel Cross of New |band of Mrs. Dortha Poland, 1413 “1 Ahead were dianapolis. 8. Sgt. Paris Osborne Cross | Pfc. Clifford A. Rarridon . . Lt. (j.g) Vinson E. Reinhard Pvt. Al | England. [Custle, from a. Garvan Prison Sonn ave; TRS Yetelte: BN | | In pillpoes an 8S. Sgt. Paris e ia " : . (3-8 son E. rd , . . | Pvt’ Alexander Katra .. . prison- | camp. Sgt. Cross, who i sliver “star. ari a oS: S6i, Favs Oopory killed in Belgium, 2) Yinson ¥: bani p | An infantryman with the 3d| 8 § 29, has The marine

Second Lt. Howard Sredensteiier. er of Germany.

a minute as nephew of Mr, and Mrs. Elmer E. | » on

cide whether

| army, he has been overseas eight {four children, Hershels Ernest, 6;| He is a rifleman with the 91st i A former Technical high school stu- |

» Pyt. Joseph Friedman is a former sister, Mrs. Ethel Hettenbach, months and was employed by the DE! Jean and Bobby Dean, 4-|“Power” division of the Sth army |

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Bredensteiner, 967 Layman, and son WOUNDED— o dent, .he has received the purple employee of the Beech Grove New corporal in the WAC in Alamogeido, W. M. Steck Plumbing and Supply | Year-old twins, and’ Paris Osborne |in Italy.

of Mr, Ernest C. Bredensteiner, New

Castle, was killed Feb. 1 on Luzon. |

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An infantryman, Lt. Bredensteiner recovering {rom wounds received

entered service in 1841, and went overseas approximately two yeare

ago. Surviving him, besides the father and Mr, and Mrs. Elmer Breden-

fhere is Pfc. Donald .H. Meyer, son f Mrs. Lorene Meyer, 625 N. Oxford st The 19-year-old marine was

steiner, are the mother who could Wounded by shrapnel from a Jap ,

not be cohtacted, a sister, Mrs.

mortar eight days after the -inva-

Marie MacNeil with the WAVES Sion began.

on the west coast, and another

He joined the marines in Novem-

Already back on Iwo Jima after

{heart and the expert -rifleman’s badge.

A brother, Seaman 2-¢ Melvin, is

with the .navy at Farragut, Idaho 8 » 2 Pfc. Joseph C. Friedman, son of Mrs. Grace Dearing, 24's N. 5th ave,, Beech Grove, was seriously wounded Feb. 13 in Germany. The 18-year-old serviceman's older

brother, Pfc, Uyal -G. is recovering 2

at Wakeman General hospital, Camp

York Central railroad shops. [N. M. n » ” { » » " T. 5th Gr. James E. Mosier, son of Mrs. Elsie J. Sehofield, 2026 W. of Mrs. Elizabeth Wilcox, 2207 N.| Morris st, is believed to have re- | Pennsy lvania st, was wounded Feb. | turned to duty after recovering!?7, on Luzon. from a frost-bitten foot incurred in! A machine- -gunner, Pvt. January in Belgium,

tank mechanic.” A brother, Seaman He has received the purple heart. A

Co. before entering the army two JT % living at 29° W. oth st. Sgt. land one-half years ago. He attended. Cross Is formerly of 709. N. Emer~|fire which had held up his com= 4 Pvt. James Harrison Wilcox, son Technical high school.

- | George R. Vanstan, pov. 14, Pvt.

Wilcox 615 Madison ave, | was wounded in the drive to clear | wounded in the third Overseas seven months, he is a Japs from the mountainous terrain ling on Iwo Jima. A member of the 5th marine am- rene Katra, 25 N ichle aim an -c Robert, is on Atlantic duty; a brother, Chief Petty Officer Paul phiblous forces, he is 19 and has ; + Richland st. aim and with one round annihilated

step-brother, Pfc. Delford F. Schoe-| Wilcox, who is 30, is home on leave been overseas 12 months.

“Crawling through intense enemy

n ave, pany's advance, Pvt. Poland struck o » »

Listed as missing in France since could fire his rocket launcher at Alexander Katra, a/the hostile emplacement,” the cita-

[son of. Mr. and Mrs. John Vanstan, paratrooper, today was reported a tion reads.

was Prisoner of Germany. : “Then, although in full view of day of fight- The war department telegram the Germans and urder constant

came today to his wife, Mrs. No- machine-gun fire, he calmly took

Pvt. Katra's parents, Mr. and Mrs. |the enemy.”

out to a position from which he |

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-Finally. one“To hell wil tomorrow." That's the ° day was just

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y a a1 - y Jers six > , } Dr. Louis aunt, Mrs. William -Schmidt, 1121 ber, 1943, and went overseas six Atterbury, from wounds received in| field. wl ded f b S He also Alex Katra, live at 1523 W. Ohio st.| Pvt. Poland, whois 31, entered ay. months ago. Before entering serve |: Ys s ie who was wounded in France|from submarine duty in the South participated and, Overseas since ‘April, 1944, he | the .ar /lvani Byien 5 ice he was with the Star advertis- france last July last June, is now in- Belgium, and a Pacific. Pvt. Wilcox is 34. p my in Jan. 1944. He was a Pennsylvania

” Lt, (J.g.) Vinson E. Reinhard, bro-

ther, of Mrs. Ruth Olin, 2751 N, La- |

Salle st., was killed on Iwo Jima Feb. 21 where he was in command of an LST boat. A former law partner of Frank

X. Haupt, he -was a graduate of the]

Indiana Law school and a member

of Sigma Delta Kappa law fra-!

ternity. He was 28 and entered the navy in November, 1041, going overseas in April, 1943. Survivors besides Mrs, Olin are his father, Henry E. Upland; Cal; a brother, Henry, Cleveland, O., and two other sisters in California.

ing department A brother, Aviation Metalsmith {3-c Charles, is on an aircraft carrier in the Pacific. Both he and Pvt. Meyer were graduated from Technical high schpol. n o o | Pfo. Earl G. McCormick, an in!fantryman with the 1st army, is recovering in England from wounds {received Jan. 8 in Belgium. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. J. E. McCormick, 2144 Broadway, and has been overseas 11 months. Pvt. McCormick is 23 | Before entering service two years ago, he was employed at Allison's

NEGROES ASSIGNED T0 INFANTRY UNITS

PARIS, March 20 (U. P.).—Negro and white troops are fighting side | by side—for the first time in American history—in the infantry companies of the U. 8S. 1st and 7th armies, it was disclosed yesterday

in a front . line dispatch by the]

army newspaper Stars and Stripes. The Negro infantrymen were picked from the thousands of ap- | ,plicants who had been working as | service and supply troops. They | volunteered after a special appeal | by Lt. Gen. John C. H. Lee, who

Hoosier Lawmaker Missing in Action

PRINCETON, Ind, March 20 | (U. P).—Staff Sgt. Gene Eckerty, { a member of the Indiana house of representatievs in 1943 and | 1945 was reported by relatives today as missing in action in Germany since Fel. 25. Eckerty was the only member of the lower house unable to attend the 1945 session because he was in service. A letter he wrote Jan. 5 from the Western front was read in the legislature March 1. It .was an appeal for the passage of G.I}

Tinian campaigns. His parents re-

served in Italy before going to| Polisher in civilian life,

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told them: | benefit bills and for prayers for i “It is planned to assign you with- | homesick Hoosiers in combat. } out regard to race or color to units | Eckerty, a Republican, was where your assistance is most need- | elected to the house from Gibson | ed. Your comrades at the front | county in 1942 and 1944. He was are anxious to share the glory of | an attorney here before he envictory with you.” tered the service.

FRENCH CROSS RHINE: His mother is Mrs. James

Eckerty, Princeton. He was serv-

CAPTURE 400 NAZIS ing with an infantry unit in the 3d army. BASEL, Switzerland, March 20 (U.'

P.).—A raiding battalion of French MAJ. K, F. VALENTINE thre miles marth of Boel yoner:|- ON: INACTIVE STATUS

day, captured more than 400 pris-| Maj. Kenneth F. Valentine, 5950

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