The Daily Banner, Greencastle, Putnam County, 14 October 1954 — Page 6

THE DAILY BAHNER, GREENCASTLE, INDIANA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 14, 1954.

Air Force Base Will Be Renamed

ATTFRBT'RY ATR FORCE BASE. Columbus, Ind. Effective Nfivember 1. Atterbury Air Vorce Riise will rye renamed Bakalar Air Force I&tse. in honor •of the late Air Force Reserve Officer, First Lieutenant John Edmond Bakalar. of Hammond, Ind Formal dedication ceremonies will be announced later. In few instances, have Air Force

Bases, such as Atterbury home j Training at Luke FieV. Arizona. | After flying numerous combat of the 434th Troop Carrier Wing j After completing nis flying J mission?. Lieutenant Bakalar --been named for Reservists j training. Bakalar was com mis-I was killed in action. September

The late Lieutenant Bakalar 1 was an electrician by trade, who

<*n!isted in the Army of the United States in the grade of Aviation Cadet, at Fort Benjamin Harrison, in Indianapolis. on January 26. 11*42. He received his pre-fight training at Santa Ana. California, from March 25. lf*42 to April 24. 1942. and his primary' flight training at Merced Army Flying School, Merced, California, and Advanced Flying

sioned a Second Lieutenant, with the rating of Pilot on October

30. 1942.

Lieutenant Bakalar was promoted to First Lieutenant on September 30. 1943. then transferred to Mabry Field. Florida, where he received final fighter training before departing for overseas with the 353rd Fighter Squadron. 354th Fighter Group, for duty in the European Theatre of Operations.

1. 1944 over France. He .vas awards: the Distinguished Service Cross • posthumously), for "extraordinary heroism against ’he enemy on August 16. 1944, while participating in a controlled area sweep over enemy occupied territory’.’’ Attacked constantly by the enemy, w’ho encircled him. and separated from his wingman. he engaged one enemy aircraft after another, and

destroyed three of them.

DOG ON DOGGONE WHEELS!

Lieutenant Bakalar Is survived by his wife. Mrs. Dorothea J. Bakalar. and daughter. Suzanne. of 6326 Garfield, in Hammond, and his mother. Mrs. Marie Bakalar. of 227 Lawndale, also of Hammond. His list of decorations and aw’ards. include the Distinguished Service Cross, Air Medal with six Oak Leaf Clusters, the Pur pie Heart, and the World War II Victory Medal, the American Campaign Medal, the European-African-Middle Eastern Campaign Medal with three Bronze Stars, the Distinguished Unit citation. and the Aviation Badge, and Sharpshooter Badge. The name of Lieutenant Bakalar, was submitted to Colonel Herbert O. Hamilton. Commander at Atterbuiy Air Base, on December 22, 1953. in a letter from Indiana Governor George N. Craig, after extensive research into the military records of all deceased veterans of the Second World War from Indiana.

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