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With the Armed ForcesLATEST TABULATION of war records in theAlumni Office at the University of Okla-homa revealed that 120 O. U. men in thearmed forces have won a total of 233 dec-orations since Pearl Harbor .

Included in the accumulation of honorsare awards from four governments,United States, Chinese, French and British.One University alumnus, Maj . John L.

Smith, '36bus, Marine pilot from Lexing-ton, was decorated with the CongressionalMedal of Honor, highest award the U. S.government can present to one of its fight-ing men. Major Smith also holds theBritish Distinguished Service Order whichwas bestowed in the name of King George.Two decorations of the French Service

Cross were awarded to Lt . Col. LloydLockett, '41ba, Norman, who is with theAmerican forces in the Mediterraneantheater . China's Meritorious Medal of theArmy, Navy and Air Forces was awardedposthumously to Lt . Duane Clapham, '38bus, Norman, test pilot who was killed ina plane crash in India. Maj . Walter O.Beets, '28231, Field Artillery officer fromOklahoma City, received the Croix deService from the French government .Awards won by University alumni and

the number of each are as follows: Con-gressional Medal 1, Distinguished Ser-vice Cross 9, Distinguished Flying Cross33, Air Medal 47, Oak Leaf Cluster 62,Purple Heart 23, Silver Star 32, Com-mendation 15, Navy Cross 2, British Dis-tinguished Service Order 1, Soldiers Med-al 1, China's Meritorious Medal 1, FrenchService Cross 2, Legion of Merit 2, Navyand Marine Corps Medal 1, and Croix deService 1 .

DecorationsMaj . Walter O. Beets, '28-'31, Okla-

homa City, on duty in the Mediterraneantheater of war with a Field Artillery bat-talion, has been awarded the Croix deService by the French government for hiswork in co-operation with the FrenchArmy .10, Lt . Warren G. Myers, '40, Norman,has received a special commendation forthe excellence of his work with a FieldArtillery unit in North Africa and Sicilywhere he commanded a provisional bat-tery of howitzers. He is with the 45thDivision .00- Capt . Robert E. Halley, '39-'40, Ed-mond, has been awarded the Disting-guished Flying Cross for more than 1,000flying hours in pioneering air routes acrossAfrica and the Middle East as a pilot withthe Air Transport Command .1 Lt . Wiley Robert Ecton, '421aw, Okla-homa City, has been cited for bravery

under fire on Guadalcanal last Januarywhile serving as forward observer at apost within 100 yards of enemy lines.He successfully defended his station

against grenade and rifle attack and waswounded during the action . After hiswounds had been treated, he returned tohis post and continued an accurate de-livery of artillery fire .to-Lt . Lloyd Brooks Mitchell, '42, Hollis,navigator on a Flying Fortress, has beendecorated with the Distinguished FlyingCross and two Oak Leaf Clusters for ac-tion with the Eighth Air Force in raidsover Germany and in North Africa .0- Lt . (jg) Joe D. Mitchell, '41 David-son, Oklahoma, has been awarded theOrder of the Purple Heart for injuries re-ceived when his plane was forced into theocean behind Japanese lines last July .

After returning to his base at Guadal-canal, Lieutenant Mitchell told of rowingfor three days before landing on a smallisland, where he stayed for two months .He and several other American soldiershiding on the island were picked up bya PBY flying boat while rowing to anotherisland which they were later informedwas occupied by the Japanese .10- Capt . Ellis L. Brown, '39eng, Duncan,bomber pilot and commanding officer ofhis squadron in New Guinea, has receivedthe Distinguished Flying Cross for extra-ordinary achievement in aerial flights inthe Southwest Pacific.

Captain Brown has participated in morethan 200 hours of long-range bombingmissions which included attacks againstenemy installations, shipping and supplybases.

01' Lt. Phineas M. Casady, '29ba, formerlyof Oklahoma City, Army chaplain withthe U. S. forces in Italy, has been decor-

BACK FROM COMBATLt . Amos Battenfield, '41journ, vet-eran pilot who was home on leavelast month

from the Pacific, andMrs. Battenfield (Jo Bowen, '40bus) .

ated with the Order of the Purple Heartfor wounds received while serving on theItalian front.

Lieutenant Casady, who has been inthe battles of Morocco, Tunisia and Sicily,conducted burial services for the firstAmerican dead in Morocco a year agolast month . He is on leave from his dutiesas rector of the All Souls Episcopal Churchin Berkeley, California .1 Lt . Archie B. Swanson, '39-'41, Mus-kogee, has been awarded an Air Medalwith an Oak Leaf Cluster for performanceagainst the enemy in the Southwest Pa-cific . He also holds the DistinguishedService Cross for 50 flight missions .NO- Maj . Forrest H. Barker, '34-'40, Nor-man and Noble, has been awarded an AirMedal for service with the Air Force inNorth Africa, Sicily and Italy, and hasbeen recommended for the DistinguishedFlying Cross. He holds the Purple Heart.0-- Capt . R. Gilbert Johnson, '39-'40, Fly-ing Fortress pilot from Oklahoma City,has been awarded eight Oak Leaf Clustersfor service with the Air Force in raids inNorthern Europe, Tunisia and Sicily .He was transferred to Africa from his

British base in time to take part in theTunisian and Sicilian campaigns and tomake a bombing raid deep into northernItaly. While in Africa, he saw Lt . J. C.Grimes, '40journ, also of Oklahoma City .00, Lt . Col. Russell Dwight Funk, '24,Oklahoma City, commander of a FieldArtillery unit of the 45th Division, hasreceived the Silver Star for action betweenSalerno and Naples during the Siciliancampaign .The citation read in part, "Colonel

Funk, with complete disregard for per-sonal safety, made his way to a forwardobservation point, and while under con-tinual fire, so effectively directed the fireof his battalion that all enemy fire wassilenced ."10-Lt . Chester C. Kennedy, '35, Konawa,pilot in the Southwest Pacific, has beenawarded the Silver Star for gallantry inaction . He and his crew members aidedin a detecting a Japanese convoy and lead-ing U. S. forces to the location .

Lieutenant Kennedy also holds the Dis-tinguished Flying Cross and an Air Medalwith several Oak Leaf Clusters .

Deaths in ServiceEnsign Ivan O. Johnson, Jr ., '40, Tulsa,

a Navy pilot, was reported killed in actionin a Navy casualty list released October16 . The announcement gave no details .Ensign Johnson received his wings at

the Naval Air Station, Corpus Christi,Texas. He was a former student in the

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College of Arts and Sciences at the Uni-versity .No- The death of William Jacob Graham,Jr ., '38, seaman first class from OklahomaCity, was reported in a Navy casualty listwhich gave no details. Mr . Graham wasfirst listed as missing in action in June,1942 .His status was changed to that of pris-

oner of war in May, 1943, when it wasannounced that he was taken captive bythe Japanese in the Philippine campaign .Survivors include his mother, Mrs. LillianGraham, of Oklahoma City .

Pi- Cpl . Willis N. Jarboe, '41fa, Lexing-ton and Norman, member of a Field Ar-tillery unit of the 45th Division, was killedin action in Italy on October 5 . He hadserved in North Africa and Sicily beforelanding in Italy.While attending the School of Drama

at the University, Corporal Jarboe was amember of the University Players and ElModju allied arts fraternity . For his out-standing work as a drama student, he re-ceived the Buffalo Mask, highest honor theDrama School awards .

Survivors include his wife, the formerDayle Smith, and a sister, Lavada Jarboe,'42he, both of Norman .0- Oliver Hallmark, '28233, Durant,pharmacist's mate second class in theNavy, died of a heart ailment in the NavalHospital at Monticello, Arkansas, on Oc-tober 5 .Mr. Hallmark was a pharmacist in Dur-

ant from the time he left the Universityuntil he enlisted in the Navy a year anda half ago. He was on the staff of theMonticello hospital . He was a former stu-dent in the School of Pharmacy .

Survivors include his wife and his par-ents, Mr . and Mrs. C. W. Hallmark, ofDenison, Texas.00- Lt . Murlyn F. Burnett, '40, OklahomaCity, was killed in action with the AirForce in the European theater on August17, according to a report from the Inter-national Red Cross in November. Hewas formerly reported missing in action .An Air Medal with an Oak Leaf Cluster

was presented in Lieutenant Burnett'sname to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. FredB. Burnett, at Will Rogers Field on Oc-tober 19 .

Lieutenant Burnett was commissionedat Monroe, Louisiana, in December, 1942,and went overseas last May. He was aformer engineering sudent in the Univer-sity.

Aviation Cadet Jack McDuffey, '39-'40, Oklahoma City, died in an airplanecrash on October 13 near Pecos, Texas,where he was taking basic flying at thePecos Air Field.Cadet McDuffey was a former freshman

arts and science student and a pledge toAlpha Tau Omega fraternity . He alsoattended Kemper Military Academy, Boon-ville, Missouri, and Oklahoma City Uni-versity. Survivors include his 'parents,

DECEMBER, 1943

ON GREATEST RAIDCart . Ellis Brown, '39, piloted thefirst heaver bomber over the target inthe heaviest air assault of the South-

west Pacific .

Mr . and Mrs. C. C. McDuffey, OklahomaCity .

Missing in ActionLt. Owen G. Smith, '34236, Norman,

bombardier on a Flying Fortress, was re-ported missing in action after his planefailed to return from a mission over Brem-en, Germany, on October 8.Two days earlier, Lieutenant Smith

performed a daring feat during a raid overFrankfurt, Germany, after a bomb gotcaught in the catwalk instead of fallingclear when it was released . He suspendedhimself from the catwalk, 23,000 feet upin the air, and tugged at the bomb untilit fell .While he was out of the plane, his oxy-

gen supply ran out and his hand wasfrost-bitten, but he was able to go on theBremen raid two days later. He receivedbombardier training at Midland, Texas,after transferring to the Air Force fromthe Quartermaster Corps.00- Latest information about Lt . GusKitchens, '38242, Sasakwa, Air Force pilotlisted as missing in action for the last 18months, came from an officer from hissquadron who recently was in Dallas, Tex-as, on leave.He related that Lieutenant Kitchens'

last flight was over Lae in April, 1942,when other men in his squadron saw hisship crash after failing to pull out of apower dive on a Japanese ammunitiondump. A few days later reconnaissanceplanes sighted the wrecked plane but sawno signs of survivors or bodies .

It was assumed that Lieutenant Kitchensand his crew members escaped alive andwere taken prisoners by the Japanese .

Prisoners of WarA letter from Lt . Harry F. Lorenzen,

'421aw, El Reno, a prisoner of the Germangovernment, was received by his motherin October. He was captured in Julywhile serving in Sicily with a Field Ar-tillery battalion.

Lieutenant Lorenzen wrote that he wasnot wounded and was in good health .He asked for cigarets, food and news fromhome .i A post card has been received by Mrs.D. C. McAfee, Oklahoma City, from herson Maj . Carlos E. McAfee, '281aw, whois a prisoner of the Japanese formerly in-terned at Camp Osaka, Japan.

Recently he was transferred to the pris-on camp at Zentsuji, Japan, according toa War Department report . Major Mc-Afee wrote that he was "in good healthand spirits," and asked his mother to in-form Dr. John C. Hubbard, OklahomaCity physician, that "everything is allright."

This was taken as reference to Dr . Hub-bard's son, Maj. Ralph Hubbard, '32med,who is also a Japanese prisoner.

Injured in ServiceLt . Warren G. Myers, '38240, Norman,

member of a 45th Division Field Artil-lery battalion, was in a hospital in Sicilyin September after receiving a wound inthe left hand . He expected to be backwith his outfit soon .

Lieutenant Myers' battalion commanderis Lt . Col. Hal Muldrow, '28bus, Norman .0- Lt . William Conner, '41, Durant andOklahoma City, Army Air Force bombar-dier, received several broken ribs whenhis Flying Fortress, Purgatory Pete, madea crash landing into the Mediterranean offthe North African coast.The bomber was returning from an at-

tack over Germany, part of the England-North Africa "shuttle raids" on Europe,when it was forced down at sea. Lieu-tenant Conner, was sent to a hospital inNorth Africa to recover from his injuries .

Back From BattlefrontsCapt . Forrest (Patty) Dowling, Jr ., '34-

'35, Oklahoma City pilot who was in thefirst American Eagle squadron of theRoyal Air Force, returned to the UnitedStates last month for duty as an instructor .

Captain Dowling went into service withthe R.A.F . in March, 1941, and later trans-ferred to the U. S . Air Force. He recentlywas promoted to his present rank .

Returning to this country with himwere his wife, whom he married while inEngland, and their baby son Michael.t Capt . Barth P. (Jiggs) Walker, '40geol,'401aw, Oklahoma City, has returned fromduty with the Air Force in North Africaand was assigned to the Command andGeneral Staff School at Fort Leavenworth,Kansas, for training .

Captain Walker and Mrs. Walker (Lu-cille Brotherton, '411aw) visited the Alum-ni Office in early November .

® Capt . Denver B . Davison, '36-'41,Oklahoma City, a veteran of North Afri-can aerial warfare, has returned to theUnited States for duty with a Fightersquadron at the Pinellas Army Air Base,St. Petersburg, Florida. He holds the AirMedal with seven Oak Leaf Clusters .11, Capt. John Y. Battenfield, '37med,Oklahoma City, who recently returnedfrom duty in the Caribbean area, wasstationed at Camp Mackall, North Caro-lina, as Medical Corps officer with a Para-chute Infantry group.1 Tech . Sgt. Ray Hamby, '41, Hobart,of the Medical Corps, has returned to theUnited States after 16-months service inIndia with a medical discharge from theArmy . He was in a hospital in Indiabefore being transferred .After arriving in India in the summer

of 1941, Sergeant Hamby was stationedat Karachi, but later was moved forwardto an advanced air base close to the Him-alaya Mountains which was occasionallyattacked by Japanese planes .III- Capt. Carleton G. Shead, '37eng, pilotof a Flying Fortress based in England,was home on leave in Norman in Novem-ber. He holds the Distinguished FlyingCross, an Air Medal and five Oak LeafClusters .

Captain Shead became chief pilot of theFortress, the Prodigal Son, after servingduring five raids as co-pilot . He went ona bombing raid over East Prussia, his 25thmission, shortly before returning to theUnited States .

Missions AccomplishedThe first heavy bomber over the target

in the October 12 raid on Japanese instal-lations at Rabaul, New Britain, was pilotedby Capt . Ellis L. Brown, '39eng, Duncan .The raid was termed by Air Force of-

ficials "the heaviest air assault in the his-tory of the Southwest Pacific." GeneralMacArthur said the attack on the huge ene-my base "broke its back ." Captain Brownrecently received the Distinguished FlyingCross.1 A raid on German Naval installationsat Danzig early in October was the twelfthbombing mission for Lt . William Selvidge,'421aw, former state representative fromArdmore now with the Air Force in Eng-land .Lieutenant Selvidge's only comment up-

on returning from the grueling round-trip across Europe was, "It was long andtiresome."1 Staff Sgt. William W. Adamson, '40-'42, Tulsa, was tail gunner on a FlyingFortress which participated in mass attackson Germany in November . During oneraid his ship destroyed a German fighterplane which was attacking another Fort-ress .

Sergeant Adamson and the other gun-ners fought the enemy ship off while thecrew members of the disabled sister shipparachuted to earth.

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1 Maj . Edwin A. Bland, '34-'39, Wau-rika, participated in what was termed theheaviest dive bombing attack ever made,which blasted German artillery installationson the western Italian front late in Oc-tober .Squadrons dive-bombed the enemy po-

sitions all day at a speed of 400 miles anhour .

PromotionsThree alumni have recently been pro-

moted to the rank of lieutenant colonel .They are E. L. (Mike) Massad, '32, Ard-more, former commanding officer ofC.C.C . camps at Flagstaff and Springer-ville, Arizona, now on the staff of theAirborne division at Camp Mackall, NorthCarolina ; Delmar W. Holleman, '35ba,former Maryland attorney, with the Gen-eral Staff Corps in Miami Beach, Florida,and R. Julian Mason, '34-'36, Houston,Texas, on duty with the Air Force in theNorth Pacific war zone . Colonel Masonholds the Distinguished Service Cross formeritorious action at Dutch Harbor, Alas-ka .New majors among the alumni include the fol-

lowing : James E . Bush, '301aw, Tulsa, Air ForceBasic Training Center, Atlantic City, New Jersey ;Walter D . Atkins, '27-'29, Seminole, assistantcommandant of student officers at Brooks Field,Texas ; Robert A . Norman, '37-'41, Norman ;Fort Sill ; L. A . Sypert Johnston, '36mccl, onthe staff of the Station Hospital at LaughlinField, Del Rio, Texas ; Britt Clapham, '34eng,Norman, Fort Belvoir, Virginia .

Joseph J . Swan, '39med, Oklahoma City, FortKnox, Kentucky ; H . L. Gasaway, '36law, CampHood, Texas ; Max S . Lale, '38journ, Fort Sill ;John D . Prendergast, '38eng, Oklahoma City,overseas, and Robert E . Lyon, '376a, Shawnee,Foster Field, Texas . He and Mrs . Lyon are theparents of a baby daughter Dorothy Roberta.

Recently promoted in rank to captain werethe following : Pearl Mount Wood, '32ma, Okla-homa City, commander of the WAC detachmentat Fort Sam Houston, Texas ; G . Robert Robin-son, '41eng, Miami, Camp Polk, Louisiana ;Walter Blevins, '38bus, Oklahoma City, Harlin-gcn, Texas ; Robert L. Grady, '381aw, overseaswith the Field Artillery ; John A . Pennington,'40m .ed, Alva, Signal Corps officer on duty atthe Red River Ordnance Depot, Texarkana, Texas .

Donald W . Jackson, '41eng, Lexington, FortSam Houston, Texas ; John E . Horne, '39-'41,Chickasha, Aviation Cadet Center, San Antonio,Texas ; George L . T . Hustead, '40bus, Lyford,Texas, Camp Chaffee, Arkansas ; St . Clair New-bern, '39bus, Camp Gruber, Oklahoma ; Quyn-ton R . Hampton, '37-'41, Norman, overseas withthe Ordnance ; Emmett K . Barnett, '33-'35,Chickasha, Fort Sill ; Melvin R. Bullington, '41eng, Sasakwa, Garden City Army Air Field,Kansas, and Max Marple, '39, former Pawhuskanewspaperman now an Air Force public relationsofficer in the Mediterranean theater . CaptainMarple is one of the staff of public relations of-ficers who prepare communiques and censor newsreleases at the front .

Advanced in rank to first lieutenant were thefollowing : James Brennan, '376a, Eufaula, Corpsof Engineers ; Carl H . Noel, '421aw, Maud, onduty in the New York City field investigationbranch of the Office of Dependency Benefits ;Arnold Court, '34ba, Norman, with the Air Forcein Alaska ; Donald J. Branyan, '42eng, Cushing,Panama Canal Zone ; Jack W. Wolfe, '37, Law-ton, Camp Roberts, California ; Robert O. Bur-kett, '39geo1, Minter Field, California ; HenryH . Kidd, '38pharm, Amarillo, Texas, TinkerField, Oklahoma, and Baxter Hammons, '40bus,Seminole, Fort Adams, Rhode Island . Lieutenant

Hammons is assistant adjutant of the harbor de-fenses of Narragansett Bay .John N . Singletary, '411aw, Oklahoma City,

has been promoted from flight officer to secondlieutenant at Bowman Field, Kentucky, where heis a member of the Troop Carrier Command .Promoted to sergeant were William L . Mene-

fee, Jr ., '36-'41, Pauls Valley, Army Air Field,Santa Ana, California ; George W . Hill, '39-'42,Norman, Army Air Base, Alexandria, Louisiana,and W . E . Thomas, '40ed, Norman, weatherobserver with the Air Force in San Diego, Cali-fornia .

Robert R . Kirkpatrick, '40-'42, Chickasha, withthe Signal Corps at Camp Kohler, California,has been advanced to technician fifth grade. F .Leslie Potter, '39m .cd, Mangum, attached to aFighter squadron at Oxnard, California, was pro-moted to corporal .Advancement to captain in the Marine Corps

came to Warren Morris, '41phys .ed, Tulsa, onactive duty in the Pacific .

In the Navy, Richard L . Wagner, '301aw,Chandler, at the Sampson, New York, NavalTraining Station, and John W . Gittinger, '38ba,'39ms, Norman, at the Naval Air Station, Mem-phis, Tennessee, have been promoted to the rankof full lieutenant.

Recently advanced from ensign to lieutenantjunior grade were the following : Carlton Mc-Kinney, '42eng, Olney, Texas, aboard ship in thePacific ; Dean London, '39bus, Ringling, supplyofficer on a ship with the Atlantic fleet ; J . J .Uri, '37eng, Okmulgee, overseas ; Richard L .Long, '42ba, Oklahoma City, overseas, and LouisBrown, '426us, Shawnee, on duty at the NavalAir Station, Jacksonville, Florida.

J . Derrell Smith, '26pharm, former OklahomaCity and Tulsa pharmacist, received his pro-motion to warrant officer in the Navy HospitalCorps while stationed in the Aleutian Islands .Mr. Smith, who was formerly a pharmacist'smate first class, expected to return to the UnitedStates this fall for a new duty assignment .

Other promotions in the Navy were : SidneyV. Taylor, Jr., '39-'42, Norman, Navy Pier, Chi-cago, to aviation machinist's mate third class ;N . J . Hepburn, '39, Naval Reserve Aviation Base,Olathe, Kansas, to storekeeper second class, andJames M . Jackson, '40-'43, Chickasha, at sea, toyeoman first class .

New OfficersCharles Grady, Jr ., '32bus, '39m.bus, re-

signed in October as principal of FosterHigh School, south of Oklahoma City, toaccept a commission as lieutenant juniorgrade in the Navy . He was ordered toNew Orleans, Louisiana. Mrs . Grady(Margaret Hammers, '31fa) and their sonCharles III remained in Oklahoma City .

Also receiving a Naval commission aslieutenant junior grade was Dwight Tolle,'391aw, Okemah attorney, who was or-dered to Tucson, Arizona, for an indoc-trination course . Thomas H. Tillman,'43bs, Oklahoma City, was commissionedan ensign in the Naval Reserve Midship-men's Training School in New York City,and expected to be assigned to sea dutysoon . At the Naval Air Station, Pensa-cola, Florida, Kenneth E. Lampkin, Jr .,'38-'42, Hobart, received his commissionas an ensign in the Naval Air Corps.

Recently commissioned second lieuten-ants in the Marine Corps at Quantico,Virginia, were John C. Peters, '43pharm,Shawnee, and Homer B . Simmons, '43ed,Seminole .New officers in the Army Air Force, and

the fields at which they received theirwings, include the following : Capt. Everett

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C. Rowe, '37-'40, Tulsa, who transferredfrom the Field Artillery, Brooks Field,Texas; Lt . Lowell D. Sollenberger, '41eng,Norman, and Lt . Ralph D. Day, '41-'42,Trees, Louisiana, both at Foster Field,Texas; Lt . Harold Swindler, '32-'35, Abi-lene, Texas, Blackland Army Air Field,Texas; Lt . J. A. Lee McCourry, '38-'40,Holdenville, at the Air Force Administra-tive Officer Candidate School, MiamiBeach, Florida ; William H . Allen, Jr ., '40-'42, Leedey, Mather Field, California ; GuyO. Bayless, Jr., '39bus, Claremore, Hondo,Texas, and T. J. Lucado, '40-'41, Okla-homa City, Yuma, Arizona.Marvin Reed, '40-'43, Purcell, was com-

missioned a second lieutenant in the Ord-nance division of the Army at AberdeenProving Grounds, Maryland .

Army TraineesOne company of the Army Specialized

Training Unit at the University is com-posed of last year's R.O.T.C . students,who returned to the campus after takingbasic training at Fort Bragg, North Caro-lina, and Fort Sill last summer. Pro-moted to private first class upon their re-turn to the University, the trainees are asfollows:

Dale B . Abel, '40-'43, Tyrone ; Max G. Allen,'40-'43, Norman ; Ben A . Ames, Jr ., 1 40-'43 ,Oklahoma City ; Joe Basolo, '40-'43, McAlester ;Joe K . Bass, '41 243, Caddo ; Wirt R . Batis, '41-'43, Ardmore ; Howard T . Baugh, Jr ., '40-'43,Oklahoma City ; Theodore R . Beck, '40-'43,Bradford, Pennsylvania, and Robert K. Billings,'41-'43, Tulsa.John M . Bingham, '40-'43, Okmulgee ; Rodger

D . Brightbill, '40-'43, Bethany ; Joe D. Bruton,'40243, Kellerville, Texas ; R . Wayne Carlisle,'40-'43, Laverne ; William S. Chancy, '40-'43,Hugo ; William C . Cheek, '40-'43, OklahomaCity ; Elmer B . Cole, '40-'43, Oklahama City ;Clay N . Courier, '40-'43, Lahoma ; Howard T .Craun, '40-'43, Sapulpa, and Glenn D . Dickinson,'40-'43, Prague.

Robert M . Dillon, '40-'43, Oklahoma City ; JohnR . Ellinghausen, '40-'43, Sapulpa ; Robert F .Faulkner, '40-'43, Electra, Texas ; Drew V . Finley,Jr ., '40-'43, Shawnee ; Paul E . Fondren, '40-'43,Oklahoma City ; Vernon L . Force, '39-'43, Nor-man ; Gene Friedman, '40-'43, Wellington,Kansas, and Gilbert A . Frisbie, '40-'43, Guthrie .

Pleasant V. Furgason, '40-'43, Buffalo ; DavidW . George, '40-'43, Cleveland ; Samuel D . Haas,'40-'43, Alexandria, Louisiana ; Daniel C . Ham-ilton, '40-'43, Oklahoma City ; Fred D . Harris,'40-'43, Tulsa ; Winfred H . Henderson, '40-'43,Thackerville ; Douglass Hendrix, '40-'43, WeWeleetkaand Edward Henley, '40-'43 PondCreek.

John A . Horton, '40-'43, Meeker ; Thomas D .Howard, '40-'43, Norman ; Bill Ingler, Jr ., '40-43, Clinton ; Douglas R. Jaeger, '40-'43, Tulsa ;Harry E . King, '40-'43, Enid ; Gus J. Kiriopolos,'40-'43, Oklahoma City ; John F . Krisher, '40-'43,McCurtain ; Marion R . Lawton, '40243, Paw-huska, and Clayton E . Lee, '40-'43, OklahomaCity .

James H. Lepley, '40243, Oklahoma City ; Les-lie H. Long, '40243, Tulsa ; William E . Maltby,'40-'43, Bartlesville ; John E . Marshall, Jr., '42ba,Norman ; Donald L. Means, '40-'43, Wilson ; JohnS . Miller, '40-'43, Tulsa ; Charles L . Moon, '40-'43, Norman ; Harry D . Moreland, Jr ., '40243,Norman ; Charles J . Murphy, '40-'43, Tulsa ;Charles W . McCarty, '40-'43, Norman ; ArthurM. McClelland, '40-'43, Oklahoma City, andJames C . McGiboney, '40-'43, Sulphur .James F . Nickel, '40-'43, Clinton ; Glenn C .Norville, '40-'43, Oklahoma City Harold L . Os-

DECEMBER, 1943

Praised 6y Chinese High Command

BRIG . GEN. J. J . WATERS

Two former Oklahomans received highpraise recently from the Chinese high com-mand for their direction of a trainingcenter set up by the U. S. Army in Chinafor training Chinese artillery officers .Commanding officer is Brig . Gen . Jer-

ome J. Waters, Jr., formerly of the Uni-versity R.O.T.C . staff, and executive of-ficer is Lt . Col . Robert J. Price, '271aw,former Oklahoma City attorney . ColonelPrice was assistant adjutant of the FieldArtillery Replacement Training Center atFort Sill before going to China.

After his inspection of the trainingcenter in China, a high ranking Chineseofficer commented, "I am particularly im-pressed with the fine spirit of the Ameri-can instructors, with their methods of in-struction and equipment. We all thinkAmerican methods are simple and prac-tical."The training center was established in

March, 1943, under the control of the Chi-nese Army, with instruction carried out byofficers of the United States Army andChinese graduates of the training center .Approximately one thousand officers and

enlisted men were expected to have com-

borne, '39-'43, Oklahoma City ; Bruce B . Petti-grove, '40-'43, Dewey ; Owen F. Renegar, '40-'43,Oklahoma City ; Edwin W . Sanford, '40-'43, Ho-bart ; Sam G . Shackelford, '40-'43, El Reno ;Alvin V. Shelden, '40-'43, Oklahoma City, andAlan B . Shinn, '40-'43, Alfalfa .

Vergil A . Shipley, '40-'43, Amber ; Don M .Simecheck, '40-'43, Oklahoma City ; John H .Smith, '40243, Oklahoma City ; Howard M .Sowers, '40-'43, Medford ; Stratford B . Tolson,'40-'43, Pawhuska ; Gerald M . Tucker, '40-'43,Winfield, Kansas, and John J . Turner, '40-'43,Lawton.

Curtis E . Turney, '40-'43, Pawhuska ; Clayton

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pleted artillery courses by the end of Oc-tober. All instruction is carried onthrough a force of 25 interpreters, necessi-tating the instruction of these interpretersin Field Artillery and military terms.At the University where he was known

as "Captain Jerry," General Waters hadcharge of the polo team in addition tohis R.O.T.C . duties . He has been in theArmy 26 years and served in France dur-ing World War I as a battery captain.His son, Sgt. Jerome J. Waters 111, '42,serves under him on the staff of the Chi-nese artillery school .

Colonel Price was stationed in India,where he saw a tiger one day near camp,before moving north into China. A re-cent letter from him indicated how Soon-ers in the Southwest Pacific keep in touchwith each other despite their scatteredposts of duty ."Had a letter from Lee Thompson

(Air Corps colonel, '271aw) in the South-west Pacific last week," he reported, "alsoone from John Cheadle (captain, '271aw)down in India." . . . . "Expecting ClydeWatts ('341aw) up sometime soon . He'sa major now you know."

B . Turpin, '40-'43, Oklahoma City ; David L.Walker, '40-'43, Cleveland ; Jack D . Wettengel,'40-'43, Rush Springs ; Robert D . White, '40-'43,Norman ; Charles D . Axelrod, '40-'43, Bellaire,Ohio ; Lewis H . Bond, Jr ., '40-'43, Vernon, Tex-as ; Peter W . Cawthon, '40-'43, Lubbock, Texas ;Roland L . Coit, '40-'43, Oklahoma City, andEdgar L . Cralle, '40-'43, Tuttle.Gordon H . Dempsey, '40-'43, Blackwell ; Rich-

ard R . Goodwin, '40-'43, Manhattan, Illinois ;Ralph A . Herzmark, '40-'43, Ardmore ; RichardW. Hillyer, '40-'43, Tulsa ; Tom L . Ingram, '40-'43, Fort Worth, Texas ; Harold N . Keesec, '40-'43, Frederick ; Maurice Lewis, '40-'43, Hobart ;

Eugene H . Levering, '42-'43, Baytown, Texas,and Duane D . Lunger, '40-'43, Oklahoma City .

James O. Melton, '40-'43, Hastings ; CharlesR. Moore, '40-'43, Hugo ; Jack L . Musgrove, '41-'43, Ardmore ; Glenn P . Myer, '40-'43, Tulsa ;Robert W . Oliver, '40-'43, Oklahoma City ; RoyD . Putty, '40-'43, Oklahoma City ; Fred S . Rey-nolds, '40-'43, Norman ; Tom Scanland, '41-'43,Oklahoma City ; Robert D . Slonneger, '41243 :Dallas, Texas ; V . Yale Stillwell, '40-'43, Holden-ville, and Kenneth R . Wasson, '40-'43, Chick-asha .

Directs Air Force ShowCapt . Larry Cotton, '33, of the Sacra-

mento Air Service Command in Californ-ia, was officer in charge of a large musicalshow At Your Service presented recentlyat Sacramento .

Designed to show in song and dancethe variety of jobs performed by the AirService Command to keep U. S. fliersflying, the musical consisted of two actsand included several original songs writtenespecially for the production .Songs included It's Hot in Chile, Isn't

Love a Rainbow, I Wonder How She IsTonight and I Got the Bird on the CanaryIslands . Staging of the production washandled by Master Sergeant Ezra Stone,better known to radio listeners as HenryAldrich.At Your Service is one of the numerous

shows, radio broadcasts and other enter-tainments which Captain Cotton has pro-duced since he was stationed at Sacra-mento as public relations officer. Severalof his radio shows have been broadcast byshortwave to men on foreign duty .Fourfold purpose of At Your Service

as set forth by Brig . Gen. C. W. Howard,commanding general of the SacramentoAir Service Command, was to entertainmen and women in uniform, to accumu-late funds for athletic and recreational usefor the armed forces here and abroad, togive a tangible explanation of the workof the Air Service Command and to, insome measure, express to the Americanpublic the appreciation those in uniformfeel for the homefront sacrifices whichthey are making .Captain Cotton formerly was vocalist

with Horace Heidt's Orchestra and as-sistant director of the Musical Knights. Hehas been featured on Columbia records,the Pot O' Gold and Treasure Chest pro-grams and in motion pictures .

On Pacific StaffComdr. J. Rowland McKnight, '26,

Oklahoma City, has been appointed tothe staff of the commander in chief of thePacific fleet . He holds the Silver Star formeritorious action as captain of a sub-marine which has a high record of de-struction against the enemy.

Pilot's Picture AppearsA picture of Lt . Howard Hively, '37-

'40, Norman, appeared with an article ina recent issue of Life magazine which de-scribed moving pictures made by auto-

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matic cameras installed in the wings offighter planes based in England.

Included with Lieutenant Hively's pic-ture were photographs of a German Focke-Wulf he destroyed in battle . The articleexplained how the films are made andstudied intensively by Air Force men.

Article to Be PublishedMaj . John M. Cotton, '25-'27, Medical

Corps officer, has sold an article to Nation-al Geographic on a month's visit he madeto the islands around New Caledonia dur-ing his period of duty in the South Pacific .Major Cotton recently returned to this

country for service at a hospital at Jackson,Mississippi . He has charge of the psychi-atric ward where men back from the bat-tlefronts are treated . Major Cotton's par-ents live in Norman .

With Troops in ItalyLt . Sara Jane Green, '41he, Army dieti-

tian serving with General Clark's FifthArmy in Italy, covered a lot of territoryin two-months time after she left Wash-ington, D. C., for foreign service .

Traveling by air most of the way, Lieu-tenant Green first journeyed to Florida,then to South America, where she stayedbriefly, then across the South Atlantic toPortugal, and on to Casablanca, Algiers,Oran and Sicily before landing in Italy.Her clothes were sent across on a ship

which was bombed en route, and as a re-sult she has been wearing such G. 1. gar-ments as were available in Italy. Herduties consist of apportioning rations andmaking the best of the supplies at hand .She wrote that she had been sleeping onthe ground and that the flies were prettybad.

Designs Plane InsigniaInsignia on the planes of the Field Artil-

lery liaison squadron at Camp Carson, Col-orado, was designed by Lt . Lowell Hess,'42, former campus artist and cartoonist .

Featured in the insignia is a cocky-look-cocky looking grasshopper clad in ten-gallon hat andboots done in three colors, red, yellow-green and cream.The grasshopper emblem was chosen by

Lieutenant Hess because the fast, lightplanes used by the Field Artillery for ob-servation purposes are called "grasshop-pers ." They are not a part of the AirForce.

DIRECTS MUSICAL SHOWCapt. Larry Cotton, '33, producer ofSacramentos big all-Army cast musicalshow and Mrs. Cotton (center)

OverseasLt. Sid E . Cockrell, Jr., '386us, Tulsa, is on

duty in Iceland as aide-de-camp to Maj . Gen . W .S . Key, commanding officer of U. S . Army troopsthere . Lieutenant Cockrell sent the Alumni Office a"partial list of Oklahoma University men in Ice-land," as follows : Capt . G . V . Stein, '411aw, Mi-ami ; Capt . Guy R . Nichols, '36-'41, Cordell ; Lt .R . M . Elliott, '331aw, Oklahoma City ; Lt. Ken-neth R . Lowe, '41, Ardmore ; Lt . William W .Musser, '41law, Enid ; Lt . Dee F. Pendley, Jr .,'37-'41, Paoli ; Capt. Glenn E . Hess, '40eng, Okla-homa City, and Lt . Keegan Carter, '42geo1, Hugo .Lieutenant Cockrell was inducted into the ex-clusive Blue Nose organization after flying overthe Arctic Circle, and recently took part in cele-brations of the birthday of King Haakon of Den-mark, as Iceland is a Danish possession .

Sgt. Dick Barkley, '27, Ranger, Texas, is tailgunner on a Flying Fortress based in Englandwhich has gone on a number of raids over Ger-many . Sergeant Barkley joined the Royal Ca-nadian Air Force in 1940 as a pilot instructorat a Canadian field, and later transferred to theCanadian Engineers . Shortly after he was sentto England he obtained a transfer to the U. S .Army Air Force .

Lt. Paul A . Goodin, '35ma, Okmulgee, is as-sistant Naval attache at the American Embassyin San Salvador, the capital of El Salvador, Cen-Central America. Mrs. Goodin, the former Onis Jones,'35ma, is with him there .Maj . Rollin C . Boyles, '25, former assistant

manager of the Apco Tower in Oklahoma City,is chief of the vehicle assembly and storage sec-tion at Army supply headquarters in England .Major Boyles has been overseas since August,1942.Lt. Col . John W . Darrough, '30med, former

Everett, Washington, physician, is commandingofficer of an Evacuation hospital in Papua, NewGuinea . Colonel Darrough entered the MedicalCorps at Fort Lewis, Washington, in September,1940 .Lt. Jack T. Smith, '34-'36, formerly in charge

of the Oklahoma Highway Patrol division at Per-Perry is on duty with Naval forces in the SolomonIslands . Lieutenant Smith attended NorthwesternUniversity, Evanston, Illinois, in 1939 on an Al-fred Sloan fellowship to study traffic control, sci-entific crime investigation, law and public speak-ing. He received a commission as ensign inthe Navy last January.Maj . James A . Embry, '376a, Chandler, is com-

mander of a squadron of Marine Corsair fightersin the Pacific war zone . Major Embry joinedthe Marine Corps soon after his graduation fromthe University .Lt. Robert E . Lewis, '41, Pryor, is on duty

with an Air Force Bombardment squadron inthe Southwest Pacific . He reported having seenan alumnus in Australia and opined "you cer-tainly encounter Sooners in some unexpectedplaces ."

Cpl . Wade McCown, '43journ, Duncan, is onduty in the South Pacific with a Signal CorpsReplacement battalion .

Archer Fullingim, '25ba, former Pampa, Texas,newspaperman, is a yeoman first class on dutywith a Navy Construction Battalion in the South-west Pacific .

Capt . Albert J . Thomas, '326us, Fayetteville,Arkansas, is on foreign duty with the Army AirForces .On duty with the same Engineer Combat or-

ganization in the Pacific are Capt . William C.Hargis, '39-'40, Achille, Oklahoma, and Lt . W.F . Carter, '38-'40, Muskogee .

Lt . (jg) Charles F . Thomson, '42hus, Okmul-gree, is on duty as receiving officer in the supplydepartment of the Naval Air Station at DutchHarbor, Alaska . Lieutenant Thomson has beenat Dutch Harbor since May .

Capt . Thomas P. Ryan, '42eng, Ponca City, ison duty with the Ordnance department in Eng-land .

Lt . Henry Dolezal, '331aw, member of a FieldArtillery Replacement battalion, is on duty over-seas .

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Lt . John Cravens, '401aw, Tulsa, is on dutywith a Cavalry Reconnaissance troop in the Aleu-tian Islands.

Lt . Leroy Lewin, '38-'39, Oklahoma City, hasbeen transferred to foreign duty with the Cavalry .

Lt . Joe Thompson, '40-'42, Cushing, is onduty with the U . S . Air Force in England as pilotof a B-26 Marauder.

Lt. Frank H. Spence, '41journ, Sayre, has beenassigned to duty overseas as an Air Force censorand public relations man .

Lt . Marion C . Lutes, '396us, member of anAir Force Bombardment group, has been transfer-red to duty in the Pacific .

Lt. Ernest M . Hite, '426us, Oklahoma City, ofthe Quartermaster Corps, has been assigned toduty overseas .

Ensign James L . Kerr, '41geo1, Tulsa, has beentransferred to the Naval Air Station at DutchHarbor, Alaska, where he is on duty in the aerol-ogy office .

Capt . Harold Sullivan, '351aw, Oklahoma City,is on foreign duty as a member of the judge Ad-vocate General's Department .Capt . Charles W . McClellan, '41med, Clare-

more, is on foreign duty as a Medical Corpsofficer . Captain McClellan did his interneshipat Broadlawn Hospital in Des Moines, Iowa.Capt. John Gossett, '40ba, Norman, is fighting

with the Fifth Army in Italy as a Field Artilleryofficer. He participated in the beachhead battlesat Salerno .

Lt . (jg) Kenneth W . Henson, '33eng Tulsa,is on foreign duty with a Navy Construction bat-talion .

Capt. Henry F . Schweer, '31geol, former Okla-homa City geologist, is an aerial photography in-telligence officer with the Air Force in NorthAfrica .

Pfc. Dwain E. Penner, '36-'37, McAlester, ison duty in the South Pacific as a glider mechanicwith an Airways Control squadron .

Lt . William R . Lavery, '41eng, Muskogee, ison foreign duty as a squadron engineering of-ficer with the Air Force.

Lt . George H . W . Ingels, '31-'33, has been as-signed to duty overseas with the Army Air Force .

Capt . John W. Henderson, '40eng, OklahomaCity, is with an Ordnance company in the NorthPacific area .

Sgt. Raymon L . Hamilton, '38-'41, Ringling, ison duty in the South Pacific as a Marine Corpsradioman .

Cpl . Charles F. Barwick, '266a, '28ma, Guthrie,was on duty in the Mediterranean theater .

Lt. John S . (Jack) Barwick, '23geol, Guthrie,was an intelligence officer with the Air Force inNorth Africa .

Lt. Maury Bradford, '28-'29, Tulsa, was as-signed to the judge advocate section of Air ForceService Command headquarters in North Africa .

At Sea

Walter O . Cralle, Jr., '40-'43, Springfield, Mis-souri, is at sea as a junior engineer aboard aMerchant Marine vessel . A former Universityengineering student, he wrote that the engineroom of a Victory ship is a fine engineering lab-oratory .On Navy duty in the Pacific are Ensign W. J .

Ivester, '43ba, Sayre ; Thomas K . Pennock, fr., '40-'41, Pond Creek, radioman third class, and EnsignCharles H . Hutchins, '42eng, Norman .

Ensign J . P. Parks, '42bus, Dustin, is on dutywith the Navy in North Africa .

ArmyLt. Edward E . Dale, fr., '42ba, Norman, whorecently transferred from the Field Artillery tothe Air Force, was attending pre-flight school atMaxwell Field, Alabama . Also there was Avi-ation Cadet John L. James, '4142, Woodward .Lt . George L . Coffey, '39-'42, Norman, wasassigned to a Fighter squadron at the Army AirField, Santa Rosa, California .Sgt . Richard W . Davis, '386us, Marietta, wasattached to an Ordnance battalion at Camp SantaAnita, Arcadia, California .Lt . Col . E . H . (Bud) Larecy, '26, has been

DECEMBER, 1943

WITH FIFTH ARMY

Lt . Sara Jane Green, '41he, serves inItaly as an Army Dietitian with Gen-

eral Clark's Fifth Army .

transferred to headquarters of the Desert Train-ing Center at Camp Young, Indio, California .Colonel Larcey, former Oklahoma C.C .C . official,was ordered to Camp Young after maneuvers inOregon this fall .

Cpl . Edmund B . Clark, '39-'42, OklahomaCity, was stationed at Hammer Field, California .

Cpl . Harold C . Hufbauer, '241aw, Newkirk,was on duty in the Base Weather Station atMarch Field, California .

Aviation Cadet Hal Cumberland, '40-'43, Sa-lina, Kansas, was in training at the Army FlyingSchool, Lemoore, California .

Lt. Charles M . Brake, '41ba, Norman, was onduty with the Medical Administrative Corps atMather Field, California.

Lt. Everett M . Lewis, '39geol, Anti-aircraftTraining battery commander, was stationed atCamp Callan, San Diego, California .

Hal G . Hoberecht, '41-'43, Weatherford, wasin training as an aviation cadet at the Army AirField, Victorville, California .

Pvt . A . F. Roach, '41242, Hollis, was attachedto an Army Specialized Training Unit at theUniversity of San Francisco in California .Lt. Louis J. Kiriopoulos, '43ba, and Lt. J . W.

Goodwin, '43ba, both of Oklahoma City, wereassigned to a Field Artillery battery at CampRoberts, California .

Aviation Cadet Neal J . Mosely, '43eng, Al-liance, Ohio, is in training at the Air Force Tech-nical School at Yale University, New Haven,Connecticut.

Lt. Isaac E . Simonds, '36m .ed, formerly ofClovis, New Mexico, was assigned to the CollegeTraining Detachment at the University of Floridain Gainesville as personnel officer .Capt . Obbie Lewis, '39-'42, Houston, Texas,

has been transferred to the Army Air Field atVenice, Florida .

Pfc . Edwin Yourman, '391aw, Baltimore, Mary-land, was assigned to duty at Chatham Field,Savannah, Georgia .

Aviation Cadet W . G. (Dub) Lamb, '39-'43,Ardmore, was in training with the Air Force atDouglas, Georgia .Lt. James H . Stevens, '40cd, Kendrick, Okla-

homa, was attached to a Quartermaster Servicecompany at Camp Gordon, Georgia .

Lt. John H . Gaskill, '42eng, Kansas City, Mis-souri, was on duty at the Army Air Base, SiouxCity, Iowa, as an engineering officer .

Pvt . Edward A . Ely, '37, and Pvt. John H .

Jones, '39-'43, Ponea City, were in training withan Army Specialized Training Unit at PurdueUniversity, Lafayette, Indiana .

Col . Arthur E . White, '32med, formerly onthe staff of the Army and Navy General Hospitalin the Hot Springs National Park, Arkansas, hasbeen transferred to the Station Hospital at CampPhillips, Kansas .Maj . Jeff G . Ray, '35eng, commanding officer

of a Field Artillery battalion, has been transferredto Fort Riley, Kansas .Maj . James R . Akright, '371aw, former Law-

ton attorney now an officer in the Field Artillery,was assigned to training at the Command andGeneral Staff School, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas .

In training as aviation cadets at the ArmyAir Field, Garden City, Kansas, were William J .Logan, '41-'42, Tulsa ; Roscoe E . Norris, '42-'43,Oklahoma City, and Joseph J. Tackwell, '40-'41,Norman .

Lt . Col . Ralph L . Marx, '32med, Pawnee, hasbeen assigned as surgeon for an Armored divisionat Camp Campbell, Kentucky . Colonel Marx,who has been on active duty with the MedicalCorps since 1935, received training at WalterReed General Hospital in Washington, D . C .,and the Medical Field Service School a CarlisleBarracks, Pennsylvania .

Lt . Glenn D . Kelley, '34-'37, was attached toa Bombardment squadron at Godman Field, FortKnox, Kentucky .

Capt . Frederick S . Harlow, '37-'39, was as-signed to a Bombardment squadron at BarksdaleField, Louisiana .

Lt . Junius Fishburn, '42journ, Tulsa, has beenpromoted to chief of the public relations depart-ment at Camp Claiborne, Louisiana . LieutenantFishburn was formerly assistant there .

Maj . Thomas T. Beeler, Jr ., '37med, MedicalCorps officer, has been transferred to Camp Polk,Louisiana .

Lt . Joe Graham Barbee, '39-'43, OklahomaCity, was stationed at Aberdeen Proving Grounds,Maryland, with the Ordnance .

Col . A. M. Pigg, '17eng, formerly of Arlington,Virginia, has been transferred to Camp Holabird,Baltimore, Maryland . Colonel Pigg is a SignalCorps officer .

Maj . Frank Watson, '251aw, former assistantUnited States district attorney at Muskogee, hasbeen assigned to the American Military Govern-ment School at Fort Custer, Michigan, for train-ing . Major Watson was formerly stationed atGulfport Field, Mississippi, as assistant staff judgeadvocate .

Lt. Martin L . Watts, '41ba, Norman, has beentransferred to Fort Custer, Michigan, where heis on duty as an inspector of training at postheadquarters .

Maj . Lloyd O . Warren, '40, member of a Re-connaissance squadron, has been transferred toKey Field, Meridian, Mississippi .

Pfc. Duane Ross, '42, Tulsa, is a member ofthe Army Specialized Training Unit at the Uni-versity of Mississippi in Oxford .

Lt. J . W . Pennington, '42geol, Norman, hasbeen transferred to Rosecrans Field, St . Joseph,Missouri, where he is on duty as aerial navigatorwith the Air Transport Command .

Pfc. Wallace K . Oliveira, '43, Lawrenceville,Illinois, and Pfc . James H . Johnson, Jr ., '43,Ashley, Illinois, were assigned to an Army Spec-ialized Training Unit at the University of Ne-braska in Lincoln .

Lt. Arthur C . Hon, '41geol, Tulsa, has com-pleted training at the Army Air Field, Roswell,New Mexico .

Lt. Charles L. Coates, '406s, Norman, was as-signed to a Bombardment squadron at the ArmyAir Base, Alamogordo, New Mexico.Lt. Fain H. Pool, '40bus, Lawton, was on

duty at the Army Air Field, Roswell, New Mexico .Lt. Robert E . Davis, '42eng, Woodward, Sig-

nal Corps communications officer, was attachedto the Air Force at Mitchel Field, Long Island,New York .

Lt. Gordon Cubbison, '37-'38, was stationed atFort Bragg, North Carolina, with a Glider FieldArtillery battalion .

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Lt. T . C . Mandrell, '36-'39, Sayre, has beentransferred to Columbus, Ohio, for duty with theAir Force .

Kenneth Hughes, '351aw, resigned as assistantdistrict attorney in Tulsa in October to enter theArmy at Fort Sill . Mr . Hughes, appointed tothe post a year ago, was in charge of civil liti-gation. He was formerly assistant county at-torney of Creek County, with offices in Sapulpa .

Lt. Robert A . Byonum, '42eng, Minot, NorthDakota, was on duty as a meteorologist at theBase Weather Station, Tinker Army Air Field,Oklahoma .

Cpl . George L . Whitaker, '41bs, Bartlesville,was on duty in the Post Locator Files Office atFort Sill .

Lt. Amos D . Whitten, Jr., '43geol, Tulsa, wasassigned to the Field Artillery Replacement Train-ing Center at Fort Sill .

Master Sgt. Raymond J . Totoro, '311aw, formerOklahoma City attorney, is sergeant major at thePrisoner of War Camp at Fort Reno, Oklahoma .

Capt . A . G. C . Bierer, Jr ., '21ba, formerGuthrierieattorney, hasbeen assignedtotheFortSill

Field Artillery Replacement Training Center asstaff judge advocate .

Lt. Harry 1-1 . Wilson, '436us, Oklahoma City,was assigned to the Field Artillery School atFort Sill to attend the Officers Pack Artillerycourse .Lt. James W. Drummond, '41bus, Wayne, was

assigned to a Battery Executive course at theFort Sill Field Artillery School .

Pvt . Joe Holland, '37ba, former assistant inPress relations at the University, was assigned toa Reconnaissance Training Wing at Will RogersField .

Capt . Eugene T. White, '356a, formerly withthe State Health Department in Oklahoma City,has been on maneuvers out of Camp White,Oregon, with a Field Artillery battalion . In ad-dition to his regular duties as S-4 officer for thebattalion, he has been serving as acting battalionexecutive officer . Captain and Mrs . White havea year-old daughter, Mary Evelyn .

Pvt. Otto W . Walter, II, '43, Norman, wasassigned to the Engineering Replacement Train-ing Center at Camp Abbott, Oregon .Pvt. Marshall Dayton, Jr ., '43eng, Yuma, Ari-

zona, was in training with a Field Artillery bat-tery at Camp Adair, Oregon .

Pfc . David A . Baerreis, '41ba, '43ma, Norman,is a member of the Army Specialized TrainingUnit at Oregon State College in Corvallis .

Staff Sgt . Thomas R . Lunsford, '40-'42, Cleve-land, Oklahoma, was on duty at the Army Ser-vice Forces Replacement Depot at Camp Reynolds,Pennsylvannia .

Pfc . Bill C . Tucker, '43geol, Tulsa, has beenassigned to the Army Specialized Training Unitat Rhode Island State College in Kingston .

Capt . William A . Stubbs, '411aw, Tulsa of theField Artillery, has been transferred to Fort Jack-son, South Carolina .Pvt . Jasper K . Roberts, '43, Comanche, is a

member of the Army Specialized Training Unitat South Dakota State College in Brookings.

In training at the Aviation Cadet Center inSan Antonio, Texas, were Huel Hamm, '39-'42,Oklahoma City, and Bill Campbell, '39-'42, Paw-huska . The two former O . U . football stars werefeatured in a sports story in a recent issue ofThe Tale Spinner, post newspaper, which wassent to Sooner Magazine by Capt . J. E . Horne,'39-'41, who was also stationed there . AnotherSooner there was aviation student R . L. Shep-herd, '41-'43, Norman .

Pvt. Mack R . Phillips, '42-'43, Norman, wasin training at the Army Air Field, Amarillo,Texas .

Pvt . Thomas A . Scherer, '43, Tulsa, was intraining at Camp Fannin, Texas .

Master Sgt . Boyd G . Montgomery, '42bus,Broken Bow, has been named assistant base ad-ministrative inspector at the Army Air Base,Abilene, Texas .

Capt. John E . Cooper, '346us, formerly withthe Republic Supply Company in Salem, Illinois,

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How Sooners ServeARMY

Privates

970Corporals ------------------------------ 147Sergeants ------------------------------ 241Cadets _

_-__-__ ____-_----_-__-_-_ 275Warrant Officers ----------------------- 30Lieutenants .--------------------------- 2,101Captains ----------------------------- 903Majors __ ---_-_ _-----_-- ____-_-___ 422Lieutenant Colonels -------------------- 116Colonels ------------ --------------------

28Major Generals ------------------------

2WAC --------------------------------- 75

TOTAL _ _ _ ___--_____-__-_ ._ .__5,310NAVY

Seamen ------------------------------ 361Chiefs __ -----------___-___-----_ _ 43Cadets --------------------------------- 64Ensigns _ ----------- _ 335Lieutenants _ - ------------------ 278Lieutenant Commanders

_

26Commanders --------------------------

6Captains ___--_-_ ._.------------------- 1WAVES -------------------------------- 44

TOTAL

__

_

___ _ ----------- 1,158MARINES

Privates -------------------------------Corporals -----------------------------Sergeants -----------------------------Lieutenants _ .- ------------------------Captains _ --------------------------Majors ---------------------------------Lieutenant Colonels --------------------Colonels ------------------------Women's

----__Branch __-_____----__-_----_-

TOTAL -----------------_-__-_----

5066

5985322

141COAST GUARD

Seamen

41Petty Officers ------------ --------------------------------

4Cadets ------------------------------ 2Ensigns -

__ _-_-____-----__-___ __

3Lieutenants _ _

.___- __-__----__ _ -

2SPARS

___

_---------------------

6TOTAL

58GRAND TOTAL

6,658

has been transferred to Jones Field, Bonham,Texas .

Capt . Edward Hamilton, '37ba, OklahomaCity, was a member of a Military Police detach-ment at Camp Hood, Texas .

Lt . Berford L . Henry, '40bus, Lexington, waswith an Ordnance company at Camp Barkeley,Texas .

Pvt . David D . Blair, '40journ, Oklahoma City,is editor of Flying Time, the weekly publicationat the South Plains Army Air Field, Lubbock,Texas .

Aviation Cadet Harold H . Russell, '42, Wil-son, was taking basic flight training at the ArmyAir Field, Pecos, Texas .

Lt . Earl E . LeVally, '42bs, Maysville, was onduty at Tarrant, Field, Fort Worth, Texas, as amember of the Student Officer Detachment .

Lt . Samuel G . Payte, '41ed, Centrahoma, Okla-lahoma, was stationed at Camp Wolters, Texas .

Lt . D. Horton Grisso, '30gcol, Seminole, andCpl . Vernon A . Boucher, '40-'42, Bartlesville,were on duty at Fort Bliss, Texas, with an Anti-aircraft unit .

Pvt . Millard B . Woolsey, '40-'41, OklahomaCity, and Pvt. James A . Bishop, '40-'43, PoncaCity, were assigned to the Army SpecializedUnit at Sam Houston Teachers College at Hunts-ville, Texas .

Lt . Jack H . Myracle, '41-'43, Oklahoma City,was assigned to a Corps of Engineers StudentOfficer Training regiment at Fort Belvoir, Vir-ginia . Also there was Lt . John Paul Strong, '39-'43, Clinton, who was stationed for engineeringtraining .At Camp Pickett, Virginia, with the Field Ar-

tillery were Lt . Norman E . Reynolds, Jr ., '416a,and Lt . Robert E . Kent, '38-'42, both of Okla-homa City .

Joel F. Buchanan, Jr ., '42bus, Ardmore, wasan officer candidate in training at the Quarter-master Corps School at Camp Lee, Virginia .

Lt . James L . Quong, '39-'40, Norman, withan Infantry company at Fort Lewis, Washing-ton, has been on maneuvers in Oregon .Capt . Carl C . Jackson, '22ba, Norman, was a

Medical Corps officer attached to an EngineeringAviation battalion at McChord Field, Washington .

Capt . D . L . Dunlap, '406us, Haskell, is onduty with a Bombardment group at the ArmyAir Base, Walla Walla, Washington .

Capt . Dorrance D . Roderick, '22ba, El Paso,Texas, was assigned to the Military GovernmentSchool at the University of Wicsonsin in Madisonfor training .

WACPfc . Cornelia Eastland, '366a, formerly a li-

barian in Natchitoches, Louisiana, was a memberof the WAC company serving at the Army AirField, Hobbs, New Mexico .

Lt . Carla Marie McGee, '42fa, Blackwell, wasstationed at headquarters of the West Texas Re-cruiting and Induction District in Lubbock .

NavyLt . Com . James H . Abernethy, '39med, Altus,

who recently returned from duty as a flight sur-geon in the Pacific war zone, is on duty at theNaval Air Station, Norman .

Lt. (jg) Doyne L . Campbell, '31eng, formeremployee of the Oklahoma Gas and Electric Com-pany in Oklahoma City, and Ensign WallaceEater, '43eng, Navy aeronautical engineer fromNashville, Illinois, were assigned to duty at Nor-folk, Virginia .Assigned to San Diego, California, were Walter

T. Williams, Jr ., '40bus, Ardmore, for basic train-ing at the Naval Training Station ; Ensign Wil-liam C . Paris, '43ba, '43eng, Artesia, New Mex-ico, and Lt . James M . Nelson, '34med, formerDenver physician who was on the staff of theNaval Hospital .

Ensign J. Philip Boyle, Jr., '42bs, OklahomaCity, has been assigned to duty at the Naval AirStation, Jacksonville, Florida .

Ensign L. D. Gassett, '43eng, Shidler, was as-signed to duty at Fort Schuyler, The Bronx, NewYork .

Lt. (jg) Aurel E . Smith, '41eng, Norman, wasstationed at the Naval Reserve Midshipmen'sSchool at Northwestern University, Chicago, asa navigation instructor .

Lt. (jg) Hazel L . Essary, '39nurse, Hollis,member of the Navy Nurse Corps, has been as-assigned to duty at the Naval Air Station, Minne-apolis, Minnesota.

John K . (Jack) Young, '40-'41, Tulsa, was intraining as a Naval aviation cadet at WilliamJewell College in Liberty, Missouri .

Lt. (jg) James L . Lisk, '32eng, former en-gineer with the Federal Power Commission inFort Worth, Texas, has completed the course ofindoctrination at Fort Schuyler, The Bronx, NewYork .

Ensign Lorene Pounds, '39nurse, Norman,member of the Navy Nurse Corps, was on dutyat the dispensary at the Naval Training Schoolat Oxford, Ohio .G . E . Glover, '43eng, Dallas, is attending the

United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Mary-land, training to become an engineering officerin the Navy .Alton E . Clifton, '40ed, Davis, aerographer

third class, was on thtty at the Navy AuxiliaryAir Station, Monterey, California .

Ensign Harry D . Pitchford, Jr., '40ba, Okmul-gee, was assigned to the Naval Training Stationat Hollywood, Florida .

Ensign Earl Stafford, '42eng, former employeeof the Butadine Synthetic Rubber Corporation inBaytown, Texas, has entered Naval training inNew York City .H . Merle Evans, '40eng, Healdton, was on

duty at Camp Endicott, Davisville, Rhode Is-land, as a boatswain's mate first class in the Sea-bees .

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