Cadet Forshee Won DFC Twice;
Two in 41st Have Air Medals

WICE awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross for heroism and extra-
ordinary achievement as rear gunner of a Navy dive bomber in the

Left to right: Rees,

 

Forshee and Martz.

Battles of the Coral Sea and Midway, Lynn R. Forshee, ARM1c (41-I-2B),
heads a long list of 41st Batt trainees who have already tasted action in

various theaters of war.

Two winners of the Air Medal are
also numbered among the bluejacket
and Marine cadets in that battalion.
They are Matthew A. Rees, ARMI1c (J-
1A), of Las Vegas, Nev., and George
F. Martz, ARM2c (I-3A), of Cumber-
land, Md. Rees was decorated for his
service as a gunner aboard a Catalina,
which shot down one of four attacking
Zeroes off Kiska, dispersed the others,
and aided in the sinking of an armed
enemy freighter.

Martz, manning the rear gun of a
Dauntless, helped his pilot knock down
three planes in the Battle of Santa
Cruz.

Forshee, who wears the DFC and
gold star, was personally credited with
the destruction of one enemy plane in
the Coral Sea engagement and was
cited again for his ‘“‘courage and tenaci-
ty in the face of heavy fighter and anti-
aircraft opposition’? at Midway. He is
a native of Britt, Ia., and has served
four years in the Navy. After Pearl
Harbor he was transferred from At-
lantic submarine patrol duty to the
Pacific where he participated in the
Marshall and Gilbert actions, Salamaua,
Lae, Tulagi, and Guadalcanal.

Jerome Brown, AM3c, USN (I-14),
served in a fighter squadron aboard an
aircraft carrier which participated in

the attack on Casablanca. The ship’s
guns sank two subs and its planes
three in that engagement. The crew

received a unit citation.
Cpl. John C. Barnes, USMCR, holds

 

two presidential unit citations. He was
shellman and director finder on a five-
irch battery aboard the famous Bat-
tleship X which distinguished herself
‘in the Battles of Santa Cruz, Guadal-
canal, and Savo Island.

S/sst.. David -G. - Mehareue,; USMC,
flew with the first bombing squadron
to operate out of Henderson Field,
Guadalcanal, after it was captured.

Walter F. Howard, AMMI1c, was in a
PBY crew which bombed Munda Air-
strip in December, ’42.

Stanley C. Topolski, ACMM (CAC),
USN, saw action throughout the South-
west Pacific for two years, flying in
PBY’s and B24’s.

William G. Peterson, AOMic, USN,
bombardier in a patrol squadron in the
Southwest Pacific, participated in the
Coral Sea Battle.

Five. of the group were in North
Atlantic patrols which have a number
of submarines to their credit. They
are: James B. Gray, PhMic, USN;
Charles W. Hazelbacker, Jr., AMM2c,
USN; Eugene A. Rodgers, Amlic, USN;
Charles O’Henry, PhMic, USCG; Her-
bert G. Stauning, AMM8c, USN.

Three were stationed at Pearl Har-
bor on December 7, 1941, and witness-
ed the Jap attack —Francis F. Da-

vis, BM2c,-.USN;- Paul. 1. —- Eckholt,
AMMic, USN; -and:. Jack. R:. Evans,
AOMiIc, USN.

Skytrain—95

Epitaph: Here lies an atheist, all

 

dressed up and no place to go.

 

 

 

 

Operational Report —

SPLICED:
L. J. Eecel, AMM2c (41-I-2A), and
Miss Dorothy H. Kupka, of Milwaukee,

 

Wisc., January 20, in the Chaplain’s
office.
TRANSFERRED:

C. T. Miner, PhMic, to R/S, Brook-
lyn, N. Y.,; for further transfer to sea
duty; J. C. Oates, Y2c, to NTS, Norfolk,
for further transfer to sea duty.

Focke-Wolf 190—35

39th Makes Record
94.71 in Academics

With an all-time academic record of
94.71 percent of its cadets on the all-
passing list, the 39th Batt will bring
to eight its overall total of E pennants
Monday when it raises the red and
white burgee over Wasp.

Other scores, released today by the
Records office: 38th, 90.50 percent;
40th, 79.30 percent; 41st, 65.76 per-
cent.

The previous high in academics was
made two weeks ago when 93.81 per-
cent of the 37th Batt passed all sub-
jects for the week ending vanuary 8.

Junkers 87—45

V-Mail Gets Priority;
Navy Urges Its Use

Greater use must be made of V-Mail
or it may become necessary to discon-
tinue carrying other personal mail ov-
erseas by air, says a Navy Department
announcement.

Overseas operations are taxing air
mail transportation facilities severely.
vV-Mail film takes up less than two per-
cent of the space and weight of regular
mail. Unless the majority of letters
to and from personnel overseas go by
V-Mail, there is the likelihood that air
cargo space will be insufficient to ac-
commodate even a small percentage of
unfilmed personal mail.

V-Mail, furthermore is now receiv-
ing first transportation consideration
over all mail except officer messenger
and official registered air mail.

Mustang—37

Two Navy Nurses Report

Two Navy Nurses* reported aboard
this week for duty with the medical
department. They are Ens. Blannie
Barron of Crystal Springs, Miss., and
Ens. Issia Fay Muncy of Lovely (be-
lieve it or not), Ky.

Both have been serving at the Naval
Hospital, Jacksonville, for the past ten

months.
Hurricane—40

Cadets Attend WAVE Hop

One hundred cadets from the senior
38th Battalion will attend the joint
graduation dance and President’s Birth-
day Ball at the Wave Training School,
Milledgeville, Ga., tomorrow night.
Buses will bring the cadets back to Ath-
ens immediately after the dance.

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