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WADDY WENT DOWN HELPING A BUDDY-~-News stories from Saipan have somewhat amplified
the aerial dogfight over Tokyo that on Jan. 9 resulted in Capt. Waddy Young, Okla-.
homa's All-American end of 1938, being shot down and listed missing inaction. .
liere are exceppts from two stories: "Big grinning Waddy Young, who formerly ran
interference as an All-American end at the University of Oklahoma, is missing in
action because he still insisted on running interference for his team mates, , He

was one of the most popular plane commanders at this base and his flying mates still .
think "Old Waddy will probably show up one of these days.' » The 29-year old Young.
was flying the No, 2 position in that Jan, 9 flgghte The group was struggling ~
through bad weather and being attacked by scores of Jap fighters. The No, 3 man, ,
Lt. enjamin Crowell of Avondale, Pa, was hit by a Jap fighter which knocked out one
engine, causing him to lose altitude and speed and finally drop out of formation. .
Capt. Paul Beard of Beaumont, Tex., the unit leader, heard Waddy say on the phone, ,
"Slow this formation dovm, I am going to ride herd on Crowell.t The formation
Slowed down and they saw Young maneuver his plane in close to help Crowell who was.
under attack by swarms of fighters. Over the phone again came Young's voice, “We .
are okay.'* Then the weather closed in. Visibility was extremely: poor and the last
formation saw two planes flying out to sea but still dropping down. A search for the
planes proved fruitless. "He's. just that kind of a guy." Waddy'ts:C.0, saide Young
flew antisubmarine patrol off England near Biscay Bay and ran up more than 9,000
combat hours. Flying ‘Waddy's Wagont Young participated in thefirst B-29 raid on
Truk, the first on Toyko, and the first on Nagoya.".

 

for former Sooner athletes in the service : Feb. 13, 1945, .

 

GOSSIP....From Lt. Don Smith, our infielder three years.ago: "Iwas sure surprised
to hear that Pan "ace Campbell(Sooner blocking back of 1942 who now has an European
APO) was married. I was with him at Lincoln only three days before the big event
and he didn't say a word about it. But you know old Pan, When I get back tothe |
states I am going to spend the first month taking sun baths and drinking all the
milk I can hold. We seldom see the sun for more than a few minutes and milk is .
impossible. But on the whole we have it pretty nice. I can. tell you that I have
seen a lot of Germany from the aire"seeefrom Lt. Jack Jacobs, March Field, Calif.:.
"T ran inte Karey Fuqua at Pearl Harbor and we spent several afternoons together at
Waikiki Beach swimming. O.T.McCall was there, Ho is a major in the QM. I ran .
into Moon Mullens(track '42, Fuqua quarterbacked Biff Jones' Sooner football team
of 1935) and he-is the keeper of the guardhouse at the marine Transient barracks

at Honoulu. I also ran into Abbott Sparks, the boy who used to make sweet music —
for the Ramblers Orchestra at the University Club....in the Army-Navy game I played
fullback and bétocked the ends for Dobbs so he could passe Also backed the line,
Not the easiest job in the world but I had a lot of fun(Jake has always been a tail- .
back), I saw a lot of Okies out there. I think they are running the Pacific War.” |
From Lt.( jg) Paul Updegraff, our No. 1 fan, “I have been visiting Jap 4askell(0.U..
athletic director on leave, a lt. com. in charge of phys. ed. at the navy's big
base at Yacksonville, Fla.). Old Jap has a real sports program and has Don Faurot:
(Missouri coach) as his executive officer. Don and Jap went bird hunting Sunday
and as usual Jap killed his quorum. In fact one might stretch that statement a bit
and say he shore did get his share," Col. Roger W.Peard, (basketball '10, from
unid) of the Marines is back at San Diego....lt.( jg) Carl Lochner(track 1937) has
been discharged from the Navy and is entering private business,...from Lt. Gordon
Clarke, jr.,( baseball *36): "This sea air is wondorful but I'd trade it M for the
wind-swept prairies any time. From Ensign Andy Cary(our half-miler who will do
1:50 or better some day but will blush Shon her Poe weout it here: "I am still
fighting the battle of fort Emory. We have been going out in the surf in these
landing craft. It is just like mmh riding a wild horse only you don't get seasick
ona bucking horse." Pfc Mitch Shadid(football 1940-42) is now at March Field, ..
Calif. From Sgt. ben Tillman with tho marines in the Mojave Desert in California: _
"My conception of a desert has been shot all to hell, It has been raining steady .
here tho last four days; ice overywhere, Say, our little basketball team is doing
okay, isn't it?"