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to tell you. And then I am going to tell you what I told you. And now you are
told." But I cannot tell our Rebounds readers what you told me in your Telfair
Tales. Thank you just the same for it. We enjoyed reading every line of it.
It is highly interesting and I know what a bang the families of the boys of the
fleet get from this message from the captain to the loved ones at homes

po In ¢. E. McBride's colum of the Kansas City Star on Thursday, Mey 17,
Mac, in-his Sporting Comment, has an article, "His Scoring Is Stili High” sees
The Distinguished Flying Cross to K.U.'s Charlie Black.. We mentioned: the fact
that Charlie had completéd his missions and had ‘reeeived the citation, but we
didn't quote the citation. Mac did. this, as foilows:

"Charlie Black is still doing o mighty good job. It wasn't so long ago that
_ Charlie was one of Phog Allen's greats in K.U, basketball. Since then he has
been ine fer tougher game, but he still delivers in the clutches as he used to
do for. the Jayhawkers,. — - MON FEGOGR Ste wo | "
‘- ."“Pestimony in support of that may be found ina letter to Charlie's mother in
Lawrence. Under date of April 12 ond signed by Brig. Gen. Bs We Chidlaw from
the headquarters of the 12th air force the letter ready — " v wos
~ .. “174 4s with pride that I take this opportunivy to write and tell you that
your son, First Lieut. Charles B, Black, Jr., has earned the Distinguished Fly-
ing Cross for superior performance of ‘duty in'astion against the enemy, Despite
a heavy overcast which forced him to fiy at minimum altitude and through accurate
enemy ground firo, Lieutenant Biack made repeated photo runs over vital enemy
targets, thereby contributing greatly to subsequent tactical operations, His
courageous act richly merits this high honor and 1 share ‘with you the pride I know
you feel. 4irmon like your son, by choir great courage and perseverance,.maintain
peak standards of combat efficiency and encourage the devotion to duty which mark-
ed our progress toward ultimate victorye’ 12 Br 4
. “Lieutenant --- make it captain, for promotion has come to the lieutenant since
the letter. of his commanding general -- Black is the son of lir, and Mrs. Charles
Be Black, 1709 Louisiana Street, Lawrence. Mr. Black works: for the Stewart-
Warner Alemite company of this city. As we recall, Captain Black has anovher
year of collegiate avhletic competition and your guess is as good as ours as to
whether Phog wovld like to have him back, Captain Black's wife and daughter,
- the latter 4 months old, live in Kansas City. Tho airman has not seen his
' daughter." oe Umi ole Pa

I can remember, Charlie, how many times that when someone would do a
difficult feat you rather modestly said, ‘Gee, that is not so hard," and you
would straightway do it, And too, Charlie, do you remember when we drove to
the Wyandotte County Court House and you took your Army aviation test?» You had
had no-engineering work, but I remember how highly pleased the major was after
your examination. You had made one of the outstanding records there. So, we
are congratulating you now on your ability. to do the right things at the right
time. lie are looking for you home most any miriute now, and gosh, it will be
good to see, yous... , wit bodly

Last year when we had the ASTP unit at the University, one of the mombers
of this group was Francis Peterson, from Rembrandt, Towa. Later, when: the units
were dissolved and the i7-yoar-oids wore returned to civilian status, rancis
stayed on at the University and was a member of our baske‘bali team. In March he
was inducted into the Army ond is now at Camp Wolters, Texas. Iwas:delightved to
receive a letter this week from Pvt. Francis Peterson. who says, “it hardly seems
like three months. since we were having basketball practices in Hoch and Rebirsone
I have wished so many times that I wes back ot KU. I have touched a basketball
only once since. the 2nd of March and that was here in the Sports Arona. The
floor is about tho size of tho one in Hoch, but there is no comparison as to