Brazil Man Receives Posthumous Decoration For Hero Son.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photo by Cpl. Thurgood, U. S. A. Signal Corps.

 

 

peel cce For gallantry in action in Massacre Valley, Attu Island, on the 16th of May, 1943.” By order
of Brigadier General A. V. Arnold, commanding.

Alonzo B. Nees of Brazil, Indiana is shown here receiving the Army’s Silver Star for his son, 2nd Lt.
Charles Wayne Nees, who was killed by the Japanese while attempting to rescue his platoon sergeant.
Presenting the medal is Colonel Henry E. Tisdale (left), now commanding Fort Benjamin Harrison. Mr.
Nees was escorted to the stand by Captain Robert Patterson (right). The citation was read by Captain

| C. E. Lyon. ¢

After the ceremony Mr. and Mrs. Nees and their four remaining sons reviewed the troops of the Air
Corps Provisional Training Battalion,