January 20, 1944.
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Page Three
“THAT'S ALL RIGHT--PAPA’S
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GOING TO TAKE YOU HOME”
From the U. 8. Bomber station in
| One of three
sergeant gunners |
Britain comes this tale of a daring | wounded in the raid told the story |
pilot who got his damaged plane
to base from the historic aerial bat-
tle «over the Reich:
Behind
doned. a bloody parachute on the
floor and seemingly “held together
by holes” stood the Frenesi—a Fly-
ing Fortress which came home
The parachute wasn't nice to look
at. Neither was the plane—vyet both
were sober testimony of all that
aerial warfare can mean in the way
of tragedy, fear and heroism,
The story of the Frenesi
story of all three,
All day soldiers had peddled by on
bicyeles to look at the plane, They
had seen ga lot of shot-up airpland
but nothing like her
Nearly the whole tail
You could crawl through the
in the wings. A wing tip was knock-
ed open An engine was dangling
The ship even had started to break
in two in the middle.
Was a
hole:
Col. Frederick W. Castle, of Wash. |
York,
station,
commanding
just said “it's
ington and New
officer of the
tnoonceivable” and let
Pilot of the Frenesi when
flew over Germany in Tuesday's
raid was. Second Lieut. William
Cely, of Houston, Texas, who landed
a little punch drunk from the ordeal
and who still was a haky
he
ae
big
tiie
Report of Troop 66
of Pleasant Gap
>
The
ber with
ing the year
new Scouts a
moved to other These boys
were transferred and are still in
scouting where they are now locat-
eld. Our enrollment now consists of
twenty-four active Scouts. We have
six teaderfoot
class seouts, four
ohe star scout
Every boy
urged to
1 scout occasions, Dur
took six day hikes
hikes boys passed many
as scout pace, tracking,
mile hike, judging, and alway
ed meals along the way
The troop took twelve over-night
hikes during the year and used our
pup tents as shelters, On these
camping trips boys passed such test
as nature study, cookin care of
knife and axe, layed
structive games
seven days and nigh
Mountains Boy Scott
summer
Through
t Decem-
Dur -
eighteen
three who
troop organized las
Scout
i
nine ljormer
we gained
lost
town
1d
nd
class
life
uniform
meeting
first outs,
and one cout
na
wear it
a full and
to all
Year
these
ing the
On
test:
fourteen-
cook=
many
spent
Rover
> even
troop
thd
ini
the cooperation of
fire company and the Methodist and |
butheran churches of the town we
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an empty hangar, aban |
was gone
it go at that, |
F.l
gp
scouts, twelve second
' he
|
i chased
‘have a balance of £70 in the
!
| from a hospital bed
“Everything was all right until
{we hit the target at Brunswick," he
| sald
“Then we saw 15 or 20 twin- |
lengined ships circling cur rear. They |
got abreast of us and let go with
rockets
{like light bulbs blowing up.
| “1 saw our right wing man go
down in smoke and when I looked
{out the other window, the left wing
Iman was gone too,
| “We went into a terrific dive with
{five fighters swarming all over us I
{was being thrown all over. Half the
itime, T was on my head or hitting |
{the top or banging into the turrets. |
cyclone
to make
“i like a
“I tried three time
{door to bale out, but each time 1
got thrown somewhere else Finally
{I got to the last window and I was
going to jump when I noticed that
imy chute had been ripped open,
| ‘1 was bruised all over and I
thought my shoulder had been blown
off
“Then the plane 'eveled off and 1
told Lieutenant Cely that I didn’t
have a chute
“and he sald ‘that's all right
ipapa's going to take you home,’ and
did too. He's the best
{pilot in the world
was
he
tents and have
camping tripe
purchased ten pup
used them for all our
This past summer five boys worked |
jon
farms and the t worked vic-
tory gardens at
In 1943 the troop subscribed
per cent to Boys Life magazine
1 do the same in ‘#4
During the year the troop
tended thirteen ery
ternating between the two churches
of the town, Methodist and Luther
home
wil
church ws ale
an
The
during the
scrap drives
collected
sale
the
two bake
conducted
following
five
troop held
year and
and the
two of tin
iron of waste
The troop has a permanent
wr collecting waste paper,
Was
ton ton
of three ton
paper
setup |
Four
as den
which
Vear
The troop meeting
Thursday evening at 7 o'clock in the
basement of Methodist
attendance
wa ! OY Ihe
ting of Wil-
Sarenson and
a whole
troop meet-
coral
CTap
ting
acling
pack
the
i
boys of she troop are
the Cub
during
chiefs
Was organized
for
are held every
the church
ting
the vear
troop mmittee consi
1 " y wy
liam Tucker, Dewey
Ralph Fornwalt attended a
in part 39 of the 52
the year
For Boy Scout
a i play in Nol 5
dow and sold $35
stamps that week.
Duri the year
Necessary
the end
Lroon
Ww
War
store ne
worth of
the
troop
of the
troop pur
equ
ng
all
and at
he
venr
y PRI
troop
ment
4 treasury.
This report made and submitted
by James Biddle, Scoutmaster
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2 Sons, 2 Grandsons in Service
Mrs, Carrie Detwiler, of Trento
N. J. former resident of Smulitor
is One Centre county
mothers whose two sons
armed forces They
Harry L. Detwiler, of
Division in Northern .
Pvt. Donald G- Detwiler, attached
to the Armored Division at Fort
Van Dorn, Miss. Mrs. Detwiler also
has two grandsons in service, who
are First Lieut. William 8. Bonner
who is somewhere in Italy, and 1st
Lieut. Charles A. Dawson, in charge
{ the Signal Corps Depot at Fort
McPherson, Atlanta, Oa
patrioti
in
Ma jor
the Armored
Africa, and
of
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Pvt. Albert R. Burns,
Private Burn of Mr
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present is stationed at Camp Grant,
lino: He entered
August 1643
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GREETINGS ‘44
News
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was
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feel of
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and noise
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When all this Hell will be out
will have
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will laugh in the
And the Axis flag will be dipped and
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peaceful world
Army Before Death
Marine ! rv Berge Dome -
D. Amadio, 24, of bur
been fighting only 15 minute E
killed at
the
Cireen
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Training as Cadet,
Pic. Harold R. Knepp, son
Knepp, of Lemont, has arrived
Basic Trtaining Center No
AAF Training Command, al
boro, N. C. While attached
. y this station Pfc. Knepp will take
Gunnery Sergeant whose aining in the AAF and un-
wile physical
Cireen of Irvin
had
wien 10 of
him on
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Wounded in Action
Pic. Gilbert N. Mountain, Jr
Mrs. Al Mounts Holli-
daysbhurg wa 4
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U. S. Casualties Now
More Than 139,700
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Recvives Appoi
William Henderson
Philipsburg been
first lieutenant, medical
the United State
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Eastman
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Department
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Missing in Asia
The ‘War Department has not
fied John D. Baker. of Osceloa Mil
that Lieut Burd
H. Baker, is missing in action ir
Asiatic area of
War Btimson
my casualties from
December 23
ented 16431
24 miss.
of War
his son, Second ett
067
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Missing in Action.
Tech, Sgt. John B. Tilburg, of
Emporium, i= missing in acion in
the Mediterranean war the
War Department h
wife, Mr
element
sifice the
Septem
total 2.798
wounded
Campaign
Of thi area
are 18.119
killed, 11.726 were
3.550 missing
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notified hi
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quard cas-
In Ordnance Dept.
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Pet
Privat
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Milford Fetper
Fetzer, son of Mr
Homer Petaer Yarnell
int ! vice April
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Wucted
13. He t Salina
where }
Ordnance Departn
Petzer spent
Missing in Farope
Lieut william saun
Philipsburg, is report
War Department as mis
in action in the European wal
area. His mother, Mrs. Effie Alice
Bumgardner, has been notified
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reported it te are
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Promoted Fireman First Class
William E. Stanton husband of
Stanton, of Port Matilda, has
early pro Nn in the Navy
As A result of hi ivilian train.
ing. Because
" Mele talking «doughboy
had sufficient .
Ra, | hoodwinked a
experience essential in
Navy. he wi act
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Sarah
won a
How Pvl. Billy Miller, 21. a fast-
from Peoria, TN
Cerman liettenant
men into
fed
single}
600 yards of no
told by Kenneth 1
correspondent oy
believin
the to
4 then
wmnded tu
ur and
and 18 enlisted
ating fir anead oo they were surre
r ing res CIAs 5h A ha
completing training af Huschtd oan
the U. 8. Naval Training Station at nin . hid :
Great Lakes. Ill. Now home on Dixon " wat
leave, he will report back to the Italian front
station for re-assignment to active gia
duty aboard a naval warship or to| Private Miller pulled off the
some naval shore station ploit when he went into action
atte am ———— the first time Thursday night
Soldjers Travel “Express” his company attacked a hill In the
December issue of the Penn San Vittore area. Surrounded by 50
‘Extension News” published Cermans while he and a few com-
“It took a war to rades were bringing some wounded
put passengers back on the old and a prisoner to the rear, Billy and
Bellefonte Central Railroad, for! his mates had to surrender
vears used solely ns an express Mine! A platoon of If Germans took
to State College. Alr Poree Cadets, [charge of Billy. In nn tunneled-out
sent to Penn State for training, ar- cave where they put up for the
rived by express inight, the jerries started talking
about taking him back to a
| camp The lieutenant, who spoke
Bombardier David Ellis died in English, told him what they were
India, Jan. 4, 1944, according to saying
word received by his wife, Mrs. Da-|
of
sit
} rect:
na
in
he
(oO
for
as
The
State
the following item
Killed in India 1
prison |
FAST-TALKING DOUGHBOY
CAPTURED NAZI OFFICER
AND 18 MEN ALL ALONE
the behind
wine and found
bread. “but you could hardly
knife into IL.” Billy sald later
They asked him if
was that hard
valley
arank
the
n
ome
American bread
Oh. no sald
be a doughrolle:
biscuit bakery
all fresh and
Billy, who used to
in a Peoria arm
American bread
soft
The German
other
Next day, the tall German lieu.
tenant insisted that the time had
come 10 try to contact other Oerman
outfits. As he talked, Billy looked
out the window
On a distant hill paralleling the
valley he saw troops moving, 11 was
worth a gamble
“T tell you we've got this pince sur.
rounded.” he said Come outside
and Ill show you.”
They stepped outside and Billy
pointed to the movement on the
hill. The lieutenant stepped back
looked at one an-
“Youll never make 11." sald Billy. ! inside, talked to his men a moment
{vid Ellis, Mansfield. Mrs. Ellis left | He knew he was at least a quarter] then came to Billy,
unbuckled his
for Philadelghia upon receipt of the of a mile In front of his own line, | belt and handed it to him.
| message and will await further de but he added, “we've pot you sur-|
rounded. Listen!”
Gunfire crackled outside, echoing
tails there
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! Soldier Suffers Wounds
| Pvt. Charles W, Kern, son of Mrs
Anha Kern, of Route 1, Muncy Val-
ley, has been wounded in action in
the Mediterranean War area, the
War Department has notified his
mother
Next day the fighting was still
terrific, »o
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“You are not our prisoner now.”
he sald. “We are your prisoners”
850 back across no man's land the
column of prisoners. Walking up to
:
in the cave. They spent the night] five-foot five-inch doughboy led the |
there
| his Hines, he turned them in, togeth- |
:
moved only a short distance farther nine binoculars and one machine
back, this time to a farmhouse in| pistol.
WHEN WINDS
GET ROUGH
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General Insurances
Phone 07 Bellefonte, Pa.
the Cerman platoon er with seven German automatics, '
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Blue jacket Promoted
Training
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Sgt. Clarence Dawson
Aids in Entertaining
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Becomes Culinary Student
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