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Sgt. Jimmy LaBar Is Flight Chief
With 47th Bombardment Group
In Italy—There are no service
stations along the aerial highway
to Brenner Pass for the bombers
Sgt. Jimmy LaBar services. There's
no stopping place along the way to
fiddle with balky engines or
stopped-up guns when these night-
flying Havocs of the 47th Bombard-
ment Group wing into the dark-
ness to bomb and strafe the enemy
in the Po Valley. That's why pilots
and air crews of this 12th Air Force
outfit swear by their crew chiefs.
A crew chief of the 47th Bomb
Group may be a youth of 21 or a
man of 40. On the line he wears
greasy overalls and if it's cold, a
sheepskin-lined mechanic's jacket.
His hands are the strong hands of
an expert. His face is sun and
wind-burned. His feet are indif-
ferent to mud, and his eyes are
used to the dust of airfields from
Africa to Italy and France.
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Each of the technicians—mechan-
ics, radiomen, sheet metal men,
bombsight men—has his special job
on the Havoc, but the crew chief
must be an expert among experts.
He must insure the mechanical per-
fection necessary for might flights
over treacherous terrain and down
some of the worst “flack allays’” in
German-held Europe.
The crew chief's immediate super-
jor is the flight chief, a sort of su-
per-crew chief for several Havocs.
Jimmy is a flight. chief.
In two and a half years overseas,
Jimmy became acquainted with the
chatter of strafing Messerschmidts
and the explosion of German bombs.
He remembers the bitterness of re-
treat in Africa and he knows the
fine tang of victory in Africa, Sicily,
Italy and France. When he is in
dress uniform ,he wears over his
right pocket the blue and gold Dis-
tinguished Unit Badge, which the
47th won for its heroic smashing
of the enemy at Kasserine.
“There were times. in Africa,”
said Capt. Clyde Recht, “when our
own ships had to be destroyed to
keep them out of enemy hands.
We escaped enemy artillery shelling
by minutes. On one field, ground
crews worked in blackout to ready
the planes for the morning attack.
They had to repair flak holes, straf-
ing holes, torn-up engines, burned-
out guns—but our ground guys got
everything we had left into the air,
and you know the story. It's an
old story now. The Germans never
came through Kasserine.”
Col. Malcolm Green, Jr. who has
commanded the 47th Group for 18
months, pays this tribute to his
Has What It Takes
SGT. JAMES G. LABAR
At a 12th AAF A-20 Havoc Base
in Italy—Staff Sgt. James G. LaBar,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Timothy LaBar,
105 Main street, Dallas, is a flight
chief in the armament section of a
veteran 12th Air Force A-20 Havoc
group giving air support to the 5th
Army on the Italian front.
Sergeant LaBar, a veteran in the
Mediterranean theater of opera-
tions, has seen action in North
Africa, Sicily, France and Italy. He
has been materially responsible for
the 15,000 combat sorties totaled
by his group in almost three years
of combat.
In an interview, he spoke at
grea! length of the hardships en-
countered by he and his buddies
during the African campaign, espe-
cially of the activity at Kasserine
Pass, for which his group received
a War Depariment Unit Citation.
The sergeant eas grad. sie from
Dallas High School where he was
a member of the basketball and
football teams. He entered the
army air forces in June, 1941.
Goes To Sioux Falls
Pvt. Ernest McCarty, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Elwood McCarty of Dallas,
has been assigned to the AAF
Training Command Radio School at
the Sioux Falls, S. D., Army Air
Field. The course will last 26
weeks.
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Express Appreciation
Woman Overcome
By Motor Fumes
Lonesome for her ‘boy friend”
who is with American forces in
Germany, a thirty-three-year-old
Plymouth millworker drove alone
to Harvey's Lake Saturday night
and have a “little time for her-
self.”
Imbibing more heavily of the
“cup that refreshes” than she had
intended, she started to drive her
car back to Plymouth at 2 A. M.
There were too many roads and too
many trees. She pulled off the
road and parked near the old school
house at the West Corner.
There at 8 Sunday morning
neighbors and Harvey's Lake police
found her slumped over the steer-
ing wheel, motor running and head-
lights on. Partially overcome by
motor fumes, her lips and ears
were blue, but not half so blue as
they were after Chief Fred Swan-
son revived her in the cold morning
air and read the riot act to soldier’s
girl friends who visit Font ov Sl
Lake's hot spots alone at night.
Fisherman Proves:
“Thar’'s gold in them there
waters.” Old timers at Harvey's
Lake rubbed their eyes late Tues-
day afternoon as John Macek of
Cooper street, Pringle, pulled a
shimmering 18-carat gold fish out
of the | deep waters of the inlet
back of Walter Puterbaugh’s store.
Mr. Macek was fishing for cat-
fish when he hooked the two-
pound, fourteen ounce fish. As he
pulled it out of the water he
couldn’t believe his eyes and figured
his hook had become entangled in
a piece of red cloth. He took the
brilliant gold fish to the Puterbaugh
store, measured it and weighed it.
It measured four and a half inches.
Gold fish are not uncommon in
Harvey's Lake according to Harry
~~ 'THE POST, FRIDAY,
Dead - On Luzon
CHARLES BILLINGS
January 6, 1912
April 3, 1945
"Thar's Gold”
In Them Harvey's Lake Waters
Allen, veteran fisherman. He says
he has seén them most frequently
in the waters between Sandy Beach
and Point Breeze. Workmen at
Newell Wood's cottage confirmed
Mr. Allen's story. Last year an
eight to ten-inch gold fish swam
in the vicinity of the Wood boat-
house most of the season.
Mr. Allen believes the gold fish
got in the lake from a number of
gold fish pools kept by cottagers.
During spring freshets they may
have washed downstream in to the
Lake. Others may have been used
as bait by fishermen and got away,
but how a small gold fish could
grow to such a size without being
devoured by bigger fish is more
than Mr. Allen can understand.
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LEIDINGER’S
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APRIL 27, 1945
Scout i
Collect Paper
Eisenhower Medals
To Be Awarded May 29
Hundreds of Scouts and Cubs of
the Wyoming Valley €ouncil are
working hard toward ° receiving
the General Eisenhower Medal in
the Waste Paper Campaign which
closes April 30th.
Plans are being worked out to
have these awards presented in
connection with the Army Show
which will be held in Wilkes-Barre
on May 29th.
Scout Executive, O. B. Gorman
urged that Troops file their reports
on this Campaign as soon after
April 30th as possible.
100 Scouts of the Wyoming Val-
lley Council already paid their fee
for one or more weeks at Camp
Acahela. All Scouts who pay their
fee on or before May 1st will have
advantage of a special fee of $8.00
a week. After May 1st the fee be-
| comes $8.50.
Camp Acahela will open for a
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ORANGE
Mr. and Mrs. John Frantz, form-
erly of Dallas, are spending some | turned Saturday from Trinidad and
time with Mr. and Mrs. Ira Frantz | Cuba, where he had been stationed
before moving to Cleveland, where | for nearly a year.
they have been living for the past | furlough he will enter a training
| school for a short time.
| staying with his wife and daughter
year.
Mr. and Mrs. Lzird Stanton had
supper with the Russeli Lewis fam-
ily on Sunday cvening.
Mr.
sons, George aud Robut
last Friday from Florida, where]
they had spent the winter. They
are staying with Mrs. Parrish’s
father, Mr. Shay Lewis, of Mt. Zion.
Harry Schooley is building a new | _
porch on his summer home near
Orange.
Corey Bell of Centermoreland
spent Sunday here with his son,
Horten Bell, and family and nis
grenddaughter, Mrs. Elmer Evans.
Miss Blanche Kirk of West Wyo-
ming was the weekend guest of
Mrs. Myrtle Kunkle.
Mary Lewis returned home on
Friday, after visiting relatives in
Berwick.
Ncra and Lce Dymond had sup-
per with Mr. and Mrs. Laird Stan-
ton Saturday evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Dymond of
and Mrs. John Parrish and |
returned
PAGE FIVE
‘West Pittston visited relatives and
friends in Orange on Sunday.
C. Mo. M.M.,,
Paul Jones Jr., re-
After a 30-day
He is
|at the home of F. A. Snyder. ,He
will visit his mother and sister at
Endicott, N. Y. and other relatives
at Plymouth and Clarks Summit.
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