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Show Chadburn and Randall Honored Here Men Related Experiences Over Europe and . In South Pacific Battles Bugler lc June Moe Randall and TSgt. Rodney Chadburn have what it takes for their respective combat requirements on the sea and in the air but both are timid when asked to address an audience. audi-ence. This fact was evident when the two overseas heroes were given a "welcome home" ovation in front of the Dixie college gym last Friday evening with the Lions, Firemen and Legionnaires as sponsors. spon-sors. Grant Whitehead of the Firemen Fire-men took over from Col. Roy Williams and introduced the two heroes and the bride each has acquired since arriving home from overseas. Mrs. Randall is the former for-mer Elda Peterson of Cedar City and Mrs. Chadburn the former Fay Banks of Caliente. Also presented pre-sented were Sgt. Chadburn's parents, par-ents, Mr. and Mrs. June Chadburn of Veyo and Bugler Randall's parents, Mr. and Mrs. Brig Randall all and his sister, Nellie Joy, of St. George. Leland Lemoreaux sang, "She's A Grand Old Flag," accompanied by Mrs. Mae A. Pace. M. J. Miles of the City Commissioners gave a brief address of welcome extending extend-ing congratulations and tribute to these boys for their contributions in the interest of human Freedom and Liberty. While the two boys had little to say at the program, it was possible to get a little from them first hand apart from the crowd. Sgt. Chadburn was a tail gunner of the Ninth Air Force, flying in a B-26 Marauder which they named "Elmer" and in which he made' most of his 72 missions over Belgium, Holland and the French coast. He had completed the required missions and was all set to come home June 6, when the invasion broke and filled almost al-most daily assignments from that time on till he finally took the ship for home the first week of July. Previous to the invasion, his crew had sometimes run into some of Herman Goering's boys and Sgt. Chadburn says they really knew their business. However, one of his most exciting missions was on D-day when their target was hard to reach because of the flak which he said was thicker than a London fog for several minutes." In their crew of six, one had made 79 missions and the others 69 or more before they came home. He expects to report (Continued on page four) Servicemen Honored (Continued from first page) back to Fort Douglas for his next assignment at the end of 30 days. He enlisted two days after Pearl Harbor and says, even with all he has witnessed, he would enlist again with the same need in the hope of keeping war out of the U. S. Bugler Randall also had plenty" of excitement, his last big event being the seige of Saipan. Besides being Bugler, he was gunner's mate on one of the two large carriers which participated in this historic event. In his sailor's way of telling the story, "One of the Jap buzzards laid her egg in the funnel of the carrier", and i bumped him into the water. He received injuries on his left ankle and heel and the ship had to have some repairs. After a term of hospitalization, he . was given a 10 day leave at home to visit his parents and to be married. Saipan as an island would be invaluable except for strategic war purposes, but because of how it will serve as a stepping stone to the ultimate goal of victory, he figures the island was worth the price they had to pay for it. He says there just isn't much to tell except that the Japs are being made to pay for Pearl Harbor and tough as the job is, "the Yanks are not quitting till things are right again." He has served on 14 missions and left Saturday to return for further assignments. |