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Show American Hero and Spy of Atlantic And Pacific Coming to Cedar City Young American spy and hero, Major Paul Cyr, will give members mem-bers of the Escaiante Knife and Fork Club a thrilling hour when he relates his exciting adventures adven-tures in espionage at the next meeting on October 25th, to be held at El Escalante hotel, according ac-cording to D. C. Dlx the local secretary. Paul Cyr was going to high school in St. Johnsbury, Vermont during 1938 when many of his classmates enlisted in the National Na-tional Guard. Cyr was a year too young, but got In, anyway. The Guard was federalized and Cyr found himself in World War II right from the start. He tried out as a paratrooper, but In one of his practice leaps he broke a leg in six places. Next he applied for the office of Strategic Services which he had heard intended to "raise hell with the enemy." Young Cyr became one of the Cloak and Dagger boys of General Gen-eral Wild Bill Donovan and was parachuted behind the enemy lines into France where he worked work-ed six months with the French Marquis preparing for the Allied invasion of the Continent For his brilliant and daring work and the invaluable assistance he gave to General Patton, he was awarded the Legion of Honor, the Croix de Querre and the Distinguished Distin-guished Service Cross. In May 1945, the intrepid young soldier was sent to the Pacific; Pa-cific; He was dropped Into Jap held territory In China where he did valiant service In blowing up I t . ' ! MAJOR PAUL CYR the Yellow River bridge with the assistance of the Chinese guerrillas, guerril-las, for which he won the citation cita-tion for the Bronze Star. His article, ar-ticle, "We Blew the Yellow River Bridge", was featured In the Saturday Sat-urday Evening Post. March 23, 1946. Major Cyr Is coming to Cedar City because of the affiliation of the Escalante Knife and Fork Club with the national organization organiza-tion which enables the several groups to provide outstanding men and women at speakers on their platformi. |