Show 4 f i If i t 01 I U t t I H I I I I I I With Our Boys In The Thet I Ii t i Armed Forces i I IIII I- I IJ J J J H I 10 10 I 10 III Ht it Me Ie Im I'm the Guy Guj GU I PILOT CHUTES AT ENDS ESUS UP VI FEET UNDER V Uy Hy Tom REV METER nE Staff Starr Writer Dropping thousand ten-thousand feet from Irons a groggy 29 B into the ocean off orr Japan sounds wild enough But when you say you kept on going and wound up feet below the waves eating ice cream with every meal and Juicy steak as often as you wanted it for 23 lazy days youve you've either got sot a nice nWe nl e bump on the head or orsome orsome orsome some straight talking to do before they cart you gently off oU to a quiet corner in Section Eight Elgh t. t First Lt Earl B. B Fisher 29 B pilot and veteran of the first five l fire Ire raids over Japan who has bas just arrived at Lowry has no bumps on his head anti and I neither Is 15 he languishing moodily in Section Eight pretending to be Alice in Wonderland But he still insists it all happened and he tells teUs It pretty con con- convincingly convincingly convincingly I It was like this Lieutenant Fisher who Is now Theater I officer at Lowry 1 I sat in an office on tho the third floor noor at headquarters the theother theother theother other day resting his bis feet on the edge of ot a a. desk and thumbing through the current Issue iSUe of ot Air Mr Force magazine Hey he yelled suddenly Look at this about a guy on a raft That's Thata me I Im I'm the guy 1 I He straightened up quickly dropping I his feet to the tho floor and pointed to a aI I paragraph In Ina a story on page 77 en en- entitled entitled entitled titled The Versatile B I Everybody leaned over his shoulder to read it I Lieutenant Super a B 29 sea air rescue located some floating fl debris then thea sighted an Ameri Amen American American can survivor on a raft Then they sighted several small Jap surface craft heading toward the tho floating debris Lieu Lieu- Lieutenant Lieutenant LIeutenant tenant put it very simply We strafed them from mast level and sank four As an afterthought he added the tho others hurried back toward Japan Everyone was quiet for a minute and then someone asked Well Lieutenant what happened after that How did you get off olf the raft raIt I went on down to the bottom of tho the ocean he ho said staring thoughtfully out of ot the window and ate ice cream and steaks for tor 23 days das Nobody y said anything for at least two minutes until someone said very quietly That sounds very nice Lieu Lieu- Lieutenant Lieutenant tenant very nice aide ni e. e How about telling it from the beginning I All right ho he said folding the ma- ma magazino and putting his feet up again i It It happened on the of April this I April It was my mission and we weI I were dead over our target the target the I I ojo airfield on I Tho rhe flak was exceptionally heavy and there were a lot of fighters up We WeI 1 I I Just J t got our bombs away and turned off ort orti i the target when the fighters hit us They bey I I were Tonys I 1 think We were on on I the outside of the formation when five of them came in i Our gunners got three but two camo came through They hit cur number three 1 I engine engino and it started burning We WeI J couldn't Uld t put t It t out o so s we e ditched her I we any of ot the others after atter I 1 came down except the radio operator and I 1 didn't see seo him until unIl un Id I'd been In the water quite a while I dont don't know what happened hap hap- happened happened I to them The Lieutenant paused for a moment and then nodded at the magazine We were on that raft for about 25 hours We didn't have anything to eat and there was a half hat pint of or water between the two of us There weren't any sharks chiefly I think because beuse be ause the porpoises played around us all the time and kept them off ort The porpoise you know makes a sound Just like a rUle rifle shot when it 1 breaks water I 1 remember coming down over us and trying to drop a life raft of provisions but it didn't land near enough And the fight he had later with the Jap splinter boats we never saw or heard Too far away Im Ill I'll sure glad ho drove them off ort The next thing we saw was a big I I white bone bono pushing toward us We thought it was a Jap destroyer first then a Jap sub But when she came up close we saw white men on the deck 1 I guess I was never so glad to see a white man as I 1 was then i He turned and grinned i t I when we continued the drop when we balled bailed out of the plane ho hoI I said sald I cant can't tell you what went on during the next 23 days Orders I But I Ican II II I can say Ve we got as far lar down as feet I and we also ate And when I 1 say any ate Im I'm not fooling Ice lee cream with every ery I meal and steaks Not Just ordinary I steaks either Filets 1 The be Lieutenant swears that if 1 he ho cant can't I bo ho in the Air Force during the next war I hell he'll take the Silent Service because i I of the food He H has the earned for participation tion In the first five fire raids over 1 Tokyo Osaka Nagoya anti and Kobe made Kobe mado In eight days the Air Medal with two clusters tho the Purple Heart the American Theatre ribbon with one bronze star for forthe I tho the Battle Dattle of ot the Atlantic and the tho Pact lie fie Theatre ribbon with two bronze stars Ho comes from Park City Utah is married and anti has a daughter five months old He wants to stay In the service for fora a while because beca se ho says he cant can't get flying out of his blood The Tho The Lowry Field Rev Meter JQ IJ Pa BACK CR IN 1 MCCLELLAN FIELD FIELD California California Edwin E. E Huhtala son of Mr and Mrs Mes John Huhtala King Road Park City is i n civilian again today following his discharge at this army separation point after four tour years of service with the Army Air Ah- Forces He was overseas in the China-Burma- China India theater with the Signal Air Warning Company from May 1942 to November 1944 Ho He has bas been one battle star Previous to entering the armed forces Continued un wn Page lage Four I With the Armed Forces Force For es Continued from rage Page One employed at nt the Park Utah Con Con- he was Mines company for tor three years m a 11 17 a ENJOYS THE RECORD Dear Lee when be surprised will ill You probably really who this is from I am you ashamed see for not writing and thanking The Tho Record This is kinda late you for tor enjoy reading you but I did In thanking sending it it I would like Uk you to keep to me mo at Roosevelt RoOsevelt been stationed here I havo months now I velt Base about abour eight assignment I em am attached at attached at- at attached havo had a good to the Welfare and Recreation in the band here Department I play I have ha been aboard lots of ships playing They have ha a avery avery avery for lor shows and dances very nice band from Park City now I have been away close to 4 years but there is always that old something that a fellow misses I see now that my old pal Cliff ClIf Evans I lis la s homo home again and I suppose lots more of o the boys will be coming home soon I although there arent aren't many people there I II I know any more but I would like to get back there to see seo tho old town Well this Is 18 Just a letter that I should of ot wrote long ngo ago Thanks again for tor The Tho Record Yours Yours truly an old friend WILLIAM WILLIAM CLYDE ROLFE S. S S c. 1 Roosevelt Base Terminal Island San Pedro California ID 11 ISI RETURNS TO STATION IN CHICAGO ILLINOIS Ray nay Clegg H. H A. A c 1 returned to his naval station In Chicago Illinois to today to- to today day after enjoying a ten day clay leave with his family in our city A J r J NOW HOME Under the army point discharge system system tem Colonel Alva B. B B McKIe Command Command- Commanding ing Officer of oC Baxter General Hospitals Hospital's Separation Point announces the tion from tho the service of ot the following men from the State of or Utah These men released from tho the army within thirty six hours after their arrival at the Separation tion Point aro are now on their to their I homes Lloyd F. F 1128 Park avenue Park Olty City At es J ta t 0 ON THE WAY OUT Wm G. G Robinson U U. S S. N N. sent word to this week that he was in Shoemaker California anxiously awaiting Ills his discharge He will return to his home here as soon as he ho has hIlS his v release 1 z IT Pa Jn z zA A THRILLING SURPRISE Mrs doe CIoc Sessions received a a. thrilling surprise when her son Bernard arrived home homo Monday evening This is his first visit home since September 9 9 1941 He has served 43 months in the South Pacific with the the the- Division He lIe was with the first convoy to leave le ve for tor tho Pacific after Pearl Harbor This convoy was 44 days on the water owing at nt to the danger of submarine attacks that time I Bernard served as aa a n. machine gunner in tho the Asiatic Pacific and Philippine campaigns Having received his honorable dis- dis discharge dis discharge charge papers he plans to stay here for I awhile until further plans can be b made K rr 1 RELEASED FROM SERVICE Mr and Mrs J J. J T T. McNaughton re received re- re received word this week that their son Fay G G. Green had been released from Coast Guard duty Mr tr Green had served some six years and had 59 points to his Ills credit I |