| Show by delos wheeler lovelace consolidated features release NEW E w YORK maj gen eugene M landrum who snatched the island of attu aatu back from the japs jap s is exactly the type of man you could readily pic here definitely we T ture wrest have a man not of ing a hard style but bat of action bitten strip g of land like that away from a wily toe foe short stocky and firm jawed he radiates pugnacity and courage those who favor the fashion plate genus in their military men would never glance twice at him if they met him in chivies on the street 0 of f a small town they athey would pick him out as the hard working village doctor especially if he were carrying his battered gladstone bag and had his well caked black pipe clamped between his teeth he is 52 general landrum is a man who got to the top the hard way back bach in 1910 he entered the army as a private in the coast artillery by the time the united states entered world war I 1 he was wearing the silver bar of a first lieutenant on his shoulders two months later he had become a captain in the years following the armistice he kept moving slowly and quietly ahead he was not the kind of officer to make the headlines especially in peacetime but his superiors knew him as and they approve of him he was graduated from the army war college in 1936 and just six months before pearl harbor he received his coIo colonelcy nelcy general landrum is a native of florida and he calls pensacola his home town mrs landrum however is now in california like many another wife of an army or naval officer she likes to look at the same ocean her husband does 0 IF F IT had not been for the late kaiser william E lynd might still be practicing law in idaho instead of being at 49 a brigadier general in attorney becomes the army air warrior to make corps he ac the laws stick dually y started out as an attorney in fact after earning his degree at the university of washington then he took on military tra training m i as a sideline with the idaho national guard in 1916 he went to the mexican border in the fracas that served as a curtain raiser to the first world war he had hardly settled back at his law books before the real show started on march 27 1917 he was called back to the colors and eight days later was commissioned a second lieutenant of infantry christmas eve 1917 is one he will always remember for his outfit sailed for france just as st nick hitched up his reindeer overseas he was switched to the air service as an observer and he finally reached the front in a plane in august A few days later he was the proud possessor of a silver star earned in an air battle with the germans like many another veteran of the lynd found civilian life dull and in 1920 he rejoined the army this time for good he has another air medal now he won the second award for a spectacular reconnaissance con flight out over the pacific in the first year of the present war more recently he was at attu aatu and the other day he visited the white house to tell president roosevelt what his fliers had done to lick eck the japs there 0 W HEN the censors finally re leased the news that artemus L gates assistant secretary of the navy for air had been on a tour of the pa getting to zone of cefic fight battle Is second ing front nature to gates his longtine longtime friends said in in unison we might have known it in world war I 1 his experiences were like something out of fiction when the war clouds lowered over the united states 25 years ago gates was in his junior year at yale he had just been made captain elect of the football team an honor earned at tackle for two seasons by april however he had abandoned his cap and gown for a naval uniform in the summer of 1916 he had had a fling at flying and it did not take him long to get into naval aviation then still in i n its infancy august 1917 f found him irk in france and long before the armistice he was commanding the U S naval air station at dunkirk |
