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Friday, April 6, 1945 CLOUDBUSTER Page Three "'MA'yVN! We're rnovin' up!" —Nazi Tortures— (Continued from Page 1) She has had a number of nar row escapes from Nazi pursuers. Soon after she joined the under ground she was about to per form an appendectomy in a hos pital in Paris when one of the nurses informed her that the Gestapo was awaiting her down stairs. She left the operating room, gained the basement through a side door, and escaped through the sewer. Open House Sunday For 69th Batt, 11 -R-C’s An open house party for cadets of the new 69th battal ion and 11-R-C will be held Sunday, April 8, in Mclver Dormitory by girls of the Uni versity of North Carolina. Refreshments will be served at the affair, which will start at 1530 and last until 1745. The 69th and 11-R-C’s came aboard this week. Be-Rihboned Student Aviation Pilot Now Gunning For Wings On several occasions she trav eled with the airborne members of the underground between England and France. On one of these trips she and several of her companions parachuted from their plane near Orleans. It was a dark night, but a German con voy passing nearby heard the foar of the plane’s motors and got a hazy view of the para chutists. She and her com panions managed to elude the German searching party and hid in the woods for sometime be fore finding refuge. Dyed Her Hair Another time when things got So hot that she found it neces sary to move into unoccupied ranee for awhile, she almost ^as nabbed by the Nazis. When the train reached the frontier be- Ween occupied and unoccupied ^'rance, the Gestapo came through the train and took into Custody all auburn-haired wom- Capt. de Mont-Reynaud had Anticipated this move and had ^yed her hair a jet black. They ^idn’t even attempt to question her. Toward the end of the German Occupation of France, she acted As liaison ' officer between the Allies in Normandy and the FFI Paris. She managed to get ■^ack and forth through the Ger man lines several times, posing As a French civilian, and it was she who carried the historic message from the Allied com mand giving the Paris under ground the signal to rise up and drive out the invaders. She took part in the street fighting when Paris was liberated, and her friends have credited her with killing three Germans. During the occupation she maintained in the basement of her home a sending and receiv ing radio that kept the under ground in constant touch with London. Asked how she managed to bring herself to the point of tak ing such great risks, she replied: “When you see the members of your own family and your friends’ families and innocent women and children being sub jected to the crudest tortures imaginable and killed—well, there’s nothing you won’t do to try to help them. “But my case was no excep tion,” she hastily added. “There were thousands of men and women in France and through out Europe who were glad to take the same chances.” Capt. de Mont-Reynaud mas queraded under so many dif ferent names during the occupa tion that her friends in France now don’t know what to call her. But they know her address and that’s what counts most, she added smilingly. Possibly the most be-ribboned among Carolina Pre-Flight avi ation cadets and student aviation pilots is William H. Berthold, who has been awarded enough medals and ribbons to induce a slight list to port. But even with the Distinguished Flying Cross, two Unit Citations, four Com mendations, two Air Medals, a Good Conduct and the Asiatic- Pacific, American Defense and Pre-Pearl Harbor ribbons, the 24-year-old native of Detroit, Mich., is not willing to rest on his laurels. The modest 24-year-old, a member of 11-R-B, hopes to wear Navy wings and fly his own plane but he hopes the aircraft he eventually draws “will travel a little slower than 700 miles an hour, or whatever these planes of the future are supposed to do.” On active service in the Navy since May, 1941, Berthold was at Pearl Harbor a week after the attack as a S2c and from there went aboard the Enterprise and Hornet and participated in at tacks on the Marshalls, Gilberts, Solomons, Wake and Marcus islands, and in the memorable battles of Midway and Santa Cruz. Six Days on Raft One Air Medal and the DFC were awarded Berthold follow ing the Battle of Midway, which was conspicuously marked for the Detroiter by an out-of-fuel- and-lost landing in the drink. For six days the pilot and Berthold were at sea in a raft. “But we weren’t worried,” he says. “We knew where we were, the cur rent and wind were taking us in the right direction, and we had enough to eat and drink. We made land all right.” In the Battle of Santa Cruz, where the Hornet was sunk, Ber- William H. Berthold thold was in the air. He landed on another carrier. For his part in this battle he was awarded another Air Medal and a Unit Citation. The student aviation pilot, who had 20 hours in the air as a glider pilot before joining the Navy, is credited with having shot down three Japs and with assisting in the shooting down of two others. As radioman-gun- ner, he rode while his planes in the two big battles bombed a battle-cruiser, carrier, heavy cruiser and destroyer. After a leave in 1942 Berthold was transferred to a Casu and returned to the Pacific, partici pating in more adventures ashore on Guadalcanal and winning an other Unit Citation. COMPOSITE STAFF OFFICERS—The composite cadet regimental staff from the 64th battalion lines up as follows for the photog rapher: left to right, Carl Chakmakian of Dearborn, Mich, regi- meiital commander; Lawrence McNaughton of Garden City' L. I. regimental sub-commander; Milton Wray of Columbus, Miss.' regimental adjutant, and Douglas Dillon of Bloomsburg Pa com missary officer. ’ ■’
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