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august, 1943 THE ECHO PAGE ELEVEN News From Lt. McClintock Is Awarded Air Medal (jg) Ernest L. McQintock, was presented the air med- 3 . ^ meritorious achievement in action against enemy forces laJi® in the Solomon is- *ands area. Lt. McClintock participated in ^ttacks against enemy shore _ illations and two attacks sainst enemy destroyer task V all of which were opposed y heavy anti-aircraft fire. “On Pi.® the latter occasions,” the for read, “the enemy task 3n 7 accompanied by 20 or Zero fighters and in the en- engagement the enemy fight- s Were dispersed after five of planes had been shot down, skiiif ‘ ^^^li’^tock’s courageous and Wifi! conduct was- in keeping the highest traditions of the te,.' naval service.” Before en- the Navy, in April, 1941, th ^^^lintock was employed in Physical Laboratory at Ecusta. ^ eai’ning his gold wings on im 16, 1942, he was ordered .Mediately to the Pacific where remained until taking up his resent duties at the U. S. naval “ining center, Pensacola. CADET SIMS KILLED . .^rs. E. L. Sims was notified by to**® that her son Aviation Cadet at Sims, Jr., died instantly 3 r P- m. July 29 in an airplane . iQent about 12 miles from fjj^'^sta, Ga. While on a routine , ght with his instructor both were ied. The scene of the accident kp located until Friday morn- Cause of death was undeter- ^^^®t Sims, former Ecusta . ‘^ktender who left for the Army of 1942, was in the air at Bush Field. ®®NDS NEWS OF CHILDREN McCormick writes McCormick is safe and well in Sicily after lost for three days; that 2nd f ^ Juanita McCormick, A. N. C., g.^®^ved the Echo and certainly Dj^^ciates it; that CpL Melvin •f has been promoted to . ch; Sergeant (he visited Ecusta Co^’ 18); that Pvt. Thomas Me- I. *^ck spent several days with Vj5 ''^ife and infant daughter (he Q «ed Aug. 11); and that Pvt. D. McCormick has had a Q^Se in address—he is now at ^ oip White, Oregon. His last son, leaves soon for his general ^i^ination. RECEIVES GOLD WINGS «.Hsign William C. Silver, Jr., jj^Quated on July 28th from a ^^^al Air Training Center in where he received his gold .Ss and was commissioned as j; in the U. S. Naval Reserve, rji^sign Silver was transferred from to Florida, where is taking fo^^^ced navigation training. Be- 1949 Ecusta in January of Siih ’ Assistant Quality Pervisor at Ecusta. ^^CEIVES ARMY AIR MEDAL of Ruther- Wifu was recently decorated ^ the Air Medal. “It was an ^j^ard made in recognition of ^^UTageous service to his combat ^j^nization, his fellow American u^en, his coimtry, his home . . . Long is a navigator and has j. in overseas service for ten jj^^^ths. Before volunteering for forces, he was employed y Quality Supervisor in the Phy- ^ Lab. at Ecusta. Former Employees Now In Service Life In The Army Isn^t So Bad After All! .I.—..—..-.I,.—IHI--W, , « '''''' ' '' ' P ' ' ' 's'\ '' MORE ECUSTANS LEAVE FOR MILITARY SERVICE Many Ecustans who have not yet sent their addresses have re cently joined the military ranks: Birdell Monteith, a clerk in the Finishing Dept, of Ecusta, has joined the WACs and left July 3, 1943; Wade F. Webb, an Ecusta Lamp man, left June 11, 1943; JacI^ Wilber and Charles Russell, Ecusta Beatermen, left for the Army Air Corps July 14, 1943; James K. Mills, Jr., another Ecusta Beaterman, left May 18, 1943; and one of the girls from Handbook- let, Rosa Edna Bell, joined the WAVES and left August 20, 1943. RETURNS TO SAN FRANCISCO Pfc. James R. Glanville, a for mer Main Office Clerk of Ecusta who entered the service in July of 1942 and was stationed at Camp Lee, Va., returned from a recent furlough spent with his mother, Mrs. C. J. Glanville of Asheville. He is now stationed iat Fort Mason, San Francisco. NOW IN ENGLAND Horace D. Smith, Ecusta Third Hand, who left in April, 1941, is now a Sergeant stationed in Eng land. TRANSFERRED TO MD. 1st. Lt. Joe E. Hunter, formerly a Chief Research Chemist at Ecus ta, is now in Maryland, where he started his basic training August 3rd. Italian Prisoner SGT. ERNEST B. ENGLISH, a bombardier and grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Flem Glazener, of Rosman, is a prisoner of the Italian government. He has been missing in action since June 18. Cpl. English has been in servtce 18 months. He was first sent to England and then to North Af rica. Before enlisting in the ser vice, he worked at Ecusta. He is a nephew of Sheriff and Mrs. Freeman Hayes. SHOT DOWN GERMAN PLANE Pvt. Charles W. McJunkin, for mer member of Ecusta Landscape Crew who left in December of 1942, has at least one German plane to his credit On June 18, Pvt. McJunkin, who is a turrent gun ner in the air transport command, shot down a German fighter some where in the Atlantic. In action McJunkin was slightly injured in the hand by enemy fire, but now he has recovered and says that he is ready to “go back after some of those dirty Germans.” He is now stationed at a Miami, Fla., base. IN FLEET MARINE FORCE We have just received from here and yon a little information on CpL Bill Daly, who was formerly employed in the Main Office of Ecusta. He is in the Special Wea pons Group of the Fleet Marine Force and has been in the hospital recently with malaria fever. He writes that he has recovered now and is trying to put on weight and knock 0^ Japs. Pfc. Charles H. Moss writes from somewhere in Sicily: “I don’t think there is anything I enjoy more than the Echo; and have been receiving it regularly though I have been all over it finds me somehow ... I stayed in Africa until the campaign was over and now I am somewhere in Sicily and we are doing alright for ourselves as you see by the news. Regards to the gang and keep ’em smok ing.”
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