World War II Chronicle: May 22, 1943
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Great news: Moscow’s ComIntern has dissolved (see the front page). As of today there is no longer an official entity guiding the international communist movement. President Roosevelt and Winston Churchill must have have really finally got through to Josef Stalin right and shown him the light of democracy… On page three, Japanese radio has reported the death of Adm. Isoroku Yamamoto. The author considers the possibilities of suicide or a passenger plane crash…
Also on page three: The B-17 named FDR’s Potato Peeler Kids has gone down in the North Sea. The crew’s bombardier is Lt. Rhude Mark Mathis 1pictured on page 20 of the Jan. 29, 1943 Chronicle, brother of recently departed Lt. Jack W. Mathis. Jack was mortally wounded by flak during a March 18 mission, but crawled back to his bombsight and released the load before he passed away, permitting the crew to continue their mission. Rhude asked to be transferred to his brother’s former crew and rode in the same seat. Their mother will be presented with Jack’s posthumous Medal of Honor in September. The gym I used to work out in at Goodfellow Air Force Base — the field where he and his brother became bombardiers — is named in Jack’s honor…
Local boy Lt. William J. Sloan has notched his seventh victory of the war. By September he will stand at 12 kills, two probables, and three damaged, making him the Twelfth Air Force’s top ace. He returns to the United States to become a P-38 Lightning instructor… Page five reports that the Navy will be naming their first ship after a colored sailor. Mess Attendant First Class Leonard R. Harmon posthumously received a Navy Cross for treating and evacuating wounded before he himself was killed by an enemy six-inch shell. The destroyer escort USS Harmon (DE-678) will be commissioned on Aug. 31…
Sgt. Alvin York’s son George Edwin Buxton York has arrived for basic training at Fort Ogelthorpe, Ga. (see page six). His famous father earned the Medal of Honor for leading a daring attack which capturing well over 100 Germans and several machine guns. His son is named after the commanding officer who talked a pacifist Alvin into taking up arms to serve his country. “Sergeant” York volunteered to fight again, but at 54 years old is too old for combat. He instead accepted a major’s commission in the Signal Corps and is on the war bond tour…
George Fielding Eliot column on page eight… 28,000 victorious Allied soldiers paraded through Tunis to celebrate their victory in North Africa (see page nine)… Sports section begins on page 10.
Evening star. (Washington, D.C.), 22 May 1943. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.
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