Duke University - Chanticleer Yearbook (Durham, NC)

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Silver Star for a thrcc-day task of reconnoitcring enemy machine gun nests and forlificd j ositioiis near Runa. Lt. j.g. CJeorgc Patterson, class of 38, was deco- rated with the Silver Star bv Lt. Gen. Mark W. JiMMV AND Louis Walker Clark for gallantry in action which probably saved the life of the Fifth Army Commander in Italy. Lt. Patterson was skipper of the PT boat on which Gen. Clark was riding ofT the Anzio beachhead when it was fired upon by the Nazis. Gen. Clark was delivered safely to Anzio Lt. Roberts ' 43 despite the serious wounds that Lt. Patterson had received when a shell struck the chart room of the motor torpedo boat. The simple cere- mony at which Lt. Patterson received the deco- ration took place in the Army hospital in Naples. He received his decoration in a wheelchair. ' ' Another Duke alumnus who has re- ceived a decoration is Lt. Kenneth J. Murphy, .Army .Air Corps, class of ' 43. He was reported some time ago as mi.ssing in action in the Pacific area. Lt. Murphy was awarded the Army Air Medal and the Dis- tinguished Flying Cross and then named a captain. He received the cross for extraordi- nary achievement while ])articipating in six aerial flights over Rabaul, VVewak, Madang, Alumni Bulletin Board Buna, and Malahang area from June 7 to June 19, 1943 to take photographs. These flights entailed hazardous long-range, overwater navi- gation, frequently through adverse weather conditions. In photographing such difficult targets so often and in such a short period of time, Lt. Murphy established a record for photo- graphic flying in the area. Graduating from the Duke Nursing School at the head of a class of 306 in 1941, Second Lt. ' Bolo Purdue 23