University of Oklahoma - Sooner Yearbook (Norman, OK)

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MJ- -. . ! , WL,t. , , , I IIII J ip its X Q thx K NL . , ,- 0 . 0110101130115 - - ' Bil !lh3llUHkWlWDR1VRQAllhA7MNil!0dNlQlA0wlzvvvQll4lVvn0lhDhQ1h1b0i1QhlA.l1LltlK!IlQIlll!llls fvavwusvllllhvilitlhiil y t N r K 1 I ' A w X l The most frequently uttered phrase of today is Win the War! Everything else, we are told, should be put aside for this one objective so highly desired by all people who believe in free men and liberty. Thousands of Sooners, along with other freedom-loving Americans, are now engaged in this fateful adventure. We on the Home Front applaud them, pray for them, these Sooner sons and daughters. We join them in the sacrifices we, too, must make' if we are to win the war. But is this all? By no means. l well remember the last war, in which l had a brief foray as one of the nineteen-year-olders of that period. Then, the magnetic, the magnificent President Woodrow Wilson was burrowing into the consciousness of the world, appealing to a latent universal belief in the dignity of man. Then, the cry was Make the world safe for Democracy. Win the war? Surely! But, we must win the pe-ace. At Versailles we thought the war was won by the kind of treaty we wrote. We wrote a treaty. lt was everything we Americans did not want. It incorporated all the sinister secret things of Downing Street, Quai D'Orsay. lt meant that the Sooners of today must once again fight because we of 1918 were blind-we could not see beyond our own horizons. But perhaps the sons of the Sooners of today, so valiantly defending human liberty, have already realized that treaties do not make peace. Peace is made only by human understand- ing, human courage, and human forgiveness. The Sooners of today are resolved that their own sacrifices shall determine that their own sons shall not have to make the same sacrifices to make peace endure. Winning the war means winning the peace. We missed this in the last war. We must not forget it in this war, unless every score of years the sons of Sooners must eng-age in fruitless war. Of course, all war is not fruitless. We learn in war the lesson of sacrifice: we learn to love our country in a fashion which peace itself rarely serves. The lews? The Negroes? The Italians? Ahl America! I-late-the key to war. Under- standing-the key to pe-ace. We are Americans. We are Sooners. We are proud of being Sooners. Let us now resolve that winning the war is not enough. We must win the peace. And to win the peace we must this time see beyond our own horizon. We are but one state in a nation of 47 other states. We are but one country in a world of countries. Peace will come and it will come to stay when the spirit of human brotherhood and understanding catches up with the scientific development of communication and transportation. Science has made world brotherhood possible if we will take the torch and carry through. ,l ., 4 -, -1,' ..,,,111.. .1 1.1.1-'. , -1.. . -,,, 1. .1. .. , .,, . ., ..,. . i.1., ,, 1 ' ,. . ,I.,1.,: I , . ..,.1 . ,.1I. 1 , 1 , 1 1 1-1 . 1 . 1 .. 1. , 1 ,-', 5. ,. -. ,'11 1. ,1,-, V '1-1 V1 .I,1,'- I ' II - , h l HQEliii-i C3'Jlm1CYT.Tli7i-',L50QiTlLM1lKliME?Q.!Ln::5 'J gun .1'-.9 ,.1 1 ,15:- A' if' g ,' . - .- '- , , - . ' yn. - 4 ,, ' . .. -' 1-1 ,, ,' - f- - - ' 1 'F-7.1:-T-.Z--ta -1 . .Ji1i1Ta f1'ff5n11 l 1g'7'Z'1?'1 -134 ., I -' TP Y-277. filo I? 'iff-7' .' Hitt' 3510- milk. rf' .ff-if 1-H?w'2g'fx ff 1' 1 - 4' 91 ,P.,1 I: Liz.. - .'MI Q JIAIR-.1Q.,,I ,,QI-P1 1 . ., .PX , , ,x ',.m ,,. jp! 1' 1,3 f ,gf 'I E ' '- 1059 1 ' Q A A -.-'- . ' 1 1 ' :f1'w1- 1. 1 'tw 1 -' fam 1' . .. ff' A - L nh: - W' N ... its--.' 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Awarded Navy Cross for extraordinary hero- A Ll- Mefebell 1- Andefeeflf '371 Oklahoma CllYf ism and high toll of destruction against the enemy in Army Air Force. Awarded Distinguished Service ilfie Guadalcanal and Salomon lslaiids area. ' Cross on lanuary 17, 1942, and killed in action in the Pacific theater of war two days later. Maj. Mitchell E' Sims, '39, Neiman' Army Air I Force. Awarded Silver Star for gallantry in action in l ij. Lt. Francis R. Thompson, '40, El Reno, Army Air Pacific Wm theater tl Force. Awarded Distinguished Flying Cross for ' , extraordinary achievement in ferrying a flight of Maj- Iohn D. Bildaesl '34,'37l Qklaliama Ciiyl ii bombers from Hebelulu to the Pbllibplnee U few Army Air Force. Awarded Silver Star for gallantry l 11 months before WUT Started- in action in the Solomons' battle. 1 1. c Lt. laroucl B. Smith, '38 med., Alva, Navy Medical Lt- lial Iules l.l. Bloch, li., '37 bus., Qklaliama Ciiy, ii 1 In Corps. Cited for distinguished service in line of duty Ui S. Navy' Received cemmei-idailan from ilrie Navy Olufiflq the attack OU Pedrl HCIfbOf- Department for outstanding conduct during action. l 7 cpl' Clfmd Ernest Simpsfm' '37 38g AhuS 'MClrine Sgt. lohn H. Crowder, '23-'24, Bartlesville, Army Corps' Clted for bravery In defendmq Phlhppmes' Air Force. Awarded the Air Medal, newest military 111 Capt. Michael Emile Peshek, '39 bus., Oklahoma llonog' by lflgskan Defense Command for hero- l 1 c City, Marine Corps. Cited for bravery in defending lsm urmq lg ts' ,l l, .. . . Q tl I f Phlhppmes cmd last reported G Icpunese pusonx' Seaman Thurston 1. Lewis, '37-'41, 1-leavener, U. S. Capt. lames Bruce Morehead, '38, Washington, Navy' Rgceived Specicggcommeniation fi mein?- il Oklahoma, Army Air Force. Awarded Distinguished nous Cori uct TS Ollie O imep W O Smye at t eu li S . f d. h . . . guns while their ship was sinking. il ervice Cross or extraor inary eroism in action on battlefronts from the Philippines to Australia. Lioyd Childers, 140' Okiahoma City, aviation radio- ll -sg. . . . Capt. Nathan H. Blanton, '36-'38, Earlsboro, Army thlldh ini? in Navy in iorpf' pfwcgded lie ll will Air Force. Awarded Silver Star and Oak Leaf Clus- lslmguls 9 Ymq Cross or emlsm m t e butt 9 i . . . . . of Midway. V ter for gallantry in action in Pacific area. li Capt. Andy I. Reynolds, '40, Seminole, Army Air A'Lt'FCO1' Shirt Florin E8 bf'lS'E-Ilvluskoilee' AUDI lj Force. Awarded several decorations for extraordi- lr Owe' War e t e urpe earl Gong Wu 1 fig . . . . . other crew members of a Flying Fortress which took 4 we nary heroism and achievement in the Pacific area, t i id Liu F O t b 9 ly including the Distinguished Flying Cross and the par In Q ml on 1 S' rcmce' on CO er ' lf f 'i A Silver Star. I I ' Lt. Dugan Woodring, 36-38, Noble, Army Air 3 Mai. Clailq C. Keaelmaii' '34,'35l El Rena' Army Force. Awarded the Silver Star for gallantry in Air Force. Awarded Distinguished Service Cross lor action in South Pacific aerial battles as a pilot with tl ', part in first American raid on Nazi-held Europe 9 Pursuit Squadron- l staged Jury 4, 1942. , , l, iff Lt. Paul Irving Williams, 34-39, Norman, Army Li. GUS Kitchens, '38-'42, Sasakwal Army Air Air Force. Awarded the Silver Star for bravery in lraice. Awarded Silver Sidi lar pail in nialii raid an an aerial attack on Rabaul, New Britain, in October, Q22 the Iapanese base at Rabaul, New Britain. Reported 1942- ll missing in action. li Capt. Alvan M. Muldrow, '33 law, Norman, U. S. Lt. Garrett 1-1. McCallister, '39, Shawnee, Army Air Army. Awarded a Soldiers' medal for saving the if Force. Awarded Distinguished Service Cross for life of an officer in danger of electrocution near I bravery in action near Midway Island on lune 4, Leesville, Louisiana. tl :Fill 11 Il -tl- 1 -iii 'l -llllfl'lff7f'i7l'l575fflflfH5lr Lllf'13?5'f'liC'lllfi.-'l1 l1l'lfflllillll '1-l l'ff'-'i1l1'71ii'fi 1.i55:-1flf'f-'1'ff-l':r1T5ff2-fi f1 '1l9Q53lf-113:15Eiif'-f lfl-f1l'.ll f. :l-fllf 1 . ' '- , 1 u, 1-1735 'FD Q 1 i N fi , 11'-li '. tl, ...1 V i .i . 1 lt 6' - - 3- . f- if ff lx: A '-ii ri. ci v- A. A. ' . fl Iv RN i, - , .1 ,F ' 1 ,- in .1 sa, 4 1. 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