Woodrow Wilson High School - Campanile Yearbook (Long Beach, CA)

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Eight!-1-ll Flying Crosse-N won by W'llsoll men Top left to right, across two pages. CHAR1.ES LONDON '36, Captain, Distinguished Service Cross, Distinguished Flying Cross, British Flying Cross, First Amer- ican Ace, 79 missions over Germany, 'Thunderbolt Fighter. BILL CORWIN '36, Major,Flying Cross, Attu, Transport plane, Air Medal, Clusters, Rescued men at Artic Circle. Bos BURRELL '38, Captain, 137 missions over Himalayas, China, Burma, Flying Cross, Air Medal, Clusters. BRUCE LODER '34, Lieut. Navy Cross, Purple Heart, B-17, miss- ing Solomons. JACK R. CRU1't:I-IFIELII '31, lst Lieut. Navy, Navy Cross, missing submarine, Pacific. R. MILLS DORTON '36, Captain, Flying Cross, Air Medal, Clus- ters, first American flight over Holland, Africa, operations oflicer, Pacific. ,lol-IN M. CLARKE '37, lst Lieut. Navy Cross, Coral Sea, Lexing- ton, Chief Signal man new Lexington. Boa BENISH '37, Captain, Flying Cross, Air Medal, Clusters, sank tanker, Africa area. EUGENE MAooLE '38, Lieut., Marines, Navy Cross, Purple Heart, missing, Midway. BILLY HAYTER '36, Captain Marines, Navy Cross, missing. Guadalcanal. Pictures at bottom of page, reading left to right across two pages GENE DREKMAN ,37, Captain, P-38, Flying Cross, Silver Star, Air Medal, Clusters, Guadalcanal. .lol-IN M. ROBINSON '37, Flying Cross, Air Medal, Clusters, B-17, Germany. DON HORN '40, Ensign, Flying Cross, Presidential citation for unit, sank submarine Atlantic, dive bomber. RUSSELL MAURER '37, Captain, Flying Cross, Kiska, sank des- ,troycr. DAVE PETERSON '34, Captain B-17, Flying Cross, Air Medal, 10 Clusters, African area. CLIFFORD HAUENSTEIN '38, Captain B-17, 60 missions, Flying Cross, Air Medal, Clusters, Guadalcanal. EARL C. ENI-IoLIvI, Wilson teacher, 1st Lieut. Army Air Corps, Assistant Director College training, 60 colleges Midwest, South. STEWART Bus BACHTELLE '37, Lieut. Navigator, Forced down North Sea, after Hamburg, Prisoner in Germany. HAROLD MAsoN '40, Chief Petty oflicer, Pearl Harbor, Oklahoma, Northampton sunk under himg ship to Tokyo with Dolittle, 13 major battle stars. Bos HETZEL '36, Captain Airborne troops, now general Patton's personal pilot, England. BILL DUDEN '28, Lieut. Col. Italian Area, Troup Carrier. Bon DocIcsTADER '34, Captain, Air Medal, flew P-38 in black days of java, Borneo, Sumatra, Queens Die Proudly, Book. LEONARD HARDIE, Wilson teacher, lst Lieut. Navy, director of Navy training program, Terminal Island Knot pictured herel. 5 ff'

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lll4IllllTA'l'l0N: Campanile- HM-I is grate-fully eh-dlu-nh-d to 2500 1Vlls0n mon Q DEDICATION: To all of you out there, Men, Boys, 2500 of you, who are fighting the most deadly war known to man, this book is humbly dedicated. To the neurotic cases, the discharged, the fearless, the afraidg to the Marines who storm ghastly beach heads in the Pacific, to the Infantry in Italy that get in there and take it and die, to men on big guns and little guns, on big ships and little ships all over the world, to the bridge of ships, the Merchant Marine, who get bombs and gas through, to battle scarred, young veterans who flock to the campus daily, who match Valley Forge, Saratoga, Yorktown with seven battle stars, paralyzed arms, have abandoned ships, frozen in Alaska, become diseased in the slimy, swelter- ing tropics, to the bombers and Fighters who have blasted the enemy from the skies, to the gallant men in prison campsg to the daring ones who wonit come backg to these and a 1000 more we clon't know about, your Wilson gratefully declicates this 1944 CAMPANILE.

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