Word: dunckel
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Challenge. "It's pretty much of a challenge," said stocky, black-haired Brigadier General William Caldwell Dunckel to his force of fighting men and service troops. "I assume every man in this force is a ground soldier. He'll have to fight as such." The men knew that General Dunckel, a staff officer on his first overall command mission, knew what he was talking about. Dunckel's knowledge of the Philippines was already famed on Leyte...
...Dunckel had visited Mindoro in 1930. Said he, with a characteristic nervous tic of the left eye: "It's like a saucer tilted toward the sea. High and difficult mountains shelter it. This is the dry season, but clouds generally overhang the mountains...
...miles by 50. It's also very close to Luzon." That was Mindoro's chief value and every man in Dunckel's force knew it. From the San José airfields, patrols could wing far over the South China Sea, harrying Jap shipping; Luzon could be softened for invasion and General MacArthur's return to Manila. Mindoro's fields would take the load off Admiral "Bull" Halsey's carrier airmen, who even then, acting as tactical air force for MacArthur, were smashing at the Japs' Philippine airdromes...
...damage. Out of the setting sun later that day came another strike. It was met by Corsairs and Wildcats, and Army P-38s flying from Leyte. This time some of the Japs got through, although seven were destroyed. Among the men wounded by bomb fragments was the boss, General Dunckel. He got himself bandaged up, said he saw no reason to rule himself out of the play...
David R. Sanders '44 and William C. Dunckel '44, sponsors of Winthrop House War Bond and Stamp sale, have announced a self-satisfied total of war sales this week amounting to $1120.70, a feat of excellence for which they credit themselves entirely...