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Sergeant Louis ("Soup") Silva finally got his Distinguished Flying Cross last week, and everybody in the U.S. Army Air Force in Australia was pleased. Soup is a 47-year-old gunner from California, who has been in the Air Force since 1928. Many are the tales of his shooting, his handling of the green young gunners in his care, the respect in which mere officers hold...
...known to every Freshman Class since 1926, exchanged his janitor's duties in Matthews for a position of Chief Gunner's Mate in the Navy only two weeks ago. He had been recalled to active service because his long experience in the Navy made him well fitted for teaching recruits the fine points of gunnery...
...enlisted in 1905, at the age of 17 and served in the Mexican Border Campaign, in Nicaragua, and in the World War, as a chief gunner's mate. In the he was honorably discharged from active service, but remained on the reserve lists until his recall last March...
...last combat was a raid on the Jap airdrome at Chiengmai in Thailand. He and his squadron dived low, burned or shot up 40 planes on the ground, machine-gunned the Jap pilots as they ran for their cockpits. At the edge of the field a Jap gunner with a machine gun mounted on a truck drew a bead on the enemy leader's plane, poured a long burst into its belly. While all the others zoomed away, Scarsdale Jack's plane stalled, shuddered, crashed in flames...
...Axis sub crippled a rickety, old armed U.S. freighter, loosed a parachute flare to illuminate the scene. A contrary wind caught the chute, pushed it back over the sub, shed sufficient light for a carrot-topped Navy gunner on the ship to pound three shells into its conning tower. Survivors insisted that the raider went down with all hands...