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...cadet, got his commission and his pilot's wings in 1939. He received the D.F.C. for flying a Fortress with the famed 19th Bombardment Group to the Philippines in September 1941, added an Oak Leaf Cluster for bombing a Jap battleship Jan. 9, 1942. Six weeks later in Java he earned a Silver Star by saving a fellow officer in the face of enemy fire, later got an Oak Leaf Cluster to add to that medal. News of Colonel Reiser's death has probably not reached his wife Margaret, who is still interned in Manila. With the death...
...work of other men in 1942 may prove to be more enduring, but . . . the conqueror of Singapore, Java and Bataan is the man who knocked the pins down in this frame...
Silver Star. Army, 661; Navy, 117; Marines, 1; Coast Guard, 4. Sample case: Captain Nathaniel Blanton of the 19th Bombardment Group, who, leading eight planes, intercepted nine Japanese bombers and six Zero fighters over Java. He shot down the Jap flight leader and by his own leadership helped to make a perfect attack...
Killer. They sent Buzz to Australia to fetch more planes that were not there. By the time some P-40s arrived Java was being invaded. Charles ("Bud") Sprague and Buzz were told to flip a coin to decide who would go to Java, who would remain in Australia to teach some green pilots just arrived from the U.S. Sprague went to Java, where he was killed. "You won the toss?" a newsman asked Buzz. "No, I lost. Bud Sprague was my friend," said Buzz, his blue-green eyes ablaze...
There was a Fortress radioman named Warrenfels who heard that a radio operator was urgently needed on Bataan. He volunteered to go, boarded a ship trying to run the Jap blockade. The ship was sunk 200 miles off Java. Another enlisted man who is no longer with the 19th is 19-year-old Private Arvid Hegdahl, tail gunner of a Flying Fortress. After he shot down a Zero his leg was almost blown off, but he continued to shout encouragement to other members of the crew. When the time came to evacuate Java he had to be left...