World War II Chronicle: October 30, 1942
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Pictured on the front page is Merrit A. “Red Mike” Edson, now commanding 5th Marines. Edson earned a second Navy Cross while leading the 1st Raider Battalion on Tulagi and was nominated for the Medal of Honor for his defense of Lunga Ridge (Edson’s Ridge) on Guadalcanal in September. His son Merrit Jr. enlisted in the Marines in 1942 and earns a commission following the war…
Pictured alongside Col. Edson is his executive officer Col. William J. Whaling, whom we discussed in a post last month… Also pictured on today’s front page is newly commissioned Army Air Force 2nd Lt. Clark Gable. The Marine officer who racked up an impressive enemy body count is Capt. Henry J. Adams Jr., who before the war was on the U.S. International Rifle Team… Washington has summoned Lt. Gen. Dwight Eisenhower to return to the United States (see page two). Eisenhower has been Commanding General, European Theater of Operations for four months…
AP war correspondent Edward Kennedy provides a first-person account of a U.S. bomber raid in North Africa on page five… A Marine Corps combat correspondent tells the story of how 28 Marines were killed when they honored a Japanese white-flag surrender. Tricking Americans with fake surrenders were common in the Pacific Theater and explain why Marines and soldiers took so few prisoners…
Maj. Justice Chambers, who served in Edson’s Raiders and is now recuperating from injuries received during the Tulagi Raid, tells how tough the Marines are on page 34. Chambers will go on to command 3rd Battalion, 25th Marines on Iwo Jima where he earns the Navy Cross — which is soon upgraded to the Medal of Honor… Sports section begins on page 50, which discusses the Brooklyn Dodgers. The Army already has owner Larry MacPhail, has rejoined the Army as a lieutenant colonel, but will not get manager Leo Durocher. MacPhail rose from private to captain during World War I and participated in an unsanctioned post-war mission along with his commander, former U.S. Senator Luke Lee in Belgium to capture exiled German emperor Kaiser Wilhelm II.
Evening star. (Washington, D.C.), 29 October 1942. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.
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