World War II Chronicle: November 13, 1942
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Capt. William T. Cherry Jr., who piloted the B-17 carrying Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker over the South Pacific has been rescued, three weeks after ditching his plane in the ocean. Crews are searching the area for additional survivors (see pages one and two)…
A photo of newly promoted Lt. Gen. Mark Clark from his West Point days is found on page eight, alongside that of his son William D. Clark who is a plebe at the U.S. Military Academy and will graduate in 1945. Grandfather Col. Charles C. Clark also graduated West Point. Clark will earn the Distinguished Service Cross, two Silver Stars, and three Purple Hearts in Korea… Lt. Charles L. McClure, Crew 7 navigator of the Doolittle Raid on Tokyo, tells his story on page eight…
George Fielding Eliot column on page 12… Former American Expeditionary Force commander Gen. John J. Pershing has written a letter to the French people asking them to join the fight against the Axis (see page 28)… The “Philippine Escape” series continues on page 42… Sports section begins on page 54… Wake Forest’s Red Cochran is pictured on page 55. His college career is interrupted when he becomes a bomber pilot in the Fourteenth Air Force, flying missions in the China-Burma-India Theater. He is drafted in the eighth round of the 1944 NFL Draft, but after the war Cochran finishes up at Wake Forest. He plays three seasons for the Chicago Cardinals and also plays a season of minor league baseball in 1948…
Evening star. (Washington, D.C.), 13 November 1942. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.
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