World War II Chronicle: May 19, 1943
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George Fielding Eliot column on page eight… Page 19 reports that the Navy may give gunners basic instruction on how to fly and perhaps land their airplane if the pilot is killed or incapacitated. Sgt. Gilbert H. Henze attempted to fly his Douglas SBD Dauntless back to Guadalcanal when his pilot was killed. A nearby fighter pilot assisted Henze over the radio, but when the fuel began to run out, the radio quit working. Henze bailed out and was rescued by natives, but had to swim for several hours with an amputated leg. He passed away in April from a medical condition while convalescing at Mare Island Naval Hospital in San Francisco…
Speaking of wounded troops: only three percent of those wounded in the Dec. 7 attack on Oahu have perished (see page 35)… in April. gave him Sports section begins on page 46. The Boston Braves finally beat Pittsburgh’s eephus-throwing Rip Sewell. Boston manager Casey Stengel is still laid up in the hospital recovering from a broken leg, but jokes that seeing his old pal Frankie Frisch get shut out gave him the first night of good sleep since he entered the hospital. The two managers played together for John McGraw’s New York Giants. This is Sewell’s first loss of the year. He struck out five, got a hit himself and a stolen base. So far he has a 2.38 ERA and is 3-1 for the sixth-place Bucs.
Bob Coleman is filling in for Stengel and the Braves are currently in second, behind the Brooklyn Dodgers. The home-plate umpire is future Hall of Famer Jocko Conlan. When he was a White Sox center fielder in a 1935 game against the St. Louis Browns, one of the umpires went down with heat exhaustion. Conlan took his place and liked it so much, next year he became an umpire. Stengel was Conlan’s manager when he played for the Toledo Mud hens, and he impressed the Old Perfesser one game by breaking his leg sliding into third base. Conlan didn’t let on that anything was wrong until he scored.
Evening star. (Washington, D.C.), 19 May 1943. Chronicling America: Historic American Newspapers. Lib. of Congress.
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