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Lieutenant
Awarded
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Funeral servirrc for I,t. Martln
.i. Hradisky Jr., whn died In Let-
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I Air Medal
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Lerman General Hospitel, S a n
Pr'Anciaro, Calif., Sunday, May 10,
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19"Q will he held at 8:15 a.m. Mon-
t day, May 27, at the home of his
Winner of the Air Medal, Lt.
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parents. Mr. and Mrs. Martin J.
Leonard Kassman recently wrote
old M. Lull of
Hradisky, 1018 W. Seneca St,
his parents from Guam Informing
ere notified by
A Solemn High ))Lass of Requiem
them that he had received the
ent Saturday
will be celebrated at 9 a.m. In the
decoration for his part In a half -
Second Lieut.
Church of the Immaculate Con-
dozen missions,
he U.S. Army
ception. Burial will be in the faro
ily Calvary
I didn't want to worn y you
a missing in
plot, Cemetery. The
Veterans
about my flying while we were at
to area since
of Foreign Wars, Finger
Lakes Post 961,
wnr," Itnssman wrote; ��• ••�..
the Eighth
will conduct mill-
that it is over I guess that it is
lsed in Eng-
try funeral services. Members will
all right to tell you."
t further de-
fied as soon
ivied by the
,raduate of
to received
In 1939, be-
t cadet on
r later re
dier 4vings
;ond lieu -
raining at
t Aug
day tt
12 or
Ld be,
with ti
IS wet
e migh
be day
Eight)
rted lr
t, over
5. The
e raid
`.h Air
Flying
form-
es in
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so meet 1n their rooms at 7:30 I saw some really thrilling
P.M. Sunday to pay respects to sights while on those missions. I'll
their late member, have a whole bookful of tales to
Lieutenant Hradisky died from tell ;when I get home. . Our
injuries sustained when a B-17 group was considered the most for -
crashed near Fairfax, Calif., Thurs- r tunate group" in the entire Air
day, May 16. The body will arrive I Corps. We flew all of our missions
Saturday noon, and will be taken to without a loss of a single crew.
the home of his parents. There were only two men wounded
and they merely had scratches. Yes,
we were lucky.
"We flew some missions up to
the Empire after the war ended to
take PW (prisoner of war)" sup-
plies. I tell you there never was
a thrill greater in your entire life'
than to see those men who have
been PWs as long as 3 years wav-
ing at us as'we passed over them
at an altitude of about 500 feet.
„They had written 1 <` a l over the
roofs of their quarters. We dropped
iC
�f .z? supplies to the survivors of the
:,.`a:. USS Yorktown, which was sunk in
try" 1943. Theyhad the name York-
town '43 written on the top of one
f >; of the buildings. Another PW camp
f J had the words, "Pappy Boyington
Here." Yo
411 u remembe
r him as the
Marine air ace ivho was shot down
20 months ago. Yes, I re 11
some memories."
& Y have
Worse titan flying missions, Kass-
', ;fir man stated, was to "just sit around
doing nothing.... Then we had a job to do and we did it. Now our job is finished and we want to come
home. You can't blame us for
ADAM 13UCCI that."
A member o On of Mr. and Mrs, M. P. Hass-
e ground crew man of 113 Glen Place, Lieutenant
Of the U.S. Navy Air Force, Seaman Kassman was graduated from Ith-
Second Class Adam Buccl recently
arrived aca High School in 1938, and studied
at Kingsville, Tex,, where at the Universityof
he it stationed a the Arbor Michigan Ann 1
Auxiliary Air Station. VS
Naval M)ch, He has been in uni-
hueband of Mr He is the beI' 3 Years, and 5 Inonths
has 613 Hudson St. s Ethal BIftcl of began his overseas ago
wife resides i service, His
of He writes that _ n Los Angeles, Calif.
uc- Texas is the weather in
to the day, unusually warm during
but cool at night,
he Inducted
)se is Dec. 8, 1943, Bucci had
a boot training at Sampson, He
ntplayed golf Ivbile in Ithaca Hlgh
School, g
u: chalrlpionship for twthe high school
hgolf champion for °Years. City
halso was caddy champlonr two a foh3
Years.
Before his induction, m
Iplo ed , n was e
,the Mo1se production office of
Chain Colnpany He
'would like to hearf/,°m friends ' -- at
Corporal John R. Reinhardt was 4
•eleased Oct. 18 from the Army Air
Forces at Drew Field Separation i
Station, Tampa, Fla. He is the
S of Mrs. L. A. Reinhardt of 443
>'oi a St. He entered the Army
tember, 1943.
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