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Recovered from wounds which
Included cannon shrnpnel in beth
legs and It bullet hole In his thigh
injuries which he described as
' "minorLlcut. (j.g.) Henry A.
Carey Jr., Navy fighter pilot, nr-
;rlved bare Wednesday on s 30-day
ignvo with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. H. A. Carey, 105 Dunmore
Place.
Anxious to try (to forget his ex-
poflcnccs In the Pacific War the-
ater, which Included his being
nwnrded two Distinguished Flying
Crosses, the young officer looked
forward to a quiet stay In Ithnen.
before having to report back to
the Pacific Coast for more action
overseas.
"The American People gonernlly
I don't understand what we are III'' ngainat In fighting the Japanese,"
said the lieutenant as he praised
their courage and other attributes.
"Their naval gunnery is wonderful,
and their planes are as good as
ours. They ,consistently make a
few mistalccs," Carey explained, as
he cited examples of some of their
aerial warfare methods.
Ono Jap Plano Like German
Carey said that the Japanese
n plaes are manufactured In that
country, although some of them
carry American -made parts. He
said the Japs had a plane which
'the Americans called the Messer-
schmttt, and which they first
thought was made in Germany. Al-
though it was built like the Ger
man Messersebmitts, it was Japa-
nese -made, Investigation showed.
Early in the war the Japanese did
I not have leakproof tanks on their
planes, but since then they have
adopted them.
After participating in the bat-
n ltes of Midway and the Santa Cruz
a Islands, where his activities
brought him two medals, Carey
went on to participate in the ma-
jor Solomon Islands battle of last
November, in which he was wound-
ed. He said that the Navy fliers,
going to Guadalcanal to support
the land and naval forces there,
came upon the battle unexpected-
ly. At that time the Japanese fleet
Nvas retreating. One Japanese bat-
tleship in particular was a difficult
one to sink. Although it had been
hit by numerous torpedoes, it was
still firing all its main batteries
and was limping along. The Navy's
air squadron put some torpedoes
into the battleship and sank ft.
'Winged' by Zero Pilot
Carey was in combat with enemy
,planes when he was "winged" by
a Japanese Zero pilot who "ap-
peared out of nowhere," he said.
"We had shot down one Zero and
were watching his plane burnand
I didn't even see the plane co,ming
on me.
"One bullet took my earphones
off; others hit the instrument pan-
el and nicked me. I put the little
blaze in the plane out with my
hands, and managed to take the
plane safely to the field at Guad-
alcanal."
Jadet Injured
Mr. and Mrs. Charles R. Van
Gorder of Enfield Center have been
notified by their son, Cadet Charles
R. Van Gorder Jr. that he was 'in-
jured in a parachute jump due to
an air accident on May 7, and is
in the hospital at Chickasha, Okla.
Cadet -Van Gorder would like to
hear from his frl:ends at Barden
General Hospital, Ward 33-14,
Chickwasha.
iv.lfrfn. lrofn Pacific
HENRY A. CAREY .Ile.
Newfield Man
Hurt Overseas
Tn�i�n at $odd Ticld
Sergeant Paul L. Ervay of New-
field, whose father and mother both
died accidentally during the past
year, is convalescing overseas from I
burns received from an airplane
explosion.
In a letter written June 27 to Mrs.
Laura Causer of Hotel Ithaca,
where he was employed as a bell-
boy before he went into the Army,
he said:
"I had my whole right side
burned, from my .ankle to the top
of my head. Gasoline makes arr
awfully hot fire, especially from an
explosion. This soldier was ad-
mitted to the hospital Apr. 17. I
It
m now almost well but am still
in the hospital. This is all I can tell
you except the explosion came
from an airplane-"
His address is ASN 12003036, APO
1700, 2nd Convalescent Hospital, c/o
Postmaster, New York, N. Y.
Soldier Promoted
To Corporal
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OLIN D. BUTIZ
(3LENN R. BOTSFORD
Ensign Glenn R. Botsford, com-
nllssloned 1n the Navy A" Corps,
reported for duty Jan. 1 at Corpus
Christi, Tex. After one W4 of
,m Intensive indoctrination course
he was assigned to Redd Field,
one of the outlying fields of the
Corpus Christi Naval Training Cen-
ter, for a three-month flight course.
Ensign Botsford, son of Prof. H.
E. Botsford and Mrs. Botsford,
Jacksonville, received his prelim-
inary flight training at Ithaca and
Buffalo. He received his flying in
structor's rating while a studen'
in College of Civil Engineering a
Cornell and, for the last two sum
mere, has been a flying instructo
at several New York State airport,
His present address is: Ensign <
R. Botsford, AV (P) USNR, li
Battalion Barracks 457, Room 20
Rodd Field, U. S. Naval Trainir
Center, Corpus Christi, Tex.
private Likes Army
Private Olin D. Butler, son of
Mr, and Mrs. Willis E. Butler of
RFD 3, Ithaca, has been promoted'
to corporal. He would like to hear I
from his Ithaca friends at this
address: Corporal Olin D. Butler,
31st Chemical Company, Camp
Bowie, Tex.
Another Ithacan wh
Army is Private Rob,
son of Mr. and Mrs. A
223 S. Fulton St. He 1
18, 1942, with a Boar(
Writing to his wife,
at 221 S. Fulton St., 1
ton used that familia
"Army Life is swell."
His address is Com
Infantry Training I
Platoon (363), Camp
� >K
Corporal Leon R
486th Bomb Group,
at 104 N. Aurora
in the Normandy, 1,
Ardennes, Rhinelai
Europe campaigns
fensive over Euro
EAME Ribbon Witt
Distinguished Un
served between Ja
Oct. 13.