(17RS/71RG)(SM47-Z-6)(1-0-30)(2-16-0830-1110)(24" 100'T.800') (CORREGIDOR INVASION)(438)(1-36)

. Neither last nor least, however, was our very energetic Red Cross director, a civilian, unarmed, who had volunteered to jump with the Regiment on the first wave, and who had set to work at once in preparing for the earliest possible opening of his "Service Club." If the Red Cross had more agents like this one, that organization would earn greater respect among American troops at the front. Whether they actually belong here, may be a debatable point, but it was not debatable to our eager and enthusiastic, loyal, and devoted agent "Dick" He was forty years old, and a non-jumper when he joined our Regiment at Oro Bay. After one or two practice jumps, he had volunteered for the combat jump at Noemfoor, where so many of our men were injured on the hard coral landing strip; and again voluntarily worked his way with the lead battalion here, a fine record, and one which he followed up by fine performance. He gave what help he could from the start and became an invaluable morale booster in the days that followed.

 

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