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Nevada Man Has Had Adventure EnoughNYvlt;*r too o J to jump' isthecourse he was sent to the Para-notto of S-Sgt. Clvde K. Mayo.; chute School. F ort Sennmg, Ga„ ortv-scven year old paratrooper; as a eookf Nevada. Texas, who has jtis;a reived at Ashhurn General Hospital from France,It took Mavo ten do vs to con-%vince the Commanding Officer aiFort Benning that he belongedMavo. a veteran of the Rain- with the combat troops. “I don'tbow Division of World War 1. left his farm in April 1912. conic now w bother super-salcsman-ship on my part was responsiblevincod the A nrv Recruiting Of- for the transfer or if the Colonelficer at Dallas that he could measure up to the Army physical qualifications and was sent to bakers school at Fort Sant Houston. Upon completion of theMavoate some of mv cooking said.As one of the oldest paratroop-e r soUnks Slipped InTo Trap JapaneseWith the American infantry division somewhere in the Southwest Pacific. Nov. 4. (Delayed)INS Ought flat footed when vhh by the course we took wasthe United States Army. Mayo landed on the Cherbourg Peninsula at 2:4o a. in. D-Day. He and his crew jumped fromtheir plane, which had been hitov anti-aircraft fire, fifteen miles farther inland than the rest of their battalion.Mavo and several of the othermen were injured in this emergency landing. With the aid of the F rench underground the group was able to get back through the Nazi lines and join with their command. “It took seven da vs to make that fifteen mile trip1 a full company of America] infantrymen slipped into the jungle network of '2S newly constructedenemy pillboxes, nearly a hun-) dred Japs werethey attempted to move into their prepared positions in the Yank’s roadblock.Fort v-soven enemv lead were%1 .•counted as a result of the toad-, block.Led by C*apt. Robert A. Man* n i n g, G11 a d al c a n a 1 and Bou g a i u -vill* vptfirnn from Dhiottpo thea ’tually over fifty miles, * Mayostated. “Believe me, the French underground deserve a lot otcredit for the aid given the para-trapped when troopers on D-Day. They got usi back through territory su arming v.ith Jerry S'. We landed within five hundred yards of an enemy rag-v %■ C1j iment.”S-Sgt. Mavo savs his adveaturc urge has been satisfied for all j time. He looks forward once a-Jgain tlt;» leading the life of a Texas farmer.
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Mckinney Daily Courier Gazette
Mckinney, Texas, US
Mon, Nov 13, 1944
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