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Nevada Man Has Had Adventure EnoughNever too old to jump* is themotto of S-Rgt. Clyde K. Mayo.!orty-se\en year old paratrooper of Ne vada, Texas, who has juw arrived at Ash bum General Hospital from France.Mavo, a veteran of the Haiti-. ifr-bow Division of World War I, left his farm m April 1912. convinced the Anrv Recruiting Officer at Dallas that he couldmeasure up to the Army physicalqualifications and was sent tooakers school at Fort Sam Hour-ton. Upon completion of theouks SlippTo Trap JapaneseWith the American infantry division somewhere in the Southwest Pacific, Nov. 4. (Delayed)INS Caught flat footed when a full company of America! infantrymen slipped into the jungle network of newly constructed enemy pillboxes, nearly a hundred Taps were trapped when they attempted to move into their prepared positions in the Yank’s roadblock.Fort v-seven enemy lead were counted as a result of the roadblock.Led by Capt. Robert A. Manning:. Guadalcanal and Bougainville veteran from Chicago, thecourse he was sent to the Para-; chute School, Fort Henning’, Ga., jj as a cook. jIt took Mavo ten davs to eon-%! vince the Commanding Officer at Fort Henning that he belonged with the combat troops. “I uen’t know* whether super-salesmanship on my part was responsible for the transfer or if the Colonel ate some of my cooking Mayosaid.As one of the oldest para troop-ers in the United States Army. Mayo landed on the Cherbourg Peninsula at 2:41 a. m. D-Day. He and his crew jumped from their plane, which had been hitby anti-aircraft fire, fifteen milesiarther inland than the rest of their battalion.Mavo and several ni the other men were injured in this emergency landing. With the aid of the French underground the group was able to get back through the Nazi lines and join with theircommand. “It took seven davs*to make that fifteen mile tripwhich bv the course we took was*actually over fifty miles, ‘ Mayo% I vstated. “Believe me, the trench underground deserve a lot ofcredit foi the aid given the paratroopers on D-Day. They got us back through territory s\\ arming with Jeii vs We land* 1 within five hundred yards of an enemy rag-i intent.’’S-Sgt. Mavo savs his adventurec.” • *! urge has been satisfied for allI ^ ^ ■i time. He looks forward once a-' gain to 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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