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LIEUT. HAROLD NUS SERIOUSLY WOUNDEDMrs. Harold Nus, Sikeston, Mo., received a telegram from the war department Nov, 15 telling! of Lieut. Harold Nus bcin/ seriously wounded Nov. 7. Mrs. Harold Nus got in touch with his parents, Mr- and Mrs, Glen Nus Boon as possible to inform them of bis being wounded and also that he had been awarded the Oakleaf ClusterJtlAHIGH DECORATION FOR FORMER SIKESTON CADETLieut. Harold L. Nus, husband of a Sikeston girl, and former MIA cadet, has been awarded the Distinguished Flying Cross, it is announced this week from “somewhere in New Guinea.” The award to the young flyer was made by Lt. General George C, Kenney, commander of the Allied Air Forces in the Southwest Pacific Area.This is the second high award for Lt. Nus, who was in July awarded the Air Medal. He is a fighter pilot on duty with the Fifth Air Force.The Distinguished Flying Cross was awarded to Lt. Nus ‘Tor extraordinary achievement” while participating in fifty operational flight missions in the Southwest area during which hostile contact was probable and expected.General Headquarters of the Southwest Pacific Area says, these operations, which have played a major role in General Mac Arthur’s coordinated air, land and sea offensive against the Japanese, included escorting bombers attacking enemy installations, escorting transport planes flying troops and supplies to forward areas, interception and attack missions against enemy bombers and Zeros, and patrol and reconnaissance flights.' In the* course of these operations, strafing and bombing attacks were made /from dangerously low altitudes, destroying and damaging enemy installations and equipment, the message from New Guinea said.Since becoming eligible for the DFC, Lt. Nus has run his score of missions over enemy territory to more than 100, he stated in a letter received several weeks ago by his wife, the former Miss Mary Ellen Botter.Lieut. Nus, whose home is in Arlington, Iowa, was a cadet at the Missouri Institute o fAeronautics in March and April, 1942, and received his wings on Sept. 8, 1942. He will have been on overseas duty a year December 4.The fighter plane which Lieut. Nua flies is named the “Mary Ellen” in honor of his .wife, and an oil painting of her is on the fuselage. In this plane, he is credited with shooting down a Japanese bomber and damaging three others on a single mission returning to his base with bullet holes in the “Mary Ellen.”—Sikeston Stan dard.as1}
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Arlington News
Arlington, Iowa, US
Thu, Nov 18, 1943
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