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It. Gen. Twining and Brothers Thrilled Monroe With ExploitsIf any one family epitomizes donroe’s contribution to service n the armed forces it is the r winings.And at the top of that family ;ervice is the name of Nathan *\ Twining, 50, now lieutenantteneral commanding all miliary forces in Alaska, this na-on's most strategic frontier, lighest ranking officer to claim don roe as his native city, Gen.V-rwining also is the first airorce officer to assume supreme jommand under the new department of national defense.Gen. Twining, however, was mlv one of four brothers to laze the Twining name in the•ecords of world war II.Robert, 53, and now retired, core four stripes as a captain n the navy.Edward B., 47, deputy U. S. attorney at Portland, Ore., roseo be a major after serving in he 13th air force at Bougainville.Merrill, 45, is a full colonel ind chief of staff in the marine vorps at the Hawaii base nearHonolulu. He is credited withteing the first marine to draw Japanese blood in the Guadalcanal campaign when he shot :iown an enemy plane.But the nation’s attention was focused on Gen. Twining as much as any other a i r force officer in the war. His record was so successful and filled with the spectacular as to require columns if told in full.Gen. Twining is the third Nathan to serve his country in war. His grandfather, Nathan C. Twining, was captain of the Janesville company in the civil war. His uncle, Nathan C., became a rear admiral and chief f staff to Vice Admiral William S. Sims in world war I.He was a son of the late C. W. Twining and Mazie V. Barber Twining. The father, associated with First National bank for 22 years, organized and headed the Commercial and Savings bank in 1903. He also helped organize the local independent telephone firm.M rs. Twining died in 1905 and four years later Mr. Twining married Frances M. Staver. In 1912, the family with all eight children moved to Oregon nearPortland. There they remained except for one daughter, Phoebe, who returned to Monroe in 1913 as the bride of Howard W. Chadwick and has resided here since. Mr. Twining died at Glen Morrie, Ore., in 1936 and Mrs. Twining in 1944.C. W. Twining’s father, Nathan C. Twining, came to Monroe in 1874 to serve 12 years as principal of schools. Rear Admiral Twining, brother of C. W., served with Sampson in the Spanish-American war and was U S. naval attache in London when he retired because of illness, dying July 4. 1924. He is buried at Arlington. He invented the navy’s first aircraft gun.Gen. Nathan Twining wasgraduated lrom West Point in1918 as an artillery officer arriving overseas too late for combat service.When world war II broke out. he was an aide to Gen. H. H. Arnold, chief of the air force. He wasLt. Gen. Nathan Twiningput in command of the 13th air force for service in the Pacific. In February, 1943, he and hischief of staff, along with 12 crew members were reported missing when their Flying Fortress plunged into the Coral sea.Maj. Edward Twining was attached to the same unit and helped direct the search of theseas insisting that it be continued until the fliers were rescued five days and six nights laterGen. Twining, after brief rest, was flown to Italy to take over the 15th air force from Lieut Gen. James Doolittle.From Italy, he was sent back to the Pacific to command the 20th air force, the B-29s, and was in on the surrender at Tokyo bay. Afterward, he served as chief of the materiel command at Wright field, Dayton, until named Alaskan commander inOctober, 1947.Never relaxing his ties with Monroe, Gen Twining has made frequent trips here to visit his sister, Mrs Chadwick, as have his brothers. His family is in the States and includes two sons, Richard, 18, and Nathan jr, 15, and a daughter, Olive, 12Robert Twining, graduate of Annapolis in 1916, now resides in retirement in Philadelphia with his wife and two children, Robert, and Louise. He served in convoy duty during world war I and was in retirement when the second war broke out but returned to service. He was skipper of the hospital ship Rescue in the Pacific campaignThe Twining service record goes on almost endlessly The son of a sister, Louise, now deceased, John W. Erickson, was graduated from Annapolis in 1945. Mrs. Chadwick's son, William Twining Chadwick, served in Europe in the army air force.Some of the Twinings served at home in the last war. Joseph the eldest, was a district executive of the Pacific Telephone Co. in Oregon and director of war communications in the Portland area. Clarence, next in line, is in the insurance business in Portland but had served two years in the marines in world war I.
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Monroe Evening Times
Monroe, Wisconsin, US
Wed, Oct 13, 1948
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