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Both Paratroopers on Same Plane Rejoin Outfit After HospitalizationG. BARRON.; Double trouble, 19-year-old Mary 'Mahaney Barron, Pentagon secre-jtary, calls her situation.I She has two paratroopers Jumping from the same plane In the Mediterranean campaign. One is her husband. The other is her brother. Both have been wounded. Her hus-jband was on a list of wounded released by the War Department two months ago. Her brother was on the list made public today.Mary's liability doubled last year when her brother was home from ! Fort Bragg He was proudly showing the family a picture of his companions. His sister pointed to one.Johnny. she said, bring him home next time.”He was Staff Sergt. William G. Barron. He came along with her brother on the next trip. Sergt. Barron was going home to Buffalo. He never went beyond Washington Two-Hour Honeymoon.They were married at 4 o'clock one afternoon in St. Michael's Church, Silver Spring At 6 o'clock she was waving good-by to him at Union Station.He had telephoned the camp. He hoped he could get more leave Marriage had worked for others.You had better get back here if (you want to be with us. he was told. We are shoving off.Go ahead. Bill. Mrs. Barron said. I want you to go.Mrs. Barron hasn't seen him since. jBut she gets letters every few days. One from her brother Johnny told !how Bill was wounded, the bravest I soldier I ever knew, only foolhardy.” jHe was shot three times in Sicily ' but was back at thg front three weeks later. One letter arrived last Thursday from Bill It told her. - Johnny is back with us again and we are all glad. It was a concussion—nothing serious.MRS. WILLIAM G. BARRON.The War Department has informed Mrs. Barron that both her husband 'left) and her brother 'right . paratroopers on the same plane, have been wounded in action.watched him grovel in the dirt. This kid asked him for 'wasser.' meaning water. The soldier told him he would get it for him. He walked about 30 yards away and rolled a grenade over at him. Just little tricks like that want to make you get even. Mom.He added that he had been to confession and communion since returning from the front.Softball Champ.Johnny is Sergt. J. M. Mahaney. who taught softball to the boys in the Park View playground be-| fore the family moved out in Mary-! land. They now live at 612 Mississippi avenue, Silver Spring. His father. William Mahaney. used to drive the 4th Battalion police chief'sSeaman Jesse P. Peters Reported Killed in Actionj Sergt. Mahaney was wounded 1 September 18—on the approaches , to Naples, his mother thinks. She has had a letter from him since. ) One of Jerry's little helpers came ; too close.” he wrote.He also wrote that he was troubled I with blackouts.” dizzy spells since i he got back from the hospital, but that he wasn't letting the lieutenant know because he wants to keep up at the front with his company. His mother hopes the lieutenant docs I find out.Behind Enemy Lines.! About his parachute descent be-j hind the enemy lines in Sicily and subsequent events, he wrote the family, “It was hell with a capital ; H, but enough of that. I will tell ) you all about it when I see you if I God is willing.He landed with one other paratrooper, separate from the rest. For j two days they worked their way I together across country. They were I shot at so much by German snipers, he wrote, that It was touch and go I whether they would get to the (American lines.A later letter reads: Here we[are back in North Africa. Sicily is j finished. I am fine and if it wasn't for the fact that I miss you all so very much I could truly say I am almost contented.Jesse Paul Peters, hospital apprentice. second class, of 5433 Hawthorne place, N.W., has been killed1 in the North African area, his family has been Informed.O n W e d nes-day. Seaman Peters' twentieth I b 1 r t h d ay. the Navy Department notified his parents tha: their son had been killed in action, and had been buried at sea. The last word they had from him was a J p Pnerj. letter dated September 8 in which he said that he had just come out of the fighting in the invasion of Sicily” and was all right.Seaman Peters was born in Washington and attended Western High School. He was an employe of the Federal Trade Commission before joining the Navy in September. 1942. An employe of the commission told Mr. Peters that the gold star which had been placed behind his son's name was the first on the honor roll of the organization. He was also the first member of the Sons of the American Legion Drum and Bugle Corps to be lost in action in this war.A brother. Merritte Williams Peters, is attending the Hospital Training School at Balnbridge, Md.Expected More Combat.No one knows what the future holds for us but more combat is a cinch. I hope I am as fortunate as before. War is terrific. Mom. At any second I might get mine. The way those men fight is no joke, either. They are about the foulest fighters you have ever read about. I am not saying they boil you in oil and pull your fingernails out and all that stuff, but they might even do that if they thought it would help. Some of the things that happened to our boys were pretty dirty and low. We had one boy who was able to speak a little German. It so happened that he was shot pretty badly. One of the Germans17 Nazi Vessels SunkNEW YORK. Oct. 30 (VP).—A Swedish broadcast recorded today by the Federal Communications Commission said Allied air and surface forces had sunk at least 17 German vessels off the Norwegian coast; since Sweden withdrew permission1 for German transit traffic across Swedish territory to Norway.What does compi TrustNo service requires more understanding than to cretnnntihilities imnosed n
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Washington Evening Star
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Sat, Oct 30, 1943
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