Citations General Wins Silver Star For Mindanao Action
Brig. Gen. Hugh Cort receives the United States Silver Star for gallantry in action during bitter fighting north of Davao Mindanao. He organized a reconnaissance patrol and led it to a forward observation point under heavy fire, directing artillery fire and meeting enemy rocket and mortar fire. The report details Cort’s leadership and the patrol’s successful mission despite injuries nearby.
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Hugh Cort
Echo Avenue
Fay
Air Transport
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Mindanao
New York
Davao
Cort
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San Antonio Chamber honors General Patch at luncheon
General Alexander Patch, Fort Sam Houston, listened with embarrassment as chamber officials lauded him at a St Anthony hotel luncheon. Other honored guests included Maj. Gen. Robert Breem, Brig. Gen. A P Fox, and Col. I B Summers. Congressman Paul Kilday praised Patch as having one of the war’s outstanding records.
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Alexander K. Patch
Fourth Army
Fort Sam Houston
Chamber of Commerce
St. Anthony
Alex Thomas
Patch
Third Division
Goering
Robert G. Breem
Randolph Field
Vief
Pateh
Emmers
Camp Bullis
Paul Kilday
San’ Antonio
San Antonio
Thomas
Chamber of Commercr
Customs Collections Hit Record $1,120,000 at San Antonio Port
Deputy U S Customs Collector Guy Belzons announced that customs duties totaling $1,120,000 were collected on imports entering the country through the San Antonio port for the fiscal year ending June 31. He noted the year’s total was the largest on record and that the majority of imports came from South America, Australia and the British Isles.
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U. S
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South America
Australia
British Isles
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Fred We Kuuesh
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