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:h10y,15Returns From OveiseasCaptain Jack Reiter recently returned after sixteen n orths' overseas. As a navigator of a ! B-24 Liberator, Captain Reiter: flew 44 combat mission leading the Ninth Air Force on the firstr.r-iy15:eitItoidleliitdiak Rome raid and was in the lead-55 ing flight on the first low-level lg-! Ploesti oil raids. He also participated in the first all-American raids on German-held objectives in Greece and in raids on Italy, Sicily, Austria and the Balkans. On his 44th mission over Foggia last August, after a successful bomb-run on German airdrome installations and aircraft, his plane, “Teg-gie Ann”, received a direct hit by an ack-ack shall, firing Number 1 and 2 engines and the gas tanks in the left wing. After a daring attempt to control the fire and head toward their North African base he and his crew were forced to bail out over enemy territory.Despite injuries received at that time, and after being recaptured twice by the Germans and Fascists, Captain Reiter finally escaped and after six and a half months of behind-, the-lines activity finally returned to Allied Headquarters on - May 10, this year. For his i activities behind the lines. Captain Reiter was awarded j the Silver Star by General \ Twining of the Fifteenth Air , Force in I tally. In addition to the Silver Star he has won the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal with eight oak j leaf clusters, the Puryle Heart, j two Presidential Citations and the African European Theatre Ribbon with three stars.I During all the months while he was “busy” hehind the lines his wife and family were without any word from him. The •reminder of the crew arc still in concentrations camps in Gei-many.At. present Captain Reiter is
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Moulton Eagle
Moulton, Texas, US
Fri, Jul 28, 1944
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