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THELamb Back I n States To JoinNavy School's Teaching StaffHome* on hi^ second leave from2ea .?“!? in theSouth Pacific assigned to a naval • iir intelligence -taff, Lieut, (jg)John M Lamb.*n of Mrs. Mary Lamb, 1602 Mi-! Mssippi street,| now may look forward to duty j m the States.On May 25 he | will report to Columbia um-a■LA M Bversity, New j York City, as an instructor in theJ midshipmen's school there. Fromhis personal*experience contactingpracticallv every island in theSouthwestern Pacific that ha-been the scene of action, he will i continue to give valuable service to the navy in his new assignment When in La Crosse in April. 1944. Lieut. Lamb described the Tarawa invasion as “rugged and rough.” After another year at sea : with his last officially announced fighting at Lingayan gulf on Luzon. Lamb still believes that Tarawa was the “toughest and most rugged invasion'*n. Wig., who is also on ♦a e m the States and has beenf’v en a change of duty. He willto.Blt;,ston tor radar school «*t the end of his leave.Lieut. Lamb has been giver, the. , ,n* campaign ribbon withtwo stars for Leyte and Luzon dur-r?tli f P'Tl year Recently he was ted foi meritorious conduct un-der enemy gunfire as fourth wave guide in the assault landings Cn Lngebi and Party Islands. Em-wetok atoll.’’He also has four stars on hisAsiatic-Pacific ribbon for theAleutians. Gilberts. Marshalls andwell as the Ameri-, can defense ribbon.Served In AleutiansThrilled At China Sea“My biggest thrill came when we * sailed into the South China sea.” he saio in telling of hi- experiences. “Only then did 1 realize just how j far away from home I wa?1 On Christmas Eve. Lieut Lambattending midmeht mass or an M-,and in New Guinea having been invited by a chaplain he had met aboard ship. He enjoyed the unusual experience of hearing Christ-j mas hymns sung in the New Guin-| ean accent.As he was seldom In the same place lor any length of time. Lieut. Lamb met several La Cross*? people as he moved throughout the i Pacific area. He ate Thanksgiving dinner w ith Eiuign Edgar Kroner j and later in the day the two joined Lieut. lt;jg) Roger Hafner andLieut, (jg) John Berg at an officers* clubIn August he and .three other I Aquinas grads met in Hawaii. They were Lieutenants John Phalen and Tom Burns of the army, and Francis Riley of »he navy, who has since been reported iost in thePacific. “It was a good re claimed Lamb.Lamb enlisted in the naval reserve in April, 1942. and was call-aVAlS service the follow -mg October He attended midshipman s school at Columbia un.versify until Febraury, 1943. when hec2Jnm,5s'onelt;1 an ensign. At Ohio State university he studiedto become an air intelligence officer, and then went to Kiska and the Aleutians in July. 1943.In September he returned to the States for a few days and then went on to New Zealand. Bougainville and the Marshalls.Hewn* graduated from Aquinasin 1935 and from the University of Missouri in 1942.OPA officialsin the book to demand of anBl’GGY REBATEDENVER —can’t lind a rulecover it. So the excited Denver citizen that his :ent be reduced goes unsatisfied. It s the bedbugs.” he complained “they’re getting bigger and bigger and more and more.ATMet La C ro»*.r GirlAfter the invasion of Leyte. Lamb met Mary Blaschke. w’howas stationed there with a Red Cross unit.Aboard the same ship with Lamb was Lieut. Blavne CallowavBIG SAof
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La Crosse Tribune
La Crosse, Wisconsin, US
Sun, May 06, 1945
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