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The Legal Chronicle
SECTION ONE
VOL. 45, NO. 40
THIS PAPER PRINTED IN FIVE SECTIONS
DETROIT, MICHIGAN, FRIDAY, OCTOBER I, 1943
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New Heroes of The New Year
Jewish Airmen Fight For Late
Chaplain's Vision of New World
"The coming world is to be one of community ruled in the spirit of
democracy — What has seemed like civilization up to this point is but
a crude effort compared to thy era that lies just before us. The new
world, held together by bonds of religious idealism, is the goal of democ-
racy through
ages. Towards this new world the cavalcade of de-
mocracy
marche the
s on, heralding the century of
hananity."
—Chaplain Alexander D. Goode, U. S. Army.
Chaplain Goode is "missing in action" in the North
Atlantic. While his troop transport was sinking early in
March of this year, Chaplain Goode and three religious
leaders of other faiths removed their life jackets, handed
them to servicemen who had none and, as the ship sank,
went below decks to pray with the men who were
trapped there.
Chaplain Goode was a man prepared to praCtice what
he preached, even unto death. No illustration of faith in
his "century of humanity" could have been more vivid,
no example of personal- sacrifice on behalf of the broth.
erhood of man more compelling than Chaplain' Goode's
final ac t.
Among the most decorated and courageous fighters
serving the cause for which Chaplain Goode gave his
life are America's airmen.
Typical of this group are four
lell
of Jewish faith: Sgt. Schiller Cohen, of New York;
Sgt. Harold Cantor, of Mount Vernon, New York; Lt.
Pincus Philip Taback, of Newark,.N. J., and Major Carl
J. Lichter, St. Paul, Minn.
Chaplain Alexander D. God "
Goode,
in action"
the
North Atlantic, went down with a stricken troop
transport in after
giving
up his life jacket to a fellow-serviceman.
Ile is the
first casualty among chaplains of Jewish faith in
American
history.
Sgt. Cohen, holder of 13„eitations, including the Air
Medal and the Distinguished Flying Cross, has a total
of 254 combat flying hours to his credit. In the first raid
over
front Palermo
his flying he detached the electric heating apparatus
suit at a -freezing altitude to revive a
waist gunner who had fallen unconscious because of a
frozen
mad
e oxygen mask. Numb with cold, Sgt. Cohen then
his way hack to the tail gun and fought of (our
Messerchmitts, finally shooting down
a fifth which attempted a suicide
crash into the tail of his fortress.
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Major Lichter, cited six titites, es-
caped Japanese fighter planes
during
the bombing of Clark Field. Hawaii,
piloting an unarmed commercial
plane in a three•day chase that took
him to Bataan, where he fought with
the infantry
during the island's last
bitter fight. Since then he has flown
on a total of 75 operational missions.
Lt. Taback holds 11 citations. Ile is
a fighter pilot and has flown on 50
missions, including recent bombing
raids over Sicily.
He has downed two
German fighter planes, has two "prob.
aides" to his credit
and
hits on scores of others. has scored
1k
Sgt. Harold Cantor has flown on a
total of 13S bombing raids against
the Japs. He is personally credited
with nine Zeros. After almost two
years of combat duty, he has returned
to the States NI furlough.
Major Carl J. Lichter, in an unarmed
c6mmercial plane, escaped Jap Sterns dur-
ing the bombing of Clark Field, Ilav*i.
At Bataan he fought the Japs on file
ground and later, from bases in Australia,
he fought the laps in the air'On 76 over-
ational missions.
G. Pincus Philip Tahack is shown with
a friend who ad.
his Dis bomb
Flying Cross. A fighter pilot, Lt. Tahack
often
mires went o tiuished
b
bombing
raids
to
escort,
among
others, the 11•17
upon which Sgt.
Schiller Cohen was a gunner.
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Neflonal Jewish Welfare bard)
Sgt. Cantor, tail gunner in a flying
fortress, has 700 combat hours he.
hind him. Ile has participat e
d in
every major Pacific campaign since
Pearl Harbo r
and is personall y (Ted.
;fed with 9 Zeros. Ile holds the DFC,
the Silver Star, the Air Medal and
an Oak Leaf Cluster. In almost two
years of continuous combat action, he
has been on 138 bombing missions.
Sgt. Schiller Cohen, recently hailed as New York's most
decorated airman, is shown here. on his return from
Africa
the office of the Jewish Welfare Board. The letter he is
writing
in
is to acknowledge the reception given him at New York's City
Hall by Acting Mayor Newbold Morris,