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THE JEWISH NEWS

Jews On Land, In Air, On Sea

(A Rosh Hashanah Review)

By BEN SAMUEL
Copyright, 1942, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc.

Friday, Sepfimber t I, 1942

who tapped out the last message
from Corregidor one hour before
the Japs took over. It was a
Jewish mother, Mrs. Abraham
Kram of the Bronx who became

officers was Ensign Milton Mold-
afsky, of St. Louis--a Je.wish
boy.
And the war is but seven
months old in this country. Am-
erica has "just begun to fight."
As the officially recognized
representative of the Jewish com-
munity, the National Jewish Wel-
fare Board, drawing up 25 years

the first Gold Star mother of
this war, after her 18-year-old
As American Jews celebrate scores of Jewish men in uniform son, Leonard, died in action as a

the first Rosh Hashanah since have been decorated for valor gun crew member of a tanker
this country's entrance in the since America went to war. Many which was torpedoed by the
War of Survival, it is well to re- times that number have been re- enemy off the Jersey coast. It
.
view briefly the accomplishments
was a Jewish ensign — Stanley
of the Jewish community in con-
Caplan of Elmira, N. Y., who,
nection with the war effort.
with three other naval ensigns,
took a destroyer to sea which
The New Year was scarcely
two months old when, on the 7th
helped shoot down four Japanese
of Kislev, in the Hebrew year
planes and depth-bombed two
5701—the date corresponding so
Japanese submarines. Caplan was
signifcantly to the 7th of De-
recently cited by Navy Secre-
cember on the standard calendar
tary Knox for directing opera-
— the enemy struck Pearl
tion of that ship "in a most out-

Harbor. Many were killed, while
others loomed into view on the
screen of history—to become Am-
erican heroes overnight. Jap
bombs killed Private First Class

Lieutenant Morris N. Friedman
Distinguished Flying Cross, Silver Star

"Bravery in the Phillipines"

Li. Commander Solomon 5. liquith

Navy Cross

ported killed in action, missing
in action, wounded in action.
For their part in the hazardous
formation flight to Manila in an
air flotilla commanded by Maj.
Emmett O'Donnell, Meyer Levin,
Sergeant Lester Kramer and Lt.
Morris Friedman were awarded
the Distinguished Flying Cross.
Lieut. Henry Mark of Los An-
geles, who was killed in action in
the Philippines while attempting

to throw hand grenades at enemy

"Sailed Crew of CSS Utah"

Louis Schleifer of Newark, N. J.;
Private Jack Feldman of Phila-
delphia, Ensign Ira Jeffrey of
Minneapolis, gave their lives in
action that day. Corporal Theo-
dore Lewis was killed — while
in the act of saving men under
his command who were in dan-
ger of enemy machine gun fire..
Each day, as American troops
became engaged in a widening
theater of war, in the Philippines,
the eastern Pacific, and later,
over the very skies of Europe,
the honor roll grew longer.

Corp. Meyer Levin

Corporal Meyer Levin, Colin
Kelly's bombardier, became a
national hero. According to infor-
mation compiled by the .Jewish
Welfare Board's Bureau of War

Sergeant Meyer Levin
Distinguished Flying Cross

"Colin Kelly's Bombardier"

MILK

of war and peacetime experience,
and strengthened through its role

as a member agency of the USO,
has risen to the demands of our
growing armed forces. Besides
the regular USO program —
wherein the JWB operates or
shares in the operation of 102
clubs (as compared with about
half that number last Rosh Hash-
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Private Louis ScIdeifer
Silver Star

"Tried to Save Plane"

standing manner." "The young
officers," Knox said, "met all
emergencies and operated the
ship like veterans." One of these

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tanks in the face of Jap machine
gun fire, was posthumously
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ice Cross. Radioman David Good-
man of Brooklyn won the Silver
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MacArthur from the Philippines
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