GALLANT AMERICANS
Senior Officers Decorated (Received January 26, 10.30 p.m.) SYDNEY, January 26. Two senior American officers have been awarded the Silver Stars for gallantry in New Guinea. They are Major-General Edwin Harding and Bri-gadier-General Spencer Aitken. Harding. commanding the American lotce in Papim. was travelling in ti small ship off tlie North New Guinea coast when it was sunk by Japanese bombing attacks. He gave up his place in a lifeboat to a wounded man and swam half a mile lo Hie shore, where lie lielltcd tlie survivors to safety. Aitken, chief sigmils officer on General MncArthiß s staff, personally rallied and led an infantry attack which ended in the capture of the Burnt air-strip.
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Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 104, 27 January 1943, Page 5
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116GALLANT AMERICANS Dominion, Volume 36, Issue 104, 27 January 1943, Page 5
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