DESERTED TO FIGHT
SYDNEY, May 22. A United States soldier, tiring of building camps, absented himself without leave from his unit, attached himself to an Australian division, and won distinct ion by killing six Japanese on Huoti Peninsula, New Guinea. ■Sent back to bis own unit, he rejoined them the day after they landed in Dutch. New Guinea. He killed 14 more Japanese in circumstances which won him the Silver Star. The soldier was Private Monroe McGee. aged 28, of Mississippi. After being for two years a member of the United States 24th Division, which had seen no action other than the Japanese raid on Pearl Harbour on December 7, 19-11, Private McGee obtained a lift on a transport plane from a Pacific island where his division was stationed, and joined the Australians, then in action ou the northern New Guinea coast.
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Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 201, 23 May 1944, Page 5
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142DESERTED TO FIGHT Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 201, 23 May 1944, Page 5
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