>From scrapbook in possession of the Pierce County Historical Association (please note, I am just posting, I have NO further info on this family) Newspaper is possibly the Spring Valley Sun, date unknown. S/SGT. ARTHUR ANDERSON Staff sergeant Arthur R. Anderson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Albin C. Anderson, of Spring Valley vicinity, arrived home last week, having completed his tour of duty with the 15th American Air Force on the Italian sector. Arthur arrived overseas last April and since that time he has participated in over 50 missions as radio operator and waist gunner on a giant B-24 Liberator bomber. Before being sent home he was awarded the Air Medal and Oak Leaf Cluster for "Meritorious Achievement during serial flights over enemy territory." The bomber in which Arthur was radio man was flown across it its battle station going to South America and thence directly across the Atlantic to Africa. The home base in Italy was on one of the fields near Foggia. From there the flights took the boys over Roumania (sic), Austria, Hungary, France, Germany and Italy. Athur says that the German Luftwaffe pilots are young and daring and that they have been close enough to him so that he could see the German pilot turn his head as he watched him on the way past. Art saw some of the youngsters in prison camps after they were brought down in action and some of them were only 14 years old. Arthur was given 21 days leave when he reached this country and must report to Miami, Flordia, for re-assignment. His entire crew were split up after finishing their operations. Incidentally-and not too incidental-is the fact that those boys started and finished with the same plane and only once were they delayed in a scheduled mission by mechanical failure of the slightest kind. Arthur, who is a graduate of the Spring Valley high school, found few boys of his class left in this country. The great *** of the boys are not only in the service, but overseas as well.