Oroville Mercury Register December 18, 1943
Drobish Cadet At Cal-Aero
Bangor-Air Cadet Harry Boardman Drobish is attending Calaero school
near Ontario, where he took nine weeks of primary training before
the school was retained for the next nine weeks of basic instruction.
Joy Drobish, a sister, is at University of Redlands, and they see
each other frequently. Both are near Riverside where their Grandmother
Drobish lives, and where they spend many weekends. Mr. and Mrs.
H. E. Drobish, their parents, expect to spend Christmas and New
Year in Riverside and the family will be together for both holiday
weekends.
Chico Air Cadet Killed At Orland
Chico-(U.P.)- Aviation Cadet Linus H. Harter, Jr., Kansas City,
Mo., was killed yesterday while attempting to takeoff from an auxiliary
airfield at Orland, Chico Army airfield officers announced today.
His parents reside in Kidder, Mo. The body is at the Nugent Funeral
Home from which funeral arrangements will be announced..
From a Looking Back on Oroville’s Heroes, June 4, 2004
ALLIES INVADE FRANCE
Nazi Attack Due Soon, Invasion of France Gets off to successful
start
Beach Heads Taken in Normandy, Troops Penetrate 10 Miles Inland,
Battle Reports Conflict, Paratroopers Catch Germans By Surprise.
Oroville Mercury Register June 6, 1944
Local Churches Open Doors To Day of Prayer
Doors of all Oroville churches were opened wide this morning to
remain open throughout the day and evening and residents of the
community were invited to enter at any hour for prayer and meditation.
Chimes rang out and prayer hymns for worship were played from noon
until 1 o’clock on the organ at the First Congregational Church.
Similar music will sound there between the hours of 5 and 6 pm.
And from 7:30 pm. Through out the evening. Prayer sheets will be
given for guidance in their worship to all who enter the church.
Special prayer services will be conducted at 7:30p.m. at the Assembly
of God Church. Special D-Day services, with an hour of prayer, will
be held in St. Thomas Catholic Church at 7:30p.m. The Rev. Father
Patrick Donnelly announced. A mass to pray for success of the invasion
will be held at 7:45 a.m. tomorrow, and the church will be open
every day for private prayer.”
OMR July 17, 1944
Missing Flier Is Rescued
Chico-Up)- 2nd Lt. Anthony M. Sumares, 20, missing on
a training flight since Friday, was found safe yesterday 60 miles
north of Battle Mountain, Nev., where he had made a forced landing
in a single seat fighter plane, Chico Army Air Field officials announced
today. Officers said that Sumares was suffering from exposure and
shock but sustained no serious injury. The plane was damaged slightly.
What forced Sumares to make the unscheduled landing has not been
determined officers said. Sumares was to be returned to the Chico
field, his home base, today. His home is in Oakland. Capt. James
Fishburn, of Chico, early Sunday morning, spotted the youthful pilot
who was waving a white silk scarf as he plodded along the desert.
Saturday Fishburn spotted Samures’ plane but did not see the pilot.
It later developed Samures left his plane shortly after the crash
landing and hiked until he found a cattle water hole. He was able
to keep alive until found by using that water. Friday night he returned
to his plane and slept in his parachute but Saturday night, after
again returning to the water hole, he explained he was “too tired”
for the walk back.
Stu’s Notes: D-Day, our nation celebrated and prayed, finally
we were on the shores of Europe. Although for years we had been
invading Islands all over the Pacific in which many thousands of
our young men died. I have yet to find any great excitement in the
newspaper on such a large scale as D-Day. Daryl and I are still
finding more and more about our army airdromes. Peter Maki Oroville
Veterans Memorial Park committee member at large will be given the
task of finding the relatives of Air Cadet Linus H. Harter, as Peter
lives in Missouri. Well knowing Peter he might be living, who knows
where, he’s a wondering man. It would be nice if we could find relatives
of this young man who lived here and died here. I’ve found very
little about the 40 young men that died flying in and out of Chico.
I hope someone in Chico could help me search the Chico Record, 1943-45.
The stories are probably there. My friend Tim Timmons one of Oroville’s
Heroes, surely remembers this day 64 years ago, as he was there,
parachuting behind enemy lines with the 101st Airborne,
501st Regiment, he was seriously hurt on the first day,
but the men he trained fought well and were a big part of the success
at Normandy. Many of his men were killed by the end of the war as
D-Day was just the start of 11 months of hard fighting. Oroville’s
Sus Gomez drove landing boats in the war but I don’t know if he
was at Normandy. I must find out.