Chicago Tribune: "2 Chicagoans on Iwo Direct Fire by Naval Guns"
Item
Title
Chicago Tribune: "2 Chicagoans on Iwo Direct Fire by Naval Guns"
Description
This news clipping, written by Thomas Morrow of the Chicago Tribune Press Service, appears in the World War II scrapbook. It focuses on two Chicagoans, Lieutenants John B. Sackley Jr. and E. J. Calihan, who were "engaged in the work of directing naval guns from [Iwo Jima]." "Sackley and Calihan's careers parallel since they went to high school together. Both attended Loyola university and played on the basketball team together. Both enlisted in the armed guards in 1942. The ships both were escorting were attacked by plans and submarines, but both Sackley's and Calihan's ships came thru unscathed. Both men transferred out of the armed guards and into the navy in October, 1943, and both were assigned to naval gunfire ashore. They went into the Marianas [Marines?] together and had battalions side by side in the Marshalls. Each was assigned to a division in the present operation and they came ashore the same day. Their work calls for a daily conference, placing shells for the day."
Date, date span, or circa acceptable
circa February 1945
File name
World War II scrapbook: News clipping: Chicago Tribune: "2 Chicagoans on Iwo Direct Fire by Naval Guns"
Sources archive, University Archives and Special Collections or Women and Leadership Archives
University Archives and Special Collections
Source
University Archives and Special Collections, World War II scrapbook: News clipping: Chicago Tribune: "2 Chicagoans on Iwo Direct Fire by Naval Guns"
Subject
Loyola University Chicago
Alumni
World War II
Rights
Contact the Loyola University Chicago Archives and Special Collections, archive@luc.edu, for permission to copy or publish.
