Technical Sergeant Hobert R. Bartlett

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Identifier

20037089

Description

Technical Sergeant Hobert R. Bartlett is wearing his military uniform and standing in an at ease position."He Puts Hex on Fate While Flying in CombatTech. Sgt. Hobert R. Bartlett, back in Fort Worth after 14 months in the South Pacific, will tell you that flying 54 combat missions as a radio operator-gunner on a B-25 is 'just another rugged job.'But he will also tell you that a generous supply of luck comes in handy. He, for one, never failed to help fate along by constantly carrying a baby's shoe--which he found in a train station in Sidney, Australia--a rabbit's food, a steel-bound Bible and a cat's eye.'They may not have turned the trick,' he says, 'but as long as they made you feel that things would be okay, they served the purpose.'The 22-year-old airman is here visiting his mother, Mrs. B. W. Huchinson, 4108 E. Belknap. A crew member on a Mitchell bomber, he totaled more than 234 hours of flying time while serving on New Guinea. He has seen action over Rabaul, Kavieng, Wewak, Hollandia, Admiralty Islands, and few his last missions covering the landings on Biak Island.During the assault on Kavieng, Bartlett served on one of the planes credited with sinking of a 1,000-ton Jap merchant vessel and three Jap seaplanes. He was at the waist guns and he had an opportunity to expend nearly all of the ammunition available on the Jap boat and its crew.For this action he was awarded the Air Medal, to which he has added two oak leaf clusters.Sergeant Bartlett, a native of Electra, is a graduate of Paschal High School. Before entering service in May, 1942, he was employed at Phelps-Dodge Corporation at Morenci, Ariz. He received training at Scott Field, Ill. A brother, Lt. William T., Bart-. . . [end of clipping] Published Star-Telegram Eve. Aug. 4, 1944.

Archival Date

1944-08-01

Collection Name

Fort Worth Star-Telegram Collection

Collection Number

AR406-6-619

Original Format

Negatives, Black & White

File Format

JPG

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Subjects

Military personnel