Description: VintagePhoto Phamplet This was in a dilapidated frame when I bought it at an estate auction! The piece of cardboard that was on the back of the frame has "Dick Woellhof" written on it, so I am assuming that is who that is on the front of this photo pamphlet. The cover photo measures approximately 8 1/2" x 11". The wings with the propeller was behind the picture in the frame. This fine young man was a real hero that gave his life for our country. Here is an article that I found about him on the internet. Lloyd Richard "Dick Woellhof Rate/Rank ARM2Service BranchUSNR 7/1942 - 8/1944SpecialityNAVAL AIR CREWMANBorn 07/26/1924CLAY CENTER, KANSAS KILLED WHILE A PRISONER OF WARSIGNIFICANT DUTY STATIONSUSS YORKTOWN CV-10BOMBING SQUADRON ONE VB-1SIGNIFICANT AWARDSPURPLE HEARTPRISONER OF WAR MEDALAMERICAN CAMPAIGN MEDALASIATIC-PACIFIC CAMPAIGN MEDALWORLD WAR II VICTORY MEDAL BEHEADED WHILE POWAT CHICHI JIMA ISLANDAbout 620 miles south of Tokyo is the island of Chichi Jima, a small island only five miles by three miles in size but during World War II the island was critical to the Japanese communications services who used it as a strategic radio relay link. Neutralizing the island became important when U.S. forces commenced long distance flights to attack the Japanese mainland and the flights often flew over Chichi Jima. Thus, bombing attacks were launched from American aircraft carriers which flew into the teeth of Chichi Jima’s lethal antiaircraft guns, somehow dodge the shells aimed at them, and release their bombs onto the reinforced concrete communications facilities on top of the island’s twin peaks.On July 4, 1944, SB2C-1 Helldiver BOMBER BuNo 01169, of Bombing Squadron One, departed the carrier USS Yorktown to attack Chichi Jima. The plane was piloted by Ensign Owen Marsten Hintz with Aviation Radioman Second Class Lloyd Richard Woellhof as the radioman. After the sixty-six mile flight to the island, the plane was struck by intense antiaircraft fire and crashed. ENS Hintz died in the crash and ARM2 Woellhof bailed out and survived. However, after a period of confinement, a superior Japanese officer ordered Woellhof to be executed. Historical records report that on August 5, 1944, Woellhof was taken to a rifle range, tied to a tree and attacked for bayonet practice. While he was still alive a Japanese officer beheaded Woellhof with a sword and his body was buried. On August 16, 1944 the Japanese exhumed Woellhof’s body, cremated his remains and disposed of the ashes to remove the evidence of his demise.In 1947 at war crimes trials, the Japanese officer who ordered Woellhof’s death and the officer who executed him were tried, found guilty, and executed by hanging. They were buried in unmarked graves on the island of Guam where the trial was held. As the body of ARM2 Lloyd Richard Woellhof was not recovered, his name is engraved in the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific in Honolulu, Hawaii.Submitted by CDR Roy A. Mosteller, USNR (Ret)
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