Four Sioux Cityans Receive Wings
Four Sioux Cityans are among the many pilots of the gulf coast air force training center to be graduated today, and the four will receive the coveted silver wings of the army air force.
Graduation marks completion of 27 weeks of intensive training. The four Sioux Cityans and the field from which they are to be graduated are; Roman N. Lamberto, 914 Jackson Street, Ellington field; Henry G. Mohr, 1701 South Paxton Street, Moore; Charles H. Roadman, 3823 Garretson Avenue, Ellington and Richard P. Hoffman, 2114 George Street, Foster.
Source: The Sioux City Journal-Tribune, August 5, 1942 (photo included)
MEN IN SERVICE.
Second Lieut. Henry G. Mohr, son of Mr. and Mrs. H. O. C. Mohr, 1701 S. Paxton Street has been promoted to first lieutenant. Lieut. Mohr, now stationed in Hawaii, is a flight leader of 12 airplanes and has been in the service since October, 1941.
Source: The Sioux City Journal, April 1, 1943
Capt. Henry Mohr, Sioux City Pilot, on Expedition That Fooled the Japs
Nips Betray Positions When They Fire at Decoys
Washington—Many a Japanese gun crew, firing at what appeared to be a lonesome and lost Yankee fighter pilot, learned that they merely had fallen for a live bait trick and signaled for their own destruction.
The war department described the ruse Tuesday in a story of how Seventh air force pilots solved one of the big problems of the Tinian Island invasion—hidden machine guns and artillery.
Thunderbolt pilots went out in teams of four, three flying at very high altitude, while the fourth cruised low over areas believed to conceal gun positions. The pilots in the upper air kept a close watch on the decoy plane, and when the Japs began firing at him they came down furiously with wing guns and bombs.
Three such teams knocked out nine machine guns and three anti-aircraft guns and also bombed coastal positions in two hours time on one occasion. The department said these pilots were among those who took part in that expedition:
Capt. Henry G. Mohr, Sioux City: Capt. Charles W. Tennant, Salt Lake City: First Lieut. Leon A. Cox, Johnson City, Tennessee: First Lieut. Otho N. Kendle, Perry, Oklahoma: First Lieut. Edward J. Liebgott, Bronx, New York: First Lieut. Joseph C. Malone, Tuscaloosa, Alabama.
First Lieut. Melvin F. Petty, Scranton, Pennsylvania: First Lieut. James H. Porter, Beattyville, Kentucky: Second Lieut. Richard H. Anderson, White Plains, New York: Second Lieut. Earl Bach, Olympia, Washington: Second Lieut. Donald E. Doherty, Chicago: Second Lieut. Charles S. Marcinko, Johnstown, Pennsylvania.
Capt. Mohr is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry O. Mohr, 1701 S. Paxton Street.
Capt. Mohr was graduated from Central High School and entered Iowa State College at Ames, but after two years of college work he enlisted in the aviation corps, before Pearl Harbor, and already was in training when war broke out. His unit went overseas in September 1942.
Mr. Mohr is an engraver for The Journal.
Source: The Sioux City Journal-Tribune, August 23, 1944
IN UNIFORM.
Capt. Henry G. Mohr, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry O. C. Mohr, 1701 South Paxton street, has arrived at Randolph field, Tex., to take an intensive course in the army air forces training command’s central instructors school. Capt. Mohr is one of scores of pilots who have returned from overseas duty to take the four-week course, after which they will instruct aviation cadets. During his service overseas, Capt. Mohr flew on 41 missions in the central Pacific war area. He wears the air medal with the oak leaf cluster and the distinguished flying cross.
Source: The Sioux City Journal, January 30, 1945
Henry George Mohr was born Oct. 20, 1918 to Henry O. and Agnes Schenberg Mohr. He died July 7, 1988 in Seattle, WA.
Source: ancestry.com
