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Bartlesville Examiner Enterprise HE CAN'T COME HOME, 9/11/1942 Mayor R. J. Daugherty, who in past years has made many ad-dresses of welcome to the great and near great organizations aid individuals visiting the city, had drummed up a personal, fatherly address of that character with a few prideful paternal fireside remarks to be directed to his son Sergeant Dick Daugherty, aerial gunner, on his expected furlough home, the first it would have been since the youth enlisted a couple of weeks after Pearl Harbor. But, at least for the time being, he is going to be denied this right, since in a telephone conversation from the airbase at Seabright, Fla., last Tuesday night Sergeant Daugherty said that he would soon be leaving there for points not to be divulged, and therefore, would be unable to come home. Wednesday Mrs. Daugherty left for Seabright to visit Dick, and also call on her sister, Mrs. Ethel Sawyer, who lives in nearby Tampa, and who is well known to a circle of Bartians, having visited here a number of times. Young Daugherty, native Bartian, graduate of the local high school and a former University of Oklahoma student, received his wings and sergeant's stripes as an aerial gunner with the graduating class at the Harlingen, Texas, gunnery school a week ago last Wednesday and left immediately with others for Seabright. At the school he established a record in marks-manship and was named valedictorian of his class. Bartlesville Examiner Enterprise SGT. DAUGHERTY NEARS FOREIGN SERVICE ON BIG U. S. ARMY BOMBER, 3/28/1943 Home for the first time since he enlisted on December 20, 1941, and probably for the only time before he sees oversea duty on a big U. S. bomber is Technical Sergeant Dick Daugherty, son of Mayor and Mrs. R. J. Daugherty. Graduated from the Harlingen, Tex., aerial gunnery school last fall as an aerial gunner with record shattering marks, young Daugherty next went to a Florida base, thence to Salt Lake City to a radio school, next to Tucson for the first phase of advanced radio, next to El Paso for the second phase and finally to Lowry field, Denver, for the final phase and emerged from this as first radio operator on a B-24. the third phase, Daugherty and his crew members saw coastal patrol service along the California coast. Sgt. Daugherty expects his outfit to get overseas duty orders within a short time, for his crew members have been working together as a unit for three months and this is the prelude to actual word to head for overseas battle areas. Sgt. Daugherty must return to Lowry field Wednesday, getting only short leave to come home for this visit. He nearly got another Bartian Lieut. Phil Doornbos, as a pilot. Lieut. Doornbos, also here for a brief visit, is with the 529th group while Daugherty is with the 528th group. Bartlesville Examiner Enterprise Sgt. Dick Daugherty Gets the Air Medal, 12/19/1943 Technical Sergeant Rupert J. Daugherty, Jr., has been awarded the air medal according to a press release received by the E-E service desk from General Headquarters Southwest Pacific area. He is the son of Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Daugherty, Sr., 216 Creek. His father is a Cities Service official and mayor of Bartlesville. The citation reads: Somewhere in New Guinea: Lt. George C. Kenney, commander of the Allied air forces in the Southwest Pacific, has awarded the air medal to T/Sgt. Rupert J. Daugherty, Jr., (Bartlesville, Okla.) "for meritorious achievement" while participating in 100 hours of operational flight missions in the Southwest Pacific area during which hostile contact was probable and expected. These operations included bombing missions against enemy airdromes and installations and attacks on hostile naval vessels and shipping. Throughout these operations, the citation stated, he demonstrated outstanding ability, courage and devotion to duty. He is on active duty with a bombardment squadron of the Fifth Air force which is playing a major role in the South and Southwest Pacific. "Dick" as he was more familiarly known by his friends, enlisted as a private in the air forces shortly after Pearl Harbor and in due time advanced getting his wings as an aerial gunner from the famed Harlingen, Texas, gunnery school and also qualifying as a radio operator. He left for the Southwest Pacific last April and has been in active combat service ever since. He was reared in Bartlesville, graduated from the high school here and attended the University of Oklahoma. The first the family knew the honor was when the E-E Service desk called the father and asked him if he had heard the news, often times such information coming to publications before it reaches the family. He had not heard before, was, of course ex-tremely pleased, and commented "A grand Christmas present." Equally thrilled were his mother and his sister, Marjorie, assistant secretary of the Chamber of Commerce. Daugherty said he had received a letter Friday from his boy. It was mailed December 7 but bore no intimation of the impending or perhaps then already bestowed honors. Bartlesville Examiner Enterprise DICK DAUGHERTY BACK IN STATES, 4/12/1944 Back in the states after a year of aerial battling in the Fifth air-forces big bombers over the South west Pacific, wearing the Distinguished Flying Cross and headed for Bartlesville is Tech. Sgt. Dick Daugherty, son of Mayor and Mrs. Daugherty. This word came to his parents in a long distance call from San Francisco Monday night. Sgt. Daugherty said he "brought back everything he went over with and noted the coincidence that he left the United States with his bomber crew on Easter Sunday, 1943, and returned to the states on Easter Sunday, 1944. He is expected here later in the week. Bartlesville Examiner Enterprise WITH HUGE C-46 PLANE, 7/28/1945 In order to pursue a course of study as a radio operator on a C-46, largest two-engined cargo plane in the world, T-sgt. Rupert J. Daugherty, Jr., of 216 Creek avenue, has been placed on flying status at the Reno army base, ferrying division installation. This will require regular participation in the aerial flight. As a radio operator, Sgt. Daugherty will be responsible for all aerial communications on a C-46, which has provided the most dependable and capacious ship for all carrying of military personnel and vital war cargoes in the interest of the transport command. Bartlesville Examiner Enterprise SGT. DAUGHERTY HOME, 12/31/1944 Tech. Sgt. Dick Daugherty, who has been spending a holiday furlough here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. J Daugherty, will leave Wednesday to report back at Fort Dix, N J., where he is taking special training. Sgt. Daugherty, who saw a year's ser-vice on a bomber in the South Pacific, had returned to this country last April. He was located in South Carolina for some time and later in Florida and went from there to Fort Dix. Bartlesville Examiner Enterprise ENDS A RADIO COURSE, no date A graduate of the only school of its kind in the army is T-Sgt. Rupert J. Daugherty, son of Rupert J., sr., 216 Creek, Bartlesvill, Okla. Sgt. Daugherty has successfully completed his six Greeks course at the ferrying division's advanced radio training unit, at Reno army air base, Reno, Nev., where he learned to operate the radio on the C-46, largest two-engined cargo plane in the world. Since the C-46 is used all over the world "by the air transport command, Sgt. Daugherty's future assignments will probably include radio operation on missions in which the huge transport helps speed the task of reconversion to peacetime activities. Bartlesville Examiner Enterprise ROTARY HONORS SGT. DAUGHERTY Just another one of the young men of Bartlesville going along in a routine world only a couple of years ago, opportunity of service in the war moved Tch-Sgt. Dick Daugherty out of this nominal ob-scurity to become the wearer of the Distinguished Flying Cross, the Air Medal with two clusters, a presidential citation, and other honors. But in some respects his standing among his home people reached the heights yesterday when this aerial hero at the weekly noon meeting of the Rotary: Club was presented with an: honorary membership in the organization, of which his father has long been a member. The presentation was made by Club President Ralph Taylor at the conclusion of a talk by the young air veteran who told modestly of some of the 30 missions, involving 300 or more combat hours, as a Liberator crewman operating from a North Australian base. At Taylor's request, Sgt. Daugherty's dad - Mayor R. J. Daugherty -pinned on the club's award in the presence of many visitors who included his mother and sister as well as other Bartians including oil company and retail business executives. Sgt. Daugherty described his bomber squadron's work, directed mainly against Jap supply lines and sources in the Southwest Pa-cific. His 30 missions included the longest bombing mission ever undertaken by the Allies-a mission to Balikpapan, Borneo. His big ship limped back toward Australia with one engine gone and crash landed in Australia's "Never-Never Land," several hundred miles from base. He and his fellow crewmen, all unwounded, were rescued by bush natives after being 16 hours in the bush without water. His other missions included the first Allied bombing of the former great Dutch naval base at Soerabaja, Java, since it fell in the early months of 1942, as well as bombings at Timor, Rabaul, and other New Guinea and New Britain targets. He interspersed his talk with humorous incidents including the recital of a bomber crewmember who received the Purple Heart when he was knocked cold by a bunch of still-tied Allied propa-ganda leaflets which crashed into the nose of a B-24 when dropped from a plane above. The Jap Zero is a "superior fighting plane" although it disin-tegrates when hit directly, said Sgt. Daugherty who has two "certains" to his credit as a result of his gunnery work. Ack ack is the flier's most dreaded enemy, he asserted. In conclusion he urged everybody-"you, myself and all of us" -to work with a single purpose in view; to win the war as quickly as possible. Prior to Sgt. Daugherty's talk, the club paid tribute to the late Navy Secretary Knox, standing and repeating the Lord's Prayer. Rev. Galen Onstad, appearing in behalf of the current Child Health Week, suggested that Bartians might in augurate a project to health improvement for the draft registrants who have been rejected for physical reasons. N. D. Welty and Dick Hilde-brand reported briefly on the recent district conference at Claremore, and President Taylor called attention to the fact that John H. Kane was honored in the current issue of "The Rotarian" with a quotation from a recent speech on world affairs before the club recently Sgt. Daugherty was presented by H. W Trippet, program chairman for the month, who told the young flier that "we're all proud of you-all Bartlesville is proud of you." Bartlesville Examiner Enterprise C-46 CREW MEMBER, 9/2/1945 T-Sgt. R. J. Daugherty, Jr., of 216 Creek, has been authorized to wear the aviation badge, "Air Crew Member," it was announced recently by the commanding officer of the air transport command base, at Reno, Nev., where he is currently stationed. This signifies that Sgt. Daugherty is one of two enlisted men in a five-man crew operating a C-46, largest two-engined cargo plane in the world important in the task of reconversion to peacetime activities. He received his advanced training as an air crew member at this ferrying division installation. |
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