Leo Disher - A Letter To Mrs Marshall

Soldiers of the press. This week, a letter to Mrs. Marshall. Wait, get me the New York office of the United Press on the telephone, will you? You want anybody in stick with you? Yeah, get me Ed Williams.

You'll be able to tell me where Leo Disher is. Leo Disher is in England recovering from 15 bullet and shrapnel wounds received while covering the attack on Oran Harbor for the United Press. This is the story of the letter Leo Disher received not long ago and his answer to that letter. Our story begins on December 7, 1942, one year after

our defeat at Pearl Harbor, one month after our victory at Oran, Algeria, in the city room of the Augusta Chronicle in Georgia, an editor put through a telephone call to New York. Hasn't that call the New York going through yet?

Oh yeah, it's on the fight now, Bill. Pick it up. Thanks. Hello, let you in. Yeah. this is bill maras at the augusta chronicle best newspaper in the state of george that's what you all say now okay okay now just skip the sales talk and come to the point where can i get hold of the audition

he's in england and hospital or what's up there or well uh... remember that story filed more and uh... i'm sure reporting and say that again grand job but he's what i'm getting at one of the many mentioned in the dispatch was lieutenant kennel george Frederick Marshall from Jacksonville, Florida.

I think I remember he was the commanding officer of the Army men aboard the cutter that took Duchador and Marshall was killed in that action, wasn't it? That's right. Mrs. Marshall, who lives here in Augusta, was in to see me today.