MEN AND WOMEN IN SERVICE
Corporal Carl R. Rogers, member of the coast artillery, Fort Trotten, Long Island, N.Y., is here for a 10-day furlough, and his brother, Ensign Donald R. Rogers, Navy aviator, has arrived on a 19-day leave. They are sons of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Rogers, 1831 S. Palmetto street.
Source: The Sioux City Journal, October 17, 1943
Lt. Donald Rogers Gets Flying Cross
Lt. (j.g.) Donald R. Rogers, son of Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Rogers, 1831 S. Palmetto Street, received the distinguished flying cross May 5 in Miami, Fla., where he is an instructor for “heroism and extraordinary achievement” while participating in an aerial flight as pilot of a carrier- based torpedo plane in a glide bombing torpedo attack on a powerful enemy “Surface force." The action was in the Pacific.
The citation related how the Sioux Cityan "skillfully and bravely delivered his attack through an intense and highly concentrated antiaircraft barrage thrown up by the closely grouped enemy formation. With utter disregard for close bursts which frequently rocked his plane violently he followed each desperate maneuver of an enemy warships, keeping it in his sights and pressing home his attack”, the record continued.
Lt. Rogers enlisted in Sioux City in 1942 and was commissioned at Corpus Christi. He went overseas in June, 1944.
Source: The Sioux City Journal, May 23, 1945
