Sioux City Soldier Interviews Chinese War Hero at Atlantic City
Atlantic City, N.J. – Special: Interviewing service men was part of Private Wesley Pedersen’s job while a reporter on the Sioux City Journal. Now as a member of the public relations staff at the Atlantic City basic training center, army air force technical training command, he’s doing the same thing for Uncle Sam. He is shown (right) interviewing Private David Lowe of Everett, Washington, 19-year-old veteran of the Chino-Japanese war credited with killing 40 Japanese soldiers in a machine gun ground battle and drowning two enemy aircraft while serving as an aerial gunner in the Chinese army air force. Private Pedersen is the son of Mr. and Mrs. P. Westergaard Pedersen, 2722 Jones Street, Sioux City.
Source: The Sioux City Journal, May 30, 1943 (photo included)
Men In Service
Alex Stoddard, former night sports writer for the Journal, is at Atlantic City taking basic training in the air Corps signal corps. He writes that he saw Wesley Pedersen, another former Journal man, for a short time last Saturday. Pedersen has been at Atlantic City about three weeks.
Source: The Sioux City Journal, (issue date between 20 Jan 1944--16 Apr 1944)
