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- D.S.C. Presented Gridder's Mother
Seattle, Nov. 4 - (AP) - Distinguished Service Cross won by Staff Sergt. Arthur S. Toothman, for bravery before he was killed in action in New Georgia in the Solomon Islands July 29, 1943, was presented posthumously yesterday to his mother, Mrs. Milrae C. Toothman.
The Billingham Herald, Bellingham, Washington, Sunday, 5 November 1944.
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- Arthur Toothman Now Dead, Cited
The Distinguished Service Cross has been posthumously awarded to Staff Sergeant Arthur S. Toothman, of Kirkland, former Western Washington college football player, for "extraordinary heroism" in the Solomon Island last July, it was learned here Monday. The 6-foot, 5-inch tall gridder died from wounds received in the battle in which eh showed "unconquerable courage, battle skill and self sacrifice."
Toothman was a member of the Bellingham national guard when it was mustered into service. The award was made December 14 by Lieut. Gen. Millard F. Harmon, commander of the U.S. army forces in the South Pacific area.
The citation states that Sergeant Toothman boldly ripped the top off a pillbox so that a rifleman could follow through and kill the Japanese soldier inside. Then he served as a rifleman in the center of the line and helped repulse repeated night counter-attacks until he received the wounds from which he died.
The Bellingham Herald, Bellingham, Washington. Monday, 14 February 1944, page 3.
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