U.S. OFFICERS DECORATED
SYDNEY, January 26. Two senior American officers have been awarded the Silver Stars for gallantry in New Guinea. They are Major-General Edwin Harding and Brigadier-General Spencer Aitken. Major-General Harding, commanding the American force in Papua, was travelling in a small ship off the north coast of New Guinea when it was sunk by Japanese bombing attacks. He gave up his place in a lifeboat to a wounded man and swam half a mile to the shore, where he helped the survivors to safety. Brigadier-General Aitken, chief signals officer on General Mac Arthur's staff, personally rallied and led an infantry attack which ended in the capture of the Buna airstrip. .
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 22, 27 January 1943, Page 4
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