Camden Air Hero Hits Coddling Of Nazi Prisoners in This Country

COURIER-POST, CAMDEN, MON.[illegible] Camden Air Hero Hits Coddling Of Nazi Prisoners in This Country Lt. Lucien L. Marcel Terms News of Strikes, Black Market ‘Demoralizing’ "Reading about strikes and the black market is demoralizing enough to the boys at the front, but the bitterest pill of all is news of how German prisoners are being coddled in this country." That viewpoint was expressed today by Lt. Lucien L. Marcel, 25, hero of 33 air missions over Nazi-occupied Europe, who arrived home on furlough in time to spend Christmas Day with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph A. Marcel, 1012 Thurman street. "It made us feel pretty blue," said Marcel, "when we read about the pampering of German war prisoners in this country. We began to wonder just what we were fighting for anyway. We were living on powdered eggs and you can imagine how we felt when we read how the Nazis we fought over there were living off the fat of the land over here. It doesn't make sense somehow." Lt. Marcel, who holds a B S degree from the University of Pennsylvania, was wounded by flak when the B-24 Liberator on which he was lead bombardier was attacked by Nazi planes. "I think it's a good idea," continued Lt. Marcel," to live up to the terms of the Geneva conference in the treatment of war prisoners, but that doesn't mean we have to give them all kinds of extra privileges and let them attend dances and dance with our girls. Why take up good boat space transporting them to this country, anyway? "Our equipment is now superior to Germany's but there is still tough fighting ahead. Despite all our bombing of Germany, the enemy still has some punch left. Nazi war industries have moved underground. We've got to go in there with ground troops and dig them out." "Another thing I would like to bring home to the people at home is the seriousness of the loss of one of our B-17s or B-24s. Some folks have the mistaken idea welose only two or three men when these planes are shot down. The fact is each plane carries a crew of 10. So that destruction of two planes means the possible loss of 20 men." Marcel's citations include the Distinguished Flying Cross, Air Medal with four clusters, a pre-Pearl Harbor ribbon, American Combat Theatre ribbon, Alaskan Defense with bronze star, European-Asiatic ribbon with three bronze stars, citation for D-Day, France, and Holland invasions. Marcel went overseas in April, 1943 after graduating from the Midland, Texas, bombardier school. He also trained at Fort Dix and at Paine Field, Everett, Washington. He escaped serious injury when his plane crash-landed in France and England. LT. LUCIEN L. MARCEL TIPSY DRIVER HELD FOR FEDERAL PROBE Stock of Fuel Oil Coupons, Brass and Paint Brushes Found in Car Atlantic City, Jan. 1.—Passing a traffic red light at Atlantic and Iowa avenues, yesterday, a local man who said he is employed at the New York Shipyard, Camden, was held on a charge of drunken driving and for investigation by two federal agencies. Howard A. Dickerson, 50, of 716 Atlantic avenue, was detained without bail and spent the night in the city jail. Motorcycle Policeman Wilson said he saw Dickerson drive past the traffic signal and blew him down. Instead of stopping the motorist kept right on, Wilson said, and was caught after a chase of several blocks. When booked at police headquarters, Dickerson, police said, had more than $200 in cash, coupons for 2050 gallons of fuel oil, brass toys valued at $100, and 28 new paint brushes in their original cartons. Detective Captain Edward Webb said Dickerson told him he made the toys in his “spare time at the shipyard.” Webb said he could not understand why guards at the shipyard permitted Dickerson to carry the brushes out of the yard in a leather case. Captain Webb said he would [illegible]