Menard Rural Yoath 

 Member Killed In 

 Action In Germany 



Lt Howard Johnson, son of Mr. and 

 Mrs. Carl Johnson, Menard county, was 

 killed in action on 

 the German front 

 Feb. 25. His father 

 .is the manager of 

 the Farmers Ele- 

 vator Company at 

 Culver. 



A former Rural 

 Youth member and 

 a graduate bf the 

 University of Illi- 

 nois, Lieutenant Johnson was in the 

 94th Infantry Division of the Third 

 Army. It was only one day after he had 

 joined the 94th as a replacement that 

 he led his men into action. Press cor- 

 respondents picked up the story of his 

 courageous fighting in his first time 

 under fire from his company command- 

 er. 





Leo Rennels, Clark county, center, with 68 

 steers, averaging 1098 pounds, that sold 

 at market top oi $17.50, April 5, through 



Indianapolis Producers. With Rennels is 

 H. O. Harris, Producers cattle salesman, 

 and Bill Decker, Piqua, Ohio, buyer. 



Lieutenant Johnson tried to min- 

 imize his deeds when questioned by a 

 correspondent. One press story quoted 

 him as saying: "Somebody glorified it. 

 Attacking at 4 a.m., I hiad a support 

 platoon, which made me happy, since 

 if things went right I wouldn't have 

 to go. But after 30 minutes or so the 



other two platoons couldn't support 

 each other because of artillery fire, so 

 we went in. There was a lot of shell- 

 fire, and I was scared speechless at first, 

 but after a while it was like a problem 

 at the beginning. You forget they're 

 firing real stuflF." 



He was later killed in action. 



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