Cornog, Carl Edward

An Advance Army Base in the Western pacific Pfc Carl E. Cornog, 514 South River street Picher Oklahoma, has discovered that a man's best friend in his foxhole at night is his Thompson submachine gun. Especially if he happens to suddenly find himself looking into the face of a Jap crawling toward him. It happened on a night ambush during mopping up operations against the enemy being conducted by the 147th Infantry. Cornog watched intently for he had the feeling that a Jap was approaching his foxhole. In combat a man soon learns to go by his intuition, it has been said. Then a flare, set off some distance away, broke in the sky lighting the area, and revealed a Jap's face on top of a rock just a few yards away. Cornog's tommy gun spat out a stream of lead. The Jap crawled no nearer, nor did he get a chance to fire the pistol he was carrying, nor heave any of the five grenades in his belt. He had gone to join his honorable ancestors along with 16 others who tried to infiltrate several ambush positions that night. Mrs. Mardelle Cornog, wife of the Ottawa county Oklahoma doughboy, and their 18 month old daughter, Karlyn Jean Cornog, live in Picher. Inducted at Camp Robinson Arkansas in May 1943, the soldier received basic training at Camp Roberts California, before leaving the United States in December 1943. He has been awarded expert infantryman's badge, the Good Conduct badge and the Asiatic Pacif ribbon.

Carl Edward Cornog, age 78, died at Medicalodge, Columbus Kansas. Born Apr 17, 1923, at Picher Oklahoma to Len Cornog and Fannie Long Cornog. Veteran of World War II, served with the 147th Infantry in the South Pacific. Simpson funeral home, Columbus. Burial in Fly Creek cemetery, rural Columbus.