Battlefield Commissions Awarded
Two 36 Non-Coms

Master Sergeant Adolph W. Langlotz of Waco, Texas, former regimental communications chief, has received a battlefield commission as second lieutenant. He will be regimental headquarters communications officer in the infantry regiment which he joined as private in November 1940. A veteran in that he has seen action in every 36th battle from Salerno through Rome, it has been his responsibility to see that communications were maintained between regiment and battalions.

Former Staff Sergeant Francis E. Donovan of Brookline, Mass., is now a second lieutenant in the same company n which he entered as a private in February 1943. Lieutenant Donovan has had the odd distinction of being an acting non-com in all various positions he has held before receiving the actual rating. Since the battle of Velletri, when his platoon leader was killed, and during the advance beyond Rome he was acting platoon leader. Lt. Donovan wears the Silver Star for action on a patrol at Persano in which he and Sgt. Charles E. Kelly worked their way through the German lines in an effort to contact friendly units.