The Jewish Welfare Board today reported that Capt. Oscar R. Krebs, a 24-year old navigator in the American Air Force in Europe, has been decorated six times for valiant work against the enemy. Captain Krebs holds the Distinguished Service Cross, the Air Medal, three Oak Leaf Clusters to the Air Medal, and the Purple Heart.
Injured in a crash landing on returning from a bombing mission over Germany, Captain Krebs staged a swift recovery and returned to action. He has been in service two and a half years, leaving his medical studies at the University of Alabama to enlist in the Air Corps. The son of Samuel Goldberg, of New York, the captain assumed his mother’s maiden name, Krebs, at her death eight years ago as a means of perpetuating her memory. He has a brother, Emanuel, serving with the Seabees.
The Jewish Welfare Board also announced that its Committee on Army and Navy Religious Activities has just concluded the first series of conferences for Jewish chaplains covering the entire country.
In meetings held at Atlanta, Richmond, Boston, St. Louis, Dallas and San Francisco, more than 125 Jewish chaplains met to exchange ideas and to discuss their work. Rabbis David de Sola Pool, Philip S. Bernstein, Barnett R. Brickner, Chaplain Aryeh Lev, Mr. Benjamin Rabinowitz and Mr. Milton Weill, chairman of the Public Relations Committee of the JWB, joined with the chaplains of various regions of the country to discuss the work of the chaplain.
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