Brother Sister Get Commissions
Given commissions as second lieutenants recently were Robert Huie, 23, and his 22-year-old sister, Elizabeth, only children of Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Huie, 903 12th Street.
Robert Huie first served in the medical corps at Camp Grant, where he became a staff sergeant. He was graduated March 4 from the field artillery school at Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Lieut. Huie will continue his training as a liaison pilot in connection with field artillery. He is stationed at Pittsburg, Kansas, for a 10-week air course at Kansas Teachers College before returning to his base in Oklahoma.
Lieut. Elizabeth Huie, registered nurse, was graduated from the St. Vincent’s College of nursing in May, 1942. She became a Red Cross nurse soon after graduation and for six months has been assistant surgical supervisor at a hospital in Waverly, Iowa. On March 2 she became a second lieutenant in the army nurse corps. She left March 16 to be stationed at Schick General Hospital in Clinton, Iowa, a new 1,000 bed army establishment.
Both officers are graduates of Central High School. They visited here during the last week. Lieut. Robert Huie is the father of two daughters. His wife plans to join him when he returns to his base.
Source: The Sioux City Journal-Tribune, March 20, 1943 (photo included)
Men and Women In Service
Lieut. Robert S. Huie, Jr. has been transferred from Australia to New Guinea. He is a son of Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Huie, Sr., 903 12th Street.
Source: The Sioux City Journal, April 27, 1944
Sioux City Flier Rough On Japs
Lieut. Robert Huie Pilots Cub as Colonel Jettisons Grenades
Advanced Bomber Base Off Dutch New Guinea – A Japanese attempt to escape from Noemfoor Island has been broken up by the smallest bomber in the far eastern air force—a Piper Club.
Second Lieut. Robert Soon Huie of Sioux City, Iowa, pilot of the little flying jeep, has been scouting outlying sections of American-occupied Noemfoor off the north coast of Dutch New Guinea, looking for an elusive enemy garrison led by one Col. Shinitzu.
The Japanese were survivors of a regiment scattered by allied landings August 2. Noemfoor is only 10 miles by 15 in size. But Shinitzu had hidden his men in caves and jungles thickets.
About midnight August 16 Huie, put- putting over Pakriki Village at Noemfoor’s southern tip, saw two canoes set out from shore for a nearby island. Huie who had an infantry colonel in the rear cockpit as guest bombardier and gunner, attacked immediately.
The colonel dropped hand grenades on the canoe, then used a tommy-gun to kill three Japanese cowering in an outrigger shell.
Australian-manned Kittyhawks arrived and held the canoes by diving at them until allied surface craft approached and finished the job. Huie then located two more canoes and buzzed over them until patrol craft sped in to complete the chore.
Lieut. Huie is the son of Mr. and Mrs. R. S. Huie, 903 12th Street. He is the son of a Chinese father and an American born English girl and was in the army before Japan attacked Pearl Harbor. He was a graduate from Central High School and was well known in Sioux City as a roller skating expert. He worked in the Tribune circulation department for five years before entering service.
His father foresaw the course of Japanese aggression 12 years ago when the invaders first struck into China. He spoke at a meeting at that time outlining their probable line of conquest in a prophecy which was surprisingly accurate.
Lieut. Huie was born in Omaha, Nebraska and remained there until he was 1-year-old, when his father sent for him. He has lived in Sioux City since 1920.
Source: The Sioux City Journal-Tribune, August 25, 1944
IN UNIFORM.
Lt. Elizabeth M. Huie, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Huie, sr., 903 12th street, a graduate of St. Vincent’s College of Nursing, has been with the armed forces for the last two years and overseas about 15 months. She served as a nurse in Scotland and Wales and recently volunteered to go to France, answering a call for more nurses. Before volunteering for overseas duty, she served for eight months in Schick general hospital in Clinton, Ia.
A brother, Lt. Robert S. Huie, is a liaison pilot and has been overseas for two years and now is stationed on Luzon.
Source: The Sioux City Journal, March 30, 1945
First Lt. Robert S. Huie, son of Mrs. Amelia C. Huie, 903 12th street, has been awarded an oak leaf cluster to his air medal for meritorious achievement in action against the enemy on Luzon. He is an artillery liaison pilot and on one occasion flew low over Japanese lines and adjusted mortar fire for the infantry enabling them to knock out concealed Japanese machine gun nests and take their objective.
Source: The Sioux City Journal, April 28, 1945
IN UNIFORM
Lt. Robert S. Huie, Jr. is spending a six-day leave with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert S. Huie, Sr., 903 12th Street. He will return to the Winter General Hospital, Topeka, Kan., where he has been convalescing since August 26 after action in the Pacific.
Source: The Sioux City Journal, September 22, 1945
Robert S. Huie, Jr.
Born: 18 Aug 1919
Died: 27 Nov 1963
Buried: Arlington National Cemetery, VA
