Chaplain Assistant Lew Ayres

“(FX1-May 30) LEW AYRES AT WAKDE–Among the invading troops when the Yanks stormed and captured Wakde Island, Dutch New Guinea, was Lew Ayres (above), former movie star and conscientious objector, now a private and Chaplain’s Assistant. Ayres recently announced he planned to take up religious work after the war… 1944” (author’s collection).