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was in World War II as a lieutenant commander from 1941 to '45. One of his duties was to be stationed at South Pass on the Mississippi River. And again, most of you are not aware of the fact that there was a tremendous amount of German infiltration of submarines into the Gulf of Mexico. In fact, there were 65 allied ships that were sunk, and Judge Russell participated, along with other members of the Navy, in saving various torpedoed ship victims, and taking the burned from the Gulf. One particular incident, there was a German submarine that was laid off of a vessel, the SS Virginia, that had been torpedoed, and Judge Russell, along with several other officers, were rescuing victims, and the submarine captain was ordered not to fire a torpedo to the disabled ship otherwise we would not be here honoring him alive, we'd be here honoring him posthumously, or he obviously would not have been a federal judge to be honored. He really didn't receive the iron cross as the submarine captain did later when he went back to Germany, but he did get an extension on
JAMIE L. WETZEL, CSR - CIRCUIT COURT REPORTER