By Betty Davis
10 Years Ago – January 8, 2015
The kamikaze plane bored down upon the U.S.S. Callaway as Rollin Fritch kept firing at it. He was 24, the youngest child of Frank and Mary Fritch of Pawnee City, and about to die a hero. There were three kamikaze planes that day, Jan. 8, 1945, when the Coast Guard troop ship he was on tried to disembark troops at Leyte Gulf on Luzon in the Philippine Islands. Two of t…