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BOATS AND WADED ASHORE.

Lf. Co/. Hart's Irish battalion from

the famed ^^Fighting 69th" had a
weird night when the Japs staged
a series of wild, suicidal attacks
on their front-line positions.
By Cpl. lARRY McMANUS
YANK Staff Correspondent

X B UTAWTARi ISLAND, MAKIN ATOLL [By Cable]—It was a wild

mad night, that final period of Jap resistance—a bedlam
of inQItration, screams, laughing and suicidal charges
against t h e American perimeter defense. The enemy had been
'j^ pocketed between two Army forces and was finally crushed
between them.
^-W^^S^^'T^^'^^'^^' ' T h e anvil against which the Japs were crushed was the
/" • iihi \ force on Kuma Island whose machine guns prevented a retreat
from Butaritari. The hammer that did the crushing was Lt.
=^*ftJ^-T Col. Joseph T. Hart's Shamrock Battalion of the 166th Infantry,
New York's old "Fighting 69th."
The J a p marines who defended this advance base in the
Gilbert Islands were hard to kill. "You can't hurt one of them
by hitting J a m i n lheJiead,"^saidJ*fc, George Antolak, a m a -
^ ^ ^ f e ^ chine gunner from St. Clairsville, Ohio. "Three of us were in
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.xNVvrf..^.:- a machine-gun pit the third night after the landing. The others
were trying to sleep and I was on guard. I could hear the Japs
(\-- a few yards away. They were laughing like crazy men, a weird
sort of shrieking laughter. Then about 2300 one of them
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charged our hole, yelling like hell and slashing around with a
saber. My Springfield jammed. The J a p was too close for me
to use it anyhow, so I threw it in his face. It smacked him
right across t h e nose. He didn't even slow down.

m "Meanwhile I was hollering to the other guys in the foxhole,

but it all happened so fast they didn't even get to their feet. I
grabbed t h e barrel of a carbine and let t h e J a p have it on the
side of his head. He kept coming—I tell you, you can't h u r t one
by hitting him in the head—and swung his saber at me. I
St grabbed the blade with both hands."

A SOLDIER OF THE S H A M R O C K B A T T A L I O N W A I T S TO PUSH A H E A D .

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Antolak glanced at the bloody bandages on each of his
hands.
"That pulled him into the pit and the other guys held him
and beat him over the head with helmets while I got the sa.ber
and stabbed him in the chest. And still the bastard kept up
his awful screaming laugh. We finally got him but he took a
lot of killing."
That third night was a frightening nightmare. The Japs,
dressed in their best uniforms and wearing their medals, kept
attacking in the face of certain death.
The action took place on the eastern end of Butaritari, the
principal island of Makin Atoll and the only one heavily forti-
3ed by the Japs. Butaritari is shaped like a skinny Italy, with
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the toe pointing to the northwest and a thin leg stretching to
the northeast. It is about eight miles long and averages 500
yards wide. Butaritari covers most of the south side of a t r i -
angle of islands enclosing t h e Makin Lagoon.
Near Bdtaritari's knee was the atoll's largest village. The
J a p defenses were concentrated there to protect four piers
extending over the reef into the deep water of the lagoon. At
each end of the village the Japs had cleared the coconut
trees and underbrush from strips 150 yards wide and extend-
ing from the lagoon to the ocean shore. In the center of the
clearings were water-filled tank trajis, five yards wide.
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20, on "Beach Red" at the sole of the Butaritari boot.

The operation proceeded according to schedule, with one
group .turning to the right and cleaning out Ukiangong Village,
another pivoting to the left to investigate Flink Point, while
the main body advanced east toward the J a p fortifications on
the island's center three miles from the beach.
Resistance was almost nonexistent—^six J a p marines were
killed and one Korean laborer captured—as the Beach Red
force pushed east up the leg toward the village. But the
snipers increased in number as the infantrymen approached the
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clearing and the tank trap west of the village.

The infantry assault force suffered its first casualties when ^4ir
if came upon Jap pillboxes made of coconut logs and. banked
with sand. They had to be destroyed by tanks. When he stood
up to give orders to the tank commanders, the 166th's CO, Col.
James Gardiner Conroy of New York, N. Y., was killed by a
sniper's bullet.
At that point the narrow, coral-topped road that ran the
length of the island curved north, parallel to the lagoon's shore,

A KOREAN LABORER, TAKEN PRISONER, IS OFFERED A D R I N K OF WATER


where coconut trees grew in profusion and the
undergrowth was dense, affording easy cover for
many snipers.
Crossing the road to aid a wounded soldier,
Capt. Stephen Meany, regimental chaplain of the
165th, was shot and fell into a shell hole. Several
hours later, after other attempts to rescue him
had failed, Lt. Warren Lindquist of Boonton, N. J.,
crawled to the hole and dragged the wounded
chaplain to safety. A sniper's bullet had struck
a religious medal worn on a chain around the
padre's neck. The bullet was deflected by the
medal, tearing three flesh wounds as it ripped
across Father Meany's chest and through his arm.
Two hours after the landing on Beach Red,
additional landing boats entered the lagoon and
deposited another force on "Beach Yellow," b e -
tween two of the village piers and directly in
front of the principal J a p fortifications..
Despite the tremendous bombardment of the
beach before the landing, some of the troops
were hit by machine-gun fire as they waded over
the 300-yard reef to the shore.
The landing party silenced these machine guns,
but they chattered again the next day, manned
by Japs who had infiltrated the American lines
during the night and taken the old positions.
The Beach Yellow force fanned out to right
and left, pushing to make contact with the Beach
•Red party t o the west and advancing against the
Japs on the east. The two American forces estab-
lished contact with each other the morning after
the landing.
I T was the Shamrock Battalion that was at the
front that last wild night. The Shamrocks
moved up to the assault position at 0800 Monday
and late in the afternoon set up a perimeter d e -
fense across the island V^ miles from the eastern
tip. It was there, at night, with the Shamrocks
ahead of them and another American detachment
waiting on the next island to prevent their r e -
treat from Butaritari, that the Japs made their
final eerie series of attacks.
The Shamrocks dug three-man foxholes sur-
rounding the grass shack that had been chosen
by L t Col. Hart as his CP. Except for a small
clearing around the shack, the area was the usual
tangle of underbrush and coconut trees, with the
island's main road running through the left flank
of the American box defense.
The night began quietly enough—^for Makin.
The sharp tenor crack of sniper's rifles rang out
constantly, but the men were accustomed to that
by now, and it hardly disturbed their sleep. Two
men slept in each foxhole while the third kept
guard. T h e clouds of mosquitoes were more a n -
noying than the snipers.
At 2030 the guards heard a noise—an incon-
gruous sound for a battlefield—and awakened the
sleepers, figuring that it was another J a p trick.
The sound was repeated—the thin, breathless
wail of a baby crying. It came from the J a p lines.
Fingers tightened on American triggers as the
wail was accompanied by the sound of many feet
shuffling down the road toward the Shamrock
defenses.
A shaky voice answered the challenge of an
American soldier. The voice identified t h e new-
comers as a group of natives—men, women and
children—who had fled to the tip of the island
to avoid the American shells and bombs, and
now were attempting to return to their village
behind the American lines. For their safety, the
natives were taken inside the perimeter and
ordered to stay until dawn.
A few minutes later, at 2040, a second group
was sighted coming down the same path. This
time there was no answer to the American chal-
lenge. It was a J a p party. Our men opened fire.
Four of the enemy were killed and t h e remainder
scattered into the brush.
That was the beginning of t h e final four hours
of J a p resistance. S g t Chester Dey of L^iittbert-
ville. Mo., was in a foxhole between the two
machine guns of his section that night. He heard
the mad laughter of Japs ahead. "They sounded
drunk," he said later. "As if they'd been drinking
sake." His voice was weak and he spoke slowly
in an attempt to reconstruct accurately the
events of the night.
"At about 2300 something grabbed my a r m and
squeezed it so hard it went numb," said Dey. He
held out his left arm, covered from palm to el-
bow by a stained bandage. His pale face very
nearly matched the color of the dressing around
a head wound.
"This thing—I suppose it was a Jap, I never
did see it—held my arm so hard it tore off my
wrist watch. I kicked, kneed and pounded with
my free hand until I tore myself loose, then I
started to crawl to another foxhole to get help
from some of my men. Just as I started, some-
thing hit me on the head, but I made it to the
other hole before passing out. Next morning,
when the rest of our forces had advanced, the
aid men found me. It was lucky for me they did.
I was about out of blood by then."
Another soldier was lying in a foxhole when
he heard a clod of dirt roll to the bottom of his
pit. He remained still and watched a hand ten-
tatively pat t h e side of the hole and explore
ahead. Finally the hand reached his leg. It drew
back a few inches and then went forward again
and lightly patted the leg, as though it was mak-
ing sure that the leg belonged to a dead body.
The soldier had been temporarily hypnotized by
the whole thing. But now he grabbed the hand,
pulled himself erect and, holding his carbine like
a pistol, pumped three shots into the J a p on the
end of the • arm. Then he fired several more
rounds at another J a p who was running away
from the foxhole.
One group of eight Japs worked their way to
within 15 yards of Lt. Col. Hart's C P before they
were discovered and killed. The lieutenant col-
onel's jeep was*pierced by several bullets before
the skirmish ended. ,
It was suicide that night to leave a foxhole for
any reason. Anything that moved was a legiti-
mate target. The soldiers lay prone before tilting
their canteens and lay on their sides to urinate.
Meanwhile, on Kuma Island, separated from
Butaritari's northeastern tip by 1,000 yards of
waist-deep water, lay a detachment of infantry
commanded by Maj. Edward T. Bradt of Sche-
nectady, N. Y. They had landed on Kuma Mon-
day morning. T o guard against a possible J a p
retreat from Butaritari, they were manning m a -
chine guns placed so as to command the reefs
joining the islands.
Shortly before 2200 this detachment heard a
woman's voice scream, " J a p boy, J a p boy." The
guards saw about a dozen persons moving toward
them from t h e other island. "We could see .them
clearly, silhouetted against the surf breaking on
the reef," Maj. Bradt said. "We opened fire and
must have got all of them or we would have seen
them retreat or heard them splashing in the
water."
T HE next day a party of soldiers and a native
guide combed the reef for bodies but found
Only two. The rest must have been swept out to
sea by the heavy current that washes between
the islands. One of t h e dead was a young native
girl. She was dressed in a grass skirt, dyed black,
and she had been hit twice in the chest.
Beside her lay the body of a J a p sergeant. At
the sight of him, the native shook his fist and
burst into a torrent of excited speech. An inter-
preter explained that the sergeant was the most
hated man on the island. He had been in charge
of native labor, and at one time or another, most
of the island's residents had felt the weight of
the club he carried.
The girl,- the natives said, had a good reputa-
tion and was not sympathetic with the Japs. Evi-
dently they had made her put on the black skirt
and forced her to lead the party across the reef.
Her cry of warning to the Americans must have
come as a complete surprise to the Japs.
The natives were not angry or resentful at the
girl's death. They accepted it philosophically as
part of the price they had to pay for getting rid
of the Japs. They had proved their friendship for
the Americans from the time they first staggered,
dazed by aerial and naval bombardment, from
the dugouts where they had taken shelter when
the American attack began.
The natives had been ordered to stay in their
village and not to show lights, but they were
anxious to help in mopping up the remnants of
the J a p garrison. When dawn came the Ameri-
cans discovered that the local chief had armed
his young men with spears that had not been
used for generations and had stationed them on
a defense line extending across the island behind
the American perimeter. Unknown to the Amer-
icans, they had gviarded their posts all night.
Four miles away Lt. Col. Hart's men resumed
their advance over the bodies of 100 Japs killed
in the night's attacks. Among the weapons found
were five light machine guns and three knee
mortars. A few feet from the C P was a hiortar
shell. The excited J a p who fired the mortar had
failed to pull the pin, and the shell lay unex-
ploded in the center of the area occupied by the
headquarters group.
At 1010 the Shamrocks reached the endi of
Butaritari, mopped up the area and withdrew to
the narrow neck of land a quarter mile to the
west to establish a defense line. Makin was ours.
SOLDIERS OVERSEAS, LIKE THIS M A C H I N E G U N N E R I N N E W G E O R G I A , W I L L BE ISSUED O N L Y LUCKIES, CAMELS, CHESTERFIELDS, P H I L I P MORRISSES, RALEIGHS A N D O L D G O L D S .
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YANK Washington Bureau
ROM now on. the Army will gel the six lead-
F ing brands of cigarettes in its rations and
overseas cigarette i.ssues. The Quartermaster
hereafter is buying only Lucky Strikes, Camels,
Chesterfields, Philip Mornsses, Raieighs and Old
Golds and discontinuing the purchase of less
popular brands for these purposes.
For resale overseas, mostly through the PXs.
the QM depot will endeavor to supply exactly
what brands are requisitioned by the PX officer.
This is the good word for YANK readers from
Col. L. C. Webster, officer in charge of the Non-
Perishable Section of the Subsistence Branch,
Office of the Quartermaster General.
The tremendous job of supplying and packing
the cigarettes for millions of rations weekly will
throw a heavy load on the six leading brands,
already hard hit by the wartime shortage of
labor and the wartime increase in smoking. How-
ever, the QM expects them to do it in order to
give GIs the brands they want.
Since Col. Webster's section buys all the Army's
cigarettes for shipment overseas, we popped sev-
eral other questions at him that have been both-
ering GIs.
What was the story, for instance, behind the
great cigarette mystery of last summer when
most of the leading brands disappeared from the
PX shelves in England and you couldn't buy
anything but Chelseas?
How about the Planters-peanut cans of ciga-
rettes in the Pacific? Why were they always
filled with Chelseas instead of Camels, Luckies,
Chesterfields, Philip Morrisses or Old Golds?
We told Col.. Webster most soldiers overseas
were firmly convinced that the War Department
owned stock in Chelsea cigarettes. So Col. Web-
ster gave us the War Department's side of the
story.
The disappearance of the leading brands from
England last year was part of a campaign by the
Quartermaster to save GIs there from 5 to 7
cents on each carton—a total saving of about
$6,000,000 • a year, according to Col. Webster's
estimate. Here's how it happened:
The Quartermaster buys cigarettes both for
issue and for resale overseas. In purchasing ciga-
rettes for resale, mostly through the PX system,
the Quartermaster picked the amount of each
brand in proportion to the sales of that brand
in this country. Exact cigarette sales here are a
closely guarded trade secret. However, Printer's
Ink. an advertising trade magazine, publishes a
yearly analysis of sales that is generally con-
sidered to be ac-curate. From that analysis, the
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The Great
Cigarelto Mystery
The Quartermaster te//s
why all those Chelseas
went to England and the
Pacific and announces
good news —only the
leading brands will be
issued and rationed from
now on overseas.
popularity of the leadmg brands among civilians
and soldiers appears to be about like this:
Lucky Strike 25 3'v
Camel 23.1'v
Chestertieid '^•?''
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otd'^Gold tj4
AU others 14.5';:
Actually, however, the Quartermaster normal-
ly bought 95 percent of the six leading brands
and only 5 percent of Chelseas, Marvels and
Twenty Grands. But last year it deliberately bent
that yardstick, and the bending caused the tem-
porary How of Chelseas into England.
Until last July, the Quartermaster had been
buying cigarettes from the companies at the reg-
ular jobber's price. It felt that the soldiers were
not getting an even break under this arrange-
ment because they were paying for merchandis-
ing and advertising expenses that the compa-
nies incurred in serving commercial jobbers. It
therefore asked the companies to sell the t r e -
mendous carload shipments that go to the Army
at a figure below the" jobber's price.
Chelsea and Twenty Grand reduced their
prices immediately, but Lucky Strike, Camel,
Chesterfield and other major brands refused to
go below thp jobber's price.
In an effort to make the leading brands fall in
line. Quartermaster increased its purchases of
Chelseas and Twenty Grands by a few percentage
points during July and August. Finally, in Sep-
tember, Chesterfield suggested a reduction of
10 percent in its Army price and the Lucky
Strike and Camel people followed suit. Then the
Quartermaster went back to the yardstick it had
established. But, while the leading brands were
making up their minds, a lot of those extra
Chelseas bought by the Quartermaster in July
and August were going to England. Brig. Gen.
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C. A. Hardigg, chief of the Subsistence Branch,
and Col. Webster were sorry about the steady diet
of Chelseas, but they feel the sacrifice was worth
it because of the, saving it brought to the GIs.
Those Chelseas in Planter-peanut cans all over
the Pacific were the result of a packaging prob-
lem. Cigarettes had to be packed in tin to with-
stand long storage in the tropical climates of
New Guinea and the Solomons. But tin was hard
to get last year.
Through a stroke of luck, the Quartermaster
was able to lay its hands on 8,000,000 cans origi-
nally designed for Planters peanuts. But the size
of the can did not quite fit the regular-sized
cigarette, making it necessary to shorten each
cigarette two millimeters under the standard
length. This shortening, though barely percepti-
ble to the eye, involved certain adjustments in
the machinery of the cigarette companies.
The Quartermaster explained the problem and
'•'^^ necessity for rushing the cigarettes to the
Pacific as soon as possible. Then it asked all com-
panies for bids. Chelsea was the only company
that responded to the emergency call. It volun-
teered to fill 2,000,000 cans, and these were de-
livered ahead of .schedule and immediately
shipped to the Pacific. When bids were requested
a second time, both Raleigh and Chelsea r e -
sponded, but Raleigh became involved with some
WPB priorities on cans. So another shipment of
Chelseas went to the Pacific.
In fact, the Chelsea people have gone out of
their way on many occasions to cooperate with
the Army on special assignments like this. The
three cigarettes in C rations, for instance, have
to be trimmed to a shorter-than-standard size
in order to fit across the top of the can. They also
have to be packed by hand. The leading cigarette
companies, up to their ears in other orders,
found it practically impossible at one time to do
the special trimming and special packaging.
Hitherto only Chelsea, iFleetwood and Twenty
Grand have attempted to do the C-ration job.
Hereafter the six leading brands will be used.
Some cases of unbalanced stocks overseas are
impossible to explain. A pfc. on one of the Fiji
Islands recently wrote to YANK complaining that
his PX carried only cans of Wings, Avalons and
Twenty Grands. "A few days ago I bought a
can of them," he said, "and they were as white
on top as the paper around them. It has been
this way for the past two months."
YANK turned this news over to the Army
Exchange Service, which cabled the Fijis and
discovered that the pfc. was absolutely correct,
But the Quartermaster doesn't know where the
cigarettes came from; it says it never sent canned
smokes of those brands to the Pacific.
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LOST IN HEAD-HUNTER COUNTRY
By Sgt. BOB GHIO
YANK Staff Correspondent
OMEWHERE IN INDIA—Like stunt flyers in the
S finale of the Cleveland Air Show, 21 men
bailed out from a twin-engined Army trans-
port plane, their parachutes billowing in the
bright clear sky. But this wasn't Cleveland; it
was the Burma-India border, and the only human
beings within hundreds of miles were head-hunt-
ing natives and Japanese troops.
Two of the parachutists were government offi-
cials, whose capture would be worth thousands
of dollars to the Japs. Another one was a for-
eign correspondent, and the remaining 18 were
American and Chinese Army officers and men.
Only one had ever jumped from a plane before.
When I met them in the jungle almost a
month later, 20 of the men were still alive. Their
story involved an encounter with the head hunt-
ers, preparation against a Japanese attack, the
arrival of medical aid and supplies by air. rescue
by a ground force and then a long maich back
to civilization. They also told of the quick think-
ing of an enlisted man whose radio signals when
the plane was falling saved their lives.
The assorted planeload of 21 had taken off on
the morning of Aug. 2 from an airfield in India,
bound for China. The trip's normal flying time
for the C-46 Curtiss Commando was 2V-> hours.
and the transport had covered an hour's part of
the journey when one motor went out at 0900.
Flight Officer Harry K. Nevue of Cudahy, Wis..
pilot of the ship, circled desperately in a strug-
gle to climb over the mountains that were loom-
ing ahead. According to his calculations, the
transport was over Burma. Even if they sur-
vived a crash, they'd probably be captured by
the Japs. And Nevue knew that one,of his pas-
sengers was the political adviser to Lt. Gen.
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And one of the 21 men who
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border was an official from
the State Department,
capture would have been
worth plenty to the Japs.
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Joseph Stilwell. John Davies Jr. of the State De-
partment, who could not afford to be captured.
Nevue realized he could never clear the moun-
tains in front of him. He turned the transport to-
ward the valleys and plains lying southwest.
Fifteen minutes later Nevue ordered the pas-
sengers to throw out all the baggage. When even
that failed to provide more altitude, he gave the
order to bail out. They were approaching the
Burma-India border, formed at this point- by a
ridge between two valleys. As the transport was
still making considerable speed, the men were
scattered over a 10-nnile area.
Davies, who had been the first to jump, landed
on the Burma side of the ridge with Lt. Col. Kuo
Li of the Chinese Army; Capt. Duncan C. Lee of
Chatham. Va.: S/Sgt. Joseph J. Gigure of Au-
burn, Maine; Sgt. E. Wilder of Levelland. Tex.,
and Cpl. Basil M. Lemon of Tulsa, Okla.
The others, who hit the India side of the ridge,
were William T. Stanton of the Board of Eco-
nomic Warfare; Eric Sevareid, CBS correspon-
dent; Col. Wang Pao Chao of the Chinese Army;
Lt. Roland K. Lee of Hicksville. N. Y.; S/Sgt.
Joseph E. Clay of Monticello, Iowa; Sgt. Glen A.
Kittleson of Ballantine. Mont.; Sgt. Francis W.
Signor of Yonkers. N. Y.; Cpl. Edward Holland
of East Cleveland, Ohio; Cpl. J. Sherrill of Bur-
lington, Iowa; Cpl. S. M. Waterbury of Blue Hill.
Nebr.; Pvt. William Schrandt of Philadelphia,
Pa.; S/Sgt. Ned C. Miller of Ottumwa, Iowa, the
transports crew chief: Sgt. Walter R. Oswalt of
Ansonia, Ohio, radio operator; 2d Lt. Charles W.
Felix of Compton, Calif,, co-pilot, and Nevue.
As the first of the parachutes opened under
the faltering transport, Sgt. Oswalt calmly noti-
fied the nearest base that the plane would crash
in a lew minutes. He left the radio circuit open,
instructing the base to take a bearing on his
position and to send out a rescue mission. Min-
His
ules iaier a C-47 was taking ofl lioni ihe basi-
Davies, Wilder and Capt. Lee landed on a hillsicu
hundreds of yards apart but withm sight of eaci
other. It was low bush, once cultivated by ;;i<
natives but now waist-high m grass and shiui'
They headed for a path lowei' dowji on the hill-
side, joining forces in about 10 minute.-.
Barely a moment later, four native.^ appeared
100 feet away, each holding r, speai. The two
little groups faced each other nervously. TJu-ii
the natives plunked their spears into the grounci
and picked up branches, a sign of peace. T\v-
Americans made friendly gestures and walked
forward to meet them.
The natives pointed to a strean: m the middjf
of the valley below and motioned to tht Ameri-
cans to accompany them there. In sign language
they told Davies that three other parachutists
had dropped from the skies, and soon afterward
two of them. Col. Kuo and Sgt. Gigure. came into
sight with some other natives.
At the river bank the natives paused, evi-
dently waiting for someone. About 30 more na-
tives emerged from the underbrush, and then a
wrinkled little man about 80 -years old. appar-
ently the native chieftain, appeared on the scene
A kind of musette bag, containing silver Indian
rupees, was slung over his shoulder, and by liis
side he wore a British sword. He gave a coin to
each of the survivors in token of friendship.
Then the chief and his warriors led them on
an hour-long, exhausting climb up to his village.
built on a hilltop as a defense against attack.
They rested and tried to quench their thirst with
2u. a native beer made from rice. Then the chief
gave Sgt. Wilder a knife and motioned to him
to behead a goat. The head was passed around
so that the chief and his guests could drink the
blood from the jugular vein, a great delicacy.
Late in the afternoon, a native runner reported
to the chief that a plane had ci'ashed in the
valley on the other side of the ridge. Davies and
Capt. Lee sent a message by another runner to
the valley, signed with only their first names,
suggesting that survivors return with the guide.
The runner came back 2^'i hours later with a
note from Eric Sevareid, urging the Davies party
to join him instead. Sevareid wrote that one of
his companions was injured and added that a
friendly plane had sighted them.
Davies and the others set out that same nigh!
with native guides to cross the mountain ridge
separating them from the native village when-
Sevareid was apparently situated. It was rain-
ing, and the men groped their way along the
trail with torches. They were wet and miserable
when they reached the village around 2300.
They found Sevareid and 13 others in a native
communal hut, some sleeping and some sitting
around a fire. The newcomers were told how the
transport had crashed and exploded in a geyser
of orange flames alter Nevue, last of the 2! to
jump, left the pilot's seat. Several of them were
still in the air when the explosion came, i n d
Sevareid narrowly avoided being blown into the
blaze. Sgt. Oswalt, the 210-pound radio operator.
broke his ankle when he landed.
Two hours later the C-47, summoned by Sgt.
Oswalt's final radio message, flew overliead and
sighted the parachutes the survivors had spread
out on the "ground. A radio receiver, a Gibson
girl transntitler, two Springfield rifles and a sig-
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After fhe /ong march back: Rear row left to right: P. F Adorns, Sgt. E. Wilder, Col Wang Pao Chao, Johty Oovies Jr. (in front of Col. Wang), Brie Sevareid. Williant
T. Stanton, S/Sgt. Joseph f Clay, Cpl. Basil M. Lemon, Sgt. Glen A. Kittleson, Sgt. Francis W. Si'gnor a n d Cpl. J. Sherrill. Second rowr it Roland K Lee, LI. Col.
Koo Li, S/Sgt Ned C. Miller, Flight Officer Harry K. Nevue, S'Sgt. Joseph J Gigure, Pvt William Schrandt, Cpl. Edward Holland, Cpl. S. M. Waterbury and Copf.
Duncan C. l e e . First row: Sgt. Richard Passey. it Col. Donald D. Flickinger, Cpl William G. McKenzie and Sgt. Walter R. Oswolf. One of the party died in chute jump.

nal panel set were dropped from the C-47. but for the injured Sgt. Oswalt to occupy in case the wrecked plane, where his parachute had ev'-
the transmitter broke when it landed. camp was .strafed. dently caught when he jumped.
As soon as they set up the radio receiver, the As a matter of fact. Jap planes passed near the The lieutenant colonel and his two medics es-
pilot of the C-47 warned the group that there camp twice. Once an enemy observation plane tablished a daily sick call, treating natives as
were unfriendly natives nearby and that it would flew overhead, too high to spot the survivors. well as the Americans and Chinese for sores re-
rake 12 days for a rescue mission to reach them Another time a flight of Zeros zoomed just beyond sulting from leech bites. This free medical atten-
from the nearest British base. Then- was no place the hill where the village was located. tion helped to keep the natives friendly.
to land a plane here safely, he said, but it would After organizing battle stations, Lt. Col. Flick- To get the men in shape for the coming long
be easy to drop them any supplies they needed. inger assigned each man to a special job. Davies, march out of the jungle, Lt. Col. Flickinger also
Assembling the white cloth signal panels into a professional diplomat, was put in charge of re- conducted a daily calisthenics session. The natives
a message-pattern, Sevareid asked for medical lations with the natives. Sgt. Gigure. a mess ser- nearly knocked themselves out laughing.
assistance for Sgt. Oswalt, Around 1700 the C-47 geant, directed the cooking with Cpl. Sherrill Davies carried on a brisk trade with the na-
returned with medical supplies and three medics, as KP-pusher and the two Chinese colonels as tives, exchanging tin cans, cotton cloth and .salt
who parachuted down to join the survivors— "rice cooks." all dropijed by the C-47s--for firewood, labor
Lt, Col. Donald D. Flickinger. a Regular Army Stanton was named signal officer and Sgt. on construction projects, spears, knives and,
flight surgeon from Long Beach, Calif., who holds Kittleson and Cpl. Holland as his assistants. Capt oddly enough, trinkets. The natives also provided
the DFC; Sgt. Richard Passey of Provo. Utah, Lee served as adjutant and supply officer. Sgt. corn, rice, beans, chickens, pigs and cattle.
and Cpl. William G. McKenzie of Detroit, Mich. Clay as supply .sergeant and Lt. Lee and Sgt. The salt was reserved as a reward for major
Meanwhile the party had found that the na- Signor as quartermasters, bringing in the sup- services. The natives who constructed the hut
tives of the nearby village were not hostile. When plies as they were dropped on the hillside. and those who found an important packet of
Lt, Col. Flickinger arrived and took command, Sevareid became camp historian and chaplain. papers, which Davies had dropped during his
however, he decided t o keep' the survivors away He conducted Sunday religious services and a parachute jump, were paid off that way. The big-
from the native village as much as possible. It memorial .service for Lt. Felix, the co-pilot, gest payment went to Cpl. Lemon's rescuers.
was already overcrowded and he didn't want to whose body had been found under the tail of the Lemon had jumped on the Burma side of the
take the risk of provoking bad feelings during
the time they'd have to wait for a rescue mission.
After some dickering, the natives agreed to
build a special hut out of palmetto leaves and
bamboo for Lt. Col. Flickinger's men and the
survivors, in an uncultivated area some distance
from the village, where supplies could be
dropped without damaging the native cornfields.
From then on two C-47s. piloted by Capt, Hugh
E. Wild of Milwaukee. Wis., and Capt, George
E, Katzman of Louisville, Ky., flew over the en-
campment daily to drop medicine. Crirbines,
clothing, food and even Calcutta newspapers.
They read a story in the newspapers about
their missing plane, listing- Davies among the
passengers and saying that news of the mishap
had been broadcast by radio. Realizing that J a p
agents could read the papers, too. and hoiir the
radio, and that enemy forces would probably be
searching the area for the State Dt^partment nflfi-
cial, Lt. Col. Flickinger assigned his own men to
battle stations and they dug a special slit trentrh
Y A N K T h e Army Weekly * DECEMBER 31

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German Notes on Winter Urn O n i \ a n t \ ' ' i in

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The following notes, based on directions issued - i g ' i ' N ,ii> k e n nu i ' ' 1 It f, 1
by the German High Command on the use of . K,V ' I
Rifles • ••!, , ,, ( ( a ad I a' i i a g e o n h w h i a ' n i g i
infantry weapons in winter, are reprinted from • " a 1,1 >n ' I n n e c k . . n d ^ ^n. n
the Jntel/igence Bulletin with permission of the 1 n^ h e n , a, ••, ni - . n k
Army's Military Intelligence Division - o- ••• ' le l i a \ I i ^ e "
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( n ii II t 1 u 1 I (t( ^ \ 1 ) ! • I ,o^. 'I , • • \ t i g b t ' \ ' c i e a i of s n o w .
u^ I Light M a c h i n e G u n . T i i For shooting m extrena tied. 'be'iiian range
\ 1 ) I 1 1 '• \ I 11 1 V ii.v, o n e a .j.aek I n g o t.s • ,' t a b l e s p r o v i d e for t n . necesr,a; \ sigfit adjust-
it ., I n s a n i' ui a b ni< iiN a •• •) u s l n \ o i , f i 1 , • ^ n o - i n i e i i t s . T h e h e a . v y m a c n u i e g a r a I til st s f i o t u n t i l
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I ^ \ W 1 I d \ 1 < li , a n p l ' i . g . till s n ( e \ i , 11 i i \j <-
d e c i d e d u p o n b e f o i e t i i e s n o w m f i o n t of t h e
1 i 1 I \ ' U I • M- T ' i . j . J i p o M ' o i to:-- '.!• • I u I muzzle b e c o m e s blacKeriea
\\ n n ou'iition in thi oppo-a.;:^ o, T h e G e r m a n s p n a e e e ; s u b a n g of t i i e i n a c h i t K -
( I ill p (1 o l d I* \ ( 'I at s i m p i e . - t k 'n(' ol in i g u n . wdiicli l e a d s la- s t o p p . i g e s . . 1 a I iiy k e e p i n g
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I \ -t ( o \ ( I ^ 1 I. 1 '- d I ' • I igu n . a i , i n i t;,in • n i b i b y n o t a l l o w i n g lia g a n to l e m a m l o a d e d
I I t 1 n 1 I ' II < d d ( I , ., . a a a . e n , , d e l 1 wdth bolt backviairds i o a n v n• n g i i ) eif t i m e .
Il 1 I 1 I I \\ ne'i t , e > > contnuiei ' u , S p e e d IS c o n s i d e r e d lugn.'." u n p i i i - t a n i i n r e a d y -
\* lo \ tl I i t cc 11 F 1 1 n iiw,-. 11 ; 1 oiii ol t i a a '/ i n g th(> g u n f o r f i r i n g W n . ; . fi; a g Is m p r o g r e s s ,
I 1 111 I I tt d 1 t s o tn \\ s ; 1 I lo. I . ijefori tiie - n o w oei m - a r.1 n . t i i e b o l t r e m a i n s u n c o c k e e . ; r ;: I f o r w a r d p o s i -
I \ I n Hill 1^ Il M I I ' 11 II t ,< t i l 1 in,111- d e t K b u p o i ji o ^ p . • t:iL,i ,' l i o n , t h e b e l l is i n s e r t e d m l n t i e b e j t p a w l , a n d
p n p i b ni 1 iI l i l)o- • ,iei tiie g u n n e r , l e i n a i n i n g a'l t i n t i r i n g position.
(| o 1 -, d 1 o im» ^ 1 o \ ( 111 It -. i t l ' e , I i Ui b e I I o isj b , , • at 1 ' w i t h d r a w s fhe c o c k i n g slitie on; V w i t h a s t r o n g
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Cross staff assistant, explained the situation.

Most of the few w h i t e girls in N o u m e a are of GI Appendix Removed DespHe
French extraction, and they've n e v e r been e x -
posed before to A m e r i c a n jitterbugging or to Close Quorters and Rough Seas
L a t i n - A m e r i c a n dance rhythms. SOMKWHERE IN NOKTH AFRICA While the L i b - .
"They have a very different idea of dancing.'" erty ship tossed in seas so rough that a chair w a s
.said Miss Jarrett (quite a jitterbug herself). hurled across the little dispensary. Pvt. Herbert
•'When w e c a m e the French girls were doing only D e w e y of Adrian. Mich., had his a p p e n d i x r e -
a fox trot. In fact, it wasn't e v e n a very smooth moved in an e m e r g e n c y operation that w a s
fox trot. It w a s rather jumpy." a m o a g the first of its kind on record.
N o w the girls are able to jitterbug with the Other GIs h a v e been sliced up on big t r a n s -
best of them. But their rumba and conga have to ports equipped w i t h an operating room and a
go s o m e before they're quite up to par. reasonable amount of e q u i p m e n t , but D e w e y
The outstanding GI teachers are Sgt. Donald went under the knife in a t w o - b y - f o u r c u b b y h o l e
Hooton of Somerville, Mass.. and Pvt. Louis that passed for a hospital o n the cargo ship.
Chabboro of S a n Francisco, Calif. Hooton w a s a Lt. Frank Conole of B i n g h a m t o n . N. Y.. on his
professional actor and appeared with the St. Louis third crossing as a medical officer and in charge
Opera Company. Chabboro and his wife were a of t h e medical detail of the 33d S h i p Hospital
professional dance team. Both Hooton and Chab- Platoon, performed t h e surgery. T h e lieutenant
boro have been rewarded with permanent M o n - was called to the dispensary t o e x a m i n e D e w e y
day night passes. on the vessel's sixth d a y out of an East Coast
.A permanent pass to teach L a t i n - A m e r i c a n U. S. port. He decided on an appendectomy.
dancing once a week may not s e e m much of a Lt. Conole recruited as his assistants Capt.
privilege but it is about the only w a y a soldier Walter H. K w i e c t e n of Bloomfield, N. J., a dental
can get to a dance here more than once a year officer, and Maj. R o w l a n d R u s h m o r e of Clinton.
or so. Tickets to the regular w e e k l y dance on Iowa, a veterinarian.
Yanks in Haifi at their Sad Sack Senrice Club, l e f t
T h u r s d a y are so rare that they are offered as the T h e patient was g i v e n p r e - o p e r a t i v e injections
>o right, behind bar: Cpl. George Perry Jr.; Sdmund
grand prize at the w e e k l y bingos and quiz pro- of morphine and atrophine. f o l l o w e d by a spinal
Church, local resident; Pvt. Arthur J. Dempsey; S/Sgt. grams. T h e 200 s e r v i c e m e n at each of the dances anesthesia. T h e n Lt. Conole m a d e t h e incision
Ernest C. Cor/sen. M e n in frorrt are club waiters. i u c c h o s e n for the most part through a Red Cross deftly in spite of the motion of t h e Liberty ship,
.^ystem of offering block invitations each w e e k to and sprinkled s u l f a n i l a m i d e p o w d e r o v e r each
:i different organization, usually one that has just layer of the abdominal w o u n d . A package of
r e t u r n e d from t h e j u n g l e fighting to the north.
Steak, Rum, No KP, No M P s - S o l d i e r s , sailors and marines get the invitation
sterile t o w e l s and drapes, w h i c h had been slipped
in with the regular dispensary supplies by the
en successive w e e k s .
And Yanks in Haiti Get Paid, Too Port Surgeon's Office, proved a godsend.
The 200 lucky ticket holders find 20 girls at T w e l v e days after the operation, the stitches
PORT \>' i^RTNTK. H A I T I - - W o r k d e t a i l s s o m c - trie dance as a rule. Each girl is cut in on 20 w e r e taken out. As a precautionary measure;
n m r s ;'!iii ro ^cvpn !2-'nnur shifts a week, but l i m e s in e a c h set of three dances. T h e girls call D e w e y donned a snug-fitting "corset" made of
a;):ii-* ;"rii-n -'lot ^'ank> s t a t i o n e d in (n r-ppnbltqiip ;h(> e v e n t their "athletic Thur.sday." sail c a n v a s , hand-stitched by one of the merchant
fi'V'"' p.-,,.^r.h .; l i e ;ocal l a n g u a g e h e r e ) 'nave
T h e Red Cross has its troubles finding e v e n 20 seamen. This provided support for D e w e y ' s a b d o -
s t u m b l e d into a GF p a r a -
d a n c e partners, because local French ideas about men after he w a s a l l o w e d out of bed. When the
dise.
such affairs are v e r y strict. Every girl is a c c o m - b o a t d o c k e d , the GI w a l k e d d o w n t h e gangplank
No U S q u a r t e r s or panied 'D.y one or more personal chaperons. T h e under his o w n powei'.
r a t i o n s a n a v a i l a b l e so fjed Cross s e n d s an automobile to pick up t h e -Pvt. TOM SHEHAN
t h e Tnt'n l;\'e in c o m f o r t - gu-1 a n d h e r r e l a t i v e s and to d r i v e t h e m h o m e . YANK Sloff Correspomlent
a b l e b a r r a c k s lielonging T h e m o t h e r m a y c o m e or :)oth p a r e n t s . " Miss
to t h e Haitian Army, •litv'ctt !-(>marked "Sometime.s it's t h e girl's
T h e v cat -:;icculenf H a i t i - icints or e v e n h e r b r o t h e r s and sisters. W h e n w e
an sti'aks. 'hops, " a r k e y s
>•'-.''[ riThbi:; prcpar(^d in
.;o !i) call on a girl, w e d o n ' t knf'w whether' thev'll TWO D O W N , T W O TO GO
be nist t w o or the w h o l e f a m i l y . "
VooWoo •na'ik
.- H a i t i a n mess a n d g a r -
..-^heri v\ it'i mnshror)m.s.,
• • ,i"^-i-n \-cSc' i*]ips nnf! Krenc'i sauces.
S o r n e t i m e s an outfit will t r y to r u n a d a n c e
. n its o w n , but this generall,v r e s u l t s in e v e n S OMEWHERE IN THE SOUTH PACIFIC-Accord-
ing to o will left by his grondfother, Sgt. Ro-
man J. Rehegan, USMC, of St. Louis, Mo., must
inore critical girl p r o b l e m s . O n e QM t r u c k r e g i -
;:• V. ' \ P . .vc. c ;Ueir ';)eds m a d e and serve a hitch in each of the four branches of the
m e n t i an a d a n c e a n d nnlv four girls s h o w e d up,
>'••;>) •i\- a h o u s e h o y . A r e v e r s e I.end- U. S. armed services before he inherits $1,000.
< ,!ari-ett and t h r e e of h e r c o - w o r k e r s from
- .' .;cn-,.rt l a k r s :-,\yc o[ g u a r d (iutv Rehegan, now stationed here, enlisted in the
i'ed Cres>. T h e y iiad alrf'afly put in a 13-
•1-'':>T< ^in ic A n d besides t h e i r ?J) p e - Marines in June 1940 after completing a hitch in
:• hiv bur d a n c e d fe'r six hour.s m o r e , a l m o s t
1 ;•"'• 'Cerseas service. t'ii> GTs d r a w a the Army. He still has to serve in the Navy and the
Cic: :\ w.mce out u'nici"! t n e v oay Coast Guard _Sgt. HY HURWITZ
qaai-l if d r e a m c-h<iv\-. T h e s e Haiti fna Marine Corps Correspondent
Sa.-k.- ick c'leap l a u n d r y servicf. i M
l,W: :• !• i-!e:jned and p r " s s e d ;n •;•.;!
ho;;r- f-c ' \ n :;"!irdf.< cl-0 A m e r i c a n v-cr's
Haitian :-iimi. n o t a b l y B a r b a n c o u r f 4 S t c r
fan:!'ri ' :V:i;it;hout tiie C a r i b b e a n foi' its s n a x c
Sc'.tc/: ike laaiity. . \ n d t h e GIs h e r e 'iavc "nic
their c v n .Sari Sack S e r v i c e C l u b , 'jased on '•
souiid i.'inc'pies of ij'ood f e l l o w s h i p and f"
b e e : . A'V.nnj, ' h e Y a n k s patronfzina: I'ne c i a a .;
Cp!. G c i a , . fVri-y .Tr of O a k l a n d , Caiif.: I'-.
A i b a c - .'. IVciipsey of J e r s e y City N .1. c
S SLTI. Jvaie-r C C a r l s e n of K e n y o n . M m n .
an; age of sei'\-!iig :!i Hint: .- •
ciiatic tne niisim.derstood •.'(.lod'i!, : :;»
le Ciight-iong kriee-dri.in \'
the iriii^-eiiri ••u c;in tal iooK at i'
I'eilCS. i::c:;i :_; ,it~!cien.r f.sks from .AT
I\-or\- i,.'o;i,,c
n e s t e d mt."n dve saint'.'d b y i l i c i i e :
.\n r ,s iiei'c's t n i - i'ciU p a y - e i f io i n : . : :.i •;
solo;e!-s. ''<>: u !i:>;e i s l a n d of f f a i t i t h e r ( i~ , i e '
tale <•• in -Sgt. LOU STOUMEN
oiic M l ' YANK Staff Corrpspondpnt

In New Caledonia It's the Guys

Who Teach the Gals How to Dance
NoiiMf.A N K W CAI.FDO.N'I.V A G I fi-es:' 'i'. !
the Stiiies. A jierc I.'SO iiostesses iire ce.nsian;'
aiiioigiiii:! classes to te;icb t h e boys to dan;-e.
stiii'tlcd •;: iind the s i t u a t i o n reverst'd ai ii'c V in
me.i Ken t ' i ' s s S e r v i c e m e n ' s C l u b . A sign .en
"W \N-rn): K.xi^KKT DAMCFR.S - - T i\(;o. )a'\'K
COMiO i e . ir-iACI! THfi GIRt.S W H O M WK nV'CirH '
Jiniice .!:ii-et- ot Boston. Ma.ss.. formi-i-,;.- • ,
piaina haiieicna in CiUherine Littlefieid'-^ ^I'e:;
in Ch •.:eA. .cid >iow s'at!on<, d n e r e a> :: U:
 A Gl View of the Teheran Conference
Soldiers in Iran who saw Stalin
meet Roosevelt and Churchill no
longer look upon their command
as the dullest place this side of
Cooks and Bakers School.
By Sgt. AL HINE and Cpl. JAMES P. O'NEILL
YANK StafF Correspondents
EHERAN, IRAN [By Radio]—GIs in Persia, long
T accustomed to considering their command the
most humdrum place this side of a Cooks and
Bakers School, were slightly dumbfounded when
President Roosevelt, Premier Stalin and Prime
Minister Churchill blew into town recently for
the most historic conference of the war.
The railroad men. longshoremen and truck
drivers who make up the bulk of this important
supply depot's Army population couldn't believe
their eyes when they saw the crowd of celebrities
who followed the three United Nations leaders
here for the big international surprise party—
Gen. George C. Marshall, Adm. William Leahy,
Anthony Eden, V. M. Molotov, W. Averell Har-
riman, Adm. Ernest King, Gen. H. H. Arnold,
Lt. Gen. Brehon B. Somervell, Marshal Klementi
Voroshilov. Ambassador John G. Winant and
Harry Hopkins, to name only a few.
One GI who had a ringside seat at the con-
ference from start to finish was Cpl. Matt Vdlen-
ski, a railroad man from Pittsburgh, Pa., who
was in charge of the billets for the entire Amer-
ican party.
' T h e r e was never a dull moment." Matt says.
•'A couple of other noncoms and I got our first
hint that someone big was coming when they
told us to move all our colonels from their reg-
ular billets into the wing of the hospital. But
PAGl 10
they didn't tell us then what it was all about."
Needless to say. it was a rare pleasure for
these corporals and T-5s to be able to tell the
silver eagles to pack up and get out.
'"We were hearing plenty of rumors about the
reasons for the moving," Matt added, "and. of
course, the Cairo Conference gave us something
to base our rumors on. Sure enough, they told
us one morning that the President was coming,
so we finished moving the colonels, but fast,
and brought in cots, soap, towels, sheets, food,
envelopes, toilet paper and everything else we
could think of.
"We had a hell of a time getting around, too.
because we had no special passes and the whole
town was being guarded as tight as a drum. We
had to buck Russian guards, argue with our own
MPs and run our old beat-up trucks like they
were never run before. When the conference got
into full swing it was even giddier. I had our
minister to Iran, Louis G. Dreyfus Jr., guiding
me on one trip from the Russian Embassy where
the President stayed for two nights. He hopped
on the truck and dii-ected me through the jumble
of guards and shrubbery. At one point, 1 ran up
against a Russki secret-service man who gave
me a puzzled look from head to foot and then,
still puzzled, saluted me. I saluted Ijim back and
kept on going."
Since Matt was on duty all the time bringing
in food and supplies, he had a good backstage
view .of the conference. What he didn't see him-
self, he picked up from the cooks who prepared
the meals for the President's party.
They reported that FDR especially liked the
gazelle that had been shot here by GI hunters
for one of his dinners. His other favorite dishes
were odd snacks and fish. The cooks said he
made a ciack about' fish 'oeing brain food. The
President eats plenty of spinach and likes a
little garlic flavoring in his meals.
"That Soviet marshal. 'Voroshilov, was the
biggest man I've ever seen in this command,"
Matt said. "And Gen. Marshall certainly looked
like a general ought to look. He made a great
hit with the Polish waitresses when he gave
them mementos of the visit—wrist bands that he
bought here in the GI PX. One waitress said to
me: *Oh, Gen. Marshall is such a clean-cut and
good-looking man. He's got such good eyes you
can see that he's foresighted.' She said she was
so nervous she almost went to pieces every time
she waited on him."
They Shot the Works
T HE official pictures of the conference were taken
by six GIs in the 846th Signal Photo Bn.
—T/Sgt. Arthur Daniels, S/Sgt. Robert Davis,
Sgt. Robert Murray, Pfc. Munroe Oettinger, Pfc.
William Coggswell and Pfc. Grant Nelrad, all
former cameramen at top Hollywood studios.
Their photo section works with a 35-mm
Mitchell movie-camera machine propelled by a
gasoline engine that makes a hell of a racket.
When they were suddenly called to the Russian
legation to shoot conference pictures, they draped
camera hoods over the machines to try to cut
down on the noise. "The damn thing sounded
like a B-24," Sgt. Daniels said afterward.
While these boys, who had taken pictures at
El Alamein, Tripoli, Algiers and Malta, were
"shooting" Stalin, Roosevelt and Churchill on
the legation porch, a secret-service man camt'
up and told them one of the hoods was on fire.
"To hell with the hood," Pfc. Oettinger told
him. "We're busy. Put it out yourself."
Later the pfc. apologized. "I guess I sort of
lost my head," he says. "Just think when this
is all over and the cameramen back on the lol
in Hollywood start bragging about the big stars
they've shot. I'll step in with a story about this
job and top them all."
The six GI photographers never expect to
 YANK The A r m y W e e k l y • DECEMBER 3 1

tocus on anything more important for the rest

of their lives. "Even the occupation of Tokyo
will be an anticlimax after this assignment."
says Sgt. Davis.
Long Way from Home
T HE 19th station Hospital is located on the load
that leads to the field where the President
reviewed the U. S. Army troops from Camp
Amirabaq. All the convalescent patients were al-
lowed to go outside to watch the President pass
by. Pvt. William Wiley of Tacoma, Wash., con-
fined to the hospital with a fractured leg, wangled
the only wheel chair in his ward and maneuvered
it to the side of the road.
When the President came along and saw the
patients, he stopp»ed his jeep in front of Wiley's
wheel cKair. "We're both a long way from home,
aren't we. son?" he said.
"Yes, Mr. President, we sure are," Wiley r e -
plied. He has been overseas for a year with the
I86th Quartermasters.
The Generals Eat Spam
Declaration Issued by Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin
After the Three-Power Conference at Teheran
W E, the President of the United States of America, the Prime Minister of Great Britain, and the
Premier of the Soviet Union, have met in these four days past in this the capital of our
ally, Teheran, and have shaped a n d confirmed our common policy.
W Q express our determination that our nations shall work together in the war and in the
peace that will follow.
As to the war, our military staffs hove joined in our round-table discussions a n d we hove
concerted our plans for the destruction of the German forces. W e have reached complete agree-
ment as to the scope and timing of operations which will be undertaken from tlie east, west
and south. The common understartding which we have here reached guarontees that victory
will be ours.
A n d OS to the peoce, we are sure that our concord will make it a n enduring peace. W e
recognize fully the supreme responsibility resting upon us a n d all the nations to make a peace
which will command g o o d will from the overwhelming masses of the peoples of the world
and banish the scourge and terror of war for many generations.
With our diplomatic advisers we have surveyed the problems of the future. W e shall seek
the cooperation a n d octive porticipation of o i l notions, lorge a n d smolH whose peoples in heart
a n d in mind are dedicoted, os ore our own peoples, to the elimination of tyranny a n d slavery, oppres-

T /SCT. George McClusik, an ex-cod! miner

from Clarence, Pa., walked into his barracks
after a hard day on a bulldozer and bumped into
sion a n d intolerance. W e will welcome them as they may choose to come into tite w o r l d fomily
of democratic mrtions.
N o power on earth can prevent our destroying the German ormies by l a n d , their U-boats
his first sergeant. The first sergeant was carrying
McClusik's ODs in his hands. "Here," he said, by sea, and their war plants from the air. Our attacks w i l l ' b e relentless and increasing.
handing over the clothes. "You're going oh guard." Emerging from these friendly conferences we look with confidence to the day when all the
George tried to give the top kick an argument, peoples of the world may live free lives untouched by tyranny a n d according to their varying
but before he knew it he was posted outside the desires a n d their own consciences.
door of a small room ofT the officers' mess where W e come here with hope a n d determination. W e leave here friends in fact, in spirit, a n d in
the generals ate their meals. A louey told George purpose.
not to let anyone through the door unless he Signed at Teheran, D e c 1, 1943. ROOSEVELT, STALIN, CHURCHILL:
gave an okay.
"What will I do if you are not around, sir?"
asked George.
"Don't let anybody in except generals," said of their assignment. They wouldn't let anyone His speech was short, lasting only about four
the shavetaiL go anywht-rc without proper authorization. One minutes. He wore his familiar browri felt hat,
George obeyed the rule, with two exceptions— high-ranking British oflBcial, who attempted un- a dark coat, a gray flannel suit, a white shirt
Adm. King and Adm. Leahy. "The louey didn't successfully to get past them and into the em- and black tie. He looked rather tired after the
tell me anything about admirals," he said, "but bassy without a pass, shook his head and m u t - long days of the conference.
I figured they rated." tered: "This is the most bloody guarded place He told the gathered troops how he had looked
When the generals sat down for their first I've ever seen." out the window the first morning he woke in
dinner in Iran the mess officer told Gen. Mar- Pvt. W. G. Atkinson of Scranton, Pa., was the Iran and thought at first that he was somewhere
shall that he was going to serve them the first guard on the back door of the embassy when a in Arizona. The terrain here does resemble that
fresh meat ever received by the command. It colonel came up and asked if he could go in to part of America. And he went on to tell them
had arrived the night before by boat at a Persian use the latrine. Atkinson refused to allow him about his meeting with Churchill and Stalin.
Gulf port and the officials had flown the precious near the door. "We discussed not only plans for getting the
stuff to Teheran for the conference. "Don't you know who I am?" demanded the war over," he said, "but also more important
But Gen. Marshall refused the meat, graciously colonel. He merely happened to be the command- plans for peace."
but very firmly. "If this is the first meat to arrive ing officer of Atkinson's own M P outfit. He told the soldiers that the people back home
here," he said, "I think the men who have been "Sir," replied Atkinson coldly, "until this thing were aware of the fine job they were doing here.
stationed here should have the privilege of eat- is over. I don't recognize nothing or nobody u n - He said he wished those people could see the
ing it. We'll take Spam and bread." And they less he's got a pass." job with their own eyes.
got Spam and bread. The colonel went out into the garden where "I am going home now," he concluded. "And
"This isn't hooey, either," says George. "I there were plenty of trees. I wish I could take all of you with me."
heard Gen. Marshall say it. And for my dough, There were no cheers after he finished speak-
he's a regular guy." Presidential Reviews ing. Instead there was a hushed silence that
EVIEWING the troops here before boarding his seemed to last for a full minute until the troops
The Intrepid Irishman
PL. John Kennedy was the guard stationed
R plane for home, President Roosevelt drove
through the camp to the baseball diamond where
were called to order arms. The metallic clatter
of the pieces rang out over the baseball field.
C outside the conference room. He had to check
another door to the room. The only way to reach
he talked to the soldiers from his jeep.
The President took a microphone in his hand.
Then the men shouldered arms and began to
march away. Many of their faceg were bright
it was to walk right through the conference It didn't work. Then he tried another that did and many of them had strange marks around
where the American, British and Russian offi- not work at first- either. He smiled and said; their eyes. For most of them, it was the first
cials were discussing confidential matters of "And these are supposed to be the most power- time they had ever seen a President of the
world-wide significance. ful weapons of the war." United States.
Kennedy, an intrepid Irishman from Philadel-
phia, Pa., swallowed a couple of times nervously.
Then he threw back his shoulders and marched
straight into the room past the table where the
astonished dignitaries were turning to stare at
him. He tried the unchecked door. Then he
about-faced, and marched smartly out again.
"I sort of had a lump in my throat," Kemiedy
said. "But I guess those big shots understood
that duty is duty. But I could see that they were
wondering at first just what the hell I was doing
in that room."
When You Gotta Go, Yoo Can't
HE assignment of guarding the President and
T his party was given to Co. H, 727 Military
Police Bn., and this was a great honor for these
MPs who, in a noncombatant zone like Iran,
usually have nothing to do except boring town-
cop duty.
The entire company was placed in strategic
spots all over the»grounds of the American Lega-
tion. They-guarded t h e President so well that
first day and night that they were also selected
to watch over all three of the conference leaders
throughout the historic two-day meeting that
followed at the Russian Embassy.
The noncoms and men took their jobs calmly
and refused to get"excited about the importance
Morshol Stalin strides past Gen. H. H. During his trip to conferences at Cairo and Teheran, President
Arnold, commanding general of the Roosevelt took time out to award the Legion of Merit to Gen.
U S A A F , ond Prime Minister Churchill. Eisenhower, commander of Allied Forces in the Mediterrnneon.
 p

Caesar, a G e r m a n shepherd attached to the U. S. M a -

rines, was carried back wounded to a dressing station during the battle
of Bougainville. Caesar and other trained dogs have helped ferret out
IK *• "^ •• •^- Japs in the dense South Pacific jungles and w a r n e d many Yanks of traps.

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A platoon does its best

to avoid a big puddle filling an Italian road.
The rainy season has changed any previous
ideas about "sunny I t a l y " for U. S. soldiers.

Senior Sgt. Polienko of the Red Arm

is commander of an antiaircraft gun crew which has she
down 16 G e r m a n aircraft over Russia. The record is there fo
all to admire in the form of 16 stars on his gun's barrfi

. A n assem-
bly crew for 105-mm guns at
the American Locomotive Co.
plant in Dunkirk, N. Y., looking
over a story in YANK on a
105 which they helped to make.

'•"•'-.' I •. M a r g a r e t Adams, M O M FU" .'.r^'tHD A H E A D . These British infantrymen of the Fifth Army under Lt. G e n . M a r k W.
actress, got in the w a y of a w i n d machine and Clark are in no mood to linger. They have a position to take. Crouching f o r w a r d they advance over
look w h a t happened. Just look w h a t happened. a blasted r a i l w a y bridge to take an Italian town on the other side. Then come mountains—and Rome.
RAS OF THE WORLD

An Italian w o m a n came back Pfc. Harry Kaplan, in South- Cpl. Rolf Krog, Yank, and a
From hiding in the hills w h e n the Nazis were thrown west Pacific, is so proud of Purple Heart Chinese soldier light up during a U. S.-Chinese
9ut but found her home nothing but a heap of rubble. and ribbon he wears them on fatigues. operation against Japs in northwestern Burma.
YANK The Army Weekly • DECEMBER 3 1
^"^sa[s)S^eK
Ratings After the W a r
Dear YANK:
I hold the temporary rank of master sergeant,
although my permanent rank is technical ser-
geant. I received this promotion after J u l y 1,
1941, the date all advancements in grade went
on a temporary basis. Now my question is this:
As I have put in almost 30 years of service, will
1 receive retirement pay based on my temporary
master sergeant's rating or will I receive techni-
cal sergeant's retirement pay after the war? I've
been told that I can only get t h e technical ser-
geant's pension. But this doesn't sound right, for
I know that in peacetime I would have been pro-
moted to t h e permanent rank of master sergeant
by the time I was due for retirement. I can't see
why I should be content with a technical ser-
geant's pension simply because no permanent
warrants can be issued to any soldier in time of
war.
f o r t Benning, G o . - M / S g t . H U G H R. MERRON
I If you retire now you will get only a technical sergeant's
pension, since that is your permanent warrant. A l l /etirement
pay is based upon permonent grade only. You do not, of
course, hove to retire ot the end of 3 0 years' service if yoo
are still physically fit. If you want the master sergeant's pen-
sion, you'll have to stay in service after the w a r is over a n d
eorn your permanent warrant. The retired nKsster sergeant
receives $ 1 3 8 a month a n d the retired lecliascal sergeant
gets $ 1 1 4 . 6 7 a month. I f s up to you to decide whether that
$21.33 a month is worth wotting for.
Washed-Out Cadet
Dear YANK:
I was an aviation cadet some time ago but
Crashed out due to flying inefficiency. It is Army
policy to send some washed-out cadets t o schools
for bombardier or navigator training, but my
score was too low for training in these categories,
so I became an enlisted m a n again. Recently, I
applied for reinstatement as a cadet but was in-
formed that my old classification score still dis-
qualified me. But I h a d been told earlier that I
could apply for cadet training again after a year
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What's Your
Problem?
had elapsed from the date I had washed out. I am
anxious to get the latest regulation on this p>oint.
Victory Field. Tex. - S g t . D A N J. BINDER
• Aviation cadets who hove washed out ore not again ac-
ceptable for pilot troining. Pilot codets who wash out may,
however, enroll for navigator or bombardier trainmg if their
classification scores ore sufficiently high. If pilot wash-outs foil
the bombardier or navigotor classification test they may take
successive tests every 3 0 days for os long as the aviation
boord thinks they might make the grode.
Who's Eligible for Benefits?
Dear YANK:
I am a first three-grader, and I would like to
know if I can make out a family allowance for
my SMI, who is under 21 years of age and a private
in t h e Army.
ASn>, Universily of A l a i w m a - S / S g l . M . W . SNYDER
• The l e g a l department o f the CMEce of Dependency Benefits
soys no go. Former dependents now serving in ttie Armed
Forces ore ineligible for faenefils.
Dear YANK:
Here is my problem. My wife by a former mar-
riage had three children. Their ages now a r e 12,
8 and 5. Can I apply for a family allowance for
them? We have t h e birth certificates.
Fort i e o n a r d Waod>, M o . - S g t ; EUGENE E. G t A Z A
• Your stepchildren, if members . of youf household, o r e
eligible f o r family allowances. You o r your wife should send
duly certified copies of the birth certificotes, attached to a n
opplicotion for benefits, to tlie Office of Dependency Benefits,
Allowances B n m d i , 2 1 3 Washington Street, N e w a r k . N . i.
Can't Stop Wife's Allowance
Dear YANK:
I a m married a n d have a 2-year-old boy. He is
my wife's own child, but mine by adoption. Be-
cause the baby's father, my wife's first husband,
was dishonorably discharged from t h e Army for
desertion, I arranged to have t h e child's last name
changed to mine. Since I have been away I found
THE G O O D DEED
s^TagceitiiE ^e>»^^:e^
out that she has been going around with other
men to such an extent that it can't be called a
friendly pastime. One man gave her $100. I can
prove that. He also gave her a watch. I can prove
that, too. In spite of the fact that my wife is
working and inaking enough to live on, she blows
in all of her salary, her family-allowance money,
and even has cashed and spent all our jointly
owned War Stamps and-Bonds. Now the pay-off
comes in the form of a letter from my mother
who says my wife is threatening to have a civil-
court judge write to my CO demanding that I
send 20 bucks more a month, in addition to m y
allowance, "for the care of the little boy." Whdt
I want to know is this: Is there any way", short of
an Ml, that I can stop my wife's allowance? What's
equally important, how can I get a divorce? I don't
mind if you print this, but don't use my name.
Fort Benning, G o . -Pfc. E. A.
• Regrettably, so long as you ore married to her, there is
nothing you con do to stop your wife's ollowonce. As the low
now stands, even if you obtain a divorce, she con still collect-
provided she doesn't remarry a n d is eligible for alimony.
M a n y officials reolixe thot the law in this respect ofl^n
operates unjustly, but despite their determined efforts to do
something about it, no changes a r e as y e t in sight. However,
under the terms of the Soldiers' ond Sailors' Civil Relief Act,
yov o r e entitled to certam specific protections in the courts,
a n d your first move should be to g e t in touch with your out-
fit's Special Service officer, who wilt b e able to direct you to
the iworest legoi-ossistaace office. ( W D Circular 7 4 , March
16, 1 9 4 3 , sete up tegatussistance offices tfirou^mat the Army:
Y A N K . V o l . H. N o . 15). Meanwhile, if your wife carries
through on her threot to go to a locol court, you should write
to that court setting f o r 4 i your side o f t h e cose. K action is
brought ond y o u ore unable to retoin legal counsel, the court
win oppoint a n attorney to represettt you. By tow, the ottomey
so appointed cannot waive ony o i your rights o r bind y o u by
his a d s . Finotty. even though you i s e powerless to stop
your wife's allowance, you can initiate action that wifl
l>reve*t her from spendiMg^ yoar diiid's . l e g a l shore o f that
allowance. I n your cose, the best thing to l i a is to write to
your mother, asking her to g e t in touch with the represento-
tive in her community o f the Vetefoos Adminisiration at o f
the Army Emergency Relief, who will iiwestigate the situ«»-
lion a n d report the facts to the proper authorities.

YIMIK
THE ARMY WEEKLY
When Are We Gomg Home?
E vtKY soldier overhou.- li iookm^ lor an ai)sv\ ;>r
to thai big imporiant question. "Wiicn are
we goinj, horn!"' Wc all kr,(,w the war
won't be over for a ioxij,' lime. But those of-us
wlio have sweated out ;; vear or more in combat
zones or tlic dull noncornbat zones like Panama,
Iran or Iceland slil) ieei that our outfit is entitled
to return to the State.s tor a short tune, at least,
while somebody else takes over. And we don't
see any reason why wc should have to wait until
the end ol the war for such a change in sten<;r_y-.
There have been all kinds of answers to this
question about going home floating around the
foreign latrines but all of them have been strict-
ly confidential and highly unofficial answers. In
fact, the whole overseas Army is fed vp to the
ears with unofficial inside dope about new pol-
icies and new rules about shipping troops home,
none of which, as far as we know, has ever
turned out to be correct.
So YANK last week decided lo try soanething
different. Instead of concocting an editorial of its
own on the problem of when we are going home,
it sent a corporal to Washington to ask the War
E>epartment tor an official reply to tiie question.
The War Department's answer isn't half as
cheerful as the one YANK would have liked to
create and it does not jibe with stuff we have
been hearing in the chow lines and latrines these
last few months. But at least it is straight and
official and maybe it will kill a few of the rumor.«
that have been building us up to an awful let-
down. Here it is:
"The WD has been studying the problem of lOtat-
ing personnel outside the continental limits of the
United States ever since the beginning of hostilities.
However, in every general plan designed to provide
a definite time limit for overseas or a definite per-
centage of personnel to be returned, there is one
insurmountable obstacle—insufficient shipping space
for the necessary replacements."
In GI language, here's what that means. You
can't start to make substitutions in a football
game until you first put your full team of 11 men
on the field. The War Department says that it
needs all its available shipping now to move
overseas all the troops thai are required there.
It can't afford to use ships for the job of making
substitutions—sending out replacement units—
until it first completes the job of bringing our
overseas Army up to its full quota.
When we have all the men we need overseas.
the War Department will be able to send out
units to take the place of those outfits that iiavi
done their share of foreign service. But until
then it is just TS and there is nothing we can do
about it. Except hope that when replacement
shipping becomes available, our outfit will be at
the front of the line.
GI Bull Sessions
S OLDIER discussion fo-
rums both in the U. S,
M and overseas have spread
so i-apidly, says the WD,
that the Army now plans
to provide special informational pamphlets on
subjects in which GIs have shown the most
interest. The first series of these pamphlets, which
are being prepared by the American Historical
Association, will be released early in 1944. GI
discussion forums are voluntary and informal
and can vary from bull sessions in a rest camp
behind the lines to elaborate programs of the
kind run twice a week at Camp Lee, Va.
The majority of GI forums, according to thir
WD release, use the town-hall technique. A soldier
with an appropriate background is made mod-
erator, the topic is chosen and men who have a
particular knowledge of the subject sit in as
"experts." The meeting is opened by stating the
arguments, after which the men in the audience
give opinions, ask questions and in general pull
the subject apart.
Dixharged Veterans
A recent report of the OWI states that at least
800,000 veterans of this war have been given dis-
charges by the Army, Navy and Marine Corps,
Y A N K The Army WeekJy • OCCEMBER 31
\\ H'iiJLt
^:>
"^ftiJOd^
tributors A.ssocialion claims the first industry-
wide plan to absorb returning GIs possessed of
GI SHORT-STORY CONTEST technical experience in suitable civilian or war-
Y ANK ann<^unces a short-story contest, open to
enlisted personnel of the armed forces. Stories
must be original, unpublished and should run from
work jobs. . . . Princeton University sent each
of its s'tudents in the aimed forces a Christmas
packet of three pocket-sized books.
1,000 to 3,000 words. Send entries to Fiction
Editor, YANK, 205 East 42d Street, New York 17,
N. Y. The author of the story adjudged best by the
editors of YANK will get a $50 W a r Bond. The
Washington O.P
winning story and any others deemed worthy will
be printed in YANK. Entries must be received not
later than Mar. 1 , 1944. G i reports of moldy cigarettes, liki- the one
in the cigarette story on page 5 of this
issue, burn up Col. Webster of the QM here. He
is a bear on the subject of packaging cigarettes:
in fact several cigarette manufacturers think
The Army leleased 585.000 from Pearl Harbor
through Sept. 30. 1943; the Navy 133,155 from his specifications are too strict. In addition to
Pearl Harbor through Oct. 31, 1943. and the the regular cellophane wrapping on each pack
and the regular chipboard carton, he insists that
Marines 34,759 during the same period. Of those each carton either be double-wrapped in waxed
discharged by the Army, 370,000 were given sulphite paper or wrapped once m double-weight
CDDs: by the Navy and Marines, 46,961. The rest paper and then heat-sealed. For each 50-carton
were discharged for various reasons, the majority shipping case the QM specifies a special water-
because they were over age. Of the total number
discharged, says the report, 26,000 have applied repellant case liner made of three layers of
to the Veterans Administration for continued hos- creped paper and asphalt. The liner is then
pitalization. The majority of discharged GIs,- r e - sealed and the whole business goes into a solid
ports the OWI, are getting jobs in war plants. weatherproof fiber shipping case of top quality.
The Army Postal Service, investigating alleged
delays in V-mail, examined the dates of letters
G/ Shop Tafk deposited during one day in a mail box some-
The 3d Infantry Regiment, one of the first where in England and found some dated three
to ship out for foreign service, is back in the months before mailing. Apparently GIs who had
States, having been moved from Newfoundland neglected their waives, mothers or girls were
lo Camp Butner, N. C. • . . An all-purpose, all- predating letters, then blaming slow mail. A good
weather gasoline has been developed to meet gag; we've used it ourselves. . . . Incidentally, the
year-round combat requirements of AGF ve- APS tells us soldier V-mail has increased 200
hicles. , . . The Northwestern Service Command percent or more in the last 60 days and now
in Yukon Territory reports the completion of the equals civilian V-mail in volume.
final link in the first overland telephone line Somebody in the QMC got to studying about
connecting the U. S. and Alaska. . . . GIs in a all the good left-hand gloves that are discarded
fighter group in New Guinea built an "airborne" because their right-hand mates wear out faster.
chapel; its materials, excepting timbers and Now some types of gloves will be made ambi-
pews, weigh only 900 pounds and can be packed dexterous so you can shift t h e m and make three
for transportation by air in 53 cubic ieet of space. pairs go as far as four o f the old type. . . . The
Noncornbat Army vehicles manufactured in 1940
or before are being made available for essential
civilian use. These do not include jeeps, which
QMC has placed a big order with manufacturers
for the new type of battle-dress uniforms. Alto-
gether, the Army will buy 32 million individual
were not standardized for Army use until 1941. garments during the first six months of 1944.
. . . The Photographic Manufacturers and Dis- —YANK Washington Bureau
Bermuda: Cpl. Wiliam Pene du Bois.
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YANK The Army Weekly • DECEMBER 31
"Die PW Woche"
Camp Carson, Colo.—Die P W Woche (The P'W
Weekly) is p r o b a b l y t h e first p r i s o n e r - o f - w a r
r . e w s p a p e r p u t o u t b y a n d for e n e m y s o l d i e r s in
th-s c o u n t r y . It w a s s t a r t e d A u g . 14. 1943. w i t h
ju.st four r e a d e r s b u t t h e c i r c u l a t i o n h a s i n -
croa.sed to such an e x t e n t t h a t 70 p e r c e n t of t h e
Gernnan p r i s o n e r s h e r e n o w r e a d it.
Die P W Woche, p r i n t e d in G e r m a n , is a 2 0 -
page mimeographed, magazine-size publication.
it c a r r i e s a r o u n d - u p of w o r l d n e w s , p o e t r y , fic-
tion, h u m o r , local n e w s , a p i n - u p p i c t u r e a n d
i t e m s of t h e s p o r t s a n d a m u s e m e n t fields. D i s -
:••:button is m a d e by t h e p r i s o n e r s t h e m s e l v e s
a n d t h e p a p e r sells for 15 cents, p a i d for by
c a n t o n m e n t tickets r e c e i v e d by t h e P W s for w o r k
do.Tp.
.An officer w h o w a s f o r m e r l y a r e p o r t e r is t h e
iiaper's j o u r n a l i s t i c a d v i s e r . T h e e d i t o r s m e e t
v,,-iti-i c a m p officials a n d discuss t h e c o n t e n t s b e -
fore p u b l i c a t i o n , e l i m i n a t i n g t h e need for strict
censorship.
W h a t Every Joe Should Know
Camp Croft, S. C.—Sgt. A l l e n E. K l a s s e d a n d
Sgt. D o n a l d L. R e y n o l d s h a v e set a b o u t m a k i n g
.Army m a t t e r s c l e a r e r for r o o k i e s in t h e 31st Inf.
T n g . Bn. T h e y r e c e n t l y p u b l i s h e d a 2 0 - p a g e
m i m e o g r a p h e d b o o k l e t t h a t c o v e r s facts n e w
'X:i:)r-i s h o u l d k n o w a b o u t t h e A r m y a n d t h e 31st.
Divided u n d e r s e v e r a l h e a d i n g s , t h e b o o k l e t
c o n t a i n s a r o s t e r of c o m p a n y officers, i l l u s t r a -
•::ons of A r m y r a n k a n d insignia, an e x p l a n a t i o n
of m i l i t a r y c o u r t e s y , t r a i n i n g notes, l a u n d r y a n d
M A S T E R C R A F T S M A N . S/Sgt. A l f r e d 0 B o y d , MP Det ,
A r m y Service Forces, C a m p B l a n d i n g , Flo , w i t h some of
the goods he's c a r v e d out of l e a t h e r sent to h i m f r o m his
ranch in Florida. He only hos t i m e to fi'l a f e w requ<"sts
dry-cleaning mformation. company regulations.
an e x p o s i t i o n of t h e a r t of b u n k - m a k i n g , a c i o t h -
ic.t; list, a m a p of C a m p Croft and i>ne of S p a r -
t a n b u r g w i t h t h e salient p o i n t s mar'^ced and a
ii;-!iv>rr.ns!V. i l l u s t r a t e d i i n e - ' i o o:' "'-e i - " e r a i
Orders Is Orders
Camp Haan, Calif.—"Climb 'JM<^ "' e seat."
darker! M / S g t . Louis C h e r n p y . in c h a r g e of t h e
•u^adquarters b a t t e r y ' s m o t o r pool, to T - 4 F r e d
K:r:iy. ,i l i t e r a l - m i n d e d d r i v e r . "'Now. r e l e a s e •h<^
•v.ikc." Ciii^i-apy w e n t on. K i r b y c o m p l i e d
T a r n 'er o v e r , " s n a p p e d t h e s e r g e a n t , K i r b y
.~:c))ped on t h e s t a r t e r . Ijut n o t h i n g i i a p p e n e d ,
T:-.'- ,:'ergeant r e p e a t e d his orde;- dnci Xii'by a g a i n
. e e p p e d on t h e s t a r t e r , but .i'.iW n a t h : i ; g i i a p -
r.en(-'d, C h e r a p y lifted t h e h(;od a n d ' o o k e d a'
'•a- nujtor.
" W h a t ' s ' h e t n a l t e r with this d a n c e d -i-ung?"
u' ;, ejled,
.\i ' h i s j)oint. K i r b y iooked a o ind o u i e t l y
, - k ' T i : ••Shall I t u r n on ti'ie iii\].:i')r. a.;\e, se:^~
1 pictures , news items or featur e^ of inter-
\i f'st S<"*nH any pages to thp Continental l i o ' son Bronch
for these
I Burpau of P' b!ic J?et attons. W a r Deportmen* Pentoaon
i Wo^hington,. D. C , and ask '•hor they he 'orwc-'d'^r!
i 'o YANK, T^ p- Army Week y
PAGf 1i
AROUND THE CAMPS
BIytheville Army Air Field, Ark.—Sgt. R a y m o n d
Wolsfield is t h e savirrg s o r t a n d o u t of his G I
earnings he has put aside enough to buy an oat-
e a t e r n a m e d W i z a r d . Each n i g h t Wolsfield h u r -
ries to t h e s t a b l e s in t o w n w h e r e he k e e p s t h e
h o r s e to m i n i s t e r to it. On s t o r m y n i g h t s t h e s e r -
g e a n t s l e e p s in t h e stall w i t h t h e nag b e c a u s e
W i z a r d is afraid of i i g b t n i n g .
Schick General Hospital, I o w a — P a t i e n t s h e r e ,
r e p r e s e n t e d by Cpl. V. Dixon, h a v e h i g h p r a i s e
for a G I w a r b l e r n a m e d J i m m i e Gill. P v t . G i l l
has his o w n 1 5 - m i n u t e p r o g r a m o v e r t h e C l i n t o n
( I o w a ) r a d i o s t a t i o n a n d . says D i x o n , ' ' p u t s m o r e
feeling a n d life into a song t h a n a n y o n e else."
Fort Leonard Wood, Mo - C p l . J a m e s Woo, cook
in t h e 75th Inf. Div., w a s w a l k i n g g u a r d one
m o r n i n g . It w a s so cold t h a t his sense of smell
was not f u n c t i o n i n g v e r y well. He had a n e n -
c o u n t e r w i t h a s k u n k as a r e s u l t . A c a s u a l t y to
the e x t e n t of a b i t t e n finger. Cpl. Woo m a d e t h e
m i s t a k e of returnirkg to his h u t m e n t w h e r e he
found t h a t t h e r e w a s n o t h i n g w r o n g w i t h his
b u d d i e s ' sense of s m e l l .
Second Army Maneuvers, Tenn.—Sgt. Don K e l l e r
a s k e d a small boy on a farm n e a r h e r e if h e
could r i d e h i s c o w p o n y . T h e b o y a s s e n t e d a n d
K e l l e r s a d d l e d u p . W h e n t h e boy r e t u r n e d l a t e r ,
he found K e l l e r still in t h e s a d d l e , b u t t h e h o r s e
h a d n ' t b u d g e d . "'I forgot to tell y o u . " t h e kid said,
" n e w o n t m o v e an :rch. '.m*,;; 4:ve m m
piece of s u g a r . "
Maxwell Field, A l a . — C o n j e c t u r e tilled t h e air
v/hen S / S g t L e n a Coody. mess s e r g e a n t for t h e
vV.\C Co,, m a r r i e d S / S e t . A n t h o n y Y'.ihas. mess
s'r:>eant of a l o y r - i - n g i n e .schoo- s q u a d r o n . Who
.•••add rnie t h e i r k'achen af*e'- ' :^' -.vir',' Sgt.
Coody put all ,irgumen»s 'o 'esr -v.^h: "Wed'e
.going la h.ire a "<i<^k
Drew Field, Fla.---T.'Sgt. Russ T i t t i e of t h e ,i01st
Signal AW Regt. a.pproached a soldie:- :n t h e d a r k
i>ne night. •'Hey, .JO*' " he said " n a v e you got t h e
'im.e'?" T h e n ' h e d a r e )•' a match ••M-ealed an
ifleer. T i t t l e s ' a r t e d lu stam.me:'. .m a p o l o g y
" T i i a f s ail right, s e r g e a n t , " Me .irHe-v said, ".'Vo':
ill! it li.ght - m y n,ame rs .lae,"
Pine Camp, N, Y T-.5 Bob L.owery of Hq, Co,
vi-anted a n e w pair of siToes. O n e C'f his outfit's
l i e u t e n a n t s ott'ered lo get iiim :! pair and L o w e r y
.•idvanced tlie m o n e v , Tlie shoes ,-irrived and
L.,)ive)'y was h a p p y a d o u t t h e wh.iiU- idmng untii
ae )pened !he riaCKa^e--an--; *''''.:n,i :;^e shoi^s
•.ver,. GI.
Fort Ord, Calif,- -Pfc, .Andrew So"('n"in'i, memi-
ner ,if an o r d i n a n c e .ind iiere, ;o<' nis p a r t i a l
dC'n'uri^ plate, A -A .-ek i a ' e r ' sh.j.ved up witli
iii:- i a u n d r v and '•-,•; ::ot<.> " P a r ' ,- 'jsate re-
•'•cK'd,"
F'n'm Springs ,A,rmY Air Field Cal'f Piano-
^.aumpers m a y a.,' i .-;:;rt> .! a,./^'n '-^ ir.-.- A r m y .
;;Mt Pfc, L e o n a r d [^-"i'lario !s at tra' ' o p of t h e
h e a p . He ^ot e x e e d e n t ••'I'ices a h ' " , ac aprieai'ed
as g u e s t soloist w i t h t h e C h i c a g o S y m p h o n y O r -
c h e s t r a , a n d a f t e r t h a t h e p l a y e d in N e w Y o r k ' s
Carnegie Hall.
Fort Som Houston, Tex.—Cpl. F l o i e n c e F e l d m a n
was visiting C o r p u s C h r i s t i w i t h a friend. A
handsome marine passed and Wac F e l d m a n r e -
m a r k e d : " I k n o w t h a t m a r i n e from s o m e w h e r e .
His face is v e r y f a m i l i a r . " T h e friend said: "It
s h o u l d be. T h a t ' s T y r o n e P o w e r . "
Cook in the House?
Fort OuPont, D e l . - T h e Hq. Co. (XIII Corps)
mess section, according to Flashes, the post paper,
seems to prove o GI contention that's been going
around.
The roster lists: Sgt. Floyd Phillips, a former elec-
trician; Sgt. Harry Morefield, a former bricklayer;
T-4 James Fisher, a radio technician; T-4 Francis
Drake, a mechanic; T-4 Otis Bolbroith, a dietician;
T-4 Anthony Schmidt, a baker; T-5 Williom Nare,
an automobile mechanic; T-5 Hercules Leonti, a
coal miner; and T-5 Ray Miknavich, a butcher.
Fort Bliss, Tex.—I>fc. L e w i s Vilk h a d a w e e k ' s
f u r l o u g h b u t d i d n ' t e n p o y it. F i r s t his t r a i n w a s
s n o w b o u n d ; t h e n it got in a collision t h a t c a u s e d
a f u r t h e r d e l a y . M e a n w h i l e , h e lost his t i c k e t
a n d h a d to b u y a n o t h e r . W h e n he got h o m e he
T W I N S A G A I N ? N o t e x a c t l y , at least not in
n a m e , l e f t is Sgt Hosmer C o m f o r t of San Fran-
cisco. The other sergeont is Herb D o u g h e r t y of
C h i c a g o , b o t h in A A A School, C a m p Davis, S C.
ired for an e x t e n s i o n , b u t r e c e i v e d no reply
i d s t a r t e d b a c k to c a m p . F i v e h o u r s l a t e r a
' l e g r a m a r r i v e d at his hom.e g r a n t i n g t h e e.x-
te•nsion.
Fort Selvoir, Va, - P v t , lVIar,iorie Davis took p i t y
n a GI w r e s t l i n g with a t y p e w r i t e r m t h e S e r -
ice C i u b , S h e t y p e d t w o l e t t e r s for him. e a c h to
different giri w n o m he insisted he a d o r e d a n d
a m i d see on his furlough. ' T i l p r o b a b l y be too
usy to see e i t h e r of tiiem.," he laid Wac Davis,
aen a d d e d : "Say, ho\V a b o u t a d a t e with \a>u
iris w e e k e n d ' ' "
" C o m e . . Arise The sun is shinirg, the, lark is
on the wing!"
--Cpi Hugh ?, K.?,Tr!edv, Son S«*rnordinn ASC Crjia, W,ng iipi
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AIR HERO. T/Sgf. Robert Kessler, 2 1 , wos SPECIAL H A N D L I N G . With 1st Sgt. James A.
awarded four medals at Army Air Base, Taylor standing ominously behind him at 6 feet
BIythe, Calif., for his conduct as an aerial 6 inches, Pvt. Marvin T. Fowler, 4 feet 11, gets
gunner on a B-24 bomber in the Middle East. measured for a proper Gl fit at Fort Sill, Okia.

ACCIDENTAL FIREWORKS. Though the chances of its ever happening were infinitesimally small,
the camera caught a stream of tracers colliding in mid-air during a demonstration at Fort Lewis, Wash.

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OLD H A N D . Sgt. Ralph p. Paquette used MATTRESS MASTER. "Familiarity breeds con- H O L D THAT TIGER! In this case it's a nice job on both sides.
to work on this boat as a civilian engineer tempt" says Pvt. Baker B. BritfSh, stacking them Anyway it's a wildcat and a baby. Cpl. Rufus Hawkins found
when it was a general's yacht; now he runs up at Boise Barracks, Idaho. Why? Well, he it in a quarry near Moore Field, Tex., and now it's mascot for
it for the QM at Platfsbura Barracks, N. Y. used to run a mattress factory in El Paso, Tex. the 61st Aviation Squadron. Trv am MiElRmim!jHHHimi^-i)L'i.vi--^'ifi
 YANK The Army Weekly • DECEMBER 31

MESSAGE
CENTER
A Pfc. VERNON ADAMS, last
• Seattle: write Sgt. Milton Sloan. 310 Third St.,
address.

Marysville, Calif, . . . Pvt. HAROLD H . ANDREWS, once

APO 943.

at Parris Island. S. C : see Message 4.'-y

B EDDIE BACLEY. U S M C , New York Golden Gloves

• contestant in 1941: write Pvt. George J. Leone,
CO, L , 14th Inf., Camp Carson. Colo. . . . PRESTON
BEALE Jr., AAF: write WOJG Harold P. Landers.
Hq.. 4th Serv. Comd., Atlanta, Ga.

C Sgt. CALVIN P. CAMPBELL of Gueydan, La.:

• Pvt. Preston R. Leblanc. H & S Co.. 1880th Avn.
Engr. Bn., Geiger Field, Wash, . . , RALPH CARVELL
write

Y2c: see Message 1." . . . Pfc. NORMAN CLIMER, once

at SCU 114, New Sta, Hosp,, Fort Devens, Mass.:
write Pvt. Curtis O. Canups, Co. D. 369th Med. Bn.,
Camp Shelby. Miss. . . . Pfc. BILL CONGTION of Yon-

The Face on
the Barracks Floor
Mail Call tainly like to get official proof of his statement that
kers, N. Y., once at Fort Riley. Kans.: write Cpl,
Richard J. Prikryl, Sta. Hosp., Camp Callan. Calif.
. . . Pvt. JOHN CURTIS, once at 1326th SU, Camp Lee.
Va.: see Message 2.**
Alvin Owsley, national commander, once described
Dear YANK:
These sketches \ahorel prove that sometimes a man
can do almost the same kind of work in the Army that
the American Legion as a counterpart of the Fascists
in Italy.
G •
JoHN GANJAIN, once at Fort Bragg, N. C : write
Pvt. Joseph Gilano. Btry. I. 245th CA, Fort
Wadsworth, N. Y. . . . Capt. J. ROBERT GIBSON of
he did in civilian life. Take me. for instance. When NAS, San Diego, Calif. - J O H N H C O N I I N Ptr2c Phoenix, Ariz., once at APO 520, New York: see Mes-
I came into the Army I told the first sergeant I was sage 3.V . . . FRED GILTNER of Chicago, now in the
a painter. He said: T don't care what you did with Dear YANK: AAF: write Lt. R. E. Strafing. SAAFBS, Box 77, San
a iirush: let's see what you can do with a mop." I did I don't think the veterans of this war will want to Angelo, Tex. . . . Anyone knowing the details of the
— and he was quite surprised with mv work. be associated with an organization like the American last flight of S/Sgt. Louis S. G o n s (Gen. Del., c/o
Camp Fannin, Tex. ~Cpl. L. 5. GHLAM Legion. It's a matter of record that the Legion has PO. AAB, Herington. Kans.): write A / C Henry Golis.
been used as a tool for big business and many times Sq. K-9, Class 44-E, AAFPFS (Pilot) Maxwell Field,
operated as a strike-breaking agency. The American Ala, . , . JAMES ANGUS GRAY, once at Kearns, Utah:
B-Sth Gr. Civil Liberties Union has compiled volumes on this. write A / S W. L. Armstrong, Sq. 105. Fit. 1, AAFCC,
SAACC, San Antonio, Tex.
Camp Lee, Va. - S Sgt. JOSEPH DAVOLI
Dear YANK:
. Stripes painted on the fa-
tigues of ex-noncoms
l5een bothering my otherwise
have Terry Moore's Furlough H S/Sgt. N. L. HAMMACK. once at Co. C, 405th
• Inf.. Camp Maxey. Tex.: write Pvt. George H.
Hammack, 805th Chem. Co., AO (D > Barksdale Field.
unoccupied mind. The stripes Dear YANK:
Listening to the broadcast of the recent World's Shreveport. La. . . . Pfc. BILL HARRIS. Aleutians: write
can't be torn off or vashed S/Sgt. Roy Wyatt. Co. C, 847th Sig. Tng. Bn., Camp
out. Therefore. I suggest the Series at a jungle outpost we were greatly surprised
Crowder, Mo. . . . Pvt. MATHEW HARTICAN, once at
Army approve a new classi- to hear the announcement that Pvt. Terry Moore, a
former professional ball player, who we knew was Camp Grant, 111.: see Message 2 . * ' . . . Pvt. EVON
fication, allowing demoted HASS. CA: write Pvt. Brantley B. Springer, Torney
r.oncoms to paint a ''B" stationed in the department, was in the stands watch-
ing the game. Our curiosity was short-lived as in a Gen. Hosp., Palm Springs. Calif. . . . Pvt. EARL HER-
I about the same size as a MAN of Detroit, once at Atlantic City. N. J.: write Pvt.
November issue of YANK w e read: "Pvt. Terry Moore,
technicians "T") under their who is stationed in Panama, saved up all of his fur- Edward Kohrs, 877th PTTS, Laughlin Field. Tex. . . .
stripes. If this roling went lough time to be with his Cardinal teammates dur- Pvt. WARREN A. HOEFT, once at APO 726, Seattle:
into effect it would save the Army from having to ing the series." There are many men in this depart- write A / C Charles F. Tuschling Jr., CI. 44-A, Pilot
supply ex-noncoms with new fatigues and would be ment who have been at this station for more than Sch. (Basic i, AAF. Waco, Tex. . . . Pvt. JACK H O F F -
a fine way to pay respect to their past glory. 'They three years but have never received a three-day pass, MAN: write Cpl. Paul Kutcher, 60th Bomb. Sq., Davis-
could be called sergeant, busted class: corporal, busted much less a furlovigh. Can it be because his name is Monthan Field, Ariz, . . . K c . ALEX HOLTZMAN, once
class: or whatever their former estate happened to be. Terry Moore and ours is just Joe Soldier? The thing at Drew Field, Fla„ and Harding Field, La.: write
Scoff Field, III. - P v t . HALl G. VAN VLACK Jr. that really bothers us is that when they ask us, we Pvt. Sevmour Greenberg, 301 MPEG Co., Camp Clark,
Mo, . . . Pvt. DONALD HOPKINS, once at 1326th SU,
have to tell our folks back home that it's impossible
to get a furlough. W e d appreciate an explanation. Camp Lee, Va.: see Message 2.**
Gl Capitalists Panama - C p l . JULIAN C O N N *
Dear YANK:
A few months ago the Office of 'War Information
•Letter also signed by Pvts. Willie L. Ross. Walter A.
Yeargin. Erwin Ensley, M. L. Cannaimo: Pfcs. John Ire-
M E. Martin, 774 Natl. Rd. West. Richmond. Ind..
• wants to get in touch with the soldier who
helped her catch the train at 4:20 P.M., Aug. 25, at
stated that the pay of t h e Army private is equivalent land. William L. Russell. John Jackamarch, Gilbert H. Pennsylvania Station, New York. . . . JACK MCCABE.
to S32.69 a week or $1,696 a year. Upon what is this Meyer, John J. Scappa. Gerald M. Amidon. John J. Reltz. USMC, of Jersey City, N. J., once at Parris Island,
based'.' We realize it is a sound accounting practice Clyde S. Kann: Cpls. Elmer J. Sellers, Joseph Salvatore, S. C : write Sgt. J. Chabriel. Base Operations. AAF,
to consider all expenses involved, but when did it Gala Gioff, William Hardin, Louis E. Ekhaml, Edward
O'Brien, Rolland Biggin, Frank Don Diego, Adrian Pluf- Homestead, Fla. . . . Anyone who knew STEWART
become common practice to include the cost of equip- pafl. Will T. Harper. John Quaid, Gilbert A. Winders, MCLAUGHLIN of Clay, W. Va.: write Cpl. Ralph S.
ment as part of a man's wages when it is used solely Reynolds Lyons, David O'Conna; Sgts, Henry J. Borows, McLaughlin, 5th Co., Bks. 323. Atlanta Ord. Depot.
for the purpose of furthering the assignment given Harvey E. Walden, Charles L. Hehnfeld. Norbert Jung. Atlanta, Ga. . . . S/Sgt. ROBERT P. MOELLER of Walt-
him'.' I suppose the next thing will be a plan for sol- James F. Henegan, Alexander S. Klinghoffer. hill, Nebr., now in S. W. Pacific: write Pfc. John
diers to pay off the national debt. According to the Condon, Btry. B, 785 AAA Bn., AAATC, Fort Bliss.
OWI figures, each soldier will probably owe the Gov- • Y A N K t r i e d t o find o u t a b o u t T e r r y Moore's Tex. . . . T/Sgt. ELLIOTT MORGAN, once at Camp San
ernment about $.'5,000 when he's discharged: so let f u r l o u g h b u t c o u l d n ' t g e t a satisfactory answer. Luis Obispo, Calif.: write Pfc. Virginia E. Morris,
him sign a promissory note maturing in 10 years and CMS WAC Co.. Camp Myles Standish, Mass.
payable in yearly installments. This is not a letter of
complaint. It is only to put John Q. Public straight Terry Moore's Ribbons
on the rosy life of the "billboard" soldier. We a r e
proud to be members of the Army of the United
Dear YANK:
Idle curiosity prompts me
N Sgt. CARL NASH of Vicksburg. Miss., once in
• Philippine Islands: see Message 3.'' . . . Lt. JACK
R. NICHOLS: write Pfc. Jack H. Kalk. Co. M, 801st
States. We know we are the best paid, have the finest to question the three ser- STR, Camp Murphy. Fla. . . . Lt. ROBERT B . NOLAN.
equipment, clothing, and shelter. vice ribbons sported by once in Panama: write Cpl. James A. Dooley. 1074th
Southwest PaclKc - S g t . PAUL E. ZIMMERMAN Terry Moore in the picture BFTS. AAB, Courtland. Ala.
of him at the World Series
Gen. Patton
in an October issue of
YANK I can't understand
how the former Card could
S •
Cpl. DONALD E . STONE, once at Drew Field, Fla.:
see Message 4.v7 . . . Pfc.
USMC, once at New River. N. C : see Message 1.*
DOUGLAS R . STONE.
Dear YANK:
It was Thanksgiving and all was well until I heard have possibly earned the
tokens, considering that he 'Message 1: Write Cpl. A W. Rucker Jr , Co. A. 13th
our Gen. Patton was on the carpet in front of Con- 1TB. Camp Wheeler, Ga.
gress. Why the hell don't they mind their own busi- recently entered the Army ••Message 2; Write Pfc. Addison Gerrity. 1321st SU Med.
ness and leave Patton and Eisenhower alone? The in t h e C a r i b b e a n A r e a Det.. Fort Eustis, Va. .^„ „ ^
Patton incident reminds me of the story of the men where I was stationed, too. yMessage 3: Write T/Sgt. W. W. Ingram, HBC Det.,
who were gathered at the railing of a ship that they —Sgt. HERBERT PIILO AAB. Ardmore, Okla. _
thought would be blown up any minute. They were Sedalia AAF, Warrensburg, Mo. '.'•Message 4: Write Pvt. Sidney C. Sinasky. Det. 1, PO
frantic and all on edge. Then one man started laugh- Box 690. Oceanside, Calif.
ing and then everyone did. The ship made shore • T e r r y M o o r e is s h o w n I
safely. Now Patton was probably like that m a n who wearing t w o American SHOULDER PATCH EXCHANGE
started to laugh. When a man is frightened there a r e T h e a t e r r i b b o n s a n d a 'Veterans of F o r e i g n 'Wars
several ways to bring him around and that could have ribbon. H e h a d t w o ribbons too many; he should The following men want to trade shoulder patches:
been Patton's idea. I'm a soldier of nine years' ser- S/Sgt. Robert Adkinson. Pfc. William W. Hyde, c o
h a v e w o r n only o n e A m e r i c a n T h e a t e r r i b b o n .
vice. Don't put my name on the letter if you print it. (j05th Tng. Gp., 63d Tag. I n t e l l i g e n c e Office.
I'm in the guardhouse now. Wing, Fit. 30, Sheppard AAFNS, Hondo. Tex.
Sgt. J. A. Hesse. Hq. Btry.,
Jacltion Barracks, La. —Pvt. A Post-Warl*olicing Field, Tex.
118th AAA Gun Bn..
Pvt. J. J. Baranick, QM
Dear YANK: Camp Haan, Calif.
Det,, 1848th Unit, Camp Pvt. Frank P. Juliano. Ha.
Veterans' Organizations "The following letter to the editor was published by Hood. Tex.
the Sicilian edition of t h e Stars & Stripes. Its unani- Ciil. Robert E. Beck, Med. Co., 1st Bn.. 542 Prcht.
Dear YANK: mous acclaim in this area causes m e to submit it to Inf.. Fort Benning, Ga.
Det. Sta. Hosp.,' NOPE. Cpl. Albert E. Lee. 443 MP
I noted with much interest the letter from Sgt. YANK for wider circulation. New Orleans, La,
David Silver regarding the American Legion in a Dear Editor: PW Proc. Co., Aliceville.
S/Sgt, John E. Bradburn, Ala.
November issue of YANK. I h3ve been a member of I suggest that immediately after the day of general .575th Sig. Co.. 75th Inf. i Sgt. George P. Lewis. Fin.
this organization for many years and am at present armistice all Army personnel who have been overseas Div.. Fort Leonard Wood,
during actual wartime, whether or not in combat, be Det.. 76th Inf. Div.. Camp
serving my country in a second war, so it is like a Mo. McCoy, Wis.
kick in the pants to me to have anyone say I belong speedily replaced by personnel with only continental ser- Cpl. Barbara Bryant, WAC
vice during the war. Post-war occupation duties will not Cpl. Carl L. Luiken, Hq. &
to an organization "that leads in the field of attack- require the experience of seasoned combat troops and Det., So. Post, Fort Myer, Hq. Co., Base Gen. De-
ing civil rights." As for his statements concerning transportation will not be the major problem as it is today. Va. pot. C-AMA, Los An^
the courtesies extended by the American Legion to Such an arrangement will necessitate additional legisla- Cpl. Bernard J. Celek, Mc- geles, Calif,
Mussolini, it must be remembered that Italy was tion but I feel that congressmen would do well to take a Closkey Annex, Box 1910, Cpl. Robert K. Miller.
an ally of the U.S. in the first World War, as was lead from the many servicemen sharing my opinion on Waco, Tex, l«63d SU, Hq. Co., Camp
Japan, and up to 193.3 there had been no real break this vital subiect. Pvt. Danny Daly a i & Cpl Grant, III.
Mathew F. Benda, Co. B, Pvt. Frank J. Murphy. 213
between the U.S. and Fascist Italy. ^ would cer- Sicily -Pvt. E M U BISCHITZKY
394th Inf. Regt.. 99th Sig. Depot Co., Cam-)
Div., Camp Maxey, Tox. Shelby. Miss.
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1st Sgtllliilrti C ^ ^
By Sgt. RAY DUNCAN
uii fiist s e r g e a n t n a s t h e laigi-^st sloinach m
O o u r outfit. T h a t is as it s h o u l d bf. ol
c o u r s e . Also it's t h e reason h e w a s c h o s e n
by t h e c a p t a i n to play S a n t a C l a u s at o u r unit
Christmas part\,
S e v e r a l m e n in o u r s q u a d r o n , for o n e reason
oi- a n o t h e r , do not like oui first s e r g e a n t , The.\
a l l o w e d t h e i r r e s e n l m e n l to reach its peak at
our Christmas party.
T h a t w a s ver\- foolish, o c c a u s e u, t o e firs;
place a C h r i s t m a s p a r l y is no plac( to pa.v of!
old g r u d g e s . A n d a n y w a y it is sill\' to hate- tiie
first s e r g e a n t for t h e t h i n g s h e has 1" do. A s he
h i m s e l f told us so often:
"I a m o n l y a i n s t r u m e n t . 1 d o not di> t h i n g s be-
c a u s e I like to be m e a n . 1 a m a i n s t r u m e n t oi
t h e c a p t a i n ' s w i s h e s a n d of t h e A r m y regula-
tions. As long as I a m r u n n i n g this outfit t h e
c a p t a i n ' s w i s h e s a n d t h e A r m y r e g u l a t i o n s is
going t o be s t r i c t l y a d h e r e d t o . o r I a m g o i n g to
k n o w t h e hell w h y . Tiiat's tiie k i n d of a p o t a t o
I am!"
S o m e of t h e m e n dislikeci t h a t k i n d vi a p o t a t o
in s p i t e of his e x p l a n a t i o n , a n d tiiey looked for-
w a r d w i t h m u c h i n t e r e s t to t h e C h r i s t m a s p a r t y .
Especia!l\- w h e n t h e g r a p e v i n e r e p o r t e d t h a t th(
first s e r g e a n t w a s going to play S a n t a C l a u s b.v
o r d e r of t h e c a p t a i n .
••After all." said T Sgt Wiii A n d r e w s , ••iir
won't be w e a r i n g his s t r i p e s on his S a n t a C l a u s
uniloi'in. As far as f can set', a n y l r u n g will g o ' "
A n y t i i i n g d i d . W e all g a l a e r e d in tlie d a y r o o i r
a'oout 3:30 on C h r i s t m a s E\i TticK w e r e cigars
and c i g a r e t t e s for e v e r y o n e , a n d cand.\ ane"
o r a n g e s a n d a p p l e s . T h e r e also 'vvas Oeer a n d . as
:l ialei t u r n e d out. Coca-Cola.
Vt'v w e r e m i l l i n g a r o u n d a n d s n o o i u i g ilie
i)iee/.<' v\'hen t h e c a p t a u i <irii\ed. He c l i m b e d u p
(iri a t a b l e a n d m a d e a spi'ecii. t h e s a m e oiU' he
m a k e s eacli t i m e o u r outfit g e t s l o g e t n e i ,
•J don't see all you boys t o g e t h e : ver> oitei;,
•^'ou all havi' y o u r s e p a i a l e j o b s to do all o v e !
t o e c a m p . H o w e v e r . 1 liiink i; is a good t h i n g
for unit nioiali- w iien we g e ; t o g e t n e r onco m
a while, a n d unit m o r a l e is a v e r \ i m p o r t a n t
t h i n g . Now y o u m e n go a h e a d a n d en.io\ y o u r -
selves. I'm afraid I'll h a \ ' e to lea\'e b e c a u s e of
otner d u t i e s "
H e clirnbed d o w n olf t h e tabU' a n d left. H e
a l w a y s did t h a t . He w o u l d d e c i d e t h e outfit
s h o u l d rui\c a p a r t \ . and wiieii wi- iiao i' ht
would rusn ir:. dance t w o d a n c e s will, ni.'^ witt
s m i l e t w i c e to gi\'e his blessing t<i tm pioct-e(i
ings. a n d leav{
N o t h i n g else n a p p e n e a io! a v\'.'iiU .--u we a n
Kept on d r i n k i n g beei a n d n u l l i n g a r o u n d . W(
w e r e h a v i n g a vei _\ good t i m e . T h e fiist s e r g e a n t
c a m e m wit:; a big bundU- a n d wi-nt dire(.-l]\' i "
tin- d a \ -looni l a t r m i .
Hv c a m e tiUt a g a i n ir: a S a n t a Ciaus unifuin;,
t h e w h i t e b e a r d a n d t h e black ooois a n d tlu
r e d coal w i t h a s t r i p of c o t t o n a i o u n d trie e d g e s
Ovei' b.\' tlie C h r i s t m a s t r e e thei e w a s a big
c a r d b o a r d box full o! p r e s e n t s . He dragg<'d friis
o u t in front of t h e t r e t
T h i s also w a s thi- c a p t a i n ' s idea. Eaen oi us
h a d to b r i n g a p r e s e n t , cost not to e x c e e d t w o
bits, -wrapped a s a gift but with n o n a m e on it.
T h e gifts w e r e all p u t in t h e big b o x to bv
passed o u t l a t e i ,
••All r i g h t , g e n t l e m e n . ' c a l l e d t h e first sei -
g e a n l . or S a n t a C l a u s
He h a d to shout a b o v e Ine din. It w a s t h e s a m i
f a m i l i a r r e v e i l l e - f o r m a t i o n voice, a l t h o u g h iie
followed it w i t h a jolly S a n t a C l a u s l a u g h which
he a p p a r e n t l y had taken some pains to prac-
t i c e foi' t h e occasioii,
'Very few p e o p l e paid any a t t e n t i o n . T h e noise
g r e w louder,
••C'moi,. c nioi, m e n . seltii d o w n ! ' bellowt'd
S a n t a C l a u s . ••'VN'e golla g i v e out t h e s e p r e s e n t s ! "
H e picked u p an empt.\ b e e r b o t t l e a n d beat
on t h e floor, b u t n o o n e s e e m e d io notici'. S a n t a
C l a u s t u r n e d vei y red in t h e face.
'•Listen, wise g u y s . I know it's C h r i s t m a s E v i
a n d tins is a p a r t y , but t n e least you can d(. is
shov^• a little c o m m o n c o u r t e s y . Now b r e a k it up
and g a l h e i a r o u n d h e r e m a big c i r c l e ' "
T h e noise had s u b s i d e d w h i l e hi' w a s t a l k i n g ,
but it b r o k e out a g a i n i m m e d i a t e l y . S a n t a C l a u s
stood t n e r e w a t c h i n g fo: a wiiile. h i s liands on
his hips. T h e n he took a d e e p breatii a n d ruaieci:
"Listen, y o u g a h d a m m e a t h e a d s . siiut u p a n d
get t h e hell o v e r h e i e ! " It s o u n d e d v e r y s t r a n g e
to Ileal S a n t a C l a u s s w e a r i n g
Bob 'Wnils. ,1 stati s e r g e a n ; ^na 1 b e l i e \ i ;.
ringieadt'i in t h i s t h i n g , n a d v\i.irKi'd his wa>
up to t h e fiont of t h e crow ci
"Look fellows!" he yelied, •f-'resenls'' Evei \
o n e D t ^ a m e s u d d e n l x s i i e n t a n d c r o w d e d ciosi,
as B o b oegan tossing oui p r e s e n t s .
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\ e l l e d t.'ie fii'st s e r g e a n ' , as ;ii ,i;d\'r \ V M > i, p..i-;
••Wiui ycai s n o v m g . g i a y o e a r d ' : ' s.uii 'A' !;
and |-,e p u s n e d S a n l a C i a u s dc^vsi. ]i)\v ;i vni!,.
Tiiere was a little i-ougi, stufl afu-i \:,ii[ .So:-,
of t h e tnoji b e g a r throv\"ing oiange,'. a n d can'.!
<ind squii'tmg Coca-Coh- at tiie s e i g e a n t 'i'^iici
weiv sonK m e n ii; \in unit w n o wi'i'c obhga'..
to liie fii'st sergean* to tin point ol beint; p.
sonai stooges, a n d ti'ie>' jiad to ir,\ Ic- i i ' s c i c i;
The> all got pi'etlx w e i ; mussi-d up
" H e \ . pssst: A r e n ' t you tiii i n s ; sei !.;cii:;''
nis.sed T / S g l . Will A n d i e w s to tiir ijadl\ rnai;-;.
S a n l a Claus,
•'You know g o d d a n i well I a n i ' "
••The t r o u b l e is." a d v i s e d 'Wills. ' ,\on aiii •, :4>
y o u r s t r i p e s on. If y o u n a d s l i i p e s oii H u s o gii,>
w o u l d n e v e r get a w a y w i t h t h i s ' '
T h e first s e r g e a n t w a s so e x c i t e d ij> IIIM: im
he let A n d r e w s t a k e hiii! o v e r to iiic- i j a n a i i
a n d paint six s t r i p e s a n d a d i a m o n d ai, a
sleeves with s o m e w h i t e postei paint
W HEN 'VV'ilis a n d S a n l a C i a u s got uaci.
day room pi'acticali\ e v e r y o m wa.-
O n l y t h e first s e r g e a n t s fi lends wei( stil:
Also it t u r n e d out tnat h i s cloliies w ci
Irom t h e latrini-. S m c i nis li lend." wi VK
slender. narrow-chested mor.. oiocii.'
c l e r k s , t h e i r c l o t n e s w o u l d n ' t fit niiiu Hi
go h o m e in t n e Santi, C l a u s o u t h ' » :
s t r i p e d sleeves. Wills rode as fa' a.' inw,
h i m on t h e b u s . a n d ne said e\'ei\(>iii sti
t h e first s e i g e a n t w h o . U/ mai-u n i a i i r i s
w a s f r o w n i n g a n d m u l t e i i n g to iiiiiisi i.'
S o m e of t n e bo.vs s n e a k i ' d hack ,.,;,: p
first s e r g e a n t ' s clotnes ii, thi hot ton o:.;
his desk, neatl>- folded, a n o liu'> c k a i . i a
da\- r o o m . But t h e d a y afle; Chiistiii.is \\ •
special 9 A.JM formaiioi:
"E\'e!'y p a s s in liii.^ iiuiiit is bciiif; ;.),ii,
a w e e k , " a n n o u n c e d tlie ' i i s ! s e i g i i i n ' .
m i s c o n d u c t at t h e unit C h r i s t m a s pai t.s Ti
not m \ idea, it w a s t h e c a p t a i n ' s wis,ii\>,
l i o u b l e m a k i ' r s niaKe ;t lougit foi e\'i'r\ oh
if it e v e ! Happens again I a m gonig to p h
passes foi a m o n t h ! T h a t ' s UH- k i n d o!
1 an)''
In s p i t e of this u n p i e a s a n t a f l e i m a l ] i i e a i ,
evervon(- said it w a s j u s t a b o u t t h e bi t p a r ;
we evci h a d in oui' outfit.
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54. Again
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58. Brilliancy of
effort
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Get older
A bolt for quarter
Rosie 80. Overtrained
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Approach
First person
First woman
Rodent
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hard, t r y t h i s o n e . It c a l l s for o n l y o n e c u b e — t o
begin with.
I m a g i n e a c u b e w h i c h is t h r e e i n c h e s l o n g o n e a c h
In V. S. a 3. Behold
tramp: in 4. Unit s i d e . "Then t h e c a m o u f l a g e b o y s g e t b u s y a n d paint
Kngland 5. Part of army it g r e e n o n a l l s i d e s . N e x t a c a r p e n t e r c o m e s a l o n g
what he sits stationed and c u t s t h e c u b e u p i n t o s m a l l e r c u b e s , e a c h of
on behind the t h e m a n i n c h l o n g o n its s i d e s . T h e n h e p i l e s t h e m
28 Hal vest rest all u p a g a i n to f o r m t h e o r i g i n a l c u b e .
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31. Forerunner 7. Adjutant
General s q u a r e i n c h e s of Mtipatnted s u r f a c e w i l l b e e x p o s e d ?
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PVT. BEN ADAMS

Pvt. Ben Adams (may his rank increase!) t .iyiC i>tc«^i-tcson
Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace,
And saw within the moonlight in his tent—
Sullen and silent, as on mischief bent—

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A sergeant writing in a little book.
Exceeding fear was in Ben Adams' look,
When to the noncom in the tent he said,
"What's that you're writing?" The sarge raised
his head
And, with a look made all of sweet accord.
Answered, "The names of those who go on
guard."
"And is mine one?" gasped Adams. "Nay, not so,"
Replied the sergeant. Adams spoke more low.

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But cheerily now, and said, "I beg you, then.
Go on away and let me sleep again."
The sergeant wrote and vanished. The next night
He came again, with a great wakening light.
This Posff txchangfl, i|ke YANK ilseff, fs wi<f« And showed the names of those with K P blessed;
opMt to yMi- Swd y&ift caitotms, IMHHB* aritf And lo! Ben Adams' name led all the rest.
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The lonely stars that stay awake
And keep a vigil all night through
Invite a stroll along the lake
Beside the woodland tipped with dew;
And yet, I do not care to take
A walk with you.
This solitary room can make
A cozy, quiet place for two;
And why, my dear, should I forsake
My haven for a sky of blue?
Ah no, I do not wish to take
A walk with you.
Fort Benning, Gn. - S g l . LEONARD SUMMERS

G/s YOUNG AND OLD

P VT. Manual Ortiz liked the Army very much
except for two things: 1) he couldn't under-
stand English well and often got his orders mixed,
and 2) he dreaded the obstacle course.
Pvt. Ortiz wanted to be a good soldier, but
often when the sergeant bawled out commands
in a fast nasal voice, it took him a few seconds
to figure out what had been said. By that time
the rest of the squad had executed a left flank
and Manual would be standing by himself, puz-
zled and embarrassed at the other soldiers'
laughter.
The first day the sergeant asked: "Hey, your
ears bad?"
"No, sergeant, but if you would please talk a
little slower. Where I come from in. southern
California we are all Americans, but we do not
speak the language much. So if you would so
kindly "
•'Dial 90!" the noncom snapped and walked
away.
Manual turned to another soldier. "What does
that mean?"
The soldier laughed. "That's the chaplain's
number. Anytime a guy has a beef, you tell him
to dial 90—tell his troubles to the chaplain."
"Where does one find the phone?" Manual
asked.
"You kidding? Don't be a dope. It's a gag. N o -
body ever calls."
Oh, the soldier who is younger
Always seems to have a hunger
For places that he never should have been in.
He should really have his whirl in
A place where feet are twirlin'
And not seek low-down dives to drink his gin in.
But the soldier who is older
corporal would shout: "Ortiz, either shake a leg
or go on sick call!"
"How can I explain it to the doctor?" Manual
Seems to be a little bolder
When romance is what he's bent on winnin'.
would ask sadly. He eschews the name-band dance halls
"Aw, dial 90! J u m p ! " And selects the juke-box beer stalls
One morning the sergeant'announced that all As the hunting ground to find his sin in.
men who could type should report to the office. Now, nobody should quarrel
"It's a good deal for whoever gets the job—
straight office work, no company details, maybe If this ditty has a moral:
a rating later," A soldier takes his fun where he can find it.
"i can type," Ortiz said. If he's old and 18 "makes" him,
The sergeant laughed, "You can't even speak Or he's young and 40 "takes" him—
English." It's OK by me as long as he don't mind it.
"I speak it slowly, but I read and write it very Somewhere in N e w England —Sgt. I R V I N G CARESS
well. In high school I was a good typist—very
fast."
The sergeant said "Nuts."
"But it is the truth," Ortiz said. "I type with pr***'*
much speed. It is work I am suited for."
The next morning as the men climbed out of
bed for roll call, Pvt. Ortiz remained under the aaiaaeiiia aaaiaBiiaa
warm covers, a smile on his tan face. aataQ w i n ^ITI^HBH
The sergeant came over. "Okay, sleeping ^M T J E ^ T
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Carefully Ortiz took two papers from under CROSSWORD PUZZLE
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sergeant. "This first one will inform
you that I am now the company t y p -

m nm!
ist and excused from all company
"But there is a padre—a chaplain?" formations and details—roll call for
"Yeah, but I'm telling you it's a gag. Like say- example. The second paper is signed
ing: 'If you don't like it, don't enlist again.'"
Another time the CO read a lengthy notice
by the doctor and will assure you
that I do not have to go over the ob-
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ISTER Long Pants slipped out ol base-
M ball jus! as quietly as he talked or
pitched. Except for a maller-of-faci
newspaper announcement that Cari Owen
Hubbell. after 16 years of loyal service,
would become general m a n a g e r of the New
York Giants' farm system, t h e r e wasn't much
of a fuss made over him.
Nobody suggested that he be honored with
a Hubbell Da.\ or a testimonial banquet. He
wasn't even presented with a wrist watch
or the inevitable leather tra\'eling bag.
In many ways this d e p a r t u r e was very
much like Hubbell himself. He is^the meek-
• est man in sports, He i-ven comes from a town
named Meeker. Okia
Last s u m m e r the Giant.', were playiny
Brooklyn at Ebbetts Field and before ganii
time Old Hub took his turn shagging flies
Then he walked back to the dugout and
watched as the sad Giants got trounced. 7-4.
As casually as that, on J u n e 22. Old Hub had
celebrated his 40th birthday.
Manager Mel Ott. who used to be H u b -
bell's roommate, probably knows Mister Long
P a n t s better than anyone else on the Giants
•'Carl's shy and he lacks coloi," Ottie once
said. "But he has m o i e important qualities.
Like"courage, skill, brains, modesty, loyalty
and humility. There's character in e v e i \
game he pitches."
Probably no other pilchei m baseball has
been able to put .so much of his per.sonality
into a ball game as King Carl. His perform-
ances reflected his ear'nestness. his honesty
and even his shyness. Hubbell never s q u a b -
bled with an u m p i r e over a decision oi'
blamed a defeat 6n his t e a m m a t e s ' eri-oi's,
"I'm just paid ta pitch," he used to say.
"1 leave the grousing and fighting to those
who can handle it. It's not my line."
This a t t i t u d e was never better displayed
than in one of his classic pitching duels with
Dizzy Dean in St. Louis lught years ago. Dean
was being outpitched and lie didn't like it.
Finally he became so provoked that he lost
his temper and started shelling the Giants
with bean balls. Natur-ally. the Giants didn't
take it lying down. They got hotter t h a a a
10-cent pistol and a wild fist fight followed.
Then an unprecedented thing happened
Instead of. rallying behind their favorite.
Dean, and their own team, the St. Louis fans
supported the Giants. It was Hubbell who
had won t h e m over They had watched Mis-
ter Long P a n t s beat Dean with a clean and
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KP K I D S . W e (ton't have to tell you w h a t these
two sailors are doing. But w e can tell you they're
a couple of All-Americans, namely: Bill Daley (left)
and Merv Pregutman, both formerly of Michigan.
They're in Portsmouth, V a . , now, talcing boot training.
honest performance and they couldn't help
but be impressed. When the fight was over,
the St. Louis fans actually booed Dean and
cheered Old Hub.
Hubbell. of course, is mor-e famous for' his
.screwball than a n y t h i n g else. And yet it was
this trick pitch that caused the Detroit Tigers
to send him back to the minors twice. In
1926. when Detroit brought Hubbell up foi a
second t r y - o u t . Manager Ty Cobb said he
would never make the grade as long as he
used his freak delivery. Cobb warned H u b -
bell that he would luin his arm if he con-
tinued to throw "that dipsy-do."
Two years later' John McGraw bought Hub
for a n estimated $40,000. It was the best in-
vestment the Giants ever' made, foi- Hubbell.
T HIS year's crop of Army football champions:
Randolph Field's Cotton Bowlers, with All-
Amencan Glenn Dobbs pitching, in the South-
west; Camp Davis, N, C., powered by ex-Bear
Norm Standlee, in the Southeast; March Field.
Calif., with at least a dozen "all" guys, in the
West; Kearns (Utah) Air Base, with a defensive
record of only two touchdowns scored against
them, in the Rocky Mountain area; Fort Riley,
Kans.. in the Mid-West. . . . Incidentally. Fort
Riley has the 1940 Olympic walking champion.
Pvt. Bill Mihalo, as its trainer '. , Sgt. ioe OtMaggio
and S/Sgt. Fred Perry, the former tennis pro, are
working together as physical-training instructors
at the Santa Ana (Calif.) Army Air Base. , . .
Add the name of It. Oerace Moser, one of the
all-time backfield greats at Texas A & M. to the
list of All-Americans who have lost their lives
in this war. Moser was killed in a Fortress crash
near Tampa, Fla. . . . tt. Col. Wallace Wade is still
having trouble with his broken leg. He had, to
be moved from Camp Butner. N. C . where he
commands an FA battery, to Oliver General
in his 16 years with the club, won 253 games
and lost 154. He became one of the game's
great southpaws, master of the screwball—
the pitch that was supposed to ruin his arm
—and burled the Giants to three p e n n a n t s
nd one world championship.
The best description of Hub's screwball
was summed u p in a r e m a r k by Lou Gehrig
after the A l l - S t a r g a m e in 1934. That was
the afternoon when King Carl struck out five
of the greatest sluggers in the American
League in a r o w — R u t h . Gehrig. Foxx. S i m -
mons and Cronin,
•'Fm still trying to figure out what h a p -
pened." Gehrig said in the clubhouse, •'! took
t h r e e swings and every time I was positive
I was going to hit a home run. T h e ball was
right there, on the bat, and then it wasn't.
It disappeared somewhere. No other pitcher
throws anything exactly like it."
But Hubbell's success wasn't fashioned
around this one pitch. He had a c u r v e and
fast ball to go with his freakish drop. The
screwball was simply the pitch that identi-
fied him. Incidentally, it didn't gel its n a m e
from the guy who m a d e it famous. He's any-
thine else hut '
Hospital in Augusta. Ga., for treatment. . . .
What's this we hear about GIs in Algiers paying
SIO top for ringside seats at soldier boxing shows"?
Inducted: Uike Afipling, veteran shortstop of the
Chicago White Sox and American League bat-
ting champion (.328), into the Army; Bill Veeck,
owner of the Milwaukee Brewers and one of the
most colorful figures in sport, into the Marines:
Berkley Bell, the tennis tourist, into the Army:
lou Klein, second baseman of the St, Louis
Cardinals, into the Coast Guard; Elbie Fletcher,
Pirates' first baseman, into the Navy. . . . Re-
classified 1-A: Beau Jack, lightweight champion;
Charlie Keller, slugging "Vankee outfielder; Bob
Carpenter, newly elected president of the Phila-
delphia Phillies. . . . Promoted; Birdie Tebbets,
Detroit catcher', to rank of first lieutenant al
Waco (Tex.) Army Air Field; Harry Oanning, the
Giants" catcher, to grade of sergeant at Long
Beach. Calif. . . . Commissioned: Paul Mitchell,
acting captain of the Minnesota football team
and one of the finest tackles in the Big Ten. as
an ensigrr in Navy Ordnance. . . . Lawiched: The
Charles Penidotk, Liberty ship named for the
former Olympic sprint champion, who lost his
life in a Navy plane crash near Sitka, Alaska.
. . . Decorated; U. Bob Soggau, former Notre
Dame football star, with the Air Medal for hero-
ism on a dive-bombing mission against enemy
shipping in the South Pacific.
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