JULY 14

• VOL. 3, NO. 4

19 4 4
By the men . . . for the
men in the service

Sf Gangbusters Break Italian Black-Market Ring

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 By Sgt. BURTT EVANS
YANK Staff Correspondent

N APLES, ITALY—They called him "Papa of the

AWOLs." He worked on GIs in the crowded
little vino shops of crinae-ridden Naples.
"Whatcha drinkin', soldier?" he'd ask. "Cherry
brandy? That stuff's poison. Come with me and
I'll give you a bottle of good brandy."
Any fool knows how hard it is in Italy to get
a bottle of something that will not rob you of
your eyesight, your senses or the fillings in your
teeth. So the thirsty GI would readily go with
Papa, whose real name was Amadeo Sciotti, to
his home. There, after a bottle or two had been
put away, Papa Sciotti would ask: "Where are
you going to sleep tonight? And, say, do you
know any girls? I'll bring around a beautiful
signorina."
The GI might or might not have had an over-
night pass, but by this time he was in a mood
for anything. All he could say was "Si."
Five or six days would pass this way, with
Papa Sciotti playing the liberal host and furnish-
ing wine, women and sumptuous quarters. By
this time the GI had long overstayed his leave,
but he had never had it so good, and he was
beyond caring. Papa had fixed him up with
everything, a forged special Naples pass, an or-
ganization pass and plenty of pocket money.
Then, after the first week had passed, Papa
Sciotti would put a proposition to the GI. How
would he like to drive a truckload of Allied
goods out of the port and up into the hills b e -
hind Naples to some black-market caves there?
The GI usually figured he was in so deep it
didn't matter what he did, and he willingly
played his part in the theft.
Today, thanks to T-5 James W. McCormack,
once an advertising display man in the Bronx,
N. Y., and Pfc. Albert F. Williamson, who worked
in a paper-box factory in New York City, Papa-
Sciotti is where he belongs—behind bars. When
these two members of the Special Investigation
Squad of the MPs finally caught up with Sciotti,
he had more than 20 AWOLs and deserters living
with him and helping in his black-market activi-
ties. They were so well organized they had even
elected their own noncoms and police details.
The Sciotti case is an example of the clever
way in which Neapolitan black-market operators
work. Naples is the university as well as the
city of thieves. It was in Naples that the U. S.
dumped its deported Italian-born criminals, and
some of these gangsters "make Al Capone look
like a pin boy," as Capt. Aime E. Borgers, chief
agent of the Army's Criminal Investigation De-
partment (CID) here, puts it.
Naples black-market operators have one of the
biggest criminal rackets in history, rivaling the
bootleg rings in prohibition days in the States.
In April, 14 Allied Military Government (AMG)
courts were busy trying more than 5,000 black-
market cases here. Every day the courts collect

Goods recovered from black market are Inventoried by MPs. L. to r.: S/Sgt.
Jerry Collins, Pfc. Fred Williamson, Pfc. Conway Davenport, Pfc. Joe Greco.
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- e i \ m g enough tloui to make bKick-mai ket

bread that sells for 33 lire a loaf.
The hlack-market operator who can .steal or
:)ribe someono' to steal a truckload of flour will
•ollect in advance for a sack of flour from each
>f. sa.v, 70 cu.stomers. He will tell these customer.s
lo be at an isolated spot, usually a bombed-out
arf^a. at 0300 or 0400 hours. At the appointed
time, the truck driver will pull up at the place
and honk his horn. The customers will leap on
tigators In Italy the truck and take their flour, then disperse in
every direction, and in five minutes the trans-
action will be complete and the truck gone.
ck^market ring. The CID has already confiscated more than
15,000.000 lire and an equally large amount of
Allied property from the criminals, and the
MPs have just as impressive a record. They
fines ranging from one million to 20 million lire. volving a trucidoac. 'f Allic',! militarx- luiiii'i m- broke up the Mimi gang, one of Italy's biggest,
Responsible authorities estimate that one-fourth He was 62-\(',ir-ojci Lmyi Piscitelii, tahuli'usu and jailed 22 men. Currently on trial in AMG
of all Allied goods and foodstuffs shipped into weathy farmer anci a dirfctor of Italy's hifitjcst court are 11 Italians, including Esposito (Jimmy
Naples eventually winds up on the black market. cotton conibnic He is supposed to be ont- of the the Gimp) Salvatore. the alleged leader, charged
When the initial Italian landings were made men who finamed Mu.ssolinj's original march on with disposing of a truckload of black-market
and nUKWs (amphibious trucks) were running Rome. There \'. ere fi\(^ charf;es against him, tlie sugar. Caught with the goods after a shooting
freight into the beaches, there was little port principal one beinji that he conspired to .sell a affray in which a CID agent was wounded, the
security. That is when the bulk of Allied mer- trucklo^ad of stolen Allied uniforms for 900,000 truck driver pleaded guilty, but the others pro-
chandise was stolen, giving the black market its lire, splitting a profit of 160.000 lire. The trial fessed innocence. (American sugar is a very im-'
first impetus. lasted three weeks, and Piscitelii wept before the portant black-market item: Italian sugar r e -
Today it's not so easy. Tough-minded AMG sentence was htmded down. sembles sand.)
courts are lianding out stiff fines and jail sen- There is a lot of money behind some of these Armed guards frequently have been posted on
tences to black-market operators. There will black-market sangs. When T-5 McCormack led GI trucks as a defense against black-market
always be a black market where great shortages one operator to think that he was ju.st posing criminals, who tear up roads in isolated areas,
exist among civilians, as in Naples. The price of as an MP for shake-down purposes, he was forcing vehicles to slow down, and then leap
black-market cigarettes has risen from 25 lire offered a bribe of $15,000 a month to aid in the aboard and hijack the supplies.
to 55 lire, and the cost of illegal flour has gone delivery of stolen cigarettes. GI drivers have been Sgt, Carmelo Costa of Hackensack, N. J., who
from 100 to 200 lire a kilo. But the activities of offered as much as $800 to take a truckload of has been with the MPs' Special Investigating
the market have definitely been curbed. flour from Foggia. Italy's bread basket, to Naples, Squad for 16 months, was nosing around the
Favorite trick of the gangsters is to transport Naples waterworks one day recently when he
I gangbusters are playing a big part in fight-
G ing the black market. Fourteen enlisted men
in the Special Investigating Squad of the Mili-
stolen flour in the huge black horse-drawn
hearses after funeral hours. At Aversa, the CID
caught the operators using cemetery tombs for
noticed some suspicious-looking cases in a shed.
They turned out to be cigarettes — 95 cases of
them, 50 cartons to a case. The men who stole
tary Police work day and night under 1st Lt. black-market warehouses. Pants, socks and 136 them have been jailed.
Roy E. Thompson, a veteran of 18 years of police OD shirts were recovered there. Many of these black-market criminals terrorize
work with the Los Angeles County sheriff's Turning military uniforms into civilian clothes the Italian civilians. When the MPs arrested one
office. The Army's CID has 24 agents working on has been a big black-market business. So far Costantino Lombardi, confiscating 39,700 lire and
black-market cases, under Capt. Borgers, once the CID has uncovered and put out of opera- 67,000 lire worth of jewelry he had stolen, his
of New York City's homicide squad. neighbors, many of whom he had intimidated, lined
tion seven cleaning and dyeing plants that did
And AMG has its own Black Market Control nothing else—five in Naples, one in Pazzoula and the streets and cheered. Lombardi once had a long
Unit, directed by big two-fisted Capt. Mathias one in Bagnoli, Neapolitan tailors, among the criminal record in the States and was deported.
F. Correa, former United States attorney for the best in the world, could restyle Army overcoats
Southern District of New York, who handled HINGS are definitely looking black for the
such famous cases as the first German spy ring
uncovered in the U. S. and the Willie Bioff-
into handsome civilian garments and make at-
tractive ladies' suits out of Army blankets. A dip
in the dye pot and they would be unrecognizable
T black-marketeers today. No longer can their
customers be sure of what they are getting. More
George Browne extortion deal. Capt. Correa also and more frequently cases have been reported of
has charge of prosecuting black-market crim- as military garments, unless the material were people buying what purported to be sacks of
inals. In his Black Market Control Unit he has examined closely. The tailors even took GI flour, cartons of cigarettes or even C rations.
more than 100 Italian investigators and a small woolen hats, dyed them maroon and sold them But when they' got their purchases home and
GI staff headed by Lt. Hatold Lipsius, Philadel- as Eastern bonnets to Neapolitan belles. opened them up, inside the cleverly camouflaged
phia (Pa.) criminal lawyer, and S/Sgt. Anthony Flgur is the biggest black-market item; people containers they found nothing but tightly
N. Livoti, for seven years assistant district at- must have bread. Italians, long accustomed to packed dirt.
torney of Queens County, New York, before he brown flour, will pay a good price for American Incidentally, anyone who purchases from the
took a leave of absence to join the Army. white flour on the black market. There has been black market can be prosecuted just as readily
In May one of the first big black-market op- some trouble wifh civilian bakers who some- as the thieves themselves. The charge: illegal
erators got a five-year sentence for a deal in- times forget to bake for a day, thereby con- possession of Allied property.
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Only one of fhese possession of Army sugar, has Piscitelii's defense attorney winds up three-week trio! with pteo for light
ilecided guilty An in the a t t e m p t to c a p t u r e them. sentence for his c l i e n t , who was found guilty and imprisoned for five years.
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They weren't trained at Fort approat^i<.'^ - - 47-ni.Ti antitank guns, mjciiii, tanks s!;.rled bumping across the blackened field.
guns, mortars. 75s and a coupk of 150s. While we sped forward I searched the area
Knox, but these amateurs who The General Shermans would have to do the ahead ilirough the periscope. Off to our left a
softenmt; up iif Jap positions, a:ded b.\- artillery line of khaki-clad figures in British helmets
manned the first General Sher- and fighter-bombeis. befoi'e the rest of the tanks moved at a half-crouch through a gulley. That
mans in the CBI put up a tough and the Chinese infantry could cross the river. was the point platoon of Chinese infantry. Lt.
We bypassed the rickety little tructc bridges Doran gave orders to the other tanks to change
fight against the Japs. that spanned the streams, taking the tanks formation from a wedge to a line.
through the water so the bridges wouldn't cave At 0845, just as I had reached the end of a
in under their 32-ton weight. swing with the bow gunner's periscope, there
By Sgt. DAVE RICHARDSON Soon we passed American armored bulldozers, was a flash off to the right, about 50 yards from
YANK StafF Correspondent bearing machine guns and clearing away the us, and a cloud of smoke mushroomed up,
brush on either side of what was then the far- speckled with falling earth. Looking under it, I

N ORTHERN BURMA—A bunch of GIs in dirty

fatigues squeezed into thoir General Slier-
mans at 0730 one gray Saturday morning
during the battle down the Mogaung Valley.
thest extremity of the Ledo Road—a few h u n -
dred yards from the Japs. Trudging past the
bulldozers in single file was a column of unsmil-
ing, battle-worn Chinese infantrymen, heading
spotted a shell hole. Then there was another
flash and another cloud of smoke close by. The
Japs were ranging in their 75s on us.
Within an hour they would be the first Ameri- Only 100 yards ahead of us now was the
toward the front. These were some of the lads fringe of jungle marking the riverbank. Tojo's
can tank outfit ever to fight the Japs in the who would go into the attack behind us today.
China-Burma-India theater. Yet they had about Hearse stopped to direct the operation. The other
as much .tank training behind them as the aver- Lt. Doran radioed all tanks to pull off to the tanks crawled past us on either side and wide
age Armored Force rookie gets in a couple of right of the road and fall into wedge formation on our flanks. On our left a tank advanced to
weeks at Fort Knox, Ky. behind Tojo's Hearse. As the tanks maneuvered within 60 yards of the jungle, and then a yellow
into position, we looked south across a barren flame flashed from its 75-mm gun barrel. Dirty
In the command tank, Tojo's Hearse, Cpl. stretch of ground about a half-mile square. This gray smoke drifted.around her turret. Through
Robert Bridges of York Village, Maine, the had once been a field of 12-foot-high elephant the thick steel of our tank we could hear the
driver, switched on the engines and throttled grass; Chinese phosphorescent shells had leveled, dull boom. All the tanks started shooting except
them to a deafening roar that set the whole tank it to blackened ankle-high stubble, dotted with a ours and No. 5. We'd get our chance later.
a-throbbing. Apparently satisfied, he grinned few charred trees and bushes. Down at the south
and nudged me. I was going along as bow gun- Ahead and all around us shells were explod-
end of the field was a fringe of dense jungle—the ing. We saw them flash and smoke on the ground
ner in place of a sick man. bank of the river where the Japs were waiting. and in the trees. Tracers from the tanks darted
"Wait till the Japs get a load of that baby up into the jungle. On the right of us Patsy Ann,
there!" he shouted in my ear. A couple of feet ##i»iANK commanders, tank commanders," yelled commanded by 2d Lt. R. W. Field of Benicia,
over our heads jutted the black barrel of a I Lt. Doran over the radio. "No air support Calif., wheeled broadside to the river to ma-
75-mm gun, mounted in the top turret. It would this morning because of visibility. Button up all neuver closer to the bank. As she did so we no-
be a surprise for the Japs, all right, considering hatches. Load all guns. Okay, let's go." ticed tracers hitting her, coming—to our amaze-
that all they had faced for six weeks was a We jerked the levers that lowered our bucket ment—from behind us.
Chinese outfit of dinky light tanks armed with seats to the floor. Reaching up, we slammed the "Who the hell's shooting at No. 3?" shouted
•37-mm guns. The Japs had knocked this armor hatches shut and secured them. As lights flicked Lt. Doran over the radio to other tank com-
silly with everything from magnetic mines and on within our tank, I threaded the end of my manders. At that time the rest of us in Tojo's
Molotov cocktails to 150-mm shells. Our me- ammunition belt through the machine-gun re- Hearse couldn't catch the reply. Later we learned
diums could take more of a pounding and pack ceiver and pulled back on the bolt twice to throw the reason for the shooting.
more of a punch. a shell into the chamber. At 0830 hours the When Patsy Ann had gone in on the right
We adjusted crash helmets and strapped on
throat mikes for intertank communication. I
opened a metal box of machine-gun ammunition
to place in the feeding rack beside my gun.
Over the earphones at exactly 0745 crackled
the voice of 1st Lt. Richard P. Doran of Van-
dalia. 111., our tank commander and CO of the
outfit. He told Bridges to start the tank rolling.
With a lurch Tojo's Hearse started forward.
Shouldering its way out of the jungle dispersal
area, the tank rumbled down the rutted road
toward the front a few miles away. Behind us
the other tanks emerged and fell in line.
A heavy rain the night before had laid the
dust. Now it wouldn't get all over us and our
guns; more important, it wouldn't billow above
our column to tip off our position to Jap artillery
spotters in the hills above us.
Just three weeks before, a call had been issued
for volunteers to man some brand-new General
Sherman tanks just arrived at a seaport in India.
There were no Armored Force troops in the
CBI, but many GIs who had spent monotonous
months as mechanics or bulldozer operators or
ordnancemen jumped at the chance to see action.
So did some of their officers.
For most of these men, it was the first time
they had ever seen the inside of a tank. They
had scarcely arrived at the Indian seaport to
see what a General Sherman looked like when
they and their tanks were shipped by rail to
Assam in northern India. From there they drove
the tanks down the Ledo Road and into northern
Burma, where they reported to Col. Rothwell
Brown of Miami, Fla.,-commander of Lt. Gen.
Joe Stilwell's tank units. He needed the men at-
once, so he rushed them through a week's inten-
sive training a few miles behind the front.
Basic training over. Col. Brown was ctsked
to use his tanks to spearhead an attack on the
native village of Inkangahtawng, where the Japs
had blocked Stilwell's Chinese forces for several
days.' The Japs were dug in on the thickly
jungled bank of the Pangyu River, north of the
village, with plenty of stuff concentrated on the
flank, she ran over a mine, which exploded and to move up, and he did. Yee, a Chinese-American, Bridges saw it. too. •'Antitank gun!" he yelled.
slightly damaged one of the treads. Then, un- was the only enlisted man in command of a lank. I trained the tracers on the spot where the ball
known to any of the crew, a Jap leaped off the As his Totfyo Bar came up alongside us; Lt. of fire seemed to have come from. Another ball
ground and climbed on the back of the tank. Doran ordered the other tanks to withdraw and arched up. I kept pouring in bursts of tracers
Right behind Patsy Ann was Tokyo Limited. cover our advance. It was time for To]o's Hearse until Loughman put three shells on the spot. No
commanded by 2d Lt. Leo Giladett of Bingham- and Tokyo Bar to deal out a little lead. more Roman candles came out ' there.
ton, N. Y. The Jap pulled a sandbag off the back Slowly we edged closer to the fringe of jungle. Yee's gunners m Tokyo Bar w e e dueling with
of the tank, where several had been piled to Over my earphones I heard Lt. Doran order our another antitank gun as our tank started backing
prevent magnetic mines from sticking, and began gunner, Cpl. Paul R. Loughman of Newark. Ohio, up to rejoin the rest of the outfit. Shellbursts
to put a magnetic mine in its place. Pvt. Bernard to "fire one." There was a dull report as Loiigh- flared around the tank one instant, and Yee's 75
E. Nelson of McCook, Nebr., bow gunner in man's 75 went off. It sounded something like a boomed out a reply the next. The Japs won the
Tokyo Limited, spotted him. Nelson's tracers were muffled clap of thunder. duel when a 47-mm shell made a neat little hole
the ones we saw hitting Patsy Ann. The Jap In the turret above, Pvt. Frank J. Tesh of in the barrel of Yee's 75. just back of the muzzle.
tumbled off the tank, dead. Greensboro, N. C, the loader, threw another HE
shell into the 75. Loughman swung the barrel,
/ / • ^ O N ' T stop too long in one place," yelled Lt.
1 ^ Doran over the radio to the other tanks.
altered the elevation slightly and fired again.
Suddenly two shellbursts flared up only 10 to
L T. DORAN ordered all our tanks to withdraw so
the Chinese-manned tanks could begin their
pounding. As we wheeled and headed north we
•Keep moving! Keep moving! Don't let those 47s 15 yards in front of Tojo's Hearse. They were saw the Chinese infantrymen digging holes,
get a bead on you." 47-mm shells, judging by the holes in the ground. crouching in gulleys. watching nearby shell-
The whole area in which we were fighting I stared at the holes with a detached sort of bursts with a calm sort of curiosity, and carrying
appeared through the periscope to be filled with terror, as though I were in a darkened movie out their wounded on stretchers. One of the
smoke. The Japs probably were checking their house watching a news reel of the Battle of wounded had been hit in the stomach; he seemed
artillery range with smoke shells. The tanks Stalingrad. This sense of detachment was caused to be holding his guts together with both hands
moved around slowly—wheeling, stopping, shoot- by the dullness of the explosions and the com- as he was jounced along by the litter-bearers.
ing and starting again. forting walls of steel. Then came familiar The tanks recrossed the blackened field to a
Patsy Ann, the tank that had had the Jap symptoms of fear—sweaty palms, butterflies in rendezvous point. At 0945 we opened our hatches
passenger on her back for a while, seemed to the belly and tenseness in every muscle. and climbed stiffly into daylight. Then for the
be the busiest of all. Her crew had spotted a Bridges nudged me, starting me out of a daze. first time I realized I had been ankle deep in
Jap 47-mm antitank gun through an opening in •"Go on and fire," he said. My hand had been empty machine-gun shells—three belts of them.
the jungle. The Japs manning the gun were stand- on the machine gun for half an hour without The crews compared hits, discovering every tank
ing up in plain view as they fired. The 47 and an pulling the trigger. I pointed at the periscope, had been hit from three to 12 times. But the
American 75-mm only 45 yards away began fir- shrugged and yelled: 'Don't see any Japs." damage was slight and nobody was hurt.
ing at each other at the same time. Pvt. Charles •'Fire anyway," replied Bridges. "Fire low all We could hear the other tanks, manned by
H, Ring of Terre Haute, Ind., gunner of the 75, through that brush ahead." I peered through the Chinese, pounding away furiously at the Jap
missed the Japs with his first shell. The loader, periscope and pulled the trigger, adjusting my positions, but we knew they couldn't cross the
T-5 Charles J. Schreiber of Philadelphia, Pa., bursts until they disappeared in the green jungle river today. The Japs had too much in that spot.
.shoved another shell into the breech, but not only a short distance above the ground. 10 of their 47-mm guns covering an area only
until the Japs had bounced three shells off the After a few minutes the trigger clicked. The 200 yards wide and supported with all kinds of
tank. Ring aimed his 75 again and put his sec- gun was out of ammunition. I shoved another other stuff. That's why this was the toughest
ond shell right smack into the gun emplacement box into the rack and threaded the ammunition country in the world for tank warfare; the Japs
Others of Patsy Ann's crew saw pieces of the 47 belt through the gun. Just as I did so, the machine knew the tanks had to stick to narrow stretches
and her crew in the air during the explosion. gun leaped out of my hands: the steel wall in of open country between the hills and the jungles.
"Tank No. 5, tank No. 5," Lt. Doran yelled front of me shivered and echoed with sound. They could concentrate plenty of lead on these
over the radio. He waited a few moments as the •'We've been hit," someone yelled over the stretches. There was no element of surprise, no
dull booms of explosions and muzzle blasts earphones. A 47-mm shell had burst on the front room to maneuver.
echoed over the roar of the engine. "Tank No. 5. of the tank. But the machine gun still worked. The first American tank outfit to fight the Japs
tank No. 5," he yelled again with more urgency The shell was probably an HE instead of an in Burma had failed to accomplish its mission.
in his voice. Still no answer. "Please, tank No. 5, armor-piercing. Jap bullets pinged all over the But the crews had learned a lot. Three days later
answer me," he pleaded. "Please, for God's sake, front of the tank. Lt. Doran and his amateurs, using close air sup-
answer me! Where are you? Come up beside me."' Swinging the periscope and keeping the ma- port and hitting the riverbank from a new angle,
Behind us all the time, tank No. 5 could neither chine gun firing, I witnessed a strange sight led a drive that captured Inkangahtawng.
hear Lt. Doran nor reply. Her radio was out. slightly to the right of us in the jungle ahead. There was even talk that the Armored Force
But by this time No. 5's commander Sgt. A. K. A ball of fire arched out of the brush, looking would adopt the outfit and let it wear shoulder
•yee of Phoenix, Ariz., figured he was supposed just like a Roman candle on the Fourth of July. patches like the guys who trained at Fort Knox.
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By Cpl. J O H N PRESTON
Y A N K Staff Correspondent

W
ITH U. S. TROOPS IN FRANCE [By Cable]—
D Day for my outfit was a long, dull
24-hour wait. We spent the whole day
marooned in the middle of the English Chan-
nel, sunbathing, sleeping and watching the action
miles away on the shore through binoculars. We
could hear the quick roars and see the greenish-
white flashes of light as Allied battleships and
cruisers shelled the pillboxes and other German
installations on the beach.
On D-plus-6ne we took off for shore. I'our
Messerschmitts dove down to strafe the landing
craft as we headed in, but a Navy gunner drove
them off with a beautiful burst of ack-ack.
The broad flat beachhead was a scene of well-
organized chaos. Trucks, bulldozers and jeeps
drove over the dunes in steady streams. The
jeeps had the worst of it. A lot of them were
stranded the minute they took off from the land-
ing craft. All the drivers could do was to wait
helplessly on the beach
for the next low tide.
There were hundreds
of G e r m a n p r i s o n e r s
waiting on the beach to
be taken off in LSTs and
transported to England.
They had been told that
they would have to' wade
to the ships, so some of
them were stripped naked
and squatting gloomily
on their haunches on the
cold damp beach. The
prisoners were almost all
either older men — the
solidly built, hairy types—or • slender downy-
faced boys, some appearing not older than 13 or
14. Their American MP guards kept the lines
moving right along, occasionally jeering: "Well,
so you're the master race."
There were still plenty of dogfights overhead
the day that we landed. Once a Thunderbolt
pilot bailed out right over us. His plane came
screaming down, hit the water line and burst into
flames a few feet away from the line of trucks.
Out at sea there were still mine explosions.
The day before, things had been twice as hot.
Pfc. Thor Youngberg of Chicago, 111., and Pvt.
William Daly of Brooklyn, N.Y., landed by sea
several hours after H Hour. The German pill-
boxes had been put out of commission long before
they hit the beach, they told me, but they were
pinned down for hours by rocket guns located in
an inland orchard.

I SPENT my first night in a German entrenchment

along the dunes and early next morning got
a lift in a jeep to the command post. All the opeA
fields along the road were lavishly planted with
tall stakes, indicating the Germans had expected
Allied gliders and paratroopers to land there.
We also saw plenty of signs reading "Achtung'
Minen (Beware of the mines)," with death's-
heads painted on them to emphasize the meaning.
The command post was located in a large
yellow-stone farmhouse. Life in the CP looked
like a fairly settled GI existence compared with
what We had seen on the way up. A message
center was in full swing in what had been a wine
cellar. Artillery headquarters had set up its
walkie-talkies in the stable. One Yank had even
opened a barber shop out under the apple trees.
At headquarters I met Capt. Charles Margulies,
a tall, friendly young man with a small patch
of clotted blood over one eyebrow. He had come
over to France with the first U.S. Army surgical
group ever to land by glider in any combat zone.
The other officers in the group were Maj. A.
Crandall of Burlington, Vt.; Capt. O. Van Gorder
of Westwood, N. J.; Capt. J. Rodda of Portland,
Oreg.; Capt. S. Dworking of St. Louis, Mo., and
Capt. C. Yearly of Oklahoma.
Capt. Margulies offered to drive me to a section
of the front line where there were a good many
wounded who had to be evacuated as quickly as
possible. When we reached the large field near
the end of the road where these men were wait-
ing, we found them in no mood for medics. They
wanted to see tanks.
The firing grew louder and louder around us,
and finally we all took cover in a grassy ditch by
the roadside. Then came a long half-hour of ly-
ing on our stomachs. It was a very bright clear
afternoon, and the feeling of heat and discom-
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What Hitler means when he talks about his legions-, one day's haul of Nazis, bound for England and prison.
I'ort increased as we became more and more
aware of the sun on our backs and necks and on
the thick gasproof OD clothing.
When the firing eased up. we took four wound-
ed men back with us to a hospital, located in a
large and handsome manor house. The wounded
were methodically laid out on stretchers in the
courtyard, with paper tags giving their names
and the nature of their wounds.
Many of the wounded here were paratroopers
who had dropped into France the night before
D Day. Most of them had fought for four days
without relief; all they wanted to do now was lie
in the sun, bedding down in their own exhaustion.

ATER in the afternoon I returned to the CP and

I I made myself a comfortable berth in a hay-
loft. The man occupying the hay next to me was
a paratroop officer from Wisconsin, a pleasant
young man with steel-rimmed glasses. He'd been
having a tough time since the eve of D Day.
The plane carrying the officer and the men
who were going to jump with him had lost touch
with its formation be-
cause of the overcast and
had started heading back
for England. The officer
managed to jump any-
way. After landing, he
took some time to cut
Fighting in the rapidly shifting
himself free from the
silk. Later he came across Cherbourg deal, GIs wished they
some of the other chutes
but wasn't able to locate !.>e allowed to govern their town as much as
any of his companions. knew which side ^fas winning it. possible. So far they had been anxious to prove
their loyalty to the Allies.
He decided to walk in One old man led a very excited group of French-
a n e a s t e r l y direction, men to the Civil Affairs committee. The French-
hoping to run into some men had found an underground telephone in the
Americans sooner or lat- post office, installed and used by the Germans to
er. Instead he met up with a German. As he tells in an old Frencli chateau, dating back, to ihe
fifteenth century. Now it has been brought keep in touch with the coast. The telephone had
it; '"We both hesitated a moment, and then I shot been cut off, but the Frenchmen still wanted the
him in the belly. Later I ran into a lot more Ger- drastically up to date by a delayed-action bomb
that landed in back of the main building and Americans to know about it.
mans. They started to throw hand grenades at me
and I finally surrendered." dug a crater 70 feet across and 40 feet deep.
PAKT from that excitement, life went on rela-
The Germans doctored his wounds and did not
treat him badly. A German captain, wearing the
uniform of an enlisted man, apologized for his
When the Americans took over the chateau,
they set up operating theaters in the main build-
ing and laid out the German and American
A j tively smoothly in the midst of the havoc.
There were about 10 or 12 policemen still on duty,
and although two-thirds of the population had
appearance, saying he had not expected the wounded in the great stone courtyard out in front.
fled to the country to escape the bombardment,
Americans to come as soon as they did. He and They spread out an enormous Red Cross flag in
the town's streets were not deserted.
his men took the paratroop officer's possessions, the center of the courtyard, and this probably
including his chemical-warfare equipment, in- was of some help to the German bombers when There were French civilians lining up to have
vasion currency and compass, but not his watch. they zeroed in their target. their pictures taken by Signal Corps photog-
Members of the French family that had occu- raphers; there were GIs sprawled against the
Later, when American tanks arrivc^d on the
pied the chateau were now busy climbing over walls of buildings and lunching on K rations and
scene, the Germans gave him a gun and told him
the great heaps of rubble, trying to sort out their cognac; there was a young paratroop lieutenant
to shift for himself. Eventually he wound up in
own family effects from the various layers of GI playing with the dogtags of 10 Germans he and his
a field hospital. Among the wounded prisoners
litter—gas masks, musette bags, paper-back copies outfit had killed; there were scores of other para-
there he recognized the same Germans who had
of Damon Runyon, life preservers. One French- troopers all over the place, their faces streaked
been his captors a few hours before.
man was trying to fit some paratrooper boots on with light-green dust, sweat and black paint.
NE of the field hospitals in this part of his feet. New shoes and clothing cost thousands Several times as we walked through the streets
O France, among the first set up by the Ameri-
cans, has already been very effectively destroyed
of francs, he said, and even then they could only
be bought on the German-controlled black mar-
we heard the light singing sound that made us
throw ourselves to the ground. There were quite
by German bombers. The hospital was located ket. He asked us for news of the Richelieu and the a few fires in town, but the local fire brigade had
other French warships that had fled from the them well in hand. As the firemen bent over the
Germans to North Africa and later had steamed pumps, their bronze helmets flashed in the sun.
:m^m to New York to be refitted. As a merchant sea- About 2100 hours I w e n t to the message center
man, he himself had touched New York once. to hear the latest news over the radio. We tuned
9th Division Cuts Peninsula in just at the tail end of the broadcast, however,
ROM the hospital we drove out to a small farm and then the announcer said: "We now bring
F within sight of a town that had been under
Allied fire for several days but had not sur-
you Fibber McGee and Molly." We all groaned.
Outside the night was loud with the continuous
rendered. All along the route we passed signs of crackle and roar of artillery fire. A paratrooper
fighting; gliders twisted around trees, abandoned who had seen three days of steady action sighed:
tanks, dead horses and cows stinking in the field. "If only I had a New "York newspaper right now,
When we reached the farm, we had a good look I'd really know how the war was coming along."
at the town through binoculars. The Americans
were taking their time about shelling it; a city re-
duced to rubble is sometimes easier to defend and
HE veteran American 9fh Division from Forf
T Bragg, N. C , received official credit for
harder to capture than one that is still standing.
Also there was a hospital the Americans wanted
This Week's Cover
brealcing through to the west coast of the
Cherbourg Peninsula a n d cutting off more than
to avoid hitting if possible. Meanwhile the Navy S ERVICE with a smile, soys
C p l . Louis ( G u n g a Din)
was standing by. ready to shell the town if it Cziperle, as he totes a bunch
2 5 , 0 0 0 G e r m a n s from the main body of enemy
couldn't be captured any other way. of water-filled canteens to
troops in France. The 9th Division scored this Early next morning the town was captured his thirsty comrades on H o i '
first big victory of the Normandy campaign after steady artillery fire, and by noon things landia, Netherlands New
after the drive to isolate Cherbourg had been were fairly well organized. In the open square. G u i n e a . Louis w o u l d p r e f e r
started by the 8 2 d a n d 101st Airborne Divi- the kind of water they have
Civil Affairs officers of the U. S. Army were wait- to d r i n k back in his home
sions and the 4th Division. ing to meet the new mayor. The old mayor had t o w n . East Chicago, Ind.—
The 9 t h , whose insignia's shown above, took died several days before, but no one seemed quite but there's o war in the w a y .
most of its early training at Fort Bragg under sure whether he was a casualty of the bombard-
Lt. Gen. Jacob I . Devers, now commander of ment or had passed away of natural causes.
U. S. forces In the M e d i t e r r a n e a n . Under M a j . PHOTO CREDITS. Cover—Sgt, Dick Hanlev. 2 &. 3—Sot. John
The Civil .'\fiairs officers and enlisted men Frarm. 4 & 5—Sflt. Dave Richardson. 6—Top &. bottom. A c m e ;
Gen. M a n t o n S. Eddy, it landed in Morocco dur- wei-e mainly concerned with keeping the town center, Signal Corps. 7 — P A . 8—Sketch by C p l . B i l l L a u r i t z e n
frrjm photo by K a u f n i a n n - F a b r y . 9—Sgt. John Bushemi. rO—Lower
ing the North African invasion, fought at M a k - open and operative as a military center. There left. Sgt. Ben Sctinail. )2 &. 13—Mediterranean A l l i e d A i r Forces.
nassy a n d w a s the first infantry division to en- was a railway line running directly inland 1 4 — T / S o t . Vincent K a m i n s k i . IS—Usper, A A F T A C . Orlando.
F l a . : lower. Signal Corns. I$—-Upper left & lower r i g h t . A c m e :
ter Bizerte. It also fought at Troina a n d Ran- through the town, and this was its principal im- upper r i g h t . W W ; center r i g h t . Signal Corps. 20—Warner Bros.
dazzo in Sicily as part of the II Corps of Lt. portance. But the Civil Affairs people were not 23—Upper. Pic. George B u r n s : tower. Acme.

Gen. George S. Patton's U. S. Seventh Army. issuing any proclamations; the French were to

PAGB 7
 Fullerton. Stations are at Congress, Jackson.
Monroe-Madison, Randolph-Lake. Grand, Ch)-
cago and Clark. Sometimes pedestrians escape
bad weather by going underground and walking
on the continuous six-block platform that
stretches under State from Jackson to Lake. It
costs them a dime, though, just the same as sub-
way fare.
Though most of the population welcomed the
subway—after decades of talk it had become a
sort of folk myth—not everyone was happy. Iri
fact, some North Side residents were soon
definitely and audibly unhappy. The reason was
the difficulty thc'y had getting to the west side
of the Loop. Instead of taking them around the
Loop as "before, their trains whipped them under
State artd they had to walk a couple of extra
blocks or more, which upset their schedules.
Finally they figured out a more or less satisfac-
tory solution by taking the local train from
Fullerton or the express from Ravenswood that
stays above ground in the rush periods.

T HE Loop is jammed with GIs. Chicago being a

great transportation center and close to large
Army and Navy training stations, it doubtless
will continue to be for quite a while. Yet curi-
ously enough it is the departure of certain fa-
miliar accouterments of the military that has
made Chicagoans realize how debply we are in
the war. They had grown accustomed to the
sight of aviation cadets doing push-ups in Grant
Park, the narrow strips of shore between the
lake and Michigan Avenue. Fancy-stepping ma-
rines with flashing bayonets had drilled there,
too. Now the bridge over the avenue by which
the cadets crossed to the park from the Stevens
Hotel has been torn down, and the Stevens, along
with the Congress, has been handed back to the
civilians. Chicago knows that the airmen and the
marines are scattered to a thousand bases over
the world. It is a reminder that the war long ago
passed the practice stage.
Even more poignant reminders are present
On street corners in hundreds of neighborhoods
there have been posted small plaques, each bear-
ing a gold star and the name of a lad from that
block who has fallen in this war. After the
white-lettered name—printed without rank—are
the letters "Sq." Hereafter the corner will be
known as "Joe Smith Square," or whatever the
name may be. A ceremony attended by neigh-
bors, friends and relatives is held at the placing
of each plaque
Five thousand block flagpoles have been
erected by block committees of the Office of
Civilian Defense. Listed in some manner near
each are the names of all GIs from the block.
Some of the installations are elaborate and have
bulletin boards that are kept up to date with
personal news from camps and war theaters.
HOME TOWNS IN WARTIME clubs of Randolph Street, Wilson Avenue, Rush While its own men are away, Chicago is
Street, upper Broadway, Sixty-third Street, vociferously determined to make a reputation for
Madison above Twelfth, Calumet City. Old resi- itself as the nation's—enthusiasts say the world's
dents say that 20 walk on Randolph Street's —most hospitable city to GIs who visit it. There
White Way where one walked before. The acre- is no gauge for measuring such things, but Chi-
big dance halls—the Aragon on the North Side, cago certainly has an argument. City transporta-
the Trianon on the South Side, the O. Henry tion is free except in rush hours. To supplement
out on Archer Road—are crammed. the usual recreational facilities, various groupw
In one way, though, the town is more like the have combined to sponsor several servicemen's
old days than when most of its GIs left. The centers under the slogan "Everything Free." No.
lights are on again—or most of them. But the 1 occupies 14 floors of the building at 176 West
powerful beacon that used to sweep the skies Washington Street; No. 2 is in the huge old
from the Palmolive Building remains dark; they Auditorium Hotel on Michigan Avenue; No. 3 is
haven't turned the floodlights on the white- at 60 East Forty-ninth Street; No. 4, at Fullerton
slabbed Wrigley Building and at night the Buck- Avenue on the lake front, with a 1,500-foot
ingham Fountain is only a dismal ghost of its beach, is. called the Country Club.
former self. Servicemen's centers reflect the city in which
By Pfc. DALE KRAMER Physically, Chicago's major development has they are located, and Chicago's are on the lusty
HICAGO. III.—Report to a quarter-million GIs been the mushroom growth of its 270 war plants. side. Free burlesque tickets are available along
C from Chicago: it is still Chicago, only more
S(>
Carl Sandburg described it as "stormy, husky,
The city hopes its great new airplane factories
will help to make it the aviation center of the
nation after the war. But the chief civic event
with Annie Oakleys to more sedate plays. The
morning chosen for serving tomato juice is Sun-
day, when it is likely to do the most good. The
brawling." Double that. Nerves are taut with war was the opening of the six-mile length of subway 6,000 girls who come to dance at the centers are
tension. Hard work adds to the strain and in- between Roosevelt Road and Fullerton Avenue exhorted to brace themselves against the tempta-
creases the tempo. People walk faster in the last fall. It is a handsome subway—worthy, what tion of being taken home by GIs, but there is no
streets. Stampedes for surface cars, elevated there is of it, to be matched in bull session rule against it, and names and addresses may be
trains and the new subway are more chaotic against the gloomy stretches underneath New given.
than ever. In the hurrying crowds (half a million York. The trains get up a creditable speed, con- This does not mean that GIs, a notoriously in-
new residents have moved in to man the war sidering the relatively short distance between nocent clasfe, are without protection. Far from it.
plants) are old men returned to work harness, stations. The white-tiled walls with blue trim- The girls are investigated. It was not possible to
mings glisten brilliantly under the lights. Station learn the exact technique, but when I asked a
young boys in war jobs while awaiting call to
plattorms, two levels below ground (stores will stern-faced senior hostess at a dance what she
the armed forces, wives and mothers and sweet- cut in at the first level), are connected with the
hearts hurrying to the factories. was looking for, she replied without removing
street by escalators, her gimlet eyes from the dancers: "Short
The city relaxes with a bang. Everyone, not
least the GI who hits the town on leave,'wants The tracks run under State Street from Roose- dresses." They keep a record of that sort of
his entertainment quick and rugged. At night a velt Road" to Division, west on Division, then thing. "Sometimes they don't wear panties," the
sustained roar rises from the cafes and night- diagonally northwest to connect with the El at hostess added. "That's a black mark indeed."
 Agent for Peace
COMMON belief held by most thinking GIs
The SOLDIER But let us generate this alertness and military
consciousness by an efficient school program and
not through a hazardous compulsory measure that
A in this war is that compulsory military
training is a must for the post-war U. S. A large SPEAKS: will peril our precious liberty and perhaps invite
our children to become followers of a tyrant
well-equipped, well-trained Army, Navy and Air regime like that of Adolf Hitler,
Force can be a potent bargaining agent for con- Italy - C p l . WES WISE
tinued peace.
I believe we should devote a large part of the
last six months of high school to military subjects 'Should the U. S. Have Com- Compete for Manpower
like logistics, administration, tactical theory, air pulsory Military Training SAY definitely, "No," Figure it out in terms of
operations and geopolitics—all the pertinent After the War?" • arithmetic.
studies in how to wage successful war. Then take Under "Plan A" we spend millions of dollars
these youngsters on graduation from high school a year trying to teach a bunch of unenthusiastic
and give them six months in an Army camp doing young men the ways of war while they put in
field work for which they have been picked by an their time and buck like hell to get out. When
Army classification board. As for the Navy and had been trained to the peak of efficiency for the the year is up, they go home. Then in 1957 our
Marine Corps, I toelieve they will have no trouble day when their country might be endangered, security is threatened. Those same men come
operating on a volunteer basis. However, any of and each was thoroughly familiar with the job back into the Army, They have forgotten most
the high-school graduates could substitute either he had to do. of what they learned and most of what they retain
of these services for the Army field-training We can and should make the vocation of the is outmoded. Where is our remuneration for the
period. guardian of his country as honorable and re- millions spent?
An important factor in building up a strong spectable as that of the druggist, the movie star, Under "Plan B " we really offer the Army as a
peacetime military organization will be the ability the saloonkeeper or the bank president. Let us career for men interested. We can only do that
to attract many intelligent professional soldiers. keep up a citizen army after the war. Then we- by putting the Army in a position to compete
The Army must be made attractive in matters of can look to the future with serene confidence. with American industry for manpower. It can be
pay, living conditions and progressive adminis- We shall have the security that is the luxury of done by raising the pay of the GI to a point where
tration. We have a wealth of technical and profes- those who know their strength. he can make a real living by being in the Army,
sional labor who, if attracted by what the Army Ephrata AAB, Wash. -Pvl. HAROLD R. NEWMAN which might mean paying the private $75 or $100
offers, would give it an infusion of young blood, a month plus family allowance. Is this bleeding
keep it on its toes and keep it from stagnating Schools for Soldiers the American taxpayer? Actually, it is letting
as it did between the two world wars. him off cheaply because it will cost him much
E NEED a large and potent army to curtail

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Panama -Sgt. ARVIN FOSTER
W any and all future Hitlers, but we do not
need compulsory military training.
less to support an Army of 500,000 at these wages
than to pay, feed and clothe a conscripted A r m y
of two million men.
A Citizen A r m y The answer lies in universal school courses in
VEN if the best possible peace treaty is devised military subjects incorporating classroom and We will have an Army skilled in war because
I E and a stable world organization set up, a
peacetime Army will still be a necessity. But
field training. The courses would be compulsory
in that they would be necessary for graduation,
the men must be skilled to hold their "jobs."
They will have grown with the changes and have
learned constantly. In 1957 they will be strong
f unless we broaden the base of military service,
the peacetime Army will not be democratic.
but actual force to enlist men in military service
would be avoided. and ready for war and, more important, we will
have an officer and cadre pool really capable of
V There are several advantages in this type of
Remember our pre-war Army? It was a pallid taking the civilian and making him into a good
stepchild of our Government, and we did not like military training. First, it protects the freedom soldier in the shortest possible' time.
to show it to strangers. The joe who joined it was of the American individual from compulsory
generally considered a lazy, shiftless, moronic service. Second, it avoids the hazardous practice Do it this way, and if the time comes for my
lout who lacked the brains and ambition to "make of stealing a year or two from a youth's education son to fight, I can say to him: "Now it is time for
good" in civil life. Thousands of men whose abili- and hampering the necessary continuance of his you to give up your way of life and learn a new
ties and interests inclined toward a military career free and thoughtful life. Third, the program would one that may help keep our way of life."
shunned it because of the stigma. get hold of the youth in his adolescent years when Hawaii - U l Sgl. FRED DWYER
But every able-bodied American should receive such discipline is most needed. And last, it pro-
military training. His period of service might be vides a suitable inducement for someone who
from his 18th to his 19th year. Those who chose wants a military career.
to remain after the expiration of their period of
service would gradually be promoted to the com-
As an added feature to counteract an undesir-
able Complacency, service pay should continue to Tof HIS page of GI opinion on important
issues of the day is a regular feature
YANK. Our next question will be
missioned and noncommissioned ranks on the be high so that a military career could become a
Z basis of their abilities. Command and staff schools, respectable profession. It is true that many an "What Should We Do with the Germans
teaching advanced skills and techniques, would American boy would have eagerly chosen the and Japs after the War?" If you have

I be open to them. The officer caste and Other

medieval trappings would disappear.
We would do well to learn a lesson from the
military as a career if the Army had provided
better pay.
Yes, we do need a military-minded nation after
any ideas on the subject, send them to
The Soldier Speaks Department, YANK,
The Army Weekly, 205 East 42d Street,
magnificent Russian Army. Its generals are, for this war—an alert people who will not again be New York 17, N. Y. We'll give you time
the most part, former peasants, miners and fac- awakened only by a Pearl Harbor. If we main- to get them here by mail. The best of the
tory workers. The rank and file of the Red Army, tain a large standing Army, a powerful Air Force
which, has so roughly handled the Superman, is and an expanding Navy, we will not fear war; letters received will be printed in YANK.
made up of the ordinary Russian people. But they and if we don't fear war, it will not come.

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Not even in the blueprint stage: It's atom-powered,

self-steered, plastic-shelled and television-equipped.

So you can see what a completely new type of

car would run into. And even if some bold manu-
facturer did come out with an all-new car, he'd
risk ruination if the vehicle developed some flaw
that failed to show up in the preliminary tests.
Mild concern has been caused in Detroit by

POST-WAR CAR? rumors that Henry Kaiser or some of the aircraft

manufacturers are working out some radical new
ideas for automobiles. But the established auto-
motive manufacturers contend that an unortho-
dox car, made by a newcomer to the field, would
lack the sales and service organizations of the
big motor companies (which have been kept
intact during the war) and that no mail-order
or gas-station sales program would be enough
By Sgt. RALPH STEIN find itself for the first time, when the war is to put such a car over.
over, able to approach the design and construc- So it appears that changes in automobiles will
YANK Staff Writer evolve gradually as they always have.
tion of motorcars on a new basis. The war has

S o you're tired of that jeep. You just can't

wait for the end of the duration-plus so
you can get one of those egg-shaped "cars
of tomorrow" you see pictured every now and
freed motorcar engineers from the traditions of
the past, freed them from the stranglehold of
old machine tools and methods. Research can
now be directed at things as they should be. ,
E VEN before the war there was talk of plastic
bodies, transparent tops, tear-drop designing,
rear motors and the use of light alloys.
then in the slicl^ magazines—a rear-motored, rather than as they are." The aircraft industry, to meet the needs of
gyroscopically steered, transparent-topped job. Today the automobile builders are singing a war. has made tremendous strides in the use of
complete with air conditioning, television and different tune. They know that after the war new materials and the development of new and
two-way radio telephone, and capable of doing they won't be able to build new cars fast enough better methods. Indeed, the automobile plants
200 mph on one gallon of 200-octane gasoline. to supply the demand, even by using the old dies that are now engaged in aircraft production have
Well, take it easy. and machine tools of pre-war days. And if they had a part in these trends. How soon and to what
You might find yourself with a car lilce that were to take time out to do the retooling nece.s- extent such developments will be applied to the
some day, but it won't be soon. As a matter of saiy for entirely new models, it would be months manufacture of motorcars remains to be seen.
fact, the fust post-war automobiles off the assem- before they could get into production. So far, the use of plastic in automobiles has
bly lines will be little different from the 1942 Aside from the time element, there would be been limited to interior moldings, steering wheels,
models produced just before Pearl Harbor. You b tremendous investment involved in changing dashboards, gear-shift handles, etc. The Ford
might even find yourself content with the old the dies with which bodies and fenders are Motor Company has done some experimenting
jeep, if it's one the Government sells to civilians. stamped and in replacing such fantastically com- with plastic bodies; you may recall pictures of
When the automobile factories changed over plicated machine tools as the gang drills that Henry Ford whacking away at one with an ax
to the manufacture of war machines in 1942, the bore all the holes in a cylinder block in^ one to demonstrate its indestructibility. But, while
first impression was that after the war there operation. It costs many millions of dollars even plastic for bodies has many advantages, such as
would be a complete revolution in motorcar to make very minor model changes—a new radi- lightness of weight and the fact that it requires
design. "As a result of the suspension of auto- ator grille, a slightly different fender line or a no painting, it still does not have the tensile
mobile production," said the chief engineer of n e w . kind of sliock-absorber mounting for the strength of steel. In case of a collision, a smashed
the Chrysler Corporation, "the industry will advertising boys to herald as a daring innovation. body panel of plastic would have to be replaced

When that car's outmoded, you may ride in the one this designer is sketching. George Walker of Detroit designed this plastic-domed model for the future.
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instead of merely being straightened out—pro- to take up the initial shock if you have a collision tor aluminum bodies—for a while, at least. While
vided, of course, that you lived to have it done. can be a mighty comforting thing. aluminum bodies are common among the better
Certainly the transparent-plastic tops, beloved A greater use of light aluminum and mag- European cars, the difficulty of stamping them
of the airbrush boys who dream up fanciful cars, nesium alloys may be expected. For many years out with big automatic presses has made them
will not come for a long time. True, airplanes all the good cars in Europe have used these impractical for low-priced American cars.
have their "plexiglas" noses and domes, but this metals in their motors. The great expansion in Refineries have made amazing progress in the
sort of material in its present stage of develop- the production of them for airplane construction development of motor fuels for aircraft, but our
ment is not yet ready for general use in auto- should make them economical for use in mass- automobile motors are not far enough advanced
mobiles. It is too prone to scratching for one produced cars in this country. But don't look to take advantage of them. One way of increasing
thing: it soon loses much of its transparency for the power and efficiency of a motor is to raise its
pnother. Furthermore, curved surfaces would compression ratio. Raising the compression ratio
cause eyestrain. Most of the designs calling for .•.^ss"*-^^" causes knocking in a motor unless high-octane
these hemi-parabolic tops make no provision for gasoline is used; that, in fact, is the purpose of
windows; air conditioning, it seems, would take such fuel. Therefore, 100-octane gasoline is of
care of the ventilation, but apparently you'd little use to the low-compression, comparatively
have to open the door to signal a left turn or inefficient motors now found in our automobiles.
pay the bridge toll.
HERE are plenty of improvements the American
A number of European cars have put their
power plants in the rear—the 170 H Mercedes
in Germany, the Tatra in Czechoslovakia and
T motorcar maker could make without worrying
too much about new designs in chromium excres-
the Burney in England. One advantage is the cences and domed plastic tops. The emphasis on
elimination of a long drive shaft, so as to allow making a car look imposingly expensive, instead
a lower floor. But the use of the present type of increasing its mechanical efficiency, has re-
of motor in this position would impose certain sulted in a big tinny, garish monstrosity with low-
difficulties, especially in cooling. Some designers, geared unsafe steering, poor visibility and a
both here and abroad, have proposed a li^ht wasteful old-fashioned motor.
aii-coQled radial, or flat, motor that could be If American engineers expended some of their
placed either in the rear or under the floor. energy toward making a really tough, efficient-,
Meanwhile, a nice big old iron motor out in front Design for a post-war body on a 1944 jeep chassis. controllable machine, we'd be getting somewhere.

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when M S g t . Moyer lighted the tank in the photograph obove this he Well, well. sir. Was your suite quite satisfactory? Did you enjoy your sleep? S.'Sgt, Ely iCrinimo'
warmed the shower you see here. Temperature, evidently, is about right from Cranford, N. J greets the morning with a smile Two B-24 luggage racks form His abodi
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Pvt. Grace Glocke
Dear YANK:
Military strategists probably have an explanation
for it, b u t I think that t h e reason t h e boys took
Rome so fast was that someone gave t h e m a copy
The American Way of t h e issue of YANK that h a d t h e picture of P v t .
Grace Glocke o n t h e cover, a n d after they took
Dear YANK: ^ one look they made u p their minds that they just
An open letter to Sgt. Newton H. Fulbright. m Italy. had to finish this war. In t h e 18 months I have
in answer to his views on "A Hard-Headed America' read your magazine this is t h e best girl's picture
published on YANKS The Soldier Speaks page. ISgt. you have published, so consequently I a m going
Fulbright, expressing strong support for a self-con- to break down and send you an application for
cerned America, stated that the "average GI abroad a year's subscription.
has no desire to intrude in t h e strict internal affairs
Camp Barketey, Tex. - C p l . WILBUR E. R Y A N
of another country" and that American money spent
in t h e past for "hospitals and schools in t h e jungles
of Africa and in the dark reaches of India would have Dear YANK:
done a great deal more good if wisely spent a t home. I wonder if you could give m e h e r address? . . .
—Ed.l Sergeant, do you have any idea at all just how She might become o u r ship's pin-up girl.
little money is sent overseas for Christian missions? USS Blanco -FRED H. BASTIAN
Do you know anything about t h e fine work carried
on in foreign lands by men we a r e prone to look down Dear YANK:
on—the missionaries? Do you know about t h e hard- . . . . Those Waes a r e girls from Inwne, and they
ships they endure, the dangers confronting them, t h e haven't all t h e excess make-up on or glamorous
privations they suffer, all in order to bring a better clothes or publicity agents. Yeow, w h y didn't I
way of living to a group or groups of pagans whom take u p photography before I was drafted? Here's
you state a r e perfectly willing to go on living as
thev did 6,000 years ago? hoping to see some more Wac pictures. . . .
Alaska - P f c . R. H. FANNING Jr.
Many strange and interesting stories h a v e come
out of the steaming malaria-infested jungles and from
tiny islands in the Pacific—islands almost unheard of Dear YANK:
until t h e fury of this conflict had swept to t h e four . . . That is worth fighting for.
corners of the globe—stories of naked savages speak- Comp E//i$, III. -Pvt. W. P.
ing Oxford English, American slang, pidgin English,
saving t h e lives of American pilots, giving them suc- Dear YANK:
cor when they were dangerously ill with tropical . . . We recommend additional personnel of this
fevers or strange jungle infections, guiding them to
safety through trackless forests a n d swamps. Fifty type, or a reasonable facsimile!
years ago these same naked savages would have added Presidio of San Francisco, Calif. —Sgt. P. A. 6ANA
I got quite a few letters from Wacs after they
a trophy to their shelves of shrunken heads, or added read m y last article, a n d every one of them wrote
a tasty bit of white meat to t h e spit or pots. B u t t h e Dear YANK:
missionaries got there first! . . . I have a friend in The man that made that choice knew what t h e such nice letters and wished m y buddies and m e
the Air Corps who fought through the hell of Bataan, score was. . . . She is tops in our, book. the best of luck. I felt more ashamed than I have
Mindanao. Soerabaja a n d N e w Guinea, driven o u t ever been before.
Camp Walters, Tex. - P v t . PAUL SCHILLINGS
by t h e Sons of t h e Rising Sun. Fighting alongside of l e f t e r m o n General Hospital, Calif. —Pvt. W M . J. ROBINSON
him in t h e trenches in Bataan w a s a Tagalog, a con- Dear YANK:
verted Tagalog who made this statement: "The J a p - • P r e t t y P v t . G r a c e Gloclce w h o s e p i c t u r e w e
About five months ago—while winding u p 3 % printed on YANK'S cover ( a n d again here)
anese a r e undoing all the good work that your people years in t h e Pacific—I wrote to your magazine a n
have done. Why didn't you send missionaries to their, article about how much I detested t h e Wacs. But seems to have made a big hit with our readers.
country?" now I realize what a first-class heel I was. . . . M o r e t h a n 300 l e t t e r s w e r e d e l i v e r e d t o h e r
Camp Cooke, Calif. - S / S g f . FRANKIYN W. EATON My narrow-minded opinion h a s changed entirely, a t t h e R a p i d C i t y A A B , S. D a k . , i n t h e t w o
and I a m very proud of those gallant American w e e k s a f t e r Y A N K ' S p u b l i c a t i o n of h e r p i c t u r e ,
Dear YANK: women. . . . What this country needs is more of a n d m a i l for a n d a b o u t h e r c o n t i n u e s t o p o u r
. . . . We liberals today must shake off defeatists and those wonderful girls. . . . Please print this, as in a t Y A N K ' S e d i t o r i a l offices.
isolationists. We must work for a network of strong
independent armies, coupled with a unified interna-
tional command that will work in conjunction with an
authoritative world court. We must formulate a n A l - of our PXs, but the only time w e get into an establish-
lied League of Nations that will stomp every budding struck a very responsive chord among t h e boys. It is
tyrant instead of soothing him with .diplomatic double- ment "strictly for officers and gentlemen (by an act about time someone came along with a dump truck
talk. We must open trade barriers. We must feed t h e of Congress)" is when we go in to clean t h e place and carted all that stuff away, and also policed t h e
hungry. We must establish schools, schools a n d more up. . . . area to see that no more is spread. After all, t h e w a r
schools everywhere. Of course thertf will b e those fori of embarkation —Pfc. W I L L I A M RIDEN* is not being fought for or by Hollywood, dear old
prejudiced and selfish people w h o will imprudently Alma Mater o r Goopies cigarettes. B u t that has been
"^Also signed by Pvt. James T. Ryan and Pvt. Robert Grayiow. the general impression to date. . . . T h e r e a r e boys
query: "And what will we gain from all this Santa
Claus business?" T h e answer lies in a better world, a in this as well a s other theaters who t h i n k nothing
safer world, a saner world, even perhaps a ciuilized Advertising of going right back on combat duty, bandages a n d
world, for ourselves and our children. Will t h e r e b e all. They don't ask for or get ribbons, publicity or
Dear YANK: hero worship. But I think they do deserve a little
a third generation in 20 years to lose their blood in a Although fully aware of what tobacco in one form
world brawl, caused again by t h e simple brutal stu- less hokum on the home front, and that applies to
or another means to most soldiers, including myself, actresses selling cigarettes dressed in official' Aitny
pidity of prejudiced minds? That is t h e catastrophe I am nevertheless opposed to certain strong-arm
we must not allow to rise. Nurses' uniforms, even if they did act in a picture
methods used to promote its sale. Recently, after wearing them. A p r e t t y profile never will knock J a p
Ilaly - C p l . WESLEY WISE more than three years of overseas service, I w a s planes o u t of t h e sky, and four or five soldiers w h o
fortunate enough to get a furlough. While waiting at a r e fighting don't give a damn what cigarette sells
Officer Contributions one of the ports of embarkation for return transporta- the best. But if they did have time to think of such
tion, t h e casual company of which I was a member things they would care about t h e extravagant waste
Dear YANK: was forced to attend a high-pressure sales movie. of paper a n d t h e advertising of things that a r e not
Our sincere sympathies to 2d Lt. J e r o m e Snyder This picture dealt solely with t h e supposedly high being made and cannot be made till long after
of Camp Hulen, Tex., who said of YANK: "Let us come quality of one of t h e leading cigarette brands. Much the war.
in. God knows w e deserve it." [ I n a letter printed in a care w a s taken to see that none of t h e dogface Let's all fight.
march issue of YANK Lt. Snyder asked us to print con- audience walked out. Now, I would like to know how
tributions from officers and w e said no.—Ed.] "This is in t h e hell such time spent is of any benefit to a China - I t . D A V I D COHEN
exactly how we feel about officers* clubs a n d t h e soldier's education? . . . Why does a serviceman have
numerous night clubs and restaurants back In t h e
States that cater only to officers: "Let us come in,
to p u t up with such nonsense when instead he might Snafu Solved
be giuzzling that last beer? I, for one. can have only
God knows w e deserve it!" contempt and disgust for t h e promoters of force of Dear YANK:
New Guinea - S . / S g t . JAMES T. HARRIES* this caliber. When Francis Goracheck received the pfc stripe
Aleutians -T-5 HOY D. JOHNSON intended for his brother Henry of t h e same rifle com-
*Ai»o signed by Is* Sgt. Raymond W. Close. pany here, authorities admitted that this problem
Dear YANK: Dear YANK: arising out of a technical e r r o r h a d them stumped.
T h e news that t h e Army and Navy a r e going to The brothers decided otherwise. After all, this was a
. . . . ILt. Snyder] says that h e has dropped to his family matter. Said brother Francis to brother Henry:
knees and is pleading to come in. Imagine h o w far take t h e ad writer to task back there in Shangri-La
"See me pay day and I'll pay you your $4.80."
a G I would get if h e dropped to his knees and pleaded
to get into t h e officers' club! T h e officers have t h e r u n Anzio - P f c . J . B. LYNCH

Men asking for feffert in this column o r e alt overseas.

;age Center ... . Pfc. EDWARD T . MCCULLOUCH, last h e a r d of in t h e
W r i t e them c/'o Message Center, Y A N K , 2 0 5 East 42<l Street. 111th Inf.: write Pvt. H a r r y Miller. . . . Sgt. CLINTON
New York 17, N . Y. W e ' / / forward your letters. The censor
_S. METZER, last heard of in Camp Croft, S. C : write
FRED H. COURT III. formerly a t A P O 958: w r i t e Cpl. Pfc. William P u r d o n . . . . P v t . ROBERT PULT, last heard
won't let us print the complete addresses. of at C a m p Roberts, later a t Pittsbtu-g (Calif.)
Seymour Cain. . . . T-4 GORDON CREIDER, last heard of P.R.D.: write P v t . John Richards. . . . T/Sgt. HARLAN
Sgt. BuRMAN. "Isl Sgt. HOFFMAN, PITTINCER boys. in Signal Corps. Philadelphia: write Pvt. G. C. Feiera- ROBINSON, last heard of at C a m p Holabird, Md.: write
POTTER, Cpl. RODERMEYER, Cpl. R O M E O and Sgt. V E R - bend J r . . . . P v t . RAY DAVIS: write Cpl. Lorenzo S. Pvt. Charles L. B u r c h e t t e J r . . . . RUBEN ROMERO of
-NERALLi, once with t h e 175TH INF.: write P v t . Milton Peterson. . . . JOHN R . DELMORE, formerly of Kearns, National City, Calif., later heard from in Dutch H a r -
Proser. . . . S/Sgt. David A. Doucet would like to Utah: write Cpl. S. M. Goldberg. . . . Cpl. S A M EAGAN. bor: write P v t . Ernest C. E^parza. . . . Cpl. RICHARD
hear from shipmates who served aboard t h e Tulsa formerly in t h e 32d M P Co.. C a m p Livingston, La.: J. SMITH: write T-5 George Steinberg. . . . Pfc. JAMES
and t h e Gold Star, 1926-'30; also former buddies of write Lt. George D. Gale. . . . Pfc. HAROLD E^KE, last SNYDER, last heard of at Camp Pickett, Va.; Pfc. JOHN
the 5TH INF., Co. A, who were in Panama in 1939. . . . heard of with t h e Air Corps in Amarillo, Tex.: write SCHNEIDER, Alucha AAB, Fla., a n d Pvt. JOSEPH SNYDER,
•Members of t h e CORONETS: write T/Sgt. Leo H. Davis. LAC F. G. Daley, # 4 Wireless School, Guelph, Ont. Barksdale Field, La.: write your brother, Cpl. E. A.
. . . GIs of class 47A, BKS. 641, 808 TSS, Sioux FALLS, . . . Pvt. JOSE ESTRADA JR., last heard of in Buchanan, Snyder. . . . Pfc. MARK THOMPSON, once at Fort Mon-
S. DAK., and cadets of 436, S Q . A - 1 MAXWELL FLD., Puerto Rico: write Pfc. Cruze Hernandez. . . . Pvt. mouth, N. J.: write Sgt. H. Tuchols. . . . Capt. ARTHUR
Ai.A.: write M/Sgt. W. Mowerson. . . . Pfc. PARIS MARVIN FRANDSEN of Idaho, in t h e AAF, last heard of L. WEEKS, Fifth Air Force, overseas: write Pfc. Wood-
SADDLER, Pvt. DANIEL VENERI, P v t . WOODROW SHUNATO at No. American Aircraft School, Inglewood, Calif.: row W. Shumate.
of McCoMAs. WEST VA.: write Pfc. Sesto Brugnoli. write Cpl. Walter J . Carroll. . . . ALBERT GEDDIE, for-
Lt. 'VINCENT ADDUCI, formerly of t h e 313th Bomb. merly a t Fort Knox, Ky.: write Lt. John B. H. F r y .
. . . MICHEL KARPCNSKI of Summit, N. J., somewhere SHOULDER PATCH EXCHANGE. A list o( shoulder-patch
Sq.. Gp. 6, MacDill Fid., Fla,: write Cpl. Carlo R.
Dragonetti. . . . THOMAS BRYANT, once at A P O 922: in Italy: write your cousin, Anthony Szulczewski. collectors' nomes w i l l be sent t o y o u if" y o u write Shoulder
write Pvt. E. Benford. . . . F . C. CILTAM, somewhere . . . Lt. EsTON KuHN, formerly at Fort Benning, pilot Patch iKchonge, Y A N K , 2 0 5 East 4 2 d Street, N e w York 17,
in t h e SWPA: write Pfc. Clyde Lawsan. . . . Lt. A L - of a C-47, Paratroop Sq.: write Pfc. William E. Fitch. N . Y. Specify whether y o u w o n t your name o d d e d t o t h e list.,

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"I go for the word chief. You sort of lean to- Church didn't like Harvey's kind of talk be-
ward petty." cause you were never too sure what it meant, so
"Christ almighty, Williams! I never seen you he interrupted with: "Maybe you'll say no if I
like this before! What's Harvey's wife got to do ask you to write some memos, huh? You turned
with it?" Church had a picture of Harvey's wife me down on a little job last week."
in his mind: she was probably pretty in a sort of "Why hell. Church, you wanted me to work as
high-tone way, and very respectable under the plumber's helper. I'm busy as six people in that
blankets. But on the other hand, maybe not. You lab. I thought the Navy wanted to use men at
could never feel sure of where you stood with their top skill unquote."
that kind. "No kidding, Harvey," Mr. Coggeshall said
"The Old Man likes to see people get a couple suddenly, "what college did you go to?"
days off before going overseas," Williams was "Harvard," Harvey answered and then added
saying. "You're getting 10 days off yourself. Give with a sidelong smile: "But don't hold that
the boy at least a week end?' against me." A few small beads of perspiration
Church spread one hand out on the desk before had formed just below his hairline, and he wiped
By BERNARD DRYER PhM3c him, slowly opening his fingers, admiring the these off with one fingertip. He leaned over to
long slender fingers and the clean short nails. light his cigarette from the match Williams held
// DON'T object as much to what you're doing, "It's a rule," he said, "and you know it. If you go out between cupped palms. "Thanks," he said to

IChurch," Chief Williams said. "It's who

you're doing it to." He rubbed his cigarette
out and looked through the shifting planes of
smoke at the younger chief across the desk.
on nights, you stay on 30 days. And don't call
him a boy, Williams. He's as old as I am,"
Mr. Coggeshall, the warrant officer, came out
of the head buttoning his trousers. "Jesus, if you
Williams, exhaling the smoke in a great cloud
around his face. "Well, Church, I smell the dirty
end of a stick, but what's the stick this time?"
Church's face fell into its frown of official con-
"Hell, I'm not trying to mess with your job—you two knew what you sound like through a door. centration. He told Harvey about going overseas
can have the lousy personnel office. But this don't Nyah, nyah, nyah. Why don't you knock it off?" and the 30 days of night duty and ended with:
go so good." Church smiled and rocked a little in his chair. "I'm sorry, but that's how it is."
Chief Church tilted slowly back in his chair "I've always tried to be fair, and I'm kind of Harvey was looking straight at him when he
and ran one thin hand back over his hair. He proud of it. But this is tough stuff for Harvey." said slowly: "You're sorry, but that's how it is."
had admired this gesture of calm controlled "Take it easy, Harvey," Church said.
power when he had been a first mate under Lt.
(jg) Bronson; now that he had the rocker under
the eagle on his arm, and the all-metal swivel
H ARVEY came striding into the office. Church
noted with satisfaction the brittle little smile
on his face. So many of them came in with armor
"And you don't have 200 men in those barracks
to replace me, do you?"
"If you were a second mate, Harvey, you
chair with it, he had adopted the movement on, but boy, oh boy, how fast they cracked. That's couldn't be moved except on Bureau orders. But
without recalling its source. He was fond of tell- why it was better to call them up to the office you're not, so you're on the draft."
ing his roommate that even though he had never instead of telling them by phone. He leaned back ' T o hell with the draft, Church! I don't mind
been to college no one would guess the fact just in his chair, feeling Mr. Coggeshall and Chief going so much. It's going without a chance to see
by watching him. Not that he wanted stuff on his Williams watching him. He lit a cigarette with my wife."
shoulders — hell, he had enough responsibility the cool competent carelessness of a woman put- "You're in the Navy, mate."
now for two men—but it was kind of good to ting on lipstick before going downstairs to a tire- "But it's so damned unnecessary to do it this
know he could keep up a smooth front like any some party. particular way!"
junior gold braid. "How goes the battle. Chief?" Harvey said as "It's TS, mate. See the chaplain if you want."
"What do you want me to do, Williams," he he came up to the desk. Harvey got up. Mr. Coggeshall said: "Jesus, I
said quietly, "cry over this guy Harvey?" That was One thing Church frankly disliked forgot to wash my hands!" and went into the
"Don't cry," said Williams. "Just give him a about these guys who had been to college. They head, closing the door behind him. There was a
break." always had something to say. Always an answer moment of silence. Church opened his Clear-Vu
"My God, he's due for night duty, isn't he?" or a bright remark. He rocked in his chair a little personnel index file with a slight rattle to indi-
"Sure he is. But you don't give a guy 30 nights and stroked his hair with his free hand, thought- cate the interview was finished.
in a row and no leave. Not when he goes over- fully contracting his brows into a serious mask
seas the thirty-first day."
"The hell you say. To me the guy is a brick
labeled third mate. He can replace any brick
of dutiful concentration.
"How do you like your job down there, Har-
vey?" he asked. This was the regular opening. If
H ARVEY leaned across the desk and said in a
husky low voice: "If we ever meet in civil-
ian clothes. Church. I'll beat your face in."
with the same label. That's policy and it's plain they said they liked it, they were vulnerable to a "What'll you do, chum?" Church snarled. "Hit
common sense." Church liked his last statement. change. If they said they didn't, they invited a me with one of them volumes of Shakespeare?"
I can use good English with the best of them, he change. In either case they risked getting some- Chief Williams took Harvey's elbow and said:
thought. thing worse. "What do you say to a beer? Broke as I am, I'll
"For Chrisakes, Church. I don't know whether "Oh, so-so," answered Harvey, "Why?" let you buy me one."
to be sorry for you or sore." "What college did you go to, Harvey?" It al- Harvey continued staring at Church. "Church,"
"Sorry I annoy you, sir." ways threw a smart bird off his stride when you he said, "I'd see a psychiatrist if I were you."
"Bricks, labels—where did you pick up that k e p t changing the tack of your questions. Church jumped to his feet. "Get out of here!"
kind of talk?" Harvey looked at him, then at Mr. Coggeshall he shouted. "Get your goddam smart talk the
"Relax, admiral, relax." and Chief Williams. Slowly he broke into a grin. hell away from my office!"
"How can I, with you rocking back and forth "What is this," he asked, "a gag? What do I do Harvey shook his elbow free of Chief Williams'
stroking your hair?" now, write some memos for the skipper?" grip, then he turned and walked out. Chief Wil-
"All right, go ahead, get personal. I had to Chief Williams took out a pack of cigarettes liams looked at Church once and followed him.
make the decision, so I made it." and thrust it at Harvey. "Grab one and take a For a moment Church stood there feeling a lit-
Chief Williams blew the air out of his lungs in load off your feet, Harvey," he said. "God's right tle fire dance in his chest. Then he pulled out the
one long blubber sound and dropped his hands hand is playing chess with you." comb that clipped on the lining of
on his knees. "Church, listen. The guy is married. "What am I," Harvey asked Wil- , 4.':', his breast pocket and went over to
Him and his wife, they're just like that together." liams, "a knight or a pawn?" the small steel mirror on the wall.
"When you guys with hash marks up to the Mr. Coggeshall smiled. "Knight," He noticed with surprise that his
elbow get sentimental, you're the worst of all. he said. "That's a good one. Night. hand was shaking a little as he
Are you a wet nurse or a chief petty officer?" That's good." . , _ combed his hair.
w-'S^'

"Well, Church," he said, "I smell the dirty end of a stick, but what's the stick this time?"
YANK The Army Weekly • JULY 14

DOUBLE TROUBLE
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On his chest there appeared a Good Conduct Pfc. Cinderella. No one recognized him without
Medal, and most wondrous of all his infantry his fatigues, and he sat smiling confidently and
patch had disappeared and was replaced by a expectantly, because the winner of the contest
shiny new Air Force insignia! would also receive a kiss from the lips of Fifi
Again the fairy platoon leader waved the AR LaSwan, visiting starlet from Stupid Productions
in the air and hit the charge of quarters, who in Hollywood. Pfc. Cinderella knew he would
had just entered, in the face. In a twinkling the win. In just a few moments——
captain's desk became a quarter-ton truck, with A few moments! His eyes darted to the clock.
the CQ sitting straight and stiff behind the wheel. It was one minute to 2400!
"And here," said the fairy platoon leader, "is The master of ceremonies stepped to the m i -
By Pvt. RAY BROWN a three-hour pass. I must warn you, be back by crophone and announced: "Ladies and gentlemen,
NCE upon a time there was an infantryman 2400 or your uniform will once nriore change into the judges have decided that the title of Best
O who lived in a rifle company with his
mean old first sergeant and three K P
chasers. His name was Pfc. Cinderella, and al-
fatigues, and the MPs will drag you in." And he
wafted away toward headquarters. The CQ
gunned the motor as Pfc. Cinderella jumped in,
Soldier at Camp Legginlacing and the kiss from
Miss Fifi LaSwah, whose latest picture for
Stupid Productions is 'Tonight We Raid Company
most every day, especially Sundays, he would sit and they roared off toward the main gate. B,' should go to "
alone in the mess hall, peeling onions and clean- At last there were only three contestants who "Stop!" Pfc. Cinderella kicked back his chair
ing GI cans. For many years Pfc. Cinderella had had not been eliminated for the title of Best and raced down the aisle past four MPs, burst
worked here; in fact, he had just sewed the third Soldier at Camp Legginlacing. On the stage sat out the door into his truck and steamed off t o -
hash mark on the sleeve of his blouse. He never the mean old first sergeant, the first cook and ward camp.
had a chance to wear his blouse, but it looked Back at the USO show, all was in disorder.
nice anyway. The MPs caught two soldiers trying to escape in
One day he was crawling around behind the the same manner as Pfc. Cinderella. Above the
stoves scrubbing the wall, and he heard the noise the master of ceremonies was shouting:
mean old first sergeant, who came in each morn- " should go to 1st Sgt. Jonathan B. Duty-
ing at 1000 for coffee, tell the rtiess sergeant that roster!"
on this very night there would be a big USO Fifi LaSwan of Stupid Productions had extract-
show in town, a show at which would be picked ed the maximum number of snickers and whistles
the Best Soldier at Camp Legginlacing. Pfc. Cin- from the audience and was bending down
derella was very unhappy, for he was certain to kiss Sgt. Dutyroster on the forehead when
that the mean old first sergeant and the cooks again came a commotion. Two gigantic MPs were
would all buck up their brass and try to win the carrying Pfc. Cinderella toward the stage. This
contest, and he, Pfc. Cinderella, would be r e - time everyone recognized him, for once more he
stricted to the company area. was dressed in filthy, faded fatigues and d u b -
It was late evening a n d everyone was gone bined shoes, and in his hands he clutched a
except Pfc. Cinderella, who was sweeping out broom and a dripping mop. The MPs deposited
the orderly room and wishing that he too might him before Sgt. Dutyroster and one of them
go to the USO show in town, when suddenly scowled: "He claims you're his foist sahgent!
there was a blinding flash of light. Pfc. Cinderel- There's gonna be hell to pay for dis! Improper
la staggered back and then snapped to attention, uniform. Forged pass. Posing as a member of the
squinting his eyes at the bright gold bars on the Air Force. Illegal use of a motor vehicle. R e -
shoulders of his visitor, who said: "Pfc. Cinder- moving from his post without proper authority
ella, I am your fairy platoon leader, and I know gover'ment propitty in the form of a mop and
that you want to go to the USO show in town!" a broom. Conduct to bring discredit on his u n i -
form at a USO show. Assaulting a military po-
And he picked up a book of Army Regulations liceman."
and tapped happy, happy Pfc. Cinderella on the
chest. Pfc. Cinderella looked into the mirror 1st Sgt. Dutyroster stabbed Pfc. Cinderella
on the orderly-room wall and behold! Gone with a bayonet-like glance. "If you ever get out
were his filthy, faded fatigues and dubbined of the stockade," he roared, "you'll be pearl-div-
shoes! He was clad in the finest class A uniform ing for the duration! Take him away! No, wait.
the quartermaster ever issued. His .three hash- No use digging u p a detail in the morning. Cin-
marks and pfc stripes stood out magnificently. derella, get this joint cleaned up!"

PAGE 16
 American Superiority
E ARE getting fed up with tliese GIs over-
W seas who feel that they are superior to
the rest of the world just because they
happen to be Americans.
They look at the standards of living around
therti, which are lower than the standards of
living in Los Angeles or Des Moines because the
people have not been able to enjoy our oppor-
tunities of making money. And they turn away
in disgust rather than pity because they feel that
the hungry children, the crowded homes without
modern plumbing, the dirty streets and fly-
specked food are not a part of their own little
air-conditioned, oil-heated, indirect-lighted world.
"To' hell with these foreigners," they say.
"Thank God I am an American."
The GI has many reasons for thanking God
that he is an American, but those reasons are
bound up with his heritage of liberty, equality
and tolerance. They have nothing to do with
modern plumbing or housing conditions, and
there is nothing in the Constitution of the United
States that makes an American a higher type of
human being than an African, European or Asiatic.
What is an American, anyway? Does he come
from a special chosen race of people? Or does he
come from a mixture of millions of Englishmen,
Irishmen, Italians, Poles, Russians, Armenians,
Germans, Greeks, Syrians and more other nation-
alities than you can mention? Did these immi- "Maybe when the Americans take over Paris we'll be able to listen to One M a n ' s Family "
grants come to the U. S. eating fried chicken,
Southern style, and apple pie and ice cream on they bioughl wUh liit-ni ys many relijiiun.s ;i> Unless Uf gel nd of this sliange and, as a mat-
the way over, and when they landed did they natuinalitie.s and as niany difVerenl cuslcjm.'; and ter of fact. Hulei-like notion that our birth place
move immediately into cheerful, roomy homes way.s of living. These are the people who gave makes us automatically good and wise and unless
with hot and cold running water? The fact is that America the bloud that it ha.s today. we start appraismg people by what they are and
most of them came to America in ships that were With that background, we should be the last to what they can lie instead of by their appearance,
filthy and infested and then jammed in tenements judge a man by his clothes, by his house oi by we can never be partners with the nations that
which were not much better. It is also a fact that what he eals. are trying to i:ve at peace.

GI Bill of Rights Installment Bond-Buying last year were 13.000 cannon. 19,000 tanks and
7.128 planes; for the three vears. 48,000 cannon,
HE recently enacted GI Because of the authorization of the new $10
T Bill of Rights provides
free schooling, unemploy-
GI War Bond, the Army is ending its install- ,
ment-plan sales of War Bonds to troops. The
49,000 tanks and 30,128 planes

ment insurance, home and

business loans and other
order afileets 1.248.076 allotments, totaling S9.-
716,968.75 a month, or about one-fourth of the W a s h i n g t o n OP
important benefits to vet- monthly volume bought by Army personnel.
erans of the second World War. Veterans who
were under 25 when they went into service may
receive free schooling or technical training at
Transfers fo Infantry
More than 20,000 enlisted men have transferred
O N the heels of the invasion we learn from
Headquarters of Army Ground Forces that
volunteers for the Parachute Troops will be ac-
public or private schools or colleges, with a cepted again from all branches of the service.
maximum of $500 a year provided by the Gov- to the Infantry at their own request since April
and an average of 200 applications a day are be- None had been allowed for several months. The
ernment for tuition, fees and books, $50 a month greatly expanded training rate has resulted from
subsistence and an extra $25 a month for GIs ing processed now by The Adjutant General.
Lieutenants under 32 years of age may apply the highly successful use of parachuti-sts in
with dependents. The bill provides up to 52 Normandy. Officers here scoff at the idea
weeks of unemployment insurance, at $20 a week, now for transfer to the Infantry unless 1) they
are assigned to pools in the Zone of the Interior; that the paratroopers are used on suicide mis-
during the first two years after discharge or after sions or have tremendous casualties in operations.
the end of the war, whichever is later. Loans up 2) they are in units alerted for overseas duty. Volunteers overseas will be trained in the thea-
to $2,000, with 50 percent guaranteed by the 3) they are pilots or aviation students in flying ters, and present plans call for no expansion of
Government, are provided for the purchase, con- phases of training, or 4) they are in combat units training facilities in this country. Transfers from
struction and repair of farms, homes and busi- of the Air or Service Forces. the Infantry and other branches whose previous
nesses; Job placement and hospitalization are training can be utilized in the Paratroops, like
among the other provisions of the bill. Invasion Casualties Field Artillery and Medics, will get six weeks
American Army casualties during the first 11 at the Parachute School at Fort Benning, Ga.,
" G o for Broke" days of fighting in Normandy totaled 3,283 dead including four weeks of jump training and two
This is the shoulder and 12,600 wounded, according to an announce- weeks of small unit training, and then will be
patch of the Army's 442d ment by Lt. Gen. Bradley. American Navy cas- assigned to airborne units. Incidentally that extra
Combat Team, made up of ualties were announced as "very light". $50 a month for EM and $100 for officers starts
American citizen volun- as soon as men start jump school. Men from other
teers of Japanese ancestry. Eastern Front Score branches who have not had 13 weeks of Infantry
basic training and whose skills are not of direct
In the 442d, now in train- Moscow announced that the Red Army has use to the Paratroops will get an eight-week
ing at Camp Shelby, Miss., killed or captured 7,800,000 Germans in the last conversion course besides jump school. All trans-
are many former members three years of fighting on the Russian front. fers will be in grade.
of the Hawaiian Territorial During the last year, the Russians report, the
Guards. The unit's motto Germans lost 1,400,000 men killed or captured, The War Manpower Commission is putting out
is "Go for Broke," J a p a n - 33,500 cannon, 27,600 tanks and 17,000 planes, a manual that puts a reverse on the Army Classi-
ese-American slang for bringing their total losses in the Russian fighting fication systen\. It shows what civilian jobs are
"shoot the works." "The to 90,000 cannon, 70,000 tanks and 60,000 planes. related to various MOS numbers for men who
elongated hexagon is blue and the torch is white. Russian estimates of Red Army losses for the are getting discharged. —YANK Washington Bureau

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Being 62 Days Late Wins
^Decorafion^ for Flyers
AFT AC, Orlando, Fla.—When S/Sgts. Lawrence
A k Abbott and Robert Owen returned to their
overseas base 62 days late, the book wasn't ^ ''"j|il*te*

thrown at them. Instead they were decorated

with the newest, though
unoificial, badge of dis-
tinction—the emblem of
the U. S. Late Arrival
Club [left].
The sergeants, now as-
signed to the Medical Air
Evacuation Transport Sq.
here, were flying to the
front with an evacuation
party " that included 13
Army nurses when their
plane was caught in. a
violent electrical atorm
and was forced down in enemy territory. By
means they are not able to reveal now for secur-
ity reasons, the sergeants found their way back \
to Allied" Headquarters.
Upon their arrival, each was presented with a
USLAC emblem, which is in the shape of a boot
with wings.
The U. S. Late Arrival Club was formed by
AAF men in North Africa. Its membership is
limited to those whp have "walked back" after
being forced down in enemy territory.
n*«*-<^
They "walked back": T-3 Robert O w e n and T-3 Lawrente Abbott.

MELODY IN G ;
a Paratrooper at 55 C a m p Shelby, Miss.—T-5 Horace M c N a b was
called up before the CO and given a direct
order to get a G l haircut. "But, sir," pleaded
McNab, "Cm going to New York next week on my
F ort Benning, Go.—-Sgt. Charles E. (Pop) B u r t
55, is believed to be the oldest paratrooper
in any army. Pop had to do some talking to get
furlough and I'd like to look human, at least."
" D o you want to look like a violin player?" acidly
in the Army two years ago, but talking himself asked the CO.
into the role of a paratrooper was even tougher. " N o t exactly," replied the exasperated M c N a b ,
Pop came into the service on Apr. 14, 1942, " b u t I'd like to look as if I could at least read
and was later assigned to the Parachute Infantry music."
as a cook. "I knew I was too damn old to go
through parachute training," he says, "but the
enthusiasm these young troopers had for their
job got under my skin, and I wanted to make a
jump, too. Hero in Refueling Blaze
"When our outfit arrived in Casablanca I be-
gan pestering my company commander. On my Homestead Army Air Field, Fla.—Quick action
first plane ride, from Casablanca to Kairouan, I by Cpl. Robert E. Smith, truck driver for the
kept thinking what a thrill it would be to jump, Supply and Service Unit, probably saved the life
and as soon as we landed I got after the CO of a fellow soldier and prevented the destruction
again. Finally he got tired and asked the regi- of a C-87 cargo plane. Smith was standing by
mental commander to let me jump. Permission watching refueling operations when fire broke
didn't come right away, but one day I was told I out in the rear of a fuel truck and threatened to
could go along with the boys on our first mission jump over tp the big plane.
to Sicily." S/Sgt. Conrad Echrote, crew chief of the 2d
Pop's cooking took it on the chin from there OTU, was on top of the plane, holding the gas
on. He had to attend training classes, familiarize nozzle, when the flames reached their high point.
himself with the terrain where the paratroopers It was then that Smith jumped into the cab of
were to land, the tactics to be used and the p u r - the flaming vehicle and drove it away from the
pose of the landings. Then came Pop's second plane.
plane ride, this time to Sicily, on his first com- Several men on the scene fought the blaze with
bat mission. hand extinguishers until the base fire depart-
It was a rough ride, and Pop was one of many ment arrived to take over.
who got sick on the way. "I guess it was a good
thing," Burt says, "because it didn't leave me
much time for worrying about the jump. When
The Uneager Beaver
orders came to stand up and hook up, it was a DeRrdder Army Arr Bose, lo.—The pfc was left
relief to know I was getting out of the bucking in charge of the 40-man drill squad. The sergeant
ship. I jumped No. 4." had pulled him out of line and told him to take
Pop Burt's first combat j u m p was not a signal over.
success for him. In landing, he came down on a "I got to go," the sergeant said. "You drill 'em
rock and broke three bones in his foot. "I had until I get back. You're In charge."
traded my skillet for a carbine," he said, "but it There were four sergeants in the 40-man group.
was comforting. I spent the next 16 hours in When a messenger came from headquarters with
enemy territory alone. The following afternoon a request for a four-man detail, the pfc acted
I managed to reach an aid station from which I promptly. He picked the four sergeants, despite
was evacuated to Gela and later was returned their objections and threats.
back to the United States by way of Gran." They had to dig a drainage ditch for the chap-
Sgt. Burt has had 13 years of Army service lain. 'They griped to the sky pilot, who went to
over a period of 37 years. He first enlisted on their CO, who in turn called in the drill sergeant.
July 30, 1906, and served with the 13th Cavalry He admitted having put the pfc in charge.
at Fort Sill, Okla. There followed a hitch in tjie When the pfc faced the CO a little later, he
5th Cavalry at Schofield Barracks in Hawaii, p a - was patently fearful that his lone stripe would
trol duty on the Mexican border with the 12th go winging, that he'd probably never get another
Cavalry and service with the 1st Division Train one and that the sergeants had him—but good.
during the first World War. He was with the "Were you the one who pulled out the four
Army of Occupation at Coblenz, Germany, for sergeants for a detail?" the CO asked. The pfc
about 11 months before he returned home. He admitted he was. The CO extended his hand and
remained a civilian for the next 22 years. said: "Congratulations. I just wanted tfr shake
He is now with Company B, 1st Parachute the hand of an uneager beaver."
Training Regiment, at the Parachute School. - P v t . ROBERT YEAGER
 of, as a fisherman who really misses his fishing,
To the Point "My address while fishing will be on Bull
Camp Livingston, la.—Pvt. B. I. Magdovitz of River at Fripp's Point. 15 miles from Bluffton.
Oil City, Pa., won the $25 first prize offered by S. C. I respectfully request a three-day pass."
Communique, the camp paper, for the best piece The CO bit
on the subject, i'Why I Am Proud of the WAC."
Maigdovitz's reasons were contained in only 42
words: |A'ROUND THE CAMPS
"No nylons, no nuthin'—just GI miseries. And
no draft boa:rd to 'encourage' them. What else Camp Cooke, Calif.—As ho handed Sgt. Harold
could a fellow feel toward gals like that than O. Vogler a pre-marital physical-examination
pride? Betty'll come marching home beside certificate, the medical officer remarked: "So
Johnny, head high and chin out, 'cause she's you're getting married." "No, sir. not necessar-
doing her job." ily," answered Vogler. "I'm going on furlough,
Second prize winner was T-5 Bernard F. Fin- and I thought I'd like to take this along—just in
nerty of Lawrence, Mass. Runners-up were Pvt. case."
Saul Weber of West Hartford, Conn., and Pvt.
Edward Jaflee of Brooklyn, N. Y. Harlingen Army Air Field, Tex.—Pvt. Robert Car-
roll of Philadelphia, Pa., is an aerial-gunnery
student here in the heart of the Rio Grande cit-
The W a r Goes On rus belt. Recently he received an express pack-
Camp Reynolds, Pa.—^Three Class B prisoners, age from home. It contained a half-bushel of
with an armed guard behind them, started across oranges.
the road when a GI truck bore down on them. It Santa Ana Army Air Base, Calif.—Pvt. Constan-
was obvious that the truck was about to pass tino Sebben, not long in this country from Italy,
between the prisoners and the guard. was asked by Pvt. Patsy Senatore why he came
One of the prisoners stepped out of line and to the United States. It was not for the big money
halted the truck. "Don't you know," he yelled at. to be n»ade here, or because of a girl back in the
the driver, "that you're not supposed to come old country. He had come here to keep out of
between us and our guard?" Then the prisoner the Army.
turned and beckoned to the guard. "Come on,
guard," he said. Robins Field, Ga.—T/Sgt. John W. Brown of the
The guard double-timed across the road, took 4905th Base Unit was finally dragged out of the
his place behind the line of prisoners and the swimming pool after he had floundered around
detail proceeded. The truck went on. Everything inexpertly and seemed on the verge of drowning.
was okay with the war again. Incidentally, the "W" in his name stands for
-s7Sgt. WILLIAM D. THORP "Weismuller."
Biggs Field, Tex. — An unnamed corporal re-
Anchor A w a y turned from pass one night with a package that CONSEQUENCES. Pvt. Ned Briganti is all decked
he quickly hid in his foot locker. When the in- out to give a hula-dance pay-ofF as the "conse-
Camp Gordon Johnston, Fla.—T-5 Everette T. specting officer found the package next day, he quences" in a quiz show at Camp Tyson, Tenn.
Bryant of Clinton, S. C , and some of his buddies asked: "What's the meaning of this, corporal?"
from the headquarters area went off on a fishing "My wife's expecting a baby," the GI answered.
trip into the Gulf of Mexico. Their vehicle was He opened the package and showed the con-
a landing craft used for training purposes at this tents: blue and pink baby clothes.
Gulf Training Center.
When they reached an apparently good spot Camp Beale, Calif.—The DEML section here has
for fishing, someone told Bryant to toss the anchor a happy corporal, and the Oregon Legislature
over side. Bryant complied. The only trouble was has a new member. He is Cpl. John S. Steelham-
that the anchor was not attached to any line. mer, who recently was elected to his fourth term
T-5 Bryant signed a statement of charges. in the legislative assembly. Steelhammer was
first elected to office in 1939 and so became, at the
age of 29, the youngest member of the Legislature.
"GI Joe" It Is
Stuttgart Army Air Field, Ark.—Sgt. George
Fort McClellan, Ala.—"GI Joe" is here to stay. Petrocy, an entertainment-program director for
That's the word from the judges in the post p a - the S ^ , came to the aid of a GI's wife when she
per's contest to find a name suitable for the wandered into his office. She was looking for a
American infantryman of this war. Hundreds of private place to change her baby's diapers.
suggestions poured into the office of the Cycle Petrocy cleared his desk and held the pins for
after that paper announced the contest some her while the change was made.
weeks ago, but not a one was deemed suitable
to replace "GI Joe." Langley Field, Va.—Sgt. W. T. Lobel has hit
Civilians and soldiers throughout the country upon a novel idea to encourage his civilian
and men stationed in the South Pacific, England, friends to write to him and at the same time keep
Ireland, Italy and North Africa sent in sugges- up their morale. With each reply, Lobel encloses
tions. Some of the names offered were "hell- several pieces of hard-to-get (for civilians)
busters," "gloryboys" and "Kellymen." chewing gum.
Camp Roberts, Calif.—Nurses and medics of
This One Got A w a y Ward 119 at the station hospital ran into a little
confusion every time they called for Pvt. Coffy.
Daniel Field, Go.—Pvt. J o h n T. Morrison's re- Both Pvts. Oddo Coffy and Francis Coffy would
quest for a three-day pass was somewhat un- answer. Now they call for Coffy, "witii" or "with-
usual and certainly frank. He baited his CO with out."
the following:
"A report on the fishing situation informs me Camp Pickett, Va.—Cpl. Lewis H. Applegarth of
that the fish are biting good. These fish don't bite Cadiz, Ohio, received a letter from a girl who,
any time you get a three-day pass, but they are he feels, is taking the security admonition to
biting now. "button your lip" too seriously. Her letter said
"My boat has been freshly painted, and I want simply: "I'll be in town for the week end." Now
a chance to use it before barnacles make it Cpl. Applegarth wants to know: What town?
shabby again. This is the best excuse I can think What week end? And who's the girl?
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Americans who are prisoners of war 2,000. The E x c e l l e n t a d v e n t u r e story of a b i g - g a m e h u n t e r w h o a n d t h e c a r e e r s of t h e g r e a t A m e r i c a n p r i z e fighters.
books are distributed by the Special Service Divi- sets out to g e t H i t l e r and is h u n t e d himself. 1-264 VICTORY By Joseph Conrad
sion, ASF, for the Army and by the Bureau of E x c i t i n g s t o r y of l o v e a n d v i l l a i n y in t h e East I n d i e s .
Navy Personnel for the Navy. 1-249 HIGH TENSION By William W. Hair<es
S t r i n g i n g e l e c t r i c w i r e , too. can be i n t e r e s t m g . 1-265 MRS. PARKINGTON By Louis BromfieW
1-241 AVALANCHE By Kay Boyle A d o w a g e r l o o k s b a c k o v e r 84 y e a r s of h e l l - r a i s i n g .
Highly readable story of contemporary love and 1-250 THE BOOK NOBODY KNOWS By Bruce Barton
espionage in the French Alps. A n a d v e r t i s i n g m a n puts the B i b l e on a p a y i n g ba.sis: 1-266 THE SEA HAWK By Rafoe/Sobofim
m o s t r e a d e r s w i l l p r e f e r t h e K i n g J a m e s or D o u a y
A n English gentleman becomes a Barbary pirate.
1-242 SEMPER FIDEIIS By Keith Ayling version.
A well-done history of the U. S. Marine Corps. I-25I STAGECOACH KINGDOM By Harry Sinclair Orogo
1-267 HONEY IN THE HORN By H. L. Davis
O r e g o n c o u n t r y d u r i n g t h e d a y s of t h e h o m e s t e a d e r s .
1-243 MR. AND MRS. CUGAT By Isabel Scoff Rorick F i c t i o n b a s e d o n t h e l i f e of B e n H a l l i d a y , t h e s t a g e -
A m u s i n g a c c o u n t of t h e l i f e , l o v e s a n d s u n d r y c o a c h m a g n a t e of t h e Old W e s t . 1-258 JANE EYRE By Charlotte Bronte
p r o b l e m s of t h e n e w l y m a r r i e d . T h e p e r e n n i a l l y p o p u l a r s t o r y a b o u t the" little"
1-252 STORIES BY KATHERINE MANSFIELD E n g l i s h g o v e r n e s s a n d t h e m a n of t h e h o u s e .
1-244 OLD MAN ADAM AN' HIS CHIUUN By Roaric Bradford Selected by J. Middfeton Murry
T h e N e g r o B i b l e s t o r i e s o n w h i c h "The G r e e n . A n d v e r y g o o d s t o r i e s , at that. 1-269 PARADISE By Esther Forbes
Pastures" was based, H i s t o r i c a l n o v e l of 17th c e n t u r y M a s s a c h u s e t t s .
i-253 THE MIDDLE-AGED MAN ON THE FLYING TRAPEZE
1-245 MYSTERY OF THE RED TRIANGLE By W. C. TuHle By James Thurber 1-270 MY SON, MY SON! By Howard Spring
Another western about a guy named Hashknife. Sketches and stories by a master A m e r i c a n humorist. R a t h e r h e a v y d o s e of t h e o l d f a t h e r - a n d - s o n stpry.

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t h e rest. H e o w n s a v e r y a c c u r a t e s e t of b a l a n c e
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f e i t coin.
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w e i g h i n g s h e n e e d s to m a k e i n o r d e r to d i s c o v e r
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 D DAY
Review "What did you do on D Day, Daddy?"

T HE GOVERNOR surreptitiously wiped the per-

spiration from the back of his hands and
glanced at the general from the corner of his
I'm thinking of the little laddie
Who, perched upon my post-war knee,
Asks this question then of me.
eye. The general's expression was still cool and And I will say, with visage green:
stiff, but his shirt hung wetly on his back and "I was cleaning the latrine."
each time he saluted a dark splotch showed Sheppard Field, Tex. - C p l . M A R V LORE
under his arm. The band reached the end of
the piece and started repeating it for the fifth STORM LOVE
time. "Hurry! Hurry!"
The governor wondered if he had said the When the wind rose and bent the slender trees,
—Cpl. Raymond Fovata, Camp Lee, Va.
right things to the troops, but then he decided And lightning gave life to the driven clouds
that they probably didn't give a damn anyway. With delicate veins of fire;
Looking out at the drenched figures trying to You seemed to draw the passion of the storm CHOW-LlNE SERENADE
look snappy under the scorching sun, the gov- Into yourself.
I sing of the fellow who serves me my food
ernor was suddenly glad that he was 54 y.ears And the way he dumps cake on my pork.
old. The band held a long brassy note as the The rain,
The quietly insistent rain. Such finesse—it's a dream! What an artist
last of the dusty troops marched from the field. supreme!
The air was beginning to reek with the smell of Was all the sound we heard.
And I kissed your young mouth. Did he learn at the Waldorf or the Stork?
sweating men.
The governor relaxed and said something com- Young with desire and bewilderment. Not a surgeon can equal his delicate touch
plimentary to the general. At the rear of the And saw briefly your green-flecked. As he sprinkles baked beans on my pie.
stand a reporter wrote in a notebook: "Today Swimming eyes in the momentary spurt of With one swallowlike swoop my dessert's in my
an impressive review . . ." • -A match flame. soup—
Comp Breckinridge, Ky. - P f e . FRANK FAIR
How unerring, how steady his eye!
Next day in sunlight you were changed again.
DATE FOR A UNIFORM You said, "It was the rainstorm." Like your salad with gravy? Or stew on your
Perhaps it was; and I could wish fruit?
They run the race of female gender , He will fill up your tray to the brim.
From sweatered chick, for week-end bender, My life be spent in everlasting storms So, three cheers and a bow for this maestro of
To Junior Leaguer, strictly class, Of freshening wind and fire-flash chow!
Who only plays the higher brass. And running rain For they named the word "mess" after him!
Camp Campbell, Ky. - P v t . GENE WIERBACH If such things made you love. Trunx Field, W i i . - P v f . ARNOLD M. AUERBACH
Maxfon AAB, N. C. - S g l . PHILIP R. BENJAMIN

"Why — why I'm not doing a thing Saturday

night," Fay said, expectantly.
"Well then, can 1 borrow your soap?"
"Oh you—you—," Fay stammered, at loss for
words.
"Let's not bring personalities into this," said
Jake. "I don't make disparaging remarks about
you. As a matter of fact I think I could even
marry someone like you."
"You could—^really?" Fay said, a smile curling
her lips.
"Yes, as long as that someone wasn't too
much like you."
"Is that so!" said Fay with indignation. "I'll
have you know the m a n who marries me will
get a prize!"
"What's the prize?" asked Jake. "I might be
tempted."
"Humph," said Fay, "you are the last man on
earth I'd marry."
J a k e winked slyly. "If I were the last man on
Conversation Piece earth I wouldn't get married."
"And besides," Fay continued, "the man that

Y ou know how all the GIs give out with the

wisecracks when buying stuff at the PX.
J a k e was no different; he just loved to needle
marries me will need plenty of money."
"That's me, kid," snapped Jake. "Nobody needs
money more than I do."
the P X cuties. One day he bought four tubes of "Oh, you are so funny and so bright," said Fay,
toothpaste just so he could talk with one par- with fire in her eyes. "I bet you are so bright
ticularly desirable cutie. Usually he never bought your mother calls you son."
more than two. "I'm no dummy," explained Jake. "My parents
This certain time he happened to go over to gave me $5,000 to spend on my education."
where Fay wsis working. Fay was a redhead and, "What did you do with the money?"
as far as I know, she still is. She was a beautiful "That's the last straw that broke the camel's
redhead, too, but then I'm partial to redheads. back," said Jake. "Before 1 go, I'd like to say I
Jake pounded on the counter. "Give me a little had a most enjoyable evening—but I won't be-
service," he demanded. cause I didn't."
"Very little," snapped Fay. "Whaddya want?" "Good night," said Fay.
Jake coughed. "I want something for my "Before I go, give me a bottle of that green
throat." stuff," J a k e said,, pointing to a bottle on the shelf.
"I'm sorry, but we are all out of razor blades." Fay handed J a k e the bottle and watched in
"That is rather a sharp statement," said Jake. amazed horror as he gulped it down. "Do you
"But let us cut the comedy, I came here with realize that was hair tonic?" she gsisped.
serious intent." He smiled as he reached across "Hair tonic!" shrieked Jake. "I thought it was
the counter and held her hands. "What are you shampoo!"
doing Saturday night, honey?" Kearney AAF, Nebr. - P f e . J O H N SHALTIS
 ARLY ' t h i s season w h e n the N e w York
E G i a n t s w e r e stricken w i t h a series of
casualties, Mel Ott called up D a n n y G a r -
della from J e r s e y City and stuck him in r i g h t -
field. E v e r y b o d y said Ott w a s crazy.
" I m a g i n e , " they said, " b r i n g i n g u p a s h i p -
y a r d w o r k e r to u n d e r s t u d y t h e g r e a t Ott.
Baseball is going to hell, s u r e . "
Maybe Ott w a s crazy, b u t h e was gambling
on w h a t J o e B i r m i n g h a m , the old Cleveland
outfielder, h a d told h i m this s p r i n g : "If you
d o n t g r a b this kid Gardella y o u ' r e n u t s . He's
a screwball, but h e m a y develop into a real
ball player." B i r m i n g h a m h a d coached D e s -
perate D a n n y at the Bronx (N. Y.) Consoli-
dated shipyards, was impressed with the
kid's n a t u r a l hitting ability. O t t signed G a r -
della, shipped him over t h e r i v e r to J e r s e y
City, a n d t h e n p r o m p t l y forgot about h i m
until injuries s t a r t e d to w r e c k the Giants on
their w e s t e r n road t r i p .
D a n n y had t h e misfortune to m a k e his

^ MEET DAN
SPORTS:
By S9t. DAN POLIER

m a j o r - l e a g u e d e b u t against Rip Sewell, P i t t s -

b u r g h ' s e p h u s - b a l l specialist. Sewell w a s
blowing h o t t e r t h a n a blast furnace and G a r -
della couldn't d o any m o r e w i t h his sneaky
e p h u s t h a n anybody else on t h e Giants. But
D a n n y d i d n ' t feel too badly. He kept t h e
outfield h u m m i n g w i t h his c h a t t e r a n d acted
like h e had been in t h e big leagues all his
life. And w h e n Sewell dropped h i m to the Bronx, ari; nu".- bout him. Tiiuy havt- named position of house dick. He might still be at
dust with a fast one, h e picked himself u p the grandstanci behmd iefthcld "Gaidella's the New Yorker if he h a d n ' t accepted a d a r e
gracefully and shouted to O t t : "See, Frisch G a r d e n s " in h.i.- honor and proudly di.splay to j u m p out of the window onto the top of
is afraid of m e a l r e a d y . " b a n n e r s with Gardella" splashed all over an automobile belonging to one of the hotel's
Gardella w a s n ' t fooling anybody with this them. To most ui his adiniri.ng public, he is best-paying guests. From there Danny moved
act. He w a s t h e r a w e s t rookie t h e P i r a t e s affectionately known as "Gardenia." to the freight y a r d s as a stevedore and then
or a n y b o d y else e v e r saw, a n d his fielding Although Danny is probably the world's to the Consolidated shipyards w h e r e Joe
was something out of this world. On one play most unpredictable fielder, he is a powerful Birmingham encouraged him to resume his
he would m a k e a d a r i n g o n e - h a n d e d stab of long ball slugfijei. He has been hitting at a baseball career. Last w i n t e r he started get-
a line d r i v e and on t h e n e x t h e would t r y lusty .300 clip and has already whacked six ting into shape by working in a gym as a
to s u r r o u n d a fly ball and strangle it to home runs, two of which broke up the games. physical instructor. His job was to help
death. Once, while the Pirates w e r e at bat, When he joined the Giants he drove in so chorus girls reduce.
D a n n y paused to adjust his pants. H e edged m a n y runs that Ott stayed on third base for Danny has a rich baritone voice and t h i n k s
toward t h e privacy of the foul line and, w i t h a week. And when Mel finally realized that nothing of roaming streets in St, Louis or
his glove under his arm, s t a r t e d to unfasten his legs couldn't stand the gaff at third, G a r - Chicago singing fine old operatic arias. In
his belt w h e n J i m Russell shot a line drive della moved over to ieftfieldi to a l t e r n a t e with P i t t s b u r g h he walked in on a g r o u p of high-
against the leftfield wall. D a n n y grabbed his Joe Medwick. school girls who w e r e holding their prom in
glove in one hand and his p a n t s in the other the hotel w h e r e the Giants w e r e staying and
and dashed after the ball. Then in r a b b i t - l i k e
succession h e retrieved t h e ball, t h r e w to s e c -
- end and m a d e a sensational catch of his p a n t s
D ESPERATE DANNY is 24, but he's had a life-
time of a d v e n t u r e . He once had ambitions
to become middleweight champion and got
started serenading t h e m with the "Indian
Love Call," T h e principal finally had to ask
him to leave, explaining t h a t the affair was
before they could fall to his knees. as far as the quarter-finals of a Golden Glove strictly for young people, Danny was hurt.
W h e n t h e Giants moved to Chicago, D a n n y t o u r n a m e n t before he was knocked out. Ac- On road trips G a r d e l l a carries books on
w a s assigned to t h e sunfield. He h a d never cording to Danny, he would have won if he psychology and quotes from t h e m on the
before worn a p a i r of s u n glasses, and J o h n n y h a d n ' t fought two men the night before and slightest provocation. He is always lecturing
Rucker h a d to show him how to t a p t h e m knocked them both out. It sapped his to Medwick, Melton and L o m b a r d ! on b r e a k -
down into place from t h e forehead w h e n a fly strength, he says. He broke into baseball in ing down inhibitions and acting one's normal
ball came his way. The first time D a n n y tried 1938 with the Detroit farm system and for self. They listen out of courtesy but seldom
it he tapped t h e glasses so h a r d t h a t not only t h r e e years kicked around in such bush take him seriously. They still r e m e m b e r the
the glasses but his cap dropped down over leagues as the Mountain State, Northeast time in a diner when D a n n y startled t h e m
his eyes and h e staggered a r o u n d blindly Arkansas, Kitty and Coastal Plains until the by picking up his hot cakes, laying t h e m in
while the ball fell just in front of him. m a n a g e r at Wilson, N. C , took him aside and the palm of his hand and b u t t e r i n g t h e m as
So far Gardella has been everything Joe told him he would never be a ball player. if they w e r e a slice of bread. Then, m i s t a k -
B i r m i n g h a m said h e would be. He is a real Gardella believed him and went to work at ing the silver coffee pot for the s y r u p pitcher,
gold-plated screwball and the Polo Grounds the Hotel New Yorker as an elevator o p e r a - poui'ed coffee over the cakes and ate t h e m
l.ans, especially those from Daniel's native tor, later working himself up to the esteemed r a t h e r than confess to his mistake.

America, , . . Brig. Gen. Blondie Saunders, who led

the Superfortress raid over Japan, never saw
SPORTS SERVICE RECORD a lacrosse game until he entered West Point,
then made the first team for three years run-
ning. He was also a bang-up tackle on the foot-
ball team, . . . Cpl. Bilfy Conn has left the ORD.
W HILE S/Sgt. Joe Louis was giving an im-
promptu show at a bomber base in Eng-
land recently, a Fortress came limping in from
Greensboro, N,(p., for an undisclosed destination.
Decorated: It. (jg) Whizier White, Colorado's
Ail-American halfback who later starred with
Germany with two motors shot away and crashed the Detroit Lions, with the Bronze Star for his
on the edge of the field. Louis hurried to the courageous service with the "Little Beavers"
wreckage and placed the head of a wounded destroyer squadron in the South Pacific. . . .
flyer on his knee. When the flyer regained con- Commissioned; Casimir Myslinski, West Point's
sciousness he looked up at Louis and said: football captain and AU-American center, as a
"Well I'll be damned—Joe Louis." The flyer second lieutenant in the AAF. . . . Promoted:
had never seen Joe before. . . . What's this we Cpl. Bob Carpenter, one-time Giant pitcher, to
hear about a Third Air Force football team be- sergeant at Camp Grant, 111. . . . Ordered for
ing formed at Morris Field, Charlotte, N. C , induction: Bill Johnson, ex-Yankee third base-
with Copt. Quin Decker, former Centre College man, by the Navy; Buddy Keer, Giant shortstop,
coach, handling the squad? . . . Comdr. Gene by the Army, , . , Rejected: Jeff Heath, slugging
P'no probob/y „.;;; f^j-p-^-t^.. S Tunney is now touring Navy bases in Latin .327 Cleveland outfielder, because of a bad knee.

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