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By the men.. for the
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American Flyers Describe Life in a Nazi Prison

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 Later a shell burst in the area, sending a piece of shrapnel, zinging
oflf the helmet he was using as a pillow.
After that, Mehrkens made his bed under his jeep, but another
shell burst nearby, ripping several holes,in the vehicle. He spent the
rest of the night sitting under a tree.
INDESTRUCTIBLE. Sgt. Quincy Weldon of Tonkawa, Okla., parked
his jeep on a hill and he crawled underneath to adjust the brakes.
He had unscrewed several nuts when the jeep began to roll.
He gave chase, caught up with it and jumped in, but the brakes
'H: wouldn't work. The jeep made a sharp turn, dumping Weldon, and
took off alone across country. It jumped over a 20-foot embankment,
turned two flips and landed upright.
Weldon was relieved as well as amazed when the motor kicked
over for him and he was able to drive the undamaged jeep back to a
flat piece of ground.
FEET. Pvt. Frank Provenzano of Brooklyn. N. Y., troubled with big
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feet since his birth, now finds himself in a sad situation. Because of a
shortage of shoes, Provenzano isupermanently on KP.
He left the States with six pairs of size 13-EE shoes, gathered after
an exhausting search of the Quartermaster Corps' stocks. Everybody
J-f said six pairs would be enough to last through the war. But on a

R O U G H CLOVER. Pvt. William R. Swerden of Flint, Mich., didn't find these

"clover leaves" in a field. They hold powder for artillery on the Venafro front.

ITH THE FIFTH ARMY IN ITALY—Pvt. William Peters of Ham-

W mond, Ind., in a division pack-train outfit, was slowly leading
his heavily laden mule up a mountainside when a figure in
gray popped out from behind a patch of scrub and yelled "Kamerad."
Not catching the statement at first and being unarmed. Peters
obeyed his first impulse: he stooped down behind his mule, exposing
only his legs. But the German proceeded down the path, hands up
and continuing to shout "Kamerad."
So Peters tied his mule to a tree, took the German by the arm
and led him down the hill to the regimental CP, where he deposited
him, and then returned and led his mule to the infantry outfit at the
top of the range.
LUCK. Two artillerymen here claim some sort of record for close
shaves from shell fire. Pfc. James Elick of Spavinaw, Okla., and Pvt.
Frank H. Smith of Morehead, Ky., driving along a muddy front-line
track in their truck, were caught in an enemy barrage.
A heavy Jerry shell burst five feet in front of them, tearing holes
in the cab, ripping their bedding to shreds and burying large chunks
of shell casing in nearby trees.
Elick and Smith came out of it with only scratches to worry them.
They were b^ck on duty after a routine report to the first-aid station.
Another man who can tell about a close shave is Pfc. M. R. Mehr-
kens of Red Wing, Minn. Because no shells were landing nearby at
bedtime. Mehrkens spread his blankets in the open near his jeep.

O N THE ALERT. A half-track scout car is on patrol at the Italian front near
Venafro. The gunners are keeping a sharp look-out for snipers and strafers.

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beach in Sicily, an enemy shell landed on his company's supplies
and sent the whole lot up in flames.
IT Since then no shoes of Provenzano's size have been found, so he's
forced to spend his time in makeshift shoes around the company kitchen.

V' TIP-OFF. Members of an artillery battery here learned how easily

smoke can give away a man's position.
An observer for the battery noticed a wisp of smoke seeping from
behind rocks on a distant mountainside and directed fire at the point.
Shells soon leveled the area from which the smoke was issuing.
A patrol, sent out to investigate the cause of the smoke, found
the bodies of two Germans in a crude cave. Nearby were the remains
of a fire they had built to heat coffee
GIFT. Pvt. Richard Flannery of New York City received two letters
in a recent mail, one from his girl friend and the other from his buddy
back home. The one from his girl thanked him for the lovely gift
he'd sent her.
The letter from his buddy acknowledged receipt of $40 Flannery
had sent him to buy a present for the girl. The buddy added that he
was sorry, but that he had spent only $10 on the present and had
gone on a binge with the other $30.
PRECAUTIONS. After digging their field piece in more than wheel-
deep, three artillerymen felt that their gun was safe from anything

F I G H T I N G M U S I C I A N . When the San Carlo Symphony was rehearsing, the con-

ductor invited a Yank admirer, Pfc. Arnold Friedman, to play with the first violinist.
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;i(k-;H'k burst tha; '•••;;:. licd , V:o:' c • :e from t'lDplacfnii'Tit.
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TRIMMINGS. LaU's! style- in uotvvfa: aloiit; this ironi is thf bootee,
a medium-height boot that give^ a dash of swank to even the lowUest
dogface. What's more, any man with a pair of GI shoes, S3.50 and
time off to visit an Italian shoe shop can have a paif
The cobblers have made up piles of six-inch boot tops with buckles
and straps, which they sew onto your shoetops foi this moderate price.
The bootees ai'e displacing old-fashioned leggin's at a fast rate.
The cobblers also specialize in elaborate, m e t a l - s t u d d e d shoulder
holsters, gangster style, bedecked with little loops to hold extra cart-
ridges. The boys are gomg strong for them as resting places for the
Lugers, Mausers or B e i e t t a s most of them have managed to acquire.
One soldier, shelling out a good many bucks for one of these
holsters, was asked about the pistol he was going to place in it, T'm
armed with a rifle now," explained the soldier, "but when my supply
sergeant sees- this, he can't refuse to issue mo a .45."
KNOCK-OUT. Two observers for a mortar unit, Cpl. Dorrance and
Pfc, Haulk. had inched their way up the mountainside to set u p a
forward CP, As they crawled over a slight rise, they found themselves
looking down the barrel of a G e r m a n m o r t a r a short distance away.
The J e r r i e s appeared to be readying the m o r t a r for action and
didn't notice them, so the two observers hugged the ground and softly
called back the enemy position on their walkie-talkie. J u s t as a
G e r m a n w a s about to drop in a round, a shell from Dorrance's and
Haulk's m o r t a r crew screamed into the position, knocking out tlie
weapon and killing the three men around it. Later an officer and two
more men of the unit w e r e captured.

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\ w h i l e rebuilding a culvert which had been blown up by the retreating Nazis.
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The captain walked up, grabbed the mule with a headlock and bit
his ear good and hard. .After that the mule gave no trouble.
MYSTERY. A lone G e r m a n m a c h i n e - g u n sniper on a mountain over-
looking a Yank artillery C P is a riddle to the boys in that sector.
His occasional bursts from the rocks keep them on their toes but have
SHORE LEAVE. On his way back from the front on an e r r a n d . Sgt. done no real h a r m . But what puzzles the Yanks about H e r m a n (that's A ^Jf'
F r a n k Bradford of La J u n t a . Colo., was startled to see two U. S. their n a m e for the sniper) is, w h e r e does he get his food and a m m o ?
sailol-s hitchhiking along the m u d d y front-line road. He picked them up. Nobody has even seen anyone enter or leave the place w h e r e H e r -
As the gobs shared some of their Candy bars and cigars with him. man is thought to be. In fact, the terrain is much too steep for many
the first Bradford had seen in a long time, he learned that the pair supplies to reach him, but he keeps on shooting and. presumably,
had decided to spend their shore leave up at the front to see w h a t it eating. So the boys are gunning for Herman now. not so much to rub
was like. They had attached themselves to artillery batteries and him out as to find out how he operates.
Infantry units, and had even picked up a J e r r y helmet.
DELUXE FOXHOLE. Because he invariably digs u n d e r g r o u n d palaces
Bradford said the sailors w e r e worried about the soldiers' muddy whenever his outfit stops for a night or more. Cpl. T h o m a s B a r r o w
living conditions. "They wanted to know." he said, "didn't we ever of Charleston. S. C . has gained a reputation as the champion foxhole
sleep inside and did we always eat that C-ration. K-ration stuff?" digger in Italy.
BITING REBUKE. Young mule skinners in the 45th D i v i s i o n s pack- Barrow's latest work measures five feet in depth, t h r e e feet in
train company recently learned a new trick from an old hand at the width and six feet in length, but it doesn't stop there. Leading off from
game. Capt. J a m e s Smith of Okemah. Okla. it are s u b t e r r a n e a n passages and rooms, all neatly s t r a w - l i n e d .
One of the mules in a new shipment had exhausted the patience When Barrow dived into his hole during one raid, he found it a l -
of all t h e men who tried to put a pack saddle on him. and it looked ready occupied by a lieutenant colonel, a major, a captain, a second
as if the mule was going to have his way until Capt. Smith took over. lieutenant and a sergeant.
 By Cpl. JOHN PRESTON & Sgt. BEN FRAZIER ence between escaping and .getting caught, or
YANK Staff Correspondents might help you get something extra to eat. But American flyers, returning
don't make too many attempts to escape. It only
ONDON — S/Sgt. Norman Goodwin's entire makes things tougher for the other prisoners." to Britain on an exchange
L flying career with the Eighth Air Force was
I a matter of hours. On June 25 he took his
first and only trip as radio gunner with the
The Americans and English reached a warm,
lively understanding in the prison hospitals,
where they found the Golden Rule to be just
of prisoners, describe the
Flying Fortress Bar Fly on a mission over about the only practical method of survival left.
Bremen. Halfway to the objective four MEs bore Either you understood and helped your neighbor, daily routine of captured
down hard and fast on the Fort's tail. Goodwin or you both perished.
saw the Jerries coming and got ready to fire, and In conversation the Allies got on about as well Allies behind barbed ^re
then his leg was hit. "It felt like being struck as they do in any other part of the globe. The
with a paper bag," he says. He looked down and Americans kidded the British about not being in Germany and the bitter
saw his leg hanging by a few shreds of flesh. A able to run fast enough toward the beach at
20-mm shell had practically torn it off above the
knee.
Dunkerque, and the British complimented the resentment shown to them
Americans on their bull-slinging. One ex-pris-
Then fire broke out in the radio equipment,
and as Goodwin crawled across the floor for an
oner recalled a stock phrase that the British would
use when a Yank flyer was brought in: "28,000
by the civilians in Hitler's
extinguisher, the plane exploded. He was heaved
out into space by the blast. He parachuted down
feet, three engines out, pilot shot, no one at the
controls, still climbing. Tell us what happened
bomb-flattened cities.
into the North Sea. A German patrol boat picked then."
him up. An average day in the German hospital camp
By similarly direct and painful methods, other described to us moved slowly on a fairly regular
American soldiers have reached the interior of schedule, starting at 0700 when the German American and British flyers and cursed them
Germany as prisoners of war. Twelve of them guard came in with a blast on the whistle and a whenever they saw them.
came back to Britain recently with the group of " 'raus." "There was one guard in charge of the blood-
700 repatriated prisoners who arrived at Liver- Breakfast followed and it consisted of cool, hounds, who in looks and temperament fitted his
pool on the mercy ship Atlantis. Many of them, weak tea and black cast-iron toast. At 0800 came job perfectly. He'd get so mad at us that he'd
like Goodwin, had lost arms or legs. But in a change of bandages. Actually there were few threaten to set one of his pets, a huge, vicious
spite of empty sleeves pinned neatly to their new bandages, and the best a man could do for Alsatian, on us. When he did that, we'd all run
battle dress and a dead white pallor, they seemed himself was to wash his old dressings and use like hell back into the barracks and climb into
well and cheerful, fully prepared to take up a them over and over again. During the morning the upper bunks.
normal existence again, and more than ready to there was a recreation period and outdoor exer- "One day the guard was passing by a French
talk about what they had gone through in Ger- cise, with Red Cross sports equipment. Volleyball prisoner, a big, powerful man. He dropped the
many. Piecing their stories together we got a was particularly popular. leash, and the dog sprang at the Frenchman,
picture of their existence behind barbed wire. right at-his throat. The prisoner warded off the
At 1100 came a strong apology for lunch—great
When a man is first captured by the Germans bowls of diluted barley soup with large hunks of dog with his arm and then grabbed it by the
he is usually too weak and shattered to know or horse meat floating around in it. Food parcels throat and choked it. Then he raised the carcass
care very seriously whether he is alive or dead. from the International Red Cross arrived once over his head and slammed it down on the
One American who landed by parachute on Ger- a week, and they eased the food situation. The ground. That was that.
man soil found that he was almost completely men organized themselves into combines, based "Another time the guards set two dogs on some
paralyzed by spinal injuries when he tried to on the meat and fish tins in the Red Cross par- Russians. We heard a great uproar in the Russian
stand up. cels. E^ch combine pooled its tins as well as its barracks, and soon one of the dogs came flying
"I could pull the cord all right when I bailed supplies of margarine and sugar. A combine was out the window. The Russians ate the second dog.
out, but I couldn't even get a gum drop out of planned so that a whole tin was opened for one "Another favorite outdoor sport, besides bait-
my pocket when I landed," he said. "My plane meal, and each man thus would get his rightful ing the guards, was the singularly un-American
was blazing about 100 yards away. Several hours portion of food. activity of volunteering for details, particularly
later a little boy came up to me. I kept point- The prisoners were allo\Ved a small stove and the wood detail. The Germans allowed the wood
ing to my pocket where the gum drops were, kindling wood, and, accompanied by a guard, detail to go, under guard, beyond the camp lim-
and after a while he caught on, took out the they were permitted to get water for boiling. its for firewood for the little stove. Sometimes
candy and fed me some of it. Then I made some
more gestures and got him to take off my para-
chute. After that he thought I was dead and
pulled the parachute over me very respectfully.
I guess he wasn't far wrong at that.
"The first Germans I saw called me Kaput, and

Life in a Nazi
I knew what that meant just from the way they
said it. There was a whole crowd of them stand-
ing around when I came to. I couldn't open one
eye because blood was dried all over it. But I
did open thfe other one. They put me in a truck
and took me to a dressing station."
The first few days, weeks or months as a pris-
oner of war are generally spent in a hospital,
which, as far as care and diet are concerned, is
"strictly Nazi." The most generous and efficient
treatment is provided at the hospitals run by
Catholic nuns or at the rest homes for merchant
seamen on the Frisian Islands.

T THE very outset of his stay in Germany a pris-

A i oner should learn to take the offensive carr-
fuUy and to know his rights and ask for them
politely but firmly. A man's dog tags are his life They even had a victory garden. "You ought to they'd be able to bring back apples along with
when he is interned in Germany. They clear his hear five grown men trying to divide two small the logs and branches. Then we'd have a mild
identity as-a prisoner of war and a soldier. Other- onions evenly," a returned prisoner remarked. form of apple pie. It was only about that thick,
wise he'd be handed over to the Gestapo as a polit- "They nearly bring down the barracks." but it was quite a change in our diet."
ical agent and probably be sent before a firing All the supplies of the combines were kept in Work details took up most of the afternoon.
squad. a storeroom with two locks. The prisoners elect- At 1800 everyone had to be back in the barracks,
If he knows the rules of the Geneva Conven- ed a quartermaster who had one key, and the and at 2100 there was a bed check. Indoor amuse-
tion, a prisoner can use them to great effect. German guard had the other. ments included every card game known, even a
When the Germans tried to employ the Ameri- Some of the German guards seemed quite h u - form of horse racing worked out with cards.
can and British prisoners as cheap labor, they man. "They knew the war was lost and they The prisoners built ship models and organized
turned down the job cold and their captors could were just hoping that it would be over quickly," language classes, plays and concerts. The Red
do nothing about it. "If you know the Conven- Goodwin said. The older guards were veterans of Cross sent them some musical instruments, and
tion," Goodwin said, "you know where you the last war. A lot of the younger ones were guitars are still on sale in Germany for about
stand and just what they can do to you and what men who had been shipped home from Russia, 700 or 800 marks. For a long time there was a
you can refuse to do. either wounded or with frozen hands or feet. great shortage in reading material, but eventual-
"Right at the beginning, ask the Jerries for a "Whi'e some of the guards were decent, friend- ly some books arrived. Direct news reports were
receipt for your personal belongings—your watch, ly fellows," our informant said, "there were usu- very rare and unreliable, and in many of the
your cigarette lighter and things like that. Other- ally enough Nazis around so that they all dis- camps the prisoners were cut off completely
wise you have no way of claiming them, and they trusted one another. The friendly guards talked from the outside world.
will swipe anything you've got. to the prisoners only when nobody was looking. About the most pathetically handled propa-
"Also, it's a good idea to know German. We Some of them had been home on leave in the ganda stunts were the camp newspapers. There
should have more language classes at our Air bombed, cities and told us about the damage. were two separate editions, both printed in Eng-
Force ground schools. A few German phrases, They did not seem to hold it against the prison- lish, one for the Americans and one for the Eng-
'Stalag Dutch,' we call them, come in veTy handy ers, not even the airmen—quite a contrast to the lish prisoners. The American version was called
now and then. They might make all the differ- attitude of the German civilians who stoned the the O.K. News, and it was signed "Overseas
YANK, The Army Wmkly, publication issued weekly by Branch Office, Army Education and Informafion Division, War Depl., 70S East 42d Stretl, New York 17, N. Y. Reproduction righli resfricfed at indicated in tht
moslliead on f*e e d i l o / i o i page. Entered os second doss matter July 6, 19*7, at the Post Office ot New York, N. Y., under the Act of March 3, I87y. Subscription price S3.00 yearly. Printed in the U. $. A ,

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A prisoner should k n o * his rights and ask for them firmly but politely. "We did not go over very big with the civilians. . . . They threw itones a( us
A man's dog tags ore his life when he is interned in Germany. They clear whenever we stopped at stations ond they recognised us as flyers. Yahnke
his identity as a soldier. Otherwise he'd be turned over to the Gestapo as a schweinhund,' they kept yelling at us, and if our guards ware decent to us.
political agent ond probably be sent before a firing squad. they had an expression for them that meant 'Yankee lovers,'

Kid." It featured pages of ingenuous lies and lived. In the camp w e ' used to throw food over through, the prisoners did not believe it. They
rumors about England, calculated to make the the fence into their section, whenever the guard had heard so many rumors of that kind over
readers dislike and distrust the English. The wasn't looking. such a long period that the truth about their
English edition made a similar attempt to inflame "When there are air raids, the German work- release was accepted very slowly and cautiously.
the English prisoners against their allies. But ers can go to the shelters, but the Russian and "Sweating out that repatriation was worse
the effect was often lost because the newspapers French conscripts have t o stay in the factories. t h a n anything-'else we ever lived through," Good-
were distributed among the wrong nationalities. It's a queer feeling when you hear the raids in win said. "We finally got all packed up and were
Germany and know t h a t you are right under the taken to the station. We sat there for h o u r s but
nothing happened, and they took us back to
M INOR rules and regulations wore enforced
very strictly in the military hospitals.
Patients were allowed certain hours to smoke. If
bombs of your own countrymen. One night we
really had it, and all the vnndows in the hospital
were blown . out. You ought to see Hamburg,
camp. We had lost all our food parcels for the
trip^ and we had nothing to eat when we got
a prisoner was caught smoking at any other time though. We came through it on our way home. back. "Rie boys had given us a concert the night
he would get five days of solitary confinement on Everything was flat for miles and miles. before; a n d it^was awful for them and for us
rations of watery soup and old bread. "You can see why we did not go over very having to come back. It was four days before we
For making too big a pass at one of the German big with the civilians. It seemed to me that the were taken away again.
nurses as she leaned over the cot on an errand hospital staffs stood up under the raids, and the "All the time \ye kept thinking of the men
oif mercy, a prisoner could get anything up to military element took them fairly well, but not who were on a mercy ship two years ago when
10 years, "It looks as if they were counting on » the civilians. When I left Frankfurt, I had to the Nazis trumped u p some damn excuse to call
long war when they thought that one up," an take a streetcar to the station. A Russian con- the deal off. That was when they were really rid-
American said. "There was one nurse, though, script was sitting on the bench, also waiting for ing high, but they've changed their tune some-
w^ho was a very good skaite. She used to let us it, and next to him was an old German. The Rus- what since. Still w e didn't feel safe until we got
smoke whenever wie felt like it. Sometimes she sian got up and gave me his place, because I to Sweden. Even then we thought it wasn't real.
even brought us cigarettes." Most of the nurses ' was still rather shaky and weak. When I sat We'd wake up sometimes and feel certain we
were well-meaning and efficient. down, the old German moved over as if I might were back in camp again. One of the- fellows
The few specimens of German womanhood that' contaminate him. When he saw that my leg was with us said that if there was any hitch or slow-
the prisoners saw seemed in fairly good working missing, he said in uncertain English: T h a t is down in Sweden, h e was going to go deliberately
order. In one hospital near Frankfurt the pris- good. It is too bad that there are not a hundred haywire and smash a couple of shop windows or
oner-patients could lo<^ out of a window on the more like you.* His daughter was with him, sit- something so h e could be jailed for a civil of-
ground floor onto one of the main streets. There ting beside a baby carriage. When her father fense. It might not have worked, but,he was d e -
was a reassuring monotony in seeing the same made his crack about 'a hundred more like you,' termined to t r y it anyway.
blond patrol the same pavement night after night. she corrected him. 'You mean a thousand more,'
"Everyone in Germany is either a Nazi brown she said. Fine people. ^Vhen the streetcar came, "^WBffiisN was a great preliminary, but the wel-
shirt or a village fuehrer and they all salute, the Russian helped m e onto it and held me up 9 come they gave us at Liverpool was the
even the civilians," a returned prisoner said. all the way because nobody would give me a real thing. All the way up the river the*ships
"Friends meeting on the street give each other seat. were giving us the V-for-Victory signal on their
the Nazi salute or, if they don't want to bother, "They thre\y stones at us whenever we stopped whistles. The crowds and the bands on the docks
just say 'Heil Hitler.' You should have seen at stations and they recognized us as flyers. really made you feel you had rejoined the h u -
some of their salutes. They'd bring their hands 'Yahnke schweinhund,' they kept yelling at us, man racfe again. They were all English, though",
up feebly and then let them flop back to their and if ouc guards were decent to us, they had an and we thought that we'd have to let t h e m know
sides again. It looked as if they were trying to expression for them that meant 'Yankee lovers'." that there were some Yanks on board, so we all
get out of doing any heiling. The prisoners obtained these brief glimpses of yelled: 'Who won the World Series?'
"Almost all the m e n wear uniforms and the Germans on their trips from one prison camp "It was even noisier on the ship, but they
wooden shoes except the Russian labor con- to another and on their final trip to the coast to played swing music. It was the first we had
scripts. A lot of them just had old rags wrapped take the boat to Sweden. heard in months, and you have to admit that's
around their feet. I don't know how they ever When the report of their repatriation first came a terrible thing to do to one-legged men."

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Soldiers in the Indian Army are divided into many races that speak difFerent languages
and observe difFerent customs. Here a r e some of the types of India's men in uniform.

The Soldier of India

He never polices up the latrines no typical soldier in the Indian Army. The by a bawarchi and a khansama is KP-pusher. A
bearded 6-foot Sikh, the bald 5-foot, 2-inch Gur- bhisti carries water to supply fighting men dur-
or pulls KP because his uniform kha and the fierce-fighting Pathan are no more ing battle. And the washing is done by a dhobi.
akin than a New England Yankee and a Fiji Some of these menial laborers have doubled
gives him a high social position. Islander. However, there are certain traits and as fighting men in critical stages of a battle. Sev-
And, unlike YANK,his army week- customs that are common to all the varied types eral sweepers distinguished themselves as rifle-
of Indian soldier. men in the Arakan campaign in Burma. The
ly is printed in eight languages. One particular custom in the Indian Army will bhistis have also shown great courage on the
make any American GI turn green with envy. battlefield, taking water to the thirsty and
By Sgt. ED C U N N I N G H A M That's the tradition that no fighting man, even wounded, unmindful of their own safety. K i p -
the lowest ranking sepoy or buck private, may ling's "Gunga Din" was an Indian Army bhisti.
YANK Staff Correspondent
be called upon to pull KP, latrine duty or any In Indian Army training centers, Hindu and
EW DELHI, INDIA—^The Indian soldier is in similar fatigue detail. Moslem soldiers eat in separate mess halls in ac-
N the army by choice, not necessity. He be-
longs to the world's largest all-volunteer
army, a force of two million men enlisted from
Under the strict Hindu caste system, the soldier
ranks next to the Brahmin at the top of the social
scale, and lower-class Indians are recruited as
cordance with the age-old India practice of seg-
regating the two religious groups. Cooks in "class
company" units serve 100 men each, who are
the many laces and castes that form India's "followers" to do the menial jobs, A mehtar or always all of the same kind—all Sikhs, all Mus-
population. sweeper does the latrine work and general polic- lims or all Mahrattas. However, in combat
Unlike the other armies of the world, there is ing up around the barracks area. Cooking is done areas these strict eating restrictions are relaxed.

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 This 'class company" composition of Indian Field hockey is the .•sepoys lavonte form of
Army units applies only to the Infantry nowa- athletics; Indian athletes hold the world cham-
days. The other services, particularly the Signal pionship in that sport. The Indian soldier also
Corps and Medical Corps, enlist all classes in plays soccer and volleyball, and likes to wrestle.
the same units. This has encouraged better un- He keeps himself informed about world affairs
derstanding between the various classes, and by attending current-events discussions and
some Indian observers believe the Army may reading the three Army publications. The dis-
eventually help to bridge even the traditional cussions are conducted several times a month by
gap between Hindus and Moslems. the battalion education officer. Most popular of
Except for headgear, all soldiers in the Indian the magazines is Fauji Akbar (News of the
Army wear similar uniforms; these are practi- Army), an illustrated weekly published in
cally the same as the British Tommy's battle eight Indian languages. There is also a semi-
dress. The sepoy calls his shirt a camise and his weekly, Jang-Ki-Khabren (News of the War), and
shorts are "half pants" while his full-length a monthly, Jang-Ki-Tasviren (War in Pictures).
woolen socks are jorab and his shoes juti. His The Indian soldier calls a goldbricker a kam-
puttees are called just that; the English word choT, while a perpetual snafuer is known as a
"puttee" is derived from the Hindustani patti, be-wakuf, which means "senseless." The com-
meaning "wrapping." pany apple polisher is called a toady and, if he A soldtar^wIM hat fought in Burma, and it ready
The most striking part of the .sepoy's uniform carries his bucking too far, toady-bacha, mean- for anothJHt SO at the Japs, tight^ up a mortar.
is his pugree or turban. Except for Gurkhas ing "son of a toady," the crowning insult.
and Garhwalis, both of whom wear the Austral- Each Infantry regiment of the Indian Army
ian-type slouch hat, all Indian troops wear the has an individual class composition. Rajputs,
pugree. Each class has a distinctive way of Dogras, Jats, Punjabi Muslims, and so on are
winding it. The Sikh prefers a closely bound assigned only to companies of their own class or
style that envelops his flowing hair, the caste. This system has fostered intense unit loy-
Madrassai winds his pugree around a high cone alty. Companies of Jats and Punjabi Muslims
shape and the Mahratta's is loosely bound. gave a stirring example of this at Jebel Garci,
near Enfidaville, during the Tunisian campaign.
FTER he passes his physical examination, the The Jats were spearheading their battalion's
A Indian Army recruit—who must be between
the ages of 18 and 30—is assigned to a training
advance when their company commander was
mortally wounded. Havildar-Major Chhelu Ram
center. There he gets six months of instruction immediately took over command and rallied his
in the use of weapons, close-order drill, military men to continue the advance in the face of with-
courtesy and basic soldiering. He is recruited for ering machine-gun fire. At the same time he
a particular branch of the service and remains reorganized the Punjabi Muslims who had also
in that line for his entire army career, not be- lost their company commander.
ing able to transfer as the U. S. soldier may do. After bitter fighting, both the Jats and Mus-
After completing six months of rigorous train- lims began to run low on ammunition. At psi^r. - - > * ' '-~'*^
ing—30-mile-a-day marches with full packs are last they were forced to throw stones and rocks
a standard part of the course—the Indian recruit to ward off the German counter-attack. Real-
is given two weeks of chuti before joining the izing the attack would fail unless his men were
regiment in whose training battalion he has been whipped up to almost superhuman efforts. Ram
getting his basic instruction. His railroad fare ran from man to man shouting: "Jats never re-
home is paid by the Army as on each subsequent treat! MusMms never retreat! We will advance!
chuti. According to the books, the sepoy is en- Advance! Advance!"
titled to one month's leave a year but is not Spurred by his appeal to their class honor, the
likely to get the full amount in wartime. Jats and Muslims checked the counterattack
There are two types of native commissioned with a bayonet drive of their own and eventual-
officers in the Indian Army. Those holding the ly gained the objective, enabling the entire bat-
rank of second lieutenant or up are known as talion's advance to continue. Havildar-Major
King's Commissioned Indian Officers (KCIOs) Ram was W9unded during the bayonet charge
while the others are Viceroy Commissioned Offi- but refused to be carried to the rear until the
cers (VCOs). attack had succeeded. He died a few minutes
The VCOs are men from the ranks who have later. For his gallantry and leadership. Ram was
displayed outstanding leadership. Their com- posthumously awarded the Victoria Cross.
missions come from the Viceroy, the British-ap- Half of the men in the Indian Army are Hindus,
pointed executive of the Indian Government. The including the Dogras, the Gurkhas, the Mahrat-
highest ranking VCO is a subedar-major, who tas and the Rajputs. Moslems account for 34
corresponds roughly to our warrant officer. The percent more, and of these the friendly Punjabi
other VCO ranks are subedar and jemadar, cor- Muslims make up the largest single class of
responding to master sergeant and technical ser- troops. Sikhs form another 10 percent and the
geant. VCOs wear red and yellow bands beneath remaining 6 percent is composed of other sects.
their shoulder insignia. Indian Army units have both British and In-
The KCIOs are graduates of officer-training dian officers, and some of the branches of serv-
••schools and rank equally with British officers ice—the Signal Corps, the Sappers and Miners
.serving in the Indian Army. Because most Indian (Engineers) and the Service Corps—are partly
.'^imy recruits come from small villages where composed of British enlisted men. In addition,
there are no schools, only a limited number of each Indian division has three battalions of Brit-
enlisted men have the education to qualify for ish troops assigned to it; an Infantry brigade, virtual ond of Italian fighting in East Africa.
OTS. The bulk of KCIO candidates come from for example, may include a battalion of Sikhs, PuUi'd Iwck to the Western Desert when the
India's many junior military schools, but war a battalion of Rajputan Rifles and a battalion of Germans started their offensive in Libya, the 4th
needs have greatly increased the number of VCOs the Royal Sussex (British) Regiment. fought at Solium and Capuzzo. It was transferred
and noncommissioned officers admitted to OTS. to Palestine in May 1941 for the Syrian cam-
These junior military schools, known as the HEN the war broke out, there were 177,000
King George Royal Indian Military Schools, are
maintained by the Government for the educa-
W Indian and 43,000 British troops in the
Indian Army, Today Indian volunteers have
paign. The .5th Brigade of the 4th Division
started the advance into Syria, climaxed by the
capture of Damascus.
tion of sons of Indian Army soldiers. The out- brought the total up to almost two million, not Back again in the Western Desert, the 4th took
standing graduates of these schools are selected counting British units. Almost a million troops part in the .see-saw battling there from Septem-
to continue their military education at the In- have been sent to overseas fronts, where they ber 1941 until the autumn of 1942, when the
dian Military Academy at Dehra Dun, where have fought with distinction. The Indian Army final mop-up began. It was the 5th Brigade of
t hey can qualify for King's Commissions. Those has suffered over 100,000 casualties, mostly in the 4th Division that pulled out of line and
with less brilliant records usually join the Army Malaya. cracked open a gap for British armor to follow
as sepoys but quickly advance to noncommis- In the present Italian campaign, Rajput troops through from El Alamein in late October.
sioned and VCO ranks. landed with the Fifth Army at Salerno and are Moving on to Benghazi, the 4th trailed the re-
The NCO grades in the Indian Army are fighting with it in the drive on Rome. Indian treating Axis forces to the Mareth Line. After
havildar (sergeant), naik (corporal), and lance- troops were the last-ditch defenders of Hong assisting in the capture of Enfidaville, the Indian
iifiifc (lance corporal). Indian noncoms wear the Kong and Burma, and will probably spearhead division was pulled out by Gen. Sir Harold Alex-
standard British-type chevrons. the coming Allied campaign to retake Burma. ander and sent with several British units on an
The Indian soldier usually addresses his But the Indian Army is proudest of the 4th overnight swing around Medjez-el-Bab to join
KCIOs as "Hazoor," meaning 'your honor," and Indian Division. Formed in the Middle East in Lt. Gen. Kenneth Anderson's British First Army
his VCOs as "Subedar Sahib" or ''Jemadar Sahib." October, 1939, the 4th took part in continuous for the final run into Tunis.
Ho uses the British "palms out" style of salut- action in Africa. But the climax of the 4th's service in Africa
ing, snapping to rigid attention while doing so. Its first exploit was the capture of Sidi Barrani came when units were sent into the hills south-
Military courtesy is one of his outstanding from the Italians in December. 1940. a supposed- east of Tunis to clean up the remnants of Ger-
qualities. The Indian soldier also has complete ly well-fortified stronghold that fell in just three man resistance. Among the hundreds of prison-
faith in the judgment of his officers. Like Ten- days. That rout was the first crack in Mussolini's ers taken was the campaign's big prize. Col, Gen.
nyson's men of the "Light Brigade." he believes empire. Moving on to Eritrea, the 4th joined the Jurgen von Arnim. who was captured by the
that "ours is not to reason why." .'ith Indian Division in taking Agordat and Keren, CO of a Gurkha unit and his Gurkha orderly.

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IMMENS W I T H J A P BATTLE FLAG HE F O U N D O N M A K I N AND PISTOL WITH WHICH SIX JAPS KILLED THEMSELVES.

tried to run away and 1 had to shoot him, too."

More grenades were tossed in, and Dutchy took
charge of the prisoners smoked out by the ex-
plosions and marched them to the beachhead.
"It was a little after noon then," Dutchy said,
"so I ate some of my K rations and took a nap
before advancing again."
It was comparatively dull that night, with only
snipers and mosquitoes to bother him, and a
machine-gun nest in a wrecked J a p flying boat
nearby.
Next day Dutchy got a battle flag from a dead
J a p and later in the day found the bodies of six
Jap officers in another large plane.
"Five of them were seated in a circle," he said,
"and the other in the center. It looked like one
had shot all the others, then shot himself. Each
had a hole in his right temple."
Dutchy got the pistol that was used.
Dutchy's patrol stopped at a J a p hospital and
searched it before digging in for the night. Dutchy
found the J a p pay roll and grabbed a sack of
money, most of it already in separate envelopes
for distribution to the garrison.
He also found a harmonica and played "God
Bless America." "I hope those damned Japs heard
it, • he said afterward.
At 2200 Dutchy was on guard while his two
companions in the foxhole were sleeping. A^
grenade landed on the pile of dirt beside their
hole.
"A piece of 'scrapnel' hit my helmet," Dutchy
said, pointing to his head, "and one of the guys
moved to another hole. Pretty soon I felt some-
thing fall in the foxhole between the other guy
and myself. I grabbed it and threw it as far as
I could. It was a grenade.
"That was too much. I knew the Japs knew
where we were so I leaped like a toad out of that
hole and pressed myself flat against the ground
. like a coin.
"I didn't move all night. The mosquitoes walked
on my hands a n d my face and stung me, but I
stayed there with my arms stretched out ahead
of me until it got light."
Next day his outfit was sent to the rear, Dutchy
proudly carrying the J a p flag and pistol. Soon
afterward he was put on KP.
Dutchy's battle with the Japs was over.

Add Fruits of Victory: What

This Iran Corporal Wants is a Door
IRAN—I got this spiel from a corporal in a
headquarters who wouldn't give me his name.
"The whole thing sounds too silly,'' he said.
"What do you think you'll go for most after
• , ' f f S ' ^'W " ' ^I'T*' * i W y. you get home?" I had asked him, making con-
f, ••^,^^ •»-5 ^ • _
versation while cooling my heels outside an
office.
"A door," he said. "Just a good, thick, well-
oiled door. A door that isn't warped and isn't
Dufchy Wasn'f Big Enough for the Army, too big for its frame and isn't so small that you
can see acres of daylight through the cracks. A
door with a real, honest-to-God knob that turns
But the Japs Will Never Believe It and a lock you can hear click into its right place.
A door that doesn't squeak. It's been over a year
By Cpl. LARRY McMANUS cer motioned to the J a p to raise his hands higher, since I've seen a door like that,"
YANK Staff Correspondent the J a p dashed forward and slashed the lieu- "When I get home, I'll open it and then swing
tenant on the wrist and ankle with one wild it closed easy-like and sit and watch it and listen

M AKIN ATOLL, THE GILBERTS—Nicholas J o -

hannes Timmens was too small for ser-
vice with the Army of the Netherlands.
When the arm of the height recorder was placed
stroke of a saber he had concealed behind his
back.
Somebody shot the J a p and Dutchy's group
advanced and threw grenades into a large, rec-
to it snick shut. And then I'll do it all over again.
"That's what I want. A door. - S g t . AL H I N E
YANK SiofF Correspondent

on top of his round, blond head, it registered only tangular pillbox made of sand and toconut logs,
five feet and two inches. Dutchy shot two Japs who ran out after the
So when he joined his father and two sisters in grenades exploded. This W e e k ' s Cover
Baldwin. N. Y., five months before Hitler marched Then others came out with their hands raised, T H E c a m e r a of Y A N K ' s Sgt.
into the Amsterdam he had just left, Dutchy, in and Dutchy and his buddies kept them coveied • Steve Derry clicked a mo-
contrast to most European-born boys, had had no until they were .setit to the rear. When the squad ment after this U.S. Ranger
military experience. was ordered to advance, Dutchy wouldn't go. hod cleored an obstocte on
But if the Dutch recruiting sergeant who re- "I saw two more Japs in there," he explained an assault course in Scot-
jected him evecjiears about the action on Makin, later in his thick accent, "and damned if 1 was l a n d , cotching him knee d e e p
he will be m o r l ^ a r e f u l about turning men down going to leave until the dugout was empty." in the goo. The Ranger is
merely because they are below average height. Dutchy took a position in a' nearby shell hole do'ing his best to keep his
w e a p o n clear of the mud as
Dutchy is now a legend among the men of his and covered the pillbox's single exit with his car-
he pulls o u t to race for the
unit and is known to many soldiers from other bine. next barrier on the course.
outfits that participated in the Makin attack. "Pretty soon three of them came running out
Among other things, Dutchy took an afternoon and tried to get away so I shot them. Then I saw
nap during the operations, played "God Bless another face peeking out at me. This one wa^ P H O T O C R E D I T S : Cover—Sgt. Steve Oerry. 2 &. 3—S«t, Georje
Aarons. 6 & 7—Inter Service Public Relations Directorate. India.
America" on a captured harmonica within hear- holding his head in both hands. I hollered at hirt\, 9—Left. Signal Corps: right, Sgt. Aarons. I I — U , S, Navy, 12 & 13
ing of the enemy, threw a J a p grenade out of his 'Come out of there, you little bastard,' and rtio- —Upper, Sgt. John Frano: lower. Pfc, Charles Roman, 16—Upper
(left to r i g h t ) : Signal Corps. Fort Leonard Wood, M o , : Tuskegee
foxhole before it could explode, killed six Japs tioned to him, b u t he stayed there for 15 miiiutes A A F , A l a . ; Infantry School. Center (left^to r i g h t ) : Signal Corps,
and helped capture several more. looking at me. Camp Edwards. Mass.: C R T C . Fort Riley. Kans. Lower (left to
r i g h t ) : Meek-'n-Meteor, Long Beaeh. C a l i f . : Signal Corps. 17—Up-
The first J a p Dutchy saw was an officer, who "Finally he came out. I told him t o p u t his per, Fort Belvoir, Va,': lower. A A F Training Command, 20—United
was standing with both hands behind his neck, hands up, and he would but he'd bring them right Artists, 21—Acme, 23—Upper, P A : lower. Acme,

facing E>utchy's lieutenant. As the American offi- down again. He must have got excited, for he

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 ing new gadgets. He was in his glory when a
Rinsky, Sled Dog That Rescued hutmate, a T-5 fiom Fort Wayne, Ind.. remarked:
"Fellows, look's like there are mice around. I
Flyers on Ice Cap, Dies in Greenland In Next Week's YANK . . . think we should chip in and buy a mouse trap."
SOMEWHERE IN GREENLAND—It was a sad day That was the handy man's cue. "We don't need
for M/Sgt. J o e Healy of Dorchester, Mass. Rin- a trap," he said. "I'll hook up a connection and
sky, his snow-white lead dog, was dead. PICTURES OF CAPTURED GERMAN we'll electrocute the blamed things." And he did.
For three years, Rinsky and Healy had been A N D JAPANESE M O T O R VEHICLES -Sgt. GENE GRAFF
constant companions. The dog was born in Little YANK Field C o r r e s p o n d e n t
America, close to the South Pole, where Healy
Four -pages of-valuable photographs
was stationed as a member of Rear Adm. Richard of enemy tanks, trucks and other
E, Byrd's Expedition. When Healy went north, motorixed equipment captured on the Yanks In Britain Can Purchase
so did Rinsky.. Before he was a year old, the batfleftelds of Africa and the Pacific,
flop-eared pup had crossed both the Antarctic with detailed instructions on their con> Favorite Magazine From Gl Newsie
and the Arctic Circles by plane. struction and how to drive them. SOMEWHERE IN BRITAIN—The ETO's first offi-
Early in the spring of 1943, Rinsky led a crack cial GI newsie is Pfc. Oscar Spielberg of the
dog team across Greenland's bleak ice cap in a Bronx, N. Y., who operates a stand built by Spe-
successful rescue of the crew of a plane that cial Service at an Eighth Air Force station.
had cracked u p five months before. Add an indoor aerial and a clothesline to the pic- It's got plenty of class, this newsstand, a lot
ture, and the squatty hut resembles a GI obstacle more than the job Pfc. Spielberg used to r u n
By-passing dangerous crevasses and plowing course. When pranksters want to slip someone
over vast furrowed snow fields on t h e windswept back at the corner of Grand Concourse and
a hot foot, they merely wrap a piece of wire Fordham Road. Though it sells only YANK and
cap, Healy and his dogs saved several lives. For around the victim's bed and let the power lines
his part in the rescue work, t h e sergeant was the Stars and Stripes, we're happy to say that
do the rest. the newsie reports no kicks from his customers.
awarded an Oak Leaf Cluster to t h e Soldier's
Medal. Rinsky was content with a friendly The camp electrician was befuddled recently Or rather, just one kick—and here is Oscar's
cuffing around from Healy and a couple of extra when a short in the main electric line blackened own version of that: "Everything was going
helpings of meat from the mess hall. the area. All signs pointed to the network of swell," he says. "The guys that didn't have the
wires as the cause. But the electrician gave up change I would trust, something I would never
Healy, who is still busy with his dogs, misses his investigations in a hurry; there were so do at Grand Concourse and Fordham Road. N o -
the way Rinsky used to engineer the team, the many plugs, sockets and wires he couldn't fig- body asked for personal delivery, and ripped
way he used to throw his head over his shoulder, ure the system out. Fortunately for the elec- copies went as easy as whole ones. Then this
emit a growl from deep in his chest and ram trician and the Chicago sergeant, the defect was happens.
forward into the harness. located later in a neighboring hut. "A mug by name of Paul Klinger—he's nothing
But Healy is not without consolation. In Sep- Favorite invention of the sergeant himself is more than a pfc. either, see?—comes up to my
tember, before Rinsky died of a twisted intes- the "automatic stove opener" that heats the hut stand and says, very fancy: 'Newsboy, I should
tine, five little Rinskies, all snow-white, flop- before the bugler sounds the harsh strains of like to have a copy of the Berwick Enterprise.'
eared pups, were born. If even one proves as reveille. Wires are attached to the stove's draft I look at him, figuring Berwick's some burg
good as his father, Healy will be satisfied. and extended along the floor to nearby bunks. around here, and I tell him: 'Come back tomor-
- S g t . ED O'MEARA A master sergeant who is the hut leader sets row. Bud.' Well, he comes back tomorrow—and
YANK Field Correspondent the alarm clock for 0500, one hour before rev- for a week straight, even on a Sunday.
eille. "It seems he won't take what's good enough
At 0500 the alarm awakens two "wire jerks" for everybody else in this camp—our own YANK
Ingenious Iceland T-4 Brings who yank the wires to change the carefully and Stars and Stripes. No, that's not good enough
banked pot-belly stove into a sizzling inferno. for him. I even offer him some British racing
Age of Electricity to a Nissen Hut Then they slide back under the covers and grab forms, which I'm saving to send home to my
SOMEWHERE IN ICELAND—Marconi, Edison and another hour of shut-eye before it's time to mom on Mother's Day.
the post utilities officer would gnash their teeth get up. "After a week of this bothering, I ask him near
and yell "uncle" if they could see how an elec- This system isn't foolproof yet. The other where is this Berwick Enterprise printed, and
tricity-minded T-4 from Chicago has shackled morning one of the wires slipped from its catch if it is a newspaper or what.
the power in the Nissen hut where he lives. and the wire jerk, a 36-year-old Ordnance pfc. " 'My good man,' he says to me, 'of course it
Not satisfied with tapping the single power from Chicago, groaned: "Dammit, it's too cold is a newspaper, and I am surprised you never
outlet with nine bed-lamp extensions for his to fix the stove now." He rolled over and soon heard of it. For your information, it has a paid
buddies, the 26-year-old Signal Corpsman has was snoring happily. That morning the men circulation of 3,465, and Berwick is in Pennsyl-
rigged up a radio, an electric phonograph, a tele- missed reveille formation, and the hut leader vania, near Wapwallopen and Shickshinny.'
phone, a microphone that broadcasts through was socked with extra duty—bashing cans after "I got rid of him quick when I heard such
the radio and a communications line that pro- working hours. words. I sent him to the Red Cross. That
vides the occupants of a nearby hut with radio The champion electrician of Iceland's AEF straightened him out. They let him read the
programs when a master switch is connected. isn't happy unless he's splicing wires or creat- Bronx Home News. - Y A N K Staff C o r r e s p o n d e n t

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up w i t h Sonne fancy steppers, part of a n Aussie t r o u p e e n t e r t a i n i n g Yanks in A u s t r a l i a his mother, a Wac just come over, to 1st Sgt. E d w a r d H i l l a n ,
 car in which to take joy rides on hot evenings.
"There was pretty nearly always something
doing in Rabaul," Sgt. Darbyshire recalls. "If you
were a religious sort of person, you could go to
a Roman Catholic, Church of England, Methodist
or Seventh Day Adventist Church.
"People with other inclinations had their
choices of the bars of the Rabaul, Pacific and
Cosmopolitan Hotels. They served Melbourne
beer and all the standard liquors. A favorite
spot for a special occasion was the North Coast
Hotel, seven miles from town at Wunawutung
Point. Tourists gathered there, too."
The town had its own ice and power plants,
telephone service and a newspaper the RabauJ
Times. There was generally an island steamer of
some sort at one of the harbor's four wharves,
and a regular airplane passenger service to Sala-
maua, Moresby and Townsville. And you could
get in touch with the mainland by radio.
"American drug-store cowboys," Sgt. Darby-
shire said with a smile, "would feel right at home
in the New Guinea Drug Store, opposite the
Masonic Hall on Mango Avenue. Unlike Aus-
tralian chemists' shops, it served ice cream and
soft drinks at a long counter with stools. It was
the Rabaul younger set's favorite afternoon hang-
out. At night they woUld generally go to a movie
at the Regent Theater.
"Rabaul's favorite sports were racing and base-
ball. The Rabaul Amateur Turf Club put on
races the year around, importing horses from the
mainland for the big events. The whole town
turned out for league baseball games between
teams representing the town's business firms.
The Chinese, too, went in for baseball in a big
way.
"The two social clubs were the Rabaul Club,
for the upper crust, and the New Guinea Club,
for other socialites. Some belonged to both clubs.
These clubs had concrete and lawn tennis courts,
and there were other courts kept up by business
firms for their employees.
"Down near the beach was the Olympic swim-
ming pool, and near it was a paddle pool and
playground for children."
On a hill overlooking the town was a modern
hospital, the European.
"One of the glories of Rabaul, though," said
Sgt. Darbyshire, "was that we didn't have much
use for the hospital. Rabaul was (he accented the

HOME TOWNS IN WARTIME

RABAUL New Britain
By Pvt. JOHN McLEOD "was") one of the healthiest spots in the islands.
Every soldier in the Southwest Thanks to an antimalaria program, mosquitoes
YANK Staff Correspondent and South Pacific is looking for- were practically nonexistent. We didn't even
EW GUINEA—One fellow around Fifth Air sleep under mosquito nets."

N Force advance echelon headquarters doesn't

know whether to be happy or not aboat the
poundings being dished out to Rabaul these days.
ward to visiting this town and
having a few ice-cream sodas at
its American-style drug store op-
Rabaul's biggest business was in trading copra
and pearl shell, but a growing business in coffee
had started. Tourists were dropping in all the
He's S/Sgt. Colin Darbyshire of the Australian time, too.
Imperial Force liaison office, who for 10 years, up posite Masonic Hall on Mango "We roasted and ground all our own coffee,"
until October 1941, called Rabaul his home. Sgt. Darbyshire said. "And I'd be willing to bet
Sgt. Darbyshire is especially touchy about Avenue or maybe sipping some a little that after we have Rabaul back again,
mention of Lakunai and Vunakanau airstrips. more interesting concoction at you Yanks will be agreeing it's the best Java
As a draftsman working for the Australian gov- you ever tasted."
ernment, he helped plan Both strips—one of one of the bars in the Cosmo- The largest firm at Rabaul was the powerful
which was completed just in time for the Japs politan, Pacific, Rabaul and North trading concern of Burns Philp & Co. Ltd. This
to use. and several other Australian competitors dwarfed
And every time the sergeant reads or hears of Coast Hotels. the Japanese rival of Nanyo Boyeki Kaisha. An-
a bombing of Rapopo drome he can't help won- other Japanese concern was the Nagahama ship-
dering if a stray bomb fell on his home at nearby yards, and Tsurushima's was a big clothing and
Kokopo. prior to the first World War and was, according- curio store in Chinatown.
Rabaul used to be a little paradise, Sgt. Darby- ly, built in neat squares, with the streets run- Probably the natives are still talking about the
shire will tell you. Although Rabaul wasn't much ning east and west and the avenues running little Chinese tailor who was jealous of the
of a town if you judge it by size, it was by far north and south. Each street was lined with Japanese store's competition. When Rabaul re-
the largest and most important settlement in gardens of brilliant tropical flowers, and huge ceived the news that the Japs were in the war,
any of the islands immediately north of Aus- shade trees made each thoroughfare a tunnel of the little tailor dashed to the police headquarters
tralia. As a center of activity, it compared to green. and applied for a permit to slit Tsurushima's
Port Moresby and Lae as New York City would Rabaul citizens were especially proud of their throat.
compare with Yonkers or Schenectady. Malaguna Road, centered with palms for a mile Sgt. Darbyshire wasn't in Rabaul when that
Rabaul had a permanent population of only and a half of its length. It was paved with as- happened and the Japanese residents were in-
about 2,000 persons. About 750 of these were phalt as were th,e main business street, Mango terned. Two months before the beginning of
Australians and Europeans. The rest were mostly Avenue, and other principal thoroughfares of hostilities he went to attend an army school in
Chinese, with a few Japs and Malays. But on the the town. Other hard-surfaced roads extended Sydney and his family was with him.
Gazelle Peninsula surrounding Rabaul there was for miles out into Rabaul's hinterland. "But, frankly," says the sergeant, "it wouldn't
a population of better than 60,000 more or less The town boasted a taxi service of 26 cars, not hurt my feelings a bit to march into Rabaul one
industrious natives. counting numerous cabs operated by the Chinese. of these days and find the Nagahama shipyards,
Rabaul was laid out by the Germans When A car could be rented for a half hour for two bob. Tsurushima's and the Nanyo Boyeki Kaisha ware-
they were in control of the Bismarck Archipelago Almost every "substantial" resident had his own house blown higher than Vulcan volcano."

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sighted a speck and it seems to have the shape of a flying boat. end to watching and wondering Now that their position is known, rescue will come so
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>ne of the f e w things at Stevens that smacks of the old routine. You line up to re3is- At registration soldiers are assigned to tents for their one to
• and get blankets and mosquito bars issued to you. After that you're on your o w n . three days' stay. They can have as much sleep as they-want.
YANK The Army Weekly • JANUARY 14

'"^a^^SSiSK SHOVIN OFF"

Can I get vocational training from the Govern- G e n e r a l qualifications o r e as follows: a g e , between 18
ment and will they pay for it? and 3 2 ; weight, below 185 pounds; height, below 72 inches;

What's Your fort Dix, New Jer^ev - C p l . JOHN DEVRY vision, 2 0 / 4 0 , each eye uncorrected; no recent venereal dis-
ease. You must have g o o d feet, bones, joints a n d muscles, a n d
• You o r e entitled to vocotionol t r a i n i n g if (1) you receive your nervous system a n d blood pressure must meet certain
on honoroble discharge, (2) your disability is service-con. standards.
nected, (3) your disability is r a t e d a t 10 percent or more, f4)

Problem?
After t a k i n g your physical o n d psychologicol tests, you get
you need vocotionol r e h a b i l i t a t i o n to overcome the h a n d i c a p four weeks' t r a i n i n g at Fort Benning, G o . , where y o u will
caused by your disability. Disabled veterans may receive such learn parachute packing a n d practice j u m p i n g from towers
t r a i n i n g f o r as long as four years, with the Government pay- ond g e t your first reel jumps which will q u a l i f y y o u for
ing a l l fees a n d t u i t i o n . Get in touch w i t h a representative p a r a t r o o p e r ' s wings. You will stort to receive your jumping
of the Veterans Administration or moke contact with the bonus, which is base p a y plus a $50 bonus each month, w h i l ^
American Red Cross. you o r e in the p a r a t r o o p e r school a t Fort Benning. After four
weeks' t r o i n i n g there you will be -assigned to o p o r o t r o o p
Class E A l l o t m e n t - o f - P a y unit f o r tactical t r a i n i n g .
Dear YANK:
I understand that soldiers can authorize deduc-
tions from their pay every month to be sent home
in addition to their family allowances. If I make
out one of these allotments-of-pay, must I always
send the same amount each month, or can I vary
it from time to time?
New Ca'edonro —Pvt. J. J. 01TR08US
I Class E Allotments moy be increased, decreased or discon-
tinued at any time.

Dear YANK:
I am writing to determine if my mother is en-
titled to dependency benefits. Since I am the oldest
of a family of nine,, my mother depends on me to
keep the household going, although my dad works.
Soldier's Loans Not wishing to claim something that I am not
Dear YANK: entitled to according to Army regulations, could
Before I was inducted I bonowed money from you enlighten me on what to do?
.i loan company. The money was to be paid back India - U J S. CHIAREUA
within six months, but since my income is much M Dependents of officers a r e not e l i g i b l e to receive depen- Extra P a y f o r Decorations
less than it was in civihan life I haven't been able dftocy benefits. U,. hawever,. you. wcsot to- continue t » co«»tf ij»v4e.
to m a k e any payments on this loan. I am worrying to her support, you may send her money each month by a
Dear YANK:
about whether I will have to pay interest on my Class E ollotment-of-poy. Class E allotments ore entirely volun-
What are the rights and privileges that go with
loan (for all the months after the initial six t a r y a n d a l l men irrespective of g r a d e have the privilege of
the award of various medals? Also, is an enlisted
months) when the war is over. In other words, making them. See your Finance officer.
man who holds the Congressional Medal of Honor
is mterest charged on the loans of soldiers who entitled to a salute?
ai e unable to pay because of their being in service? England -Pvt. AlVIN MORSE
Camp Carson, Colo. - " ' • 0 O'DEA
Qualifications for Paratroops
I The only thing y o u get besides your medal is extra p a y -
• The obligations of o servicemen may beor interest, but f o r
Dear YANK: no salutes. The belief that a holder of the Congressional
the period of his military service after Oct. 6 , 1942, the rote
I have been m the Army for two months and M e d a l of Honor is entitled to o salute from anyone regardless
o( interest on such obligations cannot exceed 6 percent per am anxious to get into the parachute troops. of rank is on Army myth that has been kicking a r o u n d a long
annum, unless o court decides that his ability to p a y is not What are the general qualifications and how long lime, a n d it has no basis in Army Regulations. Enlisted men,
materially affected by his being in service. | Sec. 2 0 6 , Soldiers' after the transfer becomes effective will 1 start not officers, get $2 o month a d d i t i o n a l for each of the follow-
and Soilors' Civil Relief Act of 1940, os a m e n d e d , Public Low drawing .jump pay? ing decorations h e l d : Congressional M e d a l of Honor, Distin-
932, 77th Congress, a p p r o v e d Oct. 6, 1942.1 Comp Wo/ters, t e x . - P v t . E. R. LUIKER guished Service Cross, Distinguished Service M e d a l , Distin-
I You have to complete your basic t r a i n i n g before y o u can guished Flying Cross or the Soldiers' M e d a l . If a soldier held
Vocational Training be assigned to the p a r a t r o o p e r school. The only way to a p p l y all five of the medals, he would get $10 a month e x t r a , or
is through regulor military channels; that is, see your l o p kick if he held the Distinguished Flying Cross with four O a k t e a f
i.)ear YANK: Clusters (same a w a r d five times) he would olso g e t $10 a
and ask for parachute t r a i n i n g . Army Regulations require that
I am about to get a CDU. Because of certain such an a p p l i c a t i o n be f o r w a r d e d within a specific time. month extra.
injuries I won't be able to woi-k at my old job.

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 YANK The Army Weekly • JANUARY 14

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What's in a Name?

P vc. Lewis B, Closser. a GI at Guadalcanal,

has made the most startling discovery of
the war.
He has found out that there is not a single
can of Spam in the whole U. S. Army.
You might say that Pfc. Closser stumbled into
his amazing revelation by accident, sort of like
the way Isaac Newton discovered gravity by
sitting under an apple tree and getting conked
on the squash by a falling apple.
Like all the rest of us, Pfc, Closser is pretty
well fed up with the Army's steady diet of what
we have always called Spam. So he decided to
do something about it. He wrote a letter to the
Hormel meat packing people, copyright ownei's
of that awful word, and asked them to lay off
shipping the stuff overseas for a few weeks at
least, even if the boys had to go hungry.
Well, the Hormel people wrote back to Pfc.
Closser from Austin. Minn., and here is what they
had to say: "Whadya mean luncheon meat? I say if's Spam and I say to hell with it!"
Since the war started, we have not sold a single
can of Spam to the U. S. Army. Therefore, you but, unfortunately perhaps for us, the entire mother tried to tell her that the green stuff' on her
can readily see that when servicemen complain Army has started and continues to call all such plate was really broccoli, we still say it's Spam
about Spam, they are criticizing an entirely sterile 6-pound luncheon meat by the name of and we still say the hell with it.
different product. The Quartermaster buys no Spam.
Spam because the package size—12 ounces— is It's not what they call it. It's the frequency
So there .vou have it. The so-called meat we with which they throw it into your mess kit.
impractical. Instead they demand that all foods have been referring to as Spam all these months
be supplied in large weight units and have speci- Spam—sorry, we mean luncheon meat—might
is not really Spam at all. It is luncheon meat. not be so bad if it was only served at luncheon.
fied that luncheon meat for the armed forces
must be packed in 6-pound cans. They also All we can say is what Shakespeare once said But when you get it at breakfast and supper,
specify that it must be sterile: by that they mean about a rose: too, you can't be blamed for getting mad at it.
that it must be cooked so thoroughly that it will What's in a name? That whidi we call Spam As a matter of fact, it is a wonder the Army
keep in the can without spoiling for an indefinite By any other navie would taste as lousy. selected such a mild and inoffensive term as
period. It's a vastly different product from Spam Or, as the little girl said about spinach when her Spam when it started to call the stuff names

Veterans' Benefits Troops. An unusual feature is the buoyancy in iarization firing with one other weapon; complete
water of the carrier, which, in preliminary tests. continuous foot marches (without falling out) of
T HK W D IS h e l p i n g t h e
Veterans Administra-
tion shorten the period
provided excellent support for men swimming
for 30 minutes. Complete weight of the mask, in-
cluding carrier, is about 2.8 pounds.
25 miles in 8 hours and 9 miles in 2 hours with
full field equipment; complete physical fitness tests
including push-ups, a 300-yard run, the burpee.
between the time a sol- a 75 yard pig-a-back carry at a run and a 70-yard
dier gets his CDD and the
date he begins to receive a pension or other vete- ASTP Status zigzag agility run; complete infiltration, close
rans' benefits. 'Veterans Administration vi^orkers The WD has denied newspaper reports that combat and combat-in-cities courses; qualify in
are now assigned to Army installations where the ASTP is in "the process of liquidation."' A a grenade course; and pass tests in scouting and
physically disabled GIs are being discharged, so statement by the Secretary of War explains that patrolling, first aid, field sanitation, military dis-
that these soldiers can get advice and definite de- the ASTP is "now being somewhat reduced but cipline and courtesy, bayonet (for men with ri-
cisions on their claims before leaving the Army, may later be either increased or still further r e - fles), field proficiency of the soldier with his indi-
Men who are mentally ill and need further treat- duced, as the needs of the military situation or vidual weapon, protective measure for individ-
ment are being discharged by the Army and im- military training make advisable." There are uals and small units and personal appearance.
mediately transferred to the Veterans Administra- now aboutT40,000 GIs in the ASTP. More than
tion Facility. Blinded GIs will be kept in the Army 2.000 alieady have been graduated and assigned Fourteenth AF Patch
while learning to adjust themselves socially. This to duties in the States and overseas. By spring
training in ad.iustment will be coordinated with ASTP students will be graduated at a rate of Here is the new arm patch for the Fourteenth
the vocation training offered by the Veterans more than 10,000 a month. Air Force, serving in China under Maj. Gen.
Administration. Claire L. Chennault. It
was designed by S/Sgt.
Although the WD wants to have as many vete- Infantry Badge Tests Howard M. Arnegard of
rans' claims as possible adjudicated before men Hillsboro, N. Dak., and
are discharged, it points out that no soldier is com- The Army has listed details of the qualification
tests for the Expert Infantryman Badge and the shows a winged, rampag-
pelled to file a claim for pension benefits, even ing Bengal tiger topped
though he is entitled to it. However, each disabled Combat Infantryman Badge. [WD Cir. 322, 1943\.
The combat badge is awarded to those who by the star of the Army
soldier who does not want to file such a claim has Air Forces, The new
to file a statement to that effect. This statement have displayed "exemplary conduct in action
against the enemy. " patch made its first ap-
does not waive the soldier's right to file a claim pearance in a raid that
at a later date. To receive the expert badge an infantryman
must qualify with one individual weapon and in American and Chinese
transition firing, or qualify with one crew-served bombers made on the
Assault Gas Mask Japanese airdiome at Shinchiku on Formosa.
weapon and in transition firing: complete famil-
A new assault gas mask has been developed
by the Chemical Warfare Service, adapted to
highly m o b i l i z e d a n d
mechanized warfare. The Bermuda: Cpl. W i l l i a m Pene du Bors
p r i n c i p a l c h a n g e is a YANK EDITORIAL STAFF Ascension Island: Pfc. Nat G. Bodian. A T C .
Panama: Sgt. Rob«rt G. Ryan. I n t . ; Pvt. Richard Harrity. D E M L .
round canister attached Managing Editor. Sgt. Joe McCarthy, F A ; Art Director. Sgi- Arthur Puerto Rico: Sgt. Lou Stoumen. D E M L : Cpl. B i l l Haworth. D E M L ;
Wetthas. D E M L : Assistant Managing Editor. Sgt. Justus Schlotzhauer.
directly to the facepiece I n f . ; Assistant Art Director. Sgt. Ralph Stein. M e d . ; Pictures. Sgt
Pvt. Jud Cook. D E M L ; Sgt. Robert Zellers Sig. Corps.
T r i n i d a d : Sgt. Clyde Biggerstatf. D E M L
without use of a hose Leo Hotelier. A r m d . ; Features, Cpl. Harry Sions, A A F ; Sports, Sgt
Nassau: Sgt. Dave P. Folds Jr.. M P .
Dan Poller. A A F ; Overseas News. Cpl. AMan Ecker. A A F .
and providing protection Washington: Sgt. Earl Anderson. A A F ; Cpl. Richard Paul. D E M L
Iceland: Sgt. Gene Graff. Inf.
Newfoundland: Sgt. Frank Bode.
with minimum resistance London: Sgt. Walter Peters. Q M C : Sgt. John Scott. A A F : Sgt
Greenland: S g t , Edward F. O'Meara. A A F
Steven Derry. D E M L ; Sgt. Durbin Horner, Q M C ; Sgt. BiH Davidsor>
to breathing. The water- I n f . ; Pvt. Sanderson Vanderbilt. C A : Sgt. Peter Paris Engr Pvt Navy: Robert L. Schwartz Y2c: Allen Churchill Y^tc.
Officer in Charge: Lt. Col. Franklin S Forsberg-
proof carrier has straps Jack Coggins. CA ; Cpl. John Preston. A A F
North A f r i c a : Sgt. Btirtt Evans, I n f . : Sgt. John Frano. Sig Corps. Business Manager: M a j . Harold B. Hawley.
that permit the mask to Pvt. Tom Shehan, F A . Overseas Bureau Officers; London. M a j . Donald W. Reynolds; India,
Capt. Gerald J. Rock; Australia, 1st Lt. J. N. Btgbee; Cairo. Capt.
be shifted from a normal I t a l y : Sgt. Walter Bernstein, Inf.; Sgt. George Aarons, Siq. Corps ,
Sgt, Burgess Scott, Inf. Robert Strother; H a w a i i . Capt. Charles W . Balthrope; Alaska. Capt.
position at left side rear Central A f r i c a : Sgt. Kenneth Abbott. A A F .
'^'ck W. W»?eks; Panama Capt. Henry E. Johnsan: I r a q - I r a n . Capt.
CtM^riti Holt.
to the front for conveni- Cairo: Cpl. Richard Gaige. D E M L ,
I r a q - I r a n : Sgt. A l H i n t . Engr.: Cpl. James O ' N e i l l . QMC. Y A N K is published weekly by the enlisted men of the U. S. Army
e n c e w h e n driving a India: Sgt. Ed Cunningham, tni.: Sgt. Marion Hargrovf FA.
and i& for sate only to those in the armed services. Stories, features.
pictures and other material from Y A N K may be reproduced if they are
vehicle and also to be Australia: Sgt. Don Harrison. A A F ; Sgt. Dick Hanley A A F : Sgl
Douglas Borgstedt. D E M L .
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given, release dates are observed and specific prior permission has been
granted for each item to be reproduced, Entire contents reviewed by
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H a w a i i ; Sgt. Merle Miller, A A F : Pfc. Richard J. N i h i l l , CA : Cpl.
U- S. military censors.
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CULINARY COUPLE. S/Sgt, Julia Bober and S/Sgt ACE CAOETv Aviation Cadet Othel Dickinson of the HE M A N . Pfc. Wesley J. Peterson, of the 176th Inf ,
Henry Southard of Fort Leonard Wood, Mo., hove Tuskegee Army Air Field, Ala., became top-ranking oerial Fort Benning, Ga., prefers sleeping out of doors to
just been happily married but there may be a little gunner among Eastern Training Command cadets after the barracks, but as a concession to winter he's
rivalry in store for them. They're mess sergeants. competing in the National Gunnery Meet, Eglin Field, Flo. moved onto the porch, with a home-made radio.

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UP A N D OVER. Scaling over the Axis takes a lot of energy, whatever way you approach it. HAIR STYLIST. That's a fancy stroke for a Gl cut! It ought to be.
One or two of these heads eliminated only makes it a shorter wall. To make it brief, these stu- The barber, Pvt. Joseph Pettit, at IRTC, Camp Blanding, Flo., was
dents jumping over their enemies are at 35th AAF Technical Training Det., Long Beoch, Calif. a beautician in Wyoming and won honors for women's hair styles.
 Camp Gordon Johnston, Flo,—Pvt. Robert Mul-
ligan asked another GI what he had signed his
How to Tell a Corporal name to on the bulletin board just a few min-
utes before. The GI said it was the pass list for
S alt loke City A r m y A i r Base, Utoh~Pfc, John
Sfeele and Cpl. Hal Fein were waiting for o
bus when two youngsters came along.
that night, so Mulligan ran over and set down
his name without bothering to read what the
notice said. But it wasn't a pass list; it was foi-
Said the first l o d , pointing to Steele's one stripe: those GIs who needed new dental plates. Pvt,
" I know what that guy is—he's o private first class." Mulligan got no pass, no dental plates, but he
Cpl. Fein noticed the other boy looking at him, reads everything he signs his name to, now.
but the smile he gave the kid vanished when the Camp Abbot, Oreg,—Brig. Gen. Bryant Moore,
youngster said: "Yeah? W e l l , I know whot the assistant commander of the 104th Div., appeared
other guy is. He's a private second class." at a Service Club party, and someone dared Sgt.
Mary Bertoswiz to ask him for a dance. He was
putting on his coat, preparing to leave, when the
Wac walked up to him and said: "General, I
have been dared to ask you to dance? How about
it?" The genera! removed his coat and answered:
"Certainly."
Camp Edwards, Mats.—One c^f the highest paid
enlisted men in the Army is 1st Sgt. Max B.
Zager who, under the terms of the new depen-
dency allowances, will draw $3^1.20 a month.
This is almost $60 more than the pay of a fiill
colonel, exclusive of allowances for subsistence,
quarters and longevity. Zager, senior instructor
at the B & C School, has a wife and seven chil-
dren and has been in service for 25 years.
Camp Wheeler, da.—"We don't want dough
from a serviceman," one of four armed hold-up
|or to P r i v a t e men told 1st S.gt. Waymon V. Jones when he
Camp Stonemari, Calif.—Pvt, Gam Bo Kong of stopped at a filling station for gas. But they took
this base used to be a major in the Chinese Army. his car and drove away in it. He found it next
A native of Canton, China, Pvt. Kong graduated day, its fan belt broken and its pistons buckled.
from China's West Point in 1936 as a second Later the bandits were caught.
L a n g u a g e Lessons lieutenant. He fought the Japs at Nanking and Fori Worth Army Air Field, Tex.—While Pfc. Ger-
BIytheville Army Air Field, Ark.—Unique among other places, was decorated five times and had tie Pillsbury was at Fort Devens, Mass., she
leatures of Army camp papers is the "Language reached the rank of major when he was stricken turned in an OD skirt for exchange, then shipped
Den." a course of instruction in Italian, Spanish with a mysterious fever and sent hofne. out before she got another back. When she wa.s
and French, which appears regularly in Piniic Then Kong got a letter from his father, whom finally issued a skirt here, it seemed familiar.
TaJker. post paper here. The "Language Den" is he had never seen, asking him to come to America. She looked at the waistband and found her own
conducted by Cpl. Peter Palmintei'i who also Presidential greetings reached him while he was serial number.
has charge of regular language classes at the working in New York's Chinatown about eight
post library. months ago. Fort Sill, Okla.—Sgt. Warren Feely of the 342d
Explaining the importance of languages in a Armd. FA Bn. returned from a recent furlough
wai' program, the Plane Talker states its con- the proud owner of a relic of the past that was
viction that languages are actually weapons of immediately dubbed by his fellow GIs as a
war. the knowledge of them being useful in the
translation of enemy papei\s, censorship of mail.
m fHi useful adjunct to barracks' facilities. It was a
decorated "thunder mug." a convenience once
interrogation of prisoners, monitoring of short- found under the bed in all the. best homes.
wave broadcasts, interpreting, diplomacy and AAFTC, Miami Beach, Fla.—Cpl. Howard A.
Sherrick and Pvt. Edwin J. Caron, who direct Camp Sutton, N. C.—GIs here have been won-
administration in occupied countries dering if there is any connection between the
crash boats from a tower near the rifle range.
two things. T Sgt. Arthur Z. Lipski, personnel
C o u n t r y Doctor sergeant major of the 1305th Engr. GS Regt..
went through a tough infiltration course, eating
Secottd Army Maneuvers, Tenn.—Pvt. Donald dirt and dodging live ammunition. Then was
Mische tried to get up after a 10-ininute break seen writing out his last will and testament.
but couldn't. He had developed a "charley horse"
in one leg and his other foot became so swollen Camp Van Dorn, Miss.—T-4 Alphy Cyr, first
he couldn't get it into his shoe. The officer lead- cook of Co. H, 253d Inf., picked himself a nice
ing his platoon told him to sit tight and he would spot near the portable stove one day on bivouac
send an ambulance back for him. and promptly fell asleep. He was awakened by
While Mische was waiting for the meat wagon, a sort of tap on his back. "Whadya want?" he
a civilian car drove up and a man leaned out and asked, sleepily. There was no reply, only another
asked: "Need any help, soldier?" Before Mische tap. Then Sgt. Cyr turned over to find himself
could i-eply the man jumped out of the car with staring into the eyes of a huge black snake.
a small black bag in his hand. He looked at the Camp Beale, Calif.—Pvt. Leonard 'Van der Linde,
foot and went to work. a former member of the 13th Armd. Div., is
Pvt, Mische went on his way to join his outfit now a member of an ASTP unit at the University
a little later, his faith confirmed in a great in have solved the laundry problem. Their soiled of California. When Pvt. Van der Linde had a
stitution—the country doctor. garments are tied to a string and lowered over seven-day furlough, he spent it here with old
the sea wall in front of the tower. The pounding buddies, getting up at reveille, sweating out
wave action does the rest and in quick time, too. chow lines, taking a turn at room and latrine
Camp Roberts, Calif.—Pfc. Bob Santoyo stood orderly and policing up.
flipping a 50-cent piece in the air, the way movie Camp Stewart, Go.—GIs here who couldh't get
star George Raft did in one of his pictures. As away for the Christmas holidays were provided
the coin reached the height of its to.ss. Santoyo entertainment through an "it-costs-to-cuss'' drive,
noticed a major approaching. He gave a quick Penalties ranging from a penny to a half-buck
glance at the coin and then threw a snappy
"highball" at the major, cut his hand away were collected in a "cuss box" established by
sinartly and caught the coin before it reached one of the outfits.
the ground,
Waco Army Air Field, Tex.—Sgt. Sid Hudson had
been detailed to recruit Air Wacs. A little num-
ber from Nacogdoches listened to his sales talk,
waited patiently until it was over and then told
the sergeant she didn't want any, thank you.
"But," she added soulfully, "you're kinda cute.
Would you like to talk about something else?"
Camp Maekall, N, C. — Pvt. Blue Barron, orches-
tra leader, is a member of the l l t h Airborne
Div, here. The ex-maestro of "tnusic of yester-
day and today" arrived from the Fort Hayes
(Ohio) Reception Center to take his basic be-
fore going into the division's SSO.

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Emergency Furlough
Dear YANK:
R e f e r r i n g t o t h e l e t t e r s i n M a i l C a l l of a D e c e m b e r
issue I c o m p l a i n i n g a b o u t P v t . F r a n k l i n E. Higgins a t
C a m p Crowder, Mo., being given a n e m e r g e n c y fur-
l o u g h t o visit h i s s i c k d o g ] . I t w o u l d s e e m a s t h o u g h
Punishing Germany the sergeant a n d other soldiers w h o signed t h e letters
m i g h t h a v e i n q u i r e d first a t H e a d q u a r t e r s b e f o r e g e t -
Dear YANK: t i n g t h i s k i n d of g r i p e i n t o p r i n t . T h e f a c t s a r e t h a t
W h i l e P v t . S h a w ' s a r t i c l e in a D e c e m b e r i s s u e of Men asking for letters in this column are all overseas.
this w a s n o t a n e m e r g e n c y furlough. T h i s soldier w a s
Y A N K w a s e x c e l l e n t , it w a s d a n g e r o u s l y i n c o m p l e t e . Write them c / o Message Center, Y A N K , 205 E. 42d St., N e w
hospitalized a n d "held for observation." T h e surgeon
D e f e a t i n g G e r m a n y , e x i l i n g t h e officer c l a s s a n d d i s - gave h i m seven days' absence as he could not b e r e - York 17, N . Y. We'll forward your letters. The censor w o n ' t
a r m i n g t h e people a r e only steps t o w a r d t h e aboli- turned to duty. let us print the complete addresses.
t i o n of t h e i n j u s t i c e s t h e G e r m a n s h a v e d o n e t h e
r e s t of t h e w o r l d . D i s a r m i n g t h e G e r m a n s wiJl n o t Headquarlen, Comp Crowder, Mo. —Public Relations Offiter
be enough. T h e French discovered that after t h e last B •
J A C K BBADFORD, o n c e a t W a y c r o s s , G a . : w r i t e C p l .
C h a u n c e y E. L e w i s . . . . C p l . LEONARD M . B R O W N ,
war. Establishing a n i n t e r n a t i o n a l police force will Lassie, Come Home N. A f r i c a : w r i t e P v t . K e n n e t h G . B r o w n .
a l s o n o t b e e n o u g h if t h e p o l i c e f o r c e is d i r e c t e d
o n l y a g a i n s t t h e n o w fascist n a t i o n s . A n d s p e c i f i c a l l y , Dear YANK:
w h o is g o i n g t o r u n t h i s p o l i c e f o r c e ? T h e l a s t i n t e r -
n a t i o n a l p o l i c i n g g r o u p , t h e L e a g u e of N a t i o n s , fell
S e v e r a l w e e k s a g o , w e w e n t t o t h e t r o u b l e of p i c k -
ing o u t o u r favorite p i n - u p girl, b u t s o m e t h i n g tragic
C Pvt. MARLIN E . CALAHAN, once at
• Va.: w r i t e P v t . R o b e r t G a r r e t t . . . . Pfc. W I L -
L I A M CALVERT, o n c e a t M a c D i l l F i e l d , F l a . : w r i t e C p l .
Fort Eustis,

i n t o t h e h a n d s of t h e B r i t i s h a n d F r e n c h , w h o u s e d it Thomas A. Tennent. . . . Sgt. LEWIS J. CAMPBELL,

a s a n a u x i l i a r y of t h e i r n a t i o n a l p o l i c i e s . A f t e r t h e o n c e a t G o . C, 82d A r m d . R e c n . B n . , F o r t B e n n i n g ,
last w a r , l e t u s a l s o r e m e m b e r , G e r m a n y w a s w o o e d G a . ; w r i t e P v t . J i m D . L o w r e y . . . . C p l . ROBERT
by R u s s i a a t S t r e s a t o c o m b a t a n t i - R e d f e e l i n g i n C A M P B E L L of t h e 53d Q M R e g t . ; w r i t e C p l . D a v e
Europe; by England to maintain h e r traditional bal- Greene. . . . JULIUS (ZUKE) COPPENS of Johnstown,
a n c e of p o w e r ; b y A m e r i c a n i n d u s t r i a l i s t s w h o s a w O h i o : s e e Message J.*
l a r g e s p e c u l a t i v e p r o f i t s i n G e r m a n i n d u s t r y . If w e
a l l o w a b e a t e n G e r m a n y t o find s t r e n g t h a g a i n b y
' t h e a l l i a n c e s of f a v o r e d n a t i o n s a n d c l a s s e s , o r p e r -
mit an international police force t o become once
D •
Sgt. RAYMOND E . DAVIS,
at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Ind.: write
o n c e in

R i c h a r d N . Noble. . . . RICHARD DAVIS a n d S I D D U B I N ,

the 11th Inf.
M/Sgt.
m o r e a n i n s t r u m e n t of f a v o r e d n a t i o n s a n d c l a s s e s , f o r m e r m e m b e r s of S t a g e C l u b T h e a t e r , Cleveland,
w e w i l l h a v e lost t h i s w a r a n d will h a v e s o w n t h e O h i o : s e e Message 2 . * *
seeds for a n o t h e r o n e .
ASTU, Reihiehem, Pa. -Pft. PERRY S. WOIFF
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L E O H A N L E Y , f o r m e r l y of t h e A'VG: w r i t e S / S g t .
W i l l i a m B u c k l e y . . . . J O S E P H H A R P E R of
b u r g , Ala., o n c e i n t h e C C C a t H u n t s v i l l e , A l a . ;
Greens-
write
Dear YANK: Cpl. Bill Driver. . . , Pvt. CONRAD T . HARRISON of
I c o u l d o n l y find o n e w e a k p o i n t i n P v t . I r w i n L e x i n g t o n , K y . , once w i t h t h e 11th S i g . C o r p s ; write
.Shaw's "Flood" C o n t r o l o n t h e R h i n e , " a n d i t i s o n e Pvt. Robert E. D w y e r . . . . SIDNEY G . HUDSON, some-
that m u s t h a v e o c c u r r e d to h i m a s h e w r o t e it. w h e r e i n t h e S . Pacific; w r i t e S / S g t . C h a r l e s F r a n k -
If all a r s e n a l s a n d a i r p l a n e pjlants a n d a l l h e a v y l i n . . . . S g t . R O B E R T H U G E S , 152d F A : w r i t e Cpl. T h e o -
industry that could b e t u r n e d into a r m s production dore L. Hanson.
at a n y " t i m e b e d i s m a n t l e d , i s t h e r e t o r e m a i n a n y
G e r m a n i n d u s t r y ? It is o u r o w n e x p e r i e n c e t h a t a
nation with great peacetime industry can b e changed
in t w o y e a r s t o a w a r p o w e r . T o k e e p t h e i n d u s t r y
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former
WALTER LESNIAK, s o m e w h e r e in Australia; w r i t e
E d w a r d Zalupski AOM3c. . . . BRAYTON L E W I S .
member of S t a g e Club Theater, Cleveland,
of a n a t i o n t h e size of G e r m a n y i n t h i s s t a t e w o u l d Ohio: s e e Message 2.** . . . 2d Lt. HARRY LOUNSBURG
b e a j o b f o r a p e r m a n e n t m i l i t a r y e s t a b l i s h m e n t of at M i a m i Beach, F l a . : w r i t e C p l . E r i c S. Bolton. . . .
ihe type t h a t t h e Nazis n o w h a v e in occupied E u r o p e . Pfc. J A Y K . L Y L E S , U S M C , of V i r g i n i a ; w r i t e P f c .
I w o n d e r w h e t h e r this is w h a t w e w a n t . happened. We cannot locate t h e girl; consequently P r e s t o n (Ike) P a r k e r . . . . ARTHUR L Y M A N , once at
ASTU, Palo Alio, Co/if. -Pfc. T. EVERETT HOLMES w e c a n ' t d o h e r t h e h o n o r of a p a r t y a t t h i s s t a t i o n . The Presidio, S a n Francisco: write Lt. Sheppard.
In c a s e a Y A N K r e a d e r c a n h e l p , h e r e is a l l t h e d o p e :
H e r n a m e is K a t h r y n Case. S h e w a s t h e Miss P h i l a -
Found: One J Company d e l p h i a of 1941 o r 1942. If a n y o n e finds h e r w r i t e
t o m e , R m . 30, T o p S i d e , A d m i n i s t r a t i o n B l d g . ,
M •
T / S g t . C H E S T E R M A R Z C A K of C h i c a g o , 111., w r i t e
T-5 N a t h a n P o k o i k . . . . P v t . CARL MAYSHURA
of W o o d b i n e , N . J., o n c e a t F o r t B e l v o i r , V a . ; w r i t e
Dear YANK:
U S N A S , F l o y d B e n n e t t F i e l d , N . Y. Pvt. William Eilberg. . . . Sgt. J A M E S T . M C M I L L I O N
In a n O c t o b e r i s s u e t h e r e w a s a c o n t r o v e r s y o v e r Floyd Benneft Field, N. Y. -MANNING HALL S i t of C h i c a g o , 111., o n c e w i t h 108th Q M R e g t . , C a m p
w h y t h e r e is n o J C o m p a n y i n t h e A r m y . I m a y b e Forrest, 'tenn.; w r i t e Cpl. J a c k Hill. . . . WILLIE
wrong b u t I h e a r d that t h e reason for n o t having M I L L E R of P i t t s b u r g h , P a . : w r i t e P v t . A r t h u r W .
a J C o m p a n y is f o r t h e m e m o r y of G e n . C u s t e r . Cowboys and Soldiers Reimer. . . . JAMES MURDOCK: write Pfc. Curtis R.
H e w a s i n c o m m a n d of J C o m p a n y a t t h e t i m e of Dear YANK: Hale.
his d e a t h , Won't y o u please print a plea for a lonesome girl
fori McDowell, Calif. - P v t . M. AMOROSO
Dear YANK:
of 15. I h a v e b l o n d h a i r , h a z e l e y e s a n d l i g h t c o m -
p l e x i o n , a n d a m 5 f e e t 4 i n c h e s t a l l a n d w e i g h 116
p o u n d s . I'd l i k e t o h e a r f r o m c o w b o y s a n d s o l d i e r s
P •
Pvt. J O E PENNINGTON: s e e Message 4.tt . . .
T / S g t . EVALD P O L A N S K Y i n t h e S W P A ; w r i t e T - 5
Hubert J. Polansky. . . . ANDREW POLK: write to your
Y o u s e e m t o b e h a v i n g a l i t t l e t r o u b l e finding o u t e s p e c i a l l y . S o c o m e i n p a l s a n d fill a l o n e s o m e g i r l ' s n e p h e w , S ' S g t . U l y s s e s G. H o g a n .
\ \ h y t h e r e is n o t a J C o m p a n y i n t h e A r m y . I k n o w mailbox clean to t h e top.
t h i s will b e a s h o c k , s o I ' m l e t t i n g y o u d o w n e a s i l y .
H e r e it i s : t h e r e is a J C o m p a n y i n t h e A r m y —
in fact, it is a t t a c h e d t o u s f o r d u t y a n d r a t i o n s .
Oklahoma -(Mi«s) NADA WHITEHEAD S P v t . A R T SCHUETZ: s e e Message 4.iT . . . C D .
• S H A W , l a s t s e e n i n H o l l y w o o d , Calif.; w r i t e P f c .
G e o r g e R o y a l . . . . M , H . S H I P L E R of M i l l e r s b u r g ,
• Sorry, b u t the W a r Department won't permit
It's a n o r d n a n c e s u p p l y a n d m a i n t e n a n c e c o m p a n y O h i o ; w r i t e P v t . R a l p h D . H a g e l b a r g e r . . . . FREDDY
correspondence b e t w e e n servicemen a n d civilians S I L V E R M A N of P i t t s b u r g h ; w r i t e P v t . S a m m y W e i s s .
'.^vn).
India - S g t . J. C. LINDGREN they don't know. W h e n y o u g e t a little older y o u . . . S / S g t . V I R G I L S M I T H , o n c e w i t h M e d . D e t . , 387th
can meet t h e m at t h e U S O . Inf.. C a m p S w i f t , T e x . ; w r i t e S ' S g t . E a r l P . S m i t h .
. . . S g t . V I N C E N T S M I T H , o n c e a t N e w p o r t N e w s , Va.;
Epitoma Rei Militaris f o r Men Only s e e M e s s o g e 3.v . . . M O R R I S S P E C K T O R , A u s t r a l i a :
write J a k e H. Nilva AMM3c.
Dear YANK: Dear YANK:
J u s t finished r e a d i n g " T h e G r o u n d F o r c e s G e t A lot of t h e t r a v e l i n g U S O s h o w s t h a t c o m e a r o u n d
S t r e a m l i n e d " by Cpl. R i c h a r d P a u l in a N o v e m b e r
issue. I d i s a g r e e w i t h h i s s t a t e m e n t a b o u t t h e " R o m a n
p u t o v e r s o m e n i c e s h o w s a n d t h r o w i n p l e n t y of t e r -
rific g a g s w h i c h m a y b e t a k e n t w o w a y s — a c c o r d i n g
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S / S g t . R A Y M O N D TAYLOR, o n c e i n N e w p o r t N e w s ,
Va.; s e e Message 3.' . . . ARTHUR TREMBLAY.
w a i i ; w r i t e 1st S g t . A u r a l P . T r e m b l a y . . . . E M I L
Ha-
phalanx." T h e Romans never used t h e phalanx: in to y o u r c o n s t i t u t i o n o r s o m e t h i n g . B u t t h e r e ' s a l w a y s T U R S K E Y of M a s s i l l o n , O h i o , o n c e i n C o . D , 53d Inf.,
fnct h a d c o n t e m p t f o r i t . H e s h o u l d h a v e k n o w n t h i s a s e l e c t c l a n of t h e w e a k e r s e x w h o a r e t o o d a m n
if h e ' d r e a d " E p i t o m a R e i M i l i t a r i s " b y V e g e t i u s . C a m p W o l t e r s , T e x . : s e e Message 1.*
n a r i r o w - m i n d e d t o b e a b l e t o s t o m a c h t h e show, so
APO

Dear
9 0 2 0 , N e w York

YANK:
-Sgt. JOSEPH SUVA naturally the^' walk out. This m a k e s t h e performers
feel p r e t t y b a d . T h e s e w o m e n k n o w w h a t t o e x p e c t
of t h e s e "shows, b u t n e v e r t h e l e s s t h e y c o n t i n u e t o
W •
FRANK WETZEL. West Coast, USA; B o s WETZEL,
S o l o m o n s ; B I L L W E T Z E L . St. L o u i s , Mo.; GEORGE
WETZEL, L a k e C h a r l e s , La.: w r i t e C p l . E v e r t t W.
Since w h e n have t h e " R o m a n c o n q u e r o r s " used t h e attend a n d at a certain stage pull a walk-out. W h y W e t z e l . . . . S g t . R. W . W I L E Y , A u s t r a l i a ; w r i t e M . L .
p h a l a n x ? A n y o n e w i t h t h e l e a s t g l i m m e r i n g of m i l i - not b a r w o m e n from t h e shows or a d m i t t h e m on t h e J o h n s t o n C Y . . . . 1st S g t , M A X L . W I L L I S , C a m p
tary history knows that t h e phalanx w a s developed condition they will n o t b e allowed t o w a l k out? I per- Ritchie, Md.; w r i t e C p l . R o b e r t T. S t a n d i n g .
!)v t h e G r e e k s a n d M a c e d o n i a n s . R e c o m m e n d e d r e a d - sonally don't give a damn, b u t h o w about giving t h e
ing f o r C p l . P a i i l : " E p i t o m a R e i Militari.?" b y V e g e - performers a break? 'Message 1; W r i t e Pvt. Thomas Underwood.
tius a n d Marshal ^ x e ' s "Reveries." Surii^am —Cpl. A. J. GUTIERREZ •'Message 2: W r i t e Cpl. Louis E. S t e v e n s .
Paine Field, Wosfi. — S / S g l . JOHN RANDOLPH rMessage 3: W r i t e Sgt. C h a r l e s E. A d a m s .
riMessag? 4; W r i t e Cpl. Floyd R. H a r b o u r .
• Cpl. Paul should have said G r e e k phalanx. Ratings After the War
.-\fter h e finishes " E p i t o m a R e i M i l i t a r i s " h e ' l l b e Dear YANK: SHOULDER PATCH EXCHANGE
d e t a i l e d t o r e a d M a r s h a l Saxe'.s " R e v e r i e s . " W e h a v e h e a r d a l l k i n d s of s u g g e s t i o n s f o r m u s t e r - These m e n want to trade shoulder patches;
ing-out pay a n d bonuses for r e t u r n i n g soldiers. All P v t . H e r b e r t S. Hatch, Co. L t . F r a n k M. Fish, Lovell
well a n d good, b u t selectees w o u l d b e t h e only ones
Supply Insignia to benefit. B u t let u s give t h e R e g u l a r A r m y m a n
D, 383 Inf., C a m p White. G e n . Hosp., F o r t D e v e n s .
Oreg Mass.
Dear YANK: a l i t t l e t h o u g h t . P r i o r t o t h e e x p a n s i o n of t h e A r m y ,
m a k i n g a r a t i n g w a s n o s i m p l e m a t t e r ; it t o o k a Pfc. C a r l E. Hoffsten, Base T-5 Raynold T A''i^?i5.'
AAF regulation Sig. OfRce, AAB, Clovis. g q . B t r y 129th A A A MG
.•f.i-12, d a t e d July g o o d ( o r l u c k y ) m a n t o m a k e s e r g e a n t . I t is t h e r e -
f o r e s u g g e s t e d t h a t a b i l l b e p a s s e d t o t a k e c a r e of N Mex. B n . , c / o PM, S h r e v e p o r t .
194.'!, a u t h o r i z e d t h e
w e a r i n g of s l e e v e regulars who have attained a higher temporary rank Pfc. Stanley F. Butler. t^^Marita Zimmprman
patches by techni- s i n c e J u l y 1, 1941. M y o w n c a s e f o r i n s t a n c e : I h a v e DEML, 1848th Unit, 8th '^ A N C S t t HOTD S m o
cians a n d included o v e r 10 y e a r s ' s e r v i c e , m y p e r m a n e n t r a n k is s e r - SC, N . C a m p Hood, T e x . Campblll Ky
everything except g e a n t , b u t m y t e m p o r a r y r a n k is first s e r g e a n t . T h e r e P^L„i*°S^^*T fP^f'^^i^'^'' Cpl. F r e d S'. C u r r i e r , 368th
headquarter.s, cooks should b e a ruling to allow m e n with over a certain 1802d SCU, M e d . S e c , 'X.AF B a n d Sq., D a l h a r t .
and supply. We've n u m b e r of y e a r s of s e r v i c e t o k e e p t h e h i g h e s t r a n k Borden Gen. H o s p . , fg^
been over h e r e get- t h e y m a y h a v e a t t a i n e d a f t e r J u l y 1, 1941. C h i c k a s h a , Okla. ' T/Sgt.' F l o y d Mohler, Hq..
ting the parts to Prisoi^er of War Camp, C/infon, Miss. —l$t Sgf. A. N A V A S/Sgt. L. K. H u t c h i n s o n . i s i s t Inf., C a m p L i v i n g s -
these guys for m o r e H q . B t r y , 1st Bn., 263d ton. L a .
than a year a n d a • A f t e r t h e w a r t h e n u m b e r of p e r m a n e n t ranks CA. F o r t Moultrie, S C. S g t . H o w a r d G. M u r r a y ,
half now, and .we w i l l d e p e n d o n t h e s i z e of t h e A r m y . T-4 R a y m o n d E. Reavis. T r . B , 18th R e n . Sq..
think it's a b o u t t i m e 110th E v a c u a t i o n Hosp,, C a m p White, Oreg.
we h a d o u r o w n i n - What's Your Problem? C a m p Swift, T e x . Cpl. E l d r e d T. Miller, Co.
s i g n i a . J u s t w h e r e in h e l l w o u l d t h e m e n o n t h e 2d L t . T h e l m a V. S m i t h . C, 371st M e d . B n . , 71st
line a n d i n t h e s h o p s b e w i t h o u t s o m e o n e t o g e t Dear YANK:
If y o u h a v e a b r o k e n r i g h t a r m i n a s l i n g , w o u l d ANC, S t a . Hosp.. F o r t Div., C a m p Carson, Colo.
p a r t s f o r t h e m ? H e r e is o u r .suggestion f o r a s u p p l y
:nsignia. y o u b e c o r r e c t in r e n d e r i n g a l e f t - h a n d s a l u t e ? U n t i l Custer. Mich. P f c . Carl J . Grisaffi, Post
Australia - S / S g t . MARTIN E. PENTON* I r e c e i v e .your r e p l y , I s h a l l b e o u t o n a l i m b . P v t . Alex Stefan, 96th QM Hq., F o r t J a c k s o n . S. C.
Fort Benning, Go. —Cpl. GORDON E. BEYERLE Co., 96th Inf. Div., C a m p P f c . M i l d r e d L. M c G l a m -
' L e t t e r also signed b y Sgts. H^rnest D. C a m p b e l l . Ansel White, Oreg. e r y , 4622 SU, W A C Det..
-M. Coburn a n d P f c . P a u l W a l t e r s . • Have your right a r m set at a 45-degree angle. S ' S g t . B . W. S h a m r e l l , H q . Co. A, F o r t S h e r i d a n , 111.
Co., 140th Inf., S a n Diego, P v t . B e t t y J . B a u e r , 876th
Calif. W A C P o s t Hq. Co., 508th
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Lt. C h a r l e s V a n Hook. 51st A B Sq., Berryfield, A A F .
G e n . Hosp.. F o r t Bliss, N a s h v i l l e Municipal A i r -
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Kitchen scene. We never saw a male KP climb inside Here is Pvf. Doobrovo's impression of late chow in the mess hall when the cool<s are scroping fhe botfom
o G/ con like the energetic Wac in the foreground. of the stew pot. Born in Siberia, the Wac artist formerly taught junior high-school classes in Reno, Nev.

every Wac barracks has a laundry with an electric Like all GIs, the Wacs stationed with Pvf. Doobrovo at Fort A Wac on o double date usually finds that her
iron for the evening sessions of washing clothing Riley's Cavalry Replacement Training Center dread inspections. fellow soldiers are either too tall or loo short.
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THE PHANTOM SOLDIER GUARD

The government sa.ys he js missing I walk m-y post in lonely wood.
But the French all swear he i.-- dead; The echoes of the night bid heed. They cry:
For several saw him go down The aged-leaf rustle and the wheezing wind.
When Hememimat Ridge ran lod;
He fell in a bayonet charge The black song of the crow.
Where the bullets wei-e thick as hail— The hoot of the staring owl.
They saw him go down wilh a curse and a The loudness of the silence in a wary brain;
frown The foresl cries for notice.
And the blood made his face }iiok pale. Wlllimantk, Conn —Pvt. N O R M A N SAK

But dead men leave a body. EARLY WORM

And his body was not there; The moralists may all aflSrm
For after the battle was over The earliest bird should get the worm.
They looked for him everywhere: That, to my notion, is absurd;
So he was reported as missing The early woim should get the bird.
Though some of them swoie he was dead.
For they saw him go down with a curse and For had he longer lain abed.
a frown His cousin, and not he. were dead.
When Hememimat Ridge ran red. Some day the early worm will learn
How seldom caily worms return.
Yet the Aussies all say he was with them Camp Shelby, Mhs. -S Sgt. GRANT A. SANDERS
When they took a nameless hill.
And that was two months later THE HEAVENS LAUGHED LAST NIGHT
(Could it be he was living still'.') The heavens laus»-hed last night
He urged them on in the battle And rained then cosmic laughter on the
Till the enemy gave his ground earth.
Pauletle Goddard Then he died in the dust from a bayonet The moon smiled through her somber veil.
thrust— And stars grew bright and tittered in girlish
But his body was never foimd. mirth.
HOllYWOOD. Paulette Goddaid plays a girl
welder in "I Love a Soldier." in which she co- Though many swept over the hilltop. Like a long-pent song,
stars with Sonny Tufts. . . . Rosemary La Planche. Many are lying there still. Titanic laughter overran
Miss America of 1941. who appears in "Around And into the list of the missing The universe and filled the heart of every
the World," has been elected "Queen of the Mos^ Went the names of those on the hill. living thing—
quito Junction." a jungle outpost in New Guinea. In the din and the dust of battle But not the heart of man.
. . . Alan Dinehart and Marjorie Gateson have He fell, and they left him lie; Hondo Army Air Field, Tex. —Pvt. BRONIS TUBEIIS
been cast in "Seven Days Ashore." a story of the But the desert sand will understand—
Merchant Marine. . . . Bryant Washburn, star of There are men who refuse to die. ADDRESS UNKNOWN
the silent screen, is slated for a supporting role A guy I knew was wont to say:
in "Elizabeth Kenny," which stars Rosalind Rus- When the British out of Tarhuna "If on a bomb's your name,
sell . . . Betty Hutton will head the cast of "Out Took Tripoli by storm. No matter what you do, my boys,
of This World." . . . Susan Hayward got the femi- There was a stranger with them It'll get you just the same."
nine lead opposite William Bendix in "The Hairy In a British uniform;
Ape." . . . "The Ghost Ship" will show Richard He led the men into battle. Whene'er the bombers flew o'erhead
Dix in his first menace role in 23 years of screen And several saw him fall; And to our holes we went.
stardom. . . . Johnny (Tarzan) Weismuller has But the light was too dim when they looked This wise guy scoffed and never moved.
added the teaching of animals to understand for him— Just stayed inside his tent.
words to his list of hobbies. Maureen O'SulIivan Or he wasn't there at all.
returns to the part of Jane in the next Tarzan One night we scurried to our holes—
picture, "Tarzan and the Amazons." . . . Bill There are flames which burn in the spirit I'm still alive to tell—
Goodwin, radio announcer, has been signed for Which nothing can ever quench. The wise guy stayed within his tent.
the reporter role in "Incendiary Blonde." . . . Though the body be torn asunder And he was blown to hell.
Lena Home is featured in "Swing Fever," her And left for dead in a trench.
seventh appearance in a top-flight musical film. For a soldier in his dying His name was not upon this shell
. . . In the works now is the latest Crosby-Hope- Gives death itself the lie I afterward did learn.
Lamour. titled "The Road to Utopia." . . . Ann When comrades inherit his flaming spirit— For it was marked like all the rest:
Dere has the featured rolo in the latest "This Is There are men who refuse to die. "To whom it may concern."
America" short, "Letter to a Hero." . . . Bob Hope Camp Shelby, Miis. —Sg». A. L. CROUCH New Guineo —Sgt. J O H N READEY
was voted 1943 "Champion of Champions" in the
eighth annual poll of more than 600 newspaper
radio editors and columnists in the U. S. and Can-
ada. Joan Davis, soon to be seen in "Beautiful but
Broke," topped all feminine comedy artists in WORD PUZZLE
the same poll. Three Pitchers ow's your word sense? If up to par, you should
Gt SERVICE. Sleeping accommodations for sol-
diers and sailors on leave are provided by the
A PUZZLi IN WINE H be able to fill in these five words within 50
minutes. The letters that appear at the beginning
of a word are the same as the ones at the end of it.
Riverside Theater, Los Angeles, which turns over and they are in the .same order.
its 1,500 seats, with pillows and heat, every night
after the last performance. . . . USO-Camp Shows
announced a new budget that allocates nearly
$6,000,000 for overseas entertainments. . . . The
go-ahead has been given Camp Shows to send its
T /SCT. Brane. whose thirst was as keen as his
intellect, walked into an Algerian wine shop
to buy two quarts of the local product. The
storekeeper was out at the time, and his wife
was unfamiliar with the measuring pitchers.
For example The solution to . _ CI _ _ would be
DECIDK.

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entertainers into the Gilbert Islands. . . . A strike There were three pitchers, and all the woman
of waiters at Earl Carroll's, Hollywood, resulted knew was that the blue pitcher held three quarts E R G R O -
in 200 GIs getting a free turkey supper and show more than the red one and that the white pitcher (iolution on Page 22)
with the showgals serving as waitresses. . . . The held four quarts more than the blue one.
budget for entertainment in the Eleventh Naval The situation didn't faze Sgt. Brane. He
District in California has been hiked to $500,000. promptly dipped into the wine cask and after
. . . Ella Logan wowed GIs in the Italian sector;
with her is dancer Edith De Aney whose hus-
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I'D RATHER HAVE A PAPER DOLL TO CALL MY OWN,

LireRARY view
THAN TO HAVE A FICKLE MINDED REAL LIVE GIRL. Let t h e Bells ring m e r r i l y
W h i l e t h e R a v e n sits on P a l l a s .
A n d t h e H o u s e of U s h e r v e r i l y
Becomes the Haunted Palace.
Let t h e A m o n t i l l a d o be
A n d s e r v e it b y t h e g a l l o n .
I'm o n m y w a y t o P O E
A n d I don't "mean E d g a r A l l a n !
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BACK HOME
Money and liquor and girls—
T h e y a r e g r a b b i n g for all t h e y a r e w o r t h .
W h y d o t h e s w i n e get tlie p e a r l s .
tell e m P e t e y s e n t y a . " A n d t h e s o l d i e r c r e e p s
M v f r i e n d s k n o w t h a i ! a m g e n e r a l l y a slow
m a n to v i e w w i t h a l a r m , b u t h e r e a n d n o w
I call on .some influential citizen to lash o u t in h i s
furtivelv back to h i s b a r r a c k s a n d s p e n d s t h e
e v e n i n g ' g a z i n g at h i s c a r d b o a r d c u t - o u t . N o tjack
talk from h e r . N o a r g u m e n t s , n o r e s i s t a n c e . A n d
A n d t h e m e e k i n h e r i t t h e earth'.'
Comp Shelby, Mia. - S / S g * . A. L. CROUCH

c o l u m n o r p o u n d a w a y in his broadca.st a g a i n s t DETAIL

t h i s m e n a c e to o u r a r m e d forces. t h e fellows w i t h t h e flirty, flirty eyes c a n t c o m e
and entice her away When I consider how o u r lives a r e spent.
I a m r e f e r r i n g of c o u r s e to t h e song ' P a p e r W h e n e a c h n e w d a y . a p p r o x i m a t e l y 99 p e r c e n t
Doll." I w o u l d n ' t be at all s u r p r i s e d if il w a s Of all t h e d r e a r y . d r o o U y . m e a l y - m o u t h e d
a p o l o g i e s for a fighting m a n . Of e v e r y p a s s i n g h o u r .
p l a n t e d by .^xis agent.s. s e e k i n g to u n d e r n j i n c t h e
m e n t a l h e a l t h of A m e r i c a n m e n . L i s t e n : M u l t i p l y this g u y b y a c o u p l e of million w h o We scour.
I'm goi'i' to hmj n paper doll Ihul I can cull xiy ouui. p r e f e r this k i n d of e m o t i o n a l s e c u r i t y a n d y o u ' v e Rub and scrub
A doll t)»i( other fellows caii'tot steal. got a s i t u a t i o n t h a t C o n g r e s s o u g h t to i n v e s t i g a t e W i t h b r u s h , hot w a t e r , s o a p y s u d s in t u b
b e f o r e il does a n o t h e r t h i n g . T h e b a r r a c k s w a l l s , t h e ceilings a n d t h e floors.
S i n c e w h e n h a s t h e AmcMican .soldier tx-en
Ring y o u r p s y c h o l o g i s t ' s d o o r b e l l a n d ask h i m . .And d o o t h e r f a r - f r o m - m a r t i a l c h o r e s
afraid of c o m p e t i t i o n in g e t t i n g a g i r l . S i n c e
He'll t e i l v o u . A g u y c a n t s t a n d r e a l i t y b e c a u s e L i k e w a s h i n g socks a n d u n d e r s h i r t s a n d d r a w e r s ;
w h e n h a s he b e e n t u r n i n g to figurines i n s t e a d of
it's loo t o u g h for h i m . He tries to avoid it. H e W h e n I consider h o w . like exploited elves.
t h e flesh-and-blood t h i n g ?
finds s o m e f a n t a s y t h a t m a k e s h i m c o m f o r t a b l e . We d u s t a n d polish w i n d o w s , sills a n d s h e l v e s .
Look, .Most of o u r y o u n g m e n ai-e in t h e A r m y . H e likes it. g e t s used to it. After a w h i l e h e finds
We can'l afford lo d e v e l o p a n A i m y of escapists, A n d h o w . like t h e inost d o m e s t i c hqiisfraii in
h e c a n t go b a c k t o t h e real w o r l d at all. He's Bavaria,
clulching their paper dolls a n d r u n n i n g away b e c o m e a n e u r o t i c . T h e d a n g e r to t h e fiber a n d
Horn real live girls, all of t h e m h u n g r y for love W e "police t h e a r e a "
m o r a l e of o u r t r o o p s from t h e s i n g i n g of t h e s e And break our backs and muscles, spines and
a n d companion.ship. all of t h e m a n x i o u s lo h a v e insidious lyrics .stuns t h e i m a g i n a t i o n .
real live b a b i e s a n d increa.se t h e p o p u l a t i o n . It Ijones.
m a k e s m y blood boil, a n d if you'll b e q u i e t a I've been a b l e to see onl>- o n e r a y of h o p e . P i c k i n g c i g a r e t t e b u t t s , s t i c k s a n d tiny s t o n e s ;
m i n u t e you'll be a b l e to h e a r it Kvidently this song h a s not y e t c o m e to t h e a t t e n - T h e n m u s t I m o s t firmly a s s e r t :
.•\ s o l d i e r m a k e s a d a t e with a b l o n d a n d s h e tion of t h e N a v y . I w a s w a l k i n g a r o u n d t o w n
last w e e k (lookiiig for a p a p e r - d o l l s t o r e b e c a u s e W h o a r e w e fighting—Nazis or j u s t d i r t ?
s t a n d s h i m u p . All right. T h a i can h a p p e n S o in- T a k e back t h e c a r b i n e , rifle, a n d m a k e room
s t e a d of s h r u g g i n g it off a n d g o i n g after a n o t h e r m y girl d o e s n ' t l i k e m y GI h a i r c u t ) w h e n I s a w a
c o u p l e of s a i l o r s , a n d t h e r e w a s t h i s real live g i r l . For L u x a n d dust cloth, m o p a n d b r u s h a n d
girl t h i s g u y gets .scared—scared of b e i n g b u r n e d brooifi;
a g a i n a n d s c a r e d of c o m p e t i t i o n . H e s t o p s a taxi T h e s a i l o r s w e r e n ' t e x a c t l y t a l k i n g to t h e real
live girl, t h e y w e r e c h a s i n g h e r d o w n t h e block. W e ' r e h e r e , not to d o b a t t l e , but for s w e e p i n g ;
a n d a s k s t h e d r i v e r w h e r e hx- c a n get a p a p e r O u r mission isn't fighting—just light h o u s e -
doll. •Okay, b u d d y . " t h e d r i v e r w h i s p e r s o u t of T h a n k God we have a Navy.
Fori Custer, Mich. - P f c MARTIN WELDON keeping.
the s i d e of h i s m o u t h . ' I'll t a k e you. t h e r e J u s l AA8. Charleston, S C - S g t . CARl FENICHEl

Rank
There have to be
Chips of differenl kiiids.
Just a.s ill other yaiues: "
And some titey stripe
With cotton stripe.t.
Others tliey bur witli gold.
But, cotton or gold.
It mutters not.
For botli cash to the same iicvoiint
When tlie ceiiler
Of the table is cros-ted.
Camp Blanding. Fla. -S/Sgt. S. STOKES

PI XZLi: SOLI TiaiV.V

CHECKER STRATEGY. While moves 27 to 23. Black must
jump 20 to 27. . . . Wliite pitches 28 to 24, Black musi Jump
ly to 28. . . .White jumps 10 to 19 to 12. Black must jump
26 to 19. . . . White jumps 7 to 16 to 2,3 to ;i2 and win.s by
a mile. Pretty, no'.'
PUZZIE IN WINE, 1 -Fill the blue pitchei. 2- Pour blue into
led. 3—Empty red into cask. 4—I'our blue into white
5- Fill blue from cask. B—Pour blue into red, 7—Pour blue
into white. 8—Fill blae from cask. 9 ~ P o u i blue into white
"Thof's my wife. She always shows up on pay day." The required t w o quarts are now m the blue pitcher. A
-R P Conning EM3C Fleet P O . Son Francisco. C a l i f
little figuring should show .vou w h y .
WORD PUZZLE. 1—O.MO.N- 2—KH.^SEB. :t ENI.IVE.\. 4 "IOK-
i^^mmi^^mti MKNTOK. .1—U.NDKHGROUND.

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 same week, Don Hutson. the Green Bay
T ODAY wi.' thiow Uu i'ecord.'^ out the win-
dow, and with the reckies.s abandon of a
second lieutenant giving out Good Con-
duct Medal.s. we n a m e the outstanding sports
Packer end. took second place. This season
was the third he said he wouldn't play.
Biggest Mystery. The n a m e of a certain
performances of 1943. Brooklyn baseball player Leo Durocher hates
Coach of the Year. G u n d e r Haegg, the swift more than anybody else.
Swede, who» developed America's fastest Biggest Disappointment. Pvt. Evil Eye
milei. Haegg's great speed carried Bill Hulse Finkel, who has been in the A r m y more than
of New York University along so rapidly that a year and hasn't been able to hex his first
Bill set a new American outdoor mile record sergeant into a promotion yet.
(4:06 flat) while finishing five yards behind
the Swede. Biggest Myth. That GIs in isolated outposts
would be transferred after 18 months of ser-
Team of the Year. The Columbia Univer-
vice.
sity football team, which didn't win a game,
or even get a tie, and was optimistic enough Biggest Surprise. That Notre Dame placed
to show up every S a t u r d a y . only four guys on the A l l - A m e r i c a n football
Jerk of the Year. Bill Cox or Bucky Harris. team.
It all depends on which one you happened to Biggest Thrill. The Flying Fortress that
be listening to. tried to see how close it could come to the
W o m a n of the Year. Pvt. Ben Taylor, a roof of Yankee Stadium d u r i n g the World
Wac at Mitchel Field. N. Y., who forgot her Series without actually tearing away a sec-
m a n n e r s in a sparring match and really tion of it.
slugged Sgt. Max Katz, the former New E n g - Best Unassisted Double Play. B r a n c h
land middleweight champion. Rickey's feat of firing and rehiring Leo D u -
Book of the Year. T h e one J u d g e Landis rocher as m a n a g e r of the Dodgers in t h e same
t h r e w at Bill Cox, now e x - p r e s i d e n t of the breath.
Phillies, for betting on baseball games. Longest Hold-Out. Lou Novikoflf of the Chi-
Luckiest M a n of the Year. T h e sad Mr. cago Cubs. After'holding out for t w o m o n t h s
F r a n k Leahy of Notre Dame. He didn't see for $10,000, h e held out for almost a n o t h e r
how the Irish could possibly win a football m o n t h before getting a hit.
game all season. Leading Ground-Gainer. Buck (Bobo) N e w -
WEAR ' E M O R DRIVE 'EM? That's what Pvt. Bravest Man of the Year. The referee in som, w h o covered m o r e ground t h a n anybody
Luke Appling, former Chicago White Sox shortstop, the Ohio State-Illinois football game, who else traveling from B r o o k l y n to St. Louis
wanted to know when the supply sergeant gave him had courage enough to call both teams back to Washington this season. He'll get p e r m a -
a pair of jeeptike brogans at Fort Sheridan, III. on the field to run one more play 15 m i n u t e s nent possession of the t r o p h y n e x t y e a r w h e n
after the game had ended in a 26-26 tie. he reports to t h e Philadelphia Athletics.
HE Sgt. Joe louis boxing troupe will go over- Greatest Discovery in Sports. The punctured Most H u m a n e Act. The Chicago Bears
T seas after completing its U. S. tour at Camp
Butner, N. C , this month. While at Camp Hood.
eardrum.
Greatest Come-back. Joe Gordon of the
played Bronko Nagurski in the line instead
of at fullback.
Tex., Cpl. Bob Smith joined the troupe as a relief N e w York Yankees. He retired from baseball Most Promising. Old M a n Alonzo Stagg. He
man for 1st Sgt. George Nicholson, Louis' chief and announced his come-back all within the
sparring partner. . . . Give It. Mickey Cochrane, promises to outlive football.
the old baseball catcher, an assist on Great
Lakes' historic upset of Notre Dame. Cochrane
scouted the Irish in four games. . . . The USO
wanted Red Grange to accompany Lefty Gomez
and Jack Sharkey on their overseas junket, but
Grange couldn't make it. . . . Tennis aces Wayne
Sabin and John Faunce are attending the Navy's
Physical Instructor's School at Bainbridge, Md.
. . . CPO Bob Feller's latest pitching performance
was a three-hit victory over an Advance Naval
Base team in the South Pacific. . . . Eddie Simms,
the Cleveland heavyweight, doubles as an enter-
tainer and a boxing instructor at the San Diego
Naval Air Station. He's an accordion player
from way back. . . . Lt. Joe (Whitey) Beinor, an
Ail-American tackle at Notre Dame a few sea-
sons ago, has reported at the Marine Corps air
depot in Miramar, Calif., for assignment, prob-
ably as a ground officer with the Marine air arm.
. . . Sgt. Greg Mangin, who used to be a fine tennis
player, is now an aerial gunner on a Flying Fort.
. . . "I was robbed," wrote Frankie Rogers, former
Seattle boxer, in telling his parents of a fight in
the South Pacific in which he was awarded a
draw decision. But scribbled on the side of his
letter was this comment: "Robbed nothing'—
Galloway gave Frankie a good beating — The
Censor." . . . Jack Sharkey, now touring Mediter-
ranean camps, expects to remain long enough to
referee tbe finals in the Allied boxing tourna-
ment at Algiers. The GI who wins the heavy-
weight championship will get the gloves Sharkey
wore the night he won the world's title.
Ordered for Induction: Hal White, Detroit
pitcher; Clyde McCullough, Chicago Cub catcher;
Joe Dobson, Boston Red Sox pitcher. . . . Enlisted:
Bob Falkenburg, national junior tennis champion,
in the Army as an air cadet. . . . Reclasst/ied 1-A:
Buck Newsom, the most traded player in baseball
and now of the Philadelphia Athletics; Al Smith,
Cleveland pitcher; Marty Marion, star shortstop
of the St. Louis C a r d i n a l s . . . . Rejected: Ewald Pyle,
newly acquired New York Giant southpaw; Gus
Mancuso, veteran catcher of the New York Giants.
. . . Promoted: Monte Weaver, former Washington
Senator pitching ace, to first lieutenant in the
Eighth Air Force l i g h t e r Wing, England. . . .
Commissioned: Roy Mundorff, basketball coach at
Georgia Tech for 20 years, as lieutenant com-
mander in the Navy . . . Transferred: It. Comdr.
Jim Crowley, Fordham football coach, from South
Pacific rest camp to Admiral Halsey's staff" as
welfare and recreation officer for the entire
South Pacific area. . . . Decorated: Lt. Walter
Scholl, who threw Cornell's famous "fifth down"
pass against Dartmouth, with Silver Star, Distin-
guished Flying Cross and the Air Medal for en-
gaging in 72 sorties as a fighter pilot and shoot- Bock Newsom, the year's leading ground gainer, moved from Brooklyn to St. Louis to Washington.
ing down three German planes in North Africa.
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