THE AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE OCTOBER 1944 I've hugged my belly to the ground while regi- After we've won the war . . . ments of big guns stood up hub to hub and spUt While we're winning the peace! the night with flame . . .

I felt the earth quake under a tidal wave of tanks that rolled out of our lines and engulfed Here at Nash-Kelvinator, when our war job is the enemy and smothered him and beat him done, it will be our obligation to convert all the new

down into the ground . . . strength, all the new power to produce, all the new ability and skill and knowledge that have come to I've seen the sky blacked out by a thousand us so quickly under the driving necessity of war bombers' wings . . . and heard it cracked wide to production for peace. open by the thunder of their bombs . . . That means more automobiles than we have ever And yet . . . through the ruins of war, I've seen built before . . . automobiles even finer than the the road ahead. great Nash cars that are today proving their out- Out here I've seen the power of America at war, standing quality and economy. It means an even the might of free-born men who work and fight greater Kelvinator refrigerator than we produced

to keep their freedom. And I believe this power before . . . finer home freezers and electric water to destroy can be the power to create. heaters and electric ranges than have ever served in any household. And looking down the victory road I see a new

America . . . This is our program. This will be our part in the building of a greater, I see new cities rising up . . . new farms . . . new happier nation. For we believe all of roads, new homes, new schools . . . new fac- us owe to those who have fought to tories that will plan and build for peace the preserve it ...a strong, a vital, a grow- way they planned and built for war. ing America where all men and • The Army-Naw " women will have the freedom and the E" awarded to I see a place for me, and for the kids I'll have Nash- Kelvinator someday ... a place for every man ... a future opportunity to make their dreams Corp., Propeller true. Division, to look forward to ... a job to do . . . come

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J^EWS of the day brings in life. Curb this right and you stifle the us thrilling records of greatest single incentive for individual the superb achievements of progress and prosperity. our soldiers, sailors and In a peacetime economy, moreover, flyers. But news cannot competitive enterprise can give our young glamorize the tremendous men . . . the men who are risking their capacity of our farmers, lives in the cause of freedom . . . the best manufacturers, miners, chance to progress as far as their beliefs, scientists ... so highly desires and industriousness can take them. developed through American private competitive enterprise. We believe they will insist on this fundamental right. We think they are The imagination and initiative of busi- entitled to no less. ness men, large and small, are almost ^ ^ wholly responsible for the industrial When the world is once more at peace growth which has enabled America so

the automobile industry . . . manufac- efficiently to support its fighting forces.

turing, selling and servicing . . . should Yet neither initiative nor imagination again offer splendid opportunities to men can flourish for long without incentive. of energy and integrity. Incentive thrives only with freedom . . . we contend that in freedom of opportunity to take advan- And all undertakings, tage of openings ahead. worthy every individual de- America's growth has come through serves the right to pros- the individual's right to risk his time and per in proportion to his toil in the hope of bettering his station ambition and ability.

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The Editor's Corner CONTENTS COVER DESIGN being Navy Month, the cov- OCTOBER By Jay Hyde Barnum er of this issue, by the popular artist WHAT TO DO WITH THE GERMANS 6 Jay Hyde Barnum, depicts a Navy signal- By Sumner Welles man standing beside identifying markers on Illustrated by Oscar Cesare telling oncoming an invasion beach, the UNDERGROUND 9 vessels, "Best place to land." This is Mr. By Karl Detzer Barnum's first cover for the magazine. Illustrated by Tran Mawicke VICTORY COMBINE 10 By Hamilton Greene JOHN J. FLOHERTY S The Fighting Witti Sketches by the Author Coast Guard pays tribute to a part of the Navy which has been in the thick of SOUTH FRANCE LIGHTNING 12 By Joiln \V. Vandercook things for Uncle Sam since 1790, when it was founded. Mr. Floherty is best known VELLETRI 13 By Kric Sevareid as a writer of books, one of which. Sons of Illustrated by Carl Pfeufer the Hurricane, touches on the activities of THE FIGHTING COAST GUARD 14 that same Coast Guard that he tells us By John J. Floherty about. To illustrate this excellent article we Illustrated by CPO John J. {Continued on page 4) Floherty, Jr., USCG ITS YOUR UNCLE S AGAIN 16 By MT/Sgt. Maurice E. Moran, USMCR Montage by Henry J. O'Brien Sept. 15th-Oct. 15 th, HEROES ALL! 19 By Frank Kelley Mailing period for Illustrated by William J on Riegen OUR FLAMING WESTERN FRONT 20 Christmas packages By Frederic Sondern, Jr. Hiach brilliant drop of Old Grand-Dad Illustrated by Bettina Steinke — mellow, smooth, gloriously good to men and women IN THE PACIFIC IT S PIDGIN 21 — is a toast to bourbon at its best. By Howard Stephenson overseas. THE MAILS GO THROUGH 22 17 MILLION CUSTOMERS 23 Full directions in By T. O. Kraabel DOG TAG DOINGS 24 the box at bottom Conducted by John J. Noll FLIGHT TO GLORY 26 of page 22 By Boyd B. Stutler WALLY S PAGE 52

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Want a Quick; Clean, Comfortable THE EDITOR'S CORNER {Continued jrom page 2) TIME? Then Shave £W selected Mr. Floherty s son, Chief Petty try PalmoliVe Brushfess! ^^"i^^^^^'^r, Officer John J. Floherty, Jr., of the Coast Guard, whose work has appeared in many magazines over the past few years.

HAMILTON GREENE, whose virile il- lustrations have been appearing in this magazine for more than a year, gives you some idea, in his Victory Combine, of what has been going on in the northern section of France since the invasion of June 6th. Mr. Greene, based in England, has been under fire in plane trips over the battle zone on several occasions. Other phases of the operations in France are covered in the articles by John W. Vander- cook, war correspondent and NBC radio commentator, and Frederic Sondern, Jr.

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A wholly new spirit must be brought to life within the German people. To bring this about we shall impose total disarmament on this outlaw nation

What to Do with the ^emms

by OSCAR CESARE THERE is no decision which the Drawing American people must make as the day of final victory draws near ford to take the risk involved. The German tion to Hitler's doctrines. It is inconceivable which will more profoundly affect people were given such an opportunity in that the new generation of Hitler's Ger- the future welfare and safety of this coun- igig. They spurned it. many can ever be expected truly to support try than the decision they Avill reach as to We must remember that the majority the principles of democracy in a new Ger- the terms to be imposed upon a defeated of Germans of adult age during the gen- man republic. Germany. eration to come—those who will determine We cannot afford to forget that in the

It is already clear that the people of the German destinies if they are permitted to past eighty years the German people have United States have decided that for their do so—will be the youth of Germany of undertaken five wars of aggression. We own security this country must henceforth the Nazi period. Their minds and spirits cannot afford to forget that they have take full part in an international organiza- have been tragically poisoned by Hitler- invariably proved to be a destructive force tion. It would be futile now to discuss the ism. There is no man in our own services in Europe and in the rest of the world. We terms to be imposed upon the German peo- who has come into contact with them who cannot afford to forget that they have never

ple unless this country sees to it that the does not know the hatred and contempt yet made one constructive contribution to United States and the other major mem- which these younger Germans have been world peace or stability. bers of the United Nations cooperate, by taught to have for democracy, and for the To the German people their army will armed force when necessary, so as to en- other peoples of the rest of the world, and be the instrument by which German domin- force these terms, as well as to put down who has not recognized their fanatic devo- ation will eventually be brought about. Al- all other aggression which endangers world though the German General Staff today peace. knows that the collapse of Germany is broken up into Already many Germans are pleading, and Germany must be imminent, it is already making its plans for many sincere and liberal-minded .Americans separate states to break the hold a future war. In this objective it will have are urging, that after their defeat the Ger- of the Gernnan General Staff, the continuing and fanatical support of people can again be trusted to become German youth. man which otherwise will foment World law-abiding members of the family of na- At this moment, the German General War III, the former Undersecre- tions provided they are helped to set up a Staff is confident that the United Nations democratic form of government. The peo- tary of State of the United States will not long cooperate, and that the mis- ple of the United States cannot again af- here makes clear {Continued on page 48) —

"Young man—you have it!" said the Wizard of Menio Park

IT IS A warm August evening in do you explode the gas in the cylin- as it has moved forward in the crea- 1896. Around a banquet table on der—by contact or by a spark?" tion of 30 million cars and trucks. Long Island sit Thomas A. Edison On the back of a menu, Henry It is this keeping-at-it in research, and the country's leading men of the Ford sketches the details of his en- in engineering and production, that electrical industry. gine. Edison in his enthusiasm th umps has made the Ford name a synonym The talk swings naturally to poli- the table so hard the glassware tinkles. for smart, comfortable, economical tics, to Bryan and McKinley and the "Young man, that's the thing transportation, priced to serve the Cuban situation— then back again to you have it. Keep at it. Your car is needs of the greatest number. business. There is high discussion self-contained — carries its own power In peaceful days ahead, the new about storage batteries to drive Amer- plant — no fire, no boiler, no smoke, Ford, Mercury and Lincoln cars will !" ica's "horseless carriages". Someone and no steam. Keep at it reflect all the established Ford skills points to young Henry Ford, Chief Here was just the challenge and and inventiveness. Their advanced Engineer of the Detroit Edison Com- encouragement which Henry Ford styling will match their quality lead- pany, and says: "There's a man who needed most. It was something he ership. They will benefit by the newer has built a gas car!" never forgot. And through the years, knowledge of materials and tech- At once, Edison eagerly begins to keeping-at-it has remained a firm niques being achieved as Ford keeps ask questions— and to listen. "How tradition of the Ford Motor Company at it in making tools for victory.

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plane roared away and Sergeant "When you've given the password and THEJim Kearney swung downward in he's answered it," the captain had said, the darkness and wondered what "give him the message. He speaks some kind of reception he'd get. That English." was France below him. France full of Nazis. "He'd better, if he wants to talk to me," Dunn, who jumped with him, was some- Kearney had muttered. where up here but out of sight. Kearney "Tell him we hit the beach day after hoped they'd land close together. He hoped, tomorrow at dawn. He'll hear the guns. too, that they'd hit the field the captain had When they start, he's to blow up the been talking about. It had sounded easy, bridges. All of them. They've got plenty back there in the briefing room in England. of dynamite. Remind him of the railroad

Easy and safe. bridge. Do it first. Tell him to blow it up "You'll land in a field south of St. Leger," good and plenty." the captain had talked quietly, as if this "And after we give him the message? ' were just another practice jump. "Ditch "Lie doggo. Steer clear of Nazi patrols." your silk quick. Bury it. Be plenty Nazis "I don't aim to fraternize, sir." around. Go north to the road and then east into the town." NOW the ground was coming up swiftly. Now, floating downward, Jim Kearney And it wasn't a field. Those were trees. strained his eyes. Too dark to make out Either the plane had overshot or there'd anything. Kearney remembered the map. been more wind than they'd counted on. The village was a small one, just two streets Kearney's silk caught in a tall beech. He crossing in a little public square and a had the devil of a time freeing it. No sign couple of dozen houses and some cafes and of Dunn, either. Kearney buried his para-

a church. He was to count the houses on chute. . If that crazy corporal . . the right of the road and knock at the tenth Someone was breaking through the un- door. Four taps, two taps, four again. Then, derbrush like a herd of cows. Dunn, all if he were lucky, an old Frenchman named right, making more noise than a regiment Amond would open the door. If he weren't of new draftees. lucky, the Nazis might open it. "Aiming to wake up the whole country,'' Kearney whispered.

"I fear we are discovered," said the "It's my ankle," Dunn said. "Twisted it." old man. "Quickly, the message!" (Continued on page 34) Victory

BY HAMILTON GREENE, who also did the drawings Combine What air-and-ground teamwork meant to the Allies in France

Via U. S. Air Transport jrom Lo7idon

can't hear anything except the Over the target now. Two red flares drift YOUswelling roar of engines, but none past, trailing white smoke. Far ahead, the the less, you can see. A dirty pattern lead ship drops a long staggered line of of flak hangs in the air straight ahead. dots, and an instant later the intercom Sooty bursts of black suddenly and noise- snarls metallically, "Bombs Away!' Below lessly dot the sky. the folding bomb-bay doors three tons of One four gun position is tracking us ac- "frags" string earthward to join a spread- curately, its vicious bursts following our ing pattern of ragged bursts twelve thou- course with precision. The ship staggers sand feet below The group swings wide from a gigantic metallic slap, but pilot and and heads for the channel and home. co-pilot are immobile, expressionless. But on the ground, several divisions of

Pilot's hands move mechanically regaining Hitler's panzers have "had it!' Square on his place in formation. In the lead box, the button. Three hundred tons of close dead ahead, number three ship in the high packed, buzzing fragmentation. flight has a starboard engine afire, but it Day after day, the medium bombers of the holds on course. Not for long. Suddenly the Ninth Air Force stream over the channel air is bright with shattered metal. The to give such direct assistance to ground sickening smoke of that explosion hits us. forces operations. The mediums are those

At top of page. Marauders pour over the front line to pound a con- centration of enemy troops. Below, strafing American fighters, with nice timing, get out from under the rain of fragmentation bombs OCl'OBEK. 1944 II

Combat crews catch a truck out- side the briefing room. They wil

circle the field and drop off at their assigned plane

tough, fast twin engine bombers called for strategic targets, hammered rocket that Ills enemy has been pushed around. "Marauders" (the B-26) as well as the bomb sites near Pas de Calais, smashed They will have hit his Supply dumps and somewhat lighter and faster A-20. gun emplacements on the "invasion coast" scattered his freight. They chased 10 mil- The Marauder can carry up to two tons as well as marshaling yards and rail-heads, lion gallons of German gasoline all over of bombs, depending on the type of ord- disrupted communications. They hit France and they finally found it near nance in its racks. In two hours or less, it bridges, and how! They didn't leave a Rennes. I saw it disappear. can move from its base in England and be highway or railroad bridge over the Seine They will have hit his strong points, over the target to do whatever it has been from Paris to Le Havre. such as fortified hills concealing heavy asked to do. Then came D-Day. They hit the beaches. guns. They will have battered his troop Right now, their main job is close sup- They blanketed machine guns and mor- concentrations and pounded his panzer port to the man in the mud. But they tar positions. They flattened heavy gun divisions. And if by this time, there are have been over Europe for more than a emplacements. And now with the ground some of the supermen who figure they year now, and during that time they have troops well into the continent, they've may as well quit, they will find leaflets done quite a fancy piece of business. To just about hit their stride. This is tactical dropped by the Mediums urging them by begin with, they hit the airfields of France, support. It's close support and damn good all means to do so. Holland and Belgium from which the support. Before a dogface goes into an It takes quite a rugged lot of men to Luftwaffe rose to harass the heavies bound offensive, the Mediums have seen to it do this kind of job, day in, day out. And of course that's just what they are. Mission over. The Red Cross gets out the cofFee and sandwiches

Intelligence as list of question moke the next job easier South Fnnce light

rAGRAM IS a dreary cornfield. Get- accessible hinterland. The Cote d'Azur ful- roads lead down to the Riviera coast. Ex-

tysburg, even with its present fills not one of those requirements. Near cellent. It would be so much harder for the monuments and parking places, the coast there is )ust one good highway enemy to move in reinforcements. Rail- looks like a battlefield. The rolling Flanders The narrow gauge branch railway that used roads were lacking. But the United Na- plains round Chateau-Thierry seem made slowly, oh, very slowly, to wander along tions armies in the west have long since for war. World War II, that has broken so that sunlit shore, is about as well-fitted to learned to move under dieir own vast and many other patterns of the past, has staged carry military trafl[ic as the Toonerville sufficient power many of its boldest acts in settings that, for Trolley As for the Alpine masses that seemed sheer incongruity, set present battles apart The famous yellow sand beaches where to threaten our first narrow Riviera thres- from any that men have ever fought. sun bathing was first made fashionable are hold, they from the beginning were a cal- Despite the enemy's watchful expecta- numerous. But none is either long, or deep. culated asset and not a liability The very tion of some such operation somewhere, The majority are snuggled in little coves routes that might have seemed most im-

the astonishingly easy invasion of Southern that are backed by cliflfis. Most of those possible to follow were being opened for France— all such things being relative- cliffs, in turn, are topped by stony, tumbled us by the French Forces of the Interior. seems to have taken the Germans almost red-earth hills, planted in oranges, olives, The lessons which our fighters were completely unaware. One can almost sym- lemons, cypresses and wmd-whipped pines taught at Tarawa, learned at Kwajalein, pathize with their unreadiness for the light- and sprinkled as liberally with rich and and tried out in Normandy were further ning that struck on August 15 th. One would poor men s villas as a child's birthday cake improved in Southern France. There was have to look far along Europe's coast to find with colored sugar. a maximum of dependence upon that hard- a region that appeared less suited for a suc- Inland just a few miles one comes to est hitting of all invasion weapons, naval cessful amphibious assault. Quite apart a wide and pleasant valley. Ir was there, guns, and ship-fired rockets. Under the from geography, German generals are con- amid the fields of narcissus, jasmine and fiery torrent of 15,900 big-calibre naval ventional minded, and they are Europeans. roses that serve the perfume factories at shells— 12,500 of which were at least of A conventional European would find it as Grasse, that most of the paratroopers 12-inch calibre—the sparse German con- hard to imagine in advance a successful landed. But just beyond begin the foothills crete beach defenses, and the crowded,

. penetration of the Continent, begun of the Alps . . one can imagine the Nazi gaily painted resort towns which the enemy among the beach umbrellas, and the play- disapproval. Clearly, we were not going by might have turned into inconvenient foci time villas of St. Tropez and Cannes, as it the book. Instead, we wrote a new one. of resistance, were simply reduced to would be for an American to conceive of All these disadvantages, of course, had smoking rubbish . . . an invasion of the United States that started been calculated. In strong, inventive hands, As things turned out, we may have

at Coney Island. they were turned into advantages. Few overdone it. Certainly the Germans, and Between Toulon and Genoa there is not perhaps a few proprietors of now vanished a solitary harbor for ocean-going ships. villas, thought so. But the United Nations The nearest approach to an anchorage is We caught the Germans flat- do not do things by halves. Repeated prac- the gleaming blue and white yacht basin, at footed on the Riviera because tice in that most difficult of all military Cannes. operations, large-scale landings on an en- they figured we wouldn't strike Traditionally one expects the planners of emy-held shoreline has made us perfect there, says this noted war corre- a sea and air-borne invasion to select a Between the first day's Mediterranean coast that, A, is well served by roads and spondent-radio commentator sunrise and its setting, we were safe. railroads, and B, has a broad and generally And the enemy was sorry. At a forty-degree angle and exposed to enenny snipers the bulldozer was trans- fornning o trail into a military road

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Somehow, we had to take the heights dom- inating this semicircle of futility. Early on May 31st we learned back at Anzio that a totally unexpected thing had Velletri The brilliant operation that occurred, that two regiments of the Thirty- the Alban Hill defense snnashed sixth had silently pulled back from their By ERIC SEVAREID line of the Germans and nnade frontal assault, had circled around to the the defense of Rome an impos- right by side roads and had climbed the two-thousand-foot height behind Velletri sibility before the Germans were aware of it. It ing gentleman, who had served closely was a gamble: If the Germans could close with Walker in the last war. He was one their lines again, these men might be lost. of so many Americans of advancing middle City of Velletri lay white and If not, we had surely turned the key in the age who bore the physical hardships without THElovely, like a brooch of old gold, lock of the great door barring us from the murmur, who had nothing to gain and strung upon the highway which held Roman plains and the capital. By noon, everything to lose by going back into uni- the town nestled in the breast of the Carl Mydans of Life and I had tracked form. One of those non-professional, civil-

Alban Hills. Velletri faces to the south; it down the advance CP. of the Thirty-sixth, ian reservists who provide an indispensable is an ancient town, and Nero once sent his which consisted of several bearded officers balance wheel of experience, humanity and favorite mistress into exile there, but the squatting under a railroad trestle studying common sense to every combat unit. He tired and dirty men of the American Thirty- a map. waved his cane at us as we pulled away. sixth Division didn't know about that and Major General Fred Walker, the Ohioan It was the last time I saw him alive. they wouldn't have cared. They had been commanding these Texans, strode back and A husky young major with a full pack dug in the vineyards before the town for forth, speaking to no one. He had twice hitch-hiked a ride with us. He was John several days, harassed by snipers and submitted this plan to Fifth Army before Collings of Detroit, who didn't know the machine guns around them and eighty- it was accepted. Hitherto the Italian sum- route either, but who had to find his new eights from the German batteries above mer campaign had been a straight-away, outfit. He had just come from the Pacific. Velletri. They had to take the town some- bludgeoning business of hammering front- We left the highway, bumped across the how, they had to break the highway-rail- ally with our overwhelming superiority in rail tracks and thumped our tortuous way way defense belt here because these slopes guns, bombs and men. Nothing rcalh' subtle up a newly cut trail among cornstalks and formed the last German breastworks de- had ever been tried and this, like most vineyards. Only a jeep could have done fending Rome. subtleties, was risky. this, but there were sharp descents and They were getting nowhere very fast; I remember my friend Lieutenant Colo- sudden upthrusts where we thought the nor was the Thirty-fourth, faced with the nel Hal Reese, Philadelphia businessman jeep would go over on its back. same problem just on their left. Further and inspector general for the Division, smil- It was very silent. The sun filtered down to the left, the First Armored was being ing at us as he drew a map with his cane through the thick brush and trees. Then a badly shot up trying to get around the in the dirt, to illustrate the— route we must lone sentry stepped out, "Watch for the hills, and over to the right the Third and the follow- to mount the hill "if you get by snipers, sir." he said casually to Collings. Special Service "Commando" force were the snipers.'' Reese was a cultured, charm- Freddie, our driver, looked back at us, a moving very slowly upon \'almontone in question on his face. He had orders from their attempt to skirt the hills on that side. Drawing by CARL PFEUFER (Continued on page 49) Taking them in to a hostile beach is a highly hazardous job. Sometimes the coastguardsmen take part in the land show too

k MARINE, a strapping lad with a ('able in her war paint and grislv guns, slid /\ beribboned breast and leaning on by. i \ a cane, sat beside me on the upper "Great guys, those Coast Guards!" The deck of a Staten Island ferry- Marine, addressing no one in particular, boat. The great harbor of New York lighted a cigarette and took a deep drag. plenty of hot stuff flying around. At sparkled in the spring sunshine. Sea-stained "Yes," I said by way of conversation, Kwajalein the Coast Guard crew of a vessels from the ends of the earth lay at "they do a good job." sunken LCI fought in the foxholes just like anchor or moved cautiously through the "Back in Kansas," he continued, "we never the rest of us. They're good men to have heavy traffic. A Coast Guard cutter, formi- gave the C.G. a thought as a fighting outfit. around when a tough job is to be done." We kind of figured them The United States Navy is in hearty as a shore patrol to pro- accord with my friend the Marine. In the * eight wars in which we have engaged since * * tect our coast." * "You know differently 1790 the Navy has found these tough- now," I said. fibered sea-fighters capable of executing the * "I sure do," he replied. most difficult tasks with dash and courage. * * "The transport that took The engagement of the Coast Guard cut- The ter Campbell with fighting a wolf-pack of U-boats * my outfit across the Pacific * * manned and officered is "typical. * * was * * by coastguardsmen. The One bitter morning last winter—it was * * Coast Guard vessels that Washington's Birthday—the cutter Camp- * * bell was one of several * convoyed us were plenty vessels herding a * Coast Guard * busy fighting off the subs large and slow-going convoy westward * * and in our landing opera- across the Atlantic. A freezing northeaster * had kicked up a heavy sea that made rough * * tions it was the coast- By John J. floherty * guardsmen that handled going for the lightly built cutters and the boats that took us lllustrafed by through the surf with CPO JOHN J. FLOHERTY Jr.. USCG ^t Saipan and at Guam, as well as at other landings on hostile beaches fied. Then he realized that the explosion could be caused only by a spent torpedo. the ships that took our Marines and The U-boat that had sunk the freighter had Soldiers in were for the most part waited for the rescue ship and fired a tor- manned by Coast Guardsmen, tops pedo at her from extreme range. The tin fish in amphibious operations missed its mark, and having exhausted its driving power, exploded automatically. Almost immediately word was flashed to around him. A well-laid pattern of depth the cutter's bridge that the sound-gear had charges soon brought bubble-borne oil to picked up the echoing "psing—psing" of a the surface. Unfortunately oil shcks and submarine. The Campbell sped straight in even debris, while considered by officialdom the direction indicated. Presently a look- as strong evidence, are not considered full out sang shrilly, "Sub on surface at one proof of victory. o'clock!" Before a gun could be brought to It soon became obvious that the Camp- bear on her, the U-boat crash-dived. bell was in the midst of a large wolf-pack, In a matter of moments depth for as the cutter squared away, a fourth sub charges were rolling off the racks. was sighted several miles distant. Once The troubled sea broke out in great more her guns went into action, forcing the water boils that burst skyward in enemy vessel to crash-dive, only to be ham- thousand-ton clots and subsided in mered by the murderous impact of explod- acres of snow-white foam. Broad ing ash-cans and depth charges from the patches of oil smoothed out the cutter's "K" guns. heaving sea. Lowering skies, approaching evening and The Campbell, now some 25 miles flying spume reduced visibihty almost to astern of the convoy, sped toward zero. The convoy was still miles away. The her station on the left flank of the sound-gear indicated that the Campbell flotilla. She had scarcely gone half was surrounded by half a score of enemy a dozen miles when from her bridge subs. It looked like a lively night ahead. a corsair was sighted, blazing away As the cutter neared the convoy, a at what was evidently a U-boat. fifth submarine was sighted, her conning- Commander Hershfield changed the tower silhoueted against a phosphorescent cutter's course and made a bee-line smother of foam. Once more all hands for the scene of action. On sighting scrambled to battle stations, but the wary the approaching cutter, the U-boat Nazis submerged befor a single shot from dived in spite of several hits made by both the cutter's guns could be fired. Off the her adversaries. A pattern of depth charges racks and from "K"-guns depth charges brought great gouts of oil to the surface, were hurled so thick and fast it would be which, with the silence of the sound-gear, a miracle if the subsea boat could live was at least an indication that there was through the barrage. one less submarine to harry the convoy. Three hours later the Campbell took up Once more heading for her station, the her station on the flank of the convoy. cutter had proceeded scarcely more than Darkness had enshrouded the plodding fleet. a mile when "Battle Stations!" was sounded Men and officers on the cutter in a high again as another U-boat surfaced dead pitch of fury were set for a real working corsairs. Shortly before noon the Campbell, ahead. Her foredeck awash, a Nazi officer over by the U-boats. on the left flank of the convoy, was ordered clambered through the conning-tower hatch About midnight "Battle Stations!" again to proceed to where a freighter on the rear for a look-see. Sighting the cutter tearing sounded on the cutter, "Sub on surface to pick line had been torpedoed, and up through the heavy seas, throwing white thirty degrees off starboard bow!" Men survivors. water high and wide, he ducked below and wearied to exhaustion, turned to as if the Hershfield, the rang Commander CO., started to submerge his ship as geysers from call had been "Chow!" Almost instantly a for full speed, swung his ship around and the cutter's gun-fire began to sprout up all second sound {^Continued on page 2g) sped away on his rescue mission, taking solid water on deck with every sea. The convoy kept steadily on its course, leaving the sinking ship to shift for herself—this was merely following orders. Arriving as the wounded vessel slid under the surface, the Campbell hove to and began the work of rescue—and so began a perilous period during which the thin- skinned cutter was a sitting duck for any enemy sub in the vicinity. As the last of the survivors was lifted on board, a violent explosion occurred close astern. It was as if a half-dozen depth charges had gone off at once. A glance at the racks on the fantail of the cutter showed the battery of ash-cans all In the glare of the searchlight the conning tower was seen secure. For a moment the CO. was mysti- to be taking a tremendous hammering from the big guns —

Its Your Uncle's Again ^^^^^

Left, Old Glory goes aloft. Time, ten minutes after Marines hit the Guam beach, July 20th

BY MT/SERGEANT MAURICE E. MORAN, USMCR

MARINE CORPS COMBAT CORRESPONDENT

Guam, first American possession to be taken over by the Japs after

Pearl Harbor, and its neighbor island of Tinian, are safely in our hands.

With Saipan they constitute a dagger aimed at the heart of Nippon Ready for the kill on Saipan. Below, the first wave gets a welcome break

NEWS story from the Mariana Is- streets; from house to house, exterminat- A lands told of the use by our forces ing Japs as they went and dying them- of a "secret weapon" so devastat- selves by the scores en route. ing nothing human could live with- I in 100 feet of it. THIS story will be largely a Marine story, Undoubtedly, this particular innovation because it was written by a Marine in warfare played an important role in the from the accounts compiled by Marines. But

conquest of Tinian where it first was used. the story of Guam also is an Army story. And it helped also in the progressive rout Lieutenant General Holland M. Smith, of the Japs on Guam. Marine commanding general in the Pacific But the weapon—and it's no secret who knows a fighting man when he sees which brought Saipan first, then Tinian one, congratulated the 77th Division for and now Guam into our domain is bottled- their "excellence." Said General Smith, in-bond, loo-proof courage. It was pure "This was a team job." "moxie" which propelled American Ma- Coming from a man who has seen his rines and soldiers from shell-raked beaches, troops take Tarawa, Saipan, Tinian and through impenetrable jungles where they Guam that establishes the Army's right to were sometimes forced to move Tarzan- equal credit for Guam. For an on-the-spot story of the fashion by use of hanging vines; up fiercely We needed Tinian. Two hundred and conquest of Saipan, see page 19 defended, cliff-like ridges; into village {Continued on page 42) FDR YOUR FIGHTING MAN^ BUY MORE BONDS

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Heroes AlU

By FRANK KELLEY

The conquest of Saipan was accomplished in the face of the toughest resistance American fighting men have ever faced. The man who can prove he took part in

that operation is entitled to your gratitude

Sketches by WILLIAM VON RIEGEN

Ready for anything shaggy red whiskers and tells you that the "Banzai!" For six hours Americans traded job done by his men in twenty-three days' bullet for bullet, grenade for grenade. And By wireless from Saipan constant fighting was so magnificent he when our boys ran out of ammunition they THROUGH these portals pass the cannot single out anyone for special praise. darted up to the Japanese bodies, grabbed best damned fighting men in the That in a nutshell is the story of Saipan rifles and ammunition clips and used those. world." —one of teamwork by land, air, surface and Hundreds of these enemy fanatics got back So reads the sign over a bar in submarine forces. to a Marine artillery post. Marines leveled Honolulu. Out here on Saipan as on every As long as Americans talk of Saipan their guns and fired point blank. The Jap- other fighting front these Americans have they'll talk of "Bloody Friday." That was anese fell in rows. But they kept on com- proved themselves just that. With a pro- the day four thousand Japanese remnants ing. The Marines then fired with cut fuses digious amount of blood, sweat, tears and — of 20.000 originally here decided to make and when the Japs got too close they began prayers—they cracked open this gateway to a fanatical banzai attack. ricochet fire until shrapnel began flying Japan and in 24 days, seven hours, twenty They knew they were doomed, but they back into the Americans' faces. That's minutes of fighting installed the newest wanted to take more of those "American where these doughty Marines became in- American colony just fifteen hundred miles Devils" with them. At dawn, July 7th, they fantrymen. They seized their carbines and from Tokyo. rushed our lines. They came with crude put up an infantry scrimmage line. They It wasn't just a handful or even a score spears, with rusty rifles, with clubs and fired and lobbed grenades until they ran of men who were the heroes on this job. knives. They'd partaken liberally of Sake out of ammunition. But the Japanese thrust Saipan's heroes are numbered in tens of and made their thrust with loud howls of (Continued on page 45) thousands—every mother's son who played a part, however small, in this greatest long- range, amphibious operation of all time.

Your hero is a sweating, bearded rifleman of Marines or Army who crawled on his stomach and wiped out that Japanese ma- chine-gun nest with a grenade. Your hero is the amphibious tractor driver who took his cargo of fighting men over treacherous coral reef and onto beaches under a shower of artillery and mortar fire. Or you will raise your glass to the doctors who with red-rimmed, tired eyes worked by flashlight under tents at the front while snipers' bul- lets whined. Or to the ten Army nurses who have worked sixteen hours a day since their arrival and wouldn't go home for a million dollars. There are the airmen and naval gunners who softened Saipan's defenses in advance of D-Day. And there are the sailors and Coast Guardsmen whose task may have been simply carr>'ing messages or manning brooms and who ask you wistfully what's it been like ashore. Lieutenant Colonel Joseph T. Hart of New York, commanding the fighting-Irish Army regiment, rubs his He bounced the grenades off the corrugated iron shield 20 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine

He picked up his phone as a WREN slid a marker, denoting a Gernnan vessel, onto the grid of the chart

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By FREDERIC SONDERN, JR. London Beyond the entrance in the face of the cliff, British and American ships guarded by massive steel gates and Marine imagination, doesn't it?" my guide re- THEwhich pumped huge quantities of sentries with tommy guns, a seemingly end- marked. This is headquarters of "Build-up men and equipment across the less flight of stairs hewn out of the solid Control," with its two branches, Move- Channel into Normandy despite rock leads down into the earth. From broad ment and Turnaround. German mines, torpedoes and planes, and corridors, dozens of long halls radiate like In the central plotting room a bespec- in the teeth of the worst summer gales for the passages of fantastic rabbit warrens. tacled colonel stood in front of a large wall 20 years, performed one of the naval feats Neon tubes shed artificial daylight; air map on which the positions of our troops of history. is fresh and cool, pumped by a gas-proof were neatly blocked in. "B Division's des- From a dozen English ports, hundreds of system from bomb-proof vents. In huge tination is altered," he said, looking at a AUied ships cross the Channel daily accord- communications rooms row upon row of dispatch just off the ticker from France. ing to a master timetable which specifies chattering teletypes and radios—served by He turned to a second map showing the everything from regiments to telegraph tidy, quick little WRENS—link nearby location of all American forces still in Brit- poles. One emergency follows another—yet control and plotting rooms with every mili- ain. Colored pins indicated B Division was almost every cargo gets to the right place tary and naval nerve center in the United already moving overland to the port origi- at the right time. From start to finish, it is Kingdom and across the Channel. "Looks nally selected. "Change their orders imme- a miracle of organization. rather like something out of Jules Verne's diately," he snapped, "and notify Turn- It is all directed from caverns deep un- around and Movement." derground in a hillside on the English coast. Drawing by BEHINA STEINKE ( Continued on page 30") X;TOBJiR. 1944 21 Jne Poetic

descension of Canton merchants, who found the traders of the old East India Company were just not up to learning Chinese. For a Mandarin who had mastered the 4000 char- acters of the Chinese alphabet and their

infinite variety of combinations, it was not too tough to add the strange new dialect from across the sea. In fact, the earliest book extant on Pidgin English was published in Canton and titled "Words Used by the Red-Faced Barbar- ians." Copies of this work still exist. Amer- ican scholars had paid scarcely any atten- tion to the Pidgin until this war but now "Bel belong him he hot" manuals and glossaries pour from the press- es. a Yank makee talk-talk our side as being based on their long-time When a harassed G.I. tells his C.O.,"Me- WHENlongside fellow clean a native of New acquaintance with the whites. The Japs are him mambu belong musket, Guinea or the Marianas, he strangers and are hated and mistrusted. On sir," that may mean he's just been boning doesn't have to resort to sign many islands captured by the Japs and now up on Pidgin while he cleans his gun-barrel language, for Uncle Sam is teaching him a being freed by our armed forces, communi- and it may be all right—if old Gimlet-Eye lingo that will get him by. cation was possible only by use of Pidgin finds no spots in said gun-barrel. "Cut-him grass belong head" is the way English. The Nips lost plenty face by having Our Army acquired a little Pidgin in the you ask for a hair-cut and if you want a to use a version of their enemies' language. Boxer uprising days in China and in the mosquito net you inquire "He got one- Pidgin is probably spoken as a second Philippines around the turn of the century. fellow kalamboo he-stop?" language by more people than any other Where do you suppose the time honored That's Pidgin Enghsh, the language de- tongue. There are said to be more than 300 word "chow" came from? It is said to be a vised a couple of hundred years ago by dialects in the Pacific Islands alone, and corruption of "tsau," the Chinese word for traders along the China coast. Now it has scores of variations of Chinese. Actually, wine, and refers to a meal at which wine is spread, with variations, throughout the Pa- members of one New Guinea tribe often served. In China, that always is a formal cific from Australia to China's deep interior. can't speak the talk-talk of another, so when feast ; but if the average G.I. thinks of wine Wherever your boy may be, if he's fight- they meet, both resort to Pidgin English with his meals, it's only a dream. ing the Japs, he has had to pick up at least as a compromise. It is accepted so univer- The word "Pidgin" itself is an attempt a smattering of Pidgin and to judge from sally that it is often used even in official to pronounce "business." We'd have a lot the constant trickle of queer talk that shows documents. of trouble trying to talk Chinese or a Malay up in letters to the folks back home, a good Look not down on our Oriental and trop- or Melanesian language correctly, so we many words and expressions are going to ical neighbors, however, for Pidgin had its can be tolerant if the Pacific people have a find their way into American slang, if not origin in the mingled politeness and con- little difficulty with our language. For one good usage, when the boys come home. thing, there is no "R" in Chinese, so they It's a 1944 kind of parley-voo that recalls have to substitute "L." Hence they say to old timers how they used to struggle PiDGIN "velly" for "very." They also like to put with such things as oofs and vin blank and a final double vowel, usually "EE" on is chemin de fer and vooley-voo promenade, Perfume ^water belong words, so when you want a ham and cheese to say it phonetically, in World War I. To- stink." on toast you say "hamee toast cheesee day in Normandy some of our lads are A monkey is '^smail fellow topside" and you get it. For a lemonade, learning the of their the order is: "Work him moulie, onetime same kind French dads old man belong tail." acquired a generation ago. In the North sugar." A piano is ^^blg fellow box African campaign they picked up native If you like a guy, in the Pacific lands, words galore. you fight him in teeth he you say "You fellow belong number one • But Pidgin, the language of the Pacific, cry." too much." You pronounce the words isn't just a rough attempt to adopt the na- An accordion: "Small fellow slowly, in a sort of singsong. But ordinarily tives' names for things. It is a highly com- box you shove him he cry Pidgin is spoken rapidly and it's no cinch plex language of its own. The simplest way to learn. you pull him he cry." to explain it is to say that it consists of When a soldier is sore you say "Bel be- English words with Chinese—or Pacific An ant: Small fellow some- long him he hot." That hterally means his Island—grammar. thing he come eat'm all belly is hot. The word "bel" stands for Army officials in the Southwest Pacific finish." mind and spirit as well as the bread-basket. attribute the friendliness of the natives to {Continued on page 40) Till AMERICAN LEGION Magazine Mails Go Through

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This is a story from a coastal village in England. Through this village passed the mail. I guess I have seen more human, pa- men who went to France; and through it still pass the men going to France. In this thetic, and dramatic scenes here than I hamlet, there is a Navy Mail Station, one of the many scattered throughout the have ever seen in my life or hope to see

United Kingdom. The mail station is a hut on the lane which is the main thorough- again. fare. Last week, from the Chief Mail Specialist came this terse, intense letter on what "So if they want to send their money jnail means to these men and why he and his men work tirelessly to get it through. home, if they want air mail envelopes, or

if they want their mail, whether it's 8

"It is now 3:15 in the morning. We are $120,000 worth of money order business. o'clock in the morning, midnight, or any still open. We have been since 7:30 A.M. This is a seven day week. There is no lib- hour, they are welcome here. That is my

The man on the money order window has erty. There are no USO's. attitude on the Navy Mail Station. I don't been here now \%V2 hours except for chow. "You perhaps wonder why we work give a damn if it's 8 hours or 48 hours, or

The man on the stamp window has gone these hours. Why we don't close down the 72 hours. If they get what is coming to to bed. He is 50 and I am a bit easy with windows? Why at the end of 8 hours we them, I am completely satisfied. That is him. His window closed at 11:00 P.M. don't finish for the day? I'll tell you why. the least that can and should be done.

I have been to bed once in the last five There are a lot of nice kids over here. They "I am tired. Really tired. I would give days. I have not had my clothes off for two are that young. But they did not ask why. anything to just have a hot bath and fall weeks. We are dispatching, which means These kids are here today and gone to- into a nice soft bed and sleep for about 48 additional work. Tonight I had to go out morrow. They live for one thing. MAIL! hours. This is a little town; yet, from here in the bay to load mail on a vessel. No There is and never will be anything as began the big adventure... Some day I will block and tackle. Each sack loaded sepa- important as that word. It means every- tell you about it... if I ever see the States rately and hoisted with no rope. I don't thing to them. You would have to be here again. In froht of this hut passed the kids, have enough help so I make the trip my- to see the outward effect. The expressions, the young men you now read about. A lot self. Since May 24th we have done about the exclamations, when they do receive of them won't pass it on the way back..."

ABOVE ALL, M-A-l-L V-mail is best, because it's speediest—arid absolutely sure. Write as often as you can, and

keep your letters cheerful... Christmas packages for members of the armed services overseas

should be mailed between September l^th and October 15th. Packages must not weigh more

than 5 pounds, be more than 15 inches in length, and 36 inches in total dimensions,

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more than a stone's throw Today it is IITTLE By T. O. KRAABEL, Director preparing to play a primary from the White House in Washing- role in the welfare of perhaps millions of i ton stands a huge otifice building National Rehabilitation Committee returning service men and women. It al- which may very well be the virtual ready handles the claims, insurance, hos- The American Legion capitol of the nation for years to come so pitalization and pension payments of over far as millions of our population are con- 1.000,000 World War I veterans, one cerned, and yet so quietly and quickly did The extent to which this colossal agency hundred thirty thousand of the Spanish- it rise to national stature that few realize succeeds or fails may easily determine American and Civil Wars, plus thousands how it got there. whether there will ever be another bonus upon thousands of widow and orphan cases.

It is more than just a building. It is army encamped in Washington. And yet .\nd it also deals with hundreds of thousands the home of the United States Veterans as important government bureaus go—it is of W. W. I veterans who still carry gov- Administration, to which Congress has so as age goes a mere fledgeHng. ernment insurance policies. given the stupendous job of fitting service Back in 19 14—when the First World After this war it will be the one agency men and women back into the social, civic War broke out in Europe— the Veterans through which some 17 million veterans of and economic life of the country. Administration did not exist. ( Continued 07t page 40)

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News and Views of Todays G Vs around the Globe

Tech Sergeant James E. Moalc, right, and RFC Ike "Doc" Cheroff, Medical Detachment, 264th Infantry, Carr.p Rucker, Alabama, engage in a game of Service Ball. The game was invented by "Doc" to meet a demand for more athletic activities for his buddies

DON'T understand why he gnnizations. Legion Posts and other groups vented a game that could be played by hun- WErates nothing better than a are continually collecting athletic equip- dreds of soldiers with a minimum of facili- PFC. because as a contributor ment for the Armed Forces and distributing ties, but he dubbed the game "Service Ball."

to the morale-building pro- it to all of the posts and stations in the We see "Doc " Cheroff and Tech Sergeant gram of his outfit down at Camp Rucker, countrj' and throuKhout the world. James E. Moak (at the right of the pic-

Alabama, he's tops. Glowing accounts are But it took this PFC. Ike "Doc" Cheroff, ture) of Cheroff's own outfit engaged in this regularly published of the splendid facilities of the Medical Detachment, 264th Infantry, game, which "Doc" explains as follows:

provided our men and women in service for 64th Division, in training at Camp Rucker. Necessity is the mother of invention. athletic activities—something to occupy Alabama, to invent a game which took care Desiring to play pingpong or table ten- spare time and to of the overflow from activities such as base- nis in one of the day rooms, we had all the paraphernalia H. keep them in shape. bail, basketball, football, and so on, where ^4' on hand paddles 4^ There is. of rnursc. team membership is limited. Ike was well — and ping-pong the major leagues' ccjuipped for his duties, as before donning balls—but no table Ball and Bat Fund, the uniform he had served as Director of ^ 0 225S, or net. Long asso- benefit for which ball Athletics, New York City Department of ciated with recrea- games are staged. And Welfare, after obtaining his M.A. at Colum- tional and athletic newspapers, local or- bia University in 10.^6- He not alone in- activities, I simu- —

OCTOBER, 1944 25 lated a 9x5 foot playing surface, chalking PROUD fathers of sons the standard dimensions on the floor in service are legion, mid-line marking a line to serve as in lieu and in the Legion there of a net, and another line dividing the are but few of the 12,000 playing service lengthwise. Posts that cannot boast of What is more, with a little ingenuity such fathers. A rough esti- and a change in rules a new game was mate months born called Service Ball—for posterity and many ago identification purposes—employing the best placed over 300,000 sons points of ping pong and paddle tennis. of Legionnaires in uniform. Rules are similar to those of table ten- But there are other proud nis, and either singles or doubles may be fathers among the Regu- played. Twenty-one points constitutes a lar Army men who, though single" game, while doubles go to twenty- too young to have served five. Good or expert players employ the during the First World best tactics of tennis, handball, squash, given long and badminton, volleyball and similar games. War, have Games for WACS, WAVES, SPARS and faithful service. We show Marine Women Reserves go to 15 points. one such father and his The advantages of Service Ball are mani- son in the photograph in fold. You can play the game minus the a neighboring column of use of a table or net, or special space or this department. With the facilities and it is just as good outdoors — picture came this report as indoors. Serving as a mass sport, it can (now slightly delayed) be utilized on a large scale in Recreation from Eagle Pass (Texas) Halls, Service Clubs, Day Rooms. It is also excellent for use on ships. The game Army Air Field: is more strenuous than ping pong or pad- It was a proud ser-

dle tennis and is much faster. Players have geant who snappily sa- A proud moment for veteran Regular Army to make use of their larger muscles and so- luted and then pinned Sergeant James E. Grider when he pinned the the silver wings of an the game serves in a physical fitness and silver wings of an AAF pilot on his son, Lt. Army Air Forces pilot rehabilitation program in addition to its George B. Grider at Eagle Pass Army Air Field recreational value. on his son, 2d Lieuten- ant George B. Grider, observer in the Orient, wandering 20 years old, following the commission- story: "When lonely GI's at the Army Air OUR ing exercises recently at the AAF Train- around our airfields and posts and the Field here at Dalhart, Texas, complain of ing Command's Eagle Pass Army Air battle front in China, picked up these ran- getting no mail, Corporal Terry Odum, Base Field in Texas. dom items: Unit mail clerk, is all ready for them—with Sergeant James E. Grider, veteran of A GI stationed in China sums up his a card in the slot. seventeen years in the Army, was sta- feelings this way: When I get home I'm "Odum reaches into the file and comes up tioned close to home for many years until going to put a big bowl of rice in the cen- with a postcard he received recently. It is several days ago when he was transferred ter of the dinner table. Then, if anyone to Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. Prior to his addressed: 'To the Soldier who didn't get reaches for it, I'm going to cut his arm transfer, Sergeant Grider was drill in- any Mail.' off! (This department has a distinct im- structor for the R. O. T. C. unit at Iowa "Postmarked at Kansas City, and written pression that that gag is a descendant of State College and lived with his family in in big, childish script, the card starts off the one concerning the post-war protest college. Ames, the seat of the sweetly and explains that it was written against beans following the First World The soldier father who welcomed the first War. And how about Spam, fellows?) 'just to cheer you up.' It closes with 'I army officer into the family fold at the Ad- To that anecdote was appended this said- love you all.' Postcard never fails to bring vanced Pilot School near Eagle Pass, has locale: a grin to the dogface who missed getting a to-be-true story from the same three other sons: Aviation Cadet Howard Captain Marshall of the sugar-report at Mail Call. Joseph W. G. Grider, 18, who is beginning his flight Noll Headquarters Company, Service of Sup- training at the Aviation Cadet Center in John J. plies, "Somewhere in China," stages a bar- Clerk San Antonio, Texas; James, Jr., 10, The Company racks inspection every Saturday morning and Morris La- awards plaque to the cleanest and a and Verne, II. neatest room. One week a crew took this After recov- so seriously that they hunted matter up ering from his shellac and improvised some drapes to happy reunion make the bare Chinese barracks more at- with his eldest tractive. son, Sergeant Not so of GI's one roomful who call Grider said, themselves the "Secret Six." They stuck "Now I'm ready to fundamentals. Their room was clean to start sweat- and neat, but it had no frills. Along with ing out my next the shoes-laced-to-the-top-and-arranged- furlough, when neatly-under-each-bunk the captain found I expect to pin this poem: wings on my GI's of the World, Unite I second son." Down with curtains, frills, and paint That's for schoolgirls, which we ain't. FROM Staff Ser- Everything here is Government Issue geant Gene (Lacquered floors, I really miss you!) Richner of the Air Except the pin-ups—Lana Turner Base Unit, Army Serves us for a Bunsen burner. Air Field, Dalhart, If use of elbow-grease and broom a Decides the issue, here's the best room. Texas, comes 'Signed) The Secret Six heartwarming Ihe AMERICAN LEGlUiN Magazine

flighi to Glory

For sixteen years Mount Holly (New Jer- sey) Post has held a memorial service PIONEER in the field of promoting at the scene of the crash of Captain goodwill with our neighboring re- Emilio Carranza, Mexican goodwill flyer A publics. Mount Holly (New Jer- —a pioneer good neighbor program sey) Post had a definitely estab- lished good neighbor program long before our Government hit upon the phrase as decrip- tive of a national policy. High praise has Members of Mount Holly Post mobilized that Mount Holly Post formed its program been paid this Legion unit by representa- when news of the crash came to the county of international amity. tives of two great Governments for its con- seat town and, though some twenty-five Taken to Mount Holly, the Burlington tribution to the good neighbor relations miles distant, the Legionnaires set out to county seat town, the Legion unit mounted between Mexico and the United States. recover the body and pay due honor to the a Guard of Honor around the body, which It all began sixteen years ago when dead aviator. A path had to be cut through remained on duty until members of the Captain Emilio Carranza of the Air Corps the dense, underbrush in order to carry Mexican Embassy staff arrived from Wash- of the Anny of Mexico crashed to his death young Captain Carranza out, and the ington. The guard was then replaced by a in the Burlington County pines, near Chats- wreckage of his plane, which thousands detail of soldiers of the United States Army. worth, after completing a goodwill flight to had watched with admiring eyes, was strewn But when the casket left Mount Holly for the eastern part of the United States. The over many acres of ground. It was then, return to Mexico City it was draped with dashing young airman, whose plane had in the attention given to the small details, the United States flag of Mount Holly Post. flashed its silver wings over many American And when the body of Captain Carranza cities, had caught the admiration of the was laid in its final bed in that portion of National City public, and his air tour, which served to a\mos\ ^rd{c/r the Cemetery at Mexico acquaint many people with the progress known as the "Rotunda of Illustrious Per- to yv\ail -Hils \f made by our Southern neighbors, was fol- sons" the flag was removed and placed in lowed by thousands through newspapers and the National Museum, where it yet remains. the radio, much as they had the Lindbergh Captain Carranza made a tragic end to solo spin across the Atlantic the year before. his tour on July 12, 1928. Just one year He had made a glorious flight, then on the from that date the members of Mount first leg of the return to his homeland he Holly Post conducted the first public made his flight to glory. memorial service at the scene of the crash —

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with the announced intention to continue wreath on the tomb of Captain the purpose of Captain Carranza's mission Carranza in the presence of the promotion of peace, goodwill and under- civil and military dignitaries, standing between Mexico and the United and at the annual memorial States. Every year since that first meeting, services in 1939, Captain Pow- on the Sunday nearest the anniversary, the ell, Lieutenant George B. Bit- memorials have been held, attended by ting and the late George De- members of the Mexican Embassy staff, Bienneville Keim, Chairman United States Government officials, the of the Commission on Historic Governor and other New Jersey officers, by Sites, were decorated with the Legionnaires and by the general public. The Merito Militar, (Military latest memorial service was held on July 9, Medal of Merit), for their out- 1944, when more than 500 persons made a standing work in promoting reverent pilgrimage to the isolated Car- better relations between the ranza Memorial Park. peoples of two nations.

The annual memorial service is not all Recordings of this year's this Post has done. In 1935 the Legionnaires memorial service were made, interested the State Commission on Historic with Spanish translations add- Sites in the program and ten acres of land ed, and were broadcast the in the pines near Chatsworth, including same evening by NBC and the crash site, was purchased and estab- Columbia short wave to Mex- lished as Carranza Memorial Park. This ico, Central and South Amer- public park is under the joint supervision of ica. The recordings were made Mount Holly Post and the Commission on by Miss Emilia Veve of the Historic Sites, and the annual memorial Office of Co-ordinator of Inter- services are held under the joint auspices American Affairs. of the two groups. In that same year the The memorial opened with a school children of Mexico gave pennies to solemn high field mass sung provide a fund for the erection of a monu- in the presence of the Most The veteran transport American Legion carried ment at the place where the body was Reverend William A. Griffith, the Marines to Guadalcanal and Bougainville; found, and this monument, built of stones Roman Catholic Bishop of now it's back home for a new coat of paint quarried near Mexico City, was erected by Trenton. Addresses were de- Mount Holly Post. Later a road was made livered by Acting Governor to the Park, paid for from State funds, and Howard Eastwood of New Jersey; Major uss American Legion it is now easily reached by motorists. Roberto Vega Fuentes of the Mexican Contact has been maintained with Mexico Embassy at Washington; William G. Mc- WHILE The American Legion and its by exchange of visits. In 1937 Captain Lean, of the Division of Mexican Affairs, members have been serving the Harold Powell, acting as the official repre- U. S. Department of State, and by Depart- war effort on the home front, the Transport sentative of Mount Holly Post, placed a ment Commander Aaron Smith for The America?i Legion has served staunchly on American Legion. Wreaths were the seas. A lot of Legionnaires have won-

placed on the monument by dered about this good old ship and what it Ricardo G. Hill, Mexican Con- was doing. Now the story can be told, and sul General; Commander James Staff Sergeant Keyes Beech, USMC, of Mcllvaine of Mount Holly Akron, Ohio, a Marine Corps Combat Post, and Edgar S. McKaig, Correspondent, tells it. Staff Sergeant of the Philadelphia Inter-Amer- Beech, before he took on the writer-fighter ican Center. Music was fur- job, was with the Akron Beacon Journal. Here's nished by the U. S. Naval Air what he says about the Legion : Station band of Lakehurst, "The Marine sergeant halted half way New Jersey. Legionnaire A. up the gang plank and exclaimed: T never Forrest Bright, of Wrights- thought I'd see her again!'

town, Chairman of the Car- "He was not talking about a girl, but a

ranza Memorial Committee, ship. The ship was ,• acted as the master of cere- the USS American monies. Legion, a 2 3 -year- The picture at the head of old transport which this piece was taken during has dropped an- the presentation of a Mexican chor in practically tiag to Mount Holly Post by every South Paci- members of the Mexican colony fic port from New of Philadelphia, as a mark of Zealand to the appreciation. Solomons, and In the picture, flanking the carried Marines monument to Captain Car- through two inva- ranza, left to right, are. Com- sions. mander James Mcllvaine; "It would not be Gustavo Ortiz Hernan. Mexi- correct to say there Brigadier General Ray Andrew, New Mexico's can Consul to Philadelphia, and was a touch of Department Commander, admires an Air Luciano Davalos, holding the affection in the Force emblem rug woven by Private Moore sergeant's exclama- 28 The AMERICAN LEGION Mcgazine

1941. A year later Marines went over the side of the Legion to land on Guadalcanal. Then the Jap planes came. Anti-aircraft gunners aboard the Legion shot down three of them. 'They thought the transports would be easy pickings,' said a petty officer, 'but they didn't know what a wallop we packed.' A few days after the initial landing the American Legion left Guadalcanal with Ma- rine wounded. 'We were mighty glad to get out of there,' said the petty officer. "Torpedoes have cut the wake of the Legion more than once, but none has ever hit her. 'She was the fifth fastest transport in the South Pacific,' said a gunner proudly. "The Legion and her crew had a bad time of it after landing Marines on Bougainville. There was an air raid alert and all of the transports headed for the open sea. All, that is, except the Legion. She ran aground on a

This old Southern mansion is the new home shoal. While two tugs worked frantically to get her off before the of Wilmington (North Carolina) Post—its enemy planes could arrive, the crew sweated it out for the next first after years and years of paying rent three hours. Luckily, the Jap plane's never got through. "The Legion has hauled tens of thousands of troops in invasion and practice landings, and now has" her fourth skipper since the beginning of the war. After nearly two years overseas she returned to the States—to a West Coast port—for a new coat of paint and service as a training ship."

Mat Weaver ALOT of the physically handicapped veterans of the First World . War were made independent and self-supporting through the occupational therapy courses established in the various hospitals for patients during their convalescent period. Some became skilled hand-craftsmen and found a ready market for their work. Now there is a new class of hand-craftsmen—the wounded and injured of the current war who are domiciled in the convalescent centers. In the picture on page 28, Brigadier General Ray Andrews, who is also serving currently as the Department Commander of the New Mexico American Legion in addition to his job as Adjutant large chenille by The fine home of C. W. Francy Post of Oteen, General of New Mexico, examines a mat woven Private S. Moore of Jonesville, Virginia, who is a patient in the North Carolina, which serves well the pa- C. Convalescent Center at Albuquerque. tients in the Veterans Administration Facility AAF Legion Homes THE historic old Bridger mansion at Wilmington, North Caro- lina, is the new home of Wilmington Post, and there is rejoic- ing in the membership of this heretofore homeless Legion unit. With W. K. Rhodes chairman, a committee appointed by Commander Norwood S. Westbrook raised the money for purchase of the man- sion at $25,000, one-fourth of the cost of construction. An addi- tional $15,000 is being expended on repairs. Another type of home is that owned and occupied by C. W. Francy Post of Oteen, North Carolina, which has had a long history of service to the veterans in the adjoining Oteen Veterans Admin- istration Facility. Half of its membership of 864 are patients at the Facility. The Post has highly effective rehabilitation and relief programs. Mrs. Mattie B. James of Asheville left the Post $65,000 It's a craclcerjack and it's all paid for, this when she died in 1928, and the major part of this, set up in a trust modern home of the old-fire-fightin' Hurley fund, is a backlog against rainy-day needs. Lee Spicer Post of Harrisonville, Missouri Back in 1923 Hurley Lee Spicer Post, Harrisonville, Mo., organ- ized one of the first Legion fire departments. But not until after years of paying rent did it go about raising the money to buy tion; his indicated tone that he had thought he would never itself a home. An auction and other fund-raising stunts supple- the see American Legion again. But veterans of the Pacific, in mented $1500 in notes placed with Legionnaires and other inter- any discussion of transport life, will say: 'Brother, if you haven't ested citizens. Two years after its dedication, on Flag Day, 1942, been aboard the Legion you haven't lived.' when Past National Commander Harry Colmery of Topeka, Kansas, "The Legion has had quite a career. Built in 1921 as a passen- was the principal speaker, the building's mortgage was wiped out, ger-freighter plying between New York and Latin-American on July 8, 1944. ports, she was equipped by the Navy as a transport in August, BovD B. Stutler OCTOHKK, 1 944 29 THE FIGHTING COAST GUARD

{Continued from page 75) in pattern from those of her sister ship, the Makin, Tarawa, Saipan and Guam, in fact contact was reported to the bridge, "An- Spencer, or the rugged little 165 footer, wherever men and materiel are transported other sub at about the same bearing!" Icarus, or any one of the undisclosed num- from ship to beach.. Hershficld, on the starboard wing of the ber of Coast Guard vessels that have fought The men who handle these landing craft are cutter's bridge, bored into the darkness with and are fighting in the desperate battle of often more exposed to enemy fire than are his keen eyes. Less than a ship's length the Atlantic. the men they transport. The coxswain, for awa\', an enemy sub was sneaking through Not always has the tide of battle been instance, stands high above his passengers, the dark, her bilges shouldering off great favorable to the Coast Guard. The cutter a perfect target. Casualties are many but patches of phosphorescence as she rolled in Hafnilton, while returning from a rescue there is always rivalry for the hazardous the rough sea. "Hard right rudder!" Hersh- mission, was torpedoed and lost. The cutter post. Escanaba, transferred field roared at the wheelsman, "Ram her!! from the Great Lakes, Coxswain Tarr's experience is typical of —RAM HER!" had rescued 133 survivors from a tor- what thousands of coastguardsmen are un- A sweet ship to handle, the Campbell pedoed transport only to be blown to bits dergoing every day all over the world. spun to her new course with the agility of while on convoy duty; all but two of her When Tarr's transport reached Tulagi. a polo pony. Her starboard searchlight men were lost. word was passed that Marines were to be probed the spray-laden darkness and Scarcely had we entered the war when it landed on the beach to wipe out Jap posi- gripped the conning tower and foredeck of became evident that much of our effort in tions. Tarr was assigned to Number -one the submarine, disclosing several of the the conflict must be amphibious. American boat in the first assault wave, while shells Nazi crew preparing to man her forward troops and American supplies in astronom- and machine-gun bullets were coming over deck gun. A hurricane of machine-gun fire ical quantities would have to be landed on thick as hailstones. He led the invasion swept the sub's decks clean while the scores of beaches scattered over the Seven boats to a coral reef, the first landing point. Campbell's heavier guns riddled conning- Seas. Where there are beaches there are Standing high in his pulpit, he shouted to tower and hull. The two vessels, drawing problems of surf and currents and treacher- his charges, "Keep low in the boat!" ous tides deadly to all closer together, were soon but a boat's but men who have Machine-guns stitched white seams in the mastered them in the length apart. Only the machine-guns of the rough-and-tumble water around his craft. Occasionally he could school of experience. far back cutter be depressed sufficiently to As as 1938 hunched his shoulders up around his neck score the target. the United States Navy, forehanded as al- on Like a giant battering- when the whistling bullets came too close. ways, drew on the Coast ram the Campbell struck the sub a shatter- Guard for its cen- Although a high surf was running, the Mar- ing blow a little abaft amidships. on tury of experience in battling the sea. Men ines were landed without a casualty. On hit- the cutter were flung to the while In the autumn of that year deck on the surf- ting the narrow beach they sprinted to cover. every fiber of the ship quivered under swept beaches of the Atlantic the coast, tests There was no cover for Tarr as he backed impact, but they fought on, cursing lustily were begun in which the combined expe- his boat through the surf and began his two- between bursts of machine-gun fire. rience of Navy and Coast Guard were ap- mile journey back to the transport. A Jap plied to the With a sickening rending of metal the sub development of surf-landing sharp-shooter picked Tarr out as his special the cutter apart. technique and of craft and drew For a few mo- types to replace the target, but although many of his bullets conventional moments it was hard to tell which vessel boats used previously. The came mighty close, Tarr remained unhurt. the badly knowledge gained in those surf-tests was more wounded. The U-boat has On arriving at the transport Tarr's boat was in full glare of the cutter's searchlight been utilized in building the such astonishing again loaded and again headed for the beach drifted astern, her crew leaping or being invasion craft as the LST, the LCI, the and again returned, always under fire. Then washed overboard by the heaving seas. In LCM and LCIL. These craft and their began the ferrying of supplies and ammuni- a few moments she sank as a chorus of Coast Guard crews are familiar now to tion and two more hazardous trips. cheers from the coastguardsmen went fighting Americans in out Guadalcanal, New- The following morning word came from through the storm. Guinea and the Aleutians, at Casablanca, shore that the Marines were running low on This story of the Campbell differs only Oran and Sicily, on the coral beaches of ammunition. Tarr loaded his landing barge and made two round trips under fire. On his second trip_ he was strafed by Jap planes but somehow got his barge and himself back to the mother ship none the worse for what they had come through.

I tell of Tarr and his exploits not because they are unusual but because they are typi- cal of what coastguardsmen contribute to invasion operations wherever they may be. Many of our largest and most vital trans- port ships are manned and officered by the Coast Guard. In war the operation of these vessels calls for more than the super-sea- manship and smooth operation that made them models of efficiency in peace. The way the Coast Guard has lived up to its traditions hasn't surprised me, for many a time, even in the days of peace, I have heard on cutters and in surf stations these men of the sea repeat on many occasions their homely credo: "You've got to go out. but you don't have !" to come back , — —a — 30 Tilt AMERICAN LF.GION Mana-Anr OUR FLAMING WESTERN FRONT

{Continued from page 20) into the monster's belly, the skipper— ties and a long row of trucks which he is In Turnaround there was a slight flurry tough old sailor, a United States Navy chief to take back to France. Every minute as the coloners message came in. A Divi- petty officer for years—looked disgusted. wasted on hards means hours wasted by sion is a big unit to handle. A British naval "Holy smoke!" he growled. "Thought I was Allied forces in Normandy. officer looked at his operations board where going to have some rest. Nothing but ferry The tower had flashed us and the rest racked slips of cardboard showed the name, service ever since D-day. Bringing me all of the convoy into position and as we made type, capacity and speed of every ship avail- the way from Y port for a lot of stinking out to sea the destrojers which the Na\y able in every harbor. "We have not enough tanks that leave oil all over my decks." had promised took station abeam. Overhead at X port to load them," he said. "Send to He was still irritated as we threaded our the first of the Spitfire patrols which cov- Y port for those LST's and there are two way down to "sailing area" where convoys ered us all the way across, streaked through freighters here we can use. Have them at are made up. "Got a letter from my wife," the sky. "Can't ever leave the bridge on X port tomorrow morning. They can load he snorted. "Says now that D-day is over this trip," said the skipper. "Too many and be off with the evening convoy. And I have nothing more to worry about." He things happen all the time. Been through tell Naval Plot about it." One WREN chewed on his cigar. "Ha! That's a good the whole Pacific business—Guadalcanal started changing cards on the board, an- one, that is. If you don't run onto a mine and everything—but I never struck as other turned to the telephone with a list or an E-boat doesn't hit you with a tor- screwy a piece of water as this one. Place of the ships wanted, a third went to tell pedo or Jerry doesn't smack you with is too crowded." Naval Plot. bombs while you sit dried out on the beach The convoy channels are narrow and, The naval plotting room adjoins Turn- like a duck—you got nothing to worry since the Germans sow mines every night around. Here a naval commander studied about. And if you don't hit one of those from planes, the slightest deviation from the message. "B Division from X port right hard rudder!" he bellowed, as an irre- swept lanes means peril, quick and lethal. O. K.—we'll put on more destroyers." He sponsible little coaster flying the flag that In the cold gray dawn a flotilla of mine turned to Air. "Important Division going indicates explosives aboard suddenly changed sweepers was plowing its way toward us, over tomorrow night. Might strengthen course and began crossing our bow too taut wires trailing behind. Suddenly three your patrols." Air nodded and made note. close. "See what I mean?" he asked, breath- dull, roaring blasts in quick succession sent The plotting room is fascinating to watch. ing heavily. I saw. huge geysers of water spouting skyward Around a 20 by 30 foot table chart of the All around us were ships and more ships almost dead in our path. "See what I Channel sit a dozen WRENS and WAAFS —hundreds of them—big, little, old, new. mean?" the skipper demanded. "No elbow wearing earphones. As every convoy and Coasters, trawlers, Liberty ships, converted room." Pathetic debris of ships less fortu- every warship in the Channel area moves, liners, battleships—British and American nate—there have been surprisingly few a girl moves a marker on the chart. Naval, coming in and going out. There is strict floated by now and then; an empty raft, air and army officers look on from a dais. order in the seeming confusion, however. a bloated corpse, a soggy life jacket. But As I watched, an unperturbed WREN slid The port has incoming and outgoing lanes, in almost steady procession we met and a red marker denoting a German vessel assembly and anchorage areas for every passed ships coming the other way. In our onto the grid of the chart. One naval and purpose. From an observation tower over- lane were other convoys ahead and astern.

one air officer took up their phones. Within looking it, which is Turnaround Control's Not once did I see the horizon clear of minutes three convoys had changed course, outpost connected directly with the plot- Allied vessels. and destroyers and flying boats were con- ting room in the underground fortress, a Then—the coast of France; quite unlike verging on the marauder. Meanwhile a signal lamp flashes incessantly. Incoming the coast I saw on D-day. Just off shore WAAF translated a report from RAF patrol ships fly code flags indicating the number was a forest of masts and funnels like the onto the board. A yellow marker denoted of wounded or prisoners they have aboard. one we had left in England. I counted over enemy mines in square T-17. — "Probably The tower flashes "Landing ship number 200 craft off our one beach. The— "Control dropped from planes last night," explained 135 proceed to hard seven." On hard seven Ship" winked signals at us "Beach at a naval officer as he looked for the nearest military police are ready to take over his point K." The skipper made derisive noises.

sweeper flotilla. prisoners of war. The tower flashes again "Goddammit," he rumbled, "this is where Some hours later, many rniles away, we and landing ship 237 heads for hard two, we sit down on some rocks again." The met part of B Division. Up and down the to find ambulances waiting for his casual- landing of an LST on the Normandy coast road stretched tanks and trucks as far as one could see. An irate, weary GI from Brooklyn gave me his views on war. "Can ya 'magine dat?" he asked, and spat dis- gustedly. "All day we goes one way. see. An den we toins around an' comes all de way back. Does dat make sense? I ast you. It's dem damned brass hats. Dat's what it is." His "brass hat" was an officer in Movement who had looked at a map that showed which roads in southern England were being used for what. He radioed the Division Commander and control points on the road, word passed down through the

Division, and many GI's found it all very unreasonable. Next afternoon I stood on the bridge of a landing ship tied up to a sloping con- crete apron called a "Hard"—loading some of B Division's tanks. As they slithered and clanked over the lowered landing ramp It's H-Hour of D-Day! Up' in the skies, above The men and women of Oldsmobile get the Channel Coast as far as the eye can reach, a special "lift" out of the fact that their rheir played a i^fLET'S KEEP one long, never - ending chain of tow - planes products and handiwork '^ Invasion. Shell, .vx^

. . . guns are loaded . . . aimed . . . and Fire- motto: Keep 'em Firing! . . . Keep 'em

Power, "King of Battle," roars into action. Advancing! . . . "Let's get it over with' fast. DIVISION OF GENERAL OLDSMOBILEKEEP FIRING MOTORS . — —

32 I'he AMERICAN LEGION Maeazine fA/s sucA is strangely unorthodox procedure. You IVas wait until tide is at highest level, ram your ship into the sand, and wait again until crazy e/ream the swiftly receding tide leaves you high a and dry. Doors in ? the bow then open, the landing ramp is dropped and the tanks roll out onto solid ground. When the tide rises /ONE NIGHT an aerial gunner again, the landing ship yanks itself clear named Joe hit the sack after a by a winch pulling an anchor dropped well day of skeet shooting practice (they behind in deep water. "What a way to run

train 'em that way these days) , and a navy," sighed the skipper. "All my life I presently he found himself in a , learn to keep, off beaches. Now I ram

strange and wonderful situation . . them." While our long row of landing ships wait to dry out and' unload, important decisions 2 THE WAR WAS OVER, and he was in ".'JOW," JOE CONTINUED/'How about are being made by tireless men in a bomb a store with the biggest supply of some of those long-range Remington and shell shattered building which houses sporting arms and ammunition he'd ever ^ Express shells? And some Shur Shot?" ofi&ces of the beachmaster and NOIC seen. "Got the shotgun I fell in love "Certainly, sir," the salesman said. "A Naval Ofificer in Charge. Besides B Divi- with in gunnery training?" he said. "This case of each, perhaps?" "Siu-e," said Joe. sion, other priority cargoes are to be rushed Remington Model 31?" the salesman "Wrap everything up, and charge it." to the front from freighters and coasters said. "Yes," said Joe, "the gun with the not amphibious. The naval commander fin- 'ball bearing' action ..." gered a sheaf of cargo schedules and dis- patches from the front. Signal Corps Cher- bourg urgently needs telephone poles. They are on ship, number 347. Flak batteries in F sector clamor for ammunition. On coaster in anchorage. General G wants 105 milli- meter shells in quantity in preparation for a thrust down the peninsula. They are on Liberty ship number 27. Navy and Army —commander and colonel—go into a hud- dle a dozen times daily. Things begin hap- pening all along the beach. From a huge, well-camouflaged parking lot, amphibious trucks, called ducks, wad- dle to the beach and into the water toward the Liberty ship for General G's shells. Back and forth they go like water beetles from ship to trucks waiting on shore. Along 15 miles of beaches, British and American, this goes on all day, and then

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needs of a mcdern army. Medical supplies, an LCT, literally throw it ashore, catch thing kept following me! I'd go hard right, food, shells of various calibers are usual another one, heave it into the first." The I'd go hard left. Finally it smacked an LCT enough. But then there are items like cob- anchorages were caught by surprise. "Had that couldn't get out of the way and flat- bler's nails, dental chairs, flashlight bat- to keep my engines going almost full speed tened it like a hammer flattens a tin can. It teries, telephone switchboard plugs, wicker just to stay where I was. And that night was horrible. baskets for carrier pigeons. . . . Good God, what a night! Ships were For three days and three nights the wind On the wall of supply headquarters in barging around out of control. All of a sud- blew—full force. In the conference room London is framed the poem about the den," said the skipper, I thought a mountain back in the fortress under the hill Nav>' battle lost "all for the want of a horseshoe was coming down on us. And the damned decided to use heroic measures. Loaded nail." Normandy beachmasters know the LCT's and LCI's were to launch themselves poem by heart. A quartermaster officer near onto the beaches. "Have you ever tried the front complained, "If we get one more surf-riding on a 'Landing Craft Tank'?"

load, the damned peninsula is going to burst asked the skipper. His boat wound up 300 at the seams." feet beyond the normal high water mark German reconnaissance planes come over with a broken back- The desperate expe- every night but bombing raids are few and dient, nevertheless, worked. Montgomery far between. None have been heavy enough and Bradley got enough ammunition. to disrupt the flow of traffic for long. Build-Up Control threw away its plan and Officers in Turnaround, skippers and made up a new one. beachmasters have a way of shuddering Hardly a sign remains that there ever when they tell about the storm. was a storm. You see two or three wrecks Early on the morning of June 19th— remain. But most of the craft were patched plus 13 day—the wind in the English Chan- up. Bulldozers made channels for them nel suddenly freshened and changed direc- through the sand and they were floated out.

tion. Meteorologists said it was a local dis- Within a week after the storm was over, turbance, and would be over in a few hours. the cross-channel ferry service was landing Whatever their barometers and charts almost double its contemplated capacity promised, the wind grew stronger, and from every day. the worst possible direction. By six o'clock "I beef about a lot of things," said the

in the morning it had reached gale velocity. skipper. "But I certainly hand it to the Huge, angry waves began rolling in on the guys who thought this thing out. Brains beaches. "God, what a thing to watch," "Stop worrying, Mesenjouslciwitzburg! organization, that what it is. See what I said a beachmaster. "A wave would catch There's no bullet with your nanne on it!" mean?" "

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(Continued jrom page g) ing the rear door. The sky had cleared and It was past noon and Dunn had broken "Needs exercise," Kearney diagnosed. a few stars broke through. Amond moved out his K-ration when the Nazi officer "Follow me." swiftly and silently. This was a walled gar- strode into the garden. He was a small It took ten minutes to find the road, ten den. At its foot a- small lean-to was propped man, plump, red-faced, with a ghost of a more to move along it to the edge of the in a corner. "Inside," Amond commanded silky mustache and a pair of close-set eyes. town. Kearney remembered the map. This in a whisper. "Remain. Do not move till He was barking at two soldiers in the was the place, all right. Dunn was limping you have the instruction." kitchen and he lifted his stick and pointed behind him and they had passed the third He left, running toward the house, and toward the shed where Kearney hid. door when they heard the patrol. Dunn was they crawled into the darkened shed. Heels clicked on the pathway just out- for running, but Kearney dragged him under There was a lot of hollering out in front. side the shed and Kearney heard a slight some bushes and they lay, not breathing, New voices joined the clamor in the sound at his side. Dunn was lifting his while three Nazi soldiers marched past, street, then there was a crash as the door carbine, taking aim, as the officer's pudgy muttering to one another. After they had of the house fell in. Someone came to the face popped into the low doorway. been gone three minutes, Kearney stood up. kitchen door and flashed an electric torch Kearney knocked Dunn's carbine aside "Come," he jerked Dunn's sleeve, moved into the yard and went back inside. Some- just as it fired. toward the tenth door, then knocked. He one else, in a deep voice, was demanding: "Don't get us into more trouble," he had tapped out the signal twice before the "Amond! Hi, Amond!" warned and ducked out into the garden panel opened a crack and a man's voice "Think he maybe took a powder?" Dunn with Dunn swearing at his heels. said something in French. whispered. "If that old guy's run out on The Nazi officer, a lieutenant, allowed ."' "The cows are in the river," Kearney us . . his astonishment to show. whispered the password. "Shut up," Kearney kicked him. Some- He yelled orders at the Nazi soldiers and "Church bells will ring," the voice re- one else had come to the kitchen door and they disarmed the two Americans and stood plied and the door swung wider. "Enter, was poking around outside. He, too, went glowering at them, their rifles lowered. with rapidity." ba( k into the house. "Can you understand "How long were you here," the lieutenant "So far, so good," Kearney jerked at that talk the krauts are putting out?" wanted to know.after he'd marched his cap- Dunn's sleeve and started in. But Dunn Kearney wanted to know. tors up the street and into a cafe on the held back. "Studied it in high school. Got a few public square. Another officer, older and "Look!" the corporal was pointing. Across words. Seems 1 ke the old boy's gone, all even heavier, was sitting at a marble-topped the narrow street someone was moving rap- right. How'd you like that? Runs out an' cafe table, going over a stack of papers. ." idly and silently, a dark blur slipping along leaves us. . . Kearney said: "I have orders not to an- ." in the shadow. Kearney pulled Dunn in- Kearney leaned forward, getting a better swer questions. Geneva convention. . . side and old Amond bolted the door. view of the back of the house. He could "In the America you shoot our poor Ger- "You were observed," he commented, hear men tearing furniture apart and finally man prisoners, every day, for the sport." grasped Kearney's wrist and led him for- a shutter crashed open on the upper floor "That's a lie," Kearney said. ward in the darkness. Dunn's boots made and a man yelled out. The lieutenant flipped a monocle to his a scraping noise on the stone floor. "Come, "Says Amond's gone," Dunn translated. eye and stared hard. quick!" "Wants to know what to do next. This guy "There is no discipline among the savage Amond closed another door behind them, with a voice like a top kick, he says to go Americans, too, I see. I ask you again, then lighted a candle. Kearney looked looking in the town." where is Amond?" around. This was a kitchen. A blackout Dawn came slowly, wrapped in fog. Cor- Kearney shrugged, but said nothing. shutter covered the only window and there poral Dunn lay cursing his twisted ankle "What message you bring him," the older was a closed door which probably led into and complaining at Amond's deserting them. officer broke in. the back yard. The Frenchman was in- Kearney kept an eye on the house. All "How could I have a message for him?" credibly old with skin drawn tightly over night the Nazis had been tramping in and Kearney asked. believe the lieutenant his cheekbones and on his chin a trickle of out of it and prowling about the garden. "I do not you," white beard. Only his eyes were lively. "I fear we are discovered. Quickly, the message !

Kearney repeated it. Old Amond's tongue darted in and out, wetting his lips while he listened.

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—when the Storm Boats

hit the beach!

"Ya mean you've never seen a jeep before?"

"Duck," Kearney whispered. "Close to the wall." BELLY-flat and heads down, nearly a ton of rugged fight- The Nazi had taken three steps down ing men and their battle gear cover the bottom of each when the crash came. The cellar shook and the roar filled the narrow space. The lieu- racing Storm Boat when it slashes for the beach — hits the tenant seemed to be hurled upward and he shore — leaps bodily from the water and disgorges its crew! fell, feet kicking wildly, as beams cracked ceiling sagged. The Nazi's pistol High speed, and the darting maneuverability of an angry hor- and the clattered to the step and Kearney had it net are the Storm Boats' defense against hostile fire. The great without thinking. The lieutenant was turn- Evinrude "storm boat motors" provide both, make the Storm ing over slowly on the floor when Kearney Boat one of the most spectacular of small assault craft. fired one shot and he ceased to turn. "Let's get out," Kearney yelled. Dunn was stunned and only looked at him stu- IThe speedy Storm Boat is broken useful for many other tasks! pidly. Kearney dragged him up the Here one is shown tearing over stair. The cafe was on fire. The whole front the water loaded with a 37-mm was gone. The older officer lay dead on the antitank gun, together with two- floor with a German soldier beside him. man gun crew, ammunition, and And peering in from the street stood old the operator. Machine gun squads Amond, plucking his thin beard. He showed and mortar squads are other all his four teeth in a grin when Kearney Standard storm boat "cargoes". appeared, pistol in hand. "They have fled, who could," Amond said. "You receive my message? Good. Storm Boat on patrol. The 2 Come, now. This direction. The Nazi swine, hull draft is only a few inches, they have gone the other way. Oiii, the and like all other Evinrudes the Allies are here. One mile north of the town big motor tilts readily over ob- the fields. The structions, making the Storm already they are crossing Boat adaptable for operation in enemy has not one bridge to cross. This the shoalest of waters. The bottom way. please. Step inside this house." is well compartmented to make Once inside the house he turned quickly. the boat practically nonsinkable. "Every bridge! Will you, when you re- turn, carry for me a message? For my re- ward, m'sieur, I ask the one thing only. 3 The high efficiency of the I have heard much of the weapon you call storm has ."' boat motor won the jeep. Perhaps, after the war. . . for it other important assign- ments. Here are storm motor power heads built to power high- OUTFIT NOTICES capacity portable at present pumpers . . . SPACE restrictions permit us "last-ditch" fire fighters for use to publish only timely announcements when a ship's main equipment of scheduled reunions. Prospects are bright has been blasted out of action! that before long we can resume the general service to veterans' organizations that this All of Evinrude's facilities are now devoted to production for Vic- magazine has always rendered. tory. With peace there will be sparkling new Evinrudes for all to Details of the following reunions may be enjoy. EVINRUDE MOTORS, Milwaukee 9, Wisconsin. obtained from the Legionnaires listed: North Sea Mine Force Assoc.—Annual reunion and dinner, Hotel New Yorker, New York City, Oct. 18-19. Arthur Pertsch, pres., N. Y. Chap., Cotton Exchange, New York City. ' 3d Pioneer Inf. Vets. Assoc.—Annua! reunion, Nicollet Hotel, Minneapolis, Minn., Nov. 3. Joel T. EVINRUDE 2. Johnson, secy., 411 Essex BIdg., Minneapolis tOUTBOARD MOTORS Base Hosp. 116—Annual reunion. Hotel McAlpin, New York City, Nov. 11. Dr. F. C. Freed, secy.- treas., 59 E. 54th St., New York 22. U. S. S. Connecticut VETS. —Convention-dinner, Hotel Martinique, New York City, Nov. 4. Fay M. Knight, natl. ship's writer, c/o Hotel Martinique. EVERY DOLLAR YOU INVEST HELPS SPEED VICTORY . . . BUY MORE WAR BONDS —

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formed on -Aug. g, 1921 to take over the work of numerous agencies and wipe out the confusion that existed. It took over the war risk insurance bureau from the Treasury, the Federal Board for Vocational Educa- tion and public health service relating to war veterans. Two appropriations totalling $35,600,000 were voted to provide hospital, dispensary and medical facilities, thus lay- Many Other styles ing the groundwork for expansion of plant. $6.50 to $8.50 .At present there are 94 V. A. facilities Denver West Sllgtitly Higher throughout the country. W. L By the time another three years had passed, the World War Adjusted Compen- W. L. OOUeitS # SHOC CO.. BROCKTON tS. MASS. sation Act became law and on June 7, 1924, the ten-year period that began with the Stores in Principal Cities first War Risk Insurance in 1914 was ended Good Dealers Everywhere by enactment of the World War Veterans' INVEST IN VICTORY — BUY BONDS Act. Under this act—often referred to as the most liberal ever granted to warriors by 100 any nation—claims procedure was liberal- PROOF ized, hospital and medical attention for ASTHMA both service and non-service-connected dis- ability was expanded and the Veterans 'stfmmu.anm If yoa sufferfrom Bronchial Asthma Paroxysms, from coughs, Bureau was definitely on its way to becom- ea?ping wheezing—write quick fordaring Free Trial Otfer- Inquiries from so-called "hopeless" cases especially invited. KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKY ing a government agency of important NACOR, 936-R State Life BIdg., Indianapolis 4, Ind. national stature.

By July 3, 1930, Congress, without pres- sure from any veteran group, saw fit to pro- On Feet For vide a pension for non-service-connected disability cases in the form of disability Over 30 Years allowances. At the same time the name Allen's Foot-Ease has been bringing relief and of the Veterans' Bureau was changed to comfort to tired, burning feet for over 30 years. Sprinkle it on your feet and into your shoes, and \'eterans Administration and its activities enjoy the refreshing comfort it brings while you were enlarged. stand long hours at your work. Even stiff, hea\'y. new or tight-fitting shoes lose their terror when Meanwhile, however, some abuses had you use Allen's Foot-Ease. But good old Allen's does even more. It acts to absorb excessive per- been growing, too. A commission of Legion spiration and prevents offensive foot odors. Helps For BPOWN-FORMAN DISTILLERY CO., INC. leaders was named to investigate disability- keep feet, socks and stockings dry and sweet. real foot comfort, remember it's Allen's Foot-Ease of LOUISVILLE .n KENTUCKY allowance benefits and hospital and medical you want. Get it today at all druggists. OCTOBER, i(;4l 4I services. Before it could report, the fam- ous Economy Act of March 20, 1933 was enacted. Its effects were disastrous, especial- ly in view of the depression. The Legion marshaled its forces and prevailed upon Congress to soften the blow, especially for the disabled and the hospitalized. This was followed by adoption by the Chicago convention of the Legion's famous 'Tour-Point Program" calling for liberaliza- tion of treatment to veterans, their widows and orphans. Congress threw most of the WeMI Give Them ia 'BREAK' Economy Act into the discard and passed a new veterans' program over Presidential veto on March 28, 1934, ending the second in Building Theiir Futures decade of struggle for adequate veteran care. in Freedom'' During the lo-year period from 1934 to 1944 there has been legislation in behalf of widows and orphans of veterans who SAYS had not been able to prove service-con- President and Founder ot Bowes "Seal Fast" Corporation — Pioneer in Safe Tire Repairs nected disability. The principle of complete decentralization of claims adjudication was established. Recommendations to decent- • When Johnny comes marching home this time we here ralize jurisdiction over insurance awards at Bowes "Seal Fast" are going to be ready for him. Not with just a and to handle appeals through field boards glad hand and a smile, but with a real, going business 0/ his own to rather than a central board in Washington offer him. We have a proved and successful plan which will enable have been made, as part of the Legion's his program. a fighting man to stand on own feet, look the world in the eye National Service Life Insurance has been and build a bright future for himself. Any ex-service man who does established for members of the armed not want to be dependent upon pensions and handouts —who wants forces of World War II, dependency allow- more than "just a job"— is eligible. ances and military pay have been materially increased. Mustering-out pay has become HOW THE BOWES PLAN WORKS an actuality. But most important of all, payments to widows and orphans have been At our expense we will train a selected group of men in the business of increased, the G.I. Bill of Rights has been selling and distributing our products. When the training is completed, written into law, Veterans (Civil Service) we then will furnish working capital and suitable sales equipment to each Preference has been clearly established by man selected — everything necessary to start his own business as our statute for the first time and disability exclusive wholesale distributor. compensation rates or pensions for veterans This plan is for the man who dreams of getting on his own, being his of both wars have been upped. own boss. It calls for plenty of hard work and guts . . . but the reward is

Currently, Brigadier General Frank T. really worthwhile. Big Money, yes — but we want Big Men . . . men who Hines, administrator of the VA, has asked will fight as hard to do a big job for themselves, in Free Enterprise, as Congress for $70,000,000 to expand hos- they are fighting now to win the war. pitalization facilities as a first step in a long-range program. Rules to administer the THIS WE ARE PROUD TO DO. . . G.I. Bill of Rights are rapidly being drawn so that men may return to school or set themselves up in business, buy homes or BUT.. .WHAT WILL YOU DO? farms, be protected against want while No matter what business you're in, you owe a bigger debt to every service they are unemployed, or provided with man than you can ever pay. It's up to you to figure out some plan, some jobs if they can work. way to give the ex-service man the chance to live the life he is fighting It is probable that if Congress imposes to preserve. one year of compulsory military training You may be the owner of a peanut stand or a captain of big business, for all youth after the war, that many of but . . . Brother, you can help . . . and we can show you how. Don't sit on these will sooner or later have contact with your "fanny" and wait for the Government to start another WPA. Let's the VA, for it has been the policy of start a drive —NOW— for Free Enterprise— let's help these returned sol- Congress for some years to place veterans diers to "get on their own." Write us and we'll tell you how you can help. affairs in the hands of that agency, in the Let's go. Free Enterprise! interest of efficiency. General Hines freely predicts that the BOWES "SEAL FAST" CORPORATION, INDIANAPOLIS 7, INDIANA present VA payroll of some 50,000 will gradually be increased to 90,000 or more in the next few years. Veteran facilities are being so expanded that not a single state will be without some one of them. TIRE REPAIR It has found a permanent place in the

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{Continued from page 16) Then they turned loose a veritable hail eight Marines died to take it in a swift, of mortar, artillery and machine gun fire nine-day conquest. Perhaps some of the against the Americans who had time only dead were among the 5,000 men of the to prepare the flimsiest sort of cover. Second and Fourth Marine Divisions who From the foundations of houses which shook off wounds suffered at Saipan to join were only rubble, the Japs dragged out their buddies in the Tinian push. artillery and put it to work. Those houses We needed Guam. This island was the were only the superstructure for powerful the pipe that first American territory lost to the Japs pillboxes and gun emplacements. December 8-10, 1941 —and men of the On the reverse side of the steep ridges, grows more priceless Third Marine Division, the 77th Army safe from the pulverizing naval gunfire, Division and the First Marine Provisional the Japanese were well dug in with a maze Brigade are guaranteeing with their blood of machine guns and mortar fire. A person that it will be the first recovered. who has not seen the Japs in the jungle But there was nothing sentimental be- burrowed into hillsides at the foot of huge hind the drive on Guam and there's noth- trees cannot conceive the effectiveness of ing sweetly sentimental in the fighting for this type of defense. its possession. This writer remembers well the honey- For seventeen days all the massive strik- combed ridges of Bougainville where the ing power our Navy now can muster in Third Marine Division became battle sea- the Pacific—and that's a lethal dose—was soned. The Third found the same thing at brought to bear on once languorous Guam. Guam, only in greater depth. Yet when the troop-laden landing craft Wrote Marine Correspondent Theodore moved toward the shore from the trans- C. Link, former assistant city editor of the ports, death in all the vicious, tricky forms St. Louis Post Dispatch and a veteran who the Japs know was awaiting. was wounded at Bougainville: It seemed inconceivable that anything "The Marines in the landing at Guam could live through that awesome, marathon encountered the stiffest resistance on the barrage which flattened everything in sight. left flank of the beachhead near Chonito It still seemed this was to be a pushover Cliff where the Japanese had two unique

as our forces splashed ashore and prepared systems of defense . . . to dig in. There was only desultory fire "Seventeen days of almost continuous from the defenders. naval gunfire had pulverized concrete block But the Japs once again employed the houses, knocked down barbed wire en- tactics they used first at Guadalcanal, again tanglements strung on huge coconut log at Bougainville and last June at Saipan. posts reinforced by gasoline drums filled They fled the beaches and set up in com- with sand, and pushed the defenders sev- manding positions inland. They waited un- eral hundred yards back into the hills fac-

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up a number of tractors. On the narrow beach— 20 yards wide—the Marines on the left flank ran into a "No-Man's Land" created by murderous machine gun fire from a cave on the side of Chonito Cliff. The cave did not face seaward and was not reached by naval gunfire. "Assault troops found themselves swept by withering fire which raked the beach for 500 yards or more. Dead and wounded dotted the narrow strip of beach. Tanks and armored tractors blasted at the cave

entrance . . . but the machine-gunning continued as the troops braved the deadly fire and worked their way inland. Then they joined the tanks and tractors and in three hours knocked out the Jap cave dwellers." Technical Sergeant Link's account of this beachhead skirmish graphically illustrates a

point—it takes a flesh-and-blood "weapon" tuned to an incredible degree of courage to smash the. enemy in the Pacific. Link also described the "other system

of beach defense . . . six-inch shore defense guns in the basements of concrete houses at Adelup Point. Naval gunfire knocked down the upper half of the houses but as the HANDKERCHIEF TEST assault troops headed for shore on tractors they could see the Japanese gunners wheel- ing out their guns from the basements. The basements were dugouts with ports at earth level facing the sea. The Japanese gunners PROVES VITAL ZONE SPOTLESS blasted incoming landing craft and set a AND FREE FROM "GOO '-no moffer number on fire until a Navy destroyer, working its way to within 200 yards of hovi often you smoke it! Luminao Reef, took up the battle and knocked out six guns. Two other Jap guns were not silenced until late in the evening

of the first day." At first, the Japs sprayed the bay with mortars emplaced in the hills but when it MIIANO became apparent they could not stop the landings they turned their fire upon the Marines who successfully crossed "No ^ven in war-times you'll get your good Man's Land" and were beginning to work value in a pair of braces bearing any one of a their way up ravines to the top of Chonito 'MJIS/f variety of American brand names. But you'll Ridge, about 800 feet in height. OCULENS J>-MVA get even more in BOSTON Braces, made Snipers began to take their toll as the SUNGLASSES by the makers of Boston Garters. First you Meet U. S. Army specifica- Marines reached a good coral road 50 get balanced elasticity, a carefully determined tions for absorption of yards inland. It was tortuous business, and infra-red and ultra-violet amount of lively snap . . . enough for full rays! Filter out sunglare freedom many boys fell, as the snipers popped of movement, balanced for long, Jap without squinting, blurring long wear. You get the skill and know-how from huge piles of rock and trees until or masking your vision for sports, beach, and street wear. Get a pair today, of America's oldest makers of braces. You they were ferreted out and slain with a and without changing color values. Smartly styled get dependable taste good ... in a wide short burst of automatic weapon fire.

variety of styles, colors and widths . . . The troops finally reached the top of the button-on or clip-on. You get the best avail- ridge in two places but could not dislodge S H e L A SSB8 able webbings, leather and metal fittings. CLEAN VISION U the strongly entrenched Japs from the cen- George Frost Company, Shirley, Mass., affil- iated with President Suspender Company. ter. Since the ridge is only 800 yards inland the beachhead was in jeopardy. The Ma- Give rine colonel in command had expected to have the left flank secure in several hours Your Feet An but the bitter resistance continued on for three days, making the left flank the most Ice-Mint Treat harassed position on the beach. Gel Happy, Cooling Relief For Burning Callouses— Put Spring In Your Step After beating off a fanatical "banzai" Jap Don't groan about tired, burning feet. Don't counter-attack in fighting from dawn un- moan about callouses. Get busy and give them an Ice-Mint treat. Feel the comforting, soothing cool- til 0900 the second day, the Marine colonel ness of Ice-Mint driving out fiery burning . • aching those ugly in command smiled wearily and said; tiredness. Rub Ice-Mint over hard old corns and callouses, as directed. See how "Now I know they can't get these bovs white, cream-like Ice-Mint helps soften them up. Get foot happy today the Ice-Mint way. Your off." druggist has Ice-Mint. OCTOBER, 1944 45 _ tji THE KRTOW^^^-^ HEROES ALL! ®^ • III 1^1 {Continued from page ig) was blunted right there and those Nips who remained blew themselves up with grenades.

AFEW hundred yards northwest of this Marine battery several hundred Army men were pinned into two pockets with their backs to the beach. They stayed there until their ammunition got low. They then counterattacked and beat their way out, mowing down Japs by the score. In the midst of this battle Marine First Lieuten- ant Arnold Hofstetter of San Diego took 47 men and retired to an enemy airplane- engine dump. There among the crates they fashioned a circular fortress and fought for eight hours before aid reached them. Fif- teen of these men were wounded and three killed. They had no water except for a few cans of rain dripping from a tarpaulin. In the same area Private First Class Rod- ney Sandburg of Minneapolis, who is twenty and an artilleryman, fought with typical American courage. He dashed through ma- chine-gun fire to one of our tanks and asked it to radio for aid and medical equip- ment. On his return trip Sandburg carried precious water in two helmets. Later he made a second trip to the same tank, sum- moning it to wipe out an enemy machine- gun nest. A Marine private, Donald Evans of Wilkes-Barre, Pa., was in one of our ma- chine-gun pits when the enemy began heav- ing grenades at it. Evans reached for a sheet of corrugated iron roofing, and used it as a shield. Whenever a grenade came sailing through he got there in time and bounced it off. In the closing days of the Saipan battle a 22-year-old Army private from Schenec- tady, New York, John M. Purcell, aligned eight rifles along a trench to cover a clear- ing, then ran from one to the other, pulling the triggers as the Japanese attacked his- sector. Between enemy thrusts Purcell rushed from gun to gun, reloading each. At times he had to collect loose ammu-

nition and fit bullets into clips.

"I felt like the proverbial one-armed paperhanger with the seven-year itch."' Purcell said later. He helped save the American line, which, whittled by day-long AMERICANS GREAT WHISKIES enemy attacks and constant sniping, was AMONG drawn tight around the beach position shel- TLe Old Crow wklskey you tuy today was distilled and laid tering helpless American wounded. Purcell

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Another of these so-called appleknockers sketched atove, is coo{)erating witk tke government alcokol from upstate New York is Captain Earl L. program, are doing our utmost to distribute our reserve White, 35, also of Schenectady. A direct hit in his area set fire to a stocks so as to assure you a continuous supply for tke duration>F shack wherein we had stored grenades and small-arms ammunition. It began popping

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foxholes while shells continued falling. The battle here took a heavy toll of offi- White started alone for the burning shack, cers and it was estimated about half way plunged into it and came out a moment through the campaign that there was one later with a limp American form. He turned officer casualty for every fifteen men killed around, went deliberately into the flames or wounded. That means only one thing:

a second time and dragged out another Officers were out there in the thick of it. burned man. There was a Hawaiian in the 27th Divi- Not all of Saipan's heroism is found sion who took his revenge for Pearl Har- among the GI Joes and junior officers. The bor. He's Private Willie Hokoana, 30, of colonels inspired their men with personal Maui Island. He propped his Browning leadership under fire, crawling after snip- automatic rifle in a tree crotch during the • Folds down to ers and in other examples of selflessness. Banzai attack of July seventh. Willie only 4 inches A CLEVER new convenience for thick . . . card players. The all-purpose In command of one Army battalion was a stayed at that tree in the open for ninety • Easily stored in portable playtable forsmall apart- minimum space ment, den or recreation room. lieutenant colonel from New York who was minutes while waves of Japanese came at 4- • Official size, New improved model. Attrac- killed leading his troops against that fanati- the beach perimeter line he was guarding. foot diameter . . tively fmished. substantially made, • felt play- Green sturdy legs. Nothing to loosen or cal charge of bloody Friday. He was last His commanding officer said Hokoana got ing surface . . . wear out. Now custom made—de- • nonspill, non- reported wounded in the shoulder, but still 200 Japs. 8 days. Only tip holders for livery within 10 S34.50 glasses and ash- Express collect. Money refunded standing and shooting his pistol into the Easterners had no monopoly of glory on trays . . , if not pleased. Makes an ideal gift. advancing enemy lines. They say he later Saipan. Take Corporal James T. Borden • Mahogany- HOME GAME CO., Dept.R-7 stained, alrohol- pistol, Ave., Chicagoi- dropped his snatched up a Japanese of Kansas City, Missouri, who was hemmed proof finish • —360 N.Michigan-...o- saber and hacked down the foe as they in with other Army comrades in that suicid- ^RYTHINiG FOr"fU IT aVhOME swarmed over the positions. He refused to al attack of Headquarters Jnr game room equip- enemy the seventh. There for home. Un- ment, accessories the retire, saying, "Get more of those Nips." were eighty in usual games, novelties, barbecue sup- Army wounded Borden's "Successful Enter- plies, etc. Write for: Typical of the refusal of American offi- vicinity and as the day grew hotter and taining At Home." it's l-reel cers to accept any privileges due their rank the sun beat fiercely calls for water became at the expense of privates was the case of urgent. Every canteen was dry and none REFRIGERATION mSs Lieutenant Colonel Evans F. Carlson of was expected from the rear. The only source AND AIR CONDITIONING COURSE Marine Raider fame. I traveled to Saipan was a Japanese cistern a hundred yards home—^how to start your own repair shop on lit- Learn at on a transport with Carlson, watched him away across a field crisscrossed with bul- tle capital. No previous experience needed. Common school education suttici nt. Splcnilid opportunity for

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/^e li/hrness THE BEER THAT MADE MILWAUKEE FAMOUS 48 Thi AMERICAN LEGION Magazine THE GERMANS Step Right Out OUT OF (Continued from page 6) Of Foot Misery Now, when your feet cry out for relief, sprinkle takes of the 1920s will be repeated. It is them with Dr. SchoU's Foot Powder. Also dust it into equally confident that the American peo- your shoes and stockings. Presto! Your feet feel grand ple can neither understand the nature of its —soothed, refreshed, rested. You'll marvel how the ONE ARMY f oot powder formulated by this famous foot authority plans for a new war of revenge and domina- relieves hot, perspiring, tender, tion, nor ever take efficient precautionary odorous feet ... how comfortable it makes new or tight shoes feel. to check them. measures Helps prevent Athlete's, Foot by

^ After German defeat, the German Gen- keeping feet dry. Be foot-happy by using Dr. SchoU's Foot Pow- eral Staff will have its agents in this coun- der daily. At your Drug, Shoe, try and in every other part of the world. Department Store or Toilet Goods Most of them will have already been natu- Counter. Costs but a trifle. ralized, usually in two successive countries, so as to appear as legitimate representa- KIDNEYS T tives of large commercial or financial in- terests. They will have under their control MUST REMOVE large amounts of capital which the German military leaders have already, during past EXCESS ACIDS years, deposited in neutral countries. These Help 15 Miles of Kidney Tubes agents will seek to cultivate a circle of in- Flush Out Poisonous Waste If you have an excess of acids in your blood, your 15 and INTO direct, and often unknowing accomplices, miles of kidliey tubes may be over-worked. These tiny who will be nationals ol our country or of filters and tubes are working day and night to help Nature rid your system of excess acids and poisonous any other country where the German agents waste. When disorder of kidney function permits poison- are operating, and who will carry out the ous matter to remain in your blood, it may cause nag- ANOTHER purposes of the German agents with whom ging backache, rheumatic pains, leg pains, loss of pep and energy, getting up nights, swelling, pufEness they are in contact. under the eyes, headaches and dizziness. Frequent or scanty passages with smarting and burning some- undertaken at the Through propaganda times shows there is something wrong with your right moment, which will seek to stimu- kidneys or bladder. Kidneys may need help the same as bowels, so ask late sympathy for the German people; your druggist for Doan's Pills, used successfully by millions for over 40 years. 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General Staff has on the German OCTOBER, 194* 49 IN THE PACIFIC ITS PIDGIN L fresh tobacco {Continued from page 21) similar question the groom said: "Can do."

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An onion is an "apple belong stink." translated. One of the most interesting is The sea is pronounced "sola-water," which this classic account of Adam and Eve in the British think is an attempt to say the Garden of Eden:

"soda water" but is really the best the So Adam Eve two fellow stop along islanders' tongues can do with "salt water." garden, and they fellow have 'em good A monkey is "small fellow old man be- time too much. Bimeby one day Eve he long tail." come along Adam and he speak: "More A piano is "big fellow box you fight him good you me two fellow we eat'm this in teeth he cry." fellow apple." An accordion: "Small fellow box you Adam he speak no, and Eve he speak shove him he cry you pull him he cry." "What name you no like'm me?" And Adam An ant: "Small fellow something he com'e he speak "Me like'm you too much, but me eat 'm all finish." fright along God." One year is "one Christmas." When you And Eve he speak: "God he no savvy are sick you are "dead," and when you are look along us two fellow all'm time." But dead you are "dead finish." Adam he speak no. But Eve he talk, talk, A tough guy is a "dry bone," a toe is allee time, allee same he talk along boy and a "finger belong leg" and an ankle is a make'm trouble along boy. And bimeby "screw belong leg." Adam he tired too much and he speak "All

This is how a marriage was performed lightee." in Pidgin, neither bride nor groom being So these two fellows they go eat'm. When able to speak the other's tribal language. they finish eat'm, my word, they fright "This man wantchee takee you home-side like hell and they go hide along bush. A cross »«<

"Can do," the bride replied, and to a bush." •ouch i* lipp«4 (hut

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{Continued from page ij) lessly. "Do you know where the aid station his colonel to drive only as far as he con- is, sir?" he said through trembling hps. We sidered it safe for himself. thought it was just ahead. "Are you hit?" With a careless gesture I cannot forget, "No, sir, it's my nerves, I think." Collings flipped out his forty-five, held it Another quarter-mile and we could go cocked in his hand, kept his eyes steadily no further on the highway. Velletri lay upon the trees and said, "Go ahead driver; only another thousand yards or so to the snipers aren't so bad." A machine-gun began west. Machine guns were sounding again to sound nearby, like corn popping in a and it was sure death to proceed. Here deep kettle. We could see nothing. The jeep now was the cut-off, a narrow "jeepable" trudged over ruts and roots and a party of trail, mounting sharply between high banks. Enjoy the last pipeful a$ much approaching peasant women carrying great We left Freddie here, for his safety, which OS the first . . . thanks to the bundles on their heads, squeezed against was a mistake. We began the upward hike, patented Rogers Air-Tite Inner the trees to let us pass, the inevitable sign rounded a bend and found tanks chugging of fighting ahead. up, their massive breadth plugging the whole Pouch. The secret is in the We emerged again upon the highway. cut, scrapping down dirt and stones from construction illustrated. Rogers Three soldiers rested in the ditch. the banks. "You're Air-Tite Pouches are visible to the enemy the next couple hundred Here you had it; this was much of the beautifully made in the finest yards," they said. Implied was: "We are explanation why the great natural barriers standard and alive by the grace of God; you may pass of Italy could never stop the Americans. I leathers, in away in the next few minutes." The tone think few but Americans would dream of in combination models to hold was the tone of men saying it looked like attempting this and none but American pipes as well as tobacco. rain. It is thus, nearly always, among army engineers could ever make it possible. At better shops everywhere. Americans in the face of death. The jeep For, scrambling around the tanks, we found darted the next stretch and was halted by the ubiquitous bulldozer, simply carving a soldier who looked like a boy in his teens the trail into a road, roaring and rearing its —the artless, helpless type who should ponderous way at a forty-degree angle up- ROGERS IMPORTS, INC. never be taken into the Army. wards. Mfr*. & Importon. 419 4th Aw., N. Y. C. His eyes were unnaturally large his themselves, bearded, silent with and The men U.S.Agts.forPetonon'>Plp*s.DubDiitl hands were twisting a towel, rapidly, sense- exhaustion, swung their shovels through the Tlu AMERICAN LEGION Masn-ine PAZO WILL RELIEVE loose dirt and pitched it over the banks. regiments. THOSE PAINFUL SIMPLE PILES Carl Mydans snapped his camera and, tired Now, in a sun-speckled grove the men as they were, they would grin and adopt .a lay sprawled on their backs, oblivious to the comic pose for the pictures. A rifle snapped, traffic's dust or the spasmodic machine- very close at hand, and we heard the sigh gun fire .so close at hand, catching, as the of the bullet this time. veteran knows how, any moment's fortune The party of shovelers stood upright. provided for precious sleep. A soldier "Oh-oh," said one, and mechanically, as walked past, going down. He held up his though they had done it a thousand times, hand to show bandages covering what re- two of them let their shovels fall, slipped mained of his thumb. "How's that for a their carbines from their backs and crawled cheap purple heart?" he commented cheer- 'MOTHER, PAZO CERTAINLY over the bank, to disappear in the brush in fully. "Lucky bastard," one muttered. "He's RELIEF the direction of the sniper. got the war made," said another. A bare- I BROUGHT PROMPT We plodded on. Now a jeep with the headed Te.xas lieutenant, no more than Red Cross marking tilted precariously down twenty-five, was saying to us, "My major, the trail. Strapped across the hood was a he fined me twenty-five dollars for not

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almost covered with bandages, only the thing. ' The lieutenant wore the Purple e>-es, his nose and lips were showing. The Heart. "I'm tr>-ing to break my record of lips held a cigaret at a rakish angle. When .going twenty-five days without getting Mydans pointed his camera, the boy turned hurt,"' he said. "Those Germans are figur- his head toward the lens and in a steady ing on a counter-attack tonight. They're voice, just tinged with irony, he said, "Do going to get surprised." Don't jusc suffer the agonizing pain, torture, itching of iimple piles. Remember, for o\er thirty years amazing you want me to smile?" Battalion headquarters was a farmhouse, PAZO ointment has given prompt, comforting rcHef to We pulled away from the engineers and and near the doorway lay a dead German minions. It gives you soothing, welcome palhative rchel. found ourselves now with a rifle company sniper, wearing American GI boots. The How PAZO Ointment Works I. Soothes inflamed areas — relie\ es pain and itching. 2. Lu- of a regiment which I had last visited in lieutenant jerked his thumb toward the bricates hardened, dried pans — iulps prevent cracking the fields before Velletri. They were com- body. "That guy shot two of our medics. and soreness. 3. Tends to reduce sw cihng and check bleed- ing. 4. Provides a c]uick and easy method of application. pleting the marvelous feat, their comrades He made me sore." Inside the house, three Special Pile Pipe (or Eosy Application ahead having already reached the crest. young officers sat at ease around the kitchen PAZO ointment has a specially designeil. perforated Pile They had been pulled out from their old table while the farm wife, quite unper- Pipe, making applicaiioii simple and tliorough. (Some persons, and many doctors, preter to use suppositories, so position at nightfall, gone a short way by turbed, served them wine. PAZO is also made in suppository form.) truck, then had made a ten-mile hike Ever\-thing was most obviously under Get Relief with PAZO Ointment! the control. descended, found Freddie Ask your doctor about vNonderfuI PAZO ointment ajid around Velletri and gone straight up We the soothing, blessed relief it gives for simple piles. Get mountain, carrying their heavy mortar shells crouched in the highway ditch, clutching

PAZO ointment from \-our druggist toda) ! in their bare hands, clutching them to their his rifle. When we had left him for the The Grove Laboratories, Inc., St. Louis, Mo. stomachs. climb, six machine gun bullets had whispered The weighty metal boxes of rifle ammuni- past his ears, and he was thinking he should RED-ITCHY SKIN? tion they strapped to their backs and they have come along with us. had climlicd all night, silently, like Indians, In the night, the counter-attack came watch out— it's often forbidden by their general to have a car- and failed. Our boys clung to the heights tridge in the chamber of their guns. He and fired down upon the desperate Germans would permit no firing, to avoid alerting the inside \'elletri. In the morning General Germans. Only a grenade could be used, Walker, his tanks and men rushed the ECZEMA town, entering the highway. Lieuten- if absolutely necessary, for the Germans upon Home would easily mistake that for a mortar shell ant Colonel Reese insisted upon walking ahead of the tanks it was shell Treatment and remain ignorant of its origin. Later, and a that killed him. When he heard the news, the Promptly we learned the Germans believed two com- panies had made the infiltration, not two General averted his face for a moment. "I Relieves asked him not to go ahead like that; I Torture! asked him not to," he said. Hal Reese, I think, died content. He had felt that it First applications of wonderful soothing was coming. In his notebook he had written, medicated liquid Zemo a Doctor's for- — "I got through the last war all right, but mula quickly relieve the intense itching — I will not survive this one." And a note burning of Eczema, Ps'^'-iasis and similar annoying skin and scalp irritations due instructed his comrades to send his personal to external cause. Zemo also aids healing. papers to his brother. Amazingly successful for over 35 years! A German came out of the brush and Apply anytime — doesn't show on skin. walked with his hands up toward Walker. First trial of clean, stainless liquid Zemo The general didn't even bother to pull out convinces! 3 diuerent sizes. Buy Extra his forty-five. was an angry man. "Go Strength Zemo for stub- He born cases. All drugstores. back in there and bring out the rest of ^ZEMO them," he ordered. "I know there's more of you in there." The German nodded and turned back. Then Walker shouted to him to stop while he sent an American soldier along. They returned in a moment with a dozen more prisoners. These episodes did not halt the push, TAPE, ROUND (Ascarid) mf\, 'For guests who ore arm-chair and our men were into Velletri so fast they WHIP WORMS HOOK AND s+rategis+s." captured several hundred Germans. It was —

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