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Membership in the Field Artillery Association costs only $3.00 per year and brings you the JOURNAL besides such other benefits as discounts on most book orders and access to the facilities of our office. u. S. FIELD ARTILLERY ASSOCIATION THE FIELD ARTILLERY SCHOOL Commandant Brig. Gen. Jesmond D. Balmer • The Bracket THE OFFICER CANDIDATE SCHOOL Monthly Maga:ine of the Field Artillery Commandant Colonel John J. Turner Officer Candidate School • THE BRACKET Managing Editor 1st Lt. Roy B. White, Jr., OCC 16

Associate Editors 1st Lt. Warren A. Kraetzer OCC 32 1st Lt. John J. Rice. OCC 33 2nd Lt. Caler C. Watson, OCC 66 Cover: Colonel John J. Turner Assumes Command of OCS Photo by U. S. Army Signal Corps Supervision and Assistance Co1. Leon R. Cole Leadership 2 001. John J. Binns By Lieutenant Colonel C. Krayenbuhl Lt. Co!. C. Krayenbuhl Major James L. Royals

Cooperating Agencies Cold Black Hutments...... Bureau of Public Relations War Dept., Washington, D. C. A Poem by Captain J. R. Kinzie Public Relations Office Field Artillery School Some Lessons of World War II. Fort Sill, Oklahoma By Colonel Leon R. Cole Post Public Relations Office Fort Sill, Oklahoma

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U. S. Army Signal Corps: Cover, 4, 5, 12, 13, 18, 19. 2nd Lt. A. R. Gilbert: 3. Men, Malaria, and the Medics...... 12 Reproduction Department, FAS: 7 By First Lieutenant John J. Rice (top) International News Ph 0 t 0 s: 7 The Cannoneers Have Hairy Ears __ 14 (middle) Acme Photo: 7 (bottom) Part Three Mr. A. B. Butler: 10. Corporal R. L. Staples: 11, 14, 16, 22,25. Columbia Pictures: 33. Press Association: 37. Lieutenant S. L. Shane: 39.

bUshed monthly at 414 N. W. Third' Street, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, by the Field Artillery Officer Candidate School. Editorial and ess Offices: Officer Candidate School, Fort Sill, Oklahoma. Entered as Second Class Matter May I, 1943,at the Post Office at Okla- City, Oklahoma, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Subscription price, $2.00 a year; single copies, 25c. All SUbscriptions payable in &nce. No articles are official unless specifically so described. THE BRACKET accepts no paid advertising. Copyright, 1943, by THE CKET. LEADERSHIP

To the present candidates of the Officer Candidate relax in your presence and be grateful for discussin . School and those who have graduated therefrom, leader- frankly with you his problems, is the mark of a gentle ship must be ever uppermost in your thoughts. While man and a good officer. Respect for the other man' I recognize that volumes have been written on the point of view, the realization of the weakness of th subject, that libraries throughout the nation are full human being, and we all possess them, and an intens of such articles and I commend them to your use, I desire to help an individual, rather than to batter hi feel that a few words to you on this subject will not down with discipli~ary action, produces satisfacto be amiss at this time. We must admit that the ac- results. quisition of a perfect knowledge of artillery technique Considering these things in the abstract we admi is insufficient in itself to qualify an individual as a therefore that a great many basic elements tend t potential officer in this magnificent Army of ours, be- mold a leader. The question is to get these in the' cause, this knowledge must be transmitted into action proper proportion and to apply them properly, that' and that can be done only through the medium of the difficult task. Let us take heart and not think 0 leadership. leaders from the standpoint of the great but rath Let us admit that we all know what constitutes that each of us can become a leader of sorts by puttin leadership. The Germans say that leadership exists forth the necessary effort through observation, stud when there is an evidence of mutual respect and mutual and application. It is a continuing and never endin confidence between the officers of the organization process but when observing others it is well to adop and the men under their command. The word mutual their methods to our own personalities in attemptin must never be overlooked, no officer can expect to to put them over. If it goes against your nature to b receive respect and confidence from his men if he hard-boiled, don't try to cultivate that just becaus fails to feel the same way about them and so indicates you observed someone who produced results that way it. BasicaUy what do we find in the lives of successful We are in the process of training the most magnifi leaders of the past. cent Army that any nation has ever gathered together 1. Basic honesty, honesty of thoughts, action and we have two things that we can count on, our equi purpose. ment is superior to that of our enemies-airplanes tanks, artillery pieces, the individual riRe carried b 2. Thorough knowledge of the job, which is in- the doughboy; and, we have the most intelligent Arm sufficient unless this is coupled with initiative, force in the war, due to the basic native intelligence of th and the necessary enthusiasm to put the job over. American soldier, and I would urge you to capitaliz 3. Every leader of any importance when he is upon this. He wants to know what to do and why dealing with men must be definitely fond of being and he will go the limit under your commandwhe with men and he must be capable of understanding things appear to be logical. It is up to you to mak them. He must have a definite interest in their wel- them so. fare, in their personal problems and in dealing with The success of our higher echelon commands wi them he must be himself. He cannot curry favor, nor be in direct proportion to the manner in which 0 can he show partiality. There must always be a defi- lower echelon units are trained and lead. Let us in t nite line of demarcation between a commissioned offi- Field Artillery never forget our primary mission, SU cer and the enlisted man, granted that you will eat out PORT and SUPPORT WITH FIRE POWER. Th of the same mess kit, share the same cigaret, drink out can be accomplished only when we have a well train of the same canteen, and maybe share the same fox- unit with a team spirit and a soul that is develope hole. There nevertheless must always be no familiarity within it which makes it superior to any adversa between the two. The officer with a sense of humor that it may meet. can utilize it to ~dvantage. Our graduates have given an excellent account 4. Individual courage goes hand in hand with lead- themselves in every theater of operation according ership not so much physical courage as moral courage. reports sent back to us from the battle fronts but After all the courageous man who is afraid physically must still work constantly on basic discipline and t but. who through a sense of duty and responsibility detailed training of our firing battery units to bri carries on and does his job and more than his job if t?em up to perfection for after all the doughboy is e necessary is a leader. tided to the best we can give him that is our ma 5. Appearance and demeanor, dignity, reserve and responsibility, and that requires leadership in i yet the happy faculty of being able to have every man highest sense. COLONEL John J. Turner, at Fort Dix, New Jersey, and IN spite of all that has been mmanding 0 f f ice r of the went overseas with the Thirty- ighteenth Field Artillery Group third Field Artillery. His first said about keeping the trap shut, t Fort Sill since July, 1942,has tour of duty at Fort Sill followed it is still possible to overhear a sumed his new duties as Com- immediately after World War I great deal on trains and in other anding Officer of the Officer when he came here to attend public places that should not be andidate S c h 0 0 1. The an- the "World War Course" at the said. For instance, on a train ouncement of the assignment Field Artillery School. .as made late in June by Brig- recently, two Naval officers sat ier General Jesmond D. Bal- He served in the Hawaiian down beside two Army officers er, Commandant of the Field Department from 1927 until and within ten minutes of their tillery School. General Bal- 1930with the Eighth Field Artil- meeting, the following informa- er announced also the ap- lery. Quartermaster Corps serv- intment of Lieutenant Colonel ice followed from 1933 through tion had been voluntarily of- . P. Clay to succeed Colonel 1937. He was in command of fered-the Naval officers were mer as commander of the motor repair shops on the Atlan- on their way to New Orleans Jghteenth. tic side of the Panama Canal with a complete crew (less sev- from 1934 through 1936. . In assuming command of the eral technicians they were to udent Regiment, Colonel Tur- Colonel Turner returned to pick up in New Orleans) for a r succeeds Lieutenant Colonel Fort Sill in 1938to command the new destroyer that had been Krayenbuhl who has gone to First Battalion, First Field Ar- launched on the 24th, would new assignment, the nature of hich has not been announced. tillery. He was Post Exchange take eight days to outfit, and Officer for a period before as- then would go out into the Gulf Colonel K ray e n b u h 1 had aded the Officer Candidate suming command of the Eight- on a shake-down cruise. These hool since' last fall. The eenth Field Artillery Group. Naval officers evidently felt 001 had graduated around themselves to be exceptional ht thousand second lieuten- swimmers. Court martial and ts while under the leadership prison sentences have already Colonel Krayenbuhl. Re- .dless of where his new as- been handed out in this war for ment takes him he will al- less than this. st certainly be with some of men who received their bars der his watchful eye. olonel Turner entered the THE staff and faculty and y in September, 1917, as a school detachments at Fort Sill vate in the Thirteenth Corn- now wear the new tri-colored in- y, Coast Artillery Corps, signia of the Army Ground York National Guard, ad- Forces replacement and school cing shortly to the rank of command. The insignia has eant. three verticle stripes of blue, e was commissioned after yellow, and red- the colors ;nding officers training school standing for the infantry, cav- alry, and artillery. have been good about sending i news and that must be' kept u and increased. We will try t keep you posted on the happen ings back at Sill but YOU mus keep US informed of what's g A builder's nightmare ten by ten ing on in the field. Said to house six full sized men, We want more stories of yo These are hutments all in a row experiences and a continua Warm at even ten below (?) stream of information concern Center spot a range so square ing the individuals who got the' By six cots flanked to please the fair. bars here and who are now scat Hangers four adorn the sides tered to the four corners. Overcoat, raincoat and all it hides. Towels so clean (?) out in open sight Books all sized from left to right Or vice versa if one or six. THE Field Artillery Jouma To keep it clean (HO) does tricks. passed the following letter alon Beds are neat, edges neatly tucked to us from Lt. (?) Ray H. Smith, Or someone gets his feathers plucked. concerning fire power: Floors are spotless (?) with broom and can At the back with the helpful pan. "Shinglehouse, P~. June 15, 1942. ' These, my boys, are your present homes "The Field Artillery Journal, That may inspire such foolish poems. 1218 Connecticut Ave., Washington, D. C. "Dear Sirs: SUBSCRIPTIONS to our mag- that we cannot fill your orders. "In the May issue of you azine, THE BRACKET, h~ v e So future subscribers will have magazine, on page 409 appeare been greater than the edItors to be content with starting with a paragraph by a certain E.A.R. anticipated and calls for extra the issue current with their sub- concerning fire power. He state or back copies have had to be scriptions. that nothing on fire power coul refused lately due to a shortage The BRACKET is now going be found in the texts in his bat created by its rapid sale. to practically every field artil- tery. Recently, while looldn To the many who have sub- lery unit in this country and over some of myoId R.O.T.e scribed and requested copies of hundreds of copies go farther texts, I came across a definitio the first issue we regret to say through A. P. O. addresses. You of fire power in FA Book 10 (Elementary Material, 1937Edi tion). It is defined as: The abil ity to fire, within a short spac of time, sufficient quantities 0 projectiles of the proper type t accomplish the m i s s ion for which the piece is intended. "While this definition refers t a single piece I think it could b made to apply to divisions or other units in the more genera meaning by changing the word ing slightly. How about this? The ability to fire, within a shor space of time, sufficient quanti ties of projectiles of the proper type to accomplish a given mis sion."

"RANGE approximately cor rect" is no longer a legitimat sensing at Sill and the studen who uses such is almost certai to get the "Sit Down!" and big "U". Recently he might have bee A bedroll to the 0 u t S tan din g man of each section was one of the marked for a perfect solution' features of the Class 66 graduation party. The favored men were, from making such a sensing but n left to right: Staff Sgt. Melvin H. Fruenfelder, Sgt. Edward Yatsko, Jr., more. The rules have bee Sgt. Melbourne C. Rissi, Cpl. Willie R. Hicks, Sgt. Don F. Mowry, Cpl. tightened by Brigadier Gener Walter O. Krumbholz, Staff Sgt. John A. Solari, Tech. Sgt. Robert R. Jesmond D. Balmer, Field Artil Anderson, and Staff Sgt. Marvin Cernohous. lery School Commandant, an Colonel Einar B. Gjelsteen, di Everyone is well acquainted with the Army's self-propelled 105, the "Priest," but the English counterpart, the "Bishop," is not so well known. A comparison of the firing ends of the two vehicles is shown above. The "Bishop" carries the famous British 25-pounder on a Valentine tank chassis.

TO: All Members of the Officer THE following letter to an Of- Candidate Regiment. ficer Candidate from his father "A bracket, a target hit or As one of my last official acts in should be read by all students range exactly correct" are the severing my connections with the and would prove beneficial in pre s e n t authorized solutions Officer Candidate School I wish to establishing the proper state of when a field artilleryman is express to all of the officers, enlisted mind in enlisted men about to shooting, whether he is at Fort men, and civilian employees of the attend the school: Sill or somewhere on the battle- Officer Candidate Regiment my sin- front pooping them out at the cere appreciation for the splendid enemy. "The doctor will tell you that spirit of cooperation and loyalty dis- when there is a certain degree played in carrying out the policies of physical weakness, it may Authority to use the term established. "range approximately correct" temporarily dull or weaken the crept into the Field Artillery It would have been impossible for mental faculty. It seems to me our organization to have functioned School field manuals during that your schedule is calculated smoothly and efficiently unless each to test out whether your mental peacetime. In those days the officer, enlisted man, and civilian em- equipment is tough enough to student officers usually were ployee carried out his portion of the continue to function when you men of greater experience and work required and I am indeed grate_ are tired physically. It is also length of service and the more ful for the whole-hearted support true that it is harder to keep that you have rendered on all oc- .lax sensing was permitted when control of one's emotions, par- casIOns. ticularly anger, when physically it was obvious the round landed It is a pleasant thought to be tired. just a few yards from the target. able to turn over this command to Colonel John /. Turner who has from But with less experienced stu- the side lines watched with much "In view of the fact that ac- .dents the privilege was abused interest the operations of this School tual warfare produces at times a andthe "proving round" exposed and whose long service with the schedule considerably tougher Army in various command capacities than the one you are now going the fact that the sensing was through, it seems to me the based mostly on guesswork. fits him admirably for the responsi- bilities of further improvements in Army is doing a very intelligent "Observed fire is the corner- the Officer Candidate School. thing when it tries out your mental and emotional reactions tone of the Field Artillery and I ask that you render to Colonel when you are physically and is little bit of false doctrine, Turner the same spirit of service that has been given me in the past few mentally tired. It seems obvious ran g e approximately correct' months so that the Officer Candidate that there are two things they hreatened to knock out the key- School may not only continue to are trying to do to your group; tone of the artillery system," uphold the prestige established in the first, they are trying to have you olonel Gjetsteen explained. past few months, but demonstrate learn certain things, but over additional improvements in the and above and beyond that they The Field Artillery can't guess, future. are primarily interested in or a guess becomes a gamble To each I extend my sincere best whether you have the character ith the lives of our infantry- wishes and hope that our paths may and mental ability to be an of- cross again somewhere in the service ficer in wartime. It seems to me of our country. it is a challenge rather than a chore if you make up your mind G. KRA YENBUHL, that you will lick it, and I am Lt. Colonel, F. A. sure that you will." Commanding Officer. World War II

ciency and effectiveness in the past few chine gun strafing to become largely a years make it difficult to predict its ulti- thing of the past. All troops now are Airpower was used in W orld War I mate role. That it is a new, great, and taught to utilize effectively whatever to an extent sufficient to convince the primary factor in warfare is certain as arms they have available-the carbine, open-minded military man that the na- well as it is certain that its power and the 30-caliber machine gun, the 50- tion with superior airpower had a tre- effectiveness will continue to increase. caliber machine gun, and the 20-mm mendous advantage over any opponent Having accepted airpower as a great rapid-fire weapons. Mounts have been not so equipped. The United States, factor in war, many enthusiasts have developed for these machine guns and England, France, Russia, and Germany gone to the extreme of advocating that the 20-mm guns which enable them to all realized this to a greater or lesser it alone can win wars. It is true that follow readily the course of a high extent, but Germany was the only power speed plane, and units are accounting to give it full exploitation. The result for a fair percentage of the enemy planes was that in the early phases of the war destroyed. Training and leadership she crippled her adversaries by the de- by have taught the troops that they can, struction of their airpower before any Colonel fight the enemy planes on better than considerable portion of it could get into even terms and have built up in these action. Thus blinded, these opposing Leon R. Cole troops the morale essential to success. nations were easy victims for the effi- Similar stories )might be told of the. cient and crushing power of the Ger- battle against air forces at sea. Our man nation. Those nations which sur- serious defeat at Pearl Harbor by a vived the initial terrific German on- in the early years of World War II effective counter-measures against the small force of Japanese planes, the sink- slaught-England, Russia, and the airplane were not available and that ing by Japanese torpedo and bombing United States-set about with all pos- ground troops were more or less at the planes of the two mighty British dread- sible energy to repair their disadvantage- naughts off Singapore, our defeats of ous position. The degree of their suc- mercy of the well-organized and effi- cient German air forces which attacked the Japanese navy in the Coral Sea, at cess is demonstrated by the fact that poorly defended ground forces almost Midway, and in the Bismarck Sea-all today Allied airpower raids Europe to at will and dispersed and demoralized accomplished by airpower alone-led the very heart of Germany and that many people to predict a complete retaliatory raids are few and weak. On them. However, history of wars teaches us that new devices soon are met with eradication of battleships from the high the Russian front, German airpower now seas at an early date, leaving the air- holds second place to that of the Rus- effective counter-measures. It is true that United States forces entered this craft carrier as the basis of all naval sians, and in Tunisia Axis airpower all forces. Subsequent events have shown but ceased to exist during the last few war with insufficient and rather ineffec- tive protective measures for its ground that these conclusions were premature, weeks of the great battle. As this is forces against aircraft. Soon, however, for here also defensive measures have written, Allied raids on Axis bases and the counter-measures took form. In been found for combating the aircraft. shipping in the Mediterranean are car- equipment, these counter-measures were Surface ships equipped with warning ser- ried out with devastating effect almost adequate airpower to meet the enemy in vice and anti-aircraft batteries in quanti- at will. The reasons for the relatively the air on equal terms and provision ties and effectiveness hitherto un- of the necessary .anti-aircraft guns for poor showing of Axis airpower in the dreamed of, according to recently pub- the ground troops to force the enemy lished reports, have been so effective past few weeks are not evident. Lack of to such heights that his work was in- fuel, falling off in manufacturing ability, accurate. The ground forces having in repelling mass aircraft attacks that and lack of trained air crews all may be been provided with good equipment, the it appears safe to say that the battle- contributing factors. It is unteasonable next step was a question of training ship still is the backbone of the fleet and leadership to develop the necessary to suppose that this apparent falling off and will not be relegated soon to the fighting spirit and morale to use these limbo of the past. Here again good in airpower is not genuine for no great weapons properly. Now on every front power can be expected to hold such a our units are protecting themselves ef- equipment combined with effective force in reserve while suffering major fectively, with the means available in training and leadership have developed. defeats in which the opposing airpower their own units, against low-flying air in the individual gun crews destructive is so much in evidence. The rapid attacks causing the terror of the dive effectiveness that is practically auto- strides that airpower has made in effi- bomber, low-level bombing, and ma- matic.

The Seeond of Two Artieles hy the S·2 of the Field, Artillery in some form has played a major role on all battlefields for cen- 'turies and the present war is no excep- tion. Russia was the first power to stop the headlong advance of the Axis march, and the reliance the Russians placed upon artillery is indicated to a certain extent by the fact that Stalin terms it the King of Battle. Both the conven- tional field artillery of medium and light calibers and the specially designed anti- tank weapons have played a great part in checking the march of armored forces toward supremacy in land fighting. Here again training and leadership are all-important. You have only to watch an anti-tank demonstration from the north slopes of McKenzie Hill to realize e effectiveness of the guns of various Iibers to show you the possibilities. You see gun crews trained to split- cond efficiency, who know exactly hat to do when a tank appears and ow and when to attack it and when to witch to another tank when one is de- oyed. The technique involved requires high degree of training; and the abil- ty to hold your fire until the tank is ithin an effective range requires the ximum in leadership both by the dividual gun commander and the of- cer in charge of a number of guns. raining and leadership of the highest er are required to watch those mon- ous tanks coming closer and closer d to school yourself that the closer e tank gets the more destructive will your fire and to gauge the proper oment for opening that fire to prevent . g overrun and to be sure you can troy a good number of these tanks ore they can tOrn and escape behind sheltering ridge to renew the attack 'm some more favorable direction. 'tish officers state that at close ranges tanks are destroyed so easily that it no longer good sportsmanship. Ar- ty retains its normal role of support- all types of ground forces whether offensive or defensive actions and you . . tillery Sehool only have to recall the history-making man finds himself within the dead observation, to deliver his fire effectiv events of the past few months in North space of a tank's weapons where he can at night, and if necessary to· change Africa to realize that massed artillery utilize these close-in antitank weapons sitions and shoot effectively from , fires are essential to any successful large- with deadly effect. The artilleryman new positions the same night. H scale operation. From the initial defeat must be taught that he does not neces- again training and leadership are at of the Axis force at EI Alamein in sarily remain on the defensive, but that premium. This involves training of October-November, 1942, to the final there will be many occasions which de- use of the eyes at night; instructions complete and overwhelming victory of mand offensive action to clear an area this respect must be made available Northern Tunisia, artillery has been in of infiltrating enemy forces. Night- unit commanders and practiced by the fight shoulder to shoulder with the time provides an effective opportunity to ranks (WD Intelligence Bulletin No. infantry, the armored force, and the destroy halted tanks for with their limit- Feb., 1943). Night training involv air force. The attempt to say which ed vision they operate at greatly reduced becoming familiar with conditions was the most important would be folly. efficiency during hours of darkness. In night in all types of terrain and in All were essential to success. fact, tank hunting promises to become climates. It is necessary particularly' The fact that the greater portion of a major battlefield sport. jungle country where the many noises artillery in the United States Army has nature are strange and weird to the ci been motorized makes it essential that bred mind. The Japanese capitalize great attention be paid to pack artillery this and augment natural noises wi for operation in the many areas where many artificial ones. Troops must motorized artillery cannot function. Such trained to distinguish between real a areas are encountered in any moun- In spite of Tactics and artificial noises of battle and noises tainous terrain and particularly in the Gunnery, nature. The Japanese soldier gained jungles of the Pacific islands where a false reputation for invincibility throu great deal of our future operations Communications, Motors, and his initial success against white troo against the Japanese must take place. Materiel, in jungle operations at night. Expe Our faithful old friend, the mule, again The Tactical Officers, as you ence on New Guinea and Guadalca may come into his own, to a greater indicates that the American soldier is all see, extent than many have anticipated. better fighter even in the Japanese's 0 Are the boys from whom we specialty of jungle night fighting wh LOCAL SECURITY catch the hell. once he has been trained to overco his natural fear of the jungle nig This war has introduced factors not This requires a special type of train' heretofore exploited to the fullest ex- When marching back and and leadership to which the you tent. Those are infiltrations, penetra- forth to class, officer must school himself with tions deep within the enemy lines, and utmost severity. wide envelopments and encirclements. Those "Guardians of the IDR" Thus the artillery no longer can assume Are standing there to vent that it has a screen of infantry behind their ire which it can carry out its functions with From all fronts come reports that 0 relative security. Air attacks, attacks by On the sections marching to- training doctrines are sound and tha armored for c e s, and by motorized ward those bars. only when we violate them do we infantry must be expected at any time into trouble. Our artillery has had ge and this has brought about the neces- eral praise from all quarters and A harsh voice roars with great sity for each type of unit to be pre- enemy describes it as devastating. pared to defend itself at all times against ado, Field Artillery School has had high co any form of attack by day or by night "Pull in those chins, get into pliments from many quarters; hi whether in position or on the march. step"; ranking officers from all portions of For this reason, it has become essential United States Army have witnessed to train the artilleryman in infantry It's the usual clamor, nothing demonstration on the massing of a methods of warfare and to arm him with new, tillery fire and all have been unanimo the carbine, the machine gun, the gren- Just OCS, through and in their convictions of its effectiven ade, and the bazooka. Thus he is pre- through. You as an individual should take eve pared to conduct effective close-in battle possible advantage of the informati against any force that may seek to over- to be obtained here so that you c run his position or to attack him while apply the lessons in the unit to whi in movement. Again training and lead- you will be assigned either in traini ership are at a premium. Men must be or in battle. As an individual, be pro taught and required to fortify their The Japanese have been foremost in that you are a red leg and that yo positions quickly and strongly and to night operations and prefer fighting at belong to an arm of the service whi use those fortifications in the most ef- night. This is a phase of warfare which through centuries of history has prov fective manner. It requires morale and our artillery must learn and it can be itself indispensable to the battlefiel courage of the highest order to remain taught only by extensive practice on all Decide that you will master your wor relatively exposed ,to fire of attacking types of terrain. It is evident that suc- know your men, and become a reco tanks and planes when you might get cessful night operation depends upon a nized leader of men. Do not be slow' momentary security by diving into the good memory; since one cannot be con- exploiting the new; do not be hasty' bottom of a trench. You must teach sulting constantly a map, the picture of discarding that of proven merit. In t your men that eventual security depends the terrain must be carried in the mind. way you will become successful in yo upon defeating the enemy while he is Likewise one must become adept at find- military career. attacking and that your anti-tank gre- ing his objective and retaining his nades and bazookas are more effective orientation by means of a compass. He (This concludes Col. Cole's against the tank the closer it gets and must be able to do the artillery survey which began last month in that as the tank closes in the artillery- at night, to orient himself by celestial BRACKET.) 8 Innovation Students Enjoy Evening of Fun Shortly Before Graduation

Beginning with Class 66 the graduating classes have been staging parties on the Monday night before graduation which have proved to be extremely enjoyable. Music, banquet plates and great quantities of beer are provided and a student-arranged program tops off the evening's activities. Hidden talent comes to light in the preparation of these programs, sample of which is reproduced below. This script was written by Lieu- enant Eugene Francis of Class 67 for their party on May 31st. You can imagine the reaction.

Enter 25 typically hounded OCS students dressed in Lieutenant Wenzel: incoats, helmet liners, and carrying plotting bags and steel "My name is George H. Wenzel irs. They sing the following to the tune of a "Helluva I wish I could be tough Engineer": I'd shout, I'd holler, crack the whip ''I'm a horrible mess from OCS and a helluva cannoneer, 'Till the men all cried 'enough'. A helluva helluva helluva helluva helluva cannoneer. Lieutenant Klop: We never take a shower nor shave our whiskers clean, "In case you have not met me Because the daily schedule has neglected the latrine. The moniker is Klop We're unhappy, we're unhappy. They gave me this policeman's job 10: Because my Dad's a cop. I got a notice in my box to go and see the TAC He told me if I didn't improve, he'd surely set me back. Lieutenant Chute: I said, 'Sir, what's the trouble' "I write the daily bulletins And he looked severeat me, That are signed, 'Lieutenant Chute' Which made me want to pack my things My one redeeming feature is And once again be free. The girls all think I'm cute. Lieutenant Vreeland (who believes in calisthenics): He's unhappy, he's unhappy! "They call me Johnny Vreeland 10: I'm the last to join these Tacs They took me out the other mom to fire a large 'T' I like to see the candidates And then described a target which of course I could Sprawling on their backs. not see. All: I wasted ammunition 'till I was black and blue "You think your Tacs are cruel And when the Captain said 'SIT DOWN' Though such is not the case I got another 'U.' But we do love to see you men Standing at a Brace. He's unhappy, he's unhappy! La la etc. 10: Lieutenant Klop: We stand in line all morning, we stand in line all night "And when the class morale is low If we ever meet with Hitler, we'll fight a bloody fight. I announce to every section We'll do the things they taught us To fall out in the battery street We'll make those cannons roar, For a physical inspection. But we'll have to do it sitting down For our feet will still be sore. Lieutenant Chute: "I should have been a chaplain Instead of what you see For when the men are worried They come and cry to me. Lieutenant Vreeland: "And when I make assignment lists Enter Lieutenants McCammon, Wenzel, Chute, Klop I aJways hit a snag Vreeland. They sing ense,mble: I keep the men from Roberts here. "Oh we are five.Tac Officers Send those from Sill to Bragg. With voices loud and strong . Lieutenant Wenzel: No matter how you do it "I gave a man a gig today We always say you're wrong." For dirt upon the shelf La la la la la la I laughed until I near!y died utenant McCammon: For I put it there myself. "My last name is McCammon Lieutenant McCammon: My friends'they call me Newt "On Thursday mom at 9 o'clock You'll always recognize Commissions you may get For I'll be wearing boots. But just don't get too anxious La la etc. For you're not lieutenants yet." THE FORT SILL BOYS HAVE LANDED!

The forthcoming cinema mus OFFICER CANDIDATE SCHO produced by Columbia Pictures, has of us breathless with patriotic antici tion. It is to be releasedto the unsus ing public in the very near future and, our hopes are realized, will take . place among celluloid immortals, su as Birth of a Nation, King of Kin Gone With the Wind, and The Fi Little Peppers. As Hollywood has not whispered word to us about this new social d trine we have called upon the emin clairvoyant, Chris T. Ilboll, for analysis of the epic. Chris believes a nation-wide p "The fire commands were sent back by Tom Tom." licity campaign will be unleashed. A proximately two weeks before the relea date, all newspapers will carry the ba ner spread-"Did MacArthur really to West Point or was it O.C.S.?" Na urally this will create a wave of exci ment. "Bataan was defended by a day wonder!" Not waiting for public to catch its breath on meaty morsel, radio stations will seech mothers "not to send their bo to Harvard but to O.C.S." The co de grace will be immediately prior the premiere. During the noon hour . a crowded street of a large city a re O.c. graduate will shoot himself . protest of the poor War Bond subscri tions. Theatres will open at 0600 hours a to every male citizen an application f O.C.S. will be given. This helps eliminate dish night and aids the w effort. On to the picture itself-The her Lancelot P. Saginaw, is shown initiaII as a wee baby with a gargantuan pa' of lungs. The audience will immediatel sense his command ability. His boyho is normal in every way. Lancelot d lights in boyish pranks-tripping 0 women, directing blind men into 0 manholes, beating feminine playmat (romantic tendency) , ad infinitum One cannot doubt his courage and sp' . of reckless adventure. He reaches peak of youthful attainment when benign judge pronounces "90 days' The crime-<:irrotizing two innoc consteadians with a meat hook. (La is confusing!) Lancelot quickly becom the idol of the jail-he is known "head· of cell block No. 44" or j Friend Flicker THE BRACKET Invites Law Suit Involving the Forthcoming Columbia Picture "Officer Candidate School"

"Blockhead" to his admirers. The war- gone out," and everyone promptly had been sent a television set to while den, Cyrano de Bernstein, recognized .agrees. away the lonely hours while waiting to our hero's ability and asked for a tete It is now 4 days later and the Signal be rescued. de tete (B.S. session). "Lancelot, my Corps finally located a fuze after only A ransom note is produced stating boy, you're so incorrigible that it's un- 38 requisitions had been required. A that unless 6000 Red Coupons are im- mentionable (sob!) so I'll tell you what hasty check revealed only one missing mediately forthcoming Lancelot will be I'm going to do. You are going to Candidate. Lancelot P. Saginaw! used as a human bayonet target. In- a.es.!!" This news fell like a bomb- (Gongs in background.) stantly the challenge is accepted. 6000 shell on Lancelot who, as you must re- "I know who committed this low var- idiots offer their coupons, wives, recap member, is really a wolf in hero's cloth- mint trick," sobbed a sorrowful Tac tires and 4F ratings for Fathead's return. ing. "Not that, Cyrano, anything but Officer, "that son of CENSORED camp Here is the twist-Lancelot is not that." "Sorry, Blockhead, it's settled, in CENSORED. (This censor is a con- rescued, he dies screaming "I only regret 90 days!" scientious objector.) "Why," gasped that I have but one life," proving his The scene changes to a huge army the Colonel who is famous for his knowledge of history to the audience. camp in CENSORED-Lancelot, quick oratory. "Because 'Fathead' was to have The major's daughter marries Dr. KiI- to recognize opportunity, offers to drive been the 30,000th Candidate graduated daire and the major says, "Why?" the Major's daughter home in a Cap- from this school and if he isn't recovered Lowell Thomas is presented briefly tain's car. Naturally, she accepts and before Tuesday the doughboys (the se- and gives a conciseresume of the picture Lancelot proceeds to conquer. Her pas- cret is out!) will receive the Presidential for those who fell asleep early. sion for our hero is so great that she award for doing the least in promoting Our sincerest thanks to you, Chris, steals the 'S'-O-Graph from Headquar- the war effort." "Man your stations," for depicting this coming Colossus. ters, which automatically solvesall units, rings in all barracks, beer parlors and ''Take him away, boys, and clean the , exams, makes men out of moles and homes for improving morale. foam off his strait jacket." generally scares hell out of the Axis. The anti-climax finishes the picture, Any resemblance to anyone living is (Not to be mistaken for the '0'-0- the audience, Columbia and 2 survivors mischance and they are better off dead. Graph which drops, turnbacks and dis~ on a raft somewhere in the Pacific, who World rights reserved. solves students). "Fathead" (the F.A.T. meaning Field Artillery Trainee) has not been doing nothing in the meantime. During a tactical problem Fathead is selected as Exchange Officer (he'll be exchanged for any human being or a reasonable facsimile). "Take this group of men, envelope the flanks, penetrate the cen- ter, enclose the rear and God Bless America," were the terse commands. .The audience is now limp from excite- ment but fearless Boy Scouts, acting as ushers,promptly wake them up. The next scene reveals Lancelot as hero of the camp. "How did you solve that inhuman problem," begged news- men. "I simply" CENSORED. Graduation eve brings the picture to its climax. (What! You've read this far!) A wondrous ball is held in gorgeous and ancient Consumptive Hall! Meats of all variety are plenti- ful, wine flows freely and gas coupons re used as place cards. (O.P.A. please opy!) However, tragedy was yet to r this festive gathering. Precisely at 359 hours, one minute before commis- iontime, all lights are extinguished and rsome groans and screams are heard. courageousW AAC, sensing the dan- r, calmly announces, "The lights have Prior to World War I an army al- ways faced a two-fold enemy. In plan- ning maneuver and campaign it was ever essential to consider your foe out- side the ranks and, not less importantly, the enemy to be found within your ranks. American armies because of our Men, inherent higher standards of cleanliness and personal hygiene have not been the victims of huge losses to this second enemy in battle-the foe within the ranks. European and other foreign armies, however, have been closely con- cerned with combatting this enemy ac- tion within the ranks as vigorously as Malaria, they fight armies facing them across front lines. What is this enemy who has the great advantage of being able to pursue his campaign inside the lines of his adversary. This enemy is disease. Grease traps should be used for separat- In the French expedition to Santo ing solids from liquids and for straining Domingo in 1802, French losses totaled out a percentage of the grease from 50,000 men. Of these casualties only liquid wastes. A barrel placed over a hole topped by any cloth that will and the 13,000 died of wounds due to enemy strain will do the job. action. Thirty-seven thousand, however, died due to disease. Of each four men these were sacrificed to typhoid fever lost, three had died from disease. In and malaria. World War I, showed 1812, Napoleon lost 480,000 out of his little improvement. Lossesdue to enemy total force of 500,000 in his unsuccessful action were in fact exceeded by those march to Russia. Only one-eighth of lost to disease incidental to the cam- these losses were due to military action. paign. For the American forces in the Medics The remaining seven-eighths, or 420,- current war, however, the record is 000, were lost through typhus fever and much improved. Advances in medicine, dysentery. In 1828, the Russians suf- especially in the field.of communicable fered casualties of 100,000 in their cam- disease, have now cut to a minimum paign to Turkey. Nine-tenths of these losses due to disease. The Medical De- men fell victim to cholera and other partment can deservedly take credit for diseases, while only 15,000 were actual- this improvement in our fighting ability ly lost through combat. due to the removal of the added combat Modern warfare statistics show the hazard of disease. To guide the plan- record no better. American losses in ning of unit commanders along sounder the Spanish War, 1898, totaled approxi- medical lines and to insure that installa- mately 6,000 men. More than 5,000 of tions occupied by our forces are as liv- able and as free of disease as possible all unit commanders are guided by staff representatives from the Medical De- partment. In the typical light Field Artillery Battalion a surgeon and sixteen enlisted men are attached to the unit to insure maximum effectiveness at all times in combat. It is logical that the responsibility for the sanitation of a unit in the field is the responsibility of its commander but the burden is re- lieved by the valuable assistance of his surgeon. Rules of personal hygiene and sanitation if properly enforced and su- pervised in any command will reduce to a minimum deaths and non-effectives due to disease. Communicable diseases within troop units are spread in each of three ways: (a) By contact through sneezing and A shower can easily be manufactured coughing and the use of common drink- by punching holes in the bottom of a ing utensils and equipUlent. Diseases tin can and attaching to a faucet of a of the throat; measles, pneumonia and lister bag. These materials are available common colds can easily be spread by in any organization, and the shower will direct contact with a person having these aid in maintaining a high standard of ailments to an :effective radius of five personal cleanliness among the per- feet. sonnel. (b) Footf~J;1dwater c~n very easily spread disease if not properly super- Course. This,' together with the demon- mosquito bars; staggered cot formations; vised. Improper disposal of waste and stration of the functioning of the bat- the need for sleeping off the ground; lack of care in the preparation and serv- talion aid station guides future unit screening of food containers and mess ing of mess greatly ease contamination commanders in carrying out command buildings all contribute to reducing dis- and the spread of disease. details regarding hygiene and sanitation. ease within the ranks. Personal hygiene, frequent bathing, close cropped hair, (c) Insects such as mosquitoes rapid- The demonstration is given in the ly carry malaria, yellow fever and Den- shaving and frequen~ changing of cloth- open and each step is carefully ex- gue fever, while lice carry the dread ing have all shown results in cutting typhus fever and flies carry a multitude plained and demonstrated with the aid down body lice activity and consequent- of diseases. Care should be taken to of assistants and field equipment. Puri- ly reducing spread of typhus, trench keep food and waste matter covered to fication of water by the use of chemi- fever and allied epidemics. Skin dis- avoid contact with disease laden flies cals; care of mess equipment in the ease prevention by avoiding the use of and insects. field; disposal of waste material; im- common toilet equipment, frequently The serious responsibility of a field provised shower arrangements and de- washing the body and regular chang- artillery commander in insuring the lousing apparatus are all carefully ex- ing of underclothing will bring results health of his command by proper sani- plained and shown. The common medi- in greater combat efficiency. tary measures at all times is brought out cal fallacies are properly "debunked." Today we are losing less men than in appropriate detail by the Tactics De- Latrine discipline and "technique" are ever before due to preventive medical partment, FAS, in its field demonstra- given adequate time and discussion. Im- control. This action has cut down only tion entitled "Hygiene and Sanitation." proper disposal of waste matter is a big Major James L. Royals, M.C., has ar- factor in spreading disease quickly the enemy within our ranks. Due to ranged the "dem" and on the spot throughout massed troops. Ay, louse the exercise of these control measures, demonstration of all preventive meas- and mosquito control as preventive war is becoming progressively safer. ures are shown to students of the Offi- measures against the spread of' typhus Only the enemy within the ranks has cer Basic Course and Officer Candidate and malaria; the use of head nets and been bested, however.

he Serbian barrel is the best field expedient for removing The proper washing of mess kits is one of the most important 'ce from clothing. Place a 'G.l. can over a hot fire with a items in the health of soldiers. Bits of food and grease retUiily ew inches of water in the bottom. Then place the clothing cause disease. Some outfits have successfully combated this n top of a rack which will keep them out of the water. by requiring the mess kit to be washed before. as well as . lose as tightly as possible and leave the clothing in this after eating. It has also been proven that no quantity of am bath for at least 45 minutes. G.l. soap will cause dysentery, even if eaten by the mouthful. "Can't be done," snarls the gun- ner. "I can't get within five mils of it. ~; won't stay put long enough.

tions put up their aiming stakes today. entanglements hung with home-made protection, but there were no umbrel Donald had one sweet time of it. The cowbells fashioned of Willy cans filled in that part of France. rains have br~ught plenty of water to with small rocks. He had been hidden with all the creek that lies under our muzzles. Turned in early tonight. The men skill of the desert ostrich for Perha The ground was soggy when we came can't be driven further without rest. fifteen minutes when an incendiary sh in. Now it is a quaking bog. He had The From, Bouconville, September 9. lit on the opposite corner of the net a to slosh around in it with his aiming -Drizzling this evening. set it afire. circle to get a sight on the first and It was clear for a few minutes about To save his hide the soldat had third pieces. an hour ago and the Boche aeroplanes crawl back into the open where he spe The episode of the Rambucourt church came over in force. Was on the other the better part of the evening orad steeple was repeated in front of the first side of Skeleton Lake near the old about the need for asbestos camoufla platoon. A back 'sight tended to show chateau when the first of the fleet ap- A mind of this sort has many convo that Lambert North was one thing on peared. tions. the map and quite another on the guns. A battery of the l23rd heavies is in a The digging is almost finished. The error was a good fifteen mils. position near Pete's with a P.c. in the The first, section can get 30 degr, All morning he worked at it hunting ruins of an old barn. One would never elevation with the trail hole as it is no new places for his orientation and always suspect the presence of a battery from Six inches deeper will bring them to the error cropped up. Inasmuch as we the number of men in sight. There maxirnum. So 9 o'clock has been set £1 are scheduled to shoot by the map and were only one or two of them when I the conclusion of the night's work. without preliminary adjustment ~t was arrived and these two were sent romp- I'm going to bed. Now! Ten P.M.-No more sleep. the truth broke upon us. We were being is now Major Reardon's adjutant. Con- Somebody hath murdered sleep. dispossessed. versation at the mess seems to have been Murdered it with huge portions of the I sat up in my bed roll and looked up concerned principally with the official French language, the smell of red wine tion of the problem when the dix soldats personnel and· in due course with me. and a. press of crowding bodies that decided it for us. They moved the stuff "He'll never make a successful offi- would make a Paris subway car seem themselves. They deposited their ma- was little military significance in the like an empty wagon. chine guns and such trash in the mud. confidences between a mule-skinner and Don and I had just dropped into the Each picked up a couple of leather cases his mule. After some ten minutes of , drug-like slumber that comes of utter and carried them down the road to a volcanic dispute, the mule relented and fatigue, when somebody stumbled down tin shed behind the first platoon em- the wagons rattled on over the bridge. the passageway, bumped his head on the placement. There they placed the things The Front, Bouconville, September 10. inevitable beam and fell over on top well back out of the rain and retired. -The Boche avions were over just ~fter of us. gracefully, still laughing. It seems to us daybreak today. We barely managed to There followed the shuffling of many that the chief ingredient in the wonder- get under cover. feet, an excited jabbering of argot and ful French resistance is an unfailing If this smash doesn't start soon the sense of humor. the striking of a sulphur match with a artillery is in for a trimming. 0, E, and ',ghastly glow and a still more ghastly "Deux officiers, dix soldatsf" The ~hird F are on the north side of the creek in smell. line trenches are still echoing with it. front of us and a little to our left. They Which recalls some sprightly news went in very close to some casemated "Deux officiers Amerieains," someone that Phil Newman brought from the positions but were careful to keep a safe ".explained to someone else and gradually colonel's mess via Bobby Stafford who distance from the abandoned emplace-

Anonymous Diary of an Artillery Lieutenant in World War I

,the passage. A young poilu was grin- cer," the colonel is quoted as having ments. Their guns were camouflaged ning down at me. said. "He doesn't take things seriously. and their ammunition distributed under " "Offieierr he enquired. The war is a joke to him." cover according to the latest rules in the "O~~," ~"replied in my faultless ac- Well, ho hum, forewarned is fore- book. eot. OUI. armed, and I shall try to cultivate the But.today take a look at their hill. "A merieain?" he asked. And again sour look so favored by the breezy goats Squarely on the crest is a battery of ame the truthful answer: "Oui." who write the drill regulations. I have 75's-a French battery-without so much "Deux?" he pursued. And once more never yet failed in carrying out an order as a branch of a tree to keep it safe from e pleaded guilty. nor getting the men to do the endlessly enemy observation. The French crews sappy things the higher command wants are piling their shells in the open, dig- Whereat he laughed a guffaw that done. But I am not successful because iog their trail holes in the daylight while ust have bent the railroad iron in the I still can laugh at official boobery and . we look on astounded. What has be- f and sat himself down in the mud. dispense with the dumb, ponderous come of the good old red Bible that "Deux offieiers," he chortled. "Deux paraphernalia of the golf expert. warned against footsteps in the mud as a ffieiers, et dix soldats, et un abri." I came up from the ranks, and I know certain giveaway in an aerial photo? It tickled the Gallic soul of him to see that the discipline of Battery A-inso- Where is the cautious old battery com- blueclad machine gunners dumped far as discipline means a willingness and mander of legendary fame who shot any rcibly on top of two officers who al- skill in obeying orders-is the best in of his men he caught walking about the dy filled the dugout to capacity- the brigade. I wonder if the hair-haired position? Where are the old principles elve where there should only have boys at the colonel's mess ever heard of we learned at Sill and Omans? Where n two. It was a situation too delicious a thing called "morale." is this "position warfare" we learned so r words. So he rocked back and forth much about? the mud, shaking with laughter while Orders have come in that all work is to be rushed to completion at once. Feenee, the whole lot of them. . . . e remainder of the dix soldats echoed And who cares? . mirth. There wasn't much thrill attached to Capt. Albert Sercomb of F is the There was nothing to do but move. the glad news. The boys are still pre- paring for the fireworks that were to colonel's idea of the serious-minded sol- some reason or other the French dier. He went through all the prescribed re taking over the reserve positions have been set off three days ago. Apathetically they have decided to work motions in raising his camouflage nets this sector and artillerymen had no and in marking out the paths by which iness in an infantry trench. on all night. .the ammunition was to be dragged in, a An ammunition train just passed our ·50 we got up-which means that we shell at a time from the road. Most of comer. It made noise enough to wake hed back our blankets. And we got this work he supervised himself lest his the dead. sed-which means that we tied our executive officer might slip up on some t laces. And we started out into the It seems that a mule with more than of the ritualistic detail. rid again. average intelligence took offense at the. He was standing at his position yes- \ bout a ton of baggage had to be sentry's face. The mule balked and the terday afternoon when the French bat- . ved, for a paternalistic government in- driver spoke to him in his native lan- tery clattered over the bridge and turned on loading the artillery up with a guage. in alongside of him. en or more replicas on the Lick tele- "Shut up," roared the sentry. "Don't It was a pretty sight. These lads , that probably will never get any you know the Dutch can hear every travel light and they travel fast. They . er the Front than the first salvage word you're saying?" . did not· bother to unlimber in the' road "Who gives a damn?" was the courte- and wait for a dark night so that the on had stored all the instruments ous response. "They can't understand crews could push the guns up the hill. and we had' to move them to pro- nuthin' I'm tellin' this here mule." Ah, no. They did a neat column left room for the dix soldats. We were Which of course was the truth. Even and dropped their trails where the want- pondering on the best possible solu- a crossroads sentry could see that there ed them. Their ammunItIon came in a chariot have never smelled it or seen its effects countryside ordering retreats. I am in- de parc-a big blue wagon that stood up does not increase the confidence in the structed that should any person in uni· over the crest like II house. A couple of outlook. They have heard the story of form come romping up to me with such stalwart veterans put their shoulders to the forty odd men in the hospital on an order I am to shoot him on sight. the back of the driver's seat, straightened the Boucq road.. . . . A sweet idea. out their legs and kicked about a thou- Sixteen o'clock.-Just awakened by The Front, Bouconville,September 11, sand rounds into the mud in less time Captain Wheeler's order: Ten P.M.-There never was a more than it took us to move one box. "Get the men out and the shells al- desolate setting for a battle. In ten minutes the battery was laid. In eleven.the first piece had fired and there was a black cloud at the corner of the cemetery wall of the town on the right slope of Mont Sec. The second piece fired-the third and fourth. In ten minutes of firing an adjustment had been completed and the gun crews sat down to a frugal meal of bread and vin rouge. "Well," said Sercomb, "I'll be damned: I certainly am glad that I had a chance to be here. I've always won- dered how much of this stuff was the~ bull.... " ~ As a matter of fact all of us who saw the show felt somehowthat we had been, sold out. . . . However, if 'that Heinie battery over beyond Lupemont starts to adjust on the French, the overs will ~ get us. The Front, Bouconville,September 11.• ~~ ~ -This has been a hard night. ..• They say there's to be a battle tomor- row. Bring it on! What's a battle? Nothing but a blessedrelief. Item: Don had the usual trouble making the compassneedle behave when he went to check the laying of the first piece. He had sufficient presence of mind to leave off his tin hat and pistol but it took him an hour to discoverthat some 155's had come in just in front of the first platoon and across the creek. He maneuvered another hour to find a place between them where they did not affect his compass. Gas gloves and Tissot masks have been issued to the battery. A Tissot mask is a funny contrivance. It uses no nose clip or mouthpiece. Air is breathed in through valves under the eyepieces-an arrangement to prevent clouding. They are ideal masks for gun crews inasmuch as one can actually wear one and still see the bubble of the quadrant and the graduations on the sights. However, the wearer is sub- jected to an uncanny sensation.The draft in one's eyes is like that produced by an auto·ride. The harder you breathe the greater the impression of speed. Many of the men prefer the old model. They are used to it. ~ottedin p;~per proportions. Zero hour It is raining in fitful spells that must The gas gloves tur~ed out to be oil- IS at 5 a.m. mean hell to the doughboys up front. cloth mits for wear in the handling of After all there is nothing to do but do The men, too tired to talk, too tired to our banana shells. it. Perhaps this time the guess may be realize that their weary days of practice They say a paste designed to protect right. are about over-that living targets are against mustard gas will be issued to- Seventeen 0' clock."-Received some moving a thousand meters or so beyond morrow if we are still here. Mustard- kindly advice from the battalion. The the defiIade-dig on and on. The clink yellow-crossgas-seems to be about the lads in the neighborhood apparently of the spade striking rock or the swish only Boche weapon of which the men have the wind up. They are full of of a pick in a puddle are the only sounds are really afraid. The fact that they stories about spies who run about the in a vast dark stillness. Not a shell is coming over from the the flashes began to space themselves otherwise an everyday sort of lad. He German lines. One recalls now the into dots and dashes. was chubby and pink. As ferocious as cock-and-bull story that the Germans The first section has been trying to a fat, contented baby. The haughty de- had a spy in Bouconville and so re- aim at a projector station. meanor, the pride of position, supposed- frained from firing on the town. But "I get the gold watch and chain," ly so essential to the German officer's even Rambucourt is neglected tonight. admitted Tack apologetically.... And well-being, were lacking here. The war- God knows what the next few hours'will Numbers Four and Five jumped back rior didn't have time to be haughty. He bring. into the water-filled trail hole to shift was too busy displaying his pleasure at The camouflage is down on the third the gun again. The chief mechanic's having been captured. piece. The soaked net proved too heavy light is shining now some hundred Doubtless he had expected to be a weight for the stakes. The men some- mils to the right. bayoneted promptly-for Americans. how crawled out from under the drip- All the trail holes are filled with according to Boche propaganda issued water now. That in itself isn't such a for home consumption, were a wild lot serious difficulty. The cannoneers have with no regards for the rights or hide of become accustomed to wet feet and a loyal German. After recovering from think nothing of wading about in slime his disappointment at being allowed to knee deep. But a wet trail hole means a stay alive, the lieutenant decided to act soft bank. It is questionable whether or like a good loser. And he did. not any sort of a shift can be made Behind him were two boys about after the first shot beds the trail shares fourteen years old, thin, hollow-eyed in sticky clay. and frightened. They had in their woe- There must be a leaky gas shell some- begone faces that hungry-dog look that where in our dump. The odor of decay- a man cannot steel himself against. ing bananas is everywhere but it is still The men by the roadside looked on If these prisoners are typical of too faint to be dangerous. in surprised silence. Could this be a Germany's manpower, then Ger- Real disaster overtook me a moment sample of the wonderful Germany many is about finished. ago. In an attempt to lift my right foot army? Some of these children wore out of the clay of the Raulecourt lane I the emblem of the guards. Was it pos- pulled the sole off my French boot.... sible that this crack organization was so A fine lot of luck that is. B1Jt there near dissolution that fourteen-year-old ping, clinging snare and made vain at- boys were admitted to its rolls? tempts to fix it. The marshy ground was worse,in store. I stepped off the refusedto hold the stakes, the uprights road into a communication trench and They pondered these things as the wouldn't hold the wire, the net was be- tore the seat and crotch out' of my bedraggled procession passed on. yond all stretching. . . . breeches. The jolly old parameter is One youth, fifteen years old perhaps, now out in the wet night and thorough- Finally under orders. they threw the a fat, red-headed lad of the butcher-boy ly uncomfortable. camouflageto one side, postponing re- type, was staggering forward under the pairsuntil daylight. Bouconville, Septemher 12, Three weight of his own machine gun. He P.M.-At three o'clock the prisoners was smiling at everybody who cast a The chief mechanic has appeared on began to come in. The battle had glance in his direction. Behind him was the scenewith an aiming light-a bulky reached its third phase. . . . First the a taller boy, maybe a year older, seeing contraption consisting of two parts am- withdrawal of the wounded ... second, nothing, hearing nothing. The tears munitionbox and one part oil lamp. He the advance of the engineers . . . third, were streaming down his wan cheeks ison his way now to the infirmary over and the stamp of disgrace was evident thebridge to seek a window from which the prisoners. in his every feature. the light will be visible at all the guns. The men arose from their beds in the mud and went forward to give the Two others, both under seventeen "Tack," the chief of the first section, newcomers greeting. There was no years, carried a stretcher. A third boy is peering through the bloom toward doubting the genuinenessof the interest was under the gray blanket, uncon- .thevillageto check the result of the ex- they displayed in the processionof feld scious. Lieut. Stier looked down at his iment. grau. For the first time they were face impassiveface as they passed by. There is a flicker out in the black. to face with the Boche and they were "Good God!" he exclaimed. "Have . . A flash strong and brilliant but anxious to see how he fitted in with his we been pumping cyanogen for ten steady. press notices. ~ours on to these kids?" "What the hell?" inquires Tack as The cannoneers expected to see stal- "Probably not," I told him. "The lads e gunner makes frantic and futile wart Prussians, fierceof mien and proud who got the cyanogen won't be here. forts to place the vertical cross hair of of bearing. It was not to be expected They're still up on Mount See." e sight on this ghostly light. that our mysterious target out there in But to all who looked at the captured "Can't be done," snarls the gunner. the blue would prove to be anything ones there had come suddenly a changed 'I can't get within five mils of it. It like the Heinies we used to know in point of view-a new appraisal of the on't stay put long enough." Milwaukee and St. Louis. Thanks to enemy. As a foeman he must still be advertising the soldats had uncon- "Damn the luck," suggests the ser- respected but rather as a spent fighter . sciously endowed this warrior- "the who summons all his strength for a nt. "Lieutenant, will you please come Hun"-with a sort of diabolical per- losing battle than as the legendary , r here and look at this damned aim- sonality. Hence curiosity mingled with paladin of yesterday. If these prisoners g light? ... " distrust as four completegun crewslined are typical of Germany's manpower,then Nothing to do but go over and look the road to watch the passing of our Germany is about finished. it. Just taking a squint across the enemy. Reprinted ghts when the drunken aiming light They were disappointed. In the lead by special permission of on another spree. was a young lieutenartt . . : a Prussian- THE KINGSPORT PRESS It was puzzling for a minute. Then his cap branded him for that-but Pictured above is the main building of the Field Ar ~.llery Museum, a sturdy stone 1870-72 and originally used as a prison. It contains the cell of that now legendary American lore, Geronimo. FIELD ARTILLERY MUSEUM

The Fie~d Artillery ·Museum at Fort Sill is comprised of two buildings and houses many hun- dreds of pieces of materiel of foreign as well as American ingenuity. It is situated on a picturesque knoll overlooking the Old Post and surrounded by many antiquated field pieces, (twenty-three of which have been taken for scrap to return again in today's global war). No soldier passing Fort Sill. way should neglect to visit this truly educational spot.

In one corner The collection of the main contains 113 of building is a total of 150 located this separate trophy case awards he containing the received. medals and Many were cups of for Sergeant John marksmanship) M. Thomas and the who served in sergeant once came within the U. S. three points Cavalry and of winning U. S. Marine the world's Corps from championship 1907until 1928. for small arms, I IIMake your library and museum the repository for your sugges- tions, experiences, photographs, and useful souvenirs.1I Brigadier General Jesmond D. Balmer

Housed in the annex is n ~ar:ray of projectiles ~ owing the trend down through e years from the early cannon 11 to the latest in HE and . e-fused projectiles. In the nex is also housed a fine o11ec t ion of small field 'eces from s eve r a 1 foreign untries as well as a compre- ensive group of American field 'eces showing the strides made ce way before Wor'd War 1. interesting display of tran- ts and other survey instru- ents have been collected as ve a very fine array of gun- 's quadrants from many untries, Interesting but baf- . g is a display of gadgets, any wierd looking machines hich from time to time have en dreamed up by inventors ho believed they were aiding eir country in better prepara- n of firing data and fire con- n!.

:The gun room located in one the cells in the basement of main building houses an out- ding collection of guns, many m German and Australian nance. For instance there is .Colt automatic gun, caliber : ty, 1902 lTIodel Browning tent, which employed the ker arm operated by gas. This . e was no doubt the original the new Garand rifle's firing ciples. There is a German dau machine gun and an omatic Hotchkiss machine , both used 8 mm. ammuni- , These are but a few of the yon display; most pieces are a fine state of preservation. walls of the gun room are d with rifle racks containing y unusual pieces, Some em- ing unbelievably large cali- . which no doubt proved to . ery unsatisfactory when put 'eld use. Rifles date back to flint lock and cap and ball . Names long forgotten come ',mind as you look around, es spoken freely d u r i n g Id War I days. Fort Sill d indeed be proud of ~ 'eldArtillery Museum. North African Letter An OCSGradua Who Acted As a Forward Observer During the Landing Writes His Experiences

The following extract of a let- ment, without whose excellent battleship, a cruiser and a de ter written by an officer now in instruction a lot of the things I stroyer, alternately and did so Africa is of interest, particularly managed to do would not have using a sort of bastard FO tech those paragraphs referring to been possible. Such as, for ex- nique which at least produc the forward observer: ample, the building of two fairly plenty of results. "In the first place when I got accurate aerial mosaics, e a c h "Next morning our batte: to camp I found that I was as- consisting of 76 photos and the had come up and was in posi. signed to a brand new outfit- creation of a 1/20,000firing chart tion and for the next two day: one of two-known as the 2nd from one of those mosaics and a I alternately fired it and th Radio Broadcast Operating De- 1/50,000 map. ships' batteries, depending upo tachment. Each consisted of a "You might say that I had no the target and the amount 0: large number of officer special- spare photos in the event I cut fire desired. Did one precisio ists and about the same number one wrong, either. And that adjustment on one of the Frene of enlisted specialists. I was these had to be overlapped hori- OP's which really knocked he slated as one 'announcer.' Lt. zontally as well as vertically and out of it, but not before they ha, Andre Baruch, of whom you that it is, so far as I can see, im- spotted us and cut loose wi may have heard from his days possible in such cases to prevent two batteries to shell us out of! of radio fame, was the other. some rather severe distortion. position. They damn well sue "As you may well imagine the "Anyway, what with one thing ceeded, too, but while they wer, first couple of days were mad- and another, D day finally ar- doing it, I spotted their flashe: dening- trying to equip our- rived. We were slated to make and brought down a hail of fir, selves and the men while scram- a landing and be in position be- from one of our cruisers' m bling to get vital equipment for fore daylight. As were the other dium batteries which, I heari the organizations. Exactly in the troops from other ships. Unhap- later, really wrecked their ba middle of this, Andre and I were pily, however, the situation was teries. Our losses were trivia hastily summoned to Washing- altered by unavoidable circum- thanks to good, deep, fox-hole ton for a series of conferences stances and it was daylight when bless 'em! which led to frantic searching we scrambled over the landing "During those three days and securing of more last-min- nets into the ramp boats. The think I fired more rounds th ute supplies. harbor defense guns opened up I've ever even seen fired in a "I finally raced back to camp just as we started the first wave the time I've spent in the artil- to find my detachment had left into the beach. Happily we were lery (except of course, the dem to board ship. More dashing too far north to be within their onstrations at Sill) and had about and I caught the boat just range so when we started in to perfectly grand time doing it. as she was leaving for a few days the beach in the second wave we "As you know, of course, th of maneuver. had only aerial strafing to face. armistice was signed and firin "Eventually, of course, the That really gave us hell for a ceased on the 11th and a fe' convoy sailed and I have never few minutes but the men replied days later I was peremptorily or seen a more magnificent or awe- with such a blast of rifle and dered back to my detachmen' inspiring sight. m.g. fire that the French planes down at GHQ. However, I thin "I had fully determined, long soon took after easier game. you will be glad to know appar .since, to get back to artillery as "Once on the beac,h I Rushed ently my work was sufficientI' quickly as I could. After all, ahead with the advance ele- well done to please the powe that's where my training and my ments of the infantry, leaving that be, so my immediate reques in t ere s t s lie. Fortunately, I the BC and the battery the ardu- for permanent transfer to th stumbled into a neat situation. ous job of manhandling the guns 60th was seconded by some real Our own tasks was not to start- across 200yards of deep, shifting ly nice indorsements, coupl, theoretically-until D/1 and I sand, up to a 100-footdune, down with a recommendation for pr found that the artillery battery a sandy valley and then up a motion for efficiency in action which formed the artillery com- sheer 200-foot rock escarpment. The result was that after spend ponent of the sub-task force They had to build a road, as it ing about 10 days doing som aboard our ship was short a happened, out of the cliff. high pressure interpreting a' trained FO. By dint of some per- "Meeting only sporadic islands GHQ (the job we came over f, suasion, orders were obtained of resistance we pushed inland never really materialized), I w from the CG, assigning me to the about 8 miles to the hill which called in by the Chief Signal Of· ------for 'one day only.' was our initial objective. Nat- ficer and after a brief chat w "For the balance of the trip I urally, the battery was not yet given the final affirmative in was an artillery officer. If you in position, but I tumbled into dorsement on my request an, get a chance, by the way, I wish an artilleryman's paradise. I was next day was officially tra you would show portions of this called on to adjust and control ferred back here by order 0: letter to the gunnery depart- the supporting naval fire from a the CG. 20 News from the Classes

OCCI From the underground comes is in the Replacement Training Cen- Staff word that Reppert and Morgan, ter at Fort Sill, and Captain Charles Nineteen thousand Officers have now inspectors in an Artillery Sec- R. Williams is down Camp Rucker graduated from OCS since Class 1 tion of a (censored) corps, spent a way. started measuring angles out on fir- fortnight up Camp Phillips way New subscribers include: Captain ing battery hill. Many things have doing whatever inspectors do. Kin- Harvey M. Luce, stationed at Camp happened since seventy-nine eager near of Class 2 commands a Howit- Phillips, Kansas; Captain C. Nel- men donned gold bars and took zer Battery at Camp Phillips, Kan- son Wetherell, at Fort Leonard off in all directions to apply the ap- sas. Wood, Missouri, and First Lieuten- proved solutions that three hard Our subscription records now ant Richmond E. Holley, Jr., at- months of study had taught them. carry the names of Captains Ed. tached to a Field Artillery Battalion Every student, past, present and Brandenburg at San Luis Obispo, at Fort Sill. future, would be interested in learn- California; Roy F. Benjamin, Fort Sorry there is no more "hot poop" ing of the trials and tribulatio:1s of Leonard Wood, Missouri; Harry C. from out in the field for this issue. those first seventy-nine grads, so- McCaskill, busy at Fort Bragg, Let's strive to get some real yarns do not be too modest, fellows-sit North Carolina, and Captain John into the "BRACKET" for the next down and drop "THE BRACKET" R. Parker, who is receiving his mail a few lines of your doings and the at Lawton, Oklahoma. doings of all the other Class 1 men An imposing group, who could you know of. write us some very interesting bits Recent mails brought in the sub- Staff from their experience since leaving 'scriptions of Captain Howard R. OCS. The magazine is yours men The following addressed to Cap- Reese from Camp Bowie, Texas, and -your news will help make it big- tain Newbold would have pleased First Lieutenant James C. Sawyer, ger and better. him mightily.-We owe many who wants his mail in care of Post- thanks to Captain Cammann New- master at San Francisco, California. berry for his excellent coverage of the best (?) class: OCC2 "OCC 4, Camp Phillips, Kan- Staff Staff sas Section, reporting, sir! The sec- Early training is beginning to Wanted: A Class 3 officer tion was highly impressed with , show, subscriptions came in from with plenty of leadership to take the first two issues of "THE Captains John Reiser, H. R. Bed- the place of one-Captain A. P. BRACKET," and salute you all ford, Charlie F. Yarbrough, Arthur Putman, resigned and departed. No (Not you-all) on a fine piece of G. Drew and First Lieutenant Rich- news from the Captain since he left work. The only trouble with the ardM. Davis, all stationed at Camp Sill for ~is new post but we will bet last issue was the conspicuous ab- Roberts, California. Hope we will he's plenty busy. sence of the OCC 4 column; what have some news notes from them From THE BRACKETS G-2 was the matter, couldn't you get /for the August column for they have Department comes a few bits of ahold of McLoraine last month? To apparently been doing things as has news-Captain Fred B. Fligon is at make sure that you'll have a little Captain V. S. Emery, who now Sill taking an advanced officers' news of what everybody agrees was has an APO address. course, Captain Wendell P. Phillips the best class ever to graduate from 21 the School for your next copy of seeing him again, although I un- "THE BRACKET," I'm passing consciously found myself wondering along the report from this neck of if Herb Nichols had properly swept Staff the woods. Hope that others from up the tent and emptied the trash Another deadline approa!=hesand other units will do the same. cans. Major Teudt, whom we re- still the pens, pencils and type- ''There are no less than five mem- member as Lieutenant T eudt of the writers of Class 5 grads, gather dust bers of the class in the same Field Motors Department, is the Execu- in various posts throughout this and Artillery Group up here; rather, tive of one of our battalions (inci- perhaps many distant lands. there were five, since one has taken dentally, Lieutenant Colonel Strick- From a very shallow mailbag we off for another part of the country. ler, also once of the Motors Depart- drag the following morsels of news: To list them alphabetically: Bob ment, is commander of the same Lieutenant F. Spreyer is in (?) Anglin is a Battery Commander of battalion; now if they had you there Africa and doing (?), Bob Carlson a Howitzer battery; Frank Brundage too, Newb, they'd really have good is executive in an outfit tented at was the S-4 of a battalion, but has motor maintenance! Fort Sill. Walter R. Maxwell is way now moved over to Battery Com- "Other ex-members of the Staff out on the Pacific .Coast at Camp mander of Headquarters, Head- and Faculty who are around: Lieu- Adair, Oregon, and Stephen I. Allen quarters and Service Battery; I'm tenant Case, late of Motors, now is at Camp Roberts, California. currently holding down the job of Personnel Officer of a battalion; Everyone wants more class news, Group Assistant S-3; Norm Sea- Captain Hoge, formerly of Gun- it takes but a few seconds to knock grave was S-2 of a battalion, but he's nery, now Assistant Battalion S-3, out a note to "THE BRACKET" now gone to the Military Govern- and Lieutenant Christianson, As- office, telling us whom you've seen, ment School in Virginia to prepare sistant S-3 of another battalion-he what you're doing and anything himself for the post of Governor of was also from the Gunnery Depart- new in Field Artillery.- That, Berlin; P. G. Stone recently moved ment. brother, is the news everyone wants. over from battalion S-2 to Battery "There must be at least sixty ATTENTION ace 6: When the Commander of a firing battery. other OCS graduates in the Group; deadline was reached for this issue in- None of us are Majors yet, but this for a small fee I might be persuaded sufficient news had been received from is no doubt due to an unintentional to go through our files and tell you your class to warrant the inclusion of a oversight on the part of our Com- who they are and what they're do- column this month. Write THE manding Officer. We're all agreed ing. Until the arrival of this fee (I BRACKET immediately and make cer- tain you have a column next month. that Camp Phillips has it over Fort won't object if it gurgles), I'll sign Sill on all counts: sand, dirt, dust- off with best wishes and regards to storms, heat, cold, wind, mud and you and others still serving their prohibition, to mention but a few. time at Sill." "Other familiar faces are around Looks like "THE BRACKET" or have dropped in. Lieutenant Col- Staff will be stuck for a fee, hut We received a subscription for onel lark paid an official visit a coming from Oklahoma you can bet Captain Ernie Kenyon from Mrs. couple of weeks ago; it was nice it just will not gurgle. Kenyon with an interesting bit of "sports" gossip which indicates Field Artillery men are a versatile bNnch. She writes: ~ :/L)) "Perhaps you read of the football game in London between ''The ~r-\ ~I'tf/~t'-~ Fighting Irish" (Engineers) and ~I ~~' c-6:7 "The Crimson Tide" (Field Ar- ~ /r? tillery) . It was played on May ~~ ~~J\P';- fI 8th before twenty-five thousand people. Ernie coached "The Crim- ~/f/{'j\!,,?JI son Tide" which won nineteen to ~'{J'1 six. Lieutenant lini Corey, also of lr--'~/ ~ 0- ~~ \2J Class 7, was assistant coach." First Lieutenant Sehnerr is now a Battery Commander in the Replace- l0'(-~ \1 \~o ment Center at Fort Bragg. Everyone wants to know how the "-"~)~ L J ~ veterans of Class 7 are faring. Let's r ~Cl \:.--=- not disappoint them. Take a ten- ~- minute smoke break and let us know "And I was BC of the third phase, and it was rainin'-no lights-so I who is doing what and where. Re- tells this BOC route marker . . ." member, this is your magazine! OCC8 outfit as battalion survey officer. He they will be more than glad to send Staff stated that he had held every job it to you. I know you men have from mess officer to liaison officer. lots of news and items of interest to Seems there is a mass movement Kockli resigned his commission in all the old buddies of Class 13. How of men (principally class representa- in AUS upohhis arrival at Fort about dropping your correspondent tives ) away from Fort Sill. It usual- tpe Meade and entered the U. S. Mili- a line in care of the BRACKET? ly means more rank and we are glad tary Academy. de- · for the men but it is tough on the "Onka" Hayes serted the Field Artillery to be a BRACKET Staff, especially when ATTENTION ace 14: When the Parachutist and is now with the deadline was reacl:Jed'for this issue, in- those big, newsy letters of yours Air-Borne. Max Garland, the fight- sufficient news had been received from . never quite reach our office. your class to warrant the inclusion of a ing mobster who used to live in tent A letter came through from column this month. Write THE Cap- eight, liked the grasshopper planes tail1Vardon E. Deixel, who has been BRACKET immediately and make cer- and consequently went in for liaison tain you have a column next month. on maneuvers in Louisiana where he pilot training. spent all his spare time scratching chigger bites. Thomas was seen limping into a Post Exchange at Fort Sill the other From former Tactical Officer and day and it seems that he is back Class Representative now Captain Shellhase comes word 1st Lt. A. L. Reese for the Officers' Communication that he is Battalion S-2 at Blanding, Course. I When he reported to Fort · says he has about a dozen Junior Sudden maneuvers took your rep- Meade for duty he was made the · Officers from one of his classes. resentative away from his desk just commander of the anti-tank platoon More next month! as he was about to write a very and thence to battery commander of colorful column (according to headquarters battery. I might add rumor). Fortunately the mail ar- ATTENTION ace 9-10-11-12: that Eldred is a Captain. Congrat- rived with a letter from Lieutenant When the deadline was reached for this ulations! · issue,insufficient news had been received John K. Beard just in time to save from your class to warrant the inclu- Well. the "armchair artillery" the column from utter oblivion. sion of a column this month. Write from Class 13 has been disbanded. Besides the two bucks for a sub- THE BRACKET immediately and Bouxsein, Conn, Denecke, and scription, Beard has the following make certain you have a column next to say: month. Dennstedt ,from the Gunnery De- partment departed for Camp Adair, "The BRACKET" is certainly a Oregon, about the tenth of May. fine idea and I know that sooner Bob Elliot left about the tenth of or later every graduate of the OCS will recognize its worth. Class Representative June for Camp Blanding, Florida. who has become quite ''The following men from Class 1st Lt. R. G. Feather Don Dreher, a trader, was trying to dispose of 15 are here at Camp Forrest with Your correspondent must apolo- some of his wares the other morn- me: gize for not haying a column in last ing, saying that he had just gotten "Bob Whiting is a Reconnaissance month's BRACKET. Instead of his orders and was to report to Camp Officer; Ken Hogdon a Battery scratching his head and watching White, Oregon. Jimmy Jobst left Commander; Arnold Holt, Assist- e mails for news from you "hearty last month for "Sunny California" ant S-3; Vic Crawford, Reconnais- ads" he was returning from an ex- and reported for duty at Camp Rob- sance Officer; Ben Sillman, Battery nded "leave" and endeavoring to erts. Cars Neifert, Curt' Nelson, Commander, and yours truly is now ord some of those swollen and over- and yours truly got a hurried call a Liaison Officer." awing streams in southern Mis- from headquarters the other morn- Let's have several letters for your un and wishing that he could ing and by the time this article is on representative by next month; the ade his "Ford" for an amphibious the press, we expect to be in Camp old gang is rather well scattered .eep. (Incidentally, the news never Claiborn, Louisiana. around now and should have some ame in.) very interesting reports to make on Ed Sladek wants to be remem- Little news has drifted in from their doings. bered to the fellows. He is an avia- . e outposts concerning your ad- tion cadet and expects to be dodging entures. However, I will pass on in and out of the clouds looking. for hat I have chanced to hear. the Japs instead of trying to keep Ferraresi, who went to Fort Class Representative from breaking defilade. eade, was seen wandering around 1st Lt. Harry H. Haucke . rt Sill the other day and mum- Incidentally, the BRACKET is not allowed to print the complete The way news from Class 16 is ing nothi~gs to himself. Your coming in leads the BRACKET addresses of the men, but if anyone rrespondent collared him and he Staff to the conclusion that the cas- s just finished taking the Survey wants the complete .address, just ualty list in regards to broken and urse and will return to his old drop a line to the BRACKET and amputated arms must be extremely '23 high. If you are minus an arm or "Courtney still wows 'em with his the silk." Well, happy landings, two, how about detailing your wife jitterbugging. Allen. or best girl to take a little dictation "John R. (Alfalfa) Williams is Here at Sill again, we have: -just a line or two or even a big pushing axis prisoners around at the W. T. Burgoyne ~tudying in Of- "X" would be appreciated. Prisoner of War Camp, Camp Chaf- ficers' Communications Course 25. The other day I was in Lawton, fee, Arkansas. L. C. (Big) Benn also taking window shopping and dreaming of "Junior Wendel, Bob Adler, Neff Communications. how I would like one of those new Wells and Don Hart back in Camp Grade One ruitber tires, when I Chaffee, Arkansas, have been loaded Caprielian and Van Dreser taking suddenly looked up and was tackled with extra silver bars (Captains) for NDOC awaiting subsequent trans- low by Halfback McGowan of Bos- a couple of months now. fer to a 240 Howitzer Battalion at . ton College. Mac informed me that "P.S.: I have no confirmation but, Camp Rucker, Alabama. he was attending the NDOC Frank Manning, Carl Patterson, From Oregon and Washington Course, but by the way he was hold- Don Nibe, Bill Flynn, and Tom we hear that: ing on to a certain young lady, I Brennan are also Captains, but G. P. Bishop is a staff officer in would say he was attending a course rumor says yes." D i vis ion Artillery. Incidentally in close combat. He definitely has Very gratifying to the "BRACK- Bishop was The number one man. gained weight and I am sure he had ET' office was a letter over Cap- of Class 20. the situation well under control. tain Edmund Wendels' signature Adams and Alexander are Bat- This column will print all and containing six subscriptions; they tery Commanders. everything (with a minimum are: Patterson, S-4; Frank Manning, Our thanks to Art Almon who amount of censorship) sent in by Reconnaissance Officer; Chas. Han- sends us the following news from members of Class 16. Do not hesi- ley, Battery Executive; Eugene C. Camp Gordon Johnson, Florida: tate to write too much because I'll Conine, Liaison Officer, and Ter- Beecroft returned from the Com- be meeting the postman each day to rance Summers, Battery Executive- munications Course at Sill and is help him carry in the correspond- all in the same Armored Field Ar- now Assistant Division Artillery ence. tillery Battalion at Camp Chaffee, .Communications Officer. Arkansas. ATTENTION OCC 17: When the (Editor' s Note-You all will be Jarrett is a First Lieutenant and deadline was reached for this issue, in- interested to know that your rep- Battery Commander of a 105 out- sufficient news had been received from resentative has just been promoted fit. your class to warrant the inclusion of a W. T. Johnson is column this month. Write THE to Executive of the First OCS Bat- BRACKET immediately and make cer- talion. Executive. tain you have a column next month. Angster is Battalion S-2. (Also ATTENTION OCC 19: When recently and hopelessly married.) the deadline was reached for this is- Twaddle (also recently married) sue, insufficient news had been re- is Assistant Battalion Communica- Class Representative ceived from your class to warrant the in- tions Officer. 1st. Lt. L. T. Scarbrough clusion of a column this month. Write THE BRACKET immediately and Bradley and Mac Dole have trans- Your representative having been make certain you have a column next ferred to Twelfth Corps Headquar- month. called away on the day before he ters where Bill is acting as an in- was to prepare the column, we will spector and Mac is goldbricking as attempt to pinch-hit for him. Claims Officer. Here is a newsy letter from the Class Representative Kocher is a Battery Officer in pen of Mack Manning: 1st Lt. Alan B. Abt Headquarters Battery and is one of "Jack P. Holt, Wilford H. Van- the forgotten men. devender (Captain), Robert M. Subscriptions from Class 20 are Drumheller has been transferred Courtney, Herbert S. Roth, Charles still coming in slowly. It seems, from Division Artillery Staff to be W. Woodward and yours truly are however, that the majority of men Battery Commander of a firing bat- at Fort Sill with an Armored Field haven't heard about the "BRACK- tery. Artillery Battalion. ET" yet. How about you subscrib- A. Almon is Executive of a firing "Van can't decide whether or not ers talking it up a little and give battery but what is more importan to get married. One day, yes-the the good word a chance to spread? he is the proud father of a seven- next, no. Phone calls to Illinois at A card has come in from D. G. pound baby girl named Mary. 7:00 P.M. nightly. Allen (The Mighty Mite) who How's about the cigars, Art. "Charlie Woodward decided to says his opinion of the paratroops I imagine by now all the me quit raising hell and took the big hasn't been let down any. I guess listed above are sweating out th step; his honeymoon leave was some people just fall for that kind obstacle courses and ship to sho stretched out by Arkansas River of stuff. He's at Benning now train- training down there is sunny Floc floods (so he says). ing and says it's a "real thrill hitting ida. 24 OCC21 Staff Here' goes for a little Class 21 gos- sip: Remember Chas. Richard; he is now adjutant for a Tank Destroyer Battalion at Camp Hood, Texas. You'll all be glad to learn that Bill Reggio, who departed from Fort Sill .with nothing but a pro- ficiency certificate has received an ,O.K. from Walter Reed Hospital and will probably have his bars by the time we go to. press. From Captain Harold S. Davis, former OCS instructor, now locat- ed at Camp Gordon, Georgia, we' received the following request: "I would really appreciate hearing from some of the men who were in my classes if they can spare a moment to drop me a line." First Lieutenants Joseph Stanaszck and Howard N. Brandenhoff sent in their subscriptions from Camp At- terbury, Indiana. Peter Pensotti is with a Tank Destroyer Battalion at Camp Bowie, Texas. Stanton B . .Bonnem is in an Armored outfit at Camp Campbell, Kentucky. "Take as a reference point MB4 and go 200 mils to the right- First Lieutenant Albert A. Dun- Adams/ I said MB4/" can sent in two dollars from Camp ,Phillips, Kansas, but did not say what he was doing. "Dear Bob: In response to your Assistant Signal Officer. Second The above winds up the doings appeal (in the latest issue of Lieutenants lerome A. Caplan, Re- of known 21'ers-what say we ad- "THE BRACKET") for news con- connaissance Officer; Edward F. dress a lot more news to the cerning members of OCC 22, I am Dean, Reconnaissance Officer; Ed- "BRACKET" for the August issue? submitting this bit of information. ward W. Claussen, Reconnaissance There are quite a number of we 22 Officer; Robert C. Murphy, Bat- boys here at Gruber, better known tery Commander, and Jack E. Peter- son, Reconnaissance Officer. Class Representative as Gruesom; they are: Ist Lt. R. L. Casler "First Lieutenants William I. "The above are the members of Class 22 that are assigned to this Amann, Battery Commander; Ger- Assemble//-Remember how that camp to the best of my knowl- ommand echoed across Grierson ald A. Duncan, Battery Command- edge." Hill, then "Misery" Hill, and final- er; Lilburn C. Harrison, Battery "Nice work" Ray Thomas. It ly to the distant OP's from South Commander; Albert Hayutin, As- rbuckle to the West Range? This was good to get your "bit" of news. sistant Signal Officer; Harry H. ssue just about marks an even year Incidentally your scribe is now at we hopefuls blossomed in Nelms, Motor Officer; Herbert K. with the Field Artillery's Survey rass. But we will never forget those Oehmichen, Executive; Ray C. ,ays! How could we? Tac Officer Thomas, Assistant S-2; William 1. School. It's some course-plenty , eacy saw to that! Now we hear a Wood, Communications Officer; practical, and one that all you SO's ew "assemble!" -not as a com- Oliver P. Tjossem, Communica- will get a lot out of. If you don't and this time, just a friendly call tions Officer; James A. Edmund- think so, ask Bob Haight. He's in say "How are you?" and son, Motor Officer; Paul W. Davis, Survey Class 18. Bob's an Armored 'Whatcha' doin'?" In that we Force man from "way back" ve a letter. Sorry, it's only one Executive; Jay H. Kitchen, Bat- ter, but that's all that came in. tery Commander; Bill G. McLeod, That's all for now. See y'all next uote the one letter: Executive, and Manuel F. Wright, issue. but look around here at Sill and see the class in the same outfit seem to, the great difference 10 the operation have done pretty well. Laidlaw is Class Representative 1st Lt. W. C. Babcock of the school. Fundamentally, the Assistant 5-2, Don Ross is Adjutant, Officer Candidates are still "sweat- Curt Flint and Fred Fisher are Bat- Biggest news this month is the ing it out" just as much as we did, tery Commanders, Gene Rabe is As- good word that some of our men but the existence isn't quite as fast sistant Communications Officer; are now wearing captain's bars, or quite as wearing. No more double Thacher, McDermott, and Kaschko more generally referred to as rail- time, drill now in the morning, and are Executives, and Dean is a Recon- road ties. Naffziger and Thede, now a half hour break at night make us naissance Officer. stationed here at Sill, are two of the somewhat envious of the present Heard from Henry Smith in an happy men. Another is Allbright. life here, but it does make us recall armored outfit and from Solberg in There' are probably more, but the the hectic and complete days we had a Field Artillery Battalion. news just hasn't filtered in. here. Captain Harold Davis, a gunnery Which reminds me, the Class 23 Received a letter from Howard instructor with our class, has ex- column was left blank last month Darrom, now at Camp Roberts, pressed his wish to hear from any because we had no news, and be- who was reminiscing in somewhat of his students. We will be glad to cause we wanted to jar you all into the same manner. He recalled Col- furnish his address upon request. sending us the good word. Trouble onel lark, Colonel lones, Captain We still need more news. Let's is, it didn't work. Still almost no Newbold, Captain Burroughs, Cap- ?ear from every section for the next news. tain Stephens and Major Trefethen, Issue. Rice and Steiglitz have forwarded all working with us and trying to subscriptions from the general vi- make us "see the light." cinity of North Africa. Heard from Greg Czuchlewski, Subscriptions have also come in now with an armored outfit along Class Representative from Bruce, Peay, and Seybold. with several other "24" men. They 1st Lt. G. R. Cubbison The other day, a familiar face ap- went to California and all the tor- peared on the local horizon. It tures of the desert, then to more Coming to life again, after a lapse turned out to he Albaugh, who is in training, and then off to maneuvers of one issue, we are responding to the NDOC course here. He had again. He says the armored outfit the editor's frenzied cry of "Don't served as S-3 of a Tank Destroyer is really a rough, tough, fast mov- just stand there-DO SOME- Battalion, and then transferred to a ing outfit, and seems to like it a lot. THING! " with the following Parachute Battalion. He claims it's In the same battalion we find K et- news: a tough (or toughening) racket, tlehut as Executive, G. P. Davis as Bob Dondanville wrote us a what with eight hours of calisthenics adjutant, Mullin as a Battery Com- lengthy letter from Camp Blanding, a day, sometimes. mander, Church in Headquarters, Florida, where he is a Battery Com- Al brought the news that Aicklen Bob Miller as Supply Officer, mander in an infantry division, and' is Assistant Custodial Officer at Ieltries and Bob Fisher as assistant we are indebted to him for much Camp Bowie, that Mongarelli is Executives, and Ben Wilcox of Class of the material that follows. Bob taking parachute training, that Fee 28 as Personnel Officer. Greg says has taken over a wife as well as a is Adjutant of a Tank Destroyer he wants to hear more of that battery. Battalion, that Eckley is another of "Rough and tough" Section Four. Also at Blanding, Clarence Ax, the tank destroyer men, and that Let's hear from all of you, although Kirby Fuller, and Charles Wilker- all nineteen· of the men who were Roscoe Egan and I thought that son are liaison officers in the same assigned to AI's original outfit have everyoneJIeard from Section 4 while division. Ax is now a benedict. been promoted to First Lieutenant. they were here. . Pat Fusco is a Battalion Supply And that's all there is for the Heard from Captain Van Vliet, Officer there. column. It's up to you men to send now a Battery Commander at Glenn Dewberry married up with in the news, if you want to become Bragg. Bill Mistroff is his Execu- his Atlanta Peach, and Tom Cuni famous. I could make it up as I tive, and apparently both of them finally talked that West Virginia go along, but it might be em- are happy down there. girl into having him for a husband., barrassing to various and sundry Frank Horton is now in Con- Charles Hayslett is another class-. friends (?) of mine. How's about mate who is no longer a bachelor of- some broadcasts? ' necticut, and we would be happy ficer. > to furnish you with his new address Will Colclough was transferre upon request. Regulations prohibit back to the Replacement Center us from publishing it. Class Representative here at Sill, where his work caugh a member of that 1st Lt. W. H. Faget Fred Fisher, the eye of the new Comtrtandin super-efficient fifth section in 24, General, with the result that he i As we now approach the first an- writes a letter from a Battalion now now Aide-de-camp to Major Gen niversary of Class 24 we can't help firing here for the school. Men from eral Ralph Mc-T. Pennell. 26 Ed Cissel reports that he is not Fellows, a lot of you are bound . "All the officers from Class 26 in at Camp Gordon, but is serving to be coming back to Sill to take our division are going places and time as Mess Officer at Fort Dix, courses or serve as instructors. We'd more than one are sweating out their New Jersey. Ed says he can't under- surely appreciate seeing you, or get- Captaincy. stand why all the officers in his ting a c~ll from you, in the Office "Recently, coming back to camp outfit are just skin and bones-about of the Assistant Commandant, from a leave I came across a class- the way we all looked around the where we are the office boy. That's mate, First Lieutenant Anderson, middle of July, last year. about "thirty" for this issue. who' is a Reconnaissance Officer in Some others of our members are one of the firing batteries. He in- located as follows: • forms me that Lieutenant Banowetz and Lieutenant Texas Barnes are at Lin Cooper is 'way out at Camp Class Representative his station, Indiantown Gap Mili- San Luis Obispo, California. tary Reservation, Pennsylvania." 1st Lt. C. S. Guion Francis Bryan is with a battalion Thanks Baranowski! at Fort Leonard Wood, Missouri. A member of the "BRACKET" Tom B. Marriott, Bob Maim, Jim Bob Benjamin is up at Fort Lewis, Staff stopped by your respresenta- Winkworth, Alty Graham, Don Washington. tive's office with 'some late "news Brewer, T. E. Price, 1. T. Price and flashes" only to find said representa- Mitchell Markle, all of Class 26, Mort Hecht is with a Tank De- tive was away on leave. are mighty busy at Fort Benning. stroyer battalion, listing an overseas Let's start off with a swell letter Your representative will be back address.. from Herbert C. Barland, who says: for the next issue all rested up and Johnny Jones is located at Fort "Just read a copy of the raring to go, so shoot in a big Sam Houston, Texas. 'BRACKET' - that magazine is bundle of news and he will do the Mike Heneghan is in the middle 'hot stuff.' Rush me a year's sub- rest. of the maneuver area-Camp For- scription, pronto. Sorry to see that rest, Tennessee. more fellows out of Class 26 haven't as yet contributed, but after more Our old T ac Officers ? Well, . Class Representative of them actually see the 'BRACK- . Captain "Bully Bob" Froeber did Jst Lt. J. P. McConnell such a good job on us that he is no"W ET.' I'm sure business will pick up with the Officer Candidate School ''I'm still with the unit I was as- Two copies of the "BRACKET" in Australia. Inadentally, we signed to when I left OCS, formerly have been printed and have reached . worked as an Assistant T ac (until stationed at Fort Huachuca, Ari- many of the grads of OCS. News our reprieve) with him, and he is zona. We are now doing some rough has at last begun to come in from all really a human guy-except to can- soldiering down here on the parts. Here we go with what we didates-and no one got a bigger Louisiana Maneuvers. have received from you to date. bang out of that song we used to "Well, that's all the news, ole From Fort Bragg comes word sing-you know, the second verse? man, so rush me that subscription from ILieutenant Nlorman Miles that -than he did. D'ya understand!? and you'll find the cash enclosed." several of the boys from Class 27 are Lieutenant Joseph A. F. Baranow- there with him. All are in a heavy Captain Joe Alford took the Pack ski sends us the following "poop" outfit. They are: First Lieutenant Artillery Course, and is now at from the Pacific Coast: Klerman, First Lieutenant Katz, Camp Carson, Colorado. "I want to divulge at this time Lieutenant Deney, Lieutenant Kirk- Captain Paul Schellhase left a the duties and activities of class- land (Assistant S-2) , and Lieuten- while back to join an outfit at mates at Camp San Luis Obispo, ant Norman Miles (Assistant S-3). Blanding. California: First Lieutenant Donald Miles would like to know the where- Lieutenant Paul Rogers trans- B. McCue is a Battery Commander abouts of Sid Long, Andy Miles and ferred to the Air Corps Administra- and S-4. Second Lieutenant Floyd the Miller boys. (Hut 5 row 5.) tive Department, and was sent to Borgen was transferred to the Can you help him out? Bolling Field, District of Columbia. Liaison Flying School at Denton, Glad to hear from Lieutenant E. Aside to Section Four: Captain Texas. First Lieutenant David A. MacGuire of the Fort Bragg 'Van Wagenen, ("Van" to us), our Doherty was transferred recently to FARTC. "Mac, are there any of old Gunnery prof, served on the a newly organized outfit to become the other fellows there wi~h you?" OCS Staff for a while, and then its S-2. Second Lieutenant Robert Old Dan Cupid had a busy went to the Army Administrative Baum is the Special Service Officer month. Some of those taking the . chool in Maryland'. Captain Weiss of a Battalion. First Lieutenant Ben- count were Lieutenants R. W. as assigned to a station in Texas. jamin is a Reconnaissance Officer Renyck, Tom Shelton, both of . nd, by the way, I know you'll be and going places. First Lieutenant Camp Livingston, Louisiana, and lad to hear Bull Davis hit the school Joseph A. F. Baranowski is a Bat- yours truly, Lieutenant Lloyd , ain, and graduated not long ago. talion Motor Officer and Unit Fire Barnes at Alexandria, Louisiana, will on't know where he was sent. Marshal. soon make the leap. Lieutenant Robert C. Scott, who and am wondering if our Alma would arrive here or not, but never- is a personnel adjutant at Camp Mater has any such thing to offer." theless we are now here, and not Livingston, became a proud papa a Yes, Vie, the Book Department, there, I don't think. The weather few weeks ago. Nice going, Scottie! ~AS., sells a very attractive OCS here is just as it is at this season but, Lieutenant Wallace L. Brown, rmg. of course, quite unlike the weather with a Medium Battalion at Camp Stanley E. Wolever subscribed to where we were before we came here. Forrest, Tennessee, informs us that our publication from the east coast. I feel just as I should for this kind he would like to hear from Lieuten- He reports Jack R. Wilson as flying of weather here, so there is nothing ant James M. Landens who was in now, apparently as liaison pilot; to be alarmed about. From there to Section Twelve of Class 27. Jack H. Poehlman as Battery Re- here is just as far as from here to Lieutenant Edward Rosenstock connaissance Officer. Wolever him- there. " writes in for his copy of the self, has been Assistant Battalion New subscriptions from Steadman "BRACKET" from New York. I Communications Officer ever since H. Jackson, Alvin R. Uhlfelder, wish that you could tell us where he hit his outfit, a regular Division Robert M. Godber, all cire of Post- you are, Rosenstock. These care of Artillery. He seems all enraptured master, New York; Arthur F. Ma- Postmaster addresses are killers for with the 600 Series Radios. . . . I lone and Ely B. Schoendorf, care of those of us who are curious. would enjoy very much, any new West Coast Postmaster; William information concerning radio and George on Louisiana manuevers; Lieutenant Arthur Travis writes wire communication." (Of course, Joseph A. Geisen at Fort Leonard that he has moved from Camp Gor- Wood. don Johnson, Florida, to Camp Lawrence P. Raynes has his own Rucker, Alabama. Let us know if First Lieutenant Norman H. Battery at Camp Swift now. you find any of our boys there and That's all the news from this end. if so, show them a copy of the Davis, 'Class 30, has been award- Any from yours? "BRACKET." ed the Silver Star "for conduct- I know that there are a lot of you ing the fire of his armored field ATTENTION: ace 29: When out there who can give us a lot of artillery battalion in a superior the deadline was reached for this is- information about classmates. . . . manner, c au sin g destructive sue, insufficient news had been received from your class to warrant the inclu- Remember, you are our only source blows against enemy materiel sion of a column this month. Write of information. If you don't write, and personnel to such an extent THE BRACKET immediately and we can't very well find out where make certain you have a column next that it is believed that much of you are. Hope to hear from all of month. you before the next issue. Good the withdrawal of the enemy luck. forces was due to his ability to place fire on essential enemy in- Class Representative stallations. " 1st Lt. T. H. Dixon News has become a little more ' plentiful. Many thanks to those who we can forward letters if you send have written in. Others please fol- them to us worded "Please for- low their example. Here goes for' It seems that our class is getting ward". ) the news. conscious, slowly but surely, of the Robert M. Godber writes from Jim LaSalle wrote in from Camp reputation we have to maintain as England: "I've been on this side of Hood where he is in Headquarters "the best class ever." There are the pond for about nine months. Company of a Tank Destroyer Bat- several letters this month. One from The people have been quite hos- talion. Ernest Seay writes that every Victor H. Walworth, datelined San pitable, but there is no place like OCS graduate in his outfit received Antonio, Texas: "Received first is- home. I would appreciate any in- "THE BRACKET" except Earnest sue of The BRACKET -orchids to formation concerning Jim Barrett, Seay, putting it rather bluntly: all that made it possible. Since Matt Flattery, Jeff Fairley, all from "When I was back at Sill I frequent- graduation I've been drifting around Class 28. ly would jump my bracket-but this in Tank Destroyers but was finally "Censoring mail is one of our is the first time I ever had a overcome by the glamour of the Air routine duties but the other day I BRACKET jump me." We like the Corps: and am now about to start ran across the following censors' qualifying remark-"When I was pre-flight training at Kelly Field. dream letter: back at Sill." My last report from Bob Edmond- Date: Who Cares T ottan scribbled a short note: son shows him as S-4 of a Parachute Place: Ditto "Left for overseas ten days after Field Artillery Battalion, and still Dear: After leavtng where we graduation, still here." Where "dropping" regularly. I have seen were before we left for here, and not here is we don't know. Jack Hinkle some quite attractive rings worn by knowing we were coming from is no longer at Bragg, having be-, graduates of Tank Destroyer OCS there to here we couldn't tell if we come a Personnel Officer at Camp 28 Kilmer. Paul Lyle is care of PM, 0600, have breakfast at 0610, re- "We are allowed off the post only San Francisco. Captain Davis who port for business at 0700. From then two nights a week-Wednesday, taught our class would like to hear on it's a dizzy whirl, and by now, Saturday and Sunday-take your .from any of his former students at we're really pushed. Chow comes pick-and that doesn't include the Camp Gordon, Georgia. Vernan next, and back to work at 1300. possibility of a Division CPX or Whipps is at Camp Maxey. Crary, Then a continuation of work until special RSOP being pulled on Deglow, Meier and Winget are all 1600, and then a daily road march Wednesday. All in all, it's a stiff APO, care of PM, San Francisco. for physical hardening until 1700. grind, but I love it, and feel swell. The prize letter was received from This road march is a misnomer-it "I mentioned that the above Deglow from which I quote: doesn't take place on a road but, schedule· pertained to Battery Offi- "In the islands here the Infantry rather, over hills and gullies, across cers, but don't think that Staff Of- has realized the need for Artillery, country; and it isn't always a march ficers miss all the fun. It's true that .and we fire many missions that the since we intersperse double timing now I don't have to stand Reveille book does not call for. periodically with the temperature at or Retreat, but from the Colonel "In one jungle pocket one hun- down, we all go on road marches dred and fifty guns of approximate- and participate in RSOP's and ly three divisions fired a preparation CPX's overnight. We don't have into a jungle pocket surrounded by tables or chairs, or cots or tents-we our troops. The few Japs left were Here are the answers to the Quiz sleep strictly G.!., eat strictly G.!., Questions in the June issue: found walking in a daze. and travel strictly G.!. "Take it from us we found by 1. Left 15. "The accent, in this Division, is personally witnessing some major 2. The diagram below. physical preparedness and perfect Air Battles that our Air Force training for all personnel, and that against three and four to one odds order means everyone from the always came out tops. They are Chg 5- 469 f. 285 g 7- 253 Ca. 3645 Commanding General down to the super.b" BDR 285 buckiest private. It's a wonderful Seamns is on desert maneuvers as Df. 2930 Chg 5- 416 thing and I can assure you that it a Communication Officer and ca. 3090 Chg 7- 227 BDL 270 makes for very high morale. Please, writes: "Needless to say the heat for your own sakes, for your own in- is mildly aggressive, in the neigh- terest-please, get out of the chairs borhood of 120° Fahrenheit-but Chg 5- 289 Chit 7- 157 you are sitting in and work to get suream not complaining. It's really yourself in shape. It will mean forc- ugh but sure am desirous of seeing Df. 630 ing yourself to do it-because there me action before long." Ca. 3990 is no incentive-but, I know you'll Congratulations are in order for BDR 630 thank yourself for it when you leave ordell who has been promoted to Sill. aptain, the first we have heard Df. 2590 "By the way, Lieutenant Colonel bout. Ca. 2750 Lockett, formerly of the Tactics De- News has begun to come in from BDL 610 partment, is S-3 of Division Artil- .istant points and that's what we lery; Lieutenant Colonel Redding, ant, especially from any of you formerly of the Communications verseas. Keep it coming. Chg 5- 95 Department, is a Battalion Com- Chg 7- 68 mander; Major Bedford, formerly of the Gunnery Department, is S-3 in a Field Artillery Battalion; Lieu- tenant Gaines Voigt, of OCC 31, is Staff better than 100°, and with seven months at Sill behind me, you can here with me, also acting as Division Although our very efficient class well believe that I was pushed-but, Artillery Assistant S-3." presentative, Lieutenant Stephen now, I can keep up with the best From Camp Roberts way comes · Parke, has depat'ted from Fort of 'em. this interesting bit of news from · I to more fertile fields he has not "We then shower and have re- Lieutenant lames W. Durham. glected his responsibilities-he treat at 1740, after which we go to "Just received my second copy of · ds an interesting "play-by-play" our own officer's club and have a the BRACKET and I am well rt of doings at Camp Swift, refreshing drink. Dinner next, and then evening class for officers at pleased with it. exas. 1900. This lasts about an hour and "Was out on the parade field the e "The post is good, clean, large, a half-four nights a week-after other day when I was hailed by a d HOT! The Battery Officers which we are free to drop off to second lieutenant, one Paul Roddy up for Reveille, which is at sleep or anything else. of old Section Thirteen. He is now a member of a 155 Howitzer outfit. members of OCC 32 take over. As and if we can see the target area, He was transferred from the Thirty- the saying goes we really took the sit-. 'even help them out some. uation into hand and have done a very These men we have are OK, th fifth Division to his present assign- good job of it. have come along fine. I have had ment. Among the grade of OCC 32 who job for two and one-hilf months n "Someone will probably remem- are sporting silver are: Pearson,O'Dowd, and when I took over I had half-ho ber James Burke who upon grad- Ziaya, Boa, Sforza and Kitchen and gun crews, now they are 7-second cre . uation was sent to Camp Roberts, they sure do deserve them for the swell This is the best job you could possib have as a junior officer and the mo was assigned to a Communication job they have been doing. Thompson, Chapin, Taylor, Owen, lV. P. Smith, interesting. Battery, and then was sent over- Shorey, Dalton are others who show We have just finished our A.G. seas from here. He is no doubt wear- their bright faces aroupd this neck of tests and did very well on them, eo ing at least Captain bars by this the country. Calhoun transferred to sidering that 90 per cent of the olIie time as he was over age in grade. Air Observer; Hutton, Lewis, Sluzevich are Fort Sill grads. The old dust bowl welcomes ho "Upon being assigned to Camp took to the Air and are now members of the Paratroopers. No late dope the many 32'ers who are taking Roberts I was sent to a Communi- from them as to how they are doing. Survey Course. lValt T urkheim cation Battery in which I com- We are in the dark. O'Rear is at pres- Peyer, an R. O. at Camp Maxie, Texa manded a platoon of trainees. Then ent at The Presidio, California, await- "Scotty" Shackelford, 1st lieutenan in a month I was transferred to a 155 ing further orders. Silverstein was at Moskowitz-Sir Stork is soon to visi M. G. Phillips-1st lieutenant; all a Howitzer outfit, then was made an the Pittsburgh Replacement Depot with the expectation of crossing the WAVES sweating profusely over advanced M' executive of a firing battery. From (that goes both ways). Mifs, wobbling stadia, etc. First Lie there I was sent to a Group Head- tenant H. Van Dusen is here paradin As the weather goes so have we. For his talents in NDOe. Likewise M. B quarters Battery, as a Communica- the present we have under' our belts, man, who gave up his Ammunitio tion Officer. Now I have been the dust, cold and snow of Yakima; the Train for new fields. placed on a cadre that was sent back rainy weather of Fort Lewis, and now Lindebaum is a gear stripper par ex from Hawaii to form a new bat- the sun, dust and sand of D,T.e., Cali- fornia. cellence as Battalion Motor Officer tal~on. This promises to be inter- Camp Maxie, Texas. foe Ostrows So until anything new breaks we'll estmg. completed OMC with honors, took still be reading "THE BRACKET" and "I am hoping that lots of the crack at a line outfit and was recall pushing the other 32's for their bits by the school to instruct shavetails-t boys in Class 31 write so we can of NEWS. be in who rides where. know where they are." Until then, George Monsarrat swelled our su Reports show Lieutenant E. De- -ANON. scriptions with his $2.00 and wears a Lisle went to Ireland from where he (Anyone knowing the identity of A.P.O. address. Similarly, Theodor took part in the' invasion of Africa. this ghost writer should immediately Morrison and Arthur f. Hogstrom, Fir contact CC 1.) Lieutenant Carl M. McCoy is sensin Late word from Don Gitchel Act two transplants us to "some- and sweating at Forrest, Tenn. . brings an announcement of his mar- where over there." Before being used Please forgive any omission of "h' riage in May, followed by a honey- as a human torpedo farris L. Knight oil" sent yours truly, for this colu moon "Deep in the Heart of gave this memorable epic, to-wit: was prepared early in the month . Hello at Sill from the Southwest Pa- allow your correspondent his well d Texas." He says he and Barron cific area. Greetings to the members of served leave. (Same to you!) Ne finished their Motors and Com- Class 32 wherever you are, on land, month should produce many tense com munication Courses and were as- sea or foam. Wonder if all those who muniques as our overseas classmates a signed to a medium outfit just in have gone overseas received as big a beginning to write. time to hit division problems, field kick out of crossing the waves. It was "It's not a bribe, but please subscri ~s Coleridge's Ancient Mariner who saw We need your news and cash-o maneuvers and GHQ proficiency water, water everywhere and not a And we'll all try to satisfy tests. Barron is now Battalion Motor drop to drink." However, we had the Remember-no help, big crash-o!" Officer and Gitchel is Assistant water to drink. . Communications Officer at Camp Out here we have movies that were Barkeley, Texas. made within the past 10 to 15 years, most of them fairly recent. We have boxing every once in a while and also Class Representative other sports. 2nd Lt. John O. Wood Well, so-long old shavetail, from your buddy across the sea. The reports are at last beginnin Class Representative -HAYRAKE. to trickle in from the members 0 The drama ends (amen!) amidst the 1st Lt. W., A. Kraetzer 35. Keep up the good work an beautiful greens of Pinehurst where Sam The first act of this month's 32 saga, Nield, Jr., golfer extraordinaire, wishes soon the trickle will become a flo As You Write It, (pure corn) is a he was. Actually Sambo is struggling E. L. Wilson, now a first lie soliloquy by one who signs himself at Shelby, Miss., trying to correct the tenant with a 155 10m. outfit he Anon. hook of his 105's. We quote: at Fort Sill, has informed us the Hi Fellows: I have been a -first lieutenant now for are eleven members of 35 in Here is OCC 32 really reporting. As about seven weeks, my duties are limit- the facts go we surely took over as far less but really I am Executive of Able same outfit. They are: First Lie as this Brigade is concerned. Within Battery, the Battery where the firing tenant~ Wilson, Robert Jensen, this Group we have had eighteen (18) officer gets anything he asks for, yes, /. Sak, Nathan Edds, Chari 30 Cunningham, Wiley I. Holloway; to the fact that your correspondent "Old Thirty-seven" is well repre- Second Lieutenants Nate Barber, is unable to entice 36'ers to write to sented here, and most of us are put- H. D. Halvermale, /. L. Smith, him about their doings or the goings ting up a good fight in this "Battle M. P. Sabey and /. R. Head. cn of other members, so please, of fort Sill." Ted May and "Hap" These men would like to com- brethren, please, turn loose. Houlihan are still doing a good job of whipping the candidates into municate with other members of Word has been received from shape for their commissions. Ted ~he class. Captain Harold S. Davis who is now is now a CTO,and "Hap" is about Remember, to get the complete at Camp Gordon, Georgia, request- due. Tactics still proudly claims address of any of our subscribers, ing members of the classes he Greis and Pollacek, while Gunnery simply write "THE BRACKET," taught while at school to let him keeps Benze, Chasanoff, Kleinsmith, and the desired information will be hear from them. He is no doubt and Saunders on the go. Joe forthcoming. finding life in Georgia somewhat Hutcheson is now one of the regular There, no doubt, are several more dull and needs pepping up. members of 35 at this post. If they instructors in our Salvage (Prep) will write a note,to us, we will glad- We who are not so fortunate are School. Communications claims Ea ly pass on the info. glad to hear of the various members Ca'!lpbell. Over on the other side K. G. White, now a First Lieu- of our class who are going some- of "Misery Hill" we have three tenant with a 105 mm. outfit here, where since their graduation. Word alumni with the Department of Air is now enjoying a leave in South has been received that Frank Fabbie Training. They are loe McDonald, Carolina. is now a First and Battery Com- Tom Skelly, and Bob Sonneborn. Second Lieutenant Mabry is mander of a Headquarters Battery. That about cleans up the members teaching Communication to Officer Arthur Gough is also a First and of the staff except for the writer Specialists. Battery Commander of a Servi,ce who is seeing what he can do about Second Lieutenants R. H. Ball and Battery. Hal H. Smith, another handling the Adjutant assignment in CC-l. r. 0. Wood are continuing to give firster' and in NDOC is going out out with the "School Solution" over as a Battery Comman?er. Toe Prager and his wife moved in the Tactics Department. The members of 36 kept at the into Lawton for a month's stay the Our latest subscribers are: First school are really sweating it out as other day. Joe is now a Paratrooper Lieutenant Kenneth W. Sharpe and freezing orders seems to have af- and is here to take the Survey Second Lieutenant H. E. Carrigg, fected the status somewhat of the Course. George Peters, a former ,Fort Bragg, North Carolina; Second member of 37, is also here taking 1Ostructors. We are now neatly Lieutenant Harry L. Picard, Desert this course. nicknamed "Birds Eye." At least Maneuvers, APO, Los Angeles, F. H. lVlcCarthy is a Battalion there is something cool about Okla- California; Lieutenant lohn W. Motor Officer' at Camp Gordon, ,White, Camp Gruber, Oklahoma; homa in the summer. Georgia, and is presently taking the Lieutenant lohn E. McNamara, Wes Brown is now "leaving" in Motors Course here at Sill. Harold Camp Gordon, Georgia; Lieutenant California-didn't get to wear the Story is now a student officer in the Thomas W. Lasher, Camp Barkeley, Sound and Flash Ranging Course. Texas; Lieutenant W. E. Ratcliffe, silver home, but we are sure that he The Replacement Centers still Camp Shelby, Mississippi; First still gave the girls the thrill of their lay claim to a good number of our Lieutenants E. L. Wilson and lives-the handsome beast. group. Here at Sill we have the Nathan A. Edds, Fort Sill; Lieu- two Whitakers. Glenn is a battery ',tenantNathan Barber, Fort Sill. officer and Don is Assistant S-3 Our last communication is a note of the Center. Incidentally, Don from Lieutenant G. A. Barden, Fort wonders if lohn Warmerdam ever Huachuca, Arizona, expressing good found his clothes! Leroy Morrow is ishes to his former Tactics Officer. 2nd Lt. E. J. Poyneer Assistant S-4 of the Center here at aptain Newbold, and to his former Sill. At Camp Roberts, Harry 'nstructor, Captain Franey. You men of 37 have responded to Whan is Assistant Adjutant of a Keep the information coming 10 my pleas in fine shape, but let's Training Regiment, and Manny d we'll keep it going out! have even more news. Naturally, we are interested in knowing where Marquez is a battery officer of one you are and what you are doing, but of the Training Batteries. Archie give us a few more minutes of your Powell and "Dusty" Rhoads are still time and include some news items. 'at Bragg, but we haven't heard what Most of you field soldiers, and even they are doing. some of you fell0'Y "Chairborners", Alan Behrman writes that due to have had some experiences that will his experience with pigeons he has . Little information is available for be of interest to all of us, so give been transferred to a Pigeon Replace- e benefit of members of 36 due out. ment Company in the Signal Corps. 31 Sounds interesting. I hope Al gives Except for one officer who desires placement Training Center at Sill. us more of the details the next time to remain anonymous that is "it" for A pair of Section Four have been . he writes. this time. Keep writing and tell reported Captains. We've heard that First Lieutenant S. L. Truman re- us more of your experiences in the our men who went to a new division ports that he is in command of a field, etc. artillery at Camp Shelby, Missis- Port Company in the T ransporta- sippi, were all First Lieutenants ~t tion Corps down in New Orleans. the end of three months. And now Howard Gerrish is also in Louisiana comes news from Captain Cullivan . as a Motor Officer and Assistant ClassRepresentative and Captain Dugan. Executive in a Firing Battery. 2nd Lt. C. W. Davidson Your correspondent goes on leave Dick Schumann was made a Bat- tomorrow; that means that my talion S-3 on reporting to Fort Some of our men are back in mailbox will be unhaunted for ten Bragg for duty after graduation, school again! They are here for the days. I hope that the box won't' but the desire to fly got him and NDOC with an air-borne division. hold all the mail that will be wait- he is now here taking Liaison Pilot Paul Davis went originally to a ing upon return. Send your sub- Training. First Lieutenants Peter brigade at Camp Livingston, scription now, but don't just send a Perfetti and Bernard Kaylor are with Louisiana, but promptly transferred check; send us a little note with it. a Field Artillery School Troops unit to paratroops. He has completed the Everyone is anxious to hear from at the Infantry School, Fort Ben- jump school; came here with the you. ning, Georgia. George Schulet is parachute battalion; will be a Bat- Executive of a Firing Battery in tery Executive. First Lieutenant Fred Texas. Edge is in the same course, though Joe Rathgeb is Battalion Liaison he is in the glider battalion of the ClassRepresentative Officer with one of the school troop same division, to be activated soon 2nd Lt. C. O. Albertson units here at Fort Sill; Joe O'Leary after their completion of NDOC. is Aide-de-Camp for General Kaiser. Edge is in the Battery Commanders A subscription was sent in by Carroll Holland is at Fort Bragg in Section and rumor hath it that he Lieutenant J. Edward Cline this the Air-Borne Artillery. Another will very soon be Captain Edge. month. He's stationed at Camp alumnus traveling via the airlanes is Congrats. Roberts, California. Herb Weinstein who is paratroop- First Lieutenant George Lane has Lieutenant Leroy F. Fuller has a ing in North Carolina. It is report- sent his subscription from Camp new address. It consists of a lot of ed that Bud Ponack has transferred Livingston, Louisiana. Tom John- letters and numbers. At the end it to the Air Corps and is taking Pilot son is at Fort Leonard Wood, Mis- says, Denton, Texas. Anyone want- ' training, but we have not received souri. Lieutenant Ray Cox gets his any word of confirmation from him. V-mail now care of PM, Los An- ing any addresses can get them here easily. First Lieutenant D. W. Snyder geles, California. We received a letter from Lieu- has just returned from Special Serv- A second with Paul Davis re- tenant Frank J. Osterloh the other ice School at Washington and Lee veals that he is a man of much ex- day, and right here we'd like to beg University a,ndis now in the Special perience since his days as a candi- his pardon for in the last issue, we Service Section of a Division. In date. Soon as he was commissioned the same division is First Lieutenant he took unto himself a bride. And gave his address as an APO in Los Angeles. His correct station is Gordon Root who is Division Artil- now the paratrooper is expecting to lery Adjutant. be a father. Geronimo! Camp McCoy, Wisconsin. He and Lieutenant Albright were in the Several of our classmates are Bat- We have heard also from Stanley same Battalion, and later Lieuten- talion Motors Officers. Among H yer who is at Camp Hale in ant Albright was Communications them are First Lieutenants C. T. Colorado. With the Fort Sill sum~ Officer of Headquarters Battery, Spittler, D. J. Saber, C. P. Biggio, mer upon us, Colorado sound•••like Lieutenant Osterloh was Assistant and R. C. Weber, Bill Nally, a a nice place to be. G. E. Milling- Communications Officer. Later former member of our class, recent- ton is in the Motor Transport De- Lieutenant Albright was transferred ly moved with his outfit to the West partment here at school. to Division Artillery as Command- Coast. He is with 'an Armored Field Lieutenant Frazier continues in ing Officer of Headquarters Bat- Artillery Battalion. the Tactics Department on the tery. Class 37 is represented overseas OCC faculty. Bob Hawks has re- He also sends us word Lieutenant by Ed Jussely, Gerard Petrucci, ported (it costs only two dollars Leslie Evans' bars have turned to Francis Piotrowski, Steve Ori, and and it's a swell magazine; where silver. Congratulations! Clinton Movold. They are really else can you get your name in a na- soldiering now, and the best of luck tion-wide magazine for two bucks?) Lieutenant Osterloh is anxious to to them. from a specialist battery in the Re- hear from some of his classmates. We received another letter this Rohlfs and Sward are reported as officer for his outfit which is sta- month from Lieutenant Larry having APO care of Postmaster ad- tioned at Camp McCoy, Wiscon- A brams, Fort Bragg, North Caro- dresses, but whether they have left sm. lina. Larry was a lawyer as a civilian the country yet and if so where they Ricketts and Rouse recently com- and his job now consists of review- have gone we have not heard. pleted the Battalion Motor Officers' ing courts martial papers to see if The grapevine reports that Ches- Course. Goodnight has arrived at they are legally correct. He also is a ter Sypniewski was married in De- Sill to take the same course. legal assistance officer for the Re- troit on January 21st. He is at the Hank Gehris and Len Ginsberg placement Center, aiding all of those Sill Replacement Center training are here for the Officers' Communi- who need legal advice. battery clerks. cation Course. They and their wives He writes that he has never seen Here is a letter received from are sharing an apartment in Law- a "BRACKET" yet. What's the Hilary Alles: "I am Group As- ron. Ginsberg has been AA-AT matter over at Fort Bragg? sistant S-3 of a 'hot' 155 mm. gun Platoon Commander in a light bat- His letter goes on, "Almost outfit well advanced in training. talion on the West Coast. everyone who came here with me is Fifty-two of our eighty-two officers Let's have some more letters like now gone. Lieutenant H. L. Adams are graduates of OCS, so "THE A lies' . You can probably give us left here in December. The only BRACKET" will give us a class re- a line on the activities of many of ones in this Replacement Center union each month. As you no the gang. from Class 39 that I know are Lieu- doubt know, ammunition for the tenant Coder, who is now a first, 'Long Tom' is pretty well limited but we shoot enough to keep our and Lieutenant Deforest who is Class Representative teaching military law and admin- edge. For the past several months 2nd Lt. Malcom Ducker istration in the FAS here." we have lived in the field two con- Lieutenant Edmonds over in the secutive weeks each month." Yes, sir, Class 41 has a new rep- FARTC is on leave. It is reported that Rubinfeld is resentative and a former writer at Lieutenant A nderson and I are battery executive of an eight-inch that. If you men in the field will still plugging for dear old Tactics. Howitzer battery. shoot in a little news Class 41 I saw Lieutenant F. E. Adams The last time we heard from should have the best column in the downtown last week. He has been Gettel he was attending the De- "BRACKET" .. Let's go, men. out at Fort Knox in the Armored hydrated Foods Course at Fort Pressing official business didn'r Force Replacement Training Cen- Sheridan, Illinois. Looks as if he permit Ducker to exercise his lit- ter. He is now finishing NDOC were going to be permanent mess erary talents for this issue so from and expects to be S-2 in the the pen of his ghost writer comes Armored Battalion. this timely bit of news: First Lieu- Some of you may be interested in tenant Richard O. Dunlap is now our old "Tac Officers"-Captain attached to a famous Field Artillery Wilson is now in a pack outfit in Group presently located at Sill. Camp Carson, Colorado. The rest Mandel Rosenblum is also at Sill are still here at the school. helping to polish up a certain Field We still haven't heard from Lieu- Artillery outfit. Most of the men tenant Al Adomaitis. who stayed at Sill after graduation Let's keep up the flow of news are still here and beginning to get into the "BRACKET." Thanks for itchy feet. all the letters. Let's get a lot of news in to Ducker for the August issue.

Class Representative Class Representative 2nd Lt. D. M. Gooder 2nd Lt. Arthur N. Hofstetter There isn't much news from the Your representative has received school this month. But we have the news of promotions of members had word from quite a few of the of 42 with congratulations for those lads scattered about the country. concerned and condolences for those Budd and Weisman have been not concerned. We are actually romoted to First Lieutenants. They happy to know that some of our re here' at Sill with school troops. gang are really on the beam and we Weisman is acting as Liaison Offi- hope the "permanency" of our rank er. lack Howe has also been upped will soon terminate. Among these grade. "RSOP-springboard to the real thing." are: George Hood, First Lieutenant old 43 knows which is the most Wright in the near future, since h and a battery executive at Camp outstanding class that has gradu- informs us that his Battalion Com~. Shelby, Mississippi. ated from o.es. Let's prove it to mander has ordered him back to' First Lieutenants Joe H. Carpen- the other classes by the reports of Survey School. Russell· Stem com.: ter, Forest Deming and Alvin our achievements and experiences! pleted the Officers' Communication Chance, battery executives at Camp Lieutenant Colonel Krayenbuhl Course some time ago and was as· Maxey, Texas. The above three has departed for some destination signed to the FAS staff. He is now are in the same battalion and would which cannot at this time be di- acting as one of the departmental like to hear from 42. ' Personally we vulged. I know I may speak for secretaries. Say, you, sit right wish you luck and "good RSOP- the whole class in wishing him where you are and write us a note., ing." GOOD LUCK AND GOD- DO IT NOW! Attention, Section Seven: Cap- SPEED! Colonel John Turner is tain H. S. Davis, then First Lieu- now Commandant of o.es. tenant, would like to hear from any Again I plead with you-please, and all of the men whom he in- PLEASE send any item of news Class Representative structed in gunnery. He is with a you may have or just send us a Lts. Bragg and LaJeunesse Field Artillery Battalion, Camp hello. So long for now. Gordon, Georgia. His full address In the absence of Wolf Weiner, can be had by writing to us. (I'll ATTENTION oee 44: When the wild man of the Wichitas who' get you to write some way.) the deadline was reached for this is- is currently and cautiously evading Lieutenant G. R. Hull is now sue, insufficient news had been received carefully set traps in California, with Liaison pilot training in Den- from your class to warrant the inclu- Brothers Bragg and LaJeunesse are ton, Texas. What a post! Remem- sion of a column this month. Write THE BRACKET immediately and endeavoring to piece together what: ber the girls' school? What a post! make certain you have a column next "hot oil" and official "poop" that From Lieutenant Albert Kramer month. has been rendered from fattened rcomes the information that he has graduates of Class 46. for hls battalion a lively paper From the wastebasket which is devoted to pin up girls. that ... They liked the dainty little lady on Groucho Longtin, stationed at page thirty-three of the June issue of 2nd Lt. H. W. Wright Camp Livingston, Louisiana, has the BRACKET. Kramer believes returned for another three months' they will elect her "Bivouac Girl" We received five additional sub- grind at the school; this time for of the week. How about that? They scriptions from class members this the motor course, and has been seen want to write an editorial on her. month, but no notes were attached. recently trying to date the blonde Take another look. Not bad, huh! Hence the usual cry goes up: "WE in the Post Exchange with little or We have a few more addresses WANT NEWS." On bended no success. we'd like to pass on: knees, gentlemen, we beg of you. A letter from 46 Yz (yes, I like Lieutenant Floyd Storms, Fort Your correspondent bumped into communications) Buchanan states Leonard Wood, Missouri. Jim Terry at the Officers' Club that he is now cavorting around on Lieutenant James N. Goreham, swimming pool (we went there only maneuvers in the land of mangos Fort Sill, Oklahoma. to get some news, of course) re- and iguanas . . . lizards to you. Lieutenant Robert L. Feniger, cently. Jim had just finished the Another familiar face on the Camp Livingston, Louisiana. Officers' Motors Course and was campus has ,been that of R. C. So long until the next issue. Let's about to report back to his observa- Coyle, who is busily engaged in flood the mails to the BRACKET tion battalion. He had just been re-measuring several angles for the for 42. married the Saturday before and survey course. 'hadn't quite come back to earth yet. Wilbur Mohan is back at the school as executive of one of the LOST AND FOUND school troops firing batteries. Ray DEPARTMENT Kenble must have had quite a time Found: A Battery Executive with high water, since his station a Headquarters Battery. Again comes ne~s week for the (Camp Gruber, Oklahoma) is in A recent bit of news from Mike "BRACKET" but the usual thing the midst of the recent flood area. Voiland says that he Assistant happened-no news from OCC 43! Ed Simmons recently had to do Communications Officer, mess offi- All week your correspondent has RSOP twelve all over again. This cer, athletic officer, and the Execu- been very envious of many of the time, however, he was Communi- tive in a Headquarters Battery", other class representatives who re- cations umpire; being loaned to the Camp Gordon, Georgia. In the' ceived an abundance of news from Tactics Department by Communi- same Battalion are Lieutenants Ed their classes. I think each one of cations. We expect to see Earle Dixon, John Paton, Everette Eades, on Pruden, Bill Blanks, Earl and that William Lender has re- word, John Jakiun, Marv Lindsay, turned for Officers' Communica- nd Tom Monsour. Also down tions Course. M. O. Baker, men- . amp Gordon way are Lieutenants tioned last month as being here for rands Touhy, Herb Dickey and survey study, is junior aide to the eorge Simonetta. Fred Wood was The following report on our for- commanding general of his division parated from the rest of the gang mer T acs is included to aid expres- artillery and in line for assistant ere and belongs to another group. sions either of ill will or good will. S-2 duties. He reported that Wil- Captain Newbold is division adju- liam G. Aickin, Richard R. Atkins, Our thanks to you, Mike, for the tant with an outfit in Florida. Lieu- Donald A. Bakke, and Bernard Ba- ell contribution; we know that tenant Cummings has been in com- rack are executives. Milton Bel- eryone is glad to hear from you. mand of the OCS casual detach- lows is an RO in a medium bat- Found: An Address. ment since just after we left, but talion. Obed A. Hopper, in bat- is due to move out July First. Lieu- talion headquarters, has returned That of Noel Everard's. After tenant Compton, feeling that both for communications school. aving Sill, Roberts, and Camp he and pack artillery are pretty rug- ason he was the proud recipient Along with those previously ged and should benefit mutually f an all-expense paid ocean cruise mentioned. Lincoln E. Siler, from association, is taking the ani- d now sports the following ad- George A. G. Smith, and James W. mal transport course here at Sill and ss: APO, San Francisco, Cali- Spann are completing their liaison will report to the Rocky Mountains pilot training at Post Field. upon completing it. Lieutenant Campbell, who knews damned well Leonard N. Kessler subscribes he is as good a man as Compton, from a West Coast APO but limits From Camp Livingston, Louisi- is also studying animal psychology his correspondence to the financial comes word that Walter with particular emphasis on the aspect of the deal. When fellows apa) Card got his "BRACKET", emotional reactions of mules. Lieu- write in, they almost invariably ask ile Smokey Stover has acquired tenant Daniel continues tacking. about their former colleagues; and new bride. that is good. They forget, however, Samuel Armitage, address an Found: Initial Data on the Fol- that the medium of exchange here East Coast APO, writes, asking wmg: is news in addition to the coin of about Quintin Frazer and Gregory the land. We cannot answer all Bob Patterson, Battery Comman- Asimakis. Neither has checked in questions unless each man just lets r (yes, that's correct) in Hawaii; with the "BRACKET"; he will his hair down and reports fully on b Gouldy, attending airborne welcome any G-2 sent in time to himself. Please, let's not be mod- p school at Fort Benning, reach the next issue. Frederick F. est. The innate modesty of your rgia; Walt Eshbaugh, Battery Amweg, William H. Bright, Les- correspondent will suffice for all. cer in a 155 mm. Howitzer out- lie L. Blackwell, and George 1. in the California desert; Joe Cantrell are in the same battalion. ester, Post Exchange Officer at Calvin S. Hatch, remembered by Desert Training Center; Allen some for nearing, quite unofficially, unman, Assistant S-2 of a 155 the four-minute mile in getting . rifle outfit; Herb Chisholm, from headq uarters to the depot sonnel Officer at Camp White, after receiving his warrant in Camp ..gon; Don Mead, Camp Prison Roberts, writes on palm-decorated Lieutenant Cullen, our CTO has cer at the Desert Training Cen- stationery. The sunshine of the moved out of Fort Sill having been o Bill Maxey, Battery Officer in Hawaiian Islands was most welcome assigned to the Armored Forces, his ,155 mm. Howitzer battery in after a trip whose mean datum first and real love. Maybe some of you will find yourselves under his ifornia Desert; Roger Cerioni, plane was one deck below sea level. With his usual abandon he sug- firm but excellent leadership again. in a 155 mm. Howitzer Bat- gests that the advice department Lieutenant 1. E. Ingle writes n in California Desert. urge that candidates learn every- that Kivisto, Kohlbacker, and him- st: Valuable information con- thing because in his outfit nothing self are teaching various phases of .ing the whereabouts of many else is used. Donald 1. Quigg is artillery at Camp Roberts. ur classmates. Anyone having reported passing an indolent sum- Lieutenant Davidson advises that , knowledge of said classmates, mer on a neighboring island. Fink, Nichols, Lonegren, Marshall, and Giles are along with him-that notify the "BRACKET" im- Intelligence has it that James P. they no longer have to worry about iately, and your reward will be Stehle is over in the training cen- getting a drink in a dry state, that ger and better "BRACKET" ter, serving as motor officer after being able to procure a coca-cola in month. completing Officers' Motors Course, their "neck of the woods" is a feat. Captain Davis, who with Major "I ran into Lieutenant Charles Raymond James is here at Sill Duff taught us gunnery, is now in Kennedy the other day. He is here with the Department of Air Train- a line outfit at Camp Gordon, at Bowie in a Field Artillery Bat- ing. He undoubtedly knows b Georgia, and would like to hear talion. He told me that Lieutenant now how they keep those little from some of the men he taught fohn Hunter is also here." planes lined so straight. in section five. I can't give you More gossip; this from Califor- Among other bits of news, Luke Captain Davis' organization but if nia, and the Desert Training Area Lukkarila, now a Special Service .you will drop me a note I'll pass where we find Lieutenants Alfred Officer, is in Fort Bragg. Herod It on. W. Rasczewski, Mischke, Wells, Birdwell and George Coudrier are Let's get those subscriptions and Mosher and Lowande enjoying the whipping Camp Phillips, Kansas, letters in for I can only forward beauties and comforts of the Golden into shape while Camp Bowie, others your address if I have it my- West. Rosczewski will be back at Texas, is whipping E. L. Phillips, self. Sill in Survey School by the time Jr.,-hey, who started this? the "BRACKET" goes to press. Lloyd Kauper is delving into the New subscriptions locate Allen intricacies of the Armored Divisions ATTENTION ace 49: When Childers and Robert C. Reed at at Camp Beale, California. the deadline was reached for this is- Did you all ever wonder what Camp Bowie, Texas; Leonard sue, insufficient news had been received Lieutenant A. L. Reese at CC-l from your class to warrant the inclu- Kromm at Camp Phillips, Kansas, did? So did 1. Now I know. Offi. sion of a column this month. Write and George L. Riley with an as- THE BRACKET immediately and signment at Fort Sill. cially S-2 of the o.es. Then, just make certain you have a column next to keep me on my toes-or some· That's all the news for this month. thing-I'm gas rationer, shoe ra~ month-let's hear from more of you tioner, food point (ration currency so we can really pour the "hot oil" to the OPA) fixer-upper; also, as in the August issue. side issues of course, come camera registrations, liaison pilot applica- tions and physical examinations, o.es. physical re-checks, accident investigator, mess schedule arran· Class 50 men do get around as ger (there are those who argue this evidenced by a newsy letter from point!), o.es. Public Relations. Lieutenant Gerald W. Hath, who Officer, Officers' Service Club Man- after graduation went to Sound and Amazingly, to me, I am again ager, and-well, you second lieu. Flash Class then on to an Observa- frozen to the spot by the coldly tenants undoubtedly are in the same impersonal stare of the deadline. tion Battalion at Bragg, thence boat somewhere else! along with twenty other officers It's getting so the fifteenth of each Once again I sign off-once again month looks like the horns on a was shipped on to Camp Bowie, I say to myself "Will the boys send dilemma-sharp, too! Texas. He passes along the follow- me something besides three or four ing dope: Ford and Ewing dropped in the applications-will they write me "I was all ready to seal the en- other day for a brief chat; both had some news-will they?" And velope with my two dollars for the just finished the Motors Course, small voice assures me "Of COUtS' 'BRACKET, when I saw the and, from what they said, it is they will." Still another voic phrase, 'Enclose some news,' so really A-I. They both seemed to daintily whispers in my ear "YO here goes: have learned_ plenty and were DOPE, OF COURSE NOT!" "I found Sound and Flash very anxious to get back in outfits- interesting and am very proud to they both will be good officers, ATTENTION oee 52-53: motor or otherwise. be in such a battalion. I do miss the deadline was. reached for this is the lOS's though. Word has drifted in that some sue, insufficient news had been receive "Now that I'm here I find that of our Class 51 boys have spanned from your class to warrant the incl sion of a column this month. Writ I like Texas much better than I the ocean blue-however, by the THE BRACKET immediately an time rumor reaches me it's as weak thought I would. make certain you have a column nex "Did you know Lieutenant as a puff of cigarette smoke in an month. Luther P. Watson is at Sill taking Oklahoma tornado. an OMC? Or that Lieutenants Lowell Freshley and James Cas- Donald Erickson, George Gladding, ady are in a good position to see Douglas Luther, Robert Reed and huge orange moons framed in Class Representative Charles Rohr, after Sound and swaying palms while listening to 2nd Lt. R. F. Strattan Flash, ended up here at Bowie? soft guitars and lapping phospho- Lieutenant John Halpine is still at rescent waves. Oh me! How's As our deadline creeps upon Bragg. Hawaii boys? this month we find that 'our fra " 36 tic pleas for news have brought at Camp Gruber-other 55'ers there Lieutenant Robert S. Alsaker's some of the class out of hiding. are Keller, Joyce, Falconer, Blum- address is Brooklyn, New York. Lieutenant H. E. Strong writes berg, Outhoudt and Gene D. Knud- Could he be planning an ocean . that a number of OCC 54 grad- son. voyage? uates who attended the Battery Let's make the 55 column the Lieutenant Robert E. Atwood Executives' Course are now assigned ?iggest and best III the August was in "sunny" California as we as Execs in 105 outfits at Camp Issue. went to press. Phillips, Kansas. His list of men Lieutenant Raymond Stover is in . includes: Lieutenants Cantwell, the Post Transportation Office, Buser, Cleary, Banfield, Renaud, Class Representative Camp Kilmer, New York, as As- Lawrence, Progar, Ward, and (of 2nd Lt. M. O. Poteet sistant Motor Officer; he knows course) Strong. A little news is better than none. now what they meant in the Motor A few more of you have sent in Everything at Sill is still going Course when they said, "You subscriptions to the BRACKET strong. All the boys from Class might become a motor officer." but have forgotten to include the 56 who were left here as instruc- Lieutenant John W. Bailey is in all important news with the pre- tors are on the beam. the Transportation Corps. Nice viously mentioned two dollar bills. If any of you class-mates want going, John. Lieutenant A. J. Dobrozsi reports the address of any of the other (Massachusetts) Lieutenant T. J. in from Camp Maxey, Texas; boys, just write to the class repre- Ryan, Jr., is out at Bragg. I bet Lieutenant J. M. Honea from Camp sentative, in care of the BRACKET he's got that place all squared by Bowie, Texas; Lieutenant A. I. and the address will be furnished. now. Weisskopf from Pittsburg, Kan- Most of the boys are at Bragg, Well, time is short before the sas; and Lieutenant L. L. Haggin while some have already gone BRACKET goes to press. Come on, •from the Tactics Department at overseas. Are they lucky? fellows, let's have some news, in- Fort Sill. (Complete addresses Lieutenant Arthur A . Hoover is stead of a lot of addresses. So, for available on request.) now at Camp Gordon, Georgia. this time, we wish all the Class 56 men much success, and lots of luck. Lieutenant R. G. Nystrom ac- A letter from Lieutenant F. R. companied his subscription with a Bleckley tells us he is at Staten letter telling us that he and two Island, New York. Good work, old man. other members of OCC 54, Lieu- Class Representative Lieutenant Irving Guttman is in tenant Ed Nelson and Lieutenant 2nd Lt. A. Silvestri fohn Crowan, are now at Camp an eight-inch Howitzer outfit. McCoy, Wisconsin. Nice going, lieutenant. The editor turned over what ap- Lieutenant Edward W. Johnson peared to be a whole raft of cor- Captain Harold S. Davis writes is in Grand Rapids, Michigan. I respondence from 57 ,graduates and from Camp Gordon, Georgia, and wonder what he's doing there. it began to look as if we were be- asks that any of his former stu- ents in the class write him. Let's orne through on this one. The RACKET will supply you with .he necessary address if you'll drop card. That's the news for this month. ,et's hear from more of you next Ime so yours truly won't have to .ouble-space the column before we an turn it in. The dope we want your job and your outfit and .hat kind of an outfit it is (105, c.) Start writing.

Staff .Come on all you 55'ers, send us a well prepared IW for the next e. At press time we found only Among the booty taken in North Africa was this bathtub which few notes to pass along. Lieu- was immediately placed into service . •ant Cavanaugh is Assistant 5-3 ginning to get some place, but every Ge.rman Campaign up to the Several of our men have woun when we sifted the pile through present tIme. up at Camp Adair, Oregon, wi there was very little in the way of George Roth is temporarily on the various units. Among them are: news. shelf at the station hospital, Fort Peck, Kwiatkowski,' Teitelbaum A postcard that evoked acute nos- Bragg. He claims he is being treat- Mann and Wynne. You men ar talgia in the breast of your corre- ed for "a typical pneumonia MI- lucky, being up there in God's spondent came from lames T. AI." Best wishes for a speedy re- country, or maybe I'm a litd Walsh, who is enjoying the lush- covery. prejudiced, being from Portland my- ness of a New England summer at In spite of the relative dearth of self. Pete Demetros reports that h Camp Myles Standish, 15 (count news there was a gratifyingly large was shipped from Bragg to Fort 'em) miles from Providence, Rhode number of subscriptions for the Leonard Wood, Missouri, and is Island. Also in that bunch as- BRACKET. Not nearly enough, still waiting his orders to the para signed to Standish are lohn I. for we can top all the other classes. troopers. Lowrie is at the same post Walsh, Pete Skala, Stanley Raiman, And some of you scribbled a short along with Kelley, Gunter, Geiger, lames Trunnel, Harry (Aida) Ris- note or two which indicates that Vana, Wood and Traugh. Durand ney, Mort Star, Harold Steelman you're warming up to let fly with left Bragg to attend the Pack Ar- and C. H. Ericson. real long newsy letters. Make this tillery Officers' School at Camp Car- From Camp Livingston lasper a real cracker-barrel forum. It's son, Colorado. Williams exhorts the present crop your column and there's no limita- Three men from the class have of O.C.'s to bear down on forward tion on space. Now then! been assigned to Camp Gruber, la-' observation, small and large-T set- cated in the great state of Okla- ups. He writes: "I haven't fired an homa, which is the only place in axial problem yet. Yesterday an the world where you can be stand- officerwas given hell because by for- ing in water up to your knees and ward observation methods after thir- still have dust blowing in your face.• ty-seven rounds he still had no ad- Cross, Yellman and Nickelson are justment. We get pin-point tar- the lucky ones to draw the assign- gets on ridges where two mils The past month has brought con- ment. either way is lost. Lots of woods siderable correspondence from the members of 58. There have been Hays and I. R. Smith dropped us and swamps which don't allow a card from Camp Swift, Texas. much burst. You have to be good." numerous changes in station, and the manner in which the "alumni" Here are a few more strays: Webb He adds a list of common faults is at Camp Claiborne, Louisiana. found which sounds very much like keep the BRACKET informed of such changes is very gratifying. Or Anderson at Camp Butner, North a compendium of critiques by the Carolina. Sharpnack at Camp Van O.C.S. Gunnery Department. is it because you guys want your two bucks' worth? Seriously, the Dorn, Mississippi. Hayes at Camp Maurice Longerbeam reports that BRACKET is well worth it, don't Barkeley, Texas. Schnulle is at with about fifty other grads he was you all agree? Camp Phillips, Kansas. Goldberg transferred to the Transportation Before getting down to individual is at Camp Forrest, Tennessee, and Corps at Indiantown Gap. As to cases and news, it seems that a Otofani is putting in his time at' your request for information about great many of our class have been Fort Sam Houston, Texas. getting a class ring, Maurice, write transferred to the Army Transport We are well represented at Camp' to the Book Store at Sill. Division, and are stationed in vari- Blanding, Florida: Ledogar' wrote. Ruben E. Carlson, also at Gap, ous Ports of Embarkation along the that he, along wit~ McKillop, Mon- writes: "Fort Sill graduates are East Coast. Gabori writes, "Upon roe, O'Sullivan, Klinge, Sachs, well liked and held in high esteem arrival we were informed that we Sandbrink, Simms, Ott, Stowe, here, which of course makes me had lost our identity as FA men and Hansen and Ferguson, were as- happy to be a Sill product." we're now part of the Transporta- signed to the same outfit as execu- Bramble Robbins is gratefully tion Corps. In fact, we've even lost tives. Good deal! over his period of "sweating" and our cross cannons." Sort of rough. News from some of our class that is up in the air at Denton, Texas. after sweating out a concentrated are at Bragg: Tom (Alabama) Bry- From Sill to a ·W.M.C. Steriliza- three months' course in Field Ar- ars, was assigned to a Field Artillery tion Battalion to Boston is the saga tillery. The following are in the Observation Battalion upon comple-' of Frank Vitanza. He writes that same boat as Gabori, all stationed tion of Survey School. Atkinson is he has had opportunity to talk to at Boston: Wes Carson, Church, with a Field Artillery Battalion; many prisoners of war shuttled Sudy, W. B. Morris, Greenwood, McConnell is at FARTC, as is Os- through his station and they admit Mosher, Beamis and Prudhomme. sefort, R. B. (Andy) Divine an that American Field Artillery is the There may be additional ones, the Hero. best they have ever encountered above being the ones who have Some of the boys still at FARTC and some have been through almost checked in. here at Sill include Miranda, Nunn, at Sill, three of the boys have joined the Lonely Hearts' Club. Benson is occupying a bedding roll in a battery at FARTC. "Loopy" Lupke is splicing away in Commu- nications course Two Five, and "il1oose" Vreeland just shouted in from the next office to say that he'll stop harassing the candidates long enough to answer mail addressed to O.C.S. Staff and Faculty. Winters and Schuldt are doing a brother act at Claiborne, Louisiana, and Willie Lamont can be reached at Pittsburg, California. Both our Sears Roebuck Spitfire groups made the mail again. Black, 1V!. D., is doing lazy eights at Pittsburg, Kansas, and Wittstruck says he's available at Denton, Texas. The prize for brevity goes to sure that the wealth of subscrip- Burnett, Cawthorn, Coleman, Col- I!arris, J. W., whose communique tions and verifications of address larand Bello. Someone told me that is as follows: "APO, Seattle, will warm the cockle of the busi- ,Bauman had all his teeth removed- Washington. " poor guy. ness department's collective heart. But did you ever try to compose an Frank McCaughey and Jack Dan- "Ode on a Money Order for Two iels have two more graduations to Bucks" or a "Vignette on a Change their credit since 59 left Theatre Class Representative of Address"? Buddies, the world is No. 1. They survived the Survey waiting to hear what you're doing and NDOC here and are now 2nd Lt. W. B. McFarland as well as where you are. 'Nuff sed. braiding orienting lines with eight- Seated at my gig-littered desk, inch Howitzer outfits at Fort Ord, Three of our sterling group have California. eep in a one (1) each brown sounded off from Camp Mackall, dy, M2, I was plotting a new North Carolina. Weerts and Rob- ot for a list~ning post, the can- ertson are seeing a lot of each other idates having smoked me out of across the back fence between the y old one in the third trash can (censored) and (censored) glider Class Represuntative m the right. Enter character, outfits, while Lottes, J. R., is on 2nd Lt. J. H. Allen mplete with rising inflection: the morning report of another air- "Sir, Auxiliary Muse, Literary borne outfit. Robertson has things Well, this month saw a flood of I) reports to ask a question." to say re obstacle courses, calis- new addresses pour into the office quick scrutiny revealed all of thenics and excitement. Prospective to show that our class is spreading use's buttons present for duty. transfers to airborne duty please still farther out. :,"Collapse, Muse, what can I do note. Two of our number are now 'u for?" Her answer reeked of somewhere in the Pacific; Lieuten- "litary brevity. Also from the East Coast comes ants Paul Coccomo and Robert '''Sir, when in h-- are you go- a trio of "hellos" from brothers Geary. Possibly more have gone to knock out that BRACKET Small, Taylor and McMahon at since, but they have not as yet noti- mn for July?" I replied, by Bragg's FARTC. Mac is with a orsement, "Right away, Muse, Training Regiment, Taylor is work- fied us. kindly accept this humble ing out with another Training Regi- All of us who took special . d of ten (10) demerits for your ment, while Small seems to be courses after graduation except for , and trouble. Tha'ss all." playing roving fielder with the Communications, motors and the , here we go again, with the FARTC in general. Again from Pack Artillery, have left these Hal- news from youze. At first Bragg, "Holy" Moses, Cornelius lowed Halls. The bulk of those in ce, the bulging condition of my to his very good friends, wants mail the Executive Course having gone bag is encouraging. But, from and wants it sent care of Col. P. S. to Camp Gruber to be, so the story itorial point de vue (French Moses, National Headquarters, Se- goes, battery executives. , freely translated as point of lective Service, Washington D. C. , There are still a few left to fight '), it is another "sad sack." I'm From our own garden spot here the battle of Fort Sill. Bohrer, J. 39 D. Bowen, Courtney, Corine, Pow- sion. Wonder if the Civil War is Some of the fellows are still i ell, Semple, Hoffman, Welch, Re- being fought over again down there. officers' pools, but in Fort Sill th gis and ye ed are now starting to :Vith a name like that it probably following have been attached or a sneer like real live gunnery instruc- 1S. signed to outfits: Ole Jonsson, Job tors. Lieutenant Pugh is wrestling Lawrence, Bob and Phil Alford, with combat intelligence and logis- OCC 62 lack Adams, Bill Buchanan, Bo~ Class Representative tics over in the Tactics Department. Cockrell, R. A. (Pewee) Carter, 2nd Lt. F. M. Sasse Jack Conger, Drew Farmer, Bland Across the field in the Replace- Whilst your correspondent was Harrison, Max Rotholz, John Smitb, ment Center there are still quite a sweating (?) away at the TOI Hal Stallings and Ray Terrell. . few who hate to say goodbye to course on the Main Post one week, Jimmie Lynch, Dick Worth, Cal Oklahoma. Lieutenants Thibodeaux, the editor of ye BRACKET, in a Hengst, W. G. Phillips, D. H. B. O. Bowen, Galley, Schaife, Ed- Star Chamber session, proceeded to Swager, and your representative are wards, Brown and Thayer are all elect y.c. as the duly constituted, in the O.CS. Gunnery Depart-. . holding down jobs in the various appointed and elected representative ment. Incidentally, it's pretty good Batteries there. Lieutenant A ndre is of Class 62. After the editor flashed to be on the other side of the desk attached to a Recreation Section of those bars made of some kind of the S-3. They were all a bit put for a change. shiny white stuff-maybe you know Nick Klien and Ed Kozlowsky out to find they were going to what we mean-we avidly accepted. were present for some maneuvers school for four more \\'eeks when So, to make the whole thing in the California desert and Bill they first arrived, too. worth while, we have got to receive Kiefer and Davey Knoll are in an We got a letter from Lieutenant some G-2 from you lads out thar in armored outfit in Camp Cook, Cali- Fidel Dunne telling us of his trials the wide open spaces. In which fornia. and tribulations trying to find a event there won't be such wide open Jolm Gerrity, who wanted to go brand new outfit in an almost brand spaces under the heading OCC 62. to Denton because of a strong femi- new camp. He and several others We have one report from John nine allure there, is in Pittsburg, have been assigned to Camp But- Pogar at Camp White, Oregon. Kansas. He and Horace Watson ner, North Carolina. Those with Says they have examinations just and Izzy Bredin are doing some £ly- him are Ambrose Boles, Paul Sin- like at Fort Sill. What a thought! ing there. clair, Alan Levenson and Iver Ros- Also, that in their field exercises Some of the boys tied up perma- lund. he is likely to get any kind of job nently with some women during From Fort Sam Houston in from Motor Officer to S~2. We their leaves. Those known to have Texas, comes word that Lieutenants hope he took his T-! to Oregon. taken this fatal step are: Bland Har- Thayer, Thedford, Swafford, States, We know we'd sure need it! rison, John Lawrence, Freddy Phil- Spreitzer and Esarey are now with We imagine the first member of lips, Hans Power, Dick Cox, and an Infantry Division there. Lieu- our class to get an overseas assign- Johnny Kowynia. tenant Esarey states that he's get- ment is E. M. Tenney. (Any Let's hear from some of you fel- ting an awful workout as Assistant claims to the contrary?) Ed. re- lows. Your representative is in- Survey Officer in his Battalion and turned to Sill as a T ac., but only debted to Ernest Kleinman for a the Surveys aren't canned anymore, remained about a month until the very newsy letter this month. We either. big news came. Would we give our would especially like to hear from Our greatest representation seems right arm to be going with him? some of the boys who went to Fort to be out at the Camp Roberts Re- Well, perhaps not, but we do have a Bragg. placement Center. Carl Hindley slightly used Log and Short Base writes from there that quite a few T able we would give. members of the class have left for The class will be interested to Ports of Embarkation. That veri- Class Representative know that our old CTO has made 2nd Lt. E. P. Holt fies the rumor we heard, evidently. three important jumps since we Believe it or not we already have graduated. It is now Captain C. Lend an ear all you great of 64. some "Brass Hats" in our midst. R. Neifert, and he has been Com- I have just been selected as repre- Lieutenants McGrath, Spinosa and manding Officer, First Battalion, sentative of our class, (reporter to Havens are Assistant S-2, S-3 and OCS, until his recent assignment youse Brooklyn guys) but before" S-4 respectively' of an outfit at to Camp Claiborne, Louisiana. I can report the hot dope I will Bragg, while Lieutenant Attenberg Good luck, "Neif," from all of us. have to have some info. is special service officer there. Also Joe Williams, that Southern to- at Bragg are Lieutenants Lopez de OCC 63 bacco merchant, now has his charm- Victoria, and Lorenzen. Class Representative ing wife here at Sill to watch after Down in Georgia Lieutenants 2nd Lt. W. J. Galloway him. Milt Wolfman says O.CS. Curran, Lindsay, Reeves, Mellett, Class 63 is just about to get half- was a breeze along side of the Com- Caputo, Wolcott, and Langdon are way settled down after going to the munications Course he's now in- now part of the old Yankee Divi- various replacement centers. volved in. j.'., 40