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Ski/ Chisfgasoline because of Texacos work in this war Detroit, more than 30,000,000 Ford cars and trucks have been built. Yet the thought and spirit that A BOY.. .A WATER WHEEL. ..AND A DREAM! prompted that long-ago experiment with the water wheel have never changed at Ford Motor Company. WORKED! Perhaps no boy had Meantime, somewhere inside his IT There is the same ingenuity that ever seen a more beautiful sight. inquiring mind, a dream was strug- is not afraid to be original . . . the Over a little dam spilled the water gling to shape itself. A dream of other same wanting-to-find-out-for-oneself of the country ditch. The homemade wheels that would one day turn to that always makes for progress. lighten the burdens of farm and in- water wheel began to turn on its rake- Today, this philosophy and the dustry ... to change the transpor- handle shaft. Faster and faster it skills developed through more than tation habits of the nation. w^ent. Next step was to connect it to 40 years are being applied to Ameri- From water wheels to watches, to an old cofifee mill in the woodshed. ca's vital needs. From this will arise steam engines, to gasoline engines, Pebbles were poured into the churn- new techniques to serve the nation Henry Ford's interest in wheels pro- ing mill. They sparked and crackled even better when Ford resumes the gressed. And the rest is history — the like a Fourth of July display, grind- history of the automobile industry. production of sturdy, comfortable ing noisily into sand to be used later Since 1895, when the first Ford car transportation, priced within the casting mold. for a was wheeled into Bagley Avenue, reach of thegreatest number. AsHenry Here was the first moving device Ford has said: "Our times are primi-

ever created by Henry Ford! FORD MOTOR COMPANY tive. True progress is yet to come."

I MAY, 194+ THE AMERICAN LEGION MAY. 1944 VOLUME 36 • No. 5 MAGAZINE

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The Message Center CONTENTS COVER DESIGN THE V-letter shown herewith does- Bv Hebrert Morton Stoops n't reproduce clearly, but one BASICALLY thing stands out: Samuel L. Hamilton, AMERICAN By Warren H. Atherton a captain in the Medical Corps, wants National Commander "two good rooms" reserved for him at HELL ON THE LOOSE 11 the Stevens Hotel in Chicago for "the Bv HoiMAN Harvey first American Legion convention Illustrated by S. T. Smith THE WATERS OF THE EARTH 12 Bv John W. Fritz, Jr. Decoration by Clarence Hornung A LETTER 14 By Earle B. Childs Illustrated by W. J. Aylward ^iffiC/iQO MA. H l/lr LITTLE JOE 16 By Leonard H. Nason Illustrated by George Giguere

THE G. I.'S FRIEND 18 By Katherine Bi.ake Illustrated by L. R. Gustax'son

ci, <-^, <^ >l yt^ AND STILL QUEEN OF BATTLES 19 AJ' *• AuA/ t*#««< WltC

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is engaged i pro- The American Legion Magazine is the official publication of The American Legion and is owned ex- duction ofalcohol clusively by The American Legion. Copyright 1944 by The American Legion. Entered as second class matter Sept. 26, 1931, at the Post Office at Chicago, 111., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Warren H. for war purposes. Atherton, Indianapolis, Ind., National Commander, Chairman of the Legion Publications Commission; Vilas H. Whaley, Racine, Wis., Vice Chairman. Members of Commission: Phil Conley, Charleston, W. Va.; Owen, Salem, Ore.; Theodore Cogswell, Washington, D. C; Robert W. Colfiesh, Des Moines, Iowa; Dr. William F. Murphy, Palestine, Texas; Lawrence Hager, Owensboro, Ky.; Frank C. Love, Syracuse, N. Y.; Claude S. Ramsey, Raleigh, N. C; Glenn H. Campbell, Cleveland, Ohio; Earl L. Meyer, Alliance, Neb.; George Bideaux, Tlicson, Ariz.; Le Roy D. Downs, South Norwalk, Conn.; Bottl

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may be Long Distance call A hope you miles, but we long in mm- it short m will to keep needs the wires. utes. War on When you are caUitig the Long crowded circuits, may say- Please tance operator to 5 minutes. limit your call suggestion It That's a good get through dur- helps more calls ing rush periods.

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(Conthmed from page 2) held at Chicago, Sept. 18-20, and the Stevens will presumably house Legion- naires of World War One and W. W. Two.

Alexander F. Balmain, Lecturer in L\. Education in the School of Educa- tion at Fordham University and Chair- man of the Americanism Committee of Schoolmen's Post of New York City, offers the following splendid definition of Americanism

"Americanism is the recognition of and the unequivocal tendency to a glori- ous and sacred heritage exemplified by the manners of the individual, the habits of the group, the customs of the com- munity, as such are observed in the home, the school, the church, and other agencies of human endeavor for the material progress, the cultural develop- ment, the spiritual advancement of

America. It is knowledge of the hard- ships and the fortitude of the colonists, the discomforts and courage of the pio- neers; it is sympathy and understanding for those less fortunate within our

shores; it is appreciation for the

contributions of all men regardless of previous nationality, religious conviction, political affiliation, social or economic

status. Moreover, it is adjustment to the inheritances of a great nation, reverence for the American Flag, respect for tra- dition, spiritual enrichment. American- ism represents untarnished Truth, un- rivaled Charity, unconquerable Faith,

unhyphenated Loyalty. It is the right of the individual to live in peace and harmony with his fellow-man, and to enjoy the benefits of Justice, Equality

and Liberty. It is his duty to transfer to posterity the ideals of Citizenship, Service and Sacrifice, and to meet his responsibilities towards God and Coun- SURE a man with a pipe "takes"a woman's try in such a way that America will be eye. But follow through, friend... add true a better place because he has lived here." Pipe Appeal. Rise and shine with the person- THE March issue we carried an al pipe -joy of choice, bite -proofed Prince IN Albert. Mellow MILDNESS for your tongue article sent by Legionnaire Fred ...a revel of RICHNESS to your taste. Cool? B. Barton from Britain, about William It's cooler! Crimp cut, too... easy packing, A. Reardon, a Legionnaire who was easier drawing. A pass to good "caking"... drafted the day before he was 45 years stays lit. P.A. for pipe-joy... peak Pipe Appeal! of age, after trying in vain to get into uniform again. Reardon, pipefuls of fragrant fine roll -your -own who later got tobacco in every cigarettes in every a lieutenant's commission after attend- handy pocket pack- handy pocket pack- 50 age of Prince Albert 70 age of Prince Albert ing Officers' Candidate School and is now overseas, thought he was the oldest man drafted by your Uncle Sam. So did Fred, and so did we. We should have known better. As of March 27th, and we don't think we've heard from them all, the following have 11 beaten Reardon's time: Harry H. Fos- ter, Newark (New Jersey) Post, born Feb. inducted Albert 23, 1897, June 9, 1942; Yale M. Hawkins, Louis Monroe Post, Elwood, Ind., born April 14, 1897, in- R.J. Reynolds TobaccoCo. Winston-Salem. N. C. ducted Oct. 31, 1942; William H. Kopf, Union City (New Jersey) Post, born {Continued on page 9) The AMERICAN LEGION Magaane I know that on every hattlejront some woman— such with smart street uniforms ... a monthly allowance while

as I shall try to be— is helping to save the lives of learning . . . preparation for a wide choice of interesting work American soldiers, perhaps the lije of my own such as nursing executive, public health nurse, child health brother, perhaps your sweetheart. specialist, or anesthetist. And in any essential nursing joh, you Nurses are needed everywhere, and so I am going will be serving your country as well as yourself. If you are a

to be a nurse . . . training here at home . . . with high-school graduate, between 17 and 35, with a good scho-

later a free choice of how I shall serve. I am going lastic record, and in good health, get further information

to help people get well, and someday I am going to now at the nearest hospital, or write: U. S. Cadet Nurse be a better wife and mother, too, because of this Corps (U.S. Public Health Service), Box 88, New York, N. Y. training in the proud profession of nursing. TH/S MESSAGE CONTRIBUTED BY

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MAY, 1944 * * * * BASICALLY AMERICAN

We hold these Truths to be self-evident, that all Men are cre- ated equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness—That to secure these Rights, Govern- ments are instituted among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed. —Declaration oj Independence, July 4, 1776

All legislative powers herein granted shall be vested in the Con- gress of the United States. The executive power shall be vested in the President of the United States of America. The judicial power of the United States shall be vested in one Supreme Court. The powers not delegated to the United States by the Con- stitution, nor prohibited by it to the^tates, are reserved to the states respectively, or to the people. —Constitution of the United States

Be it Resolved that, while we recognize the importance and ne- cessity of centralized controls in the interest of the war effort, we reaffirm our fidelity to the basic concept of the American system, a sovereign Federal Government of sovereign states, and that all powers not granted to the Federal Government are BY WARREN H. ATHERTON reserved to the states or to the people; that "that Government American Legion is best which governs least" that freedom of individual enter- National Commander, The prise is of importance equal to the four freedoms of the Atlan- tic Charter, and that extraordinary controls surrendered to the central government should be promptly returned to the state political guidance in forging a way sovereignties upon the termination of the war. These prin- Lincoln gave ciples we regard as essential to the preservation of the Ameri- of life in which equality was the framework. can way of life. To them we hereby dedicate ourselves unre- servedly, singly, and collectively, and we highly resolve to work Whitney, Fulton, Morse, Bell and Edison paced and fight to preserve on the home front the spirit that has progress toward plenty through mass production. given us our cherished institution of liberty and individual free- dom, that our soldiers may return from the far-flung battle Our advancement was not planned by super- fronts of the world to find the institutions, for which they have men. It was not accomplished by regiments of citi- fought, unimpaired. —The American Legion, September 23, 1943 zens assigned to this or that task. It was not ob- tained by masses of people thinking thoughts pre- OUR forebears turned their backs upon a life pired by master minds. where serfs were bound to the land, where Our progress is the sum total of the free and in- rigid rules of rank suppressed the genius of the dependent action of millions of individuals on common man, and a state church oppressed dis- farms, in blacksmith shops, in stores, in factories, senters. in schools, on the highways and byways of this They braved a rough and unknown sea in great land. cockle-shell boats. They endured cold and hunger Each thought his own thoughts, planned his own and want. future, tried his own experiments, and worked for They created a nation dedicated to justice, free- whom and where and how he pleased. dom and democracy. A system of free enterprise rewarded each ac- Protected by the bulwark of the Constitution, cording to his ability, industry and merit. our fathers and mothers subdued the forests, We have made living better here, we have aided climbed the mountains, traversed the plains, and the afflicted of other nations, we have become the

gave us the United States. world's defender of democracy and its last hope for Log huts have changed to homes. The canoe has peace on earth and good-will among men.

given way to the steamboat, the train, the auto This blessed way of life was "made in America!'

and the plane. Herb doctors have been supplanted For it men are dying on the slithery slopes of by medical science. Filth has bowed to sanitation; the Apennines and in the steaming swamps of the ignorance has yielded to education. We enjoy the Solomons. highest plane of living in the history of mankind. We on the home front must be alert to preserve Franklin, Washington, Jefferson, Monroe and that for which they fight.

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te«rfuiaiij^..-^'-nii^» The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine THE MESSAGE CENTER {Continued from page 4) June 19, 1897, inducted July 22, 1942; John W. Bishop, James L. Yates Post, Owensboro. Ky., born Aug. 25, 1897, inducted Aug. 28, 1942. More about this matter in June.

UNDER the title A Veteran Speaks, C. A. Barrett of Liberty (Pennsylvania) Post offers these lines:

Twenty-five years ago today I faced the world in the self same way I'd joined the Army to fight a war To rid the earth of a festering sore. Some of us died and some of us live, But all of us gave what we had to give.

We were sent back home when we won the war Without removing the festering sore. And the ghosts of our comrades cried "What would the Ar-my do with-out the out in shame En-gi-neers?" pops the $64 question in For the job unfinished for which we came; "Song of the Engineers". A hard one But the men of Gold had then decreed to answer! Wherever the Army advances, Their wealth meant more than human in tropic jungle or arctic outpost, the . Engineers are out in front preparing the

way . . . building air bases for our flying So the roots were left in the festering

sore, forces . . . throwing bridges across broad rivers . . . constructing highways

And now my son has gone to war over formidable mountain ranges . . . resourcefully transforming all kinds of To do the job I should have done "impossible" assignments into routine tasks. In nineteen twenty and twenty-one, Speed is a vital factor with the Engineers, and outboard motors have proved When the League of Nations was still useful in ferrying, bridging and many other operations. The Evinrude a source highly Of Christian strength and human force. above, fresh from its packing case, will soon know what it is to "get the works" from the Army's hard-working Engineers. But we were too selfish to think of others And said "TO HELL WITH OUR FOREIGN BROTHERS." So now my son has gone to war To finally finish an unfinished chore. Praise God he'll have the to do The job we failed to carry through.

But we, at home, must have the nerve To protect the boys in the ranks, who serve, By using our citizen's right to vote. Mounted on a st.ind.ird 1 nginucrs' n Ferries built quickly — here's how So that no father may need again note, I ' ponton, (the Army term is ponton, they do it ! Several pontons are decked "I've sent my son to carry a gun not "pontoon"), this Evinrude makes fast together with standard bridge material To finish the job I should have done.'' work of transporting bridge material. It and, with motors mounted, the ferry is takes stamina as well as power to de- ready! Here 3 Evinrudes do a "triple Our boys will fight and win again. liver the goods in this kind of service! /" job pushing a truck up stream. But all that they give will be in vain Unless we keep faith with those who lie In Flanders Field, Hold the Torch on High That the sons of our sons may live in peace And the fear of war on earth may cease.

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10 Tht AMERICAN LEGION Magazine Hell on the Loose

By HOLMAN HARVEY

United States Strapped to the back of THEhas a gun that Our new double-action flame thrower shoots around one was 60 pounds of can shoot around cylinders. Thig corners, rolls into open doors, windows and portholes, metal a corner. De- man carried no rifle, consuming everything in its path. It flushed out the Japs veloped by the Army grenades, or other means and used spectacularly at Tarawa after everything else had failed of protection. Instead,

by the Marines, it has he bore a longish. odd- made history on the looking gun with a bloody beaches of New Georgia Island, naval shells, dive bombs, and TNT. crooked barrel, connected by a flexible at Bougainville, at Tarawa, at Cape The cameramen described the opera- tubing to the cylinders on his back. Close Gloucester, and in the Marshall atolls. tion against one particular blockhouse. at his heels was his assistant, ready to It is a fearful weapon. The procedure has been worked out in operate the cylinder valves the gunner It is America's new MiAi flame- mathematical detail and is standard for could not reach or to take over the gun thrower. all similar operations. itself in an emergency. The assistant, I have just talked with two of the After demolition crews had succeeded being unencumbered, carried a rifle. Marine Corps' fighting cameramen who in planting several charges of high ex- As the two-man team crept forward, went in with the first assault wave at plosives against the walls of the strong- other Marines covered its approach with Tarawa and saw the MiAi's drive the hold and these had been detonated with- rotating fire directed at the fronting Japs in screaming terror from their half- out success, the command came; portholes of the blockhouse. buried and almost impregnable block- "Flame-throwers, forward!"' At length, the flame-throwers reached houses. At many points, it was the only Two Marines started bellying cau- their station. It was a precise point, weapon that could flush them out. That tiously toward the low-lying fortification, carefully determined in advance. It was

was after we had t-ried in vain 1 6-inch using such cover as they could find. {Continued on page J4)

MAY, 194+ II — — —

The Waters of the Earth overrun their banks; I am one of a thousand, a million, fifty millions; Yet the fruit of the land is withered and dry. My history is the history of countless others

And eons of bright , cloudless sun must warm the breast of Earth Who collected, in order. Before the soil shall regain its richness. Butterflies and bugs, match covers and stamps.

I am the boy of whom you have heard, I am but a small organism in the life blood of America.

He who has been expounded in countless paragraphs, But, as are the other millions important, I am important Unending verse. I am he Unbelievably, incredibly important. Who played with electric trains, For we, collectively, ourselves, are the life blood of America. Polished sled'runners, We are the tender memories of the past, Earlier, built blocks, and counted the beads on a play pen. The frontier of the present,

I am the leggy adolescent son of a Mother, The hope for the future. The son who never found time to comb his hair before school, We shall generate the scientists and architects and doctors and who collected, in order. And poets and preachers of the future. Butterflies and bugs, match covers and stamps. We shall encourage the meek, lift the common, quiet the braggart. I am he who was always hungry; the one who left pennants We shall laud the accomplished, teach the ambitious; And catalogues and model airplanes and microscopes Our hands hold the future of America. And books and chemicals and letters and clothes We who, yesterday, made harmless dyes with high school chemicals.

Scattered to the high winds and four corners of his bedroom Will, tomorrow , man and equip the mighty laboratories of the world. sanctuary; We who, yesterday, were struggling desperately in an attempt to The one who complained to all things good and mighty when the conquer Long Division and Algebra and Ancient History housecleaning broom Will, tomorrow, teach in the magnificent classrooms cf the nation. Of a tolerant and persistent Mother We who watched, will do; Disarranged the methodical disorder and visited wanton Who saw, will show; destruction And who listened, will speak. The destruction of cleanliness—on this sanctuary, And our speech will be the voice of a million, of ten or a hundred And hid his chemical set before he should blow the house to million. Kingdom Come. And our wisdom will be that of the ages. I am that boy.

I am he who went to high school football games with the gang. And the Earth shall be ripe and rich. And was despondent for a week if his team lost the game. And the harvest great. I am he who was taught to play the game hard and clean. To play to win. That's the why of it. That's why we are here I'm playing a different game, now. That is the promise of the future But I'm playing hard—and playing to win. Which makes the present so obligatory, so demanding, so necessary, so inevitable.

After those days, I am the man who followed. The Pleasantry of the past, the promise of the future The man who put away childish things, Plot the course for the present. And proudly, and just a little bit timidly, That's the why of it.

Left home for college. That 's why today, we of the butterflies and bugs, match covers I am he who wore loud clothes and joined a fraternity. and stamps And was soon sophisticated to the worldly wiseness of the Are murderers. University. Murderers in the same sense that a doctor, who for the preservation And was the devoted admiration of his parents, although they saw of mankind little enough of him Destroys a parasitic germ or a devastating scourge. When he returned from school for a weekend. If he is a murderer, then we are. He who was out to a ball game with the gang. Or a movie with his girl. Somewhere in our dreams the fields are green

Yes, I am that man. With a verdancy comparable only to the blueness of the skies above. Somewhere there are sweet voices I'm out with the gang again; Choraling angelic hymns. This time the game is a little different, Somewhere a woman's touch. And the girl is a hazy dream—with a little house, white picket Brightens the world, then leaves it looking the less bright fences and children. When that touch is withdravra. — — ——— — — — — — ——

Somewhere there are churches and schools and homes, Han you hear the whine of shells, the sullen roar and the burst of And joyous people, laughing people, singing people. ack-ack, We, or the butterflies and stamps, have a joy of our own, See orange streaks patterning the night with a mosaic of death? A laughter of our own, Have you ever mistaken thunder for the roar of enemy guns A song of our own. Or awakened thanking God with every fervent prayer you know We hold a joy at life which each sun, filling the dark earth with That your restless, torturous sleep was otherwise undisturbed? reassurance Or, having been warned of their coming, have you ever sat Recalls and provokes. Lnder the strained quietude of the pale stars—waiting for that coming? We have a laughter Just waiting—and wondering Loud, blatant, fierce, terrifying Waiting and wondering. That mocks at the futile attempts Of the Wafers of the Earth, while we build dams and levees. Wondering what the next ten infinitely long minutes will bring; Knowing the while, our sandbags are the strength of God, Waiting desperately for the violent hell about you to blow loose Our breastworks, the foundations and fortresses of freedom. O God, Almighty Father, still the troubled waters! We have a song: melodic, martial, And at the same time, tender. Moments of restfulness during the day. It is the song of liberation, the symphony of succor. Moments when you can think— if you dare. It is the theme of our forefathers. Then, with the tranquillity of a green meadow Joy and laughter and song And early flowers swaying and nodding in the spring breeze, Incongruous with bloodshed and tears. With the realization, the cognizance brought about when the last Incompatible with dirt and disease. wisp of a city fog And imthinkable in the face of withering loneliness. Bows to the relentlessness of a demonstrative breeze, But our joy and laughter and song are the sustenance of a free heart. ^ our mind clears,

The basis of courage, the hope of mankind. And once again you think cf the why cf it. So we laugh and sing as we build dams and levees. Visions of Pilgrims and Pioneers, frontiers, brave men. Dance before you and enchant your being And the prosperous land will yield Into a divineness. Bountiful blessings, and the poor will be rich. Washington speaks from Valley Forge, Grant from Richmond And the sad will be happy. Chateau-Thierry, the Argonne, Gettysburg, Lake Erie, Manila Bay And the Waters cf the Earth v/iU recede. Sound forth in a triumphant rhapsody of freedom. In the name and voice of liberty, in the Epic cf America! Can you, who read this within the security cf your home. And the promise is of a mankind free. Feel the desperation we knew when we left the security of our home?* Though you, who read this within the security of your home, were Can you know the heart's emptiness as the miles of land spilled over not in the fox holes you know that freedom the horizon's edge. To speak, to act, to write, to pray And gave way to blue water? At the dictates of an unhampered conscience. Can you feel the silent terror, unspoken fear Which shook the bravest heart And that's about the story in its entirety. When first the chill realization cf peril struck miserably into every It's not particularly pleasant, soul? • It's not for the squeamish, who c^ose their eyes First, fear of sabotage on the railroads of home And blindly think wishfully to a fool's death. How sweet home sounds now; But the story is one of perpetuation of an ideal, a cause Welcome, friendly, warm, sweet Eternal vigilance is the price of libertv. The submarines, or enemy warships It is the story of bloodshed and courage, faith and devotion. That the loud speaker system announced. It is the Epic of America! Can you hear the booming silence Each breath caught for the blow? For the Waters of the Earth will recede to the confines cf their banks. Can you know what it means to lie sleepless And will leave the fruit of the land moistened unto ripeness. Starting with each distant drone of an airplane motor, The good Earth shall be fertile and productive. And mistaking the sound of a truck accelerating in the low gears And man shall reap the abundancy For the screaming dive of enemy fury from the sky? Amid peace and goodwill on Earth forevermore. Can you feel the mud of the fox hole and slit trench? Mud that combines with your sweat and soaks into your clothes. And into your blood. —

lllostrated by W. J. AYLWARD

over on Guadalcanal. For several weeks their backs had been against the wall and they were sort of "holed up" on Cape Esperance, up around Kamimbo Bay. The "Tokyo Express"—that's what we called the reheving groups of destroy- ers that tried to bring aid to the star\'ing Jap infantr>'—was not running success- fully, thanks to our PT outfit. Whenever the dark of the moon oc- curred, ten or fifteen Jap cans would A Tale of the Solomons pull out of the Jap Bougainville base and make the five-hundred-mile dash JAM Edward Breckenridge Clark, and down the slot to Cape Esperance, loaded I'm a lieutenant in the United States with drums of rice, landing boats, and Navy. I graduated from the Naval Acad- ammunition. That was their only chance emy several years ago and right now I'm of success—darkness. If they came by in a hospital bed sotnewhere "down un- moonlight. Marine and Xa\y dive and der." They expect me to die. They have- torpedo bombers blasted their ranks as n't told me that, of course, but the Chap- easily as in daylight. In the inky Solo- lain has been sitting here with me for six mon darkness the planes couldn't oper- hours now. I'm dictating all this to him ate, but PT boats could, and all Jap at- to take my mind off the pain. Both of tempts in the past had been thwarted by my legs are gone, you see, and though our bull-throated midget battleships. sometimes I seem to feel knots and Tonight was the second night of the cramps all up and down them, still it's dark of the moon. The Japs hadn't come the sharp stabs right where the stumps last night, and judging by past perform- end that get me. ances they were a cinch to show up to- Funny how things end up. I knew that night. The boys wouldn't know for sure a professional naval officer has to ex- until they reported in to the operations pect the worst sooner or later, if not in office for their night-patrol orders. By this war, then maybe in the next. Some- then, 1830 Navy time, the Hudson re- how I never thought it would hit me connaissance planes had returned to Hen- quite this way. Well, anyhow, I'll start derson Field from their evening trips, at the beginning of that last night and and the enemy's probable time of arri- tell the whole story the best I can re- val would be flashed to the PT boys. member it. I know how cut and dried Everj'body knew what the Jap objective those casualty telegrams are. The de- was, and they all realized he'd arrive partment doesn't waste any words; I off Savo Island about 2300, carr>' out \uess they haven't time. This way, at his business, and leave by 0130. least, Nita, Mother, Dad and Art can He had to leave by 0130 or he'd still really know what happened and why I'll be within dive-bomber range at dawn never be home atiy more. an invitation to disaster. During the two- and-a-half hours the enemy was in the BELONGED to the Motor Torpedo channel between Savo Island and Cape Boat flotilla that was operating out Esperance we PT boys would be trj-ing I rice on about five destroyers and run of Tulagi harbor in the Solomons. to dodge the screening ships and sljp a parallel to the Jap-held portions of the On the night I was hurt it looked as fish between the ribs of the rice carriers. beach about a mile off shore—to go though the Japs were ready to fold up The Jap technique was to put drums of closer was to invite collision with a reef. After dumping their rice drums, ammu- nitioji packets and boats, the Jap de- stroyers would roar up and down at thirty-odd knots hoping to wash their cargoes ashore with their tremendous wakes. They would have been successful, too, but our crowd used to stick around after the Japs had shoved off. and fill the rice drums full of fifty-caliber holes. The Jap landing boats and ammunition found their separate ways into our hands. At about 1730 I put on my overalls and shoes and walked to the cook shack. The -boys were already lined up with their cafeteria trays and tinware, ready for the evening's dole of Spam and baked beans. Before each meal I used to make mental note of the good, solid, delectable things I was going to order when I land- ed in an area that had time and facilities "The chaplain has been sitting with me for six hours now" to cater to a man's taste.

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" Breakfast and lunch were fairly pleas- where the boats" crews as;?— r>d -.o be Everi-bod>" = ant meak. but the evening meal was a ferried across Tulagi harb r v - r PT "ers i:r.::! quiet, moody affair. Each night one half moorings and base. There wi^ i - of the outfit patroled. and the other half in what we had on. and it was if. slept. The next night we exchanged oc- to tell officers from men. Everyozie v. uie to cupations. By day the whole gang turned those long, tan overalls the>- issued as to to service the boats and plug up shot combat dress, and carried or wore a -mvai 2330 loni^it. holes. kapok Ufe jacket, .\round every waisi ^ - i c«e their doty : it iras

At supper an utter stranger could tell was strapped a web belt with Colt forty- now 7 PT"s to stop the ^bow. a: a glance which half of the group was five, hunting knife, and gjare ammtmi- 'T.: rr. ;^:ls and two cnriseis." says going on patrol and which half was going tion clips. Every head was covered with I to myself; '^the little stinkei? are leal- to bed. The patrolers spoke not at all. the distinctive .\merican 5t>ie tin hat. h- trying to cany the mail tooi^tt." or in a ver>' low voice if they absolutely Some carried canteens that were usualh- ^AO li^it, fefloKS," ham the senior had to talk. Eyes were pretty thoroughly filled with the cocoa or hot tea that had watdi c&ca. '^galber rouDd and well glued to plates, and thoughts were far been ser\-ed at the evening meaL It got discuss waj's and means." away in distant, happier climes. Every de\ili«h chilly ofi' Savo about one .'lm. Every capTain knew wliat he was up other night, regular as clockwork, we Tbe crews piled into a Higgins landing against. It was the same stoiy we had had been making our peace with our boat and were carried to their respective faced time and again in the past—dfteen Maker and ke>"ing ourselves up for the PT boats. .\1] boat captains were landed desliovos and two cndseis agaiiw^ our ordeal of facing death in any of several at the operations office in the PT base available force of ei^it PT boats. nasty guises. Supper was definitely not where the night's orders wotild be issued. "Four boats under me to patnil the a pleasant meal. The time of departure There always seemed to be a wait once beach off Esperance. keeping about two was too close. things had been checked over. It never miles oS shore. Two boats under Ed At iSoo I was at the \Tllage landing varied. < ComiiMned oa page j6)

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Tunisian winter night was THEwell advanced when a vocifer- ous shadow descended a hill and dragged two more shadows from shallow fox-holes. "Git up—git up!" roared the shadow. "Git up, ye rebels! We got a tank out, an' we gotta get in before Ordnance cleans it out for us. Come on, outta that!

Jimmie seen it. He knows where it is. Take yuh out in a peep. Come on, git goin'. Whaddyuh waitin' for?" The two other shadows, black against the blackness of the "bled," stood silent- ly. The repair section of a tank battal- ion had taken up its abode near the cactus-walled corral of an Arab farm, in the wrecked buildings of which its shop had been installed. "We ain't maintenance men," spoke one of the shadows. "We're replace- ments." "What's your name? Know how to drive a tank? Whaddyuh doin' here?" "My name is Red an' his is Stuffy," replied the other. "There was an officer. He threw our 'A' bags off the truck an' says to get off here. So we got off. We dug a sht trench an' went to bed. We already been fed. 'C rations at four o'clock." "I'm the maintenance sergeant," said the man who had aroused them. "They call me Wild Bill. The tank's about five miles down the road. On your way!" "Well, now. Sergeant," cried Red hastily, "if I said we could drive a tank, it would be only in a manner of speak- in'. We had our driver trainin' in the Replacement Center, but we ain't what you would call tank drivers. We went right way to Bakers an' Cooks School, an—" "Don't give me no argument," or- dered Wild Bill. "You won't need to drive no tank. Only git in it an' wait for the wrecker crew to get there. There's thieves here, mostly the Ord- nance. They strip a wounded tank be- fore it's stopped kickin'. There's noth- in' I hate like a man will steal spare parts." "We wouldn't know anything about takin' parts out," began Red, "an if the tank won't run we wouldn't hardly be of any use." "Go git that tank!" roared Wild Bill. "Gid oudda here! If it won't run, you

! an' it guys git together on it push home "Halt!" roared Wild Bill. "By God, halt! We're goIn' to take Stuffy settled their steel hel- Red and a tank back with us if we have to raid the Jerry lines to get itl" mets about their ears and went. The quarter-ton truck, or peep, as the soldiery call the vehicle, slithered its un- certain way across the "bled." "What's the fire to get to this tank?" demanded Stuffy. "Why can't they wait for daylight?" "They're just horsin' us for recruits," answered Red, clinging for dear life to the side of the vehicle. "I shoulda told that sergeant there I had almost a year in the service. I'm an old soldier. But then there's no use declarin' yourself

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no front lines at night out here in these hills. The Krauts don't prowl much. Sometimes they register artillery on

abandoned tanks, and if they hear a noise, let go. But most^ly they come out an' drag our tanks in. Along with them they find workin' on 'em." "Pay no attention," advised Red with scorn. "He's kiddin' yuh." Half an hour, an hour passed. The men shivered in the bitter wind that whistled across the moors. A flare climbed slowly heavenward before them, trailing a long thread of silver light that suddenly became smoking brilliance. "There's the tank!" snapped the driver, slamming on his brakes. "When the light goes out, climb into it." When the flare had died out the three soldiers hurriedly mounted the great tank and eased themselves into the interior. "After all," said the driver, "we're behind steel. Now I'll show you guys how the Little Joe works. Looka, Stuffy, sit down there in that seat. That's where the gunner sits. Now put up your hand to the right. There's a crank there. Turn it slow. That moves the turret by hand, an' here's Little Joe in a hole in the wall where I can start him up. Only I ain't goin' to. If he was goin', you could turn the turret by power. But that would make a noise, an' we would maybe get a load o' watermelons. You guys stay in the tank. I gotta watch my peep." He slid out again and disappeared in the darkness. Left , the two soldiers shivered in the tank. It was cold in there. There was a second level below the turret where the driver and assistant driver sat, now dark and empty. Oil dripped there somewhere. "This tank won't run," said Red.

"The final drive is busted. Hear the oil drip?"' Half an hour passed, marked by con-

tinuous flares from the enemy, all far away. "Say," began Stuffy suddenly, "shouldn't we take out that Little Joe? That's what seems to be worryin' them the most. Then if they can't drive the tank away, they can have Little Joe anyways." your first night in a new outfit. Not to "It's a little generator that gives the "Sure, It's better than sittin' here in no sergeants, anyway." juice for the turret an' the stabilizer the dark countin' heart beats. Now I The driver spoke for the first time an' all them electric things in the tank," know where there's tools if they ain't since loading his passengers. scoffed the driver. "You jntist be a been stole." "Naw," he said, "they ain't horsin' John!" The wind howled as the men worked, yuh. He ain't got no maintenance men "Ah, them lousy Ordnance," groaned a distant machine gun gossiped with a left. Got to get that tank before some- Red, "to steal their own spare parts." neighbor, and three or four more joined one salvages it. First guy gets to an "If they didn't," grunted the driver, in the discussion. The bolts were stub- abandoned tank steals all the spare parts, "the Krauts would!" born. But Little Joe was finally loose, crank, track, sprockets, sights, Little "Krauts? You mean Germans?"' hoisted out of the turret, and the peep Joe, weapons, ammunition, and peri- gurgled Stuffy. "Any o' them around?"' driver helped them put it into the back Scopes. Disgustin', I calls it." "Depends." The driver spun the of the vehicle. '"What would a Little Joe be?" asked wheel, skidded through a patch of mud "Better get back in the tank now," he Stuffy. "I don't just remember that part." and straightened out again. "There ain't (^Continued on page 50)

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They'd pull out finger-worn snapshots to show you, of the folks at home

HAD Eritrea and the Anglo- come Egyptian Sudan. WE Four of us were from all over the stationed at the Red United States — from The G.L's Friend Cross Club for enlisted the quiet South and the men in Cairo—the larg- Far West and from est Red Cross Club in small white towns in New England. We By KATHERINE BLAKE the Middle East. had traveled thousands of miles on Most of the soldiers we saw were troopships through the Atlantic and Yes, "The Red Cross is at his Air Corps men—bombardiers and com- Pacific and Indian Oceans, depending on leave from "The side" in all the theaters of op- bat crews down on the routes of our convoys. Blue" or passing through to unknown erations overseas. Here's a re- Some of us had journeyed across destinations from thousands of miles port from one of the Angels of the United States on our way to em- away. They were the boys who had barkation ports. Men and women would who have been minister- been pounding the Axis in the Sicilian come up to us in stations along the way. ing to fighting Americans and Italian raids, in the giant Bari and "My boy's over there," they'd say. Ploesti missions. ." "If you see him . . Red Cross gave me something to drink They'd pile out of their planes, hot If you see him, tell him you saw us, in a station over there once during the and tired and dusty. Most of them tell him how it is at home. Tell him last war. Would you like these? The hadn't had a bath for months. They so many little things—all the small best of luck!" hadn't slept in a real bed for many, messages from the heart someone from And so we started on our journey many weeks. Sand was ground into their home can give so much better than a personal ambassadors in a small way eyes and hair and skin. letter ever can. from the people here to their soldiers Some soldiers would stagger in loaded Once, when we were waiting in a little overseas. down with their guns and heavy equip- cold station down South on our way to When we arrived in the Middle East, ment, passing through on long convoy the boat, a man came up to us with we were assigned to Red Cross Clubs treks that had brought them through bottles of coke in his hands. Our equip- and hospitals. Some of us were sent out many countries. The Club lobby was ment was heavy. We were tired and to the Western Desert, others up to always packed with service men in a dirty and cold. We'd been traveling Palestine and Persia, some down to great, shouting, pressing mass. since four that morning. They'd talk to you by the hour of look thirsty," said. "The "You he Illustrated by L. R. GUSTAVSON (Continued on page 54)

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By HENRY J. REILLY BRIGADIER GENERAL. O.R.C

infantry is staging a come- The infanfry, the infantry, with Drawing by BETTINA STEtNKE THEback. dirt behind their ears are do- It has been in eclipse since force of infantry than those opposed to mechanized forces and aviation ing a magnificent job, without them. And that's the story of American captured the imagination of some of our benefit of publicity. The foot successes in the Pacific also. military people and most of our writers, The attempts by commentators who soldier as always is taking and news commentators and editors—the should know better, to play down the in- holding ground, and that's how moulders of public opinion. fantry and artillery in modern warfare However, as the fighting in this war this war's going to be won and to exalt the plane-tank team is a rises in fury there emerges a fact which case in point. Anything which is new military men who kept their heads level the start of the conflict, was being whis- and sensational is avidly seized upon by knew all along: the mechanized and pered. the general public, which doesn't want aviation forces, important as they are, By the time the present conflict to think. cannot replace the infantry or diminish started in 1939 the whispers had become But facts are stubborn things, and the its importance. a shout of open revolt. facts prove that the Queen of Battles, Both the mechanized forces and avia- But to date four things have been despite the funeral orations delivered tion depend on the infantr>' for their proved in this great struggle. over her, is still very much alive. own success. First. The only times the Germans During the years that Germany was The armored forces themselves include were stopped and above all the only obeying the provisions of the Versailles infantry. That this infantry rides to bat- times they were beaten were when they Peace Treaty, insofar as limiting her tle does not alter the fact that it fights fought a force having more infantry regular army to the 100,000 laid down on foot. than they themselves had. by that treaty, various German generals Aviation cannot operate without air- Second. Tanks are successful only wrote books trj'ing to show that a highly

fields or air bases. It is the ground when they are supported by infantry. modern, efticient small force was better troops, consisting primarily of infantry, Third. The air forces have been able than a much larger one not so highly who have since the beginning of the war to get bases from which to operate, only modern and efficient. captured these or successfully defended when ground forces, primarily composed The brilliant British General Fuller them. Land-based and carrier-based of infantry, were able to seize and hold was carrying on a campaign to get the planes can soften up objectives, but the the necessary territory. That little strip British to produce a modern armored ground troops are needed for their cap- of water separating Britain from the force of the general type and organiza- ture. Continent saved the British Isles, sim- tion and with the tactics ultimately fol-

ply because it proved uncrossable to the lowed by the German panzer or armored BY 1918, due to the development of German infantry. Divisions, In the bitter controversy the tank and the airplane, rebellion Fourth. In the Pacific the Japs were which he stirred up he probably against the infantry. Queen of Battles at successful onlv when thev had a larger {Continued on page 62)

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Nurses Too Are Expendable

By DOROTHY SUTHERLAND

"Up front with the boys" is the slogan of the Army Nurse Corps in this war, as it was the boast oi the

Corps' nnembers who served in France in 1918. Here is d story of devotion to duty that will warm your heart

A N INFANTRYMAN back from last has felt the same surprise and then /\ Italy minus one leg told this pleasure at finding an Army nurse right / \ story about one of the early beside him however badly he might be days at Salerno. wounded, and however far forward his "Not ver>' long after I was hit," he position. For the Army nurse, the priv- said, "a litter bearer and another corps- ilege of being the only woman permit- man brought me back to this little field ted to go "up front with the boys" is hospital not very far from where they'd one which has been earned by more than got me. Doctors and orderlies were bus- forty years of devoted and distinguished ily operating. The place was full of lit- service to the Army both at home and ters and medics wearing olive fatigues overseas. In "the last war as in this one, and gauze wrapped like turbans around the Army nurse was the first woman to their heads. They were all shapeless and be assigned to foreign service with the clumsy looking, but they moved quietly A. E. F. Then as now she was the only and you knew they knew what they were woman who moved toward the front

doing. with the troops. Like them, she is "ex- "One of them came over to take a pendable," in the Army's jargon. look at my leg. My pants and my flesh The first contingents of the American sisters who wear the Purple Heart: Lieu- and the muscle and blood tissue under- Army to sail for Europe in May 191 tenants Madonna and Agnes Nolan, neath were all ground up together like were six American Red Cross base hos-

A.N.C., of Oakland, III., wounded when hamburger. I didn't want anyone fooHng pitals which General Gorgas had assigned their hospital ship was hit by German around it. So I said, 'Take it easy, bud, to the British Expeditionary Forces. bombs at Salerno last September when you get near that leg.' 'Relax, sol- They embarked so hurriedly that the dier,' says the softest voice I'd heard in nurses sailed in civilian clothes and were

months. 'I haven't hurt a patient yet!' overseas some months before adequate I looked at the smooth skin below the uniform issue caught up with them. turban and the small hands, and I let These units were U. S. Army Base out a yell like a warwhoop. 'Cripes!' I Hospitals No. 4, Lakeside Hospital, " yelled. 'A woman, here in this hellhole.' Cleveland; No. 5, Peter Bent Brigham, Many a G.I. Joe in this war and the (Continued on page 45)

The Navy has gallant nurses also. Here's Nurses on the Anzio beachhead examine a package from home. one, Ann Bernatltus, Exeter, Pa., who got From the left. Lieutenants M. F. Shoemaker, WInfleld, Kan.; Eliza- away from Corregidor just before it fell beth Davis, Jacksboro, Tenn.; Maribel Blossfleld, Spragueville, la.

The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine 't Be Too Careful! By LOUIS BIRNBAUM

He took his time inves- tigating the contents of the bag, hoping Mrs. Adamkrek would leave it at honne in the future

POWERFUL reflector A light glowed from atop the tiny frame " guardhouse at the southwest corner of the sprawling munitions plant. It was shortly before hp. m., and the workers on the third shift were shuffling past Ser- geant Harry Wilson, the head guard at Plant 2 gate. Wilson, big, alert and sharp-eyed, was examining the identification badges and lunch boxes of the men and women as they filed ustrated by CARL PFEUFER through the guardhouse gate. He had been a filling station operator before the war and he wore his police uniform his concern's output of vital shell fuses. a black, well-worn shopping bag. He had with pride. He knew that many of the drawings tangled with Mrs. Adamkrek before on Running through his mind were some used by the company were so secret the subject of that bag. of the instructions he had received that they were stored away in bomb-proof Mrs. Adamkrek. gray-haired and afternoon in the plant-protection class. vaults. Somehow, he felt sorr>' for the stout, was one of the scrub women as- He remembered particularly what the thousands of machine operators and as- signed to the plant office building. She company's new plant protection chief sembly workers in the plant who did had been employed at the plant only four had scrawled in large letters on a not have access to the "inside -dope" on months. She had taken the job after her blackboard: "You Can't Be Too Care- production matters. husband was killed in a steel mill acci- ful!" Few of the workers said anything as dent. The sergeant, who had been promoted they plodded past Wilson's searching Mrs. Adamkrek was in the habit of from plant patrolman recently, felt eyes. He had a rej^utation for being "a wearing a smock and an apron while she vastly superior to his non-uniformed tough guy who didn't take any lip." It worked. She came to work by street car fellow employes who silently flashed was rather generally known that he could and carried the change of clothing in their metal badges and mechanically recite from memorj' nearly every rule the black shopping bag. Her knowledge opened their lunch kits. that had been listed in the fat handbook of English was limited and she found Sergeant Wilson, for one thing, knew of regulations that was distributed, for it hard to understand Sergeant Wilson's how many millions of dollars' of security reasons, to ever>' employe. complaints. war orders the busy company had on It was natural, therefore, that the ser- He had tried repeatedly to e.xplain that its books. He knew that a neighboring geant was on his toes when Mrs. Wanda plant rules prohibited the carrying of shell-loading plant was helpless without Adamkrek appeared at the gate carrying {Continued on page 35)

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The "Fair Dinkum Laundry" is operated in New Guinea for the men of the 745th C. A. Battalion (AA) by Cor- poral A. F. Barhorst, above, and a buddy. They constructed the washing-machine from salvage material YOUR retreaded Company Clerk duces some extra folding money for the of '0. K.') for the convenience of the each day is welcoming more contributors, so come across with it! men of their battalion and incidentally and more wearers of dog tags are making some extra dough." as contributors to these col- OCCASIONALLY, pictures and Comrade Naber explained that Cor- umns. As this department is of, by and stories from across the seas reach poral Barhorst lived near Fort Loramie for the young (and not-so-young) men us through a middleman—a Legionnaire and attended school there. He was a and women now in uniform, that is as father or friend of the contributor who member, some years before he went into it should be. There is, however, still a relays the material to the desk of the service in 1941, of the Toolcraft 4-H Club lack of response from the girls of the Company Clerk. The picture of the sol- sponsored by Fort Loramie Post which services—the WACS and WAVES and dier and the peculiar mechanical con- meets in the Post's clubhouse. Naber

SPARS and MARINES. Off the record, traption beside which he stands is a was the advisor of we have heard some swell stories, but case in point. It came to us from Albert the Club. we prefer them firsthand. Naber,_ member of Fort Loramie (Ohio) We rushed a This department is particularly happy Post of the Legion, with this letter: V-mail letter to to note an increase in material submitted "I am sending to you a picture of the corporal on by men in the various branches of the Corporal Alphonso F. Barhorst and his February 8th and services stationed in distant theaters of washing-machine which I think will in- he replied in like operations. Contributions have arrived terest the readers of Dog Tag Doings. manner on Febru- some by V-mail—from New Guinea, "Sorry I can't give you much of a ary 23d—which is North Africa, Sicily, England, Italy and story except that Corporal Barhorst and another argument other far-off places. a pal who are welders with the 74Sth for the use of The invitation to submit material in- Coast Artillery Battalion (Antiaircraft) V-mail if you want cludes' those many thousands who have now stationed in New Guinea, built the to reach your men been honorably discharged from service, machine of oil drums and salvaged mate- overseas, and reach among whom there are already approxi- rials. They are now operating as the them promptly. mately 200,000 who are fellow-members 'Fair Dinkum Laundry' (that 'Fair Corporal Barhorst, of the Legion. Accepted material pro- Dinkum' being the Australian version whose address is

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and see what the Orderly Room of the Legion's Company Clerk looks like."

FROM a patient in Nichols General Hospital, Louisville, Kentucky, Pri-

vate Francis J. Haag, comes this amus- ing sidelight of the war:

"This is a true story. It happened at the Lutheran Service Center in Louis- ville. "The neon tubes on the sign in front of this splendid center went haywire as such tubes do occasionally—and the word Lutheran and the Ser in Service were blotted out. "Glaring in bright red neon down on

Fourth Street appeared the words : VICE CENTER. "The Louisville Times carried a story about this rather unusual welcome that uniformed newcomers to Louisville re- Lh W. L Paul, Sr., and iwo- Lt. W. L Paul, Jr., and his dad- ceived. It created a great laugh. Needless yecr-old W. L, Jr., at Camp twenty-five years later, at Camp to say the sign was turned off as soon as Wadsworth, South Carolina, in Beale, California. The son is the mechanical difficulty was discovered!" 1918, and across the page . . . only 6 feet 4 inches in height

A.P.O. 503, c/o Postmaster, San Fran- THERE are plenty of swell anecdotes unless we intend to turn this department cisco, California, gave this additional and gags going the rounds of the into a comic section. information: innumerable service publications that The services appear to be well supplied "Just received your letter today and I come to our desk, but there must also be with cartoonists, some of whom are will give you as much information as a lot of true incidents such as the one doing a bang-up job in preparing ani- I think will pass the censor. recited by Private Haag which will bring mated film strips for training purposes. "The washing-machine was first put a welcome smile in these stressful times. We introduce a new cartoonist in the into operation on February 13, 1943. It How about sending them in for the en- person of S/Sergeant Duane Wright of was made out of a half of an old oil joyment of everyone? Sheppard Field, Texas, and through him drum and the steering column of an old And there must be hundreds of good a gag at the expense of the WACS. French car that we found in a junk pile action snapshots of unusual and amusing Briefly, Wright enlisted on September at an Aussie salvage dump. The paddles and interesting incidents of service which 23, 1940 as a photographer in the Philip- were made from the top of another can be explained in brief, snappy ac- pine Detachment, but was shunted to drum. The pitman arm on the steering counts, but thus far they are not coming clerical work and is now classified as an

column is about six inches long, while this way. We want such material and artist illustrator, assigned with the 4th

that on the paddles is an inch longer, will pay for it, if accepted. As for gag Army Air Forces Film Strip Unit, but,

thus preventing the drag link from get- cartoons . . . there is such an abundance says he, "My heart is in the Infantry ting on dead center, and giving the back- of contributions of this nature that we with one brother now in England, in the and-forth motion just as you find in a cannot begin to accept all of them, twin-engined night-fighter craft piloted

regular machine. And it works fine for by another brother, or in Miami Beach my partner and me. So training school with a third far as I know there have brother—all of which are ac- been at least a dozen or tive branches." so machines made after He is Missouri-born, had ten the original model. years' pre-enlistment experience "I entered service in in art, has a beautiful wife (we November, 1941 and on saw her picture) from Cen- April 18, 1942, we were tralia, Illinois, and is looking already on the high seas. forward to a career as a free- We were in Australia for lance cartoonist after acquiring a few months before we his honorable discharge. came up here to New Guinea. I have been SORT of hard to shake old through a hundred and connections, so you'll for- seventy-seven air raids give us if now and then we so far. Have been living revert to the old Then and Now in a tent and eating out approach to items in these col- of a messkit for ov'er two umns. As long as the "now" years. I have the Good part of the item has to do with Conduct Medal and also the present services, we think it a few citations. I am a will be accepted v.ithout too mechanic with Head- much protest from our younger quarters Battery of this comrades. C. A. (Antiaircraft) Bat- We refer to the two snap-

talion. Perhaps I'll be ' RIGHT shot pictures shown at the top I back home in the near of this page. They were sub- future and if I get up "He tried to pin something on me yes- mitted with justifiable pride by L, Paul, your way, will drop in lerday—but I decorated .him instead!" Past Commander W.

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roughed it and has to say on its official photograph got practical of him: work in bridge- Coast Guardsman Al Brito of New building. York knows all about Eskimos. A vet- "Don't get the eran of 22 months in Greenland, the mistaken idea chief machinist mate is known as the from comparison "Godfather of the Eskimos." Brito acted as advisor, doctor and friend to the of the snaps that natives around the base. this old veteran Brito was attached to a Rescue De- has shrunken in tail of the Coast Guard Base and par- height. I still ticipated in many thrilling rescues of stand 5 feet 10 airmen downed on ice caps by the inches, but that treacherous .\rctic storms. son of mine towers to 6 feet 4 SOMEBODY else said it first but we inches, plus!" still like the crack about "The Paper Doll" having—an old bag for a mother. FROM a para- The Forty-Fiver graph we lift Official publication of the 45th Bn., from GI, The Seabees, in the Southwest Pacific. 1259th Engineer Weekly, Camp R\NDOM notes a war correspondent,

Pickett, Virginia, • Legionnaire Fred B. Barton, jotted we discover that down during his ramblings around other editors and American sectors on the far side of the columnists have Atlantic: their troubles, too: ,ONALD M. KOSTEFF, flight offi- D' cer of U, S. Air Service Command, The staff was who fought in England with the R. A. F., a bit offended has 4 swastikas, i barrage balloon and i when told that duck painted on his locker, signifying How is the above for a "pin-up boy?" Coast last week's issue various achievements while on bombing Guardsman Al Brito of New Yor k, "godfather of GI smelled. missions. At first we were of the Eskimos" while stationed in Greenland Three of the Nazi fighter planes were afraid the lit- brought down in raids out of England; erary contents the fourth in North Africa. The barrage whiff of Sr.. of John Wesley Post of the Legion, were being criticized, but one balloon likewise was bagged while flying the ink we used soon convinced us whose home is at 21 Ridgway .\venue, otherwise. The culprit who poured out of England. Norwood, Pennsylvania, with this ex- sheep-dip into the can marked Mimeo- The duck he bagged on his own. That planation : graph Ink is still at large, and any in- was the day he went duck-hunting in "I am enclosing two snapshot prints formation leading to his apprehension Eg\-pt, with a jeep. in 8 of son and me, one taken 191 my will be appreciated. I then being a 2d lieutenant with the T was Nurse "Peggy" Clayton who 53d Pioneer Infantry Regiment at Camp I asked the question when she Wadsworth. South CaroUna. and the WHAT would this war be to the $64 and some others stationed at her base other taken at Grass Valley. California, G. I.'s without the pin-up girls, supplied in copious measure, evi- hospital visited Luxor. Seeing a sizable last December when Mrs. Paul and I who dently decorate even,- available wall statue of some husky Rameses, the head were visiting the same son. now a ist lying flat with one ear badly eroded, lieutenant with the 530th Engineers from that 'of a grass shack in the South in Green- she asked "Where is the external audi- Light Pontoon Company at Camp Beale. Pacific to one of a Quonset hut land?- tory- canal?" You will note that in each picture, taken far haven't heard of any "pin- "What?"' asked the guide. Then, doing twenty-five years apart, the civilian is Thus we (CoHtimit'd on piii,e d/) wearing the Army cap. up boys" for the thousands of girls who enlisted "As a PFC in the old Third Regiment, are regularly Pennsylvania National Guard. I spent a in the various serv- Me old. ma^ seA+ if -fo half-year on the Mexican Border, before ices and are wearing me, Sat^i'^t l! I wrote Wm we got into the First World \\'ar. I won the uniform—so we I'd \)eef\ \{'a^s?effe(i my commission as 2d heutenant at the thought we'd present to aVeiAcK Yi\oi^af ist Officers Training Camp at Fort one. Notwithstand- Niagara. New York. My son enlisted on ing the trick fur cap the heavy hirsute December i, 1942 in the Engineers and and was sent to Fort Belvoir. Virginia, for adornment of the training and graduated from OCS there lower part of his as 2d lieutenant last June. He has since face, the toast guard been promoted to a ist lieutenancy. insignia indicates he "He was assigned to the 530th Engi- is a regular member neers Light Pontoon Company of which of our Armed Forces the nucleus was composed of officers and and a most impor- non-coms who had worked on the tant branch. Alaskan Highway. Most of their training And the Coast has been away from Camp Beale at Guard is mighty various lake sites and in the Sierra proud of this man, Nevada Mountains, where they really as witness what it 24 Thf AMERICAN' LEGION' Ma^a-.me Watcli tke ckange to esterfield

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At our side in Italy. Fighting Frenclimen By EDWIN E. DOWELL

The comradeship of 1918 is being renewed in the opera- tions on the Peninsula, where soldiers of La Republique have started on the march that will end only when the A Moroccan Division soldier operates a U. S. Nazis have been expelled manufactured switchboard, in the Colli area from every square foot of French With the French on the Italian Front six men suddenly became visible. Fanned territory out in a narrow, uneven arc in advance body hunched behind a pro- of the main group were an additional communication system of the Republic HIStective boulder, the little four soldiers, each carrying a sub-mach- died on June 25, 1940. This, the date French field major lowered his ine gun. Two of the original six tugged the armistice treaty with Germany and glasses for a few seconds to and pulled at a doll-like contraption to Italy became effective, was the blackest follow our approach to his vantage point which was affixed a reel of wire. The of all days in the long, colorful history on the slippery knoll. Mustering an en- remainder of the team worked rearward of France. gaging smile as we came within speaking individually, their movements almost "For the first time since that day it distance, he asked our pardon in near- made mechanical by the distance. is now possible to reveal how, through perfect English, and then resumed his With monotonous regularity a geyser the ingenious, unflagging efforts of a se- painstaking scrutiny of the mist-shroud- of earth, rock and debris spouted sky- lect handful of officials and hundreds of ed slope across the wooded valley. ward and with each blast, the figures youthful volunteer patriots—women as Several long minutes later he turned would momentarily freeze in position. well as men—the system continued to explain to that for the last hour he had The major continued his explanation: function flawlessly without detection been witnessing agonizingly the slow "That's mortar fire from the heights through the period when French posses- progress of a handful of men whose par- above. The Boche has been giving us sions in North Africa were under the ticular mission it to lay a telephone was plenty of trouble. Of the men who first control of Axis armistice commissions line that nearly up very perpendicular went out this morning, five have been until after the Allied invasion of Novem- ridge. brought back—two dead and the others ber 8, 1942, A secret program with but "There is to be an attack just before seriously wounded." one aim, training, was initiated and con- the daybreak," he said. ''The general Fifteen hours later it was all over. The tinued despite almost impossible odds. wants communication to that point on heights were in Allied hands. That me- The training was designed to perfect ci- the mountain and he wants it to be tallic strand that had so tediously been vilian soldiers to a high degree of effi- working initial when the troops gain the laced up the slope to less than loo yards ciency in radio and wire communication objective. It isn't easy for them, but from the most advanced enemy outposts against the day when the war would be

they are making gains. Here , . see . proved its worth almost beyond compre- carried back onto the continent, through if you can pick them up." hension for it made control and coor- {Contimied on page j8) binoculars Through the a party of dination possible at a time when it was vitally essential. The French force had only been com- mitted to action a sliprt time when this incident occurred in the vicinity of shell- ravaged Agnone, but the surprising story that was unfolded in a suburban section

still under artillery fire the following

day is one that in some small measure makes the tenacity of purpose of the French Army today understandable. Here, in the words of the energetic,

pint-size major, is the story of the come- back of French military signal commu-

nication, as it was related to me barely 2000 yards to the rear of the main line of resistance on the Italian fighting front A couple of Colonials test a field line "You must understand that to all Adjutant Clamou stamps a message in the rugged country below Ronne outward appearances the official military to be delivered by Hamou Ben Ali

MAY, 104+ —

"Fighting Bob" had the searchlights turned on Old Glory so there would be no alibi if a bonnb should hit his ship

When Sam Got Tough

By HARRY VAN DEMARK

JULY 2, 1853, the American also an Austrian war vessel. She was a Illustrated by GRAHON CONDON ONsloop-of-war St. Louis was brig and her name was the Hiiszar. lying in the harbor of Smyrna, Koszta was waylaid in Smyrna by Ingraham ranged his ship alongside the Turkey. It was commanded hired thugs and thrown into the harbor, Austrian vessel, her decks stripped for by Duncan Nathaniel Ingraham, a man and there seized by sailors from the action, her gunners ready and rarin' to who had never heard that Americans Huszar who took him aboard their vessel go. The Austrian commander hauled who go to a foreign country get beyond and confined him in the hold. Koszta out of the hold and put him the protection of the United States. The next move in the diplomatic ashore without further ado. And there was an American in Smyrna game was clearly Ingraham's. The Amer- Koszta returned to the United States —yet he was not quite an American. ican commander, like most of our naval to complete his citizenship and Congress He was a Hungarian who had come to officers before the Civil War, played the presented Ingraham with a sword. the United States and had here de- diplomatic game in foreign parts with The other method would have been to clared his "intention" of becoming an great finesse. let the Huszar take Koszta back to the American citizen. His name was Martin He sent a note to the commander of Austrian port of Trieste and there stand Koszta. He was wanted by the Austro- the Huszar. Such a soothing note! It said him before a firing squad, then have a Hungarian government for having taken that unless Koszta was put back on land, joint international high commission tell part (before coming tc the United a free man, by four o'clock, the St. his children—or his grandchildren States) in the patriotic Hungarian rebel- Louis would go to the Huszar and get whether he should have been killed or lion of 1848. him. not. Our so-called pacifist ancestors In the harbor of Smyrna there was No reply having been received by four, followed the Ingraham methods with

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extraordinary frequency. What is perhaps the most Your Uncle is usually pretty longsuffer- Three years after the extreme case of the protec- Koszta incident, on Novem- ing, as witness the Panay incident. Here tion of Americans abroad ber i6, 1856, the American came in 1861. The scene of sloop-of-vvar Portsmouth are a few occasions when he said he was the ' incident was Egj'pt. was lying peacefully in the This was only eight years ready to shoot, and so didn't to harbor of Canton, China. have after the Koszta affair in There were eight forts on nearby Smyrna. And the shore—real forts, with walls Barbary Coast incidents eight feet thick and manned by 5000 from sending his pirates out to sea, cut were still remembered along the shores Chinese tfoops. off his pocket money. of the Mediterranean. One of these forts fired a shot at the In May, 1805, the Pasha capitulated. There lived in Egypt a Syrian named Port:moutk. The American commander, For the first time in the history of the Paris. He was a Christian and he dis- Andrew Hull Foote, was said to be a piratical Barbary Coast a Barbary gov- tributed Bibles. He lived far from the meek man. But he dumped his blue- ernment signed a treaty of peace on seacoast at Osiut. The Mohammedan jackets and marines out into shallow board a foreign warship, and one of the authorities of the city were displeased water, waded them ashore, marched them prime stipulations of that treaty was with him because of his activities on around through the knee-deep mud of "no tribute!" behalf of the Christian religion. And the rice fields, to the rear of the forts, We handed similar ideals to the Sultan they tied him to a footrack and tor- attacked them, and six days later had of Morocco and to the Bey of Tunis tured him till he fainted in his blood, captured them all, undermined them and and finally, just to make the job one and then attached him to a prison-post blown them up. No Chinese seaside forts hundred percent complete—to the Dey with an iron chain. ever again bombarded unoffending Amer- of Algiers. This Dey was strong for Paris was not an American—^not even, ican ships. diplomacy. Having killed or imprisoned a like Koszta, a near-American. He was We used to pay tribute to the pirates large number of peaceful American mer- only a native assistant to American mis- of the Barbary Coast on the south side chant sailors, he wanted to talk things sionaries. of the Mediterranean. Our histories often over in a "reasonable" way. Our consul-general at Alexandria was suppress that fact. But the fact remains Commodore Stephen Decatur was W. S. Thayer, who went to the Egyptian —we paid tribute! Congress would make Uncle Sam's representative in the Medi- minister of foreign affairs and said that an appropriation and an American vessel terranean on this occasion. Would the while Paris was not an American, this

would take it, either in cash or "naval commodore give him a truce of a month was a case to be settled, "not by diplo- stores," across the Atlantic and through or so? The commodore would not. A matic technicalities, but on its substan- the Straits of Gibraltar, to the pirate couple of weeks? No! Three hours? Let tial merits and the principles of justice chiefs who were shedding the blood of reason rule—just three hours! and common sense." Would the Minister the merchant sailors of virtually the en- "Not one minute!" was Commodore of Foreign Affairs please act? tire world. Decatur's ultimatum. A few days later Thayer was notified Not liking the term "tribute," we And the Dey signed a treaty which that action had been taken. Certain of

called it "consular presents." Presents not only barred him from collecting any (^Continued on page 6j) made to the chieftain when he was good more tribute from us, but actually—to enough to receive a consul from us to the astonishment of the whole of Eu- complain to him about the miseries of rope — compelled him to compensate our sailors behind his prison walls. American sailors for the losses he had Practically every European nation was inflicted upon them. meek enough to keep on doing this. Our ancestors were not so meek. SO there was peace thereafter In 1804 and 1805 they converted the a real peace, not a Pasha of Tripoli to a better life by hold- "peace" of continuous ing up before him a set of higher ideals. burnings and sinkings These ideals were two in number. and kidnappings — along The first concerned William Eaton,* the whole Barbary Coast. who was sent to Alexandria, Egypt, and And the esteem and re- who made his way to the interior and spect in which we were there collected an "army" of some 4000 held may be judged by v ruffians of all nationalities, picking up the first paragraph of the also an exiled male relative of the Pasha letter which the Dey of of Tripoli, who thought he would like to Algiers sent to the Pres- be Pasha. Eaton then started westward ident of the United across desert sands, for the port of States: Tripoli, with the Pasha's male relative To His Majesty, the riding on a camel in the midst of a body- Emperor of America guard of ninety Arabians, while ten and its adjacent and Americans herded the "army" and dependent provinces and coasts our noble spurred it forward. They won through — friend—the support of after the most trying difficulties. the kings of the na- Our ancestors were also humorists, tions of Jesus — the you see. pillar of all Christian The second ideal was Commodore sovereigns — the most Barron and his successor, Commodore glorious among the Rodgers, who blockaded the port of princes—elected among Perdicarls as a prisoner of the bandit Raisuli Tripoli, and so, by preventing the Pasha many lords and nobles embarrassing and costly "incident" to —the happy, the amia- became an ble, the great James the Sultan of Morocco. But the ringing demand * See The Consul's Mob, American Legion of Theodore Roosevelt would not brook refusal Magazine, May, 1940. Madison.

MAY, i94i 29 Turner-Brandon Post of Clearwater, Florida, helped clear the Fourth Loan quota, then celebrated by burning Hitler Hirohito to buy a Liberty and WANTShip? No? Then maybe you can be interested in a bomber, a fighter plane, about the Legion's own financial contri- a dozen or so of jeeps, a tank or a big bution toward winning the war. His gun? What about helping a little toward A Bond to query resulted in a nation-wide survey a slight cash payment to the men and conducted by the Legion's National War women who are fighting the war? A War Bond Committee, chairmaned by Past Bond will do the trick, any denomina- National Commander Frank N. Bel- tion, but the bigger the better. Buy Today grano, Jr., through the National Amer- Every Bond sold brings us that much icanism Division. nearer to victory; shortens the days of That survey has not been completed, absence of the millions enrolled in the but the returns from the first 3650 of uniformed combat forces, and helps to since the first appeal by the Federal the 11,678 Posts within the continental make things easier when we settle down Treasury. It continues on the line and confines of the United States, taken as to postwar reconstruction. Any Bonds can be counted on as one of Uncle Sam's a whole and not by selection, gives a today? steady customers for purchase of Bonds, true indication of the Post holdings. Billions and billions of dollars have as well as putting on general public sales These 3650 Posts reported an investment been eaten up in the prosecution of the campaigns. in War Bonds of $12,037,900—and that current global war L'ncle Sam's war chest has been is no inconsiderable sum. Added to this C CoV a V-- n\Ml and more billions strengthened by some billions of dollars known investment, there is $2,437,347.40 ?rom H\e { kid over . will needed be- through Legion effort since the on invested the forty-nine Departments V -^ere Way'' be attack by fore the axis gang- Pearl Harbor, through these sales. But and by National Headquarters, and, to

sters are beaten to what of the organization itself? Has it carry the figures a bit further, these their knees and proved its faith by its works? Have the 3650 units estimated that their members forced to an uncon- Posts generally supported the Bond sales owned, as individual holdings exclusive ditional surrender. with their own funds? of corporate or other interests, a total

The American Le- The answer is yes. An emphatic yes. of $367,127,000. gion, from the posts Some months ago. when Past National By projection of these figures sub-

on up and through Commander Daniel J. Doherty was mitted by the first 3650 Posts to report, its affiliated organi- moved up from his place in the Bond the grand total of Legion and individual zations, has been on sale organization in his home state of Legionnaire holding of War Bonds at the front line of Massachusetts to an important seat in about the first of April would be $1,207.- home defense in the the .War Finance Division of the Treas- 551,516.00 That dizzy total exceeded the Bond sale campaigns ury Department at Washington, he asked estimate made by Past National Com-

30 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine mander Doherty by some $35,- to a gate of $1,000,070.25. The 000,000. million dollars represented W'ar

It must be kept in mind that Bonds sold to the Hershey Choc- the more than a billion dollars olate Corporation and citizens invested in these funds does not and the $70.25 the actual gate include the Bonds sold by the receipts at a 2S-cent War Stamf; Legion and through Legion ef- for each person. It was a mem-

forts. No score has been kept, orable occasion ; the Legion play*

but it would be interesting to ers were, left to right in the pic know just what has been accom- ture on this page, Doug Henn;

plished. and J. W. Seitzinger, Jr., both We do know that special cam- War II veterans; Thomas F. paigns put on in all sections of Martin, 0. E. Bordner, 0. B. the country have paid for Lib- Keck, E. B. Lewis, S. F. Hinkle, erty Ships, submarines, bombers P. G. Shultz, commander, and and fighter planes and dozens of N. Z. Stable, adjutant. other special items. By far the Thus it goes, from coast to largest part of the Legion's con- coast. Legionnaires find some tribution has gone into the gen- means to stimulate sales in their eral fund for the general war ex- own communities and in state- penditure, without earmarking wide campaigns. More money for a special purpose. will be needed; more Bonds Many Posts have found that must be sold. their sales campaigns, once got Uncle Sam's War Bond is the under way, have a habit of dou- bond to buy today. bling the quota. For instance, Major John W. Mark Post of Seeing Eye Jamaica, Long Island, New York, Sergeant Leonard Foulk, blinded at Attu, must decided sell Bonds enough to a heart-tug in the to depend on his faithful dog fronn this time on THERE'S buy a fighter plane. A commit- picture of Sergeant Leonard tee of twenty, under Vice Com- Foulk and his guide dog, which, mander William L. Bennett, was named don Post of Clearwater, Florida, turned from here on out, must be his constant and plans for the campaign were worked to the auction game to clear the $600,- companion. Sergeant Foulk, who had out. The campaign started with a $io,- 000 quota in the Fourth W'ar Loan enlisted in February, 1941, was totally 000 subscription from Commander W'al- Drive. There, as has been the experience blinded by a bullet at the battle of Attu,

ter J. Sharkey and after the first couple of many other Posts, a few hundred dol- in Alaska, on May 28, 1943. of days the committee decided to raise lars worth of contributed articles have Removed to Letterman General Hos- its sights. The new goal was a hospital been made to yield thousands in the pital at San Francisco for treatment, he plane. Every member was solicited to purchase of W^ar Bonds. was honorably discharged on August 10. subscribe, and the public was reached At Clearwater, the Legionnaires put 1943, but no compensation or funds for by means of a parade and a general rally on a carnival feature in addition to the actual living expenses were provided. His at the Valencia Theater. At the end of auction, netting other thousands. W'hen civilian clothes were purchased with the rally when the tally was made it the quota was reached, Hitler and Hiro- money secured by a loan from relatives, was found that the sales had mounted to hito, who had been displayed prominent- and it was not until after the first of a sum sufficient to buy two hospital ly during the -sale, were incinerated—the 1944, after National Commander War- planes. Both will bear the name of the flame was touched off by Legionnaire ren H. Atherton had opened his cam- Jamaica Post. Mayor George Seavy. paign to bring an end to neglect of war- Auctions to promote Bond sales, the At Hershey, Pennsylvania, a volleyball disabled, that his case was adjudicated. auctioneer working in the good old to- team made up of members of Hershey In the meantime Guide Dogs for the bacco auction technique, are a popular Post staged a War Bond rally game with Blind, Inc., had taken the blinded hero device to speed up sales. Turner-Bran- the State Police Barracks team—playing to its establishment at Los Gatos, Cal- ifornia, and trained him to use guide dogs—for men have to be trained as well as the dogs—then sold him his dog for $1. This faithful companion has strength- ened the resolve of the blinded hero that, despite the handicap, he will be able to return to some useful work guided by the faithful and intelligent animal friend, whose training cost $1,500, made avail- able to him by the institution.

t^os] in bloom Kas a\reo

Hershey (Pennsylvania) Post's volleyball team played a War Bond rally game to a million-dollar gate—a million in Bonds and $70 in Stamps

MAY, 1044 31 M. L. Lyckholm of Denver, Colorado,

"and it might well serve as a model for other Posts. "About thirty days after receiving no- tice that a local man has fallen, the Post's Memorial Committee calls upon the family and explains the memorial service plan. If the family desires such a service, a date is agreed upon, usually a Sunday afternoon. The family or nearest of kin is requested to express choice as to the minister or principal speaker, and other information is gathered for the prepara- tion of a memorial record for presenta- tion to the family. "The clergymen of the city are re- quested to make an announcement of the memorial at their Sunday morning services. In addition to this, the local newspapers are asked to publish an an- nouncement on Friday.

"At Brighton it was found that the funeral chapel under the direction of Legionnaire Lyle G. Rice fitted admira- Atoka, Oklahoma, sent Co. B, 180th Infantry. 45th Division, bly into the plans, and when the special overseas—the boys sent back a captured German flog for display at the memorial service for the men who fell

Nazi Flag Displayed graves of the hero dead. This year there will be many new graves, row upon row, Atoka (Oklahoma) Post and Auxil- to be decorated and cared for, and poign- xA. iary Unit, cooperating with the ant memories of young men who were Ministerial Alliance and civic clubs, held with us just a short while ago. a community memorial service for the A great nuir.ber of Posts have estab- nineteen Atoka County men who have lished the custom of holding special me- made the supreme sacrifice in the current morial services for the young men and war. The service was held in the high women of their communities who have school auditorium, presided over by Past fallen in the present war, reserving May services are held great care is given to Department Commander W. F. Rogers, 30th for a general observance. the chapel setting. At the front, directly

Jr., who was called to the chair by W. W. "Philip Wade Post of Brighton has set in the center, banked with flowers and Cotton, Atoka Post Commander. The up a form of procedure for a memorial spot-lighted, is placed an enlarged pic- principal speaker was Governor Robert service for men and women who lose ture of the man for whom the service S. Kerr, a Past Department Commander their lives in their country's service in is held. The family and nearest friends of the Oklahoma Department. this war," writes Department Adjutant (Continued on page 64) Displayed at the service was a Nazi flag captured in Sicily by a patrol of Atoka's own Company B, i8oth Infan- try, 45th Division, and brought to the service by two Atoka sergeants. Bill Go- forth and Rodney Graham. The flag was

on loan from Mrs. J. 0. Smith of Okemah, wife of the commanding of- ficer of Company B. The flag bore the names of twenty-seven Atoka men, in-

scribed before it left Sicily. There were eleven Atoka men in the patrol, which captured twelve Germans, their flag and a half-track, slightly out of commission. Repairing the half-track, men of the patrol brought it safely through the mine fields to the Ameri- can hnes. Sergeant Goforth, who was with the company when the action took place, told the story; Sergeant Graham, wounded and captured at the landing in North Africa, was one of the first four- teen American soldiers exchanged.

JMemofial Service Commander Horace H. Shelton of Travis Post, Austin, Texas,

all will gives the obligation to two new members—Miss Alllne B. Collins ON May 30th Legion Posts observe Memorial Day with sol- (center), discharged from the WAC, and Mrs. Eula Williams, emn services and with garlands for the (right), who was discharged from the SPARS last January 8th

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Watih Those Metals!

By ORLANDO ALOYSIUS BATTISTA

SCIENCE, with all the rigor and When victory comes the United Drawings by CARL PFEUFER reliability of its method of anal- Nations must maintain a rigid ysis, tells us clearly that an inade- obtain the metals and minerals which he quate or misdirected control of the control of the world's metals, has required in peace and war from the metals and minerals of the world has even those in a form much finer resources which nature has made avail- invariably provided aggressors with the able to him as a result of geological proc- than talc, to make certain means to carry on wars. Without a cer- esses requiring many hundreds of thou- tain few metals and minerals modern would-be aggressors are sands of years. No fertilizer or catalyst wars could never develop beyond the stopped in their tracks has ever been found to replenish an ex- blueprint stage, and a peace which is hausted mine, and wars conducted on not, literally, built upon the firm foun- the colossal scale of our twentieth cen- dation of metals will be short lived. which they use up the inestimable stores tur\' holocausts will soon deplete the It is apparent, especially when we of critical metals which they hoarded known mineral stocks of the world. examine the staggering numbers of me- with our approval and all too-gracious The key to an extended peace at the chanical weapons of destruction that cooperation end of World War II will be. first and have become necessary to outmatch the Guns, airplanes, battleships, subma- foremost, the permanent establishment strength of our treacherous enemies, rines, tanks, trucks, bullets, and bayo- of an international directorate under the that World War II erupted only because nets are all vital organs of the monstrous sponsorship of the United Nations to the Axis powers had been given the machine of war. The substances out of maintain an inventory and scrupulous freedom and the opportunity to grab as which they are all made are rapidly- control of the war materiel resources of much of the materiel of jA'ar as they wasting assets of any country at war, the world—plus a bonafide system of wanted in the years prior to 1939. The and without an abundance of these dev- allocating metals to the various nations. length and over-all destruction of World astating implements vast armies become We must not, however, limit our per- War II is not to be measured primarily paper soldiers, to be sacrificed before an spective to the metals as we ordinarily by the stamina of our enemies, but rather insatiable juggernaut. think of them being poured from the by the economy and ingenuity with Previously, man has been forced to (Continued on page j6)

MAY, 1044 33 HELL ON THE LOOSE

(Continued from page ii) windows, and large portholes, the gunner cylinder-like tanks firmly buckled to the close-in, but not too close, to the wall, remaining out of direct enemy range. It thrower's back, well up between the well to the side of one of the embra- can be used as a screen for demolition shoulder blades. Braced between these sures, and just barely out of range of squads following closely in its wake to two is a third cylinder of compressed the Japs' extreme angle of tire. The plant their charges. air. This air, released gradually into the flame-throwers could now kneel or stand, This hquid-fuel flame, however, has fuel tanks through an automatic regula- relatively unexposed. marked limitations—its relatively short tor, projects the fuel violently from the Valves were quickly released, the gun range which requires the gunner to ap- gun. ^ readied. Then from its muzzle a rod- proach very close to the enemy before The fuel tanks, incidentally, cannot like flame shot out. With terrific im- firing, the short life of the flame, and be refilled in action—the operation is pact it struck the inner face of the the difficulty, in any wind, of controling too dangerous. They are loaded in the embrasure and, like a caroming billiard its accuracy. Also the flame and smoke, rear areas where elaborate safety pre- ball, bounded inside the blockhouse. The visible for miles by day or night, almost cautions are observed. When a flame-

MiAi was firing around a corner—liter- immediately draws all of the enemy fire thrower's fuel is spent, and its duration ally making almost a right angle. in the sector. of fire is very brief, another loaded

It was all over in a few seconds. Some But the Marine's pin-up weapon for thrower is brought up as replacement. of the Japs inside blew out their brains. assault work is the MiAi loaded with The gun is generally fired in a series of Others ran out, their uniforms ablaze thickened fuel. They say, too, that it is two-second bursts; a sustained burst and the cartridges popping like fire- safer for our side. Its four-times-greater would last only 15 seconds. crackers from their cartridge belts. A reach, its lower visibility on the land- The flame gun is about 42-inches long few who ran out armed were given a scape, and its much greater resistance to and weighs eight pounds, bringing the quick spurt from the gun. They were in- wind deflection all add up to increased total weight of the equipment to 68 in their tracks, cinerated as when an protection for the assaulting troops. pounds. At its muzzle end is a burner. insect hits an open flame. The flame thrower is a weapon par- Hydrogen gas is fed into this burner The MiAi is a double-threat weapon. ticularly adapted to offensive operations from a fourth and much smaller cylin- It is the first flame gun in the world to against stationary strongholds. The Ger- der affixed to the underside of the gun fire thickened fuel, igniting pro- and mans used it in their spectacularly barrel. The hydrogen is electrically ig- ecting it with great force against its swift reduction of the Belgian fortress of nited in the burner and acts as a pilot objective. However, it can also fire all- Eben Emacl, their flame bearers advanc- flame very similar to the one on your liquid fuel as did its immediate prede- ing to the portholes under cover of gas range. cessor, the Mi. smoke shells. The gunner fires by pressing a trigger The effects the fuels produced by two When the Japs swept southward in plate on the top of the barrel at about are profoundly different and each has its the Pacific, they carried flame throwers its middle. He uses the heel of his left own specific tactical uses. with them to reduce hostile fortifications hand, gripping the butt of the gun with All-liquid fuel issues from in the gun but so rapid was the evacuation qf the his right at about hip height. The barrel voluminous, rolling billows of flame and defenders before the Japanese onrush is bent slightly downward toward the far smoke. When it has traveled or 60 50 that the Japs didn't have much chance to end to facilitate aiming. feet, the fuel, widely diffused and mixed use them. Two Jap flame-throwers were Flame-throwers are carefully picked with air, is all consumed and the flame captured by our Marines at Guadalcanal men. They must be technically trained in dies. and others have been found at other order to operate the complex weapon The thickened fuel, on the other points; it is suspected that they were of which they also must service. Physically, hand, emerges in a solid, rod-like German manufacture. they must be husky enough to handle stream. It describes a flat trajectory, Fuel for the MiAi is carried in two the heavy equipment with ease. And seen at night as clean cut as the path of a tracer bullet. The surface of the stream, ignited at the muzzle, is furi- ously ablaze. The interior core of fuel is not; it is consumed only progres- sively as the stream shoots toward the target. At its effective range a residual core of thick and sticky, yet-unburned but ignited fuel strikes the objective with great force. As it rebounds and dis- perses, it adheres like fish glue to what- ever it touches and burns there until finally consumed—perhaps for several minutes. It can be directed with aston- ishing accuracy into even small apertures despite the fact that the gun does not carry sights and is fired from the hip, Western style. For mopping up open dugouts, shell craters, foxholes, and machine-gun nests, the liquid fuel with its diffuse, smoke- laden flame is still preferred. It will lap and curl downward over defense parapets and spread with fierce heat in all direc- tions. Extensive tests show that no corner of a dugout, room, or emplace- ment will afford escape from it. Also, it can be made to roll into open doors, 34 they must have a commando dash and Many proposals have been advanced entered action. With a maximum range temperament, for their job is one of the for providing the carrier with some per- of 50 feet, they were not suited to the most dangerous in the catalogue of war- sonal protection. Asbestos clothing and trench warfare of that day. It proved too fare. a 24-pound suit of armor have been costly to bring the weapons into such The dangers are many. The bacii-borne considered and rejected. His speed and short firing range across wide stretches cylinders present a tell-tale silhouette agility during attack still are considered of no man's land swept by gun-fire. to the enemy, making him a man to be his best protection and cumbersome But the individual pill-box defense- stopped at any and all cost. In his neces- clothing or an added burden of weight, in-depth which the Nazis introduced is sarily slow approach to the objective, it is believed, would be of greater hin- another tactical story and the MiAi may he is in the gravest peril. While rifle fire drance than help. be the long-sought answer as to how that from the enemy fortification may be The Germans introduced a flame- defense can be reduced at a minimum of temporarily stilled by his own supporting thrower in the first World War, and the cost. Whether our new weapon will be fire, hand greanades can always be hurled Allies soon countered with one of their found at the front in the coming assault from a porthole even while a rain of own. However, nothing much came of it on Europe is not known and could not bullets is pouring in. and only a few of the weapons ever be reported if it were.

CAN'T BE TOO CAREFUL

{Continued from page 21) pushing greenhorn—walked into the "Shut up," Wilson snapped. "It's packages in or out of the factor\' with- plant a little while ago carrying an en- dopes hke you that make it easy for out special authorization. He had told velope or letter in her damn bag. It saboteurs to operate. I've got an idea

Mrs. Adamkrek to wear her smock and just struck me that a woman that can that her 'nospik English' gag is just a apron to work, leaving her bag at home, hardly talk English don't get any fan cover-up for that dame. After all, she but she saw no reason to change her mail and I'm going to find out once and hasn't been around here long and she's habits. in a spot where she can get at plenty of "Let's take a look at the bag." the inportant papers in those offices that sergeant ordered in a weary tone of she's supposed to clean up." voice. Wilson walked swiftly to the nearby Most of the third-shift workers were office building and found Mrs. Adamkrek already inside the plant and Wilson took starting to dump the contents of sev- his time about examining the shopping eral wastebaskets into a large burlap bag. He did this nearly every night in sack. The sergeant was brief. the hope that his deliberate scrutiny of "Lady," he said coldly, "I want to the bag would discourage its owner from take another look at your shopping bag. bringing it. Where is it?" The sergeant poked his flashlight into Mrs. Adamkrek straightened up, gave the roomy bag. He saw a clean and the guard a bewildered look, and said: neatly-folded smock, a white apron and "Please, you come after me." a pair of shoes that had received much She walked to the end of the hall, en- wear. Sticking out of one of the shoes tered the offices of the personnel de- he noticed part of an envelope that was partment. She picked up the bag from in crumpled at the edge. Two sandwiches front of a screen that surrounded a and a large apple were wrapped in sink and mirror cabinet. waxed paper. "Here," Mrs. Adamkrek said, as Wil- "0. K., go on," the sergeant said. son eagerly clutched the bag. Mrs. Adamkrek gripped the handles He was not disappointed. The envelope of her shopping bag, looked timidly at was still there. It was a telegram en- the guard, and shuddered momentarily velope. It was addressed to Mrs. Adam- as the overhead light shone sharply on krek at a west side address. revolver bullet-stud- sergeant fingered the envelope, his shiny black and "Shall I close 'Yours truly' or just The ded belt. 'Yours'?" undecided what to do. Mrs. Adamkrek Sergeant Wilson in a few minutes was decided for him. his "checking in" duties. "Please, you do me big favor," she through with for all why the devil she's always car- "This He called, in rapid order, the guards at rying that bag into the plant." said. come to house tonight be- fore I job. I not the other guardhouses to report that "Ma> be the old lady has been appoint- go on know how to read so I bring letter here. In morning Plant 2 gate was closed. He ordered two ed to the W.AC," Lustig laughed. "Or his on fence patrol duty and my lady friend come on job who know of men could be somebody is writing love let- desk. my language. She reads letters for me, then sat down at his ters to her. If you talk to her, see if you began re- all time. But now you read for me, yes?" He took out a notebook and can fix me up with a date, will you, Sergeant Wilson opened envelope viewing the many notes that he had Sarge?" the taken in the plant-protection class. He and read the telegram. It said: read a couple of lines, including an un- "The Xavy Department regrets to in- derscored one that said, "You Can't Be form you that your son, Ernest J. Adam- Too Careful!" Abruptly, he shut the BUY krek, Jr., gunner first class, has been notebook. He turned to Patrolman Ed- killed in action. He ser\ed with dis- ward Lustig, who shared the guardhouse tinction aboard the U. S. S. Brownstone, with the sergeant after the gate was WAR which has been sunk by the enemy. You closed for the night. are asked not to disclose the ship on "Lustig," said Wilson, "I am a dumb which he served until an official an- nouncement of this sinking has cop. I am dumber than hell. That for- BONDS been eigner, Mrs. Adamkrek —that mop- made by the Na\y Department."

MAY, 1944 35 : WATCH THOSE METALS!

{Continued from page 33) mold many of their items very much as metal alloys, the basic position of the furnaces of our gigantic steel and iron some of our plastics are mass-produced. staple metals has not been seriously chal- mills, or being forged by tremendous There is no scrap, and each article may lenged or altered. As equipment capable rolling machines. In very recent years be formed with remarkable dimensional of exerting higher and higher pressures new techniques have been perfected for accuracy. Powder metallurgy even per- is developed, the possibility of com- the handling of metals which could well mits the formation of metal parts, espe- bining the powders of several of the proffer to potential enemies the means, cially machine parts, which could not common mineral elements becomes in- through powder metallurgy, of circum- possibly be produced in any other known triguing. There is an almost limitless venting international controls over bulk way. number of possible combinations and metals, thus providing a novel basis for Manufacturers of heavy equipment are many,new alloys will be discovered when the production of weapons of aggression already selling for war production pur- some of the different powder mixtures and destruction. poses automatic presses by means of are tried. World War II has resulted in our in- which smaller metal parts may be pro- And thus powder metallurgy with its dustries, by preference in many cases duced at the rate of more than 4000 per great versatility, economy, and adapta- and by necessity in others, taking pow- minute. The Chrysler Corporation's Am- bility to mass production bids fair to ders of metals in a form much finer than plex Division devotes' itself exclusively make the mineral resources of the world talc and transforming them into tough to the production of several thousand of even greater importance to the future gears, heavy gun mounts, bearings, different parts from powdered metals. of civilization. wheels, and several thousand other struc- Millions of self-lubricating bearings, a Nothing which the victorious peace- tural and machine parts. This process of wide variety of porous materials for spe- makers of World War II could do would molding metal and mineral powders has cial duty filters, and even typewriter help to insure the future peace of the saved millions of man-hours on our pro- keys whereby an inked ribbon is done world more than a scientific appraisal duction lines, and speeded the output of away with, have been produced from and rigoroiis control of the total re- a considerable proportion of our war powdered metals. sources of the world's few ferro-alloys necessities. For example, innumerable Some of the world's most powerful and key strategic minerals. No country metal parts for almost every mechanized magnets, magnets so strong that a bar in the world is self-sufficient in its re- vehicle or weapon upon which our vic- of the metal only one inch long will quirements of all of these raw materials tory depends were once seemingly use- easily lift a 200 pound weight, have been so that an international directorate could less powders which a light breeze could produced by combining aluminum, nickel, enforce a peacetime blockade to prevent disperse like flour. cobalt, and iron powders. Tungsten-car- the accumulation of indispensable metals The improved art of powder metal- bide dies have been used to produce mil- of war by potential aggressors. By allo- lurgy takes advantage of the knowledge lions of impressions without showing any cating the elements from which the that when two or more metals or mineral signs of wear. Fine tungsten filaments weapons of war may be produced to elements are pulverized to a very fine for hundreds of millions of light bulbs strictly peacetime uses, the demon of physical state and then formed into a and electronic tubes, fine and coarse cop- total war may be smothered to death. great variety of shapes under great pres- per screens with the intermeshing wires And in making an accurate and complete sures and heat, the atoms and molecules welded at each point of contact, and a inventory of nature's metal and mineral of which these materials are made ex- host of other articles are being produced riches for this purpose, full consideration hibit the ability to interlock intimately automatically and on a mass production should be given to the potentialities of with each other to produce a composite, basis through powder metallurgical proc- the science of powder metallurgy as' a serviceable, and extremely durable prod- esses. means to manufacture the weapons with uct. Instead of the lengthy, costly, and Although there have been many new which to wage future wars of aggression, wasteful machining operations to which developments in the field of structural a means which might otherwise circum- metals are usualH subjected, powder materials in recent years, such as the vent the purpose of any peacetime ra- metallurgy now allows manufacturers to dozens of plastics and featherweight tioning of the bulk metals.

A LETTER HOME

{Continued from page 75) "Good luck, fellows, keep your heads formed a little column threading our way Clark to patrol due south of Savo, run- on your shoulders and we'll all eat break- among merchantmen anchored in Tulagi ning from a mile off Savo to four miles fast together. I'll take my gang out first, harbor. From the rails of a few came off Savo, on north and south legs. Two Clark follows, and Wright last. Shove hails of good luck and encouragement. boats under Spike Wright patrol north off!" By now the senior watch's boats were out of Savo between Savo and Sand-fly Pas- In the gathering darkness I felt my of sight beyond the bulk of Sing Song sage; they might sneak in that way this way across the nested boats until I Islands. time. We'll use the usual calls and codes. reached old 145. The news of the size I stepped up our speed. We should be Now let's keep off the air until you see of the attacking force had reached my off Savo by 2030 at the latest. If we them, but for God's sake when you do, crew, and they were rather tense as I arrived prior to complete darkness, give the rest of us the dope! Stay in explained the attack plan and patrol though, the Nips on Esperance would your own patrol areas until dawn, then areas. When the senior watch officer's radio our locations to the attacking de- rally round Esperance beach to pick up four boats were well clear I shouted stroyers. It was getting so the Japs knew survivors and massacre rice drums. across to Jimmie Logan, whose boat was approximately where we'd be anyway. "Anybody got questions?" part of the second group There were just a few miles of Japanese Nobody had, we'd all been there be- "Let's go, Jimmie." beach left, and if the boats were to fore, and I thought of the absent faces We backed out of the nest almost engage a relieving force they had to be of those who had helped on previous simultaneously, members of the base near that area. Back in the first days that missions. The ranks were getting thinner force and stay-at-homes helping with PT's had been used in the Solomons it and thinner. the lines. Slowly we two turned and had been fairly simple to sneak up on a

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Jap ship unnoticed. The enemy hadn't sharp fifty-caliber talk. That would be and travel forward past us. You can't really known what kind of a weapon the one of the senior watch's boats catching see them, they are too low." PT boat was. Jap gun-fire and search hell! I watched the searchlight's beam; "Right, that could mean somebody's hghts hadn't been able to stop us. it might be I could spot somebody cut- bow wave from a course roughly Since then, though, at least one boat ting between here and that brightness; parallel to ours, but he's travelling had been shot up and drifted into Jap silhouetted, they would be an easy mark. faster than we are. There might be a hands, so they'd studied it and were couple of 'em in column." now taking heavy toll of PT ranks. Every "Holy Cow! Skipper, there they are dark period our cohorts were losing one look, quick! Right on the port beam!'' or two boats and crews from -direct hits I looked and started spinning the wheel by the Jap destroyer guns. A shell hit as I did. God! The hugest black shadow on a PT boat isn't a pleasant thing. It I'd ever seen was broadside to me and is usually followed by an immense sheet not over eight hundred yards away. The of flame as her gasoline fuel supply boat was swinging toward the thing as goes up. Occasionally there are survi- I estimated his speed. On a lightning- vors. There usually isn't even any wreck- like guess I pressed one torpedo firing age. That was one of the things that key before our swing was half over, ahd crossed one's mind at supper. the other firing key when the turn was three quarters completed. The boat THE loom of Savo, a darker patch in steadied momentarily on a course di- a world of darkness, broke my mus- rectly through the shadow's center. In ings. Always on the way to combat I another five seconds our bow pointed found one train of thought after another well past the shadow's stern and we were girl sent it. Boy, chasing through my mind. With Savo to "My what a sense headed away from the enemy. For the of humor!" I'd starboard I throttled down and cut in space of three breaths I thought our mufflers. At the slower speed the missed both shots. Then with staggering became suddenness the night split apart and a giant white feather of our wake The light went out as suddenly as it had column of flame went half a mile into the less and less until it merged with the come on. Whatever was happening over air! gently foaming wind ripples. The muted there wouldn't be known until morning. engines were less raucous, but the Jap Esperance was eight miles from our destroyers would pick us up with their present position. ^HAT second fish must have caught I anti-submarine sound gear anyway. PT The radio speaker aroused itself: X her stern magazine," raced through boats have .the damnedest propeller beat "PeeTee Charlie to all Pee Tees. my mind. The Jap destroyer (for that's of anything. They're here. He saw me first, I nearly what it was) had absolutely vanished. The crew settled down to the long got creamed; thank God for Elco She had disintegrated in the space of wait. All eyes were straining to cover smoke!" sixty seconds. There couldn't have been their lookout sectors. It was almost im- It was the senior watch's call and his a single survivor. They must all have possible to see through the black night. voice. Well, it couldn't be far off now. been cooked at their battle stations. This certainly was an ideal time for the Someone tapped my shoulder. It was I stilled the bubbling, jubilant whispers Japs to come. Those little stinkers were Bill Hearn, my executive officer. He was of the crew. art using nature past masters in the of from Seattle. . "If there was one here there'll be !" to advantage. I kept my binoculars "Skipper, take a look broad on the more horizon, or glued to the northwestern stab'd bow. It looks blacker there." I had barely said the words when a what I imagined was the horizon. I knew I swung my glasses to the indicated blinding glare caught us. We were in a my men were sure to cover their own bearing, looking for a more intense dark- searchlight beam! Somebody slightly sectors. They had been sufficiently im- ness or a tell-tale wake feather. My eyes abaft our port beam had us pinned down pressed the recent loss of one boat by smarted I looked so hard. with illumination ! I whirled the wheel to whose after lookout had failed to ob- Well, I couldn't see anything, and I starboard and crammed the throttles serve an approaching Jap can. In this told him so. wide open. At the same instant the first region of the world your first mistake is He said he couldn't either. Must have shell arrived. I couldn't see anything, your last; the boat had been neatly cut been imagination. Anyway, that's the feel anything or hear anything. I knew in two. way it was every few minutes every night I was conscious, because things kept As on a score of such patrols in the you were out there. ticking in my mind. To myself I kept past, I found myself glancing at my on muttering, "Maybe this is it! Maybe about every five minutes. A min- drift watch I SWUNG the boat slowly to reverse this is it!" Time seemed to by. ute seemed an hour on this death wait. course. We had reached the far end Nothing mattered. All was quiet. As the hands approached eleven p.m., of our northern leg. It was time to head No, all wasn't quiet! I could feel the 2300 the way the Navy calls it, every back toward the south and the recently- vibrations of the boat, I could hear the deeper shadow became a rushing, charg- heard gun fire. comforting roar of her Packards. My ing Japanese destroyer. It was all a guy Perhaps ten minutes had gone by on eyes were open. I thought they'd been could do to keep from jumping out of the new course. You still couldn't see open all the time, but somehow they were his skin. A man's imagination at night your hand in front of your face. The open for business now, I could see again is the biggest practical joker this side of boat began to rock gently. I didn't notice I looked around. The boat was running, hell. this phenomenon for several seconds. no one was shooting, it was dark, but Just about now I really ought to be Suddenly realization hit me. The waters where was I? Another second ticked by spotting one of those stinkers as it lifted off Savo were notoriously calm. The before I came to the painful conclusion over the horizon. Damn this blackness! boats hadn't rocked'all evening. I figured that I was lying jammed in one corner Eleven aged to eleven-thirty. Eleven we must be crossing somebody's wake. of the cockpit, and my world was bound- forty-five. 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MAY, 194+ 39 ing from our own stern. Squinting my seemed to me to be much brighter. eyes, I saw it came from the Elco smoke "Say, I'll bet those two cruisers are generator on the fantail. Well, at least laying a few salvos on Henderson Field," we weren't on fire, but how the devil offered Hearn. had that thing started up? My faculties As if to answer his thoughts the radio were coming closer to normal now, and opened up.

I realized my nose was bleeding. Care- "Cactus Control to all Pee Tees, fully I felt my arms, legs, and body. Cactus Control to all Pee Tees, Hender- From conversations with wounded men son is being shelled by enemy cruisers I knew )'ou often didn't know when off Lunga, rally 'round, boys!" you were hurt because the injured area W'ell, it was to be expected. Cruisers was so numbed by the shock. didn't ride with the express just to drop AS far as I could figure I was now in rice drums. They were too valuable. At Lx- about the same shape as a kayoed any rate the cruisers were the prime prize-fighter, woozy, nose bleeding, objective for our gang now. It was far shaken up, but likely to live! I eased more important to keep Henderson's back on the throttles until the boat complexion unpocked so the aircraft was almost dead in the water. The patrols could take off on the morrow smoke generator had almost exhausted than to scuttle Joe Hotsuhiri's rice sup- itself, and was now clearing its lungs ply. There was just one drawback as of a few last exhalations. They drifted far as that 145 was concerned—^^she'd slowly around the boat in the dead at- expended her sting on one Jap de- mosphere. shadowy form detached A stroyer, deceased as of earlier in the itself from the deck by the port tube. evening. With this thought in mind It was Ring, the torpedoman. I nursed the boat along at a very mod- "Say, Skipper, I've been cold as a about the whole affair, but had been erate speed, wondering what on earth I coon—what's happened?" peacefully going about his business could do to a Jap cruiser off Lunga "I don't know, Ring, last thing I tending the three thundering Packards Point, or -anywhere for that matter. clearly remember was that light and an in his care. The firing at Lunga had reached a explosion. Let's see if anybody is hurt." When we looked the situation over very crescendo of intensity, and Ameri- still PT 145 sat and curtsied gently, it became clear that the shell had burst can shorie batteries were answering the like the lady she was, for perhaps ten either on time fuse or on contact with Japanese cruisers with a few well chosen minutes while Ring and I made the the water some slight distance ahead comments. rounds. By the end of that time, the of the boat. Her bow was simply riddled two of us had become an amazed pair. with small holes made by the shell COGITATED on the possibility of a Every man topside had been knocked segments. Bill Hearn jubilantly held up I run to a base to reload our empty unconscious by the explosion, but not a thumb-sized piece of steel that had tubes, but gave up the idea. It would be a soul had been actually injured. All come to rest in his mattress. a two hours' trip in and out, to say were bruised, most had nose bleeds, and "Close, but no cigar!" was the com- nothing of the time taken to load tor- some few were skinned or cut here and bined comment. pedoes, and by then the enemy would be there through collision with a sharp After a general discussion and com- hull down on the homeward run. edge. paring of notes, I figured the Jap light cruisers were clearly visible The most amazing thing of all, be- had been on for perhaps fifteen seconds, The two several powerful searchlights sides the fact that everybody was still and the boat had run by herself for now, as alive, was the story of our escape from another ten minutes, with her cargo of on and around Lunga had picked them the Jap destroyer that had us crucified sleeping beauties. Counting the inves- up. I was closer to the fracas than I in her searchlight. In the dazed second tigating period that put the whole show thought. It wasn't much over five miles after the light had come on, and before about twenty-five minutes ago and it to the cruisers. At frequent intervals an the shell hit, Koboeski, the after turret was time we eased over into the rice- American searchlight on the beach gunner, had squeezed his fifty caliber drum busting business. would flicker and die as Jap shell fire firing key and caught the light right at I hoped I wouldn't run into any more found it, but its gleam would quickly its root. ships. We'd used both torpedoes and be replaced by a light in another sector. "Hell," said Ski, "the damned gun had nothing left but eight small depth The enemy was continually bathed in a was pointed right at the light. I don't charges. Slowly we swung the 145 back brilliance that reminded me of Grau- even remember squeezing my thumbs, toward Savo Island to resume our patrol man's Chinese on a Hollywood premiere. I just saw it come on, I felt the guns station. The ten minutes of uncontrolled The marine shore batteries were doing jump, the light went out, and then, by cruising she had done on her had own a damned fine job of mayhem on the God, so did I!" been mostly in the direction of the Japanese vessels' exposed upperworks, The other miracle worker had been center of American-held Florida Island. but their medium sized field artillery Gole, relief engineer, who had been on and antiaircraft weapons hadn't and deck when I made our torpedo attack. AT about the same instant two widely couldn't noticeably damage the enemy's When the light came on, Gole was sit- xjL separated flashing uproars indi- vitals. ting on the smoke generator, and simply cated a renewal of PT versus Jap ac- For some minutes the 145 stayed reached down to twist the knob that tivities. about two miles from the Japanese would release the cloud of mist. The Never a dull moment, thinks I, as I cruisers who were by now the center next thing he remembered was my voice watched the distant flashes and muffled of interest for 'every gun and search- calling him by name, and a very defi- blasts of the five-inch fire. My atten- nite ache in the small of his back, which tion was diverted to a heavier and con- light from Lunga to Koli Point. he found was due to being jammed tinuous roaring off to the eastward near "Bet they're annoyed to find every- against the very same knob that had Lunga Point. The horizon in that direc- body home," said Hearn as his eyes saved all our lives. tion seemed to be ahve with light. It drank in the spectacle. Rohnson, the engineer on watch be- was almost as if a heat lightning storm I couldn't help giving a yell! From low, hadn't realized or known a thing was in progress except that the flashes somewhere in the darkness of her un-

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MAY, 194+ 41 engaged side a PT boat must have un- starboard bow. With a yell to the crew Japs made an effort to haul themselves leashed a tropedo salvo, for the second I thrust the throttle full in and roared out of the shark-infested Pacific. Jap cruiser's port side under her bridge toward the Jap! Almost immediately I reversed course again, and swept had suddenly torn apart in an agony of the Jap's starboard battery opened up. down along the overturned cruiser's side. flame and noise. That their assailant For a mind-shattering second we waited, The boys lined the rail and tommy- was still invisible wa^ verified by the then the shells whiffled by overhead gunned as many of the crawHng. climb- silence of the Jap secondary guns. and burst in the sea behind us. The ing, swimming enemy as they could see. Naval Intelligence had been right. The It was nasty, dirty work, but so was ALMOST immediately the second crui- 145 was well inside their arc of de- Pearl Harbor. American boys hke us l\. ser's speed slackened, and in a few moments she was several thousand yards astern of her consort. In two more min- utes she had listed several degrees to port, and there she hung. Slowly she turned away from the harassing shore batteries and pointed her bow for the open country beyond Savo Island, still leaning to port like a drunken sailor. Her undamaged consort continued to lambast the American lines. In five minutes the damaged cruiser was out of range of the shore batteries, and the last American searchlight left her to the darkness. During the cripple's turn I had eased off toward Florida Island so as to be on her high side when she headed for sea and safety. Pulling the throttles almost to neutral had cut the boat's speed to a slow walker's pace. She was barely making a ripple. The Jap cruiser was overhauling us slowly and should pass within a thousand yards of our boat when she finally overtook us. To my eyes the cruiser seemed to have about eight degrees of list to port. That meant her starboard rail was eight degrees above horizontal. Now, I knew from the best informa- pression. A shout of relief and triumph had been treated that way at every op- tion Naval Intelligence had been able burst from every man's lips as we portunity. One by one the swimming to supply us that Jap naval guns had realized this fact. We were practically heads disappeared. a maximum depression of five degrees under her high, spoon-shaped bow now, Well, I guess I was just too daw- below the horizontal—as installed aboard and our two turret machine gunners gonned smart. We got so wrapped up in ship. This was occasioned or necessitated commenced spattering her guns and our little private massacre that we for- by the shoulder high splinter shields that bridges with little fifty cahber calling got there were two sides to every fight.- ran around all gun mounts. These cards. That second Jap cruiser had finished shields prevented the guns from being As the cockpit passed her curved her shore bombardment and was home- depressed any lower. It was a neces- stem, I throttled down, then reached up ward bound. She'd seen our roaring wake sary evil, so to speak, and on very few and yanked an imaginary whistle cord. and kept us spotted until she was almost accounts would it have mattered. Naval One depth charge hit the water! Well, on top of us. We didn't hear her or see guns usually need more elevation, not I yanked eight times and the boys got her until right close to us four five-inch more depression. the last one off as the 145 cleared the guns cut loose. We barely heard them At any rate, eight degrees minus five cruiser's stern. By then the first three go off. I half turned, and saw her out degrees left the guns still three degrees had sunk to their thirty foot depth of the corner of my eye. above the actual horizontal plane, tak- setting and gone off with muffled sub- All four of her shells must have hit ing the cruiser's list into account. That aquaeous grunts. I pushed the throttles us at once. Anyway, I don't remember meant to me that as long as we stayed all the way home and took out for more any more about anything until I woke on the cruiser's starbeard side, and in healthy parts. up in this bed yesterday. My legs were fairly close to her, say within three or By the time I could again look back gone by then. They tell me they flew me four thousand yards, she couldn't de- the other five charges had gone off, and here. One of our PT boats picked me press her guns far enough to hit us. the cruiser's starboard bilge was a mass up. It was a miracle they saw me among All her shots would pass over our heads of twisted metal. Slowly she rolled to all those dead Japs, They just wanted and fall into the sea behind the 145. 1 an even keel and then continued to to get a closer look at an upside down outlined the situation to the crew. The fall over to starboard until her rail Jap cruiset. They never found Bill cruiser was barely visible in the dark- was awash. Loose gear from topside Hearn or any of the other fellows. ness, but seemed to be looming larger began to crash down to the low side I'm getting kind of tired now, Chap- with each succeeding minute. As long and into the water. But she didn't pause lain, it's been a long yarn, hasn't it? as the damage control party didn't get with her rail awash, she kept on going, If they're right and I don't pull through, that list off her, we had a chance. and ended with her long narrow bottom mail that story to the address I gave The cruiser was now barely half a mile exposed to the sky. Little crawling fig- you, will you? I guess it can serve as away, and our 145 was broad on her ures dotted her bilge keels as swimming my last letter home.

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{Continued from page 20) jungles north of the Australian conti- and the units' equipment had not yet Boston; No. 2, Presbyterian Hospital, nent, they never saw active combat. For arrived. All that night and all next day New York; No. 21, Washington Uni- months they fought tropical climate, iso- the medics worked without rest, most versity Hospital, St. Louis; No. 10, lation, loneliness, malaria, the lack of of them in the wet clothes in which they Pennsylvania Hospital, Philadelphia; and fresh food and the monotony of canned had landed.

No. 12, Northwestern University Med- rations, and the boredom of days drag- Lt. Haskell is a blue-eyed Irish girl ical School, Chicago. Some of those same ging along slowly one exactly like the with a broad smile, a natural Gaelic wit, hospitals were among the first to go over- other. a Maine accent, and a ten-year-old son. seas after Pearl Harbor. Their patients were mostly down with She has the instinctive warmth and prac- From these six pioneering units came malaria, having been evacuated from tical sympathy that a man likes when the only three American nurses who marine engagements in the islands fur- he's —nothing sticky and sentimen- were wounded in action in World War I. ther north. With little to do, theirs was tal, just a friendly something that makes Of the 12,000 nurses who served over- a "waiting war," a fight without dra- you feel better. seas in 191 7 and 191 8, the vast majority matics or heroics—but not without its When her unit got properly estab- stayed well despite the unfamiliar hard- quiet drama and quieter heroines. Had lished, Lt. Haskell kept right on nursing, service, none were there been an invasion of Australia at making on ships ; few died in the her rounds always with a pat killed by enemy fire. that time, as had been expected, these the head for this one, a joke for that The record of World War II shows nurses and medical units would have one, a playfully stem word for the boy the results of a rapidly moving Army been sorely needed. To the soldiers in who showed signs of feeling sorry for and a larger nurse corps. In 2^/4 years of that area, they were a morale factor even himself. Her favorite gag was to take a fighting, seven nurses have been killed though not under fire! soldier's pulse and then to crack, "Say, "in line of duty"—one in a plane crash Some 20,000 Army nurses are in ser- you're going to be so well in a couple of in Alaska, and six in Italy when German vice overseas, in every theater of opera- days I'm gonna wish you weren't a planes bombed evacuation hospital units tions. First to see fire since Corregidor corporal!" serving the Rome beachhead. Many have were those who went from England to After two months of this, Lt. Haskell been wounded and decorated for valor- North Africa with the invasion forces. had to report that lame back. X-ray ous service. An Army nurse was the first One of these was Lt. Ruth Haskell, at- showed two fractured vertebrae. "Didn't woman to receive the Air Medal, and tached to a general hospital unit which you have any better sense than to drag three A.N.C's have been awarded the was due to land with the forces some- yourself around in this condition?" her coveted Soldiers' Medal, and three the where near Arzew. She had injured her CO. asked before signing the order to Silver Star. back in a fall on the high seas aboard send her back to the U.S. for care. The chronicle of Army nursing in the transport; but, nonetheless, she made "Sure," quipped Ruth. "But you needed World War II begins in Pearl Harbor the leap from ship to landing barge, me here, didn't you?" when, looking out the windows of quar- crowded up forward with the men, and Stories of nursing heroism in Italy ters and wards, nurses saw the peaceful plunged down into chin-high water of are hard to track down as yet, but the morning shattered by the ruthless Jap the Mediterranean to wade ashore. All nurses themselves are writing back elo- attack. One nurse watched her fiance across the wet sand she crawled on her quent descriptions of the heroism of our race across the landing field in an at- belly, while German snipers popped at troops. "My hands are stiff with cold," tempt to get to his plane, saw him fired her and other members of the unit. writes Lt. Helen Wharton. "I haven't village and we're on by six different gunners, but could not When they got to the they found bathed in God knows when go to him because already the steady that every building to be used as tempo- terrifically busy. The guns make so much straight. But load of horribly torn and mutilated rary hospitals was filled with seriously noise I can hardly think wounded had begun to arrive. wounded. There was little or no water there is plenty of satisfaction in knowing For three days she never left her post, for it was impossible to find out whether the boy was dead or alive or where he had been taken. Then she began her search, finding at last that he had been killed along with so many of the others. She went back to her ward and worked faithfully until the entire unit was re- lieved and returned to the U. S. some months later. "Why did I do it?" she says, "Because they needed ever>' nurse they could find. ... It was my heart that was broken, not my hands. I worked

till I was ready to drop. But I have never forgotten one moment of the horror and unreality of that day." The flight from the Philippines and the desperation of those Army and Navy nurses who stayed behind is another phase of the saga of the Pacific. The fate of those captured by the Japs is still unknown. The nurses who got out of Bataan were by no means the first or only American nurses to reach Australia. Sev- eral units had been rapidly activated and assigned to the Southwest Pacific thea- ter. Shipped into the bush to set up tent and hut hospitals, or into the steaming 45 MAY, J944. that this outfit can really produce. The patients have unbelievable stamina. The steam rises out of their open bellies in the operating room, it is so cold. But they've really got youth and strength, and never a whimper from them. No man's army could possibly have more spirit than ours. But they need our med- ical and nursing care desperately. All the Nazi hate, horror, and hellfire on earth won't keep us from helping these boys who need us." Nurses like Lt. Wharton have moved across North Africa from Casablanca to Bizerte. They saw service with field hospitals and evac units in Sicily; they went to Italy with the invasion forces. Lt. Wharton's unit and others were aboard a hospital ship bombed in the Bay of Salerno. Every piece of nursing equipment was lost and the nurses were returned to North Africa to be re-out- fitted before they could rejoin the Army in Italy. A day or so after they had finally got their tent hospital set up, a

tornado wrecked it. All night long they were rescuing patients from piles of debris, operating in emergency O.R.'s set up in the basements of deserted buildings. These nurses live like the men—in heavy-duty fatigue clothes and G.I. boots. Always mobile, they can never approximate "home" in their tented quarters—this war moves too fast for settling down anywhere. Their hair dried up under the African sun; they breathed dust for weeks and months. In winter they worked in bitter cold, in spring they dragged weary feet through ankle deep

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aspect of the rest of the area. There were potato patches between some of the buildings because the ever-necessary Wont it he swell "spud" was a scarcity on the French market. Ten large huts, accommodating 40 when beds each, made up the medical division, and the surgical division was housed in 14 tents and 10 huts. In the center of WON'T IT BE SWELL when you the hospital area were the administration can actually go hunting again? Sure! building, the O.R., Q.M. building, and But meanwhile, why not

do this? . . . Just settle yourself the recreation and mess halls. All of it in your easiest easy chair. Think made an excellent target. the word "hunting." And when While this was an elaborate and care- your imagination starts to play, ful installation, the tents were rainproof play along with it! . . but not coldproof at best and the huts were of summer construction with many It PRESTO! No more war shortages, and you're in a store chock-full of fine air spaces cracks. and A rigorous winter guns. Look at that Remington Sportsman. Snap it to your shoulder. set in at No. 9 and patients, surgeons, Fits like part of you, doesn't it? Points as easily as your finger and nurses suffered from the bitter cold. fires three shots as fast as you puU the trigger! Want it? It's yours! Small oil stoves were installed in the nurses' quarters and coal stoves in the mess hall—but httle heat was available elsewhere. A pint of oil a day was al- lowed for each oil stove—the equiv- alent of two hours' heat out of twenty- four. Many of the nurses suffered from chilblains and the chief nurse, Grace Allison, wrote: "Our water pipes have all frozen and for three days we had no water, except that which could be car- ried a quarter of a mile. ..." No. 9 experienced five night air raids in one week—and only a fourth of the nurses were equipped with helmets. Some nurses put water pails or wash basins over their heads for protection during

TO OUR HONORED DEAD

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the raid, but the majority went without. There surgical teams, sent up from vari- Rouen was well fortified with antiair- ous base hospitals, were at work—two craft- guns and the din of ack-ack and surgeons, an anaesthetist, two nurses, HEY MtSTSR . . bombs was deafening. Nurses would and two orderlies. They stayed on duty plunge into water-filled trenches for pro- day and night, patching wounded, mak- WHY NOT MUSTSR tection and follow the direction of the ing them as comfortable as possible, see- raiding planes by the trail of each of the OUT THAT WORN- six bombs it carried and dropped. Occa- sionally a rocket illuminated the ground and sometimes the petroleum tanks BiUfOLD ! OUT caught fire and blazed for as long as 24 hours. Night nurses remained on duty throughout the raids, regardless of the fact that a barricade of sandbags outside the huts was all that stood between them in an "Director" M uster Amity and destruction. Billfold, like the one shown In a raid such as this, not at No. 9 here! Get next to a real pocket- but at a Casualty Clearing Station near billfold beauty ful ol modern St. Sixte's Convent. Belgium, Beatrice and usefulness. MacDonald was wounded, the first

Genuine prewar quality! Fine American nurse to be injured in action "Remember how it used to take hours

leathers . . . skilled craftsman- in World War I. She was a staff nurse to decide what to wear on a date?" York's Presbyterian ship. . .unexcelled features! Get attached to New 2, had been sent yours today and remember Hospital Base No. who ing that they were put aboard the trains forward a member of a surgical team there's no finer gift for service- as for evacuation to comparative safety. for temporary duty at Clearing Station men or civilians than an Amity Back at the bases, the ambulance No. 61. Sleeping, after a long siege of "Director" Billfold trains werfe met by motor ambulances duty. Miss MacDonald was awakened by to which wounded were rapidly trans- Ask Your Dealer to You the of German motors overhead. Show sound ferred and removed to the permanent Its Eight Unmatched Features! reached for a tin hat but two bombs She hospital. Sometimes the main roadway hit the cook house nearby. Shrapnel was lined for hours with ambulances through the tent wall, pierced her came coming and going, shuttling between cheek, and penetrated her eye. She lost train and base. Nurses often did as many the sight of her eye. but returned to duty as 300 dressings each day. And there was at Boulogne and remained in service one sour note which jarred the nurses: until two months after the Armistice. Ammunition trains had the right of way. This was the war in which wounded Trains bearing wounded were often held who had sprawled in shell holes for up indefinitely and the patients were ex- hours without medical attention came hausted when they reached the base to into the hospitals with wounds infected receive bed care. with maggots, with great pieces of mus- The clearing stations got all the worst cle and flesh torn away by shell and cases, those whose condition made it shrapnel, and festering. Nurses like Miss impossible for them to wait for surgery. MacDonald had to treat wounds far "I shall never forget those men," wrote more threatening than those today which Miss McClelland. "Even those who were have already been covered with sulfa horribly wounded . . . never had a word drugs. Their patients did not have the of complaint." of front line surgery advantage modern The Pennsylvania unit, U. S. Army hospital deaths to one- which has cut Base Hospital No. 16, had some 1400 in 7 and 191-8. Trans- half the rate 191 patients at Le Treport, many of them blood given, but fusions of whole were heavy surgical and mustard gas cases. the miracle of blood plasma was still The majority of nurses had not been unknown. The task of these nurses was trained or experienced in handling such any, yet, like Miss the grimmest of and vast numbers of critically wounded, but little the hor- MacDonald, they talked of the emergency taught them quickly. The hardly mentioned their rors of the job, gassed patients, nurses said, looked the In fact, the story of own hardships. worst. Their eyes were swollen and dis- injury came not from Miss MacDonald's charging, their bodies covered with blis- the nurse herself, but from a hut -mate, ters. Breathing was difficult and discom- McClelland, had also been Helen who forting. Some spit blood and were unable assigned to 61. No. to speak above a whisper. Sometimes as The two nurses had met somewhere many as 700 would be admitted in one near Abbeville, en route to the Casualty day. Usually there were not more than Clearing Station to which they had been 50 nurses to care for them. assigned. Along the way they saw thou- Night nurses made their rounds carry- sands of pontoon bridges for use in the ing a shaded lantern, giving medications, drive to cross the canal at Ypres. They inspecting dressings. One nurse discov- saw also the hundreds and thousands of ered eight hemorrhages in one night but tired Tommies and doughboys on whose because of her vigilance not one of them

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nurse Margaret Dunlop said, "Their tents. Suddenly above us we heard the seven had been killed and several wcmd- bravery, unselfishness, and fortitude hum of the planes, saw a sputtering ed. Tugo was dead. ." stiffened our own courage. . . streak of sparks drop from the sky and Miss Parmelee suffered two face With the Germans only eight miles Tugo cried out, "Why, they're here!" wounds and a black eye. Shrapnel tore from Amiens, the position of No. 16 was There was a deafening report and Miss her skirt and apron and cut away her dangerous. It was a big base and crowd- Parmelee plunged into a ditch. "I felt as wristwatch, so that only the strap re- ed with patients. One night, just at mid- if I were being stirred up in a great bowl mained. "Nonsense!" she said, as to re- night and in the midst of a downpour of of reeking gunpowder," she wrote. And, ports of her injuries. "They were only rain, the nurses heard that a train would after four more reports, "We're done a couple of tiny scratches!" arrive to deliver 320 patients and re- for; they're wiping us out!" War hasn't changed much, nurses find, move 300. Many of them were seriously Then she heard the wounded calling: in 25 years. It moves faster and there is ill, but the evacuation was accomplished "Sister! Sister!" and she jumped out of no longer any "Front." Modern meth- successfull>—in the dim glow of lan- the ditch and ran to the tent with her ods give the wounded soldier a better terns, in the. rain and in less than three flashlight. Men were bleeding badly. than fighting chance for his life—and hours Doctors and nurses began to arrive with elaborate rest and rehabilitation pro- U. S. Army Base Hospital No. 10 ac- stretchers. grams will help him reclaim his proper complished an even more spectacular "I crossed over to the other tent and place in the community when he omes evacuation—thousands of men in two found that the whole front section had home. But none of this changes the fact or three days with only nine casualties been blown up, beds, lockers, floor and that when he is wounded he must have en route. all. Not a patient was in sight." Although medical and nursing care—at once. For One of the nurses of this unit, Isabelle they were wounded, they were all living the nurse, the hazards of war may have Stambaugh, had been sent forward to a and had been placed in other wards. In increased somewhat—but so has the de- clearing station and thence to No. 42 Officers' Quarters and the reception tent mand for her services. Knowing men, Station Hospital at Amiens. There, dur- and their needs, she knows that some- ing an air raid in March, 1918, she was times a smile, a pat on the head, do as severely wounded. much good (almost!) as plasma. Now, Even before that, the previous Sep- as in —191 7, she is proud of her right to tember, Eva Jean Parmelee of Base Hos- THANK GOD nurse "up front with the boys!" pital No. 5, attached to B. E. F. No. 11, Ackfiowledgmeiit with thanks is due the at Dannes Cannier, had been wounded. nursing service of the American Red In a letter, she described her own ex- FOR Cross and particularly to Miss Nellie librarian perience : Oppenheim, of the New York "As the lights flicked out the air raid Chapter, for the opportunity to nfer to warning went on. My orderly, Oscar the historical material from which most Tugo, came running from his supper; I THE NURSES! of the facts on World War I were ob- met him in the road in front of our two tained. —The Editors.

MAY, IQ44 49 lo

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SIMPLY. . . THEY LEARN BY MAIL

By DAVID GROSS

TiHE mud-bespattered army jeep depends entirely on him. A soldier's cot ground to a swift stop in front of usually serves as his desk, although the a lonely outpost of infantrymen Institute urges its students to study in somewhere along the Tunisian battle the post library. line. Somebody recognized the jeep's Although the lessons are uniform, each hardly discernible insignia and yelled student receives individual attention "mail!"—and the infantry came tum- from a patient, competent instructor. bling after. Naturally the men were as Because the entire project functions on excited about their mail as a bunch of a voluntary basis, officers scouting for debutantes on their first date. But one 0. C. S. material make it a habit to man in particular could hardly suppress check up on who is enrolled with the his glee, for he knew that in addition to Institute. When a student completes his letters from his folks and girl there course of study, a Certificate of Profi-

would be a bulky envelope from Madi- ciency is mailed to his commanding of- son, Wisconsin—his third lesson in so- ficer who, almost always, takes a father- cial pathology sent by the Army Insti- ly pride in awarding the document to tute. the soldier. Organized by the War Department A checkup reveals that servicemen for the special benefit of the enlisted are interested in learning about a great personnel of the Army (as well as Navy, variety of subjects, both practical and Coast Guard, and Marine Corps), this scholarly. That is why the Institute of- unique correspondence school offers over fers such differing courses as Highway 700 high school and college courses Construction, Personnel Management, ranging from accounting, aviation, and Preventive Medicine, The Ante-Bellum French to trigonometry, welding, and South, Applied Mathematics, Contem- climatology. Servicemen wishing to ob- porary Philosophy, Vocational Psychol- tain high school and college credits for ogy, Swedish Literature, and Early the subjects completed can usually have History of Israel. the Army Institute arrange this for Among the foreign languages which them. the Institute offers are mifitary German, Most courses are a nominal two dol- Russian, Spanish, Icelandic, Portuguese, lars, but in some cases where the bill Norwegian, French, and Italian. grows somewhat battened, Uncle Sam A.E.F. outposts in frigid Iceland have steps in and pays half. Like all cor- reported to the Army Institute that the respondence schools, the Army Institute soldiers making the most headway with sends its lessons (in the form of lec- the flaxen-haired damsels of that coun- KENTUCKY STRAIGHT BOURBON WHISKY tures, pamphlets, discussions) through try are graduates of the Army Insti- the mail. When, where, and how long tute's course in Icelandic. It really pays Johnny Doughboy studies his lessons to be studious!

LITTLE JOE

{Continued from page 17) "Say, now, Stuffy," began Red hur- advised. "I'm layin' in a wadi. Better riedly, "git down an' rotate this turret get back in, if it should start rainin' back where it belongs, will yuh? The junk yards." gun is pointing off to the side where This time, hardly were they in, when they can't tow the tank. You see they BROWN-FORMAN DISTILLERY CO., INC. a low grinding heralded the long-awaited have to rotate the turret to get at this LOUISVILLE in KENTUCKY wrecker. Little Joe, an' that turns the gun, too,

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but then they can't tow the tank with somethin' with my foot. I was tryin' the gun stickin' out the side, see?" to get out, honest I was. Was, many "It would seem too much trouble to hurt?" fresh tobacco start the durn thing anyway," muttered "Are you nuts?" whispered Wild Bill. ^ Stuffy. "I got the wrecker with me." "Naw. Have to start, Joe," explained Another whisper from outside the I what a joy! Red. "It furnishes the power for the tank, inaudible. Wild Bill disappeared turret, for the stabilizer, an' for the with fearful suddenness. In a few sec- Model No. 213-$3.00 Other models and leathers radio. Tank is sure helpless if Joe ain't onds he was back. from $1.50 to $15.00 runnin'. But he also can furnish, once "Git out, git out!" he ordered. "Don't out of a tank, juice fer lights for a tent make no noise. Careful now. Kid, that or CP, juice for electric razors, flat was a German wrecker you hit. Comin' irons, or a movin' picture show, which up to tow you off! "Magine that! Boy, is why everyone gets worried about you blew it clean to hell! Them Krauts Little Joe gettin' kidnapped." are sure smart. Why, they even beat Stuffy cranked at the handle that the Ordnance to a tank. Git down now, turned the turret by hand. we'll start draggin' this outta here. Quiet

"I see the wrecker," exulted Red, now, they'll throw a lily at us if they "right in front— of us, backin' up. Boy, hear anything." am I glad As noiselessly as possible the men The thunderous roar of the tank's crept from the tank. Several more on big gun swept the words from his mouth, the ground were quietly attaching a but a second roar almost blew him from long wire cable to the disabled tank. the turret. Flames leaped before his Others spoke in excited whispers of the horrified eyes. shattered enemy wrecker off in the "What did you do. Stuffy, what did shadows. you do?" he pleaded, yelling in the "Dam' gun was loaded—kid didn't other soldier's ear. know it—kicked it off with his foot ." "I kicked somethin'," said Stuffy, otta get" a medal just the same . .

aghast. "I kicked somethin' an' it blew In the dark the hearts of Red and up." Stuffy swelled with pride.

"You done it now!" agonized Red. "Hey, Bill. Looka. Bi'.l." It was the "That gun fires with the foot. You fired peep driver's voice, hissing with excite-

it off an' blew up the wrecker." ment. "This is the wrong tank. This

Slam ! Slam ! Slam ! Three enemy ain't our tank. This is a Second Bat- shells kerblammed beside the tank. talion tank. Looka the markin's!" Fragments bounced from its rugged "Oh, my gosh! Well, you was the sides. It was artillery, searching for dope that brought us here. I wish I personnel trying to drag off the tank. could speak out loud, by God, I'd say A star shell next. No movement. The a few things. You clunk!" firing ceased. "Listen," explained the driver, "I An hour later a head suddenly ap- seen the crew, see? I talked to 'em. peared in the open hatch. While they was waitin' for the ambu-

"Wake up!" husked a voice. "Wild lance. Our tank is here. If this ain't Biir. The wrecker's here. Git out!" ours, there's another one. Well, why

"I didn't mean to blow it up," said not drag this one out?" Stuffy. Horror was in his tone. "I hit Wild Bill cursed. "Was there a Little

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Joe in this tank?" he wanted to know. lighted their way across the bled. Be- comin" an' fired at him, an' the German "Yeh. Them new guys already took fore them, in the ruddy light, leaped- wrecker crew took off. Didn't hurt the it out an' put it in the peep." the figure of Wild Bill, hands upraised. wrecker. Blew off the boom an' an "Good. Them two are tops. I said "Halt!" he roared. "By God, halt! acetylene tank. But we c'n fix it. New- they ought to have a medal. Well, I We're goin' to take a tank back with men these are, just come up last night. better see if I can find the other tank. us if he have to raid the Jerry lines Fought like hell. We c'n put that Jerry

Come with me to give a look." to get it ! We didn't come out here to wrecker to good use." The wind was blowing from the Ger- pick flowers!" The red-eyed officer jerked his head man lines, else the whispering and clank- Some hours later co'd dawn came in air. All his fatigue left him. "Did ing would have brought hostile notice through the window slits at the Arab you get the Little Joe out of that Sec- before. But other than an occasional farm. A tiny gasoline stove hissed and ond Battalion tank?" he demanded. flare, and the clatter of distant guns, the odor of boiling coffee wafted to the "Sure did!" exulted Wild Bill. "It's nothing prevented the maintenance crew sniffing noses of Red and Stuffy. The in the peep right outside—huh? What's from their thorough search. Their own red-eyed maintenance officer listened to this?" tank was gone. The Krauts had got it, Wild Bill's report. The peep driver entered, wide-eyed. then sent the German wrecker back for "Outta eight busted tanks," said "Say, that Little Joe is gone!" he the other one. Wild Bill, "we got in seven. The Krauts gasped. "It was in the peep, I helped

With no warning at all, the air was got that last one. It was gone. With put it in. But now it ain't there!" suddenly filled with whistles as from only one wrecker—well, there was an- "Didn't you two men put Little Joe piping plover. Down came the iron rain, other tank out there from the Second in that peep?" demanded Wild Bill. away ran the soldiers at the first clam, Battalion. The Krauts heard us huntin' Silence. Then Stuffy spoke, aided by climbed aboard the wrecker and peep for ours an' laid down on it. Burned Red's nudging elbow. that were sheltered in a neighboring it out. But we did drag in a Jerry "Yes, sir, we did. But when we found wadi, and took off. wrecker. These men here, replacements, out that it wasn't our battalion tank, Behind them, the pyre of the burning was guardin' the Second Battalion tank, we put it back in the tank again. We tank, afire from the latest shelling. thinking it was ours, an' heard the Jerry was told it wasn't right to steal things."

THE G. I.'S FRIEND

( Cojttinued from page i8) all sound so trivial and dull compared until you found you'd learned it your- what they'd done and seen. And they'd to everything over there." Nothing about self, a matter of fact acceptance of pull out finger-worn snapshots to show home, however trivial and uninteresting things as they are. you-—hundreds of pictures of wives and it may seem to you, is dull to soldiers I remember one of the boys down mothers and sweethearts and babies. overseas. front describing the Jerrys he'd seen They'd describe their homes to you We tried to make the Clubs as much sitting straight and charred in a tank, down to the last detail. They'd ask you like home as possible—places to which burned to death. He'd gotten some good eagerly if you knew their home town. the men could come for comfort and photos. They'd grin happily telling you the exact relaxation and fun. Places in which they I hadn't been there very long. I think place on the wall a certain picture hung, could find real beds and baths and dances I gasped a little. And he smiled at me. what the sitting room looked like, in and games and people from home to "Hell, honey," he said. "That's the just what corner the green armchair talk to and to answer their questions. way it is. It isn't sad or bad or funny stood. They wanted it all to stay exactly They'd ask thousands of questions it just is." that way until they came back to it. where could they buy a puppy, what The combat crews had the same point It was the only real security or feeling place in town had the best band, when of view. After sweating out long tense of permanence they had. did the bus leave for the desert, what hours on a mission, they'd tell you what For a long time the mail came through would be a good present for a new swell jazz they'd got on their radio could they talk very slowly. A four months' old Life baby, whom to about a coming back. loan. would be grabbed immediately — it There was always something to laugh They all had a curious detachment, seemed new. We'd all share our letters about. You found laughter came very little strange first from home. The men would pass them which seemed a at easily. Because you wanted to laugh, round among each other and read and you did. The comedians who come over- re-read little details about life back seas are probably more welcome than in America, until the much-fingered anyone or anything else. pages were falling apart. A clipping, an And the G. I. brand of humor is dry advertisement from a shop you knew, be She/i- and to the point. I remember a young even a familiar postmark on an envelope pilot on a Red Cross tour through the could make your heart give a funny Holy Land. We had stopped at the Rock little jump. of the Ascension where there is an im- It wasn't that you were homesick. print in the stone supposed to be the You were too busy, your days were too foot print of Christ as He rose to full, for that. It was just in the back- Heaven. ground you liked thinking of things The boy nudged me as we looked. being the same back home, and un- It was a very large imprint. changed in all the strangeness and im- "He must have worn a G. I. shoe," permanence about you. he murmured. If you have anyone overseas, you It's the way people talked and looked should write and write and then write —the little things they told you about more. Even the minutest details. People and the things that happened to them have said to me since I came back that you remember most. The combat "But there isn't enough to say, it must crews, for instance, who always refused

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MAY. 1944 55 to be separated. They were bound by the men and giving them magazines and ties closer even than family ones. They'd cigarettes.

always insist on being put all together There was a little more to it than in the same room when they came down that. I remember one incident which on leave. illustrates very well the kind of thing A boy from one of these crews hobbled Red Cross^ hospital workers do. into the Club on crutches one day. A boy who'd been shot up with ack- When he was last down, his crew had ack on one of the missions, was sent been with him. Now he'd come in from down to the general hospital outside the hospital. They were sending him Cairo. He was hurt so badly that for home. a long time they didn't tell him he'd "Where are the others, Bill?" we be permanently blind.

asked him. It always seemed strange When they did, it hit him very hard. not to see a crew together.

"They're all gone," he said simply. "We got shot up with ack-ack over A Suggestion: Naples and everyone was killed in the After you have finished reading this THE plane and and me." HEAVY BURDEN except Dan Joe issue of your American Legion Mag- said, taken over the Dan, he had azine, ^v^ap it and mail to a relative plane although he was shot in the head or a friend in the armed forces in

Constipation is an ancient burden that and stopiach. Joe had been hit in the this country. Postal regulations will many physicians relieve in a modern way arm and head. He, himself, had a leg not permit subscriptions for men —with SARAKA. The action of saraka is wound and his thumb had been blown off. overseas unless a specific request is received from the gentle; it causes no griping, no diarrhea, "Funny," he said, "I looked down one to whom the no embarrassing urgency. See free trial magazine is to be sent. and it wasn't there. Never felt a thing." offer below. One of their engines had been shot up The mailing cost is only and your and they'd had to drop out of forma- generous action will not only furnish entertainment for our soldiers, tion. Somehow they got across the Medi- sailors and marines prospective members terranean and made a crash landing in — of The American Legion—but keep the desert. before them in an interesting and They'd crawled out of the plane. None readable way, the ideals, aims, pur- of them could- walk. They'd decided to poses and programs of our organ- try and make their base, figuring it ization. wasn't far. "We'd crawl a little way and then stop and then crawl some more," Bill He wasn't more than twenty-one—young said. At night it was very cold—they'd and strong and active, and he'd been burrow into the sand. an athlete all his life. The second day Dan was dead when In a hospital in a war theater, nurses ESPECMUy iN WARTfAlE they started off. The other two crawled and doctors don't have much time to on alone. give a patient extra attention. One of Nervous strain, worry, and changes in "I guess it was about five that after- the Red Cross girls stationed at this food and eating habits often result in noon," Bill continued slowly. "Joe said hospital, visited the boy every day. She constipation. It's good sense to do some- he couldn't go any further. I lay down sat and talked to him, explaining to thing about h— early. If you are subject to constipation try taking saraka. beside him and he asked me to get his him what the sounds around him meant, mother's picture out of his pocket. He describing for him the people whose

lay looking at it and talking about her voices he heard, telling him what the for about an hour before he died. He ward looked like. asked me to look her up if I ever made She brought him a radio so that he

it out alive." had something to listen to during the After that, Bill crawled on alone. long night-like days. She wrote his let- "I didn't have any water left," he ters for him to his wife. And she read said. "It was funny, it was so hot I him the letters he received. He didn't couldn't think very straight any more. want his wife to know he wouldn't ever I'd keep seeing the Squadron all lined see. up and the boys were passing buckets The girl did everything she could to One teaspoonful of these tiny granules of water back and forth, back and forth. help him adjust himself to his blind- equals 20 teaspoonfuls of Bran m bulk- After that I was unconscious I guess. ness. And it was difficult because he producing ability. But convenient f^A aka The British picked me up two days was bitter and afraid. She explained is more than bulk alone; it is fortified with later I here. to him the Cross help a mild laxatit'e. The combination pro- and ended up down how Red could motes thorough and satisfying bowel hy- "It seems funny going home." him when he got home, how Red Cross giene. Caution, use only as dir'- - '1. Ask He didn't want to go home. He wanted people there would teach him braille your druggist for SARAKA. to keep on flying. You heard so many and how to use his hands. Try it tonight. stories like that. And when you heard The boy grew to depend very much FREE; Write for Free Trial them, you felt that nothing you could on the Red Cross girl. The first time he Package '"'d ret eating report by a u ell-kiirju II pljysii/aii. do would ever, ever be enough. was able to shave himself alone he SAKAKA, BoxALn, Bloomfield, At the Clubs, we rarely saw badly waited impatiently for her to come so wounded boys. Most of them stayed that he could tell her about it. out at the hospital near Cairo in the And one day, after many weeks, she desert. came through the wards on her regular SARAK Many people have asked me what visits, and into his room and asked him we did in the hospitals, what the work what he needed, what she could bring Invest In America —Buy War Bonds consisted of besides writing letters for him today.

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"Matches," he said. "But I brought you matches only yesterdaj'," she smiled. "What do you do with them, eat them?" "Hell no," said the boy, "People come in to see me and go off with my matches." He laughed. "Things have come to a new low when people will steal from a blind man!" And because he was able to laugh, the girl knew he had at last adjusted himself to his blindness. Her job was done. So, when people ask you about Red Cross work overseas and what you did there, you can't think of anything very big or important. All you can think More than 2 MILLION matle by SAVAGE of are a lot of little things. Little things to the —like talking to a boy who's lonely, Back Boys Overseas and finding another one a place to sleep, Our fighting men are doing a job un- iveapons. This is truly a great record. . . buying one a present for his baby, sew- surpassed in history. And they know Yon produced not only the required it these arms, they have been ing on a button or writing a letter for how important is to have superior numbers of but weapons— and plenty of them. prove}! most dependable in battle." someone who can't write himself. is skill pro- Thousands of boys crowd into the Red Savage producing large quantities of The same employed in war these military small arms, as indicated duction will assure outstanding peace- Cross Clubs in work. Visit- which you by the following letter from the Army time values in Savage sporting arms. ing the wards, Red Cross hospital work- Air Forces, OfSce of Chief of Ordnance: Savage Arms Corporation. Plants at Utica, N.Y., and Chicopee Falls, Mass. ers see hundreds of men a day. But "/ congrattilate all members your or- of Manufacturer of Savage, Stevens and what it all comes down to is doing the ganization on the Savage Arms Cor- fact Fox Sporting Arms. little ordinary everyday things for these poration plants in Utica, NewYork, and Chicopee Falls, Ma ss., have produced more soldiers which their families would do than 2,000,000 m litary small arms 0^ for them if they were at home. SAVA«E

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MAY, IQ41 57 FIGHTING FRENCHMEN FALSE TEETH (Continued from page 27) sented—most of them cognizant that one France and into Nazi Germany proper." day they would again serve in uniform WEARERS Instinctively, everyone in the gutted and employ their abilities against the

structure ducked as a shell shrieked and enemy under fire . . . see how right they burst in the building second on our were? Those men you saw on the hillside

right. The major sighed, settled down yesterday . . . they were in on the se- deeper in the heap of rubble on which cret training, right from the beginning." he had been sitting, and continued: Lighting an American cigarette, the "So completely successful was the French major punctuated his next re- functioning of this underground com- marks with trails of wispy blue smoke: munication training program that when "Fully three-fourths of the communi- reorganization and equipping was ac- cation unit you now see in the line re- complished with the aid of the United ceived their training thusly." States, the signal contingent of which He then told of the workings of a ra- I am a member was considered ready dio net that comprised a vast territorial for action without further schooling in section in the summer and fall of 1942. AT 5:30, do you get an ear to kiss instead the intricacies of military communica- Most of the details of the radio program x\ lips? Maybe it's . . . Denture Breath. tion methods. A two-fold purpose was will have to await the end of the war You may not know your breath offends, accomplished in the months before Al- before they can be divulged because of but others do. Be careful. Don't brush your lied invasion forces struck at Africa the secret nature of its functioning, but dentures with ordinary cleansers . . . it's difficult to reach all the tiny crevices — and from three different points. Under the the system bound remnants of a nation besides you are apt to scratch your plate. very noses of the enemy agents, the still staggering from a near-mortal blow. These scratches cause food particles and system operated successfully, disguised "Line construction crews labored by film to collect faster and cling tighter, causing offensive Denture Breath. as commercial enterprise in key towns day and by night in the rough mountain- and cities in Africa, with outward obvi- ous terrain of French Morocco, osten- ous emphasis on civilian radio, telephone sibly building and maintaining lines for and telegraph traffic. Prior to the actual railway, telephone and telegraph com- landings at Casablanca, Oran and Algiers, panies. These teams laid countless miles one lone French radio unit was credited of wire to establish smooth-working per- with handling more than 2.000,000 manent nets, then dismantled the min-

groups of strictly military traffic. On the iature systems to move 1 3 new localities surface, this traffic would appear to be and repeat the entire process. This was normal routine non-military matter. done repeatedly until each individual "Those few officials charged with keep- member of the crew became so skilled ing communications alive for the French in his particular tasks that the peak What's more . . . your plate material is 60 army negotiated miraculous escapes of efficiency and coordination was times softer than natural teeth, and brushing France of highly-skilled achieved. with ordinary tooth pastes, tooth powders from occupied or soaps, often wears down the delicate civilian technicians in the fields of radio "Other personnel were planted in tele- fitting ridges designed to hold your plate and wire. Individuals possessing a wide graph, telephone and teletype offices in place. With worn-down ridges, of course, background in communications mysteri- where civilian traffic was accepted and your plate loosens. But, since there is no during the months im- transmitted. Separate traffic logs were need for brushing when using Polident— ously disappeared there's no danger. And besides, the safe mediately after the armistice, and later kept—one for normal commercial busi- Polident way is so easy and sure. turned up in Africa. These men were ness, the other for secret military traffic. fitted into important positions in the The military logs were maintained with secret training scheme and acted in the the utmost care and remained well- capacity of instructors for lesser skilled guarded against discovery by the enemy. men and women who were being recruit- "Naturally, the cloak of secrecy was ed daily. Both sexes were well repre- cast aside when the Allied forces came

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MAY, I9*t 59 PAZO RELIEVES THE ashore on the African continent. In some stant fog and mist. Mules have been instances, the secretly-maintained and employed, when available, but of neces- PILES TORTURE OF SIMPLE operated radio and wire installations sity most of the wire had to be laid by were turned over intact to American and hand, with reels packed on the backs of British operators after brief token re- soldiers. Despite the ruggedness of ter- sistance, and were subsequently em- rain, picked crews have frequently laid ployed in the handling of actual tacti- up to 60 kilometers of wire a day cal traffic." through mountain passes, over raging The major traced the days up to the rain-swelled streams, and across rocky beginning of the Tunisian campaign, tell- gorges and canyons. ing how French signal personnel more SheU-fire presents a never-ceasing often worked out of uniform than in. source of trouble, for as rapidly as lines He pointed out that this was equally true of women as well as men, and that the

girls many times came under shell-fire It utter and numerous bombing attacks in the performance of their duties in the for- ward areas. "There was one woman—Lieutenant X. Disclosing her actual name would result in German reprisals. Her home prior to the invasion of France was at Oran, She entered the battered city of Tunis only a few hours after its fall. Don't just suffer the agonizing pain, torture, itching of simple piles. Remember, for over thirty year:* ani.izing With a team of 41 girls, many of whom ointment has given prompt, comforting relief to PAZO have husbands and relatives still living millions. It gives you soothing, \velcome palliative relief. in occupied France, this officer main- How PAZO Ointment Works I. Soothes inflamed areas — relieves pain and itching. 2. Lu- tained a radio net linking Gafsa, Sfax, bricates hardened, dried parts — helps prevent cracking Sousse, Tebessa, Gabes and Tunis itself, and soreness. 3. Tends to reduce swelling and check bleed- ing. 4. Provides a quick and easy method of application. for almost three months. It required this Special Pile Pipe for Easy Application length of time for the rehabiUtation and PAZO ointment has a specially designed, perforated Pile wire routes by Pipe, making application simple and thorough. (Some building of permanent persons, and many doctors, prefer to use suppositories, so the line construction teams. PAZO is also made in suppositor\ torni.) "Lieutenant X joined the secret com- Get Relief with PAZO Ointment! Ask your doctor about wonderful PAZO ointment and munication movement late in 1940 and the soothing, blessed relief it gives for simple piles. Get received her training under the expert are installed, they are blown out. Areas PAZO ointment from jour druggist todaj ! guidance of a well-known French civil- compelled The Grove laboratories. Inc., St. Louis, Mo. in which the line sections are ian communications specialist. to work are under constant German PHARMACEUTICAL HOUSE with LARGE switchboard units branches in Latin Ainecica, offers vmusual "Similarly, telephone observation from higher ground. Trou- opportunity to several young men, to train for consisting of many 'teen age French ble-shooting crews have been out for as positions abroad. Must have broad Sales and Advertising background and facility for lan- girls worked in Tunis before the surren- long as 22 hours trying to locate and re- guages; export experience desirable. Detail der of the remnants of Rommel's army pair a solitary fault. fully education, experience, special training, age, draft status and salary expectancy. State- on Cap Bon. They took over and oper- The French force for which the sig- ment of Availability required. Sterling Prod- buildings still mined ucts, International, Inc. 120 Astor Street, ated exchanges in nal unit provides communication repre- Newark 5, N. J. and subjected frequently to fierce aerial sents the first expeditionary effort oi bombings." the Republic in this war. Significant is BACKACHE, Eight percent of the signal unit are the fact that the fighting force was women, the major said, contending that conceived, trained and equipped in an with the possible exception of construc- actual theater of operations. Today it LEG PAINS MAY tion teams, the women are in every case represents the highest French mihtary doing the work of men. Their various quarters in the North African theater. BE DANGER SIGN duties include switchboard operation, Equipment used by the signal unit is Of Tired Kidneys teletype, radio, interpreting, stenogra- almost exclusively American, with the If backache and leg pains are making you miser* phy, and even truck driving. exception of a few French-manufactured able, don't just complain and do nothing about them. under Nature may be warning you that your kidneys need "All our officers are French-bom. switchboard exchanges. Operating attention. Most saw previous combat either in higher Allied headquarters, the problem The kidneys are Nature's chief way of taking excess acids and poisonous waste out of the blood. They help France, or in the North African cam- of language has had to be considered most people pass about 3 pints a day. non-commis- delay in If the 15 miles of kidney tubes and filters don't paign. For the most part, carefully to prevent undue time work well, poisonous waste matter stays in the blood. sioned officers of the unit were battle- the transmission and receipt of messages. These poisons may start nagging backaches, rheu- matic pains, leg pains, loss of pep and energy, getting tried before coming into action here in An American Signal Corps detachment up nights, sweUing, puffiness under the eyes, head- aches and dizziness. Frequent or scanty passages with Italy. At least 60 percent of our non- operates with the unit and functions, to smarting and burning sometimes shows there is some- commissioned officers were in on the se- a certain extent, as a liaison group to thing wrong with your kidneys or bladder. Don't wait! Ask your druggist for Doan's Pilln, cret training program at the outset." expedite such traffic as might be des- used successfully by millions for over 40 years. They give happy relief and will help the 15 miles of kidney In its present location the unit is tined for Allied attention or action. tubes flush out poisonous waste from the blood. Get finding that the training schedule it was Lieutenant General Mark W. Clark, Doan's Pills. put through before engaging the enemy commanding general of the Fifth Army,

is more than worthwhile, for weather has been, and is, high in his praise of and terrain conspired to increase antici- the French signal communication per- pated difficulties a hundredfold. Wire sonnel of this expeditionary force. On SELL COUNTER CARD PRODUCTS Baild a good-paying baBineaa of your own; sections that trained diligently in Moroc- his numerous inspections of the forward Call on dealers ol all kinds; show nationally- advertised Aspirin, Vitamins, Cosmptice and co now are having to lay their precious areas, he has been known to take the 200 other necessities. Big 6c and 10c retail SBckagea, high quality. Attractive counter line- iBplays aell goods fast. Free book giveaamaz. strands almost straight up the walls of time and trouble to converse with Ing facts. Write! WwM's Products C*., DiyL 13 T, Sfmtt, lad. peaks whose tops are obscured by con- men and other enlisted personnel.

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"An instance of this nature occurred near the town of Scapoie," the little ma- jor recalled. It was just after we had taken the town, and General Clark came upon one of our French teams laying line under fire. Corporal Edouard Mahe was in charge, and replied to the Gen- eral's questions readily. "Later," the major said, "Corporal Mahe told me that General Clark pos- sessed an 'astounding knowledge' of com- munication problems in the field." The major got slowly to his feet at the insistent jangling of a telephone bell in the next room. Adjusting his helmet strap as he returned through the door- way, he concluded:

"Your American equipment is superb. Our men are determined and thankful for the chance you have given us. With the help of God, one day we shall be string- 'Instead offans, I use Sir Walter Raleigh smoke rings ing wire and operating radios within the pre-war boundaries of Germany herself."

Editor's Note—Lieut. Dowell, Signal Corps, is a native of Portland, Oregon, is Smokes as sweet a graduate of the University of Wash- ington, 1938, and of Officer Candidate as it smells School. Prior to receiving his commis- sion, he was with the United Press in Canada and Alaska. '\ . . the quality pipe tobacco of America"

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(Continued from page ig) captivated with the quick fall of that had had nine armored Divisions instead each of less strength than more for these armored units than he country and the part played by the Ger- of three, a one, believed they could accomplish, man aviation and armored forces. German France would have been told very little about three im- defeated. Billy Mitchell, in this country, Gen- It was portant facts: First, that the Polish This because of the lack of ordinary eral Douhet, in Italy, and other air en- not as modernly equipped and marching infantry Divisions. thusiasts in other countries, in a justi- army was armed as it should have been. Second, There were runaways, of course, as is fiable endeavor to bring about adequate that the Polish leadership had entirely true in every army. There were units air development also made claims beyond underestimated the tremendous power of here and there which did not meet the the ability of aviation. the Germans, to the extent that they test of battle as well as they should All of this new and interesting discus- were planning to take the offensive have, as is true in every army. The sion naturally received a great deal of at- against Germany, Third, that the Ger- French army did not run away. It met a tention from the press and other sources of public opinion. However, in this country, Britain and France the growth of pacifism and internationalism, coupled with the high and increasing cost of ade- quate modern armament caused a reduc- tion in armament instead of a modern- ization on the right principles. In these

three countries it was not a question of first finding out what national defense really needed and then providing the necessary funds, but of fixing a relative- ly small sum as the maximum amount to be appropriated in any one year. Then the different parts of the armed forces naturally struggled with one an- other, each trying to obtain a sum which they knew would be far less than that necessary for efficiency but which would keep them going. When our air service, through a Board presided over by the man army at that time consisted of 212 force overwhelmingly stronger, which former Secretary of War, Newton D. Divisions of which only nine were ar- again and again compelled it to retreat, Baker, finally got a relatively small in- mored Divisions, and approximately ten which broke through the weak points of crease to be made over a period of five motorized infantry Divisions. The ap- the line and cut up the French forces years in equal instalments, it was under- proximately 190 other Divisions were into fragments which ultimately in most stood that none of these instalments those in which the infantry walked, as cases, surrounded and out of ammuni- were to be gotten by further decreases in usual, while the artillery, with the ex- tion, surrendered. the Infantry, Cavalry and Artillery, al- ception of the anti-tank and anti-aircraft The French had available 61 Divisions ready far below the minimum provided guns, was horsed and the divisional trains to meet this onslaught. There can be by the 1920 National Defense Act. De- were also horse-drawn. added to this eight British Divisions, spite this, in each of the five years in The myth of the plane-tank team twenty Belgian, and nine Dutch. The ap- which those increments were given to was strengthened by the highly erro- proximately nineteen Divisions in the the air force it was carried out by cor- neous reports circulated at the time of Maginot fortified line were Fortress responding reductions in the strength the fall of France. Divisions, without mobile artillery or of the Infantry, Cavalry and Artillery. It is true that the German aviation trains and therefore unavailable for field In France the followers of DeGaulle, was more modern, had better tactics and fighting. The seven Divisions, ultimately who justly advocated more and better strategy, and was stronger than that of reduced to four, on the Italian front armored forces and a more modern avia- the French, Belgian, Dutch and such kept the numerically superior Italian tion, proposed to get what they wanted British air forces as operated in France. forces from penetrating the French by cutting down the none too numerous However, out of the 125 German Divi- main line of defense. other arms. sions which struck the first blow, only There were French infantry Divisions In Britain the Regular Army con- nine were armored Divisions and ten of three regiments given as much as 15 sisted of only five regular divisions sta- were motorized infantry Divisions. The to 18 kilometers of front to defend. This tioned in Britain and nineteen territorial balance were the walking infantry Divi- with no reserves back of them—obvious- divisions not as well armed, equipped sions described above. ly an impossible proposition in the face and trained as our National Guard divi- This writer has a large scale map from of a stronger force of first class troops. sions. official French sources showing the ad- Also, following the German habitual Meanwhile Germany carefully and not vance of every German armored Divi- practice, the German aviation continu- always too secretly prepared to go to war sion for every day of the campaign. He ously attacked the French infantry, ar- with a large, modern air force, with a has the positions of the French troops tillery and tanks in battle, instead of considerable force of armored divisions, from day to day. He has the targets at- flying off over them to bomb objectives but also with a tremendous force of in- tacked by the German aviation through- in the rear. In general the French and fantry supported by field artillery. out the campaign. He has the testimony British aviation did the latter. This writer has seen secret French of many officers of various branches of With all that the French suffered reports dated 1936, 1937 and 1938, giv- the service and many enlisted men, all from the superior German aviation and ing many of the details and warning of actual participants in the campaign. the stronger armored forces of the Ger-

the danger. The conclusion is inescapable that, mans, the complaint, above every other When the time came the first blow even had the French aviation been on a complaint, of the upper echelons of the was struck at Poland. Our public was par with the Germans and the French French army, was lack of troops, which

62 The AMERICAN LEGION Maga-Jne > necessitated assignments of fronts be- yond the powers of single Divisions; SWEEPING THE COUNTIIY! 1HIS NEW lack of troops meant the absence of re- serves necessary to prevent a breait- through in the weaker parts of a line; lack of troops meant lack of Divisions to attack and cut off deep German sali- NATURAL WAY TO KEEP RE6UIAR ents; lack of troops to cut off these salients meant their joining in the rear, and thus encircling the French and forc- ing their ultimate surrender. Contrast this with the campaign in Russia. There for the first time the Ger- man advance failed to bring victory. There for the first time large forces of Germans, generally in salients which they had made by breaking through, as in France, had to surrender. Always the Russians have had plenty of troops, to do just the things which Assures normal regularity for most the French were unable to do because people. And it's good for you! Over 8,000,000 now take lemons for health. of lack of troops. And this has given them the edge over the Germans. The reason the Russian army has not suffered from lack of troops as did the health drink, lemon and water, French is because, as in the German This simple amounts of Bi and P. They alkalinize — aid in most cases makes harsh laxatives wholly digestion. Lemon and water has a refreshing army, there are tremendous masses of unnecessary. tang, too— clears the mouth, wakes you up, soldiers who march and fight on foot. find starts you going. Lack of troops, primarily infantry, If you are like most people, you'll that lemon a.ndwa.tet, takenfirstthingon aris- Try this morning health drink ten days.Juice was the reason the French and British ing, insures prompt, normal elimination day of one lemon in a glass of water first thing were unable to keep the Germans out after day. And unlike harsh laxatives, which when you get up. of Norway. the British been suc- Had irritate the system and impair nutrition, P.S. Some prefer the juice of one lemon in cessful in this, the sea route to Mur- lemon and water is good for you! a half glass of water with ^4 to V2 teaspoon A healthful habit. Lemons are among the baking soda (bicarbonate) added. Drink as richest sources ofvitamin C, supply valuable the foaming quiets. OUTFIT NOTICES

SPACE restrictions permit us at pres- ent to publish only announcements BUY MORE LEMON and WATER of scheduled reunions. Let us hope WAR BONDS AND STAMPS before long we can resume the general • ••first thing on arising service to veterans' organizations that this magazine has rendered since its first issue on July 4, 1919. Details of the following reunions may be obtained from the Legionnaires BINGO/ Specials— 1500s—7 Colors listed: ATHLETES FOOT Specials 1500s 10 Colors — — *8 10, IJ, ° 53 Don't wait! If Specials 6 or 7 to the your feet itch, or 5, «» Soc. OF 28th Div. Annual Memorial Services, Pad « — 1 f the skin between yourtoesis 28th Div. Memorial Shrine, Bolsburg, Centre Black and Red Markers peeling, raw or cracked—it may be Admission Tickets County, Pa., Sun., May 21, 1 p.m. Wm. A. Miller, Athlete's Foot! Get Dr. Attendance Prize 2736 Boas St., Harrisburg, Pa. Scholl s Coupons ' ' SOLVEX at once. Relieves Rainbovv' (42d) Div. Vets. Assoc.—Annual intense Cages—While They Last itching; natl. convention, Sherman Hotel, Chicago, 111., kills fungi on contact; Catalin Markers July 13-15. Frank E. Gould, natl. reunion chmn., helps heal irritated skin. Liquid or wrife for 6 N. Michigan Av., Chicago. Ointment. Only 50c at your Drug, FREE CATALOG Co. M, 126th Inf.—Annual reunion. Grand Shoe, or Department Store. HARRY LEVITS Rapids, Mich., Sat., June 10. Walter McVeigh, 1010 Elliott St., SE, (phone 3-2006). Grand Dept. m, 131 W. 14lh St., H.«.C. Kapids. 310th Inf. Vets. Assoc.—Reunion, Syracuse, N. Y., in July. For details, write John P. Riley, 151 Wendell St., Providence, R. I. Vets. 314th Inf.—Annual reunion, Harris- burg, Pa., Sept. 22-24. Geo. E. Hentschel, secy., SOLVEX 1845 Champlost St., Philadelphia, Pa. FALSE TEETH 282d Aero Sqdrn., AEF—5th annual reunion, Cleveland, Ohio, July 29-30. Wm. W. Boyle, 153 Third St., NW, Barberton, Ohio. 304th M. G. Bn.—25th reunion. 77th Div. Clubhouse, 28 E. 39th St., New York City, May mTiGHTm 20. J. Griffin Coman, % Clubhouse. 415th R. R. Tel. Bn.. S. C—Special meeting, with Dentyte Howard Ures Ship, 1765 Howard Av., Chicago. 111., Sept. 17. James J. Maher, 3723 S. Rockwell Soften DENTYTE by warming St., Chicago. — spread it on your plate — 18th Co., TAPE, ROUND (Ascarid) 2d OTC, Ft. Sheridan. 1917—25th ^f\. put in mouth and bite to reunion, Chicago, 111., during spring. For de- HOOK AND WHIP WORMS make a perfect impression. tails, write T. J. Leary, 7141 Jeffrey Av., Chi- Remove plate — and allow cago 49. few minutes to "set". You 302d San. Trn. Assoc.—Reunion, 77th Div. getan absolutely perfect fit. Clubhouse, 28 E. 39th St., New York City, Sat.. Sore gums vanish— no more May 27, 7 :30 p.m. I. Bregoff, secy., 70 Pine St. slipping or loose teeth. New York City. DENTYTE is firm but resili- U. S. Army Amb. Serv. Assoc. —25th USAAC THAT CARRIES YOUR PHOTOGRAPH ent. Eacti lining lasts for convention, Philadelphia, Pa., July 15. Wilbur Now . . . you can make your letters to that boy or girl in months. Immediately remov- P. Hunter, 5321 Ludlow St., Philadelphia. Pa. service and to friends at home like a "personal visit" able withfingers.Ftillsize jar when you use rich, two-fold Photographic Stationery ^1 56th Pioneer Inf. Assoc. 13th annual re- -(a"year's undreamed of com- to use. — with life-like photograph of yourself at the top. A mar- union, in vicinity fort per plate), postpaid only wanted of Shamokin, Pa., Aug. 5-6. velous morale builder. Ideal pift with a friend's picture. Agenf; For details, write W. M. Gaskin, secy., SPECIAL Just withphoto, snapshot or neg- 1 everywhere P.O. Box OFFER— aend $1.0U Positively Guaranteed 161, Smithfield, N. C. ative for our Special BoK of PhotoffraphteStatumerv. Photo retam'id. NATIONAL PHOTO ART, Dept. 265, Janesville, Wis. Dental Products Corp., Dept. Al-145, Manheim, Pa. MAY, 1944 63 .

mansk would have been safe from Ger- istence, owed its success primarily to man sea and air attack. a break-through by the British infantry. With bases in Norway the past several They began it the night of October months, American and British aviation 23d and after hard fighting to include

would have been in a much more ef- the night of Nov. 1-2, they finished it. fective position to bomb Germany. Then and then only did the British Look at the map! armored forces really enter the fight. Lack of troops caused the British to Of course the British artillery and avi- be driven out of Greece and Crete. ation played an important preparatory Look at the map and see what a dif- and supporting part. ference that would have made. But without the heavy fighting of With enough ground troops the Bal- the British infantry there would have kans could have been successfully in- been no decisive victory at El Alamein. vaded. Failing that, air bases could have When the day comes to land on the been established in Greece and in the Continent of Europe to establish the Aegean Islands. Second Front the infantry as in Africa, Then Turkey probably would have Sicily, Salerno, Nettuno, Makin, Tarawa, entered the war, and at least some of Eniwetok will be the first to wade Hitler's Balkan satellites would have ashore and push inland leaving a trail sued for peace long before this. of dead and wounded behind them. From the beginning of the Egyptian Our success will not be measured by and Libyan campaigns up to the Battle how far the artillery can shell or the of El Alamein the British lacked suffi- aviator bomb the enemy, but by the cient ground troops and relied too much line held by the infantry.

on tanks and aviation operating more Today while the infantry is less than or less independently. one-fifth of our Army, its losses have El Alamein, which was decisive, as been several times those of any other afterwards only remnants of the Ger- arm and total more than half our bat- man and Italian forces remained in ex- tle losses. A BOND TO BUY TODAY

H & 8*$ famous books on {Continued from page 32) ship in the Legion for a full quarter of and Softball are Baseball are seated in a private room to the left a century. Those honored were: John ready NOW — at your dealer's. See him for your copies or of the picture where they can see and M. Anderson, Arthur G. Beyea, Leon A. to Department write direct hear the entire program and yet not be Blanchard, Gray B. Brockbank, Charles L-21. Hillerich & Bradsby Co.. Enclose 5c in Louisville 2. Ky. visible to the audience. The presentation W. Classen, James Costello, Daniel J. coin or stamps for the Famous Slugger Year Book and lOc of the Legion's Gold Star Certificate is Desmond, Cyrus M. Dolbeare, Nathan for Softball Rules. made privately in this room. W. Eaton, Jr., John Findlay, Jr., Bea- "The service procedure is as follows: trice M. Fuller, Arthur A. Fulton, Ed- A printed program is handed to each ward E. Hickey, Samuel B. Horovitz, person at the door and uniformed Legion- James P. Inman, Ernest W. Jackson, naires act as ushers. Promptly at the Vilhelm H. Jappe, Ernest E. Johnson, SLUGGER BATS designated hour those participating in Thomas F. Kenney, William A. Knipe, the service are ushered in one group to Bessie M. Leach, George A. Leach, FORBASEBALL ft SOFTBALL their seats while a soft prelude musical David Martin, Clarence N. MacKay,

number is played. The colors are ad- Harold A. McCann, Guiseppe Puleo, vanced, two musical numbers are given, Ira W. Richardson, George H. Rowell, New VITAMINIZED, followed by an address not exceeding Thomas B. Stewart, William A. Stewart, fifteen minutes, after which there are Eugene J. SulHvan, Patrick Walsh, Ed- chocolate/ two musical numbers, thirty seconds of ward Hazen Walton, William L. Wenzel, and the echo. The entire C. Wheeler, and Theodore Whit- IT'S so EASY AND silence, Taps Herman ENJOYABLE TO GET YOUR service lasts about forty-five minutes. ney. VITAMINS NOW ... NO BIG "It may be that some other Posts CHOKING" CAPSULES TO TAKE! would be interested in securing additional Here's An Offer 1 information. This may be had by writ- first members of the armed Enjoy your Vitamins . . .let them ing direct to Legionnaire Lyle G. Rice, All THESE THE melt in your mouth! Don't bother Brighton, Colorado." forces of these United States hail- VITAMINS IN with pills or capsules. Eat deli- EVERY BAR ing from Broadview, a suburb of Chi- cious VITA-SERT every day . . Illinois, notify home folks . cago, who the A . 4000 1. U. and get those needed Vitamins. 25-Year Veterans Bi . . . 1 Mg. There's good health and good of their arrival at Berlin or Tokyo are B2 . . . . 2 Mg. eating in every bar. Make VITA- D . . . 400 I.U. redletter event for Corporal to be rewarded with hundred-dollar War SERT a daily treat. Buy at any was a quantities IT 0% of mini- food, drug or candy counter! Post of Wakefield, Bonds. That is the offer made by Broad- aduit daily Harry E. Nelson Massachusetts, when at a special 25- view Post of the Legion through its year anniversary meeting thirty-six of commander, Hugh B. Sappington. its members were presented with certifi- Literally under the shadow of the cates attesting their unbroken member- great veterans' hospital at Hines, and

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64 The AMERICAN LEGION Magai^nt within the confines of the territory from World War II veteran and the 76th of whence departed the Maywood Tank his class to join, was accepted. The Post Corps that later won immortality on is noted as a go-getter—a goal of 1,500 Bataan, Broadview folks know the heart- members has been set for 1944, with the aches, the suffering and the miseries of expectation this objective will be taken war as only can those who have suffered before the county convention in June. its losses. "This is not a publicity stunt," said Commander Sappington. "We mean Proof of Delivery only to stimulate an interest in the progress of our home boys in the armed 1AST year Variety Post of Cleveland, forces." J Ohio, cooperating with the Cleveland Press, raised $43,000 to send 18,000,000 1,000th Member cigarettes to the fighting men overseas. Proof of delivery is being received by ALOT of Posts and Departments have the Post, the newspaper, and the donors. . rung up new all-time high mem- More than 200 letters have been re- bership records this year—some are late ceived by Aaron D. Wayne, Variety Post in reporting. Andrew Plewacki Post of Commander, and some of the donors Buffalo, New York, joined the i, coo- have received empty packs bearing the member class on February 15th, when Variety Post-Press stickers. the application of Stanley Milewski, Boyd B. Stutler. WHEN SAM GOT TOUGH

{Continued from page 29) land and to upon the merchant Faris's torturers had been "degraded" shipping of the United States in the Civil from their offices and there would be an War. Having her hands full with the "investigation." Confederates, the Government had to Thayer replied that no "investigation" content itself with filing protests against was necessary, and that no amount of this treatment. A court of arbitration "degrading" would suffice. Let every one sitting some years after Appomattox of Faris's torturers be sent to prison, ordered Britain to pay the United States and let a fine be collected from among Government $15,000,000 in gold for them to go to Faris as compensation. these depredations. Thayer would start for Osiut, he told the Those historians are demonstrably minister, and stay there until the job right who say that our ancestors hated was done. standing armies and large navies, but It was done. All thirteen of the tor- dearly loved to do a lot of amateur turers were imprisoned for a year and skirmishing around with their own per- the combined fines collected and turned sonal rifles on their own more or less U O Other styles $5.50 over to Faris totaled over $5,000. And individual accounts. They were highly Douglas "Doivn-to-the- Wood" construction President Abraham Lincoln was so anti-militaristic, but highly aggressive. assures you better fit. pleased at the outcome that he wrote a And they were at their happiest in both letter to Mohammed Said Pasha, Vice- these qualities during their conquest of roy of Egypt, complimenting him on Spanish Florida in 1816-18, at a time manners. when the United States was officially at his excellent international Stores in Principal Cities peace with Thus in 1861 the arm of the United Spain. Good Dealers Everywhere States was long enough to reach into Our Florida frontier then, like our Upper Egypt to promptly and thorough- western frontiers of later years, was ly avenge a non-American Syrian who tormented by disorders and raids. Florida was lucky enough to be associated with Indians and Florida Negroes would come an American philanthropic enterprise. across into Georgia and Alabama to People have sometimes said that we plunder and kill. The Spanish authorities put up with a great deal from England of Florida were unable or unwilling to prevent before we went to war with her in 1812. these occurrences. We did. We were a nation of infantile We prevented them in a manner that weakness and England was the world's led Spain to hasten to "sell" Florida to largest, richest and best organized em- us and to get out of its Florida difficul- pire. We put up with a great deal from ties with as much dignity as possible England because we had to. Yet, even and a little cash. at that we went to war with her in the In 1 81 6 we went down onto Spanish soil in Florida end without the remotest chance of and totally destroyed the Your Watch with a Broken Crystal Is Useless Indian and Negro headquarters on doing any real damage to a world power the —Exposed to Damage from Glass and Dust. which Napoleon himself had not been Appalachicola River. PROTECT YOUR IP'ATCH— Avoid able to hurt. Our ancestors proceeded on In 1 81 8 the War Department put An- costly repairs-Go to any jeweler-ask the principle of the pugnacious king- drew Jackson in charge of the Florida for a G-S FLEXO CRYSTAL 100% Any size Any bird which plunges at the hawk to worry frontier. He raised volunteers in Ken- BREAK-PROOF— — shape. Can be fitted while you wait. her and scare her off. tucky, Tennessee, Georgia and Alabama. Mfgrs. of military water-proof watches, gauges, He had only 600 Regulars. The rest instruments now use G-S FLEXO CRYSTALS Most Americans are familiar with the of — 100% BREAK-PROOF. story of the Alabama, the Shejiandoah* Inquiries invited from manufacturers. * See The Last Confederate, American Legion GERMANOW-SIMON MACH. CO. Rochetler, N. Y. and other privateers fitted out in Eng- Magazine, June, 1942.

MAY, 1944 his little force of 2000 men came with "new" Navy. And a puny navy it was their own guns and their own horses, full as navies go. Upon the shoulders of of an anti-militaristic enthusiasm for Commander Evans there rested for more violating the "sovereignty" and the than a month almost absolute power to "territorial integrity" of Spain. avert or precipitate hostilities. Inci- Jackson lost no time in getting onto dentally, it was here that he earned his Spanish soil. He captured the Spanish sobriquet of "Fighting Bob." town of St. Marks and there found the American sailors were unpopular ringleaders of the Indians—a chief named ashore at Valparaiso. There had been Francis and a chief named HimoUomico. ugly collisions with the populace before They were Spanish subjects. They were Evans arrived in the gunboat York town also murderers and torturers of subjects to join the cruiser Baltimore, under of the United States. Jackson hanged Captain (later Admiral) Winfield Scott them at once. Schley. Sailors from the Baltimore had He then destroyed the chief remaining run into trouble ashore and several had lair of the border assassins—the camp been killed. Unlike Schley, Evans did of "Billy Bowlegs" on the Suwannee not believe the Americans were always River. Here he captured Ambrister, an blameless when knives flashed and fists ex-officer of the British Navy, an ac- shot out. complice of the assassins. He had already Schley, however, conducted a corre- RONRICO" captured Arbuthnot, another British sub- spondence with the Chilean authorities ject, charged with the same offense. by which he sought to prove that his Arbuthnot he hanged. Ambrister he men were all perfectly sober when they shot. were assaulted. After Schley had sailed Having thus removed the four prin- away under orders, leaving the serious sources of our troubles in Florida, diplomatic crisis, which the killing of The "Rum Connoisseur contains cipal and having thoroughly pacified the coun- the Baltimore's men had brought about, over 100 tested drink and food try, Jackson prepared to return to the in Evans' lap, the little Yorktown lay in recipes. Send for your Free Copy. Ronrico Corporation, United States. At just that moment, the harbOT with nine Chilean war vessels however, the Spanish governor of Florida all about her. Miami, Florida. Ronrico Rum 86, Pensacola sent a note to Jackson, In this situation Evans was forced to 90 and 151 Proof. United States at not retire, but play the delicate game of diplomacy Representative: Import Division which said, "If you do persist in your aggressions, I shall repel while President Benjamin Harrison and McKesson

restraint equal to « his zeal for jamming American flag and turned his search- places close to home. his way through obstructions with his lights upon it, so that if the Chileans But ... no matter where you go, two fists, it is more than likely the really wanted to hit the gunboat, they use H-I tackle and lures. You'll catch United States would have been at war would know exactly where to find her. more fish. with Chile in 1891. Evans was determined if trouble came H0RR0CKS-IB80TS0N CO., UTICA, N.Y. Those were the early days of our no one should be able to say the York-

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town had accidentally been struck in the trolled by the Republicans, they voted dark. The next time the searchlights fell Mr. Cleveland his commission of inquiry. across the Yorktown the crew was stand- This step aroused public opinion in IFLAGS ing at quarters and the guns were all Britain against Lord Salisbury, who ready for business. No more rockets yielded. The issue was submitted to came their way. arbitration, and a situation which might /^ByMEMORIAL DAY A few days later, when Evans was have led to war between the two great etc. Spnd today for illustrated free catalogue stepping into his barge at the quay, some English-speaking powers was averted. showing prices on all types and sizes. Indi- vidual flags and flag sets in rayon, taffeta, or Chilean soldiers above him threw lumps Then there was the incident involving buntinpr. We are MANUFACTURERS and our prices are RIGHT. Send NOW for catalogue, of coal at the flag in the stern. Evans Ion H. Perdicaris, well known writer Ofticial Service Flags had himself rowed straight to the flag- and journalist, an American citizen of your service man with ship of the Chilean admiral. He told the Armenian descent, who was kidnapped this beautiful service flag in your window. Satin, with yellow frinee officer that unless protection against in- in Morocco by the brigand, Raisuli. — blue star in field of red for each man in service. sults to the American flag and the Amer- At this time—1904—France was seek- ORDER FROM THIS AD No. 21— Size 7x11" eafh. ... SOc ican commander could be guaranteed, ing a free hand in Morocco in return No. 23— Sl*c lOsl.V each 75c No. 24— Size I2«1K" each SI.OO ever>' barge that put off from the York- for certain concessions in Egypt, where No. 25— Size 15x24" each S1-50 Special sizcB for Includes I to 5 !lar,—,i,.:d star, also L^trion PosIh. town thereafter would have an armed French and British interests clashed. ORDER TODAY. Money refunded if not satisfied Ch^'r'Vhe"''lu. guard in it with orders to shoot under Raisuli, who had aspirations to depose REGALIA MFG. CO., Dept. A, Rock Island, l». the slightest provocation. the Sultan, took this occasion to attack A few nights later Spanish and Chilean and kidnap foreign residents, who were revolutionaries, who had taken sanctuary carried off by night and held as hostages in the home of the American minister to extort ransom from the Sultan. at Santiago, and whom the United States Perdicaris was kidnapped from his had to protect, were smuggled down to residence in the outskirts of Tangier and Valparaiso by Minister Egan and aboard taken for a perilous and exhausting ride the Yorktown. Evans was warned that to the Raisuli stronghold in the heart of an attempt would be made by enraged the mountains.

Chileans to kill the refugees. He quickly The incident was cabled to Washing- '(!(•' placed a guard about the rails of his ton by the American consul to Morocco. ships with orders to shoot anyone who It quickly aroused the ire of President approached without proper credentials. Theodore Roosevelt, who, on June 22, Waterproof, shockproof, radium dial and hands, anti-magnetic, iinbrealcable crystal, A few days later the trouble died down 1904, through Secretary of State John precision tested, sweep second hand. and Evans was ordered to sail with the Hay, cabled a phrase which rang around No. JE 121 — 15 jewels, stainless steel

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PRINTED IN THE U. S. A. BY THE CUNEO PRESS, INC. .

WANTED: a pint of your blood to save a fighting man's life

A doctor came home from Hawaii with a message to wake up America. "Last war," he said, "we lost 8 out of 10 men with intestinal wounds. This war every man who came from the operating rooms of the hospitals in Pearl Harbor is alive."

Why? Because they were given Blood Plasma before anesthesia.

The plasma gave their hearts something to beat on.

It was a major factor in saving their lives.

Why do we tell you this story? Simply this. Hearts are

beating today . . . young, gay, courageous hearts . . that may snuff out tomorrow for lack of the plasma to keep them alive.

Who can supply it? YOU can!

Any roan or woman over 21 and under 60 can walk into the nearest Red Cross and donate a pint of blood, do it again five times a year. The war is speeding up, time is getting shorter. Get YOUR blood in there saving lives RIGHT NOW!

This appeal foryour red blood is contributed to the American Red Cross by HART SCHAFFNER & MARX T/ief^e Got WAat it Takes!

A^lAshore m'tk tke 0atorCor/fS

Tlie famous *'alligator" emblem of the Amphibious Training Command

• Up onto the boiling sands, a huge "LST" rams her steel

prow . . . tanks, trucks, artillery pour out of her mighty maw

. . . and Uncle Sam's specially trained "alligator teams" go into action! From . Doughboy and Bluejacket work together, in America's hard-hitting "amphibious

forces". . . and after that last tank splashes ashore and there's time for a cigarette, you'll find that with soldier,

sailor, and coast guardsman alike, the favorite is Camel.

"LST" (shown below) stands for "Landing Ship, Tanks."

ONE-WAY TRAFFIC ! The Navy gets 'em ashore — and the "alligator cavalry" charges inland! When the welcome word "beach-head con-

solidated" is flashed, and those ever-present packs of cigarettes are brought out, soldier and sailor team up again — on Camels.

"CAMELS ARE SO SMOOTH AND EASY ON MY THROAT" The"T-Zone'L 1^ 5^fj where cigaretfes are iudged

The "T-ZONE"—Taste and Throat — is the proving ground for cigarettes. Only FRIEDA TRAYNOR, war worker and daughter your taste and throat can decide which of an Army man, agrees with the men in the cigarette tastes best to you . . . and how service: "Camels are always so smooth and it affects your throat. Based on the experience of mil- mild, so fresh-flavored." Yes, Camels stay lions of smokers, we believe Camels will suit your fresh— they're packed to go round the world! "T-ZONE" to a "T." Prove it for yourself!

with men in the Army, Navy, 0 Marines, and the Coast Guard, ^^f^^^ favorite cigarette is Camel. ^ame/s^Hi^rin the s& (Based on actual sales records.)