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VOL. 2 No. 2 SOMEWHERE IN BELGIUM FEBRUARY lO, 194tt DOUBT DESPAIR DEFEAT! RANKING CORRESPONDENTS COYER 83rd CAMPAIGNS FOR PRESS AND RADIO

More tharf a dozen war correspondents representing the press and radio of the United States and Great Britain visited the Division during the Ardennes drive to cut the Houffalize- St. Vith highway. The correspondents, many of 30 Days for whom covered the Division in Normandy, Brittany, along the Loire, and in Germany, wrote Dozen GIs of the heroic action of the doughboys in doing a tough job in bitter cold and deep snow -At Home to smash the German resistance around the two Langlirs and A dozen GIs turned their Blhain to blaze a trail through eyes from the Heinie towards the Bois de Ronce for the Third the "briny" last week as the Armored Division. third group in the Division RADIO COVERAGE finished sweating out furlough Cedric Foster, radio commen• papers granting them a 30-day tator In the States, talking from rest period in the states. dispatches sent from Europe by With thoughts in mind of SHAEF and various wire servi• trading their M-ls for fishing ces, paid high tribute on Jan• rods and surrendering to choc• uary 14 to the 83rd DirisSom. olate malts and frosty beers in which was then pushing to the exchange for the overseas diet south with the 84th Division of K rations and synthetic lemon and the Second and Third Ar• juice, the twelve jackpot win• mored Divisions. ners assembled at the office of Other radio commentators al• IT'S D-DAY for these Nazi dead-end kids waiting the last ride to the 83rd PW cage to the Division Adjutant General so carried the 83rd and the ARMY HOUR devoted time on join thousands of other supermen thrown off the road to glory by Division doughs from to start the first leg of then- its Sunday broadcast of Janua• trip to respective Main Streets Carentan to Duren. Signal Corps photo ry 14 to the doughboys of the in the USA. 83rd fighting around Langlir. GOES TO MOTHER'S SIDE- Associated Press, United Press Via the rotation plan and Veterans of 83 rd and many newspapers including emergency cases verified by the HITLER 70 THOUSAND the New York Times, Boston Red Cross, a T/4 with 41 months Can Now Wear Herald and many Ohio papers overseas credit started home• were among those in the States 3-Star Ribbon. ward- A Pfc was granted leave to SHORT-COURTESY 83rd that carried stories of the gal• ^comfort his seriously ill mother, lant spirit and fighting quali• aM^Sgt. medic, because of two ties of the 83rd doughboys. As badly worried Hitler continued to scrape the bottom of Members of the 83rd Division and one-half years of constant who landed at Omaha Beach to his manpower barrel statistis were quoted this week which foreign service, qualified for the GASK STAYS TWO DAYS- subsequently participate in the joy ride and an engineer private Correspondents that visited show that the 83rd has accounted for the equivalent of fighting south of Carentan to tossed his shovel into the tool the division Included Roland C, the banks of the Roer River in U once invincible Nazi divisions. box after 32 months of tough Gask, Assistant War Editor of Germany are entitled to wear An official total of 37,736 pri• combat work. NEWSWEEK, who spent two three bronze battle participa• can advance. days and a night with the soners of war have been tucked tion stars. Veterans who first HE'LL MARRY THE GIRL. The largest single catch of doughboys of the 329th Infan• away in 83rd PW Cages in Nor• saw action in Normandy, M/Sgt. Chester W. Lloyd, 330th prisoners was taken at Beau- try. His first visit to the Divi• mandy, Brittany, the Loire France between D Day and July regimental medic from Scran- sion was west of Duren in Ger• gency in France on September 24th earned the Initial battle ton, Pa., said that when he gets Valley, Luxembourg, Germany many. Mr. Gask. who recently 17 when 19,692 officers and men participation star by beating home he *s going to marry the and Belgium. An additional 1,449 came from the CBI, believed in back fanatical German SS and girl. She is Mary Louise Smith- have been treated and cleared of the Wehrmacht, Luftwaffe writing exactly what he sees para troop resistance to comple• through our medical channels. and Marines surrendered on the (Continued on page 3) and what actually exists. tely undermine the first orga• banks of the Loire River. This BAG 70,000 NAZIS. nized enemy defense plan on ARTICLE IN NEWSWEEK. was not only the largest batch THANKS TO WO'S • It has been estimated that an the Continent. His first story appeared in the of prisoners to be taken by this BATTLE STAR GIVEN. December 25th issue; a later additional 30,000 Germans A COW IS BORN Division in a single operation NEWSWEEK carried the story have been killed or wounded Reinforcements who joined but the largest to be taken of the 83rd in the Ardennes. by 83rd doughs and artillery• the Division after July 24th are Warrant officer Harry Long by any comparable unit during of Wichita, Kansas recently was The ATLANTIC MONTHLY, men since the commitment of given battle participation credit magazine known for the excel• the entire war. for the campaign of Northern the hero of the day and became Ibhe Division in Normandy on the pride of his comrades in the lent quality of its contents, was MAD COLONEL TAKEN- France and are entitled to wear {the 26th of June 320th Infantry. represented by Miss Monica the bronze battle star-for taking In the campaign at St. Malo There was an awful noise is• (Continued on page 3) These combined figures rep• part in the fighting between and Dinard, 13,000 Germans suing from a barn at 2330, so resent approximately 70,000 July 25th and Sept. 17. men or equivalent to seven were herded into the PW cage Mr Long accompanied by War• MATCH THIS ONE {German divisions, knocked including the mad Colonel von CREDIT FOR DUREN. rant Officer Valentine Wunsch Shrapnel comes pretty close out of commission by the 83rd. Aulock who only two days be• The third battle star has of New Jersey decided to inves• to soldiers at the front at fore had proclaimed: *T am a been given for the fighting on tigate- The pair entered the barn times but T'Sgt. Osborne BEST PRISONER HAUL. and found a cow in the throes German soldier and German the "holy soil" of Germany it• Jones of Spartanburg, S- C- self. The date of Sept. 15 marks of giving birth. believes his encounter has no During the Normandy cam• soldiers do not surrender." the start of the campaign within Mr. Long became a veterinary match. In an attack on an paign alone the Division's ad• In addition to accounting for the Reich and no termination by necessity while Mr. Wunsch enemy position, this dough• vance was made into a defense approximately 70,000 German date has yet been set by the illuminated the scene with a boy was caught in a mortar soldiers, a task force partially War Department Personnel of TL-122-B- While the operation barrage. After one burst gone held by 16,000 crack SS was in the initial stages the en• composed of elements of the the Division who took part in struck particularly close he and Paratroops and after the tire Service Company paced the felt a hot pain on his thigh. 83rd assisted in the operations the fighting enroute to Duren barnyard, anxiously awaiting a Nazi withdrawal there were Investigation disclosed a at the peninsular city of Brest are already entitled to wear this report. After awhile the special• left only 3,000 to flee to the battle participation star. ist and his able assistant emerg• piece of flying metal had where 35,000 heinies were cap• ignited a box of matches to Siegfried Line and organize in All three stars are worn on ed from the barn and announc• tured after a three week siege the European Theater of Oper- J ed that big cow and little cow his pocket in. attempt to stem the Ameri• of the seaport fortress, ations campaign ribbon. _ I were doing fine- Pajre 3 83rd SPEARHEAD February 10, IMS. Mona of Antilles 83rd SPEARHEAD SUMP HOLE Published under Supervision of AC of S, G-3 331st Unit Capt. Thomas C. Roberts Public Relations Officer Capt. John C. Neff Editor STAFF: T'4 Albert Gladding, T/4 Alllan Nemrow. Pfc John Maloney, In any kind of profession Pfc. Carl Weber, pfc. Lae Geldhcf. ARTIST: Corp. Nick Firfircs. Cuts SS HUMORIST: Pfc. M. Renek. UNIT REPORTERS: Sgt. Robert Beacham, there are always little symptoms, 329th Infantry; Sgt. Grcver Craw.'ord, 3?61h Infantry; Corp. Jack Straus, which the wise man can see, 331st Infantry; Sgt. Will'mi Sohuman, Divarty. «The Mrd SPEARHEAD is published weekly by the officers and men of thhit the bottom, I of the best example of this is hit it with a thud, for the excuse German civilians are laughing at us — "Americans are too the scrap which took nlace be• they gave me for not printing friendly and kindhearted. Americans are stupid, immature, tween a crack German SS unit my column last week was "be• not yet awake to the eternal light and power that is Germany." and Company B of the '131st cause they had lost it." At the Infantry, under Capt. Daniel M. Remember this: the German civilian is our enemy He is tender age of nineteen I think Moore of MacAl-ested, Okla. as much our enemy as the brave Nordic god who under the I'll call it quits and go back to Th: rni-sion of tin doughboys protection of bomb-proof pillboxes spends all his shells all his my bobby soxs and unadulter• was to clear a heavily wooded hand grenades in killing us. And then he raises a white flag, ated malted milks. area, and, with two light tanks barrels over to us his "liberators." in support, the company fanned I want to thank all you read• And remember this: the German civilian respects power. out along a snow covered road This luscious ycung beauty is -he ers for the very favorable com• He bows down to strict discipline. He expects firmness in running through the forest to sweetheart of U S. military per• ments I have received from you military personnel. rout the Nazis frorr their posi• sonnel in the Antilles Department. on the Jennifer letters. When I tions. There is only one way he can react when he sees Amer• first started to write these l:t- icans shower apple-cheeked, dagger-toting Hitler Youth with The second platoon, under Lt. ers, I wrote them primarily to Made in install the many feminine pe- candy, gum, canned rations, cookies, cigarettes All the world Palrick Murphy of Flint, Mich, uliarities that can be found in knows these things were made for Americans. Made by Amer• inched its way forward into a fire-break clearing but immedia• Germany women. The- biggest mystery to icans. Brought by American effort to the front over a supply tely drew f h\ from the well dug- a man as long as he remains to line of a mere five to ten thousand miles There is onlv one in Needs. Ln.'.er cover of a terri• The following quotations have trod the face of this globe with way the German can react. At this soft-hearted, peace- fic clatter of small arms lire been taken from official Ger• a woman will be these feminine mongering, apall'ing conglomeration of O'Flahertys Ginsbergs the doughboys contlnu d to ad• man broadcasts: idlosyncracies that will appear Crawfords, Bladzinskys, Olsons and Travesanos the German vance, farcing the Nazis to re• as a thorn in his side as sure as main in their holes until the We will fight this battle, which only laughs. we did not want, but which was the inevitable death and taxes. positions could be over-run. forced upon us, until fate will Your woman may not have all KILLED IN HOLES. visibly bless the weapons of this the trademarks, but, you must When objectives were reached, just war. admit, there is a little of Jenni• OHIO the doughboys quickly took care fer in every woman. Ohioans should feel no resentment that many 83rd men of the krauts with bayonets and Even If only women, children knives. and cripples would emerge vic• If its true that cleanliness is do not feel like Buckeyes Neither should they feel that we On the left flank the platoon toriously from this struggle, it next to Godliness, then it is also are not proud to wear the old black and gold insignia. We of Lt. Norman Kruse of Barnes, would still have been worth the true that hot water and dirt know that the division of World War I was an Oho outfit, Kan, achiev d equal success sacrifice. mix like a teetotaler at an Am• born on the soil of Ohio at Camp Sherman, its ranks filled flushing the Jerries from their erican Legion convention. The mainly with Ohioans. positions and either killing or We shall emerge victorious other day, with all due respect taking them prisoner. from this struggle just as certain to my bronzed winter sun taa, We know that the bulk of the men in the new 83rd of A pa toon under S Sgt Ed• as the laws of nature, becssse It I went and took a shower. It this war came from Ohio and Pennsylvania. We know that ward Harmer of Philadelphia, is the fight of the clean and was a treat to let the hot wa.er many Ohioans in the 83rd have been decorated for bravery Pa- surrounded and captured pure. We will master the situa• take my dirt, then my soap, and meritorious service. We are proud of the old black patch the company CP and witnessed tion In the moment of crisis. once invincible supermen plead• then my strength aiKl flow it with the gold letters of OHIO emblazoned on it. ing for their lives on bended We have stopped the enemy all down a drain. It was like an Yet, with all this, we are not an Ohio outfit and we feel knee in the west and in the same ETO valhalla getting clean, that we are not discrediting the many Ohioans who have made Heroes were numerous in tries way the Bdsbertaa will be tiimtij in your aid rlntl»PT far the outfit great anstrong when we suggest this. infantry advance Pf*. James Mopped in the east. He who Teagu: wiped out an enemy does not give up is not lose Headlines at home covering news stories about the 8?rd in : iere z.:: x :-t. machine gun nest by crawling Back in the States I one? drop• Germany and in the Ardennes bore the words "Ohio Division." forward to outflank it and then We have Adolf Hitler. He is ped a bottle of after-shave lo• Letters have come, wondering why. killed the three man crew with not the chairman of the party, tion on the floor and bad to Correspondents have tried to dub us BUCKEYES, too. a hand grenade. but a statesman who owes his scrub the whole floor. The Lord Again the question. Why? successes to his faith "in the only knows, I thought, what people and the people's faith they could make me do for get• There is really only one Ohio division. That is the Ohio in him. ting all cleaned up like this. My 37th Division, a National Guard outfit that is doing its job Letter from faith in humanity was restored in the Pacific. This is "Ohio's Own", so to speak To it belongs We will fight beyond Berlin, when I walked out unmolested. the name "Ohio Division," and rightfull y so. It is an outfit JENNIFtR in Berlin and behind Berlin. Then when I saw a jeep driver steer around a mud hole so as 100 percent Buckeye, its ancestry deeply rooted in the rich Dear Charlie: not to splash mud on me, well, soil of Ohio. The present counter measures A P.F.C.! Imagine, my Char• that was enough to convince me are only improvisations; we somebody is looking out for me, To most of us the letters O-H-I-0 stand more for this : lie a Pfc! What did you do? You know what depth of resources even if it's only a jeep driver. "One Hot Infantry Outfit." It stands for a reputation we've never told me, never breathed the core of the Reich has, and made in blood on every battlefield in Europe, a reputation a word about it. They don't go from this depth come the When it comes to the latest vogues of women's attire, I am which makes us proud to wear the old black patch with the around making Pfc's for noth• potentials and the organization which will build up a new front. a very liberal minded man Un a gold letters of OHIO emblazoned on it, so all may see anding ; how many Germans did year and a month IH be twenty- you capture? Whoever gave you know what we are. one). I didn't mind it at all that stripe, please thank him The flood from the east will when they started to wear for me; he must be such a kind be broken, even when our ene• strapless low-cut evening gowns hearted man. With your overseas mies in the west are tying our I' didn't kick when thay began stripe and your wound stripes hands, when we are just en• to wear tight sweaters or V-neck and your other stripes how wlil gaged in stopping the onslaught blouses or even short skirts. But I knew whloh one is your Pfc from the east. Justice will it makes an overseas man won• triumph also at the end of the stripe, huh? I p.lways knew you der when he reads about grown• war. were a born leader, vour making up girls who should know better this extra rank means so much smoking cigars, pipes and wear• DOCTOR'S OUT ing dirty dungarees. It must be to me. With the $4.80 raise I'll an awful sight to see. Won't be able to buy a new record al• An 83rd soldier came in to the somebody please tell them to• bum every month. Oh! You're medics. "Is this where I see the bacco will cut their wind and so sweet. doctor?" he asked. .With the dungarees dont look nice when I've been meaning to ask you usual extreme courtesy the at• they have their knees cross d. this for a long time: Your being tendant replied. "This is where With some of my friends going a very shy boy, I know all the the major practices, yes-" The to rest camps and still complan- embarrassment ycu will go GI about-faced and took off. ing, and some going to Paris to through, but could you get me a spend a few wild moments in sHnky black negligee? You know Guard: "Halt! What's the the gay Bohemian atmosphere, the kind that is so daringly password?" and still others going home, I thin it will just sneak around can't even get sent to a poor 331st GI: "It beats the hell aiy curves. I'll love you more rest camp I'll even take one outta me." without accomodations. than ever if ycu get me the Guard: "Pass, friend" darkest and thinnest one you can find. I promise not to put lt on until you come heme ex• cept to show it to friends and Merci Beaucoup tease Wilie. Remember your friend Har• Co. A men of the 331st Infantry Young of Kimberly, W. Va. old? Well, he came heme claim that even the Jerries can brought up the rear and were yesterday after being overseas be helpful at times. During a surprised to hear guttural Ger• for three years and now is going recent attack on Langlir the man. It seemed to come from the soldier who had so gra• to the Pacific for awhile. Char• company was moving through ciously held up the wire for the lie, why don't you volunteer for the Ronce forest single file when they came across a barbed company. some romantic spot like Burma wire fence. Someone stepped on As they approached him the so they will send ycu home on a the wire and held it down while shadowy outline revealed a live furlough or don't you love your the company passed. Nazi ,who had sincerely believed little ookums any more?? fjgt. Charles Pate of Durant, it was his own outfit he had love, Okla.; Pvt. Donald Watson of helped through the fence. He JENNIFER. Myersdale, Pa, and Sgt. John was captu-ed without a struggle. y-ltrimrj 10. 1945. Ssrd SPEARHEAD Page 3 Those at Home Get Full Story of Gask of NEWSWEEK Frozen Doughfeet Ardennes Attack as Division Makes Battle Headlines Freeze Out Foe in (Continued from page 1) Stirling who spent several days vision, has a great appreciation Belgian Valley Forge with the 329th and 331st In• of what the doughboys are fantry Regiments. doing, and believes the people back home want to know how Not since Valley Forge when and it was only after they were A friend of Miss Lee Miller they live and fight. Washington and his small band worked manually a few times of VOGUE who wrote about the of patriots survived the worst that they began to function 83rd storming Saint Malo in Robert Barr of BBC. has visi• automaticaly. Heavy kraut shel• ted us many times. Through winter in our war history has an Brittany and again in Luxem• American army been subjected ling of the few roads leading bourg, Miss Stirling was indu• him, the 83rd was carried al• to the front thiough the weeds most constantly on the air dur• to the force of the element ced to visit the 83rd for her which confronted doughboys curtailed delivery of hot chow first front line experience. While ing the Ardromes offensive. to the men on the line. Several Barr makes his recordings "on of the 83rd during the recent housing conditions were poor Ardennes offensive. mess personnel were wounded such a gracious young lady ina- the spot" and he never fails, as or killed while trying to bring The attack to sever the all and faculties for entertaining he puts it, to get a good story hot foed to the doughboys. important St. Vith-Houffalize dequate, Miss Stirling was whenever he comes to see us. highway was made in the face It was equally as difficult to greatly impressed with the warm ALARM IS SPREAD. bring bedding rolls up to the welcome she received and left of blinding blizzards through Lt. Jack Hanson of the ARMY waist-high snowdrifts; temper• men at the front, but many an enthusastic devotee of the HOUR and COMBAT DIARY is GI's soived this problem by cut• doughboys. ature was usually below zero. an old stand-by. Hanson, a mid- WARM UP SYRETTES. ting holes for their legs in the Ed Cunningham of YANK western radio man in civilian bottom of their sleeping bags magazine with Reg Denney, life, can usually be becognized Morphine syrettes f-cze and it and then wearing them con• YANK's ace photographer, spent from his captured Chevrolet was found impossible to admi• stantly as both bed roils and three days and nights with the truck which drags its exhust nister the crucial drug-on the combat suits division gathering material and pipe on the ground and sounds battlefield until the 83-d med- taking pictures for a winter like a buzz bomb coming down ies hit on the scheme of keep• MUNCH K RATIONS. warfare story based on the fight• the road. ing the syrettes warm under• And yet they continued to ing aroud Langlir and the On Hanson's last trip to the neath their armpits. Plasma fight on and to advance. A most Bois de Rence. 83rd around Langlir, he attemp• also became frozen and had to without sleep, subsisting only on be kept under the hoods of med• K rations, unshaved, sweating FLEW WITH CORKIN- ted a "blow by blow" description ical jeeps. Frost bite and trench out the mortars and artillery, Cunningham, comparatively of the fighting from the OP of th 3rd Battalion, 330th Infan• the rapidly advancing dough- wa king over snow-covered mine new to the ETO, is a small town foot cases were common, because newspaperman from Burlington, try. With Pfc. John Maloney of fields, they hoped that the nine- boys had neither time nor facili• N. J., who has visited 33 foreign the Division Public Relations above-zero cold wouid suffi• countries, flew Into Burma with Staff as his guide, Hanson had ties to take care of themselves ciently freeze the firing pin of Colonel Flip Corcoran and co• to cross an open field to reach When they were not attacking, mines to neutralize them. vered Merrill's Maurauders, the OP. Exposed to the enemy, they ware sweating out heavy These were reasons why fight• has many exciting ta-es to tell. Hanson and Malony were pin• Ardennes, and Ed Ball, also of artillery fire which the Germans ing in the Ardennes was the He once crash landed in the ned down for 20 minutes by AP, who wrote the first dispatch threw almost continuously. worst winter an American army upper Amazon regions of Brazli mortar fire Which thretened not to the States about the 83rd Automatic weapons froze over has spent since Valley Forge. and took eight days to get back only them, but the recording being at Rochefort. to civiHzation. apparatus which they were lug• Hal Denny, venerable, top• QM FINDS MOST More Men Get Jack Bell, one-armed corres• ging through the snow. flight correspondent from the pondent for the MIAMI TIMES STORY BY THOMPSON. NEW YORK TIMES wrote an WACS 'PERFECT 34' 30 Days Home and the CHICAGO NEWS, Other correspondents who excellent story about the dough• America may have a new sometimes called with reverence, have written about the Division boys fighting around Lang'ir, standard of feminine beauty as (Continued from page 1) "the poor man's Ernie Pyle" be• during January were Jack pnd Lou*s Israel of the Baltimore the result of statistics compiled hurst of Brookline, Mass., and cause of his style of writing, Thompson, bearded correspon• NEWS POST with Iris Carpen• by the Army's Quartermaster it'll be strictly a service wedding dropped in and talked to some dent of the CHICAGO DAILY ter of the BOSTON HERALD Corps on physical cnaraeterir too beeaaae sbe happen* te be a in of the doughbovs of the 1st TRIBUNE, who jumped with the were anion? many others who - * .• --. ? Battalion of the 330'h Infantry airborne infantry on D Day I wrotMud*e ftttrnt tr*» TYrrllrirm fOT the LCBSMK, also a nedk attnesew, Be'l. a veteran of the last war Asso- I U S papers. Peter Lawless and to Co- L 329th Infantry, attested 5 ft 4 in , 4 weighs 128 pounds, is when he lost an a:m as a ma- ciated Press, who devoted one I Bin Trough ton were among to the romance. His soon-to-be- xTrrrr^Tu^nBr^rf^nWrre^P^rrlr^^P r* «4WIM *o t*H» 83m in th* I those trrm the British prewe. 26y3 around the waist, wears a 22 hat, slips her foot Into a 8-B marrled buddy has consistently written to his sweeheart every The patrol fired three shots shoe and her hand Into a size 7 330th SWEOE at the fast moving Swede and So He Wanted glove. The collar of her khaki day for the two and one-naif their aim was good enough, in shirt is size 13, and her ankles years which he and Lennox have RIVALS GUNDER spite of the darkness, to zip one To Play Rough are incased to size 9Vj rayons. spent together. Lennox, who through his sleeve. Instead of the legendary "per• hails from Caldwell, N. J., said It an began when Sgt. Wil• fect 36" she is a size 14. whicn he's going to take his girl to the Gunder Hagg may be one of Bursting into the CP Nelson alerted his company as to the liam Gray of Padueah, Kentucky makes her an approximately wedding, where they both might the fastest Swedes on his feet saw a Jerry sitting in a shallow "perfect 34". When it comes to breaking re• proximity of Germans and th? get some ideas. seven man patrol lost no time in trench. The Jerry spotted Gray A separate study conducted by cords at track m:ets, but the too, and with a sweeping ges• the 1st Air Force among the Both Sgt. Michael Skovran of third battalion of the 330th lays reporting the presence of a fleet footed heinie in the battalion ture thumbed his nose at Gray. more than 1,000 women serving She 1st Bn- Hq. Co, 331st In• claim to having its own swift Being a gentleman, he returned with that unit from Maine to fantry, whose home is in War• moving Swede in the person of area. The confused situation was fi• the compliment by thumbing Florida indicates that the wo• ren, O, and Pfc Leon A Dreshex Pfc. Arthur Nelson, M. company his nose back at the Jerry. Then man soldier, on an average, is runner. nally cleared up when both re• of the 1st Bn. Hq. Co., 330th In• ports were coordinated at batta• a badly placed shot hit the bank "the best educated woman in fantry and LandsJale, Pa were During some of the recent lion headquarters and the mis• of the hole. America." fighting Nelson was carying a very grateful to be on the list. take in identity realized. The rat wants to play rough It will come as a happy surprise message from battalion h:ad- thought Gray, so he picked up quarters to his company CP his Ml and taking careful aim to both their families. when he saw what later turned ERSATZ GRENADE Shelf Makes Hit put the bad Jerry out of further Pvt. Clarence O Stickney of out to be a seven-man patrol misery. Gray said, That guy starting on night reconnais• BAGS A GERM AN the 308th Engineers attached to On GI Mess Kit should have known that you can the 330th has a long haul to sance. swap about anything but shots S/Sgt James Favala of Cam- In order to check his bearings dan N.J. has his own version of reach his home in Seattle, Wash. One day recently, in Blhain, with an old squirrel hunter, arid In the dark, he inquired with his he sure cant learn now- He's a secret weapon. Favala was He commented that after he Swedish accent. "Vot company Belgium Sgt. Mervin Dich, wire cleaning his ammunition when chief of Hq. Co. 1st Battalion, plumb dead." had reached up the long arm in diss?" The seven GIs imme• a stray Jerry wandered in his of the Statue of Liberty to kiss 330th of Pioneer, Ohio was look• direction. Thinking fast, the diately becoming security con• the fingers that hold the Toreh scious were convlnc"d they wore ing for a place to eat his chow SPECIAL DELIVERY 83rd doughboy scooped up a confronted with a German when a shell hit close and a Thanks to Adolf Hitler, men handful of snow, made a snow• of Freedom", he would be con• soldier and leveled their rifles piece of shrapnel struck the of the 329th get their mail much ball and placed it in his OD tent to spend the rest of his time at him. mess gear, knocking food and quicker. T'5 "Berny" Moffa of glove. Holding it in the throw• doing bunk fatigue. T5 Emmett Assuming that he had bump• gear out of his hand, and trans- New York City has acquired a ing position to the manner of Walker of 331st Reg. Hq. Msg. fering it all over the door of "Volkswagen" and painted it ed into a squad of Jerries dres• a hand grenade, he called upon Cntr. hung his civilian hat in sed in American uniforms. Nel• the CP. Sgt. Dich was untouch• olive drab plus a white star. He the kraut to surrender. The hei• ed and apologized for the mess is grateful to Schieklegruber for nie looked at the homemade St. Louis, Mo. and it's here that son took off down the road at a he plans to see "beauooup" girl speed which would force the that adorned the door, then providing- him with a new de• greaiade, threw down his rifle, mighty Hagg to wince in envy. went back for more chow. parture in mail trucks. and surrendered. friends.

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mm 83rd SPEARHEAD February 10, IMS. £7gf)f Joes /n Jeeps Sports GILBERT by CPLN.S.FIRFIRES

Show Five a Day Induction into the army of two muscle-bound heroes of the world of sport (both of whom For Resting Doughs previously had been found unfit for service) may indicate the Highlighted by a mobile GI vaudeville troupe of eight way the wind is blowing for men and three jeeps, 83rd GIs were treated to a varied enter• other 4F performers to the fields of flesh. tainment program during the Division's rest period. The two clear-eyed, lithe The unit which toured the Di• young men to question are Wil• vision is one of six teams of this lie Pep, dish-nosed feather• type which are stumping the 329th Company weight champion who was dis• ETO under the supervision of gorged from the Navy for phy• the Army special service Reverses Nazi sical reasons only to be snapped Branchs. The jeeps not only pro• up by the Army which went af• vide transportation for the per• Counter-Attack ter Willie like Broadway Rose sonnel but carry portable stage wolfing a herring at Lindy's and properties, musical instru• To make the human body Restaurant, and Buff Donelli, ments, duffle bags and other en• the kindly old coach of the Cle• tertainment equipment which function to this condiion seem• ed impossible in every man's veland Rams in the National are hung from bumper to bum• Football League, who is almost per. More than a dozen perfor• mind. But something inside, deeper than the freezing blood 38 and the father of three kids- mances were given during the Now he's to the army, too. unit's stay with the 83rd- and stagnant heartbeats, gave SHOWERS SET UP- these men of Company F of the FIRST TO BE DRAFTED. 329th Infantry driving power Pep and Donelli were the first and stamina to fend off a big name athletes drafted since Another feature of the rest strong enemy counter-attack period was hot showers which War Mobilization Director Byr• and drive the Germans back a nes ordered re-examination of were kept in operation conti• distance of 3,000 yards. nuously and operated by a quar• professionals. Others drafted When the enemy struck, it since then include StanMusial, "He seems to be overdoing this Valentine stuff." termaster unit which provided a was a coordinated attack of ar• complete change of clothes for hard hitter of the St. Louis Car• mor and infantry. The force dinals; Johnny Gorsica, Detroit every shower customer. consisted of three tiger tanks A civilian theater located near Tigers pitcher; Bill Fleming, and a company of infantry. Chicago Cubs pitcher, and Tom• the shower point was taken over pOXHOLE fABLES The men to Company F ral• my Heath, catcher for the Co• by the Special Service Office lumbus Red Birds. and five features a day were lied around Capt. Raymond Grels of Liverpool, N.Y-, firing Byrnes' order was followed by shown. It is estimated that as T/Sgt George nines, of Balti• After taking the town of Bi- many as 1.500 men a day took their weapons until they were a significant comment by the more, Md., recently perfected a hain, Belgium, men of the 330th advantage of the double-feature white hot and stopped the sur• Commander-in-Chief. Asked at ge of enemy attackers. a press conference whether he new method of „sniping". While first battalion bagged 150 white- opportunity during the rest pe• robed Jerries. They were, ta• riod. CHECK COUNTER-ATTACK. thought baseball should conti• driving two Germans back to ken in the inevitable counter• The best picture of the year, In the path of the onrushing nue now, the president replied: the PW eage in his jeep he offe• "Going My Way", was shown tanks lay Sgt. Robert McGhee If it's possible without hurt- red each a cigarette. Before they attack, in which three of five tog the employment of people throughout the Division. The of Fredericksburg, Va., and his had taken very, rr^ny drags tanks used were knocked out. acting of Barry Fitzgerald was platoon. The leading tiger came in the war effort or the building Helping themselves to the white of the army and navy. He said there was suddenly a sharp re• of such an exceptional nature into range; McGhee opened lire port and one of the heinies slid outfits, the men were delighted with rifle grenades and made he was all for baseball. Then he that for this first time to the slowly to the OMT. with their camouflage proper• three direct hits. This did not added emphatically that he did history of the Academy of Mo• not think perfectly healthy ties- tion picture Arts, an award was knock out the lumbering tank, but it evidently made the occu• young men should be playing given to the same actor for ball at this time. learned he had received a pack playing the best lead and the pants groggy, for they with• of "loaded weeds" from his Pfc Niison Gray, a jeep dxner best supporting role to the same drew. The other tanks saw this HERE AND THERE: practical joking friends back in from De Wiu, Ky, literally shd and withdrew also. the States. into trouble when on a mission picture. In addition to winning Discharged with a CDD is About this time the weapons for Co. B of the 329th Infantry. these two Oscars, third Oscar the Freddie Cochrane, welter• platoon spotted an American His vehicle skidded to the road was awarded to the studio for weight champ who has but six A Kentuckian, 1st Sgt. Ralph l'/t ton truck loaded with 17 shoulder in a thickly mined spot, the best production of 1944. months to put his title on toe Bradberry of the 329th Infantry m. Germans racing madly toward to be j- Teller Another top theater feature line. His logical ewinit Is Ray their lines with reinforcements was the premier showing of the Robinson, uncrowned wetter picture, "Rhapsody to Blue", de• for their battered troops. king, who also holds a CDD. of picting the life story of the late The light machine guns open• Max Gilgoff has suggested instructed the driver George Gershwin. ed up. The fire attracted the that the bout between Tony Ga- the truck around to the front attention of Company H and PRESENT USO SHOW. lento and Flabby Tami Mau- door. The driver went him one Recently during a battle which they immediately threw to their better and brought the vehicle Four performances of the riello should be billed as the was particularly hot a 330th support with their heavy guns. second battle of the bulge. Gil right into his office. USO show, "What's Cookin?" The fire converged. The truck were also given. This production Dodds, holder of the world's in• After parking to the street Infantry sergeant roared above sloughed off, splattered with door mile record of 4:06-4, has the ruck was hit by a skidding the sound of guns: "I've was emcee'd by Rene Sears and lead, coming to a stop off the supported by a clever cast of run his last race- The quiet, 240mm howitzer prime mover changed my mind." A private road, its 17 occupants destroyed. and knocked smack into the or. comedians, musicians and dan• unassuming miler is ending his answered: "Good! Does it work cers. OVER-RUN POSITIONS. footracing career to become a derly room. any better?" Red Cross Clubmobile crews The men of Company F coun• preacher with a gospel group to Uninjured to the crash the toured the Division serving cof• ter-attacked, forged ahead and Los Angeles. sergeant picked his way through plaster and debris to A Brooklynite, S'Sgt. Adolph fee and stokers every day of the overran the German positions AXIS MAX MISSING. rest period. In addition to dish- to take 3,000 yards of their terri• load company equipment on the Mascari of the 329th Infantry, tog out the doughnuts the girls tory, halted and held. Take your pick of the latest truck and set a new rocord for Is a souvenir collector. One came found time to bat the breeze to When the fight ended, there latrine rumors on Max Schme- being ready to move. his way one evening but he good old American style and were 60 Germans dead, 20 woun• ling: (1) he's a PW in Canada, just couldn't keep it! Awakened (2) a lunatic to a Nazi insane to his snug foxhole covered with supply platter tunes of maes- ded and 85 prisoners. It took When T 5 Thomas Rose is at troes Dorsey and Goodman. asylum, (3) a radio propagan• heavy timber and dirt, "Dolph" 45 minutes by the clock, a life• work, he often wonders if it For those who did their resting time on the ground. This was dist to Berlin. Sports writers to was mildly interested, being one of the little fights that, New York and Philadelphia are will ever happen again Tom is sleepy, by a thud on the roof. more quietly, pocket editions of a gunner in the Cannon Com• best sellers, popular fiction and added to all the others of its at odds on who was the best Next morning he investigated comic booklets were distributed. kind, makes the major battle. baseball player last year. The pany and while sighting his and found an "88" dud imbed• New Yorkers picked Dixie Wal• gun, an "88" armor-piercing slug ded halfway into the logs. ker, the people's cherse in Brook• passed through the space lyn. Philly scribes chose Slats between the gun and his chest, S/Sgt. Andrew Fidram of The Wolf by Sansone Marion, the Cardinals Mr. just missing him by inches. Shortstop. Walker and Paul Wa- Youngstown, O., of Co- A 331st ner recently returned from Chi• Infantry was wounded twice in na where they played the out• S/Sgt John Franklin, Co. D of the arm while leading a patrol field on Maj. Gen. Claire Ohen- the 330th Inf., mislayed a silver through the Ardennes. This nault's softball team on which spoon and almost tore up thedidn' t prerent him from killing the general himself pitches. mess tent looking for it. One of two Nazis and forcing a third to Several-big league Cuban stars the men remarked: „He reminds surrender- The latter wore a again have threatened to me of a hen who can't find snow suit and held a burp gun. play ball to Mexico this year, something where she lays It!" When he saw Fidram had the rather than enter the Army to drop on him, he cried out and begged the Yank not to shoot. the U.SA. General: "You're a deserter!" "Please don't kill me," he 330th soldier: "Sir, you don't pleaded, "I'm a medic." know my sergeant.,... I'm a Checked Your refugeeI" Compass Lately? A GI was laying it on a bit thick in relating to buddies how Seeing one of his men emerge he once worked on a newspaper. If you want to check your azi• boistrously from a bar, T/5 muth, don't depend on T/Sgt. "Why, at one time I got ten Henry Kunshek of 330th Infan• Edward Mundt of Pittsburgh, dollars a word," he bragged. Pa., because he has lost his try Regimental HQ rebuked ,For what, talking back to the compass. him: ,,1'm sorry to see you come judge?" one of the men taunted. Mundt of Co I was leading a ont of such a place." The man night patrol when a heavy Jer• retorted „Why, would you have Overheard at a 330th CP: -.The ry mortar shell let go near him. me stay all night?" radio will never replace the knocking him off balance. Sha• newspaper.. . you can't start a ken up somewhat from the con• cussion, he decided to check his After a game of galloping fire with a radio-" compass, after proceeding about dominoes ended disastrously for two hundred yards. „Shaken", T 4 James Girty, 330th Infantry "What's on the menu today?*- could hardly describe his feel- Regimental HQ, he made a wry T/4 Frank Bialy of Co. D, 330tK togs when having reached face and snorted: .,A fool and regiment was asked, by another his belt found only a piece of "You would ask for a match!*' the metal clip dangling from his money are soon parted but GL "O, lots of things," was the the spot where his compass and they were lucky to be together reply. When asked what the* case should have been. in the first place,* were, Blaiy snickered; "beans!*