Blood and Fire Newspaper Vol 1 No 7 July 30 1943
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I Results of For Complete 63d Softball list Of 63d leagu.a Games Co's & -Staff, On Page 6 See Page 5 VOL. '1, No. 7 63D INFANTRY DIVISION, CAMP BLANDING, FLORIDA July. 30, 1943 63d TO BIVOUAC IN NAT'L PARK, MOVE BY ECHELON News From Your 63D DIVISION BOASTS OF 18 YEAR OLD SHAVETAIL, Units Prepared Own Home Town PHILADELPHIA - Getting set 19 YEAR OLD 1ST LIEUTENANT, 20 YEAR OLD CAPT. To Spend Week for the return of pleasure driving, John Towberry painted the inside 18 19 20 of his car a deep blue, sprinkled ~7TIT- lots of stars around. ......,.,.,,.,.~···.····· ···~~ In Mock Combat To the heating system he rigged an ice bucket for airconditioning, adding a spigot for ice water. In the glove compartment he Red Combat Tearn Slated installed an automatic record play er that plays ten records without changing. First To Move; Divarty GREAT FALLS. Mont. - Two Goes Under Own Com'd cowboys coming into town couldn't find a hitching post, so they hitch Throughout August, the three ed their horses to the back door Combat Teams of the Division of a local beanery. plus service detachments and Di The horses took off for a stoll. vision Artillery will move out to The proprletvr also tool, off the Ocala National Forest Area for the police to see about getting for a week's unit training in the a new back door. field under simulated combat con• ditions. ABILENE, Tex. - A fireman Division Troops are likewise be• attending a fire at the home of ing attached to Combat Teams Police Captain Virgil Waldrop ran for a week in the field, embrac• screaming from the house. ing the problems of supply, main To his chief he explained that tainance and administration un. while creeping along the floor der field conditions. he had run smack into a gaping The first unit to move will be mouthed bear. the "Red" Combat Team on Au He didn't know that Mrs. Wal gust 2nd. ':'he "Reds" are com drop is a taxidermist. At the rate some of the officers in the 63d Division are going, BLOOD AND FIRE's staff figures that posed of the 253d Inf. Reg., 861st we ought to have a 24 year old brigadier general soon. Already, we've got an eighteen year old shave- F.A. Bn., together with detach• BERKELEY, Cal. (CNS)-Two tail, a f~neteen year old 1st lieutenant, and a twenty yeaild captain. Here they ~re. ments of the 563d l;li~..... C:Q_., 763d ;rear-old Charles Bean drank a Qrd, Co •.. -~::! Q:,.:· Co., 363d Mfd. riottle of sun tan lotion. Doctors Probably the youngest officer in B,~arman of the 2;;'5 · Inf. can A native of Little Rock, S. C., Bn., Div. band and MP Platoon. .i:enioved mosl of it with a pump. the division and one of the young- well be proud of his r cord. c:;apt. MacDonald has advanced The 718 F.A. Bn. will accompany est in the armed forces is 2d Lt. Lt. Bearman, a native of Mem- through Army ranks at a rapid the movement uniler separate CHICAGO (CNS) - Carpets Otto Carroza of Co. A, 1st Bn., phis, Tenn., was graduated from pace, being promoted from 2d to command. All units are scheduled were removed at a dinner dance 253d Inf. the Columbia Military Academy in 1st Lieutenant at the age of 19 to return to the post on August held here by the National Frater Graduated from Marmion Mili- 1941, and after taking a post. and two weeks later assuming 7th. nal Society of the Deaf. The bare tary Academy at Aurora, Ill., in graduate course, was commission- command of a compan, at Camp On August 9th the 254th Inf. floor permitted the members to June of last year, the then 17- ed in May, 1942. Breckinridge, Ky. Reg., 862d F;A. Bn., plus detach receive the vibration and beat of year-old Carroza attended summer C • • ments from the 563d Sig. Co., 763d the music with their feet. a P at Ft 'uster M'ch bef re Lt. Bearman came to amp Entering Presbyterian College Ord. Co., 63d QM Co., 363d Med, ~n:ring activ; service ;n Septe~- Bla~ding from Camp Wheeler, Ga. in Clinton,. S. C: at t_he age of 15, En., Div. Band and MP Platoon DALLAS, Tex. (CNS) - J. S. ber when he reported to Ft Mc- Wlule at Wheeler _he was sent he was editor m chief of one ?f designated as Combat Team Mashburn paid a speeding fine but Cl II Al · down to Fort Benning to take the the 10 best college newspapers m "White" will move out. The protested. Police checked their tea~tten~~d The Infantry School Infantry Weapons Course. Amer~ca, as adjudged by the "Whites" will return to the Post speedometer which registered 12 at Ft. Benning, Ga., graduatino- as At present the Lieutenant is up Associated Press, at the age of 18. on August 14th. miles an hour too fast. Mashburn a 2d Lieutenant in May of this at Division headquarters as an At. 19 h~ graduated from Pre~by BJue Goes Aug. 16th got his money back - plus an year and at 18 already has n I rly Acting Liaison Officer. Before terian with the bars of a 2d Lieu Combat Team "Blue" will move apology. a full year of active duty behind that he was with B Company of tenant ~nd a gold 'P"-the col. out to the same forest area on him. the 255th Inf. lege's highest stamp of approval August 16th. It is composed of the DECATUR, IIL (CNS)-Dr. B. L. A brother, a private, is also a Twenty years old and already a for extra-curricular activity. 255th Inf. Reg., 863d F.A. Bn., Fryxell hung his pants in his member of Uncle Sam's Army, be- captain and company commander Never publicizing his youthful 263d Eng. Bn., less Companies A back yard. Two days later he ing stationed at Ft. Knox, Ky. in the Infantry is the enviable ness, Capt. MacDonald has a and B. 63d Recon. Tr., 653d Sig. found a family of wrens in a Only 19 years old and the pos- boast of Capt. Charles B. MacDon- yearning to be called "the old Co. less detachments, MP Platoon pocket. sessor of a commission for well ald of Com)'any C, 254th Regi- man" by the men of his com. less detachments, Div. Band less over a year, 1st Lt. Eugene Joel ment. pany. detachments and the 763d Ord. Co. DENVER, Col. (CNS) Mrs. less detachments. The "Blues" Edward Jennings, 25, eave birth will return to the Post on Au. to a baby boy in a highway pa. Killing Costs gust 21st. trol car running- 60 miles an hour VISITOR A Detachment of the 263d En. enroute to a hospital. Lt. Gen. Devers WASHINGTON - Neighbors gineers have strengthened and Zoom From 75c of M/Sgt. James W. Powder built bridges, reconditioned roads ELIZABETH, N. J. (CNS) - watched open-mouthed as a for military travel, and generally Walter Holt took a snooze on the Sends Greetings Up To $50.000 four star general drove up to made the forest area maneuver. steps of a church. He awoke to make a call on the Sergeant. able during the past few weeks. find someone had taken his pants Lieutenant General Jacob Lo The General? Chief of Staff The training program in the and $40. LONDON-Proving that not George C. Marshall coming to Ocala National Forest Area will Devers, commander of the only has the cost of living gone say hello to his chauffeur who offer the troops of this division a HARTFORD, Conn. (CNS) -- A United States Army in the Eu up, but also the cost of dying, had been ill. chance to practice teamwork and woman told police that a man had ropean theat~r, sent the follow live in the field, thus acquainting dragged her down two flights of British statisticians have released ing letter to Major General them more intimately with the ac. stairs by the hair, choked her figures which show that at pres tual problems of troops on man and threatened to kill h(:r. "Don't Louis E. Hibbs, Division com ent rates it costs $50,000 to kill Hinkel' s Research eucers and in combat. In reality worry, lady, we·n arrest him," mander. an enemy soldier. it will be a test as to how well said the cops. "I don't want him The letter, in part, follows: the individual can cope with the arrested," the woman replied. ''He In Caesar's time, say the sta "Many thanks for sending me Led To Burial Place conditions surrounding the com promised to marry me." tisticians, it cost only about 75 bat teams of a division in the the paper and attachments con cents to kill a soldier. By the field. KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (CNS) - cerning the activation of your last war the cost had zoomed to Of Khan & Foo Dog The Special Service Office and After winning a divorce a woman fine division, the 63d. You cer about $21,000. Regimental Special Service Offi. asked alimony. Her husband's tainly have an array of fine Altogether, the last war cost the Amateur archaeologist, geneolo cers have discussed and plan to possessions were a rifle and a nations concerned something like present 16mm Feature films in officers with you. I want to gist and egyptologist all rolled goat. Her lawyer took the rifle.