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THE AMERICAN LEGION FEBRUARY. 1945 VOLUME 38 • NO. 2 MAGAZINE

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The Editor's Comer CONTENTS soldier-and-dog photograph on our COVER DESIGN THE Color Photograph cover this month shows PFC Paul Kaik- by Ben De Brocee konen, a member of the Provost Marshal NOVEMBER 11: LEYTE Section at Fort Belvoir, Virginia, and Rex, Bv Boyd B. Stutler a silver-gray German shepherd, three years U.S.-CITADEL OF PEACE old. Kaikkonen had twenty-six months' By Edward N. Scheiberling service overseas, much of it with the Amer- National Commander ican Division on Guadalcanal. He was home PILOT TO CO-PILOT on "rotation," following an attack of ma- By Harrison Hendrvx laria and nerve and stomach disorders, and Illustrated by Willard Downes was getting back in shape when the photo was taken. STAR SPANGLED NETV^ORK 10 By Charles Garland Like all war dogs. Rex has been trained {Continued on page 34) MEMO OF HATE 12 By Rufus King r Illustrated by Herman Gtesen A service man or woman would like to read this copy of your PERMANENT LIBERTY 14 By John Noll Legion Magazine. For overseas, J. Photographs by De Brocke seal the envelope and put on OLD CR.'IND-DAD fifteen cents in stamps, as first GYRENE GRASSHOPPER 16 By Capt. Earl Wilson class postage is required. If you put the National Legionnaire in OUR MAN HAMILTON GREENE 19 the envelope carrying the maga- GLOBAL AIR zine overseas, make the postage OUR STRENGTH 20 A Map by William Heaslip eighteen cents instead of fifteen. £/ach brilliant drop of Old Grand-Dad For the home front the mailing ELMIRA AND THE EX-GI 22 By C. Furnas — mellow, smooth, gloriously charge for the magazine and J. good Photographs by De Brocke — is a toast to bourbon at its best. the National Legionnaire is four cents, in an unsealed envelope. QUICK CHANGE 26 For the magazine alone, three By Frank A. Mathews cents. Illustrated by George Shanks In sending the magazine to a THE "FORGOTTEN FRONT* 27 Fleet Post Office, you don't need By Frank Miles to use first class mail. Parcel DOG TAG DOINGS 28 me Post rates apply—three cents in an unsealed envelope. NAUnCAL NONSENSE By Leo Salkin S

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On that November 11, 191 8, the German power was broken and the military machine collapsed. It was the end of the First World War.

Today there is no armistice. It is a battle to the death. Artillery rumbles its throaty roar—big eight-inch howitzers and smaller guns. Four point two chemical mor- tars cough. Tanks clank forward. And not far ahead, on the fighting lines, machine guns rattle like giant riveting machines and rifles bark spitefully. The highway leading into the battle area is jammed with men and all kinds of motor vehicles. I spent the full day on the front lines with elements of the 24th Division. I saw the assaults on Mount Cabunganan and Mount Caraban, both to the south-southwest of Caragara. I saw the men go forward, tired, muddy, bearded men, who had been in action, with but brief rest periods, since that morning of October 20th when they waded and splashed ashore on the Leyte beach. I talked to the wounded as they were carried back on stretchers, or as they limped haltingly along supported by a comrade. Japanese dead lined the route of the Vic- tory Division. Jap pillboxes were torn apart and the dead were strewn around the broken and useless guns they had used in a futile effort to stop these men. At the forward command post Major General Franklin C. Seibert, Corps Com- mander; Major General Frederick A. Irving, Division Commander, and Brigadier Gen- eral Kenneth C. Cramer, a Past Depart- ment Commander of the Legion in Con- necticut, were holding a council of war with regimenal commanders.

Colonel William J. Verbeck of Manlius, ^er€/em fie^/iof the maker is your best assurance N. Y., commanding the 21st Infantry, was so pleased with the progress of his outfit of quality. On a Florsheim Shoe, the familiar shield that he gave ten pesos to every man at the command post Jap invasion currency. stands for 53 years of fine shoemaking—a standard we — Lieut. Col. Chester A. Dahlen, Thief River can't afford to lower—a reputation we refuse to risk. Falls, Minn., commanding the 34th Infan- try, told with obvious pride of the fine

ana *l I battle performance of the men under his command. As we slogged up the highway toward the actual fighting lines we came to a sharp bend. "Don't go around that corner!" yelled a friendly voice from a nearby foxhole. "You'll get your bloomin' backsides Florshei shot off!" A machine-gun rat-tat-tatted around the turn. We joined the soldier and his mate in the foxhole on the double-quick. The lad who yelled the timely warning was Corporal Albert Medici, 333 Pocasset Ave., Providence, R. I., who, years ago, played Legion junior baseball with the THE FLORSHEIM SHOE COMPANY • CHICAGO • MAKERS OF FINE SHOES FOR MEN AND WOMEN — —

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Auburn (R, I.) Post team. His buddy was

Pvt. Albert Simason, Jr., of Hamilton, Tex., who was once a member of the reportorial staff of the Dallas (Tex.) News. Young Simason, son of Legionnaire Albert Sima- son, Sr., who served with the artillery in France in 19 18 and who is a member of a Dayton, Ohio, Legion post, talked of his baby daughter he has never seen. . . . Lieut. CoL Edward M. Postlethwait,

Bloomington, III., battalion commander, chuckled as he told about one of his men. The going was tough and the soldier threw himself flat on the ground. As he rose to go forward another few feet, a Jap bullet plowed through the ground he had just vacated. "Praise the Lord, the ammunition passed me!" he breathed. "Hear about Sergeant Cecil Church?" asked another soldier friend. "Get Lieut. Legendre to tell you about him." So I hunted through the area for Lieut. Legen- dre. Found, he proved to be a nephew of Alcee Legendre, New Orleans, Past Depart- ment Commander of the Louisiana Legion, and a cousin of Leonce Legendre, rehabili- tation expert stationed for several years at the Legion's Washington headquarters, but now a lieutenant colonel on active duty.

"Sergeant Church—^he's from Missouri has been officially commended for taking a wounded man out of the water when we landed," said the officer. "Later he saved the company from heavy loss when he de- tected a Jap infiltration party, opened fire with his machine gun and pinned it down. He saved a lot of the fellows. But he's only one of the men who should be men- tioned; I wish I could tell you about all of them. Ask some of the officers about the learn lot outboards • . . /n platoon that mowed down 150 Japs the '7ou a about 35 years" night we landed." I did, and got the story. Canny old-timers know it's a fact. Owning motors, being shipmates with As we started back to the division com- them, keenly comparing ail types and makes ... a fellow sure learns a mand post, Lieut. Frank C. Ludwig of lot about outboards in 35 years! Brookline, Mass., came along in a jeep and stopped when given the universally under- It's equally true of a manufacturer — with knowledge multiplied by stood thumb signal. He wants to get a sou- engineering, building and testing hundreds of thousands of motors through venir permit to send a light Japanese ma- this span of years. The result is kttotv-how ... a matchless "all-star fea- chine gun back to the Brookline Legion ture" that reflects in every phase of operation . . . constantly rewarding

Post. "When I was a youngster," he said, the owner with extra dividends of fine performance . . . without a nickel "I had a lot of fun climbing over and of added cost! crawling around the Legion's whippet tank. The great Storm Boat Motors that serve on every fighting front are the I guess it has gone into the scrap pile to product of 35 years of Evinrude know-how. When peacetime motors can make new tanks, and I want to help the again be built, this same know-how outfit get a new war relic." Lieut. Lud- will be a priceless part of every mo- wig's uncle, Legionnaire William Cameron, tor that carries the Evinrude name. is a member of West Roxbury (Mass.) Post. Another uncle was killed in action EVINRUDE MOTORS, m\vta\t\iK^ 9, \N\t, in France in the first World War. Once relatively safe in the back area, late for the evening mess, we hunted up a kitchen. "Help yourself to anything you can EVINRUDE find," cordially invited PFC Stanley Strom of San Diego, Calif. While stoking, PFC OUfeOARO MOTORS Strom revealed that he had played baseball with the San Diego high school team under the coaching of Mike Morrow. "He's one of the greatest coaches in America," he said enthusiastically. Boyd B. Stutler, Amer- Legion ican War Correspondent. EVERY DOllAR YOU INVEST HELPS SPEED VICTORY . . . BUY MORE WAR BONDS a

6 Thi AMERICAN LEGION Magazint U.S. *-ri/£ CITADEL OF PEACE

EDWARD N. SCHEIBERLING National Commander, TheAmerican Legion

1N A RECENT ADDRESS I said: "Surely if our mocracy—to build the tools for victory. It is tremendous productive system with its brilliant equally as necessary to develop public opinion leaders in engineering, science and management behind true Americanism and to create the in- and labor could make the United States the ar- struments and institutions for a strong citadel of senal of democracy, they can make our country peace. the citadel of peace!' I have every confidence they Under the mandates of two national conven-

will. tions, I am charged with the responsibility of rais- Endow- When they do, our United States will stand ing an American Legion Americanism ment Fund. Trustees have been named and the pre-eminent among nations. It will continue to be speaking, the the harbor of hope for those with the courage and purpose clearly set forth. Broadly is to enable Legion to fortitude to move ahead under the power of their purpose The American meet its responsibilities to our comrades and to own initiative. In other words, we will have pre- National Headquarters served the foundation that has for more than a our country by providing Posts with the^ century and a half been the basis for American and the several Departments and necessary instrumentalities and personnel to carryj progress—the basis for all that is best in our way out broadened activities. In brief, to place The of life. American Legion in a position to face the chaU) My experience during the last four months— lenge ahead. third of my term as National Commander—con- Departments and Posts have been advised fullv vinces me that The American Legion faces the regarding the Americanism Endowment Fund. greatest opportunity ever held by any national We plan to raise $15,000,000. Each Department will organization. It is the opportunity to protect our decide ivhen and hoiv its proportionate share, comrades of two wars, men and women who have based on membership, will be raised. I know that faced death to safeguard our country, and to unite every Legionnaire will do his part. them in a p>eacetime mobilization to preserve De-

mocracy on the home front. It is the opportunity Under a broad program of public relations, The to make the Legion an independent guiding force American Legion is achieving widespread public for the common good. support. Our course is being universally approved. To me this is most heartening— it gives hope that There is no other such national force in our 1 may fulfill my greatest ambition—to end my country today, dedicated solely to the principles term as National Commander with The American and purposes the Legion holds high. Legion internally and externally stronger than at I need not review these principles and pur- any time in its history; holding the confidence of poses here. We in the Legion know what they men and women who bring to the home front are. However, we need greater Legion soHdarity those steeling qualities that men and women find and outside assistance in achieving these principles only in facing death on battlefronts, and ac«| and purposes. We need financial support to trans- claimed by all other citizens as an institution dedi*; late them into action. cated to peace, preparedness and patriotism.

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A wan, concerned smile and the two crossed fingers

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By HARRISON HENDRYX Red Wilstach which had kept him from the AAF wing. I'm going over there now.'* seeing her since then. Nor did Red's sub- "Would you mind if I went along?" sb« Snowden came into the sequent flaunting about of other women asked hesitantly. "I could meet you there WHENhut deceive he was undecided about him; nor was he deceived by the at the hospital." calling Harriet. He gave the overly casual manner in which the other 'T hoped you would." said Snowden, "for little taffy-haired cocker span- spoke of Harriet. his sake. See you inside by the fountain. iel a perfunctory pat on the head and sat When you flew with a man and lived I'll be an hour or more." down on Red Wilstach's empty bunk and with him you were too close for secrets. He returned to the hut and shaved hur- glanced up at her picture, recalling the Harriet was the girl. Then she should riedly and put on a fresh shirt. The cocker barren, heart -gone look that had come into know of this, Snowden decided abruptly, spaniel eyed him soulfuUy from the door- the eyes of the younger man of late when- and he rose and crossed the strip to call way as he pulled his bicycle from the rack

ever he gazed upon it. her from Operations. and mounted. When a man was your co-pilot you got '"This is Phil Snowden, Red's friend." he Snowden said, "Well?" and the little dog to know a good deal about him. When you said simply. "We ran into some pretty stiff came to him in quick joyous bounds and fiew with a man and lived with him and flak last night and—well, Red stopped a Snowden lifted him into the basket. drank with him you came to know pretty couple chunks of it." At the hospital, when he had parked the well what went on inside as well as out. There was a pause. He heard the hollow, bike, he said to the dog, "Stick close now, Almost invariably, you came to know of nebulous sound of breath sharply indrawn. hear me? And no monkeyshines." the woman he loved^ And thus did Snowden Then she said evenly. "Is he bad?" Harriet was by the fountain, somber and know of Harriet. "I don't know. He's at St. John's—in very lovely in a dark nurse's cape which He knew that a month ago they had lent depth to her blue eyes. She gave him quarreled. He knew of the high pride in Illustrated by WILLARD DOWNES {Coil tinned on page 41)

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Tokyo and Berlin had a propaganda field day early in the war broadcasting to American troops.

But nowadays their stuff is smothered by a bar- ffC Al AtiMirty, ChicQso, rage of APRS short-waved news and entertain- and hit taiMH sax, lolid ment^ plus thousands of recordings which that s««

RADIO TOKYO crackled: "Wouldn't it be swell to be back there in the U. S. dancing with a lovely American girl, her soft cheek pressed against yours,

' the lights turned low and the music played like this

. . . Let Me Call You Sweetheart rippled into the jungle night. A mosquito buzzed around a fighting man's dirty ear; he cracked the side of his face and the buzzing stopped; his cheek bone was wet with the blood of the insect and his ear rang from the slap. Island jungles of the Southwest Pacific are damp, itchy and sweaty. "Sure, it'd be swell, you dirty, slant-eyed so-and-so!" he cursed. The Yank fighting man snapped the portable radio into silence. Another Yank squished a mosquito boring into the back of his hand, then rubbed both hands on his thighs. "Goddamn it! Why can't we get the States on this radio! Radio Tokyo— that's all we hear! They gotta play some goddam sentimental tune that makes you homesick!" Radio Tokyo dug into the hearts of some fighting men. Tokyo confided, "Americans! Your w-ar workers are getting rich. They're stealing your jobs. They're taking your girls. They're kissing your wives." There was a great need for America's Armed Forces Radio Service. Long before the United States was bombed into the war at Pearl Harbor, Japan and Germany had planned to out- gun as well as out-talk America. This enemy mix of gun- cotton and jingoism got results. Many foreign countries scur- ried forward as Axis satellites, for one; South American fac- tions proclaimed their pro-Fascism; and the Orient, except for sections of China, became resignedly passive. The enemy had won the initiative on words in a war in which the tongue was a sword. When war came to the United States, the nation was deficient in short-wave facilities. Fourteen U. S. stations com- peted with fifty Nazi stations in 1940. Germany's radio was government owned; the United States was then and is now the only country in the world where all radio broadcasting is privately owned. Then suddenly peacetime short-wave schedules in the U. S. were by-passed for the requirements of war and three groups sought "time" on the existing facilities: the OWI, the Co-ordinator of Inter-American Affairs, and the then unimportant, obscure Armed Forces Radio Service. The United States choked in a bottleneck of words, but today America's throat is cleared. Armed Forces Radio Service, in eighteen months, built the greatest network the world has ever known, under the command of Colonel Tom Lewis. Lewis manned AFRS with skilled enlisted men and officers who now operate nearly every kind of radio equipment, from hand-cranked transmitters to loo-watt short wave radio on Africa's Gold Coast, in the Aleutians, Italy, on the Western Front, in the South Seas—literally, around the world. No other Army than the American has ever had anything

like it. GIs hold the world hook-up together, linked by air- priorities, pack-mules, trains, ships and trucks, and together they've licked Radio Tokyo and Radio Berlin. AFRS is more than a 400-station network broadcasting in 47 countries. As recently as September, 1943, OWI granted the Armed Forces Radio Service needed time on nine overseas beams. Today, the Armed Forces shortwave the European theater for 16 hours 30 minutes daily and programs are received in Greenland, Central Africa, the Middle East, the Mediterranean {^Continued on page 42) —

12 The AMERICAN LEGION Masazinr Mem ofHate

must take this min- wishes and friendliness on YOUutely, as though through Helen and and Blitz. Joe And a diminishing glass, be- with the evening's masking cause there is no time to dark here were the simple, the give you anything but the bald- safe, the perfect steps which nesses. Before the door will open, Burk then took. the true things—the love, the In the rear of his cottage conflict, the bitter patient hate with its sheltering dunes he must be up to you. dug, in compliance with the There were two men and a girl shepherd-'s measurements, a pit. and a dog. There were the winds Through night binoculars, of November which fractured into while the killer dog crouched splinters of steel the cold dark beside him, Burk observed the waters of the Atlantic on Long 'By T^ufus King Coast Guard station which was Island's dour strand. Such were about a five-minutes' walk the ingredients of the case which down the bar. Three cars were missed that elusive mirage, the perfect The preinduction physical had rejected parked there, and one of them was Joe's crime. Burk for an unsatisfactory heart, and as his cheap little coupe. Blitz, who spent more The dog was its heart: a German shep- crowd began dropping off into service he time with Joe at the station than he did herd called Blitz who for a year had been started to use the beach cottage as a year- at home with Helen, was alone in it wait- assigned to sentry duty along a morose round home. To be near Helen. It was the ing for Joe to finish dressing for the vil- stretch out near the Hamptons. His handler lash of a whip across his consuming pos- lagers' stupid, banal, surprise-shower was a Coast Guard youngster, Joe Davis. sessiveness and pride when she announced planned that evening for Helen. This lout was a rugged shyly polite, farm- her engagement to Joe. Burk leashed the killer to a spike in a bred lowan who had caught a few bullets Burk started to hate Joe, slowly and with driftwood timber then ran through the dark on Tarawa's Betio and had been patched friendly outward smiles to hate him, and to Joe's coupe, a second leash in his hand. up enough to permit of his transfer to shore it wasn't entirely because of Helen but be- Blitz offered no problem. His detraining patrol on Long Island. Yes, lout. Even cause he sensed in Joe all the loutish sim- had been the complete reversal of his train- though Helen, who had plenty of good plicities and decencies which he himself ing-into-viciousness and Blitz now bent over taste, did fall in love with him. basically lacked. It wasn't long after Joe backwards in being gentle and obedient to The seed of the crime was planted when had given Blitz to Helen that Burk thought- the orders of anybody. So the substitution the procurement division of the Treasury fully began to see in the dog a weapon for was simple. Burk fastened Blitz with the Department began returning patrol dogs to the perfect crime. second leash and ran him back to the cot- their owners, their use being sharply cur- tage, shutting him in. tailed as the threat to the shores had les- THE wedding was planned for the middle Then Burk loosed the killer from the sened. But in many cases the owners no of November when Helen's aunt could driftwood timber and closed him inside longer had their homes and such dogs were come on from the West Coast. That gave Joe's little coupe, the single seat of which demilitarized of their ferocities, retrained to Burk six leisurely weeks. He left for his he almost filled with cosy death. Just leav- the courtesies of civilian life, and auctioned Connecticut farm. He bought a German ing room enough for Joe. With the "silent" off to the public or specifically sold. shepherd of similar appearance and build whistle in his hand, Burk crouched in the Joe himself bought Blitz as a present for to Blitz. He had acquired from Joe a nearby shelter of a masking dune to watch Helen Dreyden, whom he had met at the knowledge of the training methods used at and wait. first chicken-pot -pie supper he'd gone to at Front Royal and, in the privacy of his The minutes dropped into eternity, then the village's Methodist church. With the many acres, Burk went to work. the door of the station opened and a man inexplicable stupidity with which such He eliminated such nonessentials to his came out. He was a short, thin fellow and things can happen in life they had fallen purpose as mine detection and messenger Burk identified him as Radio Operator for each other hard. stuff, and concentrated on three things. He Wilbur. He watched Wilbur pass Joe's car To be honest, it was probably Joe's gath- trained the shepherd to instant obedience on the way to his own, then a surge of ering in of Helen which had wakened in to the "silent" whistle: an instrument blood was hot in Burk's head as Wilbur Burk Halbreck the unbearable truth that pitched too high to be audible to human hesitated and went back to Joe's shoddy life would mean nothing to him without ears. He trained the shepherd to ferocious coupe. The blood became a pounding stream her. Burk wasn't a native like Helen. He attack on any stranger. He trained the as the detestable fool's "Hi-ya, Blitz?" cut belonged to the summer beach-cottage animal to kill. faintly through the boom of surf and Wil- crowd, did some gentleman farming in Con- The moon was in its first quarter and bur opened the coupe's door. necticut and kept a bachelor apartment in November darkness fell early on the Hamp- Death leaped hurtling in vicious stillness New York which touched, in the perfection tons' desolate sand bar when the job was and fangs slashed their brutal lacerations of its detail, on the precious. For endless done. Burk had driven down to the beach on Wilbur's throat. Burk shot the "silent" summers Burk had grown up with and been cottage earlier in the day, with the shep- whistle to his lips and the killer with re- complacent about Helen, in the manner herd lying in flat obedience unseen in the luctance froze, then came swiftly slinking which his' wealth had permitted him to be rear of his car. Throughout the afternoon on a second signal to the masking dune. complacent about all things. He was agree- Burk had kept the killer concealed in the Burk leashed him, speeded him back to the ably confident that she loved him, and cottage's garage while he had smiled good garage, and crushing a tire iron into the when he was ready he would marry her. killer's skull dumped his fluid body into the Why not? Illustrated by HERMAN GIESEN waiting pit. With hands which shook be- —

FEBRUARY, I94S 13 neath the humiliation of a perfect fhC dog 'sparf in the Perfect Crime was accord- you can unscramble it any thing gone wrong, Burk. shoveled way you like—what differ- sand. Itt^ to plan, but t/iere was one very small detail... ence on earth or in heaven The final cast was to release or in hell does it matter to Blitz and run him to the station, me? Take your silly details where the crash of surf still shattered the state detectives swarmed over the beach, —the insensate pattern of noseprints left silent night, and Wilbur was hmp in the followed by news photographers and re- by the killer dog on the glass of Joes ultimate grotesquerie of the violent dead. porters from the city. Perhaps you remem- cheap coupe—Joe's loutish love and belief Burk returned to his cottage and breathed. ber the way some of the papers played up in Blitz—the test, the proof that the nose- The crime in its basic self was still per- the case, with psychologists, doctors and prints were those of another dog whose fect : a murder was done and no conceivable veterinarians setting forth their theories. spoor Blitz tracked to the filled-in pit justice would trace the guilt to Burk's calm the trial which established a new precedent hands. Blitz would simply be put down as THEY arrested Burk toward dawn on the in weapons of death—the futile, costly the one dog in thousands whom war neu- charge of first degree murder. He was appeals—that last odd memory of Helen roses had caused to revert to ferocity, and superior in his insolent stoicism until they and Joe with faces like dumb kids when would be shot. Burk breathed and quietly told him, with the cold disgust of their con- they play with pinwheels—take them I breathed. tempt and hate, the single fault in his per- tell you and to hell with you, because the During the next few days there were in- fect crime: the fact that the nose print of door of the cell is opening now, and the vestigations all over the place. The village a dog is as unique to that specific dog as chaplain is coming in for Burk. cops figured the thing was an open-and-shut are the fingerprints of a person unique to Yes, sure I'm Burk, and the chaplain's case, and laughed when the Coast Guard that one person out of all the world. pale, insipid hands are stretching out. insisted on a full investigation. County and That was something over a year ago and For me.

As the car door opened death leaped in vicious stillness and fangs slashed their brutal laceration on Wilbur's throat

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D. Reynolds, 17, E. Orange, N. J., R. L. Giddens, S 2cl, 22, Frostproof, H. E. Pavan, MM 3cl, 47, Detroit, W. B. Race, Shipfifte, 2cl, 32, New and R. A. Stappenbacher, 17, Flo. African and Italian cam- Mich. 24 mos. active duty. In Itolion Haven, Conn, On USS Wasp, iJochester, N. Y. Discharged from paigns. Will return to truck driv- Army, World War I. Construction Malta, and v/hen sunk, SW Pacific. ISompson Trng Sta. Under age ing. Perhaps Govt, training later carpenter. Wants Civil Service May return to old job as welder ,

Gyrene Grasshoppers

By Captain Earl IVi/son, USMC

The line of salty Marine officers at the top of the page did a grand job of piloting the Grasshoppers 750 air-hours during the battle for the Marianas. For their names, see page 44

Pclcliu, Palaii Islands A HUGE carrier task force prowled the /\ waters around the Palau Islands, / % winging into the wind now and then to launch the Hellcats, Corsairs, Helldivers and Avengers that were making a smoking shambles out of enemy positions on Peleliu. Here on the island itself, Ma- rines drove inland, slowly, relentlessly, at high cost. One of the carriers caught a message from the beachhead. The Air Officer, grinning, picked up his microphone. His voice re- sounded throughout the ship. "Lieutenant Putt-putt, prepare to launch that thing you call an airplane!" Instantly there was gleeful activity on the flight deck. Plane handlers went into action, the Launching Officer took his post, yellow- shirted taxi signalmen began making elab- orate gestures of direction. All were grinning. From the sleek ranks of big Navy fighting planes waddled a tiny aircraft, its httle wooden propeller beating the air nervously. It rolled to the take-off point, vibrating self-consciously while its chugging reached a frantic washing-machine crescendo. Then as the flag dropped it was gone, bouncing and swaying its way down the flight deck.

Navy men cheered as it took the air, return- {Continued on page 4j)

I. Armstrong gives his tiny Stinson Sen- tinel observation plane some minor re- pairs. 2. Lopez sidling up to his Grass- hopper. Slightly wounded, he stayed on for the entire 40-day campaign. 3. Riordan with his ship that answered its own question during the fighting for Peleliu. 4. Jackson loading his plane with mortar shells and hand grenades to keep the Japs busy while he operated Which way from V-Day? This is the power of a united America . . . Which way from the peace table? Its promise — new opportunities for all to live and Which way to the America we are fighting for? grow, to work and build, to create the happier life,

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ON November 19th, while with a with telling of the circumstances of Division, Supreme Headquarters, Allied Ninth Army patrol near Geilen- Greene's wounding. We also received a Expeditionary Force, who wrote, "Mr. kirchen in Germany, Hamilton Greene, our dispatch from the 83d Infantry Division, Greene was conspicuously forward in Artist-War Correspondent, was wounded to which Greene was attached when he every operation in which he participated in the stomach and lungs by sniper fire, wrote and illustrated the article Recon and was well known to the personnel of and lay in an exposed position for some Troof) which appeared in our December the units he accompanied because of his hours, until an enemy strong point was issue. This dispatch, released to Amer- place in the forward assault, where he wiped out. Greene was taken to a field ican correspondents, was headed "Ameri- sought opportunity to watch the reactions hospital, and later to a base hospital. Sub- can Legion War Correspondent Wins Ad- of the American soldiers in the attack. sequently our Art Director, Frank Lisiecki, miration of Infantrymen." We like that. We all regret Mr. Greene's wound but got the heartening letter from Lewis Gan- We also like the letter sent us by will do everything possible to facilitate

net, War Correspondent of the New York Brigadier General Frank A. Allen, Jr., his recovery." Herald Tribune, which we reprint here- U.S.A., Director of the Public Relations Alexakdfr Gardiner, Edit or

fire to pick up wounded. He came out of I took him his mail including a 'V-mail that all right, but, as you know, he wasn't letter from you which cheered him up no November 23, 1944 so lucky on Sunday. end and a grand letter from his wife, also Dear Mr. Lisiecki: I understand the report has gone to you a copy of the Legion Magazine with a spread Last Friday Hamilton Greene and I went and that the story is released as of six of his pictures and story. 'When I saw him up to the little town of Floverich, just o'clock tomorrow night, which makes it all we didn't know yet about release, and he captured, which was being pretty heavily right for me to write you. We didn't hear asked me to write you this letter: "I had

shelled, and the coolest man in town was of it until Tuesday; I found him in the intended to send an article around the end Greene. I talked a while with some prison- field hospital yesterday and saw him again of this week entitled Into Germany on ers of war and when I came out Greene this morning. He got a bullet or two in Wheels, or on Foot or some such stuff as was tying a Red Cross band on his arm, the stomach and for a time it didn't look {Contimicd on page jj) and he went out with a gang of litter- too good, but he was so much better today bearers, out in front of the tanks in direct that I teel reasonably sure he's all right.

OUR GLOBAL AIR STRENGTH

THE MAP on these two pages gives an approximation of the far-flung activities of the United States Army Air Forces,

•whose personnel is approaching the 2'/2 million mark. In the First World War the entire U.S. Army strength was but 4,057,- 101. As of the first of December, 1944, our Air Forces were based as follows: 1st, 2d, 3d, 4th in the continental United States; 5th in the Philippines; 6th in the Panama Canal Zone; 7th at Hawaii; 8th and 9th in the European Theater; 10th in India; 11th in the Aleutians; 12th and 15th in the Mediterranean; 13th in the Southwest Pacific; I4th in China. The 20th, under the personal direction of General Henry H. Arnold, Commanding General of the Army Air Forces, is world-wide. During the final weeks of 1944 its bomber wings, operating from China and from the island of Saipan, had bombed Tokyo several times with the B-29 Super- fortresses. The silhouettes at the bottom of these pages are of the planes most prominently employed in combat at present by the United States Army Air Forces.

M7 FLYING FORTRESS —

22 The AMF.RICAN LEGION Magazine

By J. C. FURNAS Richard F. Buzzerd, 15 months with the Army Air Forces, giving his "work history" to Mrs. Eleanor Hutcheson of the U. S. Employment Service Office in Elmira. P. S. He got the job back from Alaska with frozen ONEfeet. Another discharged overage. Another from Guadalcanal with combat-fatigue. Another from the Volturno with a steel claw for right hand. Another injured when an Army hoist collapsed and spilled half a ton of hardware on him. Another from China whittled down

by malaria and dysentery. The war is moving into the Philippines and Germany, the

mayor's committee is still doing a good job of sending boys off with handshakes and gift-packages. But for these fellows it's "Dismissed!" for keeps. Their needs can be simply stated, by no means simply met. They need read-

justment from military life; jobs and, if possible, a sense of proving something; re- acquaintance with wives, family, friends, and a sense of being rewardingly at home; often money-help, often advice-help. Their only obligation is to check in with the draft- Mrs. Anne Carpenter, whose husband was killed on D-Day of the Normandy board within five days. Then they're on invasion, gets help from Sarah F. Bisbee, Service Officer of the Chemung their own, usually as shaken up by being County Veterans Service Office. She has a boy of three and a girl of four pitchforked into a new environment as when they hit the induction center on their way to war. Appropriately, the civilian

clothes they left behind don't fit any more the Big Four in Terre Haute. Close ac- —too small because soldiering has them in quaintance with experiences here may help better condition, too large because illness other communities realize what gives and or GI exercise has peeled them down. why. could call Elmira a typical You Not GI Joes any longer, just Joes. The Elmira needs an unusually good set-up American city. It's industrialized/ home town—in this case, Elmira, N. Y. because an unusually high proportion of but not war-boomed. We aslced Mr. is trying to help them. Some of it has men entered the armed services from FurnaS/ noted reporter, to find out worked, some hasn't; some angles are well Chemung County, of which it is nucleus. covered, some missed. The efiicacy of Whereas national figures—maybe ii,ooo,- how this town is fitting the returned much of it can't be judged until this home- 000 put into uniform from a population of service man into its economy. A ward trickle becomes the end-of-the-war 135,000,000—run one in twelve, Chemung good job at Elmira, thinics Furnas flood. Yet the problems of the discharged County runs one in nine, a pre-war pop- soldier, sailor or marine stepping off the ulation of 80,000 supplying over 9500 men.

Lackawanna or Erie in this way up-state Its proportion of women in jobs is also New York town are much the same as if greatest of any place in the State. And, it were the Union Pacific in Rawlins or though it is no extreme war-mushroomed FEBRUARY, 194 5 community, many outsiders have swarmed in for war-jobs from over the nearby Penn- sylvania border. Whether the women will quit and the outsiders go home when the shooting stops are just two of the many problems crucial to both Joe and Elmira.

The first hitch is likely to come from Joe's haziness about just what the "GI Bill of Rights" does and does not say and mean. At the separation-center or discharg- ing hospital he was given an official sum- mary of the bill that is clear if carefully read. But Joe often reads hastily and clings to inflated notions prevalent in wards and barracks. He is prone to think that the Bill says he gets his pre-uniform job back regardless or that any time he wants he can borrow $4,000 from any bank, with a government guarantee. It isn't Elmira's Charles Epstein, Director of Veterans Re- Returning service men find in Robert L fault that he arrives under misapprehen- lief Department of the City of Elmira and Camp, Assistant Employment Manager of sions, but it means headaches for the town of the county. A Past Commander of Harry Remington-Rand, Inc., on effective coun- and heartaches for Joe just the same. B. Bentley Legion Post and at present its selor end friend. Mr. Camp is also a Past The local Re-employment Chairman of Adjutant, he has done yeoman service Commander of BentJey-Post Selective Service, who checks Joe in and gets him his old job—f/ he wants it, if it still exists, // he's entitled to it—is an able and warmhearted local Legionnaire. Beyond want his old job or can't get it, which tries generally know the answer if there is one, him are other agencies intended to supply to find him the right work for his dis- work hard to get results and—most im- Joe's wants: The county Veterans' Service abilities and, as policy, emphasizes chan- portant of all—are warm and friendly Bureau, founded in the dark days of 1931, neling him into war-production. Several about it. "This town thinks a veteran has where a smart and experienced lady gives local lawyers stand ready to handle his just a little more coming to him than the expert assistance in filling out papers about legal problems. A committee set up by average citizen," says one agency-head. insurance, disability, pensions and such, the local Farm Bureau will help steer him "We've got somehow to take care of him and also acts as unofficial mother-con- in buying a farm. From there things tail first." Yet, they say, the boys are not at fessor. The county Veterans' Relief, under on down to the local merchant who gives all grabby: "Very little so far of that the- another highly s}'mpathetic Legionnaire him for free a wear- and dirt-proof photo- government-had-better-take-care-of-me at- who not only handles funds to rescue Joes stat of his discharge so he can put the titude.'' in hard luck but knows the score on vet- original in safe keeping. And a good idea Joe often stays in the Veterans' Service erans' problems intimately. The local school- as far as it goes. longer than necessary, however, to tell Miss system's Veteran's Counsel—a young vet- Numerous talks with Joe himself—the Bisbee about troubles with the wife since eran of World W^ar II himself, CCD'd for men covered were all native-born but with he got back. Charley Epstein at Veterans' arthritis, fresh from six months' intensive English, Scotch, Irish, Italian, Pohsh, Ger- Relief and George Gillespie of Selective personnel-training in AST. The local office man and Dutch names—add up to an im- Service also count it a privilege to do of the United States Employment Service, pression that this line-up of agencies is father-confessoring. Nor does Edwin Ma- clearing-house for openings if Joe doesn't doing fairly well by them. These offices son, the educational counsel, think time

Margaret Kesslak helps George W. Simpson, nov/ Vice Four members of the Wives of Service Men's Club,

Commander of Bentley Post, fill out a claim form in the a YWCA-sponsored outfit. Left to right, Mrs. Sweet, County Veterans Service Office. Simpson, nine months Mrs. Manley, Mrs. Jessup, Mrs. Taylor. Their husbands in the F. A., has his old job back are all overseas —

wasted if his caller proves less interested in GI Bill schooling than in a chance to His savings in 4'/2 years' Marine get things off his mind: Corps service made it possible for "Seeing them would be worth while if ex-Sergeant Geri Cardinale to buy in all it did was to give them an interested an interest a small bpjtery stranger to talk to," he says. As yet there

is plenty of time for helpful yarning. How much will be available when the flood real!}' starts may well be something else. Between lack of time and federal policy, the boys find the atmosphere at USES different. Nobody knows just how many servicemen have returned to the county, but the 200-odd applying at USES in the last ten months are obviously a mere frac- tion. Elmira factories making bomb-fuses, B-29 motors, valves for ships, firefighting devices and other such war-items still need fresh hands and, under the present set-up, USES must supply them—a big job. Many returning Joes want war-jobs. "I have been over there," said one. "I know where and why things are needed. OK, I ma"y be out on a CDD, but I can help pitch up the stuff back here." Quick handling gets such a man into a war-plant over, we'll do all we can." In private some to move to Arizona, comes to USES and, where he's needed. But, for Joes who feel employers are unhappy about the idea of in two weeks, they catch him just the they've done their share in uniform and channeling jobs through a government opening he wants in faraway Phoenix with what they want now is a job with a peace- agency—they would rather Joe came round no risk of going out on spec and getting time angle and circumstances better suited on his own with boss and potential em- stranded. to their war-damaged souls and bodies ploye figuring it out between them. This is While war-work holds up, jobs for the God forbid any civilian should blame them no local angle, however, for the War Man- boys are deceptively rife. When lots of —USES does not feel as helpful and homey power Commission calls the USES tune. discharges gang up with cutbacks in pro- as it might. No brush-off or run-around, it And, along with national control of USES duction, going will get tougher. Before that appears, but crisp-spoken impersonality. locally go vocational-guidance, clearing- starts, both management and labor in El- That may be unavoidable when so small a house and reporting services that can be mira would like to see the GI Bill's job- staff has so huge a job. very handy for Joe. A Guadalcanal marine clauses clarified and revised. Otherwise, they Local employers co-operate well; "Every with a missing hand gets fixed up with' a figure, Joe will wind up behind the eight- personnel-man in town says send him right tool-checking job in a factory that, with- ball too often and be pretty sore about it. out expert USES help, he would probably To carry out present provisions to the letter, never have found himself. A local boy with says management, could force firing of most a dubious lung, whom Army doctors advised of the experienced know-how in the plant. Unions maintain it could force firing of most of their veteran membership of high experience and seniority. Curious situations Trap drummer in the Liberatore are possible, such as: Night Club, Stephen J. Jankowski What happens when three servicemen more than two years' service held a given job successively before don- itig artillery observation ning uniforms and all want it back? When an employer has signed a closed shop contract since Joe left and Joe comes back saying the law gives me my old job but I won't pay dues? When the plant has more former employes in service, all wanting their old jobs back, than were on its 1939 payroll? When Joe encounters the subtle technical distinctions between "permanent" and "temporary" jobs, with only the first giving him GI Bill protection? So far most official interpretations sound much too rigid and unrealistic to both ^management and labor. One consequence, 'you hear, is that employers, forced by am- biguity to play safe, are unwillingly reluc- tant to hire anybody but a clear case of one ^,of their old men coming back to an officially " permanent job. And both management and labor are showing a curious tendency to write more flexible and more liberal provisions in Joe's behalf into individual con- FEBRUARY, 1945 25

Bert Baldwin, ex-sailor who is back at his A bench inspector in a war plant, Robert Meet Alfred Hozen, who spent six months! old iob of metal straightener. A member Krowl served in the Air Corps os radio with a Tank Destroyer Regiment, and on' of Bentley Post, Bert is married and has operator-mechanic servicing equipment on discharge got his old job bock as operator^ two girls, one aged nine and the other P-47 Thunderbolts. He is unmarried, and on a belt sender in a war plant. Alfred isi a year and a half forty-one years old married man a J tracts, filling the chinks in Congress's work on the industry's postwar market of at plant employing a high proportion of off their own bats. least a million and a half machines. A women, was rubbed out by production- Nervous Joes are gloomy about the smaller plant, with a product taken off shifts and the whole payroll laid off—most immediate future. Now and again a re- priorities this year, already has a peace- of those let go, many women included, turned serviceman will tell you that he'd time backlog higher than its wartime jam appear permanently to have disappeared like to be back in uniform just for security, in 1942. Between long-deferred civilian from the local labor-force. Smart gupsses and that his buddies are all planning on demand and replenishment of dealers' are better than nothing, but not good staying in four to eight years, if they can stocks, all figure, they'll be busy quite a enough. Elmira, and all towns like it, needs arrange it, while things shake down at spell after shooting stops. to know locally and accurately how many home. Be that as it may, Elmira is not The more women that quit then, the jobs Rosie the Riveter will willingly vacate gloomy. The town's bossmen confidently better industry's chances of fitting Joe in. for Joe come VJ-Day, not to mention VE- expect full post-war employment. Elmira is just guessing hopefully on that Day. Reconversion will be simpler here than point. Many women, they tell you, were Many Joes, of course, bypass the GI in some places. Elmira factories are mostly got to work only by high pressure appeals Bill's job-clauses by deciding not to re- making for war what they made for peace. to patriotism, so they should quit readily turn to their old work. The urge to security "All we'll have to do," they say, "is change when the emergency lapses. Optimists point is attracting them in large numbers to civil the color of the paint." The Remington- to what happened recently when a local service jobs, federal preferred, with the Rand plant on the edge of town will need additional advantage of the highly-pre- a relatively small amount of retooling to ferred civil service standing that the GI get its typewriter-making machines started (Continued on page 47)

News photographer for the Elmira Star- Earl Geneway had two and a half years with Gazette, James B. Walsh had 28 months in - an Amphibian Training Battalion, all of it in the China-Burma-India Theater. Center, Law- |;this country. On application, he got his old rence Webster, veteran of 26 months' service job back as a drill machine operator in an

in the Mediterranean, is a postman Elmira war plant — 26 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine

Cartoons by GEORGE SHANKS

towns, a couple of gin mills on every corner, personal rehef stations in every block Quick Change with snappy French mademoiselles going by, like a big elephant is different from a little elephant, huh? A lot you know about this war. By FRANK A. MATHEWS If you had a big elephant I w^ould tell you what you could do with it if I wasn't DEAR POP: Well, here I am again. Or DEAR JUNIOR: So you think your war Always your respectful yet. I don't just know how to say it. What is so much differnt from the one I was Son I mean is I'm not where I was before but in, eh? Sure, we got a dozen million men I might as well be. There are a lot of in the service instead of only four million, DEAR SON: Now, don't git sore because islands out here. I can tell you now I was a lot of new kinds of machinery, it's cost- you may have got the idea my war was a on an island before, which I couldn't tell ing us three hundred billion dollars or more (Continued on page 45) you when I was there because that would instead of a few billion and us at home gits have been military information. Now it's our food rationed like we was on reUef , but just stale news. Our captain says stale news a war is a war no matter how you take it. is another name for history. I don't know Oh, yeh, this war's differnt from mine about that, except people don't pay atten- differnt just like a big elephant is differnt tion to it no matter what it is called. from a little elephant, that's all. The officers say this is "unfavorable ter- Your affectionate Pop, rain"—polite for a hell of a place. Justin X. Gobb What I am trying to get over is that this ain't "Paris in the Spring." Let me tell DEAR POP: Well, so reptiles, hot hu- you one thing. Pop, this is certainly a dif- midity, poisonous insects, malaria, ebony ferent kind of war from yours. female natives, and jumping from one rock Your affectionate son, to another rock in the middle of the Pacific TusTiN X. GoBB, Jr. Ocean is only different from quaint French FEBRUARY, 1945 27

All together, now! Only manpower could get this fisld artillery Tne Krauts blew up this mountain road, but ammunition trailer +0 the right side of a river in Italy, so the the Eighth Army engineers by-passed It with Fifth Army's GIs huffed and they puffed and they got it across another one, and renewed their northward push The 'Torgotten Front With the sth Army in Italy By FRANK MILES Field Marshal Sir Harold R. L. G. .\lex- "the forgotten front" in some ander. supreme alhed commander of the IT'Sminds, these battle areas of the Fifth American Legion War Correspondent Mediterranean Theater of Operations, in American and Eighth British armies an authorized statement to the daily press,

in North Italy, but it will be vivid in set out six answers to these questions: In Italy +he Fifth and Eighth Ar- the memory- of ever>' sur\-iving .\llied and (i ) The Germans intend to hold the mies carry on their operations in Nazi participant so long as he or she hves. Allies as far from the Reich as possible. impossible terrain, with horrible Moreover, when the history- of World War ( 2 I They- prefer fighting on other peo- II has been written from cold facts and weather which only those who have ple's soil to their own. authentic figures, most readers will be con- experienced it can appreciate (3 ) Taking food from Northern Italyr vinced that probably the toughest and most to supply- their troops is better than tak- costly mihtar>' fighting humanity has ever The American people know something ing it from a hungry Reich. known occurred here. of the tough fighting that preceded the tak- (4 ) Genoa. MUan. Turin and other in- This article was written early in Decem- ing of Rome, on June 4, 1944. dustrial centers of the Po Valley- provide ber. At that time, according to the War After nearly four months of a dogged the Wehrmacht with ammunition, trans- Department, 6,000,000 Americans in uni- struggling in rain. fog. mud. sleet and snow port and other kinds of war material. form were serv-ing our country- overseas, with ever increasing cold, the Fifth and (5) For a defensive winter the Po Val- and our casualties—killed, wounded, cap- Eighth in December were arrayed across ley- otters the Germans the best of possi- tured and missing—in all branches, includ- North Italy just south of Bologna, where sibihties : the nonhem end of the Apennines ing Pearl Harbor, were some 500.000. the Germans were again making a deter- and the water courses in the valley- set up On December ist there had been 100,- mined stand. a difficult problem for our artillery and 000 American losses in Italy—20 per cent The Fifth Army includes the 34th. Sfth, armor and make our assaults more dif- of the total engaged. SSth and 91st Infantry Divisions, the ist ficult than their defense. Bad weather cuts The Fifth Army was the first full Amer- Armored Division, the 9 2d Negro Infantry- down our asset of air superiority- but if we ican Army to be activated overseas. It was Division, an English corps and elements could win the Po ^'alIey. our fighter planes organized in Africa, and under Lt. Gen. from Brazil, South Africa and India. could hammer more effectively at ground Mark W. Clark, the famous "GI general,"' Soldiers of these organizations have targets inside Germany itself. was the first American army to fight on proved themselves superb in combat, but (6> Italy still has a Fascist govenmient European soil when it landed at Salerno they are against a well trained and equipped behind the German lines. For the Germans on September 9, 1943. foe and must operate in terrain which it would be a great morale and political The Wehrmacht was then mighty des- makes mere walking off the few roads al- blow to give up all of Italy- now. pite the damage it had suffered in North most impossible—to say nothing of fight- While the strength of the German army Africa, Sicily and Russia. Facing the Amer- ing and moving munitions and supplies. in Italy is not known exactly, there is icans were such units as the i6th Panzer "Hitler weather,'' the GI's call it. conclusive evidence that it amounts to Division, the Hermann Goering Division, There are those who ask why we are more than 26 Di\-isions. So long as they elements of the ist and 3rd Parachute Divi- fighting in Italy—why not clear out and are held here thai long will other German sions, one regiment from the 15th Panzer use our troops elsewhere, and some won- positions be without them. Grenadier Division, one from the 29th, and der why the Nazis under Marshal Kessel- ^\"hen the Fifth Army smashed the Gus- all of another Panzer Grenadier Division. ring seem so eager to hold on here. (^Continued on page 40) — : a 28 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine >00 TA<

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girl in the picture with "Mom" is Dot, the only one of the four Brigman daughters who thus far has married one of Mom's adopted sons from Mackall— paratrooper.

The Brigman home is modest and houses Mom and her four daughters, but part of it has been converted into a dormitory that every weekend affords clean comfortable cots for fourteen soldiers far from their own homes. There are no charges, as Mrs. Brigman's compen-

sation Ues in the fact that she is doing for other boys in uniform what she would like to be doing for her own sons—James, fighting in Italy, John B., in the Pacific, and the twins, George and Martin, at last report in England.

There is alwaj's an abundance of food, the kind a fighting man hkes. When a soldier appears to be short of funds, his appetite is satisfied along with that of his buddies. There is not a night that the Brigman home is soldierless. The boys come as they please, they sing, play the piano, accordion, mandohn—but mostly to see "Mom" and to spend a while in Mrs. Athalia Brigman, Aberdeen, N. C, proudly displays a special service flag their "home away from home." for her adopted soldier-sons from neorby camps. Her own four sons are overseas. World War Two will produce many heroes—perhaps from among her four sons or her adopted sons—but whatever is no intention whatever of by the side of the road—and be a mother THERE heroes may emerge from the fighting to soldiers." Anyway, that is what she disparaging the outstanding accom- fronts none will be more valiant and cour- has been doing and is continuing to do. plishments of the USO in its ageous on the home front than Mrs. nation-wide program of providing Widowed for seven years, with her four Athalia Brigman of Aberdeen, North soldier sons serving overseas, she has entertainment, club facilities and special Carolina. adopted so many paratroopers, glider- treats for the men and women in uniform, troopers, infantrymen and other soldiers or the similar work the Red Cross, under HERE'S a somewhat belated Christmas from camps surrounding her hometown more strenuous circumstances, is doing for story, as it refers to the Christmas of Aberdeen, North Carolina, that she the forces in far-off before this last one, and it was told to us armed the places where has forty-three sfars on the reverse of by T/Sgt. George E. of our men are helping to win this war. But the service flag she displays for her sons. Toles Camp Lee, this department nominates for special cita- Under those forty-three stars her daugh- Virginia tion those women of America who have ters have embroidered the affectionate "Six months late, a GI here at Camp Lee opened their hearts and their homes to nicknames "Mom" thousands of youths who have never before has given her boys. been far from their own firesides. Regard- I am enclosing a less of facilities or efficiency, organizations photograph of "Mom" with her flag at their best cannot provide that one par- in the middle panel and ticular touch of home. along the border you As a splendid example of one of the will note the insignia adopted "mothers" of servicemen, pre- we of organizations rep- sent all of you to Mrs. Athalia Brigman resented. Distinguish- who. with a daughter, is displaying her able are the nth, 17th novel service flag. The picture came to us and 13th Airborne from Captain E. A. Zelnicker, Personal Divisions and the Affairs Officer at Camp Mackall, North Soist, 506th, so7th Carolina, with this heartwarming story: and 508th Parachute Infantry Regiments To paraohrase a bit, "Mom" Brigman's all of which trained wish might be "Let me live in a house at Camp Mackall. The FEBRUARY, 1945 29 last summer received a Christmas greeting picked up from soldiers returned from card which had traveled at least 8500 theaters of operation as well as from other miles and ended up only 43 miles from sources: the point of origin. ist Division "Best of all, the envelope, arriving on The Cavalry, Dismounted, during one of the earlier actions in the pay day, contained five bucks, which the Southwest Pacific, captured two Jap recipient sorely needed because he had launches intact and were using them to pro- been transferred around so much that his vide taxi service around the local harbor. pay hadn't caught up with him for over Major Arthur Herman of New Orleans, two months. Louisiana, was commodore of this all- "The card was sent December 13, 1943, soldier Navy. The I'ngo of the crew was from Gholsonville, Virginia, to Private Jo- his biggest trouble because the loyal GI's seph P. Williamson of Headquarters Com- refused to use such naval terms as stem, pany, Station Complement, by his sister. stern, port and starboard. Every cavalry- First stop was Corvallis, Oregon, where man, even though dismounted, insisted head, tail, near-side off- Williamson was then thought to be sta- upon saying and side. tioned. In the meanwhile, however, he had been transferred and the piece of mail fol- When PFC Leonidas W. Byers shipped lowd him to the New York Port of Em- out of a U. S. camp he promised a num- barkation. By the time it arrived, William- ber of his buddies he would write upon son's outfit had sailed but he had been arrival at his destination. Soon afterwards detached and sent to Battle Creek, Michi- letters arrived for the thirteen boys he'd gan. left behind. "The greeting card with its folding- All except one of the letters started in money enclosure was forwarded there and the middle of a sentence, and all except then followed him to Fort Sheridan, Illi- one ended the same way. After some Three 2d Division vets, Hodge, Franklyn super-deduction it developed he had writ- nois; Camp Ellis, Illinois, and Fort Eustis, and Tanner, 1st A. E. F., meet up again ten only one letter thirteen pages long Virginia, never catching up with him until in the Seabees and had sent one page to each of his he received it at Camp Lee." • former fellow-soldiers. Eleven of the men had to wait for the EVERY so often a retread from World Marine Base in Camp Lejeune, Nortf other two to return from furlough before War One bobs up with an item that Carolina, and believe it or not, all three oi the jigsaw letter could be read properly. we feel even the youngsters in the present us were again serving in the same outfit. forces will enjoy and so we're going to We left Lejeune together and came out TECHNICAL requirements of modern share with you a contribution, which in- to Camp Parks. When the snap was taken, warfare will result in tens of thousands cludes the reproduced snapshot, received we were in the Seabees and attached to of fighters returning home after the war from J. E. Franklyn on Seabee stationery the Marines. with training and knowledge they might from Camp Parks, California, a few months "Archie Tanner, with the 83d Company. not otherwise have acquired. The nation ago. Legionnaire Franklyn wrote: 6th Regiment of Marines, is a member of will be swamped with men and w-omen "Am enclosing a snapshot which may Springfield (Illinois) Post of the Legion: versed in radio and meteorology, radar and be of interest to readers of Dog Tag William F. Hodge, a veteran of the old gth camouflage and scores of other technical Doings. Infantry, belongs to Athens (Texas) Post, subjects, many of which can be adapted to "The three comrades pictured are William while I, formerly with Company D, 2d peacetime pursuits. Of course, among those F. (Bill) Hodge, Jack Franklyn (myself), Ammunition Train, am affiliated with May- regiments of technicians, there were thou- and Archie Tanner, all members of the wood (California) Post. Although with sands who had some training in specialized famous Second Division in the A. E. F. different units of the Second Division, we work or latent talents which were developed. during World War One. None of us had three knew each other overseas and shared In what might be termed extra-curricular met the others during the intervening many bouts with vin blanc, vin rouge and activities, as far as the services are con- years until we ran into each other at the cognac. Tanner and I had been patients in cerned, there are thousands who proved Evacuation Hospital No. i to be embryonic artists, musicians, com- in the A. E. F. at the posers, lyricists and artists, most of whom same time. have had their talents discovered. For in-

"I hope if the picture stance, we direct your attention to the re- and this letter appear in Droductions of two murals that were Dog Tag Doings that painted by talented teen-age sailors stationed through that interesting at the Naval Air Station on Whidbey department of our favorite Island, Washington. These youngsters were magazine we will hear unearthed by Legionnaire Thomas Moore from some of our buddies of George Morris Post, San de Fuca, Wash- of World War One days. ington, who is doing a swell job as Director My present address is c/o of the USO-NCCS Club 'at Oak Harbor, Station Post Office, Camp Washington, on Whidbey, which Moore Parks, California." boasts is the second largest island in the United States. Through Comrade Moore WE pass along to you we take pleasure in introducing these two some miscellaneous young artist-sailors: items which Corporal Wil- Alongside the mural of a hand-to-hand liam Larkin of the Signal battle scene we find 19-year-old Calvin Lee Corps, Fort Monmouth, Culbertson who, despite his artistic talents, New Jersey, reports he holds rating as Aviation Radioman 3cL :

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Born in Hannibal, Missouri, his family moved to Kansas City, Missouri, where Culbertson, after graduating from Westport High School, joined the Navy in February, 1943. He won his rating through training at the Naval Aviation Radiomen's Schools at San Diego, California, and Great Lakes, Illinois, and last summer was transferred to the N. A. S. on Whidbey Island. The mural was copied from a small original painting by the nationally-known artist, Harold von Schmidt, which appeared in Look magazine. The second mural, depicting "three Corsair Navy fighters downing a Heinkel Bomber, while in the sea below two PT boats roar in to finish off an enemy submarine," is an original painting done by another 19-year-old—Frank D. Griffin—who holds the same rating as artist Culbertson. Born in Swanton, Ohio, Frank enlisted in the Navy at Toledo, on December 24, 1942, the day before his i8th birthday. From Great Lakes, he attended radio school "Sure it's a mortar, but it's not meant to mix in Memphis, Tennessee, aerial gunners' school in Holly- mortar in, you dope!" wood, Florida, then to Jacksonville, Florida, and San Diego, "Mortar! ! ? I'm trying to churn us some butter, California, finally being assigned to the N. A. S. at Whidbey Sarge!" Island. While at San Diego he designed the Black Cat insignia of Patrol Squadron 71, which is now in the One evening Lieutenant Ralph Lehan, of Taunton, Massachusetts, South Pacific. His art training consists of only one year's asked for a room. He was presented by the clerk on duty with a big old- studies at high school. fashioned register. Glancing down the pagfe, this is what he saw:

Maj. Lord Wilfred I. J. Innis-Kerr, MO, MC department is glad to discover there are in the THIS Lt. Col. Humphrey Willis Holliston, CF, MO services some artists who can produce \vork other than Col. Sir James lUingsworth, VC, OL, DFC, CG gag cartoons. Scores of the latter have descended upon the Cmdr. Paul P. Pittlesworth, SM, BSC, OR Orderly Room. Don't forget there's folding money await- WT2C Joe Butts, USN, AWOL, SOL ing GI Joes and Janes who submit informal snapshots of amusing or unusual incidents, short anecdotes and similar some GIs are again suffering similar sad experiences im- material of general interest. EVIDENTLY mortalized during World War I in the song, "Sister Susie's Sewing Socks for Soldiers," according to a tale Sgt. Harold Winerip sent from AND here is another Corporal Larkin yarn—a flashback the Netherlands West Indies. T/4 Eddie Chernutsky, cook, tells it this way xA. to the days of the first A. E. F. told to him by a "A couple of years ago when I was getting Infantry basic at Camp veteran friend: Wheeler, Georgia, we went on a hike one morning—a 15-miler. After a Some GI's were discussing a bar which was "For Officers Only," when a reminiscing retread veteran of the earlier World War related this incident that took place in the very exclusive Hotel Savoy in London.

Two 19-year-olcl Naval Aviation Radiomen, Frank D. Griffin (right), and Calvin L. Culbertson (below), Naval Air Station, Whidbey Island, Washington, with the murals they painted in the nearby Oak Harbor USO- NCCS Club directed by Legionnaire Thomas Moore

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while the sun began beating down and I started sweating. "But worst of all were my feet. Ordinarily I don't have bad dogs, my shoes were broken in good and my sox were brand new. But those tootsies of mine got so painful I began limping. There was an ache around my left great toe that almost drove me nuts. "Well, came late afternoon and I thanked everything

holy that I made it back to camp. I reported to the medics and they presented me with a pot to soak my feet in. I yanked off my shoes and sox, took a look inside the south- paw sock to see if maybe a pebble was in there. "There was something in the toe all right—a ball of paper with a note on it from the patriotic packer: 'Good marching to the soldier who wears these sox!'"

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32 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine GREENE Christopher from Iowa, will help him with HAM letters until he's able sit to up and do his (Continued jrom page ig) own. (Tell his wife she's absorbed in an that, taking the GI through the initial infantry lieutenant, so not to worry.) They'll phases of the new push. I believe it would probably keep him there for an- have been a good piece but I had no more other week and then ship him to some more than begun to collect my material for this permanent establishment. He's in amazingly stirring piece of journalism when certain good spirits, and the nurse says his sense arbitrary powers and circumstances beyond of humor helps her with the entire ward. (There's my control persuaded me to postpone it."' a very complaining German boy "I'd hke to indicate by the tone of this in the bed on his left, and a swell GI on letter," he said, "that I'm not worried his right.) That's the story. I don't know

don't make it too grim. And tell him I got how long it will be until he can write and the V-mail and the magazine." draw for you. MEN WANTED He got his nip after the taking of Geilen- LEWIS GANNET kirchen. He went up and stayed with the regiment that did the job, followed the HEADQUARTERS first wave in and through the town, and COMMUNICATIONS ZONE then, when the boys were temporarily EUROPEAN THEATER OF pinned down along the railroad tracks, OPERATIONS walked on until he met a captain he'd UNITED STATES ARMY known and liked, who was right at the WITH THE 83RD INFANTRY DIVI- front. They moved on up over the rail- SION, FRANCE — Hamilton ("Ham") road embankment when suddenly they Greene, illustrator and author who served heard sounds which did not seem to come as a war correspondent for The American to sell STRAND from our own men, and they lay very flat Legion Magazine with the 83d Division on the ground. Greene didn't really believe during the 3rd Army's drive across France,

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or write about it if he's never been up there Captain Cahill of the War Department tele- while with an assault platoon in the attack to it and to feel it." see phoned this message from Washington to on Geilenkirchen. A bullet from small arms In fact, at one time when the 83rd was our ofiice in New York fire entered his abdomen and pierced his charged with patrolling and holding a line "Latest report from the 9th Army states stomach and the corner of one lung. Phy- along the Loire River, "Ham" Greene went that Mr. is Greene improving. He was seri- sicians say that his chances of recovery are far in advance of the American lines, deep ously wounded on the 19th of November good." in German territory, all the way to Bor- deaux and back. "Ham's" favorite outfit in the 83rd was

the Reconnaissance Troop, a group of the past twenty THE EDITOR'S years. His home is at devil-may-care operators under the com- CORNER Rouses Point, New York. mand of Captain Hester A. Drum. At the (Continued from page 2) time the 83rd had reached the Loire River, to work at night, principally with soldiers. nation is still short of paper, and the juncture of the Third and Seventh Once the dog is on a leash with the soldier THE it is unlikely that there can be any real American armies had isolated a large group or. as is sometimes the case, within the war relief until six months after the European of Germans in Southwestern France and it dog harness (which tends to pull his nose section of this global war ends. Has your was the mission of Capt. Drum to cross the down ) he is alert to every command and Post helped this cause along with as much Loire and probe enemy defenses in this area, manifestation. When the soldier says vim as possible? As with the purchase of as well as to contact FFI agents there and "Watch him!" the dog immediately turns war bonds, you help yourself while doing learn of their needs and gather information vicious. a good job for your country when you from them. "Ham," fully aware of the dan- If the individual who has attracted his salvage paper. gers of this mission, volunteered to accom- attention carries a stick, pistol or gun, the In many communities Legion Posts have pany Capt. Drum. "There ought to be a dog is doubly vicious. His fur goes up, he helped various community projects along lot of good sketches and stories in the trip," growls and with hate in his eye watches the through talking charge of the collection of he said. person indicated. At the command "Get waste paper. In one town the proceeds will through him!" he will proceed to take the object During this trip "Ham" sped provide a memorial to the dead of this war. apart. . . . The chief dog handler at Fort unknown roads during the black of night, In other communities Posts have used the Belvoir is Corp. Frank Borden, His dodged German patrols, narrowly escaped J. Jr. money to finance canteens and community cordial co-operation in making it possible death several times from both the Germans centers, or to set up veterans of this war for Ben De Brocke to get this fine cover and the Maquis who often shoot first and in small-business projects. Many cities and picture is appreciated ask questions afterward, and watched the by both Mr. De towns have adopted the "Paper Holiday" Brocke and the magazine. RAF drop supplies and ammunition to the plan under which retail merchants forego FFI. He was one of the "liberatores" of wrapping any products in paper other than KING, whose mystery story many French towns and cities, including the RUFUS fresh cuts of meat. The first campaign of - Memo of Hate revolves about a war great port of Bordeaux. this sort was staged in Peoria, Illinois, last dog, is one of the most successful of the When Capt. Drum and "Ham" finally summer, and was a huge success. "Holi- who-done-it writers in this country. A vet- came back to the 83rd Division Command days" have been held in such large cities eran of Mexican Border service, he was with as Philadelphia, Boston, Post, "Ham" went to work and drew what Minneapolis and the 105th F. A. in France in 191 7-18. He Pittsburgh, and in he had seen and wrote about the 83rd Re- towns as small as Welles- has written a great many short stories, ley, Mass.; Ashland, Ky., connaissance Troop. There was only one and Ottumwa, books and plays on the mystery theme in Iowa. Alexander Gardiner part of the trip that "Ham" would discuss at any length. That was his experiences as a liberator: the wine, the flowers, the kisses, the triumphant cries of joy and the American flags that appeared as if by magic from cellars and attics. The 83rd Division came to France on D plus 13 and "Ham" Greene came to the Division shortly thereafter in time to cover its drive across the Brittany Peninsula and the Battle of Saint Malo. He had previously served as w-ar correspondent with the 8th and 9th Air Forces, based in England, and many a time when the 83rd was under German "88" fire, "Ham" kept up the morale of the boys with talks of his experiences with the Air Force. "Ham" knew the score in the air; he completed 16 combat missions in Marauders, Liberators and Fortresses. And he learned the score on the ground with the doughboys, the hard w'ay. If "Ham" ever reads this article. he"U probably say, "Hell, I didn't expect to get anything like that till I was dead." But the men of the 83rd feel that "Ham" Greene deserves this tribute while he's still alive and kicking and up front with the infantry.

EDITOR'S NOTE—On December 6th Your life as a fighting man was lived

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: Grain Neutral Spirits CkLVERT DISTILLERS CORP.,N.y.C. BLENDED WHISKEY 86.8Froof. Calvert "Reserve" ; 65% GrainNeutralSpirits...Calvert''Speciar' 72% % FEBRUARY. i94S 37 PERMANENT ried on. The Receiving Station of which the Center is now a part is situated on the beach at Lido and during before-the-war LIBERTY days was the hotel of a swank seaside golf club and bathing resort. The vast Atlantic {Continued from page 15) spreads before it. themselves in civilian life, under the direc- The extensive lobby has been converted tion of Captain Bunting there has been for- into offices, the former main diningroom is mulated a system of individual follow-up now the mess hall for enlisted men, a rec- for a period of ninety days after each man's HOW ABOUT! reation room equipped with pingpong and discharge. pool tables, with a piano and easy chairs The plan is now in force in connection and a well-stocked library adjoining occupy YOUR^ OWN I with sailors who are receiving their dis- one entire wing on the first deck. On that charges at the Lido Beach Redistribution same deck is a ship's store, a barber shop Center, on Long Island, New York, the with free service, a tailor, a newsstand and pioneer of many such centers which even- soda fountain and lunchroom. An enclosed tually will be established in all Naval Dis- passageway leads to a tiled swimming pool tricts. During the course of the processing in a separate glass-enclosed building. All at Lido Beach full information regarding of these facilities are made available to the each man—^his home address or the address men while they await the processing that to which he intends to go, his record of leads to the issuance of their discharges. service, his physical condition, the date, Those last days in uniform are made as type and character of discharge, the address pleasant as possible and while it must be of his local Selective Service Board and admitted that most of the men are eager other essential data are recorded on a form to return to civilian life, under the circum- by the Navy's Civil Readjustment Officer. stances speed in processing is not consid- In the regular distribution of this form, one ered essential. copy is sent from the Naval District in €oMiNG out of the Armed Forces Until additional Redistribution Centers which the man is discharged to the Naval and into civilian life is reconver- are activated, sailors from every section of District in which he intends to reside. sion, too. the country will continue to be processed Thirty days after a man has received his million at Lido Beach. Many of the more than a discharge, the following letter is sent to him Americans honorably discharged One entire wing on the third deck is the District Civil Officer, by Readjustment in this war have set aside for the Redistribution Center and from the Services Headquarters of the Commandant Third in I. S. Courses. therein are located the offices of the Offi- found the answer C. Naval District: cer in Charge, Lieutenant Commander I. C. S. Courses are being studied, Fred C. Dietrich, the Division Office under too, by thousands of soldiers, sailors, Dear Sir: The interest which the Navy Lieutenant Kenneth Erfft, the Civil Read- marines and coast guards who are has in its personnel does not terminate Office Lieutenant E. tomorrow while with a discharge. The Navy is concerned justment with C. thinking ahead to about the welfare of each of its former Sauers as Chief Interviewing Officer, the fighting magnificently today. members and his return to civilian life, Medical Office of which Lieutenant Com- With I.C.S. training it isn't nec- and mindful of the important part each mander A. Blau, MC, is in charge, as w-ell essary to go back to the same old must play in the future of our country. as offices for representatives of the Veter- rut of before the war. Nor will you This applies to you personally. ans Administration, the Veterans Employ- find very many I. C. S. graduates Will you please fill in the reverse side of ment Service, the Red Cross, the Legion unemployed time. this letter and return it to this office, at any and other veterans' organizations. A special using the enclosed self-addressed envelope. That's because I. C. S. training office is provided for the Chaplain, whose is practical, thorough, authori- advice on personal matters may be volun- The heavy response to this letter indi- tative , . , and there's always a tarily sought by dischargees. cates that the discharged men appreciate need for men so trained in industry Drafts of men, varying in size, are this continuing interest in their post-service and business. brought to the Center in buses from the . . welfare. Most of the replies request infor- railroad station. Mail the coupon NOW mation about educational aid and civil information! At the Receiving Desk, the incoming dis- for complete service employment. Prompt acknowledg- ment is made of all letters in which addi- INTERNATIONAL CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOLS tional aid is requested, and if a man de- sires, he may call at the office of the Civil BOX 7580-D, SCRANTON 9, PENNA. Readjustment Officer at Naval District Explain fully about your course marked X: headquarters where specially-qualified per- Accountancy Higli .School Air i_ oauitiuning Jr. Aero. lOngineer sonnel men are prepared to discuss his n Architecture Locomotive Engineer Auto 1 echnician O Mechanical Engineering Aviation Meclianic I'lastica liadio problems with him. Business Mana^^ement O .Sheet Metal Work Chemistry -ihip Construction For such consideration of its former Civil EnKiueering Shop Practice Diesel l.ugiuea Show Card and members, the Navy rates a double salute! Drafting Sign Lettering Electriciil Engineering D Textiles The day we were privileged to spend at Q Klectroniea Weather ObservatioD Q Foremansliip O Wehling the Redistribution Center proved to salty be (Fill in any other aubject) in many ways to former doughboys Frank Lisiecki and myself, and to our photogra- anie pher, Ben De Brocke, and his assistant, Homo Address..

August Bucker. We were greeted by the City State Officer of the Deck and were escorted up Prrscnt Working Position Hours 1.1/ to P.M. decks "I happened to and down ladders to upper and lower wonder what Discount to Discharged Veterans: Soecial Tuition Rates of Armcu l-orces. where the activities of the Center are car- the noon-day whistle." lor Members .

38 AMERICAN LEGION Magazine

chargees are logged in, their records and orders examined, the Division Office noti- fied of their arrival. Then in charge of a petty officer the men report to the Store Room on the 5th deck where an inventory is taken of their gear, excess gear is picked up and mattresses are issued for use during their stay at the Center. Returning to the Division Office, they are assigned to billets, given bunk tags and barracks instructions, and at the same time booklets explaining their rights and benefits under the GI Bill of Rights and other veterans' legislation. Each morning at 8:30 an indoctrination meeting is held at which the newly-arrived men are welcomed to the Center, are given general instructions regarding the processing and have briefly explained to them the special government rights and benefits which they have earned through their service. The Records Office determines which men are ready for processing and they report, in turn, to the Medical Office for a complete physical examination, to a spe- cialist for a preliminary interview, and then to the Civil Readjustment Office, where the Senior Interv-iewer or one of his assistants interviews each man personally. Here questions regarding privileges under the GI Bill of Rights and other legislation are fully answered and post-discharge employment is discussed. Then comes the important visit to the Disbursing Officer. Their pay accounts hav- ing been checked against their serv'ice rec- WITH YOUR FAMILY ords and other discharge papers, the men receive their accumulated pay, mustering- out pay due them and travel allowances. # ENJOY many pleasant hours and "Keep Young" by Before I tell of the final assembly of dis- making music with your children. Music is the ideal outlet chargees, I should like to have you learn for youthful emotions, and it's refreshing and relaxing to about a few of the many men whom our "Mom" and "Dad," too! It helps bring parents and children party met. There were, of course, a num- closer together, leads to a better understanding and helps ber of the "problem children," if one can eliminate the "youth problem," give that interpretation to patriotic enthu- siasm—those fifteen- and sixteen-year-olds It's easy to play a 0)nn band Instrument. New methods who fibbed about their ages and without

enable the average person to play tunes in a short time . . cgnsent of their parents enlisted in the you learn quickly the melody way. Many patented, exclusive Navy. Few of them advance beyond the period of boot training before being caught Conn features in mechanical and structural design actually up with and sent back to their homes and help simplify learning . . . make playing easier. When these schools. Most of them are indignant at such new Conns are again available you'll want one for each treatment and vow they'll re-up with the member of your family! Navy or enlist in the Army as soon as they FOR FREE reach the required age. Jack Dean Camp- SEND BOOKLETS bell of West Jefferson, Ohio, Donald Rey- PARENTS .. Send for "Music, The Emotional. Outlet for Youth." nolds of East Orange, New Jersey, and TEEN-AGERS .. Send for "Fun and Popularity Through Music." See yout Robert A, Stappenbacher of Rochester, dealer, address Ltd., Conn or C. G. Conn, Dept. 203 Elkhart, Ind. New York, were of this group. At the other age extreme, I found Arthur Le Roche of Gardner, Massachusetts, who was completing a hitch as ship's cook icl on training ships out of the Boston Na\'y Yard. Le Roche while not in active service during World War One, spent almost two and a half years guarding prisoners as a member of his State's Home Guard. Al- though a stove enameler by trade, his hobby is cooking and so he answered the Navy's WORLD'S LARGEST MANUFACTURERS OF BAND INSTRUMENTS appeal for cooks. FEBRUARY, 194S 39 We found one Legionnaire among the men we met—a member of Sheridan (Po- lice) Post of Brooklyn, New York. Francis A. Lombardo served in the Navy during World War One as a shipfitter icl. Re-en- listing in this war, after retirement from the New York PoHce Force, Lombardo became chief boatswain's mate with the 70th Naval Construction Battalion (Seabees) and traversed North Africa with his outfit from Casablanca to Tunisia. The presentation of discharge certificates and discharge buttons is made at a brief but impressive ceremony which we were permitted to witness. Assembled in groups in the ofiice of the Officer in Charge, the men are thanked for their service to the A BUSINESS Navy and regret is expressed that circumstances require their separation before the final victor}' is won. The certificate and WITH button are presented to each man individu- ally and with a handshake and wishes for future success, the newly-discharged veter- A FUTURE! ans start on the path back to civilian pursuits. Although closely associated with the Returning veterans! How would you like to be your own boss ... to Navy, no members of the Coast Guard or establish your own business and make it grow more profitable year of the Marine Corps are cleared through the by year? That's the opportunity offered by the automotive service Lido Beach Redistribution Center. Men of industry for men who are qualified to start their own garage or those branches receive their discharges at service station. The initial investment is relatively low, the the stations where they are located at the demand for service is constant, the possibilities of expansion are time they are to be separated from the unlimited. Your hard work and initiative bring sure results! service. Civil Readjustment Officers are available to give the men such aid as they

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NO CAPITAL {Contimicd from page 27) CLOTHES REQUIRED tav line its artillery fired a ship load of • The Homeland man is at- PART TIME OR ammunition a day and its signal linemen ways a welcome visitor, FULL TIME strung 1,000 miles of new wire and cable because he is able to save • every 24 hours. Those would be real sup- his customers real money COMPLETE OUTFIT on made-to-m ea sur FREE ply problems under normal conditions, but clothes of superior quality. at that time the Fifth was in a country Here's a proposition that will interest that called for 13,000 mules and horses to every man who has even thought of going pack supplies, including ammunition and into business for himself—a chance to sell America's most famous made-to-measure wire, to troops above the jeep line. clothes DIRECT at prices so reasonable The Gothic line was in frightful terrain that every man you know is a live prospect! for an attacking army. The Fifth Army Homeland made-to-measure clothes are na- quartermaster issued 12,000 pack boards to tionally known and nationally respected. Every in that sector garment is made to the customer's measure and one Corps alone because perfect fit is ABSOLUTELY GUARANTEED. GI's often had to lug rations and ammuni- You'll find selling such fine clothes pleasant and profitable work—pleasant because you do your tion to the front on their backs. customer a real favor by giving him splendid By late October some troops below value and service ; profitable because you can build a steady increasing business season after Bologna were being supplied by rope fer- season. And you are IN BUSINESS FOR YOURSELF—working where and when you ries stretched across streams flooded by please—full time or part time weeks of torrential rains. All •wool fabrics Hundreds of them including An Infantry Division uses 400 tons a fine selection of tropical worsteds in beautiful assortment—and every suit made to exact 800,000 pounds—of supplies a day. Stores in Principal Cities measure with a GUARANTEE of satisfaction An Armored Division uses 20,000 gallons Dealers Everywhere or money back Good of gasoline a day at rest; up to 50,000 a Immediate profits. You make a fine profit on INVEST IN VICTORY — BUY BONOS day in action. every sale—and in addition you make extra profits if you are a good producer. And. because Home- The Fifth Army burned 400 gallons of land made-to-measure clothes are sold DIRECT from MAKER to WEARER, the prices are so gasoline every minute it moved through temptingly low that your friends NEVER appreciate it MANY on 5th. when you show them your line. Rome June Despite the innumerable difficulties, the Complete outfit free. We furnish you every- SUSPECT CAUSE thing you need to start business— including your spirit of the fighting men of the Fifth and samples, equipment and kit. We instruct you Eighth Armies is wonderful. Of course how to take measurements accurately—we even give you free advertising. Write for details there are gripes—to gripe is a soldier's OF BACKACHES no cost, no obligation. This Old Treatment Often traditional prerogative—but . dereliction of Brings Happy Relief any kind of duty ordered is extremely rare. Many Bufferers relieve nagging backache quickly; once tbey discover that the real cause o£ their trouolo tired kidneys. may be - , . The kidneys are Nature's chief way of taking the excess acids and waste out of the blood. Xney help Homeland day. most people pass about 3 pints a ^ When disorder of kidney function permits poison- TAILORS, I NCT^ Send this copy o£ your maga- ous matter to remain in your blood, it may cause nagging backache, rheumatic pains, leg pains, loss of pep Call at one of our branch ofiSces and energy, getting up nights, swelling, puffiness 26 Park Place, New York zine to a friend or relative over- under the eyes, headaches and dizziness. Frequent or 45 S. 17th St., 2nd Fl., Philadelphia 6cr;nty passages with smarting and burning sometimes snows there is something wrong with your J410 H St., N.W., Washington, D. C. seas. See page 2 for postage kidneys or bladder. 212 Oliver Ave., Pittsburgh Don't wait! Ask your druggist for Doan's Pills, Andrews Building:. Buffalo, N. Y* charges. used successfully by millions for over 40 years. They Building, Empire Detroit, Mich, give happy relief and will help the 15 miles of kidney or write Dept. L-52, 2500 to 2512 Ashland Ave. tubes flush out poisonous waste from youz blood. Get Doau'e PiUs. BALTIMORE (3), MARYLAND FEBRUARY. 1945

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Snowden and the girl stood looking down audible word he uttered as though he had PILOT ". TO Then she slightly . at him, unmoving. took shouted it: . Jenny." his hand into her own two hands and Harriet said nothing. She seemed to grow CO-PILOT Snowden stepped back. straighter as she stood there beside the bed. Red Wilstach opened his eyes. They were He closed his eyes then and she laid his (Continued front page 9) glazed, pain-streaked eyes, but there was hand gently back upon the white bedcloth- a wan, concerned smile and held up two no fear in them. ing and turned to leave the room. crossed fingers. In the softest voice, Harriet said, "Red. Outside, the slanting rays of the late sun His glance appraised her. "The guy's got I've come. Red. I'm here beside you, hold- glistened upon tears in her blue eyes. Snow-

enough to fight for, God knows. . . . Though ing your hand. I love you." den saw the tears, saw also the little cocker you've both more pride than sense." The wounded man looked at her and spaniel bounce forward gleefully at sight of They were greeted by Major Kirby something like recognition seemed to come them, so that he said, "Down now, Jenny!" Smith, a gaunt and towering figure in a into his eyes. Harriet stopped still on the walk. "Jen- white coat, whom Snowden knew well. His parched lips moved and Snowden, ny?" she whispered slowly, incredulously. "Just another flak ailment, Phil," he said from behind the girl, heard the one barely "Jenny?" with practiced optimism. "I'm beginning to "Kind of a cute name, what?" Snowden think you B-26ers are allergic to the stuff." grinned. "We fell heir to Jenny about Snowden grinned. "They caught us with three weeks ago when one of the crews our bomb bays down again. This is Harriet didn't come back." Benning, Red's prospective lady to be. Har- "Oh," she said, abstractedly. Then, bend- riet, Doctor—ah. Major Kirby Smith. You ing down, she lifted the littlev dog and held s'pose we could see him, Doc?" him close in her arms. "Jenny," she said. "Well, in view of the circumstances," "Jenny, you darling!" And she laughed an said the major, smiling at Harriet, "yes. abrupt, happy laugh into the afternoon. But just for a minute. He won't recogn-ze Later, pedaling back through the coun- you anyway, chances are, as he hasn't fully tryside, Snowden stared thoughtfully at the regained consciousness yet." bundle of taffy fur in the basket before him. Red Wilstach's face was drawn and pale "That Jenny business, Joe," he said to the " below the bandages which, turban-like, dog, —you understand, I guess. He's your swathed his head. A reddish beard stubble buddy too, Joe." had begun to shade his jaw and he lay ver>' "It loolcs like they're beginning to When you flew with a man and lived with

still on the bed with his eyes closed. scrape the bottom of the barrel!" a man . . . . .

42 The AMERICAN LLGION MagaMt Men, get into INDUSTRIAL ELECTRONICS Grow With America's Great Netv Industry

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(Continued from page ii)

and in England. APRS shortwaves to the for a man to South Pacific, Southwest Pacific, China, guard himself against the Alaska, Central and South America, for 65 hours daily. embarrassment of dandruff. I'rogramming includes hometown news- Easy, too. You can get rid of casts, sportscasts, music, talks, religion,

and a broad basis of entertainment. The loose dandruff . . programs are "packaged" in the form of keep your hair under recordings and sent to American fighting

well-groomed control . . men. wherever they are. More than 30,000 double-sided recordings are shipped to simply by Electronic detector stops motor ifany one of500 threads breaks massaging U. S. troops each month. Each package a couple of minutes a day Revolutionary — Amazing represents a week's broadcasting supply.

Industrial Electronics is revolutionizing produc- When consumed, the package is sent to with all turn tion processes of kinds. Wheels or stand the next station in the circuit, and then Still at its signal. Lights go on or off at the flick the next, until all have been supplied. When of its sensitive "fingers." Giant printing presses, shears, punch presses, and the like are abso- •APRS first approached recording manu- lutely controlled by it. facturers, an order for 2,000 transcriptions Going to Town was believed to be the maximum that could

With ability to do all these things and more, be met. During 1945, monthly production is it any wonder Industrial Electronics is forging will reach 40,000 records. to the front by leaps and bounds.' All the big jms Bob Hope's commercial program heard industries are opening wide their doors to it. in the United States is example of the Why.' Because this amazing new force cuts an costs tremendously. entertainment type of APRS transcribed at all drug stoies and barber shops Trained Men Are Needed radio program. By agreement with the of records to install and service this Industrial Electronics sponsor Hope's program, APRS equipment. In fact, right now there are not nearly the Hope show while it is being broad- A service man or woman would like to enough such trained men. And thousands upon cast to American listeners at home. Unde- thousands more will be needed after the war. read this copy of your Legion Maga- sirable content for overseas is checked by zine. For overseas, seal the envelope Train for a Key Job NOW .Army censors and deleted, later to be re- and put on fifteen cents in stamps, as Yes, get ready NOW. Be among the first to land filled with approved material. This half- first class a key job with top pay in this exciting new in- postage is required. If you hour show requires up to 50 cuttings and dustry. This institution, a pioneer in practical put the National Legionnaire in the from two hours to twenty-five hours of technical home training, will give you the envelope carrying the magazine over- "know-how" you need. Our methods must be continuous dubbing on the part of APRS, seas, make the postage eighteen cents right, for during the past 3 years we have been which similarly decommercializes and makes training men and women in fine precision work instead of fifteen. For the home fron't suitable for overseas sixteen radio shows for the Army, Navy, and Marine Corps exclu- the mailing charge for the magazine sively, under government contract. daily. and the National Legionnaire is four Commercial value of many APRS radio We Will Train You in Your Spare Time cents, in an unsealed envelope. For shows is estimated at from $15,000 to We will train you at home in your leisure time, tlie magazine alone, three cents. or in our big Chicago shops, or combine both $50,000 per program but APRS cost per In sending the magazine to a Fleet methods. No advanced schooling or previous quarter hour program, including the cost experience is necessary. Our methods are geared Post Office, you don't have to use of transcriptions serving all APRS stations, to the man who must work for a living. They first class mail. Parcel Post rates is only This rare wartime economy make everything simple, fascinating, easy to $65.58. apply—three cents in an unsealed grasp. Get the facts. Fill coupon and mail toda) is due largely to the availability at no envelope. cost, of the largest radio programs on the INDUSTRIAL air, through the co-operation of advertisers, TRAINING INSTITUTE actors, writers and producers. WE 2130 Lawrence Ave., Dept. P3B, Chicago 25, III. APRS began in May, 1942, in Holl}'- Send full facts on Industrial Electronics "Couxse ToAnySuit! and opportunities in that field. wood's Taft Building at Hollywood and Double the life of your Namp Vine Streets, with two officers and three coat and vest with correctly matched pants. 100,000 patternsT* Every Address civilians as personnel. APRS is now pro- pair hand tailored to your measure. . Our match sent FREE for your O. K. before ducing more than 2,000 hours of radio pro- panta are made. Fit ^uaraoteed. Send pIcGe 0/>_ -Slate_ of cloth or vest today- grams a .year and is shipping more than ! — — FEI5RLARV, 1945 43

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DEAR POP: I never heard that in your little war you had to crawl under a piece of mosquito netting to write a letter to your father, which I am doing right now and watching the bugs being et up by something called a praying mantis, which is a king-size Episcopal grasshopper that you can't tell whether it is supposed to be kneel- ing down when it is standing up and which I can't tell neither about myself trying to write this letter under a 2 by 4 piece of netting. Listen, Pop I know I wasn't in your war and don't know about it from personal knowledge, but I didn't only hear what you said all these years but you remember you took me to a couple of American Legion meetings with you before I sailed and I heard what those birds said, too. So I'm telling you this is a different war. Your different Son

DEAR JUNIOR: It is very sad you do not like the kind of war you have. "So solly," like Jap say. But we fixed up one

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For more than four years past, Champion Ceramic for you which is certainly the most colos- Aircraft Spark Plugs have been on active duty with sal, stupendous and gigantic ever produced, our air forces, setting new records for long life and to coin a fraze from the movies. And that's dependability. Extreme altitudes, extreme tempera- tures, 100 octane gas, and supercharging required the only difference there is, new and revolutionary spark plugs, I think we have got twice as many sol- embodying materials and precision diers and sailors in the U. S. right now than craftsmanship of an exceptionally high we had in the whole Army and Navy and order. Today those same basic mate- Marines in 191 7-18, includin' what was so rials, fundamental design and excep- long mistaken for the weaker sex. tionally high manufacturing standards But, after all, what is the use of us two are yours, in Champion Spark Plugs, arguin' about whether this war is a lot dif- for your present car. Champions bring an extra measure of dependability ferent than the last one or whether it ain't? to every engine. Champion Spark That don't make any more planes or bombs Plug Company, Toledo 1, Ohio. or tanks to git it over with ho quicker. Your anxious and affectionate Pop

DEAR POP: It was mighty nice getting your last letter, especially since you suggest we don't argue any more about how different my war is from what your war was. Anyhow, I suppose you're right and there isn't any real difference. We have the same gripes I heard about from you and your friends in the Legion and all like that. Besides, I heard all of you telling about how when you came home all the things they said they would do for you they didn't —nobody cared whether you got a job or even a little extra pay to tide you over until you could find one or had a chance to complete an education which was busted up by the war. Yep, Pop, you're absolutely right. There's no difference. In spite of all your experi-

ence all of you will just sit around and it'll be just the same thing all over again for me like it was for you. Your discouraged Junior CHAMPION DEAR JUNIOR: Well, to think I have got a son as dumb as your last letter! Don't you hear nothin' about what is going on? SPARK PLUGS So you think it'll be just the same old thing all over again, huh? So this war ain't BUY MORE AND MORE WAR BONDS UNTIL THE DAY OF VICTORY any different from the last one, ain't it? —. —

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Well, of all the—listen, when we guys was mustard out, what did we git? 60 bucks Thousands Now discharge pay and a railroad ticket to where we joined up, and years later somethin' called "adjusted compensation" by the Encouraged to Wear BIG GARDEN Govt. HUCKLEBERRIES And what'll you git? Well, the Legion From Seed to berries a Hearing Aid! same season. Thousands helped to take care of that for you young of delicious, juicy berries, fellas through that GI Bill of Rights you one inch in diameter. Wonderful for Pies and maybe heard about. Or maybe you didn't, Preserves. and I'm sendin' the low-down on it with CLIMBING CUCUMBER this letter. Saves garden space by Your steamed up vigorously climbing any Pop fence, pole, trellis, arbor ^4 or tree. Bears heavily Tbanks to throughout season. White, crisp, tender flesh. 12-18" the Smart long. Delicious Flavor. ELMIRA AND New Zenith YARD LONG BEANS THE EX-Gl Neutral-Color Earphone and Cord Makes people stare—pods actually yard long. Strong (Continued from page 25) • growing vines produce Now another great Zenith accom- Bill on enormous crop of gives them. Or they figure that things plishment is prompting thousands to long, slender, round pods learned in the Army or Navy—radio-re- enjoy the advantages of a hearing aid! 3 feet or more in length. pair, veterinary techniques, accounting Excellent for snap beans. The new Neutral-Color Earphone and point to an upgrading change. USES does Cord of the superbly performi ng Zenith "SPEED KING" EARLY TOMATOES well here with elaborately worked out list- Radionic Hearing Aid is as little notice- (Burbank.) First to ripen- ings of what civilian jobs correspond to able as eyeglasses . . . brings to the hear- First to Bear. Perfected by the great Burbank. detailed miUtary classifications and training aid a new look of youth which en- Beat your neighbors to ings. A boy who used to pump gas and ables you to wear a Zenith with poise ripe Tomatoes. Weigh 2 learned truck-maintenance in uniform is to 3 lbs. each. Earliest and confidence. Tomato grown. Should bo now making high pay at specialized work every Garden. in with airplane motors in an out-of-town All 4 Packages, Post Paid Only lOe; plant. shoe A MODEL FOR 3 Lots 25e — Order Now— Catalog Free A clerk whom the Navy trained EVERY TYPE OF SEEDS into a high-class mechanic is doing very GOOD LUCK well in an Elmira machine-tool plant. CORRECTABLE STA. 97 PARADISE, PA. A former traveling salesman who became a HEARING LOSS mess sergeant is going after a job as din- ing-car steward on a local railroad. There are cases, of course, where a kid who never made over $25 a week before the war comes service out of with the firm Each Complete, Ready-to -Wear conviction he is now worth $10,000 a year —but not often enough to be discourag- 1 Model A-2-A Air Conduction. New, improved model of the famous Zenith ing. At the other extreme is the mail-boy standard hearing aid for the person of or file-clerk who goes to war a youngster average hearing loss. Only $40. and returns a major trained by tough experience to handle men and plan jobs. 2 Model A-3-A Air Conduction. A brand new super-power instrument with tre- Neither community nor former employer mendous volume in reserve to assure max- has done right by him when offering his even under An Ideal imum clarity and tone quality Giltl old job, yet chances of finding him the most difficult conditions. Only $50. • FOLDS DOWN TO _ 4 INCHES THICK CLEVER new convenience for calibre work he deserves will be slimmer • EASILY STORED A' card players. The all-pur- 3 Model B-3-A Bone Conduction. A new IN SMALL PLACE pose, portable playtable for as more boys come home. I precision instrument created specially for small apartment, den or recrea- • OFFICIAL SIZE One smart Elmira employer guesses that 4 FT. DIAMETER tion room. New improved the very few who cannot be helped by any

EIGHT NON-SPILL I • model. Attractively finished, at most he will get back only 60 per cent air conduction aid. Only $50. GLASS HOLDERS substantially made, sturdy legs. I AND ASH TRAYS Nothing to loosen or wear out. of his boys. He would like them all, since 1 • MAHOGANY Now custom made — delivery BY THE MAKERS OF ALCOHOL-PROOF he knows them personally and saw them FINISH within 10 days. Only $34.50 Ei- press collect. Money refunded trained, but it does simplify the job-pro- if not pleased. Makes ideal gift^ j

' HOME EQUIPMENT CO., Dept. D-OO viding problem. Just for the hell of it, his 360 N. Michigan Av*., Chicago 1 company has been sending each of its •LONG DIST*NCE» RADIO EVERYTHING FOR FUN AT HOME servicemen $25 every three months as HeadQuarters for game room equip- RADIONIC PRODUCTS EXCLUSIVELY ment . . . accessories for the home. Un- spending-money. Others think a mere mi- WORLD'S LEADING MANUFACTURER

, usual games, barbecue supplies, etc WrH* for nority will want to return to the old stand . - PASTE ON PENNY POSTCARD AND MAIL "SuccMrfHl Entmtalning At Horn*." If« FrMi —some for the above reasons, some from Corporation, Dept. AL-12 war-induced restlessness, some on very Zenith Radio P. O. Box 6940A, Chicago 1, IlUnois simple grounds indeed. For instance, the Please send me your Free booklet about youngster who went from a factory into Radionic Hearing. Turn spare time Into cashi Easyl Just show friends, neighbors thrill the infantry and came back hollering for new WALLACE BROWN Everyday G Namg Cards. Wonder-value 16 Card All-Occasion sortment . . . Includlner cards for Blrthdaj a truck-driving job: Well. Baby-Birth. Friendship, Sympathy, et on sight for only $1,00—big profit for you, up to "I want to ride from on," Address— 50c. Six moce special fast-selling Assortments now he said Birthday, Easter, Humorous, Get-Well. Sympathy, NAME Glft-Wrap'>)ng—all big money-makers. Also per- FOR fervently. "I never want to walk another sonal stationery. Samples sent on approval. Write today to WALLACE BROWN. INC. SAMPLES step so long as I live." City Stale.. 225 Fifth Ave., Dept. N-142. New York tO, N. Y. COPVRISHT 1944, ZENITH RADIO CORP. 48 The AMERICAN LEGION Masa-.int

Guesses may be bettered by a sui-v'ey started last October by Remington-Rand among former employes in service, including those from its Elmira plant. Wherever addresses could be got, letters and ques- tionnaires were mailed saying we want you back, do you want your old job or something else, what special training would you like, and so forth. Of 191 Elmira replies, so far predominantly from men still in the States, only seven don't want to come back at all. An upgrading psychology is evident, however:

"I'll be back if I can get a Rem-Rand job that is better—or more interesting—or better-futured—or let me make use of what I learned in the service." Some of that may be cautious staying on the good side of a potential employer. Returns may also be affected by the probability that steadier and more thoughtful men were first to answer. But any employer properly curious about what demobilization will put him up against in the way of payroll-pressures, training - needs and employe - psychology might well follow this company's example. Only a quarter of the American labor- Even the choices! tobacco loses ils savor in a pipe that allows bitter juices force, however, is normally needed in man- to seep into the mouthpiece Steady smokers heartily approve the Royaltor ufacturing industry. Schooling, farms, serv- Crown pipe because it is uniquely equipped to trap unwanted moisture ice industries, small business theo- and slugs. No pipe of its kind possesses the Royalton Crown features-the must condensing well and other patented safeguards — that keep bowl and mouth- retically absorb an awful lot of discharged

piece enduringly dry . . Smoking luxury within reach of every man. Joes if the load on industry itself is not

KENRY LEONARD 1 THOMAS, INC. • OZONE P«RK, NEW YORK to be too great, as the GI Bill recognizes. Since 1,000 Chemung County farm-boys are in uniform, for instance, the local Farm for o Gooc/ Pay Job Credit co-operatives expect an eventual TODAY and TOMORROW rush of serviceman-borrowers wanting acres of their own. But as yet only two have made inquiries of the civic-minded dirt- /ay job, or want lo start a busiM,.ss of your own. uet change. But the last thing they want is a facts about Del'ORHST'S modern A-U-C training Specify Reeves Army ^''^^^ Victory Book and Kit Twill of which the U. S. string of retume'd servicemen coming in Folder'T'obAYi''^ Army has already to say "I'd like my $4,000 please" as a YOU "LEARN-BY-SEEING" bought eighty million mandatory right. yards. Also demand See your Glengorrie Poplin for GI Bill education is also starting slow. dealer^for uniforms, work or sport clothes mode from matching shirts. Both Barely twenty inquirers to date have shown Reeves Fobrici, or writelo: fabrics ore Sanforized.* genuine interest. A few plan to work at 'Fabric shrinluee not mn Una 1% (D. S. eovemment lest CCC I-l91t) war-jobs for a year, saving money to sup- REEVES BROS.JNC. .fS. plement Uncle Sam's help when they pick 54 Worth Street, New York City \„^ up their educational privileges later. A few DeForest's Training, Inc.. 2533N. AshlandAve. more are getting set, such as the former Dept. AL.-2, Chicago 14, Illinois Send FREE Victory Boofe and Kit Folder; tool-room clerk now studying airport man- also inforraatlon as to how we may help you agement at the University of Texas. Vari- under the "G.I. Bill." CARNATION PLANTS ous wrinkles that need ironing out account Name- FROM SEED SPECIAL OFFER. lOO SEEDS for some of this sluggishness. Relatively StreeU CHOICEST MIXED COLORS Send 10 cents Today for ttiis Speci few boys want years of conventional col- I City_ d Nursery Cataloc absolutely lege training—short courses, a year to a SHUMWAYSEEDSMAN.Box 304, Rockf ord, Illinois year and a half of concentrated specializ- FEBRUARY, 1945 49

ing is their idea, not too easy to find in many fields. Nor, though what they want may prove available in Cleveland or Balti- fresh tobacco more, do they want to go away to study. Most are married to local girls and besides, what a joy! they've just got home and would like to Model No. 213- $3.00 stick around a while. Elmira is counting a Other models and leathers (roin$1.50lo$15.00 Represented good deal on a state scheme to build a by Leadinij vocational institute in town offering just Dealers skills Everywhere such short-term instruction in special and occupations, from radio to farming. Local educators are being sensible about

it all. They want to prevent the large waste of time that so much GI education proved to be after the last war and to avoid the temptation to rush into rigid programs far ahead of any detailed idea of what Joe wants. They will lean heavily on apprenticeship in many fields and hope they can channel lots of men into training for service-industry work, a kind of opportunity that can take a lot of load off the factory. Joe's job-troubles in Elmira to date center round his prevailingly poor nervous and emotional condition. Many men have already been discharged as psychoneurotic —meaning, as the public had better learn fast, not "crazy" but damaged emotion- ally by the strains of training, duty and fighting. Many less marked cases show extreme jumpiness, restlessness, irritability, all pretty baffing to wife and foreman, though it isn't the guy's fault at all and may wear off in time, if he gets the right handling. There was the quiet dischargee who went to work in a good desk-job and did all right for a while. Then one day an Army plane came over lower than usual and, as the motor-noise grew, he dived under the desk in a panic of collapse and it was days CHANGE OF ADDRESS before he could face work again. In case after case a boy back on his old factory- If your address has been changed since the racket paying your 1944 dues, notice of such job can't take of nearby presses change should be sent at once to the Cir- crashing down and has to be shifted to culation Departrrient. The American Legion outside work, often a nervous essential. Magazine, P. Box 1055, Indianapolis, 0. The USES has been smartly getting such niR-TITE Indiana. Also tell your Post Adjutant what men temporary outside jobs in the Army's you are doing. Elmira Holding and Reconnaissance Point, tobaccD pauc GIVE ALL INFORMATION BELOW where Europe-bound cargoes are distributed NEW ADDRESS and loaded.

Another lad went along steadily for a

State ager and big boss all know what ails him beautifully made in the Snesf and why, much damage can be done such leathers, in standard and 1945 Membership Card No a man very quickly. in combination models to hold It helped a lot locally when the son of Post No an Elmira personnel-man came back with pipes OS well as tobacco. State Dept. ... a discharge on account of the jumps, which At better shops everywhere. OLD ADDRESS set his father missionarying among his col- leagues with his own boy for text. The Street Address, etc USES and other agencies do good work in City educating employers in the why of such IMPORTS. INC. men's requests for outside work and ap- Jim. « layorton. 419 4th Av State parent irresponsibility in taking and keep- H.S.Atis.forf(tanM'if — — f 50 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine

ing jobs. Employers in turn often waive the strict letter of the law in keeping a boy's old job open longer than the mandatory ninety days—the union would like to see that legally lengthened anyway

and trying to fit him into something else that may suit better. By and large a good majority of war- nervous men are probably getting considerate treatment in Elmira plants. But reach- ing all foremen and the public is a huge job and, when skimped, gives nasty results. In one shop a nerve-shattered boy's bench-

mates insisted it was fun to make sudden noises to make him jump and turn white. In another a veteran shrinking from the 'Wait'll he starts smoking his Sir Walter Raleigh- racket associated with his old job asked " for outside work—only to be refused and then go in and ask him for a raise, eventually laid off as inefficient, even though he had offered to take lower pay

outside. That plant, however, is not always Smokes as sweet so harsh. Another veteran, with handicap- ping injuries, reports that the same out- as it smells fit has been most considerate, letting him knock off when he needs to and taking

great pains to fit his job to his troubles.

For heartwarming contrast, a kid re- . . . the quality pipe turned to his old bench late last spring tobacco of America" and proved much too cross-tempered and unsteady to cope. His boss didn't get sore UNION MAOe —instead he consulted with the boy's pas- i tor and doctor and then took him out to fRBB! 24-page illuttrafed booklet telit hew to seleel and break in a new pipe;rulet for pipe place: told cleaning, efc. Write today. Brown & Williomton Tobacco Corporation, Louitville 1. Kentucky. his country "I him take 3'our shirt off, son, and putter around the place —there was plenty needed doing—and, after a summer of that, he calmed right Learn How to down and came back on the job and is doing swell." Similarly, the USES had good MIX DRINKS LIKE luck last summer sending jumpy boys to do badly needed farm-work as reconditioner, A PROFESSIONAL with gratifyingly good results when they

re-entered factory jobs this fall. Get the Professional Mixing Guide, used by Professionql Bartenders, to A doctor specializing in such troubles shcfw you how to mix drinks with would help such boys immensely. But the professional accuracy and skill. It county has no psychiatrist available, a tells also exactly how and when to use Angostura to add the per- situation characterizing many counties. The fecting touch. 254 Standard Recipes, local Council of Social Agencies is trying to raise a fund to pay for an imported psychiatrist. But, even if the money appears, getting him will be tough—the na-

tion "s supply of such doctors is always slim and the armed forces themselves need more of them than they ever had yet. The best S*nd for tha Profes- sional Mixing Guide Elmira can offer now is a committee com- the same book used by posed of a refugee neurologist, a retired

professional barmen. It's psychiatrist, a Catholic priest, a Protestant free . . .Write Angostura- minister and a local teacher, aimed not at Wuppermann, 304 East 45th St, New York J7, N. V. treating veterans but at advising the agencies that handle them. War-nerves are just as bad for the com-

"Oon't Forget the Angostura Bitters" munity as for the boys affected. Elmira s young marriages are cracking right and left as husbands back from the wars try to

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FEBRUARY, 1945 SI ing so again are far better if she sticks and knows what ails him. The local YWCA is doing well here by importing a professional mental hygienist to give servicemen's wives a course of lectures on how INSTEAD TRY THIS HEALTH DRINK! to handle returned husbands with such difficulties. The town could use any amount more of such education. Joe's frayed temper does not improve when Elmira—like other towns—proves to fIRST THIMG contain too many people prone to ask IN A GIASS JUICE Of ON ARISING youngsters in civilian clothes why they OF WATER I LEMON aren't in uniform. Women and men both are guilty, servicemen as well as civilians. A second lieutenant got well and truly clouted recently for making such a crack at a returned veteran in an Elmira bar and sailors down from the nearby naval training station often make themselves obnoxious. Audits healthful. The eagle-and-circle discharge button is day. the supposed remedy. Only a minority of the boys wear their buttons, however: "The taKC public doesn't know what it means." "It's eicht million ^y.^ richest too small—can't tell what it is two feet health. C. and supply Le'^^^^jy.ttaSvitamin . sources of ^^^^ away." "They don't care if you do wear it known valuable and water —they ask how you got shipped home when ^-^^est^n Lemon to take.too- the other guys are still out there somewhere ^^'"^^^^^S^i^^^M up. -outh. wakes you fighting." 3eTr?Se one lemon in a One dischargee, veteran of Tarawa, you T„;rp of hear, leaves his button off because he takes special pleasure in socking busybodies who

ask him the wrong question. More of him '- ' ':!» would help a lot. The best other attitude came from a former amphibian engineer who went in with the first waves in North Africa, Sicily and Salerno. LET'S FINISH "If you have a clear conscience, cracks THE JOB-BUY don't bother you. Besides, I'm Irish and WAR BONDS LEMOH and WATER don't dare let myself I I get mad. just • ••first thing en arising decided I'd leave all the fighting behind me when I left the Army." Not bad for a FROM 1 BLADE youngster still so jittery he has to have an On Feet For ISnSHAVES AMAZING NEW outside job. BLADE SHARPENER It goes without saying that a multiplicity Over 30 Years New sharpener for all makes of double-edge razor blades ) of agencies trying to help produces much Allen's Foot-Ease has been bringing relief and performs miracles! "Notv comfort to tired, burning feet for over SO years. necessary to change blades." writes one user. Another says, duplication of effort and much confusion Sprinkle it feet and into your shoes, on your and • Have used 1 bladeover730 times . RAZOROLL enjoy the refreshing comfort it brings while you really sharpeOB blades bemuse it strops on leath- in Joe's mind. Every two months another er. Gives keen, smooth shaving edees. No guess- stand long hours at your work. Even stiff, heavy, work. Blade held at correct angle and proper Jostturncrank tosharpeo of those efforts to streamhne things is new or tight-fitting shoes lose their terror when Eressure—automatically. fo gears. Well made. Handsome, compact, sturdy. you use Allen's Foot-Ease. But good old Allen's Weighs few oonces. Will last years. Makes ideal gift. made in Elmira, proving little more than does even more. It acts to absorb excessive per- spiration and prevents offensive foot odors. Helps SEND NO MONEY! .rpMi/n'tlK-^u^i: a little piece in the paper. Several proposed For RAZOROLL for B days aad if yoo re not deligbUxl with keep feet, socks and stockings dry and sweet. get, retoro RAZOROLL aDd wa ll rstots set-ups probably were bad ideas real foot comfort, remember it's Allen's Foot-Ease yoQr dollar. Hurry—order today RA20R0LL COMPANY and their 620 North Michisan Avenue, Dept. 632, Chicago 11, liunots you want. Get it today at all druggists. demise fortunate. Yet something of the kind must be done before too many Joes return to find they are forced to play Pussy-wants- affects many children FALSE TEETH when trsieling. Foi a-comer and before the present universal comlort and rditf tix impulse to "do something for the veterans" FIT TIGHT i! slacks off. A maximum of common sense Used by children and with D Elmira has a lot—and a minimum of in- SEASICK adalts oier century dividual ambitions and local politics —El- 01 UND nd SEA... Soften DENTVTE bywarming i —spread It on your plate— I mira has its share—is the formula. Plus put In mouth and bite to 1 quick action. make a perfect impression. ^ Remove plate — and allow , • That is just one reason why the town's few minutes to"set" Youget anabsolutelyperfectfit.Sore feelings V are mixed as it looks forward to SPEECH DEFECTS gumsvanish—nomore slipping VE-Day. Acute stammering or loss of voice corrected and or loose teeth. DENTYTE Is firm normal speech restored. Dr. Martin trained all butreslllent. Each lining lasts for the aides who corrected "shell shocked" cases months. Immediately removable "We've done not so badly so far," says during the last war. Only residential Institute recognized by the American Medical Association. with fingers. Fullilze|ar-

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A WORLD OF CHANGE BETWEEN TWO WORLD

hundreds of speciol'Z"d 1917! Pavements that ended a few miles out of town ... no hard-surfaced Typical of wartime transportation jo!- s, the skill highways through the country ... no nation-wide intercity bus service to and experience of America's int.r- transport the manpower that makes up warpower. The entire burden of mov- city bus operators direct the daily operationof these "manpower ing manpower fell upon the same transportation that carried the nation's carriers" for the U. S. Navy.

freight and war supplies. That was the picture in W'orld W^ar I. But how different is the picture in World War II! Today, more than 390,000 miles of bus line routes criss-cross America. And over these routes, 2 3,474 intercity buses move a steady stream of manpower to all the war-busy places in the nation. Despite hampering shortages of equipment and drastic reductions of highway speeds, intercity buses have carried more than one billion eight hundred

andfifty million p.issengers since December 7, 1941. This vast movement of passengers by intercity bus has relieved other trans-

portation of an overwhelming load . . . has proved a major factor in prevent- ing letdowns and bottlenecks ... in giving the homefront the strongest wartime transportation ever known. Yes, there has been a world of progress in highway transportation since the With their own sons cfF to war, farmers depend largely on outside SERVING TWO GREAT ARMIES. first World War. And this progress has only just begun! Tomorrow, intercity h:lp for planting and harvesting While serving the great civihan buses will reach still more places over greatly improved highways. You will the crops so vital to victory. And army thot's backing up our ftghting in farming communities everywhere, intercity buses also travel in luxurious, newly-designed buses. You will have many more spacious forces, carry buses help bring up the manpower. the great majority of selectees new terminals, improved restaurant and comfort facilities, finer service in every provide an indispensable service for men on leave and on furlough. way. There's a better day oj travel coming. MOTOR BUS LINES OF AMERICA NATIONAL ASSOCIATION OF MOTOR BUS OPERATORS, WASHINGTON, D. C.