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MARCH, 1944 I When Answering Advertisements Please Mention The Amtrican Legion Magazine THE AMERICAN LEGION MARCH, 1944 VOLUME 36 • NO. 3 MAGAZINE

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The Message Center CONTENTS COVKR DESIGN THIS month's cover design, by Charles Bv Charles Andres Andres. Specialist (P) Second Class, USNR, represents dramatic action on WELL DONE, MR. HULL! 6 B'V WARREN' ArilERTON . mjk the bridge of an American destroyer H. HEAD National Commander on convoy duty in the Pacific, on the '^Vlw OF THE morning watch, 4 a.m. to 8 a.m. Con- WITH HEAD HELD HIGH 9 tact has been made with a submerged Bv Frederick C. Painton Illustrated by Carl Pfeufer V* 41^; BOURBON submarine by the sound equipment and the destroyer is steering toward it for a THE TI>LMY AFFAIR 10 ' ^^1^ FAMILY depth charge attack. General Quarters By Albert Ricilxrd Wetjen Illustrated by Nicholas F. Riley

SAILORS ALL 12 Bv Capt. Mildred H. McAfee

ONCE OVER LIGHTLY 13 Bv Allan R. Boswortii Illustrated by Wallace Morgan

MISSIONS WITH CHARLIE 14 Bv C. Carlton Breciiler Illustrated by John F. Gould

BATTLE TESTS IN A BATHTUB 16 IT CARRIES you back -does Old Bv Howard Stephenson Grand- Dad — to the place where NORWAY, NAZI NEMESIS 19 it was born. Because there's the Bv JORCEN JUVE warmth and the mellowness of Ken- Illustrated by L. R. Gustavson tucky's sunny fields in every drop. Andres at work on painting 20 But now the supply is limited, as the HOME-FRONT GUARDIANS has been sounded. A tanker on their Bv William Brittain only available stocks are those laid J. port bow, carrying high octane gasoline, down before the war. We are trying has been torpedoed and the terrific fire DOGTAG DOINGS 22 to keep a regular, steady amount of Conducted by John Noll resulting from it has lighted up the de- J. Old Grand-Dad going stroyer's ordinarily blacked-out bridge. 1 HEY CALLED ME POP 25 to your dealer. It is, The captain (a Heutenant commander) Reardon Bv William J. necessarily, a smaller has taken the deck and the executive amount than hewould officer (a lieutenant) has taken over the THE FELLER S FOUND A FRIEND 26 like Bv BovD B. Stutler to have, or is ac- duties of the navigator. The helmsman is customed to receive. around to the new bringing the ship WALLGREN S PAGE 39 When a bottle comes course ordered by the captain. The talker your way, prize it, {Continued on page 4) EDITORIAL 52 guard it— and enjoy it.

IMPORTANT: A form for your convenience if you wish fo have • The Old Grand- the magazine sent to another address will be found on page 44. Dad Distillery Co. is engaged in pro- Legion and is owned ex- The American Legion Magazine is the official publication of The American by The American Legion. Copyright 1944 by The American Legion. Entered as second class duction ofalcohol clusively H. matter Sept 26 1931, at the Post Office at Chicago, 111., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Warren Commission; for war purposes. Atherton, Indianapolis, Ind., National Commander, Chairman of the Legion Publications Phil Conley, Charleston, W. Vilas H Whaley Racine Wis., Vice Chairman. Members of Commission: Colflesh, Des Moines, • Owen,' Salem, Ore.; Theodore Cogswell, Washington, D. C; Robert W. Va Jerry Love, Iowa- Dr William F. Murphy, Palestine, Texas; Lawrence Hager, Owensboro, Ky.; Frank C. ' Ohio; Earl L. Syracuse Y • Claude S. Ramsey, Raleigh, N. C; Glenn H. Campbell, Cleveland, N Norwalk, Conn.; Meyer Alliance Neb.; George Bideaux, Tucson, Ariz.; Le Roy D. Downs, South Paul B. Dague, Downingtown, Pa. Harry Allen, Brockton, Mass.; . Gardiner;^- nv^^t^rDirector Director of Publications, Jam"s F. Barton, Indianapolis, Ind.; Editor, Alexander National Distiller.': Director, Frank Lisiecki; As- Prorlucts of Advertising, Thomas O. Woolf; Managing Editor, Boyd B. Stutler; Art Corporation, Aew York Noll. • *.ociate Editor, John I. . , i j nr unless return postage is enclosed. iVames 77ie Editors cannot be responsible for unsolicited manuscripts with types are fictitious. U.e of the name of characters in our fiction and semi-fiction articles that deal ol any person living or dead is pure coincidence.

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When Answering Advertisements Please Mention The American Legion Magazine THE MESSAGE CENTER * {Continued from page 2) liPE Appeal is instructing the chief gunner's mate to stand by to drop the depth charges. WATCH nr WORKr THE Manual of Ceremonies suggests that for the opening prayer with ' ATtf. What's the big which we are all familiar. Posts may occasion, my love? substitute at their meetings another of the same tenor and of about the same She^YOU,e^af\wi\, general length. The Editor is proud to exhibit the following substitute prepared for his Post by Rev. John H. Esquirol, rector of Holy Trinity at Southport, Connecticut, and until the ranks were opened up to men and women of this war the youngest member of George Alfred Smith Post at Fairfield, Conn. Comrade Esquirol, a former chaplain of

the Post at West Hempstead, L. I., N. Y., is now First Vice Commander of G. A. Smith Post. The prayer: "Almighty God, guide, we beseech Thee, our work in this meeting and make us to know and to do Thy will in all things. Direct and rule the hearts and minds of all those in authority that they may above all things seek Thy honor and glory. "We pray for our comrades that they may constantly strive to keep alive the high ideals of Justice, Freedom and- Democracy. Send Thy mercy to those who are sick and Thy peace to those who have departed this life.

"We commend to Thy loving care all those who at this time have gone forth to serve the cause of freedom, on land and sea and in the air. Be with them in their danger; give them courage and strength; inspire them with devotion to the cause to which they are offering their lives. Hold in Thy holy keeping all those near and dear to them whom they have left behind. "Help us to know that in quietness and confidence shall be our strength; pipefals of fragrant tobac- fine roll-your-own ciga- and bring to us a victory that will make co in every handy poehet rettes in every handypocket Thy will be done on earth as it is in package of Prince Albert package of Prince Albert heaven. Amen." The Editors.

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MARCH, 1944 3 When Answiring Advertisements Please Mention The American Legion Magazine We// MR. HUlU

WE sAi D AT OMAHA, ' 'The American Legion

reaffirms its faith in the foreign policy of our government!' The Moscow Agreement and our rela- tions with the other American Nations are convincing reasons for Legion faith.

Secretary of State Cordell Hull is respon- sible for determining our foreign policy and

carrying it into effect.

As determined by him it has had the almost unanimous support of the United States Senate and the American people.

Our Department of State is really our department of public relations with the

world. In time of peace its business is to further and to protect our business relations BY WARREN H.ATHERTON with all peoples. In time of war, its first National Commander, duty is to deny aid to the enemy, and to The American Legion gain help for us.

Secretary Hull's score is: 34 nations have declared war on the Axis. 9 nations have severed relations with the Axis. 6 nations are neutral. The Axis has for Allies: 4 small Balkan and Baltic nations. Congratulations on your score, Mr. Hull. The American Legion rightly endorsed your foreign policy. The friendly relations strengthened in a common cause will contribute much toward the accomplishment of the world's desire for lasting Peace, which the Legion believes can best be brought about "by participa- tion in the establishment and 'maintenance of an association of free and sovereign nations, implemented with whatever force may be necessary to maintain world peace and prevent a recurrence of war!'

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A WOMAN GIVES A /I/IAIM

MORE planes might be named 1 he development of these jewels is Diamond Li! if pilots and crew s an example of the application of Gen- knew what this woman knows—that eral Electric research and engineering bombers wear jewels! to small things, as well as large. Before This woman is one of a little group the war, and before G-E scientists of workers whose job is producing war developed a special process for making synthetic jewels for electric aircraft these jewels synthetically from glass, instruments. The jewels are tiny bear- we used sapphires for these bearings ings for moving parts which must be as importing many of them. Think what accurate, and are almost as small, as it would mean, with America's thou- the parts of a fine watch. They arc sands of planes requiring millions of made from glass by a secret process instruments, if we were still dependent at a mass production rate, but each upon a foreign source! jew el must pass an inspection as exact- ing as a jeweler's appraisal of a precious Small things perhaps, these jewels stone. These jewels, which women arc a woman gives a man—but in war, as giving men to fly by, are given in pains- in love, there are no little things.

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By FREDERICK C. PAINTON

By Cable from Algiers great fear of all soldiers in THEall wars has been mutilation. In ten months at the front with fighting men I've heard hundreds "I want to go home all in one say, The amazing story of the way piece—or not at all." Illustrated by CARL PFEUFER Yet two percent of all battle wounds in which men who have suffered are facial, and of these it is estimated disfigurement are restored to thrives on tough problems. He began that 40 percent are so terribly dis- experimenting with various types of rub- happy and useful lives through figuring that plastic surgery and skin ber. Within a week he presented his grafts are needed, and despite wondrous the wizardry of prosthesis, which friend with an arm made of rubber, miracles that plastic surgeons have per- in some cases is even better complete with pores, resiliency, and formed there remain hundreds of muti- color. than plastic surgery lated whom plastic surgery cannot help. From that beginning Clarke became There were veterans of the last World a prosthetist—an expert in fitting arti- War who suffered such ghastly facial to study. Clarke studied at Yale School ficial parts—and is now making for wounds that they dared not appear of Fine Arts; he studied at Johns Hop- wounded soldiers facial features so among their fellow men. They wore kins University. With his wide artistic strikingly like flesh and blood that only linen masks and walked abroad at night and medical background, he turned out close examination can detect false from

if at all. imitations so reahstic as to make on- real. A typical case is the British Tommy Today here in North Africa at the lookers gasp in amazement. brought to* Clarke with nose shot away University of Algiers I have talked with On this particular evening, a friend and the rest of the face misshapen by and seen at work a man who is bring- who had lost his arm watched Clarke the drawing of a healing scar. Clarke ing new hope and new faces to these at work. This man was sensitive, suffer- made a nose of latex rubber less than disfigured. He is Captain Carl Dame ing anguish as his mutilation drew an eighth of an inch thick filled with Clarke and the story of his extraor- glances of pity and sometimes horror sponge rubber to give it fullness. dinary career begins ten years ago at from the passersby. Now, suddenly, Properly colored, it was affixed to the the University of Maryland, where he he cried in a voice filled with deep face with liquid adhesive made of al- was associate professor of art as applied longing, "Oh, if you could only make cohol, ether and gum mastic. This mix- to medicine. His job was to make of me an arm." ture is so tenacious that the nose can- rubber and other materials various parts Clarke, who is a doctor of philosophy, not be pulled off, knocked off or dam- of the human body for medical students has an aggressive probing mind that (Continued on page 46)

MARCH, 1944. 9 sailor was just a plain damned fool! All he would care for it forever or however

of which was highly entertaining but long it is cats live. Since he hadn't time none of which seemed to have much to figure anything else out before we

effect on the romance. It is quite likely sailed, he had just brought Timmy indeed the pair would have hitched up aboard. I had to let the matter drop anyway, but for the unfortunate matter then, as Bullhead was coming aboard, of Maureen being a trifle under eighteen and when Bullhead came aboard he and Jerry not yet twenty-one. To this hked to find his first mate standing add that Jerry being only a second mate, around handy so he could dehver him- and also unfortunately under Bullhead's self of whatever it was happened to be command, had to step pretty carefully eating him at the moment. or be busted clean off the waterfront, a To make things clearer I should ex- matter which Bullhead was quite capa- plain Bullhead was built like a bear and ble of handling. So the situation re- he was just as hairy. He never talked mained in deadlock until this last voy- to anyone. He either barked or snarled age of ours, and the coming of Timmy TimmY the cat. As I say, the old man was death on cats. His horror of ever sailing with one on board made him order the ship searched before w-e left each port. I sup- Affair pose it was a sort of phobia, just as some people have a violent dislike for spiders, By monkeys or peroxide blonds. Anyway,

there it was, and when Jerry came aboard ALBERT RICHARD WETJEN on sailing night with a bundle under his arm that purred, I had spine crawlings myself. "What the hell have you got there?" Jerry Marmon the second mate I demanded, and Jerry tried to shush SOmarried Maureen O'Davis and the me. crew cheered, and the officers sub- "It's only Timmy," he whispered. "It's scribed for some crockery, and Maureen's pet." the old man, Bullhead Higgins himself, "Have you gone mad?" I said. "You He'll no less, came through handsomely with know the old man. murder you a set of sterling silver and a specially first and then sling you both overside made satin-trimmed sleeping basket for with a length of chain to hold you down. Timmy the cat. Only the last is really What d'you expect to do with the ani- remarkable because the old man was mal?" strictly allergic to cats and practically "I'll keep it in my room," he said. blew a valve every time he saw one near "Out of sight, see? It'll be all right." the Ramaiia. \\Tiereby, of course, hangs I said, "It'll be nothing of the kind the tale to which myself, Jamison if the old man finds out." Thomas, first mate of the said Ramona "I've got that all figured," he stated. hereby testify. "Just let it ride and be a pal for Mau- In the first place Maureen was the reen's sake and mine." old man's niece and if not the apple of Well, he was a nice sort of kid with his eye was certainly the only known wavy blond hair and innocent blue eyes human being who had ever brought a and still sort of pink-cheeked. Also he slight softening to that ice-blue object. was a pretty fair second mate as second She w-as a neat little trick with wavy mates go, so I said O. K., it was up to brown hair and liquid brown eyes; and him, but I wanted no part of the deal dimples when she laughed, which was and if I had any sense I'd toss this

'most always, it seemed. Being an or- Timmy ashore pronto. He insisted on phan, she ran the house Bullhead kept showing me the big black beast anyway ashore against his retirement days, and and then went into details. It seemed since she invariably came down to the this Timmy had strayed into Bullhead's ship before we sailed we got to know home one day and Maureen had cot- her pretty well. Excepting Jerry Marmon, toned to it, and kept it pretty well under who had crashed into the "knowing-her- cover W'hen the old man was around. ixry-well" class, judging from the auto- Naturally, you can't keep an animal graphed picture of her he kept in his like that secret forever from a man who room. can practically smell a cat a mile off,

It developed later that Bullhead had and it appears one day. Bullhead had run Jerry off his front porch a couple heard it howling and phoned the humane of times when he had returned home society to come and get the animal and unexpectedly, and had given pubhc put it out of the way. This was where warning he would sooner see his niece Jerry came up in a taxi after a tearful married to a garbage man than to a phone call, and had smuggled Timmy second mate, which was probably hard out of the house, giving his sacred oath on second mates and garbage men. but was mainly meant to convey Bullhead's profane beliefs that the sea was a dog's Straight up in ihs air went hfe and any woman who married a Timmy, spitting and yowling 10 and no one in the Line cared to go first the bosun let a new coil hawser slide Illustiated by NICHOLAS F. RILEY mate with him because the job was just overside so we had to stop the ship and one straight grief. But you get the idea. haul it in before it tangled with the "What's that?" barked the old man, Maureen; Jerry; the damned cat, Tim- propellers. Then something went wrong turning on his flash for a second. "Oh,

my; Bullhead . . . and me stuck some- with the siren and we got a lecture from I might have known it would be Mr. where in the middle of the Raniona some official on a cutter for faihng to Marmon. Are you drunk, sir?" This was putting out on her own with a thousand give the proper signals. Naturally this sort of an academic question, as every- tons of T.N.T. below decks and several helped Bullhead's disposition a lot and one knew Jerry didn't drink. But what hundred drums of gasohne to hold it he started remembering something I had was worse. Bullhead spotted what had down. done or had forgotten to do a couple of rolled from Jerry's pocket. It was a can I forget what Bullhead's main beef voyages back, and was going into the of some sort of dog-and-cat food and was that particular saiUng night, but matter at length when Jerry came on the old man choked. in any event things went wrong from the dark bridge, tripped over the mat "Good God!" he said. I felt like say- the start. We nearly collided with a and let something fall clanking out of ing the same thing, remembering Timmy stray tug getting out of the bay, and his pocket. {Continued on page 48) Captain McAfee, on leove from +he presidency OFFIClftL U.S. NAV< PHOK group of trainees at Hunter College in York City in their final of Wellesley College to head up the WAVES A New review before shipping out for service somewhere in the continental U. S.

When You See a WAVE Remember That She Has Released a Man for Service in a Combat Zone

a man's Nav>' but more than (They go to chow, they stand watch, IT'S47,000 women have made their they stow their gear for inspection!)

places in it. Already they have re- Their knowledge of the characteristics leased for duty in the fighting zones and uses of the ships and aircraft of enough men to take twelve mighty bat- the Navy makes them welcome in any tleships to war against the enemy, and navy office. They have even been known in addition they have made it possible to liven dinner conversations by heated for thousands of other men to serve at discussions of the strategy employed at sea today, by doing the jobs which men the Battle of Jutland! would ordinarily have done in new or Upon completion of their initial train- expanding shore activities. Within the ing, many of the WAVES are sent di- past eighteen months members of the rectly to their duty stations, -while others Women's Reserve have been assigned to are sent to specialist schools for train- duty at naval activities from Seattle ing which will prepare them to assume to Key West, from Maine to Corpus particular billets. For example, officers Christi, and more women are still in of the Women's Reserve are studying training for similar jobs. at the Supply Corps School at Harvard These 47,000 women come from com- University and graduates of this school munities throughout the nation, from are now represented in billets of respon- Aviation machinist's mates working train- on a all types of civilian background and ex- sibiHty in many phases of supply work. ing plane at the Jack:onvillc Sta- Naval Air perience. They are all volunteers who At supply depots they control and main- tion. Belov/, Specialist, Pho!ographer, Second have cast their lot for the duration with tain the flow of materials which may Class Betty Brown sorts out military cartoons that of the navy men, and they are consist of anything from airplane motors for use in an animation camera prepared to do any service which may to submarine parts. A number have been be demanded of them, to serve at any sent as disbursing officers to colleges and place within the continental limits of universities in which the Y-12 training the United States. program for students is in effect, and All women who join the Navy gain these women have complete responsi- first introduction to navy life at either bility for the navy funds there dis- the officer's school at Northampton, bursed.

Massachusetts, or the recruit training This is but one of the schools for center in New York City. The course officers. Women commissioned at the at the former school is two months in midshipmen's school are studying in ad- length, while at the latter it is six weeks. vanced fields such as communications, The women enter these schools as civil- radio and electronics, Japanese, and ord- ians they graduate women of the Navy, nance. ; wise beyond their short term of service When the Women's Reserve was first in the subjects of history, organization established there were but three special- and traditions of the Navy. They have ist schools for enhsted women; today become accustomed to wearing their the training has expanded to thirteen uniforms, saluting is no longer something more fields. Not only may they become to be practised before a mirror, and the yeomen, storekeepers, and radiomen, but navy lingo they speak lends a certain they may learn to be mail clerks in navy saltiness to their shore-bound duties. {Continued on page 34) The AMERICAN LEGION Maga-Jnc —

"Now, General, you just relax anci listen," said Private Scagliotti. "I figure you made a big mistake in that fighting yesterday"

PRIVATE TONY SCAG- Illustrated by WALLACE MORGAN LIOTTI wrung out a towel in a bucket of hot water pect out here just behind the front it was his boast that he al- lines—a mud pack and a babe to ways managed, somehow, to heat Once Over manicure his nails while he listened water for an officer's shave—and to a broadcast of the baseball curled it over the stubbled face of scores? the man in his chair. Still whistling, he wrung out The man squirmed. Private Scag- another towel and slapped it over liotti whistled softly through his LighHy the lather before it could cool. He white teeth, and looked out the adjusted the bib and pulled it down door of the partially wrecked farm- tight—perhaps a little too tight. A house. Two of his buddies. Corporal glance outside showed him that By ALLAN R. BOSWORTH McGee and Private Wilson, were McGee and Wilson weren't watch- standing under the nearest olive ing, and just to make sure the sheet tree, mopping their brows and wav- was tight he knotted it securely at ing at a swarm of Italian gnats. They ticed barbering for fifteen years, back the back of the chair. wore sidearms and cast occasional in the States, and was possessed of a "You just take it easy. General,'" he glances into the latest Scagliotti barber journeyman's card and an average de- said soothingly. "You just relax." shop. gree of tonsorial skill. But somehow the The general said something that was Private Scagliotti began mixing lather. brush slipped and got soap in the gen- muffled by the towel, but the words He was garrulous by nature and trade, eral's mouth. only got more soap in his mouth. Pri- and he had learned that rank has more "Yes, sir," continued Private Scag- vate Scagliotti's razor made a faint than its share of baldness and dandruff. liotti. "It was plenty hot yesterday. wheep-wlieep on his strap. Any man who sat in Private Scagliotti's Especially up in the hills!" "Yes. sir," said Pri\-ate Scagliotti, chair had to listen to Scagliotti. "Hot The general spluttered, and managed slowing his stroke. "I've shaved majors today, ain't it. General?" he asked. "But to wipe his mouth on the sheet that and colonels plenty times, but I never it was hotter yesterday." covered him and was tucked into his shaved a general before. It'll be some- His customer grunted. Private Scag- collar for a bib. This disarranged the thing to write home about. Now, you liotti lifted the steaming towel and ap- sheet and caused Private Scagliotti to take Colonel Benson—he's been in niy plied the lather swiftly. He had prac- eye him coldly. What did the man ex- {Continued on page 44) 13 ^TARCH, 1944 ^^fls With Chadie

By C. CARLTON BRECHLER

scious Jim between two ammunition boxes so that his regular mask, now- His name's Hudson, and he's a hooked into an undamaged oxygen line, bonnbardier of the Eighth Arnny will reach his face. sheer Air Force that gives Germany a At that altitude every step is labor, and though he is exhausted, going-over periodically. Here's Charlie struggles the length of the why everybody that has served bomber in time to work over his in- with Charlie swears by him struments up in the nose and get his bombs away on the target. Then he makes his way back to the phone. It's the plane's radio gunner: waist. Jim has fallen over to one side, "Sir! The two ^\aist gunners are pulling his oxygen mask partly off. lying on the floor back here. They're Harry seems to be perking up a bit but

dying, I tell you, they're dying!" still is drowsy and stupid. Charlie rubs Charlie slips out of his armored flak Jim's arms, legs and face in an effort to suit, puts on a portable "walk-around" restore circulation. A few minutes later

oxygen bottle and mask and starts back Charlie is back in the nose manning his to the waist. On the way he grabs two gun. more walk-around bottles from the cock- Back at the home station the Buc- pit and radio room. catieer firgs two red flares as it comes A wounded member of a fort- The one waist gunner, Jim, is lying in for a landing. To the people on the ress crew is tenderly carried on his back, unconscious. He is a hideous ground this signal means "wounded from the plane to an ambulance blue and frost covers his face and clings aboard," and an ambulance speeds to to his eyebrows. The other gunner, meet the taxiing ship. Charlie Hudson Harry, though conscious, is sitting in a sighs: "I'm the tiredest I've even been A71 Eighth AAF Bomber stupor, staring blankly, unable to move. in my life," and heads for his bunk. Command Station, England. He has vomited on the floor. couple of days later and Harry been reading newspaper A Jim YOU'VE Charlie slaps the frost off Jim's face, are none the worse for their experience, stories about the aerial offen- and puts one of the temporary oxygen though at least one of them owes his life sive over Europe by General masks on him, then puts another on the to Charlie. Eaker's Eighth Air Force. You other casualty. He tries the two guns Well, that wasn't too bad. How about must know that it's tough sledding be- and finds both are frozen and out of going on another of Charlie's missions? cause you"ll undoubtedly recall the day commission, so he closes the waist This one is to Bremen. The ship has sixty American bombers were lost in a windows to cut out some of the freez- a nude painted on the nose and is named single attack on Schweinfurt, Germany. ing gale which is whipping through the Hell's Belle. Far out over the North But the European air war isn't tough ship. As he closes the right window he Sea the pilot of the ship flying alongside merely because planes are being lost. notices that they must be approaching the Belle calls up on the radio: "The door How would you like to ride along on Frankfurt. Hastily he props the uncon- has come off your ball turret and the some combat missions and see for your- self what can happen up there in the brilliant sunlight and freezing thin air five miles above Germany in that little world which is a Flying Fortress with

its ten-man crew? You may be certain there will be drama and excitement aplenty, but if you can't stand the sight of blood, perhaps it's best that you stay on the ground and stick to reading headlines. Charlie Hudson came to this base a few weeks ago, a 29-year-old bombardier fresh from the States. He's a rugged rud- dy-faced Irishman who used to be a "roughneck" in the oilfields around Kern County, California, and fought sixty- three bouts as an amateur welterweight. He sounds like a good man to ride with, so let's crawl up into the nose and follow him on his second combat mission. This morning Charlie is flying in a Fort named the Buccaneer. The target

is Frankfurt, deep in the Reich. It is a day few of the men will forget because twin-engined Messerschmitt no's keep circling the bomber formations trying something new. They are firing rockets. Nearing the target there is a panic- First Lieutenant Charles S. Hudson of Bakersfield, California getting treat- stricken cry on the gravel-voiced inter- ment from Captain Jehu C. Walker of Savannah, Tennessee, flight surgeon

14 The AMERICAN LEGION Ma^az With his left wrist broken and his right shoulder battered Hudson continued to fire at the German fighter until its attacks had ceased. For this heroic action he was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross

gunner is falling out head first. He's turret. The blood running over the ser- Illustrated by JOHN F. GOULD hanging out in the slipstream with his geant's face is freezing and he is chok- head, shoulders and most of his Mae ing on chunks of ice. Charlie puts his a shot of morphine from a nearby first AVest outside the turret." finger in the boy's mouth and removes aid kit. drags the boy into the radio Once again CharHe jumps out of his the ice. Then he takes off his own oxygen room and plugs in his heated suit. flak suit, grabs a couple of walk-around mask and places it over the gunner's The ship is nearing the target, and bottles, and heads back through the face. Charlie's face is covered with the once again Charlie drags himself up to ship. Meanwhile the ball turret gunner other fellow's blood, and he finds that the nose from where he already can has managed to pull himself back into he, too, has been hit by something over see Bremen's drydocks. Once again a the turret and has rotated the power- the eye and that some of his own blood lot of hurried, minute adjustments, and operated turret upward so that the open is streaming down his face. it's "bombs away." Then he mans one door is inside the ship. But he has A thousand jumbled reactions and of the nose guns until the friendly caught his head in the mechanism on thoughts rush through Charlie's brain in fighter escort arrives on the scene, when the way up. a fleeting moment. He even recalls a re- he returns to the radio room to com- When Charlie reaches the turret he cent newspaper story and considers fort the injured gunner as much as finds the sergeant limp, with his head parachuting the wounded gunner out possible. hanging and blood pouring over his face over enemy territory, hoping a German Back at the base there are red flares and into the bottom of the turret. His doctor will find him before it is too and the sergeant is rushed to a gen- forehead is cut nearly from ear to ear, late. eral hospital. A few weeks later he is about an inch above his eyebrows, and Crawling into the radio room he gets back on the base with a scar across his part of his scalp is laid back like a himself an ox\'gen mask and then passes forehead little worse than another peeled orange. Charlie grasps him under out for a few moments from sheer ex- wrinkle, thanks to the skill of his the armpits, and struggling against his haustion. When he comes to he returns doctors. own weakness due to lack of sufficient to the ball turret gunner, slits the arm That was Charlie's third trip. Early oxj'gen, slowly drags him out of the of his jacket with a knife, administers {Continued on page 50)

MARCH, 1944 15 Battle Tests

in a Bathtub

A routine test at the David W. Taylor Model By HOWARD STEPHENSON Basin in Washington, the Navy's experimental "bathtub"

battles are being won in a strange black ocean under a concrete dome, SEAwhich the United States Navy created just before Pearl Harbor. Here the Sicily and Italy invasion tactics were made workable. Here surprises were readied for the Japs. Here breathless dramas of the sea take place. On these synthetic "battles in a bathtub" hang the fate of battleships, sub- marines, aircraft carriers, merchant ship convoys and major expeditions. Marine growths, which are green in other waters, are bleached white in this sunless sea. No daylight ray can enter. Searchlights travel the surface, picking out enemy ships, while on and under water the attack closes in.

It is a naval world in miniature. The ships are models. But this is no toy

ocean. The warships which ply it are no playthings. Thousands of lives, mil- lions of dollars depend on them. The Navy's study of the behavior of models under battle conditions, in the midst of stornis and enemy attack, has resulted in countless improvements in performance of our fighting ships. Beneath the towing carriage a self-propelled In the tense days that followed our entry into the war, the David Taylor model is answering for the engineers ques- Model Basin, as the under-roof miniature ocean is called, provided the data tions about the performance of a real-life ship which enabled us to place an aircraft carrier where it was most needed. It had been built on one seaboard, but was desperately needed on the other. Months would be lost if it had to travel around Cape Horn. There was grave doubt, however, that it could safely pass through the Panama Canal. At the Basin, an exact replica of the locks of the canal was built. A scale model of the carrier also was rushed to completion. Tests were taken which enabled the Navy to solve the problem. You are likely to see William Beebe's famous Bathysphere being lowered into the Basin, for the purpose of taking high-speed pictures of the result of

setting off a charge of TNT and observing what it does to a thick steel plate. Action of explosives under water has become an important part of our offen- sive research, so the Bathysphere has enlisted in the Navy for the duration! Professor Harold E. Edgerton of Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the scientist who developed highspeed photography to the point where 2000 Neatly racked, the models look like a child's pictures can be taken in a one-second burst of speed, is cooperating with toys, but some of them have saved American Basin engineers in this highly important investigation. Results, the Basin men lives, and millions of dollars say with a guarded smile, have been highly satisfactory. Months before the invasion of Sicily, a miniature beach was built at the Basin, models of landing barges were launched and run aground countless times, to determine the precise details of design that would give optimum performance. What the Basin found out about submarine design and the part this has played in naval warfare may be told some day. For the present, we must be content with some rather general observations. Working with models 16 inches in diameter, Basin engineers were able to determine principles of construction and to recommend improved methods of calculation which then could be applied to the design of full-scale subs. On one occasion it was urgently necessary to discover the wind resistance of the superstructure of a fighting ship. A model was built complete with stacks, gun turrets, everything that shows above water. Then it was turned upside down and towed through the water. Since both water and air are fluids,

it was possible to translate the results from water resistance to air resistance by applying a simple mathematical formula. Three months after Pearl Harbor the Navy was ready with a monster bat- tleship, the Alabama. Extra precautions of the most urgent nature had to be taken, for the moment of a ship's launching, like the moment of the birth of a Dr. William Beebe (center) and his famous baby, is the most critical of its whole life. In early 1942, with added sea power Bathysphere, which knows the waters of the desperately needed, the successful addition of the Alabama to our fleet was of basin as you know your back yard {Continued on page 44)

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Illustrated by L R. GUSTAVSON

man decree that milk could no longer be served at meal times in the factories. Two of the patriots—the first Nor- wegians thus punished—were executed. The ski jumper, sentenced to 15 years' imprisonment, was sent to Germany. Two of Norway's best ski jumpers, Krisitian Aubert and Tor Salvesen, were arrested in 1941. In Januar\' 1942 both of them were tortured to death in the course of a ten-day third degree administered by the Gestapo. They refused to tell anything they knew. Both were married and had children, but the unfortunate families were not even per- mitted to retrieve the bodies. The Germans sought to hide

the evidence of their brutality! But it didn't work. Thanks to magnificent work by the underground, the bodies were recovered and examined; the Gestapo agents had tramped on the chests of the Norwegian boys until their shattered ribs pierced their lungs. These are only a few examples of how the iron heel of German terror sought to crush the democratic sport of The German was thrown out bodily when he Norway. They explain perfectly why Oslo's "Yankee made his appearance at Birger Ruud's house Stadium" stands empty today—why organized sport in Norway, built up gradually over a period of nearly 100 would the leadership of a sports organization years, is now prostrate. WHATlike the supporters of There are few countries in the world where the op- New York Yankees, or the

the club, say if their star players and the president portunities for sport are as broad as in Norway. The of the club were ordered out to stand guard in six- summer season—from May to October—is mild and agree- hour shifts, night and day, along the railway line between Grand able, with June and July the warmest months. During Central and Albany, because a bridge had been blown up? This that period sports interest centers on soccer football, track matches, happens every day in Norway and has been happening ever since and saiHng. The big international football espe- cially when Danish, Swedish or British teams furnish the the German occupation began on April 9, 1940. Not so long ago the premises of one of Oslo's largest sports opposition, often draw crowds of 30,000 to 35.000, some- that Oslo has only clubs were broken into and ransacked. The property had been thing of a record considering the fact all of less than 3.000,000. confiscated by the Germans much earlier. Unable to find those 300,000 inhabitants and Norway Germans within her walls guilty of the burglary, the Germans ordered all members of the Since Norway has had the football has been held; club, the superintendent and the best known and most popular not a single international match meets, the snowy slopes of sports stars to stand guard night and day. there have been no track silent, untouched. One of the country's best known ski jumpers represented his famous Holmenkollen have lain occupation by Norway's youth co-workers during negotiations with the Germans in the fall of Opposition to the German (Continued on page 1941. The discussion concerned a united protest against a Ger- 37) 19 MARCH, 1944 —

Texas State Guardsmen with bayonets fixed stand behind barbed wire concertinas ready to shoot down lawless elements, during race rioting at Beaumont

Missouri and Ohio They're "mainfaining law and order" all over best kind of pre-induction they fought the training — actual mihtary IN America, the State Guardsmen who but for age and thrusting rivers. In service. The percentage of the mountain coun- physical condition would be in Uncle Sam's uniform. World War veterans—who try they battled forest A goodly percentage of them are Legionnaires, call themselves "retreads" fires. At Mobile and in ranges from as low as proud to be of service to community, state and nation — Beaumont they stood firm 16 per cent in some units against mobs that threat- to 80 percent in others. ened race war. In California and along There are more than 150.000 of them, "Representative" is a mild term for the hostile Atlantic they patroled the mustered in 44 States and in the terri- the State Guards. In one company of beaches. In West Virginia they went into tories of Puerto Rico. Hawaii and Alas- New York's Seventh Regiment are a the earth to bring out the dead and the ka. They are the spiritual descendants teacher and a perfume-sniffer, a butcher living of a mine disaster. of the provincial infantry of the French and a cloth-spreader, a color-matcher They are America's army without and Indian War, of the Minute Men of and a paperhanger, a banker, a broker banners and without medals—the State Lexington, of the state levies who bat- and a stock clerk. The guards are of Guards of our sovereign States. tled Indians along the expanding fron- every age—each State has set its own For almost three years they have tier. They are the face of America, a age limits, ranging from 18 to 50 on drilled faithfully; they have unques- voluntary, democratic force drawn from one hand and 17 to 64 on the other tionably endured the half-amused taunts every class, every race, every neighbor- but the national average age is 39 for of "tin soldiers." They look over the hood to maintain law and order on the officers, 32 for enlisted men. oceans to Bataan and Burma and Mateur home front—and, if necessary, to pro- The Secretary of War has broad and Salerno and want to be there, but tect those homes in battle. authority over the organization and even when they know finally that they For the vast majority of the State training of the State Guards which are can never go, they also know that they Guard officers and men, service in the to be federally aided as well as authority are fighting the war in their own way. state troops is compensation for missing to clothe, equip, and assist in mainte- Conceived in October, .1940 as the the Big Scrap. They are too old or too nance of such units as he deems neces- National Guard passed into federal serv- young for the fighting fronts, or physi- sary. ice, grown to adolescence under the cally unfit for the rigors of modern war, The National Guard Bureau is the shock of the post-Pearl Harbor days or are key workers not permitted to War Department office of record for with their frantic alarms, the Guards enlist. The majority are either veterans State Guard, charged with the adminis- have matured in the long weary months of World War I who have refused to tration of War Department plans, poli- since then—months when only their "stand by" during World War II, or cies, and procedures relating to their stubborn determination to serve their boys not yet called up by the draft but organization, equipment and training. States and country kept them organized. who are earnestly intent on getting the (Continued on page zg)

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The Army took over the Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard, try to count the number of soldiers shown in the picture on this page, but and their fennlnine auxiliaries, in the contest for a title for this offhand we'd say it was one of the department which is dedicated to all the young people in serv- Army's largest grouped instruction

ice in World War II. The winner, Corporal John Doherty, Conn- classes—say two or three regiments! pany B, 1st Q, M. Denn. Bn., The Q. M. School, Camp Lee, We obtained the picture through the cooperation of Lieutenant G. L. Ran- Virginia, has been awarded the $50 prize. We expect to tell dolph, Public Relations Officer of Camp more about the contest in April. Carson, and T/3 Ray W. Cox, editor of the Camp Carsofi Mountaineer, a VISUAL education, developing however, was used to advantage last fall mighty swell camp publication, along gradually in our schools during at Camp Carson, Colorado, where one with this story of the event: the past decade or so, has been may say literally the troops in training "The Third Air Force gave the sol- adopted fully by the armed are living high. That camp, near Colo- diers at Camp Carson a practical lesson services in training of men and women rado Springs, is situated on a mesa more in the identification of friendly aircraft in uniform. Photographic Sections of the than 6,000 feet above sea level, with a with the aid of many types of our various branches have made movies cov- backdrop of the Rocky Mountains and fighter and bomber planes. ering every conceivable training subject especially of famed Pike's Peak. "While the fighters and bombers for the quick teaching of large groups Airplane identification is of paramount roared over the heads of many thousands of sailors and soldiers, marines and importance in this war in which air of Camp Carson men. Lieutenant Ted coastguardsmen, and their auxiliaries. power plays such a large part, but in- Timberlake, of the Third Air Force, Hollywood has gone to war with a stead of studying boring charts and out- identified the planes to the soldiers and vengeance and full use is being made of lines of planes and such-like—a real pointed out to them the details that its cameramen, directors, script-writers demonstration was staged for men of distinguish these planes from any enemy and actors (all in uniform, of course) in the 89th Division (this department's old model. First the planes flew over at high teaching our young idea how to shoot! First World War Division), reactivated altitude and the men practised identify- Visual education on the grand scale, at Carson in August, 1942. We didn't ing them by their outstanding features,

With the Rocky Mountains as a backdrop, thousands of soldiers in training at Camp Carson, Colorado, receive a practical aircraft identification lesson staged by flyers of the Third Air Force

23 Til! AMERICAN LEGION Magazine ! '

and then the planes made 'sweeps' over the field at a very low altitude, some- times only a matter of feet above the ground, traveling so rapidly that the men had only a few seconds in which to identify them. "The pilots, most of them with battle experience, succeeded in giving the Car- son men a very good show as well as an educational lesson in aircraft identifica- tion. The success of the demonstration was evident in the fact that 'chow time' came and went without a soldier mak- ing a move to leave! "Lieutenant Timberlake reminded the men that it would be well to be able to

As preparation for emergencies at sea, navy officers and men obtain strenuous instruction in fire-fighting at the Navy's Fire Fighters" School in Brooklyn, New York

board fires, is now in operation in Brook- lyn, New York. The block-square school is located in Brooklyn's Greenpoint sec- tion." "Using up-to-the-minute methods and equipment, students at the school put out gasoline and fuel-oil fires in tanks and sheds, and in concrete and steel structures built to simulate the engine- room and fireroom of a destroyer and identify all models of aircraft. Allied how though, with all the bombing planes the hangar deck of an aircraft carrier.

'. and Axis, but with his statement, . . . and tanks and other advanced methods "Flames leap high and thick smoke all you have to do is to recognize all of destruction that land troops have to billows skyward as the men go into ac- friendly aircraft and shoot the hell out face, dangers on the deep strike us as tion with their hoses. Attacking with of anything else that iiies,' he summa- a special fear. a high-velocity water fog, the fire fight- rized the main object of the class at Not only bombs from planes or tor- ers soon put the flames to rout. Some Carson. pedoes from subs can set a ship on fire, of the fires are doused in less than a "This aircraft identification class was but also collisions between vessels or minute, others take a little longer. proof of the fact that knowledge can be internal defects can produce the same "It"s hard, grimy, hot work—but the gained in classes of large numbers, for terrifying results. The two pictures we men go at it with a will, realizing that the attendance at this class ran into display give every indication of having what is practice in school today may many thousands and the greater part of been taken aboard a ship during one of be the real thing when they are on the men left the field confident that they these experi- could identify these planes quickly if ences—but not they should see them again." so, according to \%?V's•H^e.ideA^• !? Voa ^P^^uns -l:ki+'s Luhy I alius the following about those present-war service explanation of " " ' ' " " HOW paper.// ool^^en I oontes slang words and expressions that these Official U. we invited you young guys and gals to S. Navy Photo- send to the Company Clerk, so he can graphs which wise up your parents and your older came to us from comrades of World War I? We know Lt. T. S. Jones. there are a lot of new ones. So send U. S. N. R., of 'em in—and keep 'em as clean as the Public Re- possible lations Office of the Navy in

FIRE at sea ! We realize that this new, New York: ' enlightened civilization of ours has ' A Navy produced many new and harrowing hor- Fire Fighters' rors of destruction which make the First School, de- World War seem like a safe and sane signed to give Sunday School picnic in comparison. officers and That's why we old bucks keep silent bluejackets ex- about our comparatively unexciting perience in fighting of a quarter-century ago. Some- combating ship-

MARCH, 1944 23 shipboard tomorrow. . . . "In one spectacular fea- ture of the training program the inside of the structure, simulating the engineroom of a destroyer (shown in one

of the photographs), is flooded with fuel oil, primed with high-test gasoline. The mixture is set ablaze and the students then go in and extinguish the flames with three one-and-a-half -inch hose lines, using 'water-fog.' "On the first day of the two-day course for enlisted men the instructors assume - most of the responsibility. On the second day, however, the students are on their own, with the tress Pilot" which has special poignancy instructors serving only in an advisory according to this letter from Past Com- capacity. Fires are lighted without warn- mander Michael F. Bernardino of Home ing, hose connections are broken and Wood Post of the Legion, Pittsburgh, equipment is strewn about, simulating Pennsylvania, with which it came to us: Fortress Pilot possible emergencies on a ship in battle." "The enclosed poem was received Dedicated to my brother Joe In addition to the Fire Fighters' from my nephew, Corporal Charles A. T/ie last gray light of summer's, fading School in Brooklyn, other schools are Palmer, 34142948, Company C, 819th glow, in operation at Boston, Massachusetts, Engineer Aviation Battalion, APO 527, Norfolk, Virginia, Bremerton, Washing- U. S. Army, who is stationed somewhere Found you ivingifig your way again ton, Mare Island, California, San Diego, in England. Into Hitler's wartorn skies. California, and Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, "It was written as a tribute to his I watched you do your job as before; while two additional schools will soon be brother. Lieutenant Joseph F. Palmer, a Life was strange that I should fight be- available at Philadelphia and New Or- first pilot on a B-17 Flying Fortress, hind a desk, leans- who was killed while on his nth mission over Germany on June 1943. Charles And you in a four-engined "Queen of 25, department doesn't know the was stationed in the vicinity of the the Clouds." THIS reason, but somehow or other wars Bomber Base from which his brother breed poets. Any number of causes could took off on his flights over enemy ter- Little did you know that evening's wist- be suggested: patriotism, homesickness, ritory, and no doubt could see and hear ful snn. time to meditate under strange condi- his brother's plane when it took off and Would find you at peace—forever. tions. We do know, though, that literally returned from its missions." Fate's hand was cold and strong; bales of poems were composed during Thank you. Corporal, for permitting the First World War, The Stars and us to publish this poem. She reached high through the heavy Stripes of the ist A. E. F. printed col- nimbus clouds umns of them, and there are a number INTRODUCE, through the re- And enticed WE your flaming ship of good anthologies of the best of them, production below of the gag car- To her lifeless bosom, published after the war. toon of the two too-polite American In Earth's cold, indifferent bed. In these columns we publish "For- flyers, our first find among the thousands {Continued on page 42) Sleep on, you nine brave men; May you know perpetual happiness Which you so richly deserve.

For Man's worldly prize is transient As last year's fallen snows.

A Mother's silent tears will stain

The closing span of life. Your intimate smile will breathe on With the perpetual sigh of dawti.

Oh, soldier young and brave, Sleep on!

You shall not die in vain.

Corporal Charles A. Palmer 819th Engineer Aviation Battalion

Somewhere itt England

^ it "After you. sir!"

24 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine ——

They Called Me

By LIEUTENANT WILLIAM A. REARDON

As told to Fred B. Barton

The Legionnaire Who Was *he Oldest Draftee in This War Hqs) Stood the Gaff Better Than Many a Man Twenty Years His Junii<)V«.

QUITE an experience. You open your morning's mail. IT'S•Here's a letter from Colonel Ralph Fisher. Good old Ralph he iind I have been members of the same American Legion

Post ever since it started. But this letter isn't fooling. Friendly, perhaps, but definitely official. Oh, definitely. "Dear Sir," it says in an impersonal way, "we have the honor to inform you that your services will be needed for the aid of the nation in winning the war." Or words to that effect. Funny thing—one day more and I would have been 45 and exempt from the draft. I probably am the only draftee in the world privileged to call the members of his draft board by their first names. Not that it makes any difference. I got drafted anyway. I'm not bragging it could have happened to you. Perhaps. August 13, 1942 was the big day they swore me in. Uncle Sam put me on a train out of Boston, along with a bunch of youngsters, many of whom were already homesick and scared. Some of my pals came to see me off. Surprised and incredulous they were, because most of them had tried to get back into uniform but were too old. For that matter I had tried to volunteer for the Army, Navy and

the Marines but hadn't made it. I had the laugh on them now or did I? Members of the arthritis brigade, I called them, as the train headed off toward Camp Devens. They were there when I came home on leave, too. I have a hunch every one of them envied me. For ten days we were processed at Camp Devens—that's the word they use. Every morning we were absolutely flabbergasted when the signal came—by buzzer instead of bugle—to get up. It was 4:30 A.M., or 0430 hours by the new 24-hour-a-day clock. Did human beings actually get out and face the night air at this ungodly hour? It was unbelievable. Some weeks went by—long and tiring and back-breaking weeks, before I began to iind that, once you're up in the early morning hours, you're actually glad to be up and glad to be alive. We began to learn the usual things. One-two-three-hup. Setting- up exercises. Movies warning us of the dangers of VD—use your imagination, if the initials are strange to you. I was shipped to Fort Williams, Maine for my basic training. That gave us more of the same, although from now on the training began to be more specialized. I was the oldest man in the contingent. It was something of an effort to turn my thinking back 20 years and start thinking and acting along with the young ones. But you do that—and like it. I found I liked it. I met some pleasant fellows. At first they called me "Pop'' or "Mr. Reardon." Some of them began to call me Bill. I hked that. It showed they had quit looking on me as a relic from the morgue and were accepting me as an equal. Came the day—December i, 1942—when they invited us to file our applications for OCS. meaning Officers' Candidate School. And as befits one who had served as a sergeant in the D.E.M.L.—meaning the detached en- listed men's list at headquarters for the First Service Command, because I had got that far already—I filed. Got accepted too. Went on to OCS

No. 4 for training; that was at State The arlhrltis brigade was on hand again when I came home

{Continued on page 50) on leave. I have a hunch every one of them envied me

MARCH. I9i4. 25 Here are a few of the service lads and lassies who find a homey sort of welcome— in Carter C. Manner Post's home at Stillwater, Oklahoma. They are cutting Colonel Yost's birthday cake "Happy Birthday to You!"

"nr"^E.\R Dad: The Amer- ten or twelve of the young I lican Legion Post in service people attended. Then J Stillwater has done a a hostess club was organized real job in helping The Feller's made up of young business the fellows and girls in service girls; music was provided for here at the A. & M. College," dancing; refreshments were writes Private William J. Lah- served once or twice a week, mann, stationed at Stillwater, and the center began to go Oklahoma, to his father, Le- Found a Friend places. gionnaire W. W. Lahmann of By September, when Mrs. E. Wesley Werner Post of Mt. R. Weaver took over as Unit Healthy, Ohio. President the work load had "For some reason or other become so heavy that the Post there is no U. S. 0. in town joined in, putting its full plant and the Legion has given us facilities behind the program. some place to go besides the street cor- Men and women from every State in ners. Their home has been converted the Union have been entertained there, into a recreation center—half of it is and hundreds have written to thank used for dancing, the other half has pool Carter C. Hanner Post and its Auxiliary tables, a reading room where you can the above going back to the folks at for its friendly and helpful services. play cards, checkers, chess or what-have- home, written by boys just like young "Recently a count was made of people you—stationery is furnished for writing, Private Lahmann. The young man, to entering the building from opening on and on Saturday nights, coffee and dough- be sure, has a Legion background. He Saturday afternoon until closing time on nuts are gratis. The members donate had not only the background of his Sunday night," says Commander Lan- their services. There are about 2,000 father's membership, but is himself a caster. "The number was slightly in ex- Air Corps, Army, Navy and WAVES member of the Sons of the Legion and cess of 3,000. As many as 400 have been here so you can imagine how crowded attended the Buckeye Boys' State in counted on the floor of the ballroom at that place is as soon as it is opened every 1942. one time, and 50 or 60 people in the evening." Carter C. Hanner Post at Stillwater snooker parlor, where there are nine So, the feller's found a friend—to re- started in a small way, says Commander tables, is not unusual. The reading, verse a line made familiar to all America E. R. Lancaster, with the Auxiliary tak- writing and game rooms are also filled; a few years ago by the cartoons of ing the lead. The initial opening of the the refreshment table is a popular place Claire Briggs. Legion home to the young people in with its piping hot coffee or iced tea, as Hundreds of Legion Posts are keeping training on the college campus was on the season dictates, with doughnuts, service centers for service men and March 14, 1942. Mrs. Robert Bailey, cookies and cakes." women, their operation varied to meet Unit President, had set up a committee Yes, indeed, the feller's found a friend the particular needs of the community under Mrs. Ned Hull to organize a ser- in Carter C. Hanner Post. —and there are thousands of letters like ies of entertainments, and at first only There are many other Legion outfits

26 The AMERICAN LEGION hlaga-Snt rendering needed services in their own communities. Adding to its long list of wartime projects, Advertising Men's Post of New York City makes a detinite contribution to recruitment and the com- fort of selectees who remain over for a recheck. The Grand Central Palace, right in the heart of the town—used as a hospital in the First World War, site of peacetime automobile and flower shows—now has the entire induction system under its one roof. Thousands of men pass through the building every day. In the process of filling the ranks, it is necessary to hold many selectees over for further physical examination, for special assignment and for a dozen other causes. The need for recreational space and facilities for these men was foreseen when the station was opened, but the

Army had no funds for it. It was then that the Advertising Men's Post pro- ceeded to make the Army's wish a re- Dedicating Legion day room at Armed Forces Induction Center, ality. New York City. Col. Vergne Chappelle accepts the room from Wal- Thousands of men have met The Amer- ter F. Wyman, Chairman, Ad Post's Military Affairs Committee

maintains a dormitory where beds are were set up at the Terminal Station, !- coal shovel ) use tt^awy myce provided for 75 service men, topped with later quarters were secured at the other belo^^q to tiie /We just dvop a coffee-and-doughnut breakfast, gratis. passenger station. Each night the Legion HP^^^--^ Irth w' stove "Posf 'Regularly each Saturday night," says takes over at ten o'clock and stays on Vice Commander Emil K. Kraft, "more the job until all service men have been

than 200 men in uniform - attend the taken care of. Sometimes that is mid- dances, and there are generally enough night; sometimes it is the next day. girls to go around." Legionnaires and their wives have no 11^ General Gorgas Post of Birmingham, set duties or set routine—they get what Alabama, has another method of being the traveling service men and women helpful to service men and women. need. "Our Post claims to be the first of "One corporal, arriving on a belated ican Legion, even befwe their acceptance, the Legion to organize U. S. 0. quarters train, was met with a telegram that his in the pleasant club and recreational at the railroad station to take care of mother had died in a distant city. Plane rooms. There, in an atmosphere of good traveling service people," says Com- priority could not be secured, Henry cheer and comfort, they while away their mander David 0. Solomon. (Fortunate- Morowitz, Legionnaire on duty, was in- waiting hours in the living room, game ly, he gives no dates—that probably formed. That Legionnaire does not know room, library, and find facilities for send- saves a lot of argument.) "At the start, to this day how many rules and regula- ing a word to the folks back home. A. V. Summers was made chairman; he tions he broke that night—but the cor- Yolo Post of Woodland, California, had no equipment, no appropriation and poral was put on a plane to arrive in varies its service program by running no organization. But he did have un- time for the funeral. a series of Saturday night dances at its bounded enthusiasm, and that secured "The only charge made is for soft home, has a big lounging room, and ever>'thing he needed. The first quarters drinks. Everything else is freely and cheerfully given. Showers have been pro- vided, shaving accommodations, check- ing of baggage, telephone service, writing materials—all free—and most of all the assurance to the men and w'omen in uniform that in Birmingham somebody cares, somebody is interested in what happens to them." The feller's got a friend in Birmingham, too.

Oldest Sailor

WITH a string of hashmarks reaching half way up his arm, accumulated since he first shipped in Uncle Sam's Navy ^ Yolo Post of Woodland, California, has dances, a club room on July 7, 1882, Chief and dormitory for visiting G. I's. Beds are provided for 75 Boatswain's Mate service men, with a coffee-and-doughnut breakfast thrown in George Sanderson, a

M.\RCH, 1944 27 —

visitors welcomed, and two or three talks are made by experts on service problems, and some specific questions are answered by the Service Officer. The formal meeting lasts about an hour. "After the colors are retired, card and refreshment tables are set up for a social session. And it is during that time per- sonal problems are discussed with the Service Officer, forms of various kinds are made out, family allotment snarls are untangled, and assistance given in many other ways. The plan is working

so well that a Service Committee is being formed, made up of Legionnaires and Auxiliares, to assist in filling out some of the forms."

Junior Rifle 711 en

SMITH-WEVER Post of Sayville, Long Island, New York, is one of many Posts that sponsor a Junior Rifle Association Club, writes Legionnaire Portland (Oregon) Navy Post has a member, Chief Boatswain's John Sellman, instructor. Constructed bv Mate George Sanderson, right center, above, who joined the Navy 62 years ago and is still on active duty, recruiting WAVES Look at \i^Kifecollav- V\e looks cjcq^iWas Vyii^q to ^qqef

' We beeA ViM^q if Ouir U'lS Irtkut^ member of Navy Post of Portland, sector now with the colors that is bring- ."Tax ort Hie neu),

Oregon, is probably the oldest Navy ing results. Here is the plan as outlined enlisted man in service in this Second by Service Officer E. A. Schmidt;

World War. Born January 3, 1862, he "First, we made contact with the school

has passed his eighty-second birthday nurses, the, police and fire departments, 1 If D and is on duty by special order of Secre- city officials and the secretary of the tary of the Navy Frank Knox recruiting Draft Board, asking that our Post be WAVES in the San Francisco area. His given the names of men discharged, and home is at Richmond, California, but he advised of any illness or family difficulty became a member of the Portland Navy in the family of any boy in the service. the boys themselves out of scrap material Post of the Legion while in that area. The newspapers tell us, of course, about from the old elementar>' school at Say- Assigned to the USS Iroquois when he those who die in service, or are missing ville, the rifle range has been open for a first shipped in 1882, he transferred to or taken prisoner. A call is made at each year. One hundred and fifty boys have the Hartford for the second enlistment, home when the news reaches us and our been trained to shoot straight by mem- and then passing from one ship to an- Post offers any help needed. bers of the Post, while N. R. A. awards other, he was on the USS Oregon when "Next, we have a social meeting once have been made at regular Post meet- the war with Spain was declared in 1898 each month to which we invite the fathers ings. Legionnaires have purchased a and made the dash with that gallant of fifty men who are in service. After stove for the range and members act as vessel from the Pacific to Cuban waters registration, the meeting is opened, the {Continued on page 47) and the destruction of the Spanish fleet. During the first World War he served in fitting out, arming and instructing the crews of merchant vessels, and in addi- tion organized the Third District Gun- nery School. On July 7, 1922—forty years to a day from the time he joined up—he was placed on the inactive list. Then came Pearl Harbor. He asked for service, but was rejected as not physical- ly fit. But after serving as a volunteer recruiter for eight months he went to Washington. There, on July 15, 1942 twenty years and one week after he had been retired—he was restored to duty, and assigned to recruiting service. Chief Boatswain's Mate George San- derson, three-war Legionnaire and vet- eran of several expeditionary forces, is still going strong.

A Service Plan Bullock-Sanderson Post of Ardmore, Pennsylvania, held a party when the WAUWATOSA. (Wisconsin) Post debt on the club home was paid off. Commander Henry M. Harmon, as- has developed a plan for home sisted by District Commander Clarence Brown, burned the old plaster in service to the men and women from its the new outdoor fireplace

28 Th^ AMERICAN LEGION Maga-Jnt HOME-FRONT GUARDIANS

{Continued from page 20) sippi State Guardsmen protected hfe Race war also called out the Missis- Coordination and supervision of such and property at war-swollen Pascagoula sippi State Guard at Mobile, and the plans and policies are vested in the com- against threatened mob violence. In Ten- Texas Guard at Beaumont, where order manding generals of the respective nessee Guardsmen collected 2,000.000 was restored. At Ketchum, Idaho, ten service commands. pounds of scrap metal, and at Pursglovc, Guardsmen shoveled through a mile of Maj. Gen. John F. Williams. Chief of West V'irginia, State troops guarded the snow five feet deep to free a blocked the National Guard Bureau, and a for- scene of a mine disaster and aided in train, permitting it to arrive at its desti- mer Commander of the Department of rescue work. nation, according to the official report, Missouri of The American Legion, Through the Middle West, during the "only a day late." emphasizes that the State Guards are raging floods of last spring and summer The territories—Alaska, Hawaii and integral parts of the executive depart- Puerto Rico—have their own Guard ments of the various state governments units, administered in the same way as —in other words, they are not and can- the various States. The Hawaii Terri- troops, and will not be torial Guard, including many Americans not be federal 26th Annual employed as such. The relation of the of Japanese ancestry, went on duty im- War Department to the state forces is mediately after the attack on Pearl that of counselor, not that of boss. National Convention Harbor and did yeoman service. The Alaskan Guard is open only to MOST of the States, the Guards IN tried and true sourdoughs who have at have already seen sers-ice, some of it The American Legion least one solo hunting or camping trip arduous. The first active duty came dur- to their credit. Their training is largely ing the summer and fall of 1941, before At Chicago of the guerrilla type. we were at war, mostly in connection with minor civil disturbances or natural INDEED, "guerrilla" training has During of Sept. 18 disasters. But the Guards went through Week proved highly popular with all the their test of fire in the hectic weeks state units. Their lack of adequate heavy and months after December 7. 1941. equipment made it obvious from the be- It was immediately apparent that ginning that they would not be expected state and local police forces were in- that drove thousands from their homes to meet any invading columns in pitched adequate to cope with the many security and disrupted war-choked communica- battle. Their role was visualized, rather missions which the outbreak of war tions. State Guardsmen were on duty. —in those days when invasion was by brought. Federal troops, concentrating Often without shelter from the driving no means impossible—as anti-fifth col- for action, were often unavailable. So rains, sometimes with no hot food for umn or anti-paratroop units; in the the State Guards were mobilized. They days, they patroled roads in the flooded event of invasion, their only contact patroled the lonely beaches, guarded areas, manned boats to rescue flood vic- with enemy columns would be hit-and- reservoirs and bridges, stood post in tims, pitched sandbags to plug broken run. Guerrilla training with its emphasis vital railway yards and along truck levees. on individual courage and skill, roused highways. At Dixon, Illinois, Guardsmen were enthusiasm among the men at a time In many States they remained on ac- on duty at the scene of a train wreck, when a sore lack of equipment and arms tive duty until late January and Feb- arid in Missouri the Guards were ca'led was a serious demoralizing factor. Jur- ruary of 1942, when Army troops and out to protect the war-vital transcon- ists and bankers, butchers and bakers, augmented civilian guard details started tinental pipeline when its cons'. ruction many of them considerably more portly to take over their duties. In California, was endangered by labor violence. than they were when they were making state troops remained on full-time active the world safe for democracy, struggled duty until last spring, guarding far-flung MICHIGAN has kept hundreds of manfully with the principles of silent strategic areas and points at which a state troopers on active duty ever assassination—and, dirty and tired, felt fifth column might strike; by Decem- since Pearl Harbor, guarding the strategic deep satisfaction. ber, 1943 the Cahfomia Guard had international bridges and canal locks upon The mission of the State Guards is mobilized more than 10,000 officers and which so much of the U.S. -Canadian clearly defined by the War Department. men. In all, about 14,000 Guardsmen war effort depends. In Detroit, Guards- They are to maintain the state laws, to were on active duty after Pearl Harbor. men were called out early last summer suppress civil disorder, and to protect In Connecticut these State Guardsmen to combat the flaring race riots—more life and property. They will meet such patroled the highways along the New than 2,000 men were on duty at Detroit, emergencies as may arise witliin the state York border in pursuit of reported Pontiac, Ypsilanti, Flint and Muskegon. boundaries, including civil disturbances "parachutists." In Rhode Island and It was at Detroit, incidentally, where and disasters arising from war or other in the western States they fought forest the State Guards' lack of mobihty, one causes. They are to guard and protect fires. In Vermont they captured an of their chief problems, was revealed. vital industries, installations and facili- arsonist. In New York they battled a Gen. Williams himself has called atten- ties essential to the war effort, when flood at Orlean and guarded a crippled tion to this in recent speeches before other means—such as local pohce or Army bomber. At Honesdale and Port State Guard- officers, but efforts to rem- hired civilian guards—are deemed in- Allegheny in Pennsylvania and at Cum- edy the situation have been only par- adequate by the state or federal authori- berland in Maryland they did flood duty. tially successful. The Michigan State ties. They are to prevent or suppress The New Jersey Guard remained on Guards w'ere mobilized in the armories the activities of enemy agents, .such as or parachute active duty at strategic points until late during the disturbances, and some made fifth columnists, saboteurs either in the absence of or in in 1942, maintaining a "permanent active their way to Detroit by train and other troops, Federal troops. They are to duty" battalion of more than 500 officers means to reinforce the Detroit units, support of federal authorities and men. In the Sea Islands off the but the rioting was brought under con- cooperate with the Georgia Coast a State Guard boat patrol trol by federal troops who possessed the in extreme emergencies, especially in informa- was coordinated with beach patrols in mobility to move into the danger points, performing observation and the frontiers. the dark days of last year when sub- and by State Guard units living in the tional duties at or near evacuation of marines prowled our shores. In Missis- Detroit area. They are to supervise the 29 MARCH, 194+ civilians from areas that are threatened. The Guards' mission has changed since the first days of the war, when fifth-column uprisings and quick air- borne stabs at vital installations were not impossible, even if improbable. Then ,State troops might have been called upon not only to suppress dis- turbances, but actively to defend their homes. War Department plans envisaged use of the Guards in cooperation with the Army in a possible theater of op- erations extending 300 miles inland from the coasts. Emergency plans were drawn up in conferences between Serv- ice Command authorities and .State Guard officials. Those plans were never called into play, and as the United Nations have passed from an embittered defensive to the attack, the chances are that they never will be. But the plans are still there, and the Guards' training takes them into full account. In the mean- time, their duties are covered by that part of their authorized mission charg- ing them to maintain the laws and protect life and property. Biggest stumbling block in the Guards' progress has been lack of equ'pment.

When they were organized in 1 940-1 941, the Federal Government through the National Guard Bureau made available thousands of Model 1917 Enfield rilles and considerable quantities of such in- dividual equipment as haversacks, mess gear and cartridge belts, which could be purchased by the States. Everything else had to be procured through com- mercial channels, but not in competi- tion with federal war purchasing. Since few States could afford any heavy out- lay of funds for such purposes—total state defense expenditures between 1940 and June of 1943 is in the neighbor- hood of $30,000,000—the result was a conglomeration of half-armed, half- equipped troops. Since that time, the States have been able to obtain, through '^iow t^^ay /it ^ the National Guard Bureau,. quantities of khaki summer uniforms, olive-drab woolens or spruce-green CCC uniforms and uniform cloth. This has been gen- erally insufficient, however, and many States have designed and purchased Tlie Old. Crow wliiskcy you tuy today was distilled their own distinctive uniforms. At the and laid away to a^e years tefore tke war. Today tke same time the list of individual arms and equipment issued by the War De- Old Crow Distillery Is |5roducing only alcokol for partment is being expanded, so the war ^urjaoscs. So ke |)aticnt if you can't kave all you Guards' equipment outlook is consider-

want of Old Crow when you want it. are doin* ably brighter today than a year ago.

.•\ serious blow to the Guards—at our utmost to distrikute our reserve stocks so as to least to their self-respect— fell last year assure you a continuous suj-)|-)ly for tke duration. when their Enfield rifles and bayonets were called in by the War Department. The weapons were badly needed else- CZ^C^^^^^ ^~^^€(i^y\^ie where, and the Army was unable to supply the Guards with modern high- powered rifles. Instead scores of thou- sands of single-barreled 12-gauge shot- guns and Thompson submachine guns Kentucky Straight Whiskey • Bourbon or Rye • This whiskey is 4 years old were procured and issued by the War National Distillers Products Corporation, New York, N. Y. • 100 Proof Department. In some instances, these

30 The AMERICAN LEGION Ma'^az.\ni Whpn Answi-Ring Advertisfments Please MnNTioN The American Legion Magazine Full color reprints of this illustration by George Adomeit will be sent free on request. The Grave at Troina

A noted war correspondent, writing on problems for you. They promise miracles And elections are simple. You just vote the Troina, Sicily, fall of says in TIME of "security and freedom". , . if you will the way the bayonet points. —"Off the road a little way we observed give them jttst a little more power. It Under the "new order" you don't even a grave on which was a cross and the sounds swell—until one day you get wise have to think. You don't dare. words 'Hier Ruhen Soldaten V, S, A.' to the fact that they're no longer asking soldiers {Here lie of the U, S, A.}" you, they're telling you. Then it's too Want that kind of "security and free- late, they're in. dom".' No American does. The way of living we've worked out at home has We didn't want to stay here at Troina. And do you get "security and freedom".' given us more good things— like homes, We wanted to go on to Berlin—and then Oh, yes, you get plenty—of their brand. Home. Some chunks of flying steel cars, food, conveniences and recreation stopped that. You are absolutely secure in your job. —and more happiness, more opportunity, They tell you where to work, for how more feeling of being somebody—than But at least we lie in free land—and it was many hours, and for how little pay. any foreign "ism" ever invented. not free when we came. It was^well—did you ever see what happens to people You no longer bother your head about It will keep right on working that way, under the New Order.' We did. It's ugly, saving for a new home, a better car or too, as long as Americans keep on think- ugly beyond anything that you, at home, a business of your own. They tell you ing straight, like Americans. We've seeo can imagine. what to do with your money— if there's what power maniacs did over here. Don't any left after you've made all the neces- give them a chance to take over at home. But it starts out so beautifully. These sary contributions. people who have reaped all the "bless- "voluntary" Keep America American . . . for your- ings" of dictatorship and bureaucracy Your children are no responsibility at selves, for your children and for the could tell slyly the poison you how all. The State takes them over as soon millions of our buddies who will come takes hold. as they're able to walk. They learn to back. That will make our being here at Smooth talking men ofifer to solve all your goosestep very quickly. Troina mean something!

T/>e A rmy- BUY Navy E flag WAR BONOS waves over 7 Rebub- AND lie plants GENERAL OFFICES: CLEVELAND 1, OHIO and the STAMPS MaritimeM Exporf Department: Chrysler Building, New York 17, New York — KEEP floats over AND the Cleve- ALLOY, CARBON, STAINLESS STEELS' COLD FINISHED STEELS • PLAT ES • BARS THEM! land Dis- trict plant. SHAPES • STRIP • SHEETS* PIPE • TUBING • TIN PLATE • NUTS • BOLTS . RIVETS NAILS • PIG IRON • FARM FENCE • WIRE • FABRICAT£0 STEEL PR OOUCTS

MARCH, 1944 31 Whpn AmwERrNn Advfrtisfmfnt"! Pi fasf. Mention Tuc American Legion Magazine federally-owned arms (the weapons re- main- federal property and must be ac- counted for) were augmented by state- purchased commercial arms. In recent months, however, as the need for the old Enfields declined in the face of an ever-growing flood of modern weapons, the Enfields have started to go back to the Guards. About ten per- cent of the total number of State Guards now have Enfields; the rest keep their shotguns and tommy-guns. Indeed, many States have indicated that they intend to keep their stocks of shotguns and tommy-guns, since these are often of more use in suppressing any civil dis-

turbances than the high-powered rifle.

Few of the state troops have any sort of automatic weapons except the Thompsons, but some have managed to purchase such arms on the open market from private arms manufacturers. Some States are using the Reising submachine gun, favored by the Marines. Most of the guard units are using state-owned- trucks and automobiles or are renting private vehicles. The War The Soldier and the Department has been able to sell a handful of obsolescent army trucks to state troops, but these are but a small 10-minute Creole percentage of the vehicles needed to give the Guards even a semblance of tactical mobility. In some instances the Remington's part in speeding peace is, of course, to continue to furnish Army has made its own trucks available Uncle Sam with military supplies. to the Guards for training purposes, but To give you some idea of what we generally speaking, lack of transport has the /knot THE COMMAND, "Fall out to seriously handicapped the state forces have been doing . . . right of the road, " the Soldier dropped both in training and in the efificient down on the grass, eased his pack, 1 . Since Pearl Harbor, Remington has performance of their duties. unscrewed the top of his canteen, produced enough military small arms The Service Commands have made took a long swig. ammunition to fire more than 500 times army training facilities available to at every Axis soldier. "Water tastes good right now, don't guard officers and, in some cases, guard 2. Remington helped develop, and is it?" somebody said. non-commissioned officers and enlisted now producing in great quantity, an "Yeah, I suppose," said the Sol- men. However, the Service Commands amazing new incendiary bullet which dier. He lit a cigarette. "But for have not been uniform in the extent of — unlike ordinary bullets —can pene- water to really wet a whistle right, this service; the First Service Com- trate and explode even armored air- gimme a certain old tin dipper I mand, in New England, has probably plane gasoline tanks. Washington calls know." been the most active. Hundreds of New this "the outstanding small arms devel- "A which?" England officers have been trained at opment for use against airplanes." Concord, Massachusetts, and later at "An old tin dipper. When I was But sometime—soon, we hope —Rem- Sturbridge, Massachusetts, where they home," the Soldier went on, "this ington will be serving sportsmen again received valuable instruction not only time of year I'd always go hunting with shotguns and rifles. Remington from personnel but with my dog and maybe a couple of army from men who Express shells, Remington Hi-Speed the fellows. We'd go out to Harry had observed England's Home Guard in .22's with Kleanbore priming, and Olsen's farm —swell hunting country. action. Remington big game cartridges with ." Guard officers and non-coms faith- Pheasants, rabbits, partridge . . Core-Lokt bullets. Remington Arms fully attend the one or two weeks' train- "What's about that water?" Company, Inc., Bridgeport, Conn. ing courses made available to them by ** "Well, Harry has an old tin dipper "Express, '^Kleanbore, "Hi-Speed, "and "Sportsmati the Service Commands, giving up their hanging on the pump. And when we are Reg. U. S. Pat. Ojf.; "Core-Lokt** is a trademark of Remington Arms Co., Inc. summer vacations cheerfully. At most came back from hunting aU morning, camps the officers act as "privates," thirsty as herd a of circus elephants, learning their jobs from the ground up. we'd head for that old dipper. And Remington. The Guards in most States have also boy! water out of that — dipper al- established their own training camps, ways tasted better than anywhere where both officers and men undergo

else. I wish I was there right . . now . intensive training for a short period D'you suppose maybe next year. ..?" each year. Attendance at the camps is always voluntary—and always excellent. It is at the camps where the essentially

democratic character of the Guards is Remington Sportsman 3-shot autoloading best illustrated. At a New York State shotgun and Remington ExpressshotsheUs camp, an upstate county attorney, an officer, noticed a lowly private earnestly

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MARCH, 1944 33 When Answering Advertisements Please Mention The American Legion Magazi.ne peeling spuds outside of the mess hall. through State Guard ranks into the has been one of the big problems of the "That," said the officer, "is just the Army or Navy, but the figure runs into Guards, but they have met it with the job for you." the scores of thousands. knowledge that it is an important part The private was the judge of the "Men trained by the Guards before of their service to their country. attorney's court. going into the Army," says Gen. Wil- Morale of the men who form the At a Texas camp, an officer told a liams, "have repeatedly proved that State Guards is universally high. Both reporter, "Sure, we're democratic. Every- their training is extremely valuable. officers and men, conscious o^ the body gets the same pay around here, They are already familiar with military service they are performing, turn out from privates to generals—nothing." discipline, and with many of the prob- faithfully for drill and field training. Some of the States have authorized lems of army Hfe. Their adjustment to Most of their training must be done at active duty pay for their Guardsmen their new environment is not so difficult. night; in thousands of offices and plants equal to that paid their equivalent rank They are familiar with weapons. They the nation over, weary, footsore and

by the Army. are more physically fit than they would bramble-scratched men report for work Various Army Service Forces service have been without their guard training. after a night spent in crawling or run- schools have recently been opened to "We in Washington hear of guard- ning through fields—-tired, but secure in State Guard officers, under the autho- trained men receiving their stripes in a the knowledge that they also serve. rity of Brig. Gen. Walter L. Weible, very short time after induction. Hun- The State Guards of the sovereign Director of A. S. F. Military Training, dreds have gone through Officer Candi- States, direct descendants of the fighting and quotas are being filled now. date Schools, and are today leading militia of America's youth, are carrying Perhaps one of the most important their men in battle. on. Despite public apathy, despite mis- functions of the State Guards had been "Many of the state units have made understanding of their mission and occa- their tremendous service to the armed an especial appeal to young men and to sional charges of political manipulation, forces through their voluntary pre-in- boys of pre-draft age, urging them to despite a chronic lack of equipment, duction training of young men. There join for training before the Army calls." they go on doing an unsung but vital are no figures immediately available as The rapid turnover, reaching in some job in winning the war. They can do no to the number of men who have passed units as much as loo percent in a year, more.

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(Continued from page 12) wings of patrol planes that are keeping Naval Air Station, Atlanta, Georgia, to post offices, to operate key punch ma- the sea lanes free from enemy subma- meet any air traffic emergency. It's chines, and to become good cooks and rines. They adjust the stresses and \\'A\'ES too who prepare some of the, bakers. Enlisted WAVES may also be strains in the fuselages of planes that weather forecasts used by the aviators. trained in one of the many aeronautical cover the sea lanes to Alaska. At one Aerographer's mates who have been to specialties, or they may be sent to naval air station the first group of WAVES school at the Naval Air Station at

medical activities to take over duties that reported for duty in the Assembly Lakehurst, N. J., collect the weather in- in the Hospital Corps. and Repair Department astonished the formation and make observations. Of- Graduates of navy schools are playing officers in charge by completing in three ficers who have taken a nine-month a vital part in the training of naval avi- weeks a job which it had been antici- graduate course in aerological engineer- ation cadets today. WAVE officers who pated would take women eight weeks to ing are serving as aerologists. A small have studied at the Naval Air Navigation do! group of enlisted women are preparing School in Hollywood, Florida, are now Navy-trained women are participating for assignment to naval lighter-than-air teaching the principles and practice of in many other activities of air stations. bases throughout the nation to train and air navigation to future pilots. Other, It is no longer a novelty for a pilot to care for the homing pigeons used by officers who have completed the course hear the voice of a woman giving him Navy blimps on anti-submarine patrol in ships and aircraft recognition, are in- landing directions and clearance as he duty, to carry messages back to land structing the future pilots how to make circles over a Navy field. That will be bases during periods of radio silence. instant distinctions between friend and one of the WAVES on duty in the con- At Lakehurst, women of the Navy, foe. Enlisted women are also contribu- trol tower, trained in the school at the most of whom have never seen a 'chute ting their skills and knowledge to the before they began training, learn to be- training of pilots. Already they are come accomplished parachute riggers teaching men to fly by instruments in also. By the time graduation arrives, the Link Trainer. At Pen.sacola, Florida, they are able to pack a 'chute in about a class of women is preparing to act as ten minutes, and they are expert at re- air gunnery instructors, using special pairing damaged 'chutes and at sewing training devices to teach accuracy in on anything from a cardboard thickness gunner\'. The future success of some of canvas to a delicate one-thread break Naval mission may depend upon the in the 'chutes sheer silk canopy. Para- training given a gunner by a WAVE chute riggers are already at work at air back home! stations throughout the country. At Al- Women who have taken the course at ameda, California, they pack all the the Naval Air Technical Training Center 'chutes used in operations and some- at Norman, Oklahoma, are now working times do rush orders for carriers and as aviation machinist's mates at air battleships going directly to the war stations throughout the nation, releasing zones. skilled male personnel for duty on air- More than 5000 women have been craft carriers and at overseas bases. trained to do the work of the members These women are keeping the men flying of the Hospital Corps. They are on duty by tuning up the motors on Navy fight- "I always say you can learn a lot in naval hospitals throughout the nation, ers, by checking the fuel systems on more about 'em by readin' their caring for battle casualties, keeping rec- bombers, and by overhauling the train- wastebasket than by readin' their ords, and working in the laboratories. ing planes. They patch rents in the tec leaves!" (Continued on page 37)

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(Continued from page ^4) curement of fire-control equipment. In They are also assigned to dispensaries the Bureau of Ships, statistical crafts- such as those at the Naval Torpedo Sta- men are making charts on the schedules tion at Alexandria. Virginia. Here the and progress of shipbuilding. Key punch pharmacist's mates give first aid treat- operators record these schedules on IBM ments, administer and make up simple cards. Two women work as radio drafts- medicines, and also assist the Navy doc- men, making designs from original tor and nurses by filling out the health sketches of radio equipment. These are records of civilian applicants for jobs but a few of the jobs done by the in the plant. WAVES. In all cases they are doing Many members of the Women's Re- work which is necessary in order that serve are at work in jobs for which they the men may serve at sea. received no specific training in a school, How have these 47,000 women re- but gained the necessary knowledge for acted to life in a man's Navy? They the use of the fleet! Officers of the have responded to its challenges enthusi- Women's Reserve are filling a great vari- astically, they have worked hard and ety of administrative and technical jobs. well to prove themselves worthy suc- A lieutenant (junior grade) who was cessors on shore to those men who are formerly a managing editor of a daily now with the fleet. Enlisted women have newspaper is now editor of an ordnance advanced within the ratings which they magazine which keeps workers in Naval earned at schools or on the job, and ordnance plants informed as to how the more than four hundred and fifty have Navy fights. An ensign who was as- qualified as officer candidates since last finished the o\d acro^ ^ sistant buyer of china and glassware in June. and ran ^^.^y a department store now buys all types The WAVES, too, are eagerly taking Savage Savage of mess gear for the Navy, from can up new types of work—such as aircraft PJ°^ -Tj ns openers to wooden bowls and cutlery. instrument maintenance—work formerly r'ave f,oe\obtheY*^.\TheY a^«^°"^?Jtor Another WAVE estimates the allowance reserved for men. In their short navy of supplies for advance bases. In the service, these women have had the re Navy's Bureau of Ordnance the WAVES warding experience of meeting new tco-p;;-. ro'nd deo^^ do a large number of jobs that help to friends, of seeing new parts of the na- ce^-' \:.^o"aedos Vf^;^^ keep the ships at sea supplied with guns, tion, of serving with men qnd other °; *° f^^^ ^ record ammunition and other weapons of war. women who are contributing their com- Zor that For example, an enlisted woman keeps bined efforts toward the realization of the records of the distribution and pro- victory and a world at peace. v^o the good unsanda ond-o-;; yyr^^^*^tr ^^r aUthef>ne gy ^^^^ tor depend o NORWAY. NAZI NEMESIS V/e

{Co7it'mued from page 19) was resumed. The Germans had not yet was spontaneous and immediate. It was interfered with the organizations them- the youth, first of all, who struck out selves; they were still so confident of ''Keep up the with pitifully meagre equipment to de- final victory that they assumed they fend the land. They fought for ever\' would have no trouble in eventually good work-" inch of precious ground and kept up the taking over all civilian organizations in 0/ course, the quality of caliber futile struggle for 62 days a longer the country. They requested Norwegian — .50 Browning aircraft machine time than any other victim of aggression athletes—they didn't command at that guns and other war equipment had been able to resist. This generated time—to compete with German soldiers, produced by Savage will be maintained. Everything will be a hatred of Germany in the hearts of but everywhere they received a deter- done to bring our fighting men Norwegian youth which not even time mined no. home victorious in the shortest can erase. Gradually the Norwegians got a sports possible time. "When they do Norwegians will never forget the sum- program underway, and in the fall of return, Savage willagain devote all its gun-making skill and pre- mer of 1940. They awaited a miracle, 1940. when the Oslo soccer team met cision facilities to the produc- Fredrikstad hoping that the Allies would find some for the national champion- tion of sporting arms of "fine way to liberate them, that the Amer- ship, it was before a record crowd of quality." icans might come. But with each day 32,000 people. Fredrikstad, which is 70 Savage Arms Corporation that passed the number of German miles from Oslo and has only 16,000 Utica, N.Y. soldiers increased; schools, gymnasiums inhabitants, sent 6.000 to Oslo to see and playing fields were confiscated. Of the game. For the first time the Germans course, there was no possibility of re- posted notices reminding the Norwegians SAVAGE suming the sport program on the former of their status. "No manner of demon- basis, but it was agreed that sport under stration against German authority will Norwegian direction and within the be tolerated!" it said. "In the event of framework of the local clubs and na- such demonstration, the game will be tional federation was extremely impor- canceled!"" But the demonstration -came tant. It would serve to keep the youth anyway! When the Norwegian national physically fit and provide a stimulus anthem, "Ja Vi Elsker," was sung by the for the fighting spirit of the young men stadium crowd, the Germans received Lwo-.cc°),^:iL--- and women. notice for all time that these were not Gradually, therefore. Norwegian sport people who reckoned with a "Deutsch-

MARCH, 1044 37 When A.nsix ering Am•^RTIsr^•E^•Ts Pi ease Mention The Americ.\n Legion Magazine land Uber Alles." Jericho's walls would have crumbled that day. It was the last verse for Norwegian sport. In the fall of 1940 when the Germans first tried to command Norwegian sport, no one would listen. Hitler ordered Nor- way to send 20 blond Aryans to a ski meet at Garmisch Partenkirchen. This M'as the first serious warning to Nor- wegian athletes that the sheep were to be thrown to the wolves. The refusal of Norway's "blond boys" to answer the summons was to prove the corner- stone of Norwegian sports-front resist- ance.

THE Norwegian sports - front was founded November 22, 1940. At about that time a Nazi sports promoter, R. Wagner, appeared on the scene. He had been in Norway ever since April 9th, but had kept in the background. To the great shame of all Norwegian patriots, Wagner found a willing tool in Charles Hoff, the pole vaulter who first disgraced Norway when he broke a contract to become a professional while touring America in 1927. A dis- ruptive influence in Norwegian sport ever since his American trip, Hoff be- came a Quisling henchman long before the war. Hoff persuaded the Germans that Norwegian sports could be taken over with a wave of his hand. With the aid of a mixed bag of malcontents, he turned loose on Norwegian sport. On November 2 2d he issued an ultimatum to the country's sports leaders, demand- ing that they acknowledge him as their leader. They all refused flatly. The re- action was so strong at first that the Germans considered relegating Hoff to the lowest rung of the Nazi ladder, but . we all have them! he was given another chance. A few days later he announced the nbmes of his Lovely pin-up girls a-plenty . . . but barrack walls can't hold hand-picked stooges. Not one of the all the pictures a soldier sees. Beyond are other scenes . . . recognized Norwegian sports leaders was perhaps of that winding inlet, blue and silent . . . the big grey among them. The gangsters' names and

rocks topped with pines against the sky . . . the bass that pictures, plastered all over the news-

smashed and fought like fury . . . "Man, oh man . . . when papers, had the public appeal of a rogues' I get hack!" gallery. With these individuals Hoff proposed, In fox-hole or gun turret ... or at bench, machine or desk among other things, to produce the 20 ... we all have our "pin-ups". Things we've enjoyed before "blond Ayrans," but everything went and that we're going to enjoy again. Mental pictures that to wrong for him. Himmler arrived to each of us satisfyingly symbolize the freedom that America apply his well-known technique to the is fighting and working for. problem. He was no more successful The fine motors that now go, and which for more than than Hoff. two years have been flowing from the Evinrude plant to all After Himmler's arrival seven of Nor- branches of our fighting forces, are designed to speed the way's foremost athletes in various fields were summonded for hearings. Among day of Viaory . , . when pin-ups can become realities. them was the two-time Olympic and four-time world ski champion, Birger EVINRUDE MOTORS, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Ruud. All seven were disqualified from Evinrude Motors of Canada, Peferboro, Canada sports competition for life, which made them even greater heroes in the public eye. * Himmler later committed another Only Fighting blunder which further entrenched Nor- Dollars Count EVINRUDE wegian resistance on the sports front. Birger Ruud had spent some years in . . . Buy More War Bonds OUTBOARD MOTORS Germany and spoke German fluently; he was the most popular ski jumper ever to perform on German slopes. Now,

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Himmler believed, that by using one of been under German control since the titude all the sports writers were dis- Birger's old friends, he might succeed first days of the occupation, said nothing, missed and replaced by "new ordered" in converting the Olympic champion. of course; but the underground saw to successors.

"Old friend'' indeed! Willy Bogner it that the story was spread, .^s a result, German vexation was expressed in was his name. He was from Munich. He the Nazis' many overtures met with the many ways, some of them outright child- was a good ski jumper. It was he that same response everywhere. ish. If the grandstands were to be empty, administered the Olympic oath at the From that time on the Germans con- the Norwegians who took to the country winter games in Garmisch in 1936. He ducted an indiscriminate reign of terror. each weekend would pay for it! As a had gone to Norway in 1930, learned But after some time had elapsed they symbol of resistance all patriots had Norwegian and become a member of a decided to try again to win favor with taken to wearing some little thing which Norwegian club. His pleasant south Norway's sports groups. Hoff and his indicated that they were "anti." Skiing German temperament won him many handful of gangsters were given free children wore red caps, scarves woven friends. This fellow was among the first rein to impose the "New Order" on the in the national colors or something sim- parachute troops to land in Norway clubs. How well they succeeded is il- ilar. The Germans assigned the entire on that infamous 9th of April. He then lustrated by the experience of Oslo's Oslo police force to put an end to this had the impudence to seek out his old "New York Yanks." All but two of the practice. Mass arrests followed. At one friends and tell them he was still a club's 750 members resigned. of the most popular ski-slopes outside friend, that the Germans wished only This so infuriated Hoff that he actu- Oslo a regular battle developed. A 17- to save Norway from the designing west- ally proposed the execution of all those year-old girl and a well-known actress, ern powers. He was spit upon. No one who opposed him, but the Germans de- both of whom were wearing red caps, would see him. cided to use other methods. They planned were arrested with several others and But he persisted just the same and a meet with only German soldiers com- taken to the Oslo police station. News became Himmler's tool. Winter after peting, exhorting the public to attend of the occurrence was spread throughout winter Bogner had been a guest in Birger and ordered sports writers to discuss Norway by the underground. "Red Caps" Ruud's home on Kongsberg, one of Nor- the event "properly." The newspapers, appeared everywhere! way's ski resorts. Now he believed it however, gave quite clear between-the- The sports groups were immediately possible for him to capitalize on the lines accounts of what actually occurred. driven underground by the German at- friendship of those days. He went to The journalists showed a complete lack tacks. Secretly they met, organized train- Ruud's home and was thrown out bodily. of enthusiasm for the quality of the ing meets, ski-competitions, shooting Birger's mother, who had been hostess sport exhibited. By emphasizing the matches. On one occasion the country's to this German so many times in the presence in the grandstand of Reichs- leading ski jumpers held a champion- years of peace, did not show herself. kommisar Joseph Terboven and sports ship meet; later the cross-country run- The story of Bogner's reception at "fuhrer" Hoff, one paper gave its readers ners did likewise. Through underground Kongsberg became known throughout ample notice that the stands were other- channels the results were made know'n Xonvay. The newspapers, which had wise empty. For their "negative" at- throughout the country and even beyond

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Norway's borders. The sports front had and unexpected end. Mmy of the best become an invisible unit, stronger than known competitors were arrested. The ever before. The Germans struck bhndly victims included Birger Rudd, now con- about them seeking to crush the phantom fined in Kongsvinger fortress. resistance. During the trying days of 1940 the In the winter of 1942-43 the secret German sports promoter Wagner made USTIFYING ski meet to determine the national cham- one remark which may well remain a pionships was held near Oslo with 90 symbol of German oppression in Nor- THE UNIVERSAL competitors. It drew entirely too large way. "Whether or not Norwegian sport a crowd to remain completely secret. survives is of no consequence," he said. The Germans got an inkling that some- "It is Germany's future that matters."

thing was in the wind and planted spies There is no doubt in Norwegian minds VERDICT. . . in the gathering. Several events were that Norwegian sport will outlive the held before the meet came to a dramatic Germany Herr Wagner had in mind. DOG TAG DOINGS

{Continued jrom page 24) prove a call to battle to vou thousands of talented members of our Armed of guys who are in the Infantry. As an Forces. ex-infantryman himself. The Company

The artist is Private Jimmy Babcock, Clerk echoes Comrade Nicholas's senti-

866th Guard Squadron, Jefferson Bar- ments : racks, Missouri, who furnishes this brief "About all I hear on the radio are sketch of himself: songs of the Army Air Corps, the Coast "I was born in Boonville, California, Guard, The Marine Corps Hymn, and completed grade and high school there Anchors Aweigh! Just otice have I heard and then 'evacuated' to San Francisco, an Infantry song. How come? Don't where I worked on the Examiner for a people realize that the Infantry is still year. Deciding I needed a bit more art the 'Queen of Battles'? under my belt, I attended Otis Art "I wonder if you can tell me where School in Los Angeles for another year I can get a copy of the Infantry song I of study. heard? I surely must let my daughters Returned to San Francisco, took a know about the grandest branch of the crack at many different types of jobs for service. All they talk about is the Ma- some time until I had an accident and rine Corps Hymn and the song of the found myself bedridden for a year. I Army Air Corps, and they even sing the somehow drifted away from art after fairly-recent song of the Coast Guard. that until Uncle Samuel took me under But they neglect the Infantry." his wing and sent me back here to Jef- We had often resented that same fact ferson Barracks, where I find I have ourselves. In any medley of service quite a bit of time to draw. tunes, the only Army song at all was the

"You ask what a 'Guard Squadron' is, Artillery's "The Caissons Go Rollin'

The only explanation I can offer is that Along." But we had heard, maybe once

it is what the term implies—it com- or twice, a couple of good Infantry prises guards who guard prisoners and songs, so we started a bit of research, also the Military Police Detachment. At with these results: the present time I am mail clerk in. this Fred Waring has composed and has organization and find the job a bit boring used on his program—too seldom— at times." good number called "Man to Man," which has been made available by his

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it has its own Infantry song, "The March of the New Infantry," which has been broadcast on the Army Hour. Twenty-tive years ago, we used to sing on the march the ditty about 'The Infantry, the Infantry, with dirt behind their ears," etc., but that same song was adapted by other branches of the service, such as the Engineers.

How about it, you infantrymen? Let's start a campaign rig/it now to popularize a song for the "Queen of Battles"! It's

still the Infantry that has to take and hold the ground that the Air Corps and the Navy soften up!

John J. Noll The Company Clerk

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{Continued from page 13) "So it was a mistake," Private Scag- You Step Out chair maybe a hundred times. Always liotti resumed softly. "Now, if I was in a hurry. When I cut his hair he to make a mistake while I'm shaving WithMeTonight? brings along a couple of other officers you, it wouldn't be so bad. There'd just and talks tactics and strategy while I be one man killed. But when a general I know I've been an awful grouch not taking you any place lately. But after standing all day at work." makes a mistake—that's different." my new job, my feet dam near killed me with cal- louses and burning. Now I've reformed — or rather The general grunted to show he was The general's tongue flicked nervously thanks to the Ice-Mint you advised. my feet have — unimpressed. Private Scagliotti tested over his soap-rimmed lips. He was Never tried anything that seemed to draw the pain and fire right out so fast — and the way it the razor's edge with his thumb and put breathing fast and hard. Private Scag- helps soften callouses is nobody's business! Been it lovingly able to get some extra overtime money — so what down while he worked up a liotti was talking through his teeth, now, tonight. can step do you say, let's go dancing You new lather on his customer's face. He as he had whistled through them a little on my Ice-Mint feet all you want. rubbed the soap well into the chin and while before. throat, manipulating the general's "I was up in the hills. General!" he Adam's apple speculatively with the ball said. "I went up there after the fight ASTHMA of his thumb. He folded the towel and was over, looking for a little farm- 'smcmuwHiii laid it across the general's eyes. house—like this one. It belonged to the "In fact," he confided as he took Scagliottis. My Uncle Luigi. I saw If yon safferfromBronchial Asthma Paroxysms, from coughs, up Free Trial Offer. gasping wheezing— write quick for daring the razor again, "I have learned a lot Uncle Luigi, all right. He was lying on Inquiries from so-called "hopeless" cases especially invited. NACOR, 956-G State life BIdg., Indianapolis, Ind. about tactics and strategy. Now, for ex- the best bed with a bullet hole in his ample, you take that action up in the head, and the family too poor to have ." tUS-SlCK? hills yesterday . . candles to burn. My Uncle Luigi was

Nausea, dizziness, stomach The man in the chair attempted to one of your mistakes. You out a field distress may be prevented protest but succeeded only in making a gun in his house, ana when ne arguea and relieved with the aid of guttural noise, with a beautiful soap about it some of your men shot him." bubble as a byproduct. The noise ended The general moaned softly. Private Moihersiirs abruptly, and the bubble sucked back Scagliotti smiled down at him, showing SEASICK RCMEOr in, deflated. There was something in the whiteness of his teeth. It was a the way Private Scagliotti's razor terrible smile. Since 30 years ago. its- touched his throat . . . "Just one mistake!" Private Scagliotti "I figure you made a big mistake, said harshly between those teeth. "Just ." General," Private Scagliotti said. "You a slip of the razor . . PAZOiPILES got set for an attack on your right flank. Corporal McGee and Private Wilson It didn't work out that way—it was burst impatiently into the door at that Relieves pain and soreness your center that got hit, instead—and instant, and Private Scagliotti turned, everything you had concentrated on your startled. For relief from the torture of simple Piles. PAZO for more than thirty ointment has been famous right caught hell. They smashed your "Look here, Scagliotti!" said years. Here's why: First. PAZO ointment soothes McGee inflamed areas—relieves pain and itchine. Second. communications, and you didn't get air angrily. "Colonel Benson told us to have PAZO ointment lubricates hardened, dried parts —helps prevent cracking and soreness. Third. support up in time. Then—now. General, this here Nazi brass hat back at head- PAZO ointment tends to reduce swelling and check bleedine. Fourth, it's easy to use. PAZO you just relax and listen! —then the in- quarters in fifteen minutes, so he can ointment's perforated Pile Pipe makes applica- " tion simple, thoroueh. Your doctor can tell you fantry came up, and answer the colonel's questions! You'll •bout PAZO ointment. Corporal McGee thrust his red face have to let him out of that chair, shave Get PAZO Now! At Your Druggists inside the door. "How long we got to or no shave. Them's orders!" wait?" he demanded, and Private Scag- Private Scagliotti drew a deep breath CHANGE OF ADDRESS liotti waved him away with a frown. The and put his razor down. corporal went back to the tree, and "All right—all right!" he answered. changed If your address has been Private Scagliotti pressed a little harder "I'm kind of choosy about who I shave, since paying your 1944 dues, notice of on the razor. A trickle of perspiration anyway. But you guys are going to such change should be sent at once to the Circulation Department, The Amer- crept down the general's cheek, cutting have to lug him out of my shop. He's ican Legion Magazine, P. O. Box 1055, a furrow in the lather. fainted!" Indianapolis, Indiana. Also tell your Post Adjutant what you are doing. GIVE ALL INFORMATION BELOW BATTLE TESTS IN A BATHTUB NEW ADDRESS {Continued from page 16) ride on her launching before her drag- Name (Please Prim) incalculable import in our plans for naval ging chains stopped her. This was the victory. first such model launching in this gen- Street Address, etc A full-dress rehearsal of the launching eration. was carried out on model scale at the With a capacity of 11,000,000 gallons City Basin. A ship's way was erected, com- of water, the Basin is probably the larg- State plete with scaffolding, underpinning, keel est of its kind. Ship models tested here blocks—and water. The actual mechanics represent all types and sizes of vessels 1944 Membership Card No of launching were followed to the minut- for the Navy, Coast Guard, Coast and Post No est detail. The only thing lacking was a Geodetic Survey, Army Engineers and bottle of champagne. Elaborate measure- Maritime Commission. Both Liberty Str'e Dept ments were taken by dynamometer and Ship and Victory Ship models were given OLD ADDRESS other electric and electronic devices. trial runs here. A 2S-foot model of the So precise was the resulting estimate Normandie, now the U.S.S. Lafayette, Street Address, etc of the ship's behavior that Rear Ad- is being tested, to determine power fac- City miral H. S. Howard, Director of the tors for the rehabilitated vessel. Behavior Basin, was able to predict with uncanny of the models in the water is closely State accuracy how far the Alabama would studied and forces used to tow or

44 The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine When Answering Advertisements Please Mention The American Legion Magazine propel them are accurately measured. On November 23, 1942, we inserted the following advertise- on scale, the Basin is Working model ment in the newspapers. The thoughts expressed in it are even able, in advance of construction of a more important today than they were when first published. vessel, and at relatively small cost, to furnish a ship designer with a prediction of the performance of a vessel, to within a few percent. It is frequently possible for the designer in turn to make changes in the plans of the vessel which will im- MONEY TALKS prove the ship performance, and for the Basin to confirm the effect of these changes by inexpensive changes in the Make it speak the only language model, all before actual construction of the vessel or machinery has begun. the Axis understands: Members of the Shipbuilders Council of America have frequently had re- course to the Basin's facilities, and re- THE RUMBLE OF TANKS search of this kind has become so useful that few if any naval or merchant ves- THE ZOOMING OF PLANES sels are now laid down without pre- liminary model-testing. THE CRACK OF RIFLES The towing models used are quite dif- ferent from the exhibition models of THE ROAR OF CANNON ships seen in ticket office windows, rail- way stations and in Navy exhibits. They are about 20 feet long, are hollow and THE BURSTING OF BOMBS are fashioned from layers of wood glued together instead of being built up with frames and planking like a ship's boat. They are carefully shaped to repre- sent the outer surface of the ship's hull, BUY WAR BONDS to exact scale, from keel to deck. Below the water line they are complete with INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION rudder, propellers, shafts, struts, bilge or rolling keel, docking keels and the like, but above water they have no masts, stacks or upper works of any kind. For engines to drive the model pro- pellers, the ship models are fitted with HORROGKS- small electric motors connected to the shafts, one motor to each shaft. The IBBOTSON motors are equipped with special de- vices designed and built at the Basin to indicate the torque required to turn the shafts, the thrust or push of the pro- pellers and the revolutions per minute of the respective shafts.

The ship models are first towed with- out propellers, and are then run under their own power with propellers, in a long basin of water which is sufficiently wide and deep to represent open sea. They are towed or guided by a large carriage which runs on rails laid on the walls of the basin, much as a traveling crane runs ak)ng rails secured to the walls of a shop. Construction of the RONRICO" Basin was in itself a notable engineering feat. The rails along the sides are straight, so far as the eye can see. Ac- tually, they take a slight bend, to con- form to the curvature of the earth. The deep-water basin, 963 feet long The Rum Connoisseur contains by 51 feet wide and 22 feet deep, is the over 100 tested drink and food largest of its kind in the world, though recipes. Send for your Free it is exceeded in length by the high speed copy. Ronrico Corporation, Dept. basin, 1163 feet long, in which models (P) Miami, Florida. Ronrico Rum Fishing is America's favorite sport. sometimes reach a speed of 40 knots 86, 90 and 151 Proof. U. S. H-l the favorite tackle. When our under their own power. Even at half Representative: Import Division, war job is finished we'll be ready that speed, a lo-foot model of a 100-foot McKesson <&-Robbins,lnc.,N.Y,C. to make H-l tackle better than ever. vessel traveling at 20 knots corresponds HORROCKS-IBBOTSON CO., UTICA, N.Y. to a ship's speed of 63 knots. Copyright 19*4 •Trademarks Ben Franklin was perhaps the first

MARCH, 194+ 45 When A.nsweri.nc Advertimments Please Me.ntio.n The American Legion Magazine constructor of a model towing basin. predecessor, the smaller model basin at 730 SHAVES FROM 1 BLADE Riding on a canal boat in Holland, he the A\'ashington Navy Yard, have saved AMAZING NEW BLADE SHARPENER observed that the horses had to pull shipbuilders millions of dollars by prov- / sharpener for all makes of harder when the vessel passed over the ing impracticability of design in per- Kdouble-edge razor blades //' 'performs miracles! "Not' ' shallow sill of the canal locks. Franklin formance of the model in question. necessary to change blades." writes one user. Another says, thought the shallowness must have Many other activities in the study of '•Have used 1 bladeover730 times. "RAZOROLL ally sharpens blades because it strops on leath- something to do with it. On his return naval problems are carried on at the , Gives keen, smooth shaving edges. No guess- work. Blade held at correct ang-le and proper pressure-automatically. Just turncrank to sharpen to America, he built a wooden trough, Basin. One of the most interesting is I blade. No gears. Well made. Handsome compact, sturdy. I Weighs few ounces. Will last gift. years. Makes ideal made a model boat, fastened it to a the performance of propeller blades. 'send no MONEY! sT^^L'°f?Jce^1I?„"«aTe" u"lJ string which he passed over wheel a stroboscope, an electronic de- RAZdROLL for 5 days and if you're not delighted with a Through vet shaves you Bet. return RAZOROLL and we'll return Hurry-order today. RAZOROLL COMPANY with a weight on the end, and worked vice which makes a whirling propeller 620 North Michigan Avenue* Dept. 633 Chicago, Illinois out calculations which confirmed his be- seem to stand still, the visitor looks lief. He had discovered an important through a porthole into a swiftly flowing Relieve ITm principle in hydrodynamics. water channel. Streams of water boil off Misery of 1 1 Ln For many years, ship models for tow- from the propeller blades in regular Relieve itching caused by eczema, ing test purposes were made of wa.x but patterns. athlete's foot, pimples other itch- — under series testing ing troubles. Use cooling, medicated modern conditions soft pine wood The of electronic de- D.D.D. Prescription. Greaseless, stain- has proved a much more satisfactory vices alone has opened up a wide new less. Quiets itching fast. 35c trial bot- tle proves it — or money back. Ask material. Until about 1930 model test- field of research here. Scientists at the your druggist for O.D.D. Prescription. ing was chiefly for the purpose of defen- Basin have originated many of them. sive improvements, to make sturdier At another part of the establishment, a TOMBSTONES ships. While this is still a major func- huge glass water tank permits motion DIRECT TO YOU$ tion of the Basin, research has led afield picture cameras to record the path of • Genuine beautiful ROCK- in many directions. underwater objects. On a high rack Monuments, Marliers. DALE As Admiral Howard told me on a visit stand half a hundred fascinating-looking Satisfaction or Money Baclc. Free lettering. Free catalog. to the Basin for this magazine, "It is a models of everything that man can make Freight paid. COMPARE OUR PRICES. sort of Mayo clinic for ships." to swim or float. The camera's records MONUMENT CO., Dept. 142, Joliet, IIU ROCKDALE Sometimes new designs fail to work of their behavior sometimes furnish the don't WORRY out in practice and the Basin and its basis for changes in design. Whyputup-withyearsof needless discomfort and worry? Try a Brooka HEAD HELD HIGH Automatic Air Cushion. WITH This marvelous appli- ancepermitstheopening {Continued from page g) I believe that in a few cases like loss toclose, yet holds reduc- blow. It only of ears prosthesis is better than plastic ible rupture securely, aged by a can be removed comfortably—day and by "peeling" as an orange. This obviates surgery. night. Thousands report amazing results. Light, the fear of the patient that the pros- He cited the case of a Negro who neat-fitting. No hard pads or stiff springs to chafe or gouge. Made for men, women and children. thetic appliance might accidentally come had lost most of the right ear. The Durable, cheap. Sent trial to prove it. Never on off. Negro was very patriotic and was fear- sold in stores. Beware of imitations. Write for FVee Book on Rupture, no-risk trial order plan Clarke covered the jointure with ful that mutilation might keep him out and proof of results.Correspondence confidentiaL makeup putty and powder base and of service. He came to Clarke for help. BROOKS COMPANY 105-F, State St. Marshall, Mich. covered the eyes with glasses whose In two days Clarke had an ear made

CONDON'S GIANT I frame also hid the jointure. Then he and affixed and took the Negro into the EVERBEARING TOMATO took the soldier to 20 British officers. presence of three high ranking medical ••Queen of the Market.*' Bic Money Maker, Larce Solid Fruit— Excellent Canner To introduce to you oar ViRorous Norther» Not one discovered, even after striking officers, all physicians. ' Grown ' Pure Bred" Garden Farm and Flower SeedB Bulbs, Strawberry Plants, Fruite it several times in examination, that this "There's something wrong with this and Noraery items we will mail y og 125 Condon's Giant mm wm Seeds of nose was false. The soldier was supplied man," Clarke said, "what's your diag- 1 EVERBEARING Tomato ^ tC E_ t f and our big 1944 C^taloR. m ^™ - ' Most Complete Seed and Nureery Bo»k with three noses differently colored, nosis?" In the examination the officers 600 pictures, many In color. Low Prices. Write Today. S*-»d Sr Stamp to cover poataoe. _ for skin whitens in winter, darkens in struck the ear, but the texture was so poArord! »uno.. CONDOR BROS. SEEDSMEN summer and differently colored noses fleshlike the falsity was not discovered. The Americ.\n Legion save soldiers from having to become Finally, one officer who appeared later National Headquarters extremely skillful in makeup. remarked that the only thing he could

Indianapolis, Indiana "But prosthesis is no cure-all," warned see wrong was that one ear was differ- December 31, 1943 Clarke. "No prosthesis can take the ently colored from the other. Clarke Assets place of real flesh and blood. It is only was amazed, for to his artistic eye Cash on haiul and on deposit $1,201 OSS. 67 a substitute depending on the skill of there was no difference. The other offi- Accounts Receivable 96 949.14 Inventories 113 149.24 fabrication and cosinetics to fool the cers also said they could see no differ- Invested funds 2,936 672.46 Permanent Investment; public. But prosthetic appliances are ence. Finally Clarke said, "Are you color

Overseas Graves Decoration Trust 1 Fund 225,835. 5 valuable first, to enable the patient to blind?" And the officer admitted that Office Building, Washington, D. C, less depreciation 121,743.99 appear in public while plastic surgery he was. Furniture, fixtures and equipment, less depreciation 43 427.8-6 makes permanent repair of his mutila- Telling me the story, Clarke grinned, Deferred charges 26 125.29 tion. This is important because fre- "I can't make an ear to fool a color- 84,765,891.80 quently plastic surgery requires many blind man." Seriously he went on, "But Liabilities, Deferred Revenue operations over several years, and with- that artificial ear was better for the

and Net Worth out temporary prosthesis the patient is Negro than plastic surgery because you Current liabilities S 104,496.77 forced to remain out of sight by his cannot mould flesh like clay. pros- Funds restricted as to use 60,117.32 A Deferred revenue 890,267.08 own feeling. With prosthesis the patient thetic ear can be made in a few hours Permanent Trust: useful work. Secondly, and will last for Overseas Graves Decoration Trust Fund 225,835. 1 5 can even resume years." .\'et Worth: prosthesis is the only solution to muti- A moment later he went on, "That Restricted Capital . . ..?2,902,725.32

Unrestricted Capital. . 582,450.16 §3.485,175.48 lation that plastic surgery cannot help British Tommy had immediate relief

$4,765,891.80 —as in amputation cases or wjiere the from his disfigurement and was glad to Donald G. Glascoff, bone basis is missing and the plastic go home and meet loved ones instead National Adjutant surgeon has nothing to build on. Finally, of dreading them seeing his disfigure-

46 Thf AMERICAN LEGION Maga-Jne When Answering Advertisements Please Mention The American Legion M.agazine ment. That is the vital psychological mutilating the thumb and forefinger and value of temporary prosthesis." middle finger of his right hand. In civil Clarke has tiles of photographs show- life the man was a bnotype operator, so ing faces of unbelievable repulsiveness the wound apparently blasted his career that have been made by prosthesis into for life. He came to Captain Clarke, pleasant, acceptable countenances. He who moulded a latex rubber thumb and showed me pictures of men with nose, the two other fingers separately, with

upper teeth and upper lip shot away a filling inside. The man . can operate and the same man with prosthesis that the linotype as dexterously as before. can be fitted in a few minutes, the Clarke says that part of prosthes's is jointure hidden by makeup putty and art. The head of his technical staff is the whole so blended with powder and Sergeant ISIaurice Manson of New York, cosmetics that even photographs failed well known actor and makeup expert. to show exactl\' how prosthesis fitted in. But Clarke believes that any man apt with his hands and with a sense of color But it is over artificial hands tbat Clarke waxed most vehement. "Wc an- can learn to be a prosthcs'st in one year. has taught many and has written still equipping our wounded of this war He forth his technique at with ugly steel hooks or clumsy \vood:n two books setting every step. A. H. Bulbulian of Mayo hands covered with leather gloves." he Man is not made with ckickwork Clinic also written on prosthesis as told me. "These are repulsive and fool has intestines. jian. no one. I can make a hand for a veteran well as V. H. Kazan But regularity is desirable. If you places a hand "Even without war," says Clarke, in a single day. A donor suffer from constipation write for "there is great need for the prosthesist in an agar composition derived from sea- "The luside Story," a revealing, to hundreds of people mutilated in weed and it is thrust into ice water until aid helpful report written by a well mould. peacetime by accident, cancer or con- the substance hardens into a known physician. See free offer After a rubber outside is made, com- gential disfigurement. Prosthesis returns beluuj. plete with pores and fingerprints. I put them to useful happy life." inside of it a microcrystalline wax Right now Clarke and his staff are which gives body and flexibility to the WQrking a seven-day, dawn-to-darkness hand." schedule making prosthetic appliances "The patient can then set the fingers for American. Engl'sh and French sol- in an)' desired position, he can use the diers. Clarke has been asked to teach fingers to hold a razor for shaving, his skill to a big class of physicians carry light objects. Look at this photo- being sent to Algiers headquarters for graph and tell me if you can tell the the purpose, and he is also busy day artificial hand from the real one." I and night making prosthesis. could not, because a wrist watch covered "My only contribution to prosthesis." the jointure and transparent fingernail says Clarke, "is to have been the first polish gave life to the finger tips. The to use latex rubber to make a natural hand may wear out in two or three looking prosthetic appliance that will HiGH eiOOO PRESSaR£F years, but another can be made in a last." If you have high blood pressure day from a plaster cast kept on file. But that ability has brought hope and you should be especially careful to "The steel hook and wooden hand should happiness to hundreds and will permit avoid constipation and straining. be abolished for good." said Clarke. thousands of this war's wounded to Try gentle-acting, mild SARAKA for An American artillery private was walk in sunlight and not flinch from easy, more natural, bowel hygiene. handling a shell fuse. The fuse exploded, public gaze.

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(Continued jrom page 2S) McNeil & Libb}' for new or used decks, the sponsoring committee for the Club. and within a week Service Officer Sment ONE TEASPOONFUL A total of 70 pro-marksman medals. was able to deliver 500 packs to the OF SARAKA 50 marksman medals, 25 sharpshooter hospital. Regularly, weekly contributions of Bran medals, jo sharpshooter first bar medals, have been made since the drive started. Equals 20 teaspoonfuls

1 2 sharpshooter second bar medals, seven "We are wondering if there are not in bulk-producing ability

third hospitals is sharpshooter bar medals, two sharp- other where there a similar SARAKA "bulk" is not bulky to take. Nor shooter fourth bar medals, and one need which can be easily cared for by is it "bulk" alone. It is fortified with a gentle laxative ingredient. A teaspoonful sharpshooter lifth bar medal have been the local Legion Post." of these tiny granules taken with water, awarded members of the junior rifle swells into a soft, jelly-like mass that corps. A number of the lads have been Camp Tomahawk Drive helps achieve satisfying, thorough action. No griping, no diarrhea, no embarrassing called to service with the colors. urgency. Caution, use only as FOR many years the Department of directed. Ask your druggist for SARAKA. Try it tonight. Playing Cards Wisconsin has maintained a con- valescent and recreational camp at Lake FREE: Wrife for Free Trial package and "The Inside Officer V. S. Sment. during Tomahawk, which has rated national at- SERVICE Story." SAKXKX, Dept. ALII, tention. American Legion is the course of his visits at Hines Now Camp Blooinfield, N. J. Veterans Facility, learned that there was to be made ready to receive the ailing a scarcity of playing cards for the use of v'eterans of the Second World War. ac- at patients, ' writes Commander J. J. Dev- cording to plans made the Depart- lin of General John Swift Post of Chi- ment's midwinter conference at Madison SARAKA cago. "An appeal was made to the em- on January isth. Invest In America—Buy War Bonds ployes of Swift & r onipan\- and Libby, First of all, a drive for the $125,000

MARCH, 194+ 47 Whln ANSWiiRiNo Advertisements Please Mention The American Legio.n Magazine fund needed for improvements and ad- battle fronts and from men on ships. ditional equipment will be conducted "Those letters made the project very from May to Armistice Day. Colonel much worth while. 'Fifth trip,' said one NEW COLOR FILMS Fred John, a veteran of both World Air Corps Major, 'first one with smokes.' Wars, will be chairman of the endow- 'Satisfying is no word for it. Hope to ment fund. Past Department Com- belong Action-Packed War Pictures! to the Legion,' wrote a sailor.'" mander H. V. Higley of Marinette is chairman of the Camp Committee. Honor Roll FORTRESS OF THE SKY: Past Department Commander Vilas 16min—Sound—25 min. W. Whaley, chairman of the Policy /UTGUST Matthias Post of Westport, Tells the Dramatic Story of The Committee, said that The American J- Connecticut, came in for some good Spectacular Boeing Flying Fort- Legion had thought the original need for publicity in mid-December when its the camp would be over at the end of Honor Roll was featured on the cover twenty-five years, but that now the Le- of the Saturday Evening Post, from an LOADED FOR WAR: gion is beginning its campaign so that oil painting by Stevan Dohanos. The veterans who come home from this war original 16nim—Sound—25 min. painting was auctioned in Jan- will have all the facilities needed. uary at a Fourth War Loan rally. The Greatest Mass Movement Of Chairman Higley told the conference Then, says Post Historian Earle L. Armed Men and Military Might that "now we are faced with the proposi- Townsend, through the medium of In The History Of The Nation's tion of having this camp do a real job "Buddy Boxes," wounded and disabled Railroads. for our sons, our neighbors' sons and veterans of both World Wars confined the other boys who will need the camp in Newington Veterans Hospital had TANK DESTROYERS: shortly. It has a tremendous job ahead their Christmas brightened by the dis- min. 16mm—Sound—25 of it for World War II boys." tribution of 400 gift boxes." Seek! Strike! Destroy! The Train- ing Of The Troops Who Man Cigarettes Gold Star Citations America's Tank Destroyers. 1AST April Past Commander Ben E. IN ITS first ceremony of the kind, iWeidle, undertook Terms: Jr., the job of Cumberland Post of Fayetteville, raising $250 for cigarettes for service North Carolina, in mid-January presented Nominal Service Fee Plus ^hipping Charges men," reports Vice Commander T. J. twenty-two American Legion Gold Star Christmann of Missouri Pacific Post of Citations to the next of kin of as many THE PRINCETON FILM CENTER St. Louis, Missouri. men who have fallen in the current war. Princeton 5, New Jersey "Ben surprised the Post members Department Commander Robert E. Write For Complefe Catalog when he reported at the next meeting Stevens of Goldsboro was the principal that not only had the $250 been raised speaker at the services. but that he was well on the way with "The list of twenty-two names covered Count Telegraph Wires in the Distance funds for a second shipment. The mem- only our losses up until November, bers got into the thing in earnest and 1943," says Adjutant Layton McGugan. by Armistice Day had spent $3,500 for "Many new names have been added cigarettes, buying 154 cases, or a total since that time, and we will hold an- 9 POWER SO ACk of 1,540,000 smokes. Then the letters other memorial meeting at a later date." TELESCOPE ^^mH'^ began to come in from the overseas' Boyd B. Stutler Objects 900 yards away appear as 100 yards distant. Brings objects 9 times closer. Telescope closed is less than 1 ft. Spot planes, ships, people, sporting events, etc. Has large 50 mm lens (2 inches in diameter) some- thing usually found only in higher priced telescopes. 20 DAY FREE TRIAL. Try for 20 days at our risk! Re- turn if not completely satisfied. SEND NO MONEY. THE TIMMY AFFAIR Just pay postman $2.99 plus few cents postage. Cash orders sent postpaid. Don't wait—production of tele- scopes may be curtailed as it has been on binoculars. {Continued page stroyer and caught only a vague glimpse Vogue TelescoDe Co., 7759 S. Halsted, Dept. TC-1 1 1. Chicago. from 11) stuck in the cabin below, but Bullhead of a black tail disappearing for'ard. But was in full stride and by some miracle even that was enough to jar him. He ToAnySuit! missed the real import of the can. "Is stared hard at the foredeck, then looked Double the life of your on coat and vest with correctly it possible," he inquired kindly, "that we at me and the third mate, who was matched pants. IOC, OOO patterns. do not serve the sort of food Mr. Mar- watch. Every pair hand tailored to your measure. Our match sent FREE for your O. K. before mon cares for? Does he feel it necessary "Did I see a cat, Mr. Thomas?" he pants are made. Fit ^aranteed. Sond pitoa of cloth or vest today- to bring along his own supply?" inquired. "A black cat on board." SUPERIOR MATCH PANTS COMPANY 209 S. State St. Dept. 456 Chicago I left him and Jerry to argue that one Everyone on the bridge hastened to out, snaked up the can and got rid of state he was certainly mistaken, but he

it before the old man used his flash remained only half convinced, and kept Now She Shops again. Just as I got off the bridge he stating he suspected the worst on ac- remembered me and I heard him say, count of our minor mishaps since leav- Cash And Carry "We're off to a bad start. Mr. Thomas. ing port. I was glad he dropped the Without Painful Backache ^ If I didn't know better I'd swear we had subject and I was able to corner Jerry. Many sufferers relieve nagging backache quickly, a cat on board. They're bad luck on "I don't know how it happened," he once they discover that the real cause of their trouble any ship." I slid out of sight before he wailed. "Timmy just got loose, that's may be tired kidneys. The kidneys are Nature's chief way of taking tha could corner me, and holed up with the all. I've offered twenty bucks to any excess acids and waste out of the blood. They help most people pass about 3 pints a day. second engineer for a couple of quick one who can round him up but he seems disorder When of kidney function permits poison- ones which I certainly needed. to have disappeared completely. Mau- ous matter to remain in your blood, it may cause nag- ging backache, rheumatic pains, leg pains, loss of pep Well, things still went wrong. It seems reen will never forgive me." and energy, getting up nights, swelling, puffinesa forgotten close it's pathetic Maureen," I under the eyes, headaches and dizziness. Frequent op the room steward had to "Yes, about scanty passages with smarting and burning some- Jerry's cabin port and the next morning agreed bitterly. "But you'd better find times shows there is something wrong with yout kidneys or bladder. Timmy stalked across the foredeck look- that animal before the old man does or Don't wait! Ask your druggist for Doan's Pills; ing to horrified gaze as large as a we're all cooked." used successfully by millions for over 40 years. They my give happy rebef and will help the 15 miles of kidney black panther. By sheer luck the old "I'll find him," he promised earnestly. tubes flush out poisonous waste from your blood. Get Doan's Pills. man was inspecting an incoming de- "I've got to. There's Maureen. ..."

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I said, "Oh. nuts!" and left him to About that time, as it usuall\' happens,

sweat it out. Well, he did the sweating something seemed to go wrong with our all right and had half the crew running engines. We later found it was just a MEN WANTED around to earn a bonus which he tinally young engineer at the throttles who had raised to a hundred dollars. But they gotten too excited for a moment and never did find Timmy. reversed the old man's last order. Any- way, there for a minute we were a sit- WE SPOTTED the periscope late ting duck. The sub was practically cut- one afternoon, a stick-like wisp ting shell patterns around us and our slithering like a shark's fin between the gunners seemed to have lost the range steely swells. Three men gave the alarm entirely. almost together but Bullhead held his Then another of those crazy things glasses focused a long time before he cropped up. The old man yelled some- called "Hard-a-port ! " This was one of the th'ng about coming down to see what times I was sort of glad to serve under damned fool was doing the wrong thing. him. He w^as a so-and-so in a lot of He didn't know it was engine trouble at ways but he was also a first class sailor, the moment. He thought it was one of and he never lost his head. The Ramona us around the wheel. And just then, with came round on her heel like the lady all hell busting open and the sub ma- she was and then our guns started. neuvering to finish us, what happens but "Maybe half an hour," said the old Timmy appears! I thought, my God, man half to himself. "Should be dark. if the old man sees him, and he will, " If we can dodge her for that long . . . . there'll be trouble! And Jerry, who hap- We kept swinging and the tin fish pened to see the damned cat at the they loosed missed us. As we came bear- same moment I did, gave a very deep ing on the sub the old man set the star- groan and mumbled something about board engine astern and whipped us Maureen never forgiving him. around again like a dancer so our bows At that moment Bullhead burst in, came full on that sliding stick. Before swearing a blue streak, and he stepped I even understood the maneuver we were right on Timmy's tail. That animal's eating through the sea towards that yowl could be heard over all things as damned sub and she couldn't do much it went straight up in the air, spitting about it for a minute. Her old man had and yowling, and who was more aston- to sell fine to think fast too. ished I don't know. The old man looked I croaked, "We'll never have that the worst, and caught between sheer MADE-TO-MEASURE luck, sir. It's a hundred to one she'll surprise and the tension of the moment CLOTHES duck us." he said something that was certainly "Once," said Bullhead absently, "I not "Hard-a-starboard!"' Full Time or Part Time. It's pleasant work calling on men at their homes or places of won a hundred-to-one shot at the races. thouglit the old The helmsman man business and offering them a line selection It can happen." As this was the first yelled "Hard-a-starboard!" and he put of clothes made to their measure at prices money! Whether human thing I had ever heard him say the wheel over and by sheer dumb luck that actually save them you devote all your time to the tailoring I then had to grab a stan- only logical choked and it turned out to be the business or whether you do it in your chion when he ordered the helm hard- maneuver at the moment, as the sub was spare time, you can make good money. a-starboard and reversed his engines. He heading across to get in the tinal position Good quick profits. Every sale you make nets you from §4.25 to $9.25 immediately. was playing with the twin propellers and for the kill. W'e ploughed through her And, if you are a good producer, our genius . . . whipping us about like a like a knife through cheese, with only ' Extra Prolits plan" makes it possible for no, like a sailor. I said he was a damned a slight shock and a few twisted plates, you to earn even more. Yet, because Strand Clothes are sold by you, direct good man! I had already dropped the and there she was cut in half with oil from the maker to the wearer, the prices steel battle shutters over the wheelhouse are surprisingly low. the cold fact is you can't see ports, but OUTFIT NOTICES Do your friends o favor. It's not a question well enough through the slits to handle of "asking favors" when you sell Strand shortage permits us at present Clothes really do a favor for your an- SPACE —you a ship in a pinch and the old man they to publish only announcements of friends when you show them how can nounced he was going up on the flying buy fine 100% all-wool, made-to-measure reunions scheduled. Notice of reunion bridge to attend to things and would clothes at prices that are even less than must be sent to this ofii:e at least five those of many "ready-mades." give me the orders through the speaking weeks before the month in which the Guaranteed Satisfaction. Every sale you make left I stood there and tube. So he and is backed by a written guarantee of "satisfac- reunion is to be held. the helmsman waited and then the old tion or money b:ick." We couldn't possibly make Ratobow (42d) Div. Vets. As.soc.—Natl, con- that offer unless we were successful in pleasing to port again, and I got man put her vention, Chicago. III., July 13-15. Frank E. Gould, the men who buy Strand made-to-measure clothes. And pleased customers mean "repeat his idea, which was to duck into that 6 N. Michigan Blvd., Chicago 2. 78th Div. Vets- Assoc. —Annual reunion- business" for you. mist bank as soon as he could and then dinner revue. The Top Hat, Hudson Blvd., and Complete outfit free. We'll furnish you every- Union City, N. J., Sat., Apr. 22. Use bus service trust luck and darkness. thing you need to start business including to through Lincoln Tunnel from N. Y. C. Raymond — large samples of hundreds of all-wool fabrics sub didn't try any more W. Taylor, Box 482, Closter. N. J. Well, the acid a fine looking leatherette selling kit. We Co. I, 308th Inf. —Reunion-dinner. Augricks instruct you exactly how to take correct meas- expensive tin fish on us. It surfaced, Restaurant. 257 William St., New York City. urements we even give you free advertising Sat., Apr. 15. J. Steinhardt, chmn., 105 E, 1771h — streaming water, and her gun crews were material. Yes, sir, we'll start you in business St.. N. Y. C. without a penny's cost to you. Just write us out of the conning tower almost before Co. M, :i07TH Inf.—Reunion-dinner, 77th Div. that you saw the ad in the Legion Magazine, Clubhouse, 28 E. 39th St., New York City. Sat . getting we'll the rest. she was afloat,' and we started Mar. 11. Henry Ringen, 85 Vermilyea Av.. and do shells over and around, fast and faster. N. Y. C. 90th Aero Sqdrn. Assoc. —For newsletter- Then Bullhead called down to hold her reunion, send recent photos, including sons and now in service, and news, to Leland found our- daughters steady as she goes and we Carlier, 9018 Rosewood Av., Los Angeles, Calif. B, Art, AEF—20th anniversary selves heading into that mist bank, at Btry. 55th STRAND banquet. Hotel Manger, Boston, Mass., Sat, of course we had to have G. St., Holbroo' which moment Apr. 29. Wm. Hanney, Adams , Mass. TAILORING CO.JNC. shells land fair on our foredeck, two U. S. S. Leviathan Vets. Assoc. —Annual blowing one gun crew to smithereens and reunion-dinner, Rutley's Restaurant, 40th & 2501 10 2511 EAST EAGER STREET Bdwy., New York City, Sat.. Apr. 15. R. L. Hed- starting a couple of small fires. landtr, secy., 4306 Russell Av., Mt. Rainier, Md. 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and bubbles spouting each side of us. responsible for his being on board, Mr. And then we were over her and she was Marmon?" gone. It all happened so fast I doubt "Yes. sir," Jerry admitted and Bull- IN THEM if even Bullhead realized things for a head shook his head. "Well, I'll take second or so. When he did he ran an that up later," he said ominously. "In arm across his face and looked at Tim- the meantime kindly see what damage my. who was now arched up and just we have.'' And Jerry gulped, "Yes, sir," waiting for a chance to claw him. He again and was glad to get out in the air.

IN THEM put back his boot to kick the animal Well, that's about all there is to it. clear into next week, and then slowly The hero naturally was Timmy, and any- lowered it. Our guns stopped firing about thing Timmy wanted to do on board then and you could hear words more after that was perfectly O.K. Naturally, Ihf^ IN THEM clearly. he relented about Maureen and Jerry "Isn't that animal the one Maureen too. and, as I have said, even made the wanted to keep?" the old man de- cat a present of a sleeping basket. But manded. Jerry choked and managed a Bullhead's remark when he stepped on muffled, "YeSj sir." The old man con- Timmy's tail was distinctly not "Hard- sidered for a long moment, and then a-starboard!" I'd like to print what he

he laughed for the first time I'd ever really did say but there is such a thing heard him; that is. I mean he laughed as censorship even for a mate's rough without the usual touch of sarcasm. log. so we'll let the matter rest. "I never thought." he said, "I'd owe But it's the first time I ever heard of my ship to a damned cat! You'll be a sub being sunk by four letter words! THEY CALLED ME POP

{Continued from page 25) Safety" and have lectured in every pub- College, Mississippi. I was commissioned lic school throughout Massachusetts and as a second lieutenant on March 3d, a ever}- important Rotary or Kiwanis club member of the third class to graduate or Elks club or women's club or Legion from that school. Out of 250 who started, Post throughout New England—over a only I go finished. Some of the young million listeners in the last twelve years.

lads couldn't take it Right now I'm in the Transportation Out of my entire class I was the first Corps, helping in the vital military job to be sent overseas, to Britain. That of highway planning. was on May i, 1943. And Britain is where I still am. In the last war I made THEY do a lot of talking in this war, a couple of crossings on the Leviathan, but not too much, about morale. where I served as pharmacist's mate in Morale seems to rest largely on two the Navy, and then was sent to the things. Naval Aviation Ground School at Massa- First, letters from home. chusetts Institute of Technology in the Second, good food. same capacity, when the flu epidemic My wife Eleanor, who is a member got really tough ashore. of the Auxiliary Unit of West Roxbury In this war I am using the training Post, writes to me every day. I gained as a lawyer, graduating from The food is excellent. Suffolk Law School in Boston, and the Therefore my morale is high. Stores in Principal Cities experience of 20 years in the office of The war is not over. Lots may happen Good Dealers Everywhere Registry of Motor Vehicles in Massa- yet, both bad and good. But so far chusetts. In civilian life I had the title at least I have not regretted my share BUY ANOTHER WAR BOND TODAY! of "Director of Educational Highway in it. FREE 75 SEEDS MISSIONS WITH CHARLIE

Ear[iest of all, perfect shape, enormous cropper. Big moneyl {Continued from page 15) send up nearly 350 fighters of every crop; customer reports 10 gallons ^ ^ of pickles and $5.75 worth sold from 15 next morning the map in the intelligence description which stay with the Forts hills; $600 per acre. 75 seeds FREE with big Seed and Nursery catalog. Write Today. briefing room shows a string running half- for more than three and a half hours. R.H.SHUMWAYSEEDSMAN,Box308,Rockford,lll. way across Europe to the Pomeranian One of Lightning Strikes' engines is village of Anklam, seventy-five miles knocked out of commission going into MakesAll-Day north of Berlin. The target is a vital the target and another is hit and starts German factory making component smoking. After Charlie cries "Bombs parts for their crack Focke-Wulf fight- away," there is a loud WHO-O-M and

Standing Easy ers. This is deeper into Germany than a crash as a flak burst wrecks the hy- the Forts had ever been before. Charlie draulic system, making it impossible to Strikes. the close the bomb doors. The trail of On Your Feet is flying in Lightning On bay If you are on your feet all day — walking the nose there is a cartoon showing a bolt smoke, the open doors and the one floor or standing in front of a machine — just of lightning knocking the shingles off a stilled propeller are an invitation to sprinkle Allen's Foot-Ease on your feet and into your shoes. This soothing powder brings quick Chic Sale, with Hitler dashing out the enemy fighters. The Nazis prey on relief to tired, burning feet. When shoes pinch and torture you from all-day standinc — Allen's door with his pants down. Let's climb crippled bombers. And Lightning Foot-Ease is what you want. Acts instantly to aboard and go on one more trip. Strikes is flying "tail-end Charlie" at absorb excessive perspiration and prevents foot odors. So, be sure to ask for Allen's Foot-Ease — To the Nazis this attack must look the rear of the formation, down to what the easy, simple way to all-day standing and walk, if Berlin. the flyers call the "Purple Heart corner." ing comfort. Get it today at all druggists. as it were headed for They

JO The AMERICAN LEGION Masazine When Answering Advertisements Pleasz Mention The American Legion Magazine It looks as though Charlie Hudson is climbing and slipping, one moment fly- due for his Purple Heart. ing with the top element, the next with Charlie and the navigator are sweat- the lower. FALSE TEETH ing over their nose guns and the great Then Charlie fires his last cartridge. bomber is vibrating as gunners through- The navigator goes back to the radio WEARERS out the ship pour out their protective room to get .some more ammunition. fire. A flak fragment crashes through Too exhausted to carry a heavy boxful, the nose glass, hitting Charlie on his he takes off the lid, grabs one end of left wrist. His feet fly up in the air and the cumbersome 350-round belt and he is sent sprawling in a heap of shell staggers back through the ship dragging casings on the floor. The fragment put the long chain of bullets behind him a hole through his wrist the size of a . . . across the narrow catwalk through silver dollar, breaking the bone. Moore, the open bomb bay . . . over the base the navigator, helps him to his feet and of the top turret where the gunner attempts to give him first aid. reaches down between bursts to help

"Get back to your gun and keep firing inch the belt along . . . under the cock- at the so-and-so's. I'm all right," Charlie pit where the co-pilot leans down to insists. Then he takes out his knife and give a few tugs . . . down into the nose cuts a slit' from wrist to elbow through where it takes both men to load the HOW Yi CAN AVOID THE his leather jacket, flying suit, sweat gun . . . and the firing resumes. shirt and pajamas. After giving himself There is another explosion and pieces DANGER OF DENTURE BREATH a shot of morphine, he pokes his of metal come through the roof, lacer- TEACHER, is little Janie ditficult, ating Charlie's right twice, wounded arm through the low slung neck arm above inattentive, stand-offish? Maybe it's and below the elbow. of his Mae West life preserver, using it Charlie is down your . . . Denture Breath! Of course you as a sort of a sling, and returns to his on the canvas for the third time in one think that brushing your dentures keeps heavy 50-caliber machine gun, maneu- round, but his fighting blood brings him them wholesome as can be. Watch out! It is hard to reach all the crevices in your plate vering it, aiming it and firing it with back to his machine gun. That ship with a brush and ordinary cleansers . . . and his right hand. viust get home to England! you are apt to scratch it, causing food He notices that the Fortress on his Now the plane is out over the North particles and film to collect, cling tight and right wing is gone. (It didn't return to Sea. The smoking engine stops running cause Denture Breath. England.) Then a fighter attacks the altogether and Lightning Strikes falls bomber on his left wing, setting three farther and farther behind the disappear- engines ablaze. The ship pulls away to ing formation, unable to maintain suffi- one side. Apparently the pilot has cient speed. Dropping down nearly to sounded the bail-out alarm. Four para- water level for protection against pur- chutes blossom out and then the ship suing fighters, they head for home barely disintegrates in mid-air with a terrific skimming the whitecaps. Moore pores explosion. It must have been the gas over his maps and keeps an eye open tanks. The tail spins crazily in one for check-points on the English coast. direction, the wheels in another, and The fuel is low. debris fills the air looking like a slow With no brakes, due to the damaged motion film. Bodies can be seen pin- hydraulic system, the ship lands at the What's more . . . your plate material is 60 times softer than natural teeth, and brush- wheeling upward. Then, right in the home base firing red flares to attract ing with ordinary tooth pastes, tooth midst of the smoke and debris, the ambulance. The pilot guns a para- the motor powders or soaps, often wears down the chute mysteriously opens up and floats on one side taxiing the ship around in delicate fitting ridges designed to hold youv away. Charlie looks away. He doesn't a big curve across the grass of the field, plate in place. With worn-down ridges, of want to see more. He resumes firing. and it finally comes to a stop. Charlie course, your plate loosens. Since Polident

needs no brush . . . there's no danger. Be- Again there is a whoo-oo-oom and is removed and speeded to a hospital. sides, the Polident way is safe, easy and sure Charlie feels a searing pain as another After twenty-eight days of stitching, piece of flak comes through the nose, skin grafting and bone setting, he is burying itself in his already wounded back on the base, ready to go on his left arm. He is knocked sprawling again, fifth mission as soon as they take the but scrambles back to his gun and tries cast off his arm. to continue firing. But the Fort is going Now you've been on three bombing through violent evasive action, diving. missions with Charhe Hudson. If you go on two more they may give you the Air Medal, but you'd have a long way Haircy\ winds' to go if you wanted to stick with him do b\ou3 - until he finishes his tour of combat operations in this theater. No one was killed- or permanently "What a difference! " Teacher is now one crippled on these three missions, and of the delighted millions who have found all three ships returned to the home Polident the safe modern way to keep dental a re- base safely. plates and bridges clean. If you wear movable bridge, a partial or complete dental The missions were a success. plate, play safe and use Polident every day. But now you see the difficulties, the Polident helps maintain the original natural pain, the hardships and the blood which appearance of your plate for less than IC a lie behind those headlines you've been day. At any drug counter, 30^ and 60p sizes. scanning. And the next time you read the newspaper, or go to work at the plant, or consider buying some war bonds, remember your three missions TO KEEP PLATES AND BRIDGES with Charlie Hudson. CLEAN... AND ODOR-FREE!

M.\RCH, 1944 When Answering Advertisements Please Mention The American Legion Ma(.a7Inf FOR WORLD WAR II VETERANS The Editorial Viewpoint

MARCH 15TH The American Legion will celebrate January, was designed to give this emergency action the ONits twenty-fifth birthday. All over the United States force of statute law, and in addition to provide suflicient gatherings joint of Posts and Auxiliary Units will federal assistance so that these devoted servants of the na- be held to commemorate this anniversary. These gatherings tion might take their rightful place as useful citizens. will pledge themselves anew to the accomplishment of two The American Legion's quarter-century of service to God tasks; First, winning the war at the earliest, possible moment; and country has been given in many fields, but Legionnaires second, making certain that every legitimate interest of are proudest of that part relating to action in behalf of their American service men and women of World War Two is disabled comrades implicit in the words of Lincoln's Second safeguarded by the nation whose continued existence their Inaugural, "to bind up the nation's wounds, to care for him sacrifices have guaranteed. who shall have borne the battle and for his widow and his By March 15 th upward of 900,000 American veterans of orphan!' We are proud that our insistence made possible the

World War Two will have been discharged from service. Veterans Administration as it is at present constituted.

Thanks to the confidence of the people of the United States The V. A., it is good to be able to report, is rapidly get- in the integrity and know-how of the Legion these veterans ting back into its accustomed stride in serving those veterans are finding, and their comrades yet to be discharged will find, for whom the war will never be over this side of the grave. that not only is there the will to smooth their path back to The brave Americans who have made the supreme sacrifice civilian life, but that the way also has been found. on land, on the seas and in the air are beyond our ability to As these lines were written late in January the provisions help. The nation can never make sufficient amends to the of the Veterans' Bill of Rights which the Legion has asked wives, mothers, fathers and orphans of these honored dead,

Congress to set up were before the appropriate Congressional but it will endeavor in some measure to smooth their path. committees. The January and February issues of the National For those who come back from the war broken in body Legionnaire will have made every interested veteran of World the Veterans' Bill of Rights will insure hospitalization and

'War I acquainted with the progress of this program. Ex- vocational rehabilitation, with further help available as perience over the years was the basis for optimism on the needed. To those veterans returning to their communities part of Legionnaires charged with preparing its detail, given without apparent injury we Americans who have been spared

below, that in substantial measure it would be adopted by the horrors of this war will provide a reasonable mustering- Congress and ratified by the President. out allowance, and the opportunity through education of

In December of 1943, after investigation by the Legion preparing themselves for a useful place in American life. had proved that many veterans were being discharged under A steady job at a wage or salary commensurate with demon- conditions shameful to the Government, National Com- strated abihty is the finest guarantee we can give these men mander Atherton appealed to the nation. The Government and women. With all this should go an earnest effort to pre- responded by increasing the services and facilities of the Vet- serve the free enterprise system* under which this country erans Administration, thus breaking bottlenecks and speed- has grown to greatness.

ing up its invaluable aid to those being separated from the To do less than this for these veterans to whom we owe services. The Veterans' Bill of Rights forming the core of the our existence as free men and women would be an infamous Legion's Omnibus Bill, introduced in the Congress early in betrayal. We shall not do less, but more.

The chief provisions of the Veterans' Bill of service of any diseased, wounded or handi- placement in their former positions to re- Rights, as contained in the Legion's Omni- capped member of the armed forces until main with Selective Service. bus Bill introduced in Congress, Jan. 10th: provision has been made for his or her re- 1 1—Establishment by the administrator of 1—Opportunity for education or vocational habilitation and care under this act. veterans' affairs of not less than one veterans' training on the part of ALL honorably dis- 6— Inclusion of more than 800,000 already employment representative in each of the charged World War II veterans, with subsist- honorably discharged World War II veterans States and territories and the District of Co- ence allowances while going to school of $50 in all provisions of the bill. lumbia, to aid veterans in finding jobs and a month for the single, and $75 a month for 7— Designation of the U. S. Veterans Ad- promote the cause of jobs for veterans. the married. ministration as a war agency with priorities in 12—No officer or enlisted man or woman 2—Muster-out pay for all honorably dis- personnel, equipment, supplies and materials. suffering from disease or injury shall be re- charged World War II veterans on the fol- 8— Authorization to the administrator of quired to sign a statement of any nature fowing schedule: veterans' affairs and the federal board of hos- relating to the origin, incurrence or aggrava- $500 for 18 or more months of service. pitalization to expedite and complete the con- tion of such disease, or injury or any other $400 for less than 18 but more than 12- struction of additional hospital beds for war statement against his or her interest. months. veterans; also authorization for the adminis- 13— Establishment of a board of review of S300 for less than 12 but more than 6 trator to establish regional offices, branch of- five members to review upon request of any months. fices and contact units in centers of population veteran, the type and nature of his or her $200 for less than 6 but more than 3 where there are no V. A. facilities. discharge or release from active duty, with months. 9—Mutual use and interchange of hospital authority to change, correct or modify any SlOO for less than 3 months. facilities of the War and Navy Departments discharge or release in accord with facts pre- 3—A comprehensive plan of federal co- with the Veterans Administration, and plac- sented to the board. operation with the States for aiding World ing of Veterans Administration officials at' War II veterans in purchasing homes or Army and Navy installations to eliminate red *See National Legionnaire, January, 1944, farms, with loans provided up to $7,500 for tape and speed up processing of disability page 12, for joint statement by National home purchase and up to §12,500 for farm claims of men and women about to be dis- Commander Atherton; Eric A. Johnston, purchase. charged. President, United States Chamber of Com- 4— Extension of unemployment allowances 10—Transfer to the Veterans Administra- merce; Donald Rice, President, Kiwanis In- up to 52 weeks to honorably discharged vet- tion of the Veterans' Employment Service of ternational, and Charles L. Wheeler, Presi- erans on a basis similar to that which they the War Manpower Commission, of the vet- dent, Rotary International, on necessity of would have been entitled to had they re- erans' unemployment compensation division quickly winning the war and of assuring the tained civilian status and contributed to the of the Social Security Board, and of the em- individual "opportunites in the kind of work social security tax. ployment personnel division of the Selective he desires" under "the system of free enter- 5— Prohibition of the release from active Service Board, but aid to veterans in the re- prise!' The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine

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