//'//// V AUGUST 1942 *" •- - • ' in "Fli*" " --mtl «'i n^^iii»iiiiii»A»i^aM^» SO YOU'KE GOING TO JAPAN . A Here's-How for Our Soldiers, Sailors and Marines *YOUR NEW * EMBLEM DIVISION, The American Legion, Indianapolis, Indiana Write it Zoday! for Please rush my 1942 Legion catalog. Your copy of the new 1942 Legion catalog Name is ready to mail — write for it today. A postcard or letter will bring your copy by Street return mail. City. Serial number of my 1942 Legion membership card is State Let's blast Japan — and Germany — and Italy — with the chain lightning of destruction that can be built from the scrap in our cellars, attics and garages, on our farms and in our places of business. America is calling for your help and the Legion's in the biggest home job yet — rounding up quickly 6,000,000 extra tons of scrap iron and steel alone, as well as vast quantities of rubber and other materials. The Legion can set the pace for your community. As a of the Legion, your ev*ry member work with tanker*"? of ^TT^^^S Post Commander in guiding or assisting the local collection agency for scrap in your town. And as an individual, round up your own scrap. Sell it to a Junk dealer — give it to the Legion or a charity — or take it yourself to the nearest col- lection point. If you live on a farm, get in touch with your County War Board or your farm im- plement dealer. gUnS Throw YOUR scrap into the fight! WASTE™«5TE Co"COHUIus. "if^°- This message approved by Conservation Division a" te NOT NEEDED noun«d locally paPer and (at WAR PRODUCTION BOARD ^J^jn^-Razor blades- glass. Thit advertisement paid tor by the American Industries Salvage Committee (representing and with fundi provided by a group of leading industrial concerns). AUGUST, 1942 When Answering Advertisements Please Mention The American Legion Magazine J • FIRST IN REPUTATION BUY FIRST IN QUALITY THE AMERICAIM UNITED STATES FIRST IN POPULARITY" WAR BONDS STAMPS MAGAZINE August, 1942 Vol. 33. No. 2 Postmaster: Please send notices on form 3578 and copies returned under labels form 3579 to 777 N. Meridian St., Indianapolis, Ind. Published monthly by The American Legion, 455 West 22d St.. Chicago, 111. Acceptance tor mailing at special rate of postage provided for in Section 1103, Act of Oct. 3, 1917, authorized Jan. 5, 1925. Price, single copy, 15 cents, yearly subscription, $1.25 EXECUTIVE AND ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICES EDITORIAL AND ADVERTISING OFFICES Indianapolis, Indiana One Park Avenue, Sew York City BRAND DAD The Message Center CONTENTS COVER DESIGN B\ W. Schlaikjer 36 COLONEL Edwin H. Randle of the J. 47th Infantry, Fort Bragg, North SO YOU'RE GOING TO JAPAN 4 Cartoons Bill Pause Carolina, appeals to us to get him by some trumpets. Priorities prevent his MAMMA CHIBOUT'S YANK 6 band buying new instruments, and with By H. Fredric Young Illustrations by Charles LaSalle competitions at the na- to Old all musical a fragrance THIRD FRONT 8 THERE'S tional convention in Kansas City hav- OCR Grand-Dad as tantalizing as By Ralph Robf.y ing been called off, maybe Legion a rare perfume, and a taste as Cartoons by John Cassel bands will be able to help out the gentle as Indian summer. Here NOT ALWAYS IN UNIFORM, BUT— 10 colonel. He'd like to buy or borrow the Thomas M. Johnson indeed is liquid delight, which By 20 G-D soprano or tenor Drawings by I. It. Hazelton men have held so high in affec- following: trumpets and ten G-D baritone trum- ISLAND'S A CINCH TO HOLD 12 tion that this venerable whiskey AN address By Irving Wallace of pets. Just write him at the has come by the title, Head Illustrations by Courtney Allen given if you can help out. the Bourbon Family. One taste WE'RE SMASHING RLCORDS 14 will tell you how well that title By K VTE Smith American Legion Magazine is is deserved. THE Cartoons by Sam Herman to reproduce as its cover privileged SCADS OF SOLDIER MAIL 16 for this issue a striking painting by By Rosn L. Hoi man Legionnaire Jes Schlaikjer which the War THE MAN WHO CONQUERED among Department has prepared as a poster for THE WORLD 18 bottled in bond general distribution. By Edwin Muller kentucky 20 straight bourbon The statement is often heard these AIRCRAFT SPOTTING By Wallcren whiskies days that the American Military Police- 21 man of the present war is not the "head- EDITORIAL cracking tough guy of the last war." It THE TURNING POINT 22 By Frederick Palmer should be made plain that the head- Illustrations by V. E. Pyles cracking tough guy. except as an isolated KEEP THE SOLDIER ON HIS TOES 24 did exist. The new military case, never By A. Owen Penney brother policeman differs from his elder SHREVE: HE BUCKED THE of World War number one chiefly in that CURRENT 26 he is receiving the benefit of training, the By Garnett Laidlaw Eskew elemental principlesof which were learned ANY JUNK TODAY? 28 in the first war. By Boyd B. Stutler The Corps of Military Police has been SMILIN' THROUGH 32 Noll organized early and designed to grow By John J. with the American Army and to meet its IT'S KANSAS CITY AGAIN 35 (Continued on page 46) BURSTS AND DUDS 56 convenience if you wish to hove the ma go- TIM II Oil It IIT A form for your T will be found on page 53. llVlrUn 1 rtN 1 \ line sent to another address publication of The American Legion and is owned AMERICAN LEGION MAGAZINE is the official THE The American Leg.on. Entered as second class i American Legion, Copyright 1942 by eexclusively"lu S ively byoy Thene 1879. Lynn U. Stam- p.,.. office at Chicago, III., under the act ot March 3, of the Le^on Publications Commissiom Vilas baugh, t^^V^i^^S^BSJlS^SS^^ H.^haley Rapine, Raymond Fields Guthrie Ok ' a er e "^ Moines, la.; Dr. William F. Murphy, Pales- ^ ' ^ ^ ^!<~hB^^^^K «S=ilSS9ttB=SS A a 0r , postage is enclosed Thi Ed^ c2nnCt (^res/>omibIe for unsolicited manuscripts unless return ° articles that deal utoh types are fictitious. Use of nines of charatte": in our fiction and semi-fiction coincidence. the name of any person living or dead is pure The AMERICAN LEGION Magazine BUILDING FOR VICTORY on land . on the sea . and in the air! Whipping in the breeze on the flagstaff of one of shipped rapid-fire anti-aircraft cannon to the Navy, Pontiac''s armament plants, is the Navy"E" burgee, exceeding the contractual requirement for the period by awarded January 20th last for outstanding pro- no less than ^i cannon. In addition, production of duction of anti-aircraft cannon. Since then, pro- inner assemblies for heavy-duty h^^^h engines has been duction of this much-needed weapon has tripled doubled within 90 days. hi the Air—An "on schedule" rate of tooling in a brand- and now is seven months ahead of schedule. new plant is being maintained toward the goal of volume And we have assumed additional war assignments, production of aerial WK^^^^^M — probably the most complicated and deadly offensive weapon ever devised. including aerial ^HBH, mmmmmm automatic field With volume production attained, this Pontiac plant is guns, inner assemblies for heavy-duty ^hh scheduled to produce aerial ^^HHHHH a day. engines, tank unit assemblies and vital transport H And on Land— The ^^HBH automatic field gun, adopted mechanisms. All these armaments for victory on by the Army as its defense against the new low bombing land, on the sea and in the air are being produced and ground strafing technique is scheduled for production for America's fighting men on schedule or ahead at a rate of a month with deliveries to begin on or of schedule! before ^Mi- Also ^^i for military vehicles are being produced at a rate of HHBH a month and tank unit This IS another of Pontiac's reports to the American assemblies are in volume production as you read this. people on its Arms Production Program. Because time and teamwork are essential factors for Long before Pearl Harbor, Pontiac applied its engineer- victory in the War of Survival, several of these assignments ing and manufacturing resources to the task of producing have been accepted by Pontiac on a sub-contracting basis. weapons for our armed forces in the quantities they desired They are receiving the same "all-out" attention as our from us on schedule or ahead of schedule. prime contracts and are also "as scheduled or ahead of We think you will find this report of interest. Because, schedule." whether our gallant fighting men meet the enemy on land, Thus, Pontiac has many tasks but just one goal: on the waters of the earth or in the skies above, we are To do everything in our power to provide ^v*"'/^ straining every effort to produce Pontiac-built material for American fighting men with more and better them in ever-increasing volume. weapons for use in their struggle for victory on On the Sea — As of the day this is written, Pontiac has land, on the sea and in the air. Seeking to cooperate fully in the war effort. Pontiac has voluntarily censored this advertisement. PONTIAC DIVISION OF GENERAL MOTORS AUGUST, 1942 3 When Answering Advertisements Please Mention the American Lfgion Magazine soldier, sailor and leather- YOU,neck in Uncle Sam's uniform, have a date with destiny on the main street of Tokyo.