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�\ Washington (.4�).—The text of I'.
President Roosevelt's war mes-
sage to Congress follows:
To the Congress of the United
States:
Yesteiday, December 7, 1911—
' a date which will live In infamy
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—the United States of America
was suddenly and deliberately
attacked by naval and air forces
of the Empire of Japan.
The United States was at
' peace with that nation and, at
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the solicitation of Japan, was
still in conversation with its gov-
ernment and Its emperor look-
ing toward the maintenance of
peace In the Pacific.
Indeed, one hour after Japa-
nese air squadrons had com-
menced bombing in Oahu, the
_
. Japanese ambassador to the
United States and his colleague
i dflivered to the secretary of
' state a formal reply to a, recent
American message. While this
reply stated that It seemed, use-
less to continue the extsting
..- diplomatic negotiations,`it con -
twined no threat or hli(t of war
or armed attack.
It will be recorded that the
distance of Hawaii from Japan
s:
makes it obvious that the attack
wu.deliheratelF planned many
days or.. ven week ago. DuI•`'
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ing the:Jintervening time,
eratdTought to deceive ,.
Ufovd- States by false etate�
--� meats and expressions 01,!U pe
for continued peace. •'
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The attack yesterday on
Haw•atfan Islands has caused'se-
vere'dimape to American naval
and pmilits" forces. Very many
lives,=bt�ve fieen lost. In addt-
tion`.5'AitiFsfcAn ships have been
reported4orpedoed on the high
seal;zbetvvednSan Francisco and
Hon,olcla.
Yesterday the Japanese gov-
ernmett also launched an attack
agalm lt'Ialaya.
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Manila, P L (UP)—
Press dispatches reported
that 400 to 200 troops, 60
of them Americans, were
killed tonight when Jap- j
anese warplanes raided Iba,;
on the west coast of the
island of Luzon, north of
the Olangapo naval base.
Port -Au -Prince, Haiti (A�.—
Haiti joined the Latin-American
nations today which have de-
clared war on Japan and pledged
the United states its full assist-
ance.
Delivers His First War Message
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wasizlng ton kHr) . — i ne UnlLeU Jtates,
through its Congress, declared war today on
-Japan.
The Senate vote of 82 to 0 and the House:
vote of 388 to l told their own story of unity
in the face of common danger. The speed with
which the 6vo chambers granted President Roosevelt's re-'
quest for a declaration was unprecedented. '
The single adverse House vote was that of Miss Jean-.
nette Rankin, Democratic congresswoman
m Montana, who
declaration
was. among the few who voted against the
of war on Germany.
The officially -announced loss of two warships and 3,000
men dead and wounded in Japan's raid on Hawaii was fresh
in.the minds of the legislators.
`The Senate and House had assembled together to hear
President Roosevelt ask for the declaration. They cheered
hiih'enthusiastically and then pushed the resolution through,
'with not a moment's waste of time.
"I ask," the Chief Executive declared, "that the Con-
gress declare that since the unprovoked and dastardly attack
by Japan on Sunday, Decemer 7th, a state of war has existed between
the United States and the Japanese Empire."
The President said that yesterday was "a date which will live.
'in infamy."
' Within 20 minutes after he finished the Senate had acted.
The momentous doings at the Capitol followed a White House
announcement that Japan's sudden attack on Hawaii yesterday had!
cost the& United States two warships and 3,000 dead and wounded.
Standing at the rostrum of the House chamber, the Chief Execu-
tive. in a scene such as had not been enacted since 1917, disclosed that
Japanese bombers had "caused severe damage to American naval and
military forces" and that "many American lives have been lost."
(Mr. Roosevelt did not give figures in his address, but the White
House; had disclosed earlier that the United States had lost two war-
ships and 3,000 dead and wounded.)
But, the President asserted, while Congress again filled the char '
ber with deafening cheers:
"No matter how long it may take -us' overcome this premeditated
invasion, the Americas people wjjjj%heir righteous might win
theough to absolute victory.
His* speech was brief, but it � d And when it was com-
pleted, Congress set about to adopt the resolution declaring war, with
every indication that it would be done quickly.
Members of the floor of the House set up shout$ of "Vote, vote,
vote" as soon as Mr. -Roosevelt had left the chamber.
All the tumult which followed Mr. Roosevelt's speech was in sharp
contrast with the mood in which Congress assembled. There were
few smiles and only a subdued hum of conversation.
3,000 Casualties Suffered
Washington (UP).—Casualties on the Hawaiian island of Oahu in:
.yesterday's Japanese air attack will amount to about 3,000, incl, jna
about 1,500 fatalities, the White House annopnced today.
The White House confirmed the loss in Pearl Harbor of "ot'_3
battleship" and a destroyer, which was blown up.
Several other American ships were damaged and a large number.
of army and navy airplanes on Hawaiian fields were put out of com
mission, the White House disclosed.
It reported at the same time that American operations against i
Japan were being carried out on a large scale, resulting already in the
destruction of "a number of Japanese planes and submarines."
The White House statement said:
"American operations against the Japanese attacking forces in the ;
neighborhood of the Hawaiian islands are still continuing. A number j
of Japanese planes and submarines have been destroyed. I
"The damage caused to our forces in Oahu in yesterday's attack.
appear more serious than at first believed.
In Pearl Harbor itself one old battleship has capsized and several
`other ships have been seriously damaged. i
'`One destroyer was blown up. Several other small ships werei
Seriously hurt. Army and navy fields were bombed with the resulting'
.destruction of several hangars. A large number of planes were put
out of commission.
•`A number of bombers arrived safely from San Francisco during
the engagement—while it was under way. Reinforcements of planes
are being rushed and repair work is under way on the ships,
planes and ground facilities.
Japs Claim Sea SuVeu><acy
AI, Tokyo, Tuesday (Official Radio Picked li sby!, ).—The Japanese
asserted today they had won naval suprem* o f er the United States
u in the Pacific, claiming by official or unoffimalireports the destruc-
tion of two American battleships and an aircraf karrier and the dam-
aging of six cruisers.
These, declared the Japanese, were the principal results of the
first shock of their air -naval offensive.
The claim to supremacy appeared in a commentary -resume broad-
cast by Domei. which said that any force the United States now could
muster "would be regarded as utterly inadequate to accomplish any
I successful outcome in an encounter with the thus far intact Japanese
fleet."
j Imperial headquarters, in an announcement broadcast by Domei,
said that ., 5 battleships and a minesweeper had been sunk, fout
heavy, damaged, many merchant ships seized and scores of
planee-C4'kfQyed aground and in the air in Hawaii and the Philippines.
The cpffimunique said also that a United States aircraft carrier
had been sunk by submarine off Honolulu "although this is nor
cwuu urau.
So far as naval losses went, the Japanese said they had escaped
unscathed and they acknowledged the loss of only two planes in
Philippine actions.
The Japanese said that the minesweeper, the 840 -tan Penguin,
was suulk.in an air attack early today at Guam, U. S. naval station. -'
(Ah;'Italian broadcast quoted Domei as listing the 33,100 -ton
Pennsyl7ania and the 29,000 -ton Oklahoma as lost. Domei also was
reported to have said that two United States destroyers and two
oil tahkers had been destroyed.)
T -imperial headquarters identified none of the warships
claittte6itank except the Penguin, but early editions of Tuesday morn-.
'Ing papers carried unofficial identification of the two battleships as the
Oklahoma and the 31,800 -ton West Virginia. • .
"Observers stressed the magnificent early Japanese success, point
out that it was reliably reported that the United States naval strength
stationed in Hawaiian waters prior to the Japanese attack comprised
approximately 80 per cent. of the United States' entire naval power,"
a Domes broadcast said.
"Early lasses have reduced the American Navy at Hawaii,by two
more -capital ships, plus a single. aircraft carrier six cruisers (sic). _
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Here Is Annerica's Answer to Jap `Infam-1
minutes old Sunday when the Navy recruiting office officials in Greensboro were
flooded with telephone calls from prospective recruits, When the office opened
this morning in the Greensboro Post -Office Building the recruiting officers were
almost mobbed by youths seeking to join Uncle Sams Navy and by older men
j'seeking enlistment in the reserves. When the above picture was taken about
11 o'clock this morning by Sentinel Staff Photographer Jim Wommack, the
crowd had thinned out some. P. G. Sumrell, chief peffy officer in charge of the
recruiting station, is shown surrounded by, left to right, Albert Key, Walter
Reynolds. Milford Cox, Jack Medlin Jr.. Leroy Voncannon, Claud Lee Bobbs and
L. A. Anderson. Sumrell reported that 20 youths had enlisted in the Navy by
I I o'clock and that five ex -service men had joined the Naval Reserve. Sumrell
.also announced that he would keep the recruiting office open from 8 o'clock
in the morning on through the day and night, as long as any one wished to
enlist. Enlistments in the reserves are for two, three or four years, subject
as first enlistments, Sumrell said. Regular enlistments are taken for t
to 31 and in the reserve for those 17 to 50. All men desiring to ei
requested to appear in person and to bring authentic information co
their age.—(Staff Photo.)
Davie County Pub fic Library
iv'iocksville, NG
First Draft Number
Stanley Masefield McCrary (Joe)
of Cooleemee, above, was the
first man drawn -fbrl the draft
from Davie county in'November,
1940.
First to Leave in Draft
Jr., the first two Davie boys who left here in the draft on
Dec. 5, 1940. On the right is E. 14f. Holt, general manager of the
Erwin Mills, who was a member of the draft board.
Pfc. Herman Lewis Koontz, 24,E
above, was the firstDavie" boy i
reported killed in action during
the war. He was killed in the
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In New Guinea
At Camp Edwards
Cpl. William (Bill) H. Hoots,
Jr., son.of Mr. and Mrs. W. H.
Hoots, of Mocksville, is now in Cpl. Press C. Robertson is
New. Guinea. He was recently the son of Air. &Mrs. G. S.
promoted to corporal. He has Robertson of Route 3. He en -
been in service since February f- tered service on January 22,
t 19, 1943, and overseas since �f I1943, and received his basic CORP. OSCAR B. POINDEXTER
September 15, 1943, having 3'1 training at Fort Eustis, Va. He
served in Australia, Dutch 1 is now stationed at Camp Ed- !
East Indies and New Guinea. wards, Mass.
At Pearl Harbor I i
In California
Gene Harris Greene, S. 2-c,
is now stationed at Pearl Har-
bor. He is the son of Dr. and
Mrs. G. V. Greene of Fork.
In Pacific
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Pfc. James Glenn McCul-
loh, son of the late Glenn
McCulloh and Mrs. R. G.
Campbell, of Advance, Route 1,
joined the marines on Septem-
ber 8, 1943. He is now on sea
duty in the Pacific area.
Cpl. Robert T. Barney was
recently promoted at Camp
Walters, Texas, from the rank
of private. He is the son of
Mr. and Mrs. W. T. Barney,
Route 1, Advance, Davie coun-
ty, and entered the army No-
vember 22, 1942,
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In Philippines
Pvd. Richard W. Lookabill,
of Mr. and Mrs Ned Looks
has notified his parents of
safe arrival in the Philippi
He trained at Ft. McClellan.
fn Oklahoma
In Kentucky
Pvt. Richard A. Beeding, son,
of Mr. and Mm W.
of route 3, entered service Dec.
19, 1944. He trained at Ft. Bragg
and is now taking advanced
training at Ft. Sill, Okla. Cpl. James R. Beedfng, son of
Mr. and Mrs. IV. R. Seeding of
route 3, entered service in
March, 1943. He is now station-
ed at Camp Breckenridge, Hy.
Hanes Brothers in Army
iTwo sons of Nl,. and hl:.,. now at Porterville. Calif. Pfc.
G. C. Hanes of Route 3. Mocks- Howard G. Hanes u'ight i en-
ville, are servin_- in the army. tered the army February 9,
Pvt. Craig C. Hams rlefti has 1942. and iS statim?ed at Camp
• been witch Uuc army air force Lirir. �_ston, 1,n.
I since Janitury 23. 1943, and k
In Holland
Staff Sgt. Gilbert G. Sheek,.
son of Mr. and Mrs. Mary Sheek
of route 3, entered service on
Sept. 16, 1942. Ile took his basic
training at Ft. Eustic, later at
a signal school in Athens, Ga.
and went overseas in March,
1944, lie is now in holland with
an anti-aircraft outfit.
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Overseas
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Pfc. John' Lee Bowles, son
of Mr. & Mrs. Frank Bowles,
of Oak Grove, entered service
in the summer of 1943. He ise
now overseas.
In Death Valley
Pvt. Rad Foster, foster son
i of Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Cornat-
zer, of Advance, entered the
army September 9, 1942, and
J$..St! .%i2ied, at Ear, tow, Calif.
Ifr1r. the Ucam Valley section U! i
the desert.
John Frank Garwood enlist-
ed in the navy in October,
1942, and is now studying to
be an aviation machinist at
Jacksonville, Fla. He is the
grandson of John F. Garwood,
Route 3. Mocksville. '
Gets Purple Heart
-red the Purple heart on Margin
!18, according to word which his
_wife, the former Miss Dorothy
Clement who lives with her par-
ents on Rt. 2, has received. He
was wounded in Germany on
March 1 and is now in a hos-
pital in France.
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i ,Herbert Lester M!lholen, Jr g4,
flresman, first e!eo, UTANit, .�
i 33 Main Street. CW1rr1n.ee. I,
C., has been Lransferr"I t., ,,,,
minecraft UainITIR eeutar, A;
Jantle, Fleet, at Little Cn•ci,, y,
Mllholen has recrlvrd ap..
training at the bas!c engin..,
Ing school, Gulfport, %11„
the advanixil diesel
Norfolk, Va. His parch W ,.,.,
and Mrs. Herbert L.
of cem ee. Ife !s a
of Grdccmce
High
S. Sgt. James Kermit Smith, I and is now with the engineers
left, S I -c Norman B. Smith, in England. He is married to
center, and Pfc. John Q. Smith the former Miss Laura How -
are the sons of Mr. & Mrs. and and they make their home
W. N. Smith of Mocksville. with her parents on Route 3.
Kermit, 25, was inducted Feb- Norman was inducted on July,
ruary 21, 1941, took his basic 22, 1943, in the navy. He took
training at Fort Benning, Ga., I his boot training at Great
BIRTHDAY GREETINGS Iq1
Pvt. First Class William P.
Hendricks Jr. 21; son of
Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Hen -'I
dricks, of Mocksville, N. C.
He entered service Sep-
tember 16, 1942. and is
now somewhere in Nod4
Africa,
Brothers Meet
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SURPRISE REUNION in the Hawaiian Is-
lands occurred recently when two broth-
ers met. Pvt. Wiley Alton Orrell (left),
arrived in the islands to be met un-
expededly by his brother, Cpl. Charlie
C. Orrell, marine, whom he had not
seen in three years. Cpl. Orrell has been
overseas two years. They are the sons
of Mr. and Mrs. B. S. Orrell, Konnoak
Lakes and is now a gunner on
a merchant ship. Quentin was
inducted in the marines on
September 25, 1943, He took his
.boot training at San Diego,
Calif., and is now attending
an airplane mechanics school
at Memphis, Tenn.
son of Mr, and Mrs. B. S.
Orrell, of Konnoak Drive,
was lust recently pro.
moted to his present rat- .
ing. He entered service
in January, 1941, and is
stationed somewhere in
the Pacific.
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locitSVl112, NV
PFC. ROBERT 5.
LEE, sort of Mr. and
Mrs. R. S. Lee of Ad-
vance, has been pro- i
mated to his pres-
ent rating and is
Celebrating: his 21st
birthday. He en-
tered the army Dec.
17, 1942 and (s at
Camp Haan, Calif. I
His wife. is the for
mer iglss Ailepe
Hendrix.__
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MR. AND MRS. TAYLOR CALL CORPORAL RALPH CALL
PFC. GRAHAM CALL
PFC. OSCAR CALL COXSWAIN C. A. CALL PRIVATE CHARLES CALL
Hocksville Family Has Five Sons Serving
In the Armed Forces; Three Are Overseas
(special to The do.r..l ..d seou.tl) has been in service since April I February 1942.
Mocksville. Five sons of Mr.�1942. Cozs�vain Cla
arence A. Call, in
d Mrs. Taylor Call of Mocks-�
P I Pic. Graham W. Call joined the the navy since August 1943, is onsea duty in. the Pacific. He re-
ville, Route 4, am serving in the: army in July 1942. He is now at ceived his boot training at Great
armed forces. Three are overseas. !Fort Rodman, Mass. Lakes, Ill.
Corporal Ralph E. Call is with: Pic. Oscar C. Call, formerly sta- Private Charles W. Ca11 has
General Patton's Third Army on !lioned in Panama, is now in Eng- been in service since August 1944,
the western front in Europe. Tieiland. He entered the army in is now at Camp Roberts, Calif.
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Staff Sergeant Lester P, Martin, Jr., son of Major and 'Mrs. Lester.
P Martin, of Mocksville, N. C , Is shown receiving the Distinguished
Flying Cross from Col. Paul R. Youuts, Commanding fficer of the
AAF Overseas Replacement Depot and Redistribution Station, Greens -1
boro, N: C
Given for "extraordinary achievement" as radio operator on C_49
transport planes of the Toth Air Forces in India and Burma, the award
was made overseas but had not been presented to the sergeant until
the ceremony on September 3rd.
In addition to the DNC, Sgt. Martin bolds two oak leaf clusters to
the DFC and the, Air Medal with three oak leaf clusters.- Ae.ins over
seas a year.
A 1941 graduate of Mocksville High School, Sgt Martin was gra
fated from Oak Ridge Military Institnte in 1943• I
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CORPORAL HENRY M. PtAR)un of the grave m im ulncl.
Miller's Creek Marine Looks
For Brother., Finds Him in A
Cemetery on Isco Jima Island
! B7 TECHNICAL. SERGEANT rm- days and when he did he de -
FRANK DEVINEIdcd to follow a superstitious
U marine Cecile Combat cnrce.pnndrntl (course. Heil Iry the worst place—
Somewhere in the Pacific (De- I the cemetery—first and work from
laved) —The Fear -at brothers of ,there back to his brother's com-
;`tillers Crcck, N. C.. met on I".011)""Y'
Jima—in the Fourth h.arine Di -1 The wnrsl place was unforlu-
vision CemcicrY. Irately the right place. within 10
Cnrporol licnry \f. Peenzmt;minuics he had found the marker
landed .cilli n mar:r transport unit (hot said "Private Alk in Pearson."
W the Fill),\lari uo Ilici;:inn,IHC look n picture herame that
knowing Ih:A Ilia vrnmgnr i"n.!i:c r.'.c:,s about all lhr;'c `.gas In run.
Private Alvin w., was sun..... .\I, -.n tea? nnly 10 and had been
on the island with a rephn rmcnl lin the marine Carps less than a
unit at1.10ml In the Fcurth �Ia-'.•:car. lfenry is 22. *rhair mrnlhcr.
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SUNDAY. DEC. 24, 1944.
.CHRISTMAS EVE . . . 1944 throughout the nation tonight as "Happy Christmas to all, and tot
EDITION—Four stockings "hung America celebrates its fourth all a good night;' the, hope that;
with care four heads bent `Wartime Christmas. But Dasher .next. year,the horizon Will ncti
and Dancer,, Prancer and Vixen, be dimmed by the clouds of wail
In prayer.... "Take care of my Comet, Cupid, Donder, and Bllt- and "Peace on Earth. Good will
Dad over there." Such is the zen are not troubled with ration- toward men," will be a reality,
supplication that will go up Ing. Saint Nick will make his not a forgotten phrase.—(Staff.
from thousands of homes rounds as usual, adding to his Photo by Jean Cunningham.)
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,fii.s is uiiat a service man In troop
transport how bag n the least amount of
rn�in, Nvhe:i he says "clo e h, i,tiii,d :o ths, mws, in
they journey to a
quart,rq.- Scene below decks largest number of 'men may fighting front.
s!eep and stow their barracks
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QUARTET OF BROTHERS REUNITED IN PHILIPPINES
Fortunes of war separated the Mislay brothers of Yonkers, N. Y., and they wound up serving
on four different islands in the Pacific. After many months of not seeing one another, the Red
Cross arranged for them to meet again on Ce lu in the Philippines. And here are the boys as
they were served by four attractive Spanish sis'ers named Aboitiz at a party held in their hon-
• Dlichael, Staff Sergeant Joseph, Sergeant Francis
or. Left to right, they are: Technical Sergeant
and Sergeant Ernest. --
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L- S. DESTROYER AFTER BATTLE WITH U-BOAT
HER STENR A IVUSS OF 'TWISTED WRECKAGE, Vne destroyer escort BARR is Shown stied up
a, Casablanca. French Morocco, where she under Iecnt temporary repairs after an encounter
Axis Flags Captured by Marines in Marianas
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Both Axis partners contributed something toward these photoophs. The tattered
German Bag was found in possession of the Jays during the Matlanas Islands cam-
paign and Is possibly the only, Nasi Bag to be seized by Marines ih the whole Pacific.
It is being displayed by Marines Sgt William E. McLaughlin (left) of Salem, O, and
Pte. Charles E. Jarrett of Atlanta, Ga. The Jap banner; 9 by 13 feet and largest Jap
Bag found on Gram, was =covered in the rove used by the military governor of
the island. The Leathernecks grouped around the flag, reading clockwise, are: Pfe.
Kenneth M. Hainline, Joliet, I1L- Sgt. A. J.'Bertnolll, Philadelphia, Pa; Corp.
Richard G. R*en, Albany, CaL; Corp. Lyle E. Jones, Rope, Ark.; StlSgt. Virga F.
Gazmtt, San Diego, Cal; Pfc. Bartlett K. LaPorte, Springfield, Mass.;-Corp.'Bhue1
E. Crouser, Parkersburg, W. Va.; Pharmacist's Mate Third Class Galen G. Wohlman,
Minneapolis, ilfiaa.; Pfe. Paul E. Dodson, Columbia, Tena; Sgt Eugene V. Stewart
of Aurora, Mo., who discorered the flag; Pic. Charles Kohler, Bristol, Pa.; Corp.
James E. Thompson, Flat Rock, Ill.; 1st Lt Chris Gugas, Omaha, Neb., and Capt. G. A.
Wilson, Quenemo, Kan. (Uw.d Srau M..:.. C.,p, Ph.,,)
0O1
ANOTHER DAY OF ROBOT BOMBS is done, but there's the long night yet ahead, so
a London mother directs her children to the safely of an underground backyard
shelter. The little one makes sure her teddy bear will be sale, loo.
-"t U
S- Y
O O
12 IN SERVICE—Mother of 12
9
LJ
.children, all in armed service.
Airs. Emma Van Coulren. 18
(above), or St. Louis, rerislered
In New York City as a "Jlinute
1Voman,, for the Fourth War
lined Drive. She has six smss in
the navy, one In the army, one
In the marines, one in the, ller-
chanl ?tarinr and three daurli-
crr.s in the WAC.—(AP lVire-
r � _
I By BET PATTERSON
,sUn lrrllerl
An army nurse has to know,
more than haw, In wipe leveret"
mes. She has to be able to dill
holes ann withstand enemy fire
l work in air raids. If she is i
rcculenant Jane Hemingway, shet
does that sort of thing as a matter;
of course, v:i!hout getting excited.!
Il was first a matter of train-;
ging course for Lieutenant Heming-'
way, who, is now visiting her l
brother, George Hemingway, all
2243 beth Avenue, after nine'
mn YiSaipan. The training;
cru jhich had her dodging,
bullets, digging a foxhole and!
jumping in before.dynamite gent'
off around her, and also taking in-
tensive swimming lessons, in-
cluded field training at a desert
training center -in California for;
six months, at Camp Howze, Ter-
as, and at Oahu in the Hawaiian
Islands.
Lieutenant Hemingway, whose.
warm smile would cheer any
wounded G. I., found life on Sai-
pan "pretty rugged" when she;
first arrived last October. She
slept in a lent with tour other
girls and learned to bathe in a
helmet (it can be done, she as-
sured) with a very limited water
supply even tbough it rained six.
times a day.
The hospital vias near an air-
field and as soon as the B -29's.
arrived, Japanese air raiders came
zooming in, night after night,
keeping everybody awake with
/ eir "nuisance;' returning several
l ne to harass sleepy Americans
at intervals during- the night.
The first raid was "right excit-
ing," admitted Lieutenant Hem-
ingway, but most of the time she
was too busy to get nervous or
frightened. Her foxhole schooling
was. wasted on the coral-abun-
Plant island but soldiers (IIIc slit
drenches where the whole hospi-
itol papulation sought refuge dur-
ing raids.
It was hard work. day and night.
'whcu military drives were heinq
carried on. The hospital's patients!
came from the Philippines. Iwo
Jima and Okinawa, crowding the
I;50 -fled hospital with sometimes;
ns many as 1,500 men at once.
"They are wonder!'ul patients.
The don't complain. and they
kideach other a Int;' she said,
'enthusiastically,
She served on medical and sur-
gical wards. In January, when;
.Japanese air raids were discon-:
tinued, most of the excitement was
over. As the months went by, food
on the island became more plenti-
ful and was more often fresh and
very welcome after a steady diet
of C rations. The nurse swam,
danced and went to shows and
Lieutenant Hemingway took mov-
mg pictures when she could gel
enough film.
Hawaii, where she spent a year
before going to Saipan, was "a l
Paradise in the Pacific." The other!
islands, according to the army'
nurse, are just rocks.fn the sea:
but she would like to visit Hawaii,
- again some day.
Lieutenant Hemingway left Sai-I
pan the last of July and arrived!
by plane: in 'San Francisco 32
hours later. "I thought I was in
another world sherecalledas her'
first impression of America after;
almost two years in the Pacific.
"I had been living on a small Is
land 18 miles long. The States are!
so crowded and big." . i
"But the food is wonderful!";
she added in -her deep Southern
BACK FROM SAIPAN —With ! panese and American occupa- accent. She has been in the States
a blttle star on her uniform is tion money to show her brother, three' weeks and has spent more
Li tenant J a to e Hemingway, , George Hemingway. — (Staff than a week in Winston-Salem. At
w holds some souvenir Jap- Plioto). < i tSee LIEUT.—Page 24) 1
SKING DEATH TO SAVE DYING
MMERRIMIM
r•PvlSS
N2
Onxa :�inR-.' ;: Coma JJcIS)—wall
to was 32 te'u.noys sl •slooyas yltuog Jo
luapualu!aadns glss0 moy •pap!s
'aoxs-�pd . • Puty t touew ao -u1L,� stuullns..g7unua a4l Jo uu!l
)>ar ur�cna a,e l,nns sV.outall oo 1n ,lv gni C
.vom nm U1,11511" ou 0,iw rot Vol -cl• v starlieas, wouasacij ayl
NO ROUTINE TASK of good stretcher -bearing is pictured
firs.
-' 1 .wunaa ane W coristder, theca bearers -take
Experiences With J a ps in Y,
e^ By RIXIE HUNTER ...... .. ..... ....-t«;�.. .._-...-
istar( lrrierr,
m, you should've been with . -.
,
-..-..
).when we ran those Japs out of
the cane an Tinian. You would
R. L. Woosley'
have loved ihal,"
Isaid to his •'Lid'• as they relaxed
in the shade around home and
-^
watched the corn grow.
�
"Yes;' says the "kid," Richard. - __,.
•"^=°c'
"wish you could have been on the •,�a,
Ship with me when we rade out
that typhoon, and the time they'•
Keamy got torpedoed in 1941
1, ry
C
And father and son of Hutton',,.,
Street Extension sit around and j
tell each other about the war, ,
Woosley, the "old man," has been
in the Seabees for 26 months, over-
seas 14 months. He's a chief elec-
trician's matey His best story, the
one he uses to excite his son, is
the one about the cave.
A
After the marines had taken •'
Tinian the Scabees moved in with
their picks, shovels and guns to
'build air strips for B -29's. While
i working one day, two of the men
An Woosley's group stepped into a
cave and were shot by hidden
Japs. That was the beginning of a , .x
five-day gun battle in which Woos
ley took part. They offered the
others in the cave every chance
'surrender and then began
miting the cave. They strung up.•
<•,. r
flood lights at the entrance to pre- �,
- ^t. them from escaping at night;
, .�
kept guards there to shoot on
t, Finally they captured a few
,
of the remaining 35 who were not
killed by the explosions. Not one
those captured •
�{?�
escaped. Among
a�
was the sergeant who had been in
X.
charge of all the troops remaining `>`"'
* ',
on the island. The Jap sergeant at!
became co-operative and was,
once
responsible for the capture of 350
of his comrads later.FATHER AND SON BACK
created byI
With the atmosphere HOME—J. W.
Mosley, right,
his father's experience, young
Richard, first class fire control' chief electrician's mate in the
'ee SEABEE—Page 26 1 Seabees, and
his son, Richard
s 1Y1t6Stetun
t Tvnnrien
.. a,ba....eb
on Plane
jr HORACE BILLINGS
(son writer)
It takes all kinds of men in al-
,.,.. e,.>,•v nrnfession to make up
ore ca......
He avas bfusician 2/C Fred S
Going, husband of the former D1ix
Pauline 1l1cNeil, of 2311 North Lib.
Ie..v
ue paref...,.,.
paaem' Bulaq se slug.+a
a 8 u l 1 l� x a gons oml glin0J41
paAII 6epsalsa.t oqA+'(,.puegsnH
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saaue13 aouew.roj.rad luallaaxa
.Ua.+ slq tillna mogs alit alols
—vaadleH ueuiaH dq pageal
I -sod :ilAap aql se UMOtt)1 astA+
!�-.)ayto VIV?13S •aW .� puegsnH
snolear ata., Pug „aalsga.h
�'..• Ialue(I pug lFaaC„ agl lnugv
J j
r:t ZFjIN1,IJ NV /r t WlYILr\i PSIY i t(Y1�
Russian troopers with payday money in their pockets are mak-
ing fancy bids for American wrist watches, and western time
changes to eastern time quickly _these days. Here; one of th.
Soviet veterans in Berlin wants to make sure that the thir
"works," being about to pay sixty .polmds (some $250) for
Yankee timenjece. - -
Woosley, first class fire cent
man, navy are enjoying aN
days at home together a i
mcnths of rervice oversea
r ' \Ayf SUB COM,Nf,1\DER
TAKES OHCS LIFE—Capt. Fritz
Slainhoff. commander of the
German submarine U-283 which
` 4 ' surrendered at Portsmouth, N.
v'ac ed on ne ,tie; H., is shown here on the dock
in the ++-omen's after the sub landed in capture.
io+vl u( milk
,aid and waited Cor developments'. ('aptain Stainhoff committed i
They came—f^ the tm'm of a_ suicide S a t u r d a y in Boston,
mama skunk and three of the' ii:tss.. Charles Street jail by
baby variety—belt ^one avas of� slashing his wrist' with a piece
the deodorized a'a rieU'. of broken eyeglass. ,
r A n. Fv"e: .,•�,,,�,.,•+,•-^"d�,n 'u( nn"Ihr markrt _n �eRnctive_ in reljmKnt
I
I TYANK SURGEON SAVES- -jAP`S--[1FE-
BEDRAGGLED JAPS
NAVY SUROBON Lt. F. B. Hartman of New London, Conn., SCRAWNY JAP pRjS()NE-RS try to
is shown taking stitches in the chin of a Jap, platoon leader following their capture by troops of t
who had attempted to bite off his own tongue- and bleed at Ipo Dam on Luzon 1sland, Philip
I I troops show slgna Of malnutrition, t
to death aboard an aircraft in Task Force 58 which I homeland havina been cut.
picked him up. A Navy medical corpsman noticed blood an
the sheet the Jap -had pulled over his -head. The suicide
attempt was foiled. U. S. Navy photo.
U. S. Sailors Inspect Damaged Jap Ship
1, M6
fX
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P.
U P0001. pt'vs aLn laciulaul-111 P11V --tq.; -'L,()d 1,10 -lul om: dql 10 galu
)3sn I S9A% ss!D� aq.�Cju JI1,13:40 �1;-) 1JI11JV LUIL! e"' t'�vq S�jjjcq Api
'jtu0j.);j07 J('(j q: 'Jrv.s -U:0.) Jlvtfltj.� UILI! I
R aq 01 I%nf woz JCP0q0'kj 'Witl dia
a, 10 '111n V.t J!, :P!III WPM! jl.t3 qt1t
L, q 'I! Sol 5
�61
and f
.,ebee
seen
the
I on
3. KW
w da
the I
and 1,
ane b:
6, Jr.
Jai..;
the y -D
at
t
A GROUP OF YANKS look over the wreckage of a Jap plane and the bodies of Nipponese sol-
diers who were in it when Lt was shot down on Yontan Airfield.' on -Okinawa. The crstt was.
one of several that made an attempt to land on -the field a few days ago. A number cracked
up and some Japs did manage to break out, but.. rear echelon men—000ks, clerks and others Q
7 V
quickly mopped them up,
— &n
1 —citz
JUNI [R ,HBER OF
Swim "muld
wastepaper. They will begin the haul at I p.m. All salvaged paper is used for the war effort and the salvage depot, I
West First Street, is the central deposit for the packs. Last w aslepaper customers before the big depot was emptied yes-
terday were Mrs. C. C. Cash and Buddy Cash, 1919 Hinshaw Avenue (shown above.j—(Slafl Photo.)
R !- -J
• "Now I've seen my f irst Jap sol -
.!Ernie ie
diers in their native state—that is
r�
'
Pyle before capture."
'1'111:.11 LMORIE.S OF A S01-I)IEE:
[EDITOR'S NOTE: In addition to the '
story which appears here today, wnThey were both trembling all
Nfiod r Dear where everyou are.
will print several others which we oVer. The kid's face ttlrned'a sick—
have just received from Ernie an Oki- ' ly white. Their hands shook. The
Tilt- Stin is always shining.
naw a. We believed he would have
wanted us to. As a great reporter, a muscles in the ciirporal's jaw were
a th(iusand miles away I am,
great newspaperman and a great per- twitching. The )cid was so para -
son, he would have wanted his stories lyzed he couldn't even understand
:
iE� h::ll t is always pining.
to go through, despite his tragic death.] ;
i j sign language.
By ERNIE PYLE We don't know why those two
Okinawa Navy Radio).-- Jans didn't fight. They had good
;
It. is pining for the one I miss,
(By
Now I've seen my first Jap sol- rifles and potato -masher hand gre-
The une I love so dear.
diers in their native state—that nades. They could have stood be-
is—before capture. But not for hind their bushes and heaved gre-
(;tv I'd be the happiest son,
long, because the boys of my com- nades into our tightly packed
If you were only hare.
pang captured them quicker than group and got themselves two
a wink. dozen casualties, easily.
It was midafternoon and we had
The marines took. their. arms.
Somewhere in the U S A
just reached our new bivouac area
One marine tried to direct the cor-
after a march of an hour and a
poral in handbook Japanese, but
My -Mother sits alone.
half. The boys threw ••off their.
sat down on the ground,
the fellow couldn't understand.
The scared kid just stood there,
I know ' that she is waitinb,
packs,
and took off their helmets to mopsweating
like an ox. I guess he
For her son to come back home.
their perspiring foreheads.
i thought he was dead. Finally we
We were in a small grassy spot.
sent them back to the regiment.
at the foot of a hill. Most of
-ia 1
The tiro marines who flushed
_ -
;
N keep on waiting mother dear,
-- •- .
-'iheise ' hiilside.� 'fiave -"Caves
t11e,`e maps were C•pazk-Ossege
the
`
.._ -_-
Theres nothing else to do,
have household stuff hidden in
of Silver Grove, Ky.. across
them. They are a rich field for.,
river from Cincinnati, and Pfc.
For some day your son,
souvenir hunters. And all marines'
Lawrence Bennett of Port Huron,
'
Is coming back to you.
are souvenir hunters. (
So immediately two of our. boys,
Mich.
Okinawa was the first blitz for
instead of resting, started up
through the brush, looking for
Bennett and this was the first Jap
. soldier he'd ever seen. He is 30I
j
you ou could travel with me,
caves and souvenirs. They- had
years. old, married and. has a baby
home he was a freight
:
Mother my life . -.could .be content -
gone about 50 yards when one of
girl. Back
Then I could have you with me, -
them yelled:
"There's a Jap soldier under
dispatcher.
The Jap corporal had a metal
Whereever I was sent:.
this bush."
photo holder like a cigarette case.
We didn't get trio excited for
figured he meant a•
In it were photos which we took
to be of three Japanese movie
l.
When you write me mother dear,
Y
most of us
dead Jap. But three or four of
! stars. They were good-looking,
It makes me feel so glad.
the boys got up and went up the
_and everybody had to have a look.
But. when. you wait so long to .write
hill. A fear moments later some-
Ossege had been through one
It makes me feel so sad.
body yelled again—
Pacific blitz, but this was the first
;
"Hey, here's another one. They(
Jap he ever took alive. As an old
are alive and they've got rifles."
them in
hand at souvenir -hunting he made
sure to the Jap's rifle.
Somewhere the sky is cloud
y Y.
So the boys went at
earnest. The Japs were lying un-,
get
That rifle was the envy of ev- '
Somewhere the sky is blue.
der two bushes. They had their
erybody. Later when we were sit-
Somewhere your son's heart
hands up over their ears and
ting around, discussing the cap-
Is yearning just for you.
were pretending to be asleep.I
the
ture, the other boys tried to buy or
1, it. Pop Taylor,
The marines surrounded
bushes and, with guns pointing,
trade him out of
: • the black -whiskered corporal from
It takes two to make life ha
happy,
they ordered the Japs out. But
' . Jackson, Mich., offered Ossege
the Japs were too scared to move.'
-$100 for the rifle.
One can make it blue.
They just lay there, blinking.
The answer was no. Then Taylor,
But mother dear I'd give anything
The average Jap soldier would
offered four quarts of whisky. The
Just to be back home with you.
have come out shooting. But, thank
answer still was no. Then he of -
goodness, these were of a different
They so the
• fered eight quarts. Ossege weak -j•
He "Where)
i
stripe. were petrified
marines had to go into the bushes,
ened a little. said,
I . would you get eight quarts of
From your Darling Son
TO MRS. H. M. CATES.
lift them by-- the shoulders and
! :whisky?" Pop said he had no idea.
throw them out in the open.
; So Ossege kept the rifle.
My contribution to the capture:
- So there you have my first two'
consisted of standing to one side
i Japs. And I hope my future Japs
looking as mean as I could. will all be as tame as these two.,
one Jap was small, and about But I doubt it.
30 years old. The other was just
a kid of 16 or 17. but good-sized
and well built. The kid had the
rank of superior private and the
other was a corporal. They were
real Japanese from Japan, not thei
Okinawan Home Guard. i
TWO, SOLDIERS WRITE LETTERS BACK TO
Urges Support
Of Red Cross
If the women of Mocksvill(
and Davie county read the letter
Jack Sanford wrote his mother
about helping to move woundei
soldiers from 12 ships that an.
chored in New York- harbor
they would comeB tt
the Red Cross surgical dressini
room and help with the band-
ages. Jack, who is in a medics,
detachment in the army, war
called to go on a secret mission
He and.30 other -boys drove am.
bulances to the pier where 1!
ships had 2,500 wounded soldier:
being brought to Halloran hos
pital on Staten Island.
Jack' stated that it was thi
most morbid sight he had eve:
seen. There were soldiers wound.
ed In every conceivable way ant
many mental cases. He said thi
work of the Red Cross was o.
inestimable value and urged tha
his.mother stress to the womer
here at 'home the importance oft the people of Davie cour
the surgical dressing room and1K. E. Smith writes as fol
the work they were doing. September 11 from Sicily
The Mocksville workroom isl "With 6,000 miles of w:
open each Tuesday and Friday tween us and only 200 t
from 9-11 a. in., 3-5 and 810 p• land, this letter should re
in. In Cooleemees the hours are In about two weeks. (It
Tuesday and Thursday from 2-4 September 27). We hat
and 7-9 111 m. going here for the first f,
after we landed but the
Says Artillery soon learned how -mad a
Did Its Stuff "Tar Heel" cotild get., , A
per cent of our battery I
Addressing a V -mail letter -to of North Carolina boys a
T2vin City Sailor Sees Little Drama in 50 Hours
Afloat on Raft After His Ship Sank in Pacific
By DOROTHY MATTESON
(staff Writer)
QM 3/C Kenneth Saunders of
Winston-Salem, was home today, bt
and able to tell the story of 51 ' x Kiat
hours afloat after his destroyer es- a
sort went down or) the Philippines.
The sinking left the Winston-Salem
sailor and 63 comrades . afloat on
a lift -raft in the waters of
the Philippine Straits. Sixty-one a
of them, rather—for two of them ti
perished of wounds received in
the_engagementwhichthe. young-.
seaman will identify only as one
of the major naval battles of the
war. The pair died aboard the
raft and were buried at sea.
Saunders, here on leave until
Jan. 12,. also adds that his group xz=
:which survived the sinking of the
iescort - weren'texactly afloat— t
;since the raft was generally some
two feet under the Pacific most
of the two days and nights the '"-
group spent off the, east Philip-
pine! Coast, even though only a
.third of them had places on the DM 3/C KENNETH SAUNDERS
raft at one time, the others tak-! can't remember whether the sue
Ing turns at swimming along - really was shining just at 12:3,
side, attempting to propel the P. M. on the 27th of October. Bu
craft toward land they were car it was shining brightly indeet
lain was not far distant. upon Saunders and his comrades
Saunders minimizes the drama when the craft moved closer ant
of his ship's sinking and his sub-, revealed the Hag flying from het
_-sequent rescue six miles out about mast to be that of their own home.
noon of the third day. But he- land.
idoes not minimize at all the thrill! That's about the only dramatic
iaf seeing the American flag on! moment Saunders could recall- in
the small patrol boat which made' an interview this morning. He
,the
rescue. I put it this way: "Sure we were
The fact that Saunders himself cold. We were all in general
:had been almost blinded by fuel quarters when we were ordered to
'oil which coated the waters after abandon ship. My duties are
the sinking of his ship is ,,an: keeping the log and records. But
tioned as a minor detail and then we were ready for action—action
only because he thought it might that came the same day the
help listener tmdcrstand what Princeton was sunk, if rou re -
thrill his thrill it gave hint In open his, member. We were at battle sta-
eyes and sec the ensign of his own tions. The guns were manned,
navy after lite group had sighted But I'm not free to tell You what
the small ship tat the horizon and happened—whether it was a tor
awaited it fearfully, thinking it Pedo nr a surface hit that gotl
to be a Japanese craft. Saunders'
us. I was wearing a pair of dun- t
_garees when I .abandoned ship— t
plus a life -belt of the type made I
right here in Winston-Salem. But
it wouldn't have mattered what I .
had on, once I hit the water. The
mater was cold, but when we had
_i. our turn topside on the raft we'd
warm up a bit, for'the air was
warm enough.
We weren't hungry any time f
during the time we spent waiting
for rescue. We had the. regular
' ratibns: malted milk tablets, hard-
tack and water, mostly. Even the
oil with which we werecoatedof-
fered a big advantage, since, for
some reason,., the sharks didn't
-- seem_to like it and kept their dis-
tance. And right through the two
sleepless nights and days we knew
just about where we were—and
we knew that we'd be picked up.
Many of our own aircraft had
participated in the engagement
and we felt sure we'd be spotted. .
In fact, we saw one plane on the
. second day out and felt certain it
I was a patrol .plane that would
] send aid to us. Actually, we were
�!i only six miles from land when we
ere picked up."
Saunders is spending his leave
with his mother at 2413 Greenway
Avenue. He arrived in Winston-
Salem on Saturday via train from
' San Francisco, same port from
which he out out for ,the Pacific,
theatre after completing training
at Quartermaster's School, New-
port, R. 1. He took basic training
at Bainbridge, Md. He was grad-
uated Flom Hanes High School in.
1943, and entered the navy two
days later. During .school years •
he worked part-time for Atlantic i
.reyhound Bus Cnmpany. it was
t Newport that he laid eyes on
he last Winston-Salemite he was,
to meet for a year and a half, he
recalls. This was C. H. Duncan,-
hen yeoman third class. Two
�ailore were stationed on the ship
a•ith Saunders.
1 s► m W m"NAg7I AIR jawr jklMulte
rt
By JAMES THRASHER A white Christmas, and back home some luckier guy will be having a h+
THEY HAVE PLENTY OF SNOW for a while Christmas in Krinkeller—snow that furkey dinner, and a cigar afterwards. and dry clothes and a fire. But up her
wings your face as the North Sea sweeps if across the Belgian lowlands; snow the Krdufs have forgolien to take time off for the holiday. They are hell -bei
Thal makes walking slow and heavy; snow in gray clouds that pin air support on going places and somebody has to stop them, Christmas or no Christmas.
to the ground and leaves things pretty much up to the infantry; snow that So they will walk across the fields outside of Krinkelter on Christmas, wil
makes you a sitting -duck target In your OD uniform; snow that melts and soaks guns slung over their shoulders and cold feet in their boots.
and freezes if you fall in it. And some of them will think, "Well, maybe next year:'
WOUNDED VETERAN TAKES. A BRIDE
HIS LEFT LEG MISSING AND HIS RIGHT in a oast, Pfc.
Alferd Smith, of Hohenwald, Tenn., and his bride, WAC Cpl.
Faith Woodbury, are shown with their attendants after their
marriage at Lawson renew Roc ;#.i a.. �_ .._.,..
The following letter was ripen bit Technical Sergi. George
B. Smith to his mother, Mrs. G. B. Smith, of 1508 Lomond Street S
'T/Sergt. Smith is now statiorid in England.
Dear Mom and All,
,Well, now that they have loosened up a little more on the censor -
of mail here, maybe I can get around to writing more often. The ,
it was before I could have told you is million things but they
ner would have passed the censor so there wasn't much use in writ-
j
Ing them.
I got in 27 missions before the
:twar ended and I will try to tell u,
�lyou a little about them. It was
pretty bad but not exactly as bad , a
cas I had expected. When I first
Icame over here, I wondered how
L would react first
cion. Well, it goeses without saying ,-itw ,{ i
rthat I was scared when the flak
tstarted bursting around our plane, asp
.Sometimes I wonder now we could ,r
have gone through all that stuff �- r
and still be writing about it. I
f
don't know whether or not you
(know what it looks like but when
the shells explode they just make �.
,little black puffs of smoke up
'there about five miles above the
'earth and they look harmless
'enough but just one burst will u
'bring a bomber down if it ex-
plodes near enough.
The .time when you really
:l"sweat" is when you turn on the
bomb run and have your bomb
'doors open waiting to get over the
'target. After you get on that, there' T/SERGT. GEORGE B. SMITH
t Technical Sergi. George B. Smith UP TO STANDARDS—Both the
is no turning basic. You see all that flak bursting over the target .girl seen above, Itliss Dorothy
rI area and wonder if you'll ever get through it alive. Then even though Everhart. and the life belt she
I�it may be 50 or 60 below zero, you break out in a sweat and start is wearing. measure up, accord -
saying your prayers over and over again and somehow you go right ing to Naval inspector dike
on through, but all of the planes weren't always that lucky. It's tough Hunter. The belt Is irtflated with
to see guys go down in flames when maybe only the night before
were in town with them but somehow after a few missions you
e or less get used to it or should I say you get hardened to it, for
u never get used to something like that. We must have been very.
lucky for we never had an engine go out and we were never shot
up too bad to make it back to our own base.
We were coming back from a mission to Berlin one day and we
were just about out of gas. We were only flying about 500 feet high,
making for an emergency field on the coast. It was real foggy and,
the English Channel really looked cold, but we made it O.K. That'..
• night we went to town in our flying clothes. We were dirty and;
'. everything but we didn't care. We refueled the nest day and came;
. on back to our base. I wish'I could explain to you what it is like'
to. go on a 11400 -plane bombing mission but I'm afraid I can't put
it on paper. It's really something you have to be a part of before you
t can understand what it means.
We had some crew pictures taken the other day and they were
good except for the fact that we were all grinning at the sun. I am
' sending two, hope You like them.-..- ... - .. ... - ..-
Mom, here is a list of the places we bombed- I could tell you a
million more brings but haven't time now. The list follows: Munster,.
. Uetzen, Hanover, Bruchsal, Roslitz, Ulm. Cassell, Schwartz, Essen,
i Bremen, Betzdorf, Eggman, Berlin, Plauen, Westerholt, Gladbeck,
Dummer Lake, Berlin, Plauen, Weslerholt, Gladbeck, Dummer Lake,
Berlin, Bremen, Hallen, Kiel, Ingolstedt, Lupzeg, Hitzocer, Munich,
Regensburg, and Pilzen, Czechoslovakia. i
J ,'
an automatic release. Hunter
fntows.w'herepf he speaks when
he passes on a life belir-having
acorn one many a long hour
when he was naval pilot, serv-
ing overseas. (Staff Photo.)
Pioneer
It's a good thing I wasn't superstitious as my 13th mission was Lt. -Col. Clay Tice, above, of Los
to Berlin and that is a pretty tough target. All in all though I guess Angeles, is the first American
we were very lucky.deliberately to land a U. S.
Incidentally the base I am on is called Grafton Underwood and lane on Japanese home soil
it is about five miles from a little town called Kettering and about P
25 miles from Northampton. I go to town about every night since since beginning of the war. His
we have quit flying combat so it isn't too bad over here. I won't be fighter plane developed fuel
here much longer though for this group is going to France. I ]snow, linenaiatrouble
o ble wh it set theon 1ec aft
what are will be doing but can't tel] you now but I think it will be down on a Kyushu field, to find
a pretty good deal.
Since
!OV Day I have flown over Germwiy three times to take lite enemy o(hcers friendly,
)unit personnel over and show them the bomb damage to the cities. showing no spirit of defeat
I ,would never believe it unless you coulri see ii. It seems pretty
,fid to fly over without someone shooting at ynu. Germany is really,
Ila beautiful country except where it hits been destroyed by bombing,
shelling etc.
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TAR HEEL CHAPLAIN GIVES of the rresoyccrm.. ..••..•-•• --
.. q OKINAllv4 I
Bryson
and-NI Oily KlsRobnson—livit-,p..
Tired marine artillerymen"i"and-'\Irs:-C,
take time out from blasting the at Fayetteville. Fighting lops D s on Okinawa to receive tinned n e a r b y as the Com- �
holy Communion Irom Lieut. ! munion was held. Lieut. Robin -
Charles M. Robinson Jr. (left i son is a naval chaplain. (AP
facing camera).^former pastor Photo from U. S_blarine Corps.)
3fARcfi:\T.T, ISI.:\\1)5 N'A- I cued successfully from by- the rubber boat TO a sill" .•••••••t
TIVES IIESCCED Itl' NAVY— Passed .lap strougholds, despite i will lake them to a navy-su-
stiff resistance by the Jags. This pervised aloe. There they Will
Ifarillg rescue mi pions by the photo shows a group of women receive medical attention. be;
navy in the Marshall Islands and children, a few of the 590 given food and clothing and a
group have accounted, for more rescued from .faluit While under plate to rebuild their homes.—
than 2.000 natives heing res- ` shellfire availing transfer from W. S. Navy PhMn.)
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l
When prospector Gilbert Labine.
right, flew his plane over Great
Bear Lake in 1930 and found a
rich pitchblende deposit only a
few miles from the Arctic Circle,
little did he think his discovery
would play an Important pad
in production of the atomic
bomb. The Canadian Govern-
ment took over the mine, toes -
0^
tion of which is shown on the
map. The uranium derived from
the pitchblende oro was used to
make the bomb that may knock
Japan out of the war. Only other
known deposits are ,in Belgian
Congo, South America and Aus-
tralia. One of factors which kept
Germany from perfecting its
atomic bomb was that none of
these sources of unarium was
available to them.
Developed Atomic
REFUGEE Danish scientist Dr.!
Niels Bohr (above); a Nobel -Prize-
winner, is credited by Secretary
of War Henry Stimson with help-
ing in the development of the
atomic bomb, the weapon of the
age. Bohr escaped being appre-
hended by the Germans by flee-
ing Denmark in a fishing boat.
He spent 19 days in Sweden, and
from there was taken to Eng-
land in the bomb -bay of a Mos-
quito plane.
Guarded Secret
Head Atomic Hants
COL KENNETH D. NICHOLS
COL FRANKLIN T. MATTHIAS
SECRET PLANTS at Pasco, Wash.
and Oak Ridge, Tenn., used in the.
production of the atomic bomb
were under the command of CoL - -
Franklin D. Matthias and Col.
Kenneth D. Nichols. Matthias
commanded the Hanford Engin-
eer Works at Pasco, Wash.,
while Nichols directed the secret
operations at Oak Ridge, Tenn.
DwUha. (,(7Ur"ly PUO!t;C L;DiB
�iacksvile, PSC
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' JAP S{VORD—Mr. and Mrs. C. Stewart, from Guam. Tne swora
T. Stewart, Ogburn Avenue, are I blade is more than a yard long
shown here as, they look over a and comes in a metal case which
Japanese sword sent to them -by Is in turn Protected -by rhather - - - ----- --
their son, Pic. Joseph M._ case.—(Staff Photo.)
COAST GUARDSMEN from the combat-'tutter�North(and { atkground) find an abandoned German trawler (left foreground),
stranded in ire floes off .the east coast of,.,Greenland.';Discovery of the vessel was an incident in a series of Coast
Guard actions in the area'whidl included the,wpfure of the 60 Germans, the destruction of two German radio -weather
stations, the capture of in enemy ship. The. Germans scuttled two ships. including the one Shawn here.—(AP Wife -
photo from Coast Guard.) — -- --
IWhen the 110 GI babies aboard the transport Argentina, other-
wise known as "the Squall", were lined up for a baby show on
the voyage from London to New York, Barbara Antoinette
111oncrief, aged 12 months, was winner of the "Young baby"
!:ontest. She's shown with -her mother, Airs. Ellis Moncrief,
going to Whitsbury, Ky.
RESTING UP TO GREET GI DADDY
the sea did quite a bit of kicking -up as the transport Argen-
tina made the crossing to New York with its cargo of GI
Weds German Girl
AVAILING himself of a loop-
hole in Army orders, which for-
bid marriages between U. S. mil-
itary personnel and Germans,
David C. Petty, Jr., of Pennsyl-
vania is pictured with his Ger-
man bride, Charlotte, at the
home of her parents in Heckar,
Germany. The, order said noth-
ing about American civilians in
uniform.
'7 r/
.. .. Ile II. I. (;ills dais Ihealre of lilt, T"11111 AIV r.nre- t
Oil.7aunarc 1, )913, Ile less made,
full colonel, Atter l
'rhe ueto of ihr uurxprrte(I d::nh of Thur(nan h. sertdiig in llulia or 17 mouths he teas returned to the
\'ielcers vital,,. as a sltl'-k to lis wiar rnr!r �•!' I'rirnds, liav, knifed States ill September, 1943, and on November 1,
in;; serrrd m: rru:c rrmns, ;m+t ill sorb teide spaces, ted 1943, was assi!n:ed to the ZCesteru Flying Training Cont-
c� iasistc(1 tau :� <::-vallum_ hill: kith My and Servirr. linin :Is Su!:crrisiug chalflaill, With lum(lquarters ;it
Sankt .\line. ('alifornia. The end of his years of (levoted
"'0'Thurnu:o U:nnrr. \'irl:ens was burn in Uurha nt rouuifv .
' ou Drrruilwr 13. lSdi, till' s::u .11' 11 r.::m1 \i l's. Riraon H. sereiev ratite foltooing a. heart, attack at Ynnut air Buse !... .
: Vickers. 1!e tr;,s i�lucatrd'iii tlw I�ublit. srhooh, Trinity liospital, TJnna;.:\rirtii:a,'tau :\-ut,ost 34, 1944. to which
1'arl: Krhool auil riuity Collegrv. now Duke Iltiversijy'!
,as
be Iiilll flnwu to install it new chaplain.
``\ t from abut,!, lu• was era:lunt:•:I in 1!11(1. §L•s., \'icicel's reached his bedside soon after Ile was
sh ickrn, and was with him throughout his illness. Every I
possible attention was given by the army's most expert
"1 heart specialists, lot pneamonia developed for which pen- i
icilliu was all for severaLdays: To those around
v
hila Ile said, ''Good -Lye, God blc=s you," and died as
bravely as he had lived.'
The funeral service. was conducted by the writer front �
l.deutuu Street church on Tnesdnc-aftei'n+ion; ."ingust-22., '--�- -
assiatr(1 Ly Rev. Robert L. Jerome, pastor of Hayes -Bar -
tun Jlethodist church, and Dr. A. J. Hobbs. pastor of
Menton Street Methodist charch. The' graveside service 'I
in Oakwood cemetery, Raleigh, was followed by full mili-
tary rites. Five chaplains from-Camp_5utner were prey
ent for the funeral.
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_.—(+lc,ael-�i(aem_was_devute�l_to the eanse_uf_.peace,
VA --
t was serving at the time of his death as member of our
conferenee committee on -world peace, but lie was willing !
to ;rive his life in serving those who suffered from the ,
eonsrtivrnces of war. We mourn the passing of a choice I . -
spirit whose geutiencss gave evidence of the power and
v preached, a devoted Two years earlier, in l9Us, he joined the North Caro- influeitee of tile. gospel which lie ,
lina cnuft'li'll. was ordaimvl deacon ill 1910, elder ill band and father, an effective member of our conference, I
1912. llmiu!_ the MKrse of his 111""Str}- of near].- :Ili it beloved pastor, a life which has added to the sum total '
years he served the following
cliarges: East Burlin,0,to;n, of human goocL and whose service has contributed much
Graliant,_I3etc Rater. (iraha.ani. Bw aw, N\ ilmmgton, Illa- to tilt making of a better world
6
den !31reet, luutaport, Arden, Henderson FI rd Chu ccla, •• And ever near its thow n unccell,
Laurinburg, Rnrkr Mount. r'irst elnurelt, Oxford, Lnm- The dear immortal spirits tread. ! .
Lenten, Cbrshun �trect. Mo City First church, Fou etll the boniidless ,universe
from which charge he entered the einaplaincy in World Is life—'there ate no dead.'
WarJL-.. _ - -- - .... -
On April 2. 1912, lie was united ill marriage to Miss
Mattie Lnnsaen of Rtdeigh. Of this umrriage four chil-
h•en were born: .tabu S.. \{urzhcu(1 C!it)'; Mary, Mts.
l
mace L
Barnes. umberton : Laurence It.. Lt. U.
my in RS•I ,
Airs. 'runt u. Phelps, Radeigh,�
f whonn, n,grthrr will: two brothet•s. Hiram li. Vick- I
('hapel Ili It and W. 1'crrr \'iekers. Rurhank. Fla.,
iia. Girk••rs. Ralei;:ln. sorrier.
addition to Isis )'viu•s of serei:e a< ;: pastor in Tile
':n•nlitnsn roui'rrrm•r, 'l'Intrina:: srrerd with distiuc•
: rh:ytla i❑ ill \\'nld
Will. 1 (nu! \\'nrld \\`m• 11.
-••: the ;i;:<t is:rid war in 19i i will, the rank of
L•l tai. t itl.rl !�-': • ; �-s•ss:;iifi-- rNl`fu'
.:.no.:>i!:.�„!::.:y::glu.:l •nit �>!.:.:..Gldosu!:q,l I
���\- 'IIU(I't•:V osol.t s.ao(.t.i.Un: 1a❑u,:!ds poli 'U110
v: .,oquan:.:Icp ul s.tt.na.tolm pm(mla,l •Imus _
THE accompanying poem war found
by • Private on the body of n ,oldier
killed in action. The Private tent It to
hi. wife, wh. was grad.., enough to
forward it to ma for readin9 on Jny
ng.lar program aver Station WOR.
Attar the broadeast I ..a, de1.9ed with
retial ..,king for CnPter. I am happy
that TRUE CONFESSIONS it P110tln9 It
at ihi, Memorial Day ,aa -
On -JAMES J. WALKER
SINCE I MET YOU; I'M NOT AFRAID
Look,God,I have never spoken to You,
But now I want to say how do you do,
you see,God, they told me You didn't exist,
And like a fool, i to renedtYlris--'
Last night from a shell hole, I saw Your sky
► figured right then they had told me a lie.
Had I taken time to see things You made,
Pd have known they weren't tailing a spade a spade.
► wonder, God. if You'd shake my hand.
Somehow.,. I.Leel that You will understand,
Funny l had to come toihis7ielliaF'place;':
Before 1 had time to see Your face.
Well, I guess there isn't trtuch-more to say,
But pm sure glad, God, I met You today.
I guess the "sero hour' will soon be here,
But I'm not afraid since I know You're near.
The Signal! Well, God, I'll have to go.
I like You lots, this I want You to know,
Look now, this will be a horrible fight,
'Who knows, I may come to Your, house tonight.
Though I wasn't friendly to You before,
I wonder, God, if You'd wait at Your door.
Look I'm crying! Me! Shedding tears!
I wish I had known You these many years.
Well, I have to go now, God, good-byl
Strange, since ► met You, I'm not afraid to die.
E
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April 1946
By REV. JAMES W. SELL:
JUST a year ago we were anxious-
ly praying for victory, for peace,
and that our men and women in the
armed forces might return.
Since then we have had V -E Day
and V -J Day, and millions of these
same men and women have setmu-
ed. But have you properly honored
them, and have you had a service
telling them of their contribution to
the life of.the nation?
One Georaia church had a serv-
Home Service. "Many veterans of
World War II, with their families,
responded to the invitations sent
them. Fifty-nine of the 90 servia
members have returned;' writes tht
pastor, Rev. A. L. Gilmore. "At th+
roll call, each veteran stood as :
member of his family or a sponso
went forward and pinned an em
hlem to his star on the service flag.
;eivice for just such an occasior
fit
ANMRA WEARS THE SILK— dress made from the parachute
ittle, Sandra Lou Beauchamp l
that
saved the life of her father
_ ___ _ -� t—th�_he. bail_erl_out oyer the
shown above wearing a silk Himalayas. —(Staff Photo.)
Ya by Wears Dress
'Pi a d e From Chute
Will say 1 am U.K. nrsL anu
am giving you a few details I
couldn't write until now. As a
replacement I started overseas
on Jan. 7, 1945, and was none
too happy at the time, for I had
-had only 17 weeks training. We
Nsailed aboard the Queen Eliza-
beth and landed safely on Jan.
14, 1945, at Greenoch, Scotland.
,It would be hard for anyone to
•tell just haw one feels after he
'first sees land. I will admit there
Is some beautiful country, but
none quite as nice as a spot in
N. C. known to all as Davie. We
went from Scotland to South-
ampton, England, by train. We
crossed the Channel -from'
Southampton to Le Havre. There
we boarded trains and rode in
box cars. (40 & 8 they were
I called). There 11 snowed every
day and from one replacement
depot to another until at last
Ghat Saved Daddy
By JUDY LAHSER
(start writer) ....
Sandra Lou Beauchamp. 7 -month-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs.l
ul :deauchamp,._Winstori-Salem. Saute .2,. nonchalantly. Wears .the
k. that savad her daddy's life, these days while the rest of the;
asinine population considers itself lucky to find cotton dresses.
Her father, who was a staff sergeant in the Air Transport Com-
md, was,one of those men who made many flights over the,
------ -- -- +Himalayas. On January 25 of this.'
!year, Sergeant Beauchamp was on;
lone of these periodic flights ands
;�. !the plane was about half -ways
�� lover the "Hump," when both en-'
'eines of the plane failed.
;ar
Orders were Riven for all mein -
bets of the crew to bail out. Beau-
champ bailed out safely and then
.th went in search of the plane and,
cu the members of his crew. He was
IT unable to locate any trace of thel
It plane and it was his belief lhatl
eu none M the other men had been
r able to bail out in time. The men,'
t, since• have been officially listed.
as "killed in action."
Se);eeant Beauchamp returned
to his base in India, and was sent
;back to the united States, where
he received a discharge in June.
`-ii• When he returned home, he
c< brought with him a scrap of the
G 1parachute that he had worn when
rP ;he bailed out on his last flight
is over the "Hump."
internauvuat aa.=......... For the da hter whom Beau -
pin a mandate over themchamphad yp,er seen before.,
Inf. Regiment of the 30 Division
(Old.Hickory) at Grad St. Quen-
ton, Belgium, which was in the
thick of the "Bulge." On Jan. .
25 the 30th was pulled from the
lines to bring in more replace-
ments to all companies.
Five days later we moved to
Aachen, Germany, and from
that to th Rhine River. The
crossing itself wasn't too bad but
a bit rough on my company it-
self.: -. Most of . our . men-- were.
wounded by mines in that Par- I
ticular campaign. It was a steady
push Jor 6 days and 5 nights
ut, atopptng to eat, sleep
or anything. We were a tired,
dirty, war -weary bunch of GS.'s.
Then we were pulled back to
Holland and there practiced riv-
er crossing, mostly for the Rhine
River campaign. On March 24
we moved up and crossed the
River in assault boats and am-
phibious jeeps.
The 4,000 artillery guns backed
our attack by laying down a bar-
rage of fire for 4 hours. We
crossed under the fire and es-
tablished our beach head. Later
that day our platoon suffered 12
casualties from machine gun
rmyp rsonnel and 511 Dut • marine
first World Wan Fund for Camp Lejeue, N. C.
bombed Pagan and
ine leg by 2 pieces ut surupnet.
The "medicos" are swell guys.
Most of our men were back 1n a
few days later. After that it was,
a real hot chase for the Elbe
River. We closed in on the pock-
et of Germans. We worked all
the way with the 2nd Armored
boys. They are a swell bunch of
boys to work with. On the Elbe
we stopped in Madgesburg, where
the historical meetings o
Yanks and Reds came to
As final surrender cam{{''
only 50 miles from Ber S
on the Elbe River. We t -
a large number of
After V -E Day I spen
in the" hospital - with
which were frozen in t'
and became infected a
by too much walking (Il --
monly known as trey
We*were moved here ere ..a
until on August 17,
sailed Arom England a the
"Queen Mary" for t] a
Not only myself but (gas
proud bunch of G.I'rd.
of only because of tghting '
over but on oury back
e. I can proudlyf I am
y to be home ani trulya.
.
at God watchAver
Conuet
have the Go d
3
the ETO Ritrn wills
rs and the at
ge- In -
Love,
"SU,.
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LOCAL BOY AT RED CROSS CLUB j
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Yokohama, Japan.—North Carolina ^boys who spent Christmas, 1945, in Japan turned their
thoughts to home as they posed .for this "Gre Ming Card" at an American Red Cross club.
First row left to right: Pfc. Russell May, Hook:rton, R. 1; Pvt. Troy !Marshall, Route 1, Surn-
merfield; Cpl. E111hu E. Sloan, Hamptonville; Cpl. Harold C. Young, Mocksville. Second row:
S/Sgt. Charles J. Mock, Rt. i, Box 20, Winston-Salem; Sgt. James L. White, Scotland Neck; Sgt.
William O. Spencer, 1012 Ferndale Dr., High Point; Sgt. James B. Hoover, 121 Salem St., Thom-
asville; Spill (x) 1/c USNR Smith R. Young, 230 S. 4th St., Smithfield. (American Red Cross
photo by Bullard.)
tar.
A brewery worker, denie
z- mission to a union b;cau
Letters Home
The following letter was written by Staff Sergeant Lindsay)
'
Cashion to his parents; Mr. and Mrs. L. N. Cashion, 2328 Okalina
Avenue. Winston-Salem.
Dear Folks—it seems that I've been on the road a week and have,.
cohered the entire distance from IeShima to yon tan strip just north
:
of Naka on Okinawa, a distance of some 20 miles. If I can keep upi
this rapid progress, I figure that I should be home some time during'
the Fall of 1982, barring mishap.
We've just weathered the, worst typhoon I've ever experienced)
II've experienced no less than a dozen. This one was the grand-
daddy of them all. I didn't think it possible for a wind of such high)
velocity to blow for so long without so much as a few minutes letup.
It blew continuously from about 11
in the afternoon until 10 that
night. We were a couple hundred
yards inland on the side of Okin-
awa that the storm came from. It
hit a steady 80 to 90 knots and
i
two gusts hit 140 knots. A knot is
one and two tenths miles per hour.
e winC'and--wearer-.. real iyi-----..__
ripped things apart. The Japs had
built a sea wall ranging in height
from 5 to -5 feet and 15 feet thick'
and the storm completely washed I:
it away, miles of it. It was made)
<...; of coral and concrete. These huge{
pontoon dodo are about 40 feet,
wide, 10 feet high and between 501
and 75 yards long and made of]
steel, of course, and it blew them 1,
around lilse-pamr.
were as much as 150 yards inland'
and upside down.
'
xt I: It blew whole camp areas away.:
`
> I saw whole. buildings flying
i
through the air well abot a treetop
'
g - level and roofs were a dime a
dozen. I sawonesheet b -i metal.
I
S/SERGT. LINDSAY CASHION knock five guys down, one at a
time, then it went slap dab
through a tent. It's a good thing it hit those boys a flat lick, because
if it had hit them sideways, that sharp edge would have guillotined
them. The group flag pole, made of six-inch pipe, was bent double. �.
After our tent went down (it was one of the first) and there was
no place to go, we stood out in the rain or on the lee side of some. as
yet, unbowed tent and bet on which tent, shack or building would;
I
go down next. I won 16 yen, t
1
About dark I decided to high tail it for the mess hall. or what!
i
l
was left of the mess ,tall. After much looking around I found a nice!.
comfortable spot under one of the mess tables where the 'water was
- only about three or four inches deep, and there I sat for the duration!
- - -
- -'
of the storm. That seat under the table was one of the better places!.
of concealment because the water not the wind couldn't get at me.a
:I
This rain didn't fail, it attacked you .All the rain I saw was travel-d's
in. -horizontal. i don't see how it ever managed to get to the ground.1
While we -,were sitting under that table in water hnee deep, the)
Ij
rain pouring, the wind blowing everything away, the mess hall grad -1
ually coming apart, some guy, also tinder the table with us, came out
•!
with, "You know I certainly would like to have a good nness of fried
oysters:' I heard a glub,glub shortly thereafter, but it was so dark
I couldn't swear the gdy next to him had drowned the poor fellow. ,31
So many rumors are malting the rounds no•.v that I don't know,
,5.
which ones, if any. to believe. but the most reliable one is that there:
were 1.400 casualties of all kinds. That isn't at all imurobable eilher.1
a
It looks like I'm going to spend another birthday in a. lransienti
F
camp. I did that last year if you will remember, but I hope and think
that this will be the last one like that. I hope this will be mw last
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letter to you from this side, but if I stay here as much as a week.
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which is likely. I'll write again. Don't write me because the letter
would never naa rh; rue. Bye for, now and lots of love ... ..
\ Jimmie ..
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Okinawa
December ?, 1945
!4011K� Dear Bro. Cooper,
I'm writing to say I enjoyed the
paper my brother sent me. The Good
News Herald is a paper I like to read.
I've heard your radio broadcasts be-
fore I came into service and I really
enjoyed every one of them. Where I
am now I can't hear any real old-time
preachin;;.
I am a Christian and I belong to
ta1:U. gull will send Ifis spirit in
every service and many souls will be
added to His Kingdom.
Sincerely,
A brother in Christ,
Donald McGuire.
Okinawa
TALK TO JESUS
If you feel dreary
On a dark and cloudy day,
Talk to Jesus,
He can drive dark clouds away.
like �.;ood ole! North Carolina. 1 just
hope it won't be long before I wi;l
he out of this army. They are send-
ing- replacements over here now. I
am glad to see them come in in one
ways and sorry for them, too. I don't
like to see no one have to conte in
this army.
Well, Rev. Cooper, I will signs off
for this time and hoping to hear from
you soon. May God bless you and
pray for all of us over here.
As ever,
Jack_
the Green -stone Tabernacle. I sure
A t. bell
wish I could have attended your ser-
-2-
i Sept. 16, 1945 i
vires while you were there. I rejoice
If you have a burden
Dear Rev. Cooper,
in the Lord to hear how He blessed in
Which seems more than you can
' Should have written sooner as I 3t
the services there. I thank God there
bear,
'
heard from you just before leaving
are still souls being saved in this sin -
Talk to Jesus,
the Hawaiian Islands but have been
ful age in which we'live.
He will answer prayer. �
rather flusy. I am now aboard the.
_
_
U. S: S: Z•ST=1043 about 100 �i—1 s off
The biggest battles I've had with
�-
of Iwo Jima and headed for Japan.
the enemy God has helped me to win.
When you feel lonely,
Ofter crossing the International date
Thank God. But that enemy wasn't
And no one seems to care,
line, it is now Sunday (the -16th) and
the Japs but it's the biggest enemy
Talk to Jesus,
something came up this morning that j
and we all have to fight him. I'm
He is always near. i
made my blood boil. This ship has na
talking about the devil. The .Taps
4-
Chaplain, but we have a Negro minis -
were bad but they stopped some-
When the devil Tempts you,
ter C-Harine) aboard who tried to hold
times. The devil kelps pushingfor
everything wrong,
religious services. A great number
ward; we few that are Christi1mc �
_. _ -,. � �-
I��A}nd :goes
Tu ui K to� V MCI— --r•• • :s— a-
- - +-••of-e sted�rrs- i e sn�ul-
tlie service have been fighting two
He will help you along.
ored, were eagerly awaiting the ser -
enemies. I thank God for keeping
vices to start when we were inform -
me safe and when I wandered away
-5-
ed that the ships officers refused hint
he was ready to take me back into His
Yes, talk to Jesus,
permission to hold any kind of re-
arms. And I'm thankful to say I'm
.Ask Him to show you the way,
-ligious service whatsoever. If such is
rusting in Him.I know I' love Him
Then follow Him,
against Navy regulations, then I'd
tonight; as I sit on my bunk writ-
Let Him be your guide eve day..
�'
like to know what we have been fight-
ing I'm, thanking God for old time
Composed b
P y
ing for. These Marries have been
salvation.
Donald M. McGuire, S 1-C
taken from their homes, placed under
I'm praying it won't be long be-
Member of the Greenstone
the command of officers, (90 percent
fore I can be back with all !try Chris-
Christian Tabernacle,
drunkard:,; put aboard a miserable ,
tian friends where I can hear the
Lynchburg, Va.
ship with rotten chow, sending them .
blessed Word of God preached. I
to the most diseased place in the
hope you can come back to our church
Germany
world, and then when they wish to
when I get back home and I can meet
December 9, 1945 ..
gather together. .4%. t9e -Sabbath -to-
you. I'm just a y o u n g fellow, 0
Sundry Morning, 4:30
worship, all freedom is denied them.
* ars old, but I love to talk about
Dear Rev. and Mrs. Geo. W. Cooper,
I trust that this -will be published in
the Bible and I love good singing.
Just a few lines to let you hear_
order_ to give the _America-n.,ci�i�en. a..._ .. _._. _....
- -I'in-thankful-our-church•has wpreaeh-'
fl6iii' -rrie: This leaves nie4 finis and
plain view of what is going on in this
al• who preaches the old-time religion
sure: hope you are the same. I re-
Nravy.
mid a choir that sings the good old
ceived your letter yesterday of No-
Of course, since this is written by a
0111". I've always loved to go to
vember 12; I was sure glad to re-
private, there will probably be noth-
church and miss that as much as I
cc.ive it. You sai-I that you received
ing done about it. I don't care «ho
miss being at home.
a letter from M(:then and Dad and
knows I've written this. I've given
Bro. Cooper, I ask your prayers
they had sant you $2.00 for me. Rev.
vnu the name or rather number of the .
for God to use me in whatever Hi:
Cooper, i wish I could send more, but
ship and if I knew the skipper's name.
will is and that I may live a life that
as a service man I can not right now.
T'd also writoy that. If anyone doubts
offs •: , may see Jesus in me.
I am here in Homberg, Germany,
thrl this happened, there are plenty
t will be praying for you and your
now a snow on the ground and about
mn-, men to act as witnesses for
vvl-ry ;t:;tement I've made.
Thanks frir all your letters and I
h•+• �. •o 11:1VI. a -Good News- Herald"
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aaitiw, •m me in Japan.
rlw-1.1:' fric•11d.
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l -t F. &- B. Co. Sth Ser. Reat.
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P. 0.
c::n Francisco. Calif.
The following letter was written by Daniel E. Kirk,-radio -
man third class, who is now at sea, to his parents, Rev. and Mrs.
J. E. Kirk of Lewisville.
Dearest Mother and t:r, l'ner, August 14, 1945
A little while aeu we received the news for which the world
has wailed for so long. As soon as the words "final, official, and
Without conditions" were said, I jumped up and began sounding
-s navigation horn. Ours
first to give the victory)
t a second later every
ie harbor began blowing,
hore opened up, guns
I the men began shout-
r- and longer than I've
'd before. I've never fn
!en such a happy group
rd I think I was one of
est.
Patrol daily, clean my
ie boat faithfully, keep
ranee neat, and be re-
t my superiors and effi-
ay rate, but if I never
ler big gun, fire another
it see another plane, I
rfectly happy.
how does it feel to have
day on the first day of
nany years? I had hoped
the first proposal that
ace would come on your
r before it.
both of.you have been
id brave all along, I
there were never two
I'm thankful now that
release mm soon.
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Mother, we should write Uncle Edgar and congratulate him Ion I Dear Mon and Pop:. -
his justified optimism. He laughted continually while I was there This morning we picked up the German broadcast telling about
and said, "Why, Dannie, the war will be over when you go out the invasion. This was around 8 o'clock here and that made it about
again." When I asked him how he knew, he always replied he had; one in the morning back home. I think there is seven hour's difference
-tudied their industries and resources for twenty .years and it was i in the time.
.line they had none lett. It was a pleasure to see him so cheerful At exactly 28 minutes to 10 o'clock we picked up General Eisen -
`and now I know that he ve.^.s right. hour's broadcast officially --announcing the invasion had begun. That
Well. 1 must go to bed nmv. was around 3 o'clock back home,
Your dovoted son, I wonder what' went on around
Daniel. there when it was announced. I%
I'LL 1%ORK FOR JESUS
tv'r•iton in lino Philippines, Mar. 8,'45
It IlauWlas Fairbanks Mitchell
I'm under my Lord? control
I'n' Washed in hi.., precious blood,
Oh. praise his n:uuv, He saved tiny -soul
And lifte.l me from the mitry mud.
J1u •early to follow I'is call
Rv; k!v U, .crve w'heiv Ile may lead,
Willing to give my all
And do mY d:lily doed.
It u:ay he in :umorange land
For per tiro rullinlr sea,
But I'II :,hears take my stand
For iii. L:,. _:6 v1 •oro who died for na•.
tic may cni; nn• i.- ihu nruuntin kith.
lhv jungle Ihirk,
I,c m Ih...i,-rrt
::and,
I:ui ;u my """
I'II oaearv:s stick.
`� hh.•n nrr w'.n'I: •,n
o.;Wlh is o're
To my
I'll b,�nu• I'll fly.
Whrro I'll div, ll
I'm. evermore
Kith nry .11:ulor
in the sky.
Thad the radio on here and also
the radio room next door had '
i theirs on and it was a sight to < x"
see us running back and forth
,to be sure -that both -radios \sere- +�•A '� , -�
saying the same thing! *• -
Everybody here sure is excited
about it and the radio is going
levery minute now trying to pick
I
up something new. This sure is
the biggest thing that ever hap R. >✓
pened--W-e-.did not take arty -part
in it of course, but we know that
it is going on and the morale '
sure has jumped plenty. s < a
That means that the end of this ,
war is very near now and it won't >.K
be long before we will be heading ,,r3
back home where we belong. The�.'
civilian's around here don't seem ti; y k;
very excited, but doubt if very .. tA..
many of them know that it is now
going on. It sure is wonderful.
This is the news we have been SERGEANT JOHN W. HORN '
waiting for, for one heck of a long time, now.
The way the news broke about this w•as almost like it was when
Italy surrendered, only this is so much bigger. I never will forget i
hearing General Eisenhour's voice that night and also this morning.
Things like that we sure will remember. r
The radio is still going about the big invasion and every news
broadcast gels better and better. I am going to talk with the censrr
one of these days and see if I can send the new= that one of the
outfits here pills nut so you can see how we glet the details in writing. '
I am saving the one that came out today.
Sure hope that in the next few days the .news will tell us that
Germany is finished.
Love to everybody,
Joe.
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Tile following letter was written bu Pfc. Joseph F. Jones I
to his parents, Mr, and Mrs. Harry M. Jones of 1251 North .Sun- I� This letter was written by Pfc. Irving A. Crews Jr., who iso
set Drive. Pfc. Jones is now stationed in the Philippines. I tioned overseas with the marines, to his parents, Mr, and Mrs,
Dear Mom and Dad, A. Crews, of this city.
1 have a little more to write about tonight. We are allowed to
show that we have been in the city of Manila. Still I am not al- anent Mom and and Dad:
tl to say just when I than there s viten we left, but we were How's the family health situation? I hope the colds have all dis-'
tl while the battle for the city was gating on and while the city peared and left you feeling tops again. The only complaint I have
wb./ourning. -1 know you knew long ago that I was in Manila but that it's been so loo since I've seen either of you. But I'm ha
now I can write and tell about some of my experiences there. I M e y pPY•
I think- I can truly say that I Y glee club -pieces, the handker'hie f9,'and the fruit cake came
aw a cit y,�st,re .p the 27th and all were in perfect shape.'And guess what?.The one
Y practically destroyedj` r� iiing excluded from our Christmas feast was fruit cake so the one
Still fresh in my in are the . �"d, 1 �q u sent put on 'the finishing
lays and nights we spent there r°', N°.� uch. Dad, I would love, to have
s•hile the cityt was still burning. me of those mDienes cookies,
lames were shootingu 'i f cookies web shaken around so
P, into the dly on the way over that they
.ir hundreds of feet and over the •ould probably be all crumbs
chole city a great pall of smoke vhen tHeY get here, so it would , K
ung like a curtain. At night the no doubt be a waste of money to ..
ire lit up the sky so brightly that send them. Thanks for offering to,
on could read a paper by the anyway. I h o p e you enjoyed + x fr
got of that glare. Directly over _ - Christmas and New Year's as much f'
ie heart of the city, a column of -°' Z as I did, Mom and Dad, for I
noke rose up to what must have 4d really enjoyed myself.
.en thousands of feet in the air. ri*� + Let's go back to Christmas Eve
very now and then a huge ex- rid I'll describe the proceedings,, '
onion would go off and thet 'om then til now. Dee and I were F„ -
3mes would billow higher into "sl ,<" the ree shack playing ping- '??€
e air. _' ng when the chaplain came by -
The Japs blew up a large part see it ve would go with him "`'"'
the buildings and set fire to find a tree. We said "sure," ,
e main business district. Thenaway we shoved to the boon
ay barricaded _themselves in cks. After 20-minWes-beating
ist of the government buildings = <i '� ound the bushes, we found a
•oss the river and the artillery etty seven -footer, After chop -
i to blast them out. For days_ __ PFC._JOSEPH F. rnvFS_ ng it dowrl , e.-
tCaq-s lretiig guns... unded anday and -you could hear the whining the jeep and filled the back
the shells overhead almost continuously. That part, of the city, at with pine boughs, PFC. IRVING A. CREIi'S JR.
:ere the heaviest fighting took place,. note lies in runts. I )lave front o[ the
The chaplain and I put the tree up on the lawn in
:er seen anything like it to my lite. It was really a sight worth urch and decorated it later. Inside the church there
iembering. You could go for blocks and blocks throughout the x or eight of us putting pine were about
and flowers across the altar. The
and not a single building would be found standing. You just nctuary was backed with red cloth and had a white star set high
J `'—gine the utter destruction of the city unless you had actually it. A white cross at the bottom was banked with rose-colored
and seen it. Every building showed the effects of artillery overs, and had three candles on each side. Then on each side of
,1 fire, and the Japs' demolition work. ie altar were candelabra and overhead in two arcs were long wreaths
loess you read about the fight for the walled city. That was the f ferns and different flowers that a native grove for us. In each win-
o hotly contested part of the city. That place was shelled and ow there was aa'ttandle with pine under it and a cross of candles
i -bombed for days slid I can't see how any human being ever, -as strung over the congregation. The church itself is made of grass
d through that bombardment. That section now' is nothing but a j'ith a cement deck, The chaplain is also an architect and he designed
ted heap of .rubble and wrecked build: igs. The Manila Hotel I don't think I've ever seen "anything so beautiful ap that candle-
back
the w11 stalled it be utile The
scarred but is still'h t communion service with the candles all li.t and flowers every
g" p 3 Post office, _the college_"- .. ..d .. -
he -Philippines, tiv-city hall, Ecolta business district stadium.! The service started at 9 o'clock at night, and 1.the church was
-cher, and many other buildings I saw ciestroved or damaged.tacked, for once. The choir formed at the rear of the church and we
a the parks p were strewn with mines and
d smells and the treesnarched to the altar singing "Come All Ye. Faithful,"- The -
ted by. shrapnel. Even -thou h the Japs., id their best- to destrey4en led in Drayer after u�hfch ive sang "I Heard the Bells on Christ -
pas city, it will rise again, etas Day" After other songs the hats communion.
There were plenty of Jap snipers in the city and those wrec§ed�� After the service we used a shuttle bus to go caroling and all
lings made excellent places for them to hide. I remember seeing;iat wanted to go along were welcome. When the choir- got out to
incident that stands out in my mind.' Or.e afternoon ou a street Lie road there almost wasn't room for us. We caroled until 11 o'clock
itown I saw the Filipinos find a Jap biding in a house. Thev: nd then I had to go to work.
ged him down to the street and there the civilians proceededol. New Year's Eve we had a watch service from 10:30 until mid -
and beat him to death and I mean literally to death as he died l fight and a surprising number of guys turned out for that. Sunday )
after. Most of the Filipinos hate the Japs for the cruet we%, in he choir did a special number, and that brings us tip to date, and
h they treated them, and they're always eager to get a sock roll's 1944.
e Nip, �: How was the Christmas trade at the store, Dad' I Hope you soared;
was here in Dfanila that I ran into the Kings at Santo Toma,�v'er last December like you did last November. And I'll bet Mom
sment camp. Those Americans in that camp were really iron-i/as tickled with the tailored coat you gave her.
�i. It gave us quite a welcome. It gave us all a great deal of Mom, you can bet your boots that what you're doing is I'
action to know that we had played a part in bringing about: the guys over here. Next to mail I think cixarettes important
are the mnstl
liberation. Those people are real heroes of this war. They rc-inportant pleasure to the gyrenes over here. And Camels are the �i
to let the Japs break their spirit and by keeping faith in the�avorite the world over.
d States to liberate them, they showed. the Japs that they
could Say, that mustering out bill sounds O.K.. even if they only Pass'!
hope to beat us. Their spirit and courage were marvelous and It for 300 bucks I wont complain. That will be 5300 more than 1
• off my hat to those people. Just the fact that we managed tol'xpected_
hem makes all we've been through wc•;th while. I Well, it's choly time, :
folks, so I must away to the mess ha1Li
managed to see quite a good deal of 9lanila while we wcrc� Yntnr loving $on,
.I saw lots of it blown up and lots of it burned and tuts of iii JACK.
n)/Ks hard to tell the story in a lettar. and 1 can tell you better;
back home and I'm able to talk :u You in person.
Good night and love to you both,
Joe
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" Letters Homei L
Letters Home 11
The following letter was written bit Pfc. Joseph E. Cra; It
of Hanes, to his wife, from Okinawa, where he is serving twit The following letter was written by Pvt. Lewis H. Green,'
'the First Marine Division: who is now in Germany, to his mother, Mrs. R. O. Green, of
Lewisville.
DEAR WIFE:
I was given the day off to rest. but have been rather busy. Tool Dear Mom and Sis,
a bath for a change, did some washing, writing, and shaved. Las I just got back from a three-day pass in Eupin, Belgium. The
" shave I had was with clippers. Due to censor regulations. I can' division has a rest center there. They have hotels to sleep in, and a
tell you much about the island nor what we do, but I will tell you at theatre, two dance halls, ice cream parlors, showers, a place to get
I can. clean clothes, a PX, a Red Cross place, and a swimming, pool. It is
I'm O. K. and fit as a fiddle, :.]though I've thought several time: really nice, and I had a swell time.
I wouldri t be much longer. Wt
have so many close calls we won-
der which one of us will get it
nest. I knew war was bad, but
never dreamed it was like this.
It is simply halt on earth. I've
seen a lot that I haven't had to
experience myself yet, but don't
know how soon I will. Sure will
be wonderful when it is all over
and we can come home.
Wilh'the exception of so much)
rain and mud. 1 like the weather
here. Hot in the daytime and cold
enough at Wahl to sleep good, if
one has the opportunity to sleep.
The island is cut into small farms.
the laVest, consisting, of aboul
grow rice. wheat. beans, swee
Potatoes, etc. Almost the same a:
r e . in the Stales. It is full of hills ant
caves which are very hard to takt
from the enemy. On top of one o,
PFC. JOSEPH E. CRAFT lhe�e hills you can see for miles.
u
We engineers btnid roads under fire all the way to the front
.Have fir quit a lot of time.: and clean up a few Japs before continu.
ing. We also build bridges and the Japs blow some of them up a:
'fast as we build them. One was blown from under us a few night:
'ago before it was finished. We are having a time Vuilaing'f•dads'3n2
(bridges both, for besides contending with the Japs. the mud is shoe
'top deep, but they must be built for supplies to go through.
t::>•'•I . . Our deadaretaken care of, but we don't have time to foot will
Idead Nips, as they can't do anything but stink. But they sure car
do -that. However. if they alt"close to the road we cover them with i
_.. (bulldozer. It would he hard toeat. fried chicken with this odor, to
you can imagine what it's like, eating "K" rations. I have actualb
had to vomit -.several -._limes. .---'— -- _
I had you some silk kimonas and several other miscellaneow
pieces of civilian stuff, but wasn't allowed to send it to ,you, nor tt
even keep it. Had to turn it in to the stockade to be used again.
- would like -1,. have sent ft, -.but these civilians need everything the,
(can get. They are Practically all old people and children, and an
r very pitiful. The Tap Government has taken almost everything the,
shad and ha> almost worked them to death. They also told them tha
we (especially marines), were barbarous and would torture them I
they were captured, so they resist to the last. hiding in .caves. an(
lsome have to be drug out. Others kill themselves rather than com.
out. At the Aockade we treat them much better than they have eve
been treated in their lives• and they really show their appreciation
,been
we do something for them they bow three times and salute.
Tell Reid Alan and Anne that I have seen quite a few Jai
!children, and have playedwiththem. They like this "C" rationet
candy and when they get some they bow, too. Sure are cute.
I have some .fall rifles, bayonets. rte. (military stuff), which
can send when I ;et a chance, but can't decide whether to send tha
or not. I hive a gnod reason to keep some if it and a better reason
not to want some. When I gel home I dot t exam anrlhing round t.
remind ine of echat 1're been through here, but if 1 don't send it
will probiblc v:iP'n 1 had. 1 know Reid :Van will enjoy having on,
s� of the rifles.
Lore.
.10.
,You asked how the clippings
tally with what I know. Well, as
for fraternizing, we can talk to
adults in public places only. This
in itself is good, as we can get our
laundry done by German women
for a cake of soap. We get soap+
every week in our rations. How-
ever, you won't see me talking to
young girls. That is, German girls.+
As for the mass raid, that is'
true. At least, we had a raid. I
was in on it. We searched a town
with our platoon and the First
Platoon. It was very military.
They wanted to impress upon the
Gdrmans that they aren't the only
ones who can salute and stand at
We_rode into the town in trucks,
j and. before the Germans (or we}j
^� knew what had happened, we had
blocked the streets with machine'
guns, the lieutenant had set up a
command post in the center of a
park in the center of town, and a
°iguy who spoke German was order-
ing all people into the streets.
Each squad had a certain section of town. While we searched, the guy
explained to the Germans what was going on. -
'We marked the houses that had stuff in them and let the civil-
ians back in. Of course, when we found anything we would run with
it, put-in'a truck, salute, report at the C. P., salute again and leave..
The interpreter then took the names of the ones who had the stuff,.
and the M. P.'s picked them up. We then got information, marched'
to the trucks,. and left. It impressed the Germans. My friend under -I
stands German and he heard them remark on the Ainerican effi
ciency-"- - --------.....---- ----' ...... ... -
As for the Nazis still fighting, I.told you not to wqrry about me.
We aren't in the mountains now. By the way, our training is sup-
posed to stop the last of next month. After that, I don't know. No,
I haven't had a. chance to see. any. of the famous spots. We have been;
busy. For that matter, we still are.
Here is a picture of me and a Belgian girl I met in Eupin. Now,':
before you blow your top, she is a nice girl. She is an only child,
lives at home, mother and father living: is 17, and the picture doesn't(
do her justice. Also, she is Belgian, not German. I met her in her I
father's ice cream parlor. She works there, as you can tell by the
white dress and apron.
I ate lunch at their house. Her father said I was the first Ameri-
can to enter his home, as most American soldiers drink too much..
They all made me promise to come back to see them if I am ever
in Eupin again, which I doubt. Her mother and father speak English
and German; she speaks German. French, and English. They learned
English in England before Tile war—her mother and father did. She
picked it up from them, and from G. Us coming in. for. ice cream.
She is as cute as slit can be. and nice, but I'll still take Americans.
ten to one. But she is the type that would be popular anywhere; 1
you know what I mean; full of fun.
It isn't a good picture, but you can see my haircut. It is over
a month old. I have on an ETD jacket and combat boots. You can
sec hoer short she is. I didn't see a single girl as tall as the average
l,
American. They are all short. I can't figure it out.... More later.:
have to go on guard.
Love to all. and all write,
Lewis
Letters Home
The following letter was written by Chaplain J. Walter!
minister of the Rural Hall Church of Christ, 'Who LS now
t nee. I
Dear Friends:
Last Sunday morning we had our seryices in a very large buili-
ing that had been badly damaged by bombing and shell fire. I had!
taken two red parachutes and covered the ceiling and six white to:
cover the walls. The parachutes were new German chutes. i
Many of the services have been under apple trees. I have my own
jeep and carry the complete altar and altar set for every service.
We make the services as pretty and worshipful as possible. My as -
r sistant plays the organ and we at -
ways have good music. Attend -i'
ance. has varied from one man;
to several hundred. !
- - On August 29 I visited Parisi
for the first time and beyond any
- AZr doubt it is the most beautifuli
!+s=t - `�+•� city I ever saw. The people are a-
_ happy as children on Christmas.
morning. To see so many people
so happy it reward enough for
the lonely hours we spent in tents '
' F under, apple trees and in fox-
holes. When they take us by the
-a' hand and say in broken English
4 "Why did you wait so long?" We
begin to realize what they have
,;. suffered and how happy they are.
Sunday afternoon ---I attended
services at the Sacre Coeur (Sa-
cred Heart) Church. The Sacre
Coeur was built by the Freger.:_
their defeat by the Ger-
mans in 1870. The church lead-
ers were sure that God was net
pleased with their sins and hag;
CHAPLA[N J. l5'aLTEA LOLLIS let them experience defeat as an
e-' ^ssinn n[ repentance. People were asked to make sacrifices to
C ad these sarrifices were used to build an altar. The highest spot
ink oris was selected for the church and for 50 years workers labored
to make the hill both Holy and beautiful. Sunday, as I climbed those
long steps which lead to the top of the hill and the sanctuary of
worship. I was greatly moved as I witnessed the going and coming
of hundreds, even thousands of people, again repenting and againt,
set free.
I visited many other beautiful sites in that .great. city,_ g
amon
them being Eiffel Tower, the Invalides, the Opera House. avhicb {�
is the finest in the world. And standing south of the Sacre Coeur
and_south%�Lest. of_Notre_ Dame._ was the Pantheon and her great
and noble dead. - - - - - — -� -
But Paris is not dead. Her people are happy and her women '
are beautiful They will set the styles for the world -of tomoreow and
even in America, who knows, our ladies might be combing their
hair high upon then heads when we go marching home. There are
no fat people in Paris. They have Jived hard but their heads are ,
still up. With little. they have done much. Their greatest sin is thei
hatred for the Germans, if that be a sin.
Our tanks roll on and our planes fly by day and night, but they
thing that is paramount in the mind of most of us over here is 'when
do we go back to America!' With love and good wishes to all, i
Chaplain Lollis.
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Letters Home
The following letter was written bb Corporal R. H. I
to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Money, 2444 Maplewood
nue, Winston-Salem. He is now in Germany.
Dearest Mom and Dad:
We've been pretty busy these days. We have been doing engi-
neering work for several days, mostly on roads. Some of the places `
we have worked in are nothing but ruins and Pro not kidding. About
90 per cent of the houses in this
town are unrepairable, and then
we hit some towns that haven't
seen a shot. They are the ones in
which the armored and infantry
moved through so fast that the
peoA loft ofthe Jerry
didn't have t soldieme tors are t'
just wandering around looking for
P.W.
camps. They are glad to be
able to gdit.--"--
We are now staying in somel
German barracks, or rather youl
have been a beautiful and very
nice place before
I got my second box from Ha-
zel this week. It had two fruit;
cakes, some nuts and other stuff:'
Some of us boys made a treat out
of it today.
By the way, did you ever get
-
the rug that you had planned so
much on'getting? Have you made
any changes or added anything to,
the house except the table youl
CORPORAL R. H. MONEY received for Christmas? I didn't'
get to stay too long to our new home, but Ibelieve -I, can draw a,
blueprint of every item down. to each pin in the house. I forget a'
lot of little things about the home town and the-States,but none of
- this' things_ I- hofs- so-precious--about-home and. my_family. Every:
Sunday I think about our rides and little walks that we used to
take an SUnday afternoons, after doing the. dishes. -The -day will.
come soon when we can do all those things again. May God bless
us all and keep those things until we can return to our loved ones.
Aliens wrote and told me about some girls that are married who
are running around and getting into bad habits and wanted to know
what I thought about it. I referred her to St. Mark, 10th chapter,
and told her that I had no say as to the way others lived. but we
should plan on a future of happiness and not regret. I don't read my
bible as often as I should, but when I do read it I enjoy and try
to remember the ways of life Christ has put before us.
Love,
Ralph
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The following letter was written by Corporal George R.
Hampton, who is now stationed on Guam, to his wife, of 213
Haled Street.
My Darling,
Now it can be told, as you can see I am in Guam. Surprised?
It's been so restricted that I couldn't even spell it. Had to ask some-
one. Anyhow you know for sure now. Your guesses after such a
reluctant time of getting around to.Guam were finally right.
Only a few weeks after we ar-
rived, I unconsciously mentioned
f Jap occupation, which right away,
if the reader stopped to think they
would occupy only our territory,
and Guam was only one of Mari-
anas we owned. I was speaking of
a missionary minister who is ac-
a tually a native .but educated in
' the United States, that talked to
us about the brutalities of the
Taps those two years working
them like slaves, not feeding or
..aa?y. paying them, rather taking food
from them. The men were sep-
arated from their families, and
taken to other parts of island.
He said had it not been for wild
stuff that grew here which the
Japs didn't know about, they
would have starved to death. A
lot did after the Japs realized the
Americans were coming, the na-
tives were placed in camps with
hardly any.food and poor water,
CORPL. GEORGE R. HAMPTON though a water supply was only
200 yards away. Raping of women was not an uncommon or infre-
quent incident. Nor was it out of the ordinary for them to be de-
capitated for the slightest provocation. The Japanese island com-
mander tried to induce this preacher to sympathize with them and
preach their doctrines in his church (Missionary Baptist Church of
Guam), I think supported by Northern Baptist convention). He re-
fused, but was threatened a lot. They threatened a lot of the natives
who attended his church but he carried on. He speaks very fluent
English and is American -minded as are a lot of the natives.
The war took a heavy toll on the people here and their belong-
ings.. They are more appreciative of America than we are, in a way.
We are their heroes. Of course, a lot of the natives did sympathize
with them, but "they were taken care of," he said.
When the Japs were forced to retreat during the campaigns here
i1ast Summer, they forced a lot of the natives to go with them, and
il;hey've never been heard from since.
The Japs are bard to understand. Of all the time they occupied
this island, they did hardly anything in the way of Improving it or
'building installations to amount to anything. In six months we had
a "whale of a lot" more here than the Japs did in 30 months. They
:were sleeping and enjoying themselves, torturing natives, enjoying
intoxicating drinks.
The preacher said the Japs had hardly anything in the way of
equipment compared to us. Natives were forced at the point of swords
to carry bags of rocks for miles to build air strips. When we landed,
we brought in convoy after convoy of heavy .equipment, and the
natives' eyes popped out. They couldn't believe it. The Japs had
told them we had only eight planes in our air force, and only a few
ships left. When we started raiding, they saw their prayers being
answered. They are really believers now.
Guam is the largest of the Marianas. It's the jungle island of
'the group, formerly a volcanic island. But it is now asleep, they
'claim. We're living right in the middle-, what -once was dense, un -
treaded jungle. It's inconceivable ho M a jungle can be converted
into civilization, fairly, modern, too. 'd -never dreamed of living in
.a jungle, seeing a �Brcadw•ay play ack in the thick of the
jungle, but it happened.
We have quite a bit of pride in our section of this jungle since
live built so much of this immediate section by our own back break-
ing efforts in co-ordination with ingenius engineers and Seabees.
i Well. I've about exhausted my tought of the moment along
.these lines. Maybe I can think of more later, probably will.
All my love,
Bob
<7
don, Pilot Mountain, Route 1 and is dated July 17.
Dear Sis: yy�s
I surely was glad to hear fMm you and to know that every',
is O.K. at home. As for me, everything is fine,
You should see my "home" now. As I have told You before, 't
island I am on is partially cleared and was used as a cocoanut plant
tion before the war. We were lucky in that respect because we doi
have all the dangers of the jungle
The mosquitoes are not so bad for
,that reason also. Grass and Jap
anese clover grow among the trees
so it. doesn't get so muddy when
it rains and it rains plenty here kr ,,
' After each rain the sun comes out
so hot you can hardly stand it,
and this is the Winter season down r,ye
here now.
The island is made up of coral
which, when packed, gets as hard
as cement. The roads are made o[
this and are as good as most of
the ones we have at home. > a
When we first got here, we spent a
awhile getting the camp built up .y*
had in order. We had to dig fox
holes to stay in in case of an air
raid, which we have once In
awhile.
We have a lot of flies and other
insects but are now getting them
under control. REX
B. GOBDON
We work plenty hard here to
keep the planes flying but the fellows don't seem to mind the
since it is for a great cause. The spirit of my shipmates here i
highest I have ever seen, and when the hear of things like the bo
i that people in Forsyth County are buying, it makes us realya...
the can't lose because the people of America are behind ui Thl
.sometimes we read about things like the ones John L. Lewis ispullii
and we wonder why the people let him get away with it. I wish V
had him out for awhile; we have a remedy that would cuie hil
When you hear bombs come smashing down, you real4 wa
up and realize that these little "slant eyes" are playing foil keep
We take the flies, mosquitoes, bombs, rain, mud and Jape in of
stride and are doing our best to hasten the day when we cap ma
liberty in Tokyo. I
Well, here comes a bunch of planes back and I guessI ha
to go check the radios, so until next time, I close with lova to
Your loving brother,
REX.
Letters Home �
The folLowinp letter was written by Private Fletcher
Holcomb, who is in Italy, to his mother, Mrs. M. P. Holco
Boonville.
Hello Mother:
I want to let you know that I am well and still having a a
time.
I have moved from North Africa and am in Italy now. I
town duty in one of the largest towns in Italy. AL one time it cell
ly was a nice town.
The civilians here have hard- ,
ly anytbing to eat or wear, al-
though there is a lot of clothing
in town. They. have no money.
,I never thought that I could turn
my back on a little starved child,
'but there are so many here tnat
you can't give them anything; yo11
i just have to walk on.
At our mess hall the children
stand outside and grab out of the,>
garbage can the bread and scrape
that we don't cat. Before the Get --
man, left they took everything Y_
i the Italians had. x;:
The price of flour is one dol-
lar a pound. At that price they "?
can't buy much at a time. ° a:
We are living in town in a ,
tq;waq(.,o{v, building. All the build-
-a.111110ll .,sit meal sryual aa,auilned papaaaant, ;ey
I
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wo.'d aqj Jo saawo.td aq,L a to.'ajgltnep •6pung�
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Savah4Tgollowing letter was written by Corporal Clarence F.
ahewi gr., -who is somewhere lit India, to his wife, who lives
\.�• Thorna'aville.
-r 77IotC6and several others have been asking me how I was wounded
(agt:Nogemyer 26. I will tell you what happened as best I can.
Our,thip was sailing along nicely, and We hadn't a worry in the
*orlfl a knew it would soon be dark, and thought that would lake
care.o 7u`s through the night.
4 at once we heard the alarm and saw the German airforce
'rva�'fiend—then the battle started.
,, were shooting in all di-
1'edfong'at the planes. After about w
an;liibt'$. we heard an explosion �<
anfji7"knew we had been hit.
of the:Leen were knocked.
do ' the floor, and some were
1p the .hatch. I could n ear
elling and calling for help
g ut of a place that was hot, -
nd,:, d water. poifring . in from r ` ;eco•
gle. I'Was hit in the fare r
y earn -and two of my teeth zs
e ocked out.
planes were. still overhead.
h4gi I got up on the side of the
i I $ad lost my life belt and
rtcof my clothes.. The planes had
gt i_ machine gunning the slip
dl e men in the Water. We
ere. bout three .hours inthe
ate and I might say ft w•es
oug Some waves were so ll:gh
I�ey uld cut our view off from
shl .that was trying to pick us
fr od't believe there is a man CPL. CLARENCE F. MATHEW JR.
that got off the ship that didn't say a little prayer: After tine
'pickedup the planes made three misses at the ship we were on.
ere -qlI glad that our U. S. planes came when they did,
fter s'few hours everything was calm except for the ones who
hurt badly. I was taken to a hospital and stayed there two
. t his is the story of a ship that went down. We men who are
t -ill never forget her name. -So that is how I got hurt and the
q; of the battle as best I can remember.
e are working hard. I will write as often as I can. May the
Iess,you all 'till we meet again—and don't think it will be long.
G Love,
t Clarence
A If you have received a letter from someone in the service
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7• it with a picture of the writer to the Letters Home Depart-
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Thoughts And Memories of An In-
d look
r a ap
fantry Soldier.
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Down In Louisiana swamps.
Vhinh
ilpl
In and around Camp Claiborne is the
(ninon
spot
nal Hall
nnal
Battling In this torrid beat.
mon.
In the land that God almost forgot.
Paham
I Hall
Down with the snakes and lizards.
.SIAM
X. spin
Here where meet boys get blue,
I
r Chestnut
Down in the very bottom.
"Beau",
A thousand miles from you.
I.N. Libe
Park n'
Just working here thinking.
j7w
177 S. Glee
Of what we all left behind.
141 S. Glee
Thoughts of home and our friends.
476 S. 01a --
ra,Stier
St,
Is running through our minds.
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77 iii,
If we had pens and time.
In S.
S
Would use them every day.
5. atal�
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In writing letters to our sweethearts.
Ne.w aurA
an.
In our 'homeland far away.
1607 L. 71s
1502 Z
SMITH
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The following fetter was written by Corporal William A.
' Nichols, who is with the Marine Air Corps in the Southwest Pa-
cific, to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Nichols, of Mount Airy.
r
Dear Folks,
i Well, the boys have'a poker game going on and everything Is
in an uproar. One of the boys has won about $9,000 since he has
- been here. I still don't know one card from another.
" 34` • All the fellows drink. I've still
r •' never touched the stuff.
S t I don't believe I've mentioned
an incident that happened to me
W a while back. I carried a squad -
,n .i: ron of officers -to a supper at a
,r native's home here on the island
S, one night All his servants were
native.
A It is about 20 miles to the plan -
!a When we got there the
°S ' e- major fixed it so that I got to eat,
n too—although not with the offi-
e vers.
d The natives carried me to a
little dining room set apart from
vu .y s the rest, and sat me down at a
1e 1` small table. First, one of the
q C servants brought in wine. I didn't
I I �.• drink it, so he stood and chat-
tered for ten minutes. I couldn't
+• t: understand a word, so I motioned
" for him to take it away. Another
t � V
s brought in five plates and stacked-
" - them in front of me. All the time
I was being stared at from every
CPL. WILI,IAIk--•4. NICHOLS opening.
After a while the head waiter
brought in some soup. 1�, didn't like it, so I motioned him to take it
aw;ly.
Next came goose eggs andcr.2aeee—so we move down a plate.
I didn't like it, so I motioned him to t9i:e`:i`_'."'ay He got mad and
started shaking his head. While he was gone, one 3t=he yWalters
slipped in with some kind of whiskey, or French cocktail. ] shook
my head again, and he looked as if he.thought ale the biggest fool
he had ever seen, and all the onlookers sadly shook their. heads.
Next came meat which tasted like mutton. I turned thumbs
down, and the waiters had a fit. I began to get a little mad, and
Pushed back my chair and stood up. When I did that, all the Walter's
and onlookers ran. I started to leave, when the owner came in. fie
4 made me sit down and finish the last two plates—water, soup, tough
bread, peas and a stewed chicken that must have been on Noah's
Ark. The last plate held apricots and cake, which I ate.
From now on all the meals I eat Will be with the army or navy.
Your son,
Billy
But the meet welcome,
From the girl we love best,
It is a letter to our mother.
.From her boy standing the test.
;We can see her reading IC every day.
I By the old corner near the ftre.
Where she watched us as we played,
j Then W rest in her arms when we
was tired.
We are IT
[or tomorrow.
Lonely for our coact gals.
Just hoping wbon we return.
They aren't married to some 4-F or
pal.
We are the soldiers of the Infantry,
Earning a little PAY.
Guarding people with a nullon.
For a dollar and a half a day.
Ment/ a tulle we have marched.
Yet we leave our post.
To the evil hours we have studied.
The career we want most.
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...n •an, "n, w It T AT. narlan Stant e
Out In the bushes with our rifles,
Down In the ditch with .a pick,
Doing the work of the Infantry,
Too tired to kick.
We have washed a m/lllon dishes,
And- pealed As many spuds.
Paid out many dollars
To clean our dirty duds.
Even at night the heat keeps coring.
Almrut more than a man can stand.
Sweating It out like convicts.
Yet defenders of our land.
Now that night is near we sleep.
Thinking of a whistle call.
We all hate to hear.
Puts us always on the ball.
It Is very hard to tell.
These obstacles we have confronted.
We have served our time In—
Let's hope It Is nice In heaven.
THERON C. HARRIS.
C. B. 411th Int.. APO. 470.
Camp Claiborne. La.
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Letters Horne
Fol!ou:iltg is a letter to Mrs. W. C. Taylor Jr., 1800 Norilt;
Peachtree Street, Winston-Salem, from her brother, Corporal:i
Grady 1. Pope, son of Mr. and Mrs. Wade H. Pope, Route 6, who;
is in the South Pacific.
Dear Margaret—You all were requesting that I relate a little of!::
my first battle experience out here In the Pacific. Here it is. ,
That morning of Sept. 17 will never be forgot. The sun was shin-
ing Trot as our huge convDy slipped near the island. Our .cbiecti•:e t
was to invade Angaur, the scuthernmost island in the Palau group.;.
Seeing lard again seemed strange after being on water so long. brig!
the Island itself was even stranger. All the knew about It was from,
our intelligence message that it was well fortified by crack Japanese;I
Imperial, Marines u
As we came closer I. could see the yellow;
` = sun reflecting from a huge rock wall the Japs'
i
had been constructing for.years. We were sur-
. rounded by cruisers, destroyers and other;
craft which were rocking the little island ttith
an umbrella of hot steel. The shelling of the
island grew greater -until the battleships could.
a + not be seen for smoke. The sixteen inchers 1
were belching destruction.
Finally after several ammunition dumps;
had been hit' and the great rock wall had'
cracked, we found ourselves advancing to-
ward the island in- landirig craft preparing.
to unload over two years of rigorous training
from our minds. Upon landing I. made for
a rocky shell hole which was blistering hot.
CPL, G. I. POPE From a nearoy tree a Jap sniper jumped out
of a tree with. a long ;wall, only to �be, flipped ! back in the aft, by a rope he was attached to. We soon accomplished
I our mission and dug in for the night. The rocks and.rubble were so
thick that it was almost impossible to find a -place to dig in. There
I wasn't much sleep though, as a'veritable Niagara Falls of tracer
. bull'ets poured into the island all night.,
I Next day we pressed off as bulldozers, tanks and doughboys left
t
it our wake a strewn heap of destruction. Railroadk were destroyed!
and their radio station was' leveled. The stench of dead Japs with
their machine guns was terrible. They clung to bushes and cluttered
i the ground and all looked like they had been soaked in oil. Great
flashes of fire ripped the ground beside me .and Jap snipers kept
pecking. away from behind our lines.
Soon evdr'ything was quiet except for a moan of one of our
ivilunded comrades.' The next day the island would be ours, I thought,
I slid it was. thanks to the flame throwers. But mopping up phases;
cahtinued, though that, is hardly an appropriate word for it. Casual-'
I ties continued to mount daily. The air strip on.Peleliu was busy day'
j and night and nearby in the hillsof'Hitil's Pocket" and "Bloody.
INuse Ridge," great•ttghling was still taking place. The Japi7were
idug into deep -caves in ravines with steel doors on them. "Hell's'
pucket" looked like a granite quarry beaten and battered by our
1 naval artillery'• airplane, and mortar fire.
I'm sure taking the Palau Islands out here is the Central Pacific;
trill be put down in history as one of the toughest yet. Every island'
i out here invaded by us boys is D -Day and sometimes worse.
Love, Grady
AIN
Ullon�o P,,lbljr Mflal
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Following Is a letter written 41 Technical Sergeant acrbert A. Thneker, nem
the Pacllic, to his O+rcna, Mr. and Mrs. E. H. Thacker, lez, float gith gin
Wlneton.aaieu,.
Dear Mother and Dad—I promised you a long letter, eo here gc
I still can't get used to this place. It is such a change after living
Australia for 30 mouths. We are now getting American rations,
which I have seen very little since I left God's country. We are g
ting wonderful chow too. For
stance, we had creamed dhick
cranberry sauce, corn, mashed I
tatoes, apricots and cake. And
+ had turkey once, and ham a
ya eggs for breakfast. This is
^ct:� best set-up I have had:slrice
have been in the army. We �s
a swell work shop, on wheels.'(
kitchen is right in the shop. '
have a radio, alarm clock, elect
drills, grinders and most anyth:
else that's mentionable. It is rea
a joy to work when you...b.
L, a.
.�.�.. `- something to work with. In Toon
vine we had it pretty rough.
rte,, first we had absolutely. ikhi
to .work with. We were, ,usi
Australian thirty cent piebee
F r"c r make motor contacts. W$ us
rubber bands for springs. Bh{{
managed to keep communities
going through. 10
Some of the fellows have mdn
eys and parrots for pets. #jei
's ::. Haven't seen one with a -,fit
T/S HERBERT THACKER buffalo yet, but I wouldn't su
prised at anything a soldier did. My deal for a monkey fell ul
but I've got another deal on for one now. I could probably get I.
a suit of khaki, but I'm paying 15 pesos for this one. That's vt
dollars. One of the fellows has a monkey and he gave' him a. em
one day. The monkey liked it so much that he wouldn't let it at
when someone tried to take it away from him he would put t 'rt.
in his jaw and looked like he was going to burst, then he would u
his head under the fellow's arm. The boy sold the monkey to anoth
fellow but the pet didn't like his new master. He ran away if
climbed a coconut tree and later returned to his original owner.
I don't know what has happened to our mail. I haven't recefth
a letter since I got that 70 -day supply. I was disappointed then to fit
.so few letters.waiting for me. I think there's something definite
wrong somewhere. But that is sure to happen when you move a"o
And say, if you send any more packages, send canned goods or lei
thing like that, because this climate here is awful. Everything lo!
and falls apart in no time. You should have seen some of the Chris h
Packages some of the fellows got. They were nothing but pieces
cardboard with their names on them, that's all. I was very forturi,
though, as mine were in perfect condition. i
It is nothing to see the natives walking up the road with a lift
box. In that box will be a Jap baby which the mother has killed. The
have a very peculiar custom with their funerals. Some of the pro -Js
natives used that trick to get supplies through to the' Japs. The Ya -11
soon caught on to -that. They would get a big box, and make belief
they were having a funeral, and the box would be loaded with -tit;
and ammunition. The governor of the island was one who helpecqi
Taps. He is behind ban downtown.
Some of these rookies just over from the States are giving
a little trouble now. They're trying to tell us how to do our t¢a,
after we .have been doing It for almost two and a half years. Tliti
soon find out that they're just showing their ignorance. Oh well,!
all have our troubles, don't We?
And speaking of pets, one of the fellows brought a pet roost
from Australia. and it had the bad habit of crowing about two f
morning. One of our boys went over and wrung its neck. The-
night he was surprised to find that it was still crowing. This tim,.
made certain that it wouldn't crow again. He took his knifesr
chopped the bird's head off and didn't even take him to the mess K,
We have a very nice chapel here, and very good servfces.'V,
almost didn't have a chaplain, though. One night there was a groun
alert, and the chaplain was running for his foxhole, when one of ou
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The following Letter was written by Corporal W. Jap
This Letter was writ -tell to Miss 1'u•ginia Barbour, ;nor;
Hudson who was with the inarines on Bougainville lsland,ito
ISpring Street, who is now a private in lite WAC and is sta!ionc
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Dan Hudson, of North Wilkesboro.
fat Fort Oglethorpe, Ga., by Sergt. George A. Maruschak who
now in Italy. His home is in Chicago.
Dear Mother and Daddy:
This is my first letter in a long time, so I'll try to make it good.
Italy.
I really don't have a good excuse for not writing before, but you
Dear Ginty:
�-�might call the following explanation an excuse.
I have just been informed that it's possible to relate our me!
If you remember, Bougainville was hit and .hit hard sometime
recent exploits; so l,m giving you the dope hot off the press!
ago. Well, I was there with the very first bunch. The Japs opened up
Going on the mission was like leaving home—our Italian neigh
on us with all that they had and I sure thought for awhile that we had
bars wished us well and hope for a speedy return, They lingere,
rte. bitten off more than we could
around until the trucks were out of sight.
s' chew. When all those Jap planes
Some distance behind the lines, we stopped, ate and waited to
dived out of the sky on top of us,
nightfall before pulling up into position. It seemed as though we druv
things really looked bad, but the
for hours in pitch darkness. Beyond one of the mountains, the sky Nva
I " marines with their machine guns
I glowing red—the result of shell
just didn't miss. Some of the Jap
_
i Ing. Our guns howled for the first �'
time
r+t• v., t;, planes were too.ltigh fol- the boys
the following morning, but:
to shoot down, bitt our own planes
I we heard them whistle overhead' ;
- a dived down on. them and you
! all ]fight long. To make it more
'^ ••' should have seen hose do fights.
t g g
j uncomfortable, the rains came that
The Jap planes always came down
night and continued throughout
g g
the x'
in flames. It is,no lie about Jap
next day. Constant barrages
by
plane's exploding in midair for I
t our guns drove the enemy back; .,
have seen more. than one do just
and we moved up to a new posi-
that. ..
tion through mud that made trav- ",
It was another great day for us
x
eling most difficult for our over -
loaded
marines, but not for all, because
vehicles. We found our,
selves deep in a valley on a dead
some didn't eveii.get. to, shore. -
Well, we got in and the action
end mud road with the J
Jerry lust ? x
really started. One bunch of me-
• beyond the ridge! The infantry
worked wonders; and by nightfall
lines' was cut off and the Nips
were going to town on them. Then
we moved again to a spot where
the word came down that they
we could again clear a path for
needed our.help, and you should
the doughboys.
We did find some time to bunk
have seen us going into action.
We really.did a job on them, all
.
down, and even enemy -mortars
CORPORAL SK JAY HUDSON right
and 88's" didn't disturb us .. .
most of them were duds, anyhow.
Not long after we got in, the Japs got the bright idea to land
A fellow doesn't have much time
troops behind us. I.was in just a very few yards from them as they
to worry about fear.
came in. We let them get in and then we.opened: up on them. Another
sad day for the Nips.
Our new position suited me fine, SERGT. GEO. A. MARUSCHAK
The dead Japs lay on top of the ground for days before we could
and I stayed in a tailor made foxhole (one of those Mother Nature
jobs) that was about 15 feet below the surface. Fleas were quite
even bury them. Boys, what a stinking mess. Those days will live in
my mind forever.
pesly,
and I could feel them crawling about my body when I layed down
to
For the first few days we were in the swamps and in water and
mud up to our waists. We lived on field rations until we got the situa-
sleep.
We shelled the linking hell out of all the targets our observers sent
down to
tion in hand. We kept pushing the Taps back into the jungles and
mountains until we got on dry land. We sure did blast the dickens
us and within four or five days we moved in closer on the
` "Heinies." These boys are quite tricky, and we were extremely cau-
out of them all the way.
tious of mines and booby traps: In lull moments we wouldet to won -
The Japs cut the bodies of some of our boys up badly and chopped
dering if the shell bursts were ours going out or the enemy's cool -
off their heads. Then we really got mad and from then on .. , oh boy!•
One day a bunch of the boys blasted some of the Japs out of bushes
rng I' -
I remember frying a pan of potatoes one afternoon when a loud
and one little Jap jumped out yelling, "Me only 16." A big marine
"You'll
whistle came overhead. Four of mere that group, and we hit
the earth as flat we could. Thadt were
exploded far behind
with a Browning automatic said, never see 17, you—." A lot
of funny things sure did happen while I was there.
not and
got one of my buddies and injured another. Guess I was lucky! How -
While I was on. Bougainville I was shelled, bombed, and every-
ever, I lost appetite. This was dangerous territory, but I thought
thing else you can think of. We had a few nice little artillery duels
ou
of the poor doughboy who was still closer to the dogs.
with the Nips and I guess you know who won. We have credit for
We moved again that night to a spot where the Jerry was really
hundreds of Japs, Jap artillery guns, mortar outfits, Jap planes, and
letting them fly! Our wire men spent as much time hitting the ground
a lot of other things too numerous to mention. We were also recom-
as they did laying a wire line. Up to this time, it seemed like all the
mended (presidential citation) for such good work.
planes overhead were ours; but here came something new. Planes
I've seen a lot of action and I doubt if 1 have seen my last. I
passing by—the roar of our "ack-ack" and machine guns, and then
wouldn't take a million dollars for my experiences in the past year
the diving shriek and bomb release. For three straight days the Jerrys
and a half, but I wouldn't give 10 cents for them over again: Some
were over, and our anti-aircraft boys shot one of the buzzards dawn.
people would call these islands beautiful with all their active vol-
By this time we had word of when we were to be relieved; and by
canoes, beautiful sunsets, mountains, cocoanut trees, and the beauti-
golly, we were really sweating the day out! We hoped we didn't have
ful shies full of stars. That is the way a traveler would see it, but not
I to move any closer for several reasons. We talked of what we were
as marines. We see them as they are—black jungles, swamps, rain
'going to do when use got back to our so-called home.
fevers, sores mosquitoes, :•ilh water up to your neck half the time, mosqu
a
all over you, and to tap it all—earthquakes. The sitoes, t I ever was
' We did move again! It was a glorious sight to see those trucks oull
in to take us back and it's swell to be back. Our neighbors were gat(` .
was one morning bright and early when I was in a fox hole and I
eyed around to welcome and we spent the day drinking, singing)
woke up being rolled from one side to the other. At first I"thought a
and cl a t
up. IL was a treat indeed to take a beth and get into
bomb had hit close but it just kept rolling me around. I jumped tip
to find the island rolling like the ocean. I thought the whole place
t
clean cllototinshes. 4_
In many ways, combat beats ''this garrison life—no formations to
was going to break apart but it held together. We had five or six
stand and no first sergeant's whistle to listen to.
earthquakes while I was there and we finally got used to them.
Went into town on pass the other afternoon and did some shop -
This is all the time I have now so write soon. _
ping. Hope the enclosed gloves. a belated Christmas gift, fit your hands.
Lots of love,
It's time to sign off now. God bless you, and my best to the folks
and Fran.
/�
JAY
i
All my love,
GEORGE.
.,um.
J. C..
ied in
The following letter tons written by Seaman First Class
S, :es E. Bennett to his wife, the former Miss Kathleen Smith,
w,Route 4. New Lexington Road. Bennett is now serving in
3�the Pacific.
cl; Dear Kaihleen,
o� Here 1 come with what you have been waiting and wanting to
hear for so lung a time. No, it's not that I am coming home, but it's
about where I have been since I said good-bye to you in California.
r As one of our news commenla-
tors would say, "Now it can be
told."
3 We arrived in the Hawaiian Is-
' z lands in November and stayed
�,r a around Pearl Harbor until Jan-
uary. We had our Christmas and
a e New Year's dinner there. We left
.h, a there the latter part of January
and our next stop was Eniurtol:
ain the Marshall Islands. We didn't
stay there very long and we got!
s under way for Saipan in Marianas
t Islands.
We staved in Saipan a couple:
weeks and one morning we pulled.
out of there not knowing for sure
` ' �. `" "" •+'� where we were headed. We finally
found out and it was a little Japa-'
nese island by the name of Iwo
' Jima. At that time, very few pen -I
kingpie had ever heard of it. but we,
�>.• made it very popular I think.
It was a funny feeling standing.
on the gun that morning of Feb -
S. 1/C JAMES BENNETT ruary 19. We were to hit at dawn.,
All we could see were the fires from out' artillery. It would have
been a beautiful sight if it had been in a fairground instead of thed
Ireal thing. We stayed around there for 20 days but it wasn't so bad.
;1V '-ad a few light air attacks but not many. hhad begun to think.I
t, he Japs had played out.
'--We left there in one piece and event to the Philippines and !
stayed there a few days and had a picnic for the crew and just rested I
up. Getting ready for another invasion but we didn't know where.
One morning about mid-morning we got under way again. There.
was a lot of ships with W and a lot more ahead of us. We still didn't �
know what the score was. Some said Japan and I said China Coast.
We had been out at sea about a day and a rumor started 'around that
we were headed for Okinawa, 350 miles south of Japan. Well, that
was it. t
On Easter Sunday morning, one Easter I'll never forget, every-
body had on their Easter bonnets but they were made of steel in-
stead of felt. About dawn we could see a long curved island on thel
horizon and the big flashes from. our guns spelled we had reached,
bur destination. There were many fires on the island and a big gray:
haze hovered all along the beach. That was the day Tokyo reported.
a heavy earthquake but I think it was our bombardment that Tokyoll
felt instead of an earthquake. I
I was scared that morning for a while then all my fear left me'
and I didn't have any more trouble. I thought about what Dad used
to sai., "What is there to be afraid of" Well, it was really tough up �
:here. We lost a lot of sleep and spent some horrible nights and days.
Ne •.core at our guns for 263 hours and we had a total of 564 air
:aids. We had as high as 44 air raids in one night.
I was getting so tired and nervous I didn't care what happened.
arras beginning to envy the boys that were dead. It was lough going
Ind we found out that the .Taps still had a lot.
I believe that we look everything that Japan had in that intra
ion. If she has that much more, I don't •.vanL to be around when she.
nakes delivery of it.
Well, we are back in the rear area now and things are pretty
ice again. If we have to gu on any more, I hope it will 1)e Tokyo. j
f it is, I .till don't believe that it will be tough as Okinawa was. i
Gyle was a hard baby to crack, bill Uncle Sam's navy likes them hard.
Aharder they are to crack, the harder we get to hit them.
tic!], dear. I better close for today, if you want to know any
m111 can write :aid ask me all about it. I am feeling fine and
:m and the rest of lite family are lice same.
Love,
Jim
fes.
This letter was written by Private Howard C. Booze, who is
stationed with the army in Egypt, to his wife, Mrs. H. C. Booze,
427 West Fifteenth Street.
Dearest One,
I will try and tell you about my visit to Cairo. 1 am no good at
.!anything like this, but will do my best.
Ij The first place we visited after arriving there was the Pyramids.
Boy, that was something to see. There were nine of them in all, three
I� large ones ind six small ones. As
1 you know, they were built for
tombs to bury the King and his
family in. They were built five
thousand years ago. The largest
one covers 13 acres of land and is
451 feet high. It took 30 years to
build it and it is made of large,
smooth stones.
Then the Sphinx was close by.
The people worship it at sunrise
and sunset. The temple was near- •,
by also. The priest would go un-
seen from the temple to the head
of the Sphinx and talk. The peo-
ple thought it was God talking and y
would worship it.
Seven of us boys had our pic-
tures taken and the pictures show
all I have told you. I will Send
them later. Inside Cairo I saw
a castle 900 years old. It was built
by King Mohanmadamella, now
you pronounce it. The castle has
366 rooms for him and his 366
wives. He lived to be 150 years
old. Boy, he had some life. PVT. HOWARD C. BOOZE
Then we went on to the citadel, or church we would call it. It
was built 140 years ago and cost $12,000,000 and has 2,000 light bulbs
in one room. The rugs in that room were about two inches thick and
are 100 years old. No one but Americans can go in with their shoes
on, and we had to put soft sandals over our shoes. There were no
seats of any kind. For worship everyone sits on the rug in a straight
row. I never expect to see anything as beautiful as the inside of that
church.
Another interesting place was a fort built by Napoleon in his -time.
I saw a palace thirteen hundred years old, but I can't think of its
name, and I also saw the palace of the present King of Egypt. An-
other place I saw was the buildings that Mr. Roosevelt and Mr.
Churchill stayed in on their recent visit to Cairo.
While I was at the Pyramids I bought two pieces of money from
an old Arab. Our guide said one piece was 2,000 years old and the
other was 600. I will try to keep them until I get home.
In Cairo we saw a funeral procession—they were carrying the
corpse by hand and holding it up over their heads. No one seemed
to be shedding any tears but they were making an awful curious noise.
Someone said they were mourning. I never saw or heard anything
like it. Everyone was walking.
The funniest thing I saw were the Arabs' open-air barber shops. f
1£ you wanted a shave, all you had to do was just squat down on the
side of the street. Then the barber will squat down in front of you
and is ready to work with a big shiny straight razor.
Now a little more about the pictures. You need not loot: for them
for awhile after you receive this letter. It will be a day or two befoT,e
I get them and f don't think they will get there as quick as a letter
I sure hope they will be good. One buddy and I were on a large camel.
two more were oil another camel, two were on Arabian horses, and
one was standing in the front.
Please let all our folks read this letter as I won't have time to
write another letter about our trip.
I could go on with this and still not tell everything I saw, but ]
guess I'd better close.
Lots of love to you and everyone.
HOWARD.
Oa tie County Pubfl, Mrary
t-locksviile, NC
The not
of "Letters
C
Home w
tion
Ili.
The following letter tons written by Seaman First Class
S, :es E. Bennett to his wife, the former Miss Kathleen Smith,
w,Route 4. New Lexington Road. Bennett is now serving in
3�the Pacific.
cl; Dear Kaihleen,
o� Here 1 come with what you have been waiting and wanting to
hear for so lung a time. No, it's not that I am coming home, but it's
about where I have been since I said good-bye to you in California.
r As one of our news commenla-
tors would say, "Now it can be
told."
3 We arrived in the Hawaiian Is-
' z lands in November and stayed
�,r a around Pearl Harbor until Jan-
uary. We had our Christmas and
a e New Year's dinner there. We left
.h, a there the latter part of January
and our next stop was Eniurtol:
ain the Marshall Islands. We didn't
stay there very long and we got!
s under way for Saipan in Marianas
t Islands.
We staved in Saipan a couple:
weeks and one morning we pulled.
out of there not knowing for sure
` ' �. `" "" •+'� where we were headed. We finally
found out and it was a little Japa-'
nese island by the name of Iwo
' Jima. At that time, very few pen -I
kingpie had ever heard of it. but we,
�>.• made it very popular I think.
It was a funny feeling standing.
on the gun that morning of Feb -
S. 1/C JAMES BENNETT ruary 19. We were to hit at dawn.,
All we could see were the fires from out' artillery. It would have
been a beautiful sight if it had been in a fairground instead of thed
Ireal thing. We stayed around there for 20 days but it wasn't so bad.
;1V '-ad a few light air attacks but not many. hhad begun to think.I
t, he Japs had played out.
'--We left there in one piece and event to the Philippines and !
stayed there a few days and had a picnic for the crew and just rested I
up. Getting ready for another invasion but we didn't know where.
One morning about mid-morning we got under way again. There.
was a lot of ships with W and a lot more ahead of us. We still didn't �
know what the score was. Some said Japan and I said China Coast.
We had been out at sea about a day and a rumor started 'around that
we were headed for Okinawa, 350 miles south of Japan. Well, that
was it. t
On Easter Sunday morning, one Easter I'll never forget, every-
body had on their Easter bonnets but they were made of steel in-
stead of felt. About dawn we could see a long curved island on thel
horizon and the big flashes from. our guns spelled we had reached,
bur destination. There were many fires on the island and a big gray:
haze hovered all along the beach. That was the day Tokyo reported.
a heavy earthquake but I think it was our bombardment that Tokyoll
felt instead of an earthquake. I
I was scared that morning for a while then all my fear left me'
and I didn't have any more trouble. I thought about what Dad used
to sai., "What is there to be afraid of" Well, it was really tough up �
:here. We lost a lot of sleep and spent some horrible nights and days.
Ne •.core at our guns for 263 hours and we had a total of 564 air
:aids. We had as high as 44 air raids in one night.
I was getting so tired and nervous I didn't care what happened.
arras beginning to envy the boys that were dead. It was lough going
Ind we found out that the .Taps still had a lot.
I believe that we look everything that Japan had in that intra
ion. If she has that much more, I don't •.vanL to be around when she.
nakes delivery of it.
Well, we are back in the rear area now and things are pretty
ice again. If we have to gu on any more, I hope it will 1)e Tokyo. j
f it is, I .till don't believe that it will be tough as Okinawa was. i
Gyle was a hard baby to crack, bill Uncle Sam's navy likes them hard.
Aharder they are to crack, the harder we get to hit them.
tic!], dear. I better close for today, if you want to know any
m111 can write :aid ask me all about it. I am feeling fine and
:m and the rest of lite family are lice same.
Love,
Jim
fes.
This letter was written by Private Howard C. Booze, who is
stationed with the army in Egypt, to his wife, Mrs. H. C. Booze,
427 West Fifteenth Street.
Dearest One,
I will try and tell you about my visit to Cairo. 1 am no good at
.!anything like this, but will do my best.
Ij The first place we visited after arriving there was the Pyramids.
Boy, that was something to see. There were nine of them in all, three
I� large ones ind six small ones. As
1 you know, they were built for
tombs to bury the King and his
family in. They were built five
thousand years ago. The largest
one covers 13 acres of land and is
451 feet high. It took 30 years to
build it and it is made of large,
smooth stones.
Then the Sphinx was close by.
The people worship it at sunrise
and sunset. The temple was near- •,
by also. The priest would go un-
seen from the temple to the head
of the Sphinx and talk. The peo-
ple thought it was God talking and y
would worship it.
Seven of us boys had our pic-
tures taken and the pictures show
all I have told you. I will Send
them later. Inside Cairo I saw
a castle 900 years old. It was built
by King Mohanmadamella, now
you pronounce it. The castle has
366 rooms for him and his 366
wives. He lived to be 150 years
old. Boy, he had some life. PVT. HOWARD C. BOOZE
Then we went on to the citadel, or church we would call it. It
was built 140 years ago and cost $12,000,000 and has 2,000 light bulbs
in one room. The rugs in that room were about two inches thick and
are 100 years old. No one but Americans can go in with their shoes
on, and we had to put soft sandals over our shoes. There were no
seats of any kind. For worship everyone sits on the rug in a straight
row. I never expect to see anything as beautiful as the inside of that
church.
Another interesting place was a fort built by Napoleon in his -time.
I saw a palace thirteen hundred years old, but I can't think of its
name, and I also saw the palace of the present King of Egypt. An-
other place I saw was the buildings that Mr. Roosevelt and Mr.
Churchill stayed in on their recent visit to Cairo.
While I was at the Pyramids I bought two pieces of money from
an old Arab. Our guide said one piece was 2,000 years old and the
other was 600. I will try to keep them until I get home.
In Cairo we saw a funeral procession—they were carrying the
corpse by hand and holding it up over their heads. No one seemed
to be shedding any tears but they were making an awful curious noise.
Someone said they were mourning. I never saw or heard anything
like it. Everyone was walking.
The funniest thing I saw were the Arabs' open-air barber shops. f
1£ you wanted a shave, all you had to do was just squat down on the
side of the street. Then the barber will squat down in front of you
and is ready to work with a big shiny straight razor.
Now a little more about the pictures. You need not loot: for them
for awhile after you receive this letter. It will be a day or two befoT,e
I get them and f don't think they will get there as quick as a letter
I sure hope they will be good. One buddy and I were on a large camel.
two more were oil another camel, two were on Arabian horses, and
one was standing in the front.
Please let all our folks read this letter as I won't have time to
write another letter about our trip.
I could go on with this and still not tell everything I saw, but ]
guess I'd better close.
Lots of love to you and everyone.
HOWARD.
Oa tie County Pubfl, Mrary
t-locksviile, NC
tlnclosure)
TELL ALL AMERICA TO GOI
„ TO ITS KNEES"
The title has the words of a
young lieutenant "in the United
States Army on'some far-off battle'
front" to his sister in Pennsylvania.
The letter is headed "The Wilds
of Nowhere, the Land of Death
and Destruction." It was received
September 3, 1942.
Omitting parts of the letter and
with slight changes in some of
the sentences, but in no way tak-
ing from the message, the follow-
ing Is the story of "A Lieutenant's
Miraculous Escape from Death."
When he knew he was going
over he sold he was going armed
with the Bible. It was of small
size, and he kept it in his breast
Pocket. He writes, "My buddy and
I were sent out in the work I told
You before was our job. We had
just received important informa-
tion. When the enemy discovered
us, I gave my buddy the informa-
tion, told him to beat it, and
turned to face them. It was the
first time I'd been faced with the
necessity of pointing my gun at a'
man. I thought fast; then I said,
"Lord, it's your responsibility
now." My buddy had not obeyed'
my order. As I reached for my;
carbine, a shot from one of them
struck me in the breast and blasted
me down. Thinking I was dead,
my pal jumped and grabbed my
carbine as well as his own, stood'
astride my body, blasting away'
with both guns.'He received three
bullet wounds in his knees. but
when he finished there was not
one of them left. He. was amazed
when I rolled over and tried to'
get up. The force of that bullet
had only stunned me. Dazedly.
wondering why, I pulled my Bible'
out of my pocket and in utter;
muteness looked at the ugly hole
In the cover. It had ripped through
Genesis, Exodus. Leviticus. Num-
bers. on through the other books
and kept going.
Where do you think it stopped?
In the middle of the Ninety-first
Psalm, pointing like a finger at this
verse. "A thousand shall fall at
thy side, and ten thousand at thy
right hand; but it shall not come
nigh thee. Only with thine eyes
j"shalt thou behold and see the re-
ward of the wicked." Sis, when I
read that verse it took me three
feet off the ground! I did not know
such a verse was in the Bible. Had
read mostly in the New Testament.
I read the rest of that chapter. In
utter humility I said, 'Thank You,
precious God,' and felt like a little
boy that had escaped the mouth of
an enemy of prey.
"When I got my buddy back at
the post he said, 'I've had enough.
This convinces me. Come on. I
want to get right with God, start-
ing right now.'" Then he tells
how his buddy said, "Nothing mat-
ters now but this," and refused to
let them tend his wounds, but
stayed on his knees until he was
saved. Then he said he jumped
over bunks and even ran outside
and shouted it to the whole camp.
Continuing we quote in -part:
"Since I've given my heart to God
I talk, pray, and hold.meetings
with the boys, and God has given
me 25 souls who have prayed
through and come out for God.
God led me to go after my general.
and I stuck until he was grounded
and came through. It took a long
time. He was so dignified. The
Spirit of God hovered over that.
tent with a sort of glimmering'
golden haze. I tell you. Sir, prayer
is going to win this war. Not guns :
alone. Fervent, agonizing prayer. "
God Is bringing them in one by,
one. Think of it. One hundred j
twenty men and one general in one
regiment. When that happens this
unit will be unconquerable. Pray, .
Sis. Pray as you never prayed j
before. TELL EVERYONE TOI
PRAY. Tell all America to go to
its knees.
"Before each decisive victory
anywhere over here, sometimes for
hours, sometimes for days, there
has been a feeling of people pray-
ing from far away. The feeling is
so strong you can hear it. One of
the most stubborn of the men said,
in the stillness of the night, 'Did
You hear anything? Sounded like
people praying from some distant
place. Must be hearing things In
this dead place.'
"So, pray, everyone. It will have
to come from afar. No one prays
in this land of utter desolation.
God has turned away from the
horror and destruction man has
brought upon himself. Again I
plead, TELL AMERICA TO PRAY.
This war will not end until nations
and people have paid in blond and
tears for thrusting God out of
their hearts and countries. Ant
tell them to send Bibles, and
MORE BIBLES. A Bible gives a
soldier confidence that God is with
him.
"I'd like to have this letter
broadcast over every radio in
America. Try to get it on the air
and printed in the papers. Make
copies of it. Send it from coast to
coast. Tell them the army wants i
prayers and Bibles.
"And you complacent, bridge- i
playing, cocktail -drinking mother.
.why. .-Aidrft you teach your sone
(about God instead of hand -mg him'
I a cigarette, and a dance program? .
Get to your knees and ask God to
;forgive your sins. And then pray
for the army. Pray, pray, pray.
And you preachers! Why didn't
you teach the people to pray? Only
repentance for sins can stop the
shelling, the killing, and the mur-
dering.
"I could go on, but I am tired,
so weary. But so happy to see!
them coming to God one by one..
So tell them to keep on praying.:
And when you send things to our
boys, send BIBLES. They want
Bibles.
'Lour loving brother,
'Lieutenant _
IIYAYNE uLly Ett jfor her title, and says the Rollin<n?
i
Ih•arest Yl Ul hl'I':
I got mail from wnu of the forth till
the eighth and don't get my mail up
In the twenty-ninth %n you can wt-.
how it is massed up. But I am sntis-
fied that I am getting mail Any any
+cod Impr ,your cold k better And nil
the rest are feeling good. For me i
fe-,l awful tonight aryl tont- a :•hot
tnd"m one I have ahvayr hated In
take, hilt it didn't hurt me think lied,
on.! i am happy it didn't, no worst -
than nny tither one but you know how
they all du me, they make me sick.
Sn you have a bunch of goats, I bet
it i+ a mess and it bad weather. I
heard the news today and it said all
the east coast had snow, I guess you
got plenty back there. I got the pic-
tures to and was showing them to my
Pals and they said I was the best
looking and I thanked them and it
made me feel happy to get a good
compliment like that.
I hope baby and Tinnic ere well and
mother it made me feel so happy when
you said you wouldn't keep any thing
from me and I trust you and all the
rest. I have so much to tell you, but
not in letters, in words. Mother are
you a Christian and saved, tell me
hoe you know you are. Well I will
tell you how I know I am. I got a
letter one night out of my suit case
and it said son read John the third
chapter and sixteenth verse and I did
as quick as I write a letter and I
couldn't help but cry. It was in my
heart and I have just thought of how
He suffered on that cross for you, me,
And all. Lets be ready at all times
to go for there are two roads one nar-
rio, and one. wide. We want the nar-
row ono and it is the right one mother.
1 can see in my mind of the wonder -
fill place it would be. Angels there
guiding as to the wonderful place, and
I am ready to go. Mother about big
boy-. he is o. k. He is the same all
til," time. Ile and myself read the
bill"together. I sure like him, my
bnd"y, I don't get to talk to him
mush any more.
Another thing nbout Christian life,
ram% people are ashamed to feel hap -
I... r.rd fee! happy like they don't
want any nne to know they're of God.
Well Ile said, Go ye into all the world
and preach the gospel, and I sure wish
I could. Mother I could and I know
I could -,•t lots to live right. They
think. if they go to the church they
Are saved. No they are not. If you
don't have it down in your heart, you
an. doing a Nigger sin And it is in
!lis house. Well I want to rend a
wliilr mill I will close and play for
nm and all your Son.. With all my
I'm%
GUY E. MORGAN.
C..
October 2, 1945
Buckner Bay,
Okinawa
Rev. Cooper:
Will gladly answer the letter
received from you a few days ago.
Would have answered it a dity or two
crooner, but we were out at sea for
a few clays riding out a typhoon. I
was glad to receive your letter. Ain
always glad to get a letter from a
brother in Christ and you folks will
never know how much good those
letters do us boys over here. They do
help out a lot and I'm always glad
to hftr from anyone. I did get a few
more of your papers but haven't got
very many of them. I really do like
to read those papers and do get a lo`
A good out of them, but our mail
doesn't come through so good now
that the war is over. Guess it doesn't
mabter now, the war is over. We've
won it for them and now they'll prob-
ably forget us. Anyway it looks that
way now.
We really did have a hard time
here at Okinawa, and lots of boys
lost their lives here. I'm in the ship
repair unit myself, and it was one job
to fix up the shipsthat got hit and
get them back into action, and I have
seen some terible things in the way of
death since I came to this place. I
saw one ship that was hit by six
suicide planes. Some of them were
two -motored bombers, and the boys
were killed all over the ship. It was
awful and no one will realize what
was is until they have been in it.
But I hope no one that never saw any
of it never will see any. I don't want
to see any more myself and I sure
don't want anyone else to see it.
Brother Cooper, I hope to be back
home with my family this ,time next
year. I sure would like to see my
wife and my little boy 'and girl. I
have a boy that will be four years old
next month, and a little girl that was
a year old September 10th. I have
never seen my little girl and I sure
would love to see -them'. My wife is
a real good Christian mother and I'm
awful proud of her. I get some awful
good encourraging letters from the
folks back home telling me how good
my wife is. I's sure proud of her and
asking God to help us to raise them
in a way that would be pleasing to
Him, and I'm sure He will.
Yes, our prayer service here on the
ship is really growing and more fel-
lows are getting converted all along.
Just last week we had two boys saved
and they really stay saved ;loo.
When they find God there in that
little service seems like they find Him
in a •great way. I don't know how
many we've had saved in all since
we started having our service. About
la or 20, though. It started abou,.'
9 months ago, I guess, with me and
two more boys, one from Winston-
Salem, N. C., and one from Alabama.
A few nights ago we had around forty
at our service. Why, with only one
soul saved it would be more than
worth the effort, ±but we had several
saved and I'm thanking God for beim
with us as He has. I've seen man}
times out here that God took a hand
in out- fight, and I've also seen those
planes come screaming down and
knew that God was calling someone
to go. It was awful to watch those
panes dive and crash into our ships.
I've helped to carry many of those
boys out of them -and I know I never
took hold of one but what I thought
to myself and wondered if he WEI$
ready. I've seen so many of them
drink on the beaches here the beer
that our Christian nation gave to
them free, and niany of those boys
Will never return home again. It
looks like we could do something about
the lav against that stuff and if those
mothers could just see their own boys
drinking that free beer our govern-
ment gives them, -they would and ev-
erybody would try to do something
about it. I've seen liberty parties
go off this ship as high as three bun -
dyed men at a time and you or no-
body else couldn't find ten boys out
of that 300 that didn't gladly accept
the stuff and drink it. I often won-
der what our nation is coming to.
But for me, I love my Lord a; -.d
Saviour with all my heart and I won't
to be found working for Him at all
times. When He calls for me I in-
tend to be ready and I'm going to try
to take as many with me as will
come. I need your prayers and the
prayers of the Christian people. Pray
for me and remember our prayer ser-
.. -u uc 11 tui ua m tnent.
I'm truly praying for all our Pas-
tors everywhere and may God for-
ever use you and make of you a great
disciple and follower of Him. God
ble."t you and your family. Pray for
me and my family and keep on the
firing line for God. You're doing
some wonderful works. God bless
you.
Just a brother in Christ,
J. N. MORROW
THE SHADOWS WILL FLEE
AWAY
Not a %rays in the pastures green,
Nror by the waters still
The shepherd also Ieads us
In the path beyond the hill.
Through the valley of the Shadow,
But no evil shall we fear,
For His rod and staff shall comfort
And His love is ever near.
And Ili, goodness and His Mercy -
A r,d His care shall never cease.
and He'll bring into each troubled
Soul.
'I'l:ee sweetness of His Peace.
Written for the Comfort of Moth-
er's and Dady's who have given son's
and daughters in the service of our
country.
H. A. Tise, 810 N. Cherry St.
Winston-Salem, N. C.
Oavla County Pubfic LIbrary
lylocksvii;e, NC
We Will serve the very 'nest pit -cooked bar-=
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TRAGEDY'S CHILDREN REACH U. S.
Letters Home
Following is a letter from P. S. Lea, Y '
who is with a naval Construction Brigade
was written to his cousin, Miss Ione Couch,
Dear Ione:
. Uncle Sam has been keeping us busy and I haven't had much
time to write lately. I have made a couple of tours of the island here
so I am no longer a "malihini" (newcomer) ... I am now a "kamaa-
ina" which merely means longer than the other fellow.
Yep, I'm learning to speak a little Hawaiian. The white people
S.
.Balled for Wil+on in 6th 19000 ano looter 9.U1
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Soldiers Add to Record of Jap Brutality
IC Ore Released
:ram Secret Jap
mprisonment Camp
By VERN HAUGLAND
me Prison Camp, Near Yoko -
Sept. I Vfl—Ninety-five Amer -
and eight English prisoners,
ted from the filth of a hidden
nitration camp today related
ome tales of Japanese bestial -
7 saw one man beaten to death
even die of malnutrition.
ie were spit on In the streets
reed marches througn irate
s.
ry were compelled to- wear)
wiser
This
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hiev
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I= bits in their mouths for 14
hours ata time.
Others were left with their hands
tie
behind them for 24 hours.
A 21 -year-old pilot, Ens. Fred
Turnbull 'of Highland Park, Mich.,
tortured after his carrier plane was
shot down over Formosa, said;
"I tried to die and made peace
with my God."
"My captors tied my hands be-
hind me, made me lie down and cov-
ered me with my parachute," the
Youthful Michigan pilot said. "f
heard two shots."
Already wounded when shot down,
he was too numb to feel a bullet that
entered his arm but felt one that)
pierced his chest.
A Japanese made a practice swing
A Turnbull's neck with a sword after
he had pulled the prisoners' collar
down and an angered Formosan giv-
ing him first aid hit him in the back
with a bayonet for not moving fast
enough.
No Anesthetic
"At a hospital close to an airfield,
sharpnel and bullets were removed
wlthout an anesthetic," Turnbull
Eight survivors of a 12 -man crew
on a Privateer plane were given the
"bit treatment" after their ship had
been shot down south of Tokyo Aug.
11.
..The bits were used to keep :us
from talking," said Naval Lt. John
B. Rainey, of Houston, Tex.
"Every half-hour, they came in
1 test and, if anyone cogiplalned,
iey made the thing tighter," Rainey
.id.
After five days of beating by For-
gsans, Lt. Charles Buchalt, a 23 -
eau from a torpedo bomber, couldn'I
see.
"They beat me until I was num'
all over," he said. "Here at Ofuna
I was in solitary confinement five
and a half months.
"They beat me up every day, some.
times at night:"
Lt. Laurel Bollne, 26, Sioux City,
Iowa, a member of the crew of a Su-
perfortress disabled over Tokya May
23, related that after he had landed
In a field and surrendered, civilians
"beat the living tar out of me with
fists, umbrellas and clubs."
Letters Home
Following is a letter from Technical Sergeant Trot/ A. Parks
Jr., son of Mr, and Mrs. T. A. Parks of 904 Northwest Boulevard,
Winston-Salem. He entered service. in January, 1942, and went
overseas nine months ago.
Dearest Family—It's me again, just writing you a few lines from
Belgium. Of course we've had to change our money again but there's
nothing to buy anyway. It's much different here from France. It'
seems to me that the Belgians were satisfied
-being under Germany. The people don't come
around with fruits and foods like the French
did. France, in my opinion, is more like the
U. S. than any country I've been in.
The French are a modern, progressive peo-
ple, similar to the American people. In Eng-
land the people seemed to be carefree and
with no ambition at all, It's the same here:
"- in Belgium. But in France the homes are:
�' • modern, especially apartment houses.
In this country the farmers .seem to be
the poorer class. They wear wooden shoes
which makes a pitiful sight. Everyone I saws
wearing wooden shoes always had large sores
and blisters on their feet.
I've traveled across the States and across!
SGT.TROY PARES JR, the ocean to England; I've seen a good deal:
of that'country, a large part of France and Belgiumand believe me,
inure ore I see of these countries and people the more, I appreciate
the good old United States.
Give my regards to all.
Your son,
Troy.
Was on Jap Diet
SKIN AND BONES and a sfy
spirit of resistance are about 73
that remained of Pvt. Reiji P
enoar (above) of the Netherl� 1
East Indies Army when he
rescued from the Jap prison "8
at Omori. Pictured aboard
U. S. hospital ship Benevol•
he was eating regularly agfdil
service in the State, saying that I VW=% II
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HARRY. S. TRUMAN
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Is Sworn In
As Our 32d
President
Washington (UP). — H a r r y
Shippe Truman, one-time $3 a
week "bottle duster" in a small
town Missouri drugstore, '•w:u
sworn in as the 32nd President
of the United St:de$ at 7:08
last night, succeeding Fr riMiu
Delano Itaosevell whose tear and
flume?tic policies he ru•.wed lo
carry on.
In his first official net, he au-
thwized Secretary of Stale Ed-
ward R. Stetlinius -Jr. to unnuuncw
that the San Francisco World Se-
curity Conlereme will be held
April 25, as scheduled. Mr. Roose-
c'elt tt•auld Ivn'e '.101111-11 i1 Ojai
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'ingl
eathComes
s Victory
Approaches
By LYLE C. WILSON !
Washington (UP).—Franklin D. Roosevelt, for,
12 unprecedented I years President of the United
is
States, died a casualty yesterday in history's greatest !
War. Last night at 7:08 p.m. (e.tv.t.i Harry S., ru- .i
man became the nation's 32nd President. rk
Mr. Roosevelt died suddenly in "the Little White Housei°�;l
at Warm Springs, Ga., as armies he helped to muster drove
momentarily' clo-er to final victory over Nazi Germany.
Worn out at 63, he died as other forces fighting in free-
dom's name foretold the doom of militarist Japan.
He died on the eve of what lie had hoped would be the
inauguration of an era of peace in a world at long last free
of want and fear.
Mr. Roosevelt left as his successor the 61 -,'ear -old Harry
Truman, of Indepondence, Mo., a man who never wanted to
be President. The 31st President died at 4:35 pont. (e.w.t.) of "a
massive verebral hemarr.hnge." The 32nd President took the oath of
offive from Chief Justice Harlan F. Slane less thin three hours later.
The ;new Chirf F:SwellllvCS first statement '.was:
"It will be my elfw t w tarry on ;,: I believe the President would
have dtl,ne, will to Itmt end I have asked the C;,binet to slay on
with
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FIRST PICTURES OF GER
MAN SURRENDER—Col. Get
Gustaf Jodi, German Chief c
Staff (center, in upper picture
signs terms of complete Germs.
surrender in a ceremony at 9
If. A. E. F. at Reims. Franco
Ali,, 7. Others are 'Maj. Geo
Wilhelm Oxenius (left), persona
aide to General .Ind], and Ger.
Athol. Hans G. van Friedebure
Commander in Chief of Germai
Cary. This was the lower scene
rem left are (front, with back
o camera): Gen. Admi. Hans G
ron Freideburg. Commander ii
thief of German Navy; Col. Gen
;ustaf Jodi, German Chief o
;tafft Maj. Gen. Wilhcim Oxen]
is, Personal aide to Genera
odl: rear, seated at lahle Root
,.vine camera; Licul. Gen. Si
E. yinrran. staff deputy; Gen
'rarrnis Sevez of French Arms
.dol. H. M. ittveoug_h, command -
ng Allied Naval Expeditlon-
ry Fnrers; Lieut. Gen. Walter
ledell Smith. Chief of .Staff to
:encral Eisenhower: Lieut. Gen.
van Chermiaeff of the Russian
Lrmv: Gen. Ivan Susinparoff of
he Russian Arms; tient. Gen.
:, A. Spaab of thr C. S. ArniY;
dr Marshal .1. M. Rabb; Ment.
'at. Icao Zetiknwitrh, interpreter
at end of table).
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TRUMAN ANNOUNCES VIC. during a ceremony at the White I Gen. George C: Marshall, J.
TORY O V E R GERMANY— House In Washington. Seated Leonard Reinsch, Col. Harry
President Harry S. Truman near wall behind Truman are Vaughan, John W. Snyder, Mrs.
miles happily as he announces (left to right) Elmer Davis, ! Truman. Mary Margaret Tru-
sSecretary of Commerce Henry man. and Secretary of War
to the press the complete vic- A. Wallace, Mai. Gen. Philip I Henry A. Stimson.
tory of Allies over Germany, Fleming, Rep. Joseph Martin, —(AP Wirephoto.)
War Abainst Germany Cost Dation Over
750,000 Casualties, With .150,000 Dead
Washington (91).—War against In the Atlantic t h e a t r e thel noising were presumed to have
Germany, ending yesterday. Cost, na,y total includes 10,650 cas-,been captured. \n account is tak-
this nation over three-quarters of ualties, made up of 6,415 dead, 594 i en of the thousands of prisoners
a million casualties, some 150,000 missing, 3,612 wounded or injuredlliherated by Allied armies.
of them dead. I and 29 prisoners of war. In the) A tabulation of reports through
Actually reported losses. cover- Mediterranean theatre the total isIlast Thursday showed American
;ing action only up to about Aptill 3,697, including 1,930 dead, 781casualties in all arms and all
:1 for the army and up to April 261 missing, and 1,689 }wounded or in- theatres since Pearl Harbor in ex -
;for the other services, number jured. :cess of 950,000.
:747,164, including 148,38i killed.) Marine Corps casualties in the! ---
While recent action in most Euro -1 Atlantic. Mediterranean and Eu-
penn area.,, hes not been of the. rupean theatres total only 19 in -
i sort that makes long casualty lists,: eluding 34 d ea d, I missing, 1;
i move than a month of fighting is' wounded and 3 prisoner;.
lyet to be accounted for. i In the Atlantic theatre Marine
The army's list, covered tightin?. Corp: dend total 31 with one
lin the Mediterranean area inciud-! wounded. In the Xlediterranean l
ing North Africa, nu rile Conti- theae there were two marines)
luent, in life Middle East and inItrkilled. and in tlic European pica -
the Caribbean sector, totals 731, tre their were one missing and
270. The breakdown ellutvs: three prisoners.
139,498 dead, 467,408 wounded; The Coast Guam reports a toinl l
and :2.374 missin_g. The remain-�.or 505 (lead in the entire Eur-o-�
ing 522,990 weir, listed as Ilik-,nems v:ar thc•.,tn% No information:
oneis. .is avii!able on miunded. missin„!
The navy repnrts total losses n!. or pri>girie.rs mi war.
14,347 in the Eurnpean •.,-at-. I3rok-: The Wn. Dgmilmvnt .aid i6
Fn down into 8.345 [lend. 07^- muss 04!1110” .iu not i wh!de all Ino;c
inC. 5:301 wounded or injured. u,iwn pri-ones hp the Germ:,ms.
and 25) prisoner:;. ' lholldl roll of 16,;;e repo[te., e,
A PART OF THE PRICE—Sol-
e= In the knowledge -that, the
life of one of their sons kwent
into the making of V.E Day,
Mr. and Mrs. Grady L. Ammons
(lop photo), of 900 Miller Street,
stand before pictures of mem-
bers of their family In service.
Technical Sergeant Grads Am-
mmis, %ho,,n in the renter pnr-
lrait, died .July 16 near St. Lo
in France. The marine in the far
left picture on the table is their
smrvin-law. Sergeant William
Clifton. The boys pictured to-
gethrr are twins. Sergi. Wnod-
row and First Sergi. Linwood
Arumons. In the bottom photo,
Mrs. A. H. Klmcl of 2623 Stock-
ton Street holds a newspaper
account of V -E Day while, on
the table beside her are pictures
of two or her three sons in the
service. The pictures are of First
Lived. .John Lewis Kimel and
Corporal Clinton Kimel. Mrs.
Kimel had only a snapshot of
the third son. Private A. B.
Kimel, now in ;in army hospital
overseas reroperaling r n in
woods ,hick also %'cera a part
of the price for V -F. Day.—(Staff
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Bridgeport, Conn., to carry a sign around the plant reminding
their co-workers of the importance of staying on their jdbs
despite the reported announcement of Germany's surrender.
The plant turns out fuses for 4.2 mortars.
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YANKS IN LONDON CELE- (right) hugs an English woman celebrate the surrender of Ger-
BRATE GERMAN SURREN- and smiles light faces of other many in London's Picadilly Cir.
servicemen, including a Yank cus.—(AP Wirephoto from Sig -
DER = An American soldier I sailor (left), as U. S. troops nal Corps Radiophoto.)
V -E Day Is Observed in forth Carolina
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As State Looks to Hard Tasks in Pacific
'By The Associated Psessl
After a sober, thankful observ-
ance of long-awaited V -E Day,
North Carolina settled down today
to the job of winning the war in
'the Pacific.
In contrast to the spirit of hilar-
ity traditionally associated with
armistice celebrations, the theme
of yesterday's V -E Day observance
was primarily one of thanksgiving
and a rededication to the task
ahead in the Pacific war. Most
cities, with plans for the official
observance prearranged, took the
great clay in stride quietly.
Cities, towns and tillages
throughout North Carolina report-
ed "unprecedented crowds" at
community church services yester-
•day and last night. At Duke Uni-
versity Chapet in Durham, more
than 2,51111 attelided a cpcci:rl V -E
Day service, and a special vesper
services for all personnel at the
Navy Preflight School In Chapel
Hill were held last night.
Fire and air-raid sirens, factory
whistles and blowing aulomoble
horns heralded the official V -E
Day proclamation by President
Truman in many towns. In Win-
ston-Salem and several other
cities retail stores took a holiday,
but throughout the Slate war in-
dustries continued on their regular
work and reported attendance
very good.
In accordance with a proclama-
tion by Governor Cherry, all salts
of wine and beer were halted, im-
mediately following Truman's an-
nouncement, for a period of 36
hours. Sales and serving of wine,
beer, and liquor will he resumed
tonight at 9 o'clock, but must cease
at 11:30 p.m., under a 1943 statute.
Rv radin and by written proc-
.1amation. Cherry urged that Ynrth
!Cmulinians rclebr;de Eurupmm
�virtory with "sanity, sobriety.
1prayer and a continuation of wur'r.
A essential occupations. He re-
minded the people of the Stale
that yesterday'F victory still be
followed by continuing casualty
notices from the Pacific theatre,
and said, "our soldiers in the Pa-
cific, as happy as they will be,
with us, at the cessation of hostili-
ties in Europe, would hardly be
able, to appreciate hilarity or a
carnival spirit here at home when
they continue to pursue battle in
all its bitterness.'
Col. Trenholm J. Meyer. Chief
of Staff of the new convalescent
and redistribution station at Camp
Davis, told civilian and military
personnel, "it is om duly not to
ceras. but to proscl-ule the war to
the fullest eslew." His theme of
continued effort towards the
speedy rnurlusion of the war in
the Pacifir was echoed in a mes-
se;;c to nary preflighl personnel
he Rcnrr Arl"i mil O. B. Hardison.
chief of naval air primary train-
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ieMAJOR TOM FEREBEE DROPS
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AT:.OM-IC BOMB ON -HIROSHIMA
KILL*ING
By dropping the first atomic bomb in the history of
.mankind from a lone Superfort last Monday morning at
:9;15 on the Japanese city of Hiroshima, the name of a Davie
county boy has gone around the world. This bomb idiled
200,000 Japs, obliterated 4.1 square miles of the buil-up
area of 6.9 miles. Tokyo admitted that practically not, ag
escaped death in its path. i
This Davie man was Maj. Thomas Wilson Ferebee,' who
was born at Cana on Novefnber 9, 1918. He is the son of
William Flave Ferebee, 54, and Zella Ward Ferebee, 53, the
latter being a native of Farmington. They operate their
:112 -acre farm on Mocksville, Route 1, located five miles
;from here on the Statesville highway.. The farm #was for-
; = merly owned by Tom Pearl Dwiggins of Mocksville. Tom is
the third of 11 children. '
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Major Ferebee was the bombadier on the B-29. Only
he and two* other members of the crew knew what- they
carried, Col. Paul W. Tibbets, Jr., of Miami, Fla., who pilot-
ed the plane and Navy Capt. Wiliam S.- Parsons of Santa Fe,
N. M. Colonel Tibbets had trained specially for the missiga
and during the training Major Ferebee has been likewite
engaged, although his family had no inkling of the worX
!he was doing recently. All they knew was that he was ori
special missions, particularly in this country when sta-
tioned at Wendover Field, Utah, and before going to the;
Pacific some two months ago. The B-29 took off from a
'base in the Marianas.
INTERESTED IN FLYING
Torn has been interested in flying since he was a child,
.according to his parents. His mother related that once
when he was still under ten and she thought him in bed
with the measles, he had gotten out to watch an airplane
overhead. He took his first ride in a commercial plane when
he was in his teens, she letting him have the money but not
knowing until later what he did with it.
Major Ferebee is a graduate of Mocksville High school,
:� after which he attended Lees-McRa-e college at Banner Elk.
• While there he was the only three -letter man in athletics,
captain of the football team and a member of the varsity
teams of baseball and track.
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In the spring of 1940 as he was completing his sopho-
more year at Lees -McRae, Tom . thought he saw war com-
ing, to this country and he enlisted in the army *air corps to
get a head start. He trained at various fields in Texas,
Alabama and Florida and recJ*ed his wings and commis-
sion as a second lieutenant at Alliwrquerque, N. M..# April,
1942.
TURNS BOMBARDIER
Up to this time Tom had been a, pilot. He dis�p�ver
however, that a left knee injured in football left his leg. -stiff
at high altitudes, making it impracticable to handle the
controls. Heunderwent an operation for the injury, was
home for several months recuperating and when he -
1turned to duty, he began to specialize as a bombardier. He
still' pilots, however, at lower altitudes. I
27 MONTHS OVERSEAS
Major Ferebee spent 27 months overseas in the Egra-
pear theatre, flying 61 missions. He returned home in the
spring of 1944, shortly after he had been promoted to his
I majox ity. While overseas he won many honors, decorations
1 and had some close calls.
H 'wag twice winner of the Distinguished Flying Cross;
hol the Air medal with 10 Oak Leaf Clusters and five
Bro a Service Stars; was the bombardier on Colonel Tib-
.
beta B-17 in. the first strike against occupied Europe from
�E-2Ixgland; was a member of Tibbet's plane that flew General
11L;U'isenhower and Gen. Mark Clark
. to Gibraltar when final
plans were laid for the invasion of North Africa; flew as
`lead bombardier of the formation making the first bomb
strike in the North African invasion.
SHOT DOWN TWICE
Relatives report that Major Ferebee was shot down
at least twice during the time he was in Europe, the plane
makin=g forced landings on both occasions. On one mis-
sion the landing was made in the water 200 miles from
.shore and the members of the crew were picked up. -by a
,British cruiser after they had floated around for about 18
!hours. On another mission German flak killed a buddy
.in the ship and he fell on Major Ferebee, causing some cuts
around his face.
On another occasion in this country a B-29 developed
trouble over a western town, became enveloped in flames
and it was necessary to continue to fly the ship until open
country was- reached when he baled out, the last man to
leave the plane which crashed in the countryside.
APPEARANCE
Major Ferebee is five feet, 11 inches tall, weighs about
180. pounds, has blue eyes and brown hair. He is unmar-
ried, is popular with the ladies and has a swppthc+a+ tTr,., ;�
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The children in the Ferebee family include the follow-
ing: Mrs. Annie Lois Simpson, -Columbia, S. C.; John, who
owns a7portion of the farm adjoining his parents; Tom, Bill,
jwho is a machinist first class in the navy now on Okinawa
and who has been in service since August, 1940; Mrs. Zella
Virginia Harris, Burlington; Mrs. Katherine Loudermilk,
Atlanta; Amanda Lee, at home, a rising senior at Appalach-
ian'Site Teachers college; Maxine, Luela, Joe and Carolyn,
all at home.
BOMBING EXPLAINED
In explaining the details of the atomic bombing, which
carries more destruction than 2,000 Superforts or 20,000 -
tons of TNT, Captain Parsons said:
"It was 0915 (9:15 a. m.) when we dropped our bomb.
and we turned the plane broadside to get the best view,"
said Captain Parsons. "Then we made as much distance
from the ball of fire as we could.
"We were at lust ten miles away and there was a visual
Impact even though every man wore colored glasses for pro-
tection. We had braced ourselves when the bomb wad gone
'for the shock and Tibbets said `close flak' and it was. just
like that—a close burst of anti-aircraft fire.
"The crew said `My God' and couldn't believe what had
happened.
"A mountain of .smoke. was going up in a mushroom
with the stem coming down. At the top was w- te�•smoke
but up to 1,000 feet from the ground there was swirling,
boiling dust. Soon afterward small fires sprang up on the
edge of town but the town was entirely obscured. We
stayed around two or three minutes and by that time the
.smoke had risen to 10,000 feet. As we watched the top of
Ithe white cloud broke off and another soon formed."
Details of the bombing were disclosed at' a press con-
ference attended by Gen. Carl Spaatz, who termed the new ;
bomb the "most revolutionary development in the history
qf� the world." _
Spaatz was obviously highly elated at the new bomb -
Ing weapon. He said if he had had it in Europe "it would
have shortened the war six to eight months." Maj. Gen Cur-
tis Lemay said that if this bomb had been available there
:would have been "no need to have had D-day in Europe."
Grim details of what happened on the ground came
only from Tokyo. The enemy broadcast revealed that the
blast was so terrible that the dead could not be distinguish-
ed from the injured. Neither could be identified. Destruc-
tion was so great, and need for relief so urgent, that au-
thnrit;Pc r►arl N -en nnahle to estahlish the extent of civilian i
FUTURE USE UNCERTAIN
There was no hint when the next atomic bomb would
be dropped, but Washington and London toyed with the
theory that Japan soon would be given a final uncondi-
tional surrender ultimatum before the next atom is drop-
ped. Spaatz did say that the Japanese would be warned
by leaflet that they could expect more such raids. • "'
COST TWO BILLION `-
President Truman said it cost two billion dollars to de-
;velop the atomic bomb; that this country and Britain had
the secret, scientists of the two countries working together,
since 1940. Sites where the bombs are made -are located at
Oak Ridge, near Knoxville, Tenn. ,at Richland, near Pasco,
Wash., and an installation near Santa Fe, N. M. As many
as 125,000 were working in the plants but they did not know
what they were malting.
The atomic bomb is a harnessing of the basic power of
the universe and a force from=which the sun draws its
-power, the president said. The president added 'that atomic
-),el energy may supplant the power that now comes from coal
oil and falling water. - Production of the bomb was one of
the greatest war secrets in the history of the world.
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Russia has declared war on Japan. President
Truman made the announcement in Washington
last Wednesday afternoon at a news conference at
3 p. m.
Moscow broadcast a war declaration against
Japan by Molotov, stating hostilities became effec-
tive at 5 p. m. EST Wednesday and that. Russia en-
tered the struggle to shorten the war and save. the
Japanese people from destruction. Russian military
activities are expected to be in Manchuria,' unless
the atomic bomb and Russia's declaration cause the
Jap war lords to surrender unconditionally.
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TUESDAY EVENING, AUGUST 14, 1945
Tumult and Shouting
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CHARTER READY FOR THE,SENATE
1 Text of Surrender Terms
� PREP,A.IISNO Tp GO BEOR+E•THE SENATE to deliver Per'
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sonally the United Nations Security Charter adopted at San
Francisco, President Truman, with the historic document
.before him, indicates by his expression and gesture how solemn- .
ly he considers the occasion.
ANO\
. U. S. Missouri, Tokyo Bay (AP).—Official text of the
surrender instrument: - -'
41. We, acting by coprmand of and in behalf`bf-the Emperorot
Japan, the Japanese Goternment and the Japanese. Imperial Gen-. i
eral Headquarters, hereby �accepl provisions in the deAration is-
sued by the heads of the governments of the United States, China
and Great Britain July 26, 1945, at Potsdam, and subsequently ad -
.tiered to by the Union of Soviet Socialist Republit3;,w"hich'four
powers are hereafter referred to as the Allied Powers: =y.
"2. We hereby proclaim the unconditional surrender to the r
Allied Powers of the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters and
of all Japanese armed forces and all armed forces under Japanese
control wherever situated.
"3. We hereby command. all Japanese forces, wherever situ-
ated, and the Japanese people to cease hostilities forthwith, to pre-
serve and save from damage all ships, aircraft and military and
civil property and to comply with all requirements which may be ,
imposed by the Supreme Commander for the Allied Powers or by
agencies of the Japanese Government at his direction. -
"4. We hereby command thealapanese Imperial General Head-
quarters to issue at once orders;% the commanders of all Japanese
forces and all forces under Japanese control, wherever situated, to
surrender unconditionally themselves and all forces under their
control.
"5. We hereby command fil ciyfl, military and naval officials
to obey and enforce all pr6c7arnations, orders and directives
deemed by the Supreme'Comfiander for the Allied Powers to be
proper to effectuate this surrender and issued by him or under his
authority and we direct all such offfefdls to remain at their posts
and to continue to perform their noncombat duties unless specifi-
cally relieved by him or tinder his authority.
"6. We hereby undertake for the Emperor, the Japanese Gov-
ernment and their successors to carry out the provisions of the
Potsdam declaration in good faith• and to issue whatever orders
and take whatever action may be required by the Supreme Com-
mander for the Allied Powers or by any other designated repre-
sentative of the Allied Powers for the purpose of giving effect to
that declaration.
"7. We hereby command the Japanese Imperial Government
and the Japanese Imperial General Headquarters at once to liberate
all Allied prisoners of war and civilian internew now under Japa-
nese control and to provide for their protection, care, maintenance
and immediate transportation to places as directed. -
"8. The authority of the Emperor and the Japanese Govern-
ment to rule the Slate shall be subject to the Supreme Commander
for the Allied Powers who will take such steps ashedeems proper
to effectuate these terms of surrender."f,.l..-
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MacArthur
Will Receive
C'apitulationl
Washington (UP) Peace came to the world last
night when President Truman announced that Japan has
accepted unconditional surrender and that Allied forces_.
have been ordered to cease firing.
Gen. Douglas MacArthur, "the man who came back,"
Iwas named supreme Allied commander to receive the for-
mal Japanese surrender.
World War II—The bloodiest conflict in alI'.of.hutnan
:history—was at an end, except for the formalify of sign-
ing surrender documents.
V -J Day will not be proclaimed until after the.instra-
Iments of surrender are signed.
The three'Allies in the Pacific war—Great Britain,
Russia and China—will be represented at the signing by
high ranking officers.
Mr. Truman proclaimed the glad tidings at 7 p.m.
I(e.w.t): shortly after he received Tokyo's formal reply to
the Allied surrender terms.
Summoning reporters to his office, he read a state-
ment which said:
"I deem this reply a full acceptance of the Potsdam
:declaration which sepcified the unconditional surrender of
Japan.
Tokyo informed Mr. Truman that Emperor Hirohito is
.prepared "to authorize and ensure the signature by the
�Japanese Government and .the Imperial general'head-
quarters the necersaiy terms for carrying :but the pro -
visions of the Potsdam declaration."
"His Majesty is also prepared to issue his commands,
to all the military, naval and air authorities of Japan and. in front of the White House and in LaFayette Park across
all the forces under their control wherever located to the street.
cease active operations, to surrender arms and to issue They stopped all traffic.
such other orders as may be be required by the supreme Harry S. Truman, the Missouri boy who made good;
:commander of the Allied forces of the execution of the; the ex -bottle -washer and haberdasher who became the
above mentioned terms." No. 1 man of the land, stepped out on the lawn of the -Ex.
r
Thus
heEx-
Thus was the "infamy" of Pearl Harbor fully avenged ecutive Mansion with the First Lady.
'three years, eight months and seven days after Japanese A thundering cheer went up.
planes struck a nearly -mortal blow against the United Mr. Truman, speaking into a microphone hitched to a
States- without warning.' . I public adress system, had a few words to say.
Japan. had paid the full penalty for the treachery This is a great day, he began.
that plunged the United States into a two -front war—the This is the clay we've been looking for since Dec. 7.
costliest in all history. This, he continued, is the day when Fascist and police,
The terms of blood and treasure, the great conflict governments ceatse to exist in the world. This is the day'
ad cost the United States more than 1,000,000 casualties for democracy. ��
�id $300,000,000.000. The cost to the world was more than It is the da'y when we can start the real task e'.
`55,000,000 casualties and a trillion dollars in money, ma -implementation of free government in the world.
terials and resources. We face a teal emergency ... I know the can meet 41.
/'\ World War Il ended six years—less 17 days—after He went on: "
Germany precipitated it by marching into Poland. We face the greatest task ever faced—the greabesy
The end- was announced calmly by Mr. Truman who emergency since Doe. 7, 1941 and it is going to take th'�:
declared a two-day holiday—today and Thursday—for all help of all of you to do it.
'Federal employees tbroughout the nation. I know we are going to do it.
He also authorized Selective Service to reduce draftThus did the President speak at one of the greatest—.
'inductions immediately from 80,000 to 50;000 men -per and most triumphant—moments in American history. i
'month as a result of Japan's capitulation. The finish .f .lapan—hastened by the awesome furs*•
Bedlam broke loose in usually reserved Washington of the atomic bomb. but long since asured by the sweat
Surrender
Japan's doom *Xi all but sealed when the first atomic•
_)mb was unleashed with terrifying destruction upon
Hiroshima Aug. 5. Then—four days later—Russia threw
Alfie freight of her mighty armies into the conflict.
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Japan, which also has devoured Malaya, Singapore
On Aug. 10, Japan sued for peace. She offered to I and the Dutch East Indies, thought then that she had the
.surrender provided that the sovereign prerogatives of the
:Emperor were not compromised.
United States licked.
But the United States was just starting.
But the Big Four—the United States, Britain, Rus-
.sia and China—would brook no -compromise.
The home front took another hitch in its belt. It pro-
•duced "a bridge of hips; an unbelievable multitude of
' They so -informed Tokyo in a note dispatched from
4Wadshington at
* warplanes—fighters and bombers; it produced weapon_ s
.1.0:30 a.m. (e.w.t) Saturday. Japan, they.
must surrender unconditionally. The Emperor could
not -:only for American boys fighting two wars half a
world apart, but for their Allied comrades on two global* .
emain, but he must take orders from the supreme Allied
fronts. ;
omma ider_—MacArthur.
Oen the fighting fronts, the American boy dug in and
Tokyo pondered the fateful issue. It stalled. It sparred
stemmed Japan's advance. Japan's Imperial Fleet was
or timer= -and then it yielded.
Last night, another note went out to Tokyo. It directed
slowed down in the Coral Sea battle of May, 1942. It was
wounded in an obortive invasion attempt at Mid -
the Japanese Government to:
way Island the following~ month. That turned the tide.
1 ---Order prompt cessation of hostilities and inform
Then, on Aug: 7, 1942, the United States went on the
acArthur of 'the effective. date and hour.
-dfensive. Marines invaded. Guadalcanal...
"end emissaries at.•once to MacArthur with full
Then came the. New Guinea campaign, bloody Tar -
power to make all arrangements necessary for MacArthur
awa, the Marshalls, Guam, the Aleutians, MacArthur's re -
:arrive at the place designated by him for the formal
urrender:. . %
turn.:io the•Philippines, unforgettable Iwo Jima, Okinawa.
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By land, sea and air, Allied forces pored it on. B-29
. 3 ----Acknowledge notification that l IacArthur will
Super= Fortresses blasted Japan. American and British '
arae the time, place and other details for the formal sur.
warshipsboldly swept within sight of the enemy homeland
: The formal surrender will take place either aboard
and let the enemy have it.
anAmeriean battleship—probably the :Missouri—or some-=
Allied land forces moved closer and closer to Japan.
where ovOkinawa•
They were poised for an invasion of Japan when the first
Japan's defeat was complete—the most crushing she
Atomic bomb fell.
as suffered in more than 2,000 years of her histo
While Tokyo frantically assessed the awesome de -
She fell before the greatest concentration of might in
struction wrought by the Atomic bomb, Russia hurled her
Iiistory.
mijrbt- against the bleeding, battered, groggy foe. ,
For the Allies, the road to victory—and peace—was
Two days later, Japan decided she had had enough.
ong and hard and bloody.
Last Friday she made her conditional surrender offer.
Japan had hoped to conquer all of Asia; to rule all the i
The Big Four countered this the next day with counter-
Pacific—and divide up the world with Germany.
terms—unconditional surrender.
This was her hope on Sunday, Dec. 7, 1941 when her
Then the world waited for Tokyo's reply. It waited
warplanes. streaked in over Pearl Harbor while her em-
all day. -Sunday and Mondoy..There was no answer. It be-
issaries•'talked "peace" in Washington
,
i gan to appear that Japan was stalling. Allied impatience
This was their hope when the Japanese naval leader
: was growing thin. Super Fortresses, which had observed
—Isoruku• Yamamoto—said soon after Pearl Har.bor that
'an unofficial truce, roared over Japan again yesterday.!
he would dictate the peace from the White House.
At 1:49 a.m. (e.w.t.) yesterday, there came the first;
The peace was dictated from the White House, but
word—unofficially—that Tokyo was ready to throw in the
not by Yamamoto—who is long since dead. It was dictated
by a Missouri boy --President Truman—in collaboration
sponge.
Tokyo radio announced at that hour that Japan would
with Allied leaders,
accept the Allied surrender terms.
When Japan hit Pearl Harbor and left most of the
. But still there was no official reply from Tokyo.
kmerican battle fleet a blazing shambles, she thought the.
Then, yesterday, afternoon, it .became apparent that
#ar was over then and there: But Ae reckoned without
the long, agonizing wait was over. Switzerland, serving
:he fighting spirit of America. '
as go-between in the surrender dealings, announced that
Prior to Pearl Harbor, the United. -States was divided !the
Japanese reply had arrived at Bern and was being
in the" isue of having to go to war. `
transmitted to Washington..
But the "infamy" of Pearl Harbor was Japan's great-
Quickly Truman stood by at the White House to re-
st mistake as Hitler's was the invasion of Russia.
ceive the note which would b r i n g an end 'to V ICie
In its darkest hour, the United States emerged com-
War II.
Ietely united and answered the threat to her very ex-
xistence--answered it with a miracle of might and pro-
uction such as the world never dreamed of.
"-
urren er News
r Out of the ashes of Pearl Harbor there came the
Wiest
fleet in all history—the navy. There came the
I 'est aerial armada of all time—the U. S. Army and
.fir Forces. And there came a might array
•
� • ��''2
Brings
of ground
lrc�s. the U. S. Army and the United States Marines.
For six months after Pearl Harbor, the Japanese Navy
By H ARVEY DINKINS
amed the Pacific at will.
c,tarr Writer) ,
American possession in the Pacific were gobbled up
the then Japanese juggernaut
There wn:, "a hot time in the old town" last nicht!
President Truman's announcement of the surrentirt. or Japan
.
~)Ally Wrik, 1". lanii Anil frlt�t" ..•.....,
c z.,. e:....a . , �_
Ilached aver the wires at 7:04 and within is minutes iiedlam har!
..
an I
r t
r\
of joy to the wildest of demon-°
strations.
Traffic was blocked from city
limits to city limits on all thor-
oughfares. But nobody cared. They
weren't going anywhere, amvay.1
The traffic that really mattered•
had reached Tokyo!
The Nissen Building literally
belched forth bales of confetti.
A brace of sailor's stalked down
Fourth Street, kissing every girl
they met. And the girls seemed
to like it! Lipstick had so be-
smeared the sailors' faces they re-
flected the gore of. Midway an
Guadalcanal and Iwo Jima and
Okinawa - and Normandy -and
Kai.Brfn Pass and the Belgian
jr Carillon chimes at .Fir
Baptist' ' Church pealed f o r t
"Come Thou .'Fount. of Evei
Blessing" but a quartet of marin
drowned it out with a rouser
roar of "From the Halls of Mont
zuma to the Shores of Tripoli."
If John Philip Sousa reincarna
rewritis the song he will have.
ords of Scandinavia to the
m of Cathay.
the old burg showed' slid
be human. A jolly -looking
it waltzing along Fqurth
the eye of a friend and
a paper bag that looked
ously like a quart of whis-
e winked and the friend
I back.
11 U
"I'm gonna get coked to the'
gills," the sergeant shouted.D
CYMBALS d a drumsoldiers •and civilians In New York's
WITH BATTERED an ,
A chef literally rolled out of a;
the false report bythe United'Press of the Japanese surrender. Although the
cafe in the business section and!
stalked up and down the block,'.
emotions led to hours of continued merrymaking by crowds in the streets.
banging the bottom of the 'best
Wirephoto.) ------ - - '-
cooking utensil in the place with)
a huge ladle. The pan looked sick+
when the drumming ceased, but
..rare'"+' �?.+' ,.;•' * ""•""'
everybody looked happy.
United States flags were every-
where. Little children carried
-•�$� > Dai
them and from time to time their
fathers snatching them away to
•;�.; .
wave a little higher in the air.
Elements of the American Le-
Bion Band turned out spontane-'
ously and played patriotic songs
on the courthouse green.
n
Uncle John Campourakis
-
tramped about the courthouse^`
_
square with a sml.e on his face
that literally radiated sunshine.
-
"!Thank goodness," the city s
•
1 y,.-- "�'a a
oldest restaurateur exclaimed,
,
"I'm a good Greek -American
again. My native land has changed
nationality a half-dozen times
'P
since it all started:'
One soldier possibly enjoyed the I
,
celebration about as much as the
' `
hest of the—a would-be soldier,a�-
me
turkMeadows, of Dalton, stood
'for hours and watched the antics I
of other celebrants. He leaves for.!
-
Camp Croft this morning.
One traveler apparently lost all
-�
sense of proportion and entered
fully into the spirit of the 'occa-
sion. At any rate, a suitcase lay
on Cherry Street, a few feet off
Fodrth Street, for a protracted
-
period and attracted no attention:
whatever.
But it wasn't all noise and It
wasn't all hilarity.
_
«o
One greying man, who has tVJ
w�•`"`��."' ._..�
sons in uniform and overseas and
another who tried to join up, liter-'�
"i' `'r �
Chinatown engaged in a ceiehralioa a
report was quickly withdrawn, pen'
Now they'll do It all over again.—
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WAINWRIGHT TELLS EXPE-
NQES—Liberated after three
\ Jrs as a Jap prisoner of, war,
Lieut. Gen. Jonathan M. Wain-
wright, 62 -year-old hero of Car
regidor, is shown safe in Chung-
king. China, Aug. 26, as he tells
of his experiences. He was freed
from a JSP camp in Manchuria.
recently, and arrived In the
'• Chinese capital Tuesday. Ae-
cording to the army caption,
lthe piciure at left shows Lieut.
Aafthk
Gen. Wainwright
cane). and Brig.
asojz) sao>;;p
Wainwright Will Be Present!
Surrender Ceremony
1 promoted to the
;y ALBERT RAVENHOLT (pines and was p
Insa r.... carr co,reenonasno `rank of lieu ten when gMacArthur
aungking (UP).—Lieut. Gen. ,March 19, 1942,
,than M. Wainwright, who'left in a torpedo boat on the first
endered Corregidor in Amert-!leg of his journey to Australia.
darkest hour, arrived in this I On April 10. 65.000 [coops and
eel capital yesterday after more!cieilians surrendered on Bataan
a three years in Japanese pr]s-;but Rruimvright and the organized
His first gesture was to thank''. remnants of his army withdrew tc
countrymen for "generosity"i••The Ruck"—Corregidor forlr•esl
standing by a defeated com-.in Manila. There, they withstooc
ate incessant Pounding of artiller3
present at the Japanese surrer
ceteTffdrfy`in-Tokyo:. Bay; the-'
Department disclosed in Wash'
ton. He will. leave Chung]
'Thursday for Manila and wit
from there to Tokyo -for the for
signing of surrender ' documt
scheduled for Sunday.)
Leap and wrinkled but rig
erect and his eyes twinkling,
62 -year-old general who took c
mand when Gen. Douglas I
Arthur was ordered toyleave
Philippines, said it had been
happiest day of my life" whe
American officer found him
small prison camp about 150 1
north of Mulcden in Manchuti
He met with newspapermen
! a few hours after planes, can
him and eight other American
! erals and a number of high BI
military and civil officials, la
at fi lIAhall fresh fromang*s Nine Dragons'
"Here I am, look
It I assure you It
,unser than I did
was senseless.
d he could not go
imagine most of you know
lecause of circumstances over
I had no control and in
to avoid what would have
a far greater disaster, I was
I on May 6, 1942, to tender
the Japanese Army the surrenaer
of my forces in the Philippines.
"My gallant troops had perhaps
made a defense against more
overwhelming odds and u n d e r
in o r e disadvantageous circum-
stances than troops of the Ameri-
can Army had been confronted
with in the history of that army.
"I had very little direct contact
with my country or official aeen-
cies thereof . for, over three
ears but such contacts here and
there as I had crossed caused me
Ito believe the Administration, the
War Department and the Ameri-
can people had accented my dire
Idisaster with the fotebearance and
igenerosity which are P e r h a p s
uniaue .in the experience. of any
Wrlliam F. Sharp of Monkton, Md., defeated commanaer.
commander of the Southern Phil- Wafnwright disclosed that fol-
ippines before Pearl Harbor; Brig. lowing the capitulation of Cor -
`Gen. J. C. 'Beebe of Faribault,,regidor, he was first moved to
Minn.; Brig. Gen. Maxon S. Lough.!. Manila. thence to a prison camp
whose brother lives at Highlandjin the Philippines. thence to three
Park, Mich.: Brig. Gen. Clifford; different camps in Formosa and
. Bluemel, Trenton, N. J.; Brig.'two in Manchuria.
. Gen. James R. Weaver of Colum -I After he was found. his res -
bus, Ga., and Maj. Thomas Dooley suers had "a great deal of diffi-
?' ; of McKinney. Texas. Iculty getting out of that little place
Also in the party were Maj. in the sticks.
Gen. A. M. Jones, who commanded "In fact, we finally got out under
. the southern front on Luzon while,escort provided by Russian troops."
! Wainwright commanded in the;he said. "From there we were able
north before their forces werello join some 1,500 to I,600.Ameri-
Iunited for the retreat to Bataan.,can officers and enlisted men con -
and Maj. Cell. G. F. Moore, a.centrated in Mulcden."
brother of Lieut. Gen. J. Marks: pn his arrival in Sian •i.-nnda�'
Moor. he said. he was given,oi ttr
Wainwright said he was con -Ods wife which had baen':+nldoedt
tasted about IO days ago in the there—his first word from her tm
1. Central Manchuria camp by an'.a ,year and a half.
American officer. V T. Wedemcyer.! "When Wedemeyer handed me
-`
after more 11,11,Ihroc yca s and the radio -photograph of my wife
three months in J;ipanese hands.;with the message written in long
Ili liberation came just a few, days'hmtd—well, you know how I felt;
•(bout that," he said. "Now when
before his birthday. I`
Wainwright took over command �I hear of my boy I'll feel all righti
.of American fmres in the Philip -'He's a sea captain and has been
(hauling froops back and forth
cross the North Atlantic the past
rew years. I haven't heard a thing
from him yet"
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TIMES SQUARE ' PREVIEW OF V -J DAY CELEBRATION
When report of the Jap acceptance of the surrender terms reached New York via the Tokyo ra-
dio, many thousand New Yorkers flocked to Times Square to celebrate the probable event, al-
thnnvh ntri'lal CnnriCmatian had not vet Come. The monument in the center of the picture im-
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USS Missouri to Be Scene of Historic Jap Surrender
The United States Navy,s mighty 45,000 -ton battleship, the 'USS Missouri, will end her World
War II career in a blaze of glory, Aug. 31, 1945, in Tokyo Bay, when she serves as the scene of the
historic unconditional surrender of Japan to the United Nations. Proudly hearing the name of
the home state of President Harry S. Truman, the fight USS Missouri has been named by General
of the Army Douglas MacArthur, Supreme Allied Commander, as the locale of the formal end-
ing of the war in the Pacific. Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz, Commander -in -Chief of the
United States Pacific Fleet and Pacific Ocean Areas, will sign for the United States, General of
the Army MacArthur, for the Allied forces which fought in the Pacific. The USS Missouri
was launched Jan. 29, 1944. Construction was ordered June 12, 1940. Her keel was laid on Jan. 6,
19h, at the New York Navy Yard.
EMPEROR HIRONITO of Japan, who would be allowed to retain his title but would
h. advally imd.r mA.,, d a 4mmmn Allied fnmmandor dur(nn 1h. -;.o .r
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War Prisoners Cheer Liberation in Japan
Allied prisoners of war wave Bags of the United State.:, Great Britain and the Netherlands, and cheer
wildly after their liberation by U. S. naval forces from detention camps at Omori, Japan. The navy caption
with this picture said the men are the first war prisoners on Japanese soil to be freed. (AP Wirepboto
[tom U. S. Navy via naval radio from U. S. S. Iowa in.Tokyo Bay).
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.r19 CITY N'Uuul'tW
ORED—With her mother, Mrs.
F. B. watscn (left) looking ,on
proudly, Mrs. Louise S. McDon-
ald of Winston-Salem, receives
an Air Medal with three Oak
Leaf. Clusters from Col. Paul
R. Younts (right), commanding
officer at the A.A.F. Overseas
Replacement D e p o t, Greens-
boro. Mrs. McDonald received
the aw'a r d for her husband,
Paul, a second lieutenant with
the Eighth Air Force. He is a
prisoner of war. Next to Mrs.
McDonald is Lleut. Col. George
E. Wilkinson, head of Section
R at ORD. — (Official Photo,
A.A.F. ORD, Greensboro.) .
or As Jap Captive
Aboard the Mercy Ship Reeves L
Ing. 30. Surviving 20 months of secs
Jap Yfc&Ad. Mm 'vi'-th'e ri18e'-"itiin
ribs with his heavy shoes.
"Harris recovered.. .
"On April 5, this year, I was trans-
ferred to Omori where politeness
was the order of the day.
"We were required to bow to the
emperor every morning and also to
bow from the waist politely to the
guard in asking the Japanese for
permnsslgn to go to the toilet and
then on returning we had to seek
and could not conform to this riga-
marole they were beaten and other-
wise punished as a result.
"Our menu consisted of Milo
maize and rice in a combination
tasting like chalk supplemented by
soy bean soup which was mostly
water. As an occasional treat a
fishhead or a seaweed was thrown
in,
:Hy normal weight of pounds
wangled
tell of[ to 110 until I wangled a
job for myself as a kitchen kobin
tslavery), whereon the combination
able food ballooned me up to 190."
\The marine ace. who still has
Iry energy, but a Jaundiced
MEDAL FOR KERNERSVILLE
YyOMAN—Flanked by her fa-
ther; Charles W. Gray, (left)
and Lieut. Col. R. W. Eldlen,
Mrs. Irene Legis receives the
Air Medal with one Oak Leaf
Cluster f r o m Colonel Younts.
Mrs.' Lawls .received the award
on behalf of her husband, Sergt.
Billy T. Lewis, gunner with the
Eighth Air Force, now reported
a prisoner of -war. Colonel El-
�dien is deputy for supply and
amaintenance at the A.A.F.
ORD. The Lewises are f r o m
Sernersville: —(Official Photo,
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.0.4 SURRENDER OF JAPAN brings freedom to one of the Pa ific wars early her(
Lieut. Gen. Jonathan Mayhew Wainwright, above, .the' man who tpok ur
clfull .cra;?ighl; a(Aphur lef�off and held Bataan to.the,.end,�hg'man
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"THANK YOU. HEAVENLY
FATHER, for ending the war so
that my daddy and all the dad -
t dies of little boys and girls
everywhere can come home and
five in peace;' is the prayer of
little Billy Wolfe. Billy's father
Is a marine now under secret
orders somewhere in the Pacific.
His Prayer is symbolic of the
thoughts in every heart this V -J
Day. Billy and his mother, Mrs.
W. W. Wolfe, 1616 Elizabeth
Avenue, have not heard from his
father since he left a rest camp '
last month after fighting on
Okinawa with the Sixth Marine
Division. He thinks his dad Is
now nearing Tokyo.—(Photo by
Jean Cunningham.)
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Nearly four years of war took a heavy death toll of
.I Davie youth, reports to date showing that 39 were killed
�'.
in action or died from wounds or as a prisoner of war.
This total is expected to be higher when the final fig-
ures are available, since a number are still being carried
1 on the war department rolls as "missing in action." There
are also some who have not yet been accounted for, last
heard from as prisoners of war.
i
The list of the known dead who gave their life for their i
country include the following: James E. Stroud, County Line.
George R. Clawson, Jr., Cooleemee. Talmadge Kimmer, Route 4.
Walfer Taylor Green, Cooleemee. Clyde McDaniel, Route 1.
Herman Lewis Koontz, Route 2. Harding Greene, Cooleemee.
Ernest Plowman, Advance, Route 1. iAdren G_ Koontz, -Route.-4.
William Thomas Daywalt, Route 4. James C. Moore, Route 1.
William McKinley Champ, Route 3. ` James Howe Montgomery, Route 2.
Paul S. King, Advance, Route 1. Plan G. Hay, Mocksville.
George Otis Jacobs, Cooleemee. Robert T. Barney, Bixby.
Frank Myers, Elbaville. James W. Knight, Route 4.
Buford H.Peoples, Route 2. Henry B. Osborne, Route 4.
i Joe Leagans, Cana. Louis A. Davis, Advance.
Jasper H. Carter, Route 3, Garland L. Pack, Advance.
James Olin Bailey, Advance, Route 1. Burley R. Booe, Route 2.
John Cook, Route 2. Albert Clay Marklin, Mocksville.
Baxter R. Huffman, COoleemee.
j Grady W. Allen, Cana, Route 1.
I. V. Hudson, Mocksville.
William Jonathan Mooney, Mocksville
Kenneth Sparks, Route 2.
Benjamin F. Berrien, Route 4.
Melvin Gaither Markland, Advance.
Ralph Mooney, Mocksville.
i James Ralph Gaither, Mocksville.
Samuel G. York, Route 1.
Killed in Action
SGT. ROBERT T. BARNEY
Sgt. Robert T. Barney, son of
Mr.�and Mrs. Willie Barney ofI
near Bixby, was killed in action)
In Germany on March 11. He
was with the Third army. He
has one brother and sister.
Pvt. Robert Lee White, 22, son
of Mr. and Mrs. B. F. White of
Cana, Rt. 1, in Yadkin, was
killed in action in France on
March 5. 3
S' T. KENNETii P. SPARKS
Sergeant Sparks was killed In
action in Italy on September 13.
He was the husband of the for-
mer Miss Council Hendrix, of
Advance. He entered service on
May 13, 1941, trained at Camp
Killed in Action
S. -SGT. G. L. (BUCK) PACK
Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Pack who
live near Fork have been noti-
tied by the war department
that their son, Staff Sgt. Gar-
land L. (Buck) Pack, was kill-
ed in action. He was IA the
Pacific and hadbeen in serv-
ice for thiree years. The par-
ents are expecting a
with more details. He was k111 -
ed sometime in April, it was
stated.
LT. CLAY MARRLIN
LIEUT. GARLAND HENDRIX I
ieut. Hendrix
Liss nor Over
IA message from the War 'De-
patYment today brought word to
relatives here that Lieutenant
,James Garland Hendrix, pilot with
'the Army _Air Forces, has been
missing in action over Germany
Since Dec.'17. He is the husband
�j0f the former Norma Mae Teague
lot 2504 Sink Street, and 'son of
(Mrs. W. C. Hendrix of 619 South
'Hawthorne Road.
Second Lieutenant Hendrix has'
been overseas ,:ince September. He
:entered service Sept. 17, 1943, and
received his w i n g s at Freeman
Field, Ind. After graduatin¢ from
Reynolds High School, Hendrix
:continued his studies at the Uni-
iversity of North Carolina.
Honor Him
�E
of Wounds
8batf Sgt. Louis A.7' BTUZe')
Davis, Lon of Mss. Lula Davis
Iof-Advance, died in ,France on
:May 10 from wounds, accord -
:Ing Ito a telegram his another
la'eceived. He entered service on
Aug. 27, 1942 end trained at
Ft. Knox, Camp Campbell, Ky.,
Camp Peng, Ohio, and Camp
r 7haffee, Ark. before going
;`.overseas in Feb., 1945. He se- /
ledved the 16 Armored Divis
°ion ciltetion at Camp Chaffee•
and awarded the Silver Stan.
;In addition .to .his mother,
survivors include his wife, -the
former Miss Bonnie MJze
Ft. Smith, Ark.; two sister
Mrs. Clarence Foster
Mocksulle and Mrs. J. H. J :<
�dan of Woodleaf; three bro
eas, Sam and Tbut Davis
Winston - Salem and C
i
Davis of. Advance.
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Private Berner'wsa= killed in
actioa in Belgium on September
10. He has two brothers in serv-
Joe: T-5 Saitluel Berrier, who is
now thought to be fighting the
Nazis In German,, and : Pfc.
James Barrier, who is at a train-
ing school in Chicago. Private
Berrier entered service August 4,
1943, and received his training
At Fort Knox before going over-_
seas the fast of this year.
Cousins Serve Uncle Sam
FUNERAL SERVICES for Staff Sergeant
John W. Long Jr., above, son of Mr.
and Mrs. J. W. Long, Siadium Drive,
will be held Wednesday afternoon.
Services will be at the home at 1:30
and Waughtown Baptist Church at 3,
the body lying in state at the church
from 2 o'clock until the funeral. Ser-
geant Long was fatally injured last
week in an automobile accident near
Hattiesburg, Miss.
At Camp Rucker
� Cpl. Gray F. Smith, son of
a. .a n•,.7 °; B \7 r. K 'Mrs. H. L. Smith, of
>Ichdn Jones, sell, of ILFD 1, Sntith Grove, entered service
First Clan. Seaman Charles 31acksvllle
nn Uccrmbcr 1, 1913. fie is
advance. and 1"J. 1\'illi:un G. Iltillyl Jnncs, right, of RFD 3,
arc rousim in flu t'uitrd Stale, serrit°'•, rcc \retie J•rn•is, and receuLt) Ilam' stationed al. C:tltlp Ruck-
jcam:m ('hark. ,lnuev ix Ihr snn of 1 :ht. Jit• is married- to the
was hnnlr n„ rurlouzll Ile rnlistell in the navy in February. 1:41E L, i
Privale .111111's ha. Ina returned to his station n' 5a n, it or m.and at. I ..•.nr I:•rra 1.,`^ Dies P05-
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Home From Africa
Arnold Chaplin, son of Mr. ands
Mrs. W. W. Chaplin. of near Cor•'
natzer, arrived home - Friday from
overseas Arnold was wound.:d in
North Africa, on March 38tb, when
a piece of shrapnel pierced his leg.
His parents and friends are rejoiced
to have him home again. ,He had a
narrow escape from death.
Military Funeral,,,_
For Sgt. Driver-.. `}
A military funeral was held at
E ttaville Methodist church. on
August 15 for Sgt. Joseph S.
Driver, Jr., 22, one of four sol-
diers killed by lightning at Sey-
mour Johnson Field, Goldsboro,
on August 11.
A native of Advance and a
1938 graduaie of the high school
there where he was awarded the
athletic medal, Sergeant Driver
was the son of Mrs. Ann Foster
Driver of Jaeksonvi a Fla., and
Joseph S. Driver,j` .r,�hlof New
Drleans. He atteII e4.fBrevard
7 .:
college and before�. t Yction into
the army in Septe 'fiber, 1942, at
Camp Blanding, lived in
Jacksonville whim was con-
nected with tiii Southeastern
Greyhound Bus company.
He won his wings at Fort
Myers, Fla., and was transferred
to Seymour Johnson Field last
March after serving four months
as an instructor at Fort Myers.
In addition to his parents,
survivors include a brother, Paul
L. Driver, who is in the marines
somewhere In the South Pacific;
his maternal grandmother, Mrs.
Texanna Bailey Foster, of Ad-
vance; eight uncles and three
aunts, including Bailey Lee Fos-
ter and Miss Blanche Foster, of
Advance, C. W. Foster of Mocks-
ville and Joe G. Foster of the U.
S. navy.
Wounded
Pfc. Robert R. Foster, has- ar-
rived in the states site' spending 9
months oversras. He arriVM in
New York, Dec. 27 He is now in
Hammand General Hospital, Mo-'
desto, California. He went over
seas April 1944 and was wounded'
in France July 22. He was In a
Government Hospital In England
until arriving hack' -in the states.
He has a son Ruins, Jr.. born Sept.
6, 1944- that he its.,, never seen
r.r- ie a f..Innvh hnme in
Cecil Robertson, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Noah Robertson, of Ad.
vance, who was previously re-
ported missing in action, is now
a prisoner of war, according to
word his parents have received.
He was on reconnaissance duty
when he was captured.
Pfc. Marvin. W. Carter, hus-
band of Mrs. Marvin Carter,
and son of Mr. and Mrs. Lee
Carter 6f Route 3, was reported
missing in action inany
on December 16, the y that
the Germans opened their
counteroffensive. His wife was
notified last Tuesday morning.
A brother, Jasper H. Carter,
was killed on Saipan last July
12. Since Secretary of War
Stimson said this week that
the approximately 18,000
American soldiers reported
missing since Rundstedt open-
ed his counterthrust were
thought to be prisoners of war,
it is hoped that he Is among
the prisoners
The Davie boy wounded is Pvt.
Samuel E. Hall, son of Mr. and
Mrs. Charlie W. Hall, of Advance.
His parents were notified thatl
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Tech. Sgt. Gordon Stonestreet
DAVIE SOLDIER
DECLARED DEAD
Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Stonestreet
of Mocksville have been notified
by the War Department that
their son, Technical Sgt. Charles
Gordon Stonestreet, who was re-
ported missing in action over
Germany on May 8, 1944, has
m officially declared dead.
the letter, dated Nov. 8, said
in part:
"All available records and re-
ports concerning the absence of
your son have been carefuLy in-
vestigated and are deemed to
warrant a subsequent review of
the case. Information In the
hands of the War Department
indicates that your son was a
creta member of a B-24 bomber
which failed to return from a
bombing mission to Brunswick,
Germ_any._ The_ plane and all
certainty may. give at least some
small measure of consolation.
An appraisal of the sacrifice
made by your son in the service
of his country compels in us
feelings of humility and respect.
May Providence grant us a
measure of relief from the an-
ish and anxiety you have ex-
!! ^rienced during these many
Months.••
I The letter was signed by Maj
,IGen. Edward F. Witsell, Acting
The Adjutant General of the
Army.
THRILLS US
Somewhere in North Africa,
4th October, -1943.
The North Carolina Christian Advocate,
Greensboro, North Carolina.
Dear Brother Plyler:
For some time I have been planning to send a little con-
tribution for the Advocate endowment fund. It seems that)
various and sundry expenses pop up to keep me from doing
all I would like to do. I really want to have a part in this:
worthy project.
Several days ago Dr. L. B. Hayes wrote me a very inter-
esting and cheerful letter. In this letter he enclosed a two
dollar check for a Christmas present. He wanted me to try
and cash it. It's impossible to do such a stunt in this section.
but I am sure he will be delighted that the Advocate will
get the benefit of its material value and I'll get the benefit
of its intrinsic value.
I am also enclosing a postal money order for twenty-five
dollars ($25). I want to give this to the endowment fund in
appreciation for the tangible friendship shown me by two
cf my ministerial brethren while I was a pastor on the Mur-
phy circuit. Upon occasions I ran into financial difficulties.
These friends saw me through. They made it a gift. They
will not accept repayment. They may have forgotten the
incidents, but I never shall so long as I live. I will not di-
vulge their names, for I know them and God knows them.
I only wish that I could make this contribution larger.
but I feel sure many like me want to see this project brought
to a successful conclusion. I believe it will be done soon!
I must share a couple of experiences with you. When I
received your Advocate telling of the first contribution to
the fund, I decided I wanted to be counted in on such a pro-
ject. But due to the fact my allotments home leave me with
little money over here and also faced with the immediate
purchase of winter uniforms, I knew I would have to look
elsewhere for money to accomplish my desire. I soon thought
of the German pistol I had found on a Tunisian battlefield.
They were bringing fabulous prices. I determined to sell
mine and turn the money into the fund. I was ready to do
this, and had a purchaser, but an order came out forbidding
such a thing; therefore I have had to do the next best thing
and, as usual, the second best things are not quite as good '
as the primary ones.
One Sunday evening last month I was privileged to
speak in a little Methodist church here in the big city of
this part of Africa. I thoroughly enjoyed the service. I had
taken two truck loads of Methodist soldiers in with me for
the service. The little church was packed with soldiers and
native Methodists. Prior to our arrival we decided we would
like to make a love offering for the little church. When the
final count was made I found we had a gift of francs and
American dollars that amounted to $124.30. This we sealed
in a large envelope and at the conclusion of the Scripture
lesson we presented it to them. They were unable to know
what it amounted to at the time and the gracious, humble
and wholly Christian manner in which they accepted it
would have moved your heart as it did ours.
The pastor, Rev. Cesar Bardet, is a wonderful man. He
is French. Speaks a little English. With his little English
`1 and my little French we can have a fair conversation. He
is seventy and doing a marvelous task.
Madamoiselle E. Giudici, a member of the church, who
speaks English, French, Italian and Aarabic. was my inter-
preter for the service. I would speak a sentence or two,
then she would speak to the congregation in French. It was
such a joy to sing "What a friend we have in Jesus" in Eng-
lish and they sing it at the same time in French. Though I
couldn't understand it, there was a sense of joy and peace
that came to my heart. I tried to speak on the topic, "Spir-
itual Things Aren't Rationed," based upon John 10:10. These
good people have known bitterly much about rationing.
They agreed with me that though food and clothing and
......,,,;
I shall try to�have this pleasure t:
This leaves me well and quite
spiritual interest of my menj Ou
hunger for loved ones and a sjght
Give my regards to our mptua
Cordially our:
r
American Soldiers Beaten With Rifle Butts
In Horror March' From Nazi Prison. Camps
By WES GALLAGHER
Wefenbuttle, Germany, April
—(Delayed)—(!✓').—American sc
diens, part of 2,000,000 Allied pri
oners of war and slave labore
liberated so far on German s4
told today of a "horror marc.
under the Nazi whip as brutal
that perpetrated by the Japane
In the Philippines.
They were the half -starve
weary, footsore doughboys libera
ed by the British Second Armor
- Division and who bad been fore
to march from eastern prise
camps as the Germans fled t
Soviet drive.
This is not the first time such
story has been told.
American captives freed
nearly every front tell of the ho
ror of that frozen march, of bea
ings when the members lagged,
the weak left to die in the sno
How many died no one cou
say, but they were many as fra'.
tic guards strove to keep she;
of the Russians.
One veteran from the Italie
front said his march began fm
far-off Danzig, where they h
bean tm&Wd falr7/ gall bvt poo
ly fed.
Then the Nazi mask slipped
Two pieces of bread was the d
If the sick fell out, they w
beaten with rifle butts until tl
got up again. If they couldn't
up, they were allowed to ride
a car for a day, but the next.(
they were left behind if they s
could not make it.
As the line tramped westw;
It was joined by other columns
British and Americans until th
were thousands of them slogg
along the frozen roads.
They slept in the open in an
or rain.
"They treated us like dogs," s
one soldier.
There might havelbeen morel
behind on the Polish plain, or
Eastern Germany, but the Brit
and American prisoners shat
the little food they had and hell
each other to march along.
One prisoner captured in
Ardennes on the western fri
Jan. 22 said he had been "we
Ing ever since" and after los'.
40 pounds was down to 80. 1
ithw sddier i0A 80 pounds
THEY COVER THE WATER
#00\ FRONT -C. 151. ("Coon") Mas-
ten and his horse, "Fox," have
( been traveling companions for
v_ eight consecutive years. cover -
Ing approximately 60,000 miles
together, all of It along Win-
ston-Salem's "water front."
Seven days a week they patrol
the city's lake shores, rain or
shine. "Fox" wears out aset of;
shoes about every three or four
weeks. This saddle, somewhht
the worse for wear, has been
in use for nearly 20 years. Sad-
dles'are hard to get these days)
the veteran of 25 years in patrol
work said yesterday. — (Staff
Photo.)
Most of those liberated so fart
have been Frenchmen, both war;
prisoners and slave laborers. It W
estimated that 1,000,000 Prench-;
men alone have been freed.
(The Palish Press News Agency
from Moscow said that among
American, British, French, Polish
and Russian prisoners just liberat-
ed on the eastern front were some
who had been forced to make an
eight-day march.
(This account said many djed of
starvation, exposure and torture,
that the Germans employed dogs
and rifle butts to make them move
along, and some were 'shot afterl
they became too weak to walk.
(After being forced to walk)
about 20 miles daily, the Polish
statement said, the prisoners were
quartered in open fields near Lau -I
enberg, in Pomerania, for five'
weeks. They were liberated as the
Germans began driving them back
toward Danzig.
(The agency declared that some
prisoners were released from a,
concentration camp at Stutthof, on
the Bay of Danzig east of Danzig
and described as "a place of hor-
ribit aawotstiona." I
Sergi; John S. Evans of Spring-
field, S. C., holds a Japanese
child rescued by troops of the
U. S. 77th Infantry Division who
braves Jap machine gun fire to
frustrate mass suicide by civil-
ians on Tokashtki Shims in the
opening stages of the battle for
Okinawa Island.—(AP Wire.
photo and Signal Corps Radio.)
Stories of "Living .bell" in
,,Cast Pall Over Occupation
Tokyo Bay (Ap).—More chap-
ters of the horror of existing
for months in the "living hell"
of Japanese prisons came from
the pallid lips of liberated
American war prisoners yester-
day, casting a pall over occupa-
tion forces moving into con-
quered Nippon.
*imerican Army authorities
�ed the stories carefully for
ormation from which a list
of Japanese war criminals will
be compiled. Four military in-
quiry teams are questioning the
men, many free for the first
time in several years.
The Americans are being.
asked about their experiences
In Japanese jails. Simultan-
eously. Japanese concentration
camp authorities are being in>
vestigated as a result of reports
of brutal, inadequate treatment
at many of the prisoner of war
camps.
Meanwhile, on the American
hospital ship Benevolence in
Tokyo Bay American prisoners
were being "screened" day and
night and, after medical care,
were transferred to other ships
for repatriation.
Capt. Frederick L. McDaniel
of Alexandria, Va.. senior medi-
cal officer, revealed that few
mental cases were being found
by his staff.
Not a single case of insanity
was found among the first 1,518
liberated prisoners examined.
McDaniel said, however, that
"about one-fourth of those we
have hospitalized. are sufferinc
from tuberculosis due to mal-
nutrition and poor hygiene."
The others are mostly cases of
beriberi, dysentery, anemia and
extreme malnutrition, he added.
American prisoners arriving
at the hospital ship Benevo-
lence vividly described to au -
Japanese Prison Camps
Activities of Americans
thoritics their lffe in the enemy
"hell camps."
Among the hudreds of sick
but happy American soldiers to
arrive aboard the ship were two
children and four women—one
81 years old. They were British
and American misisonaries and
their children who had been in
a Tokyo civilian internment
camp.
The AmWcans were Miss
Lois Kramer, 54, daughter of
Mrs. Lydia G. Kramer, Naper-
ville, Ill., an evangelical mis-
sionary to Japan for 28 years,
and Mrs. Mary Mescheriakoff,
43, whose husband Is in,` San
Francisco. With Mrs. Mescher-
iakoff were her two children,
Millie, 9. and Tom, 6.
Aboard the Benevolence the
Americans told of rough and
brutal experiences in Japanese
concentration camps.
Lieut. Henry J. Flanagan of
Bridgeport, Conn., one of nine
men out of a crew of 81 to sur-.
viva the Japanese sinking of
the American submarine Tang,:
told of being beaten in Omori;
pAson camp.
"We were often hit by Jap
anese guards especially after!
being questioned, but we never
knew why," Flanagan related:
"I lost. 50 pounds � eating rice
soup which was all we had," he
added.
One of the survivors of Ba-
taan told of the horror aboard
the "Beecher's Boat," a Jap-
anese ship carrying American
prisoners to Japan. He de-
scribed how thirst -crazed
Americans were given almost
no water and slashed their own
veins and drank the blood.,
Only 500 of the 1,500 Ameri-
cans on the ship are believed to
have survived the trip.
NAZIS O N TRIAL FOR tion campshn asiBelsen t In thecprisonters' I inn th s rne picture ware: (1) Josef
CRIMES IN CONCENTRATION I dock during a session of their I Kramer, known as the "Beast
�1ICAMPS — Nazi defendants, trial before a British military of Belsen"; (2) Fritz Klein, (3)
charged with crimes at the Os- court at Lueneburg. Germany. Peter Weingartner. At lower
n -
wood, defense counsel for Kra-
mer and three other defendants.
—(AP Wirepholo by Peter J.
Carroll, staff photographer).
, Horror -a
Jy,f!
Proisonil
Y t
.of Jap
ter,
;For 34
onth,l_
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HOT[OIrs
tilizer plant.
The prisoners were supposed to
receive a Red Cross package each
week. Col. Hardee said they re
calved 6 1-2 package during the
entire 34 months. They were al -
i lowed to write a postal card
home, first 50 and later 25 words,
every two months but his fam-
ily only received four during the
entire time.
In one prison camp Col. Har-
dee worked on a farm for the
Japs but they were not allowed
to have any more food. Rather
than let -the American prisoners
have avacados, bananas or co-
coanuts which contained many
necessary vitamins for nourish-
ment, the Japs allowed them to
rot. The surplus vegetables went
to the local civilian Jap popula-
tion or were shipped out.
Both officers and men who
were prisoners were treated
alike. The Japs were supposed to
pay them when they worked but
they charged against the pay
of officers all articles Issued at
fabulous prices. For instance,
the colonel said he had a sou-
venir shoestring which cost
Iiim $37.50. Most of the money
the prisoners were supposed to
have been given for their work
was placed in a savings account
�'D0
in a bank and when t
they destroyed the p;
took the money.
Col. Hardee estima
American prisoners
about 5 per cent o
calved for their mi
they were taken pri
the money, Jew(
watches, food, med
seized.
He estimated that
Japs about five cent
feed the American
and in one place
worked on the farm i
Ing. because the pri
duced the food. Pri
driven into the fie)
either with.bleeding,
wooden shoes becaus
of the Saps of escap-
,, Many Americans
on the pretext that t:
.tempting to escape.
When the Japs mi
can prisoners out of
Dine s they placed the
ships which had n
Identification, cram
Into the hold of the
was battened down.
food were let down I
5 -gallon oil can. M:
the trip to prison ca
of the Philippines an
lost when the Jap sh:
pedoed by Americas
Of the 15,000 Americans tak-
en prisoner by the Japs In the
Awell-loaded gun at home
Philippines, it was the Colonel's
'
the best assurance of peace
opinion that only 20 per cent
the opinion of Cal. Daiid L. Har
would be found to have sur -
dee; who spent 34 months as
vived.
prLnp& of war of the Japs. He
On the "Death March" the
-,spoke at the high school build
American prisoners were forced
•ing-Tuesday as a guest of the
to march between 80 and 125
%Mocksvllle Rotary club.
miles in the hot sun without any
"I have been asked whether
sufficient food, either morning
II'the atomic bomb will end wars,"
or evening, none at noon, no
ICo1.:Hardee said. "IvUl not an-
water, and no rest periods. Those
1liswerr that question but I will
who became exhausted were kill -
point out that -for 2,000 years,
ed by the Japs.
man has been talking about end-'
The Saps carried off Filipino
ing wars. and each war has been
women to satisfy the lust of Jap
a war to end all wars. Science
men and then killed men who
t
has Invented various weapons
protested such debauchery.
Which it was thought would end
The base of the food given
war but it didn't. I will only.
prisoners were rice and soup. The
say that the best assurance of
soup has a sweet potato base.
peace is a well -loaded gun at
The idea of the Japs was to sys-
home.
jj tematically starve the prisoners
Col. Hardee served in the Phil-
to death. When a large num-
ippines as a member of Gen.
bei died, they simply moved the
staff. He was tak-
rest to another camp where the
en prisoner at Bataan, was a
performance was continued.
,MacArthur's
member of the famous "Death
Once in a great while the pris-
' March," last 70 ppunds during
oners would be issued 150 pounds
his Imprisonment. He has been
from the carcass of a caribou. It
In the army 28 years.
had to feed between 1,000 and
He talked frankly of the Jap
2,000 and it.was therefore neces-
atrocities and said that the Japs
sary to grind it up, bone and all,
denied prisoners of war the
to go into soup. If each prisoner
,/1
necessities of life which any civil-
: received a few spoonfuls, he felt
lzed country would give to the
thankful and hoarded it. About
worst criminals. It was his opin-
three times a month fish was
lon that It would take 20 years
issued, sometimes fresh fish but
to sow the' seds of democracy in
usually dried ones. The fish head
.�
Japan and 50 years for the seed
was ground up and everything
i to bear fruit.
eaten except the lens of the eyes.
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HOT[OIrs
tilizer plant.
The prisoners were supposed to
receive a Red Cross package each
week. Col. Hardee said they re
calved 6 1-2 package during the
entire 34 months. They were al -
i lowed to write a postal card
home, first 50 and later 25 words,
every two months but his fam-
ily only received four during the
entire time.
In one prison camp Col. Har-
dee worked on a farm for the
Japs but they were not allowed
to have any more food. Rather
than let -the American prisoners
have avacados, bananas or co-
coanuts which contained many
necessary vitamins for nourish-
ment, the Japs allowed them to
rot. The surplus vegetables went
to the local civilian Jap popula-
tion or were shipped out.
Both officers and men who
were prisoners were treated
alike. The Japs were supposed to
pay them when they worked but
they charged against the pay
of officers all articles Issued at
fabulous prices. For instance,
the colonel said he had a sou-
venir shoestring which cost
Iiim $37.50. Most of the money
the prisoners were supposed to
have been given for their work
was placed in a savings account
�'D0
in a bank and when t
they destroyed the p;
took the money.
Col. Hardee estima
American prisoners
about 5 per cent o
calved for their mi
they were taken pri
the money, Jew(
watches, food, med
seized.
He estimated that
Japs about five cent
feed the American
and in one place
worked on the farm i
Ing. because the pri
duced the food. Pri
driven into the fie)
either with.bleeding,
wooden shoes becaus
of the Saps of escap-
,, Many Americans
on the pretext that t:
.tempting to escape.
When the Japs mi
can prisoners out of
Dine s they placed the
ships which had n
Identification, cram
Into the hold of the
was battened down.
food were let down I
5 -gallon oil can. M:
the trip to prison ca
of the Philippines an
lost when the Jap sh:
pedoed by Americas
ns tak-
in the
!olonel's
er cent
ve sur -
:h" the
forced
and 125
,out any
morning
con, no
.s ''ose
•e�cill-
Filipino
;t of Tap
ien who
ery.
)d given
:cup. The
Ltc base.
Ls to sys-
prisoners
ge num-
Loved the
there the
nued.
the pris-
50 pounds
aribou. It
1,000 and
)re neces-
.e and all,
i prisoner
ls,Aq, felt
I pout
(� was
a fish but
fish head
werything
f the eyes.
like a fer-
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In a bank and when the Taps ieft
no way of knowing that ma
they destroyed the passbook and
their comrades were on the
AOTIOIS
took the money.
Col. Hardee estimated that ou
tillzer plant.
Col. Hardee estimated that the
4.200 sent out only about 500 s
The prisoners were supposed to
American prisoners got only
vived.
receive a Red Cross package each
about 5 per cent of value re:
The prisoners 1n the camps
week. Col. Hardee said they re-
ceived for their money. WheA
were allowed only room enough
Geek.
he
6 1-2 package during the
they were taken prisoner all of
on the floor to sleep—just the
entire 34 months. They were
the money, jewelry, wrist
space required for one man.
lowed to write a postal card
watches, food, medicines were
Rather than give the prisoners
home, first 50 and later 25 words,
seized.
more room, other quarters were
every two months but his fam-
He estimated that it costs the
nailed up by the Japs.
fly only received four during the
Japs about five cents a meal to
When he was transferred to a
entire time.
feed the American prisoners—
prison camp in Manila which
In one prison camp Col. Har-
and in one place where they
was an abandoned penitentiary
dee worked on a farm for the
worked on the farm it cost noth-
Col. Hardee was able to get a
Japs but they were not allowed
Ing because the prisoners pro-
bath for the first time In over
to have any more food. Rather
duced the food. Prisoners were
two years. On all sides his com-
than let hhe American prisoners
so ersco-
driven Into the field to work,
panions remarked that "It was
have avocados, bananas
have
either with.bleeding, bare feet or
Heaven."
coanutwhich contained many
wooden shoes because of the fear
-'While the American public
necessary vitamins for nourish-
of the Japs of escape.
will be hearing about Jap atro-
ment, the Japs allowed them to
Many Americans were killed,
-. cities for some time to come, no
rot. The surplus vegetables went
on the pretext that they were at-
,one can ever understand the full
to the local civilian Jap popula-
measure of the slavery except
tion or were shipped out.
.tempting to escape,
those who underwent the cruel
officers and men who
When the Japs moved Ameri-
_ .ties and barbarism;' Cal. Hardee
were prisoners were treated
were
can prisoners out of the Philip -
.
alike. The Japs were supposed to
pines they placed them on prison
said.
pay them when they worked but
ships which 'had no means of
they charged against the pay
identification, cramming them
of officers all articles issued at
Into the hold of the ship which
i fabulous prices. For instance,
was battened down. Water and
the colonel said he had a sou-
food were let down to them in a
venir shoestring which cost
5 -gallon oil can. Many died on
j him. $37.50. Most of the money
the trip to prison camps outside
the prisoners were supposed to
of the Philippines and many were
have been given for their work
lost when the Jap ships were tor -
was placed In a savings account
pedoed by Americans who bad
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Cor
CPL. R. C. GREGORY of Cooleemee is seen above when he
weighed 97 pounds on Nov. 1, 1943, while a prisoner of the
Japs. At one time his weight was down to 73 pounds.
COOLEEMEE BOY TELLS OF JAP
BRUTALITY WHILE A PRISONER
Cpl. R. C. Gregory, son of Mr.
and Mrs. Romey C. Gregory of
Cooleemee, is another one of
those American boys who went
through the "death march" from
Bataan and subsequent brdtal-
ity by the Japs and lived to tell
the story.
At the age of 17 he quit the
9th grade in the Cooleemee high
school to join the army in March
(� of 1941. He went to the Philip-
pines in November of that year
and was captured on Bataan on
April 9, 1942.
Now back at home, he relates
some of the horrors he endured
mhila . n.nHvc .,r she rte..,.
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DR. LONG BACK HOME
Taylor Howard" writem from Weis•-- I
baden, Gormany. Aug. 21 --Dear Mr Bruner.—i
Have boon roceiving the Tidinge, from
you at Advent, as well as the 1headonia,
NTewse Enjoy both, and especially the ser-
monw which�have-boen`an inspiration to
me. I hope to seg you about Christm%se
,.Is are building bridgeal across the
Rhine river. These bridges are much -T
higher, to lot the large boats go'undere
:9hile'stationed at Heidonheim, Gers
for two months, a town of '30,000 people,
which had not boon bombed, I found the
people real nice to usi Thrul'a Lutheran
pastor I met a Moravian family, who were
so happy to meet a Moravian from America*
I carried my Sorvice—mants Moravian Tex;
book with me, which introduced me to there
They showed me theirs, but in german.
The :vhole family except the father, could
speak english. They were real Christian
people, and I .could toll it the minute I
walked into thier dome. You can always
find good people, where—ever you'traveI.
Love to all the Macedonia people. Taylor,
DR. WILLIAM M. LONG of Mocksville,. who was recently dis-.
charged as a major in the U. S. Medical Corps after 41 months
service both at home and abroad, is back home again. He is
now renovating the clinic which he formerly operated and hopes
to be able to resume his practice within a few days. Miss
Margaret Blackwood and Miss Nell Holthouser, who were for-
merly associated with him and who likewise were in service,
have resu>W their old pasts. Dr. Long expects to have hisµ;
family join Stn at their home here 'on old Salisbury street
very shortly. At present they are in Louisiana. The recent
picture above was made when he was returning home front
England on the Queen Mary.
Sgt Joe E.DowU4 of Okinawa writes,
Dear IIr Bruder,
I been thinking, about
you, and. all the geed .people around Mac-- i.
doniar-I was glad .you accepted the call
to betiorie pastor of our bongregatiorr.
. I bope I can soon be able to see all
the wonderful improvements ithat ham been
made at Woodonigo Thrul.' the •TIDIa1GS.
Maurice C12ne located me,ind,came by:•for
a chat. Give ny, best regards to:'every o:(
at kdicedonias is ever, Joe.,;
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(Continued From Page 1)
the Woolley$ moved to Sarasota,
Fla., where Captain Woolley
helped set up the base and served
as instructor. There they met an-
other pilot by the name of Charles.
P. Hardy, from Augusta, Ca.
Hardy'had been in service since)
1940, and he had just come back)
from two years in Panama. He
too was an instructor; and he and
Captain Woolley became fast
friends. Hardy often visited Cap-,
Iain Woolley and Mrs. Woolleyl
(the former Miss Grace Hogan of
Charlotte) in their home.
By and by. Hardy went to the'
Aleutians, where he participated
'n the battles of Attu and Kiska.
He had been there scarcely two
nonths when one of his old stu-
fonts from Sarasota came in and
sold him that Captain Woolley had
)een killed in a training flight..
Hardy wrote to Mrs. Woolley;
ind when he came back from the
lleutians, he flew up to see her
me week -end.
In the meantime. Judy had conte
long, and when she was just. 3
nonths old, she received the Air
at Charlotte to. safety. Thi
mony was at Basic Trainin
ter No. 10 in Greensboro
ORD), and Judy had her
in The Sentinel:
At that time she and her i
were living with Mrs. We
an new ad, ueuf. Col. - •_• •amu•=.-„i-,aw, me. ana
at.,. Hardy, who flew 50 missions in a P38 named for her. Judy's real father, also a Pilot, was killed in a plane ;Mrs. H. W. Cox, in Winston-Salem,
ish before she was born.—(Staff Photo.) Later they :were joined by Mrs,
♦ Woolley's mother, Mrs.. Lillian
By FRANCES GRIFFIN I,1 - • Covington --
rs,.rr w,nea <«�, Hardy then was sent to ORD in
Judy” was a P-38. And a trusty) ` x i '- Greensboro awaiting orders -for
ter she was, sticking right with 1 # ' n" more overseas duty. - And he carie
to
pilot through the thickest of 1(✓inston Salem often io call oh
les -:of Italy. She never let him ` JudY.,and i"ier mother -
-n but when their 50 dangerous)�; b Then in Sept 1944, he was sent
sons were over, "Judy" settled a ., _' to Italy to be commanding officer
n at her base in Italy and' ` `:#�-t E :�of a P-38 squadron. When he
rued her Pilot leave—lease for } -: found which P-38 was to be his
P t
+ and the real Judy.i< 'f s �,. '� si in the missions to come, he named
cgir day afternoon, the real ,,, ' > per. °"' ^m - the plane "Judy," and had that
a '?-year-old bundle of enjname painted plainly on the ship's
heard the roar of airplanes - rr r,nose.
head. She tugged at the hand' y. fi:fy:i=f,•y"=r- , ••er From that time until May,. 1945,
:er new dad. "C'mon ' she _ i � �,.� i (Colonel Hardy flew "Judy" in the
f11
And hand-in-hand the t '''• I it°a1°� ) t , various kinds of bombing, strafing,
by little blonde and the tall «, i( } ra"(�I' • rt y #, and escort - missions which that
enant colonel wearing pilot's He -and Mrs..
s went out into the yard to „ 4Woolley corresponded during that;
he planes.
e story of both Judy and her time, and"he sent_ back lots of plc -I
F,:' ��•0
sca6e began several year tures f "Judyr
$r " it After he had led the last com-
e. en -before she was born .. - I bat mission of the 82nd Fighter
iy's [other and mother Cap- w., '�- (Group and the 15th Air Force, he
,nd Mrs. Cloyd Woolley, were]
.. r,� R • ni* , deft "Judy" and returned to the'
t in Charlotte, where Cap-' :� ,-y. 't 4� ,!Isla tcs where he was sent. once
Woolley (then a lieutenanq F «;.(more to ORD in Greensboro.
in instructor at Morris Field. 'rl And then his visits to Winston-
uiy 8, 1942, a student pilot; w'r> ; Win. g. r'Silem, and to Judy and her moth -
rapped in the air by a seveie �� T �'�- ler became more and more fre-
ir�`torm. As soon as it be-. u
gent that the student'lIq On Wednesday, Aug. 22, in a
i, 1 be unable to make a' ">� I ceremony at the home of Dr.
a, Woolley took off in, a .�;- �-t rCharles Stevens, Mrs. Woolley be-
g" )mg on nuU'umentc n; ;•.,���. r z -same Mrs. Charles P. Hardy.
,,,aiher, he made conl•ntl' "x •-d a .� �)� Titin morning Colonel Har•dyi
strident pilot and led him COLONEL HARDY (then sporting a mustache) Is shown here with the lane whuh ,ten 'nasi. ,•--- _
P :rbw Via$ 6q s$ausnopPt rue asi.
ndi"g he named "Judy" for the little girl whose mother he married here 'usl a week $').tans Puluayal$ atrp)1
, after this inriden;,' 1 \ D -
ago. Colonel Hardy flew 50 missions in Italy as commanding officer of a P33 .oq-Ilaq 11341 u1o.1J Iga10 a bl
6 Flier. rage z) squadron. He returned 10 the Slates in May. i :hn.irip in() Iganaiq •puno� pub 1
ALTHOUGH A HEARTY M]UL was ready for him when
Picture was made at the New Grand Hotel in Yokohama,
Johnathan Wainwright still "dreams of ham and eggs" "8
-� my release Pve had bacon and eggs—but if you only B
how I had dreamed d of Lam aad—" said the most far
war. prisoner._
GOOD NEWS FOR A MAIMED
HERO—Pfc. Charlie Lane, 24 -
year -old maimed war hero from
Crichton, near Mobile. Ala.,
grins happily in Lawson General
Hospital at Atlanta, Ga., after
reading a telegram, informing
him the people of Mobile have
raised more than .$3,000 to start
blm -in buslness. Blasted by a
i
11
mine in Germany. Charlie lost
both feet, eight fingers and his
right eye. The public subscrip-
tion campaign on his behalf was
started by the Mobile Press Reg- .
tster, hnd has been going less i
than a week. Sergt. Tom FInne- Ur
gan, public relations officer at
Lawson Hospital, stands besiide.1. 1.
Charlie's chair.—(AP Photo.)
I
32:2��,
Waiting for examination. At the railroad stafion. in Hersfeld, a group of PW's
lines up for medical exams before going to Camp Hesse to be processed and
discharged. Some 150/. of mosf groups require extended medical treatment.
(Shoal Coro. fob. from Aare)
--)o-Happy mo-
ment. Having
passed through the
processing routine
at Camp Hesse in
Hersfeld, this lucky
man found his wife
waiting for him.
About 67% of the
returned men need
six months of rest.
I/ l
Are Filed Here
.The following boys have filed
their discharges during the past
week in the office of the regis-
ter of deeds: Pvt. Bruce H.
Spry, route 3; • Pfc. Washington
H. Steelman, route. 1, Woodleaf,
from the army. John Wiley:
SaSey, aviation fire controlrman
3-C, Cooleemee, and Cecil San-
ford Sain S 1-C, route 1, Mocks-
viElle, from the navy.
M.,
:.l
.4 6-.1
Cooleemee; Cpl. William D. Rob -1
ertson, Rt. 2, Advance; T-5 Hen- !
ry C. Tombinson, city.
More Boys
Discharged
Nine . discharges were. Sled last
week in the office of C. R. Vog-
ler, register of deeds. They were:
Charlie Lindburg McClamrock,
S 1c, Mockaville; Pfc. Espy L.
Shoaf, Cooleemee; Sgt. Walter
W. Osborne, Rt. 4; Cpl. Xeno-
phon C. Hunter, Cana; T-5 Ar -
vel E. Flynt, Advance; Pfc. Boyd
G. Pack, Rt. 1, Advance; Sgt.
Rosemary Livengood, WRAC, Ad_
vance; Cpl. James B. Barnhardt,
Rt. 3; Pfc. Rhober P. Martin,
Jr., Mocksville.
MuRt BUY)
DISCHARGED
The following 13 discharges
were Sled last week in the of- j
fice of Register of Deeds C. R. ;
Vogler:
Army: T-5 James F. Keller,
Winston-Salem; P-fc. Lester J.
Keller, City; Sgt. Hugh F. Wag-
ner, Rt. 4; Pfc. Joseph R. Brown,
Winston-Salem; Pvt. Edward A.
Peacock, Winston-Salem; S -Sgt.
Rufus Dwiggins, City; Cpl. Wil- i
Liam L. Wofford, Cooleemee; Pfc, i
John L. Bowles, Rt, 2; Pvt. Dew-
ey W. Ratledge, Rt. 1; and T-4
James C. Taylor, City.
Navy: Clarence W. Head, S 2-c,
Cooleemee; Woodrow W. Correll,
S 1-c, Salisbury; and Ronald E.
ieane, Cox, Rt. 3.
More Discharges .
Are Filed Here
. The following 15 discharges
were Sled last week in the of-
fice of C. R. Vogler, register of
deeds: deeds: ,
Army: T.-4 Hansford .L. Nich-
ols, Rt. 2; T-4 William E. King,
-Cooleemee; Plc. George G. Hart-
man, PM 2, Advance; Pic. Wiley
A. Ellis, Cooleemee; Pfc. Jacob
i:
W. Byerly, Rt. 5, Winston-88-
1em; Pfc. James H. Jones, Rt. 1;
T-5 Fred C. Wall, Rt 2; S -Sgt.
Howard N. Binkiey, Rt 2.
Navy: Raymond L. Pierce, CM
-3-c,-Cooleemee; Charles F. Bean,
-MM 3-c; Cooleemee;: William D.
McCann, Jr., S 1-c, Rt. 61 Win;.
stun -Salem; Avery H. Hartman,
MrMM 3-c, Rt. 1, Advance; Jas.
P, Ladd, GM 3-c, Rt, 2; Charlie
W. Howard, S 1-c, Rt. 1, Ad-
vance; Lawrence C. Miller, Stk,
3-c, Cooleemee.
• v :ice
mare -gloriously knit'`of I00'•.�
it`
Eight Davie Boys
,i
Get Discharges
Eight Davie boys filed their
discharges from the army dur-
.Ing the past week. They are:
Pfc. Grady L: Tutterow, route
2; Sgt. Wr W. Ferebee, Qana;
St. Sgt, a W. Smith, city;
.EN :
Pvt. John R. Cook, route 4; Cpl.
t ,
David • E: Smith, route' 1, Ad-
`
vane; Pfc. Claude R. Beard, Jr.,.
M.,
:.l
.4 6-.1
Cooleemee; Cpl. William D. Rob -1
ertson, Rt. 2, Advance; T-5 Hen- !
ry C. Tombinson, city.
More Boys
Discharged
Nine . discharges were. Sled last
week in the office of C. R. Vog-
ler, register of deeds. They were:
Charlie Lindburg McClamrock,
S 1c, Mockaville; Pfc. Espy L.
Shoaf, Cooleemee; Sgt. Walter
W. Osborne, Rt. 4; Cpl. Xeno-
phon C. Hunter, Cana; T-5 Ar -
vel E. Flynt, Advance; Pfc. Boyd
G. Pack, Rt. 1, Advance; Sgt.
Rosemary Livengood, WRAC, Ad_
vance; Cpl. James B. Barnhardt,
Rt. 3; Pfc. Rhober P. Martin,
Jr., Mocksville.
MuRt BUY)
DISCHARGED
The following 13 discharges
were Sled last week in the of- j
fice of Register of Deeds C. R. ;
Vogler:
Army: T-5 James F. Keller,
Winston-Salem; P-fc. Lester J.
Keller, City; Sgt. Hugh F. Wag-
ner, Rt. 4; Pfc. Joseph R. Brown,
Winston-Salem; Pvt. Edward A.
Peacock, Winston-Salem; S -Sgt.
Rufus Dwiggins, City; Cpl. Wil- i
Liam L. Wofford, Cooleemee; Pfc, i
John L. Bowles, Rt, 2; Pvt. Dew-
ey W. Ratledge, Rt. 1; and T-4
James C. Taylor, City.
Navy: Clarence W. Head, S 2-c,
Cooleemee; Woodrow W. Correll,
S 1-c, Salisbury; and Ronald E.
ieane, Cox, Rt. 3.
More Discharges .
Are Filed Here
. The following 15 discharges
were Sled last week in the of-
fice of C. R. Vogler, register of
deeds: deeds: ,
Army: T.-4 Hansford .L. Nich-
ols, Rt. 2; T-4 William E. King,
-Cooleemee; Plc. George G. Hart-
man, PM 2, Advance; Pic. Wiley
A. Ellis, Cooleemee; Pfc. Jacob
i:
W. Byerly, Rt. 5, Winston-88-
1em; Pfc. James H. Jones, Rt. 1;
T-5 Fred C. Wall, Rt 2; S -Sgt.
Howard N. Binkiey, Rt 2.
Navy: Raymond L. Pierce, CM
-3-c,-Cooleemee; Charles F. Bean,
-MM 3-c; Cooleemee;: William D.
McCann, Jr., S 1-c, Rt. 61 Win;.
stun -Salem; Avery H. Hartman,
MrMM 3-c, Rt. 1, Advance; Jas.
P, Ladd, GM 3-c, Rt, 2; Charlie
W. Howard, S 1-c, Rt. 1, Ad-
vance; Lawrence C. Miller, Stk,
3-c, Cooleemee.
• v :ice
mare -gloriously knit'`of I00'•.�
it`
,.., MORE BOYS
DISCHARGED
The . following eleven dis- .
'charges were mled' in' the office
of C. R. Vogler, register of deeds,
last week:
r. Army: T-5 • James C. Grubb,
Rt. 4; T -Sgt. Edward C. Le -
Grand, City; Pvt. Clifton W -
Grubb, Rt. 4; Pfc. Roger B.
Mock, Advance T -Sgt. John S.
Green, Rt. 1; Pfc. Felin Baker,
Rt 2; S -Sgt. ohn H. Campbell,
City; T-5 Ammer W. Hasch, Coo-
leemee; Cpl. Charlie G. Angell,
Rt. 2.
Navy: Kenneth Wiseman Be
F 2c, Rt. 4; David Gilmer Rl
ardson, Sr., Rim 3-c, City.
Marines: Pvt. Walter H,fo
MoreUschairges '
Are Filed Here
The following 15 discharges
were Sled last week in the of-
flee- of C. R. Vogler, register of
' deeds:
Army: T-4 Hansford* L.' Nich-
ols, Rt. 2; T-4 WHIlam E. King,
• Cooleemee; Pfc. George G. Hart-
man, Rt.. 2, AdvanceG. Wiley
A. Ellis, Cooleemee; P c, Jacob
W. Byerly, Rt. 5, Winston-Sa-
lem; Pfc. James H. Jones, Rt. 1;
T-5 Fred C. Wall, Rt 2; S -Sgt.
Howard N. Binkley, Rt 2. j
Navy: Raymond L. Pierce, CM
13=0; •Cooleemee; Charles F. Bean,
4'MM 3-c, • Cooleemee; William D.
I McCann, Jr., S 1-c, Rt. 6, Win- J
stun-Galem; Avery H. Hartman,
mxlm Vd 3-c, Rt. 1, Advance; Jas.
P. Ladd, GM 3-c, Rt. 2; Charlie
1 W. Howard, S 1-c, Rt. 1, Ad- `
vane; Lawrence C. Miller, Stk.
3-c, _ Cooleemee.
f
t
Yr nen i ne 1 roup L ra, Ala
Cease To Run
Rev Welter E. Isenhour. Hiddenite. N. C.
Over the hills and' 'round the
mountains,
Tbrough the valleys and the
plains,
Crossing rivers, streams and fouu-
tains,
Hasten manv whistling trains,
Loaded with the best and fairest
Of the sons we've labored for,
Whom we cherish as the rarest,
That are going forth to war. I
But there'll be a
time most won I
drous '
When the troop, trains cease to
run.
And the bomb and cannon thun-
d roes,
And the high powered, deadly
Run,
Shall no Ionger roar in battle,
Wounding, slaving, killing men,
Ann there'll be no arms to rattle
And no chilly "fox holes" then.•';
On the troop tt ains are our broth-
ers,
Husbands, friends and sweet-
hearts, too;
Yes, rhe sons of loving mothers
And dear fathers kind and true.
That are leaviog loved ones crying
While they march to battle lines,
Where there's moaning, groaning,
As the glare of battle shines.
Oh, so manv hearts are breaking
As our soldiers march away, ,
And so manv souls are acbing
As we seek a place to pray;
Bnt 'tis sweet, in boars of anguish
Just to trust the God of love;
Evan though our. spirits, langnwo,
-He Vill-bless us' from abovel
It will be a day of shouting
Waen the troop trains cease to
run,
.And no nation will be doubting
. , ..r .. Anrep•
DAVIE BOYS
/0"*N DISCHARGED
OR
Ls'
DAVIE BOYS
DISCHARGED
DAVIE BOYS
DISCHARGED
Several more Davie boys. have
The following Davie boys were
The following Davie boys re -
been discharged- from military'
-recently discharged from" mils-
cently were discharged from the
forces :..
service; laigeIy those who" fought
. Maryservice :
-armed . .
the Japs._
Sgt. Vivian V. Speaks, route 1.
Pvt. Glenn Bailey, R. 3.
'
f
Staff Sgt. Robert C. Evans of Advance.
Sgt. James C. Tutterow, R. 1�
Mocksville was discharged on
T-4 Lawrence L. Brown, route
W. Holman
August 26. He entered service on'
;
1, Cana.
lCharlie
Mocksville.
June 25, 1941, served overseas
Staff Sgt. Marion C. Worsham,'
,. .
C1tarles L: Deal, R.13.
at Guadalcanal and the North- i
Cornelius.
Cpl. Dumont D. Wright
ern Solomons.• He was with an
T-5 Herman T. Lankford, route,
Mocksville.
Anti Tank Co., 145th Infantry.
i Advance.
Staff Sgt. Peter W. Hendrix,
He has the Asiatic Pacific Thea- ' T -Sgt. Junius A. Craven,
R. 3. .
• ter Medal with two Bronze Stars,
Mocksville.
Pfc. Clovis Tenor, R. 4.
Good Conduct Medal and Amer-
Pvt. Glenn T. Carter; Mocks-
T-5 Benjamin C. Ellis, route '
scan Defense Service Medal.
ville.
Advance.
Pfc. Leo E. Jones of Route 4,
T-5 James E. Bumgarner. R. 1.
T-5 Calvin Holman, Mocksvillei
member of Battery C, 745th Anti
Cpl. Thurmon G. Draughn,
Staff Sgt. Harold E. iiamilto:
Aircraft Artillery Gun Battalion,
R. 1. `Lexington.
i was discharged on August 21.
' T-5 Harold C. Young, Mocks-
Pfc. Richard J. Markland, Ac
He entered service August 12,
vUle.
vance.
� •
1941, served overseas at Papuan,:*
-5 Roy E. Mousch, Cooleemee.
Pvt. Lee Goggins, R. 3.
East Indies and New Guinea. HeI
Pfc. C
Casper E. Barer, R. 2.
Pfc. Robert E. Beck, R. 2.
t
has the Asiatic Pacific Theater
Pfc. Robert L. Foster, Mocks-
Pfc. Gobble Howard, R. I.
Campaign Medal . with three
ville.
Pfc. James D. Foster, Coolee
Bronze Stars, Distinguished Unit
Pfc. Calvin C. Gaither, route
mee.
:Badge, Good Conduct Medal,
1, Harmony.
Pfc. Lonnie R. McCulloh,
American Defense Service Medal.
Pfc. Carl M. Rogers, R. 1.
Mocksville.
Pfc. George T. Dull, Co., F,'
T-5 Roy E. Mousch,, Cooleemee.
Pfc. Julius H. Barnes, route 1,
34th Infantrt was discharged on
T-5 Thomas N. Turrentine,
Advance.
on August 12, 1941 and was in' ,
R. 3.
Two were discharged from the,
the campaigns in the East In -navy:
Pfc. Roy T. Burton, route 1.
Gunners mate third class
dies, Papua and New Guinea. He
Advance.
Harold Edward Mayes, Coolee-
has the American Theater Cam-
Pfc. James R. Carter, route 2, �
mee, and Boatswain's mate fir
class John Frank Turner, rou
paign Medal, American Defense.
Service Medal, Asiatic Pacific
Advance.
'
Theater Campaign Medal with
Pvt. Dallas S. Langston, Coo -
three Bronze Service Stars, Good:
leemee. ,
Conduct Medal, Distinguished!
Pharmacists mate first class
Uhit Badge.
Clarence Sloan Deweese of Coo-
- i
leemee was discharged from the
navy.
/,,.ft�
VAVIt BUYS
DISCHARGED
The following Davie boys re
cently received their honorabl
discharges from military service
Cpl.. Belvin Powell, - route 4.
Tech . 5 Hayes Powell, route 4
Pfc. Nell R. Holthouser, Mocks-
Ville.
ocks
Ville.
Pfc. Robert L. Williams, rout
1, Advance. _
Pic. Frank -1q.- Scott, route 2.
Pfc. Travis C. Smith, route 1,
Advance.
Pfc. Marshall. M. Gaither,
Statesville.
Pfc. Robert W. Parrish; route 4.
Pfc. Luther 'F Whitlock, Coo-
leemee.
Tech 5 John W. Dwiggins,
Mocksville.
Pfc. Woodrow Mabe, route 2.
Sgt. Thomas W. Talbert, Ad-
vance.
M. Haines H. Yates, Mocks-
ville.
Tech 5 William V. Smith, route
1, Advance.
Tech 5 Major Long, route 1.
Tech 3 Lee G. Smith, Mocks -
Ville.
Pfc. Roy W. Call, Mocksville.
Tech 5 Russell B. Wood, xtsute
1. Advance. i
Tech 4 Thomas W. Tutterow,
route 1.
'Pfc. James F. Williams; route'
1, Advance.
Three were discharged • from
the navy, including Baker Third
Class Avery Clement, Jr" Gun-
ners Mate Third Class Roy Fink
Alexander and Aviation Ma-
chinist Mate First Class William
Ward Ferebee.
DAVIE BOYS ¢a_
IDAVIE BOYS
DISCHARGED.j N ` !DISCHARGED
_ The following additional Davie The following additional Davie
_
ePfc.
e county boys were discharg4county
boys were recently dis-
, Prom military service:
Staff .Sgt. Ears M.. Tutierow�
charged from -military service: !
'4alis-.
R.. 1. .
Pfc. Norman' C.''Harris-
Pfc. Thomas R. Reavis, R. 1. ,,
bury.
Staff Sgt. Philip M. Stone
St. Sgt. Fred E. Williams, R.. 1,
street, Mocksville.
Advance.
John B. Anderson, R. 2.T=5
Harry G. Vogler, Coolee-'
Pfc. Lonnie G. Murphy; R. 2.
mee.
I
SgtWilliam C. Jones3.
Cpl. Marcus B. Alexander,
Pfc. John R.Wilsi R�. L.
Cooleemee.
ll
Pfc. Monroe Draughn, R-'2: 1
T-5 Thomas Rhynehardt, R. 2.
Sgt. Ray J. Thompson, R. 3.
S -t. Samuel L.
T-5 William L. Reavis, R. 2.
C -T-5 William C. Jones, R.
Cozart, Mocks-
ville
. Pfc. Jake M. Reynolds, -
T-5 Ralph L. Frye, Mocksville. !
leemee.
Cpl. Wallace B. Sparks, mocks-
Pvt. Press C. Robertson, R. 3.
ville.
Sgt. Thomas H. Seamon, R. 11 '
Sgt. Avalon G. Hutchins, Rich- I
Woodleaf.
.
mond, Va. =
T-4 Wayne M. Hanes, R. 1,
Pfc. Joseph G. Carter, Route 1,;'
Advance.
Advance.
St. Sgt. James C. Cook, Jr.,
T-5 Fred W. Bracken, R. 2.
R. 1, Advance.
Sgt. Thomas F. Jones, R. 3.
Sgt. Howard F. Smith, R. 2.
T-4 Richmond H. BaileY, Coo-
T-5 Graham W Call, R. 4.
leemee. Sgt. John W. Alby, R. 1, Ad- g
Sgt. J. V. Peebles, route 2, Ad-
Vance. '
vance. Those discharged from the I
Pfc. James O. Knox, mocks_ navy include Motor Machinist's
ville. Mate -first. class Grimes Lee Da -1
Those discharged. from to '• i vis, Cooleemee; Seaman second
navy included Water -tender third class Robert'Lee Boger, route 2;
class Richard Eugene Ridenhour Seaman first class Ralph Dan
Of Cooleemee; Seaman first class Doby, Harmonjr, rouse 1; Sea -
Gilbert Lourico Brown- of Los man flrst class Floyd Edgar
Angeles, Gunner's Mate second Craven, Mocksville.
class Clyde Eugene Neely of Coo- Corporal Jeff Bulla Welborn
leemee and Radioman third was discharged from the Ma -
class William Frederick Scott of; rines. ,
Cooleemee. j
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UAVIL bUY)UAVItBUY�
-DISCHARGED
:IUAVIL DU13
I
DISCHARGED DISCHARGED
The following additional Daviel
The following additional Davie
The following additional Da-
6: •unty boo were. recently dis-�
boys were recently discharged
vie boys have recently received
charged from military service:
i from military service:
their honorable discharge from
Sgt.. Walter... G. Jarvis, Coo -the
Pfc. Willie P. 'Allen, route ' 2,
armed services:
leemee.
t
• Advance.
Tech 5 Roy L. West, route 4;
T-5 Marvin C. Davis R. 4.
Cpl. Wiley Angell, R.'2.
Pfc. Joe C. Chaffin, Jr., route. 2;
Pfc. Felton Q.;Aaderson,_Salis-1
Sgt. Robert B. Josey, Coolee-
Tech 5 Charlie F. Cowart, Mocks -
bury.
mee.
ville; Sgt. Carl K. McDaniel,
Pvt. Gurnie G. Lash, Mocks-
Pfc. Arleius H. Revels, R. 2.
route 3; Pvt. George W. Hicks,
vMe.
Cpl. Ronnie C. Gregory, Jr.,
route 1, Advance; Tech. 5 Chas.
T-5 Green Isaac, * Mocksville.
; Cooleemee.
W. Walker, route 4; Sgt. Harvey
T-5 Leroy W. Niven, R. 3.plc.
James F .Walker, R. 4.
j B. Smth, route 4; Pfc. Sidney
Pfc. Thomas H. -Pennington-T.
Paul E. Sherrill, R. 1. •�
T• Garner, route 3.
Mocksville.
Sgt. Ray F. Sparks, route 1,
Cpl. James E. Speaks,:Jr., R. 2: •
1 T-4 Abram *'Anderson, 2. {
Sgt. Rufus B. Sanford, Jr.,
Mocksville; Pfc. Jake H. Walker,
R.
Advance.
T-5 John L. Anderson, Mocks-
route 4; Pfc. Hubert H. Hayes,
Cpl. Walter C. Allen, Jr., route i
ville.
route 1, Advance; Tech Sgt.
2, Advance. i
Those discharged from the
William C. Motley, route 4.
Staff Sgt. Thomas I. Shore,!
navy included Gunner's Mate
+ Sgt. John Harding White of
Cana.
third class Arthur Avilon Frye, I route 2 was discharged from the
Two were discharged from the
I
Mocksville; Storekeeper, third Marines and the following from
navy: Seaman first class Henry
class- Richard Paul Foster, St., the Nava:' Electrician's Mate
Sherrill Munday, Cooleemee;
route 1, Advance; Electrician's First Class Kenneth Oran Minor,
Seaman first class Henry Colon
Mate first class Harding Eugene Electrician's Mate Third Class
Green, route 4.
Wagner, route 2; Shipfitter sec- Howard Thomas Creason, Motor
Ship's Cook second class Dent i
and class Ralph Wesley Carter, Machinist's Mate Third Class
Bristol Williams was discharged
from the
Cooleemee; Pharmacist Ma ' Claude Morrison Ratledge.
coast guard,
•
second class Paul Gray Boger,
DAVIEMocksville. BOYS
- r� r.
.
+
I - - - UAVJ[ 6ViJ
DISCHARGED
DAVIE BOYS.;
MTHAPGR
The following additional Davie
boys were recently discharged
The following additional Da -
from military service:
vie boys were recently discharged
Pfc. Willie P. Allen, route 2,
from military service:
Advance.
Pfc. Edward E. Vogler, Ad-
-Cpl. Wiley Angell, R. 2.
vance.
Sgt. Robert B. Josey, Coolee-
Cpl. Sam Cartner, R. 4.
eI
Robert E. Wiseman, route 1,
Pfc. Arleius H. Revels, R. 2.
Cana.
pI. Ronnie C. Gregory, Jr.,
T-5 Lawrence R. Hairston,
uleemee.
; Mocksville.
'fc. James F .Walker, R. 4.
i Pfc. Edward W. Peebles, R. 2.
-5 Paul E. Sherrill, R. 1.
T-5 Lus A. Anderson, R. 4.
il. James E. Speaks, Jr., R. 2.
Sgt. James N. Ellenburg, Coo-
t Abram W Anderson, R. 2.
leemee.
John L. Anderson, Mocks-
Pfc. Thomas J. Sales, Coolee-
mee.
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3�0 p( ri poolee-
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911san
DINCHA
The followl
boys were r
from militar.
Pfc. Roy L.
Pfc. Frank
• Pvt. Jessie
napolls.
T-4 Willian
T-5 Gilmer
1, Cana.
Staff Sgt.
Alexandria,
Pfc. John
Cpl. Sam
Mocksville.
Pfc. Willie
T-4 B axtA
Mocksville.
Cpl. Rober4
T_-3 Nal cn.t,
E DAVIE BOYS
RE DISCHARGED
f The following additional Da-
vie county -boys were. recently
' discharged from military serv-
ice:
T-5 Wilbur McMahon, route 1,
Advance. .
gt
Harmony.
Cpl. Oscar B. Cook, route 4.
Sgt. James E. McNeely, Coo-
1eemee.
r Tech. Sgt.. Leo S.,Bowden, Jr.,
Pic. Silas Mr Daniels, route 2.
Pfc. Guy J. Cornatzer, Ad -
Vance.
i Cpl. Alvin E. Hartman, route
1, Advance.
IThose discharged from the j
} navy included James Hoyt Bai-
ley, route 2, Advance, and Sea-
� man second class Homer Elburt
-'
Potts, route 3. One marine was
Pfc. Wade Hampton
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al
DAVI E BOYS
TISCHARGED
The following Davie boys were I
recently discharged from mili-
tary service:
Aviation Cadet Clint L. Hege,
j Advance.
Cpl.* William B. Baker, R. 1.
i
Pfc. George H. Barnhardt,
R. 3.
i T-5 Garland H. Oakley, R. 4.
= T-5 Robert W. McKinley, R. 4.
,. T-3 Clarence E. Craven,
Mocksville. .
Pfc. Calvin W. Howard, Coo-
leemee. .
Pvt. Clyde. -.G. Bailey, R. 1, A8-
Vance: S•
Pvt. George H. Kimmer, R. 1.
Pfc.-'Fletcher E. Willia_ rd,4 R :
Advance. ,
Pfc. William. C. Blanton, R. 4.
Pfc. Benjamin F. Bowles, R: -i.
,T-5 Ernes4 •W. Frye, R. 3.
T-5 Foy D:,Bailey, R. 1.
Pvt. Daniel W. F`,reeman, R. 4
First' Sgt. lames F. Ridenhour
Cooieemee. 4 .."•� •
Pfc. Paul A. Potts, R. 1, Ac
vane.:. .
T-4 Roy $: White, R. 2.
Sgt. Roy T. F! steer, R. 3.
Pyt. YWa'll8 ce B: Benson, Coc
leemee.
Pvt. Jphnriie D. Davis, Mocks=
vllle.
Pfc. Ceci1H. Robertson, R.:�.,
Advance,
Pfc.: Baandol .(W. Duan; -R '
Advance.
Pfc. John K. Lefler, R. 4.
Pvt. Connie M. Long, R. 4
Staff Sgt. Buster. K. 2
Advance.
T-5 David W. Koontzi'R.
The following boys were
charged from the navy: Ohio
Commissary Steward Wilbur
Charles Turrentine, Radarms
f�1
second class John Harper Ac
ams, Gunner's Mate second cla
1 Cedric Vincent Smoot.
The following were discharge
from the Marines: Sgt. Robc
Efird Hoyle, Cpl. John G. Cra,
i ford, Jr., Pfc. Lester Clyde .; ar•
E DAVIE BOYS
RE DISCHARGED
f The following additional Da-
vie county -boys were. recently
' discharged from military serv-
ice:
T-5 Wilbur McMahon, route 1,
Advance. .
gt
Harmony.
Cpl. Oscar B. Cook, route 4.
Sgt. James E. McNeely, Coo-
1eemee.
r Tech. Sgt.. Leo S.,Bowden, Jr.,
Pic. Silas Mr Daniels, route 2.
Pfc. Guy J. Cornatzer, Ad -
Vance.
i Cpl. Alvin E. Hartman, route
1, Advance.
IThose discharged from the j
} navy included James Hoyt Bai-
ley, route 2, Advance, and Sea-
� man second class Homer Elburt
-'
Potts, route 3. One marine was
Pfc. Wade Hampton
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"GEE, BUT IT'S GREAT TO BE HOME—That's how it feels to United Press Correspondent -`-- -'
Leo S. Disher Jr., shown here with his beautiful blonde Czechoslovakian bride, Hanyi, at the
Disher home, 1214 Jefferson Street. Disher, Winston-Salem native, is UP Bureau chief in
Prague.
Disher Happy to Eat MothWs Cooking
After Hardships of Foreign Reporter _
A
B7 TED THOi1iPSON the average man in Prague. But signment of his reportorial lite— `_4�,,.,•,
[ sufficient. I the Allied invasion of North Af
After kicking in 20 bucks for ait was far from being
frugal luncheon in Switzerland the don't see how the others get rico. Spirited out of the London -
�along," he remarked. office of the United Press with
other day, United Press Foreign Bill Disher is 34 and a native of other newsmen, he was destined to
Correspondent Leo S. Disher Jr. Winston-Salem. He was a staff re- go with the invasion forces and
2s very happy indeed to be back porter for The Journal for four witness the unfolding of one of
home in Winston-Salem with his years, from 1933 to 1937. After history's most momentous chap -
feet under the parental dinner interwork with other news- ters.
table• papers and news agencies, he Wounded In Invasion
And so, also, is his beautiful joined the United Press bureau in For 12 days he sailed, and then
b 1 o n d e Czechoslovakian bride, New York in 1940. He wasn't long e time -eat Casablanca t oA warrs. sounded
f rom
Hanyi, to whom "Bill" Disher was to shipping overseas.
the
married in London in 1942 and Left U. S. in 1942 ill-fated H. M. S. Walney, a con -
who is in America for the first In January of 1942 he was verted nited Disher states Coast the Guard han
time in her young lite. among the first three correspond- cutter,
"No;' said Disher yesterday atlents to leave the United States boom across Oran harbor and the
his parents' home at 1214 Jet fer-I with the Atlantic Fleet. He had fireworks began.
son Street, 111 wouldn't exactly attempted to enlist in Naval In- The Walney met a withering fire
-
comment Europe for tourist travel telligence, but color - blindness that kiBut nearly
every
one
her
just now. In fact, it seems to me barred him.
that it will probably be a genera- For months afterward in 19421task. When it was over, a French
tion before Europe has economi- he served as a United Press war nurse stuck a cigarette between
oally, recovered." (correspondent on anti - submarines Disher's lips in a long hospital
Chief of Prague Bureau patrol and transport convoys, then ward and a doctor found a total
Disher was in Switzerland be- was transferred to duty aboard of 26 assorted holes in him.
For hof the
cause he had been sent there from Isubmarines, destroyers, battleships I landingstsatoOran, e Disher lrvas
Prague for hospitalization. Iniand aircraft carriers.
Prague he was chief of the United Finally he reached London and awarded the Order of the Purple
press bureau with a bureau staff1had checked his baggage in a res- Heart. But his stories of that ac -
of 29 newsmen. But the pace got l taurant when a messenger sum-' eircitin All
remain
e acolorfuamong
a the most
him after 14 months in that Czech- Ilia^dashed outhim to withthe courier— accounts of action to come out of
oslovakian capital.
"Overwork and undernourish- and later discovered that he didn't the war.
menta" they told me. 'Undernour-(remember the name of the restau- Bill is resting for the present at
be
ishment everywhere. Through the.rant. It took him two weeks to the Dere asheeekooretwor then back to
UP and other agencies the bureau locale h' lost baggage. on a day In New Yorkiand off again to Prague
staff managed to obtain a ration) Dishe - w•. to aero other European capital.
.ltowance three times as great as October,
Generation. Doesn't Knots Hard
Times; Has Seen Four Tars
pla,
f Iii
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coria.
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Tap
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Jap;
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`�k: Carrie v', u - r,•ky�
By RUTH LINDSAY
!Staff Wmenl
"This generation just doesn't
tow anything about hard times,"
vial Richard Joyce commented
.sterday on the eve of his 94th
And he should know, for he hast
lived through four wars and ex-
perienced their shortages even if
they didn't have ration books and
ceiling prices as we have had in
this war.
Joyce, who makes his home here
with his son, T. G. Joyce, at 2335
Elizabeth Avenue, says he can re-
member "just as though it were
yesterday" the day his father went
away to fight the Civil War.
Although he was only ten at the
time his father left, he was the
oldest of five children born to
Thomas and America Martin Joyce
and was, therefore, the head of the
family. "I just worked around the
best I could to help my mother
out," he said.
"You know, we didn't have any
sugar or coffee for four years, and
there wasn't very much to eat.
This generation just doesn't know
anything about hard times."
Each time he was asked a ques-
tion, the old gentleman would lean
forward and laugh, and those eyes
that had seen so much for so many
years would crinkle at the corners
when he said, "You know, the
worst part about getting old is that
you get deaf, too."
Although he couldn't hear the
radio broadcasts about the prog-
ress of this war, he kept up with
happenings every day in the news-
paper, and he was mighty glad
when the Japs agreed to the sur-
render terms.
"I have ten grandsons in this
war, " he stated, and :was quite
adamant when his daughter cor-
rected him on the statement. After
naming them over, he made the
daughter, Mrs. John W. Fulp, I
agree that he could also include
two boys who were married to hi;
granddaughters. You could tell)
that the spark hadn't gone out of
the old fellow by the way he
stuck to his guns in the disagree -
Joyce walked with only the aid
of a cane when he went out to the
garden to have his picture taken.
He works a little, raking the lawn
after the grass has been cut or
hoeing a bit in the back yard. but
most of his time is spent writing
to his friends, or his cousins up
in Rockingham County, [where he
was born, and sometimes writing
to those 10 grandsons of his.
He was married to the former
Sarah Hattie Vaughn in Rocking-
ham County, who died 21 years
ago. He has three sons, T. G.
.Joyce, with whom he lives: D. Coy
Joyce, of this city; and F. C. Joyce,
of Daytona Beach, Fla., and three
daughters, Mrs. John W. Fulp. Mrs.
W. H. Woodward and Mrs. A. C.
Newsome, all of this city. He also
has 20 grandchildren and 16 great-
grandchildren.
SNAPSHOT SAVES SOLDIER'S
LIFE—S/Sgt. Edward L. Steele
of Ypsilanti. Mich., 24 -year-old
gunner on a U. S. Flying Fortress
shot down over Germany last
April, 'arrives in Miami, Fla.,
from :overseas, and shows a
snapsgot of his wife and baby
which saved him from execution
by aNazi firing squad. Standing
by his own grave which he had
been forced to dig. Steele took
the snapshot from his pocket for
a last look as the Nazi gunners
Prepared to fire. Suddenly the
Germans lowered their guns and
took the picture from him: After
looking at it, they spared his
life.—(AP Wirephoto.)
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An Editorial In Piaui
,. %LF AN ACRE of the dead. Here lie the slave vorkers of Buchenwald camp, who died in the
,ay or two before the Yanks arrived. German civilians, who said they weren't to blame,
are made to give them a decent burial. Army guided other Germans on a tour a' the camp.
RESCUED WAR PRISONERS rival back in the United States.
WALK FREE SOIL AGAIN — The men, many of whom wer•
American soldiers; former pris- warprisoners
for liberatedmorethi
oners of war in Germany, walk two years, were
across the parade ground in Russian troops driving tova
Camp Myles Standish at Taun- Berlin. About 1.500 ianded I-
ton, Mass., on their way -lo noon nearby Boston the night before.
mess Apr[
l 9 Just after their ar- —(AP Wirephoto).
r .
THE CRASH of falling cities and the slau
of men and women all over Europe has sto
The European War has ended—almost.
For the armies of the United Nations, m
Into Germany, found that they had en
heli. Large-scale murder lay around the
train -load of prisoners had been abanc
by its S.S. guards. When American soldier:
tared down the doors, the smell of a hui
deaths exploded in their faces. In a car
women slave -workers the living, In their
rags, sat among the dead who looks
worse. Walking skeletons were on the
and in the ditches. Yugoslav, Dutch, F
cries for food—and then for home—rose
all sides.
A year from now we may be saying,
stories were exaggerated. So many coul.
have died." But these pictures are a kh
insurance against unbelief and forgetful
The decent Instinct is to turn away when
becomes a beast. LOOK before you turn.
The European war will not end until a
kind of German Is living among us—one
understands that he Is not a superman,
he has no more right to apything than I
Pole, a Greek, or a Belgian. Unless we
him now—and keep at it—that new kir
German will not appear In our lifetime.
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Leff behind. The fighrinn ; t. :, a[ friar,' was heav;• i.i Au ..
once busy airstrip is .+G'.i'- 7Ur' hir,n a irin,2 -oFd f^Y
Armed Forces were d-m;b:.1z_d so fas` i` w,e:; inF,ossib',• ' ; :3'
Pelar `Ixne f Wax
A reserve. Drums of petroleum lie scattered about a dump on Biak, off Dutch
New Guinea in the Pacific. Their value is less than fhe cost of delivery to a buyer.
Fast-growing jungle vines will have them completely covered in about two years.
/ 1�
lie scaffe e about a dump on ocz D,+ -h
New Guinea X
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WHILE THE JAP "OFFICE BOYS" presented their ere-
' dentials to his Chief of Staff and discussed arrangements
for landings on Japan, Gen. Douglas MacArthur sat contem-
plating the problems of the peace that fpce him. This in-
teresting study of the man who will lead the conquering Yanks
into Tokyo and will sign the Jap surrender papers as the Allied
'commander, shows the General of the Armies just after his
! recent conference with President Osmena of the Philippines..
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Making--andHeAsks So Littleinl?eturn!