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Show ASKS RECOGNITION 4 FOR COMBAT GROUND SOLDIERS Ernie Pyle, who - writes about the simple everyday life of oun soldiers in Italy, suggests that a little more recognition should be given genuine combat ground soldiers. sol-diers. He says that of any one million men overseas not more than 100,-000 100,-000 are in actual combat with the enemy but that there is no official offi-cial distinction "between the dogface dog-face laying for days and nights under constant mortar fire and the headquarters clerk living comfortably com-fortably in a hotel" in a safe area. Mr. Pyle would pay the actual combat soldiers something like flight pay that goes to air men. The extra pay would be a mark of distinction and a recognition of the job that actual combat entails. Already, men serving overseas get extra pay, ten per cent for officers of-ficers and twenty per cent for enlisted en-listed men. Flight pay adds an extra ex-tra fifty per cent. As it is, combat soldiers draw no more than those billeted in quiet areas. |