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Show njhamites eport ,lior Lebnd A. (Sonny) fr Jr -son of Mr. and Mrs. 'td Walker of Salt Lake City i the Victory Flag society , he is now stationed in Wash-:,n Wash-:,n D C and enjoys receiv-'lhe receiv-'lhe V F.S. letters very much. , Walker is located in the d Pentagon building. He 'that he spent one day walk-,js walk-,js legs off and ended up on hird floor. He states that his ',0b is in the assistant chief r staff's offices. He closes bv "Don't get me wrong, I not a big shot, but just one ( little buys in the army sta- in Washington." I have sixth desk down the line m ofiice.) At the beginning of Japanese war "Sonny" was oned in the South Pacific was pilot of a bomber. He received many decorations his excellent work in that itre of operations. jman 1C James Epis left :rsday for Great Lakes, 111., sume his naval training as a 10 technician. He spent the t week visiting his mother, Nora Epis. i DelBert V. Barrett writes week that he has safely ar-i ar-i in England. Lt. Barrett td that he had a very enjoy-i enjoy-i trip over on the ship. His jp traveled across on an Eng-ship Eng-ship manned by English members. He states that r they docked they had quite ain ride and saw a lot of itry, all being very interest-and interest-and quaint. DelBert says the countryside is cut into 11 plots, which are lined with e instead of fencing and Bingham Canyon streets are levards compared to the ets where he is located. He es that most of the shops and es are midget and expected-orly expected-orly stocked. The big por-of por-of the foodstuffs are good familiar U.S.A. brands. Lt. rett says that he hasn't eaten of camp, but understands in the restaurants all one get is fish and chips and is on toast. DelBert said that he time of writing he had received his P.X. rations for week and they consisted of n packages of cigarettes, one of soap, one package of gum, razor blades, three candy and 12 cookies. Lt. Barrett former Utah Power and Light pany employee in Bineham yon and is attached to field i:ery. viation Machinists Mate 3 C lack Pollock, son of Mr. and Albert Pollock, is now sta-at sta-at the Naval Air Station ew York City. 'e following letter was re-t re-t by Chicago Charlie of the W Flag society from Pvt. to Mochizuki in Italy: July 30, 1944 f Charlie: 'day we held a memorial : for the men in our out-'''flo out-'''flo gave their lives so that 3 may live. Our command-Micer, command-Micer, Col. Pence, Battalion Mnder Lt. Col. Hanley, and plains Higuchi and Yamada l' forth that dedication that ' who died shall not have ,;i their lives in vain. We, es felt the same, deep in hearts. Our company, since Jfered the heaviest casual-was casual-was given the honor of fir-a fir-a salvo of rifle fire to salute wad. With the band playing I Star Spangled Banner" the rjrial service came to an end event that shall linger in M'nds forever will make us e determined to carry out dedication, when we push mbat again. f result of our combat re-weve re-weve been accepted in a i;n that has won the title of .lost respected and the best ;,'.on in the Fifth army. v carried their name from jfores of North Africa to the P of Sicily and to the con-:' con-:' of Italy. ;;e 100th battalion attached as awarded the Presiden-"tation Presiden-"tation for performance unused. un-used. General Clark was , Ponally at the citation. , has made a name for ;?elves since Salerno to the at Cassino, and now nere. They were awarded :n with a deep purple color gold frame around. The . unlike the others, is to lu0n the right side and the left side of the uni- 1 T days ao a pal of mine J,"aa a liberty pass to go to v within a certain radius, I TCuded t0 visit the city of ;'eiwi i ue wnole city has been "ar u y aerial, artillery and bombardment. Jerry pill 6,ana mines were all over i h -,1 don't believe there v vi din8 standing upright 5. we wreckage. While in r it, Iked to an Italian mo-no mo-no proudly boasted that 'aiued on page four) ling to get American sympathy, j Just wait 'till the Russians ge inside Germany they 11 tear I apart. I read in the papers about ; the atrocities Japan has commit-i commit-i ted. That's "baby stuff compared compar-ed to what the Jerries do. the only reason Jerry atrocities don come out so often is for the tact all the hate is directed against a secondary enemy, Japan. In m opinion the Jerries are by tar better fighters than Tojos boys in the Pacific for the simple reason rea-son they use more tactical move-I move-I ments and are pretty calm. UI j course their Storm troopers composed com-posed of young kids are as fanatical fan-atical as the Nips of the setting 'sun. The only way they can be i rooted out is by destroying them one by one when necessary. They'll cling on a machine gun position for hours sending lead at us until our mortar squad blows them out of their holes. They'll fire their "88's" at us at point blank range. Boy, they sure use them too. There darn good weapons worthy of any man's respect. Oh, what a funny feeling feel-ing one gets when he hears their artillerv firm" miles away we wait and count the sounds, then we lie waiting, counting each shell that hits around us. Then we sigh "that one didn't have my number". There's been more Christians who were converted I not by preachers or missionaries but right on the battle front when we look to God in the moments mo-ments of need and help. After the first barrage I went under, I began to think about the kid in the -movie "Guadalcanal Diary". I was that kid going through the same emotions praying to God to comfort me when death seemed seem-ed so near. The Jerry artillery called it a day when our artillery composed of Hawaiians and Japanese Jap-anese started booming away, if it isn't them we call for other artillery units. When our artil-I artil-I lery lets go it's terrific! The Jerries have nothing to compare with what our artillery throws. My Bingham pal, Sam Ogawa, was wounded in action when a piece of shrapnel caught him by the side of the neck. He's doing alright. He came back from the hospital several days ago and is raring to go again. Well, I'd better conclude by saying "Keep the Home Fires Burning". Sincerely, Takeo. P.S. Jack Haley and Mary Brian are going to give us boys a show tonight. FIGHTIN BINGHAMITES REPORT (Continued from page one) she had a son in the U.S. marines. Getting back to my pass. It was disappointing. Nothing there except ex-cept the smell of war and the dead still covered under the wreckage. Among the wrecked ruins, whom should be riding around in a G.I. truck? Whom do you think I saw? Lily Pons, with her escorts looking over the place. She of all persons would have been the last one I'd expected. ex-pected. She gave us a happy smile as the car she was riding I passed by. Well, we said to each other, at least we have something to say to the fellows about our boring pass. The day dragged on! Walt, my pal and I decided it who nun- in ur iifaumg oacK, l was standing by a small fruit stand jabbering in crude Italian I with the people when down the road I saw a lovely gal in a command com-mand car. Just by her "civy" clothes I could tell she was American. Am-erican. The only Americans that I have seen or talked with were the nurses, Red Cross and the WACs. I must have had that Yankee instinct (I wouldn't do this back in the states) anyway, I let out a whistle that sounded more like "woo woo" than any-1 thing else. She turned and gave I me the once over and let out a smile I'll never forget. The command com-mand car moved on leaving only the dust in my face and myself full of amazement. The girl whom I whistled at was none other than Mary Brian of Hollywood What will come next? Betty Grable! That day was full of surprises. sur-prises. The next day Lily Pons her husband, Andre, and her accompaniments ac-companiments gave our division a program of songs, music and laughs. Lily sang several classics, clas-sics, Andre Konstelanetz led the divisional band. Who said Andre wasn't a hep cat! Say that guy could be one. He led the boys in the jaz tune of "The One O'clock Jump". It was burning hot. Our battalion had one of the greatest honors bestowed on us to represent our division and other units of the 5th army as escort guards for the king of England hifnself. The king our General Clark, and George VPs right hand man by the name of Sir Archibald Baldwin, I believe walked by us. Studying us one by one as we stood at attention, the king and his escorts passed right in front of me. Oh. hnw T 1 wanted to smile. I had a hard I time keeping my puss with a serious expression. The king's aide, Sir Archibald, had so many ribbons on his chest he walked KP a tilted pin ball macnine Maybe the people don't know it back in the states, that there's thousands of Japanese fighting in Italy to prove our loyalty to our homes in Hawaii and the ole H n ack ,nthe statcs here's still a thing called race discrimination discrim-ination even in our home town but over here it's different American, Am-erican, English, German, Italian Japanese and other descent of their ancestry are fighting side! by side eating alike, dressed a-! a5ld f1R,lt Wlth the Utle of ' The Yanks . The Jerries are good fighters but when they crack they run about like panic stricken people screaming and crying. The prison- I ers we take cry like babies try- |