| Show I With Ernie Pyle Py in in England 1 f fErnie Ernie Needs Security Regulator For Protection From Soldiers SOMEWHERE I IN N E EN ENG ENGLAND N GLAND GLAND G- G LAND By Wireless The Wireless The commander commander com com- mander of the tank-destroyer tank battalion I have been visiting is Lieutenant Colonel Joseph Deeley Deeley Dee Dee- ley of Sheboygan Falls Wis V He used to run a wool carding mill there I like his attitude toward things When Then I first showed up he was perfectly courteous but he made plenty sure I had proper credentials and what not As he said they have had plenty of security security security se se- se- se preached into them back home and this indeed is a critical critical cal period and he isn't taking any chances But once he had assured himself himself him him- self sell I was all right he called in his sergeants and told them to togo togo togo go around and tell their men they were perfectly free to show me any and all equipment they had and talk to me as freely as they wanted to As I told him later I dont don't think he need have bothered For these boys approaching war for the first time pumped me so thoroughly on what war is like that I hardly got a chance to ask any questions of them Maybe Maybe May May- be Ill I'll have to write some security security se regulations of my ray own just out of self Who Vho the devil is reporting this war anyway One company commander Captain Charles Harding o of Olmstead Falls near Cleveland had just had a letter from home telling him to keep an eye out for me He figured that In a war this big our paths would never cross but they did Another Ohioan came up and Introduced himself This was Private te First Class James Francis Francis Francis Fran Fran- cis McClory of Cleveland McClory McClory McClory Mc- Mc Clory is what is aptly known In Inthe Inthe inthe the battalion as a character He Hc used to be a prize fighter Being in the horny-handed horny world of pugilists he has a great affinity affinity affinity af af- af- af finity for apes Theres There's an al almost almost almost al- al most human ape at the zoo in a near-by near city which McGlory goes to see every time he gets a pass He calls caBs him Alfred the Ape and says he sure wishes he could take him back to Cleveland McClory used to work for the Ute Cleveland Welding company which made bicycles When I asked him what he did he said Oh I was just a hod knocker You can kid lots with Mc Mc- Clory When I went to write down his name I put Sergeant in front of it and he said No no Id I'd never get to be a sergeant sergeant sergeant ser ser- ser ser- geant if the Ute war lasted 50 years So I said Well u Corporal then But he said No I aint even got sense enough to be a corporal So I said Well WeB we simply cant can't have you a private What would the of the world think with you only a private So Sove we ve compromised and made him a McClory is one of those guys who are good for the morale of at an outfit He Hc's Is always dOIn doing 1 saying something funny An Anis And Jit hi Is a good soldier He is one the kind who are fanatically 7 loyal I He has a great affection rot for his company commander commande Ct Cai tam tain John Jay Kennedy Rosl dale Mass Once when j gasoline caught fire Ire threw himself on the captain aD ud knocked him o out t of ot the w way saving him from serious injury Another time when Capt CapuS Kennedys Kennedy's mother was very IU McClory took the last mane he had and telegraphed home horns 2 t it his own parish to have a HUM InaIt said for the captains captain's mother A number of men in the th battalion bV bat- told me that Jfe Clory Glory was the kind of ma man thy would like to have with ti the when the going got tough j i Here in England this batt is living in pyramidal tent sleeping on cots But when the th start across they will take oah pup tents and two blanket apiece and they will be on the ground Their bags with extra clothes and st u will catch with up them wan e time in the dim future r I had been under the Imp sion that all troops recently a j. j l- l rived from the Ute States would b he wearing the new infantry b boot which we have been JD Italy I had heard that th the HA Old cumbersome and unsatisfactory leggin was in limbo E Bat Bui these boys all wore leggins s had never heard of the new bO boot t. t English dogs have begun to attach themselves to the tank tank- destroyer boys as they do to any and all camps of ot These boys haven't actually adopted any of them as ual pets because they cant can't tab taki them along to the continent They are however pet et They say that back in the State they had a number of pigs for zor pets In that case you could have your pet and eat it too So They Say I J Were We're not going to let any bureaucratic barriers stand between between between be be- tween the returned wounded Ml- Ml dier and every co comfort tort that It Itis is possible to give him There aren't arent going to be any apple dh ers on the corner if we can prevent pre pit vent it and there arent aren't g going to be benny beany any wounded soldiers sleepIng sleep keep Jeep ing in parks park's or lodged in Lieutenant General Brecon t Somervell army service fo chief After the Ute war we will bave haTe hare I navy a 8 as large as all aU the thero ther convi o navies of the world I Ia laa opposed to sinking Sinking- the ships we did after the last war But by turning over some to S Souli th American nations we would be b. carrying out out the principle cf of self protection and fostering good will Representative William William Wil- Wil liam E. E Hess of Ohio |
