| Show War Notebook c Deer Hits German Booby Trai Trop Trap I Yanks Feast on Venison J j By Hal lIal o lo loWITH WITH AMERICAN TROOPS IN GERMANY Delayed CD- CD Battle briefs Three times the tho German artillery artillery ar ar- ar- ar tillery has taken the seat of his pants off William G G. G Mash Mash- burb of Covington Ky but but that's all He hasn't been nicked personally Bill Bm lost his first trousers seat seal at Brest while bending over helping dig a command post Later he lost another while taking taking taking tak tak- ing cover in a sunken road The third disappeared when he took his attention off oft the nazi artillery artillery artil artil- lery to watch a strafing plane Now hes he's on his hi fourth pair of or pants pants and and looking both ways every time he stands up Equally lucky I. I is Staff Frank V V. V Leeper of Washington Pa who twice In one day almost lost the other end of his anatomy by being buried in a foxhole by shell shelI bursts Getting buried once in a foxhole foxhole foxhole fox fox- hole no longer is b a a. novelty in inthe inthe inthe the European war but Leeper also a a. Second division doughboy doughboy doughboy dough dough- boy is one of the few to survive this as a double feature within 12 hours One afternoon a German shell crashed near by caving in his foxhole and covering him com com- That night he had just crawled thankfully into a new hole when another shell buried him up to his hi neck His mates dug him out again A patient soldier is pre Plc Troy L. L Doss of Warrior Ala and also a stubborn soldier A bullet nicked his trousers leg as he was WM digging a fox fox- hole He kept right on digging A second shot grazed his leg leg- ging He looked around then went back to his digging A third shot nicked his finger Stopping only long enough to be sure it wasn't more than a scratch he resumed his digging this time with some irritation Then a fourth shot tore through his overcoat Doss sighed and gave up He found a aless aless aless less exposed site for his foxhole A deer that fled the lines of the Second cond infantry division divi sion Ion didn't have a chance It escaped a hail of at rifle bullets from hungry G. G Is then ran headlong into a German booby trap Venison was on the menu the next day Ernest Jenico of oC Wilkes Wilkes- Barre Pa played a game of hide and seek for hl his hid life with several Germans Germans and and won by being a decoy Cut of off and on patrol he made 7 a 1 t toward his lines with the J padding of after to him j throe woods Exhausted h he flopped under a fallen t kte prepared to fight it out But the unwary Genoa on past him rie t t the arms of an Amen Amer post and thence to a p to lu of war cage Mortar shells flush flushed ed hf two he man snipers from a a. f building and gave s st Francis Courville of ot Bark B Mich Uch a chance to den deo fe some fancy long range ah tW He grabbed his rifle ark a 1 careful bead on first ore olle and then the other lie he only two rounds and got His buddies later the distance and found If h more than yards to y the two dead sprawled j 11 |
