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Show With Our Boys and Girls GirlsIN Girlst t : IN the UNITED STATES ARMED FORCES Sgt Pray Gets Battlefield BattlefieldPromotIon BattlefieldPromotion BattlefieldPromotion PromotIon to Lieutenant LieutenantWith LIeutenantWIth LieutenantWith With the 25th Infantry DIVIS DIVISIon Division Division Ion on Luzon in m the PhilIpPInes ( Special PhilippinesSpecial to T I-The I The ) I ) ) - The 2 2oth lath . : > th In Infantry InPantry Infantry fantry Pantry ( Tropic Lightning Llghtmng ) ) dlvls dives dlvlsIon divesion division Ion announces that TechnIcal TechnIcalSergeant TechnicalSergeant Sergeant TechnicalSergeant Eugene W Pray son sonof sonof sonof of Mr and Mrs W J Pray PrayMoab Moab Utah has been promotcd promoted promotedto promotcdto to second lieutenant while m in incombat incombat combat against agamst the Japanese onLuzon on onLuzon Icombat onLuzon PhilippinesHe PhlhppmesHe Luzon island m in the Phlhppmes Philippines , He is platoon leaderThe leader leaderThe The 25th division has experI experr experIenced experrenced expenenced enced more than three years of ofserVIce ofservice ofservice serVIce overseas defating defatmg theJaps the theJaps theJaps Japs at New Georgia and Guad GuadaIcanal Guadalcanal Guadalcanal aIcanal alcanal in m the Solomon Islands islandsas as well as experiencing expenencmg the or orIgInal original origmal IgInal PearlHarbor eneuny ensmy enemy attackon attack on Pearl PearlHarbor PearlHarbor Harbor HarborPrior Harbor , Prior Pnor to joining JOInmg the army 2nd army2nd Lieut Lleut Pray was employed by employedby the Vanadium Corporation of ofAmerIca ofAmerica ofAmerica | AmerIca Natunta Naturlta Naturrta Colo I Gets AssignmentPfc AssignmentPie Headquarters - Assignment Pfc Pie William WlllIam Hayes has beenassigned been beenassigned beeiassigned assigned to general headquarterin headquartersm headquartersin headquarters m in the Pacific theater of war ac accordmg according according cordmg cording to word received fromhim from fromhIm fromhim hIm by his wife Mrs Bettie JoHayes Jo JoHayes JoHayes > Hayes Friends may reach Pvt PvtHayes PvtHayes PvtHayes Hayes by writing to the follow followI followmg following following address Pfc William WlllIam I mg ing Hayes Hayes39930777 Hayesl 39930777 Hq Adv Det USA USAFFE U S A AF IF USAIF F F E APO 501 care of Post Postmaster Postmaster Postmaster master San Fran Francisco Franisco ? lsco CalIfFollowmg CalifFollowing Calif CalifFollowing PostI I Following Followmg are e excerpts cerpts fromletters from fromletters fromletters ! letters received from Pvt Hayes , by Hayesby his wIfei wifeIt wife wifeIt i It looks like you are fmally finally finallygetting finallygetting fmallygettmg gettmg getting my letters that I ve ye WrIt WrItten written written ten from here It should only onlytake take about two weeks I have havereally havereally havereally really had some changes of ad address address address dress recently three in m a month monthand monthand monthand I and a half Hope I keep this one oneuntIl oneuntil oneuntil untIl I get back Lot better than thansome thansome thansome , some other addresses I cin C'ln Cln c ' in thinkof thInk thInkof thinkof : of The USA U USAFFE S A F F E stands for forUnited forUnited [ UnIted States Army Forces in m , I headquarters the Far East ItIS It is the headquar ters over here Lots of brassmore brass brassmore brassmore more generals than you can canshake canshake canshako shake a stick at including mcludmg the theBig theBig theBig | Big Boy himself ( MacArthur MacArthurIt ) It was really a lucky break I mtelling m mtellmg mtelling tellmg telling you Was in m the PhilIp PhilIppmes Philippines Philippines pmes pines one day and a night mght The Thesecond Thesecond Thesecond second night mght a sergeant came m in mthe inthe inthe the tent about 11 p m and woke wokeme wokeme wokeme me up and said I was wanted at headquarters atheadquarters There were about about20 20 20of of us and so they gave each eachof eachof prckgdseven of us a typing typmg test and plck prckgd pickedseven d dseven seven of us so here I am I m m in the inthe radio and cable section on the onthe outgoing outgomg desk and go to towork towork towork work until5 at 8 a am m and work until 5 pm-so pm so p m - "so so " you see mm I m doing domg al alnght alright alright nght right We change shifts every month everymonth thoughand though and then you youwork ) ] > ou ouwork ouwork work from 5 30 until mldmght mldmghtI midnight midnightThe mldmghtThe swellbunch The fellows are really a swell bunch of Joes most of them are areup areup areup up for rotation furloughs as they l1ave have theyhave been in service at least 36months 36 | I How is the cigarette short shortage shortage shortage age in the States7 States States9 ? I haven t bought tbought a cigarette since smce I left leftthe the States they are issued to us usonce usonce once a week Don t get the same brand samebrand all the time The women here womenhere smoke big blackcIgars black cigars and andIt andit andit It sure looks funny They seem to seemto like it thoughPvt though Pvt Freddie Markle was an anarnval anarrival anarrival arnval arrival the last of the week from weekfrom helast Pueblo Colo where he last week wcek graduated as a tall tail tallgunner tailgunner tailgunner gunner on a B24 at the US USarmy U USarmy S Sarmy army air base there After a twoweeks two twoweeks twoweeks weeks Markle visit at home Pvt Mar kle e expects , < pects to be sent for over overseas overseas overseas seas serviceMax service spending Max Alien Allen U Snavy S navy Vy is spend spendmg spenduig mg ing a furlough at Moab thIS thISweek thisweek thisweek week with his parents Mr and Mrs andMrs Reuben Alien Allen He is bemg being beingtransferred bemgtransferred transferred from the Atlantic to tothe the Pacific Pac lC theater of operations |