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Show comparable to a women's bargain bar-gain sale no one wanted to miss a thing. Cpl. Glenn Green's little portable port-able radio operated without disturbance dis-turbance through the channel. One station presented a British soap opera. It sounded very dignified; dig-nified; presumably a result of the English accent. We also heard a French station. Continued Next Week City. We were 285 miles from the coast of Ireland. By morning we could, providing it was clear, see the Irish mainland. Card games of chanci?, or if you prefer, gambling, was played play-ed minus the good old American dollar Wednesday as we turned in our American currency for Scrip money, a form of occupation occupa-tion money. Denominations of $1.00 or more were turned in. As a momento of home and my extravagant visit to New York, I retained the last 21c I had in1 my possession. Thursday, June 14 All morning long I was in the quiet sanctuary of the ships' middle, assigned as a janitor with the Sanitation section. My duties were to sweep, mop and dust the troop office. After that I was to spend an hours watch keeping the office tidy. During my tour of duty in the troop office of-fice I caught up with my reading. read-ing. I was well prepared for the job. In one pocket I had a June! issue of Reader's Digest; in an-; other I had the latest edition of i Quick, the serviceman's most: favorite piece of literature, (no free advertising intended). Tuck ed inside my shirt was a pocket edition of Roget's Thesaurus. Reading material always assured as-sured me of utilizing available time. Time spent sitting or stand ing idle was considered wasted time. It is common practice to carry printed matter. Upon completion com-pletion of the present supply we would trade books with one another. an-other. After lunch we had another in a series of lectures on Germany. Ger-many. The lecture did much to stir our curiosity and reactions to Germany. Still we didn't get the exact location of our camp in Germany, although we had more knowledge of the approximate approxi-mate location. We received some unexpected excitement in the afternoon when the ship's navigator indicated indi-cated we were 789 miles from our destination. Shortly after, seagulls, seaweeds and calm water wa-ter gave evidence that we were near land. Simultaneously several sev-eral fishing boats and steamers were spotted to our left. A British Brit-ish plane also buzzed over the ship. Our approximate position was near the entrance of the English Channel. Visibility was too poor to sight land but we went to bed that night convinced that we would definitely see land in the morning. Friday, June 15 Early in the morning it was still too foggy to sight land. After Af-ter the fog lifted we did see more ships. We were well into the channel by now. The further we moved the more sea traffic we saw. The main deck was heavily lined with land searching soldiers. sold-iers. No one would dare leave their position on the rail. It was SEEING THE WORLD WITH UNCLE SAM by Steve Smilanich The following article was written by Pfc. Steve Smilanich, son of Mrs. Milka Smilanich of Highland Boy, now serving overseas over-seas with the armed forces, telling tell-ing of some of his experiences. The article, 20 pages in length, is continued from' last week, and will continue each week until its conclusion. Wednesday, June 13 Our previous tossing and rolling roll-ing was mild in comparison with what took place Tuesday night, j All night long we struggled to 1 I keep from rolling out of bed. 1 ! Several of the men even tied I clothing and improvised belts ; around their bunks to keep from ; i rolling out. The ship acted like j a frantic bull or horse trying to i shake its rider. The climax of , the wind outbreak added a great ' deal of excitement and confus- j ion to our breakfast. A baby strapped in an immovable high chair would have encountered j difficulty in eating Wednesday j morning. The big problem was to keep the food contents on the tray. One minute it was there the next minute it was gone. Coffee, milk, oatmeal and silverware flowed from one end of the table ta-ble to the other, varying with the rolling of the ship. Wednesday marked a week that we were on the water. In many respects the week had passed pas-sed quickly. On the other hand the prospect of tnree more days aboard were not taken too lightly. light-ly. Our position Wednesday noon was 2576 miles from New York |