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Show Thursday, January 4, 2007 NORTH COUNTY NEWSPAPERS Page 3 Happy new year, i - , V" , " . ft. llll'' (it i!'-'f lit) r ' i n in i ii ' i""1""' MARC HADOOCKNorth County Becky and Hyrum Osmond of American Fork are the proud parents of Timothy John Osmond, born Monday at 1:10a.m. at Timpanogos Regional Medical Center, and Utah County's first baby of the new year. Timothy, at 5 pounds 12 ounces was a month premature, but the parents reported Tuesday that he was doing well. If X MARIO RUIZDiiilyHnrald MARIO RUIZDaily Herald Janette d'Argy o Provo holds her new born son Joseph Christopher d'Argy born at 1:50 cum. Jan. 1 at the Orem Community Amy Kersh ofSantaquin holds her new horn daughter Lidia Hospital. born at 6:59 a.m. on Jan. 1 at the American Fork Hospital Welcome to the world, Joseph Christopher d'Argy. The 8-pound boy came at 1:50 a.m. Monday morning after af-ter Janette Dargy's 21-hour labor at Orem Community Hospital. Joseph was one of the first babies born in Utah County for 2007. "We're ecstatic," said father Christopher d'Argy, adding that they missed his aunt's annual New Year's Eve fondue party, but said it was worth it. r J KateMcNei Work in North Africa veterans Editor's note: This is the third in a series about Calvin Bartholomew. This week Bartholomew continues his work in intelligence in North Africa, but then is returned to Camp Ritchie as an instructor. instruc-tor. (Incidentally, some of the German prisoners taken in North Africa came to the POW camp on 800 North in Orem.) III ne night, as we i traveled forward, la front wheel of 'our truck hit a mine. There was a terrible explosion, and I really learned what a concussion concus-sion is. Thanks to Patton's instructions, instruc-tions, we had, as a precaution, carefully sandbagged our truck, and the sandbags absorbed ab-sorbed some of the explosion. Otherwise, we would have been mangled corpses. Even so, it was a long time before I could hear again, and I still suffer from ear trouble caused by that terrible explosion. I later received a telegram through the Red Cross informing inform-ing me that I had had a son . born a month earlier, March 7, 1943, the same day of the mine explosion. Then came the really big battle of El Guettar, in which the Germans, soundly defeated, de-feated, surrendered by the thousands. I was assigned to interview inter-view several hundred of our own soldiers who had been captured by the Germans in the battle at Kasserine Pass because an American general had fouled up. All the American Ameri-can prisoners said that their treatment by the Germans had been reasonable and that the German general, Rommel, had indeed caught them unprepared. unpre-pared. As we drove our jeeps from camp tcf camp to visit with American soldiers who had taken German prisoners, we found the Germans POW's relaxed. re-laxed. They had stacked their weapons in the center of their, camping area. These Germans would be shipped to POW camps in America. We then received word that we would move on to Sicily. But my buddy Mario (the Italian Ital-ian interrogator) and I were notified that we had been selected to return to Camp Ritchie as instructors; the army wanted teachers who had actual battlefield experience. experi-ence. So we were lucky to miss the bloody battles of Sicily Sic-ily and Italy. Thus we were able to teach future interrogators what they really needed to know.. We taught them how to ask questions that would generate useful answers answers that would reveal a picture of the enemy out in front of us, so we could deal with them effectively. ef-fectively. I had worked harder than other intelligence personnel. While sailing home, I borrowed bor-rowed a typewriter and prepared pre-pared a good report on real battlefield interrogation and it paid off. In my report to General Banfill, I suggested that qualified quali-fied interrogators not only deserved de-served the rank of a commissioned commis-sioned officer, that rank was needed. Had we been officers, the general in North Africa would have paid attention to us, and the loss of many lives at the defeat of Kasserine Pass might have been avoided. Mario and I were called in and promoted to second lieutenant. lieu-tenant. After teaching for about a year, one of my friends, Colonel Rapp, asked me to go to New York and research background on'tho German generals who had been captured cap-tured and were being interrogated. interro-gated. After about a month of research, I brought my report to the colonel and he was very pleased. I was then asked to work with prisoners in one of the big POW camps, but first I was sent to Governors Island, off the coast of New York for six weeks of training. 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