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Ir a Dewey In fact so did everyone else in Anchorage Alaska The occasion was the annual Celebration at Anchorage of the I lOngest day In the year Official ' merrymaking began at sunrise and ended at sunset with plenty Seasons in California are abnormal Irreguof dancing singing programs far and unpredictable—and football season Ind stunts in between Is no exception Boys of the 222nd field we had gay time In the at San Luis Obispo Cal:Camp artillery old town that day' Dewey an for example tiready are giving their pig army air pilot wrote later to his parents Mr and Mrs E Burgle ' of Idaho Falls 'It was on June I 21 and daylight persisted for I mint of the period At that time the earth I understand turns moat directly to the I 77illetartaras 1 ton "field California- - It is called an echelon formaf-tioni and the' plane nearest t the camera isrpeeling off!' is leaving the for ntation either to bomb or to engago "a foeThese ma louvers are part of the fin Ishinti ening for fliers f ! at: lits" 7 A newspaper clipping enclosed l'oimatiort - pa i I I r" 1 ly to his parents Mr and Mrs of 146 Wan Taknaga D Oootpor littet lt Ia just a grown-u- p some of Young Cooper was transferred A pole would point more directly atI the sun than 'sat any time I to Stockton Tield an advancedI so I hid better close fOr now air school trórn llottstt Field ''Yo4ng iCooper will graduate Cal'ITs received his preliminary 1 :fromithe toritton advance fly :ing school on 4uguat 15 training at Glendale riot& Cal ' Recalls D'odeit Days v ' i remember do I my days se a 'dodo' or undercimeman at Moffett- - Mid" he recalls :1 ' "We used'to march everywhere In an exaggerated position of at- tention—as per orders from the : upperclaasmen—nd each night had been back felt if it As Thy cramped' lin 1a strait jacketi 11 I I By Aseociated Press But we took our spite out on the of fleet the Ships providt ' next b r tch of dodos I'm telling America's first line of de' you Some are floating i i tense 'Ibty training ship at Moffett F forts carrylng heavy arms- field was streamlined lightning rnent and armor Others are with wings—and there were 90 light and built for speed and I I like it The nose was filled with II: some have a lOng cruising ' 430 a horsepower motor and radium tor scouting far at the plane 'weighed 4500 pounds sea Together they form a There were more I I barricada altogether I hard 1b penetrate Instruments levers end other are Hire America's ships: gadgets too than you could find In a dozen automobiles The ship was plenty smooth and easy : to fly but It gave me a head- UT-tiHI ache just to look at the dashboard In servic "I doubt if you could find a Battleships — ±"1114 the I better training ship in the ssur It of the fleet have backbone corps than I flew—although armament and armor heavy often thought as I listened to and a long guns range long the rain gush off ourbarracks cruising' radius They are of roof that I would have don alowi speed because they much better with a seaplane mean tn1 fight and do not I No kidding ft used to rain cats 1 run :away- - Their displaceand dogs I I I ! mint la 28009 to 38000 y I I Pint Tragedy I 1500 to 1800 men- ' iii "Here tAt Stockton field the T '': weather is plenty dry- It Is i1:: comfortable however and cool V y -! f ot at nights is : "During 'the put week we 0 in service spent more time in the air than q we did on the ground Besides Aircraft Carriers — nes also ltitifti heavy artnor and flying most of each day we also took three long ! cruising radius Their trips at night prinelpal duty is to act as a i base i for'4 airplanes at sea 'Thursday (July 24) we had our first real tragedy towel C They 25000 to 30000 displace ' Redfield of Ogden cracked up tons! Normal number of and was killed His Wu the first planes and men aboard is a death in our class navy secret "One of my beet pals he went through the same flying schools 4474 with me all considered him '! ' as a vey good pilot and we haven't any idea as to what 37 In service caused the crash becauss be was (including heavy and light) flying a night ItelvY i''- Cruisers — These which should have been 'duck '1:are or 10000 tons di3placesoup' for him But somehow he 4ment4 They have a long lost his altitude and flew into cruising 'radius high speed the ground: the plane was deand mount molished guns Prineipal !job la to scout the "Well I bear the chow bell Carry 800 to 900 men Light Cruisers—These are Mother Registers Son high 'speed vessels of 10000 :tans Or less mounting Philadelphia Pa !:gunsliThey do scouting duty Mrs Florence Laedleinss DOM and ire the largest U S Arthur registered or the second 4 ships carrying torpedoes — selective service- draw before Complement is 500 his draft boardl chief clerk—his to 900 men mother -- ! "(now Your Nayy's : Warships 1 - follow-the-lead- er' ' 1 ' I It was)rxplained that to'night morrow at 9:34 a in the north 1! !" s enthusiastical- be-writ- I ' nirell ' - - er— Now - wage DCoisper Jr who is still playing the game—with plane: :1V0 do all kinds of flying here at Stockton field—eight flying acrobatic stunti precision maritUVerl instrument flying cross eountrysolos and what not' But thi'most fun of:all is formation - t i bySoldler Burgle said In part: "Tilt of the earth's axis was SiVen as reason for the length of the day and shortnesa of the 11' Stockton Yield Kids who love to play "follows will 'enjoy formition ever they join the air flying lf Sore Take It :from a veteran the-loade- - t 1L I 1 - ' 'oast Service 7— ::Buoys Spirit Of S LYouth - I I - ' - 1:1 Ites— 114- - II 1 ' - cross-count- - : ch - 1 - - out' But Grandma 9 Sats9lig &Okay a towerinz- tone called Mount Baker:which glowed dully in the -sunset' as If from an orange and lavender Internal fire" snow-cover- ed Lacks e0comi3h9---Giad- e 1 I a ' ' I :Bugler Rouses Soldiers - ' ' BrTranscription' - Belleville EL - 1 Since Soott field arrny tratOaviators Installed lag base-fo- r a loud speaker' system the bugler gets a rest Instead et the "old fashioned" method of arousing the men with a bugler a corporal of the guard turns on a phonograph record at 6:25 The same method la used for taps at 11 p m Even at retreat when the 1f500 men th up for flag lower! &record Rroxides the musics - Dear Willie: Since you'v Fort I transferred to a t have beet tranferred to Alaska and it likely won't: be long before the rest of Us tag after them "You can see from the capacity of the camp that it is one of the smallest units' on the coast But It is also one of the most friendly" is unIta future however ' certain "I understand that the coast artillery will be broken2up and the men will be scattered all over the United States" says Rookie Jensen "It will be a shame to break up such a nice ! But I camp as McQuaide sent to a hope ouriihatte7 gets sunny climate' I I '- I I I I ! I I ' carrying on bravely Aunt Mamie is the Insurance main- is carrying on with And we'll have to get grandniother new glasses because she's fallen in love With aatatue of General Grant In the park again Incidentally grandma is sore as a bolt over her new oarong because not Only has no one mistaken her for Dorothy Lamour yet buttrandma fastened it to the top of her high button shoes so no one cOuld see her knees and the stooping is beginning to tire her out a Brothe Y1ij lm Immo hint as & Ipet He's adopted it and everyone It's the nicest member of the family going to i'Stirryto be operated on to have a row or cylinderg removed from your stomach 114 let's hope the next thne you get the hiccoughs you won't be riding in one of those baby tanks :VVith all our love O Your sister i: Gracie Alien AX31:ti- f? hear-you'r- - A ard Wood "Of course" he admits 'there streets which aren't wide all enough for a car and a Missouri mule to pass and a few other minor details which bother me But - confidentially I 'wouldn't the fort nor the army for anything "Yes sir you can depend upon me to do my best for Uncle trade- I - ' ill i"' ' -' i R 1 '1I 1 h leav- For instance take the cue of Dr James E Fulghum' on duty with the naval air cadet reception headquarters whose trousers came back from the laundry cuffed ' The lieutenant exhis abhorrence bottoms and plained te of 1 turned-u- p -- 1 I I ''' ' ' - : d i i ' - ' i: ' ti ' i't 1 1 I I 1 '' - - I d er c - I I f - af )0t-- 1 Rookies Dig Way Out of Tents With Shovels Says Trainee 1 'Fart Ord Shovels CaL are furnished with each tent at the 11 OTC camp Fort Ord Cal so thst the rookies can dig themselves out of the dust in the mOrnitic says Student Officer Ray: Fletcher in a letter to his chum G Bruce McKee Jr of 1467 South Thirteenth East street "No kidding we nearly drown In the dust here" he Writes But that isn't all We lead' a very wild life here at General George C Marshall's heath mil) We sleep as late as we Want—as long as it is not litter!than 5 stli retire mo—and we p m ''' 3 q - ' - 1 ' ' - Under oral i—No to o KS-A!- ' rt1U PIK I I --- - - I- - I I WV"' I " coutDN'T FIND IT ( I - taw I 11 CIAlt 1 i Vi I 77 111 A 'wo 1i o d ) et M I 1 4s °log 4 Ar44' 3 1 1 t t r" ' r and gas masks wdlo on-th- - ' i z I horses We did most of our I moving under cover of dark ' tI mess and during one of those marches a horse got scared and I started bucking He threw too t Inanr feet up into the air or Ii aomething—and stumbled and the rider went down too Then 1 the fool horse rolled over on his rider and the 13oor fellow had I to go to the hospital with a k couple of broken ribs ' We apent most of the time saddling and unsaddling horses advancing and retreating For 1 food we lived on canned goods 1 'Alicia Nta carried till cas1 - - - I ' - i 11 ' ' i i i ! r - 4 omm10ftow1 il 2 ' i - ' ' ' - -- - t 1 : i - I 1 i' - - -- ' i y I '- The sickening feeling time we got from bearing the planes 1 dive at us made us wonder bow people In England and Euro: I peon countries could endure i 3- actual bombing We wore steel helmets e ' I i 1 N '' NC:f 1' - PeARL HARBOR 4AVNAII1A HOUSING PROJECT FOR MARRIED NOWCOVIS HAS PIAOS A SIGI HIT WITH PRIVATES EACH sal)HtAy THEY GATHER TOWATCN mort SERGEANTS MOW LAWNS WASH WINDOWS SPADE FLOWER BEDS ETC lire °This deal was repeated every day for five days until we ft nally arrived at Camp Hunter Liggett Tbs war' started a couple of days later "We bad airplanes diving Itt us and all aorta of blank am munition booming around us We were stationed directly bes hind the Infantry which held down the front hence wo were In the line of fire allot the 1 F 1 I I 1 - I 1 - I - ' I - - i : -- - 1 1" - ' I -- ing a sizeable section of unadorned shin standing naked in the breeze I 1 five-minu- Nioe thick lifesize cuffs 1 Lonely Corporal Seeks Letters From Utah Girls z ' laCks Into vintners - Stung" 1 : the chastened laundryman agreed to repair the damage 11 did and also returned a civilian' r arrived at a large farm it linen sult—cuttless Some of the fellows had ridThen there is another navy den ahead in trucks to put man—anonymous bY preference up a picket line in one of the —who bad two pairs of white fields so that we could tie our slacks one a little longer than the other The laundryman horses hoWrseesalfwiras ye thtooenkbcoathgre 1 of our did a little thinking and reered about such minor details Ion n one with cuffs turned 4 as preparing camp Camp Malaskole Ilaiwall the ahoit with-out The least the girlCcan do "As soon as we tied the horses Patterson Frank If Captain on for national defense is write the line we started rubbing Louisiana the of national guard I I I a few letters to a lonely solrecently sent his uniforms to - their legs for about five min dier utes This was done to keen the cleaner for special work— That is the opinion:of Corhe needed them back next day - us busy so that we wouldn't get ahead of ourselves and re-- i: before he had to patch a plane poral H E Paritn anyhow move the saddles and blankete as exproseed by two of hit to Washington Di C Donning huddles in an anonymous let before their backedried out his uniform hastily just before ter to The Salt Lake Tribsun The on he :wet time I their la the back' plane glanced une isn't good for them or somo-- f mirror 't I "If your paper wishes to thing "They were up to my knees" Moult e 1 do something to help a solhe moaned "Cuffs" TendTint I dier in the United States The plans waited whiles the I t we to service" they wrote Hit will the got "Eventually 'captain—pressed his slacks saddles placed them 13 feet' Yes the service le working up print a notice askinglriends a terrible anger Pounding its behind the horses t then pro(especially girl friends) to ceeded to message Om Pot (tlla collective fist on the table it write to a lonely boy who horea's wholo back) - wheels tba says there is too much reptti- graduated from the West saddles bad prevkaudy roostliKL namea of 1938 He In certain school is Ma picture high This ordeal lasts about 23 miny now serving with thi Cali ly: 'The portly- military digni11 fornia national guardin Its- - II tary standing-refated in his I tiles (or each horse' followed bit another 20 minutes (or two hours high-watwalla and is anxious to hear pants and shouting as the case may be) of groom come here! been I've from some of his old girls "Orderly ing and currying-- i Then w40:t and ROTC pals sabotaged!" took the horses to water ' "We are speaking- of Cor"This was the best part of poral IL E Parlin battery I I F 251st C A Camp Mala- 11 Goat Mascot on Binge - I the day as We rode barebacic i' and got a great kick out of I I II kole Oahu T H" each other len off or : : I I Well girls Loses Job Reputation II watching I get thrown off by unruly horses i ' I water call we tied the I :I EuBsrlidneyoyAu:tranwhatt ttlecr again and fed them thelr I 41tiwore goat I ' ‘ mascot for a garrison battalion "fled we began woJang 1 and declared to be the most about our own oats' You can mascot In Imagine the turmoil when 130 1 the photographed men started rushing for chow Anzac forces Isn't In the army ' Wow! any more "When was down and l dinner They feed us like a Deck of rounds of made the He the horses too and the foodlis pretty digested' we sought out the 1 North Sydney hotels and bars closest mud bole or river foal a good drank beer at each went ber8 p rn we bad found l bath "Last night we visited a nearBy serk and wrecked a candy store a was Which a town hard somewhere on the i spot staging by The vast and vegetable market and rodeo Whatta night! I have range spread out our but $30 garrison paid damages two to blankets never seen anything like it! sleep between i "higher ups" discharged Barney The ground although hard and i Everyone and his (lag were from the army drunk and bottles were flying rough felt very comfortable t ' I for the night all over hell The streets were I we thia with closed and about 35 or 40 people all had °Along Mulles Patriotic to to listen center in the noncommis were sitting right the Steubenvnle Old stoned officer spout off at the f of the street with a couple of mouth for 15 minutes or on t Te list of DOW 1:efferson This quarts and four or five seltzer bottles each: Wow! It was really part of the i draft registrants includes wholewail thehardest eounty as most of the Den trip isomething to watch!" the names of John rershing De In our outfit are Ili geants Young Fletcher expects to be yore' and George ' Washington literate r They have bean ' In back In Salt Lake by the first 1 the army most-o- f theirI kves xtf the week Greco wiatintleaktel - Blies the- family has been New Orleans La Service men hereabout have a pressing problem which has got them deep down in the doldrums And—If a few cleaning establishments don't soon mend the error of their ways New Orleane will see a blitzkrieg the like of which has never been experienced by pants pressers in any war torn town Laundries are pressing cuffs thinks ti suit last night and to ask him where we're going he got- - it as soon as we boll s with - er only "Sold IOW of us here Jensen "The camp Will hold reporte 2000' men but hilt of them m---a- ene-:m- I other day It started raining about $0 a I mean It came down in bucketfuls Befóre we knew It our mosquito nets shoes socks blankets- and what have you were floating out through the tent flaps to send me "Maybe you a life preserverought or a rubber inner tube in yournext package front home: "Speaking of package I received the cookies in the usual stylio—the boys certainly enjoyed the crumbs Gosh mom couldn't you send rock candy for a change? "Yesterday we finished firing for a record When my turn !aloe I alm” missed and hit Then one they wrong target of the Officers shot and hit the I target guard-"Altogeth- ire th-et- —Joseph A Buimer who sometimes wonders whether he signed up for the army or the navy "It's this doggone rain" be complains in a letter to his mother Mrs Benjamin Fullmer of MS South First West street "When a cloud bursts here it really spills over "You Mould have seen us the ch - Joined a group of boys from Fort Leonard 'Wood Mo Tile boys at Fort Leonard Wood Mo are "at sea" half the tithe Take it from a soldier—or should we say sailor? ry : - the California national c - Against :Pqn4s'Pte's Although It II probably the Smallest camp oti the Pacific coast Camp 31cQualde1g Cal speaks with the loudest voice For that's wherejmOst of the big guns are kept "We are known ás the 250th coast artillery" writes Private Burl Jensen to the: Salt Lake Tribune "and our camp is a mobile heavy artillery unit It I one of the mtilet :beautiful A camps in the state i too located Nat the top of a aheeriliff overlooking the ocean: iiImagine htiving the entire ocean for a fronk yard!" Private Jensen :was one of about 125 Utahns Who left Salt Vkrnre iicQuaide I Lake Cityfor on January 20 and 21 They : ' : - 441&- : croas-count- ry over with their tips almost touching the water Vire could see a huge mountain I t fr rj :n - Moot River dam firbig d rays front art' immense backdrop of storm clouds 4 Sea perched on old pilints wouldgull‘ cry out like little puppies while crows reeled and k fluttered ant derisively cawed at the sea ducks Then the snake birds would streak low er z t pInk-tinte- the-riv- Socks Sidi Away With 'Flood' j--- Ssit et the - or a'l "' ILE iris F - - - tons-Cart- - I Svikshingtori —"The aunt wai eetting'- In back soft 1 ''1 d Which-areprinte- 3 1 at-Por- 1- 1 : 71his life la great" he 'wrote to4hls sister Laura TUtill 155 Third avenue "I am working in the kitchen surrounded by food and I haven't felt a trace of sea sickness yet" Robert Joined the coast guard IttMay and was 'sent directly to the toast guard training station Townsend Wash Except for an Impreuive sunset near the Oregon border the trip and later the-training were Uneventful :Ile- preserved :tha sunset however in a letter of desictiption which is still prized by his sister She phoned parts of It In? to The Salt 1Lake Tribune as follows: we through Oregon timbsaw great heavy expansti of ee-on low:' rolling hills with clouds hanging low over their and tops W followed the Columbia Ilvers down qhrquzh ' 1 - I during the year Atthat precise moment which is called the surmner solstice the earth's axis Will be leaning out of perpen dicular by 23 degrees 27 mins utes The sun rises tomorrow at 2:18 it in setting at 9:53 pm but even at midnight It will not be dark as the rosy glow in the northern sky where the sun both rises and aeta will not fade away 'Local Finns mark the day In the customary Finnish way — staying up all night at a party Skiers' plin to leave for a midnight sun ski trip A tour of Loe Angelee visitors are to be guests in the city and a number 'of private 'shortest night' parties are being planned Catches Sig Fish bewey made local fishermen 71av"'"2"‘" this report in his letter 'Lynn Yields and! went fishing the other' day We caught 20 salmon in about two hours thckthey:were lour! some honeys took three fellows to It thein back They weighedcarry be tweeft five and 10 pounds each Boy they sure put up a'stiff fight! -Th place wekcaught them is walk from only a when) we sleep So you see we don't have to go far to get good fishing" Fields also an Idaho youth in the air corps at Anchorage Is 'a son of Mr and Mrs Frank Fields of Idaho Falls akin an airing as seen in this picture of it practice game in F battery street The battery Intends to be well prepared for Intracamp iompetition this fall when soldiers everywhere will don football togs 0fficthi:Thiät6iiBlit —: Camp McQuaide Cat 10-min- 1 u liappy 711417 ' II I rub 1 1 - buoyr said Robert Louis Fugal whets he learned of his appointment to the V S S nose which-- - services buoys along tha Washington coast mAt Usti: any days as a landlubber 'are Over In a Week or so sailing the briny' deep" o'er k :"weele 'Or so" later he waa -- 's0h ' r Ain ' Light NAll Night 4 ditosomawvomawawatammoweosftopmonatemowovosoatestiofemoww1444"x 1411E Rookie Paints Camp as Small Noisy 24-ho- ur - - - - rhis 'formation of planes is flown' by cadets at'itock- il ' Being nursemaid to a polso Si worse than being the horse :itself if you want Private Pan t Vaughan's opinion After war maneuvers Xt Camp Hunter Liggett Cal recently he wrote to his parents Mr and Mn Thomas Vaughan of 20 South Ninth Zut street: "The games' were great fun-- for the horses As for ms 1 ant ' dead tired" I Nevertheless he agreed to re view the "battle" to give them "an idea of why I dread Um thought of actual war" Ho be- gan with the day he left Tort 1 iOrd Cal $ "Ws left hero on a Sunday morning at the ungodly hour : o'clock which meant get of tint up at 4 a m to make prep stations" he wrote "First we packed our equipment on our saddles' and strapped them on the horses Then we bid adieu to the comforts of camp ! 1 t Massage Horses i "For the first rive minutes we walked the horses then WO I trotted them for ten minute At the end of each bour2Arta i called a We M)tl could massage the horses' legs check their feet for loose shoes and check our equipment for loose material At these halts we were not ailowed to smoke or 'shoot the breeze-witany one the in line The fellows who were unfortunate 'enough 1 to get caught doing this were given extra duty when we pitched I i camp i I "These hourly rest periods (for the horses) continued the ' rest of the morning During each hour we covered between I five and seven miles depend lug on whether we traveled up-bill orzdownhill And all the' time we jogged and bounced and cussed the horses until we were both nearly dead Then we' ' 4 - ' Fort Ord Val t ' ' : ? '' 's Off' ' Utahn Hate'§ iNmsm Army Horses tlt 1- 1 It was long-dafor Dewey Dore of Idaho rank Ideho– Ili fact It was 19 liouri and 35 ' Minutes Ion& t'rho sun rose at 2:18 a m and iet at 953 p in And so did Is I' - 2 itii— mi ' ' 1 :::::1::::s:-:-i:-::!--::i-- ' - -g- :' ' rictiglist 3 :: ::::s::?:::::::::::--::--::- Si un 9 Citizens i t i - t i' i i ‘ I 1 1 ''''' itie - I - ' ‘p ' : - 1' 11 ''' - 4 4 NL - - i 'N NJ& - ' - - - i' - I ala - - - 7 ' - 2 f i : - ' - ! - ' - i SunPd syllaratTng - ' - 4 ' ( 't:1 ! ' - 1 ''- - - - - 2 t |