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Ensign Roy Phillip Gee in a leti In the morning When my first '441r i to M ter his mother Mrs Helen r i'' :i r l'' time to fire came the sun 0 I ''goIswPvs 00 ' 1 Gee of 1335 Logan avenue "At ' out for a moment Tak:1 -) peeped 1 4 8:30 p rn the parachute troops 1 Icri-of this I fired ing advantage were ' v40to land and -11 cap4‘4 x supposed - I4:-'to ::'': ::j as fast as I could and ended I ture Pope field To accomplish 11: score up with the best ' A z: 'i ':''this task various missions had 4 ' N I it :Levi of the day 47 points out of a e44: j :1' to j be ' our :'' 0 aircrilft performed by 10q A' ' i 001 possible 50 It looked as if I ' 4 '14 'mot :: :t would be able to qualify for exDive Caznp San Luis Obispo CaL Began Bombing : D1---: AZ f : pert tc 4 k rating if I kept up the It's the drafted men who get ' "It was vitally important to us same pace But I had failed to 1 to ' have so Serto air all the breaks according that superiority r s ' reckon with what the afternoon I e- : the attack could be carried out I -i :l geant Donald L Ginitin of might bring without interference from hos"After lunch we began firing 1 Camp San Luis Obispo Cal '"'''''' tile airplanes ' ' our final rounds and the boys t 1 W' who made the mistake of volunm 8:20 our "At p exactly 1 his bug-lik- e were worse than ever W Boys of the 222nd field artillery upper right perilonality Lower three of 1 squadron began dive bombing to 1471 teering see the targets' they couldn't resemble Insects as they march them are caught without their masks They put out of commission various "You see" he explains complained as they returned In their gas masks One of the men are members of the medical detachment along antiaircraft batteries that were from the line "everyone feels amry for the i l2211d without disguise is Private Earl W Smart field artillery Camp San Luis Obispo strategically located around the e "Then my turn came I fell rudere so draftees who field Then we streaked over to poor left In the Insert he again assumes Cal practicing first aid with a stretcher on my stomach and took flat upper the north aide of the field to stop ly forced out of their nice warm a look at the target with both a body of troops concentrated at bomes and into the army In eyes It looked as big as a barn the side of the road We were to me but when I stuck my order to boost their morale and f to have carried out our supposed upf to the peep sight I eye keep them from becoming homemission in two minutes a n d couldn't even ate the target line sick people are always sending climbed to an altitude of 6000 t clearly let alone my own ' feet so that we could be poised E1""''' to the coach did ing them gifts and planning 171161 to make other attacks if neces' no good He just told me to go parties for them But no one sary at 8:22 p m Meanwhile ahead and fire I did Haw? I ever sympathizes with the voli chances with rotten teeth As t with the latest modem dental 50 medium bombers from the Camp San Luis Obispo Cal: could see just two grey streaks '' unteers ' 'i ' soon as a sore tooth crops up army air corps came over and A soldier s chewing equipment that were the outlines of my "Gee I wish I had waited to equipment" V ) bombed Pope field 2cis soon as in the army we pounce upon it Vat is Just as important as his fightbe drafted" he moans in a letWhen Private Smart was astarget I gagged where the bull- -' ' 4 they were through (two minshould be from that eye ter to The Tribune Yes clinic ing equipment in the eyes of he dental to the signed utes) a squadron of pursuit t c Uncle Sam Tries for Rating didnt think he would like it planes were to come down and At least that is the report of 'Why didn't I wait to be drafted "Corutidering all the handiGis'res strafe the field and its immeNow after a few weeks as a a dental assistant Private Earl To be led to the train by a band I did fairly well making 4:: caps diate out to clear surroundings W Smart of Camp San Luis dentist's "nurse' he is considerOr put in a claim for exemption 40 out of a posaible 50 but even and machine gun nests snipers who points out Oh why did I hold up my hand? as his life's work Obispo Cal this wasn't good enough To ing dentistry that an army must take good Arrived Too Early VVby didn't I wait for a banmake expert's rating and the "The more I see of this dentist John Russell Clegg on active duty with the United States care of the stomach on which quet? $60 a year extra that goes with all had "After this taken place he like work the better I it" navy poses beneath a palm tree at San Diego Cal lie is it fights Why didn't I wait to be cheered? I had to fire a 99 out of the the parachute troops were to it Mrs to mother his writes former resident of Magna and a grandson of John Hick For the draftee men get all the Agnes next 100 possible points or 19 "Nothing is more disconcertfrom transport planes upon Willie: Dear drop credit ing to a stomach than a gob of Smart of 5670 South Highland bullseyes out of 20 shots And Pope field Sorry to hear you're in While I merely yolunteered half chewed food" he declares this had to be done in rapid mom one "Well am about "In I drive fact thing just the guardhouse again but just "so Uncle Sam is taking no fire went wrong The parachute mess sernext time the the found have convinced that I my "But I didn't get any banquet The first 10 rapid-fir- e shots troops arrived five minutes geant asks you to go in the were from the prone position calling in life If I possibly can Nobody said a kind word This time ahead of see prevented room about and dining see myself clear I am going The grind of the wheels the puff I hit the dirt and began tiring the pursuit planes from making the captain's pigs feet you of the engine as fast as I could knowing that school on is There dental their attacks the to shouldn't ask the captain through strafing Was all the goodbye that I I must shoot the 10 shots a great opportunity for success field As a result when the take off his shoes 4 heard one minute flat and all must landed and work field in this the duftroops they liking parachute Dutch Harbor Alaska It was nice of you to send their began throwing days Then off to the training camp be in the bull were and is half the battle anyway immediately captured home that gas mask to look fle bags and rifles into the hustled 'My position was lousy and Trapped in a sinking ship sevmachine guns and The work in the dental clinic to wor Millie Cat Field Stockton destroyed by Sister at it To be trained for the next two that the coach didn't waste words bewere remaineral miles Is which other from shore Private but troops and church grueling everyinteresting There's a place at the top for Sunday we me so But when the tarand half years all could do on field one Ms telling cause most on the is of 20 feet one said she looked Glen L Ericson and 60 buddies ing years boys who take an interest in the And in the shuffle forgotten— was cross our ( came up I had scored a 49 get a is like the It day regular just reSer' to younger Staff from Dutch harbor Alaska army according He shut up like a clam I was only a volunteer fingers a n d job I go to work at 7:30 a M Sergeant Klop wrote the geant LeRoy wrote in the face of a mained calm wait" 'Mita 49 was good but dropm 4 an hour with and at p quit ' of family and said the army Ericeven the one koint meant Private "Men some day in the future death ping watery off for lunch This makes the was doing a lot for you Only : son "Nothing When my son climbs on my knee Stockton Field must score 0 perfect 50 I that because account time much as faster An of the I told how he week pass last episode Cal won who you Ix the rapid-fir- e on was And asks me what I did in the left sitting pointion to do definite have breath-takincame down in a parachute g something as a sequence his stripes the 1 was excited now board except a last great war Everyone -Cataover air the base at every day re"hard way" from a motion picture was few rifles and And his eyes look up at me Finally my last turn came "I don't have as much free lina and ran into a school which he says " 111 have to look back into don't remember just how I the men them- Cal ceived Luis Miss San Donna week last Obispo Camp by as fellows time other the but I You of flying fish wasn't "really 1 thought selves I was felt but I know I just dropped t The United States army has them M Hampshire of 3185 Ninth don't want It I would rather there was something wrong very hard" down into the sitting position Those eyes which trustingly Battal"Lost another enough lucky acquired be busy" so you let go the parachute East street the girl Private Offering ad- to hang onto p and began to fire at top speed ion" peer saga as a Private works Smart ento and swim started Ericson left behind The And tell him that I wasn't vice and rifle" first five shots were in the Two coeds Pasa1 in hundred my man around the clinic However the fall must handy couragement to center He described I knew that because I a "You widow almost became a Cal drafted dena organized turkey have improved your looks the buck pri- helping the dentist in every way held the sights right in there his anxiety as dinner and dance for 175 solI was only a poor volunteer" before you were married" he he can It is Ms job to mix as the sergeant said you fell vate who hopes each new wave Private Ericson diers f rom Camp San Luis began "And I almost became a to become a Discharges Accidentally into a corral full of fillings sterilize the instruments dashed over Obispo corpse and otherwise be of assistance cattle and now have general s o m e"Then I reloaded the gun side with deck the the to were scheduled The We on spraying were our guests way from "I am learning quite a lot" d a y Sergeant dimples all over Like a perfect fool 1 became new gallons of and foam 1 p m When they had adding arrive at cove to to Dutch harbor Morris down he says "and here they over confident When I raised Grandpappy's dying to get Naylor stresses Be r water to the ships load not arrived at 3 p rn the coeds ay 1 Or participate in war maneuvers have the very newest and modIn the army himself In fact "love for the 101000 the gun to my shoulder again "We worked sheriff who the with our fill when boat began tp with telephoned put furiously em equipment with which to he's pestered the enlisting army" a the most important hooked my finger in the trigon case his entire the We staff water were of to and pans am even pots empty work Why I trying begintoo soon and discharged the sergeants so much they're qualification ger Camp Para iso Panama discould we information he The best across the before way bail out the water as fast as it 1 "A fellow who is eager to to get the service slodidn't ning to smell like a dentist My If congress would Just draft piece accidentally trying was th&"battalion" was obtain too covered then late it it that clothes smell of anesthetic4 my 'had become lost in Los U S learn can go places in the army" came went was know a he said shot where gan changed to "The but in" 10000 girls and send them down that "It We we turn couldn't back and Angeles hands are getting white and my he points out in a letter to his to Panama to help entertain army wants you — no not WILS sO mad I was ready to went The WEIS too The out sea then and task couldn't continue much hopeless girls farther Nand Mrs Mr Horace are parents soldiers the Canal Zone would you Grandpa Allen!" finger nails always clean" throw the gun the entire dissucceeded in "sneaking" two solthe captain told us" and the boat too subA graduate of Granite high be a great place rough Naylor of Sunnyside Utah tance of the range at the target Finally in desperation who dier from Fort MacArthur For a moment the 60 soldiers school young Smart joined the merged" In the same flash I decided to That's the view of Private "Personally I like the army grandpappy stowed away in of filled the stood still the recalled he a But Luck and places missing deathly bestrong Lady swell Uncle Sam is a good Utah national guard at the a box of muffins father was Howard C Willis expressed in finish out the run 175 as best they could Then under the direction of wind were on their side After boss" a letter home from tEe tiring ginning of the year He was assending to you Then father was beascertained Later it calm that efficient officers they several anxious hours being From Camp Paraiso Willis a miss on numline I Young Naylor joined the army signed to the medical detachgot arrested for sending obsignaled whereas 5000 civilian cars had gan to clear the decks of all ment of the 222nd field artillery pushed by the wind they found air corps in December 1939 and scene material through the wrote: "There is very little enber six shot Everyone thought solto been called 10000 excess take 100 themselves feet of within weight was sent to Gray Field Wash after the guard units arrived mails tertainment for the soldiers here the same thing but when the Mbre than $600 worth of food diers to Los Angeles between shore and still afloat at Camp San Luis Obispo where he served as a machinist outside of the camp There are Please take care of yourfinal target came up there was 15 camp stoves and several 15000 and 20000 cars showed did that solid ground "Boy he Later he was transferred to Before his enlistment 10 shots on the target all of self Mother has been biting several thousand trobps here on boxes of luggage went overlook good to us!" he concluded up and so jammed traffic that Chanute Field Ill to attend a served ' two years as an L D S in the bull the isthmus and only a few her nails so much thinking them 175 coeds' soldiers for the the -board Next the men each "We swarmed over it like halfschool for air mechanics At Yes about you we have to give sir! I will be able to missionary in Australia where girls dinner-danc- e never were located loaded with provisions for 12 drowned—but happy—rats" to my grandchildren about "We have been thinking of he met many young men who her a bottle of nail polish evpresent he is a technical inspecbrag now belong to the famous Anzac tor at Stockton Field the time grandpappy shut his having someone write to their ery day as a chaser "It's not hard to advance 6 Your own sister eyes at the 200 mark and hit troops congressman and persuade him to introduce a bill drafting about the army" he says "if you like the bullsye" Grade Allen Assuring his mother that As Sketched by Private W G Pontz the work" 10000 girls for service in "everything is fine and dandy Panama In camp" Private Smart of Fort Lewis Washington "Please don't worry pleads: about me mom I promise that If anything is every very serChaplain Toots Own 'N ' iously wrong with me I will Seen fleld M 4 I ) Call to Church write and let you know Nothing r:21!:)4-)041 I --Private Ira A Taylor instots is likely to happen because the v: upon having his middle initial Camp Berwie Texas me— care of o takes ) 1 good e4 army : on all mail addressed included cornThe Lord 4 Cal as Lieutenant a from welfare Roberts Japanese Camp even to the slightest cold You II -and Lucille Ye Im of to nim Colonel Albert K Mathews demin There Lake mittee Salt Iv City as well confine your worryhome—if A may from it EL the girl he left package Winchester on a our recent to was onstrated II company enough feed Sunday ing to home and let Uncle Sam contains anything good to eat mind the formalbehind doesn't still helps those who help themof 225 men for three or four I worry about me" -:(kl-becomes selves the ity 1 —automatically i' days" Miss Ye lm sent Taylor a carColonel Mathews is a chaplain At least Private Poison can't 0116 0 W property of everyone in the bar?" ton of cigarets and a few days racks reports Private Herbert 0 Arriving at Camp Bowie Texas complain about being lonely at Three Story Fall Fails later was a trifle surprised when to conduct services he discovW Poison in describing the "sok -- He has a cousin on one : 3 camp Att' lit ( she received a polite letter side-- of ) ered the bugler was on the sick cial system" at Camp Roberts him a second cousin on To Rouse Sleeper 6r list and that there was no one Cal thanking her for them and askthe other side and several for'''Ig to blow church call He made that discovery soon ing for her picture mer chums from Sandy all Lowry Field Colo When next she saw Taylor "Give me that horn" the 56- after the mailman delivered a around him When Private Don Bartell : 1 she queried him concerning the year-ol- d "I went to school with eight chaplain commanded I to sleep he wants to huge fruit cake for him last wants Iporommompogre He raised it to his lips tooted or ten of the fellows who are week cigarets and he denied having sleep reseen them Investigation ewe re"I got my fair and equal share around me" flawlessly and had a congregahe quartered The field b‘ 0 3 Lowry Ira tion in no time vealed F Private as same told veal& the the rest" he Taylor at 4 soldier fell from the third-stor- y I the fort had received the Mrs Drisilla S Woodward of 966 He arrived at Camp Roberts 1 window of a hotel through a ' ' 4if Ira A Taylor is in the East First South streetin a letshortly after the first of the oere glass skylight and to the floor le::::!f Blows Both Ways ter "Of course I didn't mind month signal corps while Ira F is of a lobaratory He didn't """' in the headquarters squadron That made me eligible for a "I like it very well here" he Port Sill Okla awaken A 1 "N ACTS 'err nice share of everyone else's grocered'"s'716 "The This story Is told about Fort is ' Next says 00 personnel morning Private Bartell Cli AM '''' :t1 ies Bill Okla: and the food alsois nice found himself lying on the floor Vitt It aim& A new recruit getting off the e‘44 He didn't of a laboratory Sleeps on Breakfast "Yesterday the fellow next to "Camp Roberts is just about t me got a big box of potato chips half way between Los Angeles tr train and holding desperately to A from ortottoor "Il glass bleeding profusely Camp Roberts Cal troe The box was about two feet his hat wanted to know: and San Francisco It is a little 41r cuts on his head and body He ' '''too- —mr ''''''':"'"ziam14:6 - -"Dear mom" wrote a trainee 10"" s loot ----a All --and 'Whew! Does the wind here alcool the in here the morning but it 4remembered nothing about the square ‘it A deep In the Eighty-fift- h o 0 i'-41 VII 6 frr4411 4 infantry ways blow thisway?" boys in the barracks had all the gets quite warm about 2 or 3 night before except that he had Camp Roberts Cal ashe Ills-MINNOW 44r 641 " "For six months of the year" o'clock in the afternoon—someto in chips they wanted gone covered cornflakes in his bunk sleep very peacefully "''''"mn00mEoriffimnwosaia Po 1er sb —- "One Thanksgiving day two retorted a native soldier "Then times about 90 or 95 degrees the hotel "things are picking up here at returns It around and blows the "P S—I hear it's 'snowing in Police said Bartell 'admitted 0 Japanse boys down the aisle camp Right now rm haring ceived a big shipment of celery other way" WHO was It put them cracker crumbs In my bunk last night!" "Now he had been "drinking lightly" Salt Lake" breakfast in bed" 4 04 k ': ' - 'n 4 I (1:i 7 1 $ 4 74 'i s 4 t- - 9' 1 t 4 '' ''''''t 'r-7 ' :: Or' ?O' ' --- 'Woble r ' Aiiild :' ' lc 4:i s :: sv I 1 4 - 4 i 11 - 4 t ' '6 - - - 1 4 - - 1 -- A t-- : ' " - ' f- ' 5' 4 !?- Loses Battle for 'Reds' - ': '' V-- V' ? '' 1 r "' Vi' ''-- :! 7 - r "1 - 5 ' f4"-- 'Fy ' ' - ' '' : 1 '''''' 7' - ) L - :t :' 1 -- t ' 't-Ip-?'4:'eak':- Li-4Ti- 41 -': '4 Draftees Get All Breaks Moans Utalm A ' ' li do: 1' r''''''77-77"77:7- 1'-- - - : - :- ' - ' 1 ii :1! ( x i -- - ' -so- --''F : 4 4 - - - :': '" '!: kl: 1 '''- 1 4 :7-- off-ha- !: s 441 4 - - --I- ? 0- -4- " Ci -- g - 4 V2F 4 - -:- 4 — L nd '14:::7:0P-- 4- i! 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