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Show Red Cross Field Men Tackle Yanks' Problems Overseas : xl rv A 1 u-'Krt y One of the very Important functions of the American Red Cross is the direct communication it affords between the fighting man and his people back home. Here Red Cross Field Director John L. Barnes (left), of White Plains, N; Y., gives a message to Sgt. William J. McDonald, Jr., of Mamaroneck, N. Y. Picture was made In Sicily outside a straw Italian hutch with the rear headquarters of the 1st Division near Mt. Etna. On Masera Island, up In the Per- home town Immediately. It took sian Gulf, where there Is not a care of her, financed her operation single tree standing and the wind and saw that she had adequate blows across the Island ceaselessly, funds to provide for herself until the ' Red Cross field men brought fishing allotment again came through, tackle, books and writing paper to When the Red Cross man ex-service ex-service men. Most welcome gift plained what had happened to the from the Red Cross was clippers soldier's Commanding Officer, the for hair cutting the boys had been latter promptly released the boy without a barber for months. from the guard house. From then In Persia, a Red Cross Field DI- on tna by was a11 r'Sht- His wot" rector was able to locate a soldier's ries were over' and the Army had mother whom he hadn't seen for sained a good fighting man. 25 years All over the world, In every the- In Africa, Red Cross field men atre f ar and ac'iv battle flew in Army planes, hitch-hiked in S theu American Red Cross field supply trucks, bumped in jeeps over men-helping soldiers with major v. kj , , .,,., and minor personal problems, bring- bombed convoy routes, through . v .. ... , , ,. , j , mg them recreational items such as blinding sand storms and glaring '"s . i,i -i,h i magazines, books, comfort articles, sun to help men with personal . ' ' .,,' j , , athletic equipment and re-establisa- problems and emergency Commu- , t, , , , . , . . m. ... . . . ,. , ing their contact with home. These nlcations, and to deliver magazines , .... and books, cigarettes and chocolate me share th,e '"""."V?? to isolated posts and bases. "ds unfer whhlch the .o dier, fight They also share their lives. They In Italy, Red Cross field men ac- are on call flay and nlght wlienever companied the troops in on the in- tlley are neered vasion barges. G.I.'s overseas have many prob- In India, a sergeant was sen- iems. Often home seems very, very tenced to the guard huuse for dis- far away. With the Red Cross there orderly conduct. His officer couldn't at hand wherever he may be, the understand the boy's behaviour. He soldier knows he can always get in was a nice kid he'd never gone to touch with home that he need pieces before. never feel alone with problems he The officer asked the Red Cross doesn't know how to solve himself. Field Director to see him. The Red More than 3,000,000 service men Cross man discovered a very wor- passed through Red Cross field ried boy. His wife had not been re- men's offices last year, ceiving his allotments, she wasn't On the mud clogged roads of well and needed an operation. She Italy, through the far jungles of thought the soldier must have can- New Guinea, on lonely desert posts, celled his allotments and a misun- Red Cross field men take your place derstanding had arisen between beside your boy. In order to con- . them so that she was no longer tinue this service, the Red Cross writing him. urgently needs contributions from The field man got in touch with the American people to Its $200,- . the Red Cross chapter in the boy's 000,000 War Fund drive this month. |