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Show With the Colors Mrs. Lucile Raines is in receipt lof word from her son, Sergeant 'Albert Raines, indicating that he is in France. A former Union Pacific railroad engineer, Sergeant .Raines is affilated with a railroad rail-road battalion on the continent following fol-lowing intensive training in the , United States before going over-' seas. I First Lieutenant Vernon C. Beard left Tuesday for the army air forces rest and redestribution Renter at Santa Monica, Calif or-pia or-pia following a three weeks visit jwith home folks and friends.! j Lieutenant Beard, some two j months ago, completed his tour of duty as bombardier member of Flying Fortress crews with the Fifteenth and Eighth air forces in Italy and England. The trip to Santa Monica was made in his car and he was accompanied to the coast by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Beard, the party intending in-tending to visit other relatives in Paragonah and Las Vegas en-route. en-route. ! Radioman Clarence McWhorter, accompanied by his wife and small daughter, Julie Ann, left Friday of last week for the San Francisco bay area, where "Mac" expects to get a new assignment after a long period of navy service in the (southwest Pacific. i , From Cpl. H. B. (Bud) Baxter i With Tank Destroyer Unit 1 i France, August 8, 1944 Dear Mom and Pop: I There is not much to write about 'except I believe I have found out what we are fighting for and I wouldn't miss this war for anything. any-thing. When you see these people over here that have been under Hitler's heel for four years, it makes worthwhile all the hell a man goes through. I They line the streets of the towns we go through, wave their hands, throw flowers at us and darned near go mad with happiness. happi-ness. One time we stopped and a i fellow climbed up on our tank and passed out cider and we were darned near left behind. He just kept shaking our hands and saying say-ing "Vive 1' American!" and passing pass-ing out cider. When he ran out of cider his litle girl brought some more. One little girl climbed up on one of the tanks and kissed every one of the fellows! I If we do nothing more than liberate lib-erate these French people, the war will have been worthwhile. You can have Mr. Williams put this in the paper if you want to. I kind of wonder what kind of a war correspondent I would make. ; Ye "Kid", BUD From H. La Marr Morris, RM 2c Dear Mr. Williams: Sometime ago there was received re-ceived aboard the Cabot an article giving a few pointers and compliments compli-ments on this type of carrier. The I information was passed through- 'out the ship with permission from j ithe censoring board to send it I home. I am not sure if you havej ' read the following before or not, j but here it is, along with my ut- j l most approval:' I "The navy dtjclosed today nine ( light aircraft carriers, built on 'cruiser hulls, have taken over a , big- and important tactical role in ithe war against Japan protection jfor big carrier task forces. " 'They have a deadly sting," re. j ported the navy in revealing for Ithe first time some of the duties 'to which the U.iS.S. Cabot, In- j dependence, Princeton, Belleaui I Wood, Cowpens, Monterey, Lang-j :ley, Bataan and San Jacinto have, been assigned. j '"Airmen from a light carrier,' ,the navy continued, 'joins the 'larger air group from the big car-'rier car-'rier to add a greater punch in a 'strike on enemy shipping or jislands; or the light carriers' pilots assume the vital job of protecting pro-tecting the task force against j enemy attack, freeing larger car-'riers car-'riers to concentrate on the mission mis-sion of assault. Some of the interceptions accomplished by pro-itective pro-itective planes from the light carriers car-riers have been spectacular. En-l En-l tire formations of attacking Jap I bombers have been shot down be-Ifore be-Ifore they could get within sight of the fleet.'" I "The light carriers proved them-' them-' selves at Makin and Tarawa, in the Solomons, at Rabaul, teamed with the big Saratoga, in the Gilberts, Gil-berts, in the Marshall islands, in ,the Carolines and off Hollandia; enroute home they struck at Truk. , one-time feared base in the Caroline Caro-line island group, participating, jthe navy says, 'in the great dam-j age done to installations on thai shattered stronghold.' " Self explanatory, ex-planatory, isn't it? I The 24th of July was an unusual day for the Cabot's crew to the extent of a heavy meal as a reminder re-minder of the Cabot's first anni-1 versary since being commissioned. .Menus were available, and I ami inclosing one in this letter so that i (Continued on last page) I With the Colors (Continued trom first page) you might form a good impression of the Cabot as a "good chow ship" as well as a "good fighting ship." LA MARR Excerpts from another interesting interest-ing letter from LaMarr to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Morris, follow: Dear Mother and Dad: Now that we have received a brief 'breathing spell1, getting a chance to catch up on some much needed sleep, I thought that you'd like to get a general idea of what I've been doing. Believe it or not, you are probably prob-ably much more familiar with the details than we are because the newspaper accounts can present the overall picture while an. individual indi-vidual ship sees only the actions in which it is particularly engaged. engag-ed. However, we have the' satis-action satis-action of knowing that in the nine months the Calbot has been in the combat zone, there has been very little we've missed. All the major activity in the central Pacific, soee mighty interesting , work on New Guinea, ringside seats at the unprecedented un-precedented shows put on by Ad-1 miral Spruance and Admiral Mitscher are only a part of the picture. We've sailed into ports that only 48 hours before were 100 Jap. we've seen our own pilots shoot down Jap planes out of the sky and we have knocked out enemy bombers with the ship's guns. : Our planes have proven the superiority of American aircraft , and American pilots over the ! enemy by outfighting them. We have planes on board that have knocked down several Jap .planes each, others that have carried out' more than a score each of bombing raids on enemy strongholds. The whole ship has grown into an efficient combat team on which every player knows the signals, 1 and, above all, knows that the i Japs can't stop us. Without boasting it can be said that our air group has broken practically all records for ships of this type-. During the past few months a number. of decorations, including distinguished flying crosses and i air medals, have been awarded to 'both officers and enlisted men at- tached to the Cabot. We consider I ourselves fortunate in that only a I very few have received the purple heart (awarded only for wounds received in action against tha enemy). j As a geography lesson . you 1 couldn't beat the experience. Even visits to the captured islands have produced interesting experiences, j On one island, the fleet postoff ice ' is in a building that was formerly a Jap seaplane hangar. The local ! I "pub" was once an officer bar- j racks and men play ball on the i area formerly cleared for a Jap airfield. In other instances, even the native dogs seemed delighted at the change in management and have developed an American wag to their tails. Last night, while standing the mid-watch, I became hungry as I had missed eating all day. Some of the boys were toasting sandwiches sand-wiches on a toaster I had made, so inasmuch as I had put my work in on the construction of the toaster, they offered to make me a special delux sandwich. I did notice its peculiar taste when I had consumed half of it, but said nothing, thinking it was the fault of stale buttter we get once in a while. After finishing, I was very bluntly informed that, between be-tween the two pieces of bread I had eaten, was a thick layer of glue, taken from the bottle we have around for general use. (It must have been a race horse that that glue was made from, cause 1 raced right over to the rail ! !) Love, LA Marr Major Noel E. Hoblit, 37, of Milford, recently returned from service outside the continental United States, now is being processed pro-cessed through the Army Air Forces Redistribution Station No. 2 in Miami Beach, Florida, where his next assignment will be determined, de-termined, according to a release, to The News. This is one of the redistribution redistribu-tion stations within the A A F personnel distribution command. At an AAF redistribution station, Witurnees from theatres of operation opera-tion are examined by specially selected medical and classification officers whose joint findings are used in recommending new assignments. assign-ments. Theme of the A A F redistribution re-distribution 'program is designation designa-tion of each man to duty for which, he is best fitted. Returnees live at a redistribution station under conditions that encourage natural response to processing, the greater part of their two-weeks stay being devoted to rest and recreation. AAF nersonnel, enlisted men and officers alike, are assigned to a redistribution station upon their return to the United States, but Jdo not report to the station until after completing a. furlough or leave of three weeks. ! Major Hoblit was a dentist during dur-ing 39 months in the Central Pacific Pa-cific theatre. His wife, Virginia resides in Illmo, Missouri, and his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Hoblit, Hob-lit, in Pasadena, California. Major j Hoblit is a graduate of Gregory j High school in Gregory, South Dakota, Da-kota, the University of South Dakota, Da-kota, and St. Louis University School of Destists. He also attended at-tended the University of Idaho, Southern 'branch. While in Milford Mil-ford he was operator for thc-A.T. thc-A.T. & T. relay .' station, taking his dental course after leaving here. i Brown-eyed, part-Indian, Private Pri-vate Dorothy M. Mills used to play Indian roles in western motion pictures, and watch the braves go off to war, reads a release to The News. Now she is "off to wars" herself. Currently in basic training train-ing with the Women's Army Corps at First W A C Training center. Fort Des Moines, Iowa, Private Mills won't be in combat, of course, but she will be doing her part to help the war effort. The daughter of Mrs. Agnes V. Mfills, Los Angeles, California Private Mills was employed by the Civil Aeronautics 'administration, prior to enlisting, working in Indio, California and Milford, as an aircraft communicator. A graduate of the Polytechnic high school in Los Angeles, Private Mills also attended the Metropolitan Metropoli-tan Business school in Los Angeles. As a member of the American Legion Auxiliary, she was, on two different occasions, marshal and j chairwoman of that organization ;for two years in each capacity. A singer of amateur standing, she has sung at many of the Legion affairs, and has also taken part in their parades. A brother, Warrant Officer David H. Mills, whom, until last year, Private Mills had not seen in 12 years, has been in the navy for over 20 years. He is now somewhere in the South Pacific. |