Show soldier newspapers IV are important factors in kee keeping ping up morale of our fighting Q U men mei NV r J C TANK N Es lot A 01 01 11 1 0 A aray n g I 1 2 COAST ARD il tz HA AR afo UA 11 LA naya ae by ariel ELMO SCOTT WATSON released Be leased d by we western ni newspaper union T THERES HERES a an n old saying that if two men meet anywhere in the world an and d one of thern themes is an englishman the chances are hell suggest they start a club if true then its equally true that when any unit of the american army larger than a squad arrives at a new post be it on home or foreign soil one of the first things the soldiers do is to start their own newspaper this seems to apply to the fighting fronts as well for soon after the american forces in sicily had captured the town of vittoria Vit tona a one page sheet called the doughboy news made its appearance As a matter of fact the news la is a transplanted soldier newspaper it is published by and for the men of the division of the united states seventh army and it was started while the was in valuing training a at t pine camp near carthage N Y where the paper was printed in the shop of the cari thage republican tribune a weekly its editor is mgt don robinson formerly a reporter on the oklahoma city okla daily times the doughboy news however is only one of more than 1000 1 such publications locations licati ons camp newspapers in this country 72 navy p papers all cre and service papers abroad the number of these papers red reflect t two things I 1 the fact that americans are the greatest newspaper re reading d g p people in the world so w when an n amerlean american in r marches away to w war r a newspaper ew seems to be an essential ass enolal part of his hill equipment I 1 2 although the home town newspaper is a on one e 0 of f the most welcome pieces of me mail ll 11 t that h at a soldier dier sailor ar marine receives even e ve n this isn t enough for these news aws hungry amer erkens they wan want t to me read d news of ill their own outfits their own acrivi i ties has and he have ve the thrill of seeing I 1 the their m own n names am e in print hence the service newspaper these service newspapers have wee a every imaginable a able v variety le of format annat size and frequency of issue there are dailies semi weeklies and ad weeklies e k most of them a are re printe printed ae it b but of many of them issue issued d w where h ere printing priming f facilities i arill tie a are not aballa available ibl e are mumeo mimeographed grap h e d but 3 ut they all have ane arl thing yf m abr common 1 they are pr primarily for the enlisted 1 is ted me man and deuced by enlisted men outstanding 0 haild 9 among I 1 ml lg these public b lona are a tw two which h le h are re I 1 I 1 c rna tion il 1 so in their scope yank and the h stars star and stripes stripe when Y yank ark we was h shed last year y ear it was intended to be a newspaper for men in the armed forces overseas em soldiers li lie maev ev e sailors ma marines members of the coast guard and ad the merchant marine marme however six weeks after it started nor t ad it s as distributed to men in the camps at home as well as th those overseas now N it has s eight 7 t edidi editions two in flew new yo york k one for of the united states e 1 the other hi or general I 1 overseas sea distribution b 0 british r relue a edition 7 in london a caribbean edition la in puerto rico and others th era in trim trial dad australia and hawaii other her act c editions it on s or are planned on for panama m 11 aask the peed alaska mid and the persian la gulf a corn com 1 roand mand the reason for all I 1 these he editions being to speed up distribution on april 18 1942 a new version of id the stars and stripes famous soldier newspaper of world war I 1 made its appearance in london unlike yank which began publication later the stars and stripes was not to be fo for r the whole army but for I 1 the he m the british isles it started as a weekly but in november m response to a demand from its soldier readers who wanted more news new a from home than they were getting in the english newspapers it began ga publishing daily since that time it has given birth to several in lusty ta offspring in africa abile soon after ft the great invasion of november 1942 the stars and stripes we was a hauled up on an editorial masthead in algiers 9 1 e bcd and began publication as a weekly Y later it began issuing a daily ed edition alon as well as B ang we weekly and zy daily editions are also issued to in oran casablanca and other african cities the african n edition of the stars and alc stripes 1 is typical of the h amerlean american elep b pr soldier n newspaper breezy ee and informal in the the style of its it writing reflecting 1 the ti humor arnim without which democracy would the die like most a service new newspapers it prints cn much ch service soldier idler verse an and d one of its poe poems ne promises muses to become immortal in one of 11 the e e early aly 1 issues a appeared an eight line p poem e b by y private william L russell under th the a title of tune tons from tunis wh which ic h to told 1 d about dirty gertie from I 1 bizette et t e tune from turnia tunis was a reprinted in yank an w where paul reif composer of the 1 isle ale of capri saw F it wrote some additional verses and set it to music since that time other soldiers have added verses ot of the their own most of which can NOT be P printed r d and now it seems lakel likely th that t dorty dirty grins gertie from Bizer te win will be the world war II if counterpart 11 f mademoiselle 1 1 dera from armenti A lenn res 0 of world dc W war idame I 1 tame another soldier newspaper which has won considerable lame fame for its verse is the kodiak bear published by and for the soldiers sailors and contractors tr wor workmen krum a stationed tation ed at alra F fort I 1 greely eel and the naval at sur air a staton t a on kodiak ad I 1 ak island in the gulf guif ot f A alaska it started the same week lp that t pearl harbor was bombed and one of its most famous poe moema a w was as called valentine verses to a ge geisha an it gurr girl which was an invitation ft n to geisha gl girl 1 of fr far japan apa get aboard br d an n old ild tampan oaf paddle to am lome II 11 isle pacific kodiak to be im the poem went on oil to assure the geisha girl of the warmth of the we welcome awaiting her but ended with clime this is awaiting abrupt warning C come me straight raight t to us my lotus iotis flower la c conae ome to I 1 our b bear inal infested d bower r bring Y your sisters brother bothem tw too clr bring g your four whole hok d damn fleet ot f two firt SUDS 0 but b be ready dy tor fr a one dimova battle when whan yu you I 1 get mt here I 1 although army regulations forbid g iving giving out weather data the kodiak bear has I 1 its is 0 own method of I 1 getting around that for instance there was this prediction the weather belly cold old courtesy weather bureau it is such things as the of humor humor typical american gags wisecracks wise cracks jokes at the expense thet of themselves as well as their e of d biers both 1 commissioned ad and roa non coms esper especially ulry the latter which help relieve rehab the monotony and drudgery of the military routine munce and which milk make the il service ervice mani man newspaper soch such an important part of his every everyday ch ay t life e milli military r y f ficiala testify to uie the tact fact that t thero h r is a nothing th like these newspapers to boost the morale of our men in the armed forces maintain his hia interest in the job ab before him so whether hes he stationed in ht alaska az iceland trinidad australia or iran he looks forward each publication day to the arrival of HIS newspaper er and as the african and Sief sicilian luni campaigns have demonstrated he sees to it that his new newspaper goes right along with him to the a firing firm line has the doughboy news p pub b dished in vittoria Vit tona sicily may b be a th the e latest example of such a paper pu pub dished deep in what we was recently y enemy territory but its certain that it wont be the I 1 last as t the other day a staff sergeant who is a the managing editor of on one of f the daily editions ot of the stars and strip stripes in africa wrote back to hu hie editor father in the states at im waiting for the day when what we publish ablis h either p a rome daily or a berl berlin daily S some in fun full h heyl I 1 |