| Show OUR BOYS AND GIRLS IN THE U S SERVICE by Twila Kearl we have another interesting letter from clayton longhurst written aug lath in the september american magazine there was an article written by a reporter in the african and sicily war zone in which he said he british fought for one thing the french fought for something else and the yanks fought for in an interesting letter received from frodi clayton a short time ago was a chehad he bad collected and which he tells about in this letter dear dad and alice here it comes again ill try an airmail this time received your letter I 1 saying joyce was home hoine then the next day received rece ivett one saying she home got the last one first A lot has happened since I 1 last wrote you ask about just where I 1 was but I 1 cant say the exact spot but I 1 can say that weve been almost every place from casablanca to tunis we maui a trip up to tunis the other day and saw all the main battle fields of that thal area we drove right into tunis and naturally our first stop was the red cross we got something to eat and then looked the the city over tunis so badly shot up the streets are still lined with slit trenches we did get out fill of grapes in case your interested the price of grapes is 23 francs per kilo toward night we got in da the truck again and went out to the airport to get chow there we saw the he remains of the german airplanes we stopped in and walked about a pile of german planes that covered about a city block I 1 got in the seat of one of the german fighters and tore a piece of 0 dashboard metal off ill send it iri in this letter if you look in life magazine f tor or june 18 you yoa can see the pictures of a lot jut of the things we saw we then drove into another place and slept in a building the americans had bad taken over the roof was shot oft off the next morning we drove into biz bertte its realy a town that was shot up it looked like a beautiful city at one time but there a building left whole we never saw a civilian in the whole town the streets were covered with wrecked buildings we got a bunch of watermelons water melons and had bad our till fill then drove back into camp it was certainly two days of interest everything is right by me in the best of health though lost 18 pounds down to normal I 1 think we axe are even getting used to the african climate it seem to bother us much now bye for now cowl I 1 clayton in a letl letter e r to mrs lewis lon longhurst hurst from liar her son staff mgt S t gene broyles who is stationed at camp polk la he enc enclosed closed a clipping from one of the local newspapers with the heading camp polk nazi prisoner wed to fiancee in reich by proxy max darbrowski Sar browski 26 german prisoner of war was married to his home town sweetheart erna helen dabinnus 20 civil ceremony ait act which the bride i in a nas no ivil w was not present the ceremony which is 19 thought to be se the first of its kind to take place in the U S was v as p performed effo r m e d in t the he prisoner of w war a r s stockade t ka d S sunday ti n d ay 0 morning o r ning stab max mas german camp leader performed the ceremony is the highest rail ranking lung non commission ed officer among the german prisoners the bridegroom is an corporal in the german army both bride and bridegroom resided at anster burg in east prussia germany the 1 ble I 1 or the ceremony was appropriately decorated A statement oay ay ing that max darbrowski Sar browski was wedded to erna helene dabinnus nab innus was signed by y the bridegroom compound leader wenger and company leader Max marquardt were the bridegrooms bride grooms attendants and also witnesses max had planned to marry ern ema a last may i j had all the papers ready when C f allied victory in tunisia forced him to change his plans re he was a deml r of 41 brommels Rom mels afrika korps permission for the wedding was obtained from the U S government continued on last lasi page NEWS FROM OUR BOYS AND GIRLS IN THE i U S SERVICE by Twila Kearl mgt broyles is supply mgt of headquarters detachment of an internment camp where about german gernian soldiers are interned having bhavini arrived there last july while mrs longhurst was visiting with her son at camp polk pat kay larsen who was stationed at camp catlan callan in california ed cd the folks at home when he walked in on them about tw two weeks ago he had been selected as one of a group iii n the army specialized training unit for special training as an engineer and was tran transferred sherred to logan for this schooling in an airmail letter from ray osborne dated sept ath just received by his family he sold said that he had seen his brother ab and aib jacobsen the da day y before and that they were as well is s could be expected after what they had been through because of strict censorship sor ship he was unable fo ao give any details at all but it is assumed that thy they have been in some sort of active warfare LA IA ross jackson lt and mrs ross koss ja jackson ackson were visiting with the folks back home in randolph and woodruff last week lt jackson has been stationed at gowen lliel field boise idaho since he was graduated as a bombardier and has been transferred to the army air base in pocatello idaho where he will go about september |
