| Show NEWS FROM OUR BOYS T AND GIR THE U by twila kearl continued from page n waiting for the crew on inema member ship a B 21 liberator D to lerrivee a fr from 0 m where h arc ho he would b ba assign I 1 az dua p five v e duty t y ened to U in this letter that reed sent t lat lar iyce en there was a clipping a ab pews newspaper paper by one of 0 thular the war icorn pon dents tg des describing bribing the BU busa et ia anda anda area andaas dated sulu 1 bebr i 3 dear ade H happy to hear from you again gain r from home is about ILI al we b have to i f orward forward to yes we blell for a rest its now possible b to top to you a little information formation a on ri on went through up north r the campaign I 1 took part in fa I 1 San ananda point a few wa raile miles 3 UP ipg Ls coast from buna I 1 was in ne new atel seven months and spent all but a north of the owen stanley range N K doubt you read in the paper ot of intano troops being taken by plane on onel at n owen stanley to the front I 1 hapet ito to be one of them the L h e night of december sl 31 IM 1912 live with mith me forever the first malt it the ie front all night long the tw five shelled buna and th A lowing day it was occupied bi by aj I 1 troops I 1 cut this clipping from iau i anai au gralian paper on Sanana fida y after the tigh fighting ting and in py ny tibma tion quinn done an excellent job k describing the place the pillboxes pill boxes arl bunkers were hard to destroy ae taj jal were determined to hold then them kaj less of the price they were to py pay the trees he speaks sp eak of were aldow also lai by snipers as well as for gli posts leasy to understand why fe people go to San ananda now I 1 bai a chance to return some t time me atta tit fighting but turned it down once thre act was enough fur me I 1 sure wish I 1 hid bit a picture of me taken when the hot in lag mopped to send you I 1 was all ili and lones a the ribe war over here seems to tie be ps flo i gazing a little faster now comp comparsi arbi I 1 to buna bu na and San ananda I 1 tunk tit at J japs aps give up a little f faster ter now I 1 was very shocked ty by the news aenid 0 the death of your wife Th sFa arrived today giving the inte wf of the services held for her I 1 dont tow know why but its hard bard f for ms eto to realia reala 9 many people have pa passed sed way MY left randolph I 1 alwa always tai t people and town in 1942 lot U I 1 ahat hat trip you said you might ra niika ido do it AS al if I 1 were ere you I 1 I 1 know awa K makes a rb i og g difference the i liitt ia I 1 hope feriance pen peri enee ance sure erdmen does develop thoas pi claims mak kak quite a difference i 1 rich nich county I 1 had an idea the ce ceiling ailing price meat was too low compared to other beef sold last fall al I 1 the ithe way prices ia wl letta lettes s to I 1 a t S ax other today so ao ia close for no now your friend reed kennedy and then he tells of the place titta of these men are atts the gravel grave natives take care of 0 them w th seed of cl and erd grass flowers I 1 st new to sent over been later having at aws guinea fro athe I 1 mainland marld ng ll are white crosses graves flack black 1 falej of 61 64 natives native S graves fire fir c ta V aj guzzles vilho ho under azzy azy forward brov broo supplies to the tied ried the ail and clail ll and out the sick trw and here in th this is spot the kunai came grew 10 feet high b before ef ore the japs BUD bin T these bese days its qu quiet it in the jungle has 1 P San ananda area the battle are again and the se scars ar of mould the vines and den beneath along the Kil ICil lerton track YOU W shattered 25 a rusty ty by night ight that was blown up one japanese in a gun spiking rain raid that her on theres a tall tree A L tam post J as an observation att against the I 1 trunk der sags the rago through twisted and woven bro w you come to another path ing off fro the killer Kil lerton ananda your i tells you that its the San P af pf on either cither side of it the jungle water 10 in over poo pools I 1 3 of stagnant the poola the P in the ruts between betwee n grass is green and high otia f the guide blu ide says th that at twelve burill da ass back the San ananda lands was as a 11 blued j w blasted desolation and in men in their with the stench of death heavy a nostrils but now I 1 it t i is s JU jungle agle are a the pillboxes pill boxes and bunkers the caving in g trog tragic a P place pit it is an uneasy heplop pi p in III many y not San ananda track there |
