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Show THE RICH COUNTY REAPER. RANDOLPH, UTAH Ernie Pyles Slant on the War : Lack of Experience at First Slowed Up Allies American Algerian Troops Were Green and Officers Unseasoned I 4 a By Ernie Pyle Wins LaurelsOver Europe Eighth Air Force ' ft' (Editor i Note): "his dispatch teas written and first published when Pyle was with the GJj at the Algerian front. He is now on his way to cover the boys in the Pacific war zones. i ORAN, ALGERIA. Men who bring our convoys from America, some of whom have just recently arrived, tell me the people at home don't have a correct impression of things over here. They say people at home think been stopped, but there is still the North African campaign is a sabotage. walkaway and will be over quickly; The French see this and that our losses wonder loyal what manner of people wc have been are. They are used to force, and exnil; that us to use it against the compect the French here mon which includes tht love us to death, Frenchenemy, Nazis. Our enemies see it and that all Gerand call us soft laugh, man influence has Both sides are puzzled by a coun been cleaned out. at war which still lets enemiet try If you think run loose to work against it. that, it is because we newspaperThere are an astonishing nummen here have ber of Axis sympathizers among failed at getting the French in North Africa. the finer points Not a majority, of course, but of the situation over to you. more than you would imagine. Because this campaign at first was This in itself is a great puzzle as much diplomatic as military, the to me. I cant fathom the our that be didnt permit powers of a Frenchthought processes to into delve itchy typewriter fingers man who prefers German victhings internationally, which were tory and perpetual domination ticklish enough without that. I berather than a temporary occulieve misconceptions at home must pation resulting in eventual have grown out of some missing French freedom. of the picture. part Center photograph shows result of 8th air force raid over But there are such people, and It would be very bad for anStrasbourg, Germany. Upper left, English geese wander In for information at a class for crew of the 8th. Lower right, Capt. Kenneth R. Martin, Ke- they are hindering us, and we ovei other wave of extreme optimism wanee, III., left, and Lieut. Donald E. Young, Pittsburgh, with Blondie, one of the mascots of the unit. Circle, here think you folks at home shoulc to sweep over the United Lieut. Col. Francis Gabresk, Oil City, Penn., top ace, with record still standing,'' know three things: States. So maybe I can explain despite the fact that he has .been a prisoner in German hands for some time. , That the going will be tough ane , a little bit about why things over -- 9 probably long before we havi here, though all right for the cleaned Africa and are read; up not ail strawberlong run, are to move to bigger fronts. That th ries and cream right now. In Tunisia, for instance, we seem French are fundamentally behin to be stalemated for the moment. us, but that a strange, illogica The reasons are two. Our army is a stratum is against us. And that ouj fundamental policy still is one o green army, and most of our Tuni snakes in our midst sian troops are in actual battle for the first time against seasonec ' Nurses are Tops. troops and commanders. It will take The American nurses over heri us months of fighting to gain the and there are lots of them ha vi experience our enemies start with. out just as you would expect, turned In the second place, nobody knew wonderfully. exactly how much resistance the Army doctors, and patients, too French would put up here, so we had to be set for full resistance. are unanimous in their praise foi That meant, when the French them. Doctors tell me that in tha' first rush of capitulated in three days, we had calmer than casualties they weri the men. to move eastward at once, or leave One unit had a nurse the; hospital the Germans unhampered to uild were afraid of. She had seeme a big force in Tunisia. So we moved several hundred neurotic and hysterical on the wa; miles and, with the British, began down. The head doctor detailed an other nurse just to watch her al fighting. But we simply didnt have enough stuff oh hand to knock the through the hectic first hours o M tending the wounded. But he needn - Germans out instantly. Nobody is to have. He admits now she was thi blame for this. I think our army is doing wonderfully both in fight- calmest of the lot. The head of one hospital, a ing with what we have and in get colonel who was a soldier in the ting more here but we are fighting last war, worked in the improan army as tough in spirit as ours, vised hospitals set up at Arzow vastly more experienced, and more to tend the freshly wounded. easily supplied. He says not a soul in the out. mi fit cracked up or got flustered. Our losses in men so far are not W Youre so busy you dont thin) appalling, by any means, but we are about its being horrible, he says men. The other day an losing "You arent American yourself.. Actually yoi ship brought the first Left, a Nazi soldier, heavily armed, typi&l 1 men facing our armies on German front. Unner seem to become somebody else. Am from newspaper home rieht Ger I had seen man troops file past a burning American tank. Lower since .the occupation, and it said after its over, youre thrilled by it right, armed with antitank weapons m ourbazooka, niuls of the Volksstarm parade In Berlin. These photos ware Mldlen! Gosh, I hope Im not stuck in t 12 men were lost in only American captured by taking Oran. jase hospital. I want to get on t .. The losses, In fact, were not the front. -r great, but they were a good many The Carolina nurses of the evacu twelves times 12. ation hospital about which Ive beei Wounded to England. Most of our convalescent wounded writing have taken it like soldiers have been sent to England. Some For the first 10 days they had to liv newly arrived Americans feel that, ike animals, even using opei ditches for toilets, but they neve. if more of the wounded were sent home, it would put new grim vigor complained. At this tent hospital one nurse ii into the" American people. We arent the sort of people from whom always on duty in each tentful of 21 'I wounded men have to be concealed. men. She had medical orderlies t lelp her. In bad weather the nursei wear army overalls. The biggest puzzle to us who But Lieut. Col. Rollin Bauchspies are on the scene Is our policy of the hospital commandant, want dealing with Axis agents and them to put on dresses once in i sympathizers in North Africa. while, for he says the effect on thi We have taken into custody men is astounding. the most out - and - out only i The touch of femininity, thi agents, such as the German that a Woman is around cnowledge armistice missions and a few gives a wounded man courage am others. That done, . we have confidence and a feeling of security r5 turned the authority of arrest And the more feminine she looks back to the French. the better. The procedure is that we investiOnly about 100 of the hospitals 70t gate and they arrest. As it winds patients are wounded men. Thi up, we investigate period. others are just sick with ordinary Our policy is still appeasement. things, such as flu, appendicitis It stems from what might be called sprains.. Theyve got a whole tentfu the national hodgepodge of French of and mumps, a few cases a emotions. Frenchmen today thir malaria and dysentery. and feel in lots of different direc-tionAt the We moved softly at first, in behind an far gend of the hospital barricade a order to capture as many French barbed is what wire, Colonel Bauch Rep. Max Schmabe of Missouri, hearts as French square miles. Now spies calls Bac) Casanova, park.! that phase is over. We are here in there are 150 soldiers with welcomes a new member ol Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower pins the DSM.on , lower, venerea T..is -full the house, George B. Schmabe, his swing. Holmes fd. exceptionally meritorious services to disease. . , iv the govf?nment We have left in office most of the brother, recently elected as WhatS the barbed wire for? I Recently appointed an assistant secretary of state, .small-fr- y put there by the asked. They Wbuldht , .setting up military governments in L backr0ttnd 5 shown from Oklahoma. He is Germans officials try to ge before we came. We are out .Air Chief Marshal Sir Arthur Tedder.Sicily and Ita 7 giving his rookie' brother anyhow. permitting fascist societies to con points of procedure of the house. It's just to make them feel likr tinue to exist. Actual sniping has heels, the colonel said. I prac-ticall- , " " .Nazi Troops Still Powerful and Well Armed soft-glovi- 55 '"ttsr al&M Eisenhower Decorates State Aide Brothers in House J , I ww s. evil-lookin- . con-gressm- . S |