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Show News Letter From Soldier In New Guinea Editors Note: Corporal Levear Timothy is the son of Mr. and Mrs. Heber Timothy of Altonah. He entered the army in 1942 and has spent the past two years at New Guinea. Dear Editor and Readers of the Roosevelt Standard: This is Just another Soldier who at one time lived in Roosevelt. Roose-velt. Most of my old friends will not remember me nevertheless, I thought you people would like to know that I am stationed in New Guinea and have been receiving re-ceiving issues of the Roosevelt Standard. It makes me very happy hap-py each time I get one of these papers. Reading my old home town newspaper is just like getting get-ting a whole flock of letters from my friends back home. I left Australia twenty months ago and have been on most of the islands north of Australia. During this time I have had a various amount of experiences of fighting the Japanese here in the jungles. My outfit is a Anti-Aircraft Anti-Aircraft Battery which has proven prov-en to be one of the best, in the Southwest Pacific. We have credit cred-it for shooting down six Japanese Japan-ese bombers, the season is still open and the hunting is still 'good. I wouldn't be surprised if the little brown boys didn't pay us a visit before this letter is finished. They have been coming com-ing over and bombing the heck out of us every night for the past week, giving us a thrill each time. Outside of losing an abundance abun-dance of sleep and sweating out the intervals between the falling ' bombs we have things pretty well under control. The men here endure many hardships even when they are not facing the enemy. Our biggest big-gest trouble is the strain from being on continuous alert for .the jap intruder. If anyone should ever happen to ask me if I know what hell is like I should be able -to tell them about my adventures, in New Guinea where there is no. civilization whatsoever. Our next enemy is the steady down pour of the rain and the intense heat of the steaming jungle. New Guinea is infested with millions of insects mostly ants, spiders, centipedes and last but not least the malar-a malar-a type mosquito. We are never permitted to go without our clothing or go to sleep without being under a mosquito net. To sum it all up fortunately I am well and getting along fine. We are advancing steadily all the time pushing the Japs off the northern tip of New Guinea. My location now is near the front and it becomes a hot spot at times. As I said before we are night with the japs coming over ov-er and dropping a few bombs each time. As long as they don't fall too near our camp area we have nothing to complain about. When bombs fall in .' our area this means policing up to do nad holes to fill in. They tell us here if one of them lands in your slit trench the best thing to do is not go to pieces. I am still in one piece. The japs are inaccurate in bombing so we have noting to worry about. The Army does a good, job of sending us our supplies with conditions as they are. We eat our bully beef, beans and dehydrated potatoes and glad to get them at times. My opinion of it all is that the Japs are licked, but just don't know it. It will be just a matter of time utnil the mopping up is completed and they will be completely com-pletely defeated. The japs are especially tricky in their tactics on the ground and in the air but when it comes to stragety and fighting ability I'm glad the Aussies and Americans are on my side. I am scheduled to return to the States soon under this overseas over-seas rotation plan. Until then I will be looking forward to getting get-ting more issues of the Roosevelt -Standard. Yours truly, Lavear Timothy |