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Mrs. T. L. (Jug) Moore was a welcome visitor to KFJJ Said really .enjoyed paper and wanted her to| come in an(i ' thank; Rotary| Club and entire staff* (l| told, you;so -.who ‘wantsl any more pay^ than to help^| out an appreciative G-. I. Joe like this. Our pieas-^* ure, , Capt. »jug»». ■ Benar'd P. Cannon finished boot training, at. Camp Pea-, ry, H^jme on 10 day fur lough. ^ Training rough, he says, • but most all guys want tp get in 'shape "Just in c.nse". Tha:nks HFN prd- fusely/ • .. : Office^ Ho M £ ' FROAjT^ /\j £* *w S - Cpl. John Pittman, Jr,, flew in from »Lous'e-ianna'» Says he was-gold bricking in hospital when ward came through.issuing furloughs, that’s when he broke out Well, the army v;ill always emember John V7as in ther e ^And the WACS call on us too; (I see now why Bill .’Babcock hntod so bad to give' up this Job.) Pfc. ^Maude Sykes, .sister, of T/S Bud sykeo, called. She is at; Camp Campbell. Duties with motor pool requisition and re li evi ng that G-. I. fo r »out there». , Maude sends HFN camp paper. Capt. .Russell Edmondson of the Marines, son of Mr.' & -Mrs. , B* S. Ed-- mondson, was a welcome visitor of the HFM, Russell related his ex periences* on Guadelcanal, landing there in August, »^1-2., He said they surprised the Japs ' at early breakfast, who left hot’ rice on their pl'^tes. We remember that'this landing-feat was undertaken be. fore We h^d ample, or but very little air or sea-power prptectipn. Russell told us that the Jap- subs would surface and fire shells at them almost daily; that Jap cruisers patrolled them without inter ference and that things did not look so hot for the 11,000 .marines, subjected to a new warfare and with lit tie/or no protections^ But he said the Japs had to be stopped there, and we .set- about to do it with rifles, grenades',■ a few light .field pieces, knives 'and with the never-die spirit of the American Marine. He said that they could get along very v/ell in the day, * but that the night s ^ways brought the dirty, treacherous type fighting by the Japs. Oft.en, he said, japs, would make their apDearance; wit.h one hand raised- as in surrender, but with the other_ behind his head or body" and with, a hand grenade conealed to throw at you. In• these, instances the ma-;, rines would cut th^m down; , in fact, he shid, they were not inter:-: ested in taking ,a lot or prisoners. , The l.anding'and, taking -of Nev. Britian, Russell-said, was 4uite differerxt. Thousands of planes, cruisers, destroyersV tanks and heavy equipment, .made the’Japs look like the monkeys',ther' are. Our comnient - a fine soldier with ' a splendid record and one"who has really dgne’his sharp. Raymond,'^ the battery-mate brother, a flier in California, witl> the- youn,^?ar^ brother. Dink, training' with the Marines at Paris Psland. / V rera,ember these fine boys, the athletic records they made and ’the ex ce llent family who awrit' thf-^ir return.- , For'^ st Bt’yant, ^1/C, 20 ; yrs. old '.and • who lived at ,2212 N.f Main,-' dropped in to see .us the ot.he.r day., I immcdi-ately iriquirci'd i.f he had Been ^action and the t-ale he told me will long rem*ain w.ith *me ^'Action'*,-he said, ” Iwa-s on one of the-faet'.destroyers, the; U^S Rich that was',, sunk off Morman.dy on D-Day,(' A story of this ship and her gallant, crew appeared on tl;ic front ’’p^.gc of the Herald Tri bune on July 1^), . Forest told me ...that.the sun was, Bhining . bright on that morning while they sped along the copB.t,- firing; ,at planes pouring shells over the heads of the doughboys as they a .sudden theystruck a German mine that seconds later a second mine that blew men the air and into the sea; and then'the that' tore the.ship apart in the middle, the air .and overboard in the high-running everywhere and cries for help filled,.the air. for the explosidn-torn life^^prrserver. Forest would ftot hrvcj 1 ashor^^. All of the box: A few ment high, into third explosion blown high into ing men flop ted. struggles crippled-, and’equip' terrible' He WRs seas; Dy-' But- been-: with the five or six survivor?5, He ' regainod consciousness while afloat and swam 100.’’yards to a Plj boat picking up the wounded. His Jaws v/ere locked and ,he could neither speak or nat. This condition existed for 5 days v/hile he hung in the balance in pital. \ He also bore, ether .body wounds, > ,;i'hislad •’survivors l^ave’’ and when asked if he would.return he replied, »You-bet-you. Can*-t stop now.” So 'We an English hos- is on a 30~day, to.active duty, sriy to you, T^’or-
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