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SaywMU lokua rWM. N. C.
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Seymour Jobsm field, M O.. nder (be direetloe ot (be Spedel
Semoe OCOeer. FuO ooverece el tbr Oemp Newepeper Servioe le
received. All metertei le peenrrt bv (be Public Beletlona Office. AO
pbotogimpbe, mIm otberwlee ereoted. are Army Air Poroes pbott^
ftap^. neve appeartug to (hie paper u for general releaee provided
BRIO. OEN. FRANCIB M. WADT
MAJOR J. B MURa Speda) Service Otfloer
BDRORIAL
Pfe. Leette WaDer M/Sgt Rletaard B. TaB
Pfc. JaoMo Ileerae
A New Year's Message
At Chiiatmoa loet year we began to eee light oiter the
long darkneee of the firat year of the war. ConBdent ol your
enormoue etforte at Individuals and os a Bghting force, I
knew that we could expect with oesuronce a new year that
would be o bright year.and o proud yeor. We In the AAF
hove found it so. The hopes we held were abundantly real-
ised. The confidence we felt proved to be well-founded.
This Christmos we hove all thdt to be thankful for. Our
hopes for the future ore very high. In the consciousness of
hard jobs well done, X hope every mon and vosurn in the
AAF will have at heart o Merry Christmos even in surround
ings that moy be stronge.
Christmos Eve and Christmas Doy some of you may End
yourselves engoged in deadly combot. Mony of you will be
' suffering hardships and dongers In situotions os unlike
Christmos os ony you ever imagined. Very few of you vrill
be able to pend Christmos os we would oil wish to spend
it. That will come on those Christmases ofter we hove
finished the Job.
With these thoughts In mind I send my Christmas and
New Year's greetings to every one of you. wherever you are.
As you know, the coming year will bring the most decisive
' doys of our time, the ihost decisive of centuries to come per
haps. I am fully confident that you ore equal to the chal
lenge. Your eouroge and* endurance, your devotion and your
lobor hove carried us strong and safe and brought us one
yeor neo&er victory and realisation of the things-for which
Christmas stands.-~H. H. Arnold, Generol U. S. Army Com
manding Genercd. Army Air Forces.
Hiis Is The Last Warning
We hod hoped that it would not be necessar to bring the
following subject to your attention ogain. But it seems that,
there ore still a number of men of this field 'who feel that be-
cause they were wearing uniforms, they ore no longer ex
pected to act like gentlemen.
We ore all aware of the ioct that there are very few
iMiseec plying between Goldsboro ond the field that do net
hove people ctanding the entire dietonoe. Whot we cannot
understand is why they should all be women. !
The ride into town on tl^e bus is no fun, especially if you
ore etonding and have to get out at the gate while the passes
are being checked. But there agoin, why should it be the
ladies who must pile off.
The other day o soldier walked into our office and told
us of hoving to see bis mother stond all the way into Golds
boro Ml a Soturday night, while 99 per cent of the sects were
BUe^ with comfortable ond remarkobly unobservant men!
from this poet. Fine work men, you should be decorated.
This is not directed at any one group of men. but at
•very guilty, whether be be a Private, a Master Sgt.,
.C^et or Officer. We can only hope tbot the mothers and
* wives of the men who don't believe in giving up their eeots j
to ladies here ot Johnson Field ore receiving the same treat
ment bock home.
It happens every day on every bus that enters or leaves
the field. It is not only a reflection on the manners of the
indlviduol involved, but a worse reflection on the Army in
gMierol and Seymour Johnson Field in particular.
LIFE SAVERS
Future:
The Night Before 1944: Why
Good Citizens Leave Home
1 wos just sitting there on my footlocker, not porticulq^ly | i
noticing much of anything, when I saw McConn looking for'
something on my bunkmate's sheU. McCann is not the kind' REMEMBER THAT Ueediaiwaiiteei
of guy who does things with out reason. I thought to myself, is a toort ^Oe if toe pednt is girim
ond so thinking, I asked him what wos up. : e^ tost the prum “dl
‘ Hair OU.” esM McCann. ♦ | .
I turned that over to my mtodi . t aareed.
for m. t^etog froml namrauy, a agreeo.
Boetoo, couki nardly exput nls nt-j *,‘7'**Jf** PscMnl^ fist, IMS,’
terances completely unaenrtood by said McOann. And on January
other cltiaens of the.United States. 1***» ^5*1
inym Annv bad httw a world i the train afid gased at the
ol good, Sowever. and there were beautiful grounds at Fort Devens.
daA edxen even the least tntelU- Mssn
gent of our squadron got the Jlst' *'Tou were to toe Army?**., 1
of his phrastog. queried.
“Hair oUr* I sek^- „ “Tbat I was“ said McCann. He
“Yeah. New Year s Sve. saht paused and **g**wt to htauMU. “U
IcCann as be pounced on uy aeems onto yesterday. “But,”
lunkznate’s boUto of to^ and added. "The memory ot that
McOann
bunkznate'. --
began doostog himself with It. ' >Klorloa8 himit
I said. New Year's Eve. sw^
ew Year’s. . . why. eo it was, through my I
REVIEW YOUR first aid faMructioiw
ocesaionetty. It h equally unportant i»]
know whet not to do e» wtQ ee what ie|
4o srhen taking care of yowvalf or e
woonded canpaalOB before toe mediae
memory
I yet. like a;,
coursingl
New Year’s. . . why. im U wm, through my brsdo. I cannot forget
and 1 had forgotten ^ thatiowly. lovely night.’’
rajt *>«•• -o, course." I uid wmputlio- _ . „
Mcc«uh«,.ds.. EqualHazis
SayExpertf
The United BUtes Army and Na-
McCann haa a date. dcaUy.
"** brown, ^ j slicked ,
ebr I basarded. myself up," said McCann. "I am
**No.'’ said McCann. “Ooons • ggiyf going to lie down on my
stay right here all ni^it." bunk and go to sleep, there to
“Then why toe balr-oDt" I asked dream of Brston and that lovely
Things were begtontog to look ah night juat one year ago." ....
confused agate. There .wete imee “Curious," I mused aloud. "1 W^^ve d^l«^ a seri^ oC d«^
when McOa/ui worried me. m a thtakhM of doing toe same ly new “Secret weapobs" that equal
vague sort of way. thtog.” even far surpass anythtog the
Atmoepbere." said McCaim “Leave us do U together,’ said Nasla are known to have,
and wiped his ba^ n a band- MnCaim qm of them Is the *» mm plane
tK "Leave us,*'. I egreed. cannon now ce.Tled by MltcbS
**?**^? ^ ^ So eaylng we got dreeaed. went bombers. It bes *•‘*2®*
of the bed. to towZ^mdgot very hllari^ » J»P l®8troyer with a*»rie
“What," he esked •low^ ^ ^ «Tmge«uah M c- w:lley, acoordliM to reports. Aaot^
with emphSHi^'tUd you to last SJt £3*fwidsS*p£SB •'v.** ® anti-aircraft gun which
New Year’s HveT" Be gased at ******** .wto shoot higher than say plane
me with a peculiar sort of lotto. lean fly. A third Is a new 51 ton
“I worked," I said without heed- NXW YORK — Ann Marie Sapor- , tank, a huge monster todlt at a
tattan. "I worked from midnigtat out to HoUywood for locomoUve Siam whIA *■ km
£* WS5 -SSre'iTSS • **
to. -UIHI I w«t to I rtd- come, home die-. pAw to nn4|put m the UeU.
ed triuinphanUy. ithat le veiT, vety angry | “There are hundreds of new d^
McCann’s face friL "You d^’t she's also go^ to find a ow> sit-1 vel(^)m»ts. ^
It Pays To Be Honest
Tbw following story oppeorod tn tho Roloigb Nows and
Oboorver. It sooms that 15 American soldiers hod token time
out in their fight agoinst the Japs, jungles, snakes ond heat
In New Guinea to reward a Washington, D. C., bellhop, who
they eoid got a 10 cent tip for finding o guest's wallet con
taining $2,800.
The bellhop was said to have found the woUet, and.on
leturring it the owner handed him twp nickels. The bellhop
declined the proferred nickels with a fow well chosen re
marks. Tile owner replied: 'T shouldn't hove offered you ony-
Ihing at alL**
The 15 Yonks collaborated in a letter to Hodges, ap
pointing kim cm official and honorary member of the New
Sod Club, and indoeed $15. The reword, they
told the bellboy, was **#0 you won't loos oompletolj your
ferffh Id human notuio.
'You
get U^t" to aeeriy ytiled. "
dktot pass out around E e.
slO have to be carried b ~
bomeT You didn’t have a date
with a gilt and loae tor Just after
midnight to the erowdf"
"No," I answered stoaply.
,ttog on tor .
^larresi her for Mga^.
^ ^ * Ann Marie, a cafe society gal. Is ]
married • to two eervlcemeai. the
coppers have teamed. One of them |
Is Marine Lt. Allan Thomas Star-
aU ready to
and eteared bis toroat. "Were
you. may I aOt. a civilian^" to
*d.
‘Yee," I admitted modestly.
’Wen, rn be." saU McOann
slowly, a lotto of awe and rewMct
to bis eyes. Bs sat back on tbe
bed and letoed at me.
"Balr-oU, I eaM suddenly.' "Ab*
Isome revofotSooary to cbaractm,"
.aooordtog to Rear Adm. W. H. P.
'B. and durtag wboee tenure to of-
floe as ebM of tto Buroau of
Ordnsnee modi of tto progrem was
mads." Some of tto tetter. whkR
T ^ ere fully oonnnrable to tto'Oer>
g^ wbam Ann Marie wedded to.jQMi radlo-ooniiioUed bomb end
Woodford, Yt. to July IMl and.^oousUcu bmntog torpedo, have
tto otber te T-6gt Jerome imrk,|b0eQ maetual nee for saeny months
vtoom Ann Msrte even Itoir purpose caanet bs
Charleston; 8. O., tbe foDowtog No- Iteveated "
vember. Ann's first husband was, ■dditfcm to devriopte potmi
^ .Owton W. OBiutt. now sta- new weam of •®r own, the ^
tkmed to- North Africa, whom ggy andNMy have also been glv*
Am married to ISH wbeo toe was ^ fo ^ study of tto now
IS. That one was anmiTted by Ma ersnrsis dSOeteped by tto Oermaas
S^ortas. (CHS) r —... w—w_
“Ob," saM MoCaim. "WMl,
that's s very slmpte story. Ton
see. test Now Year’s Bve. I got
tl^k Being as how 1 was not to
tto garb o2 Utote Sam’s flgbtlBg
forosa, and being as how ttora
wera on Artleteo of War uiveilug
tto cenduet of otvSttaiUL S gat
WA8BZNOIOM — Tto Anv and
Navy are atooetad to call WkIM
new BMn toto tto services n Jan
uary, ttie War Manjapersr Oom
slon has teazned. This (Mtota
been ast, annord^ to te WMO
ae mat tto Army sasy raaob its .
goM of T.’WS.flOS iMB ssrljr nsxt^bm^^s'
EuS^^oekot gum. aarlal boiito%
and Bttterb rsmoos “diver fim’*
era under eenstaat survaiHsnea by
o«r experts who axe buey develop
tto snttdotoa to r
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