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New Officers
At 11th Group
Moving In last week and settlog
to wMic with a win. two new of-
fioen took charge of the 11th
Oroup'a Peraonnel office as U.
Aaron Sterlin left for a new post.
Ihe officers are U. O. K. Lac7 and
Warrant Officer Robert Oorme. The
bosrs in Personnel have taken
quleklr to a new seating arrange
ment and new divisions of wotc
that Lt. Iney has set op.
New Fathers
The really big news M the weA
In the 11th Group, however, is the
^)proadilng parenthood of three—
eount 'em—three of its members.
Warrant Officer Oonne, M-Sgt.
Joaeph A Scoggln, and OpL Henry
Schorn are the trembling trio, and
they all agree that It’s probably
harder on them then on their wives.
Meanwhile, the rest of the outflt
Is looklDf forward to smoking Uadf
OB elgan within the next few
weeks.
Oste gnstdier At Large
Pvt. Bob Murry, custodian of tbs
drink machine In Group Hemdquar-
tera. to h*«g driven to the sheer
brink of tnaaniW by the aetloaB of
A Ttcloiii drink-snatcher trim baa
managed to crack the one weak spot
of the machine. At one pcdnt In Ita
turn, the top of the inartiine dia*
a botUe which can be ex
tracted from the icy depths with
out the use of the eonventlonsl
nli^el. Bob hasn’t told the exact
locatlMi of the AriiUles Heel In the
madUae, but he’s keeptng^ an eye
peMad lor the rapecaUlcn who hM
taken advantage of It. "WhM Ah
come from.** he meaningfully,
*'We 'shoot varmints fo lessl”
3Sth T.S.S. Has
New Top Kdc
By 8GTS. MORENO *
0U6TAF80N
Ptoet Sergeant Fanl Sampsen
•aek ovm tbo dntles ef nop Ue^
In ear sguadren this past wew.
Having served In the same caps-
eHy In the WSth. let Sgt. Saap-
9m to weD gwalMed and capable
ef ever similar dottm In
•wr senadren. Hie men of the Mth
want htoa to know that they arc
bwA of him. wUllng to do their
»!2j*
BEST H Ow fleM.
Squadron Sweetheart
Cigars Passed Out
By Proud Papa
By SGT. wnXlAM VBBB8PT
Sgt Pfeiffer Is the lad with the
elgM and the eai^to-ear smile these
last few days. It’s a girl for the
Sergeant and hla wife.
' The wc made some
veeka book to take on and whip a
WAAO baseball nine is hereby
withdrawn. The SOth’s diamond
boys took CO the 5g3d In morM
OTvnbo* and whiimed them for the
first and laat—vletory of the year.
Awynno wbo watcbM Pfc. Frank
Mitchell a pool cut in the
day room win agree he’s
bmt In the outfit. Aak 6-8gt. A1
Lamoureux. wbo is no mean cue-
artist himself.
Soldiers At Sibert
Salute Fuehrer
CAMP SIBERT. Ala. (CMS) —
OIs at Camp Sibert have been
gobm around mlutlng a guy called
D. Poebrer.
It's okay, however, because this
D. Foehrer Isn’t the moneky irith
ttm Utile mustache. Ete'a Lt. Don
ald Fuehrer, a Chemical War
fare tervloe officer.
This we^’a gift to the gUma to
the proud poeseasloc of Pfe.
n^twmy Wolf. eOM TBJ9.. wtm
sake that you kindly avoid any
thou^ta about hto last name.
The gait Oh yesf her name’s
Martha and she cornea from
Brocddjn. somewhere on the Bast
coast of the ITnlted States.
Medic NCOs Kept.
In Trim By CO
By CFL. LAFBRBTA *
PFC. DWTBR
Our rugged O. O. to really ke^
Izto the NOO Department Heads of
the Hospital on the beam by faking
them over the Obstacle Course every
other day. He himself leading toe
way at a ^sst paoe. Pfc. Jade Col-
Itos. of the Skz and Wounded Of
fice, left for Brooklyn last week to
marry a sweet little Irish CoUeen.
Everlasting happiness to you both.
Offleem TW Ptoy ’Em
Now that the Medical Officers
have won 7 out of 8 games in soft-
baU, Lt. Brunswick thinks he has
a hot *«nwg team, but I think
heh change hla mind when the en
listed men play them next week
sometime, that’s it they show up.
With three lovely girls as Miss Cat
ron, Mtse Wagner and Miss Ward, as
dieerleaders. bow a team can lose
a game to beyond ns. Wbat say boys
bow idXRtt winning at least one
game, just for the girls? Great
news for the Medical Detachment:
Opt "Cbuck” OoUler, fornmrly of
the FU^t Surgeon's Office grad
uated OCS Sdiool, and Is now a
Second Lieutenant. A aahite to you
Chuck, and lots of luck.
Miracles
A miracle has happenedl For the
first uwto In el^it months, the Med
ical Detadunent got a treat. 8-Sgt.
James Moody *^6 Silent Man rtf
Surgery’' craved out with a hearty
lauA when Pfe. ’’Jdeer” Dwyer
broke a bat after hitting a hard
line drive to the pitcher during a
softbaU game. We'U probatdy have
to wait fmr Dwyer to break another
bat. before Moody win even smile
sgain. Hurry up “Joker.” Ncmlna-
tlco for the Man of toe WeekI
T-Sgt. Curtis R. Christensen. Pel-
lows on the Rifle rtage will be weU
camd for, due to the feet that a
Medical Office will be on duty
twei^-four hours a day.
The Mayor Takes Off
It happened at laatl Major Hef-
femoo Is taking a day on, after
three years of steady work. Have
a good Ume Majori Could the smile
on the face of CpL Elmer *Baldy’’
Itamhelm's, be because hto wife is
coming down?
Bud Drake To
Tryjor OCS
If you remember the ftood of pub
licity that descended on Si’s mascot,
Pfe. Budweiser D. Drake, a few
weeks baik. you’ll be Interested ln|
the results of sn exclusive interview
with the new celebrity- As we ap-
proadied Bud’a quarteis toe other
even^, we heard him slnr*—
softly to himself. Peeking In.
saw Bud sluing there with a huge
cigar in his mouth, s tropical
wasted set of suntans with a neon
stripe, and a balf-daaen arty por
traits of himself himg about the
walla and aitttng on hla desktop.
He was filling out a many-pag^
form. “Oh,” he said looking up, ’Tt’s
you. Come on to and shut toe
door.” He looked around before be
bonttotted. *T>(«’t noise it about,”
be said out of the comer of hto
mouth, ”bat I’m *****'"g to on that
■ead I pronu^ed. rm striking
.._lJe the iron to hot" Be paused
for a moment and then jerked hto
thumb at toe form he was fflUng
out. Tm ^totytog,” he said. Tor
008. It’s a cinch.”
Otd. Fred PoroelU, 801's sterling
setosors-wMder, to back from sn
eventful furlong to the home town
—New Tork City.' (No applause.
plesM). pred. slso known as the
China dipper because of toe OI
bowl he usee to aid him to dashing
ott imlroute for the boys, returned
with a fistful of Ooldsboro phone
numbers c^ed from aoquainfimees
back home wbo knew various peo
ple around toe field. It was rather
a round-about way of getttng thmn.
Pred admits, but so far It’s been
W^ WMTth It.
Clemency Plcn
The squadron's student body will
be pleased to know that the Per
manent Party has entered an to-
formal plea tor clemency to their
behalf with that scourge of the drlH-
fleld, Sgt ManxL The good ser
geant's lightning-fast commands toe
other- evening had a dettol of stu
dents whipping about the drill field
like a school of tadpoles, but they
also kept tome of toe barder-work-
tog (okay, you think of a better
word) P. P. men from a few mo
ments of hard-aemght shut-eye. The
sergeant's comments are not printed
here, for several reasons.
INTRODUCING-
Sgt. William B. Vereepy. Squad
ron reporter of the 800to Tecnnknl
SclMMH Squadron, wbo writes an
all-around column weekto for the
Alr-O-Mecb concerning biqipenlng
in hto reqieetive squadron. KD was
formerly chief cleft of hto squad
ron. He has recently been trans
fer^ but will continue to write a
The acrlbe to from Strat
ford, Conn, fie expects to be going
home on furlough soon for the sole
purpose of getOng married.
The Wolf
JOth Academic Wins
Excellence Bcmner
Bj ryr. r. v. fehux
Winning the "B” banner last week
mafted the toq)rovem»t that has
been shown weekly through toe
squadron. One returning from D.
8. would hardly recognise the old
squadron, rearranged orderly room,
new buUetto board, new Day Room
and a w^ley ball court and net,
good wofti
Mall clerk Cpl. Pegazu) will soon
cross the line Into wedded bliss.
Heigb Ho. Brother Peganol
It was last Saturday .evening
i 1800 that First Sgt. R. L. Dlx
said. 1 do,” to Goldtooro. Con-
gratulatioDS sargel NoUce bow Sgt.
Dix has been leading Siit. Bllto
around by the hand to keep him
from mistakes?
Pvt: Frank Groaao to wondering
whether the fellows cant talk to
him about sometotog besides shots
and blood typings
The dog toga that men have had
made but never collect provide quite
a laugh. One fellow doesn't have a
home town, even to this Army.
What's In a Name
What's to a name?
oinco everybody must have a
name, and smee they all hav? to
be somewhat different, a var'ety
of real tongue twisters and hu
morous articles can be written
though toe help of the class'fica-
Uon Office of Seymour JtAinson
Field
However, these fellows whoiu
names are contrary to their Jobs,
and others whose names fit in with
the’ same category as their jobs
are: Jack Yeoman, 788th T88 Is to
the Army.. .Ira Wrl^t, 798th work
ed for Olenn Martin and Francis
Ton Holton, Hdqa Acad., was a
bartender and was bom in Cham-
palgn. XU.
From a variety of squadrons
come four names which compile
the four BeasoDS of the year. Crla-
OD Winters, 808nd; Eugene Fawls,
791; Sumner nmene 798rd: and
John ^ringer, TMtb.
Maybe theee fellows don’t know
It, but perhaps their names whl^
^ run to the bird family Is torir
reason for being to toe air corps.
John Itoaro. Clarence Eagles.
Frank Pfpor. Merwyn Crane.
George Peacock, Raymond Bjnrd.
Jenninga ParroU, Walter Swan.
Robert Swift, Robert Finch. Thom
as Hawks, snd Harold Crowe.
Wide Osier Scale
It's also intereattog to note
men atattoned M toto field repre
sent almoet every color to the col-
llth Academic Hit
By Coke Bug
•r SOT.
or scale. To give yqo an idea,
some of the nsunes are as follow:
Savage Black, Isaac White, Dan
iel BlM. Clifford Red^ David
Green, damce Orgy. Mamiel 8U-
k, Robert Gold and Joe^ Rose
The only man oa toe fleU whose
last name starts with Z Is Koeta
Xlta. of the 787th Te^mleal 'School
FestbaB Tsaas Material
If the field were to have a foot
ball team, there would be pl^ty
of material on toe post. Here la a
list of men wbo wel|di more
230 pounds. La Mom Albertson is
toe heaviest man on the poet weigh
tog 968. Others follow m ‘wel^.
Sigmund Ansel, 244; Anthony Jes-
sen. 348; Bdward Ludwlkowskl. 3G;
Thomas Jones, 338: Thomas f*kt-
well. 337: Howard Lneek, 330: Au
gust Jehle, SM; Rob^ sehwars-
koph, M3; Leslie Tste. Ml; Robert
Anthony. 338; Jaft WllUann 92&;
John Ogtey, 335; lleCtel-
land, 335 -and J(^ Byden, 331
pounds.
TU 1 and lanky la Joe Gibbs of
the 86to School Squadron wbo It
toe UAteat Bsan on toe field we'gb-
104 p -
[ pounds and la ato feet two
This Mail's Aiuiy
tall.
The tftorteet men on toe field
are Marto.Oeoehl of the 788to. and
Luclen Oonnler of toe iOlst. Both
are five feet one toeb tali.
This sQuadnm has toe Coke bug.
While toe heat wave at Seymour
Jedmaon is going on the Day Rooms
and the Ordeil/ Room are alwim
fined with the O.X.’8 asktog in
to buy a C^. PvL Bdward
Trealer, trtio runs the Day Bocma.
does not know If be la coming .or
going. Be saya, “My mother 'told
me I wouUl see days like this.” GpL
Jsmes Whlker, who is the detail
Corporal, says, ”I dont mind plft-
Ing a few bottles up but when toe
uten start taking Coked to bed wlto
them—toat’B the endl”
T-Sgt. Raymond Harmon tells
all -the fellows in the oCfiee that
he is Tnn Hannon's big brother
Kv SanSOnA* hut of course we know better. Bis
oy jansong ^ ^ brother is toe
** way he pteys his sax sod puts an
the men to Bks. 310 to sleep after
ten minutes of playing and that
to a record.
The Beventh Academics mlgtuy
10 on the dianxmd are putting up
a good race to come out on vo^
of toe Ust They have suffered tw"
detests against four defeats. The
Is composed of real flghuig
men. It is captamed fcy Sgt. J. MmH
and C]^ Canlo Nardlello. Members
are: MeuUer, Gremte, anltb. First
Sgt Wood, Schrleber. MUler,
Paleveto, Thompson, Glowgower.
Beylo, Pryor and Sbero. Teamwe^k
by an will put the team on top.
Sad Story
Pfc. Alvto Helgeson has been
gotog cn sick call for a weft be
cause- of a freak accident which
happened to him. It wftt like tots
—Tuesday morning, bright and
early, our hero was woilctog hard
at toe test blocks and thinking of
Thssle, toe Wisconsin Maifler, to
whom he to devoted (all two hun
dred poWtdP of her). Thinking of
seeing her to toe near future, be
left hto ftiHer vider a drlU preea
and BANG BANG bur bare
went oa atok oatL you have
a weedy mogggy ttd sk fnrtou^
Will be ftm aoatu s
The ‘aAF plans to adopt pigeons
i a seemrdary communication
metood to be used to ease a plane
gets shot up: . . toe 4toid Otvtotoo
of the Army, better known as toe
Rainbow IMrisUnv tvlU be recoo-
stltoted July 14 at Camp Gruber.
Okla. The Rainbow Dlvlalon of
toe last war earned Its name be
cause its personnel came from ev*
ny state and the District of Co
lumbia. A ooe-tona GO toe dl-
vtolon sraa Douglas' MacArtour,
then a brigadier generaL . . Sm-
phasto on airplane recognitom; de
fense against tow-flytog air attacks
to far places. . . German prison
ers referred to artltelry used by
' lerlcane to Tunisia as “automa-
artUlery.” They aldeerdy he
ed tost Americans had perfect
ed some type of automatic heavy ^
caliber weapons, so devastating American ^Leaguers to toe eervlee
were the.barragft turned to th^.. - - Betty Grwle la to do a movie
direction by toe bojw from toe called “Pin Up OlrL” — goeae
USA. . . Italians abandoned largeltoat’B news tor the Army.
FIRE AT No. 1! It's the Japanese
Mitsubishi 98. a low-vtog light
bomber and raconnalasanoe ptene
powered fey a nKttal engine. It has
, _ M both tot vtogi bhd toe
tanplane t^er to ttomdqg
thiBRis of castor ell to Tunisia,
according to a British news agen
cy. . . Capture of Attu foroee the
Japanese to' reallocate some of
thetf air streogto back benne. The
Island gives ue a base with bomb
ing ran^ of Paflumwhiru and the
oretically, TOklo.
Tasks Are
Tanks wbo took Attu credited air
si4>port by their fUere aa being
"solid”. . . Army Air Force Tanks
to BrmxQ are learning to ride W*-
aea. an daometimea boy and bare
lor their own mounta. . . bur
ros are alao pt^mlar riding to some
places. . African forces of Tanks
with small anna; use of air-ground nave formed a new organtoatlOB
signals between troops and planea, known as "C^ose Sbavers.” Tt hla
la plannft tor new Army ^vlsiona. nothing to do with tnaors, but ra-
88,888.888 Booka ther escapes from the Grim Reap-
Thlrty-flve mUlloo coplea of pem- er. . . Medics wbo carried en under
Hiar Anerlcan books will be Intense fire and braved many per-
Bhl|g)ed abroad this year to Tanks Us to iwscue wounded comrades to
New Guinea are getting credit fttr
their work. One ot them la 8-8gt
BUI Frunaek, Irinn MUwaukee,
Wls. . . -Babe Dahlgren, P h 111 y
shortstop. Is about to be called toto
the Army. . . There are now 154
American Leaguers to toe eervlee
dngis ito
geer Is fixed
NOT AT NO. 81 It’S toe Ruaslan
L-18. a low-wtog. ategleaeat fighter
powered by an to-ltoa eogtow The
wlnga ate swept back 811^113 on
the'leadhM edges and swept for*
ward shArply on toe tralltag qdgn
to rounded.ttos. Leadtog edges M
-Rib swept baft Mdl