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THAT THE YANKS ARE VERY DEFINITELY IN IRAN
was brought to the attention of the world again recenty when
President Kalinin of the USSR decorated 33 men of the Army
of the United States “for the successful performance of the
mission of the Persian Gulf Command in the movement of arms,
equipment and food supplies for the Soviet Union, thus afford
ing great assistance to the Red Army in its struggle with the
Nazi invaders.” Iran, also at war with the Axis, has put all its
transportation facilities at the disposal of the American troops
under Maj. Gon. Donald H Connolly. West Pointer in charge
of the supply line through Persia and in command of all troops
in that area.
“The supply line to the Red Army is a long one." the
general was recently quoted by YANK, “and our end of it be
gins at the Persian Gulf and goes northward to wherever the
Red Army is fighting" After a tour of the Russian front the
general said “Our greatest satisfaction was seeing our Ameri
can equipment in action equipment that men of my com
mand have unloaded at the docks of the Persian Gulf and car
ried on its first lap north, through the heat and rough going of
transport in Iran In any sense, it was great to see American
supplies getting where Americans want them to get."
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Just after his outfit took Hill
27, called Mount Austin on civil
ian maps, Borough was taking a
little stroll when suddenly he
got knocked out. He woke up
three days later in the hospital
at Henderson Field and learned
that a six-inch shell had pepper
ed him with so many fragments
that, the physician had to use
tweezers to de-metalize him.
“MISSING IN ACTION!”
“When I got to a general hos
pital in California the ward boy
began to kid me about being on
the ‘missing in action list!
Knowing that my family would
be worried, to put it mildly, I
checked up and found out he was
telling the truth—l was able to
stop the notice just a few hours
before it was due to be sent.''
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Softball Results
Regimental Field, May 3—
B Company was a forfeit winner
over Hqs. Co. when the pen
pushers failed to field a team.
Regimental Field, May 5—
Companies D-A game postponed
rain.
Intra-Regimental
Loop Standings
W L Pctg.
Company C 3 0 1.000
Company B 3 1 .750
Company D 1 2 .333
Company A 0 1 .000
Hdqs. Co 0 1 .000
Company E 0 2 .000
Company Softball
Card of the Week
Friday, May 12—Co. E vs. Co. B
Monda v. May 15—Co. B vs. Co. C
Wed , May 17 -Co B vs. Co. A
REGIMENTAL MIRROR
WACADEMICS
By Sgt. Jeanne S. Nadder
Three more Harmony Church
WACs—Mildred Musagades, Ed
ith Sayer and Pauline Hartley—
added another stripe this week
to become corporals. For Musa
gades it was a double celebra
tion: on the very day that she
received her promotion she was
inforiped that her brother was
on his way home and would ar
rive there at the same time that
her furlough comes up!
"Anybody who doesn’t like
Fort Benning, come see us!"
quoth Tec 4 Patricia Williams
and Tec 4 Judy Zavasky when
they returned home to the “WAC
Shack" this week after success
fully completing their adminis
trative course at the Adjutant
Genera) School at Fort Washing
ton, Md. "Enter to learn, go
forth to serve!” was the answer
given by Tec 4 Dorothy Rubbert
and Pfcs. Julia Young and Amy
Michalski as they left to attend
the next class at the AGO School,
which starts on Saturday. Good
luck!
Harmony Church WACs are
certainly taking advantage of
Leap Year! Last week Pfc. Hel
en Ryan announced her engage
ment to Tech Sgt. William P.
Smith, of G. Company, Fourth
Infantry. Wedding bells will
toll on July Ist. Cpl. Pearl Dow
will have real headaches from
then on—another Smith added
to her mail call!
MAIN POST
By Pfc. Kay Brown
Eleanor Curtis is going to
start a petition to have tlu> col
or of our GI slips changed. At
present they are a lovely khaki
color. The other night Curtis
got all snaked up and went to
the show with some of the girls.
It was a cool evening, and she
wore her utility coat—luckily—-
because when she got to the the
ater and started taking off her
coat, the gals discovered that
she’d forgotten to put on her
skirt!
And now we have a baseball
team—all complete with flashy
green and gold uniforms. Chris
Mensing is in charge and she’s
had them al) practising faithful
ly, so now they’re ready to take
on any and all challengers
Dobby says she doesn't want
to see her name mentioned in
this column again, but here is
something we think is too good
to keep. It seems that Dobby
had to write a note of condol
ence. One Mr. Wolf, the head
of a firm with which she’d had
some dealings, died, and she fig
ured she should write somebody
to say how sorry she was. Final
ly she decided to address it to
Mr Lang. Mr. Wolf’s partner, so
that's exactly what she did. Af
ter a short time she got a very
charming letter thanking her
for her kind note of sympathy
“on the death of our dear Mr.
Wolf.” It seems that Mr. Wolf's
Niebler's Single
In Tenth Beats
Paratroopers
Elmer Niebler’s line single to
left driving in Joe Dickinson
gave the Profs an 8-7 win over
The Parachute School in a ten
inntng game at Gowdy Field last
Wednesday night.
Dickinson smacked a single to
center to open the Prof tenth
and after Russo fanned, Zientara
drew his third walk of the game.
It was then that Niebler straight
ened out a 2-2 pitch for the
ball game.
Ln besting the Troopers the
Profs had to overcome a five-run
lead which the Troopers; had
amassed in a gory third inning.
Four hits, two of them for
extra bases, sandwiched around
three Prof miscues, produced the
five runs.
Singles by Niebler, La wing
and Cox and a fielder’s choice
gave the Profs back two runs
but Hatfield, the flashy Trooper
shortstop, smashed one high
over the right wall in the gen
eral direction of the Patio and
the score was 6-3. Dickinson's
wildness gave the Trooper anoth
er run in the seventh. Niebler’s
single, Hatfield’s error. Prasse’s
clutch triple hit far into right
and a fielder's choice brought the
Profs to within a run of a tie.
Lawing’s mighty triple and
Prasse’s single tied it up in the
ninth and it was Ray Keesee re
placing “Shanty" Hogan who
took the rap for the loss. Dick
inson. of course, was the winner.
—B L
Lucky Regiment
Draws 2 Mothers
(Continued from Page 1)
provide music for the occasion.
Rabbi Benjamin Gorrelick.
new Jewish chaplain, will give
the invocation, followed by the
“Mother's Prayer,” sung by the
Reception Center Chorus. Gen
eral Hobson will welcome the
mothers. The bands will play
Berlin's “It’s a Lovely Day To
morrow.” and then Chaplain
John S. Westerman will intro
duce the mothers S. Sgt Rawn
Spearman of the Chorus, will
sing a solo “Songs My Mother
Taught Me," followed by a brief
talk by Colonel Westerman,
who will introduce one of the
mothers selected to speak on be
half of the entire contingent.
Chaplain William Hunt, Catholic
Chaplain, will pronounce the
benediction with the program
ending on the notes of “God
Bless America,” played by the
massed bands
All chapels on the post will
be prepared to welcome the
mothers who desire to attend
services with members of their
children's units, after which the
guests will have the remainder
sudden death was especially
tragic because “it occurred so
soon after the death of our dear
Mr. Lang, who died last year
PAGE FIVE
ACADEMIC
PROFILES
By Pvt. M Merlin
Tec 4 William Dockendorf is a
perfect example of the “dyed-
DOCKENDORF
in - the wool
ti r a desman.”
He served the
t r a d it i o nal
five-year ap
p r e n ticeship
of the printer
in Albany, N.
Y.. his birth
place, starting
in the bindery at the age of 19
and winding up in the compos
ing room as a journeyman. For
nine years he worked for the
firm of J B Lyons, printers for
the State of New York, and then
entered the newspaper field via
the composing room of the
Knickerbocker Press. At the
time of his induction in 1942 he
was very happy in his job on
the Post-Star, newspaper of
Glenn Falls, N. Y., the town re
cently chosen by a national mag
azine as the most typically
American in character. Fishing,
hunting and swimming were his
hobbies in the foothills of the
Adirondacks, and he intends to
lose no time getting back there
when Hitler is laid to rest
He spent his apprenticeship as
a soldier at Camp Livingston,
La., with the 28th Division, and
his journeymanship in the Louis
iana maneuvers and amphibious
training in Florida. Now he's
back at his life-long profession
in the Reproduction Plant of
The Infantry School, where his
over-abundance of humor makes
him popular with his fellow sol
diers.
of the day to spend as they wish.
Both Cpl. Marquardt and PFC
Berman are taking advantage of
the opportunity to keep their
mothers here for the rest of the
week Marquardt lives in Co
lumbus with his wife and will
entertain his mother at his home
until next Saturday. PFC Ber
man. who lives on the post, will
take a three-day pass to show
her mother some of the sights
of the nearby South
All expenses have been paid
for the 14 mothers by the post.
Their railroad tickets for the re
turn trip will be ready for them
at any time that they wish
PROMOTIONS
COMPANY A
Pfc Herbert F. Bremer to Tec 5
COMPANY C
Cpl Michael J. Kehoe to Tec 4
Tec 5 Roscoe Lewis to Sgt.
Tec 4 John A. Walter. Jr. to Sgt.
Cpl. Cecil E. Stewart to Tec 4.
Pfc Dominic P. Travaglione to
Cpl
Pfc Leroy Williams to Cpl.
Pfc Willard E. Blake to Cpl
