american women's voluntary services - nov 1944

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No natter how hard the going, i t s t i l l seems to us that we have a lotto be thankful for - Above al l , we are grate ful to you Lien and wom enof the amied forces who are doin g ; our u tmost to has ten the increas-

ingly certain V-Day - and our cup of grati tud e will really bri m overthe day you cone home - victorious I Ti l l then , you have our prayersfor continued good luck and success I

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Capt , ALAN C. DCTJBLEDAY nay be puzzled as to wheth er he should addres sus as "Dear Girls '* in his le t ter , but you al l kn ow the answer to thatone . It sends us cooing and jittering to the nearest /airi-or to pullout any prematurely gray hairs ( and no jeers at that "]:> re m a t u r e l y "e i ther, p l e a s e ) . One thing is a i 'tct, and tLnt is that choosing the

'Double&ay letter 'as a starter~offer this month didn' t puzzle us for a'ae-cond* Not o nly are we t hrill ed over the ne.vj ra nk of C ap ta in , butMas ter "-Double-day is. also one of our mos t t rav ele d w ri te rs . Af te r along visit to. Lond on, England, Alan is now Comp any Coioa nder of on e ofthe' training battalions- down at Camp Leje une, I'.C,; geot ing h imsel fand., ais. fellow marines ready for a bout vith the Japs , Inc identa l ly,he had a chance' to visi t with his sist er, PIiIClLLA 5 wiib is a Kavynur se, whil e passi ng th roug h Hprfollc, V a. ./rite us agii.n .30011, an din the neantiiiie " us gi rl s" wi sh y ou the bes t of lu ck , 3er.vper Fi de li a,and all the rest of it.

And nov: we'l l skip over to Sunny Fr anco and dish out the l atest new sof Lt ALF RED J STSFNAGL8


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cold champagne and then adds that "this place is gett ing mor e l ike homeevery day". That 's what you think, but we've bee n out of cold cham-pagne for ages. Thanks for the com pli men t, th ou gh , A ls o, tiio,,.fineSchroeder chassis is now sinking deep in springs.-, which fee l l ike afeather bed after ten months of sleeping on ro ck. .Nice to kn ow the oldplace is being re-buil t fast and that the ne w theatre and g ym "will becompleted any day now, but where is i t? Can't you even give us a hint ,Elmer? The champagne sounds l ike Fran ce, but the part in your let te rabout the hopefui local Casanova wooing his girl friend as she dangledout of a. third floor window sounds more Eye tal ian.

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.Your letter to T/4 ARTHUR C. S T A R K has been forwarded, ISPSEVER. Now how about making your next note to us from France

.newsier? If we weren't the soul of honor we'd have be en tempted toread Art's letter, but as It is , we're just trying to be patient untilwe get some fiTst-hand dope on you In your own purty handwrit ing.

Playing post office is just our mea t, especially whe n a nice letteraccompanies the request (pardon,,the d ig , Lt . Poevc r) Anyway,, thisparticular nice note is from 1st Lt . SAMUEL S. C ONNOR , who has seenplenty, of France, even though he hasn't seen a soul from Short Hill s

yet. "We've shown your request to Kr. Barker and he is sending you hisson's address hope you get together before our next issue so we canhear about i t, Sam is with a Troop Carrier Group and says It's an in-teresting branch to be in, especially if you like sight seeing, Lt.Connor has already taken in a good many cities and spent some time inRheims where he reports the champagne is still flowing free ly. That'sone way to try to forgot all the mud, rain and cold, and we hope Itworks. Your next will probably be from Germa ny, so happy hunti ng, andbag a few for u s, will you?

Congratulations to Lt. P. R. DA NTE , M. C, for a lot of--things, butjust now for cramming so many interesting things into five short pag es.Pete says he left rather hurriedly for England last July and sincethen his hospital unit has travelled on the ..ho.ols of the A rmy to B re st,then on through Normandy, Belgium , and Luxembourg. He spent two days,in Paris, o,nd, besides hearing Eisenhower and D eGaulle speak on theLiberation, saw enough of the city to want to go back some day as aplain tourist. Lt f Dante is with an evacuation hospital and they do ,their surgery not far behind, the li nes. At least it's so near thathe-'s one person who is delighted not to have me t anyone he knows..We're happy we caught up with y ou, even'if you are moving 30pecially sinea news about homo is welcome,look forward to your mail, too, Pete.

Many thanks, andfast,we'll

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Pvt , GLENN VAN WAGENEN has,ust e l l i n g us -". r r


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(and probably the cows, too) just stand and laugh. O.K., you win onall counts, including that suggestion of ours about Mr . Ghandi's pants,They do sound pretty complicated and we can sec what you ma an aboutgetting all snarled up just trying to drape the things artistically.We're looking forward to the day when you can join us he re, but in themeantime how about picking up a few rope tricks to show us?

We bet this news will burn you all up , that P vt. HOWARD G. MELLEN hasbeen made a sxvimming instructor at the new po ol at Fort Ord, Calif cOur sleuths don't toll us if it's a co-ed set-up but if s o, Howard isthe man to handle the situation.

And this next bit may not make you men too envious, but picture whatit does to us poor victory gardeners hero at hom e. Cp l. ARTHUR S.MACOMBER lias written home for packages of seeds of anything that canbe eaten raw. Art says they've dug a garden outside the tent andplanted vegetables. The soil is so rich and da rk, without a rock with-in roach of the first three or four feet d own , that anything gro ws. Irfact, the soil practically snaps at the seeds before the mai l man letsgo , and from then on all you do is got out the salt and pepper andwait for dinner. Keep us posted oxi the crops at your plantation, Art,and don't forget to take a picture of the ha rvest , just to burn useven more because this particular gossiper can't even get a radish todo anything showy.

How time flies i Only a week or so ago (it see ms) we saw DONALD SPICSR,S l/c (D.S.) throwing off a case of the bends by unlimbering on thogolf course at Baltusrol . Now here comes a postal from Californiawhere Don is waiting his turn to go overseas and do some fancy diving.The California sunshine seems to be temporarily hidden by a heavy mist(complete with thunder and lightening), but that never could get aSpicer down. Glad you had the chance to meet Claudetta Colbert at theHollywood. Canteen, but it's a shame you didn't have time to show hera f ew skiing tricks and in that deep sea helmet you'd oven scare OrsonWelles. Good luck, Don and thanks.

A postal from Pvt. A. R. FRACKSNPOHL tells us not to aond this to Neb-raska because he's now deep in

theheart of Te xas. Thanks for printing

tho new address, Art , because it all seems so complicated. The onlything we'd be really sure of is that you're at Camp Barkeley-~not thatthe printed address makes much sense to u s , eith er, but then we'reused to secret codes by now.

Another postal bearing a new address comes fluttering in from NOR MANMAYO S 2/o. Norman is on a L.S.T. and dropped the card off his trainwhile heading south. Happy Landings, Norm, and keep us up on the newsof where and how you are.

When we tell you right off that this fine letter from ARTHUR V . SEI TS yJR, A.R. l/c, belongs in the Dog Departm ent, don't think we're gettingeither snarly and unsympa thetic. Matter of fa ct, our hearts are goingout to poor Art this very moment because he's flat on his beautifulbroad back in a Naval Dispensary somewhere in South Ame ric a. It a,p-pears that Art picked up a (to q_uote) choice fungus infection thenatives managed to loave around. It settled on his feet and while heclaims it doesn't hurt it does keep him off the m, Especiall y toughsince one of the best golf courses in S.A. is within putting distance.It's a darn shame and nothing can be more tiring than tired dogs, bu twe hope the odd growth dies down soon. Glad it isn't on your han ds,too; otherwise we couldn't expect another lett er so on. (Wa can},can't we? )

Another blow is concealed in a V-letter from that trusty old cr afts-man, E.V. BONTSMPO, C M . l/c. Horror of horrors*-Ed says a now lawhas just been passed forbidding him and his buddies to bring home anygifts made from junk those are his own words because a well-smashedJap plane in the hand sounds like two diamonds in the bush to u s , andpretty'valuable "junk". If you feel blue what do you think it makesus, Ed. Here we've been dreaming of wearing your fine jewelry formonths and now some brass hat decides to strip us of our finery beforewe even wake up. Oh, well, just seeing you, your self, in person isgoing to make up for every thing, so catch that boat and mak e it snappy.

Incidentally, give our best to Billy and Red. You didn't tell us


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where they hail from, but if they enjoy reading the TATTJ.E t o o , t h e y ' rehome folks to us.

Just as a not-too-gentle hi nt , Ed, we wil l now dr ip with effus ivethanks over S'/Sgt. ANTHONY DePAOLA. Tony has mai led us a f lock ofJapanese ci garett es, which is one way of gett ing around some l a w s .They're done up in gorgeous heavy t inf oil arid flas hy pala blue cart onsb u t , (while we. don't like to blo w smoke in a g i f t h o r se ' s e y e ) , wecan' t get up our nerve to smoke . How about it, Tony? Will they b l o wup in our face , pu t us to s leep , or jus t make us dream of you? An y-way , we're very grateful for the thought and eac h of us worke rs h asa box as a cur ios i ty to save and admire . (To re turn to Bonbenpo howaboi.it locating a keen smuggler or t ra in ing a homing carr ier-seal justin case the mail man ancle won't do?' Yo u can see we're occoc-razyfor them jools,)

Lt . (j .g.) RtCHARD' KEEP ERS j USCG, i s another forgiving and excusingpal who doesn' t blame us because l:c hasn' t recei ved his T A T T L E s inceAugu st. Glad you've stopped moving around for a whi le and ?..lso doubleglad to get your nearly-permanent add ress . V/e've shown you r noteto a co-scribe and (because her husband is co-Coast Guard,, TOO) shecan sympathize almost more over your present fa t e . Jus t wily an oldseaman like yourself should be put "under the;: Ar m y" b e a t s u s t i l , b u tcheer up , you'l l probably find yoinself with a beard' full ' oj? saltspray any month . The Coas t Guard i sn' t dumb or forg e t f u l ,

A/'C R OB ER T J. KERN writes us (and purty wri t ing , t o o ) f r o m Q e l m a nFie ld , Monroe , La. , to say he is due to become a ful l - f ledged na viga-to r the third week in January, Of course , yo u' ll ..make it , B o b , a n dfrom here on one of our most important Hew Ye a r r e s o l u t i o n s w i l l b eto admire those shiny wings and. b a r s . Ouch J get tine; up at 5:10 A. M.is something we couldn' t even blame on a cup of coff ee , le t alone acommanding offi cer, but if they have to be tha t mean why the ex t raten minutes? Just a teaser? "A n ice le t te r, Mr , Ke rn , and no wonderyou signed off in order. to ;r hit the hay 1 '. (\IhatJ N o B e a u t y R e s t m a t -tresses at dear old Salman, e i ther?)

Dear Pf c . JOSEPH M* PK PE a nd even if you are in the good, r e l i a b l e ,

tough old Marine C orp s, we're daring you to addres s us at least as"Dear Tat t le" next t ime, first off , we ' l l re l ieve your mind as muchas possible over your old budd y, VITO FIOLA. The last we heard , hewas O.K., but very busy. Why not write, him, care of us , and as wemay have a more up-to- the^month address , we* 1 1 forward i t for you .Don't "worry yourself sick" in any ca se. _ We'l l put our money on youand Fiola any t ime, and that goes for the ' big reu nio n home h e r e t o o .(See Small World.) The last three-quarters of your let ter wa s knockedout by the censor (rude fello, /) but here 's hopi ng y ou start g ett i ng thisand" the past TATTLE'S regul arly, Eest c f l u c k a n d G o d b l e s s y o u , t o o ,Joe ,

Cpl . E , H, LEA.NDE.R, you 'r e a prince to throw all those nice cornpli-inc:nts our way, ana as you na y have ga ther ed, we' re pig s wh en i t comesto compliments, so skip th e apo logi es. Vve have n't heard from Edgarfor almost a year but (being the t rus t ing type) never gave up hope ,By the way, we want to congratulate him on three n i f t y t h i n g s , j u stin case we forget. Ed has left He w G u i n e a , he g o t a m u c h - n e e d e d f u r -lough in Aust rali a, and, last but f irst and bes t , w as made a C o r p o r a l .Of course , you're an old hoel to bur n us up v.dtn jealous y o ver thatfurlou gh. Imagine the Lea nde r, and one; other bud dy , the only two G.I.s in a town full of girls* "Vi/Lat a fat e" is ri gh t, o nly it 's o u r s ,not yours , so stop worry ing your loca l publ ic . We ' re sor ry your ne wPacific Island isn' t as good as New Guin ea, but no pla ce is a healthresort these days. "Somewhere in the Neth er lands East? Indie s" makesyour address unique in our f i les , Remind us to s t r ike off % m e d a lfor you , unt i l another Mi l lburn i te turns up to cance l the d is t inc t ion .

We don't need, to chock in order to know tha t Lt . C. W. DRAKE is in theMar ine Corps , The o ld do g hasn' t lost his touch of b la rney, smootch ,or what-have-you, even if he h a s n H c lung to h is pen for a lmost twoyears . Juet tel l ing us that you iealiz,e "we are a forgiving lot"turns us to putty in your manl y ha nd s, so v/hat ca n we do now b ut saya humble and deep "Thanks" for this let ter. Bil l doesn' t want tocause a pr iva te war but he s t i l l th inks h is f igh ter squadro n i s f l y-

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will all Array and Navy f ighters p lease 'not take up th is axe? And hereare the answers to your questions B i l l , STEVE WIL30K ( i,he killcr-diller) is in Australia; PIERCE CASSEDT is in Pensaco la , F l a . ; ALBERT

FINNESEY has an A. I .O. out of New ^ork , whi le h is brother, B O B ,Venice , Fla , Ta kor isn ' t this our

If we wanted tomodest type, weAnyhoo, what,cpi. joia\ A .ZIMKRAND are

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we're d ri v in g a t is t h a t , v L i l e we knowSCIASTA, Cpl . PROSPER G. STANZIALE, an dall now wearing new meda ls . John ' s uni t has been

it ell th e t i m e ,P v t . EDWARDT.

mended for outstanding performances in the European Theat re ofentitled to the Distinguished Unit B a d g e . Pr ot ions, and he's

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