European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 6, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Fat pay Day and the Jungle worst enemy than n these quarters were built by naga at the table is Dale and right is by Walter Peters yank staff correspondent Northern Day during the fall of 1942 a clerk at services of Supply head quarters in India was studying a requisition form from a signal corps aircraft warning after Reading the form again he suspected that someone was trying to pull a the clerk called a then the sergeant called a what the hell do they want with that kind of stuff asked the coloured Rock flashy coloured blankets and All those other crazy today sos Headquarters in this theater is no longer surprised at anything that aircraft warn ing May requests for items that Arent strictly i Are complied with quickly and with out to accomplish their men of Craft warning units frequently have to venture into strange and unexplored sections of the they Are often forced to Call for the help of natives who have never seen White men be and these natives usually prefer glittering and flashy objects to during its aircraft warning has constructed hundreds of Miles of Jungle and foot and Many because of the nature of the its men have had to travel far beyond Jap lines to establish their the first station was established late in 1942 in the naga Hills of on the Burma As the americans and chinese fought their Way through Northern Many other stations were set up in the Jungles and Hills of that now the network is so vast that a Jap plane can rarely sneak Over our lines without being the station i visited is Only a few Miles from a Road on the Burma India Many other Are so far Back in the Jungles that it takes anywhere from 5 to 18 Days walk ing to get to the trails Are narrow and Snake around Steep and often you must Ford Waist deep our guide was Fred Fegley of Pine a former lineman for the Pennsyl Vania Light and Power Fegley has spent More than two years at various stations and during that time he figures he has hiked up Ward of Miles of Jungle in not kick mind Fegley said As we paused for a but Back in the states nobody in our outfit Ever dreamed we would go through any thing like Fegley said that the outfits greatest danger was not from the but from during Monsoon seasons the men dont dare sit on the ground for a you even pick up leeches when youre Fegley frequently you have to Stop to pick them from your body so they wont suck too much blood out of and during the Mon streams become there Are dozens of streams across the paths to Many of our Sta so a station that takes a five Day hike in Ordinary times is difficult to get to in twice that time when the monsoons Are one thing you can Knock off As a a