European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 6, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse Yank the army weekly 1945 cording to is the danger from wild animals such As tigers and actually our out fit has had Little trouble from Fegley most people like to exaggerate the number of wild animals they see in the of you do have to be once one of our men put up his Jungle Hammock for the night and his dog crept under it to next morning there was a Pool of blood but no the average station is operated by a 10man team with a staff sergeant in the men Are required to spend at least six months in the Jungle before returning to a rear area for but oftener than they they have to remain some teams have served at their posts As Long As 11 months without one of the first acts of an aircraft warning team is to Call on the Village nearest the most natives have been helpful Treyve shown the men where to find their water Supply and helped build for the Bamboo and Tufe army system of going through channels is found even among the natives in the before hiring anyone the men first Contact the headman of the who then designates a number of his people to work at the the headman usually sends his own son to act As a sort of Straw things have changed from the Early Days in these Fegley it used to be we could do a flourishing business with the natives by trading Large tin one can would bring you As much As a now there Are so Many tin cans that its caused a Guy cant even get the Shell of an egg for at one station where the men ran out of trin a i squeezed All the Cream from a Wil Liams shaving then he very neatly flattened the tube and gave it to one of the the native wore it As an ornament around his free advertising for Williams shaving medics Are highly respected by the Eugene Schultz of is the medic at the station i All the natives there Call him were too far from a Village Schultz but at other stations some of our medics make weekly Calls on the visiting Day every woman and child groups around and they All pour out their one of them a Pill they All demand we final families the officers at Headquarters by got around it by giving Salt tablets to those write for the the men Arent paid until they report Back to Headquarters for a but since there is no who we rent the Salt tablets do no harm and they make the natives the Days at the station Are Long and some of the men have taken to writing books and Short occasionally the headman in vites one of the gis to a pig roast in the but mostly the men spend their time Reading or every team is Given a 12gauge gun for Hunting Barking Quail and several species of grouse Are the most com Mon some of the men have taken to teaching the children to read and arid Many natives around the stations have acquired an elementary knowledge of Russell Higgerson of was teaching two children at the station i dont kid yourself about their Higgerson these kids Are As smart As any Ive seen Back id love to take one to the states and see what a school Edu cation could do for mail service is the biggest Gripe the men delivered with food and is dropped by c47s once a month except during the Mon soon when its even the problem of getting mail for the states out to an Apo is More at some stations the men have worked out a runner system with native but the men at stations 50 Miles or deeper in the Jungle have to wait Many months before they can Send a letter to keep their m place to spend they dont give the pay delay a s i Eugene Schultz of medic for an observation treats the foot of a naga a native second from left plays volleyball with gis on a Field they constructed on a one thing we have been Able to accomplish in these Jungles is teach these people to be Many of them suffer from malaria and since weve been stressing cleanliness weve found fewer of them with during my stay at Schultzs a native woman came in with a badly infected Schultz tried for Days to persuade her to soak it in hot water and Epsom she finally consented after other natives nagged her into usually you dont have to urge Schultz once you get them coming to sick Call you really get the they come whether there sick or when you give Russell Higgerson of turns school teacher he is trying to get two naga kids through the English alphabet ome men in the outfit have had their share of when Philip Cochran and his 1st airborne commandos landed 150 Miles behind Jap lines in Northern Burma in March an aircraft warning unit went most of their equipment was bombed out after the men had and Many of the men suffered from nevertheless they went on with their work and established a last when the japs penetrated into Assam in their threat to invade the men in the Kohima District remained at their stations until the enemy almost overran 1st Daniel Schroeder of a communications was one of the last american enlisted men to leave his Post when the japs Cut the Manipur Road Between Kohima and Dima and during the Jap aircraft warning units were the sole medium of communicating intelligence to the native scouts reported the Jap and the men at the stations relayed the information to the Fegley was team chief at one of those at 2200 one a native reported that the enemy had infiltrated the area near the Fegley ordered his men to destroy All he also ordered that All food cans be broken with axes and creosote poured into this was done so that the who were known to be Short on could not Bene fit from our at 0300 next Fegley and his men took their Field Tommy guns and hand grenades and began hiking through the Jungles to warn another the men walked until 2200 that Cov ering a distance of 28 after taking a five hour they resumed the trek until they reached other 19 Miles the threat of Jap planes has been eliminated to a great extent in this but the men Are still kept these Hills Are among the most difficult in the world to Fly and a number of crashes when this the stations nearest the crash Are called to Send out searching dozens of flyers have been saved in this in August when John Secretary to the american embassy in crashed with a number of american civil ians and soldiers and chinese of men of aircraft warning went to the the plane crashed in the Ponyo area of the naga some natives in that area Are known to be headhunters and generally there fore help had to be sent As quickly As two aircraft warning Andrew la Bonte of and John de Chaine of with a British political organized a searching party of natives acquainted with that the men tramped Over narrow paths and through mud and water for five Days and covered 125 Miles before they found the crash when the party prepared to leave with 20 survivors of the some natives started a riot Over items that were left de employing a Little Yan Kee intervened and quelled the in this business youve got to be a a a Hermit and an aircraft Fegley youve got to be ready for any thing can happen even if we Are a Bunch of i Jungle pa0f 11
