Mediterranean Algiers Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 12, 1943, Algiers, Algiers Saturday june 12, 1943the stars and stripes weekly injured soldiers relax in Africa Paradise Camp former resort now becomes rest Home for convalescent Page la by pvt. Jack Foisie stars and stripes staff w Rifer a convalescent Camp North Africa Lins is a Paradise for men who have gone through hell. In army lerias it is simply casualty company a Quot but a romantic it a oui Call it a Home of purple almost everyone in Camp casuals and cadre alike Nave wounded or injured in action. This is an Ai my Camp with a minimum of discipline and plenty of laughs where mess Hail is in Swank cocktail veranda squad rooms Are Villas and Day room is a Beach House. I his is where no one goes Over Hill and they Volunteer Lor up and guard where Mediterranean As Blue As tourist books picture it hovers invitingly by. It is Here at a one time resort called Palm bean that wounds of flesh heal so icily anti Shock and Sharp flashes of pain fade into memories. Did their shake a men have done their share up at front. Here they get every possible break and Comfort we can give them a said it. Lawrence e. Rearm company commanding of incr. In explaining function of Camp. He is assisted by it. Aaron Savage with Marvin l. Octer of Shreves Poinc la., As 1st sergeant. The convalescent Camp site was selected by col. Robert l. Bacon of special service command. Average stay of a Soldier at comp is a month. The men arrive from hospitals with casts still on their legs or arms shrapnel and Bullet holes still open and with Shock of Battle still apparent. Sui gel y and Medicine have won opening round what men need now is rest Sunshine and Good food. They get it. A a wounds heal in half Normal said copt. James j r Rohrer who with capt. A. M. Robinson look alter medical end of Camp. Even Aux j it to neurosis a Shell Shock cases j no lore he said. There is one girl stationed at i die Camp. A red Cross worker j named miss Pat Oliver of Hastings on Hudson. N. Y. She is i Queen of every dance tilt inspire lion of every poem. She is an a honorary sergeant and Quot by St Moi ale builder you be Ever Why heres cried miss fat. Pointing to Sun tanned j grinning gigs about her. Quot they Are real Guys. The folks Back Home is iou id be proud of she was referring to such real Guys As t-5 Jimmy Cherry twice j wounded. When occasional German raiders come Over nearby j lawns and flak begins to Fly. Some of convalescent suffer a momentary return of Shell Hock Jimmy might too but As he once i i of miss Pat �?�1 Don t. I grab hold of something grab it hard and say to myself a get hold of yourself get hold of i say it Over and Over somehow that Way. I done to Lone survivor miss Pat told of other real Guys. Like so it. Leon Harris of St. Louis an infantryman with 1st armoured division he was seriously wounded in Early fighting at mod Jezel Bab now he a Camps Ace Pitcher. And that fellow handling switchboard sgt. Robert Wade of Mammoth Cave. By. 1 is Lone survivor of a tank Crew \ hit by an 88 in night Battle at Kasserine Gap. Set. Jim Nix from Kopperston West va., was another armoured doughboy who went Down in Medvez Battle. Quot it Felt like a .50 Caliper that did he remembers j anyway it Tore a big chunk out of his leg. But Jim s biggest com j plaint is that his girl Friend mar j ried someone else. Quot guess she a thought i was he growled. J ill give her Benefit of j doubt Quot oldest convalescent is pvt i Edward t. Viger. Of Minneapolis j and 12th air Force. Pop Quot is i 46 and was with Navy in j Lavt War. It is Seldom except at Quot Bull sessions a on Villa verandas 1hat men talk of their Battles but always they remember Dav they were hit. A to me Day will be like and my birthday dates that i will never forget a said sgt. Wade. Flashes from Jur front a chill est american from Chicago when lie climbed into a Fly Sanie plane As an observer China a air Force. That Day steady Slater they weren to trying to make dates it in t All mud and glory in a fight for a continents sgt. Lee Wong Gem Tot Surprise of his life other Day my fortress for his 50th Mission. In was a j. Gen. Lam Wai Chang. Head of they plastered hell out of Sardinia and you can be certain urn and Gen Wai Chang had a grand Cli time rehashing flight ,ihas01a0 Burn ambition. He Hopes before this War is ended to clo his stuff on a fortress bombing Japan. He has a special grudge against Little Guys from Nippon. A a a i Mani fortress Cany along a Good Luck piece on missions but strangest that came to our attention was a Sling shot toted by it. James r. Abrams a Pilot from Miami Ariz he brought Dat ill cilia store states and Eto lev a great believer in that a a a i a a fun rom shrug off Tough mtg with expression i u la Guerre americans Manning flying fortresses say a that la happen. It All began when a crippled fortress returned to two i men already had bailed out. And Pilot was forced to make a belly Landing he made it All right but Impact killed Tail gunner a and can i Stop Pilot stepped out. Looked at carnage and said that la happen then without another word he strode off. Now. No matter what rough Breaks befall them fortress boys merely murmur that la happen Quot and forget All about it. Or t1snt it Jburton greenhouse of St Louis is known As a i Goat Man to his fortress pals. He won this appellation following a i Gay evening which saw him return to his tent at a late hour. To his amazement fast asleep in his cot. Was squadrons pet Goat Heze Kiah which boys had purchased from an Arab. Greenhouse j Pia bed a 45 arid chased Goat Bow rugged. Then he searched amp for fica powder. Greenhouses friends swore Goat pot into bed by himself and we believe it at 4 am following Day we were awakened to find Hezekiah standing on our stomach and Baa ing i softly. Commented greenhouse t can understand gent getting Lander a Blanket without human nit but it really was darn smart of Lim to pull up Mosquito netting a a a in of be problem of High Altitude flying says Squadron flight surgeon 1st it Luke rinse Rem Ley of York a is one o met. Men who Wear oxygen masks on a Mission must avoid Cas col Ming foods such As Beans spam weiners and cabbage with a Bell Ful of Gas at High Altitude a Man s stomach might enlarge five times causing pressure on diaphragm which in turn affects heart. In some cases Aerial bends severe pains in joints will \ special to stars and stripes i on a soft curve of Beautiful Bay of Tunis looking out across jewel like water to hazy Cape Bon there is pretty j White House that belonged in better times to a French general. It has a Garden full of geraniums i Al Olavs and honeysuckle it has a court-1 Yard where tall Shade Trees Whis per coolly in wind it has a tiny White private Beach it has two pretty French nurses in Resi Donee and it has eleven gigs a Searchlight and two fifty calibre i anti aircraft guns to guard it. The air is soft water is \ warm honeysuckle is Sweet one of nurses is blonde and j one of nurses is dark and they both Wear their hair up like girls at Home in summer time. Flapjacks nearest officer is a Hall mile away Cook makes flapjacks that taste like Lemon a Mage cake and neighbors arrive every morning with wine and flow-1 Cis Gratis. All Day Long boys lie in Sun and doze on Beach and swim and teach numerous neighbors daughters . At night two at a time they re on duty three hours at a stretch while rest doze on Tine Terrace which is their Home and in one bombardment group somewhere in North Matici pin up girls Are giving Way to a More popular and practical femal this spot fast set up your Light Iff la irl a do her might a a is a rubber raft and your guns and get to work Quot aboard their planes for sea its no. Who is girl they a c i. Joke to a a Hare their Dinghy with Jbv Olivia de Haviland of course first after Nora a with to Flotto a if a Fonto Jane Russell until she up and got married. Others wit Aitu noon with crowds whom boys would share boat with Are Rita Hayworth Bettj arable Lana Turner Betty Hutton. Linda Darnell and even dirt ii Gertie ii it came to worst. Singh votes were cast for Burma mrs Roosevelt and Minnie mouse. But tile most sensible vote for Shirley Temple was prefaced by a a Shes Only Star who will not have died of old age when we get contemplate teaching girls some More next Day every once in awhile Eye of i them remembers mud lie s Beer. In since november and cold lain and Long jolting rides at night with Searchlight on its trailer threatening to leap Over a Cliff at any moment. Every once in awhile one of them remembers and Flowers and Quot Vive Les Anglia see so thick it took two extra to get to their design i a Ted Post. When they got there i on Shore with pretty White House of general stand my there among Flowers across i from Cape Bon they set up their guns where italians had had their s in morning and started to Rake Bay where mans were still trying to get by Beal. Ill said Rube Katz no in command of Section Quot that not More than Throe rowboats got away b-25�?Ts went Over and Jerries just splashed in Ann Quot its a funny thing a said Sam Wade whose accent was thick As All Georgia Quot i always thought first German i see real close up. Why hell kill me or ill kill him a but first one i see he wants to know if 1 11 take him prisoner and in a too Busy at to pay any attention to millionaires baby Dick Sullivan who used to play football for Georgetown in 1036. And who takes care of Light treating it like a millionaires Newborn baby told me greatest moment of my life was Riding into Tunis. Everybody was Yelling and cheering and we were finally there. The Only trouble wast everyone thought we were we were probably first americans cd Rew of of bomb r Are such sympathetic followed of sad sack that they have even named their b-17 after tile Hert of sgt. George bakery a weekly strip. But they re getting worried. Quot Sac sack has successfully completed 32 newtons thus far and they be Ger j Lieve by All that a fair that this achievement deserves a promotion away now they re wondering How Long it will be before cartoonist bake j decides to put Corporal s stripes on or at least a private i first class rating. Vienna friends reunion in hold stockade by sgt. Paul special to Start years ago i studied music in in Vienna. You May remember Vien moment pan once was considered Muslim at a i capita of world. Attending Hie lectures and classes was a youth from Germany a student of music history and we became great friends. When our course at Academy was Over i went to Sweden to work and he remained in Vienna to become eventually a Well known Arranger of popular music. I later went to America and memory of my Friendship with Kurt faded. I nver expected to see him again. Though i read his name occasionally in music journals. The Stukas and uncomfortable la he get him Lasi a Quot a no fire Ami th., to. ,.v i jv1111-h a Quot a by 11 Bra a e n heart Tai bad wire enclosure swarm my that we Dirin t have an american with German prisoners near a Large 88 my fire and times they had to pack Searchlight on i trailer in a hurry and get moving backwards. Every once in j awhile one of them remembers War and looks around him at honeysuckle and girls with up swept hair and pinches himself to make sure he in to dreaming. Sergeant i can t Tell you because one of not to. He was a and was busted at asked me if i thought he get a Flag through mails Home. I said i thought he busted anyone s rank boys asked me tech sergeant Camp Davis by a second lieutenant fresh out but he never got up j nerve to Tell his folks and he still i gets his mail addressed to tech sergeant so and so. In Case anybody Back Home gets to read this he does t want his fall from Grace made known Battery was attached to British first army. When they were two Days out of Tunis men in command of each Section were brought together and Points on map and i Quot when we get into Tunis in Diatom it a. he could from could somebody came up and said that no one was to leave Post. I he lieutenant was coming Over to read articles of War Katz sighed and looked around at miniature anti aircraft Eden blonde nurse was looking at morning from an upstairs window humming softly. She smiled sweetly at us and said Quot Good morning Quot slowly in Quot one of boys Quot Katz Vaid. Quot volunteered for paratroop he could t stand this i said Good Bye and started out before lieutenant could read articles of War to me. Sullivan took out his pen and started writing Home for an american shown Flag so that he would t have any told. I regrets next time he entered North african City we both stared speechless at one another like a cat had got our tongues i offered him a cigarette to Bleak uncomfortable silence hot a before i saw he already had one away thin i asked him How he was and about his folks. I used to know his family quite Well. I lost my brother a year ago in Russia and my father was killed during an air raid in a factory where they forced him to paused for a moment. Quot Mother is All right. I suppose. I Hen we began talking about music and he became warm r i a ked him to Tell me about my amp in in Germany. Quot did you say music a he said. Ach done to exaggerate. There in t much left of what wre used to Call music besides they done to need new songs Ever since they stopped singing a Wir Ziethen Gegen Engeland a marching into England they Are not very much in mood to sine at All a a last Job i did before becoming a Gefre iter was arrange Reif and stripes of a new funeral March on occasion of Stalingrad. I think now i they will use it quite often in Fuguit. Well a he shrugged Quot its one Way for me to become i asked him what was most popular song for people and soldiers. A mostly they play a Horst and people Are sick and tired c l it they can to listen to it any longer they hate it. Now a tonnes Are trying to it popularize a song that goes like this to right of Rhine to left of Rhine i he re is waiting for me my Girlie Fille pm germans love very sad song and yen though song is Mal keel published and to be Sung by a Riff r of. A they done to sing it i he War song they sing is called a or y columns and tells of soldiers marching tired through and another one is called a far near Sedan in a staying on ? said alone near to my dead Friend and still another is named a wooden crosses which tells of thousands of wooden crosses with my helmets shining in morning i asked him what he thinks of italian War songs but he said they done to know any in Germany. They a tile soldiers dont bother much with italians. Finally i asked what he thinks about Tim War. I was anxious to How Germany had affected this one time Friend. Now Fiat japs Are in Vladivostok it will prolong War wont it a he said. It probably would i said but i did not go on. Or. Goebbels ha4 done his Job Well i could see i Fay goodbye. I wish my Friend happiness i do not expect to Ever e Hun again
