Mediterranean Algiers Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 19, 1943, Algiers, Algiers                                Saturday june 19, 1943the stars and stripes weekly Ace 7puptent poets to a flyers dad he lived to Fly your son this sol-1 Dierks Man whose Kin were Pegasus and Vik ing clan. Today he a gone but still we cannot weep for him. We know his spirit soars across the firmament in wide and timeless sweep. He dwells with heroes now his rightful place for he was one with them. No tiny Trace of feared or touched his lion heart. He never would nor will give up his love his one impatience for the flight to Start. We wonder now what jealous spirit stayed his hand one Flash too Long. We saw and prayed he might be spared but it was not to be. Once crashing Blaze of glory and he died. His winged Earth bound soul at last set free. He left a word of peace for you a Tell dad i m now with Mother a at Best a Small sad Comfort for his loss. Your fathers Pride and grief should know that he. In life lived like a Man and passing like a hero died. A Cpl. Robert k. Bailey but shall tile poppies these who throw their seed i it on a vows. Efface the truths the fallen know or Bloom less red than now a sgt. Roland Demunbrun chemical warfare they dressed me in khakis and gave me a gun sent me out drilling in by oiling hot Sun. Lectured me daily through wearisome classes on storage of chemicals poisonous gasses ship Ted me to England then africans Shore filled me with visions of winning the War. Then hired an Arab from out of tile masses to store All the chemicals poisonous gasses. They gave me a Broom with a shovel and can now in my Man about town on the streets of Oran pvt. Harold  fallen tile flagrant poppy nods her head. The Scarlet Vixen knows Why on this ground she gleams More red. From whose Bright blood she grows. The Verv score of years May take tile Harvest from these Fields and time its ageless thirst May slake when mortal passion yields. In Days to come the Rains will fall. Tile winds shall Pluck their loot and prickly Thorn against the Wall shall drop its bitter  w Hen first i stumbled Over you. You smiled in Sweet Surprise i thought i read surrender in the wonder of your eyes. But now i find you disagree vital every step i make your Way is never one that i have planned for us to take. Such things cannot but hinder. Dear. The Progress of Romance so  it be better if we just sat out this dance a pro. Jack Nei Langi profiles i the i the i is a Wordy Bird. His letters really should be heard by Day and night hell always write the worlds All wrong but lies All right. A these Guys with brass done to know the score. Why Don t they let me plan the War a ii the Gold Brick the Gold Brick really hates to work and every detail tries to shirk. But heres the joke and listen Well in ducking jobs he works like hell Iii the Moocher the Moocher has a greedy Paw. The longest reach you Ever saw. And when he gets a Box hell hide until he a stuffed it All inside. But when others get the same he considers them a a fair  in night owl the night owl is a sorry sight. He sleeps All Day and drinks All night. V sad sack a a sad sack a is an army term signifying you re a germ. Though a a Jerk conveys a mental Lack there a nothing sadder than a  a pvt. Frank Robichaud keys i think that i shall never see an object scarcer than a key a key that tits a truck or jeep carry All command or i Steep a key to Issue with each truck and one to keep with any Luck a key with tags or even chains. For keys May go while truck remains. Dispatchers find tile misery. But Only god can find the key. �?t-4 Robert j. Myers and that All will turn out right for god is on a a our  and hell help us Day and night. Amen. A pvt. John r. Tuer your letters your letters come. They mean so much to me. I never knew i d Given von the key to my heart s door. It opens to the touch of every Loving word you write. Between the lines i read a tender message for my spirit s need. Your letters to a stranger can to reveal the warm unwritten things you think and feel. A pvt c. Scott to dad i miss you dad so very much no pal can take your place. A the years we roamed together i time nor distance can erase. J i go to sleep at night to dream about the Days Well spend together when my ship comes in and ill sail Home again. A pfc. Charles j. White  warning if she wears a Tattoo. Its dangerous to woo. A pvt. W. A. Ringwelski in memorandum private Joe Doakes we his memory enshrine it in complying with circular 399�? after potting a Jerry he stopped for his brass and a an 88 Shell smacked him Square in the thanks. �?1st la. Joe Golt Way of dictators and now you gasp. Because the Battle s might Falls Weig tily unon your hordes. And now you Wail. Because slave weary subjects bemoan the bombers Iii the night. Think Back recall the Days your pompous master brutes ran fiendish Over ravaged Poland. Disarmed czech is and hard pressed j Greece. You were the Jester then. Whine Oil in the bomb clap Ted night. I and cry before the final fall. The sound blends sweetly on the ear. Is sgt. Arthur Slutsky god a help in a a Soldier in two armies. Serving god and country True. Hoping. Praying. Working. For the  men never knew. My loved ones write me often saying a a All is Well Back Here they Send their love god s Fellowship a smile a kiss a tear. They say to keep my Chin  a the one rack Home in be tried a Hundred million times to write a Bunch of funny i vines to bring you Joy instead of furs in Case these Mont Lis grow into years. But All my efforts went for naught my heart excludes All comic thought the ache in it your absence brings keep is tugging wildly at the strings. And keeps me lonesome All the while. Until your letters reconcile. So. Looking Forward to the time our happiness will be Sublime i Send my love to let you know that i am yours where Ever i go and Hope each melancholy Day will quickly Dawn and slip away till we Are Back As once before. Just you and i and nothing More except our love and All our dreams which had to wait for Grimmer schemes. A pvt. J. La. Quot Bob Wallis letter from Iran army stevedores use sign Lingo on coolies mail Cal Mojave Moe dear editor we regret to inform you that we have let our dog Moe read several letters in your recent is j sues about canine mascots and i he a one mad dog. At first he laughed then after we saw it was grieving him no end we asked him whether he wanted us to write you and explain just what he has done. Well. Sir. He wanted us to do this so Here goes. On the question of travel we won t even attempt to add up the Miles Mojave Moe has covered with our Squadron by rail and by ship. Moe has probably covered More ground chasing a baseball than those other mutts have even thought of. So that infantry Mutt was struck on the head by a can of a a cd rations Well our Moe was on a fighter sweep in the radio compartment of a p-38 when a Shell came straight through. Moe caught the thing in his Mouth spit it Back at the me-109 and enemy went Down in flames. Nil it got the credit but Moe Given an unofficial assist. The Little Bugger would t have anything about it if the Pilot Hadnot seen f and turned the report in. What wont that Fella do next  fighter ski Guion gunnery school dear editor we Are writing to you in the Hope of solving a very difficult problem that of trying to get into a combat Squadron As Aerial gunners from a service Squadron we have been trying to Transfer since a left England and have been attempting to become Aerial gunners since we got into the air corps 18 months ago. Two of us have gone to a com Bat Squadron and received Transfer papers and letters. These transfers went through the Squadron and group but were not approved by higher Headquarters. A three of us have passed the gunners examination Back in the states but were sent overseas before we were called. Two of us have had experience shooting at enemy planes at an advanced Ai drome and one has had four years Esfi Prience with a 50 Caliper and a 30 Caliper machine gun. In our present Squadron we Are doing work none of us know much about. We Are Only trying to be of the Best service to our country. Cpl. William j. Purcell a Cpl. Frank Thompsonjr. A pvt. Burlin b. Berk am air corps personnel May apply Lor admission to the runner y school Here through their commanding officers. Transfer to a combat Squadron first is unnecessary. But facilities for training gunners Are limited so Don t hitch your Hopes too High editor. Shooting at in this War according to you. The artillery did no to do a Damn thing. We got some of the hardest jobs to do and did them including the Job on Hill 609 in the Amateur area. If we Are As poor at fighting As you seem to think maybe Hie army had better Send us Home. A an artillery unit the artillery certainly did its share. So did the Supply boys and so did the anti aircraft outfits. But stars and stripes did not intend and could not cover All phases of the Campaign in that Short review Section. That Mould have taken a Book. Sooner or later Tell get around to  editor. The the was shy said behind the guns dear editor in your Issue of May 28. You Praise to High heaven the great part the infantry tank and air corps played in the Battle of Tunisia no doubt these boys did a wonderful Job and deserve every bit of credit they can get. But not once. In your paper have you said a word about the on is v to Supply All those 105�?Ts and 15. S with those deadly High explosive shells with which they battered Jerry to their Knees or the boys who furnish the infantry with their Rifle and mortar shells and grenades. No words of Praise for those in gun ordnance who care for those delicately adj us Ted 4.000 Pound bombs that wreck have m Jerry s Gas dumps and motorized columns. I in t Praise we want that does no twin wars. But its High time someone stuck up for the ammunition companies who labor Day and night supplying the boys up front even now we work 24 hours a Dav. A Cpl. George Vav. Evans artillery barrage dear editor in Reading your May 29 Issue with its five pages about the Campaign. A boys in the artillery began wondering Itiat we were a Post War plans dear editor i be noticed the interest among All soldiers in the big question of legislation and planning for rehabilitation of tie armed forces particularly Iii a few articles and stories which Hove appeared in the stars and stripes. I d like to offer a quotation from a letter i received from my sister on this subject which might ofter a lot of encouragement to other Guys a. Well All need readjustment to the Tempo of peace. I believe that the to it War situation will be better this time recall e alter no the pro id it and indu trial men Are thinking ahead and planning and you boys Are a big hem in their plans. For in. Lance the government has requested the leading citizens in the Lur or Cine to organize groups and discuss postwar plan it with the idea of making every citizen a wan of his responsibility. It s being done quietly. Without publicity and they Are in the nature of being neighbourhood gatherings. A it should be encouraging to you and your pals to know that the responsible men in the country Are working hard at making your tasks Worth the sacrifice Quot i find it darned encouraging myself it helps i think i know that when this Job is done we wont face another and perhaps tougher one. A it. Joseph Fox i g Here desert their usual role of landlubber and do a trick or two on longshore detail. They carry Ordinary rank a sergeant staff sergeant and corporals but what you hear them Call each other Are Hatch Boss coolie Foreman Winch Foreman checker Etc j they Are what the army Calls a port company whose Job is to get i Materiel off ships and to other transportation As quickly As us sible for the russians up North. Some of these men worked docks in san Francisco and Hoboken before they put an of War paint. Others Learned their Steve Oore savvy in the army. Sgt. Al Carcone. A Black bearded Hatch Bass from new York City used to be an air plane Mechanic. Now he a supervising a Crew of coolies unloading bad Medicine for germans on the Eastern front. Al finds the coolies Are easy to work with. A a once you get them moving a he says a a they really step but sometimes it s hard to get them started. When a coolie goofs off for a Short Nap. He a really dead. When they re working you have to do almost a1 your bossing by sign  coolies like Bosses sgt. Stanley Karcz a Clifton. New Jersey Ite of polish extraction. I ids tin same difficulty. Stall Speaks five languages but none of the five Means a Damn thing to his coolies. A and they love to argue a Stan avs. Quot  argue whether you can understand them or not eventually it you wave your arms around enough they la get the idea and break it up and get rolling  the port company boys Are gradually learning a Little coolie talk on their own since it s a cinch the coolies Aren t going to adopt English overnight. The Bosses holler Quot Zour Bazany or Quot Hood Quot when they mean Quot push and indicate directions by names of iranian towns its As ii a gang Boss on a Charleston Dock gave his directions in terms of Quot push toward Miami a or a a push toward new  the coolies like their yank to to a j ses All right and they Are a colourful lot some of them Wear Loose garments of a Slack Woven Burlap. Tithers sweeping Cotton Robes with old Golf Calls some Wear skirts some Wear trousers some Wear Canvas shoes with a Woven cloth sole that looks like grand maps hooked Rug and some Blossom out Iii sporty Slacks and sharply Cut plaid jackets. The one Job the coolies never quite master is Winch operate lbs they get too enthusiastic and none of them can grasp the meaning of a a go  when a coolie is trying to see just How fast he can pull several thousand pounds out of a narrow Hatch and Deposit it on the Dock the life of a of Longshoreman grows grim. Coolies dont take happily to  ways even when they mean improvement. Cpl. Erving Furie a loading Foreman from Burlington vt., tells of the coolie gang that was carefully shown the use of the wheelbarrows. Quot they All nodded and looked Happy and talked a Blue Streak among themselves a Furie says and then when it was their turn to work the Barrows they loaded them up just like we showed them hoisted them on their backs and staggered Down the Dock a plenty of ratings there Are plenty of rating among the port company boys but that does t mean much its not unusual to see a Corporal or even a sergeant on up. Barracks Are the usual native style construction and Are Comfort abit except in the face of a really heavy rain. Amusements Are strictly limited. There Isnit much doing in tiie nearest town and ? me furl ugh Are Only a myth enter Uini int is confined to listening to records and wondering it it s Worth the Effort to write a fan letter to Dinah Shore or to win Back and lose again ones pay at Blackjack or poker. One Consolation the Iez a Only one real Consolation and that the ships that come in. Ships mean hot showers and maybe an exit t Good meal or two it you can find a Friend on Board. Just when someone like sgt Ted Desjardins of Springfield mass. May by explaining that a a its not too bad As Long As it lasts but i Hope to hell it Don t last Long a new ship May pull up to the Dock. Even before ifs secured the crw and the military stevedores this is their i nomenclature Are shouting across tile water. Soon its a hey. Homer there a a Guy from Ohio on this tub a and the old who do you know a routine is off to a new Start. A sgt. Al Hine