Mediterranean Algiers Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 26, 1943, Algiers, Algiers Saturday june 2s, 1943the stars and stripes weekly Page 5 flashes from the Mir front we heard the Story about a sgt. Clifford Wherley the 18-Ycar-old Tail gunner from Peoria. Iii., who is at this moment waiting for orders to take him Home again by came the army jays he s too Young. Last week we met sgt. Wherley talked to him sitting on a Sand Bank at ills b-26 airbase in the Middle of nowhere the sergeant who enlisted in april fools Day. 1942. Has gone on 21 combat millions on the Crew of capt. George e. Ter Liorest. Pilot of Terre haute id. When he joined up on that april morning Over a year ago in told no one about his plans he s a Short quiet kid with plenty on his mind and nothing much to say. Neither his parents nor his Hist girl who is 18 and a Junior now in High school knew what happened to Cliff until three weeks later when he started to write to diem. He has written Ever since. Some of his recent letters written utter he got tack from trips Over the flak filled skies of Sicily and Sardinia stated that he was Happy that the life was exciting and to his liking. But his parents became alarmed and through a letter to the War department obtained the immediate action orders that will soon Send him tack to Peoria. Cliff Wherley has become part of the air corps and of that close knit unit of a combat Crew and has All but forgotten the Days when he worked behind the produce counter of tile a and p in Peoria. Now he a drawing in his mind the pictures that will make it easier for him to go Home the old Wilcox Bowling league and that evening when he Jan up a score of 225 the neighbourhood kids. Who never get very excited about anything the girl who a a always listened and did no to think you Ware crazy when you told her things and the look of Peoria the last time lie raw it. And to o plans Are also running through his mind to go to a War factory and work on gun or to take a Preo nurse As Arad it and get Anither Chance to come balk. The Only trouble with this plan a r is Wherley. A a is that they might run out of lighting before i get a Chance to get into it again a Everett c. , .lr., who comes from the wide open spaces Arar Weatherford Texas was first sergeant of his bombardment 1 pro ii and roil with an orderly room a desk and a Squadron clerk. At an airbase no matter what your Job. You can to avoid hearing the stories a he pilots navigators and Conners bring Back from their missions a Sci 1st set. Shelby heard those stones until or could toll them in i. Bleep. Last wet k he gave himself permission to speak to the commanding Allicer and this week there a a new first sergeant now r staff sergeant Shelby asked for a bust in Grade despite the advice of his friends and will now be a gunner in one of his squadrons b 26�?Ts. He expects his first Mission any Day letter from Home lenses from porker t to Ere Minneapolis. Minn., is Cpl n f nubs Snider s Hometown As it is to so Many other soldiers in the North african theater but most any town Village or City might easily be substituted by readers of a letter the Corporal recently reins sister a defense her letter follows Minneapolis mum dear nubs t have just been sitting and musing Over some of the War situation and All the changes it has brought. Yours has been an expanding world since you left us i and i believe already experiences j have been yours that you never dreamed of. While you be been gone some changes have taken place Here that i thought you might be interested in. Things like grocery stores shoe laces hair Dos and the weather. Spring is definitely Here the radishes carrots and peas which Are coming along so nicely in All the gardens of tile neighbourhood prove that. Vacant lots and makeshift baseball diamonds Are being slowed up into Garden plots. Every night after dinner i see Apro Ned women and voc railed men Busy insuring the Harvest they expect from these gardens. You might not recognize the Auto St you used to know. His windows and Windshield Are plastered with stickers an Quot a a ii Quot or Quot cd Gas rationing sticker and also his Federal car tax stamp. Rarely do you see him take a curve on two wheels or skid to a Stop nor does he whizz by at t>5 or 70. He wants to hang on to his Coupon Book and make his ear last. Parking lots Are quite empty trucks taxis and Street cars Are painted red White and Blue to advertise War Bonds. The Street ear seems the strangest of All. I can remember when the Loop at one or two in the morning had nothing but stragglers but now downtown swarms with people As the owl cars line up with the hour men with lunch baskets girls barely out of their teens most of them in Slacks and turbans wound tightly around their Heads on their Way Home from the night shift at a defense Plant. Nearly All tile girls Are wearing up swept hair now. It should simplify neck washing. The town has had a sudden burst of a new Type of entertainment place. They Are known As lounges feature Small musical units scat about 200. Six have aligned in the last few months. Some predict a great future for them. Store shelves have certainly changed you recognize the Candy shelver they Are i Mitre to three or four kinds of Candy Only one bar to a customer and gum is a rarity. Cigarettes Are still plentiful hut cigars Are getting scarce. Shoelaces in my oxfords used to last a year and now they Only last about a month More Cotton i presume. S loppers have to search for safety pins and Clastic. Good new ribbons for typewriters Are hard to get the grocery requirements based on the Point system has my Landlady in quite a Stew a lot of the time. But it is slowly being s heightened out so the complications Are getting fewer. Tuesdays and fridays Are meatless d Vas Iii Mest. Public places As Well As in most Homes. One does no to hear so much of the War workers wives veiling about the Blond or redhead which her husband has in his car Riding Pool. As a whole people Arentt complaining As they were at first they have settled Down to a new earnestness and a deeper understanding of the agonies of the War. My gosh nubs As i look Back at this masterpiece of writing i did no to know i had it in me. Think 1 11 apply for a Job with the Clayton Advance As local news gatherer if it is resurrected after the War take it easy. Yank be careful and above All. A a tap it lightly with those pretty French gals. Love your is Nelda when Yoc need a Hall Pien Hammer you can to pick it out of the Sahara desert. So is Tarthur Maclary of Marshallton. Del., bus squadrons armorer told his troubles to his wife last Wick the package came from Sears Roebuck in Wilmington Del with a Brand new Ball Pien. Price one Dollar Nineteen cents sgt. Maclary Bow believes that anything is possible. When a Bombardier gets credit Tor knocking out a plane in the air its time to stand aside and Marvel but. That s exactly what one Bombardier did in a recent raid Over the caste Vetrano Airport la Sicily. According to capt. Charles w. Grooms the navigator from Sacramento. Cal., this is the Way it happened Quot two enemy planes were attempting to take off when our frag bombs smacked them. When they were scarcely of the ground they exploded right in tile air. They have been More than ten feet lip. A they be been flying their b-2t> marauders on missions since december 21. Although some of the pilots Call the ship a the flying prostitutes a because it has no Means of visible support the boys like the ship s performance its Tough Armor and Superior firing Power. One of the Low Altitude bombing stunts they ale proud of is the Quot skip bombing a used in shipping sweeps. On this kind of Mission the plane dives to 300 fee t Over the ship and lets a bomb Fly As it comes out of a in dive. Which makes the bomb take on and the better qualities of a torpedo with much the same results. Mail Call thank you sir dear editor sgt. Days poem has really j pleased us greatly. We will always be willing and Happy to stand by ready to serve him and the Mil i Lions of boys like him. We speak for our own particular unit and we Are sure the army nurse corps joins us in thanking him Tor hic boost in morale his appreciation has Given us. A nurses of the 7th station Hosp. In gratitude dear editor although i can to express myself in As Beautiful poetry As sgt. Day. I believe it is now my turn to show appreciation to him and when i say this i think i or a for All members of the army nurse corps. If every medal awarded in War Biff Candle Tow Small cake time was awarded to me it would not mean half so much As the Beautiful poem sgt. Day dedicated to us. We nurses also appreciate the wonderful courage and patience our boys display As they lie in bed Day in and Day out in one position. They even manage to smile and laugh and by their quips amuse the nurses. �?2nd la Irene p. Stefl Vuk milk runs9 dear editor we have just read in your newspaper about the daring raids the forts made Over Pantelleria. Can this by the same pants Lleita that we be been bombing daily for a month or More All we read Alx iut in your paper or the c civilian papers is that the flying forts did this and the flying forts did that. We re a medium bomber group and go out with less strength less escort and at minimum Altitude. And get the Job done just As effectively. Do we get any credit for it hell no we know and you know we Aren t in this War for glory hut after All we would like the folks bark Home to know that the mediums Are putting in their 50 cents Worth. To us. The Pantelleria raids were Mere Quot milk we Tel like everybody to know that there Are other bombers in flying fortresses. Hereafter let a credit. We re Here and i ran assure sitting around and Africa besides All share the in Africa too you we Rene get Eier Irig nothing. A tin indignant mediums ode to dentist dear editor although i have had gripes about editors Many past i am de n or May be a Small cake Bot it was a big year for this Ranger onit which celebrated its first birthday. Around the cake Are it. Col. William o. Darby the commanding officer of the Ranger unit capt. Roy e. Murray who led the american contingent that landed on the continent in the Dieppe raid and maj. Gen. Terry Allen commanding general of the first division. Happy birthday. In the mis last blow is too much referring to the Poi in. A a our t is in your june 12 is in. It so happens i know the poem j was written in my Honor and the entire poem is quite compliment j tary however you printed Only tin first four line1which is a Knock to the dental precession. It is difficult enough for tile dentist to educate the american Public to preventive dentistry by seeing their dentist twice a year without such t a Terne n it would be humorous if it were n t for t lit j fact that Many people actually be Lave such tilings an Tine. Even in the army we have difficulty in teaching prevention although the work is done Gratis. I think you should apologize to the poet by printing the entire poem and an apology is also in order to the dental corps and the dental profession As a whole. Too Long have we been the subjects of a Humora which brought detrimental effects upon the dental health of the nation and thus upon its health in general. A rapt. I Linden the other Side dear editor in answer to your article Cai the Coal strike it is my opinion that it was cooked in by a lot of Young boys who talk about a matter they Are ignorant of. Why done to you ask some Coal miners about their opinions. And not a Kansas Cowboy or a i of Angeles Playboy Ive lived in the Coal regions and worked with miners Anc i know All they want is a living wage and a half decent place to live. Their work is just As dangerous As a Soldier in Battle. They have More intestinal fortitude guts to your than you editorialists. I know for a fact and not hearsay that a Miner never gets a break during his whole life. Their average pay in the heart of the cow i Region was 55 dollars a month. That was during Good time s. By the time they paid off their expenses they had just about a living wage left. Did you say miners had no guts do you know what a Quot Monkey vein is its a vein 18 inches High where miners blast and shovel Rem i for eight hours straight imagine what Chance a Miner would have if the roof started to give. The roof that is Only 18 Richer above him miners work in places like that for five dollars and less a Day. Do you Roll that Good pay in times like these w hrs the cont operators Are receiving huge profits the men and women at Home Are doing a great Job. No other nation is producing the ships tanks and planes that tile u. S. Is turning no today of they ran produce so much in spite of. Trikes they Are doing very w do and we owe them a hand they done to write Nasty editorials about the service men they Are out to Quot Ive their heirs the Quot in t equipment they can make of course Thev complain sometime done to void ifs not a democratic government if people can to voice thir opinions. Or you w ant our government to stint tile moot to of our own fat mgt ides As Tho nazi Are doing15 lot them complain at Horn and Well do Hie Ermine in who army Tho Coal Striae Arentt Cairney to the boat runner is a f Quot of to Froen Bull do Quot i a wis and Amu Tea ill Cive Voit two to one that if the miners get a to lends v ill re be the at to in Tho Union ethics. Tie cent a operators o no raise Hie Price of Coal. Ane the minors wit of Back where tarted from what. Eto von say Fellows. Lay off Hie Ordinary be Nanet women in ind try. Lets not forget the Heinie front consists of our own Fie ii and Birgy a Xavier Abbott poor t hey lets Check dear editor please make a correction in the Gilt parcel Story carried in your june 13 edition. Tile number of the Public Taw used in the statement included in parcels sent Back to the states is 790, not 7on. A sgt. Anselmo
