Oran Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 27, 1943, Oran, Oran                               Too 2the stars and s tires Memley december 27, 1943 the stars and stripes daily newspaper i a id for the . Amii faces Puhn Ahng my Day Thrah Frajt the latin or Tva eps to Tito oru a to can Keaau Edher Iai a put remit s re Fletch and Sotari Tiea defer test y Rue Shettl de Volle Tete Potoae Clr Cvik Tny 23011. Engineers huh i Etc Home Hoad wit Kmmel the sure us Stripe Dally has seen establish by the stars and stripes of the North african theater of operations the Headquarters of which is at 12 Boulevard Baudin Algiers. It acknowledgement is hide of the cartoons comic strips feature stories Asi veatral editorial service supplied by yank the army weekly the Western newspaper Union the ramp newspaper service and of sews by the office of War informal la n and army news service entered As second class matter at the poet office at new term n. Y., under act of March 3, 117� contents passed by the u. S. Army censers net Marable the the u. S. By individuals to 1 no. 171 monday december 17, 1913 staff publication officer. Nat Ousa editor business manager officer in a Quot a a go Manas ing sgt. Tebert Ray Reynolds it cot Egbert were capt Robert Neville capt. Robert j. Christensen u William r. Lister sgt Ham Watson Mcintyre sgt Jim Harrygan Chi. Harry Sherbow sgt. Georges mercies Casablanca Telephone Beacon 02.�?z by Ernie Pyle frontline in Italy the conversation that goes on in a fun pit during the lulls Between living. Runs everywhere from the number of flies in a bottle of local Vino Clear up to conjecturing on what the wars All about. Although profanity is a Normal part of the language the boys in the artillery seem to me less profane than the infantry. The rougher a Man lives the rougher he talks and nothing can touch the infantry for rough and horrible living. The impending arrival of galoshes forms a Good part of the conversation in our howitzer Crew. Galoshes have been promised for weeks. Actually from Day to Day but the Rains Are two months old and the galoshes Aren t Here yet. A id give my payroll for a pair of galoshes a one Soldier said. Quot they re supposed to be on a ship already in the Harbor a another Cannonier says Quot and sure As hell the enemy will sink it before they pet them  dozens of times a Day the subject of galoshes comes up. A my feet ainu to been dry for six weeks a one Soldier says. And another answers a if you d take a shot of that Lousy Cognac they sell in Naples it would dry your socks off As soon As it hit  Little Cpl. John c. Graham from Dillon 8. Cd a sits on a water can before a Bonfire scraping rfcs mud off his shoes before putting on his lagging. He gets off onto the subject of overshoes of course and one of the other Hoys says Quot of for god s Sake Stop talking about overshoes. That s All in be heard for weeks. I m a ick of listening to  Quot Well a says Corporal Graham Quot you gotta talk about something and it might As Well be overshoes. You cant just set around All Day with your trap hanging  Corporal Graham is nicknamed  he is Short and Chubby and round faced and his eyes squint with Good humor and friendliness. He is Only 20 now and has. Been in the army since he was 17. He weighed 117 when he went in and now he weighs 100.a a Peewee lived on a farm before he enlisted. He is very conscientious. And always on the Job. He is called the gunner which Means second in command to the sergeant. When the sergeant is away he runs the gun. The other boys like to kid Quot Peewee about swearing mildly and smoking occasionally when he s so Young but he always has some Good natured retort for them and never gets mad. There Are three boys on this Crew who Are Only 2�. They be got nothing but fuzz on their faces and Only shave once a week and done to need it then. One of the Crew is pfc. Lloyd Lewman from Ottumwa Iowa. He goes by the nickname of Quot old Man. That s because he s 35 years old which to most of the Crew is ancient. Actually he does no to look much older than the rest and it seems strange to hear him called Quot old  he used to be a Fanner and then worked for a Long time As a Section hand on the Railroad. He is quiet and pleasant and everybody likes him. Like soldiers everywhere the gun Crews kill time by gambling. Our Batery got paid for the first time in two months while i was with them and immediately poker games started in every Crew. Our Crew even brought a shelter half and spread it on the floor of the gun pit and played right there while waiting for further firing orders. As sgt Mccray said Quot the Best Way to bring on a firing Mission is to Start a hand of  and sure enough they had t played five minutes till the firing order came ind everybody grabbed his cards and Mon  a a at i confessing All. This department never went in for pretence and therefore intends to confess immediately to an inn Complete coverage of the one thousand and eighty two Chrisy Mas events which were attended by Casa servicemen Over the Yule tide weekend. Frankly we made no plans except to have a merry Christmas which seemed sensible to us and we did and woh Ope you did Loo. Many other events than those mentioned below were enjoyed by Gas but Heretis room Only to brag about the two Christmas dinners this department devoured to fling posies and queries Here Rand there. With the Navy. An invitation to Dine with the Navy is never to be frowned upon especially at Christmas time. A brisk walk to the mess Hall had our appetite Well whetted. To was then we Learned the Navy has How ones to. Once inside the mess Hall we were handed a Metal tray which soon had our Muscles creaking under a Load of get this crab meat cocktail consomme soda crack. Ers stuffed olives roast Tom Turkey Virginia Mam Oyster dressing Cranberry Sanee Gib let Gravy Sweet mixed gherkins Raisin sauce slow baked potatoes buttered asparagus Cream de cauliflower buttered peas and carrots bread and butter hot Parker House Vous lettuce and Tomato salad Mayonnaise dressing Almond loaf cake hot mince pie Tutti fruit Loe Cream almonds oranges tangerines hard Candy Coffee cigars and cigarettes. Whee gorging ourselves we watched two tables full of local children slowing away Tom Turkey As guests of the Navy. One Hottie girl had a pair of wings on the Hack of her dross which flapped move and More feebly As the meal progressed. The bids a mid to be having the item of their uves. Chow hound. It was with glee that we heard later to the Day that our regular Kitchen was serving its dinners to the evening. Unabashed we went out for some Bicary and headed for the mete has of Headquarters company. The lavish menu impaled on a Palm Leaf on the Wall stretched from Here to these and roused a few que Ahns to whether we could do Justice to such another apr Cpd. Needless to say we could and did. The dinner contrived by capt. Leonard Truitt mess officer and a sgt Jack Mangiapia was of such a Caliper to prompt one non com with two service stripes on his Sieve to say he had t eaten such a meal since he joined up which is Praise App Tenty. Decorations. By 8ft Ralph g. Martin Stort my strip a staff Rifer with the 5th army a every Day the holes to the Road to Rome sure riled to wet i broken bathtubs and statues and sinks and hairbrushes and fancy Fedora hats. All these things Are part of the indiscriminate nibble of italian houses which were girl conditioned by shells sliced open by bombs then flattened by int or bulldozers and piled onto waiting trucks to be distributed to different engineering outfits along the Road. A Quot once when we ripped Down a House the boys found a huge task of wonderful wine in the cellar Quot said capt. John Upton of new York City hardworking co of company a. Quot it was one of the few compensations to make up for a lot of things Quot he said. Quot you know Rye heard a lot about the Road to Rome but i never thought we d have to build it a said the Captain. Quot and it s Tough  capt. Upton was thinking about the mud Slushy mud that reaches up Way past your leggings. Sticky mud that grips on to jeep wheels like Quicksand Squash mud that splatters All Over everybody and everything making the roads dangerously Slippery. Long before Dawn the boys of. Company a Are out of bed busted up town pretty Quick. I or else Well have to build More Rock  of it would Only Stop raining Quot said the Captain wistfully. Quot my boys never get to see a Stogie stretch of finished Road. They Knock off Only when it s too dark to see anymore. By that time the Road is almost entirely cleared of mud and then that night the Ratos come and the next morning the boys have to Start All Over eating their breakfast in the Moonlight cursing the rain filled Clouds putting on their still wet shoes. Quot their shoes Are always wet because we re too close to the frontline to Light any fires to dry them Quot explained the Young Captain who studied engineering to College but switched to Adver using because lie did t want to be an Engineer. Quot the boys Are out there shovelling the mud off the roads All Day Long. Even my weapons platoon boys Are using shovels instead of machine guns. Air though sometimes we would much rather have them on machine guns Quot said the Captain. He told of the dive bombing Jerries who Peel off and dropped a few eggs every once to a while opening some More holes to the Road to be filled to with More italian houses. Quot we re running out of italian houses a he said jokingly. Quot we re going to have to capture another these engineers of company a Are the same soldiers who were the minesweepers in Tunisia the Bridge builders to Sicily. Quot Back to Tunisia there was one piece of Road that was even worse than anything we be found Here Quot said the Captain. That was a Short Road the outfit built in Kasse toe pass they practically started % from scratch using a Skinny Donkey Trail As a base and filling up almost bottomless holes with tons of rocks. There were no houses to tear Down so they had to drive the trucks to the Hills and Hunt for rocks and boulders by groping around to the rain if the total blackout Only occasionally lit up by Shell flashes. Within five Days they poured 500 tons of Rock into a stretch of Road Only 200 Yards Long. Quot we worked 21 hours a Day and we Only ate two meals of two hot dogs each. That was the time we even had the Cooks digging away the mud with shovels. Quot what makes it Tough Over Here in Italy is that soil is mostly volcanic Ash and pumice which sinks All the Way Down and when it Rains and the water drips Down from the Little Mountain Springs and the hundreds of trucks and jeeps come rolling along to churn it up then you really get some terrific mud Quot explained the Captain. But some of the Captain s boys slightly disagreed with him. Quot this mud in t so terrific Quot said. A sgt. Louis Despain. Quot during the Rainy season to Kentucky the mud is much worse higher and thicker and  mud covered sgt. Buell Booth by also was t impressed. Quot sch Back in Alton 111., that s where we really got mud with a capital m. Good Black healthy look tog mud. This stuff Over Here is  Casablanca Datebook red Cross Cluss on the air today enlisted men club 4tvd. A la zouave open from t am to s pm. Snack bar. Showers Barber a As fms dancing class 3 m pm a. 8. Navy band concert 7 3t pm Ping Pong tournament Pup tent poets the a rated Mea a a Tab is deck to a Soldier sweetheart daring All the hours Are Short too Swift for grieving never mind the might have been soon. Soon you re leaving. I must stay and then will be Bine enough for sorrow now is precious All there its minutes we May borrow. To pretend and laugh and love choking Back the tears a dog All the empty Hopes of the murdered years. Daring All the hours Are Short hold me close and then let the last less be a pledge to we meet again. A Elya Graham Melton a Quot v. To a  love or Tab the Nili Wilbirt not a Friend it a Kiln cd Quot at least or so it memo he a just returned a a mail Une upon which i built i Tell her Over How True i d Hsueh letter my heart to but Here k is. She awfully do dig up another Iver. 8� i wont write again be More a mail proposals to Tauris Nene car the be Etmer to take la  travelogue i be had my fill of exotic sights. I d greatly prefer a Chorine to tights. It set Stan 8w1nton Headquarters Way out on the lighting inc the shells and bullets scream. They say the boys Are doing Fine. They re really on the beam. Fingers Are worked Down to the Bone turning out guns and ammunition that a the Way the folks at Home Are showing their and sat my such a stale we d eke Heery Kalmar la seem. The ree Batik of the Mew at the sex to general is the Hast i decs Emtin Jab we be seen to this  the Yea theater the neatest leaking heme Rise tree Tea be elea and a eem druggy Cap of he leery to the Gamma cer Peral at Parker Ysaee Aba to de tag up the isms to Eland a to eee what it Eaid then r said Quot get do off in chair Yaa hither and Yon. But Here i sit upon u answering phones and gripes while every Day the hum Are so cays the stars and 8tripes. -14. John t. Edwards or. E8cafe x get so lonesome and Bate that i Don t know what to do 8o. I Start to roam the rues pause to drink a Hottie Bem. 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