american women's voluntary services - may 1945

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VOL. Ill NO, 12 AMERI CAN WOMEN'S VOLUN TARY SERVI CES APHI L - 194bRADOX

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that little menace known as "paper sho rtag e" has give n yourTattle another bump! Once our fast dimi nishing present- stock of "eggyclr:* stationery peters out there is no more a vailab le p aper thatwill take mlmeography on both sides Of course we all kn ow that thepaper is being put to far more i mportant war us es t han our litera rylunacy so we aren't complaining one bit and knot.1 you wrr't eitheir? Theersuing eme rgency calls for a bit of economy; in ou r lite ratu re and weare forthwith streamlining "u s" to conform with said ne cessi ty. Een ce ,if you notice a bit of "bob-tailing'-' we kno w yo u'l l u nde rsta nd andbear with us , because the real "mea t" lj excerpts froa your letters gar-nished by our gooney interpretations) will still be there. So , con-tinued happy reading (and writin g us 1) and Good luck!GOSSIP HERE AND THEREThere's no doubt abort it the good news on all war fronts is like atonic and we've never had such a big batch of hap py, optimistic mail.That faithful old amphibian, NORMAN MAYO S l/o is keeping up hi s repu-tation by writing us each month, even if we h &ve n Tt caught up with himsince February. After a good job of Coast Guarding around the Haw aii anend Marshall I slands, Norman has moved again but can't tj.ll us whe re.Swimming and baseball doesn't sound hard to t^ke, even If the scenerydoesn't lock exactly like Taylor Park, but we're still hoping someMillburn face will peek around a coconut palm one of those days. Manythanks, Norm, and keep up the good work.Sgt. ANDREW GOULD is another of our faithful writers who , telieve it ornot, .apologizes for not writing last month on acco unt of being bus y!Doesn't that give your consciences a twinge? Of ocurse our middle nameisn't Pinke rton but fr om the lust line in you:." let ter we (re wonder-lagif you mightn't be lurking around I ndia. Wherev er you are , life does-n't sound too tough what with a Red Cross c lub , mov ies three times aweek and a FX which serv^n up cigarettes (along with beer, cokeo andother dainties). Just the first mentioned is enough to blind us withtears or mayb e it' s this cheroot we're smoki ng v/hioh taste s like awell-used blanket. After 35 mont hs it does seem as thou gh you rated aglimpse of the home town , And y, so we* 11 hopo harder than ever for y ou.Sgt. JOHN E. DSLGALDO'S letter from the Philippines i:cheor and life sounds almost perfec t, Johnnie d oesn't just a,exactly full of3ay howants to live there indefinitely but all things considered ho is ascontented as a bug in a rug. Nice co rdial peo pl e, pretty g ir ls , goodfood and a cozy little homo which he* and two othe r Jerteyi tos havebuilt and named the "Jersey Eoun ce". John even says that after readi ngabout our winter he'll take the tropical Lu at. Don't gc too nativ-3 onus because as soon as those Japs are polishod off we're going to startlooking for the woll-tannod Delgaldo map back here.Man y than ks, Flight O fficer DAVIDi-ELMAN: for br ing ing us up to date onyour address and your brother 's, 1st L t. MURR AY iilLMAN. Dave writes usfrom George Field, Lawrencoville, 111. , so no wonder he hasn't beengetting his Tattles regularly. The last wo heard yo u wore in NorthCaroli na so don't forget to tip us -off whe n you head ov er 3_n s. "FlyingC-46's is a lot more fun than practising Chiropody" according to Daveand while we're no judges we're glad you're gla d. We're av


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down in Corpus Christi. George would like nothing: better than to meeta Short Hills WAVE at this point because he says "I hate Texas women.ir""Naturally we're just catty enough to purr over that one because wealways figured anything with a Southern drawl had an edge on us. Well,good' luck and happy hunting, George.H. B. GALLISON S 2/c (R.M.) is at present exposed to Southern hospitel--r-ity near Norfolk, Va. and could probably stand meeting a few localWAVES himself. Bailey says all he's seen are lots and lots of sailorswith civilians outnumbered seventy-five to one 5 but oven with suchdepressing, odds we'll bet on you to get a nice date any time.W. L;' McDONALD, S l/c is cruising; around on an L.C.I, not a L.C.T. aswe foolishly told you before. Anyhow, Bill is on the move regardlessof what he's on, so hie postman is a pretty active l i t t l e fellowespecially when he delivered the December Tattle one day and the Janu-ary issue1 the very next - now that is really tr icky, don't you think?Why not tie up to the nearest palm and give the poor guy a chanc'e tobring you up to date. I t shouldn't take more than a few days at therate he works.Prompt as ever, S/Sgt. JOEY M. DE VITO says that the six months are upso he hurriedly writes uso Two letters a year doesn't exactly crowdthe mail box with De Vito mail but who are we to complain, any crumbJoey tosses us is appreciated and we're not kidding (too much)I May-be he's just paying us back since the last Tattle to find him was datedlast Septemberi After a nice visit in Australia Joe is now in theS.W.P.A. and says everything is swell except for the outsize mosquitoes.Everything is swell here, too, and if this warm weather keeps up thisyear's crop will probably match even the mosquitoes you've got. Well,thanks a lot and we'll be looking for your next---in September.S/Sgt. RAYMOND CARRISRE writes us from Germany so we're pretty im-pressed to think he had time to catch his breath, much less to thankus. Ray has been overseas well over two years and has travelled inEngland5 France, Belgium and Luxembourg1, we're dee-lighted to hearthat the town he's in now hasn' t a house standing and the surroundingtowns are just as bad. Maybe we're not humane, but will you pardon usfor taking time out to cheer? Thanks for the letter and write wheneveryou have time, even if you aren' t a resident of Millburn we enjoy hear-ing from you and appreciate your writing that much more.Pvt. E. H. PIKAART is a modest fellow when he V-Mails us from Franceto say nothing ever happens that's important enough to interest us.With that shy opening Pic mentions that he' s living in a cozy hay loftand that the town,? near-by were pretty badly hit by the war. i3oy! hov*we differ J If we spent one night in a hay loft we'd spread the newsall over town for weeks,JOHN R, BRAY, 8 l/c V-M ila us from Austr ilia to say that although he'salready toured throe quai't&rrj of the way around ths V/orlo :>.' I! pvob**ably go the re&t of the w&,y b. i*o.Tie he gefr.'s beine agaihe Joi uiv :-?.y . heisn' t coniplaiaing when ha adds that that tim can't come so oil encjgh;because while he isn' t homesick or seasick lie's just plain Bivk of soiruch sea. You couldn't have a more sympathetic audience, J.-humy, be-cause we're not ashamed to admit that :-von tne eigit of a Hcbokenfurry boat makes us regret tb.at egg for "ore?, Ufa>.., 1 e .''..etv, .> oivisixi a flurry of regards from Johnny and his Corjuns.ii.25.ng Officer, i t .Ai'mstrong, to you and us - with particular mention for Joseph !vd.:UabesS l/c wherever JOG may be at the moment.Pfc. JOSEPH M. PSPE of the Marines i s s t i l l at the some old spot do-ing the same old job as when he last wrote us. In case you've forgotten, he's on K.P. duty which is called something different in the,' 'ine Corps and must be :au:ii different than the Army K.P, because Joelov;es itII A wonderful r ..:. t and he',a ft lucky guy to get i t foranother month, you're sure that sur.. hasn't done more than tan you,Joe? Personally we've beeu on jy*P. for over a year and anytime'Pvt. Pepe wants to take over he's more than welcome. Happy peelingsJoe, and we hope the good breaks continue to come your way.GollyJ We've never thought of ourselves as rank-conscious but when aletter flutters out from Liauten6j.it Colonel WAITS W. WORDEN of thef~ V.


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3 .Marine Corps this old typewriter really began, to quiver in spite ofus. After thirty-two months of duty in the South, Southwest ?ndCentral Pacific areas, Col. Worden line been assigned to HeadquartersMarine Corps in Washington, D. C. Not that that" isn 't impressive butwhat throws us into a tizzy of happy satisfaction is that we appar-ently appeal to him enough for him to give us his new address. Thankyon. Col. Worden, and will you write us again?Another change of address' that delights us, along with his nice letteris this one from Sns. EARL Ft. MELLEN, Jr. who is in the Philippinesoperating in a P.B, 4 Y squardron. As usual the censors won't lethim tel l us all the interesting experiences he's had since leavingSan Diego in January but what is permitted is fun to reed. Earl sayshe has more time off to swim and read than he ever hoped for and liv-ing conditions sound decidedly rosy - natives who are delighted to dothe washing for one "thing, New Jersey, by the way, has almost'runout of that kind. Another extinct variety is anything like the Fili-pino boy who lives in the tent v;ith Earl and his pals and loves takingcare of them and their belongings,; Shjoy it while you can, Ens.Mellen,because they must all be in the Pacific area. Earl sends best v/ishesto all and especially to Ens. Mike Di Giovanni.RICHARD K. HORTON, S 1/c 'is out at Camp Parks paid says that if anybodytel ls us.about sunny California to please mow the:;; down, It hasrained ever since he arrived and the camp is a mc.&s of .uud. After allyour nice compliments about us we feel like dogs not to come throughwith the addresses you ask for but -- our "Permanent Notice" isn't putin each month just to fill up apace. Now don' t take offense, Dickdear, we wouldn't cross you for the world, especially since you areabout to graduate as a Demolition Expert, Being demolished is thelast thing we plan on for spring cleaning so write your pals and we'llhurriedly forward the letters (with a wary eye on any stray dynamiteyou may feel like enclosing),JOHN A. HQRTON, R.M. 3/c says its been so long since he last wrote usthat he feels like a heel. Nonsense, Jack, with love entering yourlife via South Mountain Estates, plu/a your new job we can understandperfectly. The apologetic Horton has deserted his L.S.T. and passedthe flight e. .ams for the V-5 program, so is awaiting the call to armsdown at Norfolk, Va. Sorry you had to pick a Sunday to drive pastour new headquarters, a l itt le place but we cal l i t home due to theshortage of everything. (See purty picture at top of front page.)We'll be writing for more news and until then our Cupid's Corner willreserve space for a big announcement on Horton and his dream girl .Of course we always knew that Capt, ?. R. DANTE was &good doctor butnow Army life and travel have turned him into A pretty hot poet aswell. If we didn't have strict orders to cut down even further on ourpaper consumption we'd copy your nifty note for all to read, A tonbreak because i t ' s really good. Tne talented .Doc is working in afield hospital in Germany now, said hospital being in what was once .soap factory. He says the town has been sHjash.ed to rubble and Waspictured in Life Magazine for December 11th which of course sent usflying for our back copies. Thanks again for the letter and peorn andwe're glad you haven't lost your sense of humor,Pfce A. A. PASSARSLLI sends us a quick card to give us his new addressand sends "Hello" to all of you. Tony is evidently on the move be-cause he hopes that now he' ll run into some of you where he's going.Happy travelling and good luck in old Town reunions.By this time we trust that TED SZMANS, S 1/c R.T. is pale, h^le andhearty again because when this card .was written he must have been amass of polka dots and with'a very red face. Poor Ted wrote us whilelying flat out at Great Lakes throwing off a case of s car let fever.That was tough luck and we hope i t hasn't made it hard catching upon your homework for Radio Technician School. We forward your goodwishes to "the Spriggs twins" but the only Spriggs we have on ourbooks is Pvt. Angelo. Is he a twin? More good wishes and hello'sfrom Ted to S 1/c ANGSLO D'lONNO and PVT. FRANK RIZZO. How about youboys writing him, care of us?

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4.Lt. THURE ANDERSON went overseas via the Queen Mary but even thatcrowded splendor didn't prevent him from picking up a bad sore throatalong the way. Pie had to whip right into a hospital but fortunatelyis now O.K. and busy at his job of Inspector for his Company. Oursleuths also pass on the glad news that Lt. Anderson likes gettingthe Tattle so you know how mellow that makes us feel.If this was anybody but our deft pal, Sgt. TERENCE GILI we'd clampour jaws shut and scream for a professional but as it is he couldtinker with our choppers anytime. Terence (whose mother is one ofour ablest reporters, by the way) is stationed at a U. S. Army Hos-pital in England, where, under the supervision of a dental officer,he is aiding in all aspects of oral surgery!11 Happy drilling, Sarge,and don't lose that gentle touch.T/Hugho HUGH FIT2SIMM0JJSsays

is anotherthey were pret ty busy enthusiastic rooter for the Philippines,during the invasion and lost sleep dueto the heavy shelling but now are settled down in a large field andable to enjoy life. The Filipinos are friendly and hospitable andHugh says they are also very intelligent and respectable. Thanks foryour latest APOnumber and we hope the next address, soon, will bejust plain Millburn, N.


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Officer, Special Devices Officer and Recorder for the Station SummaryCourt Martial. Ouchl we don't go for the last one so It ' s pleasantto hear that you like the job of Gunnery Officer best (and don't shootus for that.) Stop being so modest, Lieutenant. What do you mean"It's inconceivable that more than a half dozen of the recipients ofthe Tattle would be in the slightest degree interested"????? Silly Boy,we're al l interested\ so write us more news soon and in the meantimeo ur best to you a11. 'That sterling character, our own NORMAL OGDEN, Jr. has not only beenmade a PFC. but has received the good conduct medal for exceptionalgperformance'.of his duties. What these dutiesferrets have been unable to discover as yet. are or where they are ourThe fun-loving JOHN THOMAS WAREKIME S 1/c sent home a phony picture ofhimself complete with long and lustrous beard, for a joke. However,the Millburn natives ar-e sue!; a gullible group we fell for the wholething, so John insists ho will come, home with his curly chin whiskerintact to confound us, while we arc si tt ing around waiting for himwith pots of Burma Shave.The highly technical blessings of civilization are reaching out tosome remote spots these days. As proof of this life's. Herrigel receiveda cablegram Easter morning from her thoughtful son SGT.JOHN H. HERElGELwho is in the Marianna Islands. Just a letter will do for.us, John.LT. HUGHR. HOLMSTRON and his cousin LT. JOYCE WENT of the WAGS haveplanned a meeting in London since both are stationed nearby. OldGrandma Tattle hopes this has cone to pass, childreEtj and we. know i twas - or will be - gay.Even in the dear dim days when we Uvsed occasionally to go on ship's, 'the job of purser was a tough one and we contributed no l i t t le to itstoughness, as did everyone else on board, now word reaches us that ourown WILLIAM STRUHING has been in and around the Philippines. Thismust add to the tavsk of ''pursing11 or purser ing, difficulties undreamedWh 1 G lgof by the pursers of our pleasant papt.Bill. Wh paragraph

1. Good luck.We areshocked andannoyed tolearn that Pfc. JOSEPH SMI TH has notbeen receiving his Tattles forsome time butvie areawful gladyoumiss ' era, Joe. Wewould like toaddress a sharp note to the9thArmypost office butguess we'dbetter shush as itsprobably just becauseyou boys in theNinth aredashing ahead so fast poor oldmail bagscan't keep up. Perhaps if youpaused long enough inties caught up in a bunch wehope. Essen, the Tat-Ens. WILLIAM D. L A T E O R N is onGuam, This situation interests us asour ear-to-the-ground department advises that, Guam is a really lovelyspot andthat after the warwh?.t with climate., clippers and theNavy,it should be a refuge rivaling Hawaii incharm. .Motthat wehave aprayer ofgoing anyfarther away than Summit^ theHill City, but we'dlove tohear if youconcur Is this opinion, Bill.Having completed hismission in theSouth Pacific, Ca.pt, HSIJRYA.SLAYTON has been:'assigned toStewart Field, West Point so we hope tosee himpopping in to ourteeny weeny office one ofthese days.Bridge building has always been anoccupation fraught with romanceand nowhere more so than ontheRhine where itbi&'s been fraught withdanger as well. Even so ourEngineers have been flinging bridgesacross with thespeed ofblown scarves and now we areproud tohearthat ourLt. Col. JOHN PEARCE is one ofthose engaged inthis impor-tant task. He says he'sbusy and we do notdoubtit.Capt. CRAWFORD J.CAMPBELL has moved onfrom Hawaii to thePhilippines,where, hereports, all is hot andmuddy - everything from huts totables. Thecaptain is a mail easy toplease, 3_uckilyj andsays hehas everything hewants, good, food andeven cigarettes.Our owncandidate forIron ManoftheWeek is JOHN L,COE, PM 3/c whohas been fighting atLuson, Guam, Leyte and IwoJima but inspite ofthis hideous array ofengagements he says he Is fine. More power to


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6.you, John, you must be rugged as well and we hope by now you're havinga spot of leave.

Lt. (jg) PIERCE CASSEDY, Jr. is in Corpus Christi, Texas, awaiting thearrival of a new P..B.M. of which he will be the pilot.Another officer of simple tastes is Lt. JOHN C. HILDEBRAND, Jr. who issomewhere in Germany living comfortably in a box car. All we can sayis we hope you don't have to share i t with thirty-nine men or sevenhorses, Lieutenant.Cpl. EARL T. PEARSON, at an unknown spot, is now occupying the bestbarracks he's been in since he left the States. What's more, he saysthe food is so good the men will be spoiled when they get home. You'renot just flapping' your lip with that remark either ,*Corporal, as ushousekeepers are meeting' with stiff resistance in the Battle of theMarkets.Sgt. EDWARD S. K. PENDERGAST,Jr. has been vacationing on a beach inIndia. This seems a bald statement of an interlude which brings to ourminds pearls, lotuses and houseboats teeming with pale hands. "Can'tyou tell us more, Eddie?In those aforementioned hot and muddy Philippines, Lt. Comdr. FRANK P..HUMRICH, Jr, is fine, busy, happy and has a good appetite. Can't besuch a bad place after all. Comdr. Eurnrich is exec of a Naval Avia-tion unit.HONOR ROLLWhoever said that "Good Things come in threes" must have had three ofMillburn's heroes partly in mind - as this tr ip has won a third awardapiece. For instance, S/Sgt . MARVIN ASILVKRSHER has just receivedhis third Oak Leaf Cluster to hi s Air Medal which he earned as gunner -radio operator on the B-17 "Blythe Spirit" (Cluster III came so fastafter Cluster II that we didn' t get a chance to write the latter up!)Then Pvt. JOHN SCHOENER was recently awarded his third Bronze Star'forparticipation in battle and S/Sgt. GORDON K. MATTICS has received histhird citation ~ see what we mean by threes? - and we'll add our ownthree rousing cheers just for good measure'.Comdr. ALLEN M. ROBINSON was awarded the Bronze Star for his mine workduties on Admiral Kirk's staff - in connection with the Normandy In-vasions.Another recent recipient of a Bronze Star is S/Sgt. ROBERT C. SLINGSR-LAND - for heroic achievement in action in Italy.In the current item, we espy a photo of the handsome features ofLt. LESTER. P. CARSTENS, USNR who was presented with' the Navy Commenda-tion Ribbon for outstanding performance of duty as* an engineeringofficer, during Mediterranean operations.Lt. HAROLD Li STRICKER received the Air Medal for meritorious achieve-ment in aerial flight against the enemy, while stationed with the AA?in Italy.Lt. G. JAMES COBURN, son of the Short Kills acting Postmaster, and hisgroup received a Presidential Citation in January for forcing enemyretirement - and that's what we call nice forcing and nice going, Janes!Pvt. JOHN HELLERS now in Germany recently sent home his certificateof merit.Lt. VINCENT J. KANE, Jr. has had an Oak Leaf Cluster added to hie BronzeStar for heroic achievement In Italy.Cpl. ROCCO J. SANEARTINQ was right in there pitching and helped savehis ABC Route Ammunition convoy from fire after said convoy had beentyie victim of an attach by a lone Luftwaffe sneak raider. Despite thedanger of Imminent explosion, Rocco and the rest of the convoy crewextinguished the blaze - and had the convoy in running order withinan hour - so we think Cpl. Sanmartino belongs in this Illustriouscolumn.


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From the Reporters fcalirles we find the fallowing;I L ' G SS I . ^ Qr'JV ' C ' . " r 3 soraewher .. | 1 Itv ly now and..con.grQtsjLIXuj] '. )( [ o the Waves has been advanced to S'e'snion 1/c and Is .nowat the Naval


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From Sunny England comes a V-mail from S/Sgt.. ROC CO FIOLA (and no kid-ding i t is sunny too, according to this trusty M.Pi) who writes thathe was fortunate enough to have a visit with his brother Cpl. VITOFIOLA who was hospitalized in England for the second time after dutyin France (Vito, at this writing is back in the U.S. and is hone onleave from March 12th to April 19th - we know you'll all be glad tohear I) Rocky says i t was grand seeing his brother again and they en-joyed some fine long talks. By the by--as another brother, Pfc.JOSEPHFIOIA of the Marines is rehabi litat ing from his Pacific wounds at Lake-hurst, N. J. i t ' s our guess that he and Vito have enjoyed a bit offraternal old home week, too? (Flash! - Joe and Vito did!)Another "Somewhere in England" V-mail is in our "Small World" pile -this one from Lt. HOD BATES who is pilot of a B-26


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There was a get together recently between JOSEPH DUNN S 1/c, Pfc. BOBLINCOLN and the triplets Cpls. SNYDER - wherever they all are - withtheir Frisco FPO's and PM's.Hold the presses! Here's a late flash in the form

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ter from JACK DALTOM AOM 3/cwith theS.W. new's that ha sawEDDI E !*OL~LACH JR. S 1/c on some Pacific I sle and they spent a glorious af.ter-noon together. Eddie hadpreviously spotted Jake's name in a HonoluluUSO register but hadfailed bo locate him. Jake sawNORMAN MAYO'Sname in said book but did not seeNorm. - and he also missed seeinghis brother Ens. BI LL DALTON by oneday. Tough Luck, Jack, butanyhow,congrats onyour newrating andumpty umpthanks foryour generousremarks aboutus!TOOBADA V~job from Pfc. JOSEPH R. SMITH says that his stay in the hospitalwas a pleasant one (rhyl my!) and while there, he met a friend of hidfrom Hew York. Joe has drawn us a fine picture of a dog house in whichhe h?s placed himself for not writing us for so long - and says thatwhen we let him out, we can substitute Holland for the K-9 hut. (O.K.brother, you're out - but on a Ian eh t i l l your next letter) Joe'sbeen in England, Scotland, Holland, France, Belgium and Germany - buthe says there's s till no place like Millburn - atta toy ILt.(jg) G. A, SMITH U.S.H., brother of Marine Capt. HARRY R. SMITH andUncle of fins. ROGER and Lt. JOYCE WENT, writes us the sad news thathe's back in the hospital at Portsmouth, Va. after a seven month'ssiege - and that it rather looks as though he would be retired aftertwenty-four years of service. That's a fine service record, Lieuten-ant, and we send you our heartfelt best wishes!

* * * * * * * > ; - . * * * * * *SILVER LININGA V-mail from Lt. DOUGLAS A. SMITH,USNR, bears theglad tidings thathe's enroute home from twoyears duty in thePacific andwill reportto theNavy Yard, N. Y, sometime this month. Thanks forsllyour kindwords on ourbehalf, Mister andhappy Home coming! (Whoosh! he's ar-rived')

( After three long years in thePacific Pvt. MI CHAEL BUFO has arrived )v.._home from a well earned 45 day leave. /There was great Easter joy in theStevens household when both theirsons arrived home from foreign duty, at thesane time - Lt. THOMASSTEVENS from Italy andbrother JOHN L. STEVENS P.O. A.O.M. 2/c from theSouth Pacific. John has since reported back to Frisco and Tomwillre-port forreassignment onApril 21st (SeeCupid's dept. formore newsof Thomas!)Lucky Sgt. JAMES LAURINO has his family with himnow, atGulfport,Miss. Ditto forGRENVILLE LYON,JR. Mo . MM 1/c whose bride has joinedhim atNaval School inJacksonville.HAROLD LYON R.T . 3/c inChicago andRAYMOND LYON S 2/c inMemphis willreceive & visit from their father anyday now1,ARTHUR M.SEITZjJR. A.R. 1/c who has been with theNaval FerryCom-mand (Airships) inSouth America was home on 10 days delayed orders,but has since soared back toBrazil..L t . EDWIN W. LAFFEY must live in an aura of lucky charms - as reportshave come in to theeffect that hewas buried in two and a half feetof French soil, when thebelly of his bomber ripped away as it skiddedoff a runway - and thelucky lademerged when dug outcafe and sound -All themodest young manwrote to his mother about it was that he'd hadan experience, Hirmmmnim?GEORGE STI CKLE,JR. recently promoted toGunners Mate 3/c surprised hisfamily by a visit home after active duty on theAtlantic,Another Gunners Mate 3/cwith a NewYork FPO who has come home is FREDP. LEGGETT - whowill go to advanced Gunnery School inWashington on


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EATING OUROWN. WORDSUn-tasty as the flavor our Tattla mistakes may be - when we are,forced to eat them by some of your more fastidious fighting folk - wereally don't feel too sorry for ourselves as i t ' s one way of attract-ing your attention enough to write us - so keep us eating, brothers -while we growl over our cud IFirstly - and you can thank the Newark papers for giving us this bumsteer - we bequeathed a Purple Heart on Cpl. CARL BADSNHAUSBN, alongwith his rightfully awarded Bronze Star - and Carl has written hisfamily since, denying any wounds or any awards save the said BronzeStar. So - we're glad and relieved to hear that he's hale and heartyal l six feat six inches of him!Now here's Cpl. STEVE WILSON taking us to task again for S/Sgt. ALDENHINE's latest ti tular error on our port - i t seems we (well -- allright I did i t 1) called him "Top Kick" in the February issue, whichaccording to master-mind Wilson means 1st Sergeant and not his properrating of T/3 then in the Bars Stripes and Chevrons, ibid we (ha'.haI)not me this time!) listed him as T/Sgt. - wrong againl Frankly,we're utterly in the dark on the varying degrees of Sergeant - Steve -and in our Army-Navy slang booklet i t merely says "Top Kick=Sergeantui t doesn't say what kind of a Sarge or whether or not he. should havered hair or wolf's eyes, i t just says "Sergeant" period! So much forerror number one - as for error II , wo'11 just swallow the T/Sgt with,a big chaser and let i t go at that. Seriously, if you would make usa list of the various sergeancies in their proper order, we would beno end grateful - doubtless so would the probable countless othertripla chevron bearers who have been enduring our haphazard treatmentin tolerant silence (by the wry, why doesn't ALDICN follow the exampleof his famous ancestor and "speak for himself'1?)Here's a long suffering man for you, Lt. HAROLD BENNETT patientlywrites "you address ray Tattle to me as an Aviation Cadet, you make1hewrite up about me as Lieutenant, and actually I'm a Flight Officer."Oh, my Harold, how in the world did we ever do that? All we can sayis that iit*s lucky for al l concerned that we are forced to stay onthe home front - where our nutty notions will do the least damage - andour most groveling pleas for forgiveness soar upward to you F.O,Glugl more words to eat? maybe we can slide around this one fromEDWARD T. MOLLACHjJR. S 1/c in our slick li t t le way I Eddie says wecalled JACK CHRISTENSEN a T/Sgt. (oyl Sergeants again?) when he is aS 1/c in the Navy now hold on Eddie I Our particular Christensenis T/5 JOHN B. out at Ft. Smelling, Minn. - and we have no other simi-lar name in our books??? As to Freddie Klebold being a HoMM 1/c in-stead of 2/c - Freddie seems quite shy of publicity and evinced nointerest in the Tattle - so we ceased sending i t out for awhile (how-ever, we contacted his mother this month - so he's back on our mailinglist again) hence, we had no record of his .increase in rating andthanks for telling us, **.*%***%* *****ORCHIDS

thewe were to make the following orchids to us into a corsage,result would rival the Vassar Daisy chrinlLt. GARRETT HIERS, JR. Vees us from England on March 27th sayingHappy Tuesday to you" so - we111 answer in kind and say "Happy Wednes-day," April eleventh to you, Garry! Your letter arrived April 3rd butApril 11th is Tattling Day this month). This happy wisher tells usthat' they wound up a successful basketball season 12-3 and now have asoft ball league going on the post - more of which in a future issue,providing Garry keeps his promise to write us again soon? And thanksfor yours of same!Here's a V-flash from somewhere in Holland from Lt. Col. JOHN K.PEARC3who is our condidate for understatement this month as lie writes he'safraid his contribution can not compare to most of the boys who arereally mixed up in it. However,, as he's commanding an engineer Com-bat Battalion in the front line and seeing quite a bi t of action him-self - It ' s our guess that your tongue was in your cheek when youwrote that, Colonel? Anyhow - thanks for your superb letter and ourbest wishes for continued success to you! - and we're happy as goonsover them kind words'.


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1 1 ."Pfc. RALPH S. LEONARD vees us with a "Hi Gale" (swooshj) and thanks uSfor sending him the T so regularly despite the horrendous fact thatho hasn't written us for sixteen months I He was on the bounding mainwhen he wrote and regrets that he was unable to see CHARLEY BURTON be-fore he left Louisiannn for Parts Unknown. Do let us hear from youfrom your new Terra Firma, Ralph before another 16 months elapse si '.Another of our V-mail correspondents this month is HENRY N. MONACOEM 2/c FPO Frisco - who says that due to the Christmas rush, his Tat-tles have been late in arriving - but that they are worth waitingfor (his letter was written January 14th and here; i t i s Apr i l l so -the delay seems to work both ways) Henry writes that he doesn' t thinkit will be long before we hi t our goal out there with everything wehave - and judging by newspaper and radio reports thi s seaman wasn't;kidding'. We'll pass on your regards to all the boys from home Henry,and we send our bestect ones to you tool PJ3 Thanks for your Eastercard IWhile we're s t i l l in the V-mail pile, we'd like to thank Pfc. ARTHUR H.BARACIA for his amusing V-mail change of address APO N.Y. Congrats onthe Pfc. and thanks for calling us Winchelettes - dit di t dal And al-so thanks to Sgt. JAMES C. 0 IEILL for his V-mail new APO N.Y. addresstoolSpeaking of APO's N.Y., here's an air mail via same from Capt. ROGER C.TOWNS. END, son of one of our reporters - who thanks us for "keeping himin touch" all these many months - for which he hopes to thank us per-sonally ere long, Here's hoping, RodgeJWheel WILLIAM L. MACDONALD S 1/c airmails us from his LCI in the So.Pacific - neatly typed bv his own fine hands. He notes, via us, thatHARRY WIMMER Mo MM 3/c and JACK COE Ph M 3/c are both out in thePacific on D. Es and as LCI men are in the habit of going aboard DESfor movie shows occasionally, he hopes he may be lucky enough to boardtheir ships some night - and we'll hope for you too, sailor I Bi ll,wants us to tell Pvt. JOHN D'ELIA ho was asking for him - Hi, Johnland thanks for your thanks, Bi l l , and good 3-uc'kiYoo Hoo, Cupid? We want the low down on this letter from T/4 EDWARDG. HOLMES who writes us from 7/akeman General Hospital in Indiana thathe is doing his best to get back to overseas duty, after practicallythree years of it to his credit, on account of because his fiancee is"over there". Coma, co;ne, Edward - dorx' t be so dawgoned mysterious1.Meanwhile we are s t i l l purring over your* nica sayings anent "us".Cpl. VICTOR A. TRAUB,JR. pens us from Topeka, Kansas and tells us he'sa nose gunner on a B-24 and at this point is about to ngo over" j where-ever and when that may be of course being an unknown fact at this time.This Corporal spent an entire Sunday trying to locate Pvt. EMIL FALLA(no relation to a certain scottie, wo guarantee I) at Lowery Field,Colo, without success, as Emil was in town and hard to find in that"Madhouse11 to quote Victor, We liked your sweet sayings about theTattle, soldier - and hnppy nose gunning1Thanks too to T/Sgt. JAMES GROSSO for hie V-mail Easter card - eventhough he did send it to the Town Hall instead of AWVS Hq. Just torefresh your memory James, "we" now live in the refurbished wee whitehouse that once was the residence of the late Annie McGonnigal onEssex Street - and lastlyThanks to Pvt. PAUL DIXON for his kind thanks, in per son ICUPID'S CORNERComes the love, honor and two's cheaper-than-one department in itsusual spring flurry.March instead of going out like a louse, went out like a shower oforange blossoms in Boston, Mass., when on th.e 31st Ens. MICHAEL DIGIOVANNI married Miss Bernice Guerin who has accompanied him to hisnew station as a good wife should.Another l it t le woman who is sticking by her man is Mrs. PRINCIPAL whois with her own 1st Sgt. VICTOR P, in Texas* She was Miss Ree Vealand she and Victor were married in Macon, Ga. on an unknown date.Here's a whole bunch of girls who are going to get the gold ring andnot on a carrousel* *


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Lt. DONALDA. CONNER is engaged to La Donna B, Smith of St. Louis, Mo.who is an army nurse with the rank of second Lt. and is stationed' Inthe General Hospital near Conner, somewhere in Franco.Mr. and Mrs,Raymond Marshall of So. Orange have announced the engage-ment of their daughter, Rest to Lt. (jg) CLIFT CORNWALL,JR. who has justbeen hone for 30 days after carrier service in the Pacific. Lt. Corn-wall is now in Jacksonville, Fla.The engagement of Miss Dorothy Anne Fellnetb to Lt. THOMAS D STEVENSAAF has been announced. Both are graduates of Millburn High School.On April 2nd, Miss Nancy Lemerle McLeod of Mobile, Ala. sweptaisle lined with sntf.id.ng faces to marry Lt. CRAWFORDDOUG-LASUSN h i t t i d "P fh i h

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