December 9 1943. Returned Snyder County Soldier Tells Harrowing Tale of Jap-Rat Hunting (Continued from page one) the time for the { You may remember the corporal, repulse. United who had visited Jay's home before Nations forces began pushing the (the two went overseas. He lost his Japs back, back, back, into the sea. And Bogar was there imind crossing New Guinea, He's {somewhere In a Western hospital, Allied advance was tedious, gruell- now, ing. Those Japs were tenacious, and One day Sergeant Bogar took 40 refused to surrender. At length, the men out on a charge. In five minutes time for our famed drive over the 28 lay dead! Owen-Stanley Range! That came- Demons at treachery, too, were paign proved General Sherman was those Japs. If they were ambushed right. Sergeant Bogar was in the only re- giment to cross those mountains— | 'm in distress,” and it took them 57 terrible days!) that effect; One sunup they were confronted by 1600 Nips. American artillery was good, and accounted for 1450 of them. The 50 remaining helped dig a hole for their comrades. A steam shovel was run in from the lines to scoop the vellow bodies into the pit. Then a strange thing happened. Those 50 survivors of the ill-fated group knelt at the edge of the grave, thelr heads bent down. Sergeant Bogar had to laugh at the sight. What on earth were they doing? Skillful interpreting revealed that the big bosses back in Tokyo had warmed the Armies, “If you're cap- tured, you'll be shot!"—and they were waiting for the sign-off. What a consternation they experi enced, when they were called back | from the pit, taken our prisoners of | war. The tomb was sealed with New Guinea earth: Then the Yanks plac- ed this sign over the grave: “THIS IS AS FAR AS THE JAPS GOT!" Days were long and hard. Jt was the rainy heason, and most of the time the heavens poured their wrath on advancing Allies. The Owen- Stanley Mountains were high and hard to cross in good weather. So with Jupiter Pluvius against them, Bogar recounts how our men often would take one step and slide back two, Thus the Yanks advanced. At night, would come the command, “Fall out!” and the regiment would flop to the earth in their tracks to sleep in the oozing, bloody mud. No beds for them! At dawn, American machine guns sprayed into the thicket beyond the bivouac of the night. Our command took no chance. Food was a laugh, too. Our men fot their animal rations, once in 24 hours—maybe! And what was it? Pish heads and rice. Fish heads and rice. Day after day for two mad- dening months, Maybe they'd get hungry in the middle of the day. “Only eight hours ‘til chow,” the commander would cheer. The sol- diers fought, anticipating that time. But eight hours passed, and stil] the “meal” hadn't arrived from the rear. “Only two more hours, now,” the commander would exhort. And so the advance continued. The units’ uniforms, after several days of Owen-Stanley combat were not from Esquire. Tattered shirts, ensanguined shorts, and in a couple weeks, no shoes! The rank continued barefooted. Over those jagged rocks, into fierce battle, plunging through slime and muck without shoes! Boon feet were matted masses. And the bugs were devilish. In the night, they'd swarm down upon sleeping troops. In five minutes they would eat a hole in the flesh, as large as a nickel. Sergeant Bogar carries such Scars. Fever ravaged camps. One “old fellow” (32) wilteq with yellow fever while crossing the range, The med- | ical corps had been unable to keep up with the advance. A comrade volunteered to care for the elder af- flicted ane. He was to keep the vigil until . . . But they perished. “Greater love hath no man than | this, That he lay down his life for his friends.” ~John 15:13. C. Y. 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Then the Allies had {&n open coast route against the Jap- {anese bases. But that was no picnic. { Our Sergeant witnessed a Ripley, {A buddy aside and a little ahead {yawned. A yellow sniper shot. The bullet whizzed in one cheek and out i the other, without touching tooth or { tongue. So that crafty American lay low ion his face, Several seconds, and the | plundering Jap sreaked out, crawl {ing full length, to the body of his tvictim.” He aimed to remove the | Yankee's clothing as a souvenir, But Mr. U. 8S, A. was too cunning for IMr. JA. P The Ally had grabbed a secure hold on his rifle, with an especially firm grip on the bayonet. Bogar saw the Jap start to tear at the cloth- ing. Then he beheld the yellow ‘man's face distort in agony. Three times the little fellow groaned low- like. That American bayonet ripped him from abdomen to his chin! Smiling, despite the holes in his tmouth, the Yank crept back to his own lines—satisfied After several more battles Ser- geant Bogar got his, That was after the battle of Buna, in which he won a gold star for a major combat, A 1000-pound bomb hit the earth, kill- !ing some in his group, ard knock- ing Bogar unconscious. For five hours he lay there on the rain- [soaked battlefield with a fever rag- {ing high. Eventually, he was picked {up, placed in a jeep, and taken to the rear. After four days in the field hos- pital, he was sent to Australia for about five months more recupera- tion. Then, he was started home But his thrills were not ended Their ship, filled with wounded men, | caught fire in mid-ocean. Panic prevailed for any excitement is a hardship for battle-fatiguers, How- ever. the fire was extinguished, and ! the boat lafided safely in S8an Fran- cisco. Following several weeks in | Salt Lake City Hospital Sergeant | Bogar was honorably discharged | from the service. { Bald his commander, “Go home } and hold your head and your shoul- ! ders high! You've done a fine job!" | So now he's home, with three war | theatre ribbons, his good conduct citation, his major battle star, his | sergeants stripes, and his four goid { chevrons for four six-month periods { o7 overseas combat. | But sometimes, when he’s seated | at home, he'll hear a strange noise. | Then he'll turst his head, cautious- { ly—ever sO cautiously-—and listen, { and listen. He takes no chances! a — ——— | By V-Mail From leeland. {| Dear Sir: | Just wish to send my regards to | all the members of the Centre Dem- | ocrat office, and to thank you also { for the paper I am still receiving | yp here in Iceland as I did before | 1 came. It is a real treat and I sure | do Took forward to its arrival. { back home since I left good old | Bellefonte, but I hope to send them | all my best Christmas wisnes, thru | your paper, if it's possible. {| * There are quite a number of Cen- | tre county boys here. Donald Crock {js one I run with quite a bit. He is | from Howard. {| I can say I was lucky before I left | the States. I spent seven days with {my wife and daughter at Spring Yours truly, PVT. ARTHUR D. EMEL, Cannon Co., 20th Inf. i i i i | | Mills. Receives Promotion. {| The promotion of Howard L. Walk, {Jr., from the rank of private first | class to corporal has been announced | by Lt. Col. Ralph. Wienbroer, com- manding officer of a Service Group at Barksdale Field, La. Cpl. Walk is the son of Mrs. Mary I. Walk of Port Matiida. He enlisted in the army on Nov. 2, 1942, and prior to being transferred to Karksdale Pield was stationed at Miami Beach, Florida. At present he is on duty as a cook. Before joining the army, announcement, Crider William Clevenstine seaman has been granted leave. Upon his Notice of the wounding in action in the Mediterranean area of war of Pic. Harold F. Eménhiser, has 125 while a squadron of P-40's wa led right for | I forget most of the people from | {with Arab dogs Harry, of J IL , of son ohn Harry THE CENTRE DEMOCRAT, BELLEFONTE, PA. Page Five Receives Wings Pfe. Lee N. Rogers Private First Class Lee N son of Mr. and Mrs. George ers, Bellefonte, R. D. 2, was a class of aerial triggermen ly graduated {rom Harlingen aeria] gunnery school, Texas, and | now classed among qualified “Sharpshooters of Sky." Along with his diploma, Private Rogers received a pair of Aerial Gunner’ Wings. After a delay en route t relatives, he bat team, unless lingen to serve as Chickens Thrive In Arab Foxholes “There's nothing like a foxhole to fatten up a chicken,” says Master Sergeant Harold E. Pennington, 25. of 907 Rosehill Drive, Altoona. Ser- geant Pennington has returnm- ed to the United States Middle East where he has tioned since July, 1942 “We used to buy the chickens from the Arab sald the sergeant, stationed at .the army air base Salt Lake City, keep the foxholes until they were fattened up from scraps we got in the mess hall And a few days we'd ha chicken dinner At the time when Rommel was at the gales of Cairo, Sergeant Pen. nington’s outfit was assigned to bomb the supply lines of the desert fox. The sergeant actually went on only one mission. “1 wangled my way on that one, but when I got back was grounded, 1 guess” he added, “they were short on master sergeants.” § His closest brush reaper came during a storm. Sergeant Pennington and a buddy, whose name he never learn- ed, were checking the node of a B- Rogers, F. Rog- one of the the the 841, nan ace retained 0 an from the been sta- “and them in later ve with the grim severe dust taking off. Suddenly a P-40 appear- ed ten feet off the ground ang head- the B-35 Seeing Iw couldn't clear the bomber, the fight. er pliot crashed it headon, knock ing Pennington to the ground and killing hig pal. The sergeant, whose knee hud been injured, had to wait two days to get to a hospital because iof the storm % it “We even had a little dog with us when we went over, and while there the dog had a litter. We used the pups for mascots, The dog was bred and we had more dogs around the place than a certain manufacturer has pills” His biggest thrill since returning to the United States was seeing his 22 month-old daughter. Hig wife, Mary isabel. resides at present in Salt Lake City. —— SOY [SOLDIER WOUNDED IN and neighbors tives | Pvt. Earl Sunday, son of Mr. and! Mrs. Harry Sunday, of the Ever- greens, State College, has arrived in New York where he is a patient | iin a hospital. He expects to bel moved to a hospital in Pittsburgh! | 800M. : { Pvt. Sunday was injured in the, | Sicilian campaign and had been a patient in a government hospital in| {Africa since July. He suffered a) compound fracture of the+hip and pelvis. i | A graduate of the Boalsburg High { School, Prt. Sunday entered the ser- vice in June, 1042, At the time of his induction he operated a service] {station with a brother on South Al- len street, State College, Three lother brothers in the service are Master Sgt. Stoy and Cpl. Norman iSunday, both of Gravelly Point, | Washington, D. C. and Pvt. Theo-| dore Sunday, in California | ! Completes Training. John Marince, of Morrisdale, finish | ed his training as an Aviation Ca-| {det on December 5th, when he was (graduated and received his wings. | | He was commissioned as a Flight Of | ficer or Second Lieutenant in the U. 8. Army Air forces. Philipsburg Soldier Wounded Pfc. Clyde Brown, son of Mrs, Mary Brown, of South Philipsburg, has wounded In action in the Mediterranean area, according to an announcement by the War Depart- ment last week, Is German Prisoner. The War Depaitinent has an- nounced among its list of Pennsyl- vanlans who are held prisoners of war by Germany, Pst Lt. William R. recent- | charged from the hospital at | "Medical Detachment ws i. Cpl. Paul N. Schaeffer Returns to Camp Pvi, Foster J. Sayers Private Sayers has North Camp Polk ing a filteen-day mother and his man Pest £49 Ie ER 2 ilps APPRECIATES NEWSPAPER na, Kans, Noy Editor, Cents I have a few word for your publication of a writer will « CUSe My ciumsy Was mysell, I receive a cops 1 fice Cat (that be-whiskered ole was always my favorite) and swell to read it from mj ( I am serv of the U. 8 mothe the Democrat wy My Cuts and proud 1 can your and Cal secls The boys in my outfit Ike 10 read it 80 please ace iets Office me cach week all cept my praise on the good job You are doing on that and on the paper in gene 1 wish would think editorial the folks a soldier paper out and it to ton particular column, i: ip a nice know 1 a from friends as well as just rela Maybe some of my old friends around Yarnell would read it and wake up. 1 would be glad to hea: from them Sincerely yours, PVT. MILFORD E. FETZER, 33752880 376th Base Ord Smokey Hill A. A. Field, Salina, Kansas 5 1 : lo et jal likes letter a Discharged From Hospital 8gt. Paul Harding, son of Mr. and IMrs. T. P. Harding, of Chester Hill, dis New Delhi, India, after being confined there six weeks with typhoid fever. He writes that he is now feeling fine Philipsburg area, has been {and that the care received from Am- erican doctors and nurses was A-1. {Sergeant Harding who has been sta! {tioned in India for the past 18 months, was a a ——— Awarded Air Medal. Marlin V. Heffner, 27, aviation ra- dioman of Sunbury, has been award- Flying Fortress which crashed on the member of one of two navy patrol planes that went to the rescue. Of- ficers and enlisted men of both planes received decorations. Picture in Full Color Features Yule Message “My Country Tis of Thee,” an impressive painting with a Christ- mas message of love and hope to those fighting on distant battlefields, will be featured in the December 19th issue of The American Weekly The magazine distributed with the Baltimore Sunday American. Order from your newsdealer, "With Va. Oct ‘of Bridgeport, Conn | line” recently transferred taste of the good chocolate cake. gn. hranch of the Army Air Foroes {from the military police detachment Shown presenting the cake to Steve .o.i with carrying {to the ordnance service of supplies. [is Mr. Joshua MacDonald Field Rep- ’ i resentative for the Division. {is now located uomewhere d {South Pacific area with the Coast ¥. - - Shank "e vi Pyvi. Donald 1 te Bhani AR Howard (€ Howard Mir Woodring £e y OOO TIN 1 RD ginia ower Classificavion for pilot ville clawsifed i aay H C. Woodring, Bq -4 adron F racks 610, NAAC, AAFCC. » YASNIVIL gi Tenn a————— A ————— Pvt. Steve Baranak's Birthday Brings Box Baranak, whose hotoe town i Clarence, will look back with and pride to the day his friends helped him celebrate birthday SBleve, who is MglTuvers, Pvi. Sieve Oy and buddies his somes here Fiat «hi 35 on General Clark Gets Higher Rank | » 5 Mervin Lucas Poem Dedicated to Bellefonte Physician WOULD I WERE A-FISHIN stream I0UN" peopic i a-kKillin® like madmes A 1578 7283403 E We Wok re with Unt the Shreveport, La. postoffee as his | YHOTS pence Us A Magazine and boys of being presented official address picture himself his outfit as he is with a birthday cake. We are una- ble to reproduce the picture, but here is what the writer has (0 sa} “On his twenty-first birthday, an important day for Pvt. Steve Bar- anak, 31314280. Co. E, 42nd Infan- try Regiment, the local Chapter of the American Red Cross delivered a birthday cake with the compliments of his Aunt Mary. Mrs. Malchisky of the Howze Chapter a check, requesting that they contact Steve and present him with a cake on his birthday. The Red Cross did that and more, 100 They made up five gallons of fruit punch, and suppiied enough paper cups so that Steve and his buddies might celebrate the event in grand style. “Birthday greetings poured in from back home in Clarence, Pa, too, in the form of cookies, candy, and cards” In the picture is shown the “chow of celebranis waiting for a Home on Furlough. Pfc. Steve Praskewych is spending {ed the air medal for participation in | 4 fifteen-day furlough with his wife | the rescue of survivors of an Army and her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wil | liam Loose, and their son, Joe at! Greenland ice cap a year ago the Rogersville Mo. Mr. and Mrs. Pras. | Navy has announced. He was a crew | kewych expect to make their home {in Missouri after the war. In South Pacific. Sgt. Roy Houston, Winburne sol- dier whose wife lives at Phinpstus. in Artillery Anti-Alreraft, Is War Prisoner. 8i8gt. Walter L. Gottshall, son of Mrs. Jaunati Gottshall, of Sunbury, is being held in Germany as a pris- oner of war, the War Department has announced, sent the Camp i 3 Trin aman H ALTERS TAKES PART IN AIRBORNE MANEUVERS LT. Second 14. Max F. Alters, Belle- is one of the officers of the Air Force 1 Troop Carrier Command participating at Camp Mackall, N C.. this week in jarge scale manecu- vers involving an entire division of airbome troops The battle exercises will involve movement of fully equipped officers and men in troop-caryving gliders and huge transport aircraft. A de- monstration of procedure followed in evacuating wounded men from the battlefield to base hospitals by air is also scheduled Lieutenant Alters is the son of Mr and Mrs, H F. Alters of 118 East Beaver Street, Bellefonte. He is as- gigned to a troop cartier group as Squadron Engineering Officer The 1 Troop Carrier Command is fonte men and equipment into battle areas through- jout the world. The giant litary version of the familia; Doug- las airlines, A ———I —— ————— Promoted to Caplain Winfield Erb of Philipsburg, was promoted from First Lieutenant to Captain on October 5th. He hag been stationed somewhere in England with the Air Forces for the past five months, - “ FALSE TEETH Slipping or Irritating? sipping pie ld Solin teeth A ng of wa when you eal, talk or Just sprinkle « little plates: This pleasant Sd cuit 1 hotaing pate ore a sourity by ng 1 gooey, pasty taste w or Get C47, {twin-engine planes used cre a mil THE POET'S CORNER SON, MY SOLDIER | BOY | Lt. son TO YOU, MY I am wring And praying Trusting that Cod will keep Praying He'll keep To the lessons I've Trusting He'll keep The soul I've tried 0 to you wonigh you, Wo n Heaven ndling throug for you mi 1 true tried on leach yoli, yO w dl reach your I pray He'll make you brave, son Though you go WwW lands Though you enter fields of Where death and dying are 14 world lg shiagen, son and woe rank er er they For though this With Our BOrIOW, Clre not WwW God hae ! ne Philipsburg Sergeant “Pours it On’ Nazis One Americas . 1 prvy vailian iront Pa ®t 3 1 thn i : y that Germans pull out! “IU was a mortar man explained Staff Sergeant ammunition right we poured nears Our morta ww. We hit wl the German: red supiies, racked were their PESO Their wide open Ye cldn’ Hem a moments ight on firls a German in wo “- KIWANIANS ENTERTAIN 4-H CLUB MEMBERS The Stale College Kiwanis Club entertained the Pine Grove Mills and Stormstown 4-H Clubs at a ban- quet recently in the dining room of the State College Hotel A large number of Kiwanians and 4-H Club members were present Is 13 kept Fog ere wWasn'i Tangy At this banquet the round-ups of ; the 4-H Bee and Capon Clubs were held. The awards for club work in the past vear were made. Bee and Capon Club members exhibited pro- ducts of their projects and offered them for sale, following the ban- quet. Ralph C. Blaney and Glenn Ely, county agent and assistant, re- spectively, showed picture slides of 4-H Ciub work, and a motion pic- ture showing school children help- | ing 10 relieve the farm labor short. age. Advanced in Rank, Eugene Thomas Bertram Bellefonte R. D. 1 has won an early promotion in the Navy as a resull of his past civilian training. Because he has had sufficient experience in a | trade essential in the Navy he was advanced to the rating of fireman. | second class. Now home on leave, | he will report back to active duty aboard a naval warship or to some naval shore station. i i a ————— i Pilot Expected Home | Word has been received from First | I4. Ray Wamock, Jr. medium’ {bomber pilot on the Italian front that he is out of combat after more his parents, Dean and Mrs. A. Warnock of State College, Prisoner of Japs Among eight Pennsyivanians liste ab bels- Japan is Cpl J Mi other re- {And you Counts 19, of | And so it will be passed around, my Lie son well, 171 MRE. ORVIS ckeyville be bolting. RHINE Pa Will say HOME PORT unchwried BY Bang faith in his apparent L in perfect JUTEE Bone, tude paid - THE BRAVE AT HOME THE CALL OF HOM} ¢ » ¢ JOHN C ¢ i Eng Lakewood, Ohio, Dec. 4, 1943 Centiosnen I am enclosing herewith $1.50 for Sergt. KH Clark, who is now st wd in England and do not think he will read your paper for ometime {0 come However, he to reading the Centre 1 he was at home. Lt. Loy Clark, {ississippl "rr ny on AITS C108 Democrat I have stationed 1 We 20 we moved to Ohio I BON to live in Waddle but in We have a good old Centre Williams does nol give much about Waddie but hope be will do so in the future Wishing you and all our friends in Centre County a very Rappy Christ. mas and a good New Year, 1 remain Yours sincerely, JOHN W. CLARK Ave used f riots OF STPeNI0N Mr NICWS lot ir 1 us very 1555 Olivewood QUICK RELIEF FROM Symptoms of Distress Arising frem STOMACH ULCERS ove To EXCESS ACID FreeBook Tells of Home Treatment that Must Help or it Will Cost You Nothing Over two million bottles of the WILLARD TREATMENT have been sold for relief of symptoms of distress arising from Stomach and Wipers due to Escess Acid Poor Digestion. Sour or Upset Stomach, Gassimess, Meoarthurn, te, due to Excess Acid. 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