THE POST, FRIDAY, JANUARY 19, 1945 THE OUTPOST Where those at home and the men and women in the armed services from the Back Mountain Region—in camps and on the fighting fronts—Ikeep contact with their fellows throughout the world. 8 ra feel good to get it. | I'm hoping so anyway. EI plenty of excitement overhead; to it, but I still haven't seen any- FROM FIELDS AFAR Never Get Used To It Dear Editor: all about you back there. I really haven't. hear that most all the folks back home are okay and keeping things going. It is almost Xmas Eve here, and I received the Post today. It is a pretty old issue but no matter how old it is, it still makes me I'm sending you my new APO so maybe I can get it a little sooner from now on; I'm sitting here in my truck now, operating radio and switchboard, and there but we see that all the time over} here. They say you can get used! body yet that said he was used to it; I don’t believe I ever will. We go through a lot and do a lot, but our main subject is the folks back home and wishing we all could be there. I've still got my same job, truck driving. Well, hoping to get another Post soon and also see you all. # \ An old Pal, Ben /Brace, Jr. : AP@ New York, N. Y. @® We've thought of you often, Ben, since you were in to see us and wondered where you were. It's good of you to write and let usjy know that you got a Post just be- PUT THESE IN YOUR BIRTHDAY BOOK! The Post assumes no responsibil ity for the accuracy and complete- ness of this list, compiled each week from the card index of soldier information on file at the Post. | fore Christmas Eve. have planned it, that’s just when I guess you thought I'd forgot| we would have wanted it to arrive. Well, |I know you are working hard be- They keep us cause a fellow as big as you pretty busy over here all the time, has to do an awful lot of excavat- but when I get the Dallas Post, I ing when he digs a foxhole. Norm always have time to read it. really glad to get it here, too, and | me he always had to start digging | his about two hours ahead of the other fellows. I'm Smith is about your size. Dear Howard: write the everything miss the Post and I really know now why the boys that have been overseas really appreciate it all the more! ! | If we could ! are He told Good Luck to you. —Editor. In Muddy Italy Boy, oh boy, about time I better Post a letter. How's been ? I certainly Good gosh, what happened to the D.T.H.S. this football season!!! geant Culp are to protect the “un- Well, Tll bet they go to town in| der-belly” of his air craft, and, in basketball! ! What say, Borough ? | I'm now in “Sunny Italy”; only thing, we never see the sun. | It rains here most the time and| really is Muddy ! ! ! People here; are really bad off—They need | clothing and food bad. I know they'll never want to see war again. Qur “B-24 crew” has two mis- | sions in now. About time we do something for U.S. with all the; training we've had. It’s OK! Want to say “hello” to all the “gang” home and in the service, d wish you a Happy New Year! ! 2nd» Lt. Harry C. Snyder mewhere in Italy P. S. Did you get to see Bill's! wife? She's really something! ® There was a mix-up or I'd have seen her. Probably Bill was just a little bit dubious about what] might happen. I think I said some- thing to him once about politicians always kissing the babies, but ed- itors kissed the brides.—Editor. In The Phillippines Dear Howard: Williddm ‘E. Davis Jan. 20 ~ Charles McCue Jan. 20 Howard L. Piatt Jan. 20 Ralph Rood Williams Jan. 20 John E. Ide Jan. 21 Madara W. Krieger Jan. 21 Leon F. Wazeter Jan. 21 Harold B. Elston Jan. 22 Goodwin P. Hilbert Jan. 22 Harold A. Brown Jan. 22 Richard Johns Jan. 22 Mike Dimuro Jan. 23 Glenn E. Ehret Jan. 23 Frederick Hand Jan. 23 Donald D. Smith Jan. 23 Howard R. Dieter Jan. 24 David C. Evans Jan. 24 Denzil J. Morrett Jan. 25 Harold H. Holcomb Jan. 26 Roy G. Schultz Jan. 26 Paul V. Parrish Jan. 27 Robert G. Pogar Jan. 28 Theodore C. Reed Jan. 28 George Yanchurzek Jan. 28 George Yauchuczek Jan. 28 Bernard Polachek Jan. 29 Stewart H. Dalley = Jan. 29 Loren Fiske Jan. 29 Kenneth P. Jones Jan. 29 William H. Parsons Jan. 29 Alfred W. Smith Jan. 29 Richard Gibson Jan. 30 Harry P. Beck Feb. 1! William Sayre, Jr. Feb. 3 Richard W. Prynn Feb. 1, Lawrence Cornell Feb. 5 Carl Misson Feb. 5 Ernest J. Holdredge Feb. 6 Wilson C. Honeywell Feb. 7 Adolph F. Tutak Feb. 7 Harold Brobst Feb. 9 George V. Dymond Feb. 9 Joseph W. Garrity Feb. 9 James Roberts Feb. 9 William P. Oberst Feb. 10 William J. Hill Feb. 11 Alden W. LeGrand Feb. 11 Robert Moore Feb. 11 Bernard T. Snedeker Feb. 11 Hollis Cundiff Feb. 12 Thomas Ewvans Feb. 12 Jay Gould Feb. 12 Theodore Busch Feb. 14 George H. Kromelbein Feb. 14 Ralph Flower Feb. 15 Arthur Lasher, Jr. Feb. 15 Roland Masters Feb. 15 William E. Simpson Feb. 15 Charles Smith Feb. 15 James L. Campbell Feb. 16 Allen D. Pritchard Feb. 16 George Yanek Feb. 16 Robert J. Dennis Feb. 17 Arthur J. Garinger Feb. 17 Peter A. Shimer Feb. 18 Hiram J. Sorber Feb. 18 Robert M. Walp Feb. 18 Donald L. Warmouth Feb. 18 Feb. 19! Robert F. Niemeyer —~ yO 4 > have a lot of snow and ice, but) I nmeceived the clipping from the Post from home. As you see I am in the Phillipines and it has been about four months since I received | the last Post. I don’t know whether | the address was correct or not so; I enclosed it. I would really ap- preciate it if I could continue re- ceiving it. : The climate here is a little dif-| ferent than it is at the present! at Harvey's Lake. I imagine they | here it is as hot as can be. Another thing is the rain. We are having the rainy season now and I am hoping that it will soon end, be- cause it really makes a mess of things. But one of the gooks (natives) tells me it will end in January. The natives are very peculiar and very hard to become accustomed to. They speak very little English and that makes it very, hard for us to talk to them. They live in little huts made of bamboo and weaved cocoanut leaves; although they are pretty nice. I want to thank you for sending the Post and I hope it will catch up to me soon. Hoping you all had a very Merry Christmas. I remain, Cpl. Ted Davis + Phillippine Islands ® You and Ken will have seen a lot of the world to talk about ER nig, when you get together again. It's good he’s out of the mess for a while. Doing our level best to get the Post through to you fellows in the Phillippines, but supplies and ammunition have preference over newspapers when it comes to cargo space. Good Luck.—Editor. | From Germany Dear Friends: Today I received the first issue of the Post that I have received in over two months. It certainly was a great pleasure to sit down and read it. The only trouble was it was the September 29%h issue. T wish that I could get them more regular. Ours was amongst the first out- fits that landed on French soil directly from the States. Seeing quite a bit of France, I then was moved into Belgium, then Holland, and now Germany. Holland was the scene of our first combat, now seeing it here in Germany. In all ‘my traveling over here, 1 haven’t once run into any of (Continued on Page Six) CONTACT & AF For Washington, Jén. 13— earning has been cia by War De- Service partment that ves of American soldiers listed as “missing” in Men Presidential Citation An eighth air force bomber sta- tion, England—Staff Sergeant Cal- vin B. Culp, 19, son of Mr. and Mrs. Oscar J. Culp of Lehman Ave. who is serving here with the veteran 306th Bombardment Group as a} ball turret gunner, has been award- ed the Air Medal for “exceptionally meritorious achievement,” it was recently announced by his com- manding officer, Colonel James S. Sutton of Findlay, Ohio. As the ball turret gunmer of a Flying Fortress, the duties of Ser- an emergency be ready to take the place of the radio operator. Many Nazi fighters have felt the sting of the twin machine guns in the ball turret as it slowly turns in con- stant readiness. The efforts of #en like Sergeant Culp recently received official re- cognition when the First Bombard- ment Division, of which this group is a part, was awarded a Presiden- tial Unit Citation, for “extraordi- nary heroism” displayed in carry- ing out the highly successful attack on the enemy aircraft plants at Oscherleben and Halberstadt, Ger- many, despite extreme fighter oppo- sition. Sergeant Culp was a student at Dallas Borough High School before his entry into the Army Air Forces. * » * Gets Good Conduct Medal Pfc. Maude H. Jones, daughter of Richard M. Jones, RFD 1, Dallas, has been awarded a Good Conduct Medal at Patterson Field for “exem- plary behavior, efficiency and fidel- ity” at Patterson Field during her first year of military service. She is on duty at the regional hospital. Boice Is Tail Gunner 1 action might be endangered by letters written to them through the medium of the International Red Cross directory service. : In a request to the public to stop this practice, the department ex- plained that a missing soldier might not have been picked up by the enemy or might have escaped after capture. Although letters to the Directory Service are blamed by censorship regulations, and the service is required to return them to senders, there is always a pos- sibility that such letters might get through censorship, according to the department. In cases of this kind they would serve only to no- tify the enemy that a soldier was free in its territory. Army Warns A Ainst Letters-to "Missing; Says They Endanger Soldiers Still at Large The department emphasized that the only function of the directory service, whose headquarters are in Geneva, Switzerland, was to trans- mit mail to prisoners of war for whom there was no known mailing address. Usually there is a time- lag of six weeks to two months between the time the Germans re- port a man to be a prisoner of war and the time that his permanent camp address is given. The department got these direc- tions: 1. Do not address any corre- spondents to a soldier in a ‘“miss- ing-in-action” status. . ; | 2. If you have the address of a prisoner of war, write directly. 3. Use the services of the Titer.) national Red Cross directory serv-ithe city of San Antonio is supposed ice ONLY if a soldier has been re- ported a prisoner and the camp is unstated. award read in part: “The courage, officer upon these occasions reflect great credit upon himself and the Armed Forces of the United States.” He is the nephew of Mr. and Mrs. Fay Williams of Alderson. Completes Gun School Fort Myers, Fla—Pfc. Charles L. Barnes, son of Mrs. Ernest L. Barn- es, of Huntsville, has graduated from the AAF Training Command’s Flexible Gunnery School at Buck- ingham Field Fort Myers, Fla., and is spending a furlough at his home here. Now qualified as an aerial gun- ner, he will soon become a member of the Army Air Forces’ bomber crews and will receive his crew training at an operational training field in the United States then go overseas. Now In Italy 15th AAF in Italy—Cpl. Joseph P. Girvan, 27 whose wife, Mrs. Dora Girvan, lives on Lake St, Dallas, recently arrived overseas and has joined a B-24 Liberator Group as a gunner. He is the son 15th AAF in Italy—Cpl. Howard S. Boice, 19-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Howard D. Boice, Route 1, Dal- las, Pa., has recently arrived over- seas and joined a veteran 15th AAF B-24 Liberator Bomber Group. He is a tail gunner on his liberator. He and his crew are now partici- pating in attacks on enemy targets in Northern Italy, Austria and parts of Yugoslavia. At present the’ group is engaged Jin repeated at-| tacks on German lines of communi- | cation running from Austria thiu| the Alps and into the Po Valley. | Other missions carry them to en-| emy channels of escape in the Balkans. | On these operations the group is’ adding to an already long record of | | | attacks begun two years ago, from bases in Palestine. Since then it has been moved ahead with every major allied advance to its rhe] location in Italy. Cpl. Boice is a graduate of Leh- {man High School with the class of | 1942. He was an outstanding for- {ward on the basketball team, and, played the drums in the school band. Prior to his entry in the Army Air Forces, he was a diamond drill He received his Aerial Gunner’s wings at the AAF Gunnery School, Fort Myers, Fla., in July, 1944. Promoted to Sergeant Headquarters 102nd Infantry Div- ision—Frank S. Smith, son of Mrs. Gertrude Smith R.D. 1 Dallas has been promoted from Private First Class to Sergeant. Sgt. Smith is a squad leader with the 102nd In- fantry somewhere in Germany. Third Oak Leaf Cluster An Eighth Air Force Bomber Station, England—Second Lt. Char- les W. Kern of Alderson has been decorated with a third Oak Leaf Cluster to his Air Medal for “mer- itorious achievement” on more than a score of combat missions over Europe as B-17 Flying Fortress pilot with the 351st Bombardment | A non-partisan liberal helper, employed by Sprague & Local display advertising ‘rates Henwood Construction Co., in 40¢ per column inch. Scranton | Classified rates 2¢ per word. THE DALLAS POST “More than a mewspaper, a community institution” ESTABLISHED 1889 progressive mewspaper pub- lished every Friday morning at its plant on Lehman Ave- nus, Dallas, 'Penna., by the Dallas Post. Entered as second-class matter at the post office at Dallas, Pa., under the Act of March 3, 1879. Subscrip- tion rates: $2.50 a year; $1.50 Six months. No subscriptions accepted for less than six months. Out-of- state subseriptions: $3.00 a year; $2.00 six months or less. 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Unless paid for rates, we can give no assurance that announcements of plays, par- ties, rummage sales or any affairs for raising money will appear in & specific issue. ln no case will such items be taken on Thursdays. at advertising Editor and Publisher HOWARD W. RISLEY Editors % S/Sgt. Howell E. Rees, U.S.A. s% Lieut Warren Hicks, U.S.A. Associate Editor MYRA ZEISER RISLEY Contributing Editors MRS. T. M. B. HICKS _ Advertising Department + Harry Lee Smith American Red Cross Foreign Ser. Mechanical Department + S/Sgt. Alan C. Kistler. U.S.A. +% Norman Rosnick. U.S.N.. + S/Sgt. Alfred Davis. U.S.A. + Pvt. Wm. Helmboldt. U.S.A. % Put. Joseph Riehl U.S.A. % In Arried Service. The citation accompanying theof Mr. and Mrs. John A. Girvan. || barbed wire and earthworks. He and his crew are now partici- in Northern Italy, Austria and parts | of Yugoslavia. High School in 1934, and prior to his entry into the Air Force in No- vember, 1943, he was employed as an installation salesman for the! Congoleum Nairn, Inc., Co., in N. v.| He was graduated from special- ized Gunnery = School at Laredo Tex., in July, 1944. Rice Wins Combat Badge The Commanding Officer of the 2nd Infantry Division has awarded the Combat Infantryman’s Badge “For superior performance of duty in combat on the front lines in France and Germany’ to Corporal Howard S. Rice, aged 22, of Leh- man. Cpl. Rice is the son of Mr. and; Mrs. Alfred Rice. He has been in! the service for two years and was last employed as a lineman with Sordoni Construction Company. He is a graduate of Lehman High | School. | With Famous Polar Bears With The Fifth Army, Italy—| Pfc. Joseph C. Wallo, son of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Wallo, is a mem-, ber of the 339th ‘Polar Bear” Reg. | iment, which recently shattered the (vitals of the vaunted Gothic Line, itaking Italian peaks as high as! 13.400 feet east of Highway 65 and! Futa Pass. The 339th Infantry Regiment is) in the 85th “Custer” Division, part of Lieutenant General Lucian K. Truscott, Jr.’s., Fifth Army. The 339th landed in. Italy last March 15 after a training period in North Africa, and was the first unit of the 85th Division in the line when it was committed to action the following day. Under command of Colonel Brookner W. Brady, Los Angeles, California, the “Polar Bears” have | repeatedly captured strong cores of | enemy resistance, rocky mountain | peaks above the cloud level and, strong points nestled behind cur tains of intense fire, minefields, When the Fifth Army offensive {opened up last May 11, the 339th | raced ahead on the Tyrrhenian Sea coast, shattering its objective in the Gustav Line. Having passed through Scauri, Formia, Itri and Fondi in rapid succession, the | 339th, supplied by mule and human| pack trains, passed 12 miles un-| detected over rugged mountain | terrain and surprised the strongly ‘fortified hillside town of Sonnino. The Sonnino garrison was complete- | ly cut off and Highway 7 thus seal- | | ed off south of the Pontine Marshes. | The 339th passed through Rome | June 5, crossed the Tiber River land took a brief rest. It went | back into the line to hold a stretch along the Arno River near Florence. In crossing the Gothic Line, the 339th broke through at some of the most firmly held points, moved on! | to capture Mt. Coloreta, dominating Firenzuola, and subsequently took Mt. LaFine, Mt. Ribele and Castle- vecchio. Colonel William T. Fitts, Jr. | Warrentown, North Carolina, re- cently took command of the 339th. The “Polar' Bears” got their name! in the World War, when they fought in waist-deep snow along Group. the 400-mile front between Arch- (Continued on Page Eight) thought I had better notify you as to the change, so I will not miss any copies of the Post. news immensely in the past and hope I may continue to enjoy them a line before this to tell you how much I appreciate the paper. able to inform you as to my full duties, but I do know that my stay Fr y yours, J BobsPickett, A/S ! § ndolph Field, Texas Good to get your note, Bob. ye : oh tY coolness and skill displayed by this pating in attacks on enemy targets J Zou, mre at a swell field, ; |A lot of good boys from Dallas] After graduating from Dallas Township have received their flight fine furlough at home. FROM CAMPS AT HOME Texas Garden Spot Dear Sir: I have been moved, as you can see by my return address, and | I have enjoyed the home-town in the future. I am sorry I haven't dropped you I am too new on this field to be will be quite interesting. This field is really beautiful, and to be the garden spot of Texas. Until a later date then, I remain Had a nice note from your folks in the Safety Valve in last week’s Post. training at Randolph Field.—Editor. Having A Good Rest Dear Editor: As I begin to write this letter I| have one thought in mind. Are! there anymore G. IL’s that are going to remark on what they find in this letter? I'm living a pretty easy life so perhaps I can enjoy reading a ‘Beef’ about that after they read my letter. Sarcastic, ain’t I? I arrived down here in Richmond, December 7th, after enjoying a very I was to be reassigned to some permanent sta- tion, but upon receiving my medical here, I was put in the hospital where I still bide my time. It has been a pretty good rest in here and I am certainly enjoying it. Our mornings are taken up by swimming or playing basketball. In the afternoon, we have three class- THE FIRST NATIONAL MEMBERS AMERICAN BANKERS’ ASSOCIATION es. The first; an art class in which we make various things out of nylon, leather, etc. The second class is woodcraft. The third is a movie in which we see current events and G. I. movies. It's a pretty interesting program and so far has taken the dullness out of my day. The nights are spent at a movie or a party. The Red Cross gives the parties and occasionally has a dance for us. 3 joying myself. The only opportunity I have had to read the Post since being in the States was on my various visits at home. I do wish I could continue to have it sent to me here. I'll enclose my present address. I guess there isn’t much more to write about at the present time, so I'll bring these few lines to a close hoping to be on the receiving end of the Post soon. Oh, by the way! recent letter that I read in the Post hasn't changed my idea ‘of the ‘Chinese. I also lived and work- ed with them. : + Sincerely, Bob Price i Richmond, Va. @ ’ Don’t.know any one who de- serves’ a rest more than you do, Bob, so if any more sarcastic re- marks are forthcoming we'll squelch right off. Of course you can have The Post down there. All that we needed was the address. Now that we've got it, The Post is on the way.—Editor. ; ALL TYPES-ALL MAKES RUDOLPHS' ° 383-35 E. JACKSON ST. Phone 25868 @ Wilkes-Barre, Pa. So you see I'm en- The Marinz's AE A EE ye. a DIRECTORS R. L. Brickel, C. A. Frantz, W. B. Partial Protection Is False Economy! Jeter, Sterling Machell, W. R. Neely, Clifford Space, A. C. Devens, Herbert Hill. 1 Do you have complete prop- erty fire insurance protec- tion? Why pay for only half OFFICERS protection when you can have it all? The cost is small! C. A. Frantz, President Sterling Machell, Vice-President W. R. Neely, Vice-President Check your policy today— tomorrow may be too late. Br complete information call Ernest Gay z i W. B. 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