Back Mountain Region—in camps and on the fighting fronts—keep contact with their fellows throughout the world. THE OUTPOST Where those at home and the men and women in the armed services from the | I am receiving the Post and ap- i preciate it very much. s like the ou | guys like | when this war came along. I was | Girvan; we were classmates sure was a swell guy. to grow up in. | ceived my last two papers about FROM FIELDS AFAR iS. On Midway Dear Sir: others that I know. I am some- ad. where on Midway, the home of sailor far from home and even away the Goonie birds, and have it quite from friends it took two years to | good here. | day and played baseball. minded me of the old Rural League | and the games we used to have. I sure hope all of the boys will be I was on a picnic Sun- It re- i back to take up where we left off especially sorry to hear about Bob and he Thanks again for the Post. g Respectfully yours, iba E. Martin, EM 3/C Somewhere on Midway. ® It's men like Tom Neyhardt and Bob Girvan and yourself, Ziba, that we're thinking about this week, as well as the kids that are growing up to fill your places in the line. i. We're raising the money for a Back Mountain Library to make this a ~ better place to come home to and a better place for boys and girls No kiddin’ that | library is as good as open already. 0 —Editor. A Close To Frisco Dear Mr. Risley: Just a word as I promised. Re- two weeks behind because of the transferring, but ordinarily mail takes about eight days to reach me. 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. Harold H. Holcomb Jan. 26 ret he wall Fra Boy, Scopus J, 2 Well, must close now and run Robert 0: Pogar Tare. 28 along. I hope I see the paper soon. SE Toocaore C. ead | Jam B82 ff TEEN nil i George Yanchurzek Jan. 28 he in France. Gime nh Jon Ble pon Tee 3 Stewart H. Dalle Jar. 0g | answer is brief. We're out this BE. Loren Fiske Y ar. 29 week to raise $5,000, just a begin- Eenneth P. Jones Yan 29 ning, for a Back Mountain Memorial William H. Parsons Fan. 29 Library that all of you guys can be Arr Sn. Jom, moped elu Richard Gibson Jan. 30 Just Before Christmis Harry P. Beck Feb. 1 Dear Editor: tein, ve: Jr. per. : It seems that the only time I 011a7 = Erynn €>. % write is when I hit another country. Lawrence Cornell Feb. 5 It's Germany now, making it a total gol Misson re. 6 of seven countries I've been in sifice x Proost of, Holes 7 eb being overseas; I'd say that’s get- ' ¥ ting around. Adolph F. Tutak Feb. ’ I don't believe Christmas will be Harold Brobst Feb. 9 a very pleasant one here. About George V. Dymond Feb. 9 all we can hope for is that we can Joseph W. Garrity Feb. 9 eat our Christmas dinner without James Roberts rat hg the “Jerries” shelling us. William I Hill Feb. 11 At the present I'm sweating it Alden W. LeGrand Feb. 11 out on the front lines and believe Robert Moore Feb. 11|™e it’s ‘rugged. I thought it was Bernard T. Snedeker Feb. 11 bad in France but it's much worse Hollis Cundiff Feb. 12 here. The Germans are fighting Thomas Evans Feb. 12 hart oo that we are in their ; ack yard. Ja Gould ok po > I received the Post today, the George H. Kromelbein Feb. 1 Enclosed is a blank, a little torn! but so was the paper from so much Just a few lines to let you know handling. Haven't much to say outside of I especially thank you for the paper and wish- tpost as I can read about ing that if you publish my letter Thomas Neyhardt and some of my pals will jot down my| get to know. around Xmas with so many of the boys home from overseas. some, but I would rather be on the East ‘Coast. ten miles away. tions have been given of it, but yo CONTACT For Service Men dress and drop a line to a lapely St Bet you had old home week California may be paradise for San Francisco is only | Several descrip- personally the only see from any large city is that it! is strictly Navy and as hard and rough as the men Don’t get me wrong, Navy men are perfect and as mild as gentlemen until someone crosses them. The city is the same, having sections where decent clean fun can be had, or sections where fights and mur- ders can be had for the asking. My sincere appreciation to the en- tire staff of the Post for their un- dying efforts put into the paper for us of the Armed-Services. Dgnald .€. Smith MM 3/C FPO. San Francisco, Calif. | @® Don, you'll be proud, I know, to learn that the Back Mountain Re- gion is establishing a library as a permanent memorial to all the men Awarded Air Medal has been awarded™ D. Baldwin, Shavertown, B-17 Fly-| ing Fortress radio operator with | the 351st Bombardment Group, for: ‘ combat missions over Europe. award read in part: ‘The courage, difference 1, coolness and skill displayed by this, enlisted man upon these occasions | reflect great credit upon himself’ it represents.! an ted States.” and women in armed service. Watch the Post for developments.—Editor. With An Old Outfit Dear Sir: : Just a few lines to let you know where I am, and my new ad- dress. I'm sorry I didn’t write be- fore, but I just couldn't find time. They sure are keeping us busy over her trying to get this mess over Wp go wy Well, first of all, as you know by the address, I'm in Sgt. York’s old outfit and the fellows here are glad to be in it. It sure is something to be proud of. first in sometime, a little old but very much enjoyed; thanks a mil- They are one great bunch of C. M. and officers and they N. Y. former resident of Noxen,| has received word that his son, Leland has been missing in action | An Eighth Air E re Bombor] ation, England—Phe Air Medal "Sgt. Keaneth', ‘meritorious achievement” on six | The citation accompaning the d the Armed Forces of the Uni- Sgt. Baldwin, 22 years old, work- ed for the Metropolitan Life Insur- ance Company in New York before entering ' the army September 24, 1942. His wife, Mrs. Wilma A. Baldwin, lives at 49 Pioneer Ave. | Wins Citation | Twenty-Ninth Infantry Division— Sgt. Ernest M. Culp, Lehman Ave., Dallas Pa. has received a certificate personally signed by his command- ing general honoring him for fight- ing with the Twenty-Ninth Infantry Division from D-Day to St. Lo. The honor is a personal salute from Maj. Gen. Charles H. Ger- hardt to the officers and men who battered their way through flooded areas and the Normandy hedger- ows and stormed the key city of St. Lo in a campaign where the | since I left the states "Letter Of The Week | Dear Mother and Dad: Hello, and how are you all? Last week I lost my bombardier; Lt. (deleted). I haven't had any mail from you . I guess the Christmas rush, along with moving about as we do, has slowed up the mail service consider- ably. I certainly hope it will improve after Christmas, for I feel slighted with the meager few letters I have received to date. Well, Christmas is less than a week away now and I hope you all have a happy holiday. For us over here Christmas is going to be another day of war, and, weather permitting, we will be over Germany with bambs as usual. N Mr. Risley: Just a few lines to let you know! service.—Editor. my new change of address. I was| transferred out of the Armed Guard! into the fleet and I am now gwait| ing reassignment. So far it’s not too bad. I ran into Bob McCarty | and Harold Dymond a couple of! = days ago. I thought I was still! dreaming. First time I ever ran into. FROM CAMPS AT HOME Meets Friends dedicated as a continuous memorial to its men and women in armed In New Unit | Dear Editor: I wrote to you in December about y change of address. Since then I have received only one paper with (my old address on it. I enjoy read- | ing the Post and hope you continue It was on De- anyone from the back mountain (to send it. I cember 15th, and we were on a mission southeast of Aachen. He was on his first mission and I was on my second. We were both flying in the same flight, but in different planes with experienced crews. Over the target we dropped our bombs and a bomb from one of our own planes in a higher flight hit his plane and exploded. I was flying quite close to the plane when it was hit, and the ex- since I have been in. Well, I guess I! will close now, as I heard chow | call and I didn’t eat anything this| ! @m still in the same camp, but |in a different unit and my rate has also changed. That must be the reason I have not been receiving : morning, = £~" So Long, Ed Cundiff, S 1/c awill appreciate your changing of my address. | | plosion hurled bomb fragments, hitting my plane very hard and | The good Lord was riding with us that day and no one in my. plane was hurt much. His plane went down, and I hope, by some miracle they all got out. We made an ||! emergency landing in our plane somewhere in France and got back to our base a few hours before dawn the next morning. The whole thing was a freak accident that never should have happened, but so go the fortunes of war—and war is hell. It's a grim, dirty busi- ness, but no matter what comes, we've got to keep going and make the best of it. Don’t worry about me for it isn’t always so rough, causing quite a bit of damage. | @ Remember that night you were in to se me, Ed, and said you wish- |ed there was a place in Dallas where you could meet your af friends? Well we're going to have such a place. The ball is rolling for a Back Mountain Memorial Lib- rary dedicated to all you boys and i girls in service, and next Friday's the Post, so I thought I would write | and let you know about it. Sincerely yours, Edward Owens, S.C. 2/c _Shelton U. S. 60 Galley, Norfolk, Va. i 'i@ Haven't got much time to write this week, Ed. We're out to raise $5,000. from a hundred men in the Bans Mountain Region as a starter. toward a Soldiers and Sailors Mem- Shoemaker, Calif. | taking of every 500 yards was al major battle. The Army reckons the Normandy fighting as one campaign, which entitles participants to one star on their theater ribbons, but Gen- eral Gerhardt’s certificate recog- fighting. The members have been awarded 4,629 personal decorations since the out-y fit stormed the invasion beaches. The 118th Infantry Regiment was cited for being the first unit into St. Lo. * = = Ralph Coolbaugh of Endicott, in Germany since December '16. Leland has been overseas since October. Bombs Them Up An Eighth Air Force Fighter Station, England—Private First Class Albert Garinger, R.D. 1, Dallas, Pa., an Eighth Air Force ordnance worker, has received the Good Con- duct Medal for “exemplary behavior and fidelity in the service of the United States.” | Pfc. Garinger is a member of the 78th Fighter Group, commanded by Colonel Frederic C. Gray, Abilene, Tex. This group flies P-51 Mus- tangs escorting heavy bombers and dive bombing and strafing Nazi bridges, airfields, and marshalling yards. " The Pennsylvanian has the re- sponsibilty of handling, storing and loading bombs and ammunition for the Mustang fighter-bombers. For safe handling, this requires a thorough knowledge of all chara- cteristics of the bombs and ammun- ition. Pfc. Garinger was educated at Lehman High School. His mother, Mrs. Frances Garinger, lives in Dallas. Wins DSC With the 2nd Infantry Division in the Siegfried Line.—K Company of the 23rd Infantry Regiment lays its claims to fame among other things to the fact that it has three Distinguished Service Cross winners out of the total of nine for the 2nd Infantry Division. Besides this the company has two sergeants who have been commissioned on the field and two men recommended for the Croix de Guerre. The first to be awarded the Dis- tinguished Service Cross was Capt. George R. Mitchell of Luzerne, who went ahead of his assault platoons Ralph Flower Feb. 15 J . Arthur Lasher, Jr. Feb. 151° Roland Masters Feb. 15 Well, guess I'd better close and William E. Simpson Feb. 15 crawl out of this hole and see Charles Smith Feb. 15| what's for supper. James L. Campbell Feb. 16 As ever, ) Allen D. Pritchard Peb. 16 S/Sgt. Emory Kitchen George Yanek Feb. 16 Somewhere in Germany Robert J. Dennis Feb. 17|F S. Enclosed you will find some Arthur J. Garinger Feb. 17 German money and some photos Peter A. Shiner Feb. 18 taken in France. I'd like to tell Hiram J. Sorber Feb. 18| you where they were taken but Robert M. Walp Feb. 18 certain censor regulations won't Donald L. Warmouth Feb. 18 permit it. Robert F. Niemeyer Feb. 19|® That was quite a wad of money, John Hinz Feb. 20|Emory. I know a guy who is going Robert Hoyt Feb. 20|to match it with real American Gilbert F. Husted Feb. 20! bills to establish a Back Mountain Thomas B. Roushey Feb. 20| Memorial Library “dedicated as a Frank A. Wyrsch Feb. 20] perpetual, living memorial to the Charles L. Barnes Fob. 21|Back Mountain Men and Women Thomas J. Cadwalader Feb. 22 | who have served in all wars to Stephen Calkins Feb. 22| preserve the American ideal.” John J. Hopple Feb. 24 —Editor. Glenwood M. Herring Feb. 25 Stanley Hoyt Feb. 26 Will Go To Extremes Joseph R. Stredny Feb. 26 | Dear Sir: Elwood Dymond Fob. 28| 1 regret to inform you that I Rgflert J. Engelman Feb. 98 | haven't received ome copy of the Feb. 28 (Continued on Page Six) { 3 Robert§arris iy / OR eR! | machine-gun crews with his rifle, and 2nd Lt, Ewell L. Smith Jr, 21, Dallas, Texas, who took and objective with nizes the unusual toughness of the | wounded and held it till help came. “Blue and Grey” Division | story of a German counter- attack has won two unit citations and its on October 14 in the Siegfried Line which ended in 37 casualties among , the defenders. ! in fact, we have plenty of “milk runs”’—our name for a mission when no flak is encountered. We worry more about the weather than we do about being shot at by the Germans. I've this to say about the war though, the people back in the states will never realize the hardships the boys over here have to go through. I didn’t myself, till I got over here and saw for myself. When a G.I. over here picks up a paper and reads about strikes in war plants back in the states, he has every right to feel bitter, and he does. I'm spending the winter in a. tent, but I'm not complaining—I have it soft compared to the boys up on the front lines living in mud. There's still plenty of this war to be fought yet, too. After flying over the front lines I've seen what difficult obstacles our boys have to overcome. Believe I've chattered enough for one evening, so I'll close and write again soon. : Love, Your Son France. six men though Enlists In Navy Men of the company tell the Idetown. Before enlisting this THE DALLAS POST 7 One sergeant said, “I guess they didn’t know it was K Company or they mever would have done it.” Edwin H. Kern, Jr. 18, enlisted in the Navy on January 5th and reported to Sampson for boot-train- ing on the 13th. 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I completed boot-training two months ago. I was fortunate enough to be stationed in the wonderful state of Pennsylvania. We certainly did learn the Navy way while in boot. It really was a wonderful experience and I will try my utmost to serve my country. to the best of my ability by carrying out the Navy rules and regulations. After two weeks at I B M school in New York, I was sent to Phila- delphia where I am now doing key punch work. I haven't been home since I've been here, but expect to go there some week end, very soon. I sincerely appreciate and thank you for the opportunity of receiv- ing your most welcomed newspaper. Sincerely, Bernadine J. Prushko S 2/c 4 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. @ Berny, This is the best news I've written in a long time. The orial Library in the Back Mountain Region.—Editor. (Continued on Page Six} CX KEMPS BALSAM FOR COUGHS DUE TO COLDS ; RE-SOLE YOUR : LY Fory—ot home. Spend on Seo. I wears bik bth. For of Tootwear, children’s and growaups’ Also mends fires, raincoats, boots—anything of rubber, leather, doth. ¢ ‘ DALLAS HARDWARE & SUPPLY Dallas, Penna. overnight. Flexible, Mao skid. Water: proof. Won't come off— guranteed. ) 6B) So-Lo"urum HE | FIRST NATIONAL nANK DALLAS, PENNA. Back Mountain: Region is raising the money for a new library to be, ‘MEMBERS AMERICAN BANKERS’ ASSOCIATION for Bartels’ beer. He is next to the oldest of eleven children. * * * Joseph Girvan, son of Mr. and John Girvan of Lake street has been promoted to sergeant. Joe is top turret gunner on a B-24. He has completed 14% of his missions. . * * Joseph Anthony has been honor- able discharged from the United States Navy and has returned to his home in Wilkes-Barre. ¢ ss @ Pvt. Merle R. Condon husband of Mrs. Merle R. Condon of RFD 1, Dallas, recently completed an in- tensive course in radio operator- mechanics at the AAF Training Command Radio School, Sioux Falls Army Air Field, Sioux Falls, S. D. 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