FROM FIELDS AFAR From Larry Drabick Dear Editor, Believe it or not (so help me you can take that as you care to) T've been carrying this change of address form around for months. You'd be able to tell it by the ragged edges but I trimmed it myself. In that same two months, my address has changed no less | than four times. Every time I'd decide to let you know my latest military address, they'd change the doggone thing. Finally I've got settled down for what seems like an extended stay—so here I am. Received two copies of the Post in tonight's mail. several months. I've missed ‘em but didn’t realize how much until I could read one again. One of them followed me from Lexington, Carolina. Quite some journey they had. ) myself lately. A few weeks 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. : Michael J. Kozick - Walter S. Puterbaugh, Jr. Edwin R. Delaney Emmett L. Hoover Bernard M. Nowicki Loren Hummell Henry Judson Holdredge _ it's the truth if I ever told it and two First mail in a ~ week or so and the first Posts in Ky., and the other from South Speaking of journeys I've been doing a little wandering around in June 1 June 16 June 16 James Nesbitt Martin June 16 June 16 June 18 Elwood K. Protheroe June 21 England, some time in France and now a twice interrupted journey through the Third Reich. If this keeps up, I'll know more about Europe than I do about Pennsyl- vania. In one of the Posts I received this evening, there was a letter from my old partner in youthful depre- dation, Don King. He's still try- ing valiantly for the Air Corps. After the run around he's been getting; they'd ought to give him a B-20 to take home. One of My Texas buddies (7?) just came in and noticed the Free Posts for Soldiers Coupon. After I told him it was the Dallas Post and not the Saturday Evening Post, I received the usual query, “Dallas, Texas?” So once again I launched into my oratorical campaign to prove the worth of our vigorous little community over the senile Texas burgh. They never seem to believe me that our Dallas has just does theirs. When I say that the son ‘of the founder of Dallas, Pa., founded Dallas, Texas, I'm greeted either with an annoying horselaugh or a stunned silence. I don’t know which is worse. Really I don’t know if that story is true or not but I heard it once and it sounds good.. True or not, a lot of Texans are going back to their barren plains with that idea firmly im- planted in their none too fertile brains. A buddy and I are going for a stroll in the remaining minutes of day light so will have to sign off. Harry A. Long June 1|Hope I receive the: Dallas, Pennsyl- Irend F. Myers June 1|vania, Post soon again. Robert E. Taylor June 1 « Good-bye now, Wilbur H. Kelley June 2 3 Larry Drabick ~ Millard Kogher June 2 L.Germany - Carl Netvberry ‘June 20 @ Mra got as much pleasure out, Harold C. Thompson June 2| of your letter as I did, Larry. We'd William J. Gaynor June Jt|both lost track of you for awhile Buell E. Kester June | although we knew you were over- ~ Johm Maculloch June l|seas. Had a swell letter from Don Michael J. Butry June 5|a few weeks back telling how the Charles L. Murphy, Jr. June 5|boys in his outfit received the V-E ‘Daniel J. Smith June 5|Day news. Hope that particular Albert Garringer June 6|Post will catch up with you. I Donald C. Smith June 6|know you'll enjoy it. Just the Robert Misson June 7 | other day Mrs. Peter Jurchak asked Louis C. Achuff June 8|me if Dallas, Pa. and Dallas, Texas, Richard Engleman June 10| were both named after the same | James H. Perkins June 11| man. I wasn’t sure. Until the war Harold Casterline ‘June 12|is over we'll accept ‘your version Paul Gallagher June. 12| then maybe the three of us can Frederick McCulloch June 18|hash it out together. Good Luck Lawrence Steltz June 13|to you.—Editor. : James D: Shepherd June 14 Herman Brislin =~ June 14 The Boy Who Saw Stars Dear Howard, June 1k4| Well, here is that long lost guy Herbert H. Updyke June 1) that should have written to you a Ralph R. Anthony June 15llong time ago. I really ought to Alfred J. Brown “June 16| have a good swift kick for not writing but you'd be surprised how busy Wwe are kept. out here. . First of all I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for William P. Sutton June 17 sending me the Post. Man, you ' Lewis W. Button = June 18, have no idea what that paper ~ Vernon Covey June 18 means away out here. It gets a- Donald Gabel June 18 round all over the H. Division in this ship. It is surely enjoyed b Leroy D. Roberts June 18|a11 I assure you. SE 4d Anthony Yeager June 181; keeps: me posted on what the Walter D. Fine June 19! est of the guys are doing and Dorothy French June 19 what's. cooking in the town of Dal- Warren W. Hoover June 19] 5s. Elmer Evan Phillips June o So far I have seen quite a bit of Charles Mekeel June 20| po territory out here and as far Robert S. Watkins June 20 as 1 am concerned, they can have Richard E. Williams June 2 it all. I would give anything to Carl J. Dykman June 2 feel those cool Back Mountain’ Curtis A. Edwards - June 81), = in Loren Freas Fritz June 21 gas Where I work here on board ship, in the pharmacy, is about the cool- est place on the ship. So I am pretty : June 21 luck; I like the work a lot where Heer 3. Bondal June 2 I — and it is very interesting. I ny Sh 9g| am getting a lot of useful exper- ience.. ag Ooms Jame When I used to go deer hunting EAA Rusilosks June 23 back home, I used to think there recs A; Sorbor June 28 was a lot. of noise and shooting kort F Dietz June 2 4 going on but man, you should hear 8 Stoney E. Febiah Yume 20 these guys when they let loose on il 7 Crile 0) sip Th really imnshes Sofve Gokn T. Carey, Jr. + Jung 25 noise., At one time we had the Robert Evan. BS Fore 05 famed 77th New York Butchers as Alley Kittle ne 25 Tokyo Rose calls them on our ship. Deon D. Kocher Fone 25 They wii. have a reputation as Roawel ! 7. Murray ine 25 mean fighters out this way. There Artinr i Hunsinger Tune 27 are ‘a lot of boys in it from back Mildred Lovelind June 27 ground; home. - Wherever there's ty oar 71. Fritz Tume 29 fighting, they say you'll find a Tex- . To Tune 29 an. Well, if you look there you'll R nrait i 29 more ‘than. likely find a Pennsyl, ads | vanian too. polbert June 29 -Just give me that little town of June 29 Dallas and ‘I'll never more roam. June 30 +I also wish to thank you a lot, June 30|for the swell write up you gave! as old and illustrious a history as! THE ¥ 7 Ak THE POST, FRIDAY, JUNE 1, 1945 i 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—keep contact with their fellows throughout the world. =f CONTACT Training In Virginia S 1/C Loren L. Schoonover, son of Mr. and Mrs. Draper Schoon- over of Dallas R.D. 3, is at the Atlantic Fleet's Amphibious Train- ing Base at Little Creek, Va., train- ing for duty aboard an LSM (land- ing ship, medium). He will soon join a crew leaving Little Creek for the Pacific. S 1/c Schoonover graduated from Dallas Township High School in 1941 and was engaged in farm- ing before he entered the Navy in February, 1944. He served on an LST (landing ship, tank) during the Normandy invasion. His wife, the former Nora Win- ters, and daughter live in Tunk- hannock. His brother, GM 2/C William, is also with the Navy, serving aboard a PT Boat. ® * = S/Sgt. Robert B. Price, son of Mr. and Mrs. William C. Price of Park street, Dallas, has graduated from the Airplane Hydraulic Me- (Continued on Page Three) me about my experience in Holly- wood. Tt was really a pip and it was an experience I'll never forget. Boy, when you get, kissed by a movie star, you know you've been kissed. You're in a fog for about five minutes. So far out here we have seen quite a bit of action. All I want to, anyway, but I guess we are in for a lot more. There is still a big war to be fought out here. 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Helmboldt, U.S.A. % Pvt. Joseph Riehl, US.A. T Letter Of The Week Somewhere in The Alps May 17, 1945 Dear Howard: It has been sometime since I wrote to you last but now that the war is over we are pulling guard duty because of the great number of German soldiers here we have to keep in order until they move them out. : Here our men ride around keeping order usually with two or three German M.P.’s. I never dream’t it would be like this. The city we are staying in is occupied by Germans. There are about ten Germans to every one of us. But they obey the rules. The city I live in is a beautiful winter resort. The mountains still have snow on them and during the day it is so hot here we don’t know what to do with ourselves because the lake here has very cold water. You almost freeze going swimming. We are staying in a beautiful hotel all kinds of service and we have separate rooms to sleep in. Also a private bar so we are drink- ing German beer. I have a few pistols and rifles as souvenirs from the Germans. It was some experience the day the troops surrendered. We had two tanks with two squads of riflemen on them and two jeeps with mount- ed machine guns and four men each. I never saw so many Germans. They came from all over. I was scared. Most of the Germans had six ‘years of English in school so I talked with some of them. The first thing they wanted to know was why we didn’t have the tanks fire their guns into the city. They were taught to hate Americans but when I got done talking to them they realized their mistake. This was my first experience to see a formal surrender by our regimental com- mander and a German commander. It was swell to see. 1 haven't seen Frank Kamoor since we pushed off into the Po Val- ‘ley. But before I went on the line one of his pilots took me for a ride over our camp. The cooks raised heck because we came in so low we almost knocked over the tents. Frank flew over the camp a few times and no one expected him. He came in so low we could have shaken hands but it scared us and we all hit the ground. We thought it was a German plane. Frank is a flight leader. Expects to be a captain anytime now. I showed him around the camp to see how the Infantry lived. We are sleeping on the ground with straw as a mat- tress. He said he will stick to the air corps. Well, Howard, we're really sweating out the Pacific now. We don’t know what we will do as yet, although I do expect a furlough very soon. Well it's time to go on guard now. By the way while in the Po Valley, I missed seeing Bud Nelson by about ten minutes. We were moving so fast we passed his outfit up. I was looking forward to seeing him. ; Joe Wallo. : @® It was swell to get your letter, Joe, and I'll bet, by gosh, you haven't received a Post in months. Thanks for the pictures of the city you are in and the lake and mountains. What a place for a honeymoon instead of guarding German prisoners. Got your picture with the fake, Colosseum background looking down at me from the wall back of my desk. Hope we'll be seeing you in person shortly. Good luck to a swell guy.—Editor. : FROM CAMPS AT HOME Easier Than Hauling Milk Dear Mr. Risley, Just a line to let you know I am still in Sampson and have been receiving the Post regularily. I appreciate it very much as it’s certainly great to read about the happenings back home. I also wish to inform you that I will be home on leave this week. When I report back here or to an- other station, I will let you know my new address. I have enjoyed my training here very much except for a little home- sickness. It was sure a great deal easier than hauling milk through the snowdrifts. The weather here in general has been fair. The war news sure sounds good. Will be glad when it is all ended, and won't we all be? Thanking you again for The Post. F 1 remain, ; Basil’E. Frantz ® Well #Basil, one of the reasons why this country is short of food is because they have taken men like you into the Navy. It was + "(Continued on Page Three) - Attention Servicemen! It is important that you notify The Dallas Post at once if you are discharged from service, win military awards special citations or are wounded. When sending this information will you be sure to specify dates and place where the event took place. The Post’s Service File is the only complete com- munity record of the Back Mountain Region’s contribution during World War II. It will become invaluable as the years pass as a permament historical record. You owe it to your- self to have a complete record in that file. below. Use the coupon have been at Leyte, New Hollandia Sumadi and several other places which I can not mention. They are military secrets for a while yet. As to the weather out here, all I can say for it is that it is too darn HOT. 1 have never been in such a place in all my life. In more ways than one. ] There is a fellow out here with | me from: Kingston, Pa. His name is Jim McCool. We have a lot of fun discussing what we are going to do when we get home. We have a lot of plans for that day. Here's hopin’ it’s all over soon. I will have to bring this to a close now as it is my duty night and I have to go to work. Give my re- gards to all the fellows and I hope to hear from them soon. So long for now. Your old pal, Frank Kuehn C/O Fleet Postoffice San Francisco @ Chatted for a moment with your mother Monday morning in the postoffice, Frankie. Everybody was concerned because they had heard that you were injured. It was good when she assured us that you are “ok”. A guy that kissed a movie star deserves another chance. That was a dandy story you gave me. Wouldn't it be swell if you could play a return engage- | ment? = Once those ‘movie stars learn what the boys from Dallas really have to offer, they're going to be in a fog, too.—Editor. fa. Flags Waved In Pilsen Dear Editor, Received two Posts today, one from your establishment and one in a package from my mother. They were quite old, but none the less more than welcome. In the one paper in answer to a letter T wrote you, you asked if IT were still in a tank outfit. In ‘answer to the question—yes. I'm still in the same outfit and doing the same old job. ‘Although since we have left France, I can assure you it is a little bit more | interesting. - I visited the town of Pilsen and I‘ can truthfully say it is one of {the nicest towns, and ‘we were i treated better there than any town I've been in yet. There was no +* In Armed Serviee. or ! such thing ds fraternizing there . because it was a liberated country. In France they would bleed us of our whole month's pay and cry for more in one night's time. In Czechoslovakia you can’t buy any- thing if you ‘try. They will give you everything they own if you allow it. Of course they were pretty glad to see us. If we had been a few hours later, there wouldn't have been anything left to call Pilsen. All that night there were crowds on the street with the old-fashioned folk dances on the main drags. Flags were wav- ing from every house and every- body was happy. They said it was the first time they had been al- lowed to do that in four years. I only pray the whole world could be like that, but as you no doubt suspect, we are sweating out the C.B.I. at the present time. I noticed also a letter from a good school mate of mine, Dale Warmouth I would like very much to have his home address so I could send him a few lines and see how he is doing. Well, I guess I'll close for now and get some sleep. We're living (Continued on Page Three) THE EEE FIRST NATIONAL BANK DALLAS, PENNA. R. L. Brickel, C. A. Frantz, W. B: Jeter, Sterling Machell, W. R. Neely, Clifford Space, A. C: Devens, Herbert Hill. - \ OFFICERS C. A. Frantz, President Sterling Machell, Vice-President ‘W. R. Neely, Vice-President W. B. 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