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Pfc. Lvbns .Out(M Hospital A mlV*c]huBack To DntvtibiaiLetter*, from manyplaces tell of activitiesof 1 home-town hoys;Herbie hits the air.h. iyaft H ei11) caPfc. ’ Francis Lyons, one of the wounded Stinky-Dinks, writer from New Guinea that he is just out of I the hospital. The main trouble in the : th particular spot where he is, is the lack la of water, having to depend on and regulate their cleanliness by the raips that* fall. He sends his regard^, toall the gang and promises fo be a more prompt correspondent In the future. 'S' ' , .S' {feeMax Barbee, GM lc, son of, J LBarbee, is back in the States after nearly two years of sendee' on board ship in the active areas of the South-,west Pacific. * He landed in California July 29 and Went East immediately and is now lit Washington, p. C., where he is attending the Electric Hydraulic and Advanced Gunnery» rfr vSchool.Hici!frlt;asPi£lt;11PICpl. Lane Thudium, in the European I cniheatre of war, writes that he thought inspections were left in the states but ne stood in the rain three hours recently for that purpose. He says the hottest spot in London is not as good is the dreariest place in Brookfield. He says things are looking brighter ill the time.Pfc. Herbie McKinney was on the ilr Wednesday night over the Nation-il broadcast of the Lucky Strike Hour. Phil Harris, subbing for the regular naster of ceremonies. Kay Keyser, vas iri charge. Herbie finished a good lecond and was awarded a $25 bond, i carton of “Luckies” and tickets to he next show. The program was in he nature of a musical quiz.Pvt, Bill” Brady, after too long a apse, writes again from Persia and loes not even alibi for not writing jftener — sheer laziness, he admits. ie reads this column regularly and | sets a laugh out of the boys back in he states complaining of the heat. Jp in the mountains, where he is sta-.ioned, the temperature stays at an ;ven 100, but farther down it hits 160 a 180 quite frequently, and he says a ood soda fountain would do someenIt-:heantoiailefhaco;S.edlefWrelofnuwlwire'IItrasiness.. He arises at 5:15 and worksCl:IheJaMgiiannucoinilaiticcaJiiPaflaiatuifelltalwlincathgawiScill day in the hot sun and then back ,o camp. The natives qi it at noon, :heir work in the field, and then go jack in the evening, but Uncle Sam’s xjvs work straight through. He says .here is a saying: “Mad dogs and en-;inqers go out in the noon-day sun. Recently some U. S.-O. entertainers, ;hree men and two girls, visited their ;amp and it was good to see American jirls again and to hear them sing songs like they should be rather than some English babe, who invariably sounds as though she were In pain.Pvt. Robert W. Jones, still going to school, writes from Clinton, Ontario, Janada, telling of the reunion w'hen •Bill” recently came up there to see aim. They are allowed thirty-six lour leave in Canada and forty-eight lours at the end of the month, which aerniits a visit to Detroit. He rays :he Canadian women do not compare it all favorably with those of this lountry.Staff Sergeant Richard Myers writes from “Somewhere in New Guinea” ind tells of his wealth, he having acquired a bushel basket full of Japanese j Be Invasion money, enough to buy all of j en Brookfield, If It was worth anything.He says the social life is not taxing an them, but they have the movies and recently he saw the ancient picture, They Drive By Night. He signs aff Just before going to '“chow,” which be says means “Corn Willie and that it would be unusual not to have It.He declares, “When I get back home I am going to eat a whole cowji to make up for all the canned meat An interesting letter from Pvt. Cecil Ballard, somewhere in England.He has been busy the past month and is nckr trying to catch up on his correspondence. His feelings are that “the guys back in the States don’t know how lucky they are. The U. B.A is something a guy more or less takes for granted while he’s there, but when he goes to a foreign country, he realizes what he has left behind. the greatest country in the work! ” lie hasn't seen a Stinky-Dink column for some time, but expects to when his mail catches up with himPvt. William Thiehotl was surprised when Howard Graff and Calvin McCollum dropped ■ In on him. and quite a gablast as a result. The talk naturally was of Slick s place and others up and down Main StreetEl!mScthElf#edatClt;gl:arectrinnlt;GseFihlt;IT)Oi■ae:01Ople E Lake, MM 3c, Sea bee. Is i pnow at Oahu. T. H. He writes that Oahu is near Honolulu and Waikiki, in the heart of the grass skirt country. but that his thoughts are always on good old Brookfield He says that he is only half an ocean away from us now and hopes he never gets any farther. So far as he knows, his battalion is the only one to sail both the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans It was in the European theatre (Iceland) in 1942 and 1943 and now in Hawaii.Cpl Jerauld Collier landed in England July 4 and in France on July 22. He writes The Argus and opens with “Hello, Brookfield He will still take Missouri as being the sweiiestViItHa%Ph
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Brookfield Argus
Brookfield, Missouri, US
Fri, Aug 11, 1944
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