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Shirley GI Enjoys Job At St, MaloSeated in the front seat of the jeep, above, is Col. Andreas Von Auloek, “Mad Man of St. Malo prisoner of the Americans. Driving the jeep is Pvt. Charles Durant of Shirley, about to chauffeur the colonel and other Nazi officers to a confinement’area. ............................... tServicemen List % Articles DesiredAs Holiday Gifts_ !■ 21 (/P-Service men and -women o\ seas have decided what they want for Christmas.Soldiers. in . alii theaters, would like money orders and wallets, pipes and tobacco, razor blades ..and smeiL shaving kits, pocket-sized books and jfebfegrajfesTn waterproof folders;” cigarexs and cigars, automatic* pencils, stationery, games, cards, puzzles, hard., candy, soap,. dried fruit, vacuum-packed nuts and wrist watches, the office of war. information reports.Sailors everywhere want pocket-sized dictionaries, novels, mysteries, westerns and humor—but no war stories; sneakers for showers , and moccasin-. type. bedroom slippers; pocket Jmiveswith attachments; Bibles, alarm'clocks, playing cards, dice, -poker chips, insect repellents, small snapshots, toilet kitsShirley Soldier Drives Mad ManFrom St. MaloJob” Of Chauffeuring Captive From FortressGiftsfCntlnuetf on Page Six)Pfc. G.M.Mulloy Gets Bronze StarFor Heroic ActPfc.-George M. MuIIoy, a veteran of over 13 months of overseas service, has been awarded the Bronze Star.- for heroic. achievement while serving with the’: 43th.. ’’Thunder-bird division on the Fifth armyPfc. JMulloy performed,his heroic*When the enemy Opposition . on the battle-scarred citadel of St. Malo had - esased~a Shirley -service--man, Pvt Charles Durant, received an assignment that will undoubtedly be the highlight of his career as a soldier. As the driver of a jeep he was. to have the honor of driving the ‘Mad Man of St Maio,” Col. Andreas Von Aulock, the German commander, away from his fortress, to confinement.The “Mad Man of St. Malo” who said he would fight to death, sat in Pvt Durant’s jeep With two otherranking German officers, amid a pile of-baggage-waiting to be-taken away.'A® a typical Prussian Junker, thin lipped, with moriocje and a uniform that was tailored to military perfection, the colonel remained composed while unshaven and exhausted GIs, in their typical amused manner, stared and wisecracked around him. Even the ordeal of having, his picture taken did not bother the colonel. Throughout the procedure he did not hat ahJapan Is Jolted By Double Blow Of Super Fortsit Industrial Area OfYawata On Kyushu? Sink Enemy Cruisereye.Seated in the jeep he .did not look •like a German commander who with a small force had offered desperate resistance to our -troops and tried to-escape in an effort that led to plain slaughter.Throughout the whole amusing GI ritual of kidding and wisecracking fee. most .satisfied individual to be seen Was .Pvt, Durant, ffeDurant(Continued on Pago Six)(By the Associated Press.)Superfortresses jolted the home; islands of Japan * with - a doublepunch Sunday, a Liberator sank a 14,200-ton Japanese cruiser andGen, MacArfeuris persistent airmenfinished off enemy. aerial defenses guarding the southern Philippines.These wounds, inflicted in a weekend series of assaults from Japan itself to her empire’s outer reaches, proved the Oriental antagonist was entangled in an air war potentially as devastating as Europe has endured. -In the , first daylight operation against Japan .proper, since fee'1942' Doolittle raid, the superforts of fee 2Pfe airforce got “good” results in a strike at the industrial area of Yawata on Kyushu. Apparehtly.it was the heaviest raid yet against Japan. Tokyo said 80 planes were involved. The army said four B-29s Were lost. Enemy fighters strongly resisted and anti-aircraft. fire was moderate to intense.A quick fpllowup raid sent a smaller force of B-29s over the same northern Japan area Sunday night. The two raids cost the- Japanese 12 planes destroyed, 12 probably destroyed and 10 damaged. Tokyo admitted isome damage.Gem MacArfeur’s communique today said the Japanese were piffling their, planes from the cluster, of islands shielding. fee southern’ Philip-Pacific- -4 l'.. * -• - . t ‘a*. ■*-ccontinssrarSIX)
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Fitchburg Sentinel
Fitchburg, Massachusetts, US
Mon, Aug 21, 1944
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