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Shirley GI Enjoys Job At St. MaloSeated in the front seat of the jeep, above, is Col. Andreas Von Aulock, “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^rea. -- ■ ■ -a.Servicemen List % Articles DesiredAs Holiday Gifts _ I. 21 W~Service men and women o', sees have decided what they want far Christmas.Soldiers.in.all. theaters, would like money orders and wallets, pipes and tobacco, razor blades . and smeiL shaving kits, pocket-sized books and photographs, rin waterproof folders,' cigarexs and cigars, automatic* pencils, stationery, games, cards, puzzles, hard, candy, soap,. dried fruit,vacuum-packed nuts and wrist watches, the cilice 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; pocketImives with attachments; Bibles, alarm' clocks, playing cards, dice, -poker chips, insect repellents, small snapshots, toilet kitaShirley Soldier I) rives Mad ManFrom St. MaloJob” Of Chauffeuring Captive From FortressGiftsfC6nbnu«J on Page Six)Pfc. G.M.Mulloy Gets Bronze StarFor Heroic ActHe. 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 armyMulJnv Twrfnrmed his heroicWhen the enemy opposition.. oh the . battle-scarred citadel of 'St. Malo had • caased-a Shirley Serviceman, 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 Malo,” Col, Andreas Von Aulock, the German commander, away from Ms fortress, to confinement.The “Mad Man of St. Malo” who said he would fight to death, sat in Pvt. Durant’s jeep , with two other ranking German officers, amid a pile, of - baggage waiting to be taken awsy.' As a typical Prussian Junker, thin lipped, with tnoriocje and auniform 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 bat 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 resistant* 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 toe. most .satisfied individ -ual to be seen was -Pvt. Durant, HeDurant(Continued on Pago Six)(By the Associated Press) Superfortresses jolted the home 'isian'ds bf “Japan with e - double punch Sunday, a Liberator sank a 14,200-ton Japanese cruiser andGen, MacArthur’s persistent airmenfinished off enemy. aerial defences 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 the'lS42' Doolittle raid, the superforts of toe 20th 'airforce got ‘''good” results in a strike at the industrial area -of Yawata on Kyushu. Apparently , it was toe 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 followup 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 some damage.Gen.. MacArtour’s communique today said the Japanese were pulling their, plants from toe cluster of islands shielding.the southern'PHilip-PadficrtsmiimrdrS1XV
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Fitchburg Sentinel
Fitchburg, Massachusetts, US
Mon, Aug 21, 1944
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