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' ■iByL.eO.MUlrt HWITH 25TH DIVISION, AT BALETE PaIs, LUZON with Head usedtohuntwithfalcons in Saudi Arabia. Now hehunts with war dogs on Luzon. And this time it’s not birds he's hunting but Japs.1 him here. A German shepherdnamed Captain lay ui :er the cot on which Mead sat.body tossed a lt;Head spokeThe dog emerged and flood attentively.“Put out the cigarette,” said Head.Captain miffed and looked around.•potted the smoking butt, Happed apaw on it, and thedeed was done.(Captain has othertricks, but Head emphasize» ths'this Stuff is extra-curricular and hasnothing to do with the war-dog tmsi-ness.HeadJamesCarlyle.First Lt. S. Head.HI. - IsG.Of the 28th Infantry Scout Dog toon. His outfit came overseas InJune of *44 and saw action at Biak. Aitape and Morotai before coming to Luzon, where lt ha* been working with the 25th or “Tropic Light-ning’* division around Balete pass.cific. Nowhave been' Mhed^tawgrenades in the Balete fighting. MostOf Hie other losses have been due toshellshock.“Dogs are very sensitive to artillery,” Jim said “We usually give a shellshocked dog to some outfitfurther back, as a mascot. .A war d©g-can^do|s#diers as, far - asthe wind is , vThe' dogs •as messengers. •battle messages1sillies here, 'They-•entry duty. ] , 'Some infantry officers have a highregard for the WarrliiiH^Viml,::;:filh*;era aren’t “believers, Jim ax-plfllflfllMost of the dogs were donated to^flpermy ]00ii00ii^^ The#0f’ corps is a - quartermaster unit,ter have been transferred to toe infantry. So Head ud Hf nun Otis entitled to wear tbe combat Infantrybadge—and are proud of it' Jim Bead it 35. Ha baa a wifeand two children. Ha did petroleumagbntioD work M Arabia In 1W3-dl for tbe CaUforniat Arabian Stand-•if Oil company. Ikifi where ba practiced falconry asalsat the khur-wan and bobara birds af As Baud’sThera I was, up at tea tunnelsd command post, my oesnkst boots plastered with wet cgty* my poneho dripping, my tin hat carefully la place since wa wera within range of a Jap mortar.corraapondeni But this seemed far-enough to go. Tomorrow would beanother day. I might as well go on faackwlth Colonel Johnson.■ And then some people came downUse muddy stepe to foe entrance tonothing of my self, gaped. For hereIn this Godforsaken muddy rain-^^tanot wore twowomen!women fr«jr the Chungking Times«|Haidia. iiNMNiWto with MaJ. Charlie Sun, on theway up a few hundxad yaidi for* ward. where a company of craedi^hm. troops ' from Manila. '-litached . to this * division, were bivouacked.One was Miss Josefa Go other, a cute and tiny child whose short boots were inadequate against the thick mud, was Miss Mei-laiiI asked how old she was.“What do you auesa? she asked.I guessed 20,Me that.”losing face fast. the big newspaper man went onthe hill and left it to the ladiesbigJohnson pointed to the trees as we Walked toward the“Mahogany, he said “Good r mahogany. See where a shell has that one open? Now that we are getting a road up here gome smart Filipino will come in logging andmake S: ;*. • ! : • '• \ .*. li*'- '**‘Major* KeptJaptOne of the most interesting soldiers in this veteran division is Staff Sergeant—beg pardon. I mean Lt.CH. Jay D; Vanderpool. also known(to Japs) as Maj. Gen. Vanderfuru.He is short and wiry—there’sno suet in his 140 pounds. He used to box and play football, and althoughIBsjob hC»i';.ff:-|piS|pj|yJ:'adesk' job ibf ;:gfts:;; p®eplowing around the fi^^ lines. :Van is . ■ pa parents are dead and he .is unmarried, He enlisted hf 1036 at 18 and was assigned to toe Field Artillery. It took him three years to make pfc and his permanent rank is still only staff sergeant. Van was commissioned a second lieutenant eight months before Pearl Harbor. He wasthere on that fateful day. The 15thdivision but a score of men to Jap strafing. Tbe following October toe division left tor Guadalcanal, andVan began to show his stuff.b October of ’44 be embarked from New Guinea In a submarine with 1 officers. It man, and 30 tons of radla equipment, ammunition,at cetera. He landed on Luzon November 3 and proceeded to organise toe bickering and feuding guerrlof Cavite, »*!•*§m laid western La gunsHa moved around boldly in full army uniform, establiohing coast watcher stations and a courier net. work—and discouraging the guerrilla practice of killing couriers for their guns. He helped crashed aviators escape. Ho personally sneaked into Nicholas airdrome ot Manila toestimate too Nips* strength there. After toe Lingayen invasion fedsguerrillas knockedout communications andwaff'frusty be commar,fad 10 guerrilla rifle companies which shared with paratroopers and amphibious troopsthe spectacularly successfollibera-tom of internees at Los Banos. During those' guerrtUa :o|terebdiia tba Japs ifrjtfwfe*derpool Major General Staff Corps.Apparently the Japs didn’t knowstoat toe General Staff Corps was. They decided tola meddler was a%as3j|iito3^' vainlyfor “Major toPM'^VpdeMhtrawhich :ali;ral--i^^.pome to'• Van 'has. just - recei ved the Legionof Merit for those operations.;'09
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Farmington Times Hustler
Farmington, New Mexico, US
Fri, Jun 22, 1945
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