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‘Here’s Your Infantry’ Tonight atStadium Is Realistic Exhibitionram of Pacific and E uropean War Partioipati in True-to-Life Demon Here, Free to General Public(Pfctvre on Pale 1)So seriously do the 25 soldiers who make up the Jungle assault team of “Here’s Your Infantry ” which win be shown at 8:30 o'clock tonight at Donnell stadium, take their duties that one of the veteran soldiers, Staff Sergeant Robert Longfellow, of Greenville, 0., was severely injured at the show given in Fremont just before the 77 infantrymen “invaded Findlay. He will be out ofaction for at least a week, j “These men, all veterans of ing at ? o clock. As each weawhen they will go to Toledo, Monday the aoldiers gave the trucks a good “scrubbing,fihydrant at the rear ofplaying the fire hose on thtm from a hyithe courthouse. Their work attracted considerable attention.MARINE HOME ON LEAVEeither the European or Pacificthaaters of war, put grim, dead-Iv earnestness and realism in “Here’s Your Infantry which Is a troe*to*1ife project of the infantry's action overseas.port is brought into play an an nouncer will describe over alour! speaker how it is being■ ii-Show IS Freeused against the enemy pos , tion,: The Jap pillbox will be equip-’ ped with dummy rifle and ma*ehinegun devices as well as a“ “ till! If KUII an ncu on «It is presented free as a TtiMns - fc- mortar whlch firesof stimulating the Seventh War'Major Hooper A. Williams, Jr. of the U. 8. marines, veteran of 31 months service with a combat aviation engineers unit in the Pacific war theater, is spending part of a 30-day leave with his wife, the former Mary Ellen Johnston, at the home of her parents, Police Officer and Mrs. J. H. Johnston, 430 Defiance avenue.Major Williams on June 10 will report to a new assignment at Camp Lejeune, New River, N. C.A member of the marine reserves, he was called Into service in 1940. He was employed at the time as an engineer at the Differential Steel Car com-gfisiclt;C-Loan drive, and tfl show that a j r. decisive factor in warfare is theabmtr of“the Infantry-to fight Its wav ill. eliminate the enemy, and hold the ground. It Is bfttlg shown in 600 American cities also to focus public attention on the necessity for a redoubled war effort to defeat Japan quickly. The show here is sponsored by the war finahee committee of Hancock county.“Here’s Your Infantry” is a combination of a static exhibition of infantry weapons and an action-filled, realistic attack on a Japanese pillbox. The static exhibition will start at ♦ 8:30 o'clock and will consist of 13 different displays of infantryweapons with men who haveLAN DEMONSTRATION AT COURT HOUSE, 2 P. M.A static demonstration of Here's Yoir Infantry** will be presented at 2 o'clock this nfternoon in front of the court house, Id. Robert J. Bohen, Warren, O., in command of the contingent said last night. The show is In addition to the demonstration which will start at 9:30 o’clock tonight at Donnell stadlnm and will be given at the coart hoasc front to stimulate Interest la the big demonstration, which is also frre to the public.pany’s plant here. He came to Findlay following his graduation from Vanderbilt univer*hPutadnused these weapons in comtoftt j i.K.i^wMapwi^-nirg^hm^wiRiniJiK^niiroveraeaa—explaining- their- use; | *•«lt;«mInfantry equipment and cloth-1 throughout th« actidn reluming also will be exhibited and a j Ing the fire of the American demonstration of boobj traps: Infantrymen. The pillbox will and mines and methods of over-| be built of brush and sandbags, coming them will.be given. Twelve trucks brought “Here's•be gn Attack «w PillboxThe attack on the Japanese pillbox will ha a dramatic experience for the apeetitbrs start-Your Infantry to Findlay from Fremont .Sunday where thev will remain, because of a break in schedule, until Wednesdaysitv Nashville, Tenn.After being commissioned alieutenant at the Qusntico Ms-irnt Base, Vs., he was sent to the Hawaiian islands and he was on duty at Pearl Harbor at the time of the Japanese sneak attack.Since then Major Williams haw seen service in New Caledonia, Guadalcanal, Guam, Iwo Jima, and other Pacific bases which have figured prominently in the news from day to day.udaa*t;stMemorial Day HeldCAREY, May 28—Memorial Day Sunday was observed in the Christ Lutheran church. Earl Green Post No. 344 attended in abody with 26 members present. Rev. Wade H. Koons, pastor,preached on the subject. “Mem orial Day Recollect ions.” Thejunior choir under the direction of Mrs. M. D, Shafer sang “America, The Beautful” by \Vard and the senior choir under the direction of Miss Elsie Howard sang “This Is My County” by Waring.cdcnIf8taIontest.at0HI\flt;
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Findlay Republican Courier
Findlay, Ohio, US
Tue, May 29, 1945
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