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THE STARS-AND STRIPESTHEY BURY THE HATCHET“BEST OF; I/UCK- from I»fc CoL Fref C. Etna, gearsdate, S. V., {second from lcffc), an operations officer of 15th USAAF Flyias Fortress ffroup, four commanders of fighter groujw* The qiiiniet were at a party given by B-17 personnel for their fighter groups In appreciation of support in recent attacks aveT Germany. Colonel Eton is toasting, left, IA^CoL William I\ Litton, Shaw, Miss., and right, Lt. doL Oliver B. Taylor, Palo Alto, Calif,, Lt. Col Robert B. Richard, Visaiia, Calif., and Lt. Col. Robert L. Baseler, Boston.(Photo by S-Sgt. James MUler AC)since aetly an-ig In nans 1,500 .cht's suf-iiead, ibout 1 an-ty.Army 5 en-anci v at Tyr-Bomber, fight PilotsHold Big Get-TogetherBy Pfc, EDGAR, C. CLARK (Stars and Stripes Staff Writer)WITH A B-17 BOMBER GROUP, March 9 —The truck, drivers andtlcular and things in general, sang the old songs and learned some new ones until late in the night. The cake was chocolate special.doliaoutperslt;the pea-shooters got together Last General Twining cut the first h * - - piece, right through the prettywhite icing that said God Bless the Pea-Shooters/’ The next piece went to Lt. Col. Robert L, Base-CO of thefcsrotest l Got-lergy-in thearticle writer, life bynight and had a wonderful. time Outside of Alice In Wonderland, it’s only in the air force that truck drivers and pea-shoofcers could get . .together, any time, any place, for ^r- Boston, Mass, the truck drivers are the fellows P-Porty-Seveners, because hed who fly the bombers and the pea- m nad a careless birthday a few shooters are their friends, the lads *** ^o. The other Hrst-biters in the fiehters were the CO s of the threeThat, in addition to their other P-^ty-Mghters^Lt. Coi WilUam duties, they took time out for a ?• Litton Shaw Miss^ of the 82nd social was due to a Flying For- Fighter Group, Lt. Col. Oliver B.wSh to TOS appreciation Taylor Palo Alto.Calif and Lt. to the P-47 and the P-38, which Col‘ Robert B. Richard, VisaUa, have been buzzing about them for almost two years, for the bang-up support they; have received, particularly in the teeenfc big raids over Regensburg and Steyr—two places north of the border where Hitler used to make airplane parts.No fancy invitations were, issued, but everybody in this big aerialfamily know about the party ana ‘'Wild Bill” Johnson, ------------practically everybody . was there. Texas, and ^Sgt. Joe Maloney, Guest of honor for the blow-out Oneonta, N. x., fche elbow-bending 1,1 was Maj. Gen. Nathan F. Twin- would have struggled along with a ing, commander of the 15fch couple of motors out. Not that they USAAF, who turned out in his were experts—it wasn't what theydid but the way they did it. Sgt. Maloney has more of that pro-Coi. Robert Calif.., Only professional touch of the evening was the movies—a combat film of the P-47's shooting down 37 German fighters over Udine in northern Italy Jan. 30, but even, . shop talk, when it's about some- lof tiling like that, is enjoyableseas400Uimeiwoe.dollfwouwhi(into:atceas T1 dun Rep Hai Mir Joh Car Jr., iiva T joiistatioiombee'iom;bet1th(lariIsIf it hadn’t been for M-Sgt.thiRockwall,.'icebest pinks topped with the brand-new shoulder patch that members of the 15th USAAF will now be wearing. Much, much better, the general believed, for his bomber boys to toast the fighters fellows with a ’’Here's to yoil, Charlie/1lcfessional bar-side reticence, but .Wild Bill’* Johnson had his troubles. He'd saved a bottle of something special for a friend in ..... Naples, only to learn that therethan to cuss them with a ‘Where was more of that something special ■ e; in the hell were you, Charlie, in Naples than at the bomber base. 1 when those six ME’s came in at; When everybody wasn't talking,! v once?” i everybody was singing, with music 11Society, writers would describe furnished by Pvt. Eddie Karwczyk,! c the party ^as successful and a trib- Chicago, 111., and an accordion'; 1 ute to the' hosts/Col. John F. Bat- which looked more like a barely 11portable organ. There was Sweet I c Adeline,” Lili Marlen,” ”0 Genevieve/’ Sweet Marie” and all the rest of the girls. In fact, they were the only girls there.It was, frankly, a party to bury a especially for the occasion. They very blunt and dull hatchet. The also saw a movie, bent the elbow hatchet was well buried and is now j lt;a bit. talked about nothing in par-, forgotten. IJjer, Seabrook, Texas, his 'deputy, Lt. Col. Karl T, Barthelmess, Clayton, .N. M., and the Flying For-fcressiers of the Bomb Group. They had a buono dinner, capped ; with a cake which was made;t fight-
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Fri, Mar 10, 1944
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