He is the Rev. Jenneth C. Scott, vicar of the Church of the Ascension, who served in World War I, receiving a shattered arm in combat. He suggested that English-speaking Germans apply for British citizenship and also recommended sincere reciprocal prayers. |
Veteran of the Spanish-American War, too old for World War I, he became a casualty of World War II. Taking a Government job after 30 years in the Army, he went to the Philippines. He served on Bataan and Corregidor. |
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CIVILIZATION HITS ASSAM
Journeying down the corrugated Assamese road, the jeep approached a one-way bridge flung across a coffee-colored stream. Suddenly, all eyes were focused, unbelievingly, on the incongruous sight ahead. That civilization had reached primitive Assam was now an incontrovertible fact. Above the husky MP controlling traffic on the bridge blinked an unmistakable TRAFFIC LIGHT! |
CHINA CAPTAIN GETS GREETING
AIR TRANSPORT COMMAND BASE, CHINA - Capt. Milburn E. Brucker is happy these days - his draft board notified him he's in class IV-A! (Essential industry). He doesn't quite get the drift of the classification, having been on active duty as an officer for more than a year. But if his draft board thinks he's IV-A, he must be IV-A. The notification reached him at this India-China Division ATC base. Capt. Brucker was general foreman of the Sacramento Air Depot. |
G.I. shoes take a beating on China's cobble-stoned streets and rocky, mountainous roads. Above, Pvt. Sam Wong (center) of Services of Supply salvage detachment checks the work of Chinese shoemakers. |
In China, junk aluminum is rendered into pots and pans for G.I. mess halls. Lt. Harry E. Fitzner, salvage officer, and Pvts. Jack P. Medana and Lawrence L. Dugan examine the plane scrap and the finished product. |
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Penny Bancroft visits the mess and chows with S/Sgt. John Star, S/Sgt. Meredith and friends. |
Annett MacQuarrie, Gigi Gilpin, and Penny Bancroft groan for the boys at APO 211. |
Gigi Gilpin, S/Sgt. Tom Meredith, Capt. Ralph Wire and Lt. Pat Flynn of the Lightning Tigers. |
CHRISTMAS EVE - 1944 Myriads of Stars, Glisten through the still jungle tree, The gleam of tiny, distant worlds . . . Winter's night wind, Sighing an organ sweetly played . . . Moonlight, sweeping through the trees, Painting a tinsel of reflection silver. A man thoughtfully gazes at this, His Christmas Tree for 1944. He dreams of loved ones far away. And bows his head as he slowly kneels - His tired smile is enlightened . . . Well he knows the whispered song, The anthem heard this night, In every corner of the world: "Be of good faith, all will yet be well." S/Sgt. Charles J. Noe |
GEN. DAN TO HIS TROOPS
GEN. SULTAN'S HQS., MYITKYINA - From Lt. Gen. Dan I. Sultan to his troops in the India-Burma Theater: "We are celebrating another Christmas in India and Burma. For some of you, it is the third. It may not be much of a celebration, but I hope it will be your last away from home. "In addition to wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New year. I want to compliment you on what you have accomplished and for your cheerfulness in doing it. "Being in a theater of operations located at what has been termed 'The End Of The Line,' you haven't made the headlines perhaps that others in Europe may have made. At times you may have thought you were forgotten. "However, you who are the ground troops have defeated the enemy wherever you have met him and will continue to do so. You airmen have not only whittled the enemy air strength to almost nothing and disrupted his communications and supply, but you have also supplied Chinese and British as well as American ground troops in all kinds of weather. "You service troops have been building a road and a pipeline which will stand as permanent monuments to U.S. Army achievements. You have made world records for ship unloadings and have improved overland communications until the greatest stream of supplies in local history flows to Assam for trans-shipment to China. You have furnished the Chinese Army with its first medical service. "All of you have done the job well and often nobly. In many cases it has been done despite great personal hardship and danger. It has been a job that has lacked the great, elemental drama of huge armies feinting and butting heads on thousand mile fronts, but it has been a job which at the same time will leave permanent, constructive achievement in its wake. "I congratulate you on what you have done and what I know you will do in the future. You have been a great team and a solid team. You have been builders as well as destroyers. Above all, you have been men and women in the finest tradition of America. "A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year to all of you." |
FROM GEN. WEDEMEYER
GEN. WEDEMEYER'S HQS., CHINA - From Maj. Gen. A. C. Wedemeyer to his troops in the China Theater: "Christmas 1944 finds us all half a world away from home, engaged in one of the greatest struggles in the history of mankind, such a terrible struggle that few of us can be home this Christmas. "For us, Christmas must carry its spiritual message, the same message it has carried to men of good will for more than 19 centuries - the message of 'peace on earth.' "And those whom we love, those who wait for Christmas as we begin to celebrate Christmas Day, know that we in far-off China pray in one voice with them that peace through victory will be attained in 1945." |