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Maj. Gen. Thomas J. Hanley, Jr., new head of the Army Air Forces in India-Burma, observed Air Force Day this week with all command units. |
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LEDO ROAD LAMENT
(With Apologies to the Late John Masefield) I must go down to Delhi again To see all the WAC's and the WAF's And all I ask is a ten-day leave And some travel time perhaps. And the wind will blow And the Scotch will flow And the chow will be steak - not Spam And the sack will be soft And the floor not dirt - If I'm late, who gives a damn? I must go down to Delhi again Where there's no such thing as mud Where the streets are paved And the men are shaved And the girls are as many as men And all I ask is a long, cool drink, And a pretty girl by my side. And a long goodbye, and a drawn-out sigh As I take The Road in stride. - Pvt. IRVING MARDER |
REQUIEM TO BURMA'S DEAD How sleep the lads 'neath alien palm, Safe at last from hate and harm? Do thoughts of home assail them now, When dust lies heavy on each brow? When the fields are green next spring, And lovers lorn their baskets bring, Will their souls with anguish sear, Pine for loves of yester year? When heroic garlands crown, The lads returned to farm and town. Will some kindly Eastern fay On their graves rosemary lay? When the course of war has run, And peace returns from sun to sun, Will they know, the matchless brave, How fares the land they died to save? - Cpl. CLAUDE A. NEUFFER, APO 218 |
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I CAME HERE TO TALK FOR JOE
Yep, Joe was a card, a pilot, hot, And boy could he fly a plane! When Joe flew by, the crowd would cry. "We're in for a show again." Old Joe would rack that fighter up, And roll it with a flip; For the boys all knew when e'er Joe flew He'd always buzz the strip. Yes, he'd beat it up from end to end, Each time before he's land. And we knew his story of shining glory, Joe, the paddle foots Superman. Well Joe one day was in his prime |
And he wheeled and dealed his ship,
We all could tell Joe'd raise all hell Today, when he buzzed the strip. He rolled her over at angels ten, Heading down with full-on power. And he passed us by at two feet high Doing 500 miles an hour. Joe was a character through and through; He flew at an awful clip. But he failed to see a big old tree Today when he buzzed the strip. There were nuts and bolts and chunks of tin From here to Timbuktu. But the biggest chunk in all that junk |
Would fit in a G.I. shoe.
For the boys who crave to be like Joe We raise in large bold script, A sign which said, "One down, one dead - Take care - he buzzed the strip." You can have your loops and your tree-top rolls And your immelmans off the deck; You can have the name, acclaim and fame, And the stuntman's full respect. But as for me, ten years from now, When I'm out on a picnic trip. I'll be in the know by recalling Joe And the day he buzzed the strip. - Capt. JOHN S. REITZELL |
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