There are only 15 shopping days until Christmas, chums, so don't forget that new sari for the little girl's shoulders! You guys with the head-hunters up in the Naga Hills can get along with some .30 caliber cartridge jackets for milady to waer in her ears and nose and, we suppose, they can have them "on the government" so to speak, but down here on "Per Diem Hill" it's saris or else and saris aren't G.I. We merely point this out to indicate that all is not beer and skittles in New Delhi. As you already know the House has passed the "Roundup Bill" exempting Christmas presents up to $50 from duty. The Senate is mulling around with one calling for $100 exemption. It will be passed in time for Christmas - 1943! However, you've undoubtedly done your Christmas shopping for the girls and others back home but how about the girls "and others" out here? Stores throughout India and China are naturally anxious for you to shop early, so they have cut prices to treble the value instead of 10-times. The "shopping early" business brings up the question of what to buy and for whom. We assume you want to be a "success," get a lot of promotions, leaves, furloughs and "deatched service" details in Kashmir. Ability and personality, naturally, are the only things that bring these gems to your collective diadem, but, anyway, here's what and for whom you should buy. For General Stilwell - a new campaign hat or at least a leather strap to replace the old shoestring he now uses to hold it on. For General Wheeler - a new chief of staff to replace the one he hasn't got any more. For General Bissell - a couple of new notebooks to replace those 25 he's already filled up with everything from plane losses to the price of petrified eggs in Manchuria. For General Ferris - two stars. For General Brady - a photographer who can stop trembling long enough to shoot a picture of him that is in focus. For General Chennault - a couple of World War I "Jennies" for his boys to fly. They don't need much else. For General Haynes - some vitamin pills for "the old broken-down transport pilot." For all colonels in the theater - a note of condolence and the remark that you know they should have been generals a long time ago. For all first sergeants - poison. |
The following contributions have been received to-date: | ||
Rs. | A. | |
C.B.I. Roundup | 100 | 0 |
Rear Echelon, CBI | 326 | 0 |
Miss Nickerson, Red Cross | 20 | 0 |
War Correspondents | 230 | 0 |
Officers, 10th AF | 738 | 0 |
Enlisted Men, 10th AF | 205 | 0 |
AG Pers. & Misc. Section SOS | 70 | 0 |
Officers, SOS | 170 | 0 |
Enlisted Men, SOS | 32 | 0 |
Air Depot Gp & attached units | 211 | 7 |
Miscellaneous | 4 | 0 |
Total collections to date | 2,106 | 7 |
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Here are a few of the eggs our boys dropped on a strategic Jap-held port. These young Chinese have become expert bomb loaders because they've had plenty of practice in helping to pour it on the Jap. |
The fellows who were at the controls of some of the planes that raided Hong Kong several weeks ago board a jeep at their quarters, en route to the air field. |
Two veterans in the business of knocking the Nip out of the sky are Brig. Gen. Caleb V. Haynes and Maj. Tex Hill. They are seen talking it over just before take-off. Tex took off to lead his squadron in to action. |
A member of one of the raiding crews tears into a few sandwiches before going about his chores. He's also developed a healthy appeitite for Japanese. |
Pilots, crew members and correspondents surround General Haynes to listen to last-minute instruction just before take-off. Results of the raid showed that the boys missed none of their signals. |
Gas goes in as our damage-dealing bombers are readied for action. Chinese aid our ground crews whose enthusiasm and hard work have played a heavy role in the many successes. |
Shark-toothed fighter planes, an old nemisis of Jap airmen in this part of the world, get gas and final check over from ground crews prior to their escorting assignment. These planes further annoy the Japs with their murderous strafing. |
A fighter plane returns to the base after rightly but not politely completing its duties. The spectators are ground crewmen who keep 'em flying. |
Through the window of an accompanying plane, H.S. "Newsreel" Wong, famed cameraman who took all the pictures on this page, catches these bombers in formation on their way to the target. |
The chow wagon is on the field to quell the hunger of the returning airmen as they compare notes on Nips. |
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Don't mention where you'll be Your careless word If overheard May aid the enemy." These orders from Headquarters Have got me in a spin Nobody tells me anything - Except we're going to win. I'm not the Mata Hari type. I'm strictly A.N.C. I don't talk much Of war and such My favorite subject's - ME Now ever since that warning I've reached an all time low A nod, a smile, a subtle glance - But mostly just plain - NO! - Lt. Elizabeth Shaunty |
Well, we are that - and still more We're like a family it would seem With but one thought - to even the score. We work together; we play together; We share happiness, joy and sorrow. It seems it makes no difference whether The sun even rises on the morrow Epicureans are we, inhaling loads of sherry It's never mentioned for all know why To-day we eat, drink and make merry -To-morrow we may die. Amazing it is to note the unity Achieved by facing hardship and danger Eluding ack-ack, fighting Zeros with impunity. Each time, however, you're still a stranger We don't look at war as having fun We get so scared our teeth grate Tho we enjoy a crack at the Jap or Hun. It's for the return trip that we await. - Lt. Hubert U. Simmons |
THE CALL OF INDIA And the call of the canyon a million more. The call of the sea takes men away, To roam the world for many a day. The call to arms takes men from home and toil, To fight and die on foreign soil. But for calls of this and calls for that. This new call beats them in nothing flat; I hope and pray it soon will cease - The call of India - Sahib, Baksheesh. - Sent in by Sgt. John T. Dunn |
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