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HELLCAT NEWS
6 July, 1944
Hellcat flews
Published each Thursday by the 12th Armored Division tor the enlisted men in the
Division. Edited by Public Relations Office, published and distributed by Special
Service Office. Republication of news items prohibited without permission of 12th
A. D. PRO. Republication of credit matter prohibited without permission of Camp
Newspaper Service, War Department. 205 E. 42nd St., New York City. All photo-
graphs made by the 12th Armored Division unless otherwise credited.
Martha O'Driscoll—Universal
The Wolf
By Sansone
Copyright J944 by Leo«urd Sansone. dismbvted by Camp Newspaper Service
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Don t look, Rosemary . .. he's just trying to
attract our attention!"
Former Hellcat Tells
Of Jungle Fighting
Lt R. Revoir, formerly of A
Company, 56th AI Bn, who is now
stationed with an infantry unit
in the_Pacific, has written to Capt
George V. Yates, one-time CO of
that company and now S-2 of CC-
A, telling of his adventures bat-
tling Japs on a Pacific island.
Lt Revoir writes:
"... As you probably know
we just finished a campaign and
I came through without a scratch
. . . some of the men were not
so lucky. I believe G-2 estimated
about 2.000 Japs killed.
"It was after we pushed inland
that we hit our opposition, in
dense, swamp infested jungles,
very difficult to maneuver in be-
cause of control of your unit.
Here more than anywhere the
man has to be a well-disciplined
individual soldier.
Japs Wait For Us
"The toughest part in fighting
the Japs is trying to find them
in these jungles. They usually
lie in wait for us and when jwe
deploy and get set to hit them
they usually have hit quite a
number of us. They are also dug
in so well it is hard to get at
them.
"The Japs are stupid as hell
in some ways. They seldom if
ever put out any security. They
light fires at night and holler and
talk all night.
"We landed with three days
K & D rations and for five days
and nights lived on that and
never took off our shoes even
after two days of walking through
mangrove swamp that came up
to our chests with water and
gooey mud . . . stunk to high
heaven, this swamp odor plus its
moulding dead Japs along the
way."
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Insignia Designer
Turning Out Pins
Tec 5 Wilson Soehlig of the 17th
AI Bn, who designed the original
battalion insignia, has made a
paying proposition out of his new
method of creating a clever repro-
duction of the insignia, small
enough to be pinned on GI caps.
He's sold all five made so far and
has had enough requests for more
to keep his spare time occupied
for the duration.
Soehlig can complete two of
the emblems in about 40 minutes,
working with a reduced photo-
static copy of the insignia which
is pasted on a specially treated
piece of plastic. The insignia is
then painted and a small pin at-
tached to the back.
BOOK TALK
A book especially tasty to base-
ball fans and already on bestselle:
lists is "McGraw of the Giants,"
by Frank Graham, one of the
ablest of sports writers and auth-
or of "The New York Yankees"
and "Lou Gehrig, a Quiet Hero."
John McGraw, who was for 30
years one of the biggest figures
in baseball, began his colorful
career playing for his home town
team. Soon he was playing pro-
fessional baseball the year
around, moving up in the ranks
until he was manager of the New
York Giants, winners of 10 pen-
nants and three World Series. A
positive and aggressive character,
loved by some and hated by oth-
ers, he did much to raise the
standard of living for ball players
and to make the game popular
across the face of the earth.
♦ ♦ *
With the war against Germany
at a crisis, such a book as "Hitler's
Generals" by W. E. Hart is inter-
esting for its light on the makers
of Nazi war strategy. Hart, a
former German cavalry officer
and active in the anti-Nazi move-
ment, served and was wouncV
as a volunteer in the Britii
Army in the present war. Hi.
not too accurate portraits of the
Nazi war lords are based on "per-
sonal contact either with the men
themselves or with officers of
their immediate circle."
♦ » #
A lighter side of the war, gooc
for some hearty GI laughs, is tola
in "Jezebel the Jeep" by Fairfax
Downey. Jezebel was a jeep of
jeeps, with a personality of her
own, named after a certain lady
of history, and living up to her
name throughout the days of the
hard-fought action in Sicily with
Johnny, her driver. The book is
wittinglv illustrated by Paul
Brown.
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Creator of Terry
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