Hellcat News, Vol. 2, No. 20, Ed. 1, June 22, 1944 Page: 4 of 8
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HELLCAT NEWS
22 June, 1944
Hellcat flews
Published each Thursday by the 12th Armored Division for 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.
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Hellcat Gets First Word In 4
Years From Family In Sicily
"I love t'ls b2c!cairo!:e, dcn'f you?'
Tec 5 Patsy Ciccarello, Trains
Headquarters Company, was the
happiest man in the division last
Thursday. On that day he re-
ceived his first letter in four years
from his mother and sister in
Sicily.
Although he had tried many
times to communicate with his
family during the past few years,
the letter indicated that they had
not heard from him over the same
period of time. An interesting
feature of the letter was the
stamps on the envelope, which
were issued by the Allied Mili-
tary Government. He said that
the postage on the envelope was
twice the amount required to
send a letter to the U. S. four
years ago.
Ciccarello was born in Des
Moines, Iowa, and was taken to
Italy when four years old. Being !
an American citizen, however, did J
not exempt him from military
service in Italy. And even
though he refused to take the
oath of II Duce's army, he was
forced to serve in it and take-part
in the Ethiopian campaign.
The first attempt to draft him
into the service of the Fascist
army was made in 1933. Through
the efforts of the American con-
sul he was released from service.
He was forced back into the serv-
ice in 1936 and served for more
than a year, still refusing to take
the Fascist oath, before the Amer-
ican consul succeeded in getting
him out of the army and to this
country.
It was during his second "term"
with the army that he spent four
months in Ethiopia as a telephone
operator with the field artillery
of Bagdolio's army. In trying to
get his discharge from the Italian
army, Ciccarello took his case to
Count Ciano, foreign minister.
He remembers the German
"tourists" who began to infiltrate
into Italy in 1936. Two years
later he arrived in this country
and opened his own barber shop
and store in Manhattan. He is
now a cook, but would like to
serve the army in Italy as an in-
terpreter. He has been in the
army over two years now.
After the war he hopes to visit
his mother, brothers and sisters in
Italy, but never intends to live
there. He says this is the land
of opportunity for him and he
intends to stay here. He de-
scribes the American army as
much better fed, clothed and
equipped than the Italian, even
during its hey-day.
' Ciccarello said that Mussolini
did a great number of good things
for the Italian people during his
early reign, but that the majority
of the people are anti-Fascist and
opposed his alliance with Hitler.
He stated that the Italians were
much more sympathetic toward
Russia than Germany.
Before being assigned to the
12th, he was with the cavalry at
Fort Riley and with a signal bat-
talion at Camp Polk.
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Tall Snake Tale
Snake stories on bivouacs have
become legion. This story may
not be the tallest snake tale to
circulate during last week's prob-
lem, but it is about the largest
snake reported, a six foot dia-
mond back rattler.
Discovered by three guards in
the administration section, the
reptile was killed before it could
cause any damage. Pvt Myron
Morgan, a native of the Texas
Panhandle, said it was "a pretty
good size." No one doubted him.
The other two guards were Tec 5
Hugo Colman and Tec 5 Heber
Dann. All three are members of
the band.
An axe was used to kill the
serpent. The circumference of
its body was almost ten inches.
Pliers were used to extract its
double fangs, which were about
an inch and a half long.
Tec 5 Gazio Horvat of the 152nd
Signal Company, who is gaining
a reputation as a snake handler,
polished off about eight or nine
during the week and made sev-
eral snake belts for his friends.
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Omaha's celebration of "Don't
Spit on the Sidewalk Week" was
marred by a seven-days rain
which kept all non-expectorators
indoors anyway.
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Call
By
Milton Caniff,
Creator of Terry
and the Pirates
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