The Longhorn (Camp Wolters, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, August 11, 1944 Page: 3 of 8
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Friday, August 11, 1944
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Pvt. R. S. Baker, Reception Center from neice Cozart, Tulsa, Okla., are seen doing a
Dallas, Texas, is shown at left tuning in one “catch as catch can” amid the draperies which
of the many radios that went on sale with the also were sold along with other types of mer
closing of the Reception Center. Below, Sgt. chandise, at the Reception Center this past
Ruth Sweet, Ypsilanti, Mich., and Pvt. Ber- week. (Signal Corps Photo.)
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Wolfers To Supply Every Gl
With Card Application for
On Thursday, August 24,
each soldier at Camp Wolters
will receive a post card applica-
tion for ballot, it was stated
today by Major Warren M.
VanderBurgh, IRTC Soldier
Voting Officer.
Those soldiers desiring to
vote in the November election
should then fill ‘ out the cards,
swear to them before an officer
or non-commissioned officer not
below the grade of sergeant,
and personally mail the card to
the secretary of his home state,
in the respective state capital.
If the state determines that
the soldier is eligible to vote
under the rules of the par-
ticular state in question, a
ballot will then be mailed
directly to the soldier. The
soldier will then use the ballot
to indicate his vote, and re-
turn it to his home state.
Mississippi required that a
special form be completed by
unregistered soldiers prior to
July 8, 1944, so that soldiers
from this state who are not
registered voters and who have
not already filled out the spe-
cial form will be unable to vote
in the November election.
Certain states have some
form of poll tax law, and sol-
diers from these states who
have not paid their poll tax
will be unable to vote. These
states are: Alabama, Ar-
kansas, South Carolina, and
Texas. Other states having
poll tax laws have exempt
the payment of the poll tax
for soldiers.
All soldiers who plan to vote
should consult the Soldier Vot-
ing Poster No. 2 and determine
the earliest date their particular'
state will mail the absentee
ballot to them. If the soldier
expects to be transferred, it
would be advisable to mail the
application for ballot as soon
as possible after August 24.
Men from Alabama and South
Dakota must not mark and mail
their ballots before certain
dates, which are indicated on
the Soldier Voting Poster No. 2.
All soldiers planning to vote
should refer to this poster for
the latest date on which the
ballot must be returned to the
To be eligible to vote, the
soldier must have reached
his 21st birthday on Novem-
ber T, 1944, except for citizens
of Georgia, where the age is
18.
Soldiers who are uncertain as
to their eligibility to vote by
absentee ballot should inlinedi-
ately write an air mail letter
addressed to the Secretary . of
State (or appropriate election
official, if known) of their home
states, giving their full name,,
grade, serial number, military
unit, and military address, and
(.See Card Application Page 8)
Souvenir Hunters
Damage B-26 Here
Soldiers and civilian em-
ployes of Camp Wolters were
requested by Major General
Bruce Magruder, Command-
ing General IRTC, and Col.
Earl G. Flegel, Camp Com-
mander, to refrain from re-
moving parts from the B-26
bomber oh Scott Hill. “The
plane is here for a purpose,”
remarked Col. Flegel, “and
souvenir-hunters must not
participate in tearing it
down.”
The plane was installed
here to show Wolterites what
a modern bomTier looks like.
Costing $60,000, the plane
was retired after many suc-
cessful missions against the
enemy. Since its installation
here, the plastic nose has
been removed with other im-
portant parts.
Wolters Sergeant Fought With Kelly,
Distinguished Service Cross
By CPL. HERBERT H. BRIN
American automatic weapons,
and not the Germans, are the
real supermen of this war.
“Germans are good fighters,”
conceded S-Sgt. Robert L. Chu-
dej, Temple, Tex., holder of the
Distinguished Service Cross for
heroism below Cassino in Italy.
“But don’t let anyone fool you
on who the master race is. It’s
American cold steel, automatic
steel.”
Sgt. Chudej, now stationed in
Co. A, 54th Bn. added:
“Those Nazis couldn’t under-
stand our weapons. Man, does
that give you confidence. When
they’d fire, one shell, our artil-
lery fired five. Lots of times
our artillery sounded like auto-
matic guns and would keep up
for an hour at a time.”
Sgt. Chudej enlisted in the
Army in January, 1940, and be-
came a member of the 36th Di-
vision. In North Africa he en-
gaged in mountain and amphi-
bious training for the invasion
of Sicily and Italy.
Of his personal escapade in
the historic assault at Salerno,
Sgt. Chudej declared:
“I was in the second wave
ashore. ‘Commando’ Kelly was
a member of our regiment and
our job was to clear out snipers
and machine guns sweeping the
beach. Fighting was tough and
bloody, but we pushed on and
beat hell out of them.
“Once we ran into seven
tanks. Our outfit took care of
those right away. The Germans
couldn’t understand how we
could lay down such fire-power
with so few men.”
Sgt. Chudej, was one real
Texan in the “Texas” Division.
And it was real old fashioned
wild west tactics that pulled a
S-SGT. ROBERT L. CHUDEJ
away, we tossed grenades at
them. We wei'e hidden behind
rocks, whooping it up wild
west style. That unnerved the
Nazis and before the fight end-
ed three hours later we captured
the living Germans, 17—includ-
ing one officer.
“The officer asked me where
the rest of the battalion of half-
breeds was. It turned out that
he thought he was against a
whole battalion of half-breed
American Indians who would go
wild in a fight. He was sur-
prised to find we were only 11.
But we did have a master race
with us. the automatic rifle.”
w4U WCC,L ull£tu tv When his men were running;
group of 10 men he led, out of short of grenades, Sgt.. Chudej,
a brush with destiny, winning
for Sgt. Chudej the Distinguish-
ed Service Cross, and for Amer-
ican prisoner-of-war camps, 17
German prisoners, including an
officer.
“It was on December 13,
1943,” recalled Sgt. Chudej. “We
were on Mount Summucro, four
miles below Cassino, when we
noticed a platoon of Germans
coming at us. I had 10 men,
and we deployed on ledges and
waited for them to come on.
under fire, went back for more
supplies. Throughout his en-
tire struggle against the Ger-
mans, he wasn’t even scratched.
“Only three of^he 10 men I
had were Texans,” admitted:
Sgt. Chudej. “But they became
Texans, just like old Kelly did.
Incidentally, one of those men
was S-Sgt. Russell E. Morrison,
of McComb, Ohio, who trained
in Co. A, "54th Bn. before join-
ing the 36th Division. Morri-
son was wounded on that deal
Going to a movie? In the Station Hospital
the movie comes to you. Each week, movies
supplied by the Red Cross Syndicate come to
each ward of tlie hospital. The movies shown
are the very latest Hollywood feature pic-
tures. Getting ready for the presentation of a
film in the hospital, are: Miss Carol Johnson,
Hospital Worker; and PFC Roy Kimura, pro-
jectionist. (Signal Corps Photo.)
They had four machine guns, a and got the Silver Star.
50-millimeter mortar, machine After crossing the Rapido
pistols and rifles. River in a move to^ out-flank
“We had two light machine; Cassino, Sgt. Chudej was .re-
guns, a BAR, and three tommy j lieved and sent back to the
euns. When they were 15 feet United States May 16, 1944.
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Eddins, Howard B. The Longhorn (Camp Wolters, Tex.), Vol. 4, No. 7, Ed. 1 Friday, August 11, 1944, newspaper, August 11, 1944; Camp Wolters, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth601183/m1/3/?q=%22Business%2C+Economics+and+Finance+-+Journalism%22: accessed July 9, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Boyce Ditto Public Library.