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VOLUME TWO NUMBER 40
SATURDAY, 26 FEBRUARY 1944

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Giant Fox Hole Wins $80 For GI

‘= Bougainville Island (CNS)—PFC Roy L.
. Webb, of West Liberty, Ohio, bet his fellow
&-....8oldiers $80 he could dig a foxhole eight
Bea »feet wide, ten feet long and four feet deep
a “im four hours, He finished the job in four
“minutes under the stipulated time, taking
Eo five three-minute rest periods and eating
“five bars of chocolate for energy.

Interest among his companions was so
--great that more than $800 in side bets was

2th

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De * Mamaroneck, N. Y. (CNS) Ezio Pinza, Met-
‘re: skopolitan Opera star, turned his two Dalma-
= -tians, Boris and Figaro, over to the Army’s
‘ ‘K-9 corps the other day and with them he
i gave an album of his operatic recordings.
& “Tf they get lonesome,” he said, “play my
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The Phantom Invasion

The German cities burn and the German
nerve is quivering raw. Hamburg is dead,
Berlin two-thirds destroyed..._Kiel, Essen,
Bremen and Cologne are funeral pyres flick-
ering against the night sky as the German
winter brings in its mournful gloom. Once
more this land-of murderers and bullies is
facing a twilight of false gods. Yet the Ger-
man land armies are nowhere breken. They
stand, they retreat to new lines, they even
counter-attack.

Then why, wih colq realism, do observers
in neutral capitals say: ‘Hitler is whipped.
Germany is finished”? Flyers of the RAF and
the AAF know the answer. The mightiest
military power in Europe is falling before the
phantom invasion of air power. Battle lines
and fortifications are meaningless. Air pow-
er leaps the vaunted German “west wall’; it
sweeps across defenses—in—depth; it marches
five, six, seven hundred miles in two hours
and batters at the gates of inland citadels.

Air power’s destructive force is a phantom
army equiped with two thousand siege guns;
it is a battle fleet that steams up the Rhine—
and al lHerr Hitlers astrologers cannot dis-
pel this black and deadly magic. The moat of
the German castle is filled with German.
corpses. Its draw-bridge is a broken toy, Air
power has set a torch to every door. Small
wonder that the Nazi cut-throats cringe

beneath the stair and think little whimpering > =

thoughts of peace. There are phantom foot-
steps in the hall.

These Germans who put their trust in
blood and iron have “waged with phantoms
an unprofitable strife.” For them the earth
rumbles hungrily. Oh, Flyers, make haste
with the good work of digging graves for
Germans, Sixty million Japanese await their
turn!
—From AAF Blue
“Wings to Victory”

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Yanks Take Lessons In Basic Nipponese

Kwajalein Atoll (CNS)—Yanks of the Sev-
enth Division took a short course in the
Japanese language before landing here. The
phrases they learned were:

“Drop your rifle.”

“Come out of that hole.”

“Put up your hands.”