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THE DURHAM HERALD-SUN, SUNDAY, AUGUST 12, 1945

 

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Butner Soldiers

Given Chance To

Keep Up Studies
Maj. Frank Anneberg

Has Charge Of 14
Classes Each Week

Everyone has heard the saying,
‘the best fed, best equipped, best

|paid and best trained, when peo-

ple speak of today’s mighty Army
that played a major role in the de-

feat of Germany and is even now
:|regrouping for the final cee ee
‘lof Japan. Today a fifth ‘best’
‘|rapidly being recognized—that te
:‘Ithe best informed.

The tremendous job of keeping |

-|the millions of GIs up-to-date on
‘|what’s going on in the world today

is the work cut out for one of the
Army’s newest divisions, the In-
formation and Education Division.
On Aug. 9, the I and E Division
celebrated its first anniversary.
When the Army started expand-
ing to meet the crisis in 1940, the

need for such an organization was

noted but until November, 1943,
only experimental work was ac-
complished. On Nov. 10 however,
it was established as the Morale
Services Division. From that time
on the I and E Division gradually
improved until it became the

| smooth running organization that

it is today.
Maj: Frank .J. Anneberg is the
Post Information and Education of-

ficer at Camp Butner. The local

office operates an average of some
14 classes per week to the perma-
nently assigned personnel, both of-
ficers and enlisted men. A sepa-
rate program by the education re-
conditioning section under the di-

‘rection of the Surgeon General of-

fice orients the patients of the Gen-

‘eral and: Convalescent Hospitals.

Said Major Anneber, a veteran I

and E officer who has handled this
itype of assignment at Camp Davis
tand the Asheville Redistribution
1 Station before coming here: “The
|American soldier wants to know
|why. They are eager to know
|about discharges, the point system,

postwar jobs, lend lease, what will

|happen to Germany, the United Na-|
{tions Charter, the GI Bill of Rights|

and in the ' case of the veteran

.| Fourth Division who will begin

training here for the Pacific, their

next foe, Japan. It’s our business

to see that the average GI gets
the right answer to any question

‘he may ask. Our Army has learn-
jjed that an informed soldier is a
.|better soldier.”

 

Ueintic Banh Discussed. In | And E Class —

Maj. Frank J. Anneberg, post I and E officer, discusses the latest sécret weapon untesened on tne Japs by
the United States in an informal class held Wednesday afternoon. A brief outline explains the latest details
to the group and then the soldiers get a chance to give their own opinions or ask questions on the subject.
These men are members of the Station Complement Military Police Detachment. The major, in keeping up
with the late news flashes, had as his main subject at a 4 P. M. class, the startling news that Russia had de-
‘ clared war on the Japs. (U, s. Army Signal Corps Photo.)