From across the Atlantic we hear of our boys in “eee and England:

Lt. Jehn A. Pfitseh {APO 403, e/e.P. “e New York) serids a V-mail ion
France and says: "The towns and villages that we roll through are certainly
different than those earlier in the campaign. The people throng the streets and
shower the convoys with flowers and fruit. If you stop you are immediately
swarmed by people who I believe are sincerely joyous to see us. By, the way,
Doc, France has many beautiful girls to its credit, and their greeting system
isn't just a rumor. . . . The picture is changing fast and we are well on our

way home."

Johnny Pfitsch from Pfleugerville, Texas, and a Kansas post-grad - you
are a first class fighting man. And are we proud of ‘you!

In an earlier letter Johnny said, “The men of the infantry are the boys,
Doce Boy, they have it rough and how they go! You would be proud of them if
you could see the teamwork."

Chick Pontius is one of our boys in the infantry over there in France,
and we are proud of the things he is doing, Chick wes awarded the Purple
Heart on July 13, He writes, "I am well now and am back with the company.
They released me from the hospital on July 29. I received a promotion to ser-
geant August 14. I have a great deal more to think avout now than I had before.
Chick is Sgt. Vaughn W. B. Pontius, APO 4, New York.

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Chick, all of the boys at the Country Club will be proud of your achieve-
ments over there. Congrats on your promotion. Mit and Bob Allen are both
being told that you are too tough for Fritz. Their nicks are not as bad as
their blasts.

Maj. Lawrence E. Filkin (APO 90, c/o P.M., New York), who is with the
medical corps in France, writes: "I saw Paul Harrington about a month or six
weeks agoe He was hale and hearty and gladto see a different face from home.
He's still in the same outfit and doing well. Along with Paul were a number
of my old classmates from Medical School, and some old internes and profs. It
was like old home week. We've been moving along so fast lately that I doubt if
Paul's outfit will be able to stay very close to usy In our mad rush I've seen
several outdoor basketball courts inthis section of France. Don't know how
much they play, however, because when we pass there is more imvortant business
at hand at the moment."

Lawrence, the next time you see Paul Randall Harrington tell him that
I told that Harrington-Quigley episode of the basketball court at the Quigley |
dinner. Quig, you will remember, called several fouls on Paul. Quig interro-
gated Paul, "Do you understand?" "No," paul said, “but I am getting used to
you."

We were delighted to hear from another “"medie" - Maj. George Mandeville
(APO 2, c/o Pelie, New York), who wrote from France in July, saying, "I have
heard about your paper or something called The Rebound, and I wondered if you
might send me a copy before the war is over. Most of the betting is that
now that we have the first team in it won't be longe This is the roughest
contest I have ever had the privilege of being in, and strange as it seems a
lot of guys have got hurt. These d--=- Nazis are a fanatical bunch, they have
a lot of determination but no common sense, and about the only thing they can
understand or I should say the best persuader I have seen is the myonet. Of
eaurse when they get in front of our artillery they get pretty well ground up.
A lot of them hang on when they surely know they are going to be exterminated.

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