Two A-Ts Spend —
Precious Shells
For 2 Bunnies

By A/T BOB BOCK
We bade farewell to 36 of our

| brothers Monday who entrained
|for SAACC and at the same time
| welcomed Back CLARENCE
|STAMPFER, HOMER STAHLE
and CECIL DAVIS, who, with bags
packed, were boarding the train
|when T/Sgt. JAMES ADCOCK
told them it was a mistake. Reluc-
tant to go, these three believed
they were having to fill in as al-
jternates, not realizing 38 A/Ts
| had left the field.
Practical joker of the week:
HERB BANGERT, wearing M/Set.
VILJO SALO’s flight jacket, ord-
| ered the new group of trainees to
fall out with helmet liners one
night last week ,marched them to
the orderly room and told them to
wait while he “went-to get the CO
at the day room.” The Sheppard
| Field mewcomers, two months
army-wise, think everything is
| jake here, see an improvement in
chow. They think they have a bet-
| ter deal than those sent to Altus,
'Okla., and Pampa, Texas, except
| that the latter were being granted
|furloughs despite their being four
ijmonths shy of the required half
| year service.
| JAMES PITTS says, “Food will
win the war, but the question is
| how we'll get the enemy to eat it.”
... Cage star PETE CALDWELL
hit the bucket with a bite-size
piece of cake and was invited into
Mr. Nieman’s office. Caldwell, ex-
| Navy man, surprised-the mess of«
| ficer when he said, “Yessir, I’ve
had to eat beans for breakfast.”
| Trainees agree Mr. Nieman’s food
conservation program is successful,
| Speaking of waste, ED CHAP-
| MAN, LLOYD NICHOLS and RED
| MADDEN squandered a box of
| hard-to-get 12-guage shotgun shells
Sunday, bagging a couple of bun-
| nies, a wild “dove” and a buzzard’s
| tail feathers. Red-eyed Red’s aim
| was off and he attributed it to the
| dozen bottles of Oklahoma 3.2 he’d