BTC 10-Shun [October 8, 1943]

              Welcome To The Wacs
The first contingent of Women's Army Corps personnel ar­rived
last week to take over administrative jobs at this post.
There were eight of them—all officers. Their Jobs—like those
being done by Wacs throughout the United States and on the
fighting fronts—are a vital service to the manpower of our armed
forces.
Like you, these women are in the Air Forces. Turn to Page 5
and meet them.
Vol. 2., No. 10. Greensboro, N. C, Friday, October 8, 1943. FREE DISTRIBUTION
^Describes 39 Missions Against Japs
LT. RUSSELL D. (ALL-GUNS) BROWN, speaks to men of Post,
stressing need for physical conditioning and military preparation to
handle enemy. Lt. Brown wears Air Medal, Silver Star, Purple
Heart and other decorations.
Veteran Aerial Gunner
Tells Of Pacific War
By CPL. JOE QUINN.
Lt. Russell D. (All-Guns) Brown,
veteran aerial gunner who parti­cipated
in 39 missions during 15
months as a staff sergeant in the
South Pacific, recounted some of
his combat experiences for the
benefit of trainees in the post's
training wings who gathered Sat­urday
on Drill Field No. 3 to hear
the young officer's talk.
The 23-year old lieutenant wears
the Air Medal, Silver Star, Purple
heart and 19th Bombardment Group
Give $1,514
To War Chest
Voluntary contributions from en
ljsted personnel on the post to the
War Chest Fund amounted to $1,-
514.76 during the last pay day and
contributions to this fund are still
being received.
Moneyfrom the War Chest Fund
Is devoted to the needs of 17 dif­ferent
relief and service organiza­tions.
The USO alone gets 55 per
cent of the allotment and because
Of this direct service connection
enlisted men were given an oppor­tunity
to contribute.
.The largest contribution was
turned in by the members of the
1177th Training Group whd donated
$350.93. The results of the officer
contributions and the separate cam­paign
for civilians are still to be
tabulated.
decoration, among ethers. In talk'
ing to the men of the post he
stressed the value of the basic
training program both from a
standpoint of physical conditioning
and military preparation.
"The fellow who goes overseas
in good physical shape has a darn
good chance of coming back in one
piece, particularly if he has
learned well what he has been
taught in basic training," the lieu­tenant
declared.
At Clark Field.
He was at Clark Field, 60 miles
north of Manila, when the Japs
struck there in their opening at­tack.
He recalled that the enemy
bombers put that field out of
commission that day, firing the
hangars and ploughing up the field
as he and two other sergeant-gun­ners
lay in a fox-hole at the field's
edge.
When the bombing was over and
they looked up again, they dis­covered
a 300-pound dud buried
in the dirt not more than 10 feet
away.
He won the Purple Heart and the
nickname "All-Guns" on the same
mission—the now-famous flight
with Captain Hewlett T. (Shorty)
Wheless that President Roosevelt
singled out for special commen-dation
in one cf his fireside talks.
18 Zeros.
Forced out of formation after a
flight of six Fortresses had started
on a mission to Gaspe Bay in the
Philippines, the plane in which
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18 Soldiers
Take Oath
As Citizens
A group of 18 BTC 10 soldiers,
representing 11 different countries,
was sworn in as citizens of the
United States and pledged them­selves
to "support and defend the
constitution and bear true faith and
allegiance" at naturalization cere­monies
held at the Gilford County
Courthouse Tuesday afternoon.
Joseph P. Shore, clerk of the Su­preme
Court, administered the oath
of allegiance before Judge H. Hoyje
Sink of the 12th Judicial District
The work of drawing up papers for
citizenship applications was done
by the Naturalization Office at BTC
10.
The countries represented by the
men in uniform gathered to take
the oath included Canada, Ger­many,
England, Poland, Mexico, The
Azores, Czechoslovakia, Honduras,
Austria, Italy and Yugoslavia.
Judge Sink commended the men
for the step they were taking and
said that citizenship has a particu­lar
significance to a member of the
armed forces. "It is up to you now
to be a credit to your forebears
and to your newly adopted country
both -as citizens and soldiers," he
told them.
The new citizens are:
Pvt. Anthony J. Arsneault, 1186, Whit­man,
Mass., born in Springhill, Canada;
Pvt. Donald T. Forbes, 1186, Dorchester,
Mass., born in Nova Scotia, Canada;
Pvt. John W. McNab, 1177, Albion, Mich.,
born in Chepstow, Canada; Pvt. Walter,
Symoski, 1183, Erie, Pa., born in Mon­treal,
Canada.
Cpl. Jacob F. Boehm, 1181, Upper
Darby, Pa., born in Planksfadt, Ger­many;
Pvt. Theodore J. Alexander, 1177,
Chicago, 111., born in Berlin, Germany;
Pvt. Jack Manson, 1176, Los Angeles,
Calif., born- in Warsaw, Poland; Pvt.
Aaron Norber, 1177, Detroit, Mich., born
in Bereznica, Poland; Pvt. Eugene J.
Smolewski, 1186, Greenwich, Conn., born
in Bruzska, Poland.
Cpl. Alejandro M. Sandoval, 95th Mess,
Corona, Calif., born in San Diego, Mexi­co;
Pvt. Charles Ramos, Hq. & Hq.,
Philadelphia, Pa., born in Mexico City,
Mexico; T/5 Terpy F. Pickwick, Medics,
Menands, N. Y., born in Manchester,
England; Pvt. John B. Madeiros, 1176,
Fall River, Mass., born in Capellas,
Azores; Pvt. Donald E. Davis, 1181,
Grafton, Mass., born in Tela, Honduras.
Pvt. Fritz Frischer, 1181, New York
City, born in Raskovice, Czechoslovakia;
Pvt. Joseph J. Judak, Sedgefield, Phila­delphia,
Pa., born in Czechoslovakia; Pvt.
John Delmoni, 1179, Brooklyn, N. Y.,
born in Trieste, Austria; Pvt. Liugi
Marinelli, 1177, Detroit, Mich., born in
BariscianOi Italy; Pvt. George Becker,
1177, Detroit, Mich., born in Yugoslavia,
New Setup For
Groups Following
Shifts In Wings
Here is the new setup follow­ing
the. shift of two training
groups from one wing to an­other
during the past week.
The reassignment of units, ef­fective
October 1, transferred
the 1183rd Training Group from
the 302nd Training Wing to the
304th Training Wing and the
1189th Training Group from the
304th Training Wing to the 303rd
Training Wing.
The present training wings axe
comprised of groups as listed.
301st Training Wing, Training
Groups 1175, 1176, 1177 and
1178. 302nd Training Wing,
Training Groups 1179, 1180, 1181
and 1182. 303rd Training Wing,
Training Groups 1184. 1185 and
1189. 304th Training Wing,
Training Groups 1183, 1186, 1187
and 1188.
"Left! Right! Left!"
PICKIN' 'EMC UP AND LAY­ING
'EM DOWN —is Sgt Levi
Leake of the 303rd Wing whose'
own style of cadence counting
has attracted much attention.
Bond Sales Go
Well Over Top
Soldiers and civilians combined
to put the bond drive conducted on
the post during the past month over
the top with a total of $117,798. The
civilian participation was 91.6 per
cent.
Credit for 100 per cent participa­tion
goes to" the Medics, largest
with a perfect mark, 302nd Wing
Hqs., 304th Wing Hqs., 66th Mess
Hq. Det. and the 855 th Signal Of­fice.
Notable sales during the cam­paign
were of a $1,500 bond to
T/Sgt. Wilbert W. Edgerton of Hq.
& Hq., and a $750 bond to an
anonymous private who nearly
caused heart failure when he
walked up to the bond clerk and
slapped .the fistful of bills on his
desk.
Honors for the highest percent
age for a wing group go to the
304th and for the highest percent­age
for a training group to the
1186th.
Although the big push on bonds,
conducted from September 1 to
October 4, is over, members of the
post bond office are not coasting
in their efforts to sell bonds. Mitt-ute
clerks in the civilian offices
and bond clerks in each group still
have bonds for sale and are work­ing
towards the eventual goal of
100 per cent participation by all.
Army Moms Continue
Sewing For Soldiers
Red Cross "Army Moms" are con­tinuing
their work for Service men
in the Greensboro Area at the Red
Cross Sewing Room, 406 W. Gaston
St.
Service men needing minor al­terations
made on their uniforms,
or needing any kind of hand sew­ing
are irwited to bring their gar­ments
to the Sewing Room between
9 A. M. and 5 P. M. Monday through
Friday, and until 1 p. M. Saturdays.
The service is, of course, free.
1177th Wins
3rd Straight
Top Rating
For the third straight month, the
1177th Training Group has come
out on top of the heap in the ad­ministrative
and S-3 ratings for
September with a final grade of
86.69. .
Running a close second with 86.56,
only .14 behind the winner, was
the 1187th Training Group. The
third and fourth places for Sep-tember
were carried off by the
1179th and 1186th with 85.60 and
85.12 respectively. The 304th topped
the wings.
What makes a winning training
group? 2nd Lt. William B. Wine,
the CO, is one of the youngest com- -
manding officers on the post. He is
surrounded by five other young of­ficers,
all second lieutenants.
The emphasis is on field work in
the 1177th, and the officers there
come in close contact with the
trainees. Each officer has as his
principal duty the command of a
training group. They all spend the
greater part of the day in the
field, cleaning up what office work
has to be done in as short a space
of time as possible.
The Officers,
These officers, and their duties be­sides
the first, and most important
one of squadron commander, are as
follows: 2nd Lt. Thomas W. Whit­ley,
personnel officer; 2nd Lt. Leo
Hirsch, physical training officer;
2nd Lt. Malcolm M. Amy, supply
officer; 2nd Lt. Milton M. Cohen,
plans and training officer, and 2nd
Lt. Einar R. Maland, adjutant.
There is a keen spirit of competi­tion
among the various squadrons
as illustrated by the active sports
program, which includes weekly
boxing bouts and a spirited basket­ball
tourney.
The 1177th is one of the oldest
training groups on the post, and all
the key noncoms have been with
the group since it was first organ­ized.
The efficiency of the non-coms
on the office staff is reflected
by the 88.50 rating for general ad­ministration,
highest among any of
the groups. Because these men
know their jobs, the officers have
more time for their own work and
don't have to take time • for petty
details of the group administra­tion.
Lt Wine gives credit to his non»
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Suggestion Box
Used By 183
GI ideamen dropped 183 sugges­tions
into the boxes located strategi­cally
around the post during the
IS days between Sept. 18 and Oct.
1, a new high for the number of
forms filled out to date.
Of these, 24 have been selected to
be passed upon by the Military Sug­gestion
Board this week. The sug­gestions
being considered include
one for uniform regulations on the
issuing of special orders and such
practical ideas as electrically
lighted bulletin boards, better
padded boxing rings, and a simple
attachment to save the hands of
those on mess attendant duty by re­trieving
objects from the hot water.
So far, 22 suggestions have been
accepted. Three day passes were
given out for 21 of these and the
other, from a civilian, rated a five
dollar award.
When The 303rd Marches By, Music Rises To The Sky
By PVT. IRVDJG KOLODIN
Well, here it is.
You've, heard snatches of it on
the parade grounds, or on the
way to and from the drill field
or the stadium. But what is it
all about and who is responsible
for it?
"It," of course, is the infectious,
SSy-arresting chant that the men
/the 303rd wing give out with
they go about the day's rou-ine,
in camp or on the rifle
range, along the roads or on the
drill field.
The refrain goes:
Leader Group
"Left right left" RIGHT
"Left right left" RIGHT
"Left right left" RIGHT
"Left right left" RIGHT
A favorite verse is:
Leader, Group
"Shorty was your pal
when you left" RIGHT
"Shprty was your pal
when you left" RIGHT
"OH, Shorty was your
pal when you left" RIGHT
"NOW, Shorty's got your
gal since you left" RIGHT
The trick, of course, and the
way the whole routine differs
from conventional m a r c h i ng
chants is that the leader begins
and ends his cadence-counting-in-
words in a way that brings
the squadron in on the RIGHT
foot. Thus the word RIGHT is
both agreement with the senti­ment
of the words and a remin­der
of the correct step at that
point.
The whole thing began on the
rifle range about a month ago
when Sgt. Levi Leake took
Squadron B of the 303rd Wing
out for its shooting. He heard
some other outfit chanting and
just.picked it up from them. But
what Sgt. Leake has done with
it since then is, in a word, a cau­tion.
The sergeant- Is an amiable
slow-talking fellow from Cen-tralia,
I1L, who made something.
of a living by smalltime vaude­ville
acting and singing with a
pair of brothers before joining
the army. But even more than
this, he has in him the same
gift for inprovisation and rhym­ing
that you find in the nameless
men who created the work-songs
of the Negro, the "Water
Boys" and "Sometimes I Feel
Like a Motherless Child."
"Get up on a clear morning,"
says Sgt. Leake, "and I start
thinking about the day's work.
Before you know it, I'm chanting
something like:
"Wake up in the mornin'
'fore the break of day"
"Git out on the double, dat's
all the sergeant say,"
"The boys love it," he went on.
"They're always listening for
new ones."
When the mood is on him, he
comes up, with no effort at all,.
with something like this variant:
"'Get up in the mornin' 'bout
a quarter of three
Go down to the chow line,
find you're on K. P."
But the favorite of all, and the
one the men hear most of when
they're out marching is:
"Head and eyes off the
groun'
"Dress it right and cover
down."
There are a couple of folk-characters
who come and go in
the chant, according to Sgt.
Leake's mood. One of them is
"Shorty," introduced above, and
the other is "Jody." Both of these
are synonyms for the boys who
do not qualify for military serv­ice
and have been left behind to
keep the home-fires burning. Or,
as the words of one stanza go:
Leader Group
"You-had lots of money
when you left RIGHT
You left it with your
honey when you left RIGHT
Don't worry 'bout'your
money since you left RIGHT
"Cause Jody's got your
honey since you left" RIGHT
Then there's a variant of the
old "You had a good home but
you left," to which the response,
of course, is "RIGHT." But
Squadron B sings it. "You had
a good family and you left," fol­lowing
which they enumerate
every member of said family,
down to second cousins and dis­tant
aunts.
However, with all his enthusi­asm
and good spirits, Sgt. Leake
isn't feeling so well these days.
For his Squadron B, which he
has brought along from jeep
days, is getting along in its train­ing
and soon will be completely
broken up.
"Good squadron?" he repeated,
in answer to a query. "Man, there
isn't a better one on the post.
There couldn't be. Those boys
are perfect."
He paused for a moment of
thought and added: "If they'd
ship 'em in a group to Guadal­canal,
I'd go with 'em tomorrow.
Why, man, we was like brotheM."