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- Soldier’s Corner'
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LOCAL SOLDIER AS A
REPLACEMENT IN ITALY
With The Fifth Anny, Italy —
Private Earl W. Seeds of Wolf
Point, Montana, who came to
Italy as a replacement is serving
in an infantry unit that utilized
every conceivable means of winter
warfare in combatting the Ger
mans on the Fifth Army moun
tain front during the winter just
ended.
He is a member of the 337th
“Wolverine” regiment of the 85th
“Custer” division.
The regiment used many ingen
ious devices, even evacuating the
wounded by sled and ski-equipped
litterbearers.
Between battles, the “snow
boys” of the regiment, command
ed by Colonel Oliver W. Hughes,
held classes in skiing on snow
crusted mountain slopes, within
rifle range of a perplexed foe.
This, coupled with individual im
provisation of winter sports, prov
ed excellent diversion for the men
who fought in white.-
Seeds is a rifleman. He is the
son of Mrs. Mary L. Decoteau of
Wolf Point.
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GABE MORAN WRITES
> FROM PHILIPPINES
■ Dear Mother,
Just a few lines to let you know
I’m getting along fine and hope
you are all the same at home.
You’ll probably or already got
news of me being wounded on
Mindanao. It’s nothing to worry
about. I was hit on the lower left
thigh. I’m still able to walk
around, it doesn’t effect me in any
way at all. I’ll be OK in a couple
of weeks. Well that’s all I have
to write about for now. I’ll drop
a few more lines later on and for
now I’ll send all my love to you
and the rest.
Your loving son, Gabe.
PFC. D. W. MUELLER IS
ONE OF HIGHLY TRAINED
TECHNICIANS IN ITALY
Pfc. Donald W. Mueller is one
of the highly trained technicians
of the 15th Field Artillery Ob
servation battalion, which has lo
cated more than 4100 enemy gun
positions on the Fifth Army front
in Italy, leading to their destruc
tion or withdrawal.
The battalion is now serving in
the Apennine mountains over
looking the P o valley. Only
American unit of its kind in Italy,
it has employed the most modern
methods of betrayal of enemy
positions by flash and sound for
more than 16 months and has, at
the same time, obtained and dis
seminated precise, local meteoro
logical data.
On the Anzio beachhead, where
part of the outfit landed on D
day, January 22, 1944 the 15th
pinpointed 1968 enemy gun posi
tions and 93 other targets, in
cluding tanks anj infantry con
centrations and furnished valu
able meteorological and topo
graphical information to artillery
and air forces units.
The specialists entered combat
near Pietravairano, Italy, October |
27 1943 and participated in the
creeping advance on Cassino until
they were taken out of the line to
sail to Anzio. Part of the outfit
landed in Anzio on D-day, others
went ashore two days later and
the entire battalion was enduring
the daily ordeals of shellfire and
German bombing by early Feb
ruary.
The battalion’s complicated pre
cision work was carried out on
the double from the time the Fifth
Army broke'out of the confines ot
the beachhead in May until it
had helped doughboys sweep
through Rome, Orbetello, Grosse
to and Piombino. Then the 15th
changed its course and moved in-
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land to Florence. The observers
helped firing batteries throw Ger
mans off balance on the north
bank of the Arno river while
bridgeheads were established, then
slug holes in the Gothic line. They
have since carried out their mis
sion in the forbidding mountains
bordering the Po valley.
The 15th sailed from the United
States August 21, 1943.
Pfc. Mueller is flash ranging
observer and is- the son of Mrs.
Nina Mueller of Wolf Point, Mon
tana.
MARK REDD WRITES FROM
“SOMEWHERE IN GERMANY"
Following are extracts from
letters to Mr. O. C. Johnson writ
ten by Pfc. Mark Redd and which
Mr. Johnson thought would be of
interest to Herald-News readers.
Somewhere in Germany
March 11, 1945
Dear Mr. Johnson,
I am in the 9th army and I sup
pose you have read about the big
push we made into Germany. We
found lots of Russian slave labor.
There were also a lot of Poles.
When we ask a civilian if he or
she is a German they say “No, I
am Russian. Pole or French.” Ac
cording to their stories none of
them are German, which isn’t
true, not by a long shot. I don’t
trust any of them.
We haven’t had much trouble
with the German civilians altho a
few of them were caught sniping.
The war is going at a pretty
good pace qver here right now. It
may be over soon, I hope so.
A letter dated March 15, 1945
o Mr. Johnson says, We are back
in a rear area for a rest, so
things are pretty quiet now. A
few days ago we were taking a
town and quite a little lead was
flying around. One of my buddies
caught a slug in his chest and I
thot he was hit bad. He took a
look down and the bullet was
sticking in a strap across his
chest. A lot of crazy things hap
pen over here. Will close now,
Yours truly, Pfc. Mark Redd
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ADDRESS “THE CHAPLAIN”
FOR INFORMATION
ARMY PERSONNEL
Friends and relatives seeking
information regarding army per
sonnel were advised today by
Ninth Service Command Chap
lain J. L. Blakeney to address
communications to “The Chap
lain” of the soldier's organization
to assure prompt reply.
He explained that the practice
of addressing such letters, rela
tive to the spiritual and physi
cal welfare of servicemen, to a
particular chaplain by name fre
quently results in considerable
delay in furnishing the requested
information.
Chaplains are often transfer
ed and all personally addressed
letters are forwarded to their
new assignment points, a place
where they may no longer have
personal contact with the ser
viceman in question.
Frequently arriving at Colonel
Blakeney’s Fort Douglas. Utah
headquarters now are such let
ters addressed personally to him
in the European theater of op
erations Adhere he served many
months ago. These must be re
turned to “The Chaplain” of the
soldier’s. organization oversea^
for action, -causing long delay
and anxiety.
Letters addressed to “The
Chaplairt” at the serviceman’s
last known military address
quickly are routed to the chap
lain nearest the soldier, whether
he is assigned to duty in this
country or overseas, the NSC
chaplain declared.
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