Milford chronicle., 1942-03-06
CCRIB B L E 6
~ By ROBT. H. YERKES ~

No more evacuations-no more re-
treats-merciless battle-this should
he the United Nations answer to the
AXIS Warlords. No war can be won
waiting for the enemy to attack.
France put her faith In the Maginot
Line, and lost. when a brilliant attack
might have thrown the Germans back
across the Rhine. Russia ''the bear
that walks like a man" has set the
example-attack. attack and continue
the attack. give the enemy no rest,
until sickened by the constant struggle
he breaks up into disorganized mass.
/s/s/.
What disgusts us more than any
other thing is the rubbish that some
people are repeating regarding the
effort being put forth by our British
allies-that we are being used. that the
English will fight to the last American
and such damn nonsense as that,
Whatever are private opinions
this is no time to air them, when we
dc we.help the Axis. They want us to
become disheartened, they want us to
start quarreling with our Allies, they
want us to do this because they are
afraid of us, they fear our wealth, they
fear our production and last but not
least they fear our fighting men. Amer
ican- troops have not been defeated
to rout at Bladensburg, and Washing
ton was burned by the English in the
War of 1872. The seventh calvary was
massacred by the Sioux at the Big
Little Horn in 1877. but they were not
defeated-'they died with their boots
on" When enough of our lighting
men" reach the fronts, the Axis will
learn to their eternal regret that the
War is He'll phrase coined by the
late General Sherman is a truism. The
Axis does not want to learn the hard
way, they want the United States
to keep their war ships at home. their
planes at home and their tanks and
the men to roll them" at home. They
are conceited enough to believe that
the American people can be mfsled by
lies, and that we will stop help to our
Allies and concentrate on defending
our own shores and our own shores
alone Well, friends, they have under
estimated us, We are in this war to
win and win we will-so help us God.
/s/s/
Received a letter today from Emil
Kielbasa. son of Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew
Kielhasa, of near Milford Emil, an
honor graduate of the local high school
and of the University of Delaware, is
now. located at Moore Field, Mission,
Texas, where he is working hard for
his commission in the Army Air Corps.
Emil says that spring Is in the air in
Texas, and the citrus fruit groves are
very impressive looking, both from the
ground and from the air. All the equip
ment he and other aviation cadets are
using at Mission is new and the boys
to quote Emil ''are getting a big kick
from getting new things to use" The
morale is high at Moore Field, and
Emil and the other youths are becom-
ing anxious to strike a hard blow for
democracy. We have no doubt that
when the time comes for a decision
this outfit win cover itself with glory
and my friend, Emil. will be winging in
the lead.
/s/s/
While my friends in the Air Corps
write that they are getting ready to
strike hard determined blows at the
enemy, the men who man the Ack-Ack
guns on the ground are also prepar-
ing to deal the Axis air fleets stagger-
ing blows. One outfit has composed a
bit of rhyme, which has become the
prayer of all ground gun crews in the
u. S. Army. The poem follows:
Dive Low, Dive Bombers
I looked straight up and what did I see,.
Six dive bombers diving at mel
II my eyes listened TO my feet,
NY eyes would still be running-in retreat.
But I cut the fuse on three-inch shell
And our guns were quickly giving them hell.
Six silver planes came sailing by,
And we blasted two right out Of the sky.
This is our warning to the Rising Sun:
It won't be long til we have the war won,
Dive low, dive bomhers, and give us a chance;
Dive low, dive bombers, in your dying dance