The Waterbury Democrat., 1943-11-02

has not been in an air raid can comprehend what that meant to the British. It was like surcease from dreadful pain, and many Brit ish people give the Russians credit for getting those air raids off their neck.
 Land operations are not so very different now from what they were in the first war, in that ground is gained only at the expense of ter- rife fighting, hardships and casu- alties, and usually at quite a slow rate. I had an opportunity of seeing some of this at first hand in the Mediterranean and at the battle of Sicily went from Lon- don to Algiers in Flying Fortress. found that in flight of this sort there is only one hazard in mind The ordinary things you think about flying in normal times, such as bad weather or a bumpy ride, all vanish from your mind. The one question you always think about is whether you are going to be attacked by the Germans. We all took turns looking for the Ger mans and we had the guns out and alerted and the gunners at their places, but am happy to say no Germans showed up.
 T crossed from Africa to Sicily in a troop transport plane. This gives you another kind of feeling because it is not armed It is pack ed with troops and it travels down low over the water All out at full speed, this being the best method of avoiding a successful enemy attack.
 Not Hollywood
 "When you get out on the front, it is hard to believe that you are not on a Hollywood sound stage. Then you soon realize the noises are real, the walls really are falling down, the planes really are diving on you, the wounded really are suf- fering and the men are really dead. Also, that little movement you see out there on that brown hillside is a file of American lads wriggling along on their bellies, endeavoring to get at a group of Germans try ing to kill them with multiple mortar. The Hollywood effect soon wears off.
 You soon get so that you suspect every airplane that appears. There was popular saying at the front which went this way: Famous last words--it's one of ours"
 "The War Correspondents go right out with troops. don't think many of them take unnecessary risks, but if you are going to cover the ar, you have got to get out and see it, which was what they were doing. I saw United Press War Correspon- dents Dick McMillan, Chris Gun ningham and Ned Russell, and Bill Wilson in Sicily. One day both Will son and Russell were strafed. Will sons jeep was hit and burned up. There were slit trenches everywhere and the first thing you looked for when you got to a place near the front lines, was convenient slit trehch into which to jump. There was no fooling about this. If you didn't get into the trench you were regarded as silly and unnecessarily exposing yourself.
 War Conditions
 "The reporters spent the daylight hours seeing the war and then as dusk came on, ey got back to their camps and wrote their stories on typewriters o.i improvised tables. by the waning light. No artificial light was permitted. Couriers took the copy to vari Jus communications centers for distribution throughout the world. Some of these were air plane couriers: others rode moto- cycles. pumping and banging over the shell-pitted roads in thick, blinding clouds of dus,.
 When this war in Europe is over, we are going to have another war to fight, the war with Japan. I dor't think that many uaonls In