Milford chronicle., 1943-12-31

A sprig of green on the Mediter-
ranean front; today it's camoufage
for an American machine gun nest.
To win quicker our soldiers must
have munitions and materiel, more
and more. To provide them all of
lis must buy more and more War
Bonds. Us. Treasury DEPARTMENT
WELL, READERS. We are on
the way into 1914, and my fervent
hope is that you might have a most
happy year. However, and l do
not want TO he pessimistic but
cannot see where we will have a
very happy year For in my humble
opinion the New Year is going to
bring us great share of the pOr-
ton of blood. sweat and tears that
will descend on all mankind dur
ing the troublesome days ahead.
The war will be won in 1914, at
least that is what our military ex-
perts tell US. but we are also warns
ed that TIE cost of victory comes
high.
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LAST WEEK | mentioned the
fact that during the coming year,
l would try to make my column
more interesting. and from time TO /
time would secure the services of
outside cOlumnists TO give variety
to my own effort. | also plan TO
run a new feature which will he
really the STORY of the week If
you hear of something interesting.
which you think other people would
enjoy hearing about, am no fur
ther away than your phone, call
me and give me the lOw-dOwn. and
if the story does not contain any
thing indecent or its publication
does not contain any thing that .
would hurt anyone. then in time it
will appear Naturally. l will re-
serve the right TO doctor up the
story. but l will deviate not one iOta
from the subject matter as submit
ted by you.
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IN PASSING, might say that
during 1913. | made a number of
predictions. OF these 90 per cent
were right. l am especially proud
of the fact that | was correct on
the Battle for Tunisia. | made a
statement that a new type of mo-
bile rifle of huge Calibre would be
used by the Americans in great
numbers to blast the Nazis, and
that il would clear the way for in
fantIy attack. where planes had
failed. Those of you who followed
this campaign know that this prov
ed true. the great guns hurled tons
upon tons of high explosives on the
entertainments of the enemy, and
the concussiOn of the shell fire was
so great that hundreds of the
Nazis were driven insane. Some of
the captured Germans. who had
seen service in World War les
pecially veterans of the Battle for
Verdun. where over 100000 high
explosive shells were fired in one
four-day period, February 21 to "a.
1916. inclusive. said that the noise
of the battle for the gateway to
runis. was the greatest they had
ever experienced
P/o/
SOME MONTHS ago. Il Marine
Corps combat correspondent de-
rided TO find out for himself whe-
her the medical care in the mill
larry services is as superb as il is
cracked up to be There was Just
Inc way to find out and that was
by joining the ranks OF the sick
md wounded at an advance base.
With the consent of the command
nS medical officer. but unknown to
anyone else. this marine. while at
he front in the South Pacific, pre-
ended serious illness. Two days l
ater he was in a hospital on the j
,dge of Henderson Field, Guadal- ]
anal. A tag on his shirt marked {
lin as Il severe case of peptic ul-
'er. He received no special treat
nent. He was handled exactly as {
,ther evacuees were handled in {
he plane ambulances out of the l
combat area. He was loaded onto a {
plane with seventeen '
,ther sufferers and within a few {
hours was installed in a fully
quipped base hospital with a staff 9
II 400, each physician selected for S
in his field After re- a
ealing his identity. this inquisi- 1
i've marine received permission to /
tay while and observe. In his S
wn words, he saw "a number of @
elicate surgical operations, a wide L
ariety of fracture treatments. T
.ife-sized X-rays were taken,
eeth extracted, dental plates made. +
group of specialists prescribed p
nd fitted glasses. Physical ther-
py experts restored the use of I
ljured nerves and muscles" He Fl
lso saw intensive treatment given o
} serious burns and skin infec- n
ons, as well as skin and bone Il
RATS. When he was through, he a
salized that centuries of medical a
and research have been D
)neentrated in one vast, amazing-t
: efficient effort to prevent the IL
IS of American lives unnecessar- ia
' in.this war through lack of med W
al attention. The inquisitive ma M
ne returned from his self-ap- H
,intad rniseion we'll satisfied a,