Bradley beam., 1944-01-15
ORDNANCE
 BLOCK BUSTER
By Pfc. Erwin Koerber

Operator: Denver, Colorado, call. ing Base Ordnance at Bradley Field. Go ahead, Denver
 West: Hello, is this Base Ord nance7
 co: Yep, Sgt. Savino speaking.
 West: Just the man I wanted to talk to. This is your fellow column. ist calling from Lowry Field.
 co: S-a-a-y! How is school?
 West: Looks like I drew blank temporarily at this ammunition school. Seems as though all the equipment isn't lined up properly as yet; 50 all DS men that report ed for my school are being sent back.
 co: That's good news and also bad!
 West: In a way, one sort of hates to leave this mile-high city, those rays of western sunshine and, oh, those beefsteaks! The field here is also very picturesque with the snow-capped Rockies in the back ground. When you breathe in that dry, clear western air you feel like you're in the air, without fly ing.
 co: How was the trip down?
 West: Swell! Had a pullman all the way. Mallon and I stopped over one night in Chicago. That town really gives soldier good deal. All street cars and buses are free and people seem very friendly. We saw soldiers representing most all of the United Nations. On the train from Chicago to Denver, we met a refugee from the Swedish ship, "Gripsholm." She was an elderly lady who talked unceasingly about the glories of living in free coun- try far away from the tyranical Japs. One trait she talked about, peculiar to the Japanese, was to torture the Chinese in plain view of the Americans interned in Can- ton everytime our bombers came over. Crying to teach us an indi- rect lesson, suppose.) From her, we gathered that the Japs have no notions of ethics and are thorough ly unpredictable and, although they have some points, the bad ones pre- dominate.
 co: That fits into my picture of them.
 West: Whats new at Bradley?
 co: We'll, the 29th has incorpor- ated a lot of units, including ours and malaria lectures "have gotten a lot of stress although you nearly catch pneumonia on the way to att tend one. Good thing, though, l guess. Most of the fellows have re- covered from the holiday festivals and are back on the beam. Of course, New Year resolutions were made and broken. Suppose the best resolution is to resolve not to make one). A lot of the fellows got home for the holidays. Riehl just came tripping lightly in from fur Tough announcing he was in love. Santa Claus seemed to have treat ed everyone pretty we'll and the Red Cross turned Santa by supplying lot of turtke-neck sweaters to the fellows; Kodis seems especially proud of his-probably has high CT collar. Things are moving pretty we'll and on the beam.
 West: How about a pass tonight
 co: Can't do you much good-all taken. Let's see-Golier, Swanson. Vargo, Donovan and Miller have headed for their usual spot-Hart- ford. Minton has signed out for Northampton-Mmmm, that's news for the BEAM" Oh! Oh! Who signed out for Skunk Hollow? Klimek seems to be getting ac. quainted in Windsor and of course Schultz and Springfield are synony nous. Nope, nothing open.
 West: Guess I'll have to roam the range tonight then. Competi. tion is strong here for Wolves howl around here too, even though ] tho,1pht this was covota country.