The Apache sentinel., 1944-05-19
The Negro Soldier
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and pulyerizing enemy installa-
tions. The only Negro officer in
the outfit is Capt. Simeon john
son, Chaplain, of Roselle, N. j.
Negro infantrymen are now par
ticipating in the battle of Italy,
last minute news releases disclose
The units, commanded by Col
Howard Queen, of Washington,
are assigned to guarding airports
on both sides of the peninsula.
A group Of Negro musicians in
England are winning for them
selves tribute comparable to those
won by similar organizations dur
ing World War I. A 26 piece color
ed band, composed of members Of
an engineers regiment has recent
ly received a letter from the moth
er of General Montgomery, head Of
the British forces, commencing
them on their performance in Lon
don, at benefit sponsored by her.
The band leader is M/Sgt. Lester
G.. Patterson, of Beaumont, Texas.
The Legion of Merit Award was
recently pinned on T/Sgt. William
C.. CLANCY, of Williamsburg, Va, in
recognition of his services to Gen.
Mark Clark, Commander of the
American Fifth Army in Italy. Sgt.
CLANCY is Gen. Clark's personal
aide. Gen. Clark pinned on the
5 medal
TAUGH OF THE WEEK comes from
Bougainville. A party of colored
first aid workers were attending
to the wounds of a white soldier
who had been pierced in the sit
ting-down-plac by a shell frag-
ment. The wounded soldier had
just finished telling the boys that
he was glad they had come along
because he couldn't move sat all"
Suddenly shell-fire began to fall
+ near the party. Up jumped the
pierced buddy and led his COM
radeS on the back trail faster than
they could follow, gauze flying be-
hind him like the tail of kite.
: Huachuca stays in the minds Of
overseas pals through the dis
semination of the Apache Sentinel,
a letter received from the South
west Pacific by 1t. James 7. Cham
bers revealed. The letter written
by Pfc. Raymond Newsome, of an
engineers aviation battalion, states
that he enjoys reading his Senti-
mel. Raymond is surrounded by
cocoanuts (Which he doesn't like) !.
The heat is lessened in his case
because he goes swimming nearly
every day.
HAPPENINGS AT HONIE-Making
profits out of the war is still more
important to some few people than
is terminating 1t quickly and MAX
ing victory productive of better
social conditions A private. mo-
ton picture company, called "The
Negro Marches On, Inc" has filed
a suit enjoining the showing of
The Negro Soldier" War Depart
ment film, because, since it is
shown free, it is giving the COM
pany unfair competition in its
production OF films on Negro sub
jectS. However, inasmuch as the
film is regarded as essential to
the war effort" it will be shown
Z regardless of the private company's
Il kicks" 6a
Art is recognizing the contribu-
ito of Negroes to their country's
armed might: Twelve murals. ap-
pearing on the walls of a recrea-
T ton building at Great Lakes
Training Center, depict the history
Of the Negro in the u. S. Navy.
Edsel Cramer, Isiah Williams and
Hughie L. Smith, Negro seamen of
the 18th regiment there, painted
the muralS. Senator Mead,s book,
published after his travels to all
I. battlefronts, states that: "The
Negroes work in this war, as I saw
it is exemplary They're proving
their worth wherever they serve,
including the para troopers and
the fighter pilots" Senator Mead's
!. book, called Tell the Folks Back
Home was published May. 8, 1914.
That Negro women may serve in
other branches of the Armed forces
than the WACs was the gist of the