The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-03-17

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 Frederick Murphy has been transferred from Samp son. N Y where he finished his boot training to NoI!ok Naval Hospital at Portsmouth, Va He likes 1t very much but says 1t requires great deal of study FreoercE IS e onlv Son of Mr and Mrs. Thomas Murphy of Capitol Avenue.
 Dick Baldwin, son of PatrOlman and Mrs. Richard Baldwin of S7 Hillside Avenue is enjoying l4'day frIough here with his wife after completing his basic training at the Naval Station at Sampson N X LOOK ing fit as fiddle the keable lad certainly knows nov to wear uniform. He and Irene Brunelli or WoonsOcket R. l., mddle-asled-it last June lS ana beieve.yOume they make couple worth gVng another look.
 sgt Maurice F Fitzgerald U. s, M. C., son of Mrs Alice Fitzgerald 149 Madison St., and the late NauCe Fitzgerald of the Fire Department is nome on luIoue after completing his training at Paris Island S. C. ana Camp Lejeune New River Quartermaster Scnool graduate of Wby High School where he eXceeo at Io0 ball he enlisted in the Marine Corps in December l94z
 Pfc Richard J. Claffey of the Marines, son of Mr. and Mrs Thomas V CIaffey of l28O Griggs Street IS home furlOugh after being stationed m the Vmg ris Islands II months He received his training at FarrS Island, S. C., Jacksonville, Fla, and Quantico, Va
 James c. Bowe, CMM United States Coast Guard, of East Haven dropped in to the Tower to say au reVo as he is shipping out to territory He was recently stationed around Staten Island. Jim IS the former owner of the Annex Club in East Haven and IS the husband of Merle Nannete Stoddard of Fox Street. now a nurse in New Haven
 Evelyn ScigianO daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Louis F SCigIano of 56 Clifton Avenue, has been elected socreary-treasurer of her dOrmtOry Bates House. at Pembroke College in Brown University, Providence RL graduate of Crosby High school, Miss SclgHanO was a member of the freshen party committee anu chairman of the Christmas Breakfast for Bates House.
 
 Editor Tall Tower Topics. | wish that nope were a reality There still many people today who cng to the hope that our enemies will break up from Wtnn as was true in 198-that they have suffered rrepaFape losses in men and material Perhaps Germany will break up from within - let's hope so let's pray for ths to happen. However we must remember thlS: III Wollo War political parties existed in all of Germany Free dom of speech pravaled in Germanydurng our world war Today it's different There are no political Partes' There's only the Gesapo and we know what the does to those who oppose Hitler There are in thls country many people who truthfuy believe that our bombing of German cities will force the Germans to give up-that their morale will crack. However we must realize that just read of the bombing or German cities the Germans believe our clues are pens likewise bombed and destroyed We know that neither Japanese or German borbers have anywhere near our cities the cold bare facts of the matter are tnat the German people actually believe our seacoast ctes and some of our Great Lakes cities have been practically destroyed The Germans get hold of pictures of natural disasters in America They blow these pictures up into story and the German people actually believe that the damage they from the picture was brought about bv Japanese and German bombers. General George V Strong, Assistant Chief of Staff in charge of military intelligence whose job it is to know what the enemy IS doing and what he is thinking and planning tells us that today the German Army has three times as many combat divisions in the field when Poland was attacked four years ago. The Germans have raised and equipped armored motorized and infantry divisions to replace every one of the twenty divisions lost at Stangrad last winter In 1943 alone, the Germans reformed or re equipped and raised than sixty (60 new divisions each of which has approximately 600 machine guns and 300 heavier guns or weapons. The German Luftwaffe is now larger than 1t in 1889 despite the heavy losses inflicted by the Allied Air Force. AS to manpoWer, the number of workers employed in war industries In Naz dominated territory has risen from 23O000OO at the star of the war to 35,000000 These workers in Germany war effort are making weapons that in some cases ar better than any possessed by any of the United Naons One of these new weapons is rocket gun which weigh less than 1900 pounds, yet has fire power equal to s heavy howitzers weighing nine tons each. To comoa this armed might of Germany we must transfer ou Armies and their material over minimum water rout of more than 5000 miles and we must continue furnish the men with replacement equipment Fo example, when we sen6 100 overseas with lOO rlleS we have to ship 60 extra rifles each year to replace tnos that will be lost damaged. For every 100 macnin guns we must send 34 additional guns to keep the orgna loo firing AMERICA MUST REMAIN ALERT Axe Nielsen Comdr Clifford R. French, Post Mo- p, Amer can Legion, Thonsaston.
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