The Wilmington morning star. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1909-1990, 1944-02-10
With
The AEF
BY KENNETH L. DIxoN

NArAho' ltaiy' Feb. 4.-D..
layeO-RHNote from the Avn;
beachhead:
Every time you turn around ,.o,.
run into a new story about :.
Tom Isaac of Seattle, Wash IT,.
the other day, Tom was ,,nst.i..'
in an Italian farm house when =.
commanding officer called w.:
While Tom was downstairs a shot,
shot off the roof and most of a.
upper story and riddled Tom h.,
NET to fragments. Tom was w..
grateful to his commanding Of; y
Ger. VILE
Another time Tom was tal;,
ration detail up to the combat Is d
He was walking in front, bna nue.
the troops, and got about oos
ys:d beyond where ne thon ,VDv
they should be, when he saw sax
solder coming towards him
1t was almost dark and r.
was very relieved. He rushed V VI.
to greet the soldier, saying. W
Gee, I'm glad to see youy
He saw that the man ~,
German at the same time hs l..
ry realized from his words M, w. =
was a Yank. So, in the mid6ls 4.
the 9oad iii no-man's land ,bs
Staged a wrestling match-it w..
too close for guns.
Tom was winning when the ro,.
of the ration detail arrived NY
the outnumbered German surrsn
dered.
While at the beachhead HIM.
ed but couldn't find 1t. WiIboro.
George, another guy everybodv's
talking about. I couldn't fino m,
his home town, either; all any,
body knew was that he's from
Somewhere in Texas"
Anyhow, Georges COMPANY If
half-tracks was moving forward
when about Is Germans cut loose
on them from brush dead ahead
A half-track is not much protec.
ton but Georges boys cracked
away the best they could but we've
not getting anywhere since thew
could not see the enemy.
So George ordered the Is mill.
meter gunners to pull Their bar.
rels down flat and drop few
shells on the brush at point blank
range.
That is not a maneuver listed
in the book for 75's, but it worked
The Germans were flushed out Of
the brush and went scamperns
like scared deer in all directions
The riflemen sat on the half hatH
and picked them off as they broke
out of cover. About Is were lllV1
and the others were captured
The Beachhead Bugle carries
the only completely uncensored
news in these parts. It is edited
and published by censor
It's printing press is the type
writer of 1t. Summers Wilson Of
New Rochelle, N. Y.
! 1t used to be Villa Virtue News
Villa Virtue being the place
where the beachhead reporters
and photographers live-but VII.
son, who quit being a Florida
sports reporter to become New
York advertising man before tie
war, let his flair for the dramatic
get the best of him one night when
the bombs we're falling all a,ond
and renamed the paper the Beach
head Bugle.
The Bugle reports news from
other war theaters by fast oIgoon
| Se't VIC, dLLCS Vic SOliNap"H'-
ents and keeps score on the bon'hs
and shells that fall around Villa
| Virtue.
Night now it is campaigning for
Corp Honest John (the Common
Peoples Choice) Chiodo Of JOINS
town, Penna., as mayor of Net
tuno.
But since its circulation is con-
fined to Villa Virtue it is not both
cred by a blue pencil 50 Wsm
can write about things his orders
force him to cut out of reporters
copy. That is bad enough in Ii
self, but what rubs salt into me
correspondents wounded stories =
the sadistic sentence under Wc
Bugle's masthead each day;
Completely uncensored-all me
news nobody dares to print