The Waterbury Democrat., 1944-09-19
JOTTINCS BY 4 REPORTER ON
 PACIFIC FRONT
By FRANCIS McCARTHY Limited Press War Correspondent

Advanced Allied Headquarters New Guinea (UP)-Here and there iS the Southwest Pacific area iii t1le course of . siX-week tour Of the worlds second largest island If Australia is considered to be q continent): .tt..s
 First, U. S. Army nurses have ar. rived In distant Hollandia for duty. We ran across Q group of them the other day at the 43rd Field Hospi- tel, Of which the commanding offi- cey IS Maj. John 6ueri1 of Chi. cago, II. Maj. duerin, overseas for the past 90 months, had his inc ternsllip at St. Anthony Hospital, Chicago. Seventeen nurses are lil' der his jurisdiction, most of them from Wisconsin and Michigan. ThFty-one other nurses have, however, been assigned to him for duty, while another 3l nurses are quartered in the same general area.
 AdJutant to the major iS 2nd It. 4. H. Oben, also of Chicago, who serves as special service officer It, Olsen, a lawyer itl civilian life, has been in the service for 3e months, the last six Of which have been spent overseas.
 Chief of Surgery at the 42rd Field situated. by the way, on the side Of q htiI, ig Maj. John W. Agi1s worth of CoeburTl Va, who iIl. termed in Baltimore, Md. We found Maj, Ashwortb and his assistant, Capt Clarence T. KristIanSen Of Chicago, operating on . Japanese dispatch rider. captured in the general vicinity of Manokwari when one Of our PTS sank the barge in which he was q passenger.
 Walking Up the hill to get look at the Nurses Quarters, enclosed by barbed wire. and guarded by husky MP's we ran into Capt. Norma M. Miller Of O1ekarIla, Mich, who Is chief nurse at the 45rd, and some of her girls, iI1cIud- ing Georgia M. Ivanof of Chicago, Elaine Y. NtceroS Of Grand Rapids, Mich, and Helen 4, ChTZan Of Nil. Wsukee, Wis.
 Under the careful supervision Of Lt, Olsen we continued our tngpec. ton of the nurses "biVouac area, '" encountering, iil Q tifl.roofed "rec- hail" a second group of "eyefuis," ]" including Viola L. Jones Of Belle vile, Kan; Georgia L. Walker of Barberton, O., and Margaret Matvy Of Portage, Pa, which Is near JohnStoWn. Margaret, prior to coming overseas, lived for four years with relatives in St. Louis, Mo.
 All of the aforegoing had been overseaS approximately IS months
 But the girls who were really "sweating out rotation" turned out to be veterans of 90 months Of foreign duty-aiI Of them attached to the I2th Station Hospital cons nanded by Maj J. P. Grier of Evanston, I'll, - namely, Mary A. Bartletta Of Boston, Mass. the only New Engiander til the group; Mary c. Kin of Forest, O., who trained in Toledo and at Detroit Mich, and F. Elizabeth Jay oi DsnVilIe, III. The girls were talking to one of the Juniors" of the group. Gladys M. HovIand of "a. coma, Wash. who turned out to be a close friend of an ir1.Iaw of ours.
 The girls "rec hall" tin-roofed, ss we said before, had 8 cement floor, walls Of buriap and a few Stray scatter rugs and battered lounge" chairs. A tiny bar" at the end of the hail however, fIir- niShed the required "States-side' touch; at least to a certain extent
 Some Of the figures of yester- day" we ran into on the Wewak- Aitape front included It. Col Monk" Myers, of West Point and All. American football fame; Gro yer Whalen, Jr.. of the New York Worlds Fair WhaIens, a private in the Air Corps, and PT-n1an Mike Moran, the Third. New York tug. boaters by that name.
 Aigo very much in evidence along the Aitape-W -Wewsk front were { couple of RAAP (Royal Australian Air Force) Beaufort bomber Squadrons, engaged in the faSci, mating pastime of determining which could drop the greatesl number of bombs on enemy per. sonnel areas in the shortest poSsi. ble length of time.
 The winning squadron dumped approximately l2S,500 pounds ot bombs in 6o Sorties, each of 30- minutes duration, within 24 hours Previous record by a squsdron had been 100000 pounds of bombs in 5I Sorties within 24 hours.
 Also at Aitape were two old friends of United Press connecticut namely. Henry McLemore. erst. while coluInnist and current Army combat correspondent. now ser geaat, incidentally. and Bill Mer- rick. formerly of Time whose wife. Joan Younger, is one of UPS veteran women stan coErespon. dents. Merrick. %. is attached tc an Army combat correspondent unit in the Southwest Pacific. Both he and McIemcre are from New York.
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