The Wilmington morning star., 1945-06-23
It's Marvellous
Bread
BY RICHARD o,M.1,r

c1 BY RICHARD o'MALLEY
GUAM, June 22.-lP,- ~
telling this one on Guam -'.Ty re
Adm. Raymond A. spruanca' oOu,
his son, 1t. Cmdr. Edward ss ana
ance, a submarine skipper. 'p'u'
Recently COMMANDED snu
put into a port, discovered b lance \,
ther was there, too. He ca,lsS "a, ID
telephone and said he'd be- ~ 0g
for dinner: "And will YOU sa nsno
car down for me?" iu
The elder Spruance said M a..
the walk would do his son so ns'
SO the younger spruance trS HIuu
up long, dusty hill to dine 1 ,Tsa
Admiral Spruance. win
Dinner over, the two der,.,
together. At a gate a gimIet ar'ea
Marine stood sentry. Con,n,. r,eu
spruance produced his idsnt ts
caro-. Admiral Spruance pafteJ ~.
pockets, discovered he had lea NM ,J'
at the house. w lily
WELL" said the Marine ..
can go through if Commands.
Spruance will identify you"
Commander Spruance looked =.
Admiral Spruance and remembaras
the long hot walk. Said he IN ~.
Marine: Vie
I never saw the man before i,
my life" Ill
The medical officer said the NJ.
rine in the next ward had des..aa
ed Japanese mahinegun nest n.y.
shot two enemy troopers whilo
caught In crossfire. It seemed
natural to expect to meet , hsrd
bitten character.
Instead the Marine turned NJ. II
be a grinning kid who wanted nost
to talk about the bread he had so,J
in his home town in Ohio.
He had suffered a conclusion in
jury in an Okinawa battle which
was so recent use of his name is
not permitted, but he's getting
along all right. How does con.
versation with a hero 60? In tbis
case it was:
How did you knock off that
Jap machinegun nest?"
well, they were on sort Of .
hill and l moved up, l guess. Saw
are you going to write sometime
for the papers? If you do mention
that bread. Be sure to mention
that bread. It's the best in the
world
| "Okay. Now about that machine.
gun nest :"
"Oh, yeah. Well, could see those
Nips and / had bar Browning
automatic rifle and so crawled
ahead a little way and gave EN-
a burst. Listen, you're not kidding
about mentioning that bread, are
you? I'm going back to my old
/ job when I get out of this"
Il "Okay. It's the best bread in the
world. Even a burnt toast. Now
about that machinegun nest"
"The burst I gave 'em didn't
seem to do much good so | got up
a little farther and l threw a gre.
made. There wasn't much left Of
them. But another machinegun
started to make it hot for me,
they were off at an angle, and
had to go ahead again.
| A Marine in the next bed inter.
rupted.
whats the matter about the
bread? You haven't said anything
about that bread for the last half
a minute" He shook his head. q
been with that guy for long
time now, and mostly he talks
about that bread. l wouldn't eat
that bread if it had diamonds in
the crust. I'm sick of it.
The first Marine pointed an ad-
monishing finger. That's good
J bread, kid"
He continued, strangely enough
without immediate mention OF the
bread.
'Well, I crawled along a little
gully and it got pretty hot
mean they were throwing lot OF
small arms fire and some of it was
pretty close. Pretty soon l saw
these two Japs sneaking along a
little rise ahead of me. l got one
in the head and the other in me
body. Then a shell landed near me-
and that's about all there was 10 !.
for me. The next thing | knew
was in the hospital. But I'm COM
ing along fine. When | get back 70
, the States I'm going right back 70
work.
The Marine in the next bed IN
terrupted again. :.
Don't say it again, Pal n.
lgroaned. Don't say it again Ii.
me do it this time. When you s''
home you're going to start selling
. that wonderful, beautiful, maf'''
. llous bread!'
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