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FOURTH: The Army wants 10
make it a safe and sane Fourth OF
July, as well as glorious one for
your boys and girls.
So, the word has gone down
from General Jacob L. Devers,
commanding the Army Ground
Forces, suggesting to commanders
of posts, camps and stations
throughout the country that they
invite visitors from nearby COM
munities on the Nations Hist
birthday anniversary.
The youngsters, General Devers
believes, are entitled to SEE and
HEAR some fireworks on the
Fourth. And who, he asks, is bet
ter trained than the Army 10
handle them with care?
SCOUTING: Milton Kefauvsr
Of Jersey City, N. j., was assistant
scoutmaster Of Troop $50, Boy
Scouts of America. One day he
changed from the Boy Scout uni
form to the Army uniform, and
eventually the stripe of private
first class replaced the badge of an
Eagle Scout.
When he packed his kit to 60 TO
Germany for occupation duty, he
included a copy of the Boy Scouts
Handbook. Now stationed with an
Air Forces unit near Wiesbaden, he
is teaching American democracy to
German youth. Yep, he organized
"branch" of Troop $50 over
there.
FORWARD: The Ordnance De-
partment of the Army, 1876 years
old this year, could look back on its
glorious part in six of the nations
major wars since 1912. But Mai.
Gen. Everett S. Hughes, chief Of
ordnance, chooses to look forward
rather than backward.
eve are migrating the Ordn-
ance Department with industry on
an operating level" he says. "That
means that Ordnance and industry
will labor at the same DRAWING
board, the same lathe, boring min,
forge, assembly line, and, in f"o4
in every phase of Ordnance work |
down to the shipping platform.
This is important, for there is full
realization that, if another war
comes, production must start in
hours or days instead of months
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VETS, ATTENTION: The dead +
line for veterans of World War II
to file claims for terminal leave
pay is Aug. 81. Maj. Gen. William
H. Hasten. Army Chief of Finance,
urges veterans who have not al
ready filed to do so at once. Forms
are available at all postoffices. A
total of 7,724,657 applications has
already been received, and total
payments to date stand at ST.
249,O18,907.
PILOTS: Army Ground Forces
will send qualified lieutenants and
captains to flying school, whers
they will be trained as liaison pi-
lots. They must qualify for the
fight training. "a
First part of the training will
be given by the Army Air Forces
Liaison Pilot School at San Marcos,
Tex. The six months course there
will be followed by the three
months Army Ground Forces Pilot
Course at the Artillery School at
Fort Sill. Okla.
RECOGNITION: The "Fighting
Goth" is back. That's the New
York regiment which was organ
lied in 1851 and, after winning IL
battle streamers in the Civil War,
couldn't live down its fighting
name. In 1917, it was redesig-
mated the 165th Infantry, but it
fought through World War l as
the Fighting 69th." In World
War II, it again was the 165th on
official records, but the "Fighting
Goth" on the battlefield.
The Fighting 69th," which has
just been granted federal recogni-
ton as the 165th Infantry of the
New York National Guard, is once
more assigned to the 42nd (Rain-
bowl Division, with which it
fought in France in World War 1.
It was part of the 9th New
York; Division in World War II,
and fought, in true 69th fashion, at
Sainan Maxim. Fniwetok and Oki-