Camp Howze Howitzer (Camp Howze, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, August 27, 1943 Page: 1 of 4
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To care for the wounded men.
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When you get hurt we’ll go to
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To drag you from death’s door
You give ’em hell, we’ll get you
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Cause we’re the Army Medical
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lowing Saturday night I was fully
repaid my trouble after hear-
ing the approval of the Medical
Corps staff.”
Since that time the song has
been played over the air several
times, and at many dances and
concerts. The song and words are
copyrighted and soon they will
be used by the medics all over
the world.
Here are the words:
MEDICAL CORPS SONG
We don’t fly planes, we don’t
shoot guns
We don’t man ships at sea
But we do fight, both day and
night
With death our en-e-my.
A Nurses’ smile is worth your
while
When you can’t fight no more
Sometimes we fight with death
all night
To make one’s heart beat on
We stay awake cause death won’t
wait
Until the break of dawn.
When war is done, and we have
won
There’s peace forevermore
You give ’em hell, we’ll get you
well
Cause we’re the Army Medical
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BREAKS APLENTY—Everything will be broken, including the
audience’s ribs, at the laugh provoking antics of Milt Britton’s band
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G. 1. TOTEM POLE—T-4 Duke Tornell carries the load of his section on his back, as all enlisted
men of the 84th Infantry Division Special Service demonstrate above. Suspended in the air with no
Support other than Sgt. Tornell’s size 10%D‘s are Pfc. Irvin Levy, T-4 Melville Johnston, T-5 Don
Gayei’ and Sgt. Ralph Baker. That makes a total load of 865 pounds on Tornell’s shoes, including the
normal weight of 215 that the Railsplitter athletic director carries around. Tornell hails from Ri-
pon, Calif., where the wife and 333 other citizens call him “Truck.” The kibitzer is Capt. Herbert H.
Morris, Division athletic officer.—(Official Army photo.)
Artillery Group Now In Camp
A gigantic out-of-doors dance
will be held on the North Texas
Teacher’s College slab at Denton
tomorrow night at 9 p. m.
Three orchestras—the pick of
students attending the Band In-
stitute at the college—will fur-
nish continual music for the en-
tire evening. Floyd Graham, con-
ductor of the popular USO regu-
lar orchestra, will lead the mu-
sic. One orchestra will represent
the 84th Infantry Division and
will be known as the Woodchop-
per Serenaders. The 86th Infan-
try Division will sponsor the
Blackhawk Song Birds and the
Cloud Busters will represent the
Air Force.
The orchestra voted the best by
service men attending the dance
will be given an award by the
Denton USO.
Arrangements for the dance are
under the guidance of Miss Vir-
ginia Hicks, co-director of the
Denton club.
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SICILY (CNS).—Pvt. Tony Ca-
lato of San Francisco was sleep-
ing in the brick courtyard of a
police station in Palermo when a
guard woke him up. “There’s an
old Sicilian outside,” said the
guard. “He wants to see you.”
Tony went outside and started to
hug the old man he found waiting
there. It was his grandfather.
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hit on USO-Camp Shows’ big
summertime schedule of free en-
tertainment for service men, will
appear here next week.
The,first show will be in the
84th Division outdoor theater at
8 p. m., Aug. 31, while the 86th
Division outdoor theater will be
the scene of a performance on
Sept. 1 at the same time. There
will also be a show in Red Cross
building at the Station Hospital
at 3 o’clock on Sept. 1. In case
of bad weather, the show will
be presented at 7 and 9 p. m. in
■ theater No. 3 on Aug. 31 and at
the same time in theater No. 4 on
Sept. 1.
A slap-happy, Broadway musi-
cal revue with a cast of headline
performers, “Take It Easy” stars
Milt Britton and his mad, musi-
cal maniacs.
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McMurray was born in Gaines-
ville, Texas, but later moved to
Oklahoma. The 202nd F. A. Bat-
talion is commanded by Lt. Col.
Tom Lewis, and the 961st Bat-
talion is commanded by Lt. Col.
Elmer J. Koehler, a West Point
graduate. Until recently it was
commanded by Lt. Col. John L.
Thompson, Houston, who had
been with the battalion since its
organization.
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Camp Howze has a song hit on
its hands.
When Lt. Col. William M. Caf-
fee asked Tech. Sgt. Gaylord Ber-
nard to write a Medical Corps
song some weeks ago, he didn’t
reckon that he would get exactly
what he did. But he reckoned
without the sergeant’s ability.
Let. Sgt. Bernard tell it in his
own words:
“Col. Caffee requested that I
write a Medical Corps song on
Wednesday. I went home that
night and hummed to myself for
two hours after going to bed, Mrs.
Bernard thinking I was crazy
after finding out I was not put-
ting on a radio program in my
sleep.
“About 11 p. m. I had a brain
storm and the melody for the
song began to shape in my mind.
In an hour it sounded pretty good
so I decided to go to sleep and
give my wife some-rest and if it
stuck in my mind in the morning
I would write the words.
“When I got up I was humming
the tune so I sat down and in
fifteen minutes wrote out the
words and with the help of Cor-
poral Larry Jones (pianist in the
band) we added the arrangement
and had it all fixed and played
it with the band in 24 hours.
Presenting it to the Medical Of-
ficers at the Club dance the fol-
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Monday Deadline
On Ration Book 3
Military personnel have just
three days left to mail their spe-
cial Armed Forces applications
for War Ration Book No. 3, to
beat the August 31 deadline, ac-
cording to Lt. Vincent J. Buck-
ley, camp rationing officer.
In Camp Howze, the special
applications may be obtained at
the Rationing Office in Building
T-1330 on Lincoln Avenue near
Rogers street. The blanks must
be filled out in print or on type-
writer, and mailed so that the
postmark is prior to midnight
Monday. Office hours are from
8 a. m. to 4:30.
Those who do not mail the
Armed Forces applications by
Monday will have to apply at
their local ration boards, and
probably will have to wait past
September 12 for their books.
Applications will be gathered
at the OPA mailing center, Chi-
cago, Ill., and inmates of the
Joilet, Ill., prison will process
the cards and mail the new ra-
tion books to applicants. The
books should arrive before Sep-
tember 12 with three shoe cou-
pons attached, according to Lt.
Buckley.
The new books, with their
vari-colored stamps, will become
valid September 12. They are
good for meats, processed foods,
sugar, and shoes, replacing Ra-
tion Books 1 and 2.
Hap Hazard, the careless co-
median, assisted by Mary Hart,
who cares less, is another laugh
act. One of the most sensational
big-time balancing and juggling
acts, Hap has highlighted his
number with comedy patter
while perched near the roof of
the stage and at the same time
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Boxes Placed
For Advisers
“Ideas for Victory” which may
occur to civilian workers of the
camp may pay well if placed in
suggestion boxes placed about
the installation.
Boxes as placed are in Camp
Headquarters, where there are
two, Finance Office, Stational
Hospital, Post Engineers, PX
Cafeteria and Camp Quarter-
master office.
Awards for suggestions adopted
‘may run from $5 to $250. ___
Nazi Prisoners to
Wear 1918 Uniforms
All the tortures you have heard
your dad say the 1918 doughboy
uniform caused him will soon be
inflicted on Nazi prisoners of war
at the Huntsville Internment
camp.
Several hundred of the obsolete
uniforms, held over from the last
war, have been received at the
camp. They will be dyed blue,
painted with the “PW” identify-
ing marks, then issued to the su-
permen of the African campaign.
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Almost $90,000
Poured Into Two
I Projects for GIs
About $90,000 worth of solid
entertainment and recreation is
rapidly being completed in
Gainesville for Camp Howze sol-
diers.
The Government and the USO
are working hand in hand on two
buildings designed to give hours
of fun and relaxation to hard-
‛ training soldiers of this camp.
Both of the projects are sched-
uled for completion within about
30 days, according to USO club
directors.
First of the two new clubs to
open, if all goes on schedule, will
be the Pecan Street USO Club.
The former church building on
Lindsay and Pecan streets was
given to the USO several months
ago, and workmen have been
painting and pounding the place
into shape with an $8,000 remod-
eling job. The staff which now
operates the California Street
USO club will begin moving
equipment into their new quar-
ters next week, according to
Mrs. Regina Ewalt, club director.
Mrs. Ewalt said Richard Vander
Straten, USO building counselor
of San Antonio, would arrive
here Monday to inspect the work
and accept the building.
Two Story Structure
The Pecan Street club will oc-
cupy two floors of the former
church structure. The upper floor
will be devoted to lounge chairs
and writingdesks. In the base-__
ment, recreation headquarters
• will be set up. Ping pong tables,
and other indoor games will be
set upon the concrete floors, and
a music room is also on this
lower floor. A shower room, lav-
atory, and dressing room have
been built for soldier visitors.
An even larger project than
the Pecan Street club is the
Fair Park installation being
built by the government. It will
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Prince of Swing;” his orchestra,
“Take It Easy,” another smashacrobatic band which for the continuous howls of laughter world,
past 13 years has been arousing from audiences all over the
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Divisions. The 202nd F. A. Bat-
talion is composed largely of Ok-
lahoma troops and officers, while
the 961st, formerly the 2nd Bat-
talion, 133rd F. A., is largely
Texans. The Group Headquar-
ters Battery was formerly Head-
quarters Battery, 189th Field Ar-
tillery, 45th Division.
Lt. Col. Tom McMurray, Ok-
lahoma City, is acting comman-
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be directed by the staff of the
present Elm Street USO club,
but everything—even the furni-
ture — will be provided by the
government. The new $80,000
structure will probably be ready
for occupancy by about Septem-
ber 15, judging by present prog-
ress. This was the prediction
Thursday of Miss Muriel Heu-
sler, associate director of the Elm
Street club.
Rooms Do Double Duty
The F a ir Park building in-
corporates five club rooms, some
of which “double” as a library,
or stage dressing rooms. The
theatre, or main recreation hall,
has a high-arched ceiling, and is
soundproofed. Its floor has been
sanded for perfect dancing con-
ditions.
In the main lobby, tinsmiths
are installing sinks for the snack
bar and kitchen. On the other
side of the lobby, plumbers are
finishing off the shower room
and lavatory. The building will
be steam heated, and radiators
are piled outside the front en-
trance awaiting installation.
ASF Mission Told
By Col. Wheeler
The mission of the world’s big-
gest business, the Army Serv-
ice Forces, and the way that mis-
sion is carried out in Camp
Howze, was described Thurs-
day noon by Col. John P. Whee-
ler, camp commander, at a
luncheon meeting of the Denton
Rotary club.
“The principle objective of the
Army Service Forces and its
component Service Commands is
to render assistance in all mat-
ters of supply and administra-
tion to all elements of the
Army,” Colonel Wheeler pointed
out.
He outlined the functions of
the Eighth Service Com-
mand, including Selective Serv-
ice induction centers, supply of
all types of equipment, hospital-
ization, repair of vehicles and
equipment, and supervision of
transportation among the many
duties of the Command.
Paralelling the duties of Serv-
ice Command officers in Camp
Howze with city officials in Den-
ton, the camp commander de-
scribed supply and administra-
tive work carried on by Camp
Headquarters sections.
Colonel Wheeler praised the
City of Denton for opening all
its recreation facilities to Camp
Howze men. “Your contribution
to the morale and high spirits of
the troops is appreciated by
their commanding officers,” he
said.
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performing amazing feats of
dexterity.
The Three Flames, one of the
best skating acts ever seen, holds
a featured spot. Startling and
novel lighting effects are secured
through use of special neon
lights.
Terpsichore is taken care of by
the specialty act of Jane Fraser
and the Roberts Sisters, three at-
tractive young tapsters, who
work out their flashy rhythms .
on drums.
Rounding out the revue is
pretty Ruth Petty, favorite bal-
lad and blues singer of the smart
supper clubs and theaters.
The 202nd Field Artillery
Group, composed of 202nd Field
Artillery Group Headquarters
Battery, 202nd Field Artillery
Battalion, and 961st Field Artil-
lery Battalion, arrived in Camp
Howze Thursday. The group
will be stationed at this post.
The 202nd Group, a 155mm
howitzer unit, Third Army
troops, is composed of a battalion
from each of the 45th and 36th
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Russo, E. Manne. Camp Howze Howitzer (Camp Howze, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 2, Ed. 1 Friday, August 27, 1943, newspaper, August 27, 1943; Camp Howze, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1407185/m1/1/: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Cooke County Library.