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THE HOWITZER
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 11, 1944.
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410th Starts Regimental Tournament
After Closely Fought Preliminaries
Furlough Time
For Cactus GIs
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• NEW GEORGIA (CNS). Sgt.
GI ENTERTAINERS AT GAINESVILLE—Local citizens who bought bonds to attend the war
bond show at the State theater Thursday of last week got an added bit to their money’s worth when
CpI. Frankie Scardino gave with his aeordion and Cpl. Stanley Lander sang his specialties, light
and popular classics.— (Signal Corps Photos).
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Question: If a sailor marries a
Pistol Packing Mama, does that
make him a gunner’s mate?
alone together.
If a married woman became
pregnant, Miss Davis said, her
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ternal spy system is extremely
developed. Even housemaids
have been trained to-spy.
“The men who built up that
organization know they are lost
if Germany gives in.' So the Ger-
man people are given the one
simple theme: ‘If Germany is
lost, you are lost.’
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Bowlers Session
Last Friday Eve
Bowling teams of Company D,
410th Infantry regiment, played
their second series of games last
Friday at the Varsity Lanes in
Gainesville.
Mortarmen of the Third pla-
toon defeated the machine gun-
ners of the Second by 2348 to
2012. The First platoon beat
Heaquarters 2517 to 2371.
High scorer was S-Sgt. Altese
iof Headquarters who rolled a 224
game. High average was won by
T-4 Hedinger, who averaged 171
for three games.
Spectators’ delight is Pfc. Ad-
amszyk who gives his left foot
a quick shake just before the ball
hits the pins. He claims it gives
the ball just the right twist. Must
be something to it because he av-
eraged 148 for the three games.
weighed 260 pounds.
Pfc. Ivey, the light heavy-
weight entry, has competed in
three Golden Gloves tournaments
and one AAU card. He won the
state Gloves meet of Missouri in
1938 and the Midwest AAU in
1940 as a welterweight. He was
beaten in the national AAU in
Boston during the semi-finals.
Pvt. Lopez has fought exten-
sively since 1938, when he was
runner-up in the flyweight class
in Colorado. In 1939 he won the
state championship in the feath-
erweight class, which qualified
him for the New Mexico tourna-
ment.
Vile Views the
Wicked World
By Cpl. Dave Vile
41 0th Infantry
Mounted on a jeep, microphone
in hand, the genial lieutenant in
charge of a rocket launcher dem-
onstration for the 410th Infantry
regiment waxed lyrical about the
range of that weapon. A large
crowd of soldiers listened with
rapt attention.
“And fellows,” said the lieu-
tenant, pointing to a large hill
that served as backstop for the
demonstration, “if that hill were-
n’t in the way, these projectiles
would keep right on going into
Camp Howze and wipe out the
whole 3rd battalion area.
With one voice, the audience
came back: “Move-the hill!”
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defeats. As result of a tie, the 2nd
Battalion Hq. Co. and H Co., will
battle it out to determine the' sec-
ond-best team.
As of last Friday a four-way
clinch for the top rung compli-
cated matters in the 3rd Bat-
talion, but that night the rugged
M Co. team knocked I Co. out of
the race in a fast game. M Co.
come through with a score of 26,
while I Co., trailing at the half
and giving M the jump all the
way, hung up a tall of 24.
The rangy K Co. five headed
by T-Sgt. Curtis cinched its right
to tournament play by defeating
L. Co. The score tied at the end
of the game, K overpowered L
to win, 28 to 28.
First game of the regimental
tourney was played Monday
night when A-T met M Co. The
Tankers were too much for the M
squad and won 43 to 24. The A-T
combination of Krom-Pigsley is a
forward wall that gives no rest to
the opponent. Aid Sgt. Weyghant
is a guard who is a tremendous
obstacle to the attacking team.
Bolek scored 14 of M Co’s points.
In the second game Monday
night, B Co. defeated K. Co. 37 to
25. B held the lead most of the
game, with K. threatening only
during the third quarter. The
B’s soon found their stride again
and held the.lead until the whis-
tle. Tall, rangy T-Sgt. Curtis
scored 10 of the loser’s points.
High man for the victors was-Pfc.
Milczewski, fast-moving midgets
who rolled in 11 points.
Final championship game will
be played Sunday afternoon in
the 410th recreation hall. The
winning team will receive a 13-
inch trophy. Individual medals
will be given the 10 members of
the winning team.
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“ years in power. Day and night
the press and radio have worked
! to amalgamate the people into
one unit. They have succeeded
only too well. To a large degree
the people have lost the power of
realizing there can be something
else than the government they
have.” 1
Freitag pointed out how a
German boy of 14 when Hitler
came into power is now a man
of 24 or 25 who has had no chance
to hear, read or speak anything
else but the Nazi line. To be free
and to speak or think as you
please is something they can’t ev-
en understand, he said. Even
their elders, • hearing the same
thing day in and day out, have
almost forgotten the habit of in-
dependent thought, he added.
The best hope of an uprising
against the Nazi masters, Freitag
believes,- is in the occupied coun-
tries where opposition to the Na-
zis has resisted atrophy.
Pvt. Freitag became an Ameri-
can citizen last December under
Army regulations that speed up
the naturalization process. His
wife, whom he married in Paris,
has completed her first naturali-
zation hearing. The couple came
to the United States in 1938 and
lived in New York, where Frei-
tag was vice president of a branch
of the same firm he was with in
Paris.
He was inducted last August at
Camp Upton, N. Y., and came to
the 103d last month from Camp
Fannin, Texas,
initely in the running in the 2nd ) pledged or purchased outright by
battalion with four wins and no company members.
“H’m,” he mused as he leaned
over to take a drink of water,
“wonder how much water they’ve
got in the chlorine this morn-
ing?”
The 103rd Division band is tops
in our book. Last Saturday night
in the main auditorium at TSCW
in Denton the band put on a
show that was a daisy. The con-
cert held in connection with the
Denton County Fourth War Loan
band rally found the audience
enthusiastic. No doubt the band
boys were inspired by the TSCW
eyefuls among the spectators.
Instead of the martial airs
which might be expected from a
military band, our band played
brilliantly such numbers as “Em-
braceable You" by Gershwin;
Cole Porter’s “Begin the Be-
guine” and Vincent Youman’s
“Tea for Two.”
The baton twirling of Cpl. Wil-
liam Sears, national champion,
was something to see. Sears high-
lighted his demonstration by.
twirling two illuminated batons
while the auditorium was blacked
out.
Leo Catalano, 160, middleweight,
Co. G; Pfc. Nick F. Kontopolous,
145, welterweight, Co. L; Pfc.
Floyd R. Wakeford, 118 bantam-
weight, Co. G, and Pfc. Joe D.
Vasquez, 112, flyweight, Service
Co.
S-Sgt. Morris M. Zuver of Co.
M and Cpl. Michael H. King of
Anti-tank Co. are seconds. Pvt,
Ignacio P. Cannella, medical de-
tachment, is team medic.
Sgt. Brast suffered his only de-
feat in Golden Glove competition
in 1942. Anyone who saw that
show will remember his terrific
battle with the Scandinavian
giant,- Gilbert Stromquist, who
towered at 6 feet, 8 inches and
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Regimental basketball tourna-
ment of the 410th Infantry regi-
ment is under way after a closely
fought preliminary schedule.
Two teams rose from each bat-
talion and the special units to vie
in the final tourney. Early
play was co even that one game
remains to be played between Hq.
Co. and 2nd Battalion Hq. to de-
termine second place in that bat-
talion.
The regular schedule was run
in a modified round-robin fash-
ion. Each team met once to de-
termine the two top teams in each
battalion. The regiment followed
the games with enthusiasm. Win-
ners follow':
Anti-tanK Co. won top honors
in the special units by defeating
Service Co., 34 to 22. The hard
fighting A-T team has four wins
and no losses, while Service Co.
has three wins and one loss.
Co. A and Co. B of 1st battalion
are leaders in their group with
three wins and one loss each. The
shifty A Co. quint defeated Hq.
Co. in a fast game Saturday aft-
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ment’s basketball championship,
Co. B, Co. K and the Medics are
clinging to the top rung of the
ladder.
Co. F, leader in the 2nd bat-
talion league, was idle this week.
The schedule was abbreviated be-
cause of training requirements,
and only six games were played.
Co. K, 3rd battalion leader, had
another close call Monday night
and was forced into an overtime
period before overcoming 3rd
battalion Hq. Co. by 21 to 17.
Headquarters scored 13 of its 17
points in a second-half rally, but
couldn’t find the hoop in over-
time.
The high-flying Medics meas-
ured Anti-tank Co., 39 to 19, with
Cpl. Bill Sexton dropping in 14
points for the winners.
Second Battalion Hq. topped
Co. H 34 to 26. Pfc. Milton D.
Wheeler set the pace for Hq. with
10 buckets and three tosses from
the foul lie to total 23 points.
Co. B gave its rival, Co. C, ade-
quate information as to why the
Bees are leading in the 1st bat-
talion league Tuesday night by
snowing C under 57 to 7.
Showing improvement in every
start, Co. M turned on the heat
to trp L 40 to 20.
Playing cautious ball during the
second half, Service Co. managed
to hold off Regimental Headquar-
ters’ last-half drive and take a
thriller 15 to 13. Both teams-
scored five oaskets from the field,
with the winners outscoring their
rivals five to three from the foul
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Bond Sales In
410th Regiment
Bond sales in the 410th Infan-
try regiment took a jump Monday
in a rally sponsored by Co, D.
Pvt. Dryer started the ball roll-
ing by being the first out of his
seat to plunk down the necessary
funds to buy a $25 bond. Right
behind him was Cpl. Edward De
Young, who took all honors by
taking the largest individual
amount of bonds.
Cpl. De Young peeked inside
his wallet and guessed he’d take a
couple of $100 bonds.
A total of $625 in bonds was
LATIN JIVE — Pvt. Arcadio
Ruiz, diminutive trumpter of the
103rd Division band, left Enrique
Madriguera’s Latin-A m e r i c a n
band for the army a few months
ago. But he was back in the
groove last Wednesday night,
with a rhumba for the Camp
Howze Radio show at Service
Club Two.
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THE MARCH OF DIMES collection in the 103d Infantry Division brought a total of $1,007 for
the fight against infantile paralysis. Division Artillery led all other units of the division with a rec-
ord of $321.80. Counting the flood of dimes, left to right, are: F-Sgt. Robert E. Kelty, Battery C,
383rd Field Artillery battalion; Lt. Ralph G. Rudolph, Division Artillery Special Service officer, and
S-Sgt. John V. Cammarata, Battery C, 384th Field Artillery battalion. Sgt. Cammarata’s battery
made the largest contribution of the artillerymen—$40.65. Second highest was Sgt. Kelty’s battery,
where the men added a “cuss fund” of $3 to their odd payday change to make a total of $32.86. Con-
tributions of other division units: 409th Infantry regiment, $163.16; 410th, $202.29; 411th, $167.08;
328th Medical battalion, $63.53; 328th Engineer battalion, $29.66, and Special Troops, $44.40. The Cac-
tus Club added $15.08.—(Signal Corps Photo.)
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The boxing team of the 104th
Infantry regiment will represent
the 103rd Infantry Divisions and
the entire Camp Howze district
at the eighth annual Texas Gol-
den Gloves state tournament Feb.
16 to 21 in the Will Rogers Me-
morial Colliseum at Fort Worth.
Preliminaries will be Feb. 16
to 19, with the finals on Feb. 21.
The Special Service section of
the 410th has been in charge of
preparation of the team and its
entry into the tournament.
Winners of the state Golden
Gloves tourney will compete for
national honors in Chicago about
the middle of March.
The 410th boxers have trained
daily since Jan. 5 under T-Sgt.
Bernhard F. Brast of Co. H, who
has brought them to the peak of
condition. Flem Hall, sports edi-
tor of the Fort Worth' Star-Tele-
gram, said: “The 410th is coming
in with one of the roughest,
toughest teams in the state tour-
nament.”
Forty men of the regiment
went into training for the Gloves,
and many fell by the way until
Jan. 20 when the eliminations
were held in the regimental gym-
nasium. At this elimination
match the competing team was
chosen. About 1,200 men packed
the recreation hall to see the
bouts.
The 410th team, barring acci-
dents, is expected to place and
show well throughout the state
tournament and hopes to carry
the division’s colors to the Chi-
cago bouts.
Four of the eight boxers are
former Golden Gloves fighters,
who lost out in the finals by
small margins.
They are T-Sgt. Brast, the 210-
pound heavyweight spark plug of
Co. H; Pfc. Griffin G. Ivey of Co.
G, 175-pound slugger in the light
heavyweight class; Pvt. Jimmie
S. Lopez, 135-pound lightweight
of Co. 1, and Pfc. Doyle R. Al-
bright, featherweight contender
at 127 pounds from Co. K.
Other team members are Pvt.
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New commanding officer of the
328th Engineer Combat battalion
is Lt. Coi. Ralph S. Childs; who
returned to the United States
last September after 15 months’
duty in Trinidad. Col. Childs en-
tered federal service in February,
1941, at Camp Meade, Md., as
commanding officer of the 1st
battalion, 121st Engineer Combat
regiment, a part of the 29th Na-
tional Guard division. In Febru-
ary, 1942, he was assigned to an
Engineer Combat regiment as ex-
ecutive officer. Gel Childs ae--
companies this unit to Trinidad
in May, 1942, and assumed com-
mand a year later. After his re-
turn to the United States, he was
stationed at Camp Van Dorn
Miss., with the 1135th Combai
group. .
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life to a hand grenade.
Hit by enemy fire during an
operation here, Scholfield was
knocked 15 feet into a trench oc-
cupied by Lt. Paul J. Redmond
of New Haven, Conn., a chaplain.
“I’m hit, father,” Scholfield
gasped.
The chaplain examined him
and found that a misle had gone
through his left breast pocket,
hit a hand grenade he was car-
rying, knocked' him breathless,
but had been deflected without
injuring him.
I 411th Chooses
Mardi Gras King,
Queen at Ball
Martha Hamilton, pretty fresh-
man of Texas State College for
i Women, and Pfc. Alexander T. ‘
Garcia, Co. G, 411th Infantry |
! regiment, were chosen king and (
queen of the regiment’s Madi
Gras ball in the recreation hall
, last Friday.
One highlight of the evening
’ i came when Pvt. Milton K. Lins
I pulled a lip cord and balloons
: and confetti tumbled down on I
; the dancers from the rafters.
i Eight hundred GIs had 150 i
i TSCW girls to dance with. The j
1 409th regiment’s band was led by
i Cpl. John Davis. T-4 Gilbert Vic-
■ tor headed the crew in charge of
; refreshments.
Guess the only Technician
Sixth Grade of the Cactus Di-
vision is in the 411th Infantry
regiment, Co. D.
Pfc. Raymond A. Gardner,
assistant personnel clerk,
grabbed his helmet off the
shelf one night. Just before he
clanked it on his cranium r he
noted a firmly lettered “T” be-
neath a lonesome stripe on the
head piece.
Identity of the hand-letterer
who promoted Gardner is still
unknown.
New Jive Company
in 411th Infantry
“Music in the Scardino Man-
ner” is the billing the 411th In-
fantry regiment could give the
new dance band now being or-
ganized..
Nine musicians are working
hard nightly in the recreation
hall to perfect the swing and
sweet combination that T-5 Frank
Scardino, accordionist and ar-
ranger, is striving for.
Scardino says he expects to
have his band ready to play
dance programs by the end of
next week.
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FT. BENNING, Ga..! — A
paratrooper atop a 250-foot jump
tower was told to drop a piece of
paper to determine the drift of
the wind. He did, then jumped,
landed and streaked off.
“Where are you going?” he was
asked.
“To get my $50 war bond,” he
replied. “It was the only piece of
paper I had.”
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the overtime period in the second ) -- r riSUIl —d-P
basketball game between' the ! NEW YORK (CNS)—The Japs
383rd and 384th Field Artillery , have placed a ban on love-mak-
battalions. - ing in their. Manila internment
The half ended with the 383rd i camp, a civilian nurse who was
leading 10 to 6. The 384th pulled i recently released in an exchange
ahead in the third quarter to Qad of nationals, has revealed.
19 to 16. At the end of the regu- I The nurse, Miss Dorothy Davis,
lar game the teams were locked 26, said that while married per-
at 22 all. i sons interned at the camp were
Half the overtime slipped by ; permitted, to meet on the prison
scoreless. Then a foul gave T-5 i compounds they were forced to
M. Williams one point from a ; maintain separate living quirters
three throw, and Pvt. W. Kusz and were seldom permitted to be
sank a field goal to give the 384th
the game 25 to 22.
Lowren W. Scholfield, 22, ot. The SSZykI quint rolled up 39 to
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409TH INFANTRY
To Staff Sergeant—T-4 Sig-
mund Corley,^ T-5 Herbert Ker-
man.
To Sergeant—Cpls. Orlen W.
Boyd, Andre P. Hugues, Joseph
V. Turk.
To T-4—T-5 Donald G. Stan-
key.
To Corporal—Pfcs. Harold S.
Curtis, Harold F. Clarke, Ray-
mond F. McDonald, Louis C. Per-
kovich, Edward J. Spegel, Arnold
L. Toepfer, Pvts. Charles W.
Brown, Brothie T. Thomas.
To T-5—Pfcs. Ralph C. Ban-
warth, Kenneth J. Waterstradt.
410TH INFANTRY
To Tech Sgt.—S-Sgts. Wil-
son McKinney, Floyd D. Dicks,
Wesley M. Free, James M. Bates,
Frederick F. Overturf.
To Staff Sergeant—Sgts. Ches-
ter C. Bass, Floyd L. Eslinger,
Garland V. Sharp, Joseph J.
Skocz, Paul E. Lloyd, John Slos-
sar, Dennis E. Willingham, Frank
M. Pifat, Wilfred R. Bell, Clyde
F. Graber, James S. Kerns, Lewis
C. Korody, Garnet C. Glass, Al-
bert L. McClurg, Stanley S. Pan-
oske, Clarence W. Shannon, Wil-
liam E. Woods, Jr., William C.
Barker, Joseph F. Bonnaci, Rich-
ard E. Conerd, Charles J. Craig,
. Richard W. Lauschke, John H.
LaVelle. Cpls. Andrew M. Cisa-
rik, Donald J. Samulski, Leo A.
Sanaghan, T-5 Harry B. Darby,
Pfc. Roy W. Stockwell.
To Sergeant—Cpls. Zygmunt C.
Urbanski, Albert Dressander, Jr.,
Clarence M. Frank, Edward F.
Hofmann, George A. Olsen, Jr.,
George A. Reynolds; Joseph S.
Sielonka, William R. Lockhart,
Jr., D’Arcy E. Maness, Charles L.
.Whittle, Lyman L. Aspedon, Al-
vin M. Friedman, Charles J.
Koehler, Ralph J. Medema, Ger-
ald W. O’Connell, Virgil L. Roots,
William H. Simpson, Macon D.
Barber, J. C. Gentry, Dominick
Grusecki, Clarence W. Long, Ar-
thur Walters, Glenn Wissinik,
Philip B. Askounis, Fred C. Beat-
tie, Dick Cline, Patrick M. Grif-
fith, Luther Y. Looney, Clarence
H. Ramsbothan, Pfc. Cecil Green.
411TH INFANTRY
To Tech Sergeant—S-Sgts. John
P. Nimmo, John A. McCarthy,
John V. Washington, Leo J. Gio-
vannini, Raymond E. Wooten,
Travis T. Tucker, Keith A. Lar-
sen, Lawrence O. Thomas, Walter
H. Byers, Cecil C. Lathan, Ben
Brizley, Jack Graca, Ernest P.
Mielke, Jr., Grady W. Cheek, Pvt.
Dois A. Brown.
To Staff Sergeant—Sgts. Dale
M. Bras, Charles F. Wells, Joseph
A. Crowe, Walter Modrzejewski,
John R. Pfister, Richard W. Mey-
er, Everett C. McCall, Hadley
Mars, James H. Gibbons, August
J. Bielicke, Norbert R. Kuecker,
Paul R. HasSelman, Lloyd D.
Laidlaw, John A. Baker, Warner
C. Lear, Philip J. Dalton, Law-
rence E. Mether, Raymond F. Tor-
kelson, George B. Taylor, James
F. McKee, Kenneth B. Herdegen,
John J. Goggin, Dwight M. Le-
gan, Albert M. Griffin, David L.
Feiser, Arthur Wiita, Joseph V.
Eisenmenger, Cecil O. Watkins,
Vance E. Mead, Raymond T.
Grantland, Russell H. Phillippi,
Arnold R. Daar, William H.
Lewis, George J. Speigl, Edward
F. Carroll, Elmer S. Miller, John
J. Hasert, Kelvin D. Baldwin,
Merle E. Marshall, Lowell E. Ad-
dy, Jr., Robert W. Humer, Ed-
ward J. Zagorski, Joseph J. Pad-
den, William L. Hough, Jr., Chas.
A. Shanaberger, William B. Rag-
land, Cecil C. Rowsey, James L.
Schlitt, Bert D. Spialek, Cpls.
Thomas E. Cote, Robert W. Mey-
ers, William E. Bigss II.
To Sergeant—Cpls. Manuel Fer-
nandez, Theodore J. Paniewicz,
Henry Altergott, Harold G.
Kemp, Donald L. Brackett, Geo.
D. Maurer, James T. Reynolds,
Rexford L. Bass, Clarence L.
June, Jr., Kenneth N. Pfeffer,
Warren A. Martin, Roy T. Decare,
John J. Po palish, Samuel Wein-
stein, Roy C. Eversoll, Milton C.
Hickman, Stanley A. Ostrowski,
Otto L. Wangsness, William R.
Martini, • Raymond E. Isberg,
Ralph T. McManus, Samuel Ciara-
mitaro, Edward Dirasian, Gilbert
W. Pantie, Robert H. Zimmer-
man, Robert L. Hulsebus, Ralph
W. Mitchel], Paul L. Hutchens,
Herman R. Gemeinhardt, Ralph
J. Blackmore, Joyce Osborne,
Hershell D. Lynn, Harrison C.
Gale, Casimer L. Vokal. Pfcs.
John C. Perry, Burton A, Mills.
To T-4—T-5s Earl W. Gerber,
Edward R. Dixon.
To Corporal — Pfc. John R.
Koch.
To T-5—Pfc. Ray F. Williams,
Pvts. Howard G. McFaul, William
T. Porter.
103rd SIGNAL CO.
To T-5—Pfc. Richard S. Pres-
ton,
Sweetie’s Letter
Goes to Wife —
LOS ANGELES (CNS)—Mrs.
Carol Snider blinked a couple of
times when she received a letter
from her husband, an Army
sergeant, that began “Dear
Sweetheart.” And when she read
— "you don’t have to worry about
my wife” — she applied for a
divorce. Snider had mailed his
sweetheart’s letter to his wife.
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In a recent order the Army
Ground Forces, of which the 103d
Infantry Division is a member,
initiated a new furlough plan
which should give each soldier
under their command a furlough
at least every six months.
Five to seven per cent of the
enlisted strength of a tactical unit
should be on furlough at all times
while the unit is stationed within
the United States. These fur-
loughs will not exceed seven days
plus the number of days required
to travel to and from destination.
In no case will furloughs granted
exceed 15 days, including travel
time.
This plan will eliminate over-
loading the national transporta-
tion system for short periods and
make traveling more pleasurable
for soldiers when they get their
furloughs.
Although the plan is not appli-
cable to all men in the service, it
applies to the largest group, the
Army Ground Forces.
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Russo, E. Manne. Camp Howze Howitzer (Camp Howze, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 26, Ed. 1 Friday, February 11, 1944, newspaper, February 11, 1944; Camp Howze, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth1407209/m1/3/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Cooke County Library.