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"The climate out
here is quite warm,
which makes the in-
side of the ship hot,
and very uncomfort-
able for sleeping," de-
clares Navy MM3c
Frank P. Rose, x-
Peoria machine shop
t2. "The xxxxx is
a submarine tender and usually stays
at one location for some time. We
have been doing quite a bit of subma-
rine refitting and refueling, so they
can continue knocking the Jap ships
out of the Pacific.
"My job is in the evaporating room,
making fresh water for the ship's use,
as well as for the subs. Fresh water
is rationed on almost every ship, but
we haven't suffered any yet. We still
get one shower a day and plenty of
water to drink, which is better than
the average soldier gets."
0 , ,"Since I left the
States over a year
ago, I have been ei-
ther through or into
six countries, but the
one I enjoyed the
most was the little
country of Luxem-
bourg," writes Hdq.
Sgt. Bob K e 1 t n e r,
from Germany.8,
"This Germany is a very nice coun-
try, and I can't understand why these
people must be so greedy and try to
take other people's country away from
them. I notice though, that the Ger-
man people are very quick to hang
out white flags when our troops come
close. I guess they don't want their
towns torn apart the way they did to
the French towns."
. . 0 -
"My old ship, the Porcupine, was
sunk in the Philippines in December.
The circumstances of the attack and
of the aftermath of the sinking were
such that I feel very fortunate in hav-
ing escaped uninjured," states Navy
Lieut. (jg) Ferman Bishop, x-Tour-
napull machine shop, from San Pedro,
Calif. "Not all of our men were so
lucky, however. One of my most
agonizing experiences was helping to
pick up one of the boys with whom Ihad worked for more than a year.
Later he died.
"Now after 30 days, I'm in the pre-
commissioning detail of a new ship,
and I expect to return overseas before-
very long. The progress of the war
then, as you can understand, is very
heartening to me."
"We sure had a
long trip when we left
Hawaii," announces
CB MM2c Bill Mc-
Laughlin, from the
PTO. "I was on ship-
board 51 days, and
that's enough water
for me at one time.
We were at the Mar-
shalls, Saipan, Tinian, and noa herC.
"We've been working on airfields,
and our battalion has 2 Super C Tour-
napulls, with LP scrapers. We have
other LeTourneau equipment, too.
I've been running a dozer since we
landed and that's not fun, for you
have to worry about land mines and
all kinds of duds, so it's really danger-
ous. I've lived in a foxhole for just
about 2 months. Of course, we kept
enlarging it, and we've made it into a
modern one..
"I drove two cap-
tains on a pretty long
trip the other day in
a weapons carrier,"
writes Gas Supply
Pfc. Ken Smith, x-
Peoria electrician #1,
from somewhere in
Germany. "As we
passed a small village,
a group of excited civilians stopped us
and told of four men who were rob-
bing and plundering. We soon locat-
ed them, and gave them quite a chase,
managing to capture two of them.
They were armed with a sawed-off
German rifle and a bayonet. I guess
we were fortunate they weren't better
armed. We took them to the next
town and turned them over to the
MP's.
"I see LeTourneau equipment ev-
erywhere over here . . . in England,
France, Belgium, Holland, and here
in Germany."13 In Service Not Unlucky
i% Sgt TncA
S1,s Spaks
P P A
'
i nuettemeir
Thirteen LeTourneau boys in serv-
ice are not unlucky this week - at
least, insofar as upgrading goes. They
have been promoted. They are:
Tournapullians: Glenn T. Ramey,
x-jig, Navy MM2c to MM1c; John
M. DeFoor, x-Tournamatics, Medical
pvt to pfc; Roy B. Tench, x-transpor-
tation, Anti-aircraft pfc to sgt; James
B. Addington, x-transportation, Air
pvt to pfc.
Peorians: Willard McLaughlin, x-
shipping, Seabees MM3c to MM2c,
Stanley Blackburn, x-transportation
#1, Inf sgt to s/sgt; William Sparks,
x-dozers, Navy S2c to Sic; Donald J.
Parr, x-shot, Air cpl to s/sgt; Richard
Alvey, x-machine shop clerk, Engr pvt
to pfc; Orville Buettemeir, x-small
scraper, Inf pfc to t/5; Clarence Rees,
x-machine shop #1, Seabees CM3c to
CM2c; Keith Hall, x-TP machining,
Navy Slc to GM3c; Kenneth Stalter,
x-plate shears, Navy a.s. to S2c.3
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