The Eagle Eye (Eagle Pass Army Air Field, Eagle Pass, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 48, Ed. 1 Saturday, November 11, 1944 Page: 6 of 8
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#% . No one could accuse Pvt. Bel-
A"% chyk of being1 “stuck up,” ex-
cept for the other night when
he took a nose-dive into the cactus in
front of the Sec. A orderly room.
They were still picking the needles
out of him the next morning . . .
“Dusty” De Stefano can be observed
almost every night at the NCO Club
with not one, not two—but three girls
in tow. Hm-m-m! . . . Pvt. Alberto
claims he will soon be a married men.
He’s expecting his “intended” down
here soon, where the “I do’s” will take
place . . . Sgt. Kimbrough had the
shortest mustache on record, not in
length but in time. It was “on again,
off again” all in one week . . .
Word comes that Cpl. George Crone-
meyer, formerly of this Section, is
now operating a concrete mixer. A
little ironical when you consider that
George used to be a baker here . . .
The Rodeo has come and gone but
it had Sgts. Janszen and Russo in
sombreros and “mustachios,” and it
had Pvt. Frankie Smith in stitches—
in his lip.
* * *
While driving out from town
j Sgt. Fred Cox ran over an Oce-
lot. The animal was only stun-
ned so Sgt. Huitt jumped out of the
cai‘ and administered the Coup de
Grace with a tire iron. There has
been considerable discussion as to
what kind of an animal it really was.
Some claim it was a Bob cat but oth-
ers contend that its tail was too long
for a Bob cat. Cpl. Van Hoven con-
tends that it was an Ocelot and he
should know because he saw an Oce-
lot fur coat once. So we’ll call it an
Ocelot. It looked like a huge yellow
cat with spots in front of its eyes
and every place else. Somehow that
animal got put in Cpl. Weimer’s bed.
However, the joke failed because Cpl.
Castle let the cat out of the sack be-
fore Wei me r returned. Sgt. Huitt
claimed the animal and at the last
report he had skinned it and was in-
tending to make a rug out of the hide
. . . Congratulations are being given
to Pfc. and Mrs. Dismuke. It’s a
boy. Here’s wishing them lots of
luck . . . S/Sgt. Shupp was seen to
laugh uproariously at a joke. Many
of the fellows had never seen him
laugh before. They say though that
he laughs about that same joke just
as much now as he did the first time
he told it.
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If the Wacs appeared to be a
I J very sleepy bunch one morn-
ing recently, blame it on their
Hallowe’en party. Every Wac from
Private to Captain came in costume,
prizes went to Cpl. Mackie Nichols
and to Pvt. May Hall for their or-
iginality. Hussy, Tavano, Freeze,
Pleasants and Petty each headed a
grand committee, and should be given
much credit for the success of the
party . . Another nice addition has
been made to cur Wac Det. Cpls. Mc-
Clusky and Cappula are the most
recent arrivals from Sioux Falls, S.
Dak. . . . Why all the happy smiles,
Redman? Is the furlough alone res-
ponsible for them? . . . After such a
nice party at Hallowe’en the gals are
all wondering what Thanksgiving and
Christmas may bring.
Run Over By Tank,
Marine Merely Yawns
Pacific (CNS)—Few men who have
been run over by a tank live to tell
about it. But Marine Cpl.Lawrence Mc-
Kinney not only wasn’t killed, he
wasn’t even hurt. After the tank
passed over him on the beach of Pele-
liu, McKinney got up, yawned, and
brushed himself off. Amazed fellow-
corpsmen made him lie down again
and called a doctor, but an X-ray exa-
mination disclosed he was uninjured.
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SERVICE BARS
GO OVERSEAS
New York (CNS)—The Quarter-
master Corps is shipping to overseas
theaters of operations the newly-ap-
proved overseas service bars, more
than 5 million of which recently were
delivered by contractors.
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A harried young officer put to
work auditing some monthly accounts
declared that his epitaph be: “Died—
in addition to other duties.”
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Shank, Albert. The Eagle Eye (Eagle Pass Army Air Field, Eagle Pass, Tex.), Vol. 2, No. 48, Ed. 1 Saturday, November 11, 1944, newspaper, November 11, 1944; Eagle Pass Army Air Field, Eagle Pass, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth974827/m1/6/?q=%22%22~1&rotate=90: accessed July 18, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; .