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Editor’s Note:—We don’t qpite know what, to make of this report from one of our waiters making an in
spection of a United States Army post. Naturally, we expected it to be censored, but evidently the wrong
kind of censors got hold of it. r ;
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v June
1942
It was ten .oWslotek ‘in the moriiing before I fin
ally, received permission and the pecessary pass to
go through the pffet. And then it was only because I
struck up a friendship with the commanding gen
eral’s ( daughter. Jane, the daughter, and I headed
for the rifle range not far off where there was some
sporadic firing goUig on. She made a pretty picture
as she swished her —t .while we walked along.
At another place we came across the Army’s
basic, light artillery unit, the 3800 lb 75 mm. field
gun. Standing beside it was a World War I model
155 mm. howitzer, which can fire a ninety-five pound
shell twelve thousand yards. I
“Let’s see, I believe your father is an artillery of
ficer, isn't he?” I asked Jane. I
“Yes,” she said, “The old —»—- went to France
As. wejapproached the firing: line I copld see
that some of the-‘men were shooting a- new semi
automatic rifle, called the jGarand, with which an
expert rifleman can shoot as high as one hundred
bullets pet minute* Others were practicing with the
Colt .45 pistol which can fire seven shots in twelve
seconds, and others were looking iat Jane’s
in the last war, and would you believe it, he
in Paris!
“Ah. Gay Paree! Were you ever in Paris?” I asked.
“Oh. yes, I was there once. We lived on
Where did you live?”
“I lived on
which can fire—un-ohL An! officeij asked us'please
to move on, as the men couldn’t concentrate on their
firing.
Not to thwarted, we m ove d pn until we came
to a .37 mm. } anti-tknk gun. It caii put any light tank
or armored car out of action with Its thirty to forty
shots per minute.-- ! |'.
,” I said, noticing that her
showed when the breeze blew.
A little farther and we came to the 75 mm field
howitzer which is a third lightet than the previously
reported gun, more mobile and fires a thirteen pound
shell.
^Oh. look,” said’. Jane* "doesn’t ithat look like a
That’s all the big guns we saw that day, and I
completed the tour under —-—- with Jane and
to^you?” j j
He is responsible for her fiction on the post.
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