Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 13 December 1940 — Page 15

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‘Under Maj. Gen. Jarman, Has Champion Crews.

~ By ELEANOR MILHENNY ‘ '.~ Times Special Writer - BALBOA HEIGHTS, Panama Canal, Zone, Dec. ‘13. — Probably nearest to active service of any organization in the U. S. Army at present—with the possible exception of the forces in Hawaii—is ' the Coast Artillery Command of the Panama Department. This outfit, with ‘a strength of 12,000 men and. with an expected increase of several thousand within the next two months, has been on a war footing almost since the arrival of the initial 800° of the first contingent in September, 1939. During the first few. weeks of the European war, this outfit, comprising the 62d Coast Artillery from Ft. Totten, N. Y., and a smaller detachment of the 61st Coast Artillery from Ft. Sheridan, Ill, was rushed to the Isthmus. In the New York battalion were two gun crews which had won the international .championships. in 1937 at Pt. Ontario, N. Y., and set a new world record for anti-aircraft artillery; 41 shots per minute per gun, eight hits on a target 14,000 feet high in 12 seconds (eight hits out of 18 shots).

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cover. the 10-mile-wide, 50-mile-long strip of land which acts as a cushjon around the canal. For many years there have been coast batteries in place at the coast artillery posts of Ft. Randolph and I.. Sherman, flanking the Atlantic entrance to the canal, Fts. Amador end Kobbe and the fortified islands of Perico, Naos and Flamenco on the Pacific side of the Isthmus. The location of these batteries is the most closely guarded of military secrets, but Isthmian residents are eware that almost every new road which has appeared so mysteriously in the past year probably leads to a concealed outpost back in the hills,

Proud of Their Outfit

The men who staff these jungle batteries pride themselves on belonging to the organization. They call themselves “Jarman’s Jungle Coast Artillerymen,” for their com‘mander, Maj. Gen. Sanderford Jarman, who is a great hulk of a man, almost 6 feet 4 inches in height

He attended West Point, gradyating in 1908. During the World War he served on the staff of the American Railway Artillery in the Meuse-Argonne offensive and was awarded the Distinguished Service medal. He came fo the Isthmus in April, 1939, and was made commander of vhe Coast Artillery Brigade when it ‘was organized in November. The men of the Panama Coast Artillery are a fine cross-section of the army in the field as it is constituted today. A typical example of the organization is Battery “T” of thé 73rd Coast Artillery. The posttion of the battery gs ‘“somewhere in the Panama jungles.” This particular battery has a personnel of 80 men and three officers. Until the completion of the barracks buildings, the battery slept in tents and the men still use mosquito rietting over their cots because the barracks are not yet mosquitoproofed. The camp still has no running water. Purified drinking water is furnished in great canvas water bags. Dishwashing facilities are still primitive. At present all perishable foods are trucked up the hill claily. ~ Soldiers on Construction

All of the construction work at Battery T and all of the other out-

themselves. Asked what they did. to keep themselves contented in this jungle camp, most of them said they “just

going into town once or twice a week to the movies or to swim.

jungle battery, is full of surprises. Often during the night the then are zlerted to their battery positions to man their 106 mm. guns against simulated attack. These alerts are arranged from headquarters, but come unheralded. When headquarters communicates, hy telephone or radio, with the outposts, the men are called out of bed by a huge gong and within a matter of seconds are at their position.

RECORD CAMPAIGN - TOEND ON DEC. 21

. The Indiana music appreciation zampaign, which features. 12 re-

corded symphonies, will end Dec. 21.

‘More. than 50,000 sets of 12-inch

tributed throughout the state since the campaign began several months 280. Until that date, the records may he purchased at distribution headquarters at 245 N. Pennsylvania St. The following symphonies are available: Schubert’s Symphony 8 in ‘B Minor; Beethoven’s Symphony 5 in C. Minor; Tschaikowsky’s Nutcracker Suite; Mozart’s Symphony 40 in G Minor; Debussy’s “Afternoon of a Faun,” “Clouds,” and “Festi-

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