Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 30 June 1944 — Page 10

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‘Most Stories Viewed as Product of Green Troops

In France.

By B. J. McQUAID Times Foreign Correspondent VALOGNES, Cherbourg Peninsula June 24 (Delayed).—I have turned skeptic since my assignment in Normandy—at least about one thing. I doubt the veracity of many of the stories about French women ey snipers. I have run down enough of these tales to be reasonably cers tain that they are mostly the . product of the imagination of green troops. And this view is ) shared by all the civil affairs offiMr. McQuaid os with whom 1 have talked and whose opportunities to investigate are reasonably unlimited. i I even had a chance to get fairly | close to one episode involving a] so-called French woman sniper. She was brought out from a prison stockade at the beach to the ship to which I was assigned at the time. | Painfully wounded by shrapnel, she | was taken to the sick bay.

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The report ran like wildfire] through the ship's company that | we had one of the notorious women | snipers abroad. People began drift- | ing down to the sick bay to fire | hostile looks at her. | She was a middle-aged farm | woman with ruddy features and | strong, toil-roughened hands, look- | ing somehow not so out of place] as you would have expected in that | roomful of suffering, bleeding snd} in many cases dying men. No one in authority knew who | had sent her out to the ship, or| why. Her hospital tag indicated | only the nature of her wounds and | identified her simply as a French | civilian. Finally, a naval intelli-| gence officer who spoke good French came down to talk with hef. |

Wounded in Bombardment

After a long conversation, he expressed his conviction that she was | an unoffending peasant who had never fired a gun in her life. She appeared, he said, to have been injured in the naval bombardment preceding our invasion and to have lost many of her friends and relatives. She was sent on to England and I do not know what happened to her there. Maybe such unfortunates as she provided the basis for many of the stories about French women snipers that spread throughout the western assault area. I personally think so.

RED CROSS, POLICE UNIT SPONSOR DANCE

A dance for high school boys and girls, sponsored by the American Red Cross in co-operation with auxiliary police, will be held at 8 p. m. tonight on the north terrace of the Brookside community building. Hostesses are Mrs. Walter Baxter, Mrs, Mary Cahill, Mrs. Ray Mullikin, Mrs. Lyle Sharp, Mrs. Betty Lohmeyer and Mrs. A. K. Huesing. The dance was planned by Mrs. | Louise Murphy, community center | director and Cpl. James Burford of | the Brookside PAL club.

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