Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 22 December 1944 — Page 8

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Fine Tribute to Doughboys Comes From British Writer

Times Foreign Service. © cracking his captain with shocking LONDON, Dec. 22-—-One of the and good-humored disrespect. _|" At first, Baron can't quite make Brest tributes ever paid the Amer up his mind whether this Yank is lean doughboy appeared in the | soldier, “or just a civilian in disLondon - News-Chronicle yesterday. | guise.” He decides that he must be It was written by British War Cor- half civilian because he goes-to such respondent Stanley Baron. pains to convince you of it. | But, “then you arrive at the front

Baron has just returned on leave | after 14 ies Ju with the American line and you get the other half 2 1st army. The men he writes about |e picture. : poh Soler: i bat, are the men bearing the brutal| Ine hall which Tights an

be, dies—grimly, desperately, earnld Marshal Karl von ad Marsa A | estly—with a bravery as utterly

_ He confesses the typical British | Spsate ROY Sneed a A wan bewilderment on seeing his first |, on you realize that the two

G. I, whether it’s a boy. doing guard | : duty in Belgium and clutching the | halves are not incompatible, but in

hands of two Belgian children at | |b way’ 47% 5 the same time, or a sergeant wise jeen soldier

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“Twice I have been at a command post when the Americans, fighting hand to hand, in a village, called’down our own artillery to fire on themselves in aneattempt to shake the enemy free, . . “No one has the right to take such deyotion. for granted. It is “there all the time, it is all around

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By NEA Service OGDENSBURG, N. Y,, Dec. 22, —Of all the letters from home received by servicemen, perhaps the most unique are those which contain “win-the-war” certificates from folks in Ogdensburg, N. Y. Each recipient has his name endorsed on the front of the certificate, indicating that $500 in war bonds have been purchased in his honor. Whenever an Ogdensburg resident buys a war bond, he is entitled to add: his name to a list of sponsors whose names appear

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