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HERE COMES THE STEEL—A medium tank and infantry soldiers plow toward the "enemy" in 3.Night maneuver ai Camp Atterbury, They're from the Ist Battalion, 109th Regiment.

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U.S: troops attack.

They're Playing War at Atterbury, But It's Serious Business for Trainees

By TED KNAP Times Staff Writer

CAMP ATTERBURY, Ind., June 2—War, they say, separates the men from the boys. When it does, they should keep the boys and send home the men. That's the painful conviction of this old soldier after a night of “war” with the 28th Division at Camp Atterbury. What Sherman and many others said about war goes double for old kibitzers with bun-| - 3d Battalion, the next it may be

ions. Even in a practice war. ;, "1. or 24. Everybody gets a Your reporter was pawing the! turn at being the enemy—and ground with eagerness when he jogger, arrived at the Hoosier camp the| 1t was no fun being the enemy, other night. His mission was to! pecause we were outnumbered and report on an “enemy” force being outgunned, and if the ammunition attacked (and defeated, according hadn't been blank, we'd have been to advance plan) by a larger geared, Even so, there was a ten(J. 8. force. : sion that approached fear.

Jt's a Tough War { Waiting Is Hardest

What the mission actually be-! make the 22-year-old draftee came for your harassed scribe from Kentucky. “This isn't for was this: me, this sitting here, freezing and Stumbling for uncountable gweating it out at the same time. miles on ground that would dis- xor me, I'd rather be out there tress a mountain goat. with the attackers, moving in and Getting lost in a hole-dark not having so much time to woods which nature had endowed worry” said Pvt. Edmund Bor: too freely with brambles. sari, He crouched in a line of Squooshing knee-deep in a mud- bushes a.couple hundred yards hole that “wasn’t there. ahead of his buddies, and his was Getting mortally wounded (bY ipo first spot the U. S. force hit. blank bullets) at least 30 tmes| L104 but thersow \and captured three times because | Sio's WOKIEE BE e Sin this civilian wasn't smart enough _..... "ee the ty Octo Bel the tall drag- casionally, between bursts of gun and cannon from a loudspeaker, ging, smelly with dirt and vowing he heard them rustling Pe the to never, never become even an grass ahead :

armchair general. But how far away is a rustle?

All of which proves at least i one point: It may take years to Or take Charlie Miller, whose

'make a soldier, but it takes only freckles showed even in'the dark. a few hours to catch the GI habit He knew that when firing opened, of griping. the shots wouldn't sting, but he Grim Practice {lay tense in the hedgerow, trying trim ba to spot a body moving anfong the It was only a practice war, but fijckers of fireflies. soldiers of the 28th—young and Must Bo a Reason’ seasoned alike—took - it pretty “ seriously. There was a grimness I feel like this is almost the about it that seemed incongruous foal June) Sia Pvt. Miller of with the young faces. : ’ * % ; The “war” was set up like this:| “I'm one of the ‘chosen boys A U. 8. force of about 500 was (draftees), but I'm not sore about attacking an “enemy” force of |i.” the 22-year-old doughboy sald. 100 entrenched in a wooded area. There's a lot of other guys who The enemy—troops from the have it worse, and there must be “Aggressor our ware forest Some reason for us being here. I

don’t know for sure what the reagreen uniforms and European- son 1a. but it must be a good One.” type helmets. Their tactics were) : a combination of U. 8. &nd Fu-| Armies march on their stomach, ropean armies, and written mes- and fight best on faith. | sages between posts were han-{ Another kid was reluctant to dled in a “foreign” language talk, and when he finally did, it which resembled Spanish. {was in an accent that didn’t quite The enemy Aggressor force is Seem to “belong.” There was a not the same for each war prob- reason.

' Although Pvt. Paul Zimmer of m ht, it's the | 1e . One day, or nig {Loong Island had never been in

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military service, he'd been caught in a war before. Germany trapped {Paul in: 1939 when his parents | went there for a short stay, and {jit he didn't. get out. until 1946. He li finished it out in a Nazi labor iii}! camp. Cu [- “I know what freedom is,” he said. And when he said it, it didn’t sgund corny. “The attack. lasted a couple of hours. Blanks spat like more fire-, {flies In the dark, explosions | mocked artillery and then a dozen {tanks rumbled up. For us, the enlemy, there was little action . . . | just crouching, waiting, looking, | thinking. Almost before they knew it, the {ill battle was over. One attack had | been repelled in the left flank | woods, but the main push succeed{ed gn the right. : | Then they formed loose ranks |—U, 8. troops and Aggressors {alike—and trudged back “home.”

Alleged Kidnaper Says Ill ‘Victim’ Is His Wife FESSENDEN, N. D., June 2 1 | (UP)-—An alleged kidnaper's at- | torneys have revealed that he is {illll married to the 14-year-old girl he | 1s accused of abducting. | Defense attorneys for Milbert | Lammle, 32, Eureka, 8. D.,, made | the disclosure when the prosecu|tion attempted to bring Beverly | Kutz to testify. Lammle said he married the | girl in Sioux City, Iowa, after the | kidnap charge was lodged against | him, Both he and the girl testi- | fled earlier that she went volun- | tarily ‘with him to South Dakota | and that he did not kidnap her.

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