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Naugatuck Daily News from Naugatuck, Connecticut • Page 5

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MONDAY, JULY 24, 1944 O. you guys who write those history books. Here are some notes for that volume titled World War II. 'j Look up the papers and see who hacked their way through those "impassable" jungles on Buna and wiped the smiles off those "invincible" Japs who planned to dictate peace in the White House. That's right, brother.

The Infantry, U. S. Ask yourself who crawled through those modern conveniences on including cold running water and hot flying lead to fight men they couldn't ratted them out when every other effort failed. Right again, brother. Infantry.

Who faced German 88's at 200 yards at conditions that would make hell look like Sunday at the shore? You hit it. Infantry. shot it out with crack Nazi troops so close they could spit in their eye. did at the skirmish of the stone walls on Hill cracked open the road to Bizerte? Infantry. Doughboys.

The guys who spell it with rifles. Sure. Give the Marines their due. Don't sell the Air Forces short Don't sink the Navy. AH the arms and services We just ask you to write a few of these things between the lines and in the footnotes because we of the infantry wrote them out in blood.

And, brother, there's plenty more where they came from. We've got chapters to we write a bold hand. You'll see our footnotes on of Prance. You'll find us crossing out t's in the Hills of Bataan. recognize our style in Fields.

We'll make our with crossed rifles all the the world. And when that last word is written, take a good look at the period after "peace." It was put there by a bayonet, in the hands of a guy named Joe. -4p yettreye on the SPONSORED BY U. S. Rubber Co.

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