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...boys in the division's 152nd Field Artillery Battalion called their friend "Little Joe from Pozorrubio." Little Joe stuck with them through six months of combat. But when the 43rd moved on to occupation duty in Japan, José went sadly back to work in the rice paddies...
Until the 43rd Infantry Division entered his life, José Estrella lived on Luzon and helped his parents in the family rice paddies. Before the war he had tried to join the U.S. Army in the Philippines, but he was too small. The Japanese put him into a forced labor camp, cutting wood for charcoal. One day, 17-year-old José slipped away from a work gang, swam across a river and hid in the bamboo grass, waiting, so "I will be the one in Pozorrubio to find the Americans." Three G.I.s took him to headquarters, and after that...
...became a mascot for the 43rd, a New England National Guard division, and he also scrubbed pots & pans in the mess tents. One night, seeing some Japs lying in ambush, José raced back to a G.I., saluted stiffly and cried: "Sir, Japanese sniper-this way, please!" Often he slipped at night to his parents' home, returned with roasted chickens, fresh eggs and bucayo (bits of coconut fried in brown sugar) for his G.I. pals...
...selection is entitled "Chorihelite's 43rd Welcome to the Northern Meeting...
...waiting. At 12:30 a.m. on a pre-convention morning, Illinois Delegate "Paddy" Bauler (who once made Chicago history by shooting a cop in the pants during a brawl outside his saloon) stared down the quiet sidewalks of Broad Street and said: 'We got more excitement in the 43rd ward at 11 o'clock in the morning when the guys is all in church." Delegates seemed to flinch at signs which read: ALL 48 IN '48 and KEEP AMERICA HUMAN WITH TRUMAN...