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...Belden Verbatim...
Congratulations on your publication of Jack Belden's piece on "The Taking Of White House Hill" (TIME, Aug 2). It comes as a welcome relief from the usual military correspondent's report, so thickly studded with task forces, combat teams, objectives, bridgeheads, zones of advance and other military terminology as to make the average reader come to view battlefield operations as a combination of chess and football...
Milk-fed citizens will view with alarm your rashness in reporting the actual manner in which a soldier speaks when he is working. Don't let them scare you off. . . . Soldiers [don't] act and talk the way they do in the movies. . . . Continue to give us Belden, verbatim...
Curtain. Cabled TIME Correspondent Jack Belden: "For the soldiers who had fought so bitterly a few days previously in the barren mountains to the west, the finale in Sicily seemed an anticlimax. In Messina the doughboy was lost; there was no one to fight. Private Hays Cathey stood in the street, hardly knowing what to do. 'That's all there is, there ain't no more,' he commented. Then, he sat on a debris-littered curbstone, opened a tin of cheese and disregarded everything...
...dispatch which follows, TIME Correspondent Jack Belden describes the last hours of the bitterest battle which American troops fought in the Sicilian campaign...