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...fight than preach. He was a 23-year-old ordained minister in the Church of the Disciples of Christ when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor; the next day, Hess enlisted as an air cadet. After winning his wings, he taught flying for two years, then went off to the ETO as a fighter pilot, piled up 62 missions and won the Air Medal and the Distinguished Flying Cross...
...human race. In the last war, Hemingway, a word I'm getting sick of, was at sea on various projects for approximately two years under the orders of Colonel John Thomason, USMC, Colonel Hayne D. Boyden, USMC, Colonel John Hart, USMC. Then Hemingway left for the ETO and was accredited to the R.A.F. and specifically the tactical air force commanded by Air Marshal "Mary" Coningham. He flew with them for a short time and then was accredited to the Third U.S. Army, from which he escaped while they were waiting around to go. They went very well once...
Basic training, O.C.S., Fort Gelvore, all denoted portions of McCabe's military life. In July, 1944, he was shipped to the ETO where he worked on the Red Ball Express and in an engineering combat battalion with the Ninth Army. V-E day found him on the west bank of the Elbe...
Foaming steins that never empty and plaintive ballads that never end may remind some of the ETO, but they remind thousands more of the four glorious years they drifted through their Alma Mater. It was Smokey Joe's at Pennsylvania and Zinck's at Cornell and at Harvard, well, don't send your boy to Harvard warned the dying mother because there's no place to go. He can sing with the Glee Club and drink wherever the stools are softest; but because of a Cambridge ruling forbidding tavern singing, he can't do both at once...
Sergeant Paul Shimer was killed in action in the ETO. Last May, after his term as mayor was up, Rex Stranger hurried to the U.S. and from his own pocket took $3,000 to establish a trust fund for the education of little Patricia Ann Shimer. Grateful citizens of Chambersburg promptly acknowledged the kindness by raising another $3,000 for food for the rationed children of Southampton; the fruit growers of Franklin County stepped forward with the promise of 600 bushels of apples to add to the gift...