Third Year. Vol 4-No. 20. Fort Hancock, N. J., Thursday, December 2, 1943.

1st Sgt. Bryson

I asked her if sh(d like She seemed to hesitate. Then she stepped in and breathed

a sigh, Alas, I could not wait.

I took her to a lonely lane, Where st3.rs lit up the sky. My very blood ran through

veins With a feeling of do or die,

Rer eyes were of the deepest blue Her hair was blonde and fine And when I touched her hand)

knew

That she was really mine.

I put my arms around her waist And kissed her ruby lips And as I drew away, my hands Dropped gently to her hips.

He ordered me to hit the road And brother I didnit linger, recital.

LOST For both Mom and Pop around

their guns Had cocked a little finger. Schaef•r pen, green, gold band1

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Brigadier General, Commanding , Harbor Defenses of New York

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FOGHORN Thursday, December 2, 1943.

LET 'EM FALL WHERE THEY MAY - - -

Salvos from Batteries by FoghornReporters GIJMSROAR

BOGIE BLUES WACS WORKS

Thursday,· December 2, 1943. Bendix

lly Sgt. Clay Marsh--Battlin' Bees, we doff our Dobbs I to you-our two-headed cousin tips 1 both his chapeaux in your direction.! And whv shouldn't we uncover our! lovely h�ad Of skin in your honor? You men of Lt. Hoieni1s Seven Up unit plowed through to cop the post gridiron title, and by so doing, ·liquidated, the monopoly holdings of the Bullet Busters on Sports Street.

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FOGHORN

ook Five 54-46 In vertime·

Net-istics

Simon, f a Mitchell, :f 1 Bmns, f 2 Rothenberg, c --- --- 4 Kinsbrunner, c i Kotter, g Holmes, g -- 2 Wolf, g o

Classy . ., Visitors

! ,i Outplayed 0 0

i f Bendix AC, better known as Lotti Island University, Seton Hall Col ... 1 HANCOCK 18 18 54 lege and Brown University, defeated ' 11

stanley, f 5 2 121Fort Hancock basketeers 54-46 in · -�� .1

��!;1efy, £ � � 1� Gage gymnasi11:m Tuesday night, but .,-. �.::.<'�.,... Tyrell, c ,-:-===== o 1 1 it took a three minute overtime, an ----.. � Lan::;bard, c - 2 f : 1 injury to ,spark�plugging Sgt. Hal ' z..::ms, c --- 2 2 6 • • f C l'f . . Bielecky, g 2 0 2 Beasley, ana a pair o a 1 ormmr Masone, g 1 0 2 redwood centers to turn the, trick.. Beasley, g l .c_ _________ :_ _,:-•::_�i�o'::_:::_cc46 �:;f i:::::r:�i:s:r t��r tr:!c�:,,

I.Leader"' Ti""d tossers displayed a clicking passing ii/It ._- offensive that played the classy That has been proven to ma a I ffl - - V U L"" p visitors off their feet throughout:, man's size job ever since the Bust- ,n " Ouaey vO the game� but the extra pressure iii' ers, took up residence here. Up to The Bullet Buster Hq. and the overtime proved tOo riluch for the now, anybody reading the sports Seven Up Bees this week were soldiers. page of the Foghorn would swear 1knotted in first place · at 10 wins Though the game went on the that the Busters were the only out- land one loss each in the Post !records as a loss, it gave ample in ... fit on the Post. That "7-Up" in last volleyball league as it en!ered the dication to local rooters that the week's sports headline brought in-

1 final lap. The league will term-1 Post probably has the best club quirieS as to whether we had ini- linate December 16. yet, this year. Against Bendix, the tiated a policy of advertising soft Tied in second place at 9 wins,: Hookers were facing former top drinks. Yes, it was a long time one loss are the Buster Es and I college stars in defense worker corning, but we're glad to see, you "'it's so.crOwded here in Washi�9f'on, you've got,:to stand the Buster Cs. Others in ordericiothing. Or puttiilg it another made it. in line for everything you want!" ,J are: j way, that fancy basketball you used Th. a·t man Bi-elecky. Baseball, bas- Won Lost ! to pay money for in the good old C · f II Q G ·d G

· Bombers 7 3 days at Madisdn- Square Garden, ketbal), and now footbaU. This is urta1n a $ n n uess1ng,• Ran Benders 7 3 you saw for rree Tuesday night. hardly news·.but once again he was Guardsmen I 7 4 a big factor- in the winning of a T k f • I f" s Buster D 7 4 First there was Lou .::iimon,. ill game. We're. speaking . of that de. Springer a es Ina IV e pot Buster F 4 6 pleasure to watch, who once wa• ciding -grid tilt in which the Bees Medics 4 6 Claire Bee's key in the LIU attack; d d h B t 7 t 6 4 7 second and third, there was Rothen:" umpe t e us ers, 0 • Pvt. Tony Springer, of the Rail Bender As, became the Officers 2 9 berg and Kotter, a set of six foot By the margin of one point th�y, ninth and final $5 winner of the Foghorn football prediction :::ier B O 7 sixers, also LIU luminaries ; fourth, copped the championship. And who I contest this week as Hedy the All Knowing packed away Guardsmen K __ o 8 there tas B Mitchel?-n�or�;rly big• m ade that one point? We wouldn't'her muc'.l abused footbaII b!'ains for �-· --- Guardsmen A o g tune or rown; 1 , ere was 64 t f th t f ' Gaurdsmen --- 0 10 Holmes, who used to ball hawk _ for e�en pay _cen s or a q1;1es ion. i the season and -took a powder with_i pated, many a side:,_bet was made, B --- Seton Hall College, and sixth, there B_1eleck·.'Y, .. of ,co�rse�as if Y_oui.a mothball until-_another year rolls land many a prank_ was .�l�yed was Kinsbrunner, a St. Johns used couldn t guess-. Wish he would .give ! around. among barracks buddies part1c1pat- COLUM:N LEFT . . . . . us the name of· his -Vitamin pills ! ' . , . -,, to be. And Just to finish it off, a sub .. ___ ! The fmat -set-to provided. one of png. . (, ,, . (Continued from Page 1) stitute entering the game Iate was We.,iikEt t o believe that some dayJth� screwiest sets of scores ever,j Strictly a bar-non\ affair: t�t -,---.-- ---.-,---. -· h none other than Wolfe, who took sOffieOne· Witr Come. along and reg�!what with Nofre Dame toppling and icontest was . open to. a s�lutely a ·11 Now Pist�l Pacldn Mom. is to�g' _ Bee's spot as coach of LIU. • · • h h. p Off" ; . , 1 More· than: a few o{f1cer�. compeJed, . And Pop s n ot. one for chattm � . ·Despite this Grade A aggregation Jster a. game w1t t e ate?t ice1Brookiyn College pullmg out an!but strangcily eno·ugh none ever ! Theu're second fiddle·to only·one h . · th "fl , ,, b h l that B1elecky couldn't possibly play. 1

• • • • R , . ·� " .,, . . • , owever, e y em oys s owel.l!. B h '. th f d . . !impossible - victory over utgers .lwon. And as defm1.e proof of up 1 'Thats Pistol Packm Patton. the Hbuy 'em" boys a clicking team utkwl at 5 h e use 1°d b r��rnmgk:-a ) Springer, with three others, missed and up" regulations, men who workj --- work that they ·couldn't mate,: wee ater e wou e spar 1ng: b h't h . F ff' PRO d • . · ... 1. b' · p t J ' " h" . t ,, . . t th t · these two scores ut 1 orne on m the oghorn o ice, s an While still on wle su 1ect, os a throughout the game Playing ag .. is team to vie ory in JUS a ]the other eight. Springer won out PI0s alike, submitted scores .each,packin' Delaney, who gets the maill

s·· heads up b·all the Fort game. J h · l b · 'th S t · h h d ' · h gres n e • ' ___ · on a m_at ernatica as1s w1 g . week b?-t _even wit; t � a va_ntage I through on the H1g !ands �ony n�n, cagers dumped 12 points on field W , ad tati . C. Sehrmger, Cpl. A. Volz and Cpl. 'of prox1rnJty couldn t nail a wmner .. come hell o·r high priced Irish whis- - 1 riy ·n th first quarter be e 'Ve m e a no on on our I W All 11 f S Up Hq ec · 1,, . II k th . t ls goa s ea 1 e • cuff -,that Bielecky is : L The most: ' e_n, a O even ·: s 1 - Showing the far-reaching �'pul i key, advises � to pac eir pos a j fore the visitors could get going., active athlete on the Post. 2. The' ond, third a�d fourth respective y. I of the contest, weekly winners were !' and post their pa.cks early as t�i��e Showing a mechanical man accur• best .all-around athlete on the Hook. Sgt. Francis Delaney, Headquar- 1 from practically all types of outfits are only 20 shoppmg days to Ch - acy at the charity line however,. If a.nyone can tell us differently, ters, picked Army-Navy on .the nosJ I on the Post. The Guardsmen, the\ mas. the Bendix five slit the nets seven we'll send this shirt to the laundry. ·at 13-0 and was. the only entrant to I Seven Ups, the Coast Guard, the 1

-Roger times on free throws. · -- select Brooklyn College over Rut- Bullet Busters, the ·Rail Benders as N Bendix then put on the pressure: While we are standing here with H' h f 111 well as others were represented. SGT. BRYSO and pulled up abreast but couldn't t.he. bald pate, le.t us pay our re-1,gers. ish. acc�racyN owever . e !Headquarters trie�:·,hard but could-'!

(Continued from Page 1) get th.at comfortable lead they spects to- another accomplishrnent1 down. at t is pomt. ot one pe�son n•t get beyond the 20-yard line. thou,.H· "rould be a cinch. Battling of the Bees. On their trip to the I enter�g se�cted Iowa Pre-Flight, Hedy otherwise known a"' S-Sgt 1Fort Hancock ir the fall of 1939 :evenly, Hancock led the n: ... Hors Glory Road, they plowed through over otre ame. \ Clav M�rsh missed the belt on th;! and during four years here re-! 12-11 at the quarter, and led 23:.22 the highly touted Officers team. Ten entrants scored correctl! on I prediction 'guide · every now and · ceived cornmendati n as the best I :,.t the half. Accuracy on free throws seven games, and 15 cornpetlto.�� "·�mW-"" • """""""'"'"£-J�-h..'0t1o�f1,,-£ense:1 gave Bendix a 38-33 lead at t:1e The. champs, disregarded Military picked six accurately. ; . quarter -".rk. and in the final ses• Courtesy artd Customs of the Serv� With little more on the schedu J sion Hancock put forth its bid to ice to s.ail through all those grads1other than Slippery Rock Teache �!cinch the game. of Old Swibash, '26, whose mere vs. Highland&Junior Hight the co; I Stanley .- dropped a free throw, p"resence on a fOotbaU field started I test reached the end of the ro: ·- Zaions· dropped a beautiful one those whispers, HWhy, when he • this week. 0 hander, a set shot, and fhpn an played football for Swibash he was I Thanks to Foghorn's sugar dadd i8'!Annie Oakley. Bielecky scored from mentioned by at least four people Special Service, a tidy little su · the foul line and Kirk contributed- a for the AH-New England Squad !"\ of $45 in all was dished out to ti :J side court one hander. . Yeah, but that was back· in '26, weekly winners, and the avid i: \ In this fast • � ..... Burns an4 .br-0ther-sir! lterest which increased each wei

:!',7 ,Kinsbrunner. of the visitors dropp.ed --- , iproved .the expenditure was not ·�1a fpul toss each for Bendix' best We. wouldn't like to think that! foolish one .. Many a man partic cotinteraction. Then two more free the Bees were anything but polite I _ ones by Rothenberg tied the score about it though. (Pardon me, Lieu- 1 r L at 42-42 again, but Lang bard of tenant, but my plans had already i.11,,,0Ulrf e&gUe the Hookers dropped two personal been made to come through here , lo ft 4'!1 0 fouls and Bielecky scored a side and your standing there teft me no · p·ens W'eC. &. set making the 'score 46-42. · alternative. But allow me to help 'Xlith one rrdnute and 15 secon_\ls you up and dust you off, sir.") The annual inter-unit- basketb� to go, the Hook tossers attempted a league, composed of teams- from a1 freeze, but Bendix broke it up and The teaching of the m.atJ.lY art .. of organizatiOn wishing to compel Holmes and Kotter scored quickly self.;defense and beat h1s head m, 11 ·. • . effecting the 46-46 tie at the finil has its colTipensations. That poor\ will begm on :1)ecember 20, 1t W; horn. man's · Mike Jacobs, Senator Rosen- annou_nced this . week. A leagi Jn the overtime, a cool Bendix 1'9• berg has become a Sergeant. Con- committee meeh.ng to set for n:rned to the floor, worked the ball grat�lations teacher. r1:les and regulations o,f the leag1 1 ' will be held next week� !in slowly, and on h"',,. .... :-".,J two anu I thre� man play close in set up the Incidentally, the Rosevine has it All outfits planning t� ent

!score for Simon on two dot1,bledeck: .. that the Hook squad starts swinging teams are requested to begin t�a ers. Mitchell and Rothenberg made again on December 17th 'in the gen- organization . now. The gym�asiu I d R h eral ·direction of the men from Fort will be available for prac. tice 1 two personal fouis good, an ot "' f h 1 L . en berg dropped a set shot just be .. Monmouth. Better look out, Mon- ·1until open!ng o ! e , eague. , � I fore the horn for the fin.,ttl tally of. mouth-our Rosie 's a Sergeant year, the inter-unit court loop 1 nowI . c,lug�g §7 �.Ufler�I:1t c!U;bs. 54�46. �.

FOGHORN Thursday, December 2, 1943. --------------,--------------------·--·-- .. ---.. ··

of Folks Gives GI Fhanksgiving Ever ank Velardi, 43 year old Bullet Buster, has on Thanksgiving Days before, but never as Thanksgiving Day just past. For just before

.st last Thursday! )'' handed him a

ntained the first since November

:nts in Italy. 1s written by a

Italy - a total stranger - and w a s. addressed not to Sgt. but to Mr. Frank Velardi, 860 NW 21st Street, Mi­ami, Fla., Vel­a r d i's civilian home. His wife h a d forwarded the letter here. This is what it 1

, said:

'And Now This Is

Where You Come

In And Say-'

. Sandy Hool< Foghorn / EDITOR .................................................... Sgt. Roger Hammond

SPORTS EDI'l'OR ............................................ Sgt. Clay Marsh Adl'"isory Officers

Major R. F. Spottswood, Major H. E. Timmerman

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Fort Hancock, N. J., Thursday, December 2, 1943.

i THE PAYOFF - BERLIN

[ The theory that air power can force a decision in this war, firm contention of the air-minded since inception of the conflict, finally is getting an open "all-out" shot at proving itse1f these days, and Berlin, cradle city of Nazi•dom, has been named the proving ground.

don't know me, Among the armchair strategists air power versus ground American soldier power still may be a subjec', for debate, but if what the Al-taly. I met your! li d Eliza Velardi and'

I

·e air force now is doing ti Berlin still can be classified as

write and let you "softening up,n it is imposs.1ble to imagine the destructive :. And 1 mean it'

!

fury of ·he final, finishing blow, whether struck by air or n with them ev-1ad to see them. I

ground forces.

ie, I am glad to I So great has been air power's mauling of Berlin that )t' them, because' Photo by a. s Army -:gnal cor-p� even Gabriel Heatter, who onJhe darkest of days always has :c people. They, · I a· • b bl like thelr $On. So; Rehearsal� h,e�an hitting peak pitch this week for " t - 1n-t een a e to scrape up 300,000 or - so dead, wounded or trap ...

:are to write me,/ Kosher," all soldier burlesque show set to open Dec. 9. M-Sgt. ped Germans, has been forced tO go shopping for a new Ellis Crenshaw, PYt. Bunny Keeler and Cpl. Helen Becker. seated,

id let them know.! larder of superlative vocabularv J·ust to keep abreast of the J told me to telli g•et the pitch from Cpl. Norman Wolf, direct-Or, as Sgt. Harold .;

;ible thev wouldi Spradlin, S-Sgt. MaX Sheppherd, Pfc. James Green, Cpl. Henry great Allied air force attack.

:o have ; picture! Fitzsimmons and Pfc. Ruth Kass, standing, look 011• In four days of unrelenting bombing up until last week ..

'.amily. So if you: -·----· · -· -·--· .. ··- i end, Berlin was turned into a continuous roaring nightmare

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;�-,0\11:�;. be

l New Symphonic Band to Make I of explo:ion and name; a ".:etropolis ripped a�

d se�ed on a

if you ever go; : scale surpassmg anything i.he German Luftwaffe nad ever

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;ty, you could 1iConcert Debut at 5·30 Tonight, done in its conquest of London. It was estimated that at

n, house. Well, • . : least a third of Berlm had been destroyed. say so_ long for

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. h" f th .

1 1 h. B J' .· ��5 hear 'rom you. The Fort Hancock symphonic band, final outgrowth of! pemng mg '0 e aena _ons aug t on er �.

saw.''

. . ! an originally planned Post symphony orchestra will make: four engmed bombers drop 2,;:,00 tons of bombs m wide, ' SJgne

� by Pvt.

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its concert debut at 5:30 tonight in Theatre No. 2'. Pfc. Peter/ criss-crossing belts over the city in the English-favored

'w��a�h:

dA:eri� i Pau

-l Fuchs former member of the·--·-------·-------- saturation 1nethod of bo111bing. Streets, raihvays, and build­

aly. It had beenlmusical st;ff of the Metropolitan,_ Among s�loists to be .r.e-aturedl ings \Vere smashed to rubble, and a hail storm of incendi

.ar-

6· jOpera Company and crusader for in the openmg concert wilt be T.I ies turned the wreckage into a blazing towering holocaust •/elardi. his par-! <(serious" music here. will conduct. 1 Sgt. Frank Velardi, S. Sgt. Joseph I . '

:rmitred to write! Under Fuchs, the symphoniclSbepherd, Sgt. James A. Dorsey,,

that could be seen 90 miles away.

:Iy de:lar,ed war!�and( consisting of musicians :fromjSgt._ Albert G. Ma:ino. Sgt. J.os:ph That was th� first night . . � . . _

�nd e\er} effort 1 tne Guardsmen and Bullet Buster iSante, Sgt. Robe,t A. Chnstian,1 Then came the second, third, and fourth n.1ghts during nrough the Red

/'bands, has been rehearsing foriSgt. lack Prather. Pfc. Vander-r .

tgencies. to learn,six weeks symphonic music written.heide, and Pfc. \\lhiteside, all ofi each of which 1,000 tons of bombs were unloosed

his family faiied.iln band arrangements. !the Builet Busters; and S. SgLJ

rried about them) Tonight's progr&m will inciude!charles Hinckel, Sgt. Joseph Te-( invaded Italy be-i"'Sakuntala Overture" by Goldmark;

,desco, Sgt. Daniel Truppi, Cpl.I

ave Rny way ofj"Hungaflan l1farch1' by Berlioz;_Ho_ward _ Hoffman, Cpl. Louis Ezzi,/

they were a!ive(Daughter of the Regiment" by

,

?fc. Melvin Hill and Pfc. John/'

td. "Thank.

<;;odjDonlzetti; uShow Boat" selections Shea, all of the Guardsmen band. in good handslbY Jerome Kern/' and "Red Cav- In entirety, the symphonic band I' alry March" by Morton Gould.

. I incl

_udes 40 pieces.

, this countrv- in he age of 15, was 1 . .:;:.:;:.:;:.:;:.:;:.:;:.:;:.:;:.:;:.:;:.:;:.:;:.:;:.:;:;::;;;::;;;::;;;::;;.:;:.:;:.:;:;:::::;:::::;::;;;::;;;::;;;::;;= 1usician playing

/ ymphony orches­ter he joined the

l

i months of over­

the first World i France, he was·)

to Italy to visit i

ndyd an Ameri-1 :ntion in Paris,

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me all the wav se= me. But ·1 i other since 1_9!5,j

seen mv- sister 1 3,i, Veia;di said.

, last letter from ;d in November :11 them he was I gave them myi and told them

I " he said. e suggestion in 1

surprised par-I areo by visitini,

I ass Sunday. "T llSt as haopy to son as I wasi ents.'' he said .

. I .-vices :h services are I 10 a. m. Sunday i er C day room,/ apla!n Thomas

services. J

Out of the burning hell that is now Berlin have come sto­ries of -101000 persons kined; of 500,000 persons homeless; of hundreds of thousands of others attempting to flee with­out possessions; of heat so in­tense that asphalt in the streets boils; of towering sheets and flakes of flame that recall the Biblical description of the end of Sodom and Gomorrah� de­stroyed for their wickedness.

All this is only the result of four nights of bombing. If a winter-long campaign of such sledgehammer bombing h a s been planned, how long can Berlin stand up, how long can other German cities stand up?

Perhaps as an understate .. ment, the Allies list three main objectives to be achieved by the aerial hammeririg. First, every ton of bombs dropped will save the lives of 10 United Nations soldiers, it is esti­mated. Second, Berlin is a nexus of war industries, of transportation, of the network of Nazi military and political command. In any attack, it is logical to strike at the core. Third, the new attack is a methodical campaign against the German will to fight, at­tempt being to demonstrate to the Germans Jhat they can!lot win the war, and that they can­not p -:0Iong it without suffering direct and drastic.consequences.

Minus the aerial offensive, here is the way the play has been set up, here is the thumbnail picture of what Hitler is facing today. The Nazi air war has failed. The Nazi sub­marine war has failed. Italy is still a battleground but not a Nazi ally. The Russians, who intend to realize their dream of freedom, have deeply wounded and driven back the flow• er of the German armies. And Japan has not done its job in tying up the United States and keeping it out of the European war.

With such a dismal future, Hitler has nothing to look forward to other than proJongation of the war except for the possibility of a "break" occurring in his favor. Add to this outlook the new all-out bombings and his situation is still worse. Perhaps air force wiil make it difficult for Hit­ler even to continue his war as a lost cause.

Perhaps, air force is right now in the first phase of the final Jmockout smash.