- Title
- Camp Davis: The Barrage
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- Date
- December 1942 - March 1943
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- Creator
- ["United States--Armed Forces."]
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- Place
- ["Onslow County, North Carolina, United States"]
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- Local Call Number
- WWII 5
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Camp Davis: The Barrage
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HOViY H . H E r**>ge
BARRAGE
FOR CAMP DAVIS DISTRIBUTION
WRITTEN AND EDITED BY SOLDIERS FOR SOLDIERS
VOLUME II
CAMP DAVIS, N. C., WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 1942
NUMBER 24
Remember the Stab in the Bach!
- — U. S. Navy Photo.
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belch from the magazine of the Destroyer U. S. S.
Паше ЫТЮ1\С
Shaw when bombs found their mark during un¬
provoked raid on Pearl Harbor by Japs last December 7 ... . one year ago next
Monday. The Shaw came back, though, just as American soldiers are coming back
in New Guinea and Guadalcanal. The Japs started the rumpus, but you know damn
well who’s going to end it!
USO Presents Stage
Hit Here Next Week
NEWS FLASHES
WELCOME, DAN!
Dan Parker, sports editor of the
African Front— U. S. bombers New Y°rk Dally Mirror for these
blast Btzerte, Tania. Gate. Alltea
force sets trap In Tunisia, and au¬
thorities say battle is in critical
stage. Fighting French, Ameri¬
cans and British combine forces to
destroy last vestige of German
power in Africa.
GIVE US A SONG:
More than anything else we can
think of right now, the Antiair¬
craft Artillery needs a song — a
simple song, a lilting song, and
above all. a fighting song. It’s a
sad how-do-you-do when we have
to steal the words of the antedated
Field Artillery piece. “The Cais¬
sons Go Rolling Along.”
You probably attended the
Camp Davis-North Carolina foot¬
ball game Turkey day. Around
that gridiron were thousands of
soldiers who wanted to make noise,
to sing, and they didn't have any¬
thing to sing. After we scored
the touchdown, remember, the
First Band struck up the Marines’
Hymn. This was truly a kick in
the pants. AA scores a touchdown
and we bellow the praises of the
marines!
The guys in the band can’t help
it. They’d like an AA song more,
perhaps, than anyone else. What’s
to be done about it? Well, we’d
suggest that the AA Command en¬
list, draft or kidnap Irving Berlin
or Rogers and Hart or Cole Porter
or Hoagy Carmichael — or all of
them — and say: “We’ll strike a
medal for you if you give us a
song.”
Do anything, but for heaven’s
sake. GIVE US A SONG!
♦ 4- -f
THE SING SING KID
Sid Gray, our nominee for the
title oi best sports fan at Camp
Davis — he’s the one who handled
the PA system at Camp Davis’
grid games — once played baseball
in Sing Sing penitentiary. Don’t
get us wrong: Sid didn’t do a
stretch. He played with the South
Side Democrats, Brooklyn, against
the prison team in 1935. The
Demos won 7 to 6. The catcher
for Sing Sing extended his sym¬
pathy to the Brooks after the ball
(Continued On Last Page)
Russian Front — Soviet forces crift.
widely read writers, offers his
now degendary verse as a guest
contribution to The Barrage.
Especially renowned for his
sense of fair play and sportsman¬
ship, Mr. Parker has repeatedly
endeavored through his column to
uphold the finest traditions of his
smash counter-offensive of Ger¬
man troops on central Russian
front west of Moscow. Red army
still gains in Stalingrad sector.
Pacific Theater — U. S. subs sink
Mr. Louis Effrat, a noted New
York Times staff writer, will bbe
the guest artist in the next issue
of The Barrage.
TOO LATE
Keesler Field, Miss.— Pvt Arthur
eight Jap cargo ships, damage four Hazen recently enlisted in .the
others. The sub ventured so close
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for9fs
t . . . this field, where he passed the
Japan that action
Chest Drive
Is Over Top
$2500 To Wilmington
Camp D?vis personnel contrib¬
uted over $2,000 to the United
Community and War Chest cam¬
paign of Wilmington and General
Smith has authorized the gift of
an additional sum, to be taken
from camp funds, to bring the
total contribution to $2,500.
Capt. L. B. Wantuck, special
service officer, announced Monday
noon that $2,047.84 had been col¬
lected from camp units, with a
few outfits still unreported. A
check for $2,500 was scheduled to
be delivered this week to leaders
of the Wilmington drive.
Donations, in the order in which
they were received at th especial
service office (prior to Monday
noon), follow:
Hq. & Hq. Btry., AATC ....$ 9.78
450th CA Bn. . 52.62
Officers, AA Board . 17.35
Service Det. (C) . 5.96
QM Det. (W) . 10.00
Dept, of Tr. Pub.. AAS . 13.60
QM Det. (C) . 8.00
Finance Det . 8.30
Directors Sec. OCDAAS .... 6.60
469th Bn . . 17.48
470th Bn . 15.00
430th Bn . 84.03
M. P. Stockade . 6.00
262nd Ordnance . 5.50
Hq. Det., Station Comp . 8.60
514th Regiment . 242.54
Third Tow Target . 18.08
О.
C. D. . 1063.75
445th Bn. . - . 65.00
411th Bn. . . 90.35
465th Bn . 20.59
Station Hospital. . 11.85
M. P. Detachment . 22.50
Signal Corps . 2.10
Eng. Detachment - . 1.50
446th Bn. . 70.04
Co. C, 47th QM . 5.00
464th Bn (AA) . 36.45
Camp Hq. Officers . 14.75
Enlisted Div., AAS . 55.90
Hq. AA School Det . 58.62
TOTAL . $2047.84
‘You Can’t Take It
With You’ Will Be
At No. 2 Tues.-Wed.
EN GARDE
The Barrage editor hereby sol¬
emnly announces to all and sun-
was Solahilv0f visible1 from ^l!". rigid physical exam for 'aerial gun- dry that thede are only 10 shop-
coast alritlps large nery. A few days later he received ping days until Christmas. This
a card from his draft board in notice Is inserted, frankly, to fill
into effect
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Wisconsin telling him he had been up the front page so we can go
Home Front
rationing goes
27 million passenger cars and five
rtf-, i. H JOUVIiOlU l/CIilil
effect. About placed in 4-F.
to press.
Even missing chow won't be too
great a price to play for a chance
of sitting up front for the Kauf-
man-Hart play "You Can’t Take
It With You,” when it appears at
Theater No. 2, this coming Tues¬
day and Wednesday, December 8
and 9.
This hilarious three-act brain¬
storm has been acclaimed by press
and public as the maddest and
merriest comedy seen in years and
is the work of two of America’s
leading playwrights, George S.
Kaufman and Moss Hart, who al¬
ready have to their credit a most
impressive list of stage successes,
which include “Once In A Life¬
time,” "Merrily We Roll Along,”
“The American Way,” "The Man
Who Came To Dinner," and "I’d
Rather Be Right.”
The daffiest family on Morning-
side Heights is inspected with
considerable relish by the authors
in “You Can’t Take It With You.”
They devote their time and atten¬
tion to the amiable antics of the
mad Sycamores and crazy Vander-
hofs. contemplating the merry ec¬
centricities of the interrelated clan
with admiration and approval.
It seems that not only did
Grandpa Vanderhof have fantastic
children and grandchildren and
marry them off to their peers, but
that all the other entertaining
madmen of the neighborhood hov¬
ered about them in a haven of
kindred spirits. Kaufman and
Hart have a field day In their
study of the play’s moonstruck
heroes and heroines. The authors
■have wisely decided not to confine
the rugged Individualists to a reg¬
imental existence and so they per¬
mit them to run wild to their
heart’s content. The result Is a
merry and engaging riot of fun
and hilarity, played to the hilt by
an exceptionally capabble cast.
Jack Norworth, famous actor
and songwriter, who wrote “Shine
On Harvest Moon,’’ “Take Me Out
To the Ball Game,” "Apple Blos¬
som Time In Normandy” and other
all time popular favorites, will ap¬
pear as Grandpa Vanderhoff. head
of the clan. Other members of the
daffy clan and their curious
friends are played bby Daisy Ath¬
erton. Saralee Harris, Eddie Hodge.
Charles J. Parsons. Paul Byron,
MacGreggor Gibbs, Patrick Fahey
and many others.
affected commerclal vehicles are Imaginative Deserter
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TJ E E N
G.l. Gets In Dutch On Mission To Mountains
411th and OCS Men
To Be Honor Guests
At Formal Dances
— Photo By Signal Corps
Miss Virginia Parker, Wilming¬
ton, is shown here on the shoul¬
ders of some of the gents of
Battery 41 who recently elected
her “Miss OCS.”
Camp Davis will have something
of a holiday week preview this
week with two social eevnts being
marked up on the entertainment
calendar.
Two formal dances will be held
during the week, the first being
held tonight and the other Friday
evening, December 4. Music for
both events will be furnished by
Post Band. No. 1.
Tonight's ball will honor the
men of the 411th regiment and
will be held in Service Club Num¬
ber 1, under the direction of the
Wilmington Dance Club. Dancing
from 8 o’clock.
The Friday evening event will
he in honor of the OCS 10th Bat¬
talion and will be held from 8:00
o’clock to 11.
A number of Wilmington ladies
have already signified their inten-
Editor’s Note: The following
article is reprinted for your
amazement from the Hickory,
N. C., Daily Record. For ob¬
vious reasons, a fictitious
name has been given the sol¬
dier in the story.
WEST JEFFERSON, N. C.. Nov.
21. — Several Ashe county students
got
in other parts of the world.
He also described conditions in
the present war. Speaking with
a slight accent, he told how his
family had been wiped out in the
present war.
His deception was discovered
when he was confronted by Sgt.
John Weaver, Jr., who is home
on furlough. After Weaver talked
a new conception of poetry -with him for a few minutes he
and war this week when they lis¬
tened to Joseph Smith, who said
that he was a direct descendant
of Samuel Taylor Coleridge and
had been discharged from the
British army because of war
wounds.
His lectures came to an end
Tuesday night, however, when fie
landed in Ashe county jail on sus¬
picion of deserting the United
States army. He is now being
held there pending further investi¬
gation.
He first appeared at West Jef¬
ferson school Monday, wearing a
soiled summer uniform. He asked
permission to speak and visited
admitted he had been a deserter
from Camp Davis for several
weeks.
According to reports, he made
very intelligent talks at West Jef¬
ferson school, but at one point his
talk on bombings grew so dramatic
that it became necessary to cut
him short.
When questioned at the jail on
Tuesday night. Smith said that the
reason he came up here was that
he wanted to tell the people in
the mountains that a war was
going on.
several of the classrooms. He told
tion of being present at both of of the many advantages which the
these dances. people of America enjoy over those
RITSY’S IN
Bitsy Grant, mighty mite of the
tennis course is now a private in
the air forces, stationed at Shep¬
pard Field, Texas.