Pag e Thirty-four
THE JEWISH NEWS
Me day you ittew a p
nstead of buying a bon
Friday, Apnl 7, 1944
KELLY'S SERVICE STATION
McNichols, Corner Santa Barbara
jEWETT CLEANERS
4510 Joy Road
U. H. HACK MFG. CO .
7049 Lyndon
HUNGARIAN VILLAGE
RESTAURANT
8160 W. Jefferson
ROSENTHAL BROS.
Mortgage Specialists - Property
Management . . . Established 1924
2325 National Bank Bldg.
ENTERPRISE HEAT
& POWER
Walter Cytacki, Mgr.
2314 Hewitt.
HANDLEMAN
DRUGS AND SUNDRIES
Wholesale Distributors
1455-57 Centre
GRAND JEWELRY CO.
1224 Randolph
GARDNER FURNITURE CO.
8308 Vernor Highway W.
ELSEY METAL PRODUCTS
1535 Spruce
ALEXANDER LICHT CO.
1326 Broadway
DUNK DONUT CO.
8532 Woodward
149 W. Six Mile Rd.
BOOTH INSULATION CO.
7748 Grand River
EASTERN CELERY CO.
140 Twelfth
But the biggistisush of the battle was
just ahead.
They had to attack a Jap-held *pla-
teau called the Bench, which meant
scaling a steep cliff, in the face of con-
tinuous gunfire from the Japs, smugly
entrenched on top. The final 25 yards
were so steep, the soldiers had to drag
themselves up by plunging their rifle
butts into the snow.
The Japs lay quietly in wait, until our
men were almost to the summit. Then,
It was the 26th of May, 1943.
To you, it was a heavenly Spring day
that just had to be celebrated in some
way. Besides, you were so bored with
all the talk and headlines of war.
To our men on Attu, it was the fif-
teenth day of incessant fighting. That
is, to those who had not been killed, or
'put out of action with wounds or frozen
feet.
They hadn't slept for days; their sun-
burned faces ached; their heads and
'beards and wool-covered bodies itched;
their feet were never dry. The dead lay
all about them in the fog and snow—an
occasional Jap, twisted grotes4uely
4eath, over the body of an American.
without rising from their fox holes, they
rolled grenades down on them. Three
times new groups of Americans scaled
up the cliff to be blown to eternity.
And suddenly — one American stood
alone on the Bench.With his rifle pointed
down he walked deliberately from or
fox bole
to ariother, shootint into them
with deadly accuracy. Impervious to the
Jap grenades call about him, ,be went on,
finally using his gun butt to bash. the
Japs as they trembled in their holes.
He was still bashing away when our
troops finally reached him.
Asked later 'how he did it, he ex-
plained his best friend had been killed
as they started up the slope and lie
didn't remember anything after that.
Asked by his Colonel what he wanted,
he said since he'd been a Corporal so
long, Sergeants stripes would be nice.
He got his stripes and he's mighty
gratified. He did not get an invitation to
your party, but that's all right—he was
too busy to attend.
Did you have a good time?
THIS WAR BOND MESSAGE IS SPONSORED BY THESE
FIRMS AS THEIR PASSOVER GREETINGS TO THE COMMUNITY! ,
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EASTERN POULTRY MKT.
2534 Riopelle
BILL CHAUSSE
4453 Fourteenth
TRUCKING, INC.
Earl F. Winters
2940 Myrtle
SCHOSTAK BROS. & CO.
industrial & Commercial Real Estate
1442 Griswold
ENDURO PRODUCTS •
32-38 Davenport
JULIUS BERMAN
Real Estate
1936 Dime Bank Bldg.
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