Reynolds Packard - Battle Boomerang

Soldiers of the press. This week, battle boomerang. Ah, there you are, Tony. He's in your package. Tony, dropping at the PX and getting me a package of cigarettes when I finished the story with him.

Yes, sir. I meant it to be your package. Oh, yes, yes, yes. Here's the money. It's in your package. Oh, who he says, touch him, Jock? An American soldier who captured about the whole German army in the last war, that's all.

Well, it'd be Colonella, save every single of Tony. Are you going to get me those cigarettes that we have to send you back to Naples? It was your idea to come along and run errands for us correspondence, you know?

It's teaching you. But the Coloredelos say that they're... This Colonel says what? The Coloredelos say, Sergeant Jock, just to walk into headquarters from a no-man's land. Do what to him? All right, Tony, you win. We'll both go get those cigarettes.

If the Colonel says Sergeant Jock is here, you may have stumbled onto a good yarn for me at that. A few minutes later I had a reason to regard the small amount of cost to feed in the house that Arthur Young Italian as the best investment I ever made.

Or Tony's budding news sense had led me to as amazing a yarn as I have come across in many months of battlefront reporting. For the beginning of it, we go to a shell-swept hillside in No Man's Land, between the Allied Fifth Army advancing on Rome and the German Front Line.

A captain and sergeant of the United States Medical Corps unarmed as usual, even in these had it as the rounding word ministering blood plasma wounded corporal as far as loss of blood sergeant suffering from shock to can't lose any time I'll have the transfusion gear set up in a minute sir let's see you could throw the