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This is broadcast number three in the
new series for K T A R phoenix

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series. Number 2, 65

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greetings, Friends from the pacific
alloy, Arizona Williams? Miami and

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jerome? The communities represented
personally by the boys. We are to

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interview during these next few
minutes. I think these fellows are all

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from the 32nd division, that famous
red arrow outfit. You possibly

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remember our interview with General
Gil, the commanding officer of this

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group plus all the other interesting
comment about the division that we

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have passed on to you from time to
time. The 32nd is one of the most

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famous combat outfits in the Pacific
Theatre. One of the real veteran

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crews. And you may be sure that these
boys from Arizona who are a member

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of the outfit or are members of the
outfit have taken their share of the

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abuse that has been distributed from
bouna to the villa verde trail the

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last of the great combat actions for
which the 32nd will be remembered.

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Our first boy is James burkett. James.
Your mother and father's name frank

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virtue mrs adding virtual. Oh fine.
And the town is Eloy Arizona frank.

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You look too young to be in the army.
Did anybody ever tell you that

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before? And also they said that was
the right age for them? Well, do you

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feel too young? No, sir, I feel I'm
doing my part over here. The rest of

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boys over here and I'm no better than
our Well now that's a very congenial

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attitude about it all if you were
going to change it, what would you do?

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Would you have steak every day or
would you make other arrangements? I

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believe that have steak at least once
a day gee that steak and gravy and

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potatoes. Can you imagine anything any
better than look at those boys in

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the technical department. They're
they're just about to die over there

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outside. Do you get plenty of fruit
and vegetables over here? Well, we'll

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get quite a bit, sir vegetables. Well,
it's about austin's, you can get a

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hold on. They're kind of hard though
over here. That dehydrated,

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dehydrated. Maybe we better not talk
about that. You know, what were you

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doing when you were at home going to
school and I was going to school and

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I quit. I worked for Henrik walker.
You know what, drove the truck out of

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phoenix, potatoes, whole whole name,
potatoes. Fresh. That'd be wonderful.

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It would be wonderful to get a hold
of. Right, I'll say it would. Well,

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what would you like to say either to
your old boss or to your mother and

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dad or your friends? I'd like to say
hello, mother and dad and I hope

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they're fine and I'm making it okay.
I'll tell you mother and dad. He

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certainly looks good. He's got rosy
cheeks and no curling his hair yet,

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but it's still just the same color. No
gray hairs. I don't see, do you

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know, I haven't got no gray hair yet,
but I don't know if I stay long.

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Well, if you don't get them, you'll be
the first boy that I've seen around

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over here. You didn't have reason to
get them. That's right. Well, thanks

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a lot. It's nice to see you jim. And I
hope it isn't too long before we're

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all back together in Arizona. Right,
Thank you. And now let's have uh,

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estrada here from Williams pause just
long enough to let him move over

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here in the place that was occupied by
James R. Studio facilities here at

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G. H. Q. Are quite sufficient, but
they're very compact. So we have to

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monopolize every single solitary bit
of space in order to be sure that we

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get the job done neatly. Let's have
the name. This first name here. Looks

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like it's more than I could manage.

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No, that sounds like Fatima
cigarettes.

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Well, I suppose you do smoke, don't
you? You don't smoke so you don't have

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to worry about tobacco over here. And
the boys have a lot of trouble about

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that, don't they? They have to do the
fellas. Most of them get all the

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tobacco they need or are they short
most of the time? I short. Well,

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that's bad. We uh are doing without
tobacco and the state's enough, but

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they ought to have them out here.
Somebody's getting them who do you

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suppose is getting them? I don't know.
I don't know either. But I'd like

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to know and I know a lot of other
people that would like to know. What are

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you doing in the 32nd division? Well,
right now we're resting and enjoy

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enjoying it. Lots of good food. No,
not quite. That's being honest. If you

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were home, what would your mother
probably fix you? That would be your

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favorite dish. Well, I don't know. I
don't have no mother. Oh, you don't.

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Well, who would cook you your favorite
dish at home? My sister. And what

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would it be? No, you don't have any
favorites. No favorites. Somali creole.

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Tacos. Anything's good food at home.
Well, I don't know. Maybe a steak.

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Oh, steak about that thick and real
juicy. Not too done. Oh, Okay. It's so

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near dinner time too. And here we sit
talking about things that are 10,000

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miles away. Well, let's talk to the
folks a minute. Tell them what you'd

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like to tell them. Well, just hollow
out to death and sister and brothers

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and I hope they're fine. I'm making
okay if you always had that little

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mustache. Well, no, it's pretty cute.
Looks like Rudolph valentino. Well,

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thanks a whole lot. You slip away now
and we'll try one of the other boys.

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That was faustino estrada. Williams.
Arizona mrs ehh, estrada's son. Now

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, Billy J Hill of Miami. Billy J Hill
of Miami. Uh, Billy, how you been

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doing? Well, that's good. It can be
expected in a place like this. You

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don't look tall enough to be in the
army. Well, I wish I wasn't. Don't

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they put some kind of restriction on
your height before they let you in?

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Yes. five ft and I just hit the mark
right on the beam. Huh? How do you

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like this? Part of the world? Have you
seen enough out here to be glad you

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came or do you wish you'd never come
out here? I wish you'd never been

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here. I'd like the state's better. Oh
well, who doesn't after all? The

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final preference would certainly take
us all back to the states. How many

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points do you have? 59? That isn't
enough, is it? No, it isn't. When did

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you join the 32nd In November of 43.
Was that during the Guinea campaign?

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No, it just in time to get a hold of
it. Oh, you were then in a part of it.

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All right. Yes. I started out at
Sagamore Beach landing. And you got into

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that uh mud at lady in the first class
style. Huh, gee, That stuff must

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have been terrible. I've seen lots of
pictures of it and it must have been

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really rough. It's just about knee
deep all over the island. All rained

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every day. Well, it's been better up
here, hasn't it on lasagna? Yes, it's

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considerable better. The weather here
is much better than that. Have you

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been enjoying good help? Yes, I can
say I have no wounds. No. Pretty lucky.

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Let's say something to the folks at
home in a personal sort of way? Well

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, I'd like to say hello for Raymond
Wimberly folks in Pima Arizona. And to

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Evan Billingsley there in Miami
someday I'm gonna be back here with you.

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Have you met many Arizona boys? I hear
you speaking here for some friend

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of yours. Have you run into a few?
Yes. This Raymond Wimberley from fema

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Arizona. He's in my company now and we
run around a good l together and

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he's in good health and just as
anxious to be home as you are. Uh are you

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a combat infantryman? Yes. Heavy
machine guns, heavy machine gunner. Uh do

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you work right up with the leading
squads or do you bring up the next

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units? No. Heavy weapons company is
kind of a sport rifleman given

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overhead fire for advances on them.
But you get plenty of work to do.

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 Alright,

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well, Billy, it's good to see you and
I imagine that Miami will be glad to

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see you? One of these days when you
get home. Well, if you'll slip away

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now, I'll call one of these other boys
in Billy's mother is living over in

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texas but his many friends in Miami
will appreciate his message of

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greeting and particularly the proxy
media greeting that was passed on to

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the boy's parents in Finland. Our next
boy's name? Homer coming home our

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comings. And will you give me your
address? Homer box 9 to 4 jerome

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Arizona and your mother and father. Mr
Homer cummings and mrs Maggie

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coming and I believe you were married.
Yes sir. That's right. What's her

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name Marie cummings now Marie yes I
bet she's pretty isn't she? Well I

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think so. Oh that's wonderful. She
right you're nice letters. Yes sir.

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Quite often to tell you how much you
loved you and all that. So yes sir.

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It has all that in it. That's
wonderful. And you tell her how much you

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love her. Oh yes sir. You're not
afraid of the sensor. No I'm not afraid

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of him I've never seen. Well he
probably says the same thing in his letter

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so you can imagine how you been
getting along fine sir. Best of health and

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everything. That's good. Well you have
a nice ready smile for as long as

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you've been with the 32nd division.
That's probably some sort of an

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achievement. How many times? I've just
been with them about two months sir

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then that smile hasn't had time. I'm
are you getting along with the food?

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All right. Well at times sir then you
mean to condition that by saying

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that at times you could stand one of
those steaks like my friendly very

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readily. You get any fresh meat at
all. No sir. Not in quite some time. Uh

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Well it won't be long one of these
days it will be different. So we're

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hoping let's have a greeting to the
folks at home. I'd like to send my

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love to my wife and sent. I'd also
like to say hello to my mother and dad

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and to my aunt's in that vicinity.
You're all right and they don't need to

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work. Yes, sir, That's right. Okay.
Well, thanks a lot. Homer cummings

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that rounds up the quartet. Another
group of four boys whose primary

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number one all time personal interest
is home. And those of you who make

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it home James, burkett, Postino,
estrada, Billy J Hill and homer cummings

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from Eloy Arizona, Williams, Miami and
Jerome. I want to thank these boys

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for their courtesy in coming into this
warm studio and going through this

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friendly routine with us. I know you
enjoyed it. Especially those of, you

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know the boys personally and that
you'll be looking forward to our next

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broadcast. That will bring you another
group of the boys who make Arizona

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a place of which we are also very
proud until our next presentation

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greetings to you from the heart of the
Philippines. From Howard Pyle and

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now back to fred macpherson. Yeah,
yeah,

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yeah,

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yeah. Mhm. Yeah, mmhmm