The three sergeants in the field kitchen are getting sick and tired of this nonsense.
Staff Sgt. Hershel Thompson of Detroit, Mich., mess sergeant for an engineer outfit and his two cooks, Sgt. John Cable of Indianapolis, and Sgt. John W. Routt of Kimberly, Idaho, set up their kitchen and mess hall in an old building near the beach.
For supper last night they cooked onion soup, beets, and vienna sausage. Then a bomb exploded nearby, blew in the windows and seasoned all the food with broken glass.
"Good heavens," exclaimed the sergeants-or words to that effect.
They prepared a second supper of more vienna sausage and succotash.
The chow line was impatiently jangling its mess gear when, just as the second supper was ready, another bomb fell in the bay on the other side of the house-and blew in the windows on that side, again filling the food with glass and plastic.
"Goodness gracious" is a very free translation of what the sergeants said.
They prepared a third supper of lunch meats, beets, and rice pudding and hastily served it just in time, as more explosions kicked their kitchen around.
The sergeants then got busy and moved their kitchen to another spot which they hope will not be so hot.
Sgt. Cable, a son of the Ross Cables of Indianapolis, is the nephew of Mrs. Martha Smith, and Homer and Ralph Cable, of Lowell. We received the above clipping from his aunt, Mrs. Otto Childress, of Hammond, formerly a resident here.
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