The White Falcon - 01.12.1945, Blaðsíða 1

Vol. IX. ICELAND, Saturday, December 1, 1945. No. 11.
OutpcAt fit Oik Related But UaA Beautiful ^uwcunfiiHaA
Camp Frasier, IBC outpost at Vik, is cut off from the rest of the country by high mountains on three'
sides. On the other side is the ocean. It is a very picturesque little valley and the view of the surrounding region
is. very beautiful. The picture on the left shows the entrance of the camp. On the right is a picture of the camp
and the small village of Vik. At the extreme right of this photo is the beach that is used as an emergency land-
ing area for planes. . (Sig. Corps Photo).
Ribbon Of Lasi War Now
Cropping Up On Broadway
A seldom seen ribbon is
cropping up nowadays on
soldiers parading on Broad-
way. It’s the Rhineland Oc-
cupation ribbon, which was
awarded for service in Ger-
many following World War
I. Some of the present wear-
ers of this ribbon bad not
even been born during that
occupation.
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A couple of weeks ago your roving reporter, togeth-
er with a small party, set out for the land of forgotten
men, the home of the true FBI, Camp Frasier. The
camp is located in the little village of Vik on the south-
ernmost tip of tire Island about 135 miles southeast of
Reykjavik.
After a precarious hut pic-
turesque trip over rough ro-
ads that often crossed swoll-
en hridgeless streams and
wound very treacherously
through the mountains, we
finally arrived at the camp
and were warmly greeted
by the 14 men and the one
officer of the 137th AACS
and 8lh Weather Squadrons
that maintain this outpost.
The thing that stood out
about the camp from the mo-
ment we arrived was the al-
most complete isolation the
men there experience. The
village of Vik offers them
next to nothing in diversion-
al activities.
Recreation for them con-
sists of that which they cre-
ate themselves, with an oc-
casional movie coming in as
a treat. For the most part,
pool, ping pong, hunting and
fishing make up their off
duty schedule.
Pfc. Jack R. Stiles of Michi-
gan is credited with catching
the biggest fish, a 28 inch
714 lh. sea trout.
Once in awhile they have
a dance which the girls in
the village attend. Their or-
chestra consists of an ac-
cordion or a radio phono-
graph. Nevertheless it is a
hig occasion for them.
Camp Frasier was com-
pleted in March 1942 and
was then used by a radar un-
it. In October of 1943 a radio
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WHAT ABE YOU?
GENERAL STILWELL
GIVES LOWDOWN
What is a GI?
A guy who should know,
Gen. Joe Stilwell, says you’-
re “a special brand of Am-
erican who inhabited North
Africa, France, Italy, Ger-
many, Guadalcanal, Saipan,
Okinawa, Luzon, Burma,
China, Iceland, India, Kor-
ea, Japan and other places,
from 1941 to 1945 .... swe-
ars in good style, likes pret-
ty girls, milk, steak, beer,
cheesecake, and swing music
.... is a sucker for a place
called the U.S.and hat-
es Japs, Germans, C-rations
and draft dodgers.”
RANK FORGOTTEN AS
GIs DIG FOR GOLD
t
Anybody wandering in
the (vicinity of the Cheyenne
Mountain in Colorado nowa-
days will discover military
officers, EM, Wacs and ex-
servicemen busily
side by side.
working
They aren’t policing up
the mountain or pulling KP
— no indeed, they’re digging
for gold, and possible we-
alth.
It seems an old “sour-
dough” by the name of H.
A. Banta, 76, turned over 12
of his gold claims to these
newly-born, prospectors and
they lost no time in starting
the search, forgetting all
about rank and service sta-
tus.
The Hlen Off Camp 'JraAier
This is the small group that mans the outpost at Vik. L. to R., first row: Pfc.
J. B. Benjamin, Pfc. S. Bellinghieri, Pfc. L. J. Pelno, Lt. W. R. Bastian, Cpl. J. J. Bitt-
ner, Sgt. A. A. Wehrly, S/Sgt. M. D. Haines, Sgt. W. E. Schmidt. 2d row: Sgt. C.
Crockett, Cpl. W. A. Hickman, Pfc. J. R. Stiles, Cpl. S. J. Sabljak and at extreme
right, Sgt. R. L. Hersch. On the right Sgt. Warren E. Schmidt of Johnstown, Pa., is
pictured sending a weather report to Meeks Field by radio. (More Frasier photos may
be seen on page 2).
"Night Fighter"
Puzzles Army &
A Czech Woman
A distraught Czech wom-
an appealed to American
Army headquarters here for
aid in locating “Night Fight-
er” Willie Brown, who di-
sappeared after promising
to marry her.
Perplexed officers could
not find the name listed and
they queried her about the
“night fighter” angle.
She explained that Brown
was black-skinned as the
result of injections given him
so he would he invisible as
a night fighter. He told her
that when he returned to the
United States he would be
given other injections to
turn him white again.
The woman said Brown
told her the U.S. Army was
filled with night fighters who
had been specially recruited
from a place called Missis-
sippi.
Rescue Ship That
Docked In Reykjavik
In News Once Again
The troopship Belle Isle
which docked at the Reykja-
vik Harbor twice this past
summer while waiting to
pick up a group of soldiers
marooned off the coast of
Greenland appeared in the
news again recently, this
time in connection with a
case of embezzlement.
At the arraignment of Ro-
bert G. Russell of Aiken, S.
C. in Federal Court a story
of a $500-a-card game be-
tween two men aboard the
the troopship while the ves-
sel was off Greenland was
revealed by the FBI.
Russell, a civilian Army
employee and ship trans-
sport officer, is charged with
embezzling $13,000 in Fed-
eral funds, some of which
the FBI said, was used in
the card game with a mess-
man on the ship.
ARMY—NAVY GAME
TO BE BROADCAST
Don’t forget to tune in
on Station SIGI this even-
ing at 1745 hours to hear
the broadcast of the
Army-Navy game.
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