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HEADQUARTERS ALASKAN
DEPARTMENT — How many
Axmy Engineer soldiers there
are in Alaska from Attu to Ket
chikan and back, hacking out
airfields and constructing the
other defense and offense bases
up here, is a military secret.
But for a typical Corps of Engin
eer soldier stationed “some-,
where in Alaska,” here is the
story of Corporal Janez Reboudhe.
The name of his outfit and the1
story of his regiment, can; wait
till peace but his own name and
his drawl which is as-'good- at
French as English, tell you he
comes from French Loui£i&ria'
Shreveport. • .
Janez Rebouche volunteered
for .Army service about 2 years
ago. down in Shreveport. Older
than draft age. he unlisted "be
cause I figured to help get it
over.” His original Infantry out
fit is making headlines lately in
Munda. and while you never
hear of Janez and his Engineer
Company nor the vital post they
have helped build the Alaska De
feexse Command considers them
the equal of any headline-mak
ers yd reported.
; Around a year ago, Corporal
Rdbduche was in Seattle .from a
nearby camp or. a 24-hour pass.
He walked around town all night
because there was no place to
stay but he didn’t mind—‘‘some
city and pretty, too.” The firs:
thing, when the war's.over, he’ll
really see Seattle for a month
or so, and second, he’ll climfc j
around on Mti Rainier again,
heading on . home and maybe
back to Alaska ‘‘like a lot of the”
•Eest.’,’.. He wants to get lost again
in Mew York. tod. ' somewhere i
along the line. ,v.
Corporal Rebouche was trans
ferred t© the Engineer? down in
the States when Major 'then 1
Captain) Kenneth E. Ristau. re
quested him for technical En
gineer troop work that could
use Rebouche’s welding, steam
fitting, and rigging talents on ;
some special Engineer jobs.
Now, tem hours a day, seven
days a week, Corporal Rebouche
welds on a military installations, j
unspecified
Rebouche’s post isn’t too far
from a good-sized city, as Alas
kan towns go, but only four
times in the last ten months has
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he taken a pass to town. Town,
he figures, is not only pretty far
away 'Out there’s nothing to do
when you get there and the
civil service girls available to
take dancing are "already stak
ed out and goin' steady.” He
goes occasionally to post shows
ar.d visits around neighboring
huts :boit he’s ured of not hav
ing anything to think about and
y<m g£t tired of going to movies.”
When Corporal Rabouohe first
came to Alaska, he carried his
two barracks bags and full pack
out into the snow-covered woods
and put up a tent with his bud
dies. Those first weeks when it
went around 40 below, the
breathing holes in sleeping bags,
even inside tents were covered
with ice, and shoes were frozen
by the time the outfit had to
stand reveille of a morning.
logging into the nearly per
petually frozen Alaska earth
was a tough job, raising the de
fenses, putLmg in the housing,
fixing the frozen wilderness
into the specifications of a com
mand post was not easy, but the
Engineers were at work on it
and Rcbouche’s outfit joined in,
along with civilian construction
workers sent up to help rush
the job tu completion.
J a n e z Rebouche, Corora!,
Army of the United States, has
worked side by side with civil
ian construction workers who
were deferred for dependents or
for job classification. He has
worked side by side with civil
ians drawing $212 for two weeks’
work. One civilian welder on
the same job with him now
draws $137 a week. That’s all
right with Rebouche—‘‘We have
i to get this over and everybody’s
got the right to have a good job
if they can, I guess. We need all
the help we can get up here,
too.”
Rebouche likes his work but
wishes it were over. “I sure
hate Japan,” he says “and we
can’t have it going on too long,
this war.” He’d like to be in
on the invasion of Japan or bet
ter still, the invasion of France.
Speaking Evangeline county Lou
isiana French, Corporal Re’Jou
che thinks he’d do all right in
France and “I could be a help
1 too. Fran<n won’t be too bad a
job when we get there.’
Corporal Rebouche thinkjs
America and her allies will
“take the world because we fight
different. We try to save oiur men
and not just fight for fightin’
it.” A uniform embarrasses
! him, since he figures he’s too
• old to be a G-I soldier, not that
he isn’t proud to wear it but he
feels censpicious to be dressing
differently from what he ever
counted on. He thinks he and
his outfit fig&re they aren’t
much help to the war because
they’re so far from combat.
They’d like to be in on one show.
| They’re proud of their work
• and they remember not many
i months ago, before Attu’ whan
no one knew’ where the front
line in Alaska would be.
Corporal Janez Rebouche vron
ders, like the rest, what it’s like
at home and whether “folks
care much about the war or
think about it much.”
Them them you saw it adver
tised in The Nugget.
Officers Are
Given Awards
HEADQUARTERS. ALASKAN
DEPARTMENT — The Legion of
Merit was awarded to four offi
cers of the Alaskan Department,
Lt. General Simon Bolivar Buck
ner, Jr., announced recently.
“For exceptionally meritorious
conduct in the performance of
outstanding service as command
ing officer of an Alaska station
from October of 1941 to October
of 1943,’’ Brig. Gen. Edgar B.
Colladay of Washington, D. C., re
^ceived the award.
Gen. Colladay, according to his
citation, displayed sound judg
ment. technical ability and in
spiring leadership during the
critical years when his station
was expanding into one of the
most important bases in the en
tire theater. The base contrabut
| ed importantly to the successful
defense of the Alaska and Pacific
Northwest regions.
His citation accredited his suc
cess to his ability to foster cor
dial relations between the ser
vices involved in construction
and also his ability in overcom
ing the many difficult problems
incident to the development of a
military base in the face of enemy
opposition, severe weather^-ondi
tions and shortages of critical
equipment, supplies and person
nel.
Col. Chester A. Clark of Chat
tanooga, Tenn., received the
award as recognition for his out
standing record as commanding
officer of four different Alaskan
stations during critical phases of
their development.
His citation recorded his rug
ged . . . unbounded energy and
ability to accomplish results.
“Faced with most severe physi
cal hardships he inspired the
confidence of his subordinates,
officers and men, and by his
leaden-ship and attention to duty
accomplished outstanding re
sults,” his citation said.
Col. Leslie O. Peterson of Tus
con, Ariz., received the award as
recognition for his outstanding
service as assistant chief of staff,
for plans and training of th*
Eleventh Air Force.
His citation noted that his
ability to assimilate new ideas
and his diplomatic attitude were
a most decisive factor in the suc
cess of the joint operations.
“His devotion to duty, tact and
superior intelligence reflect great
credit on himself and the Army
Air Farces ” his citation said.
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Col. Cary J. King, Jr., of
Rome, Ga., received the award
for outstanding service as Air
Force Signal Officer and later
also as Assistant Chief of Staff,
A-4 (Supply) of the Eleventh Air
Force.
Col. King established and su
pervised the complex system of
communications and radio aids
to navigation necessary for aerial
operations, and at the same time
exercised supervision over mat
ters of logistics. His citation not
ed that he accomplished all of
this “in a highly efficient man
ner.”
‘‘His devotion to duty, tact and
superior intelligence reflect great
credit on himself and the Army
Air Forces ” his citation said.
Captain Archie M. Kahan of
Denver, Colo., of the Army Air
I Corps, received the award in rec
ognition of his “inestimable value
to the Eleventh Air Force’’ as
: weather forecaster in the Aleut
i ian campaign.
“It was primarily due to his
endeavor, his untiring interests,
his great skill and his sound ad
vice that successful operations
were conducted against the
enemy at every opportunity wea
ther permitted without undue
loss to ourselves because of un-'
j favorable weather.
“His devotion to duty and his '
successful prognostication of
weather conditions in the Aleut- •
ians are worthy of the highest
j praiee and reflect great credit on
i himself and the Army Air Fore-’
es,” his citation said.
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