Army & Navy - One Night at Gela

Early this month Staff Sergeant Jack Foisie returned to the U.S. from the Mediterranean area to report on the home front for the Stars & Stripes. Last week Reporter Foisie turned up in San Francisco, made news himself by letting a big service cat out of the bag.

Said the Sergeant: In the Sicilian campaign last July U.S. guns shot down some 20 U.S. transport planes by mistake.

No longer could the War Department keep its secret from the public. At first War Secretary Stimson gruffly refused to comment. ("I can't ask for...

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