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in which you are best qualified so don't let opportunity pass you by remember today young women between the ages of 18 and 34 can serve their country in a time of great need visit your nearest United States Army and United States Air Force recruiting station and get all the details now and now your army and your Air Force present the proudly we hail production let the world see you the time well after midnight in early November 1950 the place Camp Drake Japan processing point for incoming and outgoing military personnel in the Far East in spite of the hour one yellow light still grows in the public information office inside a girl sits hunched over a sheet of paper her overseas cap pushed to the back of her head ordinarily PFC Dorothy Miller is ever so trim and tidy right now though she's alone and too engrossed in a letter she's writing to really care dear Jean it's been ages since I've written to you my whole world seems to have changed since I left home with never a dull moment first basic training and then Fort Slocum for public information school Camp Carson Colorado and now Japan it's all happened so fast that I can't believe it but will you hear what happened to me yesterday I met the most wonderful man yesterday was my turn to go into Tokyo for the day it was all wonderful from the Emperor's palace on down and yet very confusing especially when I found myself completely lost right in the middle of the Ginza Tokyo's Main Street anyway that's where my wonderful man came in bicycles by the thousands cars going lickety-split down the wrong side of the street utter utter confusion and there was poor me standing right in the middle of it like one of those lambs going astray and not an MP in sight and that's when I heard his voice behind me need some help soldier what I beg your pardon what's the matter you lost well yes I am a little this isn't exactly Jefferson Street Jefferson Street where Syracuse New York well not being in Syracuse at the moment where would you like to go in Tokyo to the whack quarters the whack quarters oh that's great they're just all over the city oh well the one I signed into this afternoon was alongside two or three other hotels near an army dispensary oh I know that one that's way over in that direction oh thank you very much wait a minute wait a minute you're not gonna walk over there well why not that's the way I came you get lost again you better grab a taxi you think it's safe you couldn't be safer in Syracuse have you eaten yet well no that's why I want to get back well you know what time it is you won't get anything to eat there you better come with me get something around the corner it's so your heroes but I couldn't I don't worry don't worry you can even buy your own dinner that'll make any happier come on let's go nice sergeant cut out the sergeant business my name is McBride Barney McBride what's yours Dottie Miller and you're from Syracuse well not far from Syracuse skinny Atlas what skinny Atlas SKAN what are you doing you can't drink well I'm an information specialist three five six nine if you know what that is you send out news and public relations material of civil union agencies type releases keep mailing lists up to date maintain files of photographs of biographical material conduct interviews act as a guide for this environment that's enough you sound like the officers back at school in Fort Slocum I'm in radio and television with the fiery service command you are oh can it you are and I don't know who she and this guy you what do you want to eat that I don't know I can't read the menu well you like fried shrimp okay Pedro shrimp tempura oh and what about them ski yaki is a follow-up what's ski yaki you like it to ski yaki to Pedro understand for her and for me shrimp and ski yaki where did you learn to speak Japanese oh the pronged prince and I have buddies oh I'd like to but I never could do it not in a hundred years sure you could I'll give you a first lesson here listen repeat after me and the tower and the tower ski desk sergeant McBride yes sergeant McBride more each you do I must have more each you do I watch you say you did fine yes but what does it mean you said I like you very much sergeant McBride I want to see you again very often oh would you excuse me just a minute I see a buddy of mine over there maybe I can borrow a pack of cigarettes we missed what oh I'm sorry curve roll but I know I know I know you're with Bonnie McBride you work with him no why how long you known him well what difference does it make to you may I just curious I've seen him operating around the Daiichi building it's got quite a way with dames that guy you tell you it's gonna go to Korea in the morning no but you are his honors went back I see you later well here I am back again mission accomplished did you miss me I I was listening to the music not bad is it sounds better than most of this Japanese stuff I've been hearing around here have a cigarette no thanks and it isn't Japanese stuff just happens to be hokey Carmichael the night in Gale tells his fairy tale you know something hmm you're wonderful what are you doing Barney operating no no I mean it daddy you are wonderful and I hope you won't forget our Japanese lesson either because I do want to see you again won't that be rather hard aren't you going to Korea tomorrow why did you hear that all the bird told me well okay if you must know I'm flying from Tachikawa at 6 30 in the morning and I've been over before always come back and I do want to see more of you I want to learn about hokey Carmichael tell me you'll teach me all right Bernie I'll teach you anytime you say the word here since I wrote your last but what a year I'm on the other side of the world now in France that sergeant I met in Tokyo vanished like Jonah in the whale a couple of weeks after he left I received five dollars from him for the 1800 yen he had to borrow to pay the dinner check that night it was pinned to a scrap of paper that just said thanks when some of us wax had a chance to get transferred from Japan to Europe I jumped at the opportunity we docked at La Havre a week ago last Friday oh it was all very exciting but what should happen to me the moment I stepped off the gang all right all right who's next we got just enough tape to record three more voices any you girls from the deep south body get the five bucks I sent you from Korea that's all I got it's not so strange that's all I said I've been all over the place I've had a chance to write to anybody even I can't get over you're being here what are you doing here making hometown recordings human infrastructure you know you record voices of soldiers and wax then you send the tapes to the hometown radio stations to use as they see fit usually in local news broadcasts well here here wait here how about giving skinny atlas a thrill Barney you remembered skinny atlas you think I'd forget come on now into the mic well okay hello mother and dad everybody in skinny atlas this is Dorothy Miller speaking from La Havre France we had a wonderful trip over and we don't know what else to say Barney I spoil the tape all that's all right I have to edit it anyway when I get back to Paris or Frank here give me the mic do you think you're going to like Paris Corporal Miller I'm sure I'll love it now and are you going to see a lot of me I'd like to well you have to every time you get a pass you'll probably go flying off somewhere that's my ship my body I have to go where you will see me how can I get in touch with you phone NATO headquarters and ask for radio PIO if I'm not there leave a message Barney and I had our first date since Tokyo Jane oh it was wonderful I met him at the hotel dealer ush on what they call the left bank just a block away from the same river we ate by candlelight and after dinner we walked out on the Samishel bridge and watched the boats passing by the moon was shining and someone someplace was playing an accordion isn't that the same song that they played that night in Tokyo Barney you remembered Stardust ah that was lovely even if I did have to pay for dinner I'm sorry I never got back at least you could have written but then you were probably busy I heard about that Joker in the cafe in Tokyo sure I kid around sometimes but I I never met anyone like you oh Barney it's all so perfect I mean you and the music and the moon and the water I hate to ask you what time is it oh isn't that just like a woman I have dreamed of this moment ever since I met you on the other side of the world and you asked me what time it is it's five minutes of 11 why well Barney everything's been wonderful this evening and I wish I didn't have to go but I must get back to Lucy and my passes up at midnight in the last bus leaves in 15 minutes you wouldn't want me to be a wl would you know Dottie but come on Barney we better leave okay now that I found him again Jeannie I'm going to keep him he's right here if I can't go see him he can come and see me I've never been so happy in all my life what I heard you in the day room down oh what's matter mother haven't you seen the bulletin board you and I and Mary and Cornelia all being transferred to Germany no the Heidelberg no less look when do we leave tomorrow sometime we're to be all packed and ready to go by 10 o'clock in the morning well hey what's the matter well don't you understand we're going to Heidelberg you are listening to the proudly we hail production let the world see you our story will continue in just a moment after this important message have you noticed the new trim whack uniform it is being worn proudly by the young women who are serving in the women's Army Corps this new uniform not only stamps the wearer as being smartly dressed it also indicates that she is doing her part to keep America strong if you are a young woman between 18 and 34 and can qualify you are urged to do your part in making unity strength freedom a reality go to your nearest United States Army and United States Air Force recruiting station and enlist in the women's Army Corps today and now your army and your Air Force present the proudly we hail production let the world see you dear Jean when I wrote you last from Paris I was desolate at the very thought of being transferred to Heidelberg but then I discovered that Barney works out of Frankfurt as much as he does around Paris and Frankfurt's just a short distance away so while they've piled a lot of extra work on me writing up troop information and education lectures and a million other things I don't mind it a bit I've been seeing Barney once or twice a week for the past five months and we met again last night in front of the Reich Post Hotel as usual and then we walked along the promenade overlooking the river until we got to our favorite bench the old castle high up on the hillside was all lighted up with floodlights and spring was in the air listen doc I got something on my mind nothing serious I hope oh well I don't suppose the world will explode into neutrons but this situation isn't good what situation Barney ours are the world's ours I don't like the idea coming down here from Frankfurt once a week and then scooting back up north again all in the same night oh it's making the trip you checked no it isn't that trip it's all the times I can't make the trip I want to be with you all the time not just once and again like this what we're going to do when my detachments move to Austria I've been thinking about that too listen when are you going to Salzburg couple weeks and Donnie was there there was ever a boyfriend and skinny Atlas once plenty time what was his name Homer Homer flips but you needn't worry about him he got engaged before I ever joined the wax maybe married by now Mrs. flips Mrs. flips oh no no that doesn't fit you at all now Mrs. Dorothy McBride now there's a fine old Irish name for you if this is a proposal you'll have to be more formal all right darling will you but Barney no thoughts about it daddy why knock ourselves out going on like this when we can be together all the time but there are other things a girl things about my family and your family and and friends and and besides how could it work out Barney you in Frankfurt me all the way over there in Austria just leave that to me daddy Paris Frankfurt Salzburg they're all one of the same as far as I'm concerned now look I'll make a request to be transferred to the public information office at Salzburg from Franklin we'll set up housekeeping on the banks of the Salzac River have on it it is November again and a lot of water has flowed under the bridges in Heidelberg and Salzburg since you heard from me last things started out according to schedule our detachment moved to Salzburg in May Barney was transferred here and brought his stuff down from Frankfurt about a week later we made arrangements to get married the second week in June when we could both get leave we leased a little two room flat over a bookstore that must have been built by the Medici's it was right around the corner from Mozart's home and if you leaned way out of the window you could see the river a block away in the mountains on beyond well Barney drove to Vienna the last of May to make some special recordings he said he'd be back the next Wednesday Wednesday came and Barney wasn't back then Thursday Friday still no Barney I was worried at first and then I remembered again what that corporal had said in Tokyo about Barney and the girls there on Saturday I was visiting the flat on my weekend pass going over some things with the landlady Frog Ruber oh what's this loss for a line you look so unhappy oh I'd like to cut his ears off for a group it is the young man yeah it's the young man he told me he'd be back Wednesday it is not good when you cannot depend on a man oh somebody at the downstairs door I will go see oh no you don't have to go see it's Barney and it's about time hi honey I know I've found you here hello Mrs. Gruber Griscotte available I go now well here I am where do you think I've gone over the hill I was worried you said you'd be back Wednesday and I didn't hear from you oh well Brenda and I got held up by the commies Brenda yeah Brenda part of the photographer you've seen her stuff in weekend pictorial I don't know as I have oh well she's very well known she'd been doing a special feature on Vienna she's on her way up now she's coming up here yeah sure I ran into her to news briefing in Vienna and I offered to drive her back the commies picked us up in the Russian zone and that was that they didn't like the looks of her camera or my tape recorder I think they thought we were spies Donnie what's the matter don't you believe me well this is quaint Barney oh yeah come on well meet the famous Brenda Potter done how are you hello here she is Brenda the future Mrs. McBride oh Barney's spoken so much about you he's evidently had plenty of time to do it say is there some place I can comb my hair it's simply blown to pieces the bedroom isn't there no thanks so much I'll only be a minute and what's the matter with you dog so it was the commies who held you up are you sure it wasn't that redhead you're out of your mind if you got picked up by the commies why wasn't it in the newspaper on the radio why should it be such things always are they're not you only hear about the incidents that make the headlines besides my job keeps me moving it's difficult to let everybody know just where I am I operate from many points that's just it that's what the corporal in Tokyo said he said you were quite an operator for Pete's sake that I've explained that was all again I'm not so sure not after this calm down honey now look I'm sorry I'm not sorry I'm glad I'm glad it happened before and not after the chaplain got around to marrying us I've learned my lesson I'm through what are you gonna do I'm going back to the barracks and you needn't try getting in touch with me tomorrow next week or next year I'm not listening to anything the matter Bonnie oh no nothing's the matter nothing's the matter darling Wade stop sit down Corporal what's on your mind well I understand there's to be a new whacked detachment in Lake Horn Italy Captain Holbrook I'd like to put in for an assignment there you want to leave Salzburg I thought you were getting married here I changed my mind that's the reason I want to go to Italy I want to forget the whole thing I see I noticed by your records after you told me about your wedding plans that your three years are up in November what do you tend to do reenlist over here I don't know ma'am the last three years I felt that I was doing something worthwhile I've seen and done more than I ever dreamed of and I would like to get a little more ranked but may I think it over Captain Holbrook certainly but you'd still like to go to Italy I'd be willing to leave right now very well Corporal Miller I'll see what can be done Lake Horn was very nice if you like blue skies and blue seas and wide sandy beaches but I didn't have the time so I wrapped myself up in my work getting things ready for the wax do in from the United States and trying to forget the past 18 months they even gave me another stripe made me a sergeant and then rotation back to Camp Kilmer New Jersey so here I am about an hour out of New York all ready to become a civilian again within the next 10 minutes as soon as I pick up my separation papers I can't seem to decide about reenlisting but I have 90 days to make up my mind and still keep my sergeant stripes tell mother and dad that I'm on my way as ever Dottie oh PS I'm mailing this letter in the post exchange when I go to catch my bus could you tell me where the mailbox is over there by the front door ma'am how I see it thank you so you've reached the point where recruits call you ma'am they dotting Barney where did you come from oh I spotted you crossing the parade ground so I followed you are you looking pretty spiffy you've seen this dress before but I never saw you're wearing an honest to goodness hat how about a cup of coffee I I'm going to New York I have to catch a bus well look the New York bus doesn't leave for 20 minutes come on here's snack bar but Barney I come on come on hey see this is much better oh uh two cups of coffee I shouldn't be doing this the only thing you shouldn't have done is run out on me in Salzburg I presume you saw Brenda Pontes article in weekend pictorial I saw it when I got back here two days ago she's a horrible writer I could do better myself at least you found out I wasn't two-timing you that it wasn't our fault we didn't get back to Salzburg on time all right I apologize for everything I said well things turned out it'll save you the trouble of introducing me around skinny atlas when you get home I didn't say I was going home oh well I suppose that you were I was talking to Captain Haynes from classification and assignment and he mentioned that you would re-enlisted and we're going home in a short leave he happened to mention my name well yes after I'd asked him of certain wax sergeant Dorothy Miller had passed through these parts recently I told him I certainly could use you and Panama they're opening a new PIO office there we're looking for competent people that's right sailing Saturday well by the way did your boyfriend what's his name Homer flips do you ever get married what is that to you just wondering if you'd be thinking of me when you're washing out his socks are playing pot cheesy with your mother thank you hey does this jukebox work you gotta put a nickel in I kind of figured that thanks I'll have a little music while we're waiting I should be quite a deal in Panama daddy of course I know I'll be busy but it'd be fun oh gosh if I were only married I'd have my own quarters maybe even my own banana tree while you're washing out those socks I'll be lying on the beach watching the lovebirds and the parakeet singing in the bar you're a louse why what's the matter now you didn't have to play stardust huh start oh so it is oh well don't fret honey it'll be over in a minute Barney oh yes and while you're thinking of me over that wash tub remember it could have been you beside me on that beach just the two of us hey where you going I let go me Barney I something to do you haven't got a thing to do for another 10 minutes yes I have I'm going to see Captain Haynes and see if he'll assign me to Panama the hunch it would be my best assignment and see about that beach business here's an opportunity for you young women of America an opportunity to get in step with the smartest today the rapidly expanding women's Army Corps proud newcomer on the team of defense needs qualified young women between the ages of 18 and 34 this is your chance to do an important job the pay is good with excellent prospect of rapid advancement why not check with your local United States Army and United States Air Force recruiting station today you'll find that it's easy to get in step with these proud American women who are serving their country in the women's Army Corps this has been another program on proudly we hail presented transcribed into operation with this station proudly we hail is produced by the Recruiting Publicity Bureau for the United States Army and United States Air Force recruiting service this is Kenneth Banghart speaking and inviting you to tune in the same station next week for another interesting story on proudly we hail