ISU Library Shelley Collection: Box 8, Reel 5

mighty glad to be able to they were captured by the Germans and fighting near an abundant monastery and for the better part of two days and two nights okay when I did after I adopted one of the Yanks turban I've got some Oreo campaign I was afraid the Nazis if they fall in German the Doughboy is that their German captors treated them well huh sadly perhaps because it wasn't very long before it became clear to the Nazis that they were in a trap from which they didn't have a chance to escape we sure didn't get much time but we'll have to admit the German simply didn't have much of anything they were darn near farming themselves for more than 48 hours the American do you know what the vision is when they lie on the floor and feel the building walk as the accurate you systematically wreck the place about watching their prisoners they were too busy thinking of their own safety the guards began to make white flour I lost all hope the town to be held and the another and the enemy one of their first major defeat thus far is the German guard writing about the path of their division said he hadn't eaten for three days and just hoped he'd get an American chocolate bar after he was captured they thought they were mighty good men said one of the liberated Americans there are going to be a lot of other Germans throughout the same expanse before this business is over this is a - Shelley speaking if we come we're on high I'll return you to the moon and that was that was the first dispatch by WH almost immediately and have attacked by the press sensors in fed back to the fates information about soldiers I have it over here you've got a lot of things about us that we are the loud the quarter-mile and yet your material is a fever Cynthia just the other day in several soldiers who've been fighting for month in several different countries and who richly have been aforetime the big German offensive a great deal of it seems to boil down to the business of organization or maybe you'd rather call it red tape between the way the soldiers may have to be centered and the way newspaper and radio tapia check pretty hard you got away from fifth of all I'm going within the broad sense at the end of the soldiers in the chances some of the letters written by the men might fall into enemy hands in the mail I love you to be super careful about setting out any possible bit information but they fear might possibly at the enemy and I might be used against I know about this right away but isn't the enemy can hear this broadcast tool from the ballot on the information of value that his speed habit without delay as a matter of fact the Germans even make a practice of picking up sources of broadcast by mouth and radio correspondent over here collecting a few lines and then repeating them they didn't pop again the blob back in the disguise of the day to see if they can't make them serve my own purposes the billion radio did that was a statement for one of my broadcasts the other day where in which our remarks this was going to be an unmarried sentiment in Europe it happens to everyone who broadcasts over here the pipette is your father my husband let me tell you more about what's happening to him in his letters from the war ground if he could good reason and others left to do it why he is never do but don't blame him he's telling you all he can fill a job Shelley speaking from Patna in Holland I return you to Des Moines this is the British Broadcasting Corporation but was the second dispensed by Jack Shelley from Holland and concluded the program for station WH o Des Moines Iowa the program is brought to you from the BBC in London yeah this is a specify Jack Shelley summer in Holland transmitted specially for station wh o Des Moines Iowa the duration is 5 minutes approximately standby for Jack chilly WH o this is your father Jack Shelley checking in once again for the somewhere in Holland I'm speaking through an army mobile transmitter London from where this report is relayed by the British Broadcasting Corporation it takes the holiday season to dramatize the greatest degree for Americans over here in the forward areas of the wars on the distance in the contrast between life as they used to know up in the States there's Deneb it now now that the contrasts are all too obvious to anyone over here any day in the year but it's really on Christmas or New Year's Day is created with emotion so strongly linked with home at the film in fact of this topsy-turvy completely abnormal kind of existence impresses itself on you let me give you just a couple of word pictures of New Year's Eve in a certain Dutch town to show you what I mean it was another brilliant moonlit night Christmas Eve was the same way there wasn't much of the peacetime kind of celebrating but a lot of the American soldiers with the feed show being presented the two armies in the town I went along with Jim Cassidy of NBC and John McGovern of United Press to see the show and as we walked through the cold air in the whiteness of the moonlight we heard the point of an airplane somewhere overhead almost certainly a German plane you get so you lose most of your enthusiasm for moonlight when you come over here it may look romantic but including practical effect is simply beckons to German planes gives the my idea like bombing condition and makes you feel embarrassing they explored as you walk across an open square with a moon painting long black shadows to outline your figure like these it is well you'll see the lights with the Lord in the stars from the plight of the German plane above reach the theatres of American GIs presently the show began more of a concert than anything else with piano solos and duets plus singing and dancing by others among the company or poor performers a good short was too starting with practical numbers and winding up with boogie woogie played by a girl in the strapless evening hours there's a sanitation were the audience which was a strange kind of gathering for a concert says it was steel helmets instead of top hat enjoy rifles to the boxes instead of canes but this was the picture distracting most the first performer of the evening was a Filipino concert pianist who came out and bowed solemnly in San Andres white tie tails and all beautiful was trying to give her a New York for a moment as he sat down and he carefully adjusted the bench to script the first notes of the five years of ritual fire down many plays did you see is his holiness if at all came home to me got the picture from the Phillipines plan a black-and-white formal garb of a civilian world almost forgotten where's banished and French classical numbers in a theater somewhere in Holland for an audience of American GIs playing a limpid nostalgic song about moonlight while outside in the white glare of a frosty unfriendly moon a gentleman bombing playing blind and snarled the sky civilization for a moment trying to come to the war an emissary from some other world bringing musical messages of greens by artists of different tongues and the war striking back quickly meeting down the infiltration of this other peaceful world for men had time to create music saying in the raw of the German plane or is the master here get back to your channel walking on top this New Year's Eve in a Dutch town we left the concert and we're back to our quarters and presently the anti-aircraft guns began to fire and we knew the Germans were back we sat and listened while the guns roared first the head is and then the more rapid fire when the plane is flying very low they're tearing the sounds of machine guns like a ripping of a clock we heard a few bombs falling somewhere in the end this is the British Broadcasting Corporation this is your war correspondent jet Shelley calling again from somewhere in Holland my voice is being relayed to you by an army multi offensive and the British Broadcasting Corporation this is going to be a slightly Bellator's report on Field Marshal Montgomery the famous British commander who was given charge of the alight Army is on the northern flank when the German offensive into the American first on the front and started rolling toward the mers River in Belgium you've already heard the main details of watch Marty you hardly ever hear him refer to any other way what Marty said the other day when he since the days of the fighting ended I like to give you up your intentions of money from the point of view of an American we saw him for the first time and I did that day that was the first place Marty fooled quite a surprise on the correspondent that afternoon as you heard he was helping and in the past he's always made it crystal clear but he didn't want any cigarettes carving the atmosphere when he spoke to reporters as a matter of fact bonafide hardly gathers in the conference room when a red cap British military women walk this another thing somewhere there'll be no snitching please there'll be no smoking if you consider when Marshal Montgomery came in and stood before the cross just about the first thing he said was that he hurt they might be more at ease if those who smoke were allowed to do so now I want you to feel touches it comfortable he said so you go right ahead and light up your priceless pretty red and you get that the older hands among the reporters where attended Montgomery across complexes before look they're out of each other as though they could hardly believe their ears for my feet on the front wall summit chance to watch Marty as he spoke my first impression was that he was a poor man than I imagined the nickname shorty either he explains his new honorary title bone with a shiny another belt very neat clean yellow corduroy trousers a gnarly Parmesan cheese hardly a regulation military dress uniform as Marty himself bed probably no other common dance of a British regiment had ever worn twice that's kind about this but it was anything but sloppy on the contrary it all seemed very neat clean orderly trying to be comfortable and free to get into business done without a lot of cumbersome stuff hanging on in any indication of rank unless the metallic badge of some sort pinned on the beret it serve that purpose I couldn't tell this tidy appearance of my is quite apparently is a key part of his makeup and plays an important part in the way he operates a lot of our leaders opening remarks when he gave a brief summary of the German break and the situation of the order you have to obtain to get up a hideous pepper so the first things to do in such a situation Marty said is to tidy up your whole area get the units in position and generally tidy up the area yes that's it he said you have to tidy things up this is anyway I hope that last phrase or so will give you an idea of how I want someone fill makeup when speaking to reporters he repeats ideas and crazy pretty sure he goes about the job is only precise way he's going to ring up another good performance to use his own praise we tidy up this dirty business over here that was the first dispatch by Jack Shetty presented from London for station W the second colors is 10 seconds this is one of the United States Army finest division commanding officer major general demon of Washington DC's most remarkable general this is the broadcasting