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Milty's Mag, July 1945

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Some billets (when you live in a building in a foreign city it's a billet, and not a barracks) have their own bars, with rationed liquor. The bar at the WAC Billets, a former hotel, has a lovely scotch. When you eat there as a guest it's like eating at a restaurant. Or it was until the directive came out about no more waiting on E.M.'s messes. Towards the end of the evening the lounge in the WAC Hotel is deafened with billing and cooing of OD garbed lovebirds draped all over the joint with magnificent disregard of passers by.
Every night there is a GI in from the front on a three day pass who barges into the WAC Billets asking for a WAC for the evening. Sometimes he gets it. More often not. Someday I shall write a story about the guys from the front who look at men stationed in Paris going out on dates with their WAC friends and who feel resentful about it. But what can they do? The WACs haven't quite descended to the level of the 200 franc Mademoiselles.

It's Rough in the ETO.
The language situation is much fun. You get used to hearing French as she is spoke, and you have hilariousness when you try to talk to the natives with the help of the little Blue Books and about three weeks of lessons at the Red Cross.
The real fun begins when they start mixing up languages. Like when I spoke German with a French Barber who'd been a prisoner in Germany. Or when the Sergeant calls over the P.A. System "Joe Blow report to the orderly Room toute de suite!" Or when somebody asks you at the Red Cross Club: "Is this the Java Queue, S'il vous plait?"

SCIENCE FICTION DEPARTMENT (Huzzah!_
Report on Science Fiction in France:
So far I have discovered the following:
A copy of Jules Verne's "A Trip to the Moon" on a book stand.
A comic book entitled "Les Hommes Immortels". (The Immortal Man)
A showing of "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" and "Nosferatu The Vampire," which is a 1921 German version of Dracula.
But I haven't really started looking yet. Too many other things to do.
And so we come more or less to the end of this eventful issue. We may claim the honor and distinction of being the first Science Fiction Fan magazine written in Paris. Unless Georges Gallet brought out something a long time ago that we haven't heard about. Ho Hum, another three thousand miles. Where will the next issue be written?

Cpl. Milton A Rothman
3352nd Signal Service Bn.
65th Region ACS - PEA
APOO 887  % P.M.
New York City,  N.Y.

Stenciled and mimeo'd by Walter Dunkelberger as received from F. T. Laney

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Some billets (when you live in a building in a foreign city it's a billet, and not a barracks) have their own bars, with rationed liquor. The bar at the WAC Billets, a former hotel, has a lovely scotch. When you eat there as a guest it's like eating at a restaurant. Or it was until the directive came out about no more waiting on E.M.'s messes. Towards the end of the evening the lounge in the WAC Hotel is deafened with billing and cooing of OD garbed lovebirds draped all over the joint with magnificent disregard of passers by. Every night there is a GI in from the front on a three day pass who barges into the WAC Billets asking for a WAC for the evening. Sometimes he gets it. More often not. Someday I shall write a story about the guys from the front who look at men stationed in Paris going out on dates with their WAC friends and who feel resentful about it. But what can they do? The WACs haven't quite descended to the level of the 200 franc Mademoiselles. It's Rough in the ETO. The language situation is much fun. You get used to hearing French as she is spoke, and you have hilariousness when you try to talk to the natives with the help of the little Blue Books and about three weeks of lessons at the Red Cross. The real fun begins when they start mixing up languages. Like when I spoke German with a French Barber who'd been a prisoner in Germany. Or when the Sergeant calls over the P.A. System "Joe Blow report to the orderly Room toute de suite!" Or when somebody asks you at the Red Cross Club: "Is this the Java Queue, S'il vous plait?" SCIENCE FICTION DEPARTMENT (Huzzah!_ Report on Science Fiction in France: So far I have discovered the following: A copy of Jules Verne's "A Trip to the Moon" on a book stand. A comic book entitled "Les Hommes Immortels". (The Immortal Man) A showing of "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari" and "Nosferatu The Vampire," which is a 1921 German version of Dracula. But I haven't really started looking yet. Too many other things to do. And so we come more or less to the end of this eventful issue. We may claim the honor and distinction of being the first Science Fiction Fan magazine written in Paris. Unless Georges Gallet brought out something a long time ago that we haven't heard about. Ho Hum, another three thousand miles. Where will the next issue be written? Cpl. Milton A Rothman 3352nd Signal Service Bn. 65th Region ACS - PEA APOO 887 % P.M. New York City, N.Y. Stenciled and mimeo'd by Walter Dunkelberger as received from F. T. Laney