WANTS TO GET BACK TO FIGHT

Dominion, Volume 37, Issue 190, 10 May 1944, Page 5

WANTS TO GET BACK TO FIGHT

General Kippenberger (By Telegraph.—Press Assn.—Copyright.) (Special Correspondent.) LONDON, May 8. “I am here to get new feet. They should be ready in six weeks’ time. Then I shall be perfectly all right to do a fighting job,” said Major-General Howard Kippenberger when chatting at Queen Mary’s Military Hospital at Roehampton. A /tribute to General Kippenberger is paid by the “News-Chronicle,” which says he dismissed his decorations as“gongs for being one of the nimblest shell dodgers in the Allied armies,” and though little known in England, is “idolizell by the men he commanded in Greece. Crete, North Africa, nnd Italy.” Commenting on the incident when he was wounded and lost both feet. General Kippenberger said: “I was visiting the forward area in Cassino well up with the fighting when I felt a terrific explosion. Everything lifted around me. I must have trodden on a cleverly-concealed box mine, which is known as ‘the mankiller.’ ” He said lie was waiting for the day when he would be fit enough to do some sort of job in “this invasion stunt.” General Kippenberger said: “We shall bring it off, of course, but the Germans are tough fighters. They fought to the Inst in Africa, and they have shown themselves tough soldiers in Italy. It is stupid to say they are a lot of underfed weaklings.” _____