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92_232	representation of this type. The signal box at Petersham Railway Station has characteristic
92_233	features of this type of signal box namely its elevated brickwork base, timber framed, fibre cement
92_234	clad operating level structure and Dutch gable roof and has a high level of integrity as its
92_235	original signalling equipment has been retained and it still has original fibre cement slate roof
92_236	tiles, making it an excellent example.
92_237	References Attribution External links Petersham station details Transport for New South Wales
92_238	John Whitton railway stations Railway stations in Sydney
92_239	Railway stations in Australia opened in 1857 New South Wales State Heritage Register
92_240	Petersham, New South Wales
92_241	Articles incorporating text from the New South Wales State Heritage Register
92_242	Main Suburban railway line
93_0	The Story of G.I. Joe, also credited in prints as Ernie Pyle's Story of G.I. Joe, is a 1945 American
93_1	war film directed by William A. Wellman, starring Burgess Meredith and Robert Mitchum. The film was
93_2	nominated for four Academy Awards, including Mitchum's only nomination for Best Supporting Actor.
93_3	This was the film that established him as one of the world's biggest movie stars.
93_4	The story is a tribute to the American infantryman ("G.I. Joe") during World War II, told through
93_5	the eyes of Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent Ernie Pyle, with dialogue and narration lifted
93_6	from Pyle's columns. The film concentrates on one company, ("C Company, 18th Infantry"), that Pyle
93_7	accompanies into combat in Tunisia and Italy. The friendships that grow out of his coverage led
93_8	Pyle to relate the misery and sacrifice inherent in their plight and their heroic endurance of it.
93_9	Although the company has the designation of an actual unit, that unit did not participate in the
93_10	combat in Italy that makes up the preponderance of the film, and actually stands in for the units
93_11	of the 34th and 36th Infantry Divisions that Pyle did cover in Italy.
93_12	Although filmed with the cooperation of Pyle, the film premiered two months to the day after he was
93_13	killed in action on Ie Shima during the invasion of Okinawa. In his February 14, 1945, posting
93_14	titled "In the Movies", Pyle commented: "They are still calling it The Story of G.I. Joe. I never
93_15	did like the title, but nobody could think of a better one, and I was too lazy to try." In 2009, it
93_16	was named to the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being "culturally,
93_17	historically or aesthetically" significant and will be preserved for all time.
93_18	Plot
93_19	The untested infantrymen of C Company, 18th Infantry, U.S. Army, board trucks to travel to the
93_20	front for the first time. Lt. Bill Walker allows war correspondent Ernie Pyle, himself a rookie to
93_21	combat, to hitch a ride with the company. Ernie surprises Walker and the rest of the men by
93_22	deciding to go with them all the way to the front lines. Just getting to the front through the rain
93_23	and mud is an arduous task, but the diminutive, forty-two-year-old Ernie manages to keep up.
93_24	Ernie gets to know the men whose paths he will cross and write about again and again in the next
93_25	year:
93_26	Private Robert "Wingless" Murphy, a good-natured man who was rejected by the Air Corps for being
93_27	too tall;
93_28	Private Dondaro, an Italian-American from Brooklyn whose mind is always on women and conniving to
93_29	be with one;
93_30	Sergeant Warnicki, who misses the young son ("Junior") he has never seen;
93_31	Private Mew, from Brownsville, Texas, who has no family back home but finds one in the outfit,
93_32	exemplified by his naming beneficiaries for his G.I. life insurance among them.
93_33	Their "baptism of fire" is at the Battle of Kasserine Pass, a bloody chaotic defeat. Ernie is
93_34	present at battalion headquarters when Lieutenant Walker arrives as a runner for his company
93_35	commander; Walker has already become an always tired, seemingly emotionless, and grimy soldier.
93_36	Ernie and the company go their separate ways, but months later he seeks them out, confessing that,
93_37	as the first outfit he ever covered, they are in his mind the best outfit in the army. He finds
93_38	them on a road in Italy, about to attack a German-held town, just as the soldiers are elated or
93_39	disappointed at "mail call": letters for Murphy and Dondaro, a package with a phonograph record of
93_40	his son's voice for Warnicki, but nothing for now Captain Walker. Ernie finds that Company C has
93_41	become very proficient at killing without remorse. In house-to-house combat, they capture the town.
93_42	Fatigue, however, is an always present but never conquerable enemy. When arrangements are made for
93_43	Wingless Murphy to marry "Red", his Army nurse fiancée, in the town they have just captured, Ernie
93_44	is recruited to give the bride away, but can barely keep awake.
93_45	The company advances to a position in front of Monte Cassino, but, unable to advance, they are soon
93_46	reduced to a life of living in caves dug in the ground, enduring persistent rain and mud,
93_47	conducting endless patrols and subjected to savage artillery barrages. When his men are forced to
93_48	eat cold rations for Christmas dinner, Walker obtains turkey and cranberry sauce for them from a
93_49	rear echelon supply lieutenant at gunpoint. Casualties are heavy: young replacements are quickly
93_50	killed before they can learn the tricks of survival in combat (which Walker confesses to Ernie
93_51	makes him feel like a murderer), Walker is always short of lieutenants, and the veterans lose men,
93_52	including Wingless Murphy. After a night patrol to capture a prisoner, Warnicki suffers a nervous
93_53	breakdown when, finally hearing his son's voice on the record, his pent up frustrations at the war
93_54	are released. Walker sadly directs the others to subdue the hysterical sergeant and sends him to
93_55	the infirmary. Ernie returns to the correspondents' quarters to write a piece on Murphy's death and
93_56	is told by his fellow reporters that he has won the Pulitzer Prize for his combat reporting. Ernie
93_57	again catches up with the outfit on the side of the road to Rome after Cassino has finally been
93_58	taken. He greets Mew and a few of the old hands, but the pleasant reunion is interrupted when a
93_59	string of mules is led into their midst, each carrying the dead body of a G.I. to be gently placed
93_60	on the ground. A final mule, led by Dondaro, bears the body of Captain Walker. One by one, the old
93_61	hands reluctantly come forth to express their grief in the presence of Walker's corpse.
93_62	"Then the first man squatted down, and he reached down and took the dead hand, and he sat there for
93_63	a full five minutes, holding the dead hand in his own and looking intently into the dead face, and
93_64	he never uttered a sound all the time he sat there. And finally he put the hand down, and then
93_65	reached up and gently straightened the points of the captain’s shirt collar, and then he sort of
93_66	rearranged the tattered edges of his uniform around the wound. And then he got up and walked away
93_67	down the road, all alone."
93_68	Ernie joins the company as it goes down the road, narrating its conclusion: "For those beneath the
93_69	wooden crosses, there is nothing we can do, except perhaps to pause and murmur, 'Thanks pal,
93_70	thanks.'"
93_71	Cast Burgess Meredith as Ernie Pyle Robert Mitchum as Lt./Capt. Bill Walker
93_72	Freddie Steele as Sgt. Steve Warnicki Wally Cassell as Pvt. Dondaro Jimmy Lloyd as Pvt. Spencer
93_73	John R. Reilly as Pvt. Robert 'Wingless' Murphy William Murphy as Pvt. Charles R. Mew
93_74	Dorothy Coonan Wellman as Nurse Lt. Elizabeth 'Red' Murphy (uncredited)
93_75	Sicily and Italy Combat Veterans of the Campaigns in Africa as Themselves
93_76	Casting notes
93_77	Casting of the role of Ernie Pyle began in June 1944, after speculation about the role brought
93_78	forth a large number of names as possibilities to producer Lester Cowan. Pyle was seen by Americans
93_79	as part saint, part seer, and part common man, and himself pleaded with a fellow correspondent,
93_80	headed to Hollywood to contribute to the storyline: "For God's sake, don't let them make me look
93_81	like a fool." The choice narrowed down quickly to three character actors resembling Pyle or his
93_82	perceived persona: James Gleason, Walter Brennan, and Meredith, who was then little-known and
93_83	serving as a captain in the Army. Meredith was chosen because he was lesser known. Cowan was
93_84	advised that if Capt. Meredith appeared in the film, all profits would have to be donated to the
93_85	Army Emergency Relief Fund, and the Army refused to release him from active duty. According to
93_86	Meredith, the Army was overruled by presidential advisor Harry Hopkins, and his honorable discharge
93_87	from the Army was approved personally by General George C. Marshall. Meredith himself spent time
93_88	with Pyle while the correspondent recuperated in New Mexico from the emotional after effects of

92_232

representation of this type. The signal box at Petersham Railway Station has characteristic

92_233

features of this type of signal box namely its elevated brickwork base, timber framed, fibre cement

92_234

clad operating level structure and Dutch gable roof and has a high level of integrity as its

92_235

original signalling equipment has been retained and it still has original fibre cement slate roof

92_236

tiles, making it an excellent example.

92_237

References Attribution External links Petersham station details Transport for New South Wales

92_238

John Whitton railway stations Railway stations in Sydney

92_239

Railway stations in Australia opened in 1857 New South Wales State Heritage Register

92_240

Petersham, New South Wales

92_241

Articles incorporating text from the New South Wales State Heritage Register

92_242

Main Suburban railway line

93_0

The Story of G.I. Joe, also credited in prints as Ernie Pyle's Story of G.I. Joe, is a 1945 American

93_1

war film directed by William A. Wellman, starring Burgess Meredith and Robert Mitchum. The film was

93_2

nominated for four Academy Awards, including Mitchum's only nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

93_3

This was the film that established him as one of the world's biggest movie stars.

93_4

The story is a tribute to the American infantryman ("G.I. Joe") during World War II, told through

93_5

the eyes of Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent Ernie Pyle, with dialogue and narration lifted

93_6

from Pyle's columns. The film concentrates on one company, ("C Company, 18th Infantry"), that Pyle

93_7

accompanies into combat in Tunisia and Italy. The friendships that grow out of his coverage led

93_8

Pyle to relate the misery and sacrifice inherent in their plight and their heroic endurance of it.

93_9

Although the company has the designation of an actual unit, that unit did not participate in the

93_10

combat in Italy that makes up the preponderance of the film, and actually stands in for the units

93_11

of the 34th and 36th Infantry Divisions that Pyle did cover in Italy.

93_12

Although filmed with the cooperation of Pyle, the film premiered two months to the day after he was

93_13

killed in action on Ie Shima during the invasion of Okinawa. In his February 14, 1945, posting

93_14

titled "In the Movies", Pyle commented: "They are still calling it The Story of G.I. Joe. I never

93_15

did like the title, but nobody could think of a better one, and I was too lazy to try." In 2009, it

93_16

was named to the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being "culturally,

93_17

historically or aesthetically" significant and will be preserved for all time.

93_18

Plot

93_19

The untested infantrymen of C Company, 18th Infantry, U.S. Army, board trucks to travel to the

93_20

front for the first time. Lt. Bill Walker allows war correspondent Ernie Pyle, himself a rookie to

93_21

combat, to hitch a ride with the company. Ernie surprises Walker and the rest of the men by

93_22

deciding to go with them all the way to the front lines. Just getting to the front through the rain

93_23

and mud is an arduous task, but the diminutive, forty-two-year-old Ernie manages to keep up.

93_24

Ernie gets to know the men whose paths he will cross and write about again and again in the next

93_25

year:

93_26

Private Robert "Wingless" Murphy, a good-natured man who was rejected by the Air Corps for being

93_27

too tall;

93_28

Private Dondaro, an Italian-American from Brooklyn whose mind is always on women and conniving to

93_29

be with one;

93_30

Sergeant Warnicki, who misses the young son ("Junior") he has never seen;

93_31

Private Mew, from Brownsville, Texas, who has no family back home but finds one in the outfit,

93_32

exemplified by his naming beneficiaries for his G.I. life insurance among them.

93_33

Their "baptism of fire" is at the Battle of Kasserine Pass, a bloody chaotic defeat. Ernie is

93_34

present at battalion headquarters when Lieutenant Walker arrives as a runner for his company

93_35

commander; Walker has already become an always tired, seemingly emotionless, and grimy soldier.

93_36

Ernie and the company go their separate ways, but months later he seeks them out, confessing that,

93_37

as the first outfit he ever covered, they are in his mind the best outfit in the army. He finds

93_38

them on a road in Italy, about to attack a German-held town, just as the soldiers are elated or

93_39

disappointed at "mail call": letters for Murphy and Dondaro, a package with a phonograph record of

93_40

his son's voice for Warnicki, but nothing for now Captain Walker. Ernie finds that Company C has

93_41

become very proficient at killing without remorse. In house-to-house combat, they capture the town.

93_42

Fatigue, however, is an always present but never conquerable enemy. When arrangements are made for

93_43

Wingless Murphy to marry "Red", his Army nurse fiancée, in the town they have just captured, Ernie

93_44

is recruited to give the bride away, but can barely keep awake.

93_45

The company advances to a position in front of Monte Cassino, but, unable to advance, they are soon

93_46

reduced to a life of living in caves dug in the ground, enduring persistent rain and mud,

93_47

conducting endless patrols and subjected to savage artillery barrages. When his men are forced to

93_48

eat cold rations for Christmas dinner, Walker obtains turkey and cranberry sauce for them from a

93_49

rear echelon supply lieutenant at gunpoint. Casualties are heavy: young replacements are quickly

93_50

killed before they can learn the tricks of survival in combat (which Walker confesses to Ernie

93_51

makes him feel like a murderer), Walker is always short of lieutenants, and the veterans lose men,

93_52

including Wingless Murphy. After a night patrol to capture a prisoner, Warnicki suffers a nervous

93_53

breakdown when, finally hearing his son's voice on the record, his pent up frustrations at the war

93_54

are released. Walker sadly directs the others to subdue the hysterical sergeant and sends him to

93_55

the infirmary. Ernie returns to the correspondents' quarters to write a piece on Murphy's death and

93_56

is told by his fellow reporters that he has won the Pulitzer Prize for his combat reporting. Ernie

93_57

again catches up with the outfit on the side of the road to Rome after Cassino has finally been

93_58

taken. He greets Mew and a few of the old hands, but the pleasant reunion is interrupted when a

93_59

string of mules is led into their midst, each carrying the dead body of a G.I. to be gently placed

93_60

on the ground. A final mule, led by Dondaro, bears the body of Captain Walker. One by one, the old

93_61

hands reluctantly come forth to express their grief in the presence of Walker's corpse.

93_62

"Then the first man squatted down, and he reached down and took the dead hand, and he sat there for

93_63

a full five minutes, holding the dead hand in his own and looking intently into the dead face, and

93_64

he never uttered a sound all the time he sat there. And finally he put the hand down, and then

93_65

reached up and gently straightened the points of the captain’s shirt collar, and then he sort of

93_66

rearranged the tattered edges of his uniform around the wound. And then he got up and walked away

93_67

down the road, all alone."

93_68

Ernie joins the company as it goes down the road, narrating its conclusion: "For those beneath the

93_69

wooden crosses, there is nothing we can do, except perhaps to pause and murmur, 'Thanks pal,

93_70

thanks.'"

93_71

Cast Burgess Meredith as Ernie Pyle Robert Mitchum as Lt./Capt. Bill Walker

93_72

Freddie Steele as Sgt. Steve Warnicki Wally Cassell as Pvt. Dondaro Jimmy Lloyd as Pvt. Spencer

93_73

John R. Reilly as Pvt. Robert 'Wingless' Murphy William Murphy as Pvt. Charles R. Mew

93_74

Dorothy Coonan Wellman as Nurse Lt. Elizabeth 'Red' Murphy (uncredited)

93_75

Sicily and Italy Combat Veterans of the Campaigns in Africa as Themselves

93_76

Casting notes

93_77

Casting of the role of Ernie Pyle began in June 1944, after speculation about the role brought

93_78

forth a large number of names as possibilities to producer Lester Cowan. Pyle was seen by Americans

93_79

as part saint, part seer, and part common man, and himself pleaded with a fellow correspondent,

93_80

headed to Hollywood to contribute to the storyline: "For God's sake, don't let them make me look

93_81

like a fool." The choice narrowed down quickly to three character actors resembling Pyle or his

93_82

perceived persona: James Gleason, Walter Brennan, and Meredith, who was then little-known and

93_83

serving as a captain in the Army. Meredith was chosen because he was lesser known. Cowan was

93_84

advised that if Capt. Meredith appeared in the film, all profits would have to be donated to the

93_85

Army Emergency Relief Fund, and the Army refused to release him from active duty. According to

93_86

Meredith, the Army was overruled by presidential advisor Harry Hopkins, and his honorable discharge

93_87

from the Army was approved personally by General George C. Marshall. Meredith himself spent time

93_88

with Pyle while the correspondent recuperated in New Mexico from the emotional after effects of