European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 19, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Yank the army weekly 1945 yanks at Home abroad Good Strasbourg in marauders moved across the sky Over our and someone in the jeep remarked that it must have Given the pilots a feeling of frustration to see the Road be Low them so tightly and ideally jammed with an american More than a week after Strasbourg All of its roads seemed slow and the great drive of seventh army men and tanks through the Savern Gap into Strasbourg was being followed by military traffic of All there were snarls and involuntary breath ing spells for the men in our jeep every half hour or and we had a Chance to take a took at the Superb farm land opened out on All cultivated Green Plains and Light Brown and Pink farmhouses and Wayside Wood Cruci the local population lined the Road to stare at the motorized army moving it was a Crisp the cold entered your flesh and stayed but the Sun came out to show the Black mountains with Banks of Gray Mist lying around their slopes in the occasionally we passed wrecked tanks covered with they looked As if they had been strafed weeks in the Fields were deep red pulleys and behind them were Well dug tank artillery was still zeroed in on the even with backs to the the germans had prepared themselves and the Ter rain for Long we saw no live nazis this Day and Only one dead lying alone by an incline in the he was dressed in Blue uniform and with helmet and ammunition piled beside As we approached the weather closed in around us and we drove White fog and tall Black piles of logs Lay by the Road where gis had cleared away Road blocks and the trunks of some of the Trees in the Woods were half chopped the germans had been preparing these roadblocks almost at the moment our army caught up with in Strasbourg we headed for a hotel called the Blue which was warm Well lit and in Good running a number of infantry men had the same idea and were lined up at the desk getting when our turn the desk serious round faced Young woman in a Blue our dates of occupations and Home the people of Strasbourg take nothing for their City has changed hands so often during the last 150 years that they Are particularly Touchy about their current we asked the clerk How to find the Home of Rouget de composer of the French National its Adolph Hitler int it we you mean place de la she supper that night at the hotel was substantial smoked a Large helping of vegetables and Good at a Corner table by a huge old wearing a checked overcoat and a Felt hat jammed Down Over her gloomily disposed of a tin of sardines and two an old Man with Black rimmed a Black Mustache and polished Black boots glanced up from his paper at some american infantrymen entertaining a party of girls who wore Black skiing Woolen trousers and White Strasbourg that night had a particular mean ing for these travelling through Europe late in 1944 at government expense does not broaden the we wont remember Strasbourg for its sightseeing River the great squares and the we wont re member it even for its critical military value and the fact that it is Only within a few Miles of the Rhine and the Black we will remember it simply As a town not off limits where you could find food and Good company and a bed for the John Preston yank staff Correct pendent weasels at work the the Beach welding shop of the ordnance repair Section highest priority goes to the or m29 cargo the weasel is still getting to the front in this Tough after every other kind of vehicle has bogged Down in the Rice paddies and compared with the Load of a 6 by the weasels capacity about pounds on its 20 foot rubber tracked Frame is a drop in the but to the infantrymen stretching one Days rations to the sight of these Little jobs churning through the bogs past swamped trucks is a Fine and heartwarming the ordnance men Are having their troubles in the repair the weasels have come almost directly from the Assembly line into which Means that there Are practically no replacement ordnance has to build parts on the often the weasels were and Drivers treated them with the result that clutches pulled out and trans missions were a lot of weasels were also knocked out by mortar t5 Arnold Westman of explained How the ordnance men work their clutch we found that a jeep clutch will fit a weasel if you Cut an eighth of an Inch off the Pilot he first youve got to soften the heating it three times for then you can Cut it Down and then you have to re temper after a while you finish it our first one took us 10 now we do one in three Charles Pearson yank staff correspondent furlough a hint of sarcasm in the Aleutian custom of putting up a Star for each i who gets a furlough to the at an Engineer Lorca Calvin admires one of the flags this weeks cover Ely ing staggered Echelon with two sister ships from Bell the Jet propelled p59 air Comet fighter Trainer Bottom shows her lines alongside those of the p39 air cobra top and the p63 King cobra what makes the Jet Job Fly is told on pages and photo 2 t aircraft Cerea a Scarlet Sake Cert Nat a 10 Pawlak 12 4 have Bree act quiver a Slana Shooshon baby t3 Dupont and his go shoes Hoo baby somewhere in Jimmy Adkins of the office of strategic services woke one morning in a i garage Here to find a Earnest dutch kid staring Down at the Little Guy spoke no but he conveyed a certain amount of hunger via sign so Adkins and his friends took him to Chow with Hes been with them Ever the kids name is Edward Dupont but they Call him Hes the 4yearold son of a dutch family that has seven other and his parents readily consented to let the yanks adopt Shooshon the first step of his i Foster parents was to have a uniform made for Cut Down from a regulation i Blouse and next the boys took him in to the finance officer for his the finance preoccupied in counting that Green was somewhat startled to see pin sized Complete with t3 barely reaching the top of the he made up a partial pay of 10 dutch cents and Drew it from his own pockets in order to save trouble for and from the mat Cosem mfg yank Field correspondent bed in bedlam with the fifteenth air Force in air Force sergeant was but he wanted to look up his wounded an in at a Field Hospital near he got in to see his brother and they the air Force sergeant yawned More and finally he gave getting a litter and some blankets he moved into a nearby room to take a horizontal he left his jacket with All his papers in it with his two hours after he hit the sack he was Awak ened rudely by an infantry the medic thrust a thermometer in his Mouth and began to take his the sergeant in not sick in just in the air Force the medic smiled and winked at another medic who had come thinks Hes in the air poor he the two of them led the sergeant gently to the psychopathic it was hours after the situation had been ironed out Over the scepticism of Many that the sergeant went Back and looked at the sign on the door of the room he had picked for his receiving it Field correspondent