European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 19, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                V new award a l new service award has been authorized for soldiers who participate in a combat Parachute glider Landing or initial assault on a hostile the device is a Bronze Indian Arrowhead 14inch to be worn Point upward on the theater service Only one Arrowhead May be worn on any organization commanders will Forward recommendations to the theater commander As soon As practicable after the eligible individuals who no longer belong to the organization with which the award was earned May obtain an Arrowhead by submitting an affidavit to their pres ent commanding returns from overseas Between and soldiers Are being returned from overseas each month on rotation and temporary the Secretary of War revealed those figures in a reply to Guy cordon of Oregon who had transmitted a from Oregon requesting return of the 41st Divi which has been in the Southwest Pacific More than two the Secretary said that men have thus been returned Home since Pearl Harbor and that the army cannot increase this rate at least until the defeat of new air Headquarters a new air decentralizing the command functions of the four stateside air forces and the first troop Carrier has been activated at Camp Springs air 11 Miles Southeast of known As Continental air the new installation will be responsible for the air defense of the for joint Fairground training and for the training and deployment overseas of com Bat five Star insignia the new insignia for the rank of general of the army consists of five Silver five pointed each Star Inch in diam with the inner Points touching each other to form a Small those entitled to Wear the new insignia Are George chief of staff Douglas Mac far East forces commander air forces com and Dwight supreme commander of the Allied forces in a five Star Flag and an extra sleeve Stripe have been authorized for the new rank of Admiral of the admirals promoted to the new rank Are Ernest com Mander in chief of the Fleet and chief of naval operations Chester commander in chief of the Pacific and William chief of staff to the commander in generals insignia admirals Flag postwar military training the War department favors postwar univer Sal military training for purely combat according to a circular distributed to in support of its the we stated America probably will be the initial objective of the aggressors in any next and the first engagements of that War will quite possibly be fought in our own there will be no place in a sound Universal military training v yank is published weekly by the enlisted men of the army and is Tor Sale Only to those in the armed pictures and other material from yank May be reproduced if they Are not restricted by Law or military provided proper credit is release dates Are observed and specific prior permission has been granted for each item to be entire contents by Franklin Forsburg and reviewed by military main editorial office 205 42d new York editorial staff t managing Joe a Art Arthur Deml assistant managing Justus assistant Art Ralph Leo Marion a Dan aah overseas Allan Washington Richard Merle aah Durbin Jmc Earl aah Edmund Charles aah Howard corps Francis aah Pat aah Jack Ca Bill Howard k at Ca Reginald aah Saul aah Mack John aah John Sanderson Australia Philippines sgt Lafayette aah Bill corps Douglas Oemil Ralph aah Marvin Dick aah program for activities that Are nonessential to the task of preparing our Young men for com to provide officers for this Reserve the we plans to use colleges and universities As Well As the existing office candidate military correspondence courses would also be unit citations citations in the name of the president have been awarded to the following organizations As evidence of deserved Honor and distinction 61st troop 313th troop 314th troop 315th troop 316th troop 434th troop 435th troop Carrier Carrier Carrier Carrier Carrier Carrier Carrier group group group group group group group 436th troop 437th troop 438th troop 439th troop 440th troop 441st troop 442d troop Carrier Carrier Carrier Carrier Carrier Carrier Carrier group group group group group group group chinese american Wing in one afternoon 16 planes of the chinese american composite Wing of the fourteenth air operating in shot Down five Jap bombers and 11 destroyed four Jap bombers on the blew up a Loco destroyed a Trai Load of shot up three Railroad cars crammed with Jap strafed a 60foot gunboat and damaged a motor pilots on the Mission got of the chinese pilots the remaining a Jap bomber scheduled for that was thus reduced to a Lone sortie by one surviving which dropped its Load in the Middle of a Rice Paddy and wac recruiting wac recruiting will be pushed in 1945 because of an urgent need for Hospital technicians and in Many other High casualties and a critical shortage of army nurses have created a need for several thousand More medi Cal and surgical there is also a de Mand for was with specialized including clerical tabular in machine radio control Tower Parachute riggers and crypt japanese exclusion revoked Loyal japanese americans whose records have stood up under two years of careful army scrutiny have been allowed to return from relocation centers to their West coast those re turned will be Given the same Freedom of move ment throughout the United states As is permitted other la abiding citizens and Loyal Ltd in Wimly John Charles Charles Deml owie Roger Sig corps Joe Centra South Larry Ca George carps Diroa aah James Barrett Tom 0 Mason Pawlak user Bill Jack Deml Lon Italy Harry aah George aah Sieve debt August aah Carl aah denies the we pointed to the outstanding record of japanese soldiers fighting for the in France and the Pacific As a proof that the judg ment of the rescinding order was Wash i Egton of the increasing importance of rockets in this War is shown to some extent by a recent report the army placed its first orders for rockets in 1941 during 1942 it had million Worth of rocket and in 1943 the rocket production program soared per during 1945 the army will be spending million per month on rocket ammunition and by the second Quarter of 1945 the navys expenditure for rocket ammo will be run to million per or As much As it is now spending for All types of naval the reason rockets Are getting to be so popular with the army can be seen in a report from the China and Burma India where p51 each carrying six were after firing 290 with the following destruction six Large 12 medium sized one four to 10 Jap planes and two River plus damage to two More medium sized Ware five medium sized one Loco motive and 13 Jap As an indication of How the Navy uses up the the report Points out that Luis sent several thousand rounds of rocket ammunition at Shore installations in less than a minute in the invasion of rocket researchers now Are spending time on overcoming the present disadvantages of it is recognized that though rockets have great firepower and mobility and can be fired without they still cannot be counted on for pin Point except when fired from High Speed and As ground weapons they Are chiefly useful As a barrage american ordnance experts have concentrated on Correct ing the present relative inaccuracy of How the experts Haven closed their Eyesto the possibilities of new weapons and other Fields of rocket such As the Long Range German v2 or the Jet propelled one of the advantages of rockets at the army and Navy Point is that compared with artillery they Are much cheaper and easier to mass the army m8 for equals a 105mm gun in but its launcher weighs Only a tiny fraction of the 12 tons of the and costs compared with for the yank Burma India Paul aah George corp Jud Deml Seymour corps Dave Ca Lou Alaska Ray aah John Burtt Panama Richard puerto Rico Don a James Middle East Robert Corn Brazil Nat Bermuda William do Central Africa Kenneth Iceland John Newfoundland Frank Navy Donald Nugent commanding 0fleer Franklin executive officer Jack business manager North Supply officer Gerald overseas Bureau officers Charles halt Stanley Harold Haw Ley Central Josua Eppinger Western Jattuso Craemer Robert Strother Burma Harold Burroughs capt Harry Rberts David Gafill Howard Carswell puerto Frank Gladstone Middle Knowlton