European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 19, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Jom Iory 1945 the stars and stripes weekly night makes strange West front buddies by Ralph Marulk stars and stripes writer with the 7th 17 is How confusing everything was in this tiny frontline town shortly after Midnight when two american tanks rumbled Down the Road behind the shadowy shapes of a Large group of the yank tankers thought that the germans were americans the March ing krauts thought that tanks were theirs and the american soldiers in town watching them thought that these two american tanks were bringing in a lot of Kraut Pris of As soon As everybody found out differently the War was on by this More Amer ican infantry had infiltrated from the Hill Sand a few Kraut tanks had come in on a Side in Small houses at the Edge of the three signal corps radio operators were still laughing because their super suspicious t5 George Nicol of had walked into their room say ing that there were soldiers in town making a lot of noise Anc acting they All stoned laughing when a neighbourly Soldier told them to forget about their radio and get some guns because there was a War going houses afire some of the War landed on two nearby setting them both afire burning buildings acted As huge dimly lighting up the whole town and telling the Ger mans and yanks just who was very the four signal corps boys turned their operation instruction Sheet and Nicol put a vital pocket sized machine in his husky six used to be a professional football player and the machine in his pants gave him a pot then All four made a run for it heading in the general direction of the battalion but they didst get Verv the machine slipped out of Nicols wants and he had to go Back for so did the dog he tricked up at Anzio who limped slowly after him with a broken the other three kept running until a machine gun opened firing from close sniper in the Snow mus sos Gal Friend is writing memoirs Mussolini former who was sentenced to 30 years imprisonment for aiding the has begun to write her memories of the Days and nights she spent with the former this mornings Gior Nale Del Mattino reports that an american probably of a has offered Tanzi 250 500 Dol Lars for a it was said that she will have to submit her reminiscences to Judi Cial authorities before sending them to the a Rifleman of the 8th neatly camouflaged in his Winter fires at the also hidden in the Snow on the italian bulletin Board Are to have added trimmings to that draft Board the latest reads like this to the father and elder we have Learned that your ton and toothed will shortly experience the greatest Joy and satisfaction possible to one of oar nation by joining soon our sacred we congratulate you might Coll Rimmer t3 real three Star Captain like mysteriously finite 19 Public funds disappeared without accounting during Ben i to Mussolini fascist it was disclosed with a report that a sum of lire was missing from one organizations the lire constituted More than on third of the prof its earned Between 1925 and june 1943 by a Chain o cooperative stores maintained and financed by the state railways up at the three just stayed there flattened out until one Bullet creased the shirt of t5 of Stony that convinced Moore and the other Roy Cornforth of and t4 Elmer Schaefer of fort they didst have a that they better they yelled out their sur Render in nothing Hap then Schaefer yelled it out in As soon As they did they heard a Tough Brooklyn accent Okay you Kraut but come out with your hands up and no funny friends a target in the confusing it had been an american Doug foot who this sum was put at Mussolini personal a recent accounting failed to show How and where the Money was used by i even at the present rate of sex this sum would amount to before 1943 the lire was Worth More than a and the sum that cannot be accounted by Bill Mcelwain staff writer at a bomber Wing he wants Charles Brann Rimmer of can Wear Para trooper jump the combat infantryman badge and pilots to his Rimmer is More interested in flying a b25 Mitchell for the 310th bomb group than he is in wearing badges or when he int Hes playing hot piano or leading Church just How the husky Guy with the red hair and the Little moustache got that Way is a somewhat involved it starts his child a ministers he took to slaving the Organ and at 13 he had a Job performing on the studio Organ at later on he went to new York and studied the piano at Julliard he helped pay for his studies by play ing piano with a Small dance came 194i and he decided to join the air they didst for quite i while but when they did he breezed through training and graduated from in the Spring of 1942 with a reputation f Beirer a pretty Good p40 Pilot lost army and Navy journal May not be an official Organ but it is regarded As accurate and usually m the cover of its 7 War a Soldier was pictured descending a Landing net with his hands clasped around the nags instead of gripping toe ver tical hundreds of letters have advised the journal that the Man above would step on the Guys Fin o aah has Dis covered a tiny new nation High in the new Guinea never visited by White men or even neigh Boring its surrounded on two sides by on the third Side by an impassable Stream and on the fourth by a Jungle like Forest several Miles the lost tribe has an extensive irrigation yank airmen at first they were scared by the Roar of the planes but now they wave the strings of beads which they Wear around their that All they can All they for amounted to about pro Vida is undergoing rear besides the disappear Ance of part of its its food stores have been the germans confiscated food and and a great Deal of material was destroyed by bombing and that time the 1st special service Force was organizing at and the John was brazilian troops visited by Prince of Piedmont with the 5th 19 h e brazilian expeditionary troops in this front were visited yesterday by the Prince of pied lieutenant general of the the Prince was greeted at head quarters by Joao Baptista Mascarenhas de com manding general of the who introduced the Prince to the staf officers of the brazilian in an address of Gen eral de Moraes said that the Visi of the Prince reaffirmed the traditional Friendship Between Braz and the Prince was accompanied b Willis Critten genre commanding general of in corp and g5 o the 5th had been shooting at them All but the show want not ing the three signal corps boys could say would convince the Sken tical yank that All of them we rent after All the Doggie had heard them yell out in German Anc he knew Damn Well that a lot of germans were infiltrating through our lines dressed in i uniforms and speaking in perfect Brook so he poked the gun harder into their made them Wail with their hands up and marched them to the Nicol and his dog Ancl a who had gone Back to the House were quickly taken prisoner by four visiting fortunately the krauts stopped searching Nicol when they found some Candy which they quickly they never did look in Nicols where he still had the minutes Nicol and the medic were walking Down the streets with krauts close behind waving Burn All around then from windows and alleys and House soldiers were shooting arms fire at each there i both of the 79th fighter were Over the Italio looking for some slightly screwy Pursuit an ssh Man Rimmer wound up with the he sixth officer actually to reach and while he was he ook jump training and qualified s a the next thing n the schedule was supposed to have been an ssh assault on nor Way with Rimmer and several other pilots flying in support of the land no for reasons Best known the High that never came instead the ssh went1 he other direction and from March Rimmer was buzzing aleutians in a while he was in the he piloted c47s for a which qualified him for air evacuation work before the ssh got to Italy in 1943 and the time it went Supply into he also had a shot at dropping supplies to ground troops in the then when the ssh was on the line above Rimmer Drew the Job of tagging along with Gen eral Fredericks on he did that for six that run want afraid of any Rammer but he sure scared the hell out of when the ssh moved up to the Anzio Rimmer went motor vehicle equipment originally destined to fight the threatened Jap invasion of Alaska is being tunnelled to european and far East Battle zones through a new material Center fat tires and once fled High in Are headed for o soldiers and specialists were sent to the coldest area in North America to test material for the present Winter Campaign against the including explorer sir Hubert Wil was stationed five and a half months in an area of Northern Ca Nada where the ice is feet deep and tested the equivalent of 12 freight loads of o civilians at the office of the quartermaster general in Washington do nothing but and sniff Coffee destined for yanks first they Analyse Offee blends then samples Are ground in their Boming water is poured Over the grounds along As a Liaison officer and As 1 and an Aroma test Ai general Fredericks Piper cub Ter the sniffing comes sipping he spent most of his time flying then the final a Teaspoon recons until he came Down is taken from the held pneumonia and was shipped to a i barely in Range of the then Naples in the into Trie Mouth Spray he had met some of the 310th men and had told Fredericks hed like to take a crack at the Noth ing happened on that score for quite a while and when he left the hos he was shoved into a replace ment Pool and from there into troop Carrier Charles Rimmer infantryman of the skies personnel John first selectee inducted into the he want Over Happy alarm in world War recently Thoush he flew a c53 on the South married miss Otea trongone in East flashes from the front Ern France invasion and dropped then it turned out that he was still carried on the roles of the 1st ssh and was actually assigned to the 7th it came out when Rimmer was notified that he had been transferred from the 7th army to the the troop Carrier outfit want even mentioned in the plays hot licks he has become an accepted figure in his he plays piano in a swing band made up of Mitchell men and not so icing Aeo filled in for the chaplain with a sunday ser Hes also something of a the first american to be captured in world War i after americas declaration of War was Edgar Halyburton of Tay soldiers for Merly employed in the confectionery business and who want to go Back into it can advertise for a Job free in the Trade Candy Indus at 33 West 42nd new York the offer also goes for vets Whid like to enter the i and the Ofner members boast was a unmistakable rumble of a Sherman tank and the two yanks found themselves no longer two 12th air Force pilots went olt on a Manly weather before they returned to their base Dene everything but shoot the Sun out of the sky the two Williom Erck of san and Michael a he has writ both of the 79th fighter were riot in a Bock on experiences under yugoslav Border Catherine information on the that 0b fhe provocative title por a a lated they Birned their thunderbolts toward screener a up to nov Nob ocly will act in their Way and swooping using Only machine it but he still Nas 1 Titt Vic t in addition to turning out copy for the weekly the Naper i Toff i mos no by cart in their Way and swooping buy it but he still has they damaged five enemy left four Box cars in Lla Mophis father just bought a Small pub it was All 12 other Box cars and riddled two railway the Iching t Lipri Clit a i i vol Lite the krauts had decided to Clear j they reported was out of the town completely the three signal corns men finally con Vinced everybody that Thev were Hes quite convinced that the air is the believe he to the growing list of pets who have found a Home in the Ive tried a Little of every 1 Ivi t ctr Olive inn t Jimmy Dunn of okla homa City returned from a b29 raid on Tokyo and heard a Jap broadcaster Connlain that the super forts had dropped everything but the Kitchen Jimmy dug up a printed his own and his buddies names on dropped it on Tokyo the next world War some soldiers offered Cigar store coupons in payment of food and and French peasants accepted thinking it was Money because the Uruu Trifi not no of Mae Buff coloured Fox terrier and i say these strap Daisy Mae 1ck to u n