European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 23, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes 1945 laying it on the line 1 have read plenty of criticism to the stars and and other publications of the people on the Home front these and 1 must say Ive been one of them have Laid it on thick when speaking of the and othe who dont seem to be doing their share Back 1 Felt strongly enough about the matter to write to friends and relatives urging them not to consider the War already but to realize the War is still going men Are still being wounded and killed Over Here and so and id like to quote a Little bit of letter i received from my sister on this she is an employee past the half Century Mark of Lockheed in California your Gripe is True in a Small sense of the word and it seems that every Small thing is played up in the 1 believe that the percentage of civilians who do those things Are such percentage that you soldiers rent quite Jar when you flame the people As a More than we would be Lair to blame the army As whole Lor the boys who go 1 believe the army is doing a grand and the As a Are steadfastly Back of at our there Are lots of men who could be out in their own business or profession who Are sticking to the defense plants and will stick a Long As the need is these be just like the civilian Job to Start out with the War is thousands of women lust Tike 1 am Are in there every Day Doine All they there you have i Hope and believe Shes medic tank 0 a super fort airmans View Tokyo is not a Tinderbox a try must Roll in and out All our Captain was gigged because the floor was our battalion colonel gigged us because there too Many men standing around the the men stand ing around were waiting for their vehicles to be at the same time we were gigged for Leav ing parts out in the weather which were plainly prepared for overseas now have Learned that our Captain is to be we Are proud to feel that someone thinks we Are doing a Good proud to have had fatten come to our we kept right on work ing while he was cant we have a Chance to do our work without All our electrode holders and even floors Slippery from Chicken All we want is the right to do our 210 Batter up in regard to a couple of statement that the Ball players who tour the Eto use space on ships where ammo could be f think these men would have stepped aside if it meant More i didst get to see them but Guys who did said they were i forked Over a Buckton every time i had a Chance to see them theres a lot of reasons Why were fighting to get Back mine is to get that seat behind third at ebbets Field before the others get if you Ball play lot for do fat Chance pork loins and Grade b and c stewing and boiling meat issued to us Are 20 or 30 percent the average Kitchen throws this away for we have no Means of pressing oat the fat if we were to Fry it if the packing companies were made to trim the fat More edible meat could Bev placed in a thus saving the valuable fat and shipping Light explanation officer while an officer writes from the Western front the stars and we never had As much ammunition As wed like to have had eleven rounds a Walter Lippmann informs the army 6 the supplies Are in the hands of the while our commande Rinchley tells there Are evil and baseless rumours against our commanders in the the stars and 10 March in Washington criticizes this command for not accurately evaluating our enemy in spite of months of warning of the Pearl Harbor attack through the australian and hours of similar warning by an pm at a Detector advice in the islands both through the whole Inci Dent is passed off As a mistake to judgment Allied troops moving to their next objective occasionally read the stars and stripes two Days of How Treyve already occupied the perhaps an explanation officer who would correlate various writers and censors could get me straight on the daily Cpl bd1 blimey mates we get too much Coffee in the everybody likes so lets have More being nervous in the service comes from Coffee that they serve 10 annoyed we Are just a maintenance our Job is to keep the stuff for the first time in four months we were Able to work under shelter and on a Concrete we were honoured recently with Many inspecting not taking into consideration we Are on a production Job and tanks Era read thanks a what youve likes pinup so Cpl Bill Forley and 43 others dont want to see anymore pin ups least so they say in their recent bag pinups do not Spur the individual to greater Bat it does take ones mind off the War now and then and that is All that they Are supposed to you dont have to look at heres for More and better Hayes and combined operations who said the British were slow in Battle or picked the easy jobs As maps on duty since we have been in Contact with Many British we have found them 100 the British rarely get mention to the stars and ii is the paper of the american lets be allies and laugh and Swap yarns together and be honest in giving credit where and when we have heard one lieutenant say i doubt if the British have contacted the enemy in the recent at he was standing with nothing but British Between him and the Brit ish troops caught the nose of the is its pretty Well known by now that Tokyo int a paper Andwood tinder despite a lot of talk to Pearl Harbor american b29s have been Able to bring Back the True picture on Tokyo As a verdict but in place of Bamboo the us performs were called upon to attack buildings of modern steel and con about like those to los Angeles or and office structures As up Odate As new Yorks Rockefeller the japanese earthquake of accompanied by a tidal wave and had a lot to do with the serves As Protection against All japanese cities Are not so Well for instance the aircraft burned for 24 hours after the super forts intelligence officers believe most of its buildings Are transportation a weakness nor is Tokyo without its poor and vulnerable More than half the houses Are Only one Story and should Burn As quickly As those in Many of the quake destroyed nearly half the City and killed the japs on modern reinforcing their structures against Earth this added strength crat residents travel Long Dis Tances to so that Power interruptions affecting transport should cripple River and canal Bridges also Are Good taken recently indicate the City has built a series of and other air defense has been air officer Safe confident they can Knock out of the its going to take More than a few milk runs to do War analyst compares the russian sweep allies dash toward germans West Wall to bulge and held the Jerries then pushed let it not be said that the British Are not fighters nor Are they pick ing easy spots to make a Richard Hallman William foe expected to rely on Eastern Border defense line by Elton Fay a War analyst new military Success of the massive rus Sian offensive will be measured to a considerable extent to the number of German troops captured or for this reason great interest attaches to the Moscow announce ment that three russian armies to Poland have killed Ger mans and captured to the first week of the offensive it May be that the russians Are dealing with a situation like that which existed for the americans private Breger stars and stripes printed at the new Ork Herald try bore 21 Roe de Berrt or the under auspices at the information and Educa Tion special end i Fonna Uon bto0sa contents passed of the army and nary censors entered a second class mar at the Post since new Coder the not Mai l unless my years of map Reading have been id say were approaching and British last summer and fall breaking out from the Normandy the Anglo american allies threw out great curving strokes to trap the German Divi Sions falling Back toward the West Wall How those tactics paid off is testified to by to the drive across France and when killed and wounded Are added to this bag German losses run Well into seven eventually the germans reached the Siegfried line fortifications where they stand their daily losses on the Western front have that lesson was costly for the German High command but Well biggest Battles to come watching the buildup of rus Sian the nazi High command apparently decided perhaps ago that the line could held that if any safety existed it was to be found to Silesia and North along the area of the German with holding forces deployed to meet the expected russian Offen the germans commenced the complicated operation of mov ing upward of 100 divisions to the West whether much of this project had been accomplished when the red offensive was launched is not both the russians and the germans speak of terrible Battles but the reports of both also indicate that the Forward Progress of the russian armies is no collapse seen this sounds like engagements with the holding As if the main elements of the retreating germans still Are out of reach of Fuh soviet striking that the enemy May have won part of the race is indicated to dispatches showing the lighting to be at and within the silesian Bor Der where the initial shocks Are apparently being absorbed by the the Northern russian forces Are seeking to trap the enemy divisions to East if the enemy has a defensible line at or within the German Bor Der he May be Able to Hole there for weeks or months As has held on the West unti Allied forces on both frontiers can build up and break their the program of cutting up an Only holding thought to be in Poland rapping the wehrmacht units we e this time on be Nan soil practical professional Litany leaders exclude from wet calculations the possibility of Man internal collapse with Compa Nying general j they Are proceeding on the assume Tion that it will be necessary i grind the nazi military Mayoga j Down to its smallest Ore it can be said that germs i s bombers reduce moves to Cut Down Tae of american bombers Tat same time give More airmen Are now unde service command maintenance Crews a tons of Armor plating from marauder havoc and substituting figh j of manganese resident in cow to Stop a 20mm Shell exploding Wop the flak which service chiefs say provide Protection for crewmen bombers to the Point where heat bomb toads can be also being fitted to the of the Aso bounced that an armoured my fliers flak medieval being the Armor it was i have reduced casualties 66 f births sir Stortro in ring hew 7 14 pa4 Marion Frai Walter Seymour new York 13 Jan