European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 23, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars and stripes yank Superman runs wild impersonal 15day Blitzkrieg machine gunning Jerries with 95th keep separate statistics on Raymond Albanos combat a count of the nazis he bowled Over and took captive and the enemy guns he destroyed i Vii m during a 15day Superman at his the Blitz started modestly at Mai where the tech ser Geant from wiped out Lour machine gun nests and killed 20 two Days later the doughboy of his platoon were blocked by a machine gun in a Albano drove the gunners out with grenades and turned the captured weapon on two other machine Cun destroying his bag for the Day included 14dead and 20 captured Blitz makes him sound jct on the Way to Gambetta the next Day he blasted one machine gun and one position with a captured lieutenant in Metz he rushed a machine gun the German lieutenant refused to Albano shot him and brought him Back a Pri by the time he got to he really was he annihilated a machine gun Crew and sprayed Lead from the captured weapon until he had silenced three More German yanks snack on nazi eggs continued from Page 1 in a nazi assault boat to enter the town of Blind folded the yanks waited until dark when they were taken to the Over Midnight supper of Fried v i f potatoes and asparagus Moselle wine and ersatz they talked with the German they were asked to see for them selves that the Hospital zone had been an inspection tour showed the Hospital to be at least 500 Yards from All military installations conforming to Geneva convention in a Ward for seriously they saw 40odd germans and an american sergeant from their own division who said he was treated no better than the krauts no eighteen other German dressed in american uniform and with i do tags and slipped the lines into the first area to disrupt communications and Supply when he reached the american rear he was so discouraged by seeing so Many men and so much material that he decided to give he walked up to a Man nearby and said in a German i want to the answer came Back in German i am a German you Are a the second Jerry berated the first for his treason so loudly that gis came running Over to see what the excitement was captured an air service Squadron sergeant was sent to eng land on official he made the trip by a transport plane which also carried his jeep and the night after sergeant was driving 12 feet from his another Guy in the Mefi who Doest get rattled easily is Frank of san Back in the Days when were German shells opened up on the Orchard in which his squad was everyone headed for a foxhole except he picked helmet Ulof apples and walked around passing them out to the Joes in the and then theres Robert of the boys woe settled Down in cellar for their first rest in several hours when a runner dashed downstairs and told them that some germans were coming Down the carrying mortars and Otoole got up and asked were they marching at attention or route if you need any More proof that the 84th Guys Are a Coo headed pfc Gene Masten of can give it to j Gene was moving Down the Street with his company during the fight for an enemy machine gun opened of on they scattered for cover i inc night Alicr but Weta Ull Jtj aaa Wojt n Down a main Road when he was stopped by an my j that All except Gene who sat on a took officer who asked i out his Harmonica and played a a Viiu Wila u a carrying an he wounded had been evacuated to continued the killing the rear the sergeant four Jerries who were Manning a orphans with priests on the top floor Sherman and Roth saw 80 orphans who were under care of the monastery s the american officers spent the with a German lieutenant and with no guard at their he asked them about Texas and new where he said he had at 6 they breakfasted Fried went Back to the american lines by the same later in the Day they delivered an answer to the shivering German Corporal in Noman land in View of the verification of tie location of your Hospital at he Lenenberg no artillery fire will be directed closer to this Hospital than is authorized by the terms of the Geneva the German Corporal had waited alone for the he be cause his lieutenant had gone Back to the lines with cold 2man squad takes with 84th Irvin of captured a Pillbox and six germans with a squad of one Ray mond of the sergeants platoon George of told him to take his squad and go after the Pillbox Pierce told Overdorf to cover him As he went to throw two grenades into the trenches sur rounding the he next mane Vered to the door to throw another grenade out walked six germans with a White Hardy asked Pierce where the rest of his squad the rest of my squad machine gun he used their weapon to put five More machine guns and an 88 out of next he went Hunting with a he wiped out the operators of a the bar and he swung the Down on a couple More machine guns and knocked them he paused Long enough for me commanding general to pin second lieutenants bars on his Rhen he started fighting Bulg munition c loss is Light with ordnance when the nazis began their ardennes ordnance outfits found themselves faced with the task of gathering their huge Supples of munitions and transport ing them to More secure we stayed until it got too damned said Edward of and an ammunition Supply and then we took we managed to get All the men but lost our personal men of the sixth under command of Haco of Little moved tons of Materiel and vehicles of the time under captured seven germans dressed in i said the with the enemy Only half a mile the 304th maintenance commanded by Arthur of evacuated practically All its equipment and Materiel the 71st handled tons of one George Hays Given legion of Merit with second outstanding work in training artillerymen and perfecting firing George Hays division artillery has been awarded the legion of the 52yearold general holds the congressional Medaj of won in world War the Silver Star and the Bronze Why he had such Bright the sergeant explained that was the Way they drove in the officer did not seem to give l a hang How they drove in furthermore he wanted to know Low the jeep got Back to said the t flew Over with it took about an but the Sarge finally con Vinced the officer that could be flown from France to the lieutenant said wait so pfc Ivan of sat in his jeep and waited while the Looey went looking for a battalion up of the 410th beat of the 103rd heavy artillery fire kept the lieutenant bottled in at the up for a full when he Fox and the jeep were still surrounded by empty while Fox had dug himself three killed one German and fired More rounds to keep other Jerries than 100 Al Phese 84th yanks kept Cool when things got hot Robert of found big bed on the second floor of a wrecked House when his buddies bedded Down in cellars during an artillery Dick slept through the but admitted the next morning he did Wake up once when an 88 blew a Hole through the building about it was a modern version of a message to when two 36th firemen tried to get mashers and getting pinned Down by machine gun Clarence of and pfc Earl of had almost reached the up when they realized the German artillery was zeroed in on the Road up to the front instead of calling it a the two Indiana men crawled around the Side of the climbed onto the roof and dropped Down through skylight to hand in their the three gis were bringing pack is Jerries from a recently captured labor battalion when they came across a group of yank engineers getting ready to Clear away a Road since the German battalion boys still had their shovels and other equip the third John of Gra Ham Stewart of and pfc Richard of decided to save the engineers a Job and let the prisoners do the the pos seemed to know exactly now to go about it turned out that they were the Guys be set up the Road Block in the first is with the second 10 tank cars but Day the 757th railway shop is building improvised tank cars for pol hauling at the rate of 10 a Day five 900gallon tanks Are attached to a Flat car to produce the emergency the construction program Calls for 212 cars with a total capacity of could this i be allergic to meat wagons with fifth armoured its hard to keep a Good Man Down if he wants to medics Learned when they tried to evacuate William a 5inch fighter from when his infantry battalion made its first attack toward the Roer Carter was taken to afraid where his wound was Carter was told to wait for the ambulance which would take him to the collecting the ambulance no he had slipped away to rejoin his in the attack the next morning the sergeant was again again he was taken to the Aid treated and told to wait for the again he slipped away and returned to his when Carter returned for the third tune the medics were ready to put a guard Over him until they found that he had a foot wound and walk pro he was carried off to the take All toe hurl t Wice As much Back by Pat Mitchell it stars and stripes stiff writer i with 319th infantrymen move things Are going to and doughs of elements of so fit were Quick and quiet As they readied an Mountain Hamlet just Southeast of for a hot Welcome Brereton gives awards to 82nd airborne men with first 22 Lewis commander of the first Allied airborne has presented six awards to members of the 82nd airborne for heroism at nil Megen in Reuben of received the Oak Leaf Cluster to the distinguished ser vice discs were presented to col Julian it John Lloyd pole tie Shreve Wesley and Shel ton shooting German snipers with Rifle and camera in belgian Hilts the infantry had held Dahmm 24 hours following a Surprise eras ing in the raging Waters of the Seifr River before Dawn last troops commanded by it ram of and in Liot of had split East and North when crossed in darkness under enemy Cheston men followed a ing Ravine to the North to while Ives men swung along a pin wooded Road to the of then it was the germans under cover of darkness they to1 filtrate to Ives Advance with tanks and burp gun heavy weapons platoon Michael of reported Handt fighting with German infant or while enemy tanks fired the yank j still Here j four yank riflemen of a on German snipers from a now capped Hafl near of the Man army signal corps photo the right is a signal the for it of a company armed with mrs and when a six six truck with Rifle and bar men rolled m Paul 1 squinted at the Fla ened Snow rimming each and artillery hellhole and they have been heaving thing at but we Are still and dammit we will be Here they come at us Sam an arts Bulj Liaison Man from remarked Jerry has been ing a lot of stuff at us but we been handing it Back this Section of the bulge is very similar to pin covered Hills of George of a unit co by c6l Paul Nice country for a v of
