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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Tuesday, January 23, 1945

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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 23, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                1945 the stars and stripes in two vets Here demonstrate new i limbs two soldiers equipped with artificial limbs have arrived in Paris at the request of pan chaff to help other wounded Amer ican they Are Fer and r of and Cpl Leland of ran Leclaire lost his right leg at the knee in the South Pacific and Cpl Grohman lost his left Arm at the Elbor in they volunteered for the and wih visit hospitals m France and Swap yarns with casualties and Tell and show Somers who have lost an Arm or a leg jest what can be done for they is a Ereat i Deal general Hawley told Leclaire i and Grohman that they vere performing a real service in volunteering to come to the i see these amputation cases Gener Al Sawley the men dont whimper and they dont complain Bat they wonder and they need i think you can give them that Cpl Grohman and Leclaire who be attached to the re habilitation office of the chief both men have been on Carbond drives and have won the Silver Star for 6th gives foe Bush time Page 5 coming Back from the wars is not like going away before boarding the train they Mill around a boat Booths the the each the familiar places and deliver Back m be Home in a few scarred and Beri boned who wire battling in Europe couple of weeks carry their duffle bats from a ferryboat in York to head for Camp then Home on Battle with third feel Normal unless i Jerry is in front of on both sides and behind us we aint surrounded until we gee which dont Reed of thus described the sixth commanded by col Edward Fickett of of Socketts which drove up into the heart of the Arlon sack along with the and 35th and the sixth armoured participated in the capture of tar champs and in lost yanks Triumph in Battle of wits with 35th behind enemy fines for three Days a sergeant and a Fiel promoted second lieutenant did a ban Gap Job of bluffing and j a better than ban Gap Job of keep ing under coves before they were t finally rescued by yank in the three Day period Thev their Way past six Jerry holed up in a farmhouse with two dead used sixth whose Cuti Armor plated jeeps cruise they signal when nazis approached their alive on beets and found in the cellar behind the enemy 1 rank Snow water and finally were j an enemy Supply dump containing rescued by advancing tankers 51 vehicles of Afi including j of trucks and three 88mm a and Lawrence with their prime i of North neb became Thev also destroyed a gasoline separated from their unit during three five attack made by 134th k and an undetermined camouflaging their amount of nazi i clothes with they attempted some of these veterans of the third and ninth armies display atrophy won in tie show and blood of Banner wrested from the another part prank of a Eacker x grins broadly trader the weight hit i baggage As he borne Battle the fancy sword of x German artillery barrage fails to halt tank with in Lam armoured Ari Jery and antiaircraft shells hit Robert tank while he was fighting with the tank to Cross i a the sergeant continued j fight until an 88 set the vehicle Hume backed the tank off the and moved it to a he could evacuate the fris action made it possible for armoured vehicles to Cross and establish a of o was a Silver to reach the yank under cover of but gave up after six different Jerry sentries slowed their j the first German Yewed j and Mazzi yelled Back the result was a Bur gun j put on act the next Jerry yelled halt and the to yanks put on our Field routine which consists of motions like i am showing said the Battle doughs Call Roll after capture of enemas roster presidential station 2nd unit4 second Bel presidential Dis fun unit citation has been the third of the 38th Fieg for storming and Captur hh1 enemy Strong Point Brest in late Njie  Rex a Asti Force of 300 enemy troops from steel and Concrete pol Field Tommis skied their pantomime convinced this they and Mazzi finally reached the outskirts of off Hersla a tillage five Miles Southeast of but they decided to take to a Skie Street after we spotted some nazis push ing a stalled truck off the so we found a Little farmhouse and crawled into the ground said with 99th want Btl Schmann we want Busch Mann such cries As Fao de to produce the Volk Grenadier company members o the 335th regt who had Cap tured the company do the pair jammed the front door shut with a table and Buot a fire on the floor to keep the fire burned a Bole in the floor and through the Bole they discovered a the cellar was Kinda crowded what two dead said but we made out Aheren when the Jerries moved in above their dog barked at but it barked at whenever they started snooping wounded yank saves buddies with fourth armoured wounded of arts armoured Deef boy off company death armoured drove three Tanee roads of his buddies safety Croot the Viasta he at before be let in Whf be the we pfc Janks has been recon Fer the Silver Carey was hit Whaen his outfit taxi into 17 user tanks la the oae in the to be helped he american Ambo Abee video the germans had Eay med a Flea Fec ofic Limtt Jujj the the Aid a Alae to make two Carey such dec is bringing in nearly everyone else Irv the they just called the Roe As hitlers men wandered in to give they claim they caned it fairly and if Herr lieutenant has to eat German rations now its his own Silver Star awarded to Eddy Manton commander of yrs he been presented with Tfaye sover Star by it Omar he was cited for reconnaissance made under heavy enemy Archery once near and Onoe near Jaet of Al Jack of All inthe ninth 36th a is pfc who has been an instrument operator a Surrey a member of a gun a radio and Telephone operator in an of Aad jeep mow is in the fire direction waterborne i and Pigeon scout nazi Pillbox positions with 84th Edvard Lautz of swam the worm River with a Carrier Pigeon on is Back to get a Good look at German Pillbox and mortar positions in the the patrol was suggested by Laatz after previous patrols failed to accomplish the Lautz blacked his face with Coal and put the Pigeon in a Musette bag on his he planned to use the Pigeon to deliver in formation in Case he  get the doughboy struck out through a swamp an hit the River at a Point about 39 feet the current carried him 100 Yards farther Down the River than he squad delivers captures is guns with ninth Mission of Marshall pot Ter and his Crew was to deliver am unit Kex to Forward infantry Thev captured an entire is squad and an its weapons to 8a route up the Small group was pinned Down by my and Rifle the Saratoga lieutenant picked two men and with them crawled toward the enemy to get behind the machine gun the germans surrendered when they realized their 300 belgian factories Supply Allied troops More than 300 belgian factories Are now producing supplies for the Emder reciprocal Aid con com z announced the factories Are a few hours by ran or truck from the Battle he struggled to the opposite and then proceeded about 600 Down the West Bank before he ran into a Lauts got Back in the water and swam past the further downstream an used As a German was ablaze from an american artillery fighting the the germans saw the Ripples in the water Lautz made As he Man Aad opened up with rifles and forcing the rail splitter Soldier to Tarn philosophical about it when two thunderbolts collided in Accident at a tap tearing the engines off one Mechanic was heard to re that the fastest engine change fre Ever thirsty gis9 ruse May save lives 22 idea born in the minds of Beer Taimy am Tom troops in the Marshall islands two years ago led teas aviation development now proposed pc evacuation of wounded front demonstrated at Aap Pacific is to slash Tfaye ends off the tax friary gasoline tanks carried by p38s under each a litter is then installed in each of the officers said the plan has been sent to Wright Well to be it originated when soldiers on one of the islands Lud Beer those Era another a Genius care tired the plan of placing cases of Beer la ps8 auxiliary tanks Aad by ice them to the i  
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