European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 26, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse R 5sajatr i appointment of pics a in a 6155 i authorizes command ing officers to promote privates to the Grade of pfc without waiting for a to the change applies to enlisted men or women who have completed one year of satisfactory or who have served outside the those in ducted from a territory or Possession must have served outside the territory from which he was the amendment adds that the pro motion will be reserved for those qualified but denied the Stripe through Lack of change a size of the Fleet the now the worlds started the year with vessels totalling the vessels include War ships and Landing of these were added in including 420 War 640 patrol and mine 630 557 District Craft and Landing additions in 1944 totalled the Fleet has a total of 23 26 air Craft 60 escort 63 418 496 destroyer escorts and 249 sub these figures include ships transferred to in 1944 the Navy received air of which were combat and spent on rockets and other ordnance Western front Eisenhower has ordered use of the word replacement discontinued in the Here that Type of personnel will be called rein the order was issued because some american divisions in that theater Are now com posed almost entirely of since Day in no american Soldier has been executed for desertion in the face of the enemy or any other offence carrying the death records show Only 16 cases of capital punishment administered four for murder and 12 for the we announced that Christmas eve saw the capture of the German prisoner on the Western front since june aah score Sheet since Pearl Harbor approximately 85 percent of the oafs Overall bomb tonnage has been dropped on european of the grand total of tons of bombs Europe received Europe 20 most heavily bombed with the number of tons dropped on Are Buda and the aah in the period destroyed enemy of which were Jap total plane losses were human pickup after four successful tests of picking up a human being from the ground by an air plane in full the aah is seriously considering standardizing the procedure As a Means of the first test was made on by 1st Alexis who suffered no ill the three other trials were made in subjects say the ascent is without noticeable jerking the aah is now working on pickup kits which could be dropped to flyers stranded on ice floes or in Light planes were used in the but fast cargo ships and even fighter planes May be used in future Shohl Lito another defense commands merged the Eastern defense command has absorbed the Southern defense command to effect econ omy of personnel and the consolidated under George cd of the Eastern has Headquarters in new York this move leaves the with two defense the Eastern and the the latter of eight West coast women Wear the quartermaster corps is now procuring dark of Slacks of Wool and tropical worsted for regular Issue to nurses serving on Hospital overseas duty and in flight nurse formerly nurses had to buy them at the Jmc has also developed and put into immediate production a combat service Boot for army made on the last As the regular army Field shoe for the new Boot is almost identical to the mens combat with a wide two buckle cuff at the army food compressed precooked Cereal inches in diameter and Inch which were added to the c ration some time ago will be included in the ration the Cereal is pre mixed and ready for eating with the addition of hot or cold water if it May be eaten items that have been added to the Hospital ration include the new Cereal Cocoa Bev rage final Ted milk toilet paper towels and plastic the sippers Are used by wounded men for tests by Jmc reveal that the army c ration is High in nutritional value and contains protein of great biological in every feeding of the ration resulted in rapid growth and replenishment of protein in the necessary to soldiers who have been aces of second world War army air forces fighter pilots who had shot Down 15 or More enemy planes in Aerial 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