European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 26, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Yank the army weekly 1945 perennial successor ordnance when George Dovel an artist with the training materials and publications was selected to attend oct at fort Robert Bonfils replaced nothing unusual about except that the Long Arm of coincidence is always entwining itself around the lives of Dovel and Back in 1939 Dovel graduated from the Kansas City Art and Bonfils had entered that school the same while employed in the advertising department of a Kansas City furniture Dovel was offered a More promising Job and resigned to a snort time later Bonfils filled the Dovel became Dovel in october 1942 at fort just nine Days later the same installation added Robert Bon fils to its recruit Bonfils was starting his Basic technical training with company 4th at Aberdeen proving just As Dovel was winding up his but course with the same right now there Arent 10 men Here who would bet Bonfils wont receive orders to report to oct at fort prodigals return Lake y arriving Home from the Southwest Charles Depew found that his family had not until after he had enlisted the Aid of army officials was the mystery while Depew was fighting the japs he was unable to write to his family and received no mail from when he went to the family Home in upon his he found it through the army he Learned that his Mother had that his two Brothers had entered the that one of them had been killed in Italy and that his father had moved to California to take a Job in a defense the month of september is persistently involved in de pews he was inducted during that month in 1940 and his Mother and brother both died in the month of he also returned from his tour of duty in the Pacific in disarming the brass Sioux Falls it happened at one of the Gates Here recently when South Dakota weather was at its chilliest and frigid blasts of wind howled across the driving through the an officer noticed a group of enlisted men standing with their hands in their he had to remind them of the regulations against keeping their hands tucked away in that but he didst want to sound too i about he stopped his car and said you boys Arent Are you he intended to go into a discus Sion of what soldiers should not do regardless of the but before he could say another word five Cis piled into the thanking him profusely for what they thought was a proffered what could i do the officer related after i took them where they were going and forgot All about the mental gymnastics chief Eddie Greenberg of the 533d aah band is quite a Man when it comes to making mental calculations during an according to Carl Leader of the wings of Chicos dance arriving for a i Greenberg found the piano he was to play out of after much he got piano tuned but it was pitched a Naif one Biwer than it had in order to harmonize with the rest of the he had to transpose every note of his music during the hour playing each number in a different key than he had been used cagy Veteran nibbles bait Camp Sandberg was seeing the Booby rap demonstration for the fifth time and he fancied himself a Man of after a 30minute lecture on the Dan Gers of Beer picture the demonstrator pointed to a bottle on the table and asked whether anyone wanted a cold every body said it was a Booby trap except he out a pal that it contained liquid refresh ment and walked Over and picked it up off the after he had paid off his bet and taken his blackened by the to the clean he wailed it just  those bottles have been Booby traps every time theres a Law of you mystery of open spaces Here finally solved a mystery just about the time they were ready to turn in their night Sticks for Strait cruising around their radio equipped the maps answered a Call to pick up a Soldier in a certain a thorough search revealed no such Barracks and no such another Call directed them to a Point two Miles from the where they were to escort an important visitor buzzing to the they found no staff and More Wildgoose chases Fol meanwhile at Ellington Miles maps also dashed hither and Yon on phony finally it was found that old Man weather was having himself a both airbases Are on the same frequency and both use the same car a Freak atmospheric condition resulted in a fac directing Ellington Fields jeeps and vice still is the mystery of How puny 25watt whose maximum distance is about 25 got chummy Over a fort a of the 1293d Bat Talion would Settle for a Hundred More Buck according to 1st were too he complained about his an engineering demonstration consequently tech sergeants Rake staffs pull targets on the Rifle technicians act As mule skinners and the top kick chops Brooklyn armed guard Sec Tion of the gunners of the 5s John who returned to the age after being out 399 went 113 Days without getting ashore it was 2200 hours when they finally hit the Beach at an overseas and they had to report Back to the ship an hour reason next Day they Camp Laboratory technician at the Post Hospital who thought the walk might have been a Little too much for a Soldier asked him did you get transportation he earnestly assured they didst give me new York in was going Down the ranks questioning the men with overseas How Long have you been Back he asked one Well decorated Twenty four answered Schraeder of company a Veteran of the first world fort can get their haircuts from a couple of generations of the same during the first world Anton Bollinger vowed that if his Soldierson came Back he would serve soldiers the rest of his the son and now is a Barber he has worked on the hair of men when they were second lieutenants and years later when it was Gray and they were the son Frank also runs a Barber shop on the and a third Bollinger is barbering in nearby Camp a confiscated German Bartholomew Patnode of the 80th Field a former bobsled Veteran from Lake recognized a general who was shown shaking hands with Hitler As a member of the German bobsled team that competed in the olympic games at Lake Placid in he recalled that the Werner had haughtily refused the offer of Billy the american to show him How to negotiate one hazardous the German sled Mahrx and several of his teammates were seriously injured and the team was eliminated from the to if 7 i v the Hal grown desert Fox snarling on the shoulder of by Milton Beard was nicknamed Rommel by maps at Tonopah army air a skin the new York port of embarkation boasts one of Best i bands in the Jimmy Crawford played with Jimmy Lunceford before he on he led a recent Magazine poll As the nations Best wac no wonder Art classes Are popular gis at Camp wac Lillian Mander models for the Lucky doggies who attend the eve Ning easel the intent artist studying her from the left is pvt Lon Talbot Mike Giska shows How Many Giskaas Are engaged in War 7 boys in family of 14 Are in the army de Ridder in March 1942 the Giska boys family was the talk of their Home there were 14 in the and All the boys were driving around in the five Giska owned six months later seven of the boys had either enlisted or had been Mike Giska is on the Deridder it and Here is a record of his Brothers Frank Giska volunteered for the rangers and made Corporal in combat in also a volunteered As a glider Pilot in the 101st airborne land ing on Day of the Normandy he was wounded and removed to a Hospital in the Walter Giska and Joe Giska Are in both have seen overseas and Walter took part in the fighting around Adam Giska is an Aerial gunner in the eighth air Force and has made most of his mis Sions Over Andy Giska found himself in artillery and was on the Crew of one of the big guns that thundered death and destruction in of the three other All of them in War Jake expected to be called into the service Early in Stanley is 40 years and wants to get into the the two Giska girls Are employed in a Plant that makes cables for Giska works in a Plant that produces Landing Giska collects Salvage and serves on War work committees in her and she participated in the launching of a ship As representative of the polish National i at Rucker designs dream Barracks Camp Robert Lilly of this Post has constructed a gis dream Barracks in scaled one Inch to a it was fashioned by Means of a razor Blade and from Balsa Silver and Gold Mirror White celluloid and metallic the with a soft mattress and Coverlet 01 White disappears into the ceiling by Means of chains and reveals a detailed map of the Eto on the the two tufted chairs Are of Scarlet and curved to fit a weary and Between them is a cocktail table with All the there Are other such furnishings As a bar with indirect water Coke concealed desk that pulls dial Tele electric automatic radio Hono graph numerous one con Taining Complete table service for breakfast in and shelves containing 40 All beautifully bound and guaranteed not to be to this or to replacing the familiar Pine posts of most bar Racks Are four sided mirrored masculine taste in the decor is carried out with sport prints and miniature the windows Are equipped with venetian Lilly says this Model is the first of a series of Ideal next he promises the Ideal orderly then the Ideal cos repeat that please Fresno the men in a certain Squadron at the replacement depot had been waiting for Days to be processed and were extremely pod by the time they were ordered to fall out in the the top kick started to Call off to save he called Only the last and when he called a common one like Smith or Johnson or Murphy there would be an occasional which one the men were becoming More and More irritated All the while because not a single name called belonged to anyone in this particular when the top called by Dechano one of the mob could no longer control him which one he Arthur adder yank Back from Home abroad Camp returning to the states for medical treatment Means coming Home for most gis but not for Theodore nay who arrived recently at the ask convalescent Hospital though born in Naylor is More British than and every one of the 14 Days of his Atlantic trip to the states brought him farther from his wife and Home in Lon he moved to Black when he was 7 years and he attended Josephs College there before be enlisted in the Canadian army in october he transferred to the jux army in May he saw France was at Dunque que and was captured at Boyd Mcdonald ground Crews trained to defend b2ps Camp Crews for super fortresses Are being Given a compact Day training course Here in use of the ring mounted machine Camp Irwin was made available for this purpose to the fourth air Force and fourth antiaircraft command through cooperation of the army ground since it was started approximately 100 gis a week have come to take the course from vhf very heavy bomber bases of the second service command in the Middle West and eventually these Irwin trained b29 groundings will Man As supplementary antiaircraft defense at Pacific super fortress after three Days in classrooms going through functioning and stripping of the the students spend four Days on a three mile Long each with his own machine each Man is Given an allowance of for his four Days of quota Over the aaa Standard for a Man in one according to James co of the fourth a a training with the guns mounted on improvised ring the students fire at sleeve targets towed by flown by wasps from a March Field detachment in rockets launched at the Speed of a diving plane Are used to give the gunners training in firing at fast moving tar gets flying courses other than at a constant Alti the course ends with a night session at which students shoot at targets in the Glare of in Tom 19