European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 26, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sam Rosenthal and his assault Parrot moved up litter bearers bring Back wounded past an american m5 tank on a Muddy Road near in the 77th divisions jump up Lefes there was plenty of walking for the infantry and plenty of work for the by Bill Alcine yank staff correspondent the dough feet of the 77th division beached Miles South of Oroc at 0700 resistance was Light at David Kreiser of Indiantown sat on the soft Sand and it looks pretty damned it was so Good that Sam Rosenthal of had brought his my ashore on his and my my haunt ruffled a the Landing troops worked Inland and started up the Road to Oroc in the face of occasional mortar and Light sniper they reached the first Days objective before then pushed on another Yards before in the m company of the 307th jumped off through elements of the 306th and ran into a flock of trouble right the terrain Over which they had to attack was Flat and covered with Waist High the japs were scattered through the Field in shallow Jap Artil Lery opened wounding about 20 but m company moved Forward and by 0930 was Well on its Way toward High when the japs formed for a counterattack on the right flank of our Lead Stephen co of the called up a Battery of then he sent his first battalion through some sparse Woods and up onto a Ridge to cover his about a Quarter of a mile ahead a Road ran straight As a ruler across Flat can covered Fields into another wooded Jap fire had come from and two Mios moved out Over the Road that was built above the level of the Fields like the top of a a thin line of infantry spread out behind them and to their the Mios blasted the wooded and then the colonels voice could be hollering for the men to get moving into the a Young Captain ran out in front and Damn lets go the skirmish Lino moved bar fire crackled out from the line and the troops bobbed up and Down in the Waist High grass As answer ing fire came Back at a Skinny i dashed out from a ditch and scooted across the Road near the wooded his helmet jogging on his a burst of automatic fire crackled and bullets hit the Road at his he dived head first into a ditch on the far Side of the now the infantry pulled Back As our artillery blasted the wooded a sweating Little i passed lugging a harness full of mortar ammo and looking like one of the seven dwarfs that had been out All his fatigue jacket was Black with sweat and he was mud up to his hip up and up and Why the hell dont they make up their minds he an other i slogged carrying the recoil mechanism of a 37mm antitank somebody asked him How it was he he set Down the bummed a lit a cigarette and said the Guy who invented this weapon ought to get his butt lugging this 72 Pound piece of junk makes my ears he took off his helmet and ran the Back of his hand across his Ive carried that damned thing All Over the lugged it All Over the Island of Guam and now i got to carry the Bastard All Over the he made a vague motion in the air with his if a tank Ever does come at we might just As Well wring our hands and scream As fire at it with this by we taken it apart and set it tip so Many times its All wore the Clearing 500 Yards behind the was set in an acre of mud beside the there were Small Trees and occasional bursts of fire would Bend the leaves and twigs there was the feel of rain in the and the Small Grove was a welter of bloody dressings Spacks and a Jap truck with a couple of Large White mis Shapen american stars painted on the sides rolled this weeks cover Scenic Beauty and con Stant danger went hand Inland for i volunteers who scaled an Alaska Peak near mount Mckinley to re cover the bodies of 19 men killed in a c47 More pictures of what the expedition members went through in reaching the wreckage Are on pages 12 and p440to 4 4 Bui 4 ban 12 4 Tui Pih Tifel new Yak c4ty self my self my up from the they were using the truck to evacuate wounded there were eight men going this four walking and four Stretcher As the truck pulled a company id was brought in suffering from Battle his denims were several sizes too making him look very his hands were shaking i feel he kept i feel but i cant Stop what the hell is the mat Ter with me he looked As though he were go ing to the other medics tried to Comfort but it didst do any then they brought in a i who was in he had a Large dressing wrapped around his mid with the pad in Back of him slowly soaking up a Pool of he was a goo looking kid with even and he kept pulling up his Knees until they almost touched his Chin and then shoving them Down and out with a Small they put his litter Down and the medics went right to trying to give him while they tried to find the vein in his Arm he kept inching himself off the pulling to get away from the he raised up like a sleepwalker and turned to the doctor and in in sure you the doctor his hands Busy with the blood soaked fatigues the Man was still a medic Cut them there was a Hole in the mans Back about the size of a Quad not Large but with a lot of blood around the doctor pit a Large tires Ingwer the while a medic tied it he shot a tube of mor Phine into the mans the Needle going in deep and the doctors fingers gently working the drug the Man slowly writhed pulling himself up and off the Stretcher so that his forehead Lay in the his head hanging Forward Between the litter a medic picked up his head and wiped the mans face then left a pad for it to lie a medic at the mans head suddenly Hes stopped there was a Quick change of positions and a grimaced sergeant with Square hands began to give artificial soon the Man began to breathe keep it the doctor just enough to help the doctor asked for a cardiac injection one of the medics brought the and some Cora mine was shot into the mans then the doctor sat Back on his his Knees pressing into the mud beside the the Stethoscope at his listening to the mans finally he sat Back and said his worries Are the doctor looked very the sergeant who had been giving the artificial respiration stood up and walked shaking his that the first one weve he the first on the Road beside the Clearing the Doug feet still moved the Day still Felt hot and the Clouds hanging Low and Gray Over the two Days later the 77th took Page 4