European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 28, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 2 the stars and stripes old Hickory and Hitler into the cloth of their other units have Woven equally glorious yet i doubt if any of them have changed the design to commemorate a remark made on an enemy propaganda they probably take Pride in the fact that the same Patch which their fathers distinguished in previous they have worn and distinguished in and will passit on to future members of the unit unchanged i sur rounded with Many a tale of Gallant achieve if the 30th is its present Lias been unable to find anything other than a nazi radio comment worthy of weaving their insignia since the Days of if unit history can boast of no firing More remark Able than a quip passed by nazi female broadcaster named Sally if such is they would do better to Reform into a pm weave a can of tomatoes Over the old Hickory and leave the War to an army tha can listen and laugh at Sally and her without setting several thousand hands to ripping of f of patches and sewing on new and Fleston reported be ing considered As Ensig major 39th proposal in the 15 stars and i noticed where this new has Given up her first name and seeks an ill go her one my suggestion is that she changes her name to John i Hope in not too late to get in this John Schufa detached service just finished Reading the Abc scores straying and cannot resist the impulse to put in my two cents this groaning about divorces and wifely infidelities cqq1 St Tuting a serious morale problem is a Tot of baloney and in speak ing from As my wife has divorced me since Ive been in the i think she did the right and i resent people pitying me As a defender of demo Cracy or some sentimental i loved my so it want a Case of glad to be rid of she undoubtedly didst love me As much As i did but she respected she had More consideration for me than to let me go thinking she loved me just because i was giving my All for my native what Burns me is this Ballyhoo that wives should stay at Home and twiddle their the Tbs while their i spouses Are out Kajou saying ave All Over the i agree with reports that Back Home error tag their husbands in the service is a serious morale problem for overseas soldiers these women dont appreciate what the boys Are doing for them Over giving the Best part of their such women should have Heads shaved like those women of prance who collaborated with the pfc High waste we were visited by a general the other Day who arrived with quite a caravan of would like to know Why it is for this general to use so Many essential vehicles and precious tires when Eisenhower visited the front in one measly the stabs and Steves printed at the new Herald Tribune Plant 21 Rue de for the armed forces under auspices of the information and special and i Fonna Teu Elysses passed by the Ana Navy entered second class at the Post Nev under toe act of n we wonder if scottish troops blow it out your we just met a sergeant who Doest have room on his Good conduct ribbon for All his wild oat Leaf scientific observation 50 percent of the modern girls the other 50 percent Are pretty too Day Stalin have been coming into the London office of Sta Sand stripes sofas that Roland who usually takes the phone Call on important com has gotten onto the spi Rit of he has installed a Nutini Turfe mortar on his desk and each time he takes an order of the a 21round Cpl Luke Dohey see that intuition is the strange instinct that teds a woman Shes right even when a colonel in Australia to go Kangaroo so our spy from in a after chasing a Kangaroo Down the Road for 15 and the pedal to the Driver turn tothe colonel i think we had better give this Chase the colonel turned and Why we have been doing 60 Miles an hour for the past 15 minutes and that Kangaroo Hast even got his front feet Down yet a i standing in a choline said he knew his mess sergeant Back in the states and that the Sarge was just like his cooked cakes so heavy her stove had Pun on the Home front a Farmer was seen traveler playing checkers with a hound dog Back in the Hill country of he went up to the old Man and complimented him on the intelligence of the the old Man stroked his Graybeard and he aint so Damn i beat him three out of five and then there was a second lieutenant he censors his own mail who asked his co for a Blue envelope because he Trust an editorial bullets and beliefs when you pipe a pair of headlines Reading Beds 91 Miles from Berlin and soldiers awol in Eto it makes you we dont know the awol rate in the red our guess is its because theres a woman or child East of the who Hast shed blood or tears in the War with the they dont run Why we fight contests in the they dont whisper about German atrocities As if there ashamed of having for phoney propaganda they dont have people around thinking up 16 ways Why non fraternize Tion wont and after it was the German leaders and not the Ger Man people who started this bloody the reds have a slogan death to the fascist they believe in close to All of them believe in it the generalization can go on the bitter fact can go on record that there Are american soldiers in the Eto who Haven the faintest idea of what this War is All who seemingly know nothing about its care less about its who make it a business to murder their pals by engaging in Black Market who deny the overwhelming mass of Loyal americans the food and fuel they need to finish their and who prove that to be a Good Soldier a Man must addition to bread for bullets for fils blankets for his body and Butts for his brain in his and in his Elcook now dishes it out As to chief with armoured Harold of was a Cook in 603rd to now he is a to because can dish it out on the firing line As Well As on the Chow then a took off from his Kitchen duties to join a to Crew during an in dismounted action in holding a he killed or wounded 18 germans with his won the Bronze sergeants stripes and command of a tank but he Hast lost his touch for his first Huber fora Section eight by Ralph Martin stars and stripes staff writer fighters air control roof o is ringside seat for v with seventh the frontline doggies Dougls one of the most important rooms in any Headquarters is air control room of a fighter Wing of 12th it is the room where somebody grabs a phone and talks to any Squadron Leader flying upstairs somewhere and tells him to cancel his Mission because Hes got a hot the conversation goes something like this is Broadway theres a Bunch of Jerry guns and tanks bothering the Bell out of our have you got your map Here Are the As a double Check the control officer now Check with Broad Way baby Junior about getting smoke shells on the target before you Peel pilots on with doughs Broadway v baby Junior usually of two pilots on detached service with an infantry division whose Job is to give the flying Pilot information about the target and to be close enough to it so that they can see the according to a of air control stresses if theres a Trace of doubt about a target because of thick poor navigation or con fusion about spotting smoke shells the targets called off and the Squadron is sent somewhere this is a Dawn dusk Job and theres somebody ear glued to the Telephone every pilots Call in to ask such questions As there Are six tanks just below whose Are they the will give coordinates and the control officer will Check his map and then there clobber just like in these phone talking control officers nurse in wounded planes by navigational aids and supervise operations like the drop Ping of flares at night to Light up artillery if you listen in you can hear pilots talking a dogfight watch that Bastard coming in at nine and another i got time today hockey show Kaye join la news Shelton sports dance ease Call for All Ham cwt special weekly up map tomorrow Shine 0715isonc Parade 4 show diary album he music folks at of self l 6 san 7 Wnm 8 Cpl san new Joseph Rockville new 13 it Cpl Hyman East is pfc Allen 1 new Craig 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