European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 28, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The revitalized French fight Back nazi As rattlers battling Joes fight cold stars and stripes Page 3 the new v French army Hitler boasted in those Black Days of 1940 that the nation9s forces were Defeated but today he is eating his words As the Tricolour forges on to by Jack Caldwell War week staff writer Ian across the Snow rusted alsatian Plain stretching along the Rhine from besieged Strasbourg to the historic City of Mulhouse in Eastern France As a French patrol stealthily mane Vered through enemy and machine gun fire to the main forces located in a lir gutted Village 800 Yards from the front Cliff or from the Bullet of troops fight in the traditionally a hidden even the highly French Beret like hat cocked Over vaunted jeep and its reputation of one going anywhere and any place most of the Arab troops and take a backseat to the slow some French Wear the Cheche a reliable trip of soft White cloth about plan at retaking the City of important both for and political the so threw Down their vehemently rather fight Toan eat and yelled Kamerad and clambered out i Mikov of makeshift fortifications the arabs As camped from eluding the enemy m Italy and the White cloaked lieutenant two enlisted me zigzagged the Frozen taking and of every every Mound for the re journey was every i was carefully carbines observer who has been with the French army since its Day land ing at just As soon As the see they tre beaten All fight leaves them and they ready to Call it the a defender of was High i his Praise for the French 2hl f their own and to High officer casualties it is important that they have Good officers and the officers have to be fearless and must always Lead an with the result casualties among officers of Arab units Are higher than one just returned from the front was asked Why he fights so whether he was driven by his hatred of the nazis or his love of cause my officer fights remnants of French army fought alongside americans and British to smash nazi dreams of african con in Italy they helped liberate went on with yank forces to land in France on Strasbourg Are mile stones in their epic struggle to drive the invader from their Warnecks combat Jack recently toured the present French first army facing the from Strasbourg to Basel near the Swiss this is the first of his reports on a nations heroic fight for Freedom and the death of i be Heid close to their bodies so lot to form a Silhouette against sparkling they were within 200 Yards of when the Bullet of a care sniper in a clump of far of f to the left Tore into Back of one of enlisted the mortally wounded Soldier from a crouching four Steps then ipod into the a burst of Legun f ire from a Crew cover their withdrawal silenced the Iner and enabled the two remain exhausted men to reach their Ith the they pro sufficient infantrymen were etched to annihilate the enemy led by a Young and d by artillery and mortar the French Force spread out the wide Plain to form a Semi around the enemy a noose drawn around the of a condemned they closed in on the escape except from the Side its a Small he but what it lacks in numerical strength it More than makes up in fighting at for the French were carrying out the attack against forces Superior in numbers in a Superb these men Are their and by far Are better than the the Only advantage the enemy in my is experience and that he has without the average German Soldier has at least three or four campaigns behind beasts of Burden in the Snow covered Vosges mountains that skirt the French German Border along the French army Arab troops stealthily make their Way through narrow Over seemingly impassable these trained Mountain fighters Are just As much at Home on the Side of a precipitous Mountain ledge As a Yankee i is to a in these treacherous where a misstep May death from a plunge Over a in either the French or Arab to one algerian regiment has been out of the front lines but for 30 Days in the last 13 also serving in the sector Are units of the foreign made up mostly of French but including a few spaniards and like the heroic men portrayed in the Beau Many of these joined the foreign legion after love while some just for the foreign legion has both motorized and regi ments and their members Are identified by the traditional Green in a hand grenade with seven the legion wore the insignia on the but since donning i uniforms nows display it on the the entire French first army uses mostly american armoured vehicles Small arms and but the especially the retain certain tribal characteristics which distinguish themselves from their i comrades in out of uniform the originally a mounted cavalry regiment of coloured but now composed of Wear a red Cap in the crack arabic Mountain fighting unit also in action on this present a picturesque con Trast in their a Smock resembling a Burlap bag overcoat which they Wear Over their i Many of the French Sert sandstorms and Winter winds and Lany Pur finer who has been in combat since the North this snowy useful in the Soldier because the very can be draped Over the body like a the Arab also uses it As a face cloth and Towel when Coffee is  use a Corner of the Cheche As a Coffee Bat it into a canteen cup of boiling of another the Arab always sleeps with the Cheche wrapped around his ask me Why he does Bear no sign of a overcoats and quite a few of them have such great admiration for their i blouses they even Wear them in shaggy badly scarred filed Teeth lend to their ferocious the appearance of Many of these troops would make any uniform conscious officer moan in Baid an american lieutenant colonel attached to the French bub looks dont make the Soldier when it comes to Matching wits with the germans who have fought against them highly respect tenacious compared to the american stand both the French and arabs require comparatively Little food for wine and bread Are the main they Are also fed with american Field rations or a Little meat and fresh especially camels can go a Long Way with out an american Liaison officer but these it can go further and do on very Little just four Days ago a patrol of four arabs set out for the German lines with enough food for just one Halfway decent it want until the following evening they returned from their Mission and instead of diving for the mess Hall after making their they crouched around a tiny fire beneath a clump of then someone brought them a Glass of wine and a chunk of bread and they accepted them just like you might after having eaten a Christmas damned it i can figure it scarred filed Teeth i 10 Patny uniforms Are trousers