European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 28, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse War week the stars and stripes by Dave Breger better hurry upans choose your of up German people order to dispel rumours that the fuehrer has some Tao i shall read us own of has just handed me amx you cops were 6000 you Woutos fuel mfr to the reichsta6 8crlin on r that us Kosht we two tact in any form try 37 1137 wild bill9 rides Weaver men of the 8th do vision say of their commanding Seal the colourful kentuckian i ind much decorated Veteran of two world now leading the 8th Golden Arrow division in the bitter first army came by his Nick name quite one night near the general was asleep at the com Mand Post when bedlam broke tanks 20 reconnaissance and a very Small number of y out under fire to Aid Toto men wounded by a when the krauts opened up on the utter bearers taking the wounded to the Ted retaliated a us Gnu Miles of enemy Ter in this prisoners were taken and vehicles of All types were the general knows All phases where the germans had a he talked a nazi officer and men into services of Supply and later As Field Deputy commander of the communication zone before going to combat he graduated from the military Academy in had Tours of duty in the United states and the pair Pines until the out break of world War in that War he commanded the 8th machine gun battalion which heaped a lot of misery on the germans in six major and Many lesser this is wild Bills second tour through Germany for he served with the army of occupation after the last the general is determined that his division and other from Holland to the Border of will make it unnecessary to return to fight again in 25 years Haerich father had built a Home in Germany when the medic was q for a Dinard seemed to be the Ideal oratorical ground Lor on another occasion in this sector of Wordy Haerich talked an officer and 38 men into a prison and at Curzon he stopped a jeep occupied by a German after listening to the medic a smooth line the officer decided to quit for the sniper resist at Tela Crossa the Hackensack Man had his closest he suited a nazi sniper behind a hedgerow along a Railroad ready to pitch a strike with a potato the perspiring medic talked the Kraut threw away two potato mashers and appeared ready to suddenly he whipped out a concussion Gre Nade and wound bight then Haerich put on the most Convoc to grasses talk of his Battlefront the sniper resist the americans he lowered the grenade and gave himself in the Hurtgen Forest he wait e behind a tank and by Tau cog fast and to the Point rounded up 26 they Are harder to convince Hench its the and Thev Are goosed with the glory dying defending the he 4did you have psychological warfare training hell no he retorted 1 Tatt which me Over other John stick to the i Tell the Jwj Ries we treat prisoners pout out that their situation 11 he added 1 out its better to live prisoner onetime Penter received his first a Bullet nicked his i voted outstanding in a d of sports a purple heart and three the German a column of roared into the area in an attempt to relieve a besieged nazi Garrison in the j the moved out but wild Clad in went into action with Only a Headquarters company defense platoon of about 35 men and a few with this Small group the nazis were stopped until wild Bill got More additional platoon of tanks and a battalion of infantry was toe formidable Force with which the Panama Clad general beat Back the Strong enemy few of thl Jerrils Zotck to their lines for in the ensuing they lost 60 of their a number of and 800 men were taken inflicts heavy losses another Jiuu states toe spirit of this driving in the six Day thrust from a ranches into be with the Mth infantry division last August he deployed his forces so Wem i that the division destroyed 831 tanks and captured Salesman of that the handle men of the second battalion of the 8th infantry division have Hung on 37year old Theodor a company Aid in six months of Over sea service glib to nogued front line medic has talked 220 Jerries into sur an other 100 Reti cent huns called it quits after combat troops asked Hae Rich and Liis gift of gab the battalion gives Haerich full credit for the but the modest medic claims Only on a native of Germany Speaks fluent he first tried his persuasive tactic son Jerry during the breakthrough at la after crawling fhe Crafty indians did tricks with fires that Houdini might they Are such Good tricks that every i should know How to do the old Sarge passes on to foxhole residents these tested Wood or Tofu Start a fire the indians prayer stick is a easy tomake take a piece of dry an Inch to two inches and a fool to a foot and a half with Trench knife Sharpen one end to a Pencil then slash the stick so the free ends of the slivers curl away from the Jab the stick into the ground where a fire is stack Fluffy Wood shavings or chips around the then stack Foo Long pieces of Wood around the prayer forming a touch a match to it and fire ill flare up another Quick fire is the Indian log Cabin the prayer stick and Tincer Are placed in a cleared four Sticks a foot Long Are placed to form a Square around the two Sticks Are Laid on the ground and the other two on the ends of the ground then build a hollow Square with other Sticks around the prayer taper from ten inches at the Bottom to about four or five inches across at the so the fire roars up it s especially useful when a not fire is to heat a Leanto or shelter tent Jug Julji the in trance of the shelter stack rocks in an the open end facing the build from one Rock at the ends to a height of about four feet in the the Wall of rocks will Boom the heat toward another be made by using Green in a Section where evergreens Are pitiful they Are not hard to one log about nine inches thick and Friar feet Long is placed on the four uprights Are then driven into the two on each Side of the Bottom other four to six inches axe placed Between the the stakes can be braced by notching the top and jabbing poles on a slant to the front of the socks and shoes can be Hung to dry from these a fire built in front of this reflector casts heat into the indians used to build a series of fires on the spot where they intended to if there is time to dig a foxhole and a will not give away your posh a to the the following Tim tested Dodge May be used Clear a As Large As the make to teen fires in this one at the foot one at the head and in the when the fires have burned to coals and the glow is dying scrape the coals Tow a pile at the foot coals lightly with the Neaf from the coals will remain in tuft ground for quite some coming tips from men who know How to keep House in a plus prelude to by John army talks reflector fires should not directly into the a Breeze will blow the heat from the nor so the reflectors be in the Lee the wind for then the smote blows into the at a slight not quite the the fire gets Plen draft and the heat booms Ward where it does the starting fires in wet Wheato the biggest difficulty ton have to resinous such As the fir Trees in the i Are generally fat witty this highly inflammable hard to beat for starting evergreens Are unavailable should Hack away the wet bark of a dead Hardwood u dry stuff inside is a Ful of which is enough to
