European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 29, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars Aind stripes 1945 editorial for Ems and officers Only if you would care to print this letter from my old company com Charles Buckro As Well As All the men m co 335th would be very he is one of the finest cd that has Ever commanded a it Rogers was wounded by Shrap Nel in the right leg during a re cent he didst ask for treat ment but continued to command the company throughout the Battle until he didst leave until we had dug this was five hours after he was we were relieved 7 Days Rogers left All missions a com we want him to know that we miss him More than he misses and we sincerely Hope that he re covers sorry i had to desert you at such a time As i Only god will Ever know the agonies i went thru that night and have gone thru since the main reason Lor my writing you this letter is to first wish i was there with sounds Doest but i had Learned in the few Days i was in command of our company to love the men As my own to say to you and those left god bless you and May god be with you wherever you Tell it Kister and the to take Good care of the some Day i Hope to be with you its past kept thinking of you Fin ally borrowed a flashlight and wrote you this again i say May god bless you and our your old co and Charles Buck in the Spring of More than two months before any of the Otner groups you mention even became when the War department gave the 322nd a presidential citation it was because the group was the Pioneer b26 outfit i the among other How about setting the record Daugherty and nine you Are Scallons to a certain whats in a name in a recent Issue of s s we notice comments on us doughboy objecting to being called i we dont mind what we Are so we Are called Intima to receive that discharge when this mess is in name the plane in our Squadron of the Tiger Stripe marauder 387th bomb up we have nine b26 marauders without we Are wondering if the front line the soldiers Are doing the actual Tough work and Tough fighting in this would like to name these planes we Promise to Send pictures of the bearing the names they have to the front hers who name a Shaney and nine All out in your 18 Issue furloughs to explained by i gives the requirements a i must have for we think they should make him eligible for a filthy Arne just in Case you didst see wed like to reprint an editorial from the european edition of the new York Herald dated Jan uary entitled Uncle Joes have you heard the latest we Are across the or we Are closing on or some such phrase one encounters it Battle particularly successful Battle is a great leveler of Nice poli tical even thousands of Miles from the our Hopes Rise with the red Star As earnestly As with the in cold Foxholes and under Shell reaction is apparently Only More immediate and there Are no greater enthusiasts for Uncle Joes boys today than our troops on the Roer and in the Arden nes Here is one aspect of International relations too often overlooked by Theo a russian Soldier talks things Over with a Uncle Joes boys inspire alarm in some sections of the Arm chair but to the Man in the Street they Are and to the fighting soldiers they Are the Foxholes have been made aware of the fact that this is one War in one that each fights for All and All for and that getting the big Job done is far More important than any question of who does no politicians and publicists will get to work to destroy such foolish notions but it May be that fighting men and Ordinary people will remember Uncle Joes boys and will still believe that the great nations which were so desperately dependent on each other in War can hang together even in during a movie an officer interrupted three times for Volun Teers for a the second and third he just lashed out and threatened to Stop the show per the detail was to clean a building vacated by officers who left such a mess that the enlisted men were needed to make it respectable naturally we got ill bet my Bottom Dollar if they were sitting in a movie and a order came to clean up some one else mess they would Bitch and really blow off about the incident was Small but very often its the things that go a Long Way toward commanding a mans i dont know Why the officers taught a Little about under standing the men under when some of the men questioned the he said this is the army you hed bet Ter Wake up to the fact men make up the army and it takes Only a few to break their How does a medical officer rate a Bronze when he did no More than other Ems and myself not that i care about getting the decorations As i feel it was Only doing our duty As medical i dont feel As though our part was is it because he was an officer and we merely Ems id suggest that All such officers Start having a conscience and recognize the work of just another complaint whats this army coming to the boys who have been to the front come Back for a rest period and drop in at the red Cross club the so called Charity organization they Are charged for a of Coffee and a couple of dough Only one the 322nd up your recent article carrying the headline ninth of groups now off secret list contains a grievous not As you but one group introduced the b26 to the that group was the which was bombing enemy territory malt for morale the stars and stripes printed a column about the brewery workers in Paul going on strike and the web declaring that Beer was an essential War product to help keep up the civilian morale As Well As the Over Here 99 percent of the places Are off Why Doest the army figure the gis in the Eto need a Little morale building also Finger pointers i come from a dec and was told that what i went there for was now its in my ser vice every Joe and Jane in personnel can see it and it be comes i suggest that such entries be put into the service record under an article of War which covers several mishaps and maybe we could live in peace the rest of our army Usu ally an article of War will not be looked up by personnel Joe and How would you like people staring at you for something you have doubly paid Abdo May now be making Choice on East or West for a showdown by James Long associated press correspondent German High plotting the final desperate phase of its losing fight for the hemmed in May yet be in the unusual being Able to choose which of its foes in the East and West May deliver the final and it is Likely that that Choice it is to be made at begin to be reflected on the Battle front in the next few or weeks at the for it is the opinion of most military observers that the wounded wehrmacht could yet mass on either single front enough fighting Force to bring an offensive to at least a momentary a recent example it did just that on the Western front a Little More than a month ago when a Stream of vol Sgrena Dier and vol Sturm reinforcements stiffened the nazi line against the Allied six army onslaught and gave Panzer armies of Mobile re Erves a Chance for the ardennes in the from the present Demark of one russian Advance All the Way to the Ger mans have neither a defense line comparable to the Siegfried line nor a natural barricade Compa Able to the Rhine and its adjacent wooded if the germans Are to mass Moile defense Power in the oiling country anywhere from the River Oder to they would e forced to use most of what they Lave for any massing appears started the recent eastward movement of the Luftwaffe and even ground reserves from the Western As Well As movement of possible reserves of Materiel from storing places in the probably Indi Cates already that massing in the Sast for the last attempted stand there is under thus begins to unfold still another phase of the Craft behind von Rundstedt Christmas break for that offensive threw the allies enough off balance to the stars and stripes printed at the hew York Herald Tribune 21 Rue de Berrt Lor the armed forces under auspices of the information and Educa Tion special and inform Bon Tel Bly Seeg contents passed by the army and Navy entered a second class at the Post of new wider the act of mar 186 now hold it a while i make sure there we Don want none of them russians on our conscience delay possible further offensive action in the but there other Basic factors in the West weather and As one Allied officer put it after a review of the ground along and behind the Rhine even if the germans have a single sol Dier there it would be hard going Over the next 50 Miles this time of the weather plays role in East the on the other also have a weather their front begins to bog Down with thaws and then mud from the end of february through March and Early the germans May Hope to Stem the red tide until the thaws switching forces from the Western front in the Hope the allies there May not be Able to take maximum advantage of the later during the Eastern they might again realign their forces if a breakthrough is developing in the but even in Germany inner defense Circle that sort troop shift on a big scale is difficult and three men on a Nasi they stopped six assaults by Martin stars and stripes staff writer with seventh off on a Hill after three Doug feet held off four platoons of Jerries with an a carbine and a nazi 68 troops launched a counterattack and overran the first platoon of Al they stripped the parkas from Amer ican dead trampling Over their own rushed the Yelling at the top of their they sounded like some coked up Guys going crazy on saturday said platoon John a former new York fruit produce who fired the just before the nazi a Jerry sneaked riddled the machine gunner with a burp gun and knocked out the gun before Dougher finally got if i was an Inch taller id be dead said 20 year id pfc Richard of who was standing next to the Maloy took Over the bar and stopped six Small scale attacks and knocked out a the Flamethrower came so close we could feel the pfc Edward 21yearom truck Farmer from red while waiting for Daylight they pulled 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