European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 30, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 4 the stars two recent happenings in the second of the fifth rightly belong in the add fodder for Ripley department attacking a Woods Northeast of Herbert of was leading his squad when it came under a screaming eerie Schlimbach is not certain what except that he was blown in the came Down picked himself up and continued the his squad says a screaming eerie Shell landed in front of Schlimbach and when the smoke cleared there he stood in the motioning them to follow him into the his mates believe their but outside of being dirtied and shaken the k sergeant remained the second happening involved pfc Anthony Murphy of second who stepped on a Teller mine and lived to Tell about the mine exploded behind Murphy As he ran across a Street in and literally ripped the coat from his bade before the company medic could reach Murphy got brushed himself and walked to the Aid medics described his experience As a Oneida million the boys in the ninth 26th Fabius service Battery have a going Home Pool into which each Man half a Dollar the Lucky Guy selected to go Home under the new Etu furlough plan takes the As soon As one Man drains the Pool on his Way to the another is Lewis of Bethel we have no use for the Vioney but the Guy going Home can sure use it those Maytag Messerschmidt men have done it again a couple of observers on a recon nals flight in a cub of a a saw a German plane Down and watched the bail out they followed his descent and landed in a nearby Field a us of it Max Yetter of had searched to Jerry Aey were stumped for a Means of getting him to a pm Cage they leave their Wated goodbye and took off to continue their reconnaissance his squad of sniper Hunting 137th of heard a whirring noise be Huid he turned to find cameraman Tom of uni Versal grinding away to record the pro Gress of the 35th dont look at the Ca Mera the photo Grapher make it look hell a net whizzed past his what do you think this a movie set to discretion is the better part of especially when three concerned and even More especially when two 01 Wien Ihen he have to Barber one of the Bastogne is but Pride amid the mums by James Cannon stars and stripes staff writer with third grim darkened Snow covers the ruins of it is a dead City wearing a dirty shrouds few towns took a worse beating than Bastogne in this Sherman of the civil affairs said a month after the Relief of the i would say Bastogne is 100 percent damaged not a House escaped being fifty percent of the place is beyond repair completely frosted and still hangs like Christ Mas ornaments from the Trees in the town on the bar of the cafe a Glass of Frozen Beer stands amid the once there were now Only of our people said Leon the acting Burgmeister of a Haggard toothed Man of great convents catacombs group in the catacombs beneath the Convent of notre Dame seven three five three dogs and a cat sat in cold and darkness in the boiler the electric system and the water system Are Jacquemin there is Little fuel and Many houses have no women waited in a shivering queue As soldiers tried to break Loose a Frozen in a big children crowded around a fire service troops warmed the three churches Are no said the four schools Are no not a store is open in we have Little food and there is no place to Honor our guest who is Here to help in the convents comte de la Barre Der belgian minister of making an ate lunch with his overcoat but it is better to have it this Way with the people free than to have it the Way it was with the germans an old Man and his Pride were a very Good thing to see in the dead just Charles the safety came in to report that a German civilian had blown his face off while trying to throw a grenade at two american soldiers on the outskirts of the he died soon Weaver but even with his face gone he could curse the victors of you said the old you see what the germans returned Beer but Boffl und first Guif they Werr Inbe army signal corps photo not far from his John an artillerymen from san strips to the Waist to give himself a shampoo in the it you be get As Nad at him As you could at the Bombardier Olive Crew to pick up the first b25 Mitchell delivered to the with sinking two japanese ships and a he volunteered to take part in bottles b25 raid on Bat was not accepted because he was heres another Jerry prisoner this one from the 41st armoured an sniper had been giving trouble from a hidden spot the a sols a is was sent out to dislodge the German tossed his Rifle away and of the just a i noting the belligerent attitude of the the Jerry was afraid to attract his lest he turn suddenly and so he stuck his hands High above his head and walked Down the Road behind tie that was what he was doing when the i finally looked around and captured s attention veterinarians two Teaspoons of gun powder in a bowl of milk was the formula used by William 35th my from to cure Wormy a scrawny Dachshund picked up to a Friend supplied the formula keep the dog away from fires for several he a Buzzard comes in for the Lions share when the Eagle flies at 317th of the 80th div Hes Jason of new whose Buck privates pay plus allowances for a wife arid 11 kids nets him More dough than his company Buzzards Hood of 11 Chicks Feather to hts nest to the tune of a eldest and each forthe of says 38yearold Buzzard aint yank wild Man saved German pcs say with sixth armoured in the Bastogne Edward of raised so much hell with the Jerries during a counteroffensive that five different German prisoners stated that he prevented their outfit from recapturing Bas with George of As his Manning a Ber machine gun in the Turret of his 603rd to Cut the Advance of a Jerry infantry Batta lion to the pair ran in and out of the popping up from behind different Points on the Ridge lines with a Brand of fire and movement that led the enemy to believe they were opposed by a Man the prisoners told Glaus of new York he was a wild he moved so fast and put Down such a volume of fire we get close to we were Cut to bits and our attack on Bastogne was toot suit a new army freight toot sweet1 speeding vital supplies Over a 500mile run from Cherbourg to Supply Points in Belgium in Only 37 i cowboys Corral beef on Luxembourg Battlefield by Bud Button stars and stripes staff writer with the 90th and Oklahoma soldiers in the 90th forgot the War for a couple of hours As they staged an Impromptu Rodeo to help round up scores of stray Well As a few horses and civilians of a Little Luxembourg town had left Down the from the town went a Yelling mass of dough waving their arms and and before them went a tired of cattle in a old fashioned Roundup which was strictly wild West except that it was some six or seven thousand Miles out of gis cared for cattle credit for the Roundup idea went to Zinn of dal after the gis had done individual jobs of feeding and car ing for the cattle when they chased Jerry out of the evacuated Liaison officers arranged for neighbouring luxe Bourgeois to care for the cattle if the gis would deliver Eldred of Council and ceo of led the Roundup which gathered hands As it went along and Texas and Oklahoma soldiers of the outfit heard the familiar bellowing of onetime rancher Rex a Pic f rom and Carl of the bar did some Bull dogging with Tom of Ervin of and pfc Jerry of sergeant to co o in three Days with 26th Yankee of went from sergeant to company commander in three he was a fighting sergeant during the Yankee Campaign in Lor Raine and the his leadership earned him a Battlefield commission on As second Days later the commanding officer of his company was lost while making a 21 years became acting he led his spearheading a battalion made his own knocked out All the enemy positions and led the Bat Talion to its his first action As Hopes in Clover with seventh armoured Frank of Hopes to make a postwar profession of his prewar Hobby of raising four Leaf Ford now i contraction y t itself non Coon to broken if his eff of to be impaired by inspector Gen Here has the Dation to the Goat from an inquiry f established by Ati under we who picked up the the to break a of the in it not Only to at Eisenhower i department year ago As Campaign against Rule had Beck the War pc ing the to it such a Ste rallies Fie regulation which i de cd punishable rank and loss Jii ordered that Trattl duty status and change in unit auction in the in ring Ligated Emylu right of a break a noncom after l determination of the Case was attention of time following a stars and surf reduced from private after inquiry Showa Section general t of busting All the grounds ability to that their the soldiery a Jefic and the cd Tow he was As entirely him As a he they cant Fly in this weather that what you think army signal corps photo pod ton or Takeoff that would have formerly ape fled so Rei after apartment proper and ment of of the Gene and stripes Ginal inst but noncom who to 8 he he mend for in unit has an and orders1 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