European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 31, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars Aid s1k1pes 1945 password or last word coming Down a dark in a i was challenged and asked the i replied i the one for the Day but did not know that of the sentry asked me a couple of questions which i could i asked the guard for the password and he gave it to me what is the use of having pass if sentries ask silly questions that could be answered by anyone trained in and if the guard then tells How to get by the next sentry if i give him enough information to prove i am an american in i he should let me but he should not give secret inform if you Are on make sure you pass Only those who can prove beyond doubt they Are this is Irving United we fight Many people at Home and abroad Are worried about american British they seem to think that we soldiers Are a Gullible Bunch who will believe any Rumor or Story we hear detrimental to our our unit was Lucky enough to work Side by Sije and under the command the British second All of us have the greatest respect for the fighting and personal qualities of the British we think the easiest and Best to Cement american British Good will would be to Trade divisions Between armies for a period of at least a then every Amer ican and British Soldier would see for himself what a swell fellow the other Guy really Kenneth regular Joes with a flock of other do faces who were wounded or i waited at an the ground crewmen working around the knowing wed been in the Hospital and  get packages for some brought out the parcels they had gotten from Home As yet passed the contents like we were one of the cookies and the most never cake this is the Best Way we know to express our and let the Crew know that a lot of Guys who were prejudiced toward ground Crew men have changed their minds because they know these men Are really regular surgeon knows Best i say return the battalion surgeon to Hospital duty after an extended term of duty on the such a rotation would Benefit the surgeon and prevent the waste of material and transportation involved in shipping men unfit for combat Back to the the battalion surgeon is the Only medical officer who can decide whether a Soldier who has been injured in Battle is physically fit for More 4th unarmed combat i have just returned from a meet ing at which told and Given strict orders not to carry any live ammo in our rifles at any time unless actually on the front just two Days in this same we were told there were Jer Ries wandering in our uniforms and others in civilian we Are Only about a 15 minute walk from the fifth Tiro offer blood have read the urgent pleas from army Headquarters in France for Type o blood we Are in a combat have Type o blood and would consider it a privilege and Honor to and we feel it would be no detriment to 1 our the food our Cooks prepare our strength will shortly be a Honey and the stabs and stripes printed at the new York Herald Tribune 21 Rue de forthe armed forces under auspices of the information and Educa Tion special and information Tel Elys Ces contents by the army and Navy entered As second class at the Post new under the act of Vel 189 today funny Story Captain whats wrong with these eggs up dont ask i Only Laid the i observation Many a Rural Romance started with a gallon of Corn and ended with a full school Day scene sweater girls make excellent schoolteachers they outline things so first wac i wonder what the gis talk about when there by themselves second probably the same things we first wac Arent they awful Brooklyn poetry it is the Boid is on the that i thought the Wing was on the Boid the Little Moron see that in the k9 corps Treyve started issuing tree Day from our spy at a Northern ire land Golf course comes the Story of Ai air Force Looey on leave who tried swinging the clubs a few he was such a poor golfer that two ants crawled up his Golf Ball to keep from getting this one arrived in the mail from the states a merchant in los who has been correspond ing with a Soldier a letter from the i Early in the summer stating i cant Tell you where i but last week i shot a Polar the next some weeks contained the dont dare Tell you where i am but last night i danced with a girl who wore a grass a recent letter carried this doleful statement tacked on the end i cant Tell you where i but i can say id have been darn sight better off if id danced with the Polar Bear and shot the girl in the grass Don Everitts of the first airborne army really takes the know your allies policy Seri during a Ball session someone asked him what a red corpuscle he a russian and then there was the vicious Mosquito who i have just begun to an editorial this is a dead fascist Ruthis German Soldier died for to him the state was the individual he believed Germany to be a nation of Superior Quality and that Germany needed and was entitled to living living space to be taken by at the other Guys sex he no Legal but he didst he was convinced that Rule by a few master minds was better than by a majority of free Well informed he pledged his life to his for his master he Laid his life he had Only such Legal Protection As the state chose to give the was the clique Goeb and the nazi their Laws were applicable in one Way to britons go All out for Little Huberts adventures in Dick wingers Browbeaten stars and stripes comic character now sweating out the russians on the Western is homesick for the whose first Hubert Book is mostly devoted adventures o i the great sol says his hero gets a touch of nostalgia now and then for a Tea s h o p p e with some or a few darts Whiz zing past his mild and royalties from the published at one shilling by Darton will go to the British up front with Mauldin one in another Way to another dependent the color of his the Creed of his the Quality of his the fascism which this Man made and and for which he had three Cornerstones contempt for the com Mon disregard for the dignity and Security of the individual the subservience of All to the w w a Bullet killed this fas Cist question what does it take to kill a fascist idea draft Board Calls Frankie for command performance Jersey 30 ans which recently started cracking Down on men from 26 to 29 who Arent essential to the War put the Finger on crooner Frankie Sinatra today to the concern of Bobby sox fans from Broadway to the Pacific them Wiz his exact envy the Way you do faces git first pick Owimrin Anliker in Frank Sinatra the voice has been ordered to report 8 for his second Prei induction physical Ira chairman of Sinatra draft Board said when he was examined in de the Singer was classified 4f because of a punctured the 27yearold Beau Brummell Bow the prep Earl Harbor father of a girl and father of a year old said when he was turned Down in Fie Felt about the draft boards latest action threatened the lucrative income which Sinatra has increased by leaps and Bounds since in Sinatra said he would leave there in tune to re port to his Jersey City draft i dont feel that a statement from me is warranted any More than from several Hundred thousand other he i am no different from Joe Doakes next boats fail to halt supplies to Admiral asserts admitting that Antwerp and Ostend Are still receiving considerable attention from nazi sir Harold new Allied naval com said yesterday the enemy boat attacks Are having a negligible effect on the flow of supplies to the seven Allied armies on the Western at a press the Suc Cessor to the late sir Bertram Ramsay warned that submarine at tacks May increase soon and cautioned despite our great Superior Ity at we must never let up against this very determined who still has plenty of fight in the Admiral revealed that specially trained groups 9f american and British seamen will Clear and rehabilitate such great ports As Bremen and Hamburg when the nazis Are driven away from the coasts or when the Reich he said for weeks these sailors have studied the layout of their assigned ports Down to the smallest Burrough announced that the British Navy is now operating among the islands North of Wal Cheren at the Mouth of the recalling naval achievements in Clearing ports for use by advancing Allied armies after the retreating germans Sank ships and toppled cranes into the the Admiral said that at Boulogne 26 ships of various sizes were lifted and moved 583 514 time today 1815swing 1230string 2000world 2006uk 1410gny 2010canada 2015mercers 2030british 1530ombat 1545on the 2105jan 213obob 2235meiody 1805mark up tomorrow 0600rlse and 0715son 0730top 0800combat 0815personai 0830danee 0925waltx 1000mornfaj ims piano