European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 4, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes 1945 Bobby Socker i i received the enclosed letter from a of the typical teenagers Back whom a great Many gis think of As kids that dont realize theres a War going air dear big brother the other Day a Soldier said he thought the younger generation didst believe there was a War on and that we we rent helping in any that simply Cut me to the if Ever you get discouraged and think that just read this show it to anyone who might think As this Soldier Over there or i am a Bobby sock just a High school there Are millions boys we arc Happy and Gay on the outside i on our insides you would simply be surprised u you could really know we you we Are kids that can take anything in our because we were born in the time when depression was ending and War we really dont know what real peace we raise cur Jitterbug and everything this War started practically every kid pledged his or her to ked girl every other organization there is to we Roll gather tin cans anything our boys still we have our you see All of us have friends and people we love in the War we May seem Happy but we Pray every night that our school chums come Back to whole and never forget that we Are with you no matter where you Jere or our spirits will be in your heart you you and us Are fighting for the same Little Light task Many times we do not fully appreciate some of the Good things we electricity is one thing that is More or less received As a matter of the facilities for these parts of the country were originally plan Ned for peacetime War adds an extra in Paris and Brussels use of electricity is now restricted due to the shortage of Coal if Alt of us would do Pur part by utilising electrical facilities in a conserving with lights on Only when this the Al critical item of it makes a Man bitter soft free flowing romantic and exclusion to infrequent front line visitors on 1 or 2lay passes brusque Ness and i hospitality when approached on chances of Partak ing of a full hot after 30 continuous Days up front in mud and have greeted this officer and others when Brief to units 10 and 20 Miles from the the mines and artillery it makes a Man bitter to see the contrast in too Many rear Echelon officers and pm still dont know that a War of blood and of bitter cold and of 24hour work ing is going on a few Miles just beyond the artillery if patrons ideas of moving staffs and rear Echelon men from their big bars and restau rants to where shells to where men die and writhe with to where the pin movements on maps Are really i am sure that Many men with big stuff on their shoulders and with stripes dotting sleeves would Start to earn their pay and their i am sure the War would be run 25 percent better and that vday would be so far off As it now give every Man possible a Chance to say to i have seen i have fired at him and pushed him and he has tried to hit i Salute those men in the rear Echelon who have put their shoulder to the wheel until it Only these Are worthy of the uniform they 102nd the stray no our first sent two men in a Miles one a for a Book called the stray weve heard of Book lovers a mile for a Good but Neve of an no ordering a Guy to wast Gas and to travel 40 Miles for some thing like that Johnny 3804 try aint it the truth one of the boys in the band tried to write a drinking but he  get past the first two a pfc we know in a signal corps Foto lab sends this one in a photographers daughter is just like her she sits in a dark room and Waits for Home front scene first 4f my girl is carrying the 2nd 4f she sure Nast love Shes a welder at con a Sweet Young thing once mused he said he was going to kiss it i  stand for so heed me Over to the o James see that after a Man kinds out that a woman is no an gel he tries to ascertain to what extent she chivalry is not London treets were ankle deep in Slushy a Young lady was trolling nonchalantly near the two Steps behind came a Nattile dressed air Force the Captain saw a bus pulling up to the anticipated the Forth coming splash and jumped to the the stabs and strafe printed at the new sort Herald 21 Rue de for the armed forces under auspices of the information and Educa Klijn special and information Elysee contents passed or the army and Navy entered As second class at the Post new the act of mar vol 192 something Peculiar has been happening on the Siegfried line or the past couple of Days and Ress front line reports de to speculation As to whether von Rundstedt was going to hold hat line or withdraw to the it that what Iver the germans were up to would soon become evident As he first and third armies punch on into aps Wes with the ninth said germans had suddenly fled Large sections of the rent and Allied patrols had ailed to Contact enemy which he there was considerable territory occupied by neither allies nor in a situation paralleling the 1939 sit Down tips John with first flashed germans apparently withdrawing Siegfried or thinly Manning it in some parts of first and 82nd airborne where patrols entered line and found some Pill boxes empty and Snow indicating no recent ups Ronald from 21st army group mystery of 12 88s which were found undamaged with ammunition and abandonment of number of pillboxes in Siegfried line near Mosheim is puzzling number of no attempt has been made to Spike guns or damage or Booby rap pillboxes and thus far there appears no reason for aps Ned from Field marshal Montgomery head said on the other hand Side of the the lady escaped but the Gallant Captain was splattered from head to after recovering from the Surprise of the initial the girl thanked hero for saving her precious stockings from a splashing and the couple went off Arm in when a Guy claims a Gal is cold he should remember that so is Dyna mite until you Start an anxious father gazing at the triplets the nurse had just carried out of the delivery room Well take the one in the Brown writes i just cant understand How anything i love As much As Cognac could turn on me this aint it the truth Joseph Cohen see theres a Gold Brick in his outfit that not afraid of Why he can lie Down right next to Here lies my first sergeant let him Hes found so have there is a certain colonel in the Eto who is said to be quite strict about keeping the area shovelling mud and pick ing up cigarette Butts is the specially that he Calls upon the men to he has been Nick named mud and and then there was the new wag Steno who asked her Captain where he kept the round envelopes had to Send out Eto Cir Are nazis quitting West Wall Concrete dragon Teeth tank obstacles in the Siegfried line near american troops ran into increased resistance As they edged into the Siegfried line East of Monschau and it looks As if Battle for these defences May be heavy and other a reports said that for the past three Days there was almost no artillery fire on americans attacking East from St Vith to this is almost unprecedented since the allies reached the West later a reports said German artillery fire was coming from Field guns presumably behind the Pillbox among a is the View that the germans May withdraw to the East Bank of the Rhine in order to release ments for the russian in this Case they might have Only rearguard to hold out As Long As possible or to defend Only key saving Mobile reserves to smash any Allied breakthrough there was no official indication that the germans were pulling out of the West Wall and official reports late yesterday indicated resistance in the Siegfried line was shifted monthly Togo 3 acting Secretary of War Robert Patterson said yesterday that physically fit soldiers previously assigned to noncombat duties Are being converted to infantrymen at the rate of per Patterson also disclosed that approximately men from army installations in this country have been reassigned and Are in the process of going overseas As infantry one feature of the conversion Patterson was to Transfer fifty seven battalions of antiaircraft to the the War department spokesman explained that troops now in the United states in housekeeping units Are composed of men that Are either overseas veterans or classified As limited czech move attributed to following red Lead 3 decision of the czechoslovak government to announce its recognition of the polish provisional government before the meeting of the big three was regarded As emphasizing the importance which the Czeplis attach to following russian recognition of the polish provisional government fits into a pattern of czech russian policy by which the russians Hope to build Security for their Western a private Breger sir id swear i left our motorcycle right around Here Mac Arthur up front sees troops in action Clark 3 Macarthur yesterday Rode in a jeep within Range of japanese artillery Over looking Clark Field to watch his troops avenge one of the bit Terest defeats of the Early Days of the he sat silently As his jeep rolled past the wreckage of hundreds of japanese he inspected the charred ruins of a big Hospital building and from the Steps observed Ameri can artillery hits on the Jap 69 yank divisions listed in action 3 american army and Navy communiques and frontline dispatches have identified a total of 69 Amer ican divisions fighting there May be but censorship restrictions have not yet been lifted on any other of 47 divisions have been identified on the Western front and the remaining 22 Are in the four Pacific divisions Are Marine in three 14 eight French and one polish division have been identified on the Western making a total of 73 divisions is estimated that Between 70 and 80 German divisions Are opposing the Allied divisions on the Western web cuts Down on film to 11 major producers 3 the web today Cut the amount of film allowed 11 major movie producers by five percent and limited the number of copies of each feature length picture to 285 the web said that it will now take longer for new motion pictures to reach neighbourhood and Small town Jap ships sunk by Navy 3 the Navy department disclosed that japanese warships and merchantmen had been or damaged since Pearl Harbor Anda spokesman added that the remain ing units of the enemy once powerful Battle Fleet would be no bigger than an american task although the remaining Jap vessels might match a Strong task Force in he they  touch the famed task Force of William Halsey third which has been inflict ing tremendous damage to the Navy department said that Navy forces had sunk or damaged More enemy since the first Battle of the june than during the entire pre ceding period of the Pacific japanese shipping since that Date has been sunk or damaged at a rate in excess of 50 vessels for icicle Salt Lake 3 Seleda Hansen was awarded damages because of a big Frozen she that an icicle dropped from a roof and struck re time today Isis amerlean 1843rajmond Scott 1900jack Benny 1030ail join la 2000worid Newt news 2010canada 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