European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 5, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse 1945 Ihl Slars stripes Page 3 after 10 Days and nights of living yanks decide to then 7h 94th sergeant glanced nervously at his watch As the hands ticked toward 2200 the time when the platoon had agreed to it jacked three minutes to the hour inc 3cc up they were in four Foxholes in an of and around in a seemingly solid were for ten despite cold and hunger and hellfire from their own As Well As they had held out against countless attacks now their ammunition was almost it was in the fight to take South that a German counterattack had Cut them after three unsuccessful attempts to break through the their platoon John and two men had crawled out to try to reach the american those left behind had no Way of they had that they had tried to come Back with heavily armed Only to be stopped by Jerry runs zeroed in on the in the Arnold of Long told them we gotta forget the we gotta kill that patrol stumbles in the bodies out front were proof that they one night a Jerry patrol stumbled into Petrys Bill of plugged the Petry machine gunned the second pfc Charles of got the third with an on the third Day German medics approached with a White Flag and asked if there were any wounded who needed reluctantly Petry surrendered the three wounded men he and the germans went five minutes later artillery racked the positions miraculously there were no later the same afternoon a cub appeared the signalled with mirrors for food and the cub hipped its wings and went ten minutes later 105s rained Damn four other times the cub and twice artillery fire food was a pressing their seven cans of c rations went the first after that there were boxes of crackers from the packs of dead germans out the water shortage was solved by placing Halazon tablets and Lemon powder in helmets and melting it by sitting on the wait Ana watch some of the men read prayer but mostly they sat waiting and watching and they talked about How the russians might be and about on the fifth night a German Field Kitchen set up 300 Yards ammunition too Low to do anything about so they i sat and watched and sniffed the Aroma of cooking food coming Down the i the tenth night weak from cold and with ammunition almost they huddled together and talked Lover the they didst see How they could hold out much suddenly one of the men shouted and pointed to the american doughboy were the men in the Foxholes yelled at the doughboy of the cries in then slipped out of spirits in the lost platoon Sank to their if help did not come by they there was Only one thing to do 2jf Petry looked at the Luminous hands on his they pointed to he whispered to hell with the lets stick it the word went out and the reply came Back the clock ticked at 2300 out of the darkness came men of the 376th driving anew for and the lost platoon was most of the men had to be helped Back to company there they ate k rations and gulped Coffee and then Lay Down in the morning they returned to their own company and fought for three More Days before being sent Back some of the 23 still dont know about the sergeant with the six years he deserted the Hitler youth movement in Nis native Germany and went to live in the rear Echelon Soldier of 55 yearns for action up front by James Cannon stars and stripes stall writer with third soldiers never most of their work far Back of the 55yearold Andrew Jay Highberger today is up where the artillery flashes red in these snowy the lean bodied from had himself transferred from Railroad battalion to this infantry but the divisions rear still int close enough for the old who is i Rifleman in his Young am said the old i enlisted this time to get it Over i belong up there slagging or i belong Back vet of War i j who in action at Mihiel and the Argonne Forest in the last enlisted two years and two months and this time has been Over seas 20 months with a Railroad Bear Echelon life in the eco bored who had an Engineer with the Pennsyl West Virginia Railroad for the Road Back to Manila com z troops already in line for 104th yanks March through ravaged one of the largest towns on Luzon in the on the Road Back to troops examine Light Jap one of 14 knocked out in a futile counterattack on in the background is shown a nip an american patrol and an Amtrak search for japs soon after coming ashore on Luzon against Light Douglas Macarthur comes Back to with him Are his chief of Richard and behind Mac Lloyd his wanted to fight so i wrote setter to Patton and told i i wanted the the Guy sitting in the Kitchen of a farm House with a White Pup snapping at Nis i told him i was a Corporal in the last War we didst have none of these t ratings and that 1 wanted he didst take time to write about my he the old Man reported to the division and told the colonel he wanted to be signed to a Rifle the colonel said he himself was and even that was too old for a combat i told that Young you have to look inside a Man to Tell How old he the old Guy the outside of a Man Means Noth i have a brother who is 50 who is in the and went in when we invaded new so you its not a mans but his but the Young colonel insisted i am too and Here i am an when i should be Pilot takes a dive for nazis a ninth a bomber concussion of a burst of flak near his a26 invader the other Day stunned George Van meter invader Pilot and former Louis Ville when he the a26 Nad fallen to Only was Van meter he was Damn he regained control of Dove another 500 feet on the one engine still and knocked out the guns that had stunned outfit year in combat with seventh 141st a attached to the third completed its first year of combat year which took the outfit from Southern Italy to the Anzio North past into Southern France on Day and North in the drive on the columns enter Manila continued from Page 1 it is two Miles South of san a town on a Highway piercing the Bagayan where the Japan Ese Are reported to have a Strong to the 25th troops Cap tured Mingan and Santa Maria and inflicted heavy losses on the units of the 38th and pushing across the base of the Bataan advanced eight Miles from the captured Olon Gapo naval in Batangas Southwest of Lith airborne troops took a town 13 Miles Inland from their Landing Point Macarthur reported that the japanese had suffered More than casualties in the first three weeks of the Luzon which began american casualties were including in Southeastern japanese forces captured by Ernest Leiser stars and stripes stall writer with 104th Ger rear Echelon most of them from Coin went into the line today with units of this first graduates of the 104ths Battle former personnel clerks and Supply now members of Rifle completed a two week course Given by combat Wise veterans of supplementing the training courses of the reinforcement with instruction on night attacks and the course is the first Given by a division to men sent up to fill gaps in the kept stripes if successful half of the men were and had the Promise of the Divi Sion Terry that they keep their stripes if they did their Allen was present at the graduation yes and presented the men with their divisional shoulder results of the training were according to col Edward of in charge of the school these com z men Are going to make food added Thomas of who mapped out the and now have a much better Chance to keep alive out there in the glad to learn How one of the Niles of had been an army Cook for four years he admitted be preferred Coo being to being a Rifleman but said that since he did Nave to go into the line he was glad to learn about it first Wilson 01 in the army since 1935 out at the front for the first said he thought the school was Damn Good to now it had been All theory for Back at fort be i had a company of automotive a Rifle company is a lot yanks and foe share Power with ninth armoured for More than a month Ameri cans and nazis shared electric Power from the same Plant in it has been revealed by Andrew of a Liaison officer for co of the 73rd a just Back from the Battle of recalled that several weeks ago when the 73rd was assigned a support task in Luxembourg near the Sauer River the units in several towns had Power from a Plant that was the which was toc Atea on the East of he was operated by one Man who employed a civilian As a sort of go Between for the troops and him self when something went cited for work enem lines with fourth armoured Stephen of recently was cited a second time for gallantry in action and awarded an Oak Leaf Cluster to his Silver Star for Lead Ling a patrol behind enemy lines to destroy mortar and artillery Orosi one infantry and two tank companies had made a Daylong attempt to capture it Herndon took a patrol into the town at night located four mortars and one artillery position and called for artillery fire against her dons men wiped out enemy pockets in the permitting a task Force to move in next morning without opposition then a won the Silver Star on when his patrol destroyed 25 enemy vehicles and captured 60 shielded buddy with body with 79th set Walter Carsons buddy wounded during a the Milwaukee Soldier gave and used his own body to shield the injured Man from further
