European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 6, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the Slars and Sti night life brings go night life at the front is like a spooky or perhaps a visit to the according to Many doughs who know from experience doughs like pfc Salvador of new for Salvador had dug a woman foxhole Over looking a River and was waiting for a div buddy to through the blackness of the Diaz saw two shining apparently bearing Down on he had just about time to grab his Rifle and level it at the target when the visitor stuck his head in the it was a said Diaz that walking Venison Steak was tempting but i Felt like kissing the Deer instead of killing not so slow on the draw was James of when he spotted a roving Black figure on the snowy horizon one evening while he was guarding his 317th 80th White challenged the stalking when he received no he opened his victim grunted and accompanied by the officer of the he approached the still form and found a Black i thought it was a Jerry in a fur White and three 84th doughs say they dont want to hog any undeserved but As Long As this is All about Theys like to squeal on them selves and admit getting snap used by a pig in a the Philip Cal Everett and Ross Hime were on night patrol when they heard a they charged and captured three the report didst mention what disposition was made of the heaven can wait this is Paradise As commandant of the fifth rest Gerald Breakstone has All sorts of strange one of them was helping a Tipsy private find his Way to bed the other the Captain found the i weaving around the wearing one shoe and carrying the Breakstone led him to the helped him up stairs to the bed and started to take off the Pri Vates other the Soldier opened his looked wearily at closed them again and said happily i must be in a Captain is Tak ing off my shoes oscars lovelife a fowl Story the Kitchen setup was left behind during the Al 736th a dash across France and the out fit had to improvise Many a Chicken Stew was a favorite that How Oscar comes into the Oscar was a friendless rooster when he first met up with the he was slated for the pot when the outfit was ordered to move on just in time to spare his Oscar Rode along sitting in the Lap of John who took a liking to the rooster and gave him a from then Oscar was definitely not Consi dered in terms of drumsticks and he never from the outfit and he took a liking to one of his favorite stunts was to ride the recoil on the base of the tube when the eight Inch howitzer was the Beautiful Friendship lasted two months until a Dame broke it up a neighbors Hen who came strutting admired oscars fearlessness in Battle and gave him that common Oscar As men usually he left with the blessings of the canno neers who knew that was the Only thing a Man or a rooster cant the pause that refreshes Thomas of Kansas and his Harold of saw a familiar sign on a Dingy cafe in the belgian town of Jodo Igne when the two men of a ninth of bomber base were on pass the sign advertised a Well known cola so Cox and Shipley went in and asked for a they got it it was the last bottle of a shipment the shop received in the proprietress told the men she had hidden it in her Celler and although the Ger mans had done a pretty thorough Job of they had missed this one we split the said so each of us could get a was Kinda but still mighty ill i first pictures of the soviet Onagh via Long wave thanks to a a French kid and an Amery of finally received a message her son sent two years ago in a while sitting offshore waiting to land during the North Africa invasion in Charles now serving in wrote a note and enclosed it i a bottle with note asking the finder to Forward it to his the French who found the bottle on a Beach along Northern Brittany turned it Over to Joseph of Hart Nett forwarded the note to and received a than you letter question gets an answer it had Beena Tough Days fighting for k of the i 315th in the Little alsatian Floyd of had been pumping Lead All Flay covering a Street with his around the 79th sergeant saw a group of soldiers Start to enter a building Down the he Are you Guys Heinie after he asked Best realized it was a foolish he was surprised to hear one of the soldiers Vas above his backing Best i were you Guys Heinie russian following close behind fast moving soviet give their riflemen support in the drive that has been featured by red concentrations of heavy smoke rises from Annun City and Gam red infantrymen move Forward in a Savage attack that swept the germans before them on the second White russian soviet self propelled with ked Tommy drive into German defences on the Road to inti 200 patients trapped two weeks in cellar of Shell racked Asylum eight die in siege inno Maisland before 7th army by Wade Jones stars and stripes Stan writer with seventh Hundred patients of an Asylum for the insane in romans land Southeast of Hagenau huddled for two weeks in a filthy cellar while heavy hellfire Crum bled the building Over their Heads and four of their number died of a recent Advance placed the institution Yards behind the preparations were under Way to evacuate the survivors of the tragic evidence of which Lay everywhere today about the grounds of the institution and inside its battered the bodies of three children were at the Bottom of a their upturned faces Blue and drawn beneath the water in which they the germans had shovelled dirt Over the body of another child in the same two of the four were killed by mortar fire and two by a hand grenade with which they were others starved pour More persons died of Mal dozens of Shell holes were Evi Dent in the thick Stone Walls and the roofs of the three main build Ings and the in the build ing where the fear shaken in mates and their few attendants crowded for splintered Beds and furniture littered the floors and the cold rain dripped through great Hole sin the Down in the the we nazi troops fired on inmates who went for water take to skis to stalk foe army signal corps photo White Clad members of ninth army first ski patrol Speed Over deep Snow to a combat Mission inside men and children patients crouched on pallets and in narrow two to a the place reeked wife their ten of the patients were wound and forty were bedridden from first word received by american forces on conditions at the institution came when a demented employee of the place arrived in Bisch Willer with a the note was from the director of the son Tenhof located across the Moder River on the outskirts of and was addressed to the american military commander of Bisch Willer the note was turned Over to of Jackson new a civil affairs it was written in English and read we Are in a difficile situation i and beg of you to help our 1 bread is almost we must go to oberhofer then and now inside German lines to fetch i drink Avater but now it is the soldiers shoot on our beast 14 cows must have turnips where we did m the Field behind our Asylum but we cannot go be cause 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