European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 7, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 2 the stars and stripes 1945 thanks we were on a Holland and had the same ods we had on the front there seem to is any clean clothing we took it for granted wed be stuck with the dirty clothing till we bumped into the 463rd Quarter master the negro per Bunch of Fellows told us to take off our clothing and they have them cleaned within the which they did and also supplied after getting off the line two things we look Forward to Are clean clothing and Steven Gou sorry sideshow the soviet embassy once published an article saying Germany was preparing for a third world with Spain and Argentina chosen for preservation of the hit verite what is being done to Avert this fresh German if it is True the saturday evening Post also published articles on the Argentine Are we going to take measures or Are we going to bit by watch another blood Bath in the making people again Are watching the main event and forgetting the Little sideshow that will go Over big in another ten j i on the Job theres a pfc Over Here who is particularly anxious to again be a civilian and revert to his Perma nent his name is general today silly verse has a postwar flavor a Little Bird sat on a Telegraph and said to his i if wireless telegraphy comes into Well All have to sit on the from Freshley comes word that the new greeting from one German to another is Greet Ings lets capitulate Frank Bushek tells this draftee a selectee came shuffling up to the induction Center with a seeing Eye dog and was classified 4f Only because his Seei Peye dog had Flat things must be getting Gay on the Home we understand that grandma who once wore a Nightcap now drinks it after watching our heavy bomb ers go on their missions of destruction Over the pfc Baldassare suggests that the planes should announce the on the Day the War see they should spread the glad tidings below is a sketch showing a fast j either by loudspeakers or by sky and effectual Means of casualty writing evacuation on the we merely bolted skis to the regular my litter and rigged it As of of terrain must not be too but we have proven the efficiency of the ski equipped litter Over fairly rugged it saves Wear and tear on utter bearer and the skis Are to be found in numerous abandoned Homes and Advt i would like to know who Ever got the idea a Man outdoors 24 hours a Day could keep his feet from freezing with leather shoes and i have eel fished at 20 below Zero driven a milk route in Maine at 35 and had i say give us proper and Stop needless Frostbitten did you Ever hear of Endicott and Johnsons Felt shoes one pair of one pair of Woollen socks and More foot Guyowen How Salvage Jerry tires As a jeep Driver i see Many Jerry tires most of which will not fit our american some Are some could they be used any of us will be glad to pick them up and turn them g4 says turn to serviceable ones Are used on captured vehicles in use by others Are Analysed by chemists materials Are aged and utilized in rubber manufacturing plants now operating in the National guard service does National guard service be fore Federal induction count on 30 year retirement see a is a Soldier formerly in the National guard authorized to Wear the prep Earl Harbor ribbon and has Marks for hitches served in the ribbon is for Active service at any time Between and no has Marks authorized for previous enlistments in see Arback in the old it was a boys ambition to grow up to fill his fathers nowadays the girls want to grow up to fill mamas our spy on the Home front re ports hearing the following conversation via a coast guard Tele phone line got any spar parts we have a letter from some Joes who sign themselves the filthy they say that at their reinforcement Pool there is a group of former com z engineers who Are slightly it seems they an editorial must is the word the news is no doubt about West Wall cracked reads one soviets Cross Oder says half of Manila liberated by forces reads a to Many Here and at the War must seem on that exactly where it ice that thick in some thin in nothing but a film in the and still open water most of the headline Happy optimism is one sure Way to delay the when the ice will be when we reach the other Victory depends on not that for our the really Good news in the paper was the squib on the it would Tell our fighting said under Secretary of War Robert that they will get the weapons and supplies that they must and the you can say that this War wont be won by Good by by by Wishful take it from the writer of this Hes fought in the mud and the blood the what the front needs is men and More weapons and More supplies More everything and All that american Man Power and Industry can feed and they Call the proposed manpower Law the May that name ought to be there cant be any May about must is the hitlers use of reserves for ardennes drive crippled nazi defense in sheaf says volunteered for the infantry after hearing their first sergeant announce that volunteers would train in a Camp near what the top kick really said was Basto the seven Ages of a the Little the the Young the Young the Young the Young to i Thrift is a wonderful an and then there was the Little Moron who thought the articles of War were obsolete equipment to be sold by the War department after the War is Germany decisive defeat in the ardennes seriously impaired nazi Power to Stem the russian Offen a supreme Headquarters estimate of the ardennes operation disclosed the estimate was made in a one of the most detailed and comprehensive sheaf has released since to attempt this Hitler had to use his Only strategic Reserve and practically every offensive division in the these were employed at a time when he should have kept a strategic Reserve in Germany to meet the russian drive he should have the estimate it Hitler threw practically everything he had into the vaunted Winter two weeks after the attack began in nazi commanders had had enough of saved by bad weather they began withdrawing into the Siegfried Only the incidence of extraordinarily bad weather saved the nazis in the ardennes from another Falaise the summary reviewing the wehrmacht defeat in the sheaf estimate said it was the 12th army groups drive Between september and mid december which Drew the German sixth Panzer army to the West of the thereby preventing Hitler from using it against the russian the stars and stripes printed at the new York Herald Tribune 21 Rue de Lor the armed forces under auspices of the information and Educa Tion division special and information Tel Elysee contents passed by the army and Navy entered As second class at the Pott new under toe act Al 195 hold it this ground is sheaf it was in ardennes venture that butchered up the sixth Panzer army and seriously weakened its offensive lower for any future our red ally is making Hitler pay heavily for these three armies included for the ardennes the German High command concentrated reserves including the fifth Panzer refitted just before the and the seventh army in addition to the sixth Panzer enemy forces totalled 24 ten of these were Panzer the attack was launched at the weakest part of the Allied in the thinly held Center of the 12th army Hitler planned to carry the line of the Meuse in two Days and Antwerp in three he thought he would Cut off 38 Allied the sheaf estimate saw the Effort in its True he called it an fallout because of the Early rupture of communications in the 12th army Field marshal sir Bernard Montgomery directed to take temporary com Mand of All troops North of the Omar Bradley fought the Battle on South both commanders were directed to throw in defensive forces to Stop the attack and get set for a coun Bradley started his counterattacks he kept attacking until his forces had joined the isolated defenders of Bas from that the sheaf summary the Issue was never in after the first and third armies Bradley resumed command of the sheaf said enemy casualties on the Western front in december january totalled of which were prisoners of the bulk of these casualties were incurred in the ardennes ties which began 16 and continued through r since Day sheaf the germans have lost prisoners to Allied their killed and Lon term wounded total Well Over or almost 110 Mauldin cartoons of War to be published soon As Book a Book containing 170 of Bill Mauldin Best cartoons will be published by Henry Holt in new York this it was revealed in a current life Magazine article which hailed him As the top cartoonist of the the volume will be the third Mauldin collection put two entitled Sicily sketch Book and mules and Moun sold and copies the first was published by the 45th and the second by the stars and stripes in the latest collection will include some of the sketches drawn since Mauldin landed in Southern France on Bui later re turned to but is now in France to cover the Western a 23yearold former National is applauded by his 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