European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 8, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars and stripes february in their sunday they ignored the Corpse by Ralph staff writer with the 28th in 4 was sunday in Colmar and the people were All dressed up in their Best walking Down the going to High in the misty Gray five Messe Schmitts were zooming inside the peeling Oft and diving Down to bomb and strafe the cites shells were Oom Phing so close Over the City that some soldiers kept wanting to fall Flat on their faces trucks and troops were Rushing in and out of the City on All the and on the main lying face Down in a Sticky Pool of was a freshly kilted Ger Man Mitten Man finally finds army Niche but except for a Small Semi Circle of kids staring at the dead Kraut from a respectful the civilians did not seem to no Tice just As nobody seemed to notice the shells or tanks or it was sunday in Colmar and people were going to it want that they had Sepa rated themselves from the War simply by being clean and dignified walking slowly and ignoring the War noises they been hear ing and seeing War for ten weeks now and it had become part of that All not yet was everybody calmly on in a court a old woman was cry ing and waving a 16star american Flag while the troops Rode she said her brother was in a nazi concentration Camp for two years because he gave some bread to a captured French and there was the old Man who spit on the ground where 20 freshly captured krauts were being prodded along by the these krauts were droopy specimens of but during noontime two sharply dressed is troopers came keep ing in while a tired foot walked behind with a is troopers smiled broadly As if they were sharing a big joke and even winked at a woman who smiled Back at a weapons Carrier zigzagged among the trucks and pulled into the sidewalk across the troops covered the dead German and put him Oil the truck and pulled out leaving the kids to stand there in a Semi still looking at the Pool of while their elders walked by on their Way to of shoptalk two states out of the 48 have voted Cash bonuses for their returning the two states Are Vermont and new the former state will Peel off 100 Bucks to the Veteran when he gets new Hampshire has 120 dollars waiting for each of her service discharged ship building Industry of the United states has constructed More new combat ships than the entire tonnage lost by the combined Allied nations thus far in the says ships artillery in the yanks captured a number of rus Sian guns from the the guns had previously been captured on the russian front and had been transported to France by the they Are described As Good pieces of artillery and will soon be in action against the War department has revealed that 159 was Are now stationed at principal port and capital of the British Gold coast Colony situated be tween the French yory coast and Togoland on the Gulf of the was were flown from the United they Are working in offices and in the motor pools of the at Central african division and the base at by Howard staff writer with 45th those who mock at the army classification system based on civil Ian skills and claim it All adds up to nothing should heed the experience of Sidney an infantryman in the 45th Back in civilian life Noak was a cloak Nasuit Man in it had been years since the inter viewer had made the notation on his records and he thought the army had Long but one when the French climate suddenly turned Nakwas summoned by the Divi Sion Supply it col Walter can you Cut a pattern for Mit tens the colonel said said the were going to put you on special theres a shortage of mittens in the division and Well have to make our own out of Noak sat Down and a Mitten that was highly the sleeve came up to the not so he explained to the but it keeps the Snow said the colonel Well go into rounded up Twenty alsatian women who had sewing machines and put them at Noaks Noaks current production of Mit tens is 200 pairs the colonel is tickled and so Are the doughs who think their new style in Mit tens is very Noak is he says its just like being Back in third Mauldin collection to be published shortly Book containing 170 of Bill Mauldin Best car Toons 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 it will be the third Mauldin collection put two paper covered one about the other mules and Moun sold and the first was printed by Mauldin old the 45th the second by stars and stripes in the latest collection will include they Valentine party a Valentine party will be held next wednesday night in the arc Ems Rue Marechal it was announced winners in the Valentine Sweet heart picked from photos submitted by will be announced at the Ai Call serial numbers to the editor there has been a slight argument Between me and a few Fellows in the How Are the differ ent enlisted men under various army serial numbers classified drafted or volunteers Alton Pitts regular army serial numbers be fore the draft started with according to after the enlisted numbers started with National guard numbers with 2 and draftee num Bers with the letter before a serial number Means the Reserve from the last the second Fig ure in your Aerial number Means the service command from which you enlisted or were we stand fat to the editor heres another request for you to Settle a some time ago you published a piece in mail Call say ing that 2020 was perfect i claim it is Only and there Are better such As when taking a pilots we passed 2017 and Archie Dawson what you say about 2020 vision being Normal is perfectly Cor it the Best sit eight All around vision it better for but is not Good for like and h you dont believe the Peci artists in the tit f the station fliers reply to the editor in answer to it hurts letter about flying pay and mis Sion we think the infantry is doing a swell they Are also doing their share of its Fellows like who cause hard feelings Between the ground forces and the air about Ive been Over Here 25 months and i in you have As Many decorations As i As for Mission Ive never heard of such the Only thing we have to distinguish ourselves Are those Silver your Branch is the Only one i know of that gets a badge for being in and lets get another thing air corps does not draw combat flying men draw flying anywhere they the states or All they draw up get Ting their backsides shot off is the 20 percent that everyone overseas you think the air corps is 341 pay and Why dont you try to Transfer Ray Warren 59 missions sol Donald Kresge one crack up Alva Buley int in Feor Karl Erato up Cpl Tea Frink 85 Back Home faces death for refusing to Drill Camp 7 Henry is under sen tence of death As a result of his refusal to the associated press webers conviction by a general court martial on charges of Vio lating the 64th article of dealing with striking and wilfully disobeying an was announced by the which gave no further Weber was a Foreman in a Van Couver shipyard before his Induc Tion in last the a said it had been Learned that the court martial followed his after 45 minutes of argument with two to join his squad for in Burton demanded a Senate it is inconceivable to me that army officers would sentence a Man to death simply because he refused to Wheeler chief of the ground safety division of the army service recalling How american fliers in England had trouble learning British sports in soccer was producing More broken turned Ankles and barked shins than Many operational missions Over until flying Crews and ground personnel were taught Bow to warm up before playing and How to avoid the hazards of the Ira television sex the Industry to act not hastily As i see there Are too Many people in it today who Are think ing about All the Money that can be made and too few who Are willing to work from the ground up to make pictures that will hold the a in a new yorker profile sometimes i feel As if id never had a Chance to live but most of the time i feel As if id lived some of the1 sketches drawn since Mauldin landed in Southern France on Day Bill later returned to is now in France to cover the Western a 23yearold former National is applauded by his i subjects As their sympathetic ally and life their commanders endorse him As an invaluable creator of military in the article when his cartoons piqued rear Echelon commanders because they were bad for the base Sec Tion Mark Clark and other Field command ers supported him because the sketches had a tonic effect on front line Lucien Truscott and Geoffrey Keyes Are among Allied leaders who have asked for and now own original Mauldin one Field general assigned him a jeep Only help him get around the Bill received the purple heart after being wounded near at night at night when the icy winds blow through the Snow Cov ered Trees blowing Snow upon hooded Fig ures on the Frozen when fires Are and Man must stay if the military committee does a from any semblance of not take up this i shall j introduce a Resolution calling for an program change in place of the originally scheduled French variety show at the Familia theater the regu Lar thursday Cas radio revue will be presented from 1930 to with the usual movie anyone interested in appearing on the air show should report for rehearsal at the theater this afternoon at radio program news hourly on the hour 1204 249 7th army 1447 pc rectum engagement Jack Leon orchestra 0925waltztime duffle bag noontime tune time the Alan Young program news music while you work Amos and Andy swing show Duffy tavern knowledge Light or at night when Man is at his lowest and the silence spins around you terrifying when just the soft voice of a Well beloved would have dispelled All and put terror to an when the cold winds Cut at every when your body becomes but not so Muchy when sleep Clouds your and yet you dont for even with sleep there is still because at when All things there walks one out of the feared by All of each rank and death is and hears no denial at night Pierson creep for a 01 his ultimate aim As a Soldier is not that he die for Fame but As Long As he for his hell new Dishonour its Max High pressure love Why do i thrill when i hear your voice the touch of your hand seems to leave me no Choice your attraction is beyond All control you absorb All i body and its nothing you and nothing you say just a a smile in that indolent Way that great inner you know it so that can lift one to or drive one to hell hand advice if you want your buddies out in the Froid sell your stuff on the Marche Robert Mccaffrey new 64 1945 daily newspaper for armed forces in published mondays through officer in Dijon editorial and circulation offices 12 Rue Marechal phone Conad editorial staff Harry Man aging editor Robert Hugn con Mark mechanical myer Edward Don con Tor i Jerry Cli