European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 8, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 4 the stars and whats buzzing 20 cousins family shipping overseas meant a return to his boyhood Home for Cpl Henry of a ninth of service com Mand Champagne recently visited his birth place at near and found 20 first Cou sins Andree Guilbert and of the Pasquier a French refugee he met near Soissons gave Albert of some idea of what the sergeants Uncle in Paris looked Camurati had never seen his Uncle when he was approached by the Frenchman and asked if he had never been in Camurati said but added that he had an Uncle said his name is Napoleon Camu i i now him Well because i used to live next door to the third Soldier is still hoping for a Chance to visit his to see for himself How close the resemblance really another yank with a flock of relatives in the Eto is a sheaf press he tra veiled around a Section of Belgium and saw for the first time 24 cousins of various degrees of relation a great aunt aged and another aunt and All living within a 20mile to 5rf of egg Hunt ends in Chic sale9 top kicks Are supposed to know All the angles but three of them in the 346th of the 87th were set Back on their you can take that they tried to get some eggs x aia at a belgian farm none of the three could speak French or they decided that a pantomime by Joseph of de and Edward of would work out if Charles of supplied the Register did the Best he could with the half dozen words of French he had picked up Gore flapped his pointed at the chickens and went through what he figured were the motions of a Hen laying an Drew the out line of an egg in the the Farmer looked puzzled at then a Light seemed to Dawn and he motioned the men to he led them to a sturdy French version of a one seat Chic Sale Jet go ice laughs at frostbite Guys with frostbite dont get much sympathy from Emanuel of Aronis Doest know the meaning of he used to be a professional ice before his act consisted of getting himself Frozen into a Block of ice while he wore Only a loin cloth and staying there until things got too hot for in one show he stayed in the Block for 42 breathing air released As the ice melted around him from body that show netted Aronis has offered to demonstrate the act for his fourth using an enlarged foxhole to form the ice but his co the Kibosh on the he said the weather was too cold to have the men standing around watch Inga show and what would they do if the outfit had to move in a hurry while Aronis was still Frozen in the ice modified super fort carries big cargo the army mightiest the Boeing b29 been modified to carry the plane pictured recently completed a record breaking transcontinental flight from Seattle to in six hours and nine it is 110 feet four inches and has a Wingspread of 141 feet three Bessie Jas stiff but she thawed out cows dont get stuck in the mud very but anything can happen the so when the Luxembourg Farmer came in to the sixth up very excited and a steady he was Able to get help for Bessie was his and Bessie was mired in a not Only she was Frozen the Farmer told All this to Leon who had lived in Luxembourg City for 32 and who was Only one around the up who could figure out what the French German Luxembourg mixture of chatter the cow looked pretty dead when the Rescue party headed by Mayer reached the they even brought a jeep chains to the cow and tried to pull the stiffened animal no finally the maintenance Section managed to Roll Bessie Over on a hitch a Tow rope to the ladder and haul the rigid animal to a nearby they built a fire near her and Bessie gradually came to the overjoyed Farmer wanted to kiss but they assured him it really want Silver bars among the cold Oliver of was shaking when they pinned on his Silver and it want from Bussen then a second was sent to reconnoitre an enemy damaged Bridge 200 Yards from he slipped and fell through the ice of Luxembourg sure William was sharing the Mission with heard his cry and rushed to the the current had carried Bussen downstream under the but Koski smashed through with his Rifle butt and dragged him when the men returned to the up of the 305th Bussen still wetland was informed of his promotion and Given his Silver bars by ool Albert who commended Koski for his Bussen said without i would have been forever Frozen As a shave Tail France to buy supplies Forcini Linuse 7 the has shipped Loco motives to France for military has 631 awaiting shipment and has authorized France to Purchase in this country for her own use 700 the office of War information made these facts known a word report on conditions in the statement announced a far reaching program for French civilian supplies the announcement covered thou Sands of tons of Indus trial materials and badly needed transportation equipment including trucks authorized for French Purchase goods Are being shipped Asra idly As cargo space becomes Avail officials that the French people Are now going through one of the worst Winters in their suffering intensely from of clothing and the officials also said that failure to get supplies delivered in time to prevent this suffering inevitably Means some loss of Good will Between France and the other the Supply failure is blamed on a need greater than was anticipated last it was not thought that All of France would be liberated As quickly As it and also on heavy demands of military forces on All forms of the release emphasized that French transportation suffered severely at the hands of the Ger Man big import increase for France in february Allied imports to France this month Are expected to reach times the amount of goods sent to France Between the liberation and the French government disclosed the United states will Supply half of the february including gasoline and Lubrit foodstuffs and medical sup imports to the exclusive of Coal and totalled half of the imports will go into French Industrial production now being geared for the West front plan continued schooling about of approximately pm now in the army plan to continue schooling after the according to a War department a Light army truck Rolls Down the ramp of a new c97 cargo the ship has cubic feet of usable cargo than twice that of the b29 and will carry a one and on half ton old friends of last War meet he was major shews 19 by Ralph Martin stars and stripes staff writer with seventh had been a Long Twenty six they haunt seen each other since he was a director of an american machine gun school near he had been a major then and she was Only 19 and the housekeeper for the officers i braves blazing hotel to Rescue equipment with 84th William of entered a burning building while hand grenades were exploding and rescued the communications equipment of his whole Connolly battalion stored its communications supplies i a Trotel while at a barn adjoining the hotel caught and the Blaze spread to the con Nolly dashed in and began throwing the equipment to some other rail splitters who were As Connolly made his the roof fell Mitten maker first class old Trade comes to Handy with 45th Sydney used to be in the the old line came in Handy when the French climate suddenly turned Noak was summoned by the division Supply col Walter of can you Cut a pattern for mittens the colonel replied said the theres a shortage of mittens in the division and Well have to make our own out of salvaged Noak sat Down and patterned a Mitten that was highly the sleeve came up to the said the now Well go into major of rounded up 20 alsatian who went to work on the current production is 200 pairs of mittens she had thought of him often since prayed for him Many times after she moved to Versai and when the Boche came she kept telling herself and her neighbors that some Day soon the major would be Back and bring americans with him and sweep out the and then it happened and then one Day it happened the germans moved out and the americans moved whenever an american stopped in her Anais Guitre would always ask if he knew this it was truck Driver who finally told theres an officer with that name in our army but Hes a general now and not a it was several weeks later that a letter from Madame Guitre finally arrived in the generals mail Call and the general travelled to ver Saignes to find the cafe that Madame Guitre and her husband daughter answered door it was the Madame daughter who answered the looking very much like her Mother looked when the general knew Alexander Patch and the Guitre family had much to reminisce two other officers with Patch at the Lang res Billet Are now commanding ninth and John former commander of toe fourth div if youre Ever in ver Saignes drop a at the Guitre for they like Doug Rogil throw ichor title lose Ordens btes and t it we Bird song thu leaders of instead heated Nussell Jones vulpes staff Hitler car state Steflea Ness Sii Clayo War and As Colma by Ralph g stars and strips with their 5 Dei As sunday in Conjar be were All dressed at clothes 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