European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 9, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Yank the army weekly 1945 yanks at Home abroad Morotti neighbors Netherlands East from the army division Here Are almost More concerned with the local wildlife than with the substantial Force of bypassed japs still hiding out in the snakes Are the biggest Thad Angotti looked under his cot before turning in one night and found a nine foot reptile coiled beneath whacking the Snake on the head did no so seven fellow engineers carried it out Side and held it while another clipped off its head with a some spiders Here have bodies the size of a half with six Inch leg the Grasshoppers Are arid there Are also not All the wildlife is James Lewis of uses his Mosquito bar As a fishing has managed to up 45 on Pound fish for his company mess in a couple of ethical anglers would probably frown on Mosquito netting As proper but youve got to find some Way out this army food once in a Lewis Barrett Mcgurn yank staff correspondent t4 happily but distantly Mai order marriage Northern t4 Robert Sternad of returned from a month deep in the he was feeling pretty eating sparse frontline rations in his Job As radio operator with an outfit that had been fight ing the he had lost and a bad fall had knocked out three waiting for him at the base was an ominous looking official in which Sternad was sure was bad but when he opened the Sternad was All fellas he Looka me married inside was a contract he had signed weeks marrying him to Dorothy Arelt of and now countersigned by his a minister and a although the honeymoon will have to that night there was a i wedding supper and party at which the rationed Beer flowed like in rationed after the party the Groom went to bed Dave Richardson yank staff correspondent mild and bitter i who ordered Abi Jub in a bar Here Learned something about the persian language the hard the word for Beer is Abi Jub Means sewer dont think he didst get s9t Burtt Evans yank staff correspond Chi Page a Patchwork planes ninth air Force service command outfit Here has built four p47 thunderbolts from the usable parts of wrecked the outfit is composed of Mobile repair units which started operations within 18 hours after their arrival in they didst begin their p47 rehabilitation work until Joseph Tabor of Chicopee suggested that the Crew of his Mobile unit be allowed to go out and find damaged abandoned p47s and bring them in to be Headquarters came through with and Tabor and his men began their scavenger they found one ship that had been lying in a Field near Caen since Day and others scattered up and Down the length and breadth of the Allied it want All As easy As picking up parts in a Field and loading them into a one of the first planes they found for Salvage was situated in a romans land with a Canadian Battery of Light artillery and antiaircraft guns just behind it and the enemy a few Hundred Yards sometimes planes they found were useless be cause the ships had been picked Over earlier by both German and Allied souvenir Hunters who had removed most of the essential they put their first plane together and called it spare it that was All the other Crews needed to convince now three Dif Ferent Mobile units have taken up the idea and have rebuilt planes of their own that Are yank Field correspondent Esloc the so far As the men l of the Esloc engineering special latrine construction detail of this base Are is just a Small matter of assigned to the Threeman detail has been Given top priority on scrap lumber and by scientific experimentation has arrived at specifications consistent with Mili tary models to be distinguished by an officers Only sign Are built with openings 34 inches from Center to in those assigned to pm Only the measurement is reduced to 29 production to Date has been restricted to heavy duty 10and 12cylinder models with a standardized bore of 10 by 10 until smaller Twoma Crew models Are no More than two Complete units per Day will be sawed off and delivered by the Assembly the combat Engineer in charge construction of wooden Solo models for higher brass is not plumbers instead of combat engineers will be assigned to such projects when consistent with the tactical and strategic Georoe sick yank staff correspondent this weeks cover at Netherlands new William j who used to be a bartender in y opens up his Saloon for photographer Dick Hanley and anyone else who wants to be his Stock consists of japanese port lager Beer and no no Ginger no soda photo Ouk George Daw Richardio signal Bea George left 4 Handy a Imit Maum Pawlak tenure Tenter sgt Bill ale pc Acme a Imp Brov Acme Whf cry of told a signal Tirpak and his by a the Corporal buys a horse Mike Tirpak of Wilkes was made head Steward at an no club a Job that confined him to the Post seven Days of the the sport of Kings lost one of its strongest for More than a Tirpak ran his own stable at the Juan Franco track and did very Well it began when he collected a neat from a daily double and bought a Choice Kentucky Mare that had just arrived from the her name was just moral and she proceeded to win five races in 25 starts and place 14 this gave Tirpak enough Jack to buy Kalias a 4yearold English for another on the instalment through other he bought Dublin Paraguay and by a on his Day off each Tirpak would go to the consult with his Trainer and enter his charges in future Back at the the gis waited for word from Mike that his Hay burners were then put All their spare Cash on the everyone did very Well until Tirpak got his present then he sold he got Good prices for All except by a who had an unfortunate habit of always coming in finally he interested a buggy dealer in Panama City and closed a now when anyone wants to put some dough on by a he can really get a ride for his Money yank staff correspondent jeep in the deep Johnston was bound to for months now on the airfields of Johnston and other Pacific cocky Little jeeps and trucks with oversize follow me signs on their rear ends have been showing giant transport planes where to head when the planes the aggressive jeeps Rush up and brandish their signs and the planes follow them taxiing to their appointed Johnston at last has seen one of these big a refuse to be the follow me truck was driven by a Daniel Foy it was night As he Foy peered Over his shoulder at the great plane trailing him like a Foy started a still rubber and then it seemed to him that the Bot Tom dropped out of the Island has Steep on dry Coral runway one Foy and follow me were eight feet under yellow Green water the Foy clambered but the lights of the truck continued to blink a to the plane from beneath the next Day a Crane fished out the yank staff correspondent