European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 15, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                I Page 5 yanks and f Rench work together in Railroad Yards War reunites tank and Parente with 1058lh port two year inter Lude of uncertainty has ended with the reunion of Max of new and his aged released from a German concentration Camp at Dachau in lost track of his parents some time after they had been expatriated Germany to an internment Camp in South Ern he had moved to new York and joined the months Loeb found himself in prance repeated questioning of every pos sible source elicited the news that his parents were still alive and living in Central letters followed and the reunion came shortly near misses levied heavy share of toll ninth Saf you sit around with the fighter bomber pilots and shoot the Breeze inform ally them  Tell you of the times when they didst hit their sometimes the misses achieved As Good results As the i pilots of the 19u1 tac will cell Jou of the time before the inva when one p47 Thunderbolt Pilot dropped a bomb on a Power in Northern the explosive crashed in the front Slid through the and out through the Back into the its final resting place was the Power stations transmission Appa when the delayed action set the bomb the complicated Structure was and the Pilot finished off the Power House with his second lands in rail Yard More Donald a p47 Pilot from reported a near miss on a railway Bridge near pilots followed him said his 1000 Pound bomb hit the bounced and landed in an adjacent railway destroying several freight cars and at least one one fighter bomber Squadron was attacking another rail Bridge in Germany when a bomb went off the Mark and struck a train on a nearby the explosives set off inside the boxcars rocked planes thousands of feet above and levelled Trees for hundreds of feet Walter of Santa a Pilot of the Pioneer fighter bomber dive bombed a Only to have his Tromb hang for a moment and then fall off and destroy a Large gasoline truck on a he watched the Bright red Felt the the explosion and muttered if id aimed at the id probably have nit the Floyd of Klamath a locomotive looks out from the cab of an american freight engine in French Railroad he his one of the skilled rail Waying helping to Bridgette Gap Between Normandy and the gradually advancing Battle though Raich is a Veteran Railroad worker on Pacific coast j a fireman before joining the is shown ready for Kendall is a Loco Mothe i this might be any peacetime Railroad Yard in the it is one of the most important in wartime a bit of everyday activity is pictured at this French Railroad Center be i transportation corps Soldier chats with a French worker beside new while two i railway men walk to carrying their a Mclory containers f Type creations Are being shipped in rugged fibreboard con these containers have withstood As Many As 100 handling Iileen route to their final Desti railroading soldiers More commanded by Bur of the army transportation has worked with French Railroad men to restore thousands of Miles of Bridges and essential Railroad installations destroyed or dam aged in War the accompanying photos were made at the Batig noises railway Yard in one of the principal Points in the huge lost amidst urn up with 73 prisoners with 90th beyond Siegfried the 3man night combat patrol became but brought Back 73 thoroughly dazed prisoners of i some time after they had left behind the last thin strand if Telephone wire leading Back from the advanced riflemen Jed by Joe of stumbled from their led path and landed in the dist of an area fortified by two boxes and a reinforced Concrete k Emmons split his patrol Irving of and took the House with hand Twenty two who bought they were enough Lind their lines when they went sleep across the it in a Village he  it Ify because we were keeping the Pillbox fire to a Rii Muin with direct fire on All Lut the according to pm had stirred up the Jerries two tanks came up and let go s in the called Over to Lourie for Bazooka Emmons his Angle want Good so he sent me a Bazooka and i fired a couple of shots and scared away the the private Little War the 13 night fighters had started brought German but Lourie was waiting for the tanks had pulled away and we were All very Lourie Down the main Street came a reinforced platoon of 41 advancing without know ing exactly where we we let them know without firing a shot and grabbed off the whole Damn Bunch of Emmons assembled the nights looked for yank artillery and checked his we made it Back although having these Jerries with us sorta slowed us he Anse Veteran French Engineer american checks the time with Soldier Tloyd stars and stripes photos by Riordan a freight train composed of american and French manned by transportation corps soldiers and French out of a huge railway gis risk All to save gun with 26th when enemy Shellh re knocked out a supporting tank and closed in on their men of an antitank platoon of the 104th withdrew reluctantly and with anger in their leaving their antitank gun be Hind was a feeling approaching comradeship had grown up Between the men and their but they had hardly gained their Foxholes when an 88 scored a direct but damaged or the anti tank men decided that their Ful piece would never fall into enemy into a huddle went pfc Henry Robert Van Texas pfc Al fall pfc Paul Bridge Douglas pfc George John and pfc George that the eight men crept into the still flaming area where their gun ignoring heavy enemy they dragged it to safety to find it battered but still ser unit plaque awarded 19th tac signalman a meritorious service unit plaque has been awarded a signal Bat Talion of the 19th tactical air command for maintaining Excel Lent communications the command during the across