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Publication: European Stars and Stripes Friday, February 16, 1945

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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 16, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Yank the army weekly 1945 com food vets on Deer Hunt show shooting Mccloskey general and a wheelchair were part of the equipment when Wardell a Temple bus line exec took four convalescing veterans of Mccloskey Deer Hunting with one of the men had Only one two had one leg each and the fourth had lost both yet Between them they bagged five handsome Bucks and a wild Turkey with the use of Only eight the first an was killed by Clarence heavy Barthelemy of who brought his prize Down with a scope sighted 3040 Krag he also found the scope sight useful in picking off a wild Turkey Gobbler the next Barthelemy developed his Eye shooting japs on new Georgia before an exploding japanese Shell Cost him a a the second Buck to went Down with the first shot from a Savage Rifle in the hands of t5 Abe Squirrel Beale of who also dropped an eight Pointer the same Beale lost both feet when his tank hit a mine during the fighting in South Ern not yet quite ready for his new he did his Hunting from a wheel a six Point Buck was brought Down by a single fast shot from a Light carbine held by Roy Dinger differding of by Means of a prosthetic appliance that has replaced his right he lost his Arm at the last a was bagged by Andrew Curley Weslowski of the first paratrooper to confirm the Story of american paratroopers being murdered in that was a sight he saw before a German High explosive Shell blasted off one of his returning his guests to the Craemer said if the rest of our soldiers shot with such unerring accuracy it  be Long before there would be no japs and germans left to Tail markings Tell Story Sioux Falls your Tail Mark Ings on your plane up to warned David Fleming of instructor at the aah training command radio school he cited a foray Over Italy in which markings were extremely a fortress sidled into our he and though we thought it no one said anything until one Bright gunner noticed that the Tail markings on the plane were different from those of the rest of the Fleming explained that each Squadron uses Tail markings for such As clubs or and the color of the markings is changed each our Squadron co radioed the plane Over the inter plane Fleming and told him to authenticate asking for the code frequency of the a heavily accented Kraut voice crackled we dont know sir sure enough it was a captured one that the nazis had grabbed when we made a temporary Retreat across before the order could be Given to go get the rogue ship made a Hasty Bank and disappeared As fast As its propellers could carry lends laziness to War Effort Harlingen product of Wil Liam Mccarson laziness is now on its Way to the Wright Field Ohio testing laboratories for final approval and a modified front gun constructed in about 30 minutes by the 21yearold Aerial May completely revolutionize the process of changing Aerial guns in the Sperry Ball if it is the device will save More than an hour on each gun change and make possible a gun change in the Ball Turret during this was formerly a Tough Job of one to two in attributing his ingenuity just Plain Lazi Mccarson says he thought it was too much of a struggle to change guns Tho old he found that with a bit of manipulation he could modify an Emerson gun mount to fit the Sperry Turret with the permission of his Superior went to within a half hour he emerged with the completely revised it looked All right to the officers and the other i and in a est run it proved Success Ful in every both on the ground and in the a Model then was built and sent to Wright Field for further Pitt brings Back a Bank Roll that is a Bank Roll Camp Patter son of company 10th took his Bank Roll around to the finance office to see about converting to american he found that it came to 20 Yards in length and something like in Cash a former member of merrills Pat Terson collected Bank notes like some gis collect he pasted his yen and plasters end to shorts Norter and wound them up in one Large Roll to make them easier to in the 30 months he spent he saw service in 21 from England to new and acquired Bank notes from including a the Fiji new dutch new Turkey and French West recently arrived at Camp Pat Terson evidently Felt that his Odyssey was coming to an and he took his Roll to Eugene cashier in the finance accustomed to seeing neat stacks of before blinked his eyes in amazement As Patterson started unwinding his Roll and clip Ping out the Bills he wanted converted into Celeste Moore Kogut goes to War Tyndall a civilian Constable Here has no worry about the Bootleg liquor he picks up in raids on illicit the army takes it off his and not the Way you the hot Hooch goes to the station Hospital phar there it is mixed with certain mysterious preparations to emerge As an essential Hospital what is it they make out of the constables whisky Green two heavyweight now Joe Louis meets Woodrow combat Veteran of the sooth on radio program of the new York port of no rank pvt de Brady left won first place in a Golf tournament it har Lingen while Roy Wright co of gunnery school Wos reversed aviation Cadet Logan 8 Campbell at the Bainbridge teaches pvt Fimma his former school something she didst know about  
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