European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 22, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                1945 1hl Page 3 first Coal sent to freed area fro Germany by stars and stripes staff writer somewhere in first Export from occupied Germany to the looted countries of Western Europe rolled toward Luxembourg the Export was Coal and today 250 the first of More than tons which Are to be taken from the giant Yards at near and shipped to the Little Princi Pality for use in civilian Industry according to Thomas Wil of who Heads the German solid fuels sub Secton of Haefs g4 this was the first Export since the Allied entry into the Reich and is a fore runner of bigger things to Williamson predicted that As in the last the Ruhr area is occupied vast amounts of Ger Many Coal would be used to sup ply the fuel starved liberated coun he said that we Hope to exploit All the German mines under our control for such uses As soon As part of stockpile the More Industrial from a pre invasion stockade at and not from mining since Allied occur though the mines in als Dorf and in other occupied areas Are presently in their output cannot contribute considerably to an increased Coal Stock chief Factor in restricting current mine output is the manpower Short most of the germans who might be used to work the mines Are either in the German or have fled East to no yet occupied the Reserve at Alsdorf is the big Gest in the area thus far Williamson but is Only the first of the stocks expected to be tapped in the near sheaf allocates Coal the shipment of the Coal from Germany is done entirely under military the Mili tary government officials have made arrangements to provide Ger Man and the allocation of the Coal is done by to Send the first ship ment to Williamson was made on the basis of Industrial need and he predicted that All the liberated countries would share in the Avail Able German Industrial output As More territory is taken engineers win Battle of reconstruction negro regiments Job on Railroad Yards wins highest Praise by Allan Morrison stars and stripes staff writer with the 354th nuts and bolts As ammunition and roaring bulldozers As assault i engineers of com z have worked Many Miles in the Wake of fighting forces in a special Little War of their Battle of rehabilitation and Landing in Normandy in this negro unit Laid rail lines As it advanced through France and left a Trail of completed military fact ranging from water Points to marshalling behind though Treyve usually worked far to the most of their projects have a direct bearing on sup ply and communication lines to the rail work big Job restoration of French rail lines for use by american forces has been a major task of the regi Long stretches of track dam aged by bombing and demolitions have been Many a Railroad men like Virges who used to work for the Union Pacific and is now a construction directed the laying and servicing of Over 100 Miles of additional these former rail men rate High in this kind of out As most of its missions have been Railroad but the Small jobs they do Are like guarding dumps after building establishing water Clearing areas of mines and Booby restoring and operating building pm enclosures and making items from furniture to their biggest the building of a rail marshalling involved the cutting and removal of cubic Yards of one battalion handled the project had High operational importance As it was aimed at men from the 392nd Salvage old ties and other track material used in extending the rear transportation network to Forward Echelon exhausted its Supply of safety switch a vital device regulating the opening and shutting of track none could be obtained on the continent or in the the mechanical brains of the unit were tapped for ideas Cor producing the lugs in a up came a contraption that some said was strictly from Rube it consisted of a homemade die stamping the lug pattern within a Field foundry improvised from Oil Drums hooked together to make a Furnace and lined with part credit for the device went to Fred a former Railroad worker from it worked like a said James of the regiments explaining How manufacture of the Little Gadget permitted expansion of vital rail facilities out of eliminating a serious rail bottle neck existing in then the Only major port in Allied and enlarging and speeding the volume of supplies moving termed by authorities one of the outstanding engineering projects in the Yard was built under incredibly difficult conditions that included seas of mud i in which heavy equipment had to Over 34 Miles of rail were put Down in an area less than half a mile the regiment boasts the Only 31 foundry possessed by a is unit in 1 Europe the product of the ingenuity of several men during a crisis last Rube Goldberg idea it happened when the 728th rail Way operating servicing Normandy rail then Early to tour press Camps Stephen executive Secre tary to president will tour army press facilities for War correspondents in the it was announced following his arrival in he had accompanied president Roosevelt at Yalta a staff member of the stars Ana stripes in the last Early addressed War correspondents at supreme Headquarters briefly yesterday it seems As though i were turn ing Back the pages of 27 years of my because i spent almost a year on the old stars and he a lot of water has gone Over the dam and i find that the wheels have turned me Back to Early said he came to paria purely in an advisory capacity and will return to Washington As soon As he during his Early will be on loan to supreme he was presented to correspondents by Frank Allen sheaf Public relations Divi Sion Allen said he had requested Early to come to supreme Headquarters and look Over Public relations division installations from the Point of a View of a War correspondent to deter mine what More could be truckers play big role Here trucks of the motor transport express lines have moved More than one and a half million tons of ammunition and the beaches and ports of the office of the chief of transportation announced the two bes known the red Ball which hauled maintenance and Reserve supplies until last and the pol be lubricants delivery have handled nearly a million tons of vital the rest of the tonnage was car ried by the White Ball express and the new Abc Canadian line which Are currently and three smaller sys tems which have been discontinued Green Little red Ball and the red the express lines Are activated As the need for Quick Supply to Dif Ferent Points arises and when the need for one line its equipment is shifted to bind air Force Paradise after front lines by Richard Wilbur stars and stripes staff writer 434th troop Carrier ground Force sol wounded after they helped drive the germans Back from the Normandy beachhead to the Reich found a Home in the air Force Here a week used to two of them have exchanged their guns for tools to repair c47s and another took his first plane ride today the fourth wondered How come air Force officers Arent As strict As a sergeant on the front the four were assigned to the air Force As part of a reverse reinforcement system and Are on limited they were inclined to figure that it was More like unlimited service in three bed every warm food three times a regular working Beds too soft the Only trouble is getting to one former Doug foot nazi terror weapon baby rockets pack Wallop with the ninth 19 delayed rockets the germans have been hurling toward the front lines Are Only four feet Long but have explosive Power to blow Down an average size of Tike terror weapon this War Koerper packs the Wallop of a 30pound bomb and is apparently launched from a truck trailer or from a carrying crate leaned at an Angle Over the Edge of a German major Harry of showed a preserved rocket of this Type which had been picked up in developed from a russian weapon invented in the War Koerper comes in three according to available there Are the 28k Type which uses the employing Matol and the whose warhead carries petrol and the weapon looks like a piece of stove pipe a foot in but of much heavier material on one the Tail has Jet openings about the size of a Little Finger and barrels drilled on angles to make the rocket Gas fumes propel it through the there still trying to get we lie awake till 11 or maybe the Beds Are they were thinking Back today about Beds during their combat Days on the the Only kind of bed that Grover bar of could remember As a machine gunner with the 28th was some Straw he found once to put in his learn in a hurry these two wounded combat men with pfc William l of former squad Driver in a 90th heavy weapons and pfc Eugene of formerly a gunner with a first army a battalion seemed quieter than most and Mare prospective infantry reinforce ments Here keep asking about the six week training these former ground Force men repeated j today you can learn in six weeks what you can in two and after three Days at the youll whats going find Home in air Force the four air Force recruits Haven any remedy for the Situa Tion which infantry recruits from Here May meet when it seems like those Jerry shells Are going to get in bed with nor for the situation wherein the four of though have not been sent but Barber put it this Way weve All got the Job of ending this Are jobs Here i can Gapinsky the boys have found a Home in the air other Woodworth ninth in a rut dodging death and boredom by Ernie Leiser stars and stripes staff writer with ninth official reports have been there was no action on the ninth army front during the last 24 the experts Are beginning to Call it the quiet front or the second phony the soldiers in the holes and cellars along the Roer wont admit its been As tranquil As pay us a visit some they and listen to the neb Elwer frs and the mortars coming or Duck the Small arms fire As the Jerries creep up to the Rivers Edge at Cut Loose on positions All night and sneak Back at time hangs heavy they that its been a Long time Between Battles and that they find time hanging heavy on their hands Between the rare 48hour passes to rest there Are always men holding the positions along the River and they keep Busy ing at anything that moves on the other Side or blocking nazi but when they come Back a few Yards to their cellar Homes on Relief from the holes they get rest and though some of them Are perfectly willing to stay where they Are until the russians polish the germans a lot would rather get moving eastward again cellar inspections there starting to get i said Edward of in the first platoon of a unit by the River near there beginning to have inspections of our its time to move most of the doughs dont worry too about tactics or strategy or what the next Day will they just worry about keep ing from getting about How to pass the Back at the first platoon Joseph of port told How he kept half of the Day i spend washing the dishes from one the other half i spend heating the water for the hard on the Baker pfc boo of Terre Oakes cakes to pass the time in his busted up 75 Yards from the Forward German positions across the Muddy he had just finished a perfect one a couple of Days ago a mortar Shell hit the House next the cake Bob found a top of the former occupant of the and generally goes formal to there Are some notto badly damaged German pianos in a few of the and Harold i of enter i gains himself and some of the boys by beating out solid Southern Boogie Boogie in his Idle his buddies say that Joseph of spends his spare hours devising secret his latest was a Rifle grenade wrapped in flaming it was supposed to be a combination Molo Tov cocktail and they say Only it didst another Joe equipped his Rifle with a Gadget that made them squeal like a screaming enough for 100 red Cross medical kits for prisoners of War contain Standard preparations in quantities sufficient for 100 men for one it was a full Day for the colonel a ninth of recon never it Russell of co of the 10th recon Learned of the following within 24 hours he had been promoted to full his group had received the presidential distinguished unit he was going a 30 Day