European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 23, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The go Navy men temporarily attached to the 1857th service fort Sam Are Given a lesson in army Here David Rennick left shows Clifford Dixon the secret of the Hospital aah redistribution Paul Elko of Mahanoy is a rare collectors item after 2te years duty with the eighth air Force in didst want to come it All started while Elko was leaning against the railing along the Boardwalk in absently observing an old Crone eating hard boiled eggs from a paper nearby stood the old he took one egg after another from the after shed eaten i turned to the girl and Chow hound the who turned out to be a miss Delia laughed and murmured an agreeable yes she said yes later when Elko asked her to marry but just As the nuptials were about to come off the army tapped Elko on the shoulder and were sending you cant do said in Gonna get married the army was but the time was too Short for anything to be Back the Only Solace the sergeant received from immigration authorities was a Stony that miss Carney will have to come in under the regular Irish meanwhile the sad sergeant puts in every spare moment study ing the immigration Al purpose musician Farragut Idaho Joe Ray who works in the instrument repair shop is one of the few men in the country who can make a Complete Ray became interested in the manufacture and repair of musical instruments in civilian life after he had taught Public school music and played with the Denver symphony and the Denver municipal he Learned to make clarinets the hard by visiting a factory and observing and memorizing the procedure a clarinet has about 135 and Ray can turn one put in about a the Gren Idella Wood used is imported from Africa or South Here Ray repairs All kinds of instruments but a Good he has to be a jeweler and asked whether the clarinet was the most difficult to he held up another he is an it has 400 Charles Barnhart s2c Short of style Mitchel restaurant in nearby Hempstead has streamlined its order system to attract air minded from this a Small microphone allows the waiter to Page the Kitchen and Call counter commander to Range counter commander to Range Fry two with Are you receiving Back from the Kitchen comes a filtered voice request counter commander pick up orders of you May come Bert br1ller Loose ups at the Camp Gordon go on cd called the Telephone Exchange to ask the in said the but were not permitted to Tell the said the sooner or later ill have to and who can i Call at 5 Oclock the Western Union office will be and you May Call there for the was the said the but How will i know when its 5 Oclock that will be in on hour and a said the hello this Custer came through fort Raymond Custer of the h s 30th cavalry reconnaissance squad is no relation to the famous Indian but As a Kraut fighter he has had his own share of experiences in this whose Home is in North went through the North african landed in Naples shortly after the City had fallen and was on the Anzio after the break through dash for he helped Chase the Ger mans As far North As leghorn before he was sent Home on As Driver of a Sixby six truck hauling Ammu Gas and supplies to the Custer knew what it was to drive with one Eye on the Road and on the sky looking for the he we were either strafed from the air or were under artillery fire nearly every but the closest i came to not being Here was when a bomb hit just close enough to my truck six tires right off the whats in a Joe Atlantic Joe a b24 didst have the usual trouble Over his name while he was in England because he stayed out of but now that Hes Back in the awaiting reassignment at aah redistribution station it has cropped up i go into a hotel and Register As Joe he and right away in Given the raised Eye brows and the Down Hexose sometimes the clerks a Wise Guy who shoots the sarcastic glad hand with in Pete dog draft Drivers let ters from of them do any people still suspect him of using a phony name As a Blind for looting hotel towels or maybe something so Joe Hollywood silently suffers through Roll Calls and answers no to the inevitable for he has never been to colors of his lady fair Tyndall now on Curtis Bull will turn on the lights when he gets dressed in the Middle of the Hes an and he was awakened in the wee Small hours one morn ing to go to a Panama City hotel on an emergency to avoid disturbing his he dressed in the dark and dashed off to his Bull noticed a few people snickering As he went into the but he was concentrating on his problem and ignored them until the snickers turned to he discovered what amused neatly caught in his Holster and waving gently in the Breeze was one of bulls Page n t Camp Francis 48yearold Veteran of two is believed to be the most decorated Soldier Ever to pass through the army ground and service forces redistribution station his Story covers 28 years of army Many seas and Many coun Falvey Good left Arm bears his master ser Geant nine hash six overseas chevrons from the first world War and six Over seas chevrons from this through the left shoulder strap of his he wears a fou Cragere presented to him by Field marshal on or Ders of the French for service in the last on the Jour agree is the Star and the Indian head of Falvey division in that War and a Sig Nal corps insignia with the Large 1 indicating that he was a member of the 1st signal corps battalion whose service in France is remembered by Many first world War his Chest is loaded with ribbons and Decora in the order in which they were they Are As follows mexican Border Mexico Victory medal first world War with five Battle clasps for Champlan and Blanc Ridge Silver Star for heroism under fire in the first world War army of occupation Germany Good conduct american defense Asiatic Pacific with one Star papuan Falvey enlisted in March 1916 in his Home he served in the mexican Border Campaign and the Villa punitive expedition into Mexico before the last and when War was declared in 1917 he was shipped to England and then to after the Falvey served in Germany until when he returned to the electing to remain in the he has seen service at More Camps than he can on Pearl Harbor Day Falvey was at fort not Long afterwards he was sent to fort and from there shipped overseas for the second we left from new he and ended up in the Southwest Pacific after a boat trip of 43 Days that took us by the Fiji islands Frederick fourth service command congratulates left and Bright ideas win extra stripes for gis fort Douglas Bass for Merly a Buck sergeant and Ralph Gaskin formerly a pfc Are two soldiers who have added stripes by participating in the Sug program being conducted assigned to the military personnel offered an idea for combining two sets of inactive files on military then stored in the attic at Post with a set on file in the one Index serves All three and they Are stored in the base ment of the building that houses the personnel the new location is not Only More accessible but also for the attic was in danger of collapsing under the weight of the inactive who works in the Utility shop at the station bucked for his stripes by developing a device for sharpening hypodermic this Small and is suitable for use in laboratories and Field units where an electric grinder is not two other ideas of Gaskin have been put in of trash cans on stands placed at inter Vals All Over the Post and a film drawer that speeds up the Reading of wet xray Gaskin has also perfected a folding device for three time loser fort Harold Zimmerman of the signal office seems to have set a new rec Ord for being absent at the wrong every wednesday night at no club a War Bond is Given As a prize at Fate Bingo three weeks in a Row Zimmerman name was drawn and he want and Bora we landed in new Zea and then went to where we trained for the fighting we got in new from i was sent to Townsville and other australian towns before we finally got into new Falvey plans to stay in the service for his full 30 if the War still is on when i get ready to go up for the army will keep me he says but Doest to be bothered by that fact he admits he had a better time in France last time than he had in the Southwest theres one thing about the boys in this he they Are better trained than their dads were in they strictly Are All right by right now the sergeants Only worry is How to find room to put a shoulder Patch on his left if and when he must Start wearing John i Pinckney mental workouts at Van Dorn Camp von Camp has climbed on the  bandwagon with new pro please and commiseration please is a half hour program wherein station complement officers attempt to stump a Board of four wizards of wit and each question carries a tobit Entrance but the quarters find their Way Back into the pockets of pinks As prizes if the experts fail to give the Correct a 60minute mental workout for enlisted gives gis the Opportunity to Rise in rank on the they receive a temporary promotion with each Correct answer and also gain prizes ranging from cigarettes to toilet for a wact5 became a major for night am walk Tel ult with a handsome foot the of expensive Cologne at a recent fort Post has Christmas every Dorothy Christmas of Shaw furlough ing trainee Tele graphed this plea to his Section commander just just just request three Day Extension for his co re plied just just Mitchel James wounded in the Battle of Bastogne and now at the new Cantonment Hospital is not one to glorify himself As a once weve he were just overpaid san Marcos Herman Hughes of is a Man of definite taste in asked by the Camps roving reporter for the name of his favorite Hughes re officer who signs that White paper six months after the Camp gis at the quartermaster school Here always take a second look at wac Shirley Curry and swear they have seen the face there Curry took the part of buckwheat in our gang comedies some years new York port times tells of a t4 who parked an army truck outside a dispensary at port be finished his business the truck was after a Long it was found in the main processing Degassed about to be Harlingen James Dickerson of Section f and his father have perfected a machine that shells oysters in half the time previously the device promises to ease the manpower shortage in the Chesapeake Dickerson and his father started working on the Gadget before he got in the and they Al ready hold two Mccook postal clerk Here was a bit perplexed As to who should receive a heavily scented letter addressed to the officer in charge of investigation revealed that the let Ter was from four Young Debs living a Dull existence at Vassar it read four ardent sophisticates simply expiring of ennui would like to correspond with members of the air forces in the same boat expiring by