European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 2, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse Yank the army weekly 1945 tinkers with timepieces Enid to the fact that As Willard Gaiser of makes a Hobby of fixing aviation students of Section 1 dont have to wait until sometime next year to get their timepieces almost any evening in Barracks Gaiser can be found hunched Over a table littered with the insides of some friends Waltham or Gaiser began tinkering with watches in 1935 and while working As an expert tool and die maker with Talon he fashioned himself a set of jewellers his or was fashioned from a camera part of a bait casting Rod and a rubber his original tweezers were a Cotter gainers Hobby aroused so much curiosity in the Barracks that his came to his Rescue by putting up a sign that read i fix i didst go to a watchmakers i used to do this before i came in the i did not steal the they belong to i made it is very nerve racking stick around and watch me wrack a any questions not covered by the above May be referred to my highly esteemed Friend and business de they had a Job to do Camp Van the was gone completely Wacky this and Many other questions ran through the minds of onlookers at the sight of two members of the women army corps going about this Camp counting Telephone but Dorothy Wesse Bartling of new York City and Marian Laylin of knew what they were they were making a systematic checkup of All signal corps pole lines on the travelling around on the girls got plenty of Sunshine and but it the foot work that got them it was the looks on the faces of gets at Core of coring problem Sioux Falls simple but ingenious device for the rapid coring of apples used for salads and baking in mess Halls is the invention of Reuben who is in charge of the vegetable room at Post general made from a three Inch Section of one Inch Gas plus a nut and a the device will completely remove the Core of an Apple in a few another Model cuts out half the Core when the fruit is prepared for the parts for a corer Cost less than 15 and one can be made in less than 30 minutes in any army machine a time study showed that it takes one Man approximately one hour to Core a Bushel of apples by hand and Only 7 to 10 minutes with Coles with nearly 13 years in the army to his says the corer i his first but he admits he has another idea or two in mind to save of father and son both see action Mitchel to the latest the firm of White sol lists among its assets five Battle stars and 11 not Many i Fathe Randson combinations can top the Whites of West Vir Reginald at the age of new 36 bombing missions Over Europe As combat photographer on a b24 and his 23 year old Martin was a Para trooper who jumped into Normandy on Day and into Holland last october and was wounded the father is four stripes and five medals up on the White wears the distinguished unit purple air medal with four and the distinguished flying White rates the purple heart with Cluster and the Silver the son at last report was in a Hospital somewhere in recuperating from his second set of the who recently returned to the states from the fifteenth air is now the chief noncom of the base photo lab the boy is mighty proud of his but he likes to rib when i first wrote my son about getting the air says Marty wrote i didst think you could make but i guess you cant keep the Irish can pop pop White sums up the Mission that won him the dec in a few words lots of lots of plenty that about All hell say before switching the conversation to the exploits of his so you go to the records and find in the formal words of the official citation the dra Matic Story White was an Aerial photographer on a very important bombing Mission to in route to the target his aircraft was attacked aggressively by enemy fighters and White assisted the gunners in beating off repeated and persistent Over the during in tense and accurate antiaircraft with utter disregard for his own operated manually a badly damaged Aerial camera and obtained excellent photographs of the bomb dam White is old he was a Buck sergeant with the coast artillery during the first world War and spent the duration drilling recruits on this Side of the then he signed up for a hitch with the air service of the signal a forerunner of the and served until 1923 As one of its Pioneer Aerial returning to civilian he worked As an insurance and Auto Salesman in Wisconsin and As a sales executive in new in 1942 he enlisted wanted to get Back in and see if i could help he maybe see some action this As far As he White is the oldest enlisted Man to have taken part regularly in Aerial combat in this the kids and i got along he i was pop to All of and they used to come to me for fatherly advice about i was one of the whenever they went to town for some i went along with the gang in some times i was the Leader of now that the Novelty of being Back is wearing pop is getting a Little restless i think i Kinda liked it better in he there was something exciting going on All the maybe in getting to the age where i want so much but after being used to All the action it seems rather Dull Over i mind flying one of those Richard pack Woride ulv fisal pictures pro sent saw Suff Coke bar is hangout for wounded vets talc general inc Nitzl c f the Eto wounded began coming Back to the Many of the who have Ridden into this Harbor have eaten their Homecoming Ham burgers and ice tasted Coke again and swapped stories at the Stark refreshment its a noisy this Coke a Juke Box blares Over the chatter of hundreds of Panama Clad gis and is drowned out Only when the Tele phone operators Monotone voice drawls through the speaker on the Wall John John your Call to Toledo is occasionally a face Well known All Over Amer Ica has been reflected in the polished top of the Coke that of Sterling the movie now discharged for medical Rea who came Back tired out after Many months in North Africa and Italy with his Al Soldier and there have been some who became known through the take Leonard Schroeder of whose name was carried on news wires when he was designated As the first american Soldier to put foot on French soil in the Normandy then there was Benjamin Gwartney of Oklahoma the a pug and former Marine who hitchhiked via glider to the Normandy beachhead to avenge his a prisoner of the japs since and George a Metal worker from who could Tell How a teenage French girl saved his life As he Lay helpless in a hedgerow How she grabbed his carbine and killed a Jerry who was crawling Over the but most of the talk Over the Coke bar Hast been about life Over most of it runs along this line these american girls look i wonder How the tires on my old Chevy Are holding i hear they have three hospitals in most of the Fellows Are jumpy and letdown the first few hours they Are this Hospital is a quiet nestled on an old Plantation site on the shores of the sluggish Ashley its silence is broken by an occasional Liberator droning Home to a nearby and the wind blowing through the Southern Pines and the Moss raped live maybe that the reason the Coke bar and its blaring Juke Box do so much Karl Korstad 7 picture Sand for these How about sending in contributions from your Camp Thoy should to a Farod through to Public rotations of Cor at your who in turn will Sond them to the Liaison Branch of the Bureau of Public Pentagon build with a request that they be forwarded to the army no other channels Are air stationed at Camp have duties which keep them close Gray but a number of them have been taking to the air they have been learning How Fly at the Pine Valley flying service heres Mannette l Cowen entering a two seater for a you again Karyl Waldman of went in to see a Pic Ture featuring Joan Davis at the Post Lemoore army air when he came there was what looked like Joan at the theater his eyes haunt deceived she was showing up for a Persona but Mademoiselle t5 Stephen Piazzi of Camp shows a Fine italian hand with the Spaghetti at a Home in but his hostess has theories on the aah redistribution Atlantic when a piece of flak ripped through the belly of his b24 Over Germany and nudged his Chute Edwin a gunner from hollered Over the inter who kicked me Nottebart explained that the flak had spent its Force and was As gentle As a kick in the Camp of company 800th Bignal training regard what happened in their company area one night As a commentary on the ability of soldiers to sleep soundly there was a smokestack fire at the 1 Barracks and Jimmy the Barracks fire hopped out of his bed to do his fire engines clanged to a Stop outside and Jimmy formed a cordon around a crowd of one excited Spectator to keep him from interfering with the Buckley by the girl in the dental clinic Here that he must wait for his turn to have his Teeth Ben Mccollum of removed the upper and lower plates from his Mouth and declared Here Are my Young in in a when my turn have them ill be Back and pick them up in a couple of Camp Gordon 17 the wearing of the Green will really mean something at the noncom club t4 Henry Murphy South Boston Aoh ancient order of hibernian has succeeded Johnny Murphy of new York As just to be sure theres a quorum with the cos elected As members of the Board of Mccarty Fagan and Camp your lace right asked at morning inspection has a meaning of its own to make sure that trainees change their shoes for sanitary reasons and to conserve infantry replacement Center directs All to lace one pair of shoes Over the eyelets and one pair under the Camp Art an my patrolling one of the Camp roads one spotted a i vehicle approaching on the wrong Side of the sinn stopped the truck and was preparing to give the Driver a ticket when the Soldier explained he had just arrived Here after three years in Australia and get out of the habit of driving on the left Side of the could t very Well give him a ticket after that could i said Winter general Fred Boyd is Well acquainted with bed Ward Here in his Home he was assigned that bed when he returned to the states after the new Georgia now Hes Back in bed Ward this time As the result of an Accident in Buckingham c47 arrived addressed commanding five pilots checked out in and it was picked up at operations on form then the mistake was Page Field is also located near the town of and one Day the Page co came Over and revealed that the transport was intended for this is my Lucky Day Camp Warren in new York on a was persuaded to attend Phil Bakers take it or leave broadcast at he bet a Sailor he would be the first person called As a contestant and he answered All the questions and won he answered the Jackpot question and received total winnings and to top it All he was awarded a free Lon distance phone Call upon calling his Mother in discovered she had just happened to tune in on the show in time to hear his aiming three players land in the air during a game at Lincoln Between the Lincoln wings and Hastings naval ammunition wings
