European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 16, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                When Gas Are waiting to go up info the their talk Doest always crackle with Crisp drama like the dialogue in a War by Mack Morriss yank staff correspondent with the 9th 2d Shack was so Low that none of the three could stand and the smoke from the stove watered their eyes As they Bent Over the strap combat 0 the smoke was Pine smoke and it ignored the pipe of Grapefruit juice cans that stuck up from the ancient garbage Container upended on a makeshift grate of Iron so the Shack was filled with smoke that leaked out of any of a dozen openings Between the that formerly had been part of a jugend now they had become shelters in the deep Snow of Bois and the infantry dug Fox holes beneath them or used them to panel the cold Walls of underground shelters that housed a Small group of men who slept in them like Rab bits in a this was the Assembly and today the Bat Talion was moving up to the it was 40 min utes until the time to Saddle inside the Shack the three men worked on Shel Ter k mess writing always writing writing paper in each of the three heres your where in hell am i going to put it in putting mine in my Gas said a kid squad years old and a pfc now but a staff sergeant when the records straighten and they Tell you in the states not to put stuff in your Gas he Shook his ill carry mine in my said let a Bullet hit that pocket and  never find he the Oblong yellow can of explosive made a Lump in his jacket which Al ready the kid sergeant was James Schuttlewort of in the army for 16 he joined the 2d just past recommended for sergeant and assistant squad was Mere Dith Oliver of one year in the army and half of that in four Days after he hit this Side of the Ocean he was i came up to the dropped my pack in the Road and started he Oliver has a wife and two children Back in Schuttlewort and leaders of a Sevenman squad of been a bar at the Start of the bulge fight they had supported a Bazooka Man who had knocked out three shot up a platoon of was finally wounded by a tank machine gun and had now been recommended for the that morning they had signed affidavits telling of the but if they themselves were to be awarded anything nobody had said the third Man worked his grenades into his pack picked up his loaded a clip into it and was he was Leonard Tama Chaski of do who had spent 18 months in Greenland with an infantry outfit Hunting Ger Man radio he came Back to the states and got and three months later he was on his Way Over now the three of them prepared to men of an outfit that had fought and lost much in a few desperate Days in How much time half an Tamachaski settled himself by the and the talk was of As it must have been Many times Greenland was colder than the Snow and forests of but we didst live like a wiry Little Guy with very Blue spoke of the boredom of six months on the tiny of the boredom within the Arctic Circle talk of boredom else where relieved the boredom waiting to move into the Schuttlewort went outside and a moment later called theres a new Man out Oliver was not Schuttlewort and the new Man stood and the kid squad Leader asked wheres your pack the new Man had left it where somebody had told him to leave it he would have to go get How about ammunition he had grenades no he Tamachaski heard the new where you from he said the new what place the new Man told Ever hear of Dubois Tamachaski voice climbed a note each and it was funny the Way he  believe this Guy had never heard of do Tamachaski was serious but his seriousness was and the other two laughed at then he laughed at he Dubois is just 14 Miles from where he and he never heard of do son of a and the new Man stood a Little what time is it fifteen ill go Down and see about the this was aware of his he walked through the clumping through it in his past the place where yesterday a Shell had the Snow was blackened by the and the pattern of fragmentation was Plain in the he walked on Down through the Woods to a group of men who stood by the and the fire was in the Center of the dugout Square where a Shack had half Schuttlewort checked his but they Al ready were under a Dave Shapiro of telling the new men about who had won the Silver Star in was just Back from the Hospital he had been hit by a German Rifle Gre Nade at Brest and he was telling about id turned around to Tell the men to watch their flank when it hit he it hit right be Hind i was Yelling at the Guys and i had my Mouth the Doc said a piece must have gone through my Cheek and right out of my Mouth be cause they  find anything in i didst think i was hit very i never knew the medics evacuation system was so because i walked Back to the Aid station and next thing i knew i had bandages All Over and then i was getting operated i remember i was laying on a table with Noth ing on but my Reading the stars and a nurse came in and laughed at me and if you could see yourself then they started to i put away that stars stripes right you can believe the new men heard it All but were one kid still had his shipping number on his Hel met the Chalk had not yet worn Shapiro talked of the new men to the few old men who were and the conversation was its said that weve had this time to Tell them How it is up some of them listen some of them you have to raise hell with i had to raise hell the other night when that Guy got shot with his own Shapiro was the Guy hands another Guy a loaded gun with the safety the talk went to first reactions in i Tell said when they see a Guy get it they just gotta think Ive seen my friends get All its just it bothers but what the hell can you do this was Veteran but Over by the fire where a group warmed themselves and got to know each other there was other you shave this morning shave very a third voice came Ive shaved once since Ive been in the this voice i bet in the youngest Guy in just behind the fire sat another newly made non in precise lettering he was listing the names of the men on his squad on a email bracketing them As Plain or he made a change and looked he was talking to a new Man standing by the you take the Rifle said the new that was a voice whats that a voice dont you know what that is its a combination tool for a said the first mildly How much time should be lets Burn this a Man put a Plank on the ground and tried to break it with his the stomp sent yellow mud flying into the face of a Man who had been sitting quietly by the what the hell he rubbed his face with his youd think i was he imagining spots on his he there was talk and then there want talk among the men at the there was talk of automobiles at i had a Nash that was a hell of a Nice there was a i always thought Hudson were pretty Good and the talk of gleaming cars was strange in the foreign to everything around the there was talk about the rus and the new men spoke of the russian offensive with a certain then there was no talk at All from any of it was past finally one Man the new Grenadier said rather loudly and to nobody in come a Small Guy came Down a path through the and when they saw him coming the old men started up and began to work into company somebody the runner spoke to Shapiro and then went Back up the Trail and Shapiro turned to the men who sat by the fire in mud and orders announced we dont move out till 8 Oclock the big tech sergeant grinned and his breath blossomed in the make yourselves he