European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 23, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Bill Williams his go overcoat fixed up for civilian the cleaners dyed it Navy More under the trapshooting tree by the main doors of Cyrus Mccormick grammar across the Street from jims Candy jims is still on legs list of stopping Points at but going there Only makes him More Lone in Many ways the place is the hot blast stove is still the Glass Case is full of Penny and Nickel although Odd new kinds like p38 Bubble gum have replaced Many of the known brands As a result of various confectionery the shelves Are still piled High with Hedy Lamarr Loose Leaf cheap Fountain pens and greeting cards for All the biggest physical change was the disappearance of the two cents record Juke Box on which legs used to play elmers the company that owns the machines moved them All to Cicero when Chicago put a License charge on Juke its jims changed clientele that bothers the stores service Honor Roll of patrons lists 100 and nowadays the names heard around the place Are those of the same younger element that has taken Over the West Side Bowling the scarred wooden card table on which the titans used to Deal the pasteboard has been shoved from the Center of the room to a the younger generation irreverently uses the table As an extra of is much different to legs now that his two Brothers Are Walter is a t5 in the 3630th pm truck company in Belgium and Ernest is a pfc in Battery d of the 868th anti aircraft artillery in the legs found his Day bed gone from the living room when he came with the three boys away latal bought the parlor set she wanted and fixed up the front room legs sleeps in his Brothers room the parlor looks Dif Ferent to legs because of the three Mother and sister Pillow cases that he and his Brothers sent Home from the respective pcs of forts Bel voir and Custer and Camp latal received six such Pillow cases in All counting those to grandmother from her second generation of but she ran out of pillows to legs has an Odd feeling each Day As he walks up Kedzie in the vacant lot next door he passes the Block Honor Roll listing the 39 who went into service from his rectangle of his name is still on there is a Blue Star for wounds beside his name and those of Joseph Stadnik and Stanley in the front window As he turns to go Down the three Steps into the legs sees the three stars on his mothers service legs sister Violet contends that legs service Star should stay up until some sort of discharge Banner is developed for window in paying As much attention As he does to the pass 4 Little changes at Home and in the legs knows he is not exceptional among return ing men like former Leroy who lives a few blocks from say they have had the same was astonished when he had his first look at the Corner of Wab Ansia and Bosworth where his local sports the King had Hung for a minute said it looked like i was on the wrong the Gro Cery store that was near the sold out and want there any the building was torn King Coles tavern had a different coat of a Green i think it was the name of tobaccos tavern was changed to they even took the old Mailbox off the you have to walk two More blocks now to mail a North and no one had told me anything at by the says that the huddled Gray houses of his part of Northwest Chicago never seemed so cooped together As they do now that he has come from two years of outdoor he is taking welding at a Trade and plans to Start a farm in Missouri after the War Boom Dies a native he in tends to hire out for a while on some one else acres to learn the he figures the welding knowledge will enable him to repair his own the government is paying his greers under the education provisions of the i Bill of in working at Dodge Chicago one of legs atals first difficulties was to get accustomed to the thousands of women working in the factory with they Wear Slacks and turbans and Many use a terrific kind of lipstick and Nail pol ish known As Pink there is a severe shortage of eligible but legs notices that the girls Are a bit unenthusiastic about add As if the women were worrying about what caused the mans latal has been an Absentee from his War Job a total of 3 Days so far in his first months aches from his wounds kept him some other Eugis at the Plant have better some Joe who received a add for malaria and arthritis developed while he was in combat with the americal division on is among those with a stronger rec Brenner is hot on the subject of getting the b29s into the and his face flushes when he talks about How the men on his line went on strike once because the management would not provide stools for them to sit on at on the other theres another americal pfc a few aisles Over from legs lathe who Hast done so he trims bushings inside b29 engine some weeks his machine is Idle 40 percent of the he says that because of wounds from Guadalcanal and Bougainville he often has to stay Home from the same goes for his who has had 18 attacks of malaria since he was a Corporal in the South legs latal at a cafe with two other Eugis who work with him Lloyd Degrane Joe Brenner it seems to work out like taking Days when one is the other is Well and the Abse teeing former pfc admits that some mornings hangovers have also influenced his decision to stay culverts and Coke looks mighty attractive to he after some of the stuff that substituted for liquor on Guadal he particularly mentions torpedo juice drained from the submarine tin fish and cooked up with sugar and three parts legs scarcely touched a drop before he went into the but now he likes a couple of or even six or seven on before he was inducted he was not inside Bucks tavern now Keddies the Corner More than three or four he drops in there several times a week my Mother still wonders Why i go to the legs latal did not go out with girls much when the titans were he Calls on one now but does not like to say much on the legs hears that the b29engine lines will be turned Over to automobile manufacturing after the so he considers himself All set so far As a permanent Job is concerned even latal feels that he is marking nobody theres nothing to be Lieve id rather be Back in the he says moodily other As he studies the Small Fry at jims and the women at the Bowling he thinks of the titans and predicts that thing Sll get Back in shape when they get when he says his tone is More Hope Ful than atals name is listed on the Honor Roll that stands in his with a Blue Star for being in Honor of following members of the in this blocks Winc in armed forces of our country i