European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 6, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse Go Bill of rights weekly yank is published weekly by the Nell Tod men the army and for Sale Only to those in the armed pictures and other material from yank May to reproduced if they Are not restricted by Law or military provided ureter credit is release dates Are observed and specific prior permission has been granted for each item to be entire contents by Franklin for Bora and reviewed by military main editorial office 205 East 42d new York editorial staff Manatini Joe a Art Arthur Deml Assis Tant Manatana Justus assistant Art Ralph Loo Fea Marlon a Tom a overseas Al Hilary Ca associate John Margaret wac Ralph aah Max Barrett Merle aah aah ref Robert corps Ralph Pat aah Howard Ca Robert David aah David Durban Ca Sanderson Ca John Earl aah Francis aah Jaek Ca Edmund Tom planner Lafayette aah Charles Deml Douglas Deml Dick aah Piile refer corps Charles John Marvin Joe Frank Deml refer Deml sol Central Larry Ca Georfe corps John Armstrong Bill James Bui Ted Bur Deml Don Merman u8cgr Var Nan Roberts u8nr Mason u8nr Len Tom Deml Del aah Jack Deml Paul aah Justin Harry aah August aah Dan aah Gerfe aah Ira Carl aah Dave India Burma and Paul aah Gerfe corps Dave Ca Lou Deml Walter pm Jud Ray aah John Burtt Richard puerto Don a James Middle Richard Nat William pern do John Frank Donald Nugent commanding Franklin forc executive Jack business North Supply Gerald overseas Bureau Charles Holt Harry Roberts Harold Hawley Centra South Josua up Justus Cremor Robert Strother Harold Burroughs Grady Clay David Gaii Howard Carswell puerto Frank Gladstone Middle Knowlton this weeks cover this is 1st Elizabeth Babarcik of new now stationed on the Western in the service for 19 she is one of thousands who rate very High with gis for their photo Reg signal corps Lon Wilson s 12 signal upper Nueku depot lower we apr wac Cage going Home dear yank i have completed 10 years of ser vice this holding All ranks from private up to and including i Nave spent six years and three months overseas not seeing my wife in Over five i have fought both japanese and germans in North Holland and and have served in Over seas stations in the Phil North Holland and i Wear the Good conduct ribbon alongside the purple heart with seven the Silver Star with the Bronze Star with two the soldiers medal above the combat infantry the loss of hearing in one ear from the loss of eyesight in one Eye from the loss of one lung from a Bayonet wound and the partial loss of use of my right leg from German machine gun slugs put me in the no longer fit for military service now i am being sent it May be hard to understand for those who want to go Home before the Job is but i do not want to the Prospect of going Back to America is not quite so Bright with the fight for Freedom and Security not yet i am leaving the leaving my men in these stinking Fields and villages of in the Snow and ice lined Fox holes and trenches of Germany to fight the Battle of life or death for i am leaving my men to fight and die and they do die up there for the country whose uniform i am so unworthy of i will be ashamed to look one of those infantrymen in the face and Tell him i left him to win the Battle when the going was the toughest and went Back to the going Back to the United states is not the shining goal it might seem As Long As it is still being blurred by the blood of americans dying for Freedom and their loved ones on foreign eco company commander woes Bonus dear yank where the hell does this Guy Ray mond Kaptan get the nerve in saying in a letter in mail Call that the Waves and spars be granted a Bonus the same As men in the service maybe this Guy would like to leave the beaches of Hawaii and Trade places with the was who Are with the fifth army in Kaptan made the statement that Waves and spars never had to risk life or May i remind him that there Are was in our armed forces today who Wear the purple heart does Kaptan have the purple heart As he put these was maybe just the Guys that were drafted should get such a huh Robert also signed by 20 other dear yank in regard to Raymond Kaplan letter against granting bonuses to women in service because of voluntary ser vice and absence of danger to life and How about the was in France and the South Pacific who have endured Many Kap who is sitting snugly in could take a few lessons from the was in new Guinea and other such As to would he have them withheld from women in service because they Are women or because they volunteered what about the men who have volunteered Are bonuses exclusively for those who had to be rounded up and dragged in Mil cent signed by 14 dear yank if he Kaptan takes his feet off that desk in Hawaii Long enough and uses common he would realize that anyone willing to Volunteer in the armed forces deserves plenty of credit As Well As a about risking life or i know of a girl now in England who had her leg amputated As a result of enemy bomb ing and of several other girls was who were on their Way overseas when their ship was attacked and they narrowly escaped with their if Kaptan is at All interested in this orientation pro i could Supply him with a few More Rosamond Elliott Kearney dear yank does he forget Why we voluntarily enlisted when we could have stayed at Home and had War jobs with High Sal Aries we enlisted for him As Well As any other Sailor or whether he wants to admit it or in the 19 months i have been at my present station i have seen hundreds of men re turn from foreign and sea and this has been brought about indirectly by the voluntary enlistment of women in the armed i am also looking Forward to my Over seas duty for which i volunteered the first Day applications were made Avail Able to us and to making it possible for one More Man to come Home to the America he has fought for and for if it became i would give up my dear yank i have heard so much pro and con on the go Bill of rights that i cant compose myself any ill Grant that it really gives something to the Soldier under 25 years of and it gives a business loan for those whore just starting in Busi usually Between 25 and 35 years of How about the older Man from 37 to 42 years Man who had just got Well started in his business but still had an outstanding and who also owned his Home but still had a 50percent mortgage on that he entered the army to practically let his business go to pot but that still Doest pay the outstanding his wife and children have a Bare existence on the army this Soldier will come Back to a debt and have to Start his business All Over the mortgage will still be on his which in All probability will need a lot of his age will be against him As his producing years Are surely Why not give the old Soldier an amount equal to the Cost of the Young soldiers education Hawaii John Nelson Whiting Aylward y3c dear yank does the private suppose that every Soldier was drafted and should those who were not be denied a Bonus because they enlisted freely it seems to me that they rate All the More because they did draw c Larson dear yank perhaps if he read a Little More of the he would also see that one of our was bravely risked her life for a i overseas by putting out with her own body the flames that were burning him and thereby received the soldiers of one count this As risking life and Barbara Gailey jobs for officers dear yank concerning a mail Call letter headed commissioned office boys and adlers speech entitled office boys High rank worry about postwar fun its obvious that there is cause such worry though i cant Promise these Young officers employment when the War is i can offer a Little Friendly there Are a lot of older men in this army who had their own businesses Tab Lisments or held responsible positions before being due to age these men Are not eligible for oct or specialized so through out their whole army career they re main sad sacks and get pushed More or but when the shooting is these men will return to their former positions and find themselves of top at that time its highly probable that an a officer in search of a Job will find it necessary to confront an Essad sack having no other will most Likely play up his commission in the late War to prove his ability and maybe hell get the Job and the pfc Stripe i got at fort Thomas Tannery dear yank not Long ago we heard that a popular weekly Magazine in the states had printed an advertisement which was described As having a cartoon with an indelicate and offensive military since i have seen the drawing which was called objectionable i am confused it shows three soldiers the Home front no longer approves of our calling ourselves gis in a Lush Pacific All of them prepared for combat one gives the we attack at take the Point at and return Here for a of ocular soft drink at v my chief concern is that this dissatisfaction May result in the total disappearance of poster Art with a military Angle and Rob me of my ties with Home and everything that is dear to i submit the following classification of ads which have Given me particular pleasure since i have been in uniform the first is the All for our boys and which May also be called the youll get yours later i first to this Type of display after i had eaten powdered eggs and Crati ohs for three weeks and then came upon a picture of myself in one of the popular i was in spotless properly clean and i was Grin Ning because i was lugging a Bright tray divided into six compartments loaded with a fresh Crisp salad and ice the thing about these ads that pleases me is not the fantasy and imagination but the Glamor with which our life is portrayed for those Back uniforms Are never dirty and in pressed the portholes of the combat bound transport always show a travel talk horizon and a Beautiful woman with Flowers around her and up beside the no still howitzer is a full Case of that drink i cant do i like to see things like tooth paste is winning the War r 1s the buckles duckies have gone to War into this classification fall the full pages which reprint letters from former employees to Large business concerns telling How they would have been unable to Knock out that in Lanka without that wonderful lubricant which has been specially designed not to corrode or lubricate i suggest that these Are highly educational and informative subjects and should not be denied us for their value As combat by the unsolicited testimony of thousands of unprejudiced author Battles have been won in 27 countries by spark shaving condensed chocolate bars and cosmetic also by these my wife is happily lulled into thinking that i am issued a spanking for fitting and rust resisting Pouch for used razor Blades which was made for me by the former makers of outstand ing these same copywriters have comforted much of the Home front with pictures of Cross marked Graves under which is written there will be fewer of these if you keep vital information under your popular Brand our third and most exciting Type which has Given me endless is the what kind of world Are you returning to More vulgarly called after these Combine a you too can have a private pipe or Gan Motif with the apology due to Circum stances not under control of the the item is Only being supplied for the armed this last note is stolen from Type these plastic dreams Lead us to believe that no one can live in the postwar world and throw some schism in the ranks of copywriters has led to a conflicting and contradictory while some of them Are suggesting that we expect to return Homes scented with the six delicious others maintain that we want to come Back to find things just the Way we left i have not included the my reverie for i do not think it represents the High aim of the this version shows a freckled airman always at least a Captain in an attitude of hoping that he will come Home to find his favorite milk shake still available at the Cor Ner i have rejected this Type because it usually includes the mercenary Assurance that he will find unfortunately most of the magazines available to the forces overseas Are printed without and i have a distinct sense of insecurity when i think that perhaps men May return from the fighting fronts and foolishly demand to get their news and fiction without that necessary embellishment that makes it All t4 Ross Donaldson that Way and maybe but if he does i dont thing it would be too farfetched to imagine that the employer hired him Only for the Opportunity to run him ragged and maybe even fasten a Broom to his Tail and watch him sweep the floor while my advice is when the time comes to seek dont do any brag Ging about being an officer just forget about it and i think youll have much greater Success in finding that Job youre Attu Charles Kolber newspapers from Home dear yank for several Days now i have been listening to the mail clerk and believe it or it is after thinking the matter i think he has a darn Good right to he goes after mail Shine or with Little and what does he bring Back bags and bags of ancient and it is rather disgusting to see the boys get them and then throw them away without even breaking the f dont blame the for old newspapers Arent interest ing Over if there is such a shortage of Why Doest someone get Wise and Stop the shipment of papers overseas if gis themselves could cancel their subscript then we would have More room for firs class to say nothing of the room for which do you think is More important not knocking the Hometown but they Are thousands of Miles away from Home and from two to three months behind As the italians would they Are Nentis Italy 1st Leonard signed by three dear yank Why Doest someone Stop the Send ing of newspapers to least until a Landing is made on the coast and newspapers wont fill the valuable transportation space China James Lide infantry badge dear yank we men of the 103d infantry qualified wearers of the combat infantryman would like to Register a complaint concerning the present design and construction of the wed like to offer As a suggestion that the badge be redesigned to include the Well known infantry As for wed suggest a better although the badges we received were stamped we believe they were made of a cheaper after a few weeks of constant the Blue enamel chips leaving the medal and the Rifle can no longer be distinguished against the we feel that were not alone in this dislike of the present Type of we believe that the medal should be More distinctive be cause it labels the wearer As an outstand ing the army is proud of its lets make the infantry proud of its Franco signed by Jap lollapalooza dear yank read your article entitled the Jap and one particular paragraph caught my it stated that the Jap cannot pronounce the letter l and gave an illustrative example lol Lapa after an exhaustive Ive found they have no More difficulty with their or than any other letter in the alphabet and can say lollapalooza just a Shade better than a i from who am i to argue with the but i Only know what i hear and lollapalooza and Lullaby Are Good enough for Mariana Blickman signed by Isenberg postwar Pilot training dear yank a few weeks ago i read an article in mail Call by some aviation enthusiast and Ive Given some thought to his suggestion concerning Pilot training mustering out i think he made an excellent because there will no quite a few commissioned pilots who after the German War is be willing to train Fellows who missed out on Pilot training for various reasons to Fly Light planes while waiting to ship i dont know How much should be taken out of the Bonus for such train but whatever it we would have something solid behind us to put to further use in civilian Pallman kindly All dear yank has Burtt Evans in his kindly let All those who Are going out tried his sentence this Way kindly let All those who Are go ing out first that instead of being considered As part of the verb is considered As part of writing the sentence this youd have kindly let out first All those who Are not that it makes much More sense this perhaps Evans can do something with this sentence that used to hang in a Truax Field mess Hall some years ago and May still be there All persons smoking in or around this mess Hall will be dealt with Morris Freedman Kandolph cant write to yank dear yank now this Field has issued an order forbidding any of us from writing yank of any of our gripes or com we Are just wondering what is to come is this Field run by the army or not please put something in yank telling All of the gis just How we stand in this poet withheld ioffi7 ration dear yank i have been eating 10inl rations for quite some time and i Haven been Able to find such rations in it As canned fruit Vienna sardines and i have been trying to figure out for a Long time just Why they dont put that Type of canned food in the 10ml but i Haven been Able to do if they can put such canned food in them As chopped Ham and Corn Why cant they put in the Type of food i mentioned above before i came overseas there was a lot of talk about food because they had to ship it to the soldiers Over seas on the Battle i dont think they really meant because unless we Are stationed at a staging area or some place like we As frontline soldiers do not get such can you Tell me Why Italy Lonzie Thomas 104th article of War dear yank let me end this torrent of complaints concerning the abuse of the 104th article of War by this and that commanding offi cer by quoting from the 121st article of War As follows any officer or Soldier who believes him self wronged by his commanding upon due application to such com is refused May complain to the general commanding locality where the officer against whom the com plaint is made is the general shall examine into said complaint and take proper measures for redressing the wrong complained of and he As soon As pos transmit to the department of War a True statement of such with the proceedings had although in sure that Are familiar with the 90 percent of my fellow is Camp Alva Meador m26 the we has finally released for publication some ining that ordnance and armoured Force people have known for a Long we have a 45ton with a 90mm which is officially known As the m26 or general per Shing it has More firepower than any other tank produced in the and is equipped with wide like German which Are designed to give it better traction in service honorable discharged veterans May now be represented on service flags hanging in their parlor windows at the Gold Eagle Lapel Button for honorable Dis charge will be used As the Flag sym Bol to replace the Blue Star that indicates a Man in service flags of organizations and industries will display one such Symbol with the number of honorable discharged members below it in arable to make the Symbol stand out from the White background of the the design will be edged in the we has also authorized the manufacture of an official Lapel service Button that May be worn by members of the immediate family of any person serving in the armed the design of Tjimis Button has not yet been the president has sent to the Senate the nominations of these nine lieutenant generals for promotion to the rank of full general Joseph supreme Deputy Allied commander in the Mediterranean theater Omar cd of the twelfth army group on the Western front Carl cd of strategic air forces in Europe George cd of the far East air forces Mark cd of the fifteenth army group in Italy Walter cd of the sixth army in the Philippines Brehon Somer cd of the army service forces Jacob cd of the sixth army group in the european Thea Ter and Thomas Deputy chief of staff of the
