European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 6, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Yank the army weekly 1945 yanks at Home abroad lend lease Art Eastern somewhere in the soviet lend lease in the form of a Goodwill gesture was made Here recently when 1st Peter Saf Cakar of the red army painted a portrait of president Roosevelt to accompany one of marshal both portraits now hang on the stage of a theater built jointly by american and russian a self taught did the Job in one Day from a photograph that appeared in stars he has been in the soviet army since the beginning of the was awarded the medal for courage and was recently retired from Active duty because of a bad Bullet wound in his Samuel Chavkin yank Reid correspondent 4torrfc Hera Stein Confer turns pot Mon for Godin left and Cerrato outside the Home is where you make it new the beginning it was just another i pyramidal now its known As the tent and is the Home of Gerald Godin of and Mike Cerrato of new York it has easy a Chicken vegetable and Flower gardens and even a around the front is a White picket with a latticed Arch for a the tent has neatly screened the smooth floor is painted red and White in a Checkerboard on one Side is a Kitchen equipped with a Cole Man on another Side is a writing desk with chair to about the Only things lacking Are a piano and the Little the furniture was All made by a former shipyard Cerrato is responsible for the landscaping there is also a Hes the first who came to dinner one night and has lived there Ever Loobie yank staff correspondent rough on rats the the owner of the land on which this aah Squadron built its Camp spent to Clear the area of he was not the rat situation is so bad on the Field that special measures have had to be the i e Section advertised for a cat because rats were eating their Robert Wilson and Lloyd Newton built an electronic rat which can electrocute 10 rats at a they bait their trap with Corn kernels or they refuse to use bully beef because they say they dont want to torture the they just want to kill right now the two men Are working on a new Model with a Mirror arrangement and Light to Check the weight and resistance of each the measuring devices will be Page 6 hooked onto a which will give Small jolts to Small rats and Large jolts to Large the inventors say the saving in juice will be t5 Robert Keegan is another who considers the use of bully beef for bait he that it is unbeatable in its tin jacket for individual combat with the in an official combat written after an engagement a rat that was after a Sand wich Keegan was he wrote the enemy came up from 7 i executed an evasive completed it with a snap Roll to the left As found the enemy in my i used a deflection shot consisting of one two second burst from my Bull beef the enemy took the burst Square in the motor and spiralled and when last seen was flaming toward the my camera was not functioning at the but t5 Leon my Wing will confirm the the Squadron spoke for everyone when it said in a flaming editorial we will fight them in our tents we will fight them in the company streets in the latrine the mess we will never surrender Ray Forer yank Field Amazon Valley Post somewhere in the Amazon Emer Genc Landing strip is 300 Miles from no where in a land nobody but it is Home to stationed the oldest living Lonnie Wil Liams of has sweated it out for 16 the nearest settlement is which can be reached by a two hour boat ride through Crocodile and Snake infested it consists Only of a couple of rows of native grass Hunting leads the extracurricular one Day some gis brought Back a 17foot Ana Conda weighing 187 other game includes panthers and the climate is also rainfall during the december april season exceeds 160 the entire area becomes a Sticky steaming and everything Barracks Are built up on pilings like the native there is a eagerly stocked movies Are shown two or three times a week and the Chow int but that that Don Cooke yank staff correspondent chocolate Soldier Lafirth the fifth Charles Whooper of not a mess he is no in charge of a gun Section with the 175th Field 34th All of which is probably Why he has had enough imagination to defy the instructions on his ration wrappers and develop a new dish for Winter the wrapper on the chocolate bars shipped to the fifth army front read tropical Hooper could read and he knew he want in the it just didst seem to apply says since it didst apply i decided to make ice Cream out of i chipped the bar up mixed it with some condensed milk and topped it off with some clean when i whipped the mixture out in the it became ice As easy As Nathan Levy yank Reid correspondent a difference in rank with the first Convoy to China Over the led Burma one of the Many parties thrown for the officers and men of the Convoy on its Way through a member of the chinese army was placed As Host at each table of at one table a i Driver began calling the chinese army Man Butch and getting very although neither could speak More than a few words of the others finally the Host asked the what is your commis Sion in the sir the i grinned and whats Butch the chinese army Man had to get an inter Preter to find out what the i then he lieutenant said the i its Good he Doest know what a Corporal Dave Richardson yank staff correspondent Jap atrocity with the 41st the Philippines men of the 186th who captured puerto Princessa the westernmost Point thus far in Pacific unearthed three huge pits filled with the charred bodies of Jap massacred american the Story of what happened to these men was told by nine of their number who one was Glenn Weddell who fought with the 4th marines on Mcdole stated that the 40 americans had congregated in pits used As air raid after the air raid warning had then i looked out of my pit and saw a Jap Captain come running followed by about 50 Jap soldiers armed with Light machine guns and rifles and carrying i ducked Back into my when All of a sudden an explosion and i heard men screaming and the sound of machine one Man looked out of the pit and they Are murdering the men in a company i looked out and saw one Man coming out in a Sheet of and he was shot Down with a machine Mcdole and some others managed out of their pit through prepared escape just before the japs threw a bucket of gasoline and a Torch into they hid under a pile of rubble on the Beach As the japs went up and Down kill ing All the prisoners they could about 30 meters Down the Beach i could see six japs with an american in the Center who was being slowly tortured with bayonets while an other Jap joined the group with a bucket and the american screamed in such a High voice i could hear then i could see them pour gasoline on one foot and Burn then the other until he then they poured Gaso line on his body and set it the nine prisoners known to have escaped swam the Bay and were picked up by the statements made by some marines and some identical except for minor Jomn f Meleto yank staff correspondent Ger of the seventh army i Franco pay a visit to Georges giant of he is 8 feet 6vi inches weighs 268 pounds and wears a size 26 the nazis didst draft him because they figured his Upkeep would Cost too