European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 13, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pfc v l i4v f i i t v s two doughs had their arms around each other one was Mam s i ii Jtj i Jav the Pencil sketches on this weeks cover and on these pages Are the result of four Days of action that Howard yank staff went through with k company of the 406th infantry in the 102d division when it jumped off to Lead an assault on German positions around the Roer Brodie enclosed with his sketches a vivid re port of his four Days with the told about moving up from the Assembly area and passing a still doughboy on the Side of the Road with no his ooze filled mittens a few feet from he told about joining a Forward platoon the next Day and described some of the things he saw a dough bailing his Hole out with his canteen Joe the platoon playing football with a cab a dead i in his Hole slumped in his last living the Hole too deep and too narrow to allow his body to a partially smoked cigarette Lay inches from his Mouth and a Dollar sized Circle of blood on the Earth offered the Only evidence of violent Brodie went with the platoon when it advanced on the first of its some germans and i couple of old women ran out onto the from a he there was the zoom my crack of a Rabbit raced wildly away to the we went listening to the i saw a burst land on the running one old woman went Down on her Knees or death in an Howard yank sketches his impressions of four hot Days in action with riflemen of the 102d division in attitude As though she were picking a Dud landed three feet in front of Jim spraying my with i saw a Man floating in the air amidst the Black smoke of an exploding a piece of file sex sloshed by Fred Wilsons some men didst get we went a couple of doughs a piece of shrapnel Cut another ones Throat As neatly As Jack the Ripper might have done then the platoon headed for objective Large building with a courtyard and a number of farm outhouses and Brodie stopped to watch an 88 explode Over the arched Entrance and then followed the riflemen into one of the where the company exec was reorganizing the a dying i Lay in the Brodie his face was a leathery a wounded i Lay with another wounded dough Lay on his belly in the cow in the stench of dung and decaying another i quietly said he could take no a couple of doughs started frying eggs in the i went into the poolroom to the dying Hes said Charles the my squad i took off my Glove and Felt his head but my hand was so cold he Felt the medic came and said he was Bob Clark reorganized his company and set up the wounded dough in the cow shed sobbed for More four of us helped carry him to a bed in another he was belly Down and pleaded for someone to hold him by the Groin As we carried him i cant stand press them till give me a Pool of blood Lay under i crossed the courtyard to the Grain shed where about 60 were tank fire came m i looked up and saw my tracers rip through the Brick a tank Shell hit the Wall and the a Brick landed on the head of the boy next to we  see for the Cloud of choking two doughs had their arms around each other one was More my tracers ripped through the Wall and another i squeezed in among several bags of doughs completely disappeared in a Hay we got out of and our tanks joined i followed a stepping in the Marks of its the next two objectives were taken by platoons on my right and i dont remember whether any 88s came in for this next Quarter mile or one dough was too exhausted to make prof