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   European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 13, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Yank the army weekly 1945 assault company k company final objective was another Large building with another but this time in a Small Brodies platoon moved to Ward it behind some tanks which spattered the town with he saw Lane racing toward a Trench full of germans and saw one of the Jerries pull a setting off a Circle of mines around the the lieutenant was Only sprayed with Eugene Flanagan started shoot ing at the Jerry who pulled the he and a few other germans jumped up and German soldiers and a few women started to come out of the Large German mortar and 88 fire began to tend in the Ernie Bob de Valk and Ted Sanchez brought prisoners out of the and the prisoners dragged two wounded men on an old bedsprings and a an 88 crashed through the roof and a platoon leaders face be Gan to but it was Only a surface we made a up in the Brodie the wounded were brought Down and the stray Jerries were rounded up and sent to the the jittery doughs relaxed for a moment on the Beds in the Frank Pasek forgot he had a round in his and frayed our nerves by accidentally letting it go through the a pretty Jerry girl with no shoes came through the the co started to prepare a defense for a Pla Toons went out to dig l and m companies came up to sustain part of our most of us were too tired now to do the battalion co sent word he was relieving All of us sweated out going Back Over the Al though this time we would go Back a sheltered we were relieved and returned uneventfully to a Small the doughs went out into the rain on its outskirts and dug Early the next morning k company re turned to its former position at the final objective in the big House with the As i Jerry started counteract tacking with four tanks and a company of one dough was hit As he scrounging a roof for a we passed a still doughboy on the Side of the Road with no his ooze filled mittens a few feet from Page 4  
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