European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 13, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Yanks at Home abroad fortress somersaults to the Crew of satan a b17 with the 385th bomb their plane is the first fortress in history to do a Complete backward it happened on the Way Back from the fort was flying on instruments and had just started a 23degree climb to get out of the suddenly it became caught in the Slipstream of the fort satan mate shot up at 90 de flopped Over on her Back and went into a screaming the Pilot and James Fleisher of and Paul Cowling of Wichita jammed up against the cock the centrifugal Force kept Waist Robert Cort of and the radio Trevor Kevan of Lake stuck against the finally the pilots managed to pull the fort no one was really although there were slight injuries from flying ration there was no damage to the except that 74 rivets were pulled out of the Edmund Antrobus yank staff correspondent Good time in Italy with the fifth army in in no vember John Javor of Cleve bought a pocket watch at fort where he was training to be an the watch has now lost nearly a its Nickel but a member of the 34th divisions 175th Field artillery Battal is still using it on the italian once it was lost in the mud of the gun pit for several says but we found the whole Crew uses the watch when different members of our howitzer Section Are on duty for night fire i took Radium from the dials on the panel of a German plane and laminated the its been with me in ire Tunisia and Nathan Levy yank staff correspondent Point of View a Southwest Pacific had red hair and a likable Grin that came with his we beat our Gums casually in the As two gis from different outfits he said he was temporarily he was work ing on the but he was next in line for Tail gunner in his Sweet those he youre i we watch them All go out in the one of the prettiest sights i know around he still had the its a lot he when they All come Cpl Wii am Pensyl yank Field correspondent expediency rec Hall with the Goth armoured division in Germany areas Are where you find them on the Western and the men of the 9th armoured infantry battalion found one in jerrys own Yard that paid off in Fried Chicken and two Days before the battalion breached a wide Gap in the assault teams were pulled Back to the 300 Yards from the Kraut in an old converted into a movies were shown with frequent interruptions from mortar and Small arms during the today rest before their the doughs munched on Southern style Fried Chick roast beef and fresh Fried Robert Mcbrinn yank staff correspondent hard boiled eggs a Man Hast had fresh eggs in a Long hell go through anything to get this was the Case with the 8th regi ment of the 1st cavalry while they were cleaning the japs out of this after Long months of Jungle the regi ment finally got an Issue of fresh and the Chow line began forming several hours before just As the serving a Jap yank the army weekly 1945 machine gun started peppering the every one kept his place in the pre Cious eggs were left sputtering on the the Only sounds heard above the Jap Woodpecker and our own my fire were cries of dont let the eggs Burn one at a As their numbers came the cavalrymen left their dashed up to the hastily Fried from two to four eggs and dashed off to safety to eat eventually somebody got around to knocking off the sgt Haney yank staff correspondent rank is where you find it aboard a Carrier in the Western two members of the Marine detachment aboard this Carrier were walking together Down the flight said theres a Strong Breeze that said the their conversation was overheard by a Navy commander behind he walked faster and caught i dont believe i know you gentle he my name is then the commander noticed the corporals stripes on the arms of each what do you men mean calling each other Captain barked the said one of the Al ways do that when we think nobody is it sorta helps our James Goble yank staff correspondent nazi reconversion with the first army in the germans in the american occupied zone Here Are or at least that what they like to have you James with a first army am team near ran into a German official who had to be kept on his Job because no one else was available who could handle although the yanks knew they had to use they gave him a routine political quiz and of course he said he want a nazi he was an Denison changed his tactics and asked him if the american troops had done much dam age in the quite a the official they came and took a lot of what was worst of they took my even one we Rich the fuehrer gave me Field correspondent big three proud gis take up a Hunters pose and get their picture taken with the a 125pound they bagged it on an overnight Jungle expedition during of duty time in to John Leonard Patrick and Aubrey Allied this american t5 and Canadian Cap Tain Are fellow students at Balliol Oxford taking on week courses open to Allied Page 7