European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 13, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Sailors who have served on both oceans prefer the Atlantic its safer the Weathers and Shore Liberty is Best of by Justin Gray yank staff correspondent Western not a Damn thing out Here that can compare with Liberty in the Why i remember one time when the old Nevada hit North i had to pull Shore patrol duty Down by the american red i was standing minding my own watching the when someone tapped me on the a feminine voice May i talk to Shore patrol i turned around expecting to see a Little bit of a but my eyes hit just about Chest level on standing in front of was the tallest Damn girl i Ever did Well proper mind she must have stood a Good six foot we had a Little con about the Shore then she asked me to have a i  take any while on but i walked Over with her to some seats lined up by the Bulkhead and she sat she asked me to sit Down and when i told her i  because of regulations she just set Down those cokes and reached out with one Arm for my Waist and the other for my Knees and set me Down on her As easy As i dont reckon youll Ever see anything As Nice As that hunk of girl in the whole no matter where you that was tiny Herrington Bulc sounding off on the difference Between Navy duty in the Atlantic and the tiny weighed about 245 and was a Good six feet and the rest of the Guys laughed at the part where the girl picked him up and sat him whether or not they thought tiny Story was they did agree with his statements about Liberty in in the two the Atlantic had it All Over the eight or nine of us were sitting on our sacks on a battleship somewhere in the Western All of us had seen both sailors had served actively aboard ship in it seemed natural to compare Gordon Hasby who had been on tankers in the Atlantic for Over a year before coming out to the the Best duty of All is everybody youre Damn said Gerald Lindstrom but when i have to go to sea give me the and i mean the North Ive been on convoys to Murmansk and i was with the British Home Fleet for a Long its plenty cold up but you can still be comfortable on a Good said its Okay for you to talk about cold weather when you pull a Lowe deck but id like to see you topside on the guns in that subzero cold or said James Dillon its like you said i can take All the cold they throw at me if i get Good Liberty at the end of every few speaking made a Good a bar of soap or a Box of bogey he could go a Long Way in the but All you can do with it in the Pacific is Wash yourself and eat the there Are no girls to give it to out Bill eff Gham who served on the uss Quincy both in the Atlantic and the Pacific be fore she was sunk on August tied up the whole thing when he except for new zealand or both of which Are out theres not a Liberty port Worth anything in the whole Pacific except the stateside when it came to actual sea most of the men agreed that the when the Jerry subs were out in was much rougher Charles Mahoney who had been in the Atlantic on a sea raiding was emphatic about the japs never had anything like those German Wolf he the japs seem to hit our shipping More from the said remembering his Murmansk con said if youre sunk in cold you dont have much of a even if you get on a life raft the cold will kill you off once you get out Here where the weather is warmer you can usually make a go of there Are More storms in the but the water in the Atlantic int As heavy As in the broke in its almost always Choppy and a bit rough in the but these Long swells out Here can do real Hasby was on tiny Side i saw More than 200 Oil Drums swept right off the deck of my ship once by one of those Lazy Pacific they dont look but they and they can make you Damn Treyve got those swells in the said one lifted me clean out of my sack off Casablanca last storms Are bad wherever they Lind Strom summed generally id say the storms in the Atlantic last longer than those in the 21 for the Atlantic ones and three for the As for said Kenneth Mcnally i think the Pacific has it All Over the Atlantic i that the German boats Are it was rough in the Atlantic when the subs were out in full but they never put out anything like the surface Fleet the japs have had against the japs might have had a big but their ships we rent Ever As Good As said the Jap destroyers dont even have watertight i remember once when we ran 26 knots to get away from the i doubt if we would Ever run from the tiny agreed the Ger Man ships have better fire control As Well As watertight in spite of said the Pacific War is the Tough War for the Navy Man right the germans dont have any naval strength left while the japs still have one thing i liked about duty in the Atlan tic was that you could Transfer from one Job to another easier than out said on a new that said my out Here youre stuck once you get experienced along any Spe Cial replacements Are hard to Back in the Atlantic you could get a Chance at any num Ber of different do ing the same thing Over and like you have to do gets on your nerves after a one thing the Atlan tic Doest even off said and that the terrific humidity you run into that agreed at least in the hottest part of the Atlan tic it cools off some at never does out of Effingham smiled out Here i Wake up in the morning and my bed is As wet As if i had kidney for recreation in the Sutof therway spots where Liberty is All the men seemed to feel that the Atlantic Fleet does a better who runs the movie projector on this said we left Brooklyn with 18 All and they didst know there whether wed stay in their area or when we left Pearl Harbor they gave us Only five for some reason the men in the Atlantic get More movies than the men out and newer ones at least that How Ive seen them dist rib and look at that Island of what a spot that recreation Center is in Dillon they set up a Roc Center where you could buy All the Beer you out Here we get three Lousy hours on a Little get three hot Beers and they Tell us to have a Good Lindstrom expressed everyone feeling when he added the main trouble with the recreation areas out Here is that youre still ordered you cant get away from the fact that youre in the inthe Atlantic rest areas we could usually get away by i think it could be done that Way out Here b in this time most of the group had drifted off to get ready for the 2000 to 2400 who didst have to stand that remained you he one reason i liked my Atlantic duty better than my present Job is that off Europe you have More of a feeling of fighting with when we conveyed a group of tank ers or freighters to there were ships in the Convoy representing Many different coun out Here in the Pacific we seem to be All i used to like talking to and meeting the British and the French and the those British Are pretty Good with their Navy even if their ships Are a bit one thing they wont run from i liked serving with the British Home we All hated to come out our faces fell when we went through the Panama maybe soon Well All be out Here together Pacific Waters Are warmer to be sunk but their assets mostly end