European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - September 7, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                I rna nent party Soldier flashed a sardonic Grin at the Cor haired by the he As he headed for the the wars guess you Guys wont have to go to the Pacific after hell we wont someone shouted from the other end of the Well get shipped you commandos will stay Here an get army of occupation in mused a Little italian from the Why didst we go Over the Hill in Austria sos we could of stayed fraternizing every night with them gorgeous Heinle Japan aint so someone chimed in from an upper this Here Book by Roy Chapman the says they some Classy Dames in he says Theys one whorehouse there has a huge sign in front of it which Short one All including three How much is a yen youll find out soon said Hecor haired they aint Gonna ship us to we at least been overseas 10  grab some of these 18yearolds with peach fuzz on their that what you aint you been in the army Long enough to know it aint never done a logical thing piped a Soldier with a storm troop ers Kulland crossbones ring on his you can say that again said the Little italian from the the wars lets go Over to the i Beer Hall and toss a four others went with there was a line of More than 200 men in front of the door of the Gay the area 1 Beer they dropped into three quarters of an hour later they were sitting on the grass drinking Beer out of paper Nice Cool aint it said the Corn haired shall we sweat out the line for another four cups lets hit the Well be a train Fer purty gear two Days Startin tomorrow the four Etc veterans got up off the grass and ambled leisurely through the Cool dark night toward Barracks from the direction of new Brunswick came the blaring of horns and the banging of the wars Dave Richardson a Hospital is one hell of a place to be in when a Pasadena War that was the majority opinion of the men ranging from private to two Star general who found on the Day of japans sur patients in the army Hospital was formerly the Swank Vista Del Arroyo there was bedlam in the according to Helen of when the radio at 4 brought the official word from the White they went Span said of her they Slid Down they chinned them selves on the hospitals the remark most of them made no Pacific trip now wac Rayetta a former san Diego was on my duty at the hospitals door when the news she held the door open for Thompson for the past two years commanding general of the replacement training Camp Rob and the carrying a Barracks bag and a was entering the Hospital As a leaving off the Johnson said to the its All m the general dropped his bags and grabbed Johnson he and his wife told her that they had two sons in the the Hospital rang with and convalescing patients scurried through the their Maroon Robes trailing after All i a nurse is a discharge and some Wotta place to moaned a staff sergeant who had been a prisoner in Germany for several months after his b17 exploded in a raid on he had come Home All in one got his furlough and then banged himself up Riding a passes were hard to get at the sur Render or no but the wac lieutenant who was officer of the Day slyly said that As soon As the news came in she had resigned herself to a Large number of awol and to much smug Lingin of liquor by typical of the pass less patients was Ted Chyinski of Back from 14 months in he sat dejectedly on the front calling out to passing gis to lend him some i  get far in this Goddam he said Larrv Mcmanus Bostons peace Celebration exploded suddenly after the official news of japanese surrender poured out of countless All morning and while Many other cities were already wildly the with True new England waited soberly for but this staid attitude was swept away in a surging tide of mass enthusiasm a few minutes after the news in a Celebration that topped Bostons today madness following the collapse of Germany in Over three quarters of a million people crammed twisting Down town streets and the famous common in the wildest riot of noise in the cites Long it was like 50 new years Eves rolled into the most general impulse seemed to be to sing and hug for men in uniform the Celebration seemed to be More of a kissing fest than anything they were seized by girls and women of All and their faces soon burst out in what the movie ads would have called flaming because of the varied hues of lipstick doors of hundreds of churches were and Many thousands entered them if Only to pause in silence for a few moments in gratitude in the midst of an evening in which Many ordinarily powerful Boston inhibitions were swept though nearly 200 persons required treatment for minor As they were squeezed and pushed around in the there were no serious the next was a so Bostons celebratory enjoyed a late mornings they needed san Francisco peace brought Tomov Java something Akin to a state of chaos to the Pacific largest port of the Good news was almost too much for san hundreds were injured and a number killed in a Celebration lasted two nights and that at no time had any element of the peaceful about some of the highlights hoarded in Chinatown for eight rattled like machine servicemen and civilians played Tugo War with fire Market the bar lined thoroughfare that has Long been the Center of interest for visiting gis and was littered with the wreckage of smashed War Bond Booths and broken a plump redhead danced naked on the base of the cites native sons Monument after servicemen had torn her clothes a Sailor Lent the woman a and the pair Marine James had As much to celebrate As anybody in san he had come safely through bitter South Pacific Cam in the Early hours of August when the mass hilarity was at its Prim fell Down a flight of he died of a fractured there were thousands of san franciscans who marked the Day soberly and with but the end the second world War seems Likely to be remembered Here As a Celebration that got Way out of new Orleans end of the War pre maturely three new Orleans let Loose with everything it had when the official word finally came through from the White a snowstorm of paper had pelted Down from office buildings All during the afternoon As optimistic citizens hoped for an immediate announcement of the wars the feel of Victory in the air kept office workers downtown past their Normal working and the announce ment caught mobs of shoppers and workers on canal so wary of unconfirmed rumours were the peo ple of new Orleans that it took a newsboy three minutes to sell the first copy of the extra pro claiming the Teal but once they were con no Mardi gras was Ever As Gay or As wild As the Celebration that although All bars closed immediately for 24 hours on or Ders from the civilians and servicemen alike were not slow to bring out mobs jammed the widest Street in the world from to traffic moved with the greatest difficulty in spite of the efforts of j v t