European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 11, 1947, Darmstadt, Hesse                                First step Forward what the Gya program a and How it works Are queries answered graphically by the film first step produced by the army in Germany and currently being shown As a Short subject in the european Pone in March of time it features an boys and a few gis sprinkled through the and backgrounds As realistic As the bomb scarred ruins of bad Kissinger where the picture was producer of the film was the eighth aah combat camera unit originally scheduled to supplement general Joseph Mcnarney directive ordering added emphasis on the German youth activities the production was begun last August and was to have been exhibited to troops and civilians several months Winter production difficulties slowed Down chief cameraman Captain William Arnold and Richard con sequently the Content of the film lags behind the actual status of the Gya program it is appearing throughout the zone with the movie the perfect German freshly scrubbed and gather on the Edge of the set to watch the shooting of a scene from the curious crowd of children Are fascinated by a yank loading his the Volunteer cast is made up of German boys and d Day continued from Pace 2 officer in South Dakota but when those rockets went whooshing Over their Heads they took to their holes again and the first rangers started climbing up the rope Down on the Little strip of Sand and Rock that made up our Beach we could hear a terrific Battle going on above being considered More than somewhat unessential in the Ranger plans i was told to wait until the combat men got topside before going i didst even try to in i told colonel rudder that not having been trained in such i would find it impossible to climb the rope ladders and would therefore wait until they could Send a Heli copter Down for the Good colonel said Heli copters were not on the table of equipment and anyway when the tide came in a v few hours later there would be no Beach left i could either climb the ropes or swim Back to i am a terrible its funny what you can do when you have i not Only went up the ladder once but in the next four Days i went up and Down several bringing up All the ammunition and other essential supplies necessary and i went Back one year when War was took one look Over the Edge of the Cliffs and promptly the rangers meantime had spiked the guns and dug the Mission was we were supposed to rendezvous with a task Force from the Twenty ninth division on the same morning we but in next week read bless Emall by Bill Boni a Story Woven out of the experiences of a correspondent who covered the fighting in both Europe and the june 8th in weekend expect edly Strong opposition All along the Landing area delayed that Rendez Vous until the fourth my memories of those three and a half Days Are still few men who get shot at forget it in a and with my memories of the Gallant stand of the rangers who had the sea at their backs and hordes of Green uniformed enemy in front of the shortage of food and the dark hours of night and the con Stant i remember my personal grudge against the for changing me from a Newspaperman to a messenger i started out in the army As an but i am afraid my training was too Little and too la so i ran errands for every one Flora colonel to sat on the biggest Story i Ever Hope to looking Back now i can re member the indescribable Relief we Felt a Trien the Twenty ninth division task Force came up the Road from Omaha Beach and relieved but at the time we were Only filled with cause of the 263 men of that Brave Little band who landed on d Only 53 were Able to walk away under their own i went Back to the press Camp to write my first Story from i had pages of most of which i  and i found that the War had moved the invasion was four Days old no one was particularly interested in d that was stale stuff Potsdam pianist returns continued from Page 16 i had never played the but luckily i could hum 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