European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 14, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse Page 12 the stars and stripes March put wings on All airborne general urge u slim Jim Gavin makes Pica in Book by Hal Boyle new March 13 want to Tell you about a Book that May affect your life and the lives of your it is a Book without it has no hero or heroine and no love except maybe love of it has no Happy it ends on the note that we Are just is airborne warfare and it i published by the infantry journal whose volumes for one reason or another dont hit Many drugstore Book Horatio slim Jim Gavin wrote the it is a kind of blueprint of world War if and which May rank in time with the historic Book on armoured War fare by an obscure French charts de before the outbreak of world War Jim is a kind of military Horatio a steel willed Man with a pleasant he enlisted in the army at 17 and at 37 be came commander of the famed 82nd he has a great Battle record and a a Cool and sensible he was respected and liked by his the hard bitten paratroop kids who had As their merry motto any body who to attack a Pill Box of a pretty girl is a Gavin thinks the danger of the military mind lies in spending its time now learning How to fight the last War on the other hand Doest think War in the foreseeable future will merely a of he believes the Man who pulls the trigger will still be but he wants to wings on All the walking the future of our armed forces is in the he All fight ing men and everything they need to fight with in the future and live on As must be capable of movement by Gavin cites evidence to bolster his belief that airborne landings played a decisive role in saving the beachhead in yet he says that As late As 1942 the faculty of a leading american military serv ice school was teaching that it was impossible to land a division of airborne troops behind enemy lines because too Many Takeoff airfields were airheads instead two years later three full Divi Sions of airborne troops were Allied soldiers to land in if our development of equipment for amphibious warfare were As retarded As our development for airborne warfare has he observes we would have made the Normandy assault in what will future warfare be like Gavin thinks beachhead will be replaced by airheads of enemy full army landed by air and in four to six guided with atom bombs As their probable will have a global Range but will be accurate Only targets a few Hundred again May troops concentrate As they have in the he never again May troops and ships congest a Beach As they did after Landing in the invasion of dispersion must gov Ern All operations of the carrying concentrated rations and but terrifically new weapons will fan out after Landing and icon Cea trate Only to meet the or punch enemy when close Contact jail prevent either Side from using atom the targets of airborne landings will probably be the launching Sites of enemy guided missiles or key Industrial and political Gavin believes that aft enemy at tack would begin with a bombard ment of guided missiles followed in 6 minutes to 6 hours by airborne he says the Florida Peninsula could be Cut off by Little More than one thus re moving Miami and Palm Beach from the american the Only possible dote is an airborne Force prepared to counterattack and isolate or destroy enemy forces his sober conclusion the nation that in the future has the Best trained and equipped airborne forces has the Best Chance of and the nation or nations that control the air will control the Savin gets an offer of a Sand wich to help bolster him for the Vic tory Parade of the 82nd a which he led up fifth in new York in the youngster was Joweph Cle of who made his offer j just before the Parade started at Washington in Dps invited to Paraguay March 13 special a fraternal group in known As the Socie ded fraternal has extended an invitation to 100 displaced per sons prepared to live in Complete Community of goods on the basis of practical the according to the inter National refugee which received the is made up of nationals of 11 european nations who live in Mutual none of the members receives wages for his work or owns any private prop All profits Are used for social work and the living needs of the two representatives of the Evans and Are making a preliminary Survey of the seven Iro Calvados fad in states Starte by Aline Mosby March 13 the Power of suggestion via a Book and a movie has caught the Appl squeezers in France with their presses they have a Chance to turn their cheapest grog into the american National but they did not make is a Calvados this drink goes under that name in but any Kentucky Hill Billy would Peg Calvados As old that is the cheapest Brandy the French even Over there Only a Guy Down to his last franc or a i in a hurry would drink but Erich Marie Remarque wrote a Book Laid in Arch of pranks of Hirohito who was now told March 13 japans the people Are Able to say openly what they once emperor father was Hirohito it has even come out that he used to Chase court ladies in a not becoming a son of a recently re called that emperor Kisho succumbed to a Brainy but tie people had been kept entirely in the dark As to the cause of his the Magazine recalled the time when the old emperor rolled up an Imperial Prescript he was supposed to read to the diet and used it As a Telescope to make observations on awestruck a Soldier named who formerly served in the Imperial has just published a of articles telling of his experiences in the service of Hiro Hitos the exp lace guard described the old emperors infantile upon which court attendants clamped strict he told of the emperor releasing Gold fish in the Rice paddies and then chasing them with childlike he described an incident at the Royal where mirrors were arranged so the emperor could see How he looked on the emperor asked him if he knew the song of the Aki Zuka replied he and was Thea ordered to sing Little Pigeon Akizuki his majesty was Aki Zukus article and he clapped his and nearly fell off his an attendant rushed up and conducted him in haste to the the characters wallowed v pubs around the began to get requests for the they imported some from Cal which sol for a couple of francs in was stacked in the1 Swank est of american 12 ask for time Enterprise studio decided to tie their forthcoming Arch of Triumph movie with a Calvados advertising the Calvados new York asked the studio to the Campaign and the they Rould Start a Calvi Dos now they have to talk the French into sending some More at this nobody More amazed than the they Haven been interested in Selling Calvados at All the Calvados people wired the they concentrate on More and they Are amazed at the growing american interest in they cant understand Why americans want to drink neither can a lot of folks Here who Tiave tried Enterprise recently sent around bottles of Calvados to that local the ensuing coughs and splitters could have been to Paris and us ships make record March 13 the admiralty announced that the British warships Nigeria and snipe penetrated farthest South i the navys history Wheir they reached 800 Miles South of Cape and delivered a protest to the Post and the Argentine Shiw anchored in the Back red Lemay urges All Safe members March 13 special Curtis com Mander of the Force in has urged generous support of the 1948 american red Cross fund Safe Lemay urged All officer and civilian personnel to support the red Cross by renewing member ships of becoming new members during the Campaign to be con ducted in the dec from March 15 through March the assistance of the american red Cross to the armed forces in world War n is Well As is the welfare work being done every Day victims of disaster and misfortune which makes this cause worthy of Lemay food spoilage warning March 13 commissary patrons Here were warned not Touse recent purchases of by Grade Brand sliced beef or by Grade link sausage As these items Are believed to have become damaged and unsafe for persons returning the canned goods to the commissary will receive credit for Baden reds May quit t in Denali fiction March 13 the Wurttemberge Baden Dena Zinies Tion program will be comply Ilij without communist cooperation the party members carry out fwd leaders demand to withdraw Iron tribunal Walther Koran head of the state the who is med their ultimatum last slated they would no longer cooperate it the Denali fiction system of Eiffel was made a farce through carrying out on 7 of Ai Omegus directive permitting Matic downgrading of t nazis by simple written a communist spokesman issued the official party statement further claimed the revised Nazif cation Law will Lead a Liecty into the situation which into catastrophe and although reds explained that the regulation to be classified As lesser or followers by written Beds soft was at the Root of their action t reliable sources Here have predicting communist since the resignation of spa Denali fiction minister lob i in c Caj Anite go i i g b a is c i
