European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 6, 1948, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes june 1948 stripes staffer recalls Day Normandy jump bullets missed but Landing broke leg by Phil staff correspondent few weeks before Day i was at sheaf on a routine and Harry Eisen Howers took me in to see the supreme telling the that i planned to jump with the paratroops if and when the invasion took Eisenhower asked if i had been wound much with the troopers and if i knew How they Felt about the possibility of spearheading the Allied i replied they know that what they volunteered for will be no Phil Bucknell is now Cable editor in the new York Bureau of she stars and and they have trained to fight in Tough on j other they Are confident thu you would not commit them to a suicide they Are con and they Are pretty darned after a pause the general said thank and went on to talk about something two years later it was obvious what had prompted the Batcher published his diaries and told of How the majority of Eisen Pwers advisers were tag Hist using airborne forces on the up to 80 per cent later when Eisen Hower was leaving Active service he told reporters that the decision to commit the 82nd and the 101st a along with the British paratroops was the hardest decision he had Ever had to in View of the strength of contrary if there were any particular fears before the Takeoff among the men of the 505th it was not apparent they were keyed up of course wrote Many letters in Case and attended religious services More than but definitely not outwardly i had been slated to jump with James Gavin but i got permission to Transfer to the plane of de of Green who led what his men called the Best battalion of the Best regiment in the whole Damn 3rd the Cannonball Bat they had earned themselves a reputation As a spearhead outfit in Sicily and they Are still a spearhead outfit 3rd 505th recently became the first Allegro outfit in the of Man years giant Light arrows pointed the Way below a Tough Bullet headed exhibitionist who i men a Sonora gun in Garrison but a Honey in the tha night before we boarded the plam for the Takeoff Kraus took me for a jeep ride round the line of c47s while he talked with his no Pep telling them there was a Box of cigars for the first Man in the mayors office in Mere our primary objected won his own cigars Anc himself raised the stars and stripes that was the first to Fly Over Naples atop of the City it was a smooth marred Only by one of the planes explode a French girl brings Coffee to Bucknell in her Normandy farm after he broke Bis leg parachuting into France on the photo was taken by a medic near Mere eglise the following  out of nazis continued from Page dress of thousands of american boy just like you Are going ashore in this is the he talked some and ended lets kick the hell out of every thing nazi that then they cheered and went out to the Clouds broke the Chan there were More ships than you could 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Oss 0830 i Jive melodies round us 1015 personal album 1030 repeat performance 1100 the judge is you of Vates guest vocalist Avith Zimmerman orchestra on California melodies at is Bob Charlie Mccarthy guest 8 is Madeline master of ceremonies performance at is Harry von Zell with Marie the body Trudy Johnny Arthur and Jim for bombing the marauders swept the heavy the formations flak and burst around tracers from machine guns streaked up past the wings that How Low they we went away from flak and began the Long journey Home and talked too much Over the inter because this had been a heroic rangers hit Normandy Beach under heavy fire continued from Page outpost to the because they were Aid men they were in Aristed the Captain standing in a trying to spot a German artillery position for the he had radio Contact with a destroyer and was giving the coordinates when a German Shell struck the the Captain was heard to say the coordinates Are they then he toppled the two men came to they had been try ing to get a German but he got them one had a Bullet Hole through his the other a but let through his to be taken Back to the command knew they were needed on the they knew they could still fire their so they stayed on the line of Rifle the rangers retired from the with the of this i is nothing Over and beyond the Call of Plant life on Mars june 5 is probably Plant life on Accord ing to soviet astronomer because the Carbon dioxide Content of the atmosphere there is approximately the name As a bomb carelessly packed had ignited some demolition the night of june 5 was a nigh of strange the Clouds weather that had postponed the invasion plans for 24 hours began to our caravan of planes a soon joined by countless others a we winged our Way Over England from the midlands to the South the sky was full of planes dark against the night their Pilot lights winking As far As Eye could More than a planes were used on the and the stretched across the heavens like a magnificent English Countryside lit up to guide planes the English so Long blacked out at nights against the dangers of enemy lit up to guide our vast illuminated arrows pointed the direction to the to the Check Point out on Pilot boat Way out by the Scilly which waved us East to some weeks later i read that paratroops were on their Knees in the planes but not in my plane they and i doubt carrying the equipment they they could have gotten on their what goes on in a mans heart no one can but some some some smoked and some looked out of the windows the shimmering sea it was when we hit the coast that action inside the plane and Down we buckling our checking the other Guys below there were some German Tackack Points that lad escaped the terrific plastering of the Saaf and the the air beneath was filled with Bright Pierce lights were the tracks of antiaircraft but the planes droned and the ground beneath began to take on he contours of the san tables we studied the past that that group of we passed Over a Streak of Silver the Merceret said de Hook close stand to he Geronimo yell gave Way to god i made it we passed Over a Railroad there was some checking with the ump master go according to Magazine he accepted procedure is to yell Geronimo when this Amateur As his Chute opened and the tumult of free drop yelled merely an incredulous god i made it but much time for a recep Ion committee below shooting every Hing from heavy Tackack to Small arms at the there was no Ime to appreciate the wierd Loveli Ness of the hundreds of chutes sail ing Down through the Grey Light of june the thing to do was Roget the hell out of the Tream of fire that was hurting a of of Good Joes we were lipping our pulling Down on me Side of the risers to direct the Nile of the the ground began o Rush up and for this re Porter the ground just rushed too a Shock of a broken leg there was the Shock of Impact Sharp a scramble Dis engage the Chute and the sight of leg sticking out at a Peculiar it was a Long around was lie noise of from Way off Vas the sound of the naval guns founding the defences and planes strafing Strong More 3lanes coming in with More troopers and the glider a glider looks he biggest thing on this Earth when you Are under expect no it to right on top of there Are a few vague memories f that of the Bunch of Guys rom another battalion who came hundreds of chutes were unnoticed up stealthily with carbines and met at the suspecting on of be a Booby trap or and saying sorry we dont know How to set and big Bluff Vanderwert of the 2nd hobbling by with a busted promising to Send the medics and the Way Dawn came up As the cannonade from beaches seven Miles away roared for the and How a French father and Small came dressed As if churchgoing and refused to take a Candy bar for the Little but solemnly left a new Laid egg on ones then some glider making themselves magnificently helpful All the Way came along with a litter and now the jolting journey to a farm House nearby that followed by some Coffee brewed by 1 a French woman ended the Lone Liness of the troopers pushed Back by German troops the farm House was right by divisional command Post Matthew Ridgway had set officers and men would troop in to bring information of Itow the fighting was and then How the germans were pushing us Back and fhe help the seaborne rooms had not yet arrived be Supply missions came Over but tha enemy had occupied the land where most of the supplies then there was the moment when one of the s2 officers Cama in and said that things looked bad for the and that it was probable we would have to that didst mean immobile 4th breakthrough prevents withdrawal but the bad moment was followed than an hour later when the same Guy came saying that the 4th has broken through and no with two Days later there was the ride to the beaches where in its storming still Luy j stiff in there was a White Hospital a Hospital in England and a comfortable ride Home in an ambulance and there and the undeniable fact that when a Guy starts out june 6 to report a War n France and lands up a few weeks Ater in new York he is either aint so dumb at 6rougk and ready to carry the mail rough and ready june and ready will be 2 Eady for the mails on june the Post office was discontinued n 1942 in this historic Nevada country Village which Amous just before the civil War by seceding from the and etting up the Short lived Republic of rough and the new said the office wll to opened june is As a fourth Elisa postal 7 Senate gets nominations 5 resident Truman yesterday nominated Herbert Bergson of Massachusetts to be an assistant at Orney the president also sent to the Senate the nomination of Klahr huddle to be representative on the United a ions Security councils Kashmir