European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 24, 1952, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 Baths cheer troops after duty at front by Leroy Hansen Central dec 23 dirty men of g co clambered Down the Steep slopes of the outpost Hill and tumbled wearily across the main american g co was being relieved after a month of Frozen existence on the Snow covered pimple of ground now it was up to another unit to take Over the misery of the dangerous the men were they were filthy they were cold they still were Alert with the ten Sion of their Long outpost Vigil Cpl Roy of Wiki Asport entered his new his gun still at the Bat the men were they off the outpost most of them had not had a Shower in 30 six hours of uninterrupted sleep had been unknown for a they walked slowly up the half Bent under the weight of their heavy rifles and machine As they reached their rest they lowered then packs and arched their backs to get rid of the ache of too Many too Many half an Inch of Beard covered the faces of the older the had Only a grime blackened Baths wanted their clothes were filthy and stiffened by grease and the drippings of c rations eaten in haste through a month of too much to too few hours for doing Long has it been since youve had a hot pan of platoon Leader 2d it Jerry Jack of called out to sgt Eddie Castro and pee Arnold of new York i dont rightly Lieuten Castro yelled its been so Long i cant been longer since we had a Peters there looking mighty Jackson but there Happy to be Back g co was taking Over the abandoned bunkers of the unit that re placed them on the the men busied themselves selecting Choice living cleaning out the bunkers installing Yukon one of the busiest was a pvt Michael of Brook he was passing out foot pow Der and Louse powder and pre paring for the daily foot the big question when Are we going to get a Shower the Best answer Jackson could give was maybe in three or four below Zero weather someone started a Rumor that the nearest Shower unit was out of order and it might be weeks before the men could get Vou could Trace Trail of the curses that followed on the heels of the fast circulating next to the big interest was the diesel Oil stoves being placed in log and Sand the men Haven had a Chance to thaw out since they went out Jackson most of them didst see a temperatures during g cos stint on the outpost Hill had fallen As much As 4 degrees below prominent among the milling men was pvt Howard of he wore a huge adhesive plaster across the Bridge of his with blood coagulated Down along the sides of his wounded Crowell said i fell coming Down from the the weary men admitted that the company had been Lucky this time no chinese communist Jaclson Rry Christ nine famous cartoonists who armed forces installations last Octoba blend their Christmas greetings to the stripes and its the group Irjud Dick who draws Patterson Bob Dunn just Russell Pete the Allyeen Sweeney and cos Edson the Bob Montana Charles Biro be Bill Holman created Hubert during world War Llillie stars and stripes while he was the staff of the London Patterson Dent of the National cartoonists of the cartoonists toured faces installations during the c v or an f