European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 28, 1952, Darmstadt, Hesse Military news Section december 1952 troop ship put on run to Europe new 27 the Navy has welcomed into its Fleet of Mats vessels the uses third of three sister ships named Honor Marine corps the named for maj Gen William a congressional medal of Honor will enter the sailing Between new York she it due sail Here from the acceptance ceremonies at and will make her Maiden voyage to Germany in the new when her keel was Laid in sep tember she was intended to be the president Hayes of the american president Tor zoo but in1950 construction was taken Over by maritime administration and the joint chiefs of Slaff recommended that it be converted to a troop ship accommodating 392 Cabin passengers troops in cargo hold Dor like the Geiger the which also joined Mats the upshur is the last word in ship powered 6n Page 1 batsmen prepare for of contest to cast variety show wheelus 27 with theatrical Talent throughout the Mats Atlantic division soon will be eligible to compete in an air Force wide variety Talent contest to pick dancers and Novelty acts for an air Force Road it was Learned from Atlantic division contests to decide base winners in eight Talent categories will be held at each base before March the purpose of the Talent Hunt if to generate in Afen a Chance to demonstrate and to provide programs for As Many of servicemen As the contest will include the Fol categories vocal musical instrumental Novelty or specially and male Gya representative 27 sgt Raymond of the 4tb engr has been appointed Gya representative for the Gross Beim he will be aided by four the battalion recently took sponsorship of the new Brig Gen col Ralph chief of the air Force has been prompted to brigadier photo mishaps Rise in 7th army 27 special increased driving hazards brought on bad an Early Winter caused 7th army vehicle accidents to take a Sharp upward turn in safety division of the general staff Section an seventh army vehicles drove Miles during november with an Accident rate of for each highest since although the number of Acci dents the percentage of serious crashes report excessive misjudging of clearances and other Driver faults Suchias inadequate instruction or obscured vision were the top causes of the november injury rate stayed below with but this was an increase Over october for each Dis traction of attention and horse play the greatest cause of seven fires were reported in the month causing average loss per fire of nearly chief cause of fires was defective heating sys the report eight soldiers lost their lives in four were k 11 1 e in non army motor was killed by a one died from accidental shooting arid two drowned go engr wins mess award 27 special Brig Gen Eric 1st div presented 485th engr with the Mcgill Acuay award for the Best mess in the 115th engr up marked the second time the award was presented to co a for better food cleaner faculties and better new of group boosts Europe air Rescue units two cited for saving ouse 27 army commendation Metal Here to Sec Aurelius Pinto Cpl Bernard of my who rescued seven Mem Bers of to Austria an family from a burning farm House last the a w d were made by col Johari former co of Linz military and present co of the 6717th Ufa Post at Pinto the two Camp Mccauley maps were returning from 18 routine investigation in City of Weis Early on the morning of june when they noticed flames shoot ing up at Josef a Sieczka situated near the they removed the from the burning the austrian and Camp Mccauley fire departments and rescued the live Stock from the which and the they also were Able to save the tractor waa parked next to the v because soldiers1 Quick the Kasi old Johann 4 9 the to and Oliver 73 and the a Margarete and both 35 were Oliver was inducted in the army on april he joined the Ufa forces in september Pinto is a Veteran of nine years came to Austria in april Sis deployed in Gya Center inaugurated 27 new Gya one of the larg est in Western was officially opened Here with formal dedication approximately 300 germans and including col porn and other High ranking army american consulate officials and Geri iian government leaders from land Bremen the Center is located in Bremen Barracks and consists of two Large buildings with nearly Square feet of Magill honoured a plaque honouring Magill was unveiled during the facilities in the Center include a Model Railroad a puppet photo sewing two Craft gym n four group rooms and a Large auditorium Complete with outside facilities include a fully equipped childrens playground in addition to a volleyball arid basketball court and a croquet the new Center replaces two Gya units which formerly were housed in requisitioned buildings carrying High rental these buildings have since been returned to German the pres ent site utilizes two rent free confiscated wehrmacht garages which were extensively learn French toot Sweet 27 As signed to shape who find their High school and College French inadequate in their daily often improve their vocabularies by taking lessons from their while it is generally know that children learn a language faster than pupils from nine nations at the shape Village school learn French in record among the children Are 56 americans who Hail from All Over the they As Well As and British children spoke no word of French when they but As Rene the schools sex the children learn enough French after two weeks to after six they have a sufficient vocabulary to be reprimanded for talking instead of listening to the in twelve All Are Able to attend any class in the primary or secondary school and follow courses in history or As if the school did not a sufficient inter National Tallard uses a Swiss swedish Lan Guage instruction method to achieve his this method Calls for a gradual buildup of the Childs vocabulary until he masters All the words the teacher uses in certain Are taught by native instructors for the Benefit of Amer Oft Page 1 new Chapel opens at Sandhofer base features Nursery 27 several Hundred persons were pres ent at formal opening of the new Coleman Barracks Chapel at leading the initial services at the few Chapel were chaplain capt Louis Evon and chaplain capt James of combat come 2d army Chap lain capt a Duguid of the during the ceremonies capt Harry Mannheim Engineer Field presented the keys of the building to it col Albert Cha executive o f f i c e Seifert receive them in behalf of col Robert co of Cha and Barracks then presented them to one outstanding feature of the new edifice is the Nursery where children May be left with a nurse while their parents attend in addition to the main Chapel there Are two smaller chapels on each in the there Are meeting rooms and offices for the 2d amid div Fie air expander Gen bad 27 Spe estimated 35fr officers and men of the 2d army div heard former Genet frite Hermann Bay German Armor de scribe strategic and tactical employ ment of Armor on the russian front during world War Here recently 27 special the 12th air Rescue up has in Europe and is now deployed in France and up the and 83d air Rescue Sis Are now located at the 84th so at Many of the officers and airmen of the 12th gained experience in the 3d air Rescue in the group is commanded by it col Robert other key personnel in group headquarter Are it commander Mai Nathan executive officer Don Ald operations officer maj Joseph maintenance officer capt George personnel officer capt James War communications officer maj Austin group navigator maj Rufus flight and two Joseph bar group the 81st so is commanded by maj on Page 3 pm asks Korea 27 special a Rifle squad Leader of the 373d aim inf by Here was the from to Volunteer for duty in Sec Joseph had big sights set on duty with the forces in Korea for a Long first submitted an application with Btry 48th aaa his a p plication disapproved be cause he needed infantry not to applied for duty with than infantry to qualify himself Lor Volker transferred to the 16th inf regt in served for a month 1st in april he was transferred to the army career began Back i 1944 when he enlisted in Javy and saw duty in the he participated in the Jwo Jima and Okinawa in june 1946 Volker returned to civilian life for two in he reenlisted for a in the regular drawing on his expert ence of the 3d pan Zer div in delivered the firs of a series of four guest lectures at Foch Cavern two 14th Gay men on air 27 members of the 14th army Cav Michael Polensek of the 3d in and Cpl Eli Visnich of b interviewed recently on a tests meet your buddy pro both men Are maj Gen Gavin inspects 2d annd Cav regt units 27 maj Gen James cd of the Fri made his first inspection of the 2d Cay regt in the Nurnberg area after visiting Headquarters with col William unit Gavin proceeded to Bam Bundlach and Amberg to in Spect various battalions of the
