European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 4, 1953, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 12 the stars and stripes february 19sj 11 yanks 7 missing in us 67 airmen driven from Homes 3 a Elver americans Are known dead and seven others Are missing and presumed dead in England Grea a air Force spokes Man announced the known dead included thre three wives and five Chil missing and presumed Deai were two two wives Ani three sixty seven american airmen and their families were driven from their Homes and lost All their pos sessions in the near air base most of the american casualties occurred in the flooded and wrecked town of 10 Miles from the big air base at Sculthorpe four american families there were wiped out and Only one an airman survived in a fifth of officials released the Nam of the first american casualty to be he was s sgt Jack of of officials announced these further casualties dead m sgt Herbert Branch his wife thei son h e r r t and thei daughter Sandra Rose e and her son Joseph Agnes l Maynard and John Martin of Russell Martin no relation to Maynard Reed missing listed missing and presumed dead Russell Reed and his wife Dorothy Dorothy Virginia wife of Maynard Martin Bernard and his daughter Pamela Dianne James Alan son of Rose Richardson who is listed among the the name of a seventh missing 14yearold not yet been he was lost in the Ben Waters Short was found drowned in his shattered Home at near the american air base at Bent Waters where he was his English Bride of t was other victims will be identified i soon As relatives Are notified by f bases not flooded the airmen and their families Rve under the 3d All the american victims were ving in English Homes among the English the bases not flooded and an of spokesman said they were still of the spokesman said floodwaters were still pouring into the ravaged Ben Waters area where 350 British troops were moved last night to help american of plane crashes at wheelus Field 15 aboard killed 3 a air Force four engined air Craft crashed on the Eastern Edge wheelus Field yesterday and All 15 persons aboard were killed in the plane was taking off of a routine training the cause of the Accident was unknown but a Board of officers will names of casualties will be re leased As soon As Kin have been according to the plane was flying at an Altitude of perhaps 50 feet when an engine burst into the Pilot fought Lor Altitude to miss the Mussolini which has not yet been cleared from the end of the run Way i 3wation death toll in food tops 195oo continued from Page 1 Twenty three islands of the zealand group and South Holland arc flooded or threatened with a occupy ing a sixth of the tiny Are threatened with huddle on crumbling Dike 3 teen Hundred numbed and Frozen women and dying from to night on a crumbling Dike in the Southern Section of the nether lands praying for Rescue from the angry North it was the fourth night of terror and suffering for nude Tonge on the dutch Island of Goeree Over Flakker which was inundated Early sunday in the Netherlands worst flood since the 13th the death toll throughout the Southwest three Days after the Hurricane lashed North sea had broken through the nether lands manmade barriers in 60 to 80 stood at 991 government officials predicted 3 lands famed Tulip West of have not been touched by the it was reported that the final toll would exceed an exhausted messenger from oud Tonge arriving in Bergen of zoom brought news of Vil he said that 180 persons already had died from flood rav Ages there and that their bodies have been piled like cordwood in a the stranded villagers Are with out shelter or medi some Are not expected to live through the sunday morning the villagers were comfortably asleep in their re roofed cottages while the wind and rain rattled the shutters and set window Flower boxes gaps in dikes the 90mph Hurricane drove great gaps in the protective dikes and within an hour the sea had Cut the town from the main almost half the Village of persons hurried to the which Are the highest Points of while the water swirled and boiled around 36 hours they got their first Promise of Lone dutch Navy Heli in 26 it transferred 47 persons from roof tops and Trees to the Dike it returned today to remove some dying on the throughout the 23 islands of the Lealand group and the Southern area of the the Story was much the same frightened villagers awakened in the Middle of the then fighting to reach a precarious kind of safety in at roof Trees or on the rampaging sea has covered a destroyed an estimated acres of farm and put the lives and pos sessions of persons in in it inundated or threatened on sixth of the Little nation which Only a week ago had regained its feet economically after the Bur Dens of world War the situation tonight was critical in four of the Southwest is Schouwe drive Goeree and Noordsy 536 reported dead in England 3 of troops and volunteers battled slowly receding floodwaters along Britain shattered East coast today in the Wake of a Hurricane and flood disaster which killed an Esti mated 536 in a government announcement put the death toll in weekend floods at several hundreds still but unofficial press reports said the floods Cost at least 367 lives with up to others still added to the grim toll Are 169 persons drowned in three ship Dis asters last homeless sir David Britain Home minister in charge of National flood told a tense House of commons that no exact information is yet available on the dead and but he said some Are Home of them quartered in emergency Relief he reported the floods Are slowly receding except in the Lincolnshire he said no persons Are now in danger on Canvey and Foulness and latest police estimates from dubbed death Isle said a mix up Over listing the dead and missing May Cut the death toll to As Low As earlier press reports said at least 130 had died on a resort Island in the thames Estuary 25 Miles from refuse to leave hundreds of diehard islanders on both Canvey and on Foulness off Essex coast refused to leave their flood encircled Homes some said they rather risk Maxwel Fyfe said local Relief measures Are proceeding satisfactorily and that the government is concentrating on Rushing repairs to breaches in sea and River the racing whipped by Hurricane winds of up to 100 Miles an Tore nearly 500 gaps in sea Walls and a Quarter of a mile Relief rolling Eddy members of v corps Aid expedition Brush of on Topography before their plane leaves for flood ravaged left to right capt Paynee he 36th a up 1st it Gerd 36th a up capt Marvia 816th Fabj maj William air officer of a and 1st it Jack 194th a photo by Rohde Duke units sent from to help the Netherlands continued from Page 1 Sion Iii the he will return to Germany tomorrow but has summoned a general from Germany who take Over super vision of the the Juliana Barracks at the Hague was turned Headquarters of the american Relief expedit it will be commanded by Brig Gen Raleigh 7th army artillery the wheels have now begun to Eddy the american troops will be self sustaining except for housing american units move to give flood Relief 3 american units from Germany and France rumbled Overland and by air today to the Netherlands to help the dutch fight their oldest the the first units called for Are to help the dutch in the evacuation stage of the Relief opera other units May be called As drop supplies a team of two officers and 1c enlisted men of the 557th pm Aerial Supply co flew to Woelken near last night to Aid the dutch air Force in dropping emergency supplies to persons isolated in the the team was flown in by two air Force c119s from the 317th Trp Carrier up of Rhine main air a total of four of c119s has been sent thus the 39th engr construction up Kwas due to set up a Headquarters to direct on thespot Engineer Relief the 458th and 460th transportation amphibious truck cos were alerted to Start out from Roche two other amphibious the 8540th and labor service unit Duke were on their Way from called on to help the dutch keep their remaining dikes intact were the 795th engr dump truck Eden reveals protest on Ike Formosa decision continued from Page 1 sit Ion of her majesty Eden then quoted Eisenhowe is statement that there was no Onger logic to holding Back Generalissimo Chiang Kaish eks army and that the new move implies no aggressive intention on our that Eden is in consequence of a unilateral decision by the new administration to Amend a unilateral decision taken by their Morrison intervened to express the oppositions support of Edens informal protest and to ask when it was we were told of the governments decision on 30 and we made our views known to them on the following Eden re in the course of persistent interruptions by the Leader of the oppositions left Wing arose to ask Eden to Check with Secretary of state John Foster Dulles whether the will go on supplying arms Chianos grave situation he would create a grave Eden replied i should have thought that the statement i gave of the representations we have made has made it quite Plain what were the British governments another Reginald noted than any spread of fighting into the formosan Channel would endanger the British Colony of Hon Kong and added if the american Fleet is not going to keep the peace will the foreign Secretary consider or Dering another Fleet to keep the peace and guard our interests Eden said that in View of the presence of Britain and of the not inconsiderable delicacy Between ourselves and America on the he hoped parliament would show some reticence in further which is carrying bags and and the 7972d labor supervision the 1279th engr c in headed for the disaster area with water purification equipment to help keep disease from following in the Wake of the the 354th and 406th engr construction bus alerted to join in the same Oliver units moving to support the Ope Tat Ion Are the 42d Mam co and the 7738th yes the 17th Sig in was setting up communications Between task Force Headquarters in the Hague and Usa eur he in Hei 2 seventh army reported that u air team of eight 15 l19s and two l20s has left to operate out of 10 Miles East of act As spotters the observation planes will act As they will attempt to locate isolated deliver emergency supplies of food and Medicine and report on washed at Bridges and the All equipped Witt litter will be used principally for evacuation of injured persons at outside Stutt the 557th pm Aerial Supply co is standing by with packed and rigged for Para the Par drop team sent to the Netherlands last night carried packing equipment and cargo parachutes and will operate with the five v corps l19s left Darmstadt this morning and seven in corps l19s started out from the v corps aircraft were from the 142d and 36th a Gas and the 816th a in and the vhf corps planes were drawn from the 434 and 28th inf dive and vhf corps services ask end to officer limit continued from Page 1 cent of army officers and 85 per cent of air Force officers Are said the department the Lack of Opportunity for advancement will induce Many have volunteered to remain on tc3 live duty to change their chairman Defty Short of the House services committee has introduced a Bill or 2332 which would quire the service secretaries o submit annually estimates of pro both permanent and to be made in fiscal f Bavaria flu toll at 115 3 bavarian influenza death ton stood at 115 today As health officials Here predicted the epidemic would continue for about two weeks