European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - November 11, 1964, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Mon Trie conflict Supply train fax the front to in Allol Trench had by got Inlo one Man had both his leg shot and when i gave him me Coffee be mumbled that it Wai too too that one of the memories of Eric who braved on enemy barrage in the a Konne Forest to reach a group of critically wounded american soldiers with he won the Silver Star and a citation signed by Gen John Black Jack Tutem is a transportation sergeant with the 91st which moved into a frontline position during the final months of world War about the first of there was great he men were scattered everywhere and Cut we had lost detachments All Over the a major sent word he needed scrum and hot food for about 15 or 90 badly wounded men up at Ellse they were completely Cut off and run ners  gel through with the stuff on their i volunteered to drive a Light Van up there and they attached a medical ser Geant to i dont know his we drove up to the old Church and the bombardment was i Wai a scared Rabbit i would pick up anything to hold it Over my heart i got Down on my hands and Kneel to find a Hole and went into a vault under the i was never so i Felt so sate in that vault the two men tried to get through three times before they made it the tint truck was put out of heavy artillery lire blew the top off the second Van and they were forced to turn the third they reached the major who had messaged for he gave them a runner to find the wounded in a Small they were desperate and had Noth tales we got to them with Coffee and the lieutenant in charge was shaking so much he could not put a hypodermic Needle into a Bot we put four men in our Van and drove every movement was agony for them and it was worse than driving through the Tatum said he crawled into some Brush and went to he intended to go Back for another Load of wounded but by James Bureau the next night All had apparently wiped out by a tall Man with Lively Brown eyes and a big Tatum is one of m a n y american world War i veterans who stayed in now in their 70s and retired from they meet frequently at the american legion Post 1 clubhouse in Paris or at gatherings of the veterans of foreign a Man who has seen much of the world during a colourful totem was born in England and went to sea when he was after three he jumped ship in where he worked on a dredge boat and later went West by Bel driven when the War he took the oath of citizenship and joined co 116th ammunition after training at Camp the outfit went to new York and shipped out aboard the British a fellow passenger was the late president Herbert Hook then food it was a Tough the olym Pia fed us and Tea instead of cof can you imagine feeding tripe to a Bunch of cow punchers we called it English Bath Hoover tried to make a speech on but we shouted at him that we wanted sugar and we didst want any More English Bath Tatem said he recently went looking for the place where he made the Van trip to reach those wounded and be found the same Little Road into the Woods just As he remembered i Felt like he his brother was killed while fighting not far away with a Canadian Tatem transferred to a red Cross unit after the War and stayed to find his Brothers he married a French girl and operated a motorcar business in France went to China during world War n As a transportation expert and returned to France to set up a Pinion ring Roger of Washington was a dentist with a Hospital group at in after the he joined the 3rd div and stayed in Germany until when he ranches in Wyoming for a then returned to Paris to prac Tice he and his French wife live at  near we had a lot of wounded from Cha teau Thierry come to our Hospital at you did anything you could to help i was a but i gave Anes thetis and handled injuries whenever i it was but in our time off we used to to up to the front to look around and we had some narrow when the germans occupied Paris in world War Hays was interned at a prison comp at he said americans were treated but French and jewish prisoners in a Sepa rate urea had a bad Sydney was born in eng land and emigrated to new York in he came Back with the Low serial number of As a mess sergeant with a Hospital we left new York on the Finland it night to avoid German he no cigarettes were allowed on just As we came out of the we saw soldiers wearing life belts in the water and we thought they had been Tor but we Learned it had been we stopped in my Ocean to help a ship with la boilers then we ran Inlo submarines and dropped depth the Finland Wai credited with one the unit formed base Hospital t in a French Hospital at the worst thing that happened Wai a French Hospital train bringing wounded had a collision and caught he Many were we turned out with everything we had for our Hospital filled up fait when the americans moved into the our soldiers were untrained and they went into Battle in their shirt sleeves with no but they did the ii America haunt come Europe would have been All that a sure who had worked As a bar Man and with i Road burlesque show in new stayed in France with the american gravel registration service and went to Russia for the american Relief he married a French girl in 102 and is now the Grandfather of 1st or to Flumm 2nd Tattoo of my Newman he stayed 14 the stars and stripes novt new 1964