European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 12, 1964, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Drum by 1944 the stars and stripes Christmas 3 we Fere the and they needed Bastogne Washington up the Skinny nazi major removed his Tore open the envelope and removed an 8byll piece of White Bond in three neat typewritten it read to the German commander from the american while he spoke English quite the German officer said he did not if it was an affirmative he said he had authority to negotiate of it Means go to hell do you know what that Means said col Joseph the German officer reddened As he understood the meaning of Gen Anthony Maul Effes rejection of a nazi demand to surrender the key to the Battle that history now Calls the Mcauliffe and Harper reached Back 20 years during an interview to recall How it was at Bastogne during that trying at a meeting of the army association marking the 20th of the historic Maul life praised the infantryman for winning the fight in the a commander can Only put his troops in position and hone they slay and that what they he told other War veterans attending the we were in a rest area after fighting in Holland when we first heard about said commander of the 101st airborne div in it was the dying gasp of the nazi War it was personal in Complete he mamas of 20 divisions men along the Allied about troops stretched thin along 89 Miles of belgian and Luxembourg faced the nazi Hitler planned to Cut through the Allied front Between Aachen and throwing Hack the invaders As he pushed to Antwerp and the at the push fire pounded american out of the heavy fog came the Panzer tanks and the wehrmacht some Green troops threw Down their guns and ran from the later to be killed or in some in the next the Nad counteroffensive but civil do into the Allied but by this Allied lines begun to to keep the push Hitler needed roads to Speed his tanks to the Snow and the Woods of the ardennes Forest had made Cross country tank operations almost five roads came out of Germany and were tunnelled into Mcauliffe we were the and they needed Bastogne i guess i first knew we were surrounded when they captured our Hospital behind they hauled away the the surgeons and the we never saw them it was a mistake on my i  have located the Hospital there but we had been surrounded in Holland and it was nothing we were in pretty Good shape except we were running Low on the offer to surrender came on the who delivered the famous answer to the said nuts was decided on after attempts Al a formal reply he said Mcauliffe said nuts right after he rend the German one of the Guys said Why not use and he after i had Given the answer to the germans who had crossed our the nazi major said a lot of americans would be i pointed to the Road they had used to come to our lines and told if you continue this ill kill every Damn German that comes Down the i thought How dumb can you  Send everything they got right up that Road at my regiment i waited until 2 that but they didst the next the 23rd of december the skies supplies were flown into the lifting foe also allowed devastating Allied air attacks on the nazi but Hitler still wanted Bastogne and rumours said his troops wanted to give it to him for a Christmas at 3 Christmas the germans launched an fallout assault on Panzer tank and infantry were followed by family Loiet third son then she i Ohio Stoneburner saw the messenger walking up the Steps and her last son was you cant go through it twice and not she she spoke a few hours after learning her third maj John had been killed in a Viet Cong ambush in Twenty years ago she lived through the same scene wife received and Telegram up Chart Cen Skinner received a letter and a the letter was from her husband in South the Telegram said he was the Soldier was 1st it Brian skip of the first Colorado native to be killed in the Vietnam he mentioned in the letter that the Viet Cong were gaining on Skinner that was All he wrote concerning the he didst complain As much As he had complained a month or two she received the letter shortly after a Telegram from the Pentagon with the death Skinner was killed during heavy fighting As a vietnamese army Relief column fought its Way into the besieged town of an 300 Miles North of two die la two Days also killed was a John Stoneburner of Sandla base at they were us fifth and sixth american victims in two a 1m graduate of Colorado stale University at fort was the youngest of five sons of and Dwight Skinner of it and Skinner had a that John was just i boy when his older Brothers went off to fight in world War a lieutenant and a Pilot in the died in his plane went Down in the North a was killed in infantry action in a month after he arrived on the John was All we had said a retired Railroad the numb with last Soi didst want to discuss the like everyone Are confused by said it Doest make it any easier or harder to take John was a West Point just doing his who was removing curtains in preparation for Christmas when she saw the said the suffering is enough without asking maj who held was dead masters degree in nuclear arrived in the combat area on thanksgiving he wrote his Mother when he first arrived its Beautiful a Garden before he left the United his parents drove to to see his wife and three John sent our Christmas present Home with said i dont know if ill Ever open has a courtly hat but Good head the judge spotted a Man sitting in the rear of his courtroom wearing a disturbed by this disregard for courtroom judge John weeks ordered the Man to he the clerk called for the burglary Case of George who had been free on George didst come your prosecutor Harian Goullet that is the Man you ordered from the police Are still looking for pet Hippo w in Texas was willing to take the Hippo Tor the cites Forest Park but he withdrew after talking by Telephone with Wilson curator of the projected Rio Grande with the girls the two worked out ills arrangement the 10yearold called will go to Fry will reimburse the girls for their will go to new York City to take delivery of and will pay costs of transportation to out of gratitude to Fry will Send the Forest Park zoo two Jaguar cubs that Lee has been seeking the girls will get their Money will have succeeded in finding a Home for their and will get off the since a two ton unfriendly Hippo hardly qualifies As a Domestic we Are very miss Emerson we dont think anything could have been done in a better one Small matter Roger new York ally Purchase told the girls by Telephone thai As minors they  obtain title to Betsy without their parents miss Emerson said girl May walk a the three Smith College girls whose Moo bid won them a Hippopotamus at the Brooklyn zoo Nave found a solution for their weighty Ellen of great granddaughter of Ralph Waldo Emerson and spokesman for the said they had decided to let the Hippo go to the Rio Grande Valley zoological which is developing a Park and zoo at Baldwin superintendent of Parks and recreation year old Virginia i know skip probably died for what he and we know is a now been Browne told the girls the said the next morning Gen George Patton came he said it honorable the Young widow he said the one thing we must remember is that this War is not going to be won in a year or two she he said ii was going to take a Long and that patience is the Only she glanced at the Telegram then at the he died not just for me and but for Freedom of All the Leopard that gave up the ghost to provide a coat for actress Ingrid Bergman right apparently was in the tangle and not in where it might have lived la the Lap of luxury instead of being a covering for a luxurious the animal friends association put on the dog with a Christmas party for the forsaken dogs and cats of at left is Roger wife of the French minister of the a Are what they should the girls Are certain this will be no on miss Emerson the Hippo Deal is the biggest thing that has happened for she said the Smith student body is All and the faculty has offered no one of the finest battlefields he Ever there were dead germans plied up All Over the you  look anywhere without seeing a burning German when the Battle was Over Early in january Allied troops were missing or captured and the germans lost it was the coldest Winter in 100 years in Harper Many of the men listed As wounded had Frozen hands or Mcauliffe walked Over the Hills and through the Woods around Bastogne a couple of months its peaceful and Beautiful around there he Iff just so Dies patient lives Maine up a surgeon died of a heart attack just As he finished operating successfully on a medical examiner John Sullivan said that Albert died of an acute heart attack As he completed the operation at Josephs state names president Terre up Indiana state College trustees announced they have chosen Alan vice Chancellor of the University of As president of Indiana