European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - December 30, 1964, Darmstadt, Hesse                              8 the stars and stripes december 1964 Story contest open to Amateur writers Washington the armed forces writers has announced their 1965 is int Story contest for Amateur in lion writers with awards totalling  1100 or the Short Story limited to it Lonuel words on any is open to All members of the writers league and to eligible persons filed for to have All entries must be typewritten and double spaced and must be received by april entry Blanks Are available from focal awl branches or can he obtained by writ Lii Hay executive a we George Washington authors May submit As Many qualified entries As desired provided that each is accompanied by an entry form and ii entry Back to school Gottfried Schmalz Bauer conducts a Colleg credit German class Lor Munich american High school classes Tor the 11week course Are held at Munich High school two nights per week after school photo by Grandy to encourage Novice writers to submit their Best stories thus benefiting from evaluation and suggestions provided by professional writers who serve As each entry must lie the orig work of the not previously published or awarded a prize in any other literary and must be accompanied by a Seliad return original manuscripts or first Carbon copies May be the author should re than a As will not irresponsible for to ensure that entries Are incited each Manu script must Ixer a cover Page indicating Only the authors and the title of the the authors name must not appear on any Page of the persons we teach or have nonmembers pay 15 for taught fiction or have their Flatt and will receive a one year membership in this annual contest is designed sold to major markets or who Are Selling fiction regularly to any Market Are not Amateur for the purpose of this teachers determined to learn German by Bob Munich Bureau Munich its working on die theory that  has been their own worst 30 american teachers in Munich decided this fall they would learn German or know the reason the National defense Educa Tion which underlines the necessity for increasing the num Ber of qualified language teach provided teachers with an additional impetus for enrolling in a Colleg credit program set up by the army education a ctr Ter at Munich the program to include 10week courses during the school year is being Given after school hours from 4 to at the Munich american High two classes were enrolled in the initial they Are held twice weekly by former Munich and most of them have taken some previous work in a teacher who helped Pioneer the program said that credit courses Are the Best Way to get teachers interested in when we get credit and put out your own then were More Apt to take our studies Seri she if you dont do something like its so easy to before you know youve been in Germany a number of but you can t speak the High teacher Gottfried teachers pay their own tuition Fer the program for each classroom work is augmented with work in the language Laboratory at the High a number of the teachers enrolled in the program have lived in Germany for several years Safe airmen the Den new Stripe Germany Spe Cial Safe he officials have announced that air men within the command would be promoted on the figure shows a reduction in authorizations since the 1 Cycle when men were the quarterly promotion Cycle will Advance airmen to the grades of staff air men second and third a breakdown on these grades shows that j47 airmen will receive their first Rocker staff will Don their third and airmen third will gel their second All airmen will he selected in a Best qualified basis by promotion boards convened at local Willie Joe collection a Waits Home Washington s4s Willie and the army ground Pounders of wartime stars and stripes cartoon have a temporary Home in a storage they will move to comparative luxury in the Washington Home of a defense department official and his millions of world War ii vet Erans remember Willie and Joe As unshaven ragged they were sometimes often frequently har and continuously bedraggled and they delighted in spoofing the War and army bring ing chuckles and belly laughs from their real life Battlefield Willie and Joe were created by Bui a successful poll Leal maudlin served As a wartime cartoon his drawings have since i Himie collectors one collector is Waller assistant technical assistant Secretary of defence installations and an army major in we collected editions from mid 1m4 to wars his Rel Lection is about to tier cent during the fighting in Deal looked to Willie and Joe for the laughs that were Nan too fre quent in those it provided us a humorous interlude in the grim and some limes monotonous life in the today he still cherishes the cartoon they help him to recall far Wuy places and almost forgotten the  of his Sis col icel Iii forced him in sure ii in a he Hopes to someday find tin appropriate place in his Home for his wartime Willie and the general sold final drive was no Surprise to 7th army by Herb Scott staff writer Germany s4s while the Battle of the bulge May go Down in history As the last nazi world War ii veterans who faced the fury of an fallout German attack against 7lh army on new years eve Are yet to be con operation these vets will Tell you turned out to be one helluva fight that raged for 23 Days into january across aimed to distract Allied attention from the ardennes area where the nazi drive of several Days earlier bogged Down in the bit Terly fought Battle of the Hitler had decided that the certain Success of operation Alsace Lorraine from Rueken to Saar nazi armies will hit us on new years an intelligence officer told 7th army it Gen Alexander and no staff during a hurried 02 briefing in a school Patch swung around to his corps commanders with a one word order and digit 7th army troops quickly forgetting any plans they had for celebrating the Bleak Holiday and hustling to bring up fresh supplies and More ammunition for the predicted As Hitler had dubbed this final nazi struck with fanatical Force at 11 on As the 7th army g2 had that intelligence officer of two decades ago was it Gen William today 7th army Quinn Points out that the Ger Man assault against 7th army i believed they would do it because they expected us to think they said but they prolonged German push failed to breach the ranks thinly army would bring renewed chances for Nordwind against six spread divisions of 7th Victory in the in the 23day fight that the american troops had casualties As eight German divisions and elements of nine others were hurled full Force at the Stout Only to baiter themselves into the heroic stand against the fierce desperation of the nazi was a whopping Victory for 7th in 3rd army pulled out interview this Quinn recalled Ord army had been pulled from our left flank and sent North toward the this caused us to extend our lines and we were spread dangerously then a Quinn said he had been fighting the germans for some five months i Felt As though i knew them like he explained that he figured the germans would Hope to catch 7lh army in the midst of a new years i reasoned that the germans would select this Lime despite the fact that they might logically expect 7th army to be ready for a Surprise of Patch Lough 7th As operation Nordwind blew itself out in january ims hitlers last lingering chances to win the War had Good work it Gen Alexander former 7th army pins the legion of Merit on col William Quinn in Sam Quinn now 7th army cd and a lieutenant neral himself was later to receive the distinguished service Edal for predicting the German operation As 7th army army photo