European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 18, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Teeth Mediterranean Foisie said. A that impacted on him a lot and when head get Back from the front he d hit the bottle for awhile. He would Wake up in the morning nod to his colleague in the next bed then lie Back Down to sleep it off. A but he set a style that no one has really emulated since. We Veall tried but no one has Ever really quite recaptured that  As Allied troops continued their March up the italian Boot stripes staffers kept Pace. Several picked up purple hearts along the Way and one artist Gregor Duncan was caught in artillery fire at Anzio and became stripes first combat death. Finally on june 4, 1944, the first . Troops reached Rome and two jeeps full of stripes staffers raced in with them. Milt Lehman led the group which included writers Paul Green George Dorsey Jack Raymond and Marty Harris and photographer Wade Jones. A we took Over the leading paper there the ii Messager a remembers Green now retired in Maryland. A for the typesetting we used italian help that did no to understand English but who could follow copy Well enough. The paper was published overnight and we got out on the via Roma the next morning and handed it out to troops who were still chasing the germans out of the  greens Story topped the paper that morning june 5, with a Jack Raymond headline that said it All a a we re in  Tony Iannacio a staff expert in As he described it a circulation transportation and being an All around Gofer Quot arrived that morning. The staff had Only the two jeeps so Iannacio paid a Call on a Captain head known Back in England. The officer was with the military government division and had just taken control of a Large garage full of civilian cars that had been sidelined by the gasoline shortage. The news desk of the Rome edition arguably the Best of the wartime stripes. A the finally agreed to give us one  Iannacio remembers. A that was All right with me because i already knew the one i wanted. It was a Lancia Imperial with a Glass portioned Back with All kinds of buttons. He yelled bloody murder but we put Gas in the car and drove  the staff  understand the stares they got from passersby until they found out the car had belonged to count Galeazzo Ciano Mussolini a son in Law whom the dictator had ordered shot earlier in the year. Stripes had the car Only a couple of Days when a general from military government called and ordered it returned. Iannacio however insisted on having the last word. A i ran into three gis from the 34th inf div who were awol and wanted to get Back to their outfit a he said. Quot i told them to take the car and to ditch it Over the Side of a Mountain or Burn it. They took off two up front and the third sitting in the Back As big As Ciano  Iannacio then reported that the car had been stolen. The staffs excitement Over Rushing out a new edition in one Day proved to be decidedly Short lived. The fall of Rome in fact became old news the very next Day june 6, 1944. A Day. A we came in on a wave of euphoria a Green said a because we actually put out that first edition overnight. We were flying. But then what followed was All this frustration because nobody in America was paying any attention to us. Papers in the United states did no to have any room for Rome. It was All Normandy invasion. A in a sense Rome became a quiet Backwater one Day after it  a la is \ i Jib 1 Herb Mitgang at the wheel of a spanking new stars and stripes jeep circa 1944. File. I la never splash mud on a do face again 999 a Rii never splash mud on a do face again 1000now will a help us push Quot Page 18 a 50th anniversary special edition saturday april 18, 1992 a Bill Mauldin 1945