European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 18, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                To Strasbourg continued from Page 19 Hodenfield a a Story did no to get Back to London for several Days and Hutton got credit for filing the first report on the invasion. After returning to England from his bombing Mission Hutton had dashed off an eyewitness account then headed Hack to France on a Landing Craft. That Story finished just As the boat hit the Beach was sent Back with the vessels Captain. Bucknell the staffer injured in the airborne drop also managed to beat Hodenfield. He had composed a Story in his head and later dictated it to a Hospital corpsman before heading for the operating table. Much of Hodenfield a copy in fact never made it Back to the stars and stripes although it was Long after the War before the reporter discovered Why. A a in a arranged to Send my stories out to the battleship Texas so they could be relayed Back to London a a Hodenfield said. A i found out years later that there was a Marine combat correspondent on the ship who took my stories and sent them off to the Pentagon As proof that he was on the Job. He stole them  Hodenfield does deserve credit for being the Best dressed Striper to make the invasion. Convinced that the Alert that june morning was just another false alarm to fool the germans Hodenfield showed up in a dress uniform and was Halfway to France before he finally got around to asking the officer in charge about their destination. Shown the Landing zone Hodenfield said he was unfamiliar with it and asked where it was in relation to the English port of Southampton. A Southampton a the Ranger officer snorted. That a the coast of  Llewellyn who a been promoted to lieutenant colonel led the stars and stripes Advance party that landed on Omaha Beach two weeks after 15-Day. The group had planned to go in with the third or fourth wave of combat troops but somebody Llewellyn noted grimly had a slipped  in truth Llewellyn had been unable to secure transportation across the English Channel and the stripes group had to Settle for passage on a special services boat that sailed with the 45th wave. Finally ashore the stripes group set up in a print shop in care Tan and the colonel commissioned a Large wooden sign that read proudly Quot stars and stripes Continental  hut the building a sign included a was destroyed by a German 88mm Shell before a paper could be published and the Crew moved on to Ste. Mere eglise. The edition there was published in a Small stationery and print shop using what Warren Mcdonnell claims was a the second Linotype machine Ever  a you d hit a Button and sit Back and All these Rube Goldberg suits of things went into action and a full minute later a slug would fall Mcdonnell jnt0 the Slot Quot he said. 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It was the first time i realized the French were special when it came to  the staffs delayed arrival on the continent had done nothing to improve Llewellyn a Demeanour. Mcdonnell remembers one incident in which the colonel charged into the St. Mere eglise Plant grabbed staff writer Charles Kiley and began issuing dozens of orders off the top of his head. A after Llewellyn had finished Kiley told him that of course he would handle All those things and just to be sure he did a Complete Job he would stuff a Broom up his a and sweep the floor at the same time a Mcdonnell said. Llewellyn a response is not recorded in the a annals of stars and stripes history. The staff moved on to the presses of the Cherbourg newspaper eclair in late june. The first edition there published on july 4 with a run of 100,000 copies was printed on both sides of a single Page because of a shortage of paper. Newsprint in fact was a continual problem in the Days following the invasion although the staff rounded up French stocks stole some from the office of War information and received occasional shipments from London. Headlines were also a problem at first since the liberated French Type fonts were without the letter k. The staff promptly solved that problem by shooting the tops off the letter r with their .45s, the wartime stars and stripes was never much for promoting itself in print but when a picture of circulation staffer Wally Newfeld turned up a showing him delivering papers in Normandy astride a mule a the editors  help themselves. A circulation Man gets his ass up to the front Quot the caption said. The readers loved it. After the Allied breakthrough at St. To the paper moved on to Rennes and More staffers Iron London signed on. The first four Page edition there was printed on aug. 21 with an. Initial circulation of 200,000. It eventually topped out at 332,000 and folded up a few weeks after the fall of Paris where Rooney Hodenfield Bud Kane and Dean Hocking had arrived with the list . Troops. Rooney and the other stripers had approached la Aris with the 1st army press Camp a group of about 30 journalists that included Ernie Pyle and Ernest Hemingway. The Camp had set up in the town of Rambouillet a where the 5-foot-3, 130-Pound Pyle promptly got into a fistfight with the -foot-2, 230-Pound Hemingway a then moved up to St. Cloud just across the Seine from the capital. Finally word came that the group could move into the City. It was one of the most amazing Days of continued on Page 23 Page 2050th anniversary special edition saturday april 18, 1992