European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 18, 1992, Darmstadt, Hesse                                 Lapesa . Infantry patrol runs for cover As a bomb explodes on the streets of Frankfurt Germany in Early March 1945. Full onto fun town continued from Page 35 the fight for Frankfurt was still underway so the stripes team waited until morning when the last German troops had fled or surrendered. Much of the City was rubble and a it was hard to move around because the germans had Boob trapped their own dead and you risked getting blown up a Price said. Eventually they found the Plant of the once Liberal Frankfurter Zeitung newspaper but the Lino types and other equipment there had been sabotaged. Moora and Clark found a still fresh copy of the Zeitung though meaning the paper was being published somewhere close by. It took them another three Days to find out where of Ungstad a Small town just off the autobahn Between Mannheim and Frankfurt. The group found the Zeitung a Plant in a Low Slung Brick building tucked behind a two storied stucco House on Pung stadts a Fabri Strasse. The Plant while Only slightly larger than a garage boasted 14 Linotype machines and a pair of near new presses. Better yet it was located just Down the Street from the town brewery undamaged by the fighting and the hotel Strauss which offered clean rooms and a seemingly endless Supply of Beer. Further inspection of the printing equipment handing out ious which they signed with Eisenhower a name. The first edition a four pager with a press run of 10,000, hit the streets on april 5. An editorial titled a Gutenberg is smiling today Quot trumpeted the Start of Germany a first uncensored newspaper since hitlers Rise to Power. A perhaps this free newspaper of a Freedom Loving army will along with our bombs and bullets make an impression on German hearts and minds a it said. A the germans have what it takes to win Back their Freedom. Good machinery. Good Ink. Good paper and a heritage of Good printing that goes Back to Gutenberg. A fall they need is the truth. Perhaps someday the truth will make them  As with other fledgling editions newsprint was in Short Supply and one Early Issue had to be printed on Light wallpaper. Finally the staff liberated a Rhine Barge full of paper enough to keep the operation going until a Normal Supply system was up and running. File near Pitburg Germany late february 1945. Revealed that the Linotype were missing their liners the Metal strips that control the Width of the lines of Type being set. A so de Clark and i went up and Down both sides of the River As far As Heidelberg i think stopping at every paper and print shop we could find a Price said. A we collected 40 sets of liners or so and other parts and got the operation up and  some German printers complained about losing their equipment so Price and Clark started word of Roosevelt a death hit Europe just before Midnight on april 12. The of Ungstad edition had been in operation for just a week and the staff still relied on radio reports for much of the news. The germans not sure what effect the presidents death would have on the War decided to Jam the broadcast and Only occasional words came through. In frustration Price dashed to his jeep Ami sped to the military Headquarters in nearby Darmstadt. He ignored the sentry a request for continued on Page jux