London Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 17, 1945, London, Middlesex Page 2 the stars and stripes 1945 stars and stripes updated the the re pow Tina liter Arad under auspices of the and education d special and inform Tiao contents patted by the army and nary censors subscription 26 shillings per year plus Eto entered As second class matter at the Tinl new under the act of All material apr Arlin in this publication has been Vinsten Ana de flail by uniformed Mammy tax of fam army and dry except where slated that a civilian or outside source is editorial ofic Eitam printing hone ec4 7000x Bihl Neu and circa Hulion upper Brook we Tousa data tract Bedford 21x4 Salmon 3424 in Stoa cold Lei oals january 1945 b by out note Lack of space forces us to limit All letters published to not More Titan 200 military training Bill 1945 to the bag 1 believe that the legislation Corning before Congress on compulsory military should be left till after the the ten million soldiers and sailors now More or less incommunicado May have a few ideas to express on such important and it be rushed through like the prohibition act in the last without our opinions when theres no emergency for that particular Ive read that most of us favored this act its impossible to get a fair poll of opinion from the real there too i the next War will be a mechanical and technical College training will be More important than or Acice in Kab and i in afraid the higher brass is pushing this thing to keep As much rank and Power in their hands As before we get Back and Are Able to suggest a few reforms to their ideas of Robert open letter to Joseph Jancek 1945 dear during your three years of service you have held practically every rank open to enlisted then you reached 1st you believed in the policy of being utterly impartial in dealings with your men and everyone was Given As fair and Square a Deal As was your method of leading men has won for you a following that anyone could you did such a great Job that the presi Dent of the United states saw fit to directly appoint you an officer in the forces he in sure it have happened to a better its going to be strange seeing you As an officer and calling you sir instead of the usual Joe you but let me assure you that when your men do sir and Salute you it wont be a matter of custom or but it will come out of a deep respect and admiration for All of us Are sure that you will be As successful an officer As you were an enlisted the Best of of your men on behalf of Alt of 3143rd ambiguous said one and silly bag i Bill of statements department i love my wife at Home Victor Lasky tells u about the Over optimistic bullfighter who puts Mustard on his a complaining of a was advised by her chum to visit a masseur whats that she said her airing 1945 to the Bragi re columnist baldwins criticism of our Jand other various implements of in your Issue of i can Only say that the publication of matter of this kind incenses the hell out of count he condescend to make a confidential report to Congress on his views we have made mistakes in this and Pineir correction should be Given every attention by the so called inthe know boys Why should anything of this nature that is undoubtedly advantageous to the enemy from a propaganda Point of View be aired publicly in your news paper i As one of the hospitalized veterans so aptly put lit in a recent letter to your column every German on the Road to Berlin reads the stars and or tit least he has it explained to him by an the army classifies nearly everything in the Way of correspondence from the Correct Way to make a buttonhole stitch in army group movements Why cant action be taken to suppress something of True value to the Jack to requests 1945 to the bag could we have More Nickel steel in the Armor plate of our Sherman tanks and More guns in also some super deluxe Bazooka shells like those that descend on Britain More commonly referred to As i j945 to the bag we have among us a group of beat rundown infantry j medic and several More practically every in this group has been from the shores of French Morocco to from there to Sicily or Italy some missed Italy to make Day or d we would like to have this 30day furlough stuff g2d so we can see How everything 4 Bunch of knocked put vets every Campaign since a Guy who pinches you All sighed the you mean a one of our Ralph was studying a Book of japanese one of their awards is a Star denoting years voluntary we wonder if the had a ill be Back in a Little Gene Sabin and Angelo Gariboldi of an artillery Battery somewhere in Belgium say they dont worry about any German is troops that might oppose they claim they Are and then there was the i patient who took a turn for the could be a Wallflower is a girl who wears a sweater to keep another unsigned verse left in our typewriter my be wary of cupid and heed the lines of to let a fool kiss you is to let a kiss fool you is who said that Many a Man has made a Monkey of himself by reaching for the wrong is it True that there is a gunner Over Here from Brooklyn who refuses to carry his Tommy gun without a violin Case because it makes him feel conspicuous another tale of the his girl marry him when he was drunk while others Fly Over the hump1 gis hit Ledo Road with new life for Chin 16 first american Convoy carrying desperately needed War supplies from India to China in the first Ever to Cross Here yesterday from on the Indian within a few possibly by it is expected to Roll on to having covered the first 262 Miles of the Trail the Convoy is waiting for completion of the mountainous new my Itkina to ten Chung or until the last 25 Jap held Miles of the old Burma Road Between Nam Okam and wanting Are cleared of the when either of these two final Jinks is opened the convoys will Roll again for the first time since the fabulous old Burma Road was Cut in negroes among americans driving trucks the trucks in the driven by american gis and chinese Are loaded with artillery and among the american first yank ground troops to enter negro though the Ledo Road is two Lane a Good portion of the Way most of the traffic will head in one direction toward most of the trucks will stay in while the Drivers Fly Back to India to bring in new supplementing the Road is a pipeline which will pump pre Cious Oil and gasoline into freeing a Large number of transport planes now on Tanker duty for carrying other though the capacity of the new Ledo Road is a military to tons a month would be a fair compared with the Peak monthly tonnage of of the old Burma it probably will not equal the ton this is a typical Convoy along the Ledo described As a Deaden Trail with japs As a Road the Lead car of the caravan has bogged Down and a pillar moves in to Rescue nage now being flown Over the Hump from India to one great advantage will be that motorized equipment will to longer have to be dismantled before going into whoring their Way to glory 9ths marauders 1 give them the Best laugh by Bud Button stars and stripes Stafl writer with the 323rd bomb the medium bombers of the 9th of on sunday dropped their of High explosives on the As Winter weather broke Clear Over the nazi salient on the West the bombers went Back to the task of smashing enemy communications and Supply lines and Cut Bridges and roads with their there were havoc and invaders Ham Mering through the massed flak above and Ahrweiler and but it was the slim winged b26 marauders of Sam Andersons bomber command which carried the major Load of Jie it was a storybook Angle that they a year and a half ago the twin engined marauders ago were the target of and he marry her when he was today fan mail brings this comment from now on the writer of hash Marks will be known As poor mans Joe the Sun never sets on Britain bases things went smoothly for the 303rd bomb group last week when it went after communications centers in Ger Many and completed its Mission Satis but when it sat Down on the Home strip and gave out with the information that this had been its 300 h Mission from British to put it in a class by it had an it seems that there have always been British bases in North a fact indignantly pointed out by the Veteran 93rd bomb which flew a hateful of missions from these Fields built by the so when the 93rd finished its 300th Mission from its present base in the two months it beat the 303rd All hollow in operations from British unless there Are bases elsewhere in the the 303rd is now the first 8th air Force bomb group to Complete 300 missions from bases in the what Cha Lor Section eight Public scorn and congressional con even the rest of the air Force Vas dubious about them they called the marauders the flying prostitutes be cause their scant wings showed no visible Means of for two months it looked As though the critics were the marauders flew a Low level Mission to and were shot to three Days later they went Back with ten every one of the ten was first Loi level attack two months the 323rd bomb led by Herbert with Wilson Wood leading a made the first medium level bombing attack in the Etoi splattering the Abbeville freight Yards in the fim of a series of attacks on German communications in Western Europe which helped pave the Way for Day nearly a year this from some two Miles above the German Southeast of the of marauder bombs slipped out of a bomb slanted earthward and plunked onto a nazi from a marauder of the 323rd commanded by the same Wilson of who flew to Abbeville on july we saw that bomb explode and so Mark an in the year and a half it took to haul those tons to nazi targets the mediums of the ninth flew lost 311 planes and claimed 73 enemy fighters de 37 probably destroyed and 94 an radio program on your dial 1375 1402 1411 1420 1447 17 is the we up the the moments in up the sports supper the air eighth air with mercers music band the condos jazz Hope with Frances Jerry Colonna and Skinny news from edition and news from the and 18 with Margaret hotel by Bobby time with Abe Lyman after Bob up the news from the on the continent listen to your favorite an programs Over the Allied expeditionary forces program 583 also band Between Oslo and 1900 gum chums world Oer celebrate a birthday looks like we stepped in something one of our correspondent j chides us for having neglected to mention in our never failing hardly Ever columns that last 28 marked tie 75th anniversary of chewing web it did and it chewing flavor and is really older than but years ago came last 28 Bill sem pfc mount was smart enough to Patent the and just to show you How the any chum1 business has spread since there Are some 50 american brands of gum chewed by people All Over the world despite War time still Chew More than 15 billion Sticks a if Laid end to end the not the1 would encircle the Globe 260 gis average 630 Sticks a year per billion Sticks a year with a prewar civilian average of 130 a wartime 77 Sticky what Limey kids Chew As you can easily figure out for to any Given although insists Hes All tagged Clinton Iii Ersoll seems Able to make his Way through the smoke with this did you Marvel when i sold some old Gold to buy i ticket to the bail game at Chesterfield i saw Phillip Morris make a Lucky Hie Kool weather caused the spectators to Hump Over like it would have been Forth Twenty grand to have had wings to get out of there because i had spuds for dinner and even Paul Jones hate digested after this aria term can game was Over it was Raleigh Relief to pall mall out of there get Home to my rameses and gotta match if had one wed Light outa have to apologize to the boys Ward five for not getting this them before Christmas when it have done them some we Busy doing a Little rut just before Christmas wanted to know what Are we fight for whats this baloney about the tradition of catching somebody under Mistletoe and kissing her one of gis Here caught a u the Mistletoe and she kiss h is it against ars seems to us its old English and since i Here in Merrie olde Shoul the Rule apply that when in Rome Ducj the romans do the were lipstick with Bob the up reports the front some signs he saw along in a German sign Here greater Germany stands always it in you our fuehrer has placed his Trust True to code the fuehrer has keep place As though it were our own beneath which some i wrote translation this aint a Bam or yet keep your held boots off another i sign reads be a get on with the get your Tail from the a nazi notice says those who a these Muddy claws help our fuel glorious and another i says our Road has Nice soft in but there the resemblance can go As far As you but be to round the v the ii 2 i h at h the 8 i is
