London Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 18, 1945, London, Middlesex Page 2 the stars and stripes 1945 the stars and stripes Prib cd at the lines Inbi Fehte Tor armed under a spices Ell the Ufonda item Tat Edo Cottoe special we infant team contents passed torte army uhf Navy censors subscription 26 ski uni per Vear Flash Eto entered As second class matter at the Tost net under the act of All material appearing in is publication Kun been written and edited by uniformed members at the army and Narv except stated that a Cyttan or Ether outside Lapre i being editorial printing House ec4 business circulation upper Brook we Tousa District offices Bedford 2184 Swindell 3424 sullen cold eld Oaks january 1945 note Lack of space forces us to limit All letters published to not More than 200 the truth of the matter i 1945 to the bag i want to stand up and cheer for Hanson military commentator of the new York for his re quest that Congress investigate the reason for the germans superiority in certain types of the Public at Home is deluded into believing that american equipment is Superior just because its in most of us who have been in action have Learned by bitter experience that the opposite is often perhaps if the truth of the matter were Raade the officials in the we responsible for this situation might take some Steps to remedy pfc a banged up religion and magic 1945 to the bag regarding your 13 Story on magic bearing a figure alleged to be that of against bombs to Appeal to a Saint in heaven for his prayers on your behalf is a matter of not the presence of the medal is a reminder to the wearer that his prayers have been made to the Powers of wearing the medal is magic Only if it is regarded As an surefire the decision is still up to sometimes it is better for a Man to god because he Leon parents at the front to the bag Ive a suggestion bedridden for a through the Courtesy of a German has enabled me to reflect on a pertinent the folks Back Home cannot comprehend How rough it is in the front lines where their sons exist through the Good graces of the lord up i propose that a group of parents of selected at be transported to the fronts and allowed to roam about at at their own tasting the horror and the and then be whisked Back to their to to to Tell what they describe they in their own inexperienced in words and expressions that your folks and mine no no just and and then maybe Well get that those that America that is so badly pea a Don glib oops answer 1945 to the bag now and then some High Fronkey Monk will bring to Light his idea As to when the War will there is one and one answer to that take it from this and Here it peace will reign again when Joe Civi Lian gets it into his head that there is a Long Road to travel before vday and its a darn Rocky 1 feel this fact was brought Home to Many of those optimists after Rundstedt instead of planning on the future so work on the or there will be no that is How the Guy in the foxhole feels about it the Jersey help for lil Abner 1945 to the bag this is not a but a request for you to please help Little Abner make More Progress with the we figure now he has grown up he is entitled to a Little As a Joe the grinder he is doing a very poor b Point of View the present meat shortage prompted our spy on the Home front to comment the Guy who gets married now May be Able to keep most of his not the one to bring Home the Snappy a Soldier looked at girl and Why Are you so popular with a Coy smile she 1 give a canteen hostess asked a do you and your sergeant Ever have any differences of opinion lots of replied the one but he never knows and then there was the smart girl on the Home front who changed the decorations in her apartment from Blue to she quit dating sailors and concentrated on of the the following rather unusual entry was noted in the morning report of a medical detachment 15 British pm attached for High Tea at 1000 hours and dinner gis description of an affected society a in a smart cocktail lounge she re moves her gloves As ceremoniously As if she had taken her Cue to go into a among mechanics at a certain fighter base station this is the question of the Day when Are you going to change Oil in those coveralls our spy on the Home front says that housing conditions Are so bad in Washington that people Are sleeping in the churches on some Joes in France witnessed a new Mosquito cure one a Mosquito fell into a bottle of Calvados and then bumped into a is it True that the song leading the nazi hit Parade these Days is hold tight hold tight a military expert is a Guy who tells you today what is going to happen tomorrow and who tells you tomorrow Why it didst happen yester of a bomb group makes the following observation of a shapely miss she derails my train of an editorial the soldiers Battle Bastogne was a soldiers1 the fog and smoke have rolled Back far Eno grf to make that it was an infantryman alone in his shooting it out with a Tiger a worthy target for the for if that one Ameri can broke and ran it might break the spirit of the no Ameri can no Soldier it was a Hun sole survivor of his squad he chewed a can of then Gimme my he let me Back at the it was a shot in the Arm and lying in the slush of a surrounded the is broke he and every other bleeding doughboy Able to cock a carbine shot it out with the and the position was Well chosen by but officers and men worked in dark Ness and it didst any errors in staff work were fixed by go our ads and tanks Wert the As together they smashed Hal the German assaults at the but the other half were stopped by v i never did air and ground work better bombers and Laid Ife on the but before the last dirt and splinters had fallen Thep was i it was a soldiers Oncel joined there want much the Bra could it was up to the Man with the my Rundstedt pitched in his Soldier the Soldier the soldiers everywhere would they that was soldiers it miss 100 krauts Are biting the dirt because 2 gis had a system by Ralph Martin stars and stripes staff writer with the the Only six weeks ago he was guzzling ice Cream sodas Back in firing his machine gun for the first time in 20yearold Leon outlaw protected the completely exposed flank of his regiment for five Days and killing at least 100 wounding Many More and taking six prisoners who waved White for five snowy Days and sleepless nights outlaw sat cramped in his slush filled drinking Small swallows of melted using his single Blanket to cover his and with Only three k rations to fourth was slapped out of his hand by a piece of in another ten feet behind Redmustache Alphonse of kept his eyes glued to a pair of powerful Field directing and adjusting fire for no need for adjustment after a while there was no need for fire said id just say suicide or or and outlaw would automatic ally know the direction and Range and Start we gave our own names to it was a sometimes there was no need for a sometimes the germans were so Black and thick against the Snow that you said outlaw usually waited until the krauts came Down the slope 800 Yards away where there was absolutely no then hed open up and Cut them the first time they really rushed and 12 germans managed to up it w tip Maul Din to the bag i politely question the intelligence in publishing walkers Well meant More the following excerpt every go knows that the is the Damn Best place and government the British know it i sincerely doubt if the British even let alone that our country is better than almost everyone has a deep rooted Pride in his own As we love America the British Kye their such situations serve Only to create americans Are too inclined to consider Only our Point of tic when they run we try to Ketch to make when we Ketch pm we try get within 25 Yards of his foxhole before his bullets stopped outlaw got to experimenting after a if he saw Small groups of krauts sneaking across the Clearing and there was a nearby he would simply Zero in on the Hole and As soon As they make a break for the As they always outlaw would let Loose straight at the catching them on the Way but it was Only after outlaw began shooting up German command cars on the Road Yards away that the Kraut started dropping the whole German Artil Lery Book right on top of from Black concussion mortars and 88s to the really big babies which threw mud 40 feet up in the deeply dug ire farther behind protecting the were 17 deeply Dugin several were one was then came the two German tanks rumbled up to within 900 Yards of wandered around the area for More than two hours and then went ill never be Able to understand said they could have come in and cleaned us out in a couple of soon Myers spotted a German signalling with a radio crawling Forward obviously to direct pin Point artillery fire on Myers watched carefully every time the Antenna came up and reported to who fired two bursts but with the third the Antenna stayed own communication with the rear was completely it might go on for five minutes and then not work for several bigger Kraut patrols began coming in More especially at outlaw fired so much that he burned out the machine gun and had to make a Quick switch with Trie Reserve 1 never saw so Many dead people in my said but that didst bother me As much As the i can still hear them hollering and moaning and and see some of them stand up and try to walk and fall or just see them Lay kick and i guess ill keep hearing and seeing that As Long As i an radio program 18 Bailey up the the with Helen swing away up the sports supper music Mckinley diary mercers music and and a mystery playhouse news from the edition and news from the and 19 album with to by Jan by the ranch after up the news from the on the continent listen to your favorite an programs Over the Allied expeditionary forces program 583 also shortwave i band Between 0800 and 1900 Snow yarn Supply Sarge Given assist by town crier by Jimmy Cannon stars and stripes Start writer with St infantry White Hills the Snow drifts blanketing the Valk made the landscape one of great Beauty but it was a dangerous Beauty for sold men in ods were big targets As moved across this White vastness tin the frosted so George of Hou Stuj civil affairs officer for ask the townsfolk to contribute materials Snow suits for the troops of this Divisio Peddy sent for Jean Baptiste Kimn the deaf Gravedigger who is also Tel Kimmes is a wrinkled stump o Man who wears a Black and we Check ered 1 Kimmes Shook big tones from 1 Copper Bell and stood in the snowy so of Heads popped from wind the town crier shouted until the bulged and flesh the collars his stained i hereby make known to the Unity that those people who have to bed linens and table Linen of a army signal carps photons Bectran Missouri a Veteran of the mexican bord if Campaign and world War uses captured German sewing machine in Hurtgen Forest o stitch a came color they do not need can serve he those people should take this to the Community As it must be As camouflage for Snow suits for american sixteen times he yelled this to the before he had Finis huge pile of White cloth was stacked in the mayors the men of division today Wear these Homen Snow suits in i had to be a crier also for mans when they were said Kin in his hoarse voice he Strug control in Normal out to the people the germans must old old b metals and t do not what they required them they these materials and shipped them to but the people of Fels did not crier to Tell them their town was for it was unnecessary to cry out were the deaf Man with la big voice they know that is their new Gyro gunfight Sharpens pilots aim air service adopting a new gyre gunfight that automatically Range and Lead fighter have sharpened the effectiveness of fire and fattened the number of made on enemy before Tion of the a British innovate pilots had to rely on tracer Bullet aiming v
