London Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 20, 1945, London, Middlesex Page 2 the stars and the stars and stripes prism at the tracs pm Nuwt far a met Fer the Iofe Rattra Art Edat Totoa special Art cantata raised by Hie and Navy teasers subscription 26 shillings per rear plus Eto entered As second class Gutter at the Post new under the act of All material appearing in publication has been written and edited by members of the army and nary except therit stated that a chilian or other being Euto rut printing House ec4 bus Len and circulation upper Tousa 5416k District offices Bedford 2184 Swindon 34z4 Oldfield Oaks january 1945 bkg Efow it note bag is receiving Many unsigned we your signature As evidence of Good Faith your identity will not be revealed you inform us you want your name to the last ditch 1945 to the bag cheers for the letter on the reinforce ment problem by 1 not Only arc men two and three times wounded sent Back to the wonder ing what is in store for them this but there Are men still fighting who have not been fortunate enough to be wounded and sent Back to a Hospital for the Speaks of the psychological Side of the to me its the whole Damn can you see a mind that knows that Only two things can happen to him and still see his Home he can be wounded or the War could end 1 know of a few men left in my i mean the men who landed with the outfit and they Are darn who dont even trouble to Duck any that do or die spirit is just so much Flag waving to fight to the last Jusi dont try and Tell them How the country depends on them to do Rifle average mental age 1945 to the bag after having read Alex Anders statement that the average mental age of american enlisted men is Between 13 and it would be most interesting to determine the average age of army including 2nd lieu two 1945 to the bag Are the officers doing All the thinking for this army i personally dont think dont that there Are a lot of enlisted men at the present time who will be out of this army some and will be Back there running their own Busi Ness and telling someone else what to make it easy on a 194 from Fred silvers comes i practical suggestion dog tags Are con to dually lost by not Tattoo the information on the Ems vignettes of a wounded Joldic from the state of Alabama was seen at a base Hospital plunking away on a guitar and 1 come from Alabama with a Bandage on my were running this quaint Little verse through the Courtesy of to the bag we realize that our mental age is or we follow an imaginary line from a majors pointing Finger into a Pill and then just As stupidly go on to that this is called making the world Safe for child and and 21 other ignorant wounded Virginia had Little quart of cider hard As and everywhere she went twas sport to watch Virginia this Gem comes from Milton instead of the Welcome mat on be Doorstep one Soldier intends to use this verse As a reminder to guests who Are Likely to overstay their Welcome were glad youre do come we go to bed at Hal past and staff William re parts a revised version of an old observation an etching is liquor is silly conversation Captain impatiently eyeing the office shoes on wrong off Jiey came Wotta yank t a and equipment is this photograph of a nazi a Zsoner forced to return the army shoes and pants he his Glen Frame watches in smilingly however they sliced hero yank had Only i Finger so he kept it on the trigger of you should have been Here at 8 sleepy pfc what happened and another unsigned verse left in our typewriter it takes a wedding to make a fellow for at first he thinks Shes but later learns Hes 1945 to the bag perhaps the major meant the average mental age of it applies to All not any one group facts show a very High percentage of people Stop learning at the age of but experience and facts add to their Why pick on the Miller the 14 which Alexander referred to is a psychiatric designation in a scale ranging normally from about five to 20 and when translated into the army approximates a score of the i average is a Normal mental reflecting ability for at least a High school the major toh the stars and and is slightly above the average for the United he quoted he mental score Only in an Effort to Point out clearly co members of the court martial out the accused Soldier was substantially less proficient mentally than the average for the for belter speech Tot Hebbar in reference to Jow panzers were in the i feel deeply being from the South to know that a boy from the South had a hand in but Why in the name of common sense do the writers of articles like that have to word for incorrect English like that Jwuc just up and and Label it from the True we Fellows have expressions like you meaning More than but the Fellows from Tjie North say houses so lets Call it someone makes a statement like teat give his full name and address and not Label it froth the by doing that you will help him Correct his and you wont by casting any reflections on sections of the country our country we Toye and fight let me say that i know the civil War is in Case anyone thinks that was my reason for for better a Secretary writes if every wife tried to please her husband As Secretary does he employer there would be no divorce All the men would be perfectly the women would wish they were and everything would be just by Earl Mazo stars and stripes staff writer a general 19 hours Early in the Ger Man counteroffensive Alfred Bell held off attackers who tried to flush him and some others from an abandoned Aid the Rangy staff sergeant from Dallas fought first with a German when a Bazooka Shell had blown away most of both of his hands and blinded him in one he kept fighting and had a medic Hack away with a Bayonet at one piece of his left hand which Hung uselessly and got in the Way of the Tommy gun which he held crooked under that Bells platoon of Light tanks was rushed into the fight before stave lot Early in the his platoon Leader had gone leaving him with four tanks o hold a Road Block and protect a battalion Aid after 24 hours of just an outpost reported a German patrol heading ror Bells the patrol turned out to be about 400 screaming is we picked off quite a Bell but one by one their bazookas got All our tanks except so i ordered the other men to get out while i went in to see what i could do for the medics and the i told the medics they better with draw with the they left just As the germans broke into the i and the two medics and two american wounded to resist right so i hid my pistol and Tommy and when the germans came after us we gave Bell had everything he would grab the Tommy gun at the first sound of american Relief which he expected but darkness came and no the germans brought out a couple of bottles of Cognac and proceeded to Down them with Large slices of As the germans got drunker and Bell eased himself toward the is Bayonet with which they had sliced the bread and opened the when the Opportunity came he grabbed it and Slit the throats of both our scuffle stirred the germans As i dashed for my Tommy gun i wheeled around in time to see a German umij1g a Bazooka at i threw my to my face just As he the round burst against the Wall right above blinding my left Eye and playing hell with my somehow i got my gun cradled up us Crook of left Arm and with the Little Finger of my right which was the Only one i fired like hell 1 kept Shooti rur until the germans stopped trying to come Down those narrow cellar saw the germans shoot at least two of hem they had red crosses on hem big As hell and the germans could be As Well As i i knew it would for me to Twat i in gut As the night wore on fighting around the building grew in then As if like something out of a wild West a tank jerked to a halt outside and All hell broke it was Bells in which John of had rushed off for he had returned with 12 combat and they came in i was still bleeding and feeling mighty Damn but i was in command so l kept things going As Best i they threw mortars at us and artillery and those engineers fought like eleven of the 12 were killed the one that survived had a i wish i could remember his i never saw a Man fight like he killed at least 40 As Daylight the germans set the building on and the americans cashed through a Hail of machine gun fire for the ambulance Hal track the medic had part Cherok part Irish but a fight by Ken Koyen stars arid stripes special writer with the 4th armoured 38yearold Clyde Workman turned in his i Bullet torn combat clothes for new of ind started Back to his 400acre farm Obi Side on a 30djfrj furlough he was merely taking time from for hell be help the 10th armoured infantry lion account for More this soft voiced has killed hundreds of germans from first fight on july 17 up to the Middle when he stopped both his 98yearold Cherokee Btl and Irish centenarian father Are still air Workman has been wounded but has Only one purple the other six times he just went on ing and let a company medic dress when the Battle died Hes recommended for both the Silver s and distinguished service his biggest Day was when knocked off 135 germans on Hill 2 near frag nicked him three in the left Al and both during a 150yard from foxhole to once he his big hands on the gun in the track Workman mowed he burned up a nazi Light tank firing a burst of incendiary slugs at rear the enemy fought harder during breakthrough in Belgium than Workman he got them in Chaumont alone when his Sion was pushing through to about the biggest mistake new Workman to Bunch iter out in the Start whistling get below ground Lew fast if you want to watch the he dont just concentrate on your Ive seen too Many Guys picked off sniper and machine gun fire from the where they didst even suspect Itaf i front gis g3 chief says 19 Leo assistant chief of army ground Force operations and Trivin who went into Bastogne to find out How the doughboy performs under theres nothing wrong wit the american i Back from his trip Winch took him into Bastogne on on the heels of relieving told a views conference that he had never idea any indication of rout or frenzy among american troops the soldiers he radiated i Many of the american divisions going into combat for the first time during the period of the enemy counteroffer Siw stood up Donovan he added that no fundamental changes in american doctrine or methods were contemplated As a result of th6 Penances met in the German break Lott to do i 19 ans1 Lott is superintendent of schools but he also doubles As a teacher when instructors Are runs the school coaches the basketball cleans up the gym on Friday nights and then on saturday Hes a Butcher in Sec american forces network now hold till i make sure there we dont want none of them russians on our conscience 20 old radio with Phil up the the up the of musical up the is Spons Miller music society of lower Basin of the from the night serenade time hit news from the edition and news from the Pacific and off until 0755 21 for of Charm with Phil Spitalney 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