London Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 20, 1945, London, Middlesex                                Toije company filed through the cobbled streets less ii fire and move whistling wind of a raw december Dawn roared through the wooded canyons clustered about the battered Luxemburg Village of it was murderously cold out there and pfc Raymond of Rifleman of l317th infantry 80th hunched his shoulders against it As the remnants of the outfit slogged out of the company k had i Martin had just sur first 12 hours of yesterday he had been a full of fears and fearful of his own ability to remember what he had Learned in training Back in the doubtful of his ability to become one of the boys and to carry his share of the Load when the chips were now he belonged and he wondered How the hell it All hed been too Busy to figure it out Mac showed him he grinned a Little through Frozen lips As he remembered his buddy that was a terrific the co had been pretty smart assigning each of the new men to team up with one of the Fellows who had been in the company for quite a he might not have been alive at this moment if Mclain haunt taken him in hand and taught him combat know How and All the tricks of killing Jerries and staying healthy while doing Mclain had kept pretty close to him All during that first hectic hour when the Jerries attacked the but the Best part had Mac had taken him to All the other men in the company and introduced made him feel at asked him questions about his Home and and gave him the Bonscore on the tactical position of the note he belonged it sure was a great feeling to Martin made a Guy feel like he was part of the team and that the other Guys depended on youd have to be an awful Stinker to just Lay Down in a Hole and play pos sum when your buddies might get knocked off on account of and Back in the states you Learned that digging in and not firing was a Good Way to become a name on an insurance Martin it was damned he thought about those Wisen Heimers in the reinforcement Center in the All that is about How Tough the old Guys would be to get along with How Tough combat the hell with the other Guy and All that he Felt a Little warmer when he thought about Mac and Strzeszewski and the hed kill the Louse who said anything against that he remembered Strzeszewski telling him that it you kept moving and firing you  get frightened and that was when a fellow did nothing that was when he got and it had been strange As How All those training lessons and Maneu vers Back in the states had come Back to his mind after the first mortar and Small arms he remembered All the thousands of repetitious times his and officers Back at Camp had keep under cover when you cant go and watch your squad and hit the ground dont go sightseeing and keep your eyes and ears hed hated the bastards then now it All came the stuff he thought hed snipers were Slimy he wished they taught him More about artillery fire Back it was Tough As hell to know the sound of Kraut shells and from what direction they were and you had to keep your eyes open for those Slimy the company filed through the Gray Dawn and through the cobbled streets of Martin grimaced a Little As he thought of the Racket he had made crawling through the Brush up in such a noisy he said to have to watch that next Cowboy and Indian gotta have they reached the manure smelling stable called Mac How you mar tin said pfc Raymond when Are the new recruits coming up army signal corps photo Riding into Battle on is one trick of modern War which we  i these me into Glenn of like Many another american liked to go to the movies when he iwas a and Hel generally also believed pretty near everything he read in the news papers and in he had a very vivid As a he was just about the most scared Guy in the army when he arrived As a reinforcement to 15th tank the general picture of War As she is fought in the movies and press is that a Guy is either Ai hero or a thought he didst care much about being it had 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