London Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 23, 1945, London, Middlesex                                Page 2 the stars and stripes 1945 the stars Ani stripes printed the times publishing Foi under auspices of information int education special and inform Atohi contents pissed by the army and Navy craters subscription 26 shillings per rear plus Eto enl my As a wind Mailer at hit mat new under the at of Alt material appearing in this publication Hern written and Peduti by Toni formed members of the armr Anil nary except stated that a civilian or Ortt outside Wurt if Htmat editorial printing Howe ec4 business wry circulation upper Brest we Tousa District offices Bedford 2184 Swindon 3424 Sutton cold bed Oaks january 1945 it Biow our note Lack of space forces us to limit All letters published to not More than 200 a say by i Joe 1945 to bag there has been a lot of talk by Pur bigwigs and our allies of to do with the German ringleaders and Germany itself after its How about letting i Joe have a say in what is to be done he he saw his buddies die and get he saw the savagery and ruthlessness of those dirty my plan is to have one Joe from each outfit represent All of us when that event Ful and victorious Day How about casualty mail to the bag i am certain that Many Apos along the Way to the front Are doing i am equally certain that a Good number of Apos could do a hell of a lot for organize More put in some or More overtime when Neces the Soldier at the front Doest wait for 0800 hours to nor does he observe 1600 hours to cease an evacuated casualty receives no mail for a period of from one to two a highly efficient system should be set up at once that will function to have this mans mail Start following him Back at the earliest at present the Soldier goes Back through a number of hospitals and after a week or so he learns by hearsay he should write his unit Apo asking that his mail be forwarded meanwhile his unit Apo hoards his mail until hearing from the Why not equip each Hospital with change address cards As a patient is admitted to each Hospital he addresses one of these cards to his original in ending May i suggest postal inspectors be designated and really get around to Check on the efficiency of Apo fun give these inspectors authority to Correct deficiencies on the and other casualties in a a German wife 1945 to the bag regarding Cunningham and his let him marry cant say he 1945 to the bag i am writing in regard to Cunningham and the abuse that has been hurled against it seems a couple of the boys dont like the what i would like to know is did their mothers pick out the girls they were supposed to in love with who in the hell Are they to try and regulate the most Beautiful thing on this Earth As for the Good the Good Job on the front and remember in Case this smugness starts to work on youre the master of your and the Captain of your also signed by army med pfc 1945 to the bag my hat is off to George too bad there Are so few who can think As clearly and As Well As he George Freeman 1945 to the bag hot shot Georgie is such a fighting where in hell does he get All the time to make such Good friends with the pretty girls wounded combat reinforcement and the Anc 1945 to the bag in answer to that  problem letter by a As of your 12 after Reading some of the silly bitches that i have in various i All i can say is that it was a pleasure to read something As sensible As that in double Cluster Man so Impf Only to know what Hes talking but to agree with him As 100 per would also appreciate your passing an Orchid to the army nurse youre doing a swell Wilh All the crap you girls have to put up i  Call it any Small you May be Only but you rate higher than any four Star with Ami other quote from the bomb Bay the it offered his girl a scotch and she maybe the girls on the Home front Are being True to the Joes Over Here after All least that what this Little thought girls who close their eyes when the Guy who quip of the week by she was a secondhand furniture dealers that Why she  allow much on theold today Island located in a Bill Henes has his own ideas about postwar he see he can just Sec All the sign painters lettering Cor poral on office doors instead of this May not be the oldest gag in the but its easily runner its another unsigned Jingle left in the Why does a baby Duck walk softly because it cant walk we like Jerry Are sons breath less account of a conversation Between a Veteran Pilot and a Rookie shortly after thanksgiving said the Veteran in there i the right Wing gone and then the left Wing what did you do screamed the replied the vet i ate the shed a tear in your Beer for Gerard Hes been in the Eto for 15 in the nights mail he gets a notice from his draft Board kindly Call at this office on november please bring copy of your hot tip tis rumoured that Paul Weissman of an Engineer unit Over Here was a Cigar manufacturer in Berlin before the Paul see Bis most popular Brand was named hand would Light pm and throw them away within five this Little verse is dedicated to All the Guys with pinups in their our Walls Are graced by sundry Pix of shapely jills and who show de luxe accessories upon the female from hut 18 comes this observe a Little peroxide makes a blonde but a Little Gin is just As what Luzon to a flying Eagle capture of the important rail and Road Center of Tarlac on saturday places Douglas Macarthur forces within 65 air Miles of Manila and 22 Miles of Clark former air Tarlac fall represents a 50mile Advance from the americans Landing Point on lingayen a Book Sis every War against the cartoons by Dick Wingert from the stars and Wells Darton and royalties devoted to the British red by Richard stars and Snipes staff that wondrous chunk of Browbeaten but unbowed of though its also through this 60page collection of his adventures Inich a mostly in a rage and out of that its enough to make even the most browned off Veteran Grin with remember that time Over some Tea when getting one ahead of somebody asks his English How do you like it Here grinning and bearing you May be Able to answer that same the next if youve reviewed the Hubert approach to the in this Book of Dick wingers earliest stars acid stripes gets touch of nostalgia Wingert claims that Hubert now beating Back Jerries on the continent As he scans the horizon for his russian gets a touch of nostalgia now and then for a Tea Shoppe with some cats crawling disarmingly Over his private Breger Kim Pat leks Milli sometimes in glad officers always walk ahead of enlisted men that admirable civitan Blob on top of his a few darts whizzing past his a House House dash past the maps on the springtime Offen Sive in Hyde Park and other mis of the chunk also didst like the army Here to use a under shortly after parading past some lord mayor in the for he made the most desperate and ingenious Man Euver of his local volunteered to the British for service overseas in the As he drank the nearest pub out of mild and and maybe you that night at the Gate when Hubert showed dazzlingly in a few Odds and ends of his youre the kind of Guy that gives the rest of us a bad name said the guard guard wrong As usual the guard at the Gate was As not Only is kind of Guy who gives gis the Only name most care about but apparently this int a bad name to the who already have bought up the entire British ration copies of Wingens hard to conceive of any More irrefutable evidence that you cant Force a Square civilian chunk into a round army without getting constant Bellows of than wingers How Wingert manages to make the evidence cheerful is a mystery to this who Doest know much about but who would like to know what Art is if it int these 60 cartoons not Only Tell the bitter but make you gag with laughter swallowing excuse said a goggle eyed in a cafe at the sight of Hubert and pals sitting Complete with Raf Malacca times and have you been Over Here Long Well not so Long that you still cant appreciate Huberts View of army life on which you and censored thousands of other gis probably see Eye to Eye with the great a in radio program american forces the ref on the Road to Berlin of your dial 1375 1402 1411 1420 1447 23 Spons up the the from the Murray guest up sports supper to mercers music band of the Shore news from the and off until 0755 hours 24 album with Martha by Bob from after american band of the up the news from inc on the continent listen to Jour favorite an programs Over the Allied expeditionary forces pro Tram 583 also shortwave band 0800 and 1900 hand but h held remains to hero with the 100th infantry Martin of grand is minus one of his hands but to Bis High courage two of his buddies of 398th have their it happened when Anderson into a foxhole with two other dough William of yelled to him to get out because there was it live grenade in the pfc Louis i slipped in trying to scramble out and seeing that All three would become casualties unless drastic action was picked up the live remembering that there were Bazooka men Betow who might be injured by the he held it High above his head until it Are rebels yanks Are yanks rebels of our whistling is Sharp enough to Cut strains of Dixie through a London fog As thick As unbaked we Hope it cuts its Way through to Brooks Estes and you Doni seem to care what you they heres since we can there seems always to have been a Barrier Between yanks and but since the War this of course were All referred to As where did the rebels get to shut to yall know Damn Well yall Are just trying to rile us into Sayin that the fight nest yanks Are rebels and rebels Are the fight nest so its just All get together on a Good substantial rebel yell and scare the shooting outa Yip Yeeee a 2nd sends this sketch of h o p a b St to 11 it it suggested new i got the idea from a he they dont bog i catching up on our Reading for sends this from a recent time Magazine in Days of Obj it was customary to rename the principal cities of conquered territory this served the twofold purpose of bolstering the t of the victors and reminding the Vani quashed who won the we Are not a vain but the germans should certainly have a perpetual reminder of the fact that they Only Superior Force Bur to an aroused Jde his own suggestion is that Berlin be named of by right now it looks As though Well i to Clear it first with Uncle a correspondent from the states tells us Flat last payday at fort the usual line of iou collectors and other jokers was lengthened by a who stood with outstretched Cap Bea the furlough he four Bucks clinking in the Cap before the contributing gis realized that the was strictly cant teach an old 22 22yearold discharged Veteran who entered the sixth Grade after realizing in the army the Adan of admitted he might be Able to stick it out because in of his principal said that an oddity worried Morgan considerably