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Publication: London Stars and Stripes Wednesday, January 24, 1945

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   London Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 24, 1945, London, Middlesex                                Page 2 the stars and stripes 1945 the stars and stripes printed at the times publishing for armed under auspices of the information und education special and information contents passed by the army Anil Farr censors subscription 26 shillings per Vear pint Eto entered As second class matter at the Post new wider the act of All material appearing in hits publication hat been written and edited by uniformed members of the Amy and nary except where thai a civilian or other outside source is hint editorial printing House ec4 business and circulation upper Brook we Tousa District offices Bedford 2184 Siri Ndon 3424 Sutton a Oldfield Oaks january 1945 right or wrong 1945 to the bag i have just read liking liberation letter in your just where does he get the idea of Labelling it an assertion by Frederick former president of the National association of that conditions in France and Belgium Are sordid and unhappy Crawford also after a tour of file liberated that the truth about european conditions was being kept from americans by censorship which was largely political nazi propaganda Hitler sold nazi Germany on the idea he was and never let them see or hear the other consequently they believed in i Hope in right in thinking America shows us both sides and then lets it up to our judgment to think who or what is right or whats afraid truth if were in error on some i for sure want to know that the Only Way for just because we Are America Doest mean we can do no i say Hooray for the stars and keep it keep telling us the let us figure it and to Wake up Johnny and see the Sun that Why Hitler got so no one knew what he was Frank heavy insignia 1945 to the bag this is mostly for the who should by rights pass a Law permit Ting every Soldier who serves More than one year with a combat outfit to Wear his own i am very proud of my own and do hate like hell to change John de fifth training mops 1945 to the bag Why should the government use the taxpayers Money and we Are All tax payers to train medical and surgical who spend their time training they Are supposed to help us take care of of which they polish brass and clean admitted that the place has to be kept but there Are less concentration on Hospital House keeping and More on patients needs and care would improve the medics As Well As that of the j nurses who note to the Little Moron its not True that one of the russian orders of the Day Lodz of love to Adolf from our spy on the Home front reports this is the land of Why so Many married men get into you feel after a Glass of the stuff of the same pfc Emil Rissman sends this verse from a foxhole in r when we capture old Hitler and prepare him for the shootings too Good for make him take Basic training which reminds us of a feat that takes real a Guy brought a Box of exploding cigars Over Here just for a gag but now with the fag shortage on he has been driven to smoking them and liking he had a Little trouble with the first now he has it timed so he throws them away just before the it  be Long now before the leading song on the hit Parade will be that old smash hit How you Gonna keep pm Down on the farm after Treyve seen the most appropriate poem weve seen to Date cd Afes from the mess in army meet the brain of who dreams up the Best Way to win by consulting astrology and German while his men take it All on the Chin moaned the Little Moron theres one Consolation about the if you cant get stripes above the Elbow just stay in the Eto Long enough and youll get stripes below the and another unsigned verse left in our typewriter 1944 to the bag i know at least ten male nurses that Are members of different and their duties Are night firemen or latrine so i think that there Are plenty of medical men in the medical corps if some and co open their eyes and see what kind of Man they i have been in the army six and i have been in lots of but in it takes the go to Blabbermouth 1945 to the r3ag there is a certain Blabbermouth that keeps shooting off his Mouth about eng land Russia he Doest seem to realize that is Etc actin what Hitler please print this so i can show it to he will shut Call this Jerk Parka it takes a wedding to make a fellow for at first he thinks Shes but later learns Hes Snappy could you learn to love me sighed the i As he gazed at his lady replied the practical Young i Learned shorthand in three meal nets Deal nazis break spare Hospital by Bud Button stars and stripes staff writer with 4ra infantry american officers spent a night As guests of the German ate Fried talked with a nazi about his former Homes in Texas and new and concluded arrangements for removing a German military Hospital from danger of american artillery the Deal by which a couple of yanks could sit Down to Midnight supper with a German staff Man and an assistant divisional commander came about when the germans sent a lieutenant and a Corporal to the 4th division lines under a White the germans asked immunity from shelling for a Hospital at Ger Charles Sherman and Sig Mund both of new went Back to the enemy they crossed Yards of no mans land past German patrols and crossed the Sauer nazi assault Hoat to they were taken to the hos Over Midnight supper of Fried potatoes and asparagus Moselle wine and ersatz they were asked to see for themselves that the Hospital zone had been an inspection tour showed the Hospital to be at least 500 Yards from All Mili tary to Geneva convention they stopped in a Ward for seriously they saw 40odd germans and an american sergeant from their own division who said he was treated no better than the krauts no the americans spent the night with a German no guard at their he asked them about Texas and new York where he said he had at 6 am they Fried eggs went Back to the american lines by the same later in the Day they delivered an answer to the shivering German Corporal in no mans land no artillery fire will be directed closer to this Hospital than is authorized by the terms of the Geneva the German Corporal had waited alone for the he because his lieu tenant had gone Back to the lines with cold urges a Joe help 6old men9 Frame peace stars and stripes Bureau 23 columnist Drew Pearson today suggested that at least one Veteran of this War sit at the peace Pearson pointed out that after the last War old nearly the peace which was later torn to the Pearson  do any they might do Pearson attacked prime minister Church ills declaring that the British Leader has fought and directed wars for nearly 50 years and cant of a earless Pearson suggested that in writing the peace the diplomacy of elders be diluted with listen to the old but give them the influence of at least one hard talking Veteran As a full fledged he the woman in the Harbor theres a in the Harbor whose Arm is stretched to god she stand the precious Miles of Earth my feet have Shes there both in the from dusk to break of Day just keeping watch for All her sons whole journeyed far she stood there Back in seventeen when All the world was mad she watched her sons go Forward then to give the Best they and now a Quarte Century of time has hastened by she stands and sees her sons go to March and sail and when i never realized How much she meant to 1 took my life for granted in that Haven of the but now since i have travelled Oer half this troubled i know there is no other land like that which gave me like All her Many thousand sons who now Are Over to god my heavenly father i raise this daily prayer that he will Grant ill see that that one and Only with the woman in the Harbor whose Arm is stretched to smelled that i roof Cal he came Back from Bataan death March 23 foot sore and hungry for Good american the first survivor Bataan death March to join his fading countrymen on Luzon rested to at a bomber Wing Headquarters Altai hiding from the japanese and living m Rice for nearly three he was Gerald an air corps he passed through american lines was brought Here by its too Good to be a his Chalky face lighted u the Prospect of american filling he told his Story which had electrified the Whf previous survivors first recounted it Jujj i Wade told How and other prison my who surrendered at Bataan april 1942j were mistreated and made to March 85 Miles North to a prison i they laughed and jeered at lit some of them bashed us or Elfi Heads with they reminded Erie underdogs who finally had got the upper hand and didst know How to it was a scorching hot Wade the survivors of Bataan marched along without food or while the japanese opened their c removal the sugar and chocolate and threw fat rest Wade said he escaped Early from the concentration Camp being constructed by the there were Only three Lookout towers he and for some reason the water Supply the americans were sent out to fill cans of water one a radio him i were sent for water outside the barbed wire Fence which was still being we dumped the cans and took off in Broad Ive been living on Rice for nearly three he and it gives you an he devoured one meal of beef and Green Beans and canned fruit and then finished a second meal of Fried Ham with four six milk and chocolate japanese officers who enjoyed speaking English told Wade that Ameri cans have Good Good but no fighting they have toe much too much navys Privateer is new design lib 23 Navy now has a new the consolidated Vultee redesigned from the b24 Liberator described As a four engined search the Privateer is Able to Range unescorted Over Miles from its us fuselage is More than seven feet longer than that of a and it contains p guns in six replacing the familiar double Tail of he Liberator is a High single said o have less the Privateer carries a Crew of top Speed is More than 250 Miles per Barkansas traveler 23 a Mongrel dog with an appetite or Auto License plates made of a soybean was saved from the death cell of the City Pound by the pleas of More Han 150 persons who offered to take the the do Catcher announced he would Send the dog to retort on character 1945 to the bag we would like to inform the officers and Ems who called the an aching Back program corny and Stinky that there Are a great Many of us wounded gis who Are Back from hell who the character and his his Good you old maids can turn your dial and get the by for All the longhair the higher Powers worry about Anglo american there is always the be we like and approve of such pfc army pfc Fafa a pfc pfc aaa pfc pfc Abmd Anc our Beautiful in gift Mars has a Wiener roast Hatten was a blazing hell that stank of burning death by Ralph Martin stars and stripes staff writer with the 7th Hatten is said the tired tank com Mander in a strained you ought to see those people running around like Yelling and screeching and tiny whimpering kids stretched of on Small carts being pushed by their and All the time the town was burning like a Torch with the krauts shooting flamethrowers and White phosphorus and All kinds of did you even listen to people and cattle being roasted alive its something you never and All the in the Middle of the Doug feet Are running from building to fighting a that was Hatten when Earl Simp of Junction rolled in with a platoon of our troops held on third of the town separated from the Kraut held Section by a thick Wall of fire the krauts simply stayed on their Side of the pouring in heavy artillery and mortar they hold their fire and Send a platoon of Tiger tanks through up everything they Only Good thing about wintertime is things dont stink like they did last the smoke to shoot that Why the doggies were so Over an radio program on your dial 1375 1402 1411 1420 1447 24 s the we up the the moments in up the sports supper the air 8th air with mercers music band of the condos jazz Hope with Frances Jerry Colonna and Skinny news from the edition and news from the and 25 album with to by Hal time with Abe Lyman after Bob up the news from the Joyed to see the they told their morale went up 100 per cent Whei we broke said to break Simpsons tanks had to Cross More than a mile of open Field onto which the krauts had zeroed everything they Only a few Days before our guns had done the same thing on the same it looked like a said William of Simpsons wherever you looked you could see every kind of Burntout vehicle and you didst have to know that the Field was covered with dead the Semi was said j sitting inside his Sim soil counted at least half a dozen direct mortar hits on his Button Educ if but the doggies didst have anywhere j to i wish i Yasback at one of them told the Yelling 1 civilians were running in All directions at j Simpson saw a Little old lady who had been hit by shrapnel Laid out in the Middle of a deserted Side Street in the Back of 1 the she was screaming and beating the Street with her hands and kicking her feet until one Doggie finally raced through some sniper fire to pick up and bring her those doggies Are sail i dont see How they do newmans Yankee doodles Gonna do after the War Little did i upon being or hat i would have the Onti Oue my build wrecking  
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