London Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 25, 1945, London, Middlesex Page 2 the stars and stripes 1945 the stabs and stripes Prici at the thaw to Fershtat few Anani Pricr notices of the Eta Attan special co Taat fatted toy the army out nary i icon Aducat path 26 motors per year plus Eto Duma As second Doss matter at Ose port new my Lite act of All material amur Tot la that jew Taiton Tea been a Rotten and eau cd sly uniformed members of the Amy and nary except Wiatre stated that a civilian or other of Nolde Beitf editorial he printing House Ris Buss and circulation 37 upper Brook w1 Tousa District offices in Deloid 3414 Sutton cold Leld for Oaks january 1945 to out note bag is receiving Many unsigned we require signature As evidence of Good Faith your identity win not be revealed if you inform us you want your name a Gas project 1945 to the bag what does a i want that to return Home but since necessity Here lies his most important alternates in their proper order Leo win the Ware promised Germany total inferior tanks should be brought up to smaller v2s for extra Long Range artillery work 40 a Large Bazooka for antitank with tripod and other new exile hitter and to devils use German War prisoners for re construction of Bel use German civilians to destroy or convert War from their March through Germany Annu ally with a sizable and at no set place of entry or doing away with supposedly necessary but unpopular idea of occupation investigations to be made to determine absence of military land Grant to any combat Soldier with no stipulations of occupancy or if so and within 30 Days of arrival in the but not a world court to try War criminals and carry out items 2y to specifications for some of these can be obtained by getting in touch with me As if you can or to understand 1 1945 to the bag this is to pfc in comment on his bringing parents to the frontline Sug i too am but through the Courtesy of a German v certainly the folks Back Home cant comprehend How rough it is on the front and i Hope to god they never which is one of the reasons you and i Are what about the thousands on the front line who Are now parents will they be Able to convey to their children their incomprehensible miseries in to come any less vehemently than the unfortunate group you would condemn to the front is there any More conviction in their Conception than there would be in yours my it would be like an Angel trying to describe eternity to would still have to to understand please accept the above As constructive and food for As like would seek understanding of my but can see where it is More forms to understand in comprehend where general ikes forces March into Berlin the stars and stripes will publish a fives Star speaking of we understand that in one t she bed pan the ramble late comment on a recent news Gypsy Rose Lee birth to a seven Pound just Little we tit advances in medical Accord ing to at a certain station Hospital Over Here the answer to All and sundry ailments its All in your a i in franc got a letter from a girl Friend Back Ira the states requesting some of that divine French he mailed her a bottle with this note i dont know whether this is divine perfume or but at the Price they charge it must be scent from j quip of the week by Ivan theres j been a lot of Belt tightening in Germany in the last five Back in the nazis thought they could Girdle the now there Busy trying to hold their own the eternal query of gis paying their initial visit to Paris is what is the Folies Bergere like to which Bill Pfrenger has his own Apt description its Brooklyn burlesque with a appropriate Home towns a i Over Here tomes from Lone memo to pfc Maury All rumours to the this column was not named hash Marks because each gag published a had at least three years new song tites a Guy named Nick changes the name of a pop the problem of Japan 1945 to the bag the article Leonard Giblin in today Stais and does not augur Well for the future peace in the Why Are those far Eastern experts tackling the problem of Japan in a manner altogether different from the Way Ger Many is being tackled surely Japan has Given ample evidence that she can longer be treated As a separate poli tical Why about Hiro Hitos signing of any treaty who the hell wants the japanese to have any spokesman after Shes Defeated future Jap Jingo its lets make damned sure there wont be such a destroy the Power of the military caste with the emperor lets destroy the military the emperor the latter must be done away with As the first step in destroying and shintoism bears too Many resemblances to nazism to be allowed to one for the South Pacific 1945 to the bag in not a 30year or a com Mando but in in the army for six years and everyone i talk to is sweating out going to the South they dont want to Here is my Ive seen plenty of i have been wounded in in the Hospital and i guess ill be going Back to the infantry well1 it might sound silly to you or the other but i would like to go very and i Ould like to know How i could go about in not in the nut Ward hit to read spend in Charles mines wonders body Ever heard Charlie Ming the song is any hum you aint my baby an editorial the Joe in the Snow is about the Northern boys remember it As kids we loved took out our flexible fliers and went belly hopping Crown the made Snow men with packed it into round balls that caught other kids in the head and melted Down the backs of their when our hands got red and our feet got cold wed Call it a wed put on dry socks and shoes arid eat hot Chow to take j off the when we were kids Snow sure was theres lots of Snow on the Western front these the for whats left of Bastogne is like a Christmas the Trees Are like old Queens stooping under the weight of their Ermine the wires Loop from pole to pole like tinsel on a Christ Mas where the weight of ice and Snow has pulled them Down and the signal repair men Are Patching Snow lies smooth on the with Only Here and there a Lump come will stink to High its its but the flexible fliers have turned into the Snow men Are the snowballs Are the wet stuff trickling Down the backs of necks is often youre wet and numb with cold theres no place to nothing to look Forward to nothing but Beautiful note shoe Woolen Winter combat the things that make Winter a Little warmer and life More liable belong up there with the Joe in the pm shave Tail finds a better line terrible 20 ran into trouble but shot their Way out again by Pat Mitchell Stan and stripes staff writer with the 87ra division delayed platoon Leader liked to so did his terrible 20 riflemen of k 346th Glenn of and his men attacked the strongly held ardennes Village of killed at least 100 germans and lost Only one of their disgruntled at being the regimental shave Tail a quiet med student before the switched to the line and on his first Day tipped the attack against the nazis snug and warm in this he so i made a patrol with James who Calls himself the California and pfc Warren of we went past a Jerry machine gun nest into town and found a House full of Jerry guns but no so we broke All the guns and then higher ups wanted info on the German so we went Back a second time and heard plenty of Jerries moving there were not enough of us so we Doman then called for six volunteers and picked from the unanimously volunteering platoon George Blann of Emit of pfc Gerald of pfc Clyde of pfc John up front with Mauldin let my i Wanna see a Critter i Kin feel sorry of and Richard of we got into the town and moneyed Doman Piger spotted a hefty nazi sitting guard at a so i sent him and some others to surround the joint while Blankerbaker and i sur prised he came Doman sent 20 men Back to sweep the town from end to Donald of was in charge of one a Houseful of Jerries opened up at us with everything they it was impossible for the other half of our terrible 20 to Corbin Doman sent a bar Man against the Street sweeping machine gun nest and when the Road was cleared called for Corbin and his men to fall Back to the building already the Jerries were holed up in a build ing across the pouring Bur gun fire into our so with Horton Load ing and me firing i went onto the roof and fired at a Range of 15 Yards at the there was a Nice explosion and Jerries started running out and my boys Cut them i called on my radio for artillery and it landed 50 Yards the Jerries brought up a Panther tank to blast the yanks from their Stone when the tank opened up at 200 said i thought we were we were Down to one Bazooka rocket and damned Little Rifle ammo and no tank Edwin of leaven poked his rocket pipe through a Small Hole in the but there was not enough room for his so he shot by guess and i saw the rocket fail ten feet Crowley cried when he missed that the Damn tank started to fire into the building started coming Down on top of 1 radioed for permission to retire even though we were using All the ammo we had left we poured out the heavy fire and left through a Small hellhole the tank never guessed we were pulling out because Cramer and i kept firing our we got an radio program 25 Bailey up the the n swing up the sports supper music Mckinley mercers music and and a news from the and off until 0755 hours 26 with Dave by Freddy by the Andrew ranch after Crosby music up the news from the pushups by the should be under daisies a character who signs himself sad sack and claims to speak for a whole organization of sad sacks wastes no words explaining we claim to have the meanest in the he once while going Over the obstacle course one of our Guys fell and broke his the top kick ran to him and yelled for him to get up and get when the poor Guy pointed to is broken leg the Sarge let out with a Roar and a Start doing pushups do we win could you lose were passing along to Rube Gold Berg a problem posed by pfc Joe it could happen to he but a certain sergeant in my organization has been caught with his pants after letting his laundry Lay around for a couple of he decided to go to town one night and see his he washed a shirt and took it to orderly room to press it on the then he decided to press his he had just taken them off and was arranging Mem on the table when the door opened and in walked an inspecting cant somebody invent some thing Thall press pants on the Hoof writes Robert referring to the picture you see Here is something i snapped while in Inverness on i hereby dedicate it to the need i say More need we comes now Ray Buckman with the latest claim to be the youngest Grandfather in the he says that when he first staked out the about year nobody paid him no i should like to enter my claim he Clinch the title and end the i became a Grandfather at the raw Young age of 30 when Niy daughter became a Mother at the age of in now 33 and have two my who is the same age As 1 claims to be the youngest grandmother in the we have two other and my who is in the was to have spent Christmas at so i May be a Grandfather for a third time by the have i got enough Points to go Home after Oduy Points he wants nazi braves flak to bail out of the War a 9th of fighter Bej Tail gunner on a Erman bomber decided theother night be had been fighting Long when he made his he was Over the Allied lines in but he was a Resolute he went Over the Hill then and bailed out into the waiting arms of an my unit of the 9th ass 366th fighter the awol slightly injured when he said he knew he was Over the lines because of the heavy flak which greeted his i
