London Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 25, 1945, London, Middlesex                                In unit news 1945p medic knows War Well he it 192nd general pfc Harry 25yearold medical technician from has been around in this War since before Pearl with the merchant army now with the All of which spells plenty of his ship was out of Hawaii when it was attacked by a japanese submarine Wolf Stackhouse and five the Only survivors of the Crew of floated for 2 Days on a life raft until picked up by a naval he returned to the and for another ship which ran into a Jap his ship was hit and began to wounded in the knee by machine gun Stackhouse was thrown overboard and floated for four hours in a Mae West until rescued by a patrol put aboard a Hospital ship and taken to los after further treatment in a new York Hospital he was discharged and two Days later joined the completing his training with the Stackhouse was injured when a Bulldozer he was driving he was transferred to the medical and is now stationed Here where he is caring for Battle casualties from inside of fort Busy repair shop As it limped Back to base 96th bomb no one Manning the guns when the fort piloted by Edward of Wor straggled Back alone from a raid to bomb the sub pens at for everyone on Board was Busy trying to keep the plane in the hit three times by the fort dropped out of formation when the manual control cables were and Oniszko flew it All the Way to the Channel on the automatic while Joseph of directed the splicing of the and others the Crew maintained a bucket brigade of portable oxygen bottles to replace the shootout oxygen with the help of other Gagliardi finally succeeded in fixing the control cables just As the fort reached the and Oniszko and his co Joe of brought the bomber in for a perfect Eugene of navigated the plane and Joseph served As radio others were Clinton of South Ball Turret gunner Norman of Waist and Fulton of Tail awards and decorations distinguished service Cross Ernest Bankey James distinguished flying Cross capt David George Bronze Star Frederick Funston d Leslie Maurice Baton Walter Maple Ohio Donald Ohio Lennart Roy William Salt Lake Charlie John Bronx Holly Dallas Albat William Kissinger two Walter Klamath Falls William fort Armin Detroit Jesse Albert Carl Bill Hugh Reeds John san Dieso Bronx John Phillip Wil Liam san Vincent purple heart Alvin West John san Luis Patrick Richmond l7 Alfred North Donald East s John Howard Hake albeit Baltimore Charles Harold Adam Ham Alvin Victor John Ohio Luther Delmar a Marlyn Donald two Jerome Elf Chart Vincent Frank Kenneth Bernard Joseph Cincinnati Francis George Lewis Domingo Joseph Frankyn Howard Robert Bobbie James lower Roy Roy Nash John Ray William Pressley Howard Elsie mount James Glenn port Wlbur Thomas Donald Carl Raymond unit news conversation piece Walter of an my at a Mustang wrote fireball Betty Hutton of the craftily asked for something such As an autographed she sent an equally cagy reply in shown bettys which Feret is go this Way 1 Ive been trying to think what it was you wanted me to autograph for 2 but i cant seem to make it 3 Ive got it 4 but youve got to keep it under your hat because things like that Are 5 wait a what Are you Guys driving at 6 cant a lady have any privacy any More Small group of yanks looks ahead to 4th year in the by Andy Walts stars and stripes staff writer a handful of who can remember when news paddlers in Piccadilly sold sewed on Gold overseas bar 6 and prepared to celebrate their third anniversary in the these overseas pioneers arrived in Ireland Only 50 Days after Pearl most of them to do the Spade work for the vast administrative machines that were to equip and Send american soldiers off for the invasions in Africa and the bulk of that original Convoy has moved on to the to other Heaters or Back to the on the largest group left in the com Prises approximately 125 of an original 200 gis sent Over to set up the 10th station they will commemorate the occasion with a dance tomorrow one of the Veteran Harlan a clerk from sat in London Rainbow Corner and As hundreds of soldiers pushed in and out and milled around the re marked seeing All its amusing to recall when a i was novel enough 10 be stared when we arrived in Ireland our life had to be adjusted to a new but the Irish were kind he con their hospitality was warm and he recalled that it didst take the yanks Long to learn to drink warm to find their Way in the to Irish girls a Little longer to learn the Irish Brand of the Veteran medics show effects of their Long stay in of approximately 100 single men in the medical no time to says wounded medic 115th general Robert 31yearold medic from Mason who was wounded at Brest and again in Huertgen Forest while helping wounded dough cant agree with those who think a medical Soldier should be were too Busy to fight he we have a Job to do and no time to handle a unit when it nearly 50 have mar ried Irish or English girls and Many have families some with two others have Learned to play some people think we have picked up English Epland said during lunch As he used his knife to push mashed potatoes on to his do you actually think so As the sergeant left the Corner an obviously newly arrived Soldier asked for a you go to Bottom of the Road explanation probably didst help flying gems helped lift siege a troop Carrier Jack of tugged the three Par bundles to the open door of his sky flak burst Over Snow covered ruins and Foxholes signalled that his plane had reached its drop positions in and around it was Christmas eve and the Light Snow had obliterated All but the most recent signs of turning the Battlefield into a Chris Mascard Unger lifted the three 200pound crates of snapped the Static lines and tumbled the three bundles through the bundles under he pulled switches releasing the six 500pound Par packs from the exterior Racks be Neath the Fla peppered belly of the Unger curled up on the floor for his first sleep in nearly 24 hours All the night before he and the other flying quartermaster air cargo hand lers making the flight had worked loading packs and bundles for the tribute to units work the announcement four Days later that the Bastogne and reared with Over tons of ammunition and general broken the German was tribute to the ungers of the 1st Allied airborne army flying Between Date of the first mass Supply and when troop Carrier c47s made their last runs Over the Bastogne the flying Ems worked night and Many of the air them Ray Hugh and Don flown on nearly every resupply operation since Louis holds the Silver Star for sticking to his Post wounded in his Arm and Annest of Tobias of and Charles of great flying prepare for dropping in a special Parachute shoulder Over the he pushed his bundles out on time stationed As detachments at five troop Carrier the flying quartermaster detachments work under fray Daytona old stuff to him 303rd bomb Robert former policeman from e led the 303rd pistol team As it captured the championship of the 1st air Quick work of medic pulls flier through 381st bomb an emergency amputation of his left leg was the life of a fortress Pilot critically injured in a Landing Accident was saved by the Quick work of a surgical tech Jeronimo of Stam the 21yearold whose unit is attached to this was on ambulance duty near the control Tower when the Landing gear of an incoming bomber col piling the fast moving fort onto its left Wing Only a few Yards from where Casaz and his Driver Casaz found the Copilot coming out of the Forward escape left hand badly mangled by a chunk of spinning propeller Blade which had ripped through the fuselage into the where the Pilot still sat at the controls barely con blood spurting from the arteries of both thighs stick by prop the medic immediately applied Tourni Quets and ordered his Driver to prepare a litter on the runway outside the escape Casaz removed the help less flier from his seat to the flight deck and lowered him through the Hatch to the waiting less than three minutes had elapsed since the by the Lime the station surgeon had Casaz and the Driver had their patient in the while the vehicle headed for the station Casaz prepared blood plasma solutions which the surgeon administered on the an emergency amputation of the pilots left leg was performed in the am the Pilot is now recovering in an army big mail Call for this unit 3143rd Job of this photographic which monthly develops and prints Miles of is classified As but few organizations contribute More directly to the morale of soldiers soldiers dont go for the no news is Good so the Staif of this receiving station has set up a Tim saving coordination plan with Apos and geared its machinery to Rush the letters that help reduce the Miles Between Joes and the folks Back email is always but it has never required any special priority a weeks Supply for if acc Mula would equal Only about the weight of one almost every plane brings which is rushed by Apo couriers from the Airport to the where John of peeks and a specially trained staff of technicians Start the process that quickly transforms the film into Home town i All except one step of the processing is done by after mechanical enlargement and the letters Roll from a printing machine in Long strips and wind onto since lengths occasionally clipping the Long strips into individual letters must be done by Back at the new York Apo the letters Are carefully separated by units before they Are fed into the photographing thereby grouping All mail for ail organization on the As soon As the strips Are the Are bundled for distribution and its Only a few hours before there in the hands of unit mail is prisoners show fliers the Way Home 388th bomb to bail out of their blazing Herbert Copilot from and Nicholas Ball Turret gunner from Wyan and Clarence Gieck Tail gunner from Long walked five Miles through German lines to reach a 7th army couple of nazi is prisoners showing them the two Liaison planes flew Over and buzzed the pointing the Way to the they had walked a mile when hailed from a Thicket by the Gestapo who had been there for three Days without water and wanted to who Speaks got their Story and persuaded them to come the five men walked four More once passing a nazi staff car alongside of which two German soldiers were stand if we haunt had those two is Peters it might have been just too i guess they thought we were the Holland fighting no vet 318th station Joe of a vet eran of five Belgium and was wounded in the dutch picks Holland As scene of toughest it was roughest he in Italy we could go put with a loaf of bread and take but in Holland it took by Sid Schapiro two an old undercover Man from new11 who now g2s for Teddy com with a report that his billets like the clothing Issue room at Tion Center a couple of weeks aug tossing trousers at each other to try seems there was a general of at the i tailor shop and the boys up All cleaning but their plus two 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