London Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 26, 1945, London, Middlesex                                Page 2 the stars and stripes 1945 the stars stripes of the special or inv and Narr jul left per rear pint red at second clout printed the tales Ler armed fames Lofe Muttra and information s contents passed by censors subscription 26 Eto easier As thepot Are under the act material appearing in this and edited by Una famed members at Tat and Navy except Mure that a other outside Itji Loring printing House ec4 Tirc nution effices37 to ppr Broolis we Tousa District Bedford 2184 Swindon my Sutton Cowbell Oaks i january 1945 i mail 1945 to the bag have the units for Fard the casualties mail to Central 1st base Post office Apo without waiting Lor the plants As soon As this unit knows the Man s on his Way Back Uliey can Forward some units do this and the casualties receive mail after 15 Days in so have All units do have them write on the letters May be the solution iat the problem mentioned by an officer today a Moil clerk in a Harry Why of 1945 dear general a bag its about time scene one got on the Ball and started treating Pur nurses of All the fences in the army their services Are the least these gals Are caring for our fighting men under combat conditions there ing wounded by a under hazardous conditions there everywhere doing their utmost without Why Arent they seated like women instead of rugged ois for Many times our flight nurses Are not even provided with a warn Barracks and a bed with sheets on it men they evacuate patients to the some bases dont even provide them fms decent bathing such comforts can be provided at the they should be provided the hotshots in Tae states shoot Timeir Mouths off about the wonderful work that our nurses Are they dont do a thing for them not throw a few Well to Why reserved promotions their Way Why not gift them the comforts d have whenever it treat them us other Why that a woman Shou is possible Why no officers Are treated v bomb the Littfe things i 1945 to the bag we Are constantly encouraged to Mam Tain International a Tod will by not say ing malicious things about our i believe this is but that it is not enough and the emphasis is wrongly this evening a few of us heard their was to be a vocal Cal Cert by some artists from the at the to spill the audience was Vry Small because the affair was not the entertain ment was Andrall who went seemed to enjoy it except for the that the committee in charge had neglected to provide a decent Tiano and sufficient we patients Are sort of used to that spartan treatment in the but Felt pretty to realize that the artists who were giving us a swell show were actually i guess the Clear the whole affair showed a Jack of Courtesy and consideration for our lets Brush upon the Little which soon add or Chi questions on free Enterprise to the bag to those soldiers who were critical of my condemnation free Enterprise in the letter fear of democracy let me ask you a few did the economic system under free Enterprise in the United great and franc this present disaster social the h attempt to prevent do you Rem emf r the economic and Over Era was there Ever full employment do you remember the time when you Rode through such states As Mississippi and and Siw shacks with Burlap bags for windows used As places of dwelling f weve accomplished something under free weve Buik and radios by the but unfortunately the major Ity of our population lacked the Basic necessities of As proper and president Roosevelt said on third of a in do you ask for a remedy of free enter lets look at the under the does not the worker share the wealth of Industrial Whitfi would normally compile in the pocket of some Large capitalist morale idea i 1945 to the bag i i just got an idea for a Good morale builder for the guff that have to stay in the Eto after Germany have special service Rig Jup Blank records so the boys can record their then Send them Home t6 their loved pc adopting the slogan of a big meat packing concern Back in the a mess sergeant Over Here advertises his wares As the spam what ambiguous statements Bernard somewhere in Bel got a Christmas card May god bless you and keep you wherever you see and i thought they wanted us to get Home shed a tear in your Beer for Bill he has been learning polish and decided to try out a few phrases in a letter to a girl Back Home who Speaks the Bill wrote requesting cigarettes and received a can of sardines 3fc 3fl comment on the when it Rains it notes on dogs Black Mongrel Mascot of the Zanhia gators marauder was born in London at the height of the Buzz bomb Blitz and brought to France shortly there even when one of her masters begins to snore in the Middle of the flak runs and dives for the nearest Slit the practice of naming jeeps and trucks observes pfc Brod and the Deal is limited Only by the imagination of the for Down in the first infantry division a big Tenton has the appropriate title scrap comment never question your wife what she overheard in the his girl is the Salt of the been trying to shake her for two and heres another Little verse left in our the Courtesy of someone from the Billing and cooing in filled with the cooing comes the Billing overheard in the you  Call him a handsome but he has an honest people would look at him and is that your face pfc Dan sagely reports that the Ger Man draft boards Are singing there either too Young or too an editorial three Down and one to go lets review for a minute the four paragraphs of Ike Eisenhower third order of the dated december the enemy is making his supreme Effort to break out of the desperate plight into which you forced him by your Brilliant Vic tories of the summer and he is fighting savagely to take Back All that you have won and is using every treacherous trick to deceive and kill he is gambling but already in this Battle your gallantry has done much to foil his in the face of your proven bravery and Forti he will completely but we cannot be Content with Mere by Rushing out from his fixed defences the enemy May give us the Chance to turn his great Gamble into his worst so i Call upon every of All the to Rise now to new Heights of of Resolution and of let everyone hold before him a single destroy the enemy on the in the United in this determination and with unshakable Faith in the cause for which we we with gods go Forward to our greatest the first three paragraphs of general ikes order have been and Are being British in the yanks in the French in the reds in the on every every Man of All the allies is grinding the enemy theres plenty of enemy Waffen Volks the rank and file of the factories and fuel the lairs of the but the enemy is being de Only one paragraph of ikes order remains to be that the United we will go Forward to our greatest Vic we Good news does rtt go to our we will we stay death ruled an Alsace Crest Many went up the 2 came Down by Jones stars and stripes special writer with the the yanks clawed their Way up the North Alsace Mountain Crest and they reached the dug dog they were glad there were few germans to oppose then the sifting German infiltrations then the and then the mighty Hail of nazi artillery whose Crescendo was to reach a pitch these veterans had never before endured in 19 months of by the end of the first three Days about 100of the men on the Ridge had been evacuated or had during those Days attempt after attempt was made to reach the isolated companies on the casualties were heavy and battalion regimental battalion up mortar men and truck Drivers were called up to carry rations and ammo and to Bear rifles on the zeroed fire into Foxholes an estimated 150 enemy from thundered their zeroed fire into the Foxholes along the Long frontal line on the Crest and on to roads and Crossroads leading up the the fire was incredibly time after time it nailed trucks and armoured vehicles As they shot by a time after time it bored cleanly into the Foxholes and the men huddled in them simply the germans began throwing in salves of which Felix battalion estimated at it is i who shall carry the Flag of these 7th army like those described in the accompanying mow up toward Mountain passes leading to the Alsace from eight to ten inches in they came in salves of from ten to they were deadly accurate and their blast effect was the worst thing i Ever went he Riding in a medium hammered his Way up the Mountain and after firing into an enemy machine gun nest with the tanks big gun he sprayed the enemy with More than rounds from its then while the tank Crew maintained a covering fire he jumped out and with the Aid of a sergeant hoisted three wounded atop the tank and escaped Down the Mountain under artillery makes it up Mountain a Day Willis of made it up the Mountain in a Light tank with rations and an radio program american forces the ref on the Road to Berlin on your dial 1375 1402 1411 1420 1447 26 Charles up the the Call me pays to be by Joe up the sports supper mercers music shop Mcgee and with Frank news from the and off until 0755 hours 27 0755 sit on program headlines combat oh15 personal album Ivich Georgia music from world 0905 music by Boyd c925 Canada dance 1000 headlines morning after command per army Home news the duffle on the continent listen to your favorite programs Over the Allied expeditionary forces program 583 also Nhoi wave band Between 0800 Ami 1900 ammo tied to the on the Way Down the tank was hit by Bazooka fire and Talkington was the Only Man who Leroy battalion Chap lain from three times made the trip up the Mountain on foot despite an order from the battalion executive officer that he not make the deeds like that won the beloved Little husky voiced chaplain his purple heart his Silver Star and the Bronze late on 20 two shaky gis staggered Down through the Snow from the Mountain they were Thoj Only ones who the Only ones of their number who Ever they were pfc Walter of and pvt Benjamin of they told of How the remainder of the five companies that first went up Assem bled to try to break there were 90 men unfounded and Well Over a Hundred the rest had been the wounded had been cared for in the Shell shaken Foxholes of the in helped from holes when the break was made the walking wounded were helped from their holes while the More seriously injured were left behind after White flags had been placed on Rifle barrels and stuck in the ground to signify that those left were no longer just As the Rush was made the Jerris a loosed a terrific barrage which caught nearly All of them before they could get to Melton said he was knocked off his feet four times by men were being hit directly by artillery and rockets All around he legs and arms were flying it was a godawful somehow vow ran and stumbled through the Snow and nothing hit us Melton had from the germans once Fly was captured last May in the drive qty i has horse laugh As he hits the Jap 25 Richard of saw a Mound of Hay Perambo plating i front of his outfits lines on the army lie reached for his my blasted the camouflaged then he sent the following i 1o his company commander spo1 Send