London Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 30, 1945, London, Middlesex Page 2 i the stars and stripes the St jars and stripes printed at the time publishing Lor anted order auspices of the info Mutic ands education special and contents pass a by the army and Navy Tensors 26 shillings per Vear plus Eto entered at second class matter 151 at the past a act of my material in is publication been written and edited by uniformed members of the army and Davv except where stated thai a civilian or it tits outside source it befit editorial Pristine House eci business Efer caution upper Brook we Ett Tusa District offices Ufert 2184 Subdon 34w sullen cold Cem Oaks Noj january 1945 b it out note bag is receiving Many unsigned we require your signature As evidence of Good Faith your identity not be revealed if you inform us you want your supreme heroism 1945 to the bag have just read the zeroed pm the congressional medal of Honor would be inadequate recognition of the unflinching courage and Devotion 10 duty displayed by Dennis his supreme act of heroism should be Given supreme former Asylum 1945 to the bag May god help and protect you fellow gis who Are slugging it out with the so that you May never be confined in this former Asylum for the enemy had the misfortune to be the first american wounded to be hospitalized at thus a prisoner of War hos at first we were very patient and took All the staffs As we realized that we were the first White men that the staff Here had administered to for Many haying contended with Many Oral abuses and physical neglects for Over five we wish to hell that the damned Jerries had taken this whole Garrison Happy with it May be a necessary evil and an essential part of the army to have inspections and the resulting but we dont believe that a Hospital housing Battle casualty is the place for such Apple the responsible officers Ever take time out from the manual to read the stars and what say for fewer m sections and More medical care a of human kindness Hurt a legitimate question 1945 to the bag i am an air corps medic and have Naa experience in combat and when i came Back from France i tried to be transferred into the infantry but was told that it was and that i was not As for the brass hats in these kind of there is no Way in the world that you can even try to convince them to try to help you in any nor can you gather any information from them on How you cart go about getting a when you go in to them with a legitimate Alf they say is Stop you never Hjad it so i think that they should talk for there Are lots of Guys in the same position i and there ii no one we can go to that will give any help at we came into the army for one Toj try to be Good soldiers and see our country through a final and Quick How in the hell do they expect Guys to take this kind of stuff and just stay shut up As soon As you open your to one of you Are and that is As far As it 1 h4pe that this letter and Many others i have read of the same Type will Wake up some Guy medical Supply platoon foxhole covers to the my idea has something to do with Cut Ting Down the casualty list caused by Why the army put out a cover for Foxholes the Way i picture this cover would be made of strips of steel which could be rolled about feet wide and five or six feet this could be brought up to the men just As bed Rolls if such a thing could be i think it would Cut Down the casualty list bag for Etta Boole to the b bag in regard to this Ella Booles state ment about our boys having a Glass of wine or stronger and the boys of Montgomery Only having Tea to win a War in not a drinking and very Seldom drink or even but does she realize that the boys of Montgomery Are issued a certain portion of rum at the governments sex our boys and i think that if shed come Here Landfill her can teen with some of this shed soon learn to drink Beer or anything else in old Stanley sub her a i think she needs rum is apportioned to Montgomery men Only in casts of exceptional chiefly due to weather according to the British War our spy on the Home front that a lot of women husbands Are getting to be almost As hard to keep As Ralph Newman see he resents the press referring to Germany As Germany what the hell is proper about Germany be fun on the Home the Young kid looked up at his father and How do you catch lunatics papa puffed his pipe and with face Beautiful dresses and pretty my orders the Day by Stalin have been coming into the London office of the stars and stripes so fast that Roland who usually takes the phone Call on important communiques has gotten into the spirit of he has in stalled a miniature mortar on his desk and each time he takes an order of the Day he fires a 21round Salute the Day we heard a Corporal my platoon a second says he Doest mind his pyjamas coining Back from the laundry with buttons when the pyjamas pass through the clothes wringer it sure plays hell with his shoulder Luke Doheny see that intuition is the strange instinct that tells a woman Shes right even when Shes youve probably heard better versions of this but this is the Only Way can get it into two gis were on their first trip to one stepped into a phone Booth and had his first wrestle with a he slipped in his pennies and the operator kept telling him to press that certain Button that makes conversation just then a v2 hit the bewildered i staggered out and whispered hoarsely to his All i did was push Button a we wonder if scottish troops blow it out your we just met a sergeant who Doest have room on his goo conduct ribbon for All his wild oat Leaf sign in a Glasgow no ladies supplied after 7 comment in a i dont mind walking you Home in this heavy but 1 hate walking when the Little Moron first saw the White Cliffs of Dover he thought they were we shiver in an editorial h just in Case you didst see wed like to reprint this from the european edition of the new York Herald Tribune dated entitled Uncle Joes ave you heard the latest we Are across the or we Are close on or some such one encounters it Battle particularly Success Ful Battle is a great leveler of Nice political even thousands of Miles from the our Hopes Rise with the red Star As earnestly As with the in cold Foxholes and under Shell reaction is apparently Only More immediate and there Are no greater enthusiasts for Uncle Joes boys today than our troops on the Roer and in the Here is one aspect of inter National relations too often Over looked by Uncle Joes boys May inspire alarm in some sections of the armchair but to the Man in the Street they Are ours and to the fighting amen soldiers they Are the Fox holes have been made passionately aware of the fact that this is one War in one that each fights for All and All for and that getting the big Job done is far More important than any question of who does no politicians and publicists will get to work to destroy such foolish notions but it May be that fighting men and Ordinary people will remember Uncle Joes boys and will still believe that the great nations which were so desperately dependent on each other in War can hang together even in Musta found it on the Hook scared i got new courage after a month in a closet by Jimmy Cannon stars and stripes staff writer 3rd army Lee Godfrey today told How civilians hid him Foi 28 Days in a German Only a few feet from a nazi generals who from Lay in the cold darkness of a cupboard so Small he could not stand partially paralysed from the the 9th armoured Mechanic told How he and five hungry and hunted for four voted to surrender in the bulge area during the first crazy of the they approached a House with a White Cap on a thinking it was a German they were 20 minutes too soon civilians still lived i was scared and decided to said the 30yearold one of the Guys told the civilians i wanted a place to crawl they took me into a it was dark and cold and i stand up so i Lay As soon As i got the germans i show nets for s orphans French children being cared for by the stars and stripes War orphan fund were guests of Nonor last thursday at the Griwac musical revue com com they Are among five orphans sponsored by the who raised the through the Sale of five franc for which some soldiers gave As much As 500 launched in France 29 after Spon scoring 630 orphans in the War orphan fund has raised More than if an outfit raises it can pick the Type of child it wishes to How smaller individual or unit contributions Are for a moment you startled general Eisenhower Ive been expecting the sergeant to come looking for up came and took my then they started to move the up running in and out with maps and up and Down the stairs right Over where i i could hear every but it was All greek to i got one Good they put the civilians in the room that led into the they fed me through the they gave me some kind of some water and a lot of they were real there was nothing in the cupboard but some soap and a bucket and some Civi Lian i put on the cloches because it was cold As i figured they shoot me anyway if they caught i slept in the Day and stayed awake All night because i i figured the noise in the daytime would drown out the one Day there was a big commotion and in walked a i could see him through the he was All dressed up and giving orders in a loud All the time the area was getting shelled by our then the general and the up pulled the civilians came and got i walk a my feet were they took me out and the artillery was flying around and 1 was scared As they led me to a storage there were three germans one i looked like old Man Mose with the whiskers and the civilian they didst pay any attention to when they were i sneaked out their rifles and threw them then i gave them a talking spoke eng convinced them they should i was there three Days and the shelling was on the third Day up came a i had a hell of a Job convincing them i was an Here 1 an radio program american forces the ref on the Road to Berlin of your dial 1375 1402 1411 1420 1447 30 Spons up the the from the Murray guest up the sports supper music society lower Basin 19307heres to mercers music band of the news Shore news from the and of until 0755 of 31 album with Janet by Eddie by the four from after american band of the up the new from the on the continent listen to your favorite an programs Over the lied expeditionary forces program 583 pc 5 also shortwave band Between 0800 and 1900 some Battlefield gis got their belly full with the 9ih armoured Corporal and the sergeant never had it so they they had 18 barrels of a quart of Beaucoup canned but after spending 13 Days seated off behind a trap door in the wine cellar of a hotel filled with of and Durwood of 60th armoured were Happy to be rescued by relieving 5th infantry Brady told How five of them had been trapped in a Small provision room by a German attack on the next Day three made a break for it and were during the Brady Stratton and 1 returned to the cellar and closed the trap Brady said they were almost discovered a few times in the following Days but were saved when the Jerries found wine and food on the upper thirteen Days later they heard an Ameri can voice in the hotel asking if there were any gis in there coming out of their shelter they were informed that the 5th had taken the towns and their own outfit had been pulled out and sent Down around to recent arrivals is our land still the same As we dimly recall with plenty of room for the great and the Small has there been any change from the Well loved scenes in the or in Long Island or Queens does the water still sing mid the rocks and the rills of the tiny Trout streams in the clean Berkshire Hills does the draftees step drag with a touch of the blues As each Juke Box in Natchez blares Forth born to do the geese Hying South rend the Dawn with their Call did they Crown a new ice King up there at Paul do the trains whistle Clear and Sweet As a flute As they Speed thru the darkness toward Billings and Butte do the stockmen still stroll in a tight Little clan with their boots striking Sparks in the streets of Cheyenne do the Gay lights of Frisco make sport of the dark As you gaze Over town from the top of the is our land just the same As it was Long ago please Tell were wanting to
