London Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 31, 1945, London, Middlesex                                Page 2 the stars and stripes 1945 Pohe stars and stripes printed it the times pow sine Lor aimed Coder auspices of the info Nulion education special and information i contents passed by the army and Navy censors subscription 26shlllixss per year plus As second class matter Iii the Dos new the an of All material appearing in unix publication has been and edited by uniformed members of the army except there stated that a civilian or other outside source it being printing House ec4 business end circulation is Iier Alrook we District offices Bedford 21b4 Swindon 3424 Satton cold fluid Oaks Ija Miary 1945 note Lack of space forces us to limit All letters published to not More Titan 200 More than asked to the bag i cant help but notice that you use up a hell of a lot of space for the darn est things that Only cause someone hard so lets try and use that column for some Good i feel sure that several of the men Tho read your paper will agree that i ant i have noticed that a great Many men Are All the time bitching about going and lets get the War Over but How Many these men Are willing to do something Abt jut it for Haw Mahy men in Friis mans army Are willing to stoop Over and pick up a Nail or a piece of Glass so that some truck Driver has one less Flat How Many men Are willing to do just a Little More than is asked of them these Are the things that i think would help to shorten the lets get on you eight balls and counts and do just a Little More than is asked of of just a Little and i am sure that it would be Jong before you will see the headlines Reading Germany Japan surrenders in every the Only Jay we can do it is to get on that Well known Ball and stay there this Job is Harold blankets i 1945 to the bag until it turned cold we had five but they told us that the fighting boys needed More blankets so we were relieved of now we just Wear More while and never did i hear one Soldier not even today several of our men were sent to fix up a place adjacent to the officers they put up Beds and made them with four blankets and two we would have let this go by with Little notice if these fancy sacks were being prepared for our work hard All Day out in the told and need the additional but Barracks boudoir were prepared for the women who were attending the officers party j now we would he to know where in the hell those extra blankets came from Why More  be produced so easily for our i must admit that some consideration was Given us today we were Given an envelope full of cold preventative id give the whole Bunch for one Jack fighter pics and 1945 to the bag weve been wondering about the state ment in yank concerning 2nd after Treyve held their rank As 90day wanderers for 18 being promoted to the Grade of 1st the pics in hut 29 Are wondering if they hold their rank for two and would it be possible to reach the rank of Corporal under some army Bunch of All of casualty Mil 1945 to the bag so the gripes because the Apos dont work More did the take such an interest in the boys mail before his own mail was apparently late and perhaps the would be interested to know that every Hospital is required to keep accurate records of each so if a Hospital messes up How can the Apo expedite the mail the Apos Are wholly they also have regular a great Many mail orderlies Are very and if a few More would see that intelligent men rare picked for Neil instead of someone who is a misfit anywhere perhaps the men could get their mail much More r you will average Man an conscientious Man glad in work overtime when Ever conditions we can Only work by records if the Soldier and a mail orderly Doest let us know where the Soldier How the hell can we get his mail to him so i would suggest you Check what you blow or get hold of an a bag to blow out army postal from our spy at a Northern Ireland Golf course comes the Story of an air Force Looey who tried swinging the clubs a few he was such a poor golfer that two ants crawled up on his Golf Ball to keep from getting and then there was the Little Moron who tried to kiss his girl in the rain and overheard in the the Only exercise she gets is running up Bills and jumping at the meanest Man in the Guy who cuts up go soap and wraps it in Lux wrappers for trading cause for divorce seeking separation from his a Toledo resident complained that whenever he asked for a second cup of Coffee his wife would pour it on his head instead of in his another i observation a Fol who knows everything under the Sun usually has shadows under his observation by a Brooklyn Joe whether youre Rich or poor its still Good to have scientific fifty per cent of the modern girls the other 50 per cent Are pretty conversation at an air Hows your Baker Ive taken so Many aspirins that when anyone asks my name 1 say an eminent medical authority predicts that in fifty years kissing will be a thing of the we guess it will for most of us now in the who said that modern gentleman one who cant Bear to see a woman standing on a he closes his through the Courtesy of the 438th troop Carrier group comes this version of the oldest gag in the world who was that 1 seen you out wid lady an editorial everything for the front today conundrum Why is this pinup like the red army answer because they both have the everything for the and because they both Wear in America theres lots of fur to Point up the Pulchritudof fur for the facades of debutantes and fur for first nights and fancy fur for strolls Down fifth Avenue to cocktails and fur for putting up a n in Russia theres not much of no no no no no lace panties for the no Esquire for the nothing except Bare its everything for the the reds Are righting total Type of total so Are ours int quite As of it every Joe in the Snow would be wearing americas fur would be in not Marshall in not in the Vosges and not the on the the the out where feet where hands Are where Cheeks and ears turn White with where fires Burn Low and theres no warm indoors to which a Man can the Home folks have Given All Treyve been asked its just that they Haven been asked for its just that everything for the front still Doest have quite the same meaning in the As in the Mars pitches a everything is dead in Bastogne but its spirit by Jimmy Cannon stars and stripes staff writer with 3rd army at Bas Snow covers the ruins of it is a dead City wearing a dirty few towns took a worse Sherman of civil affairs said a month after the cites not a Louse fifty per cent of the place s beyond frosted and still langs like Christmas a Glass of Frozen Beer stands amid the once there were now Only of our people said Leon acting a Loose toothed Man of great sit in boiler room in the catacombs beneath the Convent of notre Dame seven three five three dogs and a cat sat in cold and darkness in the boiler the electric system and the water system Are Jacumin there is Little fuel an Many houses have no women waited in a shivering As Sumnr mng5kt heres another shall we Stop and put the top up or make a run for it soldiers tried to loosen a Frozen in a big children crowded around a fire where service troops also warmed them the three churches Are no said the four schools Are no not a store is we have Little food and there is no place to Honor our guest who is Here to help in the Kitchen of the Convent count de la Barre belgian minister of agriculture making an inspection ate lunch with his overcoat but it is better this with the people than the Way it was with the germans Jacumin just then Charles Safet came in to report that a German an radio program 1375 on your dial 1402 1411 1420 1447 31 is the we sports up the the moments in up the sports supper the air St air with mercers music band of the condos jazz Hope with Frances Jerry Collona and Skinny news from the and off until 0755 1 with to studio by Louis time with Abe Lyman after Bob up the news from the civilian had blown his face off while try ing to throw a grenade at two american soldiers on the outskirts of he died Soan but even with his face gone he could curse the victors of you said old Man you see what the germans Are we gained a thousand Yards today a Mother a chaplain mens lives were the Price was we won a some we gained a thousand Yards there is no we lift our eyes to the mens souls Are and time will Tell f the Cost was Worth the peace we gained a thousand Yards a a a a r were ail designed in deaths own Man is his Best insight is measuring gains in worldly we gained a thousand Yards i see no gain in centuries Man wits Man and toys with v methods issues who rules the Earth who holds the 4 Sway i we gained a thousand i it and so we plod our weary lets fight this War so that another year another Man wont Rise to our forces the end is we gained a thousand Yards i see one for lasting the Golden the eternal dream of brotherly inspired by god in heaven and men will find no need to say we gained a thousand Yari by Eugene