London Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 2, 1945, London, Middlesex                                Page 2 the stars and stripes the stairs and stripes printed it the Publ Shiab far aimed under of tit Ifon Alioa  special and  contents she army and Navy censors  26 per Vear plus entered or second class matter at the a tvs new the act of All material appear Flat in this  has been written and Fry uniformed members no the armr Anil Ondris except where stated that a civilian or editorial  print inc chose business and circulation Ira or Brook District offices Bedford 3424 Satton cold Leld Oaks february 1945 it spa on daddy j Boca Fla 1944 a Friend of mine in the Eto sent me a copy of the 21 Issue containing the you too can be a had heard the same rumours when i wife flying missions Over there that flying and High Altitude was Apt to reliever us either temporarily or permanently in Case that my own Case history will help refute ithe and possibly help bolster the morale of some of the boys Over still flying i present As follows flew firial combat Mission on 27 225 arrived inthe states May arrived of Home for 21 Days leave May 9 marriage License on May i got marred on May had to wait five medics of Jve established As approximate Date of arrival of our first count the Lee going Back 1945 to the bag please Settle this argument for me and a Bunch of boys confined at the does a Man necessarily return to his original outfit after he is released for Active duty after it is no fault of the Tan himself that lie was wounded or Bec Arjie sick on the most men like to return to their own if there Are any and several other an official of ground Force reinforcement command said that under the present policy casualties from combat out if classified for full Field upon release from Are returned to the  and automatically re assigned to their original russian tactics t 1945 to the i just finished Reading an article say ing that tie nazi High command didst approve of the russian they play act of rough for the it appeals that those Rotten murdering bitches Are of the very few prisoners the russians take and so Anjany Are to thud rats i say remember How you Short flown our and doughboy in cold Wood to our allies and boys i say wipe pm dont forget your buddies and friends who died and suf god t3ess you and protect you and Speed Yoy on to Victory and reaping what we sow j 1945 to the bag Ive been concerned with the attitude some toward our How True it is that we must do our utmost to defeat but must we use Nhat revengeful kill the or the dirty which Breeds hate in some minds of the we some Day Hope to live in peace with do we seek retaliation or do we wish to show our practical already distorted and falsified by German propaganda surely we  appear to be As the Llave been led to if we hatred and enmity we shall also reap the we come to them As conquerors to enforce with a firm hand re education in schools and this is in Harmony with the unintelligent thoughts of contempt and rage coincide with and extinguish the word peace which we have placed the whole War Mobil r and an infantry private we know described his first sergeant As a Man with 186 acquaintances and a Friend in another fun on the Home front a pretty worried about scars from an opera asked the doctor if they would the Sage Doc Young is strictly up to we Are reliably informed that the nazis certain areas of hol land Are now learning to swim Happy postwar wifi Auto mobiles of the future Repuk idly Able to cover such great distances in so Little time the modern girl will be liable to think twice before she decides to walk j from an English miss who works in a i office comes this tender bit of poetry have pity on those sad gis whose gals have done them theres nothing that can dry their eyes except another i smart girls Are often cute girls Arent always famous last words come follow i Learned everything about Booby traps at fort oddities in the Julius Nathan is with the yanks on the con but he sleeps in Chicago every when his outfit moved through a French coastal City he found a sign read ing and he Hanks it wherever he pitches his cynical the Guy who said it is better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at All must have been thinking about the the jeweler and possibly the the whats happened to the old fashioned Good Ness this Little gag comes to us through the f Courtesy of pfc Lou Seguin ashes to dust to if the v2s dont get you the mild and bitter news wife shoots husband i thanks i 1945 to Thi bag while waiting to be evacuated on an somewhere in to the the hours were Long and painful in a Hospital every evening we patiently looked Forward to the rations cigars and Cigar and most anything you could the 12th tag Thunderbolt pilots and Crews collected this from their own and distributed it for some of us it was the first things of that find weve seen in and everyone of the patients sure appreciated  of these by the this int saying How much we like to see those boys around our 12th til with Bow and she  Wake the children heres the kind of request that drives finance officers crazy give me a partial gotta get Back in the poker game an editorial How to disinfect a German i caption on this picture reads this is a part of the processing undergone by prisoners of War upon their arrival at the port of after passing through showers and being sprayed with wrap themselves in blankets until steam fumigation of clothing has been the bags containing their j clothing Are being handed Back to you can take a nazis clothing and disinfect you can kill the you can cleanse his you can make him Sweet smelling and the process is scientific and Success the question can you disinfect a germans mind How can you clean up his conviction that i and the other not Able or entitled to Rule ourselves How can we kill the Lebensraum Louse the notion that squeezed in Germany needs a whole world in which to flex its Muscles and throw out its Chest How can we Wash away the dirt of racial the cockeyed concept that a Blond Blu eyed Man is better than someone with Black hair or Brown what kind of soap can Wash away belief in Force what kind of chemical can purge his hate what Bath can cleanse him and leave him with the simple certainty that All men Are equal before the Law that All men enjoy the same civil liberties that the by the for the the Only Rule which promises peace on Earth and Good will to Man age cannot Wither a liberators sword Ronnie May be old but she still packs that Ronnie by Jim Russell stars and stripes Slaff writer age is showing on the fuse Lage of the big b24 is Oil stained and the scars of two years of War show conspicuously on its bits of Silver reflect the Light where enemy flak and bullets and Cannon shells have chipped off blisters of weather beaten camouflage but the wounds of time and Battle Are 1945 Ive be Ervin England Soong Florong in the land of the dim flock Treyve had me fixing Tir Dock and its done strange things to my rudders got a ringing Loose my nimrods lost a my Wirtl top has blown a Fuze theres a Stern Lap in my my Oil pressures gone Banzai my bomb Bay doors hang my 1 left mags and my right wings got a my Faven Dop has sprung a theres Bic Slick in my in having trouble rimming and my right rear is theret ragtag on my Landing my Aileron goes my passing Light is the Hondrop pin wont now Ive a question for before i end this pome since in so bad i need a nurse Why dont they Send me Home private Breger just present arms to to tip your too emphatic reminders of a Trust that was placed in a Trust that Over 100 vicious attacks on German Industry and communications could not the lib has become a living because it fights for a boy whom death denied a Chance to strike at the heart of the when Ronnie was a nameless lib on the lines at Ronald of was a Waist gunner with a Squadron of the 446th bomb he was Good his nimble fingers and Sharp eyesight earned him a reputation As a crack before the 446th got tragedy a his coordination destroyed a rare paralysing disease caught Ronnie it destroyed his muscular and nervous it took the Spring out of those nimble it clouded Chat Sharp and it ended in the 446th Crew got the new named it and flew it to its new base in at tragedy also stalked the four times it took off on missions and four times it came Back without reaching the then they switched Ronnie to another Squadron to break what seemed to be a growing that broke on two years the lib took off for the first time with its new and this Lime it completed its and the Mission the boys of cannons Squadron assigned it Back in the seventy nine More times without turning Back it now Ronnie but still carrying that original and the boys of the who know More than any one Why this ship is a living Tell you Shes an old All but dont Call her an old Shes still As steady As anything right out of the an radio program american forces the ref on the Road to Berlin on your dial 1375 1402 1411 1420 1447 2 Charles sports up the the Call me pays to be by Joe up the sports supper mercers music Mcgee and melodies with Frank news from the and off until 0755 3 album with june from by Freddy dance after command per news from the Reckord revises awol figure Down to american soldiers in the Eto were awol on Milton theater Provost declared the Provost marshals office had said Between and were currently Reckord said the figure had probably been computed by adding the 600 new awol reported each Day during actually records said there were awol on 31 who had been reported by their units during the month and who had not yet returned or been in there were some Lon term awol who had been gone from their audits More than a month and were still at he of the men absent on Accord to than 40 per from the age reinforcement spark of wars humor same Plant powered yanks and nazis with an armoured Divi More than a month americans and nazis shared electric Power from the same Plant in Andrew Liaison officer for he a Field artillery disclosed several weeks when the battalion was assigned to a support task in Luxem Burg near the Sauer the units in several towns had Power from a Plant that was he the located on the East of was operated by one Man who employed a civilian As a go Between Between the troops and himself when something went he no one would go near the for we knew it was watched As closely by the germans As by he the Plant supplied Power to the in Beaufort and and to the germans in Weisdorf and newmans Yankee doodles Gonna do after the War in too conce Nefe about the present to give much to a future career