London Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 3, 1945, London, Middlesex                                In War week 1945 by Dave go Jerry j people order to pjs Peu rumours that the fuehrer has 6one better hurry Upland your excellency statement has just handed me of you cow Good the fuehrer to mesh the that me my she believe Karat in any form i Faff so Bill rides the Golden Arrow wave there int a weapon made that Gen wild Bill Weaver men of the 8th infantry division say of their commanding Colora kentuckian much decorated Veteran of two world now leading the 8th Gulden Arrow division in the bitter 1st army came by his nickname quite one night near the general was asleep at the command Post when bedlam broke German a column of roared into the area in an attempt to relieve a besieged nazi Garrison in the the up moved out but wild Bill Clad in into action with a Headquarters company defense platoon of about 35 men and a few with this Small group the stopped until wild Bill got More ail additional platoon of tanks and a battalion of infantry was the formidable Force with which the Panama Clad general beat Back the Strong enemy of the Jerries got Back to their lines for in the ensuing Battle they lost 60 of their a number of and 800s men were taken another Story illustrates the spirit of this driving in the six Day thrust from a ranches into be with the 90th infantry Divi Sion last August he deployed his forces so Well that the division destroyed 831 tanks and half captured and killed about wild Bill lost but six Light four medium 20 reconnaissance and a very Small number of in six Days his outfit had rushed through 100 Miles of enemy territory and put itself into position to close the Falaise this was taken care of shortly in this prisoners were taken and vehicles of All types were the general knows All phases of running the army for he served in the Eto As chief of staff of services of Supply and later As Field Deputy commander of the communication zone before going to combat he graduated from the Mili tary Academy in had Tours of duty in the United states and the Philippines until the outbreak of world War in that War he commanded the 8th machine gun Bat Talion which heaped a lot of misery on the germans in six major and Many lesser this is wild second tour through Germany for he served with the army of occupation after the last Salesman of surrender that the handle men of the second battalion of the 8th infantry division have Hung on 37yearold Theodor Hae a company Aid in six months of Over seas service the glib o n g u e d frontline medic has talked 220 Jerries into sur an other 100 reticent huns called it quits after combat troops asked Haerich and his gift of gab to inter the battalion gives Haerich full credit for the but the modest medic claims Only an a native of Speaks fluent he first tried his persuasive tactics on Jerry during the breakthrough at la Haydee after crawling out under fire to give Aid to two men wounded by a when the krauts opened up on the litter bearers taking the wounded to the Ted retaliated with a neat chamber of Commerce line about the Good life in an Ameri can pee wee result eight krauts came out of a Pillbox with hands held in an open Field near where the germans had a he talked a nazi officer and 64 enlisted men into closer to Dinard he captured eight Jerries Manning an antiaircraft one a Soldier for whom Haerich father had built a in Germany when the medic was a Dinard seemed to be the Ideal oratorical ground for on another Occa Sion in this sector of France Wordy Haerich talked an officer and 38 men into a prison and at Curzon he stopped a jeep occupied by a Ger Man after listening to the medics smooth line the officer decided to quit for the in the Hurtgen Forest he walked behind a tank and by talking fast and to the Point rounded up 26 they Are harder to convince in Ger Haerich its the and they Are goosed with the glory of dying defending the he did you have psychological War fare training hell no he i talk which gives me the Edge Over other John and i stick to the i Tell the Jerries we treat prisoners fair and i Point out that their situation is he added Point out its better to be a live prisoner than a dead in the the onetime Carpen Ter received his first Bullet nicked his this voted outstanding in a division of Many sports a Silver purple heart and three Battle the old Corner the Crafty indians did tricks with fires that Houdini might they Are such Good tricks that every i should know How to do the old Sarge passes on to foxhole residents these tested Wood Craft to Start a fire the indians prayer stick is a easy tomake take a piece of dry an Inch to two inches and a foot to a foot and a half with Trench knife Sharpen one end to a Pencil then slash the stick so the free ends of the slivers curl away from the when completed the prayer stick will resemble a thick Twig with Many stubby branches along the full Jab the stick into the ground where a fire is stack Fluffy Wood shavings or chips around the prayer then stack Foo Long pieces of Wood around the prayer forming a touch a match to it and fire will flare up before Many minutes Ajjie Wood will be reduced to glowing for heating another Quick fire is the Indian log Cabin the prayer stick and tinder Are placed in a cleared four Sticks a foot Long Are placed to form a Square around the two Sticks Are Laid on the ground and the other two on the ends of the ground then build a hollow Square with other Sticks around the prayer taper from ten inches at the Bottom to about four or five inches across at the so the fire roars up its especially useful when a hot fire is to heat a Leanto or shelter tent the reflector Type of fire As hard to four feet from the Entrance of the shelter stack rocks in an the open end facing the build from one Rock at the ends to a height of about four feet in the the Wall of rocks will Boom the heat toward the another reflector can be made by using Green in a Section where evergreens Are plentiful they Are not hard to one log about nine inches thick and four feet Long is placed on the four uprights Are then driven into the two on each Side of the Bottom other four to six inches Are placed Between the the stakes can be braced by notching the top and jabbing poles on a slant o the front of the re socks and shoes can be Hung to dry from these a fire built in front this reflector casts heat into the a slightly different reflector can be made by making two Walls of logs in a v the open part of the v is toward the a fire at the narrow end heats a considerable space in front of indians used to build a series of fires on the spot where they intended to if there is no time to dig a foxhole and a fire will not give away your position to the the following Tim tested Dodge May be used Clear a space As Large As the make three fires in this one at the foot one at the head and one in the when toe fires have burned to coals and the glow is dying scrape the coals into a pie at the foot cover the coals lightly with the heat from the coals will remain in the ground for quite some reflector fires should not face directly into the a Strong Breeze will Bow the heat away from the nor should the reflectors be in the Lee of the for then the smoke blows into the placed at a slight not quite into the the fire gets plenty of and the heat booms Forward where it does the most More about prisoners continued from Page ii much a part of German tactics bouncing bettys and the prisoners were Busy Stow ing personal articles Back into their one caught schroeders do you he asked Hope in that i might be sent to the United states Schroeder he or they might Send you to rebuild the jerrys Grin i am a sick he i returned to the line from the Hospital just three Days i have always wanted to see but i will do As i am you Schroeder Man is sick to death of War and yet he will As i am there Are a great manuf a of his kind Between us and final our combat troops cant to Slacken the Pace for a mine neither can we miss a Chance capitalize on information the line of pos moved the big trucks loaded and stood around waiting for not Batch to come in from the front printed in England by the times printing and published by the United states armed