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get Trench foot in an office you think a i would prevent it if lie were Able do you think its enjoy we to have a foot or two amputated do you think its enjoyable to drag your feet like Concrete blocks do you Thi Hajj its enjoyable to contemplate a in which every Winter you will have trouble with your feet f dont you suppose a doughboy would change into warm socks and warm his feet if he could did the brass Ever keep on the move three or four or five Days and nights in a Row and not even have rations and let a change of socks j we would appreciate some practical demonstrations of this miraculous Trench foot repellent in the front disgusted Trench foot pfc pfc pfc pfc pfc All pfc army pfc pc hate for the enemy i 1945 to the bag i dont know How much action who wrote the reaping what we sow has but in sure if he has actually had to fight Jerry on the front line he would feel differently about our hate for the in con Vinced that the Only Way we can de Jeat the germans is b hating them As douche and other people who have been wronged by All for the attitude they because we have to have it to do the Job that is expected of 1945 tothe brag its very unfortunate that and Many others believe we should be so kind but firm with Oil Good have never seen women and children Bayon eted or your own buddies youve never seen a pregnant woman stomach Laid open by a or a wounded i while he could wait for the youve never seen dead is stripped of All their or a i Testicles smashed by a Rifle my great will be one to help nazism grow the Jerry is suffering at the hands of the russian As the russian suffered from that is the True Way and quickest Way to end this american blood spilling the germans Are ruthless bar and a common Rifle Bullet is too Good for a question on waste 1945 to the bag i would like to know if other to Rulber bases Over Here practice the at my station we Fly that big Gas the yesterday a new Crew with a new Pilot and navigator took off on a combat the ship missed the Assembly and failed to go out on the they returned to base about 0900 hours and asked to our Mastermind co no you can Circle around up there until the ships return from the for 74 hours this b17 was i cant say How much Gas a Sash but id sure like to have it to put into my 29 Chevy Back can we afford to transport a vital War material Over hens Only to be wasted like Flack Happy schnapps a 1945 to the bag heres a real Gripe after helping to Chase the Heinie from a Small town near the German Jake in found what appeared to be a bottle of schnapps to a hidden Ujj fearing that it might be Booby he worked very carefully for More than an hour before finally get Ting it Imai Jine his Chagrin upon Dis covering Jot Only that the bottle was empty that the trademark stamped on its Bottom was Jake muttered something about the Geneva adding that there ought be a Law agin i have you heard about the motor Pool sergeant who has insomnia he lulls himself to sleep every night counting and then there was the hopeful miss her former boy now and what Are your intentions he my intentions Are signs of the neatly lettered on the sides of garbage trucks in Are these words use Vitamin Convoy Frank Bushek tells this draftee a selectee came shuffling up to the induction Center with his seeing Eye dog and was classified 4f Only because his seeing Eye dog had Flat Bill Sutler classifies military crap shooters into three groups there Are soldiers who Wager the shooter does there Are those who Wager the shooter Doest eight and there Are soldiers who Wager and it happened on one of those icy roads on the outskirts of a in a hurrying tripped and fell and Slid against a woman who was walk ing ahead of the portly lady fell on top of him and they Slid to the Bottom of the tout the i got up and gallantly explained to the gasping Pardon you will have to get is As far As 1 pfc James Ely tells us about the honest advertiser who spoke of his pro duct this Way use Lump Doest Doest its just company in the a an ardent camera was strolling out of the pm forlornly some Day my prints will overheard in the my wife is very every time she throws a cup at me she always takes the spoon revised tobacco found in Many Southern states and in some you can find the Cigar triple win helps air helps ground artillery fire helps tactical airmen beat Tackack by Bud Hutton Sura and stripes staff writer artillerymen and airmen have perfected a technique for the reduction of enemy aircraft fire against bombers attacking in support of the ground the technique involves artillery fire against All plotted German flak positions within Range every time the bombers or fighter bombers attack targets directly ahead of the by carefully plotted the artillery harasses nazi flak gunners during the bombers nost vulnerable time during which they cease evasive action and Fly an unchanged course on the bomb the which flak experts at Sam Ander sons 9th bomber command described As probably the most effective counter measure against flak within Range was evolved As an answer to nazi tactics of reinforcing vulnerable targets near the lines with heavy antiaircraft gun concent a it is effective thousands of Yards from american artillery the technique was originated at Cherbourg and Early in Trie Continental when air Liaison officers called on artillery fire against German flak positions in the besieged cities which were Zero Din on attacking bombers and fighter after research on firing data and flight original idea is credited to Willard of by Emery of flak officer at 9th bomber com sop for Counte Battery fire on German flak was put into effect 17 in the Euskirchen when 9th of planes attacked German Strong Points ahead of the ground under the setup which forms the closest Liaison to Date be tween air and targets to be and the involved Are provided artillery battalions by the tactical Ait command for the area with the yank gunners alerted and firing data already figured the Leader of the attacking air formation radios ground control station ten or 15 minutes before the can see the planes go on a careful american and weapons in the area then Lay Down fire on All enemy areas known to contain flak German pinned Down Tea play highlights the operations against flak on the Western front As a Piper cub spots enemy antiaircraft installations for a gun Crew which goes into action just before uie i bombers fully Over Fla heavy by the have been unable to Greet the bombers and fighters intense fire As once hammered the aircraft As soon As they settled Down to a bombing the frail cub observation planes of the artillery provide the final measure of Fairground lend lease by hovering Over the lines during the bombing attack and correcting the counter Battery fire and spotting previously uncharted flak positions from the muzzle turned the Victory roadsigns i Ketr avels Rundstedt High but Ike goes the right direction by Jules Grad stars and stripes staff writer with the supreme Comman Der in Eisenhower yesterday sped eastward on a chewed up ribbon of Road which advancing westbound germans once labelled Der Weg Zum Road to pounding Over the same crumbling breakthrough route the nazis used be yets will go but Many will move into other states 8 eight of every ten White soldiers expect to go Back to their Home states after the an army Survey the associated press said of the one in ten anticipates moving to another others have not yet made up their negro enlisted personnel show a greater tendency to move after the Only about two thirds expects to return to their Home the Survey about half of the White soldiers who say they Are going to move expect to shift to the far the tendency among negroes is to Migrate from the South to the if these shifts the army the Pacific coast can expect a net increase of about a Quarter million veterans after the the South As Well As the West and North Central sections will experience a Large the Mountain states Are expected to break ooh be ready to answer some questions on military strategy tween Houff Alize and Marche last the supreme commanders five Star Sedan passed silent relics of perhaps the of the Western with Omar 12th army group Ike saw gaping German artillery smashed skeletons of bomb wrecked houses his troops used As Las ditch fortresses in the critical Battle of Trie the car whizzed by ugly Miles mile graveyards of mutilated Tiger and Sher Man blasted mel09s and Thunder charred nazi troop carriers and burned out upset Volks Wagens and torn american the stench of death was gone from the pocked Fields All that remained was the clean smell of Pine but in countless places along the Road Snow mercifully shrouded gaunt shapes of enemy Armor and twisted yank com Mand the narrow breakthrough Road snaked through tiny belgian widened into what in was left a scarred of the met George Patton 3rd army Comman As they talked quietly before a the Only sound outside was the scraping of wooden cartwheels on the Bastogne evacuees were coming Eisenhower Sedan turned sliced through the Center of the bulge and into joining part of his 1st and 3rd armies a month hours supreme commander reached an Advance his face was his smile Der Weg Zum Sieg was a Road to he the germans just forgot it had two an radio program on your dial 1375 1402 1411 1420 1447 9 Charles sports up the the go to on the up sports supper mercers music i Mcgee and melodies with Frank news from the and of until 0755 saturday 10 album with Margaret from by Hal dance after command per news f on the continent listen to your favorite an programs Over the Allied expeditionary forces program 583 also shortwave band Between 0800 and 1900 needed in their chief says 8 Anna Walker staff director for the was in said today she had asked the War department for additional was for the who has just returned to told a news conference that it had been necessary recently to Takeall available men from their jobs in the Carh Mun cations zone and assign them As in Fantry As a was have taken on additional Steno graphic and communications during the last five she fewer than five per cent of the was in England and France have had a regular Day Oveta gulp wac told newsmen that a Survey Anna Wilson was being made to determine whether the was spared from installations for duty Wilson also disclosed that the wac was considering sending members Back to the for 30 Days jury to permit them to she said Only Small groups of two or three would be sent at one they would begin w arrive in the within a few she was in Wilson assume that they will be a part of the army of occupation in and thai at least 75 per cent of them Hope them will it is she that there would be a relatively need for was in administrative during the occupation than there was she reported that Romance had builder 5 in the ranks abroad with 105 warm its the Eto becoming she mostly were men and who had known each other in the slaps Rome Pai for slur on negroes jul m 8 me Ranegan edition of the stars and Sti in one of its rare i baked a roman comic weekly yesterday published a cartoon an american negro Soldier Wear shiny combat boots surround so italian women an children go Barefoot or with tattered in negro was represented As to think that who am not used am forced to Wear the cartoon was offensive i shocking to the stripes