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volunteered for the infantry and Para troops and have had no action taken because we Are supposed to be f combat we can see no reason for comments from the present fighting the Way we see we should be creating As much excitement As Roosevelt pfc pfc pfc the Wallace sentiments 1945 to the bag what can Wallace have done in the past four years to have warranted the two extremely bitter controversies of which he has been the Center during the past six months can it be that he has proclaimed this to be the Century of the common Man can be that he has said racial and religious the social and educational inequities resulting be eliminated perhaps it is because he pointed out that there Are fascists in cer Tain american Well As in or maybe it ii his statement that if appointed to the Post of Secretary of he Wouldhave for his number one task the creation of postwar j the possibility exists that the senti1 ments which Wallace has publicly expressed Many for which Many american lives healthy bodies have been in the minds of Many of our government tokens to which lip and nothing shall be social legislation 1945 to the bag on the red herring letter of that pfc who came Forth with so vile an attack on an organization the Dies committee which has been instrumental a uncovering ant american activities Byboth the communistic party Ami the nazi the so called the states who profess real Progress have transformed our free nation and shackled it with legislation correlative to that our shipmates and buddies lire fighting so valiantly to destroy on foreign have a progressive our position in need not be made More secure by social legislation similar to those of Geri Nany or nor that now being advocated and expert on by members of Pur present administration i which threefold Are one and the generally described As National everything Ive gained was reaped through and at times through sacrifices our social philosophies would scoff at because of personal Dis i didst complain to my representatives in our nations capital about because i deemed them my responsibility and consequently adjusted myself opinion on i Joe 1945 to the bag i do not know whether or not realizes he has inflicted upon the american Soldier an unpardonable when the soldiers Fidelity and intelligence Are betrayed and belittled to the extent that he is placed before the eyes of the one who believes or thinks of nothing beside the Pas Sions of sex and pvt added thanks to a minority that overshadows the sures that he has just returned from did you not on Many occasions witness the american Soldier praying to his either with Catholic Rosary beads or a protestant or jewish or a silent prayer from a soldiers heart have seen and so have and it is their prayers to god that make the american i the miraculous fighting Raan that he it matters Little whether or not we Are called i but when we Are de scribed As ill mannered beings who revel in the passions of sex and it matters a great on this Issue there can be no majority or on this Issue we stand As that being is it True that when Charlie Mccarthy Dies Edjir Bergen will notify his next Kofkin Dirig they must be raising a rough and ready younger generation on the Home our spy reports the following conversation Little boy can i have an ice Cream soda papa shut up and drink your quip of the week by Bernard spam is Steak that didst pass its i when a Bunch of women get lord pity the first one who i didst raise my daughter to be fiddled said the cat As she rescued her Kitten from the Violia heres the first unsigned verse left in our typewriter for Days she refuses to she refuses to and so this Gal aint a missus upon being promote to Buck Bob Hastie of the Eto wrote his Back in the states tie Good the brother in turn told his seven year eld who a lot of her Uncle the Little girl immediately burst into asked Why she was she i wanted to see Bobbie while he was still a this conversation took place Between two Eto Happy first Joe did you know that my first sergeant talks to himself second Joe so does but he Doest know he thinks someone is who said that a wac is a Soldier with a flirtation Mph Dillard Winston every Man likes to see a Broad when she smiles at and then there was the air Force Cadet who moaned to his Minot id sure hate to most honest i weve about lately is a pfc named turning to a  girl by his he stick around till i Down a few More you Are looking better after each fun on the Home a Soldier stepped into a phone Booth and saw the name Mabel and Telephone number written on the he called the number and a voice save your Nickels and buy War my do those nazis Hote teacher her classrooms a lessons Are bombs soviet women like the one shown Here Fly the russian Stormo Viks in Baltic naval air by Zine red army correspondent at a russian naval air in fur lined breeches and and flying Petite Lydia Shula Inina looked like a girl who had dressed up for fun in the uniform of a Sto Movik but there she standing by an ilyusbin2 plane in which she had carried out More than 40 combat missions against enemy whatever made you become a Sto Movik Pilot i asked we were standing on an Airfield from where fliers of the soviet naval air Arm took off to bomb enemy shipping in Baltic our she my Job before the War was when the War started i saw Many of our maimed and mutilated by the after school i would go to help at the childrens but i  Bear to see them so i decided to take up flying to revenge like thousands of other soviet Lydia Learned to Fly at a civil aviation club in her spare time and finally landed in a training school for fighter she finished with Hying was assigned to a Sto Movik regiment of the naval air and finally the Day came when she took off on her first operational flight to bomb nazi i was Lydia i kept wondering if id be Able to carry out my when we appeared Over our a caravan of German High Speed self propelled Landing 1 regained i released my bomb looking Down i saw a fire break out on one of the it Sank several minutes Many months have passed since now Lydia laughs when she recalls her fears during the first Days in the air it has become a matter of routine for her to bomb enemy ships and enemy occupied a Large formation of planes took off to attack a German Aerial reconnaissance reports stated it consisted of 60 transports and escort the soviet air formation ran into a heavy curtain of a but they broke the first group struck at the while the others peppered enemy a Crews with machine gun and Cannon for valor displayed in this operation Lydia was decorated with the order of the red do you intend to remain in the air Force after the i when the War ends i will go Back to i want to educate our and to be i want to have and bring up my own now is not the time to think about such my Job for the present is to help to win the War this was no Asylum even for the insane Walls built to shut out fear no bar to Nightmare of War try Wade Jones stars and stripes staff writer with 7th Hundred patients of a romans land insane Asylum Southeast of Hagenau were about to be evacuated yesterday following a nightmarish two weeks of huddling in a filthy cellar while heavy hellfire crumbled the building Over their Heads and killed four of their although a recent american Advance has placed the institution in relative safety a couple of thousand Yards behind our evidence of the tragic siege Lay everywhere this afternoon about the grounds of the institution and inside its battered the bodies of three children Lay at the Bottom of a two were sub the germans had shovelled dirt Over the four More persons died of Mal dozens of Shell holes gape in the thick Stone and the roofs of the three main buildings and the in the where the fear shaken inmates and their few attendants crowded for splintered Beds and Furni Ture littered the floors and the cold rain dripped through great holes in the Down in the women and children crouched on pallets and in narrow to a they were filthy and the place stank of their ten of the patients were wounded and 40 were first word the american forces received of conditions at the institution was when a demented Shoemaker employee of the place arrived in Bisch Willer on tuesday with a the note was turned Over to private Breger King features Syndicate unless All my years of map Reading have been id say approaching Freiburg Grady of Jackson new a civil affairs it was written in English and read As follows we Are in a difficile situation and beg of you to help our bread is almost we must go to oberhofer then and now inside German lines to fetch but now is it is the soldiers shoot on our beast 14 cows must have where we did in die Field behind our but we cannot go because the soldiers shoot on we Are 230 persons children and who lodged la cellars and our position is very miser our would speak with you about this but he is not returned since yesterday morn we will be very grateful when you can give us satisfaction concerning these you must excuse our but we cannot write strips at front save 500 planes for the front 8th of service command than worm of 500 bombers and fighters the 8th air Force which were unable to return to their bases and were forced Down on Fields in Northern Europe have been made airworthy through Continental operations of this command since prior to these planes would have been lost to the but now most of them Are taking their places in formations bombing the hell out of the the saying of these planes Elimina Ted the necessity of Rushing replacements from the thus making possible better distribution to other War planes damaged beyond repair equipment and Hardt Oget Worth millions in their own have been salvaged and used in maintenance at 8th air Force As the Allied armies advanced toward this command extended its operations right behind the even setting up Landing strips on Sites by the still to be seen at Many of the strips Are swastikas and German signs painted on the Walls of blasted now utilized As 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