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Publication: London Stars and Stripes Monday, February 12, 1945

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   London Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 12, 1945, London, Middlesex                                Page 2 the stars and stripes 1945 predicts trips faster than ill one of americas leading plan predicted today that aircraft would travel to Miles per hour within the next ten to 15 and in no Crystal declared Peyton iof the Glenn Martin who designed the b26 marauder medium bomber and helped put on paper such planes As the Martin worlds largest what those aircraft will look i dont know he said in an but any aeronautical will Tell you the same thing about air for the German v2 goes much faster than 1 Miles per hour and travels 60 Miles when technical difficulties Are licked find they will be what would prevent you from putting passengers in it and sending them off on a trip theres no question m Magruder mind about propulsion it will be either Jet or and As for difficulties with the human body travelling faster than sound if there is reasonable acceleration and deceleration trips at such High speeds could be most he Vignette of Wai Mot just i nun by Jules Grad stars and stripes staff writer with the supreme com he arrived in th2 Eto last Walter of los decided some thing should be done about Loose talk and Security so you could hardly blame him for being cautious of a five Star waiting for his Sedan to be pulled out of a mud Hole somewhere in Belgium this Eisenhower sloshed his Way to a what outfit is this he asked that secret Savage the general waited Savage kept do you know who i am the general the lieutenant allowed he wont you the general tried again Savage looking at the gaping newsmen the five Star general and the Young lieutenant walked Down the a few seconds Rake got the in the lieutenant got a Pat on the the newsmen they never forget that first face american ambulance Drivers at the front have their own Story to the wounded dont cry some titles they but not about Tali at far by Ralph Martin stars and staff writer with the 7raf chased some of the kids out of the narrow courtyard so ithe ambulance could Back up and two of the passengers were walking the third was a litter a Young doped up with he had his hands folded High on his Chest if his eyes stared at nothing at while his lips mumbled words to he thought he was still up at the the Driver All the Way he kept repeating Over and Over again weve got to weve got to the first Guy Weaver hauled from the front was like said the he had his brains wrapped up in a Bandage and i expected to Start screaming any minute it was the roughest Cross country trip the assistant j 5 Driver i remember that he didst even seem to kno Huhe was in an Amu he just Kepi talking about All his buddies who got and then he started talking to i guess he was a Little off his lot off faces both the Driver his assistant were Francis the used to be a paint sprayer Back in his Tristam of Green Only had been with him Ever since they came overseas and were attached to the 411th regiment of the 103rd i dont remember them any said coffin there All just a lot of faces to me then he said pand some of Jiem dont even have coffin told How Busy it got sometimes and How they just drove All Day and help wanted Given write your a estion or problem to the Start and upper Brook or Apo Telephone base v Apos wanted John Herbert Ohio Lewis Sayers set Okre Mai Vivien Walter san overcoat i Xii will Henry of twelfth army who was Siven Kaufman katzes overcoat and Cap a the Berkeley room on please Contact Krajz at the Park Lane London Telephone Grosvenor imme and he will b Given his own coat in Back and Forth from the Aid station to the collecting sometimes we loaded them in so fast in the blackout and they were so bloodied up that i found myself handling my own buddies without Ever knowing it until we were on our that sure was a funny coffin told about some other funny about the time he was on his somehow squeezed into the Back of a packed and giving blood plasma to one patient after and the time they brought in a pregnant woman so blown up that they expected the baby to pop every time they turned a then there was the time they were evacuating wounded from one end of a Small town while the krauts were still fighting in the theres you can say to the Muehlfelt you cant Tell a Guy who has a leg shot off that its a rough he knows but some times they want to no talk about Home they talk about How they got hit and How Tough the fighting and occasionally someone will get sentimental about the clean White sheets he is going to sleep under if they move him Back to a general they never talk about said its too far i Muehlfelt then remembered How sensitive he used to be and How it used to get on his nerves when he heard them but now he said he didst get the Shivers any More because he was dulled to now he just concentrates All his thinking on the Down before the Shell holes and before the we haul anybody who said but i hate like hell to haul when we i like to hear them groan and whimper because Ive seen so much of what they have done to our but the Queerest thing in this whole ambulance said is the time you haul both krauts and doggies in the same and you remember that they were both shooting at each other maybe an hour it sure is int it he seeing eye9 was help the Home front see the War Early peace thaw melts Loveys bars with 103rd a warm Day brings a touch of coming Spring to the and pfc Thomas a j keep Driver in an infantry regiment of this believes the War will soon Cook and his buddies were talking to their lieutenant the other Day about the Advance of the russians toward and the officer said it might not be Long until they were All civilians that Cook but the lieutenant Cut him you men and i have soldiered to Gether much too Long to be said the Why dont you Cut out that sir stuff when we Haven got Cook remarked he was con Vinced that the War was ending it was like seeing the first he 6sea squatters form a club new 11 Tion of a sea squatters numbering men and women who bailed out of an air plane Over water and were forced to take to Mae West life was announced Eddie Ricker survivor of 21 Days at is one of the ten charter others Are six who were adrift with Rickenbacker from 21 to after their plane was forced Down Over the and three Navy men who sailed a raft look Miles in the Southwest Pacific from 16 to charter who were with Are Hans Christian William Cherry James John James Rey and John the three Navy men Are chief Petty officer Harold radioman Gene and ordnance Man Tony ships store cant be sent Home 11 Navy personnel were advised yesterday that they May feel sorry for the poor meatless Home but that they better not try to do any thing about the Navy announced strict orders to prevent personnel overseas or afloat irom sending friends or relatives now scarce or unobtainable in civilian markets but still obtainable in ships the prohibition applies to alarm cigarette electric electric Fountain Hunting mechanical pocket razor Blades and acc chides caused mild spy scare los 11 government officials breathed a sigh of Relief today when they discovered that the dangerous nazi spy who had been sending German and French programs to South America was John Russell a 16yearold Amateur radio arrested on charges of violating Federal communications commission his homemade High fre Quency set was he later was released with a male Call stars and stripes photos by Cordaro these was who operate intricate radio photographic equipment provide visual Contact Between the Battlefront and from Vondel Vivian Hollo Way and Wanda their pictures Tell the Story was radio frontline so Home front gets a picture by Claire Kerlee stars and stripes distaff writer far beneath London Busy wartime in a compact room full of fascinating gadgets and control work three Young women who Are a visual link Between the folks Back Home and their men on the fighting they Send Home the War news pictures labelled by like Many of their sister these girls had different occupations in civilian Wanda from was head of a shoe company shipping Vondel Judkins had a department store Job in and Vivian from mount taught in a High phrases like changing the wave checking the Oscilloscope Are perfectly Clear to these operational contacts with Paris and Washington Are daily these three was Man the army London radio telephoto station which receives and transmits the army hot news pictures Between Europe and the War department in to his of right chemical nips give Oil a lift new 11 Cal cocktails Are being added to lubricating a drop to a with results that rival the drops impart new properties to the practice began before the expanded into a big military and now Worth of chemicals which nature does not put into Petroleum Are being six kinds of drops Are one enables Oil to stand higher another keeps Oil flowing freely at Low and a third keeps pistons and rings two kinds of Are used to counteract the deteriorating effect of oxygen which forms acids and and the sixth increases slippers Gether with eight enlisted men and one they Are responsible for signal corps photographs made on the Battle fronts getting to Washington for distribution to newspapers and news ser vices so the folks at Home can see what their fighting men Are up probably one of the most technical jobs in the transmission and recep Tion of photographs by a comparatively new the army has stations All Over the but the London station is the Only one with wac operators at last their army spec number is held by fewer than fifty the London station was started in when James Paul Snider and their facsimile equipment were flown to Lon Don from the during the invasion month of More than facsimile transmissions were made to the enabling newspapers to show As Well As Tell the Progress of the the was were assigned to the radio telephoto Section last after they arrived in none had done facsimile but All were experienced radio handling the bulk of facsimile traffic out of this the Section has opera Ted and maintained four sets of radio facsimile equipment without one major breakdown in the was operate As trick chiefs on shifts which keep the station in operation Twenty four hours a this process of transmission has been developed for Speed and the girls get a picture out in seven Storaasli named top air chaplain 11 War department has announce the appointment of Gynther Storaasli As chaplain supervising activities of All army air forces chaplains at Home and Over who served pastorate in succeeds air chaplain charts of who has been assigned crossword Puzzle across screen Star of of and of classic it was a famous 30 131 s o 20 is it lit 38 Art was Down this a Dakota army with Island Sun take cover i Here comes the Olp Man firing for his Ham and Pont fit this morning int it enough that i Avi stuck in this place instead of sein6 overseas where Aav experience would mean something must i be treated to a show of insubordination As Pony teach the men ves under you to Salute 0ut i believe the insignia of my shows 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