London Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 19, 1945, London, Middlesex Page 2 the stars and stripes 1945 the stars and stripes printed u the tines Pomis hint to Aiea Coder Ca spices the education special us Lalor Tim contents by the army Axil Navy reason Meteri Tolm 26 mall nos per year plus Eto bound at Secand a Jat matter at tile pan new mar the act of a material appearing in this publication has been written and to ditto by uniformed members at the army and Navy it trept where hated that a cml Ian footer Curie Soure it being edit Oil and Busman printing Howe ec4 District off los Bedford 1184 so Moo 3424 Sutton a aka february 1945 bm5 note bag is receiving Many unsigned we require your signature As evidence of Good Faith your identity will not be revealed if you inform us you want your name the Wallace Case 1945 to the bag about four years ago i was drafted into this army and told 1 was to fight 1 didst know what fascism but from our orientation course soon i was also shown How much i and the rest of humanity would Benet from the defeat of now there s a Guy named Henry Wallace who is preaching the same thing As 1 was shown m this what i want to know come so much opposition to him from Bur Congress if he represents the things were fighting Why not assist him1 in getting rid of fascism instead of blocking him huh Why 1945 to the bag what is wrong with our Congress they Only look for the Little Man s votes to get into office once they Are turn their backs on the Little Man i am referring to the Case of we All know by Bis past record that he is the Champion of the Little Man and of Small and still Congress is trying to push him what seems to be in their Congress minds Are they really afraid that Small business won t be Able to maintain our economic or Are they Congress looking to big business to pad their own 1 am asking those because 1 am in doubt about our Why dont they give Wallace a Chance 1945 too bad Irving Kessler and his pals didst develop a fast Burn and Burn if the Senate committee rejected i think they did a Good when you become Bright enough to become a member of that grand body of men who make up our then Start How do you know what gives men Over seas Confidence Wallace is not the Man for the and Wallace is a Farmer and not a commercial therefore just let the Senate handle pfc Eric and 50 foxhole Point of View 1945 to the bag in connection with the article an Ameri can paper published our stars and stripes editorial everything for the i wish to express my appreciation of the editorials statement from a foxhole gis Point of and to say the correspondents attitude and remarks Are distasteful to i was in the front lines five listening to enemy shells also Felt i would like to know if the Downto Earth i this correspondent referred to has Ever been in a foxhole wondering if he would freeze to death before an enemy Shell got i regarding the editors dont know if he is private or makes no he has feeling for the gis up that is More than i can say for the i realize the government cant produce every Little thing we Wanty but if the people on the Home front would think More about the men who Are freezing and dying they might Volunteer to produce beyond what they Are we dont expect luxuries in the Fox holes we want just enough to do our Job efficiently without freezing while we do and 22 an answer on waste 1945 to the bag in reply to a question of waste in by he certainly is a Fack but not much of a Pilot Erie Ever read the tech on maximum allowable Gross weight for Landing a b17 does he know How Mitch a b17 weighs with Gas find bomb Load does he know How much stress and Strain is placed on that air plane when it is landed with Load has Ever asked himself which is More economical in the Long to use up the Gas or damage the air plane the answer to most of these questions is apparently not or does he know How much a b17 costs in compari son with Gas consumption for hours of minimum cruising he certainly is Flack Happy and someone ought to Send him Back to the Cap to Fly cubs and his 29 Chev air when the suggestion Box at an arc club in Northern Ireland suddenly Dis wondered now they last suggestion in the Box was please move the suggestion i bumped my head strange Friendship close buddies Are Emil sinner and Frank overheard in a Bistro i dare you to carry me outside and say the following personal item appeared in a recent Issue of the Satur Day review of Young 3j years wants interesting anything considered willing to work hard and take after Reading this major Andrews and Kenig draft Board ought to be Able to give the Guy just what Hes looking dont be too hard on see James a Wolf is a quip of the week by if the germans continue to resist their Battle line will soon be such that the Only command their cos will have to give is about about today 64dpllar question by which carries a bigger Fields up in a Little belgian town three yanks were sitting around celebrating with the first scotch they had been Able to in months and months and just As they filled their glasses and placed them on the a Buzz bomb came the Joes Dove for their placed them Over the three glasses containing the precious Hugh Duncan sent us this parody on a Well known Why Are the russians always Rushin answer fire engines Are red Berlin is on fire there fore Berlin is red the russians Are mad As bulls they can see Berlin which is red when bulls see red they Rush that Why the russians Are silly a Sweet Young thing asked her Soldier did lady Godiva win a horse race quipped the she just who said that it seems that women dislike each other principally because of an editorial the squad and the concert the men in the squad who stood guard outside the Ger Nan Village heard with1 their helmets tipped Back a Little behind the ears to catch the softest tones they scarcely missed a the wintry wind rustled across the Fields and whistled through the blasted through the countless holes that had once been and the jagged gaps forced through the Brick by the each kind and shape of Hole poured Forth a different some some there was drum fire in the and the Sharp Tattoo of nearby the battered Church Steeple sobbed in the night As if some ghost sat at the shattered playing a requiem for this Community of the it was a masterpiece of Melan so Low at times the squad could hardly hear then Sud Denly the Drums and the Wail of wind and the shriek of shells Rose to a shattering the ears ached and the heart stood it was a symphony of destruction a theme of pain and hate and com posed by a played by ghosts and on instruments of a Stradivarius gone led by a Maestro who hated it was the love death of a German a town that loved Power and con quest and was not Content in its Mildreds voice is their Good Luck to fliers lost in the Clouds c for circus Means h for Home by Bud Button and Jundy Rooney stars and stripes staff writers at a 9th bomber command d for this is this is Are you in trouble Are you in trouble come an american bomber lurches out of the Black flak above Over and starts Westward in the general direction of one engine shot the crippled aircraft loses its group and there Areno landmarks to see beneath a Bleak Gray layer of his voice a Little the Pilot Speaks into his radio and then begins to trying not to one two three two Hundred Miles in a White lighted trailer about the size of three four deadpanned american girls and a lieutenant stare at a big Flat the top of which is a map of the West the areas behind the still staring at the John of talks distinctly into one of a dozen radios d for d for this is will you give us another solv please another slow asks again for Long count Chambers asks again for a Long puts Down the radio phone and Speaks As he moves to the map still staring at the lines which Are France behind the fighting Hes lost where is he while Chambers has been speaking from the radi6 trailer circus to the Pilot of the marauder called d for a score of was and Soldier technicians at half a dozen radio stations scattered around France and Belgium have been providing the answer to where is he each of the stations within Range of the bomber lost above the Clouds has taken a bearing on the pilots radioed slow the bearings Are read into a Tele phone network which funnels into one six station three four private Keger she loves me she loves me station one seven second class Bent Over the three of the was repeat the Compass bearings which come to them from the radio they move Black threads on the and where the threads Cross Hes South of Chambers get him Home on two seven because the radio has pinpointed the direction of his the Pilot and his Crew of d for dog no longer Are they still cant see where they but warm and a lot closer than the 200 Miles goes the message from circus which gives them a Compass course to their borne d for this is this is steer two seven steer a heading of two seven perfect voice for circus wac Mildred Lucks spoken word is Little a Little More metallic than most folks voices in her native thus she makes a perfect voice for the flatness carries and the bomber Crews who hear her words come Over the air dont think its a Flat they think its pretty warm and the decisions which bring lost planes safely Back to base Are Johnny Chambers or those of whichever controller Ison but the decisions Are made through Mildred Luck and the girls around the map Eleanor of Ohio pfc Mary of pfc Llewellyn Gray of Phila or their opposite on other there int much visible emotion in the the girls talk and listen and smoke while theres a lift their eyes from the map and lines Only to see the they look More like actors in a play about lost planes than actors in that kind of play usually look Mildred Lucks face Doest show the scores of wounded kids Shes helped to bring Back nor the Comfort Shes talked to men whole found that empty panic feeling when the Clouds close but finally her in personal voice of circus says to no one in particular the poor but Hes All right an radio program 19 radio sports up the the go to up the sports supper with mercers music ten with the Raf orchestra and Beryl news from the and off until 0755 20 say cant be poohed by de Clark stars and stripes staff writer with the is tactical air of weird Tringam jigs spotted by night fighters Over enemy Terri reached a new Peak Here today As 3eaufighter Crews received news from lome that the Fpo fighters were figments of the imagination and strictly from the realm of particularly disgusting to the night Biers who have seen Foo fighters 08 and on for the past four months was a recent article in time which said sceptical baffled by the whole were inclined to dismiss the an perhaps an image of Light which remained in the pilots eyes after they had been dazzled by flak the Beau fighter Crew members was prepared to explain the Foo but they were incensed to learn that the phenomenon had been lightly passed off As a Case of spots before their Many of these night fighters Are veterans of the african and italian campaigns which lacked the added attraction of Foo As one Owen it and his Navi Warren new put it if were starting to see things wed better quit and go without Ever having actually these Beau fighter men have at accumulated a passing than the during their last four months of operation Over German they described them As balls of coloured Light which Rise from the ground in Kraut land and move in on the night fighters shortly after they near or Cross the Battle sometimes they Are in As Many As their color has ranged from red to while and even playing it no Beau fighter Crew has yet allowed the Foo fighters to but has always gone into evasive dive and turns while the Tringam jigs still a sure distance off the Wing or Tail army seeks owners of unclaimed film the army pictorial service has reveal that considerable both still aah has been left unclaimed Sac processing of Amateur film was Over by army Exchange services graphic department last August desiring to claim film submitted to pictorial service for processing p 1 May do so by writing the Amateur film trial Apo in making soldiers Sho Date it was mailed to size if whether eight or 16m whether Black and Dufay color or 20 resume album with Ginny dance by Clyde America loves after Duffy s up the news from the army1 sky Marker bomb help target hits through Clyl 18 army now has a sky Marker which Send sup a column of smoke through Clouds to help Pis targets through a Pathfinder plane after Locati target drops one or More bombs the succeeding Waves of Able to sight smoke columns As five Miles then release their Over the a thin1 object containing eight coloured was developed by the warfare
