London Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 19, 1945, London, Middlesex                                Page 8 the stars and stripes 1945 War is like quiet afternoon main Street Street combat on the shattered streets of a infantry division heavy weapons platoon goes into caution Marks an Advance through the rubble carrying their heavy the platoon fires while army signal corps Ali tool advancing undeterred by a mortar Shell which set aflame the adjoining the platoon Leader keeps his my Active from a second floor window overlooking enemy positions along a Street that once echoed the sounds of some Jerries give up the Pacific is says one who came Back by Ralph Martin stars and stripes staff writer with 9th this lieutenant is almost but not quite As popular As Grable in a Bubble theres always a crowd of Joes around him asking and the crowds Are getting bigger and Day after there not asking him How Many krauts he killed or How he got that Bayonet scar on his right hand or what was the cutest ankle he Ever saw during o it say Ike will control Reich his prewar career As a ladies shoe All they want to know is is it rougher Over there than it is Here to Robert of the 2nd platoon of company a of the 1st of the 406th of the 102nd always has the same he always says getting curious about Pacific with the Western front War the nicely scheduled to end the Joes Are getting increasingly curious about this War in the especially since so Many government people have promised them t trip to new York via what Kimball says is that Slushy Snow and thick mud look Good to him com pared to his 22 months in the sweaty Jungle heat of new Guinea and new Georgia that he prefers Jerries to because Jerries surrender and japs dont that Buzz bombs Are deliciously soothing to his nerves in contrast with the Long strained nights when nobody was allowed to talk or smoke or move out of his Fox Hole at the risk of being either by the japs or his own or was a Buck sergeant in charge of a machine gun squad with the 37th which is now in the during the blood bitter Battle of Munda Kimball was one of the few Lucky ones in his most of the others Wert slow ones didst live Long in was in Munda that Kimball Learned to move simply because the slow ones never lived that the Way Kim balls platoon operates on a recent patrol Mission to go and get no matter How far they went or How Long they Kimballs platoon went out 800 Yards from his front Over an open Field of thick and came Back with a slightly very talkative pm in less than 40 its a pleasure to walk Down a Trail without having to worry about Flushing every Bushy tree with a and you dont know How wonderful it is to go to sleep at night without having Centi Pedes and mosquitoes and land crabs and scorpions crawling All Over As for a preference Between a German 88 and the Jap trigger operated knee deep Kimball would rather listen to an 88 any you can beat those 88s to the ground if youre fast he but you never even hear those japs they1 just hit that Why Kimball always says All Day Long Day after to the apis British land again on Burma coast British troops made a new Surprise Landing time at 65 Miles Southeast of the a akan coast of it was the seventh Landing in seven preceded by a 40minute barrage from naval batteries offshore and from artillery pieces secretly planted on the coast by commandos a Day the troops swarmed ashore meeting slight oppose All objectives were taken within it was other British and Indian troops were reported within 50 of Burmas second largest having established a new Bridgehead across the Irrawaddy Allied air Power yesterday joined in the Battle for Mandalay by pounding troop concentrations and Supply d urn i South of the 18 Eisenhower doubtless will be chairman of the Central control commis Sion for the army and Navy journal said without giving any indication of the source of its report or Why it believed the Allied Eto chief would get the another question buzzing around Washington concerns the leadership for the final Battles against Navy Cen sors have passed correspondents articles on How the vast sea distances involved make it necessary that a naval chief should command the the army and Navy journal said Macarthur should Lead the assault on and Macarthur own motto of on to Tokyo is held to be his bid for the Newsweek Magazine said friends of Eisenhower declared he does not seek leadership in the George Patton 3rd army was said to have asked for command of armoured forces operating in Ace in the Hole in the setup is Joseph army ground forces whose Long experience in it is believed will certainly be used when the time conies for the concluding blows against Russia continued from Page 1 ports said this water Barrier had been far behind Konies main his troops had completed the encirclement of Industrial capital of and were reported fighting inside the defense ring around the As in the nazis promised the besieged Garrison that support soon would arrive and called on All the de fenders to stand to the rear of a Lukovs right flank the germans still held a Quarter of farther North marshal Rokos Sovsky drove ahead toward the Baltic and germans said a new critical situation had developed As these forces attempted to place the ports of Danzig and Gdynia in a similar position to surrounded and being reduced by Cherniachovs keys troops on the other Side of East Between the forces of Rokos Sovsky and Chern Vakhovsky the ring around the trapped German divisions continued to tighten despite 15 or 20 nazi counter attacks a at the Southern end of the front fight ing was reported on the czech Plain North of the Danube according to Ger Man soviet troops launched new attacks toward Bratislava and Brenner pass hit again dark warns civilians the Allied Mediterranean tactical air Force marked its second anniversary yesterday by pounding German Supply lines in North Italy and in the Brenner German naval installations at Pola and fiume were also hit following the warning Given saturday by Mark Clark to civilians in North Italy that the full might of Allied air Power was being used to make withdrawal As costly As soviets profit As nazi War Plant goes into the red Poland reds capture hidden plants 18 example of the vast underground factories that the nazis May have Safe from Alied bomb ing inside Germany has been revealed by marshal Kot Ilievs troops in upper they have captured a huge under ground factory under a Large from the air there was nothing to show that shells and mines were being turned out by the thousand among the innocent looking but underneath this natural camouflage red army men found crisscrossed con Crete walks and tracks and enormous Concrete made invisible from the air by canopies and acres of skilfully planted Miles of tunnels run underneath the Hills and off the tunnels in giant underground warehouses were stored piles of shells and War Bonds available for easter gifts easter gift War which will be delivered with Holiday will be sold by All Post exchanges and War Bond it was announced yester to insure delivery by All orders must be received by the Chicago office not later than 20 and should be placed Here in sufficient time to reach there by that this is the Rich agricultural and Industrial a Large part of whose vital War output has already been lost by the Reich to the red divided into upper and lower the upper part the mountainous Southern the most productive Grain and fruit Belt lies in lower washed by the Oder the area formerly was a part of Czechoslovakia and of the four Large Industrial Geiwitz and Breslau remains in nazi Algio cooperate to see that vets get old jobs Back by Victor Lasky stars and stripes staff writer a plan assuring gis after the War of their old jobs or comparable one and with comparable pay is being jointly sponsored by the Al and the James the cios Secretary revealed who is attending the world Trade Union con Ference in said both labor were seek ing to get the plan written into All labor this contractual Carey would implement the vague pro vision in the i Bill of rights Guaran teeing a Serviceman the Job he that he says that Carey a go is entitled to his Job As Long As the same Job remains but How Many jobs will remain the same after the War we got together to discuss the pro Blehi and agreed that Industry should make it Clear that if the same Job int available the Veteran should receive a comparable one and with comparable we Are now trying to get that written into All labor the Al and bitter rivals and t uncooperative in most got together at the urging of the veterans of foreign Carey together with vow and Al who is a member of the cios veterans com agreed on the program designed to restore returning servicemen to their there is no reason Why our country  have full employment after he we have nearly full employment now because were producing vital War Why cant we have the same situation in peacetime product ing much needed consumer goods Terry and the pirates by 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