London Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 21, 1945, London, Middlesex                                Page 2 the stars and stripes 1945 j3the stars and stripes printed to the Tama publishing Tor aimed under auspices of tar information and Edn Untim special and r Lafor Autton i contents passed Fajr the army and Eaton subscription 26 shall in per Vear plus Eto ensured As second class matter at the Post under the act of All material appearing in of my ligation has Hern and edited by uniformed members flt the barmy end Navy except where stated that a Tomlian or other i Bei if editorial 2nd Bosin ii Home ec4 d s Triet offices Bedford 2184 Swindell 3424 suit on Oaks february 1945 j 3 or out note Lack of space forces us to limit All letters published to not More than 200 turning the tables 1945 to the bag when a group of us patients were caught participating in a Friendly game of cards we unanimously voted to con tribute the pot to the red the were caught in the terrible act by a even Good enough to handle the contributing for i think it would be a wonderful idea for ail Battle weary soldiers to contribute their Money to the red Cross and find other Means of keeping from going crazy with nothing to the Wallace Case 1945 to the bag perhaps Congress has studied Henry wallaces past record As Secretary of agriculture and found it today there does not seem to be enough food in the and surely Only a minimum of the common necessities of in the bread Basket of the rationing of food is now the whole of the United the Short of was it not Henry Wallace who had the cattle and hogs slaughtered and left millions of pounds of beef and pork for Coyote and Buzzard food it seems to me that it was he that reduced the acreage of the Fine principal crops of the United tobacco and could Congress have realized that it was Henry wallaces agricultural adjust ment act that the Farmers to plow under millions of bushels of wheat during world War ii it seems it was his system that caused the beet crop to be and beet sugar rationed simultaneously perhaps Congress did look at the food producer by a Soldier by Donald Karoo 1945 to the bag to reject Wallace is to reject the people in favor of the to reject a world of plenty in favor of a world of to reject the principles of Christ in favor of tie would be to reject the cause for which men Are dying on the to reject the welfare of the next generation in favor of those who build the War machines for a profit by which Young men his rejection would mean the rejection of honest statesmanship by self seeking Henry Wallace has fought unselfishly for the truth As he sees though he knew he was alienating men whose Friendship was considered necessary to the Success his the truth and the Wel fare of the people have Ever been More important to Wallace than his personal though Defeated temporarily Henry Wallace will continue to fight for the common Man and eventually both he and the common Man will latin gripes 1945 to the bag we have been noticing quite a few gripes lately in the stars and stripes about we have a favorite one of our everyone in the army knows what a latrine is used but Why does it have to be locked so often for coming inspections we find it locked in the morning just after getting out of bed and also a few times in the evening before what we want to know is Are the inspections winning this War or Are the Gas with the by the boys of Ward report on the russians 1945 to the bag congratulations on today in which you mention the Gas appreciative thanks for the Way the rus sians Are going to for 1 refer youth the december and january issues of the readers in which appear William Whites report on the proclaiming his unbiased White proceeds in his Liberal to write one of the most seemingly deliberate prejudicial reports to appear on the user in in no seems anyone who Praise i the russian War results has to first proclaim at least i realize that its a helluva Way to win a War by highlighting the most obviously seamy elements of our allies at a time when so Many of them Are giving their jives in Pur common the defeat of the Ray simile of the As popular As the girl who keeps reminding you she has to be Home by to and then there was the Soldier hospitalized with a severe cold who remarked that his cold had gone from bad to latest report on the once famous gum chum Little see a youngster in Southern England approached him and you Ive graduated from you any Philadelphia Cream cheese oddities in the a certain red Cross publicity office is located on the top Story of a building that so High that the Only visitor Treyve had lately was a descending paratrooper had gotten meanest Man in the we just heard about a Guy who was bucking for his platoon Leader liked cigars so he turned Over his weekly ration to then he got his promotion started smoking a Short Short Story a Little Irish nurse was sitting in an american red club Reading a copy of life she turned to her yank boy Friend and you americans even technique when it comes to pub Lishing comment by George Hargett when he first read the announcement of the big three now that the rus sians have their meat grinder the three big boys Are going to get together to Chew the wac the Guys to beware of Are the Joes who never took music but still want to fiddle a sugar daddy is a sort of crystallized oldest gag of the the judge looked at the culprit and Why did you steal that sighed the i was and then there was the Little dog who sidled up to a parking looked up and a gotta pay now liquor be slow who in a hurry an editorial the squad and society in the squad there was a ser James of the Guys who draw the funny cartoons about sergeants never met Daven his Tongue was As quiet As his he was just a thin kid of he hardly Ever told anyone to do hed simply Start doing it and in no time the others were in there pitching by his the others were pics and they didst seem to want to pile on because that meant something would have to happen to and nobody wanted i so the promotion Bug didst seem to gnaw away at the nobody polished apples or kissed nobody played not that the men lacked but keeping the team together seemed More important than the extra stripes and cigarettes meant More than Money up there Money  buy anything i there was nothing to no one to sell the Guy with the most Butts was the richest Guy in the but no one Ever pulled out pack without passing it to the next no one Ever lit up no one was Ever out of Butts in the either they All had or none had it was that Way in the the boys haunt bathed for in the Damp cellar the smell was there was hardly enough room on the floor for them All to stretch but when a runner came in and asked if he could grab a Little they moved Over and he fitted himself in around the curves and Corners of the the runner stank but somehow the place smelled they didst have much of any thing in the what be longed his his watch and per Sonal was but the rest was the the the the the the Goodwill that somehow made up for the absence of every thing the Man and his Loveys Roll up their pinks two months too Long to they did it in 5 Days by Bud Hutton and Andy Rooney stars and stripes staff writers with 322nd bomb 20 engineers said the Field was dead that no bombers would Fly from it for 60 not until the bomb pocked runways had been five Days when gunners and even the old Man himself had calloused Palms unfamiliar with a shovels handle or the heft of a the bombers took off from runways which otherwise would have been unfit for another 55 one afternoon after a raid on a rail Center just East of the the Field Robert of told John of the group that the Mission the last this b26 outfit could Fly from the Field for two when 9th bombers were pounding German held airfields last year they had hit this carving 30foot craters in Landing strips they later were going to have to then the germans were forced to leave the they planted explosive Sticks in the runways and gouged More holes in the Concrete Landing american engineers filled the craters in gift so i smiled and Why you capt spare me Wholl Mike out the old come morning report before the b26 group moved using a Chalky substance the French Call the runways held up until the thaw came and water began to seep through and the cinch be there were 105 bomb craters in the Man and because of the shortage of engineers and Coxe Esti mated it would take two months to when the Engineer left his Samuel sent a to All Squadron com everybody on the Field or near it was to report the following morning ready for Bombardier and pilots who had been Over Germany the Day before turned out with shovels and with them were Headquarters clerks and of duty privates in the Engineer in work realized War Long dreams by directing details of officers in Pink and combat sergeants who had shovelled anything but Snow Back for four Days used to instruments and dug with tools at Plain and used to touch of the hammered away with in the Middle of the mass detail Samuels j stripped to his slugged away with a pick and All the cliche had to be dug out and caned away while Rock and gravel carted 25 Miles to the from a Distant Quarry 281 trucks which had been begged and borrowed hauled tons of Rock and cubic feet of for four Days and nights everyone on the base before noon on fifth Day after Coxe had condemned the Field for 60 50 b26s trundled Down the runway and headed for Days ahead of Choo babies negro engineers keeper Rollin by building their own railroads by Allan Morrison stars and stripes staff writer with the 354th Engineer nuts and bolts As ammunition and roaring Bull dozers As assault artillery i engineers of com z have worked Many Miles in the Wake of fighting forces in a special Little War of their Battle of rehabilitation and Landing in Normandy in july this negro unit Laid rail lines As it advanced through France and left a Trail of com an radio program 21 from the sports up the the moments in by Woody up the sports supper the air ii Rhth air with mercers music band of the condos jazz with Frances Jerry Colonna and Skinny news from the Oft until 0755 22 album with Marilyn studio time Wilh Abe Lyman after Bob up the news from the plated military ranging from water Points to marshalling though Treyve usually worked far to the most of their projects have a direct bearing on Supply and communications lines to the restoration of French rail lines for use by american forces has been a major task of the Long stretches track damaged by bombing and tons have been Many a Railroad men like Virgel of who used to work for the Union Pacific and is now a construction the laying and servicing of Over 100 Miles of additional rail though Railroad jobs comprise most of their the Small jobs they do like guarding dumps after by ing their biggest building a rail involved cutting and re ing cubic Yards of earthworks the project had High operational import it was aimed at eliminating a raft bottleneck in then the major port in Allied termed by authorities one of the standing engineering projects in the Yard was built under credibly difficult conditions that incl seas of mud in which heavy equip had to Over 34 Miles of were put Down in an area less than a mile the regiment boasts the Only foundry possessed by a is unit it happened when the 1 railway operating then Viking Normandy rail exhausted Supply of safety switch a vital to regulating the opening and track none could be Ottar either on the continent or in the the mechanical brains of the unit tapped for up came a Confra that some said was strictly from it consisted of a Homei die stamping the lug pattern within a foundry improvised from Oil d1 hooked together to make a