London Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 22, 1945, London, Middlesex Page 2 the stars and stripes 1945 the stars and stripes printed at the times publishing for aimed trader auspices of the Ifon nation and education special eat information contents passed by the army and censors subscription 26 per rear plus Eto Ert rred As second class matter at the Post new under the act of material appearing i this publication Lias been Fri then and edited by uniformed members Al the army and nary except where stated that a Chian or Murzen being editorial and business pin in House ec4 strict Bedford 2184 Swindon 3424 Simon Oaks february 1945 a Ray of Sunshine 1945 to the bag at last surrounded by myriads of bitching letters so As to be nearly we have a Ray of Sunshine no slam Al the i refer to the letter of in the 2 Issue concern ing collecting stations on the patients and the air Huzzah and a fervent amen to the not the first to spend a goodly time on a letter in a tent by an had Many a Long hour brightened by gifts from both ground Crew members and flying personnel of the fighter units from said air not Only did the Glamor boys keep us in they also kept us in Good a couple of extra Huzzah to the b it must have taken quite a bit of temerity to in the midst of All that one Little letter which didst drip self tears or bitter is it that you receive so few laudatory Mes sages or merely a lopsided Job of selection whatever the cause for Day after after week of i Salute you on your keep it the Sunshine i its Good to hear someone who has a Good reason Anil convention 1945 to the bag is James Gays lawyer Friend so naive that he sees a majority effecting changes in a capitalistic society without forceful Public without a better planning of the social process the Mississippi lawyer wants Only constitutional machinery to effect an eminent czechoslovakian social psycho Logist says but Little systematic and substantial social pro Gress has Ever sprung from the spontaneity of the do not let us go on craving for and merely restoring previous whilst Dis regarding the intrinsic formula of Progress and the absolute necessity of More daring which present themselves simplicity in the course of history to the student of the social our ultimate aim must be maximal Well being forthe maximal number of i Divi this aim will continue to remain inhibited until reason triumphs Over con Douglas prediction 1945 to the bag i read in the stars about the four boys who managed to get Back to the Good old and gave them selves a Only they were prediction bring them All the Way Over Here for the second try and Send them Back to the to serve their you watch and see View on editorials 1945 to the bag it seems that the ignorant criticisms of your excellent editorials continue to the latest prizes for such rank Pullwitt Edness should undoubtedly be awarded to pfc Joe Donnelly and Henry a those smelly contributions fouled your edition of if your editorials Are Good enough for our president and Senate to there Good enough for me Roosevelt incorporated part of one in his message to and the Senate inserted the work or fight edition into the Senate record enough Frank Why they9 1945 to the bag when Herbert Marks of the metro Politan life insurance company says in an item under life in those United stages entitled warns vday will be followed by the stars and Page 4 pleasure mad girls of 14 and 15 accept the diag Nosis of syphilis As calmly As they would a bad he is Only demonstrating that we reap what we my age came Home from a High school in new York slate and declared that her were just said syphilis is no worse than a hard when questioned where she got the idea she informed us that they taught it in school i again i Why new York state taught girls react according to their Douglas idea was taught in the Newark Valley Central High the second Looey walked into the room and i wont begin today lec Ture until Tjie room settles came a voice from the go Home and sleep it old pfc George Fitzpatrick see you can get along with your shopping on the continent if you know just two French the open sesame is How no matter what the you can too since the cigarette shortage our spy on the Home front see a Man can still take a Chew without feeling he ought to offer it to a an air Force mag relates this where weighty words Are concerned no one will Challenge the monopoly of especially since an episode that took place recently in the a Maas bomber carrying four tons of psychological propaganda pamphlets was bumbling Over the Bay of Marseilles when someone accidentally nudged the Salvo the entire Load scored a direct hit on a German lighter and Sank the bomber Crew claimed credit for the most spectacular typographical error of the and then there was the Guy who came to London and opened a chinese res remember the old i love my wife but of you kid a Guy stumbled out into the fresh air the other night i love my of you kidney today one act scene Street Corner of any girl Stop that he tried to kiss my dont therell be another one along in a Sage the ability to speak several languages is but the ability to keep your Mouth shut is Price an editorial the squad and common sense it was just another like thousands of squads from Holland to the the men fought and sacrificed and some of them some were but the others went within their Little family a world that was better than the world but the world outside worried Why they wanted to Why did i have to quit school to come Over Here and fight nazis Why must my wife bring up a kid Ive never me a million Miles away Why do we have to Burn up All this dough to kill some krauts i could use some of it to buy me a Little support a and bring up Why it dont make they cussed the and the and the and the Fate that made them fit and male and Able to fight for their the sergeant broke if we move out tonight at Chow at better pack and get the beefing was loud and we just took the we barely cleared out we got a Home in the and now we gotta where Why it dont make at the Crossroads by the in the the sergeant called the Roll men whose fathers came from eng a persecuted and imprisoned by narrow horizons from which they to to a place where some How simple men could make for themselves a better life As they staggered Down the snowy Road there came an Echo of the Roll somehow it made enemies All around it May be a phony War to some but times hard to kill As Jerry by Ernie Leiser stars and stripes staff writer with 9th reports have been there gift no action on the 9th army front during the last 24 the experts Are begin Ning to speak of a second phony they Point out that the 9th has gained no ground for that it Hast been a real striking Force since the soldiers in the holes and the cellars along the Roer wont admit its been As tranquil As All pay us a visit some say and listen to the Nebel verfers and the mortars coming or Duck the Small arms fire As the Jerries creep up to the Rivers Edge at there Are always men holding positions along the River and they keep Busy at anything that moves on the other Side or blocking nazi then they get reckless its when they come Back a few Yards to their cellar Homes on Relief from their shift in the holes that they get and though some of them Are perfectly willing to stay where they Are until the russians polish the krauts a lot of them would rather get moving eastward there starting to get i said Edward of there beginning to have inspections of our its time to move at the platoon up Joseph of told How he up front with Mauldin managed to keep half the Day i spend washing the dishes from one the other half i spend heating water for the he pfc Bob of bakes cakes to pass the he had just finished a perfect one a couple of Days ago when a mortar Shell hit the House next the cake there Are some notto badly damaged pianos in a few of the houses along the and Harold of entertains the boys by beating out solid Southern Boogie Boogie in his Idle Bull session frequent they All hold interminable Bull sessions dutch women in postwar the Way the Guy in the next platoon got killed the other the relative merits of their Home they read avidly anything they can get their hands one group was going carefully Over a Book of Christmas carols they had just and they write after rambling the one from pfc Joseph of a platoon which read tonight is one of the dreary kind you read about in the your Only friends on other Are obscured by Black there is a slight drizzle and the wind is moaning through the i have just returned from checking positions on the As i was on my Way Back a Shell landed showering me with dirt and Rock As the shrapnel whined overhead As if disappointed at 1 got Back to the cellar and walked in trying to look they laughed As i told them about my close tales of near death bring laughter because we can think of no other Way to Cope with that about All there is to do on the 9th army front these time and keep yourself from getting her kiss is death the boys Are beginning to think of you As a no Gal to mess with if you like living is big Alsace Alice by Wade Jones stars and stripes staff writer with the annies big Alsace is currently making passes at 7th army but her advances Only make the boys nervous and like Alsace Alice is a big Only she can throw her 16inch projectile 36 whereas Annie had Only a 150pound although she could Sling it Alice has been entering her attentions on the towns of Saverne and Grumath for the last ten Days or giving each place from 12 to 14 rounds on her Peak like the Scourge of Italy Anzio Alice is train borne and has much the same Carriage and Type of Alices Shell measures while annies was two German guns were Cap tured in the drive up the Rhone River in the traverse of the guns is so slight that they must get their deflection by parking on a part of the track which Points in the desired fragments of the Shell Are As much As three inches thick and the Hole it makes will accommodate a jeep or so far the big gun is firing Only at obviously because of fear of detection in army has a Job adding Back pay of Luzon captives 21 destruction of military recon i during the japanese invasion of the Philippines has put the army in its wont bookkeeping tangle in trying o Settle the Back pay of personnel liberated by an army finance official said an exact accounting was the wat department owes Back wages to thou Sands of american philippine members of the philippine Arne and civilian army despite Lack of records it intends to Settle Maccou As quickly As payments already Well under some records were removed by sub Marine from if the name of the liberated Soldier is included in it is simple to straighten the army paymasters on Luzon Acoma his affidavit stating when he was last Jot and give him the amount to Aid Over the period of investigation the Sollitt is Given a part of his payment to next of Kin of Amerri army troops it is now discovered died in prison Camps is a More complicated army officials tto problem probably has to be solved of legislation giving the War department More accounting s such legislation would permit the Arnif to set up a special Board to set the data when these men were last paid and when they handling the Back pay due to philippine scouts is More difficult because of fewer but the toughest problem is deter mining payment due to members of the philippine army which was organized in the service of the army shortly before Pearl the army finance Section has no records whatsoever of the estimated members of this not even their the Case of civilian War department workers in the Philippines is Many men and women were conscripted from the streets for Label battalions and other if record were kept they have an radio program on your dial 1375 1402 1411 1420 22 Charles Thomas is the sports news up the band the n Andy swing away 1 up the sports supper music Mckinney mercers music and and a news Irum the off until 0755 j 23 album with Dale by Tony ranch after Crosby up 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