Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 28, 1944, Cairo, Egypt Man an unusual re mrw hits is Fathe i am a member of the for the past six 6 years i have teen in correspondence with an american who Ftp have never some she joined the with the arrival of americans in the i have tried anybody Here know to vainly to meet some yank from Minneapolis who might know the Young unfortunately the number of americans that i can personally Contact is very realizing that your publication reaches the entire american personnel in this i wonder if i might make this request and ask if any of your readers might know miss Josephine to Grabski 2622 Jackson i am enclosing a photo o miss any Ini Kimation that i could get would be deeply Lac f11edd1e rein1sh 9 dad receives medal awarded to hero son posthumous the nations highest Tri Bute for the congressional medal of has been Given Joseph John of fort pinned the Snedal on Speckens Elmer with his Mother stand ing hundreds of Odessa neigh Bors gathered for the according to the in last january single handed and while severely dragged a machine gun to a Mountain top and with his fire silenced a nazi machine gun routing a group of snipers which had held up the Advance of his Speeker was found dead beside his Naturalize foreign gis 5th army foreign born enlisted men and one fifth army nurse were made ame rican citizens this week in a Spe Cial naturalization nationalities include czechoslovak by russian Canadian and scribe flies the Hump in a b29 by Walter bundle 20th bomber command have just flown in a b29 super fortress which twice you Converse with others on tli6 flight deck in Normal tones with out a microphone or earphones mindful of the Thunder of the four huge 2200horseipower of the the Thenn Ometer overhead Sisters an outside temperature of 12 degree below Aero and the meter reads yet in the nose of the giant b29 Superior Tress you Are flying the Over the jagged Snow capped of the Himalayas in summer uni form with sleeves rolled among the men who Fly the us per fortresses there is one word for this Miracle comfortable High Altitude it is pressurize you took off in the first Light of Dawn from a secret american air base in Western you began the climb Over the Hump towards one Pilot said we Are Stroing upstairs in the Engineer flipped switch somewhere in the Back of the there was an almost inaudible Whir of the other you Are unconscious to the processes by which the Subsara to sphere flight was made the combat value of aircraft pressurization i lies in the free Dom that the pilots and Crews enjoy from hampering clothing and cumbersome jackets and in the Assurance of constant and ample uninterrupted Supply of oxygen during High Altitude combat without the Burden of oxygen combat experience has proved that the pressure within a super fortress can be maintained even after a dozen or More bullets have punctured the stars and East fas i Here is Glenn of an at rest Camp in Central surrounded by some of his left to Vesper Frank Selmer Chicago Willard West enery Walker and James photo by buy More War Bonds sunny is at it again Marie sunny former show girl wife of Tommy Manvil annexed her fourth Hubby when she was married Here to Erwin buddy miss Ainsworth gave her age As brushing up on the comics dilemma a Guy with a problem is Navy Man Stal Ker who just arrived Home on stalker was strictly forbid Den to take part in any press con Ference or even talk to a the latter part is a moot Point since his Harold is a reporter for the Decatur he 5and10 Queen files suit Barbara Button Grant stated in a divorce suit that her count Kurt Haug had hypnotic in fluence Over according to the United wife of movie actor Cay asks Cus Tody of her 8yearold by Arthur Benjamin High in the Hills of a Lovely Pla teau in Central Africa the of an at rest who often won Dersin he have Ter in the chaplains is Busy helping air corps men to get Back that old vim arid he capt Glenn whose Friendly Southern drawl be trays the fact he is from As commanding officer of the air transport command res his Job is to work in con Junction with the red the the Eritrea base com and poor old sad the Captain is an unassuming Man with a twinkle in his Eye and a Good word for his changes in the rest Camp think he is tops and those who work with him know Captain Walker is no newcomer to he has spent six Vears on the dark four years of it As superintendent of the Bap list Mission Hospital in after holding a Reserve commis Sion for Many he returned to Active service two years ago and his knowledge of tropical diseases has proved to thei Walker is the Only Man to qualify for flight surgeon while in his first assignment Hack in the army was in helping a Field hos Pital to study tropical he is an authority on yellow just Call him Doo most of the boys think of the Captain As Doc Walker because he aids them in their he is sweating out one of his acts of kindess 4t he has in his Possession a Diamond ring Pur chased for for a i who wanted it pretty badly at the the Soldier wired Home for the Money to pay the but is still waiting for it the Captain is i Hie red in ratted Cream fair it one of of Cir Seaside Kay commandeered the of various sundry to execute the after a Short the versatile did a Nome Job capturing the antics Dag Moon Abner and other of Here is a Thompson getting into the swing of the staff photo by 30th smashed Jerries at to with the american army in own american correspondents revealed that the american 29th and 30th divisions liberated to in the hardest american clash with the germans in the Battle of Don a correspond declared the 29th infantry division was the outfit which drove the germans Back and captured to in the bitterest Battle since the landings in nov smashing the German hold on to was one of the most important operations since the Landing because Victory gave the americans a grip on the High Way Center which is the Anchor Point of the enemy Hal another a reported the 30th Sha red in the glory of the capture of the 29th division troops did the actual storming of the German stronghold but the men of the 30th made possible the by a spectacular crossing of the River Vire to Anchor the Ameri can right under cover of a heavy barrage of yank they forded the Vire in Small rub Ber boats at Dawn and Bayonn eted the Shell terrified enemy in Fox holes on the other at music for All after a Brief two music for All series Are revived Thia with the return of the Beethoven symphony talks by Clifford Harker tuesday night at the with its stirring tory is the subject of the evening and will be proceeded by the piano concerto the War Why we fight series returns the following even ing at the same hour with Lude to sunday night at 9 the Middle East Light symphony orchestra with Gerald Gover conducting Grams Elgar and her monday at 9 recordings of Strauss Don Juan and Komskis Pat Etique Gilbert and sullivans Lola the on bigger variety of Low Cost Callegri i a revised list of including will he available at Post offices a selection of any three of Roxin mutely 250 Cable kit can be transmitted Small
