Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 5, 1945, Cairo, Egypt Culling themselves a anniversary cake january 1945 stars and Middle East these lorfies of us api the first wac personnel arrive in the Middle recently celebrated their first year they arrived in Egypt in and the anniversary was cause for a party in Hie wac a left to right Are Wong Jeanne e Shirley Jean Margaret Charlotte Yetta maj Josephine Mildred Grace Maude Jeanne and sgt Georgiana Ruth Urr Abee signal corps photo by pet relieve Budapest wac gets dam Washington the we announced that Oveta Culp Hob head of the women army corps has been awarded the distinguished service the third highest army the citation said Hobby had rendered outstanding service both As director of the former to mens army auxiliary now and As chief of the was which merged with and absorbed the is the first woman in the army to receive the dam although six women civilians Wert so decorated a it or world War 1 for outstanding ser vice in the War Hobby citation credits her with outstanding of the wac now composed of nearly 000 members and comprising an essential and integral part of the negro troops praised for record on fighting fronts liars club bites on go wac Captain cops title wac Hope Harrin of con former teacher now serving with the quartermaster corps in the has won the title of worlds Champion liar of the award was made by the Burlington liars club who Elf annually on new years Day bestows the title for the Best and biggest whopper of the past 12 Tho newly crowned Champ played a neat hoax on the Burlington liars for All along they thought she was a wolfish Here is the champs adjudged the Best of entries submitted two years away from my girl Friend became Ive been a mess officer and have done much work with dehydrated foods in the to so i wrote to my a Petite to go to is Plant that processed fresh vegetables for overseas shipment and get herself Quick she did immediately her Mother put her in an envelope and sent her to me when the letter arrived 1 took her poured her and in a half hour sin was Good As Here with Harrin a thrones t Baron now new whet won thu Gold plated liars medal in go Sto Ries made a clean sweep clubs honorable in Rikkii in Liu Washington in the first Eulogi zing report on the work of the negro in world War ii and emphasizing harmonious relations prevailing Between negro and White the War department made it known on Sun Day that More than negroes now serving in the arms and branches of the army of the United 00 being summarizing the accomplish ments of the negro troops in the we announced that they had participated actively i every fighting they were serving on lonely outposts in coldest alas on Sutof therway Pacific is they were in the thick of Pav fighting on the Normandy beachhead and with Macarthur on his return to the in the heart of China and in the Campaign and scores of other Points negro troops battled Side by Side with their White com rades and they had won As Many citations for gallantry under medics do bang up Job in the past negro strength in the army has increased by men compared with the of the we also added that of the be Ito strength in the army Ore commissioned these officers include 230 Chap one of James Jones of won the Silver Star and the purple for gallantry on the Anzio Beach reviewing the work of negro was to pull out of Washington the we in noun cd that the wac training Center fort will he discontinued by next april and All wac training there after will he consolidated at fort Des the move is in line with the wac recruiting plans for which will stress enrolment of women and girls with special skills rather than Large Foj dec Lor flight nurse Home the distinguished Cross has been a worded to a led a Lux it first flight nurse Ever Iveese if killed j a Barrier in which she Riding i Wavu ended Iii Lii crash in set Iii it medical the army commented that they Are doing a hangup also pointing out that four companies of negro ambulance Drivers Are doing the same tremendous Job with the first army in Belgium which they did while Hack in built b29 bases in Cal there Are 463 negro medical corps 101 detail corps officers and 247 nurses on Active overseas Engineer battalions innumerable construction records Dur inn the year the we report saying that men were in that Branch of the one of their principal achievements was Tho construction of hoses in they also play exl a major part in the building and main Taining of the Ledo the we also eulogized the efficiency of negro Parachu air Force units and signal corps groups among others in its lengthy complimentary As red army troops smashed deeper into burning Budapest seized Over half the a powerful German counter drive stormed Down the roads from Vienna in an attempt to break through West of Budapest and relieve the doomed Garrison of Berlin radio announced that the had hurled thousands of men and tanks and hundreds of big guns into the Effort to crack the soviet ring of steel around the soviet High command admitted that the nazis at the Cost of immense losses in men and material succeeded in recapturing several towns and villages on the South Hank of the Miles the flare up of German counter action Between Budapest and Vienna looms As the main clash before the austrian from recent a captured marshal Malinovsky second ukrainians and marshal Tol Bukhina third met the Panzer thrust As a combined Miles other units of both armies continued the fiercest House House fighting since Stalingrad for the ninth mos cow radio said that russian artillery in Budapest is roaring incessantly in Hurlin steel ami1 fire against the set Ribborn packets Dif fre dive bombers scream Low Over the strafing Machi begun and mortar nests in the path of advancing red tanks and City put to Torch there is no Battelline in Buda Pointblank fighting rages in each of the twin gains Are measured1 by with daily so Viet communiques announcing the number of blocks captured in Huda and those won in a frontline correspondent for is Vest a has been watching the Battle from the overlooking he described How the Ger mans Are burning and destroying everything As they they ripped up one of the finest rail ways in Europe and the Budapest University buildings into a new award for airborne troops Washington a new service award for army personnel who participate in combat Parachute combat glider of initial assault landings on hostile shores was announced by the War the device is a Bronze Indian on Quarter incl will be worn in a vertical Posi Tion with Point upward on the beater service ribbon which Indi Cates area in which it was ear Only one Arrowhead will be worn on any theater commanders of organizations engaging in qualifying actions will Forward recommendations to the beater commander As soon As practicable after Finch operation since the Start of the War in order to determine which units in the have eligible person theater commanders will re View All operations since an eligible individual who is no longer a member of the Oik Anix action with which Stltt award was earned May obtain the Arrowhead by submitting an affidavit to Bis in sent commanding Hitler fumes in radio broadcast London Adolf Hitler in his first radio speech in More than five months warned germans Mon Day that defeatists in their midst would be destroyed and declared that the end of the War will not come before 1946 unless by a Ger Man Victory because Germany will never Hitler said we Are going to destroy everybody who does not Lake part in the common Effort for the country or who makes himself the tool of the most radio monitors agreed the speech was in hitlers voice but that it might have a he said that in the coming year Germany would break the allies with counter strokes and blamed his military reverses on desertion of Germany by her wars merry ground Rocco Marone got action in this War but within two months after he entered the Rocco won his stripes and was shipped Over was wounded in France and then was returned to the he expects a 30day furlough in another two weeks and to receive a medical discharge in about four rebuild ca88ino Abbey Vatican Monte cuss inn Abbey which was reduced to nibble during the bitter ii it in that area last Spring will i rebuilt with american Vatican sources soldiers turn War workers Rufis checks in a group been assigned to help alleviate a manpower of soldiers at the Dunlop tire shortage and Speed production of tires for the about50 Cis Prew
