Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 2, 1945, Cairo, Egypt                                February w5 stars and Middle East weekly furlough trips to Lebanon Winter Paradise still another innovation in eight Day furloughs has been cooked up by special who really have a delightful Surprise for san Happy gis this this trip is to the mountains of Lebanon where there Are plenty of Hills and and although Many Mideast veterans have already taken sorties to Bei on this particular Lebanon trip the Motif is Winter on wednesday an at plane will take off at 0800 hours and wind up at be Charre where we have it on Good Autho Rity cold weather win Ter sports Are in full when the plane you will be taken to the Winter sports three Miles and comfortably ensconced in the Palace prices Are attractive and the hotel is allegedly the daily Ante is 77 plasters for enlisted personnel and 88 for offi skis Are provided for those in the know and if you cant youll probably have fun requests must be submitted to your special service officer by noon prior to the wednesday weekly allot ments for this area Are four for six for mesh and five for the air the plane will make a round trip each taking up new furlough is and bringing Back the previous out Over Russia is latest in 2 yank airmen that began in Stork dead slut another promissory note by Der fuehrer London in a gloomy Broad cast to the germans Adolf Hitler the 12th anniversary of his Rise to Power this week by Tell ing his people to fight no mat Ter and no matter under what until final Victory crowns our he asserted that and Hund reds of thousands Are be incr Exter in the but promised that this horrid Fate will be mastered in the Hitler spoke for 20 minutes and used Calm tones at the listeners believed that it was actually the fuehrer by Larry Leonard when two american airmen have flown Side by Side for and have successfully up on More than one occasion Over enemy territory and finally have to bail out together with Tackack fire All around they get the idea maybe there really going to go out this happened to 1st William Mckenney and 2nd Tho Mas the 15th air and there pretty Happy that they can talk about it together now As they have wounds treated at base after encountering incidents in other sectors of eur these airmen were assigned in mid december As part of a mis Sion whose goal was to bomb Oil refineries in Blech Harmer in is and before their part of the Mission ended they been patients in a two ame rican touched three continents and had sufficient time to see the interesting look Back upon enjoy parts and be grate Ful that they could talk about lieutenants Mckenney and Moz Levi Are far from being the Only two american airmen Ever shot but they had a Little More in common than Many of they seen Light of Day Only 15 minutes apart on although Mckenney is a virginian and Mozley a they flown together since and thought they experienced everything together except but in december they had a Han Kering even this  escape bumped pretty hard we got bumped pretty Mckenney drawled the other Tackack completely knocked out one of our set another had demolished the controls and instruments and knocked a Hole in our Gas added it had Gatten Bill in his right we were in a pretty bad our maps were and we didst have a ghost of a Chance to when Bill was hit we went on the automatic Pilot and then i took the we knew we nip exhibit begins to take shape cordon professional sculptor but now an arc executive in is shown at work on one of three Japa Tese figures he is creating for the nip ponese exhibit under construction y the i and e and soon to be shown in ail major install on of this the interested is Nicholas Lustrino of the air the which will constitute one of several of he will be in authentic Jap the Japa exhibit Wilt consist of 550 Large showing every major aspect of japanese social and military guiding Hie project ire Herbert Worley and Ander of the i and e source materials have been secured from numerous and far Flung sources civilian agencies in Hie states own Cairo civilians who formerly lived in a an local consulates Ami embassies commands in the and the War corps by these men know what it to be shot in they baited out Over Russia a combat against the survived the flak of russians who mistook them for the and were hospitalized in Russia before being brought to then to the base Hospital in they left to 1st William Harold Frank Iron Mountain and 2nd Thomas Mozley of signal corps photo by were near the polish Border and had a pretty idea How far we were from so we headed toward and stayed up As Long As it was then we bailed out and Tackack was com ing our As they parachuted Down Moz Copilot of the was hit in his right and they came to Earth along with other Cre Wanen they found out what sol Diers the russians for they landed near members of the red army and the reds saw them com but they didst distinguish americ Anaky convinced pm we had on our flying Mckenney and it must have been pretty hard for the russians or anyone to Tell who we they didst know us and we we rent sure they were rus the Way they were firing we thought they were and they had the same idea about when they reached us they started in and gave us a Good going it was then the yanks found that russians do not fully under stand the word they later that Amer Cansky and Roosevelt Are Tho roughly for about four minutes they worked diligently to convince the russians they were yanks when they did it was smooth but it took a bit of six week Mission once the russians found out we were Mckenney sex they  do enough for they took us to one of their rest hospitals and treated us like i there grand allies and wonderful believe we know How they and at this juncture he Tod of a Cut lip hed gotten during those fleeting which seemed like v when the reds thought they were but in the Days they were patients of the russians they grew to Admire them to know How determined they this was True of the other yanks who were treated actually id hate to think what might have happened to us had we been Jer Mckenney yes ventured Frank Peterson of Iron you Are a Fine pair to wonder what might have they took me off another ship to make that Mission with you and you treat a fellow like my own Pilot never you take me for an eight and half hour Mission and Here i am out nearly six weeks on the others the other including 1st Jesse Grange of Des Iowa 1st James Mchood of de Homer Schnurbusch of Harold Criswell of Samuel Cichetti of and William Woodrow of they were members of three Dif Ferent All of them having been under and they came to Egypt together from Persia after having been hospitalized in rus but they Haven had the pre Vious narrow escapes Mckenney of and Mozley of had experienced this pair have had the narrow escapes and this time they thought the whole thing was but now that its All they can see the human Side of i  take anything for the Mozley the folks Back in Douglasville might enjoy hearing Benny Baker plays us anime circuit Benny Bakers Uso is scheduled to arrive in this area on 3 to give three performances of the Well known Broadway nothing but the exact dates for the performances at Cairo Ewart Huckstep and Payne Field have not been definitely set but Are tentatively scheduled for the first part of next watch for exact dates and get your tickets from special nothing but the truth Marks a new wrinkle in Uso shows seen in this headed by Benny Well known stage and screen the troupe is composed entirely of featured Broadway it includes Helen Ted Edith Joan Philip Seymour Gross and Louis top honors for Christmas broadcast won by us anime Struve Hen former new York City lawyer and general counsel for the Navy was sworn in As of the plaudits from Washington have been received concerning Usa Fimes radio broadcast in the Christmas overseas program which was aired throughout the states on Christmas this was revealed in a letter from Albert wharf of the overseas radio to George is anime Public relations Wharfield quoted from a report prepared at his offices request by the radio chief of arc in Washington certainly the outstanding pro Gram was produced by i refer to the half hour show from this program was Little Short of sensational in charac it was recorded at the Church of the nativity in Bethlehem and contained some of the finest Christmas music i have Ever the music was supplied by the franciscan boys orphanage the program opened with a Christmas Story which tied in very Well with our reasons for fighting this both the Rome and Cairo programs were Well handled and contained Good human interest Wharfield added that Over a thousand letters had been received from enthusiastic listeners and that a number of favourable comments were made on Usa Fimes this written and directed by t Frederick was a joint Usan Imereda Cross personnel who trekked to pales Tine to disc the show were Frederick Albejt Frederick Ca Roline York and miss poly von of the red they de in a supervisory and technical also accompanying them were a male choir composed of Newton and Carson Reynold As an Allway Wilhelmina r Bette Ruby Diu a and Pauline