Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 2, 1945, Cairo, Egypt March 1945 Holiday for go squaws tote hams and around hew Yorks famous Lake Placid want of resort Are echoing with the and whoops of gift and their women there the Toney hat been converted into redistribution station by Hie second service command for personnel of the ground and service the primary Mission of the redistribution station is to evaluate each overseas returnee with reference to the Mili tary Job for which hit Tail and condition now Best suit towards this end each Soldier goes through a certain routine that is thorough but As simplified except for this processing the soldiers Are relatively free to take advantage of the facilities of the the Winter Haven is geared to serve a capacity of persons per with returnees usually staying from seven to 14 facilities for the returned and his among other music for go Tea an 18hole Golf dogsled ice hockey Toboggan slide and with everything from warm mittens to skis drawn from gis and their Cutey pies toward the ski a crackling log fire in the Lodge takes care of any Frozen Man Euver new town House for Liberia gis Liberia with the opening of the army red Cross club House in go Joe now has a Home in the liberian a Largo tearoom Brick House provides sleeping quarters for 25 men and Chow three times a the first floor of the club is Given Over to recreational facilities where men can play Ping browse through a or just sit and listen to the radio and talk to the girl the hostess of the miss Susan of arranges parties for the men and introduces the bashful Joes to the ladies of Eto fliers May make Quick hop to Pacific Washington Arnold said in his annual report that most of the american airmen in Europe May go directly to the Pacific he said possible they will be Given leaves to visit their Homes but that the urgency of the War May make the number of leaves Arnold warned that the must maintain a powerful War air Force because the world aggressor will strike at the u and America must be prepared to operate planes from strategically located the report also states that the is working on three new types of giant bombers which we expect to be More powerful and capable than those now in he said the army has a new Jet propelled plane and also revealed that the aah lost panes while destroying Ger Man or japanese aircraft during the first three years of the such Post next first tells general due for promotion with the 04th division in Germany an american Gen eral dismounted from his been Ami smarted to Confer in front of a machine gun a Soldier had set up in a German with touff fighting still Goiny n the Soldier didst wait to Check i Generas get the hell out of he youre going 1o draw fire and get my men the Genera Trot of won of a pro motion from s wan stars and East song to Fulli veterans get a briefing on the Slick Sticks by Arthur greatest Homegrown skier in Devlin hew 50 missions with a b24 bomber group and is the Holder of the purple heart and the Hamilton Days before the 1st cavalry drove on their Rescue Mission to Santo Tomas prison on american planes dropped a note which Roll out the Bataan nurses said this note was the Topper of a series of signals that deliverance was growing near a series begun 1044 when Carrier bombers struck that night the Camp phonograph played pennies from a month later on the night of Don ended a Brief mews report which the japanese permitted him to read dually Over the Camp Loudspeaker with better late than he pronounced late As the japs didst catch in january As american pushed Dowa the Luzon the Camp phonograph again confirmed hot rumours sweeping Santo the record was get out of town before its too in san g7 army Nur ses and technicians arid one red Cross worker who were liberated from Santo arrived saturday at Lotterman general hos Many were crying As they stepped prisoners since the fall of Cor All had lost much Gwendolyn Henshaw said Tho Jans had been trying to starve them to death far months of they Salof lift Belliti Able to believe the eight of ame rican tanks at the internment Camp until they got a Good smell of american col James Phy Sickau and ranking american army officer at Cabanatuan prison said american landings on the Island came that pfc he added that the whole country surely is aroused to have put Forth such a major these Fellows Are he referring to american sol to the last War some of us didst take things too seriously but men look much older than they there not laugh there Earl of had this to say in comparing the present Navy with that of three years ago when he was the japs looks As though every Battle ship must have Emmet dental offi cer wounded at Corregidor and emaciated by hunger and beriberi hiring his confinement heard his Fivey Earold in Wor speak for the first time thursday when he te1eph one Home from san strength of pc reduced to half from the new times the open ing of the Dardanelles to sea travel and the substitution of rail traffic for trucks the persian Gulf com mind has been Cut approximately in half after two and on half years at the task of getting sup plies to soviet at its Peak this Middle East Force had approximately american soldiers and native to ran now be revealed that fully half the men originally Here have Broten sent Home or to other Thea the rest have been Able to ease off so much that Thev Havo even organized study classes to pass the Here Are some of the things the persian Gulf command has accomplished in the past two years the hauling of tons of the delivery of be the Assembly and delivery of planes and the building of a in Wilnow port at Khorrami there is no intention o seeing this command it re Mains Tho safest lend lease route to tint by army standards m is a very old the average age of its men is 34 but it includes Many truck driven Over specially picked for this responsible Dewey lauds Bill Thomas Dewey has to a com Mittee representing civil and religious organizations that the Ives now pending before the state Legisla is one of the great social advances of our he said that it would assure Equality of Opportunity for All elements of Cit regardless of color or National thoughts of the girl he left be Hind helped sustain Joseph Keyes of Pittsburgh during nearly three years of prison life in the his letters to his Joseph constantly starts sed the keep in touch with Anna Anna Marie is Anna Marie con Nelly of but Brooklyn is a big place and among the things Keyes lost with the fall of Bataan was the Street address of his sweetheart Tho girl he kissed goodbye when he it in Keyes left pictures of miss con Nelly with his Mother but Only told her she lived in his Mother in trying everything i can think of to get in touch with her before he comes but i Haven had much if i dont find her i know what will just of soon As hed had a Chance to kiss his dad and me hell be off for Brook Lyn to find Anna Navy George Petritz said in Washington that More than half of american prisoners died in the hold a japanese he in off Luzon dec 15 when they were held at Rifle Point after an american plane bombed the Shin later Sank and Petritz and an army enlisted Man were the Only some were recaptured when they attempted to swim to Freedom in a Hail of Rifle Petritz said 12 hours elapsed Between the bombing and sinking hut the Jans evacuated Only the civilians Many of prisoners died suffocation before the bombing a Petritz estimated 90 per cent to a Duld have died anyway in to hold where the japanese crammed men in space big enough for More than americans died in two previous Jap prison ship critics plague Mother of eight gis Harry Ginsberg of the fresh from a foxhole in cares and goes to town of a Jitterbug dance with a pretty Snow Hower from one of the nearby Acme rus Mcfarland indicated this let she might halt her carny sign to have her ninth 18yearold exempted from military it would be less worry Etc 10 have Marcus in uniform than to put up with criticism that is Corning to might of her sons Are already in service and Cue of whom is missing in Are serving Over Marcus sa5d that some of Bis friends and coworkers had called him a slacker because of the at tempts to keep him out of the he that was thinking Only of his to whose doctors will become worse if he is in Mcfarland revealed that she had received a letter from an other Raymond from overseas concerning the he i think you did right they took enough of our family so i allow them to take
