Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 21, 1945, Cairo, Egypt                                See wilmber j945 k3 i i 1 k r 1 n of evil is badly to the three month a single history making iras one of it Greaff aged air Wypch Prev death and  pdutherri5 veterans of 0je bi7sc  by the 8th had Home the gis boarded Isk masters and were home1 at routes via 4 azores and Newfoundland or and they were in states27 hours after jmeir transports had left the a Reed and hear Stop Ping Pace of the homeward bound everything on schedule without a single the flying safety record the entire project was hailed As a amazing achievement in the annals of passenger the Green project was dropped the laps of North african at division officers three before be Day and it swung into opera Tion hours after the capitulation of passenger estimates by the toy the week and daily Fig ures All were exceeded when the project went into High gear and the big transports began arriving Flora Europe with clock like regu this truckload of vets from Southern a Stopover in Casa then comes a c54 photo by in passengers boarded the homeward bound Fleet of air in the figure was doubled and in july the total had soared to nearly August was the Peak More than men were flown to the states that month and a gust 9 was clocked As a record passenger Day with veterans hoarding bound planes at Ca sudden end of the War in the far East and the release of ship Ping for the homeward journey of americas men in uniform wrote Finis to the Green but in the first ten Days of men were flown out of Casa now for monthly at the Peak of the Green project France a combat for and 27 hours t0 at Ben 187 c54 transports were later the number of planes was Cut Down As wartime exigencies officials said that not an Inch of space on the huge transports was that full capacity Load of passengers and priority cargo was the order throughout the project August was the Peak month even though 38 of the c54 Fleet were ordered Back to the states and Dis patched to Okinawa to Aid in the movement of troops for the occupation of with termination of the Green present plans now Call for the movement to the of some passengers a to be mainly composed of american Mili tary personnel from the Middle the Chin India Thea Ter and Southern Guh from Page 1 women from the Middle East and from North Africa Between and there is no telling Hoewt much of this request can be met he asked about reports that the famed refugee ship grip Holm had arrived to pick up passengers from the Middle East to the Sandu secy explained that the grip Holm is a state department ship used for evacuations and that the army has no right to any of its space without joint Permis Sion of both the War and state transport to the states by air spa Ces have been asked for by the army for the next month and while these May not All be whenever the air quota is Cut the water quota correspondingly hot question at Home in the the entire question of letting out men faster yet keep ing a sufficiently Large army boiled briskly in Washington and in the nations president Truman took notice of congressional critics by stating that there would be no padding in our armed forces and that no one is going to he held in ser vice a Day longer than is Neces he said that the plans to increase its discharge rate honors British first division a ceremony at Camp Huckstep this 17 officers and men of the first 94tidb infantry which worked under the american fifth army from Anzio to the surrender North of Florence were decorated by the United states government through Benjamin in of of of Merit was conferred on a new zealand1 croup Captain of the his Back to the is seen Here making the signal photo by to Over a Day by he said that no one could accurately at this future military needs and noted that Macarthur had revised his own estimates of the number of troops necessary for occupation of Japan and see Mac Page 11 we shall not really face the problem of size or makeup of occupation forces until next he then we ought to know How Many men we shall need for occupation and to what extent that can be met through to this was an indirect reference to what Congress is calling a red Apple army Navy recruitment Bill which is expected to touch off a Battle the draft and the pre sent discharge written by the House military committee in an Effort to sidetrack proposals to halt inductions and Force speedier the measure seeks to offer enough inducements to make some men re Gen Marshall explains senators and representatives came out with their own solutions 10 the now York congressmen met to Call on army and Navy officials to Retreat from their Ipi headed stand on discharges and asked that All in nth men be let urged that All regular army officers in temporary Grade above colonel revert to permanent claiming Titi these have been one of the principal causes for delay in Suh Tennial made that brought chuckles from i Mczion of the House gallery occupied said he sheer loneliness army life might in Duce Many servicemen to the fact transportation and separation facilities Are the real Marshall faced it by of Feriv a fou Page Booklet u congressmen in As quantities As hey on Why Dis charges Arent coming As fast As As the Home folks Sites of Gooda in the persian by tote a Mission totalled approximately the sales which involved Twel cd different transactions with american Relief private the iranian the american the soviet pm the american legation All for american in accordance with the established Anlo policy of Selling surplus goods and residue for Cash when Ever and wherever largest Sale to the american arabian Oil totalling engineering equipment five Lead and Asbestos and other Miscela nexus to be used in the de files continued from 1 Able that some delays will this command is doing everything units Power to reduce these delays win employ civilians the orderly disposition of army and installations in the theater will be the responsibility of the army Navy liquidation commissions re already in the area who will take title to All property of the armed forces As it is declared until such pro Perty is disposed of by the a elopement of Flie nigh octane the bilk of the second largest was to the american distribution totalling the Sale included and Tobac to be made is Ito Relief packages by this International Relief organization and shipped to the needy of other buyers of assorted army supplies were the americana a Bian the american presbyterian Mission the american the Bagdad Jesuit col the soviet the Bah rein Petroleum the iranian ministry of the iranian director of and Amer ican army officers messes through out the which bought nurses uniforms As mess jackets for their the responsibility for guarding and caring for it rests with this theater and will necessitate the retention of a limited number of army troops for that purpose during the period of Dis it is impossible now to set a Date when All United states army personnel will have been returned to the no replacements for personnel sent Home will be and continuing work necessitated by conditions will be so far As by egyptian and other local civilians hired for the Pur pose a steady reduction in the strength of this theater can be expected each month up to its final he Foundas Are by Walter Koshetar unique among hobbies is one that occupies Leroy Hart spare n As a member of the 3134thsignal service army Iob is meter and instrument repair at the signal when not so the sergeant manufactures the Jewelv business is not new to for twelve years he manufactured precious ornaments for the Penzler jewelry company in two years when his unit was stationed with the air depot group at he started to make and Pic Ture frames from scrap plexiglass and aluminium for his wife and when the depot moved to Payne Hartwein after Hunting through the shops arid bazaars of that the Type of rings you might expect in this country were not being he decided to design and Manu facture his own Cairo purchasing advice tools and materials were a prob Lem for some a welders fire Brick became a melting and a welders Torch the Means for melting after Many experiments it was found that the Eri Trun Maria Theresa Dollar had the highest Silver Content of and local his casting outfit was made from a British for two Days ii sifted red Benghazi dirt swept from a salvaged Liberator to pro Duce a suitable casting Hart Wein Learned engraving Over Here from books from the what was once the lower part of a hand fire extinguisher is now an Engrav ers until he was Able to Purchase some Gravers in Roy machined Down some old files for engraving he is still studying the sergeant int limited to manufacturing has set eme Star rubies and and alexandrite stones in and has even made a pen and Pencil asked for advice on purchasing gems on the local Roy explains that Are Good Quan Tity stones available if you can per Suade the shop keepers to show them to he hurriedly adds that you cant expect to save a Fortune on a Purchase because the natives Are too local Gold is very making a ring setting More expensive than the Gold settings average nine carats and Are usually soldered with Silver instead of in most cases local jewelry manufactures Are copying Ameri can Hartwein has been overseas thirty one months and to be Back in Louis soon to Manu facture jewelry under More favor Able some Leroy Hartwein off hour cad