Southern France Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 25, 1945, Nice, Provence Alpes Cote d Azur                                Car to men the the stars and stripes May 1945 nazis had Solo cd fwd to the handle their savings the Bill of rights loan Edward of said my Bucks is like but not Good the greatest collection of Ameri can air aces Ever assembled some of them for a year Arad a in stalag Luft the German prison Camp at Barth on the before they were the Camp was under command of ool Hubert the whose 56th fighter group made the Republic p47 Thun for Post Herbolt famous i tic were in Kier i five other former fighter group All and a full Squadron of aces headed by Francis Gat Oreski of Oil who holds the Al time american record for German planes shot with 28 to his in addition there were approximately other american p47 Ami p38 Pilota met downed by Flah among the Best known aces at the Camp were majors Jerry John who destroyed 16 German planes before he went and Duane who knocked Down no wort Whiite prison comi Nander i Francis game rest describes capture ill want a few Hundred in from few of the american aces found their Luftwaffe superiors in actual also of air but were forced Down Jvn Ait for the army savings program Wouk help men who hoped to meet their on the pod pier object gis would counteract Competition of free by controlling entr4rije into Small business through Simon after being hit with flak on Tow level strafing or bombing the 26yearold Gabreski had a strange Accident which forced him to land in Germany on july we had been escorting Gabreski and were on the Way Home when we strafed an air Diane on the ground at about 2001 the pilots greatest worry at Miles an it finally stopped and Barth was food the germans gave got out and left it them a loaf pm Gabreski escaped capture for five Days but was finally exhausted and hungry by armers and was turned Over to the they horse meat As i m treat jskn8 a Sass is the up ski said in command of one of the rest compounds in the was sentenced to death by the germans when he gave a Pep talk to of said a mans Tod drome near Coblenz i was Over Peh Tience might depend on what shooting a plane on the ground 1 he he stuck the Dawn a Little to get Cpl Francis of Jon the target and the propeller i Amy savings were Hythe Oil sprayed All Over portent because of the uncertainly my Windshield and hot material allocations Lor Small engine was failing so i set businesses As the japanese War for Gressed without a see the former fighter group co merely told the men that they Manders at Barth included were to be placed a new Corn Dinar Malmstrom of Pound which was pretty i 356th fighter Henry guess some of the things i said Spicer of ban made the germans 373rd the russian army liberated the Glenn Duncan and Loren 1 however before the sen j tence was carried House leaders halt junket Towar zone May 24 House leaders called a halt today to proposed overseas inspection Tours of several Mem Bers of a group scheduled to leave for Europe this week they said speaker Sam Rayburn asked them politely but firmly to abandon their trip while important business is before the a six Man subcommittee of the Senate National defense com headed by Barley Kilgore is now on the continent to investigate the Mili tary Supply situation in the hits touring legislators Robert ramspeck House whose duty it is to round up members for important criticized touring legislators saying there Are about 15 House members now in Europe who ought to be Here for important they were not elected to Congress for the purpose of touring at James Richards who toured German concentration charged the entire German people with a colossal scheme to exterminate More than 13 million Germany rail net paralysed Orras of thought War prices and restrictions on business would make it sible for veterans to Start their own he advocated getting a Job with Abig firm and keeping i savings for Rainy Day and still they save of provi grating prank hoped to open his chief of transportation in Hunt Nam ran Tiiman i Veo raid Vesterdal he described the system As completely paralysed and estimated e Rhine River could not be Clear of debris and opened for Taviga May 24 ans will take six to eight months to restore Germany transportation system to a Bare minimum grocery business on his rather than with a government loan to pvt Bill of army savings meant future Cleo of san Flarv Tion until late German labor will be used in Ned to use is army savings to buy every possible Case to repair and army equipment to operate his Germany transportation Ross declared who will return to the Eto Ned to use is army savings to buy army equipment acre Placer of Forelock but it want Adolf May second tailing a Small Man with hanging fore look and just the right mus tache i a town near thought surely they had Hitler on the Man who wore it said it was no Honor be ing mistaken for he of having been a Corporal in the last a paperhanger and of being a his own Home Normandy base gears shifted to a Stevedore now plans to Steak work As a in he because i always like to have some dough Martin of co of the explained the provisions of the i Bill of rights loan none the men were overwhelmingly in favor of saving while still in a number of men in the 676th have entered the stars and stripes both to clarify their postwar savings plans and in the Hope of winning a car or 900 negro wags first Here May detachment of 900 negro was and 31 the first to come to the arrived Here Charity former mathematics teacher in Columbia is in charge of the the 6d88th Central postal directory in about ten said he believed the army transportation corps will leave Europe when redeploy ment is Holland nazis to walk Home Normandy base May base Section of com z already has put into reverse gear the massive machinery which until be Day funnelled troops and equip ment to the front and now has the task of moving men and Materiel Back to the or to other combat collection Points for turning and processing of weapons and vehicles slated for the Pacific area have been established in several principal places for re pair and crating of Materiel will be Lele Havre and while a major part of the work of readying vehicles for shipment is to be done at extensive senators visit Nice Homer Ferguson and James Tunnel Mem Bers of the six Man subcommittee sent to Eto to investigate the sup i ply situation for the Senate de sense committee yesterday stopped briefly in they were in route from Marseille to the senators lunched at the Negrescu hotel with Warren Pught commanding officer of Riviera recreation area Charles director of the recreation and John assistant to French soldiers get dec May 24 to French soldiers have been awarded the distinguished service americas second highest combat by Jacob commander of sixth army i my w with first Canadian use win be made of ordnance fact May 24 Ger duties at be Havre and 21 million tons unloaded in Eto mans will Start a 250mile March to Germany covering 14 Miles per another including service will return by naval which will Dock at Gale hits Buffalo May 24 ans and communications were disrupted Here by a Gale which Ilat tend Trees and Telegraph expos to reach America by end of month com z he May 24the army corps discharged tons of supplies to implement the War against the nazi army food stores ample with the 15th May German army had it pretty Good except for Petroleum products and trans such is of one sup ply expert who has been wrestling with the disposal problem of huge stores of nazi equipment uncovered in Leonard grows 15th army typical of finds is a 20page inventory covering 450odd freight cars at heres part of a Page from the five Hundred cases canned beef cases canned fish Kilos 1 kilo equals pounds Kilos sugar Kilos Dill Pickels 400 Kilos mixed vege May 24 a Twenty two thousand american soldiers liberated from Germany in the closing stages of the War will be Back in the by the end of this others of held in Reich pm Camps when the nazis collapsed will be brought Home As swiftly in areas taken by the they ate moved As rapidly As possible to american the War department has established a special repatriation Section in the casualty Branch to keep families informed of the move ments of liberated each prisoner is authorized to Send one personally composed Mes four times As much ton nage As was unloaded during world War port soldiers debarked american troops through 53 ports in Europe during this com pared to soldiers and 15 ports in the last tables yellow cheese and Kil Sapple lbs in Reich out air mail May planes and world War import were manned equipment now make it possible to by 60697 40 percent of the i Fly ail letter mail for ground and personnel in the us and on air Force personnel from mail recep the largest port organization is at be approximately As the Wai department 6age free Over army signal facilities to insure speedy word to commercial Telegraph facilities and mail Are also open to liberated prisoners without the red Cross is Albert War intelligence division explained that Many men were released in Camps deep in Germany and others vessels for port men May 24six tankers and ten tugs were christened yester Day in memory of 16 enlisted and civilians who died while serv ing with the Lith Tion Points in France and the us to army postal stations in Charlie Eto air forces postal announced the air technical service com formerly Able to carry 000 pounds of mail a now Hies More than pounds a month to the sixth and 12th army and the 15th army by