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Vol. 1 No. 155 – Friday, December 29, 1944
Articles’ Headlines: … U.S. Gains on 35-Mi. Line – 3d Army Cracks Bastogne Siege: Nazi Flank Reels ….. ‘Jerries Really Laid It On’, Survivors Say of Nazi Push ( S/Sgt Jim Williams and Pfc Abe Rich ) / By Charles Kiley ….. Churchill Nearly Hit By Sniper ….. Army Again Orders Seizure Of Montgomery Ward Stores ….. Merchants Urged Not to Cheat GIs ….. Berchtesgaden Vacated ….. Nazis Retake Barga In Italy Offensive ….. 32,000 Held as Pro-Nazis ( French ) ….. Soviets Enter Buda Streets ….. The B Bag Blow It Out Here: – Pans Cheesecake ( Cpl. Bill Forley, FA ) – Feet First ( Cpl. J. J. Atuk ) – Movements ( Cpl. E. F. Perdos ) – Ammo Shortage ( T/4 Al Arrison ) – Police the Area ( l/Sgt. Clyde Cumberland ) – Holds That Line ( Pvt J. Garson ) – Deplorable Example – Joe Pro – They Cant Do That! ….. An Editorial – Notes on the Holiday Mail ….. SOMEWHERE IN EUROPE: – Tanks for the Ride ( Sgt. Jerome Degenhardt ) – Polite Nazi ( Pvt. Peter Mayus ) – Hand-to-Hand ( Pvt. Benny Malinski ) – Vet School Scholarship? ( T/5 Julius Tolney ) – So Sorry – A Nozzle Hosing ( T/Sgt. S. T. Richardson ) – French Medal ( Pfcs Robert T. McLaughltn, of Struthers, Ohio, and Don R. Mauck, of Estherville, Ohio ) ….. Births ….. Private Breger ….. This Was America Yesterday – Victory’s Up to Joes-Navy Secretary Says So / By Phil Bucknell ….. Nation Prepares to Greet 1945 ….. ‘Ike’ Is Time’s Man of the Year ….. Look Rounds Up 1945 Forecasts ….. Army Hospitals Get Clean Bill ….. Navy Reveals New Transport ….. U.S. Income 159 Billions ….. Paging Joe Knorst: You’re a Pop Now ….. Navy Builds New Planes For Use Against Japan ….. Worst Fire in 30 Years Suffered by Kansas City ….. Negro Composer Wins Prize for Overture ( William Grant Still ) ….. Everybody’s Doing It ….. General Lays Nazi Advance To ‘Our Lack of Information’ ( Gen. Peyton C. March ) ….. Houston Wife Yields Mate To English Unwed Mother ….. Wallace Predicts Peace Depends on ‘Jobs for All’ ….. Doctors Testify Chaplin Is Not Father of Carol ….. Job Training Plan Termed ‘Explosive’ ….. Portland’s Food Binge Ends With OPA Edict ….. ‘Going My Way’ Is Chosen Best Film of 1944 by Critics ….. House Group Says Jap War ‘Just Starting’ ( Reps. Margaret Chase Smith and Walter C. Ploeser ) ….. Grease Rack Mistaken For Robot Launcher ( Sgts. Gerald M. Jennings and James A. Smith ) ….. Maj. Richard Bong, Pacific Theater Ace, Paces Air Force With 40 Planes Downed – Army Releases List of Pilots With 15 Or More Kills – McGuire in Runner-Up With 30; Gabreski’s 28 Still Third ….. Rapid Talking Nets 311 Nazis ( T/5 Theodore K. Haerich ) ….. Awarded Silver Star ( Pvt. Waldemar N. Erichsen ) ….. Pilot Gets Hole-in-One As Bomb Hits Chimney ( Capt. Clayton K. Gross ) ….. Ammunition Gone, TD Crew Fights On ( TD commanded by Sgt. Joseph Lalish ) ….. Medics Duck Bullets To Rescue Wounded ( Pvts. Transito E. Sandoval and Raymond L. Anderson and Pvt. Stephen Znoj ) ….. Cellar Radio School ( 1/Lt. Louis C. Welch ) ….. Germans Raid Depot, Find GI Duds to Liking ….. Lucky German Almost Corpse ( Sgt Russell Ermatinger ) ….. ‘Commando’ Kelly Gives Injured $500 ( Sgt. Charles (Commando) Kelly ) ….. 22 Nazis Capitulate To Empty Flare Gun ( T/Sgt. Oree Howell ) ….. Crew Uses Light Tank To Evacuate Injured ( Sgt Chauncey Wysenski ) ….. Brooklyn Swede Grabs 88 – In Best Ebbets Held Style ( Cpl. John (Swede) Nelsen ) ….. AWOL on Books at Naples, But a Hero to Unit in France ( Lt. William W. Stozier, of Stovall, Ga ) / By Ed Lawrence ….. Battlefield Commission ( Joseph A. Stranahan, of Brookline, Mass ) ….. MPs Locate Jerricans ….. Desperate Nazis Attack American Tanks With Bare Hands – Foe Is Blasted From the Tops Of Shermans / By Marshall Morgan ….. GIs Seek Venison, Bag Nazi ‘Chutist ….. Bombardier Pinch-Hits For Absent Chaplain ( 2/Lt. James R. Harl. of Bloomfield, Ia. ) ….. Maintains Outpost ( S/Sgt. Stephen G. Butchko, of Phillipsburg. N.J. ) ….. Argues with General Gets Medal Anyway ( Maj. James H. Hayes ) ….. Medic Drivers Share Dangers Of Front Line / By Allan Morrison ….. U.S. Presents Medals To French in 1st TAF ….. Anybody Want a Horse? ( Maj. James P. Gwynn ) / By George C. Walsh ….. Lone GI Proves Stumbling Block To Advancing Foe ( Pvt. George J. Kaminsky, 45th Div ) / By Ed Clark ….. 133-Page Letter ( Sgt. Waldo S. Bibb, of the 309th Eng Combat Bn 84th Div. ) ….. France to Become 36th United Nation ….. Luxembourg Becomes One of United Nations ….. Once Over Lightly / By Andy Rooney ….. Toronto Routs Rangers, 8-2 ….. Hockey Standings ….. Philly Cops Arrest Basketball Gamblers ….. Frankie Hayes AL ‘Iron Man’ ….. DiMag to Seashore ….. South’s Eleven Plans To Stress Air Attack ….. Plane Ride Knocked Billy Conn for Loop / By Paul Horowitz ….. Bunker Hill Cagers Bow To Great Lakes, 48-46 ….. 3 Records at Philadelphia ….. Temple Upsets Vols, 33-31 ….. Star in Any Setting ( Rogers Hornsby ) ….. Beau Jack Gets Boxer of Year Recognition ….. Vines Smashes Par on Coast ….. Lesnevich-Muscato Bout Canceled by Navy Order ….. CAGE RESULTS ….. Hash Marks ….. Help Wanted –AND GIVEN ….. AEF – RADIO PROGRAM – AFN ….. Terry And The Pirates / By Milton Caniff ….. Jane / By Norman Pett ….. Dick Tracy / By Chester Gould ….. Abbie an’ Slats /By Raeburn Van Buren ….. Male Call / By Milton Caniff ….. Blondie /By Chic Young ….. Mindoro Springboard – Large Philippine Island Is on Flank of Jap Lifeline to South Pacific; 150 Miles from Manila ….. Jerries Answer GI Mess Call ( S/Sgt. Rudolph A. Lindberg ) ….. Japs Repulsed In Philippines Air-Sea Attack ….. British Have Two Fleets Operating in Far East ….. Nazis Send PW Mail Inside the V-Bomb Now ….. Chevalier Show Planned ( Mistinguette and Maurice Chevalier ) ….. Belgian Factories To Make Jerricans ….. Marseilles Port Used To Speed Mail Service ….. Put Out on an Assist ( Cpl. J. M. Furmankiewicz ) ….. Army Purchases in ETO ….. Captures 34 Nazis With Empty Carbine ( Lt. James Tower, of Grand Island, N.Y. ) ….. 1,200 Heavies Pummel Nazi Rail System ….. Chicago Sarge Cuts Royal Rug With Princess ( Sgt. James J. Kaporis ) ….. Rubber Experts Ready ….. Girard to West Point ( Earl “Jug” Girard, University of Wisconsin )