Post by kanowarrior on Dec 5, 2012 0:06:49 GMT -5
ALL CLOCKS NOW AGREE - AND IT'S ABOUT TIME
The French pushed their clocks back one hour at 0001 hours yesterday, ending the double time standard which had prevailed in Europe of several weeks, ever since the U.S. Army switched from British Double Summer Time to British Summer Time.
Among other things, the change makes it possible for GIs date French mademoiselles without having to tax their limited vocabularies to make sure whether the hour of meeting is "French" or "Army" time.
GERMAN SPY NABBED BY YANKS IS HANGED
An enemy agent was executed by hanging Saturday night by the Army, Communications Zone Headquarters announced yesterday.
The agent, a German soldier clad in civilian clothes, was found behind the Allied lines Aug. 10 by the Second Armored Division.
TROOPS TOLD TO GIVE UP ENGLISH-GERMAN BOOKS
PARIS, Oct. 8 (Reuter). - More than a million handy English-German phrase books are being withdrawn from general issue to troops in a move to prevent fraternization with the enemy. English content of the German booklet is virtually the same as that of the French-English primer.
The order recalling the phrase book was issued by Supreme Allied Headquarters, and 60,000 copies are being withdrawn from the American First Army alone.
BOMBERS DROP COATS TO YANKS
SHAEF, Oct. 8 (AP). - American strategic bombers which paved the way for the invasion of Hitler's European fortress are taking a major role in a terrific battle of supplies now being waged in France, Belgium and Holland.
Instead of their bomb bays carrying high explosives they are now filled with overcoats and uniforms for thousands of shivering American troops.
In a 1,000-mile tour of the battle fronts stretching from the Swiss frontier to Holland, it is apparent that Gen. Eisenhower's biggest problem is not the Germans strength but a race of supplies to contend with the coming winter.
PLAGUE AT ALGIERS
ALGIERS, Oct. 8.- Due to an outbreak of bubonic plague, the city of Algiers was closed today to Allied military traffic.
GI LIBRARY REOPENS
The American Library, on the Rue de Teheran, Paris is being used again by U.S. soldiers. Founded in 1918 by the American Library Association with books sent overseas for the use of servicemen in World War I, it now has 100,000 volumes.
LIGHT 'TIN CAN' MINE ALSO USED AS GRENADE
ROCHESTER, N.Y. Oct. 8 - Col. Frank J. Atwood, Rochester Ordnance District Chief, revealed today that the army is producing a light "tin can" mine. It is used as a demolition charge against pillboxes, as a grenade or as a land mine.
Atwood also disclosed that Army Ordnance is supplying Allied armies in Europe with non-metallic high explosive land mines which defy detection by electrical location devices.
USING 30 TONS OF MAPS DAILY
Col. Herbert Milwit, of Engineer Intelligence, disclosed yesterday in Paris that 30 tons of maps per day were required to keep U.S. Army troops in action on the Continent.
In the first three months of operations, 125,000,000 maps - 6,000 tons - were distributed. Now 11,000,000 mpas per month service the American Armies in France, Belgium and Germany.
Milwit said the mapping program for operations in western Europe had been undertaken two years ago in conjunction with British engineers.
Aerial photographs were used to plot areas in which no adequate mapping had been done since the days of Napoleon.
TANK, BAZOOKA FAIL; PISTOL KO VERY GOOD
America's latest "secret weapon" proved a great success in its initial tryout the other day near Wallendorf, Germany.
A tank-infantry team from an armored division was trying to dislodge four lightly-armed Germans in a Siegfried Line pillbox. An M4 tank put two rounds of 75 through the front. The Jerries didn't budge. Bazooka men sent two rockets at the back door. The Jerries didn't budge.
Then S/Sgt. Harry Taylor of Missoula, Mont. fired a Verey pistol through an opening in the rear of the pillbox and the fight was over.
The four German prisoners said they ducked when the tanks fired, and the shells went over their heads. The bazookas merely knocked down the back door. But when that ball of green fire went whizzing around their room, they had enough.
HELL-HOLE
T/5 Hy Kaufman, of Chicago, dived into what he thought was a friendly hole during an artillery bombardment. He had to sweat out the attack huddled against an armmuntion dump.
NO CHAMPAGNE SHORTAGE HERE
Despite four years of Nazi plunder in France, there still is plenty of vintage champagne to toast V-Day - just for routine drinking. It seems the Germans were leery of the dark cellars where it was stored, fearing they be attacked in the darkness.
Leon Douarche, former director of the International Wine Office, said the Nazis carried away only a small percentage of this year's production of wine and champagne, which he estimated at 3,700,000,000 liters compared to the average per-war total of 5,500,000,000 liters.
More than 30,000,000 bottles of the best wine and champagne, those aged more than four years, still are stored deep in French wine cellars awaiting export to the U.S.
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Signs of the Times. San Francisco has added six more policewomen to its traffic force. All have been given three-wheeled motorcycles.
***
A truck with four tons of bombs for the Ninth Air Force blew up in the town of Le Merlerault, near Argentan, last week killing 15 men and tearing the heart out of the little village. Fire started when one of the drivers filled his gas tank while two of his friends were heating rations a few feet away.
***
ARNHEM A BLOW TO HOPE OF '44 VICTORY - DAVIS
WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 - The defeat of the British airborne troops at Arnhem, in the opinion of OWI Direction Elmer Davis, makes the chances of victory in Europe this year "more remote."
Davis said that the Arnhem failure had made out of date the OWI report which ad predicted that German would be conquered before or not long after the end of 1944.
The French pushed their clocks back one hour at 0001 hours yesterday, ending the double time standard which had prevailed in Europe of several weeks, ever since the U.S. Army switched from British Double Summer Time to British Summer Time.
Among other things, the change makes it possible for GIs date French mademoiselles without having to tax their limited vocabularies to make sure whether the hour of meeting is "French" or "Army" time.
GERMAN SPY NABBED BY YANKS IS HANGED
An enemy agent was executed by hanging Saturday night by the Army, Communications Zone Headquarters announced yesterday.
The agent, a German soldier clad in civilian clothes, was found behind the Allied lines Aug. 10 by the Second Armored Division.
TROOPS TOLD TO GIVE UP ENGLISH-GERMAN BOOKS
PARIS, Oct. 8 (Reuter). - More than a million handy English-German phrase books are being withdrawn from general issue to troops in a move to prevent fraternization with the enemy. English content of the German booklet is virtually the same as that of the French-English primer.
The order recalling the phrase book was issued by Supreme Allied Headquarters, and 60,000 copies are being withdrawn from the American First Army alone.
BOMBERS DROP COATS TO YANKS
SHAEF, Oct. 8 (AP). - American strategic bombers which paved the way for the invasion of Hitler's European fortress are taking a major role in a terrific battle of supplies now being waged in France, Belgium and Holland.
Instead of their bomb bays carrying high explosives they are now filled with overcoats and uniforms for thousands of shivering American troops.
In a 1,000-mile tour of the battle fronts stretching from the Swiss frontier to Holland, it is apparent that Gen. Eisenhower's biggest problem is not the Germans strength but a race of supplies to contend with the coming winter.
PLAGUE AT ALGIERS
ALGIERS, Oct. 8.- Due to an outbreak of bubonic plague, the city of Algiers was closed today to Allied military traffic.
GI LIBRARY REOPENS
The American Library, on the Rue de Teheran, Paris is being used again by U.S. soldiers. Founded in 1918 by the American Library Association with books sent overseas for the use of servicemen in World War I, it now has 100,000 volumes.
LIGHT 'TIN CAN' MINE ALSO USED AS GRENADE
ROCHESTER, N.Y. Oct. 8 - Col. Frank J. Atwood, Rochester Ordnance District Chief, revealed today that the army is producing a light "tin can" mine. It is used as a demolition charge against pillboxes, as a grenade or as a land mine.
Atwood also disclosed that Army Ordnance is supplying Allied armies in Europe with non-metallic high explosive land mines which defy detection by electrical location devices.
USING 30 TONS OF MAPS DAILY
Col. Herbert Milwit, of Engineer Intelligence, disclosed yesterday in Paris that 30 tons of maps per day were required to keep U.S. Army troops in action on the Continent.
In the first three months of operations, 125,000,000 maps - 6,000 tons - were distributed. Now 11,000,000 mpas per month service the American Armies in France, Belgium and Germany.
Milwit said the mapping program for operations in western Europe had been undertaken two years ago in conjunction with British engineers.
Aerial photographs were used to plot areas in which no adequate mapping had been done since the days of Napoleon.
TANK, BAZOOKA FAIL; PISTOL KO VERY GOOD
America's latest "secret weapon" proved a great success in its initial tryout the other day near Wallendorf, Germany.
A tank-infantry team from an armored division was trying to dislodge four lightly-armed Germans in a Siegfried Line pillbox. An M4 tank put two rounds of 75 through the front. The Jerries didn't budge. Bazooka men sent two rockets at the back door. The Jerries didn't budge.
Then S/Sgt. Harry Taylor of Missoula, Mont. fired a Verey pistol through an opening in the rear of the pillbox and the fight was over.
The four German prisoners said they ducked when the tanks fired, and the shells went over their heads. The bazookas merely knocked down the back door. But when that ball of green fire went whizzing around their room, they had enough.
HELL-HOLE
T/5 Hy Kaufman, of Chicago, dived into what he thought was a friendly hole during an artillery bombardment. He had to sweat out the attack huddled against an armmuntion dump.
NO CHAMPAGNE SHORTAGE HERE
Despite four years of Nazi plunder in France, there still is plenty of vintage champagne to toast V-Day - just for routine drinking. It seems the Germans were leery of the dark cellars where it was stored, fearing they be attacked in the darkness.
Leon Douarche, former director of the International Wine Office, said the Nazis carried away only a small percentage of this year's production of wine and champagne, which he estimated at 3,700,000,000 liters compared to the average per-war total of 5,500,000,000 liters.
More than 30,000,000 bottles of the best wine and champagne, those aged more than four years, still are stored deep in French wine cellars awaiting export to the U.S.
***
Signs of the Times. San Francisco has added six more policewomen to its traffic force. All have been given three-wheeled motorcycles.
***
A truck with four tons of bombs for the Ninth Air Force blew up in the town of Le Merlerault, near Argentan, last week killing 15 men and tearing the heart out of the little village. Fire started when one of the drivers filled his gas tank while two of his friends were heating rations a few feet away.
***
ARNHEM A BLOW TO HOPE OF '44 VICTORY - DAVIS
WASHINGTON, Oct. 8 - The defeat of the British airborne troops at Arnhem, in the opinion of OWI Direction Elmer Davis, makes the chances of victory in Europe this year "more remote."
Davis said that the Arnhem failure had made out of date the OWI report which ad predicted that German would be conquered before or not long after the end of 1944.
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