| Show War Correspondents Correspondent's Notebook Saddest G I Passes By-Passes Nazi Load of Liquor By Br Hal Ilal Boyle Oyle WITH AMERICAN TROOPS TROOP IN GERMANY Delayed UP Delayed UP Patrols near Haaren Germany Ger Ger- many got so tired of rescuing unwary drivers ers who drove heedlessly heedlessly heed heed- lessly past their outposts that they have put up a large sign reading Front line fine yards ahead you you are arc lost Bud 7 It was a French family and they were very cry hospitable to the two American soldiers After drinking wine with the folks for half an hour Maj Paul A. A I Danahy of Buffalo N. N Y and his scout f St St. Dave Bernay of I Berlin N. N H H. asked casually where are the Germans Just as casually one of oC the French replied Out in the back yard The s startled t tar a r t tIe l e d Americans looked out a R. window and sure enough there were several heavily heavily it ily armed German troopers hanging about The Americans had only one carbine and a pistol pistol pistol pis pis- pis- pis tol between them They thought it over over and and left by the front door Lt Li Col Sam Hogan of the Third armored division lost the wars war's biggest hangover and the First infantry division found it t. t Hogan a R. Texan accepted surrender surrender surrender sur sur- render of ot seven German halftracks halftracks half hal tracks s and 13 horse-drawn horse ve vehicles vehicles vehicles ve- ve and s sent nt them to the rear without bothering to see sec what they were hauling Doughboys of the First infantry division stopped the captured convoy and found it consisted chiefly of vast ast quantities of liquid refreshments refresh refresh- ments but ments-but but hard Hogan swears to look at the loads of ot any future future fu fu- ture vehicles he captures Stars and Stripes reports the following from Crom its agent with the air corps A colonel flying a transport plane was given the clear signal to land and as the plane skimmed in he looked back and andr r remarked marked proudly smoothest landing I ever made But sir protested a sergeant standing behind him Youre still sUll 1 15 feet in the air John W. W Ice of oC East Liverpool Liverpool Liverpool Liv Liv- Ohio was never ao so cool as when he and his buddy Harvey Filcher of at Laurel Hill Hm Fla were trapped by advancing S S troops Ice and Pilcher decided the only way out was to play dead They Thoy lay still while enemy soldiers soldiers soldiers sol sol- sol sol- diers rifled their pockets and stole their equipment That was bad enough but Ice said aid three times within a half hour the thc Germans placed live hand grenades on his stomach as a convenient resting place before tossing them at a near near-by American American American Amer Amer- ican mortar squad which finally drove the Germans away Radios are arc not listed as standard attack weapons in the American armory but Tech Ado Langenkamp of the Infantry division used one oneto oneto oneto to kayo the leader of a German patrol who burst out of oC the bushes directly in front of ot him Recovering quickly from his surprise Langenkamp bashed the German in the face with his radio and gained time to his rifle |
