The White Falcon - 03.03.1945, Page 1

Vol. VII.
ICELAND, Saturday, March 3, 1945.
No. 24. j
ISEHHOWER
Declaring that tlie Ger-
mans might fight on with
small arms (after their war
plants are lost) until the
western Allies and the Russi-
ans join forces, Supreme
Commander Gen. Eisenhow-
er last week said that the
newAIlied offensive was pro-
gressing satisfactorily. “I ex-
pect to destroy every Ger-
man west of the Rhine and
in the area in which we arc
at lack mg,” he added
Making clear that he had
no hope of imminent Ger-
man collapse, Eisenhower
stated that it is not believed
that American casualties
will he as high as they were
last fall. There has always
been complete liaison be-
tween th,e Russian and Alli-
ed armies, the Gen. added.
As for the German count-
er-offensive in December,
the Supreme. Commander
remarked jocularly that he
was not frightened by the
attack until two or three
Putting their Army train-
ing to a little extra-curricul-
ar use, men in a Signal Corps
unit here recently complet-
ed installation of a camp-
wide wire “radio service”
which carries music and
radio programs to every
mess hall, day room and
hut'.
Built under the supervis-
ion of Tec 5 Michael W.
Greco of Youngstown, Ohio,
the “radio station” has a
weeks later when he read control panel with two turn-
a newspaper from Hie U.S. tables and faders which all-

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(Sig. Corps Photo).
Tec 5 Michael W. Greco prepares to air another “broad-
cast” over his strictly GI “radio station.”
SIGNAL COBPS MEN CONSTRUCT

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Icelandic Authorities
Locate Lost Airplane
An American plane
made a forced landing
near Borgarnes Wednes-
day, a week ago, with little
damage to the plane and
virtually no injury to its pil-
ot — but the incident prov-
ided one more of many ex-
amples of the splendid coo-
peration given by local Ice-
landic authorities to the
military, IBC officials said
today.
The last signal heard from
the plane was just after 1100
hours. The plane had been
unable to land locally and
when last heard from had
been
Armv
near Borgarnes.
officer in Reykjavik
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ow for smooth transitions
from one recording to anoth-
er. A special radio brings in
the news from the Armed
Forces Radio Station —
whose other programs also
are heard over the camp sy-
stem. •
Cpl. Greco airs these pro-
grams as a sideline, being
busy during the day driving
a truck. His station is on the
air from 0745 to 0830, 1100
to 1200 and 1300 to 2100
hours daily.
In addition to rebroad-
casling the APRS programs,
Greco also plays recordings,
for the men in his outfit. The|
most frequently requested
number at the present time!
is “I’ll Be Seeing You” which |
Jo Stafford vocalizes. New- [
ly-appointcd Pfes. are often
surprised to hear a special
song dedicated to them:
From Iceland to France and back to Iceland again was
Hie joint experience of four GIs who returned here re<q—
enily on seven-day furloughs direct from the haltle-
ffonts along the Siegfried Line. They all agreed that
Iceland looked “pretty good.”
One of the men, Sgt. Paul Bene of Cleveland, Olno,
formerly with an Infantry outfit here, wears a Purple
Heart which was presented him for a shrapnel wound
he suffered in his left arm during fighting near Fort
Driant, France. The engagements in this area, said Bene,
who has fought against the Germans all the way from
Normandy to Metz, were the “most rugged” lie has
known.
“Up at the front we live in
foxholes.” he said. “And1
what I mean we really live
in them. Every time we move
into a new area the first
diing we do is in start dig-
ing — and in this kind of
weather that’s pretty tough
sometimes. Even when the
surface of the ground is soft,
the earth underneath is oft-
en frozen tight as hell. But
Lack
31 Discipline Imong
11! Hanks," Declares
Captured German CO
Documents taken from a
group of 80 German officers
and men who were captur-
ed two weeks ago by British
troops in the Canadian 1st
Army reveal evidences of
a breakdown in German
military discipline.
One order bv the com-
manner or a German para-1
troop outfit said:
“In the past few week:: I
there has been an intoler-
able slovenliness, careless-
ness and lack of discipline
among all ranks. Any ex-
cuse is good enough for not
carrying out an order. Wea-
pons are not maintained
. . . . Much equipment is lost.
From now on, very severe
action will be tak^i.’*
the security of a foxhole has
saved my life more than
once.”
.
j Asked if he had killed any
Germans, Sgt. Bene said he
had—“But don’t ask me how
many!” he said, explaining
that the circumstances of the
moment often make it a trifle
inconvenient to stop and
count corpses.
He related how he captur-
ed a lone German on a bicy-
cle one day. “I saw this guy
coming towards me up a
country road and at first I
didn’t know whether he was
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to
‘Old Soldiers Never Die.”
QUARTER MILLION MEN MONTHLY WILL GET
DISCHARGES—WHEN GERMANY’S DEFEATED
The War Dept, this week
announced that it plans to
release between 200,000 and
250,000 men monthly after
the European war ends. Brig.
Gen. Frank T. Hines, Veter-
ans’ Administrator, has ask-
ed Congress to pass a bill
for $246,775,000 to he used
by the Veterans’ Administr-
be
ation. Over half of the men
to he discharged will
those with disabilities.
Hines said the present
rate of discharges is runn-
ing around 90,000 monthly,
adding dial approximately
700,000 out of 1,600,000 men
released up to last Novem-
ber were given certificates
of disability discharge.
Peace Plan Offered
By Paris Stripper
“A plan for lasting peace,” which strikes at the pro-
blem from a refreshingly new and different angle, was
offerred to the world’s statesmen recently by a Miss Gizfey
Varga, striptease artist, currently showing her wares in
Paris.
The plan proposed by Miss Varga calls for an internat-
ional “undressing carnival”—a sort of G-string Olympics
which would be thrown open to female participants from
all the Allied nations.
“What better way can people learn about each other,”
suggests Miss Varga, “than by strip—I mean, than by
observing the arts of the various countries?”
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