Stars and Stripes, G.I. Morale Booster No. 1.

Stars and Stripes, G.I. Morale Booster No. 1. Corporal Cecil Suiter of Spohane, Washington, sends a story from London to Paris over a direct teletype circuit. Into the London wire room of "Stars and Stripes"come thousands of words daily from correspondents on the Continent. These correspondents covered nearly every big story during the war in Europe from the first bombing of Berlin to the surrender at Rheims. Readers of the paper, names of "Stars and Stripes"Correspondents Bud Hutton, Andy Rooney, Ralph Martin, Ernest Leiser, Jimmy Canon and Jules Grad became more familiar than those of nationally know war correspondents. Hutton flew some 20 missions with the Eighth and Ninth U.S. Air Forces, won an Air Medal with Oak Leaf Cluster and jumped with the 17th U.S. Airborne Division ... the Rhine. Rooney made one of the first missions over Berlin, Grad covered General Eisenhower's headquarters for the combined press.