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Stars and Stripes, G.I. Morale Booster No. 1. Part of the Pfungstadt, Germany, offices of Stars and Stripesare in the Hotel Strauss.

Petrus Jozephus (roepnaam Piet) Bosman wordt op 31 maart 1914 geboren te Wilnis en overlijdt op 18 oktober 1986 in Zijpe. Hij groeit op binnen een groot gezin op boerderij “De Kraanvogel” in Wilnis, provincie Utrecht. Deze boerderij speelt tijdens de Bezetting een belangrijke rol als centrum van het georganiseerde en gewapende Verzet en verbergt vele onderduikers en wapens. In 1935 vertrekt Piet Bosman ...

Stars and Stripes, G.I. Morale Booster No. 1. Two American soldiers converse with a French gendarme outside of the Paris office of Stars and Stripes.

Stars and Stripes, G.I. Morale Booster No. 1. Corporal Gill Fox draws the headline for the edition of Stars and Stripespublished in Pfungstadt, Germany, V-E Day. Headlines are often engraved when proper type-sizes are not available. The engraving is done at a nearby captured plant.

Stars and Stripes, G.I. Morale Booster No. 1. One of the best known war babiesis Sergeant Bill Mauldin's Stars and Stripescartoon, Üp Front With Mauldin, in which the 23-year-old artist dopicts the adventures of unshaven front-line soldiers. The Mauldin cartoons, of which this is typical, are syndicated around the world and enjoy considerable popularity with civilians as well as soldiers.

Stars and Stripes, G.I. Morale Booster No. 1. Eager soldiers pull copies of Stars and Stripesfrom the press of the Londen Times at 9 P.M. May 7, 1945, when an extra was put out to announce the news of Germany's total collapse. This paper was the first to hit London streets with the full story of the German surrender.

Stars and Stripes, G.I. Morale Booster No. 1. As Lieutenant Long, in charge of the Pfungstadt edition of Stars and Stripes, looks on, Arthur Force, member of the editorial staff, tries his hand on a captured German linetype machine. The presses had been set up by the Frankfurt-on-Maine Zeitung as auxiliary presses in the event the Allied bombed out their main presses. However, they never had a chance ...

Stars and Stripes, G.I. Morale Booster No. 1. U.S. soldiers liberated from a German prison in Halle, Germany, eagerly read a copy of Stars and Stripes.

Stars and Stripes, G.I. Morale Booster No. 1. Corporal Luke Doheny, commercial artist from Chicago, keeps battle positions up to date with a map just before the end of the war in Europe. The type of map depended on the top war story of the day. When the lead stiry warranted a map for illustration purposes, Doheny checked with foreign editor Taylor for the latest advances of armies and drew a new map. ...

Stars and Stripes, G.I. Morale Booster No. 1. Assistant Managing Editor Jim Russell (right) of New York's PM supervises the makeup of a page-size galley. Stars and Stripesnewsman, used to the fast, nimble fingers of U.S. makeupmen, find British hands much slower, more methodical. Where American makeup men put together pages in a complete form, Britens make up a page in a page-size galley (tray), such ...

Stars and Stripes, G.I. Morale Booster No. 1. The managing editor of the London edition, Sergeant Pete Lisagor (left), formerly of the Chicago Daily News, comfers with Coast Guardsman Bill McElvain of Decatur, Illinois, on a story describing the work o f the Navy in the ETO for a proposed special edition. While Stars and Stripesfound most its readers in foxholes and in fighter plpanes and bombers, ...

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 Stripescome 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 ...