European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 21, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Fage4 staks Awu stripes the red Blitz is going by Joe Weston War week staff writer reihe second hand was straight a Snow covered Mitten covering the hand of a soviet artillerymen wiped the Frost from the watch Crystal it was 1000 uncounted thousands of massed artillery pieces poured salvos of hate into German positions from Southern Poland to East this was the jump off of the terrific red army Winter an offensive the soviet press choose to Call opera Tion the icy air screamed Over the Heads of advancing red cavalry and tankers As the creeping artillery barrage filled the nazi trenches and Strong Points with half conscious stun Ned by the Frig Ahful three million men As this is being red army troops have penetrated into the Lebensraum at three Warsaw and Krakow have been liberated As Well As More than other towns and villages along a 550mile soviet armies have gained 130 Miles in the past week on the polish front six armies totalling nearly three million bed including corps of tank Are Cas Cading West toward the operational booming along behind the troops the ahead of the troops is the the main Shock Force of the red once again this Shock Force la Clearing the Road to As it did at Stalingrad and Kiev and the House that Hitler built is getting the fuehrer kicked out of it by the greatest concentration of offensive wheel wheel fire Power the world has Ever this massed artillery pattern is Well known to the Shell shocked Jerry who was at Moscow or Stalingrad or who now inhabits a bed in a Berlin mental Hospital it is unfortunate that be cannot pass on the Rich fruits of his experience to the Kraut recruits now in the if he was in better his combat tips to the new boys might read something like this soviet information massed batteries of ked army artillery like these pour Hail of steel on retreating Simeon Myasnikov top drops his hand and red Shock Force booms Victory tune on polish artillerymen Clement Akhmetova Circle holds 1st red army Shell land in East Prussia in current gum stall Blitz when the germans invaded the soviet Union the bed army Al ready possessed firs class and that was one of the must important reasons Why the nazi Blita during peacetime the soviet including Caliper had been trained to Deal with the red army strategists were on the the had watched the Kraut Blitz through Western they had profited wheel to wheel at the reds had massed antitank guns wheel to artillery of All types was get or Pointblank fire at the lumbering Jerry German Fer panthers and King tigers rushed in where they should have stayed in they got knocked off with neatness and dispatch nearly of the deadly red As a the Gen eral staff had to change tactics in the Middle of a losses of men and equipment were tre the Blitz finally developed a first rate Case of not it is to completely Stop toe German Advance in the Early but the artillery did slow up the gained valuable time for the in marshal Stalin Fig ured out an for the artillery based strictly on offensive soviet information Moscow celebrates red liberation of Warsaw with artillery salvos and he instructed that artillery action against the enemy Welense must be continuously sustained both during the preparation of an during the attack and in exploiting the breakthrough this was the blackboard Quarter backing which brought the red steamroller to its present Ali Nicatie it is the for Artu Lery which is making a mastered race out of the master in the red army at Stalingrad launched the counteroffensive despite some Neces sary slowdowns and stoppages Hast rolling it was the blueprint for today of always massed fire then As the sudden use of artillery insured the Success of the rocket firing antitank guns of All calipers and and self pro with one gun for every two Yards of highly disconcerting to the sensitive krauts when fired at Pointblank then came he moved and he fired and he but always massed and continuous he walked and he Rode the and in front of him was always that paralysing artillery bar just ahead of the the Mobile cavalry and tankers which were then thrown into the Hole in the nazi doughnut were also provided with massed artillery escort the net result of the Stalingrad engagement is Well even Joe 1 Kraut press  pass that one it is to be hoped that he has a better explanation for the current bed offensive than the to familiar armies Are withdrawing according to new techniques the red Riding along on the Backbone of their have come a Long Way since Stalin the historic City and most of the user Are now a rear but the tactics Haven changed a the As the War has progressed so has toe bed new new according to a recent report by Viktor red the soviet artillery now shies away from stationary pm placed by Long the Good colonel Means anything More than 10 or 15 our he have preferred to go in for which Means increasing the Power of the projectiles even if it tends to Cut the at the same time retaining approximately ten Miles is the maximum useful Range for mobility is vital the report also states that the red artillery has practically ceased using extremely Long Range guns because it is senseless to build costly emplacements and transport unwieldy giant guns when the objective can be reached rapidly by armoured battering rams or even motorized it is far More effective to in for the past week the onrushing red armies doing a Chain store p business in dead from the East and from the West Allied soldiers we clamping the steel jaws of destiny around the Nasi the deadly soviet break through on the Eastern front once again Points up the pulverizing effect of the massed wheel wheel artillery fire which has been the Backbone of red offensive Power since Gage the enemy at close Smirnov speaking of the soviet lads have developed an effective method of catching panzers with their steel which War Corr respondent Vadim the Kremlin Ernie Down in a pretty fair it happened on the Eastern front during the first Day of the present this Battle was fought on a Snow Clad Meadow Between two tree the howitzer batteries of a soviet guards unit had been on the Road for Many the Crews were badly in need of the commander ordered a halt and the column swerved from the the enormous to which anything less than a Threefoot Trail seemed As fragile As sidled among the slender looking particularly ungainly and guards were posted and a few of the gun Crews alerted for possible then it fifty eight German panzers and Twenty troop carriers bore Down headlong on the which had no time to get into fighting the panzers approached in open racing for the their Cannon and machine guns the red order was stand fart Semyon Terekhov turned his gun on the enemy tanks and waited for them to get in Daw the gun layer was Terekhov replaced a direct bit set the first German tank Terekhov was killed at by gun after he had gotten another guns panzers Ivanovs gun was concealed to a he was nearest the and had to withstand toe attack of x sit gun Thield was but heed the temptation to fire until Ttoe leading tank was looming re get Over whereupon he kilted it with his first Shell Limanov de four panzers by looking into slits of their eyes with his How Tutti Shamin knocked out two ame Shayev counted for two Pokrovsky died near the flaming tank he i set the enemy tried to skirt soviet the artillerymen turned their to the the the Kitchen a the Drivers were holding against nazi a in two hours the red men put 24 heavy German out of towards end of the second hour the soviet artillerymen Are the i a land of like comrades and Allied soldiers they fight with hate in hearts and Berlin in their Allied troops on All fronts along the red new spa pravda in saying May soviet artillery live Long and per