European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 22, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                              Page 4 the stars and stripes january 1945 super forts hit Honshu army enters Rosario philippine superiors esses bombed Industrial targets on the Jap Home Island of Honshu in a Daylight raid striking an important aircraft Plant at on the up reported that 6th army troops had punched their Way u the outskirts of on the Northeast Corner of the Beach Ano of seizing almost plete Coj Iuo of the own find seai1 de of is Long japanese forces entrenched in the Bagus 4 Miles away Gen Walter Kruc Gers forces were Spix Irineo tin1 United state my whose cruisers and shelled and aided tin ground to Over come resistance in the Sonere the ups Nave battled stubbornly to font Days Othet of Macan Iuis invasion forces Cap cured the important Highway Junction town of urd Anem after a hour Fishi the bitterest they have had so lir in the Luzon the seizure of the town on Mac Arthur s flank opened the Northern Section of the main a Ailan brio Highway the americans Anotnie american column ten Miles South along the same captured the Road ind Junction of Parqui in a Ionin and pressed to with in 12 of the important City of Tarlac 70 Miles from Manila the Joto radio reported Tjit the in nil area was bombed and strafed of 32 american bombers and fighters in a Daylight raid the report snid the presumably Cump from Leyte and Doro Gen Mac Arthur disclosed that u s fighter planes now operating from the lingayen captured within the first Naif hour f the Jan 9 invasion yesterdays super fort raid was the first on Honshu since 14 when aircraft factories were also attached further details on the attack were Maverick tells of Eto journey Liege stars and stripes cams growing Chain stars and stripes tonight began publication of a new edition in the sixth currently being issued risen Howors others Are at Dijon and the Liege appearing seven Days a will serve troops on and behind the North Ern Section of the Western who formerly were dependent upon the Paris Stinson reveals losses Jan ans supplies necessary to de feat Germany will be two or three times what anyone has Maury Vic chairman o the Wai production Boardl assert a today just returned from i tour o Maverick the Public must be told much More of the truth about the number of troops required and Supply he advocated enact ment of draft legislation for work ers in with labor having Strong participation in its French War and civilian production must be put on its feet As a military he the people of prance Are without heat and 19 ans american casualties of in Cember alone on the Western front have brought the total from Day to Jan 1 to Secre tary reporting Liis said the total fur Ilia period includes wounded and the figure fur december included wounded and most of the missing in Stimson said probably Are the december the Secretary told a news conference covered not Only the first two weeks of the German counteroffensive in the but also the Allied offensive on the Western fron during the Early part of december the losses of the american army 106th infantry division partly overrun in initial u the were Nln Cec at including 416 wounded and missing wants woman watcher 19 ans the nation starts drafting women to be War flood said in a letter today to selective service head a woman should be appointed to every draft Board to look after her butt rationing Pion protested the prostitute unusual View of the a Yin so called because the b26 marauders stubby win a give no visible Means of Taf photo 19 ans Cigar National re Tail and Chain dealers Are criticizing the proposed car rationing of Declar ing that their clerks cant possibly know transient the suggested by the National association of tobacco distributors at win go into effect in two numbered cards will be issued by retailers to their regular customers who will be required to sign a declaration that they hold Only one rationing will not be at tempted at outlets such As Railroad and bus advocates of the plan while not it would help effect even distribution of about 15 per Day per service plug frontline Gap in crisis 19 five Engineer general service regiments from communications zone base sections were rushed into frontline positions to plug a Gap in Folie 1st army defense along the Meuse River during the recent nazi coun it was when the and 1308th engineers took up their they were the Only organized defense forces behind the highly fluid front lines and the open roads to Pacis and the Interior of two Days after being All the regiments were Well dug in at assigned barricades were erected on the approaches to All which were wired for de Road blocks were set up and guards at every important Highway intersection in a wide area West of the recon Naissance and Security patrols oper ated deep inside the romans land East of the the 36gth and 392nd Are negro Echelon men face line under new plan cub Pilot from Brooklyn spelled Buzz bomb Send by Wes a correspondent with the 2nd armoured German High commands idea of trying to launch flying bombs from portable ramps in the Belgium bulge came to grief when the Shaip eyes of a cub Pilot from Brooklyn detected Buzz bombs erupting from the Samuel who was flying his cub on a regular could hardly believe his eyes when saw Buzz bombs whizz by his plane the general direction of a wooded Section a mile South of took a closer look and saw a portable from which another bomb whizzed continued Page 1 it was estimate of combat so the retraining program has drawn mostly from enlisted men of lower Matchett that As the need higher ranking noncom would be and additional numbers of extensive training programs for a combat troops and other limited assignment men scheduled to re Alace those transferred into the line Nave been Matchett and it is anticipated that ultimately every physically qualified Man will take his turn on the front allowing the wounded vet Erans to handle rear Echelon in addition to service the reinforcement command has and will increasingly draw on men from such combat arms As the antiaircraft artillery and cer Tain branches of the Matchett indicated that surplus in All other arms would be absorbed in the same he said that the decline in the need for a men came about largely As a result of the decrease in the Luftwaffe offensive Matchett disclosed that the program for expansion of retrain ing com z personnel was now in its final stages of de scribing the he said that it takes from six to eight depending on the soldiers previous the present rate at which rear Echelon troops Are being converted is now not anywhere near As High As the several thousand Matchett he said that the switchover of personnel will be expedited As fast As available facilities make it in answer to a he said that we could use More limited for begins 4th term 20 continued from Page 1 when he took Over a nation in the throes of today at he is grayer and his face is More lined but a thorough physical checkup last gave him a clean Bill of since that Day 12 years ago he has steered the nation through Nini peacetime years of social and eco nomic upheaval and three years o the most Savage War in he has bowled Over four aspirants t the White Hoover Alfred the late Wendell service men Over Here and Indica Willkie and Thomas and Ted that that would be a Factor in he has had or will have had three speeding the Vic presidents John Nance the three Steps described by Ner and Henry Wallace next and sending them to frontline units included 1 classification and equipment of personnel it a reinforcement 2 shipment to a Forward and 3 shipment to one of the various replacement battalions supplying each army Matchett cited the work of the 101st airborne division at Bas Tognoc As proof that the reinforce ment command he pointed out that the 101st airborne has had thousands of reinforcements since Day and that those reinforcements became the divisions he also cited the records of the 9th and 35th whose wounded veterans have been returned to their outfits through the replacement systems As Many As three the other two reinforcement sources shipments of new men from the and the return of casualties to the front will not de crease in importance with the new Valchett stressed und pointed out that the new move will simply supplement the other with Matchett yesterday was Phillip com Mander of the 16th reinforcement he said that the reinforce ment problem was one of convincing the men that they were being not and Selling them on becoming even when they originally feel that there being sabotaged and shanghaied into a reinforcement the three primary lessons the reinforcement depot has to teach the men who pass through it Are to to and to Wood he said that normally the Capa City of a depot was men but that sometimes they bulged Over and handled More he pointed out that the chief difficulty under the circumstances was to it personal Contact with so Many fein called for artillery fire and cot Karl t of West Ben control offi knowing How the British would like to which their called up a British Battery and asked them if they would like to join in the the British swung every gun they had into action along with the 2nd armoured when it was All Over a column of Black smoke Rose from the ramp this was first time the Ger mans had tried launching flying bombs right behind their own the Are usually Miles Harry he has travelled More than any j other president in most of the mileage was chalked up since the War in historic big three meet Ings with Churchill and Roosevelt first inauguration took place March before persons who watched chief Justice Charles Evans Hughes administer the oath and saw the two hour inaugural Parade As 96 great part of the nations Aerial might at that Donald Nelsons part 19 ans charging Helen Nelson yesterday filed suit for divorce from Donald former chairman of the War production were married in 1626 and have no Matchett in taking troops from the hospitals and rear soviets from Page i get Ter attack had been thrown against the russians moving on but apparently they were puny efforts and were swept marshal Kanevs Advance across the Rich Frontier was admitted by Berlin added that the silesian Volks Sturm had received their baptism of fire from soviet Kanevs army in this sector was reported moving along the Chest Chow Breslau Highway Ander Lin imported patrols in the Pic Unity of Tail and Road Juno in such a Short but that every Effort was Mode to do denied charges that come for porn isolated cases that men passing through reinforcement depots Are inadequately Only a few noncom Are broken when they pass through the reinforcement Wood the cos Are Given every Chance to prove themselves As Field sol he the highest rank ing officers through the system have been be new fighter plane due Kansas 9 new Type of Flag Beer High on the air forces Ortity will go into within a Short time at the docs Plant of North american Avia Tion it Wai 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