European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 25, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 8 sixth pushes ahead 5 Miles on Loizon Plain sixth army patrols on Luzon operated near Clark Field yes the with its 13 lies less than 10 Miles beyond the front lines of the Manila bound Macarthur announced yesterday that his troops had advanced five Miles to the South West on the Central Luzon had captured Camp Odonnell in Southern Tarlac province and the town of and had won new positions 34 Miles North of yank spearheads were approach ing the bombed and shelled town of six Miles from Clark Camp Odonnell Camp a former filipino army had been burned by the the troops who occupied it came upon the Graves of at least filipinos and scores of americans who had survived the March of death after Bataan Only to die later of starvation and american planes continued to Batter enemy airfields and lines of communication on Luzon and shot up gun positions and Barracks on in other Pacific air Sai pan based super fortresses to Japan on tuesday and attacked the aircraft Center of the b29s destroyed or damaged 62 Jap anese one super fortress was super forts based on the Marianas also attacked iwo Island in the 600 Miles South of Navy planes hit Formosa Navy bombers from the Philip Pines area attacked the he Ito air base on and patrol planes ranged into the Ryukyu these strikes augmented action by third Fleet Carrier which hit the enemy Okinawa in the on sunday for the fourth time this at Allied Southeast Asia com Mand Admi Almount Batten issued an order of the Day saying that the Advance of Ameri British and chinese forces had driven the japanese from Northern Burma and that the enemy had suffered a crushing in the japanese gained in their drives North of the 14th of disclosed that in the month ended 20 it Sank tons of japanese shipping along the China and downed 152 enemy 9th Contini ies Armor assault the remains of shattered Ger Man motor still limping out of the collapsing bulge after a today pasting that Cost them More than destroyed and aged were bombed and strafed again yesterday by ninth of despite miserable the fighter bombers flew More than 350 sorties and extracted a toll of motor transport destroyed and 326 German traffic was generally Light on the wreckage it tired but considerable concentrations were discovered and ripped up in an area South of Euskirchen and in the Clervaux tar fast talker the stars and stripes Factor made version of the Road to Berlin engineers of the first army Are constructing a temporary Road leading to a m the Batt zone in there hauling up wire netting Over which Supply convoys will soon be 7th last to leave9 is first to reenter Vith by Russell Jones stars and stripes staff writer St 23 seventh armoured was Back in town one month to the Day from the night that they evacuated after holding five Days longer than they had been ordered knocking the German break through so far off schedule that other first army units were win Tufa Cufr withdrawal i continued from Page 1 3rd advances in the salient continued from Page 1 Tor from the who have thrust a narrow corridor toward in British troops were fighting on the outskirts of Montc four Miles Southwest of Roer action was stiff along their front As the mommies drove toward North of the Brit Tish extended their hold on the River Maas and took the town of to the they cleared on the North of the flattening ardennes seventh armoured troops threw Back several counter attacks after occupying one attack came at the Southeast part of the town with 200 infantry and seven the capture of Vith netted 250 nazi 30th advances Southwest of the the 30th straightened its taking the towns of Crumbach arid on their 75th troops drove eastward to Clear Braun Lauf and there was heavy fighting a mile South of Maldinger in the Village of North of the Luxembourg fron 84th troops took eleventh armoured men gained two Miles a mile North of goed sixth armoured Raymond i04th 26th grins widely for the photographer shortly after meeting 32 nazis in a clump of Woods on the outskirts of Wiltz and talking them into surren that trois verges and advanced a half mile beyond the third army forces advanced to the Clerf River along a mile front running from bin Felt on the four Miles from the Reich Frontier in Northern Luxem to draw Felt in the bin Felt is cleared troops of the 90th cleaned up but there was fight ing in draw Felt up to latest the town of Selborn fell to advancing third army to the third army men made somewhat slower pro Gress Between Wiltz and but were gaining they took a town three Miles East of Wiltz fifth doughs cleared Hoscheid in a half mile patrols entered Southern hinge of the ardennes but the main american forces were to the Wesl and Southwest of near the German the enemy tried to encircle Nenning but men of the 94th 302nd broke up the try and smashed five tanks and a self propelled hawaiian was train fort 24 first Cor Tingent of hawaiian of Rived Here for Basic Able to get set farther West and Stop the the last seventh armoured outfit to pull out of Vith that cold 23 was an armoured infantry battalion under Richard of today Chappius commanded the task Force which spearheaded the attack on the the infantry moved Duck ing briefly during the intermittent screaming of six barrelled they were armoured infantry but right then they were like any other toward the enemy with Only their weapons to protect behind the infantry were the tanks and parachutists under Richard of leaven and while they the con Stant Roar of artillery and mortars was punctuated by Small arms the rapid staccato of German guns breaking through the heavier rattle of the americans the sevenths armoured in Fantry is backing Vith Jugoslav King asks Premier to resign Jugoslav crisis took a new turn when King Peter ii requested prime minister Ivan Subasic to resign with the entire Jugoslav this action widened the breach Between the King and great Britain and the soviet there were some reports that the forces took Cabinet had and others that Subasic probably to u 1 d ignore the Kings dismissal according to still another King Peter gave the task of form ing a new Cabinet to Milan serbian democratic the democratic described As was opposed to the agreement Between Subasic and marshal Tito for establishment of Lolly to Regency in this launch additional attacks on great Allied Supply port in the one was to come Down North of the Maas River after forces driving through the Arden nes had taken the second was to jump off from Schouwe this is North of the Scheldt River which leads to one nazi division involved in these plans North of the Maas River has been identified in Hun Gary and the russians have claimed identification of another division which had been in the yank Convoy 1st to use new Burma Road the first american Convoy carry ing War supplies Overland front India to China in two and a half years has arrived at the historic first Ever to Cross Burma from covered the first 262 Miles of the mile trip from on the India to the Convoy will wait Here until either the few remaining Miles of new Road from melt Keyina to tenge Chung Are or until the last 25 Miles of the old Burma Road from Nam Hkam to wanting cleared of More chinese Are working and night the Road which pierces the famous lao i part of which is the Hump Over which Allied trans port planes walked 350 Miles the Road climbs to feet and i crossed several times by age old silk directing the operation Are Hunter of and Leo of Pough the two walked nearly 350 Miles scouting the new they made the 40day expedition during Monsoon weather and received food by the Ledo of the new Road was officially declared open today by Lewis of who said it without doubt the most difficult Road building project the american army Ever undertook in reds in continued from Page 1 Lear continued from Page 1 one of the oldest Active generals and one of the few Spanish Amer ican War veterans participating in the present in he was a first sergeant in a Colorado infantry he was commissioned in and received a re Gular army commission in the Ca Valry in As commander of the second army in 1941 and Lear played a vital part in the training of troops now fighting on All Amer Stern wide he con ican known As a he received publicity in 1941 for his punish ment of american soldiers who Yop Hood at girls on a Tenn Golf he ordered the troops to make a Long forced March As a the major part of his service has been in the cavalry Arm be came a brigadier general in a and a lieutenant general in Al though he reached statutory ret ement age in tinted in uate of the mounted the school of the the command and general staff school and the army War besides Lears specific responsibilities in his new will perform other special duties delegated him by american Soldier hanged a United states Soldier was hanged monday at be Sarthe he had been sen tence to death by an army court martial for the murder of another the sentence was reviewed Inis inc present and confirmed by general Dwight room with a View or t i makes reservations run out on one of them in stains Victory announce ments from the Kremlin last to the marshal gory Zhukov first White rus Sian meeting the Tough est German resistance since the giant Winter offensive began 11 Days drove into to Cut the Breslau Posen Raflko Kalisz is 58 Miles due West of t in Little news of fighting around Ujj Posen was available last although enemy reports claimed that German panzers had regrouped j and smashed Back at a Forward reported City on the second ukrainian front in Southern marshal Malinovsky troops gained 12 Miles on a 25mile tuis army yesterday seized Koniw Ftp and Jeslava in the heavy forested country North of in East troops of mar Shal to Kossovsky second russian army captured 31 Miles West of two other bastions of the of sense line covering the East pros Sian Lake j 100 combat soldiers accuse congressman of new 24 an ski a group of 100 combat soldiers by France today accused Sheridan of misrepresent ing frontline troops with his Retro i statement that few of them Wanley to come Home on rotation fighting y the new times pin usage a letter of protest from who said As k spontaneous combustion closed letter was produced Hundred men signed it at the same time the in ton Post published a Frostbitten infant who challenged Sheridan to one night that we have s the last two week they he would give one of to go a member House military affairs commit tar made the statement Atter his from a tour of european nazis reported see possible peace 24 quoting a reliable said today that a Germani Mission headed by Franz had arrived in s von it had Tidence of the German Ai he was going sound possibilities for the Best peace terms for