European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 25, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Outfits stormed Hill of men came Down by Wade Jones stars and stripes stall writer with seventh companies of of 19 months of their Way to the top of a Crest in the Moun stains of North then came and then a nighty nazi artillery barrage that isolated the a estimated 150 enemy artillery from 75s zeroed their fire on the Hill the barrage bored into the Foxholes on the Crest and men simply Van it nailed trucks and armoured vehicles As they shot past Crossroads on reinforcement 4 then the germans began throwing in by the end of the third Day 100 of the men on the Ridge bad been evacuated or had and the enemy with his infiltrations behind Pur had prevented further reinforcement and Supply of the men still but Felix of Bat Talion hammered his Way up the Mountain in a medium firing its big gun and loosing More than founds from his aided by an unnamed rescued three of our wounded and took them Down the the Day Willis of had gone up the Mountain in a Light tank with rations and on the Way Down the tank was hit by Bazooka Only Talkington Leroy chaplain from also made trip times on although the battalion executive officer had forbid Den him to the end came in the late afternoon of 20 when two shaky gis stumbled Down through the Snow from the Mountain they were the Only ones who and the Only ones who Ever they were pfc Walter and Benjamin they told How the remainder of the five companies had tried to break there were 90 men in and More than a Hundred As they made their the Jerries opened this is the Way it looked to who was him self knocked Down four times by men were being hit directly by artillery and rockets All around me legs and arms were flying it was a godawful Melton was captured by the germans in the drive on Rome last but escaped Man Speicht Deutsch gift is Cine mule stun Geest Ess Eine Somlai Troug is there a Detour the St daily newspaper of armed forces 182 stripes in the european theater of operations Ici on Francois Este quit Fera pins Froid ays keel Furrah Plew Fra will it get colder new russians smash into Lear Here gets Eto Post l Ben Lear has been appointed Deputy theater com 4 Unander for american forces in Jjoe and has arrived Here to assume his new j Eisenhower announced yester Lear game from Wash where he has been age since the death in France of Leslie Mcnair last Aid Ike in the administration of Amer lean at he will have no part in the direction the Allied Cam sheaf recent reports from washing according to the indicate teat Joseph Stilwell will named age succeeding Stilwell was recently recalled the Chi take charge of shift his new supervise the allocation american manpower in the 1 will be in charge of the stepped program shifting rear Echelon Al to reinforcement depots thence to combat Lear will be in charge All matters having to do with i morale and welfare of in the he will also a final review of recommend on for awards and decorations behalf of p3om in Canada in Lear is continued on Page 8 land route to China South East Asia com 24 lord Louis supreme Allied commander in Southeast has sent the following message to the combined chiefs of staff and presi Dent Roosevelt and prime minister Churchill first part of orders i received at Quebec have been carried the land route to China is third pushes near Germany in the salient third army troops closed up along the Clerf River in Northern four Miles from the German while in first army forces beat off enemy counterattacks against which Arm ored captured at 1730 american patrols entered Vian Den in hinge of the withered salient which has been reduced to on fifth its size in the last in Northern seventh army made a limited withdrawal to what officially were described As More advantageous positions East and North of no Large towns were push toward Strasbourg germans continued to press along the Plain toward Frances traditional bastion on the Rhine and Symbol of French control Over the alsatian attacking North of French troops advanced several Kilometres to Cross the i which parallels the Colma Stras Bourg they were gradually wresting the initiative in that Sec continued on Page 8 stars and stripes map by bated capital of upper fell to the russians yesterday to highlight the Days victories on the Eastern three reasons held Likely for nazi withdrawal in West Douro duty idea by Truman stars and stripes Bureau by Clare Luce r u that combat soldiers be i to a fixed tour of duty was impractical today by vice indent an said he had considerable experience but i still presume to Tell the army actors James Tunnell d and Harold Burton members of the Senate investigating committee who from agreed saying Only the decide the question of sent and made her proposal recent trip to the european she noted that air Crew Truman Luce personnel Are withdrawn for a test after a fixed number of mis Sions and urged that the same be done Burton said it was impossible to compare the two branches the same a ninth of Thunderbolt Pilot saw it first through a Hole in the overcast while on armed there choking the was the greatest mass of German vehicles Wilfred Veteran had Ever that was about 0900 monday by evening the roads were pyres of burning ninth pilots went in on that mass at tree level and nailed the Ger mans pulling out of the three possible reasons for the German withdrawal were advanced by military observers Here was Likely that the elite sixth Panzer army was pulling for although several of its units still Are engaged in the a enemy May be trying to reinforce his offensive in the Al satian for reinforcements on the Eastern the effect of the red army offensive already has been notice Able on the Western where the allies face 80 German the russians Are pitted against twice that while 30 More nazi divisions Are tied Down in Italy and fewer than 20 remain in supplementing their ardennes germans had planned to continued on Page 8 for refuses to accept Perkins resignation 24 of labor Frances per Kins tendered her resignation to president Roosevelt today who re fused to accept she consented to remain in the Cabinet until the end of the her resignation has Long been sought by both the Al and but the president has continually refused to agree to her nazis shelled in Italy army artillery dispersed Strong German troop concentrations South West of near the Western patrolling continued on the eighth army sector along the Senio nazis claim stand made near Posen tank spearheads of mar Shal Ivan to Nicks first ukrainian brushing aside desperate German Home guard yesterday stormed into capital of upper then gained a Bridgehead across the Oder River and smashed North to Ward marshal Stalin announced in the North Ern prong of Konies fanning out to the North of two important communication towns inside the German Border to menace the entire German defense line protecting Ger Many second reported in Koenigsberg some patrols were reported within five Miles of according to German a United press report from Moscow last night said that troops of marshal Cherniakova third russian army had reached the outskirts of capital of East after a Swift thrust from the East along the Pregel no mention of this was made continued on Page 8 railway battalion co is transferred Martin of los who commanded the 716th railway operating at the time of the mass theft an Sale of i cigarettes by some of the men in the has been relieved of his the United press re ported he is not among the six officers who will be brought for up and is now serv ing in a up dispatch added that the order for the arrest of the battalion officers came from Eisenhower during hearings five pm of the 724th railway were convicted of the theft of cigarettes and other rations for Sale on the Black and were sentenced to 25 score pc pigeons air service command Aerial gunners shot six Mil lion Clay pigeons last year at train ing areas in