European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 25, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse 1945 Page 5 yank forces in Luzon invasion f bindings of Macarthur a sixth array troops on Luzon Island 8 reveal the tithe gis took the at ground forces move Forward to silence a Jap jeeps and a tracs keep out of cautious yanks Check a Pillbox Ujj to at right a mortar team operates against artillery from a Ricefield near than men it Fred ashore at four beachhead from a naval Armada of More than ships against Only scattering japanese of drawn carts keep aaa unit in supplies with ninth bigger isolated by heavy Snow on the Send an sos to air transport command for but b of one aaa battalion just Calls out its organized by Robert of she provisional Supply train consists of two of drawn which get through Snow choked bails to outlying gun Albert of Brook says some of the Guys we and jeer when our tron tier Convoy goes but we get the Chow and mail and look at the Gas and tires Are Effion emails it to from in 31 months 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to remain at his battalion command Post was revealed in his the last line of which the enemy is now Only 50 meters the diary also revealed that the ratio of captured German officers to enlisted men is increase which bears out by prisoners that the wehrmacht brass has been ordered to stick with their commands until the the sixth armoured divisions pm Cage has checked through nazis taken during the past 16 with the latest haul showing 25 officers among 300 nazi attack broken the German infantry officer who lamented directives that he stay with his wrote that american artillery broke up the main German attack on the night of 4 inst the Arlo Bastogne Sihu signed by the failure to crack the american the German officer sought mental escape in impassioned pleas addressed to his Hometown girl left for i comes Back with 84th after his patrol had been John of killed three of his attackers then made his Way Back to his company through a Snow assigned to reconnoitre German positions South of the eight Man patrol moved 800 Yards rom the company and was am bushed by a squad of the Leader was and who was next to Dave into a nearby the rest of the a thinking Bell returned to the but the sergeant was very much he shot three of the attack no forcing the rest to it was getting dark and the falling Snow was covering All after wandering for five hours a 18 inches of Snow and sometimes knee deep in Bell found his company dry clothes and hot 86th cd sees action with 3 6 corps the 86th cd has used its mortars to support 19 divisions in free different armies and six Dif Erent corps in the past six commanded by col of the battalion has fired More than rounds of mortar Armuni sidelights Ottine eco squads last stand saves buddies with second entire squad of doughboy chose to sacrifice their lives to allow their buddies to escape from a death trap during the recent German it was revealed the second platoon of co repelled repeated attacks until they were surrounded on three when Tiger tanks appeared and began systematically firing Pointblank into the the company commander ordered the to pull out of its hopeless the squad called Back get everybody else out Well cover those who withdrew under cover of the squads fire saw the attackers concentrating their fury on the tiny Point of that was the last they saw of borrowed timers9 carry on with 389th my Call themselves the borrowed timers and they try to Tell you they sound like a Concrete mixer filled with nuts and bolts when they because so Many of the men Are carrying around bullets and hunks of shells in their they figure that about 90 percent of the outfit should be pushing up daisies All Over the worlds by All rights of Man and they have a High regard for the because they admit without Aid men showing up at the right they just be around to guard prisoners and patrol towns and Road blocks and escort there men of the 389th my commanded by Warren of Battle big Pete they Call and big Pete is mighty proud of his three fingered and shot up some of them have served in the some in Sicily and there Are 304 purple heart wearers in the borrowed 14 Silver 39 Bronze stars and plenty of clasps and nor nazi tanks shall stay the army mail with third rear Echelon bringing up a sack of mail for 94th used a Bazooka for the first time and knocked out four Panther Earl shallow mail clerk Bernie transportation and pfc Virgil jeep were on the Road to Betz Dorf when they spotted a column of German none of the three had Ever fired a but Hamilton squeezed off the first rocket for a direct the gunner of the second tank unbuttoned to see what had happened and caught a round in his the third tank took five rounds while the fourth Hamilton last rocket at the escaping it Kod the Panther at a distance of 150 knows How to throw weight around with 106th Lee of Johnsons weighs about 220 he knows How to throw his weight in the fierce fighting around Early in the German of the 106th lion Divi received word that germans in a strategically situated building were holding up some of his regiments he decided that it would take too Long blast the germans he strode ont in Plain View of the germans and ordered them to the sight of the husky american brandishing his Tommy gun must have been persuasive enough for the walked 105 enlisted men and two with their hands yank plays dead too convincingly with fourth armoured Charles years of a played dead so convincingly that he fooled his own troops As Well As the with a patrol from a cavalry reconnaissance Newson was advancing Over a Snow swept Ridge when a German machine gun opened in an exposed hit the his platoon James of crawled within shouting distance but machine gun fire kept rescuers from getting Calls brought no answer from and four hours of this convinced everybody Newson was with Newson in search of his Tut encountered More trouble when he other fourth armoured Rusty on the password and commanding officers he had to talk fast to prove he was i the fourth still a Little was Back on duty next 106ths sector didst remain quiet for Long by de ban associated press correspondent with 106ch was a quiet sector they handed the 106th fresh to the front and eager for Battle the quiet ended in a shattering eruption of fire and steel five Days in another two Days two regi ments and supporting artillery and Armor of the Golden lion division were put out of Only a handful came Back from the 422nd and 423rd this Little than 300 Strong in and helped the remaining 424th to make Gallant delaying stands before and behind up to now censorship has Stop Ped these Secretary of War Stimson announced thursday that the 106th had casualties in the German counteroffensive including 416 killed and he said most of the divisions missing men were presumed to be 27mile front the Story of the 106ths disaster started in the foggy Dawn of 16 As occupied positions in and around Sci Nee a Rocky wooded Ridge ten Miles Long and two Miles wide astride the Siegfried the division was spread thin along a 27mile the attack started at 0550 with an artillery barrage against the 106th which curved North Ward from the Center of the Schnee Eifel in the sector held by the 14th an attached armoured out then the barrage moved across to a Field artillery forced to withdraw the germans turned their guns on the 422nd and 423rd and followed with infantry and tank by Daybreak 17 germans had thrown two divisions into this part of the front and by mid morning the enemy columns were swarming around Schnee they swarmed the 422nd and 423rd and forced the 424th to with at the radio reported an units of the two regiments needed food and water parachuting supplies was out of the question because of the last message was at both messages were identical Are now destroying our that was All presumably most of the two regiments were taken held off germans the germans then headed for Vith and were stopped temporarily by the 81st and 168th who fought they outgunned Many times Over and it was mainly by sheer courage that they held the germans off All night with three to guns and three 57mm Early on 18 division began moving West of some units were halted by Mpa who had on american uniforms and talked with Midwest the maps turned out to be Ger one of them fired a rocket which signalled the opening of a terrific barrage against the halted foe took Vith after a stiff fight by the and one combat command from the ninth armoured which had moved up and the 28th 112th the germans occupied Vith at 11 the sorely exhausted badly depleted 106th pulled Back to reorganize on 23 but the next Day were thrown Back into the line and finally helped halt the germans on the North Side of he salient Between stave lot and Lone i captures nazi tank intact with second Bel Theodore of the 741st tank took off with Lis Tommy gun when the germans in joked out his he walked into an Alley and single Anderly captured one of the nazi the Tiger tank had lumbered near the Alley and unaware that americans were in the the Crew dismounted for a they were talking and laughing Parker when he levelled nos Tommy gun and began to Cut them one nazi was Kule Difed one was the other free the sergeant walked Over to the tank and stood guard until a group of yanks came up and
