European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 29, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                V i Man Speicht Deutsch die Mecke is Dee Rewcka is the Bridge is blown the St Dolly newspaper of armed forces wot 186 stripes in the european theater of operations id on Parle a Baand be Pri Temps a Kong be pro Tahm when will it be Spring new 1945 Agnes is but they made her reds close ring on take Baltic port of Memel 1st and 3rd armies gain Patton men reach Point 2 Miles from Vith army signal corps photo Cpl Bernard of and Richard of offer cigarettes and a Coke As they Start to break the ice with their buxom Snow new Winter clothing issues reaching men in front lines combat troops already Are receiving the new issues of Winter clothing which Brehon somervell said thursday were in reports from stars and stripes correspondents on the front indicate full quotas of special Winter shoes and clothing of various types Are being drawn by the As the third month of bitter below Zero temperatures and heavy snowfall draws to a staff correspondent Russell with the first reported that four infantry divisions of Courtney Hodges forces have been outfitted and other divisions Are drawing the equipment As it becomes Avail prom the our River staff correspondent butt Hutton re ported that in addition to specially designed shoes and the combat infantrymen Are being issued Snow although Many Stu must improvise Snow Camou Flage from almost any White a including lace curtains and women Sho Epacs big feature the according to of assist ant clothing and special equipment of first Are being made at a considerable items include Arctic Sho Epacs with Felt inner Arctic ski Waterproof Mit ten mufflers and special cot ton trousers for each the new footwear is the shoe Pac Type of rubber and leather Boot common among woodsmen and North country Hunters which gis used to see in sporting goods store before the a rubber foot on the Shoemae extends to a Point ankle High the calf leather uppers begin the shoe Pac is issued in larger sizes than the old i shoes and combat boots which proved ineffective in repelling water or on the our River Hutton the gis were told that the sizes were Large so that two pairs of socks could be they were told to change the socks As soon As they became sweaty to help prevent Frozen feet and Trench this is something like pfc George of continued on Page 8 More sentenced cigarette looting nine More pm were convicted yesterday and Given sentences rang fing from ten to 15 by the Jap arts court martial trying the rail battalion Blac Market were found guilty of looting 5 of cigarettes and other army applies hundreds of thou ads of trial of the first officer to a before court on charges of doing the stolen cigarettes is v to open 8th of heavies hit of targets the eighth three years old celebrated Over the Ruhr by unloading tons of explosives i Germany Oil reserves and other after a fou Day liberators and fortresses took off with 250 Mustangs to Batter two Benzyl plants at Rhine Bridges at Duisburg and Cologne and clog ged rail Yards at grember and to they met heavy after a Days 90 medium bombers of the ninth of went out after German Bridges escorted by 70 lightnings and Mustangs a Force of havoc and invaders blasted a five Span railway Structure across the Rhine at Remagen and others at Kaiser Sinzig and the first army smashed eastward toward the Siegfried line renewing its drive after a today As third army forces swept into Eastern Belgium near the Reich Frontier North of Luxembourg in a Fourmile and Vance which brought them to within two and on half Miles of first army men forced their Way nearly two Miles through a new four Inch layer of Snow which Over Lay Waist High drifts to take four villages East of the Vit Bullin Gen stars and stripes Cor respondent Russell Jones said from the Clad in Snow apes the Clad in Snow moved out at 0400 under the cover of a blinding in their packs were chunks of dynamite to help blast a foxhole when the time came to dig into Frozen the a was so heavy through the Snow that the doughs who broke the trails for the Advance had to be relieved every 60 the a Jones reported that the first took Herscheid and calender to the South and Borscheid also were he seventh armoured forces strik ing East of Vith extended their gains to first assay lines Are now to Yards from the first Sieg Fried line positions which were partly destroyed in pre break through Battles and another Yards from a second Section of the line germans have third army a front dispatches have taken All except a mile and on half of continued on Page 8 planes hit Brenner pass 28 and eighth army patrols maintained Contact with enemy positions As the temperature dropped to freezing on the italian Large numbers of fighter bombers attacked the Brenner pass rail route and targets in the to Nimitz moves up of the Fleet Nimitz has moved from Pearl Harbor to an advanced Headquarters in an unidentified Forward area of the Nimitz said some time ago that Guam was one of the places considered for advanced yanks 40 my from Manila Xiv army corps troops on Luzon met no japanese resistance As they captured the last important Sampanga province City before san the provincial the reported yesterday in a Field put the Xiv corps a Little More than 40 Miles from another dispatch said that american advanced units had gone past communique announced that other american troops were liquidating japanese Hill positions commanding Clark now in american yanks in Northern Luzon continued to capturing Agat and the japanese counter attacked at san but were repulsed a loss of 10 tanks and Many Field american airmen attacked a continued on Page 8 red army reinforced by powerful tank and infant itry expanded their grip on the Industrial Arsenal of German Silesia seizing four important towns near the Oder while troops on the Central front stabbed through the last enemy defences along the Berli Warsaw Highway to Complete to encirclement of other sweeping victories were scored on both ends of the blazing Eastern front As Ivan Bagramian first Baltic army cleared the last German soldiers from lithuanian capturing the great port City of Memel to the far Ivan Petrovs fourth ukrainian army drove 25 Miles West along the carpathians to seize five towns in Poland con Volk Waggon is proper place for boobies army signal corps photo men of the sixth third Advance Down a Snow covered Road into the town of bypassing an abandoned German loaded with 4 silesian towns near Oder River fall to soviets now is the time9 28 cow radio said today that Large enemy reinforcements Are being transferred from the Western theater of operations to the East Tern German railway lines Are crammed with troop trains moving taking this in now is the time when the offensive on the Western front is to be trolling passes through the mount Ains into German town 35 Miles Northwest of Breslau on the West Bank of the Oder fell to marshal Konies first ukrainian army after one of the fiercest Battles of the Winter marshal Stalin announced in an order of the this prize gives the russians a firm foothold across the Oder in a position from where new drives North Berlin Coard be Katowice and two other smaller towns at the Southern end of the 150mile Oder River line also were captured by Konies Katowice is one of the largest towns in Silesia and Center of the Rich Dombrova Coal on the Central marshal Gregory first White russian bypassing encircled continued on Page 8 peace rumours Fly in Sweden 28 ing its readers that it should be read with the sunday Dis Patch today published a report from its correspondent stat ing that swedish Sok Diers and government believe that peace moves Are proceeding in according to the a Ger Man a was spirited through Sweden from Germany two Days ago by a special soviet Hartmann was said to be the representative of a i German opposition including industrialists and Milder plus some Geri Man government report Contact made 28 a swept Lisbon and Barce Lona that the germans were close to accepting surrender and germans in Lisbon said they had reports that the German Eastern front command is already in con tact with the with the knowledge of the German i pfc command in