European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 5, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Id on franc trip Este quil Fera plus Froid keel Furtah Plew will it get colder the s my new Spur of am one franc ripes lilt Etta opt Tutt Attr Potro Tivitt Man spright of utter gift is Eine Omlei Tuntg Geest Eine oort Auyong is there a Detour one franc number new Yordi Vonparis february Widen breach in Siegfried line americans enter Manila army near secondary 1st push into Capitol suburbs Allied philippine head 4 american troops have entered a Mac Arthur announced tonight elements of the Veteran 1st airy broke into the City after a wide encircling mss cent under cover of in order to secure the safety of several thous and internees held by Japa Nese the communique their now stand guard Orer the internees while the remainder of the division is coming up from the the communique the 37th division was pushing into the suburbs of and the Lith paratroop division was rapidly driving up from the South after taking tag Aytay in a Para Chute Malag Ghana Palace and Grace Park Airport have occupied by Macarthur Jap snip ing and demolition destruction have been the Advance on Manila has Cov ered 115 Miles in 26 from the initial landings on the lingayen Gulf in the in japanese forces landed and occupied Manila 24 Days later on after it had been declared an open Allied philippine head columns were swiftly approaching the outskirts of Manila and a United press correspondent travel ing with the 3tth division said that its entry into the City cannot be Long official accounts from Luzon said Only that the americans were less than mites from but those accounts were lagging far behind actual troops of the met some Jap opposition As they rolled Down Highway below Malolos and along Manila but there was no report of resistance to the 1st cavalry division thrust along a Highway to the an Abc correspondent with the units said filipinos had re ported that the japs were install continued on Page 4 8th of gets topside View of Oder Battle 4 airmen of the 8th air Force May be the first americans to enter several flying crippled Over the German capital in yesterdays record dropped out of formation and headed toward the Oder some 25 Miles to land behind the russian radio Crews of the Fla damaged bombers informed the forts head ing Home that they intended to try to make a Landing or bail fighter pilots who escorted the forts on the raid flew to the Oder River and reported seeing artillery flashes of gun duels across the indicating the russians were battering for a Robert Mustang group operations said we flew about 30 Miles East of Berlin and could see the Oder about ten Miles off to right there were artillery flashes on both sides of the from heavy there was smoke and base it looked like the russians had pushed to the River there was a lot of activity of some sort which we  make out on the River we then were straight East of Berlin and almost to Frankfurt pilots who accompanied Long said that from the gun flashes it appeared the russians were laying Down perhaps ten shots for every one fired by the German the russian artillery appeared to be firing in with a barrage extending along the River for perhaps 25 or 30 fix a Thunderbolt Squadron com said that he saw what appeared to be numerous civilian Yon could see that streets were full of there appeared to be a lot of civilian refugee vehicles and people on foot defences Berlin reels under fort raid red artillery shells Buestrin a four Day thaw and persistent German counterattacks slowing dowry the Advance his tank mar Shal Gregory Zhukov called up heavy artillery today to support his infantrymen locked in fierce close Quarter Battles for the key Stone cities of the Oder River arid in fighting for a fortified Posi Tion on the East Bank of the Oder Southeast of Zhukov 1st White russian army cleaned out an entire German killing More than men and krauts attack in Italy Rome 4 Man raiding parties covered by a heavy artillery barrage attacked 8th army positions along the Senio but were repulsed by infantry and bad Wea ther limited action on the army front to 5th flogged by yank on Mcm War by John up correspondent with 18th airborne corps before the Siegfried in the shadows of Germany Siegfried line tonight a lonely american Soldier stalks on a Mission of avenge a Catoni details lashing Given him by a nazi storm for eight months this Soldier has been chasing rumours which he thought might Lead him to his hated but the nazi officer always eluded now he thinks he is nearing Bis the Soldier is pvt Donald former truck he tells the gruesome Story of being captured and of being teased Tor Beautiful German to extract information from hip own ruthless slaying of German guards Wien he broke out of Hospital confinement and made his Way bade to the american Smith said be was captured on d plus 9 in a Little Village near while leading a he stood in the Middle of a town which was in German watch ing a woman waving a Cognac bottle for him from a second Story Jurt then there came a shot which hit him in the a few minutes later the germans had him his torture they turned me Over to the Smith and one of them struck me with a Blackjack across the face cutting my right i still have a they wanted i  they took me to a Little where they beat then they put a Beautiful to taking while at Light armoured columns stormed the outer defences of the City against heavy firmly fixed in the go rite Hills just East of the Oder Between Buestrin and kept up a steady pounding of the Western Bank Alt Day Ger Man radio said the barrage was the Type the reds always used be fore opening a powerful other German reports said Zhukov had twice attempted to Cross the Oder Northeast of Kues trin but added that German reinforcements had repelled the at tacks inflicting heavy sunny weather saw the Luft rushed in Large numbers from the Western Home out in full Force to attack red army columns moving into the Berlin Moscow dispatches said the re air Force took the Initia Tive from enemy airmen and Dis Persed them with heavy marshal Zhukov also is swinging powerful blows against the Ger Man lines protecting Stettin and other ports along the Baltic be tween Ste Tun and with red tank columns within 11 Miles of the German High command already is faced with the alternative of pulling out troops from the Danzig and North East Germany areas or risking an other disastrous encirclement like to that in East in East Ivan continued on Page 4 Franco to with Bonnet declares new 4 Henri French ambassador to the yesterday said that France is convinced and deter mined that nothing win Ever sep Arate her from the United Bonnet also said that treaties of Alliance like the one recently bomber air assault on Berlin yesterday left the heart of the City a charred Blotch of smoking 8th air Force  photos indicated pictures showed almost unbroken fire and smoke Over an area about two Miles wide and a mile with smoke billowing More than two Miles and summary reports called it one of the wars Best jobs neither important military head quarters nor communications lines were the German air ministry received eight direct hits and 18 concentrations of High explosives blanketed an area occupied by the German War the Reich the propaganda Gestapo head the ministry of agriculture and other important structures an 8th of communique re an Wolitzer Railroad stations and adjoining Railroad vital lifeline of nazi military through traffic Between the West Ern my Eastern by were Tempelhoff marshalling Yards and Tempelhoff Ai drome were re ported hit several the Deutsche resells Cfaft Gas near the Center of the was said to be severely the Berli Stockholm Telephone lice was Cut for six and a half Reuters reported from Tran Ocean news which the United press said customarily blasts out propaganda almost continuously Over the German returned to the air at pm after nearly eleven hours of silence with a Short commentary on the Luzon a Stockholm report to Reuters said thousands of refugees were killed in the nazi capital when they were unable to find shelter in the crowded Ere of the 1st Ter bomb tac of today scored five bulls eyes on a rail Bridge Over the Rhine at one of the key spans for nazi transport to and from the Ottmar bulletin 1st has penetrated the last main barriers of the Siegfried eight Miles East of Mon and is now fighting i the secondary defences of the Ger Man fortified Sone la that the associated press from the front late a beaters dispatch said forces of Courtney Hodges army had passed through the second and main Belt of the Sieg Fried by Richard staff writer 1st army smashing through the West Ern front Belt of Siegfried line Pill boxes along a 12mile front South of the Aachen advanced to within three quarters of a mile of the Eastern defense line paced by the Fourmile push of the 9th 47th regt in the liberation of col mar was completed by Franco american forces who were punch ing into the Keyhole shaped Ger Man salient which bulges into the Plain on All the Fourmile Advance of the 47th was made in the zone be tween the two Pillbox rows of the Siegfried area near the nazi communications Center of Schlei pushing through this thinly defended doughs of the 47th took three Miles Southeast of after crossing the  second also ploughing through the zone Between the Pill Box advanced along the Road to Schleiden and took Ett Elscheid in gains of Ett Elscheid is about one mite West of first troops to the South continued on Page 4 business 4 the Treasury department announced yesterday the resumption of business and commercial inundations with liberated Bel under a new firms in Belgium and the May re sume business contracts and negotiate private a similar arrangement is now operating tween the and Man in the leaving us Fly France and had they she undressed and stood there been in existence at the time would to me trying to get 1 1 prevented German aggression com z men go on line after 2 week course by Ernie staff writer with the 104th Echelon most of them from went into the line today with units of this first graduates of the i04ths Battle former personnel clerks and Supply sergeants All now members of Rifle completed the Cycle from the rear to the front with a two week Blitz course Given by combat Wise Timber wolves supplementing the training courses at the reinforcement with instruction on night and the course is the first Given by a division to men sent up to fill gaps in the half of the men were and had the Promise of division com Terry that they keep their stripes if they did their Allen was pres ent at the graduation and presented the men with their diplomas the divisional shoulder results of the training were sex according to Edward in charge kicked her Ard slapped her away and avoided the necessity of of the these men from she screamed and the eng a world coalition against Ger Are going to make Good continued on 4 added 1st it thums who mapped out the pro and now  have a much better Chance to keep alive out there m the one of the had been a Cook for four years in the he admitted he preferred cooking to being a but said that since he had to go into the he was Giad to learn about it first Wilson in Fae army since but at the froot for the first said he thought the school was Damn Good up to now it had been All theory for