European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 5, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The stars stripes 1945 weapons top says ordnance Boss 4 army chief of answering critics of american a says he has Assurance from to ranking generals and scores of enlisted men that we need apologize Lor no item of Amer lean ordnance in comparison with of the leading pc returning from a tour of the bouncing Over Belgium in a on jeep open Sleigh ordnance that was made by Gen Eisenhower and the rest was that Thev Haven t As much ammunition As like to have but i can assure the american Public that will be adequately cared or a Appedu program dating from Points to tanks referring particularly to publish pilots at a snowy fighter Field in Belgium take an old fashioned Toboggan deadlier kind of Treyve just left the briefing on their Way to the air strip from which their fighter planes soon will be speeding toward nazi Tiger Royal and tanks from a standpoint of Armor and Campbell asserted could build a tanks big As the Pentagon the generals in the Field said they wanted but there is no evidence to Date that they want or need tanks larger san those we now those men know what they they re Good judges of Gen Eisenhower told me that to Date the germans have lost two tanks to every one of How could we have such a record if our tanks were inferior Calls Tiger Clumsy Campbell said that the 13ton nazi Tiger which packs an 88mm was big and with a Lack of Rocil fir trouble and subject to being caught in the where its like a sitting added that Patton told him that our tanks in combat with the German tigers had proved to be the Best tanks in the his two gun fire protect company As it moves Back with 26th Charles of crawled out of a Noman s land during a recent Luxembourg Only living thing he left was a voracious vulture and dead nazis to feed troops of g of the 104th found themselves pinned Down by a bracket of Jerry mor artillery and my they prepared to an my platoon volunteered to cover the when one of his gunners was Haile manned gun and kept it the gun he dashed across open terrain to another my and resumed firing when the last Man of the company had safely Haile dered his own my Crew to and he stayed behind to last Man left alive in that Shell pocked picked up his gun and went he now wears a Silver raise bail on Van Wie san 4 ans three counts of bigamy against 58yearold Franci Van who police say had a least 12 was held for Superior court the Case was not expected to go to trial of several months and bail was Raiser from to Cash or raid leaves berlins heart mass of ruins air assault on Berlin saturday left the heart of the City a mass of smoking eighth of reconnaissance photos indicated pictures showed almost unbroken fire and Over an area about two Miles wide and a mile with smoke billow ing More than two Miles High summary reports called it one of Best neither important military head quarters nor communications lines were the German air ministry received eight hits and 18 concentrations of High explosives blanketed an area occupied by the German War office Reich the air ministry the propaganda Gestapo the ministry of agriculture and other important structures an eighth of communique Railroad stations hit the Railroad stations and adjoining Railroad vital lifeline of nazi military through traffic Between the West and Eastern i we Fri lit j Tempelhof marshalling Yards i and Tempelhof Ai drome were re sorted hit several Ine Gesellschaft t cat Icar the Center of the was Aid to be severely the Berli Stockholm Telephone Ine was Cut for six and a Nail Reuter reported from Stock Lola the Tran Ocean news which the United press said customarily blasts out propaganda Al most continuously Over returned to the air at 3m after nearly eleven hours or silence with a Short commentary on he Luzon a Stockholm report Beuter said thousands of refugees were killed in the nazi capital when they were unable to find shelter in the crowded twelve hours face Down in the Snow pilfering nazis search gi19 times with fourth Doyle Hopper of the 22nd heard footsteps his he knew they were decided to play and Lay face Down in the his heart beat wildly As two germans rolled him Over and slowly went through his but he managed to maintain his lifeless when the Hopper sighed with during 12 hours in that he was searched 19 times by souvenir seeking several of them Felt his i had my biggest when two big krauts gave me the one of pulled out a knife and pointed it in the general direction of my but i guess they want necessary because they finally walked Hopper sweated it out there on the Snow until when he made his Way safely Back to a battalion first Convoy arrives Over Stilwell Road 4 Reu first Supply Convoy to travel Over the Stilwell Highway from India to China arrived Here lifting the three Earold land blockade of the governor of Yunnan pro of which Kunming is the capital presented a Large red ban Ner to Lewis who built the led Section of the on the Banner were the words Road to the Convoy was made up of 13d including weapons trucks and it travelled from Ledo to than 24 red drive lifts Stalin prestige russian powerful offensive into Germany has assured marshal Sta Lin greater prestige and influence at fhe big three the unofficial army and Navy journal in Washington according to the associated striking so powerfully As he has done on the eve of the meeting of the big it is Clear to Diplo Mats Here As Well As to our own military leaders that marshal Sta Lin has come to a position where his views must receive even greater consideration than in the the publication in the United press re ported that sunday newspapers had speculated that the big three was already in the sunday observer indicated that president Roosevelt is probably playing a dominant hints from big american offi the observer Sug Gest that Roosevelt is going to play is perhaps already the most Active part at the big three Sioux a but not for Long with fifth Luxem a Light machine gun on an outpost near pfc Grover of a full blood de Sioux Indian of Lith was captured a German night so sudden and silent was the capture that when the 40year old Soldier reached for his carbine he found that one Jerry had Al ready relieved him of St John was being led away As a prisoner when he toward his gun and scrambled into the before the astonished Ger mans could Johns machine gun had begun to not All the enemy patrol got away that senators in favor of disarming Axis new 4 the Newyork in a Spe Cial Washington dispatch by James said today that More than two thirds of the members of the Senate had indicated in the last two weeks that they would favor promulgation of treaties among the major United nations to keep Germany and Japan permanently Demili most of the senators polled said that they favored Arthur Vandenbergh proposals along that Many of the the newspaper that such treaties should no interfere with the War or the creation of an International Security soviet artillery pounds nazis taking arms Witheas not punishable offence s s writer reported prisoner after  on the British 25 delayed Thomas of Veteran stars and stripes War correspondent who has been missing since he flew into Holland with airborne has been captured by the according to reliable a dutch eyewitness to his capture related Hoge had walked into the arms of the germans the Day he Hoge told the dutchman the plane he was in was shot Down by Miles from its Hoge parachuted to safety and hid in a ditch Unta near when he dashed into i a farmhouse to evade a search ing the civilian said he saw Hoge afterwards cautiously leave the House and turn the Corner Only to come face to face with the the civilian said that the germans took Hoge to Bokstein and then carted him presumably to Hoge covered the third army for the stars and stripes up to the time it the Moselle then returned to England just in time to go on the paratroop Mission to a newspaper Man in civilian be was inducted into the army in 1942 came to the Eto with the 29th and served As a Rifleman and clerk until transferred to the stars and stripes in As the Elas and the greek government began peace talks last the ment announced that the act of taking up arms with the Elas has been removed from the list of punishable this was granted As an act of the associated press to assist in the speedy pacification of the As a there will be no prosecution against persons involved in the civil although individual acts contrary to the Laws of War or the Normal criminal code will be air corps specialists called up to French the French government has called up specialists in the air corps including All classes from 1924 to the associated continued from Page 1 from the free after of the most Savage fighting of the Winter in East Ivan Cher sent his third White russian army troops Down the Samland Peninsula to capture an important rail station on the line used by the germans to evacuate bitter struggles were still in pro Gress for the almost Prus Slinn the silesian the thaw which turned Fields into seas of mud and sent the Oder River Over its Banks in several places also appears to have slowed marshal Ivan to Ilievs first  a new threat on the Southern Gateway to Germany appeared developing Southwest of where troops of marshal Kolbuk Hins third ukrainian army resumed the driving Back the German lines 11 Miles to a Point near up reports from Moscow said that the facing the threat of a frontal assault on will not be Able to spare reserves to Check Tol Bukhina drive once it is rolling with full West Wall Cut by first army continued from Page 1 True Kester Nich Schleiden on their 60th regt men smashed a nazi counterattack of infantry and five tanks near two and on half Miles Southeast of Gemund and a male and three quarters from the Eastern Belt second also ploughing through the zone Between the Pill Box advanced along the Road to Schleiden arid took Ett Elscheid in gains of Ett Elscheid is about one mile West of first troops to the were still battling for the town of where germans appeared to be putting up toughest first doughs cleared ten pillboxes at a Crossroads three quarters of a mile from Hollerith which is Southwest of men of the 82nd airborne plunged East of the first line of fortifications after Clearing All Pill boxes along a front South of just to the South of first operations near u first army forces in this sector yesterday were seven to eight Miles East of pre break through they have Nade the farthest penetrations or the Siegfried line yet made South of the Aachen As they preached the rear of toe double rowed fortifications appeared no indications that the germans were slowing them a Belgium cleared other american troops to the South who cleared advanced across the inside the Reich to take the til Lage of it was office any stated that All Belgium had been the town of Ruhrberg on the Rivers Edthard army infantry enthronement in Moscow 4 the new metropolitan of Moscow and patriarch of All was advancing Gium North of their lines i German Frontier through the duchy enthroned this Velo Rohovsky Jerries fire away but outpost Joes Iet the pics part of Frances new air thus far confined to French pilots flying amen can made Bradshaw had whipped duty on the posts happily devoured All the pie Sand even asked for