European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 6, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                1945 rat toward Berlin xf3jjjlijk Ike rises from fun City of tilsit As the germans withdraw before a red attack that saw Jinns smash into the prussian a Gunnen in Road to the Tzi Battle sed As Harry me tars and stripes i 94th s of this div germans in the wearing l in an eyesight of seem to have our medical Ause the St and when ble St snows anr1 develop Clarence onal in pics with similar to that its chief feat volunteers cloth for from capt and countess head of the rounded up their sewing h group under o american Fedj ice and Lillian Cas worked in the bibs  called greatest of offensives 5 Here Are calling marshal Gregory Zhukov drive from the Vistula to the Oder River the greatest of All and Are stressing his daring strategy in risking Long Supply even though at the end his armies will face a defender whose main base is at his very it is predicted that the main Battles for Berlin will be fought on Zhukov with the russian Success in protecting them deter mining the Fate of the Reich capital the German strategy has been to try Stop the russians on fronts other than directly before More than 20 divisions Are in Latvia and East 28 Divi Sions Are in and there have been no serious withdrawals yet from Norway or the Only marked withdrawals have been from the Western Hungary fight bitter another Peculiar Factor is Ger Many ferocious resistance in Hun about the end of the year the germans sent nine divisions from Poland to including a famous is Panzer and these have been responsible for bloody Battles around one interpretation of this South Ern deployment of Force has been that the germans eventually to make a stand in the with this in mind they would de fend austrian territory russians have so far done remarkably Well with respect to communications and Supply the of Thorn gave them a major Railroad All the Way from Warsaw to soon they should also have rail centers at Posen and the first of which is plants taken intact one advantage of the soviets rapid Advance was capture intact of enemy equipment and such As the Hermann Goering metallurgical works at this huge munitions Plant already is working for the As Well As several other factories in the same damage to cities has been Natur ally but apparently has not As bad As in such russian cities As race with Seine with the Seine River rising an Inch every ten gis in the St Fth construction dug Post holes and set anchors for a 700 loot Span of open wire Liper scrip adv f Ron cd phrases now ton Stah writer 90th daily a to press with an editorial Eye offered its readers a Hal dozen russian phrases which ought editor Jam Del Chicago the sniper every morning since los Angeles and i to stars and stripes readers a ethically and include whats How Are wee Pyam where is hitlers Geet lera have a cigarette Skirls in Lee toot doing some russian uniform converts factories left b behind by foe with Supply Are under Way to operate the automobile fac tory which american troops found crated and loaded on 45 freight cars when they ran the nazis out of unable to move the train because of Allied air attacks and the Swift Advance of the the germans left it standing on a and production experts from the army ordnance department say it now will be used either to assemble automobiles or to build this factory is one of Many which have been left behind by the germans and Are being converted to production for army needs by the ordnance As ordnance units of advancing ele ments find enemy ordnance mate rial it is reported to where it is classified for proper use by Philip of lands and Albert of Many weapons captured some of the captured material is of invaluable use against the said for in there is a Large store of German 105mm Brand new and still packed in cos Moline in a warehouse in in and there Are a Large number of 80mm 240mm 20mm rifles and other Small Arm All which can be used by in several carloads of automotive equipment consigned for Berlin were captured with More than 200 tons of parts that Are now available for american thou Sands of roller bearings captured in France already have been put in numerous carloads of raw materials also have been and ordnance has and re turned to their rightful owners Sev eral Hundred French automobiles the germans were trying to drive buried alive by it lives to fight again with 84th John of new York and f of the 333rd May not have nine but he is managing to hang on to the one he has in spite of the recently he was sitting in his foxhole when a Jerry tank ran Over spun its treads and buried the dirt was Loose enough around his face so Tierne could still breathe then a German Rifleman came along and emptied his Rifle into the the dirt covering Tierne protected and after dark he Dot his Way out and rejoined his an irrepressible jeep arises after a fall with second run Down by a German Rose like a Down Pillow after the tank had passed it was the damnedest thing Rve Ever said Lewis of it want much Good but it actually did regain just about its Normal All four tires remained inflated and were later removed and placed on another no one was the sudden appearance of the German tank causing Vivian of Lake and his Joseph of to dismount 112 houses in blasted every one in two Days Savage tight ing by Ernest Leiser 8un and stripes Start writer with 78th the infantry started to slug its Way through the Village had 112 when they not a single House was within almost every germans were hidden from attic to the fighting was and the second in Wolf cubs of the 311th we rent Saar germans Fri organized in Brittany by 94th officers third army with the 94th division participating in the Siegfried line As the Story of How its com manding Harry of and Roy one of the regimental organized the Fri forces in the Lorient and St Nazaire sectors in Brittany is under one command left in the Wake of patrons sweep through to contain More than trapped nazis in the Brittany Malony and col Hagerty tracked Down the leaders of 25 separate groups and organized them under one com in return for this Unity of command they were Given Amer ican rations and the personnel of the resistance men included regular French marines and Navy elements of belgian and dutch armies and French peasants and collect German Small arms working with col John f of new and Wayne Malony scraped together nearly German Small including mortars and plentiful later on captured Jerry artillery was turned Over to the French and they were taught How to use it by artillerymen of the commanded by Louis the French caught on fast and when the 94th left for nazi they carried the women who were part of these units fell Back to rear Echelon and did secretarial work and medical the americans and the French made a Good two Bells and a Lemon with fifth of second thought they hit the Jackpot when they captured a nazi station Wagon near Montoy one of the officers bore a close resemblance to Der ing any additional chances in the town they had already nicknamed Little after battling their Way Down the Majla Street far end of town in the face of fixed nazi cutting the town and set Ting up perimeter they started to whack the houses off one by Joseph Klimkiewicz had pre pared a map of the in which each House was casualties were Many radio carrying infantrymen moved in on each when they cleaned out they move on to the As they went they radio Back the number of the next House to the tanks and artillery on the Edge of the and the bigger guns would dust it off be fore the doughs started the radioman combination was also used to report the location of wounded Back to the so that they wasted Little time in reaching for wars end by Pat Mitchell stars and stripes Stafl writer with third Ger tired women Are and their kids dont even ask for evacuated from frontline German families stand miserably in the Bleak Saar Mist in this Dis placed persons Community and read the typewritten news Bulle tins tacked up alongside the Allied military government Stanley of new am director of More than germans housed in two neigh Boring watched the brooding group of germans and allies at Kester Nich during the said they Are they dont jumbled today a number give much of a Damn who wins of the men were evacuated with this War they just Hope it their gloves Frozen tight to their wont last much numbed j Richard of hous and there were plenty of Casu the old was up with his when radio Contact with the tanks failed and one was needed to blast a he ran out into the blazing jumped on top of a tank and directed it to a my nest in the four got through the original spearhead that broke through the town and didst Stop until it came to the other Side was led by Clyde of he got through with Only three of Elmer from and Earl who lived near Trivett assumed command of what was left of easy company the next easy had it the dirtiest of All the companies in the when they and the last two houses had been kinked out by the they had Only two officers and a few noncom left but their Job had been Little Aachen was More completely demolished than big top Eto Ace Hurt prepared daily bulletins pfc Bernard who escaped from Germany to join the army before Pearl acted As interpreter for Jacobs and his two Clifton of and Eugene of Price also translated stars and stripes stories into German and posted a daily report on the Community bulletin these people have been kicked around so Long that the terrific Wallop of the russian punch toward Berlin merely leaves them Price they know even beyond dreams of Hope that hitlers third Reich and anything else is an the town Burgmeister had the Only balanced personality in according to the mayor laughed gently when he speculated upon russian treatment of nazi party expects continued fight berlins fall will mean a great moral defeat to the the balding mayor but will not end the even if the americans Advance to the Rhine River and the russians extend i i their front to a North South line it1 a Tito running through the Ger an general staff we fight on Why because the German the stars and stripes Bureau new John a to ranking Eto though almost have no other recourse but to carry out nazi was injured 19 in Belgium i on the children too Young in an automobile it was for the nazi youth organizations stood solemnly watching gis walking toward there was no Learned Here Pilot of a Meyer was credited with destroying 24 planes in the air and 13 on the participating i Over 126 he was injured once Ponve ration Between doughs and there was just a knot of Shaw led and the kids who did not ask for chewing they help weave the fabric of Aerial assault on Japan new assignments bring three generals together on Saipan As Curtis Lemay left assumes command of Saipan xxi bomber relieving Haywood while Roger takes Over Lemars xxx bomber command Post to