European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 8, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Lei on Perit free ii la Sil Vous Plait la Barb Seel Voo i wish to be thes drily arid one franc t Furj omm in Fawn one franc Man Speicht it notch 1st die autobahn betcha edit Dee outa Bohn Bedhead it is the driveway damaged volume number 64 new Yordi Vonparis february 194s the p f nazis Battle to Stem red drive towards Berlin tie conference record who where j Why Roosevelt Churchill desperately to Avert a russian break through on a 100mile Berlin de sense German High com Mand Todar threw heavy counter attacks against two red armies stabbing at the fortified approaches to the German capital after Span Ning the Oder River at a dozen scattered places on two 100 Miles on the Berlin marshal Gregory Zhukov 1st White rus Sian army reported by the germans to have Possession of seven Bridgehead Over the Oder 35 Miles East of fought off big enemy armoured counter blows North of Buestrin and Southwest of the official soviet command is still maintaining a news blackout on operations in the Berlin bulge but Moscow dispatches last night said that Zhukov troops had crossed the re ser and were advancing toward the approaches to enemy broadcasts have made it Plain for three Days that the River had been crossed in this area and admitted that the Points reached were within 30 Miles at in German marshal Ivan Konies 1st ukrainian army intensifying the three Darold drive from a 50fnlle wide Bridgehead on the West Bank of the wheeter North today to gain 50 inhabited August 1941 at sea Roosevelt Churchill Roosevelt Churchill Roosevelt Churchill december 1941 Washington draft Atlantic Chewer with 8point program to end aggrandizement by pledge to Allna self government and right to raw for enduring map global strategy pledge no separate outline Tion of United leaders discuss occupation of Germany secure peace problems prime minister Churchill and marshal Stalin Are meeting somewhere in the Black sea area and have reached Complete agreement on joint military operations in the final phase of the War against the second meeting of the big three was disclosed officially last night for the first time in announcements made in London accompanying the three leaders were their chiefs of staff and the secretaries of the United june i Washington 1942 i plan invasion of North january i Casablanca i decide to demand on 1043 i i conditional Roosevelt Churchill Churchill May 1943 Washington Churchill August 1943 Quebec plan intensified drive on map invasion of j name lord Mountbatten to Southeast Asia study global september a Washington i map closer cooperation 1943 with draft Board wont induct Farmers 7 selective ser vice director James said local Board in Rural Houston coun had resigned rather than induct 40 Young Farmers into the armed Johnson declared the Board had been granted too Many farm deferments and said a new Board had been Roosevelt Churchill Chiang Kaif Iciek nazi government May reorganize 7 organization of the German govern whereby Hitler would give up his title of fuehrer and presi Dent of the nazi retch with von Papen As Chancellor was reported imminent by Der which attributed information to rumours in Berlin which reached German circles the report had All the earmarks of a German trial balloon designed to sound out Allied reaction As to whether a revamped government would have any Chance to sue for armistice according to the Franz von Papen would be designated Chancellor and he Alonar Schacht economic and finance min 7 up Ger Many position is comparable to walking on a tight rope and a fall is possible at every Kurt principal spokesman of the German High said Only extreme Calm and Assur Ance of a sleepwalker can prevent our deadly roof Celt Churchill stain Roosevelt Churchill Inonu november 1943 Cairo plan to strip Japan of half Century pick Eisenhower As invasion 1943 Roo Sevcit Churchill december 1943 Tehran plan three Way mows to crush japs Shell Santo Tomas internees Cairo i discuss turkeys september Quebec i i plan disposition of Jfe ated i Pacific great Britain and the soviet and other announcement of the historic conference was followed by Dis closure in London that at least 10 and perhaps were killed on 1 when a plane carrying some members of prime Church ills staff crashed in route the meeting Churchill and who first met at Teheran in Iran in december of have begun discussions of the problems involved in establishing a secure it was announced that these discussions would cover joint plans for occupation and control of Ger political and economic prob lems of liberated and proposals for the earliest possible establishment of a permanent International organization to main Tain the three it was were meeting continuously to plan for completion of the defeat of the common enemy and for building with their allies the foundations of lasting in the military discussions which opened the the present situation on Alt the european fronts was there was a full sex of it was four armies open drive on 32mile front by Richard staff writer 7 american troops still were mopping up Japa Nese resistance inside Manila to while the enemy shelled the Santo Tomas and but ibid intern ment where thousands of Allied civilian internees and prison ers of War were sheltered after their i staffs of the three As the inside the City governments represented at the dug enemy troops from positions j meeting now Are working out the behind barricaded doors and from the american forces that sealed off roads leading to the Bataan Peninsula were probing South Ward along the coast in North Eastern yanks repulsed a a japanese counterattack Northeast of american bombers made their continued on Page 4 3rd army divisions launched a new attack on a 32mile front along the Luxembourg German Frontier Early today and drove into Germany i across the our and Sauer Frontier Rivers at seven Points Between the Northern tip of the duchy and the City of 1st army troops driving toward the Olef River defences of Western Germany met stubborn enemy resistance Between Schlei Den and to the North of these Siegfried line Hodges forces made slow Progress toward the Roer River dams South East of in the 3rd Cap were not amused7 the stars and stripes Rome Bureau 7a e cartoon in an was shatly criticised sunday by under the we Are not the cartoon bore a and showed a negro stars Aad of the e thousands or some to for the possible Pettiross Tfir Stottle be made dear in Italy Are of Are living to the cold Aud discomfort of the italian we being wounded and americans against the negro soldiers Are fighting fascism and nazism and for a peaceful do inf and dying to help liberate the rest of the negro not stranger to if the italians done have shoes its not because any Allied have is tured the Rhine town of neuf Brisach East of after using scaling ladders to climb Over its medieval Franco american forces were crushing the broken halves of the former col mar pocket the attack by patrons forces in Luxembourg erupted Early this enemy which was Light at stiffened during the Day As 3rd army doughs poured across the our and Sauer Rivers which form the German Luxembourg sixth armoured men forged a crossing four and Miles Northeast of Clerf in the Northern part of the slightly to the men of the itch airborne crossed the our due East of elements of the 80th kicking at crossed the our eight Miles Northwest of Echter Nach and the Sauer near Wallen Dorf after an hour and on half artillery on the Southern flank of the at 5th troops drove across the Sauer at three Points continued on Page 4 fifths attack 7 army in the strongest attack since last advanced 600 Yards towards two gothic Liae Strong holds in the against bit Ter enemy on the 8th army patrolling continued along the Senio heaviest attack thus far against the Corregidor one Hundred and eighty tons of bombs were Tokio radio reported that warships had been bombard ing Corregidor for two lend lease hearings 7 the House foreign affairs com Mittee today began secret hear Ings on Etc tensions of lend lease to Russia Aad prance As Well As the measure expires june there appeared Little doubt it will be but specifications of future assistance Are expected to come in or Sharp the roving reporter Ernie returns to world of War by Ernie Pyle Sam Francisco Here we go its been four months since i wrote my last column from in four months of non production a writer gets out of the habit he forgets the rhythm of Falls into the easy habit of not making himself think or feel in self sex this first column is a your mind automatically resents the task of focusing itself your thoughts Are scattered and you cant get them together to go on words come you have to think you curse the Day you Ever took up writing to make a until in once More immersed in the routine of daily writing and transported once More into the one track work of in afraid youll have to be tolerant with theres nothing Nice about the Prospect of going Back to War again gods gift to anybody who been in War and wants to go Back is a Plain Damn fool in my in certainly not going because continued Page 3