European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 16, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                We Are allies at Tannenberg in East Prussia there once stood a Monument in Honor of Hindenburg defeat of the russian army in the first world there int any Monument any because the germans blew it and they blew it up because the red army was the russians arrived on this must have come As a great Surprise to believers in German that propaganda had planted doubts that russian heralded Winter offensive would be anything More than a routine military action on a Small certainly nothing Strong enough to affect the Power of von Rundstedt on the Western in fact this same propaganda voiced grave doubts As to whether relations Between Britain and the United states and Russia and the United states were Good enough to result in any military it seems that the chief German mistake is one of they have the term allies confused with another to a More popular Hitler never had to worry about arguments with his hitlers army and the armies of satellite Hungary and Rumania and Fin land and Italy didst fight a War of they fought a Blind directed by the Boss in Berlin who owned his allies As completely As his own with us it is and has been a Little Russia and England and China and the United states and the other countries who make up the United nations Are banded together by a common agreement which Al lows them to examine their differences instead of crushing them under a master this is what ally it Means that we govern our individual nations according to our individual ideas of what is the Best government that we Reserve the right to criticize ourselves and each other to a fascist nation where authority is everything we look occasionally like a pack of snarling a coalition so loosely held together that it can never constitute a threat to a common it also Means that this same Loose coalition can band together to wage a War unparalleled in it Means that the British and Amer who Berlin says cannot Are Able to make landings on a hostile and heavily fortified coast and to push Inland against what until the most efficient army in the it Means that rus with whom Berlin says no one can can launch an offensive on the opposite front from her allies with so much Power that the enemy must take shelter behind her precious it Means that these hopelessly disagreeing bundles of nationalities have Germany in a Vise that every pressure of one group of allies on one Side aids the allies on the other and that Germany is having her life squeezed out of her by a combination of people she said could never work As 1945 went into British and americans were fighting to eliminate von Rundstedt bulge in Berlin reported the Start of a russian offensive on on the the russians forced the Nida last water Barrier before the the next Fay they advanced 16 More Miles toward Krakow in Poland they were fighting on a 600mile front from East Prussia to the Carpathian on they outflanked on the they captured Warsaw and entered on the they took 200 More polish towns and crossed into German soil in Lodz in Poland was sewed up on by the the third army was overrunning Luxem and Tannenberg had fallen to the red on the the red army was continuing toward Poznan and Breslau on the Western von Rundstedt bulge had been ironed flyers had blasted fleeing German panzers and we were beginning to make a bulge of our by the russians had reached the Oder the russian offensive from the East didst automatically prick von Rundstedt Allied pressure from the West didst make the russian offensive a but each made the others Job a hell of a lot each was a part of a Type of cooperation Germany said we could never achieve and which she was never prepared to in the 1920s and 1930s there used to be a lot of talk about who won the last this while its fresh in our lets fix the fact Germany already knows from the scorched Fields of the Eastern front and broken buildings of the the United nations winning this remember that word because it explains How things Are done in a world of different in a nation of different races or a City of different there done the Way Germany thought they  be people and Peoples working together in spite of personal and National differences to accomplish world Aims bigger than any of those age commander Joseph stil former cd of the  has been appointed commander of the army ground Ben whom he succeeds in this has been named Deputy commander of the european theater of bomber commands Curtis Lemay has been named commanding general of the xxi bomber com Mand to succeed Haywood who is returning to the for an undisclosed Roger former chief of staff for the xxi bomber has been appointed cd of the xxx bomber command to succeed Lemay Western front american divisions announced As being on the Western front totalled 35 As of according to the yank Bureau in they Are unit citations citations in the name of the president have been awarded to the following organizations As evidence of deserved Honor and distinction 17th airborne 82d airborne 101st airborne 2d armoured 3d armoured 4th armoured 5th armoured 6th armoured 7th armoured 14th armoured 1st infantry 2d infantry 3d infantry 4th infantry 5th infantry 28th infantry 29th infantry 30th infantry 35th infantry 36th infantry 44th infantry 45th infantry 78th infantry 79th infantry 80th infantry 83d infantry 84th infantry 87th infantry 90th infantry 94th infantry 95th infantry 99th infantry 103d infantry 104th infantry 106th infantry 101st airborne Headquarters and head quarters company 501st Parachute infantry regiment 502d Parachute infantry regiment 506th Parachute infantry 377th Parachute Field artillery battalion 147th Engineer combat battalion 149th Engineer combat battalion 2d 120th infantry regiment company 120th infantry regiment 1st antitank com 120th infantry regiment 2d antitank com 120th infantry regiment 376th bombardment group 450th bombardment group h 2d 18th infantry regiment total casualties army casualties in All Heaters totalled As of it has been announced by the Secre tary of the dead numbered wound of whom have been returned to Navy department casualties Are now listed As letters to missing soldiers War department has warned the Public to cease writing letters through the red Cross to men who Are listed As missing in a Soldier listed As missing May have escaped or he May not yet have been picked the it pointed out that a letter written to such a Soldier would Only serve to inform the enemy that he is at Large in their the number of army and Navy enlisted men furloughed to work in critical industries has reached a Federal official the All of whom have special Are detailed to tire foundries and other War industries and May work at turning out military items the official who released the latest work fur Lough figures compared the present situation in Industry to that of when the nation was first moving into Large scale War pre dubbed shoes the quartermaster corps has arranged with shoe manufacturers to have All army service shoes and combat for both men and sprayed with Dubbin during the process of go shop talk a negro port battalion broke All French port records when it unloaded tons of Christmas mail and packages in five communications troops on the Western front Strung Miles of wire in the first five months after Day and Are still using Miles of wire a the army Hopes to Supply Pacific combat areas with ice Cream and fresh fruits and vege tables when a new Type of refrigerator Barge goes into the Barge turns out 10 Gallons of ice Cream every seven minute Sand produces five tons of ice overseas soldiers will get Shell eggs instead of powdered eggs if experimental shipments of eggs As no refrigerated cargo turn out test shipments to the Southwest Pacific were reported yank is published weekly by the enlisted men of the army and is for Sale Only to those in the armed pictures and other material from yank May be reproduced if they Are not 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