European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 23, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Yank the army weekly 194s before the and when the russians say through by cavalry and motorized every place to move Back they have to fight to hold terrific they mean exactly they claim to single Large scale operation on the russian Ger what they have they cant afford to Retreat have stacked their artillery 500 guns to the kilo and they really work Over an a Battery of Katusha rocket mortars is said to cover one Square Kilometre in one destroying everything in that another russian claim is that their new Stalin tank carries a gun equivalent to that carried by a Light which can Knock out any German tank at Long the russians also say the germans have not yet developed either tank Armor or permanent fortifications that can stand up before the new soviet self propelled the principle of the soviet artillery offensive provides for constant artillery of infantry and from the beginning to the end of their soviet infantry advances no More than 100 Yards behind its artillery barrage Dur ing an at times they take losses from their own fire they estimate they incur fewer losses that Way than if they allow the enemy troops even a few minutes to get Back in their the russians make a special Point of Mobile they say their artillery often accompanies the infantry into an the russian method of attacking fortified cities employs Spe Cial Shock troops and Mobile artillery that methodically take a City Street by Street rather than shelling or bombing the hell out of it and then having to fight through the soviet attacks Are usually not concentrated in just one they Are made on wide fronts of from 300 to 500 says a colonel in red they Are made in several directions this prevents the enemy from concentrating his attention and compels him to spread his there is immediate exploitation of the break Man according to the cavalry Jour has been with the Aid of russian cavalry works in close cooperation with tanks and and even carries its own there is also very close support Between so Viet infantry and the russians do not go in for strategic bombing but concentrate on Low flying these planes stick As close As 30 feet to the with top cover supplied by other the russians say that their Sto Movik rocket firing attack plane is the Best there is for that Type of in years of the soviet air Force has claimed Over German of which 80 percent were claimed in air they say that four of the six German air fleets have been in continuous action on the Eastern All this Means that the red whose Homeland has been Laid waste by the most terrible devastation of our common is today the chief exponent of what is happen ing in the East today is pure and simple re tracing in reverse the German attempts in 1940 and marshal Stalin has stated publicly that the red army could not have accomplished this without Allied the russians have had that help and made Good use of it to accomplish their they have killed More but they have lost More men in killing than any other the russians mounted this offensive to get to As russian infantrymen moved through Poland they set up hand lettered signs where they the signs read this Way to Road to hitlers v j i by yank staff correspondents Western is what some Ameri can gis who have seen combat have to say about the phenomenal soviet advances on the Eastern front t5 Patti of an Tackack Man everybody is tickled Pink b the red it will take a lot off of its a Good anything to get the War Over faster t5 Salvino Juliana of a quartermaster truck Driver if the russian objective is it wont because the germans will fight much harder within Germany i dont think this drive will hit Berlin As i think its aimed More for where there fighting now in East Prussia and so much German Industry has been moved there from Western Germany since we started to bomb that what the russians Are trying to Knock but Treyve got some Tough fighting ahead of we had easy going and things looked Rosy until we reached the German once an offensive it takes time for the defensive army to it took us a Good two weeks to Reform the right Way after the germans hit us in the and then we shuffled them the germans May do the same thing to the rus but i dont think the germans will use the into Western t5 of a Salvage company electrician in not getting optimistic we thought after wed raced through France and hit the German Border that wed get to Berlin in a but we i figure the russians might get held up along the Way like we Germany is still Strong and there concentrating every thing they have which makes them still but i Hope in wrong on All Bob von Slyke of a ninth army infantryman the Way going is Bob Doty of a ninth air Force l5 courier plane Pilot this May Well be the closing phase of the War Over How you never know what the germans have the russian offensive is very Good for the morale of our own Oliver Kutscher of new of the 7th division i think the russians will go on this is their the germans weakened themselves by the bulge Bat i think the russians will beat us to Berlin and in not a Damn bit jealous about Early gargle of Kansas with a chemical warfare company id like to see the russians get to Berlin before we they know How to handle the americans and British would be too easy on the but the rus sians will give them the same dose they gave the russians three years the quicker the rus sians get into the quicker the germans will give because then  know them selves that Treyve had t4 Frank Mongier of new York an Ord Nance Man most of the Fellows in my outfit think the russians will reach but i dont think it will end the i think the germans will fight until they Are beaten to their Edward Fraun of with a chem ical warfare company i think there going right through to this is russian fighting cold and plenty of  beat us into Berlin Albert Rucki of a medic with the 2d armoured division i Hope they keep it there really giving us something to look Forward because if they keep going like they have we might be Home for the average i is showing a great interest in the soviet soldiers ask correspondents How the russians Are i optimism about a return to the which hit a new Low during the ardennes is rising and everybody is talking about the Dis charge Point which was almost an unheard of thing during the last nobody is griping because the russians look j i l will govt v Al Man they did in the from Poland and russians scorched Earth As they have no like Oddson favourites to beat us to flu motion War 205 fact 42d Mew Vork reproduction rights restricted As indicated in the entered As second class matter july at the Post office at new wider the act of March subscription Price s3 of printed in the a on the pole Vic come wan v 4o yanks in Germany stay excitement Over the of the russian red army men stand on the Turret of a new Stalin tank As it Fords a Over