European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 15, 1945, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pak1s euii10n Speicht Dett sch to a Banhof to isl Der Bah Hohf where is the station 231 tripes Lei on Parle Francais Ellevy Al see she devotes herself to m the Lewiw Titi theater of opera troop 1 March 1945 leathernecks leave their trademark on iwo East Bank forces capture imperil Highway by Dan Regan Sura and stripes staff writer with first March Hodges first army forces today expanded their hold on the East Bank of the Rhine to less than one mile and a half from the six Lane Cologn Frankfurt superhighway parallel to the running northward to the Ruhr against opposition which consisted mostly of artillery and self propelled Hodges reds overrun line in berlins outer defences infantrymen Tough into the outskirts of four Miles East of cleared Kathe Rinen and Are now advancing along the North South secondary Road paralleling the striking northwards along the the Bridgehead forces cleared biggest prize yet taken East or the and pushed toward on the Southern perimeter of the which now measures ten and a half Miles along the Rhine and five Miles dough boys advanced n e a r i a mile across Tough yesterday the germans made 47 raids Over the Bridgehead with 99 but first army anti Moscow dispatches said yesterday that marshal Gregory Zhukov red army forces had overrun one of the main German lines in the outer defences of while other soviet troops kept up assaults against Danzig and the after reporting i the opening of a russian offensive a South of soviet held Kustyn in the aircraft batteries knocked Down 28 direction of indicated that j and scored nine As to fighting on the West Bank of the j d Between 1 and 19 planes came of which one was destroyed it was disclosed tonight Chat the Pontoon built to augment the Ludendorff rail was 989 feet Long and was Puc up of two battalions of engineers there have been several artillery hits on the Oder River was still in the stage of expanding one German commentator said the present Lull on the Oder front iwo marines Seal off japs March 14 us Marine corps divisions slug ged it out with the surviving japanese on iwo Jima today after sealing off 115 japanese Cave positions and seizing two rocks jut Ting out of the sea off the the designated in a communique As Kama and Kan were occupied without Pupp the japanese previously had used them As mortar Kama is Yards off iwo West Central Side and Kantoku is Yards off the Northwest end the japanese troops occupying caves and pillboxes on rugged Kitano the Northern tip of still were resisting stubbornly with machine gun and mor Holland top commander of marines in the Pacific was standing on a Rocs watch ins a fight below when a japanese took a Potshot at the Smith said the Bullet missed him by Only a few Paris movie houses Are closed by strike a general strike of French motion picture Ushers and other employees closed movie houses in Paris yesterday and spread throughout France Allied troops Heaters will remain the movie supported d film technicians and is asking a 40 percent wage increase rats new 11ton heaviest rocks Reich Eleventon the heaviest yet were hurled by the Raf yesterday against railway targets in Northern the new Missone As an earthquake great Power of penetration with explosive it is pounds heavier than the Type of bomb which Sank the fliers yesterday reported that nears Mei Imark March 14 already the great est Ocean Power in expects to pass personnel strength of of within a few this was disclosed today in presi Dent Roosevelt request that con Gress appropriate to run the Navy during the fiscal year beginning july the appropriation will bring the Navy proper to the authorized strength of plus in the Marine corps and in the coast tie total was As of Learned the hard Way March 14 Germany defense of Berlin will be based on lessons Learned from russian defense of according to the Ger Man Tran Ocean news organization of defences is in the hands of a general who got firsthand information on the problem w h 2 n Panzer forces under his command were Defeated in the suburbs of the russian the Agency the defense will consist of an organized ring of defensive positions which will increase in Jii Eia r effect dwarfed the explosions the 12000pound which also were used in today also sweeping across Northern eighth of heavies yesterday attacked armoured vehicle plants at Oil refineries at Mosburg and a Large castings Plant at holes Heim boat Jens at the dutch port of in Maiden and railway Yards and Bridges on main routes from the approximately 650 fighters escorted the the Luftwaffe was caught on the ground at several Fields East of Coblenz by ninth of fighter bombers which destroyed 55 planes and damaged 77 planes were three a Lobito 11 Ian first tap flew More than 600 sorties against transport targets and destroyed 13 locomotives and damaged one Bridge was destroyed and two others a Tunnel also was damaged and numerous rail cuts were gels Pacific Pearl March 14 William w of Washington has assumed command of the Pacific Fleet service Force of 700 ships relieving William is a Lull before a great marshal Stalin announced last night that the soviets second ukrainian army had captured the railway Center of m Slovakia about 75 Miles North is after dislodging German forces from positions m the Carpathian mountains As marshal Zhukov Northern Wing maintained heavy pressure on the germans reported that marshal Konstantin Rokos Sovsky had thrown Large forces against the nazi defense zone around Danzig and with the strongest As Sault being made West of the germans said a hair continued on Page s Railroad but engineers declared that none was serious Ana it now is in better condition than it was when counterattacks thus far threat to salient was reported at shape that up Jaq the seventh Day of the germans have not thrown counterattacks at the Salien Strong enough to it counterattacks thus far have been defensive and no indication has yet been reported of an enemy Hodges now forces 5f the Rhine to Deal with heavy in the absence of any sustained Effort w Tow Ger mans to Mash the Post Rev men Are continuing to gain Over rugged ground which fends itself to nazi defensive largest if the German counter attacks was made near at the end of the Ond behead about 250 enemy infantry stormed positions made slight penetrations and were driven Back after three hours of other attacks came in the Tiar continued on Page s overseas at or Howzw plan for dissatisfied poles March 14 ceding that some poles might be extremely unhappy idea Poland envisioned at the Yalta prime minister Chur chill said today the dominions now were being consulted about a plan to offer dissatisfied Poss British citizenship As their final relied for con oat army know pfc is if the one year i who was