European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 23, 1950, Darmstadt, Hesse Page a the stars and stripes thursday february 23, 195o Stone Bridge at Enz sends 4th through by James canno stars and stripes staff writer with 80th div Germany the 4th army div was Able to make its sensational breakthrough because at the capture intact of a Stone Bridge Over the Enz River at an attack the germans wired the Bridge for demolition but constant time fire by 80th inf div arty kept them in their the Enz Span the tankers reached the Banks of the Prum Ather Wesdorf before the germans knew the fourth was again on the Loose. At Hermesdorf another Bridge was seized before the enemy could wreck it. However the Prum was forded because the Span was too frail for armo behind the tankers came the 80th loot soldiers cleaning out pockets of confused is an old partnership Between the 4th army and the 80th inf. They worked As a team at Chalons and along the Moselle. It was like old times tankers said. To the doughs. Both were re minded of Normandy when it was warm and the Relief of Bastogne when it was cold. March 2commands 1st tac maj Gen Robert m. Webster has been named commander of the 1st tac at it was announced at sheaf yesterday. Goebbels Home town lies silent after Battle by Bud Button stars Munchin Gladbach March 2 delayed there in t a sound in the streets where Joseph Goebbels spent a loud mouthed boyhood and grew up hating even Lihe kids wit whom he went to school. In the biggest German City yet captured on the West front the silence is worse than the noise the shells made yesterday. Is worse because there Are people Here and there ought to be at least the noises people make in living especially in the town where Joseph Goebbels grew up there ought to be noise but there in t the sound of the fighting is gone. The weary Muddy doughs of the 29th inf div have killed or captured the last German who would fight. Up from the caves later in the Daylight the trucks will begin to rumble up the broken cobbles of the streets Maui Imp the material which has been flooding across the Cologne Plain. The men of the 115th and 116th and the 175th and All the rest with Tine Blue and Gray patches will go out into the Street and look at what they be conquered. Down in Tine Candle lighted caves and cellars the 15,000 to 20,000 per sons who have hidden from the fighting win listen and they won t hear any More of the fighting sounds so they la come out into the Street Sand pick Way through the rubble and the broken bricks and five ii smack stands in Duren ruins and stripes staff writer twisted steel to Fiat Adolf Hitler and Joseph Goebbels gave them. A Day yesterday the dough slugged northward through the Caty in a drizzling rain. They came into Heydt which is the Southern part of the City fought up hours Wesse Strasse against Little clumps of nazi die hards and Early quitting vol Sturm. Eight years ago Munchen glad Bach became Gladbach Heydt be cause the interval Between suburb and City had been built up an the people who worked in the textile Mills the Iron foundries ant the Railroad Yards of the Combine Carea made it � larger City than Aachen which was the largest town the yanks had taken before this one. The doughs fought through Heydt and Only a couple of them knew As they went along that this waste place where a woman named Olenhausen from up near the dutch Border and a Man named Goebbels spawned a scrawny mean mouthed thing which was to group to be the voice of everything these doughs were fighting. Chutis saved in Germany by a Star and stripes staff writer with 104th inf div March 5 a great Many Allied airmen have bailed out Over enemy territory i Europe during this War to be rescued later by advancing Allied troops but the first to be rescued from within Germany itself was picked up yesterday by Jerryallen s Doug feet pushing toward has identified himself As an Craf flight sergeant his Story still being checked by Allied authorities was that he bailed out when his Halifax was shot Down Over the Rhineland in november. He landed in a Field and hid in Haystack for several Days. Finally he stated he decided to turn him self Over to some nearby labourers. Flees from German the Young Canadian Saki they agreed to hide and feed him but were finally forced to evacuate their farmhouse As the German military authorities cleared civilians from the path of the Allied assault. His friends the Young Man continued did not abandon him but hid him on the Bottom of a farm cart heaped High with equipment and household belongings during the move East. Enveloped finally by the 104th div Advance the Young Man and his friends were moved to the . his Story has been checked the sergeant is being routed through regular pm channels. He has changed from civilian clothes to his Caf blues which he said he had been saving for the Day of his release. Army names divisions in offensive on Rhine with 9th army March 2 is As the 9th army struck East to the Rhine and North to Ward the canadians the follow ing units were released As hav ing participated in the whirl wind offensive the 23th and 30th inf dive and 3d army div operating with the Xix corps the 84th and 102d inf dive and the 5th army div under control of the Xin corps the 35th inf div and the St army div working with the Xvi corps. Shells water Cut off 60 gis on attack continued from Page 6 Scabery of Cantril Iowa said. By noon they d rebuilt and rebuilt the foot Bridge. The battalion would figure out one thing and it was no Good so they d try something else. By All the rules of the Book they should have been stuck but there were 60 men Over there. They had no support they did t even have enough rifles. Lots of rifles had gone into the chill Roer when assault boats overturned and the few who could make h swim Ming got there that Way and the rest disappeared in the smoke. But the battalion would t quit. Two men came Back from the 60,bringing five prisoners because in formation was needed. They wer Carpiaux and Scabery. They said we Haven t got any communication or food and not much ammo. But Well stick All right we re go ahead Beckley leaned Forward in the Smoky air of the up and said godhead. And Well keep trying to get the battalion someone talked Over the phone to regiment and they said so and so was on its objective and the out it s two units up the line were inthe big town. The up was quiet a minute and everybody was pm ctr no the precise situation maps up and Down the Roer showing neat grease Pencil Marks that told How the big push was going eastward into the Reich. Then they went Back to getting help to the 60. Sex German tips yanks on flood with . Forces Germany feb. 28 a a Young american lieutenant who swam in the Ruhr As a boy gave the Allied High com Mand its first tip that the germans planned to unleash flood Waters on the advancing yanks. He is it Ernest Kaufman of Philadelphia a native of Germany. He obtained permission to search Power company officers in Aachen where he found detailed plans forthe flooding of the entire Ruhr Valley. Roer assault awaited in Good humor cont Nueil from Page 6 All kinds of food that we Haven the ack ack guns opened up Sud Denly loudly just As they had been doing off and on All night Long. Occasionally you could hear the irregular unmistakable hum of a Jerry plane somewhere close. They All pretended they did t notice it. In the conversation Lull pfc Thomas Halloran of Cleveland said wistfully i wish i had some More of those that Day Hal Loran had received a package of Candy and cookies which was promptly split up among the whole squad As always. Why Don t you Chew on those bedroom slippers Bentler said and everybody got hysterical again. Halloran had asked for the bed room slippers when he was stationed in London and they had just arrived. I Don t know what the hell to do with them said Halloran. Several of the boys suggested where he could stick them then Harding walked in sgt Herbert Harding of Washington d.c., was in charge of the squad two years ago and had been with it Ever since. He was busted to private before coming overseas and he was the first squad Man hit suffering shrapnel wounds in both legs and a bad came Back Only a week ago and they made him sergeant and put him in charge of the same equal again. He s 39 years old. Wraps taken off 15th army at rite 12th army up he March 9 is presence on the continent of the 15th u. S. Army was revealed Here today Art ceremonies in which Gen Alphonse juin French chief of staff presented the legion of Honor a its commander it Gen Leonardt. Lexow and seven other Amer ican generals for operations for the liberation of there was no indication of the 15th army s exact location of it immediate task or whether k has been in action but the announce ment of its presence came Appro-1priately an a time when the Tat army has elements securely across the Rhine and the 9th and 3d armies have reached the River. It came too exactly one month after the beginning of the coordinated Offen Sives which have Cost the germans 94,000 men in prisoners alone roughly Ttoe equivalent of an Armand a half combat medic badge Washington March 2 a special badge will be awarded to combat medics. Secretary of War Henry l. Stimson said today the badge was authorized after Man persons including combat infantry men had suggested that front line medics were entitled to recognition. Nut House taken in film land style after the bitter fighting that shattered the town of Duren the Satoe of Bismarck was one of the few things still standing. Daren captured by the 1st army feb. �5, 1945, was an important Road Center controlling the Highway to Cologne. Daren was taken Only too Days after the launching of the offensive toward the Rhine. Signal corps photo continued from Page 7 houses on the Way or the div arty would have gotten ahead of us. So we just ran by and riddled them As we pfc Carlus Dickey of Lancaster Ohio remembered that Gallop Well. We must have double timed 500 Yards straight he said. Heh fat Given Bruce of cutoff la., corrected. It was nearer 5,000." they compromised on 1,000, which was the division up estimate. When we broke into the Campus we could see a lady disappearing Down the other Side of the Hill pushing a baby Carriage t sgt Paul j. Gropp of Rochester said. There was Cognac and food on the tables. Some candles were still burning 1 yes adde pfc Elmer b. Owen of Mickleton a j. And we found women s dresses stockings and panties lying pvt Albert Stella of Kenosha wis., said they could t imagine what the nazis would be doing with the institution had been cleared of inmates some time previously Bower said and was currently being used for an of and Aid station. The women s clo thes Are not hard to capture of the Asylum was completed at 1453, in what Bower described As the Best in Hollywood style. I stood next to a Bathtub Ina latrine and called the colonel he Seld. I asked Bina to look at his watch. I be got 1453, and we be got the Booby Hatch i told him. What time have you got the watches checked. It was seven minutes before the deadline. As far As 1st sgt Willard Hamer son of St. Louis could Tell the worst casualty in k co was Kansas pfc Glenn l. Lytle whose Field jacket was torn by a mortar Shell. The outfit Elso survived an hour and a half of Jerry artillery fire and a night counterattack without casualty. After holding out Lor nearly 24 hours against enemy on three sides of them they began to relax and enjoy their hard earned quarters. Then the medics moved co k is feeling its Way around the rubbish in the cellar
