London Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 16, 1945, London, Middlesex Doily German lesson Aba Ehlen upts Ylen count off new York London edition Paris daily newspaper of armed forces 5 in the european theater of operations 1945 daily French lesson of Habi Tevous 00 Abee Tay Voo where do you live Timson says nazi breakthrough Cost a eds Roll toward Reich Border haul thanks near yith As 3rd join bulletin losses die area of the German breakthrough id ardennes totalled nearly Secretary of the casualty figures include and covered the period Sveom 15 to in the same germans were German dead and winded were estimated at casualties for the same period the entire West embracing the 7th and 9th totalled of whom were the rest nits of 2nd armoured striking from the within h Miles of the German Road Hub of Houff Alize last t As the Battle in the ing to associated once became an ail american show the converging drives of the and 3rd which have now up at an undisclosed Point along Southern flank of the belgian was the first Union of the troops Courtney 1st army and George 3rd army since the Ger breakthrough in h troops had previously linked up patrons men Southeast of the 2nds tanks churned ahead toward Houff Alize from armoured division troops battled Back six Miles after g lost the town in a sunday night germans were fighting hard to t the shoulders of their but americans advanced More than half e against stiff resistance in their South from the about 20 Miles Northeast of Antr men of the 30th division de five Miles below Mal and pushed on to capture Lineu similes from in the West of the deflated bulge Nen Al Antish units were reported to have cd the Ourthe River at several after mopping up Small groups United press phrased the British in Clearing the salient now seemed its end As troops took Over More More of the Battle dispatches blew then cold on r the germans were pulling out continued on Page 4 ice Freddy hied in action George who led All five 8th Force pilots in the number azi planes shot was killed in q Christmas 8th Alf Force quarters disclosed tie 25yearold Stang Pilot was downed by flak while sing an fw190 after having dived into their Over i in t k George a Reilly of dogfight Southwest of Coblenz to Down two German the of kills shot his score up to he had destroyed five More be Day was on a patrol flight with of West Palm i they spotted the raging dogfight and it up with the Luftwaffe m ensuing Tackack spat from a 1 tearing Freddys plane apart sending it Down in who was a Squadron Comman the 352nd fighter shared or Bleday scoring record for fighter i with William also they each downed hands across the in Victory warmth Keystone photo British and american under Field marshal Montgomery meet in important town in the Northern half of the ardennes americans entered the town from one the British from the they Rush toward one another with outstretched yanks across River on Luzon Jap Cabinet shakeup hinted while Tokyo reported yesterday that 200 Carrie planes struck off the South China for the second successive american 6th army forces continued to push Forward and flank Ward from their lingayen Gulf beachhead on in the Tokyo said the Formosa raid lasted hours and presumably was part of the an american Campaign to prevent japs from bringing reinforcements for their Luzon though Washington officials repeated their warnings against saying heavy fighting Lay the yanks on Luzon were safely past the Agno 91 air Miles from Manila and the first natural Barrier at which the japs might have made a determined the americans fan Ning right and left from the beachhead lengthened to 45 Miles the stretch of coastline under control of Douglas Mac Arthur and Walter 6th army on the port a fairly Good ship was captured after a Short but Sharp on the the yanks took the important rail and Highway Junction of sealing off the Road running North to the Bengue mountains and the City of prewar summer capital of the Philippines and believed to be the seat of the japanese occupational on japans Domestic political Premier Kuniski Koise was still holding emergency strategy con which began James Veteran far Eastern correspondent for associated predicted in a Washington dispatch that a Tokyo Cabinet upheaval was White claimed no japanese Cabinet could withstand the eventual loss of the Philip adding that the feeling in washing ton was that the next government pro Bably would include More business pointing toward possible peace and efforts to save part of japans Industrial possible enemy confirmation of Whites prediction was contained in a Tokyo radio broadcast which said that younger members of the diet expressed the View that Radical changes in the government should be carried report Early Exchange of captive casualties Swiss radio announced yesterday that an Exchange of wounded and British Soldier prisoners for German captive casualties willbe carried out this with Swiss railways transporting the men Between the Swiss German Border and s and s gets a hand As the gis Bible new 15 new York Herald Tribune in a Story today on combat veterans Home on leave said they were surprisingly Well informed about happenings in the the stars and stripes is their and they explained with some Pride that even in the most areas it was always sent up with their except when they were attack Lifesaver Basic again for Luzon gis 15 platoon of one american division except those in action in the front has been ordered to go through a re fresher course because three men were killed and 25 wounded in a recent japanese the com Mander thinks it was because they were Rusty in our boys got 82 Jap soldiers and one the general but we have had a single one of the three dead was a company its not really their he they had eleven month san the Jungle before they came the rain and Forest were so thick they had to walk standing it was completely different from open you even so the Security was nothing like even after the fighting was Over we didst have enough open space to do Field training for open on top of he Treyve been on this Island for five Days without hitting any so they May have been a Little they wont like of but every platoon not actually in the front line will go through a refresher goalless Paris retires Early by Ernest Leiser stars and stripes staff writer Paree not not for some time to there closing Down the night clubs and cabarets in the Paris turning Oil the lights in the store windows and closing All shops except groceries and pharmacies at five in the Supply of electric Power for Domestic and commercial and Small Trade use will be Cut off Between am and 5 and tomorrow All passenger steam trains in France will be the moves have been made by the French government in an attempt to re Lieve the Coal shortage and the bans will be lifted As soon As sufficient Coal is Avail under present cafes and bars will be allowed to remain Allied service clubs will stay Paris utilities said yesterday that at present their plans to shut off electric Power during the Day would include lights used in All Headquarters and Mili tary with the exception of com z 675 bombers hit nazi rails Raf hits Oil after its damaging raids on German Industrial targets showed Oil refineries and depots pockmarked with solid 8th air Force switched Back to straight tactical operations yesterday when Over 600heavy bombers thundered through heavy flak to Hammer four Railroad Yards in Southern at least 675 thunderbolts and mus tangs swarmed around the fortresses and liberators As but the Luftwaffe offered no six More kills Hap says coordination beats air support9 15 Henry head of the suggested today that All air forces personnel hereafter use some phrase other than air support for operations in which planes serve As spearheads in Advance of ground describing air support As an in accurate Arnold proposed air co ordination would be More scored by fighters sunday were re corded yesterday to boost their record to 155 and make it 189 nazi planes destroyed in the air and on the ground by 8th fighters and bomber the 8th lost 19 bombers and 12 targets yesterday were Yards at Ingold Stadt and North and Northwest of at South of and at South of the Raf also was out yesterday As Lancaster continued their assault against German Oil hitting two Benzyl plants in the the ital based 15th air Force ended a seven Day Lull by dispatching 500 heavies to bomb communications near Vienna and North of the general lived at Dawn 15 Ber Nard commander of new zealand troops in got a belated Christmas gift Early 26 when a German air through his up bounced Over a Wall and rolled to within a few Yards of where he was report nazis strip Silesia under peril the great russian Winter offensive smashed Forward along a 600mile front stretching from East Prussia to Czechoslovakia last night As the Ger mans rushed men and tanks ii Ito the Battle in an Effort to bolster their sagging according to a German broadcast there was Only one quiet sector on the Eastern front last night and Strong soviet forces were concentrated there ready to the offensive along most of the line was a series of hammering attacks aimed at breaking through German fixed Posi but in the Cracow area marshal Ivan Konies first ukrainian army had achieved a solid breakthrough with forces estimated by Berlin at 40 divisions and Ernst von German news Agency admitted that in this area russian tanks had reached 25 Miles Northeast of Cracow and 63 Miles from the German other elements of Konies army were reported within artillery Range of at the Northern end of the 50milewide spearhead aimed toward the Rich Iron and arms producing Region of one report said that the unable to rally their forces for a deter mined stand in the face of Konies were falling Back to a defense line running from almost on the German to 42 Miles to the North and 65 Mes West of the main objective of to hives drive was not he could Southwest to join the assault on head straight ahead toward the Industrial area of or swing Northwest toward the rear of the German forces around it was that the Ger mans were stripping their War factories in diversionary attacks were made yester Day in this area around the Ger mans debits of is 65 Miles East of Cracow on the main South of Warsaw another major Offen Sive was developing from the soviet Bridgehead at in this the germans claimed the soviet com continued in Page 4 widow wears heros medal saved to lose it con Gressional medal of Honor has been awarded posthumously to Leon who became a pre invasion hero with the 491st bomb group of the 8th air the War department announced Vance was lost in an army evacuation plane Between Iceland and Newfoundland last the medal will go to his Georgette Drury of Garden Vance was command Pilot of a Liberator on a Mission to before flak knocked out three of the planes killed the injured several Crew members and Cut Vances leg so deeply it Hung Only by the As the plane staggered toward it pulled up toward a Vance dragged himself up beside the Copilot and took prevented by his wound from climbing into the pilots Vance Lay on the floor and looked out of the Side cockpit window for visual a 500 Pound bomb which had failed to Clear the bomb Bay added the Vance succeeded in set Ting the bomber Down in the the plane blasting him Clear of the sinking he inflated his Liebelt and was picked up 50 minutes
