London Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 18, 1945, London, Middlesex German lesson Treen see 06 Treuten Zenup you Are dismissed new York London edition Iorito Ajuis Jiuu m the stars a Paris daily newspaper of armed forces s 5 in the european theater of operations i94s daily French lesson Queste que est que Ca Kess Kwh say Kuh a whats that Cracow fall to reds Snow wont hide gis nazis murdered remnant Jiri Tish Over gis Viel Salm anothe1 key defense Point on the Ler Froeter of German held Belgium Feu yesterday As 1st army troops entered 10 Miles East of Fth but there were indications that Piem marshal von Rundstedt had oiled a to his withdrawal in the already Cut Down to about 15 Miles at the deepest j patrols of the 75th division entered Foel Salm and found the germans had the dispatches said the germans were digging in along an arc running from above Bastogne in a northeastern direction toward Schoppen and that enemy sinks had been sighted for the first time to several to the mommies of the British 2nd army continued to drive toward the Roer River against Strong nazi oppose moving up through Mist which Cut visibility to about five the British made two Crossings of the Loode taking one Bridge and captured two towns West of the Reich ardennes Battles raged South of Ameri Canfield Che rain and contested on the northeastern As the yanks Back four Gennan meeting of the 1st and 3rd armies at Houff Alize gave them Complete control of the main roads out of that captured Highway Allied push against the German been slowed Down co Isider ably by the enemy which began on the Northern shoulder and gradually spread Over the entire lie vast majority of remd stents i forces vere apparently successfully withdrawn from the Western part of the salient under cover of that held up the Jia 7th army troops lopped a mite off each end of the six Niue North South German Bridgehead Lowthe Rhine near 11 Miles above the enemy Garrison ifs estimated to number sides were still fighting for the Jne town of Northwest but the doughboy had but on Quarter of the ruined funded pcs the first train of wounded soldiers in route Home from Ger a new Exchange of about of War arrived Here to greeted by red Cross Giris with food and the train boife1 about 200 a majority of them armless group of 350 germans being repatriated from America arrived a Geneva last forbidden to talk to the repatriate to were told reports May upset the Apple British near Mandalay i Asia 17 a British troops were 20 Miles of Mandalay after Advance of Miles South along the in River these pictures were made at five where More than 50 bodies of american soldiers were found buried in the they were slaughtered by the nazis on 17 after being taken prisoner in the Rundstedt nazi prisoners Are led past the spot where the bodies were i comrades Brush the Snow from the dead after having dug them japs Battle for Manila Formosa hit while super forts and Carrier planes struck again at Formosa and enemy held China coast indications last night were that the americans on Luzon were fighting their fiercest Battle since they landed last though Douglas Macarthur 24 hours behind reported Only that a japanese counter attack had been repulsed sunday correspondents on Luzon said the yanks were now engaged in violent Ger Man and japanese broadcasts made the same stiffening resistance was reported on the left flank of the lingayen Gulf where the japs were believed trying to regain control of the Road linking to the and to the United press reported heavy fighting half a mile East of on the coast North of the 6th army doughboy pushed toward on the Road to meeting Little farthest reported Advance was 36 Miles j 20th air head quarters in Washington announced that Chi abased b29s raided off the South China in Daylight yesterday for the third time in eight at Pearl Chester Pacific naval said Carrier planes of William Halsey 3rd Fleet hit Jap held ports on the China coast again on monday and Hon Kong and Formosa were the main an unofficial score of operations continued on Page 4 Captain killed in lingayen invasion 17 rear Admiral Theodore Chandler and Robert a battleship were killed in action during the invasion of lingayen in the the Navy announced 50yearold native of Ainapo was last previously reported com Mander of a Cruiser a Silver Star turns Gold gi9hero of Ett in action on Leyte 32nd 17 Herman born hero of the Southwest who enlisted in the array yifter Pearl Harbor and subsequently Home a citizen by special act of con is in order to accept a Battlefield com in new was Kilko in i 31 on onal making the announce As the eyes and ears of mortally by enemy mortar fire on a Hill King Northwest coast while a Small reconnaissance try 300 the Neva Guinea where from staff sergeant to the 35yearold Boettcher in Leyte almost behind the enemy harassing the japs and gathering vital he sometimes removed enemy Bridges piece by piece and hid them in the Jungle for later american in the Buna two years Boettcher won the his other decorations included the Oakleaf Cluster to the dec and the purple heart with two he was credited with having killed scores of he has been recommended for a posthumous Silver during the a tape Campaign in new when the 32nd division killed Boettcher and his outfit operated for More than six weeks deep in enemy Boetlcher fought As a major with the Abraham Lincoln brigade on the Republican Side in the Spanish civil Advance to 15 Miles 3rd drive in North the first european capital captured by Adolf hitlers armies in their drive to conquer the fell last night to the capture the polish described by marshal Stalin As the strategic Strong Point in the enemy defences on the River was announced by the soviet Premier in an order of the Day to marshal commander of the first White russian later it was announced by Edward prime minister of the provisional polish government in which first reported Warsaw s f that Poland second he carried on left not Luzon 17 a survivor of tie american Garrison on Bataan walked into Douglas Vla Arthurs Headquarters saluted and reported he had brought an army of armed guerrillas who had killed japs in nine his name is Robert when the americans were making heir final desperate stand on Luzon in Lapham left the Bataan Peninsula with orders to get behind the Lap lines and organize guerrilla for the next three years he headed a great guerrilla army on Luzon and managed to keep in constant touch with the shortly before Macarthur s lingayen Gulf Lapham got emergency orders to mobilize his entire Force and kill As Many japs As besides killing the Lap hams men wrecked two trains and today he told Macarthur he had an army of but Only half of them were for demands total offence 17 Newing his demand for National service president Roosevelt told con Gress today that it is vital that the total of tense should not be the president made his wishes known in a letter accompanied by a letter from leading army and Navy officials declaring that losses by the army in the past two months have taxed the replacement system to the breaking Roosevelt declared that the need for National service legislation had it creased in the past two and called for action without letters from George chief of and Ernest commander chief of the said there was urgent necessity for vigorous replacements for the army and to provide the necessary manpower to increase production of critical items of to accelerate ship construction and to effect the rapid repair of damaged norwegian troops train in Sweden 17 can transport planes Are flying norwegian trained in to Northern Norway via swedes officially announced so a Small has been trans ported to it was stated in connection with a London announcement that equipped and trained in were now fighting in their Home it is understood that piloted by american Crews were escorted on the last leg of the trip by russian ten brought Here for the american courier were used in ferrying the heavies Pound nazi Oil industries striking into the same general area in Northwest where fighters and bomber gunners made record kills on the Jackin thebon Luftwaffe Over 700 heavy bombers of the 8th air Force rocked the nazi Oil Industry and boat works yesterday and blasted several transportation an escort of 350 thunderbolts and Mustangs went along with the fortresses and but this time there were no enemy planes to offer was ten bombers and five fighters failed to the heavies selected Hamburg As the northernmost target and plastered an Oil refinery Oil stores and boat installations in the Well battered German just South of at the Oil a select took a Handy bombing was visual in this let go at railway Yards approximately 150 Miles South of the bombers swung in Over Paderborn and let at railway mar shalling Clouds necessitating the use of several other undisclosed transportation targets were also some of the fighters roared in Over rail Way lines in the area of close to the dutch Border and came Home with a score of three 24 freight five switching towers and a factory shot the Stohs operations followed a night during which Over planes of the Raf flew deep into nazi territory to Pound Oil airfields and railway farthest penetration was to where 200 Lan casters hit a Large Oil Plant for the first the target previously having been one hit regularly by the 15th air Force from Raf lost 28 planes in the that bad been taken by one of marshal Konies first ukrainian army Spear 15 Miles from the German Border and the last important town be tween marshal Konies 1st ukrainian army and also was marshal Stalin announced in a third order of the Day late last Czestochowa is on the main Railroad Between Warsaw and in a second order of the addressed to marshal Stalin announced the third great red army drive of the russian Winter during it was claimed by Moscow the German array will be this new assault by the second White russian army under Rokos Sovsky was launched from two Bridgehead Over the Nares on and in four Days of fighting advanced 25 widened their breach in the nazi lines to 62 and captured More than 500 Cut Warsaw railway to Kossovsky which Cut the main Warsaw Danzig railway North of the was reported to have penetrated to within 11 Miles of the important town of 38 Miles from this attack provided one Arm of the pincer movement around Warsaw with marshal Zhukov pushing toward the capital from the providing the Zhukov troops struck West of War saw to capture 23 Miles to the and then moved North to Cut the Road to Sochaczek thus trapping the German the first polish was across the Vistula in Faga when the trap was the russian and polish troops moved in on Berlin admitted the loss of Warsaw two hours after Stalin had announced its Cap Ture and Ernst von nazi military claimed that the City had been evacuated according to which had been in German hands since was the fourth capital to fall to the russians in six months and they hold most of the announcement of the third red army offensive meant that the russians were striking on an almost continuous front continued on Page 4 i Nan wars a
