London Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 19, 1945, London, Middlesex New York London edition daily newspaper of armed forces 5 Paris in the tropes european theater of operations 1943 daily French lesson voyage grate tement Juh Way a Gra Sweetmon i travel free shells hit German soil army signal corps photo trap is removed by Coni from an abandoned tank near was painted with White stars make it resemble american us army signal Corpt photo anything May be and pfc Ralph checks new German is Graves with a Mie Detector at Fuff i yanks push for Wiltz to Cut bulge troops of the 3rd army 4th and 5th infantry divisions threshed across the sure River in the die Kirch area at 4 am yesterday morning through hails of mortar and machine gun fire in an attack described in Dis patches As designed to unhinged the germans bastion at to the die Kirch is 15 Miles North of Luxem Burg City and about the same distance from Southern Anchor of the nazi bulge line which runs in an irregular arc Northeast to this chief Road Hub left to the German invaders of was threatened by american forces buffeting toward it from both West and late reports said doughboy were within Miles of enemy resistance in the ardennes had been greatly stiffened after the German halted along the Ridge line from Vith to troops were fighting at five Miles Northwest of Vith below Faymonville and and around on the German Artil Lery had been stepped up As while the 4th and 5th divisions troops were crossing the farther West dough boys of the 90th division threw Back six nazi counterattacks at six Miles East of the nazis Tost 19 in the Maas Roer in the dutch Panhandle Between Belgium and British 2nd army forces Cap tured four towns in chalking up a 2imile gain in one i German news Agency admitted that British tanks had broken nazi defences in this Roer hitting Back against 7th army forces which had sliced a mile off each end of the germans Gemsheim Bridge head North of in Alsace the nazis struck out three Miles to the extending their hold along the Rhine in this sector to nine Miles and capturing three villages about eight Miles East of i though the enemy made no gains in the Bitch his artillery fire was an estimated rounds fell on a Village West of of Hatten was still in nazi hands As the Battle for the Maginot line town went German radio claimed that British troops had landed from torpedo Craft on Schouwe above North Beveland in the Scheldt Estuary but that nost of them had been wiped storm Heads West Czecho Slovakia Powys act Miles 50 areas liberated in russians in Day offensive soviet surging across the polish were reported unofficially last night to have penetrated the German Frontier at two one aimed at the Rich silesian the other at cutting off Prussia along the Potish silesian 4rulir nazi Arsenal signal corps photo Mph Ward army canteen which t and Boob trapped in an aban 1 German tank near of Ive heard sri 18 a Holly decorated Christmas Ted with a prayer for fair Battle was sent Christmas George Patton to All men on one Side was a Iron yer read almighty and most we humbly beseech thee great goodness to restrain these Rains with which we have to Prant us fair weather for in marked to us As soldiers who thee armed with thy May Advance to Victory and oppression and wickedness of Njeri and establish thy Justice and is Mas Day there have been spells of excellent weather army soldiers hanged 18 soldiers have been hanged in for the other for first execution was at on a aft the second at both sentences were and confirmed by Eisen soldiers names were not to t i yanks sever Manila Road two american spearheads on Luzon last night were reported within 18 Miles of important a provincial capital and Road Junction 70 Miles North of while on the left flank of the lingayen Gulf beachhead 6th army doughboy were still battling against a Well entrenched while unconfirmed reports reaching Macarthur Headquarters said the japs already had begun evacuating key men from Manila and this was the situation along the 60mile wide beachhead left against bitter opposition the americans Cut the main Manil Baguio Highway at two bringing up to five the total number of Hedges the 6th army has along this strategic Center the immediate objective of the drive seemed to be which has an opposition was lighter in this right the yanks advanced 17 Miles up the thumb like Bolinao Peninsula and captured the City of Bolinao after a Brief skirmish with weak enemy air both army and Navy planes continued to Hammer the japs with virtually no air one High ranking officer at Macarthur claiming the Jap air Force on Luzon was 100 per cent said i doubt if the japanese have Over 20 serviceable planes at the largest Field on the the russian annies which smashed into Cracow reached a direct Highway to and opened the Way for a drive about 40 Miles West along the Highway to the great area of in Southeastern the germans Are prepared to give up the Eastern part of including As far As the according to a Berlin military spokesman quoted by the Stockholm if the Oder is crossed in Force by the the Washington Post said yester the fall of Berlin will almost certainly russian capture of the Katowice area would deprive Germany of the largest Center of heavy Industry Between the Ruhr and the and capture of the whole silesian province would be a crippling blow to the nazi War factory chimneys in the Katowice Region Are As thick As Trees in a the greatest wealth about or nearly a Quarter of the reserves of Continental Zinc output in the area represents 20 per cent of the germans total the nazis seeded Industrial develop ment in Silesia As a substitute for the responsibility for a Large proportion of the Ruhr former output of armaments was assumed by the great silesian Iron together with new the huge Farben synthetic Oil Plant also was shifted to near the silesian the Katowice area is Remote from most of the big towns of and partly due to mountains and May be in Silesia and East Prussia push toward Danzig three great russian crashing across Poland toward hitlers last night were reported within artillery Range of Germany at two at the Southern end of the Long polish front Moscow dispatches reported German soil West of which was captured wednesday by marshal Konies first ukrainian Paris radio re ported that soviet troops had penetrated the great Industrial area of a swedish correspondent in Berlin also reported red army troops in Silesia and said Breslau was directly North of Warsaw troops of the first White russian German reached 65 Miles Northwest of the polish capital and Only seven Miles from the Southern Hes a Good Joe cheers the russians by Joe Fleming stars and stripes Bureau new View the vast russian offensive and the resumption of the Allied Western drive As wha the world has Long combined and coordinated assault against Naz Germany stubborn while the nations press hailed the spectacular soviet advances and the Roa of Moscow Victory guns drowned of Anglo american military analysts saw the red March As pressure on the jaw of a Gigantic Vise which will cruel in Washington military Russia Multi pronged drive along a 600mil front was believed an effective answer to criticisms circulated some weeks ago tha Russia was slackening its efforts and letting the Western allies Bear the Brun of the so great and far reaching Are the russian successes that they completely change the military situation in the new York times said adding that it was not too much to say German suffered a catastrophe the Atlanta said the least probable effects of the red drive will be to prevent germans from reinforcing their Western and the Washington Star declaring the Eastern blows Shouk mean von Rundstedt can expect Little in any reinforcements and can hardly afford another Gamble with the limited resources presently at his everyone seemed agreed on one a lot of germans Are being Tom army killed in Philippines san 18 ans Thomas Mcguire of san Antonio and who had 38 japanese planes to his was shot Down and killed in the Philippines George com manding Allied air forces in the informed Mcguire in a letter which arrived 4 More sentenced in butt trial 18 More soldiers were sentenced today by a general court martial in Paris in the Black Market cigarette they were James of Cincinnati Eligio grand and Rubin both of new who were sentenced to 40 years hard and Eddie of sentenced to 30 100 8th forts hit nazi rails it was a perfunctory Day for 8th air Force heavy bombers As approximately 100 smallest Force in made milk runs to Road and rail Junction West of Mannheim from which highways and rail lines Branch put to All parts of Rundstedt thinning the Only Contention for the bombers As they zeroed in on the target was a driving rain that swept the the Luftwaffe remained holed up and no Tackack was part of inc group of the 100 escorting Mustangs swept Down Over 12 Miles East of to Knock out eight Loco gob Story for the White House says dog got him in the seat 18 an 18yearold told the red Cross today that his arrival Here on an emergency leave was delayed because he and two other servicemen were ordered off an army plane a t to make room for a dog consigned to Elliott Roose velt Faye Emerson of the the presidents had been granted the leave following the death of his said the dog was in a crate which occupied three seats and had an a priority while he had a c later in Dave a Veteran of the Chi said he was bumped off at Memphis while Faye Roosevelt travelling to visit his sick he declared he had to travel by train from Memphis to Dallas where he hopped on another army the War in Washington said the dog was taken aboard at and at Memphis three a Sailor and a taken off because of 300 pounds of High priority the dog was left the army because it was not that was needed and even if the dog had been taken off it have lightened the Load sufficiently to carry the three 18 a Elliott Roosevelt denied that a dog consigned to her had been priority to a Sailor and two others on an army she said that the dog was a 130pound Bull mastiff and was one of two sent by her a from England where he recently she added the dog had been delivered to her by a major in an army Border of East the germans admitted that russian tanks had pushed to the German Border in upper the first Waves of the soviet onslaught have reached the Border area of upper German news Agency marshal Stalin announced in an order of the Day that to Kossovsky forces were 17 Miles Southeast of the East prussian Frontier at the ultimate objective of Rokos Sovsky drive North from his Nares Bridgehead apparently is the Baltic port of a line driven through to Danzig would Cut of East Prussia from the rest of the Stalin also announced that the Southern spearhead of to Kossovsky army Cap tured 15 Miles Northwest of Warsaw on the lower these forces apparently were near a juncture with marshal Zhukov troops to form a solid front for a combined drive toward Stettin and emerge from Bridgehead since army emerged from its Nares Bridgehead on sunday to take part in the squeeze on Warsaw and form the Southern part of the pincer on East it has engulfed More than Stalin in the Center of one Arm of marshal Zhukov Force rolled on North West of liberated Warsaw toward a Liri Kup with to Kossovsky and eventually the another of his columns drove South West toward great Industrial and railway City of Southern Berlin admitted the loss of 26 Miles Southeast of and later said that russian reconnaissance units had reached the area East of the Industrial second largest City in is Halfway Between Warsaw and Eastern Stalin announced in another order of the Day that the right Wing of Konies first ukrainian driving toward had captured the town and railway station of an import ant communications Center 25 Miles to the there were indications that the Ger mans were pulling Back All their forces Side Poland to make a stand on the silesian there was no that a cohesive line had been Ormed and Little indication that there would be one Short of the Oder River Well inside the Cracow fall is denied the fall of announced wednesday by Lublin was denied by he germans dub that soviet forces had reached he Northern and Northwestern fringes of he City and that Street fighting had broken out in the Moscow last night expected an Early announcement of the fall of Budapest according to the nazis iced Only about 500 of the cites blocks of the nazis lost heavily in their futile attempt to hold the polish capital of which fell to russian and polish rooms after it had been out linked by soviet tank at least to German divisions were smashed with he entire rearguard Garrison either wiped jut or say reds May be first to Berlin 18 he russians nay reach before and British while Germany will make a concerted stand against the russian offensive Only on the Borders of he War department spokesmen included yesterday after a study of the russian they believe the German East front Erenses Are More vulnerable than those n the Only along the silesian Border May the ermans stage linear White British and american forces Batter against red German lines in the already some 50 Miles closer to May be engaged in highly fluid against German defense in military experts Here
