London Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 20, 1945, London, Middlesex Hite House out tap today t for v f Ali up Ophidian Dent dont in ticket to get in Uke Itu standing in the it other Guys in s question whether my ticket inside for lunch on the 1 dont think to going to have enough to asked people in he said something about Truman a la King and turned that part program Over to his chickens Are hard to understand the housekeeper z a la King business and Chicken salad which can be jut with hard boiled of there Are and chopped up if Jas soon As the lunch is the aids crashers will get Busy on the Coffee and they Hope to have them 9jwyfor Tea at when More drop kind of gives you Voltl wellies to think of All that dish Wash i believe id use paper for the mud in the Back Yard during the inaugural i Caa say flatly that the presidents Lawn is not in Good the grass is the Earth is and what feet Are going to do to it int will get to sit Down except the red card holders who Are special be on the Back porch with the and if it Rains have a roof Over nobody has to Wear striped pants unless he feels like some of the women will look extra i studied photos of Roosevelt in her inaugural and i think it looks the Only Fri Pery about it is a kind of Between lunch and Roose will run upstairs and change into i Over the Hump 19 ithe first 12 years Are the hardest president Roosevelt tested today at his in miss he merely laughed at the question will the next term be the new York new lore the Sta daily newspaper of armed forces London edition Paris in the european theater of operations 1945 russians take Lodz drive into Prussia Tough on the old Volks her reception Ive seen no Pic tuites of but fashion editors claim its something neat in Pink with a lace As an old attender of Roosevelt inaugurations i nearly drowned in 1937 i know what in going to Wear rubbers and a fireman Dewey declined invitation 19 Dent Roosevelt and Harry the new will take the oath of office at noon tomorrow in a ceremony which will last Only 20 among those absent from the inaugural will be Dewey of new Republican candidate for the presidency in who turned Down an invitation to the new push in South starts five armies on 400 front of in a attempt to Stem the russian old men like those shown Voung boys of Germany Volks Sturm have been Flung into Here men fifty and Over Are shown moving up in the midst of a they Are specially trained for a German War reporter says these Are hard times for the they Are going through most bitter linkup Mew threat to Strasbourg be forces in the Gamb sheim 11 Miles above Stras steadily reinforced by night Crossings of the Rhine on ferries and r Refiat Iseble Pontoon have ski Kim out of the Northern Edge of their three villages and linked do with Strong nazi tank and infantry i Rais operating South of in f so northeastern Triangle of Alsace j dispatches revealed last ibo ref reports admitted that the 1 Wenof the Gamb sheim forces with those 7th army positions at Al often and Rittershoffe had dented the Misti not line positions along the Rhines j the juncture has created a perilous situation for squeezed by enemy troops Only 11 Miles to the North and ten Miles to the 4wn where the germans have reached is Saft after moving up from the Colmar press reports said the move Given the germans a solid 40mile along the Maginot line As far West i the 4th and 5th division cleared the germans from die Kirch and Miles Maas George patrons 3rd Jiny ground away at the Southern base Elbe enemy Dent into Belgium and both divisions opened their Takk Early thursday a six Miles East of other 4th p it vision troops captured High ground at Junction of the sure and our the German Border overlooking the troops also made gains and Northeast of 15 Miles Southeast is 15 Miles Southeast of continued on Page 4 los Angeles shakeup 19 make shocks sufficiently Strong to and but causing were Felt Here thousands to go into stars and stripes Paris Bureau a sweeping move to replace critical infantry com z for frontline duty Are being turned Over to the ground forces reinforcement com it Ted and retrained As of rear Echelon troops line As reinforcements Henry Eto reinforce ment revealed he declared that the number of physically fit rear Echelon men transferred from the zone to combat divisions May reach several thousand within the next few in their he will be put a combat men b29s strike Jap Home Isle Marianas based super fortresses bombed the japanese capital Island of Honshu yesterday in the tenth attack this against the enemy the War department announced at washing though Washington gave no details Ottlie raid pending operational Tokyo Rado claimed Kobe Harbor and Industrial Osaka were among the 6th army soldiers on in the advanced an other mile from the Center of their lingayen Gulf bringing them 17 Miles of important provincial capital on the Road to on the left flank the yanks were still meeting bitter but managed to fight their Way into the outskirts of 14 Miles Southwest of summer capital of the the previous other 6th army elements had seized on the strategic 3agu0manila opening the Northern Section of the Road to the j virtually forgotten after Douglas a Macarthur dramatic return to doughboy on two other philippine to grimly at the dirty Job of wiping out last pockets of fanatical Macarthur routine communique reported yesterday ground forces continue their Pursuit of the enemy in the coastal Ley continued mopping up operations 317 enemy dead and three prisoners were Hail of hell in him a Torch will always Burn pm ten r by Marshall Morgan stars and stripes special writer with the the armoured Divi missing in igl hats the official a Forward observer for the armoured Field artillery Batta Man who but also the sort who at Odd to would stroll away by somewhere and reread his is tenderly fold it the creases morning Din was far Forward the company supporting had been Cut off and jugs Nashed by artillery mortars mallards knew what the artillery Job was Vaselike he called for the White bursts mushroomed into Wiful first one platoon and then another through it and Back toward the Young lieutenant have left with but he adjusting the multiplying As soon As the germans understood what was happening they threw tanks and a frontal infantry assault against the dwindling pocket of american Dennis Regan stayed Back in the battalion fire direction Center officers and exchanging leaped to comply with his for enemy tanks 200 Yards give 100 Yards there Clos ing in there right in front of everyone what the Fate Ful next order would put everything youve got on my exact in my just before his battalion roared its Al enveloping six final words came Tell Peg that i love and others classified for limited assign Matchett disclosed the drastic moves in a press conference during which he outlined a program of rigid manpower conservation which has already retrained thousands of men from other branches As the current demand for officially termed the prime critical item of the War resulted from a considerable underestimate of combat it was in Matchett pointed to non combat such As those from so the retraining program Lias drawn mostly from enlisted men of the lower Matchett How that As the need ing noncom would be and additional numbers of extensive training programs for sex combat troops and other limited assign ment men scheduled to replace those transferred into the line have been Matchett and it anticipated that ultimately every physically fit qualified Man will take his turn on the front line and thus allow the wounded veterans to handle rear Echelon in addition to service the reinforcement command has drawn and will increasingly draw on men from such other combat arms As the antiaircraft continued on Page 4 air Force photo bombs thick As Hail pour on communications targets in Northern Germany from a flying fort of the 303rd bomb group of the 8th air Foice in its raid Over the most of the targets were bombed through but something gave after the 8th heavies were Idle yesterday due to the evacuees report Fri Cable in Nazaire outside St them descriptions of life inside a sealed off but nazi con trolled Channel a train Oadby the first civilians evacuated from in a seven Day truce entered the Allied lines the said the germans were comfortably with plenty of while the civilians were on the verge of bombed out nazis get help bombed out germans were warned by heir leaders yesterday that henceforth hey would have to rebuild their Homes indicating that Allied air raids have caused chaos in the Robert German labor fron eader responsible for the housing announced Over Berlin radio a single Central organization can no longer Cope with the people should not look for help from higher in particularly Urgen cases the authorities will Issue by to get temporary Homes people will have to build them Ley pointed out that temporary accommodation was needed not Only bomb but also for refugees from areas threatened by bulletin the Cap hire of described As the largest Industrial Center in was announced by marshal Stalin Irist night in a fifth order of the russian troops were fighting 30 Miles inside East Prussia last night at he Northern end of the Long polish front where marshal Stalin yesterday announced that the weight of the third White russian army had joined in he great offensive to destroy the German the nazi line inside East the Unker stronghold which formed a Poten Al threat to the Northern flank of the red army drive across was Shat by forces under marshal Cher which broke through the deep Jerman drove Forward to within Miles of widened their breach to 37 Miles and captured More than 600 places in five other captures announced Stalin also announced the capture of ancient capital of Poland and Center of the German government during he by marshal Konies 1st ukrainian the fall of Cracow was prematurely announced wednesday by Lublin the soviet Premier also proclaimed another new offensive in Southern where Petrovs fourth ukrainian army broke through below Cracow and in five Days dug a Hole 38 Miles wide and 50 Miles deep in the enemy five soviet armies were pouring toward Germany last night along an almost continuous front of 400 Miles from the Baltic to the and nowhere in reports of East front fighting was there a claim that the wehrmacht had succeeded in establishing a new defense line of any at the Baltic end of the with an estimated 35 has engulfed More than 600 paces including Krau Pischker and possibly Only eight Miles Northeast of this Force already had taken the Northern tip of East Prussia and was pushing toward the putting on the squeeze to Kossovsky army was putting the squeeze on East Prussia from the South and had captured three Miles South of the at one Point these troops were less than 110 Miles Danzig and the same distance from the Southern spearhead of Rokos driving Southwest to form a solid front with marshal Zhukov right captured 36 Miles North West of Warsaw on the main Road to in the Center of part of marshal Zhukov columns were headed straight West in the general direction of one of the key German zones on the approaches to the heart of the Luner elements of Zoh Pikovs army were continued Page 4 Liege s and becomes 6th under Ike stars and stripes tonight began publication of a new edition in the sixth currently being issued under Eisenhower others Are at Dijon and the Liege appearing seven Days a will serve troops on and behind the Northern Section of the Western who formerly were de pendent upon the Paris Between 2 Berlin sweats it out Ouight in an Allied Vise on which heavy pressure is being applied from the East and is 260 Miles on a direct line from the Point of deepest 335 Miles nearest tip of the allies on the Western Helvern the two fronts is 490 1 i
