London Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 24, 1945, London, Middlesex                                Eds Roll to the Ogese Are the major red army leaders in the raging soviet offensive marshal 1st White russian army before Posen 1st ukrainian army in Silesia 4th ukrainian army in the Carpathian sector marshal 2nd White russian army moving on Danzig and marshal 3rd White russian army in a russian lesson Kan do Cuk Dja Laycoc Doe Berlena How far to Berlin new York London edition Paris the stars a n daily newspaper of armed forces s in the european theater of operations 1945 Janock out nazi transport in ardennes of pulls Alaise Gap Over again jew nth air Force making the term Falaise Gap obsolete As a Standard for comparison for Aerial destruction of enemy continued yesterday to Pound German columns slithering out of the icy bringing their today toll of knocked out enemy vehicles to As they blasted the enemy Retreat into Ger but the planes were not doing it All artillery of the 1st and 3rd stated on features commanding the escape roads put of the onetime German hailed shells upon the crossroad piling up the nazi trucks in disorganized Only at one Point were the germans holding out and that was at where units of the 7th armoured division were fighting House to it Las the 7th which had made a stand at Stith when the germans broke through into withdrawing under reports of yesterdays 9th air Force of bistros still were but Dis from sheaf said 464 German Wip cles were destroyed and 567 Ork total of on when 9th sorties num ibffl6d the pilots virtually wiped out two columns of each about destroying or damaging of were destroyed and he remainder one column was attacked near prism and the other East to the at least 73 tanks were knocked out Tarin the two flitting rail lines As the 9th estimated to have destroyed 653 cars damaged when thunderbolts noted Over Yards at Southwest of where about railway Urs were caught in a White the 7th armoured was battling in doughboy of the 30th and 78th divisions made gains West and Southwest troops of both the 84th continued on Page 4 Ell rumoured ground forces head c i stars and stripes Bureau associated said today that Washington Rumor Sines Joseph Stih yell chief of Jahny ground replacing the War How to Stilwell recall from China last r there has been considerable Trion on his one Rumor iat he would command an ref on the China e event Stilwell is appointed to Iund forces Lear would an overseas the a these Guys might be skiing in Sun they aint Keystone photo Waist deep Snow on the Western front Doest Stop the this is the first ski patrol in action on the 9th army front in organized by James a norwegian by the ski patrol can reconnoitre in a Short time a Snow covered area which would keep a foot patrol out for a Formosa hit 240 Jap planes Kod Multi pronged attacks by american air and land forces were reported from the Pacific yesterday As 3rd Fleet Carrier planes pounded Formosa and other islands off the China Mariana based super forts struck at japans Industrial heart and Douglas Macarthur troops on pressed 11 Miles beyond Tarlac to within 54 Miles of rail Yards hit by 8th heavies Over 200 fortresses of the 8th air protected by approximately 100 yesterday bombed the Busy railway Yards at about four Miles Southwest of with a loss of six the Neuss heavily attacked in recent weeks by both Raf and the is a Junction on East West rail lines Between Central the and the Western and on a North South line linking Holland and Northwest Germany with Cologne and the Rhine it usually handles about freight cars in a the Raf continued to Hammer German fuel lines during the previous Hal faxes and Lancaster ranging Over Benzyl plants near Duisburg and the Industrial and communications Center of two of their aircraft Are v2 Plant smashed by 2nd tap 23 fac tory South of Rotterdam manufacturing component parts for v2 was completely wrecked by pilots of the second tactical air this ones Bedder s an i snore that great roof raising ions made it impossible for others with him at an air transport my station near the sympathy of dozens of English is that the after they read Ramon a 35yearold tin was forced to in such Sutof therway places As so his buddies could lie in their n have been writing the asking him to their too have a son far from one dear lady and know what loneliness in a Distant country might be for a since it was too cold in the Rodriguez was assigned a 38bed hut All to Bui he has been faring much better these a communique from the storefront disclosed he now sleeps in a private one unnamed gent wrote Rodriguez betting that could sleep through Ramons to which the great snore responded 54 Miles to Manila William Halsey 3rd which had roamed unchecked for 11 Days and nights in the sout China sea with Only Token Jap air sent its Carrie based aircraft against the Pescadore and destroying or damaging 240 enemy planes and leaving two Large ships burning at the Takao naval base at Chester announcing the also disclosed a major warship was darn first offi Cial report of a 3rd Fleet ship casualty in two months of assault actions along the China the presence of Halsey Fleet be tween Siam and the according to a Reuter was not even detected by the japanese until the attack on Saigon and Camerano Bay harbours in Indochina since the Jap Navy has ignored the Chal Lenge to Battle under conditions most advantageous to a toll of More than tons of japanese shipping was said to have been taken by the 3rd the latest super fort attack on Honshu occurred japanese soon after Curtis Lemay took Over operations of the 21st bomber the War announced in the targets included a Large aircraft fac tory at Tokyo radio said that about 70 of the giant bombers flew Over Nagoya and were prevented by fierce air defences from doing serious on Macarthur hard driving drug boys captured 11 Miles South and Santa 10 Miles East of in their main thrust toward 54 Miles they were 10 Miles North of Clark major Philip Pine China is paid new 23 Transfer of to China in settlement of services and Mili tary construction furnished to the army was announced today by Secretary of the Treasury Henry land blockade of China ends 23 japs three year land blockade of China has been broken by linking the Ledo Road from India with the old Burma Road to Daniel commanding forces in India and announced the land Supply artery to nourished for the last three years Only by overt Hump transports flying across the treacherous followed the joining of chinese forces on both sides of the China the air route will continue in while the Road will carry heavy though the new Road will help revitalize jubilation Over the achievement should be tempered by the extent of supplies available for transport China and the potential capacity of the Road the Ledo Road runs 265 Miles from in to link up with the Burma Road at there Are 500 Miles of the Burma Road inside passing through wild Mountain country and Over 300 Bridges spanning torrents and d enter 138 Miles from Berlin russian troops last night reached the Oder last water Barrier Between the front lines and As soviet forces were reported fighting in Only 138 Miles from the German marshal Stalin i h announced that ill cd Konies 138 Miles h p i r s t ukrainian to army had Pene Merlin rated to the Oder n in fourth order of the German radio previously had said that individual tanks had reached the River but that they had been the according to stains an reached the River on a 37 mile front in the Breslau during the Day they also captured the towns of Ilitsch Totzk and important nazi there was no official confirmation that marshal Zhukov forces had penetrated into As reported in a Berlin dispatch to but the report later was substantiated by a French Tele graph Agency statement from capture Bromberg it was officially announced by marshal Stalin in his first order of the Day that Zhukov forces had stormed and captured about 65 Miles Northeast of brom a strongly fortified hedgehog Posi Tion on which the German commander counted to guard the approaches to the polish is an important communications Center on the main railway from Posen to stains second addressed to marshal announced the capture yesterday of the East prussian towns of Willen or Helsburg and the names of these towns that Rokos Sovsky was broadening his front to the East with the intention of linking up with Cherniachovs keys forces to the about 20 Miles Northwest of which fell is Only 20 Miles due South of the Baltic port of when Rokos Sovsky reaches Elbing he will have driven a wedge behind the germans in East estimated to number Saalfeld is 51 Miles from drive in great salient Cherniachovs keys according to stains third had driven a great salient deep into the Northern part of East Prussia and were within 25 Miles of Konigsberg to the Cherniachovs keys troops yesterday captured Wehlau and Labiau after Cross ing the Deime and Pregel both towns were important nazi strongholds covering the approaches to the capture of these two places meant that Cherniachovs keys army covered 24 Miles in the same number of South of other elements of the 3rd White russian army overwhelmed the towns of Venheim and inside the germans admitted continued on Page 4