London Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 3, 1945, London, Middlesex Daily German lesson Gehnert i ties Ihnen generl Decse is this yours new York London edition the daily newspaper of armed forces 5 Paris tripes in the european theater of operations 1945 daily French lesson Puisze Vous second fire Ches Vous Pwee Voo Shay Voo May i take you Home St and 3rd open drive to smash Siegfried line ermans hold at Oder Bradley gis hit special announcement that Eisenhower had held a 24hours conference on current operations with it Omar 12th group Comman highlighted yesterdays developments along the Western where the 1st and 3rd armies attacks were described for the first time in sheaf dispatches As a full Force offensive to break the Sieg Fried line and of Perttu Way to the at Secretary of War Robert Patterson said the germans have yet to feel the full weight of another major offensive against the West speaking in the absence of War Secretary Henry Flitterson admitted the nazis would fight hard to prevent a breach of their Wes Ern adding that Fott Bijj actions and weather pose difficulties fails to matter considered since it came at a time when tie americans were closing into the sift Fried the announcement of the to military leaders con Ference nevertheless failed to Clear up whether Bradley Laas resumed command of his original some of whom were transferred marshal Mont Gomery after the Icerman breakthrough into the j growing resistance to the american push on some sectors indicated that pre Vious reports that the germans might have decided to abandon some portions of the Wall were the enemy gave up some of Ricjard positions Pill boxes on one Sec Tori were found empty by 1st army to rasps but opposition stiffened As the doughboy passed through the dragon Teeth tamers and advanced closer to the Mai fit a dozen 5 were taken thursday by american forces around putting up More of fight although the get vans were putting up More of a press Dis Patch from said there was no real evidence As be that the thin out of nazi forces in the had left them with enough strength to hold out against the major assault along a 30mile front South of the original Aachen Gap in the Siegfried heavy guns were pounding the Concrete forts where the nazis were making a to the 3hd army troops continued to build up their our River Bridge about two Biles from the West i in troops the 7th army the French army linked up in third largest City in the province Anchor Point us the now vanishing i German pocket Albrig the the enemy was report tech to be pulling Back i across the Rhine As positions along tiie River the main escape Bridge under Allied artillery with the 7th army attacking North of the Moder River am the collapse of the Colmar the allies were now in control of the ref no for 15 Miles North of Strasburg and 30 Miles to the to recognize slavs in Belgrade Washington 2 Ansin a statement interpreted As indicating a new t development in foreign act Secretary of sate Joseph grew announced today that the would approve the new of Jugo i Slavia if it were so organized As to be i representative of Jugoslav did not whether this would necessitate inclusion of the in the government proposed by the bet Weixl prime minister Ivan of the of Chile government in and marshal in said the new government would ave to be established in few plan i proposed co punish War criminals 2 the has proposed to Britain and other ies definite plans for punishing Ger is guilty of atrocities against jews Side j acting Secretary of the Joseph grew revealed today in wer to critics Fiji aroused by the Dis of Herberts Pell As the american of the War crimes had claimed there was disagreement this just seein9 the sights army signal corps motion picture photos a movie cameraman caught this Little Epis ode in a gis furlough in from top Bottom boy sees girl but of boy whistles but boy registers approval but Patterson says a month being converted to infantry 2 fit men previously assigned to noncombat duties overseas Are being converted into infantrymen at the rate of a acting War Secretary Robert Patterson announced he also disclosed that approximately men from army installations in this country have been reassigned and Are in the process of going overseas As one feature of the conversion Patterson was the Transfer of 57 battalions of antiaircraft to the War casualties Rise to 2 ican casualties since Pearl Harbor neared the Mark with the disclosure today that army losses had reached the army plus the latest figure for the the total for the armed forces at an increase of Over figures Given last army casualties accounted for of the the army figures were based on Compi lations made up to 21 and covered actual fighting through most of acting Secretary of War Robert Patterson and include the first two weeks of the germans ardennes counter the casualties made up As follows killed wounded missing and prisoners base in China scrapped 2 14th air Force base at East of the japs Chin Faido China has been destroyed and he said he added that the first step to provide reinforcements was to draw from divisions training in the but the process could not be continued revealing that troops were now Patterson added that others still were in the of those he one million were in training for reinforcement another million were training with tactical outfits destined for overseas and a third million were with housekeeping units composed of men who Are either overseas veterans or limited fuel Bant closes taverns in 11 states 2 Ages of natural Gas brought an order from the web today Banning the use of the fuel in amusement places in 11 Eastern states and the District of Columbia effective the which will extend for at least 72 was directed at night clubs and red armies joining in drive on Berlin meet new resistance the Long delayed Battle for Berlin appeared to be shaping up last night As the German High after admitting that Strong russian forces had reached the Oder were reported launching fierce counterattacks against marshal Zhukov Early before the germans had imposed a partial blackout on news from this sector of the the nazis said that Zhukov forces had reached the Oder on both sides of 38 Miles from at 40 Miles from the third Reich one Berlin correspondent said russian tanks had attacked and tried to Cross the Oder at Kustrin but had been chased inside Berlin preparations were being made quickly for a Long a system of trenches being dug around the Eastern suburbs As efforts were made to turn the capital into a despite the reported German counter attacks in the fortified area East of the Oder and the which the nazis Berlin digs up some defences Short of fuel and raided nightly by Raf Mosquito and fearful of a foreign workers Berlin was Rushing preparations to become a frontline City As its troops and tanks rolling toward the warned officially not to lose their Heads when they see enemy tanks that was the picture painted yesterday by German Home broadcasts and Stock Holm dispatches of conditions in the Reich More and More of whose Mosquito bite Berlin on the front behind Berlin got a scorching reminder late thursday night and Early yesterday that it is a frontline City when the Raf sent Over its largest Force of Mosquito Ever to Rock the the speedy bombers raining bombs on the City to raise searing Walls of men were being called up for Brief training and then sent to join Pplk Szturm units near fortifications were being rushed both within Berlin and at key Points along the roads from the Over which a steady Stream of refugees was still barricades were being erected from the rubble caused by raids and by demolitions carried out by German who were said to have mined Many buildings in Advance of russian entry into the broadcasts from Moscow and Switzer land said the diplomatic corps had been ordered to Tokyo How denied the japs had Berlin says big 3 at Black sea port big three Are already conferring at a rumanian por City on the Black Berlin spokesman Paul Schmidt announced according to the German news the Agency previously had addressed a note to German editors telling them to give highest priority to coverage of the meeting of the three main War an a dispatch from Spain stated that rumours were circulating that Churchill had arrived in Gibraltar by plane wednes Day Raf sends Over Reich while the 8th air Force was Idle yes Raf bomber command Dis patched More than aircraft Over the Reich Over thursday and yesterday morn ing and claimed had transformed the Battlefield into a Zhukov forces bearing Down on the nazis apparently had not recovered from the rapid russian Advance which them Back approximately 300 Miles in Only three out flanking movement develops while resistance stiffened somewhat on the direct frontal approach toward Berlin a huge out flanking movement developed Southeast of the capital where the armies of Zhukov and marshal Koniaev were joining up Between Breslau and behind Zhukov front line the Ger mans still were holding out in Posen and but both fortresses were encircled and under heavy Paris said that 50 Miles North of had fallen to the red Zhukov Northern driving toward the Mouth of the Oder at were reported within 23 Miles of their objective in the area Between Pyritz and North of Zhukov Central of pushing up the polish corridor toward reached 86 Miles Northeast of Schneide in East Prussia chaos and confusion were reported in the trapped nazi ranks As marshal Rokos Sovsky and general Chern Vakhovsky tightened the these pocketed forces hurled massed tank formations against the soviet but failed to break Street fighting reported at where Chern Vakhovsky has tightened his Street fighting was the German swollen by several Large units which took Refuge there after being pushed out of other were counter attacking to All intents and was lost to the germans but it appeared that the Garrison would defend itself for As Long As possible in a delaying it was estimated that civilian crowded into the were there was Little news from marshal Konies front in the the Ger mans to have driven Back a soviet drive Southwest of this the nazis was aimed toward the moravian Gap and Moravska russian attacks also were re ported near the Bridgehead across the Oder at Ratibor and at 34 Miles North of of drip came to the Banks of the Seine one Day this week and the ensuing uproar looked like the second liberation of Gertrude newly arrived wac officer who was formerly stationed at a Brooklyn arrived at the special services division with her her a full canteen of genuine Al Brooklyn the news went Down through and within a matter of hours the elixir from Home had to be spoonful to each homesick we have about on Quarter of the canteen Ful quoth the bewildered and i guess it will have to go on a firs come first served basis from now any go with a bonafide Brook Lyn accent or a reasonable facsimile thereof is eligible for a on the the stars and stripes business office phone George of would answer and the voice would inquire How Many Miles Are the russians from Berlin now Are they doing All right Petrakis would proceed dutifully up stairs to the wire get available information and Tell the who seemed More and More probably some orderly calling for some Petrakis with All the caution and polite Ness due such an he asked his faithful customer which general he might no the Man in just calling for you in in com in a in one of the Guys slated for the
