London Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 5, 1945, London, Middlesex Weather report heavy downpour More than fortresses of the 8th air Force fashioned a flying wedge against Berlin saturday to help the wedge of steel being driven from the East by there when they rained Tony of bombs in the heaviest attack Ever made on the German capital by the among the targets was the Tempelhof shown above Center being Pom Meled by part of the great air Fleet which stretched almost Soo Niles across the it took 45 minutes for the bombers to Cascade of Weir loads on the a new York London edition Paris the daily newspaper of armed forces 5 in the european theater of operations 1945 extra for Manila entered 1st Breaks Siegfried Belt russians battling to Cross Oder w i 3rd pushes t yet into Heich t elements four 1st army i divisions reported last night to penetrated on a 12mile front through the first defense Belt of the Siegfried line and to have closed up to the second fortified Chain in gains ranging from four to five Milesian some although dispatches stressed that this second protective zone was the toughest of the germans defences along their Western a renter correspondent the 1st army sent in a other Wise that one unit had passed through this second such a if would indicate that the main Siegfried had been breached for a second first Gap having made months ago by the 1st army in the Aachen to the North of the current fighting in View of the stiff resistance that has marked the recent Battles it seemed unlikely that the second Chain had been torn open so the Advani Efthas overrun fortified villages and pillboxes making up part of the staggered Depths of the Siegfried initial buffers and brought the americans eight East of the line they held before the germans 16 break through into the taken in the push East was a town just South of the Roer River dams by which the germans had been flooding the Valley end Balking the Irive into the Cologne Plain by Allied to bops farther on the 1st right George patrons 3rd army was reported i to have gained thrusting into Schmee Eifels Forest in its deepest penetration into the the Schnee 54 Miles Ini Jide was one i 0f tie starting Points for the germans to december patrons forces were driving i in the direction of Hie Road Junction Tovim of meeting continued on Page 3 1st 1st in Manila 5 monday Advance units of the 1st cavalry Divi of the army have entered announced striking into the philippine Jifa Pital during darkness saturday plight to secure of several internees held by the Japa Forward elements drove quickly into heart of the City and seized the Santo Penias concentration Camp and Are now ring Inte fees there until the Render of the division pushes up from according to the communique a who has thus fulfilled Row to return Auto Manila 26 Days after forces land Edson lingayen 115 to the other divisions were thrusting into As the 8th army 37th Divisi Pis from the and 6th army filth airborne from the Macar buil details appear on Page 3 straightening out the nazi double Cross signal corps photo these new vests Center Are being Issue d to medics of the 94th division to answer the nazis claim they Are unable to distinguish Between medics and regular made by women of the French red the White cloth was donated by the the red crosses made from captured nazi left to right Frederick Boyne Anthony Bowling and col Clarence Griffin hurried quit of the office and Back with Shaefitz and pfc John of Keane did his bit by handling selection of the George continued on Page 3 flies Miles to Naturalize gis 4 United states has nearly new citizens on Pacific to Henry 64yearold naturalization who flew Miles during the last 11 months to take citizenship to service men and on lonely Christmas Island a i went to the Airfield to be sworn in while hazards plane on Bougainville 300 soldiers and sailors became citizens at a ceremony on an air 2nd draw nets 120 More for those 30 Days at Home pfc Abe a looked at the huge Mound of More than locator cards strewn face Down on the Large mahogany he was the occasion was the lottery held saturday morning to select 108 and 12 officers from the to be placed on 30 Days temporary duty in the states for recovery and it was the second drawing Here since the new Eto policy was the first drawing took place 10 Shaefitz carefully withdrew a card and handed it to major Griffin of Dominic the major Sang of Central soon will be on his Way Home to the drawing previously had hit a Snag with everything it was Dis covered that there was no one to do the actual go get a couple of enlisted Vaughan base Lay that textbook its out of Date 4 the Teny Earold boy want satisfied with his teachers answer that the russians were about 50 Miles from he was an hour Green nazis fight As reds bombard Frankfurt Frankfurt and key fortress towns on the Road to were under assault by the red army last night As marshal Zhukov forces fought to establish Bridgehead across the Oder the last natural Barrier Between the front lines and the German dispatches from Moscow reported that the russians had penetrated into Kustrin and that Street fighting was raging in the Kustrin is 40 Miles Northeast of 16 Miles South of Kustrin and Only 38 from was under soviet artillery fire and red army tanks were reported nearing the in his communique last night Stalin did not mention fighting in either Frank Furt or but announced that Zhukov forces captured 15 Miles slightly Northwest of and the same distance to the North while the heavy bombers of the 8th air Force Lay Idle yesterday after Satur Days devastating raid on reports streamed in yesterday of a City left Burn ing and staggering while the sound of red army gunfire rolled across the level Eastern approaches to the German and Berlin blasted into disjointed activity Al Day blared again yesterday with charges that the terror attack had Rii ined cultural and civic buildings and had rendered heavy damage in residential photo interpretations of the raid by the revealed smashing blows dealt military and government Railroad Yards and Industrial objectives in the heart of the pictures showed fire and smoke in almost unbroken mass Over an area two Miles Long and one mile smoke was so dense during the raid that the last formations of bombers coming in for the run had to sight their targets by the air ministry received eight direct bits and other government buildings sur continued on Page 3 Stohs blow sets Berlin ablaze lock and Load com z men reach front by Ernie Leiser stars and stripes staff writer with the 104ra Ger Echelon most of them from com went into the lines today with units of this first graduates of the 104ths Battle former personnel clerks and Supply All now members of Rifle had completed the Cycle Frem the rear to the front with a two week Blitz course Given by combat Wise veterans of the Timber supplementing their reinforcement depot training with instruction in night attacks and the course is the first Given by a division to men sent up to fill gaps in the half the men were and had the Promise of the division Terry that they keep their stripes if they did their Allen was present at the graduation and presented the men with their the divisional shoulder results of the training were according to Edward of in charge of the these com z men Are going to make Good added Thomas of who mapped out the and now have a much better Chance to keep alive out there in the one of the Niles of had been a Cook for four years in the he admitted he preferred cooking to being a Rifleman but said that As he to into the line Hirwas glad to learn about it Wilson of in the army since but at the front for the first said he thought the school was dam Good up to now it had been All theory for he Back fort i had a company of automotive a Rifle company is a lot Point East Barwald is the most Westerly Stalin has announced it also was announced that 15 Miles Southeast of had been taken As Well As 40 other inhabited local Northwest of Stalin the town of Cranz was taken and the germans cleared from the Samland pen Berlin yesterday said Zhukov had forced Many Bridgehead across the but did not specify German commentators said these had been made no claim they had been wiped one spokesman said the aim of these Crossings was to bypass South of Zhukov position of the Central sector of the marshal Koniaev was consolidating his forces and on Page 3 lend lease share in red army drive 4 up to the under lend lease had supplied Russia with More than motor including jeeps locomotives Flat cars tons of among other foreign economic said soviet he have expressed to us their appreciation of the part supplies Are playing in the Success of their our share in equipping soviet troops is Small compared with their total
