London Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 5, 1945, London, Middlesex                                The stars and stripes Page 3 aps Aiila to Giaier l Jap demolitions were rocking Day As the enemy blew Jim vital in the philippine j Oward which four Colu Nass were one them Only a Miles the United press a up correspondent said huge ets of flame and dense columns of Oke rising Manila after tremendous explosions f f just How far the americans Jere from r Manila was not explained in latest official announcement from i Macarthur co Yerng opera 7 Kras up to 6 pm said Siat troops of the 1st cavalry and 3ttfc infantry divisions were less than is Miles i a Broad flast from Luzon on Satur inlay said patrols had approached to within two j i both divisions were said to be competing to be first into i but Oscar 14th corps j was quoted As saying that military judgment forbade a foot race into the Manila May be stoutly he the 37th division was to be meet ing resistance but the 1st cavalry was ahead both outfits push ing on parallel highways lending South 1 1 Ward into driving across the base Job the Bataan troops of Thuc 8th army eight Miles from olb Ugapo naval below Lith airborne division troops has penetrated i 13 Miles v at Washington it was announced that eur Marianas super forts had of bombed Industrial targets in the on the main Jap Island of said 100 planes took part areas were Tokyo radio and several not bullets t i free germans i try election on the Western 4 came Back to a Little Corner of Germany this week on a Small tand experimental but it was demo Minja sure free elec Tion in the Aachen i there were Only 14 but i it was an election with a secret the first the germans Kad had in Many f some voters brought families to the meeting in the Farnish where the was an inter Peter told them what the meeting was i a out and what they had to then to went ahead and did electing Joseph Driessen their representative for Settle ment of Fann i there was a Little trouble about what he should be Jefe Allied repro b tentative at the meet sgt had used the Vord Kader f As the t interpreter pointed that did not sound so Good in occupied West fronts continued fran Page 1 what was described officially As Light to moderate in american advancing five Miles from Cut poured were closing on a Subj where the Bridge across the Irvine was attacked by two Thunderbolt while continued Ort v 7tharmy sectors West of floods caused by the thaw forced the americans to give up two North of Gambs 11 Miles above nazis still have some Walls to put their backs against Germany Czechoslovakia under tremendous pressure of Allied armies in the East and the nazi High after vainly trying to defend prussian and silesian holds grimly to its bastions in the Ruhr and Saar areas according to plans Las ditch resistance in doughs May take a flier combat Crews try Fox holing to see what ground is like by Bud Button stars and stripes staff writer our River airmen Are spending six and ten Day Tours of duty in the line with combat infantrymen in a move to further cooperation and understanding Between the air and ground arms on the Western front the Exchange of fighter pilots with ground Force armoured been going on for several and now members of medium bomber Crews from the 9th bomber command Are learning about foxhole life at first officers and soldiers of air and ground alike have voted to continue the plans Are also under Way for infantry and tank men to spend Short Tours with airmen at bomber bases and Fly combat missions if they it was the bomber Crews Are spending up to two Days with individual living with the doughs and getting firsthand glimpses of the infantry needs Way of air attack on enemy bom barriers especially study the requirements of particular situations on the several Bombardier who have been the front have been Able to see fortified Strong Bridges and other targets they reactions have been almost eni Hely when a bomber Crew of the 410th group spent time with a 5th in Fantry division recon Oliver of decided there sure Good they like my m8 armoured car better than a they and asked a lot of tech Nical they said they thought our communications were better than they wanted to get right into everything in the ground War and see How things the airmen generally have been astonished at the physical handicaps of Winter War in the Robert of parkers armorer gunner in an a26 Crew with 39 missions to his said he found an amazing difference Between the Way this country looks Down with the and the Way it appears from a couple of Miles i dont under stand How they got through these gullies and Over these a Scot looks it the says of Daft builds Wallace to run for president in 1948 by Victor Lasky stars and stripes staff writer Only thing Cei in about America is its refreshing observed the Cambridge University professor who can rattle off a1 scottish Burr such disconnected minutiae As 1934 National league results and Way texans decided that town you ask the Henry Wallace who knows More americans than inmost j say the matter is of great importance not Only the but to 1 the that Rhy we europeans re so Damn us m who 44 is abcs sultans on Ameri can the current Best the Ameri Bho Gais an account of Why act like was in the last fall to cover presidential Campaign for the Man his the american 1 published in is lpns dered a Standard it the professor con signifies Roosevelt intention of building the former Vic president into presidential the i am has precipitated the Contro Versy with that idea in if Wallace can ride the he will have made himself into a great Public up to now he has failed to Click with the american people More with the democratic Politi Roosevelt knows someone has to be his party candidate in it May As Well be the said the bespectacled has also served to bring into the open the deep seated internal squabble Over a postwar economic what finally happens will also constitute the Tipoff As to what to expect from the in world Brogan said he haunt read Marquis Childs column parts of which appeared in the stars and stripes discussing the patience with which the met the influx of most of our fears about american troops have been proved Brogan in their presence has been a Welcome we Are con stantly astonished at your unlike european the i rarely has any use for the Parade the fact is that in a Irre verent country like yours its difficult to develop soldiers who will automatically forget that their officers Are human continued from Page 1 rounding the including the Reich ministry of propaganda and Gestapo Headquarters were smothered under 18 concentrations of High expo five Railroad stations were hit and the Tempelhof marshalling Yards and nearby Tempelhof Ai drome suffered some the Deutsche Gas works got a Terric liberators of Raf coastal command hammered enemy shipping in Danzig Harbor Early reports from Germany through Stock Holm pictured Berlin reeling under the 8th s 15th and mightiest blow on the Reuter reported that refugees fleeing the red army thrust had crammed the Many of them becoming casual ties because of Lack of suitable shelter in a City whose prewar population was Clifford radio operator from reported this item about saturdays deluge of int before we left Germany i tuned in a propaganda broadcast from the announcer said every woman and child is out fighting the with the russians Only 70 Kilometres and Marvin Bombardier from said that if the Ger mans in Berlin Are nervous their anti aircraft gunners didst show any signs of they put up a barrage of the biggest stuff Treyve figures released by the 8th last night show that 19 bombers and five fighters failed to return from saturdays 1st gis from front reach on leave the first contingent of troops on fur Lough to the from the continent arrived in London they were to receive transportation Here Toi any place in the they choose to spend their 7day with the exception of it was announced that an added water journey precluded travel to red Cross clubs throughout the have made extensive plans for billeting and entertaining the furlough ing troops and providing them with information and a financial Exchange service by arrange ment with the army7 reds battling to Cross Oder continued from Page 1 striking Westward on a Broad front of More than 100 Miles North and South of there was no official announcement that the Oder had been crossed in the silesian area but the germans admitted Bride Heads at Ohlau and they also reported heavy fighting North of on the Western Bank of the a 30degree Rise in temperature turned the battlefields into melted the ice in the Oder and made the going tougher All along the Eastern but there was no indication that either the weather or stiffening enemy resistance had stopped the russian drive at the As one nazi report if the wehrmacht had forced the russians to slow Down they did it in part with Green German radio admitted that some of the forces were using live ammunition for the first time in their As Zhukov main Force probed at the the Northern Wing of his army was driving toward the great German Baltic port at the Mouth of the these troops have captured the important Road Junction of Soldin according to German were near 23 Miles from Paris said the russians were Only nine and on half Miles in East Prussia the position of the trapped German forces became increasingly although they continued to counterattack in an Effort to break Konigsberg was burning and being heavily russian troops broke into the outskirts from several directions and were ready for an fallout attack to Clear the Southeast of the East prussian marshal Chern Vakhovsky tightened the ring around the trapped nazis with the capture of Bartenstein and Stalin announced these captures in his first order of the they previously had been reported Back of the front lines the sieges of Posen Schneidmuhl continued although for All practical purposes they now have no value to the according to reports factories in the Breslau area of Industrial Silesia already Are in marshal Tol Bukhina troops were reported attacking Southwest of Budapest while marshal Malinovsky forces continued the annihilation of Ger Man forces inside the russian troops in Latvia also were said to be attacking the German pocket South East of service paper says 4 army and Navy journal said yesterday that Hitler cannot be the one with whom the United nations will discuss a German since Hitler As an Arch criminal is to be punished by the United it is obvious that to recognize him by negotiation Wokf lie to give him a standing that would Embarrass later treatment of the unofficial service publication reporter lost on Mission is prisoner by Ned Nordness associated press correspondent on the British front delayed Tom 32yearold stars and stripes correspondent from from whom nothing has been heard since he flew into Holland with air borne troops 17 was captured by according to reliable inform a dutch eyewitness to his capture by 60 enemy troops related How Hoge walked right into the arms of the germans the Day he and said the correspondent gave him information of a series of events which occurred before he had been taken this is the Story Hoge told the stitch the plane in which he was flying was shot Down by Tackack 12 Miles from the Hoge parachuted to safety Zed hid in a ditch and Woods from the enemy who were searching for him until near walking along the ditch he sighted the searching party approaching and dashed into a then the civilian saw Hoge cautiously leave the turn a Corner and come face to face with the the dutch Man walked Over and conversed with the which the germans didst he said Hoge was Calm and in flight eager to be on the this eagerness had led him to leave his hiding place too Hoge first stars and stripes correspondent to be reported missing in had previously gone with the 3rd army to covered patrons forces until they reached the Moselle and returned to England just in time to go on the paratroop Mission to a Newspaperman in civilian Hoge was inducted in the army in he came to the Eto As a member of the 29th infantry division the following and was a Rifleman and typist with the 29th until transferred to the stars and stripes in March last draw continued from Page 1 of the 7th traffic regulating will soon be on his Way to Ellicott As a result of Keynes first Complete list of those selected follows Henry Artie Frank Walter James George Lester Ltd Wim Miles Ena Elmer it Frances Melvin Clarence Joseph Clarence Michael i Edward Wilhelm Philip John Stephen doll Paul Stanley Herbert Alois William Fred Harry Earl Allan Reynold Ralph Paul do Cecil Gilbert sgt Armand Edward sgt Arthur Ivey sgt Emanuel George Paster Richard Jim e Clarence tf3 Julius Joseph Duarte l Anthony Max Duane Louis Vernon c f Otto William Horace James Manuel James Peter Telli Floyd Irving Leo George Grant Albert Harold Wayne William Paul Willis Cpl Gerald Blease George William Frederick Joseph Wilbert Roy Edwin Dominic Joseph John Karl Idward Andrew Monian Lawrence Bradbury Richard pfc Robert pfc James pfc Thomas pfc Joseph pfc John j pfc John pfc Mark Brady pfc Harry Larue pfc William pfc Harold pfc Anthony Adam Chesley Gordon Chester Hulsens wife appeals to save his life 4 Reuter Rita whose paratrooper Karl was sentenced to death in London in the Cleft Chin murder has disclosed that she had sent an Appeal to Washington to save him from theres Iron in them Gray hairs a Soldier is never too old to fight by Jimmy Cannon stars and stripes staff writer with 3rd old soldiers never says the because most of them work too far Back of the  Andrew Jay High Berger today is up where the artillery flashes red in these snowy the had himself transferred from a rail Road battalion to this infantry but the divisions rear Echelon int close the old Guy is a Rifle Man in his Young i am said the old i enlisted this time to get it Over i belong up there slugging or 1 belong Back who was in action at Veraun and the Argonne Forestin the last enlisted two years and two months an has been Over seas 20 rear Echelon life in the Eto bored the Gray haired who had been a Railroad Engineer for 27 i wanted to so i wrote Patton and told turn i wanted the in the old Guy sitting in the Kitchen of a farmhouse witha White Pup snapping at his i told him i was a Corporal in the last we didst have none of these t rating Sand that i wanted he didst take time to write about my he the old Man reported to the division and told the colonel he wanted to be assigned to a Rifle the colonel said be was 55 and that was too old for a combat i told that Young you have to look inside a Man to Tell How old he the old Guy the outside of a Man Means i have a brother who is 50 who is in the infantry and went in when they invaded new so you see its not a mans his but this Young colonel insisted i am too and Here i am an electrician when i should be ight the old thinks this army clothing and Chow Are much better than those of but i the 21 months he was in France during the last War Only a sprinkling of Snow the Stan Dard Price for three fresh eggs was one franc anywhere i wrote postcards Back to the vets in the states telling them Paris is the he said