London Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 7, 1945, London, Middlesex                                Daily German lesson to is Der Bohnhof to 1st Der Bah Hohf where is the station new York London edition the i Aily newspaper of armed forces 5 Paris in the european theater of operations 994s daily French lesson Vous etes tres Belle Voo zet tray Bell you Are very Beautiful comes the they comes the Dawn i a i i ii says reds Cross Oder ranks nearly Hirough Mai if Siegfried line fortified Siegfried line ing the Eastern limits to Hefner prepared defense were Singer from 1st army artillery yesterday As in boys of two divisions closed s to in a mile of one and hah7 a Raj Ilij of once the towns Are parsed supplementary defense works Ibar path to the farther North the americans won con Tol of two dams in the Chain of Waier Raniers controlling the urfa and Jeff moving in before the Geh rians time to breach the Walls and Twood of the 1st army the ups were about two to three from disclosed at sheaf yesterday to have been a key objective f tear Hole in main line on the 1st army right troops 3rd army had torn a Hole a5half wide through the main Siegfried line Sal were pushing through what seemed be the last Chain of on one sector were lightly Truje 3rd scoring a general Advance of pc Bovit on an eight mile front in Roger captured six mile from but met a counterattack Sarther Pfouth at entered ii he Siegfried towns under fire were Gemund and both of a which a Jere threatened by the 1st army 2nd infantry Doup boys film the latter outfit and from Julie 78th infantry division seized two dims to the resistance was stiffening at the neared the two Road centers  of pillboxes in sintered now Are showing m con it operations several Days ag4 when my such positions were found in germans admit breaches German admitting that americans had made still More Hes in the deeply Echelon de Pillbox of the West said both the 1st and 3rd armies had been Berlin commentators looked for a big offensive on the left Flanic of the army character ing the is activity As attempts to Pilj Down Nan forces and prevent Theofi from no shifted to what the nazis fear will the of the major breakthrough Berlin said Eisenhower was adding that the Zero was i 8to where it was revealed that 42nd Rainbow comm minded continued on Page 4 Vignette of War you spell it Keystone photo a Dawn assisted by Clos Range saw Cherniachovs keys troops storm and overwhelm a German Strong Point in East Mac Arthur Crimson to tokyo9 As supreme command hinted 6 the Jap defenders of Manila caught in a three Way trap and their destruction Douglas Macarthur issued a statement today declaring that Japan is the final goal and that the motto for his forces has become on to the fall of Manila Marks the end of one great phase of the Pacific struggle and sets the stage for he we Are Well on the but Japan itself is our final we Are ready in this Veteran and proven com Mand when called there were reports in Washington that the appointment of a supreme Allied commander for the operations against Japan was listed for discussion at the big three and the United press quoted informed military quarters As saying that Macarthur was Likely to be the drive in from South the knockout blow to Manila was delivered by units of the Lith airborne who drove into the philippine capital from the South in a 35mile Over night both the 1st cavalry and the 37th infantry divisions smashed across the pasig in the Center of a late dispatch reported that a Token Garrison of japs had applied the Torch to the Escolta Manilla business and that fire fighters were almost helpless in combating the flame because the japs had blown up water pumping stations several Days in Manila More than internees have been of whom were at Santa Tomas 69 taken prisoner on Corregidor and Bataan in were caring for wounded cavalry men within an hour of their in the second such attack on the Kurile North of 5th Fleet Wing rocket bombing Venturas scored direct hits saturday on a radio station at Para Ushiro and at military targets on hero gives up measles Allied 6 Orville e Block knocked out five German machine guns during a House to House Battle to Clear an italian when his platoon was held up by fire sweeping each Side of the Block grabbed a Slung a Haversack of grenades across his shoulder and crawled he killed two wounded three More and marched Back with 11 he was not even his the later turned out to see who comes from receive the congressional medal of then Streeter became a casualty and was moved Down the Luftwaffe up Strong Over Brenner pass Allied 6 the strongest single Luftwaffe formation seen in Italy for Many weeks was encountered in Daylight today when German fighters swarmed Over the Brenner pass in an attempt to Stop attacks by Mediterranean Allied air a Small formation of thunderbolts and Mitchelle attacking Brenner targets drove of 30 enemy three mel09s were shot Down and several More a Allied planes returned 50 Bridgehead near Breslau nazis admit More in North marshal Stalin last night announced that russian troops had established Bridgehead across the Oder River Southeast of the first official statement that the River had been crossed at any the germans admitted that marshal Zhukov also had forced the water Barrier at several Points along the Berlin stains order of the Day to marshal Koniaev indicated that the Crossings were made three Days it was about this time that Berlin said Koniaev had gone Over to the in three Days stains order Konies 1st ukrainian army broadened their Bridgehead to 50 Miles and advanced 13 smashing through Lon prepared German defense Konies army Cut the Hindenburg Auto Bahn express Highway and captured a series of West Bank including Thoma Kirch and Grottkau is about 13 Miles beyond the nearest Point of the there was no official word from Moscow that the Oder had been crossed by Zhukov but Ger Man radio disclosed that these 35 Miles from Berlin on monday established at least six Bridgehead on the West Bank of the water Way in the Frankfurt Kustrin nazi commentator von Olberg declared late last night that Zhukov had broken into the outer defences of previously the germans had contended that All red army attacks were held East of the the first crossing in the Frankfurt Kustrin area mentioned by German spokesmen was near ten Miles Northwest of Kustrin and 35 Miles from the russians also pushed minor forces across die River South of Kustrin but these were wiped the nazis Bridgehead number three was reported established three Miles South of Frank nazi counterattacks were reported in Progress the fourth and fifth Bridgehead were thrown across the River near 14 Miles South of earlier it was reported that Frank Furt was being shelled by soviet artillery As the big guns softened up nazi at Kustrin the rus sians were said to be fighting in the if enemy reports of Bridge Heads on both sides of the defense positions Are True both Are on Konies front it was reported yesterday that Steinau had surrendered after being surrounded and attacked from All Steinau would be big town West of the Oder to there also were enemy reports of Sharp fighting in the area of Stargard where the right flank of Zhukov army was within 20 Miles of the great German Baltic port of the left Wing of this attack was placed at 23 Miles Southeast of the ruthless Battles continued in East continued on Page 4 where they Canne from 6 consignment of american cigarettes is on the Way to Sweden in a Safe conduct the newspaper Afton bladet reported the order was placed Many months but delivery was on a sunday afternoon some must whue others most Pray East f Gregory Horne from Nuice on a 30day Furlong i lifter four sirs service without More thata a week l int too Happy Abbot Tissier ated to go to heres Why Tissier married an English girl in went to France in and seen his wife their two ont hold Tissier said he made three unsuccessful nuts to get a furlough to his fourth try he got a but twas for East make it worse he hid to travel Augh England on his Way Back to the but he got one a Friendly contacted his they an eight minute Telephone Conversa i by Ralph Martin stars and stripes staff writer with the 28th division in was sunday in Colmar and the people were All dressed up in their Best walking Down the going to High in the misty Gray sky five Messerschm its were zooming inside the peeling off and diving Down to bomb and strafe the cites shells were coming so close that some soldiers kept wanting to fall Flat on their trucks and troops were Rushing in and out of the City on All the and on the main lying face Down in a Sticky Pool of was a freshly killed German but except for a Small semicircle of kids staring at the dead Kraut from a respectful the civilians did not seem to notice just As nobody seemed to notice the shells or tanks or it was sunday in Colmar and the people vere going to it want that they had separated themselves from the War simply by being clean and walking slowly and ignoring the War they been hearing and seeing War for ten weeks now and it had become part of that but not everybody was Calm and on a Side Street in a courtyard a Little old woman was crying and waving a faded homemade 16star american Flag while the troops Rode she said her brother was in a nazi concentration Camp for two years just because he gave some bread to a captured French and one old Man spit on the ground where 20 freshly captured krauts were prodded along Fay the they were sad looking droopy specimens of super but during noontime two smartly dressed is troopers came keeping in while a tired Doug foot walked behind with a the is troopers smiled broadly As if they were a dead nazi in the streets of sharing a big joke and even winked at a woman passerby who smiled Back at a weapons Carrier zigzagged among the trucks and pulled into the sidewalk across the troops covered the dead German and put him on the truck and pulled out leaving the kids there in a semicircle still the Pool of while their elders walked by on their Way to heavies strike German rails heavy bombers of the 8th air Force slashed at Germany yesterday for the first time since saturdays record blow on Berlin As Over fortresses and defended by some 850 mus tangs and attacked Indus trial targets in the Center of the mainly in the Leipzig and Chemnitz two Mustang fighter the 4th and the peeled off in sectors near Leipzig and Frankfurt main to shoot up rail targets and air Between them got 29 37 freight cars arts three pilots of the 55th riddled a nazi troop sent frantic Jerries streaming out of windows and doors and left the Loco motive and cars the 4lh blew up an ammunition pouncing on it with a Hail of bullets that set off an explosion in one car and touched off a other 14 Box cars filled with the was Busy during Mon Day night and with squadrons of speedy mosquitoes stinging Berlin and rails and communications in Northwest Welling tons of coastal command ranged Over the dutch coast in bad weather Ziarn boat pens along the reports filtered in from Neutral according to picturing Berlin fires still soldering after saturdays great with time bombs exploding and Rescue squads wearing Gas masks in some District to combat the thick Many of the bombs cascaded on the Center of the City smashed water making firemen helpless against Reichs grapes turned Sotir 3 delayed a Middle aged German who swapped their new York Home for a new life in the Reich after Pearl pleaded today for american wearing american colors in the lapels of their they approached the first american correspondents to enter Lodz since the wehrmacht Retreat and ruefully exclaimed Why cant we be considered lived there for nearly 20 and Heinrich Immoor admitted that they had not been molested by the polish the biggest mistake of my life was to return to said i had worked for a Long time in new York for a travel conducting annual Tours to the when War broke out i was so when the Chance was offered for i took swearing the oath of neutrality before i my wife and i realized our mistake the moment we arrived Immoor concluded naively after new we  help being a Little disappointed by