London Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 9, 1945, London, Middlesex                                Dailly German lesson sets Aba sixteen new Yorito London edition Paris daily newspaper or armed forces 5 1 is in the european theater of operations 1945 daily French lesson Jene comp ends Pas Juh Utrah Kaump Rahrig a i dont understand reds Stream across mass to attack Berlin i planes Rake in azi lines in West tank Battle rages chaos grips Reich marshal with virtually All German resistance smashed along the Central front due East of last night was reported pouring Liis red army forces across the Oder River Over at least four Bridgehead in pre 1 Parathion for a massive frontal assault on the German there was no official confirmation from the russians that they had crossed the Oder in the Frankfurt Kustrin but broadcasts from both Berlin and Moscow that soviet spearheads had hurdles the water Barrier and were within 30 Miles of the most optimistic report came from finnish radio which claimed that russian tanks had probed to the outskirts of the there was no Confirma Tion of this from any brussels1 radio followed the finnish report with a broadcast that panic had broken out in Berlin and that Complete chaos reigned in the Reich it previously had been reported that the Eastern outskirts of Berlin had been evacuated in the face of the russian broadcasting from a lbs correspondent said that the soviet capital was expecting an official state ment that Zhukov had smashed across the River in signifying a Complete breakdown of the nazi defense line along the Ope German spokesman admitted that the russians had expanded All four Berlin Bridgehead along a 30mile stretch of the River Between Kustrin and a few Miles South of he located these Bridgehead at seven Miles South of two Furstenberg and another Between 1 Frankfurt and it was that Only russian infantry had crossed to the West Bank of the River and that the Bridgehead were Small to serve As jumping off places for Large scale the spokes that these were being russian tanks on the East Bank of the Driver were reported fighting in the and Kustrin continued on Page 4 China coast fight the next Asiatic Campaign will be on Ethe Cluna Secretary of War Henry Stimson declared yesterday in Wash describing Manila and Luzon As bases with plenty of Elbow room for forthcoming operations against although asserting that japans sea Lites to the suppl Rich East indies and Alaya had already largely been Cut non warned that a Tough Job Lay and because Jap Home defences were ill intact and the enemy productiveness not yet been fundamentally in Mac thurs troops had cleared the japs from part of die philippine the Southern Section below the g it was the had blown All four Bridges in the the enemy was still operating n Macarthur announced that Jap casual i in the Luzon Campaign so far totalled it against losses of including de and 19 missing a 1 ratio Fine americans officer psf to reopen London officers clothing will resume Sale of clothing to All on will be closed w and the clothing cards wid be recognized when the opens again two sure ways to get through what May the Scenic grandeur to an Idle tourist represents a Days work to signal men and Rhul skinners on the italian As wire Crews Check communication lines to lonely a Convoy of mules hauls rations to american outfits in accessible by their ignorance no Bliss Jerry Learned yanks were in took a Lotta shooting j by Jimmy Cannon j stars and stripes staff writer ins Luje Siegfried Schnee Eifel germans staged an unintentional counterattack on Branscheid that was perfectly timed with the precision of the who haunt been told we held the Mountain Road marched calmly into the town in columns of they were on their Way to Man Section soothe Siegfried line that already had they tame into brands bid As one in Fantry unit pulled out and another was taking Over the after four hours of Handt hand fighting in the streets and houses the yanks took More than 200 prisoners and killed a number of the everyone started shooting at once and no one knew who got the said the prematurely Gray commander of the regiment that took the for four hours fought a pitched Battle with clubbed fists and the enemy was imprisoned in the town by barricades of fire As our artillery Rin Geill Branscheid with a continual bar rage but the enemy shot mortars and rockets into the killing and wounding More nazi troops than the Battle had the sounds of an insane above the screams of the wounded and the tumult of arms you could hear men veiling in German English to identify by in the morning we had formed our lines and captured or wounded All of the reluctant but on a slope South of the town two of our platoons were Cut off in rain flooded Tan Riding infantry tried to reach them but were driven Back by fire from the High smoke was used to protect and some came Down the slope through the sliding through the thick mud under heavy but some Haven come out flying hazards Cut deicing systems s a developments in air plane heat deicing systems have greatly reduced toe forma Tion of ice on aircraft one of the i greatest hazards of the National advisory committee for aeronautics reported deking system of one Large plane requires More than 500 times As much heat As is needed to warm an average six room the committee no one wears his pants but Macarthur himself 8 the fall of Manila  break Douglas Macarthur policy of Public imposed by Macarthur on their arrival in Australia three a series of questions was submitted to her today for her reaction to her husbands new on to Tokyo a military aide issued the following handout Macarthur has never made a statement for she cannot now alter that policy without authority from general he in Only permission from there would enable her to she does Hope the press will appreciate her blast path open for fallout drive in Northern sector More than Allied medium and fighter bombers struck yesterday at German communications and troops Over a wide sector of Germany East of hammering the enemy throughout the Day in a followup of earlier night raids in which 700 Raf heavies had attacked Cleve and where the Northern end of the Siegfried line tapers off into the Reichwald the heavies had struck at enemy positions about five Miles in Advance of the line held by Field marshal Montgomery Allied yester Day some of the Taf using instruments because of dropped bombs on enemy objectives about Yards in front of the Allied the Allied assault was described unofficially As a softening up of sectors which May see the next fallout offensive on the Western yesterdays bomb ing sweeps were compared to those which had preceded the Battle of the Falaise Gap in the sectors attacked Are those which enemy broadcasts have asserted will Mark the Ste of the next major drive by the allies into and wednesday night the apparently sent up num Ber of flares so As better to observe the Battle Hanson new York times military wrote yesterday that the stage was being set for a breakthrough attempt across the asserting that the repeated German fears of a big Allied push were Baldwin said the 9th army was now massed on a narrow front and possibly was flanked or supported by a new american army about which censors have allowed some speculation in recent the British 2nd with the 9th and Canadian 1st armies makes up Mont Gomegys have been Baldwin yesterdays ground operations along the Western front saw the 1st army Cap Ture the fortified key Point in the drive for control of the Roer River dams continued 1st and 3rd armies pressure into the Maze of Siegfried and a Widen ing to ten Crossings of the 3rd army positions along the Eastern Banks of the our and Sauer Rivers in associated press dispatches from sheaf said both the 1st and 3rd armies were pushing through what were described As breaches in the Siegfried defences for a test of German strength in the More hastily prepared earthworks across the continued on Page 4 nazis stall 5th army drive for Bologna 8 5th army attack Southeast of Bologna has been brought to a standstill at the base of the Ortega seven Miles South of the Bologn Faenza by strongly fortified enemy the Allied command announced in the Serchio farther the 5th re pulsed several so do Jerries tigers have bad breath by Pat Mitchell stars and stripes staff writer with St infantry you Ever look into a tigers Mouth the wounded Guy he Lay ticketed for the evacuation Aid slowly forgetting the Bell he had with 5th division doughs he had approached the torrential Sauer River in the face of grazing machine gun and Small Cannon fire from Siegfried line pillboxes studding the Cliff Walls on the Northern i was carrying my Flamethrower and getting into position for this crossing when that knee clipping my fire chopped me he the River Valky West of he was like a knife Edge with Damn near vertical we were on one on the and it was like breathing in the a Tiger and him spitting added the wounded Joe from fifth division elements jumped off at 1 their rubber assault Buck the Snow swollen ran into sub merged barbed wire the germans then opened up every weapon in the Book from their steel and Concrete Ferris of describing this River the divisions sixth in face of enemy fire the eight foot Rise in the Sauer submerged the wire which originally lined the River and changed the fire of the enemy machine guns from plunging Type to vicious grazing the latter More efficient when fog and darkness conceal specific troop keeps their Tea warm this air Are Raf raid like diving into flames by Herb Palmer stars and stripes staff writer with the correspondent who has flown 8th Force missions on which targets bombed from upward of the Raf raid last night was like a Pool of the Lancaster in which i other planes on the a bomb run so Low we could see with the naked Eye Jerries running through the flames for the Arget was the German town of although i had jumped in the airborne landings in Holland last somebody woul Dve had to push me out last i was nervous and Only because i Felt a Deer kinship with these Raf was born in Nottingham and spent four years with the British army m the last 1 Able to keep my courage screwed had right to be nervous the headed by Stocky flight jell a former Wool merchant from was they had a right 10 the nervousness sprang not from the raid had been on 27 but from the fact that British and Cana Dian troops were not too far away from the hovering Over the directing the Lancaster in their was the master dont undershoot the it radioed our drop your bombs to the right of the red just As we readied for the a Tow lying Cloud came into we dived to less than feet before it was hurriedly decided not to town a blazing inferno the town was a blazing flares left by Raf pathfinders were still Burn ing to heighten the Many fires caused by the bombs dropped before our circling it was easy to see Sticks of bombs Jerries could be observed scampering around for Shel vehicles careened through the Rubbi Jed it was the first time i had close up what bombing the enemy actually we tried another this time it was it was like diving into a huge Pool of levelling enough to under the we dropped a blockbuster and a stick of the explosions were debris filled the and then came the it burst on All we German continued on Page 4 casualties placed at 8 can combat casualties since the beginning of the War have reached the army and Navy disclosed Secretary of War Henry Stimson placed the army losses at while the Navy listed a total of this represented an increase of since the report of last Stimson said the army losses represented a compilation through january a total of wounded soldiers have now returned to Stimson a total of germans have been taken prisoner on the West front since he