London Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 12, 1945, London, Middlesex                                Page 8 the stars and stripes 1945 midair escape plane gunners life Hung from Chute strap 390m bomb airmen were killed recently when two heading for collided in midair near one of four Frederick of who has returned to duty recounted yesterday what an pro 1 was checking my gun Turret As our formation swung in a wide arc across the sky near London and headed for the Walsh explained our bomb Bay was filled with heavy explosives for a German As if warned by a sixth i glanced another bomber was slipping wildly Down on there was Only time to shout a warning into the interphone before the other plane pancakes onto us with a grinding almost immediately there was a Sharp explosion and i lost con when i came to i was lying it the base of my the whole lock ii was 1 could see the skipper and co Pilot slumped in their their bodies burned almost i thought of get Ting but at once discovered that my Chute was it was a terrible realization almost As if i were doomed to i r glanced at the escape leading onto i 19 probably destroyed and 27 the and found myself looking j also disclosed was a raid yesterday by b29s strike plane plants near Tokyo Mariana based Effort to cripple japanese aircraft the Nakajima factories at 40 mites Northwest of soon after an earthquake rocked Japan Over the it was announced yesterday in two of the giant bombers collided Over the target and 21st bomber command Headquarters no parachutes were seen to drop from the though fighter opposition was reported 20 Jap interceptors Ivere into the the plane had been blown n half by the explosion and the wind was whistling through the then i saw my Parachute dangling in space and held Only by part of the harness which caught on a jagged Edge of Metal a few feet from i was almost afraid to reach for for fear it might slip out of my finally i grabbed it and slipped it the whole cockpit was flaming As 1 stepped out the escape my Chute opened when 1 was Only a few feet above treetops and i landed on the ground with a rough too stunned and exhausted to villagers from a nearby English town gathered around me and helped me up gis held in 11 More than american soldiers Are in army custody around the world As prisoners for offences ranging Down from rape and this Means that one out of every 330 soldiers is a More than Are i Federal Peni More than in disciplinary Barracks which Are really army penitent More than Are in rehabilitation centers and Are prisoners the offences by army standards would be felonies under civil there Are probably soldiers held As prisoners in army Camps or garrisons in this country and these men Are being held for minor statistics came from Marion head of the army correction in an address before the army and Navy absence without leave and desertion Are the most frequent offences and the line Between them sometimes is report Patterson named v to Allied control Bod 11 Dent Roosevelt has chosen under Secretary of War Robert Patterson to be the member of the Allied control commission in the army and Navy journal said predicting that Patterson will be chairman of the from the people army air photo commemorating the birth of Abraham Lincoln 136 years ago american negro soldiers of the ask combat sup port Wing Lay a Wreath before the Lincoln statue in Platt Fields John is shown placing the India based b29s on japanese military installations in the Rangoon the Ota raid was the 52nd b29 raid on the enemy Home Dis patches stated it May have been the largest three b29s failed to return to their on troops continued their bitter House House weeding out of trapped japanese troops in the Southern Section of while other doughboy were reported to have entered in Nueva Ecija 19 Miles from Ding Alan a powerful Force was pushing on in using phosphorous and smoke grenades to drive the enemy from strongly defended in Mac Arthur announced that food and Relief agencies were already functioning to care for the civilian population he was reacting with High despite the widespread iwo in the Volcano was again heavily pounded by army libera Chester Nimitz said yes Mustangs of the 14th air Force on saturday destroyed 46 aircraft on the ground and damaged 52 in their first attack on Jap held seaport in Shantung it was announced in russians Cut key rail line continued front Page 1 and was reported within five Miles of the main Stetti Danzig this Northern drive is made up of three separate the most Westerly is aimed to the West of Stargard with the Center push directly toward the the Easterly drive is developing North of Schneidmuhl in the direction of Neu nazi commentator von Hammer admitted that Zhukov troops had reached 22 Miles Southeast of other reports said elements of his army had penetrated into the Stargard 20 Miles East marshal was swinging into position for an assault on the threat to the free City was greatly increased by the fall of capture of which provided Rokos Sovsky with a Good base for Danzig to Kossovsky who recently captured were Only 25 Miles Southeast of the great Baltic the capture of important nazi shipbuilding also strengthened the soviet wedge driven through Hast Prussia barring the escape of the German Garri son estimated at 20 general on the other Side of the pincer lightened the ring around the trapped nazis and tightened his grip on Posen and All surrounded far behind the front also were believed to be in the last stages of in the siege of Budapest was about finished in its 45th with the nazi Garrison believed flier bails rescues Rescue party Eastern air fighter Pilot forced to bail out Over territory Rife with japanese patrols while returning from a routine Burma Road Mission had the experience recently of rescuing the rescuers sent to Rescue when James of he knew an american Mats task Force was picking himself he headed a few hours later he Jnet a group panting medics sent to find 7 the knocked out medics they told the airman they thought they were a Little familiar with the Mcguire showed them the Way Home War taught them something not in the curriculum rieyyr1 the nazi is training Orden Borg Dulf u As it looked in captured German films before the 9th infantry division Mored a corps cameraman with the 9th Drol this picture after heavy Aerial and artillery bombardment had softened up the school for eventual before captured film shows the school when Goering visited it on an inspection tour and talked to its smugly certain that their pro duct would conquer by a signal corps photographer on the same Patio where Goering took this picture of an american machine firing of nazi positions across the Urf stauske West fronts continued from Page 1 breaking up counterattacks and barring reinforcements from coming George patrons 3rd army forces forged their ten Crossings of the our and Sauer Rivers into three major Bridge in the area of Wallen Dorf and reports the Bridgehead averaged about four Miles Long and about a Ernie on the Alsace doughboy of the 7th army 36th division met great re probable direction of thrust by 1st Canadian Anne distance in a new three pronged attack across the Moder Between Hagenau and the Rhine 6th army group he said the Campaign against Colmar pocket had eliminated the German 19th army As an effective the 63rd infantry division was Dis closed to be part of the 7th commanded by Louis the divisions Rolls Are largely made up of new Pennsylvania and new England the first units went into the line on 22 berlins a popular target red fliers dolt too by Semenov red army correspond in on the russian 8 so Long ago Berlin was in the rear of the German today it lies in the soviet frontline zone of soviet scouting Stormo Viks and fighters Circle inces Santly Over the Region of in spite of heavy Clouds and there Are several takeoffs a Day to strike at enemy Battle formations and his communications leading to the a few hours ago i spoke to a group of pilots who had just j returned from a flight to where they had won an air fight almost Over the German several planes took part in the hero of the soviet Union Anatoly Volkov piloted a while his escort was a group of lavochkin5 fighters led by Matvei they were met by intense but Clou Banks helped them to get Over Berlin Volkov found an opening in the Clouds and he switched on his camera and flew Low Over Many he told me that the streets in the Eastern District were almost Tram cars were standing on the rails apparently abandoned As their roofs were with undisturbed few automobiles the Industrial areas seemed just As no smoke came from their factory after the planes reached the southwestern part of the Here All roads leading from Berlin to the South West were thronged with automobiles and carts moving in twos and and just when the planes were turning Back to the East two groups of Focke wolfs and Messe Schmitts appeared in the Pinch pc radioed a message to your former keep steady went in with his fighters against the Pinchuk told me that the distance Between the German and the soviet planes was sufficient to permit the latter to return to their territory without entering into but below us Lay i had to get my first Battle Over the German capital and to give the berliners a he the fight broke out Over the Eastern it lasted perhaps five having the advantage in the soviet fliers held the Pinchuk and three of his fliers brought Down a Germany fighter then four More Focke wolfs came in to Aid their Merix the soviet fliers formed two tiers and fought at various the skirmish More German planes were brought Down and the turned framed in England by the times publishing printing hoax Terry and the pirates by Courtesy of news Syndicate re the sbj66awt in Low Pat Evan us a Wall of aeon no our Al Plank and i Cost p6tail whats the de w6 Moi he t3 if Ovik Jown with Willow Coop sh00tw picture want u miss to Cocks Kokor 1du7 in about Guys saluting while Cove keep that we not1d this steer quarantine Sooh 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