London Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 14, 1945, London, Middlesex                                Daily German Hamende in die Henda in Dee he hands up new York London edition Paris daily newspaper of armed Force 5 in the european theater of operations 1945 daily French lesson y Atli in grand Magasin Par id an Gron Marazan Paree see is there a store around Here Budapest Falls to russians canadians fight Back nazi blows troops of the Canadian 1st army were reported last night to be breaking into open country Between the Rhine and the Maas after Clearing virtually All of the Reichwald Forest against Strong resistance by enemy known to include elements of seven Divi Sims thrown in to oppose Henry Crefars thrust into hard fighting was said to be in pro Gress East of captured Cleve As the Ger mans sought to keep British forces from pushing Clear of the second Belt of the Siegfried ten Miles Southwest of Steve Allied troops set up a Bridgehead Over the Niers River East of taken yesterdays dispatches Dis dosed that three German counterattacks had been repelled on two at the Reichs Walds Eastern tip and another of roads radiating from Cleve and the town itself were under constant enemy artillery and mortar some of it from across the dispatches enemy forces were estimated at about double what they were when Crefars Campaign began a week against or Over Rivers along Mostof the Western front the Allied armies were drawn up against or were fighting across Rivers protecting the from North so they were the the the the the the the the the Moder and the Rhine where it forms the Boundary Between Alsace and the 1st and 9th armies were with both forces poised on the Banks the flooding Roer waiting for River to while part of die 3rd army was across the Prum farther South other units of this army merged the lower two of their previous three Bridgehead across the our and Sauer Rivers into a holding ten Miles Long and two Miles Cap Ture of on the West Bank be tween the two present was said to have cleared the germans from germans captured since sheaf total including by the 12th army for the 21st army group and for the 6th army allies to police greek voting 13 Allied Powers will be asked to Send observers to guarantee the honesty of the greek elections and the plebiscite on the under the terms of the peace last night Between the greek government and main terms of the pact include martial jaw to end of the pact no Annesty for Elas men fail to sum i arms by Ela Sheld hostages to be released at criminals to be toiled Over to the government a National greek army to be formed including Elas Ihei government to purge state including of collaborators fighting on Elas Side not to be regarded k cause for spy suspect maims i trying to foil nazis new 13 accused As a German so yesterday he plotted to get away the nazis and when he arrived in last december he bed to his com i Faion and Erich 1 didst want to locate Gimpel inhere he could build and operate a As the trial went into its seventh an army communique in fitted the possibility that in foam his May have contacted the Julior an army the report said it Colepaugh last 23 visited Lund of and him he was in Mulcahy told he thought he knew of a Man who an Fri the communique report added that Colepaugh also issued with Mulcahy the possibility of no an army nes first Back in 13 director James today from the crimean con he apparently is the first attending the conference to to the whats in a name i Joe by any Moniker is the Man big 3 silent signal corps and s and s photos by Cordaro proof that any one of millions of doughboy might have been the stars and stripes Man of the year is offered to these Hobart Drew upper left was erroneously named As the Man belonging to the face published in s but actually it was John Parks upper Drews upper Drew is shown As he recuperate in a and above he puzzles Over the remarkable resemblance of his Fuller details of the snafu a snafu proves the Point no matter what you Call a Joes still Man of the year on the stars and stripes published a picture of an Anonymous i whom it had selected As its Man of the the picture was chosen from among hundreds because we thought the face in it mirrored what we were trying to say when we picked our Man of the he could be any one of hundreds of the original picture was of a Guy in a tankers we changed to an Ordinary infantryman helmet because be want to single out any one Arm or and the infantry seemed to cover most then readers wanted to know who the Guy on 8 we told but we told them this explains Kwh dear the Story of this snafu Only goes to show that you and All the Joes who wrote in choosing frontline i Joe As our Man of the year were be any one of you remember we searched through hundreds of pictures to get the night face and How we finally came across the one that mirrored the guts and misery of thousands of frontline soldiers then All those letters poured in asking this Joes we decided to print and went Back through those hundreds of and got the name of Hobart of that where die snafu came i pulled the wrong the picture we ran january 1 As our Man of the year was not a picture of it was of John of Mill As you the papers and news magazines Back Home first made a big play on interviewed his ran pictures of him the Way he looked before he came overseas and the Way War changes a frontline soldiers this play want the kind we of because we never wanted to single out any one Doug foot from the thousands to whom nobody Ever can pay adequate then in new York my snafu was found so they interviewed Parks Ella in Mill continued on Back Page officer gets 20 years in Black Market trial Norris of was found guilty of Blac marketing army supplies at a general court martial Here today Ami sentenced to 20 years hard labor and a pm honorable to Date 154 men have been sentenced to tents of imprisonment ranging from threw to 50 years while including one have been 24 killed As Navy plane crashes in Frisco san 13 Twenty four persons were killed today when a Navy transport plane crashed into san Francisco Bay shortly after taking off from Alameda the dead were passengers and members of the on some items 13 big three kept mum on the answers to some major the associated press said they include russian Entrance into the War against procedure in the eleven member Security Council of the proposed world peace for crushing new blows into Germany from North and surrender terms which we shall impose together on nazi of the Baltic Latvia and Lithuania have been incorporated into the soviet but the and Britain have never recognized the settlements other than the Russ polish set at the Curzon conclusions about the future of the old league of nations mandates and italian tornadoes kill 43 in South 13 ans swirling Over m Mississippi and Alabama yesterday took a toll of at least 43 dead and 200 injured and caused pro Perty damage running into hundreds of thousands of worst hit was where More than 50 freight cars were tossed about like match Montgomery alone counted its dead at 26 and its injured at More than nine were known dead at the storm first hit leaving a path of destruction before turning eastward into dead in the Meridian area were placed unofficially at seven with More than 50 persons bag push ahead to Dresden Long besieged capital of fell to the red army yesterday As marshal Konies troops driving toward Central Germany in a bid to split hitlers East front smashed ahead on the roads to Berlin and Konies threatening the entire wehrmacht Force facing marshal Zhu Kovs front before Berlin with envelop ment from the was made up of two main the Northern push was aimed at Berlin according to German admin had crossed the Bober River North of Sagan and was nearing the town of Sommerfeld is Only about 75 Miles from the nazi capital and 27 Miles Southeast of where Zhukov was said to have established a Bridgehead Over the the germans were reported pouring Large forces of reserves into the path of this movement in an Effort to pre vent a linkup with Zhukov move becoming obvious one nazi commentator said that the enemy intention to outflank the German line Between Frankfurt and Kustrin and later on Berlin itself from the South is now becoming Konies Southern Wing was headed toward big Industrial and rail Way Center less than 70 Miles the germans said these troops had reached the ques nine Miles West of the Bober River which Stalin announced had been reached 24 hours the immediate objective of this Offen Sive apparently was Industrial Center 18 Miles Southeast of their re ported Gorlitz is located on the Neisse River along which the germans arc expected to establish a defense line to protect the Centra area of the marshal Stalin in an order of the Day addressed to marshals Malinovsky and to Bukhin last night announced the Cap Ture of Budapest after one of the bitterest sieges in history More than prisoners fell to the red army in the Battle for the Hun Garian Stalin no men Tion was made of the germans and killed but it was estimated that More than men were sacrificed in an Effort to hold the Danube Garrison guarding the Road to opens Way for double thrust the fall of Budapest opens the Way for a double thrust along both sides of the Danube toward Vienna and the Southern end of the Morava Northern end of which is being threatened by Petrovs Advance through the car in his drive toward the Morava Gap was reported Only four Miles from the czech fron tier at one there was Little news from the Center of the East front where marshal Zhukov was Only about 30 Miles from German said that Zhukov had massed men on the Oder and that his building up operation has been his Northern thrust toward was reported within 17 Miles of the Baltic in East marshal Rokos Sovsky and Chern Vakhovsky were said to be tightening their ring around the trapped German 15th of hits Vienna again Allied 13 Reuter bombers of the 15th air Force with fighter escort attacked targets in Vienna in Daylight first negro was overseas reach by Victor Lasky stars and stripes staff writer Nispa Tankard didst realize that lincolns was in a Small Way making history when she stepped off a troop transport at a North England the first negro wac to set foot on foreign a new was followed by an entire battalion of negro consisting of 26 officers and 686 enlisted interviewed at what used to be a ritzy boys school and now serves As the was combined living training school and Tankard modesty admitted today that her debut among the legion of firster was just a Lucky everybody was so excited just As we were about to Debar that no one knew what was going explained the 31 year old who before volunteering for the army was employed by the Edge Adams Nispa Tankard Wood Arsenal in the was will be in the just Long enough to familiarize themselves with the work of the army directory they will then take Over on the con it was explained by their com manding Charity of member of the first class of wac oct candidates to be com in said that her troops will be trained in changing addresses of american soldiers who Are Battle reinforcements or trans we Are the first army postal unit composed entirely of she the i Janes were met on arrival by Benjamin highest ranking negro in the carrying Field equipment and to the tune of a bagpipe pumped by a kilted first the girls had Ever they filed off the ship in orderly manner onto a waiting they were greed in Birmingham by the brass band of the 10th replacement which blared Forth Roll out the barrel to keep the girls in oldest wac in the group was Erma whose sprigs by Bear ing belies her Granny to her younger who comes continued on Back Page