London Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 15, 1945, London, Middlesex Daily Germani lesson i die Waff ii stricken Dee Waffen stricken Lay Down you arms new York the London edition Paris daily newspaper of armed forces 5 in the european theater of operations thursday 1945 daily French lesson be Vou Drais Manger Juh Woodray Malmay i want to eat hits Dresden to help reds planes blast West front nazi blows air operations dominated the thawing Western front yesterday As tactical taking utmost Advant age of one of the rare Days of Superb flying dealt unrelenting punishment to the breaking up six counterattacks against the slowly advancing Canadian 1st blasting ammo dumps close to the Battle line and creating havoc along communications lines in the enemy rear Complete figures on the number of flown by the Allied airmen were Friot available last but there were that perhaps flights had seen As the tap rocked the Reich in the West while the heavies hammered targets in the path of the red army in laced German forces rocket firing operating on what dispatches called the cab rank to sweep in when sum German forces attempting hold up the Advance of Henry a stars troops with counter thrusts on the Southern and Eastern flanks of the Battle battered by the rockets and concentrated the germans were said to have pulled Back to prepared ammo dumps were believed destroyed in air blows against the Southeastern tip of the Reich Wald Forest and at Halven on the Highway from other targets included enemy troop concentrations in the Battle american combers hit Geldern and behind the fighting of the German counter attacking formations withered under the fire of the those who came on were Cut by the scottish enemy counter thrusts against the Jwj Allied Bridgehead across the Niers fever were in greater and broke into the Forward positions before the attack was beaten in each the germans struck simultaneously from three canadians fighting on dispatches said the Canadian 1st army was now fighting its Way toward the third and final Siegfried defense Belt in of their this line is ten Miles beyond the present fight ing with the main anchors at Jug Intel and with the Roer River Only slowly sub siding from flood stages caused by the Masting of the flood Gates on dams to the both the 1st and 9th armies were virtually standing Fri the 3rd army doughboy of division were engaged in Street fitting at on the rim of the Sauer River quiet also was in order along the 7th army except for sporadic artillery duels in the Hagenau Tito honors airmen Ira Mediterranean and 71 other air officers land noncom have received the partisan High Jugoslav awarded marshal the Jugoslav radio said Block by capital by capital Budapest factories fell before the russian onslaught in one of the concluding Battles for the capture of the hungarian the fall of the City was announced wednesday by marshal Stalin after a bitter two month Cavite naval base Manila Battle nears end capture of Cavite naval base and Nichols Field by troops of the Lith airborne division was announced yesterday by Douglas Macarthur shortly before he disclosed that the end is in sight for the japanese Garrison stubbornly defending a narrowing pocket inside the Southern part of Headquarters of the Asiatic eight Miles South West of Manila across the paratroops pushed five Miles up the narrow Peninsula on which it is located to restore Cavite to american other airborne troops crushed the last enemy resistance at Nichols four Miles South of where a Strong enemy Force had been resisting bitterly for More than a inside Southern Manila the japanese were making their final pinned to a three mile stretch of Dock area along Manila with Little Hope of a United press dispatch from Manila said the japs had ordered civilians into barricaded them and then set the buildings machine gunning any attempting to the japs threw incendiary grenades into one Refuge Center holding Only 700 Are be troops were said to have found bodies of 200 persons who had been bound before being shot by the the Navy department announced yesterday in Washington that the aircraft uss Momaney and the minesweeper uss have been lost in the Philippines area through enemy the Momaney Bay is the tenth Carrier to be sunk since the War Antifreeze liqueur kills blinds 6 gee 14 which the Barkeep said he bought from a mixed with flavor and colouring and sold As Creme de a popular French was responsible for the death of nine soldiers and a French civilian and the blinding of six other gis and two an investigation showed to the Antifreeze mixture contained 30 per cent Methyl one Way to avoid being Booby bait Are try signal corps photos of takes no chances with Gorman equip 1 abandoned near a Shell scarred building Ina French town to the 7th he docks behind the building before pulling the string he attached to the trigger of a nazi 2 Eto depots train shave tails Eto depots of the ground forces reinforcement com already turning out several thou Sand trained riflemen each expect to double the figure within a Short he z announced stripping their program of All the two 12th in England and the 16th in preparing service troops for infantry action in six the retraining program covers the three fundamental phases of ability to handle All types of infantry to take care of oneself in the and to obey instructors Are mainly veterans of combat in this g3 officials also announced details of the oct for infantrymen which opens 26 at a depot in officers and instructors from fort Are now preparing the depot to handle the first the 12week course at the French depot is modelled after the was 17 week course in the although it is intended to prepare Rifle platoon leaders the school will turn out More than officers a month when in full operation and will handle More than candidates at a volunteers Are now being chosen from and air Force in addition to the straight oct the new depot will offer an eight week refresher course of infantry training to com air and ground Force service Battle commissioned officers from no infantry branches will also be Given this although they will return to their old outfits on completion of Thi the depot will also offer a three weeks orientation course to infantry officers who have won Battlefield plans Are completed to handle 300 of these officers each in some cases Battle commissioned infantry officers would be used As Koniaev near Saxony in 2pronged drive to split Germany the heart of Germany rocked with tremendous explosions yesterday As More than 8th air Force heavy bombers dropped tons of High explosives and incendiaries on transportation and Industrial targets in three important including still blazing from the effects of a double Raf blow the night and threatened by the less than 70 Miles of red both the 8th air Force and Raf attacks on Dresden were in support of one offensive of marshal Konies smashing toward the City in a bid to Cut the Reich in while another drive struck North toward German Achung reports 4ast night indicated continuing air attacks Over Western russians threaten Reich Industry heavies plaster arms factories heavy bombers of the 8th air Idle since last weekends Thun dered out yesterday in support of red army salient aimed toward the heart of when More than fortresses and liberators dealt solid blows to the Industrial cities of Chemnitz and they dropped heavy explosives and in the path of the soviet and never before hit by a great weight of 8th of was the focal Point of the which followed the rats double barrelled blow on the qty the night of a Force of Raf bombers which struck Oil and Indus trial targets in the Reich tuesday night marshal Konies two pronged Offen aimed North toward Berlin arid West toward held the spotlight on the Eastern front again yesterday As his 1st ukrainian army troops penetrated the province of Brandenburg on a new front and threatened the Borders of Konies main thrust seemed to be in the direction of such a drive through the Rich Industrial so far almost untouched by the would Cut the Reich in this Southern Spear head was already Well on its Way to the Saxon an capital according to Moscow was storming the ques River about 70 Miles East of the Large Industrial Center about and yesterday 800 veered Oft to Dresden to Rock the Citrin two separate fortresses which battered Dresden yesterday met thick Clouds and had to bomb by the which has Large railway Yards and factories producing such vital War supplies As machine guns and Conti fixed on Back Page Drill refusal sentence Cut from life to 5 14 death sentence passed on Henry Weber at a court martial for refusing to Drill at a California army Camp was to Day reduced to five years the death sentence was previously commuted to life but the reviewing authorities reduced it to five years to equalize the sentence in Accord Ance with the policy of the War depart in the right direction patrol got lost in the night but found itself some Jerries by Pat Mitchell stars and stripes staff with 19th beyond the Siegfried 13man night combat patrol got but it brought Back 73 thoroughly dazed prisoners of some time after they left behind them the last thin strand of Telephone wire leading Back from the advanced riflemen led by Joe of stumbled from their planned path and landed in the midst of an area fortified by two pillboxes and a reinforced Concrete Emmons split his patrol with Irving of and took the House with hand Twenty two Jerries who thought they were far enough behind their lines when they went to Steep across the Street in some Village which i dont even know the name of because we were was keeping the Pillbox fire to a minimum with direct fire at All the but the according to had stirred up the Jerries and two tanks came up and let go at us in the i called Over to Lourie for Bazooka the Angle want Good so he sent me a Bazooka and i fired a couple of shots and scared away the the private Little War the 13 night fighters had started called for German but Lourie was waiting for the tanks had pulled away and we were All very Down the main Street came a reinforced platoon of 41 advancing without knowing exactly where we we let them know without firing a shot and grabbed off the whole Dan Bunch of said Emmons assembled the nights looked for yank artillery flashes and checked his we made it Back although having these Jerries with us sorta slowed us he 50 Miles from was the first big objective in this to the another of Konies Mobile columns was moving in the Berlin direction and German radio said Street fighting was raging in five Miles inside the province in which Berlin Swiss radio placed these troops 13 Miles Northwest of Sora at about 70 Miles from marshal Stalin last night in an order of the Day announced the capture of seven key towns in Miksia by Konies one of on the West Bank oif the Oder 75 Miles Northwest of is the farthest Point to the Northwest yet reported reached by Konies its capture meant that this army believed to consist of five now holds about 150 Miles of the the primary objectives of this right Wing were Guben and garrisons guarding the Southern approaches to if nazi reports that red army spearheads had reached Sommerfeld were the russians were Only 15 Miles from Guben and 70 Southeast of Guben also was mentioned As a possible spot for a linkup Between the forces of Koniecy and Zhukov for an fallout flank ing drive on the nazi far behind this front Breslau and Glogau were under close official sources in Moscow remained continued on Back Marshall Tours italian front with 5th 14 a chief of staff George in a Surprise visit to the italian told Allied troops today they were pre venting a Large enemy Force there from bolstering hitlers hard pressed troops on the Eastern and Western the who was at the big three Crimea has spent three Days tour ing the 5th army representatives of 12 nationalities of the 5th and 8tb armies formed a guard of Honor which met Marshall at Mark Clarks 14 judge Samuel president Roosevelt left today by special plane for Italy it is reliably he will con Fer with the
