London Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 16, 1945, London, Middlesex R shoot Buzz bombs at 9th army German flying in greater numbers than have been seen on any Day directed against frontline troops on the Northern Sec Tor of the Western front As the germans apparently soul jilt turn the weapon into a Short Range an associated press correspondent with the 9th reported last slight f on the 9ths relatively quiet dispatches said operations were confined to local contacts because of the Roer River which Are gradually subsidy following wednesdays Daylight sweeps by Allied airmen Arong roads and railways opposite the 9th the Luftwaffe came up that night drop High explosives and antipersonnel bombs and carry out some 7th comes to a Jefe in the 7th army suddenly came to life after several Days of artillery duels a Surprise attack on a five mile front past of which took the town of near ble Brucken in a 2jmile yesterdays Canadian Isle army operations were reported in dispatches to have been principally with consolidating gains won against increasingly stiff German opposition to the sector Between the Rhine and the f Crefars having outflanked the second Belt of Siegfried were said now to hold a saw line from the opposite to a Point two Miles South of to the the germans were reported using dense minefields and heavy mortar and artillery fire to bar the Way below Cleve to Crefars immediate objectives the Road junctions of Cal car and Udem and the fortified town of i hard going All the Way Goch was said to be defended by rings of antitank ditches and dragons giving it a deep scottish troops were three Miles from facing hard going Alj the on the 3rd army front around Prum the doughboy held their despite increased German artillery further gains were scored in the Echter each Black widow were Busy wednesday slashing Road find rail traffic beyond the 3rd army dense mists yesterday stymied tactical air following wednesdays fighter bomber Campaign against the German lines opposite the canadians and enemy rear Communia i which 139 rail made on both sides of the casualties now 15 ground forces on the front lost men from Day to Secretary of War Henry Stimson announced the total included wounded and missing and reflected an increase of in during the month were wounded and Stimson also reported the army casualties in All Heaters since the wars beginning totalled through coupled with the navys losses of tins put total american combat losses at an increase of since last weeks web defy costs firm army Navy contracts 15 government brought out a new drastic weapon today for use against defies of alb orders when Fred director of economic can celled the army and Navy contracts held a Brooklyn he also cancelled their priority ithe company refused to comply with web Vinson minus priority it was pointed a manufacturer conceivably could1 be put oat of new York London edition Paris daily newspaper of armed forces 5 in the european theater of operations i94s daily French lesson in Verre of put own proud ran Vair where can we have a drink Allied heavies hit Berlin line for russians say soviets link push in Dresden the Southern spearhead of mar Shal Konies spectacular two Way thrust through Silesia last night slashed to within 50 Miles of Dresden while the Northern drive toward according to German penetrated to within 12 Miles of important communications Point about 70 Miles Southeast of the nazi Konies right Wing also was reported to have linked up with marshal Zhukov directly facing in the Gruenberg farther North on Zhukov Berlin the germans said fighting had flared up but added Chat there was no change in the situation As a although the russians made appreciable gains All along the Eastern from yesterday the spotlight was entered on the twin drives of Konies 1st ukrainian so Swift were these advances that a collapse of germ resistance was f both wings make gains both wings of Konies drive made Gigantic gains in the last 24 in the South a jump of 22 Miles was reported and elements of his forces were said to be at the approaches to the German bastion guarding one correspondent from How said that russian spearheads were Only 45 Miles from the capital of if meant they had crossed the Neisse River on which Gorlitz stands and were within five Miles of the Saxony there was no official that Bridgehead had been established a fuss the the last water Barrier before or that Konies forces had even reached the the Northern spearhead of Konies according to nazi had bit 23 Miles deeper into Brandenburg province from which they said had been reached these troops were placed at on the West Bank of the 28 Miles South of Fursten Berg where Zhukov has a Bridgehead Over the captures Are announced Konies penetration Gruenberg was confirmed by marshal Stalin in an order of the Day in which he also announced the capture of Sora and of East of it was in this area that a nazi military spokesman stated earlier that a Loose connection had been established Between the armies of Koniaev and Gruenberg is 90 Miles Southeast of v this Northern drive seemed to be aimed at cutting All the main railway lines and roads running South and Southeast of it also would outflank Berlin from the begin an out flanking movement against Prague most of Bohemia from the and threaten nazi garrisons left behind in Central the capture of Cottbus would deprive the germans of their last big communication link Between Berlin and the czech behind this red army drive scores of isolated nazi units were being Annahi North of Zhukov Frankfor Kustrin continued on Back Page All roads of War Lead to Berlin army signal corps photos combat engineers cleared and repaired this Road near then erected this sign which Points the Way All front line troops Are army signal corps photos infantry of the 90th division press on toward eventually through a wide open space in the Siegfried line at b29s smash Jap Home biggest aircraft factories Home of the Mitsubishi plane largest in was pounded in bad weather yesterday by Saipan based super forts in their seventh 1945 raid on japans third the 21st bomber command announced from Tokyo radio said other Industrial targets on japanese Home had been proposes More pay in Gene Arnold Dis for overseas service 15 John Sparkman proposed today that All members of the armed forces be granted a five per cent increase in pay for each year after the first years overseas the increase would be in addition to the Flat 20 per cent increase for enlisted men and ten per for now awarded overseas swedes oust 5 nazis 15 members of the German legation staff were advised by Sweden today to leave for the germans had been engaged in ferreting out names of norwegian refugees in Sweden for use in directing reprisals relatives still in Ido Inglis say Yalta was of with some a Mencari soldiers k the Western front yesterday found Job Clurin general agree sent with the Deci e Yalta but some boys wanted More Assurance that i big threes plans for Post Weir Ger would be put into effect in every r ail l f Joeres what a few of them had to say lib stars and stripes correspondent Dan an reported Soldier comment from the they just put these facts Down on 1 and turn a ounce and do the same did after the last then every i we Are fighting for said of a of Ford 38th saw the con t i Ted for he and r he does about peace terms and spation of Germany is Good for i the 393rd regiment of the 99th Jim of Little suggested that the russians and English do the occupying so we can go and jeep Driver Curtis of mount said let the russians have the biggest they played the biggest the germans should have to pay for All this damage and pay said pfc Wayne of 18th no punishment is too hard for these 1 Hope All the Good Points they decided upon Arent just left on paper but carried out to the fullest Martin of a platoon Leader in 3hth said i was hoping for peace or sur Render terms to come put of this con i think the plan is said Reynold of a 9thi regiment Soldier from the 2nd Divi but i think they ought to give the individual German soldiers something More definite to look Forward to so they will know what their Fate will the terms to Germany Arent Tough said pfc Edgar of 23rd regiment he said he would like to see countries like Jugo Slavia and Poland get a share in policing pfc Raymond of another 311th saw the conference As proof that the allies can stars and stripes correspondents Ray Lee and Ernie Leiser reported varied comment from the 9th army with the soldiers getting Shorter and less enthusiastic the nearer they got to the they can slice Germany up or do whatever they want with it just Send me said George of a tank in glad they Are bearing said Jack a 2nd armoured at least they let us know is going Arthur of continued on Buck Page in closed that a new b29 bomber Wing is already operating from Tinian South of from advanced Headquarters of Chester it was announced that army liberators had again hit iwo Jima in the Volcano the 69th daily attack on the tiny Island on the b29 path to in the troops were tightening a noose on Jap troops trapped in the old walled Section of yank caution was dictated by the Many filipino civilians still in the Doug feet of three using artillery closed in on the enemy contesting every House and front line reports told of Wanton particularly by the of unarmed filipinos by fanatic Jap Churchill in pledges greeks Aid 15 a prime minister who arrived yesterday in Athens with foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and Field marshal sir Harold Allied Mediterranean com from the big three Crimea meet was reported today to have told greek Premier Nicholas Plastiras that he would make every Effort possible to assist in rehabilitating the whose recently ended civil War was the cause of a similar visit by the Trio late in j2 convicted nazi spies sentenced to hang new 15 c an american whom the prosecution called a double crossing and Erich his German yesterday by a military commission As nazi spies and sentenced to die by both were charged with coming ashore from a German submarine at Hancock last november to serve As saboteurs and spies for the Kerai laity near capital is pounded the 8th air Force fashioned another mighty blow yesterday As its part in the growing air offensive in support of the advancing red army when it sent out More than fortresses and covered by 450 to attack Dresden and Magdeburg for the second Day in a and the key rail Center of Between Dresden and the raids followed a night in which the Raf again was out in Dis Patching More than most of them heavy which rocked Industrial Chemnitz before the rubble left by the Stohs raid wednesday afternoon could be smashed an Oil Plant near and bombed Nuremburg and fortresses and liberators of the 15th air Force ranged out from nazi Oil Cut 45ths9 they still have More 15 blows by Allied air forces and the red army have slashed German Oil production by More than sheaf announced that the wehrmacht could still Muster enough fuel to launch another Large scale counteroffensive and that it is never expected that Oil production will be sufficiently Cut to prevent it from doing the timeworn tag Germany has no Oil will not necessarily prevent another either on the Eastern or Western it was Italy for the third Day in a Row to bludgeon communications targets in the Vienna while medium and fighter bombers hit ammunition dumps and rail lines in Northern in the 4s hours beginning tuesday nearly aircraft of Allied bomber com mands have taken the air in the heavy raids against the Chemnitz and Dresden Are reported to be glowing with fires sown by the 8th and Raf with their tons of incendiaries and High in the Raf one two punch on incendiaries were dropped in addition to just 40 Miles South of Frank sits on the main rail lines running continued on Back Page see re Pope peace by for reports that president Roosevelt May visit Italy stirred speculation in washing ton yesterday that he May be exploring the possibility of establishing Friendly relations Between the Kremlin and the both of which Are destined to exert powerful influence in postwar Europe a Hough there have been no diplomatic or political relations Between them since the russian revolution a Quarte Century the associated press because of Security reasons the presi dents movements Are being kept but rumours have circulated concerning his plans and despite a denial by the French foreign office that it knew anything of a proposed visit by Roosevelt to Paris radio reported that he had stopped at Marseilles after the Crimea neither the French authorities nor police have made any arrangements for such a it was and a news paper report that sheaf had planned to receive the president brought from sheaf an official no at own director Elmer commenting on Paris hints of a scandal Over civilian Relief for France which might come out into the open if the president visited the said assumed the hints involved failure to ship As much civilian supplies to the French As had been he added this government made no Promise that i know estimates of shipments planned following Day were our guess rather than any pledge of
