London Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 17, 1945, London, Middlesex                                Planes blast Tokyo new York London edition Julia  the Simca Paris daily newspaper of armed forces 5 in the european theater of operations i94s heavies hit nazi Oil also Pound West front rail lines More than 8th air Force heavy bombers struck powerful blows to destroy the remaining on fifth of German Oil production yesterday when they bombed Oil refineries and Benzyl plants at Salzberger and and raised More havoc with German rail communications to the Western front by blasting the Large mar shalling Yards of Osnabrock and out for the third successive Day of improved fortresses and libera escorted by approximately 200 hit two Oil refineries at Dort Mund and As Well As two plants making a vital compound for manufacture of synthetic in the Ruhr Industrial near Dortmund and blasted 3rd Day in Row other German Oil targets and rail communications in the Vienna area were blasted for the third successive Day by Strong forces of 15th air Force Neavy As Raf medium and heavy bombers hit an Oil refinery in Northern a special target which the 15th air Force also attacked was the Obe Traub Ling Ai drome at base for the new Jet propelled me262 bombing of Oil targets by the 8th heavies was done there were no reports at a late hour last night of losses or of enemy opposition to the forts and us staf announced that the losses in thursdays previously announced As 15 bombers and six had dropped to 12 bombers and two the previously unannounced wednesday losses were Given As eight bombers and five Dresden Heap of ruins wednesday and thursday by the following a heavy two wave night attack by the described in German reports As a Heap of the Berlin correspondent of the Stockholm Dagens a sheier declared that tens of Many of them refugees who had Small Chance to find had perished in the while a Moscow report said that Dresden was now in the throes of endless columns of refugees streaming into the City As others tried to just 35 Miles from Dresden and equally important to nazi defences in the suffered almost the same according to Berlin split split radio said today that four German human torpedoes had attempted earlier this week to blow up shipping in the Dalmatian Harbor of split coastal de lenses blew up three and forced the fourth into a it tanks aint All this baby can destroy army signal corps photo a 7th army tank destroyer lumbers up to a German held factory in the Kalten House and slugs away at the Mill with punches of  Iff martial Law for Reich marshal Konies red army less than 70 Miles from last night were closing m on the defense Triangle guarding the Southeastern approaches to the City As the in an attempt to bolster the wavering loyalty of the German imposed martial Law in the area immediately behind the fighting Berlin also was preparing for the coming according to reports which said that a defense plan had been built around the nazi party the City will be defended sector by German reports with berliners falling Back on the nazi party for information and instructions when nazi military getting Slack with British 16 of a breakdown in Ger Man military even among the wehrmacht crack were disclosed in documents taken from a group of 80 German officers and men who surrendered to British troops in the Canadian 1st army it was reported one order by the commander of a nazi paratroop outfit said in the last few weeks there has been an intolerable carelessness and Lack of discipline among All any excuse is Good enough for not carry ing out an weapons Are not main much equipment is lost through when a Soldier who is reprimanded by a Superior replies please get me relieved that shows a disgraceful Lack of from now very action will be in the University of cum i Lloja s pay off by Ralph Martin stars and stripes staff writer with 9th called Buck Rogers night there Are Only several dozen jct All of them most them not yet old enough to before they were transferred to the 407th of the 102nd most of them were studying subjects like psychology and Medicine and engineering at army sponsored College training courses All Over the now that Treyve joined up with Buck these boys Are going to school again every afternoon before they go out of a their psychology course teaches them when to yell what German commands in a thick Munich Beer Hall accent to confuse the their engineering lessons Are mostly in expert use of demolitions and operation of any Type of German or and instead of Medicine there learn ing How to kill quickly and quietly at night with a How to Blacken their faces and hands so that they can see without being their 1st Roy Buck Rogers sets the teaches the fads the Rogers is the kind of Guy who races after a Jerry with a Pease suddenly notices his Maga Zine has slipped but just keeps on pulling out his Trench knife to do the and he does the there was the time the raiders crossed the Roer and infiltrated so deep into the Jerry lines that they overran a company the Jerries were so surprised that they started said pfc Joe Evan who comes from Long Island but still talks like so we just kept shooting until the screaming by the time the screaming stopped the raiders decided that it was time to go in route Back to the River they a fancy network of deeply dug Foxholes and heard voices and saw they  resist so de of the University of dropped in a couple of grenades and a Kraut Corporal came running his hands his pants very anxious to but several others we rent so anxious and tried to make a run for they didst get very Rufus of notre opened up with an Chris of the University of let Loose with his bar and Enoch of started firing with his by the time the raiders had reached the Roer the air was filled with some How the patrol got Back without any purple heart College was never like Aid Paul who studied psychology at and instructions Goebbels was named As supreme commander for the defense of the German resistance appeared to be increasing yesterday As Koniaev sent his Armor against two Rivers and six cities in the path of his Advance toward the heart of the third the Rivers Konies 1st ukrainian army must Bridge Are the already reported unofficially to have been and the on which Berlin the cities on the Road to con trolling All communications in the Are Beeskow and Street fighting in Sagan Germany military reported Street fighting in Sagan and German counterattacks All the Way to across the 30 Miles North West of other unofficial reports from Moscow indicated that the Neisse had been shattered Over a 30mile stretch Between Cottbus and and that russian tanks were within 14 Miles of still burning after air raids on of these Beeskow is closest to standing about 30 Miles from the Guben was threatened both from the South and while Crossen May be taken either by Koniaev or by marshal Zhukov these two army groups were believed linked up in the Gruen Berg area reported captured on thursday by marshal Konies Southern slashing Westward toward was reported breaking into Silesia second Only 49 Miles from Saxony great Industrial Zhukov front along the Central Oder facing Berlin remained comparatively continued on Back Page say Raf officer contacts red command narrowing Down of the bomb line ahead of the russian armies has led to the installation of a Liaison command to direct the Allied raids on German a Reuters dispatch said last the officer in charge of this Liaison is believed to be in Moscow in closest touch with the soviet supreme com the Choice for this important Post has it is on a High Raf one of Eisenhower closest has had much experience in the coordination of Allied land and air biggest punch yet is thrown by Navy at Jap air Power in the boldest Challenge of the Pacific an estimated Rock Tanj bomb bearing Carrier planes blasted Tokyo Aird Romes and defense zones for nine hours yesterday As Chester Nimitz sent the most powerful Fleet in the navys history to within 300 Miles of Japan and assigned other mighty surface units to blast iwo in the Volcano 750 Miles South of the Nippon the giant first by Carrie launched planes since the Doolittle blow in and described by Nimitz As Long planned and fulfilling the deeply cherished desire of every officer and Man of the Pacific was carried out under the direction of Marc whose flattops were supported by cruisers and destroyers of Raymond spruance 5th spread out in line for 200 Mitscher As his hell divers and avengers swept Over Tokyo 214squaremile defense tangling in dogfights Over the appeared to be to Knock out japans Taf planes smash up nazi blows with the Canadian 1st army push into the Ruhr Gateway Between the Rhine and the Maas slowed by deter mined German counterattacks and heavy artillery tactical planes struck yesterday against enemy frontline Strong Points and dugouts and smothered the communications centers of Udem and through which the wehrmacht was Rushing support to the threatened Siegfried town bastion of the with an estimated 300 Fjeld were said to be pounding the roads behind the Allied lines As Well As providing cover for counter attacking in described As second rate but thrown in on a scale sufficient to compensate for their Lack of fighting in two counterattacks yesterday South of Cleve the germans succeeded in making some penetrations of the British line before the situation was gain a Tenmile grip in the flooded Northern sector of this Canadian troops captured bins Berden giving them a Tenmile grip along the Rhine facing with the steady dropping of the Roer River German shelling from oppo site the 1st and 9th armies fronts has shown a marked other sheaf dispatches there was nothing to report from either the 9th or British 2nd armies the 1st army took ten prisoners it was re Small scale clashes occurred on the 3rd army while troops of the 5th and 76th infantry divisions scored gains of less than a mile in their sectors around Prum and doughboy of the meeting two tank supported counterattacks below had to give up five of six pillboxes previously quiet returns to 7th army comparative quiet returned to the 7th army front following the 44th infantry divisions crushing of the Small enemy salient East of sheaf issued a summary of 3rd army tank operations since showing enemy losses of panzers against losses of tanks and included in the it was were 718 Tiger some knocked out at More than two mile Range by m36 ads mounting a also announced were 9th air Force results for the week ended yesterday against enemy with rail Way trucks destroyed and to be to Home based air while Tokyo was under surface vessels of spruance Fleet levelled their guns at iwo Jap Island base on the Superior route to Tokyo which has been hammered incessantly by both army and Navy aircraft for the last two the sea assault was accompanied by army plane raids on iwo Jima and near by prelude for new invasion Tokyo which quoted an official Jap communique As saying the raid on the capital had lasted from 7 am to 4 pm described the naval bombardment of iwo Jima As the prelude to an invasion of that and a step to insure fighter plane Protection for super forts striking from the Marianas against asked to comment on this a Navy spokesman in Washington said the Navy was capable of making a Landing he expressed so Many Navy men have previously that the Jap presumably held for defending the would come out and Tokyo reported that 30 including battleships and were taking part in the iwo Jima operations and indicated that the attacks were still in the enemy communique on the Tokyo describing the targets As principally airfields in East and Central said the planes had attacked in three ranging from a Point 95 Miles Southwest of Tokyo to 200 Miles North West of the largest Fleet in history that the navys thrust into Jap Waters had been readied some time ago was indicated by censor held dispatches dated 8 telling of the largest Fleet in his made up of the largest and newest Battle wagons and waiting to slip Anchor at a Pacific a Mariana based super fort which reconnoitre a Japan yesterday returned with a report that a column of smoke was rising from an Island in Tokyo a Reuter dispatch from Declar ing that something tremendous is in said it had been officially stated there that the naval operations opened up the Prospect of blockading Japan into a condition for eventual invasion or of continued on Back Page nazis May flood italian front 16 germans apparently intend to duplicate their Roer flooding tactics on the italian enemy parties Are blasting Dykes to permit flooding Over a wide area when the Spring thaw american troops on the left flank of the 5th army fell Back after Small scale enemy infiltrations had jeopardized Forward but elsewhere the italian front was time for the foe to get puffing army signal corps photo shells from remind nazis hiding Down part of that its High time to get out of White smoke from phosphorus shells and Gray smoke from shells billow from blasted