London Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 20, 1945, London, Middlesex Marines storm onto iwo new York London edition Paris daily newspaper of armed forces in the european theater of operations punch 7ml Hole in nazi line canadians take most of Goch further cracks were opened yester Day in hitlers Siegfried line As doughboy of the 3rd army carved a seven mile chunk out of the prepared defense Belt Northwest of echternach and Canadian 1st army troops swept the germans out of two thirds of the fortified bastion town of Goch in their drive toward the Ruhr Between the Rhine and the thrusting out from their Bridgehead across the our and Sauer Rivers into some of the most difficult terrain to be found Alons the Western troops of the 76th and 80di infantry Divi Sions punched a Hole through the Belt of bunkers and trenches which formed the Siegfried defences in this at the same doughboy of the 94th going into action without artillery preparation so As to obtain sur renewed their attack against the Siegfried line near four Miles within Germany and 14 Miles Southeast of Luxemburg and cleared a number of pillboxes despite heavy machine gun and Multi barrelled mortar fire and extensive contrary to accepted military which assume High casualties As part of the expense in storming fortified Posi this Campaign so far has shown that the germans Are suffering greater losses than the dispatches estimates of the enemy losses ranged to As High As 50 per cent of the forces reports with casualties much Many of the Ger mans Manning the fortifications were found to be service scottish troops of the Canadian 1st Only other sector of the Western front where activity was on a notable engaged in Street fighting in where the germans now hold Only the Southern third of the continued on Back Page Ike decorates Lear for age services Eisenhower presented an Oak Leaf Cluster to the distinguished service medal today to it Ben Deputy theater com for exceptionally meritorious service As army ground forces commander from july to january on behalf of George the supreme commander cited Lear for his relentless drive to More efficiently train the Soldier for who supervises the allocation of american manpower in the arrived january he is in charge of a program to shift rear Echelon personnel to reinforcement depots and combat typographical error is corrected fight for airfields 750 to Tokyo Landing Craft whipping rockets into the smoking Island while battleships and Carrie planes provided heavy artillery and air Veteran marines of the 5th amphibious commanded by vice Richmond Kelly stormed ashore on Jap held iwo Jima yesterday and established a two and on half mile Bridgehead on the the invasion of the tiny 750 Miles South of which rocked yesterday under the biggest b29 raid yet made on was the nearest Island Landing to Tokyo yet it marked the first time that marines have roared ashore on completely hostile for the population of the in 1943 As entirely the suffering moderate casualties in the face of increasing Jap last night were reported to have fought their Way More than 500 Yards reaching a fringe of one of the two operative airfields on the a third Field is now under first resistance was but As the leathernecks piled out of their 100odd Landing barges in steady streams it became the enemy pouring artillery and mortar shells into the invading Many big gun emplacements on the Island were reported to have been put out of action by the terrific three Day barrage from some 800 which softened the Island for the big including the new the Texas and the which were last seen in operations with the Atlantic bombarded the Jap in two Light ships of the sup porting Force were marines go ashore some under com Mand of Holland who headed the Landing and commander of the 5th amphibious were ashore ate directing the attack from his flagship just off last night reported that Overall Progress is pilots returning from sorties Over the Battle area reported that the whole Island what it takes to make War 21st army 19 this is Why it takes a Long time to crack the German in the offensive launched by the Cana Dian 1st army in the Cleve Goch area guns put Down the initial the Tenmile Long smoke screen behind which Allied troops advanced used up tons of fifteen thousand enlargements and special maps were using 30 tons of three Hundred and fifty types of ammunition were As much ammunition was fired in the first three Days As medium bombers could carry in one thirty five thousand vehicles consuming Gallons of gasoline travelled an average of 130 Miles to bring up men and they travelled Over 100 Miles of new roads and 400 Miles of re conditioned which took gravel and and tons of bridging ten thousand Road signs had to be put up and troops used to direct soviet hero of Dies of wounds 5 Ivan Danilovich russian youngest army group com Fylander who led the third White russian army in its momentous Advance across the White russian Steppes died sunday of wounds received on the East prussian Moscow radio announced known As one of the red army neatest Chern Vakhovsky in Many of the decisive Battles of Fiss he commanded the red Van Biard which assaulted Wlinich fell wore another great russian late who died in Kiev weeks after its f with Rokos Sovsky Ted started the drive from West of Smolensk last june which culminated b the nazi collapse in White Russia and be soviet Advance across the Bug to the of Warsaw and the Banks of the Sula a Man curly hair and ish he commanded a tank regi t at the beginning of the he of the most decorated leaders in red he won the hero of the t Union award the order of Rov and the orders of the fed Bogdan Khmelnitsky and son of a ukrainian railway he school at 12 when his father on a became a longshore was drafted into the when on the army As a a Chern Vakhovsky career which had its Climax when he became the first russian general to set foot on German he will be Given a state funeral in which was freed by his whose chroniclers often repeat is being reversed on Corregidor today As american sea and airborne troops mop up japanese resistance on the fortress Island guarding Manila in the picture above of captive american and filipino defenders being marched from the fort Entrance was duly exploited in the japanese propaganda Magazine whose editors soon will be confronted with face saving soviets fight for Guben against stiffening foe marshal Konies red army driving North to link up with marshal Zhukov forces facing yesterday reached for Guben and important communications Points about 60 Miles Southeast of but All along the Eastern from the Baltic to the czech German resistance appeared to be growing stronger official there Wasno official announcement that russian forces had reached but the germans gave away the fact that the soviets once had their hands on the defense bastion with a claim that the nazis had recaptured the the statement did not specify whether Koniaev or Zhukov had penetrated to Guben but either would represent a considerable if Konies men were involved it would mean that they had pulled into line with the 1st White russian army Berlin it Zhukov troops reached the City it would confirm reports that his forces had crossed the Oder All along the line the germans were throw Reg More and More reinforcements into the Battle even though they appeared to be scraping the Bottom of the Volk Sturmer and police units showing up among the prisoners Luftwaffe roars up the nazis also were reported throwing big Luftwaffe formations against the rus sians in an Effort to keep the Southeastern door to hitlers capital the right Wing of Konies Force was making a determined to break through to Cottbus from the area above the capture of Cottbus and Guben is necessary to give the red army control of roads and railways in the area and to consolidate their position on Zhukov Southern on Zhukov Frankfurt Kustrin Berlin reported an atmosphere of acute tension As the russians massed men and materials and took Over jumping off places for what May develop into a decisive in according to a report from the entire continued on Back Page say nazis quit March toward Vienna 19 marching from Northern Italy to Are clogging passes leading into Austria and according to a Frontier report in the Basler four infantry divisions and a Panzer division were said to be taking heavies hit nazi rails More than 8th air Force heavies resumed the air offensive against nazi communications and Indus trial targets yesterday after a Day of Ham Mering objectives at Rheine and Seiger and pounding areas in the the Libs and forts were escorted by about 500 Mustangs and which dived Low to strafe communication one group of fighters accounted for nine trucks and five railway while another destroyed 148 locomotives and 365 Oil cars in the Hanover the krauts also took it from the British and bombers based in Lancaster of the Raf bomber com escorted by yesterday afternoon attacked the important communications Center of Wesel in support of the Canadian 1st army from Libs and forts soared out to Belt rail Yards in Churchill is Back from Crimea talks a Jovial Winston Churchill was Back at 10 Downing Street last Back from his Yalta meeting with presi Dent and marshal the prime minister was greeted by whom he and various Cabinet a Small crowd of photographers and government employees applauded when his car Drew Wear ing an air commodores this time with an Raf Churchill stepped out the usual Cigar clenched Between two with him were his daughter a Waal Section who had accompanied him to the Crimea and foreign Secretary Anthony was covered with smoke and one of two volcanoes on the shaken by shells of attackers and started minor eruptions of sulphurous up correspondent William Back from a flight Over the said that iwo Jima looked like a pork chop sizzling in a frying Little japanese air resistance to the operation was Jap air Power on the Island probably having been neutralized by the terrific pre invasion Schmidt and no Aerial Aid was forthcoming from the North after Mitscher huge weekend blow against Tokyo and Yokohama Aird Romes and plane Tokyo reported still burning super fortress returning from yesterdays assault on described by Nimitz As the biggest raid Ever made on disclosed that the City was still burning from the punches thrown by Mitscher Carrie borne Nimitz gave no figures on the number of b29s taking part in the but Tokyo radio declared that More than 100 planes were Over the Jap results of these perform raid were not but Nimitz went on to reveal that Mitscher had delivered Jap air Power a tremendous body he said that the Navy planes wiped out 509 enemy aircraft and damaged and in addition Sank four warships and 10 cargo vessels and raised havoc with a number of Industrial losses were 49 planes and 30 to 40 none of the ships in Mitscher Force suffered mopping up continued in Corregidor and where scattered sniper resistance was still being in troops captured the philippine general freeing 100 of them Mac Arthur revealed that the enemy suffered casualties during the first five weeks of the fighting on the lost 192 missing and
