Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 15, 1944, Cairo, Egypt                                Middle september Levlock went into its Brit bombers blasted itt Central and Southern Germany and a thou Sand heavies from Italy hit fac tories Germany and earlier Days of these the Luftwaffe refused Battle and opposition limited monday was the wars biggest Day for american fighters Over they knocked 149 Gernian planes from 110 in the sky and 39 on these record smashing dogfights were by eighth air Force staking Germany last Oil reserves at Merseburg Litzendorf and for two Days the eighth had pounded Tea gets just inside the Gernian but monday it switched tactics and sent Over a thousand fighter into the heart of the Rex hit off Trieste this brought tip the Long hoarded Luftwaffe from Hanover to Leip Zig in formations sometimes a Hun dred Strong and before All the re turns were in the yla Anks had set up their highest score yet of enemy planes greater totals have been achieved by combined operations during the Battle of Raf fighters once knocked Down 185 in one Riaf bombers concentrated on Northern communication centers where the Chiin is attempting to Rush reinforcements from Denmark to hold the Belgia Holland Raf hit the German held italian Blue ribbon Linet off to which it was sighted being to probably to Block the port Entrance As it is now useless As a lost i Falls in with nazi death March to make escape by Bigart new York Herald Tribune 7th army in Rhone France Ineal s Hendrickson of came Back up Hill 300 to his outfit yesterday after six hours amid an tangle of trap Ped German vehicles and men in the narrowing pocket above Monte just before Dawn after a night of confused a 25yearold mortar found himself astride Highway sur rounded by dazed germans and a boiling Melee of half buses and horse drawn he tossed aside his with the rest of his uniform coated with was Able to mingle with the column without apparent Road littered with dead twas like a fifth Avenue traffic he the German maps were running frantically up and Down the waving slow broke Down lorries off the Road and into clumps of Trees so that the rest could keep through the Fields on both sides of the Road i saw columns of troops slogging along single they didst know where they were and they didst seem to i remember they appeared almost it was As though they know that it would be All Over in a couple of hours and they would either be killed or and there was nothing More they could Olur fire was not heavy at the but every few minutes a Shell would land near the there was an awful stench of dead horses with the i could see dead germans lying in the Road and in the wrecked horribly mangled by Shell no one paid any attention to the dead narrow escape two Mark ivs pulled off the Road and swung their turrets to Ward the the narrow Valley was covered with the smoke of the burning i walked the Road for past vehicles in a double standing bumper to trucks camouflaged with branches were scattered through the Fields so densely that nearly every Shell scored on either vehicles or the Troon the stench of death was sometimes the germans stared dully at Hendrickson and when he Dove into a Culvert full of troops hiding from fighter bomb some one to he crawled to the other end of the Culvert and started walking across the he heard two shots and broke into a racing for the once out of he slowed to a nodding casually at a passing column of he kept on without reaching our lines at 10 soviets continued from Page 1 army with a Strong base from which to launch their expected offensive into fierce duels As last week Drew to an heaviest fighting was reported from the East prussian front where fierce duds were Flung across the Nares River and the Luftwaffe was again on the the russians drove towards Lomza and cleaned up the remaining nazi forces which Clung tenaciously to the East Bank of the soviet forces were pushing their Way through rugged and As Moscow accepted the bulgarian armistice re Russ troops entered Bulga Ria at Giurgiu and pushed Down Tjie coastline to capture Titos fighting towards Gates of the Danube to join the Russ stormed with in a few Miles of the bulgar Border in powerful the Fate of some nazis in the Balkans seemed sealed by the coordinated of Tito and the red Ukraine Willie autumn Rains hampered on the Central and sectors Early in the patrols crossed into the eighth had a Banner Day rotation policy in unchanged the Story in the of Mica this rotation was about that to be 4th Issue overseas abandon this German fighter about to burst into is one less for the which monday lost 149 planes to fighters of the eighth it was a record score for the yank outfit Over Moio i photo at averages one Atlantic crossing every 22 minutes new army air transport command planes Are now crossing the Atlantic at the rate of one every 22 the Pacific every hour and 42 and scaling the Himalayas into China every 10 Luther at maintenance and engineering in one recent colonel Harris at delivered Over pounds of vital car go to various the he returned Over wounded during the first half of 19447 toughest route of All is the in Diachin hop but at averages trips the Himalaya mountains each thousands of pints of whole blood Are being carried across to the european theater each month while pounds of letter mail were delivered during the first seven months of promotion for Bradley Washington president Roo Sevelt has nominated Omar Bradley for promotion to the permanent rank of major he holds the temporary rank of lieutenant baffling Balkans Bulgaria declared War on Ger Many saturday night she ceased War with four Days before Russia declared War on two Days before that Bulgaria said she was March 1941 Bulgaria joined the wednesday Moscow announced an armistice was signed Between Bulgaria and the Bulgaria now seeks cob Ellige Rency with the Rumania hops on Allied bandwagon Moscow Rumania has signed an armistice with Britain the United the terms provide that Rumania will fight with the allies Germany and Hungary and at least infantry divisions into action under direction of the Allied soviet unlike the italian on which the russians were consulted and informed by this was the first multilateral peace agree ment of the War and there was actual facet face discussion be tween representatives of the three full understanding was terms included placing the coun try at Complete disposal of the repeal of All racial and discriminatory compensation for damages to russian restoration of the june 1940 bound Ary agreement Between Russia release of All Allied prisoners of War and interned civil ians internment of All Ger mans and hungarians within the sub presumed lost Washington the Gudgeon was reported overdue from a patrol and presumed the sub held a presidential unit citation for an illustrious combat record in sinking 19 japs French air Ace arrested Paris Rene Frances greatest flying Ace of world War has been arrested along with Rohan director of the French red on charges of collaborating with the the French ministry of the Interior invasion armadas delivered million men in 28 Days London despite enemy use of hundreds of human torpedoes and explosive motor boats against the invasion Over a million men were landed in Northern France in the first 28 Days of put ashore in the same period were vehicles and 050 tons of naval officials in Rome have revealed that in the invasion of Southern France five nine aircraft carriers and nearly a Hundred destroyers were in the  and polish Fleet which took the american flotilla included the battleships and a Kansas and the cruisers Cin Brooklyn and Deputy passes Washington Henry m former Deputy adminis Trator of the Public works Admi died he super Vised the spending of Cik within 14 Mouths during and plans for turning full Allied might on Nippon expected from Quebec meeting Rosevel t revealed wednesday that his conference with primp minister Churchill and staff chiefs is do can Ami signed to get the Best Weed by the War was described by Usan imly Headquarters this week As without apparent foundation in War has Only recently increased its rotation percentage to the Middle East theater Ami there have been no indications from Washington that the practice is to he it was authoritatively stated at land while the situation is always open to the facts Annear to be quite to the contrary and the time Story certainly does not now Sipply to this Prussia and returned with valuable this marked the first russian Entrance on Ger Man soil in conjunction with heavy regrouping in that indicates an Early soviet invasion of East on Berlin reported fresh russian attacks against the Gates of from which the valiant Patriot Leader Bor had reported that fighting had reached the limit of human in out of the combined British United states War the presidents statement added we Are working in Ance with the situation in China Ami the Pacific and in coordinating our efforts with those of our particularly the chinese and oue11ecprime minister Chur chill and president Roosevelt and their staffs Are now meeting in probably their most decisive con Ference of All the Victory con Ference blueprinting the surrender of Germany and the turning of Allied might Ugains the two who had not met since the Teheran sessions last worked far into the night and then conferred with their chiefs of staff tuesday on what was reported to have been plans for an fallout offensive against among other questions which it is expected the president and pre Mier May take up Are 1 the problem of the joint occupation and policing of Germany Britain and i2 the polish Border Issue and the destiny of minorities As Well As Small nations the of France which As meet in Quebec for conference tenth War right in to deserts her claim to the join with the major Powers visions concerning 4 the concentration of Allied forces against Japan after Ger Many is beaten and the measures to taken for the future control of chinese kept informed marshal Stalin is not attending the As Russia is not at War with but both the rus Sian and chinese governments will be kept informed of the Conversa Roosevelt is in As is mrs a British military staff flew in from Washington the party including Field marshal sir John head of the British Mili tar joint staffs sir Percy Unble chief the admiralty the legation air marshal sir William Welsh and president Roosevelt and his aides arrived there is no indication that important persons from the of state or the British foreign office will be in Well informal circles believe that world economic matters May share if not Over Shadow military questions the cartels get attention president Roosevelt worked Dur ing the past week on both political and economic1 problems with advisors who had already a Naff Spe Cial White House Stephen revealed that three recent White House meetings of a special Cabinet committee concerned the whole Fields of world economic problems created by the president Roosevelt himself Dis closed that the is concerned Over the questions of especially on an International the eradication of enemy cartels and a strict control of others might be one of the topics at particularly in connection with th9 restoration of British and Trade after the Early also stated that the presidents recent trip to Pacific installations was a very Necess Ary preliminary to this Confer