Strasbourg Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - September 29, 1944, Strasbourg, Alsace V september 1944 available to gis that a million servicemen will want to farm after the Roose velt has ordered government Stu Dies of ways assure that Allex gis who return or go to the soil will got productive land and any needed credit or training in a letter to agriculture Wickord and veterans administrator the president wrote the sacrifice and courage of men in the armed forces entitles them to expect this nation to toe prepared within limits of its capabilities to offer them reasonable opportunities to get started in in selective service officials have completed plans to find postwar jabs for the pennsylvanians who Are now serv ing in the armed vets exempt from Job regulations the lifting of All manpower controls Over the veterans of this servicemen now have absolute Freedom in seeking any kind of civilian manpower chief Paul Mcnutt said the end of Job Contro in this respect is intended to Speed reemployment of returning vets find to remove employment obstacles in their newly acquired civilian a servicemen May now be hired without regard to ceilings or the number of persons a Plant May Are no longer Ham by other controls designed to Channel workers into civilian before service veterans were exempt from Job control for imly fit Days after discharge from the armed through fhe Siegfried dragon Teeth yearns Lor medics after plunge some on foot and some Riding Bulldozer pass through a clean break made by in the Concrete antitank defences of the Siegfried line somewhere in own yank recruits army of partisans in Holland Mok Otai island1 Joe of Usu ordered to bail out of a Liberator with engine trouble on a Mission to the plunged feet without Benefit of Parachute but escaped without broken Chute failed to open mid a Treetop broke his his first words on regaining consciousness were the god dam air 1 should have stayed in the lie i was scared to my for fear 1 might Sec voting officer will revisit your Post with election Day getting closer and the time Cor overseas ballots mailed even nearer than Alion Arnold is making a second tour through the command in his capacity to Usa pime voting Arnold was assigned from Washington to ibis work some months and already has made one room mid trip to Clear up questions on Soldier it youve any questions cd Vot Arnold says Slont hesitate of ask bats my with airborne troops in army Theodore Bachenheimer who parachuted into the nether lands and wandered info town near the German per Sonal now leads an army of 300 Netherlands a War correspondent Robert Wilson the germans held the town when he Wilson but Bachenheimer quickly made friends with the nether Landers mini organized his own army which was armed with captured German army1 called itself the free Netherlands army1 and insisted on Bachenheimer he set up head quarters in a steel factory which was patrolled by sentries with Netherlands army helmets Orange High school girls compile Ros ters of Netherlands Forf is an enlistment office for volunteers and a Large room who c scores of collaborators Are kept under Hachen cinder Lias a situation map showing where bands of Netherlands patriots Are i Gagiu Aimee Mepherson Dies Aimee ple famed woman evangelist and founder of the an Temple in los died suddenly this shews victim of Dewey wreck injuries sus Allied last when the pass Enger train on which he was Riding was rammed by the Spucci train of Thomas lies nov ii Jiff 01 Loren 31 year old Sailor of the he knows the names and addresses of local co Labora the location of explosives stored by girls on his staff drive cars on official business and transport the they also prepare and distribute under life supervision Ger Man bicycles Are Given citizens needing so important is his Robert Wilson that another paratrooper has been assigned to maintain communications Between Rache theimers Headquarters and he regimental command High ranking american and Brit ish officers seeking information or guides Are frequent Churchill reveals casualties in talk to a lengthy speech to the com Mons thursday Winston Churchill reported that Allied losses in 120 Days after i Day were British arid american Ca he there Are be tween two and three million Al lied troops in France and that a Large portion of the British Fleet is in the Pacific germans have been driven from Halfway Point Between no Imogen and arnhem and the British second army a in sufficient strength on the lower Rhine the Waal to prevent German Una of the Clear shies yesterday brought the Luftwaffe into after an epic nine Day troops of about of the first British airborne division dropped at arnhem september have been evacuated to the Southern Bank of the completing us heroic that will live with thermopylae and those troops could look Back on sleepless lays and Wrighta of unmitigated hell not As a Complete failure but in unprecedented military which shape describes a 85 per cent with their about of whom Are wounded and Gennan medical they had held Down the Advance of Over German per mitting the British second army o take and hold nil Megon on the name the dutch give the main Stream of the if their unit had not been Able to open a wedge Over the the secondary Stream of the Rybine North of Tho they were Able to divert the pick of enemy Speed Dempsey s Corri Dor the ferocious Hun resistance at arnhem was typical Wall of flesh the germans around their from thai Belfort Gap to Cleve All the Allied armies reported stubborn Battles that Are in Sharp contrast to the race through France and germans not quitting no one reported this More clearly or emphatically than bail president of United press turned War correspondent with the third army inside in his first dispatch wednesday he wrote nobody coming fresh from the United states with the preconceived idea that the germans Are on the verge of quilting would get much support for this notion if he visited the front lines As 1 maybe i hey Are figuring on sur but you think so if you got up in the the american be reds throw steel arc around Riga push into Hungary climaxing the Battle for the bal in which fresh disaster has been heaped on the three red armies tire now steadily reducing the last Miles from Riga As the main German body retreats along the coastal corridor leading along the Western Shore of the a steel arc is clamped around Riga from the South to the North East and the russians control All main rail and Road lines leading from the soviet planes Pound the secondary roads Over which the germans arc flee to the radio Berlin re ports that the Rush forces Are smashing into Hungary on a Broad front with Savage fighting in pro Gress near Guyla and Sze the largest City in South Eastern further gains by he soviets driving against Hungary from the North were indicated by a German admit Al that nazi troops have disengaged to prepared Mountain positions1 farther in the the hungarian High command has admitted that the Luias invaded also in a Duncing the fall of 14 Miles oust of in ii Vicules that red troops have made now thrusts in tin and have reached the czech fron see Riga on Page 8 Venth army was drawing up sup plies for a push on the lower end of the Siegfried line at in the patrons third army artillery and planes appeared quiet for a few clays and Pau Izui a barrage on1the great Moselle Valley fortress of see epic stand on Page 8 Adriatic invasion on 400mile front War casualties now total announced of War army including reported through aug 29 were which with the infest Navy total of including brings the casualty toll above four Hundred the new combined totals for the armed Force Are killed wounded missing captured total Allied Coa and or Bouic troops wednesday invaded Albania and the islands off Yugoslavia on a front in the eighth major landings of Unis Kurly reports indicated that thu thrust in whore land operations already Des i roved German Garrison at and the germans it civic the albanian coastal Allied Mediterranean Headquarters said the invading troops Are driving Inland on a Broad Bev Are Only 200 Miles Southwest of the red army in and unction to knife 1 Miles eastward to the Aegean Ami in off an estimated in i Security silence is lie Ingma inclined on details of the Bui the Gorman radio raid the landings on a Largo scale Ain involved the whole i in North to tin Allied landings clip Nakeil Noii talks of softening up raids by Doninic Tiido Anil British and american bombing supported by guerillas this landings in Albania arc re to have the support of the Strong Allied invading have captured near estimated in to he As Many As albanian officially a Joji elation of was seized by Italy Fri for nearly two weeks Landing Craft of the Royal Navy covered and supported by destroyers Imd Light coastal Craft Havo Lieen ply ing the Southern Dalmatian is troops Anil parti sans engaged in harassing the Ger Man withdrawal from some of in marshal Titos liberation army reported that partisans cooperated with Allied Navary units to occupy the strategic Island of one of ibo northernmost Adriatic near Jack Dempsey in London London arrived Here to carry a physical fitness program for
