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Publication: Middle East Stars and Stripes Friday, November 24, 1944

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   Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 24, 1944, Cairo, Egypt                                November 1944 the in Tot now lets commander from thai hit to Paris he told t his Plica 1 it Flack Foree tin til the highest that they will finally be butt unless 4 the Way through the nation the front and at Home keeps of the Job acid with a punting we Only postponing tie Day of for Nev Hettie Only sensible course in to fight to the bitter end West of the the crossing of the Rhine would be almost a naval he pointing out that the germans now Are regarding the territory they Are losing West of the upper that France of less importance than the German territory in the where Ruhr is Oerman morale holding for German troop and Home Ike pointed out Ike tells Shauf Eisenhower declared this week that the taking of the German fortress City of Aachen was by a shortage in the supreme commander made tils in an Appeal to munitions workers in the states Over the army hour radio pro urging them to turn out ammunition at top especially artillery he emphasised the enormous Drain on am munition resulting from the step Ped up Tempo of the he we Are fir ing that we not have used until february or March if we had been Content with slower advances and less crushing victories or if we had been ready to sacrifice soldiers to save he said that the first army had used rounds of 105rrwn ammunition in two weeks and that even the reduction of Aachen was delayed because of a shortage of just How fast the allies were eating their ammunition came from the news that our artillery fires 50 rounds Henry chief ordnance of fice Rof the army in Eto revealed this to the press after Eisenhower Appeal for More writing from the front correspondent Charles Collingwood re sorted that German staggering Bear wyness to the Thunder of our big guns and their one prisoner your it Goas All the we cannot we cannot rest we Are afraid All the added to our own col Lingwood Are captured German one corps alone figures it saves the government a million dollars week just by using German in new Trehou ask told the american federation of labor the current lag in arms equipment production will be reflected in drastically revised time tables and higher american casualties overseas uness the output increased irn Efrench Premier Dies York Joseph the former French at be mans at the of that there Oceen nothing  20 attempt on life to Snow any breaking of Ger Man the Al ready appearing onh he West front in some is proving to be poorly manned and but it is doing Well in the prepared defences East and West of the some idea of the Sharp diver Sion among the Reichs defenders came with the third army Tak ing of captured in the old fortress City was Anton Gestapo commander in the Lorraine and Saar and Constan German army commander of the two High ranking prisoners met in american Headquarters according to correspondent a single glance showed there was bad be commander and the Gestapo obviously part of an old the attitudes of the two men showed clearly that Himmler Rise to Power through hitlers purge of the wehrmacht rubbed Salt into the two outfits openly hate each Metz snipers Paradise in All captured German Las ditch resistance was bitter and once More correspondents dispatches from All sectors of the front agreed on the tone of our hard won before the final Clear nor of Metz a matter of Days ups Collie Small wrote the germans in Metz Haven a ghost of a Chance but they still fight on the City is completely dough boys and tanks Are fighting through the Cobblestone streets As the defenders retreated Street by the old fortress town became snipers our artillery knocks out the heavy machine guns set up in the building along the South Bank of the one by in Clinton Conger re ported the City occupied but not secured As artillery and mortar shells still whirred wednesday into its uncrowded French Chasseur told Conger that Strong Glerman units were still resisting fiercely at the South West approaches to Belfort when Tho French task comprising tank elements and Shock struck swiftly into the City from the possibility of hitlers death excited worldwide from one captured German Henry Gorrell reported that Ger mans were dancing in the streets on the basis of a the Ori Gin of which is the effect that Hitler is that was but one of Many Spring ing up from Neutral and Conque red sources alike that the fuehrer has had an operation for can of the Throat to even wild re has fled to Argen Tina or no Winter Lull along a 400mile front six Allied comprising Over a million flare into raging action in Winter new York times third and seventh american armies join forces yanks the continued from Page 1 advances Southeast of Metz into the Stem Besch h pierced the reversed Maginot Lino Points and the ninth division of the seventh has shushed ten Miles Northeast of the conquered fort Ress corps forces announced they had cleared wednesday afternoon after their rugged Advance from the push was snapped up so much at night Berlin reported German s idlers wore wearing Sun screens smoked eyeglasses to shield them from patrons inn powerful the first closest of ill to Industrial Battles inside just North of the first closely with it american of activity was this week after a Chi he uncertainty is to i o is whose it flared into activity under William Simpson Ami now stands on the important Roar River Ait two hearing Julich utter a series of Battles which in four Days destroyed v enem tanks out a Force these Artther new King Tiger in Cloudy and intermittently Rainy the ninth has had a Tail constant slogging through a Maze of defences of All Simpsons forces re pulsed Strong spearheaded by in the Vicinity of Leiden and now forming contiguous link with the ninth is lamp Sims Secor British which Sun Day forces with tip first und ninth american the British Are pushing towards vein in where i lighter than Pirjo ulv now mainly t in Perur the 1iisf on Vii Nan Soi was in Kirchen where tanks Foglu their Way through Cross Rire of this is the sector where the germans have recently been erecting a defense Belt during the weeks the allies pulling together their sup after cracking the old Sieg line hinged on Psi Haiti so army group Headquarters reported that Road leading Tovson and Dortmund is barred by Hie set and the most determined of the German it is n the Lih is in rhe Northern Sociol the i9lb 1oids positions arounj1 the front line about ques to at least a is in what Mav be Battle for Ufi Nany tinted press unit Jeff in near Ger delayed the fighting was so intense there was no time to Bury the but what was worse was the fact that 54 Ameri can wounded had lain for a Day and half in German territory under american and Gor Man medical Felix Lauter of Chi Cago resolved to he knew that the mens wounds were festering and that they were exposed to pneumonia Breeding first efforts to remove the wounded under a temporary truce failed As Albert Berndt of returned to the lines after having been told by a commanding officer that we have no Contact with some of our own units and cannot guarantee that your Stretcher bearers and ambulances will not be fired Floyd Johnson of volunteered to run his ambulance into German held territory under a  red Cross flaw to see whether he would draw him As a Volunteer went Bill Bryant of ambulances get through Johnson made he met a German company commander who agreed on a Small arms truce Long enough to bring out the though he could not guarantee the shelling would it did and shells and mortars exploded within Yards of by then seven More ambulances were lumbering about the Battle scarred who played a Lead ing role in getting put the wound Speaks perfect As father and Mother were born in Here is his Story no sooner had we predesignated spot than the Snow ceased and the Mist suddenly Clea Rodu we were under direct observation we came under a rain of German shells and mor tar our litter went about the of gathering wounded which in Vojvod negotiating a Strep Arica Muddy slope Uphill for 2tx election news disappoints i was kind of nervous and sus peeled maybe the germans might change their minds and hold the lot of so i approached the commanding German lieutenant and kept up a steady Stream of lie asked who won the elec Tion and when i said Roosevelt he spit on the ground and said it Hitler Ever grabbed Roosevelt he would string him up in a i laughed and told him i thought it would be the outlier Wuy about that Timo a Ger Man master sergeant picked us the conversation and asked if it was True German War prisoners taken by the americans were sent to denied by then our eight were ready to shove off aft or ing gathered up 54 of our wound i offered the lieutenant t con Nile of packs of la re fused but you can d me a you can ask your artillerymen to unit that Dai nod i said goodbye and i Tome Back and see r we sure within three hours the wounded were being treated at the battalion medical Post by Albert co Han of Chicago and Henry be Drell of Goochland who said that All would re cover despite some wounds mint were badly infected from Long Brunt a reports i Mcatic the entire is front essentially our Bamler was arrive in chunking fowl Totri two american Haw Here Ami have been a work with the russians Honor Clark Murk has received the order of us first the military  
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