Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - December 29, 1944, Cairo, Egypt X 4s life Middle ir1 december 1944 Short of Melee Clear than Eisenhower major counter blow Hae into the Rundstedt nazis were pried East of Dinnal Are that leading Ger elements had run Short of fuel flinch a dozen abandoned pan Zers were found with dry gasoline on the Southern flank of the wedge a Hist Rymak Cooks and clerks go into line to nazis Collie Small untied press staff correspondent with the forces oin the front with company clerks and Mili tary police standing Side by a thin line of doughboy from a single battered regiment miraculously stayed off a thunderous at tack by an entire German division and saved the City of Luxembourg from being engulfed by the May now toe the action took place in the Vicinity of echternach where the heroic yanks fought off Waves of German infantry hurled against the unwavering line for 48 most critical the colonel in command of the regiment said the germans at after an Al night artillery we knew they coming but we Dindl know where and How my regi ment was spread Over ten Miles and a whole reinforced German division hit at the end of the first Day the germans had penetrated our lines by nearly a to fact night they even infiltrated into our artillery positions a Good distance behind our for 48 hours we were but by a Miracle the boys held we had company clerks and military police in the fighting i called the division and told them that we urgently needed re they sent 60 military to we fought like there was nothing Between us and the the morale of the boys was really once i called a battalion commander and asked what he needed up he re plied that he needed More Ger Northern Back into Belgium the town of self Tului columns then encircled Bastogne and sent a sur Render ultimatum to the Dugin the reply shot Back was Flat the isolated gis St tips to their guns and despite constant a fast wind Linig Supply of food they denied the use of that vital Road plus checking Rund stents southwestward expansion Relief for Bastogne Garrison unarmed transport planes ran a deadly Gauntlet epoch night to Parachute tons of supplies to the league red general Pat tons tanks and self propelled guns kept hammering the encircling germans until a Gap was blasted now american trucks and ambulances Are speeding into both associated press and United press reports quoted a military expert at sheaf As saying that von Rundstedt counteroffensive was personally conceive and plan Ned by Adolf Hitler during the three months it was thought that he was insane or at least two full German armies and the fifth armoured and seventh infantry divisions Are now m the nazi not merely 15 divisions As estimated by shag last the expert Winter is Runstedt ally old Man Winter is running interference for Rundstedt with heavy mists and Rains slackening Allied Lair attacks and Gummy battlefields plus Zero temperatures making it tougher fur the the scale of the air War tipped Many times on both sides As Helf Bent Luftwaffe pilots lunged into furious dogfights against Raf and american bomber fighter target for the Allied airmen Oftis mostly the German Supply Low swooping fighter bombers ran up record breaking scores on tanks and tracks knocked on the tenth Day of the nazi surge an Allied report showed that at least germans were Cap Berlin put in its claim of capturing Many american prisoners undoubtedly have by now escaped As stave lot and other towns were Dodges son killed new York Bayard Dodge son of Bayard Dod president of the american University of was killed in action in France on the times r a m c 6 Force Lias pinned Down East of Hie Meuse River As american units thrust to relieve Bastogne first photo of super fort target on Honshu i Riv ii v entire 1st army May need to be says Krug a fim Stai it sea air blow rips Jap base in volcanoes Tokyo Industrial targets were hit again wednesday for the fifth time by Saipan based super fort resses which also this week joined a naval task Force in attack ing i to Jima in Tho Volcano is land and again ripped Nagoya on the enemy wednesdays Daylight strike was the first on the japanese capital since 3 but the War communique gave further de a japanese broadcast said 50 super forts t were in the attacking Force and that nine were shot returning pilots tabbed the wednesday blow As the toughest of Ull Tokyo 25 japanese planes seeking to destroy the super forts in their Home nest hit Saipan Christmas Nimitz said they destroyed one plane the damaged six others and injured six men but that four of the attacking Jap planes were shot the attack on iwo was revealed Christmas Day in a Pearl Harbor that u s and liberators joined in this the second coordinated sea air assault of Hie the Force bombarded the coastal defences of the Java Rock Island and Shore guns offered some return fire Nimitz said no american ships were damaged Aud Ull our planes returned a japanese destroyer escort vessel was sunk by the Shell Firo along with a patrol Craft and Landing a Saipan dispatch by 1 p in was believed that the big p a air base on iwo was knocked out As a result of the big raid and Xavy last fj01j Saipan fought through moderate lighter and antiaircraft 1iro for jul blow at on the main enemy american airmen in imbed in Rouglin ill Over most with Linol and returned Vuthoo Afu r probably Des growing five Jap Ujj Laniis a to aging four air Uve Jap ski Jiping in in to Iii Washington the last Tiges of autumn optimism were swept away last week As govern ment officials warned americans that Germany Swift and slugging on the Western front foreshadows a gloomy Pic Ture for the coming months chairman of War production stated that greatly increased demands on War production and tins revision of production schedule arc necessary because of the counteroffensive new British push in a akan sector a new British Advance in a akan sector of the Burma front is reported West of the Mayu Range following the of Buth Daung and the enemy has been forced to evacuate All but an eight mile strip near the tip of the Mayu Penin in Central Burma Forward units of British uth army Lulu pushed to it was revealed monday in an Allied communique which also told of advances on the led Oberma British units pushing Down the Irrawaddy Hiver in Northern Burma captured Vij River South of Katha and about North Frojm it was announced that of the Lii air Force destroyed 40 Jan Sank a Large Tanker and probably Sank four other ves Sels in Christmas ave raids on Tainan Ai drome in the Shantung province and in Hon Kong and the Long stalemate Ai the German the thrust into he is resulting in such tremendous losses of equipment that the entire first army May have to be to k is in Bower had been doing everything he could to break through the West said if to could have done it prompt the munitions we had under procurement would have been sufficient but he to safeguard against what will in addition to what has we must get ready fight the kind of War we have been fighting for past two months for another year ant perhaps production plans revamped government officials have production plans on the basis that heavy fighting May continue for a year at Krug revealed that the munitions necessary to meet the Gor Man attack Are now in France but he emphasized the seriousness of thi arid asking for pro duet on acceleration by War work ers lie stressed the Gargantuan Job both replacement and on the Home americans were soberly old that Short Ages will no be alleviated draft Calls Are expected to in depending on the tug Suffens at the front hit Dur bombers Kurile Hon Kong a Ocano islands was also ing the week and Isaaf blasted Onnek Taii in tin Chain with no Raymond results of Allik raids on Japan since said that the has proved it self a magnificent weapon us War and that Japan bleeding inter indu lie revealed that Danes i dropped pounds of bombs in the first to Days and Complete h knocked on the largest twin Panr Vod causing Jap 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