Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 5, 1945, Cairo, Egypt Janu aft it farther of but it out every Dormans have m along Tufe Elbow that tuil6 of font Between ski lantern of rect at tacks forced americans to Relin Quish toehold in the ret Del a be coif East of below where the seventh abandoned a while front five state that this new mow denotes shift in the enemy offensive southwards another theory brought Forth relieves the German High command was out feelers in determine what extent the the lower end of the front to meet von Rund stents breakthrough in the tanks slug it out this week also saw the Luftwaffe discard its minor role on the West hons Fiu industries hit repeatedly targets at japans largest and other targets on Honshu again Felt the weight of bombs As super fortresses raided the Jap Homeland twice earlier in the week Osaka and Kobe were hit toy b29s from Sai pan and ten fighter planes bombed and strafed the suburbs of sunday two b29s on a night reconnaissance strike Over Tokyo gave the japanese capital the final bombing of 1944 and the first of in american Mitchells stampeded a Herd of 30 elephants used by the japanese for military a communique said the action took place in 5urma whore Bridges and Railroad also were the 14th air Force also Sank three Jap freight ers in raids Over the Yangtze River und the Hainan democracy for China a quoted Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek sunday As promising constitutional govern ment for China before the end of 1945 instead of within one year after the end of hostilities As previously his statement said in part i do not usually vainly talk much about democracy but i have not for one single Day forgotten the need american pilots took from froze i airfields Tot fit tic opioid to in Many info ttys to meet the Luftwaffe Over their own Allied fighters and Tackack guns crushed the German bid to neutralize Allied air us reminiscent of the sat tie of 364 enemy planes were brought the Luftwaffe suffered its heaviest on Day loss of the from Berlin correspondent Guen ther Weber reported an interview with one of funds tests staff offi cers in which the latter declared that Eisenhower would be very much mistaken if he supposed the germans were playing their last Trump card in this Belgium the German divisions Are not our last the officer they Are the first contingents of a new German Reservoir which is being built by careful prepay yanks9 Best Friend on Leyte is dog scout with the seventh infantry division on delay a big German Shep Herd has a keen nose for Japa keen in fact that he flushes them every time heroes out and twice he has saved american patrols from Laddie is one of a number of scout dogs trained at san laddies Fame began to grow soon after he landed on Leyte with his handler Alfred 34 years of under fire on the Japa Nese had set up an ambush around Sanu Pablo i noticed Laddie suddenly Atif Bresset and i knew there were japs we pulled Back land just then a machine gun opened up on Only Laddie stopped us from walking into the murderous the other Day Laddie came through he picked up the japanese scent it a dry Stream bed near sergeant Bresset began combing the area and saw a japanese standing by a banana tree watching the american a the japanese opened up but laddies warning gave the patrol time to take cover and await reinforcements before returning to find 75 freshly dug japanese Fox Jaysie Condon Dies new John Jaf sic who attempted unsuccessfully in 1932 to effect the Ransom kidnapped Charles died new Mindoro landings Formosa shipping hit von Rund Stea s carved out of Luxembourg and Belgium begins to Thrunk a first and third strike nazi resistance is fierce Wiki increasing strength pouring in to meet the new american offensive Nippon must be invoke Nimitz Saipan Fleet returning from an inspection tour of Pacific Forward warned that Japan definitely will have to be occupied by forces to win the peace and that we should be prepared to invade Japan by As he warned the nip ponese that bombing of their Homeland is just beginning and is due to be Intel i do believe they will fight to the very he Nimitz said that although the Bio British Fleet haunt yet arrived in the Pacific the work of British naval units already there is hav ing Good in another statement on the Pacific vice Marc mits Cher declared in a press conference that in another year to should have the japanese Navy pretty Well cleaned if we cant get them into a sea fight we will be in position to get after them with army and Navy big Tanker lost Washington War shipping disclosed that the big modern Tanker Jacksonville was sunk in the Atlantic several weeks presumably by a nazi Tor with All but two of approximately 75 persons aboard being japs Retreat on Mandalay front fourteenth army troops have Cap tured terminus of the Road to Mandalay Only 86 Miles Dis and evidence is mounting that the japanese do not plan to make a major stand North of the enemy withdrawal is orderly and not a but a said Only in the Nam Kham area south1 East of captured Bahamo did the japs appear to be putting up any organized the River port of bathed aim on the burmese West 25 Miles North of has been occupied by troops of the 15th Indian chinese forces attacking through the North Burma Jungles under american air support captured lowing and a communique said lowing is on the chinese Side of the Chin Bur a Border and Moat chinese entering it reached their native land for the first time since they re treated out of Burma into India with Joseph Atlanta newsman is pow Atlanta Wright associate editor of the Atlanta is now in a German Pri son the Hod Cross he was captured 12 while serving As a correspondent in All lost ground Italy army troops press ing Forward in the Serchio River area of the italian front have re captured All ground taken by the germans East of the River in their recent heavy advancing from Barga which was retaken sunday the yanks drove a mile and a half and occupied the Hill town of som Moco Lojia which had been once of the first strongholds to fall to the Naaf the germans have stepped up their movement of troops and material the West pm coastal sector indicating they May increase their efforts to and Vance a spokesman of the 15th army group said the enemy has be come More sensitive and his patrolling More aggressive than pre on the Eastern sector of the Ita Lian Canadian infantry sup ported by British wednes Day had cleared up the area just East of Alfonsine and were 10 Miles Northwest of hundreds of allies planes this week blasted Bridges and other targets along the coastal roads be Low 9o yanks continued from Page 1 German with forged americans he also had an automatic Pis Tol and a card claiming he was entitled to treatment As a non combatant under the Geneva con after these tanks were both knocked the germans withdrew and in the Lull which our Nien organized their luckily since it was a division rear command Post there were a lot of Telephone extensions around and their communication from House to House and from room to room was a lieutenant crawled into an attic and began to function As a Forward mortar All next Day he fired his when the germans filtered into the town behind him they didst find his attic and they didst find the Tele phone wires so he kept calling in the mortar by the time the attack was his score three tanks knocked the americans held the West of the main Street but the enemy came in and took the East still our 90 men didst seven of the eight remaining Ger Man tanks were knocked some some by bazookas and lie by a 40 my boors gun that just kept hammering on the ene my Lank until its Crew and of american amphibious troops have made new landings on both the East and West coasts of min Doro Island in though there is no indication As to where the new landings were Formosa figured for the first time in several months in Macarthur communiques with the announcement this week that Navy patrol planes shot Down four Jap planes and set fire to five coastal freighters East and South that this new Long rang blow came after a week of intensive air activity during which Yii irk planes deluged targets on Bor Bougainville and one of the assaults against la was carried out by the first Strong Force of Laud based which bagged three destroyers and five cargo in the lingayen 150 Miles of this attack is interpreted As a sign that the Jurjis May be gathering forces in that staging area for a counter offensive against on the same i0 Marine corsairs caught four Jap ammunition trains on Southwest 25 Miles across the Channel from blow ing up one train and staffing tiie Jap air Power hit Back with a raid by if planes Over while eight enemy aircraft were shot Down while attacking ame rican panty Island in the Sun there is no enemy action on min Loiland american troops continue v operations on j an additional sub sea Wolf overdue a Shi e submarine e sea Wolf is overdue on Pacific patrol and presumed lost with its Crew of 62 the naw Dis the Craft was the 31th american sub lost by All causes during Manila Bay port in the Pacific for Jap ships two Jap ships Ware fiercely in Oil aked Manila Bay after direct kits by american Carrier own
