Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - January 12, 1945, Cairo, Egypt                                P january 1945 and on american Ita filid a Salmu commander in inv As tin Are is Navy will now tap on the Overall a Jav ii at tit pendent on Luzon beachhead imported As ameri6an forces continued i to Stream steadily one appeared Jan riot be pushed pack into the Bea have disposal to throw  invasion ship Armada Ain Hcan landings were an of More than 800 ships the same area of the lingayen North of Baviere the japs made their main landings More than three Drears the invasion came Days after forces their first landings on the japs made a futile attempt to break up invasion Fleet is it approached Luzon and lost at least 79 two several midget a car go ship and several Small escorting Fleet of Battle aircraft cruisers and destroyers turned Hack every though suffering some loss Ami the terrific pre invasion air pasting of enemy installations and shipping from Luzon to Formosa is credited with the meager resist Ance encountered by the invasion hundreds of Jap planes were destroyed in the air and on the ground in the round the clock bombing that preceded the inva there was no Shore fire As the ships steamed into Gulf As every coastal Battery which could have ranged on the Landing ships and supporting War ships had been knocked invade Marinduque previous to the Luzon other units of the sixth army landed on of the lower coast of Only 95 Miles from the Landing was on yanks arc sweep ing Forward from three beachhead and experiencing Only Light resist spewing White exhaust a barrage of dockets fired from an Sci boat Arch toward enemy coastal defences As american forces invaded the Island of Mindoro in the Southern press they have captured the Island stronghold of it has been announced that All american troops in the Northern new Britain and British new Guinea have been replaced by australian which have been engaged in a full scale Campaign there since the withdrawal came after More than two years of fighting in those the move was kept secret until the entire changeover had been Nimitz and Macarthur meet it was disclosed that Mitz flew to the Philippines Dur ing the last week in december to Confer with Macarthur it was their first meeting since fearing in Rush chinese High command announced monday that the japanese landed fresh troops in the northeastern Yukim pro Vince 26 and advanced in capturing the town of 70 Northeast of enemy held a chinese counterattack 3 forced the invaders to Retreat to Sansha on the the a said that by the new landings the Jap anese apparently want to be in position to Rush troops to any Point where americans might secure a beachhead on the China army head quarters in chunking said Chin Burma Border town of wanting which was captured by the chinese 3 Lias been re captured by the delaying the opening of the new Ledebur a Marvin Assis Tant chief of staff for plans said chinese were expected to re sume the offensive almost immediately and retake not Only wanting but the Village of Neh Kan in lift predicted the led Burma Road would be in operation within a month after fleets of american trucks Are reported to be waiting West of the Himalayas to Rush supplies to Over the led Burma news on the ail War in China Canie this week Landing new troops Claire Chennault who tuesday told newsman that air men of his 14th Saaf wiped out about on third of japanese air forces in China during you can almost count shipping and air planes left to he enemy losses in China dining december were 242 aircraft and another i were added in the first week of Chennault flying bombs used against us in China China Chennault disclosed saturday that the japanese accusing some kind of flying bomb for air defense of he said it was not determined whether the bombs were launched from planes or the ground but so far they have had no great Suc flyers tool of seeing objects Fol lowing or paralleling their planes but in each Case they were Able to evade the Pacific Ace missing Iedward credited with 12 Jap has been miss ing in action since Rector first won Fame with the flying tigers Over China and and later with the uth air indians take Burma port Ceylon third largest port of Burma and for two years an important japanese sup i v fell to the largest Toni Bifid British Ami Indian seaborne launched against Asiatic Allied head Quad Iris announced 1 he who repulsed smaller scale British Altemus to take Akaab through lie Jungles from India in Ilin and Eva the stronghold without fir ing a As huge Allivie air and St a forces co merged nil the the laps off behind Many Booby and mines and partially demolished seven airfields but All Are capable of i the Central Burma in liar British Lith army enter the last Niam of on v away 134 congressional medals 134 con Gressional medals of honors have been awarded in world War of these awards 78 went to army to members of the to the and one to a coast guard navys top Ace with a Jap plane downed for each of his 34 David Mccampbell takes the Lead spot in the navys list of ranking flight aces in Hie Mcca Phelis parents live in los an Acme of taters Ong lie arc and Carrier St task punishing new blows at japanese installations along a Are from Formosa to Tokyo this while one group of super forts from Saipan hit Industrial targets in Tokyo and another from China made a Daylight raid on carriers of the third Fleet turned North from Luzon after a today strike saturday and siriday and sent swarms of planes against Mosa and the Ryukyu islands the b29 raid on Tokyo said toy the enemy to have been at a strength of 60 to 90 which also hit at other targets on Honshu announced last Fri Day the 27th and 28th successive daily strikes at iwo Jap air base in the Bonin b29 he moves to Guam the b29 Headquarters of Haywood Han commander of the 21st bomber have been moved from Saipan to banishment planned for son of heaven hot springs7 Institute of Pacific representing is United nations Border ing the agreed this week that following the defeat of Iron Perot Hirohito must not Only be humbled in such a Way that his entire people know it but he must also the consensus was that the emperor be made to Bear the Legal odium of defeat by person ally signing the peace the Only dissent was by mine sister of the Indian the japanese themselves should remove the Khi Perot As Well As vote fundamental constitutional changes in their 4fs Scurry continued from Page 1 those below general army physical who quit their essential War jobs without draft Board a the order makes men age 18 to 37 liable to military Call for Job a new Branch of service a Supply Force of strik ers and workers guilty of Job skip Ping and absenteeism was pro posed in Congress by Wil t Ham Corner lie proposed the men be inducted and uniformed and should receive army pay and dependency allot ments but that they be barred from receiving other Colmer said he envisaged the men being used in any Way the army and Navy see fit in furthering the War they could he assigned to warplanes or on other emergency labor and farm spokesmen continued to blast Byrnes latest manpower recommendations Al though serious1 and acute manpower shortages were re ported in some states by the spokesmen for representatives from farm Stales said Thev did not believe Many men can from sifting some Voung men holding essential agricultural deferments already labor circles reacted with bitter criticism to Byrnes contending that there is no Short age of workers for War supporting civilian the publication Organ of the Railroad Bro that a confidential memorandum circulated in one War Agency denied there is a the Al weekly news service criticized plans of dra Goon Cedar Iowa Clare treasurer and editorial director of the Cedar rapids a Nastu in edit ays Montgomery prime mini ate get Tahill and Field marshal mint Ginery paid tribute this week to the combat qualities of the american Soldier battling von Rundstedt break through at his sunday press conference where he presented a balance Sheet of Battle in the ardennes a Monty told correspondents i shall always feel Sundstedt waa really beaten by the fight ing qualities of the american sol Dier and in the team work of the i Salute the Brave fighting of i never want to fight alongside better the hero of Al Alamein then concerned his remarks about who Monty called the Captain of Pur i am absolutely devoted to said it grieves me when i see uncomplimentary Arti titles about him in the British when the Bronze Star was awarded to Omar Bradley for services rendered in disrupting Vori Rudstedt plan of prime minister Churchill wired the following Praise i congratulate you wholeheartedly upon the signal Mark of me Rit which has been conferred upon you by the supreme commander it seems to embody the feelings that we britons All have about your part in this great the in which United states troops have won such High renown and above All upon the epic of we Are proud to serve in Loyal comradeship with your sol Diers and to Anarch with hem final Eam spokesmen Athens three representatives of the Eam National liberation front Are conferring with Ronald British will full Power to accept British peace terms if they see representatives Are making no counterproposal of their the military situation has for first time in a athens1 is Fol lowing the abrupt withdrawal of left Wing Elas the British have driven the Klas troops deep into the Hills West and Northeast of 35 Miles Lias been taken and Armor has reached the Strong Sheid Elas Bridge at Ken wikis which inks the greek Mainland with Premier Nicholas who took his Post in to the greek Eivis has promised the a general election at the earliest possible moment i name a new Assembly and de cide the question of a Italy push carries to Lak Comacchio of the eighth army have driven at the Adriatic sea at Casal 10 above and in four pushed the nazis out of 50 syium Miles of Marshland Between Ravenna and Lake climaxing a drive through Ca nals and Waterways of the to hampered by flooded mimes and the canadians Ianneci out to the shores of Lake Comacchio and forced the to withdraw eastward and Westward to avoid being Cut american drove off patrol attacks South of Bologna tuesday As Allied ele ments and White Clad nazi troops nude blows in fighting along Ibe Snow covered fifth army and Snow Jarge scale american league batting chump in Lix i As a member of the died at