Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 9, 1945, Cairo, Egypt Basr i Felix Safiy that the tills across incl flip Haftl that ital Tii tie speaking that fire w lamp Al that Thuc situate in St Happy that it pro 4 stated Kues trin and Franf Tafurt ate being out t Ini Rade can save in Felts fall can be delayed Only a few adv feta Drees converged on these important cities on and fighting is Eglin the soviets also reached the Oder at 30 Miles from this is the closest announced Asp Poarch to the North of 38 Miles from Berlin was defense off Koenig Stoer marshal Flo Kossovsky and Cherri Vakhovsky have tightened the Bear hug on East five sixths of which is now rus under pressure and cons Tant bombardment from the air and the germans Are still fighting suicidally to save the province at least refugee civilians Are said to be fighting As although the russians describe the City As a Volcano of smoke and fire and Promise to reduce it quickly to its bitter de sense there is no late news on the drive to a few Days however Moscow announced that one of Zhukov columns reached within 11 Miles of the thus threatening to lop off Square Miles of Northeast Germany and the Danzig on other heavy fighting rages at Elbing and after the raid on american fighter pilots flew to the Oder River East of Berlin to watch the artillery Duel raging across the curving pilots reported russian Gims seem to extend Back Many Miles the russians seem to be firing ten shots for every one from the German Side that there was Portenti Oua activity on the russian according to the first two weeks of the steamroller offensive Cost the nazis Ca Between 12 and five German generals were Cap tured and eight were found the russians also claim to have taken prisoners last monday and 43 third army veh shove off for Home tire 3rd army under the 3rd army new policy of granting furlough priority to troops with the longest stretches 43 soldiers of the 5th division will head for the states on the 5th was the first division sent overseas and will have a quota limit of the previous policy of granting equal leaves to any unit in service Day caused a controversy and up expressed belief that it May have lowered morale of men who have served overseas almost three of sales Slovakia Are crumbling the entire Oder defense marshal Zoh Pikovs jul Amer at Frankfurt and have crossed the Oder for a to army has surged across it below Breslau and is advancing into the heart of the Middle the out flanking of Breslau seems an immediate aim of americans evacuate three More airfields in China chunking the 14th aah disclosed tuesday that a japanese offensive from the Canton area has forced abandonment of another yank fighter base the third Dur ing the week 50 Miles Southeast of two others were Given up earlier at Sui Chwan and at Sui Chwan is in Western Kwangsik about Midway Between Hankow and troop Carrier planes evacuated most personnel and equipment and fighter pilots flew their own planes the withdrawals came after a warning last thursday by Wedeneyer that loss of some uth aah bases East of the Chin Indochina corridor was these he declared himself enthusiastic and confident about operations in our he said enemy dispositions and operations indicated the japanese expect american land Ings somewhere on the China coast and i assure you we wont Dis appoint Tokyo radio warned the Japan Ese sunday that american land Ings in were up reported from new ments were said the Jap anese to evacuate 000 inhabitants from Shanghai and to impose martial Law on the sub growler lost Washington announced the loss the Navy has of the submarine carrying a nor Mal complement of c6 to 70 it was presumably lost while on patrol duty in the it was from the deck of the growler that its wounded skip Howard is sued the unforgettable take her Down which swept him to his Plutt logic Lap bases Over a Pacific front the to Yap in new the 59th Conse daily strike at two South o Nimitz announced at Advance Pacific Fleet super fortresses from the Marianna raided the shipbuilding and Railroad City of 260 Miles Avest of on it was the first announced american operation against Tokyo radio said 100 bombers India based b29s Jap anese installations in the Singapore area for the third time and re comais Sarre photos disclosed the destruction sinking of a huge floating dry Dock capable of hand liner the largest warship in the the last raid on Singapore was two separate fleets of super forts from India followed up the Singapore strike with attacks by Daylight wednesday on targets in Thailand and the War announced in japs slow Down Mandalay push Ceylon japanese resistance has stiffened before menaced Allied com Munique said sheinfil rating japanese established them selves on the right Bank of the my River at its Confluence with the Irrawaddy about 25 Miles of Allied forces in the seventh amphibious operation in seven weeks have landed on the Southern coast of Ramiree Island off Burmas West coast while 15th Indian corps troops who recently landed on the North coast Are approaching the town of elsewhere in american Mars task Force troops blocked the japanese Retreat the Lashio Laiwing killed 250 of the enemy and captured a Hill West of the Road 79 Miles North of at a powerful British cast India struck a most damaging blow at japanese Oil supplies in attacks on Southern new Ernest lieutenant governor of Connecticut in in the face of land onslaught by the red Berlin last week rocked under the heaviest Aerial onslaught of the War when Over eighth air Force fort resses dumped tons of expo american Bombardier set their sights on a Square mile area in the Center of the occupied by the German War the Reich the ministry of propaganda and Gestapo head been Over Berlin 10 and i have never seen anything to compare with today bomb asserted maj Merle Nichols of most crewmen reported Little Tackack fire tout fairly heavy fighter the loss of 19 heavy bombers and five fighters was called a record Low for a major attack on the German an almost unbroken mass of fire and smoke covered an area two Miles Long and one mile wide in the cites and smoke still rising prevented reconnaissance planes from recording the exact hits on1 Many government build Many buildings which had hitherto escaped destruction were reduced to these include the hotels adlon and Esplanade and other buildings in under Den state swedish five downtown Railroad stations suffered extensive and Accord ing to the swedish Morgon the bombs caused a massacre among the refugees crowding the a Neutral observer told correspondents that for the first time during the War there was unmistakable signs of panic in prepare for siege after digging themselves out of the the nazis continued their frantic preparations to meet the onrushing red Volks term battalion have taken their places in the cites outer defences police Are heavily armed buildings Are fortified for the thousands of starving refugees have streamed from the and stricter food rations have been set although an evacuation of the German government from Berlin has not been officially Gubbels is to last important offi Cial remaining in the doomed yanks flush japs in flame gutted Manila 73 convicted of Mutiny Central Pacific three american soldiers have ten convicted of Mutiny and sentenced from eight to years at Hartlie All whom we remembers of neers general refused to work on Oahu Aii Field on july 31 continued from Page 1 came 28 Days after the Luzon land was delivered by paratroop ers of the Lith airborne division who drove into Manila from the South in a 35mile overnight they converged on the City us the first cavalry Ami 37th division smashed across the pasig River from the Tho fall of Manila was set up when the sky troopers were dropped Inland during a virtually unopposed Landing along a five mile stretch of Beach near below the Robert eighth army originally plan Ned the air Man Euver As a reconnaissance planning to pull out if opposition proved too three hours later he Chan ged it to a full scale thrust at meanwhile veterans of first who had landed on Subic Hay last approached the City from the North under the cover of a wide Hencir cd Rinrix movement was employed to secure the safely of several thousand internees held by the Jap 1rittoinis lib on this Foice later joined by the remainder two mine sweepers lost Washington Navy announced the Joss of the mine sweep ers and and Lan Landing ship in the Philippines commanding of lice s of All vessels hut the did not i Eal canal of the division which had covered More than 80 Miles in a today drive toward also participating in the liberation army were twin columns of the sixth which had fought Down from Lin Gayen Gulf past Clark Field and san As the americans entered Manila whole areas of the cite were engulfed in roaring net of were doing a Manila fire fighters their Best to the spread of the which raged out of but there was no water pressure the japs had blown in the pumping plants several Days for doughboy of the 37th div the big moment of Manila liberation was the seizure intact of the big Ralin Tawaka they celebrated their entry into the City there by gulping Down huge amounts of ice cold Tokyo radio dismissed the loss of Manila by saying that Mili tary value of the City was of almost no but our Force is about to take definite bleeding tactics against the the nip radio also reported that american warships had been bomb arding conv Gidor in Manila fur two this re was followed by speculation Oniu mat Arthurs that Anie Rian landings in Corregidor Are expected in order to lock up Manila to Jap earlier in the yanks mov ing West from san Fernando and t from a joined Daniil Pihun ate Balaan v Peninsula Cabcaben manacles Corregidor Santa Cruz Mindoro a 35mile overnight dash by eighth army following air and sea landings at set up the capture of if the toughest fighting of the t action in this area was of As being this the new Gui Nea and Solm Nons Jungle with yanks inner o orders to in Macarthur puts Jap on Luzon at approximately against casualties of
