Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 23, 1945, Cairo, Egypt Fib stuary casualties took their of by and ave now advancing to Central from ithe captured fifth division bypassed the tip Field in a flanking Wilc the fourth directly toward the Yard of the and Vance Suade under a steady Hail of Rifle and rocket at the tip of the Devil bogs crawled Over the Rocky slopes of Suribachi which the japs have transformed into a gum studded and every Inch of ground the yanks in this sector the marines have broken up Al night counterattacks with the Aid of illuminating flares fired throughout the night by the inva Sion Fleet lying toughest in 168 years reinforcements and supplies Are pouring ashore As naval guns continue to hurl tons of steel upon the Island and rockets from both ships and planes ripped into enemy viewing the action from a War ship just off the Holland Comman of Tho Oech this fighting is the toughest weve run across in 168 and ferocious resistance is Purifi the Atli Elican Devil across the Southern on third of iwo Jima to Airfield and Cut off the Suribachi paid one of the heaviest costs officers and Ken killed or wounded in the one War flying Over the described it As eight Miles unadulterated the marines seized a thousand Yards of West coast Beach in the first nine hours of the invasion then drove across the Island to Seal off the Southern the first wave of land ing at nine were caught in a heavy crossfire from hidden Jap but made the Beach and spent the Day and the islands Rock slowly rooting out the enemy hit 72 Days straight from air the invasion of iwo Jima came after it had been for 72 straight Days of air three Days before the troops hit the a great Fleet of Battle ships and joined in the As did swarm of Carrier one unidentified warship was damaged by Shore the iwo Jima operation differed other Pacific invasions in several Are no Coral reefs such As a Tarawa and Kwa and iwo Jima lacks any sort of there is no Jungle As on Guam and in the the tropical heat of the atolls is thankfully lacking and the marines came equipped with jackets and blankets in anticipation of 45 degree the american Possession of iwo Only 750 Miles from would enable yanks to strike at medium in addition to rations tanks smash into Siegfried bastion i my Vic Damu Rioni third army s troops battered their was into Haarburg in the Centra scoring a heavy blow against the Siegfried line general patrons spearheads thrust across lie Luxembourg fron tier into the Triangle formed by the converging Saar and Moselle Southwest of Advance troops have spanned the South of for the first crossing in this area organized German resistance in the Triangle area crumbled unto attacks by the third army troops which captured towns and fought into four More towns ing armoured units drove into Haarburg on the Saars West Bank after establishing Contact with the 94th infantry division crossed the Moselle in a two Day Battle and paved the Way for the new plunge into enemy dispatches reported wholesale although at some Points the nazis fought savagely and skilfully for every these mass surrenders Are puzzling to correspondents because the mud and slush Are slowing Down patrons Advance sufficiently to permit most of the nazis to escape in the Northern Dis patches said scots of the Canadian first army had entered the Ger Man fortress City of South East of the famed Black watch regiment fought from House to House with tanks and flame they struck with such suddenness that surprised Garrison and Lus staff in their other units of Crefars army Are closing in on eight Miles Northeast of the Battle is fierce As the nazis Are hurling Strong tank and infantry forces Fri a series of counter h have and Ai some reversed the Allied front remains unbroken As Hodges Waits and watches the Roer River subside by it is re ported that the water level behind the Large Schwa Manuel dam has dropped More than 80 feet since the nazis blew up the Sluice trates on february Patch seventh on the offensive Between Strasbourg and won several gains which brought the yanks to within three Miles of at last there was a Ripple of laughter among officials when the German High com Mand invited Eisenhower by radio to Send a delegation of six to ten officers or enlisted men in Side German lines to investigate what the nazis called soviet atrocities in Hungar Pearson sues Pegler new York Pearson and the Bell Syndicate have entered a libel suit against Westbrook who allegedly called Pearson malicious and unreliable and a Faker As a news both Pearson and the Syndicate Are ask ing stalemate on the first army seas something for the boys Washington special service has just purchased plastic Harmonicas Mouth organs which shortly distribute to Over Rock note Hiura v Higashimura j t r 11 i y Mountain Polny Bomfim Volcano strongest Points of resistance meeting the marines on tiny Iowa Jima Are the Suribachi bristling with a placed and the remaining Airstrip located 700 Yards from the already captured c Arrer Pla nes b29s rip Tokyo with record Airl lows Tokyo rocked this seek from the biggest bombing attacks Ever made against Japan As More that Carrier planes Friday poured explosives on the enemy followed with another Carrier at tack on and a record breaking super fortress raid on fridays assault continued for nine hours from the most Power Ful Fleet in american history which churned Waters less than 300 Miles from cruisers and destroy ers of Raymond sprue ii Ces fifth Fleet spread out in a line for 200 Miles Marca Misc hers Carrier Airam bit airfields and other Tokyo de super fortresses from Saipan bases ranged Over Japan during and after the Carrier spotting enemy convoys and Rei dealing counter moves which other Wise would have been the Carrier attacks and at the same time the enemy radio first reported that american assault forces had started Landing on iwo Sug Gesting the Tokyo strikes As diversionary operations to the Volca noes came an announcement from Nimitz that the two Day attacks on the japanese Capi nazis had Tipoff of arnhem attack London has been lifted on what promises to become the most sensational Case of this a nazi who is believed to have tipped off the germans on the British airborne attack on arnhem in was seized by Allied intelligence officers at a cocktail party and the nazi agent a member of the dutch underground for three years and it is believed that he was entrusted with information concerning the arnhem operation which ended so disastrously for the in the destruction or damaging of 36 3neiny ships and1 659 planes against a loss of 49 american Nir Nitz said none of the ships in the american Armada was even hit while three japanese warships were sunk and an escort Carrier was set afire and Tokyo was blasted again Mon Day by b29s in what a report from Guam described As their biggest sixty six Jap planes said to have been knocked out and Trtany direct hits scored on aircraft three super forts were reported India bases super forts were Active striking at targets on the malay in Tokyo next year general Hopes Changking a says Gen Albert c Wedemeyer com Mander in Hopes to be in Tokyo in a assured by Bishop Paul senior Catholic dignitary in that the chinese people would give him a Flag when he reached to Wedemeyer remarked i Hope you can do that one year from Hawaii and puerto Rico added to Cable list the War has announced that expeditionary Force Messa Ges and those of the senders own composition May now be sent to and from the hawaiian islands and puerto charges Are the same As those for messages to and from the such messages to Hawaii or puerto Rico can be directed to persons who receive mail through Apo age of chivalry a who attacked right watchman Robert Iff and knocked helped Iff to a washed his Cut and gave him first Aid by stealing away into american paratroopers Are sweeping Corregidor Clear of the mopping up tunnels and caves of the Island we in Manila the japs still cling grimly to the walled intr Aniros in which the enemy compressed into an area less than a mile the 37th divisions howitzers have pounded a breach in the 40foot thick intr Muros Walls for tanks and troops to move in for the final assault on the cornered some civilians Are believed held As hostages within the a new dramatic Rescue was engineered by american troops who stormed into the ruins of the philippine general Hospital to Eva Cuate limping and Haggard patients who had to Brave Jap sniper fire during their the troops also came across the bodies of Catholic and women and children to whom the priests had Given in the ruins of Delac Lalle Francis one of ten said the 60 were shot and Bay netted to death by a Fren Zied Jap officer and 20 enlisted men who broke in on helpless Bataan captured troops Ofa yank air borne division captured fort at the Southern outskirts of the Jap Garrison on Corregidor was hit simultaneously by Waves of parachutists who landed the islands Crest while elements of the Voth division hit the South Only sporadic resistance was offered by the Jap Appa still stunned by the terrific Aerial and naval gun the Possession of where the american sur rendered May will open Manila Bay to Allied historic Bataan is now comple Tely in american save for isolated Points or the capture of the where a broken fore of americans and filipino fought a Gallant but losing stand three years was achieved after a daring supported Landing by the division ten the South under the silenced guns of the mice formidable Corregidor their path skilfully cleared by mine bombarding cruisers and the amphibious troops established a beachhead in Mari Veles then drove swiftly northeastward toward a juncture with sixth army troops 18 Miles it has been revealed that nearly Allied mostly ame apparently perished when a Jap prison ship was sunk by a submarine in the China sea last so far Only five survivors Ruve been accounted 50 Jap divisions Alon China coast Central news Agency quoted chivas chief of to Yin As saying the japanese were deploying up to 50 divisions on the chinese main land in a bid to Stem a possible american Landing on the fighting is continuing West of the Canto Hankow Railroad near the Hunan Kiangtung where counter attacking chinese troops killed More than 500 Japa Nese in Battles East of the High command on the Burma Lith army troops Are developing a pincer threat to having expanded Bridgehead across their Rawady above and below the in Calcutta opposite 35 Miles downstream from gains scored despite japanese counterattacks and artillery i Ogress avas also made in the Singu Bridgehead 40 Miles North of the
