Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 2, 1945, Cairo, Egypt                                And March 2 1945 to to meet the rats Etta Tel of Ger Jeff an tip the on the is two spearheads into Sieg Fried fortifications East of Luxem my th1rdafmy Lii Ari armoured while another farther North i broadcast to the German Popula Tion Sherpa Tjioe the telling them toe prepared of a Kew at in cellars and the generals message and take enough with you to last until the Bora age of Trier is any to follow nazi orders to evacuate will mean death and Speed of the Advance against the Northern Rhine was typified by the manner in which the 104th Timber Wolf division took five Miles Northeast of the town wrist assaulted by tanks and guns at 11 set captured and cleared by it is one week since the Rhine offensive opened up and the Ger mans have still been Start single they have lost the key Heights Over looking the Roer and from which big guns might have been Able to halt the flow of american tanks and supplies into the As the first army drive carried to the outskirts of general Simpsons and the dose on the times reds closing Baltic trap on huge German forces in american airbase China is recaptured chunking chinese com announced monday the recapture of the former american airbase town of Sui Chwan in the Western Tiangsi province which was blown up and abandoned a few weeks the chinese said enemy attacks on Sui Chwan again were thrown chinese troops under Daniel Sultan have captured the Rich Baldwin Silver and Lead mines 22 Miles North of in scoring the greatest Allied Victory in Burma since the capture of the mines were described by american authorities As among the most valuable in the East and capable of producing enough Lead to Supply the entire japanese War the were left intact by the British troops closed in on Mau Dalay Froan four Bridgehead across the Irrawaddy River and have killed Over 300 japanese in a Swift pincer dispatches from Calcutta Pioneer airman Dies Louis John Sharp my balloonist who participated in More than 200 is the red army has ripped through German defences in North Ern Pomerania and driven within a few Miles of the Baltic sea in a great threat to Seal off Danzig and All nazi troops along a 140 mile stretch of the when the Gap is an estimated germans will be pinned against the Baltic c6ast in what looms As the most important encirclement of the Winter Offen one of the largest cavalry forces yet massed by the soviets is re ported to be fighting below pol 23 Miles from the coast and 17 Miles from the last Railroad Between Stettin and the germans have admitted All gains in later say that the russians Are fighting on the approaches to Ai City which actually lies on the Berlin also reported that Rokos Sovsky after a sweep up the Vistula broke into Dan in the Southern part of which fluctuating fighting is in a bid to Clear the Northern flank in preparation for a final crushing assault on mar Shal to Kossovsky 2nd White army swung into action Early this week to blast a path from the polish corridor northwestward to the despite the Slushy Ter rain and numerous German coun his troops captured  and rolled for swallowing up Sal Stegers and Hammerstein other important cities in the germans Lakeland and Forest de sense zone about Midway Between Danzig and Adverse weather conditions made the going warm weather had melted the ice on lakes and flooding the Flat Stalin announced on wednes Day that the vital five was rail Hub of Neu Stettin and a cite to 24o City blocks in Tokyo devastated by b29 raid Guam the 21st bomber com Mand announced wednesday that 240 City blocks of Tokyo most highly congested Industrial and business District Are in smoulder ing ruins As result of sundays super fortress raid from which every one of 200 raiders photos showed that cg7 acres were Lulu red out in the area from Ernp Eror Hirohito a Palace to the crowded the raid was carried out in snowstorm and Bombardier used newly invented radio bombing instruments with remarkable re the super forts flew in coordination with Navy Carrier planes which earlier in the morning assaulted two aircraft plants in the suburbs with such Good results that vice Marc Wilscher said he did believe the japs would get them Back in production for this during the week american nes also hit Llach Ijo Island in the group 120 Miles South of India based b2js struck at Singapore by Daylight saturday causing damage to har Bor Singapore broadcasts 20th aah indicated the raiding Armada totalled Over he Jap Fleet will stay at says Tokyo challenging High new Orif Tokyo radio said sunday night the japanese Fleet has no intention of the Aine rican Navy on the seas out f reach of japanese land based a broadcast recorded by the acc and coming As Navy Carrier planes raided the enemy main islands for the second Lime in Little More than a said the Jap Fleet has adopted the Tegyo of operating within a Radin of action of land based the had been precipitating the lunge to the Security blackout a heavy Security blackout still covers action of Zhukov and to Niev on the Berlin in the the germans said that Koniaev had Flung Bridge a cafe across the Neisse Between Guben and go Miles Southeast of the but Moscow remained it is that the Long awaited strike toward Berlin May be a heavy Battle is reported to he raging on front Between Questin and the 15th Saaf hammered at German railroads to the Eastern and Southern fronts in direct support of the bed and Allied who recently crash landed in the area of the Middle reported endless artillery action on both sides and a continuous flow of soviet men and Materiel to the in East a fierce six Day Battle raged on the Samland Peninsula just West of Koenigsberg and the germans claimed that parts of two soviet armies were smashed in the resulting in the reestablishment of Chinmu in nations Between Koenigsberg and the port of Tho russians have halved their sauce be on the Koenigsberg area to fc0 Square the silesian Breslau still still holding out is under Day and night assault from soviet planes which Are soft ening it up for the final bed troops have made further thrusts into the their artillery Lias smashed the cites water resei1 voids so badly that Bre Jaus Early fall seems fall of Poz Tjan marshal speaking in commemoration of the army 27th told the russian that Victory is he revealed that germans have been captured in the 40 1 and that sin my germans Lav been killed in Ilie Winter offensive record air blows in for of or a Berlin has been the target for massive Raf and air Force bomb blows which Nave been struck in direct support of the russian armies East of the surpassing record breaking raids of the a Daylight attack by Oyer american fortresses and liberators blasted Berlin on in just Over an hour they dropped tone of High explosives and incendiaries on three main railway the first bombs went Down about five minutes before exact time planned at Doolittle Headquarters in More than 700 american fighters escorted the the Ger mans put up Only moderate flak and the Luftwaffe did not put in an Cost of the raid was 16 american bombers and seven fighters listed As Mosquito of the Raf bomber command followed that and As they roared Over the pilots could see the fires still Blaz ing from the american attack 12 historic february raids these Swift flying bombers have pummelled the German capital for nine consecutive dropping their deadly cargo of bombs in concentrated air Force reviewed the achievements of the Allied air forces for the Pasti he said the last week of changed the his tory of the air during that period British and american air Craft struck so hard at German fighter production factories that the Luftwaffe has never been an effective defensive Force bad Jet or As the pilots have nicknamed Are in action against the they Are officially known As me and they Are the and so far the Only Jet propelled Craft of the United nations in action against the Aniny air forces announce that they also have a new Jet propelled As the shooting it is now being produced in Groat iwo Jima continued from Page 1 filtrate through yanks lines t0 secure drinking one patrol was actually crawling Back to its own lines with a heavy water can before marines Cut it canteens of All Jap dead were empty and the bodies of even some of the american dead have found minus their All water for americans must be ship Ped first shipload of Marino casualties reached the Maria has and correspondents there quoted Marine veterans of Guadal canal and Saipan As saying that the Battle for iwo was worse than worst of one Veteran you could find any part of the human body there on that they reported that the terrain was too soft to make Good Foxholes be cause the Sandy Earth caved they added that hungry flies were worse than any of the insects in previous Jungle Fleet units in the Vicinity of iwo Jima sustained some damage at the bands of Jap fighters and bomber planes making their first attack against surface Craft since the Bat the began for key seven planes were shot Down but the communique did not elaborate on the extent of damage of ships it has Hern revealed thai in the Start of the Battle for upwards of americans were fighting japs in an area of eight Square As congestion became a serious one officer someone is going to have to off of iwo and ii int yanks launch new Luzon drive from liberated Manila general Macarthur solemnly proclaimed Manila the capital of the restored civil government of the Philippines in a moving Cere Mony even As yank troops were disclosed to have achieved a new Island 70 Miles to the the new Landing on tiny verde mid Way in the Tenmile Channel be tween Luzon and Mindoro was designed to secure the West end of the direct route through the heart of the archipelago and open the shortest sea route through which to Rush supplies from the the East end was secured less than a week ago with invasions of Capul and Biri the verde invasion was achieved with such Surprise troops went ashore with practically no to the Manila liberation Cere Macarthur your country once again is at Liberty to pursue its destiny to a honoured position in the family of free a japs annihilated Manila proper has been completely cleared of the except for several Hundred japs who Are still holding out in two gov buildings in the Intra a euros organized resist Ance collapsed when the 37th div Ision infantry breached the Walls and captured the Manila cite Hall and general the philippine capital became the jumping off place for a new american drive when the Utji div Ision arid elements of the first cavalry division struck out toward Luzon East stiff resistance was reported All along a 25mile front in the Sierra mad ire Moun especially near mount a 11 Miles Northeast of a the japs launched a full scale Banzai charge near Mont Alan but were beaten off with heavy All week Corregidor fort Ress Lias been shaken by under ground touched off by enemy marines who Are commit Ting mass american troops Are a helping pour liquid fire and hurling explosives at surviving enemy troops in isolated the first ame rican plane to land on Corregidor in hire years landed on the rocks Airstrip this historic Butman has been completely cleared of the and Macarthur so far As can be no living Jap is now on the Peninsula the yanks cleaned up Bataan in less than a compared with the three months that it look for the japs drive out tin yanks in another dramatic Rescue in another during ame rican paratroops and filipino gue Rillas liberated civilian inter nees from the los Lianos intern ment it was the fourth Brilliant mass Rescue of the Luzon Campaign and the second Well behind selected paratroops of the 511th of the Ike airborne led by Hubert Lea pied directly into ramp As three columns of guerillas swept out of the Jungle i encircle the Camp the Jap plus guards caught taking their morning at i Cost of two dead and two two were slightly although pinched by the liberated were in stronger condition than their fellow ers in Santo Thomas prison the raid brought the total of women and children rescued this month to approximately get Calcutta a new record of a7 for the trip from Miami in Calcutta has been set by Hubert Forman of Memphis in delivering new snubbed yank Dies fighting army Pacific Frank of of 10 japanese americans whose names were stricken from Roll by the Hood american legion died performing a dangerous the Arm