Strasbourg Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 16, 1945, Strasbourg, Alsace                              Ill 11 four cents 16 1945 ome Emoria Ial to the it vixens of Aie attempting to raise to buy a permanent Home for the widow and family of infantryman of Pattoni third who was killed in on the porch of their rented Home be Rachel Privett and her four ions and four and under being told of the unique Soldier swell Tuiai fund when Tho above photo arrived in the office of stars and one of the staff members set about to canvass the office and Caine up with approximately which we Are to Send along to add to the buildup fund for that feeling that a lot of other gis might want to do the stars and stripes will accept contributions to the any wed suggest that Yon make out a Money order m favor of Rachel and Send it to the publications Well keep a tabulation on the contributions and Forward them on to its official now you Are a pert of far Flung amet 6 entirely capital comment Oneace overture Hunter entirely possible Tiu Only com ment qualified military quarters hero would make on american press reports that Field marshal von Rundstedt Hail an armistice from general Eisenhower and had been met with the unconditional surrender the German terms Are said to have included an offer of us order u the German armies on the East Bank of the Rhino to Lay Down their arms if the allies in the West would Call a to Fleir reports added that a German emissary crossed the Rhine under cover of a while Flag last week in an attempt to sound the supreme command As to his views concern in r German surrender in the the alleged German offer apparently aimed at leaving Germany free to continue resistance in the confirmation was week that on March of operations became part Africa Middle is designated amet i received this theater known As us anime of a far Flung East theater which As under the command of command general of the former Usa his chief of William has been appointed while no details of the theater merge Imit by divulged because of military the word Usa time is Tiow past history in army and whose return address included must now use amet in its the familiar us anime should or will continue to be worn by army personnel in the Middle thus Ono of the most extensive mid Heaters of operations outside the loses its separate its nucleus was set up even before Pearl har Bor when Russell now assistant chief of to Marshall headed a Middle kist Mission of american specialists sent hero to supervise Ilio unloading and shipping of supplies to Aid Britain ii jul Lvuv or was Maxwell was placed in command of lie which was design Iii As a contingent of american troops arrived in Egypt on about a week fior the first troops to arrive in Tho he Iii Soboro in during those hectic Days in the Middle before Theattle of Al Alamein in october 42 and after Rommel us anime handled supplies for the eighth army and supplied the ninth air it also served american personnel in Iran until pc became an Independent com Mand Early in Maxwell was relieved by Frank Andrews who was later killed in Andrews successor was Lewis commander of Ilio ninth air Ralph who was recently  commander of hip aah personnel redistribution com succeeded took command tsar Ink in vet wont excuse strikes while Cleveland general Joseph commander of the army ground said in an address hero that when the american sol Dier gets Hack he is going to wonder about a lot of especially Welty everybody could not have borne an equal share of the among other tilings the grown up and developed Soldier will wonder he Ishow it was that so and so could stay Home and make Money while lie was being shelled and bombed and Bow there could be strikes while he was we must get ready for he deserves All we can do for Stilwell at the general said that few changes will be made in the army training program As the wars emphasis shifts from to the far vinegar on a visit of Camp Hood infantry training div said hat any unit that can fight the nazis can fight the discharge leave plus pay proposed Washington Hil provid ing 30day furloughs for Allen listed men of the armed forces who Are awaiting separation the service was introduced into the Senate this week by John son of enlisted men who have been on Active duly less than one year would be Given 15day furloughs in lieu of the full this legislation has been urged by William re who stated in the army Navy that it would avoid bitterness Over delays in Croce he also added that such respite would save men from the sudden plunge into civilian giving them the Chance to get see what conditions has to be done and what Thuv can before their actual discharges from the armed 8 gis die in India storm somewhere in twentieth bomber command that eight men were killed and 1oo hospitalized by falling Waits and roofs in a terrific As Allied armies massed solidly Al Nothe rhinos East Bank from to bringing up the clans and Ulm inning enemy Tho first army fought bitterly to of plot its sudden Brid Gohen being etched into Tho Brines Inist Bank below dispatches said that american troops ave now pouring across the or at least one Pontoon Bridge in addition to the captured Railroad Span at pressing directly ahead slowly against stiff Gorman the troops Are one mile from the military superhighway which runs vertically from Fratrik to the Ruhr the germans Are making their strongest stand at the Northern end of the Rhine foothold now six Miles deep by eleven Miles latest reports concerning the town of which has changed hands place it in american hands providing a firm Northern Anchor to the growing a jains eastward from Bridge were also slow he Nause of rugged Hills and sheer Cliffs and valleys of the Wester on the Southern rim of the carved Parmiter yanks took a Hill Miles above Bridge 18 target the germans furiously at tempting to destroy the vital Ludendorff Bridge which they previously failed to blow although artillery fire is reported slackening and 135 Luftwaffe fighter bombers were planes continued their at tacks against the Berlin claimed the Bridge was destroyed after a heavy Jet plane by sheaf flatly denied the state farther the third army is mopping up enemy pockets in the Eifel mountains in order to achieve a solid linkup with the first besieged co Blenz is not yet under As but As fat tons troops cleared the last germans from the see new gains on Page 2 expos arrive in the first contingent of More than american prisoners of War held in German prison Camps in Poland and Eastern Germany and rescued by recent advances of russian army has recently arrived a Middle East port from old glory goes up on bloody iwo to end Campaign lowing an fallout night As Sault by Leathco Necly which car ried 400 Yards into urn narrow Triangle on Kitano old glory was formally raised Over at Oclock wednes Day the i5day which has seen the nost bitter fighting in Marine has thus come to an save for mopping up isolated pockets of is estimated that the Jap dead have now reached a total of for the final the marines brought every piece of Avail Able equipment and were bolstered by guns of naval during the Advance to the North coast of the with their customary desperate oct isl tried Small Banzai charges arid suicidal attacks against american tanks with men armed Only with poles to which were attached explosive marines poking though smashed pillboxes found posters pledging each Jap to kill ten americans before casualty this week from iwo listed 2nd Raymond son of of the Interior Harold he suffered Chest wounds by shrapnel while commanding a Marine com yanks land on take Island capital in the Wake of a blazing air and sea american for Ces this week stormed the beaches of second largest and southernmost of the philippine is against Only Light resist the 4lst infantry invasion Iju Ickov captured Ca Pital of the and Are now pursuing the retreating japs in the North of the four towns and two airfields were captured in the Quick other landings were made on Romblon and Simera islands in lie Ibuyan Between Mindoro and Southeastern in announcing the invasion of Macarthur said the operation the american blockade of the South China sea and further severed Japan from their Rich holdings in the East die in rat holes on yank driving South of have seized los Santo Tom As and Batangas with its East of the doughboy of the 1st cavalry division have taken i in1 Southern end of the Chimbu line1 and Tho Anchor town of dining Nassau la in the Chimbu sever ii thousand japs were sealed see yanks land on Page 8 Uso entertainers killed Uso entertainers were killed recently i the crash of army plane Over one victim was an Ruth who had visited army Camps sketching Washington army and Navy statistics shows that All combat reported since the beginning of the have now readied a total of this figure represents of Over a week except for 373 the army suffered the entire the breakdown of total casual ties is is follows army killed wounded missing captured Navy killed wounded missing captured 4317