Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 16, 1945, Cairo, Egypt                                Germany tend tin declared an Raf Lof Muhe to in and drove Germany West of if capital a major Naal tftft1 shaping before pitch front shows of an imminent flare it has been disclosed that is the hew if Tutt Fth under the command it the men of the 15th 4eld to exploit a across the forge and link up the bed with Ailitto Maud of Ofca the Rhine and Moselle the first army Lias expended its Remagen Bridgehead to a depth of five Miles and a Lens Tiv of ten Ami a Pardon has smashed across the Moselle eight Southwest of Coblenz and1 advanced three ans in o i Burma capital Calcutta blocked by Fana tical japanese resistance in a direct assault on moated and walled fort in the Northeast Corner of 19th Indian division Tripps have bypassed the fortress Are clean ing up Jap snipers and machine the heart of the dispatches the British about enemy counterattacks temporarily drive Back the attackers who must Cross a water filled Moat reach a loft in the High Walls by other units of the 19th captured the former Burma Bummer of Pitcl of 40 Miles to the cutting the japanese Supply line to besieged troops in the Meik Teila Region closed in from the West and South on trapped in chunking dispatches reported that counter attacking chinese troops have recaptured former site the Advance air base in the Tiangsi province Midway Between Hong Kong and the 14ui aah abandoned Sui Chwan late in Jan uary and it is the first of the lost air bases East of the japanese Cor Ridor through China to be reported Back in allies 5th advances on nazi stronghold Rome fifth army patrols worked their Way North of ver important German Strong hold 14 Miles Southwest of Bolo while other Allied troops threatened the town from the Southeast and of other american troops beat off German counterattacks against newly won positions on Monte spin a captured order of the Day from fiend marshal in which German troops were exhorted to fanatical defense of italian soil was disclosed this Kesselring told the we do not defend Italy in these Battles but Germany not one Inch of ground must he surrendered to our enemies without a Chiang meet lord Louis supreme Allied com Mander for Southeast has completed a conference on Mili tary affairs with Generalissimo Celia big supreme com Mander in 2nd l As the first army edged up to the Western Bank of the Rhine last ready to risk the costly Price of an amphibious in Vasion of inner the mass of tank men and infantrymen were met by a pleasant Surprise the vital Remagen Bridge was not blown when sheaf unveiled the Cen covered the capture of this Rhine Bridge and subsequently an East Bank it to Eveared an exploit As thrilling As any Hollywood John Battenfield a 27yearold Leader of an Engineer arrived at the Bridge be fore any tanks or realizing that the germans at the other end were preparing to destroy the but ignoring the fact that it might blow up in their Mitchell and a group of engineers charged across the Span to Cut the wires of a Cache of German As the yanks ran boldly Down the sides of the the Ger mans pressed Down one it set off some but they caused minor while some negro tank outfit in Bastogne stand Germany with a Bridge blown behind a negro tank battalion task Force staged a minature Bastogne in mauling German Parachute units in Savage Street fighting while Cut off for 18 the 784th tank battalion was fighting its first offensive action beside the 35th infantry the battalion won a place in the hearts of the men of the Fortile Hurde Nedi 35th who had fought from to to Venlo and by the Battle that it put up Here and the spearhead fight ing that it did to get Walter pop 47year old of world War i from Little who came Back in this War As the Comman Cler of a tank was called out under lire to fill craters in a he wont on to Knock out a Ger Man antitank Ambrose Hicks of ver an artillery was sent Back to help bring a Supply Convoy he saved three trucks a Burn ing ammunition truck loaded with pounds of other negro tank men climbed out of the shelter of their tanks under nor tar and hellfire to made historic Remagen Bridge men fired on the Mitchell and others found the hidden dynamite and disconnected the detonators before the nazis could set off another meanwhile the ninth armoured division had arrived on the scene after a sensational 25mile from and raced across the pouring heavy fire into the opposite Bank As it Over 200 germans threw Down their arms and the americans immediately seized a 300foot Gibran Ter like Buff at the Eastern end of the thus protecting it from direct halving won a the ninth division fanned Congo and pushed southward eight Miles to Brohl where it joined up with the third Gen eral Hodges immediate move was to exploit this sole passage across the and expanded it rapidly with a Rush of infantry and a Pittsburgh suburb called Walter Scott father of the Bridge saving was elated at his sons friends told reporters that Mitchell was just a darned Nice Hoy who once set up pins in a Bowling Are an improved ver Sidn of the 6ton earthquake explosive which Sank the Tirpitz and penetrated Concrete under which the germans tried to hide 0boat on while More than american bombers attacked the submarine building Yards at Bremen and the Raf carried out a ton on Slaught against Central Point the Essen pulverized the main Force flew in with the master Bombardier voice droning out to pulverize the areas of Essen which hitherto have been relatively roads and railways were to be made impasse therefore no incendiaries were and the High explosives choked the roads by piling fallen buildings monday brought Over planes carrying death loads to More than fortresses and i aerators of the eighth Force swept through the morning skies with 750 escorting fighters and raided the Reich from the Baltic to the the after Raf heavies struck at is 650 american bom Bers winged out of Italy to blast Viennas Oil at the another air Armada of to Stoke the fires still glowing at in a message to the air marshal sir Arthur chief of the Raf bomber general Eisenhower said that Allied armies advancing into the German Rhineland Are everywhere con fronted with striking evidence of the effectiveness of Allied bomb for Navy Washington the president has asked Congress to appropriate for the Navy for the fiscal year has Trump for German Tiger tank Detroit the manufacture of a new Type of the now in action on the Western was announced by War Robert who described it As the answer to the German Patterson called the tank most powerful we have Ever and Eaid that its wide tracks give it Power and flotation in while a 90 gun provides More fire Power than any previous american the announcement coincided with the Washington statement by senator Homer who said that he would ask the Senate War investigating committee to look into reports from the Western front that tanks Are buy More War Bonds be Umaki although Moscow is silent on the Berlin the soviet newspaper pravda reports that russian troops have smashed across the Oder in great Force after capturing Danzig and Gdynia Are under a Iris Are Street by through the twin Baltic ports of Danzig Gdynia and Are exert ing heavy pressure on the dwindling pocket of caught in that apparently trying for a knockout blow in the Danzig sector before swinging their full might toward the Battle of the mean clouded with military with neither Moscow nor Berlin indicating that the have launched an fallout drive German first soviet reports of an Oder crossing come from pravda which stated that the 1st White russian army smashed Oder beyond newly captured Buestrin on a rect Road to 38 Miles the germans reported that 2hu Kov had thrown nearly troops across the River Between Frankfurt and Buestrin at a Point about 53 Miles East of the air indication that the Are pushing Westward was made by ups Henry who wrote front line dispatches say that the russians Are driving towards Berlin from the Oder River crossing at Buestrin despite the powerful German Bint he added that the official so Viet communique did not mention a officially Indica Ted Only that the last 38 Miles to Berlin Are one continuous fortress and this will be the bloodiest trek in the Long March from fall of Buestrin Early in the marshal Sta Lin announced the capture of a Oder Strong hold covering the approaches to after bitter Street Battles and bombings which left the cites famous defences in As the russian troops surged they could see the Welcome sight of Al lied planes heading for Berlin on bombing Zhukov forces Are now arrayed along the Oder Fruim Crossen to Stettin on his right flank in masses of soviet troops and artillery Are streaming to wards the Oder in vehicles marked to Berlin and to to the Rokos Sovsky has dealt further blows on the germans  pocket in the Danzig the russians Are battering Poland prewar to Jel port of Gdynia from three of the German foothold on theban of Danzig steadily other soviet units cleared another 100 Square mile pocket at the top of the polish giving the russians a nine mile sea frontage either Side of the Hela Penin to Kossovsky forces reached Danzig in a piercing move ment from the carried out in a swirling after capturing Putzig the russians drove 24 Miles straight to slicing deeply into the German Baltic in the Battle for East which has raged for the germans have held out along n dwindling coastal strip Southwest of this the germans announced that the rus sians have launched a new Offen Sive on both sides of whose location indicates that the major part of the German pocket has been Cut off from the Garrison de fending South of the flaming Oder the germans Are trying to break through to the Danube below even though this backdoor is a secondary one of the great est Lan nored Battles of the russian War has continued for the past soviet reports revealed that rus Sian lines have been pressed Back to the East Side of the Lake Bala ton from the Northern tank losses Rose to a Peak the germans lost about 650 in seven Days in what seems to be Supre me bid to regain the Danube line As defense before