Strasbourg Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 23, 1945, Strasbourg, Alsace Ill 12 four cents March 1945 have you mailed your contribution for the go memorial Home our Appeal Fot funds that will help to build a Home for the widow and eight kiddies or recently killed in has already been answered by a number of warm go and there Hast been sufficient time yet to receive any mail response from the outlying sections of the com Mand but were hoping to give you a healthy financial report next if you Haven sent in your Dona Tion please do it Send it anyway you wish but wed suggest a Money order to matter How made payable to Rachel Pri in care of the publications Washington the increased drafting of mini of Siul Over from essential jobs was foreseen this week by selective service As it was forced to Tyler some younger Nien in five vital War a critical manpower shortage in essential War industries As Eoal Lead and and sync Lettic rubber prompted a com plete reversal of selective ser vices earlier ruling Liat not More than 30 per cent of younger work ers in the is to 29 age could retain draft deferments because of essential draft hoards were ordered to their own judgment in administering the new it is expected that the limit of deferments for men under 30 will go As High As 00 per cent for some comparing with the present m per cent at the Samn a joint army Navy statement warned that All men in the is to 0 age group who Are drafted during the next three months will assigned to the army As combat replacements with few practically the Only exceptions will he failure Radii ill air Crew the navys quota during this Mariod will he filled from draftees Al through while any o i hers remaining will go into the Bat tue line on Partons armoured sweep South of the Moselle brought the third army to the West Banks of the Rhines Elbow where Ludwigshafen and Kaiserslautern Are either taken or being Patch seventh army pierced the Siegfried defends of the captured1 Saar Bru and swung northward to link up with the the Patron Patch Vise is rapidly closing on thousands of nazis trapped West of the mean while Hodges is pouring More guns and tanks into the Bridgehead for a possible breakthrough to the Ruhr new York times vow stumps for 18month rotation Washington veterans of foreign wars renewed its plea for rotation or furloughs to in Days leave in the for All soldiers having 18 months or More i if foreign in a letter to the recognized the diff cuties but surely there enough replacements and transportation to Grant Relief to personnel who have been in continuous ser ice and much of in for three years or it mentioned the division fighting in us Pacific since Pearl the War said troops arc returned to the monthly on furlough and rotation programs and that some members of divisions overseas for Long periods Are brought Back even though Ilii division itself remains peace feelers expected London Allied diplomats believe unit a of German peace feelers will strike Neutral european capitals uninvited guest Dawn was breaking on the Western front and Robert Adams of Hick Ory shout id to the unknown companion with whom hed a there was instant it was n a Macarthur in Manila Douglas Malar the generals and their have returned Here by boat from just Send medal by asks widow of Pilot since he is alive to All meaning of medal is gone for these were the pathetic words contained in a letter received from a fighter pilots wife in declining an invitation to ceremonies for the posthumous aware of an medal to her killed in action in the Southwest Arthur Lonegran Public relations officer who received the Young mothers said he had obtained her permission to release it to the the widow How Ever asked that no or pilots Home City be revealed since her husbands invalid Mother Hart not been info Rind of hip death be cause the family feared the Shock would too in declining to attend the presentation ceremonies widow i am used to the government leaving things at my door Telegram and the purple so i wont mind the air Meela coining through the would like to have of because of my lies Havor seen Bis Hul theres so much i want him to know of his 1 guess the Only Way to Start is to show off his fathers medals to i wish 1 could Tell him his father died to save him from being drawn into a third world ill just to Tell him about his father us a civilian Young just out of College with life ahead of dying before he had a to for what was fighting Lonegran presented the medal the Young Mother at her focus of Western front action this week shifted from the Kirsly army growing Brieg Eleud Puiul swung southward to the armoured spearheads of in tons third and Patch seventh which swept through Siegfried fortifications and linked up in a pincer move toward the patterns lunge to the Coblenz sector of the Shine several weeks was equalled by his Quick thrust from the Hank of the Moselle River to with six divisions providing the High powered punch for his numerous in Ian try the third army tank tipped spearheads fanned out from the and from North to South each attacking Force headed for of the River defense sys the northernmost unit Cap lured a bit Ward one division drove into farther South the fourth armoured division advanced 13 Miles in 12 hours to take the medieval City of Worms whiles the troops forming the shot loin of patrons salient stormed As the augmented forces of third swept to the Elbow of the Patch seventh army troops Hurst into the Saar Region swung northernmost of rican armies on the Western Fronti Uncle Reid Strong Point of the last enemy foothold in broached the dragons Teeth o Anu Saulls continued unabated against German Industry and communications Las week with the new 10ton super bomb 11 uccordi7ig to american Short ton standards playing note these worlds heavyweight champions knocked out a huge chunk of the Vita Lierl Infuhr railway viaduct on reconnaissance photographs later showed that the viaduct had col lapsed into the Ruhr River either because of a direct hit or because the bomb exploded in the River bed and undermined the foundation Berlin churned again the super bombs even had an effect on Raf one Squadron Leader sail that the explosion caused a pain in his spine that lasted than a feeling As if he had been hit severely in the my he bounced Well Over 500 feet after release of the big More than eighth Saaf heavy bombers accompanied Ivy Mustangs conducted a Power Ful Daylight raid against Berlin on striking communications inside the German capital and suburban armament nearly bombers pinpointed Schiks Ischer depot and North station freight both within two Miles of berlins Saar sent one Arm had a linkup with the the Siegfried took Bruecken and ing North to third Ludwigshafen Falls easily about j2 Miles West of Kaiser Patton and Patch locked forces and sealed off the Rich Coal deposits and steel Mills of the Saar there remained to be mopped up a huge pocket whose base the Rhine extends from Ludwi shaven to the East Bank City of trapped in this grip Ara thousands of a who were caught on the West Hank of the with their Bridges when the two armies eliminate his enemy pocket in the the allies will have wiped out the last of German holdings on the right Side of Rhirie see Patton on Page 2 negro in mixed men go into action units on Rhine Paris for the first time in american White and negro troops Ore fighting Side by in a frontline Clis Riwatch to and stripes Dis closed this week that mixed in few nary companies were Heinec used ii the 1st and 7th Many negro service and Supply troops for combat after John Lee fold them i is planned to assign you regard to or color to units where your assistance is most your comrades at the front Are anxious o share the glory of Victory with your relatives and friends Are urging that Yogi he granted this the commander is confident that Many of you will Lake advantage of the Opportunity to carry on in keeping with the glorious record of coloured troops in former flood of volunteers first quota was set at this quota was quickly exceeded and hundreds of others were re four negro first sergeants took Breaks to private to qualify for refresher training the sentiments of the negro troops was summed up by Leroy of Atlantic were All in this together most of the negro troops in ser vice outfits have been giving lots now Well mix some blood with Washington the Overall casualties for the army and Navy have now reached a weeks of announced War Stimson lie also revealed that ground casualties on the Western front dropped to in Gebru smallest number in Oliree a of total armed forces casualties shows killed mining captured total
