Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 23, 1945, Cairo, Egypt                                Of the enemy adm Nimit am Hcan warship was i who Pene Japan considered Safe for combat losses of our planes were extremely on suffered of Japan the yank of Panay routed the enter from the burning City capital of the newly invaded philippine Island of this Witk after taking the air while another column drove Miles northward from the in Vasion beachhead at to Gavran to overrun the coastal Plain and join forces with Strong guerilla this new Landing was launched sunday under the Coyer of terrific Nagaland air fire which caught the enemy with Complete Surprise and was made with practically no other american forces Sei Zed Romblon and Samara islands in the Campaign which is designed to Clear the islands which have been a threat to american convoys passing through the Cen trial seas toward Northern guerillas have wiped out the Jap Garrison at san Fernando and seized the lingayen Gulf port which serves Ash Northern terminus of the Manila East of the pressed deeper nto the japs secondary lines in the Deherra Madre during the first nine weeks of the Luzon the japs have lost 000 troops killed or Patrick killed Jap counter attacks have been repulsed with heavy losses to the enemy on the Zamboanga Penin Sula of for the first time in the Pacific the japs Are making use of electrically con trolled mines of the sixth on sustained its most severe loss this week when its commanding offi Edward was killed by a Short burst from a concealed Jap machine gun at his Forward foxhole command Patrick was the tenth general killed in Twenty four others have died from various bombers from scores of South West Pacific bases joined this week in a series of heavy blows at tar gets ranging in a wide arc from Formosa to new the action took place in the japs withdraw from Mandalay Mandalay the 12day siege of the ancient fabled City of Man Dalay came to an end at noon tuesday after two ten months and 12 Days of japanese while artillery of the 19th in Dian pounded fort four burmese bearing White flags and a Union Jack Carne out and reported that japanese troops had fled under cover of darkness after first setting fire to the Palace of the ancient Burma Kings official reports said All organized resistance has now ended Over a Large portion of Burma North and West of the the remain japanese Are expected to make a stand Between Kuuse and Meik tila to the in troops have surrounded site of the former airbase arid fierce fighting is said to be in Progress for the Tiangsi province heavily fortified simile Inland sea bounded by the islands of Kyu Shikoku and the Western end of Fie turning planes said that what planes were lost were brought Down largely by antiaircraft tire which 1vas heavy enough to walk Strong fighter opposition was also encountered in the Carrier plane attack was the High spot of a week which also included another b29 strike at Nagoya by probably 300 of the giant the War announced that More than tons of were twelve Square Miles of japans greatest shipbuilding Cen was set afire or reduced to ashes by a similar number of super forts on the 21st bomber command said fires were visible for a Hundred Miles and that the conflagration created by the tons of incendiaries was second Only to Tokyo 176raare mile leaflets also dropped thousands of leaflets were also dropped on Japan by the b29s in a direct Appeal to the people to overthrow their War lords or have their country Laid in the leaflets say their nation is suffer j eng from the bombings because of a few selfish men and urged the population to stay away from War India based super forts struck at Rangoon hitting vital storage areas in the enemy Mili tary Eastern air command in Cal Cutta announced that 39 japanese planes were destroyed or damaged last thursday in what was described officially As the longest fighter raid of the War in any theater a roundtrip to an Airfield in the Bangkok area of the raiders caught the enemy with most of their planes on the bm32superbomber now in production Washington another new super bomber called the b32 Dominator and comparable in size to the b29 super fortress is under the b32 is a larger version of the b24 Liberator just As the b29 is an enlarged version of the b17 flying War production chief Krug made announcement of the new bomber in a press conference he stated that while the b32 is out of the experimental it is still being produced in limited Quan he also revealed that the production of b17s at the Boeing Seattle Plant would end in six weeks and All facilities of that will be devoted to super Hitler is on Allied War criminal roster Hitler has been listed by the allies As an Ordinary criminal and is slated to be arraigned on the specific capital charge of organizing the nazi Gas chamber murders of jews and lord chairman of the United nations War crimes told the House of the archbishop of York pleaded against sensational Public trials and urged that once the identify of major War criminals is established those who catch them should at once put them to sprawled face Down in the soft volcanic dust of an iwo Jima she whole dug by the great guilt of the a Marine finds his journeys end on the any Island which the japs defended with ferocious this photo is symbolic of the  with which the marines fought the bitterest fight in their Patch grind nazis buy More War Bonds from Page 1 from Switzerland up to third army tank columns slam med into site of the Large Farben chemical works and Germany most important Indus trial City West of the the City fell with Little Dis patches estimated that the Ger mans have lost soldiers either wounded or prisoner in the seven Day Saar having toppled ithe with its Mineral deposits and Industrial Eisenhower severed one lung of the gasping Wehr an offensive is expected hourly to Cut off the second life giving lung the Ruhr Industrial Remagen Bridgehead expanded Hodges first army continues pouring into the Bridgehead of tin right Bank of the Rhine following the sensational capture of the Ludendorff Bridge at Remagen before the germans could demolish two airfields Are already in Hodges and the wedge has expanded to 25 Miles wide and 9 Miles the huge railway Span which was the Only Rhine Bridge Cap tured intact finally collapsed on about 200 army engineers were at work on the Bridge when it started to Cave Ami at least 15 were crushed to death or drowned and the others suffered injury or exposure in the ice cold chief Engineer i the declared that the rapid expansion of the Bridgehead makes n unnecessary to try to Rob Uiligi the crumpled inferring that there Are enough Pontoon Bridges and ferries to assure Success of current operations of the first after reaching the Southern Edge of the Ruhr Plain at two Points tank and infantry the first army is reported to have broken out frown its Bridgehead san Marino swings left Rome the popular front won a sweeping Victory in elections held ii the worlds tiniest san the communists won 18 the socialists 18 and the Republican democrats four out of a total of 60 in the san Marino the other pm seats went to the right Eisenhower Broad cast a warning to German civilians and the thousands of slave workers to Clear out immediately from the entire Ruhr Basin which is looming As the next Battle a dispatch from the Bridgehead revealed that the first unit of negro infantrymen to see action on the Western front knocked out a German machine gun nest and took seven hero of the action was the fort third Soldier in the group of fort two Volun he was smuggled across the Rhine by his and after crawling up to the enemy positions he began tossing hand grenades like personally knocking out the All the men had been in Sicily and Normandy As service and volunteered for combat duty denies a loan Road Rumor Stim in reply to a charge inferred in the denied this week that the army intends to abandon the Alcan Highway to surveyed the of iwo Lima Ivecek after writing Jat chapter of the toughest fight in their Long to win 750 Miles from they had paid the fearful Cost of killed and wounded in 26 Days and nights of blazing on theother Side of the the japs lost More though Many of the wounded have already returned to their iwo Jima will go Down the costliest of the Central Pacific Nimitz declared the Conquest of iwo Jima was absolutely necessary and had brought the War Tiuch closer to its inevitable he marines have made an accounting to their country which Only his tory will be Able to value in Hayes has entered a motion to change the name of iwo to marines Island to commemorate the leathernecks great iwo Jima has already begun to pay a dispatch from the 21st bomber command revealed that at least 30 super forts re turning from raids Over had made emergency landings on the islands airfields for refuelling and most of the ships would never have reached their Marianas the report Pope flays master races in address Rome in a speech in Peters Pope Pius stated sunday that the Only Hope of Sal vation remaining to the of violence is for them to flatly repudiate their doctrines of absolute nationalism and Pride of race and the speech was interpreted by new York times As an condemnation of nazi concerning the the said that history would pass judg ment on anyone in attempt ing to organize a peace along lines of his own has whittled Down the Hopes of those whose suffering had entitled them to particular claims for respect of their inalienable 8th army makes gains Rome eighth army troops in the Adriatic sector improved their positions West of Revenna with a local Advance in the Mez Zano area tuesday but activity on the italian front limited patrol Allied honors new citizens president Roo Sevelt has proclaimed May 20 As i am an american Fay in Honor of the thousands of foreign born persons who have citizens in the past collapse of Remagen Bridge hurls go engineers to death with the americans across the Owsij the Story of How the Litile Morff Bridge at Remagen collapsed with a rumble and shut carrying Many army Engi neers to death and injury in the Swift Waters of the to feet was told by Howard Cowan and Don american War the correspondents said explosives damaged a lower Arch girder ten Days ago when the Bridge was seized and failure to repair it or replace it proved to be the real reason for loss of the stresses and trains on the remaining girders became too but the first task was to build up the Bridgehead and throw Over supplementing Pontoon engineers were working to strengthen the girder when the Bridge gave heroic work of other soldiers saved the lives of dozens of in the whole steel framework of the Bridge leaving three Stone prs and the approaches in the Section leading from the Center to the East Hank went under water and the Section leading to the West Side fell partly on the Bank and in shallow moments after the crash do Zens of men bobbed to the Many injured swam weakly to Ward twisted timbers swirling in the they swept toward the Pontoon Bridge which other engineers had thrown across the Rhine some distance two signalman laying a communications wire across the Bridge escaped typical of the coolness with which the Ameri cans met the they tap Ped that line and summoned Doc tors and scores of troops raced onto the Pontoon Bridges to pull the men from the Pontoon Bridges Are now carrying the heavy traffic into Bridge