Strasbourg Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 30, 1945, Strasbourg, Alsace Ill March 1945 troops of Hie ninth army As they went aboard an a cup boat for the ow1 Moria bets if Aake it is Troia the sum of for the soldiers memorial Home int As Large is either you or ourselves would like to it at this but were not lie least we know Yon Arent going to it it remain a that payday is com ing up at the end of the lots just say we have a Hunch that there is going to be a Golden when Uncle comes through with the monthly we have received a report from and the fund raised by the neighbors of Jake an infantryman with patrons third who was killed in the fighting for Luxem is growing by leaps and contributions ranging from pennies from school children to Large individual donations have poured in from ten i didst know god made so Many Good Rachael widow Ami Mother of eight exclaimed when she was told of the response to the and i never expected to own a Home because we had so Manv children to the family now lives in a dilapidated fou room House which i hey tent for a lots make that total hit three figures by next Send your contribution anyway you Large or or Money or Der made in Favori of Rachel an envelope addressed to publications quilts born in Washington premature girl quintuplets were born this week to a Ada the first child was still born and Tho remaining four Turner is the Mother of six other legion sketches blueprint for vet employment Washington american legion Lias offered what it terms a clearcut program for Tho employment of All returning War after consultations with Ameri can the fou Point proposal was Huilt around these Basic elements 1 Welcome them Back Wilh sincere greetings and honest Assurance that a Job is awaiting them fitted to their 2 make a realistic analysis of jobs available and of a Vete rans Lasio and 3 fit jobs and veterans to Gether As result of such realistic 4 cooperate intelligently Wilh Ilie Veteran after he is placed in a with ready willingness to make adjustments As actual sex prion co on the Job makes acl Jiun menus the program is to be Carrier Oul by Ralph the legions employment try Ever Rule of of eco nomic by Law and sen said the legion in offer the i the Veteran has first Call upon american business and but the main it see legion on Page 5 be jitters Washington As the allies sep that breathtaking Pace the heart of an Able wave of swept the on in a murder trial was completely halted and Grain futures dropped two in los the City Council hurriedly proceedings to recite the oath of allegiance while the new Jersey state legislature took time out to Call for radio excited persons swamped news papers offices with Many stores closed up for be Day until Hie rumours were proved the rumours started when a White House statement was mis construed As imminent everybody doing lit nurse bags 2 krauts Wjt ii the 99th germ land two frightened Ger Man soldiers rang out of the Woods with rifles Over their Heads this week and gave themselves up to army nurse Paula of who was pass ing in a we want to surrender to you because you Ore a lady and wont kill the soldiers the lieutenant put them on the Hood of the jeep and had the Driver deliver them to the division Pri Soner every religious group has its sacred symbols for those of Christian is the supreme Day in the the original easter was made up of a matchless ideals such As no other Man had sacrifice in the fullest measure and climaxed by Faith and enthusiasm that knew no sufficient opposition to those that lived the annual Observance of the easter season has been productive of Christian virtue and Faith in every for our generation and in this years Observance of easter May we strive to to Realise its ancient message in kingdom May we dare to believe that the Worth of our ideals and suffering shall have a resurrection through our spiritual inspiration and1 Faith for building a world that approaches our lords Ideal of the kingdom of cod among Howard amet Paris armoured columns of the first and third armies have joined near Giessen turning have driven towards the linked unite Are advancing at a Speed of a mile per first army first army tanks ate now 85 Miles East of the Rhine at six Miles from Allied armies Are surging through wide breakthroughs in the disintegrating German lines with the full extent of their victories obscured by a partial news Security Tho situation in the three sectors most dram Atic week of War since the Normandy Campaign is generally As follows easternmost Advance of the patrons third Rainy was at 22 Miles Southeast of the latter City was being conquered Block by Block and half of it was re ported Western front lineup Dwight Eisenhower supreme commander 21st army croup Field marshal sir Bernard Montgo Meiy Canadian lir Henry Corror British 2nd sir Dempsey 9th Wiiiam Simpson Iirth army Omar Bradley 1st Courtney Hodges 3rd George fatten 15th Leonard Cerow 6hi army croup Jacob Devers 7th Alexander Patch French lit Jean de Tan Igny opened baffle for Germany the air War in emote reached its greatest intensity saturday when approximately Allied flying were Over the Reich in support of the Rhine Daylight blows were struck at enemy troops and Raij communications along the Rivers East Bank and rail Yards at Raf Lancaster bombed an Oil refinery near Dortmund and a Benzyl Plant near heavy bombers of the ital based lath aah roared Over the Berlin area saturday for the first Lancas lers struck again tuesday in a great attack with 11ton Volcano battering boat shelters under construction at near Fegesack on the Weser River in Holland As other British heavies at rail centers leading from Central Germany to the Crum bling Western a Fleet of about 950 flying fort Ress attacked Perlin and the Hanover arms Plant wednesday As a Berlin broadcast said the Reich capita would be evacuated of All i needed Berlin also underwent its 36th consecutive night attack by Raf Mosquito Arnold Back at work Washington a chief of returned to his desk at aah Headquarters last week following his illness from across the main River a few Miles was cleared and patrons forces have entered said Tho third was in the Vicinity of Silb Miles Southwest of the town of Hanau has been the third and seventh armies were linked together East of the Rhine on a solid front when Tho under Miles the Rhino to a Strong first army armoured co Lumn is driving southward to reinforce patrons third its spearheads have also entered Giessen and Boline Haugen in a 22 mile putting them about 225 Milos from the Northern the ninth driving South Ward toward has Cap according to radio the americans captured marshal Mont Gomegys Armor is bursting out of the Bridgehead Between the Lipp canal and the area South of to fighter pilots reported a general Retreat by the germans facing the British second Tho Canadian first army has burst into the outskirts of Ich on the spectacular crossing the breakthrough into the heart of Germany came after Allied armies crossed the Rhine in the most spectacular operation since last the world knew that Bir operations were the longest and most persistent smoke screen in the tactical history of warfare blanketed the North end of the front under Gen eral with Canadian first army machines designed by Princeton physicist Irving Hie germans knew they said the Allied were massing in terrific strength for a Rhine Cross ing that might come at any they announced that Field marshal Albert ice selring who commands the German forces in Italy had replaced Field marshal see Allied tanks on Page 2 Washington armed forces casualties have reached a total of showing an in crease of during the the announcement added that total includes wounded and
