Middle East Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 6, 1945, Cairo, Egypt H Estave the 1 v in their unflinching Devotion to duty Are suffering and dying in of our land and our Arburt of United nation with strength bom of Unity Are Herat Lertg the and by their Victory Over tyranny Are laying Rico foundation of a new world order to those freedoms Hiey ii far town president of the United states of in order that we May do special Honor to our do hereby proclaim april army russian ramming i press on the City from the South 1 i of 1 f 3rd ukrainian army have captured and the Admi within six Miles of the City prop Mali last week not Only Inch ded the usual attacks on Industry and rail Yards feeding the but a new concentration of blows were landed against the German ports and their and Wilhelm by the larg Armada of heavy bombers sent air More fortresses and liberators and 900 Mustangs and Bruiser Koto and a Piper used a troop ship and other vessels were set with two submarines and a Large motor ship sunk during this record breaking air assault on ene my did not state Allied hut general Doolittle Headquarters revealed that two flying fortresses collided in mid air Over Hie body of a gunner of one bomber was sent hurtling into the fuselage of the other which crash landed outside Reich the first plane crashed in two More than heavies with fighter escorts attacked the railway and Industrial targets of Brunswick and the synthetic Oil Plant at one of the few remaining enemy father of 9 kids in close Brush with army Philadelphia Henry father of nine Chil Dren and whose wife expected a has been accepted by the army for limited service but a selective service appeals boards member said there is Little likelihood of his Huston passed the examination at the Philadelphia induction Cen Ter after he had been reclassified from 2a to 1a when he refused to leave hosiery Mill Job for War he said he would not Appeal As a Soldier he would earn in monthly allotments but Wil Liam Leader of the appeals Board expected Huston employer would Appeal and be draft deferments okayed Washington draft defer ments for More than 30 per cent of workers under 30 employed in aircraft Industry has been Autho similar deferments for High of workers in transportation and industries were also re or while to the forces captured capital of thus laying open the Eastern approaches to the austrian Danube Moscow confirmed German reports that soviet troops had crossed the yugoslav Frontier from which is now completely cleared of the last russian tanks rolled swiftly into Southeastern following the break through above and also reached the austrian Border at a new Point 39 Miles East of Graa and 117 Miles from nazis surrender other armoured spearheads were penetrating into the Low Range of Hills insure the austrian Frontier in a drive on Wiener the important Messerschmidt factory City 22 Miles South of on easter soviet troops took stronghold located in the Spur of hungarian territory extending into and by monday night the drive had Spear three Miles East of Wiener Neus Tadt and the vital railway linking Vienna with Northern More than nazis surrendered in this sector in the 24hour As Street fights raged in Wiener russian spearheads headed1 up the Vienna Plain High was to reach Baden and enter what is called greater a second1 and separate offensive was likewise aimed at Vienna from the stepping up the assault on marshal Malinov says 2nd ukrainian army hurdles important River barriers North of the captured strategic towns and moved southwestward Down the Karpathy mountains to capture the Bratislava Gap and on the silesian marshal Konies army was battering at the moravian fall of which would Lay open the heart of hitlers inner czechoslovak War these troops breached nazi Mountain de lenses of the Gap by sweeping past Ratibor and to take us Dice in 46 subs captured far to the the Baltic Bat the had virtually reached an the burning City of Danzig fell after fierce Street fighting and per haps 50 russian divisions were freed for the coming Battle of Ber the russians captured much too to in including 45 Ger Man submarines and Pri marshal Stalin announced that All German resistance along the Baltic coast Southeast of Koenigs Berg had been knocked with germans killed and prisoners taken in the East Prussia the heavy Security blackout on the Oder front East of Berlin still pos paint backs to signal flyers with the first army in Teir Manyra and British soldiers captured by the germans stood in the sunlight in a Ger Manfield six hours with naked backs spelling out pow prisoners of War and avoided strafing from pilots of p47s who at first thought them fourteen were killed and 27 wounded before pilots understood the dipped their wings in Salute and flew 290 wounded yanks freed Germany ele Ven Hundred emaciated including 290 wounded so badly treated by the nazis they lost an average of 35 pounds in were freed from a German prison Camp when the seventh army captured the men said they were subjected to filthy conditions and fed on diets that caused some to lose As much As 100 pounds in Hazi March of death with the third army group american and British liberated when the Lith armoured overran a Hospital at told of a forced March across Germany to the Vicinity of the russian front and at least comrades died along the Way because of a ration allowance of but one loaf of bread daily for eight freed pos ate raw flour Tuet Burger Germa russian War prisoners were liberated from a Ger Man Camp by the end armoured and the Graves of Dis a when the prisoners were rescued they rushed from huts to the Cook Shack and some stuck their inside flour barrels and ate raw flour others scraped food off the Many were too weak to by the Deputy amet the president of the United states has proclaimed april As army in order that we May give special Honor to our courageous As temporary i Welcome this occasion to express to the american forces serving in the Africa Middle East theater my Pride in the Way they Are performing their indispensable task of main Taining the vast network of communications and transportation that assures american and Allied men at the fighting fronts the vital sup plies necessary to wage their fight with Ever increasing to Allied forces in this theater and to Al the people of the Middle East countries who have joined in the United nations Campaign against the common express my appreciation and that of the forces under my command forthe cooperation that has contributed so much to the Success of our vast with the achievement of Victory in Europe the Allied War Effort will be concentrated in the far the work of the Africa Middle East command will then be greater than our american forces have demonstrated their ability to perform whatever task is assigned and they will continue their contribution to speeding the Day of final Victory and the return to world peace that will be the More secure for the experience and understanding gained by american soldiers in their with the Peoples of this with deep Pride in their patience and Devotion to i pay my respects to the american soldiers in this and in every command where they Are serving throughout the work through their and those of our May army be celebrated in William Ritter brigadier Usa Deputy commander solons trek to study yank Arsenal Washington half dozen senators Are going to Europe for an intensive study of military operations and economic conditions to give the Senate firsthand information on War end chief objective of the Mem Bers will be to find out what the army intends to do with Bil Lions of dollars in equipment and supplies when German resistance collapses and the full weight of the War is shifted against the the group includes senators Russell Chandler May Hank and Bridges general killed in cold blood the first Maurice com Mander of the third armoured was shot to death near Paderborn March 30 by a German tank Man As the general started to surrender his arms after being his companions said the general was shot through the head As he lifted his pistol Holster from his shoulder to the German covering him and an aide with a machine pistol from the of a tank1 which infiltrated into the Ameri caught on the Wing with the ninth army climbing Down from a tree in which they landed after bailing out of their damaged observation two american officers found 20 German soldiers waiting to sur remains in Berlin a noun that the important fortress of 38 Miles East of the German had been captured by the can As he stood with hands Over the German a loosed a Tor rent of i dont the Gen eral kept then apparently the general thought his captors mean to surrender this arms he took his hands Down to lift Holster from his the Ger Man roses companions escaped and the generals body was found where he was Patto Stanks Pace gains continued from Page 1 in Belgium and Luxembourg last these men had lost 25 to 40 pounds each from the Semi starvation diet on which the Ger mans kept heavy German resistance con fronts Montgomery armies As he i moves them northward into hol Breme bound British troops seized Osnabrock arid jutted a spearhead beyond the town to with in 55 Miles of the Bremen Allied paratroopers and glider men were dropped behind frontline troops to end the resistance in the ruins of which was left in the dust of Swift moving tank a Hodgepodge of rear eche Lon troops were captured including eight with wooden pushing Forward the thirds Southern flank in a drive 34 Miles of Patch seventh outflanked Karlsruhe in a combined action with French first army other units entered the capital of Baden and began a menacing move on the fall of Nuremberg would Lead to the Severance of Ttye two main trunk lines from Berlin through Munich to the Brenner less meat in offing bad news for meat Loving americans has been announced by opa chief Chester the ration value of pork sausages Bacon and other products will be increased from one to three the Senate is taking Steps to investigate shortages and Black Market buy More War Bonds strictly from hunger Washington Good Chow would convert a great Many 4fs into draft worthy indicated Lewis Hershey this the selective service chief stated that about 40 per cent of men were rejected be cause of War Mother Dies Kansas City Margaret former National president of the american War to died in
