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FEBRUARY 16. 1945 VOLUME XLV NUMBER 122 • RRIER Pl ID r Soviets Smash FIRST AID FOR A L1nLE FILIPINO Canadian First Vern Haugland Describes- 1,500 Aircraft German Oder Welds Solid Preparation of War 'Flee I Take Part it is difficult for the mind to grasp and any other clUes selected as (Editors note: The following this fantastic mixture ot lorge and worthwhile targets. story written by Vern Haugland, small fighting ships and all the Ships In this greatest of fighting River Defenses Bridgehead Associated Press correspondent, auxiliary v Is nee(Jed to keep fleets will stand off Honshu form In Blasting Feb. 8 was released yesterday by them armed, fuele(J and supplied. ing a line two hundre(J miles or the censor when news of the car- Of the hundreds of vessels In more up and down .the coast while Capture Sommerfeld, U. S. Seventh Army this areat ba. e, scores ot them will tighter, di e-bomber and torpedo Warships Shell 67 Miles Southeast rier force strike on Tokyo and en- steam toward Tokyo wilhin a f w planes carry the war into the heart Volcano Islands Opens New Assault virons was announced otficially by days In quest o[ a fight, or J pan. Of Reich Capital Admiral Chester W. Nimitz.) Lure t Task Foree Conatan' AcUvlty During Action South of Saar Basin That task force will be the This great anchorage where WNDO (AP)-'1'he Red U, S. P ACIFTC FLEET A UNITED STATES NAVAL greatest ever known to man warships and auxiliaries are pre nrmy has smashed tIll' Get'lllll11~' PARI. ( AP)-'l'he nnadian Ireater even than dreame(J of a paring for the greatest strike of HE AD QUA RTER , Guam, FiI'St army in a two· mil ~ain BASE IN THE PACIFIC, Feb. 8 eentrlll Odet· rivl'l' d('f('nsl's with (Delayed)- The larlest war fleet i_w years 0&0 and it will include the wor is n place of constant or Friday (Ap)-'rhe mo t pow· poured troop~ ond tunk!! yl'Ster· I) IlOw!'rfnl 30·mil!' hI' e It k· in history rides at anchor here th larle!.t and newest Americon derly activity. Small craft churn erful battleship and aircraft throllgh wItieh ioppled thrpP of cloy ocro. s lh(> 10 111 l'ivl'r bl'fore restlessly awaiting the date al X carriers, battleships, Ught car lbe blue-green waters, dashinl carrier rorcr ofloot ponrrd more thp Pllemy's lllrgest stt'ongholrls thr . tl'Ongho\(l of loch, beyond ready scbe(Juled when tor the riers, j p carri rs, cruiers and back and fortb between vessels. than J,5oo Hellcat, H Ildiv rs ROlIthl'l.lst of 13pl'lin, PI'enti!'I" whi('h IiI' open rolling ('onntry first time an American sea-born d stroyer., At nilht low-Iylnl clouds glow and ,Avenger planes today at It will launch considerably more be Marshal Stlliin Ililnolln~ed Illst It'AdiJ1~ 10 Germany's grpot ntll' force will strike at Tokyo in force. with the fl hing of sl,nals Tokyo while warship'! and anny nition. pl'odncing region. than J ,200 planes against Japan' twe 0 ships. plane h II d and oomb dis· nigh t. Muture of Vessels main island ot Honshu In the first It is a 24-hour-a-day Job to let As Callodionll and Bt'itish " lands to the SOil I h. :. t I'll d i I .1' ont i'Innl,ing th The task force Is so large that low-level all' attack upon Tokyo this battJetleet Into operation. Nazi Jilnel'Stpn b!,l·g. fi'1'8nkfu I't · tablislH'd two ('l'o!'l!lingR of thp :More fJattopR than America KnPlltl'in lin e dne eost of the im· NiI'J'S l'ivrJ' into fl solid five·mile ever befor a mbled in a sin pprillpd Reich capital, M81'shal bric1gehpod, otIH'J' f'lrcl'S pl'f1!;.~ · At a Glance- gle sea opel'otion are sending Ivnn .. ){onev's J4'il'St TJhu in l' ing 111H'I rust 14 mi1('~ inside Oer. Yanks Near Victory Yank Heavies Biasi I'aiders in continnolls waves army captured Sommerfeld only many n ai' d royland, )(1 than alainst. Tokyo's airfields and mili 67 miles southeast of greater Ber two miles from the communica In Manila Drive tarY defenses, tanlling In sky bat lin, Sorau, 13 miles to the south tions center of Calcar and 17 miles German Rail Yards tles with the enemy alrtorce, east, and Gruenberg, 25 miles IT STINGS NOW but tomorrow this little FlIIplno rlrl will be &'fateful from Wesel in the northwest cor Today's The carriers, protected literally northeast of Sommerfeld, a n order to Pharmacist's Mate Richard D. Kepple of Vanderrrlft, Pa., a. navy ner of the industrial. Ruhr. MacArthur Reports Dresden Hit Again by thousands of anti-aircra ft guns or the day said. Seabee, for havln, ,Iven first aid to her cut arm. 20 Miles Alonl' Rhine In Non-Stop Support mounted on battleships, cruisers 45 Miles From DreSden New Gains on Bataani and destroyers, disgorged swarms On the north flank, Canndlans Iowan Of Russian Drives of bombinl, torpedoinl and straf Front dispatches said Konev's seized control of 20 miles of the Corregidor AHacks lower wing also had slashed to ing raiders In the first such naval Rhine's south bank eost of Jin .. .. .- LONDON (AP) - More than smash of the war ot Japan's capi. within 45 miles of Dresden, capi Exile Polish Premier megen by entering Hurendeich and MANILA, Friday (AP)-Gen. 1.500 1Iian [rom larg t task Superlorls Hit force ever embled slrik 1,100 American heavy bombers tal. tal of Saxony, after reaching the capturing 3 ferry crossing to the Douglas MacArthUr disclosed to a Tokyo. corted by 450 fighters, carrying The hUIe and audacious opera Neisse river in the are of Goer Defies Allied Ruling textile town of Emmerich, five day that Japan's master plan to the greatest non-stop air attack of tions, posing a challenge to Nip litz, 74 miles northeast of Prague, miles norlheast of Kleve. make Manila the turning point ot the war into its second doy, threw pon's :fleet, stronlly sugeests Czechoslovak capital. the LuzQn campaign in Nippon's Ru Ian smash Oder river de Jap Production At the opposite end of lhe west fense line, their main weight of destruction major developments, The fall of the three "impol-tant Accuses Big Three ern front, the United States Sev favor Is bein, smashed by a pow yesterday against clogled rail (There was no word trom head· junctions of communications and erhouse American drive nearing Of Dictatorial Acts; enth army lashe(J out In a new at Canadian First army welds yards at Cottbus, only 12 miles In quarters of the raid's purpose but mighty strongpoints of German tack south of ~he Saar basin that victory in the scarred city aod fast front ot the onsweeplnll RUSsian it. easily could be intended to cover delenses," southeast of Berlin was Warns Against Russia overrunlnl nearby Bataan penln five-mile bridgehead over Nicrs From linian gained up to a mile and a half on in drive toward Goeh. army, new amphibious landing opera aided by a United States heavy sula. LONDON (AB)-Tomasz Arels· a five-mile front. Burning Dresden 01 0 was hit tions within the inner defense rinl bomber attack on Cottbus, stra This attack, dealt by the 44th Today's communique, reportin, 3ealn. of Japan's island outluards). tegic rail juncllon only 27 miles zewski, premier of the exlled WASHINGTON (AP) - Super Vank torces on Luzon n ar vic Polish government in London, de division, ironed out a German steady reductlon ot the enemy Fifteen bombers and six lilht A navy communique todoy, tirst west of captured Sommerfeld. fortresses from a newly revealed tory; MacArthur r port ' n w clared yesterday that Poland will salient east of the French city of pocket in south Manila, new gains lains on Bataan ers ot the Eiahth alrlorce were disclOSing the action, said the Allied Aerfal Support base added wei&ht yesterday to a on Bataan and wltherinl air al planes were raiding "In and 'never surrender to slavery and a new stdke at Japanese produc Sarreguemines In the northern missinl from the Thursday's as In nnother striking example Of new partition done her by the Vosges mountains. tac on Corregidor also an sault, but some were believed. to around Tokyo" whUe wllrshlps tion. nounce(J seizure of on enemy doc shelled Iwo Jima In the Volcano dosest liaison between the Amer- aliies," and expressed indignation The developm-ent pOinted up an Third Army S c~r have landed 10 friendly territory, iean airmen and Russian ground at tile suggestion that his admln Comparative quiet layover the ument. It waff announced last night that islands and other enemy basl!'.J assertion by Secretary Stimson Plans 10 Draft SOO,OOO some 700 miles to the south. torces nearly 500 United States istratlon was without power to that the enemy has no sa fe areas remainder of the front, except for This .document, the leneral sold, figures on the Eilhth's 10 sea 'bombers hurled some 1,500 tons act.