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1St Army Opens New Drive Below Hurtgen; Pre-Hitler Border in Saar Man Spricht Deutsch Id On Parle Franqais Vendez-vous des souvenirs? Haende hinter den Kopf. THE VonDAY voo day soovNEEB? Henda hinter den Kopff. Do you sell souvenirs? Hands behind the head. 9afljr Newspaper of U.S. Armed forces ^•jgCS*tKe European Theater of Operations Vol. 1—No. 140 1W& New York — PARIS—London lFr. Thursday, Dec. 14, 1944 ASF, AAF Jap Fought in Florida —//is CO Told Him So 1st Army Opens New Drive WITH 41s« INF. DIV., South- ToTransfer west Pacific, Dec. 13 (AP).—A security patrol combing an island in the Southwest Pacific for Below Hurtgen; Pre-Hitler 65,000 Men enemy stragglers recently cap- tured a Japanese soldier who thought he was in Florida. WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 During the questioning the (ANS).—Lt. Gen. Ben Lear, prisoner was quite emphatic— Border in Saar Is Pierced he knew he was in Florida be- chief of Army Ground Forces, cause his commanding officer said today that a radical had told him so. He said he change in the mission of the didn't like the place and thought Armor to Artillerv to Air Force Last Metz Bastion AGF is resulting in the trans- it wasn't worth much. fer of 65,000 soldiers from Captured After the air and service forces, Nagoya, Tokyo 3-Week Siege with the possibility that more will be shifted. In addition, the change means Bombed; Leyte Three American Armies that whole units are being switched smashed ahead yesterday from assignments no longer ne- Convoy Cut Up along a 250-mile battle arc cessary to fighting duties. from the Aachen Gap to the "By no means," he said, "is this a sudden manpower shift to bal- WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 (ANS). Rhine. First Army launched ance the scales. Instead, it is an —Japan's third largest city—Na- a pre-dawn attack toward the Index that the usefulness of these goya—was blasted today by B29s Ruhr, Third Army pierced the soldiers in their previous services from Saipan, while in the Philippine pre-Hitler German border in has ceased and now exists to a area other U.S. planes sank three great degree in the ground forces. destroyers and three transports off the eastern Saar and the May Shift More the north coast of Leyte. Seventh Army pushed up the Tokyo radio said that more than Bhineland toward the frontier as "It is estimated that, as the need 100 Superforts had taken part in the Germans retreated from north- and the unavoidable casualties in- the raid on the Honshu Island in- ern Alsace toward the west wall. crease, additional men may be dustrial city while single B29s At the northern end of the arc, shifted from air force surpluses to made hit-and-run raids on Tokyo. First Army's new attack gained the ground forces. The changing Headquarters fo- the 2fst Bomber about a mile to the town of Rolles- picture of the war has terminated Command said it was one of the the usefulness of some units and broich, 14 miles southwest of largest formations ever sent out Duren. they have therefore been reconsti- from Saipan. First Army troops closed up to tuted for new missions." Meanwhile, Gen. MacArthur's Illustrating the results of this the west bank of the Roer along a Hq. told of another Philippine five-mile front as attacking forces policy shift, Lear said that "almost naval victory. Planes of the 13th U.S. troops in Germany execute a triple play. At the request of an south east of the Hurtgen Forest 100 coast artillery battalions either AF caught the ninth Jap convoy armored unit, this mobile gun crew fires smoke shells to- mark a seized three villages, according to have been directly converted to field in six weeks off Leyte yesterday, target for Ninth Air Force fighter-bombers hovering overhead. late Associated Press reports. artillery units or their personnel has destroying ships totalling 23,000 35th Div. Crosses Border been used to fill up existing field tons. Besides sinking nearly every battalions. ship in the convoy between 50 and Southward in the Saar, men m "No intelligent person ever at- 55 planes were claimed as destroyed. Dillingen Tough Nut to Crack the Third Army's 35th Division tempts to say the Navy does more In land fighting, the seventh and crossed the old German border at than the Air Force or that the Air 77th Divisions were poised on the Habkirchen, four miles east of Force does more than the ground northern segment of the Yamashita -But Men of 90th Div. Do It Sarreguemines, and smeared a force," Lear says. "The action of line. counter attack which tried to throw all three is an integrated and co- By Earl Mazo them back Westward at conquered Metz, Ft. ordinated whole with one joint mis- Japs Reported Quitting Stars and Stripes Staff Writer sion—total defeat of the enemy. WITH THE 90th DIV. IN DILLINGEN, Dec. 13. — The Jeanne D'Arc fell. It was the last But," he continued, "it is a military Tokyo in Fear of Bombs bastion of Europe's strongest forti- fact that the final action of all doughboys and combat engineers fighting for this Siegfried fied city and had held, out three wars is infantry action—that is, NEW YORK, Dec. 13 (UP). — ■Line town are pushing ahead despite all the obstacles the weeks against Lt. Gen. George ground force action. Japanese reports, relayed through German military mind can conceive. Patton Jr's besiegers after Metz Berlin, state that Tokyo's 7,000,000 Since crossing the Saar River at this point one week itself was captured. population is being stripped to es- Eastward in Alsace, Seventh Army sential defense personnel in anti- ago, these men of the 90th Div. troops fought into Seltz after an ELAS Scorns cipation of a full-dress American have actually cleared only the por- 'Five-Star' Officers eight-mile sweep up the Rhineland tion of this 50,000-population city from captured Haguenau. This ad- aerial siege. between the many-tracked railroad Now Up to Roosevelt British Terms Following a Superfort raid last (Continued on Page 2) week which fired the city, 20,000 and the river, but that small sector represents for one regiment alone WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 (ANS). ATHENS, Dec. 13.—Scorning the persons were said to have left the Jap capital on Tuesday. —the 358th—54 pillboxes, 39 city —The Senate today passed and sent British peace terms issued yester- blocks, a cemetery battlefield and to the White House a bill to create Ninth AF Aids day, ELAS forces opened a full- British Wives Seek U.S. Visas a locomotive works which the Ger- four five-star "admirals of the scale attack from all directions on mans hurriedly converted into a fleet" and four five-star "generals the shrinking British pocket in the LONDON, Dec. 13 (AP). — The Hodges' Drive American Embassy has reported fortress. of the army." heart of the city. The rebellious The fighting has been such that Adms. Chester Nimitz, William P. Greek forces had gained control that an estimated 12,000 to 15,000 Approximately 250 medium British wives of U.S. servicemen one doughfoot, Pfc Donald Sar- Halsey, Ernest King and William of the Athens water supply but geant flattened against the wall of D. Leahy and Gens. Marshall, Eisen- bombers of the Ninth AF, support- the British refused to consider this have applied for visas to enter the ing First Army infantry drives, U.S. Visas already have been a fortified house while a German hower, Arnold and MacArthur are as serious. (Continued on Page 2) slated for the new ranks. hammered at Duren, Schleiden and (In Washington, American offi- granted to another 1,000. Euskirchen yesterday, striking at cials expressed the hope that the Nazi troop concentrations, ware- British would make an early peace houses and railyards. with resistance forces. The US. U.S.-Bound Joes Sweat Out Paris Flying more than 140 sorties, attitude is that it has no military fighter-bombers dumped 61 tons responsibility, a surprise to Greeks of bombs on Nazi defenses behind ■ who believed that the U.S. was By Ernest Leiser given passes and partial pay and leader of the 823rd TDs, with the the First Army sector at Zulpich backing the British.) Stars and Stripes Staff Writer told to see the town until notified 30th Div., he thought they were go- and smashed at railyards in Saar- ing to send him out on "reconnais- lautern on the Third Army front. A threatened one-day protest More than 1,800 American sol- their planes are ready. diers on their way home from the Sgt. T. S. Overton, of Ahoskie, sance or something. I just didn't The winter cloud cover over Ger- strike by 150,000 Scottish shipyard believe it when they told me I was many closed down again yesterday, and factory workers was reported front lines were celebrating with N.C., and the 311th FA Bn., 79th 48-hour passes in Paris last night, Div., grinned as he relaxed in an going home instead. I'm still not grounding the Eighth's Forts and in Britain as Labor Minister Ernest sure it's true. Libs. Photographs taken during Bevin flatly told a Labor "arty sweating out planes scheduled to easy chair. "Boy, they can't call take them to England and to boats me T. S. any longer," he said. "When I hit Georgia," he said, Tuesday's 1,300-bomber attack in- convention, "The steps taken in "I'm just gonna rest and shoot quail dicated the Eighth had used the Greece are not the decisions of headed for the U.S., where they Pvt.
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