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Daily Newspaper of U.S. Armed forces y in the European Theater of Operations VOL. 5 No. 42—Id. 41440b WEDNESDAY, Dec. 20, 1944 Germans 20 Miles Into Belgium 461 Planes After Lunch, Germany and No Siesta 1st Battles Destroyed in To Seal Off Luzon Raids Holesin Line The three-day air and naval strikes Although the security ban on news against Luzon. which served as a pre- of the First Army's counter-measures lude to Friday's invasion of Mindoro against the all-out German drive into to the south. were disclosed yester- Belgium and Luxemburg remained in day to have knocked out 461 Jap air- effect Tuesday, reports of Allied air craft and sunk 28 enemy ships, including operations against an enemy half-track four destroyers and two destroyer escorts. column west of Stavelot indicated that the Nazis had penetrated at least 20 miles .,Details of the Luzon blows were given into Belgium. Stavelot is that distance at Pearl Harbor by Adm. Chester W. front the frontier and about 22 miles Nimitz as the Mindoro invaders continued southeast of Liege.. to forge ahead without meeting ground resistance. Gen. MacArthur's HQ an- An Associated Press dispatch from a nounced, however, that 23 Jap planes correspondent with the First Army, filed were destroyed by AA tire and inter- Tuesday, said Lt. Gen. Courtney H. ceptors in attacks on the Allied beach- Hodges had sent in infantry and tanks', ' head and shipping. in a move to stabilize the front against the enemy's armored thrusts from above r According to official reports from the Monschau down to Echternach, in Philippines, the total of enemy planes southern Luxemburg. destroyed in actions over the islands in German panzers had driven a deep the last week was 742. This figure in- salient into the U.S. lines south of ' cludes the toll taken by both Army and Monschau and were still probing into' i+ Navy fliers. Maj. Richard Bong, of Belgium. although the attack had been Poplar. Wis., top American ace. accounted held along the flanks, thus channelizing , for his fortieth enemy plane destroyed. the enemy attempt, the dispatch said. Nimitz said that another 66 ships were The German air force was making its.' damaged. adding. however, that reports greatest bid since Normandy, attacking.;, are situ not complete concerning the raids both night and day. Allied airmen were on Manila Bay and other Luzon targets. up in force, too, scoring heavily on both , On Leyte, 77th Division doughboys enemy fliers and on ground transport and seized an airdrome nine miles from cap- armor. tured Ormoc in a drive up the so-called Beyond trumpeting reports that Hitler Ormoc Corridor toward a junction with himself had planned the German counter- the 32nd Division, pressing south. In between the two U.S. forces are thousands of enemy troops. Reports from Mindoro said the Yanks had counted 905 abandoned Sap dead in u.s. Mint Shroud Corps Photo moving north from the San Jost beach- Troops of the Seventh Army gather before a huge Maginot tort near the German head which was established with what dis- border north of Climbach. One in foreground, with K-rations, looks for a quiet patches described as unprecedented ease. place for lunch. Shortly after this photograph was taken the doughboys struck Forts Batter Capture of airfields in this area put out through the Wissembourg Forest and entered the Reich. Manila within a half-hour's flying time. NaziRail Points Nazi Scorns U.S. Aid B29s Strike In an effOrt to blo'ek choke-poleav—on King Against To PWs As 'Weakness road and rail routes carrying supplies and reinforcements for counter-at tacking Jap Air Plant BERNE. Dec. 19 (AP)—A story German forces along the U.S. First Army Greek Regency reaching Switzerland today told of front, more than 300 Fortresses of the China-based Superforts struck in German prisoners in France watching Eighth Air Force attacked ''t road and King George of the Hellenes, now in medium strength at industrial targets on American medical men loading rail junctions in western Germany Tues- London, was reported Tuesday to be Kyushu, southernmost Jap island, Tues- wounded on hospital planes. Noting day. against the proposed regency for Greece, day, the War Department announced at that the most critically wounded were The heavies pounded their targets, claiming it would be a concession to the Washington. given priority, regardless of nationality, located in a line from Trier north to ELAS (resistance) party. The King was Earlier Tuesday, B29s bombed Shanghai one of the Germans said: Gemund, in adverse weather. said to have asked all parties to condemn and Nanking. obtaining hits on docks "But you are loading some of .our Eighth Thunderbolts ran into 20 the ELAS as "the rebellion of a minor- and engineering works. men ahead of your own. Why not let FW190s east of the Rhine and shot down ity," and to have suggested Greece should It was the second successive day of them die?" three, become a "democracy with a king." B29 attacks against the enemy homeland, The officer in charge said that was Also in daylight Tuesday, RAF Lan- Trier Maj. Gen. Ronald M. Scobie. British Saipan bombers having bombed Nagoya casters struck at Trier, near the frontier commander in Greece, was still waiting on Monday. when the Mitsubishi aircraft only human kindness. between Germany and Luxemburg. meanwhile for the long-expected ELAS plant was hit by about 100 raiders, which "You Americans are crazy," the Ger- etmeh reply to his peace terms. were reported officially to have scored man snorted. "Your action is only a MAAF heavy bombers continued their Fighting in and around Athens con- sign of democratic decadence." assault on German oil installations for excellent results and destroyed or damaged rtgwS " tinued, with the British mopping up II enemy planes aloft. the fourth straight day, again attacking targets at Blechhammer in Silesia. -.110 Merzig pockets of resistance along the supply Tokyo radio said between 30 and 40 ... LWR road between Athens and the port of planes made Tuesday's raid, concentrating Other heavies pounded rail yards in Piraeus. The British were trying to get on the Omura area, also an aircraft Nazi Counter-Attacks Germany, Austria and northern Jugo- offensive, enemy broadcasts contained reinforcements to an RAF garrison, center. slavia, and an objective in the Vienna little information of actual progress, isolated and attacked by 600 ELAS men Force Back 8th Army area. saying only that the operation was going near the capital. Jap-Made Bombs ALLIED HQ, Italy, Dec. 19 (Reuter)— according to plan and that the American German tank-led counter-attacks against defenses had been disorganized. Thus, in Draft Upped to 80,000 Monthly Used to Bomb Japs Eighth Army forces fanning out into the effect, both sides were silent on what Lombardy plain north of Faenza forced Poles Welcome WASHINGTON, Dec, 19 (Reuter)— WASHINGTON, Dec. 19 (AP)—The really was happening along the 60-mile the Allied troops back yesterday aa the The War Department has requested Japanese are now being hit with "Made front. Selective Service Headquarters to increase in Japan" bombs. Rimini-Bologna railway line running U.S. Statement Resistance along both the Third and the number of inductions into the Army Ordnance officers said some Japanese north of the city. Seventh Army fronts, where the Ameri- from 60,000 to 80,000 a month for bombs captured at Tarawa have been Counter-attacks also were launched WASHINGTON, Dec.19 (Reuter)—Jan cans were fighting into the Saar's Siegfried January and February, it was announced used by American planes in raids on against the Canadian bridgehead over the Ciechanowsky. the Polish ambassador, defenses, was reported to have stiffened. today. Nipponese islands. Naviglio canal, north or Bagnacavallo, last night welcomed the U.S. govern- Apparently with the purpose of keep- ment's statement on the Russo-Polish ing the Americans on the hop all along boundary question as "entirely in line with the line, the Germans were report,ed to GI Backfield in Motion what we had hoped for as a definition be throwing everything they could at the of the American attitude," Seventh Army, firing from pillboxes, "This declaration places the whole casemates and trenches. Some pillboxes Yanks Bucking Siegfried Line Find It's No Picnic matter in the right light and focus, behind the first row of dragon's teeth because it stresses what we regard as the anti-tank ditches have been knocked out By Boyd Lewis most important of all points, namely, by American guns. In addition to the United Pre',i Correspondent that the U.S. government stands un- Siegfried artillery, enemy guns on the east INSIDE GERMANY, 300 Yards From equivocally for a strong, free and bank of the Rhine were reported firing Siegfried Line, Dec, I9—You feel em- independent. Polish state, with the un- against the Americans, who gave tit for barrassed dropping in on the boys at a trammeled right for the Polish people to tat, concentrating principally on the im- time like this. People are dashing out of order their international existence as they portant Rhine center of Karlsruhe. the big red-roofed house carrying maps see fit." With the Germans flowing back into and telephones. The lieutenant seems what a few days ago was "liberated" The U.S.