DON'T FRATERNIZE! DCN»T TRUST A GERM/If VOLUME VII NO. 11" 23 MARCH 1945
GERMANY; WITH THE WEATHER PERFECT FOR FLYING ALL KINDS OF AMERICAN t»D BRITISH TACTICAL AND STRATEGIC PLANES HAVE BEEN OUT OVER GERMANY TODAY. THE MAIN WEIGHT OF THE ALLIED BOMBERS FELL ON THE NORTHERN GERMAN PLAIN AND THE RUHR FACING THE ARMY GROUP OF FIELD MARSHALL MONTGOMERY. MORE THAN 1250 AMERICAN HEAVIES PLASTERED 11 BOTTLENECKS IN THE GERMAN RAIL SYSTEM IN THE RUHR VALLEY AND NORTH AND SOUTH OF THE RUHR. RAF LANC ASTERS UNLOADED 10 TON BOMBS ON THE BREMEN RAIL BRIDGE TODAY. GERMAN CITIES AND TOWNS IN THE RUHR VALLEY HAVE RECEIVED SUCH A FEARFUL BATTERING • LATELY THAT ALL RAIL TRANSPORTATION HAS BEEN STOPPED. DURING THE NIGHT MOSQUITOS PAID THEIR NIGHLY VISIT TO BERLIN. IT WAS THE 31ST NIGHT RUNNING THAT THE FAST BOMBERS HAVE ATTACKED THE GERMAN CAPITOL. IN DAYLIGHT YESTERDAY ALLIED AIRCRAFT OF ALL TYPES SWARMED OVER GERMANY CONCENTRATING ON THE RUHR AND THE NORTHERN PART OF THE REICH. MORE THAN 7000 SORTIES WERE FLOWN BY ALLIED PLANBS. HEAVY BOMBERS HIT A DOZEN ENEMY CAMPS, BASES AND ASSEMBLY AREAS IN THE RUHR. YANK MEDIUM BOMB• ERS WENT FOR 16 COMMUNICATION CENTERS. SOME OF THE ALLIED PILOTS HAD TO WAIT FOR HOURS FOR THE SfiOCE AND DUST TO CLEAR AWAY FROM THEIR TARGETS BEFORE THEY COULD RESUME THEIR BOMBING. ALONG THE WEST BANK OF THE RHINE FACING THE RUHR IT IS KNOW THAT TREMENDOUS PREPARATIONS ARE GOING ON AND CORRESPONDENTS REPORT AN IN• CREASE IN PATROLLING NEAR NUMEGEN. THERE IS A VIRTUAL BLACKOUT OF NEWS OF UNITED KINGDOM AND CANADIAN TROOPS AT THE NORTHERN END OF THE FRONT. AMERICAN THIRD ARMY TROOPS NOW LINE THE WEST BANK OF THE RHINE FOR 100 MILES BETWEEN COBIENZ AND LUDWIGSHAFEN. GERMAN RESISTANCE IN MAINZ HAS CEASED AN NEARLY 3000 PRISONERS WERE TAKEN THERE. GENERAL PATTCN'S TANKS WERE LAST REPORTED WITHIN 5 MILES OF SPEYER "I/HERE THE GERMANS HAVE A BRIDGE. FURTHUR WEST, THE TOWN OF PIR- MASENS HAS FALLEN, THE NAZIS ARE PUTTING UP A FIGHT ALONG A 15 MILE CORRIDOR BE• TWEEN WISSEMBOURG AND THE RHINE BUT THEY ARE BEING STEADILY DRIVEN BACK. IN THE LAST TEN DAYS OVER 100,000 PRISONERS HAVE BEEN TAKEN IN THE SAAR. IT IS ESTIMATED THAT THERE ARE 20,000 NAZIS LEFT IN THE BRIDGEHEAD BUT MANY OF THESE TROOPS *RE TRAPPED. AMERICAN FIRST ARMY TROOPS HAVE CNCE MORE EXPANDED THE REMAGEN BRIDGEHEAD. IT IS NOW 31 MILES LONG AND 9 DEEP. THE YANKS HAVE CROSSED THE WIED RIVER HT THE SOUTHEASTERN PART OF THE POCKET AT 6 PLAGES ON A 14 MILE FRONT.
RUSSIA: MARSHALL KONEV'S TANKS AND INFANTRY ARE POURING THROUGH A GREAT GAP IN THE NAZI LINES IN UPPER SILESIA AFTER SWEEPING AROUND OPPEIN FROM TrtO SIDES. THE RUSSIANS DROVE 25 MILES PAST OPPEIN WHERE TWO SPEARHEADS LINKED UP AT THE TOWN OF NEUSTADT. OVER 400 PLACES HAVE BEEN TAKEN SO FAR AND SOME 45,000 GERMANS HAVE EITHER BEEN KILLED OR CAPTURED. MARSHALL STALIN HAS. ANNOUNCED THAT KONEV'S MEN ARE CONTINUING THEIR DRIVE TOWARDS THE SUDETEN MOUNTAINS .AND PRAGUE. THE REDS HAVE ALREADY OUT• FLANKED THE BASTION OF MAHR OSTRAU NEAR THE BORDER OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA. WEST OF OPPELN, KONEV'S MEN ARE CLOSE TO THE NEISSE RIVER NEAR WHERE IT JOINS THE ODER RIVER. MARSHALL ZHUKOV'S ARTILLERY HAS CONTINUED TO SHELL STETTIN, PORT OF BERLIN. GREAT CLOUDS OF SMOKE ARE HANGING OVER THE CITY.
ITALY; MEDITERRANEAN AIRCRAFT FLEW OVER 2600 SORTIES YESTERDAY INCLUDING ATTACKS ON AUSTRIA, YUGOSLAVIA AND NORTHERN ITALY. THE GERMAN RADIO TODAY REPORTED ALLIED BOMffiR FORMATIONS OVER AUSTRIA. TURI PAGE PACIFIC; " TRCOPS OF' THE 20TH INDIAN DIVISION HAVE DRIVEN 55 MILES TO THE SOUTH OF MAN DAL AY AND WERE LAST REPORTED TO HAVE COVERED 3/4 OF THE WAY TO MEIKTILA WHERE THEY ARE HEARING A- LINKUP WITH THE BRITISH 4TH CORPS WHO IS PUSHING NORTH FROM THE MEIKTILA AREA. THE BADLY BATTERED JAPANESE 15TH ARMY IS BEING COMPRESSED INTO A RAPIDLY SHRINKING AREA ON THE GREAT PLAIN SOUTH OT M