Allied Tanks Over Rhine
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New York—London Ici On Parle Frangais Paris—Rennes Vous allez beancoup me mauquer Friday, Sept. 23, 1944 THE ST; Voo zalay boKOO muh monKAY Vol. 1. No. 69 I am going to miss you very much Daily Newspaper of U.S. Armed Forcesj^gj*^, the European Theater of Operations Allied Tanks Over Rhine First Photos of Yanks in Holland and Germany Key Bridge In Holland IsCaptured British tanks last night were across the Rhine in Hol- land and on the road to Arn- hem to the north following the capture of the vital bridge across the river at Nijmegen following a bitter battle. Seizure of the great bridge there gave the Allies a golden opportunity to outflank the Siegfried Line defenses in the north and pour straight through into the Ruhr, and its significance was evi- denced in the fanatical battle waged by the Nazis at Nijmegen. The span was taken in a combin- ed frontal attack by British armor at one end and paratroops of the First Allied Airborne Army on the U.S. Army Signal Corps Photos. rolls into the outskirts of Boctgen, Germany, where the only sign other. Tanks were crossing the American troops are fighting in four countries of western Europe— of life is a white flag hanging from a second-story window. (At bridge last night and moving on France, Holland, Belgium and Germany. In the first pictures right) a U.S. infantry platoon follows a column of tanks toward Arnhem where, although reports received on the U.S. entries.into Germany and Holland, a jeep (left) Dalhem, in the Netherlands. were meager, it was evident a big German attempt to smash other airborne troops' positions had Nazis Report Stream of Allied Convoys Reich Already failed. May Trap Big Force Crossing of the Rhine—the Dutch 'Chutist Attack GettingFood to HungryParis Seen Planning call it the Waal in that sector—also developed the possibility of a trap The U.S. and Britain are furnishing 500 tons of food World War III for a large force of Germans be- On Warsaw tween that area and the coast, a daily to feed Paris, and in addition, thousands of tons of The German high command is force estimated to be as high as German News Agency reported locally-produced food for the city's millions of people are urging German generals to save 100,000 men. yesterday that Polish paratroops brought in on French trucks using U.S. Army gasoline and themselves and their officers down Enemy resistance gained fana- had been dropped on Warsaw by "a to the rank of company commander tical proportions along the entire oil, it was disclosed yesterday at Communications Zone Allied front in the north. Troops large formation of Anglo-American headquarters. as a nucleus for an army to launch a third world war, Joseph Driscoll of the Third U.S. Army knocked bombers" in daylight and had been To feed the capital, officers said, said yesterday in a copyrighted out' 105 tanks in a swirling three- shot up while floating to earth. the U.S. and British Armies have day battle in the Moselle valley, Officer 'Pros' stored in Prance 26,000,000 pounds front-line dispatch to the New York Herald Tribune. possibly breaking the back of the There was no confirmation of the of food. panzer force hurled desperately report from Allied sources. Bringing food into Paris from Driscoll said proof was found in against this single one of the Allied Meanwhile, Russian armor and To Go Abroad the stores is a convoy of 1,600 a secret document, bearing the masses threatening the Reich. shock troops strove to cut German trucks, provided by the U.S. and high command seal, which said:— WASHINGTON, Sept. 21 (AP).— As Lt. Gen. George S. Patton"s communications between Estonia British Armies and driven by "The present turn of the war A new Army directive requiring a men hurled back counter-attacks and Latvia. Soviet divisions were volunteer French soldiers who wear forces us to be extremely conserva- and made some gains, troops of the said to be eight miles from Riga, tour of field or overseas duty for British uniforms and carry Amer- tive with expending our officer First U.S. Army destroyed at least all physically qualified regular Ar- capital of Latvia, following reports ican equipment. From four to five material. Our final complete victory 28 tanks in their sector. that Red reconnaissance units were my officers was revealed today. convoys are dispatched daily from was so certain even a short time Fifty-three of the 105 tanks bag- in the city's outskirts. Purpose of the program was said the Normandy area for Paris. ago that we can prepare ourselves ged by Patton's men were knocked In Estonia, Russian infantry was to be the building of an experienced Hitched to the trucks are Amer- wtih fresh courage for a new, later out in the last 24 hours. The Ger- officers' corps in case of future storming over marshlands to con- ican one-ton trailers. fight. mans concentrated their tank as- verge on Tapa, 45 miles east of wars. The convoy staff, composed jf 17 "In order to prepare for this un- saults in the Dieuze area east of Tallinn, the capital. The directive affects regular of- Civil Affairs officers and 50 French avoidable third contest for leader- Nancy, where Third Army troops Two Red Army groups were push- ficers of "troop age" who have not officers, is commanded by a U.S. ship of the world expertly, we need ing toward Tallinn. The first, been in an active overseas theater were forced to withdraw slightly, quartermaster officer. our officers. At all times, we have sweeping over the Baltic highway since the start of the war and who but another heavy enemy assault ir; The tonnage of food shipped to found troops in great quantities. from Narva, was within 65 miles of have completed two years of staff the Luneville area failed to brea! Paris is expected to climb sharply Meanwhile, German Forces Ra- U.S. positions. the city, while the other, slightly assignments in America. "Troop dio broadcast a statement from a age" was defined as 42 or under when a few key transportation farther away, was striking north- problems are solved. The French, Wehrmacht spokesman saying:— Six Miles from Metz west above Tartu. for majors, 45 or under for lieute- according to a quartermaster of- "The word 'capitulation' must not Other units of Patton's army nant colonels, and 48 or under for exist in our vocabulary in this pre- colonels. ficer, will be handling the entire pushed within six miles of Metz, CHURCHILL TO MOSCOW? food and fuel problem "in no time sent phase of the war. We are now where forts were attacked by planes LONDON, Sept. 21 (AP).—Prime Lt. Gen. Ben Lear, chief of the fighting to defend our wives and Army Ground Forces, was reported at all" as soon as tires and gasoline using rockets and bombs. Minister Churchill has left Quebec are provided for thousands of idle children, our homes and soil. First Army troops were fighting for Moscow after concluding his to have been a leading advocate of Further retreat is impossible. the program. French trucks. fiercely in the Hurtgen forest talks with President Roosevelt, Ger- against bitter German resistance, man radjfl said today. with the enemy using reserves on Rail Yards in Germany this front. House-to-house battling Combat Flier Goes Through raged in Stolberg, east of Aachen, Are Bombed by Heavies while in Aachen itself loud explo- Name Attorney sions were heard amid reports the Portresses and Liberators bombed Siegfried Line With Troops Gestapo was forcing residents to Head of Legion rail yards at Mainz and Coblenz evacuate the battered city. yesterday, as well as a synthetic oil A Thunderbolt pilot who went mal quality, in western Germany, Front-line dispatches from Lt. Gen. Courtney Hodges' Army said CHICAGO, Sept. 21.—The Amer- plant at Ludwigshafen and other through the Siegfried Line with at least. targets in western Germany. Thun- an armored infantry division of the The unit which Stucky accom- (Continued on Page 4) ican Legion wound up its 26th an- panied went from Luxemburg to nual convention today by electing derbolts and Lightnings escorted First Army was back at Lis base the heavies and supported Allied today, convinced that the Germans Echternach, on the German border, Edward N. Scheiberling, of Albany, in two days, and entered the Sieg- Big Flying-Bomb Plant as national commander. Scheiber- aircraft continuing airborne opera- "just haven't got it." tions in Holland. 2/Lt. George W. Stucky, 23, of fried Line at the border. He ac- ling, an attorney, was a World War companied the troops beyond Wal- Uncovered by 3rd Army I infantry captain who had been Trier rail yards, tightly packed Dover, Ohio, a member of the P47 group commanded by Col. William lendorf and saw 15 or 20 miles of serving as vice-chairman of the with troops and supplies waiting 1 WITH THE THIRD U.S. ARMY, shipment to the front, were hit D. Greenfield, of Dayton, Ohio, the Siegfried terrain before he re- Legion's national legislative com- 1 turned to his group. Sept. 21.—The largest flying-bomb mittee. Wednesday by Marauders. has these impressions after 17 days assembly plant yet found has been as air-support control officer be- I For many miles around Wallen- In a broadcast, the new com- dorf, Stucky reported, the Sieg- overrun by American troops near MAY RAISE 'TOMMY'S* PAY tween the division and fighter mander said that universal military ' fried Line consisted of a myriad of the Luxemburg border according to training would be the Legion's ma- LONDON, Sept.