Man Spricht Deutsch lei On Parle Francais Sie koennen zu Fuss gehen. THE STARS ANDJSTRIPES Qu'est-ce que ceci? Zee kennen tsoo Fooss gayhen. kess kuh suh-SEE? You can go on foot. Dally Newspaper of U.S. Armed Forces in the European Theater of Operations What's this? Vol. 1—No. 119 lFr. New York— PARIS — London lFr Monday, Nov. 20, 1944 3rd Army Enters Reich Robot Flashes to Dead End Crosses at Luxembourg; British Crack North Line French 3 Miles From Belfort Firing Ceases Gateway As U.S., Nazis Four Allied armies brought war on the grandest scale Trade 70 PWs since the days of Napoleon to By Harry J. McLaughlin the Western German country- Stars and Stripes Special Writer side last night as elements of AT THE GERMAN-HELD LE- the British Second and U.S. MAGUERE ISLAND, Nov. 19. — Firing ceased for six hours yester- Third- Armies crashed into day while 70 American officers and the Reich. Into Germany be- enlisted men were exchanged loi fore them have gone the U.S. the same number of German ori First and Ninth Armies. soners captured in the . Brittany Meanwhile, all along the blazing drive for the ports of St. Nazaire and Lorient. Western Front, the mounting Allied At 0900 nours an American Red IHPpl|L offensive moved toward the Ruhr and Saar Valleys. Cross representative, ' Andrew G Hodges of Birmingham, Ala., cross- In Paris, Gen. Charles de Gaulle Flames plot the path of a German buzz bomb as it darts earthward. The fiery wake was recorded by the predicted on the radio that "within ed the Etel River in a small fish- camera of Pfc Randall Kuiper, of Grand Rapids, Mich., before his Ninth Air Force outfit left England ing boat. Twenty minutes later he eight months we shall have in Eu- for France. The robot (on right) made a perfect landing in France without exploding. Dismantled by rope a great army worthy ol returned with three German of- a bomb disposal unit, it was shipped to the United States. ficers, headed by a Col Borst. France." Stand Near Wharf 3 Miles from Belfort They were met at the. wharf by As he spoke, the French First American Infantry officers, includ- Combat Men Given Priority Hodges' Men Army at the southern end of the ing Lt Col. William Patterson of front struck to within three miles New Rochelle, N.Y. and Lt Col. of Belfort, the big gate at Alsace Clarence Brown of Tupelo, Miss., As Record Yule Mail Arrives In Eischweile* r and tha lower Rhine, after a gain the latter a medical officer By G. K. Hodenfield of 20 miles in three days. In Holland, the British Second Crossing the muddy Etel to the By Arthur W. White Stars and Stripes Staff Writer. German side again, the party was Army plunged through the Sieg- Stars and Stripes Staff Writer. WITH FIRST U.S. ARMY, Nov. greeted by Nazi officers. In the 19.—Under the brightest skies since fried Line between Aachen and background in a narrow alley near Christmas packages addressed to combat outfits will the present offensive began, the Roermond, crossed the border and the wharf stood the American have priority, Army postal officials said yesterday, as they U.S. First Army pushed forward with American troops captured the prisoners. prepared for the distribution of millions of parcels in the today on all fronts and advanced rail center of Geilenkirchen. When they saw the American of- ETO. Six million packages—20 percent of the estimated total in some places as much as four Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's Third ficers they broke into cheers with miles. According to one staff of- Army tanks crossed the German queries such as: "Who won the - already have arrived on the Continent and are being ficer, the attack is developing frontier near Launstroff, 15 miles World Series?" and "How did the moved to the'front and base sec- favorably and is reaching a fluid (Continued on Page 3) election come out?" Some of the tions. state which permits greater man- doughboys stared as if stupefied "The Monster," a Victory ship Foxholes Tire Youth; euvering. undecided whether to laugh or which carried a record-breaking There were patrols in the out- shout. Most were bearded 130,000 sacks of packages and 2,593 Prefers Hammocks skirts of Eischweilei. They could Nazis Burn 5 When informed that they were pouches of letters, has been un- look down into the city of 50,000 to be exchanged one American pri- loaded here an' APO men are MILWAUKEE, Wis., Nov. 19. —Lloyd J. Connick, of Oshkosh, persons which had been on the More Towns vate shouted: "This is a swell awaiting 11 other similar vessels receiving end of continuous air and Christmas present" scheduled to carry the bulk of the Wis., who has three campaign ribbons, a bronze star, a combat artillery bombardment for almost By Ed Clark 30,000,000 packages addressed to a month. Four large buildings In this theater. infantryman's badge, a Purple Stars and Stripes Staff Writer., Heart—and an honorable dis- Eischweiler had roofs which were ADVANCED SIXTH ARMY Fake Anti-Nazi 50 Million Packages Mailed charge because he's only 17—has draped with huge red crosses. GROUP HEADQUARTERS, Nov. 19. The War Department has. an- enlisted in the Navy. Other units of the First Army The Germans today put the torch nounced that 50,00o,000 packages, Connick got into the Army at (Continued on Page 3). to five more French towns in the Radio Seized averaging four pounds each, were 16 by saying he was 18, and his path of the U.S. Seventh Army mailed to all theaters during the true age was discovered when he Navy Lacks Rockets, advance, making a total of 11 A, series of arrests by French "non-request" period from Sept. 15 was wounded. He has enlisted Vosges Mountain towns "scorched" police yesterday revealed that for to Oct. 15. It is the greatest mass in the Navy with his parents' Transports, Says King by the enemy in the last 48 hours. months the Germans operated a movement of packages from the consent because, he said, he was Stretching from the northern to fake "underground" radio station U.S. in history. "tired of sleeping in foxholes." CHICAGO, Nov. 19—The Navy the southern end of the Seventh in France, receiving messages from Meanwhile, officials warned that is short of ship and aircraft rockets, Army's approximate 40-mile front, London which enabled them to this week is definitely the last for End SPAR Recruiting Adm. Ernest J. King said today, this program of destruction, most move against Allied paratroopers. mailing packages and greeting WASHINGTON, Nov. 19 (ANS). despite an increase in production extensive application of the One of the prisoners, identified cards to the U.S. if they are. to be —Coast Guard announced today from $8,000,000 worth in the first "scorched earth" in western Europe, as Georges Ledanseurs, was said delivered by Christmas. They added that general recruiting for the quarter of 1944 to $21,000,000 worth hazed battlelines with smoke by to have started as a loyal resistance (Continued on Page 3) SPARS, would end Nov. 23. in the third quarter. day and lighted frontline skies by worker in clandestine stations at night. Clermont Ferrand and Rennes. He Latest villages to suffer destruc- was arrested by the Gestapo and tion by fire were Le Paire, Hur- in return for his freedom was bache, Ste. Marguerite, Saulcy-sur- alleged to have set up a. bogus 4-Star Vow to 'Purple Heart Row' Meurthe and St. Leonard, all in the resistance station which kept in By Jules B. Grad said he was too poor a guesser. keep his armies rolling through the vicinity of St. Die and near the close touch with London transmit- Stars and Stripes Staff Writer.' central sector of the front. ters. In this way, it was charged, The general then pinned a sticky mud of German battlefields. ADVANCE COMMAND POST, Purple Heart and a Distinguished Then he climbed into his sedan for The wholesale "scorching" was the Gestapo intercepted informa- interpreted as an attempt by the tion about parachute landings of Nov. 19.—Gen. Eisenhower ended Service Cross on Dwight T. Colley, the last time in his two-week tour of Saunderstown, R.I., a 26th In- and headed back to this command enemy to deny winter quarters to Allied soldiers for liaison with the his whirlwind tour of front-line fantry Division colonel who led his the Americans before pulling back FFI and sent out forces to mow post. troops over the week-end in the regiment against a German suicide Hours later, the four-star Cadil- to new defense positions. them down. center of "Purple Heart RowV^ The squad and fought for ground even lac slowed down at a railroad cross- row was a neat pattern of white after shell fragments pierced a ing. A tram of olive-drab freight Indiana U. Honors Pyle Douglas A26 Invader beds in a huge evacuation hospital, lung. cars rumbled by enroute to the BLOOMINGTON, Ind., Nov. 19 somewhere in France. His listeners He chatted with scores of battle- front with ammunition. Above (ANS).—War Correspondent Ernie Now in Action with 9th were wounded doughboys who field casualties, such as a Fourth roared squadrons of Thunderbolts Pyle yesterday received an honorary fought back the drowsing effects Armoured Division commander with 500-pound bombs ready for degree from Indiana University as NINTH AF HQ.