First Gains on Roer Line
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fits SaveTires—ShortenWar Tire Care Cuts Wear . .The war will be need- "Exercise of reasonable care lessly extended unless we ex- by U.S. Army drivers will pro- tract every possible mile from THE siws long the life of tires by at least 40 per cent." Statement by ETO our tires." Gen. Eisenhower, to m tne all troops in the ETO. ^Oly Newspaper of UJ. Armed Forces zzz0fi*sjr European Theater of Operations Ordnance and Transp. Chiefs. Vol. 1—No. 135 lFr. New York — PARIS — o n Friday, Dec. 8, 1944 First Gains on Roer Line Superforts Tank Destroyers Slosh Through Mud of Hurtgen Forest Third Army 1 Hit Tokyo, 3 l2Mi.from Manchuria SaaH'idpital Lt.Gen. Courtney H. Hodges' WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 men smashed into German (ANS).—China-based Super- defenses of the swollen River forts ushered in the third an- Roer ..at three points yester- niversary of Pearl Harbor to- day in triple assaults launched from the northern and souWi- day with a raid on Japanese ern sectors of the U.S. First war factories in southern Army front in the last 48 Manchuria and enemy broad- hours. casts said another Superfort Southward, in the Saar, U.S. formation had started fires Third Army forces smashed to three and one-half miles west of in an attack on Tokyo itself. Saarbrucken, biggest city -in the War Department, in announcing Saar basin, front reports said, the Manchurian raid, said a "large while other units consolidated six , task force" o,f B29s of the 20th Saar River crossings into three Bomber Command had raided im- sizable bridgeheads. portant industrial objectives by daylight. Tokyo asserted that more Gained 400 Yards than 100 bombers took part in the Two armored vehicles of an American tank destroyer unit move slowly over a muddy, narrow winding Hodges' initial assault on the Manchurian raid. roadway through the Hurtgen Forest, spearheading the advance of the First Army toward the Cologne plain. German Roer River defenses of the Coiogne Plain kicked off at 1500 No Mention of Tokyo Raid Wednesday from Inden on the Washington late today still had northern sector and gained 400 made no mention of any raid on Rhine May Be "The' River - yards by nightfall. Patrols thrust Japan proper. The Japs described Violent 'Quake to the outskirts of Pier, two miles the Tokyo raiders as a "small force" east Of Inden on a mission of "war of nerves." But Roer Is No Mill Stream This was followed by attacks at Tokyo claimed that Jap bombers Jolts Far East, 2100 Wednesday and sft 0300 yester- had bombed Saipan bases of the day from the Bergstein area south 21st Bomber Command while B29s Possibly Japan By Morrow Davis of Duren. Both assaults gained. were awaiting takeoff. Stars and Stripes Staff Writer Northwest ot the village, First In South Pacific land operations, An earthquake comparable in WITH THE NINTH U.S. ARMY, Dec. 7.—Doughfeet of Army men were less than a mile 32nd Div. tightened its ring on from the river, whose waters are Japanese troops hemmed against violence to the one which virtually Gen. Simpson's army have read there is "one more river to destroyed Tokyo and Yokohama in rising. the Ormoc Harbor area. cross"—the Rhine. Right now they are poised on the west Southward, m Alsace, enemy Meanwhile, Brig. Gen. Carlos 1923 was recorded by scientists yes troops squeezed into a 28-mile terday as having occurred in the Romulo, Resident Commissioner of bank of a thing called the Roer. The doughfeet predict pocket by allies driving south from vicinity of Japan. Philippines, who recently visited it will take some work to cross this swollen stream. Strasbourg and north from Mul- Leyte, said the campaign was pro- The seismograph in England's house, were reported withdrawing West Bromwich observatory "placed gressing "excellently." On the other side of this barrier across the Rhine River at Colmar the quake's center "possibly In to the Ruhr Valley (and the Rhine) and Neufbrisach, Associated Press Japan, the Kuriles (north of front dispatches said. Jap Air Strength Grows Japan) or the Aleutians," and a are skilled, battle-hardened German PattonTankers WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 (ANS).— Bombay observatory reported its troops, including Hitler's crack Fifth Nazi Patrols Cr Maas Increasingly strong opposition to epicenter as in Honshu, largest if Panzer and SS units. They nave KO 26, Lose 13 In Holland, where the British American advances in the Pacific the islands which form Japan good armor, plenty of artillery and Second Army -was ranged along the may be expected from Japanese Tokyo and Yokohama are in River Maas, Germai. patrols slipped ammunition. They nave the ad- across the river from the east be- ■ land-based aviation, Navy Secretary Honshu. vantage of high ground and obser- In LorraineTilt tween Venlo an Nijmegen, ap- Forrestal reported today, calling Pordham's seismograph in New vation. Japan's land aviation stronger than York recorded twe shocks approxi- parently in jarch of prisoners. No Dykes Already Open By Jimmy Cannon at any time in history. mately 7,500 miles away in the Stars and Stripes Staff Writer major ground action was reported, He said that in the battle for direction of southern Japan. Both In addition, the enemy may be IN VOELLERDINGER, WITH however. the Philippines, American carrier were extremely violent. able to carry out a "drowned earth" FOURTH ARMORED DIV., Dec 7. Along the Roer River to the policy of controlled flooding of south of the British, U.S. Ninth planes and aircraft-carriers met Japan Is Silent —After weeks of trying to maneuver major forces of land-bassd Japan- streams" on the watershed between the enemy into armor action, the Army reported no change in its ese bombers and fighters for the Neither Japanese nor other enemy the Rhine and Meuse. Already he tanks of this division today moved sector. Nazis still held out in the first time. news sources mentioned the qtiake, has opened dykes on the First across tne hills of Lorraine like Julich sports stadium. but if it was anything resembling Canadian Army front in Holland. fierce predatory animals refreshed Stars and Stripes Correspondent the 1923 catastrophe it would be a Even with air superiority and bet- by their siesta in the mud. Ralph Martin from the front said 8th Captures Mezzano, mighty blow against Japan's war ter equipment, the Boer job looks In an all-day battle, fought be- Fifth Division's Tenth Regiment Reaches Lamone River effort, coming coincidentally on "he to be no picnic. Veteran correspon- tween the towns of Singling and (Continued on Page 4) third anniversary of Pearl Harbor dents predict it will be tougher Bining, seven miles southeast of The shocks were recorded with than the Vire or Moselle; and we ALLIED HQ, Italy, Dec. 7.— Sarreguemines, Lt. Gen. Patton's such fury in England that parts were kicked off at least two Moselle men went through positions in front Eighth Army infantrymen, closely of the recording mechanism were bridgeheads. One correspondent Nazis Stiffen, pursuing the Germans up the main of the Siegfried Line that the Nazis thrown from their bearings and goes so far as to predict the Roer have stubbornly held for three Adriatic coastal highway, captured only by constantly being replaced battle will be the decisive battle Mezzano today, bringing the Allies weeks. They knocked out 26 tanks (Continued on Page 4) of the war. But Reds Gain to the south bank of the Lamone while losing 13 to the enemy. Although no breakthrough la River. MOSCOW, Dec. 7 (AP).—German In one sector British troops claimed for this thrust, which be- resistance stiffened noticeably gained a bridgehead over the La- Sergeant Wins Highest Honor gan yesterday morning, at one point, north of Lake Balaton with the mone but elsewhere on the north the forward element swept eight arrival of numerous reserves from bank the Germans were resisting miles to the Maginot Line, but the Vienna area, but the Red Army strongly, today's communique said. For Heroism in Beachhead withdrew because lt travelled too nevertheless made steady progress fast for artillery support. In its envelopment movement Blast Way Into Singling Send In Tire Slogan; By Russell Jones seven, permitting his squad to around Budapest. Stars and Stripes Staff Writer advance. At dusk tonight Americans had "The Soviets remained silent on blasted their way into the town oJ German claims that Gen. Mali- Win $100 War Bond WITH THE FIRST INF. DIV., The men then encountered heavy mortar fire from positions covered Singling. novsky was making headway in his Germany, Dec. 7.—S/Sgt. Walter D. Capture of a bridge over the Eicni assault on the capital, but there A $100 War Bond for the best ty machine-guns. Ehlers again ad- Ehlers, of Manhattan, Kan., won vanced alone, killing three German River, tributary of the Saar at was reason to believe the battle was slogan submitted as a "keynote" the Congressional Medal for his ac- gunner., and driving the others off. Domfessel, made the swift pilgrim- in its final phases. To the south. for the current tire conservation tions during June 9 and 10 in Nor- age of the tanks possible. German Gen. Tolbukhin's army, advancing campaign was offered yesterday The squad then knocked out both mandy, it was announced' here yes- mortar -positions and Ehler got a engineers were trapped and ma- along the Danube, reached a point toy 64 and Ordnance and Trans- terday. Ehlers, 23, won his coun- second machine-gun. chine-gunned as they tried to de- 31 miles south of the Hungarian portation.