Bit New York—London Paris—Renues lei On Parle Frangais Tuesday, Sept. 19, 1944 THEST^ Vous etes differente. Vol. 1. No. 66 MTRIPES Voo zet deefayrONT. Daily Newspaper of U.S. Armed Forces J in the You are different. S^t^^ European Theater of Operations German Attacks Smashed Air, Land Windmills and Dykes Are Ahead 7th Army Units Join IsReported * In Holland At Belfort Their numbers swelled by American First Army units glider-borne reinforcements, inside Germany yesterday the First Allied Airborne beat off repeated counter-at- Army, after liberating at least tacks by strong enemy forces, 13 Dutch villages, last night supported by fresh reserves linked up with British Sec- from the Russian front, while Third U.S. Army troops drove ond Army spearheads which 18 miles east of Nancy to a had advanced 13 miles across point about 50 miles from southern Holland. Strasbourg and the Rhine. Although supreme Allied head- Meanwhile, Paris Radio reported that Lt. Gen. Alexander M. Patch's quarters was silent about the deve- Seventh Army had entered Belfort, lopment of the new offensive, dis- which lies in the so-called gateway patches from the front and from to southwestern Germany, 30 miles Second Army headquarters reported from the Rhine frontier. that a junction between the troops Now fighting in Holland, troops of the First Allied Airborne Army, parade during: a review at which Gen. After being pushed back two of Lt. Gen. Lewis H. Brereton and Eisenhower told the men that "through your effective employment we will end this war far more quickly miles in the Luxemburg frontier Gen. Dempsey had taken place. than we could without you." area, Lt. Gen- Courtney Hodges' In Eindhoven Area First Army attacked early yester- day and regained the lost ground. Union of the two armies probably Nazi OCS Trainees Battle Front-line dispatches said enemy occurred in the Eindhoven area, Britain-Based resistance was stiffening along the Where the Germans had reported entire front inside Germany, with airborne landings. A dispatch from To Keep Yanks Out of Metz artillery and Luftwaffe activity Walter Cronkite, combined U.S. Heavies Drop greatly increased. press representative, said that Sec- A crack German infantry unit ' ond Army patrols had by-passed By Allan M. Morrison Aid to Warsaw from the Russian front appeared ^Eindhoven and drove northwest of Stars and Stripes Staff Writer. in the order of battle and virtually the city, which was said to be still WITH THIRD U.S. ARMY BEFORE METZ, Sept. 18. — slowed the deepest American in enemy hands. American Flying Fortresses based American tank and infantry units continued their slow, in Britain yesterday dropped am- spearhead to a standstill. Linkup of the two forces in the All Attacks Repulsed Rhine Delta of the Netherlands, dogged advance toward Metz today against a "fanatical munition and food to the Polish which has been described as the forces inside beleaguered Warsaw All the German counter-attacks suicide garrison" of German officers' training school cadets and flew on to land at Russian were repulsed and correspondents key to northwest Germany by Nazi bases. geopoliticians, came only one day who were offering some of the toughest local opposition since said none of the Siegfried Line after the initial contingents of the Normandy breakthrough. It was the first time U.S. planes pillboxes in the vicinity of Stolberg, The unusual German resistance from Britain had gone to the aid where heavy fighting was reported, American and British soldiers had of Warsaw. landed in Holland by parachute Nazis Order began when advance elements of an was recaptured. infantry division entered the region Five hundred heavies from Italy First Army patrols entered the and glider. made another raid on bridges and outskirts of Aachen while, other Reinforcing and supplying the west of Metz after driving across developing assault, the greatest the rolling country east from Ver- railway yards in Hungary and units, advancing across the south- Civilians Back ern tip of Holland, reached the number of gliders ever used in a dun. After nearly two days of Jugoslavia in order to hamper the German evacuation before Russian outer fringes of the Siegfried Line single operation yesterday poured WITH THE FIRST U.S. ARMY, bloody attacks and counter-attacks, in more troops, heavy equipment, information was received that the advances in the Balkans. Buda- northwest of Aachen. Sept. 18.—A German document or- pest was among the targets. Observers said the Americans supplies and artillery. At a late dering all civilians to evacuate the German force facing them con- hour last night, reinforcements Meanwhile, ahead of American now were in a position to capture cities and towns in the areas around sisted of the personnel of a Wehr- Aachen anytime, but the city's im- were still landing. German sources macht OCS. troops in Germany, Ninth Air Force Cologne and Aachen has been portance was regarded to be negli- claimed. found on Nazis near Aachen. With headquarters in Metz. the fighter-bombers Sunday swept be- tween the Siegfried Line and the gible. It was said the city probably Lose Two Planes The order said that the German Nazi OCS embraced most of the would not be taken until it could people must resign themselves to territory in which the fighting has Rhine, shooting up enemy commu- Only two Allied aircraft were lost, nications and transport. be done with a small loss. the fact that their western de- taken lace. Tor six months, can- Aachen has been surrounded but although the Luftwaffe sent up 60 fenses "and the localities within didates for commissions in the During 12 hours of daylight Sun- MEs and PWs to intercept the day, RAF Bomber Command dis- the Germans still hold several roads this zone" will soon become a bat- Wehrmacht trained on this ground, leading into the city. mighty sky train. Successfully tlefield. applying and improving latest Ger- patched 1,250 planes on bombing guarding the armada, Allied air- "The Leader has ordered the man General Staff theories and missions without loss of a single Luftwaffe Strafes Americans craft shot down 26 planes in fierce evacuation of the villages and tactics. ship. Luftwaffe planes supporting Ger- dogfights over Maastricht. man ground troops in the Aachen cities within this area for the pro- Knew the Terrain Well Supreme headquarters announced tection of the German lives and Sees 4,000,000 Men area were strafing and bombing that heavy fighting was raging and material important to war," the As a result, the candidates, ins- American soldiers, but met with lit- the Germans apparently were try- order stated. "All men between the tructors and officers in training In Service After War tle success because of U.S. fighter ing to stem the growing threat to ages of 15 and 60 will remain be- comprising the original force knew patrols and flak. (ffhe northern anchor of their de- hind to work on the construction every square yard of the terrain. WASHINGTON, Sept. 18. — There was a considerable increase Sense line. of defenses and will be evacuated By one of those twists of fate Sen. Elbert D. Thomas (D.-Utah), of tank activity in the Luxemburg Walter Cronkite. reporting that as soon as their work is finished or which the historians are fond of sector, and at one point an attack American casualties in his sector member of the Senate sub-commit- in case it becomes necessary for calling "the fortunes of war," by 22 Mark IVs was repulsed with were light, said that most of the tee on Army and Navy appropria- the army to man the defenses." scores of field problems had been tions, predicted today that the U.S. a loss of eight. Germans fled when the first para- worked out at the school which troopers appeared overhead. would need at least 4,000,000 men In the northern sector, American have been almost identical with in the armed forces for "five, eight armored units were within two (Continued on Page 3) or 10 years" after the war. miles of Sittard, on the Dutch-Ger- Ford Is Hoping man frontier. Lear Promises In the Stolberg area yesterday, iNew Lieutenants To Hike Waires the Germans set up a loudspeaker To2 Yanks: The Frenchman (Continued on Page 4) Action in Pacific DETROIT, Sept. 18. — Henry Ford's announcement that he would raise wages in his factories "as Handed You a $25,000Map Finns Lately in Berlin PORT BENNING, Sept. 18.—Lt. soon as the government will permit Gen. Ben Lear, Army ground forces me" has attracted nation-wide at- See Quick Allied Victory commander, assured Infantry school tention. Two American soldiers who stopped at Charenton-le-Pont Sept. graduates today they would have Asserting that "every man should 15 to ask the way to Rozay en Brie, will be surprised to learn that LONDON, Sept. 18. — An Allied plenty of opportunities to lead men make enough money to own a home, they are in possession of French bonds worth more than $25,000— victory over Germany appears into battle against the enemy in a piece of land and a car," Ford and that the cops are on their trail. certain before winter comes, Finn- the Pacific. said t£it he would like to raise There will be no charge, however, unless the men try to sell the ish officers who left Berlin only a "The days of the German Army the pay of all his workers "despite bonds. They got them by accident. few days ago have told their gov- are numbered," Lear told the new the fact that their wages already Henry Roth, a French civilian, when asked for road information ernment.