Bomb Tokyo in Daylight Raid

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Vol. 1—No. 124 lFr. New^Yorfcr-PARIS—London lFr. Saturday, Nov. 25, 1944 in Jap Capital Nazi Pooch Barks Up the Wrong Tree Patton Crosses Hit by New B29 Outfit Saar; Allies Move

Superfortresses of a new 21st Bomber Command based On Cologne Plain in the Marianas Islands bombed Tokyo by daylight yesterday. U.S. Seventh Army troops held virtually all of Stras- This first blow by the big bourg, France's great eastern anchor, yesterday and front B29s against the Japanese dispatches quoted unverified reports that advance elements capital marked the opening had crossed the into Germany. of a campaign to soften up These elements, front reports said, apparently were Japan itself "for ultimate in- reconnaissance forces and not necessarily spearheads of a vasion by the combined United major drive across the river. The Allied force would be the Nations' land, sea and air forces," first to cross the river since the last world war if reports said Gen. Henry H. Arnold, USAAP are confirmed. chief and commander of the 20th Air Force, which operates the Northward in , U.S. Third Army troops smashed Superforts, in a report to President southward and crossed the Saar Roosevelt. River ne: r Postroff and Kirrberg, "This won't be accomplished in a Draftees Must 26 miles outh of Saarbrucken, and short time," Arnold reported. "The drove on two miles, Reuter reported battle is just beginning. But today from the front. ■ we opened against Tokyo an attack Serve Abroad, Advance on Cologne Plain which will be carried on relentless- The Stars and Stripes Corre- ly from the air until the day of the spondent Earl Mazo with Third land invasion." U.S. Army Signal Corps Photo. Canada Rules Army said that 3,125 Germans still Simultaneously, Washington dis- Sgt. Harold Jahnki right), of Chicago, an interpreter, and Sgt. John held put five encircled forts outside closed that the bomb load of a Siavin, of Nashville, Tenn., prepare to read the note sent over with OTTAWA, Nov. 24—The Cana- of . Superfortress, hitherto a top mili- this dog from the German lines. The enemy has been using this type dian government, after fighting five In Germany meanwhile, three tary secret, is at least ten tons, as of communication to ask the Americans to surrender. " years of war by sending only volun- other Allied armies—the U.S. First compared with a Flying Fortress's teers abroad, abandoned the policy and Ninth and British Second— normal maximum load of three tons. last night under a wave of opposi- crawled through November fogs to- Some B29 missions have included tion which threatened to put the ward the Cologne plain and battled 100 planes. Lone Tank Annihilates 125 veteran Prime Minister Mackenzie savage German counter - attacks The raid, carried out at noon King out of office. which threw the British back a and lasting, by Tokyo accounts, for Before a tense House of Com- hall-mile out of Hoven in the Gei- two hours, was directed at industrial Nazi Vehicles in Six Hours mons meeting to debate the crisis lenkirchen sector. arising out of the immediate need targets in the Japanese capital. Some Street Fighting For days beforehand the crews had for reinforcements on the Western been specially briefed to avoid WITH THE THIRD ARMORED DIV. — When 1/Lt. Front, the Prime Minister announced Orderly crowds of civilians lined hitting the imperial palace and Vernon G. Dingley turned his Sherman tank, the "Elimi- that partial conscription for over- the streets of liberated Strasbourg, religious shrines. seas service had been effected by cheering and waving flags, front Maj. Robert Morgan, who piloted nator," loose on a 125-vehicle German column in a six-hour an order in council and that 16,000 dispatches said; as French armor the renowned B17 Memphis Belle onslaught recently, he not only "eliminated" the column— men were available for overseas. took up positions in squares to fire in the ETO, was at the controls Mackenzie King disclosed yester- into. Germany. Of the first B29 over Tokyo. he annihilated it! day he had written earlier this The three Rhine bridges east of Washington announced, that two Dingley, with the support of one month that he believed conscription the city, only permanent spans be- planes out of the "sizable task Phone Strikers other tank, had been ordered to for overseas duty would almost in- tween Strasbourg and the Swiss evitably bring a general election frontier, were reported intact by (Continued on Page 4) intercept and destroy the fleeing enemy convoy, while the rest of the and risk national dissension and the dispatches, but Germans held Return to Jobs Thud Armored went on to knife perhaps weaken Canadian unity a perimeter around each of them Primed for Action through the Nazi lines. Moments and strength "for generations to (Continued on Page 4) WASHINGTON, Nov. 24 (ANS).— after he left his unit, he spotted come." Telephone operators who had quit the Jerry column, and, under the The government's new course re- their jobs in 29 Ohio cities, Wash- cover of the second tank, ripped up sulted in at least one Cabinet re- ington and Detroit were back at and down the road until the breecn signation, that of Air Minister C. O. ETO Veterans their switchboards today. of the tank cannon was blistering Power, of Quebec, It soon will be up to the War hot, firing with everything he ana' May See China Labor Board to adjust differences his crew had. Russians Drive Enemy between the ex-strikers and their When Nazi resistance ceased, al- employee -CHUNGKING, Nov. 24 (ANS).— most six hours' later, trie ~oad From All of Esthonia Maj. Gen. Albert C. Wedemeyer The National Telephone' Workers looked like Hell's main highway. said today that U.S. troops event- Federation, an unaffiliated union, Tallying his kill, Dingley found that An order of the day from Marshal had not heeded the WLB pleas to ually will be used in China for a the "Eliminator" had smashed five Stalin last night "announced that continental campaign against Japan return to work, but in the face of 170mm artillery pieces, an 30mm the Germans have been eliminated prospects of government operation and indicated that soldiers from high-velocity gun, and more than from -Oesel Island, which domi- the ETO would be inciudea of the telephone companies, it called 100 other vehicles. Some of the the strike off nates the entrance to the Latvian Wedemeyer. who succeeded Gen. Germans manning the convoy had port and capital of Riga. Joseph W. Stilwell as head of U.S. escaped, but most of them lay "With the liberation of the island forces in China and chief of staff Overseas-Bound Smokes sprawled dead, along with their of Oesel, the whole territory of the to Generalissimo Chiang Kai-Shek, artillery horses, beside their smok- Soviet Esthonian Republic has been told a press :cnferfnce: Stolen; 3 Nabbed by FBI ing vehicles. freed of the enemy," the order said. "Wher the war in Sur>pe ends I want to be ready to tell Geri. NEW YORK, Nov. 24.—The theft Marshall. 'We can use certaui forces of 200 cartons of cigarettes from and supplies for a definite purpose." a North River pier where they were Long, Long Trail Winds Up You can be sure sucn plans are awaiting shipment to troops over- being made." seas led to |he arrest yesterday of two longshoremen and a truck- For U.S. Red Ball Highway 8th Spans Cosina River, driver on charges of stealing gov- ernment property. The famous Red Ball Express the one-way highway handled 7,728 Sets Up 5 Bridgeheads The FBI and police said they Highway, its job done, has been tons from alone, with caught ■ William P. Dowd Jr. and discontinued. 200.000 gallons of gas being con- ROME, Nov. 24—British Eighth Fred F. Monti ripping open wooden This was announced yesterday by sumed daily. The bulk of ship- Army troops crossed the Cosina Danielle Darrieux, French film cases of cigarettes and that the U.S. Army Transportation Corps ments was food and gasoline. River three and a half miles south- queen, announced last night in truck driver, James F. Reaney, had authorities, who said trucking units east of Faenza and established five agreed to sell them for $1 a carton. The highway transport job now Paris that she would return to that rolled over the 700-mile Mgb can be handled by the railway sys- small bridgeheads on a front two the screen, provided that some- way from the French coast to tem put in shape by Transportation and a half miles wide. Allied Head- one furnishes her with a "good P. G. Wodehouse Released the front are now being rushed Corps railway units and engineers. quarters announced today. scenario." She had retired to The Paris police reported yes- to points farther east. Discontinuation of the Red Ball Ex- Heavy fighting raged there and southern France during the oc- terday that P. G. Wodehouse, Brit- Red Ball carried over 500.000 tons press was ordered Nov. 13, accord- on a sector to the west where Pol- cupation by the Germans. ish author, has been released. of supplies in 81 days. At its peak ing to the announcement. ish troops, advanced half a mile. Page 2 THE STARS AND STRIPES Saturday, Nov. 25, 1944

a £>AG 4hsh (JIOAIKS War on 2 Fronts

The "Guys in Cazy Corner Apart- ments" of an Ordnance outfit vouch for this one. A sergeant more comfortable or profitable. On with a radio under his arm was Servants of the People second thought, it seems to me approached by a lieutenant who I read where a House Military that the career of a professional asked hat he had there. "A Affairs Committee junket is com- soldier reaches a height that a civi- French radio," replied the sergeant. ing our way. Chairman May of this lian profession rarely attains. Here "TJO bad," murmured the lieute- outfit is the guy who predicted the are a few comparisons: nant, "None of us understands the war would be over in 1942. These The doctor spends his life ad- language." jokers talk too much when they ministering to others' ills; it is a Sign in a cigarette-less PX- get home. noble undertaking, but long hours 'No Ifs, Ands or BUTTS." I suggest they be given something and very little pay in many cases. worthwhile to talk about. His patients, a small fraction of The fellow who said this must Let them come over the way re- the ill people of the world, who in have been a hen-pecked Pfc whose placements do. Port of Embarka- turn make up a small fraction of wife is a WAC corporal. "When a tion for 10 days, packed in a troop the world's peoples. The same transport like slabs of mackerel things holds true with the career . ... replacement center in UK of a lawyer. where they will stay for about five The professional soldier is head weeks doing details every day until and shoulders above these two somebody in GPRS discovers they career examples inasmuch as he rep- belong somewhere. resents the entire people of a na- Prom there let them cross the tion and must uphold the tradi- channel on an LST or LCI. . . tions and the respect of that na- sleeping (am I kidding?) where tion to all the other nations of they can. Then the piece de resis- the world, and their peoples. There- tance. The four-day trip on the fore, I say that only the man who 40-and-8s around Prance. A lovely wants to make the army his career, sightseeing tour. It'll beat hell out as other men want to become The whole Western Front erupted during the past week from the of the guys at the Willard Bar! lawyers, doctors and engineers, man and a girl get married, they Oh, lovely day! They finally ar- British sector in Holland to the French sector along the Swiss border. should be considered for the Army become one. Then they discover | Principal activity on the Eastern Front found the Soviets improving rive—at another replacement depot. of Occupation of Germany. which one." • * • their positions in northeastern Hungary. Allied armies in the west Two weeks there in the mud. For myself, .you ask? Well, just We liked the recent Punch car- (near Duren) were 301 miles from Berlin. In the east, the Russians By this time they don't give a reserve the top of the list for me. toon which showed two British (north of Warsaw) were 304 miles from the German capital. damn whether they replace any- —Sgt. C. A. Harner, Engr. body or not. They just want to go tanks moving into a town. One >sa jit . back to the House Military Affairs * driver quips, "If we hurry we should Committee. Who wouldn't? — Pvt Gun's Eye View be able to capture it in time for the SOMfcWYtERE % J. W. nine o'clock news." * * * The peace terms to be im- IN posed on Germany should be Guys named Herman get no Fire! Fire! decided by the men who have sympathy from one MP lieutenant EUROPE With winter starting to set in, fought the Nazis, and not by when they complain about news- GI Joe finds it necessary to use civilian politicians who are in- papers referring to the Nazis by and dehydrated vegetables," Lewis many means to keep warm. His fluenced by various considera- this name. The lieutenant is It Wasn't Hans moans. "Hope my new china chop- first impulse is to build a fire, not tions at home, such as trying George Jerry, Jr. "Hans, is that you?" the German pers are ready by Christmas." being very much concerned where to please certain pressure • • • guard asked when Lt. Lawrence W. * ■ * * he builds it. In the past week this groups, etc. A GI was either reminiscing Miller, Bowling Green, Mo., stumbled careless GI has cost the govern- Are. not the men who fight or making plans for the future the into a German outpost at night They Didn't Walk ment several hundred thousand dol- the Germans more qualified to Miller, reconnaissance platoon Two 36th Div. soldiers, 2/Lt. lars in this vicinity alone. Every know what type of mentality leader of the 28th Inf. Div.'s 630th Herbert Etier, of Herbert, La., piece of equipment that is lost, their enemies possess, than TD Bn., said nothing, but captured and Pfc John P. Howard, of every drop of gas that is burned people whose main contact with the guard and Hans. Chicago, went on patrol to see the foe has been in drawing- up is depriving the men on the The guard's comment: "The if the Germans had evacuated rooms; embassy balls and books? front line of the necessities it takes trouble with the American soldier a strongpoint. They found them A person who fought the to beat the Jerry. is that he talks too much and gives gone, leaving behind propa- enemy and has watched his It is every GI's job to prevent away his position. He can be heard ganda leaflets and a walking- own comrades die, will impose from great distances." fires and not to start them. stick. peace terms harsh enough to Pew know what to do in the event * * .* * * * prevent another World War. He will see to it that Germany is in- Surgeon Leads Men Luck of the Irish capable of tossing the whole Infantry battalion surgeons Sgt. Herb Wayne, of Eighth In- world into another bloody con- other day. He was heard to mutter aren't supposed to carry litters, fantry Special Service flict in the future. Then, per- over and over: but Capt. Donald Trees, of Office, called at a HQ in his jeep. haps, we will have "peace in "Oh, how I envy the shoe Winkfield, Kan., set a prece- At the gate, white-helmeted MPs our time.".. .Pfc. P. L., Inf. store clerk, dent that easily might have demanded credentials. Wayne * * * Who tries shoes on women, cost his life. When a num- And gets paid for his work." ber of 35tb Div medics were Liberte, Egalite... wounded while aiding casual- The sign "Off Limits to EMs and A private was taking a nap m ties, Trees personally led a lit- Other- Ranks" appears above many back of a:i officers club at an ETO ter team on five trips. of the best public places. What airfield one afternoon when he was * * * of a lire. Liet me tell you. First, try does this mean? awakened by a none-too-gentle to extinguish it with the nearest Why, in a foreign country, should shove. Still in a daz. he demanded, Turned Nazi Trick fire appliances; second; send some- there be a differentiation between 'Who are you?" "I'm the lieutenant It was 5 AM in Germany when one to contact the nearest fire EMs-and officers in "public places"? In charge of this club," was the two 634th TD Bn. soldiers. Sgt. In a country like ours these things answer. "Well, si that's a helluva Gordon S. Grow, of Princeton. fighting outfit. possessed no identification and are not natural to our mode of way to get new members," said Minn., and Cpl. John P. Sauer, of We find that most GIs wait until was at loss, until seized by a bright living.-Here officers and EMs alike the GI popping to attention. Chicago, heard tracked vehicles ap- the fire is out of control before thought. He passed through un- they contact the fire-fighting sec- shed their blood on the same field proaching. Then a voice called out: "Hullo, hullo." hindered when he flourished an tion. Being a fireman, I can pro- of battle. Sign in an ammo depot. "If you must smoke, do so. Then leave by Suspecting a German trick, Sauer "early chow" ticket dating back to mise you that in case the fire is This may be France, but is it still the exit that will suddenly appear yelled back: "Was ist da?" In the Northern Ireland. out when the firemen arrive you "Liberty, Egalite, Fraternite"? — J. H. Lefgren & Pvt. D. Kirschen in the roof. silence that followed, Grow made can look forward to a heartfelt * * * J. C. W. sure they were really Nazis. Then "Merci beaucoup" from them.— baum, Harbor Craft Co. he fired one shot. Explosions and Chew 'em, Captain S/Sgt. E. Boone and crew. flames marked the spot where there A battalion commander in the * * * had been two enemy half-tracks- 35th Inf. Div. received a report Professional Soldier * * * that two of his men who had gone on pass to an on-limits This is a Regular Army enlisted Bridge of Cees city had missed the truck for man's point of view: XV Corps Engineers, tired of erecting signs warning of dangerous the return ride. We all understand that there "What should 1 do?" he asked. curves and slippery roads, put this must be an army of occupation in "Take the caramels out of their Germany. For the people of Ger- one up at a bridge threatened by K rations." many to adhere strictly to its direc- flood waters: tives and regulations, it would be The Bridge Ahead * * * necessary for it to be made en- Is Pretty Good We Get the Idea tirely of men who have designated If You Drive As Slow the army as their career. The man As You Should Wanting to show his men how it's done, Capt. James T. Corbett Jr., who has designated the army as Eat C Rations. of the Third Armored Div. and his life's profession will undoubt- * Woonsocket, R.I., approached a edly take great pride in the per- house suspected of harboring Ger- sonal and collective action that he Composer in 47th mans, selected a grenade, pulled -takes in helping the people of Ger- Frank Sinatra Dept. —Pfc Sol v the pin and let go. For a moment, many forget the ruthless rule and Peskin, of the Ninth Inf. Div.'s after the smoke and dust cleared, insidious doctrines of the Nazi 47th Reg., is co-author of Frankie's nothing happened. Then, out of party. theme song, "This Love of Mine," the front door strutted a hen and The army as a career is equal to which he wrote under the pen three chicks. any other profession that man is name of Parker. * * * able to follow in'civilian life to r-v • v• Folks at Home Send make his or others' stay on earth ill ft These GIs Swift News Needs His Choppers o( Sir Stork's Arrival: CUE STARS AND STRIPES Pfc William C. Lewis, of New- Printed at the New YorK Herald port. Wash, says he *had a lousy PL. Al Chardis, Bronx—Sharon Lynn, Oct. 26; Lt. John J. Doherty Jr., Long Tribune plant. 21 rue de Bern. Paris, Thanksgiving dinner. Lewis, of the C tor the U.S. armed tones under aus- Island—(boy), Nov. 9: Lt. William E. Fan- pices ol the Special Service Dimslon 83rd Inf. Div., lost his false teeth ning, Hawthorne, N.J.—Maureen Anne, ETOUSA. Tel.: ELYSEES 85-00 during an artillery barrage, when an Nov. 14; Sgt. Tom Harrris, St. Peters- burg, Pla.—Thomas Randall, Nov. 15; Lt. Contents passed Dy the O S Army enemy shell lifted him from his and Navy censors. Entered as second Raymond C. Hatfield, San Antonio. Tex. class matter Mar 15. 1943. at the foxhole. He couldn't find the GI —Barbara Jo, Oct. 9; Pvt. Gerald Herie- post olfice. New York. M Y. under denture, but otherwise he was un- han, Canadaigun, N.Y.—Jo Ann, Oct. 27; the act of Mar 3. 1878. Pic . John Hechinger, Brooklyn—Sonja scathed. Carol, Nov. 13; Lt. Robert P. Hubbard. Vol. 1, No. 124 ''I wonder how you sax 'Eau-de-Cologne' in French?'' ''I'm getting tired of lemon juice Foughkeepsie, N.V.—John Maxwell, Nov. 9. Saturday, Nov. 25, 1944 THE STAKS AINU STRIFES SPORTS Fage 3 Buckeyes Play Wolves for Big Ten Title 'Leading Lady* Wake Forest By Pap Grid Winners to Clash Ohio Staters On Top, 19-13, In Paris Tomorrow Hope to Lure The Second AADA Thunder- bolts will meet the Engineer In Holiday Tiff Raiders in a football game to- Rose Bowl Bid morrow at the Stadium of the CHARLOTTE, N.C., Nov. 24. — Athletic League of Paris (Stade By Andy Rooney de la Ligue Parisienne d'Athle- Stars and Stripes U.S. Bureau. The Deacons of Wake Forest turned NEW YORK, Nov. 24.—Most of in their eighth victory in nine 1944 tisme). The game will start at 2 PM. the nation's football enthusiasts starts when they downed South The Thunderbolts defeated are looking over the tops of their Carolina, 19-13, here yesterday be- Ninth AP Headquarters a week bifocals to next week's Army-Navy fore 9,000 fans at Memorial Sta- ago, 6-0, while the Raiders top- game in Baltimore, but for a short time tomorrow they wilTbe peering dium. ped the Engineer Maroons, 7-0, Thursday. . down at the games on hand. South Carolina assumed an early Out at Columbus, Ohio, Carroll advantage by marching 34 yards to Widdoes' unbeaten Buckeyes of a touchdown in the second period. Ohio State and Michigan will do Montreal Slips business tomorrow for the "civilian After Fullback Mack Erwin and football championship of America." Halfback Dan Aharalson picked up There are only - few observers,in most of the yardage on line bucks, Into NHL Lead the country who Curly Kuldell pitched a touch- wouldn't con- down pass to Tim Hunnicutt, and DETROIT, Nov. 24.—Despite a cede that title Johnny Tominack converted. 3- 3 tie with the to the Buckeyes last night, the Montreal Canadiens if they trim the Rock Brinkley counted for the ■F*/SSI'S -F-ZJ-l^/ ousted the Wolverin e s— Deacons to culminate an 85-yard from first place in the National and most of march that got under way on the Hockey League. these diehards kickoff, and Nick Sacrinty inter- Goals by Toe Blake, Maurice are Yale alumni cepted a pass in the same period Richard and Dutch Hiller gave who are watch- to score again for Wake Forest. Montreal a 3-2 edge with six mi- ing the first un- Kuldell connected with Pat nutes to go, but defeated Yale Thrash just before the half to rammed home the tying marker team since 1923. again knot the count, the pass -TOPS at that stage. Carl Liscombe and Yale meets covering 20 yards and Thrash going Steve Wochy netted the other Wing Carroll Widdoes high-powered 13 more to cross the -line. goals. Virginia tomor The Deacons clinched their vic- row in its last game of the season. tory in the third period when Short-Handed Leafs Bow Anticipating victory, Bulldog of- Brinkley plunged across from the Snead's 70 Gives Him Lead BOSTON, Nov. 24.—The Toronto ficials already have turned down three after he and Sacrinty had Maple Leafs, with only 11 players bowl offers they hope to get, if sparked a long downfield march. in uniform, because of an epidemic they win. of injuries, dropped a 5-1 decision to Like Yale, Ohio State lives in a In $15,000 Portland Open league where pc^t-season games are the before 12.000 frowned on, but it is expected the Missouri Blasts fans here last night. Lome Carr Buckeyes may be able to accept a PORTLAND, Ore., Nov. 24.—Sammy Snead, playing in hip racked up Toronto's only score mid- Rose Bowl bid from the winner of first tournament since receiving a medical discharge from way in the final period, while Herb Kansas, 28-0 Cain tallied twice and Pat Egan. tomorrow's UCLA-Southem Cali- the Navy, clubbed a sub-par 70 over the rain-soaked course Dit Clapper and Bill Cowley scored fornia game on the coast. Big Ten here yesterday to take an early lead in the $15,000 Portland athletic directors are slated to KANSAS CITY, Nov 24.—With once apiece for the Bruins. settle the post-season question Sun- Fullback Jim Kekeris, a converted Open golf tourney. Sammy, clicking equally as well day at a special session requested tackle, leading the way, Missouri Hawks Tie Rangers, 4-4 by Ohio State. showed unexpected power here yes- on the faii-ways and greens, coverec" the front nine in a sizzling 33, hut Army May Let CHICAGO, Nov. 24. — Pete The southern spotlight will shine terdays to bewilder Kansas, 28-0. Horeck's goal with five minutes on Atlanta. Ga., where Notre before 20,000 fans in their 53rd an- ate up 37 strokes on the way back Dame's disillusioned eleven will to the clubhouse. to play enabled the Chicago Black- nual game. Beau Jack Out hawks to tie the , strive to upset Georgia Tech and Kekeris, who weighs 273, tallied Mike Turnesa, of White Plains, remove a slice of luster from the N.Y., was close behind Snead with 4- 4, last night. Clint Smith, Bill 16 points on two touchdowns and FT. PENNING. Ga., Nov. 24.— Mosienko and Bil" Thorns got the Orange Bowl affair at Miami. four conversions. Other touchdowns 71, while Zell Eaton, of Los Angeles; Now that Pvt. Sidney Walker has Willie Goggin, of White Plains, and other BJackhawk goals. Ranger Tech is scheduled to oppose Tulsa were scored by Cliffe and Robin- learned how to read and write, he tallies were racked up by Al Shack. in that New Year's Day spectacle. son. Harold West, Portland bus driver may be headed back to civilian life, carded 72s. Ab DeMarco, Fred Thurrier and the Army dis- Ott Heller. PGA Champion Bob Hamilton closed today. Tulsa, in Bowl Tuneup, buckled down on the back nine for Sidney Walker Batters Arkansas, 33-2 a 36 to come in with a respectable happens to be Hockey Standings 75. Jug McSpaden also shot 75 Beau Jack, the NATIONAL LEAGUE while Johnny Robbins, of Portland, Augusta, Ga., W L T Pts G OG TULSA, Nov. 24.—Tulsa's Golden beaded amateur entrants with 74 Montreal .. 8 2 1 17 44 26 EAST Hurricane, striking furiously in the bootblack who Toronto ... 8 3 0 16 49 38 DAN * PARKER PICKS. — Yale at one time held Detroit 5 3 2 It 44 29 over Virginia, Perm over Cornell, first half, roared to a 33-2 victory Rafferty of NY AC Sets the New York Boston 3 6 1 7 35 46 over Arkansas here yesterday in a Rangers 1 •> 3 5 28 45 Holy Cross over Boston College, warmup for its Orange Bowl game 10,000-Meter Record State version of Chicago 1 7 1 3 36 53 Dartmouth over Columbia, renn the lightweight AMERICAN LEAGUE State over Pittsburgh. against Georgia Tech in Miami. boxing diadem. Coach Henry Frnka ordered his BALTIMORE, Nov. 24. —Jimmy Last Night's Scores MIDWEST With his GI Providence 4, Indianapolis 2 club to kick on first down through- Rafferty of the New York Athletic education, t he ARCH WARD PICKS.— Illinois out the second half, which didn't EASTERN DIVISION over Northwestern, Iowa Pre-Flight Club won the annual 10,000-meter Beau now will W L T Pts please the crowd but gave Tulsa a Beau Jack National AATJ championship run be able to keep Buffalo 7 5 2 16 over Iowa, Minnesota over Wiscon- chance to brush up on its notor- in the record time of 31:38 minutes tab of nis ring earnings. Hershey 7 5 1 15 sin, Indiana over Purdue, Ohio iously weak pass defense. Arkansas here yesterday, clipping 2:14 mi- Col. John P. Edgerly, CO at the Providence 3 6 2 8 State over Michigan. managed to complete only ten of nutes off the existing mark. reception center here, said a knee WESTERN DIVISION SOUTH 40 passes, however. W L T Pts f^W."? Walt Berry j ^SSZjMmt^BjS^ttmtt Pittsburgh 8 6 1 17 OSCAR FRALEY PICKS.—Notre of the U.S. Naval Academy duped , ior induction, has not responded Indianapolis 6 5 5 17 Dame over Georgia Tech, Duke over F-M, 6-0 Cleveland 6 6 1 13 Bucknell Shades hands and finished in a dead-heat * treatment M we„ as expected. North Carolina, Tennessee over Nov. 24.—A for second place. Bill Hulse, sta- | St. Louis 2 5 2 « Kentucky, Mississippi State over LANCASTER, Pa. 1 ten-yard touchdown pass from Ed tioned in Florida with the Navy. Mi^ppMnnHMfllfJ •Vu,B Mississippi, Auburn .ver Miami. Netski to-Cal Killeen in the second was unable to defend his title. fOOTBAU. GI Football Teams Georgia over Clemson. quarter enabled Bu: :knell to pull To Meet in Holland SOUTHWEST out a 6-0 victory over Franklin and Okana Takes $25,000 SCORES WELDON HART PICKS.—Texas Thanksgiving Marshall before a TAC HQ, Holland, Nov. 24.—The Christian over Rice, Texas Tech Day throng of 6,000. Argonaut Handicap Wake Forest 19, South Carolina 13. over Southern Methodist, Randolph Tulsa 33, Arkansas 2. 29th TAC football team will en- INGLEWOOD, Cal., Nov. 24. — Bucknell 6, Franklin & Marshall 0. counter Col Carroll W. McColpins Field over Amarillo AAF. Kelly Wins Berwick Run Okana, three-year-old gelding, yes- Missouri 28, Kansas 0. P47 eleven Sunday in one of the FAR WEST terday galloped to victory in the Wichita 13, Drake 1*. BERWICK, Pa., Nov. 24.—Johnny Utah 47, Utah State 0. first grid clashes in Holland since BILL LEISER PICKS.—Southern Kelly, of Acton, Mass., won the $25,000 Argonaut Handicap, finish- Colorado 16 Denver 14. Allied troops reached the country. California over UCLA, St. Mary's Berwick Marathon for the third ing one length ahead of Charles Presbyterian 6, Newberry 0. This is the first game for the P47 Pre-Flight over California, Eltoro Howard's Lu Bro, with Paper Boy Pacific 14, Fresno State 6. straight time here yesterday, de- West Texas St. 41, Abilene All-Stars 6. squad, while the TAC huskies pum- Marines over Coast Guard Pilots. feating the five-time winner, Robert third. Okana paid $9.50 to win. Tuskegee 30. Alabama State 12. meled the Ninth AAF Headcuarters March Field over Second AAF (Sun- "Scotty" Rankin of the Royal Ca- Marriage, the favorite, finished Kemper Military 28, Wentworth Mili- team, 23-0, last week. day game). nadian AF. over the nine-mile seventh. tary 13. course. By Courtesy of United Features By Al Gapp Li'l Abner DAISY'S RIGHT MIND ME Help Wanted CHUCKLE rfjAH'U-GIVE Be \ l IN A FEW MINUTES SHE'LL POUNCE ' LI'L. ABNER A FEW R —AND GIVEN MINUTE'S 0 FREEDOM, ON ME ff — AN' HA. HAf AH WILL HAVE. 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Page 4 THE STARS AND STRIPES Saturday, Nov. 25, 1944 FDR Proposes WAC Heroine Big 3 Reported LTm Of^og Gabin in the Lease Program In Agreement End With War On Occupation WASHINGTON, Nov. 24.—Presi- LONDON, Nov. 24 (AP).—A re- dent Roosevelt told Congress today liable source today reported that that "lend-lease and reverse lend the ITS., Russia and Great Britain lease should end with the war ' last week signed agreement here on His flat statement, apparently the occupation of Germany. Details ending rumors that the system were not immediately known. The might be extended into peacetime, source is considered one of the best- was made in a letter accompanying informed persons on European dip- a report on reverse lend-lease which lomatic affairs in London, but said that without Britain's con- requested anonymity. tributions "we would surely have Under the agreement, it was been forced to delay the invasion understood, machinery would be set of France for many months. up for the control of Germany "Lend-lease and reverse lend- during the period in which she lease are not two sides of a financial would be filling the Allies'. terms transaction," the President wrote. of unconditional surrender. "We are not losing money under Unanimity Rule lend-lease. We are not receiving payments on account under reverse The most important provision of the agreement was said to be una- lend-lease. nimity rule, which means that all •Combined War Supply' major decisions of the Big Three In a windy defile of the Vosges Mountains near St. Die, Pvts. "Instead, the lend-lease system is on supreme allied control of Ger- Ernest Msdders (left) and Edward Wade, of a Seventh Army field a system of combined war supply many would have to be reached artillery battery, started swinging their axes before snow fell and whose sole purpose is to make the unanimously. It would rule out built this snug log house. most effective use against the any two of the powers voting enemy of the combined resources of against the third. the United Nations, "regardless of CpX Grace Sharkey has been re- It was understood that France the origin of the supplies or which commended for the Soldier's did not sign the agreement because Capt. Dick Grace, Stunt Ace, of us uses them against the enemy.'' Medal. Kicking out the plexi- Rene Massigli, French ambassador In London at the same time the glass nose of a crashed and to Great Britain, has not taken his British reported that 865,000 U.S. burning Liberator in which she seat on the European advisory Back On German Bomb Bun troops were carried across the At- rode as observer during a test commission. One source said, lantic in British ships up to last flight, the Philadelphia WAC however, that France would not be June, with the Queen Mary and saved the lives of crew members excluded from participating in the AN EIGHTH BOMBER BASE, lived his past by taking part in an Queen Elizabeth carrying 325,000. whom she helped to safety arrangements for the occupation. England, Nov. 24.—One of Holly- attack on Heligoland. In the last A report on mutual aid to the seconds before explosions de- wood's highest-priced stunt fliers, war he heaped fragmentation bombs Allies, Britain's term for her lend- stroyed the bomber. Capt. Dick Grace, who bombed on that same island fortress. lease, also showed: Germany in , today is Grace rejected a direct USAAF Air bases, port facilities and mili- Tokyo . . . commission and a desk job, and re- doing the very same thing. tary installations supplied to the (Continued from Page 1) ceived special permission to take U.S. cost British taxpayers $670,400,- Seventh Army Flying with airmen who were too aviation cadet training. "The kind 000, and 100,000 workmen were young to go to the movies when of life I've lived," he said, "makes supplied to build them. The air- In Strasbourg force" were lost. Tokyo put the he smashed planes in "Wings" and me more suited to combat flying fields numbered 133, Hospitals number of Superforts making the "Hell's Angels," Grace, now 46, re- than anything else." raid at 70. with 100,000 beds also were pro- (Continued from Page 1) vided. The planes flew from new bases Nearly $4,500,000,000 worth of on the French bank where mortar at Saipan in the Marianas, about Jap Mine Is Carried goods "and services were supplied by and machine-gun fire restricted 1,500 miles southeast of Tokyo, Sergeant Wins Britain to her allies, of which movement in the city. captured from the Japanese only 6 Hours by Cruiser nearly $2,500,000,000 went to the Some street fighting was con- five months ago. The 21st Bomber onor U.S. tinuing in the eastern section, Command based there, directed by CANBERRA, Nov. 24 (AP).— front reports said, as French tanks Brig. Gen. H. S. Hansell Jr., consti- The Australian cruiser Shrop- and American infantry strove to By G. K. Hodenfield Royalty Steps Aside for GI tutes a separate force from the 20th shire carried a Japanese mine Stars and Stripes Staff Writer. seize the bridges. Allied control of Bomber Command, which has been LOS ANGELES, Nov. 24.—A GI's in her paravane 15 feet from WITH FIRST INF. DIVT, GER- the two highway and one railroad operating from China and India, travel priority bumped royalty off the ship's side for six hours MANY.—S/Sgt. Walter D. Ehlers, bridges would leave to an estimated both under the 20th Air Force. The during the Philippines invasion, a commercial airliner last night. 70,000 German troops in , of St. Oeorge, Kan., has been Former Archduke Felix of Austria existence of the 21st had not previ- Navy Minister Makin told the awarded the Congressional Medal three pontoon bridges and impro- ously been revealed. House today. The mine was had to yield his seat, on the plane vised ferries as escape routes across of Honor for gallantry in action from Salt Lake City to T/Sgt. John "Tokyo's war industries have been picked up at midnight approach- while leading his squad during the the Rhine. badly hurt by the blow trade possible ing Leyte Island. To preserve F. Ward, aerial engineer of Long At 1630 yesterday, United Press invasion and the expansion of the Beach, Calif. reported, the French flag flew from by the Americans who fought and the surprise element of the beachhead. died for the Marianas," Arnold's attack no attempt was made to the great cathedral of the ancient During an attack, Ehlers ad- statement continued. "Now, as destroy it. War on the Home Front Rhenish city. vanced through several hedgerows, American factories feed the vora- CANBY, Minn., Nov. 24 (ANS).— In the Vosges, south of the accounting for a number of Ger- cious appetite of our B29s with The city council has declared war Gap, out of which the mans, and then sneaked along a on a gang of "junior commandos" French burst into Alsace Wednes- replacements, bombs will pound the Japanese war machine out of V2 Factory Hit dead flank of an enemy machine- who have been cutting telephone day, the Seventh Army's Third gun nest. communications. More than a score Division drove into the mountain existence." Lone Recon Flights He rushed the nest with his of rural lines were put out of com- town of Saales in a night attack By Fortresses bayonet and cleared it out in hand- mission in one "raid" and all phones and entered the Saales pass, an- The raid, led by Brig. Gen. Em- to-hand fighting. He next led his in the northeast section of town in other road toward the Rhine. mett "Rosie" O'DonneU Jr., followed Eighth Air Force officials, thumb- squad in attacking two light mor- another. On the U.S. First Army front three reconnaissance flights over ing through three-month-old files, tar positions manned by about 15 "infantry fought i to Weisweiler, two Tokyo made by a lone -Sur>erfort yesterday revealed that 130 Fort- men. When about ten feet from Heeds FDR's Request miles east of captured Eschweiler, resses almost completely destroyed named Tokyo Rose, piloted by Capt. the poo'tio:. he again rushed the WASHINGTON, Nov. 24 (ANS). late yesterday, beating down Verce Ralph Steakley, which obtained a Nazi V2 components and assembly Jerri.s with bayonet fixed. —Leo T. Crawley yesterday sub- house-to-house resistance, front clear pictures of the vital war factory near Weimar, Germany, The following day he continued mitted his resignation as foreign dispatches said. plants the Japanese had guarded Aug. 24. this type of fighting and, although economic administrator, but at Pre- carefully for years. Intelligence The attack, opposed by 50 enemy I wounded in the back, carried other sident Roosevelt's request agreed Ex-Premier of France Dies officers said the pictures were the interceptors and heavy flak, de- j wounled members of his squad to to remain until Germany is de- Joseph Caillaux, 81, former French best ever taken of enemy targets. stroyed seven and severely damaged safety and returned to the battle. feated. premier, died Wednesday. O'Donnell, 38-year-old combat pi- three of ten major buildings, and lot from Jamaica, N.Y., is a former wrecked 18 Gestapo and Storm West Point football coach. Troopers buildings adjacent to the 5 U.S. Fliers Are Shot factory, it was announced. Seven Eschweiler Victors Sent It was the firs time Tokyo had been hit by land-based bombers, By Nazis, Swiss Claim and the first raid on the capital Television Programs To Showers and On to Paris since the Mitchell bomber raid led BERNE, Switzerland, Nov. 24 by Maj. Gen. Jimmy Doolittle on Sent by Phone Wire (AP).—The Thurgau newspaper By Russell Jones yesterday. While S/Sgt. Waldo B. Apr. 18, 1942, which was launched Arbeiter Zeitung reported today Stars and Stripes Staff Writer. Brown, of Clarksburg, W. Va., from the aircraft carrier Hornet. INDIANAPOLIS, Nov. 24 (ANS) that five U.S. fliers who para- ESCHWEILER, GERMANY, Nov. supervised the preparation of a —Homer E. Capehart, manufac- chuted from their damaged bcmbet at Friedrichshafen, Germany, had 24.—The Army today paid off se- holiday meal, the first Christmas turer, announced today a process mail arrived, the company was paid French Admiral Killed for transmitting television over or- been shot by SS troops despite pro- ven of the guys who captured this and 1/Lt. William Tufts, of S. ALGIERS, Nov. 24 (Reuter).— dinary telephone facilities. test? of the local population. town Wednesday by giving them Pasadena, Cal., Pfc Fred L. Gross Rear Adm. Tranier, commander of The method was demonstrated at The five were said to have been first showers in more than a and Sgt. Louis K. Boswell, of Cleve- French naval forces at Casablanca, a plant here with televised images buried in a common grave ai month, clean clothes, a pay day land Heights, Ohio, were awarded has been killed in a motor accident being transmitted 12 miles to a Friedrichshafen. (Thurgau in Swit- and a trip to Paris. One of them the Silver Star for gallantry in near Rabat, Morocco. His wife and radio station by wire and then back zerland is just across Lake Cons was 1/Lt. Jerry Hooker, of Eugene, action. two others also were killed. onto a small screen in the plant. tance from Friedrichshafen). Ore., who led his C company in the second night attack on the Terrv And The Pirates By Courtesy of News Syndicate. By Milton Caniff front. The battalion commander's direct TERRY, DO YOU ^ I WASN'T THE ONLY ONE orders put Hooker on the list. The TRUST /WE ENOIKSH WHO PUT UP VOIR NAME. ^ j, six other names, drawn from a TO VOLUNTEER FOE. BUT WE'LL TALK ABOUT THAT A DAN6EE0US JOB- LATER ...JUST NOW I WANT captured silk hat, were: S/Sgt. J. WITHOUT KNOWING VOU ID 60 ABOUND ACTING Powell, Pfc Emanuel Prockman, Sgt. WHAT IT 15 ? AS IF >OU'R£ SOKE AT HAVING

Milton Lyer, S/Sgt. Piers Reis. Pfc v TO LOAF AROUND THE HOT Arlan Peters and Pfc Raymond SfOTS IN TOWN .'-THINK Carroll. YOU CAN HANDLE SUCH A I They left their outfit on the aortb, ' /MESS OF MAKE-BELIEVE" J edge of Eschweiler today. Their passes are good until Nov. 28. TO » they will have two days in 'he French capital, plus traveling time Not so fortunate as the Paris- bound seven, the rest of the •am pany, however, had a pretty good reason to celebrate Thanksgiving Saturday, Nov. 25, 1944

Strangers on the Road May Be

Jerry Troops Wear Stolen GI Garb To Trap Unwary Joes as Big Attack Starts

OUR great American armies, the First, Third, Ninth and Seventh, forced the driver tc turn up a side together with the British Second and the French First, have road and tnen took over. One of F started their winter drives to crush the outer defenses and force our men escape 1. during a gun- the door to Hitler's home grounds. From Holland south to the Belfort fight which de\elop3d, but the Gap our men are on the move and, as this is written, are fighting on truck was never seen again. Pre- German territory at many points. sumably it was driven into the These simultaneous attacks came after a waiting period in which German lines, via back roads. we built up reserves of food, am- The way to avoid such traps is, munition and clothing and during of course, to suspect all "civilians" which replacements poured in to wearing outer clothing taken from and to ignore their signals. If they bring combat units up to fighting dead, or captured GIs. think a driver is going to run them strength. All through this build-up The disappearance of lone jeeps down, they'll jump for the ditch. period the Germans sought franti- became almost commonplace, dur- Not so easy to detect—and there- cally for information. They were ing the stalemate before the big fore more dangerous—are traps set so hungry for facts along the attacks started. This looked, at by German troops in GI uniforms. whole 400-mile battle front that first, like ordinary ambushing or That's the method which the pic- rewards in cash and furlough time surprise road blocks—something to tures on this page serve to illus- were offered to German troops be expected in thinly-held sectors trate. Those aren't GIs—they're who could bring in American pri- of the line. Germans wearing our uniforms soners. Then the evidence began to pile which they took from the bodies The re-grouping of our forces and up, much of it coming from civilian of a captain and a tech sergeant other evidences of preparation for sources, that the Germans were they had previously ambushed and a large-scale attack had the Krauts using carefully thought out systems killed. plenty worried. They had a pretty of deception and subterfuge to The Baited Trap good idea of what was coming— but they didn't know when or where The officer and the non-com be- the blow would fall. longed to an engineer battalion The result of this condition was By attached to an outfit near Metz. a constant series of ambushes, They left their CP, with two priv- guerrilla attacks and undercover John Christie ates, for a jeep trip to another activity along, in and even some- headquarters. Just how the four times behind our own front lines. Warweek Combat Correspondent men were waylaid and killed, only No army could have had more the Germans who did it can ex- favorable conditions for this kind plain. One hour later, wearing the of information-gathering than did capture or kill small groups of clothing of the men they had the Wehrmacht, in the days just American troops. killed, the Germans tried their before the signal for the multi- One of the favorite tricks, which second ambush. pronged attack. They were fight- will be encountered more and more This time they parked their cap- ing on ground they knew like a frequently the further into Ger- tured jeep on the side of the road book—and with the help of local many we go, is to use civilians as and stood grouped around it, when Civilians. decoys. Here's how they do it: another car of ours came down Civilians Are Dangerous One or two civilians, standing in the road. In the second jeep were These enemy civilians harbor the road at a point where motor two lieutenant colonels of an 8th German patrols, provide them with traffic is forced to slow down for, Division outfit and an ' enlisted information and serve as decoys say a sharp curve or a bridge, will driver. to lure unwary GIs into the hands wave down an advancing jeep on As they rounded a turn in the of small enemy kidnaping gangs. some pretext or another. If the road they came upon what looked Amid the confused and disorgan- driver stops, German troops, hid- like a typical roadside scene, an ized stream of civilians and "dis- den in the bushes, open, fire with American jeep, an officer and some placed persons" which flows into light automatic arms. The scheme enlisted men, lost and in need of our lines, German soldiers in civil- has variations. Here's one of them, directions. The "Captain," who was ian clothes are sometimes able to which recently resulted in the loss standing beside the stalled car, escape detection long enough to of a two-and-a-half ton truck, its waved at the on-coming jeep. Its secure the information they are crew and its cargo, on a road in driver slowed down and stopped. seeking. Luxembourg. The Germans, in GI clothing, step- Sometimes they even disguise Civilians waved the truck to a ped forward. strangest of many strange scenes of the American officers in the themselves as American soldiers, stop. Armed German soldiers It was, perhaps, one of the this war has produced. The Amer- second car, drew his pistol and ican officers were friendly, curious opened fire. Germans, concealed and anxious to help. The Ger- in the brush at the side of the mans, striding forward, must have road, tossed a hand grenade. In been jittery. They were in enemy the general gun-fight which fol- territory — behind our advance lowed, one of the American offic- lines. They were wearing the uni- ers was killed. The driver was form of our troops. That, in itself, captured but the second officer constituted a military crime. escaped. The first part of their deception Moral: Trust No One had worked. Would the rest go GERMANY as well? He, too, might have been killed, They must have been very except for the appearance of YOU ARB BHTBmmP conscious of their grey-green another American vehicle. With AH ENEMY COUNTRY trousers and black boots. At any the scales tipped against them, the second the Americans might de- Germans gave up the. fight and tect the masquerade—and open fled, leaving behind them some of KEEP ALERT fire. their own men. They are the ones Then came one of those unex- whose pictures accompany tnis plained and inexplicable things. story—incontrovertible evidence ol Perhaps it was nervousness, per- another trick in the German bag. haps just Nazi bravado. Whatever It's an easy one to trump, though, it was, one of the Germans made for men who just remember that the fatal error of saying something it isn't healthy to stop for civilians, to one of his companions, in Ger- even "American" troops. They man. may be phonies—Germans in GI With a lightning-fast reflex, one clothing. 2 WAR WEEK Saturday, Nov. 25, 1944 Hitler Has Doomed These German Towns

MUNICH, NAZI SHRINE, was often the scene of ceremonial parades like this, in 1938. Hitler shows the city to Mussolini after he bluffed the rest of Europe to carve un Czechoslovakia. Uerlin REOCCUPATION of the Rhineland, demilitarized under the Treaty of Versailles, was one of the Fiihrer's first coups. His troops Cities rumbled through Cologne to take up stations. ? :- ■ i K-WPS? Aachen was the first of Hitler's doomed cities to be blasted into r u b b 1 e—then occupied by our troops—in spite of anything the "Master Race" representative there could do about it. Aachen was the first. There are others. Some of them are pictured on this page. These photographs, taken when the Nazis were riding high, give an indication of what the German cities looked like then. By the time the last Wehrmacht soldier in each one is either dead or captured, they'll probably look like the picture of Aachen, in the lower right hand corner of the page. Hitler knows what's coming. He's had his warning—in bombed, shelled and captured Aachen. Now a great offensive is getting under way. A look at the map reveals that Cologne, big rail and NAZI CAPITAL is the final objective of all Allied drives. This shot industrial center, may be the next REPRESSIVE LAWS against German Jews were named after the of Berlin's famous Lustgarten shows a May Day celebration. objective. After Cologne will come city of . Here's a typical Nazi celebration there, with Holiday has lost its labor character in the Reich. other cities of the Nazi Reich. all the tricks of combined Hollywood-Circus presentation in use.

FIFTH COLUMN of Nazis, which aided in the capture of Holland DEATH of Nazi hopes is typified by this shot of a street in Aachen. and other countries, had its origin in "Union of Germans Abroad." Forlorn Nazi prisoners, their flags and bands missing, make their Here the organization parades through ancient Trier, exit from the Greater Reich, en route to prison camp. Saturday, Nov. 25, 1944 WAKWEEK 3 These Yanks Know About f(0

That's What They Call It When The Objective Is Smoking Rubble Hiding Nests of Machine-Gun Fire; Then the Joes Really Go to Town

By Ra'ph Harwood Warweek Staff Writer

It the Germans are determined to at Brest, and has since moved up Brest my squad moved up two *■ fight this war out through the to bring the Krauts further grief in blocks without ever setting foot houses and streets of every town their own backyard. in the street except to cross from and city all the way across the It's a shame all the green sol- cne square into the next, and the Reich, that's the way they can diers in the army couldn't have only way we could make it across have it. If they wish to see a suc- been present, for here, mixed in that open space was by using cession of smoldering ruins in the with the razzing and laughs, was smoke grenades. image of Aachen, the American the sum and substance of real "We must have bored our way Army is ready to oblige them. battle wisdom. through at least fourteen of fifteen There isn't any department of It all started when a bu;k ser- straight houses," he continued. war in which American troops have geant looked up from the tattered "We used dynamite charges the improved more than in street fight- newspaper he was trying to read engineers prepared for us part of ing since the days of Carentan and by the feeble glimmer of a small the time, and if that wasn't pos- Sainte-Mere-l'Eglise, behind the candle and wondered aloud, "I sible, we'd knock a hole in the wall beaches. They have learned the can't understand why they always of the next house with bazookas Boche's tricks—and he has a hat- refer to fighting in towns as street I'd have half the squad set and ful—and they have developed fighting. Hell, the street's the one ready, and the second of the ex- counter-techniques of their own place where you very often don't plosion they'd be on their way, through trial and error, common- do any fighting. We'd have been hellbent with tommy guns and sense and military ingenuity. duck soup for those corner pill- grenades. Lessons from Brest boxes in Brest if we had tried to BAR Provided Cover work right down the street, not to Whenever and wherever veteran mention the damned riflemen and "The rest of the squad, includ- Yanks get together now to shoot machine-guns they had in every ing the BAR man, covered them, the breeze, the conversation almost upstairs and basement with a and if the open space to be crossed invariably turns at some point to window in it." was very great, and there was the business of chasing the Heinies "That's right," agreed a Staff danger of fire from the flanks, we out of town—any town. Just such who was stretched out in the blan- would lay smoke ahead with gre- a bull session took place recently kets over in the corner. "It ought to nades. It pays to follow in quick at the CP of a 2nd Infantry Div- be called house-to-house fighting on the blast. My assault team ision battalion which had a big rather than street fighting, all pulled five Krauts out of one house hand in the vicious street fighting right. On one stretch there in while they were still so dizzy from the shock that they weren't able to CLOSE QUARTERS is the way to describe fighting in Hitler's cities. out up any resistance. A couple ot Every window hides a sniper, machine-guns chatter from half-ruined . minutes delay on our part, and it dwellings. Accurate fire, plenty of movement is success formula. I might have been different. They I had machine pistols and plenty of I grenades of their own." the enemy out of basements or, for that's been modified for automatic A corporal in the room who nad that matter, whole buildings. We fire are good for this kind of close, | been in on the same action men- had some 4.2 chemical mortars in speedy work. Everybody knows, i tioned that it was often best to support and several times called too, how important grenades are> | enter a building through the roof, for WP. They could lay it in as in town, both fragmentation and or a hole or window in the top close as 100 yards ahead of us, and smoke hand grenades, as well as floor, and then to clean it our it usually brought some Germans rifle grenades. There are plenty room by room from the top down out where we could get at them of times when you cannot bring "Scaling ladders are very handy with rifle and BAR fire." direct fire to bear on an enemy in house-to-house fighting," he in- "Speaking of mortars, though," nest when a little squirt of flame \ sisted. "They can mean the dif said a Joe who had been ramming will bring him out tearing his I ference sometimes between crack- an oily patch through the bore of hair. jj ing into a place the easy way an M-l rifle for some minutes, "True," the sergeant concluded, | through a high window, or having "you've got to admit that that little "some weapons are not particularly I to take bigger chances by some 60 mm. job is a honey in town. The suited to operations in towns. ither entrance." beauty of it is that you can use Heavy machine-guns, for example, it on such close-in targets. There's usually do better in the open where White Phosphorous Good nothing like it for keeping snipers they have a longer, unobstructed A platoon tech sergeant spoke up off the rooftops and out of the field of fire. That doesn't mean with a word of praise for white upper-story windows just ahead of that they are a dead loss in town, phosphorous as an aid in "house where you're working. It's a great though. Where they can be set cleaning." little weapon. up in good positions they can give "You can't beat it for driving "Of course," he added, "if you a lot of protection to your flanks. v really want to take a building clear Or if you can bring an MG to out, and you can't get at it with bear on a stretch of street, you direct artillery fire, then the 81 mm. can cut the cross-traffic a way and 4.2 mortars are the ticket. down." They can sure make the joint Too Close for Howitzers unfit for human habitation in an awful hurry." "The same thing is true of the "What's the best weapon of all heavier stuff," still another ser- for this fighting through towns?" geant chimed in. "The howitzers asked a young kid who had been are not so much help where you taking it all in. are in close contact with the ene- my, especially if the buildings are Rifle for Long Shots very high and close together. They "There isn't any single weapon can play hell, though, with targets which you can say is best, kid," some distance ahead of you, really answered the platoon sarge. "It messing up the enemy's move- all depends on the situation or the ments. job that's to be done at the mo- "Tank destroyers and 155 mm. ment. For instance, if you spot self-propelled guns," the sergeant a slightly exposed sniper 200 yards continued, "are tops in my estima- away, the best weapon in the world tion for taking out enemy strong to use on him is a carefully aimed points in town—pillboxes, heavily rifle. If, on the other hand, you defended buildings or anything else saw half-a-dozen Heinies trying to that may be holding the infantry sneak across an opening between down. For my dough, there's no- two buildings a good distance away, thing better than a couple of TD's the BAR would be the ideal to open up walls or other avenues weapon with which to make things of advance for an infantry platoon. hot for them. I know, because we had them "For assaulting through a break doing it for us at Brest, and it in a building," the sergeant ex- saved a lot of time and trouble plained further, "it's best to have for the doughs. They're more than MACHINE GUNS and artillery provide fire power in house-to-house combat but, more often than not, a lot of fast, spraying fire. The worth the protection you have to the assault platoons have to rely on the weapons they are able to carrry in their hands. Thompson gun and the carbine (Continued on Back Page)

* 4 W AR WEEK Saturday, Nov. 25, 1944

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chine guns out of there in a hurry. More About Sweeping the street they can cause many casualties. "Germans have been fighting THE OLD SERG^NT'S STREET COMBAT like hell till they felt that there was too much fire power for them —that's why we have poured a CORNER helluva lot of lead at them in a Every amateur gunsmith in the helluva hurry. The psychological reaction on the Krauts was obvious. ETO seems to be dreaming up new Noise has made some of them quit. dodges for improving the Carbines, Some wait until their ammo is Cal. .30, Ml and M1A1. Many of exhausted then yell 'Kamerad. these ideas siphon through the Old Be careful when a Hun yells Ka- of firing might cause the reserve merad.' He may still fire. Make Sergeant's mail box for a check cartridges to jar out. him come out with his hands be- with Ordnance before publication Old Sergeant's solution: hind his head." here. Cover the open clip-end with a S/Sgt. Melvin K. Behnke, Waco, piece of tape in any but good One of the most recent—al- weather. Texas: though it's old stuff to the jumpers "Company should operate by Back home we'd ask the man in platoons covering both sides of the of the 82nd Airborne, who claim to have invented it—is to tape, solder the street for info about the guy street. BAR man is best placed in the street. That's why Old Ser- at the head of the column. Auto- or spot-weld two carbine clips together in such a way that the geant thought best to turn to the matic weapons must be forward. Joe in the mudhole for answers to Rifle grenade launchers should fol- lower or closed ends overlap a coupie of inches. his pet gripe. "What to do about (Continued from Page 3) were jotted down, under fire, by low, split up on either side of mud?" The damned stuff is a hell- street. Bazooka men arr sprinkled Both clips can be loaded and one give them against enemy anti-tank Warweek reporters at the front: uva sight more effective in slowing throughout the column. Machine end of the two-way magazine is down the Allied steamroller drive stuff." Pfc Martin O. Merrill, an extra- inserted in the weapon, the other ordinary BAR man from Milton- guns are in the rear throwing out on Berlin than Adolf's best secret "They draw a lot of fire, though, a protective cover. Sometimes this pointing downward. When a man don't they?" the kid inquired. ' vale, Kansas: weapon. "Dusk is the best time to start order gets scrambled—then you've One Joe in particular, with an "Some, sure," replied the ser- got to use your head. Sometimes anxious eye on an earlier trip back geant, "because they are noisy. a street fight—if you feel you have a good chance of getting through we move down the street at a fast home, came forth with a suggestion But a lot can be done to conceal pace (when the enemy is defend- for improvising half-tracks on dual- their movements with artillery and by dark. The Germans don't like to fight at dusk or in darkness. ing from every house); other times wheeled vehicles up to and includ- mortar fire. Incidentally, every- we go more slowly (when the job ing the 2 1/2-ton 6x6. Old Sergeant body working in the neighborhood "You can see a man's form very is one of cleaning out snipers and thinks it's well worth passing on should be told about it when the well on the skyline at dusk. The rearguard defenders"). to you guys bogged down up front. TDs or SP155's are going to fire, Germans who were not in build- Pfc Charles A. Davis, Youngs- "When you get into a spot where if at all possible. Saves confusion." ings hugged the sides of them. town, Ohio: your wheels won't take hold," writes "I'll tell you one mistake our out- Sometimes I had to slow down and do the same. "Yanks are the fightingest bunch T/5 Allen A. Alldridge of an Ord- fit made one time," said the of guys you ever saw in a street nance H.A.M. Co., "take two chains corporal who had spoken earlier. "Be careful of Krauts who 'blow fight. Heinies don't like this kind (three if necessary) and hook them "We were moving forward pretty their tops' and come running out of fight—because they don't come together to make one track chain. steadily in the group of buildings of houses for suicide fight. I've out alive." Put this around both right rear assigned to us, and I guess the seen them do damage before they T/Sgt. Leo P. Kaniecki, Chicago, wheels. Then do the same for the squads on our flanks were moving were eliminated." > 111. ("I" Co.): left rear wheels.. The chains should in on their objectives the same S/Sgt. Ralph W. Hartinger, "White phosphorous is excellent be real loose. If they are too tight way. Everything was OK except Dickinson, N. Dakota: for street fighting. It screens you, they will break." that we kept going right up to "It's hard to keep from bunch- burns Jerry, scares the hell out of The resourceful Alldridge said dark, and then we couldn't make ing up in this kind of a fight—but him, too." he's seen 6x6s pull ten-ton wreckers contact with these other guys to you can't afford to do it/Another Sgt. Edward M. Tighe, Dallas, from axle-deep ooze by this method the sides. The Jerries must have thing, leaders must yell instruc- Tex.: —and ten tons of vehicle plus its sensed the situation, because they tions. The men who need advice, "Mopup squad should hit every weight in goo is plenty of load to drifted back in between us in the look for it in a wild scrap. Above house, every room. If a Kraut pull. night, and we had a hell of a time all keep your head about you." wants to surrender, take him if he has fired six or eight of the 15 The Alldridge plan was put be- routing them out all over again in S/Sgt. Hollis H. Jordan, Mayville, comes out unarmed, if not shoot rounds in the clip he can then re- fore Maj. Gen. Henry B. Saylor, the morning. You've got to con- Georgia: him." load fully by simply pressing the ETO chief of Ordnance. His office solidate toward night, or they'll in- "Heinies will have a machine Lt. Marshall L. Gordon, Los An- release catch and turning his said the idea is a good emergency filtrate you every time." gun at the end of the street if geles, Cal.: • double clip end for end. measure. GI track chains for this they have time to put it there. A "Jerry is playing hit and run This gag looked very good to this very purpose are now being used Here is- a list of assorted tips BAR man can usually get the gun game. He wants to play nine inn- department but the Ordnance tech- in the ETO, but if you drivers ever from experienced town fighters, unless it has exceptional cover. ings. We'll slug it out and get it nicians weren't impressed. They do find yourselves bogged down men who've learned their lesson Then you use a rifle grenade, a over in first inning. Jerry doesn't said that mud, dirt or snow could without the GI wherewithal, it the hard way. They're repeated bazooka, or send men through like fire power, in or out of street. easily get into the open end of the may be wise to keep the emergency in the dot-dash style in which they backyards to outflank it. Get ma- He'll run like hell. lower clip and that the vibration idea in mind.