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V Winter and Trench-foot Winter {ind Trench-foot ". ; .If penned in a foxhole, ". Dry socks are most im- exercise feet by pushing them portant. Keep them in helmet THE STIRS Al TRIPES liner, inside shirt or pinned in- solidly and repeatedly against side field jacket. ." Preven- side of trench. ." Preventive ' in the European Theater of Operations Medicine Dept., ETO. aaUjr'Hewspaper of U,$. Armed'Forces, tive Medicine Dept., ETO. Vol. 1—No. 132 New York—PARIS — London lFr. Tuesday, Dec. 5, 1944 War on Holy German Soil Patton Holds 35-Mi. Front Inside Reich as 7th Army Forges North in Rhineland Saarlautern Afire Nazis Kill Own Men 9th Army Fights As Infantry Who Tried to Give Up To Clear Roer's WITH U.S. NINTH ARMY, Mops Up GERMANY, Dec. 4 (UP).— West Bank Ninth Army troops took few prisoners in the town of Lin- By Jimmy Cannon nich. The Nazis mowed down Elements of the U.S. Third Stars and Stripes Staft Writer their own men who tried to Army's Fifth Division drove WITH THE 95th DIV. AT surrender.. across the German border Most o" the Roer River town's SAARLAUTERN, GERMANY, south of embattled Saarlau- 500 last-ditch defenders were tern yesterday, extending the Dec. 4.—Saarlautern, Nazi in- killed. Some were shelled by their own artillery. Third Army front inside Ger- dustrial city which formerly Twenty-five men who sur- many to 35 miles. In, the housed a population of 30,000, rendered from one pillbox were South, U.S. Seventh Army shot down by fire from another yesterday burned in tall- as they marched out with forces pushed northward on flamed fires despite a steady hands up. the Alsatian Plain to within rain. Organized resistance 35 miles of Karlsruhe, Rhineland industrial center. ceased in the artillery-broken Fifth Div. troops breached* ths section of the ruined city on IndenTrenchei- frontier at Wilhelmsbronn after a the west bank of the Saar two-mile advance. Seventh Army River. Cleared of Nazi troops to the southwest, in Alsace, entered Grumsbrechtshoffen, eight In assault boats manned by the 320th Engr. Bn., men of the 379th miles northwest of Hagenau. On the Western Front, Germans fight to stem advances of the Ninth Troops, Tanks Down 38 Planes Army (A) and the First Army (B) toward the Ruhr Valley. On the Inf. Regt. crossed the 300-foot-wide Saar River (C), they burn Fiedei-limber as the Third Army enters river and captured a steel-reinfor- In the north, U.S. First Army By Russ Jones Saarlautern. At Strasbourg (D) they burn three Rhine bridges. ced concrete bridge. The crossing anti-aircraft artillery scored one of was made in the foggy darkness Stars and Stripes Staft Writer the biggest air victories 'Of the before dawn and baffled the enemy INDEN, GERMANY.—This little Western Front by shooting down 38 with its daring surprise. Not a town of a few hundred houses and of a force of 120 planes the Ger- shot was fired at them until they thre'e bridge sites across the Inde mans hurled against First Army's Soviet Troops 60 Miles had reached the east bank. River are firmly in American hands advance toward the Roer River, un- today after almost a week of some confirmed reports reaching SHAEF 'Nice Day for Crossing' of the heaviest fighting since Nor- The captured bridge had been mandy. From Austrian Border wired with explosives but the swift Although the first troops entered An ti-Nazis Increasing, stealth of the crossing prevented the city late Tuesday, it wasn't until The Red Army's breakthrough across the Danube River demolition. However, the Germans this morning that they succeeded Says Goering Friend in southern Hungary yesterday assumed the proportions of blew another bridge across the river. in driving the Germans from the "It was a nice day for a crossing," west side and had crossed the WITH U.S. SEVENTH AR- a major offensive with the triple spearheads of 20 infantry said Capt. Elias Tolbert, of Culpep- stream. Some Nazis of the Third MY, Pec. 4 (UP).—An army divisions and half-a-dozen armored divisions, by German per, Va., of the 300th Engr. Bn. Paratroop Div. are still making a friend of Reichsmarshal Her- estimate, smashing westward to within 60 miles of the "As soon as we got them across we last ditch stand in the factories mann Goering, taken prisoner started to build an infantry sup- Austrian border and northward to on the east side. on this front, told questioners within 40 miles of Budapest. port bridge: It was a breeze until House-to-House Fighting today that "A very large part it got light enough for them to The westward thrust of Marshal of the German army command draw a bead on us. After they The attacking unit found the Tolbukhin's Third Ukrainian Army General Strike was connected with the attempt zeroed in on us they started knock- town defended by troops emplaced carried more than 100 miles toward to assassinate Hitler July 20." ing the stuff out faster than we in a trench and dugout system of Austria in its first six days. Mean- unprecedented depth and strength. He added, however, that the Ties Up Athens could put it together." while, "free German" quarters in Panther and tiger tanks were Nazi party now is in full con- Sniper's were, still at work in the trol of Germany and chances Stockholm reported lat the Nazis stationed in trenches big enough Martial law was proclaimed in eastern part of the city as the of revolt are "considered small." had started to evacuate to safer to allow them to maneuver. Athens yesterday and British au- doughfoots mopped up. Roads lead- areas farther west all their war ing into Saarlautern were being Infantry commanded by Lt. Col. factories in Vienna and Wiener thorities acted to back up Premier John W. White, of Cleveland said. Sixteen more enemy planes George Papandreous' government heavily shelled from the ridges sur- Heights, Ohio., made its way into were probably destroyed, these re- Neustadt, south of the Austrian rounding the thickly mined city. capital, with their 1,500,000 workers. as a general strike, called by the the outskirts of the village. From ports said. German government departments leftists' EAM (Greek National Lib- there it was house-to-house fight- In Holland, British Second Army moved to Vienna during the heavy eration Front) paralyzed all public ing, with the Americans doing well, troops overran the Nazis' last raids on Berlin last winter also utilities, closed the shops and fac- 2,200 Planes until the Nazi tanks moved up. bridgehead on the west bank of were said to be pulling out. tories and tied up the docks of the 1/Lt. Jerry M. Page, of Rockland, the River Maas. Tommies advanc- The Germans admitted that a Piraeus. Mich., who had joined the company ing through thick minefields major Soviet tank group had push- While one government official, MitReich Cities two weeks before as a replacement, crushed almost all resistance pock- ets on the west bank. Late As- ed west from Kaposvar some 30 Undersecretary of War Ptolemeos led a group across a bridge, cutting sociated Press reports from London miles to the area of Lake Balaton. Sarigianis, resigned, Papandreous Twelve hundred Eighth Air Force the German demolition wires as The lake, about 40 miles long, lies and other cabinet members aban- they went. said they reached the outskirts of Liberators and Fortresses, their the Dutch border city of Venlo. (Continued on Page 4) doned the government offices, 100-mile-long formation guarded by A counter-attack cut them off where British troops had stood on from escape over the bridge. The U.S. Ninth Army forces massed 1,000 Eighth and Ninth Thunder- along a 20-mile stretch of the Roer guard, and lodged themselves in bolts, Mustangs and Lightnings, men pulled pieces of wire from ft the Grande Bretagne Hotel. Shoot- fence, splicing them together, and River's west bank. .They fought on CIO Heads, in London, yesterday rocked marshalling yards the western outskirts of Julich ing broke out in the neighborhood and industrial targets in five west- Fvt Robert B. Thompson swam Will Visit Continent between ELAS (resistance militia) the river carrying the cable in his where Germans were defending the ern Reich cities while RAF fighter- city's sports stadium, which United troops and members of a Rightist escorted Lancasters attacked rail- teeth. He tied the end and the LONDON, Dec. 4.—Three CIO organization. way objectives in Oberhausen in other men followed hand-over-hand. (Continued on Page 4) leaders, here for consultations with the Ruhr. British unionists, said today they Grew Named Stettinius Aide The heavies, which last month Nazis Destroy Bridges Over R line expected to visit France and Bel- WASHINGTON, Dec. 4.—PresiT concentrated their main weight of gium. They are Sidney Hillman, dent Roosevelt today nominated more than 40,000 tons of bombs on chairman of the Political Action Joseph C. Grew, career diplomat Nazi fuel plants, attacked Kassel, Committee, and R. J. Thomas and and formerly ambassador to Ja- Mainz, Giessen, Soest and Denra, Emil Rieve, presidents of the pan, to be undersecretary of state. (Continued on Page 4) United Automobile Workers and He will succeed Edward R. Stet- United Textile Workers unions. tinius Jr., new secretary. Only One Superf ort Lost GIs Pace N.J. Bond Drive In 4 Attacks on Tokyo NEWARK, N.J., Dec. 4.—New Jersey servicemen and women are The War Department yesterday buying proportionately almost twice as many war bonds as New reported good results by the Super- Jersey civilians, John E.