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New York London Edition Paris Daily German Lesson Daily French Lesson Beeilen Sie sick THE sTA Est-ce votre dernier prix? Buh-ailen Zee sikh STRIPES Ess vutr dairnYAY pree? Is that your lowest figure? Hurry up Daily Newspaper of U.S. Armed Forces in the European Theater of Operations VOL 5 No. 40—Id. MONDAY, Dec. 18, 1944 irkT- ilazt • AAttacksttacks DentDent First's Line New Philippine Invasion Gains Thrust Carries Foe Yanks 7 Mi. Reich, U.S. Here We Come Back Into Belgium In on Island And Luxemburg Striking against the southern sector of the American First Army front in what apparently was an attempt to throw Lt. Gen. Courtney Hodges' Near Luzon forces off balance, German tanks and troops stabbed at three points Sunday American forces which landed along a 50 mile front, penetrating across the Belgian and Luxemburg almost unopposed Friday 150 miles borders. With their homeland threatened by five south of Manila on the Philippines Report Invalids to Pilot Allied armies on Reich soil the Germans island of Mindoro, Sunday night had hit back near Honsfeld, Belgium, south driven from seven to nine miles Bombs Into London of the point where the Second Infantry inland, and at least one town and airfield STOCKHOLM, Dec. 17 (UP)— Division of the First Army had opened its were in U.S. hands. Several hundred incurable war invalids attack in the Monschau Forest last U.S. planes continued to pound have volunteered for a one-way suicide Wednesday. Tank fighting was reported Japanese defensive air bases on Luzon in progress near Honsfeld, 21 miles in- Island, to the northeast, and resistance trip to London in a German V-4, which side Belgium and a dozen miles southeast remained light. is apparently a piloted variation of the of Malmedy. San Jose, on the Bugsanga River five flying bomb, the Free German Press The Germans went into Luxemburg at miles inland from the southwestern coast Bureau said today. two points. One group drove southwest of Mindoro, was taken Saturday, and Suggested targets for the pilots, of Vianden, 14 miles south of the junction U.S. engineers and Australian Air Force according to the bureau, would be of the German-Belgian-Luxemburg personnel were at work Sunday repairing borders. Fifteen miles farther southeast, Buckingham Palace, 10 Downing St. its airfield. another unit gained south of the border and the London docks. The invasion, which will put all of town of Echternach. Luzon, major Philippine island, within Number of Divisions range of U.S. short-distance bombers, A Columbia Broadcasting System corre- was made by men of Lt. Gen. Walter spondent said the enemy drive south of Krueger's Sixth Army, who landed on Monschau was carried out by a number three beachheads on the south coast. Freeze Output of divisions and that parotroopers had Tokyo estimated the American force was been dropped behind the American lines. about a division strong. The northern The counter-thrust, he said, came from tip of Mindoro is about 100 miles from For Civilians the Schnee-Eifel hills, east of the Belgian Manila. border, and achieved a measure of The invasion convoy traveled the entire By Joe Fleming Stars and Stripes U.S. Bureau surprise because this sector had been width of the Philippines from nearly- relatively quiet. WASHINGTON, Dec. 17—The War The major force of the Germans' Production Board has ordered all civilian counter-thrust apparently was on the 4 Months Are Plenty, production frozen at present levels to sector along the Belgian-Luxemburg bor- Says Navy Fighter Ace meet vital war needs and to discourage ders, but an Associated Pres SHAEF a labor shift from war plants to other dispatch said the enemy had also tested PEARL HARBOR, Dec. 17 (AP)— the Americans' strength all along the work. Cmdr. David McCampbell, the U.S. line,. putting- in -an attack near Linnich, Navy's top fighter pilot with 34 enemy In effect a "hold the line" ruling, the on the Ninth Army front. This assault planes to his credit. said today that order was dated Dec. 7 and circulated was broken up after an hour's fight, it four months was about as long as a immediately within the board, but it was was said. fighter pilot should see continuous not publicly announced until yesterday. From Ninth Army Headquarters, how- action. Under the ruling, increased civilian ever, Reuter reported that a German He has been flying combat seven output may be sought only if a "positive counter-attack was continuing and months. but said that this was "far demonstration" is given that current quoted what apparently was a captured too long." civilian schedules are below "essential order of the day by Field Marshal Gerd requirements." A slight margin for civi- von Rundstedt in which he was said to liberated Leyte to the east, thus splitting lian-goods expansion is also provided in have exhorted his troops to "give your the archipelago in two. the continuance of a "soot" plan which all in one last effort." To protect the convoy and invading allows consumer-goods production by in- Nazis Met Halfway troops, Filipino guerrillas, some of them dividual factories unneeded for war Enemy counter-blows toward Maria- Bataan veterans, seized strategic airfields work. weiler and Gurzenich—north of the sector and ports on the intervening islands of Meanwhile, in the wake of War Mobi- where the Belgian border was pierced— Panay, Negros, Cebu and Bohol, as well lization Director James F. Byrnes' "work were met halfway by the Americans, who as a 125-mile stretch of coast on northern or fight" order to men from 26 to 37, held all their ground. Mindanao, to the south. Selective Service Headquarters ordered Keystone, U.S. Amy Photos German planes were active over the The invasion boats were equipped with local draft boards to apply stricter inter- While one American force enters Germany, members of another prepare to Ninth Army front Saturday night and rockets. Planes of Vice-Adm. John S. pretations to older men's classifications. leave for the U.S. under the new rest and recuperation plan for combat veterans. Sunday. Six were downed at night and MeCain's naval task force, also rocket- Top, infantry of Gen, Alexander M. Patch's Seventh Army—the fifth Allied another 20 in daylight. It was estimated firing, kept up a continuous attack against Army to enter the Reich—moves into Scufflenheim in their advance to within that about 500 enemy sorties were made. enemy air bases. During Friday, Satur- 4,700 GIs to Take seven miles of Karlsruhe. Bottom, these infantrymen, the night before this pic- Allied airmen, meanwhile, continued to day and Sunday, 235 Jap planes were ture was taken, were fighting Nazis across the Saar River when they learned hammer the enemy supply routes. destroyed and 139 damaged on and over Jobs in U.S. Plants they were part of 64 Yanks granted a 30-day furlough at home, plus travel Another radio correspondent indicated Luzon. WASHINGTON, Dec. 17—The War time. All have been decorated for valor. that the Americans had had to evacuate One enemy destroyer, crippled and one Belgian town, describing how enemy Department has announced a plan to seeking refuge in Mindoro's Pandarochan shells had burst down a road as German Bay, was sunk. A medium tanker and furlough 4,700 soldiers to work in labor- forces, tanks and infantry, advanced. "An a cargo ship were sunk, while another short plants producing top-priority Faenza Falls U.S. Won't Let American lieutenant colonel was one of medium tanger and nine cargo ships were military goods. the last to leave this Belgian town, which damaged. Four destroyers and destroyer, The soldiers, experienced in the type of escorts were damaged. work involved, will go to 180 selected To 8th Army (Continued on page 2) The Japanese claimed that a battleship plants producing heavy artillery and Finns Pay Up or large cruiser and four transport ships mortar ammunition, tires and cotton ALLIED HQ, Italy, Dec. 17 (Reuter) WASHINGTON, Dec. 17—The U.S. were sunk by Jap planes off Mindoro. duck. As soon as civilian workers are —Aided by massed artillery barrages and yesterday refused to allow Finland to pay Roads toVienna available the soldiers will go back to their strong air support, New Zealand troops her $235,445 war debt instalment from military duties. of the Eighth Army have captured the Finland's frozen funds in this country. Gls alerted for overseas duty, assigned It was understood that the State Depart-_ to the infantry or in air-crew training German stronghold of Faenza„ on the ment favored acceptance of the payment, Russian Goal programs will not be considered. Rimini-Bologna road, thrusting into the although it has broken off diplomatic While bitter but indecisive fighting con- town from the southwest and from the relations with Finland. However, the tinued Sunday in the northeastern out- east across the Lamone River against Treasury Department was understood to skirts of Budapest, other Russian forces Belgian, French Firms bitter resistance by the 90th Panzer be against such acceptance. battled along a 325-mile stretch of Hun- Grenadiers, it was announced today. The Treasury recently refused to let gary from Budapest south to the Drava To Make Mortars for U.S. Faenza. 25 miles southeast of Bologna, Finland use part of her blocked funds River in an effort to capture the major Stars and Stripes U.S. Bureau had blocked the Allied drive from the to pay off the interest on Finnish govern- roads to Vienna. WASHINGTON, Dec.