'f/vcific.") New York London Edition Paris Daily German Lesson Daily French Lesson Das Dorf u'urde heute besetzt THE sTA Donnez-moi de l'eau a Loire, Daha Dawrf woorduh hoyte s'it vows plait Inthsetst TRIPES Don-nay-mwah der lob ah Lwahr, see! voo play The village was occupied today Daily NewspaperNewspaper of U.S. Armed Forces in the European Theater of Operations Please give me a drink of water VOL 5 No. I—Id. THURSDAY. Nov. 2. 1944 British Land on Walcheren Isle They're Red Ball Trucks, but the Lights Are All Green Commando Push Into Flushing, I 9if.414q.t. Ifff, ‘Key to Antwerp' t 404asoaaamsaaamei British Commandos landed early yesterday on the south and west coasts , . of flooded Walcheren, pinning the Germans on this last enemy-held Scheldt % island between them and Canadian forces now across the causeway from x;,,q,t4•10 Potd, South Beveland, to the east. By noon the Hoops had seized half of Flushing, into the docks of which the surprise assault had pushed before daybreak, an officer at the command post directing the attack said. Light guns were carried across and set up on the quays to pound the German mortars which had been blasting the beach. The British, who used amphibious vehicles to cross the estuary from Bres- kens. had considerable difficulty with the 2-Way Air Blow German guns, which were in concrete emplacements on' either flank, but the Last City• Before initial assault caught the Germans by Handed Reich surprise. A few craft were sunk by noon While approximately 300 Eighth Air Budapest Falls but casualties had been very light. Force Fortresses and Liberators struck at synthetic oil plants at Gelsenkirchen and Russian armored spearheads last Clearing of Walcheren will open Ant- werp for use as an Allied port. Only the rail targets at Hamm and Coblenz and night moved beyond Kecskemet,,last big elsewhere in Germany yesterday, Italy- bastion guarding the southern approach Germans in Walcheren, and particularly the German guns at Flushing on this based heavy bombers, on the first anni- to Budapest, and moved across the plain versary of the creation of the 15th Air toward the Hungarian capital 45 miles island, bar use of the waterway into Antwerp. Force, attacked targets in the Vienna area. from the city. • More than 250 Thunderbolt and German commentators admitted the Withdrawal Reported Mustang fighters escorted the Eighth loss of Kecskemet "after fierce street On the Dutch mainland the bulk of heavies, shooting down three Me262 jet- fighting" but said that a large-scale the German 15th Army was reported to propelled interceptors against the loss of battle was developing between the have withdrawn beyond both the Maas one U.S. fighter and no bombers. Danube and Tisza Rivers. and the Waal Rivers to thb north, but Tuesday, in their second straight night Berlin continued to admit reverses in rearguard units were still resisting on attack, 500 RAF Lancasters and Halifaxes Latvia, where a large Russian force was lour sectors—against American and dropped another 2,500 tons of high ex- pushing ahead toward the Baltic ports Polish bridgeheads across the Mark plosives and incendiaries on Cologne, of Ltepaja and Ventspils. The lull in River, south of the Maas; north of bringing the total to althost 12,000 tons East Prussia continued. Bergen op Zoom and north of Hertogen- over a 10S-hour period. bosch. Earlier, Mosquitoes attacked the Salonika Vacated Yanks and Tommies on the eastern heavily-bombed city end of the Dutch front were attacking The Air Ministry disclosed that Den- after German thrusts across the Meuse mark's Gestapo headquarters, housed in By German Troops toward Eindhoven slackened in the face two buildings in the University of Aarhus. The great Greek port of Salonika. con- of Allied tank and infantry defenses. were destroyed Tuesday in a spectacular trolling a main gateway to Jugoslavia. was German radio asserted that American low-level attack by Mosquitoes. reported to be in British hands yesterday, Third Army troops were checked Tues- after the Allied communique stated that day on the Luneville sector, 17 miles British patrols had reached the outskirts southeast of Nancy. after opening Over Half of Essen of the city. German sources said it had attacks described as intended to pierce been evacuated by Nazi troops. and turn the Nazis'...north-south defense Reported Leveled Capture of Salonika opened the way for line in eastern France. eventual linkup of British and Greek WITH BRITISH SECOND TACTI- troops with those of Marshal Tito and Claims Nazis Tossed Back CAL AIR FORCE IN BELGIUM, with the Russian Army now thrusting The enemy broadcast said one force, Nov. 1 (Reuter)—More of Essen, home through the Balkans. using 100 tanks, had thrown the Ger- of the great Krupp armament works, has German forces still in Orcece were mans back on a two-mile'front and cap- been destroyed than is left standing, almost completely sealed off by capture tured Montigny. The second force, the according to a young Belgian just escaped of Salonika. Germans claimed, thrust through the from forced labor there. Meurthe Valley toward Baccarat, 15 In many places whole blocks of three miles southeast of Luneville. or four streets are without a single Be It Ever So Humble, Although Paris Radio said that some remaining house, he said, and most of Canadian troops had already crossed the the population, livIng in cellars, "realize No Place Like Loam Maas in one area, other reports told of that Germany has lost the war, but they Bombed-out Germans will have to stiff fighting against the Atherican and dare not say so." live in mud huts, according to a state- Polish bridgeheads over the Mark, which ment by the Reich Labor Minister winds erratically south of the Maas. 232,403 Planes Built broadcast by German Radio. The Americans' bridgehead, almost a To help replace buildings damaged mile deep, was won north of Oudenbosch In U.S. In 4 Years by air raids, clay-earth must be used after the doughboys, striking while the WASHINGTON. Nov. I (Reuter)— to make "loam houses, completely suit- enemy was ducking an artillery barrage U.S. factories built 232,403 planes, includ- able for dwelling houses in the country on another sector, crossed in assault boats ing 74,953 bombers and 70.627 fighters. and on the fringes of towns," the state- and ihrew a footbridge across before the between July 1, 1940, and Sept. 30, 1944, ment said. Germans' guns got going. the War Production Board announced. Red Ball convoys, which rush supplies from ports and beachheads to Allied troops at the front, travel more than 900 miles daily over special traffic laces. Top picture shows a truckload and trailer of supplies rolling, with a sign warning civilian traffic to keep oft Battle Made of Bugs Bunny a Flying Lie the express route reserved for military use. Center. a truck company repair and main- tenance depot along the route goes to work on the trucks to keep them fit and road- shape. Below, drivers stop at a change-over point, where they pitch tents and get some After What Fort Went Through, by Rights No One Should Believe It Aloft shuteye while a fresh driver is pressed into action—and the convoy rolls on. Spec:far to The Stara and set TVS Wash., and concussion knocked out the The tail gunner, S/Sgt. Robert E. AN EASTERN COMMAND AIR navigator, 2/Lt. Jack P. Stovall,fa Pea- Underwood, of Omaha, Neb., was hit in BASE. Russia (delayed)—The Russians body, Kan. both shoulders and the right arm by Watch on the Rhine Is Just That and Americans around this station are Bugs Bunny was flying No. 2 position fragments of a 20-mm. shell. Badly still talking about the saga of Bugs Bunny in the low squadron, and after the pilot wounded though tie was, and bleeding and the crew of that fabulous Flying was killed the co-pilot, I /Lt. James R. profusely from the mouth. Underwood Fortress which, on a shuttle run from went back to his guns until the pain in Frauleins Tempting, but GIs England, dropped arms and supplies to his arm became unbearable. Then he the beleaguered Poles in Warsaw and went dragged himself amidship where the waist through one of the most fantastic aerial gunner—Blumberg—was stationed. Stick to Ike's 'Nix on the Mix' battles of the war. Nothing But Bloody Bundle SHAEF, Nov. 1 (Reuter)—American troops in Germany are obeying Gen. When Bugs Bunny came hurtling down the metal runway here at 150 miles an "I had just knocked down an Me109," Eisenhower's order not to mix with the populations, according to Lt. Col. hour. ground crews could see that some- Blumberg. said. "when I saw Underwood. Carlton P. Russel. thing was wrong. But they didn't know He was nothing but a bloody bundle. He asked me for some chocolate! - . - Russel, a battalion commander of kbe 36th Armored Infantry Regiment, that the pilot was dead, two crewmen wounded, the speed indicator shot away. "I knew he must be off his bean and Third U.S. Armored Division, pointed out that the temptation to chat with the flaps gone and the rudder and elevator bent over to try to get his shirt off. German women was strong for soldiers cables crudely patched with electric-light Then I noticed that the left elevator and who have been on the battlefield since cording. rudder cables were hanging loose." D-Day. Wandering Bracelet Lost When the full story came out today.