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y SAME OLD ADDRESS > MAN SPRICHT DEUTSCH CAMBRIDGE, Mass.—Under »Class Notes,« the current Harvard Alumni THE ST; TRIPES Wo ist Ihr Fiihrershein? Bulletin reports: »1904—Franklin D. Vo ist Eer Fewrershain? Roosevelt. No change of address.« Dally Newspaper of «.$. Armed forces in the European Theater of OperatfeM Where is your driver license? ONE FRANC TEN PFENNIG yolume 1, Number 4 New York — STRASBOURG — Paris Thursday, December 7, 1944 After Dec. 7, 1941 - - Bataan Saarbrucken Reported on Fire; 3rd Forces New Saar Crossings Hagenau Boche New Ammo Issue Will Be Americans Seize Fights Hard to Packed in Sealed Tin Cans Three Quarters BRIDGEPORT, Conn., Dec. 7,— A new container to protect ammuni- Block U. S. 7th tion against all k i n d s of climate Of Saargemund conditions has been released by the By ED CLARK Remington Arms Company and ap- The U. S. 3rd Army, rushing into Stars and Stripes Staff Writer proved by the War Department. Germany's rich industrial Saar region ADVANCED 6TH ARMY GROUP The new ammunition will be and already fighting in the outer de- HEADQUARTERS, Dec. 7—The U. S. canned and vacuum-sealed just rike fenses of the Siegfried Line above 7th Army today scored a general ad- the ^ittle sardine, and will be just Saarlautern, forced three more cross- vance of three miles on the western as easy to get out. The tins will ings of the Saar River yesterday from slopes of the Lower Vosges, but was have small knobs on their lids which Saarlautern te the industrial city of held to limited gains in the northern identify the contents; they mil be Merzig, 13 miles northwest. Alsatian Plain where the Germans painted the old army color—olive~ At the same time, elements of the continued to resist American pressure drab—and a key will be stuck on 80th Infantry and 6th Armored Divi- stiffly in the Hagenau sector. the side of the can for opening. sions threw the Germans out of two- Meeting only light and scattered The new container comes equipped thirds of the mining town of Saar- opposition, and finding several pre- with a handle for carrying. Fully gemund, 12 miles southeast of Saar- Three years ago today, Dec 7, 1991, the Japanese Empire declared war pared roadblocks undefended, dough- loaded, with 800-30 caliber carbine brucken on the French side of the against the United States and Great Britain, and, before the declaration reached feet took over three small villages, cartridges or 240 cartridges 'of regu- border. The Yanks continued their Washington, the Japanese made their infamous sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, the most northerly of which was But- lar 30 caliber bullets, or 150-50 cali- fierce shelling of Saarbrucken itself Hawaii, the Philippines and other American possessions in the Pacific. ten, about six miles northeast of per shells this container will weigh from six miles away. Saarbrucken, When the enemy's 21 torpedo planes, 48 dive bombers and 36 heavy bombers Sarre-Union. approximately 25 pounds* capital and largest city of the Saar had completed their devilish work, America lay critically wounded, stunned, Basin—a sort of Pittsburgh—was re- and like a strong man of fine character, cried from within—where it hurts. In the rugged hill country farther east, equally light resistance was en- ported in flames. ~~ 1 ' f The sons of the Rising Sun had at- Latest dispatches this morning said tacked 86 U. S. vessels—eight | battle- countered as the Americans captured another cluster of small towns, in- UK Troops Die Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's forces held ships, seven cruisers, 25 destroyers and a 30-mile front along the Saar River, Courtmartial of five submarines. Sunk or put out of cluding the village of Goetzenbruck, about four miles north of Wingen. from Merzig down into Lorraine. One commission were five battleships—the In Greek Fight; of his units' held a bridgehead two Arizona (later to rise again and play On the northern Alsatian Plain, northwest of Hagenau, the Germans and a half miles opposite Merzig, 23 Kimmel, Short a vital role in the invasion of South- miles northwest of Saarbrucken, ern France)}1 the Oklahoma, California, were still putting up a stiff fight for Spitfires Attack every inch of ground: Continuing to against heavy small-arms fire. Tanks, Nevada and West Virginia. however, were fighting toward them. Apparently Out The destroyers, were the Cassin, contest bitterly U. S. possession of The frontal assault on Saarbrucken Shaw and Downes; also the mine Mertzwiller, the enemy hurled more ATHENS, Dec. 7—Bitter street fight- was making good progress, too, as ar- layer Oglala, and the target ship, than 600 shells into the town, during ing continued here yesterday with WASHINGTON, Dec. 7—Secretary of a hellish 60 minutes this morning. British troops and Greek regulars on mored spearheads reached the Saar the Navy James V. Forrestal and Secre- Utah. Damaged—the battleships Penn- at two points five miles south of the sylvania, Maryland and Tennessee; The enemy also counterattacked the one side and members of three Greek tary of War Henry L. Stimson, an- leftist political parties and guerrilla city. Violent tank battles were re- nounced here that ^evidence given at the cruisers Helena, Honolulu and American bridgehead across the Zint- ported from Forbach, six miles south- Raleigh; the seaplane tender Curtiss, zel River within Mertzwiller, but were organizations on the other. One corre- the court of inquiry into the Japanese spondent reported the fighting, going east of Saarbrucken on the French ^ attack on Pearl Harbor, ES*K 7, 1641, and her 24 planes., and the repair ship repulsed. On the extreme right of this side of the border. Vessel. All the damaged vessels got front, .the Germans shelled the town into iie third daty, seemed to be the does not warrant and will not support a beginning of a civil war as Greece Elsewhere along the river, the Ger- trial by general court martial^ of any back in service as well as »a num- of Gries, southeast of Hagenau, for bers of the sunk-or-out-of-service the third consecutive day. writhed in political strife. mans were abandoning some positions, Army or Navy officer. The leader of the Greek party failed blowing up at least five bridges be- class. - . French Gain The joint announcements were taken Of the planes on Oahu Island, the yesterday in* his second attempt to hind them. to mean that all charges against Rear Army lost 97 out of'273, including 23 Down on the central part of the form a coalition government, ..which Just six months to the day after Admiral Husband E. Kimmel and Maj. bombers; the Navy lost 80 of 202, not Alsatian Plain, in the Selestat-Mul- the leftists have refused to join. tn6 Normandy landings, six Allied Gen. Walter C. Short, Pearl Harbor including 70 damaged. In addition, a house region, the French 1st Army A communique from Maj. Gen. armies were poised at four great river narrowed still further the German Army and Navy commanders at the large floating drydock was damaged, Scobey, British military governor of barriers protecting the Reich — the bulge west of the Rhine, with the cap- time of the sneak Jap attack, will be and damage was inflicted on the Army Greece, said British troops had suf- Rhine, Saar and Roer, In, Germany dropped, military observers in Wash- air bases at Hickam and Wheeler ture of Gumar, three miles east of fered casualties, including some deaths. itself, and the Maas, in eastern Hol- ington said. Fields, and the naval air stations at Ribeauville, and Ostheim, just five The communique said fighting began land. No substantial changes were re- The Navy board of inquiry reported Ford Island- and Kaneohe Bay. miles northeast of the large city of before dawn yesterday when Greek ported yesterday from the U. S. 1st Colmar. however, that errors in judgment and Personnel—Navy and Marine Corps guerrillas attacked government build- and 9th Armies' front along the Roer, lack'of skill in both Washington and ,—2,117 officers and enlisted men were In the High Vosges, General Jean ings guarded by British troops. An- although artillery duels were increas- Hawaii contributed to the tragedy, killed; .960 are still listed as missing, de Lattre de Tassigny's forces have other British platoon was attacked by ing in intensity. while some demands immediately arose and 876 were wounded but survived. advanced beyond the Schlucht Pass, ELAS guerrillas armed with machine Losses on both sides there have been heavy as the 1st and 9th fight for in Congress for a separate investigation. Army^—226 officers, and men were and the main crest line of the moun- guns and grenades, and only the ar- tains. The French have also maintained the Cologne Plain. killed or wounded mortally and rival of British tanks saved the pla- Details Secret close contact along the perimeter of Eight hunderd U. S. Flying Fort- 396 were wounded less seriously. Most toon. Other British troops and armor Secretary Stimson and Navy Secre- the rest of the German positions, resses and Liberators, continuing the of the latter have recovered and re- : cleared the center of Athens and the tary Forrestal said the board reports shelling and heavily damaging their ELAS headquarters. renewed campaign to isolate German could not be released in full until after turned to-duty. troops on the Cologne Plain from their From Dec. 7 to ..April 9th, of the bridges over the Rhine at Ehalampe. RAF Spitfires were reported to have the war for reasons of military secur- strafed a column of guerrillas after (Continued on Page 4) ity.