Man Spricht Deutsch lei On Parle Francois Fahren Sie ein wenig zurueck. THE STIRS Bonsoir. Fahren Zee ain vaynig tsoorick. Bawn-SWAR. Drive back a little. Dally Newspaper of 0 J. Armed Forces ^SsSV* »n the European Theater of Operations Good evening. Vol. 1—No. 115 lFr. New York—PARIS — London lFr. Wednesday, Nov. 15, 1944 Metz Battle Nears Climax Eisenhower in Whirlwind Tour of Front JTQ|J|« FoftS Fclll* Patch Speeds Up Attack on Flank BULLETIN The Metz escape gap was narrowed to nine miles last night as Fifth Infantry Division elements moved to within two miles of Metz, according to a late dispatch from the front. Lt. Gen. George S. Patton's assault on Met^, whose for- bidding battlements never in history have been seized by storm, neared its climax yesterday as U.S. Third Army infantry units occupied four forts on the south of the city's mighty defense system and launched a frontal attack from the west. Meanwhile, the U.S. Seventh Army stepped up attacks south of Nazis Use 88s Chateau-Salins, on the right flank of Patton's smash into Lorraine. In Point-Blank Lt. Gen. Alexander Patch's troops seized Leintrey, 11 miles east of Luneville. This brought Seventh Fire at Houses Army elements within 16 miles southwest of Sarrebourg, which is By Earl Mazo Stopping at art infantry division on his whirlwind tour of the front, threatened by Third Army troops Stars and Stripes Staff Writer^ %o the west and northwest. Gen. Eisenhower talks to T/Sgt. John L. McDavid, of Kingsport, 111. WITH THE 26th DIVISION, Nov. Listeners are T/Sgt. Raymond G Johnson, of Crew, Va. (left), and 14.—The see-saw fighting in and New British Attack Front Visited T/Sgt. George H. Tyler, of Crossfield, Md. (right). around Rodalbe, a small village 27 In Western Holland, British miles northeast of Nancy, is typical forces opened a new attack on a By Churchill of how bitterly the doughboys have German pocket on the east flank Ike, Gls Hold War Parley... to battle for comparatively small of the Dutch salient at Neder- gains in the present Third Army weert. The new assault in this By Dan Began advances. sector began with a 400-gun Stars and Stripes Staff Writer. On Chow, PX, Mail, Shoes Yanks drove the Germans out In barrage. WITH THE FIRST FRENCH the afternoon, beat off a light North of Metz, the 90th Infantry ARMY IN THE VOSGES, Nov. 14. counter-attack, and set themselves Division expanded its bridgehead —Prime Minister Churchill and By Jules B. Grad up for the night. across the Moselle nerr Koenigs- Gen. De Gaulle visited the First Stars and Stripes Staff Writer. It was pitch black and a light macher. Tramping through snow French. Army front near Belfort ADVANCE SUPREME HQ., Nov. 14. — An OD blanket snow plus some wind and rain reported six inches deep in some on Monday. made things miserable for the out- places, elements of the division Churchill and De Gaulle drove thrown loosely around his legs, Gen. Eisenhower bounced posts. They didnt know German drove two and one-half miles and with their party to the CP of Gen. around the battlefields of Western Germany in a frost-bitten tanks were in the town until the came within a mile and one-half Jean De Lattre de Tassigny, First jeep on the final lap of a 1,000-mile inspection trip. shooting began, and then it was too of the German border. French Army commander, and from late. At the same time, 95th Division there to a French divisional CP, In the dim gray of early morning, the jeep, with the four The Germans, who could see no troops improved their Moselle only a few miles from the German silver stars on the bumpers and the better than the "Americans, set bridgehead near Ukange, to the lines. seven silver stars inside, wheezed several houses afire, to provide south. With Churchill and De Gaulle on up a steep hill. It coughed to a 4 Stars But No Pass, light, then they and their tanks Southeast of two-thirds en- the front-line tour ware Field Mar- halt on ttfe top. The Supreme went systematically from house to (Continued on. Page 3) shall Sir Alan Brooke, Chief of Commander looked down. So MP Halts General house, firing 88s at point-blank Staff of the British Army; Gen. Gen. Eisenhower and Lt.-Gen. range. Tank Battles in Hungary Alfonse Juin, Chief of Staff of the Omar N. Bradley stared long at the TWELFTH ARMY GROUP, When they couldn't silence Amer- MOSCOW, Nov. 14 (AP).—Heavy French Army; French War Minister charred and silent buildings and Nov. 14.—An MP private wouldn't icans in some of the barns and tank battles raged over the Hun- Andre Diethelm; and Capt. Mary the heaps of rubble. The quiet of let Gen. Eisenhower into this houses, the Germans crashed their garian plains east of Budapest to- Churchill, of the ATS, daughter of the ghost-town was deafening. headquarters. The Supreme tanks through them, burying every- day as German and Hungarian the Prime Minister. S/Sgt. Newton J. Harrison, of Commander didn't have a pass. thing inside. troops sought to prevent Russian Mary Churchill expresed a desire Atlanta, turned the jeep around The four-star general started Pfc Rufus Newcomb, of Rich- armor from breaking through their to visit American combat troops. and the long American convoy into the CP for a conference mond, Va., a company runner, said front and outflanking the capital rolled down the hill, around hair- with Lt. Gen. Omar N. Bradley. (Continued on Page 3) from the north. SEES EISENHOWER pin curves and through shell-torn Pvt. Robert P. Escohedo, of Special to the Stars and Stripes. (Continued on Page 3) Brooklyn, halted him. SHAEF ADVANCE CP, Nov. 14. The general cooled his heels Nazi Bastion Reels Under Blows —Prime Minister Churchill con- U.S. Sub Sunk by Crew while the private called the OD, ferred with Gen. Eisenhower and WASHINGTON, Nov. 14 (AP). 2/Lt. James P. Bishop, of Tegas, Allied military leaders here this —The Navy today announced the Ky. afternoon. It was his first visit loss of the submarine Darter. It The second lieutenant said it to this advance command post and was destroyed by its crew to pre- was all right, and they let the the second meeting with the vent its capture after it had run general in. supreme commander since early aground. All 65 officers and men (Continued on Page 3) were rescued. 5 Superfort Factories Blast Hurls Pilot from Plane; Are Closed by Strike NEW YORK, Nov. 14 (Reuter).— 'Chute Opens After 2-Mile Fall Five Wright Aircraft Corp. factories making Superfortress engines were LONDON, Nov. 14 (AP).—Lt. closed today when a strike of 1,900 Sgt. Michael J. Kuzel, Strowood, supervisory workers made opera- Daniel F. Gilmore, bombardier of Mich., tail gunner, went spinning tions impossible. The other 32,000 Luling, Tex., had first picked up down in the detached tail section. workers were sent home. His parachute opened while he was his parachute when his Fortress The supervisory employes sought still inside, so he gathered the flow- union recognition. The War Labor exploded on a mission over Europe. ing silk in his arms and jumped Board called upon them to return He was blown through the nose clear. to work but it seemed likely that Of the plane and fell 10,000 feet, Sgt. Arthur E. Weiss, of Chicago, they would remain out unless the holding the 'chute in his hands, be- radio operator, crawled to the edge Army takes over the plants. fore recovering enough to snap the of his part of the tumbling wreck- books and pull the rip cord. He age and rolled off. U.S. 'Gets' Eiffel Tower landed three miles from the Ger- Sgt. Samuel M. Lontine, of Mar- The Eiffel Tower, famous Paris man lines. quette, Mich., climbed out of the landmark, is an item of France's The pilot and co-pilot were killed ball turret after reaching out of reverse lend-lease to the U.S., it The battle for Metz nears it climax as Patton's Army takes the fort- and three other members of the what was left of the fuselage and was disclosed yesterday. It has ress groups of L'Yser (1) and L'Aisne (2) and rings two-thirds of crew^injured, but this is what hap- rescuing his 'chute—one foot from been requisitioned by the' Air the city. Powerful Forts Driant (3), Saint-Quentin (4) and Verdun (5) pened to the others: the edge. Forces for use as a radio station. still hold out. Page 2 THE JTARS AND STRIPES Wednesday, Nov. 15, 1944 4hsh fflanJit Tale of Two Wars Modern youth is still doing okay. 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