Man Spricht Deutsch lei On Parle Francois Ja, Sie konnen gehen. BifRIPES Ce n'est pas bon. Ya, Zee kennen gayen. Sub. nay PA bawng. Yes, you can go. Dally Newspaper of U.S. Armed Forces <bs^t£? m the European Theater of Operations It is not good. Vol. 1—No. 98 lFr. New York — PARIS — London lFr. Thursday, Oct. 26, 1944 U.S. Catches Jap Fleet Gals at Front 40,000 Germans Aim Pot Shot Carrier Is Sunk At Sheridan ^ In Holland Trap By Jimmy Cannon 5 Battleships Hit . Stars and Stripes Staff Writer. ON THE SIEGFRIED LINE, Oct. The Allies' Dutch trap was closing across the snow- 25.—The girls threw Ann Sheridan soaked Holland plain last night as mud-slogging British into the grease with the doughnuts. Tf** Tommies captured Hertogenbosch and pinned an estimated They were in a Red Cross ByJ Nimitz Force 40,000 Nazis against the almost bridgeless River Maas. And clubmobile yesterday close to our over the Reich itself the Eighth Air Force and the RAF front line in these desolate hills. They cooked the doughnuts for the The long-hoarded Japanese fleet has come out of hid- together sent more than 2,200 heavy bombers to pound men of tlris infantry division. They ing at last and American naval forces have brought it to German industries and railroads by daylight. roasted Miss Sheridan for com- action in Philippine waters. In what may be the biggest With the winter's first snow in Holland, the German plaining because :.:ie had to fidget until the men's rooms cleared out naval battle of the war—possibly of history—American blockade of Antwerp began to crumble. Elsewhere along when she had to go while making fleet units yesterday were battling three armadas the Japs the chilled 500-mile, front no significant progress was re- a swift pilgrimage through the CBI had sent against the U.S. landings at Leyte. ported, and Gen. Charles de Gaulle warned that the winter theatre. A special communique from Gen. MacArthur's head- battle for Germany would be "long and hard." "Annie just doesn't know the tricks," drawled Annelle Anderson, quarters said that "the Japanese fleet has suffered the most of Franklin, Tenn. "Any GI will crushing defeat of the war." Allies Breaking 2,200 Heavies dig you a latrine if you need one. Naturally, they can't build you a In preliminary sparring of planes against ships, one Blockade at Port Hammer Reich bath room with a tile floor. Maybe, large Japanese carrier was sunk and two were severely that's what Annie expected." ! ; damaged, five or six battleships British Second Army troops cut The daylight pounding of Ger- The trailer 'quivered with the were hit with bombs or torpedoes, the last big escape bridge across man war industries and railroads constant slam of our artillery. one cruiser was torpedoed and the Maas yesterday, seizing all but mounted to a new pitch yesterday "I'll say Annie doesn't know the Yanks Drive smaller ships were severely strafed. the flooded southwest corner ol when the Eighth Air Force and the tricks," said Miriam Minton, of Approximately 150 enemy planes the rail and communications center RAF together sent more than 2,200 Metuchen, N.J. "Once we were Japs Back to were destroyed. These results were of Hertogenbosch. North of Ant heavy bombers plus escorting fight- riding all day and really had t go. detailed in Adm. Chester W. Nimitz's werp Canadians struggled through ers to hammer targets in the north- We came to an outfit in the woods communique on the basis of incom- bog and marshland into the Beve- western part of the Reich. and told cur troubles to the CO. LeyteFoothills plete reports; the Japanese com- land causeway to silence Nazi Over .1,200 Flying Fortresses and And while all those GIs stood in munique admitted the loss of two formation we did what we had to artillery commanding the Scheldt, Liberators, escorted by more than GEN. MACARTHUR'S HQ., cruisers and one destroyer sunk. According to United Press, the do. They still don't know what the 500 fighters, bombed Germany's LEYTE, Oct. 25 (UP).—U.S. forces U.S. Escort Carrier Sunk 40,000 Nazi troops between the largest railway yard at Hamm, oil call was blown for." on Leyte drove the Japs back into In return, the U.S. lost the 10,000- British-Canadian front and the Lek refineries in the Hamburg-Harburg Over the trailer, snarling, flame- River in Central Holland are be- area, and other objectives. tailed and skimming the trees, two the foothills of the central moun- ton escort carrier Princeton, but robot bombs roared on their blind her captain, 133 other officers and lieved to have been concentrated In the afternoon, more than tain range today, deepening their south of the Maas. (Continued on Page 4) 1,227 enlisted men were rescued. 1,000 RAF heavies, escorted by foothold to a depth of ten miles The only escape gap open to squadrons of Spitfires and Mus- and a length of about 30 miles. these troops are three minor tangs, attacked the armament and With the capture of San Pablo Mightiest Air Smash bridges west of captured Hertogen- railway center at Essen and added airdrome ten miles west of Dulag bosch, but these, United Press more bombs to those the Eighth Yanks Capture said, are incapable of carrying at the southern end of the front, Rocks Jap Homelsles had dropped on synthetic oil plants heavy military traffic and might the Americans now have three good at Hamburg. The attack on Essen have been cut by fighter-bombers. ologna Key airfields for land-based aircraft. The heaviest Superfortress lasted, half an hour and smoke Bulldozer crews are already at work raid carried out thus far against 11.000 More Cut from large fires rose to 10,000 feet. ROME, Oct. 25—American troops rehabilitating the blasted fields. Japan's home islands was re- Capture of Hertogenbosch, which RAF Loses 4 Bombers climaxed weeks of bloody fighting A New York radio report from ported yesterday by Tokyo radio. the Germans deemed important Four RAF bombers were reported yesterday by cracking through Leyte said that more than 3,000 There was no immediate confir- enough in 1940 to take with para- missing from the operations. strong German resistance to capture Japanese had been killed so far. mation from Washington. troops, also severs communications In the only Ninth Air Force Monte Belmonte, key town to (Meanwhile carrier aircraft of the The Japs said that approxi- between the main German force mately 100 Superforts from operation , reported yesterday, ap- Bologna. The town lies eight miles Seventh Fleet executed close sup- in Central Holland and approxi- China carried out a late proximately 60 Thunderbolts at- south of the city. port missions against enemy ground mately 11,000 Nazi defenders now morning raid against Kyushu, tacked enemy transportation in At the same time other Yanks of installations, supply dumps and heart of Japan's steel industry, (Continued on Page 4) western Germany, disabling five lo- the Fifth Army, northeast of there, lines of communications. Carrier and Saishu. comotives and destroying four struck within four miles of the planes attacking enemy airdromes freight cars and two trucks. Bologna-Rimini highway in a drive destroyed or damaged 62 planes on De Gaulle Sees Attacking enemy rail facilities in aimed at cutting the enemy's main the ground.) The two-year-old Princeton was se- support of the First Army, Ninth supply route through the Po Valley Four U.S. submarines have been riously damaged by shore-based Air Force fighter bombers Tuesday The doughboys were strongly sup- transporting arms, ammunitic i and Japanese planes. Hard Struggle severed railroad lines 15 miles south ported by planes. medical supplies to Filipino guer- Subsequently her magazines ex- of Euskirohen, ripped up tracks in British Fifth Army troops con rillas since autumn. 1942, when a ploded "and the ship, badly crip- six places southwest of Coblenz and tinued their advance toward San faint radio signal from the island pled, \ : s sunk," Nimitz announced. Gen. Charles de Gaulle declared attacked a railroad bridge ten miles Pietro, taking a height six and a of Panay indicated their existence, The rescue of most of the crew in- yesterday "we must anticipate a southwest of Mayen. half miles south of there. Mac Arthur disclosed. dicated the carrier probably was fairly long and in any case a very sunk by her escorts to prevent her hard campaign on German soil" falling into enemy hands. this winter. In Washington, Admiral Ernest "We shall need great efforts by J. King announced that practically the troops, especially the infantry, Antwerp Is Key To Reich's Door the entire Japanese fleet was in- and we must expect heavy losses," volved in the current sea-air battle. he said in his first press conference The Japanese claimed to have since his return to Paris. By Richard Lewis sunk four U.S. carriers, Including De Gaulle expressed the view that Stars and Stripes Statt Writer. one of the big Enterprise class, two the German west front had power- While the First U.S. Army is cruisers, one destroyer and at least ful defenses which were beinc poised at Aachen for the drive to (Continued crt Page 4) strengthened daily and that the the Rhine and the Third is besieg- Allied armies would have to conduct ing Metz, two Allied armies in the difficult break-through operations. lowlands are closing hi on one of GIs Sub-Par Physically "France is ready and anxious to the world's most vital military take a much larger part in the war areas, the 50-mile Scheldt River es- May Now Be Discharged efforts," the general said, "but tuary from Antwerp to the sea.