| Show : t i - ' 5alt 'ake ilribunt :njc 1 Iwo Beaches Blazing Hell Say Evacuees Friday Morning March 2 1945 :Russ Armies Join Assault On Berlin Port of Stettin LONDON Friday: March 2 (UP)—The red army moved into position Thursday for a grand assault on Germany's e line sending out flank thrusts toward Stettin and :Dresden while soviets in the center inched forward on their 170-mile-lo- Oder-Neiss- springboards to Berlin in raging battles The First and Second armies joined forces for left flank west and iouth of the the drive on Stettin and Berlin fallen Pomeranian base of Neusaid they were fighting within 22 stettin and joined forces with Marshal Gregory K Zhukov's 'miles of Berlins big port FirstrWhite Russians at Arnsin the a rcie vital prePlaying n White-Russia- war- 138 miles southeast of StetL As Berlin traced their advance liminary offensive phase other zsoviet units battled to within sight of the Pomeranian junction of RoesEn bottleneck of the coastal lifelrv to huge German forces penned in the Danzig'area A German' D N B broadcast reported that the soviets h a d 1aunched heavy new attacks on a middle Oder front in the Frankfurt-Kuestrisector where V'e first White Russian army was 20-mi- the Russians reached the Ihna at several points along its course which runs from a poInt five miles north of Arnswalde ncrthwestward to within 12 miles of Stettin Advance Near Stettin Heavy battles were raging between Arnswalde and Reetz eight miles to the northeast Berlin said and other soviets presumably the First White Russian group Were attacking Pyritz only 22 miles southeast of Stettin and same distance west of Arnswalde le n miles of Berlin !within The D N B commentator 31 Ernst h said soviet thrusts were hurled back tat the swampy area northwest of Xuestrin where the Russians hold ione of their four bridgeheads across the Oder In Pomerania Marshal Constantin K Rokossovsky's Second White Russian army cossacks and tanks battled within sight of the Baltic coastal rail junction of Koeslin driving to close a third trap on the German armies of the north Cut Off 200000 'the trap is shut 200000 von Hammer break-'throug- i Brenner Pass Hit By Record Raid patrol clashes a headquarters communique announced Thursday but heavy'and light planes loosed on communication targets in the Brenner pass area the greatest to 300000 Germans will be bomb tonnage in the history of the stranded in the three pockets ex- tactical air force for a tending back along the Baltic all period the' way to Latvia They were Heavy bombers of the United fighting savagely choosing the States 15th air force and the of expendables rather than R A F joined lighter craft in tacsurrendering or undertaking a tical bombing from the early morn:hazardous evacuation by air and ing hours of Tuesday to Wednessea day morning Moscow dispatches revealed that If Field Marshal Albert KesselRokossovsky's fast mechanized ring attempts to withdraw from forces and cavalry struck of their Italy as has been reported recently the rail routes radiating from Italy's principal cities and converging in Brenner pass will Lt be the chief escape artery Gen Mark Clark 15th army group commander predicted last week that a German withdrawal may be imminent Flying over 1900 sorties other Creomulsion relieves promptly be- planes destroyed rolling stock and muse it goes right to the seat of tro 'cut railway tracks at Brescia 35 miles north of trouble to help loosen arid expe Conegliano germ laden phlegm and aid naturt Venice Vicenza 30 miles east of to soothe and heal raw tender Verona at Fortezza near Bol bronchial mucous mem- zano Breasanone north of Bolsell branes Tell your druggist to yot a bottle of Creomuision with the Lin zano and atBolzano itself knocked out demanding you must like the way It twoFlying Fortresses n spans of a ':ickly allays the cough or you are bridge tr) save your money back at Verona northern Italian rail hub Thirteen allied planes were missfor Couzin Chest Colds BronthitT ing from all operations OPEN MONDAYS 'TM 8 P M 'tin-le- 24-ho- ur It k i Three Days! 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Ylim 14 -- 1) 4 Smart 1311e or Sizes 10 Maroon ! r0 Wear Crafts- mn 4 1 N ps ( ---r ' U S Loss Highest On West Front -----7- - I A Grey Ran r nel—by Men's 1 - Menls-Wea- - 11 -- MAN-TAILORE- D 1 - i3 s Alsace-southweste- ICI:t 0 z I O KINAWA 0 gregate losses at 813032—an 5 crease Of 11870 from last we'elt-:1report -- i e 1:7 ' 1: Coupled with the navy casualties of 90337 this put the nation's ag- MEN'S WEAR FLANNEL 'Mkt) 1 - 1 Miyake 1 - 4 NON ' lif d AMAr 00i Yoeyama (p 4 4 a - C-5- 4s Son Icattu Is six-wa- a D-D- ay January Pure Wool 0 Sea A is y ed the LONDON March 1 (UP) rail junction of enth army 'lines Othcr rail cenR A F Mosquito bombers hit Ber- Erfurt about 150 miles southwest ters in the same area which we're lin for the 10th consecutive night of Berlin An Eighth air force spokesman hit included Heilbronn NeckarThursday night after more than 5000 bombers and fighters blasted revealed that heavy bombers of Intim Bruchsal Goeppingens Reut10 rail centers opposite the IL S that force had dropped more thin lingen and Ingolstadt Seventh army sector of the west- 51000 tons of bombs on Germany Heavy cloud formations covered ern front and front line targets during' Ifebruary — the greatest most of the targets but the big in the blazing Ruhr industrial dis- weight ever put down by the bombers were able to carry out trict py daylight Eighth on the retch in a single visual attacks at Reutlingen Brtichsal and Karlsruhe Some 2500 U S and 13ritish month: Libthan 1200 A more of fleet The Eighth air force summary heavy bombers and fighters in the erators and Fortresses esccrted of February operations disclosed 17th straight 'day of the nonstop of 450 fighters that approximately 20700 heavy air offensive shifted their- blows by upwards sh wered high explo- bombers escorted by 12800 fightto southwestern Germany while Thursday on nine rail hubs in a pocket ers had been dispatched during the fighters and medium bombers sives 150 long and 70 miles deep the month to drop 51500 tons of of the tactical air forces flying Rail miles routes those cities on through bombs Germany proper Bersome 2500 sorties ranged over and lead directly to the lin was by far the hardest hit behind enemy front lines in the Germany front and any target Ruhr movement of reinforcements or single Losses for the month were 94 The tactical planes ran into the supplies from or southern Italy e an record low strongest luftwaffe opposition in Germany would have to be bombers of only one-haof one per cent weeks despite bad weather They through that area shot down 23 of the German fightThe R A F sent 600 Lancasters of the forces engaged Fighter ers which attacked in formations and Halifaxes escorted by fight- losses amounted to 108 of from two to 20 and suffered ers against the big Rhine city WHAT CAUSES losses of 17 planes a number of of Mannheim in the same area which were downed by flak and other British planes bombed EPILEPSY? The tactical targets included a the synthetic oil plant at Kamen 'A the opinions of fet- - ' containing booklet German quartermaster headquar- near Dortmund ters at Giessen 40 miles east of on this intersting subico doctors Amerof wows Thursday's Objectives Coblenz and the Rhine city of ican ft) any attacks included the cities of Will be sent FIEE while they tett Davist45411 Mannheim Ulm and Augsburg northwest of reador writing to this Educational I The R A F Mosquitoes 'in their Munich and the big Rhine center 535 Aviv Now York NY Divot forays Thursday night also blast of Karlsruhe closest to the Sev (Advertisement) c 4r ) - Stimson gave out the figures on the Italian campaign in reporting that army casualties in all theaters had reached 722695 on the basis of names compiled In Washington through February 21 and covering action through the latter part of Presents for Your Critical Inspection STAR China ' killed YOU'VE BEEN SEEKING East 1 - ROME March 1 (UP)—Ground action in Italy was limited to Tonosp0 41 down - 1 YAk110! raided Okinawa map and other Ryukyu islands for 'six and one-ha- lf hours — from 7 a tn to 1:30 p m Tokyo time The broadcast said the planes apparently were from the United States Fifth fleet task force which attacked the Tokyo area Feb 25 Tokyo claimed 54 American aircraft were shot Pearl Harbor March 1 (UP)— Fresh from the flaming hell of Iwo Jima more than 100 marine naval and seabee combat casualtres — Including the first known victim of the new Japanese rocket bomb—arrived here Thursday by army ambulance plane en route home The casualties most of whom were injured by Japanese mortar fire during the furious fighting on Iwo's reavily defended beaches on were shipped to Guam and flown here by staffed by army flight nurses A marine public relations officer from Ohio grinned as he stuffed another clean pillow behind his head and told of the merciless enemy mortar rocket artillery and small - arms fire poured into the first waves hitting Ivvo's beaches "The beach was a mess ivhen we landed" he said "We could see immediately that something was wrong Tanks barges and supplies were piled up on the shore and men were trying to dig in with their bare hands ''The Japs were raking the beach furiously with mortar fire from Mt Suribachi and from quarries to the north Everybody was pinned down "The bravest-ma- n I saw was a young marine about 19 years old with a carbine over his shoulder and a cigar clamped in his teeth He leaped out of his foxhole every time a barge landed to haul supplies forward with a tractor while hell whistled around him" The officer was wounded when mortar fire broke his left leg leaving him wounded all night in a foxhole under heavy fire He was finally evacuated to Guam after one landing craft was sunk under him on the way to the hospital ship Most of the wounded reiterated that the beach areas took the heayiest pounding in the initial stage of the invasion None was there longer than a day and a half before being wounded RAF Mosquitoes Hit Berlin 10 th Straight Night ikyusmu r planes shown in By James A MacLean U S N AV A L HOSPITAL t r7557774 An unconfirmed enemy broadcast recorded by the federal communicatItns commission Friday said 600 carrier i 1 |
