Associated Press
s-The main force of the
lD thrust deep into Bel*
3 blunted, field dispatches
.Eisenhower called upon
lied armies to swing into
, to destroy the enemy.
„gh the main enemy drive
oed asi e & slowed, a
,erattack broke out in a
ector 20 miles south of
ty of Luxembourg. The
involved 10 tanks & 2 in
to companies. Field reports
lie Germans were repulsed,
ier 6 days of slashing as
iii which German forces
* driven a wedge 32 miles
p deep into Allied lines by
(day, von Rundstedt’s col
u*ia Belgium are turned a
,id some sectors and forced
(dower paee in others.
Jong a 32-mile German
ib flank veteran Allied forces
> swung into action after
d marches across snow-top
inountains. Fierce tank bat-1
were being fought in head
jllisions with German arm
Jool veterans of river cross
all the way from Volturno,
v, to Moselle, France, mow
lorn waves of Germans at
jting to force the turbulent
love.
j t Allied situation is im
ped but still confused. The
(stive is still in the hands of
iiundstedt, as groups of 20
D German tanks still made
iing penetrations here &
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there A roved behind Allied
lines.
Paris—The Germans are tak
ing the last great gamble, Eisen
hower said in his order of the
day calling upon his armies to
destroy the enemy. “He is rush
ing out from his fixed defenses”,
said the supreme commander. I
Washington—Plentiful fast
flowing supplies from the home
front to Americans fighting in
Europe might have prevented
the powerful German counter
offensive, Rep. Brooks, Demo
crat, Louisiana, member of the
touring Military Affairs com
mittee, said.
21st Bomber Command—
Saipan—A sizable force of Super
forts bombed Nagoya for the 3rd
time in 10 days. Returning to
the huge aircraft manufacturing
center the first Superforts bomb
ed through an overcast A o her
formations kept coming over the
target area for 2 and a half
hours. Since Dec. 13’s attack on
the Hatsudoki factory of the
Metsubishi aircraft works more
than 67,000 square feet of its
roofage has burned off.
MacArthur s Hdqts, rninp
pines—Deadly American fight,
er planes are flying against the
Japs from a newly constructed
airdrome on Mindoro island, less
than 150 miles from Manila.
Announcement of the field & its
importance to both Americans &
Japs was demonstrated as the
enemy sent 29 planes against it
Wed. 11 raiders were downed in
fierce aerial combat with Ameri
can Lightnings & Thunderbolts.
1 American fighter plane was j
lost.
Closing of the so-called pincers
of the Ormoc corridor means the
1st American cavalry from the
north & the 77th infantry from
the south have joined advance
units along the Ormoc road. The
Japs, particularly on the ea3t
sde of the road, are striving
despeiately to keep the gap open
so they can slip through to Pal
ompon, their remaining escape
port.
Rome — Canadian troops
smashing forward against fierce
enemy resistance captured the
town of Bagnacavallo on the
road to Bologna. 5th Army oper
ations south of Bologna and on
the Bologna-Rimini highway are
confined to patrol activity
Athens—An Was army ot lo
to 20 thousand is reported mov
ing into territory held by Right
ist guerillas. British troops are
reported extending the area un
der their control in southern
Athens against light resistance
& unloading operations in the
Port Piraeus have started again
Moscow — Russian shock
troops have wedged deeper into
southern Slovakia while new
operations of 2 powerful Russian
army groups threatened to seal
off beleaguered Budapest from
the west. Russians gained
Rirnaszombat, which opened an
mportant gateway into the
Matra mountains & brought re
ief within sight for an isolated
'orce of Slovak patriots estimat
;d at 25,000.
Germans admitted alarm over
esumption of Soviet pressure on
he west side of the Danube in
he vitally strategic zone be
ween Budapest A Lake Balaton
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