COUNCIL BLUFFS. IOWA;
THURSDAY EVENING, SEPTEMBER 21, 1944.
British
2nd Army Rushes
to Aid
of Airborne Troops
Trapped
in Arnhem Vicinity
Capture Niamegen
Bridge Intact After Hard
24-Hour Battle and
Push to Relief of Troops
Caught in Pocket
Eight Miles to the North
By Wes
Gallagher.
A L, S A C E-LORRAINE, (AP) —
Adolf Hitler has thrown in a
large portion of his armored forces against the U. S. 3rd army and for three
days this armored force has been engaged in the greatest single tank battle
since the landings in France. The battle has seen the destruction of 105 nazi
tanks.
As this is being written on a box
of bazooka shells, American artillery shells are whistling overhead at a number
of Mark VI Tiger and Mark V. Panther tanks dug in near Bures, 18 miles
northeast of Nancy.
From there an irregular battle line
is active in a wide arc north to points near Chateau-Salins. But there is no
regular line of tanks. Both forces range many
miles on both sides of these
lines in sorties.
Much of the mobile forces at the
disposal of the German army has been thrown recklessly into battle. Many of the
destroyed Tiger tanks dotting the battle area had just had their numbers
painted on them in the factory.
It is the first time the Germans have
committed their armor in this strength since the fighting at Caen in Normandy.
Reds
Destroy
North
Anchor
of Nazi
Line
Soviets Executing
Hard Drive for
Baltic Escape Port
. By Daniel
de Luce.
MOSCOW (AP)
Marshal Leonid
A. Govorov's red army veterans of
Leningrad, having destroyed the northern anchorage of the German Baltic line in
a massive sweep across Estonia, raced forward Thursday in a double-barreled
drive for the enemy escape port of Tallinn.
One wing of Govorov's forces
thrusting west from Narvo has captured Rahlka, less than 65 miles east of
Tallinn, a Russian war bulletin disclosed Wednesday night, and presumably was
even closer Thursday. Govorov's second wing was spearing north from Tartu.
(London estimated this force was less than 50 miles from Tallinn on the
southeast.)
Moscow's guns thundered a salute
to Govorov for his four days' gains ranging from 37 to 44 miles, wiping out
formidable German defenses between Lake Peipus and the Finnish gulf.
Seeking to trap or annihilate any
German troops from Finland who may reach Estonia, Govorov turned the enemy's
flank and sent his troops rushing through the center of the little northern
coun try like a tidal wave.
Govorov's northern troops,
following the Narva-Tallinn railway, were within artillery range of the key
rail town of Rakvere, and closing in on Tapa, important rail junction only 45
miles southeast
of Tallinn.
Move
Closer to Riga.
Meanwhile on the approaches to
the Latvian port of Riga Gen. Ivan C. Bagramian's columns captured an
additional 100 settlements from a fanatically resisting foe, and again hurled
back tank and infantry attacks aimed at his communications base of Jelgava.
War
Casualties
Reach
400,000
Report
63,017 Added Since
Last Report
WASHINGTON, UP)—
War casualties of the United
States armed forces now exceed 400,000. Secretary of War Stimson said Thursday
that army casualties
reported through Aug. 29 were 337,743.
The latest navy casualty list totals 63,017.
The new army figure was an
increase of 10,127 over that announced a week ago, but only about half the rate
of increase in recent weeks. The drop apparently
reflected a comparative lull in fighting
between the breakthrough from the Normandy and Brittany areas, and the
resumption of heavy fighting as allied forces
neared the German border.
Army casualties, together with figures
for the previous week, follow:
Killed 64,468 and 62,357; wounded
177,235 and 172,042; prisoners48,725 and 48,181; missing
The new army figure was an
increase of 10,127 over that announced a week ago, but only about half the rate
of increase in recent weeks. The drop apparently
reflected a comparative lull in fighting
between the breakthrough from the Normandy and Britany areas, and the
resumption of heavy fighting as allied forces
neared the German border.
47,315 and 45,036.
Navy casualties: Killed 25,152
and 24,450; wounded 23,867 and 23,064; missing 9,532 and 9,529;prisoners 4,466,
unchanged from previous week.
——Save Waste
Nazis
Continue
Robot
Bombing
Attacks Lacking
Former Intensity
LONDON, (AP) —
Flying bombs zoomed over London
and the southern counties Wednesday night for the fourth successive night as
the Germans continued sporadic attacks
apparently aimed at keeping Britain's
lights from coming on
again.
Casualties included several
children recently returned from t h e safety of country districts. While the
newest raids carried neither the intensity nor terror of
the earlier assaults, the rush of
evacuees back to the capital was noticeably slowing down. Inasmuch as most of
the Germans' coastal launching sites have been cleared, it is generally
believed the flying bombs are being launched from planes, although the
government has warned that it still is possible the Germans may employ sites
far inland.
Field dispatches from France Wednesday
described a vast bombproof underground robot factory which has fallen into the
hands of the U. S. 3rd army at the French town of Thil, near the Luxembourg border.
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