BAKERSFIELD,
CALIFORNIA, FRIDAY, OCTOBER 6, 1944
1st Army Opens
New Attack in
Hurtgen Forest
Armored Units,
Doughboys Go Over Top
in Fifth Day of Drive
to Tear Hole in
Nazi West Wall;
Troops Meet Bombardment
SUPREME HEADQUARTERS, ALLIED
EXPEDITIONARY
FORCE, Oct. 6. OLE)—
The United States First Army
opened a new attack cast of Stolberg and a dozen miles’ southeast of the
Ubaeh breakthrough today, driving forward half a mile to within 6 miles of
Duren and 27 miles of Cologne. Lieutenant-General Courtney II. Hodges' troops, renewing
the push into the, Rhineland beyond Stolberg after a lull of two weeks,
battered ahead through the Hurtgen forest in woods so dense that I the deepest
American penetration the Reich was virtually a jungle battle.
Other First Army forces to the northwest
drove through heavy German artillery fire to deepen their I'bach salient by a
mile south of the town despite counterattacks in which the Nazis regained
Beggetidorf at the tip of the armored wedge.
A First Army headquarters
dispatch at 5:50 p. m. said United Slates ! tanks and infantry had driven more than
3 miles Inside Germany in the , Ubaeh area, and had reached the outskirts of
Geilenklrchen, road and rail town 3 miles north of U'bach.
Forced
Out of Town
The dispatch reported that
Hodges' armor still was on both sides of and beyond Beggendorf. but Intense
artillery fire had forced them out of the town during the night. First reports
of the new attack east of Stolberg, where the First Army scored its first
breach in the Siegfried Line, were skimpy. Stolberg, first big stronghold east
of bypassed Aachen, was captured on September 15, and the Americans pushed in
beyond it to the area of Gressenich.
The push now apparently was flanking
Ksehweiler. northeast of Stolberg, and aimed at Duren, the biggest transport
center between the Yanks and Cologne.
Rhodes'
Landing
Reported
Patrol Port Falls
to Greece Invaders
as Nazi Fight Melts
LONDON,
Oct. ---(U.P.) —
Radio
France reported today that Allied Air Forces had landed on the Island of Rhodes
in the Dodecanese group off southwest Turkey.
Hy ROBERT
VERMILLION
ROME, Oct. 6. (U.P.)—
British invasion forces,
supported by R. A. F. warplanes operating from bases on the Greek mainland,
overran the northwestern corner of the Peloponnesus
and struck down the north coast
of the peninsula for Athens today, capturing the fortified port of Rion, 60 miles
west of Corinth mid !)."> miles from the Nazi-held capital. Ciernian
resistance appeared to be melting swiftly in the face of the swift British
advance a f t e r a savage lint short-lived attempt lo hold the big seaport
of Patrai. the t h i r d city of Greece andl the Nazi’s main staging base for
the supply of their forces on the west coast.
Herman coastal batteries covering
the entrance to the (!ulf of Corinth were silenced quickly by the fast
moving1Tommies and it was indicated that British warships would soon be
operating: in those waters—if they were not already there—to avenge the beating
they took from the Luftwaffe during the ill-fated
first battle for Greece in 1941.
YANKS
BOMB BORNEO REFINERIES
AGAIN,
SHOOT DOWN 19 ZEROS
ALEUTIAN-BASED PLANES
HIT KITA IN KURILES
ONLY 310 MILES FROM
JAPAN 9 SHIPS SMASHED
By LEONARD
MILLIMAN
Associated press war editor---
Aleutian based bombers swept to
within 310 miles of Japan in their deepest strike at the Kurile islands, a
Tokyo broadcast reported today in the wake of the second devastating American
blow at one of Nippon's greatest gasoline production centers. Dome! news,
agency said 12 Liberators attacked Kiln island in the Kuriles twice Thursday
morning. It said two were shot down in "a fierce
air battle."
Kita is a pinpoint island 90
miles closer to Tokyo than any target previously hit on the northern road to Japan.
No land-based bombers except
Superfortresses have been closer Tokyo
than any target previously hit on the northern road to Japan. The distance from
the Aleutians rivals the 2500-mile roundtrip flight made by southwest Pacific Liberators
hammering at Balikpapan
Vicious Defense
"Suicide boys" of the
Thirteenth Air Force returning Tuesday from the second mass raid on the Borneo oil
center, said they "bombed H____
out of Balikpapan" despite a
vicious Japanese defense.
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