Skilled American mountain fighters of the Fifth Army stormed up the
heights and drove the enemy from two mountains, including Mount Rotondo
northwest of Mignano where the main inland road to Rome passes through
the heavily fortified line that Nazi soldiers have been ordered to hold
until New Years, Allied headquarters announced today
They poured a snowstorm of tickertape down from the skyscrapers in
New York, they cheered and yelled and did everything but tear up the
pavements in every main street from Maine to California 25 years ago
today. It was Nov. 11, 1918—the war was over. Riotous release began to
build up a few minutes after 3 AM, when news of the Armistice first
reached the United States. Church bells and factory whistles woke
Americans from sleep into consciousness of peace, and it didn't take
them long to get out in the streets and
shout about it.
THE GETTYSBURG TIMES
GETTYSBURG, PA., THURSDAY EVENING, NOVEMBER 11, 1943
Skilled American
Mountain Fighters
Take 2 Strongholds
On Road To Rome
By NOLAND NORGAARD
Allied Headquarters, Algiers, Nov. 11 (AP)—
Skilled American mountain fighters of the Fifth Army stormed up the heights and drove the enemy from two mountains, including Mount Rotondo northwest of Mignano where the main inland road to Rome passes through the heavily fortified line that Nazi soldiers have been ordered to hold until New Years, Allied headquarters announced today.
The Americans smashed forward against German counterthrusts to the peak of Mount Rotondo overlooking the broad valley leading to Cassino, eight miles north of Mignano.
Nazis Wrecking Ships And Ports
Meanwhile, an air force statement disclosed that both the east and west coast port facilities at both of Leghorn and Pescara, either are in preparation for evacuation of those places or in fear of their seizure by Allied amphibious forces.
THE STARS AND STRIPES
Daily Newspaper of U.S. Armed *" the European Theater of Operations
New York, N.Y.—London, England Thursday, Nov. 11,1943
25 Years Ago Today-PEACE
Here's How World
Greeted News
Last Time
By Richard Wilbur
Stars and Stripes Staff Writer
They poured a snowstorm of tickertape down from the skyscrapers in New York, they cheered and yelled and did everything but tear up the pavements in every main street from Maine to California 25 years ago today. It was Nov. 11, 1918—the war was over. Riotous release began to build up a few minutes after 3 AM, when news of the Armistice first reached the United States. Church bells and factory whistles woke Americans from sleep into consciousness of peace, and it didn't take them long to get out in the streets and
shout about it.
They shouted and cried and got drunk in a hurry—some on liquor, some just on peace—and kissed everybody else and threw any handy objects at each other and paraded until there wasn't any room
on the streets, then shoved. They kept on shouting, and the delirious noisse of joy didn't die out for days. Thewar was over.
Armistice Day, in each of the 20 years succeeding 1918, became a quiet matter. Americans gathered to celebrate the day each year in gratitude, without Hysteria.
They gathered at cemeteries and military camps, on these later Armistice days, to honor soldiers who had died to make an armistice.
Came Armistice Day; 1939 Then came Armistice Day, 1939: The screeching of bombs and the grinding impact of tanks in Europe made mockery of the day. In 1940, on Armistice Day, there was no reason for
Americans to think only of their soldiers of the first World War. Armistice Day, 1941, came a month before Pearl Harbor.Last year on this day, Americans of the new generation knew what war was like.
Armistice Day in 1918 was wild—but probably only a mild preview of what the parallel day will be some time in the not too- distant future.
While a snowstorm of ticker tape fluttered from Broadway's skyscrapers and hilarious men and women paraded America's streets through the day, here in Britain there was a celebration strangely prophetic of another armistice day which the Allies are fighting toward today.
The lights went on again in London. A dim-out, which London observed off and on during the first World War because of Zeppelin raids, was first called oft' by the sightseers at Piccadilly Circus. Masks were wrenched off the street lamps, store windows suddenly flooded light, and theater marquees were set blazing.
Nobody was by himself in London on the 1918 Armistice Day, according to accounts of that day. Soldiers and Londoners went joyriding on the open-air tops of buses, some of which were marked "To Berlin—Fare Id.," and some marked "Free to Berlin."
Nazis Admit General Retreat in Russia
Whole Line Yielding
Before Soviet Blows;
Germans Fear Trap
Reds Mop Up 60 More Towns Past Kiev;
Score New Advances Near Nevel;
Heavy Fighting in Crimea
Wholesale German withdrawals in Russia were indicated last night by the German-controlled Scandinavian Telegraph Agency, which said that "the whole of the German front from Nevel to Kiev is yielding in the face of greatly superior forces of the Red Army." The agency, often used 'by the Germans to put out bad news, added that west of Kiev the Wehrmacht was "fighting a delaying battle in snowstorms and bitter cold."
the northern Ukraine and mopping up 60 more towns in a widening arc enveloping a vast area behind Kiev.
Capture of Borodyanko, about 23 miles northwest of Kiev along the railway to Korosten, Lublin and Warsaw was reported in the Russian communique.
Ultimate objective of the big breakthrough northwest and south from Kiev, the Germans admitted, was to complete the isolation of Nazi divisions within the great Dnieper Bend.
Moscow has been more or less silent for several days on action in the river elbow and also has said little of forces re-grouping along the Dnieper estuary for an assault on Kherson and Nikolaey. Sertorius. the German commentator, said that the Russians were concentrating1 more and more forces south of Kherson.
Libs Bomb New
Bearings Plant
In North Italy
Nazis Counter - Attacking
Furiously in South But
Fifth Holds Ground
Germany's last remaining ball bearings plant in Italy has been blasted by U.S. Liberators, Allied headquarters in North in southern Italy rose to a new pitch of violence with nine furious Nazi counterattacks against the Fifth Army's Americans in 24 hours.
The Liberators' attack on the important bearings works at Villa Perosa, coming a day after Fortresses heavily smashed the Fiat bearings factory at Turin and not long after British-based bombers had struck twice at the Schweinfurt plant, obviously struck a vital blow at the enemy, although no assessment of the damage
was contained in yesterday's communique.
Fortresses of the Fifteenth Air Force meanwhile hammered Genoa, striking at the Ansaldo steel works,- docks and railway yards. All planes of both Fortress and Liberator formations returned.
At the same time Allied headquarters revealed that the Fortresses whichsmashed the Messerschmitt factory at Wiener Neustadt, near Vienna, on Nov. 2, set up a new record for the Mediterranean theater by shooting down 56 out of an enemy foVce of 120 to 160 fighters protecting the plant.
On the southern front, despite the ferocity of tank-supported enemy counter-attacks, the Fifth Army broke up the German thrusts with heavy artillery fire and cost the enemy heavy casualties.
The main centers of the fighting were at Calabritlo, ten miles north of Teano, on the road to Rome, and at Venafro, where the Germans were trying to push the Yanks back into the upper Volturno and away from the Capua-Rome road.
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