By Bud Hutton
Stars
and Stripes Staff Writer
American planes are dropping
newspapers and leaflets to the conquered people of the occupied countries and
Germany itself. The newspapers, edited by crack newsmen and flown to the
enslaved nations by American bomber crews in specially trained task-force
units, tell the straight factual story of the war as it moves toward defeat of
the Axis.
Bucharest, capital of Rumania, received
its first air attack of the war yesterday as Italy-based U.S. heavy bombers,
continuing their aerial blocking for Russian armies battering at the Balkan goal,
smashed heavily at their second Nazi satellite communications target in as many days.
Soviet spearheads drove a strong armored
wedge within 50 miles of the northernmost Rumanian oil fields yesterday, while
others advanced within artillery range of the vital Jassy rail junction and
Marshal Gregory Zhukov's armies launched a new thrust toward the Nazi base at Lwow,
in Poland, moving on the city from a town less than 40 miles distant to the
northeast.
By Bud Hutton
Stars
and Stripes Staff Writer
American planes are dropping
newspapers and leaflets to the conquered people of the occupied countries and
Germany itself. The newspapers, edited by crack newsmen and flown to the
enslaved nations by American bomber crews in specially trained task-force
units, tell the straight factual story of the war as it moves toward defeat of
the Axis.
Within the last two weeks, Nazi
leaders have begun to show fear that through these papers and the leaflets, which
have been dropped from Biscay to Berlin, the conquered peoples may learn the
true status of the war.
In particular the Nazi Readers
are obviously afraid that their own German subjects are finding out the truth about
the war today, and they have decreed imprisonment or death for anyone found
reading or discussing the airborne propaganda. Millions of the newspapers and
leaflets have been flown to Europe from bases in Britain, and millions more are
on the way, it was revealed.
When American bombers struck
through the Luftwaffe defenses to Berlin two weeks ago and smashed Hat war factories
in the Reich's capital, the bombs were accompanied by copies of a four-page,
featherweight newspaper, "Sternenbanner, which means The Stars and Stripes.
Raid in Wake
Of 2nd Blow
At Budapest
RAF
Follow-up Daylight
Hammering
Panicky
Hungarian
Capital
Bucharest, capital of Rumania, received
its first air attack of the war yesterday as Italy-based U.S. heavy bombers,
continuing their aerial blocking for Russian armies battering at the Balkan goal,
smashed heavily at their second Nazi satellite communications target in as many days.
The assault by Fortresses and Liberators
of the 15th Air Force came within 24 hours of their daylight raid on Budapest
and only 12 hours after the city was battered for a second time by RAF
Wellingtons and Liberators
following up by night the war's first mass bombing of the Hungarian capital.
The Bucharest raid was described
as being "of considerable strength," and German News Agency reported
that "violent air battles were fought over Rumania."
Key
Link in Rail System
Escorted by Thunderbolts and
Lightnings, the heavies raiding Bucharest were striking at a key center in the
railway system being used by the Germans to supply their armies on the Rumanian
frontier. A main line from
Budapest runs south to Bucharest and then east to the border, already crossed
by the Russians.
New
Thrust
Takes
Reds
Near
Lwow
Jassy
Now Within Range
Of
Artillery; Net Tightens
On
Trapped Divisions
Soviet spearheads drove a strong armored
wedge within 50 miles of the northernmost Rumanian oil fields yesterday, while
others advanced within artillery range of the vital Jassy rail junction and
Marshal Gregory Zhukov's armies launched a new thrust toward the Nazi base at Lwow,
in Poland, moving on the city from a town less than 40 miles distant to the
northeast.
The new Russian blows, rolling
forward so smoothly that Moscow reports spoke of advances "like
clockwork." coincided with a push forward to the outer defenses of the
Black Sea port of Odessa and a bloody battle southeast of Tarnopol which cost the
Germans 2,000 dead in 24
hours as the Red Army tightened a
net around the encircled remnants of 15 shattered Nazi divisions.
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