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Stars and Stripes Jan 20 1945 - Lodz, 3 Days of Battle - Five Graves to Berlin

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    This is an original January 20, 1945 issue of Stars and Stripes London Edition from the Archives of Wartime Press.  We are releasing for sale some of our newspapers from our private holdings.
    Vol. 5 No. 67     Saturday,
    January 20, 1945                 8 Pages
    Headline articles in this issue:
    Russians Take Lodz; Drive Into E. Prussia
    New Push in South Starts; Five Armies On 400 Mi. Front
    ‘Thousands’ of Rear Echelon Troops To Go Into Line As Reinforcements (Brig. Gen. Henry J. Matchett)
    Free Lunch On Tap Today At FDR’s 4th Inaugural / By Frederick C. Othman
    Nazi Link-Up New Threat to Strasbourg
    Los Angeles Shake-Up
    Over the Hump
    Dewey Declined Invitation
    B29s Strike Japanese Home Isle
    For Him a Torch Will Always Burn — Zeroed ’Em In—On Himself / By Marshall Morgan (7th Armored Division, 2/Lt. Dennis Regan)
    Evacuees Report Nazis Comfortable in St. Nazaire
    Liege S and S Becomes 6th Under Gen. Ike (Stars and Stripes Liege Edition)
    Between 2 Fires, Berlin Sweats It Out
    The B Bag – Blow It Out Here
    To the Last Ditch
    Average Mental Age (Sgt. T. A. Mitchell, Lt. R. W. Miller)
    For Better Speech
    Hash Marks
    Hubert / By Sgt. Dick Wingert
    Shoes on Wrong Feet—So Off They Came (Pvt. Glen T. Beymer)
    However They Sliced Him—a Hero
    Yank Had Only 1 Finger Left, So He Kept It On the Trigger / By Earl Mazo
    American Forces Network
    Wotta Yank!
    — Part Cherokee, Part Irish—
    But All Fight
    / By Ken Koyen
    Front GIs OK, G3 Chief Says (Maj. Gen. Leo Donovan)
    Lott to Do
    (E. B. Lott)
    Once Over Lightly / By Gene Graff
    Travel Hurdle Balks Hurrying Swedes’ Sprint to the States
    ‘Killer’ Kane Named Head Of Navy Sports Program
    No Hockey for Wing Fans, But Plenty of Beer, Franks
    Help Wanted—And Given
    Great Lakes Quintet Adopts Eastern Game—With Results
    Would Lower Baskets To Foil Hoop Tenders
    McWilliams Leads Mikan (Stan McWilliams, George Mikan)
    George Varoff Safe (Capt. George Varoff)
    Yale Back in Navy (Roger Barksdale)
    Dick Tracy / By Chester Gould
    Li’l Abner / By Al Capp
    Louis Affirms He’ll Retire After Fight With Conn (S/Sgt. Joe Louis, Billy Conn)
    Ballplayers Able to Work, Fight—May
    Howard Keeps Nags Working—Just in Case (Charles S. Howard)
    Jones, McLaughry Named to NCAA Body (Col. Lawrence “Biff” Jones and Oromond “Tuss” McLaughry)
    Dutton Scores Ice Loop On Crediting Assists
    Ex-Wildcat Star Missing (Lt. Stanley Klores)
    Conn Hopes to Keep Title in ‘GI Family’ / By Tony Cordaro
    Buddy Young, Johnson Go Into Navy Monday (Claude “Buddy” Young, Don Johnson)
    Purple Heart for Krist (Howard Krist)
    Life in Those United States
    Everybody Has a Bark About Mutt’s Priority
    Popularity’s Price
    9 Miners Blown to Death
    Not Enlightening
    Sat On Dynamite
    Set Her Cap for a Japanese—Got a Lot of Them (Mrs. Ivis Peterson)
    Amateurs Not to Blame (Robert P. Lane)
    Medal for Bob Hope
    Army, Navy Scrap Over 0 (Zero Fighter)
    Some Schnozzola (Maj. Gen. Harold L. George)
    From Com Z to Combat (Col. Phillip S. Wood)
    They Win—Something to Rubber At (Maj. Gen. Harry B. Vaughan Jr., Pfc Jack Kaplan, Sgt. George Rovins, 1450th Ordnance Co., and Pvt. Albert R. Brainerd, 101st General Hospital, Pfc Jessie Flor, Cpl. Gloria Recchuitti, Cpl. Margaret Morgan, Pfc Virginia Barbour and Cpl. Shirley Brennan)
    Nazi Spokesmen Show Strain But Keep Whistling Up Hope
    Tin Fish Fry
    U.S. Must Aid British Trade, WPB Man Says
    Hints DeGaulle To Join Big 3
    Terry and the Pirates
    / By Milton Caniff
    ****************************  Warweek  Insert  ******************************
    Marching Fire Proves Effective
    Volkischer Beobachter: Please Copy
    Baptism of Fire For Three Men
    To Make ’em Dive In ’45 — Lead With Your Lead / By Michael Seaman (Lt. Col. Shaffer J. Farrell, Colonel Craybill, 329th Infantry)
    Three Men – Three Days of Battle / By Joe Weston
    Inexperienced and Unsure, These Men Went Into Action (Pvt. Glenn C. Toalson, Co. D, 15th Tank Bn.)
    Lesson: Fire and Move (Pfc Raymond G. Martin, Co. L 317th Infantry Regiment, Strzeszewski)
    Lesson: Hit the Earth (Pvt. Theron D. Thomas)
    Five Graves to Berlin — The well-informed soldier is the good soldier—every great commander of this and other wars agrees on that. One of the things the good fighting man should understand is the nature
    of the foe he fights. Through the character and history of his leaders the actions of the enemy can sometimes be forecast. / By Ed Wilcox
    GI Jerry / By Lt. Dave Breger (Nazi Guide-Book No. 30)
    The paper is in used condition with fraying and small tears as would be expected from a WWII era war zone publication.
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