Yank Pillbox Busters Break Siegfried Line Tactics
Wartime reporter profiles Sgt. Joseph Williams of the 90th Division as he explains how American Pillbox Busters locate and destroy German pillboxes along the Siegfried line near Dillingen. The piece details explosive charges, close assault methods, and the grim toll among German defenders.
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U. S
Germany
INS
Hitler
Saar
Siegfried Line
Saarlautern-Dillingen
Maginot Line
90Th
Joseph Williams
Kansas City
Kan
Dillingen
Seven Yanks Advance Too Fast Trapped in Cellar
A U S Army company commander Captain Jack Herndon and six enlisted men, cut off in Mariaweiler near Duren, hide in a ruined house cellar as German forces bomb the hamlet. They eventually break through as others clear the town amid mortar and machine-gun fire with prisoners later reported.
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Mariaweiler
Germany
INS
Duren
Roer River
Jack Herndon
Sant
Kurt Ruzat
U. S First Army
Herndon
Davis Galliser
Redwood City
Calif
Russell E. Beary
Minneapolis
Fatherland
Editz
Germans' Confidence in Concrete Booby Traps
A fragment notes German confidence in concrete booby traps and mentions pillbox busters ready to crack the Siegfried Line.
Toughest Leyte campaign yet faced by Pacific veterans
Wounded veterans evacuated from Leyte report the climate terrain and Japanese resistance make it the toughest Pacific combat they've seen from Aleutians to New Guinea. Ten wounded arrived at Hamilton Field after air evacuation from Hawaii, with hopes of home hospital care by Christmas.
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Hamilton
Calif
Leyte
Pacific
Aleutians
New Guinea
Philippines
Hamilton Field Debarkation Hospital
Hawaii
United States
William C. Steele
Wichita Falls
Tex
Army
Hamilton Field
Debarkation Hospital
Air evacuation hospital in Corona Del Mar expands to handle 9000 patients
Col Andrew Smith of Corona Del Mar California leads the evacuation hospital that will treat 2000 patients this month and is being expanded to 9000. He says the operation's biggest value is morale as wounded troops arrive cheerful and relieved from months in the Pacific.
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Andrew Smith
Corona del Mar
Calif
Pacific
Smith
UNRRA Attacked In British Lords
Lord Reading told the House of Lords UNRRA relief, food, and fuel were not reaching needy people. He charged the organization had become a bloated, paralyzed giant and that military control hampered relief efforts. He urged accountability and warned some nations fear UNRRA as a tool of politics or commerce.
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London
UNRRA
Lord Reading
House of Lords
United Nations Relief and Rehabilitation Administration
Herbert H. Lehman
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Esterday
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Lee Carson
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Marie
Ture
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