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Winchester Evening Star

Location

Winchester, Virginia, United States of America

Date

Dec 28, 1944

Page

5

Americans Hold Line as German Ardennes Offensive Rages

As the Bulge battle widens, American forces stubbornly resist in the Celles area and along the Roer front while German forces lay mines and reform their attack. Allied commanders report heavy fighting around Humain Havrenne Liemeux and Bastogne area as armored divisions clash and prize-taking continues in the fluid front.

Celles St. Hubert Beauraing Rochefort Salient Humain Havrenne Marche Liemeux Bulge Bonnal Insenborn Eschdorf Linge Bastogne Berdorf Echternach Roer River Caen Cologne Hertogenbosch Geetruiderberg Maas Holand Eric Brandenberger Seventh Army Normandy Hasso Eckhardt von Manteuffel Joseph Dietrich

Wounded Webber Son Reported In England Hospital

Mr. and Mrs. William Webber of Clearbrook learned during the first week of December that their son Pfc. Elwood Webber was wounded in Holland on November 2. He has written that he is being treated in a hospital somewhere in England.

William Webber Clearbrook Pfc Elwood Webber Holland England

Russian Armies Advance Northwest of Budapest Vienna Line

Tolbukhin's First Ukraine Army punched gains northwest of the capital along the Budapest Vienna railroad and seized several localities in the Danube bend. Malinovsky's forces move north of the Danube in the continued action.

Dor Tolbukhin First Ukraine Vienna Danube Rodion Y. Malinovsiky

Soviet drive to clear Germans near Hron and Danube fronts

Soviet communique says preparations continue to storm the Hron river line guarding Austria as forces move to clear Germans from the area between the Hron and Toly rivers on the Czech Hungarian frontier. Eight places captured east of Ipolysag near Losong as 3,500 plus prisoners taken on Czechoslovakian fronts. Total Nazi defense of Budapest estimated at about 100,000.

Hron Garam Austria Tpoly Dan Ube Budapest Ipolysag Losong

Icy Roads Slow Traffic Across County

Traffic remained hazardous as freezing temperatures covered roads and sidewalks with ice. Road crews began salting this morning while seven county roads were described as passable but slippery, causing several minor falls but no serious injuries reported.

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