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Russian military have not inter- is certain how soon _the people of,‘ cred with the civilian KOVQYB‘ Europe will be eating

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"puppet governments." despite “thumbs down" from Mos- France has her dc Gaulle. With 2 cow; (2) the Moscow Poles. ziow

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knoivn as the Lubliii Committee. lctl French riniiiil! ill short order. which is acting with lifcsctnuolbiit iniii-h of lllt FRI. forces‘ held blessing liS the provisional gov-ion! iii pockets in E;lllill'_‘i'l1 Fiance. > c iuccs ii tzcncriil e1 "-

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Gen. Mihailo 0's tin‘: L group which was shaved out n1 the war picture by Tito and his forces. Presumably there will _bc other dissident groups ivhich might try to combine with Miti- nilcvie and the men surrounding the king.

They will be much WCGkFiiPCl if Tito is able. quickly. to cl c :c.‘.d and yobs to the Yiigoslavs. It is a good bet that he will rcnuziii iii the government. even after the elections.

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United Nations wage a grim struggle, Naziism and all the cruelty and hatred that it has stood for has been conquered and beaten into

the dust- In this hour prayers of fhankfulness '

will go up for the victory that. has been at- tainedt The price of victory has been a heavy one but today hearts will be lighter as they await the return of loved ones from the battle- fronts. And let us see to it that the world he is returning to may be a peaceful and happy one.

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Time has rcapcil a harvest of blood and tears during the years lust past, but there has been good things too. iTbere bu been the conviction that. the effort, the material goods, the pael- ous human lives that lri " I'm-ii have liccn given for a profoundly worthy. car"). -c his i "m “r-‘liuv nf brother- hood ln working together toward a common alm~the disappear- ance of much petty selfishness-the growing realization of the meaning of n large view, a world view. Now with VICTORY here it is our privilege to strive to brink these good thlngl into even greater promingnee, to fight I. hard fight with a goal in eight that is richer, finer, because of knowledge that the struggle has been Won. t

Let us therefore in this. hour of . ’ ' pledge to attain the ends for which our gallant boys and girl: gave their all-namely the ranking secure of the world peace so that. there will be no repetition of the five years which we have Just passed through.

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Italy

The Allied invasion of Europe really began with the attack on Sic- ily by Geri. Eisenhower's British and American forces on July 10 1943. Fifteen days later Mussolini was ousted in Rome-the first str-

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Marshal Rudolfo Grazliini began an attack 0n Egypt on Aug. 8. 1940,

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simultaneously with an invasion 0f British Somaliland. He got n0 flu-- ther than Sidi Bari-enl. where the Briilsh under Wavell started lightning omeback in December which reached beyond Bengesl But the British fell back even faster in the spring when they were forced to send troops into Greece. ain in November, 1941, the British launched an offensive which reliev- ed ‘Ilobruk shortly before the last Italian stronghold in Ethiopia sur- rendered. '

Not long thereafter came Pearl Harbor. and Hitler declared war on the United States. His ultimate extirpation began to loom on the horizon then, for he had turned the spisvt which was to produce a flood of Allied war material and men.

But there were still black days in score for the Allies, and Sunday, June 2i, i942, ranks with the blackest of them all.

60 Miles FromAlexandrln

On that day Marshal Erwin Rpm- mel’; Africa corps wok Tobruk in a sur rise thrust which carried him to wi hin 60 miles of Alexandria A Junction of German and Japanese frrces on the shores of the Indian Ocean was threatened. The Germans Were Preparing the summer offen- Slve which might break the soviet Union and which w tn take thgm from Kharkov to lingrad. The Allies had lost Singapore. the phu. fpplnes. Burma, the Dutch East Indies and parts of the Aleutians. Australia still was menaoed. despite 9W0 Japanese air-sea defeats in the Coral Sea and at Midway in May and June

ious break in the Axis structure. Striking swiftly on Sept. 3, ab) ter completion of a 38-day campaign ; in Sicily, Geri. Montgomery's troops invaded the toe of Italy. The 5th Army of Geri Mark W. Clark lan-‘ cled at Salerno below Naples and after a bloody battle with the Ger- mans, established a beachhead six daya later. almost simultaneously, with announcement of the surrender of the government of Marshal Pietro Badoglio which had succeeded Mus- sollni. The first of the Bi Three ‘m the Axis had been knoc ed out of the war. | Through a bitter wntler campaign, ' the Allies made but slow progress. from Naples. fought. the blood battle of Cassino. established the beachhead at, Anzio below Rome and finally on May 11 launched the of- fensive wh'ch carried them to Rome on June f. The Palazzo Venezia where Mussolinfs balcony stands was turned into a museum.

Invasion

Two days after the first fall of, an Axis capital. the greatest amphib- ious force of all time touched land; in Normandy. The D-Day for which Allied factories had been tiu-nlrig out hud downed. . Untried divisions quickly proved they could beat l-litlefq best vet-j ei-ans. Despite the strength of th ‘ Glennanls Atlantic Wall, the lnvn-i s.on stuck. The results were not‘ long showing ln Berlin Second Battle of France

The first 49 days after Allied forces ‘landed in Normandy were spent n securing. enl in end building up the beachlgtgdFflloody

Almost the brightest spot in the Am . , bnttles were fought iii beating befgfie bictuie was that three weeks ‘he Germans back from one

the British h d l d their first IOOO-bomger sdixd-ifgaigilét Cologne. '

Air and tank forces rushed to Africa eventually turned the flde‘ Permitting Gen Sir Bernard L Montgomery's atn Army to score its Rivet victory at El Alameln in Egypt on Oct. 23, 1942, and begin its march to meet the American and British forces of Gen. Dwight D, Eisenhower which landed in Morocco Mid Aiseria 0n NOV. 7.

hedgerow and sunken road to the next‘; Cherbourg. the Allies’ first major port in France. was taken by American troops on June 27 lust three weeks after D-Day aft- er e. bitter fight. Then camc the liberation of France in one of the swiftest campaigns on record. It was done from a beachhead — one of the most unusual of military feats. While still depending on beech

‘mapped m Cape Don m Tums“ installations for a flow of sup- _; plies. Lt.-Ge.n. Omar N: Bradley the Gemms “mi Italian‘ ‘man’ struck out on . 25 for the

surrendered on May 12, i943. ending the Bottle of Africa, and the gfaga was set for the invasion of Italy Axis casualties in Tuifsia were pla- ced at 341.000.

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great objectives of the invasion. Bradley's U. S. 1st Army broke through at St. Lo and began throwing armored hooks westward toward the Normandy coast which repeatedly trapped large numbers of German troops.

Taking command of a new U. S. 3rd Army, lit-Gen. George S. Patton began a sensational sprint southward through Avranches ln-l. to Brittany. sent roaming columns‘ speeding westward and southward to Brest at the tip of Brittany. st. I Nazaire. lcrient, Nantes and‘ across the Loire. then turned his maln forces eastward in a stabbing ' offensive which seemed aimed straight at Paris.

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Russia

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In August i943, the Germans the Canadians ha "B01104 their hlchwater mark of iieve that the main attaclnwculd “Ml-lest M 5911111181111. 1.300 mics be delivered. from any’; cistern border. Here von Kluge held on, den lte 2,200 miles from Hitler's western Patton's spectacular penetrat ons- front on the French coast. toward Paris. in the apparent dew The second greatRedAi-my eoun- luslonmat aa long as the Oaon

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nbley to pgocieim that the bulk of German forces northwestem France had met with “definite complete,‘ decisive" defeat and tglllgt the end of the war was in s g i.

Paris Liberated

The underground in Paris rose Th city was liberated month after t. Lo. Aug. 15 the army of France under Gen. Jean de Lattry do Tassigriy and the U. S. 7th Army Alexander M. Patch invaded southern France from the Mediterranean in a time skilfully co-ordinated action which speedily won control of the whole coast. The Germans began a pre- cipitate withdrawal from all southern France, but by Septem- ber i. the German l9th Army was fighting ful‘ its life up the Rhone had been inter- cepted by res-c mnored columns sllcin across the French Alps.

Whie Allied forcu in the north and south neared ii Junction, the American lsLnnd 3rd Armies be- gan a series of amazing dashes toward the Rhine. Old battle- fields along the Mame. the Alene. the Olse. were reached and passed with bewildering rapidity. Belgium was invaded Sept. 2 along the road to Mons, Namur, Liege and Aachen in Germany.

LL-Gen. Sir Miles C. Demp- eey's British 2nd Army tanks made an astounding march of more than 200 miles in four days, roaring through the Belgian capital of Brussels, the big port of Antwerp and into the Netherlands.

On Sept. 6. Just three months after the invasion and on the 44th day of the offensive. and with more than 400.000 casualties in- flicted upon the Germans who had lost 25 divisions and suffered heavy casualties to at least i8 others. Geri. Eisenhower proclaimed the battle of Germany about to be- gin. Thr liberation of France and Belgium was all but complete. the freeing of the Netherlands not far D .

Battle Of Siegfried Linc

The men around Gen. Patton believed that. if they had receiv- ed enough imsoline tn kem their soearheads in motion four more days. thevqvould have rolled com- pletely through the Siegfried Line and thcn could have driven straight tn Berlin.

Patrols penetrated the Siegfried Line and entered Mctz on the Moselie. but had to retreat for lack of support. when Patton's sup- plies caught up with him. the Ger- mans had re-entered Metz and spread along the Moeelle. Pro- gress thenceforth was slow imd cost y.

Lt-Gen. Oourtnev H. Hodges‘ U. S. 1st Army. which had spear- ed swiftly across Belgium, tranpinir and destroying a huge pocket of Germans at Mons. entered Germ- any below Aachen Sept. . A narrow hole was driven through the concrete and steel works nf the Siegfried Line in the first seven days. when he too lucked the supplies and force to exploit his gains, the Allies turned their attention to gaining a large sup- piv port. _

The int Canadian and British 0nd Armies began the costly enm- paign to root out the Nnis south of the Waal in Roland and free the mouth of the Schelde to per- mit sunply convoys to enter the relatively undamaged harbor of

“dwarf-lent l’! iii a a n . ere open: uge ground and air attack in which the first Allied airborne snmy went into notion and nora- giute troops were dropped at ilmegcr. and Arnhem in an at- tempt to collie the bridgel ncrou the Will and Nader branches of the lower Rhine. strategy. lf successful. would

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It’; hard to believe but It ll I fact and in thankfulnesa that the put five years are now behind us, Nation: wage a. grim struggle for tin];- y existence until finally the tlde turned ed their retreat that has finally wound up In a. glorious vim”

n world that is once more free to live juicing but in the moment of victory who gave their all; the‘ boy: that won't return. Through "m, nerifice are we enabled today to rejoice: let It not

Let us strive with all our might and main to make till; g lasting peace, a peace that they fought and dfed for no that film; nf us left behind maygstlll retain ‘ ’ of

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below Meta f rst. In quick succes. slon the U. S. 7th and 1st French armies to the south. and the U, s, 1st and 9th annles went on ‘the of- fensive. with help from the lrit. ish 2nd Anny at the extreme northern end. .

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ton captured Metz. The 9th Army had taken Aachen Oct. 10 after an li-de attack and siege. The 1st and 0h Armies now be- gan some of their bloodiest battling through the pillboxea.

Every village was fortified and every position tenaciously held. The slaughter was heavy m the l-lurtgen Forest southeast of Aach- en. bnt at length the Allied battle line was drawn u to the Racer, 20 miles west of Co ogrie.

Patton found the going just M hard as he drew up to the Saar river in Germany's Saarland and began attacking the Siegfried Line at Dillingen near Saarlautem. The French were not quite able to clear the Germans out of Alsace along the Rhine.

Battle Of The Bulge

On Dee. l8. Field Marshal Karl von Rundstedt. the German com- mander in the west. launched his surprise offensive into the Arden-

nes along the oath of tho i940 German break-through. Von Rundetedt threw three

armies against a sector lightly held b" American troops with the mini- mum objective of throwing Eisen- hower’: winter offensive off sched- ule and perhaps with the maxi- mum OlZiJBCblV/Qhgtfifflfglilhnela 1211:" werp an trapp e 11 - lee in the north. He probably