Page 14 — May 12, 1945 grand alliance of the Big Three powers mated in the Tfanian city of Teheran. There, in an epoch- making conference lasting sev- {pees year eral days, Roosevelt, Churchill and Stalin met to plan coordin- ated offensives against Hitler fascism. and to map the general outlines Where Stalingrad became the ' military turning point of the war, Teheran became its poli- tical turning point. Here for the first time an alliance was form- ed between the two leading: cap- italist democracies and the great Socialist democracy. Here the final plans were laid for victory. in the war, and here the plans were laid for securing that vic- tory. 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American, Canadian and British armies landed on the coast of Nor- mandy in the greatest seaborne invasion in the history of war- fare. The second front was open- ed. Success was immediate. Bay- eux fell within two days. On June 25 American troops cap- tured Cherbourg, establishing an entry port for supplies. Caen was captured by the Canadians and British on July 8, and on July 29 the American Third interesting and $1.39 and began its historic dash through France toward Paris, which was liberated on August 25, Meanwhile the Red Army had opened its great summer offen- Sive into Poland and Romania, a drive which ended late in the fall with all former Soviet ter- ritory cleared of the German fascists except for small pockets of resistance in Latvia. Finland was knocked out of the war, Ro- mania was occupied and Bu- charest captured, Bulgaria sued for peace, and the Red Army was drawn up along a line facing Warsaw. After, taking Paris, western Allied armies “continued their drive eastward. Canadian troops swept through the Channel ports Placed in the $3.00 $5.00 by STALIN $1.25 BAS AN UNWELCOME | NiSiMOm =. ESR GAG Oe viet Black Sea coastline, while - Army broke loose past St. Lo METHINKS At Teheran, in November, 1943, leaders of the United Nations met and planned - the coordinated drives that knocked Nazi Germany out of the wat. Stalin, USSR; President Pranklin D. Roosevelt, Churchill, Great Britain. into Belgium and began the long task of freeing the ap- proaches to Antwerp, which was _ to become General Hisenhower’s main port for supplies in the final battle for Germany. To the south four U.S. armies and one Hrench army raced through the Maginot Line and drew up before the -German Westwall, where they halted temporarily in October and November to re- group their forces and strength- en supply lines. Last Desperate Gam ble HE last few months preced- ing final victory saw both the eastern and western fronts in steady movement except for a temporary setback in Decem- ber when von Rundstedt launch- ed a counter-attack in the Ar- dennes forest which reached in- to Luxembourg and Belgium be- fore it was finally stopped. This last desperate German gamble, which could not hope for any decision, was nevertheless suf- ficient to dislocate Anglo-Am- erican strategy for a few weeks and undoubtedly delayed Ger- many’s final defeat. But in January of 1945 the 1 AM NOT a Sis BSS FEDERATED PRESS Red Army opened a new offen- sive. Marshal Stalin threw eleven Soviet armies into a drive along an 800-mile front. War- saw was recaptured, Hast Prus- Sia invaded, the great German Silesian industrial area was cut off from Hitler Germany, while in the south the Red Army had Swept up through Hungary to encircle Budapest. Marshal Zu- khov’s army was drawn up on the banks of the Oder, and Ber- lin, the target of Soviet troops since the first day the Nazis had invaded their homeland, was al- most within artillery range. A few weeks later came the final offensive of the western Allied armies. The Canadian First Army attacked in Holland. Four American armies swept in- to the Saar, then into the Ruhr, climaxing their offensive by crossing the Rhine at Remagen, and spreading out im great spearheads on Germany’s west- ern plains. = Climax in Berlin HE final act in the great struggle began in April when Zukhov’s forces, held tem- porarily at the Oder, thrust USA: Prime Minister Marshal Joseph Winston against Berlin. Fourteen ao after the suburbs of Hitl : capital were penetrated, : great bastion of fascism fel - The Red flag flew over ruins of the city which Rus: — troops had fixed as their jective 1500 miles to the eas the ruins of Stalingrad. The day that Berlin | marked the day that the ¢ - man fascist armies iter ~ spilled apart. Hitler was rep ed dead in the ruims of the © Reich's chancellery. The ? hierarchy. fled, handing oyer reins of “government” to Gi Admiral Doenitz. On May 5 German army in Italy sur - dered, and in the early mor of Monday, May 7, the g news was flashed to the ¥ ing world that members of: German general staff had <= ] ed an unconditional surre agreement. May 8 was me { VE Day. The Nazi regime had bee: | terly smashed and in San F cisco the nations of the + were forming an organizi | to ensure a future free from | and tyranny. GOSH! IF T LET THIS GUY GET ME . HELL FINISH OFF =) MILA AND THE OTHERS!) WHAT CAN I LOSE --- b NOW? HERE GOES NOTHING! =19- | a AT THE HUT... SHOOTING!! Get THE AMMUNITION AND 1 People’s 1 Rea Sie V THAT POOR BOY! I SHOULDN'T HAVE SENT HIM OUT WITH US THE FIRST TIME! THE JAPS ARE TOO WILY FOR A GREEN BOY LIKE HIM! TLL NEVER FORGIVE Hi, GANG! “ee WHAT TOOK YOU so JOHN NIE!