Headlines for Armored Attacker 1945 March 17 nr 01

Bowl Formation Held, Gen. Robert W. Grow, Chaplain (Maj.) Sylvester J. Baumgart, Chicago; (Lt. Col.) Homer Milford, Osseo, Wis. ... Another Milestone On The Road to Victory: photo of sign placed in front of a knocked out pillbox on the east banks of the Our River in Dasburg, Germany ... Watch Awarded to Frenchman: for giving medical aid and hiding an American pilot M. Michael Schroeder, of Arraincourt, France was given engraved gold watch. Presented by Lt. Col. James S. Moncrief, of Sylvania.GA The pilot sheltered was Lt. Walter D. Jensen, Jr., of Chicago. The Frenchman protected him until the 68th Tank Battalion liberated the town of Arraincourt ... The 6th Armored Division newspaper was christened " The Armored Attacker" by Pfc. Robert E. Fry, Coshocton, OH, a member of the 777th AAA Bn. ... "Maytag Messerschmidts" Very Versatile: Lt. David K. Headley, St. Paul, Minn., and Lt. Curtis, F. Lyckmau, Puyallup, Wash. 50th Armd. Inf. Bn; Lt. Robert W. Houston, Hutchinson, Kan., and Lt. Carl L. Knapp, Lakewood, Ohio; Pilot Headley and Observer Lyckman of the 231st Armd. Field Arty. ... Many Units Earn Service Plaques: Lt. Col. Raymond B. Graeves, Jr. Silver Springs Md. ... Mail Call for Jerry; Cpl Bruno Ackerman, NY ... PFC. Leonard Kaplan Tank Wolves Chase Tigers: Co. D, 15th Tank Bn. Capt. Stuart D. Nelson, Rockford, Ill. ... Voice From 'Dead" Proves Crew Is Very Much Alive: S/Sgt. Dale R. Cole, of Coal City, W. Va. ... Stars for a General: M/Sgt. James R. Marcum, CCB Sergeant-Major; Brig. General George W. Read, Jr. Assistant Commander of the 6th Armored Division

Headlines for Armored Attacker 1945 March 31 nr 02

Sixth Enters Frankfurt; 9th Infantry Doughs Charge City After LaGrew Gets Bridge; correspondent Toby Wiant; Colonel Albert Harris's Combat Command ..... Linkups Are 6th Specialty ..... Division Spearheads Drive Of 7th Army To Banks Of Rhine; Worms, Rhein Durkheim, 15th Tank Battalion, Col. John L. Hines, Lt. Col. Frank K. Britton, Lt. Michael R. Alexander, Capt. Alden Berg from Hawley, Minn. ..... Der Fuehrer Will Be Angry ..... Recon. Troop Gets Pillboxes, Towns, Nazis; 86th Reconnaissance Battalion, Capt. Jimmie H. Bridges from Stuckey, Georgia ..... Gen. Millikin Praises Sixth, Ardennes Salient ..... Civilians Told To Show Flags; Correspondent Bob Myers, T/5 Jean Bessette, Lyndonville, Vt., Niederrad, Lt. Col. Frank K. Britton ..... Beaucoup Prisoners, 44th Armored Infantry ..... Turnabout Is Fair Play ; photo by Lapine, two Red Cross Clubmobile sisters: Jane and Grace Burdge with former students T/Sgt. Burton Melcher and George Teufel, all from Canton, Ohio ..... Bulge Reunion - S/Sgt. Jack Burch, Miami, Fla., Pvt. Eugene Buckalew, Beaumont, Tex. ..... Ordnance Men Lauded - 128th Ordnance Maintenance Battalion ..... Long Winded History - M/Sgt. James R. Marcum ..... Plenty Confused - Major Edward Downs, Arhens, Ga., Sgt. Charles Little, Lincolnton, N.C., Cpl. Joe Bytnar, Yorkville, Ohio, Cpl. Henry D. Blume, Denmark, S.C. ..... Introducing ... Our Men In The Field: Col. Glen C. McBride and S/Sgt. Arlis Priest ..... Enviable Record Set By Sixth In Combat; ..... Bridge Saved: Lt. Daniel L. Nutter, Waukesha, Wis., and T/5 Charles Cunningham, Columbus, Ohio ..... 6th Spearheads Seventh Army To Rhine River; Col. Harry F. Hanson, Elgin, Ill., Maj. Walter G. Smith, Ada, Okla., ..... Photo - Chow Time on the Siegfried Line ..... Tankers Praise Doughboys For Battle Action - 69th Tank Battalion, Hill 510, 69th Tankers Get Nazi Ack-Ack Guns - Capt. John C. Honea, Jr. Kilgore, Texas, Cpl. Robert Saturday, Tannersville, N.Y., Cpl. Seward Osborne, Hunter, N.Y., Pfc. Robert Stowers, Bluefield, Va. ..... Four Ordnance Men Get Soldiers Medals: Pvt. Anthony V. Mastroianni of Carlstadt, N.J., S/Sgt. Charles R. Burke, Detroit, Mich., S/Sgt. Charles R. McCutcheon of Mount Hope, W. Va., Pfc. Matrhew W. Dabkowski, South River, N.J., ..... Nazis Have New System Call Roll And Surrender: Capt. George W. Fry from Princeton, W. Va., Williard P. Chaffin, Ernest P. Langosch, Virgil M. Harold in action near Wetteldorf ..... "Attacker" band directed by W.O. Carroll W. Thompson of Enid, Okla. (photo) ..... Men Had Hectic Time Holding Hill 510 OC; S/Sgt. Martin Roth of Detroit, Mich., Cpl. Theodore A. Peterson of Omaha, Nebraska ..... DSC Awarded to Infantry Sgt. George R. Rimmer

Headlines for Armored Attacker 1945 April 14 nr 03

Division Sets Pace; 300 Villages Captured; Many Prisoners Freed In 125-Mile Advance ..... Figures Show Greatness Of Sixth's Drive ..... General Grow, Two Doughboys Awarded DSC; Herbert S. Latimer, Henry T. Ebersole ..... Nazi NCO's Fail In Final Exams ..... 900 Women Are Liberated From Concentration Camp near Homberg ..... Circulation Note ..... Java And Sinkers Ordered At Airport, Jerome R. Tichy from Forest Hills, Long Island; Eschwege ..... 50th Inf. Doughs Raise Much Havoc; Muhlhausen ..... "Show Me" Battalion Shows "Show Me" Reporter How It's Done ..... The Champ Is Dead - Franklin Delano Roosevelt ..... Sheapnel; Lt. Edward P. Kane from Staten Island, N.Y. ..... Chaplain Bags PW's - Homer Millford, Owasse, Wisconsin with Sgt. Ernest Tente from Ashland ..... Introducing... Our Men In The Field; Pfc. Alfred Jones of Jersey City, New Jersey; 25th Armored Engineer Battalion; 1st. Lt. Wilmer T. Jones of Waynesburg, Kentucky ..... Uncle Meets Nephew; Americo J. De Filippo, Newark, N.J.; Gerald Malanga ..... Admin Center Scores - Robert D. Siard ..... Tiger Tank Rams Rear of Sherman - John M. Keith of Hillsboro, Wisc., Albert J. McNamee, Clarence E. White, Lewisburg, Ky., Emanuel Brookman of San Francisco; Herman H. Beamer of Wabash, Ind.; Everett R. Baillieul of Springfield, Mass. and Venceslado Ortiz, Dalia, New Mexico; Frederick Keffer, Spokane, Wash.; Paul C. Root ..... Officer's Helmet Pierced By Shell - 1st. Lt. Oscar H. Rundquist, Troop B, 86th Cav. Rcn. Sq. ..... Spiritual Guidance; Easter Season Mass, Captain John F. Shea of St. John's Parish, Butte, Montana ..... 128th FA Shows Reporter What 'Show Me' Means; Col. Bruce, Col. Hanson ..... Ne PW Record Made by MP's ..... Trick Of Week - Lt. James K. Park, Manson, Washington; Lancensalza ..... Luftwaffe Keeps 777th Ack-Ack Busy These Days ..... 100th Enemy Vehicle Clipped by 603rd; Lt. Col. Clarence McCurry ..... United Kingdom Prisoners Gove Division Big Reception; Stalag 9 ..... Nazi Weapon KOED With Nazi Bazooka; Sgt. Anthony S. Thadieo ..... Muhlhausen Is Entered On Six Roads; City Taken Before DSO Can Telephone Orders ..... Nazi Division Deactivated When Caught by 69th; Capt. Walter L. Barnes, Columbia, Mo. ..... 231st Seizes Airport With 105's As Ack-Ack ..... Janis Page

Headlines for Armored Attacker 1945 May 05 nr 04

21,000 Prisoners Are Liberated By Division At Buchenwald; Infantry Overruns Camp; Many Atrocities Revealed; Charles Davidson, Beaumont, Texas and Edmund Coates, Boston, Mass. ..... Four 9th AIB Doughs Find Buchenwald, Weimar; Capt. Frederic Keffer, Herbert Gottschalk, Harry Ward, James Hoyt ..... Oberdorla ..... Own Men Freed By 50th After Squad Caught; Albert N. Ward, Chester Kneller, Carl Kovack ..... Radio Repairmen Kept Very Busy; 146th Armd. Sig. Co.; Joseph H. DePaul, Otto Miller, Billy Crawford, John Curley, Harold Jones, William McCampbell, William Byrne ..... Introducing... Our Men In The Field; Lt. Col. Ralph H. McKee, T/5 James W. Pye of 68th Tank Battalion ..... Shrapnel; Pitt Reunion - William Karras; Meets Liberated Brother - Pfc. Gilbert B. Zbansnik of 106th Infantry Division; Walter E. Haas of 603rd TD Bn., Visits Wife's Ex-Home - Pvt. Rudolph Gross; 88 Misses Blouse - 1st Lt. Francis J. Haggerty and Carl D. Arnold; Climbs Rank Ladder - Wilmer T. Jones ..... This German Civilian Has Much To Learn - Ralph Siewers ..... Divardy Trio Nab 20 Jerries - James R. Burk, Hubert D. Butcher, Leroy G. Grob ..... 33German Guns KO'd By 212th Artillerymen; town of Nissna, Lt. Thomas N. Blake, of Asheville, N.C. with Gosta E. Falkman, John W. Newman, Leroy M. Rothrock, David L. Adwell ..... 100,000 Rounds Fired By 212th; Lt. Col. Philip H. Pope, James A. Morency ..... Arriving In Hometown Was Peak Of Peake's Furlough; Donald C. Peake ..... 50th Commander Lauds Men Of Wire Section; Carl B. Perry of Nacogdoches, Texas; Clair O. Parsons; Wendehausen, Gros-Burchla; Caldwell Hulse, Jack C. Turner, Charles V. Stroup ..... Paris, Brussels, Riviera, Wngland Included In Division Pass Program; Arthur Momenee ..... 68th Corporal Dodges Sniper; Bernard Ramsay, Paul A. Warp, James Knott ..... Nazi Ack-Ack Silenced By 231st Artillery Crew - Joseph H. Tableman, Arthur A. Marston ..... Many Obstacles Encountered In Pursuit Of German Major; George Fry ,

Headlines for Armored Attacker 1945 May 26 nr 05

SS Major Kills Self In PWE - Dr. Karl Georg Claus committed atrocities in Lublin, Poland ..... It Happened It Says Here; Capt. William H. Collins from New Rochelle, N.Y. ..... Now It Can Be Told: Officers' Escape From Jersey Was Spectacular and Daring; Isle of Jersey escape by two former members of 6th Armored Division, Capt. Edward R. Clark and 1st. Lt. George C. Haas, Jr., John R.H. Townley ..... 225 Division Soldiers Leave With Initial Group For USA Under Re-Deployment Plan ..... French General Koeltz presenting Maj. Gen. Robert W. Grow with "Legion d'Honneur au Grade d'Officer and Croix de Guerre avec Palme" ..... Many Spectacular Events Mark Wars' End For Sixth by Cpl Charles A. Klein ..... Pictorial Record Of Russian Junction Reveals Formality And Fun; Brig. General George W. Read, Jr. at hotel in Rochlitz; Mittweida; Edwin W. Pasternak, Charles Froelicher, Frederick A. Praeger, Glen C. McBride, Charles Rinka ..... Finish Of War Inspires Captain To Write Poem; Frederick Kef, for ..... Touchy Subjects: Richard Gillett, Francis J. Kotoski, Bud Funk ..... Former Name Band Saxaphone Player Heads 128th Show; Lt. Maurice Lopez ..... Letters Reveal Pride Men Have In 6th Division; Lt. Col. Frank K. Britton ..... Shrapnel; Reunion In Germany - John Kronenberg from Dusseldorf; Intensive Operations - 128th Ordnance Maintenance Bn. Capt. Boyd T. Johns; Handy Airport - S/Sgt. Howley Marsh ..... Division Organizes Major Athletic Program; Harold F. Keller ..... Charles W. Rinka ..... GI Gets OCS News In Nick Of Time - John L. Olow III, James K. Park ..... Memorial Service Held By Four Division Units; Chaplain Charles C. Pitts ..... Gen. Grow Heads List of 36 Awarded Medals by French

Headlines for Armored Attacker 1945 June 16 nr 06

Five New Appointments Made In Division: Col. McBride, Lt. Col. Pope, Maj. Ravenei, Maj. Weisenberger, Maj. Anderson ---- Co B, 68th Tankers Get Top Honor ---- Gen. Spaatz Pays 86th Troop Visit ---- Spectacular Haul Made By Tankers: Capt. Collins, Lt. John S. Dahl from Arlington, Mass. captures enemy column ---- Return Of "The Greek" To 44th Is Fantastic Tale: S/Sgt. Johnny "The Greek" Karnavas from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania --- Soldiers Medals Earned by Quick Thinking Men: Cpl. Ralph E. Glidewell, Milan Mo., Pfc. William E. Fey, Jr., Paul K. Grief and Orville T. Schurr; David B. Impson; Theodore A. Henning; Donald A. Mattoon; Steve Dzurko; Harold H. Stanisch ---- Luxembourg ---- Lt. Col. Harold C. Davall and Sgt. Robert Hansen, Jr. ---- Axe Used By Division M.P. To Kill German Officer: Casey C. Brewer and Theodore Scott --- 44th Doughboy Pitches Three No-Hit Contests This Season: Harold Towne from Batavia, N.Y. ---- Soldiers at pool in Apolda; Edward Kenyon, Gene reed, Arthur Elwell, Edward Brown, Cecil Clark ---- From Bullets to Books: 25th. Armd. Engr. Bn.: Ardell Heckler, Frederick D. Felts, Albert Onuska, Frank S. Hill, David C. Sargent ---- Lana Turner ---- 68th tankers Hold Memorial Service - Chaplain Manuel M. Falcao