 with Marshal Stalin's armies. British bombers head for Dresden. The Saxony bastion of the Nazis along the eastern front. Up comes Gerbo's newest secret weapon, a scarecrow, exploding like a plane hit by AK-AC. Splash 650,000 incendiary bombs on transportation lines in Germany's seventh largest city. They smash a big, right roadblock across the Russian advance. Damage to Dresden, hampering the Wehrmacht, helps Konya's forces 70 miles away. To the west, 1,350 American bombers of the 8th Air Force streak their vapor trails into the dawn. Miles of these bombers hammered Reich factory and railroad centers in the east. Chemnitz-Mogneborg-Kottbus. The veteran first division of the 8th Air Force today carried its 200,000 ton of bombs to help an ally. Now they hit Dresden, hardest of all. The Blitz here, blasting away for the Russians now 45 miles away, links the two front-of-the-line drive from east and west on Berlin. The Seine is in flood. The waters are the highest in 34 years. In this most bitter winter for France, a winter of cold, of hunger, of battered towns, of smash communications. A winter in which free France lies oppressed by greater hardships than for almost a century. The elements too take their toll. Spear equipment, barges, cranes, grain elevators in the flat country outside Paris are flooded, swamped, made useless. Boats are thrown up under what had recently been dry land. Viaducts vital to the supply lines must be reinforced. The people of Paris smile riley and say, not enough food, but plenty of water. Water is the only commodity Paris has in abundance. Water and the spirit to carry on. This welcomes General de Gaulle in celebration of the great triumph at Coulmar. Fighting French of the First Army, jab the Wehrmacht back into Germany. At Strasbourg, the people gather in their war-torn cathedral. Generals de Tassigny, Joie and Leclerc are here for the victory services. French armor pummeled Nazi fortresses in the Vosges Hills and French soldiers tore a wrenchnet's legions to tatters. Hailed by General Eisenhower, they are decorated now by their leader. Those of Strasbourg and Coulmar will fight on German soil. At Severn, the nation honors its American allies, fighting shoulder to shoulder with the French. General Alexander Patch of the Seventh Army becomes a commander of the Legion of Honor. And officer award goes to the commander of the Sixth Army group, General Jacob Devers. Once again, France and America beat back the ruthless hordes from over the Rhine. And once again, fighting Frenchmen marched through a free Alsace, Fidium Sun. When Mr. Churchill met by Sun Randolph, visited Greece on the return from the Crimea. Others in the party were Field Marshal Alexander, General Scobie, and the British ambassador. The Damascus, the region of Greece, went with the Prime Minister to the palace in Constitution Square, where a great throng of 60,000 people waited to cheer the visitor. Mr. Churchill congratulated them on the end of the Civil War and wished a speedy return to prosperity to the people of heroic Greece. Blackened soldiers have fought in snow, in ice, in fog. And now, along flooded roads, flooded marshes, flooded streams. The snow in the Eiffel and Vosges melted. Torrents of water came down across the roads, and troops and supplies of a hard time moving up. Sometimes, Americans hold one end of a bridge, Germans the other. The enemy has to be bombed or motored out before the advance can proceed, opposite bank. Over and over, the bridges are hit and smashed. So a smoke screen is laid down to cover the operation. And damp rainy weather keeps the oil fog close to the ground. The wind shifts, the canisters are floated downstream to the windward. Ammunition, food stores, and medical supplies are carried across. The trucks go over too at a second crossing. Troops advance, with the river and smoke screen behind them. General Creerar attacks east of Nijmegen. Cleave is taken, Gaw is taken. The Rhine is reached at Emory. Field Marshal Montgomery, caught in a traffic jam, decides the tanks have priority, and stops for a bite to eat. And the tanks go forward. Here begins the new Allied offensive, 10,000 prisoners. They cleared a maze of German junctions, broke through three belts of the Siegfried Line. And war comes into the German homeland as it came to other homelands when the Nazis were riding high. Germany is learning what it means to begin a war.