Mediterranean Algiers Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 15, 1943, Algiers, Algiers Page 4the stars and stripes tuesday june is 1943 free world fortress gunner forsakes twin grand jury checks Australia in hails Unity fifties for boat trip Home Eisenhower lauds Allied cooperation the free people of the world celebrated United nations Day yesterday and the Axis trampled nations fostered the Ever growing How a that they too would be Able to partake in the Celebration next june 14th. It also was the third anniversary of the German entry into Paris. The French people outside France United and determined remembered to h Gen Henri Giraud and Gen. Charles de Gaulle broadcast messages of Hope to their still to be lid rated countryman. Gen. Dwight d. Eisenhower a United nations Day message to ins troop stressed the tunisian Victory As an example of gunned nations cooperation a autocracy has cause to tremble when free nations join their minds. Their resources their hands and their hearts to maintain their common ideas. This age old truth has again been demonstrated in the North andean Campaign. On land at sea and in the air the forces of tin United nations pooled their resources planned together worked together and fought together toward tile single goal of routing the forces of enslavement. Quot in tin lace of Allied Battle Unity the Axis lories in Tunisia went Down to humiliating defeat with a devastating effect upon the die tailors whose purpose is to eliminate from the Earth respect Lor those principles of Liberty and human rights that Are spurring on a the United nations to a supreme Eft it it the enemy s first Battle objective was to take As apart the tunisian Victory therefore smashed this idea and demonstrated the degree of our unification. We face the future with Confidence because we Are As one in Puri it Ose and action. The Triumph of Freedom will bring Forth Troni this War a triumphant Gen de Gaulle also sgt Oke of the lighting Man a the Trench sol Diers whom Algiers acclaimed a few Days ago had a Long Road to travel from their starting a not to tile recent victories. Bul they got i Here. Tile y Are burning now to show their valor alongside the i Gantic forces which Are preparing to snatch tortured Euronie and War j torn Asia piece by piece from the hands of those who seek to f a their lower on human Gen. Giraud promised Itiat tile French even after liberation will continue to fight with the Willeta it will go to Home to Berlin and to Tokyo. The French Flag will fight i every Battlefield mingling fraternally with the flags of the allies it will float thus to the end. J to the last Quarter hour until the supreme moment of the utter destruction of the to Complete the Day of reaffirmed Unity it was believed that the French committee of National Unity was nearing a Compromise on the question of reorganization of tile army. There Isnit Giers or All that matter. A Guy in All of Al of North Africa for who would t Trade places with a sgt. Raymond Boucher today. Ray s going Home. After 13 months of Active overseas service which saw this Ball current gunner Extraordinaire Complete 49 operational missions and 250 hours in the air. Ray is hanging up his twin 50 s and calling it a War at least so far As foreign service is concerned. When he gets Back to the states he will be assigned to an operational training unit. There he will teach raw. Eager Gunery recruits How to bring Down an me-109 when it peels off at you from a 90 degree Angle and How to live and Tell about it. Ray Partick it ated in the first All american raid Over Europe on aug 17. 1942. He a been flying them Ever since. Considering the precarious spot the Hall Turret gunner is in. Particularly when the leak is heavy As it was at Rotterdam and Tunis and Bizerte and Palermo its a minor Miracle that Ray never suffered so Mut h As a scratch. The closest he Ever came to being Hurt was Over by Erta. Quot we were supposed to have a fighter cover. A said Ray a but by a sgt. Geouge Hakim stars and stripes staff writer when i looked overhead i found much to my Surprise that we had a cover of me-109 a one of which it pled off and came directly at me. I had him in my sights Ali the Way in but he kept coming. His bullets hit my plexiglass Turret and sent it shattering and splattering All Over the place. I finally Stop died him when he was about 200 Yards away. He went Down in flames. I Wasny to according to Ray the heaviest talk he Ever encountered was over1 Bizerte and Palermo with Rotterdam running them a second. Some of the flak hit As High As 30.ooo feet the Best enemy ship he a Ever come up against is the me-109. Quot but 1 11 take our p-38 Over any ship the germans or italians have yet hit in the air Quot said rays sgt. Boucher a folks who live in Detroit done to know he a coming Home. Quot i m just going to walk in on them a he said with a Grin Quot i imagine they la lie just Little bit zoo suit Battle los Angeles. June 14 the zoot suit our i it getting an official going Over by the grand jury District attorney Howser began an investigation of the week Long Street fights Between Young hoodlums attired in snazzy zoot suits. And service men trying to Stop attacks on women and men on Shore leave. No danger Curtin dispels fear of Jap invasion the Navy action May service men group with of cleaning area of the even the lug at the indicated disciplinary be taken against 25 who Are leaders of a the self imposed task up the los Angeles teen age gangsters movie Industry is look zoot suits trom a new Angle. Film makers Are Busy cutting the Drain Sha get garments out of pictures now Iii production As the Freak costumes Are no longer rated As laugh getters. Allies Relief get plan Quot when that s Over and done with Quot he continued. Quot in a going to the nearest restaurant and order me a tremendous teak that big and a triple chocolate malted already approved by four nations jittery Italy continued from Page i to his Squadron it total giving them 71 victories to Date. Set h e. Love the Raf Hurricane Pilot who flew the saturday edition of the stars and strip a to Pantelleria a few hours alter it had fallen described the a much j discussed secret hangars Quot Hen into the sides of the lulls. He said some 12.000 italian soldiers took j shelter in these hangars during bombardments. There have been no reports of any German military on the captured islands. A Small number of nazi troopers Are reported to have let t Pantelleria three Days before its fall nazis plug defences Allied bombers hit Industrial Ruhr air attacks on proving so i germans a reinforcements japs lose continued from Page i their Fields before serious damage was dont. Every report of the fighting on the Yangtze front emphasized the value of the air umbrella provided by maj. Gen. Claire l. Chenoa ult. A suggestive bit of news is that the chinese have surrounded the third and last of Ute three great air bases from which Tokyo can be bombed Kinghwa capital of the Seaboard province of Chekian South of Shanghai. Speaking in Washington. Maj Gen. Shul Sinh Ming military attache at the chinese embassy discussed the shattering of japans expectations Wien the chinese scored their Victory at Chang he said the japanese w Ere most unpleasantly surprised in believing that the defenders were restricted to Compart Lovely Small forces and would Otter Little resistance a chinese and american to liter aircraft Quot to e related Quot swooped Down on positions and raked them end to end without opposition. They flew so Low at times that the japanese could shoot at them from above the hilltops. Quot at the same time other planes a smashed at bases devastated rail i roads bombed ferry Points at i lining Sank River shipping and Laid waste the re hang Ai drome an artillery emplacements. A by the end of last week Quot he concluded a your Southern striking Force had taken the main japanese Forward base w Hile our striking Force from the West reached the South Bank within sight of huge hangars Quot the hangars Are big enough to hold at least too aircraft and 5 trucks they open onto the Airfield through two sliding doors but direct bomb hits had jammed the doors Quot continued the sergeant. He reported that the hangar had storerooms containing e to o u g to equipment to have kept the Garrison going for several months. There were also sleeping compartments sick quarters and offices underground. It was Iii 1937 that Italy officially announced that air and naval bases w Ere being constructed on Pantelleria. From then Oil the Island was off limits to outsiders. Sgt. Love upon Landing on the Airfield counted about 90 wrecked Axis planes including several Ger Man types with italian markings Quot italian prisoners a a he declared a a approached British and american i air officers saluted smartly and said Bombardi Ingente ten if ice accompanied by gestures and signs showing their healthy respect tor the Allied air onslaught a a a the noise alone. A j one High ranking italian officer told them that Quot the noise alone nearly killed rile Axis continued to make excuses tor the islands fall. Rome radio commentator Umberto Guglielmotti. Broadcasting yesterday charged the allies with forcing Quot War and terrorism into an infamous plan that outrages the heroic meaning of admitting that the allies had obtained Quot temporary material superiority he said they did not a hesitate to 1 offend tile fundamental rules of civil and military a in fact the attack of Pantelleria was the exhibitionism of the Rich applied to a very hard episode of the War. Said this fascist commentator. Quot we do not hesitate to Quality As base the method used by the Anglo americans in reaching an objective which in itself could not have been entered into the logical plan of an olten Sive against he told the italian people not to dare think of the a that the most modern barbarians May overcome our thousand year civilization our traditions our the Vichy radio was prompt and thorough in its reports of the surrender. A the Little fortress was literally drowned Iii a flood of bombs and shells Quot it said. London Allied the Ruhr area Are Teeth that the hastily bringing in to help then outer ring of defences. Returning bombing Crews reported. The germans have More than once strengthened their ack ack barrage during the three and a has months that the Battle of the Ruhr has been going on. Setting up of further defences was revealed by Allied airmen returning from saturday nights raid on the Industrial City of bochum. A great Force of tour unglued rap1 bombers blasted tile Ruhr City although the attack was not As heavy athe record pounding of Dusseldorf. The Pilot of a Halifax related i we were met with an intense barrage As soon As we got Over the i Ruhr. The whole place seemed alive with hundreds of gun flashes it seemed As if the germans had massed their guns Miles so Many planes were Over the City that they nearly collided one Pilot reported who took part in the raid. From which 24 bombers tailed to return the next Day heavy bombers of the 8th Saaf participated in their greatest air Battle when they engaged a Strong Force of enemy lighters Over the naval base of Kiel. Washington june 14 moving swiftly to translate into action the Quot Freedom from want clause of the four freedoms the Ullin i states presented to the re get of the United nations a draft agreement tor an in id National Lesliel and re habilitation administration. The nations were informed that the draft has been approved by the United states great Britain soviet Russia and China. The other governments were assured that no action will be pro-1 based until they have had a Chance to consider the proposal and discuss it among themselves. The draft agreement provides for the immediate establishment of a i Central United nations Agency t it assume responsibility for the Relief and rehabilitation of victims of War. Atter discussions Anion a All tile United nations and j the countries associated with them. A conference will be held where final approval will result providing for joint action. Tile main features of the draft agreement include the me meeting the Basic needs of War j victims in territories controlled by t he United nations including areas liberated from enemy Eon a tool providing food. Fuel clothing and other by i c necessities including housing facilities medical and other essential services. Provision by each Mem tier government of funds materials equipment. Supplies and services a i cording to the extent of its resources. The proposal following on the heels of the United nations fool conference indicates the determination of the allies toward making More secure the future of All peo-1 pies after the w a. Canberra. June 14 a prime minister John Curtin reported today that Australia is no longer ii danger of a successful japanese invasion. After talks with Gen Douglas Macarthur. Curtin announced that Australia s role in Quot holding the War Quot has come to an end. And tile continent May now become a from which to attack the enemy by both Quot limited and major the Assurance i spiels fears of a new enemy offensive raised two j months ago by Gen. Thomas Blarney commander of the australian army at that time Gen Blarney reported the japanese had massed 200000 men on the islands not the of Australia. This warning was contradicted by Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox who Naid a concentration of an enemy meet would be the necessary prelude to an invasion but there were no signs of a Fleet Iii that area issuing the Quot no danger basement. Curt in declared president Roosevelt and prune minister Churchill Are for prosecution of the War in the Pacific with tie same vigor a it in euro get. Quot which indicates ominous fax it rent it tor the discomfiture of the japanese this feeling was also expressed by the minister for external affairs. Or Evatt. Who describe in War As entering a new phae. A a Rin natural decision of americans. Australians and new Zea hiders for operations involving maximum pressure against the japanese been effecting steadily increasing he declared. It is possible to pm ii1 this important Over All objective because the initiative is almost within our grasp Quot japs in Pacific on defensive a Nimitz set. Cohen continued from Page d this surrender note to someone and a Tell them to Stop bombing. Cohen agreed to attempt to i make the tunisian coast w i it handed a scrap of palier with the commandants plea for Sui tender and hurried Back to his swordfish. But Allied lightnings had already spotted what they assumed 1 to to ail enemy plane and were spraying til area with leads Ltd it ii they were joined by 12 twin or a Iii bombers which began pattern bombing the Harbor. Cohen. Wright and sgt. Peter i Tait the navigator were sweating it out the tyrolean gentleman who seemed very anxious about their welfare apr geared and Dur he a momentary Lull helped them Crank up the swordfish the three English lads scrambled Back into the cockpit w Ere bid a Wistful Quot a rive Derici Quot by the Man with the plumed Feather and took off. They in the a tunisian Airport and went to a nearby american Camp with the italian surrender chit his Raf pals have already crowned sgt. Cohen the a King of powerful radio station opened the United nations radio last night inaugurated its new powr a Ful 50.000 Watt medium wave transmitter in North Africa broadcasting on a frequency of 995 pc. 301 meters United nations radio will not Only beam its programs to the Allied forces in North Africa but the programs will also in heard in Italy and Southern France. The station goes on the air every night at live o clock and broadcasts until i am. From 7 15 until 8 30. The programs Are in English including Many of the shows already popular in Britain and America. Special news programs Are aired each evening at 9. La and Midnight. The remaining broadcast time is filled by programs for the French. Italian and German populations. The United nations radio station s Call signal i it the tune a Over Washington june 14 Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox said today that prime minister Churchill a recent statement that a a Large scale amphibious operation of Peculiar complexity and Hazard were in preparation a was conservative at the same time he revealed j that Admiral Chester Nimitz commander in chief of tile Pacific Fleet had conferred with Admiral i Ernest King commander in chief of the u. S. Fleet Oil the West coast their meeting place was not disclosed nor were the details of the discussion. Admiral Nimitz told the press that the japs were now on the defensive in the Pacific. Quot time is working for us said the and a viral Quot we Are producing planes and ships faster than the Japan esp can it is simple Arith noetic i subtraction tor them. Addition for us by the years end our planes and shills in the Pacific will represent a very formidable Force a a u. S. Output continued Tram Page i in 1941 to 9.200,000.000 dollars Iii 1942. A total of 47,094 planes were built in 1942 As against 19,403 in the preceding year. The production of ships naval ordnance and other Marine equipment increased at about the same rate aircraft with the sharpest Rise being recorded in the production of merchant vessels. Iii 1943 the tonnage of naval vessels delivered by american Yards was Al a most three times that of the preceding 18 months. During the it period from july 1940 to the end of 1942 about two out of every five bombers and Pur i suit planes produced in the United states were sent to Allied nations along with one out of every six j trainers one of every three medium tanks and two out of every j five Light weekend fever new York june 14�?amer-icans Are inflicted with a new malady called Quot weekend a rationing officer of tile office of Price administration said that Vatican appeals London. June 14�?the Vatican broadcast an Appeal to German parents asking them to teach their children the right ideas about religion and to reject ail false slogans. The Vatican radio added a in Many regions priests Are being prosecuted carried away and mistreated. Many die As the result i nearly half of the 10.000 Auto of their sufferings. This Perselu Drivers stopped last weekend Proton is carried out by people who diced doctors certificates stating despise ail the True values of they were driving for their health
