Mediterranean Algiers Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 19, 1943, Algiers, Algiers                                Page 4 the stars and stripes weekly new strategy followed in bombing nazi bases Luftwaffe meets Allied planes Oyer Kiel while second Mission smashes Bremen French planning army reshuffle hit and muss sturdily june 19, 1943 by pvt. Vebell London tile current strategy of English based attacks on Hitler s european fortress was never better demonstrated than in the american eighth air Force raid against the German ports of Kiel and Bremen Early this week. The flying forts went out in two huge flights each headed for a different target thereby hoping to thin out the defensive fighter strength of the Luftwaffe and enable More of the bombers to get through to their targets. But the Luftwaffe took the bait at face value and concentrated virtually their entire strength to fend off the attacking Force headed for Kiel. One of the greatest air Battles of the War resulted while the much larger american Force slipped through to Bremen without a position this theory of dual raids made possible by the increased air plane production has Long been endorsed by maj. Gen. Ira Eaker. Commander of the eighth Saaf. As demonstrated at Kiel and Bremen it Bas paid Good dividends. Three of More soon it is expected that three or More raids will be conducted simultaneously from English bases. If the Luftwaffe was drawn i rom the scene of a major attack by a two pronged blow How will it be Able to defend itself from attacks from Many directions other american Daylight precision bombing raids went on through the week with big missions Over Wilhel shaven and Cuxhaven the twin submarine bases. The flying forts were not Only delivering destruction but were Downing German interceptors at the ratio of nearly six to one As Well. Since they first entered combat american flyers have shot Clown 914 planes Over Europe. Raf night bombers kept up the Pace having gone out for six consecutive evenings up to thursday. Their latest Quot target was much bombed Cologne another was the City of bochum in the Central Ruhr. The greatest number of heavy Raf lambers Ever to take to the ail hit Dusseldorf and Munster on june 9. The Canadian Moose Squadron participated in the Dusseldorf raid its 1,000th sortie of the War. It was a very special trip Tor another reason a dutch girl named Ann. Now living in Canada sent them 500 dollars asking them Quot to buy a bomb and drop it Over  tile flyers gave the Money to the dutch War committee and dropped a beautifully painted bomb inscribed Quot from Ann Quot for nothing. All and All the Allied flyers gave Hitler one of his worst weeks. The bitter Duel Between the Luftwaffe and the red air Force for air supremacy Over the russian front also was sapping the Reich s Protection. There was naturally a Price to pay for this offensive. But Gen. Eaker said that average american losses during the ten months of operations from Britain had been less than four percent in an average formation of 400 bombers. Night bombers averaged Between 25 and 50 planes lost in missions involving around 1,000 aircraft. Losses always replaced Gen. Eaker said that the United states air Force would never operate at a rate which would bring about losses faster than they could be replaced. This policy will continue. He said Quot until some critical situation arises such As a Landing on the continent when we will throw in All we have hour after hour and Day after Day if necessary to support our Over All land sea and air Battle. Quot we will not be swerved by any consideration other than the compelling one How and when can we Deal tile enemy the most severe and deadliest blows and take the least loss ourselves Quot the general said. He noted that it was a Good feeling to be Quot in the Driver s  letting Hitler do the guessing. The English had some Good news on the rap Halifax bomber that does a Good Deal of the night work. Its Speed had been materially increased and it now packs four .303 guns instead of two. The British information service in Washington announced that the rap had knocked Clown 14.278 j German and italian planes since i j  Start of the War. Aircraft and i a a guns got All but 985. Which fell j to naval and merchant vessels and the Fleet air Arm. Algiers the French committee of National liberation heading Down the Road to Complete Unity had come to a hurdle and walked. Neither Gen. Henri Giraud nor Gen. Charles de Gaulle appeared ready to take a leap which in effect. Would make one the military Superior of the other. Dual control of the governing body was one thing but in a military body there could be but one commander in chief. The differences were not stated in those words but rather in the terms of Quot a reorganization of the armed  de Gaulle wanted to install younger officers in Over he key military positions now held to Over age officers Many of them brought out of retirement with the decision of the French to fight with the allies in Tunisia. That the majority of Young officers were members of the fighting French and the majority of the overage officers were members of Hie Giraud forces was not overlooked by keen eyed political observers. Giraud was said to be in favor of reorganization but insisted upon doing it More gradually. This appeared to be the Gist of the problem. The political twists and personalities involved were hidden behind the Barrier of the Manx Compromise sessions and huddles held during the week. De Gaulle for the most part stayed away from them. Gen. Georges cat Roux. Who has always been the go Between in All such medications attended them All. Meanwhile the pressing affair j of the liberated French Empire were left unattended for the most1 part. The Berlin radio sarcastic j in termed the organization Quot French j committee of National Delibera-1 to on renewed Hope for the removal i of the hurdle came at the end of i the week. The full committee and i its sub body of commissioners to i tailing 14 in All met on thursday j one member commissioner of information Henri Bonnet w As St pm j in the United states. That left 13 j at the conference table. Tiv usual communique followed in being Clithe meeting. What Little it said i re or 1under of  somewhat encouraging the i a. Eli stopped Dean functioning of the various Exeen u week chunking live departments of the govern 1 a in i f us so 0e 0l Lle Recap ment has been outlined and the problem of reorganization of to japanese tighten up after severe defeat Chung King there were mentations cd of stiffening japanese resistance along the four province front in Central China and chinse spokesman warned Tiv at the invader though severely mauled Washington. He said tile nature of the terrain restricted the nip ponese to comparatively in a j fort est about five divisions put that they expected Little resistant e from the War weary chinese a a % a a pm / Vul i i jew v Spain come out of his i air t re bops. Furthermore they thought around Lake Lungting and Han Tov. This time he w Ould be bet Ter Able to judge the strength a Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek s 14th american air Force and be Nore prepared for it. Yet the importance of the Chi 1 Ai in \ ii and been discussed. Tore cd important Points like the a nip i be River port of Sun Tzc. Iso Miles Southeast of Chang. I Wlsh j fell last week and the taking further East in Chekian i vim e Ltd Kin wha a Large airbase within bombing Range of Toku r in v lines had been pierced a a amp it Hung. Which controls the Central Yangtze River Region and the japanese were giving ground p origin Gly in Southern and in h fief a province and in South i r h Nan province. These gains though they were Tot a nimble of names to nun \ in vide s. Represented the firs  Victory that gun Chiang had been Able to announce sine last september. Certainly the japanese hold on the upper Yang to. Had never been so fragile Moi detail of the sudden and i her turnabout of the Chi of to a by maj. Gen. Shun s us Ming the military attach chinese air Power was extinct. In both cases they were unpleasantly surprised. They found instead a determined army under the. Command Ltd Gen. Chan Cheng. Supple from chunking some 300 not behind the fighting lines woe rushed Forward by command cd ears and american trucks and ices. The 14th air f Vee it mended by maj. Gen Claire Chennault also move i the japs got their fir a a hat area of p-40 s and medium bombers. Ten Miles up the Yan Chang Livre is a in a u railed Quot Sinh  Tablet. This is the kit. Fortification of Corral no taste atm i it. J i l. And in in to nth declared. Ifs de i stator m a to Chin i or us ii j d most of t he Pac Al a i be done by mules. The j ans a two full divisions a a Airn it a be chinese were Tidei at All costs arum they n the proverbial Straw t. P e earners Back. Hut emperor Hirohito had jew camels left. Of. Gen. Joseph w. Stilwell to Menander of american Force in China. Burma and India was 1 k in the theater after a that g tip of Washington London anal a liners. Tern i a f in e n. A e a i or v a t o la Ai it j it v As at broke urinate in quite a allies Licking a boat menace i on Don with the sinking Germun submarines now at the i late of e no every 24 hours the i allies May be Well on the Way to Licking the weapon which Tor j months menaced Hie life of the Atlantic Supply line. Naval e pelts Here declare the. F yen the germans have Given cd a it to tile effectiveness of muted nations anti submarine War Jaie in radio broadcast. A there is no Hope for a Quick decision by a boat warfare and irn Ted German Admiral Gabon. Eve y Success costs losses and i a ii in d a Fly by the utmost Effort. A rated. Bering claims of sinking alive  the month Are univ 40  of to. Amount claimed cur corresponding period Lap Lay to Speed the commission Pine w air plane carriers among Britain s new Cailler if tie formidable Injo Mitio via a a Deal table. Implacable and Yule ions. All carrying mole than in planes. E r us continue radio ban Buenos Aires i Alum. Japanese envoys Here were a up jilt Blank by foreign mini mend that the prohibition on sending of radio cipher messages icon Argentina effective hot , would continue int a the in he gave them to Tai id that the ban  Epi Tiv enforced. Red army attacks London the red army or Heay attacks in the Orel in a the Central front Berlin i. Limits that the s Xvi a i pan cd Axis defences at a to p. To of had nothing to it a a on. T in k. De a o a a a is i1 tre Topnotch photographers and picture editors of newspapers and magazines Back ii the slates Are now in the army pictorial service and they say that the is one it the Best characteristic a Boti Ever taken of Churchill. And we agree. Photo by artly i., i service signal Cor a reports of the sure to e a boats comes new Abington of the growing of Allied aircraft Carrier i is disclosed that the Ana lean Navy has launched la i a Carrier while Britain has at it ast. Me afloat. Man w i us and British Hay Yards Jour with activity 24 Boun Jap airfields hit Mai Bourne Allied bund advantage of a a vol a a h k break in tile weather  and Atta keel till a a a j a a a a Bield at r a ban i. Nev. B dam t j a i a it t raid a e m. R in ii also was a raid on kit in dutch timor it was the a of in that area since Tiv a the War from All these opera Only ii. Liberator is missing \ f