Mediterranean Algiers Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - July 17, 1943, Algiers, Algiers                                The St vol. I no. 12 saturday july 17, 1943 j. S. Army newspaper two francs allies push ahead Cen. Ike of Axis soil i i ibb Mimi. A a i to a a a a it by ,. Quot a a p Ali time table followed As forces move 40 Miles Inland i a Quot Jed Force Headquarters july it j a a Fco drove their beachhead deeper and wider it became apparent to the world this week that the first step of the invasion of Sicily was an overwhelming Success and the Battle for Europe had started in Earnest. With Harbor towns and airfields falling into j a bands in Rand succession there could be Little doubt that the allies were maintaining their a a?.&Quot met tale a this edition went to press the allies held a Long solid Beach head in the  of the Island and had penetrated into the Interior of the Island some places As far As 40 i Miles. A a file to Weeb operation ended it could be said that there was every reason for continued optimism. A Brilliant Allied Navy smoothly landed tremendous reinforcements supplies and Armor Swift a sly to change the invading Force from lightly aryed Shock infantry to fully equipped Field armies. A Guht d he of a a "jj?1 Pon Unander to chief on native enemy Oil. Cal in. A a Al i or on a beachhead pm Sicily conversing with Canadian officers thin re a a so a a a is. A. A  is. A a a a a a a a �?�pp�x.1�?�s�?T&ssff�?Trs a amp photo by army pictorial service first hand accounts of How the yanks landed on Sicily naval barrage makes path for troops to disembark by a sgt. Phil Sterns sgt. Phu Stem is a stars and stripes photographer. He took Over 300 shots during the first two Days of the sicilian invasion but perhaps the greatest picture is what he saw and did during those two Days. Here is that picture As Phil Stem told it it started getting Light about 0530. We had pulled in closer to the Beach to proceed with Landing operations when the Shore batteries opened up. We turned mane Vered and the whole Convoy got out of Range while the naval guns roared. It was wonderful How accurate they were. The Navy gave us the go ahead signal and we began Landing operations. On Board ship the loud speaker announced a gentlemen proceed with disembarkation a or some big word like that. They could just As Well have said a a get the hell Over the Side a we All climbed Down the rope ladders into the boats. The soldiers just carried packs with three a a a rations and their rifles. The sea was very rough. We expected to get hit at any minute. I came in on the first wave of my ship. We sat there huddled Down to protect us from flying Metal. But i had to get pictures. I guess my head bobbed up and Down i made an exposure and ducked. Everybody was very quiet except the naval officer in continued on Page 3 rangers Knock out big coastal guns clean out cola yank paratroopers took vital part in first scraps by a sgt. Ralph g. Martin stars and stripes staff writer with the american forces somewhere in Sicily the Ranger boys did it again. Landing at Gela before anybody else they knocked out two batteries of big coastal girls and then cleaned out the town itself taking More than 500 prisoners. It Wasny to simple. They landed in those Small a ctr a with a half dozen italian searchlights focused right on them and a flock of big uns shelling their boats. Some boats did no to make it. At the beaches they found minefields barbed wire and some concentrated gunfire All ready and waiting. One first sergeant got hit in the guts in a blast that killed his Captain and temporarily blinded his lieutenant. With one hand covering his wound the sergeant led his men past the beaches into cover. Then As soon As the lieutenant recovered from the concussion blindness he and the sergeant each took one half the outfit and did their next cleanup Job. After that the lieutenant finally persuaded the sergeant to quit and fall Back to some first Aid station. A a hell a said the sergeant. Quot in a not helpless yet. Give me some prisoners to guard or something in the meanwhile others advancing toward the big guns ran into a couple of pillboxes and a continued on Page 2 by sgt Jack Foisie stars and stripes staff writer an advanced airborne bivouac at Zero hour last week grim Black faced american paratroopers roared Oft from this Field and disappeared toward the coast of Sicily. Into the night flew the transports carrying yanks who were to take part in the initial fighting of the Battle of Europe. This week the Success of the american part in the invasion by air is becoming increasingly Clear As reports trickle into the Headquarters of this airborne unit. The British Are known now to have been equally successful in the daring difficult task of Landing troops behind the enemy coastal farces on the night preceding the main assault on the beaches. The night of the sicilian invasion was a Long one for this airborne command the lights in the Quot War plans room burned until Early morning As the commanders awaited the first news of the proceedings. Most of All they wanted to know whether the attack came As a Surprise or were the italians set for it. They were reassured by the drone of returning transports below. And then there were tile reports of the pilots. Despite the darkness lit Only by a Quarter Moon most of the troop bearing planes located their assigned areas and flashed the red continued on Page 3 for Churchill All on italians to capitulate1 president Roosevelt and Prima minister Churchill yesterday Callet upon the people of Italy to capitulate. The Roosevelt Churchil statement dropped Over italian cities and broadcast Over Allied radios reads in full a a at this moment the combined armed forces of the United states great Britain and Canada under the command of general Eisenhower and Deputy general Alexander Are carrying the War deep into the territory of your country. This is the direct consequence of the shameful leadership to which you have been subjected by Mussolini and his fascist regime. Mussolini carried you into this War As the satellite of a brutal destroyer of Peoples and liberties. Quot Mussolini plunged you into a War which he thought Hitler had already won. In spite of Italy a great vulnerability to attack by air and sea your fascist leaders sent your sons your ships your air forces to Distant battlefields to Aid Germany in her attempt to conquer England Russia and the world. This association with the designs of nazi controlled Germany was continued on Page 16 units overhead the Allied air Armada Moa Wesr created a protective urn Bibb aver dig land and naval ahead of the at a my us a . Air Bijj Anflic. Titer i could be Little doubt that Tho risk healthy Edge in the la Law. Tomc tag of of Octan impregnable9 Wall around Europe involved the greatest combined operation in the history of the world. More than 3,000 vessels of All types untold thousands of men and hundreds of bomber and fighter aircraft assailed Italy a Island outpost in precise coordination. A following a week of rising Allied air attacks which punished air transportation and communication i facilities the invasion of Sicily was opened by paratroopers and glider i borne infantry. Dropping Down on their objectives late Friday night mete than Bow Axis have been captured daring the week of fighting in Sicily be american 7th army has captured 15,992 enemy soldiers it was announced officially today. Willkie seeks cop nomination in 44 washing Tony Wendell Winkle will try it again. Tile Republican White Hope in the last election has announced officially he will seek the gof nomination again in the fall primaries. In his second offensive to storm the Republican Citadel the Indiana Hoosier is not exacted to win by the same Blitz tactics that crushed the enemy four years ago. This time he will face the United front of the gop old guard spearheaded by such political generals As gov. John w. Bricker of Ohio and gov. Thomas e. Dewey of n. A and bucking the big guns of newspapers like the Chicago Tribune owned by the commander of the powerful gop machine in Illinois Robert r. Mccormick. Three to five hours before their comrades were to land on the reaches the air borne troops found themselves scattered by High winds but were Able to gather in sufficient strength to create a diversion which made it easier for the sea borne armies to Surprise the coast defenders. There was Little question but that the enemy was caught off balance. Not one of the landings on the too Miles of coast roughly from Licata on the South Central coast around to Avola about 20 Miles up the Eastern Shoreline was repelled. Allied warships standing off the coast in the darkness of saturdays Early hours silenced italian coastal batteries one by one until by Dawn almost none was Able to Challenge the Waves of invaders who blackly dotted the White beaches. For nearly 16 hours after an Allied Force Headquarters communique had announced at 6 am saturday the Start of the invasion an anxious world had no news of uie Fate of the Landing forces. Then at 9 30 pm came the word. Initial Allied landings in  according to  it Wasny to until noon Sun continued on Page 2j